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FM meets Indonesian Minister First batch of Ministry plans Qatar pilgrims returns today DOHA: The first batch of Haj ambitious pilgrims from Qatar are sched- uled to arrive at the Hamad International Airport today. A team from the Qatari Haj mission and the Community Policing depart- dairy project ment of the Ministry of Interior will be at the airport to receive the pil- grims, Al Sharq reported. The first batch of expatriate 20,000 tonnes of milk annual target pilgrims travelling by road are expected to arrive on September DOHA: In a major initiative to the food security programme of 29, after visiting Madinah. reduce Qatar’s heavy depend- the ministry being implemented Meanwhile, the Qatari Haj mission ence on imported dairy prod- with support and participation of will be conducting a survey among ucts, the Ministry of Economy the private sector. returning pilgrims seeking their and Commerce is working on Recently, the ministry awarded feedback on the services provided an ambitious project to produce the first contract to a Dar Al by the Qatari Haj contractors and milk and associated products Rayyan for Investment to set suggestions to improve the services. locally. up a QR1.3bn poultry project in The full-fledged dairy project Qatar. Charities distribute will be awarded to the private This project seeks to promote sector and has been developed in self sufficiency in poultry prod- sacrificial meat collaboration with the Ministry of ucts by producing 40,000 tonnes Environment. of chicken and 7,500 tonnes of DOHA: Charitable organisa- The Ministry is currently pre- eggs annually. This alone will Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah met with Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs tions in Qatar distributed meat paring to invite bids from compe- be enough to meet 38 percent Retno L P Marsudi on the sidelines of the 70th UN General Assembly in New York yesterday. They reviewed of 3,200 sacrificial animals to tent private companies to execute of the local demand for chicken bilateral relations and ways of developing them. See also page 2 needy people yesterday. Qatar the project, which is expected to and 26 per cent of the demand Charity, Thani bin Abdullah be launched next month. for eggs. Foundation for Humanitarian The government has allotted As for the proposed dairy Services (RAF) and Sheikh Eid 62,000sqm of land for the project, project, the ministry is cur- Charitable Association partici- besides another 500 hectares for rently conducting a survey among Haj stampede toll hits 769 pated in the initiative. production of fodder to support potential private investors to get the livestock, Al Sharq reported. their views and suggestions. The MINA: Saudi Arabia deployed level of Jamarat Bridge, a five-sto- people. Most pilgrims began leav- Green fodder will be cultivated tender will be invited after com- large numbers of special forces rey structure in Mina where pil- ing yesterday, returning to Makkah HMC reports 22 using treated water. pletion of this survey, said the yesterday as pilgrims performed grims ritually stone the devil, and where they circumambulate the The project aims to produce daily. the final rituals of Haj, with the on which hundreds of thousands holy Kaaba before going home. minor accidents 20,000 tonnes of milk annually, The ministry conducted a death toll from a stampede ris- were converging when Thursday’s Traffic was hardly moving as DOHA: The ambulance unit of which is sufficient to meet a major similar interaction with 23 pri- ing to 769. stampede occurred nearby. crowded cars and buses jammed the Hamad Medical Corporation portion of the local demand. vate companies last year, before Health Minister Khaled Al Many more patrolled the net- the route, with some pilgrims on (HMC) reported 22 minor road Currently, products of Saudi- announcing the bid for the poul- Falih announced the new figure, work of roads leading to the struc- the roofs of their buses. accidents yesterday in different based dairy companies are domi- try project, which has now been an increase from the previous toll ture. The interior ministry has “We are thankful to our broth- places in the country. nating the Qatari market causing awarded. of 717. said it assigned 100,000 police to ers in Saudi Arabia for this effort,” Average one to three people supply shortages with any disrup- In the meantime, the techni- The number hurt rose to 934 secure the Haj and manage crowds. Abdullah Ali, a 38-year-old sustained minor injuries in each tion in imports. cal committee at the ministry will from 863 recorded just after the Undeterred yesterday, pilgrims Emirati said in Mina. He blamed accident. The ambulance unit The project is expected to reach open online registration for inter- deadliest incident in a quarter- in Mina still flooded the area to per- other pilgrims for the stampede received 315 emergency calls its full production capacity in ested companies from October 20, century to strike the pilgrimage. form the stoning for a third time, and urged more awareness. yesterday, majority of which three years after start up. said the daily. Dozens of special emergency on the last day of the Haj which AFP was related to road accidents, The project comes as part of THE PENINSULA force personnel were seen on one this year drew about two million See also page 5 reported Al Sharq. THE PENINSULA El Jaish, Al Khor in goalless draw Total lunar Saudi colonel, guard eclipse to be visible in Qatar killed on Yemen border DOHA: Qatar will witness a RIYADH: A senior Saudi coalition killed at least 20 Iran- total lunar eclipse in the early officer and another border backed insurgents yesterday, the hours of Monday; the moon will guard were killed in a gunbattle military said, as they pressed be covered completely for 72 after a landmine blast along the their offensive on the rebel-held minutes, said a senior official at frontier with Yemen, the inte- capital Sana’a. Qatar Scientific Club (QSC). rior ministry said yesterday. Twelve other rebels were cap- “The eclipse will begin at 3.11am Colonel Hassan Ghasoum tured in the operation launched local time. By 5.12am, the moon Ageeli and a deputy sergeant died on the northwestern edge of will be covered completely. Total late on Friday in the Jazan dis- Marib province, a key battle- eclipse will last for 72 minutes,” trict, and four other guards were ground in the fight for control of an astronomer Sheikh Salman lightly wounded, the ministry said the capital, said a military official bin Jabor Al Thani of QSC told Al in a statement. “Loyalist forces, supported by Sharq. “The moon will start com- Ageeli is one of the most senior coalition aircraft, have made a ing out from the shadow of the Saudi officers killed since March slight advance” in the northwest earth from 6.24am. The eclipse when the kingdom formed an of Marib, Abda Al Subei, of the will end by 7.28am,” he added. Arab coalition to fight Houthi provincial security forces, said. A lunar eclipse occurs when the rebels in Yemen. The landmine Subei said yesterday’s opera- earth comes in between the sun blast damaged vehicles patrolling tion came a day after coalition and the moon, casting a shadow the border district, the ministry air strikes on rebel positions. He on the moon. Earth’s shadow will said. did not elaborate on the overall blanket the full moon as the planet After backup arrived, “they progress of the offensive. passes between the sun and the were subject to heavy shooting But another Yemeni officer, moon. The brilliant white glow of from several locations inside the Murad Turiq, said ground forces the moon will slowly transform into Yemeni border,” sparking a fire- came across land mines planted a dim red. The coloring is caused fight, it said. by rebels. by Earth’s atmosphere scattering Meanwhile, loyalist forces in AGENCIES sunlight into the shadow. Action during a match between El Jaish and Al Khor at the Qatar Stars League, yesterday at the Lekhwiya Yemen backed by a Saudi-led See also page 4 The “supermoon”, also known as Stadium. The match ended in a goalless draw. See also page 18 a “blood moon” is one that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in its orbit that is closest to Earth. It has been more than 30 years since a West fumbles for new plan as Syria strategy stumbles supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse, according to Nasa. The next total lunar eclipse will not be until NEW YORK: US and Western on the sidelines of the UN General Pentagon admitted the latest only four or five guerrillas active. Zarif to make the case. “I view 2018. The next supermoon-lunar diplomats scrambled to cobble Assembly in New York. Unwilling US-trained fighters to cross into Kerry and his allies came to this week as a major opportunity eclipse combination will not hap- together a diplomatic strategy to countenance a peace process Syria had given a quarter of their New York hoping to persuade for any number of countries to pen until 2033. If skies are clear, to end the war in Syria yester- that would leave Assad in power gear to Al Qaeda. Tehran and Moscow to push for play an important role in trying the phenomenon will be visible day after the latest humiliating after he alienated or killed so many A previous 54-strong group a broad political solution to the to resolve some of the very dif- from North and South America, blow to their military plan. of his people, the US has backed that crossed into northern Syria conflict. Kerry and European dip- ficult issues of the Middle East,” Europe, Africa and parts of West Secretary of State John Kerry small “moderate” rebel groups. earlier this year was attacked by lomatic chief Federica Mogherini Kerry said yesterday, at a joint Asia and the eastern Pacific. and his European counterparts But that strategy appeared Al Qaeda’s local franchise, the Al met separately with their Iranian appearance with Zarif. THE PENINSULA reached out to traditional foe Iran in tatters yesterday after the Nusra Front, and fell apart, leaving counterpart Mohammad Javad AFP SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Over 17,000 expatriates attend MoI Eid activities Celebrations in Ras Laffan, Al Khor big draw among expat communities

DOHA: More than 17,000 people attended cultural and sports events organised by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Interior on the second day of Eid at differ- ent venues. Events for the Pakistani com- munity and expatriate residents of Ras Laffan and Al Khor and the Nepalese community were held on the second day of Eid. Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with his Albanian counterpart Over 5,000 people, especially Ditmir Bushati during a meeting on the sidelines of the 70th UN General Assembly from the Pakistani and Indian communities, attended celebra- session in New York yesterday. tions at Al Wakrah Sports Club last evening, while the second day of the cultural show organ- ised in association with Barwa Foreign Minister meets Group at Barwa Workers One of the cultural programmes in progress in Al Khor. Sports Complex in Al Khor Industrial Area attracted more than 12,000 audience, including and partnership with the officials in New York families, especially from the communities. Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, “I hope you will enjoy this NEW YORK: Foreign Minister countries, ways to strengthen eco- Nepalese, Sri Lankan and other programme and I am looking H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed nomic cooperation and issues of com- Asian communities. forward to more activities in Al Attiyah met UN Special mon concern. Brig. Abdulla Khalifa Al partnership with expat com- Coordinator for the Middle East Dr Al Attiyah held separate Muftah, Director of the munities on coming occasions.” Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov meetings with Albanian Minister department, Col. Ahmed The organising committee on the sideline of the 70th UN of Foreign Affairs Ditmir Bushati Zayed Al Muhannadi, of the events honoured Brig. General Assembly yesterday. and Indonesian Minister of Foreign Director, Community Policing Al Muftah with a memento for They reviewed latest developments Affairs Retno L P Marsudi and Department, Col. Sultan support to the community. in Gaza Strip and efforts to revive the reviewed relations between Qatar Mohammed Al Kaabi, Assistant Cultural and musical shows Middle East peace process. and their countries, ways of devel- Director, Community Policing were performed by artists and Dr Al Attiyah also met his Swedish oping them in all fields and issues of Department, and officers from singers from Pakistan, includ- counterpart Margot Wallstrom and common concern. Community Policing and South ing Afshan Zebi, Noorjahan discussed relations between both QNA Security departments attended and Usman Bangesh in Urdu, both events. Pashto, Punjabi, Persian, Balochi Addressing the audience in and Saraiki languages. Al Wakrah Sports Club, Brig. Popular Pakistani comedian Al Muftah extended Eid greet- Khawaja Masood was another Pakistani artist Usman Bangesh performs at Al Wakrah Sports Club. ings to the audience and said, “I attraction. SALIM MATRAMKOT am glad to be here among you In Al Khor, Brig. Al Muftah Qatar tells NY meeting: for Eid celebrations for your and Col. Al Muhannadi hon- cultural extravaganzas with among the highlights. community. oured the winner and runner-up performances by artists from Songs and shows in Hindi, “The ministry organises in a tug-of-war championship. Al Khor Indian community. Tamil, Malayalam, Nepali, Resources of occupied events for the expatriate com- H.B.K company won the first Traditional dances and songs, Arabic, Urdu and English were munities on national and reli- prize and the Sri Lankan com- semi-classical dances, Bhangra performed by Sariga Orchestra gious occasions as we aim munity team the second. and folk dances and Energetic on the second day of Eid. land belong to its people to strengthen relationship Al Khor activities included Fusion performance were THE PENINSULA

NEW YORK: Qatar stressed on ambitious plan that must realise the sovereignty of people over their countries’ capabilities. The plan resources in areas under occupa- must also respect each country’s tion of foreign countries, particu- sovereignty. larly the rights of Palestinian and He added that the commitment to Syrian people of Golan Heights to human rights means that the inter- their resources. national community has to focus on Assistant Foreign Minister for eliminating poverty and achieving International Cooperation H E sustainable development. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul He said the international commu- Rahman Al Thani read out a state- nity must focus on financing develop- ment issued by Qatar during the ment, adding that the Addis Ababa 39th meeting of foreign ministers of Action Agenda signed during the member countries of Group of 77 and third international conference on China. financing for development would be The statement called on Israel to a valuable addition to global efforts. end its use of resources in the occu- Achieving sustainable development pied territories. also means that the international The meeting was held on the community must face environmen- sidelines of the 70th UN General tal issues such as desertification and Assembly. climate change, he said, highlighting Audience gathering at Al Wakrah Sports Indoor Stadium for Eid Al Adha programmes yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP In the Assembly, the Minister dis- 2012 UN Climate Change Conference cussed ‘Transforming Our World: Qatar had hosted as part of its efforts The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable to cope with the issues. Development’ and said it was an QNA Katara continues to wow Eid visitors DOHA: Stunning festivities Erring firm faces action that have evoked a festive atmosphere among visitors to Cultural Village Foundation — Katara during the past three days of Eid Al Adha conclude today with distinc- tive closing festivities. On a stage for a shadow show, opposite to the amphi- theatre and equipped with lighting and sound technolo- gies, 12 artists have performed in the past three days. Performances by a Ukrainian band in three parts, each for 30 minutes starting at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm have stunned the audiences from different nationalities. About the Ukraine band, Anerban Rajish Said: “The spectacular show has turned Katara to a favourite destina- tion for my two children in the past two days. “I like the chronological order of the show, starting with silent art and turning into a shadows game prior to A section of the audience at Katara. the start of the shadow theatre followed by fireworks.” Nora Khulaif, from Bahrain bearable weather. My two kids at the esplanade. Fireworks display has been trying to aim her camera to the used to take giveaways distrib- Visitors can also get a a major highlight of Eid cel- sky to capture the breathtak- uted by Katara as souvenirs to glimpse on two exhibitions ebrations at Katara where the ing sight of colours painting the refresh their memories about — ‘Faces’ captured in colour large number of visitors head sky in spectacular formations, their visit to Qatar.” by Qatari artist Ali Ahmad A private company found violating rules and building a road without licence in to the esplanade to watch the said: “For the third consecu- Katara will continue to Al Mulllaat and ‘History of Al Ruwais has been referred to security authorities, the Ministry of Environment 10-minute activity that illumi- tive year, Katara has been our amuse kids by distributing Computers’ by Abdulrahman said on its official Twitter account. nates the skies of Katara in an destination during Eid, espe- Eidyah every day during Eid Al Snaidi at Building No. 22. enchanting colourful display. cially Eid Al Adha, due to the starting from 7pm until 8.30pm THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Eid celebrations at malls

Artistes perform scenes from Cindrella at Lagoona Mall and (RIGHT) a traditional dance in progress as part of Eid Al Adha programmes organised by Qatar Tourism Authority at Ezdan Mall. SALIM MATRAMKOT and KAMMUTTY VP

Visitors enjoy Eid programmes at Al Khor Mall yesterday. Qatar hosts Nepal film awards

Veteran actor Nir Shah receives Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Nepal’s Minister of Information and Communication Minandra Rijal at the event.

DOHA: Qatar hosted the Talakjung Vs. Tulke bagged top (Manoj Kumar KC). Eighth Nepali Annual Film honours, including Best Movie, Aavash won Best Editor Awards Ceremony in Asian Best Director (Nischal Basnet), (Surendra Poudel), Best Park Stadium, Industrial Area, Best Actor Male (Khagendra Supporting Actor (Salon Basnet) Doha. Lamichane), Best Actor Female and Sunpani Best Actor in char- Some 80 directors, artists and (Richa Sharma), and Best Script acter role and Best Story Award jury members from Nepal and (Khagendra Lamichane). (both to Sabin Bastola). over 15,000 participants, includ- Jerryy won Best Best Supporting Actor Female ing Minister of Information & Cinematography (Shailendradhoj went to Suryamala Khanal Communication Dr Minandra Karki), Best Sound Mixing (Suntali), Best Playback Singer Rijal as Chief Guest, Raj Kumar (Uttam Neupane), Best Music Female to Rejina Rimal (Nai Rai, Chairman, Nepal Film Arrangement (Almoda Upreti) Nbhannu La 3), Best Music Development Board, Mani Ratna and Best Debut Actor Female Director to Arjun Pokharel Sharma, Charge d’Affaires, Nepal (Anna Sharma). (Stupid Mann), Best Comedy embassy, Macksoud Ahmad, Popular Film Award went to Actor Award to Subash Thapa President, Non-Resident Nepali Kohinoor, which also won Best (Birkhelai Chinchhas), Best Association Qatar, Rekha Rai, Lyrics (Dr Krishna Hari Baral) Actor in Negative Role to Anup President, Nepali Women and Best Art Director (Pasang T Bikram Shahi (Hasiya), and Best Association Qatar, R K Sharma, Sherpa and Anjan Gajurel). Debut Actor Male to Hasan Khan Dr Dev Dangal, Sagar Nepal, Kabaddi won Best Film, Jury (Alvida). Usha Gautam, Narendra Bhatt, Award and Best Debut Director Best Choreographer was given Adviser to NRN ICC, Badri (Rambabu Gurung), while to Kabiraj Gahatraj (Hawaldar Parasad, Devika K C, Parkash November Rain walked away Suntali), Best Dress to Nira Rana Gurung, prominent business com- with Best Debut Actor Female (Seto Bagh), Best Script/Dialogue munity members, heads of Nepali (Chhulthim Gurung) and Best to Pasang Lama (Zhigrana), Best socio-cultural forums, families Playback Singer (Yuvaraj Action to Roshan Shrestha (One and workers attended the 2015 Chaulagain). Wa y ), Popular Award Actor to event. Love You Baba received Best Aryan Sigdel, Popular Award Doha was the first host in the Child Artist (Sangam Bista), and Actress to Priyanka Karki, Best Middle East and third venue Appreciation for youngest direc- Ethnic Film to Yampu Deurali, after Malaysia and Hong Kong. tor (Saugat Bista), while Mala and Kala Ratna Award to Madan Next year’s awards will be held took Best Makeup (Dipu Poudel) Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bamsha in Dubai. and Best Background Music Acharya. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST

Abbas meets Sisi Saudi police 20 Iran-backed shoot dead Islamic State rebels killed in suspect

RIYADH: A Saudi gunman was killed and another detained during a security forces opera- Yemen fighting tion in the northeast of the country that also left a police- man dead, the interior ministry Loyalist forces press offensive said yesterday. The two suspected jihadists MARIB, YEMEN: Loyalist forces were lightly wounded, a ministry were wanted for the murder in Yemen backed by a Saudi-led statement said. of a soldier, two civilians and coalition killed at least 20 Iran- Ageeli is one of the most senior a policeman this week in the backed insurgents yesterday, the Saudi officers killed since March kingdom, state news agency SPA military said, as they pressed their when the kingdom formed the coa- quoted a ministry spokesman as offensive on the rebel-held capital lition. The landmine blast damaged saying. Sana’a. vehicles patrolling the border district. The operation was launched Twelve other rebels were captured After backup arrived, “they were in response to a video shared in the operation launched on the subject to heavy shooting from sev- on social media in which one of northwestern edge of Marib province, eral locations inside the Yemeni bor- the two men appeared to shoot a key battleground in the fight for der,” sparking a firefight, it said. dead a man he had tied up, “at control of the capital, said a military Riyadh launched air strikes against Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (left) with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in New York the request of the Islamic State official. the Houthis six months ago to sup- yesterday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. group”, he said. “Loyalist forces, supported by coa- port President Hadi’s internationally The man was a soldier killed lition aircraft, have made a slight backed government that was losing on Thursday by two of his cousins advance” in the northwest of Marib, ground. aged 18 and 20 near Al Shamli, in Abda Al Subei, of the provincial secu- Saudi Arabia feared the Houthis Hail province, he added. rity forces, told AFP. would take over all of neighbouring Investigators alleged the two President Abdrabuh Mansur Yemen and move it into the orbit of Impeachment motion against brothers — IS followers — had Hadi’s forces launched a major regional rival Iran. also killed two civilians and a ground offensive against the Houthi But the rebels have lost territory policeman in Al Shamli on the rebels in oil-rich Marib province since late July when the coalition same day, the spokesman said. on September 13, backed by the began deploying ground troops in Somalia president withdrawn The gunmen, who were hiding coalition. support of local forces. in a mountainous region near Subei said yesterday’s operation Hadi returned to the southern city MOGADISHU: Somalia’s 7 to try to resolve the issues lawmakers who filed the motion Al Shamli, refused to surren- came a day after coalition air strikes of Aden Tuesday vowing to “liberate” parliamentary speaker has raised in the motion. allege the president had abused der and opened fire on security on rebel positions. the whole country. withdrawn an impeach- Jawari said he made his his office or betrayed the coun- forces who retaliated, killing one He did not elaborate on the overall In June, a Saudi lieutenant colo- ment motion brought against decision because the majority try. Donors have complained and wounding the other, who was progress of the offensive. nel died in a landmine blast in Jazan, President Hassan Sheikh of parliament’s 275 lawmakers Mohamud’s cash-strapped gov- detained. But another Yemeni officer, Murad while a general in August became the Mohamud — the latest cri- wanted the motion resolved ernment is not doing enough to A policeman was caught in the Turiq, said ground forces came highest-ranked Saudi fatality when sis to threaten the country’s through dialogue. “This also fight graft and say the theft of crossfire and died. across land mines planted by rebels he was killed in cross-border fire. stability as it struggles to came after considering the scarce government resources Saudi Arabia is part of a US-led and were also having difficulty mov- Around 70 people have been killed rebound from two decades of political, security and economic had frustrated efforts to build a military coalition fighting IS in ing through the mountainous region. in Saudi Arabia from border shell- chaos and war. situation of the country and functioning state. Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, a senior Saudi officer ing and skirmishes since the coali- Somali lawmakers last the short period available,” he A 2013 corruption scandal In recent months, Saudi and another border guard were killed tion campaign began. Soldiers have month filed the motion against added. But Mohamed Abdullahi involving the repatriation of authorities have increased arrests in a gun battle after a landmine blast accounted for most of them. Mohamud, accusing him of Fadhaye, one of the 93 law- overseas Somali state assets of alleged Sunni extremists sus- along the frontier with Yemen, the The United Nations says nearly abuse of office and “betraying makers who supported the frozen at the outset of civil war pected of having planned attacks Interior Ministry said. 4,900 people, including a vast number the country”. Mohamud has impeachment motion, rejected in 1991 has further strained to foment tension between differ- Colonel Hassan Ghasoum Ageeli of civilians, have been killed in Yemen said he is committed to holding the speaker’s decision. his relationship with donors. ent religious confessions in the and a sergeant died late Friday in the since late March. elections before his term runs “We have neither discussed Mohamud and those close to him country. Jazan district, and four other guards AFP out in August 2016. nor given up the motion. We have denied any wrongdoing. On July 18, the interior minis- International envoys have shall take the matter to the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist try announced it had disrupted urged a rapid resolution to court,” Fadhaye said yesterday. militant group Al Shabaab, a network linked to IS and made the crisis. “We have dropped the He said Jawari had a constitu- which wants to topple the more than 430 arrests, foiling new motion against the president,” tional right to throw out the Western-backed government, attacks on Shia mosques and a parliament’s speaker Mohamed motion but added the lawmak- has been driven out of major diplomatic mission. Sheikh Osman Jawari said late ers who backed it would meet strongholds by African and Since May, IS has claimed four on Friday, adding he had con- later to discuss the development. Somali forces but continues to suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia. vened a meeting on October It was not clear how the launch attacks. REUTERS AFP

Iraqi refugees hesitant to go to Europe

AMMAN: Hanna Yussef “We’ve been abandoned, equivalent of $70 from UNHCR. children to school.” dreams of following thousands forgotten,” he said. “It’s really “We left behind all that we Nassir, his wife Milad and of fellow Iraqi Christians to nerve-wracking.” had built over dozens of years,” their three children came to refuge in Europe, abandon- But he says he is “not yet says Yussef, who shares a flat in Jordan eight months ago from ing a precarious existence in ready” to follow the Iraqis who the Jordanian capital with two Qaraqosh, a town near Mosul Jordan, where he has lived have headed to Europe under other Christian families. that was Iraq’s largest Christian Militants loyal to Yemen’s government ride on the back of a truck as they secure a since fleeing Islamist violence their own steam, often pay- About 50,000 Iraqis are reg- town until IS seized it. street where people demonstrated to mark the anniversary of the 1962 revolution, at home. ing smugglers to make the istered with the UNHCR in Today the Saint Joseph par- in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz yesterday. But he’s staying put for now dangerous journey across the Jordan alongside 600,000 Syrian ish in central Amman provides because he can’t afford the Mediterranean on flimsy, over- refugees, says Andrew Harper, them with accommodation money needed for the perilous crowded boats. “I can’t swim,” UNHCR country representative and they receive food aid from crossing by sea and, equally as he says, adding that he is also in Jordan. Caritas. important, because he can’t afraid his two-year-old daughter “If refugees do not find hope Their claim for asylum in swim. and the rest of his family would for a future or purpose in Australia has been rejected. Like so many other Iraqi not survive the crossing. Jordan, they’ve got no alterna- “I don’t want anything ille- Christians, this 45-year-old Besides, “I don’t have the tive,” Harper told AFP. “They gal,” he says. father is a refugee after fleeing money for it,” he says. “For all either go back to... Iraq or they Fellow Iraqi Christian Fadi Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, these reasons, I’m hesitant and will look to go to Europe.” Aziz, his wife and four girls which was overrun by the I’d rather wait.” Of the Iraqis, about 11,000 are have been waiting five years for Islamic State (IS) group in June But while he waits, he’s in a Christian, says Wael Suleiman, a country in which to resettle. of last year. quandary. Jordanian law bans the representative in Jordan of The former state employee For more than a year and refugees from working in the Roman Catholic charity Caritas, from Baghdad says he “would a half, Yussef, his wife and country but he’s received almost which provides housing and aid rather wait for the official pro- four children have been wait- no financial aid. “We don’t know to 2,000 of them. cedure followed by UNHCR — ing for the United Nations what will happen to us here. We “We want them to stay in the even if it’s long and tiring.” High Commission for Refugees don’t have work, or a salary,” region,” says Suleiman. “But for The crossing to Europe is (UNHCR) to give them refugee Yussef says. that, we need to support them. “expensive, long, difficult and status and a country in which Since arriving in Jordan, he We try to rent houses for many can cost us and our children our to resettle. says he has only received the of them... and we send their lives,” he said. AFP

Basra parade Two policemen killed in Sinai CAIRO: Two Egyptian policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in the Sinai Peninsula yesterday, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The ministry said 16 policemen were also wounded when the bomb hit their convoy in the north of the peninsula, where security forces are struggling to quell an Islamist insur- gency. The Islamic State’s Egypt affil- iate said on Twitter that its militants had detonated the bomb as police tried to set up a checkpoint. Militants loyal to the Islamic State group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, have killed hun- Iraqi Shias from Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) take part in a parade in Basra, dreds of soldiers and policemen since southeast of Baghdad, yesterday. the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013. AFP SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Four civilians Russia adds supplies at Syria air base killed in Attempts to evacuate civilians from Syrian villages under truce fail due to protests Turkey clashes

DAMASCUS: Moscow pressed its mili- DIYARBAKIR: Four civil- tary build-up at a new air base in Syria ians have been killed after yesterday, as Washington admitted they were caught in clashes rebels it trained handed ammunition between Turkish security and equipment to Al Qaeda in a fresh forces and Kurdish militants in setback for US policy. the southeast, security sources A decades-long backer of the Damascus said yesterday. regime, Moscow has remained a stead- An ambulance driver was killed fast supporter of President Bashar Al on site in the Beytussebab district Assad throughout four and a half years of Sirnak province and three civil- of war that have left more than 240,000 ians wounded by mortar shells people dead. died later of their injuries at hos- Its recent deployment of its own troops pital, the sources told AFP. and warplanes to Syria, combined with new The clashes broke out early arms deliveries to Assad’s armed forces, Friday when outlawed Kurdistan appear to have prompted a significant shift Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in international efforts to end the conflict. launched simultaneous attacks EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on police and gendarmerie com- and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad mand posts in Beytussebab — a Javad Zarif met Friday in New York for day after two Turkish soldiers talks focused on “the need to bring the war and 34 Kurdish rebels were killed in Syria, which has caused so much suffer- in the region. ing, to an end,” an EU statement said. Meanwhile the Turkish army Russian President Vladimir Putin will announced yesterday that its meet his US counterpart President Barack warplanes pounded PKK shelters Obama tomorrow. and depots in the Gara region of Yesterday was the 15th straight day that northern Iraq. Russian transport aircraft had flown in The Turkish government has troops and equipment to the Hmeimim base waged a comprehensive “anti- in Latakia province on the Mediterranean terrorist” operation against the coast, a military source told AFP on condi- PKK since late July, with the tion of anonymity. aim of flushing the group out of “For the past two weeks and again today its strongholds in southeastern Russian warship the BSF Saratov 150 sails through the Bosphorus off Istanbul en route to the eastern Mediterranean sea yesterday. a Russian cargo plane has landed every Turkey and northern Iraq. AFP morning at Hmeimim,” the source said, adding they all had fighter escorts. military involvement a “turning point”. lawmakers when he told them only “four or of rebel fighters from Zabadani to Idlib, No Assad role in At least some of the cargo was then Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese five” US-trained rebels were on the ground in exchange for evacuating 10,000 civilians unloaded and transported out of the air- Shia militant group Hezbollah, which fighting in Syria. from Fuaa and Kafraya. Syria future: Paris port, the source said. has fought alongside Assad’s forces, said Meanwhile, efforts to evacuate civilians “The evacuations were supposed to start US satellites have recorded increased Russia’s military support would “affect the under a six-month truce in flashpoint this morning, but they have been delayed NEW YORK: France said yes- activity by Russian forces at the base evolution of the ongoing battle in Syria”. Syrian villages stalled yesterday when until tomorrow or the next day,” Abdel terday that Syrian President inside the Bassel Al Assad civil and mili- The United States has said it “could protesters blocked a key route, the Syrian Rahman told AFP. Bashar Al Assad cannot play tary airport. find areas of cooperation” with Russia if Observatory for Human Rights said. Young men from the town of Saraqeb any role in a future political On Wednesday, the Syrian army used Moscow were to join the fight against the “Dozens of men... cut off the road that blocked the road that Syria’s Red Crescent transition and that it hoped Russian-delivered drones for the first time, Islamic State jihadist group. was to be used to evacuate civilians from would have used to escort civilians out of Russia would clarify its military a security source in Damascus said. Moscow’s intervention comes with Fuaa and Kafraya,” the last two regime- Fuaa and Kafraya and south into regime- intentions in Syria in the com- Washington and Nato say recent spot- Washington’s own policy for fighting IS in held villages in the northwestern Idlib controlled territory in Hama province, ing days. tings of helicopters, bombers, ground attack Syria in increasing disarray. province, Observatory head Rami Abdel he said. “(Assad) is responsible for aircraft, tanks and soldiers prove Russia is The US has a $500m programme to train Rahman said. “Some of them were protesting the fact the current chaos. If we were building an airbase in Latakia, the Assad and equip vetted moderates recruited from A UN-brokered ceasefire deal to include that Saraqeb was not included in the cease- to say to the Syrians that the regime’s coastal heartland. among the rebels fighting Assad’s forces Fuaa, Kafraya and Zabadani — the only fire, and others were protesting the cease- future lies with Assad, then we Russian military aircraft have conducted but it has faced repeated setbacks. remaining rebel bastion along Syria’s bor- fire as a whole.” will expose ourselves to fail- reconnaissance flights over Syria but not Last week, before the insertion of the der with Lebanon — was reached Thursday Held by opposition fighters, Saraqeb is ure,” French Foreign Minister yet launched any strikes, the Pentagon said. new fighters, the US general overseeing between warring parties in Syria. regularly bombarded by the Syrian military Laurent Fabius told a news One senior Syrian official called Russia’s efforts against IS drew disbelief from senior The agreement included the withdrawal aircraft. AFP conference. REUTERS Haj stampede beyond human control, says top Saudi cleric

MINA: Saudi Arabia’s top reli- Mosques King Salman bin “the biased campaigns carried out gious leader says a stampede Abdulaziz Al Saud also ordered by the enemies of this pure coun- which killed 717 pilgrims was “a revision” of how the Haj is try, to question the great efforts beyond human control, official organised. exerted by the kingdom to serve media reported yesterday, the Yesterday, groups of pilgrims the holy sites, their construction final day of this year’s Haj. were moving from early morning and expansion, and to serve the The stampede was the worst towards Jamarat Bridge for the visitors and pilgrims.” disaster in a quarter-century to last of three stoning days. Several African countries con- strike the annual event. The interior ministry has said firmed deaths in the stampede, as “You are not responsible for it assigned 100,000 police to secure did India, Indonesia, Pakistan and what happened”, Sheikh Abdul the Haj and manage crowds. the Netherlands. Moroccan media Aziz Al Sheikh told Crown Prince But pilgrims blamed the stam- gave 87 nationals killed. Mohammed bin Nayef in a meet- pede on police road closures and Nigeria’s President ing in Mina on Friday, the offi- poor management of the flow of Muhammadu Buhari urged King cial Saudi Press Agency (SPA) hundreds of thousands of pilgrims Salman “to ensure a comprehen- reported. in searing temperatures. sive and thorough exercise that “As for the things that humans Abdullah Al Sheikh, chairman will identify any flaws in Haj cannot control, you are not of the Shura Council, an appointed organisation”. blamed for them. Fate and des- body which advises the govern- Buhari said his country had lost tiny are inevitable,” Sheikh told ment, stressed that pilgrims must a prominent journalist, a profes- the prince, who is also minister stick to “the rules and regulations sor “and others” in the tragedy. of interior. taken by the security personnel... Largely incident-free for nine Mohammed chairs the Saudi In doing so they protect their years after safety improvements, Haj committee and has ordered lives, their security and facilitate this year’s Haj was afflicted by an investigation into Thursday’s their performing of the rituals.” double tragedy. stampede during a symbolic ston- Health Minister Khaled Al Falih Days before it started, a con- ing of the devil ritual by hun- earlier made similar remarks struction crane collapsed at the dreds of thousands of pilgrims that faulted the worshippers. In Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest at Jamarat Bridge in Mina, just comments carried late Friday by site, killing 109 people including outside the holy city of Makkah. SPA, the Shura chairman called many foreigners. Custodian of the Two Holy on citizens and Muslims to ignore AFP

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OME COMPANIES are known to indulge in skullduggery to boost their balancesheet and circumvent restrictive laws. Tax evasion is common. Canada PM faces ‘Anyone SBut it is rarely that renowned and respected global brands are caught cheating on a scale that can shake their foundations and shock the world. Volkswagen did exactly the same and is continuing to pay the price. The exact nature of the price will be known only in the coming But Harper’ strategic voting months. Volkswagen vehicles were found to have discharged BY JULIE GORDON recruit voters who will back candi- western provinces, particularly British emissions that far exceeded the required environmental dates with the best chance of beating Columbia, where for the first time standards, a worrisome news at a time when the world the Conservatives. The group, which results from populous Ontario and is grappling with the consequences of climate change. It anada’s Conservative Prime organisers stress is not affiliated with Quebec will be broadcast before the was recently revealed that the German carmaker had Minister Stephen Harper is so the Liberals or NDP, said interest has local polls close. This will allow late taken illegal measures to ensure its vehicles passed the US out of favour with some vot- been so strong it has been able to nearly voters to see where the momentum is ers that they say they are pre- triple the focus of its ‘Vote Together’ before casting their ballots. Environmental Protection Agency’s emission control tests. pared to back a political party campaign to 31 ridings, as electoral dis- Harper, who is disliked by many left- This act betrayed consumers who are very concerned about Cthey don’t usually support just to unseat tricts are known in Canada, up from 13 leaning voters for his tax-cutting, small- environmental conservation. The shock was compounded him in the October 19 general election. in August. It said 68,046 people so far government agenda, as well as social by the fact that a German company indulged in this A number of groups have been have pledged to vote strategically. policies like tougher jail sentences, is malpractice. formed to encourage Canadians to vote The group has not set a target but seeking a rare fourth term. Volkswagen did the cheating by installing software strategically by taking a “Anyone But hopes to recruit as many voters as pos- Restaurant manager Saleem Carr Conservative” or “Anyone But Harper” sible, and noted more than 3,700 people said a desire to oust Harper has in diesel engines that was designed to make vehicles’ stance. have signed up in the newly created rid- turned him into a strategic voter. The emission levels meet the standard required by the US That would mean backers of the two ing of Vancouver Granville, where the 25-year-old plans to vote for the NDP authorities — but only at the time of the emissions test. left-of-centre parties, the Liberals and three-way race is tight. in Kamloops, British Columbia, a long- When the vehicles were driven on the road, the engines the New Democratic Party, voting for While past strategic voting cam- time Conservative stronghold where the were reportedly found to discharge whichever of their candidates is the paigns have been primarily online-based, incumbent is now in a tight race. biggest challenger to the Conservative Leadnow is favouring old-fashioned out- “My core values sit more with the nitrogen oxide at levels up to 40 rival in a particu- reach work like phone calls and door Green Party, but they will never get in The emission times the standard. Eleven million lar seat. It can knocking. government,” said Carr, who recently scandal Volkswagen vehicles around the world also mean backers “It’s the first time that anyone has stood outside a Conservative campaign have been affected by the test-rigging of smaller par- done anything of this scale, with this event holding a sign that read: ‘Don’t be has hit the scandal, including its popular models Even with ties, such as the kind of (polling) information and with a Harpercrite! Vote A-B-C (Anyone but such as the Golf. One reason for Greens, switch- this kind of volunteer capacity to get Conservative).’ German Canada’s first- ing their vote to out the vote,” said Amara Possian, British Columbia will have a greater carmaker cheating was to boost sales in the US a Liberal or NDP Leadnow’s national campaign manager. influence in the coming election after where the competition is very tough. past-the-post candidate. Another grassroots effort is stra- gaining six of 30 new districts in a hard. The scandal has made Volkswagen system, no party The three main tegicvoting.ca, a website set up by national redistribution that brought a tainted brand. Its shares crashed, parties have been Alberta-based information technology the number of House of Commons sales were hit, customers became looks set to win a neck-and-neck manager Hisham Abdel-Rahman that seats to 338. Metro Vancouver, where angry and are awaiting costly recalls and authorities are in the polls with identifies more than 100 districts where results in many of its 23 districts are majority of seats. about 30 per- he believes strategic voting could change expected to be close, could end up being mulling ways to punish the company. Volkswagen Chief With a minority cent support the outcome. a “kingmaker”. Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn resigned and said, “I each. Even with He said he’s had 12,000 unique visitors “British Columbians are probably am stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible government likely, Canada’s first- to the site in one day and thinks that going to be in a position to decide the in the Volkswagen group.” But this is just tip of the iceberg strategic voting past-the-post will increase as voting day approaches. outcome of this election,” Harper told it is facing. According to reports, the company may be system, no party “In a lot of ridings, I think people reporters at an event last month. has the potential looks set to win a think there is no way a progressive Strategic voting has had little effect fined up to $18bn, which would wipe out its profits. Other majority of seats. candidate can win, so they don’t vote,” in past elections, partly because voters automobile brands under its wing also will be affected. VW to change the With a minor- he said. “But I’m hoping that if enough need consistent “signals” on who they has Audi, Porsche and other carmakers under its wing. ity government people go out, surprises can happen.” should back for it to work, experts say. It’s not known if other carmakers too are indulging in outcome. likely, strategic Conservative Party spokesman Kory “In the past, when there hasn’t been similar misconduct and the possibility can’t be ruled out. voting has the Teneycke downplayed the potential such signalling, people have tended to The European Commission, which is the executive body potential to change the outcome. impact of strategic voting, suggesting follow the trends in national polls,” said Strategic voting campaigns are not those behind the campaigns were niche Richard Johnston, a professor of politi- of the European Union, called for its member nations to new in Canada, but this time around activists, unrepresentative of the broader cal science at the University of British conduct a fact-finding survey based on suspicions that the groups involved say they are better public. “There are some people who will Columbia. carmakers have also engaged in this malpractice. The organised. never vote for this government and this On the ground in hotly contested rid- wrongdoers are likely to be caught in the coming days. They include Leadnow, a non-profit party, and that’s fine. This is a democracy, ings, some candidates said they appre- VW officials have apologized profusely for all that had group funded through individual dona- people can make these choices,” he said. ciated efforts to rally voters, but don’t happened, but it will not help. The damage has been very tions, which is doing polling in closely “Do I think there is a deep concern? No.” necessarily expect their communities fought districts, or swing seats. It The strategic voting campaign is to think strategically at the ballot box. huge, equivalent to a fatal crash• has enlisted some 2,000 volunteers to especially strong in the last-to-the-polls REUTERS The other side Quote of Tragedy that shook us all the day HURSDAY’S heartbreaking a crowd that swells to millions in limited a phenomenal organisational feat. The After the crane disaster in Makkah, Mina tragedy shocked and space and time. wellbeing and security of such a vast the world saw how Custodian of the grieved everybody. While the The Kingdom spends billions of concentration of people in such a rela- Two Holy Mosques King Salman took incident underlined the need for riyals on the Haj management and tively small area is a big undertaking. action on the spot and a swift probe Tmore efforts to bolster safety measures, deploys the best resources to imple- The logistics are mind-boggling. was launched to fix responsibility. A Stability can be the massive operation undertaken by ment gigantic projects at the holy sites. Hajis needed 10 million cubic meters preliminary enquiry resulted in negli- the Kingdom to ensure a secure and The Kingdom considers this task as its of water. More than 800 flights a day gent contractors being banned from imagined with comfortable Haj cannot be ignored. Islamic duty. The government does not landed at Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz leaving the Kingdom. But even while There can’t be an excuse for the make any profits from its massive Haj International Airport — that works out the wreckage was still being cleared democracy, unfortunate crush, but the importance operation, which is second to none in at almost two planes a minute over away, substantial compensation was of pilgrims’ self-awareness and self-dis- size and volume. a 24-hour period. Hundreds of thou- announced for the injured and for the but democracy cipline needs to be highlighted again. Handling two to three million sands of security personnel and volun- families of the dead. Pilgrims carrying bags while walking Muslims from 164 different countries teers were present throughout the Haj Similar action was witnessed on cannot be and not following clear instructions and cultures is a mammoth task. No to save pilgrims from deluded fanatics Thursday when the king ordered a imagined without about movement have caused prob- one in the world has the kind of experi- and to keep the event free from poli- review of Haj plans. The Kingdom, Hassan Rowhani lems in the past too. No security appa- ence the authorities here have gained tics. Ferociously high temperatures also which believes in transparency, has no stability. ratus in the world can physically control in ensuring a smooth pilgrimage. It is added to the challenge this year. reason to hide facts. ARAB NEWS Iran President SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 After Boehner, questions for Republicans Grassroots Republicans are frustrated that their leaders in Washington have not been more successful in checking Obama or rolling back what he has been able to do.

hen Republicans President Obama and to the scored their big agenda he has pursued in office. victory in the The president’s economic and midterm elec- health-care initiatives in 2009 tions of 2010, gave rise to the tea party, and Wthey looked like a party on the the tea party provided much of rise after a devastating pair of the energy that swept Democrats losses in 2006 and 2008. Instead, out of power in the House in 2010. they have become a party in The party in Washington — the almost permanent disorder, torn party overall — has not been the by warring factions and near- same since. constant tensions between their The anger has fed on itself. establishment leadership and a Grassroots Republicans are tea party-infused grass roots. frustrated that their leaders in Now, in the wake of Friday’s Washington have not been more stunning announcement by House successful in checking Obama or Speaker John A Boehner that he rolling back what he has been will step down from his post and able to do. That led to repeated resign his seat in Congress at the and futile efforts to repeal the end of October, the question again Affordable Care Act. It prevented arises: Can a party so riven by House action on immigration. anger, a party divided over con- Two years ago it boiled over and frontation versus compromise, forced the partial government actually govern in Washington? shutdown. Boehner’s decision to quit, and That shutdown damaged the the suddenness with which the brand of the Republican Party, news broke, provided one more but it seemingly did nothing to piece of evidence of how badly stop the GOP in the midterm US House Speaker John Boehner publicly announces his resignation as Speaker and from the US Congress at a news conference at the US Capitol in strained the Republican coalition elections of 2014, when the party Washington. is. Boehner’s inability to corral his scored another series of victories unruly members was legendary by taking control of the Senate on Friday. Tea party loyalists the House. But the new speaker broken and only an outsider can pursuit. The nomination contest and, seemingly, never-ending, and holding key governorships. and leaders cheered Boehner’s and team will grapple with the fix it. But he offers little in the of 2012 pushed Mitt Romney far- a series of “Perils of Pauline” But even with additional power decision to step down, claiming same underlying problems — the way of evidence that he can do so. ther to the right on immigration moments that brought temporary in Washington, the status quo it as a victory for their movement. same irreconcilable issues — that Texas Senator Ted Cruz offers than was politically sound. The truces but never fully resolved the remained largely unchanged, To them, Boehner was a symbol bedevilled Boehner. a similar outsider message but current contest threatens to do debate about the kind of party with grass-roots conservatives of all that was wrong with the Beyond that, no congressional with purer conservative convic- the same to the eventual nominee. Republicans want. irritated with their leaders for Washington GOP establishment. leader can truly lead his or her tions than the reality TV star. There will be a new House Those divisions have infected not doing more to advance their They saw him as a leader who, party nationally. That is reserved Can any of the others in the speaker long before the party the battle for the Republican anti-government agenda. instead of finding ways to advance for presidential nominees and presidential field — former settles on a presidential nominee. presidential nomination. Anger Trump’s rise these past few their conservative agenda, capitu- ultimately presidents. It’s often Florida governor Jeb Bush, And the nomination battle, how- at Washington among grass- months was unexpected, and it lated to Obama or to moderates been said that the most successful Ohio Governor John Kasich and ever it looks today, has twists and roots Republicans has turned has not gone unnoticed among in their party. among them are politicians who Florida Senator Marco Rubio, to turns ahead that will surprise and the party’s nomination con- Republican rank-and-file in Boehner stepped aside for define their parties rather than name just three — tap that anger confound many people. test upside down. In the early Washington. They can sense the the good of his party and pre- being defined by them. and unhappiness within the party But the reality is that the autumn of 2015, non-politicians anger he has tapped into and sumably out of fatigue at the Who among those now seeking base and still make a case for con- Republicans in their current state like Donald Trump, Ben Carson want to associate themselves with constant struggle with the rebel- the GOP nomination can do that servative governing that includes appear both difficult to lead and and Carly Fiorina are prospering it — not with establishment lead- lious faction in the House. But most effectively — and around compromise and cooperation with divided about where they want at the expense of those who are ers who were already in disfavour his departure will hardly resolve what message? The candidate the Democrats? to go. To win in November 2016, governing or have governed at the at the grassroots. That further the contradictions and divisions currently at the top of the polls Republicans have been on a their nominee will have to show state level. undermined Boehner’s already that marked his tenure. A leader- — Trump — promises what the rightward journey since President he or she leads a party ready and Much of this has its roots in fragile standing and no doubt ship contest will ensue, giving the rebellious forces in the GOP most George W Bush left office in 2009, willing to govern. the reaction to the election of contributed to what happened opportunity for a fresh start in want to hear: that Washington is and their leaders have been in hot WP-BLOOMBERG Mexico’s miserable year Colombia finds itself BY MICHAEL E MILLER Nieto met with the families of on the brink of peace Student witnesses said that their the missing students for the first hey arrived in buses, just as time in late October, but by then their children had a year attackers included city cops as well the families had lost faith in the BY MAC MARGOLIS have ensured justice, and not impu- Tago. They carried photos of government. nity, and we have set deadlines to their missing sons and daughters. “We told the president we don’t or as long as most reach an end to the war,” Santos And they listened as Mexican as what appeared to be federal trust your government,” said one Colombians can remember, told reporters in Havana. President Enrique Pena Nieto, a parent, according to the BBC. Ftheir country has been at There is plenty for both sides handsome man hardly older look- police, yet, local investigators “The promises aren’t enough”, war with itself. So there was more to dislike in the agreement on so- ing than their abducted children, said another, Meliton Ortega. than a little scepticism when called transitional justice, which will promised them that the investiga- “The results will be significant President Juan Manuel Santos determine the fate of war criminals. tion into the horrific crime had appeared to do little. when they return our children paid a surprise visit to Havana on While both guerrillas and rogue not been closed. to us alive.” September 23 and shook hands state security forces face up to 20 But the parents of the Chapo’s July 11 prison escape: an college in the tiny, poor town of On November 4, nearly six with Rodrigo Londono, supreme years in prison for combat atrocities “Ayotzinapa 43 — students kid- unthinkable twist to an already Ayotzinapa commandeered a bus weeks after the students’ disap- leader of the Revolutionary or human rights violations, by com- napped and presumed killed on terrible year. and drove it to Iguala. The plan pearance, officials apprehended Armed Forces of Colombia, the ing clean before a special tribunal September 26 of last year — were All the while, Donald Trump was to commandeer several more the mayor and his wife. Then, in most fearsome guerrilla band in they can reduce their penalties to not placated. They were, after all, tried to turn the country into his buses — a common practice by an hour-long press conference the Americas. just five to eight years. Those found literally starving for answers. personal presidential punching student groups in Mexico — to three days later, Attorney General The last time a Colombian pres- to have committed “political crimes” On Thursday, family members bag, falsely painting Mexico as a raise money and vehicles for an Jesús Murillo Karam laid out the ident agreed to sit with the enemy, will be granted amnesty. of the disappeared students met land of drug traffickers and rapists October 2 trip to the capital. government’s version of events. in 1999, the Farc commander left The deal to allow the defanged with Pena Nieto in Mexico City and blaming it for America’s ills. Once in Iguala, however, all hell Worried that the students and Andres Pastranapresident alone Farc to transform itself into a to present him with a list of their As the anniversary of the broke loose. The students had com- their hijacked buses were going to at the negotiating table. Since legal political party means that demands. In the middle of a two- Ayotzinapa students’ disappear- mandeered a total of five buses, interrupt his wife’s political event, then, the empty chair has been victims and survivors of war day hunger strike, they accused ance looms, however, it’s becoming but their vehicles were now under Iguala mayor José Luis Abarca Colombia’s most enduring meta- crimes may one day have to watch the Mexican government of tell- increasingly clear that Mexico’s attack from uniformed officials. allegedly ordered that local police phor for political debacle. yesterday’s drug thug become a ing them a “historic lie” about pain and America’s anguish are, First, it was tear gas. Then bul- get rid of them “by any means,” The talks are not over; govern- mayor or a lawmaker. the incident almost a year ago. indeed, connected — just not in lets. Then they began dragging the Karam claimed. Cops shot at the ment and guerrillas acknowledged Nor will the Farc be required to And they reiterated their plans the way Trump claims. students out of the buses, throwing buses, killing six people, and then they still have six more months formally renounce its revolution- to protest in the city’s historic America is in the midst of them into trucks and driving off. turned the wounded, terrified stu- of negotiating, plenty of time for ary cant to replace one of Latin centre yesterday — the one-year a deadly heroin epidemic, and By the time the strange siege dents over to a local drug gang, backsliding or sabotage. And only America’s most traditional democ- anniversary of the suspected mas- the drug is increasingly coming ended, six people were dead on Guerreros Unidos. at the end of the process, and only racies with its own utopia, inspired sacre — and beyond. “We won’t from Mexico. At the same time, the street, including three stu- The gang then took the 43 if it is successful, will the shoot- by a toxic blend of Lenin, Mao and rest,” Maria de Jesus Tlatempa, American demand for the drug dents and three bystanders. One students to a trash dump and ing stop and will Farc begin to Latin liberator Simon Bolivar. the mother of one disappeared continues to fuel violence in Mexico. student was found with his face executed them, burning their lay down its arms. But after three Such indulgences went down student, said. “We will be a pebble Bodies are piling up on both peeled off. Scores more were alive remains in a giant funeral pyre years of intensive talks and back- badly among Colombian hardlin- in his shoes. We won’t go home.” sides of the border, but so, too, is but injured, some of them shot. and dumping their ashes into channel diplomacy by the United ers, starting with former presi- The meeting marked a grisly the blame. Most terrifying of all, almost a river, Karam claimed, citing States and Cuba, plus the bless- dent Alvaro Uribe, a onetime anniversary for Mexico, a coun- In the case of Ayotzinapa stu- half the students were simply gone. alleged testimony from several ings of Pope Francis, the Western political mentor of Santos and try long plagued by drug violence dents, Mexico’s misery may be even Even in a country where roughly arrested members of Guerreros Hemisphere’s most conflicted now his harshest critic. and mysterious, often unresolved more directly linked to its north- 25,000 people are considered miss- Unidos. “The testimony very nation finally seems to be at the By rights, Uribe ought to be mass killings. ern neighbour. A recently released ing, the disappearance of the 43 unfortunately points to the homi- brink of peace. sharing the glory. The Farc Even by Mexican standards, report suggests that incident, and students created a firestorm of cide of a large number of people,” The Cuba talks have been might never have come to the however, the past 12 months its alleged government cover-up, controversy. Student witnesses Karam said, indicating that the fraught. What else to expect from table in Havana if not for the have been unusually miserable. probably stemmed from a secret said that their attackers included students were likely all dead. the war against a cocaine-fuelled all-out, eight-year war Uribe First, the students went missing drug shipment hidden inside a bus city cops as well as what appeared But the students’ relatives Marxist insurgency that has waged against them, with Santos in bizarre circumstances. Then bound for the United States. to be federal police, yet, local were skeptical of the story. Some claimed some 220,000 lives and as his defence minister. But that the efforts to find them, or their The year-long nightmare began investigators appeared to do lit- thought the federal government displaced five million people in 50 was then, and now Uribe spends bodies, only unearthed other mass with a bizarre and bloody night in tle. Iguala’s mayor, his wife and the was involved in the killings. years? But the elation was barely much of his day hurling outrage at graves. Faith in Peña Nieto and Iguala, a city in the southwest- city’s police chief went into hiding. Others thought their children contained at the long horseshoe Santos and other purported turn- his government plummeted, par- ern Mexican state of Guerrero. It was nearly a month before the had been kidnapped by soldiers table in Havana as Norwegian coats from his Twitter account, ticularly after a series of political On September 26, 2014, roughly federal government announced it and could still be alive. mediator Dag Nylander read off the with four million followers. scandals. And then there was El 100 students from a teacher’s was going to get involved. Peña WP-BLOOMBERG bullet points of the agreement.”We WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

Mozambique Held man is Bangkok ‘bomber’ gunfight claims 10 lives: Cops Thai police confirm after probe MAPUTO: Nine members of a convoy carrying Mozambique’s BANGKOK: Thai police yes- yellow t-shirt beneath a black opposition leader Afonso terday said a foreign man bulletproof vest he was escorted Dhlakama were killed in a detained over last month’s around the Erawan shrine, nes- shootout, police said yesterday, deadly Bangkok attack was the tled between luxury malls and amid conflicting reports on how main yellow-shirted suspect hotels in a bustling downtown the gunfight erupted. seen on CCTV leaving a ruck- district, before being driven to Police said armed men in the sack at a shrine moments before Lumpini Park. 12-vehicle convoy had opened the blast. Karadag now faces up to eight fire on a minibus taxi carrying Authorities said they were now charges including premeditated civilians while travelling near “convinced” their first arrest, a murder, said Prawut, a crime Imchope in central Mozambique man named as Adem Karadag, that carries a maximum penalty last Friday, killing the driver, planted the bomb on August 17 of death. while Renamo claimed that the which killed 20 people after weeks Yesterday national police chief convoy had been ambushed. of an often confusing and contra- Somyot Poompanmoung told AFP It was the second time in two dictory police investigation. “police were convinced Adem’s weeks that a convoy carrying Earlier police said it was confession is true”, weeks after Dhlakama, a former rebel leader unlikely that either of the two they said evidence including DNA still at odds with the government, foreign men held in custody over tests could not confirm Karadag had been involved in a shooting. the unprecedented and unclaimed was the bomber. “According to our reports, it attack on the Thai capital were But the suspect’s lawyer said seems the minibus came too close the key suspect as they issued he didn’t believe his client — who to Renamo’s convoy, who thought arrest warrants and hunted for he says is called Bilal Mohammed it was attacking, so they opened several others. and was not in Thailand at fire,” police commander Armando But yesterday national police the time of the attack — had Mude said. spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri confessed. The minibus driver was killed said further probing had revealed Chuchart Kanphai added that and three passengers were Karadag, whose nationality he was denied access to Karadag injured, he said. When police remains unconfirmed, was the earlier this week by officials at arrived on the scene a gunfight bomber. the military barracks in Bangkok erupted and “nine deaths are “It is confirmed that Adem is where he is being detained reported among Renamo’s ranks,” the man in the yellow shirt based because the suspect was “sick”. Adem Karadag (centre) wearing yellow shirt talks to Thai police officers during the crime reenactment at the bomb Mude said. on CCTV footage, eyewitness The blast last month has left blast scene of Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. The surviving Renamo mem- accounts and his own confession,” Thailand stunned and dealt a bers — apparently including Prawut said. fresh blow to its reputation as a attack was revenge for Thailand’s has been identified as Yusufu time last week but only in ref- Dhlakama — fled into the bush “After he placed the bomb at tourist haven — the majority of forced deportation of 109 Uighur Mieraili, who was seized with erence to their theory that the and a police operation was con- the shrine he called a motorbike the fatalities were Chinese visi- asylum-seekers to China in July, a a Chinese passport marking blast was conducted by a gang of tinuing in the area, he said. taxi and changed his shirt at a tors, who believe prayers at the move that ignited anger in Turkey Xinjiang as his birthplace. Police people-smugglers in revenge for Renamo waged a 16-year civil restroom in (nearby) Lumpini shrine bring good fortune where nationalist hardliners see believe the passport is real but a Thai crackdown on their lucra- war against the formerly marxist Park” before travelling to the flat The motive is still unclear but the minority as part of a global have not confirmed his national- tive trade, including the transfer Frelimo government, which ended on the outskirts of Bangkok where security experts have increasingly Turkic-speaking family. ity either. of Uighurs. in 1992. AFP he was arrested last month. suggested links with militants Karadag’s lawyer has previ- Thai officials have strenuously The mostly Muslim minority Yesterday afternoon Karadag from China’s Uighur minority — ously said his client was born avoided using the word Uighur have long accused Beijing of reli- was taken on a reenactment of or their ethnic Turkic supporters in the western Chinese region largely, analysts say, for fear of gious and cultural repression in his alleged role in the crime — a — with the passports, ethnici- of Xinjiang, home to around 10 putting off tourists or angering Xinjiang, with hundreds believed Hungarian standard Thai police procedure — ties and travel plans of key sus- million Uighurs, but moved to China -- one of the ruling junta’s to have fled in recent years, often surrounded by dozens of reporters pects appearing to point in that Turkey in 2004 where he received few international friends. heading to Turkey via Southeast tourist killed and passers-by. direction. Turkish nationality. Police chief Somyot linked Asia. Handcuffed and wearing a They have speculated the The other man in custody them to the attack for the first AFP in boat crash BANGKOK: A Hungarian woman was killed and 23 other PM’s abroad visit tourists were injured when their boat crashed into another vessel in central Thailand, Possible ‘hostage’ boat found police said yesterday. The 61-year-old died after the colli- sion last Friday evening in the popular Amphawa district of on militant island: Philippines coastal Samut Songkram prov- ince, around 80kms southwest ZAMBOANGA: Philippine “We have eyeballed the seac- Jolo was fitted with two onboard of Bangkok. authorities have found a boat raft, but not the kidnap victims engines, but was taking in water The group was on a tour to see they suspect was used by kid- from Samal,” Arrojado, head of a apparently from a breach in its fireflies on the Mae Klong river, in nappers to take a group of Jolo counter-terrorism task force, hull. Regional police spokesman an area also popular for its float- mainly Western hostages to said. Antonio Rivera said that of all ing market and homestays, when an island stronghold of Islamic Officials would not say if the the “threat groups” in the south, their boat crashed into an empty militants, the military said discovery pointed to possible those based on Jolo were the ones vessel, district police officer yesterday. Abu Sayyaf involvement in the most skilled in using boats. Wattana Nualsrida said. The vessel was abandoned kidnapping of Canadian tourists The Abu Sayyaf raided another “She was pronounced dead at a port on Jolo, more than John Ridsdel, 68, and Robert Hall, upscale Samal resort in 2001, kill- at hospital after suffering from 500kms from the Samal island 50, as well as Norwegian resort ing two people, but were repulsed brain injuries,” the officer said. resort where two Canadians, a manager Kjartan Sekkingstad, 56, by the resort’s private guards. He added that all, but two of Norwegian and a Filipina were and Hall’s girlfriend Marites Flor. The authorities earlier said the injured tourists were from abducted last Monday, Brigadier- No group has claimed respon- they had received reports the kid- South Korea with one woman left General Alan Arrojado said. sibility or demanded ransom nappers had taken their victims seriously wounded. Jolo is the main base of the Abu for the abductions, the latest in to an impoverished region to the The other two injured passen- Sayyaf, an Al-Qaeda-linked group Mindanao, a region plagued by east of Samal. gers were Hungarians, Wattana that has been blamed for the decades of Muslim as well as com- Jolo-based Abu Sayyaf and said. The Hungarian embassy in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves as he departs Tokyo for New Asian country’s deadliest terror munist insurgencies, the military several other renegade Muslim Bangkok confirmed that one of its York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, yesterday. Abe will attacks, beheadings, and ransom said. rebel groups have in recent years citizens was killed in a boat acci- kidnappings of foreign tourists Arrojado said the boat sus- worked together to kidnap for- dent, but could provide no further attend a United Nations meeting next week, with plans to meet with and Christian missionaries. pected of taking the hostages to eigners elsewhere. AFP details. AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin and reportedly announced support for Syrian refugees. Militant sent to ICC for Nigeria off list of polio-endemic countries

LAGOS: The World Health — 32 in Pakistan and nine in Timbuktu attacks Organization (WHO) last Afghanistan. Friday took Nigeria off the Nigeria has had to battle major THE HAGUE: An alleged It is also the first case to be list of polio-endemic countries, security issues to vaccinate chil- Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist brought by the ICC — the world’s hailing a “historic achievement” dren in areas of the remote north- leader was handed over to the only permanent war crimes court more than a year after the last east hit by Boko Haram’s bloody International Criminal Court — for the unrest that has wracked recorded case of the disease in six-year Islamist insurgency. (ICC) yesterday to face charges the west African nation. Africa’s most populous nation. It has also had to overcome of ordering the destruction of Faqi “is expected to make a The announcement, made in a rumours the vaccine caused monuments in Mali’s fabled city first appearance in the next few statement and at a meeting of the infertility, leading to many par- of Timbuktu, in the first such days, but an exact date has not Global Polio Eradication Initiative ents, particularly in the Muslim- case before the tribunal. been set,” Abdallah said. in New York, leaves just two coun- majority north, refusing to Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi was Faqi, a Tuareg leader also tries — Pakistan and Afghanistan have their children immunised. detained under an arrest warrant known Abu Tourab, is suspected — on the list. Similar issues have been faced by issued by the ICC last week and of war crimes for deliberately In declaring Nigeria ”no longer health workers in Pakistan and handed over by the authorities in destroying buildings at the polio endemic”, the WHO said, Afghanistan. Niger, the court said in a state- UNESCO-listed desert heritage “This is the first time that Nigeria Ado Muhammad, executive ment. The details of his arrest site in 2012. Called the “City of has interrupted transmission of director of the National Primary were not immediately clear. 333 Saints”, Timbuktu around wild (naturally occurring) poliovi- Health Care Development Agency He is suspected “of war crimes 1,000kms northeast of Mali’s rus, bringing the country and the in Nigeria, added, “We Nigerians allegedly committed in Timbuktu, capital Bamako, was attacked for African region closer than ever to are proud today. With local inno- Mali, between June 30, 2012 and months by jihadists. being certified polio-free.” vation and national persistence, July 10, 2012, through intention- In June 2012, Al-Qaeda-linked The last case was in the A woman administers oral drops to a child in the Dawanau district of Kano, we have beaten polio. We know ally directing attacks against militants destroyed 16 of the Sumaila district of Kano state, northern Nigeria, during a polio immunisation campaign, yesterday. our vigilance and efforts must buildings dedicated to religion northern city’s mausoleums, dat- northern Nigeria, on July 24, 2014. continue in order to keep Nigeria and/or historical monuments,” ing back to its golden age as an Countries have to go at least 12 The announcement is the lat- case of polio — in Somalia — rais- polio-free.” the statement said. economic, intellectual and spir- months without a case before they est good news in the global bat- ing hopes of its elimination across The centres were adapted ICC spokesman Fadi El itual centre in the 15th and 16th can be considered for removal tle against the virus, which is the continent. last year during the Ebola crisis, Abdallah said that Faqi arrived centuries. Timbuktu mayor Halle from the list while polio-free sta- spread by poor sanitation and But there is still concern about allowing the authorities to suc- at the court’s detention unit in Ousmane said that Faqi’s arrest tus comes after three years with- contaminated water and can vaccination gaps, particularly in cessfully prevent a devastating The Hague at 3.20am, in what is was “good news”. out a case. cause irreversible paralysis. hard-to-reach areas, that could spread of the virus. the first such case to be brought “Destroying a mausoleum is The WHO said “all labora- Children under-five are particu- hinder the complete eradication The WHO has called for “con- by the court for the destruction of like murdering someone, their tory data have confirmed a full larly vulnerable. of the disease. tinued vigilance” to keep polio at religious buildings and historical history and their past,” he said. 12 months have passed without On August 12, Africa marked In 2015, 41 cases of wild poliovi- bay. monuments. AFP any new cases”. one year since the last recorded rus have been reported worldwide AFP SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Nepal mulls fuel rationing Pakistan to hang man Trucks line up as protesters block Nepal road for third consecutive day who claims he was KATHMANDU: Nepal is con- political crisis after criticizing 15 at time of crime sidering rationing oil and fuel, a Nepal’s political leadership for Nepal Oil Corp spokesman said rushing through the constitution ISLAMABAD: Pakistani of his arrest, Foa said. Iqbal’s yesterday, after hundreds of despite the dissent. authorities are set to hang a friend was tried as a juvenile. trucks were held up at the India “India has closed the border,” man who says he was 15 when “The onus has to be on the border when protesters against said Rograj Pant, a customs offi- he was arrested for a murder he government and prosecution to a new constitution gathered to cial at the Raxaul-Birgunj bor- claims he did not commit, law- prove that the individual facing block the road. der in Nepal. “There are no goods yers said yesterday, in the lat- the gallows is not a juvenile if all Nepal adopted the charter last coming across for (the protestors) est case to shine a spotlight on the available evidence points oth- Sunday to promote unity and to block.” Pakistan’s crumbling criminal erwise,” she said. stability after years of civil war, Asked to comment on Nepalese justice system. “Otherwise it puts the defend- but its demarcation of provinces worries that India had imposed an Ansar Iqbal says he was 15 when ant in an impossible position.” has upset people in Nepal’s south informal blockade, India’s exter- he and a friend were arrested 16 Iqbal’s lawyer, Munir Basit, con- who fear the new federal struc- nal affairs ministry spokesman years ago for the murder of neigh- firmed his client had been tried as ture will marginalise them. At Vikas Swarup said in an email bour, which the victim’s family an adult and had been notified he least 40 people, mostly protestors, yesterday: “No, we have not.” said was over an argument at a was to hang at Sargodha jail next have been killed in violent clashes In Lalitpur, a city south of cricket match. Iqbal says police week. since August. Kathmandu, hundreds of motor- Nepal’s former Maoist premier Baburam Bhattarai announced his framed him because he was poor “He has received his black war- About 900 trucks carrying food, cycles were lined up at a pet- resignation yesterday. by planting two guns at his house. rant in the concerned jail,” Basit fuel and other items were lined up rol station, anticipating a fuel Pakistani law forbids the execu- said. on the Indian side of the Raxaul- shortage. tion of juveniles, but the country’s Court and prosecution officials Birgunj border yesterday, said Reshma Shrestha, a restaurant Maoist Bhattarai quits parliament, party courts have refused to examine were not available for comment. Kamlesh Kumar, assistant com- owner nearby, said she had about KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former Maoist premier Baburam Iqbal’s school records and birth Pakistan brought back hanging missioner of customs at the bor- a month’s supplies to keep her Bhattarai yesterday resigned from his party and parliament, certificate because they say they in December as a way to crack der point, as protestors from the business running. days after announcing his support for protesters fighting to were submitted too late, said down on militancy after Taliban Madhesi Morcha party blocked “But we won’t be able to go on bring changes to a new constitution. The protesters, who belong Maya Foa of British legal aid gunmen massacred more than 130 the road in Nepal for a third day. like this for too much longer,” she to the Madhesi community, are angry about plans to divide the group Reprieve. pupils at an army-run school. “If we do ration petrol and said. country into seven federal provinces under the charter adopted His old school record and a But very few of the 240 people oil, we can manage for a couple Earlier in the week, the govern- last Sunday. new birth certificate issued this hanged have any links to mili- of weeks,” said Deepak Baral, a ment asked China to hasten the Former Maoist rebel Bhattarai has consistently attacked lawmak- year give his age as 14 and 15 tancy. Most, like Iqbal, were con- Nepal Oil Corp spokesman. reopening of two border crossings, ers for not taking minorities’ concerns into account while drafting respectively. Record keeping in victed of murder. Many of their Nepalese officials, however, according to a report. They have the constitution, Nepal’s first to be drawn up by elected representa- Pakistan is poor and records are families say they were falsely pinned blame for the logjam on been closed since two earthquakes tives. The new charter is the final stage in a peace process that began easily forged. accused and too poor to get good India, Nepal’s southern neigh- killed over 9,000 people in Nepal when Maoist rebels laid down arms in 2006 after a decade-long Instead, the court concluded he lawyers. Few, if any, wealthy con- bour and biggest trading partner, this spring. insurgency, winning parliamentary elections. AFP was in his early 20s based on a victs have been hanged. which has been drawn into the REUTERS policeman’s estimate at the time REUTERS

British fugitive Will cooperate with paedophile held US on graft: China in Hong Kong

BEIJING: China and the China and the US decided “to HONG KONG: A paedophile United States have agreed to take practical measures to handle on the run from British police step up cooperation in fight- mutually identified major corrup- appeared in court in Hong Kong ing corruption, money launder- tion cases”, the foreign ministry yesterday after being arrested ing and terrorist financing, the said in a lengthy statement on on an extradition request, Chinese foreign ministry said its website highlighting summit reports and police said. yesterday following a meet- outcomes. Police in the southern Chinese ing between their leaders in “Both sides agree to enhance city said they had arrested an Washington. practical cooperation in corrup- unnamed 31-year-old last Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping tion prevention, detecting embez- but reports identified him as wrapped up a state visit to the zled public funds, exchanging Joseph Tsang, a fugitive convicted United States last Friday where evidence, combating transna- last month of two counts of rape he met with President Barack tional bribery, fugitives and illegal and two counts of sexual assault Obama. They vowed to fight glo- immigrants repatriation, narcot- last month. bal warming and halt commercial ics control, and counter-terror- “Upon a formal extradition cybertheft, but exchanged sharp ism,” the statement said. request from the British police, words on human rights and mari- It added that China’s Ministry Hong Kong police last night time territorial disputes involving of Public Security and the arrested a 31-year-old man in China. US Department of Homeland connection with two cases of Xi has led a crackdown on cor- Security will meet at a “mutually sexual offences in the United ruption in China since coming to suitable time” in the US. Kingdom,” Hong Kong police said power more than two years ago “Both sides welcome recent in a statement. A firefighter from the local disaster management agency tries to extinguish a peat land fire in a palm oil plantation and the country is pursuing citi- progress on repatriating Chinese He was denied bail at a mag- in Pelalawan, Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, yesterday. zens who have fled abroad in an fugitives and illegal immigrants istrates’ court and his case was operation known as “Sky Net” through charter flights and look adjourned until November 23, that aims to repatriate allegedly forward to continuing this coop- the South ChinaMorning Post corrupt officials who have fled eration,” the statement said. reported. abroad. The “Sky Net” campaign has Tsang was convicted in absen- Singapore starts legal action China said last Thursday that raised concerns in Australia, tia by a British court last month a Chinese woman convicted and where China reportedly dis- after he broke free from his elec- jailed in the United States for her patched law enforcers to pres- tronic tag and failed to show up part in a scheme to steal nearly sure suspects without notifying for a court appearance, the Post on Indonesia firms over haze $500m from a state-run Chinese Canberra. reported. bank was sent back to China. Most Western countries includ- He was also found guilty of SINGAPORE: Singapore has APP was asked by Singapore’s companies have been told to take A week earlier the ruling ing the US do not have extradition taking indecent pictures of chil- launched legal action that could National Environment Agency measures to extinguish fires on Communist Party said that a treaties with China, where courts dren, inciting children under 16 lead to massive fines against to supply information on its sub- their land, refrain from starting former official resident in the are overseen by the Communist to engage in sexual activity, and Indonesian companies blamed sidiaries operating in Singapore new ones, and submit action plans US for 14 years and suspected of Party and the use of force by law engaging in sexual activity with for farm and plantation fires and Indonesia, as well as meas- to prevent future fires. “corruption and bribery” had also enforcers to extract confessions a minor. Tsang had his passport spewing unhealthy levels of air ures taken by its suppliers in Sinar Mas is also involved in returned to China. is believed to be common. AFP confiscated by UK police. AFP pollution over the city-state. Indonesia to put out fires in their palm oil production, an industry Five Indonesian companies concessions. widely blamed for forest fires in including multinational Asia The group, which has paper Indonesia. Pulp and Paper (APP) have been mills in Indonesia and China, did In its statement issued last Young talent served with legal notices, accord- not immediately reply when asked Friday, the Singapore govern- ing to a Singapore government by AFP for comment. ment said it was “examining how statement issued last Friday. Under a 2014 law called the to apply more economic pres- The move followed a bitter Transboundary Haze Pollution sure against errant companies,” diplomatic spat over Indonesia’s Act, Singapore can impose a fine including a review of its own pro- failure to stop a severe outbreak of Sg$100,000 ($70,000) for each curement policies. of smoky haze which has also day that a local or foreign com- Singapore’s Minister for affected Malaysia and persisted pany contributes to unhealthy lev- the Environment and Water for years. els of haze pollution in Singapore, Resources Vivian Balakrishnan APP, part of Indonesia’s Sinar subject to a maximum total of said the haze problem has lasted Mas conglomerate, is one of the Sg$2.0m. “for far too long”. world’s largest pulp and paper Singapore is located near About 3,000 troops and police groups and publicly upholds Indonesia’s vast Sumatra island, have been sent to Sumatra to “sustainability” and forest con- where fires have traditionally been fight the fires, with Indonesian servation as core principles. Its set off by farmers and plantations authorities saying last week that products include stationery and to clear land for cultivation. it would take a month to bring toilet paper. Four other Indonesian them under control. AFP Bangla PM vows to end child marriage

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime taken by the government for the Last Friday, she delivered a lec- Minister Sheikh Hasina has upliftment of women, bdnews24 ture at the Columbia University’s promised to put an end to child reported. ‘World Leaders Forum’. The lec- marriage in the country by 2041, “I promise that child marriage ture was titled “Girls lead the the media reported yesterday. will be brought to an end in our way”. “Already we have more girls society by 2041. We have already Bangladesh has one of the A Nepalese girl dressed as a Kumari, or living deity, has make-up applied before taking part in Kumari Puja than boys in schools,” Hasina taken some steps for achieving world’s highest rates of child mar- rituals at the Hanuman Dhoka in Durbar Square in Kathmandu,yesterday. Some 500 girls under the age of said during a lecture at Columbia that,” she said. riage, with two thirds of girls end- nine from across the country were brought to the temple for mass worship, protection from evil, and good University in the US last Friday. Hasina is currently in the US to ing up as child brides. She recalled the many steps attend the UN General Assembly. IANS luck in the future. SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA CBI raids Himachal CM’s residences Modi runs government with hate agenda: Congress

SHIMLA: The Central Bureau preliminary inquiry on the basis Soon after the raid in the chief of Investigation (CBI) and the of the income tax department minister’s Shimla residence, Chief Enforcement Directorate yes- order that said the agricultural Secretary P Mitra and Director terday raided the residences income of Virbhadra Singh and General of Police Sanjay Kumar of Himachal Pradesh Chief his family dramatically increased reached there. Minister Virbhadra Singh in in the revised return, which was The chief minister along with the hill state and in Delhi fol- an apparent attempt to justify the his wife Pratibha Singh and lowing the registration of a investments made in the purchase cabinet ministers reached his disproportionate assets case of insurance policies worth over residence following the raid. BJP against him, officials said. `6.1cr. leader and local legislator Suresh The officials, with vehicles of “We apprehend pressure tactics Bhardwaj demanded the resigna- Chandigarh and Punjab registra- from the BJP-led central govern- tion of the chief minister on moral tion numbers, reached Virbhadra ment to destabilise and arm-twist grounds. Singh’s private residence, Holly the democratically elected gov- Beside Virbhadra Singh, his Lodge, located in Jakhu hills in ernment under the leadership of wife Pratibha Singh, former two- Long Night of Literature at Cervantes, New Delhi. Shimla in the morning. Virbhadra Singh,” the 11-mem- time MP, son Vikramaditya Singh “Searches were conducted at ber cabinet said in a statement, and daughter Aparajita Kumari 11 locations in Himachal Pradesh expressing fears of misuse of have also been named in the dis- and Delhi,” a Central Bureau of central investigating agencies to proportionate assets case. Delhi’s speed date with literature Investigation (CBI) officer said in implicate Chief Minister Singh in During his tenure as union New Delhi. false and fabricated cases. minister, Virbhadra Singh had He said the preliminary inquiry The ministers, comprising invested `6.1cr in life insurance NEW DELHI: It was Delhi’s that the Indian audience cher- Simon (France), Gabor against Virbhadra Singh and his Vidya Stokes, Kaul Singh and G policies through an LIC agent speed date with European lit- ished this new experience”, said Lanczkor (Hungary), Asha Miro family regarding alleged posses- S Bali, said the Bharatiya Janata Anand Chauhan, whose house in erature as nine authors came Ute Reimer-Bohner, Director (Spain) and Andrea Blanchetti sion of disproportionate assets Party was making desperate bid Shimla was also raided. together last Friday night to Information and Library Services, (Switzerland). has been converted into a regu- to divert the attention of the peo- Congress leader Ghulam Nabi share their work and views South Asia, Goethe-Institut. The format encouraged the lar case under the Prevention of ple by attempting to register false Azad said the government was with literary enthusiasts in the While German author Danko audience to listen to several Corruption Act. FIRs against the Congress leaders “using the CBI to crush political capital. The event, ‘Long Night Rabrenovic read out from his lat- authors through the course of the The raids were also carried in the country whereas they were opponents”. of Literatures’ was organised est book on negotiating the idea evening where each one addressed out simultaneously at the chief maintaining complete silence over “Is this democracy or emer- by Goethe Institut and Pro of home as a Serbian in Germany, a group of 12-15 people for 20 minister’s residences in Rampur the questionable conduct of its gency? Why no CBI probe into Helvetia — Swiss Arts Council. Katarzyna Bonda, queen of crime minutes. This concept allowed the and Saharan, his native places in leaders. scams involving Rajasthan and The event was held at Instituto fiction from Poland, read from her audience a very close interaction upper Shimla, besides Delhi. The Referring to matters of income Chhattisgarh chief ministers? Cervantes. latest thriller on a female crimi- with the authors. raid coincided with the marriage tax related to Virbhadra Singh, Why is the PM (prime minister) Conceptualised in 2010, it is nal profiler. “This year, the ‘Long Night of of the chief minister’s daughter the cabinet said these were eager to jail Virbhadra Singh in the first time that ‘Long Night of Indian author and journalist Literatures’ presented a glimpse in Shimla. Virbhadra Singh and pending before various income I-T (income tax) dispute involving Literature’ has introduced a novel Raj Kamal Jha read a couple of into the diversity that European his family were not at home when tax appellate authorities and the meager `5cr?” Azad said in Delhi. format of ‘literary speed dating’ paragraphs from the first chapter literature represents. The new the team reached their residence. courts. Senior Congress leader Ghulam inviting authors other than from of his novel ‘She Will Build Him format required the audience to The CBI had on June 18 initi- “The CBI after going into a Nabi Azad, in a statement said his Germany and India. a City’. Jha wrote his novel dur- be committed and attentive. The ated a preliminary inquiry against detail inquiry has already sub- party “stoutly and strongly dep- “We thought of ‘literary speed ing his stay in Berlin. “I called the format enabled close interaction Virbhadra Singh and his family mitted its preliminary inquiry recates, abhors and condemns the dating’, but realised that for this chapter ‘Winter Afternoon’ since with the authors and this was over allegations of corruption and report to the Delhi High Court politics of revenge and vendetta unique format, we would need I wrote it in the winter in Berlin. appreciated by the writers as acquiring disproportionate assets in a sealed cover. It appears that unleashed by Modi” and the BJP a higher number of authors. To That was when my son saw snow they engaged with a small group during his tenure as union steel at the instance of political lead- government was “converting CBI ask other European countries for the first time, so I remember of people at a time. Diversity is minister. However, Virbhadra ers, another preliminary inquiry as a BJP’s investigation bureau whether they were interested in that,” he said. never easy, but one small step,” Singh refuted the allegations. in the same case has been ordered against political opponents”. participating, seemed only nat- The other authors included said Chandrika Grover Ralleigh, Official sources said that with malafide intention,” the IANS ural. This is how it all fell into Aisling Fahey (Britain), Josef Director Pro Helvetia — the Swiss the CBI had restarted the signed statement said. place. We are more than happy Haslinger (Austria), Constantin Arts Council. IANS

Swamy not offered VC post: Irani LUCKNOW: Union Human Resource Development Minister Garo Hills situation disturbing: Centre Smriti Irani yesterday denied reports that senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has been offered the job of Jawaharlal SHILLONG: The central gov- situation is quite disturbing,” he that the rescue operation has we have decided to come up with Nehru University vice-chancellor. ernment yesterday expressed said. been intensified to trace the intel- two new sections within the pro- “No law of the land provides me with these powers, moreover concern over the deteriorat- Last Thursday, armed mili- ligence officer. vision of the Indian Penal Code Swamy is beyond the age bar for the post as well,” she said. Irani ing law and order situation in tants of the A’chik Songna He said police have not received to punish racial discrimination,” also announced that the first draft of the new national education Meghalaya’s Garo Hills region An’pachakgipa Kotok (ASAK) any information if the ASAK has he said at the Mega Arunachal policy is likely to be ready by year-end. Saying that she has been where militants are on a kid- outfit kidnapped Intelligence made any ransom call to the fam- Tribe Festival-2015 cum cultural deliberating with the stakeholders and had held three regional meets, napping and killing spree. Bureau officer Bikash Singh and ily members of the two hostages. exchange programme with the including one in UP along with video-conferencing with district “It is unfortunate that in Garo cloth merchant Kamal Saha at The ASAK -- which means northeastern region. magistrates, she noted that she proposes to ready the first draft by Hills, things are not improving as gunpoint from an area between “vanguards of Garoland” and “Once this stringent legislation December this year. we hoped, but the state govern- Ampangre and Panda reserve which operates in western is enacted, any person who abuses ment is taking all steps to ensure forest. Meghalaya -- is fighting for a on racial lines will be taken to Visit Indian monuments for free today and secure the lives and proper- The whereabouts of the two separate Garoland to be carved task,” Rijiju said at the event ties of the people,” union Minister people remain unknown, even as out of the state. organised here in Meghalaya. NEW DELHI: Indians can make trips to over 200 monu- of State for Home Affairs Kiren Meghalaya Police has intensified Meanwhile, the central govern- Rijiju said the central gov- ments and museums across the country for free on the occa- Rijiju said. its operation in the South Garo ment will soon come up with new ernment through the human sion of World Tourism Day today, an official said. According to He assured Meghalaya of cen- Hills district. laws to punish racial discrimina- resource development ministry an official at the ministry of tourism, a proposal regarding this tral assistance to ensure peace Reacting to media reports that tion, union minister Kiren Rijiju has decided to include subjects was cleared by the Minister of State for Tourism and Culture in the insurgency-ravaged Garo the intelligence officer has been said yesterday. about the northeastern region in Mahesh Sharma recently. Some of the world heritage sites rec- Hills. killed by his abductors, Rijiju The minister of state for the curriculum from next year. ognised by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural “If the Meghalaya government said: “I have read media reports home affairs also said the sub- “We are formulating it... proba- Organization (Unesco), like the highly visited Taj Mahal, Agra needs assistance from us (central of ‘elimination’ of the officer but ject of racial discrimination will bly by next year, right from nurs- Fort, and monuments in Khajuraho would have free entry, the government), we will definitely there is no concrete physical evi- be introduced in the education ery school up to Class 11 and from official added. Salar Jung Museum of Hyderabad along with a few provide some assistance but we dence yet.” curriculum. degree, MA, M.Phil to Ph.D level, other museums would also welcome visitors without entry tick- need to come together and set- Inspector General of Police “Racial discrimination is the we will be having chapters about ets. This would not be applicable in the state of Bihar, the official tle this issue as the Garo Hills (Operations) G H P Raju said worst form of crime. Therefore, the northeast,” he said. IANS said. India would also announce today the setting up of a medical and wellness board to facilitate foreign tourists for availing qual- ity healthcare services in the country, the minister said earlier. Bean character Buy party daily Foreign flights eyeing Odisha to be Congress BHUBANESWAR: The Biju Patnaik international airport could be handling international flight operations in the near candidate future with about 20 foreign carriers expressing their inter- est in starting operations here. “About 20 international flight THIRUVANANTHA PURAM: operators have shown interest to commence operations from the Ahead of the local body polls, Bhubaneswar airport. We had a discussion with them regard- the Congress here yesterday ing scheduled and chartered flights from here,” airport director made it mandatory for anybody Sarad Kumar said here yesterday. seeking to be considered a party Kumar said they would come for a commercial feasibility study candidate to first subscribe to soon. Sources said Fly Emirates, Bangkok Airways, Hong Kong the party’s daily, Veekshanam. Airlines, Kenya Airways and Mega Maldives Airlines are among In a circular State Congress the 20 airlines which have shown interest. Presently, Air India is president V M Sudheeran asked operating an international flight via New Delhi to and from the party office bearers for a check state’s lone international airport. list of prospective candidates who can be fielded in the upcoming Maruti workers clash at plant polls, with one of the conditions being that such candidates should GURGAON: Workers at Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar in be subscribers of Veekshanam. Haryana’s Gurgaon district clashed yesterday over the recent The local body elections in increase in wages of some employees, police said. Two former Kerala are expected to take employees, who were sacked earlier for violence, were arrested place before November 15 and a for rioting, while more than 500 people have been booked. minimum of 12,000 seats of the Regular and casual workers at the plant clashed after the casual around 22,000 total seats will be workers staged a protest at the main gate. Police intervened and a up for grabs for Congress aspir- few workers were injured following a baton-charge. Around 1,000 ants in the three-tier local body casual workers alleged that their union leaders reached an agree- structure in Kerala. The Congress ment with the company management ignoring their interests. They party is the biggest party in the said their salaries were not increased despite working and perform- ruling United Democratic Front. ing like the permanent employees. Two former employees were Veekshanam, a Malayalam arrested, police said, adding that more people involved in the clash daily newspaper and the organ will be arrested soon. Both were employees at the plant but were of the Kerala Pradesh Congress sacked after the July 2012 violence in which a company executive A man dressed in the style of the British film and television character ‘Mr Bean’ interacts with schoolchildren Committee, was revived in 2003. was killed and nearly 100 people were injured. IANS on a street to mark the 25th anniversary of Mr Bean character in New Delhi. IANS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Probe Shastri’s death, At a standstill urges his family Declassify files related to Lal Bahadur, demands son

NEW DELHI: Claiming that body had turned blue and there eminent journalist Khushwant prime minister Lal Bahadur were white spots on his temple.” Singh, Shastri claimed Teja was Shastri, who died in Tashkent “The moment my mother in Tashkent at the time of his after signing a peace pact with (Shastri’s wife Lalita Devi)saw father’s death. Pakistan, could have been mur- the body, she knew it was not a He also claimed that the prime dered, his son Anil Shastri yes- natural death. She told us it was minister was likely to take action terday demanded a thorough a murder, there was out and out and order an inquiry against Teja probe into the incident and that foul play,” he said. after his return to India. all related files be declassified. Anil Shastri called it “unbe- Raising suspicions over the “I do urge the Indian prime lievable” that the prime minis- hand of a foreign power in his minister to release the docu- ter’s room in the capital of then death, Anil Shastri said: “... ments. Not a bad idea to have Soviet Uzbekistan had “no call Lal Bahadur Shastri had sud- an inquiry into his death, ques- bell, no telephone, no caretaker in denly gained a lot of power, tion all remaining witnesses and his room and no first aid. He had when he retaliated with full clear all speculation and at least to walk up to the door himself.” force against Pakistan. Whether establish the negligence,” Shastri, He alleged that the death was it was America, China or any a Congress leader said. due to fault done by the Indian third country... I cannot name Shastri and then Pakistani embassy and termed it as “height any country but the truth is Lal Nepalese and Indian trucks park near the India-Nepal border at Birgunj, some 90km south of Kathmandu, president, Field Marshal Ayub of negligence”. Bahadur Shastri was becoming yesterday. Demonstrators against Nepal's new constitution in Birgunj town blocked a major trading checkpoint Khan, had been invited to “His death was badly handled very strong in the region.” Tashkent by then Soviet premier by the Indian government. It He also raised the sudden death for oil and food imports into the Himalayan nation. Alexei Kosygin for peace talks fol- hurts me to a great extent,” he of Dr R N Chugh, the personal lowing the Indian-Pakistan War said. physician accompanying the in 1965. An agreement was signed Opining that Shastri was not prime minister. Chugh died in an on January 10, 1966 but Shastri taken “seriously”, he said, “Post- accident with his family. Karnataka shutdown hits normal life was found dead a few hours later, mortem could have been done in Anil Shastri also added that having suffered cardiac arrest. Tashkent if there was a request his father’s personal assistant BENGALURU: A day-long people across the state. We hope water to Malaprabha river for Lal Bahadur Shastri’s family, from the Indian government or a too met with an accident, was shutdown across Karnataka the central and state government supplying it to the three north- while demanding declassification request from the Indian doctors.” crippled and lost his memory. yesterday demanding early will realise the urgency of getting ern districts of Belagavi, Dharwad of all documents related to his “... some close associates feel He also expressed concern over implementation of a canal water to the parched districts,” and Gadag, about 500 km from death, indicated that blue marks that suspicion revolves around an his father’s missing red personal project to supply river water Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha Bengaluru. Absence of public and and white spots seen on his body Indian hand or a foreign power,” diary. to state’s parched districts dis- president Vatal Nagaraj said. private transport and closure of were signs of foul play. he said. “He made daily notings in it rupted normal life in many cit- The canal project involves shops, markets, hotels, restau- Recalling the scene, Anil Anil Shastri claimed that his and may have even written about ies and towns. building barrages across Kalasa rants, malls, petrol bunks and cin- Shastri said, “When his body (Lal father had come to know about a the Tashkent agreement and the “The shutdown was complete and Banduri tributaries of ema theatres from dawn to dusk Bahadur Shastri) came to the scam involving a shipping tycoon pressures he was under,” he said. and peaceful, thanks to over- Mahadayi river to divert 7.6 tmc kept people at home till evening. Palam airport, we found that the Dharam Teja. Citing an article by IANS whelming support from the (thousand million cubic) feet of IANS

PM’s praise a political ploy: Akhilesh

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yes- Record cops deployed for immersion day terday said he viewed the recent praise of his government by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “political move” for which HYDERABAD: Over 20,000 to the command and control Chhattisgarh and other neigh- Hyderabad and Cyberabad police he needed to stay careful. policemen including personnel centre, which will help us cover boring states were deployed. The commissionerates. More than Speaking at a conclave organised by a media house here, Yadav from central paramilitary forces every inch of the procession. If police chief said police personnel half of them will be immersed in said the praise heaped on his government by Modi should only be have been deployed as part of any untoward incident is likely to from other districts of Telangana Hussain Sagar, where 50 cranes seen through a political prism. the massive security arrange- happen we proactively identify it had also been drawn for the secu- have been installed. Authorities He also took pot shots at the prime minister, saying Uttar ments for Ganesh immersion in and take measures on ground so rity arrangements. have also deployed 85 mobile Pradesh’s political significance lay in the fact that one who aspired Hyderabad today. that the problem can be contained Thirty bomb disposal teams, 30 cranes for immersion of idols at to be the prime minister of India chose Varanasi to contest from Thousands of idols will be then and there,” he said. sniffer dog teams, anti-sabotage other lakes. during the Lok Sabha elections. immersed in Hussain Sagar lake The massive procession with squads were also pressed into More than a million people par- Speaking on the ongoing visit of Modi to the US, the chief min- in the heart of the city and dozens huge idols began from Balapur service. Police had also deployed ticipate in the Ganesh immersion ister said he hoped for a “return gift”. Yadav was referring to the of other lakes on the outskirts, on the city outskirts and pass 120 patrol cars and 15 intercep- festivities in the city. As the com- multi-billion dollar purchase of helicopters that Modi cleared before marking culmination of 11-day through communally sensitive old tor vehicles as part of the tight munal riots broke out during the embarking on the US visit. festivities. city and the main thoroughfares security for the mega event. festivities in the past, the police Hyderabad Police to culminate at Hussain Sagar. As Police would extensively use make elaborate arrangements to Delhi cop found murdered inside car Commissioner M Mahender many as 21 tributary processions mobile phone service and also maintain peace. Reddy said 400 CCTV cameras join the main procession along its 900 wireless sets to monitor the No untoward incident hap- NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old Delhi Police constable was found were installed along the main 25-km route. proceedings and for better coor- pened for last three years and murdered inside a car here yesterday morning, police said. procession route to keep a tight Nine companies of central dination among different wings. police hoped that the festival Sandeep Kumar’s body with several stab wounds was recovered vigil on the proceedings. paramilitary forces and police More than 50,000 idols have would pass off peacefully this year inside the car near a park in west Delhi’s Bawana area. “The cameras are connected forces from Andhra Pradesh, been installed in the limits of too. IANS “Prima facie it seems that the constable was killed following some personal enmity. We have registered a case of murder and started the probe from all possible angles,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Vikramjeet Singh said. Sandeep, who was posted with the Supreme Playing god Jung a good Court security but was absent from duty for the past few days, was not in police uniform when his body was found in the driver’s seat. man with bad A resident of Kanjhawala in west Delhi, Sandeep is survived by his mother, who has gone to Nashik in Maharashtra to meet some bosses: CM relatives. Police said the car in which Sandeep’s body was found was registered in the name of one of his friends, who is being questioned NEW DELHI: After Delhi in connection with the incident. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Officials close to the investigation said someone might have placed yesterday said Lt Governor Sandeep’s body in the car after stabbing him. “Sandeep joined Delhi Najeeb Jung is a “good man Police in 2000. His father, who died 15 years ago, had also worked with bad political bosses”, the with the police force,” said the official. BJP and the Congress accused the AAP leader of “shifting his Social activist Patekar held in Allahabad stand”. In a series of tweets, Kejriwal LUCKNOW: Social activist Medha Patekar was arrested in said, “The Congress and the BJP Allahabad yesterday, police said. She was on her way to Kachari both demanding Najeeb Jung’s village when police tried to prevent her from going ahead, fear- removal? Strange. Is he at fault? ing tension in the area. As she refused to abort the plan, senior No. He is doing what the PMO police officials arrested her and took her to the police lines. (Prime Minister’s Office) is ask- Patkar was going to attend an event in the village on death anni- ing him to do.” versary of a social activist Banwari Lal Sharma and was later also “Removing him will not help. due to meet families of some people arrested for opposing the land His successor would also do same acquisition in the area. if the PMO kept interfering. Real District Magistrate of Allahabad Sanjay Kumar last Friday night solution is the PMO should stop had urged the social activist to cancel her visit, as prohibitory orders interfering in Delhi,” he said in were in place there. Patkar was detained at the guest house at another tweet. “Najeeb Jung is Allahabad university. But she was arrested as she began to move a good man with bad political towards a rally venue and staged a sit-in. bosses.” Patkar is demanding immediate release of people arrested for BJP MP from North West Delhi opposing land acquisition by the government authorities in that area. Udit Raj last Friday demanded Artist Manish Kali (20), dressed as Hindu deity Krishna, adjusts his costumes as he participates in a religious Jung’s removal describing him as Mauritian team visits Hyderabad procession for the Hindu festival for Ganesh Chaturthi immersion in New Delhi, yesterday. a “super king” for not heeding the views of elected representatives, a HYDERABAD: The initiatives for rural development, espe- day after three of his supporters cially for empowerment of rural poor in India, were useful for were held for allegedly assaulting Mauritius, observed a high-level delegation from the Indian Tension in Assam over meat row an IAS officer. Ocean island country. Udit Raj and Congress leader A delegation consisting of minister Prithvirajsing Roopun, GUWAHATI: Tension gripped that they intentionally kept some to baton-charge, leading to inju- Ajay Maken accused Kejriwal Mauritius and Boyramboli Bojrazsingh, permanent secretary, in parts of Assam’s Dhubri and beef near a temple in Kaldoba ries to many protesters. of shifting his stand on the Lt the social integration and economic empowerment ministry visited Cachar districts as people area. Although police intervened The Dhubri district adminis- Governor. the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj clashed with police yesterday and managed to control the situ- tration immediately imposed cur- “There is a bunch of contradic- (NIRD&PR) here to get familiarised with the various initiatives after body parts of cows were ation immediately, the situation few in and around Agomoni area. tions. On one hand he has waged for rural development and economic development of vulnerable found near temples. Many peo- turned worse yesterday morning The administration imposed a war against the Lt Governor. groups in India. ple were injured, a few have as hundreds of people belonging to Section 144 that prohibits assem- On the other hand, he suddenly With a view to get acquainted with the activities in the field, been arrested while curfew has one community took to the streets bly of more than 10 people in the changed his stand now. He should the delegation visited Koyalagudem Village, near Pochampally, in been imposed in one of the dis- protesting against last Friday’s entire district to ensure that the come out where he stands. It can Telangana’s Nalgonda district and interacted with the members of tricts to prevent the incidents assault on the two youth. violence does not spill over. be either of one only,” said the self-help groups (SHGs), and members of village panchayat and from spilling over. Police sources said the irate Tension gripped Silchar town of BJP leader. Maken, however, said Handloom Weavers Coopeative Society. Police said the problem started mob destroyed shops and com- Cachar district after the recovery Kejriwal was shedding “croco- The delegation had interaction with top officials who briefed them in Agomoni in Dhubri district last mercial establishments in of a cow’s head near a Kali tem- dile tears” in favour of the Lt. on the latest initiatives of the government for skill development of Friday evening after a group of Agomoni area and also set a ple in Meherpur area, last Friday. Governor and the Congress never rural youth. IANS people beat up two youth alleging motorcycle ablaze. Police resorted IANS criticised Jung. IANS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE Radical left Record migrant arrivals in Croatia ZAGREB: Croatia yesterday announced an unprecedented spike in the arrival of migrants on a long, dangerous journey set to decide towards western Europe as the continent’s worst post-World War II refugee crisis showed no sign of abating. With many of the people fleeing war and misery flocking towards Catalan vote Germany, a new poll showed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s popu- larity at home has been hit by her CUP seen to triple number of seats policy of openness. Merkel’s “strong commitment BARCELONA: A radical left- the debating chamber. to the refugees has obviously not wing group in Catalonia was At a hearing with the banker been met with much backing,” the preparing yesterday to act as and former International Der Spiegel weekly newspaper said kingmaker in an election that Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo on the poll published yesterday nationalists hope will set the Rato, who is being investigated on on its pages. region on the road to independ- fraud charges, Fernandez bran- Germany is expecting up to a ence from Spain. dished his sandal in a gesture of million refugees and migrants to While suited leaders such as contempt, and told Rato: “See you enter its borders this year, many Catalan President Artur Mas and soon, gangster!” encouraged by Merkel’s welcom- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano In today’s vote, the CUP is fore- ing stance. Rajoy have dominated campaign- cast to triple its number of seats Some 500,000 people have come ing for today’s regional ballot, in the parliament to about nine, to Europe so far this year, the after the vote attention will likely with around seven percent of International Organization for turn to a group largely wearing the vote. Migration says, many of them tak- T-shirts and earrings. Those could be the extra seats ing perilous journeys on inflatable Migrants who crossed the Croatian-Hungarian border wait to board a train at the railway station in Zakany, 230km Polls show the support of the conservative nationalist leader dinghies to Greece from Turkey, southwest of Budapest, Hungary. anti-capitalist Popular Unity Artur Mas needs to clinch a and then up towards western Candidacy (CUP) under its lead 68-seat majority in the 135-seat Europe through the Balkans and candidate, journalist Antonio chamber. Hungary. migrants) and transporting” Prevlaka peninsula, which and facing the task of reunifica- Banos, will be crucial for the He has framed the regional EU member Croatia became them on towards the Austrian is located at southern tip of tion are two very different things, pro-independence alliance to election as a vote on independ- a key transit country when border, Interior Minister Ranko Croatia’s long coastline on the Merkel said integrating people secure a majority in the regional ence, defying fierce opposition Hungary sealed its border with Ostojic told reporters. Adriatic Sea, 45 kilometres will require a similarly important parliament. from Madrid. Serbia earlier this month in a bid “The situation is under con- southeast of Dubrovnik, border- effort from the whole of German A grassroots citizens’ move- The CUP is one of a wave of to keep the migrants out. trol,” he added. ing Montenegro. Some regional society. ment that chooses its represent- left-wing forces that have gained In the past 10 days alone 65,000 However with hardline officials have warned however “That general feeling — when atives in town assemblies, the influence across Europe in the refugees and migrants have Hungary planning to seal the that Croatia must prevent any we are faced with a major task CUP has existed at a local level recent economic crisis. arrived in the Balkan country, the border with Croatia too, there influx of migrants near the resort that we can achieve — that, I since the 1980s but has swelled in But unlike groups such as interior ministry said yesterday. is speculation that people might of Dubrovnik as it might affect believe, we can absolutely remem- the crisis, nearly quadrupling its Spain’s national protest party Most were given temporary carve out a new so-called south- tourism. ber how to do,” Merkel said in her number of town councillors since Podemos, it says that just treat- shelter in a recently-built refu- ern route through Montenegro. Merkel, with her popularity weekly podcast. 2011 to 385. ment for the poor in Catalonia gee reception centre in the vil- Ostojic said preparations were down over her handling of the Their memory of the reunifi- For the CUP, independence “is can only be achieved by making lage of Opatovac near the Serbian underway in southern Croatia in crisis, yesterday sought to bring cation process of east and west not about defending our national it into a separate state. border. They were then taken on case the need to give them shelter back the spirit of the country’s Germany is what has encour- identity and language. It is about “Independence and social jus- buses and trains to three border arises there. reunification in 1990, to help face aged “many, many people to get defending a better system of tice have to go hand in hand,” said crossings with Hungary. Croatia may temporarily today’s challenge of integrating involved today... Their approach rights and freedoms,” said Quim Bernat Pelach, a bearded 30-year- “The key is that everything house them in military facili- the refugees. to their task is with the idea that Arrufat, 32, one of the CUP’s old mathematician, at the CUP’s goes smoothly on Hungary’s side. ties remaining from the former While admitting that handling ‘we want to succeed, and we can three outgoing regional deputies. closing campaign rally Friday in (Hungary) is still receiving (the Yugoslav People’s Army in the the current wave of migration succeed.’” AFP “This is an opportunity for the Barcelona suburb of Badalona. the working class to build a free Mas says that if his left-right society,” he told AFP. The leader alliance named “Together For of the CUP’s current parliamen- Yes” secures a majority today, he tary group, David Fernandez, has will have a mandate to push on added colour to Catalan regional towards a declaration of inde- Russia, Estonia swap spies in Cold War style politics with his countless radical pendence by 2017. T-shirts and provocative turns in AFP MOSCOW: Russia yesterday statement before taking a “vaca- possible after Putin wrote a par- Putin is flying to New York freed Estonian officer Eston tion” to reunite with family. don for Kohver, while Ilves par- to make a speech at the United Kohver jailed for spying last “I am happy to be home again,” doned Dressen, Interior Minister Nations, for the first time in a month, exchanging him for a said Kohver, looking well and even Hanno Pevkur said, calling decade, and to meet US President Russian spy in a Cold War-style cracking jokes after speaking with Kohver a “very strong man”. Barack Obama for their first for- bridge swap just days before his wife on the phone. “I would Dressen was convicted in 2012 mal talk since 2013. President Vladimir Putin’s visit like to thank everyone who helped together with his wife Victoria, Kohver’s release was hailed to the United Nations. my family cope.” who was given a suspended sen- by Estonia’s Foreign Minister Kohver, who was sentenced Estonia had launched a high- tence. He was found guilty of Marina Kaljurand as “good news in August to 15 years in jail on profile campaign for Kohver’s treason for funnelling classified for Estonia and the whole of espionage and other charges, was freedom, with President Toomas information to Russia for years Europe”, as she thanked countries exchanged for Aleksei Dressen, a Hendrik Ilves calling on citizens after Estonia’s 1991 independence. for pressuring Moscow to agree to former Estonian security official to wear yellow ribbons and both Kohver’s defence lawyer Mark the exchange. serving a 16-year sentence for the European Union and the Feigin said the swap was “organ- Kohver’s conviction on August spying for Moscow, the FSB secu- United States urging Moscow to ised on the political level” and 19 drew international fury after rity service said in a statement. send him home. was timed to boost Russia’s image Tallinn said he was kidnapped at The swap took place yesterday Estonia’s top officials welcomed ahead of Putin’s speech at the gunpoint from Estonian territory, on a bridge over the Piusa River the release with an outpouring United Nations tomorrow. with Washington demanding that that separates Russia’s west- of praise and support, with Ilves “It’s all happening ahead of Moscow set him free immediately. Women walk past a mannequin dressed up in “Esteladas” (pro-independence ern Pskov region and Estonia’s calling Kohver a “tough and loyal” Putin’s visit to the UN tomor- The US embassy in Tallinn wel- Catalan flags) on the eve of the Catalan regional election, in Barcelona, Polva county, after which Kohver officer in a statement to the press. row. There are no other reasons,” comed the swap on Twitter. yesterday. was taken to Tallinn to make a The exchange was made Feigin wrote on Twitter. AFP

Crazy for Corbyn Don’t let in more Russia envoy’s WWII No cars Muslim refugees: in central Bulgaria Church comment irks Poland WARSAW: The Russian Stalinist and communist years,” Paris today SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Orthodox ambassador to Poland has the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Church has called on its claimed Warsaw was partly in a statement. PARIS: Central Paris goes car- government not to let any to blame for World War II, Warsaw also strongly objected free today as part of its fight more Muslim refugees into prompting a storm of protest in to the ambassador’s attempt to against air pollution, at a time the country to prevent an the country which claims to be justify “the anti-Polish actions when the Volkswagen emissions “invasion”. its greatest victim. by the Soviet ‘liberators’... in the scandal again turns the spot- The Balkan EU member Sergei Andreev accused Poland arrest, deportation, and execution light on diesel and the air pol- has largely been bypassed by — which lost the highest propor- of Poles. lutants it produces. the hundreds of thousands of tion of its population in the con- “We regard this as a lack of The French capital’s cen- refugees fleeing conflict and flict — of “blocking the creation respect for the memory of victims tral arrondissements and areas poverty, many of whom set off of an anti-Nazi coalition” which of NKVD (secret police) crimes, around landmarks such as the from Greece through neigh- made it “co-responsible for World perpetrated on the orders of the Eiffel Tower and Champs Elysees bouring Macedonia and Serbia War II”. highest Soviet authorities,” the will be free from car noise and towards northern Europe. The ambassador also justified statement added. exhaust fumes, allowing people to But Bulgaria has still seen the Soviet invasion of Poland after Up to six million Poles — more stroll, cycle or skate between 0900 Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis Hitler and Stalin secretly agreed than three million of them Jews GMT and 1600 GMT. cross its southeastern border to divide up the country between — were killed in WWII. Exceptions are allowed for from Turkey. them, as necessary to “guarantee Asked about the Russian taxis, buses and emergency vehi- “We help refugees who have the security of the Soviet Union”. ambassador’s comments, Polish cles. Paris has occasionally closed already arrived in our mother- And he said the Soviet decision Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz selected roads to traffic in the land, but the government must to crush the Polish resistance as replied: “Even children in Poland past, but not as large an area as absolutely not let more refu- the war ended was motivated by know that neither Ribbentrop nor will be covered today. gees in,” the church — which the need to have a “friendly coun- Molotov were Polish” — a refer- Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, claims 80 percent of the popu- try at its borders”. ence to the secret pact between who late this year will host the lation as its followers — said But Warsaw responded angrily the German and Soviet foreign United Nations World Climate late Friday on its website. yesterday, saying Andreev’s com- ministers that set the war in Conference, told the daily Le “This is a wave that looks ments were highly damaging to motion by carving Poland and the Parisien that the goal was to show like an invasion.” It added that relations between the neighbours. Baltic states up between them. that “Paris can operate without the problems in the refugees’ “The narrative presented More than 200,000 Polish cars”. Last December, Hidalgo countries of origin “must be by the highest official repre- soldiers were sent to camps in proposed to ban from Paris by resolved by those who created sentative of the Russian state Siberia after the Red Army 2020 any diesel vehicles built them and the Bulgarian people in Poland challenges historical invaded Poland in September Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) poses for a selfie before 2011. France has the high- must not pay the price by dis- truth and invokes some of the 1939, with nearly 22,000 of their with a supporter as he arrives at his hotel at the beginning of the annual est percentage of diesel cars on appearing.” AFP most mendacious interpretations officers massacred mostly at Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Britain, yesterday. the road in Europe. of events, as resorted to during Katyn. AFP REUTERS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Castro calls Call to reform UN Security Council for end to Leaders of Germany, Brazil, India and Japan push for stronger UN role US embargo NEW YORK: It is high time There have been mounting calls the United Nations Security for changes to the powerful UN UNITED NATIONS: Cuban Council is reformed to reflect Council which has been deeply President Raul Castro yester- the real distribution of power divided over how to address the day took aim at the US embargo across the world in the 21st war in Syria, now in its fifth year against his country, describing century, German Chancellor with more than 240,000 dead. it as the “main obstacle” to his Angela Merkel said yesterday. Merkel met with Brazil’s Dilma country’s economic development. “We need a new method of Rousseff, Indian Prime Minister “Such a policy is rejected by 188 work to solve problems,” Merkel Narendra Modi and Japanese United Nations member-states said. “That makes reform of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that demand its removal,” Castro the Security Council necessary, who agreed that a new round of told a UN development summit, reform which reflects the real talks on changes to the Security referring to a UN resolution call- power in the world better than Council should yield results. ing for the end of the decades-old the situation today.” The UN General Assembly ear- embargo. The appeal was in a summary lier this month agreed on a nego- The UN General Assembly of Merkel’s opening remarks at tiating text on Security Council has voted each year since 1982 a meeting with her counterparts reform, but China, the United to approve a resolution calling from Brazil, India and Japan pro- States and Russia refused to sign on the United States to lift the vided to reporters by the German on to the initiative. embargo against Cuba, which has delegation. “We have to proceed The Security Council, the most been in place since 1960. very wisely,” she added, according powerful UN body, has 15 mem- Making his first visit to to the summary. “We have to find bers, five of them permanent. It the UN, Castro hailed the re- allies to reach our goal of reform.” has the ability to issue legally establishment of relations with Merkel is in New York for a binding resolutions imposing Washington as a “major progress,” summit meeting of world leaders sanctions or authorizing military but stressed that the embargo was on global development at the UN action to enforce its decisions. unfinished business. General Assembly. The 10 temporary members are “The economic, commercial and Germany, Japan, India and elected for two-year terms by the Chinese President Xi Jinping with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) after addressing the United Nations financial blockade against Cuba Brazil say the world is very dif- General Assembly. Britain, China, Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York, yesterday. persists, as it has been for half a ferent from what it was in 1945 France, Russia and the United century, bringing damages and and the Security Council should States, key allies from World hardships on the Cuban people” reflect that. Germany and Japan, War Two, are permanent veto- Xi pledges $2bn for poor nations said Castro, who succeeded his which are global financial pow- wielding council members. brother Fidel as president in 2006. ers and top contributors to the The goal of expanding the Cuba estimates that more than United Nations, argue that they Council to include additional UNITED NATIONS: Chinese Addressing a UN summit on broader humanitarian goals. In $121bn in damage has been inflicted deserve permanent council seats. permanent and temporary mem- President Xi Jinping yesterday development, Xi said China would January, Xi promised $250bn in on its economy from the embargo, “The current atmosphere is bers has long been an elusive one. pledged $2bn for a new develop- act “by putting justice before investment over 10 years in Latin which was imposed in retaliation that not only we four but many Many UN member states rou- ment fund for poor countries on interests and joining other coun- America, which the US has long for Cuba’s nationalisation of US others don’t agree with the struc- tinely call for Security Council a UN visit aimed at showcasing tries in a concerted effort to real- considered its sphere of influence. properties on the island. ture and the working method of reform and have been working Beijing’s growing global role. ize the post-2015 agenda.” The United Nations on Friday Since the rapprochement with the Security Council,” Merkel told for decades, so far unsuccessfully, Xi’s announcement, made in his Xi said that China would set a goal of ending extreme pov- Cuba, President Barack Obama’s the other leaders. “We want to to find an acceptable formula for first-ever address to the United launch an assistance fund for erty by 2030, an effort that the administration has expressed sup- take others with us to reach a expanding the council. Nations, follows long-standing developing countries with an ini- global body says could require up port for lifting the embargo, but modern working structure of the The five permanent Council criticism from the United States tial investment of $2bn. He said to $5 trillion a year. China’s aid the decision rests with Congress, Security Council which suits the members can block any such and other developed countries that his country would also step commitment remains far below where a Republican majority 21st century.” moves. Britain and France say that China has not taken respon- up investment in UN-defined levels of Western countries. The opposes the move. Meeting on the sidelines of a they support Council reform. sibilities in line with its aspira- least developed countries — which United States in 2013 provided Castro argued that the embargo UN development summit, the so- The United States has also cau- tions for a greater global role. are mostly in Africa — by at least more than $30bn, and Britain, affects other nations that face called G4 said they were “legiti- tiously backed it. UN diplomats The speech is the latest high- $12bn by 2030. France, Germany and Japan all punishment for investing in Cuba mate candidates” to become say China, and to a lesser extent profile move for Xi on a trip that China has been an increasingly gave more than $11bn, according under US laws, and that it was permanent Security Council Russia, are the principal oppo- has included a White House state active investor around the world, to the Paris-based Organisation “hurting the interests of American members and backed each other’s nents of the idea. visit and will see him chair a UN although it has generally focused for Economic Cooperation and citizens and companies”. candidacy. AGENCIES forum on women’s rights today. on seeking resources rather than Development. AFP AFP

Mexico missing students’ case With Boehner vanquished, Marine General Dunford sworn conservatives turn on McConnell in as US military’s top officer WASHINGTON: Some of WASHINGTON: Marine Dunford in part because of his Republican Senator John the US Congress’s staunchest General Joseph Dunford became ability to give candid and impar- McCain, who heads the Senate conservative Republicans cel- the US military’s highest-rank- tial advice. “He doesn’t fabricate Armed Services Committee, ebrated House Speaker John ing officer, chosen by President things, he doesn’t play to an audi- said in a televised interview that Boehner’s resignation and Barack Obama as America’s ence, but he also doesn’t get upset. Dempsey was the “most disap- trained their sights on a new armed forces face an array of glo- He’s level-headed, calm and direct,” pointing” chairman he’d seen. target: Senate Majority Leader bal crises and combat challenges. RAND Corporation senior analyst “He has supported the plan Mitch McConnell. Dunford, 59, replaces General Ben Connable said. “He knows how to completely withdraw from In a display of intense infight- Martin Dempsey as chairman of to tell you your baby’s ugly without Afghanistan. He’s basically been ing of the sort that has consumed the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though making you upset.” the echo chamber for the presi- the party for months, Republican the position has no direct opera- Dunford was sworn in during dent. ... His lack of either knowl- presidential candidate and Senator tional authority, he acts as the Dempsey’s colourful retirement edge or candor about the situation Ted Cruz of Texas told a crowd of main military adviser to the ceremony in Virginia late on in the Middle East ... has done applauding conservative activ- president and the defence secre- Friday, which Obama attended great damage,” McCain said. ists at the Value Voters Summit tary, and holds massive sway on and which saw the outgoing gen- Dunford previously served in Washington: “You want to matters of war and peace. eral sing an Irish folk song. as the commander of Nato’s know how much each of you ter- Dunford, who earned the nick- Dempsey, 63, served nearly four International Security Assistance rify Washington? Yesterday, John name “Fighting Joe” as an infan- years in the top general’s spot, but Force in Afghanistan from Boehner was speaker of the House. try officer during the US-led drew criticism from opponents February 2013 until August 2014. Y’all come to town and somehow invasion of Iraq in 2003, ascends who said he should have advo- During his time as commander that changes. My only request is, to the top of the military food cated a stronger stance against in Kabul, Dunford oversaw the can you come more often?” chain during a difficult time. IS jihadists. major drawdown of tens of thou- When another Republican Recent years have seen a resur- Drawing on the experience of sands of US troops, as Afghan presidential hopeful, Senator gent Russia annex Crimea and aid the US-led war in Iraq, which forces took the lead in the fight Marco Rubio of Florida, inter- separatists in eastern Ukraine, as lasted almost a decade, he was against the Taliban insurgency. rupted his speech at the event to well as the swift rise of the Islamic against sending troops back to But Dunford persuaded the relay the news that Boehner was People hold white balloons while standing next to a poster that reads, State group in Iraq and Syria that the Middle East to tackle IS, and White House to keep a small force leaving, raucous cheers broke out. “We are missing 43”, during an event to mark the first anniversary of took the world by surprise. In addi- instead wanted local Iraqi forces on the ground after 2014 instead of Boehner said he would step down tion, the military is facing cuts if to do more fighting. He won a total troop withdrawal. Dunford the disappearance of the students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa College in October after months of pres- the Republicans and the White praise in the Obama administra- also led troops in the 2003 invasion Raul Isidro Burgos, in Guatemala City, late on Friday. Mexican authori- sure from his party’s right wing, House can’t agree on the budget. tion but it was a policy critics said of Iraq and spent nearly two years setting up a battle over succession ties are sifting through nearly 60,000 bone fragments to see if any can Observers say Obama picked emboldened America’s enemies. in the country. AFP to the House of Representatives’ be tested for a DNA match with 43 students, officials said. top post and handing a victory to his most vocal critics. One of them, Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, said the Speaker’s decision “should be an absolute warning sign to Govt finds new emails Hillary did not hand over McConnell.” He said the Senate leader should more assertively WASHINGTON: The US spokesman John Kirby said in Clinton is lying about her han- not have a detailed comment until She did not hand over another promote a conservative Republican Defence Department has found a statement. The exchange of dling of her emails, according to a it had received and reviewed the 30,000 emails from the period agenda, including by changing an email chain that Hillary 10 or so emails, the existence of Fox News poll released this week. emails. that she deemed personal and Senate rules so that Democrats Clinton did not give to the which were first reported by the The email arrangement has “If indeed this is a sign the stone- said she chose “not to keep.” cannot easily block legislation. State Department, the State Associated Press, largely dealt drawn criticism from politi- walling and political protection The emails with Petraeus also Conservative Republicans have Department said late on Friday, with personnel issues, according cal opponents who accused the effort that was previously being appear to contradict the claim expressed frustration since the despite her saying she had pro- to the State Department. Democratic presidential front- run by the (State) Department is by Clinton’s campaign that she start of 2015, after Republicans vided all work emails from her Clinton’s use of a private email runner of sidestepping transpar- diminishing, the committee wel- used a private BlackBerry email gained eight seats and the Senate time as secretary of state. account connected to a server in ency and record-keeping laws and comes it,” he said. “The proof will account for her first two months majority in the 2014 elections, The correspondence with her home instead of a govern- of potentially exposing classified be in the production.” at the department before setting about McConnell’s seeming ina- General David Petraeus, who ment-issued email address came information to hackers. Clinton apologised this month up her clintonemail.com account bility to lead the chamber in a was commander of US Central to light in March. The controversy has cut into for her email setup, saying it was in March 2009. more rightward direction. Command at the time, started News of the previously undis- Clinton’s lead in the race for the unwise. But as recently as Sunday, This was the reason her cam- Representative Matt Salmon of shortly before she entered office closed email thread only adds to a Democratic nomination for the she told CBS when asked about paign gave for not handing over Arizona said McConnell was the and continued during her first steady stream of revelations about November 2016 election. Jamal her emails that she provided “all any emails from those two months big stumbling block to a conserva- days as the top US diplomat in the emails in the past six months, Ware, spokesman for the House of them.” Last December, she pro- to the State Department. The tive agenda that Republicans had January and February of 2009. which have forced Clinton to revise Select Committee on Benghazi, vided what she said were copies of Petraeus exchange shows she promised voters. “Boehner has The Defence Department pro- her account of the setup which she which wants all Clinton emails all 30,000 or so work emails she started using the clintonemail.com been tarnished by McConnell’s lack vided the emails to the State first gave in March. concerning the 2012 attack that had in her possession, nearly two account by January 2009, according of leadership on numerous occa- Department in “the last sev- Nearly a third of all Democrats killed four Americans in Benghazi, years after she stepped down as to the State Department. sions,” Salmon said. REUTERS eral days,” State Department and 58 percent of all voters think Libya, said the committee would secretary of state. REUTERS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Qatar’s banking Qatar is No.2 financial hub in Middle East DOHA: Qatar has maintained financial centre on the list, which financial centres are giving the acquired the top position in the its leadership position among has witnessed a remarkable 55 giants a run for their money and eastern Europe and central Asia the fastest growing financial places jump since 2010, as the are offering international inves- category, rising 30 places since sector growth centres in the world, which fin- city prepares to open its finan- tors access to some of the world’s 2010. ished second in the Middle East cial markets to foreign investors. fast-growing financial markets in Whereas Johannesburg, the and seventh globally, in the list The list of world’s biggest East Asia, the Middle East, and South African city, has climbed of world’s 10 fastest growing financial centres features some Africa. from 54th place to 32nd in the financial centres. stalwarts such as New York, To prepare the report it took index since 2010, the highest- to continue According to a report published London, and Tokyo that have the Global Financial Cities Index placed in sub-Saharan Africa. by World Economic Forum, Qatar stayed at the top of any rank- released for 2015 and compared And South Korea’s capital city, jumped more than 16 notches over ings for decades. it to the same publication when Seoul, has surged up the competi- Private sector lending at $109.2bn in Q2 the past five years, and continued However, there are several it was released five years ago, tive ranks of East Asia’s growing to maintain its growing financial other financial centres emerg- to find out which of the hubs financial sector, rising 21 places BY SATISH KANADY $258.5bn at the end of Q2, 2015 position after Saudi Arabia’s capi- ing in many developing countries are moving up the ranks most since 2010. For banking, the city as compared to $233bn during tal, Riyadh. that are giving tough competition quickly. is ranked fifth in the world. DOHA: Qatari banking sector Q2-2914. Private sector lending Riyadh is the most improved to the stalwarts. These emerging Turkey’s capital Istanbul has THE PENINSULA has recorded significant growth reached $109.2bn in Q2 2015 on on the back of infrastructure the back of consistent increase development activity, as the in lending activities. country prepares to host the Infrastructure investments US housing market strengthens FIFA World Cup in 2022. have led to increased lending to Banks’ credit growth increased the public sector, which received Indian rupee by 13.4 percent year-on-year dur- $61.8bn in loans in Q2-15 a slight ing June 2015 on the back of a decline from previous year levels. to be under 26 percent increase in lending to Qatar remained the best perform- private sector. Because of higher ing market in the GCC in 2014 lending activity, bank assets have with a yearly return of 18.4 per- strain: Experts grown by 11 percent to $292bn or cent. However, the market lost 138 percent of GDP. its momentum as it entered 2015 MUMBAI: The free fall in Driven by sustained spending, when negative impact of oil price rupee value is expected to con- the trend is expected to continue decline affected all the markets tinue in the short term, as the until at least 2017 without any in the GCC. US starts discussions on an scaling back or cancellations of Corporate earnings went up interest rate hike and global projects. World Cup 2022 prepa- 9.3 percent year-on-year in 2014, recessionary fears prompt risk rations will sustain non-hydrocar- primarily on the back of improve- aversion by investors, experts bon growth momentum and will ment in earnings for the banking said yesterday. increase economic diversification sector. On the Qatar Exchange However, a monetary easing of Qatar, KAMCO Investment (QE) performance, the report by the Indian central bank could Company said in its latest “MENA said the historically high growth arrest the rupee’s downward tra- Economic Trend” report. reported by the Qatari economy, jectory in the turbulant times. The KAMCO research note coupled with political stability as “With US Federal Reserve (US said Qatar’s FDI outflows quad- well as significant improvement Fed) again raking up interest rate rupled in 2013 as surplus was in financial market regulations, hike discussion, global equities used for foreign investments. The has offered pretty scalable inves- may start off negatively in com- country’s international reserves tor confidence. ing week and the impact will be have been consistently rising over As a result, the impact of oil seen in the rupee as well,” Hiren the years and was recorded at price decline was not as severe on Sharma, senior vice president, $43.3bn at the end of 2014. Qatar as seen in other markets. currency advisory at Anand Rathi According to the most recent Nevertheless, the overall trading Financial Services, said. data, reserves increased to activity on the exchange declined as The US Fed did not raise interest $43.8bn at the end of July 15 a result low investor participation in rates from near zero levels, that it after it dipped during the first the market. Total volume and value has maintained for a decade or so, quarter due to declining oil and traded has witnessed steep decline during the Federal Open Market gas revenues. The current level as compared to the previous year. Committee held on September 17. of reserves equate 7.8 months of The Qatari market has always Fears that it may soon announce a import cover for the country. traded at cheap P/E multiples as hike has spooked global investors. Qatar Central Bank (QCB) compared to the broader GCC A hike in interest rates by the US has not increased the interest market. However, after the MSCI An advertisement for two-family homes is seen outside an oceanside community in the Rockaway area of the Fed will send shock waves across rate from 4.5 percent, after two upgrade, valuation multiples had Queens borough of New York recently. New US single-family home sales rose more quickly than expected in the world’s capital markets. cuts of 0.5 percent each in 2011. been on an uptrend. August on the back of a strong upward revision for the previous month’s growth, pointing to a strengthening A rate hike could potentially Total money supply stood at THE PENINSULA lead to massive amounts of pull- recovery in America’s housing market. back of foreign funds from emerg- ing economies like India. The US dollar will also strengthen against emerging market currencies, gold and other assest classes. Notwithstanding the fears of Google under US antitrust scrutiny over Android further downward trajectory, the rupee can rely on the fact that the WASHINGTON: The US had complained to the U.S. Google benefits consumers by giv- “has used a range of anticom- huge deal,” he said. “But that’s not India Inc and global investors are Federal Trade Commission has Department of Justice about ing them a better experience with petitive tactics.” “The stakes are what going to happen – it’s going betting at a cut in key lending rates opened a preliminary investiga- Google’s anti-competitive prac- their phone. extremely high, because Google’s to drag on.” The investigation was by Reserve Bank of India. The RBI tion into whether Google Inc uses tices and urged the regulator to The FTC probe focuses on behaviour impacts the entire first reported by Bloomberg. will decide on whether or not to its Android operating system to investigate allegations that Google Google’s requirements that its mobile ecosystem, including map Google previously tangled with ease the key lending rates dur- dominate competitors as more unfairly uses its Android system search, maps and other products and location services, and app the FTC over Web search allega- ing its upcoming monetary policy consumers go mobile, two sources to hurt rivals. be given a prominent place on developers,” the group said. tions and reached a settlement in review slated for September 29. familiar with the matter said. The FTC and the Justice handsets. The demands make it App makers offering alternatives 2013 that required the company to According to India Inc and mar- The Android mobile platform is Department conferred, and impractical for handset makers to to Google’s popular products, such stop “scraping” reviews and other ket observers, the rupee might a key element in Google’s strategy decided that the FTC would take put Google rivals on their smart- as HERE for maps or Microsoft data from rival websites for its own require a “booster dosage” of nearly to maintain revenue from online the case, one source said. The phone’s home screen. for search, would benefit if the products. The FTC also required a 50 basis points cut, which will advertising as people switch from probe is in its very early stages, Android is the top smartphone Mountain View tech giant’s hold Google to allow advertisers to spur the recovery in both equity Web browser searches to smart- according to sources. platform with 51.6 percent U.S. on Android is weakened, though export data to evaluate advertis- and currency markets. The rupee phone apps. The FTC had pre- Both Google and the FTC market share, according to an a slow legal process means they ing campaigns independently. continued on its downward tra- viously investigated Google for declined comment. In a blog post August report from analytics likely will not see relief anytime After that settlement, the FTC jectory. It fell for the fourth con- allegedly breaking antitrust law in April, a top Google executive from comScore. Apple is in second soon, said analyst Bob O’Donnell was embarrassed by the inadvert- secutive day against the US dollar in a separate case but that probe defended the way the company place with 44.1 percent. of TECHnalysis Research. ent release of documents that on Thursday. The rupee ended ended in a settlement. handles Android, saying other Fairsearch, a technology trade “If they said, as of tomor- showed key staff members argued Thursday’s trade down 17 paise at Reuters reported in April firms could use Android without group, said it welcomed the row, ‘Google, you cannot bundle that Google broke antitrust law. 66.16 to the dollar, aginst its previ- that some technology companies Google but that working with FTC probe, adding that Google all these services,’ it would be a WP-BLOOMBERG ous close of 65.99. IANS

Caterpillar to cut 10,000 jobs US oil drillers face shrinking credit lines

NEW YORK: Oil producers in the claim on assets in a bankruptcy, and declined 51 percent in New York over US are about to see their credit the size of a loan is tied to how much the past year. lines shrink, just when they need an oil producer’s acreage is worth. To protect themselves, banks the money most. The latest round of To reduce their risk, lenders reduce underestimate both reserves and twice-yearly reevaluations is under credit lines when prices fall. That’s prices. First, they attribute very lit- way, and almost 80 percent of oil helped keep loans backed by oil and tle value to wells that haven’t been and natural gas producers will see a gas properties some of the safest drilled yet, unlike equity investors reduction in the maximum amount bets around, even amid the worst who see undeveloped properties as they can borrow, according to a sur- oil crash in almost 30 years. growth potential. Banks also don’t vey by Haynes and Boone LLP, a law At bottom, the math is pretty sim- lend against every barrel credited firm with offices in Houston, New ple. The amount banks are willing to producing wells. And lastly, they York and other cities. Companies’ to lend is based on two things: the assume oil will sell for less than credit lines will be cut by an average size of a company’s reserves, and the market prices. of 39 percent, the survey showed. price of crude. Multiply the number During the boom, credit lines went “There’s going to be a reduction of barrels by the price, and that’s the up along with prices. Now the situa- to the majority of these credit lines,” value of a company’s oil prospects. tion is reversed. Lenders are using $48 Workers walk past Caterpillar excavator machines at a factory in Gosselies. Caterpillar Inc said it said Neal Dingmann, an analyst at In practice, it’s not that easy. a barrel to value assets in the third could cut up to 10,000 jobs through 2018 as part of its restructuring and cost reduction plans to SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. Counting barrels trapped thou- quarter, down from $77 at the end of “It’ll make a lot of these companies sands of feet below the ground is by last year, according to a quarterly bank save up to $1.5bn annually. reduce a bit more on spending.” nature an uncertain business. And survey from Macquarie Group Ltd. In many cases, banks have first prices are always moving. Crude has WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Qatar’s Port sector gains momentum Drax abandons plan in UK Robust growth in three ports

BY SACHIN KUMAR tonnage at the port reached 2.4 tonnes in December 2014 from DOHA: Qatar’s port sector 2.3m tonnes in January 2014. has witnessed healthy growth Ras Laffan Port bucked the despite concern about slowdown trend as net tonnage at the port affecting global trade. Out of declined during the year. Net Qatar’s four ports, three ports tonnage at the port stood at have registered a robust growth 7.6m tonnes in January last year in cargo movement in the last which decreased to 6.5m tonnes one year. in December 2014. In 2014, Doha Port, Mesaieed At 56 square kilometres, and Port and Haloul Port witnessed with six Liquefied Natural Gas growth in cargo movement (LNG) berths operational, Ras while Ras Laffan Port witnessed Laffan Port is the largest LNG decline, according to the Ministry exporting facility in the world. of Development Planning and This year, so far, the momen- Statistics data. tum in port sector is strong. Among the four ports, Haloul According to Qatar Monthly Port registered highest growth Statistics, net tonnage at Doha of 16 percent last year. Net ton- Port increased to 1.03m tonnes in A view of the cooling towers of the Drax coal-fired power station near Selby, northern England, on Friday. Energy company Drax has abandoned a nage at Haloul Port reached 1.08m August this year from 1.02m in £1bn installation of carbon capture technology to cut emissions, citing the UK government’s reduction of subsidies for renewable energy. tones in December 2014 from July 2015. 930,162 tons in January same year. Net tonnage at Haloul Port Cargo traffic movement in a stood at 951,672 tonnes in August country reflects health of econ- this year from 815,278 tonnes in omy activities. A rising cargo traf- July 2015. Net tonnage at Ras fic means that economic activities Laffan Port was seen stable at 7m in a country is growing while a tones in July and August this year. Qatar’s investment income rises by QR13.7bn persistent declining cargo traf- The port sector of Qatar will fic indicates that it is heading see significant capacity expansion DOHA: Qatar’s investment taxes and fees to Qatar’s public 57 percent in the previous fiscal. decreased to about QR62.6bn, towards economic slowdown. in coming years. income has surged by 14 percent revenues rose by 23.8 percent, or Developments in public rev- or 29.4 percent of the total pub- Doha Port witnessed a growth Hamad Port would increase its or QR13.7bn to hit QR111.8bn by QR11.7bn, in 2014-2015 fiscal enue components have led to a lic expenditure for the fiscal of 11 percent last year with net handling capacity to 6m TEUs during the 2014/15 fiscal. It’s con- compared to the previous fis- decline in total revenues of about year (2014/2015), compared to tonnage at the port reaching (twenty-foot equivalent units) by tribution to the country’s total cal, Qatar Central Bank’s (QCB) QR6.2bn, or 1.8 percent, reach- QR69.7bn, or 29.3 percent of total about 1m tonnes in December 2020. The first phase of the mega public revenues increased to 33.2 annual report has revealed. ing to about QR336.6bn com- public expenditure for the previ- 2014 from 900,722 tonnes in project, which is involved install- percent in the fiscal, compared to Public revenue components pared to QR 342.8bn recorded ous year. January last year. ing more pre-cast blocks, is due 28.6 percent increase reported in have seen marked variation dur- in 2013/14 fiscal. Salaries and wages were Doha Port receives on average to open at the end of 2016. the previous fiscal. ing the year; where oil and gas Public expenditure grew con- increased by about QR2.9bn, or 12 livestock ships and 400 roll- Strategically located south of By definition, investment revenues, which represent the siderably during the past years 6.8 percent, to reach QR44.9bn, on/roll-off vessels — which allow Doha, the QR27bn megaproject, income means income coming main source of public revenue in and contributed in accelerating compared to about QR42bn in the automobiles and other cargo with which includes a new port, a new from payments, dividends, capi- Qatar, decreased, by about QR economic development. However, previous fiscal year. Accordingly, wheels to be driven directly onto base for the Qatar Emiri Naval tal gains collected up on sale of a 31.6bn or 6.2 percent, to reach the drop in oil prices has led to its relative share rose in total pub- the dock – a year, according to the Forces and the Qatar Economic security or other assets, and any to about QR163.8bn. Its relative a reduction of public spending in lic expenditure to about 21.1 per- Qatar Port Management. Zone 3, will span a 26.5 square other profit that is made through importance in the total revenues 2014/15 fiscal with different rates. cent, from 17.7 percent recorded Mesaieed Port registered a kilometre area. an investment vehicle of any kind. fell during the fiscal 2014/15 to The QCB annual report noted in the previous fiscal. growth of 8 percent last year. Net THE PENINSULA The contribution of various about 48.7 percent compared to the development expenditures THE PENINSULA

Wind farm in Oklahoma Oil exports from northern Iraq to Zuckerberg, Gates make bid Turkey restart for universal Internet access ERBIL: Oil exports from northern Iraq have restarted UNITED NATIONS: Facebook signed by Zuckerberg and Bill and refugee exodus. “A ‘like’ or a post after “thieves” sabotaged the founder Mark Zuckerberg and Melinda Gates, who have devoted won’t stop a tank or a bullet, main pipeline to Turkey, the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates their wealth to philanthropy. but when people are connected, Kurdistan region’s ministry of yesterday threw their weight “The Internet belongs to eve- we have the chance to build a natural resources said in a state- behind the goal of bringing ryone. It should be accessible by common global community with ment yesterday. The flow of crude Internet access to everyone in everyone,” the declaration said. a shared understanding — and resumed on Friday following an the world by 2020. Zuckerberg, swapping his that’s a powerful force,” he said. outage of around 9 hours, the The pledge comes amid a trademark hoodie for a suit and He estimated that spreading ministry said in the statement. United Nations effort to eradi- tie as he appeared at the United the Internet could also bring The pipeline, which pumps cate extreme poverty by 2030, a Nations, said that for every 10 affordable education to 600 mil- oil to the Mediterranean port goal set on Friday during a special people connected to the Internet, lion children who would otherwise of Ceyhan from fields in Iraq’s summit at the global body. one is lifted out of poverty. go unschooled. autonomous Kurdistan region and The Internet became common- “The Internet is more than just Other signatories included Kirkuk, has been repeatedly tar- place in developed countries in a network of machines; it is the Jimmy Wales, co-founder of free geted inside Turkey since a cease- the 1990s, but UN officials esti- key driver of social and economic online encyclopedia Wikipedia, fire between Ankara and Kurdish mate that half the world does not progress in our time,” Zuckerberg and U2 frontman Bono on behalf militants broke down in late July. have reliable access — especially told a luncheon at the UN head- of his One anti-poverty campaign. Exports from northern Iraq women and girls, whose education quarters attended by German Jamie Drummond, global fell to an average of 472,832 bar- is vital to development. Chancellor Angela Merkel. executive director of One which rels per day (b/d) in August from “When people have access to The 31-year-old entrepreneur spearheaded the push, called on 516,745 the previous month as a the tools and knowledge of the pointed to the role of the Internet every country to come up with result of damage to the pipeline, Large wind turbines stand on the hill, part of a large wind farm being Internet, they have access to in empowering otherwise voice- an “urgent plan” to meet the which is the region’s main eco- built near Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA. Wind farms are being built in opportunities that make life bet- less people in places such as Syria, Internet access goals. nomic lifeline. REUTERS ter for all of us,” said a declaration where civil war is producing a AFP Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas to produce electricity. Japan flexes muscle over liquefied natural gas prices

TOKYO: The days of Japan pay- conditions,” the JERA official said. In this in the LNG market. Japan imported also known as “the Japan premium.” Calls for closer ties have also come ing relatively expensive prices for particular instance, the JERA official was about 90 million tonnes of LNG in fis- Changes are emerging in the negotiat- from producer nations. Qatar’s Minister imported liquefied natural gas could be referring to a condition prohibiting the cal 2014, making it the world’s largest ing environment that had given produc- of Energy and Industry H E Mohammed numbered, now that lower oil costs and resale of purchased LNG to a third party. importer of the fuel. ers the upper hand. bin Saleh Al Sada has said he wants to other changes have given the nation If the Japanese entity was able to resell The nation has increased its use “The price of LNG has fallen due to the overcome problems by working more more leverage at the negotiating table. this LNG, it could increase the volume it of LNG-fired thermal power stations drop in crude oil prices,” said Masakazu closely with consumer nations. Japan, the world’s largest importer of purchases and - quite possibly - push for since all nuclear power plants were shut Toyoda, chairman and chief execu- LNG producers are feeling increasingly LNG, has gained a stronger position due a cheaper price. down following the Great East Japan tive officer of the Institute of Energy anxious as some developing economies in to cheaper oil, increased shale gas pro- “Prices have been falling, and recently Earthquake in March 2011. Economics, Japan. “Japan is restarting Asia move away from LNG toward coal- duction in the United States and intensi- some seller nations have started review- In July, Japan paid about $9 per million some nuclear reactors and will receive based power generation. fying competition for buyers among LNG ing their conditions of sale,” said Hiroki British thermal units for its LNG imports shipments of shale gas from the United At the same time, any transaction producers. Being able to buy cheaper Sato, vice president of JERA’s fuel pro- — about triple the price paid on the US States. Now is a great time to fix some condition review could cause new LNG would make it easier to keep elec- curement department. market. Without a pipeline connecting structural problems.” development and facility investment to tricity and gas bills down, which would The government also has been lend- it to LNG producers, Japan must import Japan’s LNG imports are expected to become sluggish in producer nations, be welcomed by Japanese businesses and ing a hand to help nudge prices down. gas that has been cooled and shipped as decrease to about 62 million tons in fis- which in turn could result in higher households. At an international conference held a liquid. Because this process imposes cal 2030 — about 30 percent less than prices in the future. Tokyo Gas Co. Japan’s newfound tougher stance was in Tokyo between LNG producer and an additional burden on the producer, present imports - due to the restart of President Michiaki Hirose believes a evident during a conversation between a consumer nations last week, Economy, the purchase price has usually been set nuclear reactors, energy-saving efforts delicate balance will be required. representative of JERA Co — a thermal Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi through long-term contracts linked to and an expansion of electricity generation “Producers and consumers have no fuel venture established in April by Tokyo Miyazawa said, “It’s important to bring oil prices. with solar and wind power. With the full choice but to keep short-term objectives Electric Power Co and Chubu Electric about mutual and sustainable benefits Consequently, Japan has tended to be liberalization of the retail market in 2016 in mind, even while they think about the Power Co — and an LNG seller. to producing and consuming countries charged a higher price than prices paid by or later, competition in the electricity and long-term perspective,” Hirose said. “We can’t negotiate with those by supporting those profound changes” the United States and Europe - a practice city gas markets will become fierce. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS US, EU vow emissions crackdown US to require tests under normal road conditions, not just in labs Volkswagen has named Matthias Mueller, the 62-year-old Porsche chief, as chief executive officer in a bid to recover from the scandal over its WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: “We aren’t going to tell them Earlier this week, Volkswagen sophisticated algorithm within rigging of U.S. vehicle emissions tests and save 72,000 German jobs Government regulators on both what these tests are. They don’t said 11 million vehicles worldwide 100 million lines of software code VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OWNERSHIP sides of the Atlantic vowed to need to know,” Chris Grundler, an were fitted with software simi- to defeat current emissions test toughen auto emissions tests in EPA official, told reporters. lar to the kind that allowed the procedures and that regulators the wake of Volkswagen’s admis- Any changes could mean higher company to cheat US tests, but aim to root out any so-called sion it cheated on diesel emis- costs for carmakers, particularly said it was not turned on in the “defeat devices.” sions, but some officials and any that become subject to recalls bulk of them. Volkswagen could The EU has developed emis- environmentalists doubted the or production changes, as well face $18bn in fines from the EPA sions tests for real road driving, pledges would be easily achieved. as bigger regulatory hurdles in after it admitted using software not simply in labs, that will be State of Lower Qatar Holdings Porsche Others The US Environmental obtaining certifications. in diesel cars that evades tests. phased in beginning in January Saxony 17% Holdings SE Holds “Golden Owned by sovereign wealth Protection Agency notified auto Across the Atlantic, Elzbieta The company has said it would next year. share” with Porsche and fund, hedge funds, manufacturers in a letter that Bienkowska, the EU commis- set aside $7.3bn (¤6.5bn) in its But an EU source said there virtual veto power Piëch families asset managers they could require additional sioner responsible for industry, third-quarter accounts to help could still be difficulties in intro- 20% 50.7% 12.3% tests for “any vehicle” to deter- said: “Our message is clear: zero cover the costs of the biggest scan- ducing new test procedures that Value of company mine whether it meets emission tolerance on fraud and rigorous dal in its 78-year history, blowing match real-world driving condi- standards under normal road compliance with EU rules. We a hole in analysts’ profit forecasts. tions after years of official inertia conditions, not just at controlled need full disclosure and robust The EPA’s Grundler said and industry resistance to change. Revenue Assets Sep 18 Sep 25 testing facilities. pollutant emissions tests in place.” Volkswagen embedded a Some auto companies have 2014 Jun 2015 €77bn €58.2bn used strategies to pass tests in lab €202.5bn €164bn conditions, such as using lighter Down 24.4% materials in cars, and that is why Employees (worldwide) real-world driving tests are being 583,420 rolled out in the EU. “I still think the industry will say it’s hard because they always do,” one EU source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Lucia Caudet, a Commission spokeswoman, said the Commission only sets the regulatory frame- work. “Let me be very clear: the Commission does not itself do the Matthias policing. This is done on the ground Mueller by Member State authorities.” Despite pledges in several European nations to get tougher, there are also pressures in many countries where many people work for auto companies. Germany faces resistance to Sources: VW, industry estimates Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS any toughening of the test regime from its powerful motor industry. It markets its cars on a promise More recently, EU officials, operates under a limited budget, of clean performance, but tells speaking on condition of ano- could adapt its testing to quickly the Commission its engines take nymity, said Germany had been make a difference. “It remains years to design and new pollution lobbying for flexibility to soften a to be seen” if EPA can quickly standards should not be rushed. proposed new law to supplement improve its emissions testing, In 2013, Chancellor Angela laboratory testing with driving said Frank O’Donnell, president Merkel won a delay in a law com- new cars on real roads. of Clean Air Watch. “I hope so, Hoses connect laboratory emission testing equipment to a red 2016 VW Golf TDI inside the emissions test cell at pelling carmakers to meet new In the United States, a clean but in the case of VW, this horse the California Air Resources Board Haagen-Smit Laboratory in El Monte, California. CO2 emissions standards, saying air advocate expressed some has already left the barn.” jobs were at stake. doubt that the EPA, which REUTERS

Outsize orders giving FedEx a delivery headache EU, Russia and

NEW YORK: Consumers might “It’s really a demonstration with more categories of e-com- “The benefit over freight is FedEx’s current fee. UPS is add- Ukraine agree delight in the ease of front-door that e-commerce is growing and merce now, and they are happy to that it allows Casper to navi- ing a new surcharge this year for delivery for a mattress, trampo- that drives demand for our busi- purchase almost anything online.” gate within an existing network, retailers who ship a large number winter gas line or gym equipment. FedEx, ness,” said Patrick Fitzgerald, Not all bulky items make the as opposed to scheduling freight of oversize packages during the now handling an increasing FedEx’s senior vice president cut for FedEx Ground service, pickups and deliveries,” he said. peak holiday season leading up to number of these bulky ship- for marketing and communica- which offers online tracking, “The small parcel network also Christmas, said Steve Gaut, vice supply deal ments, has mixed feelings. tions. “We just need to be in close faster delivery and doesn’t require allows Casper to ship anywhere in president of public relations and As more online shoppers collaboration with customers so the receiver to be home when the the US and Canada significantly communications. Spokeswoman BRUSSELS: Russia agreed to snap up the type of hefty items we’re ready for the types of pack- package is dropped off. more affordably than freight.” Susan Rosenberg said big-par- resume gas supplies to Ukraine once brought home in a pickup ages we have there.” For shipments of more than Mattress Firm Holding Corp. cel volumes were up, but that over the winter under a deal truck or on a car roof, FedEx is FedEx and United Parcel Service 68kg, measuring more than 108 will use a 20-inch by 20-inch by “e-commerce in aggregate has clinched late on Friday with the savouring the volume while fac- Inc, the world’s biggest package- inches (2.7 metres) in length or 34-inch box when it begins selling more likely shifted to smaller and European Union, capping months ing a logistical headache: Some of delivery company, will have to get more than 165 inches in length mattresses online on October 1, lighter- weight packages.” of difficult talks overshadowed these packages don’t always flow used to customers’ shipping expec- and girth combined, FedEx and shipping through FedEx. Forty-four percent of consum- by the Ukrainian conflict. as smoothly through a company tations, according to Sucharita UPS have so-called less-than- A queen mattress and box ers in a recent survey agreed European Commission vice originally built to move small par- Mulpuru, a retail analyst with truckload freight divisions that weighs about 90 pounds. Using that the bigger the purchase, the president for energy, Maros cels and overnight envelopes. Forrester Research Inc. pack goods from multiple custom- FedEx’s parcel system instead less likely they were to buy it Sefcovic, told a press confer- The bigger boxes may not fit E-commerce purchases of fur- ers on each trailer. of freight “will allow us to ship a online, said Forrester’s Mulpuru. ence the preliminary deal was a through automated sorters or be niture are projected to grow at a Casper Sleep Inc sells six mattress to anyone in the conti- More surprising, however, is that “crucial step” to ensure Ukraine easily read by high-tech package compound annual rate of about 15 sizes of mattresses online that nental U.S. in two business days another 23 percent completely has gas supplies from October scanners. Oddly shaped contain- percent from 2014 to 2019, with are packed into boxes measur- or less,” said Dan Dietz, Mattress disagreed with that statement. through March and that Europe ers take up more space on trucks, an 11 percent rate for car parts, ing 20 inches by 21 inches by 41 Firm’s vice president of digital. “There is a huge group of peo- receives onward deliveries. disrupting efficient packing. Costs according to Forrester. That com- inches and that were crafted to Consumers are about to pay ple who will buy anything online, “We just initialled a trilateral can rise, too, with more human pares with a 10 percent rate for ship through UPS’s small parcel more for the privilege of getting regardless of its bulkiness,” agreement for the upcoming win- handling and greater fuel use all e-commerce. network, said Neil Parikh, chief large online purchases sent home. Mulpuru said. She recently proved ter,” Sefcovic said after six hours of because of heavier cargo. Outsized “These are all big categories operations officer. The queen FedEx’s surcharge for parcels it that thesis herself, purchasing a talks with Russian and Ukrainian pieces helped drive a 36 percent that are absolutely outpacing the mattress, Casper’s most popular considers over-sized will rise 17 bathtub over the Internet. It was energy ministers in Brussels. surge in FedEx Ground’s operat- market,” Mulpuru said. “People size, and box together weigh about percent to $67.50 on January 4. delivered by freight. He added that “all techni- ing expenses last quarter. are increasingly more comfortable 80 pounds. UPS’s rate is $57.50, the same as WP-BLOOMBERG cal details are agreed” and the framework was set, but confirma- tion and formal signing of the full agreement would require separate procedures. “I’m confident that the agreement will soon be confirmed and smoothly implemented,” he $141.66bn capital left China in Aug said after tweeting earlier it was a “major achievement.” BEIJING: Money is leaving tried to soothe investor concerns investors, he added. Sheng reiter- Ukrainian Energy Minister China faster than ever, accord- this month by calling his country ated the official stance that the Volodymyr Demchyshyn told ing to a Bloomberg gauge track- a global growth engine instead of “yuan weakness is a short-term reporters “commercial condi- ing capital flows. An estimated a source of risk, while President thing” and that the currency will tions were acceptable” and that $141.66bn left China in August, Xi Jinping has stuck to a similar not depreciate continuously. he expected the deal to be signed exceeding the previous record script while on his first state visit August outflows probably shortly. “I’m sure we will be pre- of $124.62bn in July, data com- to the US this week. increased to $178bn, Goldman paring for the heating season and piled by Bloomberg show. “My worry is that, given the Sachs Group Inc. analysts led by start pumping gas into storage The gauge of so-called “hot relatively large economic down- Senior China Economist MK Tang shortly,” he said. money” is an estimate of the sum ward pressure, as China is opening at wrote in a note this month. A “Ukraine confirmed in this doc- of foreign exchange purchases by up the capital account, it means potential source may be Chinese ument its capacity to ensure unin- banks and the change in foreign more money will leave China,” companies reducing foreign- terrupted transit of Russian gas to exchange deposits to measure Huang Yiping, a PBOC adviser exchange liabilities by repaying EU partners,” he added. Russian flows into and out of the country. and Peking University economics debt in other currencies and taking Energy Minister Alexander Novak The monthly trade and direct professor, said on a WEF panel advantage of lower domestic fund- said: “We will spare no effort to investment balances are netted discussion this month in Dalian, ing costs, they said. avoid any issues, problems.” out for an estimate of portfolio China. “If there’s an overall capi- A Federal Reserve interest rate Novak said Moscow’s offer flows. An exporter choosing to tal outflow in the future, it will increase would likely boost the included a cut of “about $20” per keep foreign earnings offshore bring depreciation pressure.” value of the dollar, making debt thousand cubic metres from the would show as a capital outflow. “The current capital outflow denominated in the currency more provisionally set price of $252. He The capital flight came as the is just a temporary market reac- expensive to repay. Fed Chair Janet said the price agreed was compet- People’s Bank of China shocked tion,” Sheng Songcheng, head of Yellen said in a speech on Thursday itive with those for gas supplied to global markets by devaluing the the PBOC’s statistics and analy- the US central bank is on track to The dome roof of a generator unit is lifted to be installed, at Tianwan Nuclear countries neighbouring Ukraine. yuan on August 11, triggering a sis department, said Friday at a raise interest rates this year, even Power Plant, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, yesterday. China’s Sefcovic said the European worldwide drop in commodities, conference in Shanghai. China’s as she acknowledged that economic economic growth will be largely stable in the third quarter as the impact Commission would continue equities and emerging-market economic slowdown, rising debt “surprises” could lead them to from a stock market plunge will be limited, the National Bureau of Statistics arranging for EU and interna- currencies. level and stock market swings all change that plan. said on Friday. tional financing of Ukraine’s win- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang can cause “short-term” panic for WP-BLOOMBERG ter gas purchases. AFP SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

A legal system that works for Xi’s US visit puts China’s the Wall Street Journal

BY BARRY L RITHOLTZ

oday’s column is a going to be a bit technical, but stick economy at tipping point with it. It’s about litigation and gaming the system. No, we’re not discussing Volkswagen’s diesel deception. Instead, we are going to look at the way some organisations seek BY SHUAIHUA WALLACE higher than it did in July 2014. and then watched their profits innovation and services sectors T CHENG advantages when it comes to adjudicating disputes. In any case, stock values are just fall. According to the China Iron economy. In the world of investing, this comes up often. The Financial 1.5 percent of total assets in the and Steel Association, oversup- Secondly, Xi and his admin- Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) is the brokerage world’s hina has narrowly Chinese banking system, and ply has depressed steel prices so istration should allow and self-regulating organisation. It has run an arbitration division for a escaped major finan- most Chinese companies are not much that the profit from pro- even encourage bankruptcy long time. More recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission cial crises for over financed by the stock market. ducing one ton of steel cannot liquidation of failed firms, in expanded its own in-house adjudication forum. two decades. But the The consumer confidence index even pay for an ice cream cone. spite of opposition from local The SEC situation came to broader attention courtesy of a good times may soon shows that the trend of grow- Industrial overcapacity governments. Wall Street Journal article last October. The story noted that the Cbe over — and not because of the ing consumption by both urban has become a time bomb that Thirdly, Xi’s government agency prevailed much more often in cases heard by SEC-appointed recent stock market crash. and rural Chinese remains sta- threatens the Chinese economy needs to accelerate reforms of administrative law judges than in those that went to federal court: The roller coaster of Chinese ble. And Chinese authorities still because it has led companies to China’s financial markets. In the The agency’s win rate in recent years is considerably higher in stock prices this summer has have the power and flexibility to take on debt to repay loans. As current financial system domi- front of its administrative law judges than it is in jury trials. In triggered debates about whether mobilize economic growth, for of 2014, Chinese iron and steel nated by state-owned banks, the 12 months through September, the SEC won all six contested China now faces a serious eco- example, by loosening monetary companies collectively have firms focus on growing as big as administrative hearings where verdicts were issued, but only 61 nomic crisis. The Telegraph policy to allow high liquidity of $489bn in debt. The publicly- possible rather than innovating, percent—11 out of 18—federal-court trials, according to previously compared China’s equity bubbles credit, or by expanding fiscal listed solar panel manufactur- which is leading to overcapacity. unpublished figures. to the situation that led to the measures to stimulate household ing companies collectively have Finally, Xi should promote There has been a similar winning rate in previous years. The 1929 Great Depression. The New consumption. as much as $19bn in debt. The freedom of the press, which agency won nine of 10 contested administrative proceedings in the York Times and Fortune, on the But while the Chinese econ- combination of economic slow- plays a crucial role in economic 12-month period through September 2013 and seven out of seven other hand, have argued that the omy is unlikely to crash anytime down, excess production in development, poverty reduction in the 12 months through September 2012, according to SEC data. equity bubbles are merely false soon, China nonetheless faces manufacturing and rising debts and the establishment of good The SEC won 75 percent and 67 percent, respectively, of its trials alarms, and fears about China a high probability of being the at the macroeconomic level may governance. A free press would in federal court in those years. are overblown. next major power to face an eco- cause a massive wave of firm clo- help Xi’s reform agenda by Part of this shift traces to the Dodd-Frank Act, which authorized In the short term, the latter nomic collapse. sures and bad loans. To avoid a monitoring and criticizing rule- more use of administrative law judges. The idea was to streamline argument is more convincing: One major reason is industrial crisis, Xi and his policymakers breaking by local governments, the adjudication process on the theory that administrative hear- China’s equity crisis has affected overcapacity. Overcapacity is not must focus on reining in China’s as well as making government ings are faster and cheaper than traditional trials. fewer than 15 percent of Chinese new in China, but in sectors such overcapacity problem. budget and subsidy programs The problem is that it creates a home-field advantage for pros- households. And the majority as iron and steel, glass, cement, First, Xi should set up strict more transparent. ecutors. It isn’t so much the penalties but the proceedings them- of these middle class investors aluminum, solar panel, and rules for local governments that Xi’s visit to the US and his selves that are at issue. Defendants claim they have more extensive have only lost money gained a power generation equipment, the regulate tax concessions, and attendance at the United Nations rights to take witness testimony and collect evidence in federal few months earlier, when stock overcapacity rate has recently ensure that all government sub- Sustainable Development trials than an administrative proceeding. Last year, Jordan Peixoto, prices spiked. Even after the surpassed 30 percent, the sidies to private firms are trans- Summit take place at a moment accused of insider trading, appealed his administrative trial, claim- recent crash, the Shanghai threshold at which overproduc- parent. Based on these rules, Xi when the Chinese economy has ing an abridgment of his “constitutional rights to due process and Stock Exchange’s Composite tion may trigger loan defaults by could better guide the country’s reached its tipping point. equal protection under the law.” The case was dropped, though for Index still stands 1,000 points companies that have borrowed economic transition towards an REUTERS different reasons. American jurisprudence is replete with structural devices to avoid litigation. The reality is the vast majority of disputes are resolved without going to trial. Typically, there is a party claiming some kind of damage, and the threat of litigation and its potential costs forces some manner of rational calculus on all of the parties. A small number of claims don’t lend themselves to easily reso- lution. Sometimes facts are in dispute, the law is unsettled or there are advantages to delay. Occasionally, one of the parties isn’t rational. The result is that some cases do go to trial. I have personal experience with this. Decades ago in my earlier career as a lawyer, I ran mediation and arbitration cases. I worked with retired federal and state judges, who were used by litigants to hash out faster, cheaper and arguably fairer settlements than might otherwise have been reached through the courts. The key however was that “alternative dispute resolution,” as the process was known, was strictly voluntary. When both sides realized they were at an impasse, and the costs of delay were high, all parties came to the table to find a palatable solution. No one gave up the right to go to court. This isn’t the case, though, in Finra arbitrations. Anyone who works on Wall Street or invests through a brokerage firm has signed an agreement to settle any dispute through mandatory arbitration. There is no alternative. If you want a job at a brokerage firm, or if you want a brokerage account, you are placed in an arbitration straitjacket. Unfortunately, our business-friendly Supreme Court has upheld the use of mandatory-arbitration agreements. Forget for a moment that these agreements require you to sign away your right to go to court to resolve a dispute. What’s more troubling is the how the process is slanted in favor of those who work for the financial industry, which in turn runs Finra. This conflict of interest tells you almost all you need to know about Finra-sponsored arbitration. Some of the abuses that have been documented over the years are mind-boggling. To its credit, the SEC has responded to complaints from the defendant’s bar, and is overhauling its in-house tribunal process. This is a small but positive step. Americans have a fundamental right to a trial for both criminal and civil offenses, and no one should be required to surrender it to get a job or conduct business. We should be very skeptical of methods that limit or deny people the right to defend themselves or seek redress. Oh, and one last thing: The Supreme Court should undo its mistake. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Churchill educates France’s economic migrants

BY THERESE RAPHAEL brain drain that France will want Valley optimism right now. As week from stable to negative, on entrepreneur sentiment do worse than to look at the to reverse if it can. with education reform, so with Moody’s Investors Service cited across six EU countries from reforms undertaken in 2003-2005 efore heading off for London’s two biggest attrac- economic reform more generally: “long-standing rigidities in labour the Hiscox insurance company, by Germany, then often referred a tete-a-tete with the tions for French expatriates -- Attempts to change the status and product markets” as respon- France stuck out. Only 43 per- to as the sick man of Europe -- British prime minister jobs and schools -- mirror the quo face a mountain of opposition sible for the country’s low rate of cent of French entrepreneurs said under another European socialist Blast Monday, French two major reform challenges for from unions, interest groups and growth, high structural unem- they were optimistic about their leader, Gerhard Schroeder. Mr. President Francois Hollande the French government. French whichever political party hap- ployment and weak corporate prospects, compared to an aver- Schroeder lost his job, but not all made a stop in the north London schools abroad like the Winston pens not to be in power. But if profits. age of 62 percent across all the do-gooders get punished. suburb of Wembley. On a sprawl- Churchill lycée are popular with France is going to help its youth, Optimism will not be enough; countries. Unsurprisingly, 86 per- Perhaps President Hollande ing five-acre site acquired in well-heeled French here, but they it needs more than just education France also needs some Silicon cent of French respondents cited can comfort himself with higher 2012, the president inaugurated a are far removed from the troubles reform. Even those who succeed Valley rationalism. In both educa- excessive taxes, inflexible labor growth forecasts for next year, French lycée named, unusually for besetting France’s highly central- in the lycées in France are often tion and the economy, the culprit laws and too much government 1.5 percent GDP growth, some a French school, after a British ized education system generally, locked out of the best jobs by a is the same: too many, too much, bureaucracy as major problems. improvements in business senti- leader -- Winston Churchill. including declining student test labor market that entrenches too complicated (and just fill in With the OECD, Moody’s, the ment and continued high levels The name was chosen in rec- scores, a negative classroom envi- incumbency. the blank). As the journalist- European Commission and others of productivity. But really slight ognition of Churchill’s role in the ronment and a harsh grading Those who can, it seems, leave turned-academic Peter Gumbel, all on his back, President Hollande improvements offer little comfort. 1944 liberation of France. But the system where failure is common. France. Over half of French expa- author of two books on the sub- has abandoned his socialist roots The question facing both the presence of the French head of One in four students fail to com- triates have at least three years ject, pointed out in a recentarti- and promised reform. But the recently downgraded French state pays another kind of homage plete secondary school in France of post-secondary school educa- cle, the French education system going is slow and the government economy and the much maligned -- to the stature of London as one and more than a quarter have to tion, a higher percentage than the has overtaken the Russian mili- has repeatedly had to use a special education system is exactly the of the most important outposts repeat at least one grade. The sys- population as a whole. A survey tary in size. constitutional tool that allows it same: Can you get results by tink- for French expatriates. While tem leaves many on the economic from CCI Paris Ile-de-France and In labor markets, the prob- to muscle its legislation through ering at the edges or do you need the precise number of French roadside, adding to the country’s Deloitte, reported in Le Monde lems can be found in another parliament without a vote. A wholesale change? The students nationals in the UK is impossible youth unemployment problems. last year, showed a doubling in relic: France’s 3,200-page Code de bill due by the end of next year at the new Winston Churchill to pin down since registration is The new London school is an the number of young people who Travail, a century-old rule book, pledges to rewrite the famous lycée undoubtedly have a bright not required, one French official exception. Its principal came see their future abroad. It’s no wraps companies in red tape and labour code, but it’s unlikely the future. Whether it is in France, offered an estimate of between from a school in San Francisco wonder: Those who stay face a makes it nearly impossible for nature of the employment con- or somewhere else, may depend 200,000 and 250,000, including and talks about “American mind- job market with huge barriers employers to reduce headcount tract or the 35-hour-work-week on whether the incremental- 20,000 French university stu- fulness,” according to one parent. to entry, explaining the 24 per- when needed to stay competitive. will be overhauled. ism of current reforms can be dents. Add to that the sizable “She saw the heart of American cent youth unemployment in the That, in turn, makes them loathe As my colleague Leonid replaced by something a little French populations in Belgium optimism that is Silicon Valley.” country. to take on new employees. Bershidsky noted in a column more revolutionary. and Switzerland and you have a France could use some Silicon In itsdowngradeof France last In its recent annual report earlier this month, France could BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Lekhwiya demolish Al Kharaitiyat QSL: Defending champions storm to 7-0 win, ruthless Al Arabi thrash Qatar SC 4-0

DOHA: Defending champions Lekhwiya and Al Arabi reg- istered huge victories as the opening day of third round of the prestigious Qatar Stars League (QSL) saw flurry of goals, yesterday in Doha. Lekhwiya stole the limelight by thrashing Al Kharaitiyat 7-0, thanks to braces from Vadimir Weiss and Youssef Msakani. The defending champions scored five goals in the second half after leading 2-0 in the opening session. Mohamed Razaq, Khalid Muftah and Taehee Nam were the other scorers. In what was dubbed as the ‘Match of the Week’ Al Arabi stunned Qatar SC 4-0 at their home ground. All the goals came in the first half with Paul Sergio, Mosaab Mohamoud Elhassan, Sergio Dutra Junior and Fanni Rod Dodji being the goal scorers. Earlier, in a tight affair at the Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium, Al Gharafa took on Al Ahli and won 2-0 despite being a man down for the last half hour of the match. Dioko scored against his old club but then a second yellow card for Brazilian defender Anderson ensured a nervy end to the match. However, Al Gharafa then got the all-important second goal in extra time to prevail in the end. Its seemed as though the first half would end goalless but a quick counterattack down the left saw Al Shammari again involved as he supplied a pin point cross for Dioko who chested the ball Action during the match between defending champions Lekhwiya and Al Kharaitiyat at the Qatar Stars League into the net (44’). However the (QSL) at the Lekhwiya Stadium, yesterday. Lekhwiya won by 7-0. RIGHT: El Jaish and Al Khor players vie for Congolese injured himself in the the ball possession during their QSL match at Lekhwiya Stadium. process and had to be substituted, Hussain Ali Shehab replaced him right on the stroke of half time. In the second half Al Ahli again failed to test the keeper enough as Gharafa kept things tight at the back. Al Gharafa’s Then in the 60th minute a Fahid Sattam rash high footed challenge in the Al Shammari middle of the park by Gharafa celebrates defender Anderson saw him pick his injury up his second yellow of the night. time goal The replay showed that he made against Al some contact and the Brazilian should have known better having Ahli at Qatar already been booked. SC Stadium, The referee’s decision allowed yesterday. Ahli to gain the lion’s share of the RIGHT: A possession and just two minutes Qatar SC’s later Ahli defender Pedro had a player wins firm shot saved from the edge of the ball the box by Gharafa’s keeper. against However for all the possession Al Arabi’s that the Brigadiers had, they Mosaab failed to test the keeper enough, Mohamoud with new signing Mubele strug- Elhassan gling to be clinical when his during their chances came. match at the Then in extra time new Gharafa Qatar SC forward Yasin Chikhaoui chased Stadium. what looked like a lost cause down the left, he put on the afterburn- ers and sent an intelligent cut- back for Al Shammari who struck the ball first time to secure all three points for the boys in yel- low and blue (93’). Meanwhile, in another match, El Jaish welcomed visitors Al Al Sadd desperate for win after Umm Salal draw Khor to the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in what turned out to a frustrating night for the home DOHA: Desperate for a win side as they were held to a goal- following a draw against Umm less draw. Salal, title-contenders Al Sadd In the first half Al Khor man- will not take Al Wakrah lightly aged just two shots on goal, both as they target to claim full coming from way outside the box, points in their third match at by Madison and Antonio respec- the Qatar Stars League (QSL), tively. Whilst Jaish peppered the today at the Al Sadd Stadium. goal with 5 shots on target and Al Sadd’s Head Coach Hussein really should have been in the lead Ammouta believed the opening at half time. stages of the prestigious league In the second half El Jaish’s was important and his side will dominance became more pro- have register wins to get in strong nounced as they gained more position to achieve ultimate goal of the possession but the game of clinching the title. lacked the creative spark needed However, Ammouta expected a to unlock the defence as both strong challenge from their third teams could only managed two round opponents. shots on target in the second half. “Wakrah will be tough; I am Certainly this was not a game expecting a strong response from Al Sadd’s Head Coach Hussein Ammouta (centre) speaks to the media ahead of his team’s Qatar Stars League (QSL) match against Al Wakrah. RIGHT: that will stick in the memory. Al them after their loss to Al Ahli,” Al Sailiya’s Head Coach Sami Trabelsi (right) at a pre-match press conference in Doha. Khor will be the happier of the said the Al Sadd coach in a pre- two as they go into Round 4. match press conference. THE PENINSULA “Our aim is to make amends for Majid played with the reserve differences between the Qatari especially with the lack of under aspects of the players especially the draw in the previous match team against Mesaimeer but teams. Al Sadd is one of the most 23 players available in the next the lack of scoring goals,” said against Umm Salal; we want to neither has reached full readi- distinguished teams so I will be two Rounds. We will continue Al Sailiya’s Head Coach Sami QSL Results win, especially as Al Sadd always ness yet. In addition to that, there focusing on my team rather than the hard work; I am hoping to Trabelsi. Lekhwiya bt Al Khairatiyat 7-0 seeks to compete for the title.” are the four Olympic team play- on the opponents,” he said. get some positive results in the “This match is not going to be Al Arabi bt Qatar SC 4-0 He added: “We lost our attack- ers who will miss the next two “Usually I don’t like to speak future.” easy as everyone is expecting us ing aggression in the last match matches.” about excuses but lots of cir- In other match today, Al Sailiya to win. Mesaimeer also is having a Al Gharafa bt Al Ahli 2-0 despite being very good offensively Al Wakrah Head Coach Jose cumstances weren’t on our side. will look open their account as hard time but it is a very stubborn El Jaish draw with Al Khor 0-0 last season. We have to work hard Mauricio admitted a tough chal- After returning from the exter- they meet debutants Mesaimeer team with a good group of play- Today’s fixtures: and seriously to perform at our lenge as his team faces the Doha nal training camp in Italy we had at the Al Arabi Stadium. ers. We had a bad start like both Al Mesaimeer vs Al Sailiya, 6pm at Al Arabi best and get the win, especially as football giants. 30 players as well as a number “We have tried to arrange and Chelsea and Juventus. We are Stadium; Al Sadd vs Al Wakrah, 6pm at Al all the teams are playing defen- “We will be confronting one of of the youth players. But now we gather ourselves after the first awaiting the first victory which Sadd Stadium, Al Rayyan vs Umm Salal, sively against us.” the toughest teams in the league are suffering from some injuries. two losses. We have worked on will give us confidence and spirit 8:15pm at Al Sadd Stadium “Khalfan Ibrahim and Ibrahim in their stadium. We all know the We have to find other solutions both the mental and technical to move.” THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Qatar team to take part in Asian Qatar take on Jordan as race Table Tennis Championships to Rio 2016 hots up in China BANGKOK, Thailand: Qatar’s table tennis men and women reached Bangkok, Thailand to Hosts China, Iran and Palestine aim to book quarter-final berths participate in the 2015 ITTF- Asian Championships which begins from September 29 to CHANGSHA-HUNAN: Qatar October 4 here. will aim to carry forward their The team delegation is chaired impressive run when they take by Thani Al Zaraa, theT- on Jordan in the Second Round team Director accompanied by match of the 2015 FIBA Asia Mohammed Ahmed Al Rumaihi, Championship here today. the Executive Director of Qatar Trey Johnson has been the man Table Tennis Association of the moment for Qatar, but he (QTTA). will need his supporting cast to Qualification to compete in Action from the step up if they are to make it past the Championship Division is the round two in Group F. 2015 FIBA Asia first task at the 2015 ITTF-Asian In the first two games, Qatar Championship match Championships. playing through eight quarters between Qatar and The First Division, organised and three overtime periods was Chinese Taipei on on a group basis followed by a on target to register wins against Friday. The Second knock-out section, starts matters, Kazakhstan and Lebanon, but lost Round of the champi- the two teams who reach the final, to Chinese Taipei. onship begins today. qualify for the Championship But Qatar will the big test in Division. the Second round when they take The leading six outfits from the on bigs of Korea, Jordan, and 2013 Asian Championships staged China. in Busan, Korea receive direct The Middle East nation entries to the Championship will need Erfan Ali Saeed and Division. Mohamed Yousef will need the However, for the two qualifiers two players to bring their A-game in each of the Men’s Team and into play. Women’s Team events, in order Hosts China, defending champi- to progress further, they face a ons Iran and newcomer Palestine, The side other in Group F Haidar have also had their shin- ominous signs for a team that Jamal Abu-Shamala, and Imad monumental challenge; the top are the three sides which have Korea could have swept Group C ing moments, and coach Veselin definitely has the tools to be a Qahwash. Coach Steele tends to two seeds await. advanced to the second round had it not been for some miscues Matic will hope to have more of contender in this tournament. play all three the entire 40 min- In Busan, India emerged suc- undefeated. late in the fourth period against those as the competition goes on. In Group E, Iran and Palestine utes in every big game, and, well, cessful in the First Division It remains to be seen if the trio China. Yang Dong-Geun has been Coach Rajko Toroman’s Jordian will seek to continue their it’ll all be big games from here on. of both the Men’s Team and can remain unscathed amid the awesome for them so far, and they boys gave China a good fight on unbeaten run in the Second The jury is out on whether that Women’s Team events, in the challenges of the second round. will need him to continue playing day three before fading in the Round. Iranian coach Dirk strategy will be sustainable or not. former they were joined by Iran, Six teams from the China his best if they are to finish in final frame, but it sure looks like Bauermann’s wards have domi- In the same group E, dark in the latter by Malaysia. championship will qualify for the the top two of Group F. Yang was they have another gear in them. nated nearly every possession horses India will seek to upset the At the quarter-final stage, all Olympics and thus the race to the rested yesterday together with Al Nashama haven’t looked as they had in the first round. They calculations and the race to Rio four outfits experienced an abrupt quarter-finals is on. Park Chan-Hee and Cho Sung- sharp as they should, but if guys blew out their opponents by an will boil down between Japan and end to their aspirations. China slate is clean, but they Min, so they should be extra like Zaid Abbas, Sam Daghlas, average of 47 points! And Hamed India among the not so fancied India experienced a three-nil very nearly blew it against a very fresh and ready for the next three Alex Legion, and Wesam Al-Sous Haddadi hasn’t really even flexed teams from the group defeat at the hands of China, the tough Korean team. games. start hitting their makrs, watch his muscles that much to boot! Iran look solid enough to win all top seeds, who fielded the trio of The Chinese’s endgame rally Elsewhere, the Lebanese got out. They started slow in the 2011 Mohammad Hassanzadeh has their games in this group, while Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Yan was a testament to their resolve, sidetracked by Qatar on day edition as well, and we all know been the revelation for this team, the rest of the slots are up in the An. though, and they will need every two, and they will probably rest how that turned out, right? but expect the veterans to take air. Iran with Mohammed bit of that to top Group F. Yi Ahmad Ibrahim for the next few Another team in Group F, the over from this point on. Much of the Filipinos’ chances Reza Akhlaghpasand, Noshad Jianlian and Zhou Qi have been days. Kazakhs had a golden opportunity Meanwhile, the Palestinians are hinged on the underwhelming Alamiyan and Nima Alamian on this squad’s spearheads, but it’ll Still, they have plenty of to trip Qatar on day one, but they have been the darlings of the Andray Blatche, while it will be duty experienced the same fate be their backcourt that will need guys who can deliver, led by Jay faltered in the end. They also got tournament so far, but that interesting to see how Palestine when facing the second seeded to step up against the likes of Jay Youngblood, who has been their blasted by Lebanon, and it seems may be over soon as coach Jerry fare against much tougher Japanese. Youngblood, Trey Johnson, and undisputed leader so far. Wael Jerry Johnson is feeling the pangs Steele continues to overplay competition. China progressed to win the Jerry Johnson. Arakji, Jean Abdelnour, and Ali of a muscle strain. These are his big three of Sani Sakakini, THE PENINSULA title. THE PENINSULA

Warriors confirm Nash on board World Cup Pool: Qatar as consultant reaches quarter-finals OAKLAND, United States: Two-time NBA Most Valuable LONDON: Qatari duo of a solid unit combining power with “We are delighted to reach the Player Steve Nash has joined Bashar Hussain and Waleed a bit of artistry as they eased quarter-finals for the first time, the Golden State Warriors as a Magid came up with a masterful into a 3-0 lead as they broke and and we know everybody watching player development consultant, performance to guide their team ran from the off. Bashar missed in Qatar will be very happy. We the reigning NBA champions to a first ever quarter-finals of their first ball of the match as played very well against USA and confirmed on Friday. World Cup Pool event. he twitched on the 2 ball but we were very happy with the per- Steve Kerr, who guided the On Friday, Qatar overcame after Czech’s Roman Hybler had formance tonight; we didn’t make Warriors to the title in his first USA 7-5 to book a place in the missed it also, Waleed played a too many mistakes,” Bashar said year as an NBA coach, was gen- last sixteen stage of the event. sensational carom off the two while talking to azbilliards.com. eral manager in Phoenix when The World Cup of Pool fea- onto the rail and then onto the “Beating USA gave us a big con- Nash played there, and said the tures 32 two-player teams from 9 for 4-0. fidence boost. They are a big team Canadian has the right basketball around the world battling it out The Czechs got their name on with big players and that gave us philosophy for the Warriors. for a $250,000 prize. the scoreboard in the next and a lot of confidence, which we have “Even though he possessed Friday night was a tale of con- won a drawn out sixth rack to built on with the win today. Japan incredible individual skills and abil- trasting fortunes as Qatar made it make it 2-4 but when Hybler is a very good team but if we can ities, Steve always played the game to the next stage while Philippines scratched on the 2 ball, it was keep the same rhythm and the with a team-first mentality, which crashed out. a chance that Qatar grasped to same focus we know we can win,” is something that we emphasize In the other match of the ses- move to 5-2. Waleed missed a long he added. greatly within our group,” Kerr sion, Finland once again won to 2 ball in the next and the momen- Finland and Singapore shared said. “We share a lot of beliefs look on track for their third semi- tum went back to the Czechs who the opening four racks as both about how the game should be final in three years. cleared for 3-5. sides looked a little nervy but it played and about the work ethic Team Qatar who had looked so Hybler though missed the 2 ball was Finland who took the lead for that goes into being great.” good in their win over the USA in in the ninth after the Czechs had the first time as Petri Makkonen In his new role, which Nash spoke the opening round, continued in pushed out and Qatar had put played an outstanding positional about on Wednesday at an appear- the same rich vein of form as they them back in. Majid slid it home shot to leave the 7 ball for his ance in Toronto, Nash will be “embed- beat the Czech Republic 7-3 to along the rail and he and Bashar partner Mika Immonen. ded” with the Warriors periodically move into the World Cup of Pool coped well with a tricky layout to A dry break from Makkonen throughout the season, working on- quarter-finals for the first time. reach the hill at 6-3. though, got the Singaporeans court with the team led by NBA regu- Both Waleed Majid and Bashar The Czechs got to the table in back to the table but they couldn’t lar season MVP Steph Curry. Hussain played superbly, as they the next but a clumsy safety from capitalise and Finland reached “I look forward to joining Coach Pool player Bashar Hussain (left) and coach Steven Lin posing for a pic- dominated the Czechs and made Michal Gavenciak left the 7 ball the hill at 6-3 and from there they Kerr and his great staff and help- ture after a training session at the Qatar Billards and Snooker Association the most of their chances to on and Bashar Hussain played a finished the last rack off for an ing out in any way that I can,” in Doha in this file picture. secure a great win. great cross bank to pot it and set excellent win. said the 41-year-old Nash, adding From the outset, Qatar looked up the win. AGENCIES he was excited at the prospect of working with the Warriors’ young core group of players. Nash played 19 seasons in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers. An eight-time NBA All- Kenyan trio targets marathon record in Berlin Star, he won back-to-back MVP awards while with the Suns in BERLIN: Kenya’s Eliud trio will lead the elite field. Since Kipchoge is currently the world “I know that I can run faster in 2:03:13, just 20 seconds behind 2004-05 and 2005-06, becom- Kipchoge, Emmanuel Mutai and 2003, the men’s world record has number one over the marathon in the future. The Berlin course the world record. ing just the 10th player in NBA Geoffrey Mutai are targeting fallen six times in Berlin, includ- distance and plans to go through is very good,” said the 30-year- “I’m looking forward to the history to win the award in con- the world record of two hours, ing three times in the last four halfway in 61:30 mins, which old Kipchoge, who won the race on Sunday and have pre- secutive seasons. He announced 2mins 57sec, set here last year, years. would be on world record pace. Rotterdam and Chicago mara- pared very well. It’s always my his retirement in March, hav- when they tackle today’s Berlin Having finished second two He is the fastest marathoner thons in 2013 before being victo- aim to run faster than before,” ing missed the entire season for Marathon. years ago in a personal best time in the world this year with his rious in London. said the 30-year-old Emmanuel, the Lakers because of a nagging The fast course through the of 2:04:05, Kipchoge is ready 2:04:42 when he won the London “I’m not saying I’ll break the who is no relation to namesake back injury. He had announced in heart of Germany’s capital is the to attempt to better Dennis marathon in April. world record on Sunday, but I’m Geoffrey. October before the season started first autumn race in the world’s Kimetto’s world record set The men’s marathon record has ready for a very fast time.” “Everyone wants to win and that doctors had advised him to major marathon series, alongside in wonning last year’s mara- fallen on seven occasions in Berlin His main rival is set to be I accept whatever happens -- sit out because of back pain. Tokyo, Boston, London, Chicago thon in front of Berlin’s iconic altogether, including in each of his training partner Emmanuel whether it’s myself, Eliud or AFP and New York, and the Kenyan Brandenburg Gate. the last two years. Mutai, who was second last year Geoffrey who finishes first.” AFP SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Rosberg storms to pole for Japan GP ‘That’s a birthday present for my mum’

SUZUKA, Japan: Nico Rosberg stormed to pole in yesterday’s qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix, edging out Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton after Red Bull’s Daniil Repsol Honda’s Spanish rider Marc Marquez (left) and Ducati Team’s Italian rider Andrea Iannone ride during the Kvyat survived a hair-raising MotoGP qualifying session on the eve of the Aragon Grand Prix at the Motorland racetrack in Alcaniz, yesterday. smash. World champion Hamilton, who leads the championship stand- ings by 41 points from Rosberg, will start alongside the German Marquez topples own record to at Suzuka today, while Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel qualified for the second row. “Happy birthday, mum!” capture Aragon Grand Prix pole Rosberg said in German after securing only his second pole of MADRID: MotoGP world the year. champion Marc Marquez “That’s a birthday present for stormed to pole position for- you. At times today I had the today’s Aragon Grand Prix by perfect car and I pretty much smashing his own circuit record nailed my laps. Obviously it’s a at the MotorLand racetrack great comeback for the team after yesterday. Singapore.” Jorge Lorenzo will start second Finland’s Valtteri Bottas as he maintained the pressure of steered his Williams to third on his Yamaha team-mate Valentino the grid ahead of Vettel – who Rossi in the battle for the world won last weekend’s night race championship with Italy’s Andrea to boost his outside title hopes – Iannone completing the front row. with team-mate Felipe Massa and Championship leader Rossi was Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari on the British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton (left) of Mercedes AMG GP well off the pace of his title rivals third row. and his German team-mate Nico Rosberg wave at fans at the end of the as he qualified down in sixth. Rosberg also topped the qualifying session at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Japan, yesterday. Marquez is third in the cham- timesheets in a frantic final pionship standings, 63 points practice session yesterday morn- behind Rossi with just five races ing after heavy rain effectively remaining, but is the man in form washed out Friday’s practice. Japanese Formula One Grid having won three of the last five With memories of Frenchman SUZUKA, Japan: Starting grid for the Japanese Grand Prix Grand Prixs. Jules Bianchi’s fatal crash at after qualifying yesterday: The 22-year-old said earlier Suzuka last year raw this week- 1st row: Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes), Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) in the week that Aragon is his end, Kvyat reminded everyone favourite race of the year and it 2nd row: Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams), Sebastian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) of Formula One’s inherent risks showed as he broke his record in 3rd row: Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams), Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) when he crashed spectacularly on claiming pole last season by over approach to the hairpin. 4th row: Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull), Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) half a second to set a new record Despite flipping over and total- 5th row: Sergio Perez (MEX/Force India), Daniil Kvyat (RUS/Red Bull) time of 1min 46.635sec. ling his car, the Russian was 6th row: Nico Hulkenberg (GER/Force India), Carlos Sainz (ESP/Toro Rosso) However, the Honda rider also Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain reacts after taking pole able to climb out of the man- 7th row: Pastor Maldonado (VEN/Lotus), Fernando Alonso (ESP/McLaren) suffered a scare on his final quali- position following qualifying session at the Aragon MotoGP, yesterday. gled wreckage unhurt as red 8th row: Max Verstappen (NED/Toro Rosso), Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren) fying lap as he was lucky to escape flags brought a premature end to uninjured after losing control and 9th row: Marcus Ericsson (SWE/Sauber), Felipe Nasr (BRA/Sauber) qualifying. flying into the gravel track. Friday’s two practice sessions, but “I’m okay, and you?” Kvyat 10th row: Will Stevens (GBR/Manor Marussia), Alexander Rossi (USA/Manor Marussia) “On the first lap I did a 1:46.6 was unable to match Marquez’s Aragon MotoGP chirped over the radio when asked Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo spot (on the grid) but let’s not be that even surprised me a bit. On blistering early pace. if he had sustained any injuries. qualified seventh quickest with too greedy,” said the German, who the second lap I made a small However, he was still satisfied Grid He will start the race from the Frenchman Romain Grosjean ended a run of 23 straight qualify- error, so I knew I could still bet- as he looks on course to cut into MotoGP pitlane after his 180kph shunt. alongside him on the fourth row ing wins for Mercedes last time ter the time and the final time Rossi’s 23-point lead in the title 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 1min 46.635sec, There was early drama when for the troubled Lotus team, out. “We can be reasonably happy. I made the definitive error,” said race. 2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) at 0.108sec, Max Verstappen’s Toro Rosso whose Formula One future has Hamilton suffered his first Marquez. “Qualifying is incredible as 3. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 0.543, 4. rolled to a halt poking out dan- been plunged into doubt over a race-ending retirement in over a “I tried to push a little more always. I lowered my best time Pol Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha) 0.699, 5. Dani gerously across the track after cash-flow crisis. year in last Sunday’s race, when and it is a critical corner. We here in Aragon by 1.2 seconds. It Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.722, 6. Valentino Rossi breaking down with electrical A repeat of Hamilton’s victory the dominant Mercedes were knew the tyres could be a bit cold is amazing how the bikes develop (ITA/Yamaha) 0.857, 7. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/ trouble, costing him a grid demo- in Japan last year, when he was rocked by a mysterious loss of on that corner, but I had to push and especially in qualifying the Suzuki) 0.938. tion of three places. also pipped to pole by Rosberg, pace, but normal service has been at the maximum because it was times that are being set,” he said. Moto3 The Dutch teenager trudged would put the Briton tantalisingly resumed in Japan. my last try in case Lorenzo man- “Marc was very explosive from 1. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 1min 57.755, 2. back to the pits, yellow flags hav- close to a third world title with He will be chasing an eighth aged to lower the time a bit more. the start and I had to do every- Miguel Oliveira (POR/KTM) at 0.200, 3. Danny ing bounced out several drivers, five races left. Vettel, meanwhile, victory of the season in Japan “We’ve managed to get the pole thing to try and get to the same Kent (GBR/Honda) 0.201, 4. Jorge Martin (ESP/ including Jenson Button, who was was realistic about Ferrari’s and bidding to equal boyhood position. It was important here to time. I am very happy and proud Mahindra) 0.657, 5. Jorge Navarro (ESP/Honda) furious after his worst ever Japan chance of inflicting another upset. hero Ayrton Senna’s tally of 41 start from the first row.” of the work we have done and my 0.689, 6. Niccolo Antonelli (ITA/Honda) 0.710, qualifying result. “Ideally I would have like another race wins. AFP Lorenzo had been quickest in lap time.” AFP 7. Alexis Masbou (FRA/Honda) 0.718. Security concerns delay Italy edge Canada to record win

Australia departure LEEDS: Italy held off a brave challenge from Canada for a SYDNEY: Cricket Australia yesterday announced that due to 23-18 victory in the Pool D clash safety and security concerns it had delayed the world champions’ at Elland Road in Leeds to reg- departure for next month’s tour of Bangladesh. ister their first win of this year’s CA chief executive James Sutherland said that advice from the Rugby World Cup. Australian government had identified a potential security risk to The Italians established a slim Australian interests in Bangladesh. 13-10 lead by halftime but had to The captain Steve Smith’s (pictured) team was due to leave Sydney work hard in defence in the face Italy’s Edoardo tomorrow but will now wait for further security advice before confirm- of Canada’s enterprising back line, Gori (left) is ing its travel arrangements for the tour. which posed a constant threat tackled by “We have received advice from DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs until the final whistle. Canada’s and Trade) and based on that information we are working with security Canada struck with fine tries Nathan experts and the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on a revised security from winger DTH Van Der Hirayama during plan for the tour,” Sutherland said. Merwe and fullback Matt Evans, their Rugby “We want the tour to go ahead and are plan- cancelled out by scores from Italy World Cup 2015 ning for that, but the safety and security of our prop Michele Rizzo and centre match in Pool players and support staff is our number-one Gonzalo Garcia. D in the Elland priority and won’t be compromised. But in the end it was the boot Road Stadium in “We will wait to receive updated security of Tommaso Allan that proved information early in the week before confirm- the difference between the well- Leeds, Britain, ing the team’s travel arrangements.” matched sides, the flyhalf weigh- yesterday. Later BCB chief executive Nizmuddin ing in with 13 points. Chowdhury appeared taken aback by the news The so-called minnow nations from Sydney. had done themselves nothing but “We are surprised, because the situation in Bangladesh is very calm credit during the tournament’s and stable,” he said. opening week and Canada con- “Cricket was never interrupted in Bangladesh for security reason tinued in the same vain with and we believe it will never happen. their fearless approach at a sun- “We are hopeful the tour will be on schedule, especially for the drenched Elland Road. main matches.” Bangladesh are due to host Australia for the first After flyhalf Nathan Hirayama Test from October 9-13 in Chittagong and the second from October kicked his side into a 3-0 lead, Van the scores at 10-10, but the Maple beating the covering defence to points and Italy’s Garcia crashed 17-21 in Dhaka. Der Merwe burst down the flank Leafs continued to look dangerous score in the corner. Winger Phil over for a converted try in the Meanwhile, Pakistan begin a whistle-stop tour of Zimbabwe today and exchanged passes with Ciaran and break tackles as choruses of MacKenzie then had a try disal- 57th minute to open up a five- with a view to preparing for greater challenges that lie ahead in the Hearn before surging clear for the “let’s go, Canada” reverberated lowed for a forward pass as the point advantage. A Hirayama coming months. opening try. around the stadium. 33,000-strong crowd roared on penalty pulled back three points, The two sides will engage in two Twenty20 internationals and three Their 10-0 lead lasted barely a Allan’s third penalty gave Italy the underdogs as they cut through but a high tackle by Van Der one-day internationals in the space of nine days at Harare Sports Club, minute, however, as powerful prop a slender 13-10 advantage at the the Italian defence at will. Merwe opened the door for Allan in what Pakistan coach Waqar Younis termed a “payback tour” after Rizzo powered over and Allan break, but Canada flew out of For all their enterprise, how- to kick another penalty to seal Zimbabwe became the first team to travel to Pakistan in six years this knocked over the conversion. the traps in the second period ever, Canada were left to rue their victory for a relieved Italy. May. AFP Another Allan penalty levelled with Evans racing through and inability to turn the breaks into REUTERS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Wild and wet City slip allows world road race battle expected

RICHMOND, United States: A narrow cobblestone climb and United to go top expected rain has turned today’s men’s road race at the World Road Cycling Championships Willian rescues Chelsea against Newcastle into an up-for-grabs showdown among the planet’s greatest riders. LONDON: Manchester United above City, who slipped to a sec- substitute Ramires gave Chelsea Defending champion Michael exploited Manchester City’s 4-1 ond consecutive league defeat -- a foothold with a 25-yard scorcher Kwiatkowski, 2014 runner-up defeat at Tottenham Hotspur by and a third loss in four games in before crossing for Willian to Simon Gerrans of Australia, beating Sunderland 3-0 yester- all competitions -- at White Hart equalise in the 86th minute. Spanish near-miss stars day to replace their rivals at the Lane. But while defeat would have Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim top of the Premier League table. City went ahead in the 25th intensified the focus on Mourinho, Rodriguez and Slovakia’s Peter City’s unexpected capitula- minute through Kevin De Bruyne, who was without the banned Sagan are among favourites in tion opened the door for Louis but Eric Dier, Toby Alderweireld, Diego Costa, his side remain eight the closing event over a 261.4 km van Gaal’s side and they strolled Harry Kane, with his first goal points below United in 15th place. (162 miles) course. through it courtesy of goals from of the season, and Erik Lamela West Ham United could “There are so many guys. It’s Memphis Depay, Wayne Rooney, scored as Spurs roared back for have gone level on points with going to be a wide open race,” who ended a 1,000-minute league a win that sent them fifth. Manchester City, but despite Gerrans said. “It’s going to be a scoring drought, and Juan Mata. “The Premier League is always drawing 2-2 at home to Norwich super competitive race.” Depay made the breakthrough very difficult,” City manager City, they remain in third place. A 90 percent rain chance could in first-half stoppage time, tap- Manuel Pellegrini told BT Sport. Nathan Redmond’s 83rd- make Libby Hill’s narrow cob- ping home after Daley Blind’s fine “That’s why when we won minute strike looked poised blestone climb a slow and risky pass was volleyed across goal by the first five (league) games, we to earn Norwich victory, after fight while the other steep urban Mata, with Rooney and Mata fin- didn’t say we were going to win Diafra Sakho had cancelled out street climbs take their toll on ishing the job in the second half. the league. We have to keep work- Robbie Brady’s opener, only for those chasing the rainbow jersey “It’s a nice feeling to be top of ing. In future we must play every West Ham midfielder Cheikhou symbolic of world supremacy. the table. It’s the first time in game as a final.” Kouyate to bundle in a stoppage- Valverde, a career-best third in my period, so I’m happy,” said Defending champions Chelsea time equaliser. Arsenal climbed this year’s Tour de France at age Van Gaal, who has led United remain a long way from the title to fourth, below West Ham on 35, has two classic triumphs this to the summit for the first time picture, but a late fightback saw goal difference, after separating season and last year and could since legendary manager Alex them come from 2-0 down to Leicester City from their status finally be in line for the world Ferguson’s retirement in 2013. salvage a 2-2 draw at Newcastle as the top flight’s last unbeaten title after four third place fin- “I was very happy with the goal United and avoid a fourth defeat side with a 5-2 success at the ishes, including each of the past in extra time (by Mata) because of the campaign. King Power Stadium. Jamie Vardy three years, and runner-up efforts they punished themselves. They Chelsea manager Jose curled home in the 13th minute in 2003 and 2005. were always wasting time and the Mourinho again left John Terry to put Leicester ahead, but Theo Not since Oscar Friere in 2004 referee was not reacting to that.” on the bench and Ayoze Perez Walcott equalised five minutes has a Spaniard won the road race, Rooney’s goal, set up by capitalised on hesitancy between later before Alexis Sanchez but if not Valverde it could also Anthony Martial, was his first Kurt Zouma and Branislav claimed a hat-trick -- his first be 2015 Vuelta a Espana runner- in the league since April and saw Ivanovic to slam Newcastle ahead goals this season -- to secure vic- up Rodriguez, the 2013 road race him draw level with Old Trafford in the 42nd minute. tory. Vardy netted a second goal Manchester United’s Memphis Depay celebrates after scoring their first runner-up who was also third in great Denis Law on 171 league Georginio Wijnaldum glanced late on before Olivier Giroud goal against Sunderland in the Barclays Premier League at Old Trafford 2009. goals. home a Perez corner to double swept home Arsenal’s fifth in yesterday. Kwiatkowski, 25, does not plan Victory took United a point Newcastle’s lead on the hour, but added time. AFP on surrendering his crown with- out a fight after resting since helping a runner-up effort in the Messi injury team time trial last weekend. “I’m happy about my perform- overshadows PSG overcome poor start ance,” he said. “I’m on my way to being up there on Sunday.” Barcelona win Sagan has been fancied because his best success has come on sprint courses with short but MADRID: Lionel Messi (pic- to stroll past Nantes steep climbs like Richmond, tured) will be out for up to although it might come down eight weeks with knee ligament PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain line, Ibrahimovic was on hand to to how well his countrymen can damage suffered as Barcelona recovered from a sluggish start Ligue 1 Results bundle in the rebound to draw to position him for the final sprint returned to the top of La Liga at Nantes yesterday as they Nantes 1 (Bammou 11) Paris SG 4 within one goal of Pauleta’s club to the line. table with a 2-1 win over Las came from behind to record (Ibrahimovic 48, Cavani 73, Di Maria 80, record of 109. “I believe that Juraj Sagan and Palmas yesterday. a 4-1 victory that provision- Aurier 90) Blanc introduced Cavani for Michael Kolar will do everything Luis Suarez struck twice to ally stretched their lead to four Lucas Moura just past the hour in their power to get Peter to be Playing today ensure no more damage was points at the top of Ligue 1. and the Uruguayan made an out in front towards the finish. If done to Barca’s title bid, but the Yacine Bammou had nodded Marseille vs Angers (1200 GMT), Guingamp immediate impact as he rose to they succeed, then it will be only hosts were left hanging on after Nantes into an 11th-minute lead vs Monaco, Montpellier vs Lorient (1500 flick in a Di Maria free-kick at down to Peter to tackle the given Jonathan Viera’s deflected effort at the Stade de la Beaujoire but GMT), Saint-Etienne vs Nice (1900 GMT) the near post to give PSG the opportunity,” Slovakian coach Jan three minutes from time halved Zlatan Ibrahimovic equalised for Rongier’s cross was expertly con- lead. Di Maria then netted his Valach said. the deficit. the reigning champions just after verted by Bammou. second goal in as many matches “He proved many times already Real Madrid can move back half-time. PSG rode their luck and were after racing onto Pastore’s ball that in the end he can deal with ahead of the Catalans on top of Edinson Cavani then came off fortunate not to concede a sec- over the top and lobbing onrush- the situation well on his own. the table with victory when they the bench to notch his league- ond just a few minutes later as ing Nantes ‘keeper Remy Riou. However, it should not be for- host Malaga later on Saturday. leading sixth goal of the season Bammou nipped in ahead of There was time for Aurier, back gotten that there will be many “Firstly, it is always sad when a when Messi injured his left knee as PSG went ahead on 73 minutes Thiago Silva to connect with from suspension, to add further riders who will do all they can player gets injured. It is without in a clash with Pedro Bigas. Messi, before Angel Di Maria added a Alejandro Bedoya’s near-post gloss to the scoreline on 90 min- to thwart Peter’s desire for the doubt the worst thing in football 28, was injured as he tried to turn third with Serge Aurier also get- delivery only for his header to utes as the Ivorian acrobatically rainbow jersey. for the players,” said Barca boss the ball home after taking a won- ting on the scoresheet. come back off the post. volleyed in a Pastore corner. “Sagan is one of the big Luis Enrique. derful first touch inside the area. Laurent Blanc stuck with his Nantes had scored just twice Later, Lyon go to a Bordeaux favorites,” said Team Saxo- “Obviously, when it is Leo Messi The four-time World Player of rotation policy, ahead of week’s in six matches prior to the week- side still licking their wounds Tinkoff director Steven de Jongh. even more so for the weight he the Year briefly returned to the trip to Ukraine to face Shakhtar end but were creating plenty of following a midweek 6-1 thrash- “We all think that he deserves a carries amongst our group. field after receiving treatment, Donetsk in the Champions chances as Jules Iloki then scuffed ing at Nice, while fourth-placed top spot after fighting continu- “It is logical in football that but was clearly unable to run League, as Cavani, Blaise Matuidi, wide with just Kevin Trapp to Rennes take on winless Troyes. ously throughout the season.” players will get injured and we freely before he was replaced by Thiago Motta and Maxwell were beat after being played in by Saint-Etienne will aim to trim A season of nagging injuries have to know how to overcome Munir El Haddadi. all left out of the starting line-up. Rongier. PSG’s lead back to a single point has left Gerrans rested going into it. I am sure we will perform at a “Tests have confirmed that Leo PSG had recorded seven Having failed to capitalise on on Sunday when they host Nice the road race while countryman good level.” Messi suffered a torn internal col- straight victories against Nantes several openings Nantes were with Marseille, hit with a partial Michael Matthews can point to Barca had been humiliated 4-1 lateral knee ligament. The esti- in the league but the visitors fell pegged back on 48 minutes as stadium ban following last week’s solid race showings as each tries at Celta Vigo in midweek and mated time out will be seven to behind early on Saturday after Pastore played a floated ball crowd trouble, taking on Angers to become the first Aussie to win hopes of a trouble-free afternoon eight weeks,” Barcelona said in a Javier Pastore was dispossessed into the area, and although Di and Monaco going to Guingamp. the road race crown since Cadel were ended after just 10 minutes statement. AFP just outside own area and Valentin Maria’s volley was cleared off the AFP Evans in 2009. AFP Sharapova returns to court at Wuhan Open

WUHAN, CHINA: World “consolation prize for not playing -- which sees the top eight play- improve on her performance last or Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro hometown Wuhan for the sec- number three Maria Sharapova the US Open”. ers on tour fight for the final prize year, which saw her crash out in and Garbine Muguruza -- make ond instalment of the tourna- returns from injury at next “Obviously I took a large of the year. the third round against Swiss it to the quarter-finals or beyond ment and to open Sunday a new week’s Wuhan Open as she amount of time to get back to a But the field remains open for qualifier Timea Bacsinszky. at Wuhan. The points they would 15,000-capacity stadium, its mam- starts her build-up to the WTA level where I can come to a tour- all but the world’s top three, and Williams is sitting out the earn could push Pennetta out of moth capacity highlighting the Finals season finale. nament, which is very important. competition at the Wuhan Open tournament and US Open win- the top eight. rapid growth of tennis in China. Sharapova last played at I wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t is certain to be intense with 18 ner Flavia Pennetta -- whose sur- Romanian Simona Halep enters Li retired from tennis last Wimbledon, where she lost in the healthy and ready to compete,” of the top 20 players attending. prise grand slam victory saw her as the tournament’s top seed, and September on the eve of the semi-finals to Serena Williams for she added. Points are close amongst many shoot up the rankings from 26 to double Wimbledon winner Petra inaugural Wuhan Open -- one the 17th time in succession. The Sharapova is among a star- of the players, and a strong per- 7 -- withdrew at the last minute Kvitova is the third seed. The of three WTA events in China Russian subsequently pulled out studded line-up for the $2.4 mil- formance from down the ranks with a foot injury. Czech was diagnosed with glan- added to the calendar last year of a WTA event in Toronto and lion hard court event, which was could shake up the line up for Pennetta announced her retire- dular fever this year but has been -- eight months after winning her the Cincinnati Masters hoping to only established last year on the Singapore. ment at the US Open final, and given the medical OK to compete. second Grand Slam title at the be ready for the US Open, but a back of the success of China’s “You can never underestimate could now only have one tourna- Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki Australian Open. persistent leg injury kept her out two-time Grand Slam winner Li an opponent, whether seeded ment left before she exits tennis. is seeded fourth ahead of She gave birth to a daughter of that one too. Na, who was born and raised in or not. We all know that any- But the Italian’s appearance at Muguruza and sixth seed Kerber. Alisa in June. The five-time Grand Slam Wuhan. one who is in the draw has been the WTA Finals could be in jeop- Suarez Navarro and Pliskova are The tournament qualifiers champion only accepted a wild Twenty-eight-year-old doing really well to be part of this ardy if any of the players who seventh and eighth. began Friday and the first round card entry into the Wuhan Sharapova has already booked field. There is not an easy match,” sit just below her in the rank- All seeded players have a first begins Sunday leading to the cli- Open last week, and told report- her place in next month’s WTA Sharapova said of the line up at ings -- Germany’s Angelique round bye. max on October 3. ers Saturday in Wuhan it is a Championships in Singapore Wuhan, where she is hoping to Kerber, Czech Karolina Pliskova Retired Li will return to her AFP Ghost Pawn Sacrifice 12:00noon (2D/ (Malayalam) Animation) Kis KiskoPyaarKaru Maze Runner:TheScorch Trials (2D/Action) (2D/Action) ( Maze Runner:TheScorch Trials (3D/Action) 12:15pm Hotel Transylvana 8:30pm 9:00pm 7:15pm The Visit Wicked FlyingMonkeys (2D/Thriller) Sicario (2D/Action 99 Homes( Maze Runner:TheScorch Trials (3D/Action) 4:30pm The Intern The Intern The Intern The Intern SCREEN 10 SCREEN 9 SCREEN 8 Tale ofTales SCREEN 7 SCREEN 6 SCREEN 5 SCREEN 4 SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 SCREEN 1 Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate York New Times /The International Arts Cartoon Sudoku. a normal like solved is Sudoku aHyper Otherwise, once. only appear 1to 9can from numbers the regions Inall regions). standard nine the with overlap regions 13 (four unlike Sudoku regions has Sudoku Hyper A cells. blank 1 to 9intofrom the numbers by the filling solved is Puzzle Sudoku A Hyper Sudoku: Hyper play to How HYPER Trisha IllanaNayanthara 12:30 6:0011:30pm&1:15am; Bhairav Kunjiramayanan Kunjiramayanan SCREEN 3 SCREEN 2 The Intern SCREEN 1 SCREEN 3 The Intern SCREEN 2 12:00noon &9:30pm SCREEN 1 Baby Blues By Jerry Scott andRick Kirkman Scott Baby Blues ByJerry The Visit 99 Homes( SCREEN 3 Sicario (2D/Action) SCREEN 2 Wicked FlyingMonkeys SCREEN 1 2D/ ASIAN TOWN 22 Pawn Sacrifice Urdu) Tamil MALL NOVO ROYAL PLAZA LANDMARK

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By Bonnie S Benwick

Curry fans, here’s an unusual vegetable combo that’s zingy, fragrant and a feast for the eyes, thanks to Indian and Thai flavours. Choose the green chili pepper accord- ing to the amount of heat you like: Serrano generally provides more heat. Serve with quinoa or brown rice. Adapted from The Detox Kitchen Bible: 200 Recipes for Glorious Health - All Free From Wheat, Dairy and Refined Sugar, by Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson (Bloomsbury, 2015). 20 Ingredients (2 to 3 servings) 1 large onion 5 small vine-ripened tomatoes (14 to 16 ounces total) 2 large cloves garlic One 1 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger root 4 small raw beets (10 to 11 ounces total, trimmed) 1/2 cup water 1 small jalapeno or serrano chili pepper 3/4 cup low-fat coconut milk (see headnote) 1 heaping teaspoon solid coconut oil Method: high heat. Stir in the onion to coat; cook chili pepper, ground ginger, cumin, cori- minutes, then turn off the heat. Let sit for Handful cilantro stems Cut the onion in half, then into very for about 6 minutes, stirring often, until ander, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamom 5 minutes (for the flavours to meld). Fish 1/2 lemon thin half-moon slices. Cut the tomato golden and softened. and cloves, plus the tomatoes and the out and discard the whole spices before 1 teaspoon ground ginger into small dice. Mince the garlic. Peel and Meanwhile, coarsely chop the cilantro water. As soon as the mixture starts to serving, if desired, or at least tell your fel- 1 teaspoon ground cumin grate enough ginger to yield 2 teaspoons. (tender leaves and stems). Squeeze juice bubble at the edges, add the beets, stir- low diners to be on the lookout for them. 1 teaspoon ground coriander Scrub the beets well (or peel them), then from the lemon half into a small bowl (at ring to incorporate. Cover and cook for Nutrition | Per serving (based on 3): 160 1 teaspoon ground turmeric cut them into small dice. Stem and seed least 2 tablespoons). 10 to 12 minutes or until the beets are calories, 4 g protein, 23 g carbohydrates, 6 g Pinch ground cinnamon the chili pepper, then cut it lengthwise Reduce the heat to medium; stir in the fork-tender. fat, 5 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 95 mg 2 cardamom pods into very thin strips. garlic and fresh ginger; cook for 2 min- Uncover and stir in the coconut milk, sodium, 6 g dietary fiber, 13 g sugar 3 whole cloves Melt the oil in a large saute pan over utes, then add the jalapeno or serrano cilantro and lemon juice; cook for 2 THE WASHINGTON POST

By Natalie Wexler The Common Core’s failure to acknowledge that many older students lack basic writing skills can t’s no secret that many Americans are lousy have counterproductive results. For example, the writers. Just ask any college professor or Why Americans can’t write Education Trust recently studied more than 1,200 employer, including those at prestigious institu- middle school writing assignments to see whether Itions. With the advent of e-mail, writing ability they aligned with the Common Core and faulted has become more important than ever, and writing them in part because they didn’t require students deficiencies have become increasingly apparent. to write at length. Surely one reason so many Americans lack writing “In grades six to eight, we must see extended skills is that, for decades, most US schools haven’t writing - multiple cohesive paragraphs that clearly taught them. In 2011, a nationwide test found that reflect strong organisation and style,” the report’s only 24 percent of students in eighth and 12th grades authors lamented. were proficient in writing, and just 3 percent were But if middle and high school students are writ- advanced. ing poorly constructed sentences, they’ll almost If students get writing assignments at all, they’re certainly end up writing poorly constructed essays. usually of the “write about how you feel” variety. And while the Common Core demands that stu- There’s value to that kind of exercise, but it doesn’t dents engage in critical thinking, sentence-length provide kids with the tools they need to write assignments can fulfill that mandate as well as analytically. longer ones. The Common Core education standards, adopted The standards also assume students in middle on grammar rules, an approach that research has For example, a teacher can give students the by more than 40 states and the District, attempt to and high school already know the rules of capitali- shown doesn’t actually work. Instead, they can ask beginning of a sentence based on a text and ask them address this deficit. They require that students learn zation, punctuation and sentence construction. But students to decide whether a group of words is a to finish it using the conjunction “but,” requiring to write fluently about the meaning of what they’re that’s often not the case, especially in high-poverty sentence or a fragment — not an easy distinction them to examine the text closely enough to find two learning — not just in English class, but also in his- environments. for many to grasp. contrasting ideas. That gives the teacher a manage- tory, science and maybe even math class. Faced with high school seniors who can’t compose Once students understand the concept of a sen- able opportunity not only to correct writing mis- That makes sense: When students put what a simple sentence, teachers may throw up their hands tence, they can learn to use conjunctions such as takes, but also to uncover what students haven’t they’ve read into their own words, they’re more when confronted with an English language arts stand- “but” and “because.” Then they can create complex understood. A teacher confronted with an essay full likely to absorb and retain it. And learning to write ard saying their students should “use appropriate sentences — including those beginning with subordi- of mechanical and conceptual errors may not know clearly requires learning to think clearly. and varied transitions and syntax to link the major nating conjunctions such as “although” or “despite” where to begin in correcting the essay. But the authors of the Common Core focused just sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the — to introduce variety into their writing. Generally, It’s understandable that educators and policymak- on the skills that students should have at each grade relationships among complex ideas and concepts.” students need to learn how people write as opposed ers feel a sense of urgency about getting students to level, not on how to impart them. And few teach- You have to learn to add before you can do calcu- to how they speak. write at length in the upper grades. But if we keep ers have been trained to teach these writing skills, lus. Similarly, before students can write a coherent When students have a basic grasp of sentences, expecting students who can’t construct decent sen- apparently because educators believe that students five-paragraph essay, they need to learn to write a then — and only then — should they move on to tences to magically produce coherent essays, we’ll will just pick them up through reading. Obviously, decent sentence — no matter what grade they’re in. planning and drafting paragraphs. Once they can remain a nation of lousy writers forever. most don’t. That doesn’t mean teachers should drill students write paragraphs, they can tackle essays. THE WASHINGTON POST Versace glams up camouflage with animal prints

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian glamorous designs, frequently seen on the red carpet. For next spring’s evening wear, models sashayed rom military jackets worn as mini dresses down the runway in silk chiffon dresses, also in ani- to brightly-coloured animal prints, Italian mal print. luxury goods maker Versace showcased a Short dresses were embellished with sequins, Fwomen’s wear collection at Milan Fashion while others were in lace, which according to the Week it said was fit for “the urban jungle”. designer’s notes gave “the effect of animal print Under flashing lights, creative director Donatella against the skin”. Versace sent models for her spring/summer 2016 Versace revisited masculine tailoring in faded line down the catwalk in belted dark green and sand pinstripe dresses, slashed in front. Footwear con- army jackets at the fashion show on Friday night. sisted of chunky platform heels. Versace’s Medusa In show notes, she dubbed her utility jackets “the head logo featured on belts and handbags. new daywear essential”. The fashion house, whose founder Gianni Versace Animal prints, energised with such bright colours was murdered in 1997, returned to profit in 2011 as acid yellow, green, purple and orange, appeared after struggling for years. in camouflage-like form on an array of creations. It expects sales of more than €630m ($704.84m) Versace put the print on luxurious zip-up jackets, this year, up from 549m in 2014, Chief Executive tops, trousers and dresses, some tied at the shoulder Gian Giacomo Ferraris said this week. or hip. Skirts were slashed at the thigh and other He added that the company, in which private dresses were in leather. equity group Blackstone bought a 20 percent stake Shorts suits, also bearing animal prints, were worn last year, is looking at the United States or Asia for with bandeau tops. The fashion house is known for its a stock market listing. REUTERS SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Tourists look at kites during the 16th International Kite Festival at Baisha Bay in Shimen district, in the New Taipei City yesterday. Visitors to Taiwan’s north coast were greeted by multicolour shapes billowing in the sky from SpongeBob to sea creatures as the island holds an annual two-day international kite festival. Fossils reveal human ancestors’ hearing abilities Charlie Brown voice actor WASHINGTON: Two-million- Both species featured a mix- vowels and some consonants, studied fossils including tiny mid- implies a symbolic content,” Quam year-old fossils including the ture of ape-like and human-like Quam said. dle-ear bones called the ossicles said. “Certainly they could com- three tiny bones of the middle anatomical traits and inhab- “It turns out that this auditory (the malleus, incus and stapes) municate vocally. All primates faces new ear are helping scientists fig- ited grassland ecosystems with pattern may have been particu- and created virtual computer do. But human language emerged ure out the auditory abilities widely spaced trees and shrubs, larly favourable for living on the reconstructions of the ear’s inter- during our evolutionary history at of early human ancestors at a as opposed to the forests of earlier savanna. In more open environ- nal anatomy. some time after the existence of charges time when they were beginning members of human lineage. ments, sound waves don’t travel Our species, Homo sapiens, these early humans.” to hear more like a person and In both species, maximum as far as in the rainforest canopy, which arose about 200,000 years Paleontologist Juan Luis SAN DIEGO: A California less like a chimpanzee. hearing sensitivity was shifted so short-range communication is ago, is distinct from most other Arsuaga of Spain’s Universidad man who as a child actor voiced A study published involving toward slightly higher frequen- favoured on the savanna,” Quam primates in having better hear- Complutense de Madrid said their the cartoon character Charlie two species from South Africa, cies compared to chimpanzees, said. ing across a wider range of fre- hearing abilities indicate their Brown was charged with Australopithecus africanus and and both had better hearing than The human lineage split from quencies, generally from 1.0 to 6.0 voices “would sound strange, half threatening a judge, a witness Paranthropus robustus, showed chimps or humans in the range chimps roughly five to seven mil- kilohertz. This range encompasses chimp-like, half human, to us. Or and the San Diego County sher- they boasted better hearing than from about 1.0-3.0 kilohertz, pale- lion years ago, Quam said, and our many sounds emitted during spo- in other terms, not completely iff at a court hearing meant to either chimps or people in a fre- oanthropologist Rolf Quam of ancestors’ hearing abilities began ken language. human.” sentence him for other charges. quency range that may have facil- Binghamton University in New to adapt to lifestyle changes. “I want to be clear that we The research appears in the Peter Robbins, 59, had faced up itated vocal communication in a York said. To assess the two species’ are not arguing that these early journal Science Advances. to three years and two months in savanna habitat. Sounds in that range include hearing abilities, the researchers humans had language, which REUTERS state prison for violating his pro- bation after he earlier admitting charges of stalking and making threats. Instead, he was charged with two counts of criminal threats, SeaWorld clears one California against the judge and a witness; one of attempted criminal threat for allegedly offering $50,000 for the murder of Sheriff Bill Gore, hurdle for expanded orca tanks and one count of felony vandalism of his jail cell. LOS ANGELES: California another with 450,000 gallons. It “Please deny SeaWorld the Robbins cried through the regulators recommended would represent an increase in opportunity to build a bigger hearing, according to Deputy approval of a plan by SeaWorld volume of nearly 3.8 million gal- prison. Help get the orcas one District Attorney Brenda San Diego to build larger tanks lons, officials said. step closer to a world where they Daly. for its killer whales despite The commission will vote on can really thrive — not in tanks, “He has shown such a spectrum strong opposition from tens of the project on October 8, said but in seaside sanctuaries,” stated of emotions that I try not to pay thousands of people who want Noaki Schwartz, a spokeswoman a typical emailed petition. attention,” Daly said. to see the killer whales released for the agency. SeaWorld has faced heated Robbins’ attorney, Jo Ellen instead. The proposal has generated so criticism and declining busi- Super, did not return calls seek- Experts with the California much interest the meeting will be ness since the 2013 documentary ing comment on the new charges. British actress Emily Watson receives the Donostia Award for her career Coastal Commission issued a held at the massive Long Beach “Blackfish” presented a dim view Robbins had pleaded guilty to from San Sebastian Film Festival’s Director Jose Luis Rebordinos in the report in favour of allowing Convention & Entertainment of how the company treats orcas. charges of stalking and making northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian. SeaWorld to go ahead with its Center to accommodate members Animal rights group People for threats in May 2013, after har- so-called Blue World Project on of the public wanting to attend, the Ethical Treatment of Animals assing and threatening an ex- several conditions, officials said. Schwartz said. (PETA) has led the charge against girlfriend and the plastic surgeon Emily Watson honoured Those include one provision “People have sent us tens of the project. who enhanced her breasts. limiting SeaWorld on how it could thousands of letters and more Even though expansion would The judge had ordered him to expand its population of 11 killer than 120,000 e-mails from around give the orcas more room, it spend eight months in residential whales and requiring the theme the world, which is unprece- would fall far short of what is drug treatment and then serve at San Sebastian festival park to protect the sea mammals dented,” she said. needed for the predators, which in five years on probation. from noise during construction. Most emails have been in oppo- the wild can dive hundreds of feet Robbins was re-arrested in MADRID: British actress film scene with Lars von Trier’s SeaWorld has drawn up plans sition to the plan, said Schwartz, (meters), said Jared Goodman, an February for probation violations Emily Watson, who starred in 1996 film Breaking the Waves for for two orca pools, one containing who added, “there’s a lot of pas- attorney for PETA. that included drinking alcohol Angela’s Ashes and The Book which she received an Oscar 5.2 million gallons of water and sion on both sides.” REUTERS and cutting off his GPS ankle Thief, was honoured with a life- nomination for her portrayal of bracelet, prosecutors said. His time achievement award at the a woman obsessively in love with behaviour prompted a psychi- San Sebastian film festival in her husband. atric evaluation and, in August, Spain. “I am not sure I knew what act- he was found competent to be “I have had the enormous privi- ing was before doing that film,” sentenced. lege to play characters whose lives she said. He has been held without bail are much more interesting than Asked about what is was like since February. On Friday, the mine,” she said as she collected to work with the Danish direc- judge set bail on the new charges the award from festival direc- tor, who is known for pushing his at $250,000. tor Jose Luis Rebordinos in the actresses hard, Watson said: “He Robbins was 9 years old in northern seaside resort of San has a reputation for being difficult 1965 when he became the voice Sebastian. but I had an amazing experience.” of the world-weary yet optimis- The Donostia award — named Critics have praised Watson’s tic title character of A Charlie after the Basque word for San performance in her latest movie, Brown Christmas” a holiday clas- Sebastian — has been given out Icelandic director Baltasar sic marking its 50th anniversary each year at the festival since 1986 Karmakur’s “Everest”, based on and the first of many animated when it went to Gregory Peck. a 1996 disaster in which eight TV specials based on the popular Other past recipients include people died in a blizzard on the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Susan world’s highest mountain. Schulz. Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Julia Watson, who plays a logistics He went on to voice Charlie Roberts, Richard Gere and Woody coordinator in the drama, said she Brown in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Allen. did not know where her career Charlie Brown, A Boy Named “When I read the long list of would take her next. Charlie Brown and other people who have received it before “You can’t have a plan as an Peanuts animated specials me I felt incredibly honoured,” actor. I guess it really is a gypsy that aired in the 1960s. He was Watson told reporters just before life, you just go with the wind and replaced in later versions of the the award ceremony. were it takes you,” she said. specials. An artist’s rendering of Sea World’s new killer whale habitat expansion project, Blue World. Watson, 48, burst onto the AFP REUTERS