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DOHA: Even as day temperatures have begun dropping, the weather bureau has forecast rains accompanied by thunder at some places today. But the bureau said the day will be hot and it could be cloudy most of the time during the day at some places. The weather could be cloudy with chances of rain in the northeast, according to the forecast. Day temperatures are now in their 30s. The average day temperature today is forecast at 37 degrees C, and the minimum between 26 and 29 degrees C. Al Khor will be cooler, with the maximum temperature forecast at 36 degrees C and the minimum at 26 degrees. In Doha, the mercury levels will vary between 29 and 37 degrees C. Over 100 firms in Qatar fully American-owned DOHA: More than 100 companies based in Qatar are fully owned by Americans and another 330 are owned jointly by US and Qatari citizens, according to the Minister of Economy and Commerce. H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassem Al Thani told heads of several American businesses in New York yesterday that Qatar was a highly foreign investor-friendly country. He cited the above figures in his meeting with heads of several key US businesses at a club in New York, Al Sharq reported. In his talk, the Minister also gave details of investment oppor- tunities available to foreigners in Qatar. Britain votes for air strikes against IS LONDON: Lawmakers in Britain’s House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Friday to join US-led air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq but one prominent opposition Labour party member stepped down from her post to abstain. The motion proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron’s government THE ISSUE was passed by 524 votes to 43, a majority of 481. Labour’s Rushanara Ali, a party spokeswoman Hamad General Hospital on education, said she had resigned from the section of society, while the others are at best clinics. front bench in order to abstain after the party (HGH), which is part of Hamad best clinics. “We need more and big private hospitals leadership backed the government’s proposal. Medical Corporation (HMC), “We need more and big private hospitals like Al Ahli, though they must be afford- See also page 5 has come in for severe criticism like Al Ahli, though they must be afford- able,” said an observer. He told this news- able,” said an observer. He told this news- paper yesterday that cost-effective medical Chicago fire grounds from people for what they say paper yesterday that cost-effective medical care in the private healthcare sector was are inadequate facilities and care in the private healthcare sector was the need of the hour. 1,700 flights inappropriate treatment of the need of the hour. Most expatriate-managed healthcare Most expatriate-managed healthcare facilities in the country are at best clinics Design: Abraham Augusthy CHICAGO: A fire apparently set by an patients. facilities in the country are at best clinics or polyclinics and they cater only to outpa- employee at a Chicago-area air traffic con- or polyclinics and they cater only to outpa- tients. “What we need are bigger hospitals trol centre led to the cancellation of nearly tients. “What we need are bigger hospitals in the private sector,” reiterated the expert. 1,700 flights at the city’s two major airports, in the private sector,” reiterated the expert. Another observer said that since the snarling air traffic across the United States, he criticism is nothing new, but Another observer said that since the population of the country had literally been officials said. Flights resumed at O’Hare what made it resurface in the population of the country had literally been exploding, HMC should not be expected to International Airport, one of the world’s busi- Qatari community in particu- exploding, HMC should not be expected to cater to everyone. est, after a delay of about four hours, but there Tlar was a woman’s narration on cater to everyone. “There is indeed pressure on HMC and were bottlenecks across the entire air system. Qatar Radio of her “harrowing” experience “There is indeed pressure on HMC and it must ease with more and more private See also page 9 recently. it must ease with more and more private healthcare facilities of larger scale setting Her remarks sparked a fresh debate on healthcare facilities of larger scale setting foot in the country,” said the observer. Abbas calls for timetable the issue. HMC has, however, defended itself foot in the country,” said the observer. And HMC, too, admits that the biggest against the accusations and provided details And HMC, too, admits that the biggest challenge it faces is the fast pace of popula- to end occupation of its facilities and patient care and treat- challenge it faces is the fast pace of popula- tion growth. UNITED NATIONS: There is no value in ment over the past few years. It mostly talks tion growth. “With this growth, medical needs of peo- peace talks with Israel unless the goal is ending of numbers pertaining to 2013. Observers of the healthcare scene in the ple have been growing and becoming more its 47-year occupation of the Palestinian ter- Observers of the healthcare scene in the country say there is mounting pressure on and more complex.” ritories within a “firm timetable”, Palestinian country say there is mounting pressure on HMC due to the fast growing population and The Corporation, though, added: “We President Mahmoud Abbas told the United HMC due to the fast growing population and a severe lack of private healthcare facilities. have taken all necessary measures to expand Nations General Assembly yesterday. a severe lack of private healthcare facilities. There is only one big private hospital — Al our services to meet the demand of a grow- “It’s high time for this settlement occupation There is only one big private hospital — Al Ahli — and it caters entirely to the top-end ing population”. to end now,” Abbas told the 193-member world Ahli — and it caters entirely to the top-end section of society, while the others are at See also page 2 body, which overwhelming gave See also page 8

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BY FAZEENA SALEEM networking sites. The complaints City when the facility is ready are mostly related to delays in by 2013. The current Women’s DOHA: Hamad General getting appointments, shortage of Hospital will be turned into a Hospital (HGH), the larg- beds and the emergency services. specialty hospital. est healthcare provider in the A woman said that she was suf- HMC denies allegations In its 2013/2014 annual report, country, has once again come fering from an eye ailment and HMC said HGH, built in 1983, has under fire for its allegedly inad- had sought an appointment to DOHA: In response to a questionnaire sent by the population have become more complex. As 600 beds. equate facilities and inappropri- see an ophthalmologist at HGH this newspaper to Hamad Medical Corporation the demand for our services has grown, we have The hospital has seen a 1.1 ate treatment of patients. in October 2013, and an appoint- (HMC) on complaints from patients, the continued to increase the number of highly spe- percent increase in outpatients The issue has cropped up fol- ment was given for March 22, healthcare provider denied the allegations. cialised services we offer, in addition to expand- from 2012 to 2013, but inpatient lowing recent comments by a 2014. With reference to treatment provided to the ing hospital capacity. In the last three years we admissions have dropped 0.8 Qatari woman on a popular pro- “It took five months to get an family that met with a road accident last month have opened three new hospitals, three long-term percent and visits to the emer- gramme on Qatar Radio about appointment. What if the prob- in Al Khor, HMC said that it provided the best residential care facilities, and acquired extensive gency department have fallen 4.3 her harrowing experience at lem had deteriorated during that emergency and hospital care to the patients. state-of-the-art medical equipment in all of our percent. HGH. Her remarks have sparked time,” she asked. They were discharged only after completing the hospitals. According to the report, a new a debate on social media. Some others say that there number of days required to meet their clinical In 2013, we treated over two million patients operating theatre block is under Several citizens have called on are cases when the primary needs. within Hamad Medical Corporation, including construction in HGH. Once com- the authorities to take immedi- health centres or the Emergency In a statement, HMC also said that it had taken 850,000 emergency visits, 40,000 surgeries, deliv- pleted, it will significantly expand ate steps to address a shortage of Department refer a case as urgent measures to expand its services to serve the grow- ered 20,000 babies and provided over 1 million capacity by nearly doubling the beds at the hospital and expand to a specialist, but still it is not ing population, and all patients were given prior- outpatient appointments. Our specialist teams current number of operating its emergency unit. given priority. ity on the basis of their health condition. offer clinical programmes across the entire net- rooms. The facility will provide 16 The woman, mother of three “I went to the Emergency The statement is as follows: work of eight hospitals which cover the main pop- new operation theatres, four spe- boys who died in a car accident Department at HGH and was The road traffic accident involving Um Abdul ulation centres in Qatar. Our ambulance service, cialist theatres and 35 ICU beds. in Al Khor in August, called directed to see a specialist, but Rahman’s family was a terrible tragedy and we which responded to 132,000 calls last year, has A new Female Rapid Initial up Qatar Radio’s popular pro- it took four months for me to get again extend our condolences in what must be dispatch points covering the entire country as Assessment and Management gramme, ‘Watani Al Habeeb the appointment,” said a com- an extremely difficult time. At HMC, we aim to well as a 24-hour Lifeflight service. This ensures area was opened in the HGH Sabah Al Khair” (Good morning, mentator on a popular Qatari treat each and every patient with the safest, most the entire country has access to high-quality care Emergency Department in 2013. my beloved country) last week to social networking site. effective and most compassionate care. When at all times. We continue to expand our capacity, The annual report of HMC claims narrate her story. Another said that delays at the the accident happened we deployed 19 emergency including new operating theatres and extending that the new system has had a She said that two of her HGH were not a new issue. She vehicles, all of which arrived in a period between the emergency department at Hamad General significant impact on waiting younger children and a domestic said that more than a decade ago, eight and 20 minutes of the original 999 call. The Hospital, amongst other projects. times and patients’ length of stay. help who survived the accident in 2001, she wanted her daughter patients were treated in both Al Khor Hospital While we operate emergency departments In December 2013, Hamad’s were discharged from HGH in a to be fitted with dental braces but and Hamad General Hospital (HGH) emergency across several of our hospitals, HGH features Trauma Department issued its rush. One of the children was in never got an appointment. departments and were admitted at HGH as inpa- the nation’s only advanced trauma centre. Cases Trauma Manual, which aims need of plastic surgery and the “After seven years, in 2008, tients. At all times during their treatment, con- like Um Abdul Rahman’s highlight the specialised to ensure uniform standards of other had to undergo surgery for I received a call asking if I still tinuity of care was maintained by our clinical and essential role that our integrated network trauma care across all HMC hos- injuries caused by the accident. needed the braces. I told them and support teams. Um Abdul Rahman and her of care plays in the lives of our patients and the pitals, providing clinicians with Although it is more than a month that my daughter had grown up surviving children were under our care for seven community. A team of specialists and support clear guidance to ensure delivery since the accident, the surgeries and there was no need for the days — a time frame which was determined based staff from two major hospitals, our trauma unit, of consistently high standards of are yet to be performed, she said. braces,” she said. on clinical need. All patients were discharged with surgical services, rehabilitation, orthopaedics and care. She said she too had sustained Some others say delays are the advice for follow up and the required appoint- the ambulance service all came together to pro- The Women’s Hospital has injuries in the accident and had norm but it is possible to get an ments have been booked across various speciali- vide a multi-disciplinary programme of care for 330 beds. The number of outpa- been treated at the hospital. early appointment through rec- ties within a clinically appropriate time frame. her family. tients increased by 13.9 percent “My children have injuries on ommendations and influence. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with As the country grows, we will continue to meet from 2012 to 2013. The number their shoulder and face, but until Clinics for specialist consulta- Um Abdul Rahman and her family. the highly specialised healthcare needs of our of inpatients increased by 4.3 per- now no appointment has been tion at HMC hospitals, including Over the last several years our population patients and their families. cent and emergency cases by 8.4 fixed for their surgeries. I was the HGH and Women’s Hospital, growth has trebled and the healthcare needs of THE PENINSULA percent. However, the number of not allowed to stay with them are open from 7 am to 10 pm, with deliveries fell by 5.5 percent as in the hospital. Only the father 15 hours of OPD clinical services many cases were transferred to could stay because the children each day. Also, clinics open for Al Wakra hospital. are boys,” said the mother. two hours in the evening, from At the end of October 2013, the She also alleged that she was 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm, for Qatari Women’s and Newborn Health discharged from the hospital in a patients. Network was launched. One of rush two days after the accident Once a patient is referred by a its aims is to reduce the number although she was still suffering primary health centre or by any of births at Women’s Hospital and from pain in the head and eyes. other hospital, he/she receives refer cases to other hospitals. It is “My vision was blurred and I a telephone call from HMC’s known that the number of deliv- had pain in the eye. I sought an Patient Contact Center and an eries taking place at Women’s appointment to see a specialist appointment is fixed. In addi- Hospital is high. but haven’t got it until now,” she tion, they are reminded of their Al Wakra hospital, which said. appointment by phone and SMS. opened in 2013, has a capacity of Such allegations are not new The Emergency Department at 190 beds, which can be extended to Hamad Medical Corporation HGH, described as one of the bus- to 260 beds. The six-storey facil- (HMC), which runs HGH, and iest such facilities in the world, ity with nearly 3,000 staff at full its officials, on most occasions, is also not free from complaints. once with a problem in one of his that on many occasions women “The number of shopping malls, capacity, including more than 200 have rejected the charges as base- Many residents The Peninsula ears. patients had to walk around alone stadiums and festivals in the doctors, aims to reduce pressure less. Time and again HMC has spoke to expressed dissatisfaction “I was referred by the pri- in the hospital to get things done. country is increasing; why not the on HGH. announced major plans to expand at the services. mary health centre, but at the “It’s very difficult for the hospitals, despite the increasing Bigger than HGH in size, Al facilities at its hospitals to provide “Patients who go to the Emergency Department I was patient to handle everything population?” Wakra Hospital was expected to better services to the public. Emergency Department are in asked to wait for four hours,” he alone. But sadly this happens “The HGH should only treat significantly reduce pressure on The problems remain unre- real pain, but sadly, on many occa- said. most of the time, because the critical cases and have a separate HGH, but this has not happened solved despite such assurances, sions they are neglected,” said an “I saw people with bandages husband or other male relatives hospital for specialised care,” sug- until now. The hospital provides say citizens and residents, cit- Indian professional who had been waiting for long,” he added. are not allowed to accompany the gested another. all specialised treatments but ing their experiences on social to the Emergency Department A Sri Lankan housewife said patient,” she said. In 2011, HMC announced a plan critical cases are still referred to She said she had such an expe- to build a 1,200-bed facility spread HGH. rience at Women’s Hospital when over 300,000 square metres in More than 200 deliveries a she was in a late stage of preg- three towers. It also said that a month were registered by the nancy and her request for her study on the project was under end of 2013 at Al Wakra Hospital. husband to be allowed to accom- way and it would ease pressures Also, 10,000 adults were treated at pany her was rejected. arising from population growth. its emergency department each Many suggest that the HGH The facility will be located within month. urgently needs to be expanded Hamad Medical City. A Filipina mother who deliv- and the number of staff increased It also announced a plan to ered her child at Al Wakra as it is the ultimate and some- expand the HGH Emergency Hospital said, “I was being treated times the sole hospital people can Department, which has under- at the Airport health centre and go to for treatment. gone expansion and development from the seventh month of preg- “We can go to a private hos- several times. There was a project nancy I was referred to Al Wakra pital or another public hospital to build an integrated emergency Hospital. It’s a big hospital with like in Al Wakra, but if the case building near the current facility all facilities but they have less is critical or urgent we end up at by 2014. staff, like one or two nurses for HGH,” said a commentator on The expansion plan further one floor. So when we need some- social media. said that the Women’s Hospital thing we have to wait long.” Another commentator asked, will be moved to Hamad Medical THE PENINSULA Home SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Emir meets Turkish President Independent Education key Schools to get strict on to growth: absenteeism DOHA: Independent Schools will strictly enforce rules on stu- dent absenteeism from today. Sheikha Moza They will not accept health cer- tificates issued by private health- care facilities to students applying UN chief calls for meeting MDGs for sick leave. Only health certificates issued NEW YORK: H H Sheikha improves health outcomes, reduces by Hamad Medical Corporation Moza bint Nasser spoke at involvement in conflict, enhances (HMC) and its affiliates will be a Millennium Development employment and can benefit accepted. Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group countries’ GDP. With sufficient Supreme Education Council Meeting during the 69th UN increases in funding and enough (SEC) sources told Al Sharq that General Assembly session to commitment, we could make the Independent School managements align resources to transform the issue of out of school children a had been issued directives regard- lives of millions of children. thing of the past. Yet, until univer- ing the student absenteeism rules. UN Secretary-General Ban sal primary education is achieved, “The managements are contact- Ki-moon called for an end to the out-of-school children will be an ing parents to make them under- unfinished business of the MDGs unforgivable underinvestment in The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at The Peninsula stand the importance of the rules and welcomed the international human capital — a costly barrier Hotel in New York. The two reviewed relations between Qatar and Turkey and means of developing them, in and urge their cooperation to partners and MDG Advocates to preventing nations from reach- addition to regional and international issues. ensure their children attend the the high-level event to discuss ing their full economic and social school regularly,” said the daily. the challenges and opportunities potential.” The rules ask the Independent of achieving the MDGs to deliver Sheikha Moza also contributed Schools to strictly monitor the a healthier, equitable and more to the MDG Advocates’ Leaders absence of students and insist sustainable future. Report, which was launched yes- on health certificates issued by In her remarks, Sheikha Moza terday. Entitled “Accelerating Leaders call for release of HMC and its affiliates in the case reconfirmed her commitment to Action: Global Leaders on of absence. push for universal primary educa- Challenges and Opportunities for Earlier this month, taking a tion for all. “When the Secretary- MDG Achievement”, the Leaders serious view of student absentee- General entrusted me with this Report is authored by 37 world ism, the Minister of Education mission, I was inspired to do what leaders looking at successful poli- jailed Al Jazeera journalists and Higher Education, who is ex- I could, to offer a chance to the cies and interventions championed officio chairman of the SEC, issued 58 million out of school children by governments and partners to DOHA: World leaders attending journalists, saying that they and executive power. Once that directives prescribing severe pun- across the world,” she said. drive progress on the MDGs, as the 69th UN General Assembly should be freed. judicial process is complete, if that ishment for Independent School Marginalised children affected well as obstacles faced and actions session have emphasised the Australian Peter Greste, sentence still stands, we would students who are absent for sev- by conflict and crises are a long- taken to overcome them. freedom of the press and asked Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed look to the executive to intervene eral school days on end without a standing priority for Sheikha UN Secretary-General Ban Egypt to release three detained Fahmy and Egyptian Baher and ensure they are released.” valid reason. Moza. She spoke of the hope Ki-moon delivered the opening Al Jazeera journalists. Mohamed were convicted in June As part of a campaign to The rules apply to students of she saw on visiting a number of remarks. Other speakers included President Barack Obama after being accused of aiding the increase awareness of the jailing grades four to 12 of all Independent projects supported by Educate A Prime Minister Erna Solberg of expressed concern over the fate Muslim Brotherhood. Greste and of the Al Jazeera trio, an adver- Schools. Child, an initiative launched in Norway, President Paul Kagame of the three jailed journalists on Fahmy received seven-year terms tisement was placed in the New THE PENINSULA 2012 which has already commit- of Rwanda and other MDG his first meeting with Egyptian while Mohamed was sentenced York Times and at Times Square ted support to 2.5 million children Advocates. Graca Machel, Ray President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, to 10 years. New York to remind the Egyptian in 33 countries. Chambers, Ted Turner, Professor Al Sharq reported. During the General Assembly leader and other officials that the The programme works with Muhammad Yunus, Professor Obama and Sisi met on session in New York, similar three men have been arrested, local communities to overcome Jeffrey Sachs, Stine Bosse, Philippe Thursday on the sidelines of the calls for Egypt to release the detained, charged and sentenced barriers to education and devel- Douste-Blazy, and Ambassador UN General Assembly session in three journalists were made by for just doing their job of honest, DFI accepting ops solutions that can be scaled Dho Young-shim. New York, as the two countries British Foreign Secretary Phillip free and fair reporting. up and replicated. The goal is to The event was also attended sought common ground after a Hammond, who said: “On the Commenting on president applications support 10 million children into by Roll Back Malaria Executive period of turmoil caused by the question of Al Jazeera journalists, Obama’s call for the release of school by the end of the 2015-2016 Director Dr Fatoumata Nafo- toppling of Egypt’s first elected I’ve raised this question person- the Al Jazeera staff, an Al Jazeera school year. Traori, South African singer president, Mohamed Mursi, last ally with President Sisi. I raise it spokesperson said that calls for for grants In her closing remarks, Sheikha and RBM Goodwill Ambassador year. every time I see Foreign Minister the release of Al Jazeera staff had Moza argued that basic educa- Yvonne Chaka Chaka, and Gordon Ben Rhodes, the US deputy Shoukry. The current situation previously been made from the DOHA: Doha Film Institute tion was key to overcoming other Brown. UN Deputy Secretary- national security adviser, said is that the journalists have, as White House, the British Foreign (DFI) started accepting appli- development challenges and called General Jan Eliasson delivered that the US president raised I understand it, appealed their and Commonwealth Office, the cations on Thursday for the for international support. closing remarks. a number of specific concerns convictions and that means this European Union, the Australian next cycle of its annual Grants “We know that basic education QNA related to human rights, includ- remains at the present time a Government and over 150 rights Programme for film-makers ing the right to free speech and judicial process. And we have to groups. from Qatar and around the the rights of the Al Jazeera respect the separation of judicial THE PENINSULA globe. DFI has announced through its website that it will continue receiving applications for the Programme until October 15. The Programme provides cre- Support Gaza auction raises QR11m ative and financial assistance to film-makers from Qatar, and to DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent ambulances, leaving behind a ago to support people in Gaza first and second-time film-makers (QRC) raised about QR11m tragic toll of casualties and losses affected by the Israeli offensive. from around the world. from a charitable auction held and affecting every aspect of the Following the end of the war, the Through the programme, DFI yesterday at the Amphitheatre local community’s life. Support Gaza campaign shifted its seeks to identify new talent, find of Katara Cultural Village as Organised by QRC, the event focus from relief to reconstruction. new cinematic voices and discover part of the Support Gaza cam- was sponsored by Qatar TV and The QRC office in Gaza initiated stories of global relevance and paign, which it launched more Al Rayyan Satellite Channel and reconstruction work and resumed appeal. It aims to empower Qatari than two months ago. supported by Alfardan Group, work on pre-war projects. It sur- voices in film-making that have The money, a part of which will Jaidah Group, and Al Wajba veyed the damage suffered by the potential to make significant be given to sponsors, will support Establishment, which donated some completed projects, par- contributions to the art of cinema. QRC efforts to reconstruct Gaza, the auction items as a contribu- ticularly in the healthcare, edu- Citizen and expatriate film- which suffered heavy Israeli tion to the cause. cation and water and sanitation makers who wish to apply for the Sheikha Moza bint Nasser speaking at the Millennium Development Goals bombing of residential build- The auction was a part of the sectors, to carry out repairs and Programme may send an email to Advocacy Group Meeting during the 69th UN General Assembly session ings, schools, mosques, hospitals, humanitarian campaign launched rehabilitation. grants@dohafilminstitute.com. in New York yesterday. Gaza’s only power plant, and even by QRC more than two months QNA THE PENINSULA

iPhone 6 launch Indian embassy holds open house

DOHA: The Indian Embassy during September 2014. It also The embassy said that its offi- organised its monthly open house issued two air tickets to Indian cials regularly visit the Central yesterday, in which officials met nationals in distress. Prison and the Deportation Centre complainants, discussed their The embassy registered 26 to enquire about the welfare of problems and assured them that deaths in August 2014 and 17 detainees from India. There are the mission would follow up their deaths until September 24, while 85 Indian nationals in the Central cases with Qatari authorities. the total number of deaths regis- Prison and 143 in the Deportation The embassy has issued 28 tered so far this year is 204. Centre. Emergency Certificates (ECs) this Kareem Abdullah, President of The Forum is helping Indian month at the request of Qatari the Indian Community Benevolent workers through various welfare authorities for travel documents Forum (ICBF), functioning measures, including provision of for detainees in the Deportation under the aegis of the Embassy air tickets, financial assistance and Centre. for the welfare of Indian work- medical help. Among other assist- The embassy facilitated the ers, attended the Open House. ance, it provided six air tickets to return to India of 64 Indian citi- Ambassador Sanjiv Arora was Indian nationals in September zens from the Deportation Centre also present. 2014. THE PENINSULA

Vehicles illegally ferrying diesel seized DOHA: Patrolling units of the Ministry of cases where the marine environment or wildlife was Environment have seized some vehicles carrying harmed. The official urged public participation in diesel without a licence in Al Shamal area. They reducing such violations and said that protecting the also seized vehicles carrying concrete mixture and environment was the responsibility of all citizens. seawater. Earlier, the ministry transferred a number of vio- The ministry has launched a campaign to check lations to the public prosecution. Most of the cases Hundreds of people turned up to buy Apple’s latest iPhone 6 and 6 Plus at Villaggio as Vodafone officially these violations, which can harm the environment. were related to carrying dangerous materials without launched the phones at midnight yesterday. ABDUL BASIT Ministry official said that they would not tolerate a licence from the authorities. THE PENINSULA SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Mickey and friends enthral fans

ickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse Mskated out on to the ice to the roar of children standing and cheering, as the world-famous duo welcomed their Doha fans to the show at Qatar National Convention Center (QNCC). Within minutes their pals Donald Duck and Goofy joined the couple on the ice, and the enchanting night began as the fab four guided the enthusiastic audience on a journey through time. Pinocchio along with Cinderellaís step sisters warmed up the ice before Ariel, Rapunzel, Merida and Belle shared their Happily Ever After stories. The classic tale of Disney’s The Little Mermaid is always a fan-favourite but this performance left many in awe as Under the Sea took the audience on a scenic journey with eye-catching costumes, dazzling skating and incredible lighting effects. The show ends today. SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY IS tightens grip on Syria town; UK joins coalition Britain’s parliament votes to back Cameron’s proposal

DAMASCUSS/BAGHDAD: after avoiding involvement during sending 140,000 refugees across Islamic State fighters tightened a civil war that began the same the frontier since last week in the their siege on a town on Syria’s year. fastest flight of the three-and-a- border with Turkey yesterday The coalition also includes sev- half-year-old civil war. despite US led air strikes aimed eral Arab states, all led by Sunni Some Kurdish commanders at defeating the militants in Muslims alarmed at the rise of have said the air campaign has both Syria and Iraq. Islamic State. made the militants’ advance even Washington’s closest ally in the Islamic State has emerged as stronger, by prompting the mili- wars of the last decade joined the the most powerful Sunni militant tants to move armor out of posi- coalition at last yesterday after group battling the Shia-backed tions in cities and send it to the weeks of weighing its options: governments in Iraq and Syria. front lines, where Western planes Britain’s parliament voted 542 to Its fighters are also battling have yet to strike. 43 to back Prime Minister David against rival Sunni rebel groups The main battle in northern Cameron’s decision to join air in Syria and against Kurds in Syria has been visible from across strikes on Iraq. both Syria and Iraq, countries the frontier in Turkey. “This is not a threat on facing complex, multi-sided civil The boom of artillery and the far side of the world. Left wars in which nearly every state bursts of machinegun fire echoed unchecked, we will face a terror- in the Middle East has a stake. across the border, and at least ist caliphate on the shores of the French public support for the two shells hit a vineyard on the Mediterranean and bordering a mission has surged this week Turkish side, though there were Nato member, with a declared after the beheading of a French no immediate reports of casual- and proven intention to attack tourist in Algeria by captors who ties inside Turkey. our country and our people,” said it was retaliation for French “We’re afraid. We’re taking the Cameron told lawmakers. participation in strikes in Iraq. car and leaving today,” said vine- Until this week France was the Paris said it might also join US yard owner Huseyin Turkmen, 60, only Western country to answer strikes in Syria although there as small arms fire rang out in the President Barack Obama’s call was no plan yet to do so. European Syrian hills just to the south. F-16 fighter jets prepare to take off the military air base in Florennes yesterday. Belgium plans to send six F-16 fighter to join the US-led campaign. countries have so far only agreed Islamic State fighters appeared jets to join the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group but will limit their use to Iraq, the government said. But Australia, Belgium and the to strike targets in Iraq, where to have taken control of a hill Netherlands have all joined since the government has asked for 10km west of Kobani from where “The clashes are moving conspicuously absent from the Syria, Assad’s air force has been Monday and Denmark announced help, and not in Syria, where the YPG, the main Kurdish between east, west and south of coalition against Islamic State, bombing other rebel groups in yesterday that it too would send President Bashar Al Assad has armed group in northern Syria, Kobani ... The three sides are angering its Kurdish residents. the west of the country, and his planes. not given permission, although he had been attacking them in active,” Idris Nassan, deputy for- The US military said its planes troops and allied Lebanese Shi’ite Obama has sought to rally has not objected. recent days. eign minister in area’s Kurdish blew up four Islamic State tanks militia have advanced. international support for a mili- More than a month since The British-based Syrian administration, said by phone in eastern Syria and hit a number Syrian warplanes dropped pro- tary coalition against Islamic Washington began striking Observatory for Human Rights, from the center of the town. of targets in Iraq. jectiles including “barrel bombs” State, a powerful force in Syria Islamic State targets in Iraq, and which monitors the war, said “They are trying hard to reach Assad’s Syrian government has — oil drums filled with explosive - which swept through much of four days since it extended the Islamic State fighters had also Kobani. There is resistance here not objected to the US-led cam- in Hama, Idlib, Homs and Aleppo northern Iraq in June, slaughter- campaign into Syria, there are taken control of a village around by YPG, by Kobani and some paign against some of his most provinces and around Damascus, ing prisoners and ordering Shias signs the fighters are lowering 7km to the east of Kobani. volunteers from north Kurdistan powerful foes. Washington says the Observatory said. and non-Muslims to convert or their profile in areas they control Kurdish forces said on Thursday Turkish Kurds,” he said. “Every it wants to defeat Islamic State Five people were killed when die. to become a harder target. they had pushed back the advance girl, every young man, every man without helping Assad remain barrel bombs were dropped on al- The campaign has brought But the air campaign has yet to on Kobani, also known as Ayn al- who is able to fight, to carry a in power, and hopes other anti- Rastan city in the Homs province Washington back to the battle- halt their advance in Syria, where Arab, but appealed for US-led air gun, they are armed and they are Assad groups can fill the vacuum. and nine died in a barrel bomb field in Iraq that it left in 2011, they have laid siege to a Kurdish strikes on the insurgents’ tanks ready to defend and fight.” But while US planes have been attack east of Aleppo city, it said. and into Syria for the first time town on the Turkish border, and heavy weapons. Nato member Turkey has been striking Islamic State in eastern REUTERS Nine Japanese US-led strikes compound humanitarian plight: ICRC

said to have GENEVA: The International consequences of the conflicts must allow humanitarian work- Iraq, said Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi The treaties require all sides Committee of the Red Cross in both countries,” it said. “The ers to bring help,” said Dominik Arabia, the United Arab Emirates to spare civilians, be proportion- joined IS (ICRC) said yesterday that humanitarian situation continues Stillhart, the ICRC director of and Qatar had taken part in or ate in their military operations, US-led air strikes on Islamist to worsen.” operations. supported the action in Syria that distinguish between civilian and TOKYO: Nine Japanese insurgents in Iraq and Syria Islamic State insurgents have US-led forces bombed Islamic began on Tuesday. combatants and between military nationals have joined Islamic had worsened a dire humani- seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, State bases in eastern Syria on All parties to conflict are bound targets and civilian structures State (IS), Japan’s former tarian crisis on the ground. massacring non-Sunni Muslim Friday and a monitoring group by international humanitarian such as schools and hospitals. air force chief, Toshio All warring parties in the wid- prisoners and minority civilians said the Syrian army had intensi- law, the ICRC said, adding that it “The law also includes the Tamogami, quoted a senior ening conflicts in the two coun- in the path of their conquests, fied its bombing campaign against had sought confidential contacts obligation to respect and protect Israeli government official as tries should spare civilians and and drawing US-led bombings Islamist rebels in the west of the with all states and armed groups civilians and people who are not saying, but the government’s allow delivery of aid, the Geneva- backed by a coalition of Western country. But Islamic State fight- now involved to remind them of currently participating in hostili- top spokesman said it had not based ICRC said in a statement. and Arab states. ers tightened their siege on a town their obligations. The independ- ties, such as the sick, the wounded confirmed the information. “Years of fighting in Syria and “Under international humani- on Syria’s border with Turkey ent agency is the guardian of and those who have been detained. Tamogami, now a senior Iraq, the proliferation of armed tarian law, every party to these despite the aerial bombardment. the Geneva Conventions that lay Everyone must treat these people official of a tiny new political groups and the recent international conflicts must refrain from harm- The US Central Command, down the rules of war, prima- with humanity and preserve their party, said on his blog that air strikes in Iraq and Syria have ing civilians, must protect medi- whose aircraft have also been rily aimed at protecting civilians dignity,” said Stillhart. Nissim Ben Shitrit, the direc- compounded the humanitarian cal personnel and facilities, and hitting Islamic State targets in caught up in armed conflicts. REUTERS tor-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, told him this month that nine Japanese had taken part in Islamic State. Asked about the possible participation of Japanese citi- zens in the militant group, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference, “The govern- ment has not confirmed such information.” No one was immediately available for comment at the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, at the Israeli foreign ministry or at the Japanese foreign ministry. Tamogami said that no details besides the number of Japanese participants were given to him in his meeting with Nissim Ben Shitrit, a former ambassador to Japan. “I don’t know anything fur- ther,” Tamogami said. “He was tight-lipped.” Turkish and Syrian Kurds pull down a part of the Turkish-Syrian border fence, near the southeastern town Tamogami’s blog shows of Suruc in Sanliurfa province , yesterday. the meeting took place on September 12 in Israel. About 1,000 recruits from a vast region stretching from Erdogan signals more active role India to the Pacific may have joined Islamic State to fight in Syria or Iraq, the head of ISTANBUL: President up a possible critical change mandate is the mandate to the US Armed Forces’ Pacific Recep Tayyip Erdogan yes- in policy on October 2 when authorise the armed forces,” Command, Admiral Samuel terday signalled Turkey would parliament is due to meet on he said, without specifying the Locklear, said on Thursday. take a more active role in extending mandates allowing exact nature of the measures. His comment came as a the coalition against Islamic Turkish military action in Iraq “We do not have the luxury threat by Philippine militants State (IS) militants following and Syria. to say terrorist actions along to kill a German hostage, in a the release of Turkish hos- “Now the position has the 1,250km Turkish border show of solidarity with Islamic tages held by them. changed. What follows will be with Syria and Iraq do not con- State, has stoked fresh con- Ankara has for months much different,” Erdogan told cern us,” Erdogan added. His cern the Middle East group’s frustrated the West with its reporters after flying back to comments came as IS militants brand of radicalism is winning distinctly low-key role in the Istanbul from a trip to the pressed their advance in north- recruits in Asia and posing a campaign against IS jihadists United States where he met ern Syria around the town of growing security risk in the but insisted its hands were tied US Vice President Joe Biden. Ain Al Arab just south of the region. by concerns over the fate of the He said that “necessary Turkish border, which has REUTERS hostages. steps” would be taken by par- sparked an influx of 160,000 But Erdogan has now set liament on October 2. “This refugees into Turkey. AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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HINA is facing fresh challenges in Hong Kong as the pro-democracy movement in the territory is gaining momentum. More people are taking to the Cstreets demanding freedom. Yesterday, dozens of students broke through the gates of Hong Kong’s government German exceptionalism headquarters in a demonstration against Beijing’s refusal to grant the city unlimited democracy. Around 150 people pushed into the grounds of the complex, some scaling over a BY HAROLD MEYERSON percent; in conservative Spain, 93 per- tall exterior fence. Student groups are spearheading a civil cent. The gloomiest continent (includ- disobedience campaign along with democracy activists. The F YOU live in an advanced econ- ing both its advanced economies and situation on the ground is likely to turn more toxic and rough omy — in Western Europe, Japan such emerging economies as Poland and or the United States — odds are Ukraine) was Europe, where 88 percent Americans have in the coming days as activists widen their protests. Iyou’re in a funk. Unless you live said their economies weren’t doing well. grown understandably The trigger for the latest outpouring of anger was China’s in Germany. Except for Germany. Fully 85 per- announcement last month that candidates for the 2017 This month, the Pew Research Center cent of Germans said their home- concerned that nearly election must be vetted by a committee, angering activists released the results of polling it con- land’s economic situation was good. who say the group is packed with business executives ducted in 44 nations — 10 of them with How do we account for this German all income growth what Pew characterized as “advanced” exceptionalism? and lawmakers favouring Beijing. Thousands of students economies (including the United States, Let’s start with manufacturing. Like here goes to the boycotted classes starting September 22 to express France, Japan, Germany, Italy and the the only two nations with even higher dissatisfaction. Alex Chow, the secretary general of the United Kingdom). The two key ques- percentages calling their economies a wealthiest 1 percent. Hong Kong Federation of Students, said that “we needed to tions posed were whether respondents success (China and Vietnam), Germany escalate our action” because Chief Executive Leung Chun- were “satisfied or dissatisfied” with the is an export dynamo, with a huge trade But the path to a more ying had ignored requests to meet them. way things were going in their country surplus that bolsters its coffers. It owes and whether they thought the “eco- part of that surplus to the euro, which equitable economy The government in Beijing is in a deep quandary over nomic situation in [their] country was makes German goods cheaper than the protests and will have to think hard before deciding good or bad.” Overall, satisfaction with they’d be if Germany had its own cur- requires the reshaping on a response. Beijing is not known to tolerate protests, one’s country followed the respondent’s rency. But part is due to the strength of corporate control especially if it’s about democracy. judgment on its economy as the night of the country’s manufacturing sector But this is Hong Kong, where the day. and the concomitant weakness of its along German lines. the rules are different. Any While the financial sector. The road noonday sun was Many of Germany’s most successful ahead will Tiananmen-style crackdown is blazing in China companies are privately owned and not for the world’s best worker-training ruled out and unthinkable, but (where 89 percent subject to investor pressure to reward programs and that the most highly be extremely that doesn’t mean Beijing will judged their econ- large shareholders through prac- skilled and compensated jobs of such tolerate the protests indefinitely. Fully 85 percent omy good and 87 tices prevalent in the United States, globalized German firms as Daimler and tough for The continuation of the percent expressed such as slashing wages, cutting back Siemens remain in Germany. They have their satisfac- on worker training and research and ensured that prosperity is widely shared demonstrations and escalation of Germans Hong Kong tion with the development and buying back stock. in Germany — not concentrated at the of action, as the student leader said their way things were Publicly traded German companies top, as it is in the United States. democracy put it, will be embarrassing and going — allow- still retain their earnings to invest in Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, U.S. can have repercussions in the homeland’s ing that some expansions, a practice that was the U.S. financiers and governmental officials activists. mainland and other Chinese-ruled economic may have feared norm until the doctrine of rewarding repeatedly counseled the Germans to get territories. giving negative shareholders with nearly all of a com- with the Wall Street program: Offshore situation answers), night pany’s profits took hold during the past your production, they said; build up your The protests are justified had descended quarter-century. equity markets; give shareholders a big- because last month’s decision is a clear indication of Beijing’s was good. on people in the In the United States, major share- ger role. Wisely, the Germans demurred. intention to interfere in the elections. Beijing must honour advanced econo- holders and the top executives whose Americans have grown understand- its commitments on Hong Kong and not try to stifle freedom How do we mies. In nine of pay increasingly is linked to stock ably concerned that nearly all income in the territory. The protest leaders are already talking account for this those 10, people price control the corporate boards that growth here goes to the wealthiest 1 tough. Organisers of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central with were more dis- approve these kinds of distributions of percent. They are enacting minimum- German excep- satisfied than their companies’ earnings. In Germany, wage increases in a range of cities and Love and Peace movement this week invited people to join content with the however, the profits that companies rack states. But the path to a more equitable a “democracy banquet” on the October 1 China National tionalism? way things were up are shared more broadly because economy will require more than that. Day, signalling the start of a plan to paralyse Hong Kong’s headed, and in shareholders don’t dominate corporate It requires the reshaping of corporate business district. They expect 10,000 people to join a rally eight of them, boards. By law, any sizable German com- control along German lines. The key to in the business district to demand broader voting rights. they felt their pany must divide the seats on its board a more equitable economy — and a hap- nation’s economic situation was bad. equally between management- and pier nation — is more equitable control Participants have been urged to bring food and water for two The political composition of their gov- worker-selected representatives. Any of its economic institutions. to three days for a sit-in protest that will last days. ernment didn’t seem to matter. In Tory company with more than 50 employ- Just 40 percent of Americans say The road ahead will be extremely tough for Hong Britain, 55 percent said the economy ees must have managers meet regularly their nation’s economic situation is good, Kong democracy activists and they will need plenty of was bad; in the Obama-led United with workers’ councils to discuss and while 85 percent of Germans feel that determination and patience to achieve their goal. They must States, 58 percent said the same. In negotiate issues of working conditions way. It’s time to import some of that refrain from actions that will provoke China and must carry nationalist-Keynesian Japan, the figure (but not pay). These arrangements have German exceptionalism. was 63 percent; in Socialist France, 88 largely ensured that the funding is there WP-BLOOMBERG on with their protests peacefully. The other side Quote of Reel vs real the day STUDY commissioned by open letters from the actress and vari- What Padukone in her high ground means to support her livelihood”. A role the Geena Davis Institute on ous media outlets each espousing their has failed to take cognizance of is for which she has been paid oodles of Gender in Media, with support own cause. But what it tellingly failed that what she or for that matter any money no doubt. But while she sits safe Afrom the UN Women and The to acknowledge was the repercussions other actress portrays on screen has in her ivory tower post the release of the Rockefeller Foundation, has found that when onscreen persona spills into real a direct relation to the way women on movie, guess who are the ones who will There is an Indian films rank high in the sexualisation life. the streets of India or say Pakistan are feel the effect of her on screen portrayal? of female characters on-screen. A closer look at the actress’ elabo- treated. While the actresses can hide Anyone who has walked the streets of occupation that must Definitely not a statistic the country can rate Facebook post on the topic lays behind burly security guards and get India and had an eve teaser croon ‘Tu end now. There is a be proud of. But not surprising given the bare the contradictory nature of her own away with a few sanitised and staged cheez badi hai mast mast’ can answer number of ‘item numbers’ Bollywood defence. “My issue is you propagating interaction with a chosen few ‘common that easily. It’s time Bollywood actresses people that must be has been increasingly counting on the objectification of a REAL person, people’ while promoting the movie, the read their scripts closely before they sign freed immediately. to draw the crowds to the theatre. and not a character being played. Sure, regular REAL women who are out on the on the dotted line to dance to Lovely or And, whether most actors chose to dissect my characters if you wish-if it streets going about their normal day- Sheila ki Jawani and expect every man The hour of acknowledge it or not, this -on screen is of so much interest then discuss the to-day activities are the ones who have who walks in and out of the theatre to sexualisation has a direct impact on the character’s cup size and leg length if it to bear the brunt of this sexualisation. know the difference between REEL and independence of the way women are treated in the real world. is relevant to making the role convincing. In her forthcoming movie Ms REAL. state of Palestine has The recent Deepika Padukone versus All I am asking for is respect as a woman Padukone plays a bar dancer who Khaleej Times Mahmoud Abbas Times of India spat spewed a series of off-screen.” in her own words “titillates men as a arrived. The Palestinian President SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY US needs humility to build is coalition What makes this failure so tragic is the lost opportunity to rethink the design of global partnerships in the midst of an expanding archipelago of diverging power, values and interests.

BY NADER MOUSAVIZADEH the lost opportunity to rethink the design of global partnerships in the midst of an hen President Barack expanding archipelago of diverging power, Obama assumed values and interests. the presidency of Yet the interests of the key powers are the United Nations actually more aligned than they appear Security Council to be on issues ranging from Syria to the WWednesday, he summoned the full weight wider Middle East, from Ukraine to East of US power to a cause with seeming uni- Asia. versal appeal: defeating the barbarism of What’s needed in each case is a new Islamic State — or, as Obama calls the strategy that begins — and doesn’t end militant group, Islamic State in Syria and — with consulting all the crucial parties the Levant (IS). that have a role to play in these conflicts. Much of the world, however, will ques- One that forges a mission in which every tion how Washington can hope to achieve country has a stake, no matter how dis- this without launching a wider political parate their starting points may be. agenda for accountable government in Consider: In Syria, only President the failing states of the Arab world. Bashar Al Assad and Islamic State They seek US recognition of the diver- have an interest in seeing the country US President Barack Obama meets in New York with representatives of the five Arab nations that contributed in air strikes against Islamic sity of legitimate interests represented destroyed. A return to the policy of creat- State targets in Syria on Tuesday. today in the Security Council chamber ing a transition to broad-based govern- — and of the wider diffusion of power ment set out by former UN Secretary and capital that defines this age. In short, General Kofi Annan two years ago could Ukraine’s ties to Russia, but enable Kiev landscape — and can summon common fateful day — and in the calamitous war they look for an American president who still bring together the United States, to escape the trap of a failed state. purpose among diverse parties. that followed — was the benefit of the can see the world through a genuine plu- Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia. And in East Asia, the rivalry between On February 5, 2003, another US doubt. Recovering that singular global ralist prism. In the battle against Islamic State, vir- China and Japan is not one that either leader, Secretary of State Colin Powell, asset may be possible. But turning back What they hear, however, is talk of tually every nation — even those whose side wants to see escalate into war. But staked his unique global standing on the the clock to a world of unipolar domi- yet another global expeditionary mission financial support contributed to the the solution requires Washington to act claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein nance is not. driven largely by US foreign and domes- extremists’ rise — now recognises that as a “pacific power” that will also recog- possessed weapons of mass destruction. Pluralism remains America’s strength tic politics. More than a failure of will, a metastasising militant group that is nise the interests, history and values of I was in the Security Council chamber at home. A new diplomacy of pluralism intelligence or even strategy, the Obama highly disciplined and well-armed is a both China and Japan. that day and vividly recall the contrast can be America’s strength abroad. But administration’s foreign policy seems threat to all. An alliance of diverse, sometimes between the power of Powell’s rhetoric only if Washington has the confidence marked by a failure of imagination. This In Ukraine, the polarised positions of contrasting, value systems, agendas and and the weakness of his case — and the and imagination to abandon, finally, the will doom the White House’s attempts to both Moscow and the West aside, a basic national perspectives is no contradiction gnawing suspicion that he didn’t believe costly illusion of unipolarity and embrace forge a sustainable global alliance. compromise has always been apparent. in terms. Indeed, it is only kind of alliance his own words. the opportunity to lead as first among What makes this failure so tragic is It would also recognise the reality of that reflects today’s fragmenting global What the United States lost on that equals. REUTERS Scotland shows how left can find resolve War on voter registration by GOP sends an ugly message

For Labour, all this may yet add up BY JAMELLE BOUIE to an object lesson about how to s holidays go, National Voter Registration Day is self-explan- atory. Created in 2012 by the League of Women Voters, it’s win the battle but lose the war. a day in September when volunteers work to register voters Aand increase participation. In the last two years, the effort helped add 350,000 people to the voter rolls, and this year more than 2,000 groups have organised events to mark the occasion and repeat BY JOHN HARRIS with the exception of the Scottish the success. Labour party: not dead yet, but In Atlanta, for example, the NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the ast Friday, having spent with a membership some put as People’s Agenda, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, a long night at a count low as 5,000. and the American Legal Advocacy Centre of Georgia gathered at the in Falkirk, I whiled away For Labour, all this may yet State Capitol to host a mass registration event. Likewise, in Ohio, the La bleary-eyed afternoon add up to an object lesson about state Democratic Party held registration events in Cincinnati and on George Square in Glasgow. how to win the battle but lose the Columbus, by way of a statewide bus tour. And on a more national Though the day would end with war. A campaign as sour and per- note, the Democratic National Committee issued a message in support ugly scenes as packs of pro-union nickety as the one run by Scottish of National Voter Registration Day. thugs appeared, in the afternoon Labour via Better Together was The Republican Party has not responded with similar enthusiasm. peaceful yes supporters had the never going to provide much of Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (centre) speaks as chair of the ‘Better Nearly two years after it pledged more outreach to traditionally place to themselves. a basis for the renewal Scottish Together’ Campaign as Alistair Darling (right) looks on during a day’s Democratic communities, the Republican Party remains committed Soon enough, the defiant Labour so desperately needs. Had campaigning in Glasgow on September 10, 2014. to a strategy of voter suppression. Voter identification laws in North Twitter hashtag “the45” (as in there been more emphasis on a Carolina and Texas have kept thousands of people from the polls, while percent) would be in full effect, progressive, optimistic account of you want any meaningful sense of influx of new blood as huge as this some Ohio Republicans are charging through judicial setbacks to pass a but at that point, a sense of sad- Scotland’s place in the UK, things the future of progressive politics, one, it may have no choice. new voter ID law and maintain attempted cuts to early voting. And in ness and lost opportunity was might have been different – but this remains by far the best place Other problems on the endur- Wisconsin this month, a panel of Republican judges on the 7th Circuit inescapable; at times, what with until the last minute, that was to look. Working class participa- ing yes side were clear even overturned an injunction against the state’s voter ID law, which was the vulture-like presence of the exactly what was missing. The tion? The yes campaign had it in before the result was declared. criticised for its burden on low-income and minority voters. Socialist Workers party and the result: even having won, Scottish spades. Women’s emancipation? A Particularly on the political left, Beyond voter ID, there’s been a raft of GOP efforts to blunt voter odd person getting lost in con- Labour – as, perhaps, the party particularly strong feminist ele- defeat – or even its possibility – registration efforts. The frenzy that began with ACORN in 2009 — in spiracy theory, the whole thing as a whole – looks as grumpy and ment runs through the forces on often tends to bring with it a kind which Congress pulled the group’s federal funding after misleading threatened to put me in mind of disorientated as ever, and its lead- the pro-independence side, and by of embattled self-righteousness , videos of alleged misbehaviour and false cries of voter fraud — has the decline phase of the Occupy ers both south and north of the the end of this year, the leaders of with no inclination to examine extended to state capitols across the country. Most have been chal- movement. That said, there border have yet to display any real Scotland’s three main parties will weaknesses or commune with lenged in court, and some — like a Florida law that reduced the time were also sparks of vitality, usu- understanding of what led nearly all be women. those who’ve taken their support for returning registration forms and levied stiff fines for missing the ally of the kind one doesn’t find 30 percent of past Labour voters Across the tangle of groups away. deadline — were blocked entirely. at, say, a Labour party confer- to back independence. that defined the yes side beyond There’s some sense of that What’s striking, however, are the lengths officials have gone to bur- ence: it sounds unlikely, but a Perhaps the most regretta- the SNP, there was – and still is in this weekend’s other big den groups that register voters. To use one instance, Republican law- massed out-of-tune version of ble part of Ed Miliband’s speech – a great hubbub of conversation, Edinburgh protest, about sup- makers in Kansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona have passed “proof the Proclaimers’ hit I’m Gonna in Manchester was a passage no real sense of anyone waiting posed vote-rigging. And in George of citizenship” laws for state voter registration — burdening low-income Be (500 Miles) brimmed with an in which he recalled meeting a for a call from any leadership Square there was a lot of what one and elderly voters without birth certificates. infectious sense of defiance and Scottish woman (“Josephine”, he figures and endlessly creative Scottish friend calls “mourning In 2011, Texas Republicans took the unusual step of creating a man- purpose. said – why do these people never use of social media: clear signs of and moaning” – claims that the datory official volunteer system for anyone who wants to run a voter This week came truly remark- have surnames?) who was think- the left’s future, in other words, people who voted no were simply registration drive. The rules for inclusion are among the strictest in the able news, of a huge surge in post- ing about voting yes, and went on dragged out of the abstract and duped or that younger people’s nation: Non-Texans are barred from participating; anyone registering referendum activity – ironically to reduce her political predica- finally put to practical use. belief in a different future had voters most undergo training through a specific county; approved reg- enough, on the side that suppos- ment to her meagre wage packet. That said, what’s afoot in been held back by the solidly anti- istrars can only register voters in the county they were approved; and edly lost. By yesterday morning, That may have been more the wake of the referendum is independence over-65s . What the all registration forms must be personally delivered to officials. Failing the SNP was claiming to have indicative of a clunky attempt to replete with tensions and dangers. new forces in Scotland will have to deliver forms within five days, says the law, is a criminal offense. attracted 37,000 new members fuse the supposed cost of living Whether fairly or not, many peo- to get their heads round is that As usual, the justification for this was “voter fraud,” despite the in the five days since the refer- crisis with recent events than ple in Scotland see the SNP as many people do not like change, gross lack of evidence or any indication these rules would stop absentee endum, surpassing its prereferen- any deep thought but still, to a the embodiment of a high-handed, often with good reason – and to ballot fraud, which is extremely uncommon, or in-person fraud, which dum membership of 25,000. lot of people it will have sounded top-down approach not unlike be successful, left politics always is almost nonexistent. The Scottish Green party like a patrician voice, apparently that of New Labour. The party’s has to bundled up with a deep At the moment, Georgia Republicans are trying to use the same has almost tripled in size, to unaware that working-class peo- apparent dominance of Scottish and sympathetic understanding playbook against efforts to register black and Latino voters in the nearly 6,000 members. The pro- ple think about much more than politics may yet work against the of that fact. state — after the New Georgia Project delivered 85,000 registration yes organisation Women for their own lot and have just as kind of pluralistic, horizontal poli- The key point, though, is excit- forms, the Republican secretary of state announced an investigation Independence is said to have strong feelings about the state tics that has flowered so spectacu- ing beyond words. In contraven- into potential — and thus far unfounded — “fraud.” increased its numbers by 50 per- and democracy as the residents larly over the past two years. tion of all the supposed rules of When it comes to voter engagement and participation, the most you cent and is reportedly having to of upscale neighbourhoods in Bluntly put, the thousands of modern politics, Scotland con- can say of Republicans is they’ve thought of their own supporters. It’s find a much larger venue for a London. people joining the party in expec- tinues to blaze a fascinating trail. why — to mark National Voter Registration Day — they announced a national meeting scheduled for Even some of the most ener- tation of meaningful participation Activism: up. Participation: on “get out the vote” tool for GOP voters, called Vote GOP. early October. Today will see a getic people on the English left may be disappointed; there again, the rise. And for the people and In fairness, it acts as a general tool for anyone who wants to know the “Voice of the People” rally outside seemed barely interested in the there are optimists who think the parties with a vested interest in details for voting in their state. Still, when considered alongside GOP the Scottish parliament, expected reality of what was going on in SNP will absorb what has hap- politics as usual, a headache that efforts against registration, it gives an ugly message: Sure, Republicans to attract thousands. On the face Scotland until the opinion polls pened over the past two years and goes on and on. are happy to help other Republicans vote. Otherwise, you can expect of it, all is energy and defiance, suggested yes might win. But if change anew – indeed, with an THE GUARDIAN roadblocks. WP-BLOOMBERG SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Pro-Islamist rally Set deadline for Israeli withdrawal: Abbas Palestinian leader accuses Israel of war crimes

NEW YORK: The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations security council to support a resolution setting a clear dead- line for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories as he in effect declared the US-sponsored Oslo peace proc- ess over. In a hard-hitting speech to the UN general assembly in New York, he also accused Israel of “war crimes carried out before the eyes of the world” during Libyan protesters hold placards during a rally in Tripoli’s central Martyr’s Square yesterday in support of “Fajr the recent 50-day Gaza war that Libya” (Libya Dawn), a mainly Islamist alliance, and calling for the removal of new nationalist-dominated par- ended in a ceasefire on 26 August, liament which is based in the eastern city if Tobruk. adding that Israel had “perpe- trated genocide”. “We will not forget and we will not forgive, and we will not allow war criminals to escape Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 69th session of New sanctions warning punishment,” Abbas declared. the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York Palestinian officials were expected yesterday. to start working with members of the security council to seek nickname for Abbas) statements resolution would most probably to South Sudan leaders backing for a resolution setting a to the UN General Assembly find support from the nine council timeframe for the ending of what clearly illustrate that he doesn’t members necessary to pass. Only NEW YORK: The United Washington has already since fighting began nine months he called the “racist and colonial” want to be — and cannot be — a Britain, Australia and Lithuania States warned of possible new imposed sanctions on several ago — aiming to forge a unity occupation — a resolution certain partner to a diplomatic settle- would be expected to abstain, sanctions on South Sudanese South Sudanese from both the government by October 9. “The to be opposed by the US. ment,” Lieberman said. “There’s forcing Washington to use its leaders as President Salva Kiir government and the rebels, and important point here is that the According to diplomatic a reason that Abu Mazen entered veto. snubbed talks in New York on more could be on the way. neighbors and the IGAD negotia- sources, the proposed resolution into a joint government with Although Abbas insisted the nine-month conflict wrack- “All of the parties who are tors also have to be an active par- has caused a rift with the US, Hamas.” He added: “Abu Mazen Palestine was committed to “a just ing his country. Instead, Kiir involved in the negotiations have ticipant in the sanctions regime,” which had been working for some complements Hamas in that he peace through a negotiated solu- sent his foreign minister to join come to the conclusion that if the the State Department official months on another resolution is preoccupied with diplomatic tion”, the moves underlined the the discussion on the sidelines of warring parties do not take this said. with the Israelis, Jordanians and terrorism and slanderous claims frustration among Palestinians the UN General Assembly. seriously, then we have to levy “They have indicated that they Qataris aimed at bolstering the against Israel.” over US proprietorship of the “There was a lot of disappoint- more sanctions on them,” the actually are at a place where if Gaza ceasefire with an exchange Aides to Israeli prime minis- peace process amid a new desire ment expressed in the meeting official said. The official stressed these negotiations do not move of Palestinian security guarantees ter Binyamin Netanyahu were to internationalise efforts to that Salva Kiir, who is New York, that the east Africa regional bloc, forward that they’re willing also with some loosening of Israel’s also harsh in their condemna- secure a two-state solution. did not attend the meeting,” a known as IGAD, which has been to impose sanctions on both economic stranglehold. tion. “Abbas’s speech was full of Faced with a veto of the reso- senior State Department official mediating sputtering peace talks, sides.” The peace talks resumed Abbas’s speech immediately lies and incitement. This is not lution, Palestinian sources say told reporters. shared the view that more sanc- in Ethiopia on Monday, media- drew a furious response from the way a man who wants peace Abbas will accelerate moves to “Several of the attendees... tions may be necessary. tors said, as sporadic fighting senior Israeli officials, with for- speaks,” said one. join UN and international bodies, made a point of noting that Salva In August, Kiir and rebel continued to rage between rebel eign minister Avigdor Lieberman Even though the US holds the including accession to the inter- Kiir was not there,” the official leader Riek Machar signed a and government fighters in the describing it as “diplomatic ter- presidency of the security coun- national criminal court. added, asking not to be named. new ceasefire deal — the fourth oil-rich country. AFP rorism”. “Abu Mazen’s (the cil, diplomats said the Abbas GUARDIAN NEWS Funeral

A boy holds a poster of a slain Shia Houthi rebel, who was killed in recent fighting against government forces, during the rebel’s funeral in Sana’a yesterday. No progress in Iran nuclear talks

NEW YORK: Top US diplo- continuation of the discussions Sergei Lavrov said Friday he mat John Kerry was to meet the three delegations held today remained “cautiously optimistic.” his Iranian counterpart for a on Iran’s nuclear program,” was “We still have time,” he told second time in two days, amid all a State Department official reporters at UN headquarters in reports that tough talks on said in a terse statement. New York as the clock ticks down reining in Tehran’s nuclear pro- “We will be quickly meeting to November. gramme have deadlocked. again. We regret that there “We will do our utmost to make “At this time as I speak, there has been no progress,” Fabius sure that remaining small, but is no significant progress,” French told reporters Friday on the extremely important, issues be Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius sidelines of the UN General resolved in a way that is accept- said of the latest discussions. Assembly, adding that a min- able to all,” Lavrov said. Negotiators from the so-called isterial level P5+1 meeting had A western diplomat said a lot P5+1 group — Britain, China, been cancelled. of technical work had been done France, Russia, the United At the heart of the issue is a during the week on some of the States plus Germany — began fundamental clash between the core issues including enrichment a new round of talks here last West’s desire to dismantle Iran’s and sanctions. Friday only two months before a capability to produce a nuclear “When I say there are signifi- November 24 deadline to reach a bomb, and the Islamic republic’s cant gaps, it means that we are deal. Seeking to make progress, insistence that it should retain still expecting significant moves the talks moved to a higher level the capacity to enrich uranium from the Iranian side,” the dip- when Kerry huddled in a New for a civilian energy programme. lomat said, adding the level of York hotel with Iranian Foreign The West wants Iran to dis- “mistrust is pretty high.” Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mantle virtually all but a few Complicating the talks are and the EU’s chief negotiator thousand of its 19,000 centrifuges domestic politics. Under a 2013 Catherine Ashton. which can be used to develop interim deal, Iran agreed to freeze But the trilateral discussion weapons-grade uranium. parts of its nuclear programme broke up with little news filter- But Iran bristles at destroying and allow daily inspections of ing out and US officials did not machines in which it has invested some nuclear sites in return for a respond to inquiries about reports billions of dollars, and wants to partial release of billions of dollars of a new offer on the table. retain many more of the centri- from blocked oil revenues. Yesterday’s “meeting will be a fuges. Russian Foreign Minister AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY West Africa in Ukip takes on desperate wait for Ebola aid MONROVIA: Ebola-hit west Labour, Tories Africa’s governments were desperately counting on prom- ises of urgent global aid to be effected yesterday as the World Health Organization announced as polls loom desperately awaited vaccines could be ready early next year. Liberia, the hardest-hit nation Our tanks on Labour’s lawn: Farage with almost 1,700 deaths, wel- comed pledges of help from world DONCASTER, United anti-establishment message. leaders gathered at the United Kingdom: Britain’s eurosceptic “We pose a threat not only to Nations on Thursday but warned UK Independence Party (Ukip) the Conservative party but to it was losing the trust of its people yesterday said it was ready to the entire British political class,” as the crisis escalated. take on the main Conservative Farage told what the party calls “We are happy to hear that the and Labour parties in two key the “people’s army”, highlighting entire world now understands the votes next month that it hopes a manifesto promise to offer tax urgency of the reaction to threat will deliver its first parliamen- breaks to people who are earning of Ebola,” Liberian Information tary seats ahead of May’s gen- the minimum wage. Minister Lewis Brown said. eral election. Ukip has kept a relatively low “We hope that the commitment In his speech at the party’s profile since European Parliament will be quickly followed by action annual conference in Doncaster elections in May when it won a because, if this drags for long, the in northern England, Ukip leader 27.5 percent share of the vote— populations of the various coun- Nigel Farage sought to portray the highest of any British political tries will begin to lose patience and the group as appealing to voters group. they will blame our governments.” from both sides and looked beyond It has been working on pro- Health systems in Liberia, its usual anti-immigration, anti- posals that it hopes will take it Sierra Leone and Guinea have EU policies. beyond its southeast England Leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage speaks to delegates at their Party conference in Doncaster, been overwhelmed by the epi- “This party is not about left and heartland and into other parts northern England, yesterday. demic, which has killed 3,000 peo- right. This party is about right where the Conservatives and ple since the start of the year, and and wrong,” he told some 2,000 Labour have been far stronger. constituency elections on October workshop at its party conference struggling voters who, arguably, are in dire need of doctors, nurses, delegates at the conference, which “We are now parking our tanks 9 that it hopes will deliver its on winning over Labour voters. Labour should be winning over,” medical equipment and supplies. was being held at a horse racing on Labour’s lawn,” Farage said, first member of the House of Ukip’s candidate in that vote, Goodwin said. The WHO told reporters in track next to opposition Labour speaking in the Yorkshire town Commons. John Bickley, faces a tougher chal- Tim Aker, head of Ukip’s Geneva it was working with leader Ed Miliband’s Doncaster which was badly impacted by Its best chance is in Clacton, a lenge than in Clacton but is trying policy unity and a member British company GlaxoSmithKline North constituency. coal mine closures in the 1970s seaside town in southeast England to harness growing popular dis- of the European Parliament and American group NewLink The growing support for Ukip and 1980s. where local lawmaker Douglas content following two high-profile charged with drawing up the Genetics to accelerate clinical in recent years has caused major The conference was overshad- Carswell triggered an election by sex abuse scandals in the region manifesto said in this month’s trials on two vaccines. concern in Prime Minister David owed, however, by a debate in switching from the Conservative in Rochdale and Rotherham. issue of Prospect Magazine: Cameron’s Conservative party, the British parliament on joining party, which he accused of being “Farage could have assembled “We’re beyond left-right, Truckers to block which has long been divided on US-led air strikes against Islamic too weak on Europe, and putting his army of the left-behind in one authoritarian-libertarian. Europe and which has many Group militants in Iraq. himself forward for Ukip. of his east coast strongholds, but “Our people want to know how Dover port in members who want tougher MPs ended with a vote giving The polls predict a triumph for these days he is more ambitious,” we’re going to make their lives action on immigration. overwhelming support for mili- the popular Carswell. Matthew Goodwin, a political sci- easier, simpler. It’s a blue-collar migrant protest But Farage made clear that he tary action — something Farage The other by-election is in ence professor at the University of platform, but for people that want also has Labour in his sights, amid opposes. Heywood and Middleton near Nottingham and a Ukip specialist. to aspire to achieve absolutely LONDON: Prime Minister signs that working-class voters At its two-day conference, Ukip Manchester—a Labour heart- “Doncaster will be used to anything.” David Cameron yesterday said are beginning to listen to Ukip’s is initially setting its sights on two land. Ukip is holding a special set out this broader pitch to AFP he was confident efforts by undocumented migrants to reach Britain via the French port of Calais would be curbed even as British truck drivers planned a protest. Chicago air traffic centre fire grounds 1,500 flights A Facebook group called “Support the Calais to Dover Truckers” has called for action CHICAGO: A fire set by an the domestic hub Midway were canceled by 12.22pm CDT fire in Aurora, it’s not ISIS,” said the airline said in a statement. It on Saturday at Dover, Britain’s employee at a Chicago-area International Airport, affecting (1722 GMT), according to track- Cynthia Stemler of the Chicago was not clear what other airlines ferry terminal that is the busi- air traffic control centre led to flights from almost every state ing website flightaware.com, suburb of Lake Bluff, who was planned to do. est in Europe, handling 350,000 the cancellation of nearly 1,500 and routes with Europe, Asia and leaving thousands of travelers heading to Newark, New Jersey, in The FAA said employees were tonnes of cargo annually, with flights at the city’s two major Latin America. stranded. a reference to the militant Islamic evacuated from its control center around 10,000 container move- airports, snarling air traffic The fire was set by a contract “There’s cascading delays group at war in Syria and Iraq. in Aurora when the fire broke out, ments per year. across the nation and globally. employee angry about being because nothing can take off O’Hare is the main hub for reportedly at about 6am CDT Under the slogan “Close Flights resumed after a delay of transferred to Hawaii who tried to bound for Chicago from any- United Airlines and a major hub (1100 GMT). “This has resulted the Port of Dover, Secure Our about four hours, but there were sabotage the center that is crucial where,” said Doug Church, for American Airlines. From in a ground stop for flights in the Border,” they said drivers were bottlenecks across the air system. for air traffic, local broadcaster spokesman for the National Air January to August, more than area and heading to Chicago,” the “under constant attack from The blaze at the facility in WGN reported law enforcement Traffic Controllers Association, 580,000 flights departed or landed FAA said in a statement. illegal immigrants” coming over Aurora, outside of Chicago, officials as saying. a union of air traffic control- at O’Hare, the city of Chicago Airspace management was from Calais in France, and were apparently was set by a man who The employee cut himself while lers. “The impact is national and said, citing Federal Aviation transferred to adjacent air traf- facing fines for unknowingly suffered self-inflicted wounds, cutting wires and also doused major.” Administration data. fic facilities, it said. transporting them. Aurora police said. There were lines with gasoline and set them At O’Hare, passengers were “We anticipate a significant Crews responding to the fire French police say around 1,500 no indications that it was an act on fire, WGN reported. scrambling to find alternative number of cancellations and in the facility’s basement found migrants are trying to slip into of terrorism and the blaze was Law enforcement officials transportation or bracing for long delays throughout the day,” the wounded man, who was trucks bound for Dover. The extinguished, they said. are planning a briefing later on delays. United said in a statement. transported to a hospital, the British and French governments The incident caused major Friday and were not immediately “I’m shocked at how calm eve- Southwest Airlines Co sus- Aurora Police Department said. agreed last weekend that London delays at Chicago’s O’Hare available to comment. ryone is. With everything going pended all flights until noon at One other person was treated for would contribute up to ¤15 to pay International Airport, one There were 1,473 flights into on in the world, maybe we’re all Midway and Milwaukee’s General smoke inhalation. for increased security in Calais. of the world’s busiest, and and out of the two airports that managing our expectations. It’s a Mitchell International Airport, REUTERS AGENCIES Clooney wedding Three dead, 11 Dreamliner resumes flight missing in Brazil boat accident after emergency landing RIO DE JANEIRO: Search and rescue teams yesterday LONDON/WARSAW: A comes just days after the U.S. combed the Paraguay River Boeing Co Dreamliner trav- Federal Aviation Administration in search of 11 tourists still elling from Chicago to Poland called for parts upgrades on the missing a day after their boat resumed its flight yesterday Dreamliner to ensure better fire capsized and sank in Brazil’s after making an emergency suppression in its cargo hold and central Mato Grosso state. landing at Glasgow, Scotland, an electrical equipment bay. The Paraguay-registered pleas- to check an alert from the fire Any findings of technical ure boat and two more bodies protection system in the bag- fault would add to earlier prob- were found on Thursday, a fire gage hold. lems experienced by the 787 and rescue official said. The body The plane, owned by Polish state Dreamliner — Boeing’s estimated of one Brazilian tourist killed in airline LOT, was on the ground for $32bn bet on new technology, the accident was recovered on about 5-1/2 hours. “After checking which entered commercial service Wednesday. the aircraft, it turned out that it three years ago. Four teams comprising a total is functional,” said LOT spokes- The global 787 fleet was of 21 firefighters, including 14 woman Barbara Pijanowska-Kuras, grounded from January to April divers, have been mobilized, a adding that firefighters at the scene last year after two lithium-ion fire and rescue official told AFP A gondolier waits for customers near the Aman hotel on the Grand Canal in Venice yesterday. George Clooney did not see any fire or smoke. batteries burned out in separate in Porto Mortinho, 430km from and his fiancée Amal Alamuddin arrived in Venice yesterday for a spectacular waterfront wedding billed as Emergency services met LOT incidents in Japan and the United the state capital Campo Grande. the party of the year. Flight 4, which was headed to States. The main lithium battery The vessel overturned in winds Warsaw, at 9.35am local time is housed in the electrical equip- gusting at more than 90km per (1035 GMT), Glasgow’s airport ment bay that was the area of the hour in a mini-tornado in a wet- said. Other traffic at the airport plane targeted by the FAA action, lands region of the river, the offi- was not affected. a proposed rule published on cial said. Former DJ Travis given suspended jail term The plane was initially cleared Tuesday and agreed to by Boeing. The vessel, the Sueno del as safe and the 248 passengers Boeing said the FAA action did Pantanal, had a total of 27 people LONDON: Dave Lee Travis, revelations that the late Jimmy the impact of the conviction on disembarked, an airport spokes- not involve the battery. The FAA aboard —16 Brazilian tourists and a leading BBC radio DJ in the Savile, one of the BBC’s top TV his job prospects, among other man said. The passengers later called for improving foam-like 11 crew. 1970s and 1980s whose shows presenters, had sexually abused factors “It was a nasty thing to reboarded and the plane took off plugs in the area of the battery Paraguayan officials said 14 once delighted Myanmar’s Aung hundreds of victims over decades. do but it was more than that. It around 1700 GMT and was due in to prevent Halon, a fire-fighting passengers and crew survived the San Suu Kyi, escaped jail yes- The 69-year-old Travis, who was an intentional and unpleas- Warsaw around 1900 GMT. chemical, from escaping in the accident and managed to swim terday despite being convicted had been found guilty on Tuesday, ant sexual assault,” said Judge Boeing said it was aware of the event of a fire. Boeing said it ashore. of a “nasty” indecent assault on was told by the judge that the Anthony Leonard. “You took flight diversion and was “working agreed with the plan to install the Search and rescue efforts a television researcher. offence warranted three months advantage of a young woman in with our customer to assess the upgraded parts on about 88 air- suspended after nightfall, and Travis was the latest ageing in prison, but that the sentence a vulnerable position whose job situation. At this time we have no craft, known as the 787-8, which resumed at daybreak on Thursday. British celebrity to be convicted would be suspended in considera- it was to look after you that day.” further details.” posed no immediate safety concern. AFP of sex crimes in the wake of tion of Travis’s poor health and REUTERS The diversion of the LOT flight REUTERS SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia / Philippines 40 people killed in Xinjiang explosions Residents see heavy security days after the violence

BEIJING: Forty “rioters” conviction could add to tensions were killed in China’s far-west- in the restive region. ern Xinjiang region following a Teng Biao, a leading human series of explosions last Sunday, rights lawyer and friend of Tohti, the worst incident of violence wrote this week that rather than in months, the regional govern- a life sentence, the academic ment has said after a four-day should be awarded a Nobel prize. news blackout. “The Chinese communist Residents yesterday described authorities, with their excessive heavy security in place days after violence, have created hostility, the violence. division and despair in Xinjiang Six civilians, two police officers and Tibet,” Teng wrote in The and two auxiliary police were also Guardian newspaper. killed in the attacks in Xinjiang’s “Tohti has denounced violence Luntai county, with 54 civilians and devoted himself to bridging injured, the regional government’s the divide and promoting under- news portal Tianshan said late standing and tolerance.” Thursday. University Professor Ilham Tohti Beijing yesterday dismissed the Students who joined democracy protests attend a lecture near Tamar Park in Hong Kong yesterday. Two “rioters” were captured, possibility that the Tohti verdict it added, while the main suspect, street,” said one receptionist. could negatively impact China’s whose name was given as Mamat A woman who answered the relations with other countries. Students join HK democracy protests Tursun, was shot dead. phone at another inn also gave an “We should not let these small The violence took place just account of security out in force, things affect our bilateral rela- two days before the sentencing and that business had suffered as tions,” Chinese foreign ministry HONG KONG: Nearly 1,000 spearheading a civil disobedience hope of speaking directly to him. of prominent Muslim Uighur “lots of people don’t come these spokeswoman Hua Chunying said. Hong Kong secondary school campaign along with democracy Leung has so far refused to speak scholar Ilham Tohti, who was on days.” The Global Times, a tabloid run pupils, some wearing uniforms, activists in protest at Beijing’s with the students or meet their trial on charges of separatism. Tohti, a former university pro- by the official Communist Party joined university students yes- decision to vet who can stand leaders. Chinese state media had previ- fessor who has been critical of mouthpiece People’s Daily, said terday to bolster a days-long for Hong Kong’s top post of chief Protests continued yesterday ously only stated that two people Beijing’s policies in the vast west- in a column on its editorial page protest against Beijing’s refusal executive at the next election. morning with around 900 second- had been killed in the incident. ern region, was sentenced to life that Tohti’s case should be seen as to grant the city unfettered University students rallied a ary school students as young as 13 The ruling Communist Party in prison on Tuesday. warning to anyone trying to break democracy. crowd on Monday that organisers gathering outside the city’s main tightly restricts access to the The United States, the China apart. Throngs of teenage students said was 13,000-strong on a cam- government complex shouting: “I restive region, and information European Union, and several “Chinese separatists must be -- many saying they had defied pus in the north of the city and want real elections not fake ones.” is difficult to independently verify. human rights groups have called fully aware of the red line drawn their parents’ wishes -- descended breathing new life into a move- “The government is ignoring Such a delay in the release of for the release of Tohti, 44, whose by the Chinese constitution and on the Southern Chinese city’s ment left stunned by Beijing’s our voices so I think that if we details is not uncommon. prosecution risks silencing mod- criminal law,” it said. government headquarters to add hardline stance. have so many secondary students Staff at hotels in Luntai county erate Uighur voices and cutting “Tohti could serve as a lesson their voices to a class boycott On Thursday night, more than boycotting the classes maybe then described a continuing heavy off the possibility of dialogue, ana- for them to realise what price kicked off by university students 2,000 people took their protest they will be willing to listen to us,” security presence. lysts say. they have to pay if they continue on Monday. to the residence of Hong Kong Agnes Yeung, a high school stu- “Security forces are still in the Critics also warned his their dangerous pace.” AFP Student groups are leader Leung Chun-ying with the dent, said. AFP

Australia plans to ship Manila to help Man stabs four kids to death US fight Isis BEIJING: A knife-wielding daily, however, reported that none that he stabbed the children while refugees to Cambodia man stabbed to death four pri- of the children were older than 12. riding a motorised trishaw. MANILA: The Philippines mary schoolchildren in south- Police joined by members of the Local police publicised the and the United States are dis- SYDNEY: Australia plans to which is Cambodia, a signatory to ern China yesterday, the latest public were searching mountain- number plate of the trishaw and cussing the details of possible start sending asylum-seekers to the Refugee Convention,” he said in a series of such attacks in ous woodland for the suspected offered a reward of 20,000 yuan assistance that Manila can pro- Cambodia by the end of the year “It enables us to fulfil on the recent years. assailant, who police identified as for information leading to the vide in fighting the extremist and will pay the Southeast Asian policy which says no-one will be Three of the children died at a 56-year-old local man surnamed man’s capture, it added. Islamic State of Iraq and Syria nation Aus$40m to accept them. resettled in Australia.” the scene and the other was later Shi, Xinhua said. Violent crime has been on the (Isis) that is reportedly recruit- Immigration Minister Scott Rights groups slammed the pronounced dead in hospital, the The report added that more rise in China in recent decades as ing members in this country, Morrison, who was due to sign a move, claiming Canberra was vio- official Xinhua news agency said, than 300 people were participat- the nation’s economy has boomed Malacañang said yesterday. controversial resettlement deal lating its international obligations citing local authorities. ing in the manhunt along with and the gap between rich and President Aquino was asked sev- in Phnom Penh later yester- and that Cambodia was not a safe The stabbings occurred early sniffer dogs in an area about poor has expanded rapidly. eral times about the Isis while in day, defended the plan and said third-country. in the morning as the children seven kilometres from the site of Studies have also described a Europe in relation to the security it would help fulfil the govern- Morrison said that only those were on their way to school in the stabbings. rise in the prevalence of mental situation in Mindanao. Aquino, ment’s vow that no boat people currently housed in offshore the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous On its verified account on disorders, some of them linked to however, said there were no reports would be resettled in Australia. detention on the tiny Pacific out- Region, the report said. China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo, stress as the pace of life becomes of Filipinos having joined the Isis. “This is about providing genuine post of Nauru would be considered It did not specify the children’s Chinese state TV described Shi faster and support systems wit In New York, Aquino said Manila resettlement in a third country initially. AFP ages or genders. The Beijing News as slightly heavyset and reported her. AFP offered to help the US to contain the IS and that Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario was Hanoi’s deforestation set to meet with US State Dept officials to discuss this. Presidential spokesman Edwin N Korean TV acknowledges Lacierda told a press briefing that the Department of Foreign Affairs would find out from the Kim Jong Un’s health woes State Department “what the US needs and what the Philippines SEOUL: Young North Korean discomfort,” a voice over for the can provide.” leader Kim Jong Un is suffering hour-long documentary said. “We don’t want to pre-empt from “discomfort,” state media The documentary was followed their meeting. So, that’s the dis- has said in the first official by a prerecorded broadcast of a cussion right now… they are really acknowledgement of ill health. North Korean Supreme People’s meeting precisely to identify what Kim, 31, has not been pho- Assembly meeting from which we can do,” he said. Lacierda said tographed by state media since Kim Jong Un was notably absent. the IS had resorted to “naked cru- appearing at a concert alongside Kim has rapidly gained weight elty and naked violence” and had his wife on September 3. since coming to power after his posed threats to world security. He had been seen walking with father died of a heart attack in “Barbarity beyond human a limp since an event with key offi- 2011. Observers speculate Kim’s decency, we’ve seen that… they cials in July and in a prerecorded weight and family background may have shown in their videos of documentary broadcast by state have contributed to his condition. incidence of beheading. This is media on Thursday appeared to “Based on his gait, it appears he totally unacceptable. And so, have difficulty walking. has gout - something (due to) diet we agree with the principle laid “The wealth and prosperity and genetic predisposition that has out by the US government and a of our socialism is thanks to the affected other members of the Kim number of countries have joined painstaking efforts of our mar- family,” said Michael Madden, an in this effort…against the Isis or shal, who keeps lighting the path expert on the North Korean lead- the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq for the people, like the flicker ership and contributor to the 38 and the Levant),” Lacierda said. Workers prepare to unload a big tree from a truck before it is replanted at a new residential complex in the sub- of a flame, despite suffering North website. REUTERS THE PHILIPPINE STAR urbs of Hanoi yesterday. Real estate developers often buy large trees from woods to transplant them at their new property sites, an act which is viewed as adding to the problem of deforestation in Vietnam. Indonesian president-elect hits out at democratic roll-back JAKARTA: Indonesian presi- The new law takes away the for democracy and a return to a provided support for the bill. they planned to challenge the In the coming years there dent-elect Joko Widodo accused people’s right to choose mayors, system used during the time of There had been much opposition move at the Constitutional Court would be an increase in “political his opponents yesterday of roll- provincial governors and district dictator Suharto, toppled in 1998. to the plan and Widodo, a former and some analysts predict that horse-trading” and corruption in ing back democracy after par- heads across the archipelago, and The move to abolish the elec- furniture exporter from a humble the judges would overturn the local parliaments as MPs make liament voted to scrap direct instead hands power to local par- tions was seen as revenge by background, sought yesterday to parliament’s decision. closed-door deals on who to pick elections of local officials. The liaments to pick them. political opponents of Widodo, appeal to the large sections of the Tobias Basuki, an analyst as local leader, he predicted. outgoing legislature voted early While opponents of the cur- known by his nickname Jokowi. public who were disappointed. from Jakarta-based think-tank It would reduce the public’s yesterday to scrap the local polls, rent system argued that hold- He started his career by winning “The public can see which the Centre for Strategic and interest in the political process a heavy blow for Widodo, who ing so many elections was hugely direct election as a mayor before parties have taken away people’s International Studies, said that and put a halt to new-style lead- rose to power through the sys- costly and often caused conflicts, securing the presidency in July. political rights. Take note,” he told if the law did remain in force, it ers from outside the political and tem and whose party had cam- supporters said that doing away Parties that backed his rival, reporters in the capital Jakarta. would be a “huge, huge step back” military elites, such as Widodo, paigned against the proposal. with the polls would be a setback ex-general Prabowo Subianto, Pro-democracy groups said for Indonesia’s young democracy. winning office, he added. AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Pakistan / Afghanistan www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Hundreds die as Taliban storm Ajrestan Militants attack Afghan military posts in large numbers posing grave challenges to Ghani

GHAZNI: Hu nd re ds of Ta l iba n “If there is no urgent help from day before provincial authorities Control of Ghazni’s mountain- appealed for help from the cen- battered morale among Afghan fighters have stormed a strate- the central government, the dis- completely lost contact with the ous Ajrestan district, about 200 tral government in Kabul, where security forces. gic district in an Afghan prov- trict will collapse,” Safi said. district. kilometres from Kabul, could pro- Ghani is in the process of taking “Peace with the Taliban ince not far from the capital, The battle for Ajrestan illus- The attack by an estimated vide the Taliban with a launching over the presidency from Hamid requires a strong government. killing dozens of people in five trates the grave challenges facing 700 Taliban fighters began about point for attacks in two border- Karzai. At the moment the Taliban think days of fighting and they could Afghanistan’s new president and five days ago and early reports ing provinces and along the cru- “We have asked repeatedly they can fight in every province capture the area, officials said the security forces in holding ter- were that more than 100 people cial artery connecting the capital for helicopters to evacuate the and they believe they can over- yesterday. ritory as foreign combat troops had been killed, including 15 who to Afghanistan’s second city of wounded, but so far nothing has throw the government,” said Haji The Ghazni provincial govern- prepare to leave at the end of the were beheaded by the militants, Kandahar in the south. been done,” Ahmadi said. Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdullah’s ment has lost contact with police year. said provincial deputy governor However, a regional spokes- running mate and the leader of in the province’s western district No longer pinned down by US Ahmadullah Ahmadi. CALL FOR HELP man for the Afghan army, Nazif Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazara of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, air cover, Taliban fighters are The militants have been The growing Taliban threat is Sultani, said yesterday reinforce- minority. deputy police chief of the area. attacking Afghan military posts focusing on regaining impor- likely to be the most urgent chal- ments had been sent to the dis- “Without international support Ghazni is southwest of the in large numbers with the aim of tant opium-growing areas, such lenge for the new, US-brokered trict the previous day. He said he it will be hard to provide secu- capital. The main highway linking taking and holding ground. as the southern province of government of national unity had no further information. rity ... The example of Ajrestan Kabul to southern Afghanistan, Heavy fighting was continuing Helmand, and areas where they between President-elect Ashraf Months of deadlock over a dis- district shows that without inter- where the Taliban have been mak- in Ajrestan yesterday. Safi said have traditionally enjoyed sup- Ghani and his former rival puted election and uncertainty national commitment of troops, ing advances in recent months, a suicide car bomber attacked port, such as Kunduz province Abdullah Abdullah. over whether any US troops it will be difficult to handle the passes through the province. a police checkpoint early in the in the north. Provincial authorities have will remain beyond this year has Taliban.” REUTERS

Govt not to begin talks unless PTI, Afghan poll results reveal Ghani as clear winner PAT show interest KABUL: Ashraf Ghani won At an IEC ceremony yesterday Afghanistan’s disputed presi- in Kabul, Ghani was presented ISLAMABAD: The govern- dential election decisively with with a certificate that confirmed ment of Pakistan led by prime 55 percent of the vote, results he had won 55.27 percent of the minister Nawaz Sharif is not revealed yesterday, after the fig- ballot on a turnout of 7.12 million approaching the Pakistan ure was kept secret for five days voters. Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and over concerns that fraud allega- Ghani hailed the unity gov- Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) tions could trigger violence. ernment as a turning point for for resumption of dialogue after Ghani and Abdullah both Afghanistan as US-led combat all the parliamentary parties claimed victory in the June 14 troops wind down their 13-year urged it not to contact them run-off vote, tipping the coun- war against the Taliban. unless the protesters them- try into a political crisis that “The political transition was selves express their willingness the United Nations feared could a success for the nation and to restart it. descend into the ethnic unrest of we can move forward,” he said These parties told Prime the 1990s civil war. after accepting the certificate. Minister Nawaz Sharif that since On August 7 US Secretary of ‘We call for investors to come to the PTI and PAT had unilaterally State John Kerry flew to Kabul Afghanistan.’ terminated the talks, they should to broker a deal that outlined an The election was marred by show readiness for their revival if extensive audit of nearly 8 million widespread fraud, repeating seri- they were sincere to resolve the votes and formation of a national ous problems seen in previous contentious issues through peace- unity government with a new role elections since the Taliban regime ful means. for a chief executive who would was ousted from power in 2001. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) report to the president. After the UN-supervised audit, leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan con- A ‘unity government’ deal was 1,206 of the 22,828 ballot boxes firmed in a TV interview that it finally agreed last Sunday, with were invalidated -- meaning sev- were the parliamentary parties Ghani serving as the next presi- eral hundred thousand votes were including the opposition, which dent and Abdullah taking up the thrown out. impressed upon the prime min- new role of chief executive, simi- Ghani said he would priori- ister not to reach out to the PTI lar to that of prime minister. tise electoral reform to improve and PAT seeking recommence- The Independent Election future elections, and thanked ment of the parleys, as it was not Commission (IEC) had declared outgoing President Hamid Karzai, the government which severed Ghani the winner, but did not who has ruled since the fall of the the process but it were the pro- reveal the margin of victory or Taliban. testers, who ceased it. the turnout to avoid stoking bit- Ghani will be inaugurated in These parties wanted the PTI ter resentment among Abdullah’s Kabul on Monday in Afghanistan’s Afghan president-elect Ashraf Ghani (centre) arrives for a ceremony at the Independent Electoral Commission and PAT to come down from their supporters who believed he won first democratic transfer of power. office in Kabul yesterday. unnecessary high-flying position fairly. AFP and realise the usefulness of the talks. They even asked the gov- ernment not to take any step, accepting any demand of the PTI or PAT, till the time the dialogue resumes and these protesters Sindh to recruit 1,000 female cops Floods, political chaos to show seriousness. As separate parleys were pro- gressing with the PTI and PAT, KARACHI: More women’s officers will be conducted on the Sindh police IG Ghulam Haider they individually but simultane- police stations will be estab- basis of merit. Jamali also addressed the press stifle economic growth ously announced to finish the lished in five districts and She also said that trained conference. exercise saying that it would be 1,000 female police officers will female police staff will be posted He said that they will advertise ISLAMABAD: The Asian the deficit assumes a provincial resumed only after their arrested be recruited, said Sindh min- at the new police stations. for the positions of 1,000 female Development Bank (ADB) cash surplus equal to 0.9 percent workers were released. Almost ister for women development “Apart from this, my depart- police constables soon. has cautioned that the politi- of GDP. all the activists of the two par- and special education Rubina ment will also launch centres A meeting was held between cal demonstrations, floods as The budget envisages current ties have since been freed either Qaimkhani at a press con- with women’s counters to facili- the police department and the well as security challenges for expenditures increasing by only on court orders or by the gov- ference held at her office on tate the issues faced by women women development depart- Pakistan pose downside risks to 1.6 percent from the estimated ernment itself because the sit- Wednesday. in various districts,” the minister ment before the press confer- the economic growth forecast out-turn in fiscal year 2014. While ins are experiencing dwindling She announced the establish- said. ence. Among other issues, female for fiscal year 2015. most major categories of spending attendance. ment of police stations in five She also lauded the efforts of empowerment was on the meet- In its ‘update’ to the ‘Asian increase by double-digit, including But egos of Imran Khan and districts. “The police stations Pakistan People’s Party chair- ing’s agenda. Development Outlook 2014’ pub- a 10 percent increase in salaries Dr Tahirul Qadri are not allowing will be established in Thatta, person Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh is one of the four prov- lished yesterday, ADB revised the and pensions and a 15 percent them to accept that their workers Umerkot, Sanghar, Nawabshah saying that he was taking a keen inces of Pakistan and historically economic growth projection for increase in interest payments, have been released. and Khairpur,” she said, adding interest in redressing the issues home to the Sindhi people. 2015 to 4.2 percent, and states large savings are expected from a INTERNEWS that the fresh appointments of of women in Sindh. INTERNEWS projections for 2015 assume that 37 percent drop in subsidies, equal the government will make satis- to 0.6 percent of GDP, achieved factory progress on its economic mainly by cutting untargeted Pakistan missile test agenda to reform the energy sec- power subsidies. tor and state-owned enterprises, Containing subsidies will be a rationalise import tariffs, and challenge given overruns in recent improve the business climate. years, and success will depend Revising the growth projection, on implementing power sector the ADB report however, said reforms to raise tariffs enough even concentrated reform would to meet costs, improve collec- need several years to eliminate tion, reduce leakage, and invest electricity and gas shortfalls and in generation, transmission, and to effect the change needed to lift distribution systems. structural constraints on growth. Power tariff increases in fiscal GDP growth projected at 4.2 year 2014 helped reduce subsidies, percent reflects some easing of but savings were partly offset fiscal consolidation and increased by subsidies to cover improved allocations for public sector devel- supply. opment spending. The ADB report says that con- Continuing reform and an sumer price inflation is expected improving security environment to average 8.2 percent in fiscal would further boost business year 2015, slightly down from 8.6 confidence and foster private percent in fiscal year 2014. investment. A business and consumer sen- The prospect of strong growth timent survey in May 2014 found in manufacturing depends on fur- inflationary expectations had ther progress in easing energy steadied, apparently reflecting shortages. improved exchange rate stability The consolidated budget for and much lower domestic bor- 2015 targets further trimming the rowing for budgetary support A test launch of a short range surface-to-surface Missile Hatf IX (NASR), at an undisclosed location in Pakistan yesterday. Pakistan successfully test deficit to 4.9 percent of GDP from as development partners help fired the NASR short-range missile with the capability to carry nuclear warheads. The surface-to-surface Hatf-IX missile has a range of 60 kilometres 5.5 percent estimated for last fis- finance the government’s eco- and a ‘quick-response system’ referring to the smaller amount of logistical effort needed to launch it, a military statement said. cal year through reduced expend- nomic programme. iture. This projected decline in INTERNEWS SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com India Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan quits President’s rule looms over the state

MUMBAI: A day after the NCP broke its 15-year-old alli- ance with the Congress in Maharashtra and withdrew from the Democratic Front government, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan (pictured), yesterday submitted his resignation. “After the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ministers quit last night, the Congress-led Democratic Front government was reduced to a minority. Accordingly in the best demo- cratic traditions, the CM decided to submit his resignation,” a top government failed on all counts official, declining to be identified, and could not even complete its said. The development followed full term,” he said. a meeting between Chavan and Known for political stability, Governor C V Rao last morning. Maharashtra was administered The stage is now set for either centrally only once since its crea- imposing President’s Rule or tion in 1960 and that too for a few asking Chavan to continue as months — February to June 1980. A villager carries a salvaged plank as he walks past uprooted trees from flash floods at Bejengdola village, some 165km from Shillong, the capital of caretaker chief minister till the A piquant situation has arisen Meghalaya, yesterday. elections scheduled for October this time when the election 15. Earlier this afternoon, Leader process is already underway, of Opposition in the Assembly voting scheduled after 20 days Eknath Khadse of the Bharatiya and the incumbent government Meghalaya landslide toll rises to 46 Janata Party, met the governor which ruled for 15 years has been and demanded immediate dis- reduced to a minority. missal of the Chavan ministry as In the outgoing assembly, the SHILLONG: The toll follow- were affected after the swollen “The flood water is slowly has borne the brunt of the floods it was reduced to a minority. Congress had 82 legislators and ing floods and landslides in Brahmaputra and Jingiram riv- receding in some areas.” and landslides. He also submitted a let- its ally had 62 legislators, mak- Meghalaya has risen to 46 while ers submerged at least 1,172 vil- The National Highway 51 con- “The overall assessment of the ter demanding imposition of ing it the single largest group in 10 people are still missing, offi- lages across 27 blocks in the state. necting Tura, the main town in damage will be done in detail once President’s Rule in the state in the 288-member assembly. The cials said yesterday. There are 108 relief camps hous- Garo Hills with Assam, has been the flood waters recede and the the wake of the latest politi- main opposition grouping — BJP- Union Minister of State for ing the displaced people. restored. Warjri, however, said roads open for officials to reach cal developments that shook Shiv Sena — had 90 (46 and 44 Home Kiren Rijiju will today “As of today, the official toll has there has only been partial move- all the areas,” Laloo told media. the state. BJP leader Ashish members respectively), with other make an aerial survey of the gone up to 46 with 10 people still ment of vehicles on the highway He said the approximate loss Shelar criticised Chavan’s deci- smaller parties and independ- flood-hit Garo Hills region to missing. The number of deaths since the National Highway-37 in of Rs.1,170 crore is expected to sion to quit after the Leader of ents accounting for the rest. The inspect the damage. The National is expected to rise as search and Assam’s Goalpara district is still substantially increase. “We are Opposition’s demand instead of 25-year-old BJP-Sena alliance Disaster Management Authority rescue operation by the National inundated. hopeful the central government having resigned gracefully on had also broken up on Thursday. (NDMA) has said heavy to very Disaster Response Force is still on Deputy Chief Minister in- will assist us financially to help Thursday itself after his govern- The Congress had 22 ministers heavy rainfall will hit isolated in the water-logged areas,” Chief charge of revenue and disaster the state and its people get back ment was reduced to a minority. and NCP 20 ministers in the cabi- places in the state today. Secretary P B O Warjri said over management Roytre Christopher to normalcy,” he added. “The Congress-NCP net headed by Chavan. IANS More than two lakh people phone. Laloo said public infrastructure IANS

Toddler sexually Red tapism binds India’s space firms assaulted in Delhi playschool BANGALORE: As India cele- from space technology to the avia- brated becoming the first Asian tion export industry, catering to NEW DELHI: A three-year nation to reach Mars, S M the likes of Boeing Co (BA.N) old girl was sexually assaulted Vaidya, head of business at con- and Airbus and trimming ISRO’s by the 24-year-old son of the glomerate Godrej’s aerospace contribution to their aerospace owner of the playschool she was division that made the space- business to 40 percent from 70 attending, police said yester- craft’s engine and thruster percent currently. day. The incident occurred on components, sounded surpris- India’s space programme began Thursday in west Delhi’s Hari ingly downbeat. in the early 1960s and the coun- Nagar area. The mission was, indeed, a try has launched 30 Indian and 40 Accused Vikas was arrested major achievement, he said, and foreign satellites. yesterday after the victim’s one of which the state-run Indian The programme developed parents informed the police on Space Research Organisation mainly after Western pow- Thursday. A police officer said: (ISRO) should be proud. ers imposed sanctions following “The girl’s parents told us that But a single trip to Mars was India’s first nuclear weapons test she came home crying yesterday. not enough to sustain a promising in 1974. Still, it remains a small She was taken to a hospital after yet relatively small industry, he player in a global space industry she complained of pain in her pri- added, and ISRO should be doing estimated to be worth more than vate parts.” more to foster it. $300bn a year. He added: “She has identified “Unless they fly more, they India performs only a handful the accused, who confessed to the will not buy more from us,” of launches annually, compared police that he sexually assaulted Vaidya told Reuters, shortly after with 20 or more carried out by her inside the school premises.” news broke on Wednesday that the United States, Russia and This is the second incident of Mangalyaan, Hindi for “Mars China, according to the Institute rape in the past two days. craft”, had entered into orbit for Defence Studies and Analyses An employee of a playschool around the Red Planet about 10 (IDSA), a defence ministry located in west Delhi’s Rohini months after launching. think-tank. area was Thursday arrested for “How many Mars missions are ISRO has struggled to develop sexually assaulting a two-and- you going to have?” heavier launchers to put larger half-year-old girl after she iden- India’s successful mission, com- payloads into space, which could tified him. Meanwhile, angry pleted on a shoestring budget of attract more business from for- parents and relatives of the vic- $74m, has boosted its prestige in eign nations and help it compete. tim staged protest near the school the global space race and, back on Progress slowed in the 1990s in Rohini and demanded action Earth, raised the profile of Indian Scientists and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) celebrate after successfully putting when, under US pressure, Russia against the principal. companies involved in the project. the satellite Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Mangalyaan into orbit around Mars, at the tracking centre in Bangalore. refused to transfer cryogenic But Godrej and some other engine technology to India that firms are frustrated at what research by 50 percent to almost any time soon, with the absence the last five years, but the tech- could have helped develop a CRPF trooper they say is the slow execution of $1bn this financial year. of heavy rocket launchers, too few nological fallout in terms of high- heavier capacity Geosynchronous projects and lack of government But the programme is still launch facilities and bureaucratic precision manufacture has been Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). killed in Srinagar support, which are hampering small, and the small number of delays hampering growth. considerable,” Kotwal said. L&T After spending over a decade India’s efforts to compete with launches limits the growth poten- Larsen & Toubro, which manu- has been working with ISRO for developing the complex engine, SRINAGAR: A Central China and Russia as a cheaper tial of private companies that factured motor casings and the over four decades and between 1-5 India successfully launched its Reserve Police Force (CRPF) option for launching satellites. supply them. antenna for India’s Mars probe, percent of its heavy engineering first GSLV powered with an trooper was seriously injured ISRO did not reply to questions Between 2007 and 2012, ISRO is more positive about work- division’s revenues come from indigenous cryogenic engine ear- in a hit and run attack by sepa- for this article. accomplished about half of its ing with the ISRO, saying it has ISRO. lier this year. ratist guerrillas here yesterday The Mangalyaan was built in planned 60 missions, government opened doors to other commercial “They have to make that and succumbed to his injuries 15 months with two-thirds of its data showed. The government opportunities. HANDFUL OF LAUNCHES (GSLV) reliable ... we need three in a hospital, police said. parts manufactured by domestic cited “development complexity” Space projects have helped Godrej wanted to explore or four launches to claim it is Police said militants fired at the firms such as Godrej & Boyce and as the reason for the delay in enhance its expertise in other opportunities with US and efficient,” said Mayank Vahia, a trooper in Aali Kadal area, criti- India’s largest engineering com- some missions. sectors such as defence and aer- European space programmes scientist at the Tata Institute of cally injuring him. “The injured pany, Larsen & Toubro (LART. Between 2012 and 2017 the tar- ospace, including missile tech- after its success in India, but Fundamental Research. CRPF trooper was immediately NS). get is 58 missions. The agency has nology and welding, said M V Vaidya said government-to- Vahia recommended that ISRO taken to hospital where he suc- Prime Minister Narendra completed 17 missions so far, and Kotwal, president of L&T’s heavy government clearances posed a allowed private companies more cumbed to his injuries,” a police Modi has said he wants to ISRO did not say why the number engineering division. hurdle. freedom to develop space tech- officer said. Searches have been expand India’s 50-year-old space remained low. “Volumes of business (from “We don’t want to be only nologies, saying the organisation mounted in the area to trace the programme. The government Some company executives and ISRO) have been relatively small, dependent on ISRO,” he said. was excessively conservative. militants, the officer added. has increased funding for space experts do not see that changing of the order of $40 million over Now Godrej plans to shift focus REUTERS IANS SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Modi faces US court summons over riots Prime Minister arrives in New York to address UN General Assembly NEW DELHI: A New York Assembly today before heading administration to control the court has ordered Narendra to Washington to see President violence and his refusal to apolo- Modi to answer allegations Delhi slams case as frivolous, malicious Barack Obama. gise left a legacy of distrust and of “attempted genocide” over A copy of the one-page sum- suspicion. deadly anti-Muslim riots, a NEW YORK/NEW DELHI: Justice Centre (AJC) obtained mons provided by the AJC named The general secretary of the rights organisation said yes- India yesterday slammed the summons from the US Modi as the defendant, describ- BJP said it had only heard about terday, as he began his first US attempt to distract attention Federal Court for the Southern ing him as “a national and citizen the summons through the media. visit as prime minister. through a case filed against District of New York in a suit of India, Prime Minister and ex “This has not been commu- The complaint relates to anti- Prime Minister Narendra filed with two survivors of what Chief Minister of Gujarat”. nicated formally to us. There Muslim violence that left at least Modi in a New York court for it called the horrific and organ- “A lawsuit has been filed is no clarity at the moment,” 2,000 people dead in 2002 in the his alleged role in the 2002 ised violence of Gujarat 2002. against you,” said the summons, Muralidhar Rao told reporters in western state of Gujarat, where Gujarat riots as state chief Filed under the Alien Tort which was signed by the clerk of the capital New Delhi. “What I Modi served as chief minister minister. Claims Act (ATCA) and the the court. can say is, this is unprecedented.” before he was elected prime min- Ministry of external affairs Torture Victim Protection Act “Within 21 days after service of The AJC describes itself as a ister in May. spokesperson, Syed Akbaruddin, (TVPA), the 28-page complaint this summons on you... you must non-profit human rights organi- Modi denies any wrongdo- said that the case, filed on the charges Modi with “committing serve on the plaintiff an answer sation established to bring per- ing and the Indian courts have eve of Modi’s visit to the US, crimes against humanity, extra- to the attached complaint. petrators of mass violence and cleared him of all charges, but he is a “a frivolous and malicious judicial killings, torture and “If you fail to respond, judgment genocide to justice. remains tainted by the episode. attempt to distract attention inflicting mental and physical by default will be entered against It said it filed the suit under Lawyers for rights group the from the visit of the prime dismissed these allegations as trauma on the victims, mostly you for the relief demanded in the the Alien Tort Claims Act and the American Justice Center (AJC) minister to the United Nations baseless,” Akbaruddin said. from the Muslim community”. complaint.” Torture Victim Protection Act. filed a civil case on Thursday seek- General Assembly and a bilateral “It is unfortunate that vested AJC said it was providing legal Although the AJC was named India’s former prime minister ing damages from Modi for what summit with the president of the interests are raking up the mat- support and advice to the survi- as one of the four plaintiffs, the Manmohan Singh faced similar they call “attempted genocide”. United States”. ter only to vitiate the atmos- vors in their effort to hold “Modi others were not identified. action when he visited the United “It is clear that justice for the The spokesperson said the phere during the visit,” he added. accountable for his complicity in The United States and States last year. plaintiffs cannot be obtained in “allegations in the case are base- Modi arrived in New York on the violence”. European powers boycotted Singh was targeted by a New India because of the condoning less and similar to other such a five-day visit, during which The survivors are suing Modi Modi for more than a decade York-based group calling itself of this genocidal act of state- allegations made in the past he will address the UN General for the loss of lives and trauma in after the riots, but have been left Sikhs For Justice over violence sanctioned terrorism,” reads the against the prime minister. Assembly and also hold summit their families, and causing emo- with little choice but to embrace against the religious minority. petition, issued by the AJC and “A Supreme Court of India- meetings with US President tional, financial and psychologi- him after his Bharatiya Janata Thousands of Sikhs were killed unnamed survivors of the riots. monitored investigation has Barack Obama. cal devastation in their lives. Party (BJP) won a landslide in India in 1984 in riots that The AJC said the court had comprehensively examined and New York-based American IANS election victory. erupted after prime minister issued a summons ordering him Modi has pledged national unity Indira Gandhi was assassinated to respond to the charges within since taking power, but some by her Sikh bodyguards. 21 days. Under US law, a court Modi with committing crimes Muslim community. Meanwhile, Narendra Modi, members of religious minorities The complaint said Singh — can decide on action if a defend- against humanity, extra-judicial Modi, a Hindu nationalist, was who was once refused a US visa still fear a rise in communal ten- himself a Sikh — had shielded ant does not reply to a summons killings, torture and inflicting blocked from obtaining a US visa over human rights concerns, sions under his government. members of his Congress Party within that time. mental and physical trauma on in 2005 over the allegations, which arrived in New York yesterday. Although he has been cleared from accountability. The 28-page complaint charges the victims, mostly from the he has always denied. He will address the UN General of wrongdoing, the failure of his AFP

Submerged vehicles Chief Justice bats for cooling-off period

NEW DELHI: In apparent option was to amend these statu- disapproval of his predecessor tory provisions paving the way for P Sathasivam accepting the alternatives or a wait of two years. Kerala governor’s post, Chief “If you want to stop it (judges Justice of India R M Lodha occupying statutory bodies like yesterday said that no CJI or NHRC or the tribunals), then Supreme Court or high court amend these statutory provi- judge should accept any gov- sions,” he said. ernment position or occupy a “At least for sometime a judge constitutional office at least for is not given a constitutional posi- sometime after retiring. tion,” he said and repeatedly clar- In an interaction with media ified that he was not making a persons on his last working day, comment on any individual’s case he advocated a two-year cooling- in response to questions about his off period. view on his predecessor becoming “I hold the view that the the Kerala governor. Supreme Court chief justice and Categorically rejecting the pos- judges, the high court chief justice sibility of his becoming the first and judges should not, post retire- Lokpal or occupying any gov- ment, accept a constitutional ernment position, Chief Justice position or positions connected Lodha said: “You will not see me with the government. Should it in any government position.” happen, it should be after a cool- He regretted that his sugges- ing off period of two years,” the tion that the Supreme Court CJI said. should function all 365 days a As there are certain statutes year was not taken in the right requiring an institution or a tri- perspective by the members of the bunal to be headed by the retired bar and an “opportunity which chief justice of India, apex court could have helped in streamlin- judge or high court chief justice, ing the functioning of the higher Chief Justice Lodha said that one judiciary has been lost”. IANS Partially-submerged vehicles are seen in a flooded neighbourhood at the Raj Bagh locality in central Srinagar yesterday. The floods, which hit on September 7, killed over 450 people across India and Pakistan and caused devastating losses running into billions of dollars. Hooda files papers, Charges not supported by says Congress India, China agree to end ready for third term documents: Kanimozhi CHANDIGARH: Haryana Himalayan border face-off NEW DELHI: DMK MP the case are Swan Telecom Pvt. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Kanimozhi, accused in money Ltd. (STPL), Kusegaon Realty Hooda yesterday filed his nomi- laundering in the 2G spectrum Pvt. Ltd., Cineyug Media and nation for next month’s assem- NEW DELHI: India and China two armies cannot even agree on of the contested 3,500km border. allocation case, claimed inno- Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (Cineyug bly elections in the state and have agreed to pull back troops where the Line of Actual Control, The military commanders of the cence in a court here yester- Films), Kalaignar TV (KTV) Pvt. said they will form the next ranged against each other on a or the ceasefire line following the two sides held a flag meeting on day and said allegations levelled Ltd., Dynamix Realty, Eversmile government. remote Himalayan plateau, the fighting in 1962, lies, leading to Thursday at a border crossing to against her were not supported Construction Company Private Hooda filed his nomination Indian government said yester- face-offs between border patrols. work out details of the des-esca- by any documents. Limited, Conwood Construction papers in his hometown Rohtak, day, ending their biggest face-off Chinese Foreign Ministry lation, a government official said Kanimozhi’s counsel Sushil and Developers (P) Ltd., DB Realty 75km from Delhi, for the Garhi- on the disputed border in a year. spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in New Delhi. He declined to give Bajaj told the Central Bureau Ltd. and Nihar Construction Pvt. Sampla Kiloi assembly seat in The two armies mobilised about that the border was in “tranquil- details of the pullback or if the of Investigation Special Judge Ltd. The accused have been booked Rohtak district. He has been 1,000 soldiers each in Ladakh ity”. “The dispute has been effec- armies had agreed to take down O P Saini that there were no under various sections dealing elected legislator from this seat this month, accusing the other of tively managed,” she said at a the new structures. documents to substantiate the with the Prevention of Money thrice earlier. Talking to media building military infrastructure daily briefing. “It was a positive meeting, and allegation against her that said Laundering Act (PMLA). after filing his nomination papers, in violation of an agreement to The flare-up at the border we are moving forward,” he said, she, in conspiracy with others, “The investigation revealed Hooda said that the Congress was maintain peace until a resolution occurred in the middle of Chinese declining to be identified because arranged `2bn for alleged illegal that amount of Rs.200 crore confident of winning the assembly of the 52-year territorial row. President Xi Jinping’s state visit of the sensitivity of the situation. gratification. was paid by promoters of STPL, elections and forming the govern- Indian Foreign Minister aimed at ramping up commercial Two flag meetings earlier in Kanimozhi with former telecom using their group entity Dynamix ment for a third time in the state. Sushma Swaraj said she met her relations under India’s business- the week had failed to defuse the minister A. Raja, Swan telecom Realty, to KTV, through KFVPL “We will form the next govern- Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in focused Prime Minister Narendra situation, the most serious since promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and CFPL (Cineyug Films) in ment in the state. The Congress New York on Thursday and the Modi who took office in May. a 21-day stand-off last year when and Vinod Goenka, Kusegaon the garb of legitimate financial will win comfortably,” Hooda said. two agreed to withdraw their sol- India said hundreds of Chinese India said Chinese troops set up Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. transaction, that is as loan/share Hooda has been chief minister diers to their original positions by troops had intruded into the camp in the Depsang sector that (KFVPL) directors Asif Balwa application money,” the ED said in Haryana since March 2005. His the end of the month. Chumar sector of Ladakh, it controlled. and Rajiv Agarwal, Bollywood in the charge sheet. government assumed office for a “The bad phase is over,” state- equipped with bulldozers and China’s foreign ministry, in a producer Karim Morani, DMK The payment was illegal grati- second term after the October run All India Radio quoted her trucks, to build a road. statement on the talks between chief M Karunanidhi’s wife fication for and on behalf of Raja 2009 assembly polls. as telling reporters in New York. China earlier had protested the two foreign ministers, did not Dayalu Ammal, Kalaignar TV and his associates in lieu of ille- Elections to 90 assembly seats China defeated India in a brief against India’s decision to erect refer to the border tensions, say- director Sharad Kumar and P. gal favours given to the STPL for in Haryana are to be held on war in 1962 and since then the an observation hut on a hilltop in ing only that the two countries Amirthan were charge sheeted grant of Universal Access Service October 15. The results will be border has remained unresolved the area as well as an irrigation must build on Xi’s successful visit by the Enforcement Directorate licence, it has been contended. known on October 19. IANS despite 17 rounds of talks. The canal in Demchok in another part to India. REUTERS in the case. Companies named in IANS SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Minister meets New York businessmen

NEW YORK: The Minister of gas as two major income sources, Economy and Trade H E Sheikh and is working to diversify its Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed economic base through the use of Al Thani yesterday briefed presi- creative economic mechanisms, the dents and directors of major Minister said. American companies in Harvard He pointed to the huge invest- Dollar near Club of New York areas of coop- ment in the infrastructure eration and investment opportu- development, in addition to the four-year highs nities in Qatar. opening of the door wide for The Minister was speaking at a those interested in investing in against major roundtable organised at the invi- the fields of industry, agriculture, tation of the Business Council for education, health, services, con- International Understanding, in sulting, information technology, currencies the presence of the Chief Executive hospitality, tourism and recrea- Officer of Qatar Investment tion, petroleum derivatives, (pet- LONDON: The dollar held just Authority Ahmed Mohamed Al rochemicals), construction sector below a four-year high against Sayed. and real estate. a basket of currencies yester- The Minister of Economy and He told the roundtable that for- day, fuelled by the biggest yield Commerce spoke about the encour- eign investors could be able to par- advantage over the euro in aging investment environment ticipate in all economic activities in nearly 15 years as the Federal in Qatar, pointing out that such Qatar by owning 49 per cent of the Reserve contemplates hiking an environment is characterised invested capital, and this percent- interest rates. by transparency and streamlined age could rise to reach 100 percent European equities shrugged procedures for local and foreign in certain areas such as agricul- off a sharp sell-off in Asian and investors. ture, industry, health, education, US markets overnight, clawing He explained regulations of the tourism , development and extrac- off one-month lows and led by practice of economic activity in tion of minerals and energy, con- euro zone banks, seen as the big Qatar by foreign capital as well as sulting, culture, sports, technical winners of the European Central the laws of the company founda- services and technology, according Bank’s measures to prop up infla- tion are integrated to make Qatar to the provisions of Law No. 13 of tion and kick-start growth. an attractive economy to foreign 2000, adding that foreigners can The Minister of Economy and Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani at the meeting in US stock index futures pointed capital, referring in this respect to own real estate in some specific New York yesterday. to a slightly firmer start on Wall the openness and the flexible and locations. Street after Thursday’s sharp quick procedures. Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim viewed as a free-trade zone, continuous basis to keep pace in Qatar are encouraging fac- selloff triggered by Apple Inc and Qatar, while applying Qatar said investment can be made at stressing that national laws with international standards. tors for investors because they the rallying dollar. Vision 2030, seeks to liberate the Qatar Financial Centre and the governing economic activity are He said that the rates of taxes are low. The dollar index, which Qatari from relying on just oil and Educational City since they are flexible and are updated on a and fees for founding companies QNA tracks the greenback against a basket of major currencies, edged up to 85.278, not far from a four-year high of 85.485 hit on Thursday. The dollar is on track for its 11th successive weekly rise, some- thing it has not achieved in four Iran urges Opec to stop oil slide decades. “It’s Friday and so we may see some consolidation, but in general the dollar has broken Gulf producers remain unruffled; Brent crude slips below $97 through a number of long-term levels, so there’s scope for us to DUBAI/LONDON: Iran yes- trend in prices, Opec mem- downplay the price drop, while extra supply if needed to support is not expected to see a major go further before we meet much terday urged Opec members bers should try to temper pro- delegates have stopped short prices. change,” an industry source said resistance,” said Neil Mellor, a to make joint efforts to keep duction to avoid further price of calling for price-supporting Saudi Arabia, the world’s top on Thursday. strategist with Bank of New York oil prices from falling further, instability”, Iran’s Oil Minister, action. “I am still relaxed,” said a exporter, cut its output by around Still, Opec’s next meeting, on Mellon in London. highlighting a split with other Bijan Zanganeh, was quoted by delegate from one of Opec’s Gulf 400,000 barrels per day in August. Nov. 27, will likely see a debate “Against the euro we have a members such as Saudi Arabia the Iranian oil ministry website members this week, referring to But the amount of crude supplied on whether its output target of forecast in the low $1.20s for a who face lower budget pres- Shana as saying. the oil market situation. to the market — both domesti- 30 million bpd is appropriate for year’s time, but the way things sures despite a slide in prices Iran has among the highest oil- Besides lower-than-expected cally and for export — was 9.688 2015, given that Opec and other are going we could get there fairly towards $95 a barrel. price needs within the 12-mem- demand, a key factor behind the million bpd, compared to around forecasters expect a further drop quickly.” Brent crude slipped below $97 ber Organisation of the Petroleum drop in prices has been a recov- 9.66 million bpd in July, indicating in global demand for Opec crude. The dollar has been driven a barrel yesterday and headed for Exporting Countries and often ery in Libyan output to around no change in Saudi oil supply. The Opec secretary-general higher by the divergent monetary a third straight month of declines supports measures likely to boost 925,000 barrels per day (bpd) now Industry sources in Saudi said last week he expected Opec policy outlooks between a rate- Oil has fallen from $115 in June, prices. Saudi Arabia and other from just 200,000 bpd in June. Arabia have said the prospect production to be around 29.50 hike-contemplating Fed and an pressured by concern about slow- Gulf Opec producers have lower Other Opec members, mainly of any significant change in out- million bpd in 2015, not 30 mil- ECB and Bank of Japan that are ing global demand and higher pain thresholds. Saudi Arabia, had informally put this year is unlikely. “As we lion bpd. But the United Arab mulling further stimulus. supplies as Libyan output recov- But Opec’s Gulf Arab pro- pumped more to make up for approach winter and with the end Emirates, a core Gulf OpecC ers, raising concern among some ducers, so far, remain unruffled. lower Libyan output and other of the refinery maintenance sea- producer, said it was too early to oil exporters of lower revenues. Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, in outages and Opec sources have son, global demand is likely to pick predict a cut in the Opec target. S&P raises “Considering the downward New York this week, appeared to said they could pare back the up therefore Saudi oil production AGENCIES India outlook

MUMBAI: Ratings agency Ram truck in the making Standard & Poor’s raised India’s credit outlook to “sta- Hungary freezes gas ble” Friday, saying the pros- pects for economic reforms had grown under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new right- supply to Ukraine wing government. Although S&P kept its main BUDAPEST: Prime Minister been re-exporting gas to Ukraine sovereign credit rating unchanged Viktor Orban said yesterday to help Kiev through its latest at “BBB-“, the agency said it was that Hungary could not risk a energy war with Moscow. “revising the outlook on the long- halt to Russian gas supplies as The threat came as energy term rating to stable from nega- it froze deliveries to Ukraine chiefs gathered in Berlin for tive” as it expected growth rates amid threats by Moscow. EU-mediated talks aimed at halt- to pick up pace. “Hungary cannot get into a ing a Russian gas supply cut to “The stable outlook reflects our situation in which, due to the Ukraine that could leave parts of expectation that the newly elected Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it can- the war-scarred nation without government will be able to imple- not access its required supply of heat this winter. The European ment reforms that spur growth, energy,” Orban said on state radio. Commission rapped EU member which in turn improves fiscal per- Hungary’s gas pipeline network Hungary for cutting of so-called formance,” it said in a statement. operator FGSZ said late Thursday reverse flow supplies to Ukraine. “India’s improved political setting it had indefinitely suspended gas “The message from the com- offers a conducive environment supply to neighbouring Ukraine mission is very clear — we expect for reforms, which could boost for technical reasons, a move all member states to facilitate growth prospects and improve branded “unexpected and unex- reverse flows as agreed by the fiscal management,” it added. plained” by Ukraine state-owned European Council in the interest The announcement comes a gas firm Naftogaz. of a shared energy security,” said day after the Asian Development Orban’s statement followed a European Commission spokes- Bank also expressed hope of a warning by Moscow that it could woman Helen Kearns in Brussels. “turnaround” in India’s economy A Chrysler Group assembly worker attaches a door to the frame of a 2014 Ram 1500 pic-up truck on the cut off European countries have AFP under Modi who coasted to vic- assembly line at the Warren Truck Plant in Michigan tory in May’s general election on a pro-business platform. Modi is beginning his first visit this weekend to the United States since his election, a trip which is largely focused on boosting trade US economy grows at fastest pace in 30 months and attracting investment. India’s economy expanded 5.7 WASHINGTON: The US econ- faster pace of business spending unusually cold winter. So far, eco- the report. US stock index futures Businesses also invested more in percent in the first quarter of the omy grew at its fastest pace in and sturdier export growth than nomic data such as manufactur- were little changed. nonresidential structures, such as financial year, the best quarterly 2-1/2 years in the second quar- previously estimated. ing, trade and housing suggest The strong growth pace and gas drilling, as well as in research performance in over two years. ter with all sectors contributing But consumer spending, which that much of the second-quarter domestic demand growth help and development. A sharp narrowing of its current to the jump in output in a bull- accounts for more than two- momentum spilled over into the to explain the robust job gains Businesses accumulated $84.8 account deficit—the broadest ish signal for the remainder of thirds of US economic activity, third quarter. Growth estimates for during the quarter, as well as the billion worth of inventory in the measure of trade—also boosted the year. was unrevised as stronger health- the July-September quarter range sharp decline in the unemploy- second quarter, a bit more than the investor sentiment. The Commerce Department on care outlays were offset by weak- as high as a 3.6 percent pace. ment rate. When measured from previously reported $83.9bn. That But despite winning the big- Friday raised its estimate of gross nesses in recreation and durable Second-quarter GDP was the income side, the economy saw restocking contributing 1.42 gest mandate in 30 years, Modi’s domestic product to show the goods spending. previously estimated to have grew at a robust 5.2 percent pace, percentage points to GDP growth Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) economy expanded at a 4.6 per- With domestic demand increas- advanced at a 4.2 percent rate. revised up from the previously rather than 1.39 percentage points. government is yet to introduce cent annual rate. That was in line ing at its fastest pace since 2010, The economy contracted at a 2.1 reported 4.7 percent rate. Still, there is little sign of an inven- big-ticket reforms that analysts with Wall Street’s expectations. the economic recovery appeared percent pace in the first quarter. Business spending on equip- tory overhang, a positive signal for say are needed to really fire up The best performance since the more durable after growth slumped The dollar extended gains ment was raised to an 11.2 per- third-quarter GDP growth. growth. fourth quarter of 2011 reflected a in the first quarter because of an against a basket of currencies on cent pace from a 10.7 percent rate. REUTERS AGENCIES SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Russian ruble Hyundai group agrees to $10bn land deal hits record low Union members extend strike over deal; $11.11bn wiped off market value against dollar

SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Co companies’ workforce, voted yes- The $10bn price-tag is equiva- conglomerates, or chaebols. build new factories in China and MOSCOW: The Russian ruble and its two affiliates approved terday to extend a strike into next lent to selling nearly half a mil- The land deal led to the domes- Mexico, closer to export markets fell to a record low against Asia’s biggest property deal week in show of disapproval of the lion of Hyundai’s flagship Sonata tic unions of Hyundai Motor and and where wages are lower than the dollar yesterday, breaking since the financial crisis yester- purchase which will be used to sedans, and nearly two years of Kia Motors resuming partial in South Korea. through the level of 39 to the day when their board members house a new headquarters, hotel combined wages for Hyundai’s strikes this week, clouding the Recurring labour disputes, high dollar for the first time ever. agreed to pay 10.55 trillion won and theme park complex. 63,099 employees in Korea, outlook for annual wage talks. wages at home and strong cur- The dollar exchange rate ($10.12bn) for a trophy plot of “Building an integrated control according to Reuters’ calculation. Workers “are angered by the rency are expected to put fur- strengthened by 60 kopecks at 1130 land to house a new headquar- tower will enhance work efficiency Hyundai Motor will pay 55 astronomical amount of money” ther pressure on the automaker GMT, to be worth 39.10 rubles, ters in downtown Seoul. and brand value,” Hyundai Motor percent of the price, followed by to be spent on the land, Kia’s to accelerate overseas production. TASS news agency reported. The Hyundai-led group — said in its regulatory filing yesterday. Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd with 25 union said. Hyundai made 62 percent of its The previous record was set on which includes Kia Motors Corp The Hyundai-led consortium, percent and Kia Motors Corp Hyundai Motor’s labour union cars last year overseas, up from September 16 of 38.93 rubles. and Hyundai Mobis Co — agreed which beat Samsung Electronics with 20 percent, the compa- said on Friday it would stage 20 percent in 2004. The ruble has lost nearly a fifth to the price, more than triple the to buy the plot in the capital’s nies said. They did not disclose a partial strike from Monday Since annual wage talks began of its value since the beginning of appraised amount, prompting a high-end Gangnam district, whether the board approval was through Thursday next week. in early June, Hyundai Motor and the year. sharp sell-off in the companies’ planned to ink the deal with the unanimous. Hyundai, the world’s fifth- union negotiators have wrangled The euro rate stood at 49.69 shares. state-run Korea Electric Power The boards of the three com- biggest automaker along with over a new wage calculation, rubles at around 1300 GMT, after About 11.6 trillion Korean won Corp (KEPCO) later yesterday. panies had approved bidding at its affiliate Kia, has been hit by which the company says would earlier this month breaching the ($11.11bn) have been wiped of the Shares of Hyundai Motor ended the September 18 auction with- strikes in all but four years of the sharply increase labour costs. psychological limit of 50 rubles market values of the companies down 1.3 percent at 187,000 won out knowing the price, which was union’s 27-year history, although Hyundai’s domestic employ- per euro for the first time in sev- since the purchase was announced each yesterday, their lowest level deemed confidential, four board they usually make up losses with ees, excluding executives, earn an eral months. last week. in 17 months. Kia Motors slipped members said earlier. extra work later that year. average 94 million won ($90,419) The ruble’s plunge in value Labour union employees, 0.8 percent, and Hyundai Mobis Board disapproval is rare The stoppages comes as per year. against the dollar came after a who make up the bulk of the was up 0.6 percent. at Korea’s family-owned Hyundai and Kia are planning to REUTERS Russian court earlier yester- day seized shares in Bashneft oil company controlled by the Sistema conglomerate of billion- Etihad’s superjumbo aire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who is being held under house arrest Russia moves to take in a money laundering probe. Shares in Sistema plummeted by more than 20 percent on the MICEX bourse at the news, control of Bashneft prompting a halt in trading for half an hour. A Moscow court MOSCOW: Russia moved to Rosneft, an energy giant run by agreed to a request by Russia’s wrest control of an oil com- a Putin ally. prosecutor general’s office to seize pany from oligarch Vladimir Sistema acquired an almost 80 from “illegal ownership” shares in Yevtushenkov yesterday, seiz- percent stake in Bashneft from Bashneft held by Sistema and its ing his conglomerate Sistema’s local authorities in the Ural moun- subsidiary Sistema-Invest. shares in the firm and deepen- tains region of Bashkortostan for Investigators accuse Sistema ing investors’ fears the Kremlin $2.5bn in 2009 and the oil com- of buying Bashneft at an artifi- wants to reclaim prized state pany is now Russia’s sixth-largest cially low price, a charge which assets. by production. Yevtushenkov denies and his law- A Moscow court ordered The deal is being challenged by yer has called “absurd”. the seizure of Sistema’s stake the Russian prosecutor general’s Yevtushenkov’s detention in Bashneft a day after a judge office, which said it had uncovered has been compared with the refused to release Yevtushenkov, “significant violations” of the law case of former oligarch Mikhail who is under house arrest on sus- and was acting to end the “ille- Khodorkovsky who spent a dec- picion of money laundering during gal possession” of Bashneft and ade behind bars and was stripped the oil firm’s acquisition. restore it to federal ownership. of his Yukos oil company after Shares in both companies tum- It said the Moscow arbitration openly opposing the Kremlin. bled, with Sistema’s stock now court had granted its request to Sistema, a huge group with down by more than 50 percent seize the shares as an interim interests in Russia’s biggest since Yevtushenkov was placed measure and the court said it mobile operator MTS and a range under house arrest on September would hold a hearing on the law- of other assets, owns about 85 16. suit on October 9. percent of Bashneft, an oil com- The case has raised fears Sistema, which has been unable pany based in the Bashkortostan among investors that President to deal in its Bashneft shares for An Airbus A380 rolls out of a paint hangar during a branding ceremony of Etihad Airways at the German region on the Volga. Vladimir Putin wants to increase months because of a related inves- headquarters of Airbus in Hamburg-Finkenwerder yesterday. Abu Dhabi’s state-owned airways showed off AFP intervention in the economy as tigation, denies the accusations its first A380 super jumbo and unveiled its new branding on Thursday. Russia tries to cope with Western against Yevtushenkov. It said on sanctions imposed over the Friday it was trying to clarify the Ukraine crisis. situation and Bashneft declined Although Yevtushenkov has comment. Asked about the plans kept out of politics, the case has to return Bashneft to federal India soymeal exports to hit 10-year low drawn comparisons with the fate of ownership, Economy Minister Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Alexei Ulyukayev was quoted by chief executive of the Yukos oil RIA news agency as saying: “I MUMBAI: India’s soymeal “This year we will end up with settling part of its oil debt in seek hefty premiums over global firm who was jailed on fraud and don’t understand such a decision.” exports are likely to fall by a 2.5 million tonnes of exports, but rupees and Iran was using those prices, sometimes as high as 20 tax evasion charges a decade ago He said earlier that fifth to their lowest in a dec- next year we could be in the dol- to buy goods from India. percent. after falling out with Putin. Yevtushenkov’s arrest was hurt- ade at two million tonnes in drums,” Shahra said ahead of an That rupee-trade gave India an But those premiums have van- “They (officials) are telling ing Russia’s business climate and the marketing year that starts edible oil industry conference in edge over other soymeal suppli- ished now Iran has more choice themselves, to ease their con- could spur capital flight. in October, with top buyer Iran Mumbai. ers such as Argentina and Brazil, over where it buys from, export- science, that they are doing a high- Russia’s problems were com- turning to South American sell- A landmark deal struck in quickly allowing the South Asian ers said. minded thing by returning it to pounded by investors’ concerns ers of the animal feed, a senior November 2013 eased some of the country to establish a near- Indian exporters have signed state ownership,” Sergei Petrov, an about frayed relations with Ukraine, industry official said. sanctions on trade with Iran that monopoly in exports. deals to export a total of around opposition deputy, said this week. with the rouble hitting a fresh all- Iran has been stepping up had slashed the Opec member’s oil India is likely to export 200,000- 100,000 tonnes of soymeal for “The channel is already known, time low against the dollar at 39. purchases form Brazil and exports and narrowed its options 300,000 tonnes of soymeal to Iran October to December shipment, the method has been tested ... as Meanwhile, fears that Russia Argentina after trade sanctions for securing food and agricultural in 2013/14, Shahra said, compared said Rajesh Agrawal, chief co- it was last time with Yukos.” could demand immediate repay- over Tehran’s disputed nuclear goods to just a few countries. to 623,173 tonnes in the current ordinator at trade body the Khodorkovsky was freed last ment of a $3bn debt owed by programme were eased in late The sanctions had forced India year ending Sept. 30. Soybean Processors’ Association year but Yukos, which was once Ukraine hit Kiev, pushing up the 2013, said Dinesh Shahra, man- to trim oil purchases from Iran, Iran’s difficulties in securing of India (SOPA). By this time last worth $40bn, was broken up cost of insuring some Ukrainian aging director of Ruchi Soya but it remained a loyal and large soymeal from other producers year, exporters had sealed deals to and nationalised with most of debt to seven-month highs. Industries Ltd, India’s biggest customer. In 2012 as sanctions due to the sanctions had also ship 600,000 tonnes of soymeal. its assets eventually handed to REUTERS soybean processor. stalled dollar payments, it started prompted Indian exporters to REUTERS

Venezuela finger-prints shoppers Tokyo investors eye rosy future

TOKYO: Tokyo investors Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 144.28 fragile recovery were also lifting are eyeing a rosy future, with points to 16,229.86. the investor spirit. Tokyo shares a reconfigured pension fund The index lost 0.55 percent have generally enjoyed solid sup- investment, more central bank over the four-day trading week, port from hopes that Japan’s $1.2 easing and a possible extra gov- shortened by a national holiday trillion public pension reserve ernment budget to safeguard on Tuesday. fund would increase its allocation the fragile recovery, analysts The Topix index of all first- to domestic stocks. said yesterday. section shares eased Friday But investors are having to read In the coming week, the 1.08 percent, or 14.48 points, to tea leaves as the government for Tokyo market will digest Japan’s 1,331.95. It made essentially no now moves cautiously to reform the unemployment data and the key weekly change, edging up only Government Pension Investment Tankan business confidence sur- 0.04 points. Fund, which manages reserves for vey, as well as US data on jobs, “Japan is never immune to Japan’s universal public pension trade and manufacturing sector global equity sentiment which, at and for private sector employees sentiment. least for the moment, has taken and invests in listed financial assets The dollar’s sustained strength an abrupt turn for the worse,” said such as stocks and bonds. against the yen could also provide Naoki Fujiwara, fund manager at In Tokyo share trading on support for the Tokyo market. Shinkin Asset Management. Friday, Honda Motor dropped “Japanese macroeconomic data “The dollar remains relatively 1.88 percent to 3,744.5, while as a whole should lift hopes for strong, however, and expecta- Toyota slipped 1.48 percent to continued economic recovery tions for more government pen- 6,453.0. and cheer the market,” Daiwa sion fund exposure to domestic Mobile carrier SoftBank Securities said in a report to equities are keeping hopes high fell 0.76 percent to 7,900.0 and clients. for more stock buying,” he told Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Yesterday, Tokyo stocks slipped Dow Jones Newswires. shed 2.28 percent to 625.2. 0.88 percent following a sell-off on Daiwa Securities echoed the The greenback stood at 109.02 A customer puts his finger on a fingerprint scanner as part of the process to buy groceries at Bicentenario, a Wall Street, easing from a seven- view and added that hopes for yen in Friday Asian trade, up state-run supermarket, in Caracas yesterday. The Venezuelan government has started to fingerprint shoppers year high reached in the previous more easing by the Bank of from 108.73 yen in New York on at some state-run supermarkets, a plan to combat food scarcity derided by some shortage-weary Venezuelans. session. Japan and a possible extra gov- Thursday. The key Nikkei 225 index at the ernment budget to safeguard AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds ON SATURDAY 16

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WUHAN, CHINA: Petra Kvitova and Eugenie Bouchard will play a rematch of their Wimbledon final when they meet in the climax of the $2.4 million WTA Wuhan Open after winning their semi-finals yesterday. World number three Kvitova is vying for her third title of the year and will seal a place in the end of season championships in Singapore if she wins the final of the inaugural tournament. The Czech advanced in the semis at the expense of Elina Svitolina, who put in another feisty performance which defied her lowly 34th place in the rankings. Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard celebrates after winning her semi-final match Kvitova broke serve in the sixth against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark at the Wuhan Open in Wuhan, in game to lead 4-2 in the first set, China’s Hubei province, yesterday. and maintained her two game advantage to finish the opener 6-4. eight Angelique Kerber in the we had great tennis out there I The pair traded breaks in the quarters. think.” second set and were 5-5 until But Kvitova proved to be a step Canadian Bouchard, the sixth Kvitova raced through the 11th too far for the 20-year-old. seed in Wuhan, beat eighth- game to serve for the match. Kvitova will join the top eight seeded Wozniacki in their semi- She appeared to be poised for players for the Singapore finale final match 6-2, 6-3. a straightforward win with the if she wins in Wuhan. Those who Both players -- who are also comfort of two match points at have already made it to the WTA chasing points to make the WTA 40-15, but Svitolina set up a tense Finals include world number Finals - played an aggressive end to the match by clawing her- one Serena Williams, Maria game. self level and then forcing two Sharapova (4) and Simona Halep Wozniacki appeared to have double faults from Kvitova which (2). sustained a minor hamstring gave her break point. The 24-year-old will meet world injury which she received treat- But any hopes Svitolina had number nine Bouchard in Wuhan ment for in the fourth game of that her opponent would lose for a replay of their Wimbledon the second set. the coolness that has been the final, which Kvitova won convinc- The first break point of the trademark of her march into the ingly 6-3, 6-0. set came two games later, which semis evaporated when Kvitova Kvitova has also won in New Bouchard survived, and the took two quick points to win the Haven last month, her second Canadian then broke Wozniacki match. title of the 2013 season. to make it 4-3 before going on The Ukrainian had shown great “It feels good, for sure... I’m glad to clinch the match. The Wuhan determination in Wuhan, winning that I’m in the final again,” she Open, in the central province of sets after coming back from 5-0 said after defeating Svitolina. Hubei features the world’s top 20 down against German Sabine “Today I think it was really women players, with the excep- Lisicki in the second round and great match. tion of recently-retired local hero 4-1 down against world number “I mean, I felt pretty well and Li Na. REUTERS Nishikori cruises into Malaysian Open semis

KUALA LUMPUR: Kei Nishikori eased into the semi- Finals race finals of the Malaysian Open by sinking Australia’s Marinko Matosevic 6-3, 6-0 yesterday hots up as without moving past first gear. Japan’s rising tennis star was in Murray reaches his element in the first set, twice breaking Matosevic in the fifth Shenzen semis and ninth game, firing four aces in the process to seal a 6-3 win. SHENZEN: Andy Murray In the second, the 24-year- (pictured) moved a step closer old crushed the 78th ranked to his first title in more than Matosevic in just under 30-min- a year with a 6-3, 7-5 defeat utes with some captivating play, of Slovakian Lukas Lacko to including his ferocious forehand reach the semi-finals of the returns -- much to the delight Shenzen Open yesterday. French third seed Richard of the 2,000-strong crowd gath- The Briton, trophy-less since Gasquet 7-6(7) 6-4. Murray is ered at the Putra Stadium in winning Wimbledon last year, facing a battle to qualify for the Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur. eased past the world number 85 year-ending ATP World Tour Even Nishikori appeared sur- to set up a clash with Argentina’s Finals and needs a healthy haul prised with the easy victory. Juan Monaco who earlier ousted of points from his remaining “I was expecting a tough match events this year to make the actually. He beat Nick (Kyrgios The Race to London eight-man London finale. of Australia) and Go (Soeda of Q 1 Novak Djokovic ...... 8150 His cause was boosted ear- Japan) and was playing really Q 2 Roger Federer ...... 7020 lier in the week when Spain’s well,” he said. “But I have been Q 3 Rafa Nadal ...... 6645 David Ferrer, one of the players playing well too, and he was Q 4 S Wawrinka ...... 4795 he is vying with for one of the struggling in the second set so I 5 Marin Cilic ...... 3935 five remaining slots, crashed out tried to raise my game level and early. 6 Kei Nishikori ...... 3675 finish the game early.” The other semi-final in “I am trying to play an aggres- 7 David Ferrer ...... 3535 Shenzen will be between Spain’s sive game, especially on this court 8 Tomas Berdych ...... 3510 Tommy Robredo, who beat Italian because the ball movement is 9 Milos Raonic ...... 3440 Andreas Seppi 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3, slow, so I try to take the returns 10 Grigor Dimitrov ...... 3335 and Colombian Santiago Giraldo as early as possible.” 11 Andy Murray ...... 3155 who beat Serbia’s Viktor Troicki The world’s eighth ranked 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ...... 2650 in straight sets. REUTERS player has looked at ease in this tournament, despite earlier say- ing he was drained after his and has been playing really well. I semi-finals after a straight- recent defeat in the US Open. don’t think I’ve played him before, forward 6-3, 7-5 victory over His run in that tournament left so I am expecting it to be close Germany’s Benjamin Becker. victims including world number tomorrow,” Nishikori said. The Latvian, who cut an edgy one Novak Djokovic in his wake as The understudy of American figure in his three-set victory over he became the first Asian man to former tennis star-turned- Philipp Petzschner in the second make a Grand Slam singles final. coach Michael Chang said he felt round, will face a litmus test The top seed said he was encouraged by the support from against Julien Benneteau. expecting a tougher battle today locals and Japanese alike. The French fourth seed beat against Jarkko Nieminen. “Even here there is a lot of Uruguay’s fifth seeded Pablo The Finn, who ranks 57th in support from the fans and some Cuevas 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 in a the world, beat seventh seeded Japanese who have come to sup- 139-minute battle, sharpening Pablo Andujar 6-3, 6-4. The port (me) so it’s great for me,” his assault on a first Malaysian Spaniard ranks 45th. he said. Open title after having finished “He’s definitely a tough player. Also yesterday, second seed as runner-up in 2012 and 2013. He has very good groundstrokes Ernests Gulbis moved on to the REUTERS SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY Blatter to stand for fifth term FIFA boss also downplays calls for Garcia report on corruption to be made public

ZURICH: FIFA President Sepp that he would not challenge bids open until January 29. So Hans-Joachim Eckert, the Blatter yesterday confirmed Blatter. far the only other candidate is chairman of FIFA’s adjudicatory that he would stand for a fifth “First of all I’m not running — Jerome Champagne, a former chamber, which will decide on the term in charge of world football I’m at their disposal. FIFA is a FIFA deputy secretary general future of the report and whether in an election in May next year. service and I want to go on serv- from France. it will be published, is expected to “I have announced to the ing,” Blatter said, stressing that Champagne, 56, has said FIFA make a statement on the findings Executive Committee ... that I will his fourth term had yet to run its needs reform after widespread in early November. accept the demands of different full term and that FIFA was “not accusations of corruption, but has Blatter also played down uproar associations and federations (to at the end of our reform”. acknowledged he has little chance over luxury watches given as a stand for election) to serve FIFA “I have been contacted, I have of beating Blatter. gift to FIFA Executive Committee for a fifth mandate,” Blatter said. been asked, just before the (pre- Turning to the probe into the officials by organisers of the Brazil The 78-year-old has been World Cup) congress in Sao Paulo way the 2018 and 2022 World World Cup. FIFA’s leader since 1998, but has by five of the six confederations Cups were awarded, Blatter FIFA officials had been given faced growing criticism from saying ‘please stay and be our said there had been “no request” until October 24 by the Ethics European football chiefs in recent President’ because, at the time at from any FIFA member to pub- Committee of world football’s gov- months. least, they say we have no other lish in full the report by Michael erning body to hand back luxury The World Cup, a multi-billion candidate.” Garcia, the former US federal Parmigiani watches, each valued dollar earner for FIFA, is also Blatter said after winning his prosecutor now spearheading at some 20,000 euros, and offered embroiled in controversy over the fourth term in 2011 that it would allegations of corruption in those as “gifts” by the Brazilian Football way the 2018 and 2022 tourna- be his last, but made it clear two bids. Confederation (CBF). ments were decided. in recent months that he has His comments come despite While European football chief His path to a virtually auto- changed his mind. public pronouncements to the Platini has already said he would FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter attends a press conference following matic re-election was opened The election will be held at contrary from some FIFA mem- not return his watch, Blatter a FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday. up after UEFA leader Michel next FIFA congress in Zurich bers — and Garcia himself — this seemed inclined to agree, saying: Platini announced in August on May 29, 2015, with candidacy week. “This is a non-problem.” AFP FIFA to ban third-party PSG seek boost in Toulouse before Barca clash PARIS: What a difference a win morale-boost ahead of the visit along with (Cristiano) Ronaldo, past two seasons, who became the ownership of makes. Paris Saint Germain’s of Barcelona. (Lionel) Messi and Neymar, and club’s 10th most prolific striker 2-0 win away at Caen in mid- Toulouse currently occupy 10th on top of that he has a nasty habit of all-time with his 35th goal for week not only broke a sequence place, right in the middle of the of scoring against us (five goals in the club in last week’s 3-3 draw players of three draws but lifted them to table after a 3-0 win over Rennes three matches), so it’s better we with Caen. second in the table and tempo- in midweek, but can always be haven’t got to face him,” Casanova PSG are still unbeaten this ZURICH: Soccer’s governing rarily silenced the critics. expected to put up a fight against grinned. season, but they drew with body FIFA has agreed to ban the With a tantalising Champions the league’s big boys. However, Paris’ strength in Ajax in Amsterdam in thir first third-party ownership of play- League tie against Barcelona com- As coach Alain Casanova said depth showed as the Brazilian Champions League group game. ers, its President Sepp Blatter ing up at the Parc des Princes on on Thursday: “We know only too midfield pair of Lucas and That places added importance said yesterday, seven years after Tuesday, the French champions well that they’re a lot better than Marquinhos scored the goals on the meeting with Barcelona - first promising to outlaw the are on their travels again today, we are, but over 90 minutes we’re which saw off Caen, even if but first they have to negotiate practice. at Toulouse. capable of getting a result. Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani the trip to Toulouse. Blatter said a working group And victory could put them “A football match is never a was largely shackled by the home “Our level of play isn’t of the would be set up to implement the level on points with early season foregone conclusion, we have to defence. same brilliance as last year, but ban which would come into effect leaders Marseille, although that draw on all out talents, it’s as sim- The win, their first since early we are getting closer to it, little following “a transitional period”. could all change on Sunday when ple as that.” August and first away from home by little,” said PSG coach Laurent “We took a firm decision that the leaders are in action at home PSG will again be without talis- this season, put PSG three points Blanc. “Physically we are not at TPO should be banned but it can- to high-flying Saint Etienne. man striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, behind leaders and bitter rivals the top, but we dug in a little not be banned immediately there Earlier in the week, PSG coach which gives Casanova further rea- Marseille in the Ligue 1 table. more in the second half than in will be a transitional period,” Laurent Blanc admitted his side son for optimism. For their part, Toulouse will the first. We still made chances.” Blatter told a news conference had been having “a bit of a hard “Ibrahimovic is the best player rely on the goalscoring prowess Tomorrow sees a top-of-the- following a meeting of the execu- time”, but victory at Caen stead- in this league, in fact, he’s one of of in-form striker Wissam Ben table clash as third-placed Saint Zlatan Ibrahimovic tive committee. ied the nerves and provided a the four best players in the world, Yedder, leading scorer for the Etienne travel to Marseille. AFP His announcement followed pressure from European soccer’s governing body UEFA, which had said it would ban it unilaterally if I have no control over Costa and Spain: Mourinho FIFA did not act. Third-party ownership is when LONDON: Jose Mourinho knows he’s in trouble for quite a is tomorrow, not Tuesday. It’s I think he should, not me. It was the transfer rights of players are (pictured), the Chelsea man- long time. But I’m nobody. another game, another story. I not once or two or three times wholly or partially owned by the ager, admits he has no control “The moment a national team don’t think about the Sporting that he told everyone he doesn’t footballer himself or a company, over Diego Costa’s impending wants to select a Chelsea player, game. I play tomorrow with the speak about referees: he killed instead of just the player’s club. international involvement with I’m nobody. It’s their decision. team I think is the best to win (Mark) Clattenburg. It is widespread in Brazil and Spain amid fears that his injury They can call the players, play against Villa. After that, the con- “Three or four times he says Argentina, and is also present in problems will not clear up in the them, do what they want. It’s sequences I will face. I have to he doesn’t speak about me or my some European countries such short-term. completely out of my control. organise a team to play against teams: he did it once more. It’s for as Portugal, but banned in others Costa has been struggling with What I think and what I feel Sporting. Tomorrow I play with you to comment. including England, France and a hamstring injury since the start doesn’t play a part. the team I think is the best to “When I said I don’t want to Poland. of the season and Mourinho “But they do what they want. win. speak about him, that’s what I try FIFA Secretary General would prefer that the striker is It’s not our decision. We can “Everyone is working hard. He to do.” Jerome Valcke said the working rested for the forthcoming away communicate, send exams and is the first to do that. He’s work- Mourinho has a fully fit squad group would decide how long the European Championship 2016 reports, but it’s their decision. ing hard in his recovery, with the apart from Ramires against Paul transitional period would be and qualifiers with Slovakia and “After the game against medical staff and the condition- Lambert’s resurgent side, who would submit a proposal to the Luxembourg. Arsenal (next weekend), or even without problems. The question ing staff, trying to be ready for beat Chelsea at Villa Park to next executive committee meet- But the Blues boss concedes before that when they make the is always the same: Can he finish every game. Mentally, he’s ready dent the Blues title ambitions ing in December. he cannot stop Spain from pick- pre-selection, everything is in the game and be in conditions to for every game. last term. “The ban cannot be imple- ing Costa, who is set to return to their hands. I can do nothing.” play in Lisbon 48 hours later? “Physically he’s not. Everyone Mourinho added: “Last season mented immediately and we are the Chelsea line-up against Aston Mourinho chose to leave Costa “That I don’t know. But, at this is trying hard for him to be able was last season. This season is discussing the number of transfer Villa in the Premier League on out of the midweek League Cup moment, because I don’t think to play every game.” this season. They are second with windows we have to wait for this Saturday, following a week’s lay- tie victory over Bolton Wanderers, about Sporting or the Champions Mourinho refused to get 10 points. That’s the important ban (to come into affect),” Valcke off in a bid to restore the £32mil- but will prioritise the home fix- League, I think about Villa in the embroiled in a war of words thing. said. “It’s a matter of whether we lion forward back towards full ture against high-flying Villa Premier League and he plays with Manuel Pellegrini after “It’s a game between the lead- are talking about six transfer fitness. at Stamford Bridge over next for sure. He’s in good position to the Manchester City manager ers and the second, the same windows, meaning three years, or Mourinho said: “I’m nobody to week’s Champions League trip to start. branded Chelsea ‘a small club’ fol- points as Southampton. It shows eight, meaning four years, this is make that decision. Everything Sporting Lisbon. “”If he doesn’t play against lowing the 1-1 draw at the Etihad the difficulty of the game. That’s what we will be discussing in this is clear. Everybody knows what Mourinho added: “He plays Sporting, I play (Didier) Drogba Stadium last weekend. the only thing I think about.” working group,” he said. AFP is going on with Diego. Everyone tomorrow and starts the game or (Loic) Remy. But this game He said: “I don’t have a reaction. AFP Qatari women take on Palestine Rugby season begins in Doha

The Qatar women’s football team took on the Palestine women’s football team in a friendly at Al Wakrah Stadium on Thursday. The match was organised by Qatar’s Women’s Sports Committee. The Qatari team will play another friendly today. Doha 1st XV players in action against Muscat at Doha Rugby Club yesterday. SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport FIBA starts ‘revision Shooters sparkle as Qatar process’ after hijab row

INCHEON: Basketball’s world pocket two more medals body said it was looking at its controversial headgear ban yes- terday after Qatar’s women’s Oleg Engachev wins 25m contest; Amal, Saaida and Anisa land bronze team quit the Asian Games in a row over their Muslim hijabs. The International Basketball INCHEON, South Korea: Federation (FIBA) insisted its Qatar have ‘shot’ up to 11th ban has no ‘religious connotation’ from 17th position on Asian but said it had started a ‘revision Games medals table after process’ after several complaints. another fruitful day in Incheon As the Qatari team arrived yesterday when they bagged a Oleg Engachev home, the row continued to rever- gold and bronze each to take raises the Qatari berate in Incheon where Chinese their tally to three. swimmer Sun Yang again eclipsed flag after winning Thursday’s historic gold medal South Korean home hero Park gold medal at the in the men’s team double trap Tae-Hwan in the pool. competition was supposed to men’s 25m centre The outspoken Olympic cham- motivate Qatar’s squad to greater fire pistol event. pion’s big win in the 1,500 metres heights, and it served its purpose RIGHT: Engachev came after he called the anthem as expected with Oleg Engachev bites his gold medal of arch-rivals Japan “ugly”. winning the men’s 25m centre in excitement. Elsewhere, Chinese super- fire pistol title in a tough contest BOTTOM: Qatar’s heavyweight Zhou Lulu hoisted at the Ongnyeon International women team poses the largest single weight ever by Shooting Range. for a group photo a woman and Pakistan won their Qatar’s women then proved after clinching first gold medal by regaining their they are not too far behind with bronze medal in the women’s cricket title. the trio of Amal Mohamed, 10m running target FIBA came in for strong criti- Saaida Humaid and Anisa Saleh teams event. cism after Qatar’s women were Juma clinching bronze in the 10m refused permission to play in running target team finals with a hijabs, a decision one player cumulative total of 1073. described as an “insult” and fail- China’s Li Xue Yan, Yang Zeng ure to respect the Gulf state’s and Su Li won the gold with a total dominant Muslim religion. of 1148, while the Vietnamese trio The body said the ban on head- of Hang Nguyen, Ha Hong Dang gear more than 5 centimetres (2 and Quyen Nguyen claimed the inches) wide was not discrimina- silver with 1106. tory but it could start “tests” on Like on Thursday when Rashid easing the restrictions in inter- Al Athba, Masoud Al Athba and national competition next year. Hamad Al Marri had claimed The rule has already been the gold medal in the double trap relaxed at national level after a team competition by virtue of number of complaints. their higher final round scores, In July and August, Indian Sikh there was an element of luck players were forced to remove involved Engachev’s gold medal their headwear at FIBA events. too. “International tests may be ini- Engachev, who had fared pretty tiated as of summer 2015,” said a poorly in the qualifiers of several FIBA statement which insisted other categories in Incheon, shot that its regulations apply “with- 585 in the 25m centre fire pistol, out any religious connotation.” an event that is not very popular “While certain groups have because of its exclusion from the interpreted the provisions of the Olympic Games. official basketball rules as a ban Yesterday after three rounds of against the participation of play- rapid as well as precision shoot- ers of certain faiths in basketball ing, Engachev found himself tied competitions, the uniform regu- with China’s Jin Yongde with 585 lations are of a purely sporting hits each. The Qatari, however, nature,” it added. Qatar, formally was declared the winner because listed as “disqualified” from the he had 23 shots in the inner circle Asian Games after forfeiting while the Chinese favourite could their first two games, were the only manage 21. only Muslim country to enter a Singapore’s Gai Bin took the women’s team. AFP bronze with a total of 584, high- lighting the tough nature of the competition. Dragonfly robs Engachev was delighted after Qatar cruise into handball semis winning the gold medal. A late Kuwait shooter bloomer, he took to shooting only when he was 18 years old and at INCHEON: Qatar thrashed the ripe old age of 47 he became Chinese Taipei 29-19 to sweep of gold medal one of the oldest champions in their quarter-final round robin Asian Games history. league in the handball tourna- INCHEON: A dragonfly The Russain-born Engachev, ment at the Asian Games here twice danced on the shotgun however, was dismissive of the yesterday. of Olympic shooting medalist age factor. This was Qatar’s sixth consecu- Fehaid Al Deehani as he was “Who says older people can’t tive victory in the tournament. about to fire gold medal shots shoot, I just did and won a gold Valero Rivera’s boys have encoun- at the Asian Games and the medal,” Engachev said. “Shooting tered precious little opposition so Kuwaiti shooter believes he was is not like many of the other far, sweeping through the pre- robbed. sports where you have to be in liminary stage before demolish- The dragonfly is often asso- your twenties to be successful. In ing their rivals in the next stage. ciated with good luck, but Al shooting you have to do well on a Qatar will now take on Iran in Deehani said it abandoned him particular day and that is what the semi-finals on Monday, while at the Games shooting range. counts,” he added. Bahrain play South Korea. The 47-year-old led throughout Engachev said he won’t be rest- Qatar and Taipei were level Sunday’s qualifying round for the ing on his rather late laurels. 11-11 at half-time before the men’s trap. “I will continue shooting and former took control of the match, But in the gold medal match hope to win more glory for Qatar in which Mahnoud Hassaballa against China’s Gao Bo, he got in the future.” top scored for either side with only 12 targets out of 15 while Gao Meanwhile, Qatar’s women six goals. held his nerve for a title-winning troika were also brimming with Hassaballa’s effort was all perfect score. confidence after their bronze the more significant because On Thursday, a similar drama medal win in the 10m running he scored from six of the seven unfolded. Al Deehani, who won target team finals in which each chances he got. bronze medals at the 2000 participant is given 400 targets – Vidal Borja also excelled, scor- Olympics in Sydney and the 2012 of which 200 are fast moving and ing five from as many attempts Games in London, took on China’s 200 slow. while Hamdi Missaoui and Hamad Hu Binyuan in the men’s double “It was an exciting competi- Madadi scored three apiece. trap final. tion and we are happy to have Qatar Handball Association Hu missed the first two of his won the bronze medal,” said Amal President Ahmed Mohamed al- 30 targets giving a clear advan- Mohamed, who was also part of Shaabi was thrilled with yester- A Qatari player (left) beats his counterpart from Chinese Taipei during their handball match in Incheon tage to Al Deehani. But again the Qatar’s bronze winning team in day’s win. yesterday. Qatar won the quarter-final tie 29-19. Kuwaiti missed at the end, letting the same event at the Doha Asian “It’s unbelievable that we have a certain gold medal to slip out of Games in 2006 along with Anisa won six out of six matches in a his grasp for a second time. Saleh Juma. matter of a week,” he said. Asked if he has a mental block The Doha Asian Games bronze “Obviously it has been a busy against Chinese shooters, Al winning team also included Anisa schedule but the team are fit. Pakistan women retain gold Deehani said: “It’s nothing but Saleh Juma’s sister, Samsam. Their physical fitness is unques- bad luck. As I readied to shoot, Qatar can expect to win at tionable,” he said. INCHEON: Pakistan retained Bismah Maroof top-scored and Nida Dar claimed two wickets a dragonfly came and sat on the least of a couple of more medals Al Shaabi added that they need the women’s Twenty20 cricket with 24 and leg-spinner Rumana each. barrel. That disrupted my atten- in shooting with the skeet events to keep their feet on the ground gold medal at the Asian Games Ahmed claimed two wickets for In the bronze medal play-off, tion and I missed. scheduled to begin tomorrow. in their next match against Iran. yesterday by defeating spirited 13 runs. Sri Lanka surpassed China’s mod- “I couldn’t believe that the Olympic bronze winner Nasser “Iran are a dangerous side. We Bangladesh in a rain-affected Bangladesh, making a strong est 65-6 for the loss of five wickets same thing happened in the men’s Saleh Al Attiyah, who is also a cannot afford to let our guard final, as Sri Lanka took home dash for the revised Duckworth- in 17.1 overs. trap on Sunday as well,” he added. champion rally driver with down,” he said. the bronze. Lewis target of 43 from seven The men’s competition starts “It was too late and I had to numerous titles to his credit, had Meanwhile, Bahrain defeated Pakistan, electing to bat after overs following a heavy downpour on Saturday without heavy- shoot. I took it and missed. This arrived in Incheon and will be Kuwait 26-22, while Iran pre- winning the toss, were restricted during the break, scored 38-9 to weights India and Pakistan, both has happened in both finals. I sup- taking part in the skeet qualifi- vailed over Saudi Arabia 26-21 in to 97-6 by the steady Bangladeshi lose by four runs. of whom opted to skip the com- pose one needs that extra element cation tomorrow. QOC other match. QOC bowling attack. Skipper Sana Mir, Sadia Yousuf petition. AFP of luck to win,” he added. AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Asian Games Medals Table Qatar defeat Philippines INCHEON, South Korea: Asian Games medal standings yesterday. G S B T China 91 49 39 179 South Korea 31 37 36 104 Japan 30 42 35 107 to raise medal hopes Kazakhstan 8 9 17 34 North Korea 6 7 9 22 Iran 5 6 4 15 Mousa, Ali top scorers with 11 and 10 points respectively in 77-68 win Taiwan 5 3 7 15 Hong Kong 4 5 17 26 INCHEON: Qatar’s hopes of with the Philippines nosing ahead Mongolia 4 3 6 13 winning a basketball medal 39-36 by the time the second Malaysia 2 5 6 13 grew significantly after they quarter ended. Qatar 2 0 1 3 prevailed over four-time But in a stunning reversal of June Mar Asian Games champions the fortunes, Qatar stepped up their Myanmar 2 0 0 2 Fajardo (centre) Vietnam 1 6 18 25 Philippines in their opening game a few notches to go on a of the Philippines quarter-final league match at scoring blitz when the third period Singapore 1 3 7 11 jumps for the ball the Hwaseong Sports Complex began as they scored a whopping Kuwait 1 3 2 6 with Mohammed yesterday. 20 points while restricting the Saleem Abdulla India 1 2 14 17 In an engaging encounter, Filipinos to just 12. Thailand 1 0 8 9 Qatar overcame a 39-36 second That proved key to the out- (centre right) Pakistan 1 0 1 2 quarter deficit before posting a come of the match as Qatar were of Qatar during comfortable 77-68 win in the end suddenly ahead 56-51 after an their men’s Uzbekistan 0 4 8 12 with Mohamed Yousuf and Boney uninterrupted run of 12 points quarter-final Indonesia 0 3 5 8 Watson leading the charge with 19 (39-51) that left the Philippines basketball Macau 0 3 0 3 and 15 points respectively. dispirited. match of the Philippines 0 2 1 3 Daoud Mousa scored 11 points The fourth quarter was played 2014 Incheon Turkmenistan 0 1 2 3 and Saeed Irfan Ali had 10, while in a somewhat similar pattern Asian Games, Laos 0 1 1 2 Jim Alapag was the top scorer and despite the best efforts of at Hwaesong Bangladesh 0 1 0 1 for the Philippines with 15 points. the Filipinos, Qatar kept them- Sports Complex Lebanon 0 1 0 1 Of Yousuf’s 19 points, nine came selves comfortably ahead to nail some 50km from three-pointers. the match with a fair bit to spare. from Incheon, Iraq 0 0 1 1 Qatar, who edged a tense match “We fell back in the beginning yesterday. Sri Lanka 0 0 1 1 against Japan by just one point in but the boys rallied brilliantly United Arab Emirates 0 0 1 1 their last preliminary match on in the third quarter for a very Thursday, fell back as Philippines important victory,” Qatar coach grabbed control of the match in Vasileios said. the opening minutes to take a 9-6 “Now we should keep our focus lead. and not get carried away because he added. Qatar captain Yaseen Meanwhile, in another match Oh Sekeun excelled for the hosts By the end of the first quarter, we have a job to do,” the Greek Musa, who has still not recov- in Qatar’s group, South Korea with 16. In the other group, Iran however, Qatar managed to put added. ered fully from a shoulder injury, thrashed Kazakhstan 77-60, the proved they are strong contend- their game together as they went Top scorer Yousuf was also played almost nine minutes of the hosts hardly giving their rivals to ers after thrashing Japan 82-59. into the second quarter on even pleased with his show. match but failed to score a single catch up after taking a 20-12 lead Today, Qatar take on keel at 19-19. “It was a very important match point. at the end of the first quarter of Kazakhstan, while South Korea The Qatari attack failed to and thanks to Allah I could make However, he still managed to the game. meet the Philippines. Two teams make much of an impression a valuable contribution,” he said. prove he hasn’t lost any of his Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Gvrilov from each group in the quarter- after that with the result that “I hope to carry forward my touch by excelling in a defensive topped the scoring charts for final round robin league will make they soon lagged further behind form to Qatar’s next match also,” role. either side with 17 points, while the last four. QOC Mutaz Essa Barshim China’s Barshim eyes Sun ‘sorry’ Sejwal wins rare medal for India INCHEON: Sandeep Sejwal coach Nihar Ameen told Indian national anthem at the pool,” the high jump for Japan won a rare swimming medal for reporters. “Better facilities and 25-year-old said. “But I will not India at the Asian Games on technical support are needed, give up.” The event was won by world record Friday, with his coach insisting because without them it is hard Dmitriy Balandin of Kazakhstan anthem jibe that better facilities at home to make a mark at the world level. in a new Games record timing of INCHEON: Mutaz Essa would have fetched him the gold. “In the whole of India there is 27.78s. Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki Barshim wants to beat one of INCHEON: China’s swimming Sejwal won the bronze in the just one swimming pool, in New clinched the bronze at 27.89s. athletics oldest world records at bad boy Sun Yang apologised 50m breaststroke with a time Delhi, that has modern starting Sejwal, who was dropped for the Asian Games, while Zhang yesterday for saying that the of 28.26secs, which was only the blocks which were introduced at the London Olympics, said he Peimeng just wants to drag Asia Japanese national anthem was third Asiad medal in the pool by the Beijing Olympics. Surely this had finally proved his detractors into the modern 100m world “ugly”, calling the comment a an Indian in the last 28 years. is not enough.” wrong. “Maybe the swimming with a sub-10 second time. misunderstanding. Khajan Singh had won a silver The Delhi-based Sejwal, who federation had their reasons for A week of track and field at the Japan’s swimmers and officials in the 200m butterfly at Seoul trains at Ameen’s academy in keeping me out of the Olympics, Incheon Games starts today with earlier refused to get drawn into a in 1986 and Virdhawal Khade Bangalore, said he may have but now I have shown I can shine a lot at stake. political row at the Asian Games. clinched a bronze in the 50m but- won the gold at Incheon if he on the world stage,” he said. Qatar’s star high jumper The team’s head coach said there terfly event in Guangzhou four had matched his personal best “Of course, the Olympics in Barshim was a fingertip shy had been “no signs of agitation or years ago. of under 28 seconds. “It was a 2016 are my aim. I just need to of Cuban Javier Sotomayer’s annoyance” at Sun’s remarks. “I hope this medal will give close race, so who knows I may train harder and cut out the mis- Sandeep Sejwal 21-year-old record of 2.45m at the “About the anthem, I’m sorry Indian swimming a lift,” Sejwal’s have finished first and heard the takes I may be making.” AFP Brussels Diamond League earlier that some media reported that,” this month, reaching 2.43m. Olympic champion Sun told The 23-year-old said he is now reporters after defending his China’s Zhou ready to beat his idol’s mark. 1,500 metres freestyle title. (Left to right) Silver “My goal is to beat the world “Maybe there was some mis- medallist Japan’s record,” said a confident Barshim. understanding about that. I don’t Kohei Yamamoto, lifts record “I’m completely ready for the really know about other countries gold medallist Asian Games. anthems,” he added. “But every China’s Sun Yang weight “I will do my best to make this swimmer wants to listen to their and his compatriot great achievement and create own national anthem.” bronze medallist memories for Asia.” Japan coach Takayuki Umehara Wang Kecheng INCHEON: Chinese weight- The towering Qatari, whose said there had been no angry pose with their lifter Zhou Lulu set a clean and younger brother is also a high reaction after Sun told Chinese medals on the jerk world record of 192 kilo- jumper, won gold in at the media: “Honestly speaking, the podium during the grams to win gold in the wom- Guangzhou Asiad four years ago Japanese national anthem sounds en’s +75kg category at the Asian and a bronze at the 2012 London victory ceremony ugly.” Games yesterday. Olympics. for the men’s Japan and China are fierce Zhou added 2kg to Russian Organisers are desperate for political and sporting rivals with 1500m freestyle Tatiana Kashirna’s previous mark a world record from Barshim disputes over territory and their swimming event set last year in Poland. on Monday as they seek to fill history to sort out. during the 17th The London Olympics cham- Incheon’s new 62,000-seater ath- “It is a very delicate issue Asian Games in pion also hoisted 142kg in the letics stadium. And also looking and we didn’t hear what he said Incheon yesterday. snatch component to record an to make history is China’s Zhang, directly so it’s difficult to com- overall lift of 334kg but seemed who will bid to become the first ment, but what is fact is that completely underwhelmed at Asian-born sprinter to race 100m there is no agitation or signs becoming the Asian Games in under 10 seconds on Sunday. of the swimmers being upset,” champion. Zhang raced to a Chinese Umchara said. “Nothing special about it,” she record of 10.00sec at last year’s “We have come here to swim China dominate in pool climax said, her world record barely mer- world championships in Moscow. and the athletes do not get iting a mention. “I’m feeling in very good shape involved in issues beyond swim- INCHEON: China’s swimmers events to maintain their Asian him the most decorated South Zhou preferred to focus on the right now,” the 27-year-old, who ming. The (Japanese) swimmers flexed their muscle at the Asian Games dominance. Korean ever at the quadrennial negatives. is appearing at his first Asian who interact with Sun and know Games yesterday with explo- World record holder Sun multisport event. Sun showed “I don’t feel like I performed Games, told the Tencent news por- his personality have decided that sive gold medal displays from defended his 1,500 metres free- his fun-loving side after the rac- well in the snatch,” she added of tal. “But I’m not worrying much there wasn’t any malice in what Olympic champions Sun Yang style title with plenty left in the ing was done, bringing out a her lift which set a new Asian about the time.” was said.” and Ye Shiwen. tank, powering to victory in 14 strawberry-covered cake for Park Games record. Asia is the last continent not to No stranger to controversy, Anchor Ning Zetao’s supersonic minutes, 49.75 seconds to give the and smearing cream over his face Kazakhstan’s Mariya have a real sub-10 second sprinter. the outspoken Sun reacted petu- 46.91 seconds -- world record hulking superstar a third gold of as the crowd squealed in delight. Grabovetskaya took the sil- It claims a 9.99sec 100 metres, but lantly after a stunning defeat by speed -- gave China a nail-biting the week. As predicted, Ye stormed to ver with a total lift of 302kg it was set by Samuel Francis -- a Japanese rival Kosuke Hagino in victory over fierce rivals Japan in South Korea’s Park Tae-Hwan the the individual medley dou- while Thailand’s Chitchanok Nigerian-born sprinter who took last weekend’s 200 metres free- the men’s 4x100m medley relay, finished out of the medals, leaving ble, clocking a Games record Pulsabsakul lifted 292kg for the Qatari nationality. style, blaming his loss on a sore capping a thrilling six days of the local hero winless in his four of 2:08.94 to win the 200m and bronze at the Moonlight Festival Kiryu, 18, clocked 10.01 as a thumb. competition in the pool. individual events. Sun brought a emulate her success in Guangzhou Garden Weightlifting Venue. schoolboy last year. It was hoped “Sun Yang is not the only swim- After scooping four more titles smile to his face by presenting four years ago. Zhou’s team mate, Yang Zhe, he and Zhang would spur each mer to say things on the spur of on the final day, China finished him with a cake ahead of his 25th Kazakh Dmitriy Balandin com- won gold in the men’s -105kg cat- other on in a mouthwatering the moment,” said Umehara. with a total of 22 gold med- birthday on Saturday to show pleted a sensational breaststroke egory with just two clean lifts. Japan v China sprint. Zhang’s “We are here to fight for med- als overall, to Japan’s 12. The there were no hard feelings. treble by winning the 50m in a He lifted 186kg in the snatch biggest threat for gold is likely to als and you have to be up for the Japanese won the battle for male Park returned to pick up a Games record 27.78 after win- on his first go, then failed twice at come from Qatar’s Femi Ogunode, battle. But we have instructed our supremacy, edging China 8-7 in bronze in the men’s 4x100m ning the 100 and 200m -- the first 191, before lifting 217kg in his first originally from Nigeria, who is athletes about the importance of golds but the invincible Chinese medley relay, giving him a 20th swim titles for the former Soviet clean and jerk attempt and failing also defending his men’s 200 and sportsmanship and respect. AFP women’s team won 15 out of 19 Asian Games medal and making republic at the Games. AFP with this final two. REUTERS 400m titles. AFP SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Marquez edged out by Dovizioso at Aragon MotoGP

ALCAÓIZ, Spain: World championship leader Marc Marquez was edged into second place in yesterday’s practice for Sunday’s Grand Prix of Aragon where he will be looking for a record-equalling 12th win in 14 races. The Honda star, who won the 2013 race from pole position on his way to the world title, ended the day 0.043sec behind Italy’s Andrea Dovizioso on a Ducati. Victory on Sunday would take Marquez level with Australia’s Michael Doohan, who won 12 races in 1997, the record for most Al Sadd’s Jung Soo Lee (right) tries to kick the ball during their Qatar Stars League match against Al Arabi at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: El Jaish player Magid Mohamed victories in one season in the Hassan (right) in action against Al Ahli captain Mashael Abdulla yesterday. PICTURES: ABDUL BASIT sport’s elite division. Marquez, 21, holds a com- manding 74-point lead with five legs of the 2014 season remaining, although he suffered a disastrous race last time out when he came home 15th at San Marino. The Misano race was won by Al Arabi break Al Sadd’s Valentino Rossi on a Yamaha and the veteran Italian racer now stands in third place in the world championship on 214 points, 75 off the pace set by Marquez. Rossi was down in 10th spot on Friday while Marquez’s Honda winning run with 1-1 draw team-mate Dani Pedrosa, who is second in the standings, was third Lekhwiya maintain 100 percent record by defeating Al Shamal 2-0 fastest overall. AFP Aragon Grand Prix DOHA: Al Sadd’s winning Al Sadd, who are usually accus- the 36th minute. After drib- hand to it and turn the ball past Meanwhile, Lekhwiya main- streak in the Qatar Stars tomed to teams just defending bling past the Al Sadd defend- the post. tained their perfect start with an Practice Times League (QSL) this season came against them, looked uncomfort- ers, Aden’s shot ricocheted off After the 65th minute, the easy 2-0 victory over Al Shamal. to an end yesterday as Al Arabi able whenever Al Arabi opened goalkeeper Saad Abdulla game started to open up as both It could have easily been 3-0 had Times in yesterday’s free prac- held the “Wolves” to a hard- up and played more aggressively. Aldosari’s hand and into the back sides had chances to attack. Y. Msakni not missed a penalty in tice for Sunday’s Aragon Grand fought 1-1 at their home ground But, unfortunately, they didn’t do of the net. After the match Al Sadd coach the dying stages of the first half. Prix: but last season’s champions this often enough. Al Sadd came back in the 44th Hussain Amute said, “We control- THE PENINSULA MotoGP Lekhwiya maintained their 100 A bizarre incident occurred in minute through Abdel Karim led the majority of the play and percent record by defeating Al the 25th minute when a long ball Hassan who had no trouble head- I am happy with my team’s per- 1. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 1min Shamal 2-0. found Ezekiel, who managed to ing in a goal from a cross after formance. I was surprised when QSL Results 48.285sec, 2. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) The derby between Al Arabi break free from two defenders. being left unmarked near the Arabi scored first because the goal at 0.043sec, 3. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) Al Ahli 0 Al Jaish 2 (W Abdulmajid (penalty) 0.449, 4. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati Pramac) and Al Sadd was a physical affair He was threateningly surging back-post. went against the run of play but 33, M Muntari 90+2) right from the start. Both teams’ forward when the referee sud- “The Wolves” played fast flow- that’s football.” 0.462, 5. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Yahama Al Kharitiyath 1 (M. Abdulhamed 54) Umm- strength lay in their attack and denly blew the whistle for a water ing one-touch football in the first Al Arabi coach Dan Petrescu Forward) 0.653, 6. Pol Espargaro (ESP/ Salal (0) although Al Sadd dominated pos- break. The call left the Al Arabi five minutes after the restart, said, “Overall I was proud of my Yamaha Tech3) 0.681, 7. Jorge Lorenzo session early on, their defence players and coach Dan Petrescu which led to a majestic curling players, especially against such a Al Shamal 0 Lekhwiya 2 (S Soria 39 (penalty), (ESP/Yamaha) 0.684, 8. Stefan Bradl (GER/ looked jittery every time Al Arabi dumbfounded. effort from Sadd’s new all-time tough opponent. Al Sadd didn’t Y Msakni 90+3) Honda-LCR) 0.717, 9. Bradley Smith (GBR/ played the ball forward towards A brilliant effort by Aden Ali leading goal scorer Khalfan but give us many chances but we did Al Arabi 1 (A. Aden 36) Al Sadd 1 (A.K. Yamaha Tech3) 0.726, 10. Valentino Rossi their striker Imoh Ezekiel. Aden gave Al Arabi the lead in Rajab Hamza managed to get a well.” Hassan 44) (ITA/Yamaha) 1.027. Europe grab 5-3 lead after day one at Ryder Cup

GLENEAGLES, United McDowell, who clinched the Kingdom: Justin Rose and victory with a 15-footer birdie Henrik Stenson won twice and putt at the 15th, was not the Rory McIlroy swiped a key half- only winning mentor to a new- point as Europe rallied for a comer in foursomes as England’s 5-3 lead over the United States Lee Westwood and Welsh rookie after day one of the Ryder Cup Jamie Donaldson beat Jim Furyk yesterday. and Matt Kuchar 2-up. The Americans led 2 1/2 to 1 Westwood, a captain’s pick 1/2 after the morning fourball ranked lowest in the Cup field matches but they barely kept at 44th, moved to 5-0 with two Europe from sweeping a four- halved in Cup pairs matches somes session for the first time against fourth-ranked Furyk, in Ryder Cup history. each making his ninth Cup “It has been a good start,” Rose appearance. said. “It has been really special. “There was no doubt in my It was just a great day. Really mind Jamie was up to the task,” enjoyed it.” Westwood said. “We played well World number one McIlroy out there, about 4-under, and and Sergio Garcia won the last that’s a quality match under these two holes to pinch a half-point Victor Dubuisson (left) and Graeme McDowell celebrate on the 17th green conditions.” AFP from Rickie Fowler and Jimmy after winning their foursomes match at Gleneagles in Scotland yesterday. Walker while Graeme McDowell and French debutante Victor Ryder Cup Scores Dubuisson ended the four- and Walker. all. It was really fun.” Scores from yesterday’s open- match unbeaten Cup run of Phil “We needed it, we really did,” Europe, seeking a sixth win in ing fourballs and foursome Mickelson and Keegan Bradley. McIlroy said. “It was big and at seven tries, need 14 points to keep matches at the 40th Ryder Cup “It has been a long hard fought least we get something out of the the trophy while the Americans in Gleneagles day,” Fowler said. “It was nice this day. We played two really tough need 14 1/2 to reclaim the Cup. Europe lead United States 5-3 morning. Hurts a little bit this matches and we have half a point Fourballs and foursomes will be Foursomes afternoon. That’s the Ryder Cup.” to show for it.” played again Saturday followed Rose, the 2013 US Open cham- McIlroy sank a 40-foot birdie by 12 concluding singles matches Jamie Donaldson/Lee Westwood (Europe) bt pion from England, and Sweden’s putt at the par-3 17th hole to tomorrow. Jim Furyk/Matt Kuchar (USA) 2-up; Justin Rose/ Stenson combined to beat Bubba send the match to the par-5 18th, McDowell and Dubuisson, Henrik Stenson (Europe) bt Hunter Mahan/Zach Watson and Webb Simpson 5 where Garcia dropped his 5-wood who sat out the morning ses- Johnson (USA) 2 and 1; Rory McIlroy/Sergio and 4 in morning fourballs and approach 25 feet from the hole. sion, beat five-time major winner Garcia (Europe) halved with Jimmy Walker/ Hunter Mahan and Zach Johnson McIlroy missed his hard-breaking Mickelson and Bradley 3 and 2 as Rickie Fowler (USA) ; Victor Dubuisson/Graeme McDowell (Europe) bt Phil Mickelson/Keegan 2 and 1 in afternoon foursomes at eagle putt but the tap-in birdie the 24-year-old rookie sparkled. Bradley (USA) 3 and 2. cool and windy Gleneagles. was enough to win the hole and “This kid is the next superstar “The wind was gusting and you swipe a half-point. in Europe,” McDowell said. “He Europe 4 1/2 United States 1/2 could sort of lose your confidence “We fought as hard as we didn’t need much advice. Just Fourballs very quickly out here. When the could,” Garcia said. “Half a point wind him up and let him go.” Justin Rose/Henrik Stenson (Europe) bt Bubba wind is buffeting you, very easy is just huge.” Dubuisson, Europe’s young- Watson/Webb Simpson (USA) 5 and 4; Jordan to miss putts,” Rose said. “It was And an early US lead had est player, shook off his anxiety Spieth/Patrick Reed (USA) bt Stephen Gallacher/ nice to kick on this afternoon and vanished. quickly. Ian Poulter (Europe) 5 and 4; Thomas Bjorn/ get that point.” “It’s amazing how different “I was a little nervous,” he Martin Kaymer (Europe) halved with Rickie European Ryder Cup player Rory McIlroy celebrates his putt on the eighth Europe’s biggest fightback was a feel it is from the morning said. “When I got on the tee with Fowler/Jimmy Walker (USA); Keegan Bradley/ green during his foursomes during a Ryder Cup match at Gleneagles in by McIlroy and Garcia, who lost to the afternoon,” Walker said. Graeme it was just a dream. It Phil Mickelson (USA) bt Sergio Garcia/Rory McIlroy (Europe) 1-up; Europe 1 1/2 United Scotland yesterday. 1-up to Mickelson and Bradley in “Exciting, exhilarating, heart- was fanasttic. My stress com- fourballs but halved with Fowler breaking, excruciating. You get it pletely disappeared.” States 2 1/2. SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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MUSCAT 28/27 Partly cloudy 29/27 Clear Walt Disney characters Mickey Mouse (right) and Minnie Mouse pose for photographs in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. The Disney MAKKAH 39/26 Clear 40/25 Clear characters were making their debut in Myanmar. KUWAIT 41/25 Clear 40/25 Clear BAHRAIN 36/28 Celar 36/28 Clear SANAA 26/12 Partly cloudy 26/12 Partly cloudy RIYADH 38/23 Clear 37/24 Clear DUBAI 38/27 Clear 38/27 Clear Trucker demands ransom for chicken load BAGHDAD 37/21 Clear 38/23 Clear SALMON, Idaho: Authorities its driver, who tried to extort Department revealed “it was a lit- when the driver went “totally off the THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW in Idaho are seeking a truck money to deliver the load before tle smelly,” but the chicken was radar” after repeatedly demanding HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER driver who held 37,000 pounds abandoning it, said Joe Ramirez, not a hazard since no one was his employers transfer funds into of frozen chicken for ransom detective sergeant with the police seeking to salvage it for food, said his account to pay for fuel and other ATHENS 21/27 Clear 24/18 Partly cloudy demanding money for expenses department in Nampa, Idaho. Alisha Johnson, an environmental transport costs, Ramirez said. WASHINGTON 26/13 Clear 28/17 Clear before he let it rot at a truck Noxious fumes and juices oozing health specialist with the agency. The company told police the stop in Montana where it is from the semi-trailer — detached The load, once valued at $80,000, driver said at one point he would SYDNEY 23/14 Clear 26/15 Clear releasing putrid odours and liq- from the tractor being sought as could be towed to a landfill for dis- not deliver the load as planned LONDON 22/13 Clear 24/12 Partly cloudy uids, police said on Thursday. a stolen vehicle — were reported posal, she said. It was unclear how to Kent, Washington, unless it PARIS 23/15 Partly cloudy 23/18 Partly cloudy The refrigerated semi-trailer to authorities in Missoula earlier long the chicken was parked at the came up with a certain amount ISTANBUL 19/16 Rain 19/16 Mostly cloudy containing the chicken was this week during a warming trend truck stop west of Missoula before of money, which Ramirez said MANILA 32/24 Chance of storm 32/24 Chance of storm to arrive in Washington state in which temperatures climbed the driver flew the coop. could be seen as “technically, DHAKA 34/25 Clear 32/24 Clear last month. The shipment was into the 80s. Dixie River Freight in Nampa extortion.” Police did not say how DELHI 35/25 Clear 34/25 Clear arranged by an Idaho trucking An inspection of the trailer by reported the rig missing on August much money he was demanding. ISLAMABAD 32/22 Clear 30/21 Clear firm that got into a dispute with the Missoula City-County Health 27 and stolen in early September REUTERS Mellow tone of Harpist Cuban couple reunited in US after year-long sea odyssey AUSTIN, Texas: Almost a year by Mexican fishermen this month after the motor failed early in the have nightmares about drowning,” US authorities say 16,200 soothes apes at after he smuggled his way out of off the Yucatan peninsula badly journey. One by one the passen- he said. Cubans arrived without visas Cuba on a homemade boat, Jose sunburned and dehydrated after gers died as supplies of food, and Mexican officials detained the at the border with Mexico in Caballero was reunited late on three weeks adrift. then water, ran out. Their bodies Cubans for two weeks before the past 11 months, the highest Minnesota zoo Thursday with his wife who Only 15 of the 32 passengers were thrown overboard. releasing them, saying Cuba number in a decade. survived a harrowing sea voy- of her boat survived the jour- Caballero, 40, said his wife lost had not recognised them as its Caballero said his wife had MINNESOTA: Harpist Terri age of her own last month. ney from Manzanillo in eastern eight cousins on the boat, adding citizens. previously tried unsuccessfully Tacheny long enjoyed taking her The two embraced tightly at Cuba, with 15 dying at sea, and that she had been an assistant at Under the “wet foot, dry foot to leave Cuba four times by boat young daughters to Como Zoo the Greyhound bus terminal in two more dying after they were a blood bank in Cuba and brought policy” of the United States, and he tried to persuade her not in St Paul, Minnesota, except Austin, Texas, hours after Mailin rescued. medical supplies with her. Cuban migrants who make it onto to try again. “But there was no for the Primate House, where Perez crossed the border from “It was such a battle to get “For her it’s going to be hard. US soil are allowed to remain stopping her,” he said. she thought the gorillas, oran- Mexico, taking advantage of a U S here,” Perez said later, as she sat Right now she is happy she made while those intercepted at sea are The couple left two children gutans and monkeys seemed a policy that allows entry to Cubans down to a traditional Cuban din- it, but imagine the trauma she turned back. behind with relatives in Cuba, little lethargic. arriving by land. ner of chicken, and “congri” (rice feels,” he said. Cubans seeking to flee the a boy aged 11 and a girl aged Her solution: A little music. “Right now we’re so happy, but and beans) prepared by her hus- Caballero left Cuba by the same communist-run island are head- four. Now Tacheny, 57, a zoo volun- exhausted from all the tension. band. “I’m happy, but sad for the route in December on a boat ing in increasing numbers to “That’s our hope now, to bring teer, plays once a month for an There were so many desperate ones who didn’t make it.” carrying 47 people, and is now a Central America or southern them to the United States,” said appreciative audience that ambles moments,” said Caballero. The group set off on August maintenance worker at a trucking Mexico and then making a long Caballero. “But not the way we down to the barrier as soon as Perez, 30, was one of a group 7, and were forced to fashion a company in Austin. “We were at journey overland to reach the came. Not by sea.” Tacheny begins setting up her of Cuban migrants rescued at sea makeshift sail for their vessel sea for only nine days and I still United States. REUTERS beautifully carved wooden harp. She’s been doing it for nearly a decade. “I don’t speak gorilla, but there’s a gorilla purr that occurs when I begin to play. And that’s Beauty pageants expose their happy sound,” Tacheny said. As the shimmering sounds of Tacheny’s harp drift through the leafy zoo, a male gorilla stares dreams in Myanmar through the fence at the musician, then chews contentedly on vegeta- YANGON: Sparkling in a red, Burma, will have competed in tion. Families stop to snap pictures. sequined dress, Htet Htet Htun at least 10 international pag- A therapeutic harpist, Tacheny spins around the stage rehears- eants, including Miss Universe plays for hospital patients to help ing a traditional Burmese dance Myanmar and Miss Asia Pacific them deal with pain and anxi- that she hopes will make her World. About 130 applicants ety. She thought if the soothing stand out from 18 other young signed up in four days for the sounds helped calm humans, it hopefuls competing in the first inaugural Miss Myanmar World would work for the primates too. Miss Myanmar World pageant contest that will be held today. “I would love to see every zoo this month. “If I win, I want to do charity have a harpist. I think it bene- Beauty pageants are thriving work that would befit a beauty fits the animals,” said Tacheny, a in Myanmar after being banned queen. I’d also like to become an quick-to-smile woman. during nearly half a century of actress and continue working in the Tami Murphy, a zookeeper at military dictatorship that ended entertainment industry,” Htet Htet Como, said Tacheny has played in 2011 when a semi-civilian gov- Htun, 22, told the Thomson Reuters for all the animals at the zoo. ernment took power. Foundation outside a dimly-lit stu- Some animals appear ambiva- Hoping for a better life and dio in the Myanmar’s biggest city, lent, Murphy said, but the harp dreaming of fame and fortune, Yangon, after her rehearsal. music “seems to be a really calm- young Myanmar women are rac- The popularity of beauty con- ing thing for the apes to listen to.” ing at every opportunity to enter tests underscores how Myanmar AP the growing list of beauty contests is racing to catch up with the that opened up to them in 2012. rest of the world after decades of But the rapid rise of an indus- near-isolation — and many con- K Zin Po (left) talks to her trainer during model training at Star model agency in Yangon. try that splits opinion in many testants are finding themselves countries — with opponents on a crash course in how to cope later in a vicious, public spat with At a packed press conference organisers) also told me there is accusing pageants of objectifying in such a competitive field. contest organisers. in September, May Myat Noe only one way to find money for women — is exposing both the May Myat Noe became the The South Korean organisers accused the pageant’s organis- my album and to continue in the opportunities and pitfalls faced by country’s first international beauty called her “rude and dishonest” ers in Myanmar of falsifying her entertainment business ... to escort modern Myanmar with stories of queen in May this year when she and accused her of running off age from 16 to 18 and the Korean some business tycoons whenever scandal and exploitation. won the Miss Asia Pacific World with the pageant crown when she organisers of putting pressure they require my company,” she By the end of this year, title in Seoul, South Korea — only left Seoul where she was to record on her to have plastic surgery to told the press conference. Myanmar, formerly known as to be dethroned three months songs with a K-pop girl band. boost her stardom. “(The Korean REUTERS