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PM, Kuwait official hold talks Emir and UN Crackdown chief discuss regional issues DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim on consumer bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received a phone call from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. They reviewed the latest develop- ments on the regional and inter- law violations national arenas, particularly the situation in Libya. The UN Secretary-General expressed his gratitude and Ministry detects 130 violations in outlets appreciation to the Emir for Qatar’s efforts in supporting the DOHA: The authorities have intensified stop instantly when brakes are applied at dialogue team by cooperating monitoring on shops violating the con- a high speed, the ministry said. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with with the secretary general’s spe- sumer protection law. The Ministry of Meanwhile, the ministry last month Kuwait’s Attorney-General Counsel Dirar Ali Asousi yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations. cial envoy to Libya, Bernardino Economy and Commerce has closed down conducted intensive inspection campaigns Leon, under the umbrella of the a tyre shop in New Ghanim area for one across the country and detected 130 vio- United Nations, to reach a com- month for selling balloon tyres that do not lations of the consumer protection law. prehensive political agreement meet the Qatari standards and specifica- The violations varied from non-compliance to form a consensus government tions. The ministry inspectors detected with the declared price list and failure to Stop Syria bombing, EU tells Russia that brings back to Libya politi- another 130 violations of the consumer abide by the promotion requirements. A cal and social unity and works to protection law last month. failure to display the prices of commodities LUXEMBOURG: The ing the assets of the spouses New York in late September, achieve the aspirations of the fra- Qatar has banned the import and use of topped the violations, with 21 cases. European Union urged of senior figures, although no when Europe and the US ternal Libyan people. balloon tyres for passenger vehicles unless The second most common violation Russia yesterday to halt its names have been added to looked to Russia for help. Emir praised the efforts of the accompanied by a certificate of conform- was lack of compliance with the declared aerial bombing campaign the EU’s list. Meanwhile, senior Saudi secretary general’s special envoy ity with technical requirements specified price list during promotions. The third in Syria but the bloc’s 28 “The recent Russian mili- Arabian officials told Rus- to Libya in bringing closer points in technical regulations namely GSO major violation was related to description member states failed to tary attacks ... are of deep sia’s leaders that Moscow’s of view and reaching a common 51/2007, GSO 52/2007 and GSO 53/2007. of goods and a failure to display them in agree among themselves on concern and must cease military intervention in ground to move steadily towards The tyres should also have the techni- the proper manner, with 20 cases each in whether President Bashar immediately,” ministers said Syria would have “dangerous stability, security, construction cal requirements mandatory for balloon both the categories. The penalties include Al Assad should have any in their most strongly-worded consequences”, escalating and growth. tyres. The violation was detected during administrative closure and fines ranging role in ending the crisis. statement on Russia’s inter- the war there and inspir- surprise raids conducted by the Ministry between QR5000 and QR 30000. Seeking a common front vention. “The military esca- ing militants from around inspectors. The outlets faced temporary The Ministry said it is going to fur- in their criticism of Russia’s lation risks prolonging the the world to join in, a Saudi Emir greets leaders closure for repeating the violation, the ther intensify the campaign against such dramatic military interven- conflict, undermining a politi- source said. ministry said in a statement yesterday. violations. The cases will be referred to tion in Syria, EU foreign cal process, aggravating the Saudi Arabia will continue of Spain, Belarus The closure will be publicised at the the authorities concerned further action. ministers warned that air humanitarian situation and to strengthen and support DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim expense of the violating company, as per The ministry urged all consumers to strikes designed to support increasing radicalisation,” the moderate opposition in bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable provisions of the consumer protection inform the Consumer Protection Depart- Assad could also deepen the said the ministers, meeting Syria, the source said, citing of congratulations to King Felipe law. The ministry had earlier announced ment if they come across any violation. 4-1/2-year civil war that has in Luxembourg. positions outlined by Defence VI of Spain on the occasion of his the requirements to be observed while The department is ready to receive com- killed 250,000 people. After years of inaction in Minister Mohammed bin Sal- country’s National Day. importing and selling tyres in the country. plaints and suggestions from the public Ministers also sought to Syria, the EU is now des- man and Foreign Minister Emir also sent yesterday a The sale of balloon tyres is banned as they through the toll free no 16001, its twit- further pressure Assad by perate to stem the flow of Adel Al Jubeir in their meet- cable of greetings to President put people’s lives at risk. ter and instagram accounts or its smart agreeing to broaden the EU’s migrants into Europe. Its ings in Russia with President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus The tyres are behind most of the acci- phone applications. economic sanctions criteria stark criticism of Moscow Vladimir Putin and Foreign on the occasion of his re-election dents on the roads and they cannot han- Picture on page 3 to people benefiting from underscores just how far Minister Sergei Lavrov. as President of the Republic of dle excessive heat or high speeds. Balloon his government, a move diplomatic efforts have fal- Belarus. tyres overheat at high speeds and do not THE PENINSULA essentially aimed at freez- tered since a UN meeting in REUTERS QNA

Qatar-Maldives match today QNB in talks to Qatar to continue Eid Charity spends QR222m buy Finansbank support for for Syrian refugees DOHA: Qatar National Bank Libyan dialogue (QNB) announced its involve- DOHA: Qatar to continue its DOHA: The Sheikh Eid Chari- relief projects in the affected ment as a potential bidder for support for efforts aimed at the table Association has spent areas including 600 medical staff, ‘Finansbank’, National Bank of success of the Libyan dialogue QR222m to support Syrian ref- stationed at first aid points, field Greece’s Turkish subsidiary. held under the auspices of the ugees in Turkey, Iraq, Jordan hospitals and other healthcare The bank said in a release pub- United Nations (UN), which and Lebanon. A portion of this facilities, said Ali bin Khalid Al lished on Qatar Exchange website seeks to reach political agree- money was also spent on people Hajri from the Association. that certain preliminary discus- ment and announce government displaced inside Syria. More than Around 50 relief crew died sions have been held to date. How- of national unity. seven million Syrians benefitted while carrying out humanitar- ever, no material developments In a statement released yes- from the aid. ian services. Team members are necessitating respective disclosures terday, the Foreign Ministry Some QR102m was spent on putting their lives at risk rescuing have taken place. QNB will make welcomed proposals reached by foods while shelter and clothing the injured and handling patients. the disclosures to QE as required, Libyan dialogue team in the last projects cost QR67m. Expenses Measures have been taken to which will represent the only offi- round held at the Moroccan city for medical supplies stood at ensure security for the trucks cial statements on this matter, the of Skhirat overseen by the United QR47m. More than QR5m was carrying relief items inside in release added. Nations Support Mission in Libya spent on psychological support Syria. Stores are being protected. QNA (UNSMIL) to form a government for children, women and patients. Then a plan is being made to dis- of national unity. The ministry Some QR165m was spent on tribute the aid to needy people, Poverty expert wins expressed thanks to UNSMIL’s displaced people inside Syria and said Al Hajari. The continuation staff and the Special Representa- another QR25m on refugees in of the crisis in Syria has pushed Economics Nobel tive of the Secretary-General for Jordan. Aid provided to refugees the Association to make long Libya Bernardino Leon for their in Lebanon cost QR22m. More term plan for relief to provide STOCKHOLM: US-British Qatar football players are seen during a training session in Doha yes- efforts in facilitating the dialogue than QR5m was spent in Turkey suitable accommodation to dis- microeconomist Angus Deaton terday. Qatar take on Maldives in their 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 and leading up to this crucial stage and some QR1m in Iraq. placed Syrians. won the Nobel Economics Prize Asian Cup joint qualifying match at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium today. of the agreement. A team of 2,000 people from yesterday for groundbreaking The match will start at 6:30pm. More pictures and stories on page 28 QNA the Association are working on THE PENINSULA work using household surveys to show how consumers, particu- larly the poor, decide what to buy and how policymakers can help them. “By emphasising the links between individual consump- Palestinians step up pace of Jerusalem stabbings tion decisions and outcomes for the whole economy, his work has JERUSALEM: Palestinians ans, including seven alleged assail- The woman was shot and Near-daily stabbings have spread from Jerusalem and occu- helped transform modern micro- escalated the pace of stabbing ants and eight children, have died wounded. Israeli police said one raised speculation Palestinians pied West Bank to Israel’s interior economics, macroeconomics and attacks in the Jerusalem area in 12 days of bloodshed, stirred of the assailants in Pisgat Zeev, could be embarking on another and Hamas-ruled Gaza. development economics,” the yesterday and Israeli police shot in part by Muslim anger over built on occupied land that Israel uprising, or intifada as they call Muslim anger has been stoked Royal Swedish Academy of Sci- dead two of the alleged assailants increasing Jewish visits to the Al annexed to Jerusalem after the it, reflecting a new generation’s by increasing visits made over the ences said. Deaton, 69, described in the worst spell of street vio- Aqsa Mosque compound in Jeru- 1967 Middle East war, was shot frustrations over their veteran past year by Jewish groups and winning the prize as a little like lence for years. salem. In the space of one hour, and killed and the other was leadership’s failure to achieve right-wing Israeli lawmakers to being struck by lightning. “His Palestinian groups have called Israeli police said a knife-wield- injured. Hours earlier, a border statehood in peace efforts with the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. work has helped transform modern for a “Day of Rage” across the ing Palestinian woman wounded policeman shot dead a Palestin- Israel that collapsed in 2014. Israel has said it has no inten- microeconomics, macroeconomics West Bank, Gaza and East Jeru- a paramilitary border policeman ian who police said tried to stab Yesterday’s bloodshed followed tion of allowing any change to and development economics,” the salem today and the leaders of in central Jerusalem and two men him, according to Israeli police. the deployment of 2,000 police the status quo at the compound, Academy said. Israel’s Arab community have carried out stabbings that injured The account was disputed by a reinforcements in Jerusalem, but which Jews are allowed to visit See also page 17 called for a commercial strike in two Israelis, one of them critically, Palestinian passerby, who said he Israeli leaders have said they have but where non-Muslim prayer is their towns and villages. in Pisgat Zeev on the northern witnessed the incident and saw no quick fix against largely “lone banned. AFP Four Israelis and 25 Palestini- edge of the city. no knife. wolf” assaults. The violence has REUTERS TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME SCH campaign Ooredoo starts health screening focuses on through kiosks DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday announced the launch of the new smart health solution — the Health- Guard-3000 Blood Circulation Analyser (PULSE) healthy habits — which offers non-invasive screening as part of wellness and preventive care in Qatar. The solution has been designed in line with Stress on physical activity, diet National Health Strategy, in close collaboration with Ooredoo’s Health Care partner, Al Sulaiman DOHA: The Supreme Council of and the challenges it is facing,” Health. This is the first time in the GCC that the Health (SCH) has launched the “The aim of the public awareness patented, near infrared technology has been used second phase of its “Our Future campaign is to promote principles to measure blood circulation and body composi- lies in Our Health” campaign. and behaviours that support the tion as a preventive measure. The service does not The drive aims to encourage advancement of society and its replace the need for licensed care-givers. all segments of society to lead health. Within the SCH’s health PULSE’s primary goal is to help early detection a healthy lifestyle and abandon awareness scheme, it is a priority of symptoms for cardiovascular problems, diabetes harmful daily habits among indi- to improve the overall healthcare as well as other chronic diseases by determin- viduals and society as a whole. sector and its services,” he added. ing and long term monitoring of the key health The campaign involves health- Al Khulaifi explained that the A farmer in a potato farm that is part of the Potato Planting project of Qatar Charity. parameters like blood pressure, heart rate, BMI, care institutions, experts and spe- campaign was launched following body fat, hydration levels for body composition as cialists in the healthcare field and numerous challenges facing the well as many other parameters previously avail- features numerous activities and Qatari society. able only via invasive methods. events that target all segments Latest surveys in Qatar showed Qatar Charity helps Aleppo Studies show the GCC region is poised for an of society. that the obesity rate reached unprecedented surge in healthcare consumption, The activities take place at gov- 41pc, and the smoking rate among driven by robust population growth and rising ernmental and non-governmental Qatari youth within the 13-15 year income levels. Higher income levels and seden- organisations, shopping malls and age bracket reached 15.7pc. This farmers grow potatoes tary lifestyles have led to poor health conditions, commercial complexes. calls for intensifying awareness a phenomenon that has been witnessed in most The “Our Future lies in Our programmes to encourage people DOHA: The farmers of Northern Aleppo is also implemented to encourage farmers developed economies. Health” campaign focuses on to abandon their daily unhealthy harvested 133 tonnes of potato which ben- to continue farming and to improve arable Waleed Al Sayed, COO, Ooredoo Qatar, said, three main aspects — the impor- habits and committing themselves efited 320 families of farmers and labour- lands. “Ooredoo is investing heavily in a host of health- tance of healthy eating, physical to a healthier lifestyle. ers, thanks to Qatar Charity’s (QC) “Potato In order to prevent plant diseases and to care solutions for our employees and Qatar, activity and stopping smoking Al Khulaifi highlighted the Planting” project. safely grow crops, QC sprayed nitrogen fer- to ensure our country stays healthy and that — through awareness messages. strategic collaboration between The project was able to contribute to self- tilisers and used weed killers. resources are not wasted. The PULSE kiosk will The campaign also emphasises on the SCH and other relevant sufficiency for the war-affected in Syria. It QC had already implemented an agricul- help people keep on-top of their well being in an the role of youth in influencing institutions in Qatar to fight provided basic foodstuff at good prices and in tural project for the benefit of the residents easy and effective manner, and will also ease the their counterparts in society and unhealthy habits and the diseases good quantities, as well as gave employment of the countryside of Aleppo, Idlib and Al demand on Qatar’s medical institutions.” helping them giving up unhealthy resulting from them. to a number of workers in farming. Sahel in Syria. This project led to investment Ooredoo recently unveiled a host of smart habits. He assured that health educa- The implementation of this project took in 50 hectares for the cultivation of wheat healthcare solutions which include employee Ahmed bin Abdulla Al Khu- tion programmes focus on cov- 10 months and cost QR570,000. and potato. It was implemented in coopera- health screening via PULSE kiosk, and track- laifi, Assistant Secretary-Gen- ering all health aspects of the Since Syria is in desperate need of food- tion with Beyaz Eller at a cost of QR900,000. ing employee wellness activities via a mobile app eral for Administrative Affairs at individual from physical and psy- stuff, QC made it a priority that 34 percent At total of 4.2million displaced Syrians and web portal. The company is also a Platinum SCH, said: “The ‘Our Future lies chological to social, in accordance of its projects were dedicated to this purpose. and refugees benefited from QC’s projects Sponsor of the 2015 Employee Health & Wellbeing in Our Health’ campaign came with the vision and mission of the ‘Potato Planting’ project, implemented by which were implemented at a cost of Conference, which is officially supported by the to life after meticulous research Supreme Council of Health. Beyaz Eller (White Hands), is part of the QR205,000,000 from April 2011 until Janu- Supreme Council of Health, Qatar. on the general healthcare situ- development and food projects that aim to ary 2015. ation of the Qatari community THE PENINSULA compensate for the shortage of foodstuff. It THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Yemeni minister praises Qatar’s QU colleges to organise entrepreneurship contest DOHA: Students of Qatar Uni- preneurial activities, and engage tures 5 tracks including health Alammari said: “Our students the wider community.” relief efforts versity (QU) College of Business them on how to develop sound sciences, ICT and Technology- are going to enter a very com- Dr Hindi said: “The importance and Economics (CBE) and Col- business plans. Also attending Based Projects, Energy and Envi- petitive business environment in of young innovative ideas to the CAIRO: Yemeni Human Rights lege of Engineering (CENG) are the press briefing were CENG ronment, Social Enterprises, and Qatar when they graduate. Know- development of a sound business Minister Izz Al Din Asbahi preparing to participate in the associate deans Prof Abdelmagid Business Services. ing how to attract and maintain sector and ultimately to national has commended the relief and organisation’s 3rd Innovation and Hammuda (Research and Post- Participating teams will attend public interest in one’s business development and progressis vital. humanitarian efforts of Qatar for Entrepreneurship Contest. graduate Studies), and Dr Saud a compulsory training session in is a critical skill which engineer- Through this annual competition, the Yemeni people. In a statement A press briefing on October 11 Ghani (Development and Indus- which they will be oriented on ing students have to learn and we are inviting these students to to Qatar News Agency (QNA) led by CENG Dean Dr Rashid trial Relations), acting associate preparing and presenting busi- adapt in their future professional unleash their talents and sense on the sidelines of yesterday’s Alammari and CBE dean Dr dean for Academic Affairs Dr ness plans and pitches outlining endeavors. This competition is of entrepreneurship in the spirit seminar organised by the Arab Nitham Hindi outlined details of Mohammed Samaka, CBE Entre- the essence of their ideas. exposing them to these and other of competition, teamwork, and Human Rights Committee at the the contest which is designed to preneurship Center director Dr Presentations will be deliv- challenges they must address on shared knowledge. We look for- Arab League’s General Secretar- trigger the entrepreneurial skills Mahmoud Khalil, as well as stu- ered in front of a panel of judges their way to becoming successful ward to seeing the innovative iat to present its report on viola- of QU students, spread awareness dents from both colleges. on November 23, and winners business owners, entrepreneurs, projects that will emerge.” tions committed by the Houthis about the importance of entre- This year the competition fea- announced on November 30. Dr and inspirational role models in THE PENINSULA in Yemen, Asbahi said Qatar contributed significant humani- tarian aid, while lauding the dis- tinguished relations between the two brotherly countries.

QNA Mideast environment QLC participants tour US DOHA: In a recent visit to the Vodafone SMS United States, participants in challenge discussed Qatar Leadership Centre’s (QLC) contest offers Executive Leaders Programme DOHA: Holding up a plastic of the broader Doha community, met with leading professors and grand prizes bottle of water as a simple but the visiting scholar began by say- industry experts from Georget- powerful example of a solution ing: “The intensity of this water own University and Rice Univer- DOHA: Vodafone recently to environmental challenges, bottle’s ecological shadow reflects sity’s Baker Institute. launched the fourth edition of political scientist Jeannie Sow- public policy, corporate policy and The participants advanced its popular SMS-based competi- ers launched into an engaging practices and social and cultural their knowledge of relations tion, World of Prizes. The com- lecture at Georgetown University practices — these are things we between Qatar and the US, the petition, which runs for 100 days in Qatar (GU-Q) recently. can change.” American government system and started on October 8, 2015, She was explaining how the Solutions, she argued, must and issues pertaining to energy now gives customers the chance ubiquitous water bottle leaves include the provision of urban and community health. to play for free and win a range an ecological shadow, which she infrastructures for water and The Qatari professionals com- of fantastic prizes. describes as the environmen- sanitation in particular, to begin menced their Learning Jour- Vodafone customers, joining tal harm from the production, dealing with the growing strain ney at one of the United States’ World of Prizes for free by send- consumption, and disposal of a on the environment. renowned academic institutions ing an SMS with the code FREE resource that is displaced to other Sowers, who is an Associate and a long term partner in Edu- to 97773, will get the opportunity people, places, countries, or even Professor of Political Science at cation City — Georgetown Uni- Participants in Qatar Leadership Centre’s (QLC) Executive Leaders to win 100 iPhone 6s every day future generations. the University of New Hampshire, versity in Washington, DC. Programme at an event in the United States. over 100 days or the cash prize The lecture was titled “Envi- drew direct and indirect connec- In addition, the executives and of QR25,000. Moreover, World ronment and Human Insecurity tions between human well-being senior managers toured the US of the Board of Directors of QLC, ous participants in its Executive, of Prizes is offering a premium in the Middle East.” and environmental challenges fac- Capitol — the seat of the United noted that, “QLC encourages par- Rising, and Government Leaders edition to Vodafone customers Speaking to an audience of ing the Middle East in particular. States Congress and the legisla- ticipants to grow their knowledge Programs around the world. through which they can compete students, faculty, and members Drawing on the current tive branch of the federal govern- and skills in various environments The Journeys are an inte- for the chance to win the ulti- “#YouStink” campaign, a pop- ment — which was an exciting that are crucial to Qatar’s future. gral component of the QLC mate cash prizes of QAR250,000 ular uprising in Beirut that opportunity for the participants Combining theoretical insights- programmes, which enable or weekly QAR50,000 at only QR5 accuses the Lebanese state for to learn from policy-makers and with hands-on learning and con- participants to draw from the per day. Additionally, customers mishandling trash collection, she to further strengthen their under- versation to expand horizons is insights of accomplished academ- joining the premium edition of the explained that the issue, which standing of the political workings the rationale behind each of our ics, senior policy-makers, business competition will get an extra daily was the result of the closure of a of the country, with which Qatar Learning Journeys.” leaders as well as distinguished bonus of 60 Vodafone minutes. landfill outside the city, is really has a strong bilateral relationship. The international trip was the experts. Luke Longney, Director of the result of the common practice Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, latest of QLC’s Learning Jour- Marketing at Vodafone Qatar, of “distancing” a problem. Managing Director and Member neys, which have taken previ- THE PENINSULA said: “We’re very happy to launch “Industrial and industrialis- the fourth edition of our popular ing nations often defer negative World of Prizes competition. This ecological costs upon those who is another first, not only in Qatar are most vulnerable to ecological but also in the GCC region, from shifts, including those weakest on Qatar to participate in Frankfurt Book Fair a telecom operator whereby our the political scale, such as poor customers can now play for free communities and other species,” DOHA: Qatar, represented by the Culture, Arts and Heritage Abdul- therefor we are keen to be present and get rewarded with valuable she explained, noting that even Ministry of Culture, Arts and Her- lah Al Ansari said: “We are keen at all cultural forums.” This year prizes every single day for the Jeannie Sowers delivering the developed countries deal with itage, will take part in the five-day on participating in this important 7,537 publishing houses from 115 next 100 days. lecture at Georgetown University these issues. Frankfurt Book Fair 2015. fair because it works for increas- countries from all over the world in Qatar. Director of the Public Librar- ing cultural exchange between us are taking part. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA ies Department at the Ministry of and the different world countries, QNA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Cuba hopes Spain’s National Day Ministry launches survey on services for Qatar of car companies

DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has launched a sur- vey on the services of car companies operating in the country yester- support at UN day. It will last for one week. Results of the survey will be made public. The survey aims to interact with people to know their views about the services provided by car companies in a bid to improve the services, Havana seeks end to US sanctions said the ministry in a release. Respondents to the survey will be questioned whether they are By Fazeena restored diplomatic happy with the prices of new and used cars. They will be asked also to Saleem relations on July Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Hamad bin Abdulaziz view whether undesignated agents and showrooms provide accurate 20, which had been Al Kuwari (third left), Mohamed bin Abdulla bin Mutib Al Rumaihi information about new and used cars and if dealers fulfill their com- DOHA: Cuba severed in 1961 (second right), Minister’s Assistant for Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Fakhroo, mitment on car warranty. hopes Qatar will during the Cold Director of Protocol (right) cutting the cake with Ignacio Escobar (third After sale services of cars including repair, spare parts and warranty again support its War. US diplomatic right), Spanish Ambassador to Qatar, to celebrate Spain’s National Day issues are also included in the survey. UN draft resolu- representation in Doha yesterday. ABDUL BASIT The purpose of the survey is to know the views of the people about tion calling for an in Cuba is han- the prices of cars, repair services, garages and warranties mentioned end to the Cold dled by the United in the guarantee booklet. War era embargo States Embassy It also aims to evaluate the services provided by the car dealers in imposed by the US, in Havana, and general like disclosure of the conditions of cars, recall process, time Cuban Ambassador there is a similar taken for repair of cars and providing alternative cars to the customers. to Qatar Ernesto D Cuban Embassy GCC cultural panel Ministry will analyse the result of survey with the help of experts Plasencia Escalante Cuban Ambassador Ernesto in Washington, and make it public. said yesterday. D Plasencia Escalante during DC. The United Another purpose of the survey is to improve the performance of car “Cuba will sub- a press briefing in Doha States, however, companies to help it reach an international standard by removing the mit on October 27, yesterday. BAHER AMIN continues to main- meets in Doha obstacles in the way of development and intensify the efforts of the a draft resolution tain its commer- Consumer Protection Department (CPD) to protect consumer rights. at the UN General cial, economic, and By Sidi Mohammed of activities and honorees from Assembly titled Necessity of end- financial embargo, which makes the GCC because there are many THE PENINSULA ing the economic, commercial and it illegal for US corporations to DOHA: The cultural committee award-giving bodies in the bloc. financial embargo imposed by the do business with Cuba, although for the upcoming GCC Cultural Al Hageri added that the com- USA against Cuba,” he said. the US President, Barack Obama, Ministers Meeting held a session mittee has recommended that the Tyre shop closed In the past, all UN member- has called for the ending of the yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton cultural activities for GCC should states, including Qatar voted in embargo but US law requires here. be posted on the Secretariat Gen- favour of this resolution, which congressional approval to end the Faleh Al Ajlan Al Hageri, Cul- eral website, so that the members the envoy said “almost the entire embargo. ture Department Director at the can communicate with each other international community recog- “The new draft resolution that Ministry of Culture, Arts and in a better way. nised and supported the strug- we will present takes into account Heritage, who chaired the meet- The committee has moved this gle of the Cuban people to lift the the new bilateral circumstances ing said they discussed a number year’s Film festival of the UAE to blockade.” between Cuba and the United of joint issues and cultural activi- next year, as well as this year’s “State of Qatar has been tradi- states, welcoming the re-estab- ties in order to strengthen cul- GCC Music festival to 2017. tionally always supportive. They lishment of diplomatic relations tural cooperation among member Many other topics were dis- have voted in favour of all Cuban and recognising the willingness states. Among the agenda dis- cussed and the ones they agree on resolutions. Like every year, we expressed by the US president to cussed was that cultural pro- will be taken up with undersecre- have presented the draft resolu- work for the lifting of the block- grammes should be covered by the taries and if adopted, they will be tion to the Qatari officials here ade,” said Escalante. media especially by “Al Maseera” taken up by the Ministers of Cul- and in the UN. I hope Qatar will “The blockade should be magazine of GCC. In addition, ture at their meeting on Thurs- vote for the Cuban resolution on removed at the congress, if not they also discussed establishing day. Al Hageri said that after the lifting the embargo,” he added. lift the embargo, at least should a permanent fine art exhibition Ministers’ meeting, some Gulf Escalante said that apart from be eased,” he added. in Qatar. Qatar should provide a cultural figures will be honoured, the US, Israel and some islands in According to the envoy, after comprehensive study about the including three Qataris — Faleh the Pacific, the entire world sup- five decades of blockade, his coun- exhibition at the next meeting of Fayez, Mohssein Al Hageri and ported Cuba in its stance at the try has suffered huge financial the committee. Issa Al Malki. A Ministry of Economy and Commerce official shutters a tyre shop in New United Nations. losses. Committee members have sug- Ghanim area of Doha after violations were detected. Cuba and the United States THE PENINSULA gested reduction in the number THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Research papers HMC focuses on quality at ISQua DOHA: Hamad Medical Cor- leaders, innovators, research- poration (HMC) shared its ers, healthcare professionals, dynamic and complex qual- hospital managers and front- showcased at ity improvement journey with line clinicians. The prestigious healthcare leaders from around conference was staged for the the world at the 32nd confer- first time in a Gulf Cooperation ence of the International Soci- Council country. ety for Quality in Healthcare Dr Abdullatif Al Khal, Deputy HMC symposium (ISQua) recently. Chief Medical Officer for Medi- ISQua is a global organisation cal Education at HMC, who is a with a network of members that member of the ISQua Program spans more than 100 countries Planning Committee, said, “This Experts undertake critical review and five continents. Organised in year’s ISQua conference theme collaboration with the Supreme of ‘Building Quality and Safety DOHA: Hamad Medical Corpora- Executive Director of the Medical Council of Health, the interna- into the Healthcare System’ tion’s (HMC) Surgical Services and Research Centre congratulated the tional conference represented reflects HMC’s commitment to Medical Research Center’s second Department of Surgery team for an ideal platform for HMC to introducing sustainable systems Research and Innovation Idea Sym- oragnising the event. engage with ISQua delegates to improvements that lead to bet- posium featured 43 research propos- Several participants were chosen exchange practical insights into ter care outcomes as well as bet- als showcasing creativity, innovation to speak about their research propos- best practice methodologies and ter patient experiences. Patient and enthusiasm of clinicians and als during the event and a panel of programmes designed to deliver safety is a global initiative Professor Michael Richmond, Chief Medical Officer at HMC, speaking researchers across the Corporation. experts undertook a critical review better patient care. extending throughout the entire at the conference. The symposium, held follow- of their presentations. The review The delegates who attended continuum of healthcare and we ing the success of the first event in was aimed at improving the content the conference were healthcare were delighted to have been able April this year, once again brought of the research proposals as well as professionals from different to exchange our experiences ity improvement is the develop- the quality of healthcare within together leading local and interna- developing the skills of participants backgrounds including policy with other professionals at this ment of the Hamad Healthcare HMC, Qatar and the greater tional research and subject mat- in writing their research papers. makers, regulators, accredi- conference.” A recent extension Quality Institute (HHQI), which region. ter experts. Dr Abdulla Al Ansari, The 43 research proposals pre- tors, quality improvement of HMC’s commitment to qual- has been designed to improve THE PENINSULA HMC’s Deputy Chief of Medical, sented at this second symposium Academic and Research Affairs for represented an increase of 30 per- Surgical Services said, “The role of cent over the first symposium, research and innovation in our world according to the event’s organising is an important one and this sympo- committee. Among the submissions, Kosovo Grand sium affirms HMC’s commitment to research proposals from anesthesia, be an inspiring leader of academic urology, ophthalmology and ortho- Mufti lauds Aspire Zone Foundation offers healthcare research institutions. The paedic surgery specialities received symposium is aimed at stimulating prizes for their quality and relevance. Qatar for aid research and innovation ideas across The panel was full of praise for the options at HMC career fair HMC for the benefit of patients and efforts and passion displayed by all DOHA: The Grand Mufti contributing to the health and well- participants. of Kosovo and the Presi- being of our population.” dent of the Islamic chief- DOHA: Aspire Zone Foundation and their parents to the working path. Furthermore, Aspire Zone Professor Ibrahim Janahi, HMC’s THE PENINSULA dom in Kosovo, Sheikh is participating in the sixth edi- environment they can expect in is a fun family destination that Naim Trnava, praised tion of Hamad Medical Corpora- the Foundation and its member enables the community to adopt a Qatar’s interest in devel- tion (HMC) career fair, which organisations: Aspire Academy, healthy and active lifestyle.” oping and managing Waqf runs for three days from October Aspetar Hospital and Aspire A number of Aspire Zone Foun- for rendering charitable 12 to 14. Logistics, in addition to highlight- dation employees are present in services. During his visit Aspire Zone Foundation’s ing the Foundation’s facilities, the Foundation’s booth through- to the General Directorate participation is in line with its projects and leading initiatives, out the career fair to provide of Endowments (Awqaf) ongoing efforts to encourage which play a role in fulfilling visitors with a full brief on the at the Ministry of Awqaf Qatari youth to work in sport Qatar’s National Vision 2030. life and environment at Aspire and Islamic Affairs, Sheikh and develop highly-skilled indi- Commenting on the Founda- Zone, as well as current develop- Trnava pointed to the role viduals in the areas of sport, sport tion’s participation in the HMC ment and progress opportunities of Islamic Waqf through science, and event management career fair, Nasser Ghanem Al on offer. history in the development — with an overall aim of trans- Kuwari, Director of Human The HMC career fair is held of community, promotion forming Qatar into a regional Resources at Aspire Zone Foun- annually and targets high-school of solidarity and fulfilling sports destination. dation, said, “The Foundation’s students and their parents, and needs of the poor. Aspire Zone Foundation’s par- message and scope of work is education and public sector Professor Ibrahim Janahi, HMC’s Executive Director of the Medical Research ticipation aims to highlight the wider and extends to various employees, aiming to give them Centre, speaking at the event. QNA career options and specialities areas including sports medicine, a broader view on the nature of available within the Foundation sports science and event and work in the different organisa- in an effort to encourage youth venue management. This diver- tions, learn more about career to consider career paths in sport sity is what we are keen to convey opportunities, as well as training, and event management. to students and parents in this volunteering and scholarship pro- It also aims to introduce high career fair and other events, to grammes. school and university students help them identify their career THE PENINSULA

Special device for tissue analysis at Al-Ahli Hospital

DOHA: To ensure the safety and increase success rates of corneal transplantation, Al-Ahli Hospital has introduced an automated special device to analyse the quality of the sensitive tissue, especially when it comes from the United States and European countries. A sophisticated digitalised specular microscope now ensures an accurate tissue assessment prior to the surgical procedure, which is commensurate with international safety standards. Due to the lack of a national eye bank facility and lack of donors, corneal transplantation in Qatar relies on tissue brought from other coun- tries. Being sensitive one cell layer must survive handling and a long jour- ney to make the surgery a success, but the cells can- not be seen and assessed without this special micro- scope. The possibility of decay- ing tissues due to faulty harvesting from the donor, inappropriate storage and handling, and travel delays may expose the delicate cell layers to adverse cir- cumstances. This will reduce the number of properly func- tioning cells necessary for a successful transplant procedure. If poor qual- ity material is used, an unsuccessful surgery due to primary graft failure (example — the transplant does not work properly and the cornea is opaque instead of being clear) results. “Primary graft failure makes the patient suffer psychologically and physically, and necessi- tates an immediate second surgery”, says Professor Alexander Bialasiewicz, Head of the Ophthalmol- ogy Department at Al-Ahli Hospital.

THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 QU-CPH holds White Coat ceremony Over 250 chefs QRCS sets up to compete DOHA: Qatar University College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) recently held its 9th annual White Coat in Hospitality ceremony in which 25 new phar- macy students took the symbolic Qatar 2015 surgery unit Oath of a Pharmacist and donned the pharmacist’s white coat in front of an audience of more than DOHA: Over 250 chefs will com- 200 guests and well-wishers. pete in 15 categories of Salon QU President Dr Hassan Culinaire at the Hospitality in Yemen Al Derham welcomed the attend- Qatar 2015 which opens today ees who included Ambassador of at the Doha Exhibition Centre Canada to Qatar, André Dubois, (DEC). Emergency centre helps war victims CPH Dean Dr Ayman El Kadi, Salon Culinaire is one of the Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar University College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) students taking Oath of major highlights at the three-day DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent coordination with local partners. Pharmacy Executive Director a Pharmacist. event expected to attract more Society’s (QRCS) relief staff In one and a half month, the Dr Moza Al Hail, CPH Assistant than 10,000 visitors. working in Yemen are relentlessly centre has served more than Dean Dr Alla El Awaisi, repre- ous annual Ebn Sina scholarships “These awards highlight your aca- A total of 111 exhibitors dealing carrying on with their efforts to 11,000 cases, from emergency to sentatives of the Supreme Council to high-achieving CPH students. demic quality and excellence as in all aspects of the Hotels, Res- help those affected by the recent operation to hospitalisation to of Health (SCH), Sidra Medical This year’s scholarships win- well as the hard work and deter- taurants and Cafés (HORECA) escalation in violence in the laboratory and radiology exami- & Research Center, Primary ners were 2nd-year student mination you have exhibited to be food, supply, design and invest- country. nations. Health Care Corporation, Ebn Dima Mohamad Kawas (GPA valued members of the pharmacy ment industry representing 12 A new contract was signed So far, the hospital has per- Sina Medical, Well Care Group, 3.87), 3rd-year student Nawal profession and the healthcare countries are participating in with the Thawra Public Hospital formed a total of 199 major sur- International Medical Company, Zoulikha BenSmail (GPA 3.95), sector in Qatar.” He added: “In a the exhibition spread over 5,000 in Taiz to open a surgical emer- geries, thanks to its 140-member as well as CPH students and their 4th-year student Shaima Ismail few years, these students will join square metre. gency centre as part of the quick staff and a capacity of 70 beds, five families, faculty, alumni and staff. Ali (GPA 3.75), Masters student our pharmacy graduates in the The Salon Culinaire, which is intervention project, with fund- ICU beds, and four surgical tables. The ceremony also saw Chair- Fatima Khalifa Al Sulaiti (GPA fast-developing healthcare sector, co-organised by the Qatar Culi- ing from Qatar Development In a statement, Rashad man of Aamal Company Sheikh 3.61) and PharmD student Nur- well-prepared to meet the chal- nary Professionals (QCP) asso- Fund (QVN). Al Akhali, Taiz Vice-Governor, Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani hon- han Moines El Shafey (GPA 3.45). lenging health needs and expecta- ciation, will be supervised by the For about seven months, Taiz indicated that the city was about oured in recognition of his signif- Dr Al Derham welcomed new- tions of the Qatari community.” World Association of Chefs Socie- has seen severe clashes between to face a health calamity due to icant contribution to pharmacy comers and congratulated the ties for Africa & the Middle East the fighters, which left behind the war. He commended QRCS education in Qatar and his gener- scholarship awardees, saying: THE PENINSULA (WACS) and judged by 10 regional dozens of victims. Affecting for setting up the surgical emer- and international experts. health care, education, water, and gency centre to save the lives of Some of the best chefs of hotels electricity facilities, the bombard- the injured. and restaurants here will be ment and blockade caused more Nashwan Al Hossami, Admin- World Smile Day creating signature dishes, hors than 20 public and private hospi- istrative Manager of the centre, Ministry recalls d’oeuvres, Arabic mezza, desserts tals to shut down, amid increasing said, “Established on September and cakes, among others. They number of victims due to the war 13, 2015 with no more than 140 Chevrolet Corvette will compete in exciting live cook- and subsequent epidemics. administrative and technical staff, ing as well as ice, vegetable and In response, QRCS inaugu- the centre receives the numerous 2014-2015 models fruit carving which have always rated a surgical emergency cen- civilian victims of the war.” attracted big crowds every year. tre to treat the victims of war, There will also be a Mocktail with funding from QVN and in THE PENINSULA DOHA: The Ministry of Economy Competition in which bartend- and Commerce, in collaboration ers will showcase their knowledge with Chevrolet’s sole distributor and ability to create the tastiest in Qatar, Jaidah Automotive, has mocktail in Doha. announced the recall of Chevro- Free professional training let Corvette 2014-2015 models courses for food and beverage due to defects in the transmis- professionals, hygiene officers and sion programming which needs prominent Qatari stakeholders to be reprogrammed according in the hospitality sector will be to GCC specifications. available. Organised by Boecker, Consumers have been urged to these courses will provide valu- report any abuses or irregularities McDonald’s Qatar sponsored the first “World Smile Day” event in Qatar able information on different food to the Department of Consumer that was organised by Qatar Society for Rehabilitation of Special Needs safety techniques and measures Protection and Commercial (QSRN) and held at SFQ (Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassem) Sports Academy. The through an introductory course in Fraud Combat on: Hotline: 16001; event was attended by children from QRSN and their families, in addition basic food hygiene and an induc- and email: [email protected]. to the centre’s delegates and McDonald’s Qatar staff. World Smile Day is tion course on HACCP. A surgery in progress at the centre in Taiz. celebrated around the world on the first Friday of October. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST

Yemen premier, IS prime suspect in president in Saudi to talk Turkey blasts: PM differences

RIYADH: Yemen’s premier was Erdogan opponents allege intelligence failure in Riyadh yesterday to meet President Abedrabuh Mansur ISTANBUL: Turkey’s govern- mined how the suicide bombers nationalists and Kurdish armed Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition ment said yesterday Islamic State got there. We’re close to a name, factions — highlights deep fissures backing their administration as was the prime suspect in suicide which points to one group.” running through Turkish society. reports emerged of differences bombings that killed at least 97 The Haberturk newspaper has At stake is the stability of a Nato between the two leaders. people in Ankara, but opponents cited police sources as saying the country seen by the West as a “Members of the family or vented anger at President REcep type of explosive and the choice of bulwark against Middle Eastern entourage of President Hadi are Tayyip Erdogan at funerals, uni- target pointed to a group within turmoil. Hundreds chanting anti- interfering in the government’s versities and courthouses. Islamic State known as the ‘Adi- government slogans marched on affairs,” said a Yemeni official, The father of three men yaman ones’, a reverence to Adi- a mosque in an Istanbul suburb Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic requesting anonymity. wounded in the blasts said one of yaman province in southeastern for the funeral of several of the Party (HDP), meets with family members of a victim of Saturday’s bomb Prime Minister Khaled Bahah, his sons had described seeing one Turkey. victims, attended by Selahat- blasts in Istanbul yesterday. who is also vice-president, had of the bombers carrying a bag on Turkey is vulnerable to infiltra- tin Demirtas, leader of the pro- returned with several members his back and one in his hand, and tion by Islamic State, which holds Kurdish parliamentary opposition Erdogan will give account” as col- States and the EU as well as of his government to Yemen’s called out “stop” before the bomb swathes of Syrian land abutting Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), leagues applauded, footage circu- Turkey. Some 40,000 have been “temporary capital” in second detonated. Turkey where some two million which says it was the target of the lated on social media showed. killed in the predominantly Kurd- city Aden on September 16, after Prime Minister Ahmet Davu- refugees live. But there has been bombings. Erdogan, accused by opponents ish southeast since the insurgency six months’ exile in Saudi Arabia. toglu said Saturday’s attack, the no word from the group — usually Riot police with water can- of an increasingly authoritarian began in 1984. The government official did worst of its kind on Turkish soil, swift to publicly claim responsi- non and armoured vehicles stood and divisive style, has overseen a The father of three men not specify how long Bahah will was intended to influence the out- bility for any attack it conducts - by as the crowd, some chanting purge in the judiciary of elements wounded in the blasts said one of remain in the kingdom. come of November polls Erdogan over the Ankara bombing or two “Thief, Murderer Erdogan” and he believes to have been colluding his sons, Abdulselam, described On October 6, Bahah escaped hopes will restore a majority the very similar incidents earlier this waving HDP flags, moved towards with a US based cleric-rival plan- seeing one of the bombers carry- unharmed as his temporary head- ruling AK party lost in June. Offi- year. the mosque in the working class ning a coup against him. ing a bag on his back and one in quarters came under attack in a cials say there is no question of Opponents of Erdogan, who Umraniye neighbourhood of The HDP has put the death toll his hand. He called out “stop” sus- series of bombings that lightly postponing the vote. has led the country over 13 years, Istanbul. from the bombings at 128 and said pecting an attacker. “The bomber wounded several ministers and Two bombs struck seconds blame him for the attack, accus- Several labour unions also it had identified all but eight of panicked. Selam got nervous and killed more than 15 people. The apart, targeting a rally of pro- ing the state at best of intelligence called protests. Hundreds of the bodies. Davutoglu’s office has acted without thinking. Maybe he Islamic State jihadist group Kurdish activists and civic groups failings and at worst of complicity people, many wearing doctors’ said 97 were killed. could have had the chance to get claimed the car bombings which near Ankara’s main train station. by stirring up nationalist, anti- uniforms and carrying Turkish The bombs struck as hundreds him arrested, but he shouted to also hit military installations used “If you consider the way the Kurdish sentiment. Medical Association banners, gathered for a march organised the bomber,” the father, Mehmet by Saudi-led coalition troops. attack happened and the gen- The government, facing a grow- gathered by the main train station by pro-Kurdish activists and civic Ali Altun, said outside the hos- The coalition in March began eral trend of it, we have identi- ing Kurdish conflict at home and in Ankara where the explosions groups to protest over a growing pital where his sons were being air strikes against Shia Houthi fied Islamic State as the primary the spillover of war in Syria, vehe- happened to lay red carnations conflict between Turkish secu- treated. The son, who had been rebels, and later sent in ground focus,” Davutoglu told Turkey’s mently denies such accusations. but were blocked by riot police, a rity forces and Kurdistan Work- questioned by police, declined to troops to back pro-Hadi forces. NTV television. “It was definitely But the sheer range of possible witness said. ers Party (PKK) militants in the speak to media. Hadi spent a few days in Aden a suicide bombing... DNA tests are perpetrators — from Islamic State Lawyers at an Istanbul court- southeast. The PKK is deemed last month before returning to being conducted. It was deter- and Marxist radicals to militant house chanted “Murderer a terrorist group by the United REUTERS Riyadh. Tunisian street vendor dies after Egypt court orders release of setting self on fire TUNIS: A Tunisian street ven- dor who set himself on fire after Mubarak’s sons in graft case authorities seized his merchan- dise has died, a health official said yesterday. CAIRO: An Egyptian court brothers could be freed as early as Fattah Al Sisi, a former army “The young man was admit- yesterday ordered the release of “today (Monday) or tomorrow”, chief whom opponents accuse of ted to hospital with third degree ousted president Hosni Mubar- depending on how quickly their reviving Mubarak-era autocratic burns on Friday. He died of his ak’s two sons who were sentenced release is processed. practices. injuries today,” said Imed Maaloul, to three years in jail for corrup- Mubarak and his two sons were Sisi took power after ousting head of health services in Tuni- tion, a judicial official and their all arrested in 2011, months after the country’s first post-revolution sia’s second city Sfax. lawyer said. the former strongman was top- leader in 2013 -- Islamist presi- Officials in Sfax said the young The court ordered Alaa and pled in a popular 18-day uprising. dent Mohamed Morsi—and won man, who was not immediately Gamal Mubarak to be released In May, a court sentenced the a landslide victory in last year’s named, had been arrested as he after having taken into account trio to three years in prison each presidential election. Sisi has tried to sell 3,000 packs of con- time served since their arrest for having embezzled 125m Egyp- unleashed a deadly crackdown on traband cigarettes. in 2011, the judicial official and tian pounds ($16m) from funds Morsi supporters, and has faced Media reports said he took his defence lawyer Farid Al Deeb meant for the maintenance of accusations of being even more own life after authorities seized said. presidential palaces. authoritarian than Mubarak. the merchandise. “Yes, the court has ordered They were fined that same Mubarak, who turned 87 in In December 2010, young their release,” Deeb said. amount plus an extra 21m pounds. May, is being held in a military university graduate Mohamed He insisted that Alaa and In January, Alaa and Gamal hospital in Cairo and faces a Bouazizi who eked out a living as Gamal — seen as symbols of were released briefly after their retrial for alleged complicity in a fruit seller set himself alight to corruption under their father’s pre-trial detention period expired, the murder during the 2011 upris- protest police harassment and three-decade rule — have served but they were rearrested in May ing of hundreds of protesters unemployment in the central their time in prison and should be after the verdict was pronounced. demanding his ouster. town of Sidi Bouzid. allowed to go free. Their release is likely to present Alaa (right) and Gamal Mubarak, sons of Hosni Mubarak, standing inside a A security official said the a dilemma for President Abdel AFP AGENCIES cage in a courtroom during their verdict hearing in Cairo on June 2, 2012.

PKK to keep truce as conflict drags on

ISTANBUL: A top Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) commander said the group would stick to a ceasefire announced at the weekend, in memory of some 100 peo- ple killed in the Ankara bombing, a website close to the PKK reported yesterday. The vow came despite Turkish military air strikes on PKK fighters in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq at the weekend and a clash in eastern Turkey in which the militants killed two Turkish soldiers, casting doubt on prospects for the ceasefire. “We are obliged to maintain this halt to hostilities, without succumbing to doubt, as a legacy for those (killed in Ankara),” Firat news agency reported Murat Karayilan as saying in a radio broadcast to the PKK’s militants in Turkey and Iraq. “We will not break the halt to hostilities,” he said. The PKK announced its ceasefire on Saturday in response to calls to lower tensions ahead of a Nov. 1 elec- tion, telling militants to act only if they face an attack, in a move three months after it ended a two-year-old cease- fire. Earlier on Saturday, two suicide bombers attacked a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists at Ankara’s main train station, killing at least 97 people. Elaborating on the weekend air strikes on PKK targets, the general staff said on Monday 17 PKK fighters had been killed in air operations in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sunday, destroying shelters, munitions and gun positions. The killing of the two Turkish sol- diers occurred during an anti-PKK operation in eastern Erzurum province as they clashed with militants, the military said. Some 30-35 PKK fighters were killed in the northern Iraqi raids, according to security sources, while the army said 14 militants were killed. Unrest continued elsewhere in the mainly Kurdish region, with the historic Sur dis- trict of Diyarbakir city remaining under round-the-clock curfew for the third day yesterday.

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Iraqi Kurdish Fierce clashes as Syria regime advances PM removes France’s air strikes may have killed French jihadists four ministers ERBIL, Iraq: The prime min- BEIRUT: Syrian troops backed In recent months, the alliance accuse Moscow of focusing on ister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region by Russian air strikes fought has sought to expand from Idlib moderate and Islamist opposition has removed four members of his their fiercest clashes with rebels into Hama and the strategic Sahl fighters, rather than jihadists. cabinet, a spokesman said yes- in weeks yesterday Al Ghab plain between the three The EU yesterday expressed terday, in an escalating political The Syrian army command provinces in a bid to target Lata- “deep concern” about the focus crisis that threatens to destabi- said regime forces had captured kia. Abdel Rahman said the rebels of Russia’s strikes. lise the relatively peaceful region. the village of Kafr Nabuda in were sending reinforcements “The recent Russian military Prime Minister Nechirvan central Hama province, extend- to Kafr Nabuda to battle the attacks that go beyond Daesh Barzani is also vice president of ing their advance in the region regime, which was also shelling (Islamic State) and other UN- the Kurdistan Democratic Party around the strategic Damascus- other parts of Hama and Latakia designated terrorist groups, as (KDP), which accuses the Gorran Aleppo highway. provinces. well as on the moderate oppo- party of provoking violent unrest Regime forces have been push- Syria’s army command also sition, are of deep concern and that recently left five people dead. ing an offensive on either side of reported advances in northern must cease immediately,” the The ministers of Religious the highway towards the town of Latakia province and said regime bloc’s 28 foreign ministers said Affairs, Finance, Trade and Khan Sheikhun, just over the pro- forces had taken control of the in a statement. Peshmerga forces, all of whom vincial border in Idlib province. “duty free zone” outside Aleppo The statement also reiterated are from Gorran, met yesterday The Syrian Observatory for city in the north. the need for a political transition with Nechirvan Barzani. Human Rights monitor said Aleppo city is divided between in Syria to end the conflict that An image taken from a footage made available on the Russian Defence “The prime minister ... asked clashes were ongoing in Kafr rebel control in the east and gov- began with anti-government pro- Ministry’s official website shows explosions after air strikes carried out by them to leave their posts,” Kurdis- Nabuda, adding that Russian war- ernment control in the west, but tests in March 2011. Russian air force on what Russia says was an Islamic State training camp tan Regional Government spokes- planes had carried out at least 20 the situation is largely reversed “There cannot be a lasting in the Syrian province of Idlib. man Safeen Dizayee told Reuters. strikes in and around the village. in the countryside surrounding peace in Syria under the present “These measures were primarily “The clashes are the fiercest the city. leadership,” the ministers said. could not yet be confirmed. acknowledged yesterday that to contain the situation”. since the Russian air campaign A military source said the More than 240,000 people have The strikes on Thursday night French citizens or French speak- Dizayee said Barzani would began on September 30,” Observ- advance by regime forces would been killed in Syria’s conflict and targeted a training camp for ers may have been among those designate existing members of atory chief Rami Abdel Rahman help protect territory it holds in upwards of four million Syrians Islamic State group militants in killed in the camp, which report- the cabinet to fill the posts on a said. the area, including the Sheikh have become refugees. the conflict-torn country — the edly lies five kilometres (three temporary basis. Many of Russia’s air strikes so Najjar industrial area to the city’s The war has fractured the second time that French jets have miles) southwest of Raqa, the Several Iraqi Kurdish politi- far have been focused on the area northeast. country and attracted thousands targeted IS camps in Syria. Syrian town widely considered cians were barred from reaching where Hama, Idlib and Latakia Moscow said yesterday its air of foreign fighters to the ranks of “The strikes have killed jihad- to be IS’s centre of power. their offices on yesterday, in what provinces meet. force had hit 53 targets in Syria jihadist groups such as IS, which ists. There might well be French But the ministry added it could the opposition called a “political Latakia province on the Medi- in the past 24 hours, in Hama, controls large swathes of territory jihadists among them,” said the not “confirm with accuracy any- coup” by the autonomous region’s terranean coast is a stronghold Homs, Latakia and Idlib prov- in Syria and neighbouring Iraq. source in Valls’s delegation dur- thing related to this bombing.” president. of the regime and the location of inces. Meanwhile, a source close to ing a visit to Jordan as part of a “We know that this camp The crisis came after days of Assad’s ancestral village. Russia’s air strikes in Syria Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Middle East tour. aimed to train fighters to come violent protests against acting Idlib province is controlled by began on September 30, with yesterday that French air strikes “A figure of six dead was and attack Europe and France,” president Massud Barzani, whose the powerful Army of Conquest Moscow saying it was targeting in Syria may have killed French announced, probably by a Syrian the ministry said. mandate expired in August. rebel alliance which includes Al IS and other “terrorists”. jihadists, although the defence non-governmental organisation,” Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front. But rebels and their backers ministry said the information he said. The defence ministry AGENCIES AGENCIES

UN Syria peace envoy Kurdish militia joins forces with Arab rebels

AMMAN/BEIRUT: A Kurd- cans and this has been approved Keeping the YPG-backed force Raqqa city, saying it wanted Syr- heading to Moscow ish militia in northern Syria has and we have been told these new east of the river could ease Turk- ian Arab rebels to lead such an joined forces with Arab rebels, arms ... are on their way,” said ish concerns about any further assault. The new alliance includes GENEVA: The UN peace envoy ing civilians and reconstruction. and their new alliance has been Abu Muazz, a spokesman for the expansion of Kurdish influence in the YPG, various Arab groups to Syria said yesterday he was The Swedish-Italian diplomat, promised fresh weapon supplies Raqqa Revolutionaries Front, a northern Syria. Turkey is wor- including Jaysh Al Thuwwar heading directly to Moscow in a whose role has been dismissed by the United States for an assault grouping of mainly Arab tribal ried about the Kurds’ growing (Army of Rebels) and the Arab bid to promote a political end to as “mission impossible,” has said on Islamic State forces in Raqqa, insurgents who are mostly drawn power in Syria fuelling separatism tribal Jaysh Al Sanadeed, and an the conflict, as Russia is intensi- his approach was for Syrians to a spokesman said yesterday. from the Raqqa area. among its own Kurds. Assyrian Christian group, accord- fying its air strikes. “I am on my engage in simultaneous “working The alliance calling itself the He said the group constituted The United States last week ing to a statement announcing way tonight to Moscow,” Staffan groups” on the thorniest issues. Democratic Forces of Syria a 3,200-strong, well trained announced a shake-up of its sup- its establishment. “The sensitive de Mistura told reporters in “There is an urgent push for a includes the Kurdish YPG mili- fighting force which could begin port to Syrian rebels fighting IS, stage our country Syria is going Geneva, acknowledging that the parallel political process, which tia and Syrian Arab groups, some using the weapons within days of effectively ending its programme through and rapid developments Russian air strikes in Syria had should be credible, all inclusive of which fought alongside it in their arrival. It has an additional to train fighters outside Syria on the military and political front “introduced new dynamics” to and within the parameters of the a campaign that drove Islamic 600 fighters who are currently and focusing instead on providing ... require that there be a united the brutal conflict. Geneva communique,” he said. State from wide areas of northern wounded, he said. weapons to groups whose com- national military force for all He said he would travel on to The Geneva communique is Syria earlier this year. A major offensive against the manders have been US-vetted. Syrians, joining Kurds, Arabs, Washington “immediately after” a document agreed at a peace The Arab groups in the new ultra-hardline Islamic State fight- The YPG has to date proved Syriacs and other groups,” said his Moscow visit, as he struggles conference in 2012 that drew alliance are operating under the ers could capture Raqqa in less the most effective partner on the statement. to set up so-called contact groups up baselines for a Syria peace name “The Syrian Arab Coalition” than two months provided the the ground for US-led air strikes “Given that these forces in of countries with interests and deal including the formation of a — a grouping which US officials “right weapons and quantities” against Islamic State. By deepen- general are democratic and secu- influence in the Syria conflict transitional governing body with have said would receive support arrived, Abu Muazz, himself from ing ties with groups from Syria’s lar forces that believe to a great that could help it move towards executive powers. De Mistura’s under a new US strategy aimed the jihadist-held city, said without Arab majority, it could deflect degree in diversity, we hope that a political solution. comments came after Syria’s key at fighting Islamic State in Syria. elaborating. concern among some Arabs that they will receive support” from the De Mistura proposed in July opposition National Coalition A spokesman for some of the A US military official has it exists solely to fight for the US-led coalition, said Nasir Haj creating the contact groups in said Sunday it would boycott his Arab rebels said they were told told Reuters that the Syrian interests of Kurds. Mansour, an official in the defence addition to four working groups proposed talks, marking a major by Washington that new weap- Arab Coalition would push down The YPG drove deep into ministry of the Kurdish adminis- composed of Syrian opposition setback to his efforts. ons were being sent to help them towards Raqqa, Islamic State’s de Raqqa province earlier this year, tration in YPG-held territory. and government representatives launch a joint offensive on the city facto capital, while staying east of but stopped short of advancing on to discuss issues including protect- AFP of Raqqa. “We met the Ameri- the Euphrates river. Islamic State’s de facto capital of REUTERS

Hezbollah mourns commander killed in Idlib

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah yester- “He is the most important (Hezbollah) killed six Hezbollah members including a day buried a commander described as the figure killed in battles in Syria since the commander — Mohamad Issa — and the group’s most important military figure to start of the war,” a senior Lebanese official son of the group’s late military commander be killed in the four-year-long Syrian war. said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Imad Moughniyah. Hassan Al Haj was killed in Idlib province The coffin was driven through towns in In recent days Hezbollah has helped in northwestern Syria, where the Iranian- southern Lebanon, Hezbollah’s stronghold, recapture territory from insurgents in backed group is fighting Syrian rebels in in a convoy of black cars and ambulances. Hama and Idlib provinces where Russian an offensive in support of President Bashar It was then carried for burial through his forces backing Assad have been bombing. Al Assad. hometown of Al Luwaizeh in the Tuffah Al Manar said Haj, born in 1965, had in He was buried with military honours region, followed by a crowd of thousands of his 20s been a top commander in southern in the southern Lebanese village of Al funeral-goers. “You were not just an official, Lebanon in battles against Israel. “He par- Luwaizeh yesterday. Pall-bearers dressed nor merely a director or chief of operations. ticipated in most of the jihad operations, in camouflage military fatigues processed You were a leader of pure quality, an example especially in the 1980s when he was com- slowly to solemn trumpet music with the and model for all your brothers and beloved mander of the Tuffah region” it said, refer- coffin draped in a yellow Hezbollah flag. mujahideen,” senior Hezbollah leader Sayyed ring to him as “the martyr commander Abu The Syria conflict has exacted a heavy Hashem Safieddin said in a eulogy broadcast Mohammed”. toll on Hezbollah, with many hundreds of by Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV. its fighters killed in the war. In January, an Israeli helicopter attack REUTERS

Ancient footwear expo Two Turkish police sacked over desecration of corpse

ANKARA: Two Turkish police officers accused of desecrating the corpse of a Kurdish rebel killed during fighting in southeastern Turkey have been sacked, the interior ministry said yesterday. An investigation “has proven the involvement” of the two men in the incident early this month, when the body of Haci Lokman Birlik was dragged behind an armoured vehicle through the streets of Sirnak, the ministry said in a statement. The 24-year-old was killed early this month during clashes between Turkish security forces and the youth wing of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Images on social media of his body being dragged by the neck through Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Al Damati looks at the streets of the southeastern city outraged rights activists. pairs of Pharaonic sandals, some found in the tomb of King In an interview yesterday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed Tutankhamun, during the opening of the “Footwear in Ancient to bring the perpetrators to justice. Egypt” exhibit at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

Seven on trial in Senior leaders unite against Najib Indonesia over Malaysian PM asked to answer allegations of corruption alleged IS links KUALA LUMPUR: Influ- Prime Minister Najib Razak to massive sums allegedly miss- JAKARTA: Seven Indone- ential former Malaysian pre- resign over allegations of corrup- ing from state-owned develop- sian men went on trial yes- mier Mahathir Mohamad and tion at 1Malaysia Development ment company 1MDB which he terday accused of links to some key ruling party members Bhd (1MDB) and in a public dis- launched, as well as the revelation the Islamic State group, and demanded yesterday that embat- play of unity, Mahathir and sacked in July that nearly $700m in mys- could face death penalty if tled Prime Minister Najib Razak deputy prime minister Muhyiddin terious transfers had been made found guilty of breaking anti- answer a barrage of corruption Yassin called a news conference to to his personal bank accounts. terror laws. allegations. express their concerns. “Unless somebody speaks up, They were all charged with Mahathir has openly called for Critics want Najib to explain the government will get away being part of an “evil conspir- with doing all kinds of wrong acy” and accused of a range things,” Mahathir said at a press of crimes, from trying to aid Whistle-blower charged with sabotage conference. acts of terror to supporting “So they may take action IS, which has been banned KUALA LUMPUR: A Malay- pected involvement in the cam- against me or any one of us, but in the world’s most populous sian whistle-blower and his law- paign. somebody has to take the risk Muslim-majority country yer detained for their efforts to “We will fight Najib until the to voice our disquiet, anger and since October last year. expose allegations of corrup- end. I will make sure Najib’s feeling that the government is not Three of the accused — tion against the prime minister hands are in handcuffs,” he was looking after the interests of this Ahmad Junaedi alias Abu Sal- were charged yesterday with quoted as saying by the Malay- country.” FROM LEFT: Ruling party UMNO’s Deputy President Muhyiddin Yassin, man, Ridwan Sungkar alias attempting to “sabotage” the siakini news portal. Joining Mahathir, Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and member of parliament Abu Bilal, and Helmi Muha- banking sector, according to Transparency Interna- leader from 1981-2003, at the Razaleigh Hamzah at a news conference in Putrajaya yesterday. mad Alamudi alias Abu Royan reports. tional Malaysia, in a state- press conference were several — allegedly went to Syria to Khairuddin Abu Hassan, a ment released yesterday before heavyweights from the ruling stripped of his deputy premier criminal proceedings be launched join IS last year and received former member of the ruling the charges, said it viewed the United Malays National Organi- title by Najib in July. Both Najib against 1MDB in August, but the military training, prosecu- United Malays National Organi- arrests with “grave concern”. sation (UMNO), which has held and 1MDB vehemently deny any recommendation has since been tors said. “Not only has the sation (UMNO), was arrested Khairuddin and Chang are power since 1957, including party wrongdoing. dismissed by a Najib-appointed defendant declared that he in September after launch- expected to appear in court on deputy president and the coun- Inquiries have stalled after attorney general. Mahathir and joined IS, he also joined mili- ing an international campaign October 26 and could be jailed up try’s former deputy premier, Najib fired his attorney-general others at the press conference tary training in ISIS camps,” to expose the allegations. His to 15 years if found guilty. Muhyiddin Yassin. in July and after police raided the also condemned the detention of prosecutor Teddy Irawan told lawyer, Matthias Chang, was Muhyiddin who has repeatedly anti-corruption agency offices in the whistle-blower and his lawyer. a Jakarta court, opening the arrested last week over his sus- AFP called for Najib to shed light on August. Malaysia’s central bank case against Sungkar. ISIS is the corruption allegations, was said it had formally recommended AFP an alternative name for the Islamic State group. “The defendant was aware that the objective of the train- ing was preparation to launch acts of terror,” he added. One defendant, Tuah Febri- China govt plans to end Philippine poll season begins wansyah alias Muhammad Fachry, was accused of run- MANILA: The Philippines’ ning websites with pro-IS poverty in six years election season kicked off yes- content. terday with politicians regis- All the defendants were BEIJING: China hopes to lift all its pressure has been coming down.” tering for thousands of posts, being tried separately. The 70 million living beneath the pov- The central treasury has chan- launching seven months of lawyer for six of the defend- erty line to safety within the next six nelled more money into a poverty campaigning in a famously ants, Asludin Hatjani, said he years, at an average rate of a million relief fund this year after results last chaotic democracy. hoped his clients could escape people a month, a cabinet official said year fell short, analysts have said. A successor to President the IS-linked charges as most yesterday. Benigno Aquino will be chosen of their crimes were alleged to Despite rapid economic growth in REUTERS in the six yearly polls, with the have taken place before Indo- the last two decades, poverty remains frontrunners a savvy politi- nesia banned the group. a huge issue in China, especially in cian accused of corruption, the rural areas where a lack of jobs Two jailed for graft adopted daughter of a movie drives able-bodied adults to work star and a low-key stalwart of HK photographer elsewhere, leaving children and the BEIJING: Two former senior the ruling Liberal Party. elderly behind. Chinese politicians were con- Aquino, who has won inter- to face Thai trial “We have six years to eradicate all victed of corruption and given national plaudits for tackling poverty,” said Hong Tianyun, deputy lengthy prison terms yesterday. systemic corruption and for SAMUT PRAKAN: A Hong director of China’s State Council Both men are seen as allies of his solid economic steward- Kong photographer detained Leading Group Office of Poverty Alle- Zhou Yongkang, the former secu- ship, is imploring voters to in Thailand for carrying a viation and Development of China, on rity chief who was jailed for life choose longtime ally Mar Roxas bulletproof jacket and helmet the government’s website. in June. to continue his “straight path” will face trial after plead- About 70 million people, mostly in Jiang Jiemin, the former head style of governance. ing not guilty yesterday to a the countryside, live beneath China’s of the body that regulates China’s “This is a campaign to con- Vice-President Jejomar Binay (left) and his running mate Senator weapons possession charge. poverty line, earning less than 2,300 state-owned firms, was sentenced tinue the straight path, a Gregorio Honasan show Certificates of Candidacy after registering The case has sparked an yuan ($362) annually, the official to 16 years. He was convicted of campaign to make our hopes outcry from media freedom for president and vice-president, respectively, in Manila yesterday. Xinhua news agency reported last accepting bribes, large amounts possible, a campaign that will groups, who say journalists month, citing data from the National of money and property from continue the heroic story of the should not be punished for Bureau of Statistics. unknown sources. Li Chuncheng, Filipino people,” Aquino said at up for grabs -- from the presi- of Makati, the financial district carrying body armour and Hong added the short timeframe former vice Communist Party a rally to announce the Liberal dency down to village captain in the Philippine capital. Binay protective gear in and out of put pressure on local governments. boss of Sichuan, was sentenced Party’s Senate ticket. level -- in the May elections. has insisted on his innocence. dangerous zones. “If there are no special major to 13 years for accepting bribes But Roxas has struggled Binay, a former Aquino ally who The mayor of a town on the Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, initiatives, it will be extremely dif- and abuse of power. in opinion polls and is facing now heads the main opposition southern island of Mindanao who works for the Hong ficult to achieve this mission,” Hong AFP strong challenges from Jejomar party, was the first of the major was shot dead yesterday, hours Kong-based Initium media said. “So, from the central to local Binay, the current vice presi- candidates to register at elec- after filing his candidacy for group, was briefly held on authorities, from top to bottom, the dent who is being investigated tion headquarters in Manila re-election. Randy Climaco August 23 after trying to for graft, and Grace Poe, a yesterday morning. was travelling with relatives depart Bangkok’s Suvar- political novice riding on her Binay had been a clear leader and followers through his town nabhumi airport with a flak late father’s popularity. The in opinion polls until the Senate of Tungawan when some men jacket and helmet in his hand start of a week-long registra- and ombudsman began investi- fired upon their vehicle. luggage. Both items are clas- tion process began yesterday gating him for alleged corrupt sified as weapons under Thai for more than 18,000 positions activities when he was mayor AFP law. AFP

Zimbabwe drops case against US dentist who killed lion

HARARE: Zimbabwe yesterday abandoned its bid to press charges against a US dentist who killed Cecil the lion, saying his papers “were in order” and that he did not know he was committing any offence. The black-maned lion was shot dead with a power- ful bow and arrow in July by US trophy hunter Walter Palmer in a hunt that provoked worldwide outrage. Palmer paid $55,000 (50,000 euros) to shoot the lion on an expedition led by professional Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst. The hunt provoked a storm of criticism after it emerged that Cecil was a well-known attraction among visitors to the Hwange National Park and was wearing a tracking collar as part of an Oxford University research project. But a Zimbabwean government minister on Monday said they would not pursue any legal proceedings against Palmer. Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri told report- ers Palmer’s “papers were in order” when he came to Zimbabwe. “We are now going to review how we issue hunting quotas,” Muchinguri said. “The documents were there... The problem now remains internal.” The dentist was welcome to return to Zimbabwe but “not for hunting”, she added. Palmer was hounded on social media over the killing and, after demonstrations outside his dental practice in Minnesota, went into hiding for weeks.

AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 IS was behind Taliban threaten another Afghan city Karachi bus Fighting intensifies in Ghazni; govt claims upper hand New photo of attack: Official GHAZNI: Fighting flared in capture of northern Kunduz city but it raised security alarm bells eastern Afghanistan yesterday as which marked their biggest mili- as the resurgent militant group ISLAMABAD: Islamic State Taliban insurgents threatened to tary victory in 14 years. pushes to expand beyond its rural Taliban founder militants were behind a brutal storm another provincial capital, The attempt to seize Ghazni strongholds in the south of the attack that killed 45 Shias in two weeks after their lightning city was repelled by Afghan forces country. surfaces Karachi in May, a Pakistani offi- The violence, which prompted cial said yesterday, despite the local shops and schools to close, ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government’s long-held stance follows the Taliban’s three-day Taliban have released a strik- that the jihadist group does not TV networks declared occupation of Kunduz and an ing new picture of late founder have a presence in the country. attempt by the militants to cap- Mullah Omar (pictured) from Gunmen stormed a bus in ture the capital of northern Far- his days as a religious student, Karachi in May, slaughtering ‘military targets’ yab province. the only known image of the members of the Ismail minority “This morning some 2,000 Tali- reclusive leader before he lost community. KABUL: The Taliban yester- these TV channels holds any ban fighters launched attacks on his right eye in battle. IS swiftly claimed responsibil- day declared two of Afghani- immunity.” The statement said Ghazni from several directions,” The picture, taken in 1978, ity, marking the first time the stan’s biggest television the move was in response to deputy provincial governor was first posted on the Taliban’s militants said they were behind networks as legitimate “mili- their recent reports claiming Mohammad Ali Ahmadi said. official site (http://shahamat- an attack in Pakistan. tary targets”, accusing them that Taliban fighters raped “They managed to come as english.com/omar-iii-from-the-slum-to-emirate). Yesterday, Rehman Malik, of fabricating reports of rape women at female hostel in Kun- close as five kilometres (three A senior Taliban official who sent the picture said it was originally Pakistan’s former interior minis- in the embattled northern city duz, after the group briefly cap- miles) to Ghazni city as fierce a black-and-white image that was later colourised. ter and the head of a Senate com- of Kunduz. The militant group tured the city on September 28. fighting flared but were quickly The life and death of Omar remain shrouded in mystery and mittee on the interior, said IS was labelled Tolo and 1TV, both The Taliban rejected the pushed back by Afghan forces.” the new image may be one of only two verified photographs. “The “100 percent” behind the Karachi privately run news and enter- reports, saying they were The development comes after picture was taken while Mullah Omar was a student at a madrassa attack, citing testimony from the tainment stations that are examples of propaganda by the days of sporadic clashes and offi- in Kandahar,” the official said. Sindh provincial police chief to his often critical of the Taliban, as “satanic networks”. cials said Afghan military rein- AFP committee. “propaganda networks”. But in a recent report, forcements had arrived from “IS was 100 percent involved in “The (Taliban) from now on Amnesty International also neighbouring provinces to secure it, the attack was planned from does not recognise Tolo and accused Taliban fighters of gang the city. who have largely been fighting on to tighten the insurgency’s grip Syria and the attackers were 1TV as media outlets but des- rapes and mass murder during “The Taliban’s effort to capture their own since the end of Nato’s across northern Afghanistan. receiving orders from a Paki- ignates them as military targets their occupation of Kunduz. the city has failed,” Assadullah combat mission in December. The militants last week stani member of IS presently in due to their disrespectful and Saad Mohseni, an Afghan Shujahi Ghazni, the deputy pro- As fighting spreads in neigh- attempted to overrun Maimana, Syria,” Malik said after the meet- hostile actions,” the group said media mogul who heads Tolo, vincial police chief, said. bouring provinces such as Bada- the capital of Faryab province, ing yesterday where the Sindh in a statement. said his network would not be “The Taliban will soon realise khshan and Takhar, concerns but were pushed back by Afghan police chief testified. “So far 14 “No employee, anchor, office, deterred by the threat. that Ghazni is no Kunduz.” The are mounting that the seizure of forces with the aid of pro-govern- people belonging to IS have been news team and reporter of AFP fall of Kunduz was a stinging blow Kunduz was merely the opening ment militias. arrested in Pakistan.” to Western-trained Afghan forces, gambit in a new, bolder strategy AFP AFP Pakistan’s ruling party reclaims Oli sworn in as Nepal premier KATHMANDU: KP Sharma Oli parliamentary seat in by-poll was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister yesterday, tasked with unifying the quake-hit country ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s rul- eter-turned-politician Imran ducted this month found that 37 after a new constitution triggered ing party reclaimed a parliamen- Khan, led street protests in the percent of voters favoured the deadly protests, a border block- tary seat last Sunday, according capital for months, alleging rig- PTI while 46 percent favoured ade and a nationwide fuel short- to unofficial results of a closely ging in the 2013 polls. the PMLN. age. Oli, a former deputy prime contested by-election seen as a The protests forced Sharif to Security and the economy have minister who heads one of Nepal’s referendum on Prime Minister rely on the military to defuse improved under Sharif, although main communist parties, is cred- Nawaz Sharif’s rule after he the standoff, which gave them a analysts say external factors have ited with having pushed through swept to power in 2013. greater say in foreign and security contributed. a deal on the constitution after The race for the NA-122 policy. Many in the military had Attacks by insurgents have years of disagreement. parliamentary seat in Punjab, opposed Sharif’s election promise fallen around 70 percent this year, After his election last Sunday Pakistan’s richest province and to improve relations with arch- partly due to a military offensive he urged political unity to try to Sharif’s power base, pitted his rival India. in the northwest and a military- resolve the stand-off with protest- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz The NA-122 constituency fell led crackdown in the southern ers from the country’s Madhesi (PMLN) party against the oppo- vacant after an election tribu- city of Karachi. minority, who say the charter’s sition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf nal voided Sadiq’s victory there Annual inflation is at its low- terms will exclude them from (PTI). in 2013 over election-day irregu- est in a dozen years, largely due power in the national assembly. PM KP Sharma Oli (right), President Ram Baran Yadav (left), and ex-PM Unofficial results based on larities. to lower oil prices. The economy Yesterday, Oli appointed two Sushil Koirala (second from left) during the swearing in ceremony at media tallies from all polling sta- The PTI had only ever won a is growing faster, although still deputy prime ministers from par- President House in Shital Niwas, Kathmandu, yesterday. tions showed close Sharif ally single parliamentary seat - that not fast enough to absorb new ties that opposed elements of the Ayaz Sadiq winning with a nar- of its leader - until 2013, when entrants to the job market. constitution passed in September, Nepal’s Maoists, who fought a Koirala, lost out to Oli in last Sun- row lead of around 4,000 votes his promises of a crackdown on But the government has failed months after an earthquake that 10-year civil war with the state day’s election for prime minister. over PTI candidate Aleem Khan. corruption and tax evasion by to crack down on corruption or killed nearly 9,000 and left many that led to the fall of the mon- Oli has pledged to quell pro- Around 200,000 people voted the wealthy won enough votes improve tax collection from the more homeless. archy, have also joined the ruling tests over the new bill and end a out of 348,000 registered voters. to form a government in the wealthy, whose continued tax They are Kamal Thapa, head of coalition government. blockade that led to national fuel Official results were due to be northwesterly province of Khy- evasion is starving social services the royalist Rastriya Prajatantra The country’s largest party rationing, accelerating recon- announced by the election com- ber Pakhtunkhwa and become the such as schools and hospitals of Party Nepal (RPP-N), and Bijay the Nepali Congress is expected struction after the earthquake mission on Monday morning. third-largest party in Pakistan. cash. Kumar Gachhadar who leads one to form the opposition after its in April. Last year, PTI’s leader, crick- A nationwide Gallup poll con- REUTERS of Nepal’s Madhesi parties. candidate, former premier Sushil AFP

Bangladesh arrests five Islamists for attack on pastor DHAKA: Bangladesh police The attack came only days said yesterday they had after gunmen shot dead an arrested five Islamists for Italian aid worker and a Jap- the attempted murder of a anese farmer. The Islamic Christian pastor whose throat State organisation has claimed was slashed in the latest of a responsibility for both of those string of attacks blamed on killings. religious extremists. Attacks on Christians, who The five members of the make up less than one per- Unicef Ambassador and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar (centre) along outlawed Jamayetul Muja- cent of Bangladesh’s 160 mil- with Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan (right) in Colombo yesterday. hideen Bangladesh (JMB) lion people, are rare although group have been detained on 10 people were killed in 2001 suspicion of planning or car- when Islamists bombed a rying out last week’s attack on church in the southern dis- Sachin bats for hygiene Baptist pastor Luke Sarker in trict of Gopalganj. the town of Iswardi. Experts say Islamist mili- One of those arrested was tants pose a growing danger in suspected of having attacked Muslim-majority Bangladesh, to save children Sarker before making his geta- warning that a long-running way on the back of a motor- political crisis has radicalised COLOMBO: Indian cricket leg- against these deadly (diarrhoeal) bike, while the other four were opponents of the government. end Sachin Tendulkar launched diseases,” he said. believed to have been involved The assassination of four an initiative in Sri Lanka yester- Tendulkar, a goodwill ambas- in plotting the attack. atheist bloggers since the day to improve hygiene among sador for the United Nations chil- “They carried out the turn of the year undermines children in South Asia, where dren’s fund Unicef, was promoting attack to draw international the government’s efforts to hundreds of millions have no the “wash in school” drive aimed attention and destabilise the play down the threat posed by access to toilets. at slashing the death toll from country,” police chief Alamgir hardliners, experts say. The Indian superstar showed poor sanitation . Kabir said. The JMB killed 28 people in local children at a deluxe hotel Unicef said South Asia had Sarker, who runs a church 2005 when they carried out a in Colombo how to use soap and made considerable progress in in the mainly Muslim north- series of bomb attacks on water to wash their hands before the past two decades, with the western town, was attacked courts. While its top leaders meals and avoid the risk of dis- proportion of people using toi- on October 5 while trying to were subsequently executed ease. lets increasing from 20 percent respond to a question about for the bombings, police say “A simple act of washing hands in 1995 to 45 percent by this year. Christianity. He was rushed to the JMB is now regrouping. with soap can keep children safe hospital but medical officials and healthy and protect them AFP say he is now recovering. AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ATAR’S Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, who is also the acting President of Opec, said on Sunday that oil prices Qhave bottomed out and there are clear signs of a recovery in 2016. Dr Sada based his optimism on the latest oil Lukashenko manages to market data and on an uptick in global growth. First, he said, supplies from non-Opec producers have dipped substantially this year and the trend is likely to continue next year. Secondly, global GDP growth is likely to jump to 3.4 percent in 2016 from 3.1 percent this year. Kuwait’s Oil Minister Ali hold on to power Al Omair too echoed the same sentiment. He said there are By Leonid Bershidsky Nobel Prize in Literature last week, is a Soviet legend, couldn’t play in Euro- indications that a lot of high-cost production is starting to get a staunch Lukashenko opponent, but pean competitions for a while because out of the market and this would help boost prices. elarussian dictator Alexander she has nothing but irritation for his Yury Chizh, whose Triple Group is the Both ministers’ statements point to the direction the Lukashenko just won his fifth opponents. She told a press conference owner, was on the sanctions list. Earlier energy market is heading. But the problem is that oil prices, Bpresidential “election” in a row. In in Berlin last week: “Our opposition has this month, the European Court of Jus- like other fickle markets, have a tendency to defy predictions response, the European Union is about turned out to be very weak, they all tice lifted the sanctions against Chizh to lift sanctions against him and those quarrel with one another. Each accuses and against Dynamo, ruling that the and forecasts. The current slump wasn’t expected, at least actively backing his regime. That’s a the others of being KGB agents. Why is European Council had failed to estab- the depth of its plunge. Oil producers and energy companies reason for Russian President Vladimir there no united candidate? That’s the lish Chizh’s links to the Lukashenko were caught off guard and were pushed into taking measures Putin and his friends to take heart: most amazing thing. Even the West has regime despite the numerous conces- they hate. There have been layoffs globally, new projects have They too can outlast sanctions without tried to convince our opposition that sions he had won from the government. been either curtailed or shelved and budgets reduced as prices really changing anything. it needs a single candidate; and sober And before the Belarussian election, the plummeted by more than half. North Sea Brent crude dropped Once a populist former state farm people inside the opposition have said EU let it be known that it’s prepared to manager and self-styled corruption so too. But it looks that the people who suspend sanctions against Lukashenko to almost $42 a barrel in August, from a peak above $115 fighter, Lukashenko actually won a are called the opposition now do not and 175 other Belarussians. in June 2014, rallying back to an intraday high of $54.05 on fair election back in 1994. Neighbour- understand the responsibility incum- This is ostensibly a reward for Friday. Gulf countries too have been hit, making governments ing Ukraine is on its fourth president bent upon them. They are more occu- Lukashenko’s decision in August to redraw their fiscal plans . since then, but Lukashenko has man- pied with their egos.” pardon six prominent political prison- Low oil benefits Oil falls always evoke two aged to hold on to power. Sunday’s In the current election, some erst- ers, held for helping organise Belarus’s reactions: euphoria in consumer result, 83 percent, while opposition leaders called on vot- biggest anti-regime protests, joined by is the best in his ers to ignore the vote because it would thousands of people in 2010. More likely, only a few, countries and concern in producer career, and the be rigged. They were ignored: Turnout however, it’s a carrot for opening up to while it wreaks countries. Steep price increases support for oppo- reached 87 percent. The runner-up, the West since Russia’s Crimea invasion. inevitably lead to inflation, which Despite poverty sition candidates Tatiana Korotkevich, said in an inter- Lukashenko has been openly critical havoc with put governments in a bind. But — the average has so eroded it view before the vote that she believed of Russian aggression in Ukraine, his has the current price falls been is almost statisti- Lukashenko’s true support was around regime has sold armaments to the anti- cally insignificant. 30 percent but that Belarussians, condi- Moscow government in Kiev, and he has the budgets useful? Not much. The harsh salary in Belarus The election tioned at school and work to keep mum, refused permission for a long-discussed of energy reality is that end consumers is about $400 per results prob- simply see no alternative. Despite dire Russian air base near Bobruisk. Nato haven’t benefited much from the ably don’t mean poverty — the average salary in Belarus and even US officials have recently vis- companies current price bloodbath. While month — and much. In Belarus, is about $400 per month — and a Soviet- ited Minsk to learn if Lukashenko could media are tightly style planned economy that would col- be sincerely willing to defect with his and producing prices are at the bottom of the a Soviet-style barrel in the international market, controlled, street lapse if Russia stopped subsidising country to the Western camp. protests have long natural gas, they have shown over and The problem with all this activity countries. they continue to be very high economy that been put down by over that they can live with what they is that Lukashenko is only ever sin- in several consumer countries would collapse if force and opposi- have, including Lukashenko. cere about one thing — holding on to as governments refuse to pass tion activists who The EU has imposed various restric- power. Putin knows that about him: He’s the benefit to the people, or pass only a small percentage. Russia stopped had the temerity tive measures on Belarus since a rigged worked closely with him for 15 years. This means low oil has become a godsend for corrupt and not to leave the parliamentary election in 2004: An arms The Belarussian leader’s pro-Western subsidising country have been embargo, a ban on sales of police equip- leanings didn’t derail a $760m loan from inefficient countries all over the world as they use the extra in and out of jail. ment (which the Lukashenko regime Russia in August. While Lukashenko income to cover up the huge deficit caused by years of fiscal natural gas. According to offi- makes or buys in Russia, anyway), and grooms his 11-year-old son Nikolai for mismanagement and profligacy. cial data, about a series of asset freezes and travel bans high office, Putin knows that in a true One industry which has benefited hugely from oil fall is 36 percent of the registered voters cast against Lukashenko, his closest col- emergency, the election-stealing dicta- the airline sector and several loss-making airlines all over the their ballots ahead of time — a right laborators and their companies. The tor is going to run to him, not Brussels, world are now flying into profit and profit-making airlines are Belarussians have if they cannot spare sanctions are a lot like those imposed for help. Those in Europe who believe the time on polling day, but also a con- in Russia for annexing Crimea, although Lukashenko might finally be coming flying over abundant cash. At the same time, airfares continue venient setup for falsifying the final tally they are less serious than those which around to their side should keep in mind to remain high. since the early voting is unobserved by followed the downing of a passenger air- that his skills, views and genetic makeup Low oil benefits only a few, while it wreaks havoc with the any outside organisations. liner over rebellious eastern Ukraine is much closer to Putin’s than to theirs. budgets of energy companies and producers. The damage This environment has not been con- last year. Taking steps toward him will only put a it causes to the latter will finally filter down to haunt the ducive to the emergence of strong oppo- The sanctions are gradually fall- cynical smile on Putin’s lips. former sition politicians. Svetlana Alexievich, ing away, however. Dynamo Minsk, . the Belarussian author who won the the country’s oldest soccer club, once BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Vladimir Putin’s dangerous game raises the stakes in Syria the day USSIA’S rapid and escalating aims: to disable the Islamic State ter- Putin regards IS as simply one of many ally into an increasingly angry Europe. intervention in the Syrian rorist group. The Sunni-dominated IS is “terrorist groups” threatening his and The Russian intervention has already crisis increases the dangers fighting the Shia-linked Alawite regime Assad’s interests. As such Moscow is raised the ire of Turkey as it seeks to to civilians and long-term of President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria; likely to target moderates as well as protect its airspace. Many expect Rus- Rstability in the Middle East. Parallel recruiting terrorists in the West includ- extremists. sia to extend its intervention to Iraq, air raids by Russian-led and US-led ing in Australia; and wreaking havoc The best hope for a diplomatic solu- where Australia has been aiding US- If you consider the coalitions, including Australian aircraft, across northern Iraq on a quest to tion passed last month. But without a led air strikes against IS to protect way the attack were risky enough. Moscow has now establish an Islamic caliphate. political outcome, the risks of escalating minority Kurds and even Shia militia. bombarded anti-Assad targets with 26 Moscow claims to be targeting IS bombardments of Syria are immense. But Russia’s Shia-dominated coalition happened and the missiles launched from four warships positions in Syria, but the US and Tur- US State Department spokesman with Assad’s Syrian army, the Hezbol- general trend of it, 1500km away in the Caspian Sea. The key claim the vast majority of Russian John Kirby says more than 90 per- lah from Lebanon and most importantly attacks complicate the conflict and targets are opponents of Mr Assad – a cent of Russian strikes have not been Iran threatens to create an even greater we have identified threaten to exacerbate the humanitarian key ally of Moscow for two decades. against IS or fellow Sunni-based Al sectarian gulf in Iraq, whose Sunni pop- disaster. The indiscriminate nature of Moscow’s Qaeda affiliated terrorists. That means ulation are angry at Shia control of its Islamic State as the The chances remain remote that attacks on anti-Assad forces reflects greater risks to citizens and an accel- government in Baghdad. primary focus. either the Russian-led or US-led raids the gulf between its goals and those eration of the mass exodus of Syrians Ahmet Davutoglu will achieve one of the West’s main of the West. Russian President Vladimir to neighbouring countries and eventu- The Sydney Morning Herald Turkish Prime Minister TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 With renegotiations ahead, Brussels waits for UK PM

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avid Cameron will have an expectant but not especially patient, or even The draft agenda for Thursday and Friday includes attentive, audience Dwhen he meets fellow European a briefing by summit chair Donald Tusk “about the Union leaders at a summit in Brussels at the end of this week. process ahead” concerning the British vote, which “Waiting for David” has become something of a catchphrase is expected between early next summer and an end- among diplomats and officials, who say the British prime minis- 2017 deadline. But few expect to hear much more ter is frustrating them by not yet detailing his demands for new EU during a meeting that will be dominated by the Syrian legislation ahead of the member- ship referendum he plans to hold refugee crisis, including relations with Turkey and within the next couple of years. But as ‘In’ and ‘Out’ campaigns Russia, and by proposals to bolster the eurozone gear up, a fear of partisan leaks in the boisterous British media following the latest chapter of the Greek debt crisis. means the other 27 EU govern- ments are still waiting to see written draft proposals from London. And without that “trig- ger”, EU officials say, real political negotiations cannot start. president of the European Coun- because everything leaks.” is, said Cameron would need to “They need leaks like a hole in cil. A third senior official said hav- show he had “won one big fight” the head,” said one person close British voters’ perceptions of ing a substantive discussion at in Brussels to convince voters to to “technical talks” in Brussels whether Cameron has succeeded December’s summit may mean back any new deal. But the official in which EU and British officials in his negotiations will be crucial having “a starting point, a paper” added: “I’m not sure the Europe- have been mapping out proce- — making it important to manage by early next month to set out all ans are ready for that.” dures for a negotiation. appearances of what he will ask the issues for member states. Another EU source warned The draft agenda for Thursday for and what he achieves. And it Some of the loudest ‘Out’ voices that, if Cameron reprised tac- and Friday includes a briefing by is too early to assess what other are within Cameron’s own party tics of going home from Brussels summit chair Donald Tusk “about leaders will accept. and, with the Conservative con- declaring “I won”, and failed to the process ahead” concerning the British officials note that, since ference over, he may be readier swap confrontation for consensus, British vote, which is expected his re-election in May, Cameron to set out more detail, knowing then other leaders could block between early next summer and has set out broad areas where he that whatever he asks for will be his demands, however much they an end-2017 deadline. wants change: relations between condemned as too little by some, want to keep Europe’s second big- Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (right) with German Chancellor But few expect to hear much London and the euro; a more effi- and too much by others. gest economy in the EU. Angela Merkel at the prime minister’s Chequers residence near Ellesborough, more during a meeting that will cient, less federal EU; and, criti- Among officials in Tusk’s “If he wants headlines saying northwest of London. be dominated by the Syrian refu- cally, curbs on immigration by EU European Council, the forum for the UK humiliated France, he will gee crisis, including relations with citizens. national governments, and the fail,” the official said. “This is not issue”, aware that EU leaders’ However, the most frequently Turkey and Russia, and by pro- At a summit in June, EU lead- executive European Commis- rugby.” time and appetite for appeasing asked question he may hear from posals to bolster the euro zone fol- ers agreed to discuss the issue in sion run by Jean-Claude Juncker, British officials say Cameron Cameron is limited as migrants, some fairly exasperated counter- lowing the latest chapter of the December, raising expectations with whom Cameron will lunch and his lead negotiator, finance Russia, Greece and the euro zone parts is “What do you want?”. Greek debt crisis. that by then the negotiations on Thursday, there is an insist- minister George Osborne, have economy all seem to threaten the “We still just don’t know what Cameron’s spokeswoman said a among ministers and officials ence on a will to negotiate and a learned lessons from a bruising bloc’s very existence. he’s really asking for,” one senior “more substantive discussion” on would be well advanced. confidence about reaching a “fair experience four years ago when “The EU is limping from one diplomat said, echoing a common- Britain’s demands was expected But with Cameron in charge of deal” for Britain and the EU. Cameron surprised and infuriated crisis to another and there is a place in the EU capital. at the next regular summit in the vote timing, and refusing to But on both sides of the table EU peers by imposing a rare sum- risk of the British issue being “Does he even know himself?” mid-December, by which time, prejudge negotiations by backing there is a growing awareness of mit veto. squeezed,” one said. asked another envoy, from a gov- she said, there would have been an ‘In’ vote, his Europe minister the unpredictability of referen- Both have spent recent months This week’s summit briefing ernment seen as one of London’s “more detailed discussions” with played down expectations of a dums and of the scope for mutual cultivating ties with other govern- from Tusk, with possible input closest allies in the bloc. the other member states. December deal during last week’s misunderstandings before 2017, a ments. And London is confident from Cameron, fresh from a “Frankly, he’s been very silly. “David Cameron is very dis- annual Conservative conference. year that will also feature elec- that EU leaders do not want to weekend spent in part with Ger- No one wants to see the United creet — and I can understand “If you want a deal, you have tions in big EU powers France see the bloc badly damaged by the man Chancellor Angela Merkel, Kingdom leave. But it’s up to why,” a senior EU official said to write things down,” a second and Germany. Britons voting to leave. is intended at least to reassure Cameron to sort this out.” after Cameron’s last visit two senior EU official said. “And no One senior EU official, noting Nonetheless, British officials other leaders they are being kept weeks ago, when he met Tusk, one wants to write things down how combative British politics also acknowledge a “bandwidth informed, another official said. REUTERS Did US arms draw Russia into Syria? Odds favour even a

By Liz Sly militarily weakening and in dan- ger of losing territory in north- hurt Clinton to win merican antitank missiles western Syria. The TOWs played supplied to Syrian rebels an outsize role in that,” said Oubai By Albert Hunt image — or her electoral firewalls. Aare playing an unexpect- When Syrian troops launched their Shahbandar, a Dubai-based con- Democratic professionals say edly prominent role in shaping sultant who used to work with the f you had asked any odds- that, in contrast to her last presi- the Syrian battlefield, giving the first offensive backed by the might Syrian opposition. maker in January to pick the dential campaign, she has strong conflict the semblance of a proxy “I think even the Americans Imost likely next US president, leadership with John Podesta as war between the United States of Russia’s military, dozens of were surprised at how successful Hillary Clinton would have been chief executive and Robby Mook and Russia, despite US President they’ve been,” he added. the overwhelming choice. as campaign manager or chief Barack Obama’s express desire to videos have been showing rebels It was no accident, say US offi- Since then, the former secre- operating officer. Privately, how- avoid one. cials and military analysts, that tary of state has had a dreadful ever, there is concern that crisis The US-made BGM-71 TOW firing the US-made missiles at the first targets of Russian air year, rivalled in political misery management sometimes comes missiles were delivered under a strikes in Syria were the loca- only by those of Jeb Bush, Rand down to a small coterie of per- two-year-old covert programme Russian-made tanks and armoured tions where the rebels armed with Paul and a few other Republican sonal intimates, her daughter, coordinated between the United TOW missiles have made the most contenders who had to drop out. Chelsea, and Huma Abedin, a States and its allies to help vet- vehicles belonging to Syrian army. substantial gains and where they Nonetheless, if you asked those longtime aide. ted Free Syrian Army groups most directly threaten Assad’s oddsmakers the same question Still, there are also encourag- in their fight against President hold over his family’s heartland today, before the first Demo- ing signs for her supporters. After Bashar Al Assad. Now that Rus- in the coastal province of Latakia. cratic presidential debate today, stiffing the media for the first part sia has entered the war in sup- Those areas were also where the answer still would be Clinton. of her campaign, Clinton has done port of Assad, they are taking on the Russian deployments began, intended to influence the outcome the first offensive since the Rus- This time, however, that well in a series of recent inter- a greater significance than was he said, and the rebels’ allies of the other war being waged in sian intervention was launched, assessment wouldn’t reflect her views. She hates the press but originally intended. have promised further deliveries Syria, the one in the northeastern with columns of Syrian armoured strength, but rather the lack of does better when she engages. So successful have they been soon, bringing echoes of the role part of the country against the vehicles and tanks setting out a strong alternative at this stage. No campaign has offered more in driving rebel gains in north- played by US-supplied Stinger Islamic State. from government strongholds Even Democrats worried about substance, even if it was over- western Syria that rebels call the antiaircraft missiles in forcing the The CIA programme got into the countryside of the prov- her general election prospects — shadowed by the e-mail contre- missile the “Assad Tamer,” a play Soviet Union to withdraw from underway before the Pentagon inces of Hama and Idlib. a growing population — dismiss temps. To be sure, some of this is on the word Assad, which means Afghanistan in the 1980s. one, in early 2014, with the goal of What the TOWs have done, the possibility of her rival Bernie politically calculated: Her biggest lion. And in recent days they have The hits also plunged Washing- propping up the flagging rebellion White said, is “offset the regime’s Sanders winning the nomination. threat would be losing the first been used with great success to ton into what amounts to a proxy against Assad’s rule by deliver- advantage in armour. The TOWs And they are sceptical that Vice- few nominating contests to Sand- slow the Russian-backed offensive war of sorts with Moscow, despite ing training, small arms, ammu- have cut away at that edge, and President Joe Biden will run or, ers, so her campaign is deter- aimed at recapturing ground from Obama’s insistence this month nition and the antitank missiles, that’s what we’ve seen playing out. if he did jump in, that he would mined to protect the left flank. the rebels. that “we’re not going to make which have proved instrumental It’s like the Stingers in Afghani- win. The Republicans are in such Her only really egregious act Since Wednesday, when Syr- Syria into a proxy war between in eroding the government’s key stan.” chaos that a pathway to victory of pandering was her announce- ian troops launched their first the United States and Russia.” advantage over the lightly armed It is unclear whether the TOWs appears elusive. ment last week that she opposed offensive backed by the might of “It’s a proxy war by happen- rebel force — its tanks and heavy will be able to change the course Yet looking at Clinton’s prob- the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Russia’s military, dozens of vid- stance,” said Jeff White of the armour. of the war, as did the Stinger lems, and some of her less- often- the trade agreement involving the eos have been posted on YouTube Washington Institute for Near The missiles were intended antiaircraft missiles introduced in cited promise, suggests how on US and 11 countries, which will showing rebels firing the US-made East Policy, who counted at least to fulfil another of the Obama the 1980s by the CIA in Afghani- the mark those odds may be. encompass 40 percent of the glo- missiles at Russian-made tanks 15 tanks and vehicles destroyed or administration’s goals in Syria stan, where they were used by the Her cavalier and clumsy reac- bal economy. She long supported and armoured vehicles belonging disabled on one day. “The rebels — Assad’s negotiated exit from mujahideen to shoot down Rus- tion to the controversy over the such a pact; her stated rationale for to the Syrian army. Appearing as happen to have a lot of TOWs in power. The plan, as described sian helicopters and paralyze the use of her private e-mail system opposing it was specious and added twirling balls of light, they zigzag their inventory. The regime hap- by administration officials, was Soviet army. as secretary of state is a case to questions about her credibility. across the Syrian countryside pened to attack them with Rus- to exert sufficient military pres- The rebels have appealed for study in arrogance and poor polit- There’s a lot of real meat else- until they find and blast their sian support. I don’t see it as a sure on Assad’s forces to persuade the delivery of Stinger missiles ical instincts. There probably isn’t where. No one has offered a more target in a ball of flame. proxy war by decision.” him to compromise — but not so or their equivalents to counter a smoking gun and the House sensible or feasible proposal to deal The rebels claim they took out Whether it becomes one or much that his government would the new threat from the air, but Republicans’ Benghazi investiga- with the crushing debt imposed on 24 tanks and armoured vehicles not is one of the key questions precipitously collapse and leave US officials say that is unlikely. tive committee, before which she many families by the costs of col- on the first day, and the toll has confronting the Obama admin- a dangerous power vacuum in The Obama administration has will testify next week, has been lege. The same holds for her pro- risen daily since then. istration in the wake of Presi- Damascus. repeatedly vetoed past requests discredited as a partisan assault. posals to establish a sliding-scale “It was a tank massacre,” dent Vladimir Putin’s decision Instead, the Russian military from the rebels, as well as their Yet she has taken a hit in the capital gains tax rate, her focus on said Captain Mustafa Moarati, to throw Russia’s support behind intervened to shore up the strug- Turkish and Saudi allies, for the polls; voters don’t like revisiting longer term economics, and initia- whose Tajamu Al Izza group says Assad’s regime. gling Syrian army — an outcome delivery of antiaircraft missiles, the trials and tribulations of Clin- tives to give financial regulators it destroyed seven tanks and The TOW missile programme that was not intended. out of concerns that they could tonland. more powers and to impose a “risk armoured vehicles on Wednesday. overseen by the CIA is entirely “A primary driving factor in fall into extremist hands. The campaign makes surpris- fee” on big banks. More missiles are on the way, separate from a failed programme Russia’s calculus was the realisa- ing blunders, leaking stories about he said. New supplies arrived after run by the Pentagon that was tion that the Assad regime was THE WASHINGTON POST tactics — Hillary will offer a softer THE WASHINGTON POST TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA 57pc voting in Bihar poll Clashes erupt in Polling held in 49 constituencies in first phase; Maoist calls for boycott fail Kashmir over PATNA: Around 57 percent of said they would vote for develop- 13.5 million electorate voted yes- ment. “It is the only agenda that terday in 49 of the 243 constitu- attracted me,” said voter Suman encies in the first round of battle Kumar in Bhagalpur district. Udhampur attack for political power in Bihar. The Giridhari Yadav in Khagaria two main fronts soon claimed vic- said he would vote for Nitish SRINAGAR: Clashes erupted in divide, political groups and trade tory. Kumar. parts of Srinagar yesterday over bodies in the valley have con- It marked the start of an “Why should I vote for the an attack on a truck in Udham- demned the attack. intense five-phase contest that BJP when we have tested Nit- pur, as a shutdown called by the Kashmir Traders and Manu- will end on November 5 and whose ish Kumar? He has constructed separatists affected life across facture Federation appealed to outcome — to be known three roads, provided electricity, and set the Kashmir Valley. people to observe a strike against days later — will prove whether up schools and hospitals in rural Group of youths pelted stones the Udhampur truck attack, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi areas,” he said. at police and paramilitary forces has been called by both factions of still retains his charisma or not. Samastipur, Begusarai, in many areas of the old city, forc- the separatist Hurriyat Confer- The Bharatiya Janata Party Khagaria, Bhagalpur, Banka, ing the security forces to baton- ence and pro-Azad Jammu and (BJP)-led NDA is determined to Munger, Lakhisarai, Sheikhpura, charge and lob tear gas shells to Kashmir Liberation Front. oust the ruling Janata Dal-United Nawada and Jamui districts voted disperse the agitated youths. “We condemn the attack,” (JD-U) and its allies, the RJD in the first phase. The second Protesters kept on re-grouping Abdul Rehman Veeri, a senior and Congress who had formed a Women wait to cast their vote outside a polling station in Samastipur district round of polling will be held on and clashes were on in the old city minister in People’s Democratic Grand Alliance. in the eastern state of Bihar yesterday. October 16. areas of Bohri Kadal, Saraf Kadal, Party-Bharatiya Janata Party Additional Chief Electoral Officials said that voters in over Rajouri Kadal and adjoining areas coalition government, said in the Officer R Lakshaman said the Vijay Kumar Singh in Jamui, but big winner in the first round of a dozen villages in Samastipur, in the afternoon. assembly, assuring the opposition election passed off peacefully, with he was unhurt. Police arrested polls. “There was a clear wave in Bhagalpur, Jamui and Banka Security forces were deployed National Conference (NC) and 57 percent voting. It was nearly 51 one of the attackers. our favour.” boycotted the polls and shouted in strength in the old city and Congress of a fair probe in the percent in 2010. Lakshaman said that women But JD-U spokesperson Nawal slogans against what they said sensitive areas of the Kashmir incident. The NC and Congress Defying Maoist calls to boycott voters outnumbered males in Sharma said the people had voted was lack of development. In areas province (comprising the districts had created furore in the state the elections, millions of men and some placs. for the Grand Alliance. “It was on of Maoist influence, the voting of Srinagar, Badgam, Pulwama, assembly on Saturday. women in both urban and rural As the voting progressed, Home expected lines. We will sweep the ended at 3pm. Anantnag, Kupwara, Baramulla, Meanwhile, in Reasi district, areas trooped to polling booths in Minister Rajnath Singh said that first phase.” The heavyweights in the fray Leh and Kargil districts) to pre- security forces yesterday busted the 49 constituencies spread over Modi’s popularity had not waned, Minor incidents of violence yesterday included state LJP empt any untoward incident. a militant hideout and seized 10 districts, officials said. Barring at least in Bihar. came from Banka, Jamui and president Pashupati Kumar Paras, Last Friday night, some arms and ammunition, an Army stray incidents, the balloting was “I am campaigning in the whole Bhagalpur districts. BJP ally HAM state president miscreants had lobbed a petrol spokesman said. largely peaceful. of Bihar. I see no dent in the The BJP-led NDA alliance, Shakuni Choudhary and Congress bomb at a valley-bound truck The cache included an M-16 The Bihar battle is the biggest prime minister’s image. The peo- which has three other parties leader and former speaker Sadan- at Udhampur on the Srinagar- rifle, an AK-47 rifle, an AK-56 popularity test in the country ple of Bihar still have confidence including the LJP, is trying to and Singh. Jammu national highway, leaving rifle, five magazines of AK-47, one after the Delhi election in Feb- in him,” the former BJP president dislodge the ruling JD-U. The The JD-U and the Rashtriya two people in the truck with magazine of M-16, two Chinese ruary in which the AAP routed said, adding he was confident of a BJP alliance also includes the Janata Dal came together for this burn injuries. The truck driver, grenades, five other grenades, the BJP. BJP victory. Hindustani Awam Morcha and election after years of hostility. however, managed to escape from 30 pistol rounds and 204 AK-47 Unidentified men fired at Lok BJP leader Sanjay Mayunkh the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party. the assailants. rounds. Janshakti Party (LJP) candidate said that the NDA will emerge a Voters in most polling booths IANS Cutting across the political IANS

Goa ex-CM, top Security to be beefed up for official get bail in bribery case major festival in Assam, Tripura PANAJI: Former Goa chief AGARTALA: Armed with General of Police Nepal Das said. against the outlawed militants minister Churchill Alemao sophisticated weapons, a large Over 20,000 security personnel would be intensified by Assam and former project director of number of para-military and and quick reaction teams besides Rifles, CRPF and the Tripura the compromised JICA funded state security personnel would be bomb and dog squads would be State Rifles in the terrorist prone project Anand Wachasundar deployed in Tripura and Assam deployed across Tripura. and hilly areas,” Das said. were granted bail by a special for the Durga Puja festivities The security personnel, He said intelligence networks court here yesterday in connec- beginning next week, officials equipped with sophisticated arms, have been activated and police tion with the Louis Berger brib- said yesterday. The five-day electronic gadgets and binoculars, pickets and mobile and foot ery case. Durga Puja festival is the biggest will be positioned in many watch patrolling will be conducted. Both Alemao, also a former annual carnival of eastern India. towers in Agartala and different With a little increase over last public works department minis- The puja, mostly performed by parts of the bordering state. year, at least 2,500 community ter, and Wachasundar were incar- Hindu Bengalees, would formally Director General of Tripura and about 100 family Durga Pujas cerated for more than two months begin on October 19 with ‘Maha police K Nagraj will today hold are expected to be organised in for allegedly receiving, along with Sasthi’ or ‘Bodhan’ -- the welcom- a review meeting on security Tripura. Lambadi tribal students wait to cross National Highway 44 on their others, bribes to allot the `10.31bn ing of the Durga idols. arrangements during the Puja. Close Circuit TV are being way to school in Peddakunta village, some 56km from Hyderabad. JICA project consultancy project “The BSF (Border Security District police chiefs, senior installed at sensitive and crowded to Louis Berger. Force) has been asked to main- police and other security and locations while people at big puja The two have been released on tain a close watch on the India- intelligence officials would attend venues will have to pass through a personal bond of `5lakh each Bangladesh border to ensure that the meeting, to be held at the metal detectors. Killer road creates and have been directed not to the festival is free of any untoward police headquarters. leave the country. incident,” Tripura’s Inspector “Counter-insurgency operation IANS Former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat, along with village of widows the then state PWD minister Churchill Alemao and other PEDDAKUNTA: A highway bypass road accident and so government officials, has been running through a village in did my brother and my father. accused of allegedly accepting a the southern state of Telan- There are no men to look after $976,630 bribe in 2010 from offi- Chauhan yet to visit FTII office gana has gained a dire reputa- us in the family,” Kurra Asli, cials of US-based Louis Berger tion, blamed for the deaths of 23, said. Locals have demanded construction consultancy firm to PUNE: Several months since was actually appointed, Galgali had the shortest term of of three scores trying to cross it. a foot bridge or tunnel so they secure contracts for the water and his controversial appointment as said. months, attended the FTII office A bypass road of national can safely cross the four-lane sewerage augmentation project in the FTII chairman, BJP member “Whichever may be the date of only once and that too on the final highway 44 snakes through stretch to reach the headquar- Goa worth `10.31bn funded by the and television personality Gajen- appointment, he has not yet vis- day of his brief tenure. Peddakunta village, cutting off ters to collect monthly pen- Japan International Co-Operation dra Chauhan is yet to visit his ited the Pune FTII office to take However, Saeed Mirza, who the community from its head- sions or find employment in Agency (JICA). office, a RTI query revealed here charge or meet with the institute was the chairman for three years, quarters on the other side. other villages. Police have already filed charges yesterday. officials and students. Though made it to the office 20 times. Since the road was built in But widows say their in the case, naming Churchill There is a lack of clarity even the appointment has been made, Girish Karnad in his one year 2006, Peddakunta has been demands have been ignored. Alemao, Anand Wachasunder, on the actual date of appointment the institution remains virtually term attended six times, dubbed the “village of highway “No one will help us. Eve- James McClung (former Asia of Chauhan as the Film and Tel- headless and mired in avoidable U R Ananthamurthy, who was widows” with only one male ryone will come, take photos head of Louis Berger), Satyakam evision Institute of India (FTII) controversies,” Galgali said. appointed thrice, attended office adult left among the huts of 35 and videos and go off,” said K Mahanty (former India head chief, said Mumbai-based RTI The situation was similar with 26 times in a period of eight years. families. The rest of the village Maani, 38, as she cooked over of Louis Berger), Richand Soni activist Anil Galgali. other past chairpersons with In the past 15 years, FTII has comprises women, children and a stove made of mud. “I do not (alleged hawala operator) and While the FTII list of appoint- former BJP union minister and had nine persons holding the the elderly. have a gas stove or even a bath- Arthur Dsilva, while Kamat has ments to the august post shows actor Vinod Khanna, who held the exalted position of one of the pre- Some 25 male residents have room, no one is there to help been listed as a suspect. the date as March 4, 2014 to position twice, attending it only mier institutes of its kind in Asia been killed in Peddakunta try- us,” said the mother of three. March 3, 2017, another date pro- two times, once in each term. ing to reach the other side. IANS vided is June 9, 2015 on which he BJP MP Pawan Chopra, who IANS “My husband died in a AFP

Goan writers to discuss returning Ivory worth `190m seized from Delhi home Sahitya Akademi awards NEW DELHI: In a major haul, During investigations, Agarwal 487kg of ivory worth about `190m confessed to the officials of hav- PANAJI: Spurred by top Indian state’s intelligentsia would be was seized during a raid at a ing hidden ivory and ivory-made writers who have returned the emphatic tomorrow. house in the national capital, a articles in a rented house in east Sahitya Akademi award follow- “Over 30 Konkani writers have Kerala forest official said here Delhi’s Vijay Park area in Laxmi ing the murder of fellow recipi- received the Sahitya Akademi yesterday. Nagar. ent M M Kalburgi, over 30 Goan award since the 1970s. We are The 12-hour raid was carried “Once the presence of ivory in writers, all of them winners of meeting tomorrow, where we will out in collaboration with Delhi a secret location was confirmed, the award, will meet tomorrow decide collectively on the course Police and Wildlife Crime Control a team was formed and moved to to decide on the issue of collec- of action,” said Shivdas who won Bureau, following revelation by an Delhi on the night of October 10. tively returning the trophy and the award in 2005 for his Konkani ivory trader, Umesh Agarwal, who Next day (Sunday), with the help the prize money. novel Bhangarsal. was arrested last week, the official of Delhi Police, a trap was laid and Sahitya Akademi award win- “We are inspired by the deci- said while requesting anonymity. the rented room was raided,” the ning writer N Shivdas said the sion of other Sahitya Akademi “The recovered ivory artefacts, official said. Konkani writer community in award winners who have returned stashed in 39 boxes and weighed As per the official, a proc- Goa may have reacted to the kill- their awards and by personalities 487kg, were for sale in Delhi and essed artefact made of elephant ing of award-winners and intel- like Shashi Deshpande,” Shivdas Mumbai markets,” he said. “There tusk could cost anything up to lectuals a bit late in the day, but said. are clear indications that a part of `4,00,000 per kilogram. added that the response of the IANS the contraband was also intended Pieces of carved ivory being measured by forest officials. for foreign markets.” IANS TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 India fails MTCR entry, but wins support MTCR acceptance would enable country gain several restricted technologies like cryogenic rocket systems

NEW DELHI: India has failed ous denial regimes have come to engaged various capitals. development for India. President Obama had promised was covered. India hasn’t signed in its maiden attempt to win appreciate New Delhi’s persist- The MTCR holds its plenary In the latter though, New Delhi him full support in this regard. any of the denial regimes but consensus support for its entry ent non-proliferation policies on session in October. Whether could face hurdles as China insists That is indeed a big deal, and a has voluntarily adhered to them. to the Missile Technology Control nuclear weapons and missiles. India’s application will now be on parity with Pakistan despite success of Modi’s diplomacy of The BrahMos supersonic cruise Regime (MTCR). External affairs ministry considered a year later next Octo- Islamabad’s record of nuclear and warmth and friendly demeanor. missile for instance, which India But, inspiring hope for India, spokesperson Vikas Swarup ber, or sometime before that, is missile proliferation. I may mention that as a young makes in collaboration with Rus- the outgoing Norwegian chair- observed that India’s application to be seen. The NSG was, ironically, ini- reporter for UNI news agency sia, adheres to the MTCR ambit. man of the grouping, Roald was “received well and it remains Details of the MTCR plenary, tiated by the US specifically to then, I had the privilege of break- India has steadily maintained a Næss, tweeted after the meeting under consideration”. held October 5-9, were not dis- target New Delhi after India’s ing news of India’s nuclear test clean record, and as Mathai had concluded on October 9: “Broad Although India was the target closed but there are indications 1974 nuclear test. Significantly and giving details like its loca- pointed out three years ago, India support for Indian membership of some of these denial regimes that Italy, peeved over the pro- now, Washington is supporting tion and the first international has “a law-based export system, in MTCR, but regrettably no con- right after its first nuclear test in longed trial of two of its marines India’s entry into all the four reaction in Canada withdrawing covering about nine different leg- sensus yet. I remain optimistic.” 1974, New Delhi indicated its will- in India in a shooting case, asked denial regimes — NSG, MTCR, nuclear assistance to India within islations,” and that “the nation’s The 34-member voluntary group- ingness to join them after its sec- for time. There was no confirma- the Wassenaar Arrangement and 10 days of the earth-shaking export controls are in line with the ing ended its 29th annual session ond nuclear tests in 1998. In April tion though. the Australia Group. explosion. highest international standards”. in the port city of Rotterdam in 2012, then foreign secretary Ran- Acceptance in MTCR will ena- I recall prime minister Indira The MTCR was set up in April It may be recalled that although Holland that day without any jan Mathai told strategic experts ble India to gain several restricted Gandhi telling me in an informal 1987 by seven countries — Britain Indira Gandhi demonstrated decision on India’s application for at the Institute for Defence Stud- technologies, like some of the chat that India deserved to be in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India’s nuclear capability, she did membership. ies and Analyses (IDSA) in New aircraft jet engines or cryogenic the UN Security Council (UNSC), Japan and the United States — not allow it to be weaponised. She India had formally submitted Delhi that it was time for India to rocket systems. and that India’s nuclear test in to check proliferation of ballistic did want nuclear-powered subma- an application in June 2015 with join these four regimes, beginning Sources told India Strate- 1974 was as much aimed at deter- missiles with over 300 km range rines, and possibly nuclear attack active support from the US and with the NSG. gic (www.indiastrategic.in) that rence as much at this high table and 500kg of bomb payload. In capable, also because of the per- France. Although an odd coun- This was the first formal, and Indian diplomats will now shift in New York. 1992, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ceived threat from China, but she try may have opposed India’s categorical, move by India, and their focus on another goal: entry The US has come around to (UAVs) that can deliver Weapons chose not to translate this capa- proposal, there is considerable ever since, diplomats handling to the Nuclear Suppliers Group this also, and during his recent of Mass Destruction (WMDs) bility into hardware. victory for the country insofar disarmament at the external (NSG). Admission into either the visit to the US, Prime Minister were included, and later, even as most members of the vari- affairs ministry have successfully MTCR or NSG will be a landmark Narendra Modi disclosed that software for such delivery systems IANS

Book launched despite Shiv Sena threat Chemists across India

MUMBAI: Belligerent Shiv Sena tries want peace between the two activists abused and blackened countries... But, there are some to strike tomorrow the face of veteran journalist and who don’t want India-Pakistan L K Advani’s former aide Sud- peace,” he said. heendra Kulkarni to protest his Senior BJP leader Advani in NEW DELHI: More than eight of adverse drug reactions/side organising the launch of former New Delhi and party spokesman lakh chemists across the coun- effects and would enable the entry Pakistani foreign minister Khur- minced no words in protesting try will shut their shops for a day of unbranded and spurious medi- shid Mahmud Kasuri’s book here against the Sena actions, while tomorrow to oppose the central cines. yesterday, but the event went on social networking sites con- government’s alleged move to “It poses a big threat of irra- ahead amid high security. demned what many termed “Shiv regularise the sale of medicines tional use of medicines, leading to The incident created a nation- Sena hooliganism”. through e-pharmacies on the drug addiction among the youth, wide outrage with condemnation Several top Congress lead- Internet. affect availability of medicines in from all major political par- ers including state party chief They also warned of an indef- rural India and prove a setback ties including the state’s ruling Ashok Chavan, leader of Opposi- inite strike if the government to the 800,000-plus chemists and Bharatiya Janata Party, which is tion Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, failed to address the issue within pharmacists employing nearly in alliance with the Sena in both city chief Sanjay Nirupam, senior a week. eight million people across the the centre and in Maharashtra. state leader Sanjay Dutt also con- “Internet pharmacy is a new country, he added. Taking the Sena’s challenge demned the attack. platform for the sale of medicines Speaking about why e-phar- headlong, Chief Minister Dev- Though virtually isolated, the for the last one year. It is com- macy was successful in devel- endra Fadnavis assured that the Sena appeared undeterred by the pletely illegal and we have even oped nations, including the function would be held and full Sudheendra Kulkarni face smeared (left), holds a copy of a book by former backlash and vowed to continue apprised higher authorities that US, AIOCD secretary Suresh security would be provided to the Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri (right) in Mumbai, yesterday. its anti-Pakistani protests in dif- such sale of medicines is a viola- Gupta said there were proper event and the visiting dignitary. ferent forms. tion of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, laws to govern online sale of The state government ensured him to cancel the event and then asserted Kulkarni, who did not “You have witnessed what is 1940, which talks of proper pre- medicines. tight security at the venue, Nehru smeared him with black ink. wash off the ink for several hours, going on since yesterday morn- scription by doctors,” All India “Presently, online pharmacies Centre in Worli, where “Neither A shaken but determined Kasuri said he was “saddened ing. Kasuri has arrived in Mum- Organisation of Chemists and accessible on the Internet supply a Hawk Nor a Dove: An Insider Kulkarni, chairman of think-tank and unhappy by this attack on bai for the function arranged by Druggists (AIOCD) president J I-pills, MTP kits, anti-depres- Account of Pakistan’s Foreign Observer Research Foundation Kulkarni whom I have known for Pakistani ‘agent’ (Kulkarni) - You S Sinde said at a media briefing sants, cough syrups etc. without Policy” was released peacefully (ORF), told media persons that many years” and condemned it. have also seen the Shiv Sena’s here. confirming the authenticity of without any untoward incident in the Shiv Sena had repeatedly “...the right to protest must be reaction and how their faces have A delegation of AIOCD has prescriptions or the patients,” the presence of a large number of warned it would not permit the peaceful and these people must been blackened,” Shiv Sena MP submitted a memorandum of Gupta said. dignitaries from different walks of event and if the ORF failed to change their tactics of protest,” and spokesperson Sanjay Raut demands to several authorities, Meanwhile, following the call life. The attack happened when comply, the party would disrupt he said at a hurriedly convened said. He said the Sena has sent a including the Prime Minister’s for the October 14 strike, govern- Kulkarni was leaving his home it in “Shiv Sena style”. press conference here following report listing all of Kasuri’s anti- Office, the health ministry, the ment hospitals in all states, espe- in Sion in south-central Mumbai, “The Shiv Sena has no author- the incident. India activities during his tenure Drug Controller General of India cially in the national capital, have when a group of around a dozen ity to impose such a ban... We “I have come with a message as Pakistan foreign minister. and state authorities, he said. decided to replenish their stocks Sena activists accosted him. have taken a principled stand of peace... An overwhelming Shinde said the online sale of medicines. They shouted slogans and asked and shall not cancel the event,” majority of people in both coun- IANS of medicines increased the risk IANS

Track work Achuthanandan demands CBI Jagan’s fast continues, probe in religious leader’s death health worsens THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At the time of his death, the rather killed. Veteran CPI-M leader V S Swami, a former Sivagiri mutt Swami Prakashananda, the GUNTUR: YSR Congress party Achuthanandan yesterday sought chief, had serious differences current head of the Sivagiri Mutt, president Y S Jaganmohan Red- a CBI probe into the controversial with V Natesan, a Hindu Ezhava said he had always wondered how dy’s condition deteriorated fur- death of a religious leader follow- leader and general secretary Swami Swaswethikananda could ther yesterday as he continued for ing claims that he was murdered of the Sree Narayana Dharma have drowned. the sixth day his indefinite fast to in 2002. Paripalana (SNDP) Sangom who “I felt that after seeing the demand special category status to A businessman, Biju Ramesh, has recently moved close to the place of death and the injury on Andhra Pradesh. created a sensation by claiming BJP. his forehead that it was not a The concern was growing that Swami Swaswethikananda Biju Ramesh has alleged that death by drowning. It seems eve- among the party leaders as the did not drown accidentally in a the Swami was murdered on ryone wants a fresh probe. If the leader of opposition turned weak river at Aluva in Kochi but was Natesan’s direction. Natesan has government wants one, it should and was barely able to speak. rather killed. refuted the allegation. announce it,” the 93-year-old said. The sugar levels and pulse rate “There has been a new devel- Following Ramesh’s claim, Meanwhile, official sources said of Jagan, as the leader is popu- opment... So I demand the CBI the Swami’s sister also alleged Kerala Police had begun a pre- larly known, continued to fluctu- should take up this case,” former that her brother could not have liminary study on the scope for a ate throughout the day as a team chief minister Achuthanandan drowned — he was an ace swim- fresh probe. of doctors kept a close watch on said here. mer — and might have been IANS Labourers work at the installation site of a new railway track on the his condition. outskirts of Agartala, yesterday. Jagan’s mother Y S Vijayamma rushed here following further deterioration in his condition. His wife Bharathi was also sitting by his side. Large number of party Punjab farmers cadre from different parts of the 100 families of primitive Jharkhand tribes convert state also rushed to Guntur to to continue stir show solidarity with their leader. RANCHI: Driven by poverty, tribes of Jharkhand, is facing a out the truth,” Dinesh Chandra primitive tribes whose popula- Doctors have advised Jagan to CHANDIGARH: The ongoing over 100 families of primitive population decline. Mishra, deputy commissioner of tion is declining in the state has call off the fast since dehydra- ‘rail roko’ agitation by Punjab tribes have converted to Chris- The converted villagers said Gumla district said over phone. been converted into christianity tion is causing ketones in urine farmers and farm labourers will tianity in Jharkhand’s Gumla they took the decision to ensure “People converted by their will under a design,” Pramod Mishra, to increase and this would have an continue, they announced yester- district, prompting the VHP to education for their children. or they have been allured will be the VHP’s Bihar and Jharkhand adverse impact on the functioning day as a meeting between their demand a probe into the role of The villages lack basic facili- ascertained only after probe,” he Dharam Prsar head, said. of his kidneys. representatives and Chief Min- missionaries, sources said yes- ties -- roads, electricity, school said. “Non-tribal people living in The YSRCP leader has vowed ister Parkash Singh Badal failed terday. and health centres. The Gumla Condemning the religious the same area. But why did they continue his fast till the central to produce any result. Over 100 families belonging authorities said they would probe conversion of the primitive not convert on the same rea- government accords special status No conclusive breakthrough to Ghaghra and Visunpur bocks the issue. tribes people, the Vishwa Hindu son? The primitives tribes have to Andhra Pradesh. could be achieved as the govern- were converted, but the local “Some conversions in the dis- Parishad (VHP) sought a probe been allured and converted. The Tension prevailed at the hun- ment said it was not in a position media put the number at more trict have been reported last week into the Christian missionaries’ funding of missionaries activi- ger strike camp yesterday when to accept the demands. than 300, administrative sources and some cases of conversions role. ties should also be probed,” he a party worker attempted self- said. are old. We will probe both; all “The role of Christian mis- added. immolation. IANS Asur, one of the nine primitive the reported conversions to find sionaries should be probed. The IANS IANS TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS Russia claims UK’s pro-EU camp launches campaign foiling attack Leaving Europe is a leap in the dark, says campaigner; opinion polls see voters split by IS-trained

LONDON: British pro-Europeans yester- creating uncertainty in our economy?” day launched their campaign to keep their For at least a generation, Cameron’s militants country inside the European Union, cau- Conservative party has been riven by a MOSCOW: Russia’s security tioning that turning away from the world’s conflict over Europe that contributed to ser-vices said yesterday it foiled biggest economic bloc would hurt jobs and the downfall of both Margaret Thatcher a “terrorist attack” on Moscow’s torpedo London’s global financial clout. and John Major, the last two Conservative public transport system by a “Leaving Europe is a leap in the dark and prime ministers. group of militants, some of whom I don’t believe that is a risk that is worth Under pressure from lawmakers who were trained by Islamic State us taking,” said Stuart Rose, a former boss feared the electoral success of the anti-EU jihadists in Syria. of Marks & Spencer who chairs the new UK Independence Party (UKIP), Cameron A statement by the federal “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign. in 2013 promised a referendum on mem- security service (FSB) said they “Do we continue to lead the world by bership by the end of 2017 though many had detained a group of people in leading in Europe or risk diminishing our analysts and campaigners expect it to be Moscow and seized bomb-making influence on the world stage by turning our called next year. materials they were planning to backs on Europe?” he asked. Both ‘in’ and ‘out’ campaigns are well- use in an attack on the capital’s Prime Minister David Cameron is seek- financed, attracting multi-millionaire busy transport system. ing to renegotiate Britain’s relationship backers, and their opposing arguments are “During questioning of two with the bloc it joined in 1973 as the ‘in’ well-honed with many of their proponents of the detained men, it became and ‘out’ campaigns prepare for battle in having spent years airing them both inside known that they were planning a referendum on membership due before and outside parliament. a terrorist attack on the Moscow Karren Brady, Stuart Rose, Roland Rudd, Brendan Barber and Caroline Lucas during the launch the end of 2017. A rival campaign, “Vote Leave”, was public transit system,” said the of the new “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign in London yesterday. Opinion polls suggest voters are split, launched last week by a group of busi- statement which was carried by and that crises in the EU over Greek debt ness leaders and lawmakers, while those Russian news agencies. and a surge of migrants may be turn- wanting ‘Brexit’ can also find a voice with this myth that we are somehow shackled only do so from within the bloc. “I am not Russian security forces had on ing some Britons against staying in the another group, the “Leave.EU” campaign, to a regulatory burden that isn’t good for an uncritical fan of the European Union,” Sunday arrested at least three 28-nation bloc. supported by the head of UKIP. business. We have really got to deal with said Rose, a Conservative peer. “Europe people in a raid on an apartment Launching the pro-EU campaign in a Both sides are keen to show they involve that issue other we will hemorrhage some does need reform.” block in central Moscow where fashionable former brewery in East Lon- politicians from both main parties, but also of our support,” he said. Cameron has pledged to try to get “the security forces also found an don’s Brick Lane, Rose, who led Marks and to demonstrate a wider appeal by attract- Opponents of the EU say Britain would best of both worlds” from the EU by ask- explosive device, with dozens of Spencer from 2004 to 2010, said he wanted ing businessmen and women. be better off if it ditched membership. They ing for guarantees that Britain will be kept people evacuated from the area. reform of Europe but did not want to risk The pro-European campaign includes cast the EU as a stagnating bloc that is out of ever-closer union and the euro is The raid came after the secu- leaving. Richard Reed, founder of Innocent Drinks, holding Britain’s economy back while not the EU’s official currency, protecting rity services identified a Moscow In a speech pitched towards stressing Karren Brady, vice chairman of West Ham lurching from crisis to crisis. the pound. address “where six to 11 people the economic and political pragmatism football club. and Carolyn McCall, CEO of Will Straw, one of the leaders of the Rose said the economic argument for periodically lived, some of who of staying inside the Union, Rose said the EasyJet. campaign, said the group had studied last the world’s fifth largest economy staying went through combat training in referendum would define Britain’s future “We are stronger in Europe - economi- year’s 2014 Scottish referendum and would in the EU was clear. “British families are Islamic State camps in Syria,” it prosperity. cally the case is overwhelming,” Roland be arguing the positive benefits of mem- stronger and better off in Europe,” Rose said. “The choice facing us in this referendum Rudd, treasurer of the campaign said. “Peo- bership as well as warning of the risks of said, quoting figures showing membership The FSB said the suspects is the biggest choice that we have had in ple up and down the country are going to leaving. was worth £3,000 ($4,600) per year to the arrived back in Russia long before perhaps a generation: Do we remain part of realise that despite all the imperfections Rose said he supported Cameron’s efforts average British household.” Moscow launched a bombing cam- the largest free trade market on the planet we are still better off in.” to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with paign in Syria late last month. or do we walk away, perhaps risking jobs, “The weak point is to be able to shatter the European Union but the country could REUTERS It was not immediately clear how many people had been arrested in total. Footage of Sunday’s raid shown on Rossiya state TV channel Nine of 43 showed police officers carrying Refugee relocation sacks of “evidence” out of the building, including a washing Mexico students machine that “could have been used as a hiding place.” killed elsewhere plan not enough: UN Officers found a device con- sisting of a plastic bucket with ATHENS: The European Union’s September. ammonia and aluminium powder, than stated current relocation scheme for ref- Only Syrians, Iraqis and Eri- complete with a phone-activated ugees is “not enough” to address treans are currently eligible for detonator, the report said. MEXICO CITY: While Mexican the scope of the problem, the resettlement under the EU relo- Moscow started air strikes in prosecutors declared last year head of the UN refugee agency cation programme. war-torn Syria in late September that 43 missing students were (UNHCR) said yesterday. Afghans, whose country is following a request from its long- incinerated at a landfill, official UN High Commissioner for also in conflict, are excluded. standing ally President Bashar Al documents published on Sun- Refugees Antonio Guterres said Guterres yesterday said the Assad. day show that one gang suspect the current EU scheme to share scheme remained vulnerable to testified that at least nine were out 160,000 refugees from Italy “ethnic or religious discrimina- EU ministers agree slaughtered elsewhere. and Greece over the next two tion,” with Slovakia and Cyprus Mexico’s attorney general years had to be broadened and already declaring themselves a to suspend Belarus office posted on its website the “more legal opportunities” had preference for Christian refugees. 54,000 pages of documents from to be provided to exiles. Such statements “can only sanctions: France the much-criticised investigation Migrants queue in the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and “You cannot have a techno- support the propaganda of IS into a case that has bedevilled Social Affairs to register in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. cratic approach to relocation,” he (Islamic State) or other groups,” LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign President Enrique Pena Nieto’s told a news conference in Athens. the former Portuguese prime ministers agreed yesterday administration. “Without a human approach to minister warned. to suspend sanctions against A review of hundreds of pages relocation, this process could fail,” Guterres said what was needed Belarus after elections won by found contradictory testimony Merkel defends refugee policy he warned. was “a mechanism that is humane, authoritarian President Alexan- among some of the more than 100 Guterres had just completed a that is based on dialogue, that is der Lukashenko passed off with- suspects who have been detained, BERLIN: German Chancel- refugee in a friendly way, as with three-day visit to Greece, where based on persuasion. That is not out incident, France’s European including Guerreros Unidos drug lor Angela Merkel yesterday every other human being”. he visited registration camps yet in place,” he said. affairs minister said. cartel members and municipal defended her open-door policy to Asked whether she could in Athens and on the island of “You cannot just look into “We have taken the decision police officers. refugees in the face of falling poll imagine sheltering a refugee at Lesbos, one of the main landing people and say ‘you go to Ger- to suspend the sanctions for The report — divided into 85 ratings, saying it was “part of the her home, however, she said: points for migrants fleeing war many, you go to Sweden, you go the next four months but they tomes and 13 annexes with sev- basic humanity of our country”. “Although I have great respect for and misery in the Middle East to Romania, you go to Portugal, can be reinstated immediately if eral redacted names — was made It was not her job to “spread the people who do that, I could and Asia across the Aegean Sea you go to Spain’ without having that is required,” minister Har- public by Attorney General Arely worry” but “to work on finding not imagine that for me now.” from Turkey. a process of information of tak- lem Desir told reporters, adding Gomez following freedom of infor- solutions to the problems”, Mer- To manage the migrant wave, Over 600,000 people have ing into account the interests, that they will be reviewed at the mation requests from journalists. kel told mass-market daily Bild in Germany would have to quickly arrived in Europe this year and for instance family, links, prefer- end of that period. The EU has It is rare for Mexican authorities a lengthy interview. repatriate rejected asylum-seek- with winter looming, the rate ences,” he added. imposed travel bans and asset to make investigative documents She voiced understanding for ers fleeing poverty not war, said seems to be increasing. The UNHCR said it was freezes against Lukashenko and public online. citizens’ fears given the record the chancellor. “Newly arrived The International Organisation already aware of a refugee family around 170 other individuals and Gomez’s predecessor, Jesus influx, expected to reach 800,000 people without hopes of being for Migration said on Friday that that turned down an offer to relo- 14 groups for rights abuses. The Murillo Karam, concluded late to one million this year. allowed to stay will be sent back there had been a sharp increase in cate to either Lithuania, Finland sanctions officially come up for last year that police in the south- But she stressed that “for me directly,” she said. the number of migrants arriving or Luxembourg. renewal on October 31 ern city of Iguala attacked the it is part of the basic humanity of in Greece, to some 7,000 a day, up students on September 26, 2014, our country that one deals with a AFP from 4,500 per day at the end of AFP AGENCIES after they had seized buses for a protest in Mexico City. Murillo Karam said the officers abducted 43 students and handed them over to the Guerreros Uni- dos drug gang, which confused UK police end round-the-clock Assange embassy guard them with rivals, killed them and incinerated their bodies at a gar- bage dump in the neighbouring LONDON: British police yester- “Whilst no tactics guarantee “That obligation remains town of Cocula. day said they will no longer stand success in the event of Julian today,” it added. Last month, independent guard outside London’s Ecuado- Assange leaving the embassy, The 24-hour guard outside experts from the Inter-American rean embassy where WikiLeaks the MPS will deploy a number of the embassy in central London Commission on Human Rights founder Julian Assange took ref- overt and covert tactics to arrest has cost British taxpayers more tore apart the official investi- uge in 2012, but will strengthen him,” police said in a statement. than £10m ($15.4m), the source gation. They said there was no a “covert plan” to prevent his Swedish prosecutors want to of much criticism in austerity-hit scientific evidence that the 43 departure. question Assange about a rape Britain. students were burned. Britain’s Foreign Office later claim, which carries a 10-year “Like all public services, MPS Tomas Zeron, the prosecutors’ confirmed that it had summoned statute of limitations that expires resources are finite. With so many chief of investigations, insisted the Ecuadorean ambassador to in 2020. different criminal, and other, that a “large” number of students “register once again our deep Assange, who faces arrest if he threats to the city it protects, the were incinerated at the dump, frustration at the protracted tries to leave the embassy, denies current deployment of officers is although he acknowledged that delay” in extraditing Assange to the allegation and insists the no longer believed proportionate,” he could not confirm whether it Sweden to face questions over a sexual encounter was consensual. police said yesterday. was all 43. rape allegation. The Foreign Office said yester- “A significant amount of time But the newly released docu- The Metropolitan Police Serv- day that the head of the diplomatic has passed since Julian Assange ments include the testimony of ice (MPS) said yesterday that it service, Simon McDonald, had entered the embassy, and despite Marco Antonio Rios Berber, a had “today... withdrawn the physi- summoned Ecuadorean Ambas- the efforts of many people there A view of the Ecuadorean embassy in London where WikiLeaks founder confessed member of the Guer- cal presence of officers from out- sador Carlos Abad Ortiz to insist is no imminent prospect of a dip- Julian Assange took refuge in 2012. reros Unidos, who said 13 stu- side the embassy. on a resolution to the impasse. lomatic or legal resolution to this dents were taken to a hill on the “The operation to arrest Julian “The UK has been absolutely issue,” they added. leak of hundreds of thousands of tion deal with Ecuador by year’s outskirts of Iguala, where at least Assange does however continue clear since June 2012 that we The 44-year-old Australian also classified military and diplomatic end that would pave the way for nine were killed. and should he leave the embassy have a legal obligation to extra- fears that if he leaves he could documents in 2010. Swedish offi- prosecutors to question Assange. the MPS will make every effort dite Assange to Sweden,” said the eventually face extradition to the cials said in August that they AFP to arrest him. ministry statement. United States and a trial over the hoped to reach a judicial coopera- AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Harry Ramsden’s World evian unveils new Famous Fish & Chips bottle design in Qatar

fter UAE, evian has premiered its opens at Pearl-Qatar new PET bottle in Doha, adopting Aa perfect symphony between sub- stance and form. The new design repre- HB Group opened Harry the restaurant is imported fresh, sents a major breakthrough, fitting for the Ramsden’s World Famous directly from UK and in accord- water that first defined the world’s pre- AFish & Chips at The Pearl- ance with Harry Ramsden’s brand mium water segment in the early ‘80’s. Qatar yesterday. standards. This includes tradi- The bottle sports a “label-less” look. Its Qatar resident can now sample tional smoked haddock, salmon front features a simplified, elegant reduc- a taste of the British boardwalk as fishcakes, plaice and whole-tail tion of the previous logo design. A pano- prominent UK franchise, Harry Scottish scampi to name a few rama of mountains celebrates the water’s Ramsden’s World Famous Fish savory items. source in a corner of the French Alps - a & Chips, makes its debut at The With an indoor seating capac- region protected by the farming community Pearl-Qatar’s Medina Centrale ity of 70 and additional tables to ensure evian water maintains its pure, area. The opening marks the nestled away in the outdoor Hussain Al Fardan, (centre) Chairman, Alfardan Group and United natural form. The bottle’s simple shape and brand’s flagship outlet in the seating area, the restaurant is Development Company, cutting the ribbon with Ahmed Hassan Bilal, (left) beveled mountain ridges echo the simplic- Middle East and where it will spacious and the décor classic Chairman of AHB Group, during the opening ceremony of Harry Ramsden’s ity and regality of the water’s home. The serve its signature selection of seaside chic. World Famous Fish & Chips at The Pearl-Qatar yesterday. brand’s special story is told on the back of fish and chips, burger’s salads side Qatar’s franchise outlet will be the bottle, and “evian” is carved smartly dishes and more. a sole subsidiary of AHB Group. into the base as a playful design touch. “This is a very special , moment “Harry Ramsden’s is an icon; “We’re very excited. Our new bottle for our business, and a prosper- and this kind of cuisine is one allows evian’s natural personality to make ous association between two that transcends geography and a new connection with consumers. evian long-established family enter- culture to please the palate’s of has been the icon of the premium category prises – AHB Group and Harry people from every walk of life. globally and we wanted to renovate the Ramsden’s World Famous Fish & Who doesn’t love a family meal brand so consumers would be reminded Chips,” expressed AHB Chairman, shared over a hot plate of crispy of the water’s purity and freshness,” said Ahmed Hassan Bilal. fish and chips, with a cool glass Iain Farrell, Middle East Zone director “We are proud to use this of icy sherbet? This restaurant is for evianVolvic International of Danone affiliation to bring the public an more than a meal – it’s a place – responsible for bringing evian to the authentic dining experience using for the whole family to come and region. The new bottle is available in the only the freshest quality products bond over delicious comfort food,” 330m, 500ml and 1 litre sizes. and ingredients.” said Bilal. All fish that’s to be served at THE PENINSULA An inside view of the restaurant. THE PENINSULA

Holiday Villa goes green The season’s perfect scoop

oliday Villa Doha has initiated a campaign By Bonnie S Benwick a mixing bowl, until thick and to promote a culture of eco-friendly prac- golden-yellow. tices among its employees and guests. The ictoria Lai’s frozen ode to 2. Combine 1/2 cup heavy HGoing Green project aims to boost aware- Vapple-picking season makes cream, 1 cup whole milk and a ness of the environment and strengthen observance a convincing case that fall is actu- pinch of fine sea salt in a saucepan of energy preservation. The campaign solely is in ally the best time to eat ice cream. over medium heat; cook for about pursuit of running an environmentally responsible “You get to share the bounty 5 minutes, stirring; do not let the business to meet sustainable goals set by its princi- of the autumn fruit while holding mixture boil. Remove from the pal, Holiday Villa International, Malaysia. onto the joys of a summer scoop,” heat; gradually pour 1/4 cup of the Switching to LED lights, electrical shut off room says the owner of Ice Cream cream mixture into the egg yolk key card and water conservation are just few of Jubilee in DC’s Navy Yard. Lai mixture, whisking constantly. the best practices currently enforced by the man- designed her salty apple cinna- Gradually whisk in another 1/4 and refrigerate for 4 hours or up agement. In line with the campaign, the Food and mon flavour to taste like the last cup of the cream mixture, then to overnight. Beverage Department has launched the Green Box bites of apple pie a la mode, com- pour the newly combined mixture 4. Pour the cold ice cream base that discourages its patrons from using disposable plete with a helping of diced apple all into the saucepan, whisking as into a frozen ice cream maker; containers and utensils. With its eco-friendly mate- that stays crunchy once it’s folded you go. Cook over medium-low churn according to the manufac- rials, the guest can enjoy amazing discounts with into the cold. heat, until the temperature of the turer’s directions. After the first every purchase of the meal box. She has shared a simple recipe mixture registers 170 degrees on 20 minutes, add 3/4 cup peeled, Joey Chen, General Manager of Holiday Villa that yields just enough to ensure an instant-read thermometer. diced, firm apple, then continue Doha, said: “Going Green is the right thing to do. the ice cream will be consumed 3. Whisk in 2 heaping table- to churn. We all must do our part in protecting the natural quickly, and made often. spoons light brown sugar, 1/4 tea- 5. Once the ice cream has resources for the future generation. I am glad that spoon ground cinnamon, a pinch reached a soft-serve consistency, our guests and employees are in full support in doing Salty Apple Cinnamon Ice Cream each of ground cloves and freshly transfer it to a freezer-safe con- their part in this campaign. Moving forward, every- 2 to 4 servings (Makes 1 pint) grated nutmeg, and 1/4 teaspoon tainer, seal and freeze for at least one should expect the hotel to create and promote 1. To make the ice cream base, fine sea salt. Strain through a 4 hours before serving. more projects such as these.” whisk together 2 large egg yolks fine-mesh strainer into a bowl; THE PENINSULA with 1/3 cup granulated sugar in discard any solids. Cool, cover THE WASHINGTON POST Tokyo fashion: Superior street style lost in transaction

okyo fashion week opened big business — for Japanese designers Chinese manufacturers, for a fraction yesterday with a show by a anyway. of the original cost. US designer, an arrangement Frenchman Loic Bizel was among “Most Japanese designers work on Tobservers say underlines the the first style hunters to cash in on a small scale, they don’t have patent absence of local labels on the world Tokyo’s unique status as a laboratory protection or legal teams who can fight stage despite Japan’s reputation for of trends back in 2001. back so it’s easy for big brands to copy the edgiest streetwear. “This city is so ahead of the curve their designs and make money from More than fifty fashion houses will when it comes to fashion, trends begin it.” exhibit their collections over the next here and then months later, maybe Industry veterans like Shinoda six days, casting a spotlight on design- even a year later, they go global”, Bizel acknowledge the severity of the situ- ers working with materials ranging said. ation and say they are pushing local from denim to handwoven silk. The Tokyo-based trend-spotter designers to secure their trademarks “There is no shortage of design tal- plays a key role in this process. and protect their labels against fraud. ent in Japan,” said Akiko Shinoda, For anywhere between $700-$1,200 “Unfortunately we see many director of international affairs at a day, he takes clients representing instances of our designers’ logos being Japan Fashion Week Organisation, retail giants like H&M, Nordstrom copied and trademarks being regis- which is responsible for the event. and Zara on a tour of Tokyo’s most tered by companies in China,” she said. “Unfortunately many designers and edgy boutiques, tucked away along “We have to find a solution.” textile houses are still quite unknown quiet side lanes and often known only Tokyo fashion week kicked off outside Japan, (so) we need to promote to fashion insiders. with a nod to American classics by them,” Shinoda said. Bizel’s clients pay big bucks to his US designer, Todd Snyder, whose At times Tokyo’s pavements feel like company, Tokyo Fashion Tour, to scout pin-striped shirts, cotton shorts and their own catwalks, with youngsters inspiration. sweatshirts wouldn’t have looked out Models display creations by US designer Todd Snyder during the Tokyo 206 Spring/Summer Tokyo sporting an array of weird and won- “In one case, we had buyers from of place on a college campus. derful ensembles. Primark who must have bought some Linen suits and brogues made an Fashion Week in Tokyo yesterday. Beanie hats worn high on girls’ $20,000 worth of samples in a single appearance, as did a surfboard to sug- heads seem to be everywhere this day, in the end they had to buy extra gest that life wasn’t all work and no at the runway, with girls dressed in and silk shorts layered over pants in a largely autumn, even with the mercury still suitcases to carry all the stuff,” Bizel play for Snyder’s male and female mod- pleated miniskirts and ankle socks, monochrome collection. in the mid twenties. said. els, many of whom were of Japanese while one male stomped down the Traditionally Japanese designers -- with notable But while Tokyo’s fashionistas are origin and whose ages ranged from 19 catwalk in a pair of pants vertically exceptions like Issey Miyake, Kenzo and Comme applauded by bloggers and column- Faked in China all the way up to 60-years-old. slit to reveal a pair of leopard-print des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo -- have not paid much ists worldwide for their daring and All too often trend-setting designs In contrast, the models featured in boxer shorts. attention to overseas markets. sophistication, the wealth of street from boutique Tokyo shops are adapted Japanese label Keisukeyoshida’s show Japanese designer Soshi Otsuki’s “For a long time... the fashion industry in Japan style inspiration hasn’t translated into or even copied outright, particularly by looked like they cut class to turn up show featured men dressed in culottes did consistent and sufficient business solely in the domestic market, so there was no need (to pursue) international markets,” said Izumi Miyachi, deputy managing editor of Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The country’s chronic birth rate drop however has prompted a slowdown in domestic consump- tion, Miyachi said. Some Japanese designers with global ambitions — from legends like Yohji Yamamoto to thriving new label, Sacai — prefer to stage shows in Paris instead of Tokyo. But that doesn’t worry the organisers of Tokyo fashion week. “We can’t compete with Paris, Milan or New York,” Shinoda said. “But what we can do is pro- vide a platform for young designers who are start- ing their careers.” AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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PARIS: Asterix and his friend the “Condatum Echo”. “Julian are strangely similar to those tea with the English, taken part Obelix are once again poised to Assange was a model for this of French advertising magnate in the Olympic Games, and eaten set the Roman empire on fire character,” said writer Jean-Yves Jacques Seguela. countless roast boar. with the global release of a new Ferri, adding “Confoundtheir- But this “baddie” was inspired With the help of a Druid- opus that sees them team up with politix” was almost called “Wiki- more by real-life presidential brewed magic potion that grants a journalist modelled on Julian lix”, in reference to the website advisers such as Henri Guaino or them superhuman strength, they Assange. known for revealing top secret Patrick Buisson, who both worked have also taken great pleasure in After their last escapade in documents. for former French leader Nicolas beating up scores of Romans. Scotland, the boisterous Gauls Wifix is another new addition Sarkozy, said Ferri. “As Hitchcock The series has been adapted will be back in their home- to the series, the only well-read used to say, the more successful into live-action films and is the land in “Asterix and the Miss- person in the village who devotes the villain, the more successful inspiration for a popular theme ing Scroll”, fighting alongside a time to perusing the newspaper. the story. So we took good care park, Parc Asterix, outside Paris. reporter inspired by the real-life The first frame of the book of our villain,” he said. It has always been an intimate WikiLeaks founder to counter a depicts the postman — or “Post- Libellus Blockbustus himself is affair and Uderzo, now 88, took propaganda war launched by their aldistrix” — delivering the “Con- aided by a stylish Egyptian butler, over the writing when Goscinny Roman foes. datum Echo” to Wifix, who starts while a highly laid-back centurion died in 1977. The 36th edition in the hugely- reading the paper. “Rome, Cae- will also make an appearance. “Asterix and the Picts” was the successful Asterix series, which sar’s book published,” he says. The new opus comes two years first of the books to be written features the adventures of an “Caesar can write? I thought he after the Gallic duo re-emerged and illustrated by two entirely indomitable tribe of Gauls resist- was a soldier,” responds Obelix, from an eight-year absence in new people — Ferri and illustra- ing Roman occupation, comes who is strolling nearby. “Asterix and the Picts”, which A picture of cartoon character Asterix is displayed during a press conference tor Didier Conrad, who continued out on October 22 in countries The story revolves around took them to ancient Scotland presenting the 36th album of the adventures of the two Gauls entitled ‘Le their collaboration for “Asterix the world over, including Bra- Julius Caesar’s use of propa- for the first time and sold over Papyrus de Cesar’ (Cesar’s Papyrus) at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, and the Missing Scroll”. zil, India, the United States and ganda in a bid to finally conquer 5.4 million copies in 15 countries yesterday. This album will be released worldwide on October 22. Uderzo, who quit drawing in Australia. the small village after decades of and more than 20 languages and 2011, said he was “blown away” On the side of the “goodies”, crushing defeats. dialects. The Asterix series — created world, with some 365 million cop- by the new adventure and by the “Confoundtheirpolitix” will be The emperor is aided by a nasty, Four million copies will be by illustrator Albert Uderzo and ies sold worldwide. Over the years, “extraordinary” work of Conrad, introduced for the first time deceitful adviser called Libellus printed — half in French and the writer Rene Goscinny in 1959 -- the two characters from ancient his successor. as a journalist who works for Blockbustus, whose physical traits other half in foreign languages. is a bestseller in the comic book Gaul have met Cleopatra, drunk AFP Frankfurt book fair opens tomorrow Trailblazing trial for FRANKFURT: The world’s big- game adaptation of his runaway brittle-bone disease gest book fair opens tomorrow success ‘Pillars of the Earth’. under a cloud of controversy with Chilean writer Isabel Allende, PARIS: Foetuses burdened which, as they grow, differentiate Iran calling on all Muslim nations Denmark’s Jussi Adler-Olsen and with a crippling form of brittle- into the various specialised cells to boycott the exhibition because British anthropologist Nigel Bar- bone disease will receive stem- that make up the tissue of differ- author Salman Rushdie has been ley are also among the attendees. cell treatment early next year ent organs — the brain, the heart, invited to speak. The show will be an occasion in a pioneering trial, the lead the kidney, and so on. Organisers of the Frankfurt for the struggling book publish- researcher said yesterday. The approach was already tested Book Fair defended the choice, ing industry — with an estimated Stem cells will be injected to on a handful of young children suf- saying freedom of expression was total value of $129bn worldwide — help strengthen bones so frail fering from brittle-bone disease, a key theme at this year’s gather- to look for new ideas as younger they may break before birth, the with encouraging results, said ing of writers and publishers. “We generations turn their eyes researchers said. the Karolinska Institute’s Cecilia feel a strong politicisation this increasingly online. Stricken newborns will also Gotherstrom. “We have treated year and freedom of expression The consolidation of publishing be treated, and the results com- two children pre-natally. One will be a key theme,” said Juergen houses — reinforced by the birth pared. Children with severe forms child is now 13 and one was born Boos, director of the exhibition. in 2013 of the giant Penguin Ran- of the condition, called osteogen- last year,” she said. A third infant, The show promises to be con- dom House — the disappearance esis imperfecta, suffer repeated today six years old, was treated in troversial even before its doors of major bookstore chains and fractures of bones throughout the collaboration with researchers in open, with a press conference the uneasy coexistence of paper skeleton, leading to painful dis- Singapore and Taiwan. today to be headlined by Rush- and electronic publishing are also ability and, in some cases, death After the stem cells were die. Tehran on Wednesday said A woman stands behind book lit up with LED lights that serves as decorative expected to be topics broached at in early infancy. implanted, the patients experi- it was boycotting the Frankfurt lighting at the pavilion for the guest of honour country, Indonesia, during the fair. Representatives of Ama- Other symptoms include brit- enced fewer fractures and growth fair, because it had “under the preparations for the Book Fair in Frankfurt yesterday. zon will likely be closely watched tle and discoloured teeth, hearing increased, she added. For the old- pretext of freedom of expression, when they participate in round- loss and breathing difficulties due est patients, however, more recent invited a person who is hated in vidual Iranian publishers would around the world, led by Danish table discussions at the show, to malformed rib cages. There is no treatments proved “transient” the Islamic world and created the still be present and that they had author Janne Teller. Held for the which opens on October 14 and cure. Genetic in origin, brittle-bone and did not last long. In the trial, opportunity for Salman Rushdie... increased their presence in recent second consecutive year, the dis- runs until October 18. disease affects about one in 25,000 Gotherstrom and colleagues across to make a speech”. It also urged years. It is perhaps ironic that cussions, titled ‘Frankfurt Under- Meanwhile, Germany, which people of European descent. Europe hope to find out if prenatal other Muslim nations to join its the guest country of this year’s cover’, are aimed at generating is receiving a record number of The condition is caused by a injections make a difference. “By boycott. show is Indonesia — the nation ideas aimed mainly at influencing refugees this year, will ensure that defect in a gene that produces col- having two cohorts,” or groups, “we But the fair’s organisers with the world’s largest Muslim political opinion. the newcomers are not left out lagen, a fibre-like protein crucial will be able to offer treatment to insisted that “freedom of the word population. About 70 writers from The Frankfurt fair dates as from the major cultural event, by for strengthening bone, much in more children, and also investigate is not negotiable”. “We regret the the Southeast Asian nation will far back as the Middle Ages with giving them free tickets to the fair the way steel rods reinforce con- if treatment before birth is indeed cancellation of the Iranian min- attend, including author Laksmi the invention of the Gutenberg and organising visits. crete. The trials, coordinated by better,” she said. istry of culture,” said book fair Pamuntjak who will present her press just down the road, and this The question of access to cul- the Karolinska Institute in Swe- A dozen research institutes, chief, Boos. “The Frankfurt Book latest book ‘The Question of Red’, year some 7,300 exhibitors will be ture in the refugee camps will be den where the stem-cell treat- hospitals and pharmaceutical Fair is a place of dialogue. At the a love story set at in the 1960s, present, with up to 300,000 visi- discussed at a conference dur- ment was developed, will involve companies are participating in same time, we hope that Iran’s a period of violent repression tors expected. ing the fair, while the German a group of 15 foetuses and another the trial. In earlier trials in the cancellation this year will only be against communists. As in every edition, internation- writers’ federation is expected group of 15 newborns. Each group US, and one under way in Spain, a short interruption of the ongo- Themes of barriers, borders ally renowned writers will be out to launch an appeal for solidar- will receive injections of stem cells stem cells are transplanted into ing talks and that we will be able and the fight against extremism in Frankfurt to promote their lat- ity for those who have fled their designed to boost collagen levels young patients with brittle-bone to expand and extend relations. will dominate during three days of est works, including Ken Follett, countries. in growing bones. disease. The organisers said that indi- discussions with 20 writers from who is set to speak about the video AFP Stem cells are blank-slate cells AFP Teenage girls and drama therapy break new ground in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Haneen, who has and aimed at introducing drama filled with doom, takes a young Violence continues to be omni- spent most of her life in orphan- therapy in a country where bride still clutching her doll to a present with car bomb blasts, ages, says she used to stay weeks almost everybody has suffered nuptial room. images of massacres and behead- locked up in herself, aimlessly some kind of trauma. Lost childhood, early marriage, ings sowing death and fear across eating, watching TV and sleep- The play at the Theatre Forum, social inequalities: The play tack- the country, while the chaos has ing through each day. an edgy arts centre that opened led a range of issues with a spon- also allowed thieves, extortionists Last week, the 13-year-old in a beautiful old building on the taneous mix of humour and gritty and traffickers to prosper. Iraqi girl was beaming with joy banks of the Tigris, was the cul- bluntness. The drama therapy project and excitement when the crowd mination of a months-long pro- The young troupe also took explores a way of “addressing at a Baghdad theatre gave her gramme. a swipe at politicians and ech- people and their problems in an and her friends a rousing round Six theatre professionals were oed the despair that is driving extremely damaged society such of applause. trained in Beirut by Catharsis, the country’s youth out of Iraq as Iraq, that has experienced so “Now I’m happy. I sing, dance a drama therapy centre led by and onto Europe’s shores, draw- much trauma and violence,” said and joke with my friends from director Zeina Daccache, known ing hearty laughter but also a Tamara Chalabi, chair of the the orphanage,” she said. “I have for her work with prisoners and few embarrassed chuckles from Ruya Foundation. changed. People are asking me: migrant workers in Lebanon. the crowd. “I am proud of them “Iraq is a society for men, not ‘What happened? Have you gone Bassem Altayeb was one of the today,” said a misty-eyed Iman really for women... These girls are crazy?’” trainees. Hassoon, the orphanage’s princi- particularly vulnerable,” added What happened was a project He took the lead in helping a pal, after the show. Furat Al Jamil, an Iraqi-German set up by the Ruya Foundation small group of teenage girls from “I sometimes get men coming artist who also works with Ruya. for Contemporary Culture in Iraq the Dar Al Zuhur orphanage in to the orphanage asking to adopt “The first time Ruya Foun- Baghdad put together a play that one of the girls,” she said. “I hope dation visited the orphanage, Iraqi girls from the Dar Al Zuhur orphanage perform in a play at the Theatre tackles the issues they face. they can use the energy they the girls were very shy, they Forum in Baghdad. The play is a project set up by the Ruya Foundation “Each one found some confi- found with this play to protect were hiding, all of them wore for Contemporary Culture in Iraq aimed at introducing drama therapy in a dence and self-esteem, built their themselves and carve a place of scarves. Now you see them... country where almost everybody has suffered some kind of trauma and character... The script is about the their own in society,” Hassoon liberated from a lot of inhibi- helping teenage girls address issues they face through theatre. girls saying: ‘We too have a right said. tions,” Jamil said. to live, to be protected and have For decades, Iraqis have been After the play, the girls them- when the lights came back on and bored, nobody liked hanging dreams,’” he said. battered in turn by dictatorship, selves could hardly believe their the audience stood up to clap. out with me. Now everything’s On stage, one of the girls puts economic sanctions, foreign and own transformation. Ruqayyeh, “I had always dreamt of being changed and the girls love me.” on an old white-haired man’s civil conflicts — sometimes several an elfish 13-year-old who played an actress, of being on stage... mask and, in a disturbing scene of those at the same time. the child bride, burst into tears But I used to be depressed and AFP Tuesday 13 October 2015 29 Dhul-Hijja 1436 Volume 20 Number 6582 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Export value of SMEs Prime Minister to open World at QR2.4bn in 2014 Export Development Forum DOHA: Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Country’s growth story will ride on success of SMEs Al Thani will open the 15th edi- tion of the World Export Devel- By Satish Kanady tion to this sector is key, he said. in promoting SMEs and private opment Forum (WEDF) in Doha Qatar’s growth story will ride on sector growth on October 20. Qatar Develop- DOHA: After initial hitches, the success of SMEs. The idea is to QDB’s indirect lending pro- ment Bank (QDB) yesterday Qatar’s ambitious start-ups and increase the size of Qatari SMEs’ gramme, Al Dhameen has become announced the list of speakers at small and medium enterprises contribution to the overall GDP. an instant hit. The indirect lend- the two-day forum. (SMEs) sector is gathering SMEs role in the local economy ing initiative was launched by QDB The Ministry of Finance and momentum. The Qatar Develop- has to improve, Abdulaziz Zeid to assist smaller firms that were QDB, in collaboration with the ment Bank (QDB) yesterday said Rashid Al Taleb, Director of Gov- unable to obtain funding from International Trade Centre the combined export value of ernment Procurement Regulation banks due to a lack of collateral or (ITC), a subsidiary organisation Qatari SMEs stood at QR2.4bn at the Ministry of Finance said. financial history, but rather than of the World Trade Organisation last year. This figure is all likely to The QDB CEO said the upcom- directly lending to them credit (WTO) and the United Nations Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa (left), CEO of QDB, with Abdulaziz Zeid exceed this year, given the avail- ing World Export Development facilities are offered through a Conference on Trade and Devel- Rashid Al Taleb, Director of Government, Procurement Regulation, at the able numbers for the current year. Forum in Doha will be an ideal number of partner institutions in opment (UNCTAD), are jointly Ministry of Finance, during a press conference yesterday. ABDUL BASIT “We don’t have an updated platform for Qatari SMEs to the banking sector. hosting the event based on the numbers for 2015. But as per the exchange ideas and technical The financial institutions and theme ‘Sustainable Trade: Inno- available figures, the combined know-how. Over 50 local SMEs banks in Qatar have a key role vate, Invest, Internationalise’. session. The Forum will include a leaders, heads of national trade to export value in 2015 is estimated will be participating in the events to play in promoting SMEs and The Prime Minister will open number of specialised workshops support institutions, and interna- at QR1.7bn”, Abdulaziz bin Nasser scheduled to be held on the side- private sector growth. As of the Forum in the presence of poli- as well, aimed to enhance the tional agency officials to address Al Khalifa, the Chief Executive lines of the two-day event, starting 2015, 14 of Qatar’s conventional cymakers, representatives of trade tourist experience and industrial trade competitiveness topics and Officer of QDB said yesterday. October 20. and shariah-compliant banks support institutions and business sectors, said Abdulaziz bin Nasser to establish new partnerships. The QDB plays critical role in As part of Qatar’s ambitious and finance houses operate the executives who are charged with Al Khalifa , the CEO of QDB. The 15th Edition of the WEDF introducing SME products in the economic diversification plans, scheme, according to Oxford Busi- driving innovation and interna- There will also be business-to- will focus on many themes, includ- international markets. The bank the state-owned QDB has been ness Group. tionalisation. This is the first time business meetings to allow par- ing trade in services, tapping support them to find new mar- providing direct project finance According to Oxford Business the Middle East is hosting WEDF. ticipants to explore new business the potential of tourism, driving kets as well. The country’s SMEs and raw material loans to start- Group report, in 2014 Al Dhameen H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi, opportunities, taking advantage diversification through trade and sector is the key agent of Qatar’s ups and existing businesses at guaranteed credit facilities valued Minister of Finance, Qatar, and of the Gulf countries’ unique posi- investment, innovation and entre- economic diversification story. competitive interest rates. The at about QR174.6m for 62 SMEs. Arancha Gonzalez, the Executive tion at the crossroads where East preneurship. Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon sector is financial institutions and banks Director of the ITC, are among meets West. WEDF gathers over fast growing and SMEs contribu- in Qatar have a key role to play THE PENINSULA others to address the opening 400 senior policymakers, business THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo, Nokia sign deal for Dell to buy EMC in advanced broadband network $67bn record DOHA: Ooredoo Group and and Kuwait, 4G in Oman, Tunisia, to helping it provide world-class Nokia have signed a major and the Maldives, and launching voice and data services, and meet tech deal framework agreement in Doha the first commercial 3G in Alge- burgeoning data demand. Our to support Ooredoo’s long-term ria and 3G services in Myanmar. hands-on innovation approach NEW YORK: Computer maker development strategy across its Frame agreements like the one enables mobile broadband net- Dell Inc said it had agreed to buy footprint in the Middle East, signed with Nokia are one of the works to deliver gigabytes of per- data storage company EMC Corp North Africa and Southeast Asia. tools the Group uses to reinforce sonalised data per user per day in a $67bn record technology deal Under the five-year contract, its leadership position. profitably and securely by 2020. that will unite two mature com- Nokia will provide advanced Ahmed Al Derbesti, COO of With our latest innovations we panies and create an enterprise mobile broadband technologies Ooredoo Group, said, “Working will support Ooredoo to prepare technology powerhouse. and professional services to help with Nokia, Ooredoo has designed for the huge data demand, and The acquisition will help pri- Ooredoo Group supports superior and built a range of leading- provide high-speed data services vately held Dell diversify from 2G, 3G, 4G and LTE-A networks edge networks that enable us to with improved network coverage, a stagnant personal-computer to offer advanced voice and data enrich our customers’ lives. This in addition to clearer voice call market and give it greater scale services for its customers across renewed framework agreement is services to ensure the ultimate Ashish Chowdhary (left), Executive Vice-President and Chief Business in the more profitable and faster- its range of mature and emerging significant, as it covers the deliv- personal gigabyte experience.” Officer, Nokia Networks, and Ahmed Al Derbesti, COO of Ooredoo Group. growing market for managing and markets. In the renewed agree- ery of all the latest technologies Demonstrating the power of storing data. ment, the terms and conditions and support services helping us the partnership Ooredoo Qatar, TDD- and FDD-LTE spectrums the Flexi Zone small cells com- Combining Dell’s server busi- have been revised to include glo- further enhance our network Nokia Networks and China and aggregating 10 carriers with plementing its existing network, nesses with EMC’s storage and bal best practices in terms of capacity and coverage.” Mobile showcased a record- 200 MHz bandwidth. Ooredoo will be able to provide virtualization assets, the merged delivery and technology for the Ashish Chowdhary, Executive breaking speed of 4.1 Gbps over In Qatar, Ooredoo has deployed advanced voice and data services company will have a broader benefit of both companies. Vice-President and Chief Business TDD-FDD LTEat the ITU Tel- Nokia Networks’ high-capacity to its customers even in the most product offering with which to Ooredoo has taken the lead in Officer, Nokia Networks, said, “We ecom World 2014. Supported by small cells, which will enhance crowded indoor and outdoor areas. challenge IBM Corp, Cisco Sys- network performance across its value our long-term partnership the Global TD-LTE Initiative, the Ooredoo’s 3G and 4G network for a tems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co footprint, offering 4G+ in Qatar with Ooredoo, and are committed speed was achieved by combining better customer experience. With THE PENINSULA in the areas of cloud computing, mobility and cyber security. “I don’t think either Dell or EMC were viable over the long run as a standalone; they really needed each other,” said Eric Johnson, dean of the Owen School Princeton Professor Deaton wins Economics Nobel of Management at Vanderbilt University. “Dell was mostly on STOCKHOLM: US-British Princeton University in the US poverty in developing countries against when households have to the consumer side, which is a ter- microeconomist Angus Deaton and described winning the prize with the help of household surveys. tighten the belt. “Deaton’s focus rible place to be. EMC had some won the Nobel Economics Prize as a little like being struck by Deaton is “an economist who on household surveys has helped enterprise products, but not the for groundbreaking work using lightning. “If you’re my age and looks more closely at what poor transform development econom- complete package.” household surveys to show how you’ve been working for a long households consume to get a bet- ics from a theoretical field based The deal valued EMC at $33.15 consumers, particularly the poor, time you know this is a possibil- ter sense of their living standards on aggregate data to an empirical a share as of the end of trading decide what to buy and how poli- ity,” he said on Princeton’s web- and possible paths for economic field based on detailed individual Friday. Dell will pay $24.05 per cymakers can help them. site. “But you also know there are development. He truly, deeply data,” the Academy said. share in cash and will also give “By emphasising the links a huge number of people out there understands the implications of Deaton saw how an economic EMC shareholders a special stock between individual consump- who deserve this. That lightning economic growth, the benefits of indicator such as gross domestic that tracks the share price in tion decisions and outcomes for would strike me seemed like a very modernity, and political economy,” product (GDP) — which measures VMWare Inc, the virtual software the whole economy, his work has small probability event. It was sort Tyler Cowen, an economics profes- a country’s economic growth and provider majority-owned by EMC. helped transform modern micro- of like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s really sor at George Mason University in is the preferred indicator of gov- EMC shares rose 1 percent economics, macroeconomics and happening’.” Washington, said. ernments and institutions — was to $28.15 after earlier jumping development economics,” the Deaton was honoured for three Deaton’s research has shown insufficient in evaluating the gen- more than 2.5 percent. VMware Royal Swedish Academy of Sci- related achievements: developing how the clever use of household eral welfare of a people. shares plunged nearly 10 percent ences said. “To design economic with his colleague John Muellbauer data can shed light on issues In his 2013 book “The Great to $70.96, decreasing the value of policy that promotes welfare and around 1980 a system for esti- such as the relationship between Escape” Deaton outlined how Dell’s offer. VMware will remain an reduces poverty, we must first mating the demand for different income and calorie intake — overall human welfare — especially independent, publicly traded com- understand individual consump- goods; studies of the link between increased income does indeed lead longevity and prosperity — has pany. EMC’s board has approved tion choices. More than anyone consumption and income that he to more calories being consumed. risen spectacularly over time, even Angus Deaton speaks on winning the merger and will recommend else, Angus Deaton has enhanced conducted around 1990; and work It also showed the extent of gen- though the inequality gap between that shareholders do so as well. the Nobel Prize in Princeton, New this understanding,” it said. he carried out in later decades on der discrimination within the rich and poor has widened. Jersey, yesterday. Deaton, 69, is a professor at measuring living standards and family — girls are discriminated AFP REUTERS TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Oberoi Group Back2Business event begins tomorrow to manage two Over 500 professionals to attend networking event luxury properties

DOHA: More than 500 profes- ness Qatar was promoted by the social media platforms every in Qatar sionals are expected to attend German Business Council in Doha week since September. so once this year’s Back2Business event. in 2004, the Italian business coun- again, hundreds of professionals DOHA: The Oberoi Group, global A networking event for manag- cil soon joined. will gather for this impressive chain of premium 5-star luxury ers, professionals and diplomats, Currently, the networking business cocktail as for the past businesses, has entered into man- the 11th edition of Back2Busi- event is supported by nine major ten years in a row,” added Palma agement contracts for two new ness will be held on October 14 international business organisa- Libotte. luxury properties in Qatar — a in Doha. tions which include the Scandi- Organisers have included new 250-key luxury hotel being devel- “We are expecting around 500 navian, Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, sectors such as public relations oped in the West Bay area and participants for this year’s event. Australian, New Zealand, French, and event management, railways a 148-key luxury serviced apart- Around 50-60 participants are British and Irish and Qatari busi- and ports in this year’s event. ment building located in Lusail. expected to be from overseas,” nessmen associations. “An average of 600 interna- Planning of both the projects is said P Palma Libotte, Chairperson “The QFC is committed to sup- tional and Qatari businessmen well under way and construction and Founder, The Italian Cham- porting the business community participate every October at the will commence early next year ber of Commerce in Qatar, yester- in Qatar, and helping to build a Back2Business event to exchange with completion of both projects day at a press conference. “This thriving business and financial views on the market scenario, to Officials of various business councils supporting this year’s Back2Business in mid 2018, the group disclosed event has become a stronghold sector. Back2Business is one of share experiences among profes- event at a press conference held yesterday. BAHER AMIN in a press note yesterday. in networking in Doha because it Qatar’s most prominent business sionals, to promote their busi- The hotel in Doha will reflect offers the opportunity to recon- networking events and we are ness,” said Jarmo Kihlstrom, businesses grow theirs through- the people. Participants will be the same standards of luxury nect with business contacts after proud to support it,” said Sarah Chairperson of Scandinavian out the years and to sponsor the from oil and gas, financial serv- that Oberoi Hotels & Resorts are the long summer in an informal Al Dorani, Associate Director of Business Council, Qatar and B2B event for the fourth time,” ices, construction, interiors, hos- known for and the Lusail serv- yet business environment. The big Advertising and Branding, QFC. Manager, International Moving, he added. pitality, health, education, ports, iced apartments will also bring players meet in a relaxed atmos- QFC is the Strategic Partner of Gulf Agency Company (GAC). “As During the event, participants railway and public relations and Oberoi’s exacting standards to a phere on the same night at the this year’s event. GAC is preparing to celebrate its will wear a coloured badge that event management. serviced apartment residential same spot,” she added. “Around 10,000 people were 40th year in Qatar, we are proud corresponds to his or her business complex. The first edition of Back2Busi- reached by the Facebook and to have been able to help many sector making it easy to identify THE PENINSULA Both Qatar projects are being sponsored by Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance Com- pany (SAQ). P R S Oberoi, Executive Chair- man, The Oberoi Group, said,“We Marka to enter Qatar are extremely pleased to have been selected by the Qatar Gen- eral Insurance and Reinsurance Company (SAQ) to assist them market in H2, 2016 in the design and management of these two projects and we look forward to bringing the Oberoi DOHA: Marka, the first pubic with its business model one of hospitality to the Qatar market”. joint stock retail operator in the taking established international Oberoi Hotels & Resorts was UAE, plans to enter into Qatar and local brands that show strong voted the “World’s Best Hotel during the second half of 2016, potential, under its umbrella to Brand” by Travel + Leisure, USA, business portal ‘Trade Arabia’ extend their footprint in the UAE this year. reported quoting top Marka and across markets in the GCC. THE PENINSULA Participants and other officials present at the graduation ceremony held at RasGas headquarters in Doha. executives. The company also develops and The company is currently cel- operates its own home-grown ebrating 12 months of operations concepts. GE launches RasGas Qatari employees complete since listing on the Dubai Finan- During its first year of opera- cial Market (DFM). tions, Marka launched nine retail Khaled Almheiri, vice-chair- outlets, with 12 additional out- venture plans man & managing director, Marka lets set to open in 2015. To date, ICAEW Accounting Skills Certificate told the news portal: “Marka is the company has conducted five proud to celebrate its first full strategic acquisitions, including with Wamda DOHA: A group of 15 young Finance Officer was present at The ASC programme pro- year of trading on the DFM. the sports group Retailcorp UAE DOHA: GE launched the male and female Qatari national the graduation ceremony held at vides RasGas employees with a On this special anniversary, we from Istithmar World, the lead- MEMakers Venture Program employees working in the Finance RasGas headquarters in Doha. strong platform to fast-track would like to thank everyone — ing children’s edutainment chain with Wamda for eleven start-up Group of RasGas Company Lim- Michael Armstrong, Regional their careers and to pursue in particular our shareholders Cheeky Monkeys, the world’s ventures at its GE Ecomagina- ited (RasGas) have completed Director of ICAEW, Amanda further professional account- and employees — who are help- largest e-retailer of football tion Innovation Center, which Institute of Chartered Account- Line, Partner, PwC’s academy ing qualifications such as Asso- ing to realise Marka’s vision and memorabilia, ICONS, the award acts as an industrial incubator. ants in England and Wales UAE, Maaz Barakat, Lecturer ciate Chartered Accountant ambition of becoming the premier winning restaurant group Reem This six-week programme is part (ICAEW) Accounting Skills Cer- PwC’s academy and other repre- with the ICAEW(ACA), Asso- retail and hospitality operator in Al Bawadi and the Middle East of the company’s strategic vision tificate (ASC). sentatives from ICAEW and PwC ciation of Chartered Certified the UAE and beyond.” operations of UK-based Morelli’s in the region to accelerate digital The Qatari employees were also attended the ceremony. Accountants(ACCA), Certified According to the report, Marka Gelato. industrial entrepreneurship eco- registered with the ICAEW and “RasGas is committed to Management Accountant(CMA), was the first company to conduct “To say that Marka has had a systems across the Middle East PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) quality Qatarisation through and Certified Public Accountant an IPO in the UAE since 2009, a busy first year would be some- and North Africa region. and gained extensive accounting performance- based culture, (CPA). All 15 of the candidates statement said. The IPO opened in thing of an understatement. We More than 20 GE employees knowledge and professional skills competency- based training and graduated the challenging ASC April 2014 and was well received have proven our commitment to signed up to act as mentors for during the six month structured retention of young professionals. programme with 2 participants by the local investor community, expanding our retail and hospi- the programme, offering cutting training programme which was We have excellent programmes achieving a merit score and being 37 times oversubscribed. tality footprint and in doing so, edge insights on how to drive the jointly developed by ICAEW and to attract, recruit and develop a a remarkable 13 participants The company listed its shares on have enhanced the region’s retail growth of the start-up ventures PwC. talented and qualified national achieving the highest distinction the DFM on September 25, 2014. industry”, ‘Trade Arabia’ quoted who work in digital industrial RasGas Chief Executive Officer workforce fully aligned with score. At the time of listing, the Nick Peel, Marka CEO as saying. technologies. Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi Qatar National Vision 2030,” said company had no outlets under “I am delighted with the Rania Rostom, Chief Innova- along with Tom McHale, Chief Al Muhannadi. THE PENINSULA operation and approximately 10 progress from our first 12 months tion Officer of GE MENAT, said: employees. Today, the company of operations,” he added. “We “The MEMakers Venture Pro- has 37 retail outlets under man- will certainly be celebrating this gram is a path-breaking platform agement representing more than important milestone with our steered by GE and Wamda to pro- French award for Mercure 265,000 sq ft of retail space, with a employees, but we are not rest- mote entrepreneurship among staff complement of 1,082 employ- ing on our laurels. We have much start-ups in the region, and sup- ECB: Premature ees. planned to take us up to our sec- port the governmental vision to The company operates three ond anniversary next year.” drive a culture of innovation.” divisions; Marka Sports, Marka to discuss new Hospitality and Marka Fashion, THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA QE programme

FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank feels it is too early to start discussing a new round of monetary policy easing, a Ford to invest $1.8bn in China top official said yesterday, but insisted that the ECB was still ready to act if needed. “If any- SHANGHAI: US auto giant ing centre in the eastern city of months of 2015, but that was thing were needed, we would Ford will invest nearly $2bn on Nanjing, the company said in a down around one percent from need to be ready,” ECB executive research and development in statement. “With this investment the same period last year, amid board member Benoit Coeure told China, it said yesterday, despite in research and development, the an overall slowdown in the market CNBC Television in an interview. falling sales in the world’s biggest next generation of Ford vehi- due to weaker economic growth. In March, the ECB launched a auto market. cles will be completely designed In August alone, the carmaker highly controversial programme The 11.4bn yuan ($1.8bn) around our customers,” said Mark reported sales of 79,608 vehicles of bond purchases, known as investment, to be completed by Fields, Ford’s president and chief in China, a three percent decrease quantitative easing or QE, to Eric Chevallier, Ambassador of France to Qatar, presenting the National 2020, will build up Ford’s R&D executive officer. compared to the same month in push eurozone inflation back up Order of Merit Medal to Thierry SZEWC, General Manager of Mercure capability in the country, espe- Ford sold 700,196 vehicles 2014. to levels that are more conducive Hotel Doha, for completing 40 years of service with the Group Accor cially at an existing engineer- in China during the first eight AFP to healthy economic growth. and for his services to the French community. Initially, the programme — under which the ECB plans to buy as much as €1.1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) of bonds at a rate of €60bn per month until September 2016 — appeared to work. But a Glencore puts Australian, Chilean mines up for sale renewed decline in oil prices and the economic slowdown in China ZURICH: Mining giant Glen- the Cobar mine in southwestern without any financial details from Swiss company, which has been payments until further notice and has pushed area-wide inflation core, under pressure from a crash Australia, which produces some the company. But it suggested the hard-hit by a commodity price has said it will sell off a number expectations back down, reignit- in commodity prices and weighed 50,000 tonnes of copper in con- Cobar mine could be worth $100- collapse, has faced wild fluctua- of assets. Faced with shrink- ing fears of a potentially danger- down by debt, announced yester- centrate annually, and the Lomas $150m, while the Lomas Bayas tion in its share price in recent ing metals prices, Glencore has ous downward spiral of falling day it had begun talks to sell cop- Bayas in the Atacama desert in mine might fetch up to $500m. It weeks amid investor fears that already mothballed output at two prices. And that has led to specu- per mines in Australia and Chile. Chile, which produces around said the mines might be a good fit sinking commodity prices will copper projects in Africa, and lation that the ECB might need “The sale process is in response 75,000 tonnes of copper cathode for copper production specialist affect its ability to meet outstand- closed a platinum mine in South to extend its QE programme or to Glencore receiving a number of each year. Glencore said it would Antofagasta, listed on the Lon- ing debt obligations. Africa. And last week, the mining launch a new one. But Coeure said unsolicited expressions of inter- not provide further information don stock exchange, “if the price At the beginning of September, giant announced it would slash its it was “too early to pass that kind est for these mines from various on the possible copper mines sales is right.” Glencore announced a series of output of zinc by a third by sus- of judgement.” “Of course, we have potential buyers,” the firm said in until they had been concluded “or Following the announcement, drastic moves aimed at cutting its pending zinc operations at mines only executed, delivered, one third a statement. It warned that the disclosure is otherwise required.” Glencore saw its share price slide towering $30bn debt by a third. in two mines Australia and Peru, of the programme,” he argued. process “may or may not result Analysts with the Canaccord 1.47 percent to 127.20 pence in late Among other measures, the and cutting production elsewhere. in a sale” of the two mines. institute said it was difficult to morning trading on the London company has raised $2.5bn in AFP The mines in question are estimate the value of the two sites stock exchange. The debt-laden share sales, has halted dividend AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 QIIB joins QFBA to Qatar Airways signs code-share celebrate young deal with Sun-Air

DOHA: Qatar Airways has signed a code-share agreement with Danish carrier Sun-Air, a fran- Qataris’ graduation chise of British Airways. From October 8, Sun- Air and Qatar Airways will introduce code-share flights between Billund, Aalborg and Aarhus in Jutland, the Western part of Denmark, and several Progamme part of Qatarisation in banks European destinations including Oslo, Brussels, Manchester and Munich. DOHA: Qatar International Islamic handed over certificates to the grad- This new cooperation expands the options for Bank (QIIB) celebrated the graduation uates who have spent six months Qatar Airways’ passengers travelling to and from of eight young Qataris, in collaboration acquiring various intensive banking QIIB Chief Executive Officer Abdulbasit Ahmed Al Sheibi (centre), QFBA CEO Dr Denmark, opening up an enhanced range of travel with the Qatar Finance and Business knowledge and skills, be it theoreti- Abdul Aziz Al Horr, QIIB Deputy CEO Jamal Abdullah Al Jamal, and QIIB Head (Human options in addition to Copenhagen. The agreement Academy (QFBA). cal or practical, which enable them to will lead to excellent new connections between Resources and Public Services) Ali Hamad Al Musaifry at a ceremony. The QFBA programme is aimed at perform the expected tasks, based on Denmark and a large number of business and lei- developing leadership competencies internationally approved best banking sure destinations around the world including Bali, in Qataris and entrusting them with standards. QIIB has made major strides towards have a solid base upon which we can Singapore, Mumbai, Goa, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, important positions within the bank. Al Sheibi congratulated the gradu- its Qatarisation drive, which remains a build.” Hanoi, Shanghai, Hyderabad and Dhaka. The academy established the partner- ates and lauded their commitment top priority for the bank. Community The CEO expressed QIIB’s deep Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar ship with QIIB to equip young Qatari throughout the training period, which service and human development are thanks and appreciation to the QFBA Al Baker said, “Sun-Air’s company values are talented professionals and empower lasted six months. During this pro- central to the bank’s strategic vision. led by Dr Al Horr for their great coop- closely aligned with those of Qatar Airways and we them with knowledge and skills across gramme, they learnt different train- “As we stand here and celebrate the eration and efforts in developing and therefore see excellent opportunities with this new various banking functions. ing subjects including principles and success of eight young Qatari gradu- empowering Qatari human resources, code-share agreement, maintaining and enhancing Held at the QFBA, the ceremony products of Islamic banking, market- ates, who have been equipped to take which are of great value to the bank. our competitive offer to customers. Qatar Air- was attended by QIIB Chief Executive ing, customer service, English lan- over important assignments in QIIB, During the graduation ceremony, ways is expanding rapidly across the world and Officer Abdulbasit Ahmed Al Sheibi, guage, professional performance skills, we are participating in realising the Dr Al Horr praised the QIIB initia- the agreement with Sun-Air further strengthens QFBA CEO Dr Abdul Aziz Al Horr, leadership skills, risk management great national vision of equipping and tive of training and empowering Qatari our position, whilst providing our passengers with QIIB Deputy CEO Jamal Abdullah among others. They acquired practical empowering Qataris in the banking employees, pointing out that the Acad- an unrivalled global network”. Al Jamal, and QIIB Head (Human skills through their work in the QIIB sector, and help them grow in the pro- emy’s major role is to develop the com- Sun-Air’s Commercial Director Kristian Tver- Resources and Public Services) Ali branches for one day each week and fession”, he said. petencies of nationals in the financial gaard said, “We are honoured to be able to add Hamad Al Musaifry. throughout the training period. “The commitment and enthusiasm and banking sector by not only honing the Qatar Airways code on our flights and in this The event was also attended by The CEO stated that the QIIB was shown by the graduates during the their existing skills but also training way offer unique connections for our customers some officials who led the training satisfied about its key programme to various stages of the training pro- them towards internationally recog- between our three bases in Jutland — Billund, programme, which was designed and nurture and develop the Qatari talent gramme inspire and motivate us to go nised qualification and certifications . Aarhus and Aalborg — and the Qatar Airways launched jointly by QIIB and QFBA. and employ them in various positions further and initiate future steps in this hub in Doha.” Al Sheibi and Dr Al Horr both within the bank. regard, especially because we already THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA GDI bags oil field services award No call for policy Opec sees DOHA: Gulf Drilling Interna- more demand tional Limited (GDI), a subsidi- ary of Gulf International Services (GIS), Qatar’s largest publicly change at Opec: as cheap oil listed energy services company, has been awarded the “Oil field services company of the year” at hits rivals an event in Abu Dhabi. Kuwait Minister LONDON: Opec forecast yester- The Oil & Gas Middle East & day that demand for its oil in 2016 Refining & Petrochemicals Mid- KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait said would be much higher than pre- dle East (RPME) Awards were yesterday there were no calls viously thought as its strategy of first held in 2010 to celebrate within Opec to change the oil letting prices fall hits US shale oil achievements being carried out group’s production policy and and other rival supplies, reducing in the upstream and downstream that lower output from high-cost a global surplus. communities in the region. producers could support prices in In a monthly report, the Opec Mubarak Alhajri, Gulf Drilling 2016, adding to signs Opec will forecast the world would need International’s CEO received the keep its strategy of defending 30.82 million barrels per day award from Ian Stokes the ITP market share. (bpd) from the group next year, Group Publishing Director. GDI CEO Mubarak Alhajri (left) receiving the award from ITP Group Meanwhile, Opec forecast in up 510,000 bpd from the previous This award is in recognition Publishing Director Ian Stokes. a monthly report that demand prediction. Opec’s forecast, if real- of the remarkable achievements for its oil in 2016 would be much ised, would be a further indication made by Gulf Drilling Interna- higher than previously thought as its strategy is working. The group tional Limited during 2014. the industry average global TRIR history, operational performance lower prices curb US shale oil and last year refused to prop up prices GDI achievements included, as recorded by IADC, highest above industry average. other rival supply sources, reduc- and instead raised output, seeking best ever record of safety in terms revenue and net profit in Gulf ing a global surplus. to recover market share taken by of TRIR, comfortably exceeding Drilling International Limited’s THE PENINSULA Opec last November decided higher-cost rival production. Oil against propping up prices by Kuwait’s Oil Minister Ali Al Omair at is trading just below $53, half its cutting output, seeking to recover the opening of the 2nd Kuwait Oil price of June 2014. market share taken by higher- and Gas Show and Conference in Supply outside Opec is expected cost rival production. While oil is Mishref, Kuwait, yesterday. to decline by 130,000 bpd in 2016, hurting Opec revenues by trading the report said, as output falls below $53 a barrel, half its price of in the United States, the former Nissan launches NISMO brand June 2014, there are signs lower and I see an increase in the call Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle prices are taming non-Opec sup- on Opec,” he said. “So the situa- East and much of Europe. Last DOHA: Nissan’s world famous said Samir Cherfan, Managing and Nissan’s success in earn- ply. “Today there are no ideas or tion is positive as we see it at the month, Opec predicted growth of motorsport and road car per- Director of Nissan Middle East. ing a reputation as a trusted demands from the member states end of this year and next year.” 160,000 bpd. “This should reduce formance brand, NISMO, made “We could not have launched motorsport brand, the Japanese to make any big change in Opec’s The Kuwaiti minister also saw the excess supply in the market its Middle East debut at a spec- NISMO in the region without auto-maker believes NISMO will decision,” Kuwait Oil Minister Ali support for prices coming from a and lead to higher demand for tacular launch event in Dubai, including our most iconic model, resonate strongly in the Middle Al Omair told reporters, referring stronger global economy. “There Opec crude,” Opec said in the heralding the next step in ‘Inno- the Nissan Patrol, in the range East market to Opec’s move of November 2014. are signs that world economic report, “resulting in more bal- vation that Excites’ for driving of NISMO vehicles. Bringing “Since we came to the region, “Today there are indications that growth could improve by the start anced oil market fundamentals”. enthusiasts across the region. the high performance brand to Nissan has been building a strong a lot of high-cost oil production is of 2016 and this would also add to The higher call on Opec comes In addition to launching the the Middle East and launching and mature automotive brand, starting to get out of the market the improvement in oil prices,” he despite weaker global demand performance marque, Nissan also the Patrol NISMO as a world well known for exceptional qual- and this will help improve prices.” said. Before the December meet- growth overall. Opec trimmed its confirmed the world premiere premiere model is proof of our ity, performance, innovation and The Organisation of the Petro- ing, Opec has asked several non- estimate of 2016 world oil demand launch of the Patrol NISMO. commitment to making thrilling reliability. Combined with our leum Exporting Countries meets Opec countries — which Opec has growth by 40,000 bpd to 1.25 mil- Recognising that off-roading and driving experiences accessible to long history of success in motor- to review its output policy on tried but so far failed to persuade lion bpd, citing slower growth motorsports are the life-blood of all our customers.” sports and off-roading, we believe December 4 and the comments to cut supply — to attend techni- in China. Other forecasters also local driving enthusiasts, Nis- As part of its performance road that the Nissan brand is in a add to signs the group is unlikely cal-level talks at its Vienna head- expect less oil from non-Opec. san believes the time is right to car line-up, Nissan showcased unique position to offer the ulti- to be diverted from its strategy. quarters on October 21. The International Energy Agency, introduce the Patrol NISMO in three NISMO models — the 370Z mate, thrilling experience with Opec Secretary-General Abdul- Seven to eight non-Opec coun- which advises industrialised coun- the Middle East. NISMO, the GT-R NISMO, and our all-new NISMO line-up,” said lah Al Badri, also speaking in tries plus all Opec nations had tries, sees an even bigger drop in “NISMO is the ultimate the Patrol NISMO. Cherfan. Kuwait City, was similarly upbeat been invited, Badri said. their supply in 2016. essence of Nissan’s promise to With the region’s strong herit- on the market outlook. “I see a deliver‘Innovation that Excites’,” age in high performance vehicles THE PENINSULA decline in non-Opecproduction REUTERS REUTERS

Porsche unveils new dynamic all-wheel drives

DOHA: A sports car with all- The basic retail prices in Qatar refinements of the new 911 Car- 4 and 911 Targa 4 achieve an out- wheel drive is the first choice for are: 911 Carrera 4 QR376,000; 911 rera generation. They range from put of 370 hp and a torque of 450 more than one in three Porsche Carrera 4S QR437,700; 911 Car- the headlights with four-point Nm, while output in the S models 911 buyers. With the new 911 Car- rera 4 Cabriolet QR416,500; 911 daytime running lights, via door increases to 420 hp and torque to rera 4 and 911 Targa 4, they now Carrera 4S Cabriolet QR478,300; handles without recess covers, to 500 Nm. Traditionally, every new profit from an increase in sport- 911 Targa 4 QR416,500 and 911 the redesigned rear lid with ver- generation of engines from Porsche ing characteristics and comfort Targa 4S QR478,300. tical louvres and new rear lights, combines more output with less in the latest 911 generation: the Rear-axle steering, that is including the characteristic four- consumption. Fuel consumption in innovative turbocharged engines available as an option for the Car- point brake lights. The new 911 the 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet with are more powerful and consume rera 4S models, further increases Carrera 4 and 911 Targa 4 deriva- PDK drops by 0.8 litres to 7.9 l/100 less, with the improved all-wheel the dynamic spectrum consider- tives also have their own distin- km. The models with the most sig- drive increasing dynamics and ably. Interior functionality is guishing characteristics. nificant improvements are the 911 driving safety. enhanced by the standard Por- All new 911 Carrera models Carrera 4S Cabriolet and 911 Targa The new Porsche 911 Carrera 4 sche Communication connectiv- impress with top values in terms 4S: average consumption decreased and 911 Targa 4 models are avail- ity and infotainment system with of performance, driving fun and by 1.2 litres to 8.0 l/100km (when able for order as of now and will simplified operation and multi- efficiency. Thanks to bi-turbo- equipped with PDK). be officially launched in Qatar in touch display. The all-wheel drive charging, the three-litre, six-cyl- The new models on display. April 2016. models include numerous optical inder engines in the 911 Carrera THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

War on poverty’s new Winterkorn fostered finding: Just give cash By Noah Smith

HERE is a typical debate that tends to happen whenever climate of fear at VW people start talking about poverty. Conservatives try to blame poverty on the bad behaviour of the poor. If lower- income people would just get married, stay married, avoid By Andreas Cremer and staff on September 24, a week two seats on the supervisory 1981, later moving to the VW T Tom Bergin drugs, work hard and not commit crimes, say the conservatives, after US regulators revealed the board. By contrast, Daimler, the brand and then the group. the poor would make a lot more money. Liberals typically assert cheating. maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, Soon after becoming CEO in that it’s the structures of society that cause poverty, not individual ike many chief Five former VW executives and BMW have no politicians on 2007, Winterkorn decided to failings. Poor kids start with a disadvantage because of residential executives, Martin and industry observers describe their boards. make VW the world’s biggest segregation and bad schools. Powerful bosses hold down the wages Winterkorn was a a management style under Win- Industry observers say the carmaker. That meant crack- of unskilled workers, making it difficult for them to escape poverty. demanding boss who terkorn that fostered a climate representatives from Lower ing what was then the world’s Even good behaviour, liberals say, wouldn’t help the poor get ahead. didn’t of fear, an authoritarianism that Saxony and those of the work- biggest car market, the United This is a tired and familiar argument, and I’m sure that the Llike failure. But critics say went unchecked partly due to a force share a common goal: States, where VW has under- truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between. But I’ve been seeing the pressure on managers at company structure unique in the protecting jobs at one of Lower performed for years and where some recent research that tends to shift my view toward the liberal Volkswagen was unusual, which German motor industry. Saxony’s biggest employers. As it has now come unstuck. side of the debate. Basically, we’re starting to learn that what con- may go some way to explaining Lawyers for Winterkorn, who a consequence they are will- The group almost doubled glo- servatives label “bad behaviour” is often a result of growing up poor. the carmaker’s crisis. said when he quit that he was ing to give the CEO a relatively bal annual sales to 10 million cars First, there is a new National Bureau of Economic Research Three weeks after it admitted unaware of any wrongdoing on free hand provided he delivers and its revenue to 200bn euros working paper by Randall Akee, Emilia Simeonova, E. Jane Costello to cheating US emissions tests, his part, did not respond to a on jobs. ($225bn). In the first half of this and William Copeland. The authors find that giving poor families Europe’s largest carmaker is request for comment. Winterkorn has supporters. year, VW finally sold marginally money, on top of the benefits they already receive, improves their under pressure to identify who All German companies have Marc Trahan, a retired execu- more vehicles than the world children’s behaviour: exactly was responsible. two boards: the management tive vice president at Volkswa- number one, Toyota of Japan. We examine how a positive change in unearned household income Volkswagen has declined to board, led by the chief execu- gen Group of America, said he Another former VW executive affects children’s emotional and behavioral health and personality comment on whether the firm’s tive, runs the business day-to- believed Winterkorn and some spoke of an authoritarian style, traits. Our results indicate that there are large beneficial effects culture or the management style day, and above it the supervisory of his top engineers would never describing how sometimes CEOs of improved household financial wellbeing on children’s emotional of Winterkorn, who resigned board, to which the CEO reports. have countenanced the cheating. of brands could be treated “quite and behavioural health and positive personality trait development... last month, had been a factor The supervisory board can hire VW design chief Klaus disrespectfully”. Parenting and relationships within the family appear to be an in the cheating. Lawyers for and fire management board Bischoff said he could not imag- On one US test drive in July important mechanism. We also find evidence that a sub-sample of Winterkorn did not respond to members and must sign off on ine that Winterkorn knew of or 2013, Winterkorn spotted a the population moves to census tracts with better income levels a request for comment. major strategic decisions. tolerated cheating. slight bump in the paintwork and educational attainment. But now that VW’s problems VW’s 20-seat supervisory Winterkorn was born in 1947 of a Beetle model. According to Like so many economists these days, the authors find a natural are coming out into the open board gives nine seats apiece into a humble background: his one VW source, who declined to experiment to test their hypothesis. They realised that the open- and Winterkorn has gone, some to workforce and shareholder parents were ethnic German be named, the paint thickness ing of a casino in western North Carolina would provide a sudden executives are declaring that representatives, so meeting a refugees who had recently fled exceeded company standards by flood of cash to members of the local Native American tribe, the the company needs to change legal requirement to have equal Hungary after World War Two. less than a millimetre, but Win- Eastern Cherokee -- about $4,000 a year for every adult. The its approach. representation. But VW differs After studying metallurgy, he terkorn still lectured engineers researchers found that in the wake of this sudden windfall, poor Bernd Osterloh, a member from other German carmakers rose through the ranks at engi- about the waste. Native American children suddenly started doing better on various of VW’s supervisory board, was in one respect, the firm’s home neering and electronics group psychological measures of emotional well- being. even more precise in a letter to state of Lower Saxony also gets Bosch before he joined Audi in REUTERS Because the authors’ data is longitudinal, with repeated obser- vations made over time, they confirmed that the change wasn’t ephemeral. Children whose families got the money ended up having better job outcomes at age 25. Examining surveys of these families, Akee et al. hypothesise that much of the improvement comes from more harmonious family relations. Parents are happier because they have more money, leading to less fighting within the family. This lowers stress on kids, making them healthier, happier and better- behaved, and leading to a more productive adulthood. This, of course, flies in the face of conservative claims that wel- fare encourages bad behavior and destroys families. The second big new piece of evidence comes not from economics, but from neuroscience. In a study published this year in Nature Neuroscience, a large team of neurologists led by Kimberly Noble found a correlation between child brain structure and family income. Simply put, family income is correlated with children’s brain surface area, especially among poor children. More money, bigger-brained kids. Now as we all know, correlation doesn’t equal causation, so it’s important to establish that income differences are actually causing- brain development to change. That’s why Noble and a team of social scientists are planning an experiment. They are going to randomly dispense cash to a number of poor families, and observe whether the brain structure of their children changes over time. Noble points out that cash transfer experiments have shown encouraging results in developing countries, in terms of boosting kids’ long- term economic outcomes. Now, we will find out if the neurological outcomes match up. These results are not simply bolts from the blue. They are part of an emerging programme of research across social science and biological fields. Again and again, researchers seem to be finding that bad behavior is a result of poverty. Another researcher in this area is the acclaimed Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan, who has found that unhealthy activity among poor people is often used as a coping mechanism. This research should change how we think about poverty and welfare. Even if bad behaviour does make poverty worse, it’s also the case that poverty causes bad behavior in the first place. By giving poor people money, we may be able to break that cycle. Improving the condition of poor children is not only good for them, it’s also good for society. Children who are more emotionally stable and better behaved engage in less crime and less violence in schools and out, making the country a safer place to live.

BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Let’s just give up on taxing big corporations

By Leonid Bershidsky things we couldn’t do without. as Google bring, but no town or America, which includes another European countries will not stop an enormous incentive for busi- Our lives wouldn’t be the same national government would ever seven — are among the 20 top lob- offering “innovation boxes,” which nesses to innovate and grow. F Fortune 500 companies without Apple, Google or Cisco, object to one of these companies bying spenders in the US allow companies to reduce tax on Is it fair to reward companies paid a mere 6 percent on but also without Procter & Gam- setting up a presence. Citizens for Tax Justice, a profits from new technology, and that have already reached the pin- their offshore profits — about ble, Coca-Cola or Wal-Mart. We The cash these industry lead- Washington-based advocacy other enticements to keep mul- nacle at the expense of those still Ias much as they pay, on wouldn’t have the most potent ers generate is often spent on group for tax fairnesss, call for tinationals operating there. It’s struggling? Does it make sense to average, outside the US — they’d drugs without the seven pharma- life-changing innovations such as an end to US companies’ ability better to charge them very little stop taxing a firm just because it owe $620bn in additional federal ceutical companies on the list, and self-driving cars or medicines to to accumulate untaxed earnings tax than to lose them. has merged its way to the top? taxes, says a report published this global finance would arguably be treat formerly incurable diseases. overseas, an end to corporate In short, there’s a lot of mur- Doesn’t the admission that big week by Citizens for Tax Justice. different without Goldman Sachs Intel, Microsoft, Johnson & John- inversions, an end to shifting muring and indignation, but there corporations are more equal than That would be enough to finance and Citigroup. The giants project son, Google and Merck are on the intellectual property to tax are few results. The cash is still others just because of their size the entire US federal educa- American soft power -- which, as list of offshore cash hoarders, but havens. President Barack Obama there, providing liquidity to finan- sound wrong? Aren’t there bet- tion expenditure for more than Andrew Rose of the University of also among the top 10 research has called for a repatriation of the cial markets as it’s invested from ter ways to use trillions of dollars five years. Yet this is a political California, Berkeley, showed in a and development spenders world- offshore profits, to be taxed at 14 the offshore accounts. than to have them invested in the nonstarter in the US and other recent paper, produces a quantifi- wide. percent rather than the full 35 So why shouldn’t the US simply financial markets on behalf of a jurisdictions where these compa- able effect on the nation’s exports. They might be spending even percent corporate tax rate. None declare corporations greater than few dozen firms’ shareholders? nies operate. So here’s a modest It could also be argued that they more to pay employees and of this is likely to happen, at least a certain size — say, members of I bet you’re wondering all of proposal: Why not cut out all the provide valuable public services, finance research if they didn’t while Republicans dominate Con- the Fortune 500 — exempt from the above. And yet that’s how the hypocritical noise about tax free- even though doing so is highly have to maintain expensive tax gress. Whatever they may say corporate tax? Sure, the US gov- current system works, more or loaders and just declare big cor- profitable. optimization arrangements — about it, they appear to be gener- ernment would lose some cash, less, with a little cunning, a bit of porations’ profits tax-free? The This elite group employs mil- Pfizer, for example, has 151 tax ally persuaded by arguments like and it would be a disaster for Ber- deception and a lot of big-corpo- argument would run like this. lions of people in the US and haven subsidiaries, and PepsiCo those listed above. The lobbying muda and the Cayman Islands, ration arrogance. It only works Here are the US companies beyond. It provides training and has 132 — and spend millions of dollars are apparently well-spent. where Fortune 500 companies because most people are somehow with the most money held off- invaluable experience to many of dollars on lobbying to prevent a The European Union’s fight supposedly earn high multiples happy to pay more taxes than shore; they account for about those workers, allowing them to harsher tax climate from being against tax evasion in the form of the local gross domestic prod- Apple or Coca-Cola does. There two-thirds of the $2.1tr stashed set up new businesses and scale imposed. Of the companies on of sweetheart deals multina- uct. Yet the absurdity and embar- is simply not enough public out- outside the US by the Fortune up smaller companies. They also the top cash hoarders list, four tional companies have received rassment of companies setting up rage to produce serious pressure. 500: bolster the service sector wher- — Google, United Technologies, from Ireland, the Netherlands obvious tax avoidance structures It appears, then, that we’re happy These companies are all house- ever they go. San Francisco resi- General Electric and Dow Chemi- and Luxembourg will probably would be eliminated. Companies with a big corporation tax exemp- hold names, darlings of the US dents may complain about the cal, plus the Pharmaceutical force some of these companies to would strive harder to get into the tion. corporate sector, producers of gentrification companies such Research and Manufacturers of rejigger their tax structures, but Fortune 500 club; there would be BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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CHICAGO: Dickson Chumba It was also the third sweep of the “I ran this on short notice,” captured the Chicago Marathon podium by the Kenyans in the last Puskedra said. “I put a lot of pres- men’s title on Sunday, lead- five years. sure on running my first mara- ing the second straight Kenyan Despite a slower time on Sun- thon in New York last year. It podium sweep by finishing ahead day, Chumba, who finished third didn’t go how I wanted it. of Sammy Kitwara and Sammy in Chicago last year in 2:04.32, “I felt bad for my wife because Ndungu. improved his podium position by financially she was picking up Chumba crossed the finish two spots. everything. I just felt it might be line in 2hr 09min 25sec to beat He has been one of the most time to move on, that this might Kitwara (2:09.50) in a race that consistent runners over the last be a hobby. It might just be a pipe featured slower times than usual year, winning the Tokyo Mara- dream. This has definitely been a after organisers decided not to thon in 2014 and finishing third hard last 11 months.” include pace-setters. there earlier this year. Kiplagat finished third here Ndungu (2:10.06) claimed the said. “I need to run maybe a faster In his last unpaced major mar- in 2014 but was awarded second bronze, outsprinting Ethiopia’s time.” athon in 2013 he finished seventh place after Jeptoo was stripped of Girmay Birhanu Gebru (2:10.07) The decision to drop the pace- (2:14.08) in Boston. her title because of doping. down the stretch for the final setters made for a slower race but Pre-race favourite Kitwara had Kiplagat still had enough podium position. was done to try and combat dop- been hoping to finally reach the energy after completing the 26.2 Kenya’s Florence Kiplagat (pic- ing in the sport. top of the podium after finishing mile course to celebrate her vic- tured) won the women’s title in Rita Jeptoo, a three-time fourth in 2012, third in 2013 and tory with a thumbs up followed a time of 2:23.33 as athletes from women’s winner of the Boston second in 2014. by three quick leaps for joy in the the East African distance running Marathon and two-time winner Luke Puskedra was the top finish area. powerhouses dominated both elite in Chicago, is the biggest name in American finisher in fifth place “The course for me was very fields. Kenyan athletics to be swept up in with a personal best 2:10.24. nice,” she said. “It was a flat Dickson Chumba Chumba’s time was five minutes the doping scandal that has cast a Puskedra was ready to give up course, sometimes it’s windy, but of Kenya crosses slower than Eliud Kipchoge’s win- shadow over the distance running the sport after a disappointing that is part of competition.” the finish line to win ning time last year at 2:04.11. The community. time of 2:28.54 in his marathon Ethiopia’s Yebrgual Melese the 2015 Chicago world record stands at 2:02.57. Chumba took command of the debut in New York City last year. finished second in 2:23.43 while Marathon in Chicago, Chumba said he hopes to return race in the 23rd mile, pulling He beat his personal best time, Birhane Dibaba of Ethiopia placed Illinois, USA, in 2016 to defend his title. away from Kitwara and Abera which he set in June, by more third in 2:24.24. yesterday. “Maybe next year to win,” he Kuma to post a 25 second victory. than five minutes on Sunday. AFP

Brady, Pats roll past Cowboys Blue Jays stay alive, Astros push Royals to brink ARLINGTON, United States: The winners of the series will season after they fell in the title Toronto up 2-0. Two innings 6 1/3 innings. to remain Troy Tulowitzki broke out of his face either the Houston Astros showcase to the San Francisco later Tulowitzki broke the game Estrada struck out four and post-season doldrums on Sunday, or Kansas City Royals in the Giants. open with his three-run homer to didn’t issue a walk. The Rangers belting a three-run homer to lift American League Championship Blue Jays shortstop Tulowitzky left field with two outs off Texas didn’t have a baserunner until unbeaten Toronto to a 5-1 victory that kept Series. was 0-for-10 in the first two reliever Chi Chi Gonzalez. third baseman Hanser Alberto hit them alive in their Major League Astros first baseman Chris games of the series against Texas “I had a good pitch to hit, a two-out double in the bottom of DALLAS: On a day of nail-biting Baseball play-off series against Carter had three hits, including -- shock wins for the underdog and finally put a good swing on the third frame. NFL finishes, the New England Texas. his first post-season home run, as Rangers in Toronto. one,” Tulowitzki said.“Tomorrow By then, the Blue Jays had Patriots remained unbeaten in The Rangers still lead the Blue Houston beat the visiting Royals He was dropped to sixth in the (if) we get a win, we go back to put up one run against Rangers 2015 with a 30-6 romp past the Jays in the best-of-five American 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in their batting order for the first time Toronto. So this was huge for us.” starting pitcher Martin Perez, Dallas Cowboys. League Division Series 2-1, and series. this season. His output was plenty of with catcher Dioner Navarro Patriots quarterback Tom can advance with a win when they With a win at home today, the The move paid off when he support for Toronto starting scoring on a double-play ground Brady shook off five first-half host the Blue Jays in game four Astros can end the Royals’ bid collected a bases-loaded walk pitcher Marco Estrada, who ball in the third. sacks to pilot the reigning Super today. to return to the World Series a in the fourth inning that put allowed five hits and one run over AFP Bowl champions to their fourth victory in as many games. He threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, and the Patriots defence came up big against injury depleted Dallas, giving up a season-low points total. “They were just awesome,” Brady said of the Patriots defence. “Offence we made a few plays but we can play better than that.” Brady was unfazed by five sacks -- the first time he was sacked at least five times in a half since 2001. “Have you seen him play for the last 15 years?” said wide receiver Julian Edelman, who caught four Gary Player and David Yarrow are seen with guests during the Berenberg passes for 120 yards and a touch- Gary Player Invitational Welcome Event held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel down. in Bedford Hills, New York, yesterday. “He’s pretty tough. I don’t think anyone underrates his toughness.” The Cowboys lost their third straight as they continue to battle without injured quarterback Tony Fitzpatrick in shock Romo and receiver Dez Bryant. Coming off a bye week, the Patriots improved to 4-0. Four teams improved to 5-0 -- but had after Woburn victory to battle to do it. The Cincinnati Bengals scored WOBURN, ENGLAND: Eng- BRITISH MASTERS 20 unanswered points to rally for land’s Matt Fitzpatrick was in a 27-24 overtime triumph over shock after completing a wire- SCORES the Seattle Seahawks. to-wire victory in the British Woburn, United Kingdom: Leading scores The gritty victory saw the Ben- Masters on Sunday at the tender after the fourth and final round of the British gals join the 5-0 club for the first age of 21. Masters at the par-71 Woburn Golf Club on time since 1988 -- when they last The youngster said the first win Sunday (GBR & IRL unless stated): reached the Super Bowl. of his professional career, com- 269 Matthew Fitzpatrick 64 69 68 68 Mike Nugent’s 42-yard field ing in his rookie season, had come 271 Soren Kjeldsen (DEN) 65 68 69 69, goal in overtime lifted the Ben- way ahead of expectation. Shane Lowry 66 69 69 67, Fabrizio gals, whose chances of extending “It’s unbelievable, it really is,” Zanotti (PAR) 68 68 66 69 their perfect start to the season Fitzpatrick told reporters after a 273 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 67 67 looked doomed when they trailed closing three-under-par 68 left him 67 72, Mike Lorenzo-Vera (FRA) 70 24-7 in the fourth quarter. two strokes clear of Dane Soren 67 69 67, Luke Donald 67 72 65 69, Marcus Fraser (AUS) 66 73 67 67 Against a Seattle defense Kjeldsen, Shane Lowry of Ireland allowing only 17.8 points per game and Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti. 274 Anthony Wall 68 71 66 69, Chris Wood 69 69 69 67, Julien Quesne this season, Bengals quarterback “This year my goal was to keep (FRA) 70 67 69 68, Oliver Fisher 68 Andy Dalton put together a rally my tour card and I wasn’t even 70 71 65 that included a 10-yard touch- sure I was going to be able to do 275 Richard Bland 67 67 70 71, Robert down pass to Tyler Eifert that. It’s definitely come faster Karlsson (SWE) 65 70 70 70, than I thought.” Tyrrell Hatton 71 68 69 67, Tommy AFP Fitzpatrick was three shots Fleetwood 72 70 68 65 clear as he stood on the 72nd and final tee and could afford the NFL RESULTS luxury of a bogey five at the last spend it all but I might be looking Chicago 18 Kansas City 17 before he was engulfed by joyous at buying a house now,” he said. Cincinnati 27 Seattle 24 family and friends on the green Earlier this week, Fitzpatrick Atlanta 25 Washington 19 and sprayed with celebratory admitted he had been teased by Tampa Bay 38 Jacksonville 31 champagne. his fellow pros about driving a Philadelphia 39 New Orleans 17 “It was one of those where I four-year-old Ford Mondeo and couldn’t care less what I had to he now has his eye on a top of the Cleveland 33 Baltimore 30 make, if I had to make 10 I would range sportscar. Green Bay 24 St. Louis 10 have happily made 10 and won,” “It’s an Ascari A10 but my dad Buffalo 14 Tennessee 13 he smiled. won’t let me spend it all on that,” Arizona 42 Detroit 17 Fitzpatrick picked up a first said the fresh-faced youngster. New England 30 Dallas 6 prize of $755,000, doubling his “Obviously, it’s nice to sort of look Denver 16 Oakland 10 earnings for the season, and was at the money and be, right, what NY Giants 30 San Francisco 27 thinking of what he might splash do I do with this?”. his cash on. “I’m not in any rush to AFP TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT ‘The Finisher’ finished? India debate misfiring Dhoni

NEW DELHI: The ‘helicopter seal victory with a six, exhibited “Dhoni can still be an accu- have been talking differently. His shot’ has disappeared, the bound- famously in the final of the 2011 mulator but I don’t think we are strike rate has obviously come aries are not flowing from his bat World Cup, Dhoni managed only going to see the same devastating down and the pitch did not help and the whisper is now growing one boundary in his 31-ball ordeal MSD in the days to come.” either.” louder that Mahendra Singh as the wheels came off India’s Going through a lean patch, Dhoni also blamed the low- Dhoni is no more the middle- chase in the final overs in Kanpur. India’s captain Dhoni has also baffled many bounce at Green Park Stadium order finisher who could single- Not that he did not try. Mahendra Singh by wishing to bat higher in the and rued how unforgiving the fans handedly get India over the line. He stepped out against Morne Dhoni reacts during order, having rejected the same are. Even for his ardent fans, and he Morkel, made room against Dale a practice session suggestion for the large part of “It’s not an easy job, it does not is still the most popular player in Steyn and ran hard between the ahead of their first his career. always work your way,” he said the cricket-mad country, it was wickets in the scorching heat, try- ODI against South Former captain Anil Kum- after the loss. painful to watch Dhoni struggle ing to do with the legs what his Africa in Kanpur, ble is part of the fast-dwindling “It’s a gamble but of course in Sunday’s one-day series opener bat could not. India, on Saturday. tribe still convinced that Dhoni that’s my job in the side. I’m against South Africa. His laboured batting was all the remains India’s best “finisher”. somebody who has to finish the Time and again, he tried the more evident seen against cen- “I don’t think his role has job for the team. big shots that once came out of turion Rohit Sharma’s effortless changed. I don’t think he should “When you finish a lot of many his blade with amazing regularity strokemaking at the other end former captain K Srikkanth told stood that the key is not to give be pushed at number four to play games, people always remember and time and again he could not during their 55-run stand. yesterday’s Times of India news- him any room to manoeuvre and a different role. He is still a good the ones you have not finished.” connect. “Dhoni used to be great when paper. Dhoni would not be the same finisher,” said Kumble. “One hit Known for his penchant to the ball was pitched up to him,” “But bowlers ... have under- player (again). (in Sunday’s match) and we would REUTERS

Malik ready Pakistan get Shah injury scare for first Test Leg-spinner suffers back spasm as Test series starts, England lose paceman Finn in five years

ABU DHABI: Pakistan’s chances Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman ABU DHABI: Former Paki- of defeating England in today’s here in 2012. stan captain Shoaib Malik opening Test match in Abu “Obviously he (Shah) is a key said he was well geared up to Dhabi suffered a blow when key player for us but we are hoping stage a comeback in the first leg-spinner Yasir Shah suffered a for the best,” said Misbah. “We Test against England in Abu back spasm during practice yes- are looking into calling one of the Dhabi starting today – his terday. two left-arm spinners who played first match in the longer for- The 29-year-old Shah stumbled in the warm-up game in Sharjah.” mat for five years. in his follow-through and appar- Pakistan are already without Malik played the last of his ently hurt his back. key batsman Azhar Ali, ruled out 32 Tests in 2010, also against “Yasir’s injury is a concern and of the match with a foot infection. England, before losing his could be a jolt,” skipper Misbah- Azhar’s absence will put more place to youngsters Azhar Ali ul-Haq told a press conference pressure on Younis Khan, Misbah and Asad Shafiq. Malik was yesterday. “We are looking into and Sarfraz Ahmed to shoulder only added to the Pakistan it and hope that he is okay by the batting. squad last week as the 16th tomorrow morning.” Younis amassed 468 runs member following his excel- Pakistan are relying heavily on against Australia and hit a lent performances in the one- Shah and fellow left-arm spinner match-winning 171 not out in day and Twenty20 cricket, Zulfiqar Babar to win the three- Pakistan’s last Test in Sri Lanka, and then a door opened for match series in the United Arab leaving him just 19 behind Paki- Pakistan’s Yasir him with a foot injury to Ali. Emirates. stan’s highest tally of 8,832 set by Malik said he would do his Shah suffers Shah took 24 wickets in Paki- Javed Miandad. best to succeed. an injury during stan’s 2-1 win in the Tests in Pakistan have been forced to “I will try my best to main- Sri Lanka in July and was seen play in the UAE due to security nets, yesterday tain the performances I have as the dangerman for England, fears at home but have never lost in Abu Dhabi. given in T20s and one-day who were routed 3-0 by spinners a series here, winning four and matches but Tests are differ- ent and more challenging,” he drawing three. Misbah admitted England’s answer to Paki- told reporters. England are more prepared this SQUADS stan’s spin challenge will likely He accepted that bat- time. be underwhelming. Leg-spinner ting at number three would Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Ahmed “I think they are more pre- Adil Rashid is set to make his be demanding. “Of course, Shehzad, Shan Masood, Mohammad Hafeez, pared and know what mistakes Test debut, six years after play- it would be challenging but Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Shoaib they committed the last time so ing his first one-day international. that is the requirement of Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed, Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar we need to also focus and improve Moeen Ali is favourite to play the team and you need to give Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali, our performance. We have to be as opener in a makeshift arrange- it your best shot. Azhar has Junaid Khan. at our best to be up there.” ment, with additional duties of done well at number three so England skipper Alastair Cook England: Alastair Cook (captain), Moeen Ali, bowling off-spin, despite never I will try to maintain what he admitted Shah’s loss could be cru- James Anderson, Samit Patel, Jonny Bairstow, having opened the innings even has done,” said Malik. cial for Pakistan. Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, in a first-class match. Malik said he was tuned up Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben “You never know with these If that happens, Moeen will to playing the longer format Stokes, James Taylor, Mark Wood. things,” said Cook. “Of course be Cook’s seventh partner since despite mostly playing in the it would be a loss for them. As Andrew Strauss retired in 2012. shorter form of the game. always, the day before a big series Joe Root and Ben Stokes -- “Of course, it is challeng- we’re concentrating on mat- took four wickets in the second England’s leading performers ing to play the longer forms ters which are important to us.” warm-up game, also in Sharjah. with the bat -- will be tested but I have not missed any “He is clearly a fantastic bowler “It’s a bitter blow for him, he against quality spin. first class season and being who not many of us have faced. bowled really well in that warm- Dubai will host the second Test a professional I know how to He’s had a good start to his Test up match,” said Cook. “Over the (October 22-26), with the final cut down that pressure,” said career,” said Cook of Shah. last 12 months he’s made huge match in Sharjah (November 1-5). Malik. England’s Steven Finn (left) during nets, yesterday in Abu Dhabi. England were also hit by injury strides back to where we would AFP to paceman Steven Finn, who like him to be.” AFP Warner, Johnson back in New-look SL, Windies face off in Galle

Australia training camp GALLE: Sri Lanka and the Both teams will look to bounce International Stadium, a venue was not picked for the Tests, the West Indies will look to offload back after a lacklustre year. that traditionally favours spin. West Indies will rely on leg-break SYDNEY: Injured opener David Warner along with front-line past baggage and begin a new era The West Indians lost to South Herath took seven for 48 bowler Devendra Bishoo, who has pacemen Mitchell Johnson (pictured) and Josh Hazlewood will with fresh young talent when a Africa and Australia, while the against India in August, helping claimed 50 wickets in 13 Tests so join a 19-man Australia squad when it begins preparations for two-Test series starts in Galle home series against England was Sri Lanka bounce back to win far. a three-Test home series against New Zealand in Sydney today. tomorrow. drawn 1-1. that Test by 63 runs. Sri Lanka’s batting in the Cricket Australia said yesterday the squad will include the 15 Sri Lanka are rebuilding fol- Angelo Mathews’ Sri Lanka In June Pakistani spin twins absence of Jayawardene and players that were meant to travel to Bangla- lowing the retirement of their crashed to a 2-0 series defeat in Yasir Shar and Zulfiqar Babar Sangakkara will revolve around desh for an aborted two-Test series this month batting greats, Mahela Jaya- New Zealand and lost home series combined to grab 13 wickets skipper Mathews, who hit three plus Warner, Hazlewood, Johnson and speed- wardena and Kumar Sangakkara, to Pakistan and India by identical between them as Sri Lanka suf- centuries in the home Tests ster Nathan Coulter-Nile. within the space of a year. 2-1 margins. fered a 10-wicket defeat at the against Pakistan and India. The tour of Bangladesh was called off over The West Indies, already hit Like their rivals, Sri Lanka too same venue. In the absence of security concerns. With the Test squad mem- by the reluctance of senior pros have an interim coach in Jerome star spinner Sunil Narine, who AFP bers now playing for their respective state like Chris Gayle and Dwayne Jayaratne, who was given charge teams in the domestic one-day cup in Sydney, Bravo to play Test cricket, faced of the team after Marvan Atap- the two-day camp will give the Test aspirants further turmoil when coach Phil attu resigned in the wake of the a hit-out with the red ball. Simmons was stood down for the defeat against India. Warner has not played since breaking his tour for speaking out against his Jayaratne, who did not play left thumb during Australia’s one-day series in board’s selection policies. international cricket but made his England early last month. After the losing Ashes campaign, fast Former fast bowler and selec- mark as head of the Sri Lankan bowlers Johnson and Hazlewood were rested from the Bangladesh tor Eldine Baptiste, who will serve board’s coaching department, tour and have not yet played in the interstate one-day cup. as interim coach for the tour, will has already described Mathews’ The uncapped Coulter-Nile suffered a hamstring injury during try to ease newly-appointed Test boys as the “worst fielding side in the one-day series against England. Selector Mark Waugh indi- captain Jason Holder into the Asia”. He refused to take victory cated last week that the anticipated returns of Warner, Johnson role. for granted against the young and Hazlewood for the New Zealand series would squeeze out some Holder, a 23-year-old all- touring side. players selected for the Bangladesh tour. rounder who has played just “I would like to believe that “The squad from Bangladesh, it’s going to look different for New eight Tests, was a surprise choice we have a better chance of get- Zealand. There is no doubt about it,” Waugh said. to replace the seasoned Denesh ting back to winning ways, but “Because you didn’t have Warner, Hazlewood and Johnson (in Ramdin as captain. I definitely won’t underestimate the Bangladesh squad), so there’s three players straight away you’d “We have a very young team them,” he said. Only two players imagine would come back into the reckoning for the first Test. and a young captain,” Baptiste from either side have played more “There’s going to be some guys picked for that tour who are said. “My job is to keep the team than 50 Tests -- Mathews and probably going to get shuffled back down the order a little bit, focused for the Test matches.” Rangana Herath for Sri Lanka but you can’t do anything about it.” The camp will involve centre The West Indies are search- and batsman Marlon Samuels and wicket and net practice across both days, Cricket Australia said. ing for their maiden Test win on Ramdin for the West Indies. West Indies cricketer Shannon Gabriel (right) celebrates with team-mates The first Test against the Black Caps is at Brisbane’s Gabba Sri Lankan soil, where they have Herath, the 37-year-old left- after dismissing Sri Lankan President’s XI cricketer Sachith Pathirana from November 5. played nine matches since 1993 -- arm spinner, could prove to be during the third day of the three-day practice match between the West AFP losing five and drawing the other the difference when the first Test Indies and Sri Lankan President’s XI team at the Sinhalese Sports Club four. starts at the picturesque Galle (SSC) Ground in Colombo on Saturday. TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

FIFA bans Brazil, Argentina eye turnaround Thai football World Cup Qualifiers: Neymar-less Brazil face Venezuela, depleted Argentina meet Paraguay chief for ethics

MONTEVIDEO: Brazil and pling a mounting injury crisis that breach Argentina head into the second has deprived them of their most round of qualifiers for the 2018 lethal strikers. ZURICH: FIFA’s ethics World Cup today looking to get Captain Lionel Messi was watchdog yesterday banned their campaigns back on track Brazil’s Oscar already injured before the quali- former executive member after opening round defeats which (left) and fiers started and Sergio Aguero Worawi Makudi of Thailand have left the South American joined him on the casualty list for 90 days and indicated he Elias attend a giants in disarray. after tearing a hamstring in the could face further punish- training ses- The pall of gloom envelop- defeat to Ecuador. Lucas Biglia is ment. The ethics committee ing Brazilian football since their sion at Arena also out injured. acted against the controversial humiliation against Germany at Castelao Veteran striker Carlos Tevez, Worawi only days before he the World Cup last year darkened Stadium in who is likely to start in Aguero’s stands for reelection as presi- last week when they were hum- Fortaleza, absence, issued a defiant rallying dent of the Football Associa- bled 2-0 by Copa America cham- Brazil, on cry as the two-time world cham- tion of Thailand (FAT). pions Chile in Santiago. Sunday. Brazil pions prepared to face the Para- The committee suspended Argentina, still struggling to will face guayans, who will be desperate Worawi, 63, “on the grounds shake off the disappointment of Venezuela in to avenge their 6-1 defeat to the that a breach of the Code of losing the Copa America final in their World Argentinians in the Copa Amer- Ethics appears to have been July – the team’s second defeat in Cup 2018 ica semi-final in June. committed and a decision on a major final in 12 months – were qualifying Tevez said the Ecuador loss the main issue may not be stunned by a 2-0 reverse at home match today. was the team’s worst perform- taken early enough,” said a to Ecuador. ance since coach Gerardo Mar- statement. While there is still plenty of tino took over, and insisted the Worawi was a FIFA execu- time in South America’s mara- squad should not use the absence tive committee member for thon 2018 qualifying campaign of Messi as an excuse. 18 years until May -- includ- for Argentina and Brazil to turn “We are a team, and now is the ing for its 2010 vote for the their fortunes around, the open- moment for us to prove it,” Tevez 2018 and 2022 World Cups ing defeats have left both sides faction. “To be honest 1-0 would against Chile until they were Santiago, said he understood the said. “Obviously it hurts us not to -- and had faced allegations determined to halt the slide. be a good result for us,” Willian sunk by late second half goals on criticism of the team’s attacking have the best player in the world of wrongdoing. Brazil face Venezuela today in said. Thursday. display. but we will try not to notice it He was found guilty in July Fortaleza, a game that in previous “We want the three points. “We knew Chile would be diffi- “There is always pressure for much; Tuesday is a chance for us by a Thai court of forgery in years would have been regarded Football today is different. All cult. But we marked them well for anyone who plays as a forward for to get revenge,” he said. his reelection as head of the as a straightforward assignment the teams are fit and well trained. a lot of the game. We just couldn’t Brazil; it is our obligation because Elsewhere today, Chile face his- FAT in 2013. He faces a new against opponents who have never Maybe in the past this game take advantage of the opportuni- we have quality players. “We know toric rivals Peru in Lima in the election on Saturday. qualified for the World Cup. would have been a sure win for ties we created.” the size of those demands and will latest instalment of the ‘Clasico Worawi said he would But in a sign of how far Bra- us, but today it’s not like that -- Brazil badly missed the sus- try to answer in the best way pos- del Pacifico’ while Uruguay host fight to save his name and zilian expectations have fallen, we only beat them 2-1 in the Copa pended Neymar against Chile, sible,” the Zenit St Petersburg Colombia in Montevideo and intended to stay in the Thai midfielder Willian revealed on America after all,” he added. who remains banned for today’s striker said. Ecuador face Bolivia in Quito. election even though he is Sunday that victory by a single Willian insisted that Brazil game against Venezuela. Argentina meanwhile travel to banned immediately “from all goal would be viewed with satis- had done enough to earn a result Striker Hulk, who deputised in Asuncion to face Paraguay grap- AFP football activities at national and international level for 90 days.” “I am confused by this, I just heard the news,” he said. EURO QUALIFIER “I am not guilty of anything. Dark days for Dutch as Euro hopes slump FIXTURES Under Thai law I still have the right to appeal (the July Fixtures from the European Ch. Qualifying AMSTERDAM: The Nether- opening matches in Amsterdam to Czech Republic are guaranteed court decision). I did not fal- Group stage matches yesterday. lands, who were within a penalty against the Czech keep their slender their place in France, alongside sify anything, what I did was shootout victory of reaching the Republic and Ice- hopes alive. Iceland, while Turkey hold a Group stage - Group A absolutely legal.” He insisted 2014 World Cup final, now stand land made their “The whole quali- stranglehold on the playoff bound Today (GMT) he would maintain his candi- on the brink of missing the Euro- task difficult and fying tournament third spot. Only a Dutch win and Latvia vs Kazakhstan (1845) ; Netherlands dacy in the new Thai FA elec- pean Championships for the first their record of has all been very a Turkish defeat, at home to Ice- vs Czech Republic (1845) ; Turkey vs Iceland tion. “I will stand, I have done time since 1984. four wins, four difficult. We now no land can rescue a desperate situ- (1845) nothing wrong but it depends Winners of their only major defeats and a draw longer have it in our ation. on FIFA.” It was not immedi- Group stage - Group B tournament in 1988, when Marco leaves the Dutch own hands. I feel The team still boasts several ately clear whether the Thai van Basten and Ruud Gullit two points behind terrible, really ter- household names such as van Tuesday, October 13 (GMT) election would go ahead. inspired them to continental vic- Turkey with one rible,” star striker Persie, Wesley Sneijder, injury- Belgium vs Israel (1845); Cyprus vs Bosnia The ethics committee’s tory over Russia in Germany, game to play. Robin van Persie prone Arjen Robben and Klaas- (1845); Wales vs Andorra (1845) adjudicatory chamber did their fall from grace has been one The Turks host (pictured) said Jan Huntelaar but the biological Group stage - Group H not give details of the breach of football’s greatest mysteries as Iceland and are in after the 3-0 Sep- clock has been ticking against an Tuesday, October 13 (GMT) under investigation. “The case they now stare Euro 2016 elimina- control of their own destiny, to tember defeat in Turkey. ageing team that may be past its Bulgaria vs Azerbaijan (1845); Italy vs Norway is now the subject of formal tion squarely in the face. book a play-off spot, while the Danny Blind has since replaced sell-by-date. (1845); Malta vs Croatia (1845) investigation proceedings,” it Two defeats in their three Netherlands must beat the Czechs the departed Hiddink but the AFP said. AFP Kyrgios sets up Nishikori clash No ghosts from 2007 France loss for NZ in Shanghai CARDIFF: New Zealand’s shock we can’t wait.” France were over- are prepared to put their bodies SHANGHAI: Controversial defeat by France at the 2007 powered by the Irish pack and on the line.” Australian Nick Kyrgios swept World Cup will have no bearing never threatened to produce the New Zealand centre Sonny Bill aside Andreas Haider-Maurer when the sides meet again in this flowing rugby they are capable of. Williams did not even watch the in straight sets yesterday to year’s quarter-finals, All Blacks “They are very physical and they 2007 quarter-final against France. set up a second round clash assistant coach Ian Foster said defended very strongly,” Foster “I was playing rugby league with Japan’s Kei Nishikori in yesterday. said. then,” he said. “I just remember the Shanghai Masters. The French pulled off a dra- “They made a good Ireland a week after when I flew back into The outspoken Australian, matic 20-18 victory over New team work very hard to break New Zealand, it was a pretty sad who fired 13 aces and saved all Zealand in Cardiff eight years them down and they certainly time. But the past is the past five break points in a 6-3, 6-2 ago having also knocked the All deserve to be there too. “We and the future is the future. “No win over his Austrian oppo- Blacks out of the 1999 World Cup. expect them to be as hungry and matter what anyone says, it is all nent, had no illusions about “I have been kind of waiting for ready as we are. That’s what we about Sunday and it’s going to be the task ahead. that question,” Foster told report- are excited about.” The All Blacks an awesome, entertaining game.” Slovak Martin Klizan beat ers. “For us it is about the here beat France 8-7 in the 2011 World Williams played under France local favourite Zhang Ze 7-6(8) and the now and like I said, we Cup final in Auckland to win the coach Philippe Saint-Andre when 6-2 and now runs into top seed have been planning to be at the title for the first time in 24 years. he was at Toulon. Novak Djokovic. Millennium Stadium for the last “There is a lot of respect “He was an awesome coach and Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic, who six months. And we will be there New Zealand’s players perform the Haka as Tonga’s team members between the two nations for each he really brought out the best in prevailed 6-4 7-6(6) over at the weekend.” look on ahead of their Rugby World Cup match in Newcastle on Friday. other,” Foster said. me,” Williams said. Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, New Zealand, who eased “They are a proud nation who “He helped me kick-start my also faces a formidable sec- through the group stage with Sunday. “Some players watched game. We are just excited that have done extremely well at ambitions to go back to New Zea- ond round opponent in 2009 four victories but never clicked it and some didn’t,” Foster said. we know what the future is. We World Cups. We are under no land and have a crack at the All runner-up Rafa Nadal. into top gear, enjoyed watching “From our side of the coin, it have been waiting a long time for illusions how tough it will be and Blacks jersey.” Ireland’s 24-9 win over France on was a great game, a very intense this moment and quite frankly, we saw against Ireland that they REUTERS REUTERS

SHANGHAI MASTERS ‘Scotland have nothing to lose’ LONDON: Scotland are “mas- match.” Australia went through we’ve done in previous games RESULTS sive underdogs” and have nothing as Pool A winners after beating and see if we can improve.” to lose against Australia in their England and Wales at Twicken- Scotland can take heart from Results from the Shanghai Masters Men’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final ham on Saturday in a match in winning two of their last three Singles Round 1 matches yesterday. on Sunday, prop Alasdair Dick- which they were reduced to 13 meetings, including a memora- Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) bt Bai Yan inson said. men for a spell during the second ble 9-6 victory in Australia three (China) 6-0, 6-1; 15-Feliciano Lopez (Spain) “I’d say from this World Cup, half but repelled intense Welsh years ago, their first since 1982. bt Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia) 6-4, 7-6(3); they are the form team so far, pressure. “We have got to go out there Albert Ramos (Spain) bt Sam Querrey (US) definitely. They were outstand- Dickinson said Scotland, Pool and impose ourselves on the 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Victor Estrella (Dominican ing against England and showed B runners-up behind South game. It’s going to take a huge Republic) bt Donald Young (US) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; how clinical they can be in that Africa, needed to find a way performance from us, there’s no Dominic Thiem (Austria) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (Tai- Wales match. It’s going to be a through a Wallabies defence doubt about that.” But there’s no wan) 6-3, 6-3; 13-John Isner (US) bt Adrian huge test for us,” Dickinson told which has conceded just one try reason why we can’t go out there Mannarino (France) 6-1, 6-2; Steve John- reporters yesterday. in four games at the tourna- and do something special,” Dick- son (US) bt Andreas Seppi (Italy) 4-6, 6-1, “There is no doubt we are ment. “It will be difficult. There’s inson said. 7-6(2); Martin Klizan (Slovakia) bt Zhang Ze going to be massive underdogs, no doubt about it. We just have Meanwhile, South Africa will (China) 7-6(8), 6-2; Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) bt but we can take confidence to be confident we can score but work hard on their on-field disci- Jeremy Chardy (France) 6-4 7-6(6); Roberto from that fact we’ve got out of a we know how difficult it’s going pline and try to force Wales into Bautista (Spain) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez pretty tough group to reach the to be,” he said. losing theirs in the Rugby World (Spain) 6-2, 6-3; Nick Kyrgios (Australia) bt quarter-finals. We have nothing “It seems like they have built Cup quarter-final at Twickenham Wales’ Ross Moriarty (left) during a training session, yesterday in London Andreas Haider-Maurer (Austria) 6-3, 6-2. to lose. I don’t think anybody a brick wall across their line on Saturday. ahead of their World Cup quarter-finals against South Africa on Saturday. expects Scotland to win this but we just need to look at what REUTERS TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Stage set for exciting finals in Doha AIBA 2015 World Boxing Championships: Moroccan Rabii keeps Arab interest alive; three Cubans qualify

DOHA: Boxing powerhouse Cuba Tony Yoka. Ever since winning round the Algerian’s dream ended stamped their superiority in the the Europa Games in Baku ear- abruptly after being defeated on ring yesterday at the AIBA 2015 Lazara Alvarez lier this year, it has been Joyce’s technical knockout. World Boxing Championships of Cuba dream to win the world title. But “I am very sorry, I feel like I with three more pugilists mak- attempts a jab here in Doha he met a brick wall have let myself and my fans down. ing it to the finals while Moham- against Elnur in the Frenchman, who seemed My opponent had a slightly dif- med Rabii of Morocco kept the Abduraimov of the more agile of the two super ferent weight than me – he is regional interest alive in the Uzbekistan in heavyweights, and won on a unan- 52 kilograms, and I’m just 49 – championships the Lightwieight imous decision. so my tactics didn’t work as well At the Ali Bin Hamad Al Atti- category of the “I went in there with a game as I’d hoped. I will now focus on yah Arena after twenty high AIBA Boxing plan, to stop his jab and work him getting the bronze medal for my octane bouts Lazaro Alvarez, Julio Championships to the body, I thought I was win- country,” Flissi said. La Cruz and Veitia Yosvany made in Doha ning the first couple of rounds, I Meanwhile Yousuf Ali Al to the gold medal bouts joining caught him a few times and made Kazim, President of the Qatar yesterday. three compatriots who qualified him wobble, I thought I had done Boxing Federation was delighted in the semi-finals on Sunday. enough. I need to get back to by the crowd turnout. In the welterweight semi-final, Salim matramkot the UK, get in the gym and get “I am proud and humble when Rabii pocketed an emphatic win stronger, fitter and faster for next I look over the arena on this spe- over China’s Wei Liu. The 3:0 win year,” Joyce said. cial night as Qatar celebrates the means that the Moroccan is the For the Yoka, however, a place privilege of hosting the AIBA only Arab boxer in the final here in the final awaits: “It was a very World Boxing Championships. at the World Championships. trouble progressing to the final victory, Yeleussinov said: “I am from his red corner, forcing La tough fight, I know him well and Qatar is firmly in the sporting Speaking after booking his cov- and now finds himself one bout happy to live up to the expecta- Cruz in the defensive mode early he has beaten me before, I said if I spotlight and we believe we’ve eted spot in the final, an overjoyed away from yet another world title tions of my coaches, my friends on, but in the end the Cuban end up facing him in these cham- offered the perfect stage to let Rabii said: “I am extremely happy inside the last four years. and family. I am the reigning favorite was simply too good, and pionships I would win and I did the boxers excel while also grow to be in the final and to be the “It is important for me to qualify champion so I had to come here the bout ended in a unanimous that today. Joe was third favour- this noble sport in Qatar and the only Arab left in the Champion- for the Olympic Games, but I don’t and defend my title and this is win for the serial gold medal col- ite, the Russian was number two, region,” Al Kazim said. ships. I am confident, I had an want to focus on that right now. always difficult in this tough com- lector. but I am going to show everyone Today will be a rest day for the interview with the media today My focus is on winning gold here. I petition. I am looking forward to “I am happy to be through to that I will be number one.” boxers as they prepare to go into and said I was going to win and I have to thank the fans though, they the final and feel I am in good the final, my goal is to win the Yesterday action saw boxers the Championship Finals on the did, I have qualified for the Olym- are amazing here in Doha, and as form.” World Championship three times from twelve different nations October 14 and 15 which prom- pics and I know what I need to do a team it’s important to have their La Cruz was the last Cuban which is why I keep putting three spreading from Brazil in the ises to serve up some wonder- now in the final to win.” backs as we compete in the ring,” to compete this evening, coming fingers up at the end of my fights. West to China in the East were ful nights of world-class boxing. Elsewhere, a further three box- Alvarez said. up against Russia’s hard-hitting It is important for me to retain in action showing the truly global Finals starting from 7pm. ers from Cuba took to the ring Meanwhile, reigning world wel- Pavel Silyagin. La Cruz has won my title,” La Cruz said before nature of the sport, with regional aiming to emulate Sunday’s suc- terweight champion from Kaza- the past two AIBA World Cham- commenting on his roaring cel- interests now focused purely on THE PENINSULA cesses of their countrymen. khstan, Daniyar Yeleussinov, was pionships in spectacular style, and ebration with the Cuba fans in the Mohamed Flissi from Algeria (Fly First up was the exciting Cuban up against Parviz Baghirov, the the Cuban team captain earned stands: “I spent some time after weight 52 kg) and Rabii (Welter AIBA WORLD BOXING favourite Alvarez. Crowds went current European Games Welter- a quota for the Rio 2016 Olympic the bout with the fans to show weight 69 kg). wild as they greeted the reigning weight gold medalist, of Azerbai- Games through his World Series them my appreciation for the sup- Before the tournament Flissi CHAMPIONSHIPS DOHA 2015 world champion into the arena. jan. of Boxing success. Although port they give me in the ring. I were among the clear-cut Today Rest day The lightweight pugilist is the It was a bout that the Kazakh reigning champ La Cruz has really appreciate it!” favorites for the gold medal, Tomorrow 7:00pm-:30pm Finals+Bronze one to beat in this competition, contingent in the stands had already sealed his place in next The last bout of the night saw having narrowly missed out in Thursday 7:00pm-:30pm Finals+Bronze and he was up against the young been nervously waiting for, but year’s Olympic Games, that will Britain’s only remaining boxer the last World Championships Beyond the iconic gold medal, boxers are also and upcoming Elnur Abduraimov their hero did not disappoint and not take anything away from him in Doha, the super heavyweight in 2013. Aiming for one better competing for 23 Olympic quota places to Rio from Uzbekistan. advanced to the final with ease, going for his third consecutive veteran Joseph Joyce, who came in Doha, he had to overcome 2016 Olympic Games Despite a promising start for winning on unanimous decision. gold medal here in Doha. up against the tall and charis- Azerbaijan’s Elvin Mamishzada to the Uzbek, Alvarez had little Speaking after the convincing Silyagin came out swinging matic 22 year old Frenchman reach the final, but after just one Venue: Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena

Qatar Basketball Federation and QF sign agreement Saqr Academy tops at Taekwondo tournament

DOHA: The competitions of Qatar’s local Taekwondo cham- pionship for different age groups organised by the Qatar Taek- wondo and Judo Federation (QTJF) concluded at the Women Indoor Hall at the Aspire Dome yesterday. In the event’s closing rounds, Saqr Academy topped the general standings after claiming the first place with (146 points), followed Two-time former world champion and current holder of the WBC Silver by Qatar Centre (74 points) and Welterweight Amir Khan found time to visit the iconic Museum of Islamic Korean Centre ( 45 points) to fin- Arts in Doha yesterday. The British boxer enjoyed himself on his day ish in the third place. out across the capital. He also visited the Katara Cultural Village, Khan The QTJF Secretary Gen- said: “Doha just keeps getting better and better, I really love it here. eral, . Khalifa Abdulrahman Al Everything is so beautiful, and it’s such a warm and hospitable place. Kubaisi, crowned the top winners I’m obviously here for the World Boxing Championships as a guest of in a festive sport scene. The two- the Qatar Boxing Federation and AIBA, but thankfully I’ve found time day event brought together 180 to visit a few sites like the Museum of Islamic arts. As a Muslim it was players from different age groups. Faisal Al Dosari, (third left) Supervisor at Qatar Foundation, shakes hand with Mohammad Ali Hobash, (third great to see all the ancient artefacts, and the whole experience was right) Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) Assistant Secretary-General, after signing an agreement at Gharafa THE PENINSULA simply incredible. It’s really nice to see what Qatar has done to preserve yesterday. Kammutty VP Islamic culture.”

Second season of QSL Goalz El Jaish aim to bounce back in QSL Programme DOHA: El Jaish will be keen to The Cheetahs will therefore make no more mistakes after an QATAR STARS LEAGUE hope that winger Moayad Has- underwhelming start to the Qatar Round 5 san, new signing Masoud Shojaei launched Stars League (QSL) season when October 17 and veteran midfielder Lawrence they take on Al Gharafa on Octo- Quaye give their best perform- DOHA: A new season of fun ber 18 at their home venue. Al Ahli vs Al Kharaitiyat ance of the season to date. football across schools in Both teams go into the game Al Khor vs Al Rayyan Statics wise, in the last five Qatar began with the QSL having won their previous Al Wakrah vs Al Sailiya clashes El Jaish has come out on Goalz Programme. matches in Round 4 of the Qatar top, with three wins, and one draw. Mesaimeer vs Umm Salal The programme, which is Stars League. Gharafa have only won once in a funded by the Qatar Stars The Cheetahs beat Al Arabi October 18 tight 2-1 home win last October. League (QSL), is run by 1-0 to go level on points with Al Gharafa vs El Jaish Both coaches know the impor- Euphoria Sports at six schools Lekhwiya, having played one Al Sadd vs Qatar SC tance of this game, for Gharafa namely Birla Primary, Com- game less. a good start will be mightily pass International School, El Jaish also bagged an impor- Lekhwiya vs Al Arabi reinforced if they can nick a win Lebanese School, Newton tant win with Abderrazak Ham- over one of the best teams in the British Academy, TNG Ain dallah scoring just after the hour league, as they look to get back to Khalid and TNG Nuaija. mark against Al Kharaitiyat. razak Hamdallah, who has been a their previously high standards of The Key components of the They now sit in an uncharac- sensation for Jaish since joining years gone by. programme are: Pre-school teristically low sixth place in the over this summer. The Moroc- El Jaish are a team who are and after-school clubs, foot- league table and will be keen to can has scored four goals in four always there or there abouts come ball coaching as part of school bounce back to the top. They have matches. The new striker has set- the end of the season but as of curriculum. QSL player and eight points from four matches. tled well and has created a good yet have failed to break the stran- club visits to schools and foot- El Jaish have lost one and won understanding with fellow attack- glehold that Sadd and Lekhwiya ball festivals. There are 853 two of their last three games ing players, Wagner Ribeiro and have over the league. children involved, in the pro- whilst Al Gharafa’s form is so far Romarinho. On Sunday therefore, with gramme and is one of the most impeccable with three wins and For Gharafa however injury Gharafa’s injury list growing and enjoyable children’s football no goals conceded and have nine worries have struck them early Jaish possessing plenty of quality initiatives. points, the same like Lekhwiya in the season. New signing Yas- throughout the team, the specta- El Jaish and Al Khor players vie for the ball possession during their and Al Arabi. sine Chikhaoui might not feature tors have a cracker of a match Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Lekhwiya Stadium in this file photo THE PENINSULA El Jaish fortunes will largely and Dioko is still recovering from at hand. of September 27. revolve around the form of Abder- a hamstring tear. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Qatari floodlights to illuminate finale Battle for second position is on as WorldSBK will return to Qatar, Welshman Davies targets runner-up spot

DOHA: Next week will mark the land’s Johnathan Rea in Jerez Losail last week; now fully fit - ished on the podium in Qatar last final two races in the eni FIM last month, he and his team- having raced to a podium last year as Rea was second in Race 2. Superbike World Championship mate were in Barcelona last week time out with an injured shoulder As with every year that goes of 2015. in order to help launch the new - he wants even more this time. by, the final race meeting of the All is decided in terms of Rid- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R for 2016. Guintoli’s single-year spell with season marks a wonderful oppor- ers’ and Manufacturers’ titles, For now, however, Rea is look- Honda will end after this event. tunity for those riders still seek- in favour of Jonathan Rea and ing to amass more points than He is on the lookout for another ing a placement for the following Kawasaki, but the runner-up spot any rider has even scored in a positive two races at what is one campaign. The 2015 Pirelli Qatar is yet to be sealed on Sunday, at single season of World Superbike. of his favourite race tracks, hav- Round will take place across the Losail International Circuit. One more race victory would be ing finally jumped up onto the weekend of 17-18 October, with Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing enough to beat Colin Edwards’ podium at home in France two Sunday’s first World Superbike – Ducati Superbike Team) edges record of 2002. weekends ago. Alex Lowes in is a encounter starting at 7pm local out Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing The Losail International Cir- similar situation, looking to enjoy time (GMT +3). Team) by 16 points, with the gap cuit debuted on the calendar in his last outing on a Suzuki before having come down from the 22 it 2005, running through to 2009 he joins the 2014 title winner as THE PENINSULA was before Magny-Cours. under daylight prior to a four- Crescent switches to Yamaha R1 This time, Welshman Davies is year break. machinery for the start of 2016. FIM SUPERBIKE joined by Xavi Fores who is the It returned at the end of last Ahead of Qatar, WorldSBK last substitute of the season for year, with a scintillating finale in Champion Rea has welcomed CHAMPIONSHIP the injured Davide Giugliano; which Sylvain Guintoli picked up Nicky Hayden to the paddock. (12 of 13 rounds completed) Spaniard Fores raced earlier this his first and so far only career The 2006 MotoGP title winner 1 - Jonathan Rea Kawasaki Racing Team 528* season at MotorLand Aragon and double, seeing off the challenge will race alongside Michael van 2 - Chaz Davies Aruba.it Racing - Ducati Super- Assen. of Sykes whose own weekend was der Mark at Honda next year, bike Team 383 (-145) Davies will be looking to cement marred by a team orders incident Northern Ireland’s Jonathan Rea in action in the previous round of eni making his World Superbike 3 - Tom Sykes Kawasaki Racing Team 367 second overall as quickly as possi- with Loris Baz. Guintoli duly FIM Superbike World Championship of 2015 in France. debut with an eventual plan of (-161) ble, while Sykes has finished only became France’s second World becoming the first rider in his- 4 - Leon Haslam Aprilia Racing Team - Red first or second in the standings Champion after Raymond Roche tory to win titles in the premier Devils 297 (-231) for the last three years. in 1990. ning his first race in the series. outing of the season with Aprilia classes of both WorldSBK and With the title signed, sealed In 2007, Max Biaggi stormed He makes headlines again eight after Misano and Sepang. MotoGP. 5- Jordi Torres Aprilia Racing Team - Red Devils and delivered for Northern Ire- onto the WorldSBK scene by win- years on, returning for a third He tested for four days at His future team, Ten Kate, fin- 222 (-306) Kawasaki lead as all focus on Manufacturers’ title at Losail DOHA: The 2015 FIM Super- qualifying session WORLD SUPERSPORT son Hamza. Emo- disrupted by an unscheduled team sport World Championship has this coming Sat- tionally, the title move mid-season. been a season full of raw emotion, urday. RACE has been dedi- Neither Jacobsen nor Sofuoglu on the track as well as off it. Arguably, cated to Hamza, saw the Qatar podium in 2014. The last World Supersport After two seasons off the top the champion- whose life was That was occupied by Dutchman race of 2015 begins on Sunday spot, Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki ship for riders at 8:30pm local time (GMT +3). helplessly cut Michael van der Mark, ending Puccetti Racing) is back in busi- was realistically short so soon. his title-winning campaign on 2015 FIM Supersport World Championship ness with a record-extending over in Jerez. The third huge the top of the Doha rostrum, as (11 of 12 rounds completed) fourth world title, thanks to the Jules Cluzel (MV element in this Thailand’s Ratthapark Wilairot second place finish he collected Agusta Reparto 1 - Kenan Sofuoglu Kawasaki Puccetti Rac- year’s title bat- and France’s Cluzel completed the at Magny-Cours in France two Corse) was a ing 213* tle was Ameri- top three. weekends ago. season-long chal- 2 - PJ Jacobsen CORE’’ Motorsport Thailand can PJ Jacobsen. The top three fight on which all The stunning 31-year-old lenger after win- Honda 185 (-28) Since switching focus is centred this weekend at from Turkey is the most suc- ning the opening 3 - Jules Cluzel MV Agusta Reparto Corse to the Motorsport Losail will be that of the Manu- cessful World Supersport rider at Phillip Island 155 (-58) Honda Thailand factures’ Championship – the last by some way, not just in terms plus several more *Already crowned the 2015 Champion outfit, the New title to be decided in WorldSBK of world titles but also for race successes and Yorker has been this year. Japan’s Kawasaki holds wins, podium finishes, front row some very hard-fought battles on scintillating form which con- a sizeable lead of 15 points over starts, fastest race laps and total with Sofuoglu; however, in Spain tinued with his second victory Italy’s MV Agusta, with Honda points scored. the Frenchman picked up inju- from three races last time out in another Japanese marque still There is just one small detail ries that ended his season pre- France. He now aims for a third in contention and 20 points in QMMF President Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah awarding the trophy to to take care of: the pole posi- maturely. success of the season prior to arrears of the leader. Jonathan Rea in Doha last year. tion record of 23, which can be Sofuoglu also suffered an ordeal an even fiercer title challenge in clinched should Sofuoglu top the this year, with the death of baby 2016, with this year having been THE PENINSULA

Al Shaqab to host final leg of GCC Games: Qatari team reaches Dammam Longines Global Championship

DOHA: Qatar is preparing to part of H H the Father Emir san Mohammed, are increasingly host the Longines Global Cham- Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al prominent on the international pionship tour finale at the pres- Thani’s vision and passion to pre- show jumping stage. tigious state-of-the-art Al Shaqab serve and perpetuate the Arabian Al Shaqab will be the impres- Equestrian Centre in Doha next horse in Qatar. It has since devel- sive final stage of the 2015 Cham- month. oped into a major international pionship - a fitting position for this Founded by H H the Father equestrian facility encompassing top quality, cutting-edge venue. If Emir, this magnificent, renowned multiple equine disciplines. the final this year is anything like venue will see the best showjump- Qatar, a destination which 2014, when Britain’s Scott Brash ers in the world pull out all the joined the Tour in 2008, has con- retained his title following a nail- stops to win the Longines Global tinued to build on its reputation as biting three-horse race between Champions Tour overall title for a global sports destination and a himself, Ludger Beerbaum and 2015. hub for major international sport- Rolf-Goran Bengtsson, the cul- The electrifying climax to the ing occasions. Leading events like mination to the 10th Anniversary season at Al Shaqab, a world-class the final of the Longines Global Year season is sure to be a tense equestrian facility and part of the Champions Tour have been part of affair that comes right down the Qatar Foundation, will take place this evolution and Qatari national wire. from November 12 to 14. riders, including Sheikh Ali bin Qatari volleyball team members pose for a group photo after reaching Dammam, Saudi Arabia to participate Al Shaqab was established as Khalid Al Thani and Bassem Has- THE PENINSULA at the GCC Games. Anabi, coached by Argentine Juan Manuel will open campaign against Oman. The GCC Games will conclude on October 26. The event includes 15 competitions, contested by six teams. Russia confirm Euro 2016 berth

MOSCOW: Russia secured their battle into next summer’s Euro the match with Austria, replied their coach Branko Brnovic, who qualification for Euro 2016 with a finals via the play-offs later this with an angled close-range shot was serving a touchline ban after confident 2-0 Group G win over year. by Stanisa Mandic, which flew being sent off in the match against Montenegro in Moscow yesterday. Russia, who needed just a point over the crossbar. Austria, but failed to improve on A goal by right-back Oleg against unmotivated Montenegro In the 33rd minute Igor Den- the scoreline. Kuzmin and a precise spot-kick in a sold out match at 45,000- isov lobbed the ball into the area Meanwhile, Liverpool’s new by forward Alexander Kokorin seat Otkrytie arena to guaran- over the line of the visiting side manager Jurgen Klopp has said he set Russia on their way to the tee themselves a top-two finish, defenders and the 34-year-old had no intention of poaching play- fourth win in as many matches started in a lively fashion pinning Kuzmin poked the ball into the ers from his former club Borussia since Leonid Slutsky took over in the visitors back from the kick- net past Mijatovic from just out- Dortmund for the Reds. August from sacked Italian Fabio off. side the six-yard box. “That is in no way my Capello. Midfielder Alan Dzagoev had a Three minutes later Russia approach,” he told newspaper The result saw Russia finish in chance to open the scoring in the were awarded a penalty kick after Bild in an interview published second, eight points behind the seventh minute but Montenegro Vladimir Rodic fouled Dmitry yesterday. Group G winners Austria, who ‘keeper Milan Mijatovic stopped Kombarov in the area and Koko- The 48-year-old has a contract thrashed Liechtenstein 3-0 in his low shot confidently from the rin made it 2-0 for Russia send- to manage the Merseyside giants Vienna. edge of the area. ing Mijatovic the wrong way from until June 2018 and will take Russia’s defender Oleg Kuzmin (left) vies for the ball possession with Sweden, who defeated Moldova The guests, who came to Mos- the spot. charge of his first Premier League Montenegro’s forward Stanisa Mandic during their UEFA Euro 2016 group 2-0, at home, in the other Group cow without injured Inter Milan After the interval Russia con- game against Tottenham Hotspur G qualifying match at the Otkrytie Arena Stadium in Moscow, yesterday. G match to finish third, two forward Stevan Jovetic and Mirko tinued testing the defense of on Saturday. points further back, will try to Vucinic, who has been sent off in Montenegro, who were without AFP Tuesday 13 October 2015 29 Dhul-Hijja 1436 Volume 20 Number 6582 Sport Price: QR2 Kenyans Pakistan gets win Chicago Yasir Shah Marathon scare in UAE

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By Rizwan Rehmat

DOHA: Points leaders Qatar have been urged to employ ‘clever’ tac- tics in their 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup joint qualify- ing match against Maldives today. Qatar were stretched to the limit in their opening match of this qualifying campaign against Maldives where the visitors scored the only goal of the match in injury time. Coach Daniel Carreno doesn’t want a repeat of that June 11 per- formance at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium today. “We must play the match in a clever way. Surely we will be focused on good defence and look for ball possession,” Carreno said yesterday. “We will look for three points. We have done that (bagged maxi- Qatar coach Daniel Carreno takes notes during a training session at mum points) in all the matches Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha. Qatar are unbeaten in four 2018 so far,” the Uruguayan explained. FIFA World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup joint qualifying matches since Last week, Qatar edged past a June, 2015. resolute China 1-0 to retain their top spot in Group C shared by Hong Kong and Bhutan. QATAR FIXTURES AND RESULTS Qatar football players are seen during a training session at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha. Qatar take Carreno, who took over as on Maldives in a 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup joint qualifying match at the same venue today. coach last May, said his team 11 June 2015: Maldives vs Qatar, 0-1 at Rasmee Dhandu (Galolhu) National Stadium lacked time to prepare for today’s 03 September 2015: Qatar vs Bhutan, 15-0, at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium clash. 08 September 2015: Hong Kong vs Qatar, 2-3, at Mongkok Stadium “For the game against Mal- dives, (we did) not (have) enough 08 October 2015: Qatar vs China, 1-0, at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium time to prepare. But we have 13 October 2015: Qatar vs Maldives, 6:30pm, at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium focused well during these days,” 17 November 2015: Bhutan vs Qatar, at Changlimithang Stadium Carreno said. 24 March 2016: Qatar vs Hong Kong, at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium Carreno said a high intensity game - similar to the one against match seriously and with disci- we want points. The three points China on October 8 - is usually pline. We are sure that this is a here will be important for the followed by a dip in performance. very important match for us.” side,” Carreno said. “Yes, after each important win When asked about U23 captain “After the China game, I said against a big side, the level of per- Akram Afif, Carreno said: “Afif is this so that we focus on the Mal- formance comes down but when there on the list of Qatar’ Olympic dives match only. Definitely win- we train, we prepare separately squad. We called him to the first ning against Maldives will be good for each side,” Carreno said. team but he did not play very well. but not the end of our campaign,” Carreno added: “We have The present 23 players are well he added. focused on two aspects for this qualified for this clash.” Ricki Herbert, the new coach game: psychological and tech- Carreno said Qatar, who have for Maldives, is a man looking nique. I trust the players are 12 points from four games, are for positives from his batch of 19 ready for this match.” taking one game at a time. “Mal- players available for the Qatar He said: “They will take this dives game is important because clash. Herbert was unveiled as the GROUP C STANDINGS new head coach of the Maldives on September 8 and in his first TEAMS M W D L GF GA +/- Pts game, his side beat Bhutan 4-3 QATAR 4 4 0 0 20 2 18 12 last week. Hong Kong 4 2 1 1 11 3 8 7 “ Last few days have been good. China PR 4 2 1 1 9 1 8 7 Game is very exciting. As you may Maldives 4 1 0 3 4 9 -5 3 know I had just one game with the Bhutan 4 0 0 4 3 32 -29 0 team,” Herbert, who is from New Zealand, said yesterday. “It has been a short preparation but we can have a better team in the future. I have brought 19 play- Maldives ers. We are looking forward to the coach game. Ricki “Qatar is a very exciting chal- Herbert lenge for us. It is a big team,” the is seen former All Whites coach said. during a “I wasn’t in the Maldives for press con- the home game. Qatar were ference unlucky. They could have scored in Doha more,” Herbert said when asked yesterday. about the first leg between the Qatar play two sides in June. Maldives “I don’t want to be trying to today. limit the damage. We want to do well. We want to express our- selves. I am looking towards the future. It’s important to do that. Attendance at Asian Cup, FIFA World Cup “There are changes that I want to make. Acclimatisation-wise, we joint qualifiers exceeds one million need to be better in countries we DOHA: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has reached a travel to. (I) hope the players can major milestone, as stadium attendance numbers for the FIFA relish and play to a good level,” World Cup 2018 and AFC Asian Cup 2019 joint qualifiers have he added. exceeded the one million mark. “Football is a fascinating game. The total attendance for all stages of the qualifying competition, You are seeing interesting results. across the 88 fixtures played, has reached 1,166,971. Qatar is strong in Asian football. The tally also includes Qatar’s two matches against Bhutan in It is something we have to face,” September and against China last week. Herbert said. The total stadium attendance for the Preliminary Joint Qualifica- “Players need to be tested. It’s tion Round Two was at 1,076,998 spectators after Matchday Five a big hurdle. We don’t want to last week. Round Two saw a total of 76 matches played. defend 90 minutes. We want to Fifteen matches in eight groups (Groups A through H) were be challenging, moving forward. played last week at various stadiums across the continent. Match- Football provides with surprises day Sixtoday, October 13, will see 15 matches played across the and hopefully we can provide one continent. tomorrow,” he said. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA