Lost-and-found website needed

Dear Sir,

When we lose something, we search for it everywhere. When we fail to find the item, it causes us deep anguish but if it is an essential thing, we will be forced to replace it. Losing something doesn’t mean that it has been stolen; we could have misplaced it somewhere or we could have dropped it without realising it.
Most of  the expatriates, especially from the Subcontinent, are a bit nervous about going to the police. This could be because  the police force in their own countries have a poor image. So they assume that must be the case with the police here too.
Also in Qatar, most Asian expatriates don’t speak Arabic and this may also be holding them from approaching the police.
If the police have a website, on which they post the lost and found articles, (preferably with pictures) with dates and places of finding them, people can log on and check whether they belonged to them.
Once they realise that their lost item is available with the police, they could approach the police; first through e-mail and then in person.
I hope the government will act on this suggestion. There may be thousands of lost-and-found items lying with the police as most of them are never claimed.
I understand that the Dubai police already have a site on the Internet to help people identify and claim lost property. Found items are kept by the police for six months, the legal period after which they are entitled to sell them at public auctions.

Mohamed Mohsin Jowher, jowhers@gmail.com

A hypocritical approach

Dear Sir,

The birth of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was the beginning of a new era of benign hegemony led by the major powers, some of whom do not even recognise the ICC.
Yet they demand for others to be convicted and are two-faced when it comes to principles. This is duplicity as well as hypocritical.
The ICC move against President Omar al-Bashir, of Sudan, must be seen in this context.
Over the past 30 years, as many as 40 leaders across the globe have been responsible for the deaths of at least 25mn people. Why is the ICC silent on them?

Farouk Araie, farouk.araie@telkomsa.net

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