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Qatar takes stake in Bharti Airtel NEW DELHI/DUBAI: Qatar has bought a five percent stake in Indian telecoms firm Bharti Airtel Ltd for $1.26bn, the firm said yesterday. The deal is being channelled through Qatar Foundation Endowment and a source close to QFE said it would be an active investor in Bharti Airtel, secur- ing a board seat at the world’s fourth-big- gest mobile phone company by customers. “QFE is in for the long-term,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. As part of the deal Bharti will issue 199.9 million new shares at Rs 340 each, a 7.3 per- cent premium to the stock’s Thursday closing price, the company said yesterday. See also page 14

Three new Sars-like cases in Saudi Arabia GENEVA: Three new cases of a new SARS-like virus have been detected in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organisation reported yesterday. “The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia has informed WHO of an additional three laboratory confirmed cases of infection with the novel coronavirus (nCoV),” the UN body said in a statement. “They are currently in critical condition,” it added. The organisation said the latest report brought to 27 the global total of labo- ‘GIFTED’ ratory confirmed cases, including 16 deaths. Outlook.com takes over from Hotmail SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft’s Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds JOURNALISTS of millions of people around the world, was phased out yesterday, as the US tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com. “We’re excited to announce that we’ve com- pleted upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com,” Microsoft’s Dick Craddock THE ISSUE said in a blog post late on Thursday. “Coupled with the growing organic excite- ment for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts.” The transition began in February, Newspapers in Qatar are young publish and end their day’s work with ease. journalists and their newspapers on releases when Microsoft began a test of moving users Press releases have become an indispensable and event coverage is nothing new. They have to the new Outlook.com services. compared with other countries in part of Qatar’s print media culture and are for long been thriving by lavishing praise on the region or the Arab world as a distributed wholesale: independently, as also officials and businessmen. “Perhaps, no one whole, but not so young that they at press briefings, product launches, lectures has ever thought about the need to change and conferences. the system.” Prosecutor in Bhutto, cannot attempt bold and critical Ironically, not only readers but the very Critics say expatriate journalists cannot be stories. public relations agencies that churn out press expected to bring about the desired changes Mumbai cases killed handouts by the hundreds every week to get in the system, for being foreigners they can- ut, sadly, a culture of gifts, cash hand- publicity in the local newspapers for their cli- not be critical and must leave at some point ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main state outs and free overseas trips has taken ents, privately blame the journalists for their in their career. prosecutor in the 2007 murder of former root, which is spoiling journalists, and deteriorating professional standards and say They also run the risk of inviting the wrath prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the Bthe newspapers seem to be turning some of them are lazy and incompetent. of their bosses by writing critical stories. “So 2008 Mumbai attacks was shot dead in a blind eye to the malaise as that helps them “Many journalists ask for a release when the solution lies in getting more and more Islamabad en route to court yesterday, multiply their advertising revenues. covering an event, even if it is a press con- locals into newspaper journalism as only they police said. Chaudhry Zulfiqar was shot Print journalists, the vast majority of whom ference. Some of them are really lazy,” a PR can fight for press freedom,” says a critic. multiple times after gunmen intercepted are expatriates, are concerned with their sur- industry insider told this newspaper yesterday. But that is unlikely to happen as pay and his vehicle shortly after he left home in vival and savings for their future financial Print journalism in Qatar isn’t looked at perks in Qatar’s newspaper industry remain a busy, middle-class neighbourhood of the security, and find the current situation quite with awe and respect either by the common disappointingly low. What is needed is an capital. His bodyguard was also wounded convenient as they don’t have to work hard reader, officialdom or even by many in the improvement in the monetary compensa- and a woman passer-by killed. and do bold, critical or controversial stories local PR industry as there are some journalists tion for the locals at least so that they are Zulfiqar was given extra government PAGEand face unwanted 6 risks. who try and cultivate relations with the latter attracted to print journalism in large numbers, security last year after he was mentioned In the form of press handouts or releases, with an eye on gifts and paid trips abroad. say experts. in threats received by police investigators journalists get ready-to-use materials to Critics say the dependence of local See also page 2 and 4 working on the Bhutto case. Full report on page 12 AGENCIES

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Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day. We examine why journalism in Qatar is boring for true professionals and full of rewards for corrupt practitioners in the trade.

BY MOBIN PANDIT In any country with a relatively that press conferences in Qatar free press, the ratio of the releases are held just to gain publicity. If ewspapers in Qatar are that are used shouldn’t be more a company signs an agreement Media body charges so full of press releases than two or three percent. “Back however unimportant, it would that if they don’t carry home, we didn’t get more than a convene a press meet,” said a sen- for press conferences Nnews from around the few releases a month and, obvi- Some institutions ior reporter. world sent by international wire ously, we value the releases sent Evading uneasy questions at DOHA: An association of some Indian journalists based in agencies whose services they by the police or such state depart- consider themselves press briefings is not common to Qatar and affiliated with the Indian embassy charges money subscribe to, they can easily pass ments due to their news value,” as holy cow and companies alone. Many key gov- from the organisers of some press conferences to cover their off as in-house journals of some said another senior journalist. their often arrogant ernment ministries and agencies event. corporate entities, official mouth- There are companies and agen- resort to such tactics. The Indian Media Forum (IMF) justifies the professionally pieces of the government, or at cies that send press releases to officials insist that Here is an example: the unethical levy on the ground that the money thus collected is best, a medium for advertising newspapers through their adver- their press handouts Ministry of Labour recently held used to support its operations. agencies. tising departments to make sure be published without a press conference to announce The IMF has a large number of members who represent the Their local pages carry any- they are published. And there are that a few new countries were vernacular Malayalam media, both print and electronic, most of thing but local news. The pages journalists who even collect adver- any alterations or added to the list from where whom are not trained as journalists. are mostly filled with publicity tisements for their organisation editing. Qatari manpower agencies could IMF insiders say QR500 is collected by their organisation for materials called ‘press’ releases from the very companies they source housemaids. covering press conferences that are held to promote Indian cultural by the corporate world, institu- cover and collect commissions. Journalists were surprised shows, opening of hypermarkets or press conferences addressed tions like schools and universities, Then, there are reporters who when the two officials addressing by Indian political leaders on visit. and government ministries and become close to some PR agen- rewriting — a boring yet challeng- the conference evaded questions Malayalam is the language of the south Indian state of Kerala agencies. cies and use their releases in their ing work for which dedicated pro- and said they were there only to which sends the largest number of Indians to Qatar. Some These so-called press handouts newspapers regularly, thus build- fessionals are hired. announce the new countries. This Malayalam newspapers have Qatar editions as well. actually look for free publicity. ing a rapport to collect gifts and Press briefings and events like infuriated at least one reporter A large number of Malayalam TV channels and newspapers, Most releases are badly written enjoy free overseas trips. launches and conferences are held who politely said: “You should based in Kerala as well as the GCC region, have representatives in and if some are newsworthy — Some stoop to such levels that here literally at the drop of a hat instead have sent a release”. Qatar. The neighbouring Dubai has some Malayalam radio stations which is rare — the news is bur- they ask the PR people to send and their coverage takes care of The most shameful thing of and they also have representatives here. ied inside. invitations to their newspapers whatever little space is left in a all, according to critics, is the Contacted for comment, a senior official of the Indian embassy Some releases are hilarious for junkets in their names. Some newspaper’s local section. charitable organisations sending confirmed the IMF is affiliated with the mission. Some Indian due to their contents — a com- scribes even work part-time with Consider this: A reporter from out press handouts on a regular editorial staff members of a local English daily are also members pany official returning from an various government ministries a local daily said he recently went basis and frequently holding news of the IMF, which is a large professional organisation. overseas trip with no details, or and agencies writing their press to a highly prestigious educational conferences to announce the help a school distributing hall tickets handouts. foundation with a photographer they provide to the poor at home to students for examinations — It is common for some report- colleague at the invitation of its or abroad. even mobile handsets to report- companies reporting less net prof- while others can make one swirl ers to use stories with the pho- PR agency to cover an event. Such releases and press meets ers. Gift vouchers were in vogue its in 2012 over the previous year. with laughter with funny con- tographs of the same official or He said he was boiling with become a common feature, espe- earlier and a famous bank at Gifts, cash and junkets are a com- struction of sentences. officials over and over, not to anger when he realized the futil- cially during Ramadan, the holy least gave away vouchers for huge mon feature of business journal- Some institutions consider cultivate them as sources, but ity of the event for which he month of the Islamic calendar. amounts to reporters some seven ism as well, but the situation isn’t themselves as holy cow and their to please them for reasons not had to get up quite early in the “What is shocking about such to eight years ago. as bad as in sports journalism, say often arrogant officials insist that difficult to fathom, according to morning. “The event turned out announcements is that Islam bars Companies and banks alone are critics. their press handouts be published sources. to be a workshop for some of the people from making public their not known for giving away gifts to A journalistic culture where without any alterations or editing. The most boring and hilarious employees of that organisation on acts of charity,” said one critic. journalists. The list even includes press releases, unwanted brief- Corporate releases seldom have releases often come from private English-to-Arabic translation and He reminded that according to some government ministries and ings, academic lectures and anything concrete to say and their schools. South Asian schools are vice versa, so there was nothing Islam so forbidden is talking (or agencies. launches are taking precedence whole purpose is to gain cheap worse when it comes to seek- to report.” boasting) about one’s charitable Sports journalists are described over news is emerging in the and free publicity. ing cheap publicity through the “When I asked the PR lady act that if the right hand is giving by critics as worse when it comes country and it is turning journal- They are written by fat-sal- newspapers. what we were supposed to do, she alms to the poor, the left should to accepting gifts, including cash. ists timid, lazy and corrupt. aried professionals working for Newspapers elsewhere in the simply said just take photographs not know. It is said that at the end of a The result is that newspapers international public relations world, except perhaps the GCC, and write about whatever is going “But come Ramadan and you sporting season or a series of some seldom carry hardcore, critical agencies — many of which have call these releases plugs and on,” said the reporter. see the charitable bodies liter- sporting events cash is distributed and analytical stories that people set up operations in Doha looking use them sparingly, that too, Reporters say they reach news ally competing with one another to them and the result is nothing want to read. Journalists make no to milk the local corporate houses after drastic cuts and laborious conference venues invited by PR in making such announce- analytical (forget critical!) ever effort at all to attempt analytical flush with funds. agencies driving long distances ments. There are some that even appears about local sports clubs stories. These professionals are mostly and many a time they are told announce the amounts they have or events in the sports pages of All they do is praise people, former media persons who have the briefing has been cancelled or spent on holding mass evening English-language newspapers. businessmen and officials. That deserted news organisations for put off. “The agencies don’t even feasts (iftars) during the fasting Arabic newspapers do sometimes serves the newspapers better money and hassle-free day jobs or bother to call and inform us,” said month,” said the critic. carry analytical sports stories. because they find it easier to fresh journalism graduates. Journalists have a reporter. Hardcore journalists say they Local sports stories in the attract advertisements. They have actually made the Then, there are meetings and remember only one press con- English print media, thus, always Reporters benefit, too, as they job of journalists easy as they send become lazy and conferences where journalists are ference in recent memory which paint a rosy picture of clubs and don’t have to work hard and write ready-to-use materials that are are concerned invited for coverage but they are made them look forward to -- events held locally and nothing is controversial stories and instead mostly put by the reporter in his told at the venues that the events when the Interior Ministry held reported that goes on off the field get expensive gifts and enjoy paid newspaper without making any about their survival are not open to the media. “That one on the day of the Villaggio in any club or game. Sometimes trips overseas. changes or bothering to give them and that explains too happens frequently,” the Mall fire on May 28, 2012 to give players and coaches and even “Qatar’s newspaper industry is a newsy turn. why they have reporter added. details of the casualties. organisers have complaints that busy pleasing people by lavishing Bigger companies and govern- At a news briefing, if a reporter One way to ensure that the are shamelessly ignored by the praises, whereas they should be ment departments have their own become dependent asks a question that a company handouts distributed at the so- media. a mirror to the society and gov- public relations departments that on press releases, official finds uneasy, he is told called news briefings are pub- A critic said he has never seen ernment. Their job is to point out are quite bureaucratic and issue news conferences, the event is not to discuss that lished is to give away expensive anything analytical in the local errors and irregularities and not releases only when they need issue. “Our experience suggests gifts like pens, wrist watches and English-language newspapers lavish praises,” said a media ana- some publicity. launches and boring about local sports — any sport lyst not wanting his name in print One example of how the PR lectures to fill the for that matter, even handball or due to the sensitivity of the issue. departments of companies and local pages of their gymnastics. Investigative reporting is state agencies function is that “You mean to say everything unheard of in the country and recently, when there was a fire newspapers. is ideal, quiet and peaceful in the the blame goes, again, to jour- near Souq Waqif and news report- sporting world here,” he won- nalists whose job is to dig out ers and photographers descended dered. When on offer are huge information and report what is on the scene, a PR man claiming cash dole-outs, expensive gifts wrong, but not a single investiga- to represent the developers of the and frequent and paid junkets to tive report has ever appeared in high-profile project asked them to dream destinations around the recent memory in any newspaper go back saying a press statement world, why should a sports jour- here. with photographs would soon be nalist risk being sidelined and Journalists have become lazy sent to their newspapers. analytical, he asks. and are concerned about their “Does this happen anywhere?” “The fault doesn’t lie with the survival and that explains why wondered a scribe who has cov- journalists. It lies with the sys- they have become dependent ered many such accidents in his tem,” said the critic. on press releases, news confer- long career. Business journalists aren’t ences, launches and boring lec- Press releases arrive at the saints either and cannot even tures to fill the local pages of their newspapers daily through emails in their wildest of dreams imag- newspapers. literally in piles, especially on ine writing anything analytical At the same time, journalists Sundays through Wednesdays, about the oil and gas sector, or complain of a lack of access to for no one wants a release pub- the big Qatari banks or even the information so they could do sto- lished on Fridays and Saturdays, bigger business entities including ries that are hardcore, informa- holidays in the week when it is airlines. tive and reader-friendly. Critics generally believed that a paper’s They don’t even make a men- say that while that is true, there circulation is low. tion when the profits of an nevertheless are ways to confront Rough estimates suggest that important listed company take those challenges and at least a newspaper receives around 150 a beating. The local newspapers attempt doing bold stories. press releases on average on a have almost unanimously under- THE PENINSULA working day. played the story about the listed Continued on page 4 Home MAY 4, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Emir and PM greet CMU-Q honours Polish president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of greetings to the President of Poland students for on the occasion of his coun- try’s National Day. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the research works Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani have sent similar cables to the Meeting of the Minds symposium held President of Poland on the same occasion. DOHA: Carnegie Mellon pressing questions such as ‘what University in Qatar (CMU-Q) affects student’s acceptance and Meyer to give free recognised the work of its stu- use of technology?’ and ‘what are dents at the annual ‘Meeting the legal and regulatory obstacles of the Minds’ research sympo- to becoming an entrepreneur in Portrait Painting sium recently, which brought Qatar?’ together aspiring researchers Mark Stehlik, Associate Dean workshop with experts in their fields. for Education, presented the Undergraduates, as well as awards and congratulated the DOHA: Brazilian born art- graduate students, used post- students on their hard work and ist Harding Meyer will give a ers, videos and other visual aids creativity. Portrait Painting Workshop at to present their work to a wide “The best thing about research Katara Art Studios from May 7 audience of faculty, fellow stu- is that while it doesn’t always gen- to May 13. The course, to take dents, family members, industry erate results, it is always a learn- place at building 19, is free of representatives and the larger ing experience. Meeting of the charge and open to a maximum community. Minds is an opportunity for stu- Afnan Fahim (right) receiving his award. of 12 artists. This year’s research projects dents to showcase their research, On the occasion of Katara tackled a range of topics from photography and other creative been selected for the annual industry experts from organisa- CMU-Q recognized the 43 par- Galleries Exhibition ‘Eye to Eye’, Biofilm Formation of Pathogenic projects. And it’s a chance for us SIGCOMM Conference, to be tions such as General Secretariat ticipants, who presented 27 with portraits by Harding Meyer, Fungi Isolated at Hamad Hospital to see how they are thinking out- held in Hong Kong in August. The for Development Planning posters in categories of Business the artist will be in residence at to Arabic Accented Facial side the box,” Stehlik said. conference focuses on significant (GSDP), Vodafone, iHorizons, Administration, Biological the Katara Art Studios directing Expressions for a 3D Agent. Some The winner of the best under- research contributions to the field Shell, QCRI, QMIC, QNRF, QF Sciences, Computer Science, and a workshop where he will show projects develop from course graduate project was Afnan of computer and data communi- Research Division, Meeza, QBRI, Information Systems. how he creates his portrait paint- work, while others are proactive Fahim, whose research project cation networks. Aspire, SEC and faculty members “Our faculty supports and ings. From Sunday to Thursday initiatives by Carnegie Mellon titled “Towards Computational The award for the best poster from other universities includ- encourages students to partici- the workshop will be from 5 to students to solve real-world Offloading in Mobile Clouds” was given to Jyda Moussa and ing TAMU-Q, VCUQ and Qatar pate in research, which will foster 8pm and on Friday and Saturday, problems using interdisciplinary illustrated how the experience Sophie Qingjia Jiang, who inves- University. The judges scored the a lifetime of intellectual curios- from 3 to 8pm. collaboration. of mobile phones users could be tigated newspaper coverage of the presentations and posters on cri- ity that will benefit them, their Harding will show the medial In addition to rewarding the improved by offloading to smaller Arab Spring. teria including appearance, crea- employers and their country’s character and origin of his work, most notable works, the sym- clouds placed closer to users. The projects were reviewed tivity and significance. development,” Baybars said. then the process of painting, with posium sought answers to some Fahim’s project has recently by a committee consisting of Ilker Baybars, Dean of THE PENINSULA which he slows and reanimates the pictures. The artist will go into details on his painting tech- nique and create portraits with the participants. At the end of the workshop, Katara Art Studios will organise Over 300 children take part in Park an impromptu exhibition of all the portraits produced for which all friends and family members House community sports of the participating artists are invited to attend. DOHA: Over 300 children par- winning and losing and respect values. The On the Ball football Participants should bring hard- ticipated in the sports activities for each other’s and for their session encourages team activities copy and soft copy photograph of for the community organised coaches.” while developing problem solving the subject chosen for the portrait by Park House English School. The school has signed a part- skills, cooperation and fair play. painting, as well as their personal “We are delighted to be building nership agreement with GAC, We put great importance on sport mixing pallet, which is also avail- community focused initiatives one of the country’s shipping for building a good education sys- able at the studios. in football, rugby and swim- and forwarding agents, to sup- tem as it promotes healthy living Partakers should bring their ming. We have every intention of port Tornadoes Academy as and helps children develop their own preferred brand of acrylic pushing these initiatives across both entities believe in pro- social skills and teamwork,” said colours and two canvas for the Doha and Qatar giving all chil- viding positive programs to Graham Rennie, Head Coach for portrait they intent to develop. dren access to fantastic sport- involve and educate the com- On The Ball. ing programmes,” commented munity — it is a way to invest Park House English School has Vodafone hikes Niall Brennan, Director. in the future of Qatar through recently announced a partnership Currently the school has education. with Standard Chartered Bank to calling rates to invested in three sport pro- The On The Ball Football support On The Ball. As sponsors grammes: On The Ball sponsored School is a new club dedicated of Liverpool Football Club, the by Standard Chartered Bank; to developing fundamental participating children will have some countries Tornadoes Academy sponsored by football skills in a challenging the opportunity to train with the GAC; and The English Swim Club. yet fun environment. It pro- club’s coaches whenever they are DOHA: Due to recent Tornadoes Academy was first vides an entertaining and chal- in Qatar. increases in the intercon- launched in 2010 and today it lenging sporting programme; The English Swim Club, nect costs for many countries, has 95 children participating in their mission to give children launched in January 2012, cur- Vodafone Qatar will change the sport with five coaches. Tag an opportunity to learn basic rently has 100 children aged three the calling rate to countries Rugby helps children to develop football skills and have fun at to 11 with the majority of lessons that are currently at 65Dhs their hand and eye coordination, the same time. for age three to seven. The club is to 66Dhs starting May 25, the agility, movement and speed. This programme is not limited run by a coach with two student company said in a press release Andy Coomer, Head Coach and to children from Park House and helpers. issued yesterday. Primary PE Head at Park House is open to the entire commu- “Swimming is also a lifesav- This change applies to both commented: “We help children nity. The concept was developed ing skill that when taught in the Vodafone Prepaid and Postpaid develop and learn a range of skills; to promote community football correct environment increases consumer customers. Vodafone honesty, fair play, health and fit- coaching across Qatar starting confidence in children -not just has also encouraged customers ness, team work in addition to with expatriate international in the pool- and improves fitness to visit www.vodafone.qa to get developing their social skills; it schools and then moving into levels,” commented Nicola Jane, the full list of countries that will provides a forum for young people independent schools. Head coach for the English Swim be included in the new calling Children taking part in the community sports programme at the Park House to learn how to deal with compe- “We are working with the chil- Club. rates. English School. tition and how to cope with both dren while maintaining our core THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA/QNA

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DOHA: Inter-Continental Plaza Doha – The Business Park, IHG. We are proud of the newly- Hotels Group (IHG) is to which is also owned by Trans opened Crowne Plaza Doha – The open Qatar’s first Holiday Inn Orient Establishment. The 347- Business Park, which has already hotel, Holiday Inn Doha – The room hotel will feature a 1,200sqm proved itself a firm success. ” Business Park, following a deal ballroom, meeting rooms and Pascal Gauvin, Chief Operating signed recently with Trans three food and beverage outlets. Officer, India, Middle East and Orient Establishment. Executive Manager of Trans Africa, IHG, added: “Out of all our Dr Mohamed Nasser Al Qahtani, Deputy CEO of Al Meera Consumers Goods Company met Shiekh Rashed The hotel will be located 2km Orient Hotels and Service hotel brands, Holiday Inn is one of Saif, the CEO of Omani National Investment Funds Company (NIFCO), and Mohamed Soliman. They discussed from Doha International Airport Apartments, Fathi Abu Rish, our biggest and we are confident the accomplishments since the partnership agreement between Al Meera and the NIFCO was signed. in The Business Park. It will sit said: “We are very excited to be that it will find success in Qatar.” next to another IHG hotel, Crowne extending our partnership with THE PENINSULA MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Vast majority of Qapco holds Research, journalists are Development Forum expatriates Continued from Page 2 “One must at least make an attempt. Information is not always QU presents projects developed with Qapco difficult to come by. You must culti- vate sources and sometimes they do help,” said a media critic. Investigative journalism in Qatar, according to some scribes, is out of question because of the culture of secrecy. But much of the malaise that plagues the profession of print jour- nalism here can be attributed to the fact that a vast majority of journalists are expatriates. Although many of them are www.swiss-belhotel.com trained professionals with previous newspaper experience, their major Tel concern always is to play safe and Fax not undermine their stay here. Their focus is on survival and savings for their future financial security. Locals hardly have any respect for Tel expatriate journalists, especially as Fax most of them come from Asian and Arab countries that also send large numbers of low-income workers. “We are treated here like any other expatriate employee,” said a Tel senior expatriate journalist. Fax The local newspaper industry Speakers during the Research and Development Forum organised by Qatar Petrochemical Company. is not known for paying attractive wages and that dissuades citizens DOHA: Qatar Petrochemical Company “Strengthening our ties with research insti- from taking up jobs as most fresh Tollfree (Qapco) organised its first Research and tutes is crucial. We believe that some of our Qatari journalism graduates prefer Development Forum, bringing together joint findings cannot only add value to our public and media relations jobs in the Fax experts and researchers from local universi- products and processes, but they can also government sector where pay and ties and research centres. benefit the plastic industry as a whole, on perks are lucrative. The event brought together representa- a global level. Some of the joint research The situation being this, it is Tel tives from Texas A&M University at Qatar developed between Qapco and its partners not surprising that media freedom (Tamuq), Qatar University (QU), Qatar has already been published in internationally is a casualty in Qatar, say crit- Fax Environment & Energy Research Institute recognised scientific journals.” ics. According to them, one cannot (QEERI) and the College of the North During the Forum, Qatar University expect expatriate journalists to bring Atlantic (CNA-Q). presented projects developed with Qapco, about the desired changes, for they Tel Qapcos’s Vice-Chairman and CEO, Dr like the use of Polyolefin based materials cannot be bold and critical. “If noth- Fax Mohammed Al Mulla said: “Thanks to the in green building and their energy saving ing, an expatriate journalist writing wise leadership of the state, Qatar is estab- applications. critically can be fired by his boss. So lishing itself as an internationally recognised Youssef Rebeeh, COO of Qapco, said: he is a weak link in the entire cycle,” research hub by attracting high level academics “Sustainability is our priority and embedded said a critic. Tel and researchers, developing vibrant research in our strategy, from our daily operations to The only people, according to crit- Fax centres and incubators, by developing home- our end products. Focusing on sustainability ics, who can fight for press freedom grown fundamental and applied research and oriented R&D is a must for us. We are contrib- are the locals and they are conspicu- www.doha.hilton.com encouraging strong collaboration between the uting to developing products, technologies and ous by their absence in a field that industry and academia.” applications that will make our daily lives more promises low pay and hard work cou- Tel +974 44233333 “It is our role at Qapco to contribute to the sustainable, for the benefits of the generations pled with high risks. progress and advancement of research, by part- to come. Plastic in general and its applications “You cannot expect reporting to Fax +974 44233000 nering, supporting and collaborating with uni- have many features that can be even further improve and the local newspaper versities and research institutes in the fields developed and can contribute, via practical industry to become bold and news- of engineering and chemistry. Research is the applications, to a greener more sustainable oriented if you don’t encourage citi- cornerstone of technological advancement and world.” zens to enter,” said the critic. scientific innovation,” he added. QU and Qapco are also working together Critics say they hope the present Qapco produces low-density polyethylene on a project to use locally produced polymers culture of gifts and some journal- (LDPE), the most commonly used type of plas- to develop novel polymer nano-composite. ists soliciting advertisements from tic, with applications such as food packaging, This project is funded by Qatar Foundation’s the businesses they cover would green house films, containers, wires and cables National Priorities Research Program end once the new media law is amongst many others. (NPRP). implemented. Tel For the past years, Qapco has developed Furthermore, Qapco is collaborating The draft of the proposed law sug- its research and development strategy, which with Texas A&M at Qatar and Texas A&M gests that journalists should not be Fax includes collaboration with academic centres College Station (USA) on Polyolefin research permitted to accept gifts and solicit in the field of petrochemicals, such as the and active in Qatar Foundation’s National advertisements as that compromises establishment of the Polymer Chair at Qatar Priorities Research Program, especially in their professional integrity and University or the Chair of Polymer Science and the areas of Material Science and Energy and weakens their ability to do objective Tel Engineering at Tamuq. Environmental research. reporting. Fax Dr Mohammed Al Mulla said: THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

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AKHDAR Brahimi, the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, has announced that he intends to resign in the coming weeks from his peace-making role. The Afghanistan shows Americans Lannouncement might not have come as a surprise for Syria watchers. If at all, a few might be wondering why his resignation had taken so long. The reason is not his inability to carry out the job for which he was chosen, but the chaos how not to fight wars and anarchy in Syria which has frustrated all attempts for a peaceful settlement. BY FOUAD AJAMI The retreat from Syria of the United Nations comes at a even as the cables of their envoys told for an assignment at home, and it was time when the United States and its allies are weighing their of a voracious group of bandit chieftains obvious that he had pined to describe response to the news that the Syrian rulers might have used N THE unforgiving Afghan land- who were keen to keep the foreign pow- what he had seen. The venture in chemical weapons against its people. Brahimi’s resignation scape, we have learned that you ers in place while they proclaimed their Afghanistan wasn’t destined for success. Ican’t buy a warlord. You can only attachment to the sovereignty of their “I still cannot understand how we, is bad news because he represents a global body which has rent one. We owe this education to our own country. the international community, and the the moral authority to intervene in Syria. His exit speaks man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. There was no Afghanistan to speak Afghan government have managed to of the frustration and hopelessness of mediators who have For more than a decade, it has been of, yet we indulged the fantasy of a arrive at a situation in which everything made several attempts to bring to the conflict to an early recently confirmed, US dollars packed country learning to make its way in is coming together in 2014 — elections, end. The US and some other countries have tried to persuade into suitcases, backpacks and plas- the world. We held out the promise of new president, economic transition, mil- tic shopping bags have been delivered Afghan security forces “in the lead” itary transition and all this — whereas Brahimi to postpone his plans to step down at least until after every month or so to Karzai’s office. “We before too long. the negotiations for the peace process Secretary of State John Kerry concludes a May 7-8 visit to called it ‘ghost money,’” Khalil Roman, Deep down, we knew that these have not really started,” Bajolet said. Moscow for meetings on Syria and other matters with Russian who served as the Afghan president’s forces are certain to melt away when The Afghan leaders should “take Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. If Brahimi hasn’t listened deputy chief of staff from 2002 until the foreign protection is withdrawn. We more visible and obvious ownership” of to this advice, it could be due to a realization that he didn’t 2005, told the New York Times. “It came looked away as Karzai, as recently as a their army, he said. “We should be lucid: expect anything fruitful from the in secret, and it left in secret.” few weeks ago, accused his American A country that depends almost entirely In the theory of imperialism, we protectors of colluding with the Taliban on the international community for the meeting. would venture into the Hindu Kush against his country. salaries of its soldiers and policemen, for The The resignation also exemplifies and reform its A rogue ally was on the loose: The most of its investments and partly on it the current confusion on Syria. All ways. It would, man needed American help as he railed for its current civil expenditure, cannot resignation the international backers of the instead, be the against the Americans. He was without really be independent.” of UN-Arab rebels are confused and have failed to other way around: shame, that ally. Corruption was a way Some 90 percent of the Afghan budget reach a consensus on the action they The United States of life in his country, but truth be told, is provided by American taxpayers: No League envoy In the unforgiving took to the ways the American largesse, and the eager- wonder Karzai rails against us with need to take. The West is hesitant for Syria Afghan landscape, of “the East,” and ness to accommodate the warlords, fed such abandon. and unwilling to supply arms to we have learned baksheesh is the this culture of corruption. We were This war — need we repeat the cus- doesn’t come rebels (without which the rebels are order of the day. snookered at the bazaar. We had driven tomary mantra, America’s longest war helpless as the army of Syrian regime that you can’t buy We do business up the strategic rent of those Afghan — must be deemed unique in the annals as a surprise. continues to use heavy weapons against by the rules of the mountains. of warfare. No great passion attends it. a warlord. You can warlords. Bush and Obama had both declared It has very few, if any, defenders, and innocent civilians) because they are only rent one. We Almost three the centrality of Afghanistan to the no great wrath is aimed at it. The set worried they would fall in the hands of owe this education years ago, Karzai war on terrorism. Obama had upped date, the year 2014, for all the transi- Islamists, which could be counterproductive. Arabs have failed proudly let us the ante and memorably described the tions that will take place there, for a to persuade the West, especially the US, to stop twiddling and to our man in know that we Afghanistan War as the good war of “responsible” close to this war, was a act immediately to stop further bloodshed. Kabul, President weren’t his sole necessity. We had to pay for the privi- convenient two years removed from the It’s not known when Brahimi would submit his resignation benefactor. “They lege of having access to that real estate. last U.S. presidential election. The war Hamid Karzai. do give us bags of A man who saw through the sor- wasn’t debated, the incumbent didn’t but some reports say he might delay a formal announcement money — yes, yes, did reality of Afghanistan, Richard proclaim ownership of that war, and his to allow the United Nations time to “make arrangements for it is done, we are Holbrooke, described the role of the U.S. Republican rivals offered no challenge to a transition.” What transition means is not clear. The UN is grateful to the Iranians for this.” Give special envoy there as pouring water the strategy of oblivion and drift. unlikely to appoint another official to replace Brahimi, and the man his due; he has never whispered into a bucket with holes in it. He was There ought to be a law in the affairs even if someone is appointed, there are doubts about what sweet things in our ears about “trans- sidelined and mocked in Obama’s coun- of nations: Wars can’t be waged against he would be able to achieve. First of all, the global body must parency,” and he hasn’t bothered retain- cils. Holbrooke, who died in 2010 and the background of popular indifference. ing a Washington lobbying firm that who had his first tutorial about doomed Wars and their justice, and the way they decide what role it can play. Its secretary general is said to in would tutor him on what he should say causes back in the Vietnam War, had are fought, must be debated and argued discussions with the world body’s five major powers — Britain, to — and about — his American patrons. sinned by saying some inconvenient about. We mark time in the Hindu Kush China, France, Russia and the United States — about the America had struck into his country, truths about Afghanistan. — there are no gains on that horizon. future of UN diplomatic efforts after Brahimi’s departure. and could find no way out. Two presi- The French ambassador to Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at What Syria needs is not the appointment of a new UN official, dents — George W Bush and Barack Afghanistan, Bernard Bajolet, recently Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Obama — paid court to him even as gave a blunt assessment of the state of and the author of “The Syrian but a clarity in the policy of the US and other powers on they knew that the thing was a sham, things in Afghanistan. He was leaving Rebellion.” WP-BLOOMBERG where they stand. The other side Quote of Myanmar’s deeply flawed report the day ESPITE having a Nobel almost 50 years of often ruthless mili- this Muslim community is that, even lower echelons of society, often acting peace laureate as its leading tary rule, agreed to mount an enquiry though they have lived in Myanmar as laborers or servants. politician, there is something into the savagery which saw hundreds for generations, they have never been Already victims, it was all the easier Dunpleasant about Myanmar of the Rohingya minority community accepted as Burmese nationals. This for bigoted Buddhists to stir up hatred as it emerges from years of international murdered and more than 100,000 has always marked them out for dis- against them and incite the massacres, political and economic isolation. Indeed driven from their homes. Some of these crimination from the Buddhists among often committed while Burmese police perhaps because Aung San Suu Kyi unfortunates have fled to Bangladesh whom they lived. They have never and army soldiers stood by and did You’ve hosted the has such a prominent and respected or taken to flimsy boats in the hope enjoyed full rights, nor access to the nothing. presence on the world stage, what of reaching the friendlier shores of judicial system and of course, no sort The government report admits the (Olympic) Games is happening in Myanmar is so Malaysia. How the Thai authorities have of political representation at all. status of the Rohingya must indeed be unacceptable. treated these luckless refugees is an Thus, deprived of the full citizen- addressed, but makes no useful sug- before, withdraw The massacres of Rohingya Muslims entirely separate scandal. ship, which in historical terms is self- gestions as to how the question should your bid so we can by their Buddhist neighbors in Rakhine Anyway, after much delay, the evidently theirs, they have been treated be approached. In addition, the investi- Recep Tayyip Erdogan state is a crime that has outraged world Burmese government has finally pro- as aliens in their own country, deprived gators make clear their own view of this host them once. opinion. The government of President duced its report and it is a biased, racist of advanced education opportunities minority by referring to them throughout Turkish Prime Minister Thein Sein, the installation of which in and entirely unsatisfactory document. and excluded from government and as “Bengalis.” to Japanese 2011 apparently brought to an end The key to the horrors experienced by official posts, being relegated to the ARAB NEWS counterpart Shinzo Abe MAY 04, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Iraq nears crisis point US must take tougher, but BY RYAN CROCKER already taken place, with more than 40 people killed in one day he situation in Iraq has in Mosul alone. taken a very dangerous This has the gravest implica- turn. Events there in tions for Iraq’s security and stabil- nuanced, line on Egypt Trecent days are reminis- ity. Al Qaeda in Iraq has already cent of those that led to virtual begun to re-establish itself in areas civil war in 2006 and resulted in that Iraqi and US forces cleared the need for a surge in US troop at enormous cost over the past In the past five months, levels, a new strategy and very five years. And Jabhat Al Nusra, heavy fighting. Indeed, the places Al Qaeda in Iraq’s front group Egyptian politics has where the violence has erupted in Syria, is attempting to hijack are eerily familiar, as many were the secular resistance to Syrian strongholds of Al Qaeda in Iraq at President Bashar Al Assad. These taken a seriously the outset of the surge, before the developments threaten not only to spread of the Awakening move- unravel the gains made since 2007, troubling turn. ment that fostered reconciliation but also to energise the forces of between disaffected Sunni Arabs violent extremism in the heart of BY THOMAS CAROTHERS and and the Shia-led government in the Arab world, already burning NATHAN J BROWN Baghdad. The recent events come in Syria. on top of increasing incidents of The country’s leaders need to fter Egypt’s presidential elections horrific attacks by Al Qaeda in de-escalate the crisis and address last summer, the Obama admin- Iraq, with last month seeing the the concerns of those who are istration adopted a pragmatic largest losses in years — and they aggrieved. One new grievance in policy toward the new Muslim take place against a backdrop of particular, the delay in provincial Brotherhood-led government. increasingly serious political dis- elections in Anbar and Ninewah AThe basic message to Egyptian President cord. These developments clearly Provinces, must be addressed rap- Mohammed Mursi was straightforward: require the attention and support idly. Most of Iraq voted for pro- Respect Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and of the international community. vincial leaders on April 20, but basic democratic norms, and the US govern- Progress toward political security issues delayed the vote ment will be a helpful, productive partner. By accord and pluralism first came in Anbar and Ninewah until May sincerely putting forward this line, the admin- to Iraq in 2007 and 2008 when, as 18, and then until July 4 — exac- istration put to rest the long-held Arab suspi- security spread during the surge, erbating the sense of sectarian cion that the United States would never accept Sunni and Shia leaders opted to marginalisation. Islamist electoral victories. resolve their differences through It is also incumbent on the This approach fit the situation well enough accommodation rather than friends of Iraq to support this for some months. Mursi showed no signs of through violence. Their commit- effort. Progress in Iraq came questioning the peace treaty with Israel and ment survived the difficult after- when coalition elements encour- even worked closely with the United States to math of the 2010 parliamentary aged Sunni communities to work end a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence. elections, in which no one party with a government in which they Domestically, the new government showed won a clear mandate. It survived still lacked trust. It is vital that an inexperienced (and heavy) hand on many last year’s arrest of the body- the spirit that animated the occasions but still seemed to steer the country guards of Sunni Vice President progress then be reinvigorated in a vaguely democratic direction. Tariq Al Hashimi on charges of now. It has thus been good to read Yet in the past five months, Egyptian poli- terrorism, as well as his subse- of the activities in recent days of tics has taken a seriously troubling turn. Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi quent trial in absentia and death the US ambassador in Baghdad Egypt is wracked by harsh street protests, an sentence. and the UN mission there, calling angry impasse and utter distrust between the And although domestic politi- for calm, engaging with all parties government and the main opposition parties, Meanwhile, Egypt is approaching a buzz require much sharper, clearer public responses cal issues galvanised Sunni areas and reminding them of what they massive public disaffection, growing sectarian saw of economic woes: Either the govern- by the White House and State Department to of the country over the past four could lose: the new Iraq that they tension and increasing murmurings of a pos- ment reaches a deal with the International violations of basic democratic and rule-of-law months, both the Iraqi security and we paid so much to create. sible military coup. Monetary Fund and has to impose painful cuts norms. It will mean an end to justifying the forces and the protesters exer- Though the United States has The Muslim Brotherhood did not create on public spending, or it fails to reach a deal Brotherhood’s negative political steps. And the cised considerable restraint. Sunni withdrawn its troops from Iraq, it all of these problems. It faced a difficult and faces a devastating fiscal shortfall. United States should indicate that the possi- leaders took concrete steps to retains significant leverage there. political landscape upon taking power — The Obama administration is commendably bility of new aid is not isolated from domestic keep demonstrations peaceful by Iraqi forces were equipped and a brooding military, a fractious and often trying to help Egypt avoid the buzz saw and Egyptian political realities. searching protesters for weapons. trained by Americans, and the unrealistic opposition and a resistant, stag- has promised significant new aid if a deal is This tougher line should not be coupled with Even after eight Sunni protesters country’s leaders need and expect nant state. Yet its actions have aggravated reached with the fund. an embrace of the opposition. US policy should were killed in Fallujah in January, our help. Secretary of State John the conditions. Although some of its com- Yet Obama officials are clinging to their be based on firm support of core democratic both sides managed to de-escalate. F Kerry showed great initiative in plaints about an implacable opposition and earlier narrative in which the Brotherhood principles, not on playing favourites. That all changed last week. making Iraq part of his first visit resistant state apparatus are legitimate, the is politically well-intentioned, even if inexpe- Recalibrating the current policy line will It began in the town of Hawija, abroad; he should return to signal Brotherhood controls the presidency, giv- rienced and sometimes heavy-handed. That require careful nuance. It has to be clear that near Kirkuk, where Iraqi security Iraq’s long-term importance to the ing it tools and responsibilities that other narrative no longer fits the facts: The admin- the United States is not turning against the forces said Sunni protesters were United States and to regional sta- actors don’t share. The Brotherhood has istration’s habit of playing down the severity Brotherhood but is siding more decisively with harbouring insurgents who had bility, and he should engage all of shown a willingness to deploy, rather than of the Egyptian government’s anti-democratic democracy. killed soldiers at a government Iraq’s leaders. Another step would reform, authoritarian mechanisms inherited actions risks making the United States look The Obama administration must also make checkpoint. The protesters denied be convening a secretarial-level from Hosni Mubarak and is, in some ways, not flexible and reasonable but self-delusional it well known to all that it adamantly opposes there were any insurgents in their meeting of the joint commission deepening authoritarian practices. Examples or deeply cynical. any military intervention in Egypt’s politics. camp and failed to turn over any established under the Strategic include rushing through a new constitution The US message to Mursi should no longer The United States is understandably sensi- individuals. On April 23, the secu- Framework Agreement. and appointing a new prosecutor general, be “We’re with you, watch out for some details tive about being accused of an anti-Islamist rity forces launched an action in To be clear: For Iraqis to pull despite strenuous judicial objections firmly around the edges.” Instead, Obama officials stance in an Arab world roiling with Islamist the camp — and a violent clash back from the brink, the United anchored in Egyptian law. Brotherhood par- should be telling Egyptian leaders: We’re activism. Yet showing that Washington is ensued, leaving scores dead and States must lead a sustained, high- liamentarians are pushing to impose new extremely concerned about your violations of serious about democratic standards with injured. Now Sunni Arab sheikhs level diplomatic effort. We have restrictions on independent civic organisa- core political and legal principles; we can’t new Islamist actors in power is ultimately a who had been urging restraint done so successfully in the past, tions. And supporters of the Brotherhood be the partner we would like to be, and the greater sign of respect for them than excus- are calling for war. Some reports beginning in 2007; we must do so have gone to court to harass their critics partner Egypt needs, if you undermine the ful- ing their shortcomings and lowering our say that the tribes are gathering again. The stakes for Iraq and the and sometimes have taken to the streets to filment of Egyptians’ democratic aspirations. expectations. former insurgents and preparing region are far too high for anything violently confront opponents. Putting this message into practice will WP-BLOOMBERG to fight. Violent incidents have less. WP-BLOOMBERG Guantánamo Bay is a stain on America’s reputation

BY MORRIS DAVIS American law enforcement agen- org calling on the president to concludes combat operations in cies, prison systems and judicial fulfil his 2008 campaign prom- Afghanistan in 2014, the thread am going to say something processes have proven them- ise to close the detention facility. breaks. Those in this group I have not said as often as selves quite capable of dealing More than 100,000 people echoed should be assessed for either I would have liked: I agree with “crazy bastards” of all types. that call and signed the petition prosecution or transfer. Iwith President Obama. They can handle a Khalid Sheikh within a matter of days, and their I understand the problems Despite indications to the con- Mohammed. It is time to stop numbers continue to grow. This with the evidence – how it was trary – such as fighting me tooth wasting the taxpayers’ money should get the attention of the obtained, where it was obtained, and nail in court the past three and squandering what credibility White House. who gave it to the United States years (and counting) over my fir- America has left keeping a folly President Obama was right: and promises made concerning its ing by the Library of Congress for afloat. keeping Guantánamo open is secrecy – but it has been at least writing op-eds critical of his and A majority of the men impris- not in the best interest of the six years since the last detainee President Bush’s detainee policies oned at Guantánamo have been American people and runs coun- reached Guantánamo. Some of the – he apparently came to the same cleared by the Pentagon, Justice ter to the country’s values. As he secrecy concerns should be get- realisation I had several years ago Department, FBI and CIA for said on Tuesday: ting stale; in any case, it is time to that, in his words, “we’ve got to transfer out of Guantánamo. They “The idea that we would still fish or cut bait. As the president close Guantánamo.” are men the US government deter- maintain forever a group of indi- said, imprisoning someone forever At a press conference on mined committed no crimes and viduals who have not been tried, without trial is unacceptable. A group of detainees kneels during prayers at Guantánamo Bay. Tuesday, the president said that pose no genuine threat to America, that is contrary to who we are, it It is almost inevitable that some Guantánamo is unnecessary to yet many of them have spent more is contrary to our interests, and of the 166 remaining Guantánamo keep America safe; it is expensive than a decade in detention because it needs to stop.” were not a threat to America – terrorism related cases over the detainees will end up doing some- and inefficient; it diminishes the of their citizenship. The adminis- So how does he make that hap- they were training to fight the same period. My suggestion would thing bad in the future and the standing of the United States in tration has ignored the detainees pen? Here are some suggestions. Chinese for independence – and be to choose those who clearly spineless will scream in outrage the international community; it it cleared for transfer, the courts First, the 86 cleared detain- tried to find other countries to warrant prosecution – prisoners (which, by the way, they don’t hampers cooperation with allies have abandoned them, and the ees should be transferred out as take them. Palau, Albania and like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed over the tens of thousands killed on counterterrorism efforts; and public has forgotten they even exist soon as reasonably possible. The Bermuda did. Perhaps the United – and take their cases to federal by guns), but few risks can be it serves as a recruitment tool (to the extent many members of United States was in the process States should take some, too, or is court. The military commission cut to zero. It would help if some for extremists. He is right on all the public ever paid attention). The of repatriating Yemeni detain- the “home of the brave” just less calamity has gone on long enough. of what is spent each year now counts. How, then, could anyone fact that it takes men going on a ees when it was revealed that brave than Bermuda? Third, and the most prob- to keep the detention facility find an upside to perpetuating the hunger strike and placing their the Underwear Bomber’s failed Second, there are about 30 lematic, is the group of 50 or open is used instead to help the Guantánamo fiasco? health and their lives in jeopardy Christmas 2009 plot was hatched detainees the administration so (plus any of the 30 who do detainees adjust to life outside Well, some see advantage in for anyone to take notice is not in Yemen, and the pipeline from intended to prosecute. I once led not clearly warrant prosecution Guantánamo, rather than just pandering to fear, particularly something Americans should be Guantánamo was turned off. The the military commission prosecu- in federal court) that fall in turning them loose and hoping politicians on the far right of the proud of. Yemeni government has asked for tion effort, and perhaps the most between: the indefinite detain- for a good outcome. ideological spectrum. They argue I was pleased to collaborate the return of its citizens, which charitable way to describe that is ees. The United States justifies Guantánamo is, as the presi- that anyone who would consider with Witness Against Torture, a would account for most of the to say that military commissions indefinite detention by arguing dent said, a lingering problem moving the “crazy bastards” out group of dedicated activists who cleared group, and their request have not been as swift, severe and that it has the right to detain that is going to get worse if it of Guantánamo and closing it have refused to let the public should be granted. But there are secret as some had envisioned enemy combatants for the dura- continues to fester, so he has to is soft on terrorism. They are forget that we are holding peo- some who cannot go home, such back in 2001. On the other hand, tion of the conflict, but the “war” deal with it. If not now, when? If wrong: they are the ones who are ple in captivity at Guantánamo, as the Uighurs. The United States the federal courts have been effec- thread is beginning to wear not him, who? soft … in the head and the spine. on a petition created on change. determined years ago that they tive in prosecuting hundreds of thin. When the United States THE GUARDIAN MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Sudan rebel Massacre feared as war enters Banias wars reach Syrian National Coalition calls on Arab League, UN to act as troops bombard villages placid DAMASCUS: Syrian troops say at least 50 people were killed Islam and the sect of President it,” the agency said, adding traf- reached. Asked about Hagel’s yesterday bombarded Sunni in summary executions and shell- Bashar Al Assad, while the insur- fic was “normal” and the fire had comments later, Obama said areas of the Mediterranean city ing in Bayda village,” a southern gents battling to topple his regime been extinguished. they represented the view he has heartland of Banias, a monitoring group suburb of the Alawite-majority are mainly Sunni Muslims. Rebels have claimed several expressed for “months”. said, warning of a new “massa- city, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Yesterday, the army bombarded times to have fired at Damascus “As we’ve seen evidence of fur- UM RAWABA, Sudan: The cre,” as Washington said for the Syrian Observatory for Human Sunni areas of Banias as heavy airport but it was the first such ther bloodshed, potential use of line of army pick-up trucks first time it was looking at arm- Rights said. gunfire rocked southern parts of report from the official media. chemical weapons inside of Syria, rumbled into the dusty streets ing rebels. The official Sana news agency the city, the Observatory said. With the Syrian conflict that what I’ve said is that we’re going of Um Rawaba, a once placid The opposition National said troops killed “terrorists” — Abdel Rahman said troops has cost more than 70,000 lives to look at all options,” he said in city in the heart of Sudan that Coalition earlier denounced a the regime term for insurgents — were raiding homes and making now in its third year, the United Mexico. days ago became a new front “large-scale massacre” by troops and seized arms in an operation arrests “triggering panic” among States said Thursday it was tak- But, Obama added, “we want to in the war of attrition between and militiamen on Thursday in a targeting rebels. residents. ing a fresh look at whether to arm make sure that we look before we government and rebels. Sunni village near Banias, a new Regular forces were supported “I fear that there could be a the outgunned rebels. leap and that what we’re doing is Six days earlier, hundreds front in Syria’s war, citing witness by pro-regime “shabiha” militia- massacre like the one that hap- After having rejected the idea actually helpful to the situation, of insurgents had stormed in, reports of civilians being stabbed men, said the Observatory, which pened yesterday in Bayda,” he previously, President Barack as opposed to making it more spraying bullets and killing up to death. relies on a network of sources on warned. Obama’s deputies were weighing deadly or more complex.” to 13 civilians and soldiers, before “The Coalition calls on the Arab the ground for its information. Elsewhere, rebels fired two the option of providing weapons Speculation has mounted the pulling out as government planes League and the United Nations to “Many villagers have fled rockets at Damascus interna- to the rebels, Defence Secretary Obama administration could started flying overhead. act rapidly to save the civilians of to Sunni districts in southern tional airport, hitting an aircraft Chuck Hagel told reporters. reverse its opposition to arming the A week on, Um Rawaba’s Bayda, Banias and other villages Banias, as there is no refuge for and a fuel dump and sparking a Asked whether the US govern- rebels after officials said last week traders and shoppers cheered across Syria,” it said in a state- them in Alawite areas,” said Abdel massive fire, Sana said. ment was rethinking its opposi- that US spy agencies now believe and gave “thumbs-up” signs as ment, accusing the regime of “war Rahman. “One rocket hit a kerosene tank tion to arming the rebels, Hagel Syria’s regime may have used chem- the latest government reinforce- crimes and genocide”. The Banias region is predomi- and the other hit a parked com- replied with a firm “Yes.” But ical weapons on a small scale. ments arrived and drove past “Several sources in the village nantly Alawite, an offshoot of Shia mercial aircraft, badly damaging Hagel said no decision had been AFP buildings still bearing the scars of the attack. Even as government mind- Securing chemical ers looked on, some citizens acknowledged they were worried. “This was the first time we had such an attack ... We want arms poses huge risk security,” trader Omar Kuf said. Sudan has long been plagued by rebel attacks — but there were WASHINGTON: A military the US or its allies would have at least two main reasons for the mission to secure Syria’s chemi- to send in boots on the ground, Khartoum government to sit up cal arsenal would require a large including teams of technical and take particular notice after ground force and pose huge experts, special forces units and this assault. risks, with the outcome hinging a large contingent — likely tens Almost all the past turmoil on the quality of Western intel- of thousands — of conventional has sprung up in the country’s ligence, experts say. troops to seize and guard chemi- distant and arid peripheries, not With the Syrian regime sus- cal sites, analysts said. in North Kordofan, the region pected of using chemical agents “Even under the best of cir- that includes Um Rawaba and against rebels, US and Western cumstances, it’s a highly man- forms part of Sudan’s commer- military commanders are plan- power intensive effort because cial heartland, a hub for its agri- ning for a possible worst-case sce- you have to — 24/7 — surround culture, livestock and gum arabic nario in which an international the sites, and ensure that others industries. force would move in to neutralise are not entering,” Kay said. Second, many of the earlier the lethal weapons. The intervention force would uprisings have been focused Any attempt to seize control of have to launch bombing raids to affairs - between the government chemical agents in Syria would take out air defences as a prelimi- and rebels fighting over griev- depend on the intelligence gath- nary step and would also likely ances in their particular territo- ered by foreign spy services, which need to target some depots that ries, among them Darfur, South have struggled at times to track could not be seized by a ground Kordofan and Blue Nile. the Damascus regime’s stockpiles. force. But this was a coordinated “The first thing is you have to “There are probably some attack by members of those rebel know where they are. Where are facilities that will be beyond our groups, fighting together under the weapons stored and where reach that we will have to use air the single banner of the Sudanese are the production sites and pro- strikes to deal with,” said Michael Members of Jamaa Islamiya collect money outside a mosque after the Friday prayers to “help free Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) with duction-related sites?” said David Eisenstadt, a senior fellow at the Revolutionists”, in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, yesterday. a nation-wide agenda. Kay, the former UN weapons Washington Institute. It was biggest assault yet by the inspector who led the Iraq Study At sites seized by ground forces, not be available, the lethal agents would likely require a wave of air these kind of missions,” he said. umbrella group of fighters who Group. troops would need to stand guard likely would be placed in a lime strikes. “You don’t destroy the The US military has a bomb, have vowed to topple President “It seems obvious but it’s not while weapons experts — clad in pit and broken down with other chemical weapons themselves but the BLU-119/B, specifically Omar Hassan Al Bashir and end easy,” Kay, now a senior fellow at protective clothing and using spe- chemicals, reducing toxicity to all the ways in which they can be designed to incinerate chemical what they see as his elite’s stran- the Potomac Institute for Policy cial medical equipment — docu- a level equivalent to industrial delivered to the population,” said agents, though the Pentagon has glehold on the whole country - an Studies, said. ment and neutralise the chemical waste. Elizabeth O’Bagy of the Institute never disclosed how it has fared accusation he denies. Syria is believed to have hun- agents and munitions. The painstaking process would for the Study of War. in tests. The government has previ- dreds of tons of chemical agents The weapons experts would take “weeks or months even,” said Part of the arsenal could be Air raids also could be used to ously played down the threat such as sarin and VX as well likely have to destroy the nerve Eisenstadt. “entombed” by bombing designed prevent an adversary from access- posed by the rebels, and called as mustard gas, but the precise agents or lethal gas on site, as The intervention force would to collapse and seal bunkers with ing a chemical arms site, but any Um Rawaba’s attackers “terror- details of its arsenal remain transporting them would be too also need to destroy missiles, aer- rubble, Eisenstadt said. attempt to bomb from the air ists” holding civilians as “human unknown. risky, according to Kay. ial bombs and artillery shells used “We’ve developed a series of would be fraught with danger. shields”. To take control of the weapons, As special incinerators would to deliver chemical agents, which munitions that could be used for AFP REUTERS

Iran diplomat 100 dead, rescuers trapped in collapsed Darfur gold mine with links to KHARTOUM: Around 100 (Thursday),” said the miner, who the miner said. “Yesterday eight died is more than 60”, but it was bodies,” the district chief said on reformists miners are estimated to have had visited the scene and asked bodies have been found and still unclear whether anyone might Saturday, adding it was unclear died inside a collapsed gold to remain anonymous. they are looking for the others,” still be alive. how many victims there might mine in Sudan’s Darfur region On Monday the unlicensed he said. He said rescuers were using be. “We are having difficulty to detained and nine rescuers trying to free desert gold mine began to collapse “According to a count by people hand tools out of fear that reach them.” them are now trapped, a miner in Jebel Amir district, more than working in the mine, the number machinery would cause a further Production from unofficial gold TEHRAN: An Iranian diplo- said yesterday. 200km northwest of the North of people inside is more than 100.” collapse. mines has become a key revenue mat with ties to the reformist “Nine of the rescue team dis- Darfur state capital El Fasher. On Thursday the Jebel Amir But the ground fell around source for the cash-strapped gov- camp has been arrested fol- appeared when the land col- The stench of death is now district chief, Haroun Al Hassan, some of the rescuers anyway. ernment in Khartoum. lowing “a misunderstanding”, lapsed around them yesterday seeping out of the baked earth, said “the number of people who “We are still searching for the AFP Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Isna news agency. Bagher Asadi’s detention comes Bahrain protest weeks ahead of the June 14 presiden- tial election, the first since the wave Hamas rebuffs Arabs for of protests that followed the 2009 poll that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeat reformist candidates. softening peace plan “We hope that the misunder- standing over Mr Asadi, who is a senior and respected employee GAZA: Islamist Hamas’ leader “The so-called new Arab initia- of the foreign ministry, will be in the Gaza Strip yesterday tive is rejected by our people, by resolved and that he will be freed,” rejected a revised Middle East our nation and no one can accept Salehi said. The foreign minister peace initiative put forward by it,” said Haniyeh, prime minister did not specify when Asadi was the Arab League, saying outsid- of the Hamas government in the arrested or why. Asadi is “a tal- ers could not decide the fate of coastal enclave. “The initiative ented expert and we have seen the Palestinians. contains numerous dangers to our him do nothing other than defend In meetings this week in people in the occupied land of 1967, the nation’s interest”, Salehi Washington, Arab states 1948 and to our people in exile.” added. appeared to soften their 2002 He was referring to the partition Asadi was a senior diplomat peace plan, acknowledging that of British-mandate Palestine in 1948 at the Islamic republic’s United Israelis and Palestinians may when the United Nations voted to Nations representation from have to swap land in any even- divide the territory into a Jewish 1997 until 2002 covering most tual peace deal. state and an Arab state, and to the of the presidency of reformist The US and the Palestinian 1967 war when Israel captured the Mohammad Khatami 1997-2005, leadership in the West Bank West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. according to reformist websites. praised the move. But speaking “To those who speak of land In January 2004, Asadi had an to hundreds of worshippers in a swaps we say: Palestine is not a op-ed published in the New York Gaza mosque, senior Hamas offi- property, it is not for sale, not for Times in which he criticised the Protesters holding Bahraini flags participate in an anti-government sit-in organised by main opposition party cial Ismail Haniyeh said it was a a swap and cannot be traded,” conservative camp. Al Wefaq in the village of Sitra, south of Manama, yesterday. concession that other Arabs were Haniyeh said. AFP not authorised to make. REUTERS MAY 4, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Solar-powered plane takes off for flight across US

SAN FRANCISCO: A solar- Solvay — backers who want to during daylight hours, and will powered airplane that devel- test new materials and technol- become the first solar-powered opers hope to eventually ogies while also gaining brand aircraft capable of operating day pilot around the world took recognition. and night without fuel to attempt off early yesterday from San Project organisers say the a US coast-to-coast flight. Francisco Bay on the first leg journey is also intended to boost But the plane, which from a of an attempt to fly across the worldwide support for the adop- distance resembles a giant float- United States with no fuel but tion of clean-energy technologies. ing insect in the sky, is unlikely to the sun’s energy. “I hope people understand set any speed or altitude records. The plane, dubbed the Solar the potential of this technol- It can climb gradually to 28,000 Impulse, departed shortly after ogy and use it on the ground,” feet (8,500 meters) and flies at 6am local time from Moffett Borschberg, who flew for the an average pace of just 43 miles Field, a joint civil-military air- Swiss Air Force for more than 20 per hour. port near the south end of years, told reporters as Piccard The current plane was San Francisco, heading first to suited up for the flight nearby. designed for flights of up to 24 Phoenix on a slow-speed flight “If we don’t try to fly today using hours at a time, but the next expected to take 15 to 20 hours. renewable energy, we never will.” model will have to allow for up The spindly looking plane With the wingspan of a jumbo to five days and five nights of fly- barely hummed as it took flight jet and the weight of a small car, ing by one pilot — a feat not yet in the still northern California the Solar Impulse is a test model accomplished. Meditation and morning as the sun was just for a more advanced aircraft the hypnosis were part of the train- beginning to peek out over the team plans to build to circum- ing for the pilots as they pre- Santa Cruz Mountains to the navigate the globe in 2015. pared to fly on very little sleep. east. The plane made its first inter- Asked about the downside of After additional stops in continental flight, from Spain to solar-powered flight at a news Dallas, St Louis and Washington, Morocco, last June. conference in March to unveil DC, with pauses at each destina- The aircraft runs on about the the current plane, Piccard tion to wait for favorable weather, same power as a motor scooter, acknowledged there was a price the flight team hopes to conclude propelled by energy collected paid for the tiny carrying capac- the plane’s cross-country voyage The Solar Impulse aircraft takes off from Moffett Field to begin the first leg of its 2013 Across America Mission from 12,000 solar cells built ity and massive wings. in about two months at John F in Mountain View, California, yesterday. into the wings that simultane- “In that sense, it is not the Kennedy International Airport ously recharge batteries with a easiest way to fly,” he said. “But in New York. turns flying the plane, built tentatively scheduled to land in euros ($112m) and has involved storage capacity equivalent to a it is the most fabulous way to Swiss pilots and co-founders with a single-seat cockpit, with Phoenix at 1am local time. engineers from Swiss escalator Tesla electric car. In that way, fly, because the more you fly, the of the project, Bertrand Piccard Piccard at the controls for the The project began in 2003 with maker Schindler and research the Solar Impulse can fly after more energy you have on board.” and Andre Borschberg, will take first flight to Arizona. He is a 10-year budget of 90 million aid from Belgian chemicals group dark on solar energy generated REUTERS Wildfire threatens 4,000 South Africa govt Trust in scandal-hit Spain in crisis over homes in California wedding scandal royals hits new low: Poll CAMARILLO: A fierce, wind- The so-called Springs Fire and JOHANNESBURG: South whipped brush fire grew along a flurry of smaller blazes around Africa’s government announced the California coast north- the state this week marked an the suspension of a slew of offi- west of Los Angeles yesterday, abrupt start to a California fire cials and military personnel Support for mainstream political parties drops threatening thousands of homes season that weather forecast- yesterday, as it tried to limit the and a military base as about 200 ers predict will be worsened by political and diplomatic fallout MADRID: Public confidence in wife, the king’s younger daughter Spain’s number two problem dwellings were evacuated and a a summer of high temperatures from a lavish Indian wedding. Spain’s royal family has plunged Cristina, was also formally named behind unemployment. A record university campus closed. and drought throughout much of A gaggle of top ministers to a new low in the past year and as a suspect in the affair. high unemployment rate of 27 A force of more than 900 fire- the US West. appeared in public to explain how a half since a corruption scan- She has appealed the summons percent, political corruption alle- fighters had managed by day- “We’re seeing fires burning like a rich Indian family with ties to dal engulfed King Juan Carlos’ to go before a judge in the investi- gations and austerity measures break to carve containment lines we usually see in late summer, at President Jacob Zuma landed a son-in-law, a survey showed gation. The case centres on alle- have eroded support for the two around about 10 percent of the the height of the fire season, and Airbus A330 laden with wedding yesterday. gations of embezzlement against main political parties, the ruling perimeter of the inferno, which it’s only May,” Ventura County guests at a military base without The study by the state polling Urdangarin and his former busi- People’s Party (PP) and socialist has scorched some 10,000 acres fire department spokesman Tom permits. institute CIS showed that the ness partner when the duke ran PSOE, the survey of 2,482 people (4,047 hectares) of dry, dense Crush said. The passengers were guests of score for public confidence in the a non-profit institution from 2004 showed. Prime Minister Mariano brush and chaparral since erupt- Strong, erratic winds that the Gupta family, a major political royals fell to 3.68 points out of to 2006. Another poll carried out Rajoy’s PP would take just 34 per- ing on Thursday morning. complicated efforts to combat donor to the ruling ANC and one 10, from 4.97 in October 2011. In before Cristina’s summons and cent of the votes if a general elec- Several farm buildings and rec- the Springs Fire through much of the country’s richest families. November 2010 it had been 5.36. published in newspaper on April tion were called now, compared reational vehicles were engulfed, of the first day abated somewhat The scandal has rocked South The question on the royals had 7 showed that more than half of to 35 percent in January and the and fire officials said 15 homes yesterday morning but seemed to Africa and left Zuma facing alle- not been included in the monthly Spaniards disapproved of the king 44.6 percent the party received were damaged, though no resi- be picking up again, Crush said. gations of cronyism from political CIS survey since October 2011, against 42 percent who approved. in the election in November 2011. dential structures were lost and In the meantime, wind condi- foes and rare public rebukes from just before Juan Carlos’s son-in- Juan Carlos won wide respect The PSOE would take 28.2 no injuries have been reported, tions had improved enough to his allies. law Inaki Urdangarin was named in Spain for helping guide it percent of the vote in elections, authorities said. allow several planes equipped for In a statement, Zuma’s office in a corruption probe — the first through a political transi- compared to 33.4 percent a While the extent of evacu- dumping payloads of fire-retard- said the leader welcomed the major public scandal to hit the tion after the death of dictator year earlier. Its leader, Alfredo ations was scaled back on ant chemicals to return to the air probes into the incident by the rel- traditionally popular king’s family. Francisco Franco in 1975. Perez Rubalcaba, inspired “no Friday, some 4,000 homes were at dawn along with a fleet of six evant government departments. The latest poll was carried out Half of Spaniards consider the confidence” in 53 percent of considered to be under threat, water-dropping helicopters, he “The president has emphasised between April 1 and 8, coinciding political situation to be “very respondents. the Ventura County Fire said. that the investigation and the with the news that Urdangarin’s bad” and ranked corruption as AFP Department said. REUTERS manner in which this matter is handled should not be allowed to impact negatively on the warm Italy’s first black minister and friendly historical relations” between the two countries, it added. Attempting to defuse the defiant amid racist slurs crisis, minister after minister yesterday insisted “no execu- ROME: Italy’s first black min- in Italy to immigrant parents to tive authority” was granted for ister has responded to a barrage get automatic citizenship instead the plane to land at Waterkloof of sexist and racial insults by of waiting until 18 to apply. airforce base outside Pretoria on saying she is proud to be black, “I arrived in Italy alone at 18 Tuesday. not colored, and that Italy is not years old, and I don’t believe in Justice Minister Jeffrey Radebe really a racist country. giving up in front of obstacles,” — flanked by the ministers for Cecile Kyenge, an eye doctor Kyenge, who left DRC so she home affairs, foreign affairs, and Italian citizen originally could pursue her studies in medi- police and defence — announced from Democratic Republic of cine, said. She also rejected the that five officials and military per- Congo (DRC), was named term “coloured” used to describe sonnel had been suspended from integration minister by Prime her in many Italian press reports, duty. He vowed to bring to justice Minister Enrico Letta last saying: “I am not coloured, I am those who “brought the country Saturday, one of seven women black and I say it with pride”. into disrepute” and said a full in the new government. Millions of emigrants left investigation will report within UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, Since then, she has been Italy in the 19th and 20th centu- seven days. the subject of taunts on far- ries but the country has had dif- in London, yesterday. Two police officers and one right websites, which have ficulties integrating citizens from reservist have also been arrested branded her with names such other countries who come seeking in connection with a blue-light as “Congolese monkey”, “Zulu” work. Kyenge, who is married to Anti-EU British party makes gains escort that took the guests from and “the black anti-Italian”. an Italian, said she did not view the airport to the Sun City resort She also faced race-tinged Italy as a particularly racist where the wedding took place. insults from Mario Borghezio, a country, and believed that hos- LONDON: The anti-European had voted to endorse its policies, UKIP could split the centre-right It was claimed that most of the European parliament member tile attitudes stem mainly from Union UK Independence Party the best result for a party outside vote at the next national election. vehicles in the cavalcade were pri- of the pro-devolution Northern ignorance. “Italy has a tradition made sweeping gains in local the big three since World War That would make it harder for vately hired and illegally fitted League, which has been allied of welcoming and offering hospi- elections, siphoning support from Two. UKIP won 147 council seats, Cameron to defeat Labour, which with blue lights, although at least in the past with former Prime tality towards others. We need British Prime Minister David up from eight in 2009. More than leads his Conservatives by up to one police vehicle was present. Minister Silvio Berlusconi. to recognise these traditions and Cameron’s Conservatives in a 2,000 council seats in England and 10 percent in opinion polls as the But the finger of blame was In reference to Kyenge, apply them day to day,” she said. vote that exposed a threat to his Wales were contested. economy shows tentative signs also pointed at India’s high Borghezio called Letta’s coali- Boldrini herself told a news- re-election chances in 2015. Even though the Conservatives of recovering despite unpopular Commissioner to South Africa, tion a “bonga bonga govern- paper that she had received UKIP, in results released yes- suffered heavy losses, they still public spending cuts. who appeared to have asked for ment” — a play on the “bunga, daily death threats online and terday, secured almost one in won more seats — 1,116 — than Though Labour, which has con- landing rights. “We have a dip- bunga” antics under Berlusconi a stream of messages containing every four votes cast on Thursday any other party since many of the trolled South Shields since 1935, lomatic incident at hand,” said - and said she herself appeared sexually violent images. “When in council elections in mostly areas have long been Conservative held onto the parliamentary seat, Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana- to be “a good housewife but not a a woman takes up public office, English rural areas that have strongholds. UKIP won 24 percent of the vote Mashabane, vowing to use minister”. Kyenge dismissed the sexist aggression sets off against traditionally been Conservative Though UKIP still has no seats there, its second highest result diplomatic channels to voice its dis- comments, which the speaker of her, and whether simple gos- strongholds, rattling all Britain’s in the 650-seat lower house of the in such an election. Labour won pleasure. Relations between South the lower house Laura Boldrini sip or violent...it always uses the three main parties as voters British parliament, its surge in 291 council seats, but that was Africa and India are already labeled “racist vulgarities”. same vocabulary of humiliation switched to the populist group. the polls will increase pressure not as many as expected, and strained following a Brics summit Kyenge plans to push for legis- and submission,” Boldrini told La UKIP, which wants Britain to on Cameron from nervous law- Ed Miliband, its leader, said the in Durban in March, when Zuma lation, opposed by the League, Repubblica newspaper. leave the European Union and an makers in his own party to take results showed his party had more failed to have a bilateral meeting that would allow children born REUTERS end to “open-door immigration”, a tougher stance on Europe and work to do to persuade doubters. with Prime Minister Manmohan said more than 1 million people immigration. The results suggest REUTERS Singh. AFP MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Philippines Govt changes tack on Job fair communist insurgents New approach sought to resolve armed conflict

MANILA: The Philippine gov- have suffered the brunt of the committed to ending all internal ernment wants to get inputs armed violence in 46 years of the armed conflicts through a multi- from the people in New People’s communist insurgency. track approach. Presidential Army (NPA)-infested areas “They should put an end to the spokesman Edwin Lacierda said before peace talks with the senseless violence they are inflict- the government will decided on communist insurgents resume. ing on our people, especially on the details of the new approach. In a statement, chief govern- innocent civilians,” he said. Lacierda said the rebels seemed ment negotiator Alexander Padilla The presidential adviser on to be making their presence felt said any new approach must be the peace process, Teresita Deles, during the election season. time-bound and agenda-bound. said the government was under- “We are committed to solving “Just look at the negotiations taking discussions and consulta- internal armed conflicts peace- with the Milf (Moro Islamic tions with civil society groups and fully, hence this statement from Liberation Front) and other various sectors to develop a new Secretary Ging Deles on the new peace negotiations abroad such approach to peace negotiations approach,” he said. as the current Colombian talks, with the rebels. The National Democratic Front where results are there after a “The peace panel is conduct- (NDF) wants the government to given period of time,” he said. ing consultations with stake- free communist leaders facing The administration is consider- holders nationwide, side by side criminal cases before peace talks ing the new approach to peace- with inter-agency discussions resume. Luis Jalandoni, NDF fully resolve the armed conflict and workshops within the gov- negotiating panel chairman, said with communist rebels, he added. ernment, to be able to bring in the government was obliged to free Padilla said hostilities must everyone’s input,” she said. rebels with immunity guarantees. cease since thousands of civilians The government remains THE PHILIPPINE STAR Jobseekers read work vacancy advisories during a job fair inside a mall in Quezon City, Manila. The Philippines' Department of Labour and Employment co-sponsors job fairs nationwide in efforts to facilitate work opportuni- ties for fresh graduates and other jobseekers. The Philippines' unemployment rate is at 7.1 percent. Lightning strike Marcos Jr declares P437m net worth Poll panel satisfied with test kills soldier ZAMBOANGA: A sentry MANILA: Of the seven sena- SALNs after the April 30 dead- condominium unit at Wack-Wack of optical scan machines soldier was killed while his tors who have filed their state- line. Marcos’ net worth did not in Mandaluyong and another unit comrade was severely hurt ments of assets, liabilities and include the settlement of the in Ayala, Makati estimated at MANILA: No major problems PCOS machines, including con- when lightning struck their net worth (SALN), Senator estate of his late father. P85.6m. were encountered at the start necting the power adaptor to the post yesterday while they Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Apart from Marcos, those The senator’s assets have of the final testing and sealing machines and the battery in case were on guard duty in a vil- is the richest with a declared who have revealed their SALNs increased significantly through of precinct count optical scan there is no power; keying in the lage in Zamboanga Sibugay, net worth of nearly P437m. for scrutiny by the media were the years. His net worth was (PCOS) machines, Commission security key; setting the correct military officials said The net worth of Senator senators Francis Escudero, Loren P126.45m in 2007, P179.98m in on Elections (Comelec) Chairman date and time; and feeding the yesterday. Marcos, the only son and name- Legarda, Ramon “Bong” Revilla 2008, P315.5m in 2009, P311.5m Sixto Brillantes Jr reported. ballots. Captain Jefferson Somera, sake of former dictator Ferdinand Jr, Teofisto Guingona III, Sergio in 2010, and P364.39m in 2011. “So far, there’s no problem. We Brillantes said the machines Spokesman for the Philippine Marcos, increased by P72.85m Osmena III and Antonio Trillanes Meanwhile, Guingona’s net don’t expect any problem in this that passed the tests would be Army’s 1st Division, said the compared to his net worth in the IV. worth went down by some P40m precinct… and we don’t expect sealed and stored in a secure two victims were designated year 2011. Marcos explained in his SALN in 2012 compared to the previous any problem in the entire coun- place either at the school or at to guard their battalion post He said the increase was the that he had to make certain year, apparently after the sena- try,” said Brillantes, who person- the Comelec’s PCOS hubs. located at Barangay Libertad, result of new rules set by the adjustments to real investments tor and his wife, Ma. Victoria, ally supervised the Field Testing “The same machine will come Tungawan town, when light- Civil Service Commission, which even if the properties were under incurred liabilities through surety and Sealing at Precinct 24 in to this room for election day…It ning struck the post after 7am include the need to declare the construction or the title deeds this year. Gotamco Elementary School in will be opened again,” he said. yesterday. acquisition costs of various prop- were not yet in his possession. Revilla’s total assets was placed Pasay City. During the testing, Brillantes He said the incident erties, in the light of lessons The senator’s assets included at P251,778,835.51 and his liabili- Teachers serving as Board also ordered a manual count of occurred during bad weather learned during the impeach- properties totalling P303.5m: ties were pegged at P82,637,448.60, of Elections Inspectors (BEIs) the ballots counted by the PCOS in the area yesterday. “The ment trial of former chief justice P10m in cash and bank depos- bringing his total net worth with checked if the PCOS machines machines to check their accuracy. powerful charge of the light- Renato Corona. its; nine vehicles worth P16m; actress-turned-politican wife, have all the accessories based Brillantes said members of the ning caught the two soldiers The senator is so far the “rich- jewellery worth P15m; paint- Cavite Representative Lani on a checklist provided by the Random Manual Audit team will inside, causing severe shock,” est” among the seven senators ings valued at P16.7m; shares Mercado, to P169.141m. Comelec. do the manual counting. said Somera. who have made public their worth P20m and investment in a THE PHILIPPINE STAR The BEIs then operated the THE PHILIPPINE STAR Philippines gives Imelda’s bus €5,000 to WHF MANILA: The Philippines has contributed €5,000 to the World Heritage Fund Mancao fears for his life as a symbolic gesture of the country’s commitment to the MANILA: Fearful for his the NBI headquarters in Manila. The two guards, identified as conservation and preserva- life and saying he was a vic- “The President instructed Pablo Remalante and Ibrahim tion of natural and cultural tim of injustice, former police Secretary Leila to investigate Musa, were held for questioning. heritage. superintendent Cezar Mancao the cause of his escape and to Footage from a security camera The Department of Foreign has walked out of detention also hold accountable those showed Mancao calmly leaving Affairs said the contribu- from the National Bureau of behind it,” presidential spokes- his cell before dawn, carrying a tion would help support the Investigation (NBI). man Edwin Lacierda said at black bag containing his personal World Heritage Education “Please don’t remove my things Malacañang. belongings, according to Rojas. Programme, one of the United without proper inventory. I am NBI Director Nonnatus Rojas Mancao was reportedly seen Nations Educational Scientific just a victim of injustice here. confirmed Mancao’s escape early on the security camera wearing a and Cultural Organisation’s Thanks, Cesar Mancao,” read on Thursday morning. white T-shirt and a bull cap, going most successful flagship pro- the letter Mancao purportedly Rojas said he had alerted all through the main gate of the NBI grammes for youth. signed and left on the table inside NBI units nationwide to be on along Taft Avenue at 1.14am. The programme is designed his cell. the lookout for Mancao while an The escape was discovered to mobilise young people to He said he suspected a political investigation was on to determine almost two hours later, officials actively participate in the pro- ally of President Benigno Aquino the officials responsible for the said. motion of world heritage. to be responsible for his suffering. escape. Investigators said Mancao Its activities promote knowl- Mancao is on trial for the mur- “We have tasked our Criminal apparently boarded a waiting edge, skills and commitment to ders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Intelligence Division to handle the vehicle outside. His cell was heritage protection. Dacer and his driver Emmanuel investigation. His escape is a big separate from the rest of the Corbito in 2000. slap in the bureau’s face,” Rojas detainees and leads directly to Manila gets credit President Aquino ordered said. the gas station and the parking Justice Secretary Leila de Lima Rojas said two guards who area at the back of the NBI’s ratings upgrade to investigate how Mancao was apparently allowed Mancao to main office. MANILA: The Philippines Former first lady Imelda Marcos poses for a photo with local tourists inside able to slip out of detention at escape had been detained. THE PHILIPPINE STAR received its second invest- her bus while visiting the tourist city of Vigan in Ilocos Sur province yes- ment grade credit rating with terday. Marocs is running for re-election in the May 13 mid-term elections. Standard and Poor’s follow- ing Fitch in giving an upbeat assessment of the Southeast Asian country’s economy. S&P said the outlook on the Lawmakers spending funds on hospitals, roads Philippines was stable, and raised its rating to BBB- from BB+. MANILA: Senatorial can- provincial hospitals such as the road, also in Legazpi City. Legarda Senator Aquilino Pimentel III of multi-purpose buildings in “The upgrade on the didates who are incumbent Eastern Visayas Regional Medical spent the remaining P36m of her received the biggest PDAF allo- Nueva Ecija, Camarines Sur, Philippines reflects a strength- lawmakers are spending Centre in Tacloban City, Vicente PDAF for vermiculture training cation of P167.3m, which included Bicol University, Masbate State ening external profile, mod- their Priority Development Sotto Memorial Medical Centre and vegetable production in three previous years’ backlog. College of Agriculture, Sorsogon erating inflation and the Assistance Fund (PDAF) for in Cebu City, Celestino Gallares Pangasinan towns, two municipali- Pimentel distributed his funds State College, Camarines Norte government’s reliance on providing medical assistance, Memorial Hospital in Tagbilaran ties in Zambales and one in Lanao in small amounts averaging State College, Catanduanes State foreign currency debt,” S&P livelihood training and financial City, Corazon Montelibano del Norte. P200,000 to various local govern- College, and the police station in credit analyst Agost Benard aid to local government units. Memorial Regional Hospital in Senator Alan Peter Cayetano ment units. He had a few big-ticket Alcoy, Cebu. He used the remain- said in a statement. Senator Francis Escudero, who Bacolod City and Bicol Medical received P7.3m in PDAF this year. projects, including the repair of a ing P5m for the improvement of “We expect the country attended a round table discussion Centre in Naga City. He spent it for the procurement barangay road in Carmona, Cavite; access roads in Pagadian City, to move into near-balanced on Wednesday night, gave P75m He also allocated P10m for of multi-cab vehicles which he construction of a public library Zamboangal del Sur. external position because of of his P88m “pork barrel” to gov- the repair of a barangay road in distributed to the local govern- in Bais City, Negros Oriental, Four House members — Joseph persistent account surpluses, ernment hospitals as medical Dapitan City. ments of Marawi City, Pateros, and a multi-purpose building in Victor Ejercito, Jack Enrile, Mitos in which large net transfers assistance for the poor. Senator Loren Legarda allo- Banayoyo town in Ilocos Sur, Santander, Cebu, and repair of a Magsaysay and Juan Edgardo from Filipinos working abroad These hospitals were the cated P50m of her P90.5m PDAF Gasan in Marinduque, Siasi in barangay road in Pagadian City, Angara are seeking senatorial more than offset ongoing trade National Kidney and Transplant for three projects in Albay — reha- Sulu, Lamitan in Basilan, and Zamboanga del Sur. seats this May. deficits.” Institute, Philippine Heart Centre bilitation of flood control systems Tandubas in Tawi-Tawi. He also Senator Antonio Trillanes Ejercito, Enrile and Angara AGENCIES and Philippine Children’s Medical in Malinao town and Legazpi City, gave an ambulance to Compostela IV spent P25m of his P30m spent their PDAF in their districts. Centre, all in Quezon City, and in and construction of a barangay town in Compostela Valley. PDAF this year for the repair THE PHILIPPINE STAR MAY 4, 2013 Asia www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY

Carp streamer Heavy rain kills China nabs 900 over 11 in Myanmar YANGON: At least 11 peo- ple have died — mainly gold miners — and four others remain missing after heavy toxic meat scandal rains battered townships in eastern Myanmar, police said yesterday. Around 20,000 tonnes of fake, inferior meat confiscated Relief teams were battling to reach the areas hit by rains BEIJING: China has detained making fake mutton from fox, The public security ministry near Kalaw in southern Shan 900 people for crimes including rat and chemicals, and others in said the sting on the toxic meat State, according to the coun- selling rat and fox meat as beef southwestern Guizhou province was part of a wider probe into try’s Red Cross, which earlier and mutton, the public security mixing hydrogen peroxide solu- food safety issues, from the dis- put the death toll at 16. ministry said, in another blow tion with chicken claws. covery in March of thousands Around 170 buildings includ- to the nation’s food safety. The scandal was widely dis- of dead pigs floating down a ing two schools were destroyed News of the three-month cussed by users of China’s popular Shanghai river to the problem of by the fierce weather. operation, which related to meat Sina Weibo microblog. “gutter oil”. products, added to a string of “Anything can be done once Cheap recycled cooking oil is Narrow lead for scandals that have galvanised humanity is gone,” said one user. available nationwide made ille- public concern over food safety “We are nearly immune to hun- gally from leftovers scooped out opposition in China, from recycled cooking dreds of poisons, should we thank of restaurant drains. oil to dangerous chemicals in baby these fantastic businessmen?” One of China’s worst food KUALA LUMPUR: milk powder. wrote another. China’s top court safety scandals hit in 2008 when Malaysia’s opposition enjoys Altogether there were “382 yesterday announced its first ever the industrial chemical melamine a very narrow lead over the cases of water-injected meat, fake detailed guidelines for the pun- was found to have been illegally long ruling National Front mutton and beef, diseased meat, ishment of food-safety related added to dairy products, killing for the first time in a key toxic and harmful meat products”, crimes, the state-run China News at least six babies and making poll issued yesterday, two the ministry said on its website Service reported. 300,000 people ill. days before an election in the on Thursday. The crimes listed included sup- In another recent incident, Southeast Asian country. “Nine hundred and four sus- plying meat from animals which US fast food giant KFC was hit The survey carried out pects were arrested, more than died of illness, selling food with by controversy after revealing by the Merdeka Center also 20,000 tonnes of various types of excessive amounts of chemical some Chinese suppliers provided revealed a broad decline in sup- fake or inferior meat products additives, and falsely advertising chicken with high levels of anti- port for Prime Minister Najib were confiscated.” food products, the report said, biotics, in what appeared to be an Razak. The survey, conducted The crimes ranged from sell- citing China’s Supreme People’s industry-wide practice. between April 28 and May 2 A huge carp streamer flies above the Tone River in Kazo City, Saitama ers in eastern Jiangsu province Court. AFP among 1,600 voters, showed 42 prefecture, in Tokyo yesterday. The 100-metre-long, 350kg streamer marks percent of respondents wanted Children’s Day, which falls on May 5. the opposition Peoples’ Pact of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to govern the country. It credited the prime minister’s National Front with Generators caused US military plane crashes in 41 percent. Kyrgyzstan, crew missing 1,100 miners Bangladesh disaster end strike DHAKA: A top investigator With bulldozers clawing away BISHKEK: A US military refu- aircraft crashed today in northern Kyrgyz media after rushing to the probing last week’s garment fac- at the mountain of rubble at the elling plane crashed yesterday in Kyrgyzstan. Emergency response scene that it was possible no trace JAKARTA: Hundreds tory disaster in Bangladesh yes- site, the number of bodies being the mountains of Kyrgyzstan crews are on scene,” the aircraft’s of the crew would ever be found. of workers at Freeport- terday blamed vibrations from recovered from the country’s shortly after taking off from a base, the Manas Transit Centre, “I cannot exclude that the McMoRan’s Indonesian mine four illegal generators for the deadliest industrial disaster has base that serves as a key hub for said in a statement. three American pilots could have returned to work yesterday collapse of the building which been increasing sharply. the campaign in Afghanistan, “The status of the crew is died after being burned alive in after a three-day strike over killed more than 500 workers. Captain Shakiur Rahman, an leaving the fate of its three unknown,” it added. “The cause of the explosion,” he said. pay, the US firm said. The preliminary findings of the officer in a special army control American crew unknown. the crash is under investigation.” He told Kyrgyz radio that the Some 1,100 workers, government probe, as described room set up to coordinate the res- The KC-135 Stratotanker — Kyrgyz officials said that search plane’s black box had been found employed by three contractors by lead investigator Main Uddin cue operation, said the “death toll believed to be carrying dozens of operations were being called off but no human remains, which and not directly by Freeport, Khandaker, gave the clearest now stands at 525”. tonnes of fuel — crashed and burst for the night and would resume in could have burnt up in the blaze. downed tools on Tuesday at explanation yet for the cata- Dozens more people are thought into flames around 50 kilometres the morning. The interior minis- The head of Kyrgyzstan’s the Grasberg mine in eastern- strophic structural failure. to have been buried alive after the west of the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, try said that the site of the acci- transport prosecutors, Kuvan most Papua province. But the “Four huge generators were set eight-storey building collapsed in US and local officials said. dent was under guard. Mamakeyev, said from the scene workers But the workers from up on each of the top floors where Savar, which lies around 30 kilo- The cause of the disaster — The Manas transit centre in that debris from the crashed the contractors Jasti Pravita, garment factories were located, metres to the northwest of the which took place around 2.55 pm Bishkek airport, is key to US mili- plane could have scattered over Osato Seike and Srikandi violating rules,” Khandaker, a capital Dhaka. local time — was not immedi- tary operations in Afghanistan, a radius of up to 20 kilometres. Mitra Karya, most of whom senior home ministry official, said. Civil engineer Abdur Razzaq ately clear. Images from the scene used to ferry troops into the Some witnesses quoted by are working on an expansion “When these generators were Khan was detained on Thursday showed ash and isolated pieces of country, refuel warplanes and Kyrgyz media said that a pilot had of the mine, returned to work started after a power cut they night after police said he had wreckage were all that remained evacuate wounded soldiers. apparently been seen parachuting yesterday after reaching a deal created vibration, and together given the building the all-clear of the burned-out plane. Kyrgyz Emergency Situations out of the plane. on salaries, a spokeswoman with the vibration of thousands of on April 23 after inspecting the “A US Air Force KC-135 tanker Minister Kubatbek Boronov told AFP for Freeport’s Indonesian unit sewing machines, they triggered cracks. said. the collapse,” he said. Khan was quoted as telling “Within five minutes the build- one Bengali newspaper, Jugantor, Thai PM sues ing caved in and sandwiched into on the night before the tragedy one floor like a pack of cards,” he that the building was “risky” and over post said, adding a final probe report should be the subject of “further Last S Korean workers leave joint complex would be submitted after the con- investigation”. BANGKOK: A lawyer clusion of the recovery operation. His nephew Talebur Rahman, PAJU: South Korea yesterday a symbol of cross-border coopera- wages for North Koreans, the for Thai Prime Minister Khandaker said the building, who is a fellow director of his withdrew its last remaining tion, but has fallen victim to the Unification Ministry said. Yingluck Shinawatra has Rana Plaza, was built “for com- engineering consultancy, said: workers from a joint industrial stand-off on the Korean peninsula. Seoul sent two vehicles loaded filed a defamation suit mercial use”, not for a factory, “We don’t know why he is being zone in North Korea at risk of Seoul last week ordered all with $13m in cash over the border against an influential car- and it could not withstand the made a scapegoat or why they permanent closure due to soar- remaining South Koreans to leave to make the payments demanded toonist alleging he compared vibrations because the owner used arrested him. Did they arrest him ing military tensions. after Pyongyang banned entry by Pyongyang. the premier to a prostitute in sub-standard rods, bricks and for warning of the danger?” It is the first time Seoul has by southerners, pulled out its Pyongyang blamed the South a Facebook post, police said other materials to construct it. Dhaka deputy police chief A B pulled out all its workers from the own 53,000 workers and rejected for the deadlock over. “All facts go yesterday. It also emerged yesterday that M Masud Hossain said investiga- project since it opened in 2004, the South’s call for talks on the to prove that the (South Korean) Chai Rachawat, a cartoon- an engineer who had warned tors found that Khan had cleared underscoring the severe deteri- impasse. puppet forces are working hard to ist for a daily newspaper, that the building may be unsafe the building to continue operating oration in ties between the two Most South Koreans had left by turn the sacred KIZ into a thea- posted pictures of Yingluck on before it imploded on April 24 was while also suggesting the owner Koreas. early Tuesday, and the last seven tre of confrontation,” the North’s Tuesday accompanied by the being questioned by police after seek further advice. The Kaesong Industrial Zone workers returned yesterday after official KCNA news agency said words “... a prostitute is not becoming the latest person to be AFP (KIZ) — located 10 kilometres several days of talks with the yesterday in a commentary. an evil person, the hooker only arrested over the disaster. north of the frontier — was once North over issues such as unpaid AFP sells body. But an evil woman sells the nation”. A day ear- lier, at a democracy forum in Mongolia, the premier had condemned the 2006 overthrow Fiji regime lets of her brother Thaksin in an Indonesia radicals urge army coup. three opposition Indonesia jails parties register jihad; bomb plot foiled drug smugglers SUVA: Fiji’s military regime JAKARTA: Two Indonesians to officials inside, as hundreds of MATARAM: An Indonesian said yesterday it had given have been detained over a plot to police in riot gear stood guard. court has sentenced a three political parties permis- bomb the Myanmar embassy in Earlier, officials said anti-ter- German man and a South sion to contest elections sched- Jakarta, officials said yesterday, rorist police had detained two African woman to life in uled for next year, the first vote as radicals rallying in the city men suspected of planning a bomb prison for attempting to since a 2006 coup in the South called for “jihad in Myanmar” attack on the Myanmar embassy. smuggle drugs into a resort Pacific nation. to avenge Muslim deaths. The suspects were arrested late island in two separate cases, Fiji’s Registrar of Political The incidents highlight the on Thursday travelling by motor- a judge said yesterday. Parties Mohammad Saneem said growing anger in Muslim- bike in a busy residential area in Rolf Oskar Josef Schweikert, the trio were the only ones to majority Indonesia over a string the south of the capital with five 57, was caught trying to smug- meet strict criteria for political of religious clashes in largely- assembled pipe bombs, national gle 3.7 kilogrammes of hash- organisations set down in a decree Buddhist Myanmar that have left police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar ish into the island of Lombok, issued by the government earlier many minority Muslims dead and said in a statement. just east of Bali, in October as this year. tens of thousands displaced. The men, Sefa Riano, 28, and he arrived on a Silk Air flight Saneem declined to say how Around 1,000 angry hardliners Achmad Taufiq, 21, planned to from Singapore. many of the 17 parties operating from the Islamic Defenders Front launch the attack yesterday, said Kathlyn Dunn, 28, was before the decree came into force (FPI) converged on Myanmar’s a senior source at the country’s arrested arriving on a Silk Air had unsuccessfully applied to con- embassy in Jakarta yesterday, anti-terrorist police, speaking on flight from Singapore two days test the elections. brandishing banners that read “we condition of anonymity. before the German, attempting The parties granted registration want to kill Myanmar Buddhists” The head of Indonesia’s anti- to smuggle in 2.6 kilogrammes are the National Federation Party, A protester belonging to the Islamic Defenders Front holds a placard calling and “stop genocide in Myanmar”. terrorist agency, Ansyaad Mbai, of crystal methamphetamine. the Fiji Labour Party and the to “stop the massacre of Muslim Rohingya” during a rally near the Myanmar They torched the Myanmar flag, said the target was the Myanmar AGENCIES Social Democratic Liberal Party. embassy in Jakarta, yesterday. while chanting “burn down the embassy. AFP embassy” and demanding to speak AFP MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Prosecutor in Bhutto, Mumbai cases killed Victim was mentioned in threats received by sleuths

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s speculate who was responsible. main state prosecutor in the President Asif Ali Zardari, 2007 murder of former prime Bhutto’s widower, condemned the minister Benazir Bhutto and killing and ordered a thorough the 2008 Mumbai attacks was investigation to “expose the real shot dead in Islamabad en culprits involved in the murder”, route to court yesterday, police his office said. said. Zulfiqar had been on his way to Chaudhry Zulfiqar was shot the latest hearing of the anti-ter- multiple times after gunmen rorism court hearing the Bhutto intercepted his vehicle shortly case in the neighbouring city of after he left home in a busy, mid- Rawalpindi. dle-class neighbourhood of the He lost control of his car after capital. His bodyguard was also being shot and hit the woman, wounded and a woman passer-by who died instantly, witnesses and killed. officers said. The assassination comes just Abdul Mateen, who works at a days before Pakistan holds his- nearby guest house, said he heard toric general elections on May heavy gunfire. 11, marking the first time that a “When I came out I found civilian government completes a a car moving out of control. It State prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar full term in office and hands over then descended into a side road. to another at the ballot box. The man in the drivers’ seat was Zulfiqar was given extra gov- bleeding profusely with multiple this incident. We are colleagues. ernment security last year after bullet injuries on his head, shoul- If it can happen to him today, it he was mentioned in threats der and the back,” he said. can be us tomorrow,” Musharraf’s received by police investigators “People rushed to the area, put lawyer Afshan Adil said. working on the Bhutto case. him into a taxicab and took him Nobody has ever been convicted The source of the threats was to hospital.” or jailed for Bhutto’s assassination Pakistani police officials examine the bullet-riddled car of slain government prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar after unclear, but one investigator Zulfiqar’s white Toyota Corolla in a gun and suicide attack after a an attack by gunmen in Islamabad, yesterday. said he was told not to appear in was badly damaged in the attack. campaign rally in Rawalpindi on court at Zulfiqar’s behest by an Its wind shield was smashed December 27, 2007. unknown caller using a number and there were multiple bullet Musharraf’s government been prevented and accused to gather more evidence in India week’s election, but has been in Afghanistan. marks on both sides of the car blamed the killing on Pakistani Musharraf’s government of before proceeding further. barred from running for parlia- “Chaudhry Zulfiqar was driving and at the front. Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, failing to give her adequate India accuses Lashkar-e-Taiba ment and is under house arrest in his car. He lost control and the Pieces of broken window lay who denied any involvement and protection. of training, equipping and financing the Bhutto case and for sacking car crushed a woman passer-by,” inside and on the road. There was killed in a US drone attack Zulfiqar was also the main gov- the attack with support from “ele- judges in 2007. police officer Mohammad Yousuf was blood on the car seats and in 2009. ernment prosecutor who indicted ments” in the Pakistani military. The Taliban have threatened said. on the road. Bhutto’s son, Bilawal Bhutto seven alleged conspirators in the “I cannot comment. I’m in a the main parties in the outgoing Medics said he died of his inju- Former military ruler Pervez Zardari, who is chairman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which state of shock,” Zulfiqar’s deputy government and attacks directly ries before arriving at hospital. Musharraf was this week placed outgoing main ruling Pakistan killed 166 people and which were Azhar Chaudhry said when asked targeting politicians and political The gunmen, who are under two-week house arrest over People’s Party, has accused blamed on Pakistan’s Islamist to comment. parties have killed more than 60 believed to have attacked from charges that he conspired to mur- Musharraf of her murder. group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Musharraf, who ruled from people since April 11, according to at least two different angles, der Bhutto. In 2010 a UN report said Pakistan indicted the seven in 1999-2008, returned to Pakistan an AFP tally. fled and officers refused to “We very strongly condemn Bhutto’s death could have 2009 but has since said it needs on March 24 to contest next AFP

Report on Bin Afghan interpreters take legal Father kills daughter Laden’s killing yet KABUL: In front of 300 vil- be punished with death, and the lagers, Halima’s father shot her mullahs said she should be exe- to be made public action to stay in Britain in the head, stomach and waist cuted in public. — a public execution overseen “The father killed his daughter ISLAMABAD: The much- LONDON: Lawyers for three And campaigners were set “The failure by the UK gov- by local religious leaders in with three shots as instructed by awaited report of the Afghan interpreters who to deliver a petition signed by ernment to extend to the Afghanistan to punish her for religious elders and in front of Abbottabad commission, tasked served with British forces fight- nearly 70,000 people supporting Afghan interpreters the reset- an alleged affair. villagers.” with probing the May 2, 2011 ing the Taliban in southern the three to Downing Street late tlement package offered to Iraqi Halima, aged between 18 and Amnesty International said the raid which led to the death of Afghanistan said yesterday yesterday. interpreters is unlawful and 20 and a mother of two children, killing, which occurred on April Osama bin Laden, is yet to be they had launched a legal chal- The law firm Leigh Day says discriminatory.” was killed for bringing “dishon- 22 in the village of Kookchaheel made public. lenge to a government decision one of the three Afghans they Prime Minister David Cameron our” on her family in a case that in Badghis province, was damn- The government of Pakistan not to let them settle in Britain. are representing, named only as has said that Afghan interpreters underlines how the country is ing evidence of how little control had formed a five-member com- The three argue they should be Abdul, remains in Afghanistan, should only be allowed to stay in still struggling to protect women Afghan police have over many mission on June 21, 2011, almost entitled to the same treatment as where he and his family have Britain “in extremis”. more than 11 years after the fall areas of the country. two months after the incident in interpreters with British forces been receiving threats by text “I do think that when we think of Taliban regime. “Violence against women which US Navy SEALs killed the in the Iraq war who were given message. of all that we have spent and all Police in the northwestern continues to be endemic in former Al Qaeda leader. exceptional leave to remain in “The recent threats made the cost in money and human lives province of Badghis said Halima Afghanistan and those respon- The commission was to find Britain and financial help. against Abdul and his family fur- we have put into Afghanistan, we was accused of running away with sible very rarely face jus- out exactly what happened and The interpreters say they face ther underline the very real dan- should do everything we can to a male cousin while her husband tice,” Amnesty’s Afghanistan who was responsible for failing the threat of being attacked by gers these men and their families encourage talented Afghans to was in Iran, and her father sought researcher Horia Mosadiq said. to catch the high-profile tar- the Taliban in their homeland face as a direct result of their stay in their country and contrib- advice from Taliban-backed cler- “Not only do women face vio- get, who had taken refuge in because of their work with for- work, and incredible bravery, in ute to it,” he added. ics on how to punish her. lence at the hands of family mem- Abbottabad. eign forces. support of the British forces in Britain is set to withdraw 3,800 “People in the mosque and vil- bers for reasons of preserving Initially, the commission was Lawyers have lodged proceed- Afghanistan,” Rosa Curling from of the country’s 9,000 troops from lage started taunting him about so-called ‘honour’, but frequently given 30 days to complete its ings against British Foreign the firm said. Afghanistan this year, as the her escape with the cousin,” women face human rights abuses report but after being provided Secretary William Hague “The government has a duty Nato-led foreign force prepares Badghis provincial police chief resulting from verdicts issued several extensions, the report was and Defence Secretary Philip to ensure that they are not left to withdraw all combat troops by Sharafuddin Sharaf said. by traditional, informal justice submitted to the prime minister Hammond at the High Court on exposed to the very real dangers the end of next year. “A local cleric who runs a systems.” on January 3, 2013. their behalf. posed by the Taliban. AFP madrassa told him that she must AFP Most of the findings of the said report were leaked to the press and were strongly criticised by defence experts. ANP candidate Pakistan parties channel millions into ads Dobbins is new US special envoy shot dead RAWALPINDI: As Taliban bat, swiping away corruption and KARACHI: A candidate run- bombs curtail campaign ral- propelling the country into the WASHINGTON: US ning for parliament in next lies, Pakistan’s political parties future. Secretary of State John Kerry week’s historic Pakistani elec- are ploughing millions of dol- With Taliban threats against has appointed veteran US tion was shot dead yesterday lars into TV and print adverts the main outgoing parties, Khan diplomat James Dobbins as along with his three-year-old to sway voters ahead of next and Sharif are the only party Washington’s new special envoy son after praying in a mosque in week’s historic polls. leaders to address traditional to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Karachi, police said. Competition is fierce but it’s public rallies in person. State Department spokesman It is the first time that a a cash market and those with Ad men consider the election a Patrick Ventrell said yesterday. national assembly candidate has the biggest bucks get the most two-horse race in which the PPP Dobbins, head of interna- been killed in Pakistan’s election air time ahead of the historic — rudderless without Bhutto and tional security and defence at the campaign. May 11 polls, set to mark a key her son too young to run for par- RAND National Defense Research Saddiq Zaman Khattak was democratic transition, say tele- liament — has deliberately taken Institute and a former senior a businessman and a candidate vision executives on condition of a backseat, consigned to a stint US diplomat, will replace Marc for the Awami National Party anonymity. in opposition. Grossman as special representa- (ANP), the leading secular party Bursting with colour, promising “It’s PTI and PML-N who are tive for Afghanistan and Pakistan. in Pakistan’s ethnic Pastun to fix the nation’s myriad ills, bust Commuters pass by posters of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary the highest spenders,” said Bilal Grossman had replaced the northwest. corruption and bring prosperity to Agha, general manager for Dawn late Richard Holbrooke in the elections displayed over a street in Rawalpindi. “He was returning from a voters, the “paid content” ads are News television. post. Holbrooke died suddenly in mosque after saying his Friday broadcast day and night accom- He said the Pakistan December 2010. prayers with his three-year-old panied by the upbeat, nationalist on condition of anonymity. too young to contest the vote -- as Broadcasters Association raised Ventrell said that Kerry spoke son when gunmen on a motor- jingle of campaign songs. Top-rated channels charge the country’s future. ad prices by 25 percent and made with Afghan President Hamid bike opened fire. Both were Although there is limited $2,200 a minute for the 9-10pm The main opposition and front- political spots cash only, but that Karzai and Pakistani President killed,” police spokesman Imran Internet access, more than 60 per- slot, a source in the advertising runner PML-N lionises its leader his channel had no favourites. Asif Ali Zardari to inform them of Shaukat said. cent of the 180 million population business said, adding that up to Nawaz Sharif as a statesman and “Whoever pays more, gets the appointment earlier yesterday. Pakistani Taliban claimed have access to TV, according to the $300,000 is being spent a day by a developer, the man who knows more,” he said. Dobbins represented the United responsibility for the attack and Pakistan Advertisers Society. the main three parties on their how to fix the economy, beloved by But another TV journalist said States at the Bonn Conference threatened further attacks on the For medium-sized channels, television campaigns. a sea of flag-waving crowds. that his bosses were showing clear that established the new Afghan ANP and its outgoing coalition an average minute of advertis- The outgoing PPP gives promi- Ads for cricket star Imran bias to Khan, ordering staff to government in December 2001, partners, the Pakistan People’s ing costs $460-500 during 6pm nence to former prime minister Khan -- looking to make a break- cover all his public meetings and shortly after US-led forces Party and MQM, the main party to midnight prime time or $250- Benazir Bhutto, showing footage through at the May 11 polls -- rallies, because PTI had paid so invaded Afghanistan and ousted in Karachi. 300 earlier in the day, according of her 2007 assassination and offer voters a “new Pakistan” with much money for ads. the Taliban. AFP to one television insider speaking anointing her son Bilawal -- still his PTI party symbol, a cricket AFP AGENCIES MAY 4, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Indo-Pak panel Pakistani in lays down guidelines for coma after prisoners NEW DELHI,: Consular access should be granted within three months and prisoners repatriated within a month attack in jail of their sentences being com- pleted, an India-Pakistan judi- cial panel that visited three jails in Pakistan has recommended. Islamabad wants immediate repatriation The panel, which met with Indian prisoners lodged in JAMMU/NEW DELHI: India said the guilty would be Pakistan, comprised Justice Sanaullah Ranjay, a Pakistani punished and called the attack on (Retd) A S Gill and Justice (Retd) in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail, Sanaullah “regrettable”. M A Khan from India and Justice was critically injured after being The external affairs ministry (Retd) Abdul Qadir Chaudhry, attacked by an Indian prisoner also proposed a meeting of con- Justice (Retd) Nasir Aslam yesterday. Pakistan demanded cerned authorities from both Zahid and Justice (Retd) Mian his immediate release and countries to identify measures to Muhammad Ajmal from Pakistan. repatriation. “avoid such tragic incidents”. The team visited the District A day after India’s Sarabjit “We are aware of the regretta- Jail Malir in Karachi, the Singh succumbed to grievous ble incident involving a Pakistani Adiyala Jail in Rawalpindi and injuries sustained in a murder- prisoner, who was injured the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore ous assault on him in Lahore’s today during an altercation between April 26-May 1, 2013. Kot Lakhpat jail, Sanaullah was with another inmate of a jail in The panel, which concluded its attacked in the morning following Jammu,” the ministry said in a Dalbir Kaur lights the pyre of her brother Sarabjit Singh in Bhikhiwind, Punjab, yesterday. visit just a day before Indian death an altercation. statement. “The matter is being row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died Sanaullah, a resident of Sialkot, investigated and the guilty will be in Lahore after being attacked in was attacked by a former Indian punished.” Sarabjit given a martyr’s send-off; Kot Lakhpat, recommended that soldier convicted for murder. The ministry said an advisory the Consular Access Agreement He received serious head inju- had been issued to strengthen of May 2008 between the two ries and was first rushed to the security for Pakistani prisoners in countries “be implemented in let- Government Medical College Indian jails. “Safety and security doctors say motive was to kill ter and spirit and consular access Hospital in Jammu, where doc- of prisoners in custody lies with be provided within three months tors said he had slipped into a the jail authorities and necessary BHIKIWIND, Punjab: claim of Pakistani authorities that As Dalbir Kaur went around the of the arrest”. coma, much like Sarabjit, who was action is being taken,” the state- Sarabjit Singh, the Indian pris- he was fatally injured in a “scuf- coffin to pour water from an earthen Complete details of the charges attacked in a Lahore jail on April ment added. oner who died after a murderous fle” with prisoners. pot, his family members, includ- and a copy of court’s judgment of 26 and died on Thursday. “The injured is receiving medi- attack in a Lahore jail, was yes- “The main motive was to kill the ing wife Sukhpreet and daughters the sentence must be shared in The Pakistani was later flown cal treatment, and once the medi- terday cremated with full state person. The face of the skull was Swapandeep and Poonam, sobbed each case, said a statement. to Chandigarh in an air ambu- cal arrangements are in place, honours of a martyr as tens of completely smashed. Rather it was uncontrollably. “I have lost every- “The prisoners must be repat- lance and admitted to the Post- consular access will be provided.” thousands of people joined in to in two pieces. He died from massive thing. But my fight for Indian pris- riated within one month of con- Graduate Institute of Medical According to a statement, there bid him a tearful farewell. head injuries,” Gurjit Singh Mann, oners (in Pakistani prisons) will firmation of national status and Education and Research are 535 Indian prisoners, includ- Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur lit head of a medical panel of the continue,” Dalbir Kaur said. completion of sentences.” (PGIMER) last evening, hospital ing 483 fishermen, in Pakistani the pyre as thousands of people Amritsar Medical College which The cremation ground proved sources said. jails and 272 Pakistani prisoners gathered to pay their last respects conducted the second post-mortem too small even to accommo- Protesting BJP, “He has been admitted to the in Indian jails. to the man, condemned as a ter- examination after Sarabjit’s body date the VIPs, media and family ICU. His condition is critical,” a The Pakistan high commission rorist in Pakistan and considered arrived in India, told media here. members. AAP activists spar PGIMER source said. here asked for repatriation of the a martyr in India. Before the mortal remains of Among those who placed Police said Sanaullah was being prisoner for medical treatment Sarabjit died on Thursday in Sarabjit were consigned to flames, wreaths on Sarabjit’s coffin were at Jantar Mantar tried for murder since the late and on humanitarian grounds. Jinnah Hospital in Lahore, six teary-eyed people — men, women, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash 1990s for carrying out acts of It also asked for evacuation of days after being attacked by fel- old and young, children and VIPs Singh Badal, Deputy Chief NEW DELHI: Tension gripped militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. Sanaullah by an air ambulance, low prisoners in Lahore’s Kot — were part of the last journey Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, the air as a scuffle broke out Home Minister Sushilkumar including assistance in ground Lakhpat jail on April 26. of a man who went through tor- Minister of State for External between members of the BJP Shinde said the attack took place facilitation. In Amritsar, a medical board of ture and despair for 23 years in Affairs Preneet Kaur, Akal and the Aam Aadmi Party at around 8-8.30am and that a probe “Pakistan High Commission has Indian doctors who conducted the Pakistani prisons, trying to prove Takht chief Gurbachan Singh and Jantar Mantar here yesterday had been ordered. asked for detailed information of the second post-mortem on his body that he was innocent. Punjab’s cabinet ministers. where both the political parties External affairs ministry incident, immediate consular access, said that Sarabjit was assaulted A contingent of Punjab Police Congress vice president Rahul were protesting, on different spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin medical facilities for the victim and “with the motive to kill”. They said reversed arms and fired thrice in Gandhi walked up to the crema- issues. said in a tweet that Sanaullah’s security of inmates (other Pakistani that he had been attacked with the air as a mark of respect to the tion ground and placed a wreath The Bharatiya Janata Party condition was “stable but he prisoners),” the mission said. heavy blunt objects and had “mas- 49-year-old who is said to have mis- on the coffin. (BJP) along with the Vishwa remains under medical watch”. IANS sive head injuries”. This belied the takenly crossed into Pakistan in 1990. IANS Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal were protesting the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh after he was attacked in a Lahore prison, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by Arvind Kejriwal, had joined the Parliament adjourned over coal scam, Chinese incursion Sikh community’s protests over the acquittal of Congress leader NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha Prime Minister Manmohan Resuming sitting at 12 noon, remained absent. Hence, the The Lok Sabha was adjourned Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh was adjourned yesterday as Singh’s resignation over irregu- the Rajya Sabha witnessed dis- house was adjourned due to lack for the day soon after it met at riots case. opposition members created a larities in the allocation of coal ruptions again, forcing Deputy of quorum or the presence of min- noon. The two houses did not The trouble began when some ruckus over the coal block allo- blocks, while the Samajwadi Party Chairman P J Kurien to adjourn imum number of members, which transact any business, except the members of AAP raised slogans, cations and Chinese incursion raised slogans over the incursion the house till 2.30pm. is 10 percent attendance of the routine tabling of papers, which abusing the Congress and the BJP in Ladakh while proceedings in by Chinese troops in Ladakh’s However, when the upper house total members or 25 members in took place amid the ruckus for failing to give justice to the riot the Rajya Sabha couldn’t take Depsang area. met again to take up Private the 245-member house. Both houses have seen repeated victims. This led to heated argu- place due to lack of quorum. Both houses lost the crucial Members’ Bills, only 15 members At 2.30pm, only 15 members disruptions by opposition parties ments and members of both groups In both the houses, the question hour and were first were present and members of the were present in the House, which over the allocation of coal blocks hurled abuses at one another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) adjourned till noon, minutes after opposition National Democratic rose to 19 by the time the House and 2G spectrum. amidst pushing and shoving. persisted with its demand for proceedings began at 11am. Alliance (NDA) and Left parties was adjourned. IANS IANS

Azerbaijan minister arrives Rs1bn found in Saradha Karnataka voters to chief’s 254 accounts cast ballots tomorrow

KOLKATA: West Bengal take any names. We are also BANGALORE: It has been a representing the Anglo-Indian Police have found Rs1bn in 254 looking into why they didn’t do bitter five years marked by cor- community. bank accounts of Sudipta Sen, their work. But that is only a ruption, intrigue and vicious Polling in Periyapatna constitu- the arrested promoter of the part of the investigation, not the infighting with the ruling ency in Mysore district in south chit fund aided Saradha Group, entirety,” Ghosh said. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karnataka has been counter- and were also looking into why The officer said papers for two splitting right down the middle manded following the death of the agencies which monitor such under-construction commercial but Karnataka voters hope to put BJP candidate S Mogegowda on companies “did not” do their job. plots in the name of Sen have it behind them when they vote in April 29. “We have unearthed 254 bank been found in Chandannagore in a new assembly tomorrow. Over 43.6 million people, around accounts. We have so far seized Hooghy district. The polls have drawn national 21.6 million of them women, are approximately Rs1bn,” Bidhannagar Meanwhile, Manoj Kumar attention as the ruling BJP and eligible to cast their ballots. Deputy Commissioner of Police Nagel, arrested director of one the Congress, the two major con- Other parties in the fray Arnab Ghosh told media persons of the group companies, was pre- tenders for power, are locked include the Janata Dal-Secular here yesterday sented in court which further in a bitter war of words over (JD-S), Bahujan Samaj Party The commissionerate, now prob- remanded him in police custody corruption. (BSP), Nationalist Congress ing the Saradha case, has taken till May 8 on a complaint lodged The outcome of the polls, which Party, the Samajwadi Party, the Sen into custody to subject him by an investor at the Salt Lake will be known on May 8, is also Janata Dal-United), Communist to intense grilling. Ghosh said Electronics Complex police station. being keenly watched across the Party of India-Marxist (CPM), Sen never kept money in those “His bail petition has been nation as the BJP has split with B Communist Party of India (CPI), accounts for long durations. “Often, rejected and he has been S Yeddyurappa, the man who gave and BSR Congress floated by B the money disappeared from the remanded in police custody till the party its first regime in a south- Sriramulu, former BJP minister accounts within 48 hours.” May 8,” Ghosh said. ern state and who later quit to head and associate of jailed mining In an oblique reference to the Nagel was arrested on April 21. his Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). baron G Janardhana Reddy. central agencies, including the The group’s companies went Yeddyurappa, who was forced However, the contest is mainly Securities and Exchange Board bust mid-April and downed shut- to give up the chief minister’s post between the BJP, the Congress, of India, which monitor collec- ters across West Bengal after they in July 2011 over mining bribery the JD-S and the KJP, though it is tive investment schemes like the were unable to repay the lakhs of charges, has repeatedly said that not evenly spread across the state. ones operated by the Saradha depositors — mainly poor people his main aim is to root out the In most of the 12 districts in Group, Ghosh said it was clear from villages and small towns BJP from the state. north Karnataka, which sends 90 that such bodies did not do their — who had parked their hard- Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov (right) greets Indian Voting will take place for representatives to the assembly, it job. However, he did not name earned money with them lured Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid at a meeting in New Delhi yesterday. 223 of the 224 elected seats in will be a three-way battle among any of the agencies. “It is clear by the promise of huge returns. Mammadyarov is on a three-day official visit. the 225-member assembly that the BJP, the Congress and the KJP. they didn’t do their job. I won’t IANS includes one nominated member IANS ON SATURDAY 14 MAY 4, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Qatar Foundation invests $1.26bn in Bharti Indian telecom giant to issue 199.9 million new shares

NEW DELHI/DUBAI: Qatar Mittal and also nearly a third percent higher on Mumbais’s has bought a 5 percent stake owned by Southeast Asia’s top National Stock Exchange, having in Indian telecoms firm Bharti phone carrier SingTel , Bharti risen as much as 4.7 percent in Airtel Ltd for $1.26bn, the firm had $11.7bn of net debt, or about early trade. The stock has fallen 4 said yesterday, extending an 2.5 times its operating profit, percent in the last three months. overseas buying spree from as of end-March. It operates in The deal “should help ease the mainly developed countries to 20 Asian and African countries debt burden and improve investor Asia’s third-largest economy. and has about 260 million mobile confidence”, said Karan Mittal, a The deal is being channelled phone customers. telecommunications analyst at through Qatar Foundation The investment by QFE, a ICICI Direct in Mumbai. Endowment and a source close recently-established arm of Bharti, which recently raised to QFE said it would be an active the Qatar Foundation, is in line $1.5bn in overseas bonds, has an investor in Bharti Airtel, securing with state’s strategy of picking option to sell shares its majority- a board seat at the world’s fourth- minority stakes in large glo- owned telecoms infrastructure biggest mobile phone company by bal companies such as Royal unit Bharti Infratel. customers. Dutch Shell, Tiffany & Co and Bharti Airtel did not sell any “QFE is in for the long-term,” Siemens. shares when this unit went public the source said, speaking on con- Those deals were made through last December. dition of anonymity. Qatar Holding, the investment It is also looking to sell up to The purchase by QFE — an arm of the state sovereign wealth a quarter of its satellite televi- investment vehicle of the Qatar fund, which has emerged as one of sion services arm, sources said in Foundation — pushes India ahead the world’s most prolific investors March. Goldman Sachs advised of China to top Asia’s inbound with stakes in companies such as Qatar Foundation Endowment on league table for mergers and London miner Glencore Xstrata the Bharti deal. acquisitions this year. and Swiss banking giant Credit According to analysts, the deal According to Thomson Reuters Suisse. will certainly be a big positive for data, India’s inbound M&A now Bankers close to the sovereign Bharti Airtel which is weighed totals $9.83bn so far this year, fund say it has an appetite for down by huge pile of debt and any compared with China’s $7.7bn and $30-$40bn in global investments capital infusion will help the tel- Australia’s $6.9bn. annually. ecom major to pare down its debt Qatar’s first major investment Separately, the non profit Qatar to equity ratio. in a listed Indian company pro- Foundation has a main mandate “After the Qatar Foundation vides Bharti Airtel with much- of developing the state’s human Endowment deal, the capital needed capital that strengthens capital and a knowledge-based structure will definitely improve its balance sheet and future economy, although it still owns to some extent. They have got Bharti Airtel zonal office building in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. growth. commercial-looking investments pretty substantial debt on their Bharti’s profit has fallen for such as telecoms firm Vodafone balance sheet,” said Harit Shah, is positive from a balance sheet the view that the future prospects Foundation Endowment is fairly three years in a row, hit by fierce Qatar. Analyst at Nirmal Bang. capital structure point of view. of telecom major remain cloudy positive for the stock. competition in its main Indian As part of the deal Bharti will “So the event is actually a posi- Analysts peg the recovery as it stares at payouts in the form “However, the turnaround in market, and also dragged down by issue 199.9 million new shares at tive for the stock but having said in stock price of Bharti Airtel of regulatory fees and spectrum the stock can only likely to hap- losses at its African operations, `340 each, a 7.3 percent premium that fundamentally, the overall to happen around FY15, sup- charges. pen now in FY14-FY15 led by vol- which it bought in 2010 from to the stock’s Thursday closing outlook is still relatively muted,” ported by growth in volumes and Tirthankar Patnaik of Religare ume growth and we also expect Kuwait’s Zain for $9bn. price, the company said yesterday. he added. ARPMs. Capital Markets Ltd is of the ARPMs to go up,” he added. Controlled by billionaire Sunil The telco’s shares closed 0.3 Shah is of the view that the deal Analysts on an average are of view that the deal with Qatar REUTERS & AGENCIES

Energy minister Outrage over price Washington Post Co Ireland to test holds high level banks ahead of talks in Paris profits slump EU-wide exercise PARIS: The Minister of WASHINGTON: The publishing operations were DUBLIN: Ireland has resolved Energy and Industry H E Dr Washington Post Co. eked out revenue gains of eight percent a standoff with international Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada a slim profit in the first quar- at online operations includ- lenders over the timing of yesterday met Delphine Batho, ter as earnings from cable and ing washingtonpost.com and so-called “stress tests” of its the French Minister of Ecology, broadcast television operations Slate. bailed-out banks that threat- Sustainable Development and offset losses from its flagship That included a 16 percent ened to cloud its exit from an Energy in Paris. Talks, which was daily newspaper. rise in display online advertising EU-IMF rescue deal at the end attended by Mohammed Jiham In results released yesterday, revenue, while online classified of the year, four sources close to Al Kuwari, the Ambassador of the company said newspaper sales fell six percent. the matter said. Qatar, covered means to enhance operations were hit by slumping Circulation of the daily news- The government has agreed bilateral cooperation between circulation and print advertising paper fell 7.2 percent over the the tests — aimed at gauging the two countries, in addition to revenues, offset in part by gains past year to 457,100, and Sunday banks’ resilience to economic issues of mutual interest. in digital ad sales. circulation dropped 7.7 percent shocks — could take place ahead Dr Al Sada, who is in Paris on Overall, the Washington Post to 659,500. of a Europe-wide exercise, in an official visit, attended presen- Co. profit for the quarter was The Post has set aside $20.4 line with the European Union tations by the French oil and gas $4.7m, a drop of 85 percent from million for a voluntary retirement and International Monetary group Total on unconventional the same period a year ago when plan offered to some employees at Fund’s desire for the banks to hydrocarbon resources, LNG the net profit was $31m. the paper. be checked before the end of markets, refining and petrochem- Revenues were virtually flat The company plans to imple- Ireland’s sovereign bailout deal icals, as well as on solar energy. from a year ago at $959m. ment a “paywall” later this year in December. During his two-day visit, Dr The results showed an operat- for online access, with some Dublin had wanted the tests Al Sada also held separate meet- ing loss for newspaper operations details still to be finalised. carried out in conjunction with a ings with the top management of $34.5m, while cable television The move, which had been European-wide exercise, expected of major French companies. He delivered an operating profit of expected, will require a paid in early 2014. met Christophe de Margerie, $36.6m and broadcasting earned subscription after 20 articles or “The situation has been President and CEO of Total; $35.3m. multimedia features have been defused,” one of the sources said. Philippe Barril, Executive Vice The company’s education oper- read per month. Ireland’s banks have not been President and Chief Operating ations showed a $4m loss amid The Post had been one of the stress-tested since 2011 when Officer Onshore/Offshore of A worker collects tomatoes in a farm in Salto, 100km west of Sao Paulo, restructuring. last top US newspapers to offer consultants Blackrock identified Technip, and Jean Marc Aubry, Brazil. Prices of the red fruit shot up 122 percent in March from a year Newspaper publishing revenue its content free of charge online, a ¤24bn ($31bn) capital hole. Senior Vice President of Technip earlier, spurring reports of tomato trafficking from Argentina and ignit- fell four percent from a year ago but has been facing financial Poor results from a new set of Region A , and Benoit Potier, CEO ing national outrage. to $127.3m, with print advertising struggles along with the rest of tests could result in the govern- of Air Liquide. down eight percent. the industry. ment having to funnel more capi- THE PENINSULA One bright spot from its AFP tal into state-backed lenders, on top of ¤64bn already poured in, potentially complicating Ireland’s ability to fund itself from interna- tional bond markets. The deal paves the way for Ireland to run its tests in late US unemployment hits lowest rate in four years 2013, though the exact timing is unclear since it depends on the NEW YORK: US unemploy- March was revised higher to revisions but the latest report had forecast that the economy the jobs market has to date been date of the European exercise, ment hit a four-year low in 138,000. February’s job growth paints a far healthier picture of added around 150,000 jobs in fueled almost entirely by the pri- which has not yet been set. April as the US job market revised up to 332,000, after pre- the jobs market than had been April. vate sector as the US government Finance Minister Michael bucked off fears of a spring viously being reported at 268,000. expected. Professional and busi- On average employers added has continued to cut positions. Noonan hinted at the compro- freeze and added 165,000 new The number of long-term ness services added 73,000 jobs 200,000 jobs a month in the win- This week the Federal Reserve mise speaking to Reuters in jobs, the Labor Department said unemployed — those jobless for in April and has added 587,000 ter. But the pickup appeared to gave its latest update on the econ- Switzerland on Thursday, where yesterday. 27 weeks or more — declined by jobs over the past year, said the have stalled last month. omy and explicitly blamed govern- he said the Irish tests would be “in The unemployment rate fell 258,000 to 4.4 million and their BLS. There was more bad news ment policy for the slow pace of close proximity to” the European to 7.5 percent in April, its lowest share of the unemployed declined Employment in temporary help for the jobs markets this week the recovery. ones, a softening of his previous rate since December 2008. The by 2.2 percentage points to 37.4 services rose 31,000, professional with the release of the latest After a two-day meeting, the stance. news came after a week of worry- percent. Over the past 12 months, and technical services added ADP survey of private hirings. Federal Open Markets Committee At a review of the Irish bailout ing news for the US’s fragile eco- the number of long-term unem- 23,000 and retail trade employ- According to ADP, the largest (FOMC) said on Wednesday that this week, Irish officials told rep- nomic recovery. Federal budget ployed has decreased by 687,000, ment increased by 29,000 in April. payroll processor, the US added despite signs of recovery “fiscal resentatives from the European cuts, triggered by the sequestra- and their share has declined by The BLS said last month that 119,000 new jobs in the private policy is restraining economic Commission, the European tion spending cuts, started in 3.1 points. retail had shed 24,000 jobs, trig- sector during March. The figure growth”. Central Bank and the IMF that March. Last month the US added The bureau of labor statis- gering concerns about a slowdown was below economists’ forecasts US stock market futures - an they had already begun prepara- just 88,000 new jobs. tics said that over the prior 12 in spending after the imposition of 150,000. early indication of how the mar- tory work with the banks and Yesterday, the bureau of labour months, employment growth of payroll taxes at the end of the But Friday’s nonfarm figures kets will react - soared after the Blackrock, and were ready to hold statistics revised the last three averaged has 169,000 per month. year. showed private companies adding nonfarm figures were released. stress tests by the end of the year. months figures substantially. The figure is still low but after Ahead of the report economists 176,000 jobs last month. Growth in GUARDIAN NEWS REUTERS MAY 4, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Berlin Apple store opens Turkish consortium wins tender for third airport in Istanbul

ANKARA: A consortium of Turkish construction firms won a tender on Friday to build and operate a planned third airport in Istanbul which Turkey says could eventually be the world’s largest, bidding ¤22bn ($29bn) for the project. The consortium of Cengiz, Kolin, Limak, Mapa and Kalyon bid ¤22.15bn for the 25-year lease to operate the planned airport, outbid- ding rivals including Turkey’s TAV Holding and Germany’s Fraport. Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said the initial invest- ment to construct the build-operate-transfer project would be ¤10bn. A consortium of Turkish firm IC Ictas and Fraport, which operates Frankfurt’s airport, had placed the highest initial bid but dropped out of the process after the Turkish consortium entered a higher offer. TAV Holding, which is partly owned by France’s Aeroports de Paris (ADP), had been one of the favourites in the process. Its shares slid almost 8 percent after it also withdrew following the initial bidding round earlier yesterday. Turkey unveiled details in January of the planned airport, which will have a total of six runways and eventually be able to handle 150 million passengers per year. Yildirim has said the airport would be the largest in the world by passengers at full capacity, though it was not clear when this would be. Istanbul, home of flag carrier Turkish Airlines, is becoming a major regional hub, linking destinations in Europe and Asia. Shares in Turkish Airlines, which will benefit from the new airport, were up 4.5 percent, outperforming a 1.4 percent rise by the broader Istanbul stock market. REUTERS European stocks jump on US data

LONDON: European stock markets jumped yesterday as strong US jobs data outweighed a gloomy eurozone economic forecast, and headed towards a positive end to the week following several ses- sions of losses. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies surged by 1.09 percent People stand in front of the new Apple store at the Kurfuerstendamm in Berlin, prior to its opening, yesterday. to stand at 6,530.93 points in afternoon trading. Frankfurt’s DAX 30 climbed 1.53 percent to 8,083.74 points and in Paris the CAC 40 won 1.23 percent to 3,906.30 points. In foreign exchange trade, the European single currency eased to $1.3061 from $1.3063 late on Thursday in New York. China must On the London Bullion Market, gold rose to $1,476.50 an ounce from $1,469.25. In New York, US stocks also surged after the Department Allies throw lifeline obey ruling of Labor reported solid jobs gains for April and a slight decline in the unemployment rate. In morning trades, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.95 on US steel percent to 14,973.09 points, while the broad-based S&P 500 added 1.09 percent to 1,615.07 and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index increased by 1.16 percent to 3,379.38. Commenting on the US jobs data, to Iran’s steel sector imports: WTO ETX Capital economist Ishaq Siddiqi said: “Today’s report has clearly GENEVA: China must fall into quashed worries that the US labour market has failed to improve this line by July 31 with a World year and the economic recovery has stalled.” Further US regulations to tighten Tehran’s steel trade Trade Organisation order to He added that “strong upward revisions to February’s and March’s change its restrictive policy on figures suggest that hiring in the US is much stronger than thought.” LONDON: China, Russia and its main product, which is oil,” director general of industry body certain steel imports from the Ahead of the data release, traders digested an announcement by the Kazakhstan are among the few said Lucas, whose site provides WorldSteel. Nevertheless, indus- United States, an arbitrator European Union that recession in the crisis-hit eurozone would con- trade allies still providing a life- analysis on Iran. try experts say it will take the said yesterday. tinue unabated for the rest of the year with unemployment remaining line to Iran’s vital steel and iron While EU and US bans on spe- country many years to become A WTO dispute settlement at record levels, though it added that signs of recovery could emerge ore sector after most Western cific ferrous products have pushed independent from foreign produc- hearing decided that Beijing had in 2014. AFP suppliers and buyers have cut most Western players away, fear- ers, especially for semi-finished failed to prove why it needed more ties due to growing sanctions ing repercussions on their inter- products such as billet. time to adapt its rules in order to pressure. national trade, Chinese interest “We have enough factories, respect a decision handed down QATARI MARKET While industry data shows in Iranian iron ore has increased, and they can make anything they by global commerce’s rule-setting steel imports have more than and China has increased steel want, but the raw product is often body in November. Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P halved in the last year, Tehran has supplies to Iran. coming from abroad,” an Iranian In a ruling issued by the Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.31 0.44 % Aa2 AA kept an inflow from some part- Top steel producer China is property developer said by phone. WTO, arbitrator Claus-Dieter Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.44 1.34 % Aa2 AA ners and slightly boosted domestic now buying about 2 million tonnes While some of the finished Ehlermann said that he had Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 125.38 1.99 % Aa2 AA production of the material, used of Iranian iron ore a month, dou- products he needs such as steel decided that eight months was a Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.50 2.26 % Aa2 AA in construction and vehicle pro- ble the amount it was buying in beams come directly from China reasonable period of time to take duction but also potentially for early 2012, data from consultancy and Russia, others are manufac- corrective action. Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.38 2.64 % Aa2 AA nuclear use and munitions. the International Steel Statistics tured by Iranian companies from The dispute dates back Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 175.50 3.74 % Aa2 AA Iran has also doubled exports Bureau shows. billets coming from abroad, he to September 2010, when Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 137.00 4.11 % Aa2 AA of the steelmaking raw ingredient “The growth in exports is abso- said. Iran still has to contend with Washington accused China of Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 127.75 4.10 % Aa2 AA iron ore, worth about $3bn a year lutely true ... (The business) is the dragnet of sanctions, which is breaching trade rules by not Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.50 0.99 % Aa2 AA at current prices. The country growing from an infant to a small cutting supplies of steel. New US providing sufficient evidence that does not have enough capacity to child,” said a spokesman for the regulations coming into effect on anti-dumping duties were needed Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 115.25 2.66 % Aa2 AA use much more of its ore to pro- Iran Iron Ore association. July 1 are set to tighten metals on US imports of electrical steel Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.50 1.35 % A1 A- duce steel, but exporting it pro- It is not yet a “key form of trade with Iran. used in the power sector. Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.18 % A1 A- vides much-needed income now income at this point”, he said, Government sources in South Anti-dumping duties can be QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.95 % NR NR its oil revenues are down by about adding that cash was the primary Korea said steel exports to Iran deployed by any WTO member if QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.51 % Aa3 A+ 50 percent due to sanctions over payment choice. had decreased a lot and would others in the 159-economy organ- its disputed nuclear programme. Market participants, how- face tougher sanctions. isation sell cut-price products to QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.88 2.03 % Aa3 A+ “This only allows Iran to ever, say much of the trade now “Those who continue to do grab market share. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 2.28 % A2 A- ease the pain or offset some of involves barter and funds depos- business with Iran will face fewer But the rules are strict on Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 106.25 1.51 % A2 A /*- the effects of what is happen- ited in bank accounts in China, competitors for Iranian business proving that dumping has taken Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.88 2.40 % A2 A /*- ing because of sanctions. It does South Korea and other countries and will demand a risk premium place, and Washington first won Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.63 2.92 % A2 A /*- not enable them to overcome that can be exchanged for goods. on exports to Iran and a risk dis- its case in June 2012, before a the sanctions,” said Scott Lucas, Tehran has ambitious plans count on imports from Iran. The Chinese appeal failed. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.00 3.88 % A2 A /*- founder of the EA WorldView to expand domestic steel output net impact will be a continued Members found to be at fault Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.00 1.15 % Aa3 A news site. and hopes it can in the short term drain on Iran’s foreign currency are granted a period of grace Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.38 3.22 % Aa3 A “The Iranians are having to become self-sufficient. reserves,” said Mark Dubowitz, to change their policy, but the Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.50 3.52 % Aa3 A go to a shrinking number of cus- “Iran is in a position to produce who has advised President Barack defendant and plaintiff often have tomers to try and look for this more steel domestically; they have Obama’s administration and US different views on what is reason- SOVEREIGNS increase in exports like iron ore the technology, energy, iron ore lawmakers on sanctions. able, leading to yet another hear- Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P to compensate for sharp drops in to do that,” said Edwin Basson, REUTERS ing. AFP Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.63 0.44 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.13 1.89 % Aa2 AA Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.50 2.20 % NR NR Facebook ad revenue up Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.63 2.87 % NR NR RBS pushes for Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.75 3.74 % NR NR Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.38 4.00 % NR NR sale of govt stake Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.44 0.77 % Aa2 AA LONDON: State-backed Royal Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.75 2.98 % NR BBB Bank of Scotland yesterday Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.63 3.74 % NR BBB pushed for the British govern- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.50 6.94 % Caa1 B- ment to start selling its 82 per- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.00 3.42 % NR BBB- cent stake as early as next year *Periodic Distribution Amount even though it could mean a loss IMPORTANT NOTE: for taxpayers. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which Chairman Philip Hampton said is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services the aim was to have a business Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data in strong enough shape to start and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of preparing a prospectus with the the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into government for a sale from the account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity middle of 2014. “It could be ear- or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable lier, that’s a matter for the gov- indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your ernment,” Hampton said in an financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. interview on the bank’s website. Britain pumped £45.5bn A smartphone user shows the Facebook application on his phone in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, ($71bn) into RBS during the 2008 yesterday. Facebook Inc’s mobile advertising revenue growth gained momentum in the first three months of financial crisis, leaving the gov- the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets, partially offsetting higher ernment with a controlling stake. spending which weighed on profits. REUTERS MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Views

Why high corporate Doubling US exports still profits aren’t so bad just a dream for Obama BY ZACHARY KARABELL BY JASON LANGE Also weighing against Obama’s mission, Obama set the export goal in 2010 when ver the past month, America’s largest companies other nations are ramping up efforts to the United States was just emerging from its reported their earnings for the first quarter of the year. S President Barack Obama print money in order re-inflate their econ- worst recession since the Great Depression. It These quarterly reports provide as much insight into reminded the world on omies, which has put upward pressure on wasn’t the only ambitious target set early in Oour economy as any of our leading indicators. And these Thursday of the lofty goal the US dollar. his presidency. One month after taking office results, if read correctly, highlight once again the bifurcated world set early in his presidency to Japan launched a bold monetary stimulus in 2009, Obama promised to halve the federal we live in. Our gross domestic product is growing about 2.5 percent double American exports over program in April to double its money supply, deficit in four years. That goal was frustrated a year for now, but that masks a vast divergence, not between fiveU years. It looks like he won’t deliver. while the European Central Bank lowered by a persistently weak domestic economy. the one percent and the 99 but between what works and what Trade data published earlier in the day interest rates on Thursday. So far this year, As part of its trade push, the White does not. What this earnings season demonstrates is that capital underscored the uphill battle faced by the the dollar has gained about 1.5 percent on a House lately has stepped up efforts to open and companies are thriving, along with tens of millions of people administration. Weakness in the global trade-weighted basis, which could cut into up overseas markets. connected to those worlds, while labour and wages are not. But economy is knocking down demand for US the competitiveness of US exports. The administration notified Congress that is not how it is being interpreted. exports, which rose just three percent in Still, there are a number of factors that in April it will start free trade talks with The consensus among investors and the financial media is that the 12 months through March. might boost exports over the long term. Japan, part of America’s efforts to push the quarter was something of a bust, as company after company At that pace, Obama’s mission won’t be Persistently large US trade deficits could a major free-trade deal with Asian and reported only modest – and in many cases, non-existent – revenue accomplished until around 2024, nearly a return the dollar to the long-term weaken- Pacific nations. The United States and growth. “Revenue still missing as companies beat earnings,” blared decade later than promised. ing trend which began around 2002. A boom the European Union are also preparing to a USA Today headline, and that encapsulates what most have said. “The president’s export-doubling goal in US energy industry could eventually lead launch talks on a free trade pact. At the same time, large companies have proven adept at gener- seems less achievable than ever,” said to more exports of natural gas, and poten- Yet even if Obama strikes these deals to ating substantial earnings. That is true now, and it has been true Alan Tonelson, a research fellow at the US tially even crude oil. help US exporters, it could be many more for years. Since 2009, for instance, the mega-companies of the Business and Industry Council, a group that But analysts point out that the world’s years before Americans notice there has Standard and Poor’s 500-stock index have doubled their profits. represents small American manufacturers biggest economies are pressing forward with been a big jump in exports. Companies overall haven’t done quite as well because small com- Unveiling his nominations of Mike policies that tend to weaken their currencies, Because Obama’s target to double exports panies don’t have the same advantages, such as keeping income Froman to be US trade representative and and it is not clear where that process will end. is measured in nominal terms and doesn’t offshore, assorted tax breaks and pure economies of scale. Penny Pritzker to be commerce secretary It also would take years to build the infra- take into account inflation, stronger growth But now, while larger companies are still showing earnings on Thursday, Obama said one of their key structure and political will needed to signifi- would be needed for companies and workers growth, revenues have been almost at a standstill. This trend is tasks would be meeting the goal of raking cantly ramp up energy exports. The Obama to feel twice as better off. widely seen as proof that trouble is brewing. Companies, especially in $3.14tn from sales abroad in 2015 — twice administration so far has shied away from Thomas Duesterberg, a manufactur- publicly traded ones, face relentless pressure to generate earning the 2009 level. allowing unfettered exports of natural gas. ing researcher at the Aspen Institute in growth at all costs. With slower revenue growth, the only way they That seemed more plausible a year ago Add lackluster global economic growth to Washington, calculated in March that even can do that is to cut costs and do whatever they can to become when exports were growing at about four the mix, and all this suggests Obama will if the Asia-Pacific and European trade more efficient, from greater use of technology to cutting wages times the current rate. be hard pressed to meet his 2015 deadline. deals go through, as well as a number of and benefits, either by finding cheaper labour abroad or by cut- Now the global economy has taken a turn A White House official acknowledged export-boosting scenarios like a reduction ting benefits and wages domestically. In a world of slow revenue for the worse, with the eurozone mired in there was “more work to be done,” but said in corporate tax rates and a depreciation of growth, that becomes harder. recession and even China posting slower progress was being made. “We’ll continue the dollar, inflation-adjusted exports would Since 2009, while the global economy has grown less than four rates of economics growth. In the first quar- to do everything we can to increase exports, probably not double until 2020. percent per year, on average, companies have generated revenue ter of 2013, US exports to the European promote growth and create jobs right here “It will take time,” he said. growth at almost twice that rate. As for companies engaged in the Union fell eight percent from a year earlier. at home,” the official said. REUTERS more dynamic areas of our economic lives — technology companies, innovative retail companies, industrial companies — those have grown at an even faster clip. What’s more, the average rate of growth is weighed down by financial companies, though overall that is a good thing, given how bloated and outsized the financial industry had become before 2009. More important, while some companies are finding it hard to generate growth, over the past four years the sectors we would want to shrink are shrinking while the sectors that stand to materially improve our lives have been booming. Financial services, some healthcare companies, coal and oil producers – those are the industries that have been challenged. The shrinkage of these sectors is a good thing. Yes, there is massive inequality, and average wages have stag- nated in the United States and decreased in much of the developed world. But that is the average. Within that, wages for the college- educated, for the skilled and for residents of dynamic urban areas have been growing rapidly and robustly. Google would not be generating almost $60bn in revenue this year unless millions of businesses large and small were using banner ads and search to expand their businesses, and they can only spend that money because their businesses are, in fact, expanding. How we view corporate earnings is being distorted through various negative lenses. One lens says macroeconomic growth defined by GDP is slow and getting slower and companies are about to slow down far more than we think. Another lens says the relative success of companies is coming at the expense of substantial swaths of society. Neither lens allows for the fact that companies are doing well because vast swaths of the globe are booming, including substantial numbers of people not just in China and the emerging world but also in the United States. That boom isn’t just a function of creative accounting and cost cutting. It’s because so many are doing quite well in the world today even as many people struggle mightily. The economies of today are simultaneously serving the needs of more people than ever while failing to provide sufficiently for vast numbers of people. That explains why so many companies are succeeding so spectacularly, and why that trend is likely to continue for quite some time. They thrive because many are thriv- ing, and because they bear few of the burdens of states that must provide for those who are not thriving. Healing that split is one of the challenges of our day. Thankfully, the thriving companies are the ones that are most likely to be part of those solutions. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Berkshire Hathaway & Warren Buffett: Capitalism at its best & worst

BY DAN GILLMOR company is a complex, sprawl- on derivative “instruments” that ultimately unsustainable path. some of the financial industry’s of dishonorable twits”. And he ing collection of businesses and spawned massive profits for a tiny Over the years, however, worst predatory and unethical suggested that prosecuting the n May 4, thou- investments, vastly more suc- few at the expense of so many Buffett has said and done more ways. His retort went something corrupt engineers of financial sands of Berkshire cessful than most. Buffett and others. These were, he accu- than a few things that made me like this: anyone who got conned catastrophe would do wonders Hathaway share- his longtime partner, Charlie rately warned, “financial weap- queasy. At one point, for exam- by Wall Street’s sharks should to prevent a recurrence. holders, accom- Munger, are beyond brilliant as ons of mass destruction”. When ple, he was positioning David have done more homework, and After the formal meeting, panied by scores investors and overseers of a vast the economy imploded in 2008, he Sokol as heir apparent. That besides, the robber barons in shareholders tromped around a of Ojournalists, will gather in an empire. They find what they con- was almost alone in having cred- prospect ended after it emerged charge were exemplary business huge room in the Qwest Center Omaha arena for the compa- sider great businesses and, with ibility as he reassured the public, that Sokol had bought shares in leaders. Then Buffett was asked arena where various products ny’s annual meeting. The event little interference, let the manag- and the teetering markets, that a company he was recommending about Berkshire’s large holdings from the Berkshire companies has become known as the the ers manage. we could avoid a replay of the that Berkshire buy. The purchase in Moody’s, one of the financial were being touted, and, in many “Woodstock of capitalism” – a They’re in it for the long term; Great Depression. I’ve been espe- did take place, at a premium, ratings companies that proved cases, offered for sale. And the living shrine to Berkshire CEO this makes them actual investors, cially charmed by Buffett’s ability and Sokol made millions for his so useful to the bubble makers next day, shareholders mobbed Warren Buffett, widely regarded in contrast with the speculators to induce frothing nonsense from personal account. He resigned, by giving cynical Grade A bless- local Berkshire-owned proper- as the best investor of all time. who populate and pollute much the denizens of the Wall Street and Buffett said he’d done noth- ings to financial instruments that ties, including an Omaha jewel- I’ve been a Berkshire share- of Wall Street today. Buffet, Journal’s opinion pages and their ing wrong. Then a Berkshire were blatantly inferior and which lery store, spending wildly and holder since the late 1980s, and too, is enormously complicated, right-wing fellow travellers. They audit committee filed what predictably crashed. Moody’s, he boosting the company’s prodi- have followed Buffett’s career sometimes contradictory. He can’t fathom a capitalist favour- BusinessWeek called a “scathing” insisted, was a fine, upstanding gious cash flow. Shop, shop, shop: with more than a casual interest. has earned enormous respect, ing policies that do anything but report about Sokol’s actions. For company run by fine, upstanding was this closer to the real mean- But I’d never attended an annual but not the near-worship that reward the rich and powerful, someone who’s talked incessantly people. ing of Berkshire? At least they meeting until three years ago – in characterises so many sharehold- and they hold him in special con- about ethics, Buffett’s blind spot I wanted to throw up. got a discount. the depths of the Great Recession ers’ attitudes. I deeply admire tempt for his well-founded belief was disappointing, even if he later Munger, it turned out, had lit- I won’t be at this year’s annual and at a time when Buffett’s halo Buffett’s common-sense approach in a fair, progressive tax system acknowledged the impropriety of tle good to say about Wall Street meeting, and unless I write a was showing some tarnish. What to business and investing. Read including, “omigod”, a stiff tax on the dealings. in any capacity. This was a sur- book about Berkshire, I doubt I’ll I saw and heard that weekend in his annual report, especially the inherited mega wealth. Unlike In Omaha, some of the share- prise, because as he makes clear ever go back. As usual, I will pay 2010 was mostly enthralling but entertaining and nuanced letter them, of course, Buffett under- holders wanted to know how in public statements his politics attention from afar, not so much occasionally repellent. to shareholders, to get a feel for stands the long-range folly of a the investor who’d warned so are far to the right of Buffett’s. to keep tabs on the investment as Berkshire and Buffett are the why. For years, Buffett fretted system that’s rigged to give the presciently about Wall Street’s But he was caustic about the to hear what a couple of incred- face of modern capitalism at its loudly about the dangers Wall wealthy overwhelming advan- screw-the-world financial engi- sleaze. He suggested, for exam- ibly smart people say about the best and worst, though the former Street’s financial engineering, tages, fuelling a plutocracy that neering could invest in and stand ple, that the accounting profes- economy they understand so well. greatly outweighs the latter. The especially its growing reliance leads society down a cruel and by companies that represented sion “behave like real men instead THE GUARDIAN MAY 4, 2013 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

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Heir Apparent Cup final: Kick-off 6.45pm today at Al Sadd Stadium Al Sadd, Lekhwiya get set for Heir Apparent Cup final Al Sadd’s The QSL giants resume rivalry in the Cup competition at Al Sadd Stadium Honours Established in 1969 Stadium: Jassim Bin BY DENZIL PINTO Hamad Stadium Capacity: 15,000 DOHA: Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute believes the team that makes the less number of mis- Qatar Stars League takes on the pitch will win Titles: 13 the Heir Apparent Cup, the 1972, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, Moroccan said ahead of today’s 1987, 1988, 1989, 2000, 2005, final against Qatar Stars 2006, 2007, 2013 League (QSL) rivals Lekhwiya. Amute, who guided Al Sadd to Heir Apparent Cup: Five their first QSL title since 2007, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 insists the final will be a close bat- tle between the QSL champions Emir Cup: 13 and the runners-up. 1975, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1986, “It will be open for both sides. 1988, 1991, 1994, 2000, 2001, Both teams have young players. 2003 , 2005, 2007 The attacking line will score the goals but also the defence line Qatar Stars Cup: One should not make any mistakes. 2010 The team who makes less mis- takes on the pitch will win the Asian Champions League: game,” said Amute during the Two pre-match press conference at 1989, 2011 Al Sadd Stadium. Amute, whose side will be aiming to triumph for the sixth time in the tournament, admits that Lekhwiya’s participation in the AFC Champions League on Wednesday could help his team. “Lekhwiya are very strong with good players who are com- peting in the Champions League. Lekhwiya may suffer from fatigue which could help us,” said the Al Sadd coach. The five-time champions, were instrumental in the QSL this sea- FROM LEFT: Lekhwiya captain Madjid Bougherra, Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets, Al Sadd coach Hussein Amute and Al Sadd defender Mohammed son with the likes of former Real Kasola touch the Heir Apparent Cup trophy after the pre-match press conference at Al Sadd Stadium. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL Madrid striker Raul and Qatar forward Ibrahim Khalfan, who scored a wonderful solo goal in the Speaking of any injury con- League, coach Eric Gerets is his players could be fatigue after better team on the pitch then you 3-1 victory against Al Rayyan in cerns, Amute said: “For Al Sadd concerned about the team’s 65 minutes. The Belgian who accept you lost the Cup because the semi-final, playing important we don’t have many troubles with preparations. has this season’s QSL’s top goal- the opposition was good.” Lekhwiya’s roles in the team. our injuries but I would like to say He said: “We want this Cup scorer Sebastian Soria among his Lekhwiya captain Madjid Despite reaching the final, the group will be fit for the game. but the problem is our sporting players, said: “When it will be an Bougherra said his team will have Honours Amute will be treating today’s Even if we miss a couple of play- enemy is our obstacle. Al Sadd advantage will be the second half to be wary of Al Sadd’s threats. match as an ‘ordinary’ game. ers we will have enough players are slight favourites because they maybe after 65-70 minutes but I The Algerian defender said: He said: “I prefer to treat this to cope.” had a magnificent championship don’t think it’s right to say it will “You just have to look at some- Established in 2009 game like an ordinary match. It After overcoming Eljaish 2-1 campaign and have had a little bit be an excuse. The match is a final one like Khalfan to realise what Stadium: Abdullah Bin will be open because there are in the semi-final thanks to a more preparation than us.” and it’s important to play a good a good player he is. Everyone Khalifa Stadium many good players in both teams.” late winner from Nam Tae-Hee, The Belgian added: “But in game and win the final.” knows about Raul and what a Capacity: 12,000 “The game will be exciting Lekhwiya will be eager to gain football you never know because He added: “If we play well, we good player he is. Then you have and it will be of a very high level revenge after losing their QSL we will do our best to beat them. deserve to win the trophy, and if Younis Mahmoud who has a lot of Qatar Stars League: Two and will be an honour to play title to Al Sadd last month. They only thing I worry about is you lose the Cup, of course you’ll experience. So it is not just a job 2011, 2012 this game and shake the hand of After beating Saudi Arabia’s the preperation of our players be disappointed. If you lose the for me but for the whole team.” the Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Al Ettifaq 2-0, which earned from yesterday (Wednesday).” Cup against a team who are Today’s eagerly anticipated Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani,” he Lekhwiya a place in the last-16 Gerets, who took over as already champions (Al Sadd) match will kick off at 6.45pm at Al added. stage of the AFC Champions coach in October believes that and they prove they were the Sadd Stadium. THE PENINSULA Past Champions 1995 Al Rayyan 1996 Al Rayyan 1997 Al Arabi 1998 Al Sadd 1999 Al Wakra 2000 Al Gharafa The team who 2001 Al Rayyan 2002 Qatar Sports Club makes less 2003 Al Sadd mistakes on the 2004 Qatar Sports Club pitch will win the 2005 Al Khor game. 2006 Al Sadd 2007 Al Sadd Hussein Amute, 2008 Al Sadd A B C Al Sadd coach 2009 Qatar Sports Club 2010 Al Gharafa 2011 Al Gharafa Al Sadd are 2012 Al Rayyan A: Lekhwiya coach Eric Gerets talks during a pre- slight favourites match press conference. because Semi- Final Results B: An image of the Heir Al Sadd 3 Al Rayyan 1 Apparent Cup trophy. C: they had a Al Sadd coach Hussein magnificent Lekhwiya 2 Eljaish 1 Amute looks on during a pre-match press con- championship ference. D: Lekhwiya’s campaign and Fan Zone Activities Majid Bougherra (red) and Eljaish’s Wagner Renan have had a start from 3.00pm Robeiro vie for the ball dur- little bit more today ing the Heir Apparent Cup semi-final in this April 2013 preparation than Including: Abbas Farid Football Freestyler, file photo. us. Jumping Castle, E: Al Sadd’s Raul (white) Harley Davidson and challenges Al Rayyan’s Eric Gerets, Classic Car Exhibitions, Daniel Goumou in the Heir Giant LED Screen, Apparent Cup semi-final in Lekhwiya coach Theatre Performances. this April 2013 file photo. Raul is set to play his Fans will also be able to 1001st game of his career win QR2m worth of prizes. D E today. MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Chelsea overcome Basel to reach Europa final The English club to play Portugal’s Benfica on May 15

LONDON: Chelsea reached the arrived in the ninth minute. Europa League final for the first Torres’ clipped pass freed Frank time in their history after sur- Lampard, but his shot came back viving a first-half scare to defeat off the post, leaving the England Swiss champions FC Basel 3-1 midfielder one goal behind Bobby in the second leg of their semi- Tambling in the club’s all-time final on Thursday. scoring chart on 201 goals. Leading 2-1 from last week’s Streller then came close to first leg in Switzerland, Chelsea claiming an outrageous goal at New Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin risked elimination after Mohamed the other end with a volley from Ebrahim Al Khalifa speaks during a news conference during the AFC Salah’s well-taken goal in first- a prohibitive angle that flashed Extraordinary Congress in Kuala Lumpur on May 2. half injury time put the visitors wide, before Ramires could only 1-0 up on the night. poke the ball at visiting goal- But goals from Fernando keeper Yann Sommer from Torres and Victor Moses and a Moses’ low cross. David Luiz stunner early in the Basel continued to attack New AFC chief to second half gave last season’s gamely, and after being thwarted Champions League winners a 5-2 once by Petr Cech, Salah broke aggregate victory that sets up a the deadlock in stoppage time meeting with Benfica in the final when he calmly swept home introduce ethics on May 15. from Valentin Stocker’s cleverly It was a case of third time lucky disguised through ball. for Chelsea, who lost in the semi- The Egyptian’s strike left finals in both the League Cup and Basel one goal from the final, but the FA Cup, while Basel fell short Chelsea reasserted their grip on committee in their attempt to become the the tie with a rapid three-goal first Swiss team to reach a major salvo in the first 14 minutes of KUALA LUMPUR: New on our own. There are a lot of European final. the second half. Asian football Chief Sheikh resources that are going to be Chelsea interim manager Torres claimed the first, in the Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa put into that. It is a responsibil- Rafael Benitez will now look to 49th minute. After a driving run will make introducing an eth- ity for all - not just the AFC.” end a testing season by claiming from Eden Hazard, Lampard’s low Chelsea’s Fernando Torres celebrates after scoring the equaliser during ics committee a top priority as Sheikh Salman will initially the second Europa League title shot was pushed out by Sommer the UEFA Europa League semi-final second leg match against FC Basel the Bahraini attempts to bring serve two years rather than the of his career after his 2004 suc- and Torres slid in to slam the at Stamford Bridge in London, Britain, late on Thursday. about sweeping reform at the normal four because he is effec- cess with Valencia, although his loose ball into the roof of the goal. scandal- hit Asian Football tively replacing former leader immediate priority is to secure a Moses put Chelsea ahead three Confederation. Mohammed bin Hammam who return to the Champions League minutes later with another finish distance, but for Chelsea, the Paraguayan striker Oscar Just 24 hours before Sheikh was dismissed by FIFA for brib- via the league. from close range, this time after worst had already passed. Cardozo was the hero with two Salman claimed a landslide ery and corruption halfway Basel captain Marco Streller Torres’ low shot was deflected Chelsea might even have ampli- expert finishes either side of the election win on Thursday, the through what was the Qatari’s passed a late fitness to start at into his path. fied their lead further in the interval after a Dirk Kuyt penalty AFC suffered more embarrass- third term. Stamford Bridge and he almost Luiz saved the best for last just dying stages, but Sommer saved had cancelled out Nicolas Gaitan’s ing headlines with Sri Lankan During the near two-year made an immediate impression, before the hour, stepping up to well from substitute Spain’s Juan opener for the Portuguese club on Vernon Manilal Fernando interim period under caretaker shooting wide from a good posi- Lampard’s lay-off and curling a Mata and Torres. the night. banned for eight years by FIFA president Zhang Jilong of China, tion in the first minute. majestic left-foot shot right into Benfica emerged victorious Benfica are through to their for unethical behaviour. while bin Hammam attempted to Chelsea’s fans had just taken the top-left corner from 25 yards. from a dramatic last-four tie first continental final since 1990, Sheikh Salman said the intro- clear his name, the AFC largely to serenading former coach Jose Basel’s response saw Fabian against Fenerbahce, with a 3-1 when they were beaten 1-0 by duction of a new body to tackle went to ground, releasing few Mourinho, who has been linked Frei hit the bar with a deflected win at the Estadio da Luz in Italian giants AC Milan in the the problems was an essential statements as the problems with a return to the club this shot, while Marcelo Diaz also Lisbon giving them a 3-2 aggre- European Cup final. part in pushing through his mounted. week, when the hosts’ first chance tested Cech with an effort from gate victory. AFP transparency manifesto. Sheikh Salman said this would “If there are any wrongdoings no longer be the case and the by some, there has to be a tool AFC would have a voice in world Pirlo to end No decision on my Blatter calls to have a watchdog on everybody soccer. including the President,” Sheikh “Our voice has to be heard, Salman said hours after hosting especially if it is related to Italy career for more his first AFC Congress. match-fixing, corruption and any future yet: Mourinho “I think this can be done in misleading actions or whatever,” Asian teams the next two years and hopefully the head of the Bahrain FA said. after 2014 MADRID: Real Madrid man- more than 121 goals will that be we will do it, by the end of the “We have to have a strong ager Jose Mourinho has still wiped out,” he said, referring year we will have to have some- monitor and, of course, the sup- not made up his mind about his to last season’s domestic title at World Cup thing up and running. port Asian needs, whether it is World Cup future and will only do so once success. “It is disappointing that we for its own interests, of course I the season has finished, he said “We won the Copa del Rey (in haven’t created an ethics com- will be heard.” ROME: Italy midfielder yesterday. 2011) for the first time in 20 years. KUALA LUMPUR: FIFA mittee to look at these matters During his campaign there Andrea Pirlo has announced “I have not taken any decision That is because it is not easy to President Sepp Blatter called to have a proper mechanism to were many loud voices alleging he will retire from inter- on whether I am do so.” yesterday for more berths for tackle these things and I think he was guilty of human rights national football after next going or not,” said However, in Asian teams at future editions FIFA will support us on that.” breaches during the pro-democ- year’s World Cup in Brazil. the Portuguese at another hint at of the World Cup and said the The married father of three racy uprising. “In 2014 I will stop playing a press conference his poor rela- issue would be addressed at a takes over the AFC at a diffi- Bahrain crushed Shi’ite-led for the national team, and I ahead of Real’s tionship with meeting later this month. cult time with the body suffering demonstrations that began in think that the World Cup will home clash with goalkeeper Blatter said FIFA should allow bribery issues amongst members, February 2011. At least 35 people be my last appointment with Valladolid today. and captain more Asian teams at the expense allegations of age cheating in were killed. Lower-level unrest the blue shirt of Italy - space “I can confirm Iker Casillas, of European and South American Southeast Asian competitions, has continued since then and needs to be given to younger that there are Mourinho teams, stressing that Asia pro- violence on the field, referee Sheikh Salman said he had been players,” said the 33-year old still five matches admitted fail- vides 50 percent of the body’s rev- abuse in Lebanon and player the victim of a smear campaign. at the presentation of his auto- left in the league ing to bring enues with Europe contributing deaths in Indonesia. “Unfortunately to say some biography in Turin. and a Cup final Diego Lopez to less than 20 percent. But undoubtedly the biggest media are controlled by other “I will carry on playing club to play and, after the club sooner “We have the right and we have problem is match-fixing, with people ... to say what they want football as long as I am passion- those games, I was a source of the obligation and the responsibil- cases rife in nations big and whether it is the truth or not,” ate and feel like an important will sit down with disappointment ity to bring this matter to discus- small including China, South he said. player, after which point I will the president and to him. sion. We have to do that,” he said, Korea, Malaysia, Lebanon and “It needs to be addressed and be the first to get myself out (the director gen- “If I could referring to FIFA’s May 30-31 Singapore. looked at. If we are going to talk of it.” eral) Jose Angel have been more congress in Mauritius. “I think we need, whether it about stories without any proof, Pirlo, who won the World (Sanchez) and we Real Madrid’s head coach demanding at Asia currently has four auto- is a task force, a committee or a if you want to take us out of this Cup with Italy in 2006, is con- will speak about Jose Mourinho attends a press the end of my matic spots at the World Cup, team, to look into these matters game, out of football about mat- sidered one of the finest mid- my future.” conference at Valdebebas Sports first season, with another available if an Asian and see what the proper mat- ters to talk about matters we are fielders of his generation with Mourinho Complex, in Madrid, Spain, I would have team wins an intercontinental ters are to fight it and hopefully not responsible for. his play characterised by pin- had dropped a yesterday signed Diego play-off. Europe has 13 places out with the support of FIFA and the “At the end of the day we need point short and long-range major hint as to Lopez then. I of the total of 32. local governments as well,” the to stick to our statutes and regu- passing, expert close control his future in the wanted him A reduction in the number of 47-year-old said. lations and talk about football.” and calmness under pressure. immediate aftermath of Tuesday’s but didn’t do enough to get him, European places would be seen “I don’t think it can be done REUTERS His performances in that Champions League semi-final which is a shame,” he said of the as a slight to Michel Platini, the World Cup earned him the exit at the hands of Borussia ‘keeper signed from Sevilla in head of European football body Bronze Ball award as he fin- Dortmund when he complained January after Casillas succumbed UEFA, who is expected to bid for ished the tournament with of being hated in Spain. to a hand injury. the FIFA presidency in 2015. Platini wants referee the highest number of assists, “I know that in England I am Despite reports of his strained Newly elected Asian Football and he was also named in that loved,” he said at the time. “I am relationship with Casillas, Confederation (AFC) President year’s FIFPro XI. loved by the fans and the media Mourinho insists that he has Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al The Juventus midfielder who are fair with me. They criti- always maintained a good rela- Khalifa also said “Asia deserves conversations recorded excelled again at Euro 2012, cise me and give me credit when tionship with his players. more”, pointing to international in which Italy unexpectedly I deserve it. “With my players - who all successes such as South Korea’s LILLE, FRANCE: UEFA “But there were three inter- reached the final before being “I know I am loved by the clubs, like to be treated equally and to bronze medal at last year’s President Michel Platini yes- national standard referees comfortably beaten 4-0 by especially one. In Spain it is dif- have a coach who makes decisions Olympics. terday revealed his intention to involved and none of them saw it. Spain, and was selected for the ferent because people hate me,” with his head - I have never had “I think this is something that record discussions between offi- Something is not right. team of the tournament. he added, referring to the media. a problem,” he said. even the President (Blatter) cials in European matches as of “If the referee were on his own, He drew plaudits for his out- The former Chelsea boss, who is “Problems exist when one addressed today in our congress next season. he wouldn’t have seen it, and two standing display and chipped being heavily linked with a return player believes himself to be above and I think it has to be looked “I understand the error of the might not have seen it either but, penalty in Italy’s shoot-out to Stamford Bridge, responded everyone else.” at,” he said. referee who didn’t see the foul between three, they have to see it! quarter-final win over England. to criticism of his reign at the Madrid seem certain to fin- “(The 2014 World Cup in by (Thomas) Mueller (on Jordi “As of next year I have asked Pirlo has also had a stel- Santiago Bernabeu, having so far ish second in La Liga but a win Brazil) is very close but we have Alba in the build-up to Bayern the general secretary (of UEFA) lar club career in Italy, win- failed to go beyond the semi-finals against Valladolid at the Bernabeu to look in the future where the Munich’s third goal in their 4-0 to record conversations between ning two Serie A titles, two of the Champions League in three will keep Barcelona waiting at interest of Asian teams and win against Barcelona in the officials in matches involving five Champions Leagues and the seasons. least another week before they national associations is. Champions League semi-final officials. World Club Cup at AC Milan, “The record-breaking Liga can wrap up the title. The capi- “The teams have progressed first leg),” Platini said during a “I don’t believe that nobody before playing a key role in the season belongs to me. Only when tal club meet their neighbours very well in the last few years and visit to the northern French city saw the foul. It’s not possible. rebirth of Juventus. REUTERS a team comes along and collects Atletico Madrid in the Copa del I hope we can earn more slots in of Lille to check on preparations Why was nothing said? I want to more than 100 points and scores Rey final on May 17. AFP the World Cup.” AFP for the Euro 2016 finals yesterday. know.” AFP MAY 4, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY Rahman dazzles for Bangladesh Visitors win first ODI against Zimbabwe

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe:Ziaur Although Bangladesh have a Sikandar Raza in the opening four Rahman’s maiden five-wicket healthy record at Queens Sports overs of their reply, Zimbabwe haul in just his fourth one-day Club, winning six out of eight one- recovered through Taylor’s 33 and international saw Bangladesh dayers before this encounter, the Hamilton Masakadza’s 38. record a comprehensive 121-run margin by which Zimbabwe lost However, when Taylor was victory over Zimbabwe in the led captain Brendan Taylor to bowled by Abdur Razzak the first of a three-match series in brand the defeat a “shocker”. floodgates soon opened, as Bulawayo. “We were happy restricting Zimbabwe lost four wickets After Shafiul Islam’s strikes them to 269 (for eight) on a flat without adding a run to slump put Zimbabwe on the back foot wicket, but we didn’t bat well,” he to 93 for seven. early in their chase of 270, Ziaur’s said. “There’s no room for excuses. Three of those dismissals were five for 30 snuffed out any hope of We kept finding ways to get out.” to Ziaur, who returned later to a revival as the hosts were bowled Despite losing Regis Chakabva find reverse swing and grab the out for 148. and Pakistan-born debutant wickets of Malcolm Waller and Bangladesh batsman Nasir Hossain plays a stroke during the first of the three matches of the ODI series Tinashe Panyangara. between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, yesterday. When Shingirai Masakadza’s Scoreboard spirited knock of 33 from as many BANGLADESH ZIMBABWE deliveries was ended by Robiul T Iqbal c Taylor b S Masakadza ...... 27 H Masakadza lbw Ziaur Rahman ...... 38 Islam, Bangladesh had a hand- Mohd Ashraful c Utseya b S Masakadza .....29 R Chakabva b Shafiul Islam ...... 1 some victory. M Haque c Taylor b Chatara ...... 38 Sikandar Raza b Shafiul Islam ...... 3 “We are always happy with such Bopara gets surprise M Rahim c Taylor b S Masakadza ...... 5 B Taylor b Abdur Razzak ...... 33 wins,” said captain Mushfiqur Shakib Al Hasan (run out) ...... 1 S Williams (run out) ...... 10 Rahim. “It was an important N Hossain c Waller b Panyangara ...... 68 M Waller b Ziaur Rahman ...... 19 match because it was the series Mahmudullah b S Masakadza ...... 36 E Chigumbura b Ziaur Rahman ...... 0 opener.” Ziaur Rahman c Chakabva b Chatara ...... 12 P Utseya c Mominul Haque b Ziaur Rahman .0 Bangladesh were also indebted Champions Trophy recall Abdur Razzak (not out) ...... 16 S Masakadza lbw Robiul Islam ...... 33 to Nasir Hossain, who contin- Shafiul Islam (not out) ...... 1 T Panyangara lbw Ziaur Rahman ...... 0 ued his good form with the bat LONDON: Ravi Squad and fixtures “He’s got all Extras (B-5, LB-13, W-18) ...... 36 T Chatara (not out) ...... 0 in rescuing Bangladesh from a Bopara’s England assets to his Swann guilty Total (for 8 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 269 Extras (LB-2, W-7, NB-2) ...... 11 mid-innings collapse. exile came to an England squad for New Zealand one-day game -- there’s Did not bat: Robiul Islam. Total (all out in 32.1 overs) ...... 148 The tourists made a steady end yesterday series and the ICC Champions Trophy: the bowling of dissent but Fall of wickets: 1-65, 2-75, 3-92, 4-94, Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-13, 3-78, 4-93, 5-93, start after being put in to when the Essex Alastair Cook (capt), James Anderson, aspect which 5-170, 6-214, 7-237, 8-263. 6-93, 7-93, 8-148, 9-148. bat - with Tamim Iqbal and all-rounder was Jonny Bairstow, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, has come on Bowling: Chatara 10-0-48-2 (w-4); Panyan- Bowling: Robiul Islam 5.1-1-21-1 (w-1); Mohammad Ashraful putting on named in the Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler very, very well; escapes ban gara 10-1-49-1 (w-2); Chigumbura 5-0-24-0 Shafiul Islam 6-0-39-2 (nb-1; w-3); Abdur Raz- 65 for the first wicket - only for hosts’ 15-man (wkt), Steven Finn, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, batting-wise (w-4); S Masakadza 10-0-51-4 (w-5); Utseya zak 6-2-10-1; Shakib Al Hasan 3-0-27-0; Ziaur Shingirai Masakadza to remove squad for next Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Jonathan we know what LONDON: England off-spin- 10-0-48-0 (w-1); H Masakadza 4-0-24-0 (w- Rahman 9-1-30-5 (nb-1, w-1); Mahmudullah the pair in his opening two overs month’s ICC Trott (Warwickshire), Chris Woakes he’s capable of ner Graeme Swann has been 1); Waller 1-0-7-0. 2-0-12-0; Mominul Haque 1-0-7-0. and then Mushfiqur Rahim in his Champions Fixtures doing and he’s penalised for ‘showing serious fifth. AFP Trophy and the NatWest ODI Series vs New Zealand very good in the dissent’ during his comeback preceding one- May 31 1st ODI, Lord’s field as well. He game for Nottinghamshire day series with adds strength to against Durham in the County June 02 2nd ODI, Ageas Bowl, Southampton Scoreboard New Zealand. the squad,” the Championship this week. Eight-wicket win for Bopara has not June 03 3rd ODI, Trent Bridge ex-England off- The England and Wales RAJASTHAN ROYALS England’s ICC Champions S R Watson lbw Narine ...... 35 played a 50-overs- spinner added. Cricket Board (ECB) Trophy group matches A M Rahane st Bisla b Senanayake ...... 6 a-side inter- Bopara’s announced Friday that Swann J P Faulkner c Gambhir b I Abdulla ...... 1 national since June 08 vs Australia, Edgbaston inclusion aside, had been found guilty of a “level Knight Riders in IPL September and June 13 vs Sri Lanka, The Oval there were few two” disciplinary breach but S V Samson c Kallis b Bhatia ...... 40 D H Yagnik b Senanayake ...... 10 the stylish bats- June 16 vs New Zealand, Cardiff surprises, with had escaped a ban. KOLKATA: Backed by superla- Knights started of briskly as O A Shah b Kallis ...... 24 man and handy off-spinner Swann stayed in his crease tive bowling and decent batting, openers Gautam Gambhir and S T R Binny (not out) ...... 3 medium-pacer Graeme Swann for several seconds and lifted Kolkata Knight Riders handed Manvinder Bisla kept the home R Dravid (not out) ...... 6 had not been selected in either and seamer Tim Bresnan both his hands above his head Rajasthan Royals a crushing crowd entertained with some stu- Extras (LB-1, W-5, NB-1) ...... 7 of England one-day coach Ashley recalled following elbow problems. after being last man out, lbw eight-wicket defeat to keep alive pendous hitting. Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 132 Giles’s two previous squads in The key contest for England ,in Nottinghamshire’s second their feeble chances of making Bisla, who earlier scored a blis- Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-27, 3-71, 4-83, the format since the former Test fans and, though they won’t yet innings at Trent Bridge. it to the play-off in their Indian tering 92 against Chennai Super 5-117, 6-126. spinner took charge of the limited say so publicly, players and offi- His exit helped leave visitors Premier League here yesterday. Kings for a losing cause, was in an Bowling: S Narwal 2-0-17-0 (2w); S M S M overs side. cials this season is the Ashes Test Durham with sufficient time to After restricting the Royals attacking mood. The duo added 41 Senanayake 4-0-26-2 (2w); Iqbal Abdulla It seemed Bopara was fighting series at home to Australia that force a six-wicket win. to 132/6, the Kinghts overhauled runs in five overs before Gambhir 3-0-22-1; J H Kallis 3-0-25-1 (1nb, 1w); S P for his international future but follows the Champions Trophy. Swann, returning from elbow their rivals’ score with 16 balls to 12 (14b 1x4) was stumped off the Narine 4-0-20-1; R Bhatia 4-0-21-1. he edged out fellow all-rounders England have never won a surgery, was subsequently spare. Jacques Kallis (33 not out; bowling of Shane Watson. Bisla 29 KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS Samit Patel, Luke Wright and major 50-over tournament and reported by the umpires, one 30b, 2x4, 1x6) hit Brad Hogg for (25b 4x4 1x6) followed soon, and G Gambhir st Yagnik b Watson ...... 12 Rikki Clarke. the three-time losing World Cup of whom was former England a boundary over the bowler’s head walked in Yusuf Pathan. M S Bisla c Rahane b Chavan ...... 29 Bopara’s last four one-day finalists were beaten by the West batsman Peter Willey. to carry his side to 133/2, and fin- With just 31 required of the last J H Kallis (not out) ...... 29 international innings saw him Indies at The Oval in the climax “During Nottinghamshire’s ish the Eden Gardens game. seven overs, the hosts looked firm Y K Pathan (not out)...... 49 manage just 22 runs in total at of the last Champions Trophy County Championship match For the Knights, Yusuf Pathan favourite to wrap up the match Extras (LB-5, W-5) ...... 10 home to South Africa and he was staged in England in 2004. against Durham on 29 April-2 made an unbeaten 49 (35b 3x4 in quick time. Both Pathan and Total (for 2 wkts in 17.2 overs) ...... 133 omitted from the ODI squads for A side again set to be captained May 2013, Swann was reported 3x6) - his highest score for the Kallis played sensibly as the Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-55. the recent tours of India and New by Test skipper Alastair Cook by umpires Steve Garratt and city franchise so far, to take his Knights inched closer to a hand Bowling: A A Chavan 3-0-28-1 (1w); J P Zealand. play the first of three one-dayers Peter Willey for a level two team home. Rajasthan a royal defeat. Faulkner 4-0-16-0; S R Watson 3-0-21-1 “He’s been given another oppor- against New Zealand at Lord’s breach of the code (showing For the Royals, Ankeet Chavan The duo knocked down the (1w); G B Hogg 3.2-0-31-0 (1w); S K Trivedi tunity because we know what on May 31 before opening their serious dissent at an umpire’s (1/28) and Shane Watson (1/21) required 31 runs in just 26 balls to 3-0-24-0 (1w); S T R Binny 1-0-8-0. he’s capable of doing,” England Champions Trophy campaign decision by word or action),” an were the wicket takers. cruise to an eight wicket victory. Player-of-the-Match: YK Pathan (KKR) national selector Geoff Miller told against Australia at Edgbaston ECB statement read. AFP Chasing a modest target, the IANS Sky Sports. on June 8. AFP

ATP chief Brad WTA/ATP Portugal Open Pavlyuchenkova reaches Portugal final Drewett dies, OEIRAS, Portugal: Results on the fifth day OEIRAS, Portugal: Third through his defeat of Portuguese of the WTA/ATP Portugal Open yesterday (x seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova wild card, and crowd darling, age 54 denotes seeding): fought back from a first-set number 113-ranked Gastao Elias, Men whitewash to beat unseeded 6-4, 6-4. Number three Andreas PARIS: Australia’s Brad Quarter-finals Romina Oprandi 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 Seppi also joined the party as the Drewett, the president of the yesterday to reach the women’s Italian beat Spain’s eighth seed David Ferrer (ESP x1) bt Victor Hanescu ATP, died yesterday at the age final of the ATP/WTA Portugal Tommy Robredo 6-4, 6-3 to next (ROM) 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) of 54 following a battle against Open. take on Ferrer. motor neurone disease, the Pablo Carreno (ESP) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA The 19th-ranked Russian win- Spanish qualifier Pablo governing body of men’s tennis x4) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 ner will bid for her second trophy Carreno-Busta belied his 229 announced. this season after Monterrey, when ranking with a knockout of Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x2) bt Gastao Elias Spanish player “The ATP is deeply saddened (POR) 6-4, 6-4 she plays fourth seed and 2012 Italian fourth seed Fabio Fognini, David Ferrer to announce that Brad Drewett Women finalist Carla Suarez Navarro, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. passed away at his home in who beat Estonian defending He will face Wawrinka in a returns the ball to Sydney, Australia, earlier today,” Semi-finals champion Kaia Kanepi 6-4, 6-1 first-time meeting after winning Romanian player said an ATP statement. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x3) bt in 66 minutes. the first ATP quarter-final of his Victor Hanescu “Brad, who served as ATP Romina Oprandi (SUI), 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 The Spanish winner benefited career. during their men’s singles quarter- Executive Chairman and Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) bt Kaia Kanepi from seven double-faults by her Ferrer, 31, said: “This an his- President since January 2012, (EST) 6-4, 6-1 Estonian opponent. toric tournament and one that final match at the had been suffering from Motor “I don’t like to complain, but I’ve always dreamed of winning.” Portugal Open in Neurone Disease. Munich ATP results it was tough to start the match. The Spaniard, a late drawcard Oeiras, yesterday. “Our thoughts are with Brad’s MUNICH, Germany: Results from the ATP I didn’t recover well. But I’m replacement for Juan Martin Ferrer won the family on this extremely sad day Munich Open yesterday (x denotes seeding): happy with how I responded,” Del Potro, who is now out of next match 6-4, 7-6. for them, the ATP and the entire Quarter finals: Pavlyuchenkova said. week’s Madrid Masters with international tennis community. Meanwhile, top seed David the virus which kept him from He will be sorely missed by all.” Daniel Brands (GER) bt Janko Tipsarevic Ferrer reached the men’s semi- Portugal, beat Hanescu in one Spanish star Rafael Nadal was (SRB x1) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 finals. Ferrer rallied from 4-2 hour, 39 minutes, helped by three amongst the first to pay tribute Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x4) bt Viktor down in the second set to see off breaks of serve. to the Australian. Troicki (SRB) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) gritty Romanian Victor Hanescu “It was a very tough match, “A very sad day for the world Tommy Haas (GER x3) bt Florian Mayer 6-4, 7-6 (7/2). Joining Ferrer in Victor played very well and, of sports and tennis in particular. (GER x6) 6-4, 6-1 the last four was Swiss second despite being better than the first Our president Brad has passed seed Stanislas Wawrinka. day, I was lucky in the second set Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Aleksandr Dolgopolov away. Rest in peace,” said Nadal The Swiss reached the semi- in some important moments,” said (UKR x5) 6-4, 6-4 on his Facebook page. AFP finals for the second year running Ferrer. AFP MAY 4, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Squabbling McIlroy shares Indian delegation to meet IOC over Quail Hollow lead Olympic ban

MUMBAI: India’s bid to Logjam as seven share the top spot overturn an Olympic ban looked no closer to a solu- CHARLOTTE, North second behind McIlroy in 2010, tion yesterday with a split Carolina: World number two Wells Fargo was among six players tied on 68, and squabbling delegation Rory McIlroy was one of seven along with 2011 Quail Hollow win- set to attend a meeting with players sharing the lead on five- Championship ner Lucas Glover, Boo Weekley, the International Olympic under 67 yesterday after the 67 Ryan Moore, Nick Watney, Robert Zach Johnson, Kevin Streelman Committee in Lausanne on first round of the US PGA Tour’s Garrigus, Derek Ernst, Rory McIlroy (NIR), and Jason Kokrak. May 15. Wells Fargo Championship at Daniel Summerhays, Nate Smith Australians Steven Bowditch The meeting has already had Quail Hollow. and Rod Pampling, and Sweden’s to be postponed twice, with the 68 Boo Weekley, Phil Mickelson, Zach The weather-damaged greens Robert Karlsson were among nine sports ministry at loggerheads Johnson, Lucas Glover, Kevin Streelman, that raised concerns ahead of the players on 69. with acting Indian Olympic Jason Kokrak tournament didn’t prevent more Glover said there were some Association (IOA) chief VK than 50 players from breaking par 69 David Hearn (CAN), Robert Karlsson unexpected outcomes on the Malhotra over a controversial as cool, overcast weather made for (SWE), George McNeill, Jordan Spieth, greens, but nothing too damaging. government sports code. good scoring conditions despite John Rollins, Russell Henley, Rod “I had some bounce in and I had The IOC imposed the ban Pampling (AUS), Shawn Stefani, Steven some patchy putting surfaces. some bounce out, but it evens out in December over government Bowditch (AUS) “They’re not the best greens eventually,” Glover said. interference in IOA elections. that we’ve ever putted on, but 70 John Senden (AUS), Webb Simpson, “All you can do on any green is A Delhi court last year they’re certainly not the worst, Andrew Svoboda, Trevor Immelman try and hit it where you’re look- directed the IOA to hold the either,” said Northern Ireland’s (RSA), Gary Woodland, James Driscoll, ing,” added Watney. Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits a tee shot on the 3rd hole during the elections adhering to a govern- McIlroy, who claimed his break- Bud Cauley, Patrick Reed, Nicolas “The greens may be a little second round of the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in ment sports code, while the IOC through victory on the US PGA Colsaerts (BEL), Lee Westwood (ENG), bouncy, but most of the time if Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday. wanted the body to abide by the Tour at this event in 2010 and fin- Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Vaughn Taylor, you hit a good putt it’s going to Olympic charter. ished runner-up to Rickie Fowler Brian Harman, Ross Fisher (ENG), Scott go in.” India’s sole individual Gardiner (AUS) in a playoff last year. McIlroy, playing for the first China Open Niaga Indonesian Olympic gold medallist Abhinav “The ball still rolls pretty well time since tying for 25th in the Bindra will attend the meeting Scores from the European on them,” he said. Smith qualified on Monday to Masters, was due to tee off early in Lausanne as part of a five- Tour China Open at the par-72 Masters McIlroy powered up the lea- make his return to a PGA Tour Friday, when the course was likely member government delega- course yesterday in Tianjin. The Scores after round 2: (par 72) derboard with four birdies in a event for the first time since 2011, to be receptive. tion led by the country’s sports cut was set at 144. row starting at the par-five fifth, when he played in 16 events. He said work with coach 134 Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 69-65 minister. where he rolled in a five-footer. In five starts on the Web.com Michael Bannon had him feeling 132 Mikko Ilonen (FIN) 69-63 136 Scott Barr (AUS) 68-68 Malhotra, a vehement oppo- He sandwiched birdies at 10 tour this year his best finish is a “a lot more comfortable” with his 135 Brett Rumford (AUS) 68-67, Kiradech 137 Wade Ormsby (AUS) 69-68 nent of the sports code, and and 11 between bogeys at the tie for 29th, but he briefly gained swing. Aphibarnrat (THA) 68-67 three of his colleagues will also ninth and 12th, but joined the sole possession of the lead with a “I got into a couple of bad hab- 138 Kieran Pratt (AUS) 70-68, Jake travel to Switzerland along with group sharing the clubhouse lead birdie at 16 -- jumping ahead of its with my swing, and it just took 136 Robert-Jan Derksen (NED) 66-70 Higginbottom (AUS) 69-69, Hung Chien- India’s IOC member Randhir with a birdie at 18. six players in the clubhouse on 67. me a little bit of time to get out yao (TPE) 70-68, Ernie Els (RSA) 68-70, Singh. Despite the continuing 137 Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 71-66, Lee Scott Hend (AUS) 66-72 McIlroy was joined on 67 by However, he gave the stroke of them,” he said. “But now that I Slattery (ENG) 69-68 divisions, a top sports ministry Ryan Moore, Robert Garrigus, back at the 17th to settle for a feel like I’m swinging it well... this 139 Chapchai Nirat (THA) 71-68, Shiv Kapur official remained optimistic of a Nick Watney, Nate Smith, Derek share of the lead. is the sort of golf I expect to play.” 138 Matthew Griffin (AUS) 70-68, Graeme (IND) 70-69, Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) positive outcome. Storm (ENG) 70-68 Ernst and Daniel Summerhays. Phil Mickelson, who finished AFP 67-72, Daisuke Kataoka (JPN) 70-69 “Thirty-two national sports federations have already amended their constitution as per the sports code and except archery and cricket, the Cav eyes pink rest agreed to do so by June Olympic champion Cakir faces 30,” PK Deb, the secretary of jersey as team India’s sports ministry, said. faces Giro test life ban after second offence REUTERS

NAPLES, Italy: British sprint LONDON: Turkey’s Asli Cakir rigorously enforced anti-doping Warriors hold king Mark Cavendish could pull Alptekin (pictured), who came legislation.” on the Giro d’Italia race leader’s back from a doping ban to win The burly Cakir’s ban will off Nuggets to pink jersey today as his Omega- the women’s 1,500 metres under hardly raise eyebrows in the world Pharma team’s sprint-train a cloud of suspicion at the of athletics, despite her denying reach second credentials face their first big 2012 Olympics, faces a lifetime the use of performance-enhancing Grand Tour test of the season. ban after being charged with drugs when grilled immediately Cavendish, arguably cycling’s another anti-doping offence, after her London success. round in NBA most successful sprinter, has since athletics officials said yesterday. Shortly after the 1,500 final, 2008 won a total of 10 stages on Cakir, who was given a two- Briton Lisa Dobriskey, who fin- OAKLAND, California: The the three-week Italian race which year ban in 2004 after a posi- ished 10th, voiced her frustration. Golden State Warriors squan- opens with a fairly flat 130 km tive dope test at the world junior “I’ll probably get into trouble dered an 18-point fourth-quar- stage around Naples. Yamaha Factory Racing’s Spanish championships, finished at the for saying this but I don’t believe ter lead but held on to beat the It is the first time in 10 years rider Jorge Lorenzo looks on in the London Games ahead of com- I’m competing on a level playing Denver Nuggets 92-88 yesterday the race opens with a road stage. pits during the second MotoGP patriot Gamze Bulut, who had field,” she said. to reach the second round of the The last time a stage of the free practice of the Spanish Grand improved her personal best by 18 “I think the blood passport is NBA play-offs. race finished in Naples was in Prix at the Jerez racetrack in Jerez seconds in the previous year. for adjudication and Cakir faces catching people but I think these Stephen Curry scored 14 of his 1996 when former sprint star de la Frontera, yesterday. Cakir was charged on the basis an automatic life ban for a second Games came too soon. People 22 points in a crucial third-quar- Mario Cipollini dominated a of abnormal blood values from her doping offence. will be caught eventually, I think. ter surge and Golden State sur- bunch finish. biological passport. Ugur Erdener, president of the Fingers crossed anyway.” vived some sloppy play in the final But the Italian’s feat, especially Lorenzo fastest Another Turkish athlete, Turkish Olympic Committee, said It was just that system that period to win the best-of-seven in light of a damning account of double European 100m hurdles in a statement: “We fully support eventually did catch the 27-year- Western Conference first-round his links to Spanish blood dop- in Spanish champion Nevin Yanit, also faces all authorities in this ongoing old Cakir, nine years after she was series four-games-to-two. ing doctor Eufemiano Fuentes in a ban after “multiple positive investigation. Doping is a major exposed as a teenage doper. Australian NBA veteran Gazzetta dello Sport in February, practice findings in both in-competition global issue: Turkey is ready to Biological passports work by Andrew Bogut, who battled failed to impress Isle of Man rider and out-of-competition tests,” fulfil its responsibilities in helping creating individual blood pro- ankle pain through much of the Cavendish. the International Association of to eradicate it from world sport. files for each athlete, rather than season, contributed 14 points “For sure, I’d like to win the JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA: Athletics Federations said in a “The Turkish Olympic testing for specific, performance- and 21 rebounds for the sixth- stage, but it’s irrelevant who won Jorge Lorenzo, on a Yamaha, statement. Committee will continue to enhancing drugs. seeded Warriors, who next face there before,” Cavendish told was fastest after the first two Both athletes have been charged intensify our own efforts to root If an athlete’s blood readings the West’s second-seeded San reporters. free practice sessions for tomor- with anti-doping rule violations out cheats in Turkish sport. Any then deviate markedly from pre- Antonio Spurs. Cavendish, however, is under the row’s Spanish MotoGP in Jerez by the IAAF and are provisionally athlete found to have cheated will vious measures they can face a The veteran Spurs ousted spotlight himself. Having enjoyed yesterday. suspended. Their cases have been be punished to the full extent doping charge. REUTERS the injury-depleted Los Angeles the bulk of his record 23 stage Lorenzo, the reigning world referred to the Turkish federation of Turkey’s comprehensive and Lakers in four games. successes on the Tour de France champion, was 0.142sec ahead of “It was a big win for us. with a well-oiled HTC team (2006- fellow-Spaniard Dani Pedrosa, Hopefully we can keep rolling,” 2011), before a comparatively ill- on a Honda, and 0.171sec faster said Bogut after the Warriors -- fated move to Team Sky (2012), than another Yamaha rider, Cal Low-key return for Rudisha in the playoffs for the first time Cavendish surprised many in the Crutchlow of Britain. since 2007 -- nearly let the con- sport with his move to Omega- Rookie Marc Marquez, the NAIROBI: Kenya’s world and traditional start to the season in test slip away. AFP Pharma at the end of last season. reigning Moto2 champion, cur- Olympic 800m champion David Australia for the first time in four Nevertheless, this season rently leads the standings, along- Rudisha (pictured) yesterday years in March, to prepare him- Cavendish has been successful. He side Lorenzo, following his victory made a low-key return to the self for the start of the Diamond NBA Results won the opening stage of the Tour at the Grand Prix of the Americas track when he ran in the 400m League which gets underway in Eastern Conference of San Luis, Argentina, for his new in Austin, Texas two weeks ago. heats at the Nairobi athletics Doha on May 10. outfit, then won four consecutive Marquez was fifth fastest on meeting. He is also scheduled in com- In Chicago stages of six on his way to over- Friday on his Honda, just behind Rudisha led from the gun to pete in two back-to-back races in Brooklyn 95 Chicago 92 all victory in the Tour of Qatar. Valentino Rossi on another the tape and held a commanding New York and at the Prefontaine (Series tied 3-3) He went on to win stage two in Yamaha. AFP pace for the entire race, clocking Classic in Eugene, Oregon later Western Conference the Three Days of De Panne, but 45.5sec. this month in a lead-up to the Omega-Pharma came up short It was his first race since his world championships in Moscow. In Oakland Spanish Grand Prix in the finale of the Scheldeprijs, epic performance at the London Another athlete on the come- Golden State 92 Denver 88 where Cavendish was aiming for JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Olympics where set a new world back trail was Pamela Jelimo, Spain: Spanish Grand Prix (Golden State win series 4-2) a record fourth victory. record in winning the 800m gold. the Beijing Olympic 800m cham- practice times yesterday ahead It has left some critics believing “Sometimes you need to be pion, who was beaten into second of tomorrow’s race at Jerez: the Manxman could be winning quiet and concentrate with the place in the heats of the 400m MotoGP Baseball Results more, and recent reports sug- training which is the most impor- by the African bronze medallist, gested Italian sprinter Alessandro 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha)1:39.562,2. tant thing in my career. That’s Maureen Chelagat. San Diego 4 Chicago Cubs 2 Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) at 0.142, 3. Cal Petacchi would be parachuted in where I concentrate all my “Last year I was in great shape Philadelphia 7 Miami 2 Crutchlow (GBR/Yamaha Tech3) 0.171, 4. to the team in time for the Tour Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 0.312, 5. Marc energy,” said Rudisha. for sure, but maybe it was a small Boston 3 Toronto 1 de France. International Cycling Marquez (ESP/Honda) 0.327, 6. Alvaro Bautista “I like to take time to be with error on my part for the way I Washington 3 Atlanta 1 Union (UCI) rules ended that (ESP/Honda Gresini) 0.945, 7. Andrea Iannone my coach and my family because performed in London. My main Chicago White Sox 3 Texas 1 possibility last week as 39-year- when the season starts we are focus is on the world champion- (ITA/Ducati) 1.012, 8. Nicky Hayden (USA/ St Louis 6 Milwaukee 5 old Petacchi is still linked with the Ducati) 1.160, 9. Hector Barbera (ESP/FTR very busy and I don’t have the ships, and this time I will have Detroit 7 Houston 3 Lampre team amid claims he is Kawasaki) 1.174, 10. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/ time for them.” to work on my race tactics,” said about to retire. AFP Aprilia Aspar) 1.176 Rudisha opted to skip his Jelimo. 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