Oman Sultan Quotes

Salim is upset. The fax that was waiting for him when he woke this morning was curt, and alternately chiding, stern, and disappointed: Salim was letting them down—his sister, Fuad, Fuad’s business partners, the Sultanate of Oman, the whole Arab world. Unless he was able to get the orders, Fuad would no longer consider it his obligation to employ Salim. They depended upon him. His hotel was too expensive. What was Salim doing with their money, living like a sultan in America? Salim read the fax in his room (which has always been too hot and stifling, so last night he opened a window, and was now too cold) and sat there for a time, his face frozen into an expression of complete misery.

According to Critchfield’s contacts, Sultan Qaboos came to the United States with no serious problems. He was interested mainly in meeting personally with President Ford and other U.S. government officials.

The sultan’s official party included Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Qais Al-Zawawi, advisors Ghassan Shaker and Yehia Omar, Sayyid Tariq bin Taimur, Lt. Col. Landon, and economic advisor John Townsend.

Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of law is at its highest realm where interpretation takes the fore wheel. It is in the courts, that failure to implement the law repercussions come up in the form of disputes and conflicts and where the judges are  expected to deliver their best within the precincts of the law.

The other members of the legal fraternity especially the court officers/lawyers should be encouraged to aid in interpretation of statutes by handing down suggestions to the legislators through a proper channel which shall be specially devised for the purpose. When legal experts fail to  exercise their professional prudence,  the purpose of law, receives a major blow, and on the contrary leads to chaos and exogenous delivery of justice oblivious of the intention of the legislature/law maker in promulgating a particular statute.

In the corporate realm, where several laws are in operation, implementation receives a blow when it comes to interpretation and understanding the spirit and purpose of any particular law that may have been designed and promulgated for meeting a particular purpose in the light of the anomalies prevalent in the sector at any given point of time.Thus I would call for establishing a sagacious method of study of law, and study of interpretation of statutes so as to develop the legal fabric.

Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to his discretely reasoned judgement, what cannot be forgotten is even judges are human with a fallibility in veins and to err is but human, hence placing  complete dependence on judicial reasoning also would be a folly, but it can be accepted as  a workable hypothesis, in my opinion.Further only concrete strands of tested reasoning and principles drawn from those concrete raison d’être , can be considered as one of the ingredient in concrete law making.

the creative power of the judicial system in shaping the law cannot be overlooked entirely. This factor needs to be consciously accepted as one of the elements  in shaping the legal system and the laws, however, without least opposing the Supremacy of the Sovereign statutes promulgated in the land.The chasm in the contemporaneous legal scheme and the legislation in Oman harbingers for such a practice to secure the ends of justice, probability of decisions to be given primacy rather than approximation to a model format.

The constant needle and edge in their working relationship is matched by a cloak of secrecy the warring offices throw around their rival operations. Diana had to use all her guile to tease out information from her husband’s office before she flew to Pakistan on her first major solo overseas tour last year. She was due to stopover in Oman where Prince Charles was trying to woo the Sultan to win funding for an architectural college. Curious by nature, Diana wanted to know more but realized that a direct approach to Prince Charles or his senior advisers would receive a dusty response. Instead she penned a short memo to the Prince’s private secretary, Commander Richard Aylard and asking innocently if there was anything in the way of briefing notes she needed for the short stopover in Oman. The result was that, as she was travelling on official Foreign Office business, the Prince was forced to reveal his hand. In this milieu of sullen suspicion, secrecy is a necessary and constant companion. Caution is her watchword. There are plenty of eyes and ears as well as police video cameras to catch the sound of a voice raised in anger or the sight of an unfamiliar visitor. Tongues wag and stories circulate with electrifying efficiency. It is why, when she was learning about her bulimic condition, she hid books on the subject from prying eyes. She dare not bring home tapes from her astrology readings nor read the satirical magazine Private Eye with its wickedly accurate portrayal of her husband in case it attracts unfavourable comment. The telephone is her lifeline, spending hours chatting to friends: “Sorry about the noise, I was trying to get my tiara on,” she told one disconcerted friend.

The purpose of labor laws/employment laws , is to establish balanced basic rights of both the groups(employer – employee) each having a contributive impact on the economy, while the law makers strategically deduce through conflicting maze of interests principles and guidelines ,ironing out the furrows with balanced promulgation.

The snag lies not in the laws themselves as we call them “loopholes” but the much anticipated upshots are knocked down by the failure to interpret in the intended perspective.

Employer and employee are both ' contributors ' to socio economic development of any nation

الحكم المطلق هو السمة السياسية المحدِّدة للنظام القائم في عمان؛ إذ إن السلطان يملك نظرياً ما يسمى في الفلسفة السياسية السلطة العليا في البلاد، هو ما يصفه منظّر مفهوم السيادة في القرن السادس عشر جان بودان بقوله : " من يملك السيادة المطلقة هو الذي لا يرى شيئاً أعلى من ذاته غير الإله " وفي حين يخضع السلطان للقانون الإلهي، إلا أنه هو المصدر الرسمي للقانون المدني، وعلى الرغم من خضوعه في الأصل لبريطانيا، إلا أنها هي التي منحته الدعم الكامل لتشيد حكمه المطلق. كما يملك السلطان من الناحية العملية صلاحية الاستحواذ على أجهزة الدولة، ذلك أنه يسيطر فعلياً على القرارات والتعيينات، ناهيك عن أنه لا يوجد من بين مستشاريه أو وزرائه من يملك قاعدة للسلطة مستقلةً عن شخص السلطان. بل إن الأسرة الحاكمة نفسها لا يمكن اعتبارها سلطة وسيطة؛ فعائلة آل سعيد ليس لها إلا دور صغير في عملية الحكم إذا ما قارنّاها بالعائلات الحاكمة الأخرى في المنطقة المجاورة. ومن هنا لا يمكن الحديث عن أسرة عمانية حاكمة بهذا المعنى ، إنما عن حاكم فرد.

The official British position was that the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a fully sovereign and independent state.25 In truth, it was a de facto British colony. As such, successive British governments were responsible for the woeful political, social and economic conditions that the Sultan’s subjects endured, and which both created and fuelled the popular revolt.

Slavery had been abolished in Bahrain in 1937, in Kuwait in 1949 and in Saudi Arabia in 1962.32 In Oman, it flourished. The Sultan himself owned around 500 slaves. An estimated 150 of them were women, whom he kept at his palace at Salalah; a number of his male slaves were said to have been physically deformed by the cruelties they had suffered.

The people of Oman despised and feared both their Sultan and the British who kept him in place and colluded with his policy of non-development. Ranulph Fiennes had been in the country for just a few hours when he began to sense how deep this enmity ran. He walked to a town near his base, ‘and everywhere saw poverty and dirt; disease and squalor’. His fellow officers, he noticed, carried revolvers at their waists as they strolled around the market. ‘The people jostled past and spat and stared from dark, proud eyes, with hate I thought.