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Nearly 10 months after Imran Khan tied the knot with TV journalist Reham, his second marriage has ended in divorce amid reports that the Pakistani cricketlegend-turned-politician objected to her meddling in politics. >A7

Our region seriously needs to establish firm, solid foundations that all the parties concerned will accept as a basis for co-operation in every sphere in the interests of stability, so that we can ensure maximum development for the sake of our people’s prosperity.

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Officials on alert as cyclone heads towards Oman MUSCAT: Rescue personnel are gearing up as weather forecasters have predicted torrential rains in parts of the Sultanate starting tomorrow evening (Saturday) due to the impending tropical cyclone Chapala.

Rescue personnel and ambulances belonging to the Public Authority for Civil Defence (PACDA) and Ambulances have already been sent to Salalah, PACDA revealed in a tweet.

The Sultan’s Armed Forces and Royal Oman Police have also deployed personnel, equipment

and machinery in the wake of the cyclone prediction, it has been stated. Meanwhile, an official at the Salalah port said that the port authorities are also on alert.

On alert “We are following the standard procedures when an alert for adverse weather conditions is issued. We have already given shelter to the dhows, passing by the Salalah coast in view of the impending adverse weather conditions. Moreover, we are on alert to avoid any damage if the water level rises”, the port official said. >A2

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To raise awareness for supporting families that raise children with special needs, the Modern College of Business & Science hosted an event to entertain such children on its premises as part of a national campaign. Parents of children with disabilities said that the task of raising them is a difficult one. >A2

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Iran may roil global oil markets with plans to sell about 45 million barrels of fuel stored in tankers in the Gulf within three months of the removal of sanctions on its economy, say analysts. Most of the stored oil is condensate that contains a sulphur compound, which complicates sales because many refineries can’t process it. >B1

HM sends greetings to Antigua & Barbuda MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of greetings to Dr Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams, Governor– General of Antigua & Barbuda on his country’s Independence Day anniversary.

In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan has expressed his sincere greetings and wishes to the president and his country’s people. —ONA

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Refrain from accident rumours, warns ROP Times News Service MUSCAT: Don’t spread rumours about road accidents on social media, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) has requested people.

When accidents take place, bystanders usually record videos or take pictures of the accident site and sometimes convey false information about the incident.

In a tweet, the ROP has advised people not to spread rumours about accidents.

“You are contributing to in-

creased damage by promoting false information.”

“Rumours can cause a catastrophe and negatively affect people’s lives,” the tweet said.

Circulating news Social media acts as a platform to circulate news about incidents that happen in Oman, from accidents to crimes being committed, but the posts contain contradictory information, so the ROP has advised people to refrain from spreading such rumours.

MUSCAT: Women in Oman are being stalked on social media, suffering abusive comments and offensive approaches.

Experts believe that education can help reduce the number of harassment cases on social media platforms and create a safer online environment for users, especially women.

Social media use has grown rapidly in recent years and has created a new set of issues, such as cyber-bullying, which can range from offensive posts and photos, online threats and harassment, to stalking through social networks.

However, experts are of the view that those who have been subjected to online harassment should not shy away from using social media as it is a ‘powerful’ tool, which can benefit them in many ways.

Instead, they advise users to protect themselves with the available tools and options.

Complaints Nicholla Henderson-Hall, founder and creator of the “Muscat-

Where Can I Find” Facebook group, who is also a social media coach, said she is used to getting complaints from female users, who are receiving friend requests from strange men or rude and inappropriate messages.

Guidelines “So we imposed guidelines for our Facebook (group)”, she said, adding that one of them is that if any person is found harassing or bullying others or posting inappropriate messages, he or she will be removed from the group.

Henderson-Hall believes that women should not feel ‘shy’ or ‘nervous’ when they are subjected

to online harassment and should just block that person or report them to Facebook.

“I have reported so many people to Facebook myself and I get messages saying that this person’s profile has been deleted”, Henderson-Hall told the Times of Oman.

She also noted that serious cases can also be reported to the authorities in the country as there are laws regarding defamation and insulting others.

‘Powerful’ Tool Women should not be frightened to use social media because it is a ‘powerful’ tool and they can learn a lot by using it effectively, Henderson-Hall said, adding that online platforms have helped many women grow their business.

In addition, the expert pointed out that education, both at home and in school, could teach people how to approach a tool, understand its value and use it appropriately. She also highlighted the importance of parental supervision and using available tools to control online content accessible by children.

Tools to help “We need to protect our children, but also give them the tools to help them with what is coming in the future,” added HendersonHall, who is also the founder of the Learning Curve Podcast.

Rumaitha Al Busaidi, an Omani blogger and radio presenter, also believes that education is the key to promoting the right attitude among social media users. >A2

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ISM draws safety plan for students Times News Service MUSCAT: To ensure the safety of school students, Indian School Muscat (ISM) has drawn up several plans.

Among them are helping out students after the end of classes, ensuring a safe transport system and cutting down the movement of private vehicles in the area.

The move comes in the wake of a grade IX student of ISM being injured by a vehicle in front of the school on Wednesday afternoon, said a senior official from the ISM. ISM Principal, Srinivas K. Naidu, said the child is undergoing treatment at the Al Nahada Hospital. “We admitted the child first to the Khoula Hospital and then to the Al Nahada Hospital. Now, he is fine,” he told the Times of Oman on Thursday.

The child, named Swasthik, was going to board the school bus when the accident occurred around 2:15 pm.

Wilson George, chairman, board of directors, Indian schools in Oman, said the school will also increase the number of support staff deployed outside the school, following the incident. “We have

some staff (stationed) outside the school, but we are now planning to add more staff. We have also ordered a probe into the matter to avoid such incidents,” he stated.

ISM, the largest co-educational institution in the Gulf, with over 9,300 students, is all set to introduce a school-managed transport system from 2016. “We are currently studying the draft of the transport system. This will help us cut down the number of private cars entering the area, which will help reduce the number of accidents,” he added.

Fitted with safety features, these buses will pick up children from various parts of the city from January 2016. “It (the bus) will also have assistants to monitor the children and help the driver in picking and dropping the children at their door step”, George added.

The buses will ensure the safety of children through features, such as IVMS, seat belts, emergency doors etc. “Besides, all drivers will have to undergo defensive training and the number of children in the buses will be strictly limited to the seating capacity and as per Royal Oman Police and Ministry of Education guidelines”, George added.

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College hosts event for special needs children The society must change its attitude towards children with special needs and also take special care of them

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saleh@timesofoman.com MUSCAT: To raise awareness for supporting families that raise children with special needs, the Modern College of Business & Science (MCBS) hosted an event to entertain such children on its premises as part of a national campaign.

“It’s about changing the attitude of people to those with disabilities.

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NEED CARE: Parents of children with disabilities acknowledge that the task of raising them is a difficult one. – Supplied photo

children with special needs. The objective for this event is to create awareness among all. It is the responsibility of everybody to help, whichever way they can. No help is too small, but it is the concentrated efforts which are important for these children”, Ivana Mucalov,

the organiser of the event, told the Times of Oman (TOO).

MCBS Dean, Dr. Ahmed Al Naamani said it was a privilege for the college to host the event to help children with disabilities.

“We are happy that we have been given an opportunity to sup-

port this noble cause. It is the least we can do to help raise awareness.

My hope is that other educational institutions will follow our example and do the same. We cannot leave this challenge in the hands of charity organisations or parents because it is too complex. They need every help they can get,” Dr Naamani said.

The children, some of them as young as three, receive special education with the Society for Early Intervention for children with disabilities. They were accompanied by their minders, but students of MCBS helped out with the event’s organisation.

Parents of children with disabilities acknowledged that the task of raising such children is a difficult one. “It is incredibly hard to have a child with disability, such as autism or Down Syndrome. It is a full time job and it drains all emotion.

We also have to suffer from prejudices. We need help to cope with it.

Every help is appreciated”, Saida Al Hafidh, the parent of an autistic child, told TOO.

K U WA I T

HM sends condolences MUSCAT: His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has sent a cable of condolences to His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jabir Al Sabah, Emir of Kuwait on the death of Sheikha Najat Ibrahim

Humoud Al Jarrah Al Sabah. In his cable, His Majesty the Sultan expressed his condolences, praying to Allah the Almighty to rest the deceased’s soul in peace and grant her family patience. -ONA

D H O FA R

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In its advisory, the Public Authority for Civil Aviation, said, “Torrential rains and occasional thundershowers are expected over Al Wusta and Dhofar, starting late (on) Saturday evening leading to flash floods”. Schools in the Dhofar governorate have been transformed into shelter centres in view of the impending cyclone, sources revealed.

A meeting to select the Chairman and two Deputy Chairmen for the Majlis Al Shura has been postponed to November 4 because of the cyclone.

The National Multi-Hazard Early Warning Centre analysis revealed that the tropical cyclone Chapala was located about 750km from the coastal area and governorate of Dhofar on Friday.

“The centre of Chapala is expected to cross the area between Dhofar and Yemen’s coastal areas on Monday evening with continuous torrential rains, thundershowers and strong winds expected”, advisory said.

The Public Authority for Civil Aviation has advised the public to take precautions and stay away from low lying areas, and avoid crossing wadis (valleys).

It has also advised fishermen and sea goers to avoid venturing into the sea and to follow the latest and updated bulletin from the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Centre. The National Committee for Civil Defence held a coordination meeting to discuss all the necessary measures to enhance readiness for dealing with “Chapala”.

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GUtech celebrates Omani Women’s Day on campus Times News Service HALBAN: Omani Women’s Day was celebrated by the German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) at its university campus in Halban recently under the patronage of Her Highness Sayyida Tagreed Turki Al Said.

Sayyida Tagreed inaugurated an arts exhibition and a bazaar to mark the occasion. Since the launch of the Omani Women’s Day by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said in 2011, the event was organised for the first time at the university by the Student Affairs

Department of GUtech, along with GUtech’s female students.

During her speech, Sayyida Tagreed stressed the importance of women within the Omani society.

“Omani women work in different sectors nowadays, and side by side along with men, while also playing a role in their families, as a mother and a sister, and playing a role in public, as a colleague and a student,” she added.

The majority of the students studying at GUtech are female and a large number of students participated and attended the evening event. “This is a very special

day for us Omani women. With our support, the economy will grow more and more,” said Baraah Al Saady, Foundation Year student at GUtech.

The students said they were happy to see such an event being organised by the university, in order to stress the importance of women.

“In the past, the situation of women was different and there was less trust in women. His Majesty the Sultan has placed his trust in Omani women and we participate in building Omani society”, said Al Anood Al Gharibi, Founda-

tion Year student at GUtech.

Going forwards, Al Gharibi said she would like to become an architect. “Everybody has a dream. To realise our dreams, women need the support of society”, she added.

The event included a number of other activities, such as a Fitness Fusion Workshop, including Zumba and facials, a Bangladeshi dance, a fashion show of traditional Omani dresses by Omani designer Zamzam Al Balushi, a taekwondo show and a photography and crafts exhibition. Author Balqees Al Ma’mari also launched her novel in Arabic at the event.

EMPOWERMENT: A fashion show of traditional Omani dresses by Omani designer Zamzam Al Balushi was also organised. -Supplied photo

T O P W H E AT E X P E R T S M E E T

Paper on types of Omani wheat presented at Sydeny meeting Times News Service MUSCAT: Oman Animal and Plant Genetic Resources Centre (OAPGRC) participated in the 9th International Wheat Conference (IWC 2015) in Sydney recently.

The specialist event saw the world’s top wheat experts, and over 600 delegates from 70 countries, gather to discuss current advances in wheat research, development and technology, and the future of wheat, tackling several issues, including: Global Wheat Production; Harvesting Wheat Genetic Resources; Wheat for Human Nutrition and Health; Wheat Improvement through Biotechnology and Genomics; and Global Wheat Research Initiatives and Co-operation.

Wheat, a major staple crop, currently provides 20 per cent of the overall daily protein and calories consumed throughout the world.

Its production, which is considered essential for food security, must grow by 70 per cent over the next 35 years.

Representing OAPGRC at the globally significant conference was Prof. Dr. Hamid Ghaloub Ali, who presented an extremely wellreceived paper on the development of Omani wheat varieties.

Entitled, “The Improvement of Omani Local Varieties of Bread Wheat (Triticumaestivum L) Through Conventional Breeding”, the presentation shared the results of Prof Ali’s research, carried out by Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, which has led to the development of four

varieties of wheat.

In response to Ali’s paper, an Australian research team has expressed interest in collaborating in areas of mutual benefit, once the four new wheat varieties have been fully developed and their properties established.

“Research collaborations and partnership mechanisms, such as the one that would be a result of Prof Ali’s research, along with public-private partnerships and links between research institutions, are essential to help the world meet food security challenges”, said Nadya Al Saady, OAPGRC Executive Director.

“I congratulate Prof Ali on his successful conference participation and look forward to updates on his important research”, he added.

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“I am an ex-football player so those comments have always been on social media ever since I can remember. I have gone through it for sure”, she said.

Asked how serious the issue was in Oman, Al Busaidi noted, “It is quite a big issue, and I think it is not only targeted against women.

In general, the issue is the perception that when you are behind the screen, it is okay for you to just throw comments”.

“They should put themselves in others’ shoes”, she said, adding that, apart from women in general, many popular or famous people have also been the target of offensive comments.

Commenting on parental supervision of children, Al Busaidi said that parents should not ‘police’ them, but change the dynamics at home in such a way that they can inculcate values.

Adveta Dwivedi, digital marketing manager, UMS Social, said

The number of online harassment cases in Oman seemed to be lower than in some other countries

the number of online harassment cases in Oman seemed to be lower than in some other countries.

However, there should be some educational programmes, courses or conferences, where people can learn more about these media, she stated. Parents should also educate their children and restrict the number of hours they spend on social media, Dwivedi said, adding that various gadgets should be

given to the children at the right age instead of banning them completely. Hashar Al Mandhari, chief executive officer, Alamah Marketing, said social media itself can be used as a tool to educate people.

“Social media is not a good or a bad thing. It depends on how people use it”, he said, adding that people can be taught to engage in social media and benefit from it.

Al Mandhari added that social media networks have created a new platform for people to talk freely and people will gradually come to the conclusion that there is no point in sending offensive posts and harassing others.

He also noted that parents should educate their children as to how to use these platforms and respect others.

“They should not close the doors. If you close a door, they will break it. You should open the door and show them the right path”, Al Mandhari explained.

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ALAWI REPRESENTS SULTANATE AT SYRIA TALKS Representing the Sultanate, Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, attended yesterday, a meeting on the Syrian conflict, in which representatives of 18 countries and international organisations participated. A meeting of foreign ministers of the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey was held last Friday to discuss the future of the humanitarian crisis in Syria. The second round of consultations came in continuation to the international efforts aimed to put an end to the conflict in Syria. —ONA

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SAF Chief of Staff receives Pakistani military official Times News Service MUSCAT: Lt-Gen. Ahmed bin Harith Al Nabhani, chief of staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces (SAF) received at his office in Mu’askar, Al Murtafa, Lt-Gen. Najib Ullah Khan, director general of the Joint Staff Command, from Pa-

kistan. Khan is heading a delegation, which is here to participate in the Omani-Pakistani Joint Program Group and is currently visiting the Sultanate. The meeting was also attended by Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Khamis Al Ra’eesi, Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO), Air Com-

modore Makatoum bin Salim Al Mazroui, assistant SAF Chief of Staff for Training and Joint Exercises, Brigadier Suleiman bin Salim Al Daihna, head of Information Technology Services at the COSAF, SAF senior officers and the military attaché of the Pakistani Embassy in Muscat.

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Yemen child prodigy injured in allies-led wedding bombing DUBAI: A child prodigy who once dreamed of leading a Yemeni space programme, 15-year old Abdullah Al Sanabani may now lose his leg and fingers after a suspected Saudi-led air strike on a family wedding killed his relatives and left him badly burned.

Abdullah’s intellect shined a rare bright light on Yemen, where tragedies like his are now routine for a generation struggling for a decent future.

Six months of conflict between a Saudi-led alliance and the Houthi forces in control of the capital, has killed at least 500 children, according to the United Nations. Countless others have been forced to go hungry, flee home for their lives, or join the fight as child soldiers.

The young scientist’s invention of a solar-powered remote control car that could flip over and become a boat won him an international competition in 2012 and a free visit to NASA, the American space agency. Asked if he would stay focused on his studies and advance science in his now war-torn homeland, a tired Abdullah, who is conVIOLENCE

Missiles kill more than 40 in Syria BEIRUT: More than 40 people were killed and about 100 wounded when Syrian government forces fired missiles into a marketplace in a town near Damascus, a conflict monitor and a local rescue group said on Friday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war through a network of sources on the ground, said government forces fired 12 missiles at Douma, 10 miles (15 km) northeast of Damascus.

Douma has suffered intense bombardment in recent months in a wave of strikes the Syrian army has said targets insurgents that have launched attacks on government-held areas.

Syrian Civil Defence, a local humanitarian rescue group that operates in rebel-held areas, posted a picture on its Facebook page of about a dozen bloodied bodies laid on the ground on plastic sheeting.

It said the attack had said used guided missiles.

Death toll A volunteer from the group in the wider area told Reuters the death toll in Douma had risen to at least 47, and that local rescue services were completely stretched.

“We are treating (wounded) only as much as we are able,” he said, asking not to be named for security reasons.

“Everyone in the civil defence in Eastern Ghouta is deployed and totally stretched, and rockets are still hitting residential areas.”

On its twitter feed the Civil Defence linked to a video showing people tending to survivors in a chaotic scene of blackened rubble and fire. — Reuters

CONVALESCING: Abdullah Al Sanabani, 15, lies on a hospital bed in Amman, Jordan. – Reuters

valescing in a Jordanian hospital said, “God willing.”

His uncle Hussam remembers the boy tinkering with gadgets and charging mobile phones with solar panels, but wonders anxiously whether he will be able to enjoy his passion. “He was so into life, into learning, English and computers.

All of his dreams and aspirations could be lost now. His future is now in the hands of fate.”

A success story in the making, Abdullah’s progress halted when a wedding party he attended with extended family was hit by a missile in central Yemen on October 7.

“Three of my wife’s broth-

ers were all having a wedding. At around 9:30 at night when the brides arrived to the house, we heard the sound of the Saudi airplanes attack it with missiles,” the boy’s father, Qais, told Reuters from the burn unit ward in Amman’ King Hussein hospital.

A groom and a bride were killed

along with two of Abdullah’s grandparents, an aunt, two uncles and several young cousins. In all at least 43 people were killed in the attack, including 15 children.

Residents and medics at the scene blamed the explosion on an air strike. A Saudi military spokesman denied this and said it was the work of the Houthis, accusing them of trying to divert attention away from military losses elsewhere. “Around 45 per cent of his body has second and third degree burns. The five fingers on his right hand and his left leg are burnt, and the doctors are deciding whether to keep them or take them off,” Abdullah’s father Qais added.

The incident follows a blast at another wedding party last month which killed 131 people. Again, residents blamed Saudi-led jets, which the coalition denied.

Over 5,400 people have died in ground fighting and air strikes since Arab forces intervened in a civil war there in March to restore the government ousted by the Houthi militia group, which says it’s fighting a revolution.

The contending justifications for the war mean little to its youngest victims, from the half of Yemen’s population that is under 18.

“With every day that passes, children see their hopes and dreams for the future shattered,” UNICEF Representative in Yemen Julien Harneis said this month, noting that the group had confirmed scores of schools and hospitals damaged in combat.

“Their homes, schools and communities are being destroyed, and their own lives are increasingly threatened by disease and malnutrition.”

But rebuilding the country and defying its current disasters will require kids like Abdullah to recover and not lose hope.

“I’m proud. Not just for myself, but for Yemen,” he told a charmed audience at TEDx conference in Yemen after his prize in 2012 wearing a T-shirt that said “NASA: I need my space.”

“Anyway, there are geniuses among the students in Yemen. God willing, we might have something even better than NASA.” — Reuters

US to deploy special forces to Syria in advisory role US officials stressed the forces were not meant to engage in front-line combat but rather to advise and assist moderate rebels

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama plans to deploy a small number of special operations forces to Syria to advise rebels Washington deems moderate, US sources said on Friday.

Obama was expected to send fewer than 60 special operations troops, said congressional sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. One US official said the number was likely to be in the range of 20 to 30 but could not provide details.

US officials stressed the forces were not meant to engage in frontline combat but rather to advise and assist moderate rebels. One official said their key role would be “logistical” to ensure that weapons and other supplies are delivered to the moderate forces whom the United States supports.

The sources said the move, expected to be announced later on Friday, reflected a wider strategy of strengthening moderate rebels in Syria even as Washington in-

TALKS VENUE: Hotel Imperial, the site of international talks on Syria, is pictured in Vienna, Austria,

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tensifies its efforts to find a diplomatic solution to end to the fourand-a-half year Syrian civil war in which at least 200,000 people have died.

The US decision comes after Russia escalated its military role in Syria in September to support Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.

Russia said it would also target the IS militant group, but its planes have hit other rebel groups opposed to Assad, including groups backed by Washington.

The new US strategy to assist in the fight against IS in Syria will

be accompanied by a new special operations force in Erbil in northern Iraq, “intensified” cooperation with Iraqis in retaking Ramadi and expanded security assistance to Jordan and Lebanon, a senior congressional source said. To further counter the militant group, Obama has also authorised deploying A-10s and F-15 aircraft to Incirlik air base in Turkey, a senior administration official said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting at peace talks in Vienna. The talks include the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran,

which support Assad, and nations such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Joshua Landis, director of Center for Middle East studies at University of Oklahoma, said that the US moves were unlikely to fundamentally change the dynamics on the ground in Syria, nor to significantly accelerate diplomacy.

“This is tinkering around the edges and it does up America’s role and it will allow America to go to the Iraqis and go to the Russians and everybody and say we are doing more, but it doesn’t

fundamentally change anything,” Landis said.

“This is more of... what Obama has been doing for five years, which is trying to keep his critics on their heels by doing the minimum amount necessary while at the same time making sure that America does not get sucked into (Syria),” he added, saying he saw little chance of Obama significantly raising the number of US forces in his remaining 15 months in office.

Meanwhile, in Vienna, Iran signalled on Friday it backed a sixmonth transition period in Syria followed by elections to decide Assad’s fate. Iranian officials attended international peace talks on Syria for the first time on Friday in Vienna. “Iran does not insist on keeping Assad in power forever,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian, a member of Tehran’s delegation at the Syria talks on Friday, was quoted by Iranian media as saying.

A senior US official and other delegates said a new round of Syria peace talks could be held as soon as next week.

All previous efforts to find a diplomatic solution to Syria’s civil war have collapsed over the insistence of the United States, European powers, Arab states and Turkey that Assad agree to leave power.

The conference will also be attended by European powers, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

“I am hopeful that we can find a way forward,” US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters shortly before the meeting began on Friday morning. “It is very difficult.” — Reuters

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Iranian-American businessman barred from leaving Iran WASHINGTON: A prominent Iranian-American businessman has been detained by authorities in Iran.

Siamak Namazi was detained by Iranian authorities in mid-October, according to a source briefed on the matter who requested anonymity. He had been travelling in Iran, where his parents live, to visit family and was barred from leaving the country in July, the source

said. The source said Namazi had not been in Iran on business.

Namazi was detained by the intelligence service of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is currently being held in solitary confinement in Evin prison, the source told Reuters.

Namazi had been regularly called in for interrogation between July and the time he was detained, the source also dis-

closed. “We’re aware of recent reports of the possible arrest in Iran of a US citizen,” a senior Obama administration official said.

“We’re looking into these reports and don’t have anything further to provide at this time.”

Namazi lives in Dubai and works as the head of strategic planning for Crescent Petroleum, an oil and gas company in the United Arab Emirates. He previously was chief

executive of Atieh Bahar Consulting, a private marketing and strategic consulting firm in Iran.

Namazi, well known among Iran policy experts, attended university in the United States and the United Kingdom and previously worked at think tanks and institutions in Washington, DC. In 2007, he was chosen as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum.

Namazi’s career has revolved to a great extent around the changing business and diplomatic ties between the United States and Iran.

In 2013, he wrote an editorial in the New York Times criticising US and European sanctions for blocking the import of critical medicines into Iran.

The Wall Street Journal, which earlier reported the news of Namazi’s arrest, said that in recent

weeks Iranian business officials with ties to foreign companies had been held, interrogated and warned against wading into economic monopolies controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.

Friends of Namazi told the Journal that Iranian intelligence agents had ransacked his family home, seized his computer and then conducted cyber attacks on some of his email contacts. — Reuters

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versy with the pride of the state alleging the remark was an affront on the citizens of Bihar particularly backwards, EBCs, Dalits and minorities who are “firmly rooting” for secular alliance.

The prime minister addressed two rallies at Gopalganj and Muzaffarpur before the campaign ended on Friday evening at 5pm.

Polling in the fourth phase will take place on November 1 in the seven districts of Muzaffarpur, Siwan, Sheohar, West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi and Gopalganj where an estimated 1.47 crore electorate are eligible to cast vote

PATNA: A bitter war of words between NDA and JD(U)-RJDCongress alliance rang down the curtains on the campaign for the penultimate phase of polling for 55 seats in Bihar Assembly elections on November 1.

Polling in the fourth phase will take place in the seven districts of Muzaffarpur, Siwan, Sheohar, West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi and Gopalganj where an estimated 1.47 crore electorate are eligible to cast vote in 13,535 polling stations to select their representatives from among 776 candidates in the fray.

Among prominent personalities who are in the fray in the fourth phase are senior ministerial colleagues of chief minister Nitish Kumar — Ramai Ram

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WOOING VOTERS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Hindustani Awam Morcha chief Jitan Ram Manjhi during an election rally, in Muzaffarpur on Friday. - PTI

(Bochaha, SC seat), Ranju Geeta (Bajpatti) and Manoj Kushwaha (Kudni). Considering the results of last Assembly elections in 2010, stakes are high for BJP in the fourth phase of polls.

While BJP had won 26 out of the total 55 seats of this phase in 2010, JD(U) had emerged victorious in 24, Rashtriya Janata Dal 2 and Independents 3.

RJD led by Lalu Prasad has fielded its candidates from a maximum 26 constituencies this time followed by JD(U) 21 and Congress 8. From National Democratic Alliance, BJP has fielded its nominees in 42 seats, LJP of Ram-

vilas Paswan in 5 and Hindustani Awam Morcha and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) 4 each.

With India-African summit keeping Prime Minister Narendra Modi away from a major part of electioneering for the fourth phase, the onus fell on BJP President Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Boiling pot Shah, who addressed half a dozen rallies on an average in the past three days, added to the already boiling political pot with his remark at an election rally at Raxaul in East Champaran on Thursday

that if BJP loses in Bihar, Diwali will be celebrated in Pakistan.

BJP president had appealed to the people to ensure BJP’s victory “so that disappointment descends in Pakistan”.

The remark evoked strong reaction from rivals who termed it as an “attempt to communalise the elections” and the grand secular alliance delegation moving the Election Commission against the “attempt to communalise” polling in fourth and fifth phases of elections in constituencies which have a sizable Muslim population.

Lalu Prasad slammed his BJP counterpart linking the contro-

‘Sinister plan’ Continuing with his earlier attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, the PM again alluded to “sinister plan” of Nitish and Lalu to carve out 5 per cent quota from OBC, SC and ST to give to a particular community.

Besides, regular counter-offensive from Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad to NDA leaders, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi came to Bihar for a day’s campaign in the fourth round and attacked the PM. While campaigning for this phase, the prime minister and his rivals fired salvos at each other, taking a cue from Bollywood films.

Reacting to Nitish Kumar parodying a poem against him on the lines of a song of from Amir Khan-starrer movie “3 Idiots”, Modi took a potshots at the CM for choosing the song as three parties JD(U), RJD and Congress had joined hand to form an anti-BJP grouping.

Rahul Gandhi and other grand secular alliance leaders poked fun at the PM and linked him with the character of”virus” in the mega blockbuster.

Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharti and cinestar and BJP Member of Parliament from Mathura Hema Malini campaigned for NDA candidates. Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn also extended his helping hand to BJP candidates in some constituencies. - PTI

Chandrabhan Sanap

MUMBAI: A special court here on Friday awarded death sentence to driver Chandrabhan Sanap for raping and murdering a 23-yearold software engineer from Andhra Pradesh in the city last year, saying the crime evoked the same reaction as the 2012 Delhi gangrape case and damaged Mumbai’s image as a safe city for women.

“The case falls under the category of the rarest of rare, hence the accused is awarded death sentence,” said judge Vrushali Joshi of special women’s court.

There were no mitigating circumstances in favour of Sanap (29), she said, adding “only the maximum punishment will send the message to the society and also to the similar like-minded persons”.

“To show any leniency... in the case of such a heinous crime to someone who has shown no remorse after exhibiting extreme depraved mentality would be a travesty of justice. Because of this case security of women is again found (to be) in danger.

“The girl, who was an engineer working in TCS, staying independently, alighted at LTT railway station, went missing and her body was found in such a horrifying condition to her parents,” the judge noted. - PTI

R E F U S E D T O I D E N T I F Y FA M I LY

Doctors submit Geeta’s DNA report to foreign ministry NEW DELHI: The report of the DNA tests carried out to determine the parentage of 23-year-old Geeta, the deaf and mute girl who returned from Pakistan after being separated from her family over a decade ago, has been submitted to the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Ministry had asked AIIMS to collect samples for DNA tests to confirm if Janardhan Mahato, who claims that Geeta is his first born Heera, is indeed her father.

“The DNA tests were carried out at the AIIMS Forensic lab, the

report of which was submitted to MEA on Thursday evening,” a senior doctor at AIIMS said.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) authorities, however, refused to divulge details about the report. When contacted, the MEA spokesperson said he did not know what was in the report.

Geeta, who returned from Pakistan after a gap of 15 years, had refused to recognise the Mahato couple from Bihar whom she had identified as her family through photographs when she was in Ka-

rachi. She is currently staying at an institution in Indore for hearingimpaired people.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had stated that Geeta had refused to identify the Mahatos as her family.

“If the DNA samples does not match with the samples of the Mahato couple, then government will start afresh the process to find her parents,” she had said.

Geeta, now 23, was reportedly just 7 or 8 years old when she was found sitting alone on the Sam-

jhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers 15 years ago at the Lahore railway station.

She was adopted by the Edhi Foundation’s Bilquis Edhi and lived with her in Karachi.

Bilquis and her grandchildren, Saba and Saad Edhi, accompanied Geeta here.

Her story came to light after the release of Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan in which the hero unites a girl separated from her Pakistani mother who was visiting India. -PTI

C H H O TA R A JA N

Fugitive don’s deportation process begins BALI/MUMBAI: The process for deportation of underworld don Chhota Rajan has begun even as India and Indonesia are to expedite the work on implementation of an extradition treaty.

India’s Ambassador to Indonesia Gurjit Singh said an extradition treaty and a treaty for mutual legal assistance have already been concluded and letters for their implementation would be exchanged during the visit of Vice President Hamid Ansari beginning on Sunday.

Singh said the process relating to the two treaties is “coincidental” to the visit of the Vice President and not being hurried up.

The ambassador said the process of Rajan’s deportation to India has begun but there is no deadline for it and termed as “speculative and hypothetical” reports that Rajan had surrendered to the Indonesian authorities.

The India-Indonesia extradition treaty was signed in 2011 but has not been implemented yet.

Lawyer Fransico Prassar, who has been hired by Rajan, met him at the detention centre where he is lodged but he refused to make any comment on his client, one of India’s most wanted criminals.

“I have met him and discussed about the case. Beyond that I have no comment to offer now,” Prassar told reporters. In New Delhi, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the Ministries of External Affairs and Home were working together to bring back Rajan from Indonesia

LONG ARM OF LAW: Indian fugitive Chhota Rajan, centre, is escorted by plain-clothed police officers for questioning in Bali, Indonesia, on Thursday. - PTI

“as early as possible”.

The 55-year-old Rajan, whose original name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje, was questioned by the Indonesian police for six hours on Friday about his identity and criminal acts in India.

Bali Police Commissioner Reinhard Nainggolan said Rajan has been allowed to communicate to the Indian mission in Bali besides allowing a meeting with a lawyer.

Rajan, who is wanted in over 75 heinous crimes ranging from murder, extortion to smuggling and drug trafficking, was questioned both in English as well as in Hindi through a translator.

An Indonesian police spokesperson said that they have submitted a report to the Indian con-

sulate in Bali as well as Interpol about Rajan’s arrest and identity.

Asked about the reports of threat to Rajan’s life, the spokesperson said since Rajan got a lawyer, the spokesperson can talk to him and through him can lodge a complaint.

He said Rajan has been cooperating with the police so far and has accepted that his real name is Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje.

Mumbai-born Rajan, once a close confidante-turned-rival of underworld ganglord Dawood Ibrahim, on Thursday said that he was not afraid of Dawood, the prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

Rajan was arrested in this popular Indonesian tourist des-

tination on a Red Corner Notice issued by Interpol after eluding law enforcement agencies for over two decades. The sources are tight-lipped about the exact arrangements to bring him back because of security concerns arising out of his fierce rivalry with Dawood and his gang.

They said agencies are working on more than one plan to bring back Rajan factoring various permutations and combinations.

Rajan was travelling with the identity of Mohan Kumar with passport number G9273860 when he was apprehended at the airport here, after arriving there on a Garuda Indonesia flight GA715, by the Indonesian Police on a tip off from Australian authorities, they said.

Faces threat Meanwhile, Mumbai Crime Branch team which would be visiting Indonesia to bring back arrested gangster Chhota Rajan faces threat there and local authorities have been requested to ensure safety of its members.

A senior officer privy to the development said on Friday, “We have received some inputs that the team which would go to Indonesia to bring back Chhota Rajan also faces threat perception (like the gangster) and we are taking extra vigil in this matter.”

“We have shared our concerns with the host country and urged them to ensure safe and smooth passage while departing from there,” he said. - PTI

ELATED: Geeta, a deaf and mute Indian woman who accidentally

crossed over to Pakistan more than a decade ago, talking to media in Indore on Wednesday. - PTI

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Politics behind state award return protests, says Sangh “The RSS is not a punching bag for any of these so-called liberal, pseudo-secular, intolerant people,” RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told reporters in Patna.

A statement by a group of 250 academics expressed ‘shock’ at Modi’s ‘late response’ to the incidents of intolerance

RANCHI/NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS ) on Friday waded into the escalating row over return of awards by intellectuals calling it a “politically motivated” action by “frustrated pseudo-secularists” who were using the Sangh as a ‘punching bag’ even as another group of academics joined the protests.

As the RSS hit back at a “handful” of people returning awards as part of spiralling protests against the Modi government over the “climate of intolerance”, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took a dim view of this

HITS BACK: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, left, with General Secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi during the inauguration ceremony of All India Executive Body meeting at Sarla Birla Ground, in Ranchi on Friday. -PTI

trend and urged them to help the government with “constructive criticism”.

Echoing Fadnavis’ view, Mumbai-born music maestro Zubin Mehta said he failed to understand why artists, writers filmmakers and scientists were returning their state awards and suggested those protesting against the government should engage in a dialogue with it.

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury demanded that the Modi government listen to what the “eminent minds” have to say.

A statement by a group of 250 academics including professors from leading institutions like Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Madras Institute of Development Studies, IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta, expressed “shock” at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “late response” to the incidents of intolerance.

“We as social scientists, scholars, teachers and concerned citizens, feel extremely concerned about the lynching at Dadri, and the murders of scholars and thinkers like M. M. Kalburgi, Nar-

If artists keep returning their awards, nobody will be able to save this country Devendra Fadnavis Maharashtra Chief Minister

endra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and others and wish to register our strong protest,” it said.

The Sangh questioned why the protesting public intellectuals did not speak up in the past when the Godhra train burning incident occurred or when Kashmiri Pandits were targeted in the Valley.

“A handful of people returning awards are losing ground... It is indeed a political, desperate, frustrated act of these people to keep their shop running...They feel they can make RSS the punching bag in the name of intolerance.

Conspiracy It accused them of political conspiracy to create an atmosphere that religious intolerance had increased after the formation of BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, and added “the reality is just the opposite”.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader said the so-called intelligentsia are finding themselves misfit and are desperately trying to be in the news through such “politically motivated acts”.

Stressing that RSS had always condemned such incidents, Hosabale said the developments show “intolerance” on the part of the handful of people who linked such incidents to BJP and RSS. Fadnavis said that whenever there are (such) incidents in Congress or Communist ruled governments, artists never spoke of returning their awards but do so when it is Modi’s rule.

“If artists keep returning their awards, nobody will be able to save this country,” he said. - PTI

INCOME SECURITY

Now, NRIs can subscribe to pension system MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India, the apex bank in the country, has decided to allow non-resident Indians (NRIs) to subscribe to the National Pension System (NPS).

The move is part of plans to enable Indians living abroad to access old age income security, RBI sources here said.

“It has now been decided, in consultation with the Government, to enable National Pension System (NPS) as an investment option for NRIs under FEMA, 1999,” RBI said in a notification here the other day. NRIs may subscribe to the NPS governed and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), provided such subscriptions are made through normal banking channels and the person is eligible to invest as per the provisions of the PFRDA Act, it said.

The subscription amounts shall be paid by the NRIs either by inward remittance through normal banking channels or out of funds held in their NRE/FCNR/NRO account.

The RBI, however, said there will be no restriction on repatriation of the annuity/ accumulated savings. NPS was launched on January 1, 2004 with the objective of providing retirement income to all the citizens. - PTI

MOODY’S REPORT

‘Credibility at risk due to statements of ruling party men’ NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of controversies like on beef, Moody’s Analytics on Friday cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country may lose domestic and global credibility if he doesn’t rein in the members of his party.

In a report titled ‘India Outlook: Searching for Potential’, Moody’s Analytics said for the country to reach its growth potential it has to deliver the promised reforms.

“Undoubtedly, numerous political outcomes will dictate the extent of success,” it said.

The ruling BJP does not have a majority in the Rajya Sabha and crucial reforms bills has been met with an obstructionist opposition.

“But in recent times, the government also hasn’t helped itself, with controversial comments from various BJP members.

While Modi has largely distanced himself from the nationalist gibes, the belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions.

“Along with a possible increase in violence, the government will face stiffer opposition in the upper house as debate turns away from economic policy. Modi must keep his members in check or risk losing domestic and global credibility,” Moody’s said.

It projected that India’s GDP growth for September quarter at 7.3 per cent, while for the full fiscal it would be 7.6 per cent.

“Key economic reforms could deliver greater potential GDP, as they would improve India’s productive capacity. These include the land acquisition bill, a national goods and service tax, and revamped labour laws.

“They are unlikely to pass through Parliament in 2015, but there is an even chance of success in 2016,” Moody’s said.

As regards interest rates, it said low rates will buttress the economy in the short-term but reforms are needed to reach long-term po-

Along with a possible increase in violence, the government will face stiffer opposition in the upper house as debate turns away from economic policy.

Modi must keep his members in check or risk losing domestic and global credibility, Moody’s Analytics tential growth. The Reserve Bank kick-started the recovery by cutting the repo rate by 1.25 percent this year. It said positive signs are emerging with the State Bank of India, the nation’s largest bank, cut its base lending rate earlier this month.

“Capacity utilisation has been low across industries this year.

The capital expenditure pipeline is running dry. However, interest rate cuts should encourage investment, as will the softer inflation profile,” it added.

Moody’s Analytics, the research and analysis arm of Moody’s Corporation, projected the RBI to keep rates on hold for the remainder of 2015, with a small chance of another cut early next year. - PTI

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PAKISTAN CELEBRITY DIVORCE

Imran, Reham file for divorce ending whirlwind romance ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and his wife, Reham Khan, have filed for divorce, they said on Friday, ending a whirlwind romance that captivated international tabloids and Pakistani voters.

Imran Khan, who captained the Pakistan team when it won the Cricket World Cup in 1992, tied the knot with the former BBC journalist in a low-key ceremony in January.

“We have decided to part ways and file for divorce,” Reham Khan said on Twitter.

Imran later took to Twitter to express his “greatest respect for Reham’s moral character and her passion to work for and help the underprivileged”.

“This is a painful time for me and Reham and our families. I would request everyone to respect our privacy,” he said.

The little known journalist endured criticism on social media from Pakistanis after her marriage to Khan became public and pictures and videos surfaced of her on-screen in Western outfits.

His party became the country’s third largest in a 2013 election after he advocated talks with Pakistani Taliban insurgents and criticised the United States for drone strikes in militant areas.

Khan’s party spokesman, Naeemul Haque, said in a television interview the divorce had been finalised with the consent of both parties.

Rumours of the end of the marriage first circulated in August when Reham was campaigning to support a candidate from her husband’s party in a by-election.

The candidate lost the vote and later Imran announced that his wife would not have a political career with his party.

Khan’s previous marriage to British socialite Jemima Khan, the daughter of the financier James Goldsmith, ended in 2004. — Reuters

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Militant group Jamatud Dawa helps quake-hit Pakistani Information Minister Pervez Rashid recently told media that banned groups would not be allowed to provide aid

REHANKOT: United Nations says Pakistani charity Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) is a front for a deadly militant group blamed for a bloody 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai. But to survivors of this week’s earthquake, the aid workers are heroes.

About 2,000 Jamaatud Dawa volunteers fanned out across northern Pakistan after Monday’s quake, highlighting the organisation’s well-oiled disaster response and ability to work alongside the military.

JuD’s freedom to operate despite US and UN sanctions contrasts sharply with an intensifying crackdown on international aid groups. It also spotlights Pakistan’s continuing reluctance to reign in anti-India militants.

This week, Pakistani Information Minister Pervez Rashid told

DISASTER RESPONSE: Volunteers distribute free medicine to people affected by the earthquake at a medical camp set up by the Jamaatud Dawa organisation in the Rehankot village in district Upper Dir, Pakistan, on Wednesday. — Reuters

media that banned groups would not be allowed to provide aid.

But 50-year-old herbal healer Najib Alam, whose mud-andstone house was damaged by the 7.5 magnitude quake, says the JuD are the only charity in his mountain village of Rehankot in the Upper Dir region.

“JuD are the only people here,” Alam said, the floor of his wrecked home trembling as he pointed out missing chunks of wall.

The village’s winding alleys were littered with rubble; atop one pile lay the remains of a Ko-

ranic inscription from the wall of a mosque. “Maybe those who preach humanitarianism like the US should come here and help us,” Alam said.

Sanctioned The United Nations and United States say they sanctioned JuD and its sister organisation, the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, because they exploit disasters to raise volunteers and funds for militants.

They say JuD is a front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba group. — Reuters

JOINT TRAINING EXERCISE

‘Any threat to Saudi Arabia will evoke strong response’ ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif reiterated on Friday that any threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Saudi Arabia will evoke a strong response from Pakistan.

“Pakistan and Saudi Arabia enjoy strong and brotherly relations which have a long history of deep rooted cooperation,” the army was quoted as saying in a statement by the military’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).

General Raheel’s comments came during his visit to the Na-

tional Counter Terrorism Centre, Pabbi near Jhelum, where he witnessed the culmination of “Pak(istan)-Saudi Joint Training Exercise Al Shibab”.

Special forces “Al Shihab focused on counter terrorism training of the special operation forces of Pakistan and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which included cordon and search operations, airdropping and heli lifting of special forces for operations against terrorist’s acts and their hideouts,” the press release said.

Further, the army chief lauded the dedication, motivation and professionalism of the troops who participated in the joint military drills.

“This exercise signifies the joint effort of our two nations against terrorism and we will defeat this menace in all its forms and manifestation,” he added.

Meanwhile, a six-member high-level delegation of the Saudi military, headed by General Mufleh bin Saleem Al Otaibi, commander special forces of Saudi Arabia, was also present on the occasion. — Express Tribune

PARTING OF WAYS: In this handout photograph released by the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) party on January 8, 2015, Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan, left, and new wife Reham Khan pose for a photograph during their wedding ceremony at his house in Islamabad. — AFP/PAKISTAN TEHREEK INSAF

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an Imran Khan’s charisma survive the cacophony that has almost exclusively centered around the 2013 general election results? Or will the goodwill for his mission i.e., ensuring transparent elections, rule of law, meritocracy and good governance fade under his seemingly arrogant, self-righteous confrontationist approach?

Regardless of the outcomes of the recent by-elections in Punjab, the Pakistan Tehreeki-Insaf’s (PTI) Pakistan-origin supporters and sympathisers abroad have begun asking the aforementioned questions.

In numerous conversations in the Americas, Europe and Japan, between July and now with these Pakistanis, one could discern their frustration with Khan’s post-dharna ranting — as if they see him squandering the chance to change Pakistan.

Why this visible craving for a better Pakistan? Because the societies these expatriates live in are primarily defined by the secular model of governance comprising fundamental ingredients of equal citizenry, the rule of law and merit. This governance regime, which largely treats every citizen indiscriminately — regardless of caste, creed, colour or social status — naturally evokes a strong desire of change back home. And beyond doubt, Imran Khan’s PTI has for some time served as that beacon of hope for a better Pakistan.

But the fascination with Khan’s ‘revolutionary’ agenda is in many cases now giving way to a sense of despondency because of the PTI chairman’s hitherto fixation on the ‘2013 electoral fraud’. “How can a few favourable results turn the fate of Pakistan?” asked a wealthy car dealer in Tokyo.

“Will Khan ever move away from his rhetoric on elections and political rivals?” asked another Pakistani settled in Geneva. Both have been quietly funding the party, probably fired by a passion to see a different Pakistan.

Surprisingly, in a recent conversation in Istanbul, a few followers of Turkey’s mercurial leader Fethullah Gulen also wondered as to whether Khan has the ability to focus on real issues. Gulen, currently in self-exile in the US, inspires a huge number of middle and upper class Turkish academia, businessmen, industrialists — all of them seen as liberal and moderate Muslims committed to secular governance. Gulen also emphasises the importance of the rule of law and modern education for all Muslims.

Gulen fell out with President Erdogan’s AKP for ideological reasons.

The PTI is also anchored in the same ideals and that is why Gulen’s followers in particular tend to draw parallels between Khan and Gulen; both are using resources inside and outside the country i.e., the media, financial institutions, business organisations and a receptive youth to set the socio-political agenda in present-day Turkey.

Disillusioned PTI supporters and sympathisers abroad legitimately wonder as to whether Khan will move on and build on some of the institutional work his party has undertaken in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). The PTI, as its record suggests, has indeed delivered on some of the promises, such as on local government elections, on legislation like the Right to Information Act, the Right to Public Services, the K-P Conflict of Interest law, K-P’s Ehtesab Commission, ensuring operational autonomy to the police, new duty management mechanisms for government employees including public school and college teachers and paramedics, and initiatives to regulate public health institutions and make doctors more accountable.

Pakistanis abroad are also questioning as to why, instead of always protesting, the PTI MPs don’t influence the work being done by parliamentary committees relating to the rule of law, justice and other governance issues. During a discussion on deradicalisation, a Japanese professor asked whether the K-P government had taken initiatives in this regard. He raised the question as we discussed how badly the north-western territories (K-P and Fata) have been affected by the radicalisation of minds.

He went into a speechless pause when told that neither the provincial nor the federal governments had undertaken any real counter-radicalisation or deradicalisation measures. Only the military, pointed out another Japanese professor familiar with Pakistan and Afghanistan, is running such programmes.

Why can’t the PTI take the lead in launching counter-radicalisation and de-radicalisation programmes, they asked. Unfortunately, the party’s singular focus on ‘electoral wrongdoings’ and its constant state of bereavement over the ‘cunningness of the status quo’ is gradually eroding the goodwill it has enjoyed thus far. Without a re-set of priorities, the diaspora’s confidence in the PTI will sag. Working through parliament to reform the status quo must constitute the core of the re-set. No shortcuts please. Time to move on Khan. - Express Tribune

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American action in South China Sea totally provocative

This refers to the online story, Minor incident likely to spark war in South China Sea, says Beijing’s naval chief (October 30). The recent incident in which an American warship sailed by the Chinese islands was totally provocative.

The claims on islands need to be resolved diplomatically. For that either the United Nations is the right forum or a summit of the countries involved in the dispute. The so called Asia pivot of the US is basically a move to destabilise a prosperous region, which is set to replace the West in terms of economic development.

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INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY in Oman, as of the end of June, 2015

OCTOBER 2000

(Million rials) Electricity & water supply

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196.3

Construction

741.2

Manufacturing of basic chemicals

600.0

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1968: The bombing of North Vietnam is halted by the United States.

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Other manufacturing industries

Total

2,262.8

656.7

Mining & quarrying

68.6

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Maldives boat blast Indonesia revising slash-and-burn laws suspects deported KUALA LUMPUR: Five Maldives residents, including a suspect police believe was involved in the attempted assassination of President Abdulla Yameen last month, were deported from Malaysia on Friday, police said.

The suspect worked as the country’s investment ambassador. The five were arrested on September 28, the day of a speedboat explosion targeting Yameen, the statement said without naming them.

The 47-year-old investment counsellor was nabbed by a team of Malaysian Special Branch’s Counter-Terrorism Division operatives at a condominium on

Thursday. Four other Maldivians, two men and two women, were also apprehended there. Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adheeb was arrested on Saturday in connection with the explosion.

Yameen has been criticised for a crackdown on political dissent, including the arrest of Maldives’ first elected president, Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years’ jail on terrorism charges. Yameen, 59, was unhurt in the blast as his presidential boat approached Male while he was returning from Saudi Arabia after the Haj pilgrimage, but his wife and two aides were injured. — Reuters

JAKARTA: Indonesia is reviewing laws that allow farmers to burn up to two hectares (five acres), forestry officials said, the latest in so-far unsuccessful efforts to halt fires that have sent choking smoke across much of Southeast Asia.

Indonesia is also considering declaring a national emergency over the fires, which this week caused President Joko Widodo to cut short an official trip to the United States and pushed the country’s greenhouse gas emissions above the daily average from all economic activity in the US. A 2009 law allows smallholder farmers to use slash-and-burn practices to clear land for agricultural purposes, and has been cited

by green groups and plantation firms as a key cause of the annual fires when the burning gets out of control.

“The problem is that some people take advantage of this exception,” Indonesia’s environment and forestry minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, told reporters when asked about the law.

Regulation “In our last cabinet meeting, the president assigned us to review a regulation that allows land burning for two hectares.”

Revising the law may need parliamentary support which could delay changes until 2016, said Bakar, adding that the government was therefore considering

China couples shrug off two-child policy Chinese Communist Party’s move has been met with a disinterested shrug from many younger Chinese couples

SHANGHAI/ZHUHAI: China has unwound its one-child policy, for decades a symbol of invasive and coercive government planning, but the shift has been met with a disinterested shrug from many younger couples.

“People are thinking: Why increase our burden by having another baby?” said Wu Tingting, a young mother pushing her oneyear-old daughter in a stroller in the southern city of Zhuhai on Friday. The ruling Communist Party announced on Thursday that all families in China will be eligible to have a second child, its biggest social policy shift in three decades, in a move to ease the burden of a fast-ageing society at a time of slowing economic growth.

About 90 million families may qualify for the new two-child policy, which would help raise the population to an estimated 1.45 billion by 2030, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in an online statement. China, the world’s most populous nation, had 1.37 billion people at the end of last year.

For decades, China harshly implemented the one-child policy, leading to forced abortions and infanticides across the country. In recent years, however, the policy has been relaxed, and some couples are allowed to have a second child. Others are permitted a second child if they pay a fine. Wu,

NOT INTERESTED: Zhao Xingqiu poses with her husband and baby in front a baby products shop in Beijing on Friday, 2015. Zhao Xingqiu, 27, an office worker, said she does not plan to have a second child. – Reuters

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the young woman in Zhuhai, said prior to the policy change, she would have been fined 200,000 yuan (about $31,500) if she had a second child. The fine will now be removed, but she remains ambivalent about another child. “(People) will think about giving more to their existing child... and maybe spend more on education and travel, see more of the world,” she said.

“The economy is now more uncertain, so that’s another thing we have to carefully consider.”

Beijing loosened the family planning policy in late 2013, allowing couples to have a second child where one partner was an only child, but as of June, only 1.5 million of the 11 million eligible couples applied to expand their family, the official Xinhua news agency reported. “The cost needed to raise

a kid is too high (in the cities),” said a man named Chen, who was visiting Hong Kong from the Chinese port city of Xiamen along with his wife and three-year-old daughter.

“Parents in the rural areas may not care, but for me I want to take very good care of my child. You need to pay for their education fees and later university, and if it’s a boy you need to buy him a home, if it’s a girl you need to buy her dowry.” Some couples however were enthusiastic about the latest relaxation.

Frank Zhang, a government official, said he and his wife have longed for a second child for their two-year-old son to grow up with, but his job made it all but impossible to circumvent China’s official policy. He even considered quitting to enter the private sector, where violations of family planning rules are more common and no longer carry much stigma. Now he won’t have to. “This is great news for me,” Zhang said. The socalled “one-child policy” was introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiralling

out of control, but is now regarded as outdated and responsible for shrinking China’s labour pool.

It has also led to the ageing of China’s society, a phenomenon usually restricted to industrialised nations. For the first time in decades, the working age population fell in 2012, and China could be the first country in the world to get old before it gets rich. By around the middle of this century, one in every three Chinese is forecast to be over 60, with a shrinking proportion of working adults to support them.

Even if there is a mini baby boom as a result of the policy shift, it will be nearly two decades before the children enter the workforce.

One potential upshot of the policy change, according to some experts, is that it could help correct the male-female gender imbalance in China, where like most Asian nations, there is a bias for sons. There are 115 boys born for every 100 girls in China compared with 105 boys per every 100 girls in the UK, according to CIA data. — Reuters

an emergency regulation. Forestry experts say the best way to clear forested areas is by tractors, chain-saws or hand tools. These methods are more expensive and time-consuming than fires. The haze has caused pollution levels across the region to spike to unhealthy levels, and forced school closures and flight cancellations.

Warships are on standby to evacuate infants and other vulnerable residents of haze-hit areas, while other countries have been asked for help to tackle the fires. The fires, often deliberately set by plantation companies and smallholders, have been burning for weeks in the forests and carbon-rich peat lands of Sumatra and Kalimantan islands.

“We support our government’s initiative to revise the provisional laws that allow small-holder farmers to clear up to two hectares of forested land by burning,” said Aida Greenbury, managing director of sustainability at Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). “But a multistakeholder initiative to support the local farmer and community must be initiated in parallel.

“The key here is to assist the farmers and the community in developing their land responsibly without burning.”

Indonesia usually enters its wet season in October and November, and despite the El Nino dry conditions, rain has been reported in parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan this week. — Reuters

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Extraditing Polanski would lead to him being held in harsh conditions for weeks or months in the United States while his case was being processed Judge Dariusz Mazur, District court, Krakow, Poland

22 migrants drown as boat capsizes off Aegean islands handling of the crisis, says Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

PA S S AG E O F L E G I S L AT I O N

Obama wins US debt-limit WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama early on Friday won congressional passage of legislation that lifted the threat of a default on government debt through the end of his presidency and a budget blueprint easing strict spending caps through September 2017.

The Senate voted 64-35 to approve the measure, which was negotiated over the past few weeks by the White House and congressional leaders, including former House Speaker John Boehner, who retired from Congress. Obama will sign the bill into law as soon as he receives it, the White House said in a statement. Without action by Congress, the Treasury Department would have exhausted the last of its borrowing capacity on November 3, according to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, and risked default on US obligations within days that would roil global financial markets.

The two-year budget provision provides new top-line spending levels for Congress for the fiscal year that began October 1 and the one starting October 1, 2016.

It loosens budget caps, allowing an additional $80 billion in spending on military and domestic programs over the two years. — Reuters

Court rejects US request to extradite Polanski KRAKOW (POLAND): A Polish court on Friday rejected a US request to extradite film-maker Roman Polanski over a 1977 conviction, saying his extradition was “inadmissible”.

The decision is not legally binding, as prosecutors can now appeal the ruling. Should the court make a legally binding decision to grant the US request, it will be up to the justice minister to decide on the fate of the 82-year-old Polanski. “(Roman Polanski’s) extradition is inadmissible” said Judge Dariusz Mazur at the district court in the southern city of Krakow.

Extraditing Polanski would lead to him being held in harsh conditions for weeks or months in the United States while his case was being processed, Mazur said. The Oscar-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 in Los Angeles.

Shamed by Europe’s

ATHENS: Greece rescued 138 refugees and recovered the bodies of 19 after their boat capsized off the island of Kalymnos, the coastguard said on Friday, in the second major deadly incident this week.

Meanwhile, Greece’s prime minister said on Friday he was ashamed to be a member of a European Union he said was passing the buck over the migrant crisis and crying hypocritical tears for the children who have drowned trying to reach the bloc.

The death toll from drownings at sea has mounted recently as weather in the Aegean has taken a turn for the worse, turning wind-whipped sea corridors into deadly passages for thousands of refugees crossing from Turkey to Greece. In a second incident off the island of Rhodes, three people, including a child and an infant, drowned and three were missing.

Six people were rescued at sea, the coastguard said.

Some 16 people were confirmed dead and 274 people were rescued when a wooden boat they were on literally fell apart in rough seas off the Greek island of Lesbos late on Wednesday.

Greece has been a transit point for more than 500,000 refugees and migrants fleeing conflict in the Middle East and beyond this

POLAND

RESCUED: Migrants react as their boat sinks off the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on Friday. – AFP

year, triggering bickering among European nations at odds on how to deal with one of the biggest humanitarian crises in decades.

Refugees have reported smugglers offering ‘discounts’ of up to 50 per cent on tickets costing between 1,100 to 1,400 euros to make the journey on inflatable rafts in bad weather, UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday.

Perceptibly sturdier wooden

boats cost more, at between 1,800 and 2,500 euros per passenger.

In some of the hardest-hitting comments yet on a crisis resonating throughout Europe, Alexis Tsipras told parliament Greece didn’t want a “single euro” for saving lives as thousands of refugees continued to arrive daily on its shores, and the EU remained at odds on how to deal with the influx.

“I feel shamed as a member of

this European leadership, both for the inability of Europe in dealing with this human drama, and for the level of debate at a senior level, where one is passing the buck to the other,” Tsipras told parliament.

“These are hypocritical, crocodile tears which are being shed for the dead children on the shores of the Aegean. Dead children always incite sorrow, But what about the

children that are alive who come in thousands and are stacked on the streets? Nobody likes them.”

Tsipras was speaking during prime ministers’ question time.

He was asked to explain Greece’s agreement to temporarily host up to 50,000 refugees pending their relocation to other countries. The agreement was brokered at a meeting of several European nations last Sunday in Brussels. — Reuters

Time in jail Polanski served 42 days in jail after a plea bargain. He fled the United States the following year to Britain and then to France, believing the judge hearing his case could overrule the deal and put him in jail for years. In 2009, he was arrested in Zurich on a US warrant and placed under house arrest. He was freed in 2010 after Swiss authorities decided not to extradite him. The United States requested Polanski’s extradition from Poland after he made a highprofile appearance in Warsaw in 2014. The filmmaker, who has Polish and French nationality, lives in Paris but he also has an apartment in Krakow, southern Poland.

Since fleeing the United States, Polanski won an Oscar for best director for The Pianist. He was in Poland for the shooting of a new film on the Dreyfus affair based on a novel by Robert Harris. — Reuters

DISPUTED ISLANDS

‘Minor incident will spark war in South China Sea’ BEIJING/WASHINGTON: China’s naval commander told his US counterpart that a minor incident could spark war in the South China Sea if the United States did not stop its “provocative acts” in the disputed waterway, the Chinese navy said on Friday.

Admiral Wu Shengli made the comments to US chief of naval operations Admiral John Richardson during a video teleconference on Thursday, according to a Chinese naval statement.

The two officers held talks after a US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of one of Beijing’s man-made islands in the contested Spratly archipelago on Tuesday. China has rebuked Washington over the patrol, the most significant US challenge yet to territorial limits China effectively claims around its seven artificial islands in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.

“If the United States continues with these kinds of dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks war,” the statement paraphrased Wu as saying. “(I) hope the US side cherishes

BONE OF CONTENTION: USS Lassen (DDG 82) (R) transits in formation with ROKS Sokcho (PCC 778) during exercise Foal Eagle 2015, in waters east of the Korean Peninsula, in this March 12, 2015 file handout photo provided by the US Navy. – Reuters/US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin Wright/Handout

the good situation between the Chinese and US navies that has not come easily and avoids these kinds of incidents from happening again,” Wu said.

Speaking earlier, a US official said the naval chiefs agreed to maintain dialogue and follow protocols to avoid clashes.

Scheduled port visits by US and Chinese ships and planned visits to China by senior US Navy officers remained on track, the official said. “None of that is in jeopardy.

Nothing has been cancelled,” said the official.

Both officers agreed on the need to stick to protocols established under the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES).

“They agreed that it’s very important that both sides continue to use the protocols under the CUES agreement when they’re operating close to keep the chances for misunderstanding and any kind of provocation from occurring,” the US official said. Indeed, Wu said he

believed the Chinese and US navies had plenty of scope for cooperation and should both “play a positive role in maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea”.

A US Navy spokesman stressed Washington’s position that US freedom of navigation operations were meant to “protect the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea and airspace guaranteed to all nations under international law”.

Chinese warships followed the USS Lassen, a guided-missile destroyer, as it moved through the Spratlys on Tuesday. The US Navy is operating in a maritime domain bristling with Chinese ships.

While the US Navy is expected to keep its technological edge in Asia for decades, China’s potential trump card is sheer weight of numbers, with dozens of naval and coastguard vessels routinely deployed in the South China Sea, security experts say.

China has overlapping claims with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.

Next week, Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Vietnam and Singapore, while Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan will at-

tend a meeting of Southeast Asian defence ministers in Malaysia that US Defence Secretary Ash Carter is also due to attend.

Separately, China suffered a legal setback on Thursday when an arbitration court in the Netherlands ruled it had jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines has filed against Beijing over the South China Sea. The court said additional hearings would be held to decide the merits of the Philippines’ arguments. China has not participated in the proceedings and does not recognise the court’s authority in the case.

Manila filed the case in 2013 to seek a ruling on its right to exploit the South China Sea waters in its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as allowed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China, facing international legal scrutiny for the first time over its assertiveness in the South China Sea, would neither participate in nor accept the case at the arbitration court, Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said on Friday.

Liu told reporters the case would not affect China’s sovereign claims in the seas. — Reuters

R I S I N G T E M P E R AT U R E S

150 nations submit plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions

GLOBAL WARMING: An Adelie penguin stands atop a block of melting ice near the French station at Dumont d’Urville in East Antarctica in this January 23, 2010 file photo. – Reuters Files

OSLO/LONDON: Plans by about 150 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century but they need to do more to limit rising global temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the United Nations said on Friday.

Scientists say warming must be kept below 2 degrees by the end of the century to stave off the worst effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and rising sea levels. National strategies would restrict a rise in world emissions to the equivalent of 56.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2030, four billion less than expected without the extra action, from 49.0 billion in 2010, it said.

“It is a very good step... but it is not enough,” UN Climate Change Secretariat Christiana Figures said during a presentation of the

report in Bonn. The plans, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), will be the building blocks for a UN deal expected at a summit set for Paris from November 30 to December 11 to fight global warming in the years from 2020.

Figueres’ Secretariat did not formally project a likely temperature rise by 2100, because most INDCs only stretch to 2030 but she said indications from independent analysis showed the pledged reductions would limit temperatures rises at 2.7 degrees.

Almost 200 governments agreed in 2010 to limit warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial times, meaning Paris will have to agree ways to increase action in coming years. Temperatures have already gained by about 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 Fahrenheit).

Figueres said negotiators in Paris would have to decide how the INDCs would be enshrined in the new agreement and how to periodically review the pledges.

Conservative “Many countries have been healthily conservative about what they have put forward,” she said, adding that many countries and particularly China, are likely to achieve greater emission reductions than the targets they have put forward.

Friday’s report is the most authoritative attempt to sum up the impact of INDCs and was welcomed by financial investment groups.

“Strong national plans provide the kind of vital market signals required from policy makers if investors are to curb the risk of stranded assets in the fossil fuel sector and

to make the huge investments in low-carbon technologies,” said Stephanie Pfeifer, chief executive of the International Investors Group on Climate Change.

Environmental groups said the report showed the Paris agreement needs to be a starting point for deeper emission cuts.

“We insist that the Paris Agreement sets up a mechanism to get countries to further drive down emissions, without delay,” said Martin Kaiser, head of international climate politics at Greenpeace.

“The world needs a clear and inspiring signal from Paris that the game is changing, that all countries are taking climate science seriously, embracing the full potential of clean, renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels,” he said in a statement. — Reuters

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Pune stay on top with draw against Goa MARGAO: League leaders FC Pune City maintained their top spot after playing out a 1-1 draw with hosts FC Goa in an Indian Super League (ISL) match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Friday. Pune improved to 13 points from seven matches, one more than second-placed Delhi Dynamos who have played a game less.

The stalemate also benefited Goa who claimed the third place in the points table with 11 points from seven games, overtaking Mumbai City FC (10 points from six matches).

But despite the points, Goa head coach Zico would view the match as two points lost rather than a point won as they were clearly the dominant side, particularly in the first half when they should have scored.

After a barren first half, Goa made amends for their earlier misses as soon as the second half began. Right winger Romeo Fernandes, who was guilty of over-indulging from a favourable position in the first half, played his part in the goal.

He judiciously delivered a dangerous low cross across the face of the goal that was diverted into the goal by Johnson on 47 minutes, who was trying to effect an clearance.

Goa eventually paid for their profligacy. Substitute Dutch midfielder Wesley Verhoek’s centre was capitalised by Eugensen Lyngdoh with a perfectly timed header at the far post in the 64th minute.

The equaliser gave Pune confidence to move more men forward after being forced on the defensive before the break.

They even tested Goa’s Brazilian custodian Elinton Andrade several times who was equal to the task. — IANS

Spell to Watson has made me different bowler: Riaz game, becoming the first Pakistani to score 9,000 Test runs during the victory in Dubai. Whilst the veteran batsman has obviously led with the bat throughout his career, he has also been a fabulous mentor for others in the dressing room, a point Wahab highlighted “Younis Khan is a legend. He’s a role model for us from whom we learn everything about cricket, whether it’s batting bowling or fielding. He never gives up and that’s the best thing about him. He keeps us motivated and is always there to help us. We are very lucky to have a legend like him in our dressing room who we respect a lot and who always gives respect to others.“

While Riaz has now played 14 Tests and 63 ODIs, he has only recently become a consistent performer and the leader of Pakistan’s attack

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DUBAI: The Dubai Test came to a thrilling conclusion on Day 5 as Adil Rashid and England came within seven overs of forcing an incredible morale-boosting draw.

The fact that England were even in such a position though, was thanks to a game changing spell of bowling by Wahab Riaz on the morning of the third day. The visitors had been in a relatively comfortable position at the start of the day at 182/3 in response to Pakistan’s 378, but three wickets in the space of nine Wahab overs forced a collapse to 242 all out. Pakistan went on to build their lead and ultimately took ten England second innings wickets in the nick of time.

Speaking exclusively to PakPassion.net, Wahab explained his plans during the spell which won him his first Man of the Match award, “I tried to break England’s momentum and we knew how crucial that first session was. So we planned beforehand to try to take early wickets. Fortunately the ball was reversing so I tried to make use of that to get the batsmen out.

Thankfully it was successful.”

The pitches in the UAE are renowned for being full of runs, providing very little for the bowlers until late in the game. Fast bowlers have it particularly difficult on the slow low tracks so Wahab’s success has been somewhat surprising. He feels that there are two main opportunities for the pacers to pick up wickets on such surfaces, stating, “These wickets are very good for batting so obviously there

SPECIAL SPELL: Pakistan’s Wahab Riaz says lots changed since his spell against Shane Watson in the 2015 World Cup. – File photo

isn’t a lot of help for fast bowlers.

The only chance you have of taking wickets is either with the new ball or if the ball starts reverse swinging later on. My plan is to attack with the new ball and try to take wickets as that puts a lot of pressure on the batting team from the start. After that I try to focus on bowling a consistent line so as not to leak runs.”

While Riaz has now played 14 Tests and 63 ODIs, he has only recently become a consistent performer and the leader of Pakistan’s attack.

He arguably rose to fame during the 2015 World Cup when he bowled a blistering spell in the quarterfinal to Shane Watson, which had the Australian batsman in all sorts of bother, and won plaudits from all who witnessed it.

Wahab admits that the spell in the World Cup did wonders for him, “Lots has changed since the Watson spell – I gained a lot of confidence and it told me a lot about my capabilities.

The spell to Watson has made me a different bowler. So I find things a lot easier now, even in difficult conditions. I have that belief in my ability and skills that I can perform on any track. I have done a lot of work on my wrist position

- I’ve always had a lot of pace, the difference is that now it seems a bit more threatening.”

Whilst Pakistan are now 1-0 up going into the final Test at Sharjah, it could have been very different had Adil Rashid not played the attacking drive off Yasir Shah with just a few overs to go.

Sense of relief The sense of relief amongst the Pakistani team and fans was plain to see during the celebrations, and Wahab admitted that things got a bit too close for comfort, “England were playing very well and the lower order batted for a long time. We were getting to a position where we knew we really needed to get them out and the pressure was increasing as we were running out of overs.

We were trying our level best and hoping that we could bowl them out, and thankfully it happened in the end.”

During that tense last wicket partnership, many Pakistan fans felt the game was up when Asad Shafiq dropped a sharp chance at short leg. Wahab insisted that such catches are always difficult and was keen to stress that the players were fully behind one another, “Asad Shafiq was stood right next to the batsman and those

chances are very tough to take, especially when the ball doesn’t come straight at you. We were backing each other up and no-one was blaming him for dropping a catch. Obviously it’s a game and it’s not always easy, especially when you’re standing right up close to the batsman.”

England’s last four batsmen faced a combined total of 446 balls and scored 120 runs in the fourth innings at Dubai, in stark contrast to Pakistan’s tail who have been dismissed in quick fashion during the series so far.

Wahab accepted the importance of the lower order contributing runs and vowed to improve personally in this regard, stating “We know how important it is for the tail to score runs, they can be very valuable. We’ve learnt a lot from the way England have played so we’ll try to perform better in the batting department. I know that personally I’m not in great batting form but I’m still trying and hopefully I will put some runs on the board as well - I’ll be working hard in the nets.”

Whilst runs may have been hard to come by at the bottom of the batting lineup, Pakistan’s top order has flourished with Younis Khan proving his status as a great of the

Talking point Another recent talking point has been the Pakistan captain, Misbah-ul Haq, and his plans for the future. The 41-year-old has hinted at retirement and with an eight month gap until Pakistan’s next Test, the game in Sharjah could well be his last. Wahab was full of praise for the Pakistan skipper and insisted that he could go on, “Age is irrelevant, it’s just a number, Misbah is the fittest player in our team and you can still see him moving around well in the field. Pakistan have been great under his captaincy - he’s a very hard working captain, the kind of guy who always lifts his team and backs his players. Things are much easier for the players with him around.”

With the final Test starting Sunday, Wahab will once again be a key factor in Pakistan’s fortunes, particularly if the wicket is conducive to reverse swing. The pace bowler is not looking too far ahead though and suggested that there may not be as much swing on offer as the previous Test, “In Dubai, there was some reverse swing in the first innings but we didn’t get much in the second. The Sharjah wicket will be new having been prepared for this series, so it depends on the surface whether or not we will get any reverse swing. We will only know that when we get there and assess the conditions.”

Should any reverse swing be on offer, Wahab is sure to use it to his advantage and make life tough once again for the visiting batsmen. — PakPassion.net

TEST SERIES

Tricky Kiwi test for Australia in transition MELBOURNE: A resurgent New Zealand have landed in Australia with high hopes of upsetting Steven Smith’s rebuilding side in a three-match series capped by Test cricket’s first day-night clash.

New Zealand have not won a Test series on Australian soil since 1985/86, when a marauding Richard Hadlee was in his pomp, but Brendon McCullum’s team may have their best chance to break the drought against vulnerable opponents in the throes of transition.

The series continues a calendar-long feast of sporting rivalry between the Antipodean nations, who face off in the Rugby World Cup title-decider in London on Saturday and have also clashed in rugby league and netball this year.

For McCullum’s Black Caps, however, it offers the chance to extract a measure of revenge for their stinging World Cup final loss in March, when they were destroyed by the hosts in front of a baying Melbourne Cricket Ground crowd.

Then, New Zealand’s run to the final had a fairytale quality, and their team were cast as a swashbuckling band of upstarts crashing a party for cricket’s traditional powers.

McCullum’s side have since established themselves as contenders in the red-ball game, splitting an enthralling test series 1-1 on English pitches, where Australia were found wanting in a subsequent 3-2 Ashes defeat.

The Black Caps can expect little of the patronising tone that has welcomed weaker New Zealand

Match abandoned after Finch, Carters’ record stand MELBOURNE: Ryan Carters and Aaron Finch smashed 503 runs to set an Australian record opening partnership in first class cricket on Friday before the Sydney tour match against New Zealand was abandoned on day two due to the poor quality of the pitch.

Explosive one-day international specialist Finch piled on an unbeaten 288, blasting seven sixes and 24 fours for the Cricket Australia XI, while Carters struck a more circumspect 209 on a crumbling wicket at Blacktown International Sports Park.

teams of the past in Australia but more than the usual serving of outright hostility from local crowds.

Australian fans are unaccustomed to disappointment, having not witnessed a Test defeat on home pitches for three years and are likely to give McCullum’s team a similarly spirited reception to that which greeted England during the 5-0 whitewash in 2013/14.

Australia may only dream of such dominance now, with new captain Smith inheriting a side depleted by the retirements of former skipper and master tactician Michael Clarke, opening bats-

The stand easily eclipsed the previous Australian record of 456 set by openers Ernie Mayne and Bill Ponsford for Victoria state in 1923-24.

The world record opening stand of 561 was set by Pakistani pair Waheed Mirza and Mansoor Akhtar in a domestic match in 1976-77.

The Australian partnership was eventually broken late on Friday morning when Carters slashed at the part-time medium pace of Tom Latham, sending a nick to wicketkeeper BJ Watling.

man Chris Rogers and all-rounder Shane Watson.

Mitchell Marsh is a worthy candidate to carry the all-round duties, but New Zealand seamers Trent Boult and Tim Southee will be eager to tear into Australia’s top order reinforcements Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja, who have been named for next week’s opening test in Brisbane and the second match in Perth.

Burns showed himself an able replacement for Rogers in scoring two half-centuries against India during the last home summer but Queensland captain Khawaja is

That brought an early lunch, but New Zealand’s batsmen failed to take the field after the break to continue a match that was originally intended to last four days.

Cricket Australia said the match had been called off due to the “unfit” wicket.

“The decision has been agreed between the two teams to abandon the match due to the wicket’s deteriorating surface becoming unfit for first class cricket,” CA’s head of cricket operations Sean Cary said in a statement.

on his third life after failing twice before to cement his place at the highest level.

Australia’s bowling is more settled and will remain a serious handful on home pitches, even with veteran left-armer Mitchell Johnson having lost a yard of pace this season.

The buildup to the series has been overshadowed by controversy over the fitness of the pink ball to be used in the series-ending day-night test at the Adelaide Oval.

Players have complained the ball, the result of years of painstaking development and testing, can

“Preparation of the wicket was compromised by poor weather conditions in Sydney early this week.

“In response, we’re working with New Zealand Cricket to provide alternative preparation for the team ahead of next week’s first test.”

New Zealand media reported that touring captain Brendon McCullum had refused to have his batsmen play out of safety concerns, with the pitch having developed crater-like impressions at both ends by the close of day one. — Reuters

be hard to see and fear it may not last the 80 overs required of the usual red ball.

Cricket Australia have insisted the ball is ready and dismissed suggestions the match could be rescheduled. If successful, the game could prove a watershed for the format and encourage other nations to adopt a concept that promises bigger crowds and more broadcast revenues from lucrative prime-time scheduling.

What is certain is that the ball cannot be improved upon before Adelaide’s opening day on November 27. - Reuters

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FIFA COURSE FOR REFEREES CONCLUDE The Oman Football Association (OFA) organised FIFA course for referees concluded with OFA board member and chairman of the Referees Committee Humaid bin Suleiman Al Jabri presiding over the final day’s session. The course was attended by 31 referees and held by Ali Al Turaifi and Hasan Al Khaldi. The course contained both practical and theoretical sessions. It also covered a wide variety of topics such as recent amendments to the FIFA game laws, sessions on how to calculate off-sides and also updating the referees with the latest changes to how they will view the game. — Supplied photo

While conceding the Australians were giving away a weight advantage to the giant All Blacks pack, the Wallabies’ TENNIS

coach Michael Cheika

Majestic Muguruza advances

said his players would not back away from any physical confrontations

LONDON: It’s not quite David and Goliath proportions but the Wallabies have vowed to stand toe-to-toe with their fearsome New Zealand opponents in Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham. While conceding the Australians were giving away a weight advantage to the giant All Blacks pack, the Wallabies’ coach Michael Cheika said his players would not back away from any physical confrontations.

Asked by reporters what his team were expecting from New Zealand, Cheika replied: “It’s pretty much their modus operandi.

They know how to play the game physically.

“They’ve got leg drive and they’ve got great intent around the way they want to play the game physically.”

But Cheika, an old-school player and coach who has always relished tough, physical battles, said he welcomed the challenge of taking the Kiwis on at their own game after spending months preparing his team to absorb any punishment they received.

NO ILLUSIONS: Australia head coach Michael Cheika during the press conference. - Reuters

“I love that style of play as well so we know we want to bring that too. We want to bring physicality to the game as well,” he said.

“I know we’re probably a little bit smaller but it’s all about what you bring technically and what’s inside you, what’s your drive, why do you want to do it?”

Australia were given a taste of what to expect when they upset New Zealand in August to win the southern hemisphere’s Rugby Championship.

A week later, the two old rivals played each other for the Bledisloe Cup and the Wallabies were smashed 41-13 by a ruthless New Zealand team that battered the Australians from kickoff.

“They always say if you look backwards you’re only going to get a sore neck, so what happened before means nothing,” Cheika said.

“I’ve got a lot of belief in my team, we’ve worked really hard and trained really hard. We know it’s going to be extremely physical

and we want to be able to last.”

Australia’s players went through their final training session at Twickenham on Friday and are all chomping at the bit to play.

Openside flanker Michael Hooper, whose clash at the breakdown with New Zealand captain Richie McCaw looms as one of the key factors in determining the outcome, said the players were trying to treat it as just another game but it was impossible to block out the magnitude of what was at stake.

“We’ve got no illusions about how big it is and we’re excited about that,” Hooper said.

“There’s 31 guys here who would give their left leg to be playing on Saturday and that’s been the mentality from the word go. Even the coaches would run out there if they could.

“It’s 80 minutes, four sticks, one footy and we’re throwing it around and we’re going up against a great opposition with a huge opportunity and goal at the end of it.” - Reuters

SINGAPORE: Garbine Muguruza continued her dream debut at the WTA Finals by completing round robin play with a perfect 3-0 record to advance to the semifinals after a hard fought 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory over Petra Kvitova on Friday.

By topping the White Group, the Spaniard set up a showdown against Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska while Kvitova (1-2) received a huge boost from her Czech Fed Cup team mate Lucie Safarova (1-2), who beat Angelique Kerber to help her advance.

Germany’s Kerber (1-2) only needed to win a set in Friday’s second match to move on but the already-eliminated Safarova (12) found her best form of the week to blast the German off the court and out of the eight-woman event with a 6-4 6-3 win.

Kerber’s loss was Kvitova’s gain and the double Wimbledon champion claimed second place in the group courtesy of sets won to book a last four berth against Red Group winner Maria Sharapova.

While her rivals were left scratching their heads and fretting over the various permutations, Muguruza was spared the agony of relying on others by claiming a third straight triumph.

“It’s amazing to reach the semi-finals,” Wimbledon finalist Muguruza

said in a courtside interview. “To be here is a great payoff for an amazing year and hopefully I can continue winning and playing like this.”

The Spanish right-hander had grown accustomed to facing lefthanders in a group containing a trio of southpaws and the recent China Open winner edged ahead in the middle of a tense first set then raced through the eighth game to move 5-3 up.

Kvitova sent down back-toback aces to ensure Muguruza would need to serve for the set and the world number three duly obliged to claim the set she needed to ensure she would at least advance from the pool as a toptwo finisher.

Similar pattern The second set turned into a war of attrition as both players coughed up point after point on their fragile second serves to exchange six breaks in the first seven games before Muguruza ended the sequence to hold in the eighth.

The 22-year-old dropped her racket and let out a yelp of pain when she turned her ankle in the ninth game and while her movement appeared unaffected, her accuracy faltered as she allowed Kvitova to level the match with another break.

Both players continued to

struggle on serve as the pair racked up a match total of 15 combined breaks between them, the last arriving in the 11th game of the deciding set when Muguruza moved 6-5 ahead on Kvitova’s backhand error.

Despite finally gaining an advantage, Muguruza needed to dig deep to prevent the contest from going to a third set tiebreak, maintaining her composure to seal the contest on her fourth match point with a backhand volley.

The second match followed a similar pattern to the first as both players struggled in an early exchange that saw Safarova edge ahead by getting the better of three consecutive breaks and she rode the advantage all the way to a oneset lead. Safarova’s serve improved in the second set and she was able to apply pressure on a visibly frustrated Kerber, who was having more success bashing her racket against the ground than she was making clean contact with the ball.

The Czech never looked threatened in the second, breaking early and again the ninth game to seal victory on her fourth match point when Kerber sent a forehand into the tramlines as both players bowed out of the tournament.

“That’s teamwork,” Safarova said of the win that sent her compatriot through to the last four. - Reuters

ROAD TO OMAN

In-form Hahn feeling great coming into NBO Classic DUBAI: American John Hahn and his team of Adam Man-Cheung (28), Manraj Bindra (20) and Robert Fairfax (23) were in excellent form in the ICAEW Challenge Tour Pro-Am finishing with 86 Stableford points on Fire course at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

His team finished at the summit of the leaderboard against 20 of the finest European Challenge Tour players on the Road to Oman Rankings. Professional Hahn managed 6 birdies himself to lead the team to a 3 point victory from

the side captained by Ryan Evans in second place followed by the team led by Max Orrin.

Evans’ team won on a countback after a competitive contest.

John Hahn, who is currently ranked 15th in the Road to Oman, was delighted with the victory and how his preparation is going leading up to the final event in Muscat: “I really enjoyed the ICAEW ProAm and I am having a great week here at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

The facilities at the ETPI are excellent and I am benefitting from

all the easy access and equipment.”

“I feel great coming into the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final and hope my form continues so I can secure my card for next season.

My game is really good at the moment so I’m feeling confident.”

This Pro-Am was pivotal preparation for next week’s crucial season-ending NBO Golf Classic Grand Final at Almouj Golf in Muscat, Oman. g Ricardo Gouveia, currently first on the 2015 Road to Oman Rankings, Borja Virto Astudillo

(third), Gary Boyd (sixth), Jens Fahrbring (seventh) and Rhys Davies (eighth) were looking to fine tune their games in preparation for a final assault on the Rankings while their amateur playing partners enjoyed learning from the professionals.

The top 45 players on the 2015 Road to Oman Rankings qualify for next week’s NBO Golf Classic Grand Final after which the top 15 ranked players will earn their playing privileges on the 2016 European Tour International Schedule.

WINNERS: Oman-bound John Hahn and his team celebrate winning the ICAEW Challenge Tour Pro-Am. – Supplied photo

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Oman Oil, Bharat Petroleum in talks to sell stake in Bina refinery Times News Service MUSCAT: Foreign companies are in talks to buy a stake of up to 24 per cent in the Bina refinery in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, which is jointly owned by Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Oman’s state oil firm, according to a Reuters report.

The two owners want to boost the refinery’s capacity by about 30 per cent from 120,00 barrels per day (bpd), said BPCL chairman S. Varadarajan.

The expansion of the refinery, which has started to make money after quarters of losses, could cost $460 million and would be completed by 2018, Varadarajan added.

BPCL and Oman Oil Company could make a public share offer next year if a deal is not sealed.

“There are conversations with parties for up to 24 percent stake sale and some of them have shown interest,” he said, declining to name the companies. “If the talks do not materialise in a deal, we will go for a public issue next year.”

Latin American crude Varadarajan also said BPCL could buy Latin American crude for its 190,000 bpd Kochi refinery in southern India once its capacity is raised to 310,000 bpd next year and its capabilities are enhanced to process cheaper and heavier grades.

Currently the refinery processes sweet and heavy grades in equal proportion. The company could also buy Iranian oil for Kochi if sanctions on Tehran start to ease following successful talks on its controversial nuclear programme.

MASSIVE EXPANSION: The expansion of the refinery, which was started to make money after quarters of losses, could cost $460 million and will be completed by 2018. - File picture

Iran’s massive crude sale plan poised to shake global market

S E P T M B E R D ATA

Asian imports of Iran oil fall almost 6% TOKYO: Asian imports of Iranian oil fell 6 per cent from a year earlier in September, as Iran’s biggest crude buyers held off from increasing purchases following the landmark agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme in July.

Imports by Iran’s four biggest buyers — China, India, Japan and South Korea — totalled just over 1 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, 5.9 per cent lower than a year earlier, government and tanker-tracking data showed.

Tehran is keen to recoup market share ceded under United States and European Union sanctions and boost the country’s battered economy but will not see significant relief until next year, once agreed hurdles to increased oil exports have been cleared.

the offshore South Pars natural gas deposit.

“What is probably in the price consensus is around a halfmillion-barrel-a-day hike” in shipments, Eugen Weinberg, an analyst at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, said by phone on October 28. “If the increase is stronger than expected, it’s likely to have a negative impact on the price.”

Most of the 45 million barrels stored oil is condensate that contains a sulphur compound, which complicates sales because many refineries cannot process it SANCTIONS: Iran is seeking to claw back the market share it lost under sanctions by boosting oil exports after a July deal with world powers to return to energy and financial markets. – File picture

DUBAI: Iran may roil global oil markets with plans to sell about 45 million barrels of fuel stored in tankers in the Gulf within three months of the removal of sanctions on its economy, say analysts.

Most of the stored oil is condensate that contains a sulphur compound, which complicates sales because many refineries can’t process it, said Victor Shum of IHS and Robin Mills at Dubaibased Manaar Energy Consulting. To market this large amount of oil within three months — the equivalent of about half a million barrels a day — Iran will have to resort to offering deep discounts, they said.

“Iran’s getting ready to open the taps,” Shum, IHS’s head of oil market research, said by phone on October 26. “If they want to unwind this supply in the current weak market, they’ll have to offer

Disputed nuclear activities The sanctions were designed to keep Iran’s exports at around 1 million bpd, down from 2.5 million bpd in 2011, and get Tehran to negotiate on its disputed nuclear activities, which Western powers say is a cover for building an atomic bomb.

Iran has consistently denied it aims to make a weapon. Under the accord reached in Vienna on July 14, Iran will be subject to longerterm restrictions on its nuclear programme in return for the removal of US, UN and European sanctions. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed on Tuesday he expected sanctions on Iran to be lifted by year-end, but most analysts say that is too optimistic, given the steps needed for Tehran to be given relief.

For the first nine months of 2015, Asian buyers took in almost 1.down 6.1 per cent. - Reuters

discounts. It’s a buyer’s market.”

Oil exports The country is seeking to claw back the market share it lost under sanctions by boosting oil exports after a July deal with world powers to return to energy and financial markets.

The condensate in tankers moored off its southern coast will add to a worldwide oil glut, putting more pressure on crude prices that have dropped more than 40 per cent in the last year. Sanctions curbed Iran’s sales of crude and condensate to 1.4 million barrels a day in 2014 from 2.6 million in 2011, the United States Energy Information Administration said in June.

Iran pumped 2.8 million barrels of crude a day in September, mak-

GROWTH

Taiwan economy shrinks for first time since 2009 on falling exports TAIPEI: Taiwan’s economy contracted on a yearly basis for the first time since the global financial crisis as a slump in exports and a sluggish global recovery dragged on consumption.

Gross domestic product fell 1.01 per cent in the three months through September from a year earlier, according to preliminary data released by the statistics bureau on Friday. That compares to 0.52 per cent growth originally reported in the previous quarter and the 0.5 per cent drop projected by the median estimate in a survey.

Domestic consumption Taiwan’s exports are sliding as economic growth in the top destination of China slowed further to a six-year low. This started to curb domestic consumption last quarter, which also marked the biggest slide for local shares since 2011 amid the yuan’s shock devaluation in August.

Still, economists say growth is likely to return to positive territory this quarter as United States

STIMULUS

The government unveiled a NT$4.08 billion ($125 million) consumption stimulus package on Friday, after announcing plans to boost infrastructure investment and credit in July

and Chinese demand recovers, limiting room for another rate cut this year in December.

“Demand was poor in China and emerging markets in the third quarter, and volatility in global markets and yuan devaluation also affected stock performance and consumer confidence,” said Ma Tieying, an economist at DBS Group Holdings in Singapore.

“The economy should bottom out in the fourth quarter. The decline in export orders narrowed in September, which should boost manufacturing.”

Signs of recovery The government unveiled a NT$4.08 billion ($125 million) consumption stimulus package on Friday, after announcing plans to boost infrastructure investment and credit in July.

The new stimulus will probably have a small effect given its size, Barclays Plc economist Wai Ho Leong wrote in a note.

Domestic consumption, which expanded steadily in the past two years even amid fluctuations in exports, grew 0.89 percent last quarter, compared with 2.85 percent in the prior period.

The central bank cut the benchmark rate for the first time since 2009 in September, citing high real rates and a negative output gap. Also weighing on its next decision in December is whether the Federal Reserve raises rates that month, which would increase Taiwan’s risk of outflows should it decide to ease policy.

“Growth is likely to have bottomed in the third quarter,” said Barclays’ Leong. - Bloomberg News

ing it the fifth-largest producer in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), according to data. It plans to boost crude production and exports by 500,000 barrels a day within a week after sanctions are lifted, Roknoddin Javadi, managing director of state-run National Iranian Oil Company, said on October 21 in an interview in Tehran. Iran will add another 500,000 barrels in daily sales within six months after curbs are removed, he said.

Shipments of the 45 million barrels of condensate over three months would come on top of these planned crude exports, Javadi said, and surpass current expectations about the wave of Iranian oil poised to hit the market. The condensate, a light hydrocarbon liquid, is pumped from

Sweetening sales Iran may need to spur sales of its sulphur-heavy condensate by offering discounts of at least 10 to 15 per cent, Shum said. Its main condensate customer, Dragon Aromatics Zhangzhou of China, stopped buying after a fire at its plant in April, and an Iranian refinery designed to use it won’t be ready until 2017, causing stockpiles to build, he said.

Condensate from South Pars is loaded on ships at Assaluyeh, a dusty port where at least a dozen tankers were visible at sea beyond the breakwater on October 22.

One tanker, the Super Zearth, was moored that day near one of Assaluyeh’s loading buoys.

“There will have to be a major impact on the market of selling that condensate,” said Manaar Energy’s Mills, who worked for Royal Dutch Shell on projects in Iran from 1998 to 2003. “If they’re already having difficulty shifting it, adding another half million barrels will be even more difficult,” he said. - Bloomberg News

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US oil producers curb ambitious megaprojects CHICAGO: Big United States oil companies are starting to think small.

A stubborn 16-month crude rout with no end in sight is driving the largest US oil producers away from costly, high-risk megaprojects long touted as the industry’s future and toward safer shale operations that generate the cash needed to satisfy anxious investors.

Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Hess Corporation have all either delayed or abandoned projects that range from the deep seas of the Gulf of Mexico to Canada’s oil sands and the US Arctic. At the same time, Exxon and Chevron both announced plans to substantially increase US crude production, largely as a result of their shale operations.

Explorers are expected to slash spending on deepwater wells by 20 per cent to 25 per cent next year, compared to a 3 and 8 per cent. - Bloomberg News

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MARKET Standard Chartered plans to inject $4b additional capital

Earnings of BG beats estimates LONDON: BG Group, which agreed to be acquired by Royal Dutch Shell in April in the year’s biggest energy deal, reported third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates after it raised oil and natural gas production.

Adjusted net income fell 63 per cent to $280 million from $759 million a year earlier, BG said on Friday in a statement. That beat the $200.5 million average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed.

The Reading, England-based company took a non-cash charge of $344 million because of the impact of currency movements on deferred and current tax balances in Brazil and Australia, resulting in net loss of $101 million, according to the statement.

London-based lender may need $8 billion to address a funding gap. No final decision has been made on whether to proceed with a share sale

LONDON: Standard Chartered has held discussions with bankers on raising at least $4 billion as British regulators toughen scrutiny on lenders with exposure to emerging markets in a second round of stress tests, people with knowledge of the plan said.

While the bank has discussed the option of raising capital, no final decision has been made on whether to proceed with a share sale, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The Londonbased lender may need as much as $8 billion to address a funding gap, according to the people.

Standard Chartered chief executive officer Bill Winters is under pressure to reverse a twoyear slide in profit and shares that prompted his predecessor Peter Sands to resign. The bank, which generates almost all of its revenue in Asia, has felt the brunt of a turmoil sparked by plunging commodity prices and concern that

THIRD QUARTER

FUNDING GAP: The bank, which generates almost all of its revenue in Asia, has felt the brunt of a turmoil sparked by plunging commodity prices and concern that China’s economy is slowing more than expected. - Bloomberg news

China’s economy is slowing more than expected. While Winters has cut the bank’s dividend in half to save $1 billion and pledged to reduce risk-weighted assets by as much as $30 billion by 2016, some analysts forecast a capital gap of as much as $10 billion.

Shares slump Standard Chartered shares fell as much as 3.8 percent in London, before closing at 723.30 pence, down 2.7 per cent.

They have slumped about 25

per cent this year after losing more than a third of their value over the past two years under Sands. The stock slipped as much as 1.8 per cent in early Hong Kong trading on Friday.

Winters, a former co-head of JPMorgan Chase’s investment bank, said in August that the bank won’t need to raise capital immediately. The bank will decide whether to tap investors after the Bank of England publishes the results of its stress tests on December 1, he said at the time.

This year’s test covers seven UK lenders including Standard Chartered, HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Banking, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander UK. It sets out a “major external shock” to the banking system, including Chinese growth slowing “materially” and plunging commodity prices.

Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank, said earlier this month that it will raise 6.05 billion Swiss francs ($6 billion) by

selling 1.35 billion francs of stock to select shareholders and 4.7 billion francs of shares to existing investors as regulators prepare tougher capital rules.

Standard Chartered is scheduled to release quarterly earnings on November 3. - Bloomberg News

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Prolonged downturn The slump in crude has hit energy producers hard, driving Shell to its biggest loss in more than a decade, curbing profit and forcing companies to prepare for a prolonged downturn by cutting spending and delaying projects. BG, the UK’s third-biggest oil and gas company, is one of the few that’s increasing its output guidance for the year as projects in Australia and Brazil start up.

“We are on track to deliver our promised operating and capital cost savings for 2015 and are adding new low cash-cost volumes through Australia and Brazil,” chief executive officer Helge Lund said in the statement. “These actions will help mitigate the impact of lower commodity prices on our financial results.”

BG shares fell 0.5 per cent in London on Thursday, trimming this year’s gain. - Bloomberg News

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Q U A R T E R LY R E S U LT S

Crude price crash wipes out profits of China’s energy giants HONG KONG: The plunge in crude prices all but killed profits at China’s top energy producer and its largest oil refiner.

PetroChina has reported its worst quarterly profit on record, with net income for the three months ended September plunging 81 per cent from a year ago to 5.2 billion yuan ($818 million).

An increase in refining revenue failed to stanch a 92 per cent drop in earnings at China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation. Net income at Asia’s biggest refiner, known as Sinopec, was 1.64 billion yuan. Both posted less than half what analysts expected.

“Falling oil prices really put those companies under tremendous pressure,” Neil Beveridge, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said by phone from Hong Kong.

“Moving forward, they have to continue to find ways to cut costs and improve efficiency and make themselves more competitive.”

PetroChina shares in Hong Kong

PetroChina has reported its worst quarterly profit on record, with net income for the three months ended September falling 81% from a year ago to $818m

declined as much as 4 per cent to HK$5.94 and traded at HK$6.10, while Sinopec fell as much as 2 per cent to HK$5.51 and traded at HK$5.59 as of 1:41 p.m. local time.

The city’s benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped 0.3 per cent.

Damage from dropping oil prices has been almost inescapable

for the industry as prices slumped more than 40 per cent in the past year during the worst oil bust in a generation.

Collapse in revenue The collapse in revenue by China’s state-run energy giants is being echoed globally, with Royal Dutch Shell posting its biggest loss in more than a decade and taking a charge of almost $8 billion, while Marathon Oil Corporatiion in the United States cut dividends.

Meanwhile, China is curtailing commodities consumption as its economy grows at the slowest pace in 25 years.

The government plans to cut natural gas prices for industrial users as well as on-grid power tariffs to stimulate demand in the world’s biggest energy consumer.

Smaller rival Cnooc on Wednesday reported a 32 per cent drop in third-quarter revenue as it boosted production while slashing spending 44 per cent. - Bloomberg News

FLYING HIGH: The planemaker approved a share buyback and announced plans to increase production of its workhorse A320 model. – Bloomberg News

Airbus profit grows 12% amid higher deliveries of aircraft TOULOUSE: Airbus said thirdquarter profit rose 12 per cent amid higher commercial aircraft deliveries and lower research costs. The company approved a share buyback and announced plans to increase production of its workhorse A320 model.

Earnings before interest and tax, goodwill impairment and exceptionals rose to €921 million ($1.4 billion) from €821 million, Toulouse, France-based Airbus said in a statement on Friday.

The figure beat an average forecast by seven analysts for €774.6 million. Sales rose to €14.07 billion from €13.3 billion. Airbus will buy back shares worth €1 billion by mid-2016.

Airbus announced plans to boost production of single-aisle planes to 60 a month by the middle of 2019 from the 50 it had been targeting by 2017. Picking up the pace on its bestselling planes comes as Airbus races to increase production levels on its new twinaisle A350.

Plan to raise production of best-selling A320 planes TOULOUSE: Airbus said it plans to increase production of its best-selling A320 single-aisle jet to 60 a month to keep up with booming demand. The company’s plane-making division, which contributes about three quarters of revenue, now builds A320 models at a rate just above 42 a month and had previously planned to boost the figure to 50 by

The planemaker plans to deliver 15 A350s this year, and more than double the figure in 2016, reaching 10 a month by 2018.

“The healthy commercial air-

early 2017. The new goal exceeds rival Boeing’s own target of 52 single-aisle 737s.

Airbus said it will build an additional production line for the planes in Hamburg to accommodate the higher build rate.

The move to go to 60 a month by the middle of 2019, as Airbus races to increase production on its new twinaisle A350. - Bloomberg News

craft market, robustness of our backlog and supply chain capability allows us to raise the single-aisle production rate,” Airbus CEO Tom Enders said. - Bloomberg News

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MUMBAI: A group of government-appointed advisors has recommended sweeping changes to India’s outdated and overburdened bankruptcy system, aiming to modernise a process that takes several years and costs investors and taxpayers billions. The changes would be the most ambitious overhaul to date of rules governing the liquidation or revival of companies in India, a country with no single bankruptcy code and where competing laws, unclear jurisdictions and inadequate resources can leave cases languishing for decades.

The proposals, to be handed to the Finance Ministry as early as Monday, will impose deadlines for the first time and establish a network of insolvency professionals to lighten courts’ workload and tackle delays, T. K. Viswanathan, chairman of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee, said.

Under current rules, even deciding whether to save or liquidate an ailing company can take years, leaving it in the hands of managers who can — and do —

strip assets with impunity. Under the proposed changes, a decision would have to be reached in 180 days — even 90 days for fast-track applications, Viswanathan said.

“The whole essence of our exercise is that everything is done within time,” he said. Foreign and domestic investors say the difficulty in exiting ventures can deter them from entering.

Cases such as the protracted collapse of tycoon Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airline empire have burnt investors. The airline was grounded in 2012 with some $1.5 billion in debt and its shares are now worthless, but creditor banks seized his former Mumbai headquarters only this year. The fate of his Goan villa is stuck in a prolonged court tussle.

India ranks 130 out of 189 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business report, below Lesotho and Cameroon, not least because of its poor performance in resolving insolvency.

The World Bank says it takes 4.3 years on average, more than twice as long as in China, with an

Cases such as the protracted collapse of tycoon Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airline empire have burnt investors. The airline was grounded in 2012 with some $1.5b in debt and its shares are now worthless, but creditor banks seized his former Mumbai headquarters

average recovery of 25.7 cents on the dollar, one of the worst among similar size economies.

Dead horses Troubled companies in India, or their creditors, largely turn to the Official Liquidator, a government-appointed officer attached to the country’s high courts, who administers assets and oversees liquidation. Banks can also turn to separate Debts Recovery Tri-

bunals (DRT), partly staffed by officials on assignment from the banks themselves and overseen by the Ministry of Finance. Both are overstretched; on visits to their offices in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, computers were often off and always outnumbered by teetering pillars of files.

In the cramped Mumbai office of the DRT, a tribunal considered far speedier than the courts, a Ministry of Finance letter on the notice board urged officials to move faster, as cases were “in many cases taking more than four years”. Inside, officials complained they had little power to draw a line under languishing cases.

“They are all dead horses,” said one, gesturing to the day’s case list. “They are never going to run any races, but you have to keep the dead stock.” Chief among the problems is that for a single troubled company, creditors and owners can all initiate competing proceedings in different courts, tribunals and states.

Current legislation — especially the Sick Industrial Companies Act of 1985 — is geared towards reviving companies, so appeals frequently follow a wind-up order, resulting in virtual paralysis.

“The Official Liquidator system is a disaster. It takes a minimum of five years and can take 10 years, by which point there is virtually no value left in the asset,” said Bahram Vakil, partner with law firm AZB & Partners in Mumbai and a member of the reform committee. “There is a crying need (for

change). That system has completely broken down.”

Proposed changes Another committee member, M. R. Umarji, a consultant at the Indian Banks’ Association and former central bank official, said staffing constraints meant it could take 15 to 20 years to wind up a company: “There are very limited numbers of persons available and there are hundreds, thousands of companies to be wound up.”

Proposed changes will scrap the Official Liquidator and introduce a system of registered insolvency practitioners, with a regulatory body, working under a company law tribunal. Practitioners, lawyers and drafters of the law hope it will professionalise the process, committee members said.

The changes, which would probably go to parliament next year, must first overcome a mindset that is geared to avoiding, not hastening, failure.

“The law can give the principles, but it requires enabling infrastructure for it to be implemented effectively,” said Debanshu Mukherjee, of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a think-tank that advised the committee. “Even an efficient judge cannot work without a support system.” - Reuters

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Spanish growth edges down MADRID: Spanish economic growth slowed in the third quarter, indicating the recovery may have peaked after the fastest expansion in eight years.

Output increased 0.8 per cent from the previous three months, compared with 1 per cent in the second quarter, the Madrid-based National Statistics Office said Friday. The figure matches the median estimate in a survey of 12 economists. From a year ago, the economy expanded 3.4 per cent.

Domestic demand While the report didn’t break down the components of GDP, economists see domestic demand cementing its position as the main driver of growth in Spain. The economy has expanded for nine straight quarters and the latest positive data come as Spaniards prepare for a general election in December that’s pitting conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy against the Socialists and promarket Ciudadanos. Polls show no party obtaining an overall majority.

“Our expectation is that domestic demand was the key driver again, while the external sector weighed down on growth,” said Gizem Kara, economist at BNP Paribas in London. “At this stage, we think the pace of growth has peaked and we’ll see a slowdown going into the fourth quarter.”

Initially driven by exports, the recovery has shifted gears as consumers benefit from cheaper energy prices, propping up disposable income, and the government cuts taxes. Coupled with falling unemployment, Spanish households have become more upbeat. - Bloomberg News

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Major reforms to connect remote Indian towns by air on the anvil

CURRENCY CONTROLS: Africa’s top oil producer introduced curbs on buying foreign exchange from late 2014 in a bid to prop up the naira as prices for crude. – Bloomberg News

Nigerian economy enters slow growth phase on oil plunge LAGOS: Nigeria’s economy is growing at the slowest pace this decade as oil prices drop. Companies are complaining they can’t get the dollars they need to do business. And trading in the naira has long since dried up.

There are many good reasons why Godwin Emefiele, who runs the central bank of Africa’s biggest economy, should lift currency controls and let the naira depreciate. One of the things holding him back is politics.

Devaluing the naira may give opposition parties the opportunity to claim that Emefiele’s main supporter, President Muhammadu Buhari, has lost control of the economy. With his backing, the policy chief will be able to resist his critics into 2016 before the worsening economic slump eventually forces him to capitulate, according to Standard Chartered and Bank of America.

“They could probably hold out for at least six months, maybe even a year,” said Ayodele Salami, chief investment officer for London-based Duet Asset Management, which manages about $200 million of African equities.

“The central bank has chosen currency stability and the price they’re paying for that is growth.

They could hold the line for a lot longer than the markets expect.”

Africa’s top oil producer introduced curbs on buying foreignexchange from late 2014 in a bid to prop up the naira as prices for crude, the source of two-thirds of government revenue and 90 per cent of export earnings, plummeted. These measures have all but fixed the exchange rate at

198-199 per dollar since March, even as other oil exporters from Russia to Colombia and Malaysia have let their currencies slide.

Barclays and HSBC Holdings still think the central bank will be forced to weaken the naira to between 220 and 230 before the end of 2015.

Economic growth The International Monetary Fund says the currency measures are detrimental to Nigeria, where growth slowed to 2.35 per cent on an annualised basis in the second quarter. Former central bank Governor Muhammadu Sanusi II said last week his successor was “in denial” if he thought he could continue propping up the naira.

Former general Buhari, who took office as president in May, acted to stabilise the naira when he ruled Nigeria in the 1980s, and since coming to power this time around has said a devaluation wouldn’t be “healthy.” The government put out a statement late Thursday reiterating its opposition to debasing the naira. Emefiele has also warned a devaluation would stoke inflation.

“The central bank governor is doing what he thinks the president wants,” David McIlroy, chief investment officer at Alquity Investment Management, which oversees $100 million of frontier market stocks and is put off buying more Nigerian shares until the currency weakens, said.

Strategists who earlier this year cut their naira forecasts on expectations Emefiele would capitulate have pushed them back up. - Bloomberg News

NEW DELHI: India unveiled a plan to fund airlines’ losses if they fly to remote areas as Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to connect small towns and villages in a country with the world’s seventhbiggest land mass.

The government will compensate carriers for losses on flights to the remote northeast, Jammu and Kashmir and the country’s islands, according to a draft aviation policy unveiled on Friday. The fund — 80 per cent of which would come from the federal government, the rest from states — would use proceeds from a 2 per cent charge the government intends to levy on all air tickets.

“The biggest takeaway from the policy is that flying is no longer a matter for the rich and elite,” said Rajiv Nayan Choubey, the top bureaucrat in the Civil Aviation Ministry. “Flying is going to become as common as going by train or any other mode of transport for the common man of this country.”

The proposals are part of a longawaited civil aviation policy that would replace rules dating back as far as the 1930s. The draft includes several options for the ‘5-20 rule’, which requires local airlines to operate for five years and have 20 planes in their fleets before they can fly internationally. The rule could be kept, amended or scrapped, according to the draft.

The government is seeking stakeholders’ opinions on the proposals and will finalise the policy in two months, Choubey said. The policy needs to be approved by the federal cabinet. Established Indian carriers have warned that scrapping the 5-20 rule would favour new local units of cash-rich rivals like Singapore Airlines and AirAsia. - Bloomberg News

IndiGo to price $459m share offer at top end MUMBAI: InterGlobe Aviation, which runs India’s biggest airline IndiGo, and existing investors raised about Rs30 billion ($460 million) after pricing its initial public offering at the top end of a marketed range, people with knowledge of the matter said.

InterGlobe priced its initial public offering (IPO) shares at Rs765 each after earlier offering the stock as low as 700 rupees, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information is private.

Institutional investors bid for 17.8 times the shares reserved for them, while individual investors bid for 92

per cent of their stock allocation as of 8:30pm in Mumbai on Thursday, the third and final day of the sale, according to National Stock Exchange figures. The offering, the first by an Indian airline since 2006, will allow IndiGo to build its fleet and cut debt in one of the world’s burgeoning aviation markets. The demand reflects renewed investor interest in the world’s fastest-growing major economy, where the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex Index has fallen 9.6 per cent from a five-year high in January, and as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitches India as a safe and lucrative destina-

tion for foreign money.

The sale values InterGlobe at $4.2 billion, making it the third-largest low-cost airline in Asia after less than a decade of flying. The shares are likely to start trading around November 10, InterGlobe said in documents filed earlier with India’s securities regulator.

Based on Rs765 a share, IndiGo, the only Indian airline to have made a profit in each of the past seven years, will trade at 21.3 times trailing earnings.

That’s less than the 33.72 times for Spring Airlines and 68.94 times for Juneyao Airlines, low-cost carriers which listed in China this year. - Bloomberg News

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to eventually cool off.

fter hitting the dressing room at Chelsea Collective, the new activewear chain from Dick’s Sporting Goods, you can walk to the “girlfriend lounge” and test how your new gear feels while using a ballet barre or treadmill. And if you’re not quite satisfied with the fit of your printed leggings or wispy workout tank, the retailer offers free alterations.

As it opened the doors to its first store on Tuesday evening at Tysons Corner Center, Chelsea Collective became the latest retailer to make a

play for the booming market for “athleisure” clothes, pieces that are functional enough for a workout but stylish enough for running errands.

It’s hard to imagine this trend hitting a bigger crescendo than it is right now: US sales of women’s activewear soared 21 per cent to $18.5 billion in the year ending June 2015, according to NPD Group. Lululemon, the store widely created with sparking the trend, has grown its store count by 76 per cent in the last three years, while Athleta has doubled its fleet in

two years. Everyone from value-conscious Old Navy to upscale designers such as Rebecca Minkoff and Tory Burch are looking to get in on the action by launching activewear lines.

Even Ann — the company behind Ann Taylor, bastion of sensible office attire — is spinning off an athleisure chain, Lou & Grey.

And now here comes Chelsea Collective, going after shoppers’ dollars by bringing a fast-fashion metabolism to the category and a boutique-like mix of big-name and niche brands. Its

challenge will be finding its customer in an already crowded market that it has been somewhat late to enter.

Experts say that, for now, the athleisure trend doesn’t show any signs of slowing. Retail analytics firm Editd reports that there was a 14 per cent increase in the number of yoga pants available to buy on the US womenswear market in June 2015 compared to June 2014. Meanwhile, the median price for yoga pants jumped from $74.21 to $87.29 during the same time period, Editd data show, suggest-

ing that consumers are enthusiastic enough about the trend to pay higher prices for it.

Yet clothing trends are reliably cyclical and tastemakers are notoriously fickle. And it’s hard not to look at the ubiquity of the athleisure craze and think of the flurry of other items in recent years that have shown this much sizzle — Ugg boots, expensive denim, Coach handbags, Spanx — only to eventually cool off.

But Chelsea Collective and indus-

try experts say athleisure is different: They see it not just a fleeting fashion trend, but a complement to a sweeping cultural shift toward healthier lifestyles.

Cubicle workers are switching to standing desks and going for walking meetings. A push for an active lifestyle has fuelled big business for the likes of FitBit, whose stock is soaring after going public in June, and SoulCycle, which is gearing up for an IPO that aims to raise $100 million. The call

$18.5b

for a healthy lifestyle is only growing, the theory goes, and athleisure clothes are designed to help us look good while we do that.

Chelsea Collective is aiming to distinguish itself in this crowded category not only with a focus on services such as the “girlfriend lounge,” but by refreshing its merchandise every two weeks to make sure customers are constantly seeing fresh pieces that reflect of-the-moment trends.

“The demographic that we have in

mind is somebody that is really on the cutting edge of both fitness trends and fashion trends. So somebody who really likes to try things,” said Lauren Hobart, general manager of Chelsea Collective.

In other words, they’re looking for shoppers like Anne Mauney, a dietician and food blogger who was invited to the store opening on Tuesday and swooned over the printed leggings and sheer tanks.

“I’m a big fan of the workout-brunch

combo,” Mauney said, adding that these clothes could easily take her through such a day. Liz Dunn, chief executive of retail consultancy Talmage Advisors, said Dick’s Sporting Goods may be onto something by spinning off a separate chain.

“One of the things that’s emerged from this whole women’s fitness trend is the fact that women were not that happy with the traditional sort of bigbox shopping format for athletic apparel,” Dunn said.

And yet Chelsea Collective will have serious hurdles, too, as it tries to connect with customers. It is late to the athleisure wars, so it will have to fight hard for market share, and it remains to be seen just how long shoppers will clamor for these types pieces.

Athleisure “probably has two or three years” before it loses some of its cool factor, said Ellen Sideri, chief executive of trend forecasting firm ESP Trendlab.

That doesn’t mean the aesthetic will

go bust: Sideri says that many shoppers will likely just come to think of pieces made from performance fabrics as a ho-hum wardrobe basic instead of a must-have trend item.

Some analysts and experts also expected Chelsea Collective to try to distinguish itself from the likes of Lululemon by offering lower prices.

And while it does have some more affordably priced pieces, such as Calia

by Carrie Underwood leggings for $60, Chelsea Collective has plenty of piec-

es with price points similar to Lululemon, such as $95 Nike Legend tights, a Moving Comfort sports bra for $58 and a Spiritual Gangster zip-up hoodie for $98. That may make it more difficult for the upstart to separate itself from its more established rivals.

A second Chelsea Collective outpost will open in Pittsburgh in about two weeks. The company says they’ll be closely watching their performance to determine whether and how to expand the concept further.

In the meantime, Dick’s executives are trying to make sure they don’t miss out on the women’s athleisure trend in their flagship fleet, either. They’ve taken away floor space from fitness bikes and golf equipment in Dick’s stores to offer more women’s apparel.

“Women’s athletic apparel has become such an amazing growth area that we really feel like there’s multiple different ways to serve this customer,” Hobart said. — SARAH HALZACK/Washington

It’s hard not to look at the ubiquity of the athleisure craze and think of the flurry of other items in recent years that have shown this much sizzle — Ugg boots, expensive denim, Coach handbags, Spanx — only

US sales of women’s activewear soared 21 per cent to $18.5 billion in the year ending June 2015, according to NPD Group.

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LIFESTYLE STORY TIME

By Swati Dasgupta

Just a Piece of Cake

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even one square meal a day.”

“It’s ok dear. After all it’s just a piece of cake,” Matt said casually.

Matt’s uncaring attitude continued. His parents tried their best to make him understand the value of things but nothing seemed to help.

One beautiful winter morning, Matt and his friends planned to go to the nearby village for an outing. The warm sunshine was beckoning and Matt and his friends set out their mats to enjoy nature’s beauty.

While Asila and Jamila got busy with their wicker picnic basket loaded with goodies Aliya and her little brother happily played with the flying saucer. Asila soon felt her stomach rumbling.

“Hey guys! I am hungry. Should we eat now?” Asila called her friends. The buddies ate their favourite snacks when suddenly Jia spotted some dark puffy clouds in the sky.

“It’s going to rain soon, friends,” Matt exclaimed out of joy.

“There’s nothing to be so happy about, Matt,” said Jamila in a distressed voice.

“What if we can’t reach home and get caught in the rain?” Everyone looked worried and soon it started pouring heavily. They ran helter-skelter.

Matt headed towards a crooked alleyway where he saw a small

t home Matt was everyone’s darling. Being the only son of Mr and Mrs Sam Matt had everything he set his eyes on… a new pair of shoes, his favourite CDs, a new game every weekend … A barrage of things would arrive whenever he wanted them.

Matt’s room had the world’s most luxurious bed, a high tech music player, a walk-in closet filled with clothes of his choice, a computer loaded with the latest games and many other things.

But Matt never valued anything in life. Either he would lose them owing to his carelessness or just spoil them. When it came to food he would be at his worse. He was known for wasting food.

Matt’s parents were fed up of his bad habit. One day, Matt came home with his few friends and his mom treated them with freshly baked cakes, cookies and some mouth-watering sandwiches. Matt nibbled the cake for a while and threw the rest.

“Matt, what’s the matter? Didn’t you like the cake,” she fondly asked.

“No mom. It’s not to my taste,” pat came the curt reply.

Aliya, who was watching Matt’s bad behaviour for long, interrupted.

“Matt, if you didn’t like the cake why did you waste it? There are so many poor out there who do not get

house. He knocked loudly. A pale looking girl, barely 6, opened the door. “Can I come in for a few minutes,” Matt pleaded.

The little girl without answering headed straight inside and came back with her mom.

“Yes, how can we help you,” said the woman in a stern voice.

“Can I take shelter for a while?

It’s raining and I lost track of my friends,” said Matt.

“Come in.” Saying this, the woman ushered him to a small room. Matt had barely settled on the lone chair in the room when he heard someone crying. Unable to hold back his curiosity, he peeped in the next room.

The little girl, who had opened the door for him, was sobbing.

Matt asked: “What makes you cry?”

The girl said: “I saw some yummy cakes in the bakery. But mom couldn’t buy them, as she says we are poor and can’t afford them.

Can’t poor people have just a piece of cake?”

‘Just a piece of cake,’ the words boomed in Matt’s ears. He now understood what being poor meant and how valuable even a piece of cake was. Matt walked out in haste. While the heavy downpour drenched him completely, he silently pledged — ‘I will never ever waste anything in life.’ – swati@timesofoman.com

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by Isidore

Questions & Answers

One thing that puts me off...

When someone blames me for nothing

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I search in Google

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If I have to describe myself as a flavour it would be...

Chocolate

One movie/book I can watch/ read over and over again...

Tinkle comics

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My first jump into the swimming pool

If I met an alien I would...

Tell him to take me to his planet and be friends with the earthlings

One skill I would like to learn...

Martial Arts

I go crazy when...

My sister irritates me

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Foolish people because when they loose they start speaking rubbish

ACROSS

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Honesty is the best policy

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If I had treasures I would hide them...

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Art for the Ages

Children’s Poetry

Save Tigers Alex Roy Grade X Indian School Wadi Kabir

Dharmik Maniyar, Grade 5, ISWK

Praneeth, Grade 4, ISM

Abirami, Grade 9, ISM

Walking about with a vivid striped body, The colour combinations seem a delightful beauty.

The lush evergreen forests – its natural home, In search of it’s prey, always found on the roam.

Moving about so stealthy and quite, It’s precocious movement is a magnificent sight.

Roaring aloud in a ferocious manner, Hearing it from a distance, we are likely to shudder.

The power and speed go hand in hand, Incomparable qualities in them, we find, Majestic in its pose, creating a powerful impact.

But no longer are we to see them - is the fact.

In a lifetime, once to glance at, we are so eager, But aren’t we ourselves destroying the gorgeous tiger?

Their absence in nature is an extreme loss, The boundaries of hunting, we often cross.

For tigers killed day by day, A priceless amount we have to pay.

Aren’t ‘we’ the cause for it to endanger?

So stop the reckless poaching and save the tiger!

Pearl Lobo, Grade 5, ISM

Sudoku How to play Fill empty cells with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number appears once in each row, column and area.

SOLUTION Answer to previous puzzle

Karthik Jayaram, Grade 7, ISAS

S. Venkadeswaraperumal, Grade 1, ISG (CBSE-i)

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Teleword All the words below appear in the puzzle - horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and circle their letters.

The leftover word spells the Teleword.

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G E Y T E I C O S H G I H A C

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CLUE: NATASHA RICHARDSON

I C T N N O E D I S A A G Y E

R A S L E D J A E T R O F L U

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L S A L L Y A M M E J E A O H

TM N A L R H Y A E V L E L N E O H R S A I Z L Z G L N E E

SOLUTION: 9 LETTERS

Actress, Adoring, Anna, Asylum, Blanche, Blues, Cabaret, Carlo, Chelsea, Corin, Daniel, English, Evening, Film, Gothic, Handmaid’s Tale, Haven, Hearst, High Society, Jane, Jean, Jemma, Joely, Kate, Leeds, Liam, London, Lynn, Manhattan, Mary, Micheal, Neeson, Nero, Parent Trap, Patty, Razzle, Redgrave, Reno, Sally, Shelley, Stage, Tony, Vanessa, West, Zelda.

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Ware house space for rent at Ghala and Barka up to 20000/- Sqm. Contact: 99509460 / 93731363 We want finance for 3 (three) moths or renewable every 3 months from Omani nationals or Expatriate for trading business. Contact: 99462591 or 93525028 Email: blueoceanoman@gmail.com

Mercedes Benz E 280, 2008, 118000 km (Expatriate driven), price: negotiable , Mulkiya expiry January 2016 , color silver. Contact: 24810416 / 24810598 Mazda 323, 1997 model, 219525 km for sale / Hyundai Sonata 2005 model, 150870 km for sale, expat Handled#98512702 / 99351044

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DAILY GUIDE SITUATION SITUATION WANTED VACANT

URGENTLY REQUIRED RECEPTIONIST

Urgent Requirement

Sales Lady For Jewellery Showroom

1. Two years experience in sales.

2. NOC is must.

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Omanis Only (preferably female) Must speak English fluently Ability to handle Office/Admin works Good knowledge of computers

(send CV with current picture) Email:vacancy299@gmail.com

Interested candidates please send CV to: hilalproperties@hilalprp.com.om or Fax: 24600683

Wanted female Gynecologist, female Staff Nurse – 2 no., Dental Asst, female Lab Tech from India or Filipino with MOH license & data flow for Al Saadi Specialized Medical Centre in Mussana.

SALES MEN – HoReCa for one of the leading FMCG company in the Sultanate of Oman.

Contact 92025033, dr.srinivas76@gmail.com

ADMIN/ HR Female Receptionist required for play area in Azaiba. Must be energetic, speak good English, and be good with children. Start date midNovember. Sponsorship available.

Email CV to playareaom@gmail.com Young Omani PRO: deemaild@ gmail.com Urgently required for a Hotel / hotel apartments in Muscat: Receptionists (Omani) – male / female. Contact 97677211

ACCOUNTANT We are looking for Chief Financial Officer, Male 40- 45 years old, , Bachelor of Science in Accountancy with 5 - 15 yrs. of experience.

Contact: +968 24702133, Email: admin-dept@daud.om

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

DOMESTIC HELP Maid required for Indian family visa and accommodation provided.

Contact: 97448484 Housemaid wanted for Kerala family in Seeb. Visa available. Contact: 97494228 FULL time housemaid needed for family in Azaiba - good salary, accommodation ,visa provided, accommodation provided. No release.

Contact 95123244

DRIVER Required 2 Expatriate Drivers for manpower supply company with Oman driving license. Contact 94148972 / 94148970 Valid bike license (Oman), Driver required for reputed chain of restaurants in Muscat visa available.

Contact: 93798969

JOB VACANCY

Please send your updated CV with photo and complete contact details to info@alrahbaoman.com

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH Joinery foreman with minimum 3 - 5 years experience in interior finishing related to all carpentry and aluminum works required. Persons with relevant experience and release / NOC. Contact tgi17@omantel.net. om Leading construction company requires experienced Site Engineer and QA/QC Engineer for residential/ commercial project. Require NOC. Send your CV : degree.engineer2015@gmail.com Experienced construction Civil Engineer with qualification (attested) certificates & with Omani driving license. Contact: slayhawk@ yahoo.com 99601004

IT A leading cosmetic company in Muscat is looking for an IT Executive Email us on vacancies@ maryanagroup.com

MEDICAL A reputed Wellness Center is looking for MOH licensed or Prometric Passed Physiotherapist, Nurse and Occupational therapy. Please send your CV to : hr2015.oman@gmail. com Required General Physician, Gynecology, Dentist, Pharmacists, Lab technicians, Nurses. Contact: 95133572 Email: kunoozghala@ gmail.com

Urgently Required an English Teacher (Part-time) for teaching English, daily one hour (As Your preferred time). Good Remuneration. Interested Persons may contact 94571643 Science, Maths & English Teachers are required in a private school in Al Ansab. Send your CV at Email : 94540479, aleithar@hotmail.com Post Graduate researcher required.

Contact 99229700

ENGINEER/TECH/MECH Urgently required Project Engineer for a reputed Construction Company in Muscat with Civil Engineering Degree/Diploma, 4 to 10 years experience, holding Oman/GCC Driving License. E.mail: assaud@omantel. net.om or FAX: 24953530 Urgently required for a leading Company Planning engineer. Fax : 24478522, Email : gh1.careers@ gmail.com MEP Engineer electrical with full knowledge of concealed wiring, air conditioning works, plumbing having at least 3 - 5 years experience in supervision and project execution. autocad is a must. contact tgi17@ omantel.net.om

Experienced Secretary required experienced for Ruwi office. Must have high standard of competence in MS Office suite and excellent Arabic / English communication skills. Send CV and covering email to mj-co@omantel.net.om

SKILLED/ UNSKILLED Experienced electrician / lineman (preferred Gulf return) for Electrical company. Clearance ready. Contact : 99706132 Email: atlasllc11@gmail. com

SALES / MARKETING

Required project salesman on profit sharing basis. contact@absmct.com/ 99221683 Lady Telesales Executives & Business Development Executives with Oman D/L for leading IT & Media Enterprise. Enthusiastic Freshers also welcome. jobs@interacoman.com

Urgently required: Sales Executive- with 5 years experience in aluminum and sales, MUST have NOC and immediately join. Apply, fax 00968–24605955, emails sbc@steelbuildingsllc.com, sbeoman@yahoo.com

MISC Wanted Oman candidate to work as Operation staff in Logistics company in Muscat. Contact: +968 24794579 Email: noha.chalhoub@ compasslog.com Travel agent in Muscat required counter staff (male / female) Sales Executive (male/female).

Interested send CV on vacancies20152015@hotmail.com

Urgently required Sales Executive with 2 years experience in electrical outdoor sales. Must have D/L and NOC. Contact: 91373200 Email: oman@sentorsupplies.com Sales & Marketing Executive for travel and tourism. #92890506

SITUATION WANTSIT. WANTED ED ARCHITECT Architect (BSC), female 23 one year experience with valid Omani driving license, under family visa looking for suitable placement. contact 92670199 Email: tkhaleque92@ gmail.com Indian, Architect male 25, two years experience in UAE design, tender, site inspection with strong knowledge in AutoCAD, Photo shop Microsoft office looking for a suitable placement. Contact 91382038 Email: umar16.arch@gmail.com

Send CV to jobws2000@gmail.com A reputed Company urgently requires smart and efficient personnel for their Insurance Brokerage activity

a) Insurance Brokerage Manager Candidate should have minimum 10 yrs experience in Insurance Sector, and able to lead a team

b) Marketing Executives Should have min 5 years exp in Insurance Sector

kindly email CV`s to : miad@ra.cc SITUATION WANTED

ACCOUNT. & FINANCE Male 28, MBA Finance & Marketing with 4 Years experience in UAE seeks suitable placement. Contact - 90264337 SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-M. Com Finance, Indian with 7 years experience in Finance & Accounts up to finalization. Currently employed in Oman. Having D/L, NOC available.

Cont: 98278801, mansoormk10@ gmail.com Sr. Accountant with 14 yrs experience, 2 yrs in Oman capable of handling all accounting functions. NOC available. Contact: 92404608 Email: jin_75@rediffmail.com

Male accountant BSc Hons (Finance & Accounts) having 2 years experience in accounts, looking for suitable job on visit visa. Contact: 91420128 Indian male Accountant looking for a suitable placement in Salalah.

More than 20 years experience in accounting job (upto the finalization of accounts), 8 years working experience in Middle East in Dubai, Salalah.

Contact: 91325029 Indian female 3 yrs experience in M.B.A HR, Admin & banking looking for suitable opportunity. Contact: 94425585 Young 24, ACCA affiliate, Advanced diploma in Accounting and Business, seeking suitable placement in Accounts, Finance or audit With valid driving license. Contact 92430152 ,Email - rau_dey@yahoo. com Chartered Accountant with ICWA Inter having 5 years experience in Finance, Accounts, Costing, Budgeting, Audit, Insurance, Treasury & Banking operations - NOC Available + Oman Driving License Contact :97881548 Email-financecost2@ gmail.com ACCA member / B.Com (3.7 years experience) looking for Accounts / Audit job. Contact: 97769145 Email: mnnaem02@gmail.com Finance Controller 15 years experience in Oman corporate financing , management accounts , feasibility study, cost control , business plan, ERP, MIS Banking, International trade etc seeks suitable opportunity.

Contact: 98571309 Indian male, 30 yrs, 7 yrs experience in UAE in Accounts, Sales & IT, currently on visit visa, seeks suitable position. Contact 95657110, Email : muhammedanu@gmail.com

MBA International Business in finance and operations Indian male 24, (3 months visit visa) seeking immediate placement. Contact 968 97489409 / Email: abhay8168@ gmail.com Accountant finance Indian male 25 yrs B.Com tally ERP.9, 3+ yrs working experience in India on visiting visa for 3 months seeks suitable placement.#93772901 /95309001 Email id: araj2378@ gmail.com Indian male 22 years, B.Com Graduate 1 year experience as Accountant in India on visit visa looking for suitable placement. Contact: 98693800 / 95709455 Email: hameeshham29143@gmail. com Accountant , Indian (Kerala) male, more than 09 years experience in Qatar (02 years) and New Delhi experience upto finalization of Accounts & expertise in using Tally ERP-9, MS Office (Word & Excel).

Currently on visit visa, seeking suitable placement. Contact: 97864890 / 97268429 Email: vinodthomas80@gmail.com Indian lady 15 yrs experience in Insurance / Accounts looking for suitable placement. Contact : 92986455 Accountant Indian female having 5 years exp in finalization, audit and administration in GCC presently in Muscat seeking suitable position. Contact 97323574 Email: sreeja@236@gmail.com Indian male 8 years experience having B.Com and MBA ready to work in HR customer service, Admin banking & related field.

Contact : 97436890 / 96939803.

Email: girimub@gmail.com Indian lady, bachelor degree in Preparatory Programme (BPP) and Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), completed training course in MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook from KTI looking for full time / part time job opportunity in Oman.

Contact 92437568, 96795853, Email: linda_navs@yahoo.com SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, with 13yrs experience, 6 yrs Oman in manufacturing, trading & contracting Cos, capable of handling all accounting, finance, banking, L/C, import, export & finalization seeks placement. NOC Available. Call+968-98932752, mail:jjohnmuscat@hotmail.com Finance Manager, 12 years experience in leading Construction and manufacturing companies (9 years in Oman) have strategic vision and proven leadership ability. B.Com, CPA- USA & modern accounting certificate from “AUC”. “NOC” in hand. Contact: 97220505

ADMIN Indian female , MBA( HR) experience in both corporate and teaching back home, looking for any suitable HR/ Admin / teaching post currently on visit visa. Contact: 90139719 Email:umadevi23@gmail. com Indian female, Masters in HR, having 4 + years Oman experience in media management and HR, looking for openings in HR, Education, Admin, Corporate communications. Contact 98252030 Looking for job Admin / HR. Release available. contact 94229041 HR/ Recruitment specialist with 8 years Oman experience in entire gamut of HR functions like resource planning, recruitment, HR policies & procedures performance appraisal, expatriate affairs, exit interviews & ticketing. contact 93825307 Email: javthath@rediffmail.com

DRAUGHTSMAN Autocad d/man, exp in arch, struct, now in visit visa PH : 91146914 Auto CAD Draftsman having vast local experience in architectural structure and mechanical HVAC also , looking for good placement. Contact: 98147600 Email: sahil-shahmohd@ yahoo.com Auto cad d/man, exp in MEP, Arch, on visit visa. Contact :97422351 Indian male diploma Civil (Draftsman) 2 years experience in AutoCAD, looking for suitable post. Contact: 91146914 Email: shafnas456@gmail. com Architectural & Structural Draughtsman 5 years experience.

Contact: 97312627

DRIVER 9 yrs exp, LMV driver (Keralite) .

Contact: 93412587 3 years experience in Oman looking for a suitable job. Contact: 97462781 Light driver looking for job 7 years exp. Contact: 94208089 Looking for driving job. Contact: 98219182 Experienced Light Duty Driver available. Contact: 94141925 Light driver. Contact: 96313100 Driver for job. Contact: 94182497 Driver for job. Contact: 98934367

ADMIN

Indian female 5+ yrs Oman exp in Accounts tally looking for suitable placement in W.K to Qurum area.

Contact: 95580416

Indian female MBA , 3 Years experience in Admin MIS , family Visa.

Contact 98234427, jkjsmith01@gmail.com

Architecture Structural Draughtsman having 5 years Oman experience, NOC available. #97312627

Part time accountant, senior accountant, doing all type of accounting works, up to finalization. contact.95254864

10 years Gulf & 4 years Oman experience in HR / Admin & logistics fluent in Arabic / English with D/L looking for suitable position.

Contact: 95824598

Architect with bachelor degree 4 years experience in architectural design (interior & exterior) professional in (3D Max- Archicad - AutoCAD - Photoshop). #96041201 Email: amer.yousfan@gmail.com

Indian male 20 + yrs exp in Non banking finance co (NBFC) in Oman as Credit Analyst, risk, recoveries operations, well versed with branch operations & flair in Arabic with valid D/L now on visit. #99055123

SKILLED LABOUR Required female tailors Philippine national 2Nos and cutting Master also Philippine female. Must have Oman experience in stitching fashion clothes. C.R 1046847. #93219696

Supply Chain Executive 1. Minimum of 2 years experience in supply chain management 2. Has work experience in logistic company 3. Has to have expertise in logistics and inventory management

CVs mentioning Oman tel. No. to be submitted to: omanengineco@yahoo.com

Fresher 24 years B.Com Graduate, Tally 7.2 & ERP-9, looking for a suit#Contact: 97219505

Urgently require Female nurse with or without MOH license for a dental clinic at Bahla 98230488

A newly started travel agency in Ruwi requires a Manager. The candidate should have 5-7 years experience with excellent communication skills and a valid Omani driving license. Interested candidates , please send CV to manager4travels@gmail. com, within 15 days from the date of this advertisement

EXPERIENCE: 8 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN INCREASINGLY RESPONSIBLE POSITIONS, EXPERIENCE IN CONTRACT MANAGEMENT, REVIEW OF PAYMENT CERTIFICATES, VARIATION ORDERS AND CLAIMS IN THE FIELD OF WATER SUPPLY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Male - Marketing Supervisor with University Degree, Experience in Marketing, w/ excellent communication skill. Email admin-dept@daud. om

Wanted Sales man (experienced in transporting etc). contact 94007259 Email: smylackal@gmail.com

MANAGER

QUANTITY SURVEYOR

Male Accountant 24 yrs, MBA (Finance & HR), DIFA certified having 2.9 yrs experience as Account assistant looking for suitable job, Currently on Visit Visa. Contact:95878661 E-mail: nazeelc@yahoo.com

Urgently required female therapist Panchakarma in Ghoubra. Contact : 95094028

Required female Nurse with MOH license for a private a private clinic in Bowsher area, Muscat. #92189807

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM REQUIRES FOR PROJECTS IN SULTANATE OF OMAN

A new lady’s fashion shop in shopping mall require Omani and Filipino sales lady. A new fast food shop in the same mall require Filipino cashier.

Please send CV to newbrandpanorama@gmail.com

Urgently required Staff Nurse dental clinic Al Ghoubra. Contact: 95094028

Required Prometric passed nurse to join clinic. Contact: 91478749

Contact 99717791 or 94084335

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE

Male/Female advertising and media sales executives required with valid driving license and minimum 1 year experience. Mail CV to blackandwhiteoman@gmail.com

EDUCATION

A well known family in Oman urgently needed an experienced Indian female part time or full time Nursing Assistant to take care of their Mother recovering from stroke.

(DIPLOMA IN QUANTITY SURVEY) WHO ONLY CAN JOIN IMMEDIATELY

Qualifications: • Male expats with GCC experience in sales • Must have a valid GCC driving license • With pleasing personality • Very good English communication skills • Very good in customer service

Vacancy

Wanted urgently

Hr & admin with 15 years experience looking for a job change.NOC available.contact 92475023,email:phoenix.snair@ gmail.com

Pakistani, light driver looking job exp, 4 years. Contact: 96346582 12 years experience need a job.

Contact: 99709344 Light duty driver 3 years experience in Oman looking for job. Contact: 93131542 Light duty driver seeks placement.

Contact: 94435912 / 92439315 Pakistani Driver wanted job, with 3 years experience. contact 94356465

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DRIVER Indian driver, 4 years experience in Oman with car looking for suitable job (NOC available). contact 93053917 Driver seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 98134080 Indian Driver need job. contact 91254539 Light driver for job 5 yrs exp.

Contact: 92171166 Bangladeshi male driver, 48 yrs, exp 14 years, 9 years need job & visa, got release letter. contact 99165961

ENGG. / TECH./MECH. Electrical Engineer (B.E) with 5 years experience (3 yrs in Gulf) NOC available. Contact: 92119851 Email: mayurdevadiga@gmail.com Resident Engineer B.E civil 25 years exp 12 yrs in Architecture consultancy having Oman Dubai D/L NOC available. Contact: 95732453 Email: milindj951@gmail.com Indian male , 23 yrs, postgraduate Mechanical Eng. (M.Sc, UK), 1 year sales exp, having Oman DL, seeking for suitable employment in reputed firm. Contact: 91419764 Email: z.enggoman@gmail.com Indian male 23 years B.E Electrical Engineer 1 year experience is looking for suitable job in Oman currently on visiting visa (certificate attested). Contact: 93547687 Email: ajay.v.s.prabu@gmail.com Workshop Supervisor 29 years working in Oman P.D.O area project NOC available. Contact 94594234 Email: acmshaheed@outlook.com B.Tech mechanical Engineer, 24 yrs, 2 yrs exp seeking job on visiting visa.

Contact: 93523752 Email: binunechikkadan@gmail.com Indian, female, 24 yrs, BE, CS Engg with 2 yrs Exp in Tech Support at Hewlett Packard & S/W Development at ISRO-India, looking for a job in Tech Support /Admin/Teaching/IT field. Contact : 92891427, reshmatj@ gmail.com Civil Engineer 20 years experience in project management including 10 years in Oman. Contact: 91177755 Indian male, 23 years, B.Tech [ECE], 1 year experience in sales and installation (electronics, IT and networking devices) is looking for suitable job. Currently on visiting visa. Contact: +968 96761020 email: adik.mm7@gmail.com BE CIVIL, Indian M29, 5 yrs exp. having DL & NOC, looking for suitable position. Contact: 94576233 Email: suhailmullah@gmail.com B.SC Civil Engineer, road construction field with 12 years experience in Oman. Contact: 92200485 Civil Engineer, Indian male, 11 years experience in construction, having D/L and NOC. Contact: 94194399 Email: shiblyrock@gmail.com B.E Mechanical Engineer Indian male 27 years having 4 years experience including 2 years GCC experience, seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 90156984 Email: noorullahanas@gmail.com Sudanese Civil Engineer, 10 years experience as Consultant and Contractor 4 .5 years in Oman having driving license. Contact: 98506031 Diploma computer B. Sc Electrical and Electronic Eng, IT ISP Network control server management 4 years experience in Bangladesh wanted visa. Contact: 96524904 Electrical Engineer Indian Male 2.5Years Experience Looking for suitable Job. Contact:91845173 Email:er.joshidhaval@gmail.com HSE Engineer, Indian 26 years B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Nebosh IGC qualified 5 years exp in O & G on visit visa. Contact: 94135234 Email: labythomas@gmail.com Kerala Electrical Technician, foreman cum Storekeeper (Electrical).

Contact: 93563744 Civil Engineer B.Tech with Iosh, Nebosh certification having valid Omani driving license looking for suitable job. Contact: 93631625 Road and Construction Engineer exp 5 years in Oman. contact 97646908

Indian female, 30 yrs, Interior Designer Bachelor degree with 5 yrs working experience seeking suitable placement in Oman.

Contact 98499975, Email : swasdesigner@gmail.com ENGG. / TECH./MECH.

Project/ Program Manager/ Finance professional

SALES / MARKETING

Qualification MBA PMP six sigma (GB) Countries exposure Canada & Middle East, Industry any (experienced in bank, telecom, transport.

Nationality-Canadian. On visit in Oman.

9 years experience in construction Purchase seeking suitable placement immediately, NOC available.

Contact: 97332401

Contact - 97203531 TOURS & TRAVELS

Mechanical Engineer (UK), 28 years, male having 3.5 years experience, looking for suitable placement with valid Oman driving license NOC available. Immediate availability Contact: +968 97612297 Email: ymirza11@ caledonian.ac.uk

Indian female 24 yrs, Bachelor in Travel & Tourism and 2 year exp in Oman as ticketing executive.GDS-Sabre, Amdeus, Galilio. seeking suitable job.

Contact- 95610789

B.Tech mechanical Eng (Indian) having 4 years exp in oil field, completed CSWip 3.1 welding inspection level-2, primavera and good knowledge in designing software like Staddpro tekla auto spool AutoCAD etc seeking suitable placement.

Contact : 96071081

Hotel exp 4 years F+ B (service) visit visa expires 13/11/2015, B.A Hotel Management. Contact: 91987013 / 96971643 Email: shinekls34@gmail.com

BE Mechanical Engineer, 23 years, Indian male on visit available for immediate placement please contact: 96145820 or arunsankar.10.92@gmail.com BSC (Hons) Civil Engineer with Oman work experience and valid driving license looking for immediate placement in consultancy or construction firm currently on visit visa. Contact: 91181680 Indian Electrical Engineer B. Tech, female 24 seeking job. presently in oman having 2 year experience in design and estimation of Ht &Lt projects. Contact number 96897436557, Mail id : sibinanoop1@gmail.com BE mechanical Engineer MBA Indian male 25 currently working in Qatar skills, MEP Designing, Surveying Oracle AutoCAD, SAP. Contact: +97474470866 C/O Oman 95071632 Indian lady Electrical Engineer, M. Tech in power systems (NITC) & B.Tech in EEE (CET) with 3 years experience in electrical design & consultancy. Proficient in AutoCAD, LT & HT design estimation, seeking suitable position in Muscat. #97710156 Email: deepthikarur@ gmail.com

HOSPITALITY

IT Software Programmer, 6 yrs exp in software projects & development (Java,PL/SQL Unix) on visit visa.

Contact: 99487493 Pakistani male 28 data entry experience 5 years in I.T Computer M.S excel MS Word, installation all windows formating networking and E.T.C. Contact : 94568628 Email: amjad.aslam007@gmail.com Desktop / server / network support exp 7 yrs male, visit visa CCNA, MCSE. Contact: 93594114 Indian army Retired Colonel with 25 years experience in project management, optical cables, telecommunications & IT system integration available for immediate employment in project management / Business development. Immediate available to join. Email: amrain66@ gmail.com Indian male 28 yrs, Master degree in Computer Application, 2 years exp in Oman looking for suitable placement. Contact: 93295112 Email: syedsadathali.mca@gmail.com IT Telecom / Networking Engineer with CCNA & CCNP, 3 yrs experience, currently in visit visa. contact 97435944 Email: abdulsameerr@ gmail.com

MEDICAL Male 22, B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering dynamic personality, seeking suitable position languages known English, Hindi, Currently in Oman. Contact: 93611341 / 92603257 Email: arjunakshysree@ gmail.com BSC Civil Engineer and MBA 25 years experience in roads, infrastructure and management have Oman D/L. Contact: 96936263 Email: saadfallih@gmail.com Civil Engineer 5 years experience in Oman, 3 years in EURO looking best career in my field or management, with valid driving license.

Contact: 93149659 Indian female 11 years experience in Oman as a Quantity Surveyor in Civil having valid Omani driving license. NOC available. Contact: 99879525 Indian male 24 years Instrumentation technician have 2.5 years experience in India, seeks a suitable job. Contact: 92696798 Email: ajoarikkatt@gmail.com Electronics diploma 1 year exp in telecommunication, mobile tower field support Engg. Vishnu Madhu Soodanan. Contact: 94519571 / 95233636 Email: vishnumadhull@ gmail.com BSc. in Civil Engineer 12 years experience in infrastructure & building having UAE D/L currently on visit visa looking suitable placement. Contact 91206763 Email: delwar.civil.97@gmail.com Civil Engineer, Indian male 29, having 7 years exp in construction field& Auto Cad in Oman. Having valid driving license. Fluent in English & Arabic. Looking for suitable job in reputed firm. #99650569 Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experience with constructions companies - 1 years in Oman - qualified as Site Engineer & Planning Engineer.

Contact+968-94682217 Electrical Engineer Indian male 29 years, having 5 years of experience in industrial automation and utility maintenance in India (MRF Tyres), seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 92789995 Email: akhilabrahamlktr@gmail.com

Palestinian dentist looking for job in private hospitals, Medical Center or Dental Centers in Muscat 15 yrs exp P. hospitals out Muscat. #96951750

MISCELLANEOUS

Marketing Executive/Merchandiser, Omani License, BA 8 years Experience in Multinational Groups.

Contact 97601343 Digital marketing / ad words/ analytics / SEO expert, exp 5 yrs (male) certified) , (visit visa). Contact : 93594114 (visit visa). Email: abeyre@gmail.com Indian male B.Com with valid driving license & 8 years of Gulf experience with NOC or transfer letter whatever required looking for a outdoor job is sales or business development immediate placement.

Contact 91234320 Sales & marketing professional with 8+ years experience at UAE & Oman in hotels & airlines with valid driving license NOC available, seeks suitable opportunity. #95544612

Indian Male 26, U.K Post Graduate M.A, MBA, 3 years Experience, looking position within Marketing, Branding, Business Development & PR. Contact: greetings111@ hotmail.com Tel No: 95128769 /+918939165131 Indian, female 28 yrs, B.Com, 7 yrs call center/marketing experience, currently on visit, seek suitable placement. Contact Rashmi 96746698.

Indian male MBA (MKTG) B.com having 2 years experience in sales marketing and business development looking for a suitable opening presently on family visit visa. # 93268245 Email: gregjose1991@gmail.com Indian male with CA & CPA having 20 years of experience, currently on visit seeks suitable placement.

Contact: 93910095 Email: rejithomas07@gmail.com Female accountant on family visa available for part time / full time.

Contact: 98002428

Civil Engineer B.Sc -6 years experience with constructions companies - qualified as A Project Engineer & Planning Engineer . Contact+968-94682217 Indian male 22 years, looking for suitable placement in Hardware and Networking field, Having 1 year exp. in India, training in al ameen computers Muscat Ruwi. Qualification is Diploma in Electronics and Communication at present I am having my valid employee visa In the same work. Contact : - 9739622910/8050101914, Email ID :- fairozhuded13@gmail.com

Indian female MSC computer Sc, IELTS certified experienced in teaching higher grades IGCSE GD, CBSE in Oman and India seeking suitable placement. Contact: 98048946

Indian male having 7 Years of Experience in Oman Having Valid Driving License working as a Office Driver ,Looking for a suitable Position, NOC Available. Contact: 99680429, E-mail:anzarkutty1975@ gmail.com

Sales and marketing - male 27 yrs, 2 years experience seeking suitable placement with Oman D/L. contact 95642740 Email: shaijichakkara@ gmail.com

Indian male, 19 years experience in purchase, material coordinator in building construction & factory production field. have good computer skills & driving license and NOC, looking for a suitable placement.

Contact: 99008101

SECRETARIAL & OFFICE Indian Male more than 10 years gulf experience in Office / Sales Coordinator, Admin, Secretarial and purchase with good computer skills. Having Driving license and NOC available. Looking for suitable placement. #95149624

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian female M.Sc Physics, B.Ed having 5 years experience in teaching looking for suitable job. Contact: 97367389 Sales Manager MBA, having 12 years of experience with valid GCC driving license looking for a suitable position NOC available. Contact: 98125226

Advertising/media executive with 15 years gulf experience with oman driving license. Seeks good opening. 93031168.

Electrical Forman Indian male 38 years, total 19 yrs exp in electrical field, electrical Forman exp 4 yrs in Oman seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 97379290

Indian (Bangalore), internal auditor / senior accountant having (Gulf) 8 years, (India) 15 years experience, presently on employment visa seeking suitable placement in Salalah / Muscat. Contact 968 94765948, email:amituppin@gmail.com

MECH. Engg with 3+ year’s exp in India & U.A.E (Site Engg / Sales Engg) in oil & gas on visit visa looking for suitable jobs. contact 97896725 Email: georgymct@gmail.com

Sudanese / 30 years old / M.Sc. Logistics Management /English & Arabic/ logistics - procurement inventory planning / 91270881

INDIAN MALE accountant, 12 years experience in accounting with tally also, looking for a suitable placement. contact . 98983122 FEMALE SYRIAN ARCHITECT ,new graduate have good experience in architect programs, auto-cad 3d max ,sketch up , Photoshop ,sketch up, searching for a job full time or part time, for contact : 97482871 Indian Male 33 yrs, BCA ,10 years experience(India & Oman) IT Support, System administrator/supervisor looking for suitable Job.#95448561

SALES / MARKETING Indian male more than 8 years experience in UAE in Office , Sales Marketing with good computer skills having driving license looking for suitable placement. contact 99369081 Email: shazulashraf60@gmail. com

INDIAN FEMALE– ME in CSE with 2 years’ experience in teaching seeking Suitable Job Opportunity. Contact: 94263445 or +91 9486251274, E mail – apshinmar@gmail.com

Indian male MBA, 2 years experience in sales and 2 years experience in HR with D/L looking for a suitable position. Contact: 91202335 Email: mrishad90@yahoo.com

Indian male, 19 years experience in purchase, material coordinator in building/pipe line construction & factory production field. have good computer skills & driving license and NOC, looking for a suitable placement. mr.victor2015@hotmail. com contact: 99008101

Indian 14 years experience in consumer goods as Marketing Manager with visa D/L. Contact: 90314809

Indian Female 10 years as cook in Muscat, Oman . South Indian, Gujarati special food, Looking for part time. Contact 96710189

Sudanese / Arabic & English teacher for all nationalities / willing to teach at home. Tel: 94211377

Social worker MSW Children counselor, 2 years UK, Indian exp or resident visa. Contact: 94635091 Email: betzyza14@gmail.com

Relationship Manager Indian male 28 BB, MBA 5 years exp currently working in India, computer skilled.

Contact: 0091 9747101018 Email: rahuljayamohan@gmail.com C/O Oman: 95071632

Network/Noc engineer, CCNA certified & CCNP trained, Indian male 27 years B.com(general) 5 years & 4 month’s of experience in the field of networking seeks for better placement. contact 97663834 / 98730758

Filipino male, 29 Graduate of Bs IT with GCC experience as document controller and Executive Secretary looking for employment. Contact: +968 93929569

Civil Engineer B.tech with iosh nebosh certification having valid Omani driving license, looking for suitable job in Oman. #93631625

MANAGER/ SUPERVISOR

Indian male having 14 years of experience in HR, Purchase Dept, having Oman driving license looking for a suitable position , at Salalah. Noc available. Email. Madhuvtk@ gmail. com Contact: 91182907

Purchase experienced 8 years in Construction Company Indian male 45 yrs, release & D/L available. Contact: 90268183 / 96987234

Indian male graduate D/L (3 yrs exp) seeking suitable placement.

Contact: 97299097 Email: anishazzy@gmail.com

Sudanese lawyer with experience 10 years in Judiciary in Khartoum.

Contact: 94458976

MISCELLANEOUS

Indian male, 10 years Driving experience in Dubai. Looking as a company driver job. Contact : 96180458 , +91 99 61 019366 (India ) 32 years, Indian Male MSC,MBAHR having 7.5yrs Exp (HR/SAP operations) with Oman valid driving license, seeking suitable opening in Human Resource & Admin/backend jobs.Contact: 00968-99322978 Bangladeshi male, seeks job as Supervisor, 2 yrs experience with cleaning company & valid Oman driving license. Contact 97443270 Indian Male,27 years, MCA, 3 years Experience in Web developer, Technical Supporter, looking for suitable position. Presently Working in India. Contact- +91 7403288953, +91 9020679788.Email-vinuvn88@ gmail.com.

Pakistani male 29 years General Salesman with 5 years of experience, valid Oman D/L looking for suitable placement. #97216830 Chemical Engineer, Indian, 2 years of exp in industrial production, seeking suitable placement. contact 91247222 Indian male, 4 years of experience in Structured cabling, termination and Fiber optic splicing. Looking for a suitable Placement. NOC available. GSM- 92484039, Email –rajaveer8989@gmail.com Admin, having 10+ years experience in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper, in reputed companies. Presently working in Muscat. #968 94369965,mail - satya1528@gmail.com Pakistani male, MBA(Marketing)+PGD(HR) with 9 yrs experience in banking & hospital industry (Consumer Credit Review, Admin & HR). 3 yrs experience as Asst Manager, Admin & HR in famous private hospital in Oman with NOC. Contact: 95761982 or umerok@ hotmail.com Indian male 25 years, MBA finance and marketing with tally have 1.3 year experience in India. Now in Oman on visit visa. GSM: 97445488 Working as Senior accountant,5yr. exp.in oman, Accounting upto finalisation, relevant computer skills tally9, Sage, vcams , Audit ,valid oman driving license, languages known English, Arabic, Hindi. NOC avaliable can join immediately. Tel: (+968) 96339599.

E-mail-(ahmedmohdkhan@gmail. com) Indian Female, 35years, Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) fresh graduate with BSc and MA looking for positions in Front Office,administration office, or any suitable positions in hospital, polyclinic, companies or Institutions. Contact 90236481 Structure/Pipeline,Piping Draughtsman have 12+ yrs. Exp. in Oman seeking suitable placement.

Contact 92103713 NOC available.

Syrian architect have years and half experience in oman looking for work, full time perfect in architectural programs 3d max , auto cad , Photoshop , and sketch up. for contact : 0096897482871 Female, Indian, 35 years, Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) fresh graduate with BSc looking for positions in Front Office, administration office, or any suitable positions in hospital, polyclinic, companies or Institutions.

Contact 90236481.

Indian Male 47 years MBA-Operations Management with total 25 Yrs exp inclusive of 9 yrs in Oil & Gas sector in Oman, having valid Omani D/L & NOC, seek challenging position in SCM/Logistics/Procurement.

GSM-94236414. Mail id – dialindia33@gmail.com Well experienced management finance specialist having 18 years experience available for placement.

Contact.95602518 23, Male, ACCA Affiliate, OBU Bsc, 2.5 years of experience in audit and finance in Big 6 Firms, Looking for permanent placement in similar field. Release NOC available. Contact: #95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com 22, Male, Indian, BBA (Marketing), 1 year experience in India, Looking for suitable placement in Sales and Marketing. #91897046, azzamsiddique1@gmail.com Indian Male,27,ACCA Part Qualified,B.COM with 7+ yrs exp in receivables and credit control in Oman looking for suitable placements. NOC available. # 9657 4343.

Indian Female, Science Graduate, 3 years Experience in Teaching back home. Looking for a suitable job opportunity as a teacher, in Schools in Muscat Region. Contact : 96431456 / 95704814 Looking for a suitable job as Jr. Accountant/ Jr. Administration in a reputed company. NOC Available.

GSM # 93004738.

ACCOUNTANT, Male, 8 years experience, presently working in Oman as a Senior Accountant with oman Driving license. NOC available, seek suitable opportunity. GSM: 97705854 Chemical Engineer Indian 2 years of experience in production field Contact: 91247222 Email:sahadpoonchola@gmail.com Syrian male 3yrs. exp in IT support, Networking, Security systems, Server support, IT sales and marketing.

Valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement. Contact 91033395 Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having 4yrears of experience in MNC, hands of experiences in recruitment and administration, flexible for any suitable job placements currently in visting visa. Contact Tel : 98864639 Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com Indian Male, 25, Chartered Accountant, working with ICICI Bank India.

On a Visit Visa in Oman. Staying with parents at Azaiba. Ph: 24492638.

Email: shyamal008@gmail.com

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DAILY GUIDE SIT.WANTED MISCELLANEOUS visit visa looking for suitable job.

Contact: 93442296 Email Id: sal201091@gmail.com.

MBA (F) B.COM Indian female having knowledge of accounts with Tally looking for full or part time job.

Presently on family visit visa.

Contact: - 96259171. Email: bhumicapandya@gmail.com Site Supervisor/ L Driver, Pakistani Male 33 with valid D/L, 4 years experience in Muscat, fluent in English, Arabic looking for suitable place. Contact: 97950869 Indian Male, MBA, Talented management expert having 6 year experience at U.A.E, India and Oman in luxury goods and Retail. Seeking suitable openings in related or same field. Contact:92700670 Email: jobcareer44@gmail.com B.Tech EEE with 4+ years experience in the field of it, networking, ex-tonics etc. presently working in Amazon India development centre as a content quality associate seeking for suitable jobs in Oman.

Contact : +91 9940514005, 93116402 email: mail2nbn@gmail.com Pakistani, Male, Pak, Exp 14 Years in IT Trainer / Computer Teacher, looking for a better position in Oman, already working in Prestigious Construction Company. # 95983711.

Join.mtmali@gmail.com M. Tech VLSI design, B. tech Electronics and instrumentation, Indian female,3 years teaching experience for graduation level students, seeking suitable placements .

Ph:00968 92904155. email-achusooraj@gmail.com MBA Finance with more than five years of experience in Finance & Accounts including GCC, looking for a suitable opening. Having UAE driving license. Contact no..91391802

SIT.WANTED MISCELLANEOUS Civil Autocad Draughtsman part time work for job mob :96023726 Indian Male, 26 Yrs, Business Management, 6 years in Oman.

Knowledge of MS Office and Arabic Language. Seeks suitable position.

Contact 93931935 Indian Mechanical Engineer, 30, having 8yrs of UAE Sales/Business Development. experience in Electromechanical and Irrigation sectors. Contact no+971558763220 email id-sangowri@outlook.com Indian male, with finance and Law degree, having more than 25 years of experience in Finance/ Accounts / Audit (5 years of Oman experience) seeks suitable placement. NOC available. Contact: 98421619.

E-mail: talemadhamu@yahoo.com.

Indian male Executive Secretary having vast experience in admin, logistics & procurement well versed with computer seeks suitable placement. Contact : 99514286 Indian male 22yr BBA with LOGISTIC Diploma, exp in tally and data entry seeking in suitable placement.

Contact; 90151739 email shakeeb.mp280gmail.com

and maintaining computers Java Programmer Web Developer Linux SMS solutions Android developer/ email khalid.omx@gmail.com/ # 944958080 and 99758186.

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA, MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT support, networking and server support valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/Server support. Contact 92607532 Indian B.E Computer Science graduate 2012 passout. 1 .5 yrs exp. in Accounting. Having good communication skills and mindset to work in a team. Having NIIT certificate in Diploma in Java Technology. # 97767894 Email: jinsonjacobjohn@gmail.com Indian male 24 YEARS, B.Tech (Electrical & Electronics), having 2 yrs. exp as Electrical Site Engineer. Done IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifications, seeking for suitable placement in any related industries. Contact 98045482, Email: mastanshaik1008@gmail.com Indian male, 24 years, HSE Engineer having 2 years of Indian experience.

Done IOSH & NEBOSH- IGC certifications, seeking for suitable placement in any related industries.

Contact 98045482

Part- Time Accountant, well experience senior accountant ,doing all type of accounting works, Finalization, Budgeting available.

Contact 98803439 Indian 26M, B. Tech Computer Science graduate, 3 years exp in India, looking for suitable job in Muscat.

Contact : 93125669, Email : amritrajGT18@gmail.com

Indian male B.Eng. in IT,CCNA, MCSA,MCSE, 2.5 yrs + exp. in IT support, Networking and Server support with valid Omani D/L seeking suitable placement in IT/Network/Server support. contact 92607532

Senior Accountant. 8 Years experience. NOC available. Oman driving license. Seek suitable opportunity.

GSM- 98184170

ACCA Affiliate, OBU Degree, 2.5 years experience in audit and finance in Big6 firm, Looking for permanent placement. NOC release available. Contact: 95140445, a.saran891@gmail.com

Indian male Accountant, 12 years experience, looking for a full time or part time job, experience in tally also. Contact 98983122

B.E Mechanical Engineer with 2 years’ experience in HVAC field on

Nair boy 38 years Palakkad having land & property in Kerala working in a Star Hotel MCT as Supervisor for cast 15 years is looking for life partner. No demand at all. Bindu : 97944673 Pakistani male 34 years living with parents in Oman for 27 years using hearing aid looking for a suitable alliance. Contact: 95544612 / 99353096 Seeking alliance for our son from Muslim families. Interested families Contact: 99889590

FOR HIRE Volvo excavator.ec.290 and xcmg shoval. 3m3 pls contact.95254864.

SIT.WANTED MISCELLANEOUS ME Civil- structural Engineer, 8 Years Structural Engineer experience, Looking for Structural Designer, supervisor or site engineer Position. Iranian male. #93696929 Email: mhsaz1359@gmail.com

Indian female, MBA, 25yrs Having 4yrears of experience in MNC, hands of experiences in recruitment and administration, flexible for any suitable job placements currently in visting visa. Contact: 98864639 Email : neethuvijayan06@gmail.com

Indian Male, 25, Chartered Accountant, working with ICICI Bank India. On a Visit Visa in Oman.

Staying with parents at Azaibah.

Ph:24492638. Email: shyamal008@ gmail.com

Sudanese/26/Bsc Computer Science /3 years exp/skills Excellent knowledge in operating systems

Indian Kerala male, 32 yrs, Christian R.C working in Muscat looking for a suitable bride. If interested Contact: 9845460 / 99883109

Admin, having 10+ years experience in Admin/HR/Logistics/Time Keeper, in reputed companies. Presently working in Muscat. Contact 94369965mail - satya1528@gmail. com

Mechanical Draftsman, Indian male 27, Diploma in Mechanical Engineering having 7 years of experience in Auto CAD looking for a suitable placement.#97351786 / 96143708 mohammednazeer07@gmail.com

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, 8 years experience ,Oman driving licence,Noc available. Seek Suitable opportunity.

GSM- 98184170

Kerala orthodox boy 29/188 working as Staff Nurse MOH Muscat seeking suitable alliances. Contact: 99461264

Indian Male 23 years B.Tech Civil Engineering having 2 years experience in quantity survey and site management looking for suitable placement. Contact- 95042656

Pakistan Male: 24 years,M.Com Finance having 2.5 year experience as a accountant & marketing executive looking for suitable placement.

Contact: 97670816, E.mail: naeem.ahsan68@gmail.com

Indian female with MBA in finance seeking immediate placement.

Contact: 968-93316493 MBA Finance with more than five years of experience in Finance & Accounts including GCC, looking for a suitable opening. Having UAE driving license. #91391802.

Muslim girl, 23 yrs, 162” looking alliance from Doctors TamilNadu/ Kerala. Contact 98553628

MBA - (F), M.Com, B.COM. Indian female having knowledge of accounts with Tally looking for part time or full time job. Presently on family visa. # 91892264. mail: yv.dixit@yahoo.com

Indian Male (Diploma in electronics Engineering and CCNA.) having 9 years of experience in Networking, 5 years’ experience in Oman. Looking for a suitable Placement. NOC available. GSM- 93787098, Email –anishktr@gmail.com

27, male, ACCA finalist, have professional experience up to finalization of Accounts, Statutory and internal audit, expertise in using tally and focus & Oracle Software, have 3.5 years experience in accounts till finalization, seeking for permanent replacement ,#97654769, email id- abdullah.nooralam@yahoo.com

Kerala Nair girl 28 years (M.Tech) looking suitable alliance. Contact: 0091 9446303209

Sudanese/Bsc IT/26/2 years experience/excellent Eng-Arb speaking/ Omani driving license/96387227/ henrykarrar@gmail.com

Two year experience in Oman, experience in sales, purchase and system admin, Having GCC license.

Contact number 97475860, Yadhukrishnan08@gmail.com

Indian Female BSC nurse with 8+ years of experience including 3 years of GCC exp. Oman Prometric passed with 57 %. Currently in Oman. Contact : 98034384

India male 33 years. DCT, BBA, OSHA, looking for Job in Construction HSE, 11 Years experience with GCC license, NOC available Contact :- 9418 4280 Filipino Senior Architect with 13 years GCC experience. Proficient in 3D StudioMax, AutoCAD, Revit, Phostoshop, and Microsoft Office. With NOC and Omani driving license. Please contact 91292933.

Indian female, 40 yrs, 7 yrs experience in customer service, with D/L seeks suitable placement.

Contact 95580711

SITUATION WANTED SERVICES

A respectable Hindu KAPU (Naidu) family from Vijayawada A.P.India invites alliances for their daughter, 25 years, B. Tech (computer Science) father working in Oman. Contact: 95097913 / 99744870 Email: sarathbabureddi@gmail.com

Electronics System Eng. UK Graduate. Indian Female with relevant work experience. Eng. Analysis, Instrumentation and Control, Power & Heat, Electrical & Fluid, Drives & Actuators etc. Looking for an entry level position. Email s.dinesh1508@ gmail.com. Mobile: 97848075, +918105413827

ACCOUNTANT: Indian male 25 having 4 years experience in accounting & having well knowledge in tally.

Contact:968094535881, 0091 9037622048, Email: vishnuraj889@gmail.com

31 year Indian male PG in HR ,with 5 yrs Professional experience in HR in Construction Oil & Gas Oman seeking for a suitable placement.

Kindly contact me on 93488914, email-Kaarthickshankar@gmail.com

MATRIMONIAL

Indian Male -25years B.Tech Engineer seeking any suitable jobs in Oman ,currently on visit visa.

Contact : Haneesh N. Surendran, Mob : 90126573, Email: - haneeshns02@gmail.com Female Junior Architect, Excellence in Autocad, Sketching & Modelling, Internship - KHAM Designs, Bangalore. Presently with Atulya Architects & Associates. Email saatvika.frozenmusic@gmail.com Contact 00968-94057427.

Indian male BE Electrical & Electronics and PG in power systems (transmission & distribution) on visit seeking placement. #94669679 E Mail : prsabarish@gmail.com

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