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Bouteflika poised for fourth term QE index breaks GCC in historic 8-year peak in intra-day trade DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) deal to end index broke its eight-year peak level in intra-day trade yesterday. The bourse closed at 12,551 points or 0.8 percent, retreating internal divide from an intra-day peak of 12,679, the highest since September 2005. The QE’s historical chart watch Differences ‘with Qatar resolved’ illustrates that the index hit its historical high on September 20, DOHA: GCC foreign min- state would not affect the inter- 2005 after it closed at 12892.76. isters yesterday agreed on a ests, stability and security of its Driven by strong sentiments, the deal to end months of unprec- members and without impact- market seems to be inching to edented tension between Qatar ing on the sovereignty of any of this target, analysts said. and three other member states its members”, according to the Islamic lenders Rayan, — Saudi Arabia, the UAE and statement. International Islamic and QIB Bahrain. They also agreed on implemen- continued to surge to contribute Qatar’s Foreign Minister tation mechanism of the Riyadh Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his ballot during the presidential election in Algiers yesterday. He most to the benchmark index. H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Document, which is based on the is expected to win after 15 years in power, despite speaking rarely in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. Rayan soared 5.83 percent Attiyah took part in an extraor- principles of the GCC statute. Report on page 5 to close QR47.20. International dinary meeting in Riyadh. During the tripartite meeting Islamic gained QR3.05 to They agreed that the policies in Riyadh in November, Kuwait’s QR84.50. QIB extended the rally of GCC member states should not Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al after reporting upbeat earning on undermine the “interests, security Ahmad Al Sabah sought to ease Wednesday, edging 2.69 percent and stability” of each other, agen- tensions between Saudi Arabia up to QR83.90. cies reported yesterday, quoting and Qatar. Woqod fuel stations resume an official statement issued after The London-based Al Hayat the meeting. Such policies must daily yesterday cited Oman’s Ministry to name also not affect the “sovereignty” Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi of a member state. as saying that the crisis has been sales of Shafaf LPG cylinders erring outlets The three GCC states recalled “ended” and that the dispute their ambassadors from Qatar last belongs to “the past”. DOHA: Some Woqod fuel sta- started selling cylinders, after we further away from the fill- DOHA: The Ministry of month, accusing it of meddling in “The problem has ended after tions have resumed selling got a letter from Civil Defence ing machines, as an additional Municipality and Urban their internal affairs and support- doing what has to be done. This lightweight Shafaf LPG cyl- two days ago, giving permission precaution. Planning will start announcing ing the Muslim Brotherhood. has helped keep the issue within inders, after getting a clear- to resume sales. A Woqod source had earlier from April 24 the names of food The foreign ministers hailed the GCC family, without giving a ance from the Civil Defence “Cylinders will be available at said the Shafaf shortage was outlets caught violating health the historic achievement “to real- chance for others to intervene,” Directorate, a company spokes- the remaining petrol stations in caused by a “distribution gap” rules. ise the interests of the peoples in Al Hayat website quoted him as man said yesterday. three to four days,” he told this after their sales were banned at The names will be posted on the member states, pave the way saying. “But what happened in the Cylinders are expected to be daily last evening. fuel stations, where huge number its website, Al Sharq reported for wider horizons of security region has its own impact on the available at all Woqod petrol sta- Until 10pm yesterday, cylin- of cylinders were being sold. quoting a post on the ministry’s and stability, and boost member GCC countries,” he said, stress- tions by next week. ders were not available at the Shafaf cylinders are also dis- Twitter account. states’ preparations for challenges ing the GCC states will continue Woqod stopped selling Shafaf two Woqod petrol stations in Abu tributed through more than 200 The amended food monitoring ahead, under a strong and coher- to support other Arab brothers. cylinders at its fuel stations about Hamour and the one near the supermarkets across the country. law No. 4 of 2014 authorises the ent entity.” They also praised the On Tuesday, Saudi Foreign a month ago, following instruc- mall. He said Civil Defence had Although Civil Defence has ministry to shut erring outlets role of Kuwait in reaching the Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal tions from the directorate in the given clearance after it was con- relaxed rules for Shafaf cylinders, and publish their names on its aspired outcome. told reporters that GCC countries wake of the explosion at a res- vinced about safety of cylinders. a ban on the use of gas cylinders website and those of concerned Following the meeting at “are free in their policies, pro- taurant within a petrol station “We explained to Civil Defence and tanks by eateries at fuel sta- departments. Riyadh Air Base that lasted more vided they do not harm interests premises near Landmark Mall that we follow international tions exists. Meanwhile, the ministry than two hours, the ministers of other members” of the regional in February. standards (of safety),” he said. Some eateries have closed ordered closed an outlet at Souq agreed “to adopt mechanisms that grouping. “As long as these coun- Disruptions in supply had trig- He said Civil Defence had not after the ban, while others have Waqif for selling food imported would ensure moving forward in tries adhere to this principle, gered complaints about a shortage imposed any new safety require- switched over to alternative fuel for personal use. The outlet didn’t a collective framework, and that there will be no problems among of Shafaf cylinders in the market. ments, but the company had like charcoal and electricity. have a permission sell it to the the policies of any GCC member GCC states.” THE PENINSULA “Five of our petrol stations have decided to move Shafaf racks THE PENINSULA public. THE PENINSULA

Korea-Qatar Cultural Show Half-Saudi kids Iran cuts N-stockpile; US to free funds VIENNA: Iran has acted to cut its most sensitive nuclear stockpile to enjoy same by nearly 75 percent in implementing a pact with world powers, but a planned facility to turn low-enriched uranium gas into an oxide rights as citizens powder not suitable for processing into highly enriched bomb-grade uranium to fulfil the six-month deal, has been delayed, a UN report RIYADH: Kids born to expats showed yesterday. married to Saudi women, The monthly update by International Atomic Energy Agency, which will be treated as Saudis for has a role in verifying that Iran is living up to its part of the accord, work, education and medical made clear that Tehran so far is undertaking the agreed steps to curb purposes, said Sulaiman Al its nuclear programme. Yahya, Director-General of the As a result, it is gradually gaining access to some previously blocked Passports Department. overseas funds. In Washington, the State Department said the US had They can live in the kingdom taken steps to release a $450m instalment of frozen Iranian funds fol- and will be allowed to work in the lowing the report. See also page 8 private sector without transfer- ring their residency permits, Arab Israeli, Palestinian negotiators meet News reported yesterday. The decision comes after sev- JERUSALEM: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met yesterday eral half-Saudis, especially girls to seek a way to prevent troubled peace talks from collapsing ahead on their mothers’ sponsorship, of an April 29 deadline. expressed fear of deportation fol- Israeli sources confirmed that officials were meeting, declining to lowing the death of their moth- provide detail. Talks had been postponed from Wednesday when emo- ers. “The privileges are contingent tions ran high in Israel as a funeral was held for an off-duty police upon the approval of the original officer gunned down while driving his family to a settlement in the South Korean artistes taking part in a Korea-Qatar Cultural Show at Qatar National Convention Centre last marriage contract and the chil- West Bank for a Passover holiday meal. See also page 5 night, as part of 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both countries. Korean kite flying events will dren having IDs,” Al Yahya said. AGENCIES “The decision is in accordance be held at Museum of Islamic Art Park today and Katara tomorrow. SALIM MATRAMKOT with a decree issued by the coun- cil of ministers in 2012,” he said. “Expat children who had trans- ferred their sponsorships to their In a cloning first, scientists create stem cells from adults mothers following this decision and prior to their mothers’ death NEW YORK: Scientists have moved a cloning means producing embryonic cells funds for reproductive or therapeutic clon- from older cells, not infant or fetal ones. will be treated as Saudis. Those step closer to the goal of creating stem genetically identical to a donor, usually for ing. The new study was funded by a foun- That looks possible, though far from easy: who had not transferred their cells perfectly matched to a patient’s using those cells to treat diseases. dation and the South Korean government Out of 39 tries, scientists created stem cells sponsorships prior to their moth- DNA to treat diseases, they said yester- But nuclear transfer is also the first and led by Young Gie Chung of Research only once for each donor. ers’ death will remain under the day, creating patient-specific cell lines step in reproductive cloning, or producing Institute for Stem Cell Research at CHA Reproductive biologist Shoukhrat sponsorship of their companies out of the skin cells of two adult men. a genetic duplicate of someone, a technique Health Systems, Los Angeles. Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science until a decision is issued by judi- The advance, described online in the that has sparked controversy since the 1997 It could prove significant because many University, who developed the technique the cial authorities,” he added. journal Cell Stem Cell, is the first time announcement that it was used to create illnesses that might one day be treated CHA team adapted, said, “The advance is Half-Saudis are also included researchers have achieved “therapeu- Dolly, the clone of an ewe. In 2005, the with stem cells, such as heart failure and showing that (nuclear transfer) looks like in nationalisation quotas in the tic cloning” of adults. Technically called United Nations called on countries to ban vision loss, primarily affect adults. Patient- it will work with people of all ages.” private sector. IANS somatic-cell nuclear transfer, therapeutic it, and the US prohibits the use of federal specific stem cells would have to be created REUTERS FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME SickKids continues to help children with complex illnesses Al Maha Children’s Unit’s tie-up with Canadian firm enters fifth year

DOHA: Children in Qatar countinue to benefit from the complex care initiative imple- mented through the partner- ship between Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) based in Canada. HMC’s Al Maha Children’s Unit has improved patient care, empowered families and encouraged them to make a dif- ference in the lives of children www.swiss-belhotel.com living with complex medical Tel conditions. Little Abdulla, a patient at Fax HMC’s Al Maha Children’s Unit was born in 2007 with Down’s syndrome, complicated by con- genital heart disease as well as Tel severe respiratory problems, Fax which made him extremely weak and made breathing and eating on his own impossible. He required a ventilator and tube feeding, had frequent chest Tel infections and needed several Fax surgeries to deal with the com- plications of his illness. Abdulla, a patient at HMC’s Al Maha Children’s Unit, with officials during the fourth anniversary celebration. “Abdulla’s growth and devel- opment were greatly impeded conditions, by providing not only simple illness, it takes more “Abdulla is now able to do his Tollfree by his health challenges, which acute medical care but also time for the families to come to daily activities normally, playing Fax required long stays in the ICU their educational, rehabilita- terms with their child’s condi- and sleeping just like any child. and eventually the high-depend- tion and developmental needs tion, become familiar with the He plays with his brothers at ency ward at Hamad General through a multidisciplinary child’s needs and feel comfort- home and even with other chil- Hospital, where he stayed team of specialists. able enough to take care of him dren outside,” his mother added. Tel for two years,” said Dr Reem The move changed Abdulla’s or her on their own. We work Abdulla’s healthcare team fol- Fax Babiker Mohamed, Consultant and his family’s lives. “It was a with the families to empower lows his condition through the at Al Maha Children’s Unit pleasure to watch Abdulla begin them as we have seen how this Complex Care Clinic. His heart and Vice Chairperson of HMC’s to adapt to his condition and improves the care and even how problem has finally resolved, and Tel Pediatric Long-Term Care catch up with his developmen- the family functions around the he only needs to be on ventilator Working Group. “Despite his tal milestones. His parents and child,” Dr Mohamed explained. when he sleeps. The clinic works Fax condition, Abdulla is a happy, his brothers were very much Last year, Abdulla was finally closely with Abdulla’s pulmon- playful child. We found it hard involved in his care and very brought home by his parents. ologist to monitor his breathing to believe he was ill at times. committed to training with our His father Mahmoud spoke of problems. “Our home care serv- Tel He’s a real fighter who does his team to be able to care for him how having their child at home ices team has testified that the best in spite of his difficulties.” at home. The positive approach has changed everyone in the parents barely needed help due Fax In 2010, Abdulla was moved of his family to his care really family. “Previously, we were to their own skills and commit- to the then newly-established made a difference to Abdulla mere visitors at the hospital. ment towards Abdulla’s care,” www.doha.hilton.com Al Maha Children’s Unit at and we felt positive that he At home with us, as soon as said Dr Mohamed. Rumailah Hospital. Developed was going to make it,” said Dr Abdulla opens his eyes he sees Abdulla’s family was hon- Tel +974 44233333 by HMC in partnership with Mohamed. his mother, his father and his oured during the recent fourth Fax +974 44233000 SickKids and Holland Bloorview “Children with complex medi- brothers. This is emotionally anniversary celebration of Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, cal issues need to be accepted as reassuring for him. He likes the remarkable partnership the long-term care facility is children, and Al Maha provides to play football, and being able between HMC and SickKids designed to improve quality of them a home where they and to be active makes up for the that continues to transform life for technology-dependent their families can adapt to their four years when he could barely pediatric healthcare services in children with medically complex complex issues. Unlike with a move,” the proud father said. Qatar. THE PENINSULA

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Tel Sidra Paediatrics Fax chief selected for fellowship Tel DOHA: Sidra Medical and Fax Research Center’s Division Chief of Paediatrics and Director, Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, Dr Ziyad Tel M Hijazi (pictured), has been selected as one of 18 physi- Fax cians for inaugural recipients of the Master Fellowship from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Tel (MSCAI). The fellowship is Fax given to a narrow set of SCAI members, nominated for out- A group of The Youth Company kayaking through the swamps of Al Thakira mangrove forest. standing achievements and con- tributions to the field of cardiac, endovascular angiography and interventions. Youth kayak to explore The designated MSCAI is acknowledged by their colleagues to show dedication to the highest Tel standards of clinical care, inno- Fax hidden natural heritage vation, research and teaching. According to SCAI, “An MSCAI DOHA: The Youth Company natural beauty of the habitat. challenges. They claimed it was sets a moral and ethical example (TYC) recently embarked on The adventure company aims an amazing experience and that for others, strives for excellence in Tel an eco journey through the Al to educate more people, get them eco-retreats like this should be patient care, and is committed to Fax Thakira marina located north excited about nature and foster- organised more often for the the highest professional standards.” of Al Khor. Organised by eco- ing youth’s involvement with Qatari youths. The SCAI was created in 1978 www.renaissancedoha.com adventure company Entalek, Qatar’s outdoors especially “The retreat was an awe- to promote excellence in invasive the youth from the TYC kay- through kayaking, snorkelling some experience and we have and interventional cardiovascu- Tel +974 44195000 aked through the swamps of Al and other outdoor activities. learnt some amazing facts about lar medicine through physician Thakira mangrove forest explor- “Qatar has amazing loca- the ecosystem. We will organ- education and representation, as Fax +974 44195100 ing the beauty of the country’s tions to explore and we have the ize a broader programme with well as the advancement of qual- hidden natural heritage. tools to do it. It also has a lot Entalek for the Qatari youth ity standards to enhance patient Steve Rhodes a profes- more to offer in the way of out- as it will help to educate them care. The SCAI is the largest sional Kayaker and Entalek’s door activities than is currently more about nature’s discover- and only Society that represents Director of Operations pro- being utilized”, said Rhodes. ies which many have not always interventional cardiologists all vided TYC delegates basic kay- Following the paddling lessons, considered. Everyone should be over the world with over 5000 aking lessons on how to paddle the trip leader led TYC’s kay- a part of this,” said TYC CEO members. Dr Hijazi was the 31st boats through the mangrove aking convoy to the mangroves Abdulrahman Sajid. president of this Society. swamps while experiencing the where they were exposed to few THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

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DOHA: The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud met here yesterday with French Ambassador to Qatar Jean- Christophe Peaucelle. They discussed bilateral rela- tions and means of bolstering and developing them in addition to the developments of the peace process in Darfur and the efforts made to support it on the basis of the Doha Document. Topics tabled on the agenda of the next meeting of the Follow-Up Commission monitoring the implementation of the Doha Document which is scheduled to be held in El Fasher city of Sudan by the end of the month were also reviewed. The meeting was attended by a number of officials of the General Secretariat of the Cabinet. Conference on Family concludes DOHA: The Doha International Conference on the Family called for developing comprehensive policies and a coherent and integrated perspective to sup- port family stability. The participants with their catch of fish. The two-day conference with participation of a group of pro- fessionals, researchers, aca- demics, policy makers and representatives of a number of non-governmental organi- sations, and stakeholders has 638 sail during Senyar event focused discussions on ways to empower the family, and the importance of re-considering the various challenges faced by Organisers ensure protection of marine environment during fishing and pearl diving families around the world. The meeting also highlighted the DOHA: Organisers of the third should not touch the corals, Jihad at 3pm, after which the judging at this year’s edition of the com- The competing teams are role of effective national policies annual Senyar traditional fish- Al Jidah, head of judging com- panel weighed the day’s catch of petition. Flashlights attached to also regularly updated about the for the family in the promotion ing and pearl diving competi- mittee, adding participants are each of the teams. every dhow are used to give signal weather condition. The commit- of well-being. tion have ensured protection forbidden to catch some marine Ahmed Al Hatmi, chairman to the judging committee when tee is always available to answer The participants outlined in of marine environment at the animals including dolphin, tor- of Senyar organising commit- the dhow is ready to dock on the queries through radios provided the Doha call, urged promotion of duration of the contest. toise, swordfish and sea cow. tee, said the weight of the fish shore for the weighing of the day’s to the teams. gender equality, women’s empow- Aside from strictly following Violations would mean either and the oysters are kept secret catch. Al Jidah said all participat- erment, reform of existing laws the traditional way of fishing disqualification from the competi- and the total weight would be The organising committee is ing dhows passed all technical and policies on discrimination, and pearl diving, all the 59 teams tion or 50kg deduction from the revealed on the final day when providing participants different check-ups and are equipped especially family laws, and enact should not do anything to harm team’s catch. the winners will be officially services and facilities such as fuel with all requirements and sup- legislation to end child marriage the aquatic environment. After morning prayer yester- announced. and water supply, electrical and plies needed for four days in the and violence against women. They should not leave any day, the 638 participants started Al Hatmi added they are using mechanical technician services sea. QNA waste in the sea and their anchor sailing to the sea and finished flashlight system for the first time and first aid using speedboats. THE PENINSULA

HMC promotes gastric tube to feed children with cerebral palsy Minister to honour Qatari pioneers DOHA: Hamad Medical “Oral feeding might cause Thursday noon at the pediat- milk directly into the patient. of heritage Corporation (HMC) has frequent suffocation due to rics outpatient department. Dr Hassan also highlighted highlighted the advantages leaking food out which leads We also have specialized and the importance of the gastric DOHA: Qatar will honour on of using gastric tubes to feed to chronic malnutrition and skilled nurses to help patients tube and its positive effects Sunday a group of Qatari per- children with cerebral palsy, growth failure; therefore doc- and their families with train- on the growth of children sonalities who took interest in which have proven effective in tors use gastric tubes for days ing and necessary education on with neurological disabilities. heritage and exerted efforts in providing the young patients or weeks or by making a gas- using gastric tubes,” he added. Gastric tubes improve the the field, as part of the World with their nutritional needs. trointestinal perforation for Young cerebral palsy patients quality of life of young patients Heritage Day celebration which Dr Kamal Hassan (pic- long term feeding, which is con- are generally faced with two as they reduce the likelihood of falls on April 18. tured), Senior Consultant venient especially for parents methods for feeding; one by vomiting and chest infections The Minister of Culture, Arts in Pediatrics, Head of the who are concerned about their injecting food into the stomach and improve weight gain and and Heritage H E Dr Hamad Pediatric Gastroenterology child’s nutrition,” he explained. through a nasal or gastric tube health in general. Gastric tubes Abdulaziz Al Kuwari will honour a Section said children with “Gastric tubes and other which takes 10 to 20 minutes take less time and make feed- group of Qatari heritage pioneers cerebral palsy often exhibit nutritional equipment are used and does not require compli- ing disabled children easy, and during the event, which gained chewing and swallowing dys- at HMC and there is a special cated equipment. The other do not require invasive surger- more significance after Qatar functions which can be danger- clinic for gastric tube care method is done by employing ies to be removed. Museums Authority announced ous to the patient’s health. every Monday morning and a dedicated machine to pump THE PENINSULA in 2013 that Zubarah town had become a UNESCO world herit- age site. The World Heritage Day, proposed by UNESCO in 1972, classified as heritage cultural sites that include monuments, QRC spent over QR10m architecture and urban sites of exceptional value as well as natu- in three years in Somalia ral sites of universal standing. Kahramaa signs DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent focus on the most affected south- (QRC) has spent more than ern provinces. deal with GCCIA QR10m in past three years in In the beginning, the top prior- pursuing its relief and devel- ity was to distribute food, non- DOHA: President of Qatar opmental endeavors in Somalia food, and sheltering assistance. General Electricity and Water to save victims of drought and This was done in two phases, Corporation (Kahramaa) Eng improve their quality of life in benefiting 127,855 people (25,571 Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari and face of critical economic and families) across southern and cen- the General Manager of the security conditions. tral Somalia as well as the capi- GCC Interconnection Authority More than QR10m worth of tal Mogadishu. Costing QR4.6m (GCCIA) Adnan Al Mohaisen aid has been delivered by QRC on these distributions effectively signed an agreement for inter- the ground, helping save the lives helped cover the basic needs of connection between two substa- of more than 298,000 people in families amid unfavorable circum- tions for GCCIA and Kahramaa. the poverty and disorder-struck stances in camps, let alone scarce Kahramaa said in a press nation, by virtue of its consider- and overpriced food products. release yesterday that the agree- able experience as a humanitar- A total of 13,571 one-month ment was signed on the sidelines ian aid provider in Niger, Darfur, food rations was distributed of the GCCIA 13th meeting held and other African disaster and among 67,855 people (13,571 fam- here yesterday. The meeting was conflict areas. ilies). At a cost of QR1m, QRC chaired by GCCIA Chairman Eng As thousands became at risk provided 60,000 people (12,000 Khalid Al Jassar, Electricity and of starvation due to the 2011 families) with different require- Water Undersecretary, Kuwait, severe drought, with alarmingly ments of everyday life, such as A volunteer at the QRC mission visiting a camp. and attended by representa- deteriorating humanitarian con- rain and mosquito protection tives of member states and Eng. ditions and a wave of mass inter- plastic covers, blankets, straw of kilometers to Mogadishu and 4 food therapeutic centers. beneficiaries (13,575 families) at a Adnan Al Mohaisen. The meet- nal migration in search of food, mats, mosquito nets, cooking provincial urban centres in the In terms of water and sanita- value of QR1m and had a positive ing discussed various issues on the QRC was among the first inter- utensils, and large-sized water wake of the crisis, QRC carried tion, QRC transported water from impact on environmental safety agenda related to the intercon- national organisations to respond, containers with special attention out 16 health and food therapeutic water sources (some of which are and water pollution control in nection among member states. by launching several urgent relief paid to school children. projects worth QR3.6m to serve more than 100 km away) to camps camps, which largely reduced According to the alphabetical programmes to provide basic To deal with the poor state of 132,500 people (20,500 families), and established water reservoirs infection and disease incidence order, UAE will chair GCCIA needs, particularly food, health- health among displaced Somalis, including 9 mobile emergency and sanitary and garbage facili- rates. board for the coming three year care, and sheltering, with more some of who walked hundreds clinics, 3 healthcare centers, and ties. These efforts served 67,875 THE PENINSULA term. QNA FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Jesus between Islam and Christianity BY SHAHUL HAMEED will have no helpers. (Aal Imran 3:55-56) Thus, Allah raised Jesus up to Heaven, he Christian belief about Jesus and so he was saved from an accursed is that he is the only-begotten death on the cross, in contrast to what Son of God or God Himself, his enemies and even his self-styled “fol- Twho died on the cross to save lowers” alleged. humans from Original Sin. It was the plan of the enemies of Jesus Muslims hold that there is no such to crucify him, but Allah foiled their plan. thing as Original Sin. So, God had no So, to believe in his death by crucifixion reason to become a human and die on means to believe that those unbelievers the cross. Even if there were something were successful against God’s plan. But called Original Sin, Muslims do not see assuredly they could not crucify Jesus how God could be so helpless as to atone the Messenger of Allah. The Quran says for that sin by dying on the cross. what means: The Christians would answer: And their saying is ‘we slew the Messiah, “For God so loved the world, that he gave Jesus Son of Mary, Allah’s messenger’ — his only begotten Son, that whosoever belie- They slew him not nor crucified him, but it veth on him should not perish, but have ever- appeared so to them. And those who disa- lasting life.” (John 3:16) gree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they Did God really love the world so have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a much… so much that He decided to sac- conjecture. For of a surety they slew him not; rifice even His son, His only begotten but Allah took him up to Himself. Allah is son, to save the world from Original Sin? Almighty and All-Wise. Christians would say, Yes. And there is none of the people of the On the other hand, Muslims would Book (the Jews and Christians) but will insist in the first place, that God is One believe in him before his death, and on the and One Only, and, therefore, He did not Day of Resurrection he will be a witness have a son. Second, as God is Just, He against them. (An-Nisaa’ 4:157-159) would not punish the innocent to save We Muslims believe in all the proph- the sinners. Third, the so-called Original ets of God and honour and respect Sin cannot be such a problem for the them alike; we do not make any distinc- Almighty God that He is compelled to tion between one and another of them. sacrifice “His own Son.” He could very Muslims believe Jesus Christ to be one of well cancel that sin or He could simply the great prophets of God and hold that demand an atonement from the sinful or all prophets are brothers and that their at least ask for sincere repentance from Muslims hold that there is no such thing as Original Sin. religion is the same, namely, Islam (or them. unconditional submission to Allah). Allah Indeed, there was no need for God to So, God had no reason to become a human and die on the says in the Quran what means: subject His Son to the terrible torture he He (Allah) has ordained for you the is said to have undergone, as portrayed cross. Even if there were something called Original Sin, same religion as that which He ordained in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, to Noah, and that which We inspired in you for instance. Muslims do not see how God could be so helpless as to (Muhammad), and that which We ordained In fact, there were early Christians to Abraham and Moses and Jesus, saying: who did not believe in the crucifixion atone for that sin by dying on the cross. Establish the religion, and make no divisions of Jesus. For instance, the Basilidians therein. To those who worship other things believed that someone else was cruci- than Allah, dreadful is that to which you call fied in his place. The names of Simon of Allah cleared Jesus of the disbelief of his cleanse you of those who disbelieve; and I will judge between you as to that wherein you them. Allah chooses for Himself whom He Cyrene and even Judas Iscariot are heard people. It says what means: make those who follow you superior to those used to differ. And as for those who disbe- will, and guides to Himself him who turns in in this context. And remember when Allah said: O Jesus! who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection. lieve I will punish them with severe torment repentance to Him. (Zukhruf 42:13) As for the Quran, it speaks of how I will take you and raise you to Myself, and Then to me you will all return, and I will in this world and the Hereafter; and they www.onislam.net The story of Mary Follower of final Prophet here are a large number of authentic sayings clearly foretells to his followers of the coming of the of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings Paracletos – the final Prophet. Besides, he is properly of Allah be upon him) that clearly indicate the described by Allah Almighty in the Quran as a “sign” to and the birth of Jesus Tsecond coming of Jesus. Abu Hurairah reported the world. But most people did not properly understand the Prophet as saying: By the One in Whose hand is my the sign and consequently misconstrued his mission. BY MARWA EL NAGGAR self, definitely the son of Mariam will soon descend among and purified thee- chosen thee But (a voice) cried to her from you as a just judge, and he will break the cross, kill the pig JEWS BELIEVING IN JESUS? n Islam, Jesus (Isa in above the women of all nations. O beneath the (palm-tree): “Grieve and abolish the jizyah, and wealth will be so abundant that As Jesus was a sign from Allah, there was an aura Arabic) is considered one Mary! Worship thy Lord devoutly: not! for thy Lord hath provided a no one will accept it, until a single prostration will be better of wonder and mystery around him, which caused a of the five greatest proph- Prostrate thyself, and bow down rivulet beneath thee; than the world and everything in it. (Bukhari) lot of speculation among his followers after his time. Iets sent by God to man- (in prayer) with those who bow “And shake towards thyself the Jabir ibn Abdullah said, “I heard the Prophet say- And there ought to be a way of clearing the cloud kind. Muslims’ knowledge about down.” (Aal Imran 3:42-43) trunk of the palm-tree: It will let ing, ‘A party of my nation will never stop fighting of mystery around Jesus before the end of the world. Jesus is based on the two main Here the story of Mary’s fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.” for the truth victoriously until the Day of Rising.’ So Allah Almighty says in the Quran what means: sources of Islamic knowledge: upbringing and girlhood, as (Maryam 19:23-24) He said, ‘Then Jesus son Mary (peace be upon him) That they said in boast, “We killed Christ Jesus the son the Quran and Hadith. In the related in the Quran, ends. God, knowing the reaction will descend and their amir will say, “Come and lead of Mary, the Apostle of Allah”;- but they killed him not, Quran, Jesus is referred to as of society, further guided her us in prayer,” but he will say, “No. Some of you are nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, `Isa ibn Maryam, or Jesus, the THE MIRACLE OF JESUS how to deal with the situation: amirs over others,” as Allah’s showing honor to this and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no son of Mary. The story of Mary For more on the birth of “So eat and drink and cool nation.’” (Muslim) certain knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a and Jesus is best described in Jesus, and the virginity of Mary, (thine) eye. And if thou dost see The above two hadiths show that according to Islam, surety they killed him not. Nay, Allah raised him up unto the Quran in the surahs of Aal read In Defence of Mary the any man, say, ‘I have vowed a Jesus will return to the earth as a follower of the final Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise. And there `Imran and Maryam. Virgin. fast to (Allah) Most Gracious, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). And at the second com- is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him Mary: A Precocious Girlhood In the surah entitled and this day will I enter into ing, it is inconceivable that Jesus will bring a new Law. before his death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be The story starts with Mary, “Maryam,” we hear more of not talk with any human being.’ Even at the first coming, he was working within the a witness against them… (An-Nisaa’ 4:157-159) who was blessed as a child with this special woman’s story, best (Maryam 19:25) framework of the earlier Law of Moses. So, if Jesus does Indeed these verses have generated a lot of con- God’s protection. Mary was told by the Quran itself. When she carried the baby not follow the Law of Muhammad (PBUH), he should troversy about the implication of certain words. born to the pious household of Relate in the Book (the story Jesus to her people, they ques- follow the Law of Moses, which is most unlikely. A few points are worthy of note here: The refer- Aal `Imran, or the family of of) Mary, when she withdrew tioned her; and as a baby in We should remember that the religion of Allah has ence is clearly to the future; and the verse tells us of `Imran. Many people argued from her family to a place in her arms, Jesus gave them the been completed through the final Prophet, and so something that will happen in the future which will for the honor of taking care of the East. answer. The Quran describes there is no question of another Law at all; so Jesus has make the People of the Book to believe in Jesus. And the child, but the responsibil- She placed a screen (to this scene in detail: got to follow the Law of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). we should note that by “the People of the Book” not ity was given to Zachariah, an screen herself) from them; then At length she brought the We know that some “Christians” do not follow merely the Christians but also the Jews are meant. elderly and childless man, who We sent her our angel, and he (babe) to her people, carrying Jesus. They follow St Paul and his version of the Referring to the doubts and confusion in the minds immediately noticed that the appeared before her as a man him (in her arms). They said: “O religion of Jesus. So one of the first duties of Jesus of the people (i.e. People of the Book) regarding “the young girl was special. One day, in all respects. Mary! Truly an amazing thing will be to bring the Christians back to the true reli- death” and the “raising” of Jesus, Allah emphatically Zachariah noticed that the girl She said: “I seek refuge from hast thou brought! gion he preached and practiced, namely submission tells us that they did neither kill him nor crucify him; had in her possession certain thee to (Allah) Most Gracious: “O sister of Aaron! Thy father to the One God. but raised him up to Himself. provisions for which he could (come not near) if thou dost was not a man of evil, nor thy Also, the Jews who are still waiting for the Messiah not account. He asked her how fear Allah.” mother a woman unchaste!” will be made to realize that the real Messiah was BELIEVING IN JESUS she came by the food and she He said: “Nay, I am only a But she pointed to the babe. indeed Jesus and they need to recognize that fact, The verses quoted above clearly say that all the answered: “From Allah: for messenger from thy Lord, (to They said: “How can we talk to and follow the Messiah (Christ) Jesus. When the People of the Book will believe in Jesus before he dies. Allah Provides sustenance to announce) to thee the gift of a one who is a child in the cradle?” Christians and the Jews follow Jesus, they will be Obviously, “believe in him” indicates the right belief whom He pleases without meas- holy son.” He said: “I am indeed a serv- Muslims. By the second coming of Jesus, the confu- about Jesus, that is, that Jesus was a prophet of God ure.” (Aal Imran 3:37) She said: “How shall I have ant of Allah: He hath given sions regarding Jesus will disappear and we can imag- preaching His Oneness. We know that neither the This simple answer had a a son, seeing that no man has me revelation and made me a ine a situation where Jews, Christians and Muslims present day Jews nor the present day Christians have deep impact on the elderly man. touched me, and I am not prophet; join together to pray behind Islam’s prophet Jesus, or this belief about Jesus. So the reference in the verse is Having long wished for a son, unchaste?” “And He hath made me behind a Muslim Imam. obviously about future Jews and Christians who will the devout Zachariah prayed to He said: “So (it will be): Thy blessed wheresoever I be, and be made to realise the truth about the Messiah and God for progeny. As the Quran Lord saith, ‘that is easy for hath enjoined on me Prayer and THREE EXPECTATIONS will have to accept that truth. relates in the verses below, his Me: and (We wish) to appoint Charity as long as I live; One important point to note in this connection The occasion for this is when Jesus himself appears prayers were answered almost him as a Sign unto men and a “(He) hath made me kind to is the correlation between the expectations about again and clears all misunderstandings about him. immediately, although his wife Mercy from Us’: It is a matter my mother, and not overbearing the coming of a prophet or messiah in all the three And then the Jews will realize that he was the was barren and beyond child- (so) decreed.” or miserable; Abrahamic religions. Jews expect the Mashiach Messiah they were expecting; and the Christians bearing age: So she conceived him, and she “So peace is on me the day I (Messiah; literally “the Anointed One”) as a political will realize that he was not the Son of God who died Then Zachariah prayed unto retired with him to a remote was born, the day that I die, and and military deliverer and king. The Christians believe on the cross. And if there are any Muslims who reject his Lord and said: My Lord! place.] (Maryam 19:16–22) the day that I shall be raised up the Messiah to be a divine incarnation and “savior”, the return of Jesus, they too will realise the truth Bestow upon me of Thy bounty From the Quranic descrip- to life (again)”! (Maryam who came to liberate the people from sin. And the about him. And in the above verse, we may note the goodly offspring. Lo! Thou art the tion of events, we can deduce 19:26-33) Muslims believe the Messiah to be a sign to the world expression “before he dies”. This expression is attrib- Hearer of Prayer. And the angels that Mary spent most of her And so the baby Jesus sent by God with a significant prophetic mission to uted to People of the Book sometimes; i.e. in the sense called to him as he stood pray- pregnancy alone. What hap- defended his mother from any the Children of Israel. of “before their death”. ing in the sanctuary: Allah giveth pened to her during this period accusations of adultery, and in a In all the three cases the word, Messiah (Arabic: But this cannot be; if so it would mean that all thee glad tidings of (a son whose is not mentioned in the Quran. nutshell, explained who he was Masih) is used for the expected prophet. Both the Jews and Christians who lived after Jesus’ time name is) John, (who cometh) to The Quran picks up the story and why he was sent by God. Christians and Muslims believe Jesus to be the would realise the truth of Jesus before their death till confirm a word from Allah lordly, at the moment that Mary goes Here ends the story of Mary Messiah, while the Jews reject him and continue to Judgment Day. This is most unlikely. Rather the cor- chaste, a prophet of the righteous. into labour. and miraculous birth of one expect the Messiah even now. rect meaning of the verse must be that Jesus, on his (Aal Imran 3:38-39) And the pains of childbirth of the greatest prophets of No one can deny the continuity of the same reli- second coming will bring the Jews and the Christians The uniqueness of Mary, drove her to the trunk of a palm- God, Jesus. Such was Jesus, son gious tradition through the three religions, though of that future time, not only to the truth of himself, noticed by Zachariah, was tree: She cried (in her anguish): of Mary: This is a statement of sectarianism has clouded the whole issue of common but also to the true religion. A careful evaluation of spelled out to her by the angels: “Ah! Would that I had died before the truth concerning which they religious heritage. One of the important links among all the points related to the matter would lead us to Behold! The angels said: “O this! Would that I had been a doubt. (Maryam 19:34) the three religions ought to be the Messiah; espe- the conclusion that Islam teaches that Jesus will come Mary! Allah hath chosen thee thing forgotten and out of sight!” www.onislam.net cially as he serves as a link between Judaism and Islam. again and he will not bring a new Law then; so he Because, he is the expected Messiah of the Jews, who would follow the Law of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Arab Israeli Bouteflika scribe held after Lebanon visit JERUSALEM: An Arab Israeli journalist has been arrested poised to win after making a visit to Lebanon, his mother said yesterday, on suspicion he could have joined a “hostile organisation”. Majd Kayyal, 23, from the re-election northern coastal city of Haifa, crossed into Jordan on March 23 and travelled on to Lebanon for a conference organised by As 70 people wounded in protests Safir newspaper, Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency said. ALGIERS: Ailing incumbent snub the election, as many ques- A Shin Bet spokeswoman Abdelaziz Bouteflika was poised tion whether Bouteflika is fit to stressed Lebanon is defined as “an to clinch a fourth presidential rule. enemy country” and Israelis are term despite chronic health He has been seen only rarely on prohibited from visiting. problems after Algerians voted television in recent months, look- “A suspicion arose that he was yesterday in an election that saw ing frail and barely audible, after recruited by a hostile organisation, 70 people wounded in protests. suffering a mini-stroke last year and therefore upon his return on Voting ended by 1900 GMT which confined him to hospital for April 12 he was arrested by police at polling booths across the vast three months. and taken to us for questioning,” North Africa country, but with the When he last appeared in pub- she said. count now under way, the 77-year- lic, in the run-up to a May 2012 Kayyal was later released from old president who has been in parliamentary election, Bouteflika Palestinians hold photos of family members held in Israeli prisons during a protest on Palestinian Prisoner Day custody but placed under house power since 1999 remains the firm addressed Algeria’s youth to in Ramallah yesterday. arrest until April 22, when he will favourite of the six candidates. declare: “My generation has stand trial, police spokeswoman In his first public appearance served its time.” Luba Samri said in a statement. in two years, a smiling Bouteflika His intention to seek re-elec- Public radio said Kayyal was arrived at a voting centre in tion, announced in February, suspected of contacts with the Algiers mid-morning in a wheel- sparked derision and at times Israel, Palestinians meet US envoy pro-Syrian Shia militant group chair, waving but making no com- scathing criticism in the inde- Hezbollah, an arch foe of Israel. ment to reporters covering an pendent media. JERUSALEM: Israeli and had committed to free 104 prison- detention where they can be The spokeswoman said Kayyal election tainted by fraud warnings However, Bouteflika remains Palestinian negotiators met ers held since before the 1993 Oslo detained without charge for had arranged the paperwork and boycott calls. popular with many Algerians, US envoy Martin Indyk to try autonomy accords in four batches, renewable six-month periods. to enter Lebanon through the All eyes are on the turnout and especially for helping to end the to find a way to extend fal- but it cancelled the release of the Of that number, 183 are minors, Palestinian Authority in the West any signs of vote rigging, with offi- devastating civil war of the 1990s, tering peace talks, with one last group of 26. B’Tselem says. Bank city of Ramallah. cials saying 37.06 percent of the in which up to 200,000 people were Palestinian source calling the Among them are 14 Arab Palestinian President Kayyal had been already ques- electorate had voted by 1700 GMT killed. discussion “difficult”. Israelis which the Jewish state is Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman tioned by security services in 2011 and a third of the polling stations “We are voting for peace, it’s all The meeting, which had been refusing to set free. Nabil Abu Rudeina has stressed for having taken part in an aid staying open an extra hour. we want,” said Khadija, a widow put off by a day, began in the late The Palestinians retaliated by the talks could be extended if flotilla to the besieged Gaza Strip, The official result is due today. in her 50s, at a polling station in a afternoon in a Jerusalem hotel, seeking accession to several inter- Israel released the last batch of she said. Sporadic violence marred the village in the Sidi Moussa district Palestinian sources said. national treaties. prisoners. “What’s needed now Kayyal’s mother Suhair election process, especially in the south of Algiers. The discussions are “very dif- Yesterday’s new round of talks is Israel’s commitment on issues Badarni said he worked for As Kabylie, a restive, mostly Berber But there is also anger and frus- ficult”, one source said. came as Palestinians marked that could lead to an extension Safir, a leading pro-Syrian Beirut region east of Algiers. tration among many Algerians Israel implied that the delay Prisoners Day with rallies across of talks. If they commit, we’re daily, and that the family “did Clashes at three places in for whom the likely prospect of had been caused by the killing the West Bank and Gaza Strip in ready,” he said on Wednesday. not consider Lebanon an enemy Bouira province, between police another five-year term for an age- of an Israeli police officer in the solidarity with thousands of their And Abbas told Israeli oppo- country”. and youths seeking to disrupt the ing president disabled by a stroke West Bank this week, but the jailed compatriots. sition MPs visiting him in the “They are trying to prevent vote, wounded at least 70 people, is unacceptable. Palestinians said the meeting In the southern West Bank West Bank administrative centre us from contact with our Arab local sources said, while small Youth protest group Barakat was pushed from Wednesday to city of Hebron, some 2,000 peo- of Ramallah he would insist that surroundings,” she said. “Israeli protests by activists shouting (Enough) was founded just two yesterday to enable Indyk to take ple marched carrying photos of the 14 Arab Israelis were among Jewish reporters have gone to anti-regime slogans were quickly months ago specifically to chal- part. prisoners and waving Palestinian those released, Haaretz newspa- Lebanon and Syria who haven’t snuffed out in the capital. lenge Bouteflika’s re-election bid. Israeli and Palestinian negotia- flags, and another 1,000 protested per reported. been investigated.” In the Kabylie village of Raffour, With Barakat and a coalition of tors met on their own on Sunday in the northern city of Nablus. It said that if talks were Kayyal’s arrest was placed anti-regime sentiment was pal- opposition parties, both Islamist and held a three-way meeting Chief Palestinian negotiator extended, Abbas would want the under a gag order, which an pable, with masked youths armed and secular, urging voters to shun with Indyk a week ago in last- Saeb Erakat added his voiced to first three months to be “devoted Israeli court lifted yesterday. with slings and chanting hostile the ballot, participation is a key ditch efforts to save the stagnant the protesters by calling anew to a serious discussion of borders”. Arab Israeli rights group slogans confronting police who issue. peace process launched by US on Israel to free the last batch of The Palestinians want a state Adalah said the gag order was to fired tear gas. Bouteflika’s main rival, former Secretary of State John Kerry in prisoners. based on the lines that existed prevent public debate about “the For Algeria’s independent news- premier Ali Benflis, predicted July for a period of nine months. Prisoners minister Issa Qaraqe before Israel occupied the West prohibition on Palestinian citizens papers, the election outcome is a fraud would be his “main adver- Washington is pushing for an said that a one-day hunger strike Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six- of Israel from entering numer- foregone conclusion. sary” yesterday. extension of the talks beyond was being observed by inmates to Day War. ous Arab countries”. Adalah, “It’s just a matter of the cur- After voting in the Hydra dis- their April 29 deadline but the mark the annual show of solidar- According to Channel 2 televi- which also employs Kayyal, said tain coming down this evening on trict of the capital, Benflis said he negotiations hit an impasse two ity with Palestinian prisoners in sion, Israel’s Shin Bet domestic “the crimes for which Kayyal is a bad taste political drama,” com- had already been alerted to acts of weeks ago when Israel refused Israeli jails. security agency head called for accused are essentially carrying mented El Watan, saying the elec- fraud, having earlier warned that to release a group of Palestinian According to Israeli rights 10 of the 26 prisoners slated for out his duty as a journalist, and tion lacked credibility. he would “not keep quiet” if the prisoners as agreed at last year’s group B’Tselem, Israel is hold- release to be deported abroad or his rights to freedom of movement Youth activists and opposition election is stolen. launch of the talks. ing 4,881 Palestinian prisoners, transferred to the Gaza Strip. and freedom of expression.” parties had urged Algerians to AFP Under the agreement, Israel including 175 in administrative AFP AFP Gunmen storm UN base in South Sudan Tunisian diplomat JUBA: Gunmen stormed a UN the most bitterly contested regions The gunmen had initially civilians, many of them children. base in South Sudan yesterday, in the four-month-long conflict approached the camp “under the The conflict in South Sudan has wounding dozens of civilians splitting the country. guise of peaceful demonstrators” left thousands dead and forced from a rival tribe in an “unpro- UNMISS condemned “heinous intending to present a petition around a million people to flee kidnapped in Libya voked” attack before peacekeep- murders” in the attack, although to the UN, before opening fire their homes since fighting broke ers fought them off, the UN said. it has not officially confirmed any and breaching the compound, the out on December 15 in the capi- TRIPOLI: A Tunisian diplo- by unknown assailants near the The top UN aid official in deaths. statement added. tal Juba before spreading to other mat was kidnapped in Tripoli central Al Kadissiya square, not South Sudan, Toby Lanzer, said “The armed mob forced entry The civilians fled into the base states in the oil-rich nation. yesterday in unknown cir- far from the Tunisian embassy. he was “outraged” by the assault into the site and opened fire on weeks ago amid ethnic massacres Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, cumstances, a Libyan security If confirmed, the diplomat in the war-ravaged town of Bor, the internally displaced persons in the world’s newest nation. has swapped hands several times source said, just two days after would be the second staffer from in which two peacekeepers were sheltering inside the base,” the Information Minister Michael during the conflict. armed men seized Jordan’s the Tunisian embassy abducted also wounded. UNMISS said in a statement, say- Makuei said that a “huge number” More than 67,000 civilians ambassador. in the Libyan capital since March Almost 5,000 civilians are shel- ing its forces returned fire — first of gunmen had come seeking across the country are sheltering A Tunisian source confirmed 21 when a man employed by the tering inside the fortified base of firing warning shots and then tak- revenge for the rebel capture of inside UN bases for protection the abduction and identified the mission was seized. the United Nations Mission in ing part in a ferocious gun battle the oil town of Bentiu two days from ethnic attacks. diplomat as Al Aroussi Kontassi, His fate is still unknown. South Sudan (UNMISS), one of — before the fighters retreated. ago hoping to kill the trapped AFP without giving further details. Diplomats in Tripoli say mili- Tunis’s ambassador to Libya, tias that fought to topple the Ridha Boukadi, refused to Muammar Gaddafi regime in comment. the 2011 uprising often carry out Yemen funeral Libyan foreign ministry spokes- kidnappings in order to blackmail man Said Lessoued said he could other countries into releasing Greek Cypriots not confirm or deny the reported Libyans held abroad. abduction, the latest in a string of On Tuesday, masked gunmen to hold landmark incidents targeting foreign diplo- kidnapped Jordan’s ambassador, mats and Libyan politicians. Fawaz Aitan, as he rode to work Easter mass A Tripoli police official, quoted in Tripoli, shooting at his car and NICOSIA: Greek Cypriots by Al Wassat news website, how- wounding his driver. have been authorised to hold a ever, said the diplomat was seized AFP Good Friday mass at a church in the Turkish-held town of Famagusta on divided Cyprus for the first time in decades. Famagusta mayor-in-exile Warning over jihadist threat in Tunisia Alexis Galanos said today’s land- mark service at Saint George TUNIS: Tunisia faces a growing jihadist threat in the mountain- Exorinos church will send a mes- ous region near the border with Algeria where several soldiers have sage of reconciliation on one of been killed battling militant Islamists, the defence ministry said the most important dates in the yesterday. Greek Orthodox calendar. The presidency on Wednesday declared Mount Chaambi, as well as It will be the Famagusta some surrounding areas including the mountains of Sammama, Salloum church’s first Easter service for and Mghilla, “zones closed for military operations”. almost 60 years, said Galanos, Defence ministry spokesman Toufik Rahmouni yesterday said the who joined forces with Turkish decision was prompted by the “growing number of threats made by Cypriot mayor Oktay Kayalp to terrorist organisations based in the area” and was designed to contain organise the mass, expected to and limit their activities. draw about 4,000 worshippers. “We’ve noticed that some of the terrorists are no longer just holed up “A message of reconciliation Vehicles carry the bodies of two bodyguards of Shia politician Ismail Al Wazir who were killed during an assas- in Mount Chaambi but are travelling to mountains nearby,” Rahmouni will be given through this service,” sination attempt on him, during their funeral ceremony in Sana’a yesterday. Gunmen riding in a car opened told reporters. He said the security operations under way in the region Galanos told reporters. fire on Wazir, head of the Shura Council of the Al Haq party, on April 8, seriously wounding him. were taking place with the cooperation of the Algerian army. AFP AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE scale of the South Korean ship tragedy has been magnified due to 375 schoolchildren who were on the ferry going to the south of the country. In a disaster Tthat could take public attention off the Malaysian Airlines jetliner, which has been the centre of global enquiry Unquietly flows the Nile, through since it went missing on March 8, the South Korean administration has been thrust into the glare. Rescuers were having a hard time in choppy and muddled cold waters, Ethiopia for Egypt looking for survivors and bodies in the ship that keeled over before going down. That South Korean President Park Geun-Hye visited the he opening sentence of Egypt’s of the three main countries concerned be significant”, and calls for construction site and talked to relatives of those onboard showed how new constitution describes the — Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan — as well to cease pending better analysis. seriously the government was taking the disaster. This is country as the river Nile’s gift as international advisers, the report was Not all independent analysts share in marked contrast to what happened after the Malaysian Tto Egyptians. It is a grand seen as a much needed means of arbi- this view, however. According to Dr Ana airliner, MH370, went missing after an hour into flight. The claim, but one that helps explain Egypt’s tration between the parties concerned. Casco, a researcher at the Stockholm first seven days were spent looking for the debris in the indignation at the ongoing construction But for nearly a year the report’s International Water Institute whose of a blockage on the Nile, thousands contents were a mystery. After its doctoral thesis analysed hydropolitics South China Sea while the Malaysian government waffled to of miles upstream: the $4.7bn Grand submission last April, publication was in the Nile basin, Egypt fought for the reveal the finer details of the flight as public anger mounted. Ethiopian Renaissance dam (Gerd). suppressed at the request of one of the report to be kept secret. Casco argues On the other hand, the South Koreans seem to be doing Egyptians have long maintained that countries involved, enabling all con- the study is largely optimistic about the a relatively better job managing the tragedy. There has Ethiopia’s dam project will dangerously cerned to make whatever claims they Gerd’s impacts — “and that’s why Egypt been considerable transparency in detailing the rescue and deplete its water stocks — about 95pc of liked about its contents. was not happy for it to be released”. It is search operations. Park was jeered by passengers’ relatives which are derived from the world’s long- That should have changed at the end of critical about the dam’s social and envi- est river. A year ago, a former Egyptian March, when a leaked version was finally ronmental impact, she says, “but other- but seemed to take it in her stride. In moments of crisis, the water official boldly claimed that the published by the International Rivers wise — in terms of dam safety and even human spirit tends to fray and this was on show when Prime Gerd might deprive Egypt of up to 10bn Network (IRN), an independent group in terms of water going downstream — Minister Chung Hong-Won was mobbed and bottles were kilolitres, devastating roughly a million that campaigns against dams across the the report is quite positive”. thrown at him by the relatives. acres of farmland along the shores of world. But rather than clarifying the This is because the Gerd may eventu- Incidents like the The MH370 tragedy and the the Nile. dam’s impact once and for all, the report ally help to reduce the build-up of sedi- South Korean ferry disaster “Then you has become the latest pawn in a war of ment in downstream dams like the Had, South Korean might cross the words between Egypt and Ethiopia. increasing capacity. The Gerd will also come within a little more than Nile on the back IRN said it showed that “big ques- help to keep the Nile’s flow — which ferry disaster 40 days of one another. It is hard of a camel,” the tions remain” and called for a halt to presently fluctuates according to the and MH370 to compare the two but both are former head of the dam’s construction. But Ethiopian amount of rainfall, potentially caus- tinged by a helplessness that Egypt’s interests Egypt’s National government spokesman Getachew Reda ing problems for downstream farmers call for the exposes the frailty of human Water Research said the group was “absolutely biased”, even in Egypt — constant throughout may actually Centre said at and “part of the smear campaign organ- the year. In terms of structural safety, existence over nature’s debilitating formation of an be aligned with the time, in what ised by Egypt”. In the meantime, the Sudan — the country most endangered vastness. MH370 has become were highly con- dam’s construction continues apace. by any catastrophe at the Gerd — is sat- international a mystery with no vital clue Ethiopia’s, since tested claims. The report is nuanced and complex, isfied with its construction. organisation emerging from the over four week Ethiopia will Egyptian poli- and does not try to quantify exactly the Egypt’s interests may actually be for search and hi-tech multinational search ultimately want to ticians have used likely downstream effect of the dam on aligned with Ethiopia’s, since Ethiopia operation that scoured the South see as much water such claims to Egypt’s water supply. But its 48 pages will ultimately want to see as much rescue. portray the dam nonetheless contain alarming findings. water flow through the Gerd as possi- China Sea and southern Indian flow through the as a threat to If the dam’s reservoirs are filled during ble in order to maximise hydroelectric Ocean. Gerd as possible in national security, years of average or above-average rainfall, power. It is, says Casco, Sudan’s inten- Whenever there is a crisis of and have occa- says the report, the hydroelectric capacity tions that may instead cause the great- this nature involving scores of lives, the situation easily turns order to maximise sionally made of Egypt’s downstream Aswan High dam est long-term concern for Egypt. The precarious. There is no cultural and economic uniformity hydroelectric power. ambiguous state- (Had) — which provides about 15pc of Gerd would allow Sudan to siphon off among countries of the world. This makes different regions ments about the Egypt’s power — could face a temporary more downstream water for farm irri- possibility of mil- 6pc decrease. But if filled during years of gation, potentially allowing the republic approach mishaps with different levels of alacrity and the itary action. For below-average rainfall, the Gerd may “sig- to take more water from the Nile than difference in amount of resources at the disposal of nations their part, the Ethiopian government nificantly impact water supply to Egypt allowed by an agreement signed with makes rescue and search operations subject to economic well sees the Gerd as a crucial developmen- and cause the loss of power generation at Egypt in 1959. being. This may put pressure on poorer nations, like those tal goal — a 6,000 megawatt source Had for extended periods”. Sudan has achieved this leverage by in sub-Saharan Africa, when they face a tragedy like a plane of surplus electricity that they could Among other criticisms, the report engaging positively with the dam’s con- sell to foreign countries to boost their warns that the dam’s foundations may struction; Egypt’s only means of reach- crash or a shipping disaster. This calls for an international economy. need further structural support to protect ing a grand compromise may be through disaster relief agency under the aegis of the United Nations. Last month, the saga took a fresh against sliding. It also says Ethiopia has similar engagement. But it may now be Such a body could be formed by pooling resources of all twist after the leak of a highly antici- done little to assess the Gerd’s effect on too late. According to the Ethiopian member countries. This would make relief and rescue work pated and hitherto suppressed report local people, ecosystems and biodiversity. government, an army of 8,500 builders, more effective especially if it is in the vast oceans which into the long-term effects of what would Based on these findings, the IRN con- working 24 hours a day, has already involve the territorial jurisdictions of various nations and the be Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. cludes that the report “confirms Egypt’s completed about 30% of the 1,800 sq Written by two water experts from each concerns that the project’s impacts could km site. GUARDIAN NEWS intricacies of international law. The other side Quote of Europe’s banking union falls short of its laudable goals the day

UROPE is putting the finishing overwhelm a government’s finances, supposed to guarantee deposits to take over a failing institution and touches on a new banking as well as create a central authority to throughout the euro area. That way, inject money from the resolution fund, union, with the aim of restoring supervise banks throughout the euro concerns about one country’s ability to the banking union’s member states have Econfidence in the euro area’s area. make good on its guarantees wouldn’t the power to block the move. Picture a banks, reviving lending and ensuring Unfortunately, the new laws fall short. cause depositors to flee, as happened situation in which France’s largest bank, We must do the common currency’s survival. It’s a Consider the Single Resolution Fund, in Greece and Spain in 2011. That BNP Paribas, ran into trouble: Germany step forward that doesn’t go nearly far set up to help recapitalize banks if their provision has been dropped, appar- and the others would decide whether everything to help enough. losses exceed what their shareholders ently because countries have their own to contribute to the rescue of a French these people (in In approving a raft of banking-union and creditors can absorb. It will contain deposit-insurance plans. So in a crisis, national champion. legislation this week, the European 55 billion euros, with authority to borrow it could happen again that a euro in a Despite the calm that has prevailed eastern Ukraine) Parliament has ratified an important more in an emergency. The euro area’s Greek bank (say) would be worth less since mid-2012, when ECB President defend their rights understanding: If the member states of largest banks have assets exceeding 1 than a euro in a German bank. That Mario Draghi promised to do “what- the euro area want to share a currency, trillion euros, and borrowing from private isn’t what “common currency” was sup- ever it takes” to hold the euro system and independently they’ll have to share some risks and investors would be difficult in a crisis. posed to mean. together, Europe has no time for half- determine their own responsibilities. Among other things, Rescuing a bank that big would require The supranational authority vested in measures. Malaise in the banking sector they must pool the resources needed a lot more money. the European Central Bank leaves much has already done immense damage to destiny. Vladimir Putin to rescue a bank whose collapse could The banking union was also to be desired as well. If the ECB wants the economy. The Washington Post Russian President FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Cut off from world, Gazans consumed by poverty Well over half of Gaza residents receive food from the United Nations, and the number is on the rise. BY NOAH BROWNING and Refugee Works Agency devoted to NIDAL AL MUGHRABI feeding and housing the refugees, told Reuters it was now feeding IFE has never some 820,000, up by 40,000 in the seemed so grim for last year. The UN’s World Food the Mustafas, a fam- Program (WFP) gives food aid to ily of seven cramped some 180,000 other residents. into a shabby two- More than 1.2 million of 1.8 mil- room hovel in Gaza’s lion Gazans are refugees or their LJabalya refugee camp. Seven years descendants who fled or were into an Israeli blockade and ten driven from land that became months into a crippling Egyptian part of Israel in the war of its one, Gaza’s economic growth has foundation in 1948. evaporated and unemployment As decades passed, the hand soared to almost 40 percent by of occupation variously clenched the end of 2013. or relaxed through wars and Opposition to the Hamas mili- uprisings. Groups of tents slowly tant group which runs the Gaza morphed into concrete ghettos Strip has led its neighbours to — eight camps in total — where quarantine the enclave, shutting chances for change feel as narrow residents out of the struggling as the claustrophobic alleys. Mideast peace process and leav- “Gaza just seems to keep ing them with plenty of parties descending further into pov- A Palestinian girl sits at her family’s house in the northern Gaza Strip. Seven years into an Israeli blockade and nine months into a crippling Egyptian to blame. erty and de-development of the Living on UN handouts of rice, economy,” said Scott Anderson, one, Gaza’s economic growth has evaporated and unemployment soared to almost 40 percent by the end of 2013. flour, canned meat and sunflower deputy director of operations at oil, with limited access to proper UNRWA, noting that the level of around us do. People can sur- rendered harder by the 1993 Oslo sweet well water. recognised Israel, the people here health care or clean water, fami- aid dependency faced by Gaza has vive cancer, but not this,” said interim peace accords because Long since demolished by would spit on them — their popu- lies like the Mustafas - seemingly few parallels in the world. Shannan, herself a survivor. radiation chemotherapy, the two Israeli bulldozers amid cross-bor- larity would evaporate overnight,” permanent refugees from ancestral “In terms of economic shock to There are 13,000 sufferers in the sides agreed, could have military der violence in 2008, the orchard said Zakaria Shurafa, a driver lands now part of Israel - have no a population, probably somewhere Strip and it is the second highest applications. Only five practic- lives on only in his small garden. picking up his family’s ration of money, no jobs and no hope. like Sierra Leone might be the cause of death among Palestinians ing oncologists remain in Gaza, In it stands one of every type of UN food aid at a busy distribu- “We’re drowning... We feel like only place where people experience after heart disease. Shannan notes with gloom. tree he used to tend — a reminder tion centre by the Beach Refugee the whole world is on top of us. I what the people of Gaza experience Farha Al Fayyumi, a breast In northern Gaza’s green farm- of what he’s lost and of the steady camp. “I don’t see any possibil- turn on the television and I see on a daily basis,” he said. cancer patient from the Shuja’iya land, Mahmoud blames Hamas erosion of land and livelihoods ity of a revolt, though I’m sure the lifestyles on there, and I think, The crisis is pulling down the refugee camp in central Gaza for much of the suffering. “Do that Palestinians have endured Israel’s blockade is trying at that God help me leave this place,” said Strip’s most vulnerable, not just complains that her teeth are things ever change for their gang? over the decades. ... it’s no use, we’re used to this Tareq, 22. among its poor but also its sick. throbbing - medicines used to If jobs open up, their people get Contamination of the aquifer kind of life.” The Mustafas often must pick While basic health and eco- offset the effects of her years of them. They never suffer,” said the means the family’s water is now Mahmoud, the jobless youth, up and move when rain floods nomic indicators outstrip much chemotherapy treatments are not 23-year-old, who studied to be an brackish and undrinkable. Like lamented how the economic dead- their low-lying home - even on of Africa, the rising level of aid available in Gaza. electrician, then a truck driver, many Gazans, they pay to have lock was dragging down society, a sunny day, it’s lined with slick, dependency and sense of confine- Once the a main conduit for but found work as neither. it filtered. “When they closed the and his dreams of what he could smelly mildew. They stand in the ment takes a constant toll. Gazans seeking treatment abroad, Hamas denies corruption land, life ended,” he sighed. “We accomplish. “In conditions like this, dark, as 12-hour power cuts are Eman Shannan, who runs a the crossing with neighbouring and says it governs transpar- used to sell the fruit of our trees, you feel people’s hatred grow, their now the norm throughout Gaza support group for cancer patients Egypt is now only open to people, ently, mostly blaming Israel now we buy from Egypt and Israel, jealousy of each other grow. Young due to scant fuel. “There’s no and writes about Gaza life, told including the sick, around two days for the Strip’s economic woes. but only when we can afford it.” people take tramadol (drugs), money for university or to get Reuters that treatment for the each month. More and more, pov- Mahmoud’s father, a farmer, sits Grumbling at their leaders’ there’s robbery. These things didn’t married. There’s not even enough disease has been rendered ago- erty is also staunching the flow. in a flowing brown robe and rests perceived incompetence is com- use to happen,” he said. to spend outside the house so we nizing by travel curbs at the “I haven’t been to Egypt for his cane over his knees in a sunny mon among residents, but many “When you’re young you think can escape a little. What kind of Egyptian border, a lack of medi- treatment for a year and a half. I enclosure next to his family house. said Gazans would remain behind that, as an adult, you will be able life is this?” Tareq asks. cine and careless officialdom. can’t afford the travel expenses,” The 67-year-old remembers the Hamas because of its militancy. to do more, that the world will Well over half of Gaza resi- “We are headed for disaster. said Al Fayyumi, a widow with orchards in his 180,000 square “The whole world is against become more open to you. But dents receive food from the Five new cases come into the eight children clad in a head-to- meters of land astride Israel’s them. They’re not angels of here, we found that as we grew United Nations, and the number office every day... Cancer doesn’t toe black niqab body cloak. border where olives, lemons and course. They’ve made a lot of mis- older, our problems only grew.” is on the rise. UNRWA, the UN kill as much as the circumstances Treatment in Gaza was oranges once thrived in the area’s takes. But if they went ahead and REUTERS Nigeria history woes need guidance Glenn Miller’s legacy of We Nigerians must violence, hate in Kansas deal with our fear of BY ROBERT SATLOFF hen I learned that the man accused of shooting innocent bystand- examining the civil ers Sunday at a Jewish community centre and Jewish retirement home in Kansas City was a former Klansman named Glenn Miller, war and the wrongs WI shuddered. Thirty-three years ago, when I was an undergraduate at Duke University, I read a small item in the Raleigh News & Observer that mentioned Miller, then the of the past. Biyi grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Miller, it turns out, ran a paramilitary training camp in rural North Carolina. Bandele’s new film I couldn’t understand how, in late-20th-century America, the KKK could operate in the open less than an hour from our elite, ivory-tower campus. I was an editor of Duke’s daily newspaper, the Chronicle, so I did what any reporter would do: I is a step forward. called Miller and asked for an interview. Always looking for publicity, Miller readily said yes, but he had one condition. “We ain’t no equal-opportunity employer, you BY CHIBUNDU ONUZO know,” he said. “So don’t bring down no blacks and no Jews.” Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, leader of the Biafran forces, was a visionary, selfless leader and a I am Jewish. But buoyed by the bravado of youth, I decided to lie and agreed to alf of a Yellow Sun, Biyi selfish megalomaniac. Miller’s condition. To be safe, I got a crew cut, put a cross around my neck, arranged Bandele’s new film adaption of for a fake press pass in the name of Robert Statler Jr and asked our crack pho- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s tographer-reporter Shep Moyle — a tall, blond, good-looking guy — to go with me. Hnovel, explores the effect of uncles, my aunties and my father who outcomes were very much the same: Igbo The following Saturday morning, Shep and I drove past the town of Angier and the Nigerian civil war on the lives of four lived through the war will not discuss. people were dead, leaving many like my down dusty Route 1312 near the intersection of Johnston and Harnett countries, characters. It is a subtle movie of a large Once in an extended conversation with uncle to fear that history was repeating arriving at Miller’s 27-acre farm. A bunch of guys, mostly in combat gear, were war, intimate and revealing of the per- my uncle, I tried to discover what his itself. History had never receded into the milling about, many holding guns. I also saw a pregnant blond woman with two sonal tragedies that took place from July experiences in the war had been. He had past. little kids, playing with a toy rifle. 1967 to January 1970. been a student in south-western Nigeria; It is important that Bandele’s film has When I met Miller, his first words were, “Are you a Jew?” No, I said. He went on: As I watched those four lives turned he fled the campus at night, afraid he been made. It is important that we look “I don’t let Jews on my land, so you’d better not be lying to me.” I held my ground upside down – their houses bombed, would be murdered in his bed for being back, if only to say that we have not moved and we started the interview. For about 10 minutes, I asked typical background their children starved, and their moth- Igbo; he became a soldier in the Biafran forward. It is important that contesting questions: hometown, education, military experience, etc. I thought we had pulled ers killed by the advancing Nigerian army; he was shot in the wrist. These accounts of our past be brought out into it off. army– I began to wonder if my country were the skeletal details that I knew, and the public space. We must remember and Suddenly, a man with a medium build wearing a Nazi uniform motioned to Miller. was ready for such a piercing glance into I wanted him to give sinew and tissues we must do it together. They went off for a discussion in the kitchen. When Miller returned, he began to its past. to these bare facts. As I asked him ques- Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, leader of the sniff. “I smell a Jew,” he said. Again, I denied it. But his mind was made up. In Nigeria we are afraid to look back. tions, he grew increasingly agitated until Biafran forces, was a visionary, selfless For the next 2 1/2 hours, I was kept under armed guard, locked in a steaming History has recently been removed from he shouted: “What good will remember- leader. Colonel Emeka Ojukwu was a self- car in the blazing sun, as Shep continued the interview. Three men, sometimes the standard secondary school curricu- ing do? They are still killing Igbos in the ish megalomaniac. Obafemi Awolowo, four, vigilantly watched me, led by the uniformed Nazi. Every half-hour one of lum. Subjects like maths, physics and north!” Nigerian statesman and founding father, them would come near the car to wave a pistol at me and check on whether I was chemistry are indispensable to moving And this is the trouble with history was the architect of the starvation of hun- taking pictures. forward and building the 21st century in my country. It is not gone. It is ever dreds of thousands of Biafrans. Obafemi For Miller, I was a lost cause, but he tried to recruit Shep. “I bet those Jews up African superpower we aspire to be. But present. It is ever with us. Ken Saro-Wiwa Awolowo was justified in every tactic he there at Duke don’t associate with you whites do they?” Shep reported Miller had a discipline that looks back over our tem- and the Ogoni Eight died 19 years ago, advocated in what was a total war. We asked. “And those niggers up there think they’re really something.” For a $5 “dona- pestuous hundred years as a nation, is best fighting for their rivers destroyed by Shell must discuss all these accounts of the past tion,” Miller had one of his minions put on the Klan hood as Shep snapped a photo. left alone. For in looking over Nigeria’s oil spills, for their people who saw no ben- in the open, together as a nation. At 5.30pm, Shep came out of the one-story wooden house and we were told to past, difficult concepts such as tribalism efit from the oil discovered on their land. Every nation has a consensus account leave. We drove straight into town to talk to locals and find out what they thought and genocide begin to appear: and how After nearly two decades, oil still clogs the on the defining moments of its past, be it of the Klan living right next door. Sgt Randy Cooke of the nearby Benson police does a nation that hasn’t coped with pro- waterways of the Niger delta and its peo- the Holocaust or the battle of Hastings. department summed up what we heard about Glenn Miller: “I’d call him the good viding electricity for its citizens, that is ple continue to cry out for infrastructure. It is these accounts that build national neighbourly type,” he said. still racked by ethnic divisions and politi- In 1966 Igbos were massacred in Kano identity. We must remember together. At the time, I didn’t think these sorts of things still happened in the United cal instability – how does such a nation in the run-up to what would become the There is no more space under the carpet. States. I was wrong. cope with that? Nigerian civil war. In 2013, Igbos were We have swept a mountain of dirt under The articles Shep and I wrote made for a great story; they even hit the wires. There is a scene in Bandele’s movie massacred in a Boko Haram bomb attack there and it is time we faced it. After this weekend’s events, I dug through boxes in my garage on Monday to find the where an Igbo airport official is shot dead that targeted the Sabon Gari bus station The past is to be feared the most when yellowed copy of the newspaper that I filed away long ago. It is dated April 15, 1981. at point-blank range by a Nigerian army in Kano. it is left unconfronted. Thank you, Biyi Miller was a rabidly violent, racist anti-Semite when I met him 33 years ago, officer. It is shocking; it is unprovoked The circumstances surrounding these Bandele, for drawing first blood. and apparently he never changed. – and it is scenes such as this that my two events were very different but the THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST IAEA: Iran has Rebels attack army barracks in Aleppo BEIRUT: Nearly 50 people were killed yesterday when Syrian rebels attacked one of the largest military barracks cut nuclear in the country, in northern Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said at least 27 soldiers and pro-regime militiamen were killed and that the rebel losses of stockpile 20 dead included a commander. “Rebels, including fighters from Al Nusra Front and the Islamic Front, launched an assault today US to release $450m frozen funds on the barracks in Hanano in VIENNA: Iran has acted to Tehran has also continued to Aleppo,” Observatory director cut its most sensitive nuclear convert the other half of its stock Rami Abdel Rahman said. stockpile by nearly 75 percent in of uranium gas refined to a 20 State media, meanwhile, implementing a landmark pact percent fissile purity - a relatively reported that the army had “foiled with world powers, but a planned short technical step from 90 per- an attempt by terrorist groups to facility it will need to fulfil the cent weapons-grade material - infiltrate the barracks” and killed six-month deal has been delayed, into oxide for making reactor fuel. a number of them. a UN report showed yesterday. Altogether, Iran has in the President Bashar Al Assad’s The monthly update by the last three months either diluted regime refers to rebels battling International Atomic Energy or fed into the conversion proc- to topple it as “terrorist” groups. Forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad walk inside the government-controlled Hanano barracks after what Agency , which has a pivotal role ess a total of almost 155 kg of its Abdel Rahman said the bar- in verifying that Iran is living up higher-grade uranium gas, which racks is one of the largest in Syria. they said was an offensive against them by Free Syrian Army fighters in Aleppo yesterday. to its part of the accord, made amounted to 209 kg when the deal “It’s strategically important clear that Iran so far is under- came into force, a bit less than the because it’s on a hill that over- positions around the barracks”. The air force has also waged taking the agreed steps to curb roughly 250 kg experts say would looks parts of northern Aleppo,” State television also reported a relentless campaign against Registration for its nuclear programme. be needed for a bomb, if refined he added. that the rebels had “detonated eastern parts of the city, includ- As a result, it is gradually gaining more. Once Syria’s economic hub, explosives in three tunnels around ing dropping explosives-packed poll from Monday access to some previously blocked The IAEA report also pointed Aleppo has been divided between the barracks”. “barrel bombs”. overseas funds. In Washington, the to a new delay in Iran’s construc- regime control in the west and Abdel Rahman said the bar- Rebels respond by firing rock- DAMASCUS: Candidates State Department said the United tion of a plant designed to turn rebel control in the east since racks overlooks a key supply route ets into pro-regime areas. for Syria’s presidential elec- States has taken steps to release low-enriched uranium gas (LEU) shortly after combat began there for rebels going north into the The Observatory said that tion can begin registering on a $450m instalment of frozen into an oxide powder that is not in mid-2012. rest of Aleppo province. such rocket attacks yesterday April 21, when the date for Iranian funds following the issu- suitable for further processing Abdel Rahman said the Regime forces have advanced killed at least 11 civilians, includ- the vote will be announced, ance of the report. into highly enriched bomb-grade attack began when “rebels det- around some of the eastern out- ing two women and a child, and a government source said In addition, Japan has made uranium. onated explosives in tunnels skirts of Aleppo city, reopening its wounded 40. yesterday. two more payments totalling Iran told the IAEA last month they had dug beneath army international airport to the east. AFP “On Monday, April 21, the $1bn to Iran for crude imports, that the site would be commis- Council of the People (par- two sources with knowledge of the sioned on April 9. But the update liament) will meet to open transactions said. by the UN nuclear watchdog said registration for presidential Under the breakthrough agree- the commissioning had been put Call for talks to lift Homs siege candidates and set a date for ment that took effect on January off, without giving any reason. the election,” the source said. 20, Iran halted some aspects of its However, “Iran has indicated to UNITED NATIONS: Syria’s “It is a matter of deep regret assault on Tuesday against the Syria’s government has nuclear programme in exchange the agency that this will not have government and opposition that negotiations were brutally rebel-held neighbourhoods in insisted it will go ahead with for a limited easing of interna- an adverse impact on the imple- groups should resume talks to stopped and violence is now rife Homs and “have achieved key presidential elections this year tional sanctions that have laid low mentation of (its) undertaking” lift the siege on Homs, where again when a comprehensive successes” and “killed a number of before the end of President the major oil producer’s economy. to convert the uranium gas, the bombardments have re-started, agreement seemed close at hand,” terrorists,” Syrian television said, Bashar Al Assad’s term on The IAEA update showed that agency said. international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi added in the statement using the regime’s term for rebels. July 17. Iran had -- as stipulated by the If it complies with the interim Brahimi said yesterday. distributed at the UN headquar- Most of the central city is now The vote will be Syria’s first November 24 agreement with the deal, Iran will get a total of $4.2bn UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi ters in New York. under regime control. Rebel-held multi-candidate elections, after United States, France, Germany, in revenues long frozen oversees, said the discussions had been well “We urge all the parties to pockets have been under a siege for a new constitution did away Britain, China and Russia -- in eight instalments over the under way between the Syrian return to the negotiating table and nearly two years, leading to dwin- with the old process of presi- diluted half of its higher-grade January-July period. Including government and “a negotiating complete the deal which was on dling food and medical supplies. dential referendums. enriched uranium reserve to a Japan’s latest payments, it has committee representing the civil- the verge of being signed,” he said. According to rebel groups, Assad has all but said he will fissile content less prone to bomb received $2.55bn. South Korea, ians and fighters still trapped in “We have reached out to all around 1,300 people, mainly com- stand, and is expected to easily proliferation. One of the payments another importer of Iranian oil, the Old city of Homs as well as those who could help put an end batants, are still trapped in army- win the vote. from Japan, of $450m on April 15, has made one payment. the inhabitants of the Al Waer to this tragedy.” besieged neighbourhoods. AFP hinged on Iran meeting this target. REUTERS neighbourhood.” The Syrian army launched an AFP

Iranian mother Ruling party wants Turkey PM to run for president spares life of ANKARA: Turkey’s ruling of banks, public institutions, cor- said he is in principle opposed. party would overwhelmingly Govt hopes Twitter will open office porate entities and unions,” said “An overwhelming major- son’s killer back Prime Minister Recep Atilla Kart, a member of parlia- ity within the party says that Tayyip Erdogan’s candidacy in ANKARA: Turkey’s government yesterday said it still hopes ment for the main opposition Erdogan should become the presi- the nation’s first direct presi- Twitter will open an office in the country, a day after the social CHP. “The concept of professional dent and the results of the vot- with a slap dential election, senior officials networking site ruled out any such move. or commercial confidentiality will ing have depicted that as well,” TEHRAN: An Iranian mother said yesterday, a move his oppo- In a statement following several days of talks with Twitter lose all meaning.” a senior party official said after spared the life of her son’s nents fear would feed his auto- executives, Communication Minister Lutfi Elvan said Turkey had Control of security serv- Wednesday’s secret ballot. convicted murderer with an cratic instincts. suggested that the company open a “liaison office” to improve coor- ices goes to the heart of a feud “A small group said Erdogan emotional slap in the face as The president has until now dination with the government. between Erdogan and Islamic should not run in the elections he awaited execution with the been chosen by parliament and Elvan added that the country’s telecommunications author- cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former as there will be critical develop- noose around his neck, a news- played a largely ceremonial role, ity would now pixelate all text and images on Twitter deemed ally based in the United States ments ahead during which his paper reported yesterday. but Erdogan has said the popu- inappropriate. whose network of followers leadership will be much needed,” The dramatic climax followed lar vote will bestow the post with AFP wields influence in the police and the official said. a rare public campaign to save more authority and has vowed to judiciary. The AK Party’s deputy chair- the life of Balal, who at 19 killed exercise its full powers if elected. Erdogan, who has dominated prosecutors and blocking access Erdogan accuses Gulen’s net- man, Huseyin Celik, said on another young man, Abdollah A majority of the 300 depu- Turkish politics for more than a to social media sites — they say work of contriving the graft scan- Wednesday that the group would Hosseinzadeh, in a street fight ties in Erdogan’s AK Party voted decade, has made little secret of has betrayed his increasingly dal as part of a plot to undermine hold a series of meetings on the with a knife back in 2007. in a secret ballot on Wednesday his ambition to run for the job. authoritarian impulses. him. His aides have said his deter- presidential election culminating Shargh newspaper said police in favour of him running in the His party’s strong showing in Parliament approved a new law mination to see off the threat may in early May, after which a deci- officers led Balal to a public exe- August presidential election, local elections last month, despite boosting the powers of the secret mean him abandoning any presi- sion would be announced. cution site in the northern city of party officials said. a corruption scandal dogging his service (MIT) later yesterday, dential bid and staying on for a Incumbent President Abdullah Nowshahr as a large crowd gath- The vote was meant as an inner circle, has strengthened proposals the government says fourth term as prime minister, Gul was the second choice of pres- ered on Tuesday morning. informal test of the level of sup- expectations he will do so. will bring it in line with inter- currently a more powerful post. idential nominee in the secret Samereh Alinejad, mother of port within the party for a bid by But his opponents fear an national peers but which the Such a move would require ballot, officials said. Gul is a close the victim who lost another son Erdogan, which would mean him ascent to the presidency would opposition sees as another bid by the AK Party to vote to change Erdogan ally and co-founder in a motorbike accident four years stepping down as party leader. consolidate too much power in the Erdogan to tighten his grip on the its internal rules and remove a of the party, and is tipped as a ago, asked the crowd whether The prime minister alone will hands of a man whose response apparatus of state. three-term limit for its parlia- possible prime minister should they know “how difficult it is to decide on his candidacy, his aides to the graft allegations — reas- “MIT will from now on be able mentary deputies, something to Erdogan run. live in an empty house.” have said. signing thousands of police and to have access to all the records which Erdogan has repeatedly REUTERS Balal, black-hooded and stand- ing on a chair before a makeshift gallows, had the noose around his neck when Alinejad approached. She slapped him in the face and removed the rope from his neck assisted by her husband, Militants kill 30 in Iraq attacks Abdolghani Hosseinzadeh, a former professional footballer. BAGHDAD: Suspected Sunni killing 12 soldiers and wounding bomb and shooting attacks in “I am a believer. I had a dream Muslim militants killed at least about a dozen, army and police other parts of Iraq yesterday. in which my son told me that he 30 people around Iraq yester- officers said on condition of Meanwhile, a rusting pipe- was at peace and in a good place... day, including 12 soldiers in an anonymity. line that runs from the Kirkuk After that, all my relatives, even assault on a remote army base An army officer said the oilfields to the Baiji refinery in my mother, put pressure on me in the north, deepening inse- armoured cars as well as rocket- Salahuddin province leaked a to pardon the killer,” Alinejad curity with a national election propelled grenades, machine large amount of oil into the Tigris told Shargh. “The murderer was just two weeks away. guns and some other light weap- River, according to a Northern crying, asking for forgiveness. I Sectarian bloodshed has ons used by the militants had Oil Company official who asked slapped him in the face. That slap increased since the Shia Muslim- been seized during ambushes not to be named. helped to calm me down,” she said. led Baghdad government began of Iraqi forces during fighting The spill stirred panic after “Now that I’ve forgiven him, I feel an offensive against insurgents, in Anbar. someone set the oil ablaze, send- relieved.” some of them affiliated with Al The region around Mosul ing huge clouds of smoke into the Balal said the “slap was the Qaeda, dug in around Falluja and has been a stronghold of the Al provincial capital Tikrit, accord- space between revenge and Ramadi in the western province Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of ing to city residents. forgiveness.” of Anbar. Iraq and the Levant group. Ambulances evacuated resi- “I’ve asked my friends not to Early last morning, gunmen As in Falluja and Ramadi, dents with difficulty breathing. carry knives... I wish someone disguised in Iraqi military uni- Iraqi forces face daily skirmishes Much of northern Iraq’s pipe- had slapped me in the face when forms drove armoured vehicles, around Mosul with ISIL and line infrastructure is ageing and I wanted to carry one,” Balal said including Iraqi army Humvees, other armed Sunni groups. in need of renovation, and vul- in a television interview. Residents look at the scene of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad yesterday. up to a small military base out- Suspected Sunni militants nerable to militant attacks. AFP side Mosul and opened fire, killed another 18 people in REUTERS FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Russia, West reach deal on Ukraine crisis Geneva meet calls for disbanding armed groups

GENEVA: Russia, Ukraine, the Deshchytsya and EU foreign pol- untested new leaders — whom it US and EU reached a surprise icy chief Catherine Ashton. does not recognise as legitimate — deal yesterday on de-escalating Washington and Kiev have not to unleash force in Ukraine. the worsening Ukrainian crisis, accused Russia of supporting Accordingly, Kerry warned Russia in a ray of hope for the former the militants who have occu- that if there was no progress Soviet republic that has plunged pied buildings such as police sta- on de-escalating the crisis in into chaos. tions and government bases, but Ukraine, “there will be additional The agreement reached in Moscow has always categorically sanctions, additional costs”. Geneva comes as a strong con- denied this. The United States and trast to earlier hawkish com- Lavrov also said Russia had European Union have already ments made by Russian leader “no desire” to send troops into imposed punitive sanctions on key Vladimir Putin, who left the door Ukraine, toning down earlier Russian and Ukrainian political open for intervention in Ukraine. comments by Putin. Warning that and business officials, including A ban by Kiev on all Russian Ukraine was plunging into the members of Putin’s inner circle. males aged 16 to 60 from enter- “abyss” just hours after three sep- And the European Parliament ing Ukrainian territory had also aratists were killed in a gun battle yesterday said that the European ratcheted up the tensions, with with troops in eastern Ukraine, Union should act “against Russian Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Putin had stressed he hoped not firms and their subsidiaries, Lavrov calling the measure to have to use his “right” to send especially in the energy sector, “disgusting”. Russian troops into its western and Russia’s EU assets”. So far, But after half a day of talks, neighbour. though, any further sanctions the four parties agreed on steps to “I very much hope that I am not appear to have been put on hold. “restore security for all citizens”, obliged to use this right and that Russia’s annexation of the including a call to disband armed through political and diplomatic Crimea peninsula last month groups that have taken over means we can solve all the acute escalated a crisis that has shaped buildings in Ukraine “illegally”. problems in Ukraine,” he said in up to be the worst East-West While not spelt out in the his annual televised phone-in with standoff since the Cold War. agreement, these groups could the nation, in a signal the option Kerry said the West is “not A pro-Kiev protester dances as he wears Ukranian flags during a rally in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, yesterday. refer to pro-Kremlin separa- was on the table. giving up” on peninsula, “but we tists who have seized control of The upper house of parlia- did not come (to Geneva) to talk stir up unrest in the country, fur- all sides to refrain from violence, journey of history, this is not just government buildings and taken ment on March 1 authorised the about Crimea.” ther implying Russia’s role in the intimidation and provocation, as intolerable, it’s grotesque. It is over parts of Ukraine’s southeast, Russian leader to send troops Each side came to the Geneva destabilisation of the country. well as to reject extremism in all beyond unacceptable,” he said. destabilising the country. into Ukraine after pro-Kremlin talks armed with a very specific But Russia has blamed Kiev’s shapes. Kerry told reporters that Separately, the European Union “All illegal armed groups must president Viktor Yanukovich was set of demands, and the West interim leaders — installed by notices were sent to Jews in a announced that it had agreed be disarmed, ilegally seized build- ousted, and Moscow later went and Kiev had aimed to persuade Ukraine’s parliament in February Ukrainian city believed to be in to hold talks with Russia on its ings returned to their rightful on to annex Ukraine’s Russian- Moscow to demobilise the militias. after the overthrow of Yanukovich the east, asking them to identify gas supplies to Europe through owners,” Lavrov said as he briefed speaking Crimean peninsula. Ukraine’s Security Service following months of protests — for themselves as Jews — a move he Ukraine, warning Moscow its reporters about the deal reached Russia has now massed tens said it was detaining 10 “Russian pushing the country dangerously condemned as “grotesque”. reliability as an energy source with US Secretary of State of thousands of troops at the spies” arrested over the past six close to a civil war. “In the year 2014, after all of was at stake. John Kerry, Ukraine’s Andriy border and has warned Kiev’s weeks on suspected missions to The agreement also called on the miles travelled and all of the AFP Three Britons in custody over Snowden questions Putin on spying hammer attack on UAE women LONDON: Three men were remanded in custody by a British MOSCOW: Edward Snowden, court yesterday in connection with a hammer attack at a London the fugitive former US spy hotel on three wealthy tourists from the United Arab Emirates. agency contractor who leaked The attack happened in the early hours of April 6 in a room on details of US intelligence eaves- the seventh floor of the four-star Cumberland Hotel, next to Hyde dropping, made a surprise Park and the main Oxford Street shopping area. Philip Spence, appearance on TV phone-in 32, of no fixed abode, appeared at Southwark Crown Court in hosted by Vladimir Putin yes- London charged with three counts of attempted murder and one terday, asking the Russian pres- of aggravated burglary, Scotland Yard said. Also in court were ident if his country also tapped Thomas Efremi, 56, of Islington, north London, who is charged the communications of millions. with handling stolen goods and fraud by false representation, and The exchange was the first James Moss, 33, of Finsbury Park, north London, who is also known direct contact between charged with handling stolen goods. All three were remanded Putin and Snowden since Russia in custody before a plea and management hearing at Southwark gave the American refuge last Crown Court on July 3. Carly Baker, 31, of Finsbury Park, who is summer after he disclosed wide- charged with handling stolen goods, was bailed to appear at the spread monitoring of telephone same hearing. All four of those charged are British nationals. and Internet data by the United One of the victims remains in a critical condition in hospital. The States and fled the country. other two women are also in hospital, but their injuries are not Snowden was not in the stu- believed to be life-threatening, police said. dio with Putin. He submitted his question in a video clip that a law- Pope washes feet of disabled, Muslim yer said had been pre-recorded. Snowden, 30, wearing a jacket ROME: Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen elderly and dis- and open-collar shirt, asked abled people including a Libyan Muslim during an Easter ritual Putin: “Does Russia intercept, in Rome yesterday. The 77-year-old bent down with difficulty to store or analyse, in any way, the wash and kiss the feet of the nine Italians and three foreigners communications of millions of aged between 16 and 86 years old at the Don Carlo Gnocchi foun- individuals?” dation’s Santa Maria della Provvidenza centre. The youngest to “And do you believe that sim- have his feet washed at the ceremony was 16-year-old Osvaldinho ply increasing the effectiveness of Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is displayed on the television screens at a press centre in Moscow as from Cape Verde, who is wheelchair bound after damaging his intelligence or law enforcement he asks a question to Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a televised call-in, in Moscow yesterday. spine diving into the sea last summer. Angelica, 86, who fell and investigations can justify placing broke her hip last year, was the oldest. Among the others was societies, rather than subjects, scale, on an uncontrolled scale we “We have neither the technical but in other countries including 75-year-old Hamed, a Libyan Muslim who worked for years for under surveillance?” he asked. certainly do not allow this and I means nor the money at the United Russia, which the US says has the Italian-Arab chamber of commerce, before a road accident He was speaking in English, hope we will never allow it”. States has,” Putin added. “But the rolled back freedoms under Putin. left him with serious neurological damage. and Putin had to ask the anchor He said the Russian authori- main thing is that our intelligence A government-connected for help with a translation of the ties need consent from a court services are under the strict con- Russian lawyer who has been Colombian novelist Garcia Marquez dies question. Putin, a spy during a to conduct such surveillance on a trol of the state and society.” aiding Snowden since his arrival, 16-year career with the Soviet specific individual “and for this rea- Snowden has been kept out of Anatoly Kucherena, said Snowden MEXICO CITY: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian KGB, raised a laugh among the son there is no (surveillance) of a sight, his location secret, but his had decided to pose a question to author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin studio audience when he said: mass character here and cannot be presence in Russia has angered Putin when he heard of the presi- America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism “You are an ex-agent. I used to in accordance with the law”. the United States, whose Justice dent’s annual Q&A session. on the literary map, died yesterday. He was 87. A prolific writer have ties to intelligence. So we The televised exchange allowed Department has charged him “Edward is good with these who started out as a newspaper reporter, Garcia Marquez’s mas- will speak to each other in the Putin to portray Russia as less with violating the Espionage Act. technologies. He learned (of the terpiece was One Hundred Years of Solitude, a dream-like, dynas- language of professionals.” intrusive in the lives of its citizens For Snowden, the exchange programme) and taped a video,” tic epic that helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in Turning to Snowden’s question, than the United States, which he with Putin may have been a Kucherena said. “He know how 1982. Garcia Marquez died at his home in Mexico City. He had Putin said Russia regulates com- frequently accuses of preaching chance to suggest that he is con- to go on the Internet in a secure returned home from hospital last week after what doctors said munications as part of criminal abroad about rights and freedoms cerned about surveillance prac- way, and that is how he sent in his was a bout of pneumonia. Known affectionately to friends and investigations, but “on a massive it violates at home. tices not only in the United States question.” REUTERS fans as “Gabo”, Garcia Marquez was Latin America’s best-known author and most beloved author and his books have sold in the tens of millions. Although One Hundred Years of Solitude was his most popular creation, other classics from Garcia Marquez included Autumn of the Patriarch, Love in the Time of Cholera and 115 Nigeria schoolgirls still missing Five kidnapped Malian Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Ebola caused by new strain of disease MAIDUGURI: A Nigerian school principal although he said the number of those who aid workers freed yesterday denied military reports that most have fled to safety now stood at 20. “We have CONAKRY: An Ebola outbreak blamed for 135 deaths in West of the girls kidnapped by Islamist gunmen recovered about 20 girls now and they are with MALI: French forces have freed five Malian Africa in the past month was not imported from Central Africa were now safe, as parents continued a des- us. After they escaped, the girls went to vil- aid workers who were taken hostage in a but caused by a new strain of the disease, a study in a US medi- perate search for more than 100 children lage heads who live close to where they found February kidnapping claimed by one of the cal journal said, raising the spectre of further regional epidemics. still held captive. themselves and the local leaders brought them country’s top jihadist groups, the presidents The spread of Ebola from a remote corner of Guinea to the capital A defence ministry spokesman, Chris to us,” said Mallam Inuwa Kubo. of France and Mali said yesterday. and into neighbouring Liberia, the first deadly outbreak reported Olukolade, claimed on Wednesday that all The mass kidnap on Monday sparked glo- “An operation by the French armed forces” in West Africa, has caused panic across a region struggling with but eight of the 129 girls kidnapped from the bal outrage and came just hours after the freed the five workers — four Red Cross weak healthcare systems and porous borders. Ebola is endemic to Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok deadliest attack to hit capital Abuja, where employees and a veterinarian from another aid Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon, area of Borno state earlier in the week were a bomb blast also blamed on Boko Haram organisation — after “a terrorist group” kid- and scientists initially believed that Central Africa’s Zaire strain of now safe, citing the school’s principal. killed at least 75 people. Boko Haram’s napped them on February 8 in Mali’s restive the virus was responsible for the outbreak. Using analysis of blood But the same principal refuted the claim extremist uprising, aimed at creating a strict north, the presidents said in a joint statement. samples from infected patients, however, researchers determined yesterday. “The report from the military is not Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed The hostages are in good health after the that while the Guinean form of the Ebola virus showed a 97 percent true,” Asabe Kwambura said in Lagos. She said thousands since 2009. morning raid north of Timbuktu, the state- similarity to the Zaire strain, the disease was not introduced from the information provided by Borno’s governor Parents of the missing girls swarmed the ment said. The kidnapping was claimed by Central Africa. “This study demonstrates the emergence of a new Kashim Shettima on Wednesday that only 14 home of Chibok’s tribal chief, demanding the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in EBOV strain in Guinea,” wrote the group of more than 30 doc- girls had escaped their captors was “correct”. answers after the military claimed the girls West Africa (MUJAO), a splinter group of tors and scientists, who published their preliminary findings on the Later, Borno’s education commissioner were free, residents said. Al-Qaeda’s regional franchise. website of the New England Journal of Medicine. AGENCIES also confirmed that only a handful escaped, AFP AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Fear, anger grow over hundreds still missing Parents shout down President, PM; ship captain grilled

JINDO: Rescuers worked fran- He said more than 500 divers, Minister!” one mother said, tically yesterday to find around 169 vessels and 29 aircraft were blocking him as he tried to leave. 300 people, mostly schoolchil- involved in the rescue operation. “Please tell us what you’re plan- dren, missing after a South But distraught relatives gath- ning to do.” Korean ferry capsized, with ered in a gymnasium on nearby The coastguard said 179 people prospects of pulling survivors Jindo island insisted more should had been rescued, a figure that from the submerged vessel dim- be done, and vented their frustra- has remained constant since the ming as emotions boiled over tion when President Park Geun- evening before, undermining among anguished relatives. Hye came to inspect the rescue hopes of more survivors being Worsening weather fuelled the effort. found. sombre mood, with persistent “What are you doing when It was still unclear what caused rain and choppy seas hindering people are dying! Time is run- the 6,825-tonne Sewol to sink. dive teams struggling with low ning out!” one woman screamed Numerous passengers spoke of visibility and strong currents. as Park who tried to address the a loud thud and the vessel com- Nine people were confirmed volatile crowd with her security ing to an abrupt, shuddering halt, dead, but with every hour that detail standing by nervously. suggesting it had run aground or South Korean President Park Geun Hye speaks to relatives of missing passengers on board a capsized ferry as passed fears mounted for the 287 A total of 375 high school stu- hit a submerged object. she visits a gym in Jindo yesterday. still unaccounted for after the dents were on board, travelling But the captain, Lee Joon-Seok, multi-deck vessel with 475 on with their teachers to the popular who survived and was being ques- board listed, capsized and sank island resort of Jeju. tioned by investigators, insisted it passengers, victims and families,” footage taken by one survivor that passengers had been ordered within 90 minutes on Wednesday When Prime Minister Chung had not hit any rocks. he said. showed the panic on board with to stay in their seats and cabins morning. Hong-Won visited the gymnasium Pulling a hood over his head Experts suggested the ferry one woman screaming “The when the ferry first foundered. “Honestly, I think the chances earlier in the day, he was jostled and face as he was surrounded by cargo, which included 150 cars, water’s coming, the water’s “We must have waited 30 to 40 of finding anyone alive are close to and shouted at, and water bottles camera crews in the coastguard might have shifted, irretrievably coming!” minutes after the crew told us to zero,” a coastguard official said on were thrown. offices, Lee mumbled an apology. destabilising the vessel. There was growing public anger stay put,” said one rescued stu- one of the boats at the site. “Don’t run away, Mr. Prime “I feel really sorry for the Distressing mobile phone over multiple survivor testimony dent. AFP Search for Malaysian jet refocuses on drone scans of sea floor

SYDNEY: A deep-sea drone screens on March 8 with 239 have come from the plane’s black kilometres to date and the data aircraft, two civil aircraft and 11 regroup, and we reconsider.” completed its much-anticipated people aboard. box recorders. from its latest mission is being ships would still search an area Asked by Reuters yesterday first full scan of the seabed in A sample taken from an oil However, with no pings analysed,” the Joint Agency totalling about 40,000 square to clarify Abbott’s comments to the remote Indian Ocean, the slick in the same area, some received in more than a week and Coordination Centre, the body kilometres . That would suggest the newspaper, his office said he team looking for a missing 2,000kms west of the Australian the black box’s battery now 10 running the search, said in a searchers, under pressure from was only suggesting that authori- Malaysian jetliner said yes- city of Perth, is also being days past its approximate expiry statement. On Monday, the the families of those on board ties may change the area being terday, as an air and surface analysed. date, authorities are relying on search coordinator, retired Air the plane, still hold some hope searched by the Bluefin-21 drone, search became less likely to Authorities believe that is the drone. The “Bluefin-21” Chief Marshal Angus Houston, of finding floating wreckage. not that the search would be yield results. the most likely area where the drone completed its first full said the air and surface search Australian Prime Minister called off. Footage from a US Navy deep- missing jet hit the ocean after 16-hour deployment at a depth for debris would likely end in Tony Abbott was quoted by the Malaysia’s defence minister, sea drone is fast becoming the disappearing. of 4.5kms late Wednesday after three days as the operation Wall Street Journal Wednesday Hishammuddin Hussein, vowed most important tool for a mul- A series of “pings” recorded a series of technical problems cut shifted its focus to the largely as saying that “we believe that that the search would continue tinational team searching for this month have led searchers short the first two attempts. unmapped area of ocean floor. (underwater) search will be com- even if there could be a pause to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, to the remote stretch of ocean “Bluefin-21 has searched However, authorities said pleted within a week or so. If we regroup and reconsider the best which disappeared from radar in the belief that the signals may approximately 90 square yesterday up to 10 military don’t find wreckage, we stop, we area to scour. REUTERS

Mental health issues plague Indonesia poll candidates Pro-Anwar lawmaker JAKARTA: His body shak- Many of the approximately stealing his neighbours’ sandals “They have lost their money, is easier for his company to win ing violently, Sofyan screamed 230,000 candidates running for before taking refuge up a coconut land, houses, and one candidate contracts if he is also a politician, dies in crash loudly as a traditional healer seats in local and national legis- tree. Thousands of candidates were even lost his wife to another and there is ample opportunity to sought to calm the Indonesian latures across the world’s biggest treated for stress-related illnesses man because he was too busy get rich by accepting bribes in a KUALA LUMPUR: A lead- election candidate, one of a archipelago nation invested huge following the 2009 legislative elec- campaigning,” said Muhammad country with a notoriously cor- ing Malaysian politician who growing number seeking treat- amounts of their own money to tions, and reports in recent days Muzakkin, from a traditional rupt political culture. The lack gained fame defending oppo- ment for mental health prob- fund campaigns, but some are suggest that the situation will be healing centre on main Java of campaign funding from par- sition leader Anwar Ibrahim lems after polls last week. now paying an even greater price. the same following the April 9 vote. island, who has treated 51 candi- ties means that people seeking to in his sensational sodomy tri- “Don’t take my votes away. I Some become stressed or While many of those who fall ill dates for stress in the past week. run for office in Indonesia gener- als was killed in a road acci- have spent so much money,” he depressed at the prospect of losing are the losers, that is not always Many are willing to take the ally have to provide money, a huge dent yesterday, police said. shouted, as the healer chanted everything while others appear the case as the stress and cost of risk however as the rewards from undertaking that many underesti- Karpal Singh, 73, was killed softly and poured water mixed to have suffered more severely, running campaigns can be enor- gaining office in Indonesia can be mate before launching their politi- along with a longtime assistant with flowers over his body. such as one who reportedly went mous, whatever the final outcome. huge - a businessman will find it cal careers. AFP when his vehicle struck a lorry on a highway in the northern state of Perak in the early Killing fields memorial morning, state police chief Acryl Sani Abdullah said. Anwar said Karpal’s death Thailand sues two scribes came “like a lightning bolt,” and called Karpal “an inspiring symbol for the struggle against over prize-winning article oppression and injustice.” The outspoken Karpal -- wheelchair-bound following a BANGKOK: Two journalists, for respecting media freedom,” said 2005 road accident -- emerged including an Australian editor, Brad Adams, Asia director at New as a leading lawyer in the 1970s. were ordered yesterday to stand York-based Human Rights Watch. First elected to parliament trial in Thailand on defamation Media watchdog Reporters in 1978, he was detained in 1987 charges linked to a Pulitzer Without Borders described the for more than a year under a Prize-winning article alleging case as “absurd.” “By using the tough crackdown on opposition Thai military involvement in Computer Crimes Act to intimi- figures. people smuggling. date journalists, the navy is just Alan Morison and his Thai col- making it obvious that it wants to Japan delays league Chutima Sidasathian could conceal this sensitive information face up to two years’ imprison- and deter any comments on this whale hunt ment for defamation and five humanitarian scandal,” said Asia- years for breaching the Computer Pacific head Benjamin Ismail. TOKYO: Japan has Crimes Act if the court in Phuket Phuketwan is a small but delayed the start of its next finds them guilty. respected English-language news “research” whaling mission The charges relate to an article website based in Phuket. Chutima, by a few days, an official said last year by the Phuketwan news who has covered the Rohingya yesterday, amid media specu- Cambodian opposition officials and supporters held a religious ceremony in front of skulls on display at the website, quoting an investigation issue in southern Thailand for lation the postponement was Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Phnom Penh yesterday for the victims of the Khmer Rouge. which said members of the Thai several years, was also hired by to avoid a clash with a visit by military were involved in traffick- Reuters to work on its award- US President Barack Obama. ing Muslim Rohingya asylum- winning investigation. A ruling late last month seekers who had fled Myanmar. A spokeswoman for Reuters that Tokyo’s Antarctic hunt “The court agreed to hear both said the news agency opposes the breached international rules MERS: Manila plane passengers screened charges against them,” their law- “use of criminal laws to sanction that ban commercial whaling yer Phanom Butakhieo said. the press -- large or small, local or sparked celebrations among MANILA: The Philippines media even while the depart- Meanwhile, Malaysia quaran- They were released on bail of international -- for publication of environmentalists around the yesterday asked more than 400 ment tries to track them down, tined 64 people in a southern vil- $3,100 each, while Morison was matters in serious public interest, world, with some heralding an passengers who shared an air- said Lyndon Lee Suy, spokesman lage after a resident become the banned from leaving the coun- like the Rohingya stories.” The end to the slaughter. line flight with a man infected for the department’s emergency country’s first person to die of try, he said, adding that they will stateless Rohingya are considered But the ruling by the with the MERS (Middle East service. “We want to ensure that MERS. A 54-year-old man died return to court on May 26. by the UN to be one of the world’s International Court of Justice Respiratory Syndrome) virus to none of them would have gotten in hospital in the southern state “I’m shocked that they are pro- most persecuted minorities. does not apply to Japan’s other check in with the health depart- the virus. We don’t want to miss of Johor on Sunday. He had devel- ceeding with the case. It’s a big Buddhist-Muslim clashes in whaling programmes -- a hunt ment immediately. a single case,” he said. oped fever, cough and breathing blow,” Chutima said. Reuters has 2012 in Myanmar’s western state it carries out in the northwest It was a precautionary meas- The 418 passengers will be difficulties after returning from a not been charged over its report- of Rakhine triggered an exodus of Pacific in the name of science ure to ensure none of them were asked if they have fever or flu-like pilgrimage to Makkah on March ing -- part of a series honoured Rohingya asylum-seekers by boat. and a smaller coastal programme. infected by the man who has been symptoms that might be signs of 29. Health authorities screened with a Pulitzer Prize earlier this Rights groups have raised con- The fleet for the Pacific hunt quarantined along with his family, MERS. The spokesman could not some 100 people from the village, week -- and rights groups have cern about alleged cases of boats was originally scheduled to sail a health official said. say how many of the passengers Kampung Bintang, to check for accused the Thai navy of trying being pushed back out to sea after next Tuesday, the day before Passengers on the Etihad had been contacted. A Filipino more infections, The Star newspa- to muzzle a small media outlet. entering Thai waters, as well as Obama is due to arrive for a Airways flight on April 15 were who arrived on the flight from the per said. Sixty-four will be quar- “The trial of these two journal- the detention of Rohingya by three-day state visit at the start told to call the department’s UAE tested positive, the depart- antined for a week after showing ists is unjustified and constitutes Thailand for illegal entry. of an Asian tour. AGENCIES emergency numbers listed in the ment said on Wednesday. possible symptoms. AFP a dark stain on Thailand’s record AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

School renames Afghan candy-maker library after Sharif, Zardari vow Bin Laden ISLAMABAD: A reli- gious school for women in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has democratic system renamed its library in honour of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Differences to be resolved for achieving big goals The seminary is run by contro- versial hardline cleric Maulana ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Khan admitted this tension pub- government. The Sharif govern- Abdul Aziz, the imam of the city’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif licly a few days ago and it is not ment started facing problems Red Mosque, once notorious as and PPP Co-chairperson Asif a secret why Zardari met Sharif from some seen and unseen hands a hideout for hardliners with Ali Zardari are committed to yesterday. when Musharraf was summoned alleged militant links. moving forward jointly for the It was Zardari who said on by the special court in the trea- The mosque was the scene sixth major success of the dem- December 27, 2013 in Larkana son case. of a week-long military siege ocratic system in the last six that he would not allow the Zardari was not ready to play against radicals in 2007 which years. “billa” to run away from Pakistan. the role of a silent spectator. He left more than 100 people dead Six months ago, Sharif hosted Powerful supporters of Musharraf called Sharif many times and and unleashed a wave of Islamist a farewell party for the outgoing disliked this statement and they assured him of his support. attacks across Pakistan. president Asif Ali Zardari at the conveyed displeasure to Zardari He came to Rawalpindi and Now the Jamia Hafsa semi- Prime Minister’s House. Zardari through different channels but he attended the proceedings of a nary connected to it has named made a brief speech in the pres- never changed his position. NAB court. He gave a message its small library, stocking Islamic ence of the then military leader- At that time, many PPP leaders that a former civilian president texts, in honour of bin Laden, who ship and assured Sharif that he were expecting that the PML-N was ready to appear in a court masterminded the 9/11 attacks in will not play any dirty political government would not dare start but the former military dictator the United States. games against the PML-N gov- a treason trial of former president refused to do so. Musharraf was “It is true that we have named ernment for the next five years. Pervez Musharraf. When the trial forced to appear in the special the library after Osama bin He fulfilled his promise. He was started, PPP leaders suggested to court. Sharif and Zardari are old Laden,” a source said yester- standing behind Sharif yesterday Zardari that he should stay away political rivals but resolved their day, speaking on condition of in Islamabad to assure his full from it but he told them that the differences in the Karachi jail anonymity. support for the democratic sys- trial was a must for the rule of after the 1999 military coup. “He might be a terrorist for tem against any non-democratic law and stability of the system. They differ on some aspects of others but we do not consider adventure. No doubt, government He told his party leaders that talks with the Taliban and the him as a terrorist. For us he was sources tried to downplay tense he would not leave Sharif alone Protection of Pakistan Ordinance a hero of Islam.” relations between the civilian and and in these difficult times all but both agreed to resolve small A small printed sign stuck non-civilian forces but Interior the major political forces must differences for achieving some big over the library door gives bin Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali stand behind the democratic political goals. INTERNEWS Laden’s name and refers to him as a “martyr”. A worker prepares candies at a factory in Herat, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. Bin Laden was the founder of Al Qaeda, the Sunni militant Islamist organisation. He was killed in a US special Islamabad police to use Google Map for security, crime control forces raid in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad in 2011 and for some radicals in the country he ISLAMABAD: Police officials to chalk out a joint security plan officials to enhance coordination He said patrolling mechanism It was decided that SPs and in- is a heroic figure. of twin cities of Rawalpindi and and decided measures to ensure and ensure prompt exchange of for both cities would be made charges of police stations in both On the first anniversary of his Islamabad have agreed to use protection to the lives of citizens information. He said joint pickets effective and officials would patrol cities would conduct meetings death, hundreds of people took to the Google Map, defining patrol- and and properties. at entry and exit points have been various areas. fortnightly and share informa- the streets to pay tribute to him. ling points as well as beats and Following directions from established, and search operation Participants decided that tion for success against criminal The Red Mosque raid was one pickets, which will be monitored the Interior Minister Chaudhry in slums would continue. crackdown would continue elements. It was also decided that of the triggers for the Pakistani to ensure effective security and Nisar Ali Khan, the meeting was The meeting discussed the against robbers, car-lifters, pro- senior officials of Islamabad and Taliban’s bloody insurgency, which crime control, a spokesman for held at the Central Police Office, functioning of ‘joint communica- claimed offenders in both cities Rawalpindi would conduct follow- has claimed more than 6,800 lives Islamabad Police said. Islamabad. tion control room’ and decided and criminals wanted in any dis- up meetings on monthly basis in the past seven years, according The decision was taken in a The AIG (Operations) said an to install security cameras at trict would be transferred to the while special branches of both cit- to a tally. meeting between police officials elaborate joint security plan is toll plazas of Islamabad and respective police station after ies would share information about AFP of both cities, who sat together crucial for twin cities. He asked Rawalpindi. arrest. threat messages. INTERNEWS

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An Afghan man performs the traditional Attan dance during a gathering celebrating peaceful elections in Kabul yesterday. Pakistan’s tax directory ‘Green Force’ to protect hides defaulters’ names environment ISLAMABAD: The federal ISLAMABAD: The publica- tax data that was until recently government of Pakistan is tion of citizens’ tax directory treated as classified record pondering over a proposal to is a welcome step forward but through wrong interpretations of introduce a ‘Green Force’ in the decision of concealing the the Income Tax Ordinance 2001. the capital to ensure effective names of tax defaulters brings Now, as the tax record has been implementation of environmen- under question the Pakistani made public, the same law has tal laws, especially in the con- government’s intentions to go been referred to support the deci- text of ongoing development after the offenders of tax laws. sion of publishing the directory. projects. By withholding the informa- Dar deserves appreciation for According to the proposal, tion about those who didn’t file braving a lot of pressure from pol- the ‘Green Force’ would initially tax returns, a wrong message has iticians and business community. comprise 108 members, including been sent to those who complied He started from the lawmakers chief inspector, two deputy chief with the tax laws: don’t submit whose directory was released on inspectors, 50 inspectors, one dep- tax returns if you wish to be February 15 and the latest one uty director, two assistant direc- unnamed in the directory. uploaded on the FBR website tors, 50 field investigators and two “I am pleased to present the Tuesday night comprises details prosecutors. Annual Tax Directory of all tax- of all taxpaying citizens. “The success of Islamabad payers for the tax year 2013 This However, hiding the names Green City Programme lies in tax directory provides the name, of those who are persistent tax effective implementation of envi- NTN and amount of tax paid by defaulters is a cruel joke with the ronmental laws and policies so those who had filed their returns,” tax return-filers. it is necessary to have a vibrant reads the foreword of the direc- Filing of income tax return is tool to ensure all construction and tory attributed to Finance mandatory in accordance with development work is done keeping Minister Ishaq Dar. Section 115 (1) of the Income Tax in view natural character of the Dar has undoubtedly taken a Ordinance 2001. city,” said an official. courageous step by releasing the INTERNEWS INTERNEWS FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA 116 million vote in sixth round of polls Almost 80pc turnout in Bengal

KOLKATA: Amid enthusiasm and long queues, around 80 percent voters exercised their fran- chise in the four West Bengal constituencies that went to the polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election in the state yesterday. The Election Commission said overall the poll- ing was peaceful, and “no major incidents” on law and order violation were recorded. In a celebra- tion of democracy, the young and the old stood in the queues for hours in the four constituencies — Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar — since polling began at 7am kick-starting the stag- gered five-phase balloting in the state, which sends 42 members to the Lok Sabha. Simultaneous by- polls were held for the Kumargram and Maynaguri assembly constituencies in Jalpaiguri district. Infosys co-founder and Congress candidate for The average polling figure stood at 78.89 percent Bangalore (South) Nandan Nilekani shows his inked as the scheduled time for election ended at 6pm, but finger after casting his vote in Bangalore. could go up by five to six percent as a substantial number of voters were still waiting for their turn at the polling stations. The polling percentage in KARNATAKA AND BANGALORE Cooch Behar stood at 78.45, in Jalpaiguri it was 79.75, Darjeeling recorded 77.85, while the turnout BANGALORE: Around 61 percent voting was at North Dinajpur was 80.13 percent, Gupta said. reported across Karnataka where polling was held A woman leaves after casting her vote as others wait in a queue at a polling station in Shabazpur Dor village in The next four phases of polling will be held on in all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies, while it was Amroha district in Uttar Pradesh yesterday. April 24 (six constituencies), April 30 (nine seats), about 50.6 percent in the three seats in Bangalore. May 7 (six seats) and May 12 (17 seats). The state has 46 million registered voters, con- NEW DELHI: An estimated stituting 70 percent of the 64 million population. 116 million people voted peace- BIHAR Bangalore has 6.3 million voters out of 9 mil- fully yesterday in the critical lion people. Among prominent candidates in fray sixth round of parliamentary PATNA: About 54 percent of more than 11 are Infosys co-founder and technocrat Nandan election to pick 121 MPs from 12 million electors cast their ballots in seven Lok Nilekani from Bangalore South constituency. states, officials said. Sabha constituencies in Bihar that went to the Barring stray incidents of polls. Over 11 million voters, including more than UDHAMPUR violence and intimidation, the five million women, were to choose from among gigantic exercise involving 1,767 117 candidates in the fray in the second phase JAMMU: Over 69 percent votes were polled in contestants across the length of polling in the state. Bihar Chief Minister Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur Lok Sabha and breadth of the country Nitish Kumar, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu seat where elections passed off peacefully. passed off smoothly, the Election Prasad and his wife and former chief minister “A total of 69.08 percent votes were polled in Commission said. Rabri Devi were among those who cast their Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency as against 45 “Polling was generally peaceful ballot in Patna. Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misha percent polled during the 2009 Lok Sabha elec- and incident free,” Deputy Election Bharti, who is contesting from Pataliputra as an tions,” state chief electoral officer (CEO) Umang Commissioner Vinod Zutshi said RJD candidate, and BJP candidate and sitting Narula said. The CEO said there was no inci- after 11 hours of hectic polling MP Shatrughan Sinha, seeking re-election from dent of violence anywhere. ended at 6pm. Only in Manipur, Patna Sahib, also cast their ballot. balloting finished two hours earlier. Polling has thus far been held in 13 of Bihar’s 43 ODISHA Polling percentages varied from a People cross the Chenab river on a trolley tied to wires to cast their vote Lok Sabha constituencies. Polling in the remaining high of around 80 in West Bengal at Harshi village in Doda district, north of Jammu, yesterday. 20 will be held on April 24 (seven constituencies), BHUBANESWAR: Amid stray incidents of to 54 in Madhya Pradesh. April 30 (seven) and May 12 (six). violence, about 70 percent of the electorate cast “After today’s phase, a large compared to 2009. Yesterday’s contention on any one day since their ballot in the second and final phase of poll- section of India has already election covered a vast part of the staggered balloting started MAHARASHTRA ing for 11 Lok Sabha and 77 assembly seats in voted,” said BJP’s prime minis- the country’s landscape — from on April 7. Four more rounds of Odisha. Over 15 million voters were eligible to terial candidate Narendra Modi. Jammu and Kashmir in the north voting are due until May 12. The MUMBAI: An average turnout of 61.80 percent cast their vote to decide the fate of 98 candidates “People have voted in the heat and to Karnataka in the south, from result will be declared on May 16. was recorded in voting for 19 Lok Sabha con- contesting the 11 Lok Sabha seats and 747 candi- have voted for a strong govern- Maharashtra along the west coast The day was important both stituencies of Maharashtra that went to poll in dates vying for the 77 assembly seats. ment.” He added that the long to West Bengal in the east. for the BJP and the Congress, the second phase of elections in the state. Fate queues of first-time and women Polling took place in all 28 Lok which held 40 and 36 of the Lok of top candidates like Sushilkumar Shinde, CHHATTISGARH voters “are positive steps”. Sabha seats in Karnataka, 20 of Sabha seats that went to the Gopinath Munde, Ashok Chavan, Supriya Sule, Maoist guerrillas struck in the 25 in Rajasthan, 19 of the 48 polls, as well as the Janata Dal- and Udayanraje Bhosale has now been sealed RAIPUR: An estimated 62 percent of about 4.6 Jharkhand, exploding a land mine in Maharashtra, 11 seats each in United, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, in the electronic voting machines. There were million voters in Chhattisgarh cast their votes, amid at Bokaro in Giridih constituency Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Janata Dal-Secular, Shiv Sena, a total of 358 candidates in the fray, including rain and Maoist threats, in three Lok Sabha constit- and injuring four paramilitary Madhya Pradesh, seven in Bihar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, 24 women and 201 independents. The scene will uencies — Mahasamund, Rajnandgaon and Kanker troopers. They also blew up a six in Jharkhand, four in West Aam Aadmi Party, Biju Janata Dal, now shift to the remaining 19 constituencies — in the second round of polling in the state. Polling school building and a rail track. Bengal, three in Chhattisgarh Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj where elections will be held on April 24. These has thus far been held in four of Chhattisgarh’s 11 Allegations of voter intimida- and one seat each in Manipur and Party and Trinamool Congress. include important constituencies of Mumbai, Lok Sabha constituencies. Polling in the remaining tion came from parts of Bihar Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP claimed it was confi- Konkan and north Maharashtra. seven will be held on April 24. and West Bengal. The Election Simultaneous balloting was dent of winning most seats con- Commission ordered repolling in held for 77 of the 147 assembly tested. “We are sure of winning UTTAR PRADESH JHARKHAND nine polling stations in Bihar. seats in Odisha and two assembly all 25 seats (in Rajasthan),” Chief Throughout the day, most of the bypolls in West Bengal. With yes- Minister Vasundhara Raje said in LUCKNOW: Voters in 11 Lok Sabha constituen- RANCHI: Jharkhand saw 62 percent ballot- 225,387 polling centres saw long terday’s round, polling has been Jaipur. Former central minister cies in Uttar Pradesh turned out in large num- ing for the six Lok Sabha seats that went to the queues of men and women of all completed in 232 of the 543 seats Ananth Kumar voiced confidence bers to exercise their franchise, and 59 percent polls in the second phase even as Maoists blew age groups eager to vote. In most in the Lok Sabha. It saw the larg- about the BJP’s ability to do well balloting was recorded till evening, officials up a railway track and attacked security forces. states, there was more voting est number of Lok Sabha seats in in Karnataka, where it is the said. There are 17 woman contestants, includ- Ranchi witnessed around 59 percent polling, main opposition party to the rul- ing former union minister Maneka Gandhi, in while Jamshedpur registered the highest polling ing Congress. the fray. Polling in the state’s 80 Lok Sabha con- with 65 percent. A total of 8,525,179 voters voted Defective EVM ‘transfers’ all votes to Cong Central ministers Sushilkumar stituencies will be completed in six phases, which to choose their representatives from among 106 SINDHUDURG: A malfunctioning electronic voting machine Shinde and Jyotiraditya Scindia included the first phase on April 10. The remain- candidates. The third and final phase in the state (EVM) reportedly “transferred” all votes cast to the Congress brushed aside the BJP’s claims. ing phases are April 24, 30 and May 7 and 12. will be held on April 24 for four seats. Jharkhand candidate in Sindhudurg district here, in the second incident of “There is no Modi wave,” Scindia sends 14 representatives to the Lok Sabha. its kind yesterday. The incident came to light when voters in said after voting in Guna in RAJASTHAN Padve-mazagaon village complained that when they pressed their Madhya Pradesh. Shinde said in MANIPUR chosen candidate’s button, only the Congress light blinked. Angry Sholapur: “There is no Modi wave JAIPUR: Over 63 percent of 34 million eligible voters boycotted the elections for nearly three hours before fran- here, only Shinde wave.” voters cast their ballot in Rajasthan’s 20 Lok Sabha IMPHAL: Around 74 percent of the 874,000 tic election officials ordered a replacement EVM and resumed About 1.37 million staff oversaw constituencies. The polling percentage was much voters cast their ballot for the second Lok Sabha voting around 1pm. At least 68 voters claimed that their vote the polling, watched over by hun- higher than the 2009 figure of some 48.46 percent. seat in Manipur. About 78 percent of the total may have been wrongly credited to Congress candidate Nilesh dreds of thousands of police and Over 80,000 security personnel were deployed to 911,000 voters in the tribal reserved Outer Rane contesting from the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in paramilitary personnel. IANS conduct free and fair polls, where the political fate Manipur constituency cast their ballot April 9. the Konkan region. IANS of 239 candidates is being decided. IANS

Dhowan is new CAG can audit books of telecom Navy chief operators: Supreme Court NEW DELHI: Admiral R NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday said that the national K Dhowan, a navigation and auditor CAG can audit telecom operators’ account books to ascertain direction specialist, yesterday whether the government was getting its due share from service pro- took over as the 22nd chief of viders to whom it given the scarce natural resource that belongs to the Indian Navy. He succeeds the people. Admiral D K Joshi, who resigned A bench of Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice Vikramajit Sen in February following a string of said: “CAG’s function is only to ascertain whether the Union of India is accidents and had been the act- getting its due share, while parting with the right to deal with its exclu- ing navy chief since then. sive privilege to the service providers, who are dealing with a national After taking over, Admiral wealth.” Justice Radhakrishnan, speaking for the bench, said: “The service Dhowan laid a wreath at the providers are bound to make available all the books of accounts and other Amar Jawan Jyoti memorial to documents maintained by them under Rule 3, so as to ascertain whether the Unknown Soldier at India Gate the Union of India is getting its full share of revenue.” and then inspected an impressive The court said while upholding the Delhi High Court order that CAG Guard of Honour at South Block. could audit the account books of service providers and dismissing a appeal “For the navy to fulfil its man- by the service providers challenging it. The court said that CAG is enti- date as a maritime security pro- tled to seek the records of the service providers and by doing so its was not vider to the nation, attention actually auditing their accounts but “examining all the receipts to ascertain would need to be paid at all levels whether the Union is getting its due share by way of licence fee and spectrum to ensure that there were no gaps charges, which it is legitimately entitled to, by way of revenue sharing”. in our security preparedness,” the Service providers are, therefore, bound to provide all the records admiral said after taking over. and documents called for by the CAG. “CAG has, therefore, a duty to Dhowan supersedes his senior, examine and satisfy himself that all the rules and procedures in that Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, who Newly appointed Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan salutes after inspecting a guard of honour during his behalf are being met not only by the Union but also the service provid- was commissioned six months taking-over ceremony in New Delhi yesterday. ers as a whole, since both, the Union, as well as the service providers, earlier in June 1974. IANS are dealing with the natural resources,” the court said. IANS FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

QE index breaks 8-year Rolls-Royce Ghost II dashboard peak in intra-day trade Index hits 12,679 points before closing at 12,550.98 BY SATISH KANADY told The Peninsula. The first set sectors continued to remain in of company results announced in the bear territory. DOHA: Qatar bourse index the past weeks saw an average 12 The index gained 153.77 breached its eight-year peak percent increase in their earn- points, or 1.24 percent, in the level in intra-day trade yester- ings. The market is expecting at past week. Market cap rose by day. Qatari retail investors sent least 20 companies to announce 2.73 percent in the last week to the bourse to a fresh peak, as their first quarter results in the QR728bn compared to the pre- main index jumped 97.12 points, next week. vious week’s QR709bn. Banks or 0.78 percent, to close at It seems the impressive results and financial services led trad- 12,550.98 points. have created a ‘feel good factor’ ing value, accounting for 29.97 The intra-day trade saw the among investors, he said. percent of the total. The real index surging to 12,679 points, Islamic lenders Rayan, estate sector led trading vol- the highest level since September International Islamic and QIB ume with 30.39 percent. Trading 2005, before retreating to continued to surge and contrib- value decreased by 13,66 percent 12,550.98 levels. uted most to the benchmark to reach QR5.44bn compared to The Qatar Exchange’s index hit index. Rayan soared 5.83 percent the previous week’s QR6.30bn. The 2014 Rolls-Royce Ghost II dashboard is seen on display at a press event at the New York historical high on September 20, to close at QR47.20. International Trading volume decreased by International Auto Show yesterday. The New York International Auto Show runs from April 18 to April 27. 2005 after it closed at 12892.76. Islamic gained QR3.05 to 4.52 percent to reach 168 millions Driven by strong sentiments, QR84.50. QIB extended the rally shares. The number of transac- the market seems to be inching after reporting upbeat earning on tions fell by 5.39 percent. towards this target, analysts said. Wednesday, gaining QR2.69 per- The Mazaya Qatar led trading “Qatari individual investors, cent to QR83.90. value during the week, accounting Libya dismisses dollar crunch rumours who were the net sellers until The telecoms, along with the for 7.77 percent, followed by UDC recently, have transformed to net banks and financial services, con- and Rayan. TRIPOLI: Libya’s central bank ports across the desert nation. The Libyans travelling abroad were buyers for the last few weeks. A tinued the rally yesterday, fuelled The telecoms and insurance has dismissed as baseless recent central bank has said it has dollar receiving their normal allocation combination of other factors in part by upbeat first quarter sector indices outperformed rumours that the country is reserves worth more than $115bn. of dollars while firms were open- like expectations on the bourse results. Telecoms index surged in the last week, with the tel- facing dollar shortages due to a Musbah Al Akari, head of the ing credit letters for imports. upgrade, strong first quarter 1.60 percent with Vodafone gain- ecoms surging the most by 3.66 loss of oil revenues, a bank offi- central bank’s markets depart- Currency dealers said trading results and Ezdan’s announce- ing 5.65 percent and Ooredoo add- percent. Insurance sector edged cial said yesterday. ment, said that currency specu- in the parallel market was going ment on its new ventures have ing 0.68 percent. 3.03 percent up with the General The North African country has lators were spreading rumours normally. Oil production has fallen lifted the spirits of both foreign Meanwhile, a number of for- Insurance jumping 15.85 percent been struggling for nine months about dollar shortages to make a to around 200,000 barrels a day and local investors”, market ana- merly high-flying stocks in the against the previous week. with disruptions in its key oil indus- profit. “These rumours are totally from 1.4 million bpd in summer lyst Bashir Yousef Al Kahloud industrials and transportation THE PENINSULA try due to protests at oilfield and baseless,” he said, adding that when protests erupted. REUTERS Etihad toughens stance on Alitalia deal Iran oil exports fall for

ROME: Etihad Airways has underlined than before,” one of just put tough conditions on the because of job-related problems. toughened its stance on con- the sources said. deal,” a United Arab Emirates- But there’s too much at stake ... first time in five months ditions for investing in Italy’s A government source, however, based source said. a solution will be found,” another struggling Alitalia in continu- said that Etihad’s tougher posi- An Etihad spokesperson source said. TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Iran’s next month to finalise an end to ing negotiations between the tion could be overcome. “The gov- declined to comment. Alitalia also Etihad began talks with the crude oil exports fell for the the decade-old nuclear dispute. airlines, sources close to the ernment is counting on finding a declined to comment. Italian airline after disagreement first time in five months in The drops have come mainly matter said yesterday. solution,” the source said. Etihad CEO James Hogan held over debt scuppered a potential March, and are slated to drop because Japan did not take any Loss-making Alitalia was kept Italian Infrastructure Minister talks with Prime Minister Matteo Alitalia tie-up last year with Air further in April, moving closer cargoes in March and South running by a government-engi- Maurizio Lupi told Parliament Renzi last week. A source with France-KLM, formerly Alitalia’s to the levels stipulated by Korea is not scheduled to take neered €500m rescue package last that Etihad had sent a letter to knowledge of the talks said at the biggest shareholder. November’s temporary nuclear any shipments in April. year, but it needs to find a cash- Alitalia on Wednesday to set out time that Etihad was considering A marriage with Etihad could deal that eased some sanctions “When the Iranian exports rich partner quickly to revamp its conditions for a possible invest- investing up to €500m in Alitalia bring Alitalia the money it needs on Tehran. increased, the market noticed its flight network or risk having ment. Lupi said it is up to the and was inching towards an offer. to invest in a new strategy, Under the agreement reached so I’m not surprised that they to ground its fleet. company’s private shareholders, Out of that investment, €350m focused on long-haul routes, after in Geneva, Iran’s oil exports were might try to cut back some in Abu Dhabi-based Etihad has which include Alitalia’s creditors would be for a 49 percent stake its struggles to compete against to remain at an average 1 million the upcoming period,” IHS oil been looking at Alitalia’s books Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, in the Italian airline. low-cost airlines and high-speed barrels per day (mbpd) for the six consultant Victor Shum said. for a possible investment since to respond. However, the source also said trains on domestic and regional months to July 20, but since the “As far as China is concerned, the start of the year. However, Italian daily Il Messaggero that one of the conditions put routes. signing last year, shipments to the offtake is a bit higher, but it the prospect of large job cuts at reported yesterday that a deal forward by the Gulf airline was A stake in Alitalia, which offers Asia alone had topped that mark goes up and down, so on average, Alitalia and the airline’s debt of between the two airlines was off for 2,000 job cuts out of Alitalia’s access to Europe’s fourth-largest until this month. for the year, China will keep it at least €800m have been major because the conditions were not 14,000-strong workforce. Italian travel market and flies 25 million The drop in crude exports to under the target,” he said. hurdles in the talks. in place, but the sources denied media have reported demands for passengers a year, would further just over 1mbpd in March and Iran’s biggest customer China “The position of the Arab the talks had collapsed. “It’s part bigger cuts, with Il Messaggero cit- Etihad’s efforts to expand its glo- to 953,000bpd for April, accord- will increase loadings this month group has hardened; some prob- of negotiations ... It in no way ing 3,000. bal reach through strategic hold- ing to ship loading data, reduces to 552,000bpd, about a third higher lems have been more markedly means the deal is over. They have “Things are a bit stalled, mainly ings in other airlines. REUTERS pressure on Tehran ahead of talks than a year ago. REUTERS

Obama unveils European auto market Nokia recalls drive to support 30,000 chargers solar energy pulls away from crisis for Lumia 2520 PARIS: Demand for cars in rally, and the upturn gave a boost WASHINGTON: The White Europe moved up another gear to Peugeot Citroen which has just HELSINKI: Finnish telecom House yesterday announced in March and struggling French announced a new strategy to pull company Nokia yesterday a series of measures aimed at group Peugeot Citroen did well, away from deep financial crisis. recalled 30,000 chargers for its increasing solar energy produc- trade data showed yesterday, But the latest overall figure for Lumia 2520 tablet due to risk tion in the United States, par- but the market is still suffering sales in the EU, except Malta, was it could give customers an elec- ticularly by encouraging the badly from a recent slump. the second-lowest for a month of tric shock. The AC-300 charger, installation of solar panels in Sales of new cars in the March since the current series of manufactured by a third-party public spaces. European Union surged by 10.6 data began in 2003, the European supplier, was sold in Austria, President Barack Obama and percent last month on a 12-month Automobile Manufacturers’ Britain, Denmark, Finland, his Democratic allies in Congress comparison to a total of 1.45 mil- Association said. Germany, Russia, Switzerland want laws to fight climate change lion. Sales rose in all countries in “Demand for new passenger and the US. and reduce greenhouse gas emis- March with the British market cars in the EU increased for the The Lumia 2520 is the first sions, but Republicans, who hold leading the way, jumping 17.7 per- seventh consecutive month, with tablet by Nokia, once the world the majority in the House of cent, followed by an increase of a rise of 10.6 percent in registra- leader in the mobile phone indus- Representatives, have blocked all 10.0 percent in Spain, 8.5 percent tions,” the association said in its try but which lost its top place to legislative efforts since 2011. in France, 5.4 percent in Germany monthly report on the market in South Korea’s Samsung in 2012. In response, the President has and 5.0 percent in Italy. the 28-member European Union. “The plastic cover of the charg- switched tactics, using his regula- The recovery is broadly in line This meant that in the first er’s exchangeable plug could come tory and administrative powers to US President Barack Obama at the Community College in Pennsylvania. with general economic data sug- three months of this year, regis- loose and separate,” the company enact his climate change policies. The President announced new investments to support job-driven training. gesting that the impact of the trations of new cars showed an said in a statement. “If loose and Yesterday, the White House eurozone debt crisis, and of aus- increase of 8.4 percent from the separated, certain internal com- launched a programme to encour- terity reforms, is fading as growth figure a year ago, to total nearly ponents pose a hazard of an elec- age federal agencies, military US budget plan to boost tax revenues and confidence edge upwards. 3.247 million. tric shock if touched while the installations, and publicly-subsi- Sales of French Renault’s cheap The European car market plug remains in a live socket.” dised buildings in the Washington WASHINGTON: US President Budget Office said yesterday. Dacia cars shot up by half in the shrank sharply as the impact of The Finnish company said the area to install more solar panels Barack Obama’s fiscal 2015 The analysis compares Obama’s month. In the first quarter of the the global financial crisis, and problem was detected during an on roofs, covered parking garages budget request would boost request to a new “baseline” esti- year, sales in Britain rose by 13.7 then the eurozone debt crisis internal quality control process and open land. US tax revenues by nearly $1.4 mate that CBO released last week percent, Spain 11.8 percent, Italy began to bite and some govern- and that no consumer incident And, earlier in the week, the trillion over 10 years if fully that assumes no changes to cur- 5.8 percent, Germany 5.6 percent ments introduced subsidies to had been reported so far. Energy Department guaranteed enacted, slashing deficits by rent tax and spending laws. But and in France by 2.9 percent. encourage owners of old cars to Nokia advised all customers to at least $2.5bn in loans for “inno- $1.05 trillion while funding new Obama’s budget plan is loaded with French manufacturers ben- scrap them in return for buying “suspend use of the charger until vative” solar projects. spending, the Congressional new policy changes. REUTERS efited strongly from the March new vehicles. AFP further notice”. AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Total finds oil Google Q1 profits up 32pc to $3.45bn off Ivory Coast Results much below Wall Street expectations Google plans January PARIS: French energy giant Total yesterday announced it NEW YORK: Google said its had discovered oil in deep waters first quarter profit rose 32 per- launch of $50 smartphone off the coast of Ivory Coast, cent from a year ago to $3.45bn, constituting a “very promising in results below most Wall result” after the first such find. Street expectations. LONDON: Google’s ambitious phone to do what the user needs “The exploratory well Saphir- Chief executive Larry Page modular smartphone concept, it to do. The Ara team fleshed 1XB..., operated by Total, has hailed “another great quarter” an attempt to disrupt the mar- out their vision and a timeframe proved the existence of liquid for the tech giant, with revenue ket dominated by Apple and for development for the device, hydrocarbons deep offshore, to of $15.4bn, up 19 percent year Samsung, could be available in attempting to attract developers the west of Ivory Coast,” the on year. “We got lots of product January 2015 for as little as $50. for both hardware and software group said in a statement. improvements done, especially Paul Eremenko, Google’s to jump on-board the project. Total’s search for oil in Atlantic on mobile. I’m also excited with Project Ara head, told attendees The core frame of the Grey waters off the west African nation progress on our emerging busi- of its developer conference that phone will be built to last around has for the first time brought nesses,” Page said in a statement. the modular device is scheduled five to six years, according to to light “an efficient petroleum But Google shares tumbled to go on sale in January next Eremenko, allowing users to system with light crude oil” in 5.7 percent in after-hours trade year and will be essentially just a upgrade their phones steadily, the San Pedro basin, said Marc to $556.64, suggesting that the frame, screen, Wi-Fi connection buying cheap individual com- Blaizot, Exploration director for growth was below investor and processor — ready for users ponents like a better camera, the group. The find, with high forecasts. Earnings per share to customise with different plug- improved Bluetooth or new 4G quality fuel potential, lies in a dif- amounted to $6.27 compared in modules, colours and accesso- radio from an app store-like shop. ferent part of the ocean from the with analyst projections of $6.40. ries. “It’s called the Grey Phone But the basic framework and first one made in 2013 in waters Analysts also expected a higher because it’s meant to be drab grey modular nature of Ara could bordering with Ghana, where revenue figure of $15.5bn. to get people to customise it,” said be used to build any number several large tracts of oil have Google remains the world’s Eremenko. of devices, far beyond a simple already been found, including the A Google logo is reflected on the screen of a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone . most important search engine, Project Ara is Google’s attempt smartphone and wouldn’t require giant Jubilee field. which generates large amounts to make a mobile device where a mobile phone radio or Wi-Fi “We are now going to evaluate of advertising revenues. But it The earnings report showed a 26 percent in the quarter and 9 per- the major components, including module, for instance. this very promising result and is increasingly focusing on the percent rise in “paid clicks,” a key cent over the past year. Analysts the camera, speakers, GPS and “’What is a phone’ can be chal- concentrate on the extension (of Android mobile system and new figure for Google’s advertising and say this reflects a growing move other common features of modern lenged when you can pick and research) to the north and east,” technologies, highlighted by its revenues, growth slightly lower to smartphones, where clicks smartphones, can be swapped out choose pieces on our platform,” said Blaizot. Total said the latest recent acquisitions of Nest Labs than the 29 percent expected by produce lower revenues than on for new ones, mixing and match- explained David Fishman, an Ara find could concern a separate oil and drone maker Titan Aerospace. analysts. The price per click fell 1 traditional PCs. AFP ing modules to customise the team manager. THE GUARDIAN deposit from previous ones. AFP

China to appeal WTO GE net income IBM earnings slump 21pc in Q1

down 15pc WASHINGTON: IBM reported ruling on rare earths a 21 percent slump in first quar- NEW YORK: General Electric ter earnings, as the computer BEIJING: China will appeal “No matter what the result of reported lower earnings but giant saw weaker hardware a ruling by the World Trade the appeal is, China’s policy goal higher industrial profits, thanks sales and focused more on serv- Organisation (WTO) that its of protecting resources and the to gains in its two largest indus- ices and the Internet “cloud.” export restrictions on rare environment will not change.” trial segments. Profits amounted to $2.38bn earths and other resources The government will “continue GE’s net income dipped 15 per- on revenues of $22.48bn. The broke international rules, to strengthen management” of cent from the year-ago level to results were largely in line with the commerce ministry said its resources in accordance with $3bn. Last year’s results included expectations, but in after-hours yesterday. WTO rules and “protect fair com- a gain from the sale of a GE stake trade IBM stock slid 4.3 percent The WTO’s disputes settle- petition”, he added. in NBCUniversal. But GE’s indus- to $188. ment body decided last month China accounts for 95 percent trial sales rose from last year and IBM said revenues from hard- that China’s export duties and of global production of rare earths, the company grew profits in its ware sales including its big serv- quotas, plus limits on who could a term covering 18 metals which two largest segments, aviation (up ers fell 23 percent, and posted trade in the rare earths tungsten are vital for many industrial and 19.1 percent) and power and water an operating loss in part due to and molybdenum — which are key hi-tech processes such as the pro- (up 23.5 percent). restructuring costs. raw materials for hi-tech goods — duction of smartphones, hybrid Results in the other industrial But the company saw better skewed global commerce against car batteries, wind turbines, steel segments were mixed. GE scored results from software and serv- IBM Chairperson and CEO Virginia Rometty at an IBM event in New York. other nations. and low-energy light bulbs. But higher profits in oil and gas, but ices, including the big data analyt- The panel of independent trade given that it is home to 23 percent income fell in energy manage- ics for which “Big Blue” is known. and legal experts backed a com- of global reserves of such metals, ment, health care, transportation “In the first quarter, we con- chief executive. “As we move Over the long term, they will plaint lodged in 2012 with the China has raised concerns about and appliances and lighting. tinued to take actions to trans- through 2014, we will begin to see position us to drive growth and WTO by the United States, the over-exploitation. Overall, industrial profits grew form parts of the business and to the benefits from these actions. higher value for our clients.” AFP European Union and Japan. It insists that its measures, 11.7 percent to $3.3bn. shift aggressively to our strategic “China will go all out to make imposed in 2011, are aimed at GE’s results translated into growth areas including cloud, big an appeal,” commerce ministry conserving natural resources operating earnings-per-share of data analytics, social, mobile and QATARI MARKET spokesman Shen Danyang told and reducing pollution caused 33 cents, a penny above analyst security,” said Ginni Rometty, Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P reporters. by mining. AFP estimates. AFP IBM chairman, president and Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.50 1.08% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.38 2.19% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 114.00 2.61% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 108.75 3.21% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.13 4.67% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 118.50 5.10% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 109.63 5.10% Aa2 AA Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.56 0.62% Aa2 AA Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 111.50 2.97% Aa2 AA Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 102.38 0.81% A1 A- Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.81% A1 A- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 1.08% NR NR QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.25 1.02% Aa3 A+ QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.38 1.78% Aa3 A+ Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.38 1.94% A2 A- Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.88 1.37% A2 A- Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 124.63 2.70% A2 A- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 107.25 3.54% A2 A- The Goldman Sachs logo is displayed on a post above the floor of Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 104.00 4.55% A2 A- the New York Stock Exchange . Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 102.13 0.61% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.63 2.99% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.38 3.82% Aa3 A Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.13 3.87% Aa3 A Goldman Sachs SOVEREIGNS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.25 2.01% Aa2 AA revenues drop Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.75 1.29% NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.75 2.24% NR NR NEW YORK: Goldman “Investment Banking and Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.63 3.31% NR NR Sachs reported lower quar- Investment Management Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.63 3.74% NR NR terly profits yesterday due to generated solid results, while Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.63 0.45% Aa2 AA declines in some key trad- market sentiment shifted Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 114.63 2.84% NR BBB ing divisions, but notched a throughout the quarter, con- Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 108.25 3.93% NR BBB big gain in financial advisory straining client activity in Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 102.38 5.28% Caa1 B- services. various parts of our franchise.” Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 106.38 3.38% NR BBB- Earnings for the first quar- Bright spots included a 41 ter came in at $2.03bn, down percent rise in financial advi- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 105.63 3.32% NR BBB-

10 percent from $2.26bn a year sory revenues due primarily *Periodic Distribution Amount ago. The US investment bank to an increase in client activ- IMPORTANT NOTE: cited an 11 percent drop in ity in Europe. The company Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which revenues from fixed income, also notched higher revenues is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services currency and commodity trad- in equity underwriting, thanks Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising ing, a weak area this quarter in part to the hot market for out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not for many Wall Street firms initial public offerings. The take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds due to weak client demand. results translated into earnings can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant Revenues in equity trading per share of $4.02, well above liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and were down 17 percent from analyst estimates for $3.44. consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. the year-ago level. “We are Revenues declined 7.6 per- generally pleased with our cent to $9.33bn, above the performance for the quarter $8.70bn forecast by Wall given the operating environ- Street analysts. Shares rose ment,” said chief executive 2.0 percent to $160.28 in pre- Lloyd Blankfein. market trade. AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

New Sydney airport is nice, Utilities flashing red BY JAMES SAFT can significantly outperform a buy and hold highest one percent readings of the VIX but our roads need fixing strategy of both. volatility index since 1990, utilities were tility share prices, a reliable The strategy is simple. When utilities showing relative strength 83.3 percent of BY MARK O’SULLIVAN leading indicator of stock mar- show better relative strength than the broad the time. ket ructions, are flashing red. market over the prior four weeks, position Utilities are generally the most boring of adgery’s Creek airport in western Sydney has been a hot Utilities have been particu- into utilities for the next week. When the stocks, steady dividend payers beloved of the political issue since the 1980s, when Robert Palmer was larly strong, especially relative broad market is stronger, do the reverse. proverbial orphans and widows. singing that he was Addicted to Love. At the time, there Uto the broader market, a set up which has Between 1926 and 2013 this resulted in a That stability is a large part of why Bwas a committed group opposing the construction of the historically been a flag for relatively weak four percentage point annual outperform- they offer predictive power. Utilities are airport, citing aircraft noise and the environmental damage that stock markets and high volatility. ance of a buy and hold strategy, taking an extremely tightly regulated, both in terms would be caused by its construction and surrounding support The Dow Jones Utilities Index is up nearly initial $10,000 investment to $877m by 2013, of what they can charge and how they can infrastructure. As governments dithered, I drove along Elizabeth 13 percent this year, compared to a fall of against expand. And because everyone wants the Drive – near the site – to go to work, noting the fog that often nearly 4.0 percent in the broader market. $34m for the broad market and $17m for lights to turn on, they are more or less rolled across the farms that have been there for a long time. The divergence has been especially strik- utilities. assured a steady, if narrow profit margin. Flash forward 30 years, and we have Tony Abbott in a suit and ing since early March, since when utilities The strategy has outperformed the mar- The biggest variable that can affect profit- a blue tie wishing to croon his way into the hearts of the people have outperformed by nearly 12 percentage ket in each decade and over 82 percent of ability, therefore, is the cost of capital. And of western Sydney with promises of an airport. The proposal is points. all rolling three year periods. because power plants are big and expen- being sold in seemingly contradictory ways by a government keen “The fact that you are seeing this year util- Though the strategy is interesting, and sive, utilities are extremely capital intensive, to both boost the jobs and growth it will bring whilst claiming it ities and long duration bonds performing so the data compelling, in many ways the requiring huge and on-going investment. won’t have much of an impact on western Sydney daily lifestyles. strongly is telling you that something is off underlying story and the mechanics of utili- And because it takes so long to build and The latter is why we heard at the press conference announcing – and when utilities lead it tends to happen ties as a signal is the most valuable part of bring on-line new plants, that capital invest- the airport that it’s going to be a single runway airport with a before black swans strike,” Michael Gayed the study. ment has a very long lead time and is more small terminal – a bit like Avalon. We also heard other “yes, prime of Pension Partners said in an interview. For one thing, putting such a strategy in stable than in other industries. minister” style lines trying to minimise the impact, such as “jets “Utilities have been strong since the first place would have been prohibitively expen- Whereas an auto maker might expand have lower noise these days” and “not many will want to land in week of January, signalling concern, along- sive for much of the past 88 years, though rapidly in boom times, a utility needs to the middle of the night”. side long-duration Treasuries for some time now it is easily practicable using exchange think in decades. We are also told it’s going to be a huge boost for western Sydney before the high momentum breakdown traded funds. That stability and need for capital makes jobs, creating 60,000 jobs – a figure that, according to Chifley’s began,” he said. Most significant is the indication that them the most bond-like of equity sectors. Ed Husic, is more appropriate for the main Los Angeles airport. “We may be in a correction and, in fact, utilities can be used as “a critical warning If demand for capital is going down, send- In short, this big little airport is being sold as a growth stimulus you are seeing action that indicates we are sign of higher average volatility to come ing its cost down too, utilities will tend to whilst being largely privately funded and owned: a win-win for probably in a correction.” in the market, and can be an early tell of outperform. A falling demand for capital is the government and for all of us (or at least, a win for freight Gayed, whose paper on utilities, coau- whether the odds of an extreme tail event not a strong sign for the rest of the economy, companies wishing to have an unclogged distribution point and thored with colleague Charles Bilello are rising,” according to the paper. and a rapid or sudden fall in demand can people from the region wishing to fly interstate). Plus, if it’s going recently was awarded the 2014 Charles Since 1963 average market volatility is 18 often come just before a market correction to be an Avalon style airport, it’s great for the operators of the H Dow prize for technical analysis, has percent when utilities are leading versus or spike in volatility. two food businesses and a newsagent inside. amassed decades of evidence of the predic- 13.6 percent when utilities are lagging. To be sure, what has worked for 88 years The government also says it will be spending big on infrastruc- tive power of the sector. In those weeks since 1926 in which the may not work in future. ture support. The first figure we heard via the Daily Telegraph Using market weighted total return data stock market fell by more than 5.5 percent, With plenty of other reasons to worry in February was $200m – which would have bought a fair chunk going back to 1926, they found that a strat- utilities outperformed the broader market about stocks, the utilities signal, with its of road in the 1980s. By Wednesday, however, that had risen to egy which positions either into utilities or in the previous four weeks nearly 60 percent long track record, is one to take particularly $3.5bn. This is intended to be the big sweetener of the plan, sug- the broad market depending on which is of the time. seriously. gesting that such a big spend is a great thing for western Sydney showing leadership (essentially momentum) During the periods experiencing the REUTERS because it will provide construction jobs and roads that are “des- perately needed”. Problem is, however, that those new roads won’t make the road problems of the region much easier. Not all that many drivers cur- rently use the roads being earmarked for funding – such as Bringelly Road and the Northern Road – and it will take some time for a motorway alongside Elizabeth Drive to the M7 to make money for its operators, because it will mostly just serve the airport. The earmarked roads wind through vast amounts of farms that may, one day, become new suburbs. The roads will be good to have and I will like them, as I drive between Penrith and Campbelltown a fair amount. The run to my daughter’s netball at Minto will also be smoother – that is, if she’s playing in a decade. That, however, is a $3.5bn spend that won’t solve the on-going problems with the M4 and M5, which causes most of the problems of the region. Instead, they will feed more traffic into existing snarls, as well as create new ones as more decide that driving is the main way to get anywhere. What would be necessary – and has been left out by a govern- ment that seems to be addicted to roads – is a plan for trains to connect to Badgery’s Creek. Freight and passengers will need trains for mass transit and traffic free connections to the CBDs of Sydney and Parramatta – and the operators of Badgery’s Creek airport will also be best served by such a line, if they wish to avoid current problems faced by Avalon airport’s lack of a public transport link. Yet Abbott has repeated that the NSW govern- ment will need to pay for a train link. The challenge for Premier Baird will be to attempt to find funds for a train line that isn’t in the current long term rail infrastructure planning. We could be waiting for some time. While an airport may bring some benefits to western Sydney, there are questions to be asked about other ways to help the region other than building roads to a privately owned and run business. The money being invested in health, education and rail spending in the region would be a smarter way to stimulate business and residential growth, and provide long term benefits. What we have, however, is an airport that will probably grow into a large international airport with no curfew, hence large jets flying over the Lower Blue Mountains at 2am. By that, all the roads will be starting to be choked up by the residents of the new suburbs near the airport, and this addicted-to-roads government will be a distant memory. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate The love-hate relationship between EU and US BY NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT for urgent measures to promote of the ditch. President George W the world into recession, it was more than private grief for the generation of permanently unem- growth in Europe, the ECB Bush’s Treasury secretary hast- therefore right the Anglo-Saxon Europeans were it not for the ployed young Europeans in their he elaborate gavotte blithely imposed its punishing ily arranged a $700bn bank bail- economies should put everything wide-ranging effects of an eco- wake. In the name of European between the American creed, arguing that there would out, the Troubled Asset Relief right. nomically weak and politically unity, they have successfully and European econo- be no gain without pain. The programme in late 2008 to halt Things did not quite turn out divided continent. With the divided the rich European Tmies continues. While result? Little gain, endless pain. the impending Great Recession. as the Europeans hoped. They Russian wolf knocking at the door nations of the North from the the Federal Reserve has begun The eurozone economy endured President Barack Obama inherited slyly smiled as they let the United in Ukraine, the Europeans are in poor nations of the South. In to wind down its controversial growth at a miserable 0.2 percent and executed this policy, adding on States pick up the check but have no position to respond robustly to the name of a strong common quantitative easing (QE) pro- year-on-year in the last quarter a $787bn stimulus package, against ended up with a painful hangover put an abrupt halt to President defence through European unity, gramme, the European Central of 2013. Unemployment is at a a barrage of abuse from Bush’s — which serves them right. The Vladimir Putin of Russia’s expan- they seem impotent in the face of Bank (ECB) the federal reserve wretched 11.9 percent. The euro- erstwhile supporters and without a giant US stimulus prevented an sionist plans. Russia’s lawless land grab. of the eurozone, has announced zone is suffering from chronic single Republican vote in Congress. economic collapse all right, but Instead, the European leaders, Jean Monnet, the father of the it is considering a QE programme “lowflation,” with inflation at an But then the Europeans reneged on the resulting recovery has been chief among them Chancellor modern European integration of its own. annual 0.5 percent, heading toward the €200bn ($274bn) stimulus they at best sluggish. Angela Merkel of Germany, movement, said, “People only It is a belated acknowledge- perhaps the most destructive eco- agreed would be their contribution The American growth the who, as a former citizen of East accept change when they are ment, if not an outright admis- nomic condition of all — deflation. to ending the malaise. Europeans were counting on to Germany, lived half her life under faced with necessity, and only sion, from Mario Draghi, In response to this dunce’s Instead, while the Americans save them from destitution has Russian rule, can only plead for recognize necessity when a crisis president of the ECB, that five report card, Draghi is consider- were funding and fixing the world not been nearly enough to take up caution from her North Atlantic is upon them.” It may be that the years of the European Union’s ing pumping money into the euro- economy, the Europeans decided the slack in the economies of the Treaty Organization allies and Russian military threat will cause austerity policy has failed to lift zone through quantitative easing. to belatedly address their under- Mediterranean nations such as mercy from Putin. Having failed a rethink of the economic poli- the eurozone nations out of the Even then, he has made clear he regulated banking and financial Spain, Italy and Greece. Their high to build a robust European cies needed to bring all Europeans economic mire. The ECB has pre- does not mean what he says. He sectors and reform their overly unemployment – 25.6, 13.0, and 27.5 economy — and failed to wean together in a common cause. sided over a wholly unnecessary sees this policy as a last resort generous labour laws and welfare percent respectively – appears per- themselves off cheap Russian Right now, however, it seems triple-dip recession in the euro- to push up inflation and avoid the arrangements funded by high manent and socially corrosive. The natural gas — the Europeans EU leaders are biding their time, zone and sparked a bitter rift spiralling collapse of prices and public borrowing they wrongly Germans, who almost alone have can no longer afford to stand on hoping something to turn up, between the German-dominated economic activity that threatened blamed for the Great Recession. benefited from the EU’s auster- principle. in the belief that if all else fails, European Union bureaucracy and the world economy in the fall of The Europeans’ clever plan was ity regime — not least from the There is little sign that Draghi, the United States will again save the Mediterranean nations that 2008. But he hopes the mere to let America take the financial low value of the euro that makes Merkel, and other EU leaders them from themselves. With must endure the rigours imposed threat of QE will be enough to strain while they prepared to take German exports unnaturally cheap understand, let alone acknowl- more than half of Americans now from Brussels. All to little avail. lift prices and save Europe from advantage of the boom in trade — are reaping the whirlwind in edge, the errors of their ways. ready to turn their back on the If there are any “austerians” the deflation that has dogged the that would result from the US-led terms of lost authority and out- In the name of building a strong rest of the world, the highest fig- left standing, let them explain Japanese economy for decades. recovery. European politicians right hatred from the Southern, European economy, the stronger ure for more than 50 years, that this. Ignoring the cries of the Once again, Europe has left it regularly said that since Anglo- poorer nations. EU nations have beggared their complacent belief is as foolish as unemployed and those pressing to the United States to pull it out Saxon economics had plunged All this would amount to little poorer neighbours, leaving a it is dangerous. REUTERS FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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NEW YORK: Dale Weise scored the game-winning goal 18:08 into overtime as the Montreal Canadiens beat Tampa Bay in Game One of their first-round play-off series. Montreal twice led in the third period but could not shake the Lightning in the thrilling opener. Game Two of the best-of-seven series is set to be played today. Steven Stamkos scored two goals for the Lightning, including the one that tied it 4-4 at 13:27 in the third period. Neither team ever led by more than one goal, though the visiting Canadiens were the aggressors as they outshot Tampa Bay 44-25. Lightning goaltender Anders Goaltender Kari Lehtonen of the Dallas Stars defends his net as Tyler Lindback made 39 saves. Seguin (91) of the Stars and Matt Beleskey (39) of the Anaheim Ducks Elsewhere, Brandon Sutter’s pursue the puck in the second period of Game One of the First Round goal with 11:42 remaining capped of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Play-offs at Honda Centre in Anaheim, a rally from a two-goal deficit as California. The Ducks defeated the Stars 4-3. the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first game of their first-round Stanley avoided blowing a four-goal lead Cup playoff series. to hang on for a tense victory over Play-offs results The Blue Jackets were looking the Dallas Stars in the first game NEW YORK: Results from the NHL Play-offs for their first play-off win in the of their Western Conference play- Quarterfinal games on Wednesday (home franchise’s 14-year history, but off series. team in CAPS) lost to Pittsburgh for the sixth Ryan Getzlaf, who was hit in 1 2 3 OT T time this season. the face by the puck late in the The second game of the best- game, and Matt Beleskey both Montreal 1 1 2 1 5 of-seven series will be played scored a goal and had an assist Tampa Bay 1 1 2 0 4 tomorrow in Pittsburgh. for the Ducks who held a 4-0 Jack Johnson and Mark lead midway through the second (Montreal lead the best-of-seven series by 1-0) Letestu scored in the first period period. 1 2 3 T for Columbus before Derek Dallas then scored twice in the Pittsburgh 1 2 1 4 MacKenzie gave the visitors a 3-1 second period of their tense game edge in the second. before Tyler Seguin cut the deficit Columbus 2 1 0 3 Pittsburgh equalised on second- to 4-3 with 6:07 remaining, but (Pittsburgh lead the best-of-seven series period goals by Beau Bennett and the Stars were unable to send it by 1-0) Matt Niskanen. into overtime. 1 2 3 T Penguins goaltender Marc- Anaheim rookie goaltender Andre Fleury, who was benched Frederik Andersen stopped 32 Anaheim 3 1 0 4 in the play-offs last season, made shots, while Stars netminder Kari Dallas 0 2 1 3 30 saves. Lehtonen finished with 31 saves. The Anaheim Ducks narrowly Game Two is today. AFP (Anaheim lead the best-of-seven series by 1-0)

Malaysian Open First NBA: Thunder clinch Round Scores

KUALA LUMPUR: Leading first-round scores West’s second seed yesterday in the $2.75m Maybank Malaysian Open at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country LOS ANGELES: Kevin Durant’s Club: dunk with 16.5 seconds to play NBA Results lifted Oklahoma City to a 112-111 Charlotte 91 Chicago 86 65 Lee Westwood (ENG) victory over Detroit yesterday on Indiana 101 Orlando 86 66 Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL) the final night of the NBA regular Cleveland 114 Brooklyn 85 season. Philadelphia 100 Miami 87 67 Michael Hoey (NIR), Ricardo Santos With the victory, the Thunder (POR) secured the second seed in the NY Knicks 95 Toronto 92 Memphis 106 Dallas 105 Western Conference play-offs. 68 Jbe Kruger (RSA), Julien Quesne Durant drove past Kyle Singler Atlanta 111 Milwaukee 103 (FRA) on the left side for the two-handed Utah 136 Minnesota 130 slam -- giving the Thunder their New Orleans 105 Houston 100 69 Edoardo Molinari (ITA), Richard first lead since early in the third Oklahoma City 112 Detroit 111 T. Lee (CAN), Prayad Marksaeng quarter. (THA), Soren Hansen (DEN), Bernd Detroit’s Brandon Jennings LA Lakers 113 San Aantonio 100 Washington 118 Boston 102 Wiesberger (AUT), Eduardo de la couldn’t get an off-balance three- Riva (ESP), Craig Lee (SCO), Thaworn point attempt to fall in at the Portland 110 LA Clippers 104 Wiratchant (THA) buzzer. Phoenix 104 Sacramento 99 Durant scored 29 of his 42 points Golden State 116 Denver 112 70 Prom Meesawat (THA), Bryce Easton in the second half, including 21 in (RSA), Scott Hend (AUS), Baek the fourth quarter, and sealed his Seuk-hyun (KOR), Tommy Fleetwood fourth NBA scoring title in the last five years. (ENG), Raphael Jacquelin (FRA), Wade “A lot of good things took place, a lot of improvement and growth,” Ormbsy (AUS), Arnond Vongvanij Thunder coach Scott Brooks said of Oklahoma City’s season. “I thought (THA), Antonio Lascuna (PHI) our guys really competed all year. “With that said,” he added, “I’m not overly thrilled with how we played tonight.” 71 Elmer Salvador (PHI), Francesco The Thunder will open the play-offs tomorrow against the Memphis Molinari (ITA), S.S.P. Chowrasia (IND), Grizzlies, who defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-105 in overtime in a Marco Crespi (ITA), Anthony Kang battle for the seventh seed in the West. (USA), Garth Mulroy (RSA), Kiradech Oklahoma City’s victory meant the Los Angeles Clippers were sure Aphibarnrat (THA), Matteo Manassero to be the West’s third seed, even before they finished the season with (ITA) a 110-104 loss at the Portland Trail Blazers. REUTERS LPGA Scores

KAPOLEI, US: Leading first-round scores yesterday in the $1.7m US LPGA Lotte Championship (USA unless noted, x-denotes amateur, par-72):

68 Kim Hyo-Joo (KOR), Pak Se-Ri (KOR), Ryu So-Yeon (KOR)

69 Ayako Uehara (JPN)

70 Amy Anderson, Jang Ha-Na (KOR), x-Lee So-Young (KOR), Park In-Bee (KOR), Michelle Wie

71 Christel Boeljon (NED), Katie M. Burnett, Pornanong Phatlum (THA), Lindsey Wright (AUS)

72 Danah Bordner, Silvia Cavalleri (ITA), Portland Trail Blazers’ guard Allen Crabbe (23) looks to pass the ball Victoria Elizabeth, Moriya Jutanugarn as Los Angeles Clippers’ forward Hedo Turkoglu (8) defends during the (THA), Danielle Kang, Kim Kaufman, Cristie Kerr, Jennifer Kirby (CAN), Lydia third quarter of the game at the Moda Centre yesterday. The Blazers Ko (NZL), Brittany Lang, Paula Reto won the game 110-104. (RSA), Angela Stanford FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Row over plan to merge Asia’s Man City title top posts

SINGAPORE: Prince Ali bin Al Hussein has savaged plans to hand his current role as FIFA vice-president to Asia’s football hopes in tatters boss in a row which threatens to plunge regional soccer into a fresh round of infighting. Liverpool hangover cost us: Pellegrini In an open letter, the Jordanian royal “strongly opposed” the pro- posal backed by Asian Football LONDON: Manchester City’s add three points - will see in the their last eight games against Confederation (AFC) president Premier League title hopes were future what will happen but our Sunderland and Wickham put Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al dealt a crushing blow when they chances are less.” Poyet’s side in front after 83 min- Khalifa, which will be put to the were held to a 2-2 draw by bot- Sunderland remained rooted to utes when he beat Joe Hart at his vote in June. tom club Sunderland at the the bottom of the table with 26 near post. “I stand firm by my conviction Etihad Stadium on Wednesday points from 33 matches, six points But Sunderland’s hopes of a that all sport... should be free from night. adrift of 17th-placed Norwich shock victory were dashed when politics and completely devoid of Everton suffered a shock 3-2 City. goalkeeper Vito Mannone spilled politicos and self-interest indi- home defeat by mid-table Crystal “We deserved better,” man- Nasri’s shot into his own net two viduals and groups that exploit Palace at Goodison Park to put a ager Gus Poyet said. “We con- minutes from time. the sport and all its stakehold- huge dent in their bid for a top- ceded a goal after two minutes at Goals from Jason Puncheon and ers for their own personal gains,” four finish. Manchester City and every single Scott Dann gave Crystal Palace a Prince Ali wrote. Four of football’s City, champions in 2012 person in the world expected us 2-0 lead at Goodison Park before six global confederations combine and runners-up to neighbours to lose from there. substitute Steven Naismith pulled the role of regional president Manchester United last sea- “But we passed the ball and cre- a goal back for Everton. and FIFA vice-president, with son, failed to respond to their ated chances. We kept believing.” Cameron Jerome’s strike the AFC and South America’s 3-2 defeat at leaders Liverpool After the damaging defeat by restored Palace’s two-goal advan- CONMEBOL the two exceptions. on Sunday and stayed third in Liverpool, City knew anything tage and Kevin Mirallas grabbed Bahrain’s Shaikh Salman was the table on 71 points from 33 other than a win would seri- a late consolation for Roberto elected as permanent replace- matches, six behind Liverpool and ously dent their title hopes and Martinez’s side. ment for the scandal-tainted four adrift of Chelsea with only a slick passing move enabled Everton’s defeat, which fol- Mohamed bin Hammam last year one game in hand. Fernandinho to fire them ahead lowed a run of seven wins in a in a move warmly welcomed by Liverpool are in pole position to after two minutes. row, left them on 66 points from FIFA president Sepp Blatter. claim their first English title in 24 But with talismanic midfielder 34 matches, a point adrift of Shaikh Salman will now seek years, but they still have to play Yaya Toure missing through fourth-placed Arsenal with four a change in AFC statutes to Chelsea at Anfield on April 27. injury, City lacked a cutting edge games remaining. merge the Asian presidency with “We did not play well but we and Sunderland striker Connor “It’s a real disappointment, the FIFA vice presidency. He is had in our mind the game against Wickham was in the right a result which is hurtful,” said expected to seek re-election as Liverpool,” City manager Manuel place on 73 minutes to convert Martinez. “The first half we were AFC boss next year. Pellegrini told Sky Sports. Emanuele Giaccherini’s left-wing fearful, the way we conceded the Jordan’s Prince Ali, 38, was “It is not enough because we cross and score his first Premier first goal shows that. They didn’t Manchester City’s French midfielder Samir Nasri reacts after missing a elected as one of the eight FIFA have Liverpool and Chelsea on League goal since 2011. have the threat to score three chance at goal during the English Premier League football match at the vice-presidents to a four-year top of the table and we needed to City have won just twice in goals.” REUTERS Etihad Stadium in Manchester, yesterday. The match ended in a 2-2 draw. term in January 2011. AFP Brazil unveils $10bn infrastructure budget for Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian airport Galeao, which has been 52 projects or facilities that will committee estimated in 2009 that Thursday and work was scheduled Tijuca, one of the main venues, authorities unveiled an infra- handed to private operators. be used exclusively for the games the games would cost 28.8 billion to start in the second half of this continued on Wednesday. Some structure budget of 24.1bn reais Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes and still require approval. reais in total. year, Brazilian officials said. employees returned to the con- ($10.76bn) for the Rio 2016 said the higher budget was due So far, only 24 projects have With just over two years to “We have no room to spare struction site but union leaders Olympic Games, 25 percent to the inclusion of new projects been budgeted at 5.6bn reais. go, the International Olympic with Deodoro. We cannot make convinced them not to work. more than planned, as they try and inflation, which has blown Additionally, the organising com- Committee and world sporting a single mistake here. But there Mayor Paes said the facility, to reassure the world they can up costs by 30 percent since Rio mittee’s budget has risen 27 per- federations last week criticized is still time to get it done,” Paes originally built for the 2007 Pan deliver facilities on time. won hosting rights for the event cent to 7bn reais. the Brazilian government for said at the budget announce- American Games, was still “on The budget covers 27 projects in 2009. This operating budget was the slow pace of work, and some ment, flanked by Brazil’s Sports schedule”. Brazil is racing to fin- in urban development and public Paes said 57 percent of the originally set to include up to 1.4 asked about contingency plans Minister Aldo Rebelo. ish soccer stadiums in time for transport, including 8 billion reais infrastructure costs would be billion reais in public funds but should Brazil fail to deliver. Competitors have criticised the the World Cup, a prestigious for a newly added fourth metro paid for with public funds, coming officials changed their minds in Construction work at the filthy waters where sailing events event its leaders hoped would sig- line for Rio, Brazil’s congested from federal, state and municipal response to public outcry over the Deodoro Olympic Park, where will take place in Rio’s Guanabara nify the South American nation’s second largest city, where getting governments, and the rest would high cost of stadiums and other eight events will take place, has Bay, yet the budget for infrastruc- emergence as a world power but around town is an ordeal. be private. projects required by the Olympics yet to start, and the pace of ture includes little work to clean now risks being an international Other initially envisaged The total cost of Rio 2016 has and 2014 World Cup, which kicks progress at other venues is slow. up pollution in the bay. embarrassment that could get projects were excluded, such as risen to 36.7bn reais, which does off in June. The terms of the tenders for A strike over pay at the worse if the Rio Olympics are the upgrade to Rio’s international not include more than half of the The Rio 2016 organising Deodoro would be published on Olympic Park in coastal Barra da similarly troubled. REUTERS Bol d’Or to kick off endurance season

DOHA: The Bol d’Or on April 26 and making no secret of their ambitions to win by surprise, the Yamaha of Maco Racing 27 will be the opener for another thrill- the Bol d’Or and to contest the 2014 World Team (Dunlop), Honda National Motos, ing FIM Endurance World Championship title. Yamaha Racing GMT 94 Michelin, back among the permanent teams, and the season. runner-up in 2013, has recruited the best Kawasaki of Team 18 Sapeurs Pompiers The quality of this year’s field promises a of the French Supersport riders: Mathieu (Dunlop). great show at the opening 24 Hour race at Gines and Lucas Mahias will be joining In Superstock, the quest for victory is also the Nevers magny-Cours circuit among both forces with David Checa and Kenny Foray. looking wide open. 2013 FIM World Cup the Formula EWC world title contenders The other factory Yamaha, the Monster winner Team Motors Events April Moto and the candidates for the FIM Superstock Energy Yamaha YART, with Pirelli tyres (Suzuki-Dunlop) is graduating to Formula World Cup. in 2014, will be at the start with Jerman, EWC, leaving the way free for the much fan- The Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, 2013 Australian Superbike champion Wayne cied BMW of Penz13.com Franks Autowelt with its thirteen World titles, is one of Maxwell and his fellow countryman Rick Racing Team (Pirelli), winner in 2012. The the favourites, especially now the factory Olson. German team will have a “new” rival with Suzuki team has added former BMW regu- Team R2CL, a private team (Suzuki- the return of the QMMF Racing Team lars Erwan Nigon and Damian Cudlin to its Dunlop), is also looking confident since it (Kawasaki-Dunlop), winner of the FIM core crew of Vincent Philippe et Anthony confirmed its high-powered and high-pro- World Cup from 2008 to 2010 and fielding Delhalle. file line-up of Guy Martin, Gwen Giabbani Alexander Cudlin, Nina Prinz and Mashel Team SRC Kawasaki, with an unbroken and Gareth Jones. They face an unknown Al Naimi. run of five successive victories at the Bol quantity in the new Honda Racing factory The 24-Hour Bol d’Or will see the intro- d’Or and the 24 Hours of le Mans, is also team (Dunlop) whose CBR1000RR will be duction of a major rule change in 2014. among the race favourites.Aboard the fac- carrying a trio of Endurance specialists, Points (10 points to 1 point) will be allocated tory Kawasaki (only racing the two French Sébastien Gimbert, Julien da Costa and to the ten first placed competitors in the events), Gregory Leblanc and Matthieu Freddy Foray. intermediate rankings 8 hours and 16 hours Lagrive could be joined by World Supersport Among the challengers, we find stalwarts into the race. The idea of this bonus is to champion Fabien Forêt. Bolliger Team Switzerland (Kawasaki- reward those who make the running over Several of the permanent teams are Pirelli), capable of taking the top teams long distance races. THE PENINSULA

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Yuvraj’s fifty takes Basketball: Emir Cup Bangalore to victory Delhi Daredevils suffer eight-wicket loss in Sharjah

SHARJAH: Delhi Daredevils (DD) dropped the danger- Yuvraj Singh and Virat ous Virat Kohli twice in their Kohli captain of the eight-wicket defeat to Royal Royal Challengers Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at Bangalore celebrate Sharjah yesterday. after winning their Indian The RCB captain got reprieves Premier League match on 23 and 24 in the 13th over against Delhi Daredevils bowled by Wayne Parnell. Kohli at the Sharjah Cricket (49 not out) cut loose after those Stadium, Sharjah, drops and along with Yuvraj Singh United Arab Emirates, (52 not out) took RCB over the yesterday. line in 16.4 overs. In pursuit of a modest 146, RCB lost Australian Nic Maddinson to Mohammed Shami in the second over for six as the left-hander nicked a bouncer going down leg to wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik. Parthiv Patel didn’t let the early wicket affect the team, putting on view some exquisite shots. However, after adding 56 with Virat Kohli, who was sub- dued in the partnership, Patel was cleaned up by legspinner Rahul Sharma for 37. The scoring became a bit dif- ficult for Kohli and new batsman Yuvraj over the next couple of overs. With RCB 86 for 2 in 12 overs, the match was nicely poised but the drops by IPL debutant Jimmy Neesham at backward square leg and Mayank Agarwal at deep cover in the next over doused Starc, Albie Morkel and Varun Chahal then cleaned up Murali runs and Duminy cut loose read- whatever little hopes DD had. Aaron sparkled, getting rid of Vijay for 18 with a legbreak, leav- ing the situation really well. The The next two overs yielded 35 Agarwal (6), stand-in captain ing DD tottering at 35 for 4 in 7.1 last five overs yielded 63 runs for runs with Kohli scoring 21 out of Karthik (0) and Manoj Tiwary overs. Ross Taylor then joined JP DD with Duminy scoring majority them with the help of three sixes. (1) respectively. Duminy at the crease and both of the runs - 40. It was a matter of time before Agarwal got undone by a ball began DD’s revival in earnest. Brief scores: Delhi Daredevils both batsmen took the team over that got big on him, resulting Singles and doubles were the 145 for 4 in 20 overs (Duminy the line. in a miscued pull shot; Karthik order of DD’s innings over the 67*, Taylor 43*; MoM Chahal 1 Earlier, after being put in to fell caught-behind to a delivery next few overs. for 18) lost to Royal Challengers bat, DD suffered a bad start, los- that moved away from him, while The boundary hit by Taylor in Bangalore 146 for 2 in 16.4 overs Action from the Emir Cup basketball match between Al Rayyan and ing their top four in the blink Tiwary tried to flick a ball going the 13th over came after a gap of (Yuvraj 52*, Kohli 49*; Shami 1 for El Jaish at Al Gharafa Indoor Stadium in Doha yesterday. Al Rayyan of an eye. On a two-faced pitch, down leg but found the gloves 42 balls. With 82 for 4 in 15 overs, 30) by eight wickets won 93-73. RCB medium pacers Mitchell of Patel. Legspinner Yuzvendra DD were in a crying need for big AGENCIES Nadal, Djokovic, Federer cruise in Monte Carlo

MONTE CARLO, Monaco: The Spaniard said he felt an Rafael Nadal racked up his improvement in his play against 300th career claycourt win to Seppi, with the win taking him reach the Monte Carlo Masters into another meeting with com- quarter-finals yesterday where patriot David Ferrer. he was joined by longtime rivals Spanish sixth seed Ferrer Novak Djokovic, the defending booked his place by beating champion, and Roger Federer. Bulgarian number 12 Grigor World number one Nadal fin- Dimitrov 6-4, 6-2. ished with an ace on match point “I did what I had to,” said top to seal his landmark 6-1, 6-3 win seed Nadal. “But playing David over Italy’s Andreas Seppi while (Ferrer) is never easy. If you are Djokovic cruised past Spain’s not at the top of your game you Pablo Carreno Busta and Federer will lose. I’m just glad to be in a saw off Czech Lukas Rosol. quarter-final.” Nadal became just the 11th man Nadal had a few spots of bother to crack 300 wins on clay -- the against Italy’s Seppi, with the last to do so was Spaniard Carlos world number one forced to save Moya, who ended his career in five break points in the sixth game 2007 with 337 victories. of the opening set for a 5-1 lead. Nadal still has ground to cover “At 4-1 I just stopped moving on clay before approaching the my legs, it was mental, not physi- all-time top winner on the sur- cal,” he explained. face -- Argentine Guillermo Vilas In the second set, Nadal who compiled a record of 644-183 dropped serve to love while lead- on the surface three decades ago. ing 4-2. But he got it straight back for 5-3 and finished off the victory Monte Carlo in 93 minutes. Djokovic, who ended Nadal’s Masters Results eight-year Monte Carlo winning MONTE-CARLO, Monaco: Results on the run in 2013, put in what amounted fifth day of the ATP Monte Carlo Masters to a training session as he won yesterday (x denotes seeding): the first nine games in a 6-0, 6-1 Third Round rout of lucky loser Carreno Busta which took 47 minutes. Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) bt Pablo Carreno “My object is to keep play- Busta (ESP) 6-0, 6-1 ing like this,” said the Serb. “It’s Milos Raonic (CAN x8) bt Tommy Robredo Switzerland’s Roger Federer (right) returns the ball to Czech Republic’s Lukas Rosol yesterday during their Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series impossible to predict the future, Tournament tennis match in Monaco. (ESP x11) 6-4, 6-3 but I’m sure my quarter-final will Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x9) bt Fabio Fognini take longer than this match. (ITA x10) 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 “I’m inspired to be defending third-round match with a foot Grand Slam winner, came back I was effective on break points. 6-3, 6-0 defeat. The 10th seed won Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Nicolas this title and want to keep playing injury. The Australian Open from a break down in the first set My first serve started to work just four points in the final set, Almagro (ESP x15) walkover, injured foot at my top level.” winner will face Canadian eighth before crushing his opponent to better. It was a more difficult where he was jeered by fans. Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Andreas Seppi Djokovic next plays Spanird seed Milos Raonic, who beat 11th- win an ATP-leading 26th match start to the match. But as long “Today I felt a lot better than (ITA) 6-1, 6-3 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, who beat seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo this season. He won 10 of the last as I found a way to turn it around the first day, where my legs felt David Ferrer (ESP x6) bt Grigor Dimitrov fifth seed Tomas Berdych 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Seven-time Wimbledon 11 games. and stay calm, it was good, I was very heavy,” said Tsonga. “I knew (BUL x12) 6-4, 6-2 6-1 with the Czech reportedly suf- champion Roger Federer, the “I was able to find my way into very pleased.” I could stay on the court for a long Roger Federer (SUI x4) bt fering with a back injury. fourth seed, spent just 57 min- the match,” said the Swiss, 32. Frenchman Tsonga celebrated time. Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6-4, 6-1 Third seed Stanislas Wawrinka utes on court getting past Rosol “After four games you usually his 29th birthday with a win in “In the beginning he was better earned a free trip into the last 6-4, 6-1 and next plays ninth seed know what’s going to work, what’s controversial circumstances over than I was physically, but I made Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) bt Tomas eight when Spain’s Nicolas Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. not going to work. flamboyant Italian Fabio Fognini, him play each point and I didn’t Berdych (CZE X5) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 Almagro retired before their Federer, the record 17-time “I also came to the net some, who went into meltdown in a 5-7, make any unforced errors.” AFP FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK TIME

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First earth-sized planet found in Cannes picks 18 of 1,700 films for show PARIS: Movies by David Cronenberg, weighing in at a whopping three hours and habitable zone Jean-Luc Godard, Mike Leigh and Ken 16 minutes. Loach are among the films selected to Prior to yesterday’s announcement, only WASHINGTON: The hunt compete for the top Palme d’Or prize two films had been confirmed for the 12-day for potential life in outer space at next month’s Cannes Film Festival, festival although neither will be screened has taken a step forward — an organisers said yesterday. in competition. international team of research- After months of speculation, just 18 of “Grace of Monaco”, starring Nicole ers has discovered the first the more than 1,700 films submitted were Kidman as the former Hollywood star Earth-sized planet within the rewarded with a berth in a line-up packed Grace Kelly, and “Party Girl”, a French film “habitable zone” of another star. with Cannes’ signature mix of established about an ageing nightclub hostess, which The exoplanet dubbed Kepler- names and arthouse “auteurs”. will open “Un Certain Regard”. 186f was first spotted by scientists Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”, In addition to the row over the edit- using NASA’s Kepler telescope, Godard’s “Adieu au Langage”, Leigh’s ing of Dahan’s royal biopic, the movie also according to research published “Mr Turner” and Loach’s “Jimmy’s Hall”, made headlines after Grace’s children — yesterday in the US journal expected to be his last feature, will all be Prince Albert and Princesses Caroline and Science. in competition at the May 14-25 movie Stephanie dismissed — it as “pure fiction”. The exoplanet, located some extravaganza on the French Riviera. Based around the late Prince Rainier, 500 light years from Earth, orbits Announcing the shortlist at a ceremony played by British actor Tim Roth, and in what is seen as the sweet spot in Paris, artistic director Thierry Fremaux Grace, who died in a car crash in 1982, it around its star: not too close and tried to dampen down the controversy sur- tracks events at a time when France was not too far, so it could have liquid rounding opening film “Grace of Monaco”. threatening to annex the tiny principality water, considered a crucial com- The festival would open with the “only on its southern coast. ponent to possibly hosting life. version that exists, the one wanted by The Monaco royal family are expected “The discovery of Kepler-186f is the director”, he said, referring to Olivier to boycott the premiere. a significant step toward finding Dahan’s public row with US producer A potential late addition to the Cannes worlds like our planet Earth,” said Harvey Weinstein. line-up, possibly in an out-of-competition Paul Hertz, NASA’s Astrophysics Dahan had revealed earlier that a disa- slot, could be Abel Ferrara’s “Welcome to Division director at the agency’s greement over the editing of the movie had New York”, which stars Gerard Depardieu headquarters in Washington. led to “two versions — mine and his” being Officials speak at a news conference called to announce the selection of films for the 67th as the disgraced former IMF chief “What makes this finding par- made. annual Cannes Film Festival in Paris, yesterday. The festival will run from May 14 to 25. Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Jacqueline ticularly compelling is that this Out of competition, Hollywood star Bisset. Earth-sized planet, one of five Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut “Lost include “The Homesman” by Tommy Homesman”), Berenice Bejo and Annette Fremaux told AFP the selection com- orbiting this star, which is cooler River” starring Mad Men actress Christina Lee Jones, “The Search” by Michel Bening (“The Search”) and Juliette Binoche mittee had seen an unfinished version and than the Sun, resides in a tem- Hendricks gets a screening in the “Un Hazanavicius, “Captives” by Atom Egoyan, and Kristen Stewart (“Sils Maria”). “might” view the final version. perate region where water could Certain Regard” new talent section. “Saint Laurent” by Bertrand Bonello, “Sils Two women directors — Kawase and The festival will open on May 14 with exist in liquid form,” said Elisa Held almost every year since 1946, the Maria” by Olivier Assayas and “Two Days, Italy’s Alice Rohrwacher (“Le Meraviglie”) New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, the Quintana of the SETI Institute at festival is famed as much for launching One Night” by the Dardenne brothers. — feature in this year’s competition only woman to win the Palme d’Or, head- NASA’s Ames Research Center in the careers of filmmakers such as Steven From Asia, meanwhile, Japan’s Naomi shortlist. ing the jury. California, the lead author of the Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino as for Kawase gets a slot with “Futatsume No Organisers stress that they select Campion who won in 1993 for “The paper published in Science. its glitzy red carpet photo calls, luxury Mado”, while Abderrahmane Sissako strictly on merit but nevertheless came Piano” also won in the short film section Kepler-186f is around 1.1- yachts, star-studded parties and diamond from Mauritania makes the cut with in for criticism two years ago when not a in 1986. times the size of Earth — which heists. “Timbuktu”. single woman director was chosen; last year The filmmaker has described the festival researchers say is key to predict- Behind the scenes, film industry execu- The 2014 roll call raises the prospect of there was one. as a “mythical and exciting” place where ing the composition of the surface tives and producers turn the festival into an abundance of star names on the fabled The shortest film in competition, “amazing things can happen” adding that and its atmosphere. When plan- a huge marketplace as they cut deals to red carpet such as Robert Pattinson and Godard’s “Adieu au Langage” runs to just she knows this “because that is what hap- ets are 1.5 times the size of Earth secure a share in the next big movie event. Julianne Moore (“Maps to the Stars”), one hour and ten minutes with the long- pened to me”. or larger, many of them seem Other films in this year’s competition Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep (“The est, “Kis Uykusu” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, AFP to attract a thick hydrogen and helium layer that makes them start to resemble gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn. AFP Laptop used to send first presidential mail sold for $60,667

WASHINGTON: The laptop yesterday. RR Auction did not tle Discovery. The laptop, with emails with him. Bobby Livingston in a statement. computer that Bill Clinton used disclose the name of the buyer accessories and full documen- “It’s a remarkable collection Glenn, a US senator who in in 1998 to send the first-ever of the still-functional Toshiba tation, originally belonged to that represents the dawn of a new 1962 became the first American US presidential email has sold Satellite that Clinton borrowed White House physician Robert age, combining America’s great- astronaut to orbit the Earth, was for $60,667 in an online auction, to email veteran astronaut Darling, who lent it to Clinton est technological achievements completing a nine-day mission on the Boston auction house that John Glenn, who was orbiting when NASA informed the presi- — space travel and the Internet,” Discovery in November 1998. handled the transaction said Earth aboard the space shut- dent that Glenn wanted to swap said RR Auction vice president AFP