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Saudi warns illegals face jail after July 3 RIYADH: The Saudi government warned yesterday that illegal foreign workers risk being slapped with prison sentences and fines after a three-month grace period runs out on July 3. Additionally, employers or those who shelter illegal workers will be liable to be jailed for up to two years, the interior and labour ministries said in a joint statement. It urged those whose work and residency permits have expired to take advantage of the amnesty without penalty, includ- ing “special measures” that would allow a change of employer under certain condi- tions. The amnesty does not cover those who entered the oil-rich Gulf state illegally. Survivor pulled from ruins after 17 days SAVAR: Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex yesterday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble. Hours after officials had announced the death toll had surged past the 1,000 mark, recovery teams who had long given up any hope of finding more survivors were stunned to hear the voice of a woman call- ing for help. They managed to extract her from the ruins in an operation broadcast live on tel- evision. Cries of “Allahu Akbar” — “God is great” — rang out from the crowd as the woman, identified as Reshma, was pulled out of the rubble. NIGHTLIFE See also page 10 UK, Russia to work on Syria’s transition

THE ISSUE MOSCOW/DAMASCUS: Russia and Britain agreed yesterday to work towards a transitional government in Syria, despite acknowledging differences Doha’s nightlife cannot be crew members and their industry colleagues, But, according to community elders — both in their approach to the Middle Eastern where entry is free for women and discounts Qataris and expatriates — Doha’s nightlife country’s civil war. compared to that in neighbouring are offered on drinks. began changing after the national carrier British Prime Minister David Cameron Dubai or Manama, but it is These parties are not the only feature of began expanding in the late 1990s in a big said after talks with Russian President gradually becoming vibrant — Doha’s changing nightlife. There are discos way and recruiting air hostesses from differ- Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of where live bands play and drinks flow freely, ent countries, including Westerners, in large Sochi that they had agreed “that as per- which some find unwelcome as and there are sports as well as ordinary bars numbers. manent members of the UN we must help some events like beach and special and pubs where both men and women drink These women, being young, unmarried and drive this process”. He said international and mix freely. accustomed to a different lifestyle, needed efforts envisaged “not just bringing the parties organised by a few elite Qatar Tourism Authority, the regulatory body relaxation after long flights and so went out regime and opposition together at one nego- hotels offer free entry to women. for the hospitality and tourism industry, bars seeking enjoyment. Then began a sudden surge tiating table, but Britain, Russia, America the entry of Qatari men and women dressed in in the country’s population and, especially from and other countries helping shape a tran- their traditional attire into such places. 2004 onwards, the influx of foreign workers, sitional government that all Syrians can hen, some hotels organise what they But hotel industry insiders say their esti- including professionals, became heavier as trust to protect them.” call ‘ladies night’ once a week, when not mates suggest some 20 to 30 percent of their development projects were being launched in Full report on page 8 only entry but drinks also are free for patrons are Qatari men who, obviously, come in increasing numbers ahead of the 2006 Asian Twomen all through the night. At least Western clothes. The identity cards of entrants Games. Pakistan orders NYT one such hotel says it attracts as many as 250 are checked and even scanned at many such There has literally been a population explosion young and pretty women of different nationali- joints to make sure they are over 21 years of age, ever since and with the stupendous gas-driven bureau chief to leave ties to its ‘Ladies Night’ fixtures, and the idea but there are several joints that do not follow growth in the economy, people’s purchasing is to “balance” the ratio of men and women at this rule, say sources. power, too, grew. The population in 2004 was a NEW YORK: The New York Times said these parties. Obviously, people who have money to burn mere 750,000, and the figure stands at an incred- yesterday its Islamabad bureau chief was Not so, really, considering that the events patronise such places, but there is at least one ible 1.93 million today. Qatar’s per capita income ordered to leave Pakistan for unspecified attract young men of various nationalities in disco in a middle-range hotel which is largely grew simultaneously, and is today more than “undesirable activities” in the country. large numbers and they must pay an entry fee patronised by limited- and even low-income $100,000, making Qatar the richest country on The newspaper said it had “strongly even if they have a membership card that allows expatriates. There are some middle-range pubs earth. protested” the expulsion order for Declan them free entry on other days of the week. and bars as well. No wonder, then, that with people from so Walsh, and was seeking his reinstatement. It is natural to expect some women to get People living here for long say things were many nationalities living here and many of them The order was delivered by police to drunk at these parties, which continue until the different some 15 years ago, as there were just a having high disposable incomes, and interna- Walsh’s home at 12.30 am Thursday. “It is PAGEwee hours, and what 6 might be happening next few bars and most of their patrons were either tional luxury hotels setting foot here in increas- informed that your visa is hereby cancelled is anybody’s guess. Europeans or Filipinos. Few Asians went to ing numbers, Doha’s nightclubs come to life after in view of your undesirable activities,” the Aside from ‘ladies nights’, hotels also organise these joints and it was kind of a taboo for nation- the sun sets, say sources. order stated. “You are therefore advised to special ‘nights’ devoted, for instance, to airlines’ als to visit these places. 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BY FAZEENA SALEEM the hotel’s spokesperson said. many expatriates are coming here ‘Ladies night’, a concept that and we can’t avoid pubs, clubs and DOHA: More than 20 percent was introduced here some eight discos. It’s fine as long as they are of the annual revenues of hotels years ago, is becoming popu- private events at closed places,” For Western expats, in Qatar come from nightclubs lar among hotels and guests. said a young Qatari engineer. and bars, which are now visited Almost all the hotels have one But he said he was against the by a growing number of Arab day reserved for ladies when Ladies night’, a concept of ‘ladies nights’ at hotels nightlife in Doha as and Asian men. they can get free drinks. On here. The last few years have seen normal days, men are allowed to concept that was “It can be a universal con- a steady rise in the number of enter the nightclubs using their cept, but we cannot accept it in a vibrant as back home hotels in Doha, making nightlife annual membership card, but on introduced here Muslim society even if our women in the city more colourful than a ‘ladies night’ they have to pay some eight years don’t go there,’’ he added. BY ISABEL OVALLE ever. To lure customers, many an entrance fee. A Qatari woman, meanwhile, why in some establishments of these hotels offer promotions “Many years ago, there were ago, is becoming said she was shocked to hear that you must show your ID or and theme nights, which are often only a few places for people to women also frequented bars and he number of Western passport, while others allow targeted at women by allowing go to in Doha. But as new places popular among clubs here. “I thought that some expats in Doha has entrance without showing any them free entry. opened here we had to look for hotels and guests. places serve liquor for men only. grown rapidly in documents. When I first moved Beach parties at hotels are a aggressive promotions,’’ an offi- It’s surprising for me and we are Tthe past few years. here, I was not allowed entry booming trend. One hotel, for cial of another hotel said, explain- unaware about these discos and European and American into a pub because I had no ID instance, hosted about 15 beach ing how the ‘ladies night’ was pubs,’’ she said. nationals arrive in Qatar and with me,” she said. parties in the first quarter of the introduced. It can be culture shock for discover that the entertainment For Pedro, a Spaniard who year. This hotel receives as many as in Doha feel that the places are many an Arab man to see a available at night does not dif- has lived here for a year, “the “The demand for night events 250 women guests on Wednesdays “less interesting” and have many woman having drinks, that too fer much from that of the coun- local nightlife is somewhat has increased. People want to go during the ‘ladies night’. restrictions. at a bar. tries of the West, where men similar to that of Europe except out more and they like to have By 11pm, women of different “Pubs and clubs here are less An increasing number of peo- and women gather regularly in there are more restrictions and events outdoors, which we can nationalities, including Chinese, interesting in that they have lots ple say they are opposed to hotels local pubs and clubs. the offer is a bit more limited probably do until July,” an official Russian and Lebanese, start of restrictions and guests can’t having ‘ladies nights’ where “It’s like being in Europe, and pricy. There are only two from the hotel said. walking into the hotel. move freely,” said a professional, drinks are free for women, as that but it depends on what you like. discos and they charge QR200 Some of the parties are organ- Some visitors feel the crowds adding some places are very par- would encourage women to drink. There are a variety of things to for a membership card that ised by the hotels and others by at clubs here are not welcoming ticular about what guests can Another hotel, one of the old- do, you can either chill out or lasts only six months and, if you individuals or groups. or well-mannered. “There are a wear. est five-star hotels in the city, go clubbing, or even meet other go on weekends, it’s very likely “The number of attendees variety of events, but some don’t According to a citizen, the said they hosted ‘ladies nights’ to professionals at numerous net- that they won’t let you in if you depends on the location. We can know how to enjoy them. Some Qatari society is not wholly una- attract more women to the pub. working events that also take don’t go with a woman.” host up to 2,000 people, but some men can’t handle alcohol and ware of what is happening at ‘’We offer free drinks to attract place at night,” said Sarah, an This Spanish bachelor also of the smaller parties have only pretty women,” a young profes- nightclubs and they do not agree and encourage ladies to come,’’ expat from the UK who has adds that these places can be 500 guests,” the official said. sional said. with the concept of nightlife. said an official of the hotel. been in Doha for over a year. dangerous, because men often The range of guests is wide, and Some others who go clubbing “As the country is developing, Continued on page 4 This marketing professional become aggressive if they drink. usually a mix of nationalities. moved here with her husband “I have seen at least four very Several restaurants also fea- and found making friends very violent fights with up to ten ture theme nights and cultural easy. She got in touch with men taking part. They even programmes to entertain diners. several professional and social threw glasses at each other Some officials claim that with networking groups that help and it was very difficult for the the opening of new bars and res- expats make friends or meet security personnel to control taurants they are seeing a marked people from their field of work. the situation,” he added. increase in the number of cus- “These groups also hold Doha’s wide spectrum of tomers and profit. events at night at hotels, pubs or “The addition of new bars and at the beach, aiming for people restaurants in Doha in the last 18 to interact and make contacts,” months has mitigated the increase she added. Only last month, a in demand to some extent,” an group held a very successful official of another hotel said, not beach party at a five-star hotel. wanting his name in print. In addition, business councils It’s like being At one hotel, evening events host dinners and informal get- include a variety of activities and togethers for professionals to in Europe, but offers, ranging from DJ nights meet in a more relaxed ambi- and client receptions to happy ence outside the workplace. it depends on hours — when drinks are served There are both events tai- what you like. at half the normal rates. lored for ladies, like the monthly “Each of our Doha proper- dinners organized by Qatar ties has a variety of visitors Professional Women’s Network, from across the globe, namely and mixed ones put together Qatar, the UK, US, India, by numerous other networking France, South Africa, and of and social platforms which have nightclubs, pubs and bars is course from across the GCC,” flourished in the past few years, mainly located in five-star with the number of expats ris- hotels and features offers for ing exponentially. every taste. The establish- However, some say that ments often hold theme parties, Doha’s nightlife is nothing including Arabic and Indian, compared to Dubai’s. Also, it’s and also host ladies and couples not affordable for many. “It’s nights in most major venues, a very expensive, if you want to strategy which is very popular ‘Wealth causes erosion in values’ keep up, you must have a great in the West. disposable income to spend on However, prices at these drinks and entrance fees,” said establishments are affordable BY AZMAT HAROON number of individuals in nuclear city and the fact that so many about moral and religious val- a British national. only for those well-heeled. Most families alienated. global events take place here ues. In the case of GCC coun- Linda, a teacher from nightclubs here require the DOHA: Extended Qatari “This (alienation), coupled means that no less than 1,000 tries, of which Qatar is one, Sweden, was also surprised with payment of a membership fee families crumbling under the with increasing wealth, may visitors come here almost every the changes have been sudden the vibrant nightlife here, since which costs between QR50 and pressure of modernisation, giv- be forcing many to go to night- month for those events. because of the oil wealth. Qatar is known as a conserva- QR200. The membership card ing way to nuclear families is clubs,” said the sociologist, who The country’s population is “These countries haven’t gone tive Muslim country. “I think generally guarantees entrance leading to an erosion of social insisted that being a Qatari he increasing and people of many through a gradual process of it’s also contradictory, just like to an establishment for a lim- and moral values in the Qatari didn’t want his name in print nationalities live here now, mak- change.” the fact that, at nightclubs, the ited period -- from six months community, says a prominent due to the sensitivity of the ing Doha a multicultural city. However, to believe that night- recommendation to dress mod- to one or two years, depending Qatari sociologist. issue. Many Qataris have expatriate clubs, bars and discos in Doha estly is ignored by most women, on the hotel’s policy. The impact of the disintegrat- Some in the community visit friends and they socialise with are thriving because Qataris who who wear provocative clothes The membership card always ing primary structure of the nightclubs just to enjoy. one another. have easy access to money are with no worries,” she said. In includes a photo and allows Qatari family is being felt on “When you make a commod- “The Qatari society is not their patrons would be wrong, conclusion, said Linda, “you can entrance, but not in all cases, the social institution of marriage ity available, there will be tak- isolated. It is part of the global said the sociologist. do whatever you want, just like given that frequently large as evidenced by the increasing ers,” he said of the mushrooming culture.” Expatriates are their biggest in Europe.” groups of men, or a man that number of divorces in the com- nightclubs and bars in Doha. People are becoming desensi- customers because Qataris are The teacher doesn’t com- is alone, can be denied entrance munity, said the sociologist. Doha is trying to position tised and those who visit night- in a minority, he said. prehend the entrance policy if the person at the door says so. This is leaving an increasing itself as a modern and growing clubs obviously don’t bother THE PENINSULA in Qatar. “I don’t understand THE PENINSULA Home MAY 11, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Sheikha Jawahir attends women’s football final Emir mourns death of Saudi prince DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a cable of condolences and sympathy to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, on the death of Prince Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Jalawi Al Saud. The funeral was performed after Friday prayer at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a similar cable, offering condolences. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani also sent condolences to Saudi Arabia.

H H Sheikha Jawahir bint Hamad bin Suheim Al Thani handing the Heir Apparent’s Wife’s Cup to Al Khor team captain after they defeated Lekhwiya 3-1 in the final of the women’s football FEC celebrates tournament organised by Qatar Women’s Sports Committee, at the Al Sadd stadium on Thursday. RIGHT: H H Sheikha Jawahir signing a ball. Migratory Bird Day

DOHA: The Friends of the Environment Center (FEC) is celebrating International Migratory Bird Day today. World Press Photo expo from Wednesday The celebration comes in response to an appeal from the International Committee for Bird Preservation, of which Qatar Photographic Society and Katara to organise the event Qatar is a member. The FEC’s celebration will be DOHA: The World Press Photo The expo will be held at build- to supporting photojournalism the globe to participate in the World an annual contest for multimedia, under the slogan ‘The informa- 13 exhibition will start at Katara ing 18 at Katara from Wednesday. and documentary photography Press Photo Contest, the top photo- exhibitions on a variety of cur- tion network for the birds and Cultural Village this week after The current exhibition is an worldwide, and to stimulat- journalism competition worldwide. rent themes, and the stimulation catching PUPILS when they are its opening in De Oude Kerk effort by the Qatar Photographic ing high standards. It strives to An independent international jury of photojournalism through edu- young’. in Amsterdam in April. The Society with Katara in collabora- generate wide public interest in of 19 experts judges all entries in cational programs. Qatar’s Birds Project held a show will go on a year-long tion with the World Press Photo photography, to build apprecia- Amsterdam, and an annual exhibi- World Press Photo is run as an press conference at the FEC tour around the world, with Organization, to work towards the tion for photographers’ work, and tion takes the prizewinning images independent, non-profit organisa- headquarters. stops not only here, but also in development of a qualified pho- to encourage the free exchange of to 100 locations in 45 countries. It is tion with its office in Amsterdam, This year’s International Riga (Latvia), Lagos (Nigeria) tography audience and photogra- information. seen by millions of visitors. the Netherlands, where World Migratory Bird Day theme is and Lima (Peru), among other phers in Qatar. Each year, World Press Photo Among other activities devel- Press Photo was founded in 1955. ‘Life Cycle of Migratory Birds’. locations. World Press Photo is dedicated invites photographers from across oped by World Press Photo are THE PENINSULA QNA

Six new Independent Reception for Pakistan delegation Schools this year DOHA: Six new Independent The school will start by enroll- Schools will open during the aca- ing 180 students and will gradually demic year 2013-2014, an Arabic expand by adding more stages each newspaper reported yesterday. The year so as to enroll a total number of schools will be located in the follow- 460 students in academic 2014-2015. ing areas: Al Duhail, New Rayyan, The number of students will Abu Sidra (which will have two increase to be not less than 600 stu- schools), Meiether and Um Salal Ali. dents in academic 2016-2017. The Supre Education Council SEC in a recent circular has (SEC) also announced recently that banned private schools from enroll- the first Spanish school in Qatar is ing children aged above four years set to open in September, as part in the kindergarten and preparatory of Qatar’s Outstanding Schools classes. Initiative. School operators say that the deci- Based in West Bay, the school sion has come at a time when they belongs to SEK International are busy finalising preparations for Schools and English will be its offi- the new academic year which begins cial language of instruction, with in September. emphasis on developing students’ Accordingly, enrollment age for fluency in both Spanish and Arabic. KG students has been fixed as three Study in the SEK School in Qatar years and for preparatory (KG2) will be limited to the primary stage students as four years. Schools are in its first year and starting from not permitted to enroll children Pakistan Ambassador Syed Hassan Raza (fourth right), with the Pakistani delegation that participated in Project Qatar 2013 exhibition, during pre-kindergarten stage up to the above four years in the KG/prepara- a reception at Zaoq Restaurant in Doha on Thursday. ABDUL BASIT sixth primary class. tory classes. THE PENINSULA

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Tel night, people work- but now I see them Newcastle, York and the atically discriminates Skidelsky, emeritus pro- ing in a particular in more numbers in Open University to tell against the Palestinians fessor of political econ- Fax industry, for exam- the form of groups,’’ Hawking they were “sur- who make up 20 percent omy at the University of ple the cabin crew of Messaoudi added. prised and deeply dis- of its population in ways Warwick and a Tory peer, different airlines, are “Since entrance was appointed” that he had that would be illegal in declined to comment and offered a 25 percent made free, we receive accepted the invitation Britain”, its treatment is understood to still be Tel discount on food and many guests. The to speak at next month’s of the people of Gaza planning to attend. 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HE BATTLE for justice and statehood by Palestinians received a significant boost this week when world-famous scientist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking threw his China’s under-reported Tweight behind their cause. In a decision that drew global attention and triggered heated debates, Hawking announced that he was boycotting a prestigious conference in Israel in protest over the state’s occupation of Palestine. He cancelled his appearance at the positive behaviour high-profile Presidential Conference, which is personally sponsored by Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, responding to a barrage of BY JONATHAN POWER appeals from pro-Palestinian groups. The decision caused a furore. opening to China, including the admis- confrontational behaviour of the North Israel and its supporters fumed, for obvious reasons, and Palestinians sion of Beijing to the UN in 1971, China Korean regime. and their supporters celebrated. But it is interesting to see the huge HINA is a sitting duck. Not that moved from opponent of global govern- China has affixed its signature to all support the celebrated scientist’s decision received in the West. In an long ago, as far as most of the ance to playing a passive position while international treaties concerned with Crest of the world was concerned, it learnt the rules of the road. nuclear non-proliferation and arms online poll, the Guardian newspaper asked: “Stephen Hawking has it was almost a closed, mysterious soci- Since 2000 it has become more activ- control, including the Comprehensive pulled out of a conference hosted by the Israeli President, Shimon ety. Now it is wide open. ist, confident and outspoken. Test Ban Treaty the US, once its great Peres, in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The bad is there for all to see. Last Global finance is a good example. In proponent, has not ratified. Is he right to do so?” An overwhelming 62 percent of the respondents year the New York Times published an in- 2009 China began to push for a major Breaking ranks with the US and answered YES. Only 38 percent said No. depth investigative series of long articles reform of the international monetary Russia, it has proclaimed a nuclear on the secret wealth of the family of system and suggested that the US dollar weapons ‘No First Use’ pledge. Hawking’s decision can be seen as a turning point, because ex-prime minister Wen Jiabao. It proved be phased out as the world’s principal It is committed to opposing the boycotting Israel has gone mainstream. That the scientist hasn’t that it is possible to peel off the layers reserve currency in favour of a basket enlargement of the nuclear weapons’ buckled under international pressure, orchestrated by Israeli lobbying and look beneath. of currencies including its own — per- club, most importantly to North Korea. groups, will embolden more academics, writers and scientists to China’s newfound relative open- haps a sensible idea. It won approval for It is also, along with the Europeans take a bold stance. The academic boycott of Israel has been gaining ness has allowed an open season on an increase in its voting rights in the but not the US, a proponent of the momentum with several well-known the shooting International Monetary Fund. Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty which, range. In its role as a responsible influence if comes into being, would have a big personalities supporting the campaign The targets on international financial affairs, it influence in capping the growth of Stephen and the boycott is hitting the Jewish are legion — won the appointment of a Chinese as nuclear weapons. Hawking’s boycott state where it hurts most. corruption, the World Bank’s chief economist and According to David Shambaugh in his Hawking’s decision and the Beijing makes nepotism, another as deputy head of the IMF. fine new book China goes Global, China of a conference controversy it created show that the nationalism, Over the last 30 years, China has in the Security Council has voted identi- global support for the Palestinian an effort not to maladminis- signed up as a member of most inter- cally with the US 93 percent of the time. in Israel over tration, grow- governmental organisations and over a He notes that China has become the state’s cause is on the rise. It will inspire pro- ing inequality, thousand big NGOs. a significant contributor to UN Palestinian groups to work harder and appear out of environmental China has become a “socialised” peacekeeping. occupation of intensify their efforts to isolate Israel degradation, member of the international commu- Over the last 20 years with very lit- Palestine marks and its institutions. Though most of step with the over assertive nity. It is a signatory of over 300 mul- tle publicity in the world’s press it has the Western governments are slavish foreign policy tilateral treaties, with a reputation for contributed 20,000 soldiers. At present a turning point and the mili- its diplomats’ knowledge, preparedness China is the largest contributor of the subscribers to the Israeli policies consensus and tary buildup. and sophistication. “Big Five”. Publicly, it has also accepted in the Palestinian and turn a blind eye to the atrocities Western crit- These days China is one of the world’s the controversial “Responsibility to committed by the Israeli army in the would rather ics enjoy pop- strongest advocates of the UN. It is the Protect” principle passed by the Security struggle. Palestinian territories, the Western ping off at least frequent user of the veto among Council in 2006 which can be used to public opinion is tilted towards the abstain than them. the “Big Five” on the Security Council. override the precious state sovereignty Palestinians. While dozens of countries all over the world face EU Much of It makes an effort not to appear out China has earnestly protected, if there what the crit- of step with the consensus and would is genocide or other crimes against and US sanctions over far lesser transgressions, the latter condones vote against a ics say is true. rather abstain than vote against a humanity. far more serious Israeli brutalities. But much is resolution. With the conflicting claims for the Hawking’s decision will have two positive consequences: first, resolution. exaggerated. In 2011 China joined the rest of the South China Sea, it has forwarded the it will galvanise the Palestinian movement, and second, it will And much is Security Council in imposing an arms issue to the UN for arbitration. persuade independent-minded people all over the world to rethink ignored, in embargo on Libya. However, it felt it had China still has a propensity on occa- their positions on Israel. Israelis will now understand that the particular what is positive. its fingers burnt when the West inter- sion to behave in the old way. China’s attitude to global governance preted votes in the Security Council as It has dealt extensively with some of status quo has a price. Palestinians must understand that their — the collective management of com- authorising the use of force — hence its the world’s more unsavoury regimes and struggle will not go unrewarded. The conference Hawking boycotted mon problems at the international level reticence on voting for an arms embargo has been caught violating the UN sanc- is to be attended by 5,000 people from around the world, including — is a good place to start. In the time of against Syria. tions it has voted for, as with the Iranian Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prince Albert of Mao Tse-tung, excluded from the UN It has gone on to be tough on banks. But overall, it is moving forward Monaco, etc. But Hawking’s absence will create vacuum others will by the US veto, it had nothing to lose Iran, voting to restrict international into positive territory, an understated by playing the wild card. activities of Iranian banks and has story in the world outside China. not be able to fill • After president Richard Nixon’s increasingly loudly condemned the THE PENINSULA The other side Quote of Has Washington played into Moscow’s hands? the day HE agreement between the Obama administration backed talks Assad regime as well as members of Kremlin in that he has not yet drawn Moscow and Washington to between the Syrian opposition and the the opposition. any policy lines in the sand. President work together on Syria has regime of Bashar Assad. In large measure, Washington has Barack Obama has never wanted to Tbeen hailed by the UN-Arab Both countries have agreed to con- given in to Moscow, which has con- intervene directly in Syria, any more than Obama has not moved League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, as vene an international conference to seek sistently used the argument that there he allowed what was actually extensive much as anything, because as he a negotiated end to the savage fight- must be negotiations as political cover US involvement in the ouster of Libya’s African-American himself has said, it is the first hopeful ing, which by some estimates has now for its continued military and logistical Muammar Qaddafi, to be high profile. news about the Syrian tragedy for a cost 80,000 lives and driven millions of support for the regime in Damascus. Then there is Lakhdar Brahimi him- leadership forward long while. He was right however, to Syrians from their homes. The opening The question is why the Obama White self, who, before the US-Russian agree- but backwards. We caution that this is only a first step and position of the conference would be to House has changed tack. ment was reached, was believed to be indeed, there are those who will fear seek to have all parties agree to the final First of all there is the issue of per- on the point of resigning his crucial role. are not in the driver’s that this could be a step in the wrong communiqué of the UN-backed Action sonalities. The hyper-active and some- While few might blame Brahimi for such seat — or even in the direction. Group for Syria almost a year ago in times abrasive former Secretary of State a decision, it would have had a dev- US Secretary of State John Kerry Geneva. This called for an immedi- Hillary Clinton has been succeeded by astating impact on the Syrian conflict, car… Why are we so said after his meeting this week with ate cease-fire and the setting up of a the more “clubbable” John Kerry, who, signaling as it would have, that there loyal to a president his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, transitional government, which could from the Russian point of view, will seemed no resolution to the blood- Rev Kevin Johnson along with President Vladimir Putin, that include in its ranks, officials from the have been the more welcome at the letting and butchery. ARAB NEWS who is not loyal to us? Philadelphia Pastor MAY 11, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Disarm Syria to stabilise it Benghazi probe Failure to arm more than an the opposition when the attack on Clinton BY JAMES ANTLE about how the events would be uprisings began publicly portrayed.” t this point, what dif- Some might say the hearings ference does it make? raised serious questions about two years ago Those are the fate- both the security situation in Aful words Republicans Benghazi and the veracity of the has allowed have been trying to hang around administration’s initial public former secretary of state Hillary account. Hicks called Ambassador Clinton’s neck since she uttered Susan Rice’s early explanations extremist forces them at a January congressional “stunning” and “embarrassing”. hearing. But it is also the question Did the White House want to to gain the facing the Benghazi investigation. avoid any perception that a ter- Can the inquiry into the attacks rorist attack, launched on the upper hand. on the US consulate in Libya yield anniversary of 9/11, was mishan- meaningful information? Can it dled as President Obama was run- unearth facts that reveal the ning for reelection? Was there too BY ZALMAY KHALILZAD Obama administration to have light a military footprint because been mendacious, incompetent or the earlier campaign for regime he use of chemical understandably confused amidst change in Libya was sold to the weapons in Syria has the fog of war? Will the public American people as requiring no increased pressure care? boots on the ground? Who even on President Barack For months, the story was knew what, when? Obama to arm the ghettoised in the conservative Republicans have raised similar Topposition. Earlier in the con- press (save for some reporting questions with mixed results since A fighter of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units has a flower in his Russian made AK-47 rifle as he holds flict, I endorsed such a step. But by CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson). the incident. GOP presidential a position in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood in the city of Aleppo. circumstances have changed. But Wednesday’s hearing rekin- nominee Mitt Romney assailed Instead, the US should focus on dled broad media interest, as Obama’s response to the Benghazi working with Russia to disarm the key element of the opposition, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov the fighting, could preclude their the former deputy to murdered assault during a debate. The Syria. A UN Security Council if not its backbone. to convene an international con- buy-in for a longer-term under- Ambassador Christopher Stevens exchange was so widely viewed as resolution mandating an inspec- At this stage, arming the oppo- ference is a positive first step. standing to keep the conflict from gave testimony that repeatedly disastrous for Romney that the tion and disarmament process sition would not serve US inter- The conference should priori- spreading. undercut administration claims. White House still cites it when for Syria could open the door to ests. A military escalation would tise an agreement on disarma- A US-Russia deal on the Gregory Hicks testified that pushing back against Republican wider negotiations on a political probably invite chemical attacks ment issues, which would lead relatively low-hanging fruit of everyone knew early on that the critics. resolution. by Assad’s forces. Unless the US to a Security Council resolution disarmament could generate consulate had been the target of a The main target of the investi- I have long advocated arming ensures that arms supplies would authorising a disarmament plan momentum for a broader politi- terrorist attack, not a protest over gation at this point isn’t Obama opposition movements that resist be transferred only to like-minded that includes a robust inspections cal settlement. But if Moscow an anti-Muslim YouTube video. but Clinton, the presumptive dictatorships and aggression. The factions of the opposition — and regime. will not advance even an agenda He said that when he objected to favourite for the 2016 Democratic strategy yielded major gains during it cannot — the risk of sectarian Gaining support for Syrian as mutually beneficial as chemi- the official talking points, admin- presidential nomination. The find- the Soviet-Afghan war, in Bosnia, tensions spilling across the region disarmament will require induce- cal weapons disarmament, the US istration praise turned into an ings could have an impact both in Afghanistan in 2001 and during will increase. Disintegration of the ments. Washington should be open will need to consider next steps effective demotion. Hicks added on her legacy and her reputation the Libyan revolution, all without Syrian state will threaten its ter- to far-reaching initiatives that on the assumption that Russian that Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl for being able to field that 3am unduly exposing the US. There ritorial integrity as well as Iraq’s, will encourage Alawite coopera- assistance will not be forthcoming Mills forbade him from talking phone call featured prominently is good reason to believe that particularly given each country’s tion with the international com- until battlefield realities change to a Republican investigator, in a in a 2008 Clinton campaign ad. Washington erred in withhold- restive Kurdish populations. munity. Although US credibility decisively. somewhat intimidating fashion. But the more Benghazi looks ing more lethal assistance from The most immediate US demands the ouster of Assad, US With or without Russian Whistle-blowers claimed that like an anti-Clinton fishing expe- the Iraqi opposition to Saddam interest is disarming Syria of its acceptance of an Alawite region assistance, any realistic plan a US armed force in Tripoli was dition, the less likely the inquiry Hussein. And arming friendly non- weapons of mass destruction. As in a decentralised Syria would be to stabilize the situation will twice instructed not to deploy is to permeate the consciousness state actors may prove prudent in long as the Assad regime retains reasonable. require far greater US coordi- to Benghazi. They told Congress of the ideologically uncommitted. dealing with the fallout of the Arab stockpiles of chemical weapons, The strategy can work only if nation with allies and regional they did not know who gave the Terrorism happens. No serious Spring in some contexts. it will be tempted to use them. If the US signals that the alterna- partners. Even a tenuous settle- “stand down” orders or the rea- person is hammering the Obama In Syria, however, failure to arm the opposition is victorious, these tive to disarmament is not the ment needs humanitarian relief soning behind the decision. administration over the Boston the opposition when the uprisings weapons could fall into the hands status quo of lacklustre American to prevent refugee flows from After the attack, the wounded Marathon bombings, which hap- began two years ago has allowed of extremists, considering their leadership. The Obama adminis- destabilising Jordan. Moderate ambassador was taken to a hos- pened on US soil. No government extremist forces to gain the upper dominant role in the opposition’s tration can point to bipartisan political-military forces within pital controlled by the Islamists can be omnipotent in protecting hand. Liberal and secular move- military wing. calls in Congress for arming the the Syrian opposition need to responsible. Hicks testified that the public from harm, much less ments have largely gone into exile, Russia is unlikely to enable the opposition as evidence that its be strengthened so they could Americans didn’t go get him diplomats stationed in dangerous leaving a vacuum that extremists opposition’s goal of routing the threats are not idle. Domestic agi- eventually receive American because they were being set up. areas of the world. are exploiting. Obama, so keen to Assad regime. Moscow is report- tation for intervention will only arms. And regional talks on a “We suspected we were being Disciplined Republican ques- internalise the lessons of the Iraq edly close to selling advanced grow as casualties mount. settlement should explore the baited into a trap and so we did tioning and critical witness tes- war, should have understood that arms to Damascus. Yet Syrian The most obvious options to possibility of turning Syria into not want to go send our people timony returned Benghazi to the protracted conflict was unlikely disarmament through a UN curtail the bloodshed in the near a federation with Sunni Arab, into an ambush,” he said headlines. But the broader ques- to favour moderates. Bashar Al framework would broadly facili- term could have problematic con- Kurdish and Alawite autono- As the New York Times said: “If tions remain: Who was giving the Assad’s brutality has radical- tate Moscow’s goal of bolstering sequences down the line. Strikes mous zones. the testimony did not fundamen- orders regarding security? What ised the Syrian people, who only its global stature without under- against Syrian air defences and A strategy of Syrian disarma- tally challenge the facts and time- did the president know and when recently were committed to non- cutting the regime’s position in the enforcement of a no-fly zone ment dependent on a partner as line of the Benghazi attack and did he know it? And how about violent resistance to his dictator- the civil war. would boost the extremists in the unreliable as Russia is hardly ideal. the administration’s response to the ex-secretary of state, who may ship. Islamist forces — some with The decision by Secretary of opposition. A tougher line against But for now, it beats the alterna- it, it vividly illustrated the anxiety want to be our next president? ties to Al Qaeda — have become State John Kerry and Russian Russia and Iran, which are stoking tives. WP-BLOOMBERG of top State Department officials THE GUARDIAN Is Cameron’s Britain what we fought for in the war?

BY HARRY LESLIE SMITH reaping. We were a world at war, healthy children? Would they our social safety network. and for those of us in Britain the have felt content with the democ- At 90, I am too old to take very year, the spring cost was enormous in lost and racy they had fought so selflessly up the fight, too old to stand in rains fall hard and ruined lives. to preserve? It has been almost 70 demonstrations with a placard heavy to a parched and But it didn’t matter because we years since the guns of the sec- denouncing this madness. All I Ehungry earth. Life is believed that the cause was just ond world war fell silent and I am can do is bear witness to my times reborn from the long slumber of and that, whether we came from no longer sure if the dead would and our heroic struggle fought so winter. For me the beauty in this humble or refined stock, we were agree that their lives were worth long ago against Hitler and against annual transformation stings as all in this war together. It was the price of today’s society. men who would wreck the founda- if I caught my finger on a thorn that common and shared faith in To me, this brave new world tions that made civilisation toler- from a rose. These lengthen- ourselves and in the notion that feels all wrong, out of tune with able and decent for its inhabitants. ing days remind me of another everyone’s contribution, large or what the men and women of the The problem with society, today, time, when I was a young man. small, was important to the war Second World War accomplished is not lack of money or debt but Back then the sun’s rays were as effort that saw us through those with our “blood, sweat and tears”. lack of ideas, lack of commitment warm and sensuous but the splen- dark hours. It was what kept us It just seems too flippant, too easy, by our government to realise that dour of nature being reborn was buggering on until our fortunes too profane in this present world; its constituents are the people, tainted with death. It was 1945, turned and the war against Nazi for our politicians, our media pun- not city bankers and hedge fund and Europe was still caught in Germany reached its bloody end dits, and our industrial military managers whose loyalty is to their the dying grasps of a cruel and in the spring of 1945. complex to intone the beaches ledger books rather than to the unforgiving world war. I felt blessed by luck because of D-Day, Sword, Juno, Gold and Britain’s Prince Charles (left) and Prime Minister David Cameron community. I don’t know if we will It was a conflict that consumed so many others — friends, neigh- Omaha as if it were the catechism come out of this present dark- tens of millions of lives through bours, acquaintances and com- for freedom, when our individual ness. Perhaps humanity will sim- military battles, air bombardment plete strangers — had not been and collective liberty is more at and pleasant land was for eve- of failing to create and maintain ply retreat into the caves whence and pure and simple mass murder. so lucky. They were never going risk now than it has ever been ryone after the war because we universal health care was a return our ancestors came because we For five years of war, through defeat to see twenty-five or be able to put since the end of Nazism. had bled for it and died for it. We to a two-tier society where the few were cowed by self-serving politi- and bitter struggle, the calendar down roots and raise a family and We have somehow broken our demanded a truly democratic held dominion over the many. cal parties and dubious leaders of changed from humid summers to enjoy the fruits of peace. I knew solemn bond with those warri- society where merit was rewarded Today, however, in a world business. I hope not, for the sake crisp fall days, to the bitterness like the rest of my compatriots ors of yesterday and forgotten and no one would be left behind where our reservoirs of wealth of the generations to come, but of winter and then back to the knew, the dead had reluctantly that when the survivors of the because of poverty, poor health or are as deep and enormous as all there is one thing I am certain optimism of spring. As clocks in sacrificed their existence to pre- Second World War returned to an inadequate education. the mighty rivers of the world of: Had politicians and business every household and in every town serve civilisation for the living. their homes, they were like a tide After the war we revolutionised combined, our politicians, finan- mandarins of today been in power square moved forward, day by day, Perhaps that is why even that raised all boats. My genera- the Western world and introduced cial institutions and megalithic in 1939, they wouldn’t have had marking our mortal time through though I am now 90, I still go tion’s shared experience of suf- the notion that all human beings industries tell us we can no longer the bottle to fight Nazism. There this struggle between good and evil, every spring to my local cenotaph fering, of witnessing genocide, deserved dignity, freedom of move- afford these human rights that would have been no Dunkirk, no soldiers were maimed or killed on and commune with unfamiliar ethnic cleansing, and enduring ment, due process before the law, men sacrificed their lives for: Battle of Britain, no Finest Hour. all our military fronts, convoys names etched in stone. I read out unspeakable privations as both and social safety nets to protect the freedom to live with dignity Our leaders today on either side of sunk in the cold North Atlantic, their simple epitaphs, their age soldiers and civilians made us those affected by economic uncer- in a compassionate society. We the house would have allowed the cities reduced to rubble and chil- and wonder, what if these young vigilant when it came to demand- tainties. We knew the cost of not are told by those in charge that lights across Europe to grow dim, dren left hungry orphans. men had lived? What would their ing our peace dividend. We knew creating a just society was the end we can no longer live with luxu- because after all that would have Across the world death moved, lives have been like? Would they what we deserved and that was a for democracy, and a life sentence ries like healthcare, proper state been the cheapest and most pru- for too many years in lock step have found true love, happiness, future that didn’t resemble our of misery for too many people in funded pensions, decent wages, dent solution to Hitler’s tyranny. with the season for sowing and a rewarding profession and had hard-scrabble past. The green our country. We knew the price trade unions and most aspects of THE GUARDIAN MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

Saudi king sacks UK, Russia to work air force chief RIYADH: The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has dismissed and retired air force chief General Mohammed on Syria’s transition Al Ayesh bya royal decree, the official SPA news agency reported yesterday, without No new plan to sell air defence systems: Moscow elaborating on why. The monarch named General MOSCOW/DAMASCUS: as a territorially whole sovereign S-300 complexes or another sys- Fayadh bin Hamed Al Rowaili to Russia and Britain agreed yes- state,” Putin said after the talks. tem. He said the deliveries were succeed him, the agency added. terday to work towards a tran- “On the initiative of the British in line with international law and In April, the deputy defence sitional government in Syria, prime minister, we discussed pos- for self-defence only. minister, Prince Khaled bin despite acknowledging differ- sible options for positive develop- Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, a member ences in their approach to the ments of this process and about IRAN BACKS MEETING of the royal family who played Middle Eastern country’s civil a number of possible joint steps,” Iran’s Vice President Mohammad- a key role in the 1991 Gulf War war. Putin added, He gave no details Javad Mohammadizadeh said in over Kuwait, was also dismissed British Prime Minister David the proposed steps. Geneva yesterday that his country by royal decree. Again, no expla- Cameron said after talks with Russia’s foreign minister said welcomes a US-Russian proposal nation was given for the move. Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday Moscow had no new for an international conference on in the Black Sea resort of Sochi plans to sell an advanced air ending the conflict in Syria. that they had agreed “that as per- defence system to the govern- “We hope that the coming Egypt detains manent members of the UN we ment of Syrian President Bashar meeting would also be in Geneva must help drive this process”. Al Assad, but left open the pos- and the Islamic Republic of Iran opposition activist He said international efforts sibility that it could ship such would be more than happy and envisaged “not just bringing the systems to Damascus under an pleased to assist in whatever way CAIRO: Egypt’s security regime and opposition together at existing contract. that it can, and we expect to be forces yesterday detained one negotiating table, but Britain, The Wall Street Journal this part of the process to restore the founder of one of the key Russia, America and other coun- week reported that Israel had peace and a better livelihood to youth movements behind the tries helping shape a transitional informed the United States a the people of Syria,” he said. 2011 uprising that toppled the government that all Syrians can Russian deal was imminent to sell Russia and the United States former regime upon his arrival trust to protect them.” S-300 missile systems that would agreed at talks on Tuesday to try at Cairo Airport from Vienna, Russia has been under pressure significantly boost Syria’s ability to arrange the conference, possi- a security official said. to cooperate more with Western to stave off outside intervention bly by the end of this month. Ahmed Maher of the April 6 powers at the United Nations in its civil war. The United Nations in Geneva movement was arrested at the Security Council on ending the Asked by a journalist about the hosted a meeting on Syria in June airport “based on the orders of bloodshed. Moscow has supported reports on a visit to the Polish 2012, where Iran’s wish to attend Russian President Vladimir Putin and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron the general security department President Bashar Al Assad’s gov- capital, Lavrov said: “Russia is not became a bone of contention arrive to address the media after their meeting in the Black Sea resort of at the interior ministry,” the offi- ernment and supplied it with planning to sell. Russia already between Washington and Moscow. Sochi, yesterday. cial said. His passport was confis- weapons, but agreed with the sold them a long time ago. It has No venue has been confirmed but cated and he was transferred to United States this week to help signed the contracts and is com- Kerry has talked of a “Geneva opposition activists said. Al Hamawi said. But President the prosecution for questioning, bring the warring sides together pleting deliveries, in line with the two” meeting. Halfayeh has been in rebel Assad’s forces issued an ultima- the official Mena news agency for an international conference on agreed contracts, of equipment Meanwhile, 25 people were hands for more than five months tum to the town’s elders saying said. According to an interior ending the bloodshed. which is anti-aircraft technology.” killed in army shelling in the and a truce was agreed there the rebels must leave by Thursday ministry official quoted by Mena, “We have a common interest in The question referred to S-300 central Syrian town of Halfayeh between the warring parties in evening and started shelling it Maher is accused of incitement the quickest end to the violence systems, but Lavrov in his reply yesterday after a months-old an attempt to protect thousands heavily as the deadline passed, to protest outside the house of and the initiation of a peace proc- did not specify whether the equip- local truce between the army of citizens, an activist from the Hamawi said. Interior Minister Mohammed ess, and the preservation of Syria ment already being delivered were and rebels fighters broke down, region who called himself Safi REUTERS Ibrahim. Libyan unrest: UK mission cuts staff Khamenei adviser enters presidential contest TRIPOLI/ISTANBUL: Bombs exploded outside two DUBAI: An adviser to Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s two Irna reported, becoming the first semi-official Fars news agency Republic’s history, badly denting police stations in Libya’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali turbulent terms in office. of a trio of Khamenei loyalists quoted Haddad-Adel as saying the legitimacy of its entrenched eastern city of Benghazi on Khamenei joined the presiden- Reformist groups have been expected to do so. Allied with after registering, referring to a leaders and its hybrid clerical- Thursday night and Britain tial race yesterday, with power- suppressed or sidelined since 2009 Haddad-Adel are former Foreign body which vets applicants before electoral system. temporarily cut staff at its ful conservatives keen to make and the next president is likely Minister Ali Akbar Velayati and they are allowed to run. The con- But there is little of the popular embassy in Tripoli because of the June vote a peaceful con- to be picked from among a hand- Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer servative council, normally made enthusiasm there was in the run- security fears. trast to the upheaval that fol- ful of politicians known for fealty Qalibaf — Iranian media say two up of six clerics and six jurists, will up to the 2009 election when many The blasts, which caused dam- lowed the disputed 2009 poll. to Khamenei, minimising the of them will step aside later in publish the final list of candidates sensed there was a possibility of age but no casualties, were the lat- Khamenei has the final say on chances of political rifts leading favour of whoever appears to it has approved later this month. change. After years of ever tougher est signs of insecurity in Benghazi, all matters in Iran and in theory to post-election chaos. have the best chance of winning The June 14 vote is a test for international sanctions over the the birthplace of the uprising that stands above the political fray, but Former parliament speaker the election. “Our final choice Iran after Ahmadinejad’s re- nuclear programme, many Iranians toppled Muammar Gaddafi in it is thought he wants a reliable Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel regis- will be announced after the election in 2009 ignited the big- care more about the economy than 2011. The government has also follower in the presidency after tered to run, state news agency Guardian Council’s decision,” the gest street protests in the Islamic political infighting. REUTERS struggled to keep order in the capital Tripoli, where the French embassy was bombed less than three weeks ago. Armed groups seized control of two government Aston edgy over Israeli settlement moves ministries a few days later to press demands on parliament and have BRUSSELS: EU foreign in Brussels said in a statement. underlined that it was “essen- refused to leave until the prime affairs chief Catherine Ashton “It is important that those tial that access to the holy sites minister steps down. said yesterday she is worried concerned exercise maximum in Jerusalem for peaceful wor- about mounting tensions in restraint and refrain from any ship for all denominations is East Jerusalem and the West actions which could drive the fully respected.” Anti-terror protest Bank after conflicting mes- sides to the conflict further She also railed against sages from Israel on settle- apart.” reports of the approval of Israeli draws hundreds ment activity. The communique said Ashton settlement plans for 300 houses TUNIS: Hundreds of “The High Representative was “disturbed by recent events near Ramallah in the West Tunisians, including police, is concerned by developments in East Jerusalem such as those Bank. human rights activists and over the past week in East that took place at Orthodox “The EU has repeatedly political party representatives, Jerusalem and the West Bank Easter, the unrest in the area declared settlements to be ille- protested on Friday against which have increased tensions of the Haram Al Sharif and gal under international law “terrorism” after the govern- on the ground and risk under- the temporary detention of and to constitute an obstacle ment said two wanted jihadist mining current efforts to re- the Mufti of Jerusalem and to peace,” the statement said. groups had ties with Al-Qaeda. launch peace talks,” her office Palestine on Wednesday.” She AFP AGENCIES

UAE Islamists deny plot, Anti-Israel protest demand abuse inquiry DUBAI: Islamists charged subjected to physical abuse with a coup plot in the United after arrest. Arab Emirates (UAE) have It was not clear how many said they were abused in cus- of the 94, most of whom are in tody and, in a statement on custody, had signed the letter social media, demanded an or how it had been commu- independent inquiry. nicated outside prison. Most The trial of 94 Emiratis, of the detainees belong to Al which began in March, is Islah, which denies govern- seen as an attempt by the ment charges that it is an arm US-allied Gulf Arab state to of the Muslim Brotherhood. address what it says is a secu- Attorney-general Saleem rity threat from the banned Saeed Kubaish said in Muslim Brotherhood. The 94 January that group mem- were among dozens of people bers had sought to penetrate detained in a crackdown on state institutions, including Islamists over the past year schools, universities and min- amid heightened worries among istries, according to state news officials about a spillover of agency Wa m . The defendants unrest in other Arab countries. are accused of “belonging to an In an open letter to the UAE illegal, secret organisation ... president and vice-president that aims to counter the foun- published on a Twitter account dations of this state in order An Egyptian man burns an Israeli flag as another holds up the green belonging to the Islamist to seize power and of contact- Hamas flag during a demonstration in support of the Palestinian peo- group Al Islah, the defendants ing foreign entities and groups ple and Muslims around the world, in front of the Al Ahzar Mosque in said they had been insulted, to implement this plan,” Wa m Cairo, yesterday. threatened and in some cases said. REUTERS MAY 11, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Prince Harry in Maryland Obama to visit Kidnap suspect Germany on fathered child, June 18-19 WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will make an official visit to Germany next month for wide-ranging talks DNA tests show with Chancellor Angela Merkel, the White House confirmed yesterday. The visit, from June Castro’s daughter disowns him 18-19, follows the president’s trip to Northern Ireland for the CLEVELAND: DNA tests show aggravated murder for terminat- the G-8 Summit. Ariel Castro, a former school bus ing pregnancies that the offender A White House statement said driver charged with kidnapping perpetrated,” he said. the Berlin trip aims to “reaffirm and raping three women dur- Under Ohio law, the crime of the strong ties between the United ing a decade of captivity in his aggravated murder includes the States and Germany, our vital ally Cleveland house, is the father of unlawful termination of a preg- and economic partner”. The presi- a six-year-old girl born to one of nancy and is a capital offense. dent will be accompanied by First the victims, the Ohio attorney Knight suffered at least five Lady Michelle Obama. general said yesterday. miscarriages that she told police Obama’s meetings with Merkel The tests did not link Castro were intentionally caused by and German President Joachim to any other state cases, Castro starving her and beating Gauck will cover “a wide range of Attorney General Mike DeWine her in the abdomen, according to bilateral and global issues includ- said. Castro, 52, was arrested an initial police report. ing opportunities to further shortly after Amanda Berry, her Meanwhile, Castro’s daughter Britain’s Prince Harry tosses a ball to Staff Sergeant Timothy Payne, who was wounded in Afghanistan, dur- deepen transatlantic relations”, 6-year-old daughter, and two disowned him and said the allega- ing his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Prince Harry also laid a the statement said. Obama will other women Gina DeJesus and tions were like a horror movie. wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. attend the G-8 Summit at Lough Michelle Knight, were found in Angie Gregg told CNN she Erne, Northern Ireland from his house in a run-down neigh- was appalled by Castro’s actions June 17-18. borhood of Cleveland on Monday. and wanted nothing more to do The White House said Obama’s DeWine’s statement said that with him. “I have no problem cut- trip will begin in Belfast, where forensic scientists obtained a sam- ting him out of my life. I have no he will “engage with the people ple of Castro’s DNA on Thursday problem doing that,” Gregg said. of Northern Ireland and high- and “worked throughout the night “I never want to see him again. Abu Qatada to leave UK voluntarily light the hard work, dialogue, to confirm that Castro is the father And another thing I would like and institutional development of the six-year-old girl born in cap- to ask him is when did you think LONDON: Radical Muslim to Jordan,” Edward Fitzgerald, a The Sun tabloid has a special logo for they have undertaken together,” tivity to one of the kidnapping vic- this was going to be over? cleric Abu Qatada will return lawyer representing him, told a stories on the cleric that reads “Must the White House said. tims.” Berry’s baby was born in a “Did you think you could carry to Jordan voluntarily when the special immigration tribunal. try harder to kick out Qatada”. Once The US president’s Germany plastic inflatable children’s swim- this charade forever? What did Jordanian parliament ratifies a That would be a relief to Home described by a Spanish judge as visit will come one week before ming pool on Christmas Day, 2006, you think was going to happen? deal with Britain that ensures Secretary Theresa May, the British “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man 50th anniversary commemora- authorities have said. Eventually you were going to be he will receive a fair trial, the interior minister, who has faced in Europe”, Abu Qatada is seen as a tions of US president John F The FBI is checking Castro’s caught,” she said. Gregg, whose cleric’s lawyer told a London media pressure over repeated fail- security risk in Britain but has never Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” DNA sample against national interview was broadcast a day after court yesterday. ures to deport Abu Qatada. “The been charged with any offence there. speech pledging US solidarity cases, DeWine said. The Cuyahoga Castro appeared in court for the Abu Qatada’s pledge is a victory Home Secretary’s focus remains Jordan convicted Qatada in his during the Cold War with the County prosecutor vowed to seek first time and was ordered held on for the British government after on seeing Abu Qatada returned absence of encouraging militants embattled city on June 26, 1963. murder charges that could carry a $8m bond, said she spent time nearly eight years of unsuccess- to Jordan at the earliest oppor- there who planned bomb attacks Officials in Berlin had long the death penalty against Castro with her father two weeks ago, but ful attempts to deport the cleric, tunity,” Security Minister James in 1999 and 2000, but under a complained that Obama did not because police say there is evi- she had long held doubts about him. who is accused of spreading radi- Brokenshire said in a statement 2005 agreement between Amman visit the German capital during dence that Knight suffered forced There are “all these weird cal ideas that once inspired one of issued by the Home Office shortly and London he will be retried if his first term in office. He has miscarriages. things I’ve noticed over the the September 11, 2001, hijackers. after the news from court emerged. he eventually returns. visited Germany twice as presi- During their captivity, police years... like how he kept his house Courts have repeatedly blocked “We continue to pursue this The cleric has been in and out dent, however, the first time for said, the women endured beat- locked down so tight,” Gregg said, deportation on the grounds that case before the courts and to work of jail in Britain since first being a Nato summit in April 2009 in ings, rapes and at times confine- explaining that if “we’d be out at a trial in Jordan of Abu Qatada, with the Jordanian government to arrested in 2001 and in recent years the southwestern towns of Baden- ment in ropes and chains. my grandma’s having dinner, he’d whose real name is Mohammed achieve this.” Yvette Cooper, the has been living at a house in London Baden and Kehl. County Prosecutor Timothy be out for an hour or so and then Othman, risked being tainted opposition Labour Party’s spokes- under tight bail conditions including In June of that year, he visited McGinty, who has jurisdiction he’d come back”. “And there would by the use of evidence obtained woman for interior affairs, said: a 16-hour curfew and a ban on using the former Nazi concentration over all felony cases for Cleveland, be no explanation where he went,” using torture. Britain last month “This could be very good news if any telecommunications equipment. camp Buchenwald with Merkel said he intends to expand the Gregg said. “Everything is making announced it had signed a new it means Abu Qatada returns to He was sent back to jail on March 9 and held talks with her in the charges. “I fully intend to seek sense now, It’s all adding up. I’m treaty with Jordan aimed at Jordan as soon as possible”. this year after police found 17 mobile eastern city of Dresden, where charges for each and every act disgusted. I’m horrified. It’s like addressing those concerns. The deportation of Abu Qatada phones, 3 USB sticks, five digital they quashed rumours of a per- of sexual violence, rape, each a horror movie. Like watching a “If and when the Jordanian has become a cause celebre for some mobile devices and 55 recordable sonal rift between them at a joint day of kidnapping, every felo- bad movie,” said Gregg. parliament ratifies that treaty, popular newspapers that have pillo- CDs or DVDs in his house. press conference. nious assault, and each act of REUTERS/AFP Othman will voluntarily return ried the government over the issue. REUTERS AFP

ISS crew detect ammonia leak Mali asks international donors Nigerian police free 17 teenage for €2bn to rebuild country BRUSSELS: Mali will ask international donors for nearly ¤2bn girls in raid ($2.6bn) to help rebuild the country and try to halt a resurgence of Al Qaeda-linked Islamists who were driven out of the major north- LAGOS: Nigerian police have ern towns by a French-led offensive. Yesterday, suspected Islamists found 17 pregnant teenage girls carried out three suicide attacks on soldiers from Mali and Niger in a raid on a house, and were in northern Mali, wounding a Malian soldier. At least five bombers searching yesterday for a woman died. In a document drawn up for an international donors’ con- suspected of planning to sell their ference in Brussels on Wednesday, the Malian government said it babies, a spokeswoman said. would be able to finance just over half of a ¤4.34bn plan for this year Joy Elomoko of the southeastern and next, but needed help with the rest. Next week’s conference, Imo state police said all the girls organised by France and the European Union, will aim to raise at were between 14 and 17 years old least $600m to $700m, diplomatic sources said. and that 11 small children were also found in the house. Some World Trade Center spire completed locals believed the building called the Ahamefula Motherless Babies NEW YORK: New York construction workers cheered yester- Home served as an orphanage and day as the final piece of the spire for the World Trade Center shelter for expecting mothers. was hoisted into place, making the tower the tallest in the west- “Acting on a tip-off, a special ern hemisphere. Local television footage showed the huge piece, unit of the Imo State police com- measuring 408 feet, being craned slowly up, completing the final mand raided the illegal home in piece in the new jewel of the Manhattan skyline. The skyscraper, Umuaka on Wednesday and res- officially known as One World Trade Center and popularly as A Nasa file picture shows the International Space Station (ISS) over a blue and white Earth shortly after the cued 17 girls, aged between 14 and Freedom Tower, is the lynchpin of the new complex built on US Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost. The crew of the ISS detected an ammonia 17, at different stages of pregnan- Ground Zero, where the Twin Towers of the old World Trade leak from a cooling system that poses no danger to the astronauts or the station, Nasa said. The current cies,” Elomoko said. center collapsed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The 104-sto- “The girls claimed they were rey building now measures 1,776 feet, a symbolic height chosen crew of six alerted the station command centre in Houston, Texas, the presence “of small white flakes float- fed once a day and were not to echo the year 1776, when America declared independence from ing around the station”, Nasa said. It said that the crew was not in danger and that the station continued to allowed to leave the home,” she Britain. It is expected to open to tenants in 2014. operate “normally”. added. The girls told police that their babies were to be sold to Bulgaria gears up for polls tomorrow “willing buyers”, Elomoko said. It was not clear if the girls were SOFIA: Bulgaria’s two main political parties were making their brought to the home by force. The final attempts to woo frustrated voters before an election tomorrow New coronavirus case in France girls further told police that they had that is likely to lead to a prolonged period of horse-trading to form a been impregnated by a 23-year-old government. Former bodyguard Boiko Borisov’s centre-right GERB LILLE/DUBAI: A nurse in a Two people who had contact we’ve been undertaking since our man who is currently in custody, was forced to resign in February after thousands of people took to hospital that held France’s only with the confirmed French case, confirmed case of the coronavirus,” along with the security guard who the streets to protest against high utility bills, entrenched corrup- confirmed case of the Sars-like a 65-year-old man who fell ill said Sandrine Kueny, deputy direc- worked at the compound. tion and low living standards. It is locked in a tight battle with its coronavirus that has killed 18 on returning from Dubai, were tor of the regional health agency. “The proprietress of the home biggest rival, the Socialists, to lead the European Union’s poorest people has been admitted to admitted to hospital on Thursday. The nurse worked in the hospital’s is at large, but we have launched a country, but with a fifth of voters undecided, whichever party wins, hospital in northern France on One was a patient who shared infectious disease unit but it was man-hunt for her,” Elomoko said. In it will be unlikely to be able to claim a strong, popular mandate. suspicion on being infected her- a ward with him when he was unclear whether she had direct a human trafficking report released self, French health officials said in a hospital in the town of contact with the sick man. last month, the European Union ‘Mr Men’ history lessons flayed yesterday. Valenciennes, northern France, The coronavirus is from the identified Nigeria as the African The World Health Organisation at the end of April, and the other same viral family that triggered country where the scourge is most LONDON: British Education Minister Michael Gove criticised (WHO) raised the number of is a doctor who treated him there. the outbreak of Severe Acute common. The report said the sell- the use of the popular “Mr Men” cartoon figures to teach 16-year cases confirmed worldwide to The 65-year-old, who is in sta- Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) ing of children was widespread and olds about Adolf Hitler, saying such play-based learning infantilised 33. There is no evidence so far ble but serious condition, was that swept the world after start- Nigerian police have previously students and led to a culture of low aspirations. In a speech, Gove of sustained human-to-human transferred to an isolated inten- ing in Asia in late 2003 and killed uncovered so-called baby factories. lashed out against an online resource for history teachers that pro- transmission of the coronavirus. sive care wing in Douai near Lille, 775 people. In May of 2011 in southeastern motes using the “Mr Men” figures for revision on Nazi Germany. But health experts are concerned which is where the third case French authorities advise that Abia state, police freed 32 preg- British media reports on Gove’s speech were accompanied by a pic- about clusters of new possible appeared. He was transferred to anyone who has recently travelled nant girls who said they had been ture of Mr Fussy, a figure with a Hitler-style moustache and hair- cases of nCoV, which started in Lille on Thursday night. to the Gulf region consult a doc- offered to sell their babies for $191, do, one of a panoply of characters such as Mr Happy and Mr Cool the Gulf and spread to France, “We identified it overnight. It tor in case of fever. depending on the sex of the baby. created by author Roger Hargreaves. AGENCIES Britain and Germany. corresponds to the investigations REUTERS AFP MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia

Five die in steel US citizen ‘plotted’ N Korea’s fall plant gas leak SEOUL: Five workers suf- focated yesterday at a steel Court says Bae was preaching Christianity in the country where religion is under state control plant in this port city after gas leaked from a furnace, SEOUL: A Korean-American Bae has acknowledged being a 2000s. “I know Jesus wants me to on the case. Two US journalists carried out his own mission work authorities said. The workers, sentenced to 15 years hard missionary and said he conducted become a path to North Korea,” sentenced to 12 years in 2009 inside North Korea, according to employed by a subcontrac- labour in North Korea was a services in the North, according Bae said in the remarks at the St were released only after a visit the St Louis church webpage. tor of Hyundai Steel Co, were missionary who used his tour- to an audio sermon and note Louis church in December 2011, by former President Bill Clinton. “From this year, I am work- found dead at about 1.40am ism business to form groups to posted on the website of a Korean of which an audio recording was Bae, a South Korean-born ing at taking short-term mission inside the 8-metre-deep overthrow the government, the Presbyterian church in St Louis posted on the church’s website. naturalised American was first teams into North Korea,” Bae said rotating furnace in Dangjin, state’s Supreme Court said. in the US. Church officials declined to sent to China for a two-month in the audio recording. 120km south of Seoul, after Kenneth Bae, 44, was sentenced Recordings on the church’s comment on the contents of the mission trip by Hawaii-based “North Korea is a special place argon gas leaked from the earlier this month after being website showed him talking of a website. The recording has since evangelical group Youth With a where a small number of people furnace. They were removing detained late last year leading a trip to Rason in 2011 where he been removed. Mission in 2006, according to his are working... it would be good if the scaffolding used for repair tour group in the North Korean left his North Korean minders Washington has appealed for posts and the KCNA report. people worshipping and praying from inside the furnace. city of Rason, on the border with behind and hiked to the top of Bae’s release. A Christian source in the could live in this land,” the web- China. a mountain where he and the In previous cases of Americans United States who is familiar page noted. Professor fined “In order to carry out the plan group of people accompanying being imprisoned in North Korea, with Bae’s missionary activities North Korea has reli- he infiltrated at least 250 students him prayed. their release has been secured in China said he ran an English gions denominations including in poetry row who had been educated at the Bae said he had been moved by high profile visits as the two language school in the port city Protestant and Catholic churches plot-breeding bases operated by by his faith to preach in North countries do not have diplomatic of Dalian. but services and activities are BEIJING: A Chinese court him into Rason City disguised as Korea, ranked the most hostile relations. He declined to be identified due strictly under state control and ordered a controversial pro- tourists,” a court spokesman told to Christianity by Open Doors Bae’s case was handled by the to the sensitivity of the case. there is no freedom of worship, fessor who claims descent North Korea’s KCNA news agency International, a Christian advo- Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, Bae moved to the Chinese bor- Christian groups say. from Confucius to apolo- in a report issued early yesterday. cacy and aid group, since the late which has declined to comment der city of Dandong in 2010 and REUTERS gise and pay a fine after an online row over poetry, local media said yesterday. Kong Qingdong, of Peking University who sparked an outcry in 2012 by calling Hong Kong people “dogs”, Woman rescued from Bangla rubble after 17 days said online a student was a “dog-like traitor” for criti- SAVAR: Rescuers pulled a ‘Save me, Save me’,” Rana told cising a poem he wrote, the woman yesterday from the rub- Reuters television. “She was given Beijing News reported. The ble of a Bangladesh garment fac- water, biscuits and oxygen.” poem was in the style of tory 17 days after it collapsed, “She has been rescued and China’s Tang dynasty (618- astonishing workmen who had taken to a military hospital,” said 906 AD) but the student been searching for bodies of vic- Bangladesh’s army spokesman said it rhymed incorrectly. A tims of a disaster that has killed Shahinul Islam. court in Beijing ordered him more than 1,000 people. Rescuers speculated that she to pay the student 200 yuan Hundreds of onlookers burst may have survived by drinking ($33) in damages and make a into cheers as army engineers water that had pooled in the site public apology. pulled the woman from the base- when firemen doused a fire that ment of the building after a work- had broken out earlier in the res- China bird flu man helping to clear the wreckage cue effort. reported hearing her faint cries of It was not clear if she was death toll 32 “Save me, save me” from beneath one of the thousands of garment the ruins. workers who had been working in BEIJING: Another person Pale, drawn and seemingly the eight-storey building, which has died of bird flu in Henan unable to walk, the woman, iden- collapsed on April 24, a day after province in central China, tified by Bangladeshi media only its owner assured factory owners bringing the death toll to 32. as Reshma, was hoisted out of the and news crews it would stand for Authorities said the man, 56, rubble on a stretcher, then loaded “a century”. died two weeks after being into an ambulance in scenes The woman was found hours infected by the virus. He suf- broadcast live on television. after the death toll from the fered from high fever for a Mohammad Rubel Rana, a world’s worst industrial accident week before being taken to workman who had been cutting since the 1984 Bhopal disaster in hospital. Though he had no iron rods, said he had alerted res- India climbed above 1,000 as res- contacts with birds directly, cue crews after hearing a feeble cuers struggled to end the salvage there were some cages hang- voice. operation. ing out in the corridor of “I heard a faint voice saying REUTERS Rescuers move garment worker Reshma from the rubble of the garment factory in Savar yesterday. the building where he lived. Officials said there are 129 patients across the country. Cambodia aims Call to probe activists’ deaths Poll protests put to wipe out Aids PHNOM PENH: Cambodia JAYAPURA, INDONESIA: heads in retaliation for being by the UN, witnesses told an AFP is on track to reverse its HIV Amnesty International has attacked. Indonesian authorities journalist. epidemic and may eliminate urged Indonesia to probe the must “set up a comprehensive Isak Klaibin, the brother of new infections by 2020, the deaths of three Papua independ- and independent investigation the 37-year-old female victim strain on Malaysia World Health Organization ence activists who were gunned into allegations of unnecessary Salomina Klaibin who was also said yesterday. The Southeast down as they protested against use of firearms by security forces at the demonstration, said pro- KUALA LUMPUR: A planned in party elections by year-end. Asian nation has reduced its 50 years of Jakarta’s control during the protests,” said Isabelle testers were gathering peacefully wave of protests over disputed In much-analysed comments HIV prevalence rate from over the restive region. Arradon, Amnesty’s Asia-Pacific when police opened fire. Malaysian elections is the most after the election, influential a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent Two men were killed last deputy director. He said at the scene: “There provocative challenge to the former hardline leader Mahathir among people aged 15-49 to week at an anti-government “Failure to take action will was going to be no raising of the government in years, upping Mohamad expressed disappoint- 0.7 percent in 2012 across the rally in Sorong, western Papua, send a message that the security (separatist) flag, nor reading pressure on a long-ruling ment with Najib’s performance. population, the WHO said. and a woman died in hospital on forces in Papua operate above the of documents about the (rebel) regime already smarting from “Of course, the people will ques- Tuesday from gunshot wounds law,” she added in a statement movement” at the service. the polls. tion his capacity and his strate- Academic’s sustained at the protest, accord- late Thursday. United Nations “But as we were gathering, we Opposition leader Anwar gies,” Mahathir said, adding “the ing to Amnesty and witnesses. human rights chief Navi Pillay also were surprised to suddenly hear Ibrahim offered a preview of party may take action, as happened blog blocked Those in attendance said police expressed concern over the deaths. gunshots.” the movement’s potential on with Abdullah”. He was referring to had opened fire on the peaceful The shootings happened on 22-year-old Abner Malagawak Wednesday when he rallied a huge former premier Abdullah Badawi, BEIJING: A prominent demonstration. However, police April 30 as protesters gathered and 28-year-old Thomas Blesia display of citizen power in Kuala who was dumped by UMNO fol- Chinese law professor had deny shooting the activists and to mark 50 years since Papua was died at the scene. Lumpur estimated to number up lowing a weak 2008 election show- his social media account say they fired over protesters’ placed under Indonesian control AFP to 100,000 people. ing, in a party putsch spearheaded suspended, state media said Anwar says his opposition will by Mahathir that brought Najib to yesterday, after authori- push a nationwide campaign to power. ties vowed a renewed crack- ‘Embassy’ re-auction set dispute last Sunday’s election in Barisan, which is dominated down on “online rumours”. which it won a majority of the by ethnic Malays, has controlled He Bing, from Beijing’s popular vote but still lost to the parliament for decades while a University of Politics and Terror suspects 56-year-old government, which he small and ineffectual opposition Law, was blocked from post- accuses of massive electoral fraud. has largely looked on. ing further on Twitter-like held in Indonesia Any move to overturn the result But Barisan, accused of cor- Sina Weibo service “for delib- JAKARTA: Indonesian police looks doomed to fail, with the ruption and authoritarianism, erately spreading rumours”, have arrested four men sus- opposition accusing the Election suffered unprecedented losses in the official Xinhua news pected of robbing banks to fund Commission and courts of being 2008 to its reform-minded rivals, agency said. He had reposted militant activities as part of a in the government’s pocket. prompting Najib to subsequently claims about a murder dat- major counter-terrorism opera- But the drive could lead to woo disaffected minorities in a bid ing from 2009, Xinhua added, tion across the country, an offi- instability in the multi-ethnic to win back support. citing the State Internet cial said yesterday. country if Anwar, who has battled That appears to have failed, Information Office set up in Seven alleged militants have the Barisan Nasional (National with the nation’s economically 2011 to regulate the Internet so far been killed and 17 detained Front) government for 15 years, powerful Chinese, who make up in the country. during three days of raids, can deliver promised “proof” 25 percent of Malaysia’s 28 mil- some of whom are suspected of of fraud, said pollster Ibrahim lion people, rejecting his govern- Seoul-US focus involvement in a plot to bomb Suffian. ment in unprecedented numbers the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta “If the opposition can produce Sunday. on arms control that was uncovered last week. meaningful evidence of fraud, the Najib poured fuel on the fire The latest arrests were made government may fall into a cri- after the election by appearing SEOUL: Top diplomats from in three places in Lampung prov- sis of legitimacy,” said Ibrahim, to blame Chinese for his disap- South Korea and the US yes- ince on Sumatra island overnight who runs independent opinion pointing showing. terday discussed arms control from Thursday to yesterday, said researchers Merdeka Centre. “We are more polarised and and non-proliferation as well national police spokesman Boy That would further squeeze fragmented than ever,” political as nuclear issues of North Rafli Amar. Prime Minister Najib Razak, scientist Faisal Hazis said, adding Korea and Iran. Talks were He said the men had been whose standing in the United that Najib faced a “dilemma” in led by Shin Dong-ik, Deputy robbing banks to raise funds for Buddhist chief priest Ekan Ikeguchi announces that he has given up on Malays National Organisation healing the divisions. Minister for Multilateral attacks, and were suspected of purchasing a 10-storey building in Tokyo, used by Chongryon, an organi- (UMNO), the power behind A key factor for the polarisa- and Global Affairs, and involvement in one robbery where sation representing North Korean interests in Japan in the absence of Barisan, is less than clear. tion is Barisan’s longtime use Rose Gottemoeller, act- 460m rupiah ($472,000) was sto- diplomatic ties, yesterday. The fate of the ‘embassy’ had been in limbo Besides losing the popular vote, of race politics, and in particu- ing US Undersecretary of len. “These fund-raising activities since he failed to make good on the $45m bid. The Tokyo District Court the coalition ceded a number of lar, advantages given to Malays State for Arms Control and are meant for terror training,” quashed the sale in which the temple promised to continue to allow parliamentary seats, prompting in business, education and other International security. Amar said. Chongryon to use the building. The premises will be re-auctioned. speculation over whether Najib spheres. AGENCIES AFP would face a leadership challenge AFP MAY 11, 2013 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY

Bankers hail SC Govt admits order to stop ‘cash ban’

MANILA: The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) welcomed the Supreme shooting of Court decision to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from implement- ing its controversial “cash ban.” The BAP, which filed the Taiwan boat petition against the cash ban, said any policy to be implemented in the future Ma demands apology from Manila should consider the impact on business. MANILA: The Philippines to disable it. They were able to “We welcome the order of admitted yesterday that its disable the vessel although they the Supreme Court in protect- coastguard fired at a Taiwanese were not aware at the time that ing the rights of our depositors fishing boat in an incident that somebody had been hit,” he said. to their funds,” BAP president authorities in Taipei said left a Balilo said the coastguard Lorenzo Tan said. crewman dead and triggered quickly left the area after it saw “The banking industry widespread outrage on the island. a third vessel, “a big white ship”, would like to help in ensuring Manila also agreed o investigate come into view. free and honest elections in the the death of a Taiwanese fisher- “Our people felt threatened so future. man after criticism from Taipei they left the area,” he said. “Whatever policy we come and Beijing, and pledged increased In Taipei, Ma insisted the up with must consider the efforts to prevent further incur- Philippine side was at fault. “We impact on normal course of sions in its territorial seas. demand the Philippines investi- banking business and the Taiwanese President Ma gate and clarify the truth, to apol- rights of our customers. Ying-jeou demanded that ogise, apprehend the killer and “The banking industry needs the Philippines apologise for compensate.” Foreign Minister Former president Joseph Estrada (right), who is running for mayor in the city of Manila, attends a political rally. time to prepare for whatever Thursday’s shooting, which the David Lin said he was “very measures Comelec and BSP Taiwanese government said killed angry”. The incident dominated imposes on the industry in the a 65-year-old fisherman and badly Taiwanese media, which strongly future,” Tan said. damaged the vessel. condemned the Filipinos and But Philippine coastguard carried reports from the boat’s Estrada absolved of murder Explosives spokesman Commander Armand captain insisting he did not cross Balilo said the incident took place over into Philippine waters. MANILA: The Department consul generals in New York and Corporation (Pagcor) presi- claim denied in Philippine waters and the “Barbaric Philippine vessel of Justice has cleared former California in October 2009, the dent Reynaldo Tenorio and Filipino personnel had been prop- fired at our fishing boat, seasoned President Joseph Estrada in daughters of Dacer — Carina, former police officers Michael BACOLOD CITY: An oper- erly carrying out their duties to fisherman shot dead,” read the the November 2000 murder Sabina, Emily, and Amparo – Ray Aquino, Glenn Dumlao and ative of the Negros Criminal stop illegal fishing. “If somebody front-page story in the Taipei- of publicist Salvador “Bubby” insinuated that Estrada was the Vicente Arnado as respondents Investigation and Detection died, they deserve our sympathy based China Times newspaper. Dacer and his driver Emmanuel mastermind in the killing of their to the case. Group (CIDG) unit turned but not an apology,” Balilo said. Hung Yu-chih, the captain of Corbito. father. Tenorio headed the gov- the tables against his col- Balilo said the incident hap- the boat who is also the dead Justice Secretary Leila de Lima In September 2010, they filed ernment-owned corporation leagues and immediate pened just north of the main man’s son, told the China Times disclosed the National Bureau of with the US District Court in engaged in casino operations superiors by disputing their Philippine island of Luzon in the that Philippine gunmen fired sev- Investigation (NBI) had looked San Francisco a $50m civil suit during Estrada’s term, while claims that explosives were Balintang channel, which is part of eral shots at them. He said one of into the alleged involvement of for compensatory and punitive Tan was a key player in the found at the ancestral house the Philippines’ territory and not the shots hit the fuel tank of the Estrada in the double-murder damages for the cruel, inhuman, Best World Resources stock of Mayor Magdaleno Pena claimed by any other country or vessel, which had only four people case. But the investigation proved degrading treatment, torture, manipulation scandal and in Brgy Ubay, Pulupandan, Taiwan. “This is part of Philippine on board. Two Taiwanese fishing futile. and extrajudicial killing of their owner of Best World Gaming Negros Occidental. waters,” he said. boats came to Hung’s rescue after “NBI investigators initially father. and Entertainment Corporation, In a sworn affidavit, SPO1 Balilo said the 30-metre coast- he called for help, and towed the pursued the case, but they hit a Dacer’s daughters sought which was given the sole author- Rosendo Bersal, a member of guard vessel initially saw two fish- boat back to a port in southern blank wall,” De Lima said. $10m in principal compensatory ity by Pagcor to conduct com- the Bacolod-based CIDG office ing vessels and tried to approach Taiwan. De Lima said there was no sin- damages and $40m in punitive puterised online bingo gaming said he never saw the alleged them. He said the coastguard China’s increasingly aggres- gle piece of evidence found that damages. nationwide. two pieces of TNT high explo- crew fired at the smaller of the sive tactics to assert its authority would warrant a preliminary They named Estrada, Senator Tan fled the Philippines shortly sives at the guards’ quarters two vessels after it tried to ram over the waters have raised alarm investigation against the former Panfilo Lacson, businessman after Estrada was ousted in 2001 of the ancestral house when the Filipino boat. among the rival claimants. leader. Dante Tan, former Philippine and remains at large. Bersal and other operatives “They fired at the machinery AGENCIES In an affidavit submitted to Amusement and Gaming THE PHILIPPINE STAR raided the house on May 2. Copies of Bersal’s affidavit were distributed by Pena during a press conference on Thursday. Bersal said in his affidavit: “I was even surprised when I was informed regarding the alleged Manila to pull out Golan team Army on alert to stop recovery of said explosives after lunch of May 2.” MANILA: The Philippines Filipino peacekeepers at an “But under the circumstances, said yesterday it may quickly observation post in the Golan where people are in jeopardy -- midterm poll violence Poll areas to withdraw from a United Heights on Tuesday, two months obviously our people are in jeop- Nations peacekeeping force in after 21 Filipino soldiers were ardy -- we may try to get... the MANILA: The Armed Forces Philippine National Police have undergo audit the Golan Heights because of abducted by the same group and UN to release them earlier if that of the Philippines (AFP) been doubly heightened so that security concerns, following held for four days. is possible,” he said. declared yesterday the high- these efforts will be coordinated MANILA: The Commission the abduction of four Filipino “The people that abducted our Presidential spokesman Ricky est state of alert throughout and will really be attuned to mak- on Elections has selected a troops. peacekeepers were actually under Carandang said Aquino was con- the country to make smooth ing the elections safe and free,” list of cities and municipali- Foreign Affairs Secretary siege and they are using our peo- sidering the recommendation operation of coming Monday’s he said. ties that will undergo random Albert del Rosario said he had ple to get themselves out of the and del Rosario’s fears about the national and local elections. The Philippine Nation Police manual audit on Election made a recommendation to situation they find themselves peacekeepers’ safety were valid, “The red alert status is to (PNP) earlier said that 66 elec- Day. President Benigno Aquino to in. That thing is not for us,” del although no decision on a with- ensure that all units in the AFP tion-related violent incidents have Using a new computer pro- pull out the more than 300 troops Rosario said. drawal had been made. are prepared and are ready for been so far reported, leaving 44 gram, the selection was done from the area, and that it was up “We don’t want to expose our “This is the second time this the election this coming Monday,” people dead. in seconds compared to 2010 to the president to make the final people any further, any more than has happened so there are legiti- AFP spokesman Domingo Tutaan The 2013 Philippine general when it took eight hours for decision. we need to.” mate concerns about the safety told a press briefing in Camp election on May 13 will be a mid- election officials to choose the “As soon as he says go, we will Del Rosario said he understood of our peacekeepers,” Carandang Aguinaldo yesterday. term election, which will elect 12 cities. undertake to do that as soon it normally required a three- said in a text message when asked “These are all in place, all sys- senators, 229 district members of Meanwhile, the specific pre- as possible,” del Rosario told month notice period to withdraw to comment on del Rosario’s tems go as we say. Our coordi- the House of Representatives, 80 cincts that will be manually reporters. troops from a United Nations recommendation. nation with the Commission on provincial governors. audited by Comelec will only Syrian rebels seized the four peacekeeping mission. AFP Elections (Comelec) and the THE PHILIPPINE STAR be generated on Sunday at the PICC Comelec Command Center using the same compu- ter programme. Marine hurt in Aquino seeks to cut short revival of Marcos family encounter DAVAO CITY: A member BATAC: The Philippines’ by his nickname Bongbong. His mother Cory Aquino was of the Philippine Marines Imelda Marcos has a dream — She was speaking as she hit the the icon of the People Power was wounded in an encoun- to restore her family to what campaign trail in the Marcos’s revolution and replaced Marcos ter with fighters of the New she sees as its rightful place in stomping ground of Ilocos Norte as president, ruling from 1986 to People’s Army (NPA) in Manila’s Malacanang presiden- province ahead of congressional 1992. Gingoog City on Thursday. tial palace. elections on Monday. Aquino is backing his own Major Leo Bongosia, spokes- But standing in the way is Wearing a pink gown with her preferred candidate for 2016 to man of the military’s 4th President Benigno Aquino, the signature butterfly sleeves as she continue his efforts to stamp out Infantry Division, said govern- scion of another Philippine pres- danced and sang with voters, corruption that remains endemic ment troops were conducting idential dynasty, who is deter- Imelda displayed the undimmed in the Southeast Asian nation. By route security operations in mined to bury the Marcos myth pulling power that has paved the law, Aquino, voted to power in Barangay Samay to clear the once and for all. way for her family’s unlikely polit- 2010 just months after his mother path for the board of election The authoritarian and cor- ical comeback. died, can serve only one six-year inspectors (BEI), who were set ruption-ridden rule of Imelda’s With Imelda a congresswoman, term. to deliver precinct count opti- husband Ferdinand Marcos was her daughter a provincial gover- He has fast-tracked a bill com- cal scan (PCOS) machines. ended by a mass revolt almost nor and Bongbong a popular sena- pensating thousands of victims of They clashed with commu- three decades ago. The wide- tor, the Marcos brand is stronger torture, harassment, and forced nist fighters at around 11am, spread hatred of the family has than at any time since the 1986 disappearances during Marcos’s according to Bongosia. “It is now ebbed, however, and a bur- People Power revolution ended regime that had been languishing possible that the rebels are geoning presidential run by their what critics call a kleptocratic for more than a decade. preparing to stage an ambush,” son means the Malacanang palace “conjugal dictatorship”. The law, signed by Aquino in he said. The wounded marine is well within his sights. But Aquino is an implacable February, paves the way for pay- was brought to the nearest “I am proud of him and I will foe, the son and namesake of ments to victims financed by hospital, Bongosia said. be prouder still if he will be like Marcos’s political rival whose around $600m from Marcos’s No casualties were reported his father, a great president,” assassination at Manila airport Swiss bank accounts recovered Former first lady Imelda Marcos poses next to the bust of her late husband on the NPA side. the 83-year-old Imelda said of in 1983 ignited the revolt that by the government. and former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, in Batac, Ilocos Norte province. AGENCIES Ferdinand Jr, a senator known inspired the world. REUTERS MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan

Zardari votes Five killed, 20 hurt in bombings by post ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari voted by post Taliban flex muscle on the eve of in Pakistan’s general elec- tion, spokesman Farhatullah Pakistan’s historic election Babar confirmed yesterday. The Taliban have threatened MIRANSHAH: Bombs exercise their right to choose Zardari’s Pakistan People’s exploded near political party their representatives”. Party and its secular coa- offices in remote areas of Most commentators expect lition partners, which the Pakistan yesterday, killing five PML-N to win but it remains party says dramatically cur- people on the eve of a landmark unclear how far PTI can provide tailed its ability to campaign election the Taliban have vowed an upset and restrict his chances in public. Zardari’s wife to disrupt with suicide attacks. of forming a stable coalition. and former prime minister A motorbike bomb killed four The election commission said Benazir Bhutto was assas- people and wounded 15 close to 179m ballot papers were being dis- sinated in a gun and suicide offices of parties in the main tributed to around 70,000 polling attack in 2007 before the town of North Waziristan, the stations under army supervision. last election and her succes- stronghold of the Taliban and More than 600,000 security sor as PPP chairman, their Al-Qaeda-linked groups on the personnel, including thousands son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Afghan border. of soldiers, have been deployed to is too young to run. Babar Security officials said Nawaz ensure secuirty. said Bilawal had been denied Sharif’s centre-right Pakistan The election is the first time in permission for a postal ballot. Muslim League-N (PML-N), Pakistan’s history that an elected Zardari’s daughters Aseefa cricket star Imran Khan’s civilian administration has and Bakhtawar also cast Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) handed power to another through their votes by post, he said. and right-wing religious party the ballot box. The nuclear-armed The family’s whereabouts has Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, an ally state has been ruled by the mili- not been announced. of the outgoing government, had tary for half its life. offices nearby. The injured taken More than 86 million voters Monitors upset to the state-run Miranshah hos- have from 8am to 5pm to elect 272 pital, some in a serious condition. MPs to the 342-member national over security In the southwest, a low-inten- assembly and legislators to four An army convoy patrols the streets on the outskirts of Peshawar, yesterday. sity bomb planted on the roof of provincial assemblies. ISLAMABAD: Gender the office of a Pakistan People’s No one claimed responsibility Concerns International Party (PPP) candidate in Quetta for the bombings, but the Taliban, (GCI) representatives, who wounded five people early yes- who consider the election un- Poll offers window on US ties have come to Pakistan to terday. The device detonated Islamic, have carried out numer- monitor the election, were when supporters of former cabi- ous attacks to undermine the WASHINGTON: After years of crisis, 1990s and most US experts see him as a pragmatist dissatisfied with the govern- net minister and PPP MP Sardar polls and say they have dispatched Pakistan’s election offers a window for the US rather than ideologue. Sharif has campaigned not ment’s security measures. Omar Gorgaj were gathering in suicide bombers for polling day. to try to reset the relationship but Washington against the US but the troubled economy — an “No authority has given us any his office. The Taliban have singled out could face hard choices if the next leader allies issue on which it makes little sense to alienate assurances about security. Law Campaigning ended at mid- the secular-leaning PPP and with Islamists. Washington, which would be critical to securing enforcement agencies have night with pleas for votes from its main coalition partners, the Experts believe the fundamental calculus of the another IMF package and has provided $20bn since not contacted us to discuss Nawaz Sharif bidding for a his- Muttahida Qaumi Movement, US will remain unchanged whatever the poll out- both countries entered a troubled partnership in security for our volunteers. toric third term as prime min- which controls Pakistan’s biggest come — that it needs Islamabad’s cooperation to 2001. Seth Jones, an expert at the Rand Corp and We have decided not to cover ister, and Khan looking for a city of Karachi, and the Awami fight militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan. former US military adviser, said tensions had eased Baluchistan, However, I have breakthrough. National Party in the northwest. The US has been careful not to take sides in the considerably since the crisis following the US raid been considering travelling The PPP has run a lacklus- “Democracy is against Islam election, knowing that its blessing could be the kiss that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. “There is an to Quetta alone, but a final tre and rudderless campaign in and is a system for infidels. Being of death in a country where a recent poll put US opportunity for engaging a new civilian leadership decision will be made on May the face of Taliban threats, with a Muslim, it’s our responsibility popularity at 11 percent. Washington has confined that will ideally have at least a short honeymoon 11 (today),” Director GCI its chairman, Bilawal Bhutto to reject this thinking and ideol- its public remarks to praise of the election. Despite period. I think there is an opportunity to reset and head of Gender Election Zardari, too young to contest a ogy and be part of the struggle to violence, the vote marks the first democratic tran- the US relationship with Pakistan on some key Monitoring Mission Sabra parliamentary seat. enforce Sharia,” Taliban sospokes- sition in Pakistan’s nearly 66-year history. issues — the security threats in Pakistan, some key Bano said, yesterday. Bano, Attacks on politicians and polit- man Ehsanullah Ehsan said. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell economic issues.” from Holland, said although ical parties have killed more than On Thursday, former PPP called the election “a historic development of which President Barack Obama’s administration put an local collaborators had sug- 120 people since mid-April and prime minister Yousuf Raza the people of Pakistan can be very proud”. early priority on strengthening democratic rule in gested that even local volun- the Human Rights Commission Gilani’s son Ali Haider Gilan was He said: “We look forward to engaging with the Pakistan, although it quickly learned that the long- teers of GCI should not be sent of Pakistan said the election was kidnapped and two of his aides next democratically elected government.” dominant military remained a vital power-centre. to sensitive polling stations all the most violent in the country’s killed in Multan. Ali, 27, is a PPP Nawaz Sharif, seen as the front-runner, has criti- Secretary of State John Kerry has met army chief over the country, particularly, history. candidate for the Punjab provin- cised the US-friendly policies of President Asif Ali General Ashfaq Kayani three times since taking in Baluchistan. The panel said its acute con- cial assembly. Zardari and demanded an end to unpopular US office, although the administration recently named cern did not stem merely from In Karachi, the militants hold drone strikes inside Pakistan and called for nego- a special envoy, James Dobbins, to step up interac- 2,000 scribes threats and violence targeting sway after chasing secular par- tiations with the Taliban. But the US knows Sharif tion with Pakistan and Afghanistan. individuals “but much more from ties away. Some six months ago, well from his two stints as prime minister in the AGENCIES can’t vote the manner in which violence has what should have been the head- impaired the fairness of the elec- quarters of the Awami National ISLAMABAD: Over 2,000 tion almost beyond repair”. Party (ANP), an ally of the out- to leave quickly. They didn’t even notably Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam- the Muttahida Qaumi Movement journalists working in It called on institutions to going government, in the work- have to force them,” a neighbour Fazl, reputedly close to the mili- (MQM), and the Pashtuns who Islamabad and its adjacent “stretch themselves to their ing class district of Sohrab Goth, said. ANP activists complied have tants. Karachi is beset by ethnic have migrated to escape violence garrison city of Rawalpindi absolute limit to ensure security were abandoned. not been seen since. tensions between Mohajirs, the in the northwest. Others are will not be able to cast of voters, candidates and poll- “A small group of Taliban came In Sohrab Goth, the militants Urdu-speaking core support base Afghans, who cannot vote. their ballots in their ances- ing stations so that people can to the ANP office and told them have allowed others to campaign, of the party that controls the city, AGENCIES tral areas due to their work on election day. Some have called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan to devise a swift strategy to Building blaze claims 12 facilitate them to cast their ballot in their respective Merkel visits troops in Kabul constituencies today. A large number of journalists have MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Britain, has cut numbers from Afghan-German operation in been assigned election duties Chancellor Angela Merkel 5,000 as the Natopull-out gath- Baghlan province. by their organisations in the made an unannounced visit to ers pace ahead of the end of the Merkel earlier condemned it as federal capital and neigh- Afghanistan yesterday to shore mission next year. a “terrorist attack”. Contributors buoring Rawalpindi for pro- up morale among Germany’s Merkel arrived in the northern to the Natoforce such as Germany viding prompt information to 4,200 troops as foreign forces city of Mazar-i-Sharif and visited are weighing up how to sched- the general public. withdraw after more than a nearby Kunduz. ule their withdrawal from decade of fighting. “She is here to support the Afghanistan by the end of 2014 Former general The war is increasingly unpop- troops, to attend briefings and while leaving behind a competent ular in Germany, but Merkel told to address concerns after our Afghan army and police force. held by Interpol troops in Kunduz province that recent loss,” a military spokes- Last month Germany offered to political and economic progress man said, referring to the death keep 600-800 troops for two years ISLAMABAD: The National was being made and that their last Saturday of the first German from 2015 to help further train Accountability Bureau contribution was making a soldier to be killed in Afghanistan and advise the security forces in (NAB) yesterday announced difference. in two years. their battle against the Taliban. that a former army general “Progress is sometimes diffi- Germany is the Nato coalition’s Washington said Thursday that allegedly involved in corrupt cult, sometimes it is slower than “lead nation” across nine prov- US troops will stay in Afghanistan practices while holding key we would like but it is essential inces in northern Afghanistan, a after 2014 “only at the invitation” offices in the late 1980s had that our military involvement is relatively peaceful area compared of the Afghan government, after been detained in Bosnia with not seen in isolation and that it is to the insurgency hotbeds in the President Hamid Karzai revealed the help of Interpol. Retired a success,” she said. south and east. that the US could keep nine bases Lt Gen Zahid Ali Akbar, a Germany, which has the third- However the German special open across the country. former chairman of Wapda, biggest troop deployment in forces soldier was shot dead when “The US does not seek per- Firefighters extinguish fire at a highrise state-run building in Lahore, was detained on charge of Afghanistan after the US and insurgents opened fire on a joint manent military bases in making Rs267m assets beyond yesterday. About 12 people were killed and scores injured. Afghanistan,” White House press his known sources of income. secretary Jay Carney told report- According to NAB spokesman ers. “Any US presence after 2014 Ramzan Sajid, the detention would only be at the invitation was made possible with the of the Afghan government and Longer outage in Islamabad cooperation of international aimed at training Afghan forces agencies and Bosnia. and targeting the remnants of Al LAHORE: Independent power producers (IPPs) have warned of Qaeda.” longer outages in the near future, blaming the previous and cur- Rebels kidnap The size of the “residual” US rent governments for not taking any short- or long-term measures force has not been agreed, with to contain circular debt. 11 deminers numbers ranging from 2,500 to IPPs Advisory Council chairman Abdullah Yousaf said the first priority 12,000, according to US officials, of the next government should be to pay the dues to IPPs to maintain KABUL: At least 11 deminers as Washington scales down the power supply at current levels or reduce loadshedding to some extent. were kidnapped by gunmen long war that began after the 9/11 The government has to pay the total current outstanding bill of in eastern Nangarhar prov- attacks in 2001. The Nato force Rs57.48bn to eight IPPs — Atlas, Nishat Power, Halmore, Sapphire, ince of Afghanistan, officials comprise about 100,000 troops, Liberty, Orient, Saif and Nishat Chunian Power.Considering the said. The deminers report- of which 66,000 are from the US. amount, the eight cash-strapped IPPs cannot produce more than edly worked for MDS dem- Merkel travelled with Defence 1,600MW. It will be crucial for the next government to supply gas to ining and were kidnapped in Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a power producers who are efficient, so it can be translated into maxi- Achin district. The militants German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Minister of Defence Thomas de German government spokesman mum power generation, which Yousaf believes is a simpler formula. also took three vehicles of the said without giving further details Uninterrupted fuel should be supplied to IPPs who can produce power workers. AGENCIES Maiziere (left) during their visit to Afghanistan. of her itinerary. AFP at cheaper rates than generation companies, he added. INTERNEWS MAY 11, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Railway, law Siddaramaiah named Karnataka CM BANGALORE: Karnataka Governor HR Bhardwaj late yesterday appointed Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader ministers quit Siddaramaiah as the state’s chief minister. The 64-year-old leader is expected to be sworn in on Monday. “The governor is pleased to over scandals appoint Siddaramaiah as the Chief Minister of Karnataka,” the Raj Bhavan office said in a communique. Resignations a delayed step: BJP After meeting Bhardwaj, a beaming Siddaramaiah told NEW DELHI: Within hours Besides the two ministers, the reporters outside Raj Bhavan, “I of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi BJP has been demanding the will take oath as chief minister meeting Prime Minister resignation of the prime minis- most likely on Monday.” Manmohan Singh last evening, ter himself as he headed the coal The appointment came within the UPA government asked ministry for some time in the pre- three hours of Karnataka Pradesh two tainted cabinet mem- vious government. Congress Committee president bers — Railway Minister Labour Minister Mallikarjuna G Parameshwara informing the Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Kharge, who was in the race to governor that Siddaramaiah had Minister Ashwani Kumar — to become Karnataka chief minister, been unanimously elected the quit, sending out a signal that is tipped to be the next railway CLP leader, and requesting him no wrongdoing will be tolerated. minister. The name of Surface to invite the latter to form the The Congress, which success- Transport Minister CP Joshi, who government. fully snatched Karnataka from held the railway portfolio briefly “After taking oath alone, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before Bansal, was also being con- I will go to New Delhi with on the anti-corruption plank, took sidered, said the sources. Parameshwara and finalise the the decision as it did not want to An indication that Bansal’s council of ministers in consulta- send out a wrong signal that the fate was sealed came last after- tion with party president Sonia Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah with jubilant supporters after he was appointed as the new party was soft on corruption, a noon when Congress spokes- Gandhi and the high command,” chief minister of Karnataka yesterday. party source said. person Bhakta Charan Das told the chief minister-designate said. With the BJP insisting on the reporters: “We will not toler- Siddaramaiah was named resignation of both the ministers ate if anybody is found mired in chief minister by the party’s sen- AK Antony, told reporters at the Sonia Gandhi and vice president command had deputed the party’s and not allowing parliament to corruption.” ior leaders after the majority of party’s office in the city centre. Rahul Gandhi, to decide on the senior leader from Goa, Luizinho function, Gandhi met the prime Bansal was asked to resign the 121 newly-elected legisla- Within minutes of the name for the coveted post. Faleiro, and Minister of State for minister this evening at his offi- after reports that he had sought tors preferred him over another announcement, wild celebra- “All the legislators have author- Defence Jitendra Singh as observ- cial residence. divine help (by feeding a goat) to aspirant, union Labour Minister tions broke out at the party ised our high command to name ers to seek the legislators’ opinion Later, Gandhi’s political secre- save himself irked the Congress Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a Lok office, with hundreds of cadres the chief minister through a for the chief minister’s post. tary Ahmed Patel and Health and leadership, said the sources. Sabha member from Gulbarga, and Siddaramaiah’s supporters one-line resolution after they Madhusudhan Mistry, the Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Both Bansal and Ashwani about 650 km from here. cheering, screaming, hooting and expressed their opinion through Congress general secretary in- Nabi Azad also met the prime Kumar had been in office for “Siddaramaiah is the choice of dancing. a secret ballot to the central charge of Karnataka, was also minister, said the source. about six months. the party’s high command for the Earlier, all the legislators observers,” another party leader, present at the three-hour-long The first to go was Bansal, The BJP termed the resigna- chief minister’s post,” the party’s authorised the high command, DK Shiva Kumar, told reporters. meeting. who was under a cloud after tions a delayed step. central observer, Defence Minister which includes party president Besides Antony, the high IANS his nephew was arrested by the “This is a delayed step. Had the Central Bureau of Investigation ministers resigned a few days ago, (CBI) for accepting a bribe of the time of parliament would not Rs9m for securing a plum Railway have been wasted,” BJP spokes- Board post for a senior official. person Syed Shahnawaz Hussain “Yes, I have resigned,” Bansal said. told reporters after leaving the “The Congress does not take China, India pledge to strengthen ties prime minister’s residence. any decision on moral grounds,” A little later, Ashwani Kumar, he said. BEIJING: China-India rela- government places on developing to April 15 — when Chinese forces both sides and promoted regional under fire for interfering in a Communist Party of India tions have “strategic signifi- ties with India, Xinhua reported. intruded 19 km inside the Indian and global peace and prosperity. CBI probe into allocation of coal leader D. Raja said Bansal should cance” and “global impact” as He said China would like side of the Line of Actual Control India would like to work with mining rights, met the prime have resigned when parliament both are large developing coun- to enhance political trust, in Ladakh. China to send a positive signal of minister and handed over his was in session, which would have tries and emerging markets, deepen pragmatic cooperation, “Friendly cooperation is cen- mutual trust and support to the resignation. allowed legislative business to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang strengthen people-to-people tral to China-India relations and world, as well as effectively con- In his resignation letter, take place. told India’s visiting External understanding and expand com- common interests outweigh dif- trol differences and resolve border Ashwani Kumar said it was “to The entire second half of the Affairs Minister Salman munication on international and ferences,” Li told Khurshid. issues, he said. put an end to the controversy of budget session, from April 22 Khurshid here yesterday. regional issues so as to develop He said China would like to State Councillor Yang Jiechi public perception of wrongdoing”. to May 10, was wasted as the Later, Khurshid met Chinese their strategic partnership. negotiate with India to settle bor- also pledged to strengthen ties He may be moved to a less sig- BJP kept disrupting parliament State Councillor Yang Jiechi, who Last week, intense negotiations der issues and create favourable between the two countries. He nificant ministry, said sources. demanding the ouster of Prime also pledged to strengthen ties between India and China saw an conditions for bilateral coopera- said development of bilateral ties The resignations have been Minister Manmohan Singh, between the two countries. end to a 20-day stand-off, with tion and development. in recent years had brought con- forwarded to President Pranab Bansal, and Ashwani Kumar. Premier Li highlighted the troops of both sides pulling back On his part, Khurshid said crete benefits to both countries. Mukherjee for his approval. IANS importance the new Chinese to their respective positions prior developing relations benefitted IANS

Top court rejects Dutt’s plea Former minister charged with NEW DELHI: India’s high- but cut his jail term to five Dutt still can file a so-called est court yesterday rejected a years from six. He now has “curative” petition in which the rape, abetment plea by Bollywood star Sanjay to serve the remaining three- court is asked to review its final Dutt to review his convic- and-a-half-years of his term. decision, but lawyers said such tion and five-year jail term The Supreme Court said a plea would likely be dismissed of suicide for possessing arms supplied there was “no merit” in the as it would be heard by the same NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court by plotters of the deadly 1993 actor’s petition to review his judges. yesterday framed charges Mumbai blasts. conviction and also dismissed Dutt was likely to surrender against former Haryana minis- The 53-year-old was con- similar requests by six others to jail authorities on May 15, ter Gopal Goyal Kanda for rap- victed by an anti-terrorism sentenced in the case. according to local media. ing and abetting the suicide of court in 2006 but was freed on Dutt was convicted for An estimated Rs2.5bn former flight attendant Geetika bail after serving 18 months in possessing arms supplied by ($45m) are riding on Dutt in Sharma. prison. Mumbai’s criminal underworld Bollywood, with up to five films District Judge SK Sarvaria In March, the Supreme which plotted a string of deadly in the pipeline. also framed charges of abetting Court upheld Dutt’s conviction blasts in 1993, killing 257 people. AFP rape and suicide against Kanda’s employee Aruna Chadha. They have also been charged with criminal conspiracy and for- gery under Indian Penal Code and Diesel prices Information Technology Act for Court orders three-phase hacking a computer and sending up by 90 paise offensive or false messages. The court framed the charges NEW DELHI: Diesel election in West Bengal against Kanda and Chadha on prices will increase by 90 its own on the basis of material paise per litre plus taxes KOLKATA: In a telling blow Chief Minister Banerjee asserted on record. The Delhi Police, in from today, the country’s to the beleaguered Mamata the elections would be held at the its charge sheet, had not invoked largest oil marketing firm, Banerjee government, the right time despite a “conspiracy” offences of rape and unnatural sex Indian Oil Corporation, Calcutta High Court yester- hatched by opposition parties to against the accused. said yesterday. day ordered three-phase pan- prevent timely panchayat polls. After framing the charges, the The company has chayat (rural body) polls in The SEC had moved the peti- district judge sent the matter for decided to hike the price West Bengal with deployment tion on April 1, questioning section trial before the fast track court after a gap of two months. of central armed police per- 42 of the West Bengal Panchayat dealing with sexual offences. Indian Oil Corporation sonnel. The state government Election Act, citing which the The court will record the pros- said the Rs0.90 per litre announced it would appeal state government announced on ecution’s evidence on May 27. increase in price would against the “impractical” order. March 22 two-phased polls to be From now on, the name of the cover the increase of April Justice Biswanath Sommader held on April 26 and 30, under victim cannot be mentioned as the and May. upheld the primacy of the State the supervision of the state police. court has converted the suicide Allowing for local taxes, Election Commission, which had Justice Sommader directed case into a sexual offence case. the new rates for diesel challenged the state government’s the state government to finalise Geetika, 23, was found hanging per litre will be Rs49.69 in announcement of a two-stage poll the list of election observers and from the ceiling in her house in Delhi, Rs53.97 in Kolkata, under the supervision of the state intimate the poll panel about it north Delhi on August 5 last year. Rs56.04 in Mumbai and security forces. by today. The verdict also asked She left behind two suicide notes Rs52.92 in Chennai. Terming the verdict “impracti- the government to intimate the blaming Kanda and Chaddha, a The government has cal, impossible to implement and SEC by today about “fully com- former official in Kanda’s now- authorised oil marketing unacceptable”, state Panchayat pensating the shortfall of security defunct MDLR Airlines, where companies to increase the Minister Subrata Mukherjee said personnel by deployment of cen- Geetika had worked. Both are in price of diesel within a the government would move the tral paramilitary forces as well as judicial custody and deny involve- small range every month. division bench on Monday. forces from other states”. ment in the suicide. IANS Addressing a rally at Burdwan, IANS IANS ON SATURDAY 14 MAY 11, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Oil loses ground Opec sees oil on high supply, strong dollar demand rising NEW YORK/LONDON: Crude futures on both sides of the Atlantic lost ground yester- day as rising fuel supplies and a stronger dollar put oil under in second half pressure. The dollar hit a 4-1/2 year high against the yen, making commod- Outlook brighter, says Saudi minister ities more expensive for holders of different currencies. LONDON: Opec will need to at the start of February, worrying As well, the euro dropped to a pump slightly more oil than it some in Opec. But the expecta- one-month low against the dol- thought in 2013 and expects tion of stronger demand later in lar on expectations that the US global consumption to be much 2013 argues against any sugges- Federal Reserve would cut back higher in the rest of the year, tion of lowering output, say Opec on it monetary easing programme. signs of a stronger market that officials. “The higher dollar is putting on argue against any calls for sup- “On production issues, demand pressure — there’s a lot of volatil- ply restraint when the group is expected to pick up, so most ity in currencies and there is no meets on May 31. likely another rollover,” said an strong underlying demand for oil,” The Organisation of the Opec delegate of the outcome of said Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix Petroleum Exporting Countries in the group’s meeting in Vienna. in Zug, Switzerland. a monthly report yesterday fore- Opec for now is pumping more By 12.39pm EDT (1620 GMT), cast 2013 demand for its crude oil than its 30 million bpd official Brent futures were $1.81 lower at will average 29.84 million barrels target. Output rose by 280,000b/d $102.66 a barrel, after falling as to per day (b/d), up 90,000b/d from in April to 30.46 million bpd, Visitors looking at a Nissan Cube vehicle at the company’s showroom in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, yesterday. a low of $101.56. the previous estimate. according to secondary sources US crude fell $1.85 to $94.54, Both world oil demand and the cited by the report, led by higher after trading as low as $93.37. demand for Opec oil will increase output in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Stockpiles of US crude hit in coming months. The average While higher than the current Nissan’s profit growth stalls another record level last week due requirement for Opec’s crude in demand for Opec crude, that out- to growing domestic production. the second half will be 30.47 mil- put rate would match the average TOKYO: Japan’s Nissan said Europe slammed the brakes on on-year to 1.18 million vehicles, The value of commodities like lion b/d, up from 29.14 million b/d requirement in the second half of yesterday that its annual net growth. it said. oil, priced in US dollars, tend to in the current quarter. 2013. profit had barely moved from “Compared with its rivals, While sales to China last month drop when the dollar becomes Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, in Opec held its forecast for growth a year earlier despite market Nissan faces several uncertain were better than a year earlier, stronger. a speech in Ankara yesterday, in world demand unchanged at conditions that helped rivals factors, including its relations Nissan conceded it has lost mar- The spread between Brent said the outlook was brighter 800,000bpd and repeated a warn- Toyota and Honda book soaring with Renault, its electric vehicle ket share as Volkswagen and and WTI crude oil has widened for big economies such as top ing that the rate of expansion profits. strategy and the China issue,” US-based General Motors tried to out in the last two days and was oil consumer the United States, could underperform due to the The pair logged huge gains said Tatsuya Mizuno, auto ana- capitalise on their Japanese rivals trading at $8.14 after hitting its even though Europe was still euro zone’s economic problems largely owing to a sharply weaker lyst with Mizuno Credit Advisory. troubles in the country. narrowest point in more than struggling. and uncertainties about China. yen and cost-cutting that helped Japan’s automakers suffered “We are working hard to two years on Wednesday, settling “Europe continues to grapple Another oil forecaster closely inflate their bottom line. from a diplomatic row between recover from the impact of the at $7.72. with austerity and anaemic levels watched by the market, the US Nissan, part-owned by France’s Tokyo and Beijing that sparked island dispute,” Chief Executive Goldman Sachs in a report said of growth. That said, other regions government’s Energy Information Renault, has also benefited from huge riots across China and a Carlos Ghosn told a press briefing it expects the spread to narrow are showing signs of progress,” Ali Administration, took a more the yen’s decline with its fourth- damaging consumer boycott of yesterday. “I consider the recov- further to as low as $5 in the Ibrahim Al Nuaimi said. “Major bearish view on demand growth quarter earnings jumping due to Japanese brands. ery achieved completely when our third quarter as several pipeline economies are leading the way and in its report on Tuesday, cut- the weaker currency. Nissan’s sales to China, which market share will come back to projects come online to allow the US economy is improving.” ting its forecast by 70,000b/d to But its heavy exposure to make up almost one-quarter of what it was before” the dispute more production to reach US Gulf Oil has dropped to just above 890,000 bpd. China, the world’s biggest vehi- its total sales, far higher than its flared, he added. Coast refineries. $103 a barrel from almost $120 REUTERS cle market, and recession-riddled domestic rivals, fell 5.3 percent AFP REUTERS G7 focuses on growth, austerity

AYLESBURY, United recovery,” British finance minis- “strongly there needs to be the Kingdom: The Group of Seven ter George Osborne said yester- right balance between austerity top economies kick-started day as he opened the gathering and growth”. fresh talks on spurring growth amid pressure on Britain and The European Union yesterday amid US-Europe other indebted European nations recently granted France two divisions over the scale of aus- to scale back deep cuts to state extra years to meet its deficit terity and renewed market spending, in order to support target on condition that it pur- focus on “currency wars” after fragile growth. sues reforms. the yen hit new dollar lows. “Our challenge is not to fal- The G7 nations, which together The two-day G7 meeting in ter in the difficult steps we need produce about half of the world’s Aylesbury, northwest of London, to take to make that recovery economic output, are slowly is also being attended by top rep- sustainable and lasting,” said recovering from a late 2012 slow- resentatives from the European Chancellor of the Exchequer down, the OECD said recently, Union and International Osborne. with Japan and the United States Monetary Fund. “Markets have calmed, and leading the way. The G7 — comprising Britain, there are signs that this is feed- Emerging economies were Canada, France, Germany, Italy, ing through into greater confi- tipped to remain by far the Japan and the United States — dence. But we cannot take the strongest growth performers, is building on last month’s wider global recovery for granted,” he with China expected to expand by Group of 20 meeting, while added. well more than 8.0 percent in the looking ahead to next month’s The IMF, while welcoming first half of 2013, the Organisation G8 heads of state summit in efforts by indebted nations to for Economic Development and Northern Ireland. cut spending, has urged Britain Cooperation said. Britain is this year president to lessen the pace of its austerity Forecasts remain very uncer- of the G8 — or G7 plus Russia — programme to support the coun- tain however, the OECD added, and is using the platform to also try’s fragile economic recovery. with new-found buoyancy on push for greater multilateral co- And yesterday, US Treasury financial markets yet to feed operation in tackling tax evasion. Secretary Jacob Lew said the through to the wider economy. “Our task is to nurture the world’s biggest economy feels AFP

German trade Iberia wipes out progress surplus falls as EU crisis bites at British Airways BERLIN: German exports, LONDON: International Airlines carriers and Middle East airlines. the driving force of Europe’s Group reported wider first-quar- IAG took a ¤311m charge in top economy, are being weighed ter operating losses yesterday, as the quarter for restructuring that down by the eurozone debt cri- deepening trouble at its Spanish plans to cut 3,100 jobs to return sis, data showed yesterday, amid carrier Iberia wiped out progress Iberia — Europe’s biggest carrier to otherwise promising signs. at British Airways. Latin America — to profit by 2015. Seasonally adjusted data IAG, Europe’s third-biggest air- That was on top of ¤545m last showed that Germany’s trade line group by market value, made year and while Chief Executive surplus fell slightly in March to an operating loss of ¤278m ($364m) Willie Walsh said there was ¤17.6bn ($23bn) from ¤17.7bn in in the year’s first three months, “more work to be done”, he said February, according to figures traditionally weak for airlines. he did not expect further signifi- from the federal statistics office. The Spanish carrier contrib- cant charges this year. Comparing the monthly fig- uted ¤202m of that — up from Walsh said reports linking ure to data 12 months ago, a ¤169m a year earlier — as it suf- Qatari investment groups with decline of unadjusted exports fered from competition from the purchase of Spanish lender data accelerated, with the value low-cost rivals and high-speed Bankia’s 12 percent stake in IAG of exports falling by 4.2 percent, trains, labour disputes and a were wide of the mark. having shown a fall of 2.8 percent recession that has left a quarter Liberum analyst Peter Hyde in February. But imports fell by of Spaniards out of work. called IAG’s results a mixed bag. even more, by 6.9 percent on a Rival European carriers “To achieve our forecast 2013 12-month comparison. Lufthansa and Air France-KLM operating profit of ¤505m IAG The European Union remains are also slashing jobs and shelving needs Iberia to restructure quickly the main trading partner for growth plans as they grapple with and British Airways to leverage its Germany. high fuel prices, a weak economy market position,” he said. REUTERS and fierce competition from low-cost REUTERS MAY 11, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY India industrial output rises 2.5pc Fastest growth in five months signals economic recovery Turkey to help Iraq

NEW DELHI: India’s industrial output accelerated by a surprise build oil pipeline 2.5 percent in March, its fastest pace in five months, data showed yesterday, fuelling hopes that a ANKARA: Opec member Iraq will need new oil pipelines to sharp economic slowdown could export its crude to world markets as it prepares to raise produc- be bottoming out. tion, and Turkey is keen to help its neighbour build the infra- The March production growth structure, Turkey’s Energy Minister said yesterday. from factories, mines and utilities Iraq, the world’s fastest-growing oil exporter, aims to boost the beat financial market forecasts 2.4 million barrels per day of oil it ships to world markets this year, of a two percent rise and was up mostly by increasing output from the fields around the disputed from a slim 0.5 percent increase northern oil city of Kirkuk in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan in February. region. While output expansion is still The opening of new export outlets and investment by for- far below double-digit rates in eign companies at the southern oil fields around Basra, where previous years when Asia’s third- the vast majority of Iraqi oil is located, have boosted Iraqi largest economy was booming, shipments. “it’s getting better slowly”, said But Taner Yildiz said once Iraq’s capacity increases, existing Credit Suisse economist Robert infrastructure will be insufficient. Prior-Wandesforde. “The outlets via Basra are not enough for such a capacity, so Three interest rate cuts since nothing is more natural than the construction of new pipelines,” the start of 2013 should start feed- Yildiz told an energy conference in Istanbul. ing through to bolster consumer “And Turkey will make the biggest contribution here.” demand, analysts said, while Currently only a fraction of the 1.5 million barrels per day- export growth is improving with capacity Iraq-Turkey pipeline from Kirkuk to the Mediterranean a sharply weaker rupee buttress- hub of Ceyhan is used as Iraq exports most of its oil from the ing overseas sales. south. The output figures are “gen- Ankara and Baghdad have in the past discussed building more erally in line with our view of a pipelines but the projects have failed to gain traction. gradual uptick in activity”, said Workers lift a container filled with molten iron inside an iron casting unit at an industrial estate on the outskirts of Their differing stances on the Syrian crisis, the Kurdish region Goldman Sachs economist Tushar the western Indian city of Ahmedabad yesterday. of Iraq and other issues has soured diplomatic ties in recent years. Poddar. Sitting on 8.5 billion barrels of crude reserves, Iraq has been The Congress-led government, described as the “next Saudi Arabia,” even though its ambitious buffeted by a string of corruption Industrial Production, grew by 3.2 percent in March, the second strong- economy put the brakes on dis- export targets of more than seven million b/d by the end of the scandals, is desperate for signs of percent in March. est number since January 2012. cretionary spending. decade are threatened by political instability. better growth before facing voters Capital goods output of machin- But production of consumer The government forecasts the Turkish companies were part of the five consortiums in southern in general elections due in the first ery and other products, seen as a durables, such as washing economy will grow by at least six Iraq that have secured projects worth $25bn, Yildiz said. half of 2014. key sign of investment intentions, machines, fridges and furniture, percent in this financial year, which He also added that the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the north is also The economy has been strug- grew by 6.9 percent and for the stayed in the doldrums, falling by began April 1, after estimated a natural area for cooperation. gling under the weight of high first time since mid-2011, posted 4.5 percent, coinciding with the expansion of five percent last year Resource-hungry Turkey has been increasingly courting interest rates in the face of uncom- back-to-back monthly rises. longest stretch of car sales weak- — its slowest rate in a decade. Iraqi Kurds, who are at loggerheads with the central govern- fortably strong inflation and slug- “A recovery in capital spending ness since records started being Industrial output will remain ment over how to exploit the country’s oil reserves and share gish investment amid fears about is already under way and should kept in 1997. reasonably tepid, experts say, the revenue. graft and disappointment with the slowly gather steam through Car sales slid by 10.43 per- partly due to bottlenecks caused by Ankara and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have slow pace of government economic the current fiscal year,” said cent last month from a year ago, dilapidated highways, ports, power been negotiating energy deals ranging from exploration to exporting reforms. Prior-Wandesforde. according to separate industry fig- shortages and other infrastructure since last year—a move that has antagonised Baghdad which says Manufacturing, which accounts Output of so-called consumer ures, as still high borrowing costs problems which dampen growth. it alone has the authority to control exports and sign contracts. for three-quarters of the Index of non-durables like food grew by 6.5 and consumer unease about the AFP “Just like Iraq’s south, Iraq’s north is a natural area for projects,” Yildiz said. Turkish President Abdullah Gul also discussed Iraq’s energy resources in a speech at the same conference. New infrastructure to carry Iraq’s oil via Turkey would be crucial for European mar- Abu Dhabi tourism kets, he said. Britain’s Co-op Bank rules out “New oil and gas pipelines that will be constructed parallel to Iraq’s north-south lines would allow Iraq’s resources to be shipped company’s loss to both our country and to Europe,” Gul said. “This will be crucial for Iraq to reach secure markets,” he added. state help after capital warning widens amid REUTERS LONDON: The Co-operative bailing out Royal Bank of portfolio — loans the bank has Bank ruled out government Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, identified as risky — and the low property weakness support yesterday, after a Northern Rock and Bradford & level of funds it had set aside to QATARI MARKET warning from ratings agency Bingley during the 2008 financial deal with them left it vulnerable ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Moody’s that it might need tax- crisis, according to the independ- to losses. tourism development company Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.13 0.55 % Aa2 AA payers’ money to plug a capi- ent National Audit Office. The agency said there was which is building local branches Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.44 1.33 % Aa2 AA tal shortfall prompted its chief The financial regulator said in “moderate potential for systemic of the Louvre and Guggenheim executive to resign. March that UK banks must raise support likely to be forthcom- museums posted a widening Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 125.00 2.04 % Aa2 AA Speculation about Co-op Bank’s £25bn ($39bn) of extra capital by ing from the UK authorities,” to loss last year amid the emir- Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.25 2.29 % Aa2 AA weak capital position has grown the end of the year to absorb any maintain regulatory capital levels. ate’s property slump and said it Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 113.88 2.70 % Aa2 AA since it pulled out of a deal to future losses on loans. That support could also come could take seven years to turn Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 174.50 3.79 % Aa2 AA buy 630 branches from Lloyds Industry sources have said that from the Co-op Group itself, a profit. Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 135.88 4.16 % Aa2 AA Banking Group last month. the Co-op’s shortfall could be in which has gross assets in non- The state-owned Tourism and The bank, one of Britain’s the region of £700m ($1.1bn) to financial operations of £6.3bn and Development Investment Company Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 125.88 4.19 % Aa2 AA smaller lenders with 6.5 million £750m. net equity of £4.5bn. (TDIC) opened a slew of resorts and Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.38 1.02 % Aa2 AA customers and a 1.5 percent share The Co-op said Barry Tootell Moody’s lowered the deposit handed overs hundreds of villas in Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 115.00 2.69 % Aa2 AA of the current account market, would step down as chief execu- and senior debt ratings of the 2012 but said it might need to sell Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.50 1.31 % A1 A- said it did not need a bailout. tive of its bank and that Rod bank and placed it under review more assets this year. Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.17 % A1 A- “We would like to reassure Bulmer, who has held a number for further downgrades. “Asset sales remain a viable customers and members that we of senior positions at the bank, The agency said the Co-op option for the company and with QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.56 1.91 % NR NR haven’t sought nor do we need would step into the role until a bank’s capital levels were low the success realized on our first QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.50 % Aa3 A+ government support,” the Co-op permanent replacement is found. compared with peers. Co-op’s two commercial sales the board will QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.88 2.03 % Aa3 A+ said. A source familiar with the sit- core tier one capital ratio was make the appropriate determina- Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.63 2.24 % A2 A- The bank is part of Co-op uation said Tootell had planned 6.3 percent at the end of 2012, tion as we progress through 2013,” Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 106.38 1.46 % A2 A /*- Group, Britain’s biggest mutual to leave following the collapse of assuming the full implementation Shaun O’Connor said in an emailed business, which is owned by the Lloyds deal, but the Moody’s of tougher global rules that are statement. Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.88 2.39 % A2 A /*- individuals and includes super- report accelerated the process. being phased in. Britain’s regula- He gave no details of the assets Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.25 2.97 % A2 A /*- markets, funeral services and Moody’s said late on Thursday tor wants banks to hold at least which were sold. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 110.50 3.92 % A2 A /*- pharmacies. the bank faced the risk of sub- seven percent. Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.00 1.09 % Aa3 A Britain spent a total £124bn stantial losses in its non-core REUTERS Arab Emirates, is investing billions Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.25 3.24 % Aa3 A of dollars in tourism, industry and infrastructure as it diversifies its Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.38 3.53 % Aa3 A Aircraft maintenance woes economy away from oil. SOVEREIGNS But property prices have dropped Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P significantly with residential real estate prices down some 50 percent Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.63 0.33 % Aa2 AA from their peaks in 2008. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 126.88 1.92 % Aa2 AA TDIC made a net loss of Dh2.17bn Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.50 2.19 % NR NR ($591m) in 2012 due to impair- Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.63 2.86 % NR NR ments and depreciation compared Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.88 3.72 % NR NR with a loss of 1.27bn in the previ- Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.75 3.95 % NR NR ous year. Last year’s asset sales, along with Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.19 0.88 % Aa2 AA the handover of a large number of Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.88 2.94 % NR BBB residential units, lifted TDIC rev- Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.63 3.73 % NR BBB enues to Dh1.27bn from 333.8m in Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.00 7.04 % Caa1 CCC+ 2011. Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.25 3.38 % NR BBB- Total impairments and deprecia- tion amounted to Dh2.26bn, leaving *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: TDIC with total assets of 41.48bn Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which is dirhams in 2012 compared with 43.37 licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services billion the previous year, its financial Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data statements showed. and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of The company ended the year with the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into a cash balance of over Dh2.4bn last account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and year. does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable The company has committed to its indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your board to deliver positive results in financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. another five to seven years, O’Connor said. Staff from Taikoo (Xiamen) Aircraft Engineering Co (TAECO) cycle out of their company after work in Xiamen, The Louvre museum is scheduled south China’s Fujian province yesterday. A syndicate of Air France pilots expressed concerns over mainte- to open in 2015 and the Guggenheim nance of aircrafts in China, pointing to several “serious incidents” after the aircraft were passed by TAECO. in 2017. REUTERS MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds

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Spanish Formula One Grand to add a Brazilian grand prix Sebastian Vettel With sunshine replacing the Prix second free practice and more Asian races to the cal- morning’s drizzle, when Alonso of Red Bull Racing times here yesterday: endar after Argentina returns was top of the timesheets with is seen at the pit next season, with Spain and a largely meaningless lap of one lane during the first 1. Sebastian Vettel (GER) Red Bull 1:22.808, the United States likely to lose minute 25.252 seconds on a drying practice session at 2. Fernando Alonso (ESP) Ferrari 1:22.825, rounds, the sport’s commercial track, Vettel produced a quickest Circuit de Catalunya 3. Mark Webber (AUS) Red Bull 1:22.891, head said yesterday. time of 1:22.808. in Montmelo near 4. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Lotus 1:23.030, “We will go next year to Alonso was second, 0.017 slower, Barcelona, Spain 5. Felipe Massa (BRA) Ferrari 1:23.110, 6. Argentina and most probably in with Australian Mark Webber yesterday. The Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1:23.140, the near future to Brazil, and then third with a best lap of 1:22.891. 2013 Formula One 7. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1:23.398, we are talking about other venues Qualifying has been critical at Grand Prix of Spain 8. Adrian Sutil (GER) Force India 1:23.840, in Asia,” Carmelo Ezpeleta, the the Circuit de Catalunya in the will take place 9. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) Toro Rosso chief executive of MotoGP organ- 1:24.058, 10. Paul di Resta (GBR) Force past, with 18 of 22 winners there tomorrow. isers Dorna, told Reuters at the to date starting on pole posi- India 1:24.104, 11. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Spanish Formula One Grand Prix. tion and all but one - Michael Toro Rosso 1:24.175, 12. Jenson Button “But for sure in 2014 will be Schumacher from third in 1996 (GBR) McLaren 1:24.306, 13. Sergio Perez Argentina.” - from the front row of the grid. (MEX) McLaren 1:24.854, 14. Valtteri Bottas Argentina last hosted a motor- McLaren’s Jenson Button failed (FIN) Williams 1:24.888, 15. Nico Hülkenberg cycle grand prix in Buenos Aires to set a lap time in the damp first (GER) Sauber 1:25.167. in 1999 and was due to be on the session, with the team opting for long-lasting hard tyres were sty- All teams have updates for the aerodynamic problems with the calendar this season at the new Opening session times: caution in the knowledge that mied by the weather, with leaden first race of the European season team using one of their two ‘jok- Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in they have a limited number of skies and drizzle replacing yester- but former champions McLaren ers’ for the season so mechanics 1. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Ferrari) 1:25.252, Santiago del Estero province. spares for their new aerodynamic day’s sunshine. and Williams - last year’s win- could break an overnight curfew. 2. Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari) 1:25.455, 3. The race was struck off last upgrade package. Felipe Massa was just behind ners with Venezuelan Pastor “It looks nice. There’s some Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso) 1:25.667, November as a result of a row The 2009 world champion his team mate in 1:25.455 in a Maldonado - have more riding on really cool looking little bits on 4. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) 1:26.042, 5. between Spain and Argentina was 12th after lunch with a best Ferrari one-two in that session them than most after struggling the car but I don’t think it’s going Adrian Sutil (GER/Force India) 1:26.212, 6. over the nationalisation of the effort of 1:24.306 while Mexican and was fifth in the afternoon in Asia and the Middle East. to be enough to really fight right Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1:26.374, Argentine interests of Spanish oil team mate Sergio Perez lapped with Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen - a Button, the 2009 world cham- at the front,” said Button before 7. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams) 1:26.456, giant Repsol, the main sponsors of in 1:24.854. previous winner in Barcelona with pion, has finished no higher than practice. 8. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Lotus) 1:26.614, 9. the works Honda team. “We’ve got enough parts for two McLaren and Ferrari - fourth. fifth so far this season after win- “I think we will see an improve- Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) 1:26.621, 10. Teams are due to test there in cars, but we’re limited on spares Vettel, the overall champion- ning the final race of last year in ment and hopefully that will help Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India) 1:26.755, July. so we’d like to avoid crashing ship leader who is 10 points clear Brazil with what was then deemed us understand the air flow of the 11. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Toro Rosso) Brazil has not been on the cal- or going into gravel,” explained of Raikkonen after winning two of to be the fastest car. car a little bit better.” 1:26.940, 12. Nico Hulkenberg (GER/Sauber) endar since a 1992 race at Sao McLaren sporting director Sam four races so far, was 19th quick- McLaren, who brought out a “If we get a good correlation 1:27.061, 13. Sergio Perez (MEX/McLaren) Paulo’s Interlagos circuit. Michael. est of the 22 cars in the morning significantly new car this season between this circuit and the wind 1:27.135, 14. Esteban Gutierrez (MEX/ Ezpeleta said the plans now Plans to provide more track after waiting until the track was instead of the more evolutionary tunnel, that’s just as important as Sauber) 1:27.250, 15. Pastor Maldonado were for a race in Brasilia. action in the first session by giving drying before venturing out for a approach favoured by others, have seeing an improved lap time this (VEN/Williams) 1:27.576. “They are ready to do it but drivers an extra set of prototype proper lap. Webber was 20th. been working overtime to fix the weekend.” REUTERS we don’t know if they are able to make all the works before the end of this year,” said the Spaniard. “We are still looking for 2014 but I think it will be more prob- Qatar’s Nasser leads at Jordan Rally ably for 2015.” Brazil is hosting the soc- DEAD SEA, Jordan: Qatar’s the stages would be very difficult on the seventh stage. Qatar’s cer World Cup next year, with Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and and it has not been easy to main- Abdulaziz Al Kuwari and Irish Brasilia one of the venues. Italian co-driver Giovanni tain a fast pace,” said Al-Attiyah. co-driver Killian Duffy put their Ezpeleta said India, whose Bernacchini held a 1min 11.2sec “The tyres have been working jetlag to one side to hold fourth Buddh circuit near New Delhi lead in the 2013 Jordan Rally hard and the roads have been place in the Seashore Ford Fiesta hosts the country’s Formula One after eight drama-filled spe- very slippery. We have the lead RRC. grand prix, was not on the imme- cial stages in the Dead Sea area but there is a long way to go.” Sharjah’s Abdullah Al Qassimi diate horizon. yesterday. Abu Dhabi Racing’s Al Qassimi and Qatar’s Khalid Al Suwaidi “We are there with the The Ford Fiesta RRC driver came under increasing pressure were tied in fifth position and Superbikes (this year) and we will edged into a tiny lead through from the Lebanese duo of Roger Jordan’s Ma’rouf Abu Samra was see what is happening,” he said. the first slippery stage and gradu- Feghali and Joseph Matar as the leading local driver in seventh. “Depending on what is the result ally pulled away from the UAE’s the afternoon progressed. The Jordanian Husam Salem and everything we will see if we Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi and Lebanese was quickest through (Mitsubishi) held the Group N can go there or not. British co-driver Scott Martin to the fourth stage in his Motortune advantage over Abu Dhabi’s Bader “The circuit is very good and take a comfortable advantage into Fiesta and moved to within one Al Jabri, but Abu Dhabi Racing’s safe,” he added. today’s eight timed tests. and a half seconds of the Emirati’s Majed Al Shamsi and Irishman Thailand was one likely can- “We knew after the recce that Citroën before slipping behind John Higgins lost a potential top didate in Asia, with a circuit finish and escaped unhurt after expected to be ready by the end rolling over the edge of a sheer of 2014. Jordan Rally drop into a canyon in the fifth Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (left), Prince Feisal Al Hussein (centre), Chairman “There are other projects in Standings stage. of Jordan Motorsport, and Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah, Qatar Motor and Asia also,” said Ezpeleta, without 1. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (QAT)/Giovanni Bernacchini (ITA) Ford Team-mates Mohamed Al Motorycle Federation (QMMF) President before the start of the Jordan giving any details. The champi- Fiesta RRC 1hr 21min 12.9sec Sahlawi and Allan Harryman Rally in Jordan yesterday. onship currently visits Malaysia, were fortunate to avoid serious Qatar, Australia and Japan in the 2. Khalid Al-Qassimi (ARE)/Scott Martin (GBR) Citroën DS3 RRC injury when their Citroën DS3 region. 1hr 22min 24.1sec left the road and came to rest worried about it so I was slowing back wheels went over the edge,” This year’s MotoGP calendar 3. Roger Feghali (LEB)/Joseph Matar (LEB) Ford Fiesta RRC 1hr balancing on the edge of the same down,” admitted Al Sahlawi. “But said co-driver Higgins. “The car has 19 races and the MotoGP 22min 32.9sec cliff face. everyone had been cutting from just fell back over the edge and chief said 20 would be the maxi- 4. Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari (QAT)/Killian Duffy (IRL) Ford Fiesta RRC Mohammed Al Mutawaa and the left and there weren’t any landed upside down.” mum although 18 was the ideal 1hr 24min 04.6sec Stephen McAuley led the Junior lines to follow. I stopped when I Twenty-six cars were flagged number. Spain currently has four 5. Abdullah Al-Qassimi (ARE)/Steve Lancaster (GBR) Ford Fiesta and 2WD categories in a third saw the water but the front right away from the official start races, while the United States has RRC 1hr 29min 08.3sec Abu Dhabi car. wheel went over the edge and we podium at Martyrs’ Memorial three. 5. Khalid Al-Suwaidi (QAT)/Nicola Arena (ITA) Ford Fiesta RRC “Lightning always seems got stuck. We were scared we in Amman yesterday by Prince “There is not a lot of possibil- 1hr 29min 08,3sec to strike twice for Abu Dhabi might fall off!” Feisal Al Hussein, chairman of ity to continue with four races in Racing,” said Harryman. “A Al Shamsi was not so fortu- Jordan Motorsport, in the pres- Spain...we don’t want to pass 18 if 7. Ma’rouf Abu Samra (JOR)/Malek Hariri (JOR) Skoda Fabia S2000 similar thing happened to two of nate and was taken to a clinic ence of several distinguished possible but it depends on many 1hr 30min 02.2sec our cars on the same corner in with his shoulder in a sling for motor sport-related guests from things,” said Ezpeleta. 8. Husam Salem (JOR)/Nancy Al-Majali (JOR) Mitsubishi Lancer Portugal in 2009!” a check-up. “We came to a loose across the Middle East region. “I don’t think we will con- Evo VIII N 1hr 33min 03.3sec “It was a blind corner and I was sharp left with a big drop and the THE PENINSULA tinue with three (in America),” he added, indicating that the Indianapolis Grand Prix was the one most likely to disappear. Cudlin, Nedobity fastest in qualifying at Losail “The Austin (Texas) track is fantastic and we will continue DOHA: Alex Cudlin clocked with them, we have a five-year the fastest time in the qualifying contract with them and we will session of Qatar International honour that,” he said. Road Racing Championship “Laguna Seca (in California) (QIRRCH) at Losail is special also. It is a particu- International Circuit yesterday. lar grand prix but we think the In the fifth round of the atmosphere and everything at QIRRCH held under floodlights, Laguna is interesting to us.” Cudlin topped with a time of Spain and Italy are the domi- 2.02.712 to take the grid position. nant countries in MotoGP, with Nina Prinz clocked a time of last weekend’s Spanish Grand 2:04:370 to make the second best Prix podium entirely Spanish timing. Mishal Al Naimi, with his with Dani Pedrosa, Marc Marquez Honda bike and his new sponsor, and double world champion Jorge Oreedoo, came third. Lorenzo the top three. Cudlin is leading the champion- Ezpeleta said he would natu- ship with 149 points and Al Naimi rally prefer to see a wider range is second with 116 points. Prinz is of nationalities fighting for the in third place with 96 points. podium but also recalled a time In the Qatar National Road when there were few or no Racing Championship, Czech Spanish riders in the top category. Republic driver Pavel Nedobity “The only thing we can do is will start from the pole position. to try to improve young people Abdulaziz Abdulla will be in the from other nationalities and the second place on the grid. Alex Cudlin negotiates a bend during the free practice session of the fifth round of Qatar International Road Racing Championship (QIRRCH) at Losail only ones doing something is us THE PENINSULA International Circuit yesterday. RIGHT: Qatar’s Abdulaziz Abdulla in action at the Qatar National Road Racing Championship at Losail yesterday. (Dorna),” he added. REUTERS MAY 11, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY

Man City, Al Sadd, Lekhwiya resume Wigan seek solace in FA Cup final rivalry in Emir Cup semis LONDON: At the end of a week dominated by Alex Ferguson’s shock retirement as Manchester Al Rayyan set to clash with Eljaish today at Al Sadd Stadium United manager, Manchester City will seek to drag the spot- light back to the blue half of the DOHA: With plenty at stake who guided the QSL champions city by beating Wigan Athletic Qatar Stars League (QSL) to a 1-0 victory over Umm Salal in today’s FA Cup final. giants Al Sadd and Lekhwiya in the previous stage, said there Victory over Wigan will give will resume their rivalry for the is no room for mistakes and will Lekhwiya City a third major title in three second time in seven days when be looking for his attackers, which coach Eric seasons and salve some of the pain the two sides meet in the Emir consists the likes of Raul, Ibrahim Gerets and Al inflicted by United’s uncontested Cup semi-finals at Al Sadd Khalfan and Younes Mahmoud to Sadd coach romp to this season’s Premier Stadium today. give their best. Hussein League title. Just one week ago, Lekhwiya Al Sadd, who trained on Amute (right). Yaya Toure’s claim that the edged QSL champions Al Sadd Thursday and yesterday, will The two sides Scot’s departure could spark a 3-2 to lift the Heir Apparent Cup be aiming to reach their second will clash power shift in the city. trophy. consecutive final after missing out today in the “It will make a big difference,” After going behind in the on the prestigious trophy after a said Toure at City’s pre-final Emir Cup match, first-half goals from penalty shoot-out defeat against media day. semi-final at Ismael Mohammed, Adel Lami Al Gharafa last season. “He is a great guy, a great and Youssef Al Msakni gave The match will be officiated by 5.15pm. manager, and I hope he stays in Lekhwiya a deserved victory, Italian referee Andrea De Marco, football. He has done something who went behind after a Younes who has taken charge of some of unbelievable for that club.” Mahmoud penalty. the biggest club matches in Italy. The Ivorian added, with a wry Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets, De Marco was also an offi- smile: “For us, I think it is going who saw his side defeat Al cial in the Under-17 European ‘one of the best teams this season’. throughout the season, which without Brazilian striker Adriano, to be very important. It is looking Gharafa 4-2 in the quarter-finals Football Championships in 2007 Aguirre said: “We find ourselves makes it a very difficult meeting but can count on Wagner Ribeiro, like Manchester City will start to on Wednesday, said the newly- in Belgium. in front of one of the best teams for us.” who will be leading the attack. dominate the Premier League. I crowned Heir Apparent Cup Elsewhere in the other semi- in Qatar this season - Eljaish. I The Uruguayan, whose side Speaking of Adriano’s absence, hope.” winners will have to play another final today, Al Rayyan coach personally prefer playing against crushed Al Khor 4-1 in the quar- Ribeiro said: “I have no problems City will spend the close season strong game if they want to beat Diego Aguirre said the match strong teams.” ter-finals, said his team will do to play with any other player on plotting how to sabotage David the QSL champions. against Eljaish will not be easy He added: “Eljaish are a great their best to win but admitted the the pitch, and the team is defi- Moyes’ first season in the Old Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute, and praised their opponents as team and showed good levels preparations for the match was a nitely losing a lot in the absence Trafford dug-out, but midfielder concern. of Adriano. I feel his absence, and James Milner says there will be He said: “The interval between I hope he will return full strength. no time for thoughts of their local the games is too short and when But we have players of very high rivals when his side take to the this happens there is a lot to work quality at the club.” field at Wembley Stadium. on with players receiving medical In preparations for the match. “We concentrate on our busi- Al Rayyan treatment so that they are prop- Eljaish trained at Aspire ahead of ness over here and it’s obviously coach Diego erly equipped.” the semi-final match. big news, but all we are concen- Aguirre and Razvan Lucescu, Eljaish coach THE PENINSULA trating on is the FA Cup final.” Eljaish coach believes with plenty to play for, While today’s game represents Razvan both teams will be on top of their an opportunity for City to salvage Lucescu game, but is confident his players Emir Cup Fixtures a disappointing season, for Wigan (right). The can put on a good performance. it falls at an unfortunate juncture He said: “The team has the in their bid to avoid relegation. sides will Semi-finals confidence and we are in a good Manager Roberto Martinez clash today at period to achieve the good results. Al Sadd vs Lekhwiya, 5.15pm refuses to view the cup final as 7.45pm. We are satisfied with what we a distraction, however, and with have achieved and we will try to Eljaish vs Al Rayyan, 7.45pm Wigan appearing in the tourna- be in focus during the match.” ment finale he has urged his play- Eljaish, who defeated Qatar SC Venue: Al Sadd Stadium ers to seize a rare opportunity to 1-0 in the quarter-finals, will be make history. AFP Rooney’s PSG’s Alex ‘a future on top of Moyes planned to stay bit lost’ over

Moyes in-tray put before United call Ancelotti future Paris Saint- Germain’s LIVERPOOL: David Moyes think anybody thought he would coach Carlo LONDON: David Moyes’ first (pictured) has admitted he retire,” he said. “He is superhu- PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Ancelotti challenge when he takes over was swaying towards staying man. I thought he was a great Brazilian defender Alex admits (left) and the Manchester United hot seat at Everton before Manchester example to everyone in their 70s, he is “a bit lost” and that he and Zlatan from Alex Ferguson will be to United came calling to replace living longer, eating healthily. I his team-mates are desperate decide the future of England Sir Alex Ferguson. “I did not know anything. He to find out where coach Carlo Ibrahimovic striker Wayne Rooney. The Everton boss was out of will be sorely missed. He always Ancelotti’s future lies as uncer- take part in It was Moyes who brought contract in the summer and was had a word for everyone. I know tainty continues to shroud the a training Rooney through at Everton aged always insistent that he would how much he is respected.” Italian’s position at the club. session at just 16, but their relationship discuss his future Moyes insists he “Ancelotti has not said any- the French deteriorated after he was sold to until the end of the will help chairman Bill thing,” the 30-year-old Alex said L1 football United in 2004. season when he had Kenwright find his at a press conference yesterday club PSG’s Having already shocked United evaluated how the successor at Goodison ahead of tomorrow’s Ligue 1 trip training fans in 2010 by handing in a Toffees fared. Park and believes the to Lyon. camp in transfer request which alerted However, foundations are there “He has said to the press that Saint- cross-city rivals Manchester City Ferguson revealed for Everton to con- he will make his decision after we Germain- before he performed a U-turn, on Wednesday that tinue to develop. have won the title. We often find en-Laye, Rooney’s long-term future is he would retire from “I’ve spoken with out via the media.” near Paris, again in doubt. his post at United the chairman and he Pre-season title favourites PSG yesterday. Even as Moyes was Thursday and the club moved has asked me to help. are seven points clear at the top officially named United boss, suc- swiftly to get Moyes, I will help as much as of Ligue 1 with just three games ceeding Ferguson after the lat- who was confirmed on I can. Walter Smith remaining as they prepare to face ter’s 26-year stint in the most Thursday as the first (Moyes’predecessor) Lyon at the Stade de Gerland. demanding post in British club new manager at Old was very good with The capital club need only football, it emerged that Rooney Trafford since 1986. me and recommended match second-placed Marseille’s had asked to leave two weeks ago. But Moyes admitted he had me for the club. Anything that I result at home to Toulouse today Rooney is understood to have been leaning towards continuing can do to help Bill and the club, to be crowned champions for the to say something to us,” admits captain Thiago Silva for a shove told Ferguson last month he his 11-year-long stay at Goodison I will do.” first time since 1994, although a Alex. “I must say I am a bit lost. on the referee. wanted a new challenge before he Park. Moyes insists he is focused defeat for OM in that game would We are all desperate to know Prior to that, PSG scraped a 1-0 knew the Scotsman was about to He said: “I was not planning on ensuring Everton finish the also end the title race. what will happen.” win away to relegation-threatened step down. to leave Everton. My mind was season strong in their remaining However, the constant specu- The former Chelsea centre- Evian but ended that match with United have insisted he is not actually swaying towards stay- two games - beginning with his lation surrounding Ancelotti has back hinted that off-the-field nine men as both David Beckham for sale, notwithstanding media ing at Everton. I have everything last match in charge at Goodison dominated the headlines in recent concerns have impacted upon and Marco Verratti were sent off. claims that offers topping £20m in place for next season and the this Sunday against West Ham. weeks, with the Italian said to be recent performances, includ- Goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu was ($31m) would be considered. chairman knows the route that “We have gone about training in line to take over at Real Madrid ing last Sunday’s 1-1 draw with also involved in a brawl at full Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Paris we want to go.” in the normal way,” said Moyes, if and when Jose Mourinho leaves Valenciennes at the Parc des time and was later handed a two- Saint-Germain and City are all The media were told before who admitted the week had been the Santiago Bernabeu. Princes in a game that was over- match suspension. AFP potential suitors for Rooney, arrival that they would not be “turbulent”. “If we win the title, he will have shadowed by the sending-off of with the Qatari-backed French allowed to ask directly about his He explained: “I thought that club probably best-placed to meet move to Manchester United but this day could happen, (but) I his £250,000 ($385,000) weekly he did reveal how difficult it will did not expect so soon. It was Barca desperate to seal title, says Thiago salary. be to leave Everton. thrown upon me, just take it and Rooney still has two years to “It was very difficult, because I move on. The big thing is that we MADRID: Barcelona midfielder Thiago last season. “We value the league a lot, we have been run on the contract he secured have great respect for the chair- do not let it affect us.” Alcantara has admitted that his side are desper- fighting for it since the start,” he told the club’s after his initial flirt with City. man (Bill Kenwright). He is a There have been questions ate to finally mathematically seal the La Liga title website. The striker’s position at United great guy. Never critical, always raised that Moyes might have this weekend when they travel to face Atletico “Last year we lost it and we want to get it back. has fallen under scrutiny in recent supportive. It was a difficult stepped aside before the final two Madrid. The league is precious and we are longing for it. weeks after he was left on the meeting to tell him I would be games and the Scot is glad he has The Catalans have been on the brink of seal- “When you become used to something it seems bench as United were eliminated leaving. not been asked, even though he ing their fourth championship in five years for a like you don’t value it. From the inside I can say that from the Champions League by “Sometime you have to leave a would have done so if requested. number of weeks, but will have matters in their own it is very difficult to face and win so many games.” Real Madrid. club and I hope that I am leaving “No, it never crossed my mind hands for the first time tomorrow and could even be Atletico ensured they will definitely play The Daily Telegraph and The them in the best way I can.” (not to finish the last two games), crowned champions 24 hours earlier if Real Madrid Champions League football next season but Thiago Times newspapers both focused Moyes also paid tribute to the he said. “I hoped I would get the slip-up away to Espanyol. doesn’t believe that will take an edge off their game on Rooney’s apparent recent rest- man he will be replacing at Old chance to finish off the job. I And Thiago insists that their disappointment at with places in the Copa del Rey final team against lessness, suggesting Rooney faces Trafford. would have no problem stepping being hammered in the semi-finals of the Champions Real next week still to play for. a struggle to win over both the “It’s a strange thing. I don’t aside if I had been asked.” AFP League by Bayern Munich will not dampen Barca’s “The most important game is our one, independ- fans and Moyes. AFP celebrations at regaining the title they lost to Real ent of what Madrid do,” he added. AFP MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Selected Results Men’s 100M 1. Justin Gatlin (US) 9.97 Impressive wins for Gatlin, 2. Michael Rodgers (US) 9.99 3. Nesta Carter (Jamaica) 9.99 Men’s 800M 1. David Lekuta Rudisha (Kenya) 1:43.87 2. Mohammed Aman (Ethiopia) 1:44.21 Rudisha at Diamond League 3. Job Koech Kinyor (Kenya) 1:44.24 Men’s 1,500M 1. Asbel Kiprop (Kenya) 3:31.13 2. Bethwell Birgen (Kenya) 3:31.90 Qatar’s Barshim finishes second in the high jump with season’s best 3. Ayanleh Souleiman (Djibouti) 3:32.59 Men’s 3,000M BY RIZWAN REHMAT looking at my age. I am just try- 1. Hagos Gebrhiwet (Ethiopia) 7:30.36 ing to train well,” the American 2. Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa (Kenya) 7:32.01 DOHA: Former Olympic cham- pointed out. 3. Yenew Alamirew (Ethiopia) 7:32.64 pion Justin Gatlin of the US Also yesterday at Qatar Men’s 400M Hurdles yesterday clocked a season-best Sports Club Stadium, Rudisha, time of 9.97 seconds to win the the London Olympic Games gold 1. Michael Tinsley (US) 48.92 100m final while world record medallist, won the 800m race by 2. Bershawn Jackson (US) 49.12 holder David Rudisha of Kenya outpacing chief rival Mohammed 3. Cornel Fredericks (South Africa) 49.35 smoked the competition in the Aman. Men’s High Jump 800m race at the Diamond Rudisha, who created the world League opener. record in London last year, sealed 1. Bohdan Bondarenko (Ukraine) 2.33 Also yesterday, Qatar’s Mutaz the deal on a barmy night with a 2. Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) 2.30 Essa Barshim delighted the home time of 1:43.87, the best time by 3. Aleksandr Shustov (Russia) 2.27 fans by finishing second in the any athlete this year. Men’s Pole Vault high jump behind winner Bohdan Aman, the 19-year-old 1. Konstadinos Filippidis (Greece) 5.82 Bondarenko of Ukraine. Russia’s Ethiopian, clocked a time of Aleksander Shustov finished in 1:44.21 to grab the silver. 2. Malte Mohr (Germany) 5.82 third place. Job Kinyor of Kenya was third 3. Raphael Holzdeppe (Germany) 5.70 Gatlin, the London Games with a time of 1:44.24. Men’s Triple Jump bronze medallist, won the fea- After shadowing Aman for the 1. Christian Taylor (US) 17.25 ture race of the evening ahead of first 400m, Rudisha broke free of 2. Benjamin Compaore (France) 17.06 compatriot Michael Rodgers, who the lot in the last 200m, racing to finished with an impressive 9.99 the finish line calmly. 3. Aleksey Fedorov (Russia) 16.85 seconds. Jamaica’s Nesta Carter “It was excellent running,” Men’s Shot Put also ended with 9.99 to seal the Rudisha said after his win. FROM LEFT: Nesta Carter of Jamaica, Justin Gatlin of USA and compatriot Michael Radgers during the Men’s 1. Ryan Whiting (US) 22.28 third season-best time in the race. “I am happy with the way I 100m race at the IAAF Diamond League 2013 Doha Meeting at Qatar Sports Club Stadium yesterday. 2. German Lauro (Argentina) 21.26 AR “I am pleased with my win. I timed my run. I knew I could keep 3. Reese Hoffa (US) 21.01 have always done well here,” a back at the first half and I did delighted Gatlin said. “What I am that,” the Kenyan said. Aman said: “I did not want to In the 400m hurdles, athletes win. Kiprop, 23, finished ahead Women’s 200M looking at this season is to run “This sets me up nicely for the stay behind Rudisha. I tried to Michael Tinsley and Bershawn of compatriot Bethwell Birgen 1. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jamaica) 22.48 some quality races ahead of the rest of the season. I think I can pass him but I could not. The race Jackson made it an American (3:31.90) and Djibouti’s Ayanleh 2. Sherone Simpson (Jamaica) 22.73 world championships.” improve my time as the season was not that fast but it is still the one-two with a powerful run. Souleiman (3:32.59). 3. Myriam Soumare (France) 22.81 “I have not decided how many goes on,” he added. “I liked run- start of the season. It was my first Tinsely, who celebrated his 29th “It was a good race and I have Women’s 400M races I would do this season,” ning here in Doha. The crowd was race. Next stop for me will the birthday last month, notched the the world lead at the moment and the 31-year-old added. “I am not just fantastic.” Eugene Diamond League.” gold with a time of 48.92 seconds. that feels fine,” Kiprop said. “I 1. Amantle Montsho (Botswana) 49.88 Jackson clocked a time of 49.12 liked the stadium a lot ... fantas- 2. Allyson Felix (US) 50.19 seconds to pick up the silver while tic crowd, cheering and shouting. 3. Christine Ohuruogu (Britain) 50.53 South Africa’s Cornel Fredericks I want to say thank you to the Women’s 1,500M (49.35 seconds) won the bronze fans,” he added. 1. Abeba Aregawi (Sweden) 3:56.60 medal. In the intense high jump final, “I feel confident. I made a few Bondrarenko touched a height of 2. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon (Kenya) 3:56.98 mistakes as the race wasn’t that 2.33m on his seventh and final 3. Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) 3:57.54 David Rudisha of fast,” Tinsley said. attempt for victory. Women’s 100M Hurdles Kenya leads the “I have New York next for the Qatar’s Barshim - the bronze 1. Dawn Harper-Nelson (US) 12.60 pack during the Diamond League. I want to make medallist at the London Games 2. Kellie Wells (US) 12.73 Men’s 800M race it to the US Team first before I last year - managed a height of yesterday. Rudisha start thinking about the Moscow 2.30m, his season’s best. 3. Queen Harrison (US) 12.74 won the race. World Championships,” he added. Third-placed Shustov also Women’s 3,000M Steeplechase PICTURES BY: Jackson said: “I suffered an impressed with his jump of 2.27m. 1. Lydiah Chepkurui (Kenya) 9:13.75 SHAIVAL DALAL/ injury recently so I am happy with In the men’s shot put, American 2. Sofia Assefa (Ethiopia) 9:14.61 REUTERS my performance today. Now I am Ryan Whiting picked up the gold going back for more training and with a meet record and world 3. Hiwot Ayalew (Ethiopia) 9:17.60 hopefully I will be ready for the leading distance. Women’s Long Jump summer competitions.” The second leg of the Diamond 1. Brittney Reese (US) 7.25 In the 1500m final, Kenya’s League will be held in Shanghai 2. Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) 7.14 Asbel Kiprop produced the world next week. 3. Janay DeLoach (US) 7.08 leading time of 3:31.13 to seal the THE PENINSULA Harper-Nelson, Fraser-Pryce dazzle; Montsho stuns Felix

DOHA: American sprinter Dawn Harper-Nelson yesterday produced a world leading time to win the Diamond League season’s first 100m hurdles race while Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce chalked up an impressive run to seal victory in Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar reacts after a successful jump in the the 200m final. high jump event, yesterday. The Qatari finished second. BOTTOM: Running with her trademark Botswana’s Amantle Montsho (centre) competes in the women’s 400m. finesse, Harper-Nelson led an Montsho won the race. American sweep in the 100m hurdles as the 28-year-old posted a world leading time of 12.60 seconds. Kellie Wells finished in second spot with a time of 12.73 seconds while Queen Harrison ended in third spot with 12.74 seconds. In another world leading per- formance, Botswana’s Amantle Montsho surprised star sprinter Allyson Felix of the US to win the 400m final. Also yesterday, Brittney Reese of the US stuttered on her way to winning the long jump final with Dawn Harper-Nelson of the US celebrates after winning the Women’s 100m Hurdles race at the IAAF Diamond a world leading distance of 7.25m. League meeting. RIGHT: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica waves to the fans after winning the 200m race. Sprinter Harper-Nelson was delighted with her win in the 100m hurdles. in Beijing. I love Doha and I like me today was to start with a win said: “I am satisfied with my per- I can run below 49 seconds and I picked up the silver (7.14m) while “I am so excited with my race running here.” in the Diamond League series and formance today. I want to stay aim to retain my world champion- American Janay Deloach Soukup today,” Harper-Nelson said. Earlier, Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce not run faster than my previous healthy and move on for a good ships title in Moscow.” bagged the bronze (7.08m). “I have started the season produced an error-free run to win season best,” Fraser-Pryce said. season.” Just a couple of jumps were suf- Reese later said there was really well. We have worked with the 200m ahead of compatriot “The reason is that the trip from In the 400m final, Montsho ficient for record holder Reese to room for improvement. my coach on my weakest points, Sherone Simpson. Jamaica made me feel tired but I clocked a time of 49.88 seconds pick up the gold in the long jump “I will try to beat the US record especially my beginning of the Second-placed Simpson clocked really enjoyed the atmosphere,” to finish ahead of Felix (50.19 event with a world leading score. this season and today’s 7.25 makes race,” she added after her race a time of 22.73 seconds while she added. seconds). The 26-year-old messed up me feel pretty confident,” Reese in Doha. France’s Myriam Soumare was “It reminded me of the cheering In third place was Britain’s her first two attempts but was said. Wells, who managed a season- third with a time of 22.81 seconds. spectators in Jamaica,” Fraser- Christine Ohuruogu (season best quick to gather herself when she She added: “I know I am right best time, said: “It is getting bet- Fraser-Pryce clocked a time of Pryce said. 50.53 seconds). managed the winning distance there. I had some problems with ter race-to-race. I am happy with 22.48 seconds but the Jamaican “The people of Qatar made me Montsho said: “The Doha of 7.25m on her third attempt my run today because of the wind that and with my performance but said winning was a better option feel very comfortable and I would Diamond League is such a fantas- which also proved to be a new and that is why I fouled in my not with the second place but it is than posting a record time. like to thank them,” she added. tic meeting. The fans helped me meet record. first two attempts.” okay now. My next competition is “The most important thing for Simpson, who finished second, run that fast. This season I trust Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria THE PENINSULA MAY 11, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Sebastian Coe (left), Vice-President of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and a former middle-distance runner watches the Doha Diamond League action at Qatar SC Stadium yesterday. Coe, winner of four Olympic medals also served as Chairman of the Organising Committee of 2012 Lodon Olympic Games. Also seen are Dahlan Al Hamad (centre), President of the Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF) and IAAF Vice-President, and Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (right), Secretary General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC). The first leg of the 14-stop 2013 Diamond League kicked off in Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Qatar’s Mohamed Al Garni (left) in action in the men’s 1,500m event. Asbel Kiprop of Kenya won the race. PICTURES BY SHAIVAL DALAL AND SHAJAHAN Diamond League series ‘worthy of direct investment’: IAAF Chief Diack QAF President confirms Qatar will bid for the 2019 IAAF World Championships

DOHA: IAAF chief Lamine to find a new partner for the cir- Diamond League, he said, was ‘far “Definitely,” said Al Hamad, Diack (pictured left) has called cuit, it is not a question of life or greater than anything dreamt’ by who is also an IAAF Vice- for calm following Samsung’s death either as the financial input the previous Golden League. President. “We will try in 2019 decision to pull out as the official of a title sponsor was never cru- “In 2012, Diamond League was or beyond. As a federation, we sponsor of the Diamond League cial to the viability of the series,” broadcast by 98 TV stations and have the desire to be hosts of the series, saying the popular track he said. was watched by 223 million people World Championships. Of course and field championship would “To attract a title sponsor in in 132 countries,” Diack added in we have to gain the approval from be backed by the world govern- the first year was certainly an the press conference. the head of state, but I can assure ing body. enormous boost for our young The President added that you that, yes, we have the desire Diack was responding to ques- project, and the extension of that Moscow, hosts of this summer’s to go for it.” tions over Samsung’s decision contract for a third year in 2012 IAAF World Championships, He said that the Doha 2013 to end their sponsorship after was a further endorsement,” the would ‘confirm the success’ of the meeting involved 29 Olympic backing the first three years of President said. London 2012 Olympics. medallists, and 18 world medal- the event. “Our vision from the beginning Dahlan Al Hamad (pictured lists, adding that the World 100m “Although we welcome having was that we would create a new right), President of the Qatar champion Yohan Blake had been the extra funds from a title spon- exciting product for the top tier Athletics Federation (QAF) and due to compete in the 100m but sor, the IAAF considers the series of the sport’s invitational circuit chairman of IDL Doha 2013, had to withdraw because of an as a valuable property which is and that has been achieved, and confirmed that there was a clear injury. worthy of our direct invest- we are confident that in the IAAF desire to bid for the IAAF World “Despite not being able to come ment,” Diack said during a press Diamond League we have a highly Championships of 2019, having to Doha this year, Yohan hopes he conference. attractive asset.” missed out on the 2017 version to will make it next year,” Al Hamad “So, while we are working hard Worldwide TV audience for London. said. THE PENINSULA

TOP: Sergey Bubka (left), President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and a former champion pole vaulter, and QOC Secretary General Brittney Reese of the US competes in long jump. Sheikh Saoud are seen talking. RIGHT: Action from the women’s 3,000m Reese won the event. steeplechase. Lydiah Chepkurui of Kenya won the race.

Justin Gatlin of the US (right) celebrates with fans after winning the men’s 100m race. RIGHT: Abeba Aregawi of Sweden reacts after winning the 1,500m race. MAY 11, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Sailing death Nadal, Serena highlights Volvo Ocean Race safety

LONDON: The death of battle through America’s Cup sailor Andrew Simpson has brought safety concerns about modern racing vessels sharply into focus but Sharapova cruises into semi-finals Volvo Ocean Race organisers say they have already moved to MADRID: Rafael Nadal over- progressed into the last four shorten boats to minimise risks came a stiff test from compa- Madrid Open with wins over Anabel Medina in their event. triot David Ferrer to reach the MADRID: Results from the seventh day of Garrigues and Kaia Kanepi British Olympic gold medallist Madrid Masters semi-finals yes- the ATP Madrid Masters and WTA Madrid respectively. Simpson’s death on Thursday, terday while Serena Williams Open yesterday (x denotes seeding): However, current number when he became trapped under and Maria Sharapova stayed Men one Williams was given a huge his capsized 72-foot catama- on course for a mouth-watering Quarter-finals scare by 30-year-old wildcard ran while practising on board title showdown. Rafael Nadal (ESP x5) bt David Ferrer (ESP Garrigues before battling through Sweden’s entry for the America’s World number five Nadal pulled x4) 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-0 6-3, 0-6, 7-5. The American hadn’t Cup in San Francisco Bay, off a roller-coaster 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), Women dropped a set all tournament until highlighted the dangers of the 6-0 win over world number four the Spaniard romped through the Formula One-style super yachts. Quarter-finals Ferrer. second set and Williams admit- Designs have become bigger, Despite being seeded above Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Anabel Medina ted she had to fight to up her lighter and less forgiving in the Nadal, due to the seven-time Garrigues (ESP) 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 intensity levels heading into the America’s Cup series where boats French Open winner’s seven- Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Kaia Kanepi decider. never stray far from the shore, month injury lay-off, Ferrer was (EST) 6-2, 6-4 In an uncharacteristically wild but the safety demands are differ- still left nursing a record of just Sara Errani (ITA x7) bt Ekaterina Makarova performance, Williams racked ent in the round-the-world chal- four wins in their 22 meetings. (RUS) 6-4, 6-3 up nearly 50 unforced errors lenges such as the Volvo Ocean “If you don’t take your chances Ana Ivanovic (SRB x16) bt Angelique Kerber throughout the nearly two and a Race. against Rafa, you pay a dearly. (GER x6) 6-3, 6-1 quarter hours of play, and she is “Safety, the welfare of the crew Against Rafa, Novak, Roger determined to start afresh when and the integrity of the boat are or Murray there’s no room for in the second. However, Nadal she faces Sara Errani in the semi- foremost in our thinking,” Volvo error,” admitted Ferrer. swiftly broke back to level the finals today. Race Director Jack Lloyd told However, the fourth seed didn’t set and then took it on the tie- There were far fewer problems Reuters yesterday. seem overawed early on as after break 7/3. for Sharapova as she continued “We realised in the last Volvo both players exchanged early And there was no stopping her run of not losing a set so far Ocean Race that there was a breaks, Ferrer closed out the the 11-time Grand Slam winner in the Spanish capital with a com- tendency for teams to focus on opening set when a fine cross- thereafter as he stormed through fortable 6-2, 6-4 win over world reducing the weight of their boats court forehand set up an easy the third 6-0 to set up a semi-final number 51 Kanepi. too much and we wanted more of volleyed winner in the 10th game. meeting with Federer’s conqueror Ivanovic sealed her place in a focus on reliability. Ferrer then looked on course Kei Nishikori or Pablo Andujar. the last four with a 6-3, 6-1 win “We always remember that to cause another upset after the In the women’s event, Williams over sixth seed Angelique Kerber, Real Madrid’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo (right) and his girl- it’s a harsh environment on the surprise defeats of the world’s top and Sharapova stayed on course whilst seventh seed Errani ended friend, Russian model Irina Shayk, attend the Madrid Open quarter final water. The tragic news about two, Novak Djokovic and Roger for a battle for the world number Ekaterina Makarova’s fine tour- match between Spanish player Rafael Nadal and his compatriot David Andrew Simpson is a sobering Federer, when he moved 4-2 up one slot in the final as they nament, 6-4, 6-3. AFP Ferrer at the Caja Magica tennis centre in Madrid, central Spain, yesterday. reminder of that. Our thoughts are with his family.” The 36-year-old Simpson’s death was believed to be the first in the America’s Cup since the Kirsten to early 1990s when a crew mem- Four-run win for ber from a Spanish team died in a training accident off the coast quit as South of Majorca in the Mediterranean. Five people have lost their lives Royal Challengers at sea during the Volvo Ocean Africa coach Race’s 40-year history, most NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli century. After losing destruc- recently in 2006 when Dutchman played a captain’s knock to tive opener Chris Gayle (4) and JOHANNESBURG: Gary Hans Horrevoets was swept over- lead the Royal Challengers Cheteshwar Pujara (17) by the Kirsten will not renew his con- board. REUTERS Bangalore to a four-run victory fifth over, Australia’s Moises tract as South Africa coach over the Delhi Daredevils in the Henriques (26) and Kohli struck when it expires at the end of Indian Premier League (IPL) an important 57-run partnership July, the national cricket body Unheralded match at the Ferozeshah Kotla to stabilise Bangalore’s innings. said yesterday. here yesterday. AB de Villiers and Kohli, Kirsten, who guided hosts India Kohli struck a 58-ball 99 to take changed the course of the match to the 2011 ICC World Cup title, Castro seizes the visitors to a challenging 183/4 by hammering 32 off 17 balls signed a two-year contract with after being put into bat against including two fours and two sixes. the Proteas the same year, and which Daredevils displayed a spir- In reply, the displayed a deter- had the option of a two-year Players lead ited performance to end at 179/7 mined performance, falling just renewal. in 20 overs. four runs short in the end. With However, the Cape Town-born PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Kohli’s magnificent innings this loss, Delhi recorded their coach told Cricket South Africa Florida: In a star-studded field, Australian cyclist Adam Hansen of the Lotto-Belisol team celebrates as included 10 boundaries and four third consecutive defeat and 10th (CSA) officials he would quit his unheralded Roberto Castro he crosses the finish line to win the seventh stage of the 96th Giro d’Italia huge sixes as he hammered the of the tournament. post at the end of July having matched the course record with cycling race from Marina di San Salvo to Pescara, Italy, yesterday. Daredevils bowlers all around the Jaydev Unadkat was the pick established the Proteas as the a nine-under par 63 yesterday ground. The 24-year-old got run- of the bowlers giving away only top-ranked cricket Test nation. to seize the first-round lead at out on the last ball of the innings 25 runs and taking five wickets “Gary has a young family and it the Players Championship. looking for his first Twenty20 from his four overs. IANS is understandable that he wishes Castro, making his debut in the Hansen wins Giro to spend more time at home,” US PGA Tour’s $9.5m flagship CSA president and board chair- event, equalled the record set by Scoreboard man Chris Nenzani said in a Fred Couples in 1992 and matched RAJASTHAN ROYALS BANGALORE U B T Chand c V Kumar b Unadkat ...... 41 statement. by Australian Greg Norman in seventh stage C A Pujara b Kaul ...... 17 D A Warner b Henriques ...... 4 “It is obvious to all of us -- 1994. C H Gayle b Pathan ...... 4 B J Rohrer b V Kumar ...... 32 whether we have been close to the His effort gave him a three- PESCARA, Italy: Australian gap back to a group led by Italian V Kohli (run out-Rohrer/Jadhav) ...... 99 K M Jadhav c V Kumar b Unadkat ...... 8 Proteas or simply fans watching shot lead over world number two cyclist Adam Hansen, riding for Enrico Battaglin with another M C Henriques c&b Nadeem...... 26 I K Pathan (not out) ...... 23 from the stands -- the standard of Rory McIlroy and American Zach the Lotto team, won the sev- home hope, Danilo Di Luca, in A B de Villiers (not out)...... 32 M Morkel b Unadkat ...... 19 excellence he has brought to our Johnson, who shared second place enth stage of the Tour of Italy third. Extras (W-4, NB-1) ...... 5 U T Yadav (not out) ...... 4 national team.” on six-under 66. yesterday, with Spain’s Benat Meanwhile, the International Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 183 Extras (LB-6, W-4, NB-1) ...... 11 Kirsten thanked CSA for giving Northern Ireland’s McIlroy, Intxausti claiming the overall Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed Did not bat: S S Tiwary, J Syed Mohammad, R Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 179 him the responsibility of growing who failed to make the cut in leader’s pink jersey. yesterday they will appeal against Vinay Kumar, R Rampaul, M Kartik, J D Unadkat. Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-49, 3-60, 4-118, the team and for allowing him the three prior appearances in the The 177 kilometre run from the decision by a Spanish court to Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-32, 3-89, 4-183. 5-129, 6-131, 7-175. flexibility to combine his coaching tournament at TPC Sawgrass, Marina di San Salvo to Pescara refuse access to more than 200 Bowling: M Morkel 4-0-35-0 (1nb); I K Pathan Bowling: R Rampaul 4-0-35-0 (1nb, 1w); M C role with his family life. said he benefitted from perfect proved troublesome however for sachets of blood that were seized 4-0-24-1 (1w); S Kaul 4-0-36-1; U T Yadav Henriques 2-0-21-1; J D Unadkat 4-0-25-5 “There have been many high- scoring conditions. Giro favourite Bradley Wiggins, in the Operation Puerto case 4-0-65-0 (1w); S Nadeem 4-0-23-1 (1w). (1w); R Vinay Kumar 4-0-43-1 (1w); M Kartik lights over the past two years “It was benign out there,” he who trailed in 55th, two-and-a- against disgraced Dr Eufemiano DELHI DAREDEVILS 4-0-21-0; J Syed Mohammad 1-0-20-0 (1w); which have been well documented said. half minutes behind Hansen, after Fuentes. D P M D Jayawardene b Unadkat ...... 19 C H Gayle 1-0-8-0. and I have every confidence that World number one Tiger a fall. Team Sky’s Tour de France “The UCI can confirm that it V Sehwag c Pujara b Unadkat ...... 18 Player-of-the-Match: JD Unadkat (RCB) the Proteas will continue to go Woods, who won the title in 2001, champion hit the deck late on will appeal the decision of the from strength to strength.” bogeyed his final hole to fall into with a number of other competi- Madrid court of 29 April not to Kirsten will lead South Africa a group of players sharing fourth tors on the wet slippy roads, cost- release to the UCI and other anti- at the ICC Champions Trophy place on five-under 67. AFP ing him valuable time on his main doping organisations the more during June in England and rivals. than 200 bags of blood and other Wales, where the AB de Villiers- Baseball Results In the overall standings, evidence gathered in police raids skippered side hope to ditch the Cleveland 9 Oakland 2 Intxausti now leads by five sec- in 2006, which were presented long-held tag of ‘chokers’ after NY Yankees 3 Colorado 1 onds from Vincenzo Nibali, who in the trial of Spanish doctor numerous tournament flops. like Wiggins also fell, with last Eufemiano Fuentes,” read a state- “It will be wonderful if Gary Washington 5 Detroit 4 year’s Giro winner, Canadian ment published by the UCI. can complete his tenure by bring- Kansas City 6 Baltimore 2 Ryder Hesjedal, eight seconds In appealing, cycling’s world ing home the Champions Trophy Minnesota 5 Boston 3 back in third. Today’s eighth stage governing body are following in next month,” said Nenzani of NY Mets 3 Pittsburgh 2 is a 54.8km time trial between the footsteps of the Spanish anti- the one-day international event Tampa Bay 5 Toronto 4 Gabbice Mare and Saltara, with doping agency (AEA), who had staged every four years between LA Angels 6 Houston 5 Wiggins, 1:32 behind Intxausti in already announced their inten- World Cup tournaments. Arizona 2 Philadelphia 1 23rd overall, fancied to prevail to tion to appeal against judge Julia South Africa lost only two boost his chances of victory. Patricia Santamaria’s decision to of 19 Tests under Kirsten, who Atlanta 6 San Francisco 3 Hansen took command of the ring fence the evidence. led them to series victories stage after forming part of a five- “I have to ask the judge to give against Sri Lanka, New Zealand, NHL Results strong breakaway group that hit me whatever documentary or nat- England, arch-rivals Australia, Ottawa 6 Montreal 1 the front early on in the day’s run. ural evidence there is, along with and Pakistan. (Ottawa win the best-of-seven series by 4-1) The Aussie and Emanuele Sella the blood bags, so that the proven The 45-year-old former Test New York 0 Pittsburg 4 forged clear of the frontrunners facts that she herself considers as opening batsman was less suc- (Pittsburgh lead the best-of-seven series near the Chieti climb 35km from administrative infractions can be cessful with the limited-over by 3-2) the finish, with Hansen dropping judged by the competent authori- Jaydev Unadkat of Royal Challengers Bangalore celebrates after taking teams, winning 13 of 24 one-day the Italian to come home alone. ties,” said the then-head of the a Delhi Daredevils’ wicket in the IPL match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground, internationals and nine of 18 Minnesota 1 Chicago 5 He took the stage with a 1:07 AEA, Ana Munoz. AGENCIES in New Delhi yesterday. Twenty20 matches. 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THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW This combination of six photos shows the moon crossing in front of the sun (clockwise from top left) as seen from the Sydney Observatory during an annular eclipse, yesterday. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER

MUSCAT 37/29 Clear 39/31 Clear MAKKAH 42/29 Clear 41/29 Fair KUWAIT 37/28 Clear 36/28 Clear Sky-gazers witness ‘ring of fire’ eclipse BAHRAIN 35/28 Partly cloudy 35/27 Partly cloudy SANAA 27/15 Chance of rain 28/16 Partly cloudy SYDNEY: Sky-gazers were actually amazed at how beauti- viewed live by millions around the piggy-in-the-middle,” said the RIYADH 38/25 Clear 38/24 Clear treated to an annular solar eclipse ful it was,” he said. “It (the Sun) world, drew thousands of eclipse observatory’s Geoffrey Wyatt. DUBAI 33/28 Partly cloudy 37/29 Fair in remote areas of Australia yes- came up in a complete golden tourists to Queensland. While it “The Moon blocked part of the terday, with the Moon crossing in ring. Just phenomenal.” took place, the early chatter of Sun... and the tiny little bite got BAGHDAD 41/22 Clear 34/21 Clear front of the Sun to leave a “ring From his position about 150km birds and animals was replaced by bigger and bigger and bigger as of fire” around its silhouette. south of the town of Newman, in an eerie silence as the Moon over- the Moon went between us.” TODAY TOMORROW THE WORLD The eclipse, which occurs when Western Australia’s Pilbara region, took the Sun, casting a shadow that In Sydney, at its maximum the HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER the Moon passes between the Sims described the moment he saw plunged the land into darkness, Moon covered some 39 percent of Earth and the Sun but is too close the Moon travel in front of the Sun, sending temperatures dropping. the Sun, but those in the north ATHENS 30/19 Partly cloudy 31/19 Clear to the Earth to completely cover as if it was dancing. “It is dancing A partial eclipse was visible of the country saw it obscure the Sun, was seen in full across because the Moon pivots around across much of Australia yes- much more, leaving the Moon WASHINGTON 25/13 T-storms 19/07 Partly cloudy northern Australia, while Sydney the edge of the Sun,” he said. terday, with those at the Sydney surrounded by the thin band of SYDNEY 22/13 Chance of rain 23/12 Partly cloudy saw a partial eclipse. In November, sky-gazers Observatory watching the Moon bright sunlight. “All eclipse chas- LONDON 15/09 Chance of rain 17/11 Mostly cloudy “It was perfect,” said Geoff in Australia witnessed one of take a “bite” out of the Sun. ers appreciate that it’s always a PARIS 15/10 Chance of rain 15/11 Mostly cloudy Sims, who photographed the event nature’s greatest phenomena — a “What we were able to see lottery wherever you go,” Wyatt ISTANBUL 18/16 Mostly cloudy 23/17 Partly cloudy from a remote spot in Western total solar eclipse, when the Moon was a partial alignment, so at said. “The next total solar eclipse MANILA 34/26 T-storms 35/26 Showers/clear Australia. “It was my first time completely covers the Sun and a 7:50am this morning the moon that we get to see in Sydney is in DHAKA 31/26 T-storms 32/26 Chance of storm I had seen an annular eclipse. I faint halo or ‘corona’ appears. slid partially between us and July 2028, so that’s a long way off.” DELHI 39/27 Partly cloudy 38/27 Chance of storm thought it was spectacular. I was The rare spectacle, which was the Sun, kind of like a game of AFP ISLAMABAD 34/23 Partly cloudy 32/21 Partly cloudy Rapper Psy wows Harvard with Video of bear attacking a global appeal, dance moves monkey in zoo CAMBRIDGE: South Korean as a student in Boston in the the Ivy League school that music rapper Psy said he “partied hard” mid-1990s. But it was also a trumps national divides. “Music when his dance number drew its seminar about the star’s surprise makes everyone united,” he said. sparks outrage first 10 million views on YouTube worldwide cultural appeal and “Something beyond language.” At last summer. Little did he know the economic influence of East some performances, he said, “I’m SHANGHAI: A viral video of a Gangnam Style would become the Asian culture. so proud. The crowd doesn’t know bear attacking a monkey after most-viewed video in the online Harvard professor Alexander what the lyrics are about, but they the two fell off their bicycles at service’s history, with a global Zahlten introduced Psy, whose look so happy!” a Chinese zoo has sparked out- following and nearly 1.6 billion real name is Park Jae-sang, as a Later he said the word for rage among animal rights activ- views as of Thursday. global figure who has shown the “style” conveyed similar mean- ists, but an official yesterday “I partied hard to celebrate ability of Korean music stars, ings in all languages, and that he defended the show. 10 million views!” Psy told video-game programmers and wrote the lyrics for Gentleman A minute-and-a-half long about 1,000 people at Harvard other entertainment figures to hoping they would find a similar video surfaced this week show- University on Thursday evening, find overseas popularity through worldwide resonance. “Really , it ing the bear biting and clawing as he recalled his reaction when Internet channels. was linguistics,” he said. the monkey after a mock race at The 34m long and 23m high hot-air balloon called The Skywhale during the song took off, making him a “He’s a global citizen, and in Psy also poked fun at his own the Shanghai Wild Animal Park. a test flight near Mt Arapiles in the southern Australian state of Victoria, cultural phenomenon and lead- turn influences people all over the less-than-stellar academic record. Keepers then pull and beat the yesterday. ing to meetings with Los Angeles world,” Zahlten said. “He’s deeply He said his nickname in college bear with wooden sticks, prompt- record producers. “This is so connected to digital culture.” was “WWF” for his grades, “with- ing it to eventually release the unrealistic!” he recalled thinking. After Gangnam Style set draw, withdraw, fail”. He said he monkey. “The performance is Gigantic balloon creature Formally dressed and speak- records, the video for Psy’s fol- kept thinking big and poked fun pure mistreatment,” Zhang Dan, ing in sometimes-halting low-up song Gentleman received at his robust midsection. co-founder of the China Animal English, Psy spoke for more than more than 20 million hits in the “I dreamed someday, some Protection Media Saloon, was splits opinion in Australia an hour and occasionally lapsed first 24 hours after its release last Korean artist would be well- quoted as saying by the China into signature dance moves such month, easily beating the previ- known in the US,” he said. “I Daily newspaper yesterday. SYDNEY: A gigantic whale- and weighs half a tonne. The bal- as grasping the reins of an imag- ous record of 8 million views for dreamed about it but didn’t dream “It goes totally against the like balloon with pendu- loon, which was made in Bristol inary trotting horse. Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend in the that was me, because as you see nature of the animal. But they lous udder-like appendages, in the United Kingdom and cost Psy’s talk was partly a home- first 24 hours. I have a very special body type.” cannot speak for themselves about designed to mark the centenary Aus$172,000 ($173,000) has sparked coming as he recalled his days Psy, 35, told the audience at REUTERS their fear, pain, or unwillingness.” of Australia’s capital Canberra, outpourings on social media, with A park official confirmed the has divided opinion, with some some describing it as a waste of incident, which happened on branding it an ugly waste of money while others enjoyed the Sunday, but defended the show, money and others saying it is an sense of fun. saying the monkey was not injured inspiration. On the Daily Telegraph web- and both animals had resumed Skywhale, believed to be the first site, Tim Blair said it was the performing the same act. “The hot-air balloon commissioned to perfect symbol for the city monkey and bear involved have celebrate a city’s 100th birthday, which is home to the national been partners for more than five has the flowing form of a giant parliament — “a bloated, gase- years and this kind of accident has pink-and-black-hued fish. But its ous, multi-breasted monster never happened before,” she said. face could be that of a parrot, or feeding those who dwell in its “The performance was designed a turtle, and the renowned artist poisonous shadow while leech- according to the animals’ natural who designed it, Patricia Piccinini, ing off the rest of us”. “I’ve seen habits,” she added. “Monkeys are refuses to say just what it is. more attractive road kill than good at climbing and imitating, Piccinini, whose work has been the grotesque #skywhale,” was while bears have good stamina, shown at the Venice Biennale and once response on Twitter. and this is an example of the zoo’s London’s Victoria and Albert The Skywhale will be officially initiative to keep them healthy Museum and who recently exhib- unveiled outside the National through exercise.” ited works in the US, Turkey and Gallery of Australia today as part Recent images of tigers being London, said Skywhale was a of an international sculpture sym- mistreated at parks in China’s piece about “wonder and nature”. posium, before making its first northwestern province of Jilin “It’s meant to inspire a sense of flight over Canberra on Monday. and the eastern province of wonder in ‘what is it?’” she told The balloon, which has been Zhejiang have also caused anger. the ABC of the towering sculp- designed to carry a pilot plus two China has no laws specifically ture which used more than 3.5km passengers to an altitude of 3,000 against cruelty to animals and zoo of fabric and took 16 people some feet, will be seen at the Museum visitors and staff members are seven months to make. of Old and New Art in Hobart South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, better known by his stage name Psy, laughs at a question from an audience sometimes able to abuse captive At 34 metres long and 23 metres and the Australian Centre for member during a moderated session at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. creatures without sanction. high, the Skywhale is at least twice Contemporary Art in Melbourne AFP as big as a standard hot-air balloon later this year. 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