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HM sends greetings to Djibouti MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti on his country’s Independence Day anniversary. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes of good health and happiness to the president and his country’s people further progress and prosperity. -ONA MASSACRE: Police officers control the crowd (rear) while surrounding a man (centre) suspected

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of opening ﬁre on a beachside hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. -Reuters FOREIGN MINISTRY

Oman criticises Kuwait mosque suicide attack MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman has condemned the terrorist attack targeting Al Imam Al Sadeq Mosque in Kuwait, which led to the death of a number of people and injury to others while performing their Jumah (Friday) Prayer, on Friday. In a statement issued on Friday, the Foreign Ministry reafﬁrmed the Sultanate’s opposition and condemnation of all types of violence and terrorism and expressed its support to Kuwait’s government and people in confronting such crimes against the innocent people and humanity. —ONA TOP THREE INSIDE STORIES

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Steps to curb import of damaged vehicles

To ensure the safety of those driving imported vehicles, the ROP has taken steps and set speciﬁcations for these vehicles to meet as there has been an increase in the number of vehicles imported in Oman. >A3

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Omani flag flutters on North Pole

In a first for the Arab world, Oman’s flag fluttered over the skies on North Pole alongside flags of European, Asian, American countries and Australia after Omani activist Yahya bin Ali Al Salmani reached Point 90, the highest point on North Pole. >A3

TERROR ATTACK: Kuwaiti personnel carry a man on a stretcher at the site of a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kuwait City, left, and French Gendarmes after the recovery of a decapitated head outside a gas company in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, France, on Friday. -AFP/Reuters

TUNISIA/KUWAIT/PARIS: Scores of people were killed in separate attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France on Friday. Thirty-seven persons were killed when a man pulled a gun hidden in a beach umbrella and opened ﬁre at a packed Tunisian holiday crowd, in the country’s worst attack in recent history while a suicide bomber struck at a mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers, killing at least 27 people and wounding many in an attack claimed by IS. In another incident, a suspected militant launched a daylight raid on an industrial gas factory in France, pinning a severed head to the gates in what President Francois Hollande called a ‘terrorist’ attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Tunisia attack, but the IS group, which marks the ﬁrst anniversary of its ‘caliphate’ straddling Iraq and Syria on Monday, said it was be-

after the January 2014 Pakistan School Muscat bus crash, two survivors are yet to begin living normal lives. One of them, Jawad Habib, is being taken by his parents to the

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hind the Kuwait bombing. Witnesses described scenes of panic after the shooting at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel on the outskirts of Sousse, about 140 kilometres south of Tunis. The health ministry gave the toll at 37 dead. 27 killed in Kuwait attack Kuwait’s interior ministry said in a statement cited by the ofﬁcial KUNA news agency that hundreds were wounded in the mosque explosion. “Twenty-seven people have been martyred and 202 others wounded as a result of

the blast at Al Imam Al Sadeq Mosque,” the interior ministry statement said. It called the attack a “terrorist bombing” and said it will provide more details later. The wounded were admitted to ﬁve public hospitals and were visited by Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah. The French president said in Brussels that a vehicle driven at high speed by “one person, maybe accompanied by another” smashed into the factory, about 40 kilometres from Lyon. The wave of grisly attacks shocked the world days after the IS group urged supporters to carry out Ramadan attacks. The IS rebels were also accused of killing 164 civilians in an offensive on the Kurdish town of Kobane.On Tuesday, IS group spokesman Abu Mohammed Al Adnani had called for Muslims to engage in attacks and become martyrs during Ramadan. -Agencies See also >A4, 9, 10

YET TO RECOVER: Jawad Habib injured in the bus accident.

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Efforts on to send Indian worker’s body Social workers are coordinating with the Indian embassy to repatriate the body of an Indian worker who was found dead under mysterious circumstances near his camp in Nizwa. >A2

One and a half years

MUSCAT: He nearly died in the 2014 Pakistan School bus crash, now eight-year-old Jawad Habib is preparing to travel half way around the world for treatment in the United States that his family prays this medical care will allow him to regain his life. Speaking to Times of Oman, Habibul Rehman, the father of Jawad Habib, said the child has yet to begin living a normal life. “He is still unbalanced and his left hand is not moving. He has started remembering a few things, but becomes very hyper in front of guests and always needs someone’s help. So we are planning to ﬂy to Connecticut in the US in July for further treatment,” he said. Jawad, and another student, Faizal Abdul Aziz, injured in the January 2014 bus crash, are undergoing treatment in Muscat and Pakistan. Both of them were sitting in front, after boarding the bus from Al Hail South, when it

met with the accident on Qurum Heights Road. Rehman said they have a relative in the US. “We have to try all options, since there has not been much improvement here,” he said. Connecticut is located in the region known as New England. “There, my relatives know a few doctors whom we have been in touch with. We will undergo occupational therapy and physiotherapy classes,” he said. Habibul Rehman will be in the US with his family for one month. “But Jawad and his mother will stay until he is better,” he said. The condition of another injured student, Faizal Abdul Aziz, has not improved much. “They shifted him to Pakistan a few months back, though he is yet to regain his senses and is still bedridden,” his relatives said. Faizal received injuries to his head, chest, arms and legs in the bus accident. “His injuries were severe because he was sitting next to the conductor’s seat,” they added. Besides Habib and Faizal, two boys and one girl – Sayyid Fahad, Awais Nazir, and Fareeha Parvez-- were killed in the crash. The trial is now underway, with the next date set for the middle of July.

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TRAGEDY

Three Omanis die in Saham crash FAHAD AL GHADANI

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FATAL CRASH: Smoke billows from the vehicle involved in the accident. – Supplied

MUSCAT: Three nationals died in a road accident in Saham on Thursday morning, according to a reliable source at the Royal Oman Police (ROP). “The accident occurred at a diversion on the Saham roundabout at 3.42 am,” said the source. The driver lost control of his vehicle resulting in the vehicle swerving out of control and

catching fire, the source said. “The driver and two passengers were burnt to death,” added the source. There was another incident of fire at a farm in Khoudh village, said a reliable source at Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulance. “However, there were no casualties,” said the source. The ROP’s statistics show that accidents have dipped 6.8 per cent in the first five months of this year as compared to last year. Records

show that there were 2,327 accidents until the end of May, 2015, compared to 2,500 accidents during the same period last year. The accidents resulted in the death of 264 people compared to 335 last year. The number of those injured also witnessed a 55.1 per cent decrease from last year. Altogether 1,272 nationals were injured in accidents during the ﬁrst ﬁve months of this year compared to 3,000 during the same period last year.

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The joy of Ramadan brotherhood

The Holy Month of Ramadan is a great time to reconnect with friends and loved ones. Families, businesses, and social organisations have been coming together to break their fasts with delicious food and friendship. Times of Oman photographers OK Mohammed Ali and Shabin E captured the joy of Iftar around Muscat through their lenses

N I Z WA T R A G E D Y

Worker’s body to be repatriated REJIMON K

reji@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: Social workers are coordinating with the Indian embassy in Muscat to repatriate the body of an Indian worker who was found dead under mysterious circumstances near his camp in Nizwa on Wednesday evening. “We have informed the Indian embassy to initiate steps to repatriate Rama Rao’s body back to Andhra Pradesh, the south Indian state,” social workers told Times of Oman, adding that the deceased’s parents have been informed about the death. Rama Rao, the 36-year-old Indian worker, had joined Dolphin

Trading and International LLC ﬁve months ago. Work was stopped for a few hours on Thursday morning after Rama Rao’s body was recovered near the camp. On Thursday morning itself, an official from the company while conﬁrming that a worker had committed suicide said that some workers were reluctant to start work. “It may be due to some mental reasons. It is a very rare case. (In the)Morning some workers were reluctant to start work. I don’t know how many. It’s a company with 3,000 workers,” the official told Times of Oman while commenting on the death of the Indian worker.

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GU TECH TEAM

Imagine Cup honour for Omanis Times News Service MUSCAT: A group of Omani computer science students from GUtech have won the second place in the Regional Imagine Cup Competition 2015, a Microsoft Global Competition recently held in Bahrain. To inspire people to read books on their mobile phones, the students have invented a mobile reading app, called ‘ReadAthon’ – Regain the Joy of Reading. “We believe our app will encourage people to read more books,” said Alya Al Shanfari, Computer Science student at GUtech. The students competed with 33 other Computer Science and Computer Engineering teams from throughout the Arab world. “We are looking forward to next year’s competition with greater

PROUD MOMENT: To inspire people to read books on their mobile phones, GUtech students have invented a mobile reading app, called ‘ReadAthon’ – Regain the Joy of Reading.–Supplied photo

imagination from our students’ beautiful minds. I think Oman should establish its own Imagine Cup, as there are many young Omani innovators and entrepre-

neurs who could truly excel on the world stage,” said Prof. Dr. Basel Dayyani, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at GUtech.

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HM congratulates Madagascar MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of congratulations to President Hery Rajaonarimampianina of the Republic of Madagascar on the occasion of his country’s Independence anniversary. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his sincere congratulations and best wishes to President of Madagascar and his country’s friendly people.–ONA

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Ithraa explores opportunities in Malaysia

take many years to disintegrate. Besides, we can start a new industry in recycling

Times News Service MUSCAT: Underlining the importance Oman places on Malaysia as a trade destination, top managers from Ithraa, Oman’s investment promotion and export development agency, recently went on a fact-ﬁnding mission to Kuala Lumpur to meet their counterparts at the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE). Headed by Nasima Al Balushi, Ithraa’s director general of Export Development, Ithraa management held four-days of trade talks with representatives from MATRADE, the Export-Import Bank of Malaysia, the Malaysian Investment Development Authority and the SME Corporation Malaysia. “Providing information and a platform for Omani non-oil exporters to explore international business opportunities and penetrate new markets is fundamental to our mandate,” Nasima Al Balushi said. Malaysia’s economy is set to grow between 4.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent this year, making it one of the 20 fastest-growing economies in the world. It is an economy with strong fundamentals that is on a steady and sustainable growth path. Al Balushi went on to add, “The Sultanate is open for business and the government is committed to supporting non-oil Omani export growth and encouraging inward investment. This was the message we were delivering to colleagues in Kuala Lumpur.”

ECOLOGY PRIORITY: A new industry in recycling of plastic waste can create thousands of jobs in the long run.

that will create thousands of jobs in the long run, said an environmentalist

Times News Service MUSCAT: To save the environment more recycling centres are required to collect and recycle plastic containers dumped everyday into landﬁlls, said an expert

on Wednesday. Speaking to the Times of Oman, Andrew Wilson, an environmentalist, said that right now there is no coordinated collection system to save the environment. “We should work towards minimising our waste. We should look

for ways to either re-use or recycle it,” he said. Experts said collecting this waste and recycling it would help generate private investment in waste recycling plants such as anaerobic digesters which generate energy from green waste. “Landﬁlls take up precious land and cause considerable pollution because plastic materials take many years to disintegrate. Besides, we can start a new industry in recycling that will create thousands of jobs in the long run,” said another environmentalist. “Awareness about recycling must start at the grassroots level. We must educate our children so that they can save their environment and at the same make money from rubbish they throw away,” said residents. Cleanliness campaigns This comes after the Muscat Municipality intensiﬁed its efforts to remove constructions, trees and waste residues from the roads, neighbourhoods, squares and

public places in different locations in the wilayats of Muttrah and Al Amerat. The move comes under the intensiﬁed campaign of cleanliness launched by the government to cover all governorates throughout the year in order to improve the cleanliness of the city and remove waste and raise public awareness. The campaign seeks to enhance best practices when dealing with waste and municipal laws and regulations concerning the protection and safety of public hygiene. The public directorate of the Muscat Municipality in Muttrah carried out separate cleaning processes in Sifa and Wadi Kabir areas. The campaign resulted in the removal of more than 356 tonnes of construction waste and 168 tonnes of trees waste. The Directorate General of the Municipality in Amerat also conducted a campaign to remove construction waste from residential and commercial areas.

SAFETY FIRST

ROP steps to curb import of damaged vehicles Times News Service MUSCAT:: According to statistics issued by the Royal Oman Police (ROP), there has been an increase in the number of vehicles imported into Oman across its land borders in recent years. The director general of vehicle registration at the directorate general of traffic, Lieutenant Colonel Saeed Mohammed Al Zarafi, said based upon inspections of these vehicles, it is clear that some have been involved in serious accidents. To ensure the safety of those using imported vehicles, the ROP has taken measures and set specifications that vehicles must meet. The most important requirements focus on the durability of the chassis, floor and the vehicle’s body. Technical inspections include measuring greenhouse gas emissions, functioning of brakes and suspensions, all lighting works

All vehicles must undergo a technical inspection at registration

SAFE DRIVING: To ensure safety, the ROP has taken measures and set speciﬁcations that vehicles must meet.–ROP

properly, that steering wheels are correctly located and that window tinting does not exceed 30 per cent, as per Omani law. With respect to the registration of imported vehicles, Al Zaraﬁ pointed out that all vehicles must undergo a technical inspection at registration to ensure compliance with speciﬁcations and safety requirements. Further, he advises citizens to check vehicles they want to pur-

F LY I N G H I G H

Omani environmentalist hoists national ﬂag on North Pole

MUSCAT: In a first for the Arab world, the Sultanate’s flag fluttered over the skies on the North Pole alongside flags of some European, Asian, American countries and Australia, after Omani environmental activist Yahya bin Ali Al Salmani reached Point 90, the highest point on the North Pole. Al Salmani participated in a scientific expedition that sailed from Murmansk in Russia onboard the Yamal, the world’s most powerful icebreaker operated by nuclear energy. “I was very happy to raise the Omani flag at the highest point on the North Pole. The Omani flag was the only Arab flag that fluttered in the sky alongside those from other countries,” he said. “The aim behind this selffunded expedition, which cost $30,000, was to represent my country. The expedition has been a good opportunity to meet with senior environmental activists. I have always cherished the dream of reaching Point 90, the top of the earth where dolphins and whales live. This area is called the white desert,” he added. In earlier expeditions he went to Peru, Brazil and Amazon. He also visited Antarctica and the Alps 20 years ago, he said.–ONA

ON TOP OF THE WORLD: Omani environmental activist Yahya bin Ali Al Salmani reached Point 90, the highest point on the North Pole. –ONA

chase from individuals, exhibitions or outside the Sultanate, to make sure the vehicle has not been involved in a serious accident and later repaired. He stressed that imported vehicles must fulﬁl all safety requirements, as set by Omani traffic laws. Al Zaraﬁ added that if owners seeks to change the colour of a vehicle, they must approach the traffic department and receive a permit before doing so. The colour

Lt Col Saeed Al Zarafi Director general of vehicle registration

they choose must be recognisable, he said. With regards to decorating, adding and upgrading vehicle body parts, he said that to ensure the safety of others, it is not permitted to apply additions or upgrades to vehicles. Applying stick-

ers and vinyl is a violation of rules, unless the ROP grants permission to apply decorations on the cars in celebration of a national occasion. He also stressed the importance of vehicle maintenance and annual inspections to reduce traffic accidents.

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REGION

European tourists among 37 killed in Tunisia beachside hotel attack Terriﬁed tourists ran for cover after the gunﬁre and an explosion erupted in the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse resort town, 140 km south of the capital Tunis

TUNIS: A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a weapon he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 37 people, including British, German and Belgian tourists, as they lounged at the beach and pool in a popular resort town. Terrified tourists ran for cover after the gunfire and an explosion erupted in the Imperial Marhaba in Sousse resort town, 140 km south of the capital Tunis, before police shot the gunman dead, witnesses and security officials said. It was the second major attack on Tunisia this year following the militant assault on Tunis Bardo museum when gunmen killed 21 foreign visitors. Attacker The body of the attacker lay with a Kalashnikov assault rifle where he was shot. Local radio said police captured a second gunman, but officials did not immediately confirm the arrest or his role in the attack. “One attacker opened fire with a Kalashnikov on tourists and Tunisians on the beach of the hotel,” said a hotel worker at the site.

DEADLY ATTACK: Tunisian security forces stand in front of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the resort town of Sousse, south of the Tunisian capital, on Friday, following a shooting attack. Right: Items belonging to tourists lie near the swimming pool. – Credit

“It was just one attacker. He was a young guy dressed in shorts like he was a tourist himself.” The man, dressed in shorts, pulled out a weapon he had hidden inside an umbrella he was carrying before opening ﬁre at the beach and pool and tossing an explosive, witnesses said. A security source said another bomb was found on his body. A health ministry statement said British, German and Belgian nationals were among the 37 dead. Six other people were wounded in the shooting, officials said. Tunisia, which has been hailed as a model of democratic transition since its 2011 protests is one

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of the most secular countries in the Arab world. Its beach resorts on the Mediterranean are popular with foreigners. No one immediately claimed the attack. But militants have attacked North African tourist sites before, seeing them as legitimate targets because of their open Western lifestyles and tolerance. Irishwoman Elizabeth O’Brien,

who was staying at a neighbouring hotel with her two sons, said there was panic on the beach when the gunﬁre erupted. “I honestly thought it was ﬁreworks and then when I saw people running... I thought, my Almighty, it is shooting,” she told Irish radio station RTE. “The waiters and the security on the beach started to say ‘Run, run, run!’” Sousse, alongside nearby Hammamet and the island of Djerba, is the heartland of Tunisia’s most popular beach resorts, drawing visitors from Europe and neighbouring North African countries like Algeria. Six million tourists, mostly

Europeans, visited Tunisia’s beaches, desert treks and souks last year, providing seven per cent of its gross domestic product, most of its foreign currency revenues and more jobs than anything but farming. “This is a catastrophe, but we have to stay strong,” Tourism Minister Salma Loumi said. Since its 2011 protest to oust autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia has been praised for its peaceful democratic transition bringing free elections and a new constitution seen as a model for the region. But the country has also struggled with the rise of hardline

MASSACRE

HISTORIC AGREEMENT

IS group militants kill 145 civilians in Kobane BEIRUT: IS group militants killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobane and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as the second worst massacre carried out by the hardline group in Syria. Fighting between the Kurdish YPG militia and IS militants who infiltrated the town at the Turkish border on Thursday continued into a second day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and a Kurdish official said. A separate IS assault on government-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka was reported to have forced 60,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations said, warning as many as 200,000 people may eventually try to flee. IS has a record of conducting large scale killings of civilians in territory it captures in both Iraq and Syria. Biggest single massacre The attack on the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobane and the nearby village of Brakh Bootan marked the biggest single massacre of civilians by IS in Syria since it killed hundreds of members of

movements as ultra-conservative preachers took advantage of the upheaval and young democracy to take over mosques and spread their hardline message. Several thousand Tunisians have left the country to fight in Syria, Iraq and neighbouring Libya, where some have set up militant training camps and promised to return to attack their homeland. IS militant group made some claim to the Bardo museum attack, but authorities blamed possible splinter fighters from the Okba Ibn Nafaa, a brigade of Al Qaedaaffiliated fighters, operating in the Chaambi mountains along the Algerian border. — Reuters

FIGHTING CONTINUES: A picture taken from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Sanliurfa province, shows Turkish soldiers standing guard, front, as Syrian Kurds wait behind the barbed wired on the Syrian side after they ﬂed the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain Al Arab, on Friday. – AFP

the Sheitaat tribe last year, Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, said. He said 146 civilians had been killed. Kurdish officials said at least 145 had died. The assault included at least three suicide car bombs. The dead included the elderly, women and children, he said. The IS ﬁghters were reported to number in the dozens and entered the town in ﬁve cars disguised as members of

the YPG and Syrian rebel groups. In their other assault on Friday, IS ﬁghters clashed with Syrian government forces in the south of Hasaka for a second day and shells hit areas in the centre, the Observatory said. It appeared that IS was also fanning out towards the southeast of the city, which is divided into zones run separately by the Syrian government and a Kurdish administration that oversees the

YPG. The twin attacks which began on Thursday showed the fighters returning to the offensive after two weeks of defeats at the hands of Kurdish-led forces, supported by US-led air strikes. Earlier this week the Kurds advanced to within 50km (30 miles) of Raqqa city. In the latest battles, IS has picked targets where it is difficult for the US-led alliance to provide air support to those fighting on the ground. In Kobane, also known as Ayn Al Arab, aerial bombardment risks civilian casualties in residential areas targeted in the attack. In Hasaka the IS targets were in areas controlled by President Bashar Al Assad. The US-led coalition, which has been bombing IS targets in both Syria and Iraq since last year, has ruled out cooperating with Damascus. Kobane was the site of one of the biggest battles against IS last year. The Kurdish forces eventually drove the militants out of the town in January with the help of US air strikes and Iraqi Kurdish fighters, after months of battles. Recent weeks have seen momentum shift repeatedly in the battle against IS. The fighters advanced rapidly last month, seizing

cities in Syria and Iraq, before the recent Kurdish advances in Syria. IS militants have often adopted a tactic of attacking elsewhere when they lose ground. The group wrested control of at least one district of Hasaka city in its raid there on Thursday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said an estimated 50,000 people had been displaced within Hasaka city while 10,000 had left northwards towards Amuda town, close to the Turkish border. Speaking to Syrian state TV, the governor of Hasaka said the city was “safe and secure” and urged people to return home. The Observatory said fighting was continuing. Government forces were carrying out air strikes targeting areas south of Hasaka controlled by IS, it added. State news agency SANA said scores of IS fighters were killed in the bombardments. This could not be independently confirmed. Assad has lost territory since March in areas of northwestern, southern and central Syria to a patchwork of armed groups, including IS, other hardline militants, and rebels who profess a more inclusive vision for Syria. — Reuters

Vatican signs first accord with Palestine VATICAN CITY: The Vatican on Friday signed a historic first accord with Palestine, two years after officially recognising it as a state. The accord, a treaty covering the activities of the Church in the parts of the land under Palestinian control, was the first since the Vatican recognised Palestine as a state in February 2013. The product of 15 years of discussions, the agreement was finalised in principle last month and bitterly condemned then by Israel as a setback for the peace process. Blessing Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al Maliki, said at Friday’s signing ceremony that it would “not have been possible without the blessing of Pope Francis for our efforts to reach it. “The minister said the “historic” accord enshrined Palestine’s special status. Paul Gallagher, the British archbishop who is the Vatican’s de facto foreign minister, signed the accord in the presence of guests including Vera Baboun, the mayor of Bethlehem. — AFP

FINAL DISCUSSIONS

Major differences remain as Iran nuclear deal deadline looms

IN MISSION MODE: US Secretary of State John Kerry plays with his crutches as he talks to reporters before leaving for Vienna, Austria, at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on Friday. – Reuters

VIENNA: As a June 30 deadline for a final nuclear deal approaches, major differences remain between Iran and world powers on several key issues including sanctions relief and UN access to Iranian sites, a senior Western diplomat said on Friday. “The most difficult subjects need to be resolved in the coming days,” the diplomat told reporters on condition of anonymity in the Austrian capital, where talks between the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran have entered their final phase. “The questions of access and transparency, PMD (possible military dimensions) and sanctions remain extremely problematic,” the diplomat added. “We can find an agreement on some points, but on major issues there are still big differences.” Iran and six major powers set

themselves an end-June deadline for a long-term deal that would lift sanctions crippling the Iranian economy in exchange for limits on Tehran’s nuclear programme that would remain in place for at least a decade. But diplomats said the talks would likely run into July. Slow and difficult Senior Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi told Iranian reporters that the current negotiations were a “slow and difficult process”. But despite the major obstacles to overcome, a senior US official suggested to reporters on Thursday that an agreement could be within reach. “Despite these tough issues, here’s really what it’s all about. We can truly see a path forward that gets us to a very good agreement here. We know what the pieces of it are,” the official said

on condition of anonymity.” Western and Iranian officials say the chances of success in Vienna are greater than the likelihood of failure. But there is still no guarantee they will get a deal. “The next few days will be extremely difficult. There will be overnighters and we will need to keep calm and have a lot of energy,” the senior Western diplomat said. “At this stage it’s not clear that Iran is ready to make the choices.” US Secretary of State John Kerry departed for Vienna on Friday, boarding his aircraft from Joint Base Andrews, a military base outside of Washington, with a mechanical lift truck because of his broken leg. He remains on crutches following his May 31 cycling accident. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to ar-

rive on Saturday morning, when he and Kerry are expected to meet to discuss progress and sticking points in the talks. Also arriving on Saturday is French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Vast differences British, German, Russia and Chinese ministers are expected to join in the coming days as well. The difference on some issues are vast. Officials close to the talks say they have yet to agree on the speed and scope of lifting sanctions, how Iran will reduce its stockpiles of low enriched uranium, the future scope of Tehran’s enrichment-centrifuge research and development programme, and access for UN inspectors to military and other sites, as well as UN access to Iranian nuclear scientists. — Reuters

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Modi government rule has brought back memories of Emergency: NGOs

INDIA

BJP, Congress spar over Lalit’s tweets on Vadra Lashing out at BJP

NEW DELHI: Claiming that the Centre’s style of functioning has brought back the memories of Emergency, members of civil society have raised concern over “centralisation of power” under the Narendra Modi government. Addressing a meeting organised here on Thursday to mark the imposition of Emergency by the then Indira Gandhi government in 1975, speakers from media and various NGOs claimed that the economic policies of the government were an attack on the rights of farmers and workers. “The attack on citizen’s rights, particularly those of peasants and workers, by present Modi government brings back memories of Emergency,” former Justice Rajindar Sachar said. Ish Mishra, convener of NGO Janhastakshep, expressed fears over alleged concentration and centralisation of power by PMO under Modi. Mishra termed the government’s land and labour reforms as “anti-labour and anti-peasants”. Referring to de-recognition of Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle, a group of student, by IIT-Madras recently, he said it was an attack on rights to expression. During her address, senior journalist Seema Mustafa made comparison of present situation under the “macho militaristic Prime Minister” with pre-emergency days. She also spoke about how all decisions of various ministries are being controlled by PMO in “Indira-Sanjay Gandhi style”. Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, on his part, appealed to journalists and intellectuals to take on the present situation and urged them to challenge politics based on religion and caste. Supreme Court lawyer Ashok Panda expressed concerns over

over the charges, Congress said that running into anybody

The attack on citizen’s rights, particularly those of peasants and workers, by present Modi government brings back memories of Emergency Rajindar Sachar Former justice

the government’s alleged attempt to scuttle and control judiciary by setting up National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) for “self-preservation as was done by Indira Gandhi during the emergency”. “Many a commentators and political leaders are seeing the danger of Emergency from Modi Government’s drive. “Undoubtedly, the developments are in that direction. “We should expose the offensive of Modi government and mobilise the people against this. We should particularly support and invigorate the struggle for civil liberties and democratic rights, particularly rights of struggling people. We should vigorously oppose the attacks on religious minorities and minority nationalities which are being targeted by Modi Government,” a resolution issued by the NGOs stated. - PTI

in a restaurant is not a crime and that Lalit Modi was working at the behest of BJP to divert attention to ‘non-issues’

NEW DELHI: Lalit Modi’s claim that he had “run into” Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra in London triggered fresh war of words between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress on Friday in the escalating row over the help rendered to the tainted former IPL boss by two leaders of the saffron party. BJP alleged links between Lalit Modi and the Gandhi family while the Congress said it was a case of ‘chhota Modi’ helping ‘bada Modi’ (Narendra Modi) with lies”. Lalit Modi had last night tweeted, “Happy to meet the Gandhi family... in London. I had run into Robert and Priyanka separately in a restaurant”. BJP, which charged that it was these links which had “prevented” Lalit Modi’s extradition under UPA’s rule, demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi make a statement on the matter. That invited a sharp attack from the opposition, which said that Lalit Modi’s tweets were a case of “chhota Modi” helping “bada Modi” (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) through “lies”. Seeking to

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900 pilgrims evacuated in Uttarakhand DEHRADUN: A total of 900 persons were on Friday evacuated by choppers from Kedar valley, Hemkund Sahib and Badrinath areas with nearly half a dozen roads and bridges in Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts damaged by ﬁrst monsoon showers and yatra (journey) to the Himalayan shrines severely affected for the second consecutive day. Additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma, who visited areas close to Kedarnath and Badrinath earlier in the day to assess the situation, said from Kedar valley, Hemkund Sahib and Badrinath in Chamoli district a total of 900 persons were evacuated. There are no pilgrims left in Kedarnath at the moment and all of them have been brought

HEAVY RAINFALL: Pilgrims remain stranded after roads and bridges collapsed due to heavy rainfall near Sonprayag, in Kedarnath on Friday. -PTI

down to Sonprayag, who may resume their journey when the weather improves, Sharma told reporters on his return from the affected areas.

Similarly, many of those stuck in Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib areas have been brought down to Joshimath and Ghanghariya, he said, adding, choppers will make sorties even ton Saturday to ferry pilgrims who are stuck on way to Badrinath and the Sikh shrine of Hemkund Sahib. Chamoli District Magistrate Ashok Kumar told reporters in Gopeshwar that nearly 9,000 pilgrims are still stuck at different places on way to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib even after Friday’s evacuation exercise. However, Chief Minister Harish Rawat said the situation is “far from alarming” and the yatra has just been “regulated and not suspended”. - PTI

IN THE NEWS: Priyanka Gandhi, right, daughter of Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi, and her husband Robert Vadra arriving at a polling station to cast their votes in New Delhi in this ﬁle photo taken on April 10. - AFP

turn the tables on Congress, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “Today’s big revelation is the fact that Lalit Modi had met the Gandhi family. Only on Thursday he met Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra. Why have they met him? Let me categorically put today that the issue is about Lalit Modi and Gandhi family... “BJP demands Sonia Gandhi make a statement why the Gandhi family has been in touch with Lalit Modi all these years.” Patra further claimed that the then ﬁnance minister P. Chidambaram “did not want Lalit Modi’s extradition from Britain despite the fact that UK was ready for extradition”.

“Who was preventing them? The Gandhi family,” he alleged. “The matter starts and ends at the door of 10, Janpath.” But lashing out at BJP over the charges, Congress said that running into anybody in a restaurant was not a crime and that Lalit Modi was working at the behest of BJP to divert attention to “non-issues”. Red-herrings Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that BJP should tell its “black money stooges to not rely on red-herrings” to divert attention from the issue. The government must answer to the people about the allegations against External Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, he added. “I can say with full responsibility that neither Priyanka Gandhi nor Robert Vadra ever interacted with Lalit Modi socially. If you see somebody in a restaurant, it is not a crime. ‘Chhota Modi’ is helping ‘bada Modi’ with lies. “It is a diversionary tactic of BJP to turn the attention towards nonissues. The government should speak about real issues and not hide behind Lalit Modi,” Surjewala told reporters. Reiterating his party’s demand for the sacking of Swaraj and Raje, Surjewala said they had helped a fugitive accused of “fraud of gigantic proportions”. - PTI

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UN offers help to deal with heatwave as toll tops 1,150 KARACHI/NEW YORK: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered Pakistan assistance on Friday to deal with the deadly heatwave in Karachi and other parts of lower Sindh which has claimed at least 1,150 lives, Radio Pakistan reported. “The United Nations would respond positively if a request comes from Pakistan to deal with the situation,” a spokesperson of the World Body Chief said, while addressing the media in New York.

NO RESPITE: Volunteers carry a heatstroke victim to a government hospital in Karachi on Friday. The death toll from Pakistan’s killer heatwave rose past 1,150. - AFP

Assistance However, the spokesperson added Pakistan has so far not requested for UN assistance in dealing with the crisis.

Meanwhile, sea breezes brought cooler temperatures on Friday to ease a heat wave that killed more than 1,150 people over a week around Pakistan’s teeming port city of Karachi during Ramadan Power outages The extreme heat of up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) — the hottest since 1981 — coincided with power failures and triggered sharp criticism of the government’s response in the city of 20 million people. By Friday, the daily high temperature was about 36 degree Celsius (97 Fahrenheit), according to Dr Mohammad Hanif of the Director National Weather

Peshawar bomb attack suspect held in Italy Siyar Khan, 36, who is also suspected of involvement in a potential plot against Pope Francis, was arrested on terrorism charges as he stepped off a ﬂight from Islamabad to Rome on Thursday

ROME: A Pakistani accused of organising a 2009 bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed more than 130 people, has been detained in Italy, police said on Friday. Siyar Khan, 36, who is also suspected of involvement in a potential plot against Pope Francis, was arrested on terrorism charges as he stepped off a ﬂight from Islamabad to Rome on Thursday evening. In a statement, police said they suspected he had an “executive role” in what was one of the worst attacks in Pakistan’s history — the October 28, 2009 bombing of the crowded Meena Bazaar which left 134 dead, including scores of women and children, and more than 200 others injured. Authorities at the time blamed the Taliban, which denied car-

IN THE NET: A handout photo released by the Italian Police shows Siyar Khan of Pakistan who is detained in Rome, on Friday. - AFP

rying out the attack. Italian antiterrorism detectives believe Siyar Khan was part of a extremist network based in Italy which was plotting terror attacks on Rome and possibly the Vatican to be carried by suicide bombers imported from Pakistan. Suicide bombers The suspect, who is legally resident in Italy, is accused of sheltering one of the would-be suicide bombers, who entered the country in March 2010 and is believed to be still at large. The detention of Khan came two months after police on the island of Sardinia issued 18 arrest warrants as part of an operation against what they described as a terror cell led by two former bodyguards of Osama bin Laden. The cell allegedly operated out of Olbia, a Sardinian town which has a small, long-standing Paki-

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SC reserves judgment on military courts ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court reserved on Friday its decision regarding petitions challenging the formation of military courts. A 17-member full bench of the apex court considered three questions regarding the 18th and 21st constitutional amendments and will issue its verdict based on these. The questions were, whether or not the amendments have a constitutional structure, whether the 21st amendment is in contradiction with the Constitution and if the Supreme Court can annul the amendments in question. Earlier, Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt contended that while the judiciary has the prerogative of deﬁning the Constitution, it cannot declare null and void a constitutional amendment or law with the single stroke of a pen. Advocate generals of the federal capital and all four provinces,

representatives of Pakistan Bar Council, including Asma Jahangir, Ibrar Hasan and Khalid Anwer, also completed their arguments. On the occasion, the advocate generals endorsed the arguments of the attorney general placed before the court. The apex court had received several applications regarding the constitutional amendments in question. While the 18th constitutional amendment relates to the procedure regarding appointment of judges, the 21st relates to the formation of military courts for the trial of militants, the latter receiving most applications relatively. On June 24, during the hearing of the 21st amendment, Attorney General informed the court that last year, 85 per cent of cases were outstanding in anti-terrorism courts. - Express Tribune

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Flash floods kill 10 in Khyber PESHAWAR: At least 10 people were killed and several others went missing when flash floods swept away a madrassa, several houses and shops in a market area in a mountainous district of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.

Heavy rainfall triggered a sudden rush of water from nearby mountains to the low-lying areas of Upper Dir district, destroying a madrassa, eleven shops and eight houses. So far bodies of three women, ﬁve children and a cleric have been found, police said. - PTI

stani community. Only nine of the suspects were actually arrested in April with the others mostly thought to have ﬂed to Pakistan before the raids. Mario Carta, one of detectives in charge of the investigation, said the Italian authorities consider Siyar Khan to have been the righthand man of Sultan Wali Khan, an Olbia shopkeeper arrested in April whom they suspect of having planned and ﬁnanced the Peshawar attack. Carta said that the would-be suicide bomber arrived in Italy in March 2010 with the intention of mounting an attack, “perhaps on Rome, even the Vatican cannot be ruled out.” “We have not been able to establish the identity of the kamikaze (bomber)...but we believe he is still at large in Italy, most probably in the region of Olbia, which had become a nerve centre of extremist activity,” Carta said.

The operation against the alleged cell followed a six-year investigation that began with a probe into an illegal immigration racket allegedly run from Sardinia. The prosecutor in charge of the case said in April that the existence of a possible conspiracy to kill the pope was based on wiretaps in which the suspects had spoken “in ironic terms” about the leader of the world’s Catholics. At the time, the Vatican played down the signiﬁcance of the investigation, saying it concerned a 2010 scenario that didn’t materialise and insisting there was no need for additional measures to protect Francis. Among the others arrested in April was Zulkifal Haﬁz Mohammed, an imam who worked in Brescia and Bergamo in northern Italy and allegedly raised funds for radical groups. The arrest warrants accuse the suspects of belonging to “an organisation dedicated to transnational criminal activities inspired by Al Qaeda and other radical organisations pursuing armed struggle against the West and insurrection against the current government of Pakistan.” Police said in April that two members of the network were part of Bin Laden’s security detail before his slaying by US special forces in Pakistan in May 2011 while others were in contact with the late Al Qaeda leader’s relatives. According to police, the hardline group based on Sardinia was involved in smuggling Pakistani and Afghan nationals into Europe through Italy, via visa and asylum scams. - AFP

Forecasting Centre. The power outages left many without fans, water or light at the beginning of Ramadan, when many Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours. “By Friday, at least 1,150 people have died in the government-run hospitals,” said Anwar Kazmi of the Edhi Foundation, a private charity that runs a network of ambulances and morgues. Crisis The crisis — following a heat wave in India last month that killed about 2,500 people — illustrates how ill-prepared many developing nations are for the extreme weather conditions that scientists

say will accompany global climate change in coming decades. “These type of events are taking place across the world... we need to prepare ourselves and develop our strategy,” said Qamar uz Zaman Chaudhry, the Islamabadbased special adviser for Asia to the UN-World Meteorological Organization. Blame game “It’s time to learn lessons, instead of getting into the blame game.” Pakistan’s national and local political parties have blamed one another for the crisis, while much of the relief was provided by the military and private charities such as the Edhi Foundation. -Agencies

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t should not have taken the deaths of nine blacks at the hands of a white supremacist in South Carolina to get politicians to acknowledge that the Confederate battle flag is a hateful symbol. But elected officials in that state and the rest of the South can now show they understand by retiring the flag from all official duties, ceremonial and otherwise. On Monday, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Republican, standing beside the state’s two US senators, announced that it was time to take down the Confederate battle flag that flies in front of the state capitol. Anything less would be an insult to the families of the dead, as well as a continuing affront to the nation -- most especially to those whose ancestors knew the flag as a sign of subjugation, but also to those whose ancestors fought and died to preserve the Union, and others who have worked ever since to end racism. The Civil War ended 150 years ago this month. There are few more powerful and meaningful ways to mark the occasion, and to celebrate national unity and racial equality, than for Southern states to stop conferring official status on Confederate symbols. A week ago, that would have been wishful thinking bordering on lunacy. But after Wednesday’s shootings in Charleston, it now seems entirely possible -- and essential. Hours after Haley’s press conference, the Republican speaker of the Mississippi House issued a statement on his state’s flag, saying that the Confederate battle flag in its upper left corner “needs to be removed.” And on Tuesday, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Democrat, announced that the state would remove Confederate flag symbols from its license plates. Other states have official links to Confederate symbols. They should join South Carolina and Mississippi in reconsidering the meaning of these symbols. And voters are right to expect those who seek the nation’s highest office to make their views on this issue clear. Too many Republican candidates for president tiptoed around the South Carolina flag issue, calling it a matter for the state to resolve. As a procedural matter, that’s true. But as a political matter, this is a national issue. Giving official state sanction to Confederate symbols undermines the unity of the nation -- and the fight for equality that didn’t end with the Civil War a century and a half ago. — Bloomberg View

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Post-post-Cold War is a battle over influences THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Doctors without borders

he British Medical Association is one of the most effective trade unions in existence. It might prefer to think of itself as a professional body rather than a union, and its chairman, Dr Mark Porter, does not look or sound like Len McCluskey, but it ﬁghts for its members with the same single-mindedness of any obstinate shop steward. So when there is a sequence of motions on the agenda of a BMA Annual Representative Meeting protesting that doctors should not have to do something that the government wants them to do, a natural ﬁrst reaction is to assume this is a union putting the sectional interests of its members before the good of the public. It has happened before. The issue in this case concerns the working of the 2014 Immigration Act, which was intended to lay to rest fears that the NHS is being abused by migrants who come to the UK as health tourists to take advantage of free treatment. The law, which came into effect in April, stipulates that people from outside Europe, Australia or New Zealand should be required to prove that they are entitled to free healthcare. In this way, the government hopes to raise about £500m a year towards the cost of running the NHS, and at the same time deter economic migrants and maybe catch a few who are here when they should not be. But the Home Office is not proposing to station an immigration officer in every doctor’s surgery or accident and emergency department to check every patient’s status. It wants NHS staff to do the job. That is what has provoked objections from BMA divisions in London and Manchester. The Tower Hamlets division wants the BMA to tell its members not to get involved in the question of whether their patients have a right to free treatment, and to undertake to protect any doctor who runs into trouble for arranging free treatment for a patient who was not entitled to it. — The Independent

Quality of life should be good for all social classes This refers to the online story, Oman stands seventh globally in quality of life (June 24). The ranking made is quite subjective. In my opinion, the wealthy expatriates and Omanis will obviously be happy living in a beautiful tropical paradise. However, we mustn’t forget those less fortunate itinerant workers from Asia working long hours on meagre pay. We should try to make this environment happy for people from all walks of life. Oliver Ferenth Muscat

stan has unsealed the offices of the British charity Save the Children in Islamabad. It is amazing that an organisation suspected of collaborating with US in espionage is being allowed to run. This is unacceptable as the country ostracises local charitable organisations on the ground they are allegedly helping extremists. It seems the government is not aware of its real friends and enemies as local outﬁts, however anti-state are still better than countries bent on creating chaos. Nasreen Himayatullah Ibra

European countries need to stand up to US espionage Foreign aid organisations bent on creating chaos This refers to the report that Paki-

This refers to the report on Wednesday regarding the revelations by Wikileaks that the US

The Cold War had a beginning, an end and even a closing curtain, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the post-post-Cold War has brought us full circle back to the pre-Cold War and the game of nations

et’s see, America is prepositioning battle tanks with our East European NATO allies to counterbalance Russia; US and Russian military planes recently flew within 10 feet of each other; Russia is building a new generation of long-range ballistic missiles; and the US and China are jostling in the South China Sea. Did someone restart the Cold War while I was looking the other way? If so, this time it seems like the Cold War without the fun - that is, without James Bond, SMERSH, “Get Smart” Agent 86’s shoe phone, Nikita Khrushchev’s shoe-banging, a race to the moon or a debate between American and Soviet leaders over whose country has the best kitchen appliances. And I don’t think we’re going to see President Barack Obama in Kiev declaring, à la President Kennedy, “ich bin ein Ukrainian.” Also, the lingo of our day - “reset with Russia” or “pivot to Asia” - has none of the gravitas of - drum roll, please - “détente.” No, this post-post-Cold War has more of a WWE - World Wrestling Entertainment - feel to it, and I don’t just mean President Vladimir Putin of Russia’s riding horses bare-chested, although that is an apt metaphor. It’s just a raw jostling for power for power’s sake - not a clash of influential ideas but rather of spheres of influence: “You cross that line, I punch your nose.” “Why?” “Because I said so.” “You got a problem with that?” “Yes, let me show you my drone. You got a problem with that?” “Not at all. My cyber guys stole the guidance system last week from Northrop Grumman.” “You got a problem with that?” The Cold War had a beginning, an end and even a closing curtain, with the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the post-post-Cold War has brought us full circle back to the pre-Cold War and the game of nations. There was a moment when it seemed as though it would all be otherwise - when it seemed that Palestinians and Israelis would make peace, that China would evolve into a more consensual political system and that Russia would become part of Europe and the G-8. That was a lifetime ago. Now Western reporters struggle to get visas to China, no American businessman with a brain takes his laptop to Beijing, Chinese hackers have more of your personal data now than LinkedIn, Russia is still intent on becoming part of Europe - by annexing a piece here and a piece there - and the G-8 is now the G-1.5 (America and Germany). When did it all go sour? We fired the first shot when we expanded NATO toward the Russian border even though the Soviet Union had disappeared. Message to Moscow: You are always an enemy, no

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matter what system you have. When oil prices recovered, Putin sought his revenge for this humiliation, but now he’s just using the NATO threat to justify the militarisation of Russian society so he and his fellow kleptocrats can stay in power and paint their opponents as lackeys of the West. NATO’s toppling of the Libyan leader Muammar Gadhaﬁ, the Arab Spring and the Moscow street protests that followed rattled Putin, said Sergei Guriev, the noted Russian economist now based in Paris. “Putin understood that he lost the Russian middle class and so he started to look for legitimacy somewhere else” - in hypernationalism and anti-Americanism. But Guriev makes an important point. “If not for the Western sanctions on Russia, East Ukraine would already have been part of Russia today,” he said, adding that there is nothing Putin fears more than Ukraine succeeding in diminishing corruption and building a modern economy that would be everything Putin’s Russia is not. Guriev is worried, though, that the anti-Western propaganda Putin has been pumping into the veins of the Russian public will have a lasting effect and make his successor even worse. Either way, “Russia will be a big challenge for your next president.” The Chinese leadership is not as dumb or desperate as Putin - and needs access to US markets more - so, for now, China’s leaders still behave with some restraint in asserting their claims in the South China Sea. But the fact is, as the Asia expert Andrew Browne noted in The Wall Street Journal, “the US-China relationship has lost its strategic raison d’être: the Soviet Union, the common threat that brought the two countries together.” They have not forged a new one, like being co-managers of global stability. In short, the attraction of the US economy and the bite of US sanctions are more vital than ever in managing the post-post-Cold War game of nations. We may be back to traditional geopolitics, but it’s in a much more interdependent world, where the American economic clout is still a source of restraint on Moscow and Beijing. Putin doesn’t disguise his military involvement in Ukraine for nothing; he’s afraid of more US banking sanctions. China doesn’t circumscribe its behaviour in the South China Sea for nothing; it can’t grow without exporting to America. It’s not just our guns, it’s our butter. It’s why we should be expanding US-shaped free-trade deals with Asia and Europe and it’s why the most important source of stability in the world today is the health of the US economy. We can walk softly only as long as we carry a big stick - and a big wallet. — The New York Times

kept tabs on French President Francois Hollande and two of his predecessors. Although, Paris has condemned Washington’s actions, it is unlikely any major diplomatic fallout will ensue. This should be expected as a similar report based on US whistleblower Edward Snowden’s ﬁles showed the Americans had been spying on the German leadership. In my opinion owing to the mammoth US aid during and after World War II to Western Europe, both military and ﬁnancial, the countries are unable to confront their so-called cross-Atlantic ally. It is surprising that these countries do not embrace Eastern powers like Russia and China. Clemente Patrick Muscat

Branson should spend for betterment of the poor This refers to the report on the progress of the Solar Impulse, whose pilots claim to be on an epic journey. It seems the project is in doldrums as the chances of the plane ever continuing its journey look very bleak. The distance to Hawaii is great and in view of the inclement weather conditions; I think it would remain in the Japanese airport’s hanger for days, if not weeks, to come. It is sad that the head of Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, is bent on wasting millions of dollars on a useless project when millions of people are living in poverty, lacking education and enduring unending conﬂicts. Faryal Hashim Buraimi

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27 killed, 222 injured in Kuwait mosque attack claimed by IS The IS-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia said militant Abu Suleiman Al Muwahhid bombed the mosque

KUWAIT CITY: A suicide bomber struck a mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during Friday prayers, killing at least 27 people and wounding many in an unprecedented attack claimed by the IS militant group. Kuwait’s interior ministry said in a statement cited by the official KUNA news agency that hundreds were wounded in the mosque explosion. “Twenty-seven people have been martyred and 222 others wounded as a result of the blast at Al Imam Al Sadeq Mosque,” the interior ministry statement said. Terrorist bombing It called the attack a “terrorist bombing” and said it will provide more details later. The wounded were admitted to five public hospitals and were visited by Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Sabah. IS claimed Friday’s assault, the first bombing of a mosque in Kuwait and also the first “terror” attack in the Gulf country since January 2006. The IS-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia, calling itself Najd Province, said militant Abu Suleiman Al Muwahhid bombed the mosque which it claimed was spreading teachings.

PAIN AND GRIEF: Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al Humoud Al Sabah, centre, consoles worshippers outside Al Imam Al Sadeq Mosque after a suicide bomb attack following Friday prayers, in the Al Sawaber area of Kuwait City on Friday. – Reuters

The Najd Province group has claimed similar bombings at mosques in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. A security official said “it is a suicide bombing”. Witnesses also said a suicide bomber entered the mosque during the weekly noon prayers. The top cleric at the mosque, Abdullah Al Mazeedi, told KUNA the bombing targeted the rear rows of worshippers who numbered around 2,000 altogether.

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He said the blast damaged the interior and caused several chandeliers to fall. The Emir, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, immediately visited the site,

and footage on state-run showed him visibly moved by the scenes of carnage. He later said that the “criminal attack is a desperate and evil attempt targeting Kuwait’s national unity”. The channel broadcast footage of the destruction, and people posted online horriﬁc pictures of the dead and wounded. Kuwait’s cabinet went into emergency session as the interior ministry raised the alert level and

mobilised all security forces. A number of hospitals in the country declared states of emergency to deal with the wounded, and the central blood bank appealed for donations. The interior ministry said it has launched a full investigation into the incident. Three weeks ago, the ministry said it had raised the level of security around mosques following the bombings in neighbouring Saudi

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Sri Lankan president dissolves parliament COLOMBO: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday ordered the immediate dismissal of parliament, clearing the way for a snap election 10 months ahead of schedule. President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the legislature “with effect from midnight today” in an official proclamation and said he would summon the new parliament to sit on September 1. The president decreed that elections would be held across the island on August 17, with candidates given a week ending July 13 to ﬁle nomination papers, according to the official gazette notiﬁcation. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has pressed for early elections to increase the majority of his United National Party (UNP), which sat in opposition until Sirisena’s victory in

Arabia. Friday’s attack was widely condemned. Parliament speaker Marzouk Al Ghanem described the attack as “black terror”, adding that the unity of Kuwaitis would foil any plot. The two mainstream groups, the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) and the Islamic Salaf Alliance, denounced the attack. The ICM, political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, decried the bombing as a “low criminal attack targeting the mosque”. A statement from the second group said: “The Islamic Salaf Alliance strongly deplores this heinous crime which is carried out only by traitors.” Kuwait’s leading cleric, Sheikh Ajeel Al Nashmi, said on Twitter that the bombing was a “criminal act aimed at sowing seeds of discord, and undoubtedly the terrorists’ plot will be foiled”. Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Sultan Al Shemmari called on the government to “hit the terrorists with an iron ﬁst”. Over the past few weeks, Kuwaiti courts have tried a number of people on charges of belonging to IS and sentenced at least one to several years in jail. Several countries and organisations deplored the bombing. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said that “terrorist gangs are a threat to all, and countries in the region and the world must seriously contribute to ﬁghting them”. Iran said “terrorist” attacks are the main threat to regional security and stability. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which Kuwait is a member, called the attack an attempt to undermine national unity and stability of all its members. There was also condemnation from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Russia and Spain among others. — AFP

WELCOME MOVE: Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena, right and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in this photograph taken on November 26, 2014. – AFP File photograph

January’s polls. Wickremesinghe’s deputy, Harsha de Silva, said the UNP welcomed the election as an opportunity to increase the party’s strength in the legislature and ensure stability.

“Once the new government is established we will have our policies spelt out and it will be good for everybody and for investment conﬁdence,” de Silva said. The toppling of strongman Ma-

hinda Rajapakse, who had ruled for almost a decade, led to a minority government which was unable to implement its legislative reforms without the support of the opposition. But Sirisena inherited the outgoing parliament from his autocratic predecessor, who still controlled a loyal band of lawmakers who repeatedly blocked most of the reforms, including ﬁscal policy moves. However, Sirisena managed to restore the two-term limit on the presidency which Rajapakse had removed in 2010 and also reduce the presidential term and the life of a parliament to ﬁve years, down from six. The parliament that will be elected in August cannot be sacked by the president for four and a half years. Previously, a president could dismiss the assembly after it completed one year of its full six-year

term. Wickremesinghe had also faced a no-trust resolution initiated by the opposition, which commanded a majority in the 225-member assembly and would have remained until April 2016 if not for the dissolution. UNP supporters burst ﬁrecrackers in cities across the country as local media broadcast the news of the parliament’s dissolution. The opposition had been resisting such a move, but opposition leader Dinesh Gunawardena put on a brave face and welcomed the decision saying the minority government was not able to provide stability. “The country was facing an economic crisis because the minority government was not able to get any bills approved,” Gunawardena told reporters. “Therefore we welcome the president’s decision.” — AFP

South Korea passes law to curb MERS outbreak SEOUL: South Korea has introduced a new law designed to curb a MERS outbreak, tightening quarantine restrictions and imposing jail sentences on those who defy anti-infection measures in a crisis that has now left 31 dead. Fine for lying Under the new law, passed in parliament late Thursday, people infected with the virus who lie to state investigators about how they came into contact with the disease will face a ﬁne or a prison sentence. “False testimony would entail up two years in prison or 20 million won ($18,000) in ﬁnes,” said the Health Ministry. — AFP

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Decapitated body found in France, suspect, wife taken into custody websites as a primary target for attacks. In January, gunmen killed 17 people in the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish food store. In April, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said no fewer than ﬁve attacks had been thwarted in the country since then.

The assailant killed and beheaded his 50-year-old manager before entering the secured site in the vehicle

SAINT- QUENTIN-FALLAVIER (FRANCE): A decapitated body was found at a US-owned factory in southeast France on Friday after an assailant rammed a delivery van into gas containers at the site, triggering an explosion. A source close to the investigation said the victim was the boss of the suspect, a delivery man. The two had gone to the company to make a delivery but the assailant killed and beheaded his 50-yearold manager before entering the secured site in the vehicle. The attacker was injured in the blast and arrested on the site. His wife was later taken into custody and authorities were questioning at least one other suspected accomplice. Speaking from a European Union summit in Brussels, French President Francois Hollande described it as a terrorist attack and said all measures would be taken to stop any future strikes on a country still reeling from extremist assaults in January. ‘Work together’ Hollande called for nations to work together to combat security threats. “There is no other link other than to say that terrorism is our common enemy,” he told reporters on his return to Paris. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve named the suspect as Yassin INTENSE FIGHTING

Shebab rebels overrun African Union base MOGADISHU: Dozens of soldiers were killed on Friday when Somalia’s Shebab insurgents overran an African Union base, witnesses said. “The fighting was the heaviest ever around this area. The Shebab fighters took full control of the base and killed many soldiers,” Alinur Mohamed, an elder in Lego village, 100 kilometres (62 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, said. Witnesses said they had seen as many as 50 bodies but the reports were impossible to independently confirm. Some bodies had been reportedly beheaded. The military outpost was manned by some 100 Burundian soldiers who are part of the 22,000 strong African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Residents said the dawn raid started with a suicide bomber driving a car loaded with explosives into the entrance of the base, before dozens of militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades began their assault. — AFP

THE CRIME SCENE: French Gendarmes stand guard next to a plastic sheet outside a gas company site at the industrial area of SaintQuentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, France, on Friday. – Reuters

Sahli. He said Sahli did not have a criminal record but had been under surveillance from 2006 to 2008 on suspicion of having become radicalised by hardline associates. The attack happened at an industrial zone near the town of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier to the south of the city of Lyon. Its air, rail and road links have made it one of Europe’s major logistics hubs, with through-traffic of 5,000 trucks a day. Sources close to the investigation said Sahli was a 35-year-old

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professional driver who lived in the Lyon suburbs. Europe 1 radio interviewed a woman they identiﬁed as his wife. “In the morning he left for work and didn’t come home between noon and 2:00, I was waiting for him,” she told Europe 1 radio, saying she and her family of

three children lived normal lives. “My heart is about to give out.” French BFMTV television ﬁlming outside Sahli’s apartment showed pictures of police leading out a woman, her head covered by a blanket, into a waiting car. It said forensic police were carrying out searches on the ground-ﬂoor apartment of the modern, concrete apartment block. The attack, which wounded two other people with the blast, underlined again the difficulty for authorities across Europe and

elsewhere of protecting so-called “soft” targets against strikes by assailants operating by themselves or in small undercover cells. Police sources earlier said the decapitated body was discovered at the site, along with a ﬂag bearing inscriptions. Local newspaper Le Dauphine said the head was also found hanging from a fence. France, which has deployed aircraft to the international coalition ﬁghting IS insurgents in Iraq, has long been named on hardliners’

High threat level Noting that hundreds of French nationals are in Syria where they risked being radicalised by militants, Valls has said repeatedly that France has never seen a higher threat level. The site of Friday’s attack belonged to Air Products , a US industrial gases and chemicals company. It was immediately ringfenced by police and emergency services. Air Products said its crisis and emergency response teams were “working closely with all relevant authorities”. The chairman and CEO of Air Products is Seiﬁ Ghasemi, who in 2011 testimony to a US Senate committee described himself as Iranian-born. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the motive was unknown. According to French regulations applicable to zones where gases and chemicals are handled, the site would have been required to implement security arrangements at the low end of the European Union’s so-called “Seveso” scale, named after the location of an industrial accident in northern Italy in 1976. Jean-Paul Bonnetain, prefect of the local Isere region, said the vehicle used to gain access to the site had the necessary authorisation to do so. Cazeneuve said the government had ordered security to be stepped up around all sensitive sites and Hollande announced that security arrangements in the region would be placed at their highest level for the next three days. — Reuters

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Afghan ‘superhero’ killed six Taliban insurgents KABUL: He is called a superhero and feted with financial rewards from Afghan politicians, but the lionisation of the soldier who single-handedly killed six attackers in parliament belies bubbling discontent over deteriorating security. Essa Khan Laghmani, 28, was plucked from obscurity and catapulted to national fame this week after he shot dead the Taliban insurgents who on Monday launched a gun and grenade assault on the legislature, sending terrified lawmakers scurrying for cover. “Taq Chapako!” — “Bang! and down” in Dari — meanwhile became an Internet meme after he used the phrase in television interviews to describe how he effortlessly knocked down his targets as though they were skittles in a bowling alley. Laghmani’s feat offered a rare glimmer of good news during the Taliban’s annual summer offensive, which has sent civilian and military casualties soaring and threatened major cities for the first time in a decade. President Ashraf Ghani awarded him

But the celebration of Laghmani — or unnecessary gloriﬁcation, depending on who you ask — glosses over growing public angst over a 13-year war that is inﬂicting a heavy toll on ordinary Afghans.

‘BANG! AND DOWN’: In this photograph taken on June 24, 2015, Afghan soldier Essa Khan Laghmani talks during an interview with AFP at the Afghan Parliament compound in Kabul. – AFP

a three-bedroom apartment, former warlord General Dostum gifted him a pickup truck and some lawmakers pledged him a month of their salaries and other cash rewards to offer their gratitude. That’s not all. His posters are splashed around Kabul, a provincial governor has

named a major thoroughfare after him and Afghanistan’s starstruck youth have posted poems on social media to extol his “heroism”. “He killed six terrorists with six bullets. He saved the lives of MPs,” defence ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told AFP. “His bravery deserves to be celebrated.”

Record casualties “By hyping Essa Khan, the Afghan government (is trying) to hide its inability to prevent attacks on such a high-proﬁle target in the capital,” said one Afghan user on Facebook. “Khan has become a rich man. We saw MPs donating cash and their salaries to him. This assistance is not to honour his patriotism but to reward him for saving their own lives.” War-weary Afghans are in for the bloodiest ﬁghting season in a decade, experts say, with the stubborn Taliban insurgency spreading inexorably northwards beyond its traditional southern and eastern strongholds. Afghan security forces, stretched on multiple fronts and facing record casualties, are struggling to rein in the militants even as the government

makes repeated efforts to jumpstart peace negotiations. “The Afghan government is desperate for something to cheer about -and perhaps something to distract people from how frightening the situation is,” said Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch. “They are also desperate to bolster the morale -- and the perceptions -- of the security forces,” she told AFP. Laghmani, a slender but wellbuilt army sergeant wearing a slanted beret, recalled the moment he turned into a national sensation. “I pointed my gun at the terrorists and said Bismillah (in the name of god), and then ‘Taq Chapako!’,” he told AFP in the parliament complex. “My friends say if the enemy ever catches me they will skin me alive, but I feel no fear. I am only concerned that these cowards might try to harm my family,” said the father-of-three. Since the attack, “Taq Chapako” has even appeared on car bumper stickers and inspired online poetry. — AFP

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Russian former spymaster and premier Primakov dies at 85

PASSED AWAY: Former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, leader of the opposition Fatherland-All Russia bloc, gestures on the day of the parliamentary elections in Moscow, Russia, in this ﬁle picture taken on December 19, 1999. – Reuters File photograph

MOSCOW: Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who helped restore stability after an economic crash in 1998 and shifted the focus of foreign policy away from the West, has died at the age of 85 after a long illness. A former Soviet Communist apparatchik, Primakov went on to become a spymaster and foreign minister who was seen abroad as a hawk but was revered in Russia as a statesman and crisis manager. In March 1999, when he was prime minister, he turned his plane around over the Atlantic and abandoned a trip to the United States when it became clear that NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, a Russian ally, were imminent. For many Russians, the incident came to symbolise Primakov’s refusal to kow-tow to the West. “One of our country’s greatest statesmen has died,” for-

mer Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said. “His passing is a great loss for all our society.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had sent his condolences to Primakov’s family. In his role as elder statesman, Primakov backed Putin over the Ukraine crisis although he said Russia had “somewhat overdone” its media coverage, seen in the West as propaganda. Primakov, who succeeded proWestern Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in January 1996, set out a vision of a “multipolar” world to challenge what he called Washington’s concept of a “unipolar” system dominated by the United States. The current Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said those principles remained central to Russian foreign policy today

and praised Primakov as “a great man, statesman, politician, scientist, journalist and publicist.” Born in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in 1929, Primakov was brought up in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. After graduating as an Arabic scholar from the Moscow Institute for Oriental Studies in 1953, he became a correspondent for state radio and television and worked in the Middle East in the 1960s. He joined the Communist Party in 1959, entered the Soviet parliament in 1988, chaired the chamber from 1989 until 1990 and became a junior member of the ruling politburo under Gorbachev. He played a prominent role in failed efforts to avert the 1991 Gulf War when Gorbachev sent him to negotiate in Baghdad with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. After the collapse of the Soviet

Union, Primakov was made head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and then foreign minister, from 1996 until 1998. He was seen abroad as a hawk but won respect from peers such as US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during discussions on NATO enlargement. President Boris Yeltsin appointed Primakov prime minister in September 1998, seeing him as a compromise ﬁgure to help ease political tensions after a market crash and effective debt default. Primakov was credited with restoring a degree of stability but liberals accused him of freezing economic reforms and he was sacked in May 1999. Primakov later aligned himself with a left-leaning political bloc but dropped plans to run in the 2000 presidential election when Kremlin power brokers united around Putin’s bid. — Reuters

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Yasir Shah made up for the absence of injured pace spearhead Wahab Riaz to keep Sri Lanka down to 304-9 by stumps on second day in reply to the tourists’ modest 138

COLOMBO: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed five for 95 as Pakistan halted Sri Lanka’s march towards a big first innings lead in the second Test at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Friday. Shah made up for the absence of injured pace spearhead Wahab Riaz to keep Sri Lanka down to 304-9 by stumps on the second day in reply to the tourists’ modest 138. Opener Kaushal Silva topscored with 80 and skipper Angelo Mathews made 77, but Sri Lanka lost six wickets for 112 runs after at one stage being 191-3. Rangana Herath (10) and last man Dushmantha Chameera (0) will resume on the third day with their team leading by 166 runs on a pitch that is giving spinners plenty of bounce and turn. Pakistan missed Wahab, who has been ruled out for the rest of the series with a hairline fracture in his left hand that he received while batting on Thursday. Wahab bowled nine overs on the first day but did not take the field on Friday, leaving Pakistan one

DAY’S HERO: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah had a ﬁeld day during the second day of the second Test cricket match against Sri Lanka. – AFP

strike bowler short. Yasir, whose seven-wicket haul in Sri Lanka’s second innings fashioned Pakistan’s 10-wicket victory in the ﬁrst Test in Galle, once again tormented the rival batsmen. He had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at short-leg by Azhar Ali for seven before lunch, and then bowled both Dinesh Chandimal (one) and Kithuruwan Vithanage (three) in the afternoon session. Yasir’s dismissal of Mathews gave the leg-spinner his 50th wicket in only nine Tests, making him the fastest among Pakistani bowlers to reach the mark. Idol Warne boosted Yasir Yasir said he derived his conﬁdence from an encouraging tweet

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McCullum commits to another year WELLINGTON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum will skip tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa this year but will return to the side and be available until at least next year’s World Twenty20 tournament in India, the country’s cricket governing body said on Friday. The 33-year-old’s playing future has been the subject of intense scrutiny following New Zealand’s recently completed tour of England, with suggestions he could retire. New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said, however, that McCullum would stay with the team until after their home series against Australia next year before leading them to India for the World Twenty20 in March. He would miss tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa in August to rest after an “intense period of cricket”, it added. McCullum has been nursing a chronic back problem for the best part of ﬁve years and has often said he is unsure as to how much longer he can manage the injury before it forces him into retirement. — Reuters

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India and Pakistan play thrilling draw ANTWERP: The much anticipated Hockey World League (HWL) Semiﬁnal Pool A clash between traditional rivals India and Pakistan ended in a 2-2 stalemate at the Brasschaat Municipal Park here on Friday. Ramandeep Singh (13th and 39th) scored for world No.9 India while his brace was matched by world No.10 Pakistan captain Muhammad Imran, who converted a penalty stroke and a penalty corner in the 23rd and 37th minutes respectively. India were the better team at the start with the players combining and coordinating well. Pakistan got a great chance of going ahead as Shakeel Ammad set up Muhammad Waqas only for the latter to waste it. However, India got the crucial 1-0 lead in the 13th minute as Gurmail Singh drove the ball inside the Pakistan circle in a blistering speed and Ramandeep, lurking in front of the goal, made full commitment and threw his

body to deflect the ball in. In the second quarter, the best part of Pakistan was the way they managed the space in the field while it seemed India, after getting the lead, were more focused on keeping their lead. India won a penalty corner that was wasted by a lethargic strike from Manpreet Singh. Pakistan too earned a penalty corner in the 37th minute that was converted successfully as Imran flicked high into the net. India responded two minutes later as Devindar got a pass from skipper Sardar Singh and surged into the rival circle to set it up for Ramandeep, who lifted the ball high into the net for his brace. With the game still 2-2, India and Pakistan both wasted a penalty corner each in the fourth quarter as their stoppers failed to properly check the balls after the push. India, especially, missed the absence of a penalty corner expert. — IANS

by Australian leg-spin legend Shane Warne, whom he regards as his idol. Warne had tweeted last year after watching Shah bowl on television: “I like the look of this leggie Yasir Shah, plenty of energy and nice variations of pace.” “His words actually put me under pressure to live up to his appreciation and it has been good so far,” the 29-year-old Yasir said. “The focus remains on bowling a good line and length and control my variations. One needs to be patient in Test cricket and that is what I am trying to do.” Yasir said losing the services of Wahab hurt his team, but he remained conﬁdent that the Test was not out of Pakistan’s reach. “We are a bowler short because

of the injury and the need is to contain Sri Lanka’s lead,” he said. “The pitch is still playing well, but it will offer more for the spinners on the last two days.” Silva, who hit a century in Galle, once again anchored the team’s brittle batting. Silva and Mathews put on 72 for the fourth wicket to take the score to 191-3 when three wickets crashed in the space of 11 runs to open up the tail. Silva was run out when he drove Zulﬁqar Babar to mid-on and charged down the wicket for a sharp single, only for Mathews to send him back. Sangakkara falls for 34 Kumar Sangakkara, who resumed on 18 at the team’s overnight score

Pakistan 1st innings: 138 (Mohammed Hafeez 42, Tharindu Kaushal 5-42, Dhammika Prasad 3-43) Sri Lanka 1st innings (overnight 70-1): D. Karunaratne c Sarfraz b Junaid 28 K. Silva run out 80 K. Sangakkara c Shaﬁq b Babar 34 L. Thirimanne c Azhar b Yasir 7 A. Mathews lbw b Yasir 77 D. Chandimal b Yasir 1 K. Vithanage b Yasir 3 D. Prasad lbw b Hafeez 35 R. Herath not out 10 T. Kaushal c Misbah b Yasir 18 D. Chameera not out 0 Extras: (b-6, lb-3, nb-1, w-1) 11 Total (for nine wickets, 118.2 overs) 304 Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Karunaratne), 2-98 (Sangakkara), 3-119 (Thirimanne), 4-191 (Silva), 5-194 (Chandimal), 6-202 (Vithanage), 7-275 (Prasad), 8-275 (Mathews), 9-303 (Kaushal). Bowling: Wahab 9-2-19-0 (nb1), Junaid 27.2-5-80-1 (w1), Babar 32-8-82-1, Yasir 40-5-95-5, Hafeez 10-2-19-1. Toss: Pakistan Umpires: Richard Illingworth (ENG) and Sundaram Ravi (IND) TV umpire: Paul Reiffel (AUS) Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG)

of 70-1, made 34 when he attempted a big hit off left-arm spinner Babar and was caught at long-on by Asad Shaﬁq. Sangakkara, 37, has still not responded to media speculation that he will retire after playing the ﬁrst two Tests against Pakistan and one against India in August. Sri Lanka were tottering at 202-6 when tailender Dhammika Prasad helped Mathews add 73 runs for the seventh wicket to boost the total. Both batsmen were dismissed in successive overs as Prasad was trapped leg-before by Mohammad Hafeez for 35 and Mathews fell in similar fashion against Yasir. - AFP

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CLOSE CONTEST: Boats in action on the second day of the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup. – Supplied photo

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MUSCAT: Team work on Oman Sail’s GC32 “Sultanate of Oman” was back to its polished best on the second day of racing in the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup resulting in a string of podium places and a welcome hike to the top of the leaderboard. Racing was delayed by almost two hours when the light breeze dipped to zero in the morning but when the competition ﬁnally got underway, it was Leigh McMillan

and his crew of Nasser Al Mashari, Pete Greenhalgh, Allister Richardson and Ed Smyth who were among the first to find their form and by the end of the next race they had recorded their first win of the day. There was a second win plus three second places in the next five races leaving Sultanate of Oman neck and neck with Armin Strom Sailing Team at the top of the table with one race remaining which is precisely what it took to leapfrog their opponents and take the overall lead. “We sailed better today (Thursday) but that was down to our growing familiarity with the boat,”

explained Peter Greenhalgh, speaking on behalf of McMillan who dislocated his index ﬁnger during a manoeuvre in the ﬁnal race and required treatment. “We had a bit of a lightbulb moment working out our crew routines at the start and the roles eve-

ryone was playing and that made a big difference. We like being at the top and it puts us in a good position for the rest of the event.” Nasser Al Mashari, who is also the bowman on Oman Sail’s Extreme 40 crew on The Wave, Muscat, is new to foiling but is turning

out to be a natural at trimming foils. He is relishing the opportunity to try something new and having raced Sultanate of Oman to victory in Austria where there was no wind, is looking forward to the challenge of racing GC32s in 17 knots on Friday. “Our boat handling was so much better today (Thursday) - it was a very good day, so hopefully when the wind blows tomorrow as it is expected to do, we can improve even more,” he said. “We had three days training in the Solent before the ﬁrst event in Austria and it was windy but it will still be a massive learning curve.”

Peter Greenhalgh Sultanate of Oman Racing in the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup reaches its climax with a further six races to decide the winner of the Cowes Cup before all the GC32 boats take part in the annual JP Morgan Round the Island Race, a classic in the British sailing calendar on Saturday. SOCCER

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We had a bit of a lightbulb moment working out our crew routines at the start and the roles everyone was playing and that made a big difference. We like being at the top and it puts us in a good position

OFA welcome Fifa for strategic support Bhamara hopes historic Blatter ‘did not resign’ pick will inspire India MUSCAT: Oman Football Association’s general secretary Sultan Al Zadjali said the national football body is looking forward to a weekend with Fifa representatives who will visit Oman as part of ongoing support they have provided in helping the OFA to build a strong strategic plan Fifa have been visiting Oman for the past two years as part of work they undertake to help clubs develop their own business plans. And this weekend sees the OFA

Executive spend three days with Fifa personnel — during which the review should be complete. “We receive great support form Fifa all year round on a number of initiatives,” said Sultan Al Zadjali. “The strategic support they have given in the past two years has been extremely useful as we build the association. I have been involved in all the work we have done together, and we are all looking forward to the sessions this weekend.”

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KING SMASHER, TITAN IN NEXT ROUND King Smasher and Titan CC moved into next round of the Pakistan Social Club organised Omantel Ramadan Cricket Tournament 2015. In the two matches worked off, Omar Al Khayyam lost to Titan CC by nine wickets. Omar batting ﬁrst scored 59 for 8 (Yasir 20, Saqib 14, Chetan 3 for 7) and in reply Titan CC made 60 for 1 (Wasim 39, Mahek 12, Tamrez 1 for 17). Chetan (in picture) was declared the man of the match. In the match that followed, Pakistan School Muscat (90 for 5 in 8 overs, Ubaid Ullah 23, Rashid 20, Nasser 18, Adil Khan 2 for 21, Ail Ghori 1 for 20) were smashed by King Smasher (91 for 2 in 8 overs, Mohsin 42, Sunny 15, Nassr 1/36) by eight wickets. — Supplied photo

NEW DELHI: India’s Satnam Singh Bhamara is hoping his historic selection in the NBA will kickstart a basketball boom in his cricket-obsessed home country. The 19-year-old centre admitted he was incredibly nervous in the run up to the NBA Draft, which saw him become the ﬁrst India-born selection when he was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday. “Forget about sleep, I haven’t eaten even a morsel. I was certainly hopeful after coming this far but there is always a big if,” said Bhamara, who hails from a family of farmers. The 7-foot-2-inch (2.18m) Bhamara, originally from a village in northern Punjab state, is hoping he can generate enthusiasm for the sport in India — in much the same way that superstar Yao Ming sparked a basketball frenzy in China. “I feel that my entry will certainly open the doors for many aspiring basketballers in India to dream big,” Bhamara speaking from the US during a conference call with a handful of Indian journalists. “At least there is now someone with whom the youngsters back home can identify. A new road has opened up for them,” he said during the call, a recording of which was released to the wider media. Bhamara, who moved to the

NBA PICK: Satnam Bhamara picked by Dallas Mavricks.

US in 2010 to train in Florida, became the ﬁrst player in a decade taken by an NBA team after not playing for a US college or overseas pro team. He instead played for the IMG Academy squad. The NBA has been forging ahead with plans to promote the game globally, hoping that India will be the next Asian power seduced by the sport. The NBA opened an office in Mumbai in 2011, part of an international operation that has spread around the world. In April, Canada’s Indian-origin player Sim Bhullar turned out for the Sacramento Kings, becoming the ﬁrst player of Indian descent to score in the NBA. — AFP Bhamara’s drafting was trend-

LAUSANNE: Sepp Blatter has claimed that he “did not resign” as Fifa president, according to a report by the Swiss newspaper Blick. “I did not resign. I put myself and my office in the hands of the Fifa congress,” Blick reported Blatter as saying during a visit to the site of the future Fifa museum in the Swiss city of Zurich. The 79-year-old Blatter announced on June 2 that he would step down from the Fifa presidency at an extraordinary congress to be held between December this year and March 2016. That decision followed the crisis that engulfed Fifa with 18 people indicted in the United States on football-related corruption charges. Since then, sources close to Blatter have been reported as saying he was not ruling out the prospect of going back on his decision to resign after receiving messages of support from Asian and African federations. On Friday, Fifa conﬁrmed Blatter’s comments but said that they were “nothing new. They are exactly the words he used in his speech on June 2 when he explained that he would lay down his mandate and would continue with his mission until the elective congress.” — AFP

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Japan, US closer to bilateral pact vital for Trans-Pacific deal TOKYO: Japan and the United States are likely to resolve outstanding bilateral issues so that a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal can be struck at a multilateral ministerial meeting expected in July, a senior Japanese official said on Friday. A deal between the United States and Japan, the world’s largest and third-largest economies, is vital to clinching the multilateral TPP pact, which would cover 40 per cent of the world economy. Strategic rebalance The deal is a key part of US President Barack Obama’s strategic rebalance to Asia in the face of a rising China. The politically touchy matters of access to Japan’s market for farm products including rice and the US market for auto parts are among remaining bilateral issues, the official said told Reuters. “It is not anticipated that these remaining issues will be stumbling blocks for a US-Japan agreement,” the official said.”We are confident we will be able to resolve them in

time for concluding TPP negotiations overall.” After a six-week Congressional battle, the US Senate voted 60 to 38 on Wednesday to grant Obama “fast-track” power to negotiate trade deals and speed them through Congress. Making ﬁnal offers Japan and some other countries had wanted fast-track to be approved before making ﬁnal offers on the trade deal. The Japanese official declined to give details of the negotiations. Intellectual property protection including for newly-developed drugs ranks high among the issues to be resolved to clinch the multilateral TPP deal, which would harmonise rules and standards and lower trade barriers among the 12 developed and emerging nations. “If not conducted satisfactorily, it could very well be a reason for the US Congress to reject TPP. So it is a prerequisite for a TPP agreement to include high standard protection for new drugs,” the Japanese official said.

But the official nonetheless sounded an optimistic note. Political attention “I don’t think any remaining issues cannot be resolved if there is sufficient political attention and input required to solve these in time for the ministerial meeting that we expect to be held before the end of July,” he said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has touted TPP as an engine of reforms to drive growth. Japanese officials also hope the pan-Pacific deal will help anchor ally Washington in Asia and create a rule-based regime that would eventually draw in China. If the TPP is agreed in late July or early August, the deal could be up for a final vote in US Congress in the first half of December. Other countries also have to seek lawmakers’ approval. - Reuters

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RICH HARVEST: Suzuko Yamauchi, 81-years-old, checks an Iyokan, a Japanese citrus fruit, after harvesting at her farm on Gogo Island in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in this March 2013. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on March 15 that Japan will join negotiations on the US-led TPP trade accord with 11 other member states. Government estimates show a trade deal could cut production of agricultural and marine products by three trillion yen. - Bloomberg News

Greece offered five-month $13.4b bailout extension French President Hollande told Tsipras in brief talks on the sidelines of an EU summit that another emergency Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Saturday was now critical for an agreement. “They reminded him that this meeting was crucial and decisive and that it was vital now to work towards a deal on a package that includes reforms, investment and financing,” a source said.

Creditors are ready to quickly disburse 1.8 billion euros in ﬁnancial aid to help Athens meet a 1.5 billion euro IMF debt repayment on June 30 as long as the Greek parliament approves reforms

THUMBS UP: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures as he leaves the EU Council headquarters after a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday. - Reuters

BRUSSELS: Greece’s international creditors on Friday offered Athens a ﬁve-month, 12-billioneuro ($13.4-billion) extension of its bailout programme but said it must seal a deal this weekend to avoid an IMF default next week. Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande discussed ﬁnancing plans with leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the eve of a “decisive” meeting of eu-

rozone finance ministers aimed at finding a deal to end the crisis. The offer came after intensive talks in Brussels this week to end the standoff between Tsipras’s anti-austerity government, which has balked at further reforms-forcash after five years of bailout-imposed economic hardship. Creditors are ready to quickly disburse 1.8 billion euros in financial aid to help Athens meet a 1.5

billion euro IMF debt repayment on June 30 as long as the Greek parliament approves disputed reforms, according to proposals seen by AFP. German ﬁnance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the chances for a bailout deal stand at about “50-50”, with European markets ﬂuctuating as Greece’s fate remains in suspense. German Chancellor Merkel and

AV I AT I O N

Kuwait Airways receives its first delivery of A330-200 jets Times News Service MUSCAT: Kuwait Airways has taken delivery of its first A330200, becoming a new operator for the type. In February 2014, Kuwait Airways announced the lease of 12 Airbus aircraft including seven A320ceo and 5 A330200s in addition to the purchase of 25 aircraft including 10 A350900 and 15 A320neo Family aircraft marking the start of a major fleet renewal plan. Kuwait Airways’ first A330200 accommodates a three-class configuration of 17 full-sleeper first class modules, 30 very highcomfort business and 165 latest standard economy seats, a combination that shows a clear attention to comfort and efficiency detailed in the features that also include the latest entertainment systems, and connectivity throughout the cabin. “The delivery of our first A330200 marks a key milestone towards enhancing our fleet,” said Al Rasha Al Roumi, Kuwait Air-

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ways chairperson. “The addition of this highly efficient aircraft to our ﬂeet ultimately translates to unbeatable operating costs, best-in-class services, unrivalled comfort and will maintain our schedule integrity and assist in increasing our load factors” “We are pleased to welcome Kuwait Airways as a new A330 operator,” said John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers. “With the A330, Kuwait Airways will beneﬁt from the aircraft’s low operating costs, prov-

en reliability and great passenger appeal — as well as high levels of technical commonality with its existing A320 ﬂeet.” The A330 aircraft is one of the most popular wide-body aircraft ever and has to date won over 1,500 orders, with over 1,100 ﬂying with some 110 operators worldwide. The A330 Family is part of the world’s most modern and comprehensive wide-body product line, which also includes the larger A350 XWB and double deck A380 aircraft.

Tsipras slams ‘harsh’ offer Tsipras told Merkel and Hollande he could not understand their “harsh” stance. “Alexis Tsipras informed the two leaders on the Greek proposal and stressed that the Greek side does not understand the persistence of institutions in such harsh measures,” a Greek governmental source told AFP. Eurozone ﬁnance minister talks on Thursday that had been supposed to produce a deal that EU leaders could rubber stamp at their summit next door broke down with no agreement. Syriza party leader Tsipras was elected in January on an anti-austerity platform and has resisted ever since the creditors’ demands for pensions cuts and VAT reforms in return for unlocking bailout funds An extension to Greece’s massive 240 billion-euro

bailout to the end of November would be the third since December and allow more time for heavily indebted Athens to negotiate future financing from its European partners. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, said a deal had to be clinched on Saturday or there will not be enough time for it to get parliamentary approval. “Tomorrow it really has to happen, for the simple reason that it has to go through parliament, first the Greek then of several member states,” the Dutch finance minister told journalists in The Hague. Under the creditor proposals, the immediate 1.8 billion euro disbursement — profits from Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank —would be paid “as soon as the Greek parliament has approved with a resolution the agreement with the (creditor) institutions and adopted a first set of legislative actions”, the plans said. The proposal by the three main creditors — the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB), and IMF — said a “fivemonth extension of the current programme...would be feasible during which a total of 12 billion euros of financial support would be provided.” — AFP

GLOBAL ECONOMY

Rajan warns of problems akin to Great Depression LONDON: Global economy is “slowly slipping” into Great Depression-like problems of 1930s, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has warned, asking central banks from across the world to define “rules of the game” to find a solution. Rajan, who is among the few to have predicted the 2008 financial crisis, said the problem was a “broader” one and for the entire world — not just for industrial countries or emerging markets. The former IMF Chief Economist, who has earlier warned against competitive monetary policy easing by central banks globally, said the situation is different in India on this front and RBI remains more focussed on bringing down the lending rates to spur investments. “We need rules of the game in order to effect a better solution. I think it is time to start debating what should the global rules of the game be on what is allowed in terms of central bank action,” he said at a London Business School (LBS) conference. “I am not going to venture a guess as to how we establish new rules of the game. It has to be international discussion, international consensus built over time after much research and action,” he further added. — PTI

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MARKET JOB TRENDS

Facebook reports small improvement in diversity of workforce SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook’s latest diversity numbers show that the company is still mostly white and male, underscoring the need for initiatives such as the requirement that at least one minority candidate be considered for open positions. The workforce at the world’s largest social network is 68 per cent male, compared with 69 per cent a year earlier, Facebook said on its website on Thursday. The number of white employees fell only slightly, to 55 per cent from 57 per cent. Facebook has more than 10,000 staff. Silicon Valley has been under pressure to increase the number of women and minorities among technology workers.

The issue intensiﬁed a year ago, when Google. published data showing that it lagged behind national averages. Dearth of female engineers The dearth of female and minority engineers, startup founders and business leaders has long been a sore point for female executives including Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. “While we have achieved positive movement over the last year, it’s clear to all of us that we still aren’t where we want to be,” Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global director of diversity, said in a statement.” There’s more work to do.” Facebook’s gender and ethnicity ﬁgures

Facebook departments in the past few months, a person familiar with the matter has said. If it helps increase the presence of people who are black, Latino or otherwise minorities, it will be implemented at the social network widely. Facebook is also working with universities and students to attract more diverse talent and teaching managers about unconscious bias to address the issue. While 32 per cent of Facebook’s workforce are women, they outnumber men in non-technical positions, according to the company. Only 16 per cent of the company’s tech jobs and 23 per cent of its senior leadership roles were held by women, according to ﬁgures released by Facebook. — Bloomberg News

are broadly in line with other tech giants. Women made up about 30 per cent to 35 per cent of employees in industries related to computers and software development in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics. Among the broader population, about half of the US workforce are women. Rooney rule The company indicated earlier this month that the data would show only modest improvement. The policy so far adopted by Facebook to consider at least one minority candidate is similar to the “Rooney Rule” the NFL used to increase diversity of the teams’ coaching staff. The rule went into effect in some

POSITIVE MOVEMENT: Employees at Facebook are seen working inside the Facebook European headquarters at Hanover Quay in Dublin, Ireland, in this March 14, 2013. — Bloomberg ﬁle picture

Japanese inﬂation remains tepid, spending rises in May Core inﬂation,

Boeing CEO to get $3.9m in pension benefits for 15 years CHICAGO: Boeing Chief Executive Officer James McNerney could pocket at least $3.9 million in pension benefits annually for 15 years after he retires in 2016. McNerney, who’s stepping down as CEO July 1, will be able to collect about $900,000 a year from two company-sponsored pension plans, according Chicago-based Boeing’s March 13 proxy filing. He’ll also receive $3 million in each of the next 15 years from a separate retirement benefit the company gave him to offset forfeited pension payments from his two most recent employers, 3M and General Electric.

excluding volatile fresh food prices, was up 0.1 per cent year-on-year, beating market expectations for zero growth but coming still well short of the Bank of Japan’s 2.0 per cent target

TOKYO: Japanese inflation remained tepid while spending rose after 13 months of falls, official data showed on Friday, with analysts predicting more easing ahead as the central bank tries again to build up a head of steam. Core inflation, excluding volatile fresh food prices, was up 0.1 per cent year-on-year, beating market expectations for zero growth but coming still well short of the Bank of Japan’s 2.0 per cent target. Lower fuel prices and other energy costs helped curb inflation, data from the internal affairs ministry showed. Separate data from the internal affairs ministry showed house-

PENSION BENEFITS

MASSIVE SPENDING: A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, on Wednesday. The government’s backsliding on promises to rein in spending puts the Bank of Japan in a bind, limiting its scope to expand its massive monetary stimulus when the economy needs it, or ultimately to wind it back without causing chaos in the bond markets. - Reuters

hold spending rose 4.8 per cent on-year in May, posting the ﬁrst rise since Japan hiked sales taxes in April last year to help pay down a huge national debt. But spending has not yet recovered to the pre-hike level and analysts were sticking to the view that the Bank of Japan will almost certainly be forced to expand its monetary easing scheme to jack up prices and counter a downturn

in the economy. The good news is that the jobs market is improving. Jobless rate While the jobless rate was unchanged at an 18-year low of 3.3 per cent in May, the labour ministry said the ratio of job offers to job seekers rose to a 23-year high of 1.19, meaning there were 119 offers to every 100 applicants and suggesting even lower jobless

rate in coming months. “Unfortunately, though, there are scant signs that the tighter labour market has resulted in stronger price pressure,” said Marcel Thieliant, economist at Capital Economics. “The big picture remains that there is still substantial spare capacity in the economy which is dragging down prices,” he said further in a note. Economists at SMBC Nikko

Securities noted more and more housewives and senior people were joining the workforce. “We should give heed to the fact that increasing labour supply is easing the tightening of the labour market and curbing wages,” they said in a note. “The Bank of Japan’s scenario of higher wages leading to homemade inﬂation is unlikely to happen,” they said. - AFP

Top spot Boeing, the world’s largest planemaker, announced on Tuesday that Chief Operating Officer Dennis Muilenburg, who’s been in that role for 18 months, will move into the top spot while McNerney, 65, will remain chairman and retire in February. During his 10 years as chief executive, McNerney presided over the decision to update the 737, Boeing’s cash-cow single-aisle jet, and oversaw the development of the Dreamliner. John Dern, a spokesman for the aircraft manufacturer, declined to comment beyond the filing. McNerney’s pension benefits were valued at $46.6 million as of 2014 year-end, according to its proxy. That compares with $72.2 million for GE CEO Jeff Immelt, who’s run the Fairfield, Connecticut-based business since 2001. - Bloomberg News

SCORCHING GROWTH

Aviation boom drives airport building frenzy in China; $80b more to be spent BEIJING: When Mangshi opened its airport two decades ago, the small tropical city on China’s border with Myanmar was served by few airlines. China’s recent travel boom has changed that — seven carriers brought in more than one million visitors last year. “We had a hard time attracting airlines in the early days,” Li Ping, deputy chief of the airport’s expansion steering committee, told Reuters.”Now we are struggling to accommodate ﬂights.” Mangshi is one of more than 60 inland airports under expansion, with another 30 new regional airports being built. Government planners estimate China’s airports will increase to 240 by 2020 from around 200 today. Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), said this week the country would invest $80 billion in aviation projects this year alone. The aviation market is being lifted by rising business travel and a surge in outbound tourism fuelled by an increasingly wealthy middle class in coastal and inland cities. The number of leisure travellers going overseas for the ﬁrst time topped 100 million in 2014, official data shows. Foreign travel is tipped to grow another 10 per cent this year as the United States, France and Australia ease visa policies. That has prompted Air Chi-

numbers. “Airport building should be a bit ahead of the demand. Judging from the experience of the developed world, our airport construction is far from enough,” Li said.”We are still unable to catch up with demand.”

SMOOTH LANDING: A China Southern Airlines aeroplane arrives at the newly-built terminal building at Tianjin airport. - Reuters

na, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines to ﬂy to New York, Paris and Sydney from Nanjing, Wuhan or Chengdu, or at least with a stopover in those second-tier cities. Silk Road initiative China’s so-called Silk Road initiative is also certain to boost traffic. Under the scheme, the government aims to extend its economic and political inﬂuence to neighbouring countries. A network of railways, highways and new air routes are part of the plan. Last year passenger volumes at Chengdu’s Shuangliu airport and Chongqing’s Jiangbei airport rose

12.6 per cent and 15.8 per cent, respectively, beating Beijing’s 2.9 per cent gain and Guangzhou’s 4.4 per cent increase. Xiamen’s Gaoqi airport handled 20.9 million passengers, far exceeding its designed capacity of 15 million, while Dalian is expected to hit full capacity in 2016. Sceptics warn about white elephant projects such as the barely used $6 million airport in Dachangshan island off China’s northeast coast. Many existing airports are also in losses due to huge upfront investments. CAAC’s Li said the country’s airport expansion is supported by data showing rising passenger

Frantic boom Earlier this month, China approved four additional new airports in provinces including Xinjiang and Heilongjiang, costing 16.3 billion yuan ($2.63 billion). Chongqing, an industrial city in the southwest, is in the middle of a 29.4 billion yuan expansion. A little over three hundred kilometres to the northwest, Chengdu is preparing to build a second airport with as many as six runways and four terminals at a cost of 69.3 billion yuan. “The Chengdu airport is very busy and discount air fares are hard to get,” Rose Wang, a business woman who often shuttles between Shanghai and Chengdu, told Reuters.” “Thirty or 40 per cent discounts were normal previously,” Wang added. On the coast, Xiamen and Dalian are creating artiﬁcial islands for new airports, with landﬁll effort in Dalian alone costing 26.3 billion yuan. The aviation boom is boosting sales for global suppliers Thales SA, Indra Industries, Raytheon Co, Lockheed Martin Corp and Honeywell Aerospace. — Reuters

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MARKET PERFORMANCE

APPLE’S SMARTWATCH LAUNCHED IN SINGAPORE Apple watches are displayed at a luxury watch boutique in Singapore, on Friday. The Apple Watch Edition, which features 18-carat gold watch cases, retails in Singapore from $15,000 ($11,160) onwards, according to an Apple representative. Apple’s smartwatch launched in Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan on Friday. — Reuters

Tesco reports sales drop in first quarter LONDON: British supermarket giant Tesco reported a 2.0 per cent drop in sales for its first quarter on Friday and warned of “volatility” but said performance was improving following a record annual loss. The company also reported a decline in like-for-like sales, which exclude petrol costs and sales taxes, in key Asian markets due to “external conditions”. Tesco’s like-for-like sales dropped by 3.0 per cent in South Korea, where it is reportedly mulling a sale of its business for around $5.0 billion (4.5 billion euros) and by 2.0 per cent in Thailand. In its core UK business like-forlike sales were down 1.3 per cent — an improvement from a drop of 1.7 per cent reported seen in the fourth quarter. Sales were also up for Tesco in central Europe. “Total group sales including VAT (valueadded tax) and fuel declined by 2.0 per cent,” the company said in a trading statement, adding that like-for-like sales for the group instead rose by 1.3 per cent. “Whilst the market is still challenging and volatility is likely to remain a feature of short-term performance, these first quarter results represent another step in the right direction,” it said. Tesco also said its transformation programme was “progressing” and the restructuring of its business in Central Europe was “largely complete”. - AFP

INSTITUTIONAL PLACEMENT

IndusInd to raise $698m in share sale MUMBAI: IndusInd Bank, the lender backed by India’s billionaire Hinduja brothers, is seeking to raise as much as Rs44.4 billion ($698 million) in a share sale to institutions, according to terms sent to investors. The company is offering 51.2 million shares in a so-called qualified institutional placement at Rs835 to Rs867.15 apiece, the terms obtained by Bloomberg show. The top end of the range was the stock’s closing price on Thursday. Led by Managing Director Romesh Sobti, IndusInd is raising funds to expand its business, including enhancing its capital adequacy ratio and bolstering its lending capacity. The bank’s loans grew by 25 per cent in the year to March, compared with 9.7 per cent for India’s banking system, an exchange filing shows. The lender’s Tier 1 capital ratio, a measure of financial strength, fell to 11.2 per cent as of March from 11.5 percent a year earlier, according to the filing. IndusInd had a total capital adequacy ratio of about 12 per cent in March. JM Financial., Morgan Stanley and Citic CLSA Securities are global coordinators for the sale, the terms showed. - Bloomberg News

What’s troubling economic powerhouses in Germany? Some of the biggest companies are in upheaval and ﬁnding themselves playing catch-up as competitors adapt more quickly to disruptive technologies and new challengers

FRANKFURT: All is not well in corporate Germany. Be it Deutsche Bank or Deutsche Lufthansa, Siemens or RWE, the missteps plaguing the country’s ﬂag-bearers have helped turn the DAX (the German stock market) into Europe’s worst-performing benchmark

index this quarter and a laggard compared with US gauges. Some of the biggest companies in Europe’s economic powerhouse are in upheaval and finding themselves playing catch-up as competitors adapt more quickly to disruptive technologies and new challengers. Deutsche Bank The problem: As European peers scale back fixed-income trading and other investment-bank activities, the bank that once boasted about making it through the financial crisis without state aid has pledged to gain market share as others retreat. The plan hasn’t quite worked out as regulatory demands to rein in risk are shaving profit margins and prompting shareholders to question the bank’s strategy. Deutsche Bank has appointed John Cryan to succeed Anshu Jain as co-chief executive officer and become sole chief executive officer next year as the bank prepares to carry out a strategic overhaul not unlike the one Cryan undertook about six years ago as finance chief at the bank’s Swiss rival.

Siemens The problem: Europe’s largest engineering company has frequently lagged the profitability of its biggest competitors. CEO Joe Kaeser’s response has been to shed fringe businesses such as home appliances with annual sales of about 11 billion euros and focus on energy generation and industrial processes. That bet has proven ill-timed, with a slump in oil prices prompting even more job cuts. CEO Jeff Immelt started shedding the entertainment, finance and home appliances arms four years ago as he seeks to focus the Fairfield, Connecticut- based company on its industrial business RWE The problem: Germany’s largest power generator entered the market for renewables “possibly too late,” chief executive officer Peter Terium said last year. In 2013, the company reported its first annual loss since the Federal Republic was founded 66 years ago, and it still generates almost 40 percent of its power from lignite and about 23 per cent from hard coal.

The precedent: Arguably German rival EON, although neither company has been quick to react to Germany’s energy shift, prompted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. EON is splitting itself in two, spinning off fossil fuels to focus on renewables, and cut 26,000 jobs in the four years through 2014 as it sold assets for more than 20 billion euros. Deutsche Lufthansa The problem: Germany’s ﬂagship airline underestimated the pressure on fares stemming from low-cost carriers’ expansion in Europe and is struggling to move short-haul traffic to its Germanwings unit. Whether big names such as Ryanair or easyJet, or smaller players such as Norwegian Air Shuttle and Wizz, the price war is on. The precedent: International Consolidated Airlines Group The owner of British Airways Plc gave up much of the European traffic that doesn’t feed its longhaul hub at London Heathrow and bought Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling SA to cover many shorthaul routes.

Adidas The problem: The sportinggoods maker has haemorrhaged market share in recent years to arch-rival Nike as well as upstarts such as Under Armour Inc. CEO Herbert Hainer unveiled a turnaround plan which pledged to shift spending to cities such as New York and Paris, while seeking to sponsor more big-name athletes. The precedent: Nike beat Adidas to the punch by targeting young urban customers with its sportswear and hiring some of the world’s biggest sports stars. The German company is moving more of its designers to Brooklyn to reclaim its urban cool. Volkswagen The problem: Europe’s biggest carmaker is close to becoming the world leader in terms of sales. Yet its very public leadership struggle this year shows that all is not well in Wolfsburg. A centralised decision-making structure has made the company slow to adapt to trends like the rise of SUVs and contributed to VW’s failure to crack the American market. - Bloomberg News

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FEATURE IMF EXPECTED TO BE OTHER CASUALTY OF GREEK DEFAULT

ll sides are working hard to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debt obligations to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — and with good reason: Such an outcome would have dire consequences not only for Greece and Europe but also for the international monetary system. The IMF’s “preferred creditor status” underpins its ability to lend to countries facing great difficulties (especially when all other creditors are either frozen or looking to get out). Yet that capacity to act as lender of last resort is now under unprecedented threat. Preferred creditor status, though it isn’t a formal legal concept, has translated into a general acceptance that the IMF gets paid before almost any other lender. And should debtors fail to meet payments, they can expect significant pressure from many of the fund’s other 187 member countries. That’s why instances of nations in arrears to the fund have been limited to fragile and failed states, particularly in Africa. Greece’s fiscal odyssey The IMF has been able to act as the world’s firefighter, willing to walk into a burning building when all others run the other way. Time and again, its involvement has proved critical in stabilising national financial crises and limiting the effects for other countries. Not long ago, it would have been improbable for the IMF to engage in large-scale lending to advanced European economies (the last time it did so before the euro crisis was in the 1970s with the UK). And it would have been unthinkable for the fund to worry about not getting paid back by a European borrower. Yet both are happening in the case of Greece. Moreover, compounding the unprecedented

International Monetary Fund’s “preferred creditor status” underpins its ability to lend to countries facing great difficulties (especially when all other creditors are either frozen or looking to get out). Yet that capacity to act as lender of last resort is now under unprecedented threat

nature of the Greek situation, other creditors (such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and other European institutions) are in a position to help provide Greece with the money it needs to repay the IMF. Yet that would only happen if an agreement is reached on a policy package that is implemented in a consistent and durable fashion. If Greece defaults to the IMF, it would find its access to other funding immediately and severely impacted, including the emergency liquidity support from the ECB that is keeping its banks afloat. The resulting intensification of the country’s credit crunch would push the economy into an even deeper recession, add to an already alarming unemployment crisis, accelerate capital flight, make capital controls inevitable and, most probably, force the country to abandon Europe’s single currency. The IMF also would be worse off. A Greek default would be the largest case of nonpayment since the institution was created in 1945. It would fuel both internal and external criticism that the fund had been coopted by European politicians, adding to longstanding worries about the slow progress in reforming its outmoded governance, representation and some of its practices (including the “tradition” that the head of the institution always be a European). And it would make the IMF more hesitant to lend aggressively in other crises. Fortunately, such a fate can still be avoided if Greece and its creditors succeed in completing what have been painful negotiations for all involved. If they don’t, we would have to add the IMF’s reputation to the casualties of a crisis that already has inflicted horrific suffering on millions of Greek citizens. — Bloomberg News

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MENTAL ILLNESS AS THIRD WHEEL DATING IS HARD. Dating when you are overweight is harder. Dating when you are a big dude with a serious mental illness is nearly impossible. I have had a little success dating in the nearly 10 years I have lived with schizophrenia. But there are a lot of obstacles. Schizophrenia is a terrifying word for many people. It conjures ideas of murderous intent, lack of control and a host of other scary things. I live with this word, though; I am the word. But it is not a word you can just drop into a conversation and follow with “It’s not a big deal, though.” I seem to fall in love easily, but it’s always with women who don’t feel the same way about me. I have seen more rejection than I care to admit, putting myself on the line like that, and it’s been a chore for me not to let my emotions get the best of me. If it’s not outright rejection, it’s something else that always seems to happen. I can remember one date I went on some months back. She was a big woman with blond hair, and eyes that had that squinty “I’m up to no good” look. We met over Match.com, and I was struck by how much time she spent going to Phish concerts. Her profile was scattered with a number of bands that I had loved at different points in my life. She was a teacher, and she mentioned in her profile something along the lines that because of her love of sparkles, arts and crafts, and rainbows, she was a six-year-old in a woman’s body. Before I knew it, I was asking if she wanted to go get a drink. She said yes, a little too eagerly, I thought. I got to the restaurant about 15 minutes early and ordered a drink, apprehensive knowing that eventually I would have to tell her about my illness. Soon enough, she walked in, and I was struck by the fact that she seemed a little disappointed to be there. There was no smile as she sat down to join me. I asked how she was and, after almost 45 minutes, I felt I knew just about every detail of her life. She had ordered a couch that was too big for her living room. She had a plumbing leak in her apartment. She had spent her weekend making tie-dye onesies for her infant niece. I barely said a word. Finally she asked me what I did for a living, and I told her I write about mental illness. What came next were the inevitable questions: How did I get into that? Did I have personal experience? At that point, I had no choice but to disclose my diagnosis, and after a trip to the bathroom to collect herself, she came back with more questions. Was I dangerous? Had I ever killed anybody? Needless to say, the date was over shortly thereafter. Sometimes, the stigma of mental illness is a deal breaker. Other times, I’ve noticed it’s me who can’t take the idea of being in a relationship. Another first date several months later, with a cute woman with black hair who worked in AmeriCorps, went better. We had started talking on OkCupid about our favourite comedians, then met at a brewery tasting room. Things were going well, and my disclosure to her about my mental illness was followed by the inevitable trip to the bathroom. She came back, though, and told me that she had struggled with a pretty severe case of anxiety. If nothing else, we had that in common. We texted back and forth for several days afterward, but this time, I noticed I was the one who couldn’t take the idea of being in a relationship. Whether it was fear at the thought of being committed to someone else, the raw vulnerability of being that close to someone, the feeling that I was in over my head, or just the fact that the spark wasn’t there, I ended it. I’m still not entirely sure why. She was great, and I still feel guilty about it. Trust is a major issue for me - the crux of my daily symptoms revolves around paranoia that people are judging me and making fun of me - so trusting someone new that fast is, in the simplest terms, extremely difficult. On top of that, one of the major obstacles of living with schizophrenia is the fact that if I feel overwhelmed, I kind of go a little wacky. The paranoia spikes, and I can retreat into a fog of depression that can last for months. Usually, it happens with pressure from work, but relationships are a huge source of stress. It’s tough to even think about. To say I’m scared would be an understatement. Contending with the elephant of schizophrenia that sits in the middle of the room is never fun. I’d love to get married someday, but for now, I’ve resorted to the mantra, “Don’t chase people; just keep being awesome and you’ll attract the right person.” I’d like to just let it happen naturally. — Michael Hedrick/The New York Times News Service

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Guardian ( Action ) (15+) Cast: Sarah Carter, Tio Pakusodewo, Nino Fernandez. 11:55 pm Premam (Mal) (Comedy | Romance) (TBC) Cast: Nivin Pauly, Anupama Parameshwaran, Jude Anthany Joseph 9:00 pm

Jurassic World (3D) (PG12) (Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi ) Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins 9:15, 11:30 pm Premam (2D) (PG) (Romance, Comedy) Cast: Nivin Pauly, Anupama Parameshwaran, Jude Anthany Joseph 9:00 pm ABCD 2 (2D) (PG) (Dance, Musical) Cast: Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhudheva,Raghav, Dharmesh 9:00 pm Guardian (2D) (15+) (Action, Thriller) Cast: Sarah Carter, Tio Pakusodewo, Nino Fernandez 11:55 pm Out of the Dark (2D) (15+) (Horror) Cast: Frank Cuervo, Pixie Davies, Alejandro Furth 11:45 pm

Jurassic World (Action / Adventure) Cast: Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Ty Simkins 9.30 pm CP No: 1495 (PG12) Guardian (Action, Thriller) (15+) Cast: Sarah Carter, Tio Pakusodewo, Nino Fernandez 9.30, 11:45 pm CP No: 1613 ( 15+) Forbidden Empire 2D (Action/ Fantasy/Mystery) (12+) Cast: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov 11:45pm CP No: 1614 (12+)

Film Information - 24540856 / Advance Booking - 24540855 Website: www.albahjacinemaoman.com

STARS CINEMA Film information 24791641 / 24786776

Premam (Mal) (Comedy) Cast: Nivin Pauly, Anupama Parameshwaran and Sai Pallavi 10:00 pm at Cinema Main Eli (Tamil) (Action/Comedy) Cast: Vadivelu and Sadha 9:30 pm at Cinema -2 Kakka Muttai (Tamil) (Drama/Comedy) Cast: Ramesh and Silam Barasan 9:45 pm at Cinema-3 Chandrettan Evideeya (Mal ) (Romance/Comedy) Cast: Dileep, Namitha and Annu Sree 9:45 pm at Cinema -4 (Programmes are subject to change)

For More Information 24789032, 24786776 Website: www.isurf.co.om

ACES ON BRIDGE

How can you cross the great divide? KHALIL Gibran, a Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer, said, “Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.” Yes, it is great to advance at the bridge table, but you had better halt — stop and think — occasionally; otherwise, your advance may resemble a rushing horde of lemmings. In this deal, South is in three no-trump. West leads his fourth-highest heart, and East drops the seven under dummy’s 10. How should declarer continue? Looking at the auction, South was (just) worth

a two-club opening and a two-no-trump rebid, which promised a good 22 to 24 points. Then North was right to raise to three no-trump. With so few points, he did well to ignore those diamonds and just bid game in no-trump. Note that ﬁve diamonds has no chance. (If North’s suit had been a major, he would have bid game in that suit, preferably via a transfer sequence.) South seems to have nine top tricks: one spade, two hearts (given the lead) and six diamonds. However, the diamond suit is blocked. Declarer,

after cashing his three top diamonds, will need a dummy entry to get to those other three winners. What is that entry? It must come from hearts and will do so only if South takes the ﬁrst trick in his hand with his heart ace. He must not accept the cheap heart trick being offered. Then, after unblocking his diamonds, he can lead a heart to force a way into the dummy. Halt before advancing at trick one — whether declarer or a defender — and always watch your entries. - By Philip Alder MARMADUKE

CROSSWORD

B I G NAT E

Answer to previous puzzle

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36 39 42 44 45 49 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 61

Praline nut Turns like an office chair Fumble for words Big Band — Merlin’s profession Not relevant Slangy refusal (hyph.) Is more popular El — (ocean current) Bring to bay Chop off Disco dancer (hyph.) LAX guesses Fabric meas.

DOWN 1 Martial — 2 Radar’s home 3 Make the acquaintance of 4 Bonﬁre fare (2 wds.) 5 Livy’s trio 6 Kitty’s bane 7 Hand out 8 Foot, slangily 9 All, in combos 10 Defence grp. 11 Wrinkle remover 16 Reporter’s forte 20 Portable bed 22 RV haven 24 Stat for Greenspan 25 Perjure 26 Kindergarten trio

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Mo. fractions — got it! Aught or naught Dental anaesthetic Blow away Reaction to pollen Kilt-wearer’s refusal Purple ﬂowers Wind indicator Took notes Carried a tune Buckeye State Ladder part Tentlike dwelling Band together Tramp along Recipe amts. Leaves in a bag

BORN LOSER

WITH LOVE SHRUTI BALAJI

KRITHIKA ANANTHA VINAY

PARVATHI T. BABU

June 27, 2007

June 27, 2003

June 26, 2012

RITHIKA ANANTHA VINAY

AINSLEY MARTIS

HARSHITA GULANI

NADEER AHMED

June 26, 2007

June 26, 2005

June 26, 2006

June 25, 2011

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KIDSPOT

H E A LT H C A P S U L E

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015

PRAYER TIMINGS

Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Isha Fajr (Tomorrow)

Y O U R B I R T H D AY

BORN today, you have such a charming, even alluring personality, that there is virtually nothing you cannot get, nothing you cannot acquire and nowhere you cannot go, simply by prevailing on others with that charisma and beguiling them into granting all your wishes. To say that you have a magic touch may be an overstatement, but indeed you are able to get what you want with greater subtlety and success than most others — even other Cancer natives, all of whom are naturally adept at persuasion. Your future is likely to be golden, and you’re likely to want for very little — provided, of course, that you do not risk your life or happiness by performing only trivialities. You need to do something important! You pursue your goals with great relish, and you’re often to be found laughing at your own fortunes and misfortunes. Indeed, humour is something that will stay with you through thick and thin, no matter what happens; your ability to laugh at yourself, others and the circumstances of life is great indeed! Also born on this date are: Khloe Kardashian, television personality; Helen Keller, author and activist; Tobey Maguire, actor; Bob Keeshan, television personality; Vera Wang, fashion designer; J.J. Abrams, writer, director and producer; Lorrie Morgan, singer; Julia Duffy, actress; Norma Kamali, fashion designer.

12.15pm 3.33pm 7.02pm 8.25pm 3.55am

Sunset Sunrise (Tomorrow)

6:57pm 5.22am

High tide Low tide

6:50am 11.27am

4:28pm 11.50pm

FIND-IT-ALL

W E AT H E R

AIRLINES

artly cloudy to cloudy skies along the coastal areas of Dhofar Governorate and adjoining mountains with chance of intermittent drizzle. Mainly clear skies over rest of the Sultanate with chance of blowing dust over deserts and open areas due to the fresh wind and chance of late night to early morning low level cloud or fog patches over the coastal areas of al-Wusta and south al-Sharqiyah Governorates. EXPECTED WINDS: Along the coastal areas of Arabian Sea wind will be southwesterly moderate to fresh, while it will be northwesterly to westerly moderate to fresh over rest of the Sultanate. SEA STATE: Rough along the Arabian Sea coast with maximum wave

height of 5.0 metres and rough along the coastal areas of Musandam Governorate with maximum wave height of 3.0 metres and moderate along rest of Oman’s coast with maximum wave height of 2.0 metres. HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY: Moderate over most of the Sultanate becoming poor during blowing dust. THE NEXT 48 HOURS OUTLOOK: Partly cloudy to cloudy skies along the coastal areas of Dhofar governorate and adjoining mountains with chance of intermittent drizzle. Chance of blowing dust over deserts and open areas. Chance of late night to early morning low level cloud or fog patches over al-Wusta and Al-Sharqiyah governorates.

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OMAN

WORLD

Max 40 Min 28 Max 21 Min 18

Max 38 Min 28

Max 42 Min 33 Max 25 Min 14

Max 46 Min 32

Max 23 Min 14

Max 44 Min 28

Max 46 Min 26

Max 44 Min 30

CANCER

Max 37 Min 20

[JUNE 21-JULY 22] You may have to shake up your routine just a bit in order to accommodate a change of situation that is beyond your control.

Max 31 Min 27

Max 26 Min 18

Max 32 Min 25 Max 19 Min 8

Source: www.met.gov.om

GULF Abu Dhabi Doha Dubai Kuwait Manama Riyadh

39 41 38 44 38 41

31 31 31 28 30 28

WORLD Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Boston Cairo Colombo Frankfurt Hong Kong Istanbul Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur Lisbon Paris Perth Singapore Tokyo Toronto

26 40 32 22 21 40 29 24 31 23 19 33 34 28 20 33 28 18

21 28 22 14 15 21 26 11 27 18 2 24 20 13 8 27 20 13

FROM MUSCAT (RUWI)

TO MUSCAT (RUWI)

[JULY 23-AUG. 22] You may have to remind someone that all you are doing — and all you are going to do in the days to come — is for him or her, exclusively.

VIRGO [AUG. 23-SEPT. 22] Now is the time for you to make your intentions known to someone who is in a position to help you. If help is not granted, difficulties arise.

LIBRA L [[SEPT. [S S 23-OCT. 22] What goes up must come down. Today it will be no different, especially where your own emotions are concerned.

SCORPIO S [[OCT. 23-NOV. 21] You may ﬁnd yourself racing against the clock at some point in order to meet a deadline that keeps getting moved up.

SAGITTARIUS S [[NOV. 22-DEC. 21] You’re not likely to give another exactly what he or she wants — at least not before you understand fully just why it is so badly wanted.

QURIYAT - SUR - JAALAN (Route 36) Dept Destination Arrival Time Time 15:00 Quriyat 16:30 15:00 Sur 18:00 15:00 Jaalan 19:30 TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41) 06:30 Sohar 06:30 Buraimi 08:00 Buraimi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Buraimi 16.00 Sohar 16.00 Buraimi TO SINAW (Route 52) 17:30 Sinaw

[DEC. 22-JAN 19] It may be time for you to meet with someone in charge to get straight just who is expected to do what — and for how much.

AQUARIUS [JAN. 20-FEB. 18] A meeting of the minds is forthcoming, but before that happens, you’re going to have to be sure your potential partner is on the up-and-up.

PISCES [Feb. 19-March 20] Anything you try to keep under wraps is going to come to light very soon, despite your best efforts. You must get used to the idea.

ARIES [March 21-APRIL 19] You’re going to need an advantage in order to deal with someone who seems to know better than you what is really going on.

TAURUS [APRIL 20-MAY 20] You should be able to do more than one thing at once, even though multitasking in the way required is not your strength.

GEMINI [MAY 21-JUNE 20] You can keep your fears under wraps, but at some point, you will have to acknowledge the thing that causes the most apprehension.

FROM JAALAN-SUR-QURIYAT (Route 36) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 05:30 Sur 06:45 Daily 05:30 Quriyat 08:30 Daily 05:30 Ruwi 10:00 Daily

08:50 11:00 14:30 15:45 17:40 18.35 20:20

Daily Daily Daily via Ibri Daily Daily Daily Daily

20:50

Daily

TO AL BURAIMI (Route 41) 07:00 Sohar 07:00 Ruwi 13:30 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 17:00 Ruwi TO SINAW (Route 52) 07:00 Ruwi

To Yanqul (Route 54) 14:30 Nizwa 14:30 Yanqul

16:50 19:30

Daily Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54) 08:00 Nizwa 08:00 Al Araqi

10:20 12:30

TO SUR (Route 55) 07:30 Sur 14:30 Sur TO FAHUD - YIBAL (Route 62) 06:30 Fahud 06:30 Yibal

08:55 11:40 20:20 14:55 17:40 19:20 22:15

Daily Daily Daily via Ibri Daily Daily Daily Daily

10:25

Daily

To Yanqul (Route 54) 06:00 Nizwa 06:00 Ruwi

08:40 11:00

Daily Daily

TO IBRI (ARAQI) (Route 54) 15:40 Nizwa 15:40 Ruwi

17:55 20:20

Daily Daily

12:00 18:45

Daily Daily

TO SUR (Route 55) 06:00 Ruwi 14:30 Ruwi

10:45 19:00

Daily Daily

10:30 11:15

Daily Daily

TO YIBAL - FAHUD (Route 62) 12:30 Fahud 12:30 Ruwi

13:15 17:30

Daily Daily

TO MARMUL-SALALAH (Route 100) 07:00 Salalah 20:00 10:00 Marmul 20:30 10:00 Salalah 23:30 19:00 Salalah 07:40

Daily Daily Daily Daily

TO SALALAH -MARMUL (Route 100) 07:00 Ruwi 19:50 10:00 Marmul 13:15 10:00 Ruwi 22:30 19:00 Ruwi 07:30

Daily Daily Daily Daily

TO MARMUL (Route 101) 06:00 Marmul

Daily

TO MARMUL (Route 101) 06:00 Marmul

16:30

Daily

DUBAI TO SALALAH (Route 102) 15:00 Salalah 07:00

Daily

16:50

SALALAH TO DUBAI (Route 102) 15:00 Dubai 07:00

CAPRICORN

Operating Days Daily Daily Daily

TO DUBAI (Route 201) 06:00 Sohar 06:00 Dubai 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Dubai 15:00 Sohar 15:00 Dubai

08:30 11:30 15:30 18:30 17:35 20:55

Daily Daily Wed,Thur Wed,Thur Daily Daily

TO DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 07:00 Fujairah 11.45 Daily 07:00 Sharjah 13.30 Daily 07:00 Dubai 14.00 Daily

TO DUBAI (Route 201) 07:30 Sohar 07:30 Ruwi 13:00 Sohar 13:00 Ruwi 15:30 Sohar 15:30 Ruwi

10:50 13:40 16:15 19:10 18:45 21:35

Daily Daily Thur-Fri Thur-Fri Daily Daily

FROM DUBAI VIA FUJIRAH & SHARJAH (Route 204) Dept Destination Arrival Operating Time Time Days 16:00 Sharjah 16:30 Daily 16.00 Fujairah 18.15 Daily 16.00 Ruwi 23.00 Daily

LISTINGS

PHARMACIES Round the clock Al Hashar Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24783334; Appolo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24782666; Muscat Pharmacy, Ruwi: 24702542, Salalah: 23291635; Atlas Pharmacy, Ghubra: 24503585; Ruwi 24811715 Muscat Region Apollo, Al Hamriya. Tel: 24787766 Muscat, A Seeb Market. Tel: 24421691 Muscat, Al Khuwair. Tel: 24485740 Muscat, Al Hail South. Tel: 4537080 Dhofar Region Muscat, Al Nahdha Road, Salalah. Tel: 23291635 HOSPITALS Al Amal Medical & Health Care Centre: 24485052 Atlas Hospital: Ruwi: 24811743/ Ghubra: 24504000 Al Musaﬁr Specialised Medical Clinic: 24706453 Hatat Polyclinic LLC, Ruwi: 24563641, Azaiba: 24499269, Sohar: 2683006 Al Raffah Hospital: 24618900/1/2 Al Massaraat Clinic & Laboratory: 24566435 Al Makook Medical Coordinance Centre: 24499434 Apollo Medical Centre, Hamriya: 24787766, 24787780 Capital Polyclinic: 24707549 Badr Al Samaa Polyclinic, Ruwi: 24799760/1/2 Capital Clinic, Seeb: 24420740 Ceregem National Raak: 24485633 Dr Harub’s Clinic: 24563217 Elixir Health Centre: 24565802 Emirates Medical Centre: 24604540 1st Chiropractic Centre: 24472274 Hamdan Hospital: 23212340 International Medical Centre LLC: 24794501/2/3/4/5 Kims Oman Hospital: 24760100

24 Hrs Emergency: 24760123 Lama Polyclinic, Sohar: 26751128, MBD: 24799077, Al Khuwair: 24478818 Magrabi Eye and Ear Hospital: 24568870 Muscat Private Hospital: 24583600 Welcare Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Al Khuwair: 24477666 Al-Hayat Polyclinc LLC: 22004000 ROYAL OMAN POLICE Emergencies and inquiries: 9999 General Directorate of Passport and Residence: 24569603 Directorate General of Customs: 24521109 Traffic violations inquiries: 24510228 Public Relations Admin: 24560099 ACCOMMODATION Al Bahjah Hotel: 24424400 Al Bustan Palace: 24764000 Al Khuwair Hotel Apartments: 24478171 Al Madina Holiday Inn: 24596400 Al Maha International Hotel: 24494949 Al Fanar Hotel: 24712385 Al Falaj Hotel: 24702311 Al Qurum Resort: 24605945 Azaiba Hotel Apartments: 24490979 Beach Hotel: 24696601 Bowshar Hotel: 24491105 Coral Hotel Muscat: 24692121 Crowne Plaza Muscat: 24660660 Crystal Suites: 24826100 Golden Tulip Seeb: 24510300 Grand Hyatt Muscat: 24641234 Haffa House Hotel: 24707207 Hotel Muscat Holiday: 24487123 InterContinental Muscat: 24680000 Majan Continental Hotel: 24592900 Marina Hotel: 24711711 Midan Hotel Suites: 24499565 Mina Hotel: 24711828 Muttrah Hotel: 24798401

Nuzha Hotel Apartments: 24789199 Oman Dive Centre: 24824240 Park Inn: 24507888 Qurum Beach House Hotel: 24564070 Radisson Blu Hotel: 24487777 Ramee Dream Resort Seeb: 24453399 Ramee Guestline Hotel: 24564443 Ruwi Hotel: 24704244 Safeer Hotel Suites: 24691200 Sheraton Oman Hotel: 24772772 Shangri-La’s Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa: 24776666 The Chedi Muscat: 24524400 The Treasurebox Muscat Hotel: 24502570 Sifawy Hotel +968 24749111 Juweira Hotel +968 23239600 AIRLINE OFFICES Muscat Airport Flight information (24 hours): 24519456/24519223 Aeroﬂot: 24704455, Air Arabia: 24700828, Air France: 24562153, Air India: 24799801, Air New Zealand: 24700732, Biman Bangladesh Airlines: 24701128, British Airways: 24568777, Cathay Paciﬁc: 24789818, Egypt Air: 24794113, Emirates Air: 24404400, Ethiopian Airlines: 24660313, Gulf Air: 80072424, Indian: 24791914, Iran Air: 24787423, Japan Airlines: 24704455, Jazeera Airways: 23294848, Jet Airways: 24787248, Kenya Airways: 24660300, KML Royal Dutch Airlines: 24566737, Kuwait Airways: 24701262, LOT Polish Airlines: 24796387, Lufthansa: 24796692, Malaysian Airlines: 24560796, Middle East Airlines: 24796680, Oman Air: 24531111, Pakistan International Airlines: 24792471, Qatar Airways: 24771900, Qantas: 24559941, Royal Jordanian: 24796693, Saudi Arabian Airlines: 24789485, Singapore

SATURDAY

Min

L O N G D I S TA N C E B U S T I M I N G S ( O M A N N AT I O N A L T R A N S P O R T C O M PA N Y S A O C ) * S U B J E C T T O C H A N G E

LEO

Airlines: 24791233, Shaheen Air: 24816565, SriLankan Airlines: 24784545, Swiss International Airlines: 24796692, Thai Airways: 24705934, Turkish Airlines: 24703033 MUSEUMS Bait Al Baranda: Corniche (seafront opp ﬁsh market), Open from Sat to Thur 9am to 1pm and 4 to 6pm Natural History Museum: Al Khuwair, Tel: 24604957, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm; Thur: 9am to 1pm Museum of Omani Heritage: (former Omani Museum), Madinat Al Alam, Sat-Wed 8am to 1:30pm, Thur - 9am to 1pm, Tel: 24600946 Armed Forces Museum: Bait Al Falaj, Tel: 24312651, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm; Thurs 9-12pm and 3-6pm; Fri 9-11am and 3-6pm. Al Hoota Caves 24498258; Turtle Beach 96550606/96550707 Children’s Science Museum: Shatti Al Qurum, Tel: 24605368, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thur: 9am to 1pm Oman-French Museum: near Muscat Police Station, Tel: 24736613, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thurs: 9am to 1pm Bait Al Zubair, Muscat: Tel: 24736688, Al Saidiya St., Muscat museum@baitalzubairmuseum.com Open from Sat to Thurs: 9:30am to 6pm. National Museum Ruwi: Tel: 24701289, Open from Sat to Wed: 8am to 1:30pm, Thur: 9am to 1pm Sohar Fort Museum: Tel: 26844758, Open from Saturday to Wed: 8 to 1:30pm Thurs: 9am to 1pm Muscat Gate Museum: at Al Bahri Road, Muscat open from Sat to Wed 8am to 2pm

SUNDAY

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Sang ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ song for love of Salman Khan, says Adnan Sami SINGER-COMPOSER Adnan Sami, who features as a qawwal in Bhar do jholi meri, the latest song from Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan, says he agreed to lend his voice to the number purely out of love for the superstar. Present at an event to showcase his special rendition for the movie, Adnan said: “I share a great friendship and bond with Salman. Being a Pathan, for us, money never interferes between friendship and relationships. I sang this song completely out of love for him and nothing else.” He also went on to state that his only “condition” before agreeing to sing the song was that Salman showers a lot of love on him. The song also features Adnan singing as a qawwal.

Men of all ages need to care for their skin

Anurag Basu ‘restless’ over Kishore Kumar biopic ANURAG BASU, who is already busy shooting for Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif starrer Jagga Jasoos and also tied down with a new TV show, says he’s feeling restless about the impending status of his biopic on cinematic legend Kishore Kumar. “The biopic is definitely on. Biopics are extremely hard to make in India. I don’t know when it will start. I’m getting really restless with it not going on the floors. I’ve worked on the script and waiting for shooting to begin since last two years,” Basu said at an event here. “Everybody associated with the film has committed to doing the film. The director is ready, producer is ready, the family of Kishore Kumar is ready, but the only issue is that the dates are not working out. But it could begin anytime sooner or later,” he added. Basu’s wait could be longer as his on-screen Kishore Kumar, actor Ranbir will first complete Jagga Jasoos, Tamasha and then most likely, he will move to Ayan Mukerji’s superhero flick with Alia Bhatt and Karan Johar’s directorial with Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Meanwhile, Basu is helming a TV show Stories by Rabindranath Tagore for Epic channel.

Happiness wishes as actor Arjun Kapoor turns 30 ACTOR Arjun Kapoor turned 30 on Friday and Hindi film fraternity members has wished him a year full of happiness. Arjun, who is the son of film producer Boney Kapoor, worked as an assistant director on Nikhil Advani’s Kal Ho Naa Ho in 2003. He also assisted Advani on his next directorial multi-starrer film Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love in 2007. But his acting career began only with the 2012 film Ishaqzaade, after he lost oodles of weight. Arjun then portrayed a dual role in Atul Sabharwal’s crime thriller film in 2013 Aurangzeb, following which he was seen in movies like Gunday and 2 States. Not one to step back from experimentation, Arjun also featured in a key role in satirical English language film Finding Fanny, and then Tevar. Here’s what B-Town tweeted on his birthday: Abhishek Bachchan: Happy birthday @arjunk26 what’s goin on in there???? Big love brotherman. Have a great year. Sonam Kapoor: Happy birthday @arjunkapoor my lovely lovely brother... Love you a lot! Ayushmann Khurrana : @arjunk26 Happy Bday fellow AK! You SuperMan! Love AyushMan. Shruti Haasan: Wishing dear Babloo @arjunk26 a very very happy birthday!!! Have a great day and year ahead! -IANS

ike women, men’s skin also requires proper nourishment and care to stay fresh. Skin care should be an important aspect of lifestyle, irrespective of age, but the technique should change as one grows old, says an expert. Indu Ballani, dermatologist at Mantra Medi spa at Delhi, shares how men can take care of their skin: Skin care at 20s: Skin at 20s has more oil content and tends to

have problems like acne. Since, men do not go for facial packs and home remedies, men at this stage should use products that will help in controlling oil and simultaneously, provide nourishment. While buying products, be conscious about the ingredients of the products especially, if they are suffering from acne problem. Although the skin is developing and young at this stage, following basic skin care such as cleansing,

moisturising and applying sunscreen will help them in maintaining a healthy skin. Skin care at 30s: When compared to women, men are certainly more exposed to sunlight. Additionally, at this stage, the sagging of the skin is visible. Not only due to the external factors, but also because the skin gets thinner at this age. Therefore, using anti-ageing creams is worth considering.

Skin care at 40s and above: As we grow older, our skin loses its regeneration power therefore, needs some extra care. Apart from frequent use of a moisturiser, men should also consider using anti-ageing creams. Men at this stage can also opt for medical procedures and fillers to do away with the problem of skin ageing. They should not shy away from using under eye rejuvenating creams to fight the fine lines that develop under the eye. — IANS

H E A LT H

Health tips for corporate employees TAXING nine-to-ﬁve jobs, long hours in front of a computer screen, uneven sleeping patterns and diet issues sum up the lives of most corporate employees. To lead a healthy and ﬁt life, they should keep water handy, carry home cooked food and more, says an expert. Suvro Ghosh, founder of a healthcare startup www.helpmedoc.in, shares health tips especially for working segment of our society. Carry a water bottle wherever you go: Keeping water handy is a good idea. Sometimes, if you’re working, you’ll just forget to drink water for a long period of time. Also, you should sip on water or a fruit-based drink. Home-cooked food: Nothing substitutes a nutritious salad or a wholesome meal from home. It’s best if you eat home-cooked

rice and ‘dal’. If you happen to stay away from your family or if you’re too busy to pack your lunch, there are a good number of startups delivering home-cooked food and fresh salads. Try using the services of such startups instead of ordering from fast food joints, which do you no good.

Don’t go too hard on yourself: Your client can wait for a few minutes. Close your eyes and relax for two minutes for every hour. This clears your mind and keeps you active. Refrain from straining your back: Yes, it’s enjoyable to sit on that comfortable office chair with

your back reclined in odd postures, but it does actual damage to your spine and it’s high time that you start sitting in proper postures. Be sure the back is aligned against the back of the office chair. Avoid slouching or leaning forward. Sleep pays off: Believe it or not, but getting even 30 minutes less sleep than your body requirement can have short and long-term consequences on health, mood and performance. It’s good to maintain a regular sleep schedule, with at least eight hours of sleep every day, even on the weekends. Kick the caffeine habit: It’s a well-known fact that caffeine interferes with your sleep. Avoid tea, coffee and soft drinks close to bedtime. Instead, go for a glass of fresh juice in the morning and a cup of green tea in the evening.—IANS

B O L LY W O O D

No one offering Karan a role after ‘Bombay Velvet’ FILMMAKER Karan Johar has said “he is not that stupid” to cast himself in his movies. Karan and ﬁlmmaker S.S. Rajamouli launched a new song of their epic drama Baahubali on Thursday. Asked about acting offers, the producer said: “Not even one person has offered me a role. I’m waiting eagerly for some offer, at least a poor offer which I can refuse. “I tried my best but I think nobody wants to see me act on screen.” Though Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet failed miserably at the box-office, Karan Johar was one of the few actors who was appreciated for his magniﬁcent act. —IANS

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Villa for rent (family residence) : New 4 bedroom villa with majlis, family hall and outside kitchen. With split AC in Al Khoudh phase 7 close to Seeb polyclinic. Call 99332525 (owner).

Brand new 6 BHK villa in Al Azaiba with split A/C & lift. RO.1200/Contact – 93191111

Apartments near Indian School Ghubra (2 BHK with 5 split AC units). Contact 94652485 / 99273774 / 99202278

Flat in South Al Hail, 2 bedrooms, Majlis, 2 bathrooms, kitchen RO 250/-. Contact 93221474

3 rooms with attached bath room, hall Brand new in Mabelah near Sharahe Noor. Contact 99663905/ 99415119

Deluxe 1, 2 BHK ﬂats in Darsait, AL Khuwair 1deal for office & residence. Contact 99369081 /99142314

Flat for rent in Mabela 7, 2BHK + 3 bathroom 220/-R.O. Contact: 92712996

2 bedroom ﬂat at Hamriya, main road with A/C. Contact 99331448

Flat in Ruwi Mumtaz 2 BHK RO 300 or 1 BHK 250 RO. Contact 98588240 Flats for rent behind Indian School. Contact 99777122

Labour Camp for Rent in Wadi Kabir. Contact 99792181

Villa for rent in Al Khuwair 33, 8 bedrooms & 5 bathrooms with parking area near Taimur Mosque. Contact: 99366624

Three bedroom ﬂats for rent near NIT Institute Darsait. Contact: 93494098

2 BHK, 2 baths, Split A/C, Wadi kabeer, Near Indian Elementary School. Contact 99441193, 93004802

Shops at Muttrah opposite Port Service Building on Main Road. Contact 93387962

Luxurious villa in Mumtaz area, Ruwi with 3BR, 2 Lounges, Dining, car park, kitchen. Contact: 99430943

Room with bath AC furnished AL Khuwair. Contact: 97004265/99643569

Shop/Office, 56 SQM, Wadikabeer, Opposite Al-Hassan. Contact 99441193, 93004802

FOR SALE

2 BHK ﬂat in Al Ansab with split A/C. RO.250/- Contact – 93191111 Villa for rent - Al Seeb/Al Mawelah - Block 5 - 4 bedrooms with attached bathrooms, Majlis, 2 halls, kitchen and storeroom. split Ac and carpark. Contact 99564616 Bath attached room for rent Al Khuwair. Contact 99743569 Commercial 3 BHK ﬂat in Al Ghobra 18 Nov Street. RO 700/Contact 93191111

Clinic for sale in al amerat. Contact:93753655

2 BHK ﬂat in Al Azaiba near sea, with split A/C. RO.340/Contact – 93191111

Fully decorated & Equipped kitchen cabinet and marble showroom for sale at Mabela industrial area road no – 10 only serious buyers can. Contact: 99337670/97763560

For rent 3 industrial land. Contact 92702891/ 95490842

Household furniture for sale. Contact: 97094797

Flats shops and store for rent in Ruwi, MBD Honda road. Contact 97293708 / 92433127

2,560 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

For rent in Darsait, new ﬂats. Contact: 99311525 Flats/villas owned by ROP pension fund available for rent in Muscat. Contact 99349526

60,000 Sq Mtrs Agriculture Land in Misfah, can be changed to Industrial Land. OMR 29 Per Square Meter. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 Well furnished meat shop in Amerat. Contact: services customers. Contact 92454250/96374850

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BUSINESS

MOTOR VEHICLE FOR SALE

Excellent room, with A/C kitchen available for bachelor / family near ONTC bus station (Ruwi). Contact: 95885736 Furnished room with attached bathroom in W/K. Contact: 97167857

ACC. WANTED Required a room or studio ﬂat in Darsait / WadiKabir /Ruwi area. Contact : 95405033

FOR SALE Villa for sale in Al Khoudh close to Dan super market, 3room , 3 bathroom , 1 hall ,1 setting room, 1 store , kitchen & maid room with garden plot 600sq with car parking selling price 135.000/-. Contact: 91010668 5 Flats of 1 bedroom for Sale in Boushar: OMR 35 Thousand each. Monthly income OMR 270 Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 23,886 Sq Mtrs Agriculture land with water well in Al Salwa, Barka. OMR 260 Thousand. Tel: 99333479 or 95215360 3 floor commercial building in Muttrah behind Police. Generating income of OMR 18 Thousand annually. 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 Training center with license. Contact: 91121277 Commercial land for sale 3000 m in quriyat road main high way can use as a petrol station license available asking price 350,000 For more information please call on 99070701 with out name

AVAILABLE

Party & Wedding equipment rentals. Full line, from Tables, Linen & Skirting, Chairs & Chair covers, Cutlery, Crockery, 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

ACC. AVAILABLE

Single furnished room. Contact: 24833609 Furnished bath, attached sharing accommodation available behind AL Nahdha hospital. Contact: 99030037 Sharing for non cooking executive bachelor in CBD area WIFI free, Advance deposit. Contact: 95094504 Excellent room, with A/C kitchen available near ONTC bus station for family / bachelor (Ruwi). Contact 95569740 Single room attached toilet & bath for Executive bachelor rent including electricity & water. Contact: 99327158

Bed space available for exbachelors at Al Khuwair. Contact: 94143636

Independent rooms in Qurum / Al Hail. Contact 95529970

Furnished bedroom with Sep – bathroom, sharing, and kitchen for exbachelors at AL Khuwair. Contact: 99636550

Acc. opp. OK Center for non cooking bachelor. Contact 95126452 between 2 pm & 4 pm only. Contact 95126452

A/C attached furnished single room with separate bathroom available for executive bachelor near Grand Hypermarket Ruwi. Contact: 95149047/96567139

Sharing ﬂat in Wadi Kabir. Contact: 99335057

Fully furnished 1BHK with all household items in Darsait near Lulu on monthly Basis. Contact : 99378397 One room for rent (A/C +bed +bath) at Al Khuwair. Contact: 99382008

One room separate bathroom for Indian Executive bachelor near Al Khuwair R/A. Contact: 99659513 Furnished attached bathroom at Mumtaz area. Contact: 93103337 / 95212017

General Investors. Contact 99674870

NRI

Large room Sep/ Entrance furnished Wadi Kabir. Contact 99336206 Furnished single /sharing room for ex bachelor at Rex Road with WIFI available. Contact 92873832

Furnished room attached bath for lady in Wadikabir (Mars Hypermarket) – 95941515

For Sale Toyota Echo 2004 Model, Registration up to Dec. 2015 Please Contact: 99038311

Dodge Challenger SRT Gulf spec. Expat owned Warranty and insurance by the end of 2015 Perfect exterior and interior. All service done at the original Dodge service Price slightly negotiable 65750 km 2010 Automatic, price: 9500/- OMR. Contact - 95909465

Land Cruiser 2012. Contact 99336093

Echo 2002 for sale 300.000 km only last price R.O 1000/-.# 95119655

TRANSPORTATION Pick & Drop any time. # 97014786 Pick & drop with car & driver available any time. Contact: 9615828/ 96502406/92218001

Peugeot 206-2007 Model, expat driven. Contact 99209285

Expatriate driven Yaris 2008 model 100,000 kms & land rover 2005 model 93000 Kms, excellent conditions. Contact : 97094797 2 Prime Movers Man 2008 with 40 ton petrol tank each working at the moment in Al Maha. Price OMR 35 Thousand each. Contact 97000155 or 92688692

LOST Guramma Obulam has lost Indian Passport No. K 4776925. Finder please handover to ROP

TRANSPORTATION CHANGE OF NAME Transportation. Contact 99508282 Pick & drop any time. Contact: 98522914 / 99512270 Transportation. Contact: 98178135 Transportation. Contact: 98505294

Furnished single rooms available for Executive bachelors at Ruwi. Contact: 98049288

Nissan Altima 2.55, 2008 Model, Metallic Gold Colour, 60, 000 K.M, Excellent condition, all routine maintenance updated & all four tyres new, owned by diplomat & driven by owner. Contact 24684534/91382680

Transportation. Contact: 98244078 Transportation. Contact: 95190627 Pick & Drop anytime Contact: 91653903

We, Kerala Ramakrishna Iyer Duraisamy Sankarasubramanian (name of father as per the passport holder of Indian passport No. F 8007576 and Neela Sankarasubramanian (name of the mother, holder of Indian passport No. G 8659528) having permanent address in 1/184 –A, Krishna Kumar Apartments, Flat F2, Vembuli Amman Koil St., Madipakkam, Chennai 600091, Tamil Nadu presently residing at the following address in Muscat , P.B No. 3168, P.C No. 112, Sultanate of Oman, hereby solemnly affirm and declare to change the name of our child Master Mohit Shankar (name as per present passport), holder of Indian passport No. J 3401979 date of issue 07.12.2010 issued at Pune. The name of our child will be henceforth known as Sai Charan (given name) Sankarasubramanian (Sur Name) (new name for all purposes). Any objection towards change of name of our minor child may please be communicated to Embassy of India, Muscat, Diplomatic Quarters, Al Khuwair, PB No. 1727, PC 112, Ruwi, Sultanate of Oman.

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT

ADMIN

DRIVER

Vacancy for Omani PRO Email: abid673@yahoo.com Mob 94192526

Required Heavy Duty Truck Driver holding Omani driving license w/ 5 years experience please contact 92001111

Urgently Required: Administration with an experience minimum in 3 years in building construction, required immediately join and MUST have NOC. Apply, fax 00968–24605955, emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com, sbeoman@yahoo.com. Urgently Required: Administration with an experience minimum in 3 years in building construction, required immediately join and MUST have NOC.Apply, fax 00968–24605955, emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com, sbeoman@yahoo.com. Vacancy for Omani PRO for Customs duties in Sohar. Email: arabianseabridge@gmail.com, Mob: 97990844

ACCOUNTANT Reputed Construction Company required Accountant experience in Construction Company with accountancy degree. Email: jvacancy05@gmail.com Required Accountant with 3 yrs. exp. in construction company. Email : wadcocareers@gmail.com Urgently required Junior Accountant. Please send CV: hr.azatllc@gmail.com

BEAUTICION Required Beautician for Beauty Saloon at Ghubra. Clearance / visa available. Contact no. 95924910

CATERING Chinese/ Arab/ continental cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970 Requires experience Cook for an Omani family 1Nos. Contact: 99228046 Email: oman518@gmail.com Chinese / Arab / Continental cook & helper wanted. Contact 95529970 Family in Muscat seeking to hire an experienced butler. Hotel experience is preferred. Candidate must hold a valid driver’s license. Please send CV’s on vacancyinmuscat@gmail.com

DOMESTIC HELPER Cook required for an Omani family having experience in preparing all kinds of Omani & Arabic food. Minimum 5 years experience. Send CV to abfarsi@omtel.net.om or fax to 24706990, Tel. 24786072 Housemaid wanted for an Indian family in Al Hail. Must be able to cook and take care of baby. Full-time position. 96532872 Small Omani family wanted educated female House maid visa is available. Contact - 98500222 Keralite family in MBD area (near pizza hut) want a Keralite housemaid on fulltime basis. Contact 94736916. Urgently needed full time, live-in house maid for cooking Indian nonveg. food. Visa will be given. Maids with release will be preferred. Contact 99349924. Required looking for full time Housemaid for Omani family at Mabela, visa available. # 92454170

Indian driver required for light vehicle with construction experience. Contact: 92888337

DESIGNER Required Large format printer operator – for HP. Graphic Designer. Send CV to hr.oman@yahoo.com

EDUCATION Teachers required: Teachers for KG, Grade I to IV class in English, Maths, Science, Computer & Art. Qualiﬁcation: Degree in relevant subjects & B Ed; IELTS or TOFEL plus two years experience preferred. Please apply to: burj@alhakkim.com Required professional Teachers for teaching Science, Mathematics, Accountancy, Business Studies & English IELTS/ TOFEL in schools & Universities. Contact 99674870

ENGINEER Urgent requirement Civil Engineers Nos for Supervision 8 yrs experience. Contact: 99244481/24551029 Email: secons.engineers@gmail.com Leading Construction Company requires Project Engineer, Degree holder with minimum 5 to 6 years experience in building construction line. (NOC require) Send your CV to – degree.engineer2015@gmail.com Required Site Supervisor with 5 yrs. exp. in construction company, electronic technician with 3 yrs experience in gate motors systems. Email : wadcocareers@gmail.com Leading Construction company requires HSE Officer with minimum 4 to 5 years experience in building construction line. Send your CV : hseoman2015@gmail.com (NOC require). Construction Company in Oman urgently requires following candidates: BE Civil Engineer, minimum 3-5 years gulf experience & Civil site foreman, minimum 5 years gulf experience, diploma not required. Email: applyforoman@gmail.com Construction Company in Oman urgently requires the following: B.Sc Civil Engineer, minimum 3-5 yrs Gulf experience. Civil Site Foreman, minimum 5 yrs experience with operating knowledge of Tally. Please Email CV ; applyforoman@gmail.com Urgently required for a ﬁrst grade construction company Graduate Civil Engineer (5 years experienced) shuttering carpenter mason (Block, Plaster, Tile Fixing) Civil Foreman building work. Contact: 24700373/ 99427674 Fax: 24701368 Email: rajma@omantel.net.om

HOSPITALITY Chef for Yacht. International cuisine. Minimum 15 years chef experience. alibadawy@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Well established company in selling chocolate, Arabian sweets and fresh flowers, opening ITS first branch in Muscat seeking: 1- sweets and chocolates Sales man 2- flower arranger (Asian/ Filipino Nationality) Contact: 94490011 Email: labelleoman@gmail.com JCB operator -2 JCB operator with GCC valid license expect Saudi Arabia & Egypt, min.3 yrs exp. Required & L/D driver-1 min, 5 yrs exp with valid GCC driving license & site Engineer civil -1 diploma with 5 to 8 years experience & foreman civil-1- 5 years experience of multistory building. Contact: Fax: 24501448 Email: rajesh@almatllc.com or accounts@almatllc.com A company from UAE require 2 merchandisers in retail food supply, store keeper with English and invoicing experience. Email: yesterdaysun@hotmail.com

Marketing Executive for digital printing company. Contact: 94356769 / 96936564 Required sales man for spare parts shop preferably with driving license. Contact : 96378289 Required Sales man - 1 Person Qualiﬁcation. Gulf Experienced - Minimum 5 Years with Oman Driving Licence Language - English Education:- Any Degree Further Contact :Mr. Abdul Hameed Nashabat - Mobile No: 97414307 and -92807399 amn@yaqeeneng.com Required Salesman, Tailor and Barber. Contact: 96964767 Looking for Outdoor Salesman for heavy equipment spare parts. Contact - 93292015, Email: mail.om@gulfcenter.co Wanted Sales man with Oman driving license in advertising company visa ready. Contact: 96440587 / 94055643

Urgently required: (1) female dermatologist with minimum 3 years experience (2) female Omani reception coordinator for a medical center in Qurum. Contact: 96062933

Urgently required Sales and Marketing Executive for Graphic designing company. Contact: 96727631 mail: smartgraphic518@gmail.com

MANAGER

SKILLED

Urgently Required: Male – handles overall store operations of the Supermarket, Prior Experience a MUST, knowledgeable in MSOffice. Send CV to chanda@dolphin-oman.com or fax to 244-92718.

MEDICAL

Urgently required a silk Screen printer with good knowledge and release letter or NOC. Contact: 93280288 or send CV to albayanstamps@gmail.com

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Required Office Assistant 160+25+Acc, Contact 99454425

Specialist physiotherapy is required from the Philippines preferably has a license to practice. Contact :91257624 Email: belgouthii@yahoo.fr

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ED

Required Gynecology, General Physician, Dentist, Staff Nurses, Lab technicians, Pharmacists, X Ray technicians. Contact : 95133572 / 96064925 Email: kunoozghala@gmail.com

Indian male Diploma, civil engineer 4.3 year experience at building construction and consulting company with Oman driving licence and N.O.C available seeking suitable placement contact 95989500 email cv.shihabedappal@gmail.com

Urgently required G.P doctor with or without MOH license for one month from 01/07/2015. Contact 93824902

SALES / MARKETING Marketing Executive for printing press. Contact 93201718 Email: alqariyaprintingpress@gmail.com A leading trading company is looking for Sales Executives & outdoor sales coordinators with driving license & release /NOC. Email CV: alhajoil@omantel.net.om or fax: 24701683

Sudanese male (B.Sc Computer science) (diploma computer engineering) 6 yrs. experience DBA Oracle pl-sql, MS sql-server ,ms visual studio vba, network. Contact :91415886 Indian male with 8 yrs experience in FMCG in Oman as Sales Supervisor looking for suitable placement. NOC available. Gsm: 96495206 Indian Male, Graduate, 11 years Sales experience in Lighting / Industrial products, ready to join immediately. GSM: 9710 5356

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Urgently required outdoor Sales Executive for furnishing company with valid Oman D/L and minimum 3 years experience. Contact 93231403 / rainbowfurnishing156@gmail.com Required male or female candidate with 5 years experience in renting of properties. Interested candidates may please mail to alqurumprop@gmail.com Minimum 2 years of experience with valid gulf light driving license interested candidates please Contact: 99222086 /98585851

MISCELLANEOUS Mason, C.C.T.V, Technician, Electrician cum Plumber. Contact - 99383044

SALES / MARKETING

Need crane operator having two years experience & need salesman for mobile shop having two years experience. Contact: 92891888

Tanzanian male, 25 yrs Accountant successful experience in Tanzania looking for suitable placement in any ﬁeld. Contact : 96710154 Tunisian lady has Professorship in social and economical sciences and accounting, diploma in Experimental Sciences degree in English for media. Contact 95391050, aysser2013@gmail.com Indian male, B.Com, 1 year Exp in Accounts/ Sales, on Visit Visa,.. Contact – 98295101 Senior Accountant 13 years experience FMCG & retail Noc available. Contact: 93473942

SITUATION WANTED SIT. WANTED ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Male 24, B.Com /PGD having 2 years experience in accounts and inventory field looking for suitable job on visit visa. Contact: 94129550 Accounts part time, up to finalization of monthly accounts. Handled by a CA. contact 96293120 Accountant 8 yrs experience looking part time job. Contact 99867456 Looking for accounting and Administration job have two and half years experience in United Arab Emirates in a trading company and I have bachelor degree in Administration nationality Indian. Contact: 93016252 Indian male, well experienced in accounts and Admin looking for a suitable vacancy Noc available. Contact: 98717938 Senior accountant Indian male 35 years, MBA (finance) 8 years experience in a multinational FMCG company with valid Oman D/L NOC available can join immediately, looking for suitable position finance. Contact: 95645945 Young, energetic 24, ACCA finalist, Advanced diploma in Accounting and business, seeking suitable placement in accounts, finance or audit. Contact: 92430152 Email: rau_dey@yahoo.com 13 years exp (7.5 years gulf exp) B.Com Graduate, looking for Accountant job, GSM No:-92957064 with NOC. 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 Sudanese female MBA experience 5 years in Banking sectors, 1 years exp. as Accountant in Oman seeking for a suitable job. Contact : 92962621 Email: hindkameir@gmail.com Indian male, with B.Com 1 year experience in Accounts or Sales, on visit visa, Cont... 98295101 Senior Document Controller MCA Indian male 9+ year’s total experience 5+ years experience in Gulf in oil & gas sector and construction field on visit visa in Oman. Contact: 95388197 Email: rojanchristopher@gmail.com Indian male, B.Com, well experienced in Accounts & Admin, knowledge of Tally ERP 9 experience in Oman with valid Oman driving license. NOC available, looking for suitable job in Oman, join immediately. Contact 94245039 Sudanese Accountant seeking job in Nizwa state experience 10 years 3 years in Saudi Arabia, 7 yrs in Sudan. Contact : 97796394 / 94003247 Accounts & finance Indian male B.com M.B.A (F) Tally ERP9, 35 years, 8 years experience 1.5 years Oman family visa N.O.C available. Contact: 93257426 Email: sibigeorp@gmail.com Accounts part time works up to finalization on monthly basis. Profit & loss A/C and financial statements, MS Reports Etc. Contact: 96247295 Indian male, 32 years, M. Com. 7 out of 9 years experience in Oman in Accounts/finance. Having NOC and valid Oman D/L. Contact 98277143, Email: anzarks@gmail.com

MBA Indian male looking for suitable position having 2 years working experience as an accountant now in Oman a visiting visa. Contact 99424803 Indian male 22 yrs B. Com Graduate 1 year exp in Accounts, currently on visit visa. Looking for suitable job. Contact 94341848 / Email – mohdhaji7272@gmail.com MBA Graduate with 6 yrs exp in finance/accounts/ auditing. Specialized in accounts payable dept, Oracle app user, proficient in Sap (fico) end user & tally 9.0. lean &six sigma certified trainer on visit visa. Contact – 91967213 / 99064780 Finance Manager, CPA, with more than 15 yrs. of experience in GCC. Fully knowledgeable in Finance, General & Management Accounting . NOC available. Contact 96209331 ACCA affiliate , BSc Honors in applied Accountancy advance diploma in Accounting and Business, CAT Affiliate 1 year hand on working experience of Oman, with Oman driving license looking for a suitable placement in Audit firm. Having NOC can join immediately. Contact : 98989970 Motivated and energetic male 25 having 4 years of experience in finance with Master’s degree in Economics and CAT Certified seeking opportunity in Accounts/finance/ audit in a reputable organization. Cell no: 00968-94626209 E-Mail: omerjawedshah@gmail.com Indian male with total 5 year experience (2 years experience in Accountant cum sales co ordinator in a FMCG Company in Oman) in accounts field and NOC available. Looking for suitable job Contact 92130188 Indian Accountant: Male, M com, 7 Yrs experience in Accounts up to finalization, having knowledge of ERP, Tally, seeks suitable placment.Contact 93950138 Email: lijinrajan123@gmail.com

ADMIN Indian Female: B.Com & MBA-HR. looking for full or part time job immediately. Prior recruitment experience in Muscat and India.98460262. System administrator with 3 years experience hold a degree, MCITP, CCNA , CCTV biometric , seeking job in a company. Contact: 99630084/98129845 Indian male 2+yrs oman exp in HR. joing immediatly. release available. Contact :93671437 MBA (international business) from London, 4 years of UK experience in operations with D/L, looking for suitable position. Contact 91710075 Male admin/ HR office 6 years exp with NOC. Contact: 93275467 Buyer / Purchases / Administration / Stores with 7+ years local experience seeking suitable placement. NOC available. Contact – 94045405 Indian Male 27Yrs, Having 6+ yrs (3 India + 3 Oman) experience in HR/ Admin looking for suitable position Contact 91507099. Indian Female 25 MBA in HR looking for a suitable opening in Admin/ Hr. Contact 97013375

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MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

SALES / MARKETING

Over 14 years of gulf experience in Admin /HR /Logistics, ﬂuent in Arabic & English with D/L looking for suitable position. Contact 95824598

B.com, diploma in material management having 12 years experience in overseas / local puritans, logistics ware house seeks suitable placement NOC available. Contact: 96477638

Content Executive, freshers with good communication skills and willingness to learn may apply on job@socioholics.com

Indian female with 10 yrs of experience in HR/Banking/Operations seeks a suitable placement. Can be contacted on 98919015 or sherianne.coelho@gmail.com Indian female 29 MBA (HR) BSc, 4 yrs exp in HR& Admin looking suitable placement. Contact : 95619537

AUTO CAD/DRAUGHTS20 Years exp Auto Cad 3DS Max available for teaching part time. Contact - 94412557 Electrical draftsman AutoCAD switch gear & MEP control panel 7 years experience Qatar. Contact: 92546203/96228100

DESIGNER Interior Designer: Indian male 31, 8 years exp. in GCC, NOC available. 95217586 Architect designer experience in Architecture design in 2D, 3D visiting to site : 2 years experience (in Oman), ﬂuent Hindi & English. Email: zhussain9950@gmail.com Contact: 94253074

DRIVER Driver with15 years experience in Oman; speak Arabic & English & Hindi, visa available. Contact: 99191270 Looking for driving job. Contact: 98219182 Male driver is available 7 years in Oman 3 years experience as a driver 7 month is Muscat driving license holder. Contact: 92046159 Pakistani male light vehicle driver, looking for job. Contact - 94435912 Light driver looking for job. Contact: 99704122/ 97762303 Light driver looking for job. Contact: 96435795 Pakistani light duty driver 2 yrs experience seeks placement. Contact: 96342684 Light driver looking for job. Contact: 98219599 Light driver. Contact: 99035942 Light driver looking for job, 4 yrs exp in Oman. Contact: 94241385 Driver looking for job. Contact 94195818 Driver looking for job. Contact: 99507039 Paksitani Driver with 6 yrs experience looking for job. # 93985087 Driver with car 3 years experience looking for job. Contact: 92041902 Light driver. Contact: 96313100 Driver available with car and without car. Contact 96771598 Pakistani male light vehicle driver with 2 yrs exp looking for job. Contact : 96342684 Pakistani, male light vehicle driver looking for job. Contact 97943750 Driver with car. Contact: 97705694/98988208 Looking for job driving Bangladeshi. Contact: 97418036 Light driver for job. Contact 95779594 Pakistani driving available. Contact : 96913836

ENGG. / TECHNICAL Omani Mechanical Engineer, has 3 years experience ,has HSE, H2S, Riggers/Banks men Permit, Drawing / cad, SCBA, Safety Leadership and Initial Fire Response Courses. good with computer and English language looking for suitable job. Contact 99224319-98454500 Indian male 22 Mechanical Diploma holder Engg with HVAC certiﬁed, having 1 year exp. seeking suitable position. Currently available on visit visa. Contact - 92835952

ENGG. / TECHNICAL Quantity Surveyor with 5 Years experience (one year in Oman) looking for job. Contact 91090036 Mechanical Engineer, Indian, 24 years with Piping Engineering, Autocad, Ansys NX- Cad, pro-e, Catia & PDMS now on visiting visa seek suitable placement. Contact: 99168054 / 96684345 Email: : mbkishore@hotmail.com BE ,Electrical Engineer with 5 Years Gulf Experience in Underground cable & Overhead line in HT and LT, Distribution Substation, MEP. Oman D/L available. NOC available. Contact: 95054644, 00918807888109, speninsam@gmail.com Diploma in Electrical Engineer exp 5 years any type of industrial maintenance and installation, building wiring system. Contact: 94544663 Email: motiurrahaman1989@gmail. com B.Tech mechanical Engineer, Indian 1 years experience HVAC (MEP) available in Muscat on visit visa seeking suitable job. Contact 93670280 Email: jinu.avm@gmail.com Indian male , diploma in electrical Engineering with 10 years of successful experience , presently available on visit visa seeking suitable positions in projects and maintenance electrical fields. Contact: 91270686 Email: ajithgopa@rediffmail.com Iraqi male B.ch civil Engineering, 17 yrs experience in Oman experience in project management with valid Oman D/L NOC available and can join immediately looking suitable position in Muscat area. Contact: 93809093 Email: mohanad_kuba@yahoo.com Controls & automation Engineer with 7 years experience in ( RO BOT /PLC/CNC programming , LV panel building , Installation & commissioning service & support of machines) mostly overseas experience for complete execution of Machine projects in China, USA, Thailand ETC. Contact : +97430847848, Email: bensonvar@gmail.com Indian male Mechanical Technician with 22 year experience (6.5 year in Oman)-as mill Wright fitter & maintenance fabrication work seeks suitable placement NOC available. Contact: 95922696 Chemical Engineer with 04 years experience in petrochemical refinery sector seeking for & suitable position in petrochemical oil & gas, refinery EPC Companies. Contact : 00968-91748400 A male Civil Engineer is available holding 10 years experience 2.5years in Oman in Building projects, quantity canton, project billing, extension of time, variation and in execution of project interested person can. Contact: 968 91320917 Indian male Electrical Engineer seeking for a job good core technical knowledge as well as fluent communication skill. Contact: 95980857 Electrical Engineer Indian male having valid driving license and NOC, BE 1 yrs experience sealing suitable placement. Contact: 96347995 Email: shyjalpk@gmail.com Indian seeking oilfield HSE fire & safety rigs studied 10SH risk assessment fire safety on visit. Contact: 98723292 Civil Engineer, Female, 3 years experience on visit visa seeking suitable openings. Contact: 99195433 Indian male 24 yrs B. Tech (Mech. Eng) on visit 1 yr experience in production field looking for suitable placement. Contact: 98925685 BSc Civil Engineer, 6 months working experience in UAE as a Site Engineer currently in Oman on visit visa and looking for a job. Contact : 98157833 Email: waqas.pasha22@gmail.com

ENGG. / TECHNICAL

EDUCATION

Indian male present in Oman can join immediately. Diploma civil with CAD & 3d. Contact: 92875345 /92887561 Email: jubincivileng@gmail.com

English Teacher female (M. A. B. Ed) Having 14 years experience with 11 years experience in Oman with reputed institute and school. Contact: 92289080 / 99318276 Email: babujosev@yahoo.com

Egyptian Civil Engineer, total experience 7 years - 2 years experience in Oman. I am looking for Project Engineer, I have good experience in site & office works. Contact :91148708 Mech Eng 10 yrs Oman exp P&M / logistics in oil & gas industry. Contact : 95774585 Project Coordinator (B.E Civil) 6.5 yrs in Oman having 9+ years relevant experience working in MOD & ROP project need suitable placement. Contact : +986 91129192 Email: azmot.uuet@gmail.com Indian male B.Tech (ECE), MBA (HR) 2 years of experience in CCNA, CCNP and hands on practice in Linux and MCSE, looking for suitable job. Contact: 93487225 Quantity Surveyor or Site Engineer in civil, 5 years experience in Oman have valid Oman driving license looking for suitable posts, NOC available. Contact: 96394948/ 98294919. Email: asvinsha@gmail.com Electrical Eng. Degree (MEP) need suitable job of construction 12 yrs exp. Email: mohd.ateeq.khan@gmail.com

IT Indian male, B.E ( computer science engineer), MBA (finance), OCA certified, having 5 years of experience in oracle Dba/ oracle apps Dba, seeks a suitable position in the field of IT. Contact: 96212062 email: zubairkhan11@gmail.com B.E IT Eng, 6 yrs exp TCS with oil & Gas Industry (Java /Oracle). Contact : 97835922 Omani Citizen searching a job in the field of computer especially in data base professional in operating Oracle SQL, PL/ SQL, form6i, Report 6i. Contact 96977368 Email: talaloml@yahoo.com Business development manager IT & Non – IT, 7 years experience Oman driving license seeks position good prospects. Contact: 99329216 Indian male 25 yrs exp in Administration, Telecom, Ofc, Networking, MS Office. Seeks any job. On visit visa. Contact – 91385373 / sridharbsnlma1455@gmail.com

Indian male, with 8 yrs exp. in Oman (BA- Graduate) working as a project Sales Coordinator, with Oman D/L, looking for suitable job, ready to join immediately with NOC. Contact 95245057

MEDICAL Well experienced MOH Licensed Indian GP Doctor looking for locum / permanent position in the Capital area. Contact 98140024 email:drgpoman@yahoo.com Indian female Dentist MOH Oman passed seeking a suitable placement in capital region. Contact– 91377681 hashimsarawat@gmail.com Indian male Nurse, 31 years Oman prometric passed 6 yrs ICU experience. Contact : 94195150 / 92758895 Lab Technician, Civil (8yrs Gulf experience) looking for a suitable job (NOC available) Contact-93344378 Indian female looking for suitable position 2nd rank in MSC microbiology, fresher now on visiting visa. Contact : 91633089 Email: mansytk4@gmail.com

SALES / MARKETING Indian female (MTECH) having Gulf experience in family visa seeking suitable placement in Oman. Contact : 94306164 / 91001194

Business development Manager/ Executive. Preferably minimum of 2 years experience. Valid driving licence can apply on job@socioholics.com Sales /marketing experience 24 years old Indian male having valid Omani license seeking suitable position in FMCG company, presently working as a Supervisor of the leading hypermarket in Oman. NOC available. Contact: 91993785 / 93089757 Looking for good job 2 years experience Oman sales marketing valid driving license Indian Kerala. Contact : 98626682 Pakistani male 34 yrs Intermediate 2 yrs exp in sales & marketing in Oman. Looking for suitable job. Contact - 92146864 Omani female exp in PRO with Oman D/L. Contact: 91161736 Outdoor salesman with car looking for job. Contact 91615715 Indian male, 39 yrs having 15 yrs Gulf experience (UAE, Qatar, Oman) in sales & marketing looking for a suitable position with NOC. Contact 94054730 8 years store experience Indian male looking for placement. N.O.C available. Contact: 98456535 8 years purchase experienced Indian male looking for job. N.O.C. available. Contact: 98161323

Indian male MBA 7 years experience in Hospitality industry, operation, sales & marketing looking for suitable vacancy. Contact 92115860 Email vibin.py@gmail.com

Indian male, B.Sc (Mathematics) PGDBM (Marketing). 9 yrs of Oman experience in sales in midlevel management, NOC available. Valid Oman D/L. Contact: 95278838 Email: anup2p4p@yahoo.com

Indian male 26 years B.Tech (IT) M.Tech CCNA certiﬁed MCSE certiﬁed 3 yrs experience currently a visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact: 91006851

Indian male Science Graduate 11 yrs of sales exp in India & Oman, having valid D/L seeking job in sales with family beneﬁts. Contact – 94255249

Indian Male, B.Com Graduate, 23, with experience in Sales looking for suitable placements. . Contact 98371144

Electronics & communications Indian male, 2 years experience seeking suitable placement. Contact: 99456725 / 94678625

B.E Computer Science, Indian lady, with 2 years experience in Oman looking for suitable job in Muscat having valid GCC driving license. Contact: 97738624

A Graduate degree holder 4 years experience in Marketing (mobiles) in Oman & U.A.E and as well has driving license with car. Interested person can. Contact: +968 94164657

Indian male, 28 yrs, Electronics & Instrumentation Engineer with 4 yrs experience in Industrial Automation (SCADA) seeking suitable job. Contact 93154156 / 98416190

Computer Networking/Facility Mgmt 5 Yrs of Exp Holds B.E(ECE), CCNA Looking for Good Opportunity, Indian - Visit Visa. Contact 91911792/ arafakdnl@gmail.com

MBA graduate having 6 years exp in sales & marketing, presently working in PepsiCo India seeks suitable placement in Oman. Contact: + 91 9895388937 Email: samir.pag@gmail.com

Pakistani Female Bachelor of Information Technology with 8 years’ experience in Banking, Sales, business development, retail & customer service seeking for a suitable placement. Having valid D/L& NOC available. Contact 94699970 shehla.chohan@gmail.com

Electrical Engineer Pakistani male 4 years B. Tech & 3 years’ diploma seeking a suitable placement. Contact: 96752080 Email: ilyasoader97@gmail.com

IT Desktop Support Engineer 2 years Oman 3 years in Indian Exp. Contact 91937060

Civil Engineer, Expatriate Female, 3 yrs experience, on visit visa seeking suitable placement. Contact: 99195433 Iraqi Engineer specialized in telecommunication net working & PC experience in nuking network and security systems. Contact: 92898329 / 99249124

Indian Male, IT Support Engineer, 2 yrs in Oman & 5 yrs Indian experience. Contact 97311847 Indian male, B.Tech Mechanical having 4 years experience with QA/ QC / CSWIP looking for a suitable position. Contact: 99447106 Email: dhanubhasi87@gmail.com Btech computer science graduate 2015 passout.. Android application marketing.. Having good communication skills and mindset to work in a team. Contact 91024385 D.A.E Civil 4 years exp in land surveyor and building work worked on AutoCAD, T.S and G.P.S 1 year exp in Oman looking for placement. Contact: 92140890 / 98780156 Email: engrsaﬁullah91@gmail.com Engineer with 3 yrs experience in Indian in MEP, HVAC& mechanical maintained ﬁeld on visit visa looking for suitable job. Contact 99191535 Email: fareed029@gmail.com Indian female, B.Tech biotechnology with strong computer skills and 2 years experience as associate research analyst (Media Monitoring) in Nasdaq Oman seeking growth oriented jobs. Contact 92044603 /918056169148 or angeline.babithac@gmail.com.

EDUCATION MBA, B.Com Indian female having two yrs exp as lecturer seeks placement in teaching filed. Presently on family visit visa. Contact – 96259171/ Email: bhumipandya@gmail.com Indian female MCA, Three years experience in teaching field, seeks placement currently on visit visa. Contact: 93431567 Email: fivona.mel@gmail.com

CERTIFIED (CCNA) NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR 4 years experienced looking for Suitable placement. Contact: 99002390

Network system Engineer B.E / ECE + CCNA & Ms certiﬁed with 4+ yrs exp looking for a job. Currently in Oman on visit visa. Contact: 92589502 Email: careersjegan@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Warehouse in charge with 14 years gulf experience 1.5 years in Oman NOC available looking for suitable placement contact 97440902 MCA Indian male 6 month experience India seeking suitable placement. Contact 00918547068891 Email: koneeradh@gmail.com Filipino Male looking for a job & have experience in sales, waiter, barista, technical support / customer service with good communication skills. # 91789465

Indian female B.com Graduate having 8 years experience in Indian & 2 years experience in Oman as sales coordinator, secretary, customer service seeks suitable placement. Contact: 95433987 Indian male with 5 years experience in building material sales and marketing education qualiﬁcation BA electronics. Contact: 92228538 Indian male. 27, Post Graduate, 5+ yrs exp in Oman in Sales & Credit Control, with valid Oman driving License, NOC available, looking for suitable placements. Ph: 9199 3376 Indian Female having more than 8 years of experience in oil and gas industry in sales and marketing & as commercial manager, now in family visa looking for a suitable placement No. 94187012, Email mvrajagd_d@yahoo.com

Indian material controller/ store keeper seeking job in Oman NOC / Release available. Contact: 91946174

Indian Lady 24 yrs with ﬁve years experience as cabin crew in National & International airlines seeking suitable job vacancy in good position. Contact: 97623267

Indian Female with over 9 yrs experience with good communication skills seeks jobs in customer service or sales ﬁeld. Contact : 96108289, shijipaul84@gmail.com

Procurement Manager with 17 years experience looking suitable position. (Electrical Diploma Holder with Oman D/L) Contact: 95979029. pavithranmv@gmail.com

MCA, BCA with 2 yrs relevant experience seeking suitable opportunity. Contact: 96377039

Indian worked MNC 15 years Oman experience as Marketing FMCG / TRAD Purchasing with visa license. Contact: 98796982

Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant ,doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available. Contact :98803439 13 Years UAE experienced in MNC & reputed ﬁrms logistics distribution looking for a suitable placement, on visit visa contact 99838743, gani.dawood@gmail.com

MBA Graduate with D/L looking for sales or marketing jobs. Contact 94143154 Email: rinojnathen008@gmail.com Male BA with D/L having 6 years exp Oman wanted suitable job in sales, inventory, procure. Contact : 92191026 Indian female MSc, MPHIL (Chemistry) 3 years Teaching experience currently on visit visa seeking suitable position. Contact : 96916534 / 91969756

Indian male 45+ yrs , 20 yrs exp as sales supervisor in India looking for indoor sales /stores /cashier or any suitable placement can speak Hindi , English, Malayalam, Tamil, kannada can join immediately on visit visa. Contact 93086105/33016546

SKILLED/UNSKILLED Experience skilled candidate with driver license seeks position in sales in Salalah. Contact: 98579382

TOURS & TRAVELS 25 Indian female B.S.C. Fashion Technology. 5 years experience in textile industry as a merchandiser and good in fashion marketing. Currently available on visit visa, seeking for a suitable job. Contact 96990368. Email: simmy.missy@gmail.com

MISCELLANEOUS Innovative Indian Male 29, B.E & M.Tech Web designer / developer with over 5.5 years of work experience in HTML 5, CSS 3, SEO, Digital marketing (DFP & DCM), Magento, CMS, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Can join ASAP. Mobile: 00968 9630 3055 / email: aditya.khandkar@gmail.com 10 YEAR Experienced PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER. Currently working at Kerala, India. Seeks placement. Contact: - +968 95872030 , email: - sajith3969@gmail.com Indian male 48yrs with driving license looking for a job to work as driver / salesman. Residing at Al Khoudh. Contact: 99551310 Tunisian women looking for a job, khnows english,frensh, italian and arabic. Contact: 91171838 Young Indian Chartered Accountant, female, Having 6 years experience in Oman and India. Accounts and Finance Manager, Auditor. Urgently seeking suitable positions. Contact-92530131, jobcareer44@gmail.com

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Indian female Nurse with 5 yrs of experience, presently working in Oman, seeking for suitable placement. NOC available can join immediately. Contact: 98329941 Email: ancyanish2011@gmail.com Looking for part time jobs in Muscat, Auto cad Draughtsman (Civil). contact:-+968-99070584 email: remluvp@gmail.com Indian female MA. B.Ed. with one year three months teaching experience. Subject: English Seeking for a Better placement. Now working in Oman # 93961142, 92184408 Email:anoopkesavan78@gmail.com B.Sc. Mechanical Engineer Sudanese 3 yrs of exp. In industrial field available in Muscat on visit visa seeking suitable job . Contact: 95868922, Email: almouthanaosman@yahoo.com Indian Male MBA with two year experience in H.R as a H.R Assistant, Now in India, Seeking for an urgent suitable position. Contact:-98620260 / 93895992 , Email:-deepakmb4@gmail.com Indian male auto cad draughtsman (civil) 8 years experience, seeking for part time job mobile no: 0096899070584 email: remluvp@gmail.com 8 years successful experience. Senior Accountant, Indian male, 29 years, presently working in oman as a senior accountant with oman driving license. NOC available. seek suitable opportunity. gsm: 97705854 Indian Male 28 years MSM, B. Com having 6years experience in Gulf and India as a HR and Admin looking for suitable placement.# :97914340. Email: rajkv30@gmail.com B.Sc. Mechanical Engineer Sudanese 3 yrs of exp. In industrial field available in muscat on vist visa seeking suitable job . Contact: 95868922, Email: almouthanaosman@yahoo.com IT system and Printer engineer ME, 5Years bank IT Management exp in India looking for full time job visit visa contact 94462150 24 year Indian Chartered Accountant male with 3yrs of experience is seeking suitable placement in Muscat, currently on visit visa & ready to join immediately. Contact him on 98201476 or email at lokeshkaluri@gmail.com MCA IT Professional Indian Female seek placement in Teaching/ Non Teaching field. Presently on visit visa. 9588 7051, ashwininakod@gmail.com ACCA Affiliate, Indian, 2.5Years experience in Audit/ Finance in Big 6 Audit Firm and Oil Accounting in PDO, For Permanent Placement for Finance or Accounts or Audit. Release NOC Available on hand. Contact #95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com Finance ACCA Affiliate, Worked as an Auditor with 2.5 Years Experience in reputed firm, Handled independent audit/finance assignments, Looking for permanent placement, NOC available. #95140445. a.saran891@gmail.com Piping Design Engineer, Indian male 27, looking for suitable placement in Piping Design & Engineering. Having 7 years of experience in AutoCAD. Also familiar with PDMS (11.6 Version),CAESAR ll. Contact : 97351786 / 96143708, E-mail : mohammednazeer07@gmail.com

Admission Open: CAMBRIDGE / BILINGUAL CURRICULUM admission started in Al Burj Private School, Azaiba for KG and Grade I to IV. Please register soonest. Contact: 93211417 / 92887809. Learn Cup cakes, exotic cakes, Icing decorations, handicrafts. Contact 95941515

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ED Filipino Male looking for a job & have experience in sales, waiter, barista, technical support / customer service with good communication skills. # 91789465 PART TIME ACCOUNTANT, Indian male, M. Com, 35 years, 12 Years exp. in Accounts, 8 years in Oman. Knowledge upto ﬁnalization. Having valid D/L, seeks suitable Placement.GSM: 96249124 Egyptian Civil Engineer, total experience 7 years - 2 years experience in Oman. I am looking for Project Engineer, I have good experience in site & office works. Contact number:91148708

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Indian Male 24 years, Looking for a Suitable Job in Telecom / Networking. 1 year sales experience. MSc. Communications Engineering & Valid Driving license. Ph: 91280121. Email: jackrprasad@yahoo.com. ACCOUNTING – Indian male seeking accounting job with 2 years experience in accounting. Contact: 94263445, E mail – contactantonyxavieranand@gmail. com

Carpet, curtain, sofa, ﬂoor, cleaning, shampooing, marble & mosaic tiles grinding, polishing and painting. Contact : 93630133 / 95821193

Sudanese male: 27 yrs, 2 years experience in accounting, other experience (purchasing – HR - Coordinating and Office Management), looking for a job Omani Driving License, NOC. Contact: 94174403

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24 year Indian Chartered Accountant male with 3yrs of experience is seeking suitable placement in Muscat, currently on visit visa & ready to join immediately. Contact him on 98201476 or email at lokeshkaluri@gmail.com Sudanese male (B.Sc, computer science) (diploma computer engineering), 6 yrs. experience DBA oracle PL-SQL, MS SQL - Server, MS visual studio vba, network. Contact 91415886 Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support, Networking, Security systems, Server support, IT sales and marketing. Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact 91055584 PRODUCTION OPERATOR – Indian male seeking production operator or related jobs with 4 years of experience in oil & gas ﬁeld. #94263445. Email: tonyxavier4u@gmail.com

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Carpet Shampoo, marble & tile polishing, pest control & anti-termite treatment, general cleaning painting, Plumbing, Electrical, shifting. Contact Mundhir Al-Rizaiqi trading. L.L.C. # 24810137, 99450130

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Indian Keralite Male 35 looking for Scaffolding supervisor post having 5 years of Supervisor and HSE experience in GCC Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Fluent in English Arabic and Hindi . Contact 96155921, or mail fysal.nellaya@gmail.com

Marble Restoration, Mosaic tiles polishing, carpet shampooing, maintenance.Contact ABU QABAS99320217 /24788722

Indian Male 28 yrs, having 7 years Gulf + Indian experience in HR and Admin ﬁeld, looking for suitable placement. Contact: 97914340, Email: rajkv3086@gmail.com

Pest control Treatments, termites, cockroaches, bedbugs Ocean Center LLC. Contact: 99344723 Carpet, Sofa Shampooing. Ocean Center LLC. Contact: 99884591 AC servicing maintenance ﬁxing. Contact: 99540621

GUARANTEED CLEANING: Carpet & sofa shampooing, Contact 99314807/24792998 MARBLE CRYSTALLIZATION restore the original shine of your marble. # 24793614/ 99314807 House shifting. Contact 99708138 Split & window A.C servicing & maintenance. Contact 93769089/95323517 Air condition maintenance split and window services AC specialist ducted and package type unites. Contact: 98667326

MATRIMONIAL Hindu Ezhava family, settled in Muscat looking for suitable groom working within Oman for their daughter 25 yrs (MBA) working with a reputed company in Muscat. Contact 98689663

MATRIMONIAL Alliance invited for a Nair girl 24 yrs, 5ft, 1”, fair, slim, B.Tech graduate reputed family of Ernakulam dist. (Star Thiruvonam Sudhajathakam) ﬁnancially sound, from parents of B.Tech nair boys from Trissur, Palakkad and Eranakulam dist. . Contact 00919495924302 email: raveendrandr@yahoo.com Kerala Nair girl, B.Com, 22 yrs, 5.2” very fair, slim, (Star Uthrattathi) Presently working in infosis, Chennai. Financially sound, from parents of nair boys from Trissur, Palakkad and Eranakulam & Calicut dist. . Contact : 0091 8301865688 email: raveendrandr@yahoo.com

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