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Emir meets Turkish Interior Minister Qatar wins UN Barwa to build Human Rights Council Motor City for membership NEW YORK: Qatar yester- day won the membership of the Human Rights Council for a used vehicles three-year period from 2015-2017. Qatar won the vote in the UN General Assembly in New York Scores of services under one roof backed by 142 countries as part of the Group of Asian states. DOHA: All activities related Services such as offices for India, Indonesia and Bangladesh to used cars, including their Traffic Department, Technical also won the membership of the sale, auction, registration with Testing, offices for Ministry of Human Rights Council. the traffic department and Interior, Civil Defence, Ministry This is the third time that insurance will be shifted to a of Municipality, banks and car Qatar has been elected for mem- mini-city being developed near insurance office will also be avail- bership of the Council which is Rawdat Rashid off Salwa Road. able at the location. Moreover, the the highest organ of the UN on To be known as ‘Motor City’, project will contain commercial human rights worldwide. the project will cover a massive units, a hotel, staff accommodation Qatar won the membership 1.15 million square meters of space, for families, workers accommoda- with the support of such a large Barwa Real Estate group, the tion, a driving school, in addition to number of member-states of the developers, announced yesterday. other necessary facilities. UN to reflect the international The proposed city will house “The project, which will be called The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Emiri Diwan with Turkish Interior Minister Avkan status it enjoys and the role it used car showrooms, garages, an Motor City, comes under Barwa Alaa and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of their visit to the country to participate in the tenth plays in the defence of human auction area for sale of used cars, Real Estate’s social and economic session of the International Exhibition for Internal Security Systems (Milipol Qatar 2014 ). The Prime Minister rights in all regions of the world. labor camps for workers of these contributions to the Qatari soci- QNA and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also attended the meeting. facilities, entertainment facilities ety as it will enable traders to start as also a racing track, Barwa offi- their businesses using commercial cials announced yesterday. units with encouraging prices,” said More than third of the total area Ahmad Abdulla. of the Motor City will be reserved “Barwa Real Estate will develop for used car showrooms, while the project over four years divided another 29 percent will be dedi- into three phases, the details and Crackdown on villa partitioning slows down cated to entertainment facilities. budget of which will be revealed And the remaining will house out- later after signing the consul- DOHA: The ongoing campaign identifying partitioned villas. environment and the health affordable, multi-storey buildings lets selling car spare parts, servic- tancy agreement for the project of the Ministry of Municipality We depend on two things. First, and safety of the people,” said to address the severe shortage of ing facilities and insurance, etc. and after approving the final pro- and Urban Planning against complaints from people. Even Al Shafi. residential space in the country. The project entails investment posal of the project by all relevant partitioned villas has been after receiving a complaint, we He said the violators can seek They pointed out that the greedy of around QR1.5bn, and will house bodies,” he said. slowed down by difficulties in cannot enter the house without a licence to legalise the parti- and unscrupulous middlemen are various services for used vehicles The group will benefit from the identifying such villas, a munic- a permission from the owner or tioning, if it is required, after cashing on this shortage through such as used-cars services, car project through the BOT system ipal official has disclosed. the Public Prosecution,” Al Watan paying the fine and rectifying partitioning of villas. workshops, maintenance centres, (build-operate-transfer) for 30 Salim Hammoud Al Shafi, daily quoted Al Shafi as saying. the violation. CMC member Mahmoud Al and warehouses for used cars as years. An advanced electronic sys- director of the monitoring The other way to identify a par- Applications for a licence for Shafi said: “This phenomenon well as rent-a-car services. tem will be used to connect cars department at Doha Municipality titioned villa is through outside partitioning or maintenance is continues in many residential Speaking to mediapersons at a data to Hukoomi website and con- told an Arabic daily that in many observation, he said. Officials had handled by the technical affairs areas, despite the measures taken press conference held yesterday, sequently connect this data to the cases, the municipal inspectors earlier disclosed the factors they department of the municipality. by the municipalities. I myself had the company said it has already Ministry of Interior. This system have been forced to rely on out- consider during this observation He said since the ministry complained against this to the signed agreement with Ministry will be available for download on side observation to identify par- such as the number of cars parked launched the current campaign, authorities but they only impose of Municipality and Urban different mediums, websites and titioned villas since they are not in front of a villa, electricity and a number of cases have been a fine and ask (the violator) to Planning. “Under this agreement smart phones. authorised to enter the houses, water connection, and number of referred for detailed investigation. correct the modification.” Barwa will rent land extending The stone laying ceremony without a prior approval. air-conditioners. They would then be transferred He said the solution is to open over 1,150,000 square meters to of the project will be held in Even after identifying a villa, “The law (banning illegal to the Public Prosecution and to new residential facilities outside develop and run this distinctive December this year while other confirming a violation and tak- partitioning of villas and other the judiciary. the city and take strict measures project,” said Ahmad Abdulla details will be released early ing corrective action could involve buildings) has been implemented Meanwhile, several member of against the middlemen. Al Abdulla, Acting Group CEO, next year. THE PENINSULA lengthy procedures. taking into account the impact of the Central Municipal Council THE PENINSULA Barwa Real Estate. Picture on page 2 “We are facing problems in this practice on infrastructure, (CMC) have called for more Continued on page 2

Ebola body temperature check Stop unilateral Marmara Restaurant closed actions, Ban for 60 days over tainted food DOHA: The Marmara Istanbul Restaurant in Frij Klaib has been tells Israel and closed for 60 days for “preparing food in unhealthy conditions”, the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning said yesterday. More Palestinians than 20 people were hospitalised since Friday, after taking food from the restaurant. UNITED NATIONS: UN The Ministry, as part of its recent decision to “name and shame” chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel the erring outlets yesterday posted a picture of the restaurant on its and the Palestinians yesterday website, along with the closure notice issued on Sunday. Some pictures to move away from unilateral showing the interior of the restaurant have also been on display. actions stoking tensions and The Ministry, however, has not disclosed the source of food poison- make the “tough compromises” ing, which some victims had attributed to barbeque served by the needed to end their decades-old restaurant on Friday. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Municipality and conflict. Urban Planning, the Supreme Council of Health and other depart- Ban spoke to the UN Security ments concerned have agreed to launch joint inspection campaigns Council after returning from a visit on food outlets, beauty salons and other facilities. This was decided to the Middle East where he saw in a joint meeting on Monday. THE PENINSULA first-hand the destruction in Gaza wrought by the 50-day war between Airport doctors demonstrate how medical staff will check the body temperature of a passenger arriving from Jazeera to observe 300 Israel and Hamas militants. Ebola-infected zones at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague yesterday. “Leaders on both sides must overcome their differences and seconds of silence on air dispense with the unilateral ini- tiatives that serve only to fuel DOHA: Al Jazeera will mark 300 days since the arrest of its mistrust and polarization,” the journalists this Friday with 300 seconds of silence on air, accom- secretary general said. Total CEO killed in jet crash Pistorius begins jail term panied by images of the detainees and the campaign to release The appeal came after MOSCOW/PARIS: Christophe de Margerie, the PRETORIA: Star athlete Oscar Pistorius is spend- them. Baher Mohammed, Mohammed Fahmy and Peter Greste Palestinian youths attacked an charismatic and outspoken chief executive of the ing his first night in jail yesterday as he starts serving were sentenced to between seven and ten years in June, after apartment building taken over by French oil company Total, was killed when his pri- a five-year sentence behind the towering walls of a being arrested in December last year. January 1, 2015 has been Jewish settlers in east Jerusalem vate jet hit a snow plough as it was taking off from grim South African prison after a sensational trial for set as the date when Al Jazeera’s jailed journalists in Egypt will and as the Palestinians pushed for Moscow’s Vnukovo airport late on Monday night. killing his girlfriend. The “Blade Runner” is just one have the appeals against their convictions considered. a divisive UN resolution on end- The crash occurred around midnight Moscow time of more than 7,000 inmates of the Kgosi Mampuru The hearing will look at the process behind the original trial, ing the Israeli occupation in 2016. as his Dassault Falcon was taking off for Paris in poor prison in Pretoria, where he was taken after being a process that Al Jazeera says was flawed, and is the basis of the UN diplomats say the draft res- visibility. The plane’s three crew were also killed, but sentenced for shooting dead model Reeva Steenkamp appeal. olution stands no chance of being television footage showed the snowplough driver seem- on Valentine’s Day last year. Judge Thokozile Masipa The network hopes the three will be set free, though a retrial adopted, but they appear at a loss ingly unhurt. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it ordered Pistorius to serve a maximum five years in could also be ordered. Since the appeal was filed, another Al Jazeera to point a way forward to revive had opened a criminal investigation into the crash. It prison for culpable homicide after a seven-month journalist in a separate case, Ahmed Mansour, was convicted in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. said the driver had been found to be drunk. trial watched live by millions around the world. absentia to 15 years in jail. THE PENINSULA AFP See also page 12 See also page 12 Continued on page 2 WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir asks Shura to convene Global healthcare forum begins DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Decree No. 43 Patient Classification Systems International Conference to discuss improved facilities of 2014, inviting the Advisory Council to convene its 43rd DOHA: The Patient session on November 11. Classification Systems International (PCSI) Ambassadors Conference 2014 began in Doha yesterday to discuss methods appointed to provide improved health- care facilities and create bet- DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh ter opportunities for patients to Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani choose a better service. yesterday issued Emiri deci- The first in the Middle East, the sion No. 79 of 2014, appoint- four-day event is being held under ing Sheikh Mubarak bin the theme ‘Patient Information Fahad bin Jassim Al Thani as for Better Choice’. Ambassador Extraordinary It brings together leading and Plenipotentiary to Serbia. experts from across the world in The Emir also issued Emiri a specialist segment of data flow, Decision No. 80 of 2014, appoint- focusing on promoting and refin- ing Sayar Abdulrahman Jassim ing effective coding systems for Al Mauda as Ambassador patient classification. Extraordinary and The opening session was Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan. attended by around 300 experts, with a strong presence from the Ban hails support region. The Minister of Finance H E for Gaza Strip Ali Sherif Al Emadi, President, PCSI, Dr Dana Burdja, Prof Elias NEW YORK: The United Mossialos from London School Nations Secretary-General of Economics and Dr Reinhard Ban Ki-moon has praised Busse from Berlin University of The Minister of Finance H E Ali Sherif Al Emadi (third left) with other officials at the conference organised by SCH at Hilton Hotel yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT the generous contribution by Technology were among the dig- the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim nitaries present. Hussain Ali, PCSI 2014 Local “The conference gives an scenes in managing the enormous The PCSI is the only worldwide bin Hamad Al Thani and the “The classification system is Organising Committee Chairman opportunity to exchange infor- data generated in the modern organisation addressing case mix government of Qatar towards relatively new to the region and and Assistant Secretary-General mation between specialists and health sector. issues. In the past years, the con- payment of salaries of civil implemented only in some coun- for Policy Affairs, Supreme to know about the development “In fact, capturing and manag- ference has brought together a service employees in the Gaza tries. But countries in the region Council of Health. of the health system in Qatar,” ing data into meaningful informa- growing number of participants Strip. realise it’s one way of achieving “Though many health events he added. The healthcare sector tion is the backbone of healthcare from all over the world. From Ban made the remarks on transparency, improving quality and conferences are held, very worldwide continues to be one of development. It affects every a group of six ‘idealists’ from Tuesday during a Security information about patients and little information has reached the most vibrant and dynamic aspect from the transparency Western Europe and the US, the Council briefing on the situation that is why we adopted a road patients. But discussions at this parts in most countries. of costs and care to understand- organisation has grown to hun- in the Middle East, including the map to enhance, quality health conference will reach the primary But less visible is the extensive ing and responding effectively to dreds of members. Palestinian cause. system,” said Dr Faleh Mohamed health in Qatar. work that goes on behind the trends in our sector,” said Ali. THE PENINSULA Ministry cracks down on car dealer

DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has Interior Ministry signs QR187m deals at Milipol cracked down on an automo- bile dealer for passing off cars damaged in accidents as new DOHA: The Ministry of Interior Communications Department. and selling them to hapless has signed seven deals worth Another contract worth QR9.9m customers. QR187m with several companies was signed with Itqan Technologies The ministry has forced the participating in Milipol Qatar for smart ID cards for the General dealer to return cash to two cus- 2014. Directorate of Nationality, Borders tomers and give away new cars Brig. Saud Rashid Al and Expatriate Affairs. to another two while offering the Shafi, Director, Procurement Brig. Al Shafi said more con- fifth and the last one some other Department, General Directorate tracts would be signed by tomor- incentives. of Logistics, and member of row and details will be announced Qatar News Agency (QNA) Milipol Qatar Committee, told a at the end of the exhibition. reported yesterday that the press conference that the ministry On the specifications of boats prominent dealer was caught had concluded seven contracts. from Al Dar Marine, Brig. Ahmed during routine raids by inspec- He said the first was signed Jamal, Director, Financial Affairs tors from the ministry. with Al Dar Marine Company for Department, said they were in line The inspectors are armed 20 Italian-made search and res- with international and local stand- with judicial powers and some- cue boats for Coastguard and the ards and the boats would be cus- times raid car dealers on suspi- Borders Security Department, tomised as per the requirements cion as part of monitoring. worth QR34m. of the Coastguard. The second contract worth Jabr Saeed Al Rumaihi, WISH forum chief QR61.5m was signed with Al Managing Director, Al Dar Hamad Trading Est. for 24 fire- Marine, said the boats would be appointed fighting vehicles and maintenance made in Italy as per the require- of fire and rescue vehicles of Civil ments of the department. He said DOHA: World Innovation Defence. the boats would be delivered in five Summit for Health (WISH) A third deal was concluded with batches until 2015. The company has appointed chairperson for Salam Technology for supply and will also provide support for the the Dementia Forum to dis- operation of security surveillance General Directorate of Coasts and cuss challenges, innovation in systems and programmes, worth Borders to operate the boats. The stall set up by Al Hamad Trading Est. at Milipol Qatar 2014. KAMMUTTY VP care-giving, financial models QR22.4m. K T K Mohammed, Sales and and regulatory framework. A contract worth QR16.5m was Marketing Manager, Al Hamad as cyber security is one of the to optimise monitoring of custom- Internet via satellite and wireless The President of New York signed with Global Enterprises Trading Est., said they would major concerns of Qatar and the ers’ information systems,” he said. solutions to government organisa- Academy of Sciences, Ellis Technologies to supply cards to the supply a 90-metre firefighting ministry has recently enacted a QuinSec Security Services Ltd tions is also taking part. Rubinstein, will lead an expert General Directorate of Traffic for platform, five rapid intervention new cyber security law. is displaying innovative security It pioneered the concept of rap- group to tackle dementia glo- issuing driving licences and vehicle vehicles, 10 commanders RIV, two Thales Qatar is also showcas- technology that could be used idly deployable, independent and bally, Qatar Foundation said permits. BA vehicles, five water tankers, ing Cybels, a new system that pro- in businesses — from hotels and resilient broadband via satellite yesterday. The group will submit The fifth deal was with Saleh and two collapse building trucks. tects critical information systems shopping centres seeking secu- to support a broad range of resil- an evidence-based report to poli- Hamad Al Mana Company, The company has already sup- against cyber threats by anticipat- rity surveys and advice to air- ient applications within the filed cymakers at the WISH Summit worth QR6.8m for 114 vehicles plied one command vehicles and ing, blocking and responding rap- ports and gas installations, said of emergency incident manage- in Qatar on February 17-18. for the ministry, while a con- will provide another four in six idly to attacks, said Christopher David Bartholomew, Business ment, said K T K Mohammed, WISH is a global initiative of tract worth QR36.6m was con- months. Several local and global Lanovsky, Country Director. Development Manager, Doha and Sales & Marketing Manager, Qatar Foundation for Education, cluded with Airbus Defence and companies are showcasing latest “The scalable solution detects Middle East. Al Hamad Trading Est., which Science and Community Space Company for develop- technologies at the exhibition. intrusions as part of an ad-hoc Excelerate Technology Ltd, is Excelerate Technology Ltd’s Development. ment and maintenance of Tetra They include Thales Qatar with supervision service, with sensors the UK market leader in the partner in Qatar. THE PENINSULA/QNA Communication System for the innovative cyber security solutions installed at key points of a network provision of data, video voice and THE PENINSULA

Motor City for used vehicles Action against middlemen urged

Continued from page 1 Mohammed bin Faisal Al Shahwani , another CMC member also shared similar sentiments. “We submitted many reports on this issue. There are inspections but no change in the situation. This happens because of the pressure of the increasing population,” he told the daily. “We have to build vertical structures outside the city and rent it out at affordable prices,” he added. According to CMC member Mohammed Salim Al Qamra, the root cause of the problem should be addressed. “ Low income families must not be left in the mercy of these middlemen. They are living in poor health conditions,” he said. Case ‘riddled with flaws’

Continued from page 1 “Baher, Mohammed and Peter have been incarcerated for nearly ten months on the patently absurd charges of falsifying news and being involved in terrorism. In reality, they are fine journalists, convicted on the basis of a weak investigation and a court case riddled with proce- dural flaws,” an Al Jazeera spokesman said. “We hope that the court date of 1st January means that the new Ahmad Abdulla Al Abdulla, (third left), Acting Group CEO with other officials during the Barwa Real Estate press conference on the Motor City Project year can herald a new chapter, with the release of our journalists and at Barwa office yesterday. ABDUL BASIT the betterment of press freedoms in Egypt.” THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Katara releases book Push for infrastructure projects on carrier pigeons PM asks Ashghal to focus on areas where Qataris are to build homes DOHA: As part of efforts to pigeon towers at Katara have DOHA: The Prime Minister preserve Qatari and Arab tra- been the hallmark of traditional and Interior Minister H E dition and heritage, Katara architecture to enhance every- Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser has released a book, Carrier thing relevant to culture and bin Khalifa Al Thani has Pigeons in Katara. identity of Qataris and Arabs. urged Public Works Authority It was issued by the Research The book is part of efforts (Ashghal) to urgently complete and Studies Department fol- to maintain Qatari culture and all infrastructure developments lowing a proposal by researcher heritage which also includes in areas where free land has Ali Yusef Al Kuwari and pre- taking care of pigeons, breeding been allotted to Qataris to build pared in collaboration with Dr falcons and traditional fishing, homes. Ayman Nabih Saadallah to be among others, he said. This came as he visited the a reference for all researchers To show the importance of Ashghal headquarters recently. and those interested in Qatari the carrier pigeon and the need He said completing infrastruc- heritage. to preserve it, Katara recently ture projects in areas where land The book is expected to fill the imported 28 pigeons from has been given to citizens is a top gap in the area as there is scar- abroad. The 14 pairs are the fin- priority of the government as city of such reference in Arabic est breed known for intelligence, this would allow citizens to build library and there are very few speed and rarity. homes and live there as soon as research on heritage and folk- The 214-page book includes possible. Basic amenities need to lore of Qatar and the Gulf. an introduction and two chap- be completed in the areas include Katara General Manager, Dr ters. It discusses the historical water and electricity connections Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, background of carrier pigeons and sewerage networks. said the book comes within the and highlights their importance, The Premier also stressed strategy of Katara to revive types and classifications, stages co-ordination between govern- Qatari heritage. of development, anatomy and ment agencies involved in the Arabs in general used pigeons physiology, methods of nutrition, planning of new areas to finalise to send messages. They were the colours and dwellings. infrastructure. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani is welcomed by first to realise the importance of It also highlights the meaning He was welcomed by the officials at the Ashghal headquarters. pigeons and gathered informa- of carrier pigeon in Arabic lan- Minister of Municipality and tion about their species. guage, pigeon towers, advantages Urban Planning H E Sheikh They raised and took care and characteristics, their role as Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin New pumping stations will be He stressed the need to com- reflected the importance he gave of pigeons which were found to mail courier, how they can be Abdulaziz Al Thani, the President built for sewage tankers near plete the projects on schedule. to infrastructure projects vital for be fast, efficient and capable of trained and racing pigeons as a of Ashghal, Engineer Nasser treatment plants until the com- He was also briefed on plans to Qatar’s socio-economic growth travelling long distances, he said. sport. bin Ali Al Mawlawi, the Deputy pletion of sewage networks and build new areas in Umm Birka and providing citizens with world- Dr Al Sulaiti said the five THE PENINSULA Under- Secretary for Urban treatment plants will be devel- and Aba Sleel for industrial use, class services. Planning Affairs at the minis- oped to receive tankers, reducing workers’ accommodation and The visit also reflects the try, Engineer Fahd Mohamed Al dependence on the landfill. storage units for companies. Premier’s continuous support to Qahtani, and other officials. The Premier was also updated The Premier called for quick Ashghal and related entities to The Premier was also briefed on the Abu Nakhlah Lake completion of the projects and execute infrastructure projects Fnac to open first franchise store on implementation of plans to project which involves draining roads leading to them. according to specified standards DOHA: Fnac, a leading French second country where Fnac will solve the issue of Al Karaana it and rehabilitating the area Al Mawlawi said the Premier’s and schedules, he said. distributor of cultural, recrea- expand its franchise. waste water landfill. environmentally. second visit to Ashghal this year THE PENINSULA tional and technical products, “We are seeking new growth will launch early next year its opportunities by developing in first franchise store in Qatar in new geographical areas, in France Lagoona Mall. or internationally,” said Manuel The establishment of Fnac’s biota, Director of Franchise and franchise in Doha will be in part- Partnerships, Fnac. QatarDebate to train Stars of Science candidate nership with Darwish Holding, a “To this effectively and quickly, pioneer in mass distribution and we have focused on franchise DOHA: QatarDebate, a mem- will be trained by QatarDebate. to increase competition, pit- concern among families with retail business in the Middle East. development, which has allowed ber of Qatar Foundation, has The Stars of Science Season 6 is ting small groups of innovators swimming pools. Kurdi’s project Fnac aims to open four stores us to open 35 outlets, mainly in collaborated with Stars of an initiative of QF, on MBC4. It is against each other for the chance aims to reduce the risk of drown- in Qatar over the next five years. France, in 36 months. Science, to provide training in the first pan-Arab reality TV pro- to their ideas into reality. ing by informing pool owners of This opening is a favourable This move towards a new geo- the art of debates and commu- gramme on scientific innovations. Kurdi’s Pool Warning System unintended use by sounding an opportunity to consider a greater graphic territory demonstrates nications skills to a candidate. It will debut a new format addresses a common safety alarm. THE PENINSULA and more rapid development in again the relevance of Fnac to Ahmed Kurdi, one of 12 people the Middle East by adapting its franchising development, which who stood out among thousands different formats and store con- allows it to quickly seize oppor- of applicants considered in the cepts to market needs whether tunities for growth based on the Stars of Science international at train stations, airports, or expertise of leading player actors,” casting tour, is among the most duty-free. he added. talented, motivated and idea- After Morocco, Qatar is the THE PENINSULA driven young people in the region Electronic voting in ICBF poll

P S Sasi Kumar (centre) is all smiles as Karim Abdullah (left) gestures towards him making a point at a press briefing at ICC premises yesterday as ICBF Vice-President Baby Kurian looks on. SALIM MATRAMKOT

DOHA: Members of an Indian Karim Abdullah, ICBF’s outgo- money. Emergency travel docu- expatriate community’s welfare ing president. ments, financial and medical organisation will elect its new The election for the president assistance were provided to many head through electronic voting and six members of the managing Indians at ICBF’s behest. on Friday. committee will be held between ICBF carries out welfare work Three candidates are in fray 6pm and 9pm at Indian Cultural with help from the embassy and for the post of president of Indian Centre in Al Mamoura. the Indian community at large Community Benevolent Forum ICBF’s managing commit- through donations. (ICBF) and over 1,600 voters will tee has a dozen members. A Indians in Qatar are not the decide their fate in a possibly keen woman who filed nomination has only ones giving away donations to contest. been elected unopposed, while ICBF. People from other nation- And in keeping with India’s five members are nominated by alities, including Sudanese and diverse social and political set-up, the organisation’s patron — the Egyptians, also donate. the candidates belong to different ambassador. And six members To a question, Kumar said run- religions and regions. are to be elected from among nine away workers weren’t a problem Arvind Patil, Mohamed Habib- candidates. in the Indian community. Un-Nabi and Clarence Joseph are Results will be announced a lit- Abdullah, responding to a ques- locked in a triangular fight. tle after the election since voting tion about Indian maids, said ICBF is a welfare corpus man- will be electronic, Kumar said. ICBF had urged Qatari authori- aged by the community and affili- He said during Karim ties not to allow nationals to bring ated to the Indian embassy and Abdullah’s two-year tenure as maids on visit visas. helps Indians in distress. president, ICBF made several key A release by ICBF later yes- Members of an Indian commu- achievements. It was also recog- terday said it had demanded nity association recently chose its nized and awarded by the Qatari space within the premises of office-bearers through electronic government for its welfare work. Qatar’s National Human Rights voting and this organisation will It held several medical camps Committee (NHRC) and its help ICBF in its new poll process. that benefited low-income request had been acceded. This was disclosed to report- Indians and workers from many The ICBF office at NHRC, ers yesterday by P S Sasi Kumar, nationalities. which is to formally open soon, Deputy Head of Mission at Air tickets were provided to will coordinate with distressed Indian embassy who is coor- a large number of distressed Indians approaching the commit- dinating officer for ICBF, and Indians stranded for want of tee for help. THE PENINSULA

WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Qatari businesswoman wins Arab award

DOHA: Ibtihaj Alahmadani, a promi- of Qatar Businesswomen’s Association, nent Qatari businesswoman and one of Mishael Al Ansari, Marketing and the 17 members on the Qatar Chamber Communication Director, Anti-Doping board, has been awarded the Lifetime Lab Qatar, Aisha Al Bedded, Creative Achievement Award at Arab Woman Director, DarzDesigns, Amal Al Athem, Awards. Visual Arts Expert, Ministry of Culture, Fifteen winners, including Arts and Heritage, and Nadine El Chaer, Officials at the Arab Woman Awards ceremony. ‘Inspirational Woman of the Year’ Dr Chief Editor, Ahaln! Arabia. Aisha Al Mannai, were presented with Other winners include Samira their awards by Al Jazeera’s Fairouz Fakhri (Businesswoman of the Ziani. Year), Dr Hessa Sadeq (Education), The ceremony was attended by the Wafika Sultan Saif (Art), Maryam winners, their families, VIPs and media Al Shaibi (Entrepreneur), Hessa Al representatives. Awadi (Literature), Hessa Al Mannai Dr Nabila Al Meer, winner of the (Fashion Designer), Wadha Al Hajiri Medical Award, said: “It is an honour to (Young Designer), Dr Nabila Al Meer be recognised among such an extraordi- (Medical), Amal Abdul Malik (Media), nary group of women. These awards go Anisa Al Hitmi (Sport), Dr Noora Al a long way in not only recognising suc- Hinzab (Humanitarian), Girnaas (Young cesses of women in Qatar, but in high- Talent), Maryam Al Jaber (Woman in lighting the development of the role of Government), Dr Aisha Al Mannai women in the region.” (Inspirational Woman of the year). The awards were judged by an The Arab Woman Awards Qatar independent board which included 2014 are supported by Tanagra, Honorary Chairperson of Qatar Intercontinental Doha the City, Harayer Judges Board, Bothaina Al Ansari, HR Magazine, Grazia Qatar, Asdaa and Ana Director, Ooredoo and Board Member Emraa. THE PENINSULA

Barwa Bank backs Kawader DOHA: Barwa Bank, Qatar’s fastest partner. Khalid Al Subeai, Barwa growing Shariah-compliant banking Bank’s Acting CEO, said: “As a respon- service provider, will provide sup- sible Qatari financial institution, we are port to the Kawader programme, a delighted to be teaming up with QFBA leading educational and training ini- and contributing to the formation of a tiative launched by Qatar Finance and prolific new generation of finance lead- Business Academy (QFBA) to con- ers in Qatar. tribute to the development of human “Our cooperation with QFBA is testa- resources and keep pace with the ment to our unwavering commitment to rapid development of the financial sec- Qatar National Vision 2030 in support- tor in Qatar. ing the development of human capital The bank will provide an annual and resources.” financial contribution to the programme QFBA CEO, Dr Abdulaziz Al Horr, designed by Qatar Financial Centre said, “We are pleased by the commitment Authority (QFCA) and QFBA to serve shown by the bank towards supporting as an incubator for the next generation our Qatarisation initiative ‘Kawader’ and of business leaders and decisionmakers contributing to the growth of Qatar’s in Qatar’s emerging financial services financial industry. QFBA believes that industry. young talented Qataris are the most The contribution will be towards sup- valuable asset of the country and we porting the success and sustainability are eager to see them achieve their full of Kawader and entails working with potential. QFBA as a learning and development THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Identity seminar ends with call to preserve Arabic Sheikha Moza visits Syrian

DOHA: The first National Identity or not enough training. Overcoming Seminar organised by Qatar these challenges is essential to pre- Heritage and Identity Centre con- serving our identity.” refugee camps in Turkey cluded yesterday with a call to Mohammed Ali Abdullah, expert preserve the Arabic language as in cultural architecture, said identity essential to preserving national reflects notions that people acquire identity. throughout their lives, and is usually “The main pillar of identity is influenced by language, culture, social language and it must be preserved. traditions and location. Language is vital for our identity, and “Architectural identity is no differ- we have witnessed how our language ent, and the identity of architecture has been influenced by the addition in the Gulf is unique in every shape of words from other languages and and form. An attempt to preserve cultures. In such an open world like a ‘pure’ identity based on ethnicity, ours, it is imperative that we develop religion and culture is unrealistic, as software and applications that we aim to enrich our culture and oth- encourage and facilitate the use of ers, yet opening up to other cultures.” Arabic language on open platforms Under the patronage of the Prime like social media,” said Dr Saeed bin Minister and Interior Minister H Tefla, former Kuwaiti minister of E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin information and culture. Khalifa Al Thani, the seminar con- Dr Fatima Al Suweidy, Deputy cluded at Al Sharq Village with rec- Chief of Arabic Language ommendations to reinforce national Department, Qatar University, said: identity. The two-day event, spon- “Language and identity have always sored by Vodafone, saw a line-up of been related, and it is crucial to speakers discussing factors impacting develop the methodology of teaching Qatar’s national identity in addition to our language. Arabic is facing a chal- topics pertaining to the significance of lenge be it through poor curricula, conserving a country’s national iden- lack of motivation among teachers tity. THE PENINSULA

Oryx Rotana attends first hospitality sector career day for Qataris H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser visits Syrian refugee camps in Gaziantep, with Emine Erdogan, the First Lady of Turkey. MAHER ATTAR GAZIANTEP: H H educational facilities and between Education Above All parents and families on dif- DOHA: Oryx Rotana Doha, the country. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, conditions for children and and Turkish organisations ficulties they faced, which Qatar’s leading business hotel, “We are not different from the Chairperson of Education teachers in the camps and that specialise in the field, inhibited the provision of participated in the first hospital- local companies despite being a glo- Above All, yesterday vis- pledged her support through such as Turkish Cooperation quality education for children. ity sector career day for Qataris, bal brand, but we are owned by Qatar ited Syrian refugee camps her programme, Educate and Coordination Agency She was hosted by Emine hosted by the Ministry of Labour Airways, the national carrier. in Southern Turkey. She A Child, to ensure quality and Turkish Disaster and Erdogan, First Lady of and Social Affairs, with a wide “We support the recruitment of visited two camps housing education. Emergency Management Turkey, Aysenur Islam, range of careers on offer. Qatari young talents and the new over 16,000 refugees from As a result of her visit, Authority. Turkish Minister of Family These included positions in human generation looking forward to rep- Aleppo, Homs, Hamma, possibilities for collabora- Sheikha Moza visited class- and Social Policy, and Fatma resources, finance, front office, sales resenting their country in the hos- Latakia and Idlib. tion were considered as well rooms and community facili- Sahin, Mayor of Gaziantep. and marketing, security and informa- pitality sector. Sheikha Moza assessed as an exchange of knowledge ties and spoke with teachers, QNA tion technology. “During the past few years, the Oryx Rotana welcomed Qataris hospitality sector has attracted a who share the company’s passion small number of Qataris, and what for authentic Qatari hospitality. In we aspire is to have the finest of our an engaged workplace, future Oryx young generation who will give the Rotana associates can expect to ben- best impression for hotel visitors. IBQ sponsors Pink Ribbon Zumbathon efit from a rewarding career path, Our participation in the career day in which they can develop special comes from our faith that there are DOHA: International Bank talents to achieve personal and pro- no better people to run the tourism of Qatar (ibq) sponsored the fessional goals in hotel management. industry in Qatar than the nationals. Pink Ribbon Zumbathon held Several Qataris presented them- They know the country and can see at Ritz-Carlton Doha as part selves for interviews for many posts. the potential of growing with it. of the breast cancer aware- The key message of the day was for “Career opportunities for Qatari ness campaign on Sunday to them to take on board Qatari candi- are always open and not restricted mark International Breast dates that can show the world what to today’s career day. Our human Cancer Awareness Month, Qatari hospitality means. resources vision is to be the preferred with proceeds going to Qatar Jwainat, Director, Marketing and employer by sourcing potential can- Cancer Society (QCS). Communications, Oryx Rotana, said, didates, providing job security and “We are delighted to support “This is the first time Oryx Rotana career enhancement through train- QCS to raise breast cancer pre- participates in such event to pro- ing and development and creating a vention awareness through this vide job opportunities for Qataris in sense of belonging and loyalty within event. We would like everyone one of the fastest growing sectors in Rotana Hotel’s team.” to join in to support this wor- Qatar, which reflects the growth of THE PENINSULA thy cause for a fit and healthy society,” said Jabra Ghandour, Managing Director, ibq. “Our contribution to cancer awareness events are part of our corporate social responsibility strategy that supports cultural, healthcare, educational, sports and charity events, underlining the bank’s commitment towards ibq and Ritz-Carlton teams at the event. the community in Qatar,” Ghandour said. “New techniques have been enjoyable way to do exercise.” lifestyles and exercise. Hoss Vetry, Cluster General incorporated in the exercise Mariam Hamad Al Nuaimi, ““The publicity QCS has Manager, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, that integrate fitness moves Director-General, QCS, said, received underlines how the Qatar, said: “Taking part in like Zumba, which is practised “Statistics show that the inci- support we have had from the campaign, the hotel chose by over 14 million people in 150 dence of cancer is on the rise institutions is a successful way a ‘movement’ theme because countries. in Qatar and the Middle East, to reach people to make them keeping fit through dance moves “Zumba has seen a huge take which shows the importance more aware of cancer and its is now a more acceptable form up in the Arab world where it of launching an awareness prevention by adopting healthy of exercise for women compared has become popular, mainly due programme on a large scale, eating habits and practising to traditional strenuous gym to the effective way it can help focusing on treatment and pre- sports,” added Al Nuaimi. workouts. burn calories and provides an vention such as through healthy THE PENINSULA Wyndham Grand Regency Doha unveils new menu concept

Wyndham Grand Regency Doha hosted a cocktail reception for media and corporate business partners to launch the new F & B menu con- cept. Al Kut Café menu features options, including the Italian corner and a new cigar menu. Tangia Restaurant launched a new menu with an exotic blend of Arabian ingredients and Chopsticks Restaurant announced a new menu showcasing the best of Far Eastern cuisine. The hotel also welcomed Guiseppe Bonasia as the new Director of Restaurants. BAHER AMIN WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 New Israeli police unit to fight Jerusalem unrest Tension as Jewish settlers take over apartment in Silwan

JERUSALEM: Israel’s top building, a police statement said. Jerusalem throwing stones and police officer yesterday pledged No serious damage was caused petrol bombs at police, motorists a new task force to com- and no arrests were made. and public transport. bat Jerusalem unrest, after The building was one of two There has also been a spate Palestinians hurled Molotov structures housing 10 apartments of clashes between Palestinian cocktails at an apartment taken that were taken over by Jewish youths and Israeli police over over by Jewish settlers. settlers before dawn on Monday, Jewish visits to Jerusalem’s flash- “We are moving ahead with sparking fierce local opposition. point Al Aqsa mosque compound a comprehensive programme Such takeovers have also been — Islam’s third holiest site. incorporating the latest technol- strongly condemned by the inter- “We cannot ignore public dis- ogy, intelligence gathering and national community. order incidents; stone-throwing, the establishment of a new police Silwan is a densely popu- attacks with fireworks, throw- unit for dealing with incidents,” lated Palestinian neighbourhood ing of petrol bombs, which char- Commissioner Yohanan Danino that flanks the southern walls acterise riots on Temple Mount told officers. of Jerusalem’s Old City and has and other areas in the city and “Jerusalem residents are enti- been the scene of frequent clashes its surroundings,” he said, using tled to a high level of personal involving a small group of hard- the Hebrew term for the Al Aqsa security...and the issue is at the core settlers, the Israeli police and compound. top of Israel Police’s priorities,” stone-throwing youths. The Silwan clashes erupted he said in remarks carried on the In addition, since July’s kill- three weeks ago when settlers New Israeli settlers (right) speak with their Palestinian neighbours in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, force’s official Twitter feed. ing of a Palestinian teen by moved into more than 25 apart- yesterday. No one was injured in the Jewish extremists and a bloody ments in the area that they incident late on Monday in the 50-day Israeli military offensive claimed to have purchased. would double the number of Jews Jews from Yemen in the late 19th a move never recognised by the flashpoint east Jerusalem neigh- in Gaza that ended on August 26, Ateret Cohanim, an Israeli living in that part of Silwan, century. international community. Some bourhood of Silwan, where a Palestinians youths have been organisation aiming to increase known in Hebrew as Kfar Israel seized Arab east 200,000 Israelis live there along- group of Palestinians fired flares almost constantly on the streets the Jewish presence in east Shiloach. The group claims that Jerusalem during the 1967 Six- side about 300,000 Palestinians. and threw petrol bombs at the throughout Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, said the acquisitions particular area was inhabited by Day War and later annexed it, in AFP

Egypt student dies from wounds in Egypt sentences seven to death for attacks on troops university clashes CAIRO: An Egyptian mili- and thousands jailed. The military army and Israel’s Mossad intelli- students fought pitched bat- all partisan activities on campuses tary court sentenced to death court in Cairo convicted the nine gence service. It says it supports tles with security forces after and university officials are allowed CAIRO: An Egyptian stu- seven members of an Al Qaeda militants of killing six soldiers in a the Islamic State group, which the Islamist was ousted in July to expel disruptive students. dent died yesterday from gun- inspired group yesterday for March attack on an army outpost has seized swathes of territory 2013 by then-army chief and now The academic year that started shot wounds suffered last week carrying out deadly attacks on Qalubiya province, north of Cairo, in Iraq and Syria, but has not President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. on October 11 has already got in clashes between police and the army, army officials said. army officials said. pledged formal allegiance to it. Universities echoed with slo- off to a violent start, with Alexandria university stu- Two other members of Ansar They were also found guilty Meanwhile, the authorities gans like “Sisi is a killer!” as pro- clashes in universities in Cairo dents backing ousted president Beit Al Maqdis (Partisans of of killing two military explosive have tightened security at lead- Mursi students threw rocks at and Alexandria. Rights group Mohamed Mursi, a health offi- Jerusalem) were sentenced to life experts when a joint police-army ing universities across the coun- tear-gas-firing policemen. Amnesty International said cial said. Omar Abdel Wahab is in prison, which amounts to 25 team went to arrest them after try — the last bastions of protests Today, the newly painted build- Egyptian security forces used the first student to have died in years in Egypt. the attack. Prior to Mursi’s over- backing ousted Islamist president ings of the prestigious Sunni “excessive force” in quelling pro- clashes since the start of the new The Sinai-based group has throw, Ansar Beit Al Maqdis was Mohamed Mursi after a nationwide Al Azhar University and Cairo tests at Alexandria University, academic year on October 11. claimed some of the deadliest known for firing rockets at Israel government crackdown crushed University are surrounded by tall injuring dozens of protesting stu- Abdel Wahab, an architecture attacks on security forces since and attacking pipelines in Sinai his supporters, leaving hundreds metal fences, with private secu- dents. At least 110 students have student, was shot in the head with the ouster of president Mohamed that supply gas to the Jewish state. dead and thousands jailed. rity guards checking students’ also been arrested, many of them birdshot as pro-Mursi students Mursi last year as retaliation for In recent weeks, the group has More than a dozen students identities as they pass through in pre-dawn raids at their homes clashed with police at Alexandria a crackdown on Mursi’s support- claimed the beheading of men it were killed in the academic year metal detectors. last week, Human Rights Watch University on October 14. AFP ers that has left hundreds dead accused of spying for the Egyptian that ended in April, as pro-Mursi The new security measures ban said. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

EU targets Syrian Military strikes in Syria ministers in latest sanctions

BRUSSELS: The European could fuel violence: UN Union imposed sanctions yes- terday on 12 Syrian government ministers, two senior mili- Airdropped US arms fall into IS hands: Monitor tary figures and a United Arab Emirates company it accused of NEW YORK/BEIRUT: continues to brutally and indis- warplanes bombed it to prevent helping supply oil to Syria. United Nations Secretary- criminately attack populated it being snatched by IS. In a video The moves were part of a General Ban Ki-moon warned areas including with barrel posted on the Internet, titled gradual tightening of EU sanc- yesterday that a solely military bombs,” he said. “Arms and ammunition dropped tions against the government response to the threat of Islamic Ban urged the Security Council by US planes in an IS-held area of of Syrian President Bashar Al State (IS) in Syria could fuel to fully support the efforts of de Kobane”, a masked gunman shows Assad, who has clung to power the radicalisation of more Sunni Mistura to “reduce the suffering off what appears to be one such despite a three-year-old civil war armed groups and spark more of the Syrian people and contrib- bundle attached to a parachute. in which close to 200,000 people violence. “Our long-term strate- ute to a political solution.” Some “This is the American aid have been killed. gic objective in Syria remains a 3.2 million Syrians have fled the thrown to the infidels,” he says, The EU said the 12 ministers, political solution,” Ban told the violence that has killed nearly opening wooden boxes filled with appointed by Assad in a cabi- UN Security Council of efforts 200,000 people since 2011, accord- rockets and grenades, as aircraft net reshuffle in August, shared to end Syria’s three-and-a-half ing to the United Nations. could be heard circling overhead. “responsibility for the regime’s year civil war. A US military airdrop of weap- “Praise be to God, this is booty violent repression against the “A purely military response to ons meant for Kurdish fighters fell for the mujahedeen (Islamic civilian population”, and would the vicious new threat posed by into the hands of their foes near warriors).” be subjected to asset freezes and IS could ultimately contribute to the Syrian battleground town of Meanwhile, Iranian Supreme travel bans. They included the the radicalisation of other Sunni Kobane, a monitor said yesterday. Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei minister of economy and foreign armed groups and spark a cycle of The US Air Force parachuted blamed Western powers on trade, Humam Al Jazaeri, and the renewed violence,” he said. crates of weapons, ammunition Tuesday for the rise of IS insur- minister of communications and Islamic State has seized and medical supplies on Sunday gents in Iraq and Syria and said technology, Mohammad Ghazi Al swathes of territory in Iraq and night to resupply Kurds defending they had no business tampering Jalali. Syria and is being targeted by the Syrian town of Kobane from with the region’s geopolitics. US-led air strikes in both coun- the IS militants. Iran and the United States Twitter source of all tries. The Sunni militant group is “One load was taken by IS and have been arch-foes for decades battling Kurdish forces for control there are contradictory reports but now share a strategic interest evil: Saudi cleric of the Syrian town of Kobane at about a second” which was also in reversing the territorial gains the Turkish border. UN envoy reported to have gone astray, of IS that threaten to remake the RIYADH: The microblogging Staffan de Mistura, appointed by said the Syrian Observatory for Middle East map. site Twitter popular among both Ban to mediate a political solu- Human Rights. But cooperation has been men and women in Saudi Arabia tion in Syria to end the war, has Some sources said two con- blocked in part by the fact Tehran is nothing more than “a source of warned thousands of people could signments had landed in the and Washington back opposing lies” and evil, the kingdom’s top be massacred if Kobane falls to hands of IS, but others said that sides in Syria’s civil war, where Muslim cleric said. Islamic State. warplanes from a US-led coali- IS is among rebel forces fighting “If it were used correctly, it “Kobane is just one of many tion destroyed one of them once President Bashar Al Assad. While could be of real benefit, but unfor- places across Syria where civil- the error was detected. But Washington opposes Assad, it sees tunately it’s exploited for trivial ians are under imminent threat,” US Central Command, which IS as a bigger threat and is stag- matters,” Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al A Syrian woman and her child arrive at the primary school on their first day Ban told the council meeting on oversees American forces in ing air strikes to try to neutralise Sheikh said on his “Fatwa” tel- the Middle East. the Middle East, said Monday the Al Qaeda offshoot with the in school in Montevideo, Uruguay, yesterday. 42 Syrian refugees, mostly evision show broadcast late on “In addition to the barbar- that only one of 27 bundles had support of Western and Gulf Arab children, arrived in Uruguay on the first stage of an unprecedented plan of Monday. Twitter is “the source ity of IS, the Syrian government gone astray and that American allies. AFP/REUTERS resettlement in the region promoted by Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica. of all evil and devastation”, the mufti said. “People are rushing to it thinking it’s a source of credible information but it’s a source of lies and falsehood.” Turkey tightens security after deadly protests Pakistani beheaded ANKARA: Turkish Prime State militants for a month. told a parliamentary meeting of Police will be given the author- legislation since last year which for drug trafficking Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Sparked by anger at Ankara’s his ruling AK Party. “When you ity to keep suspects under deten- has tightened government control unveiled a tightening of secu- failure to intervene militarily to take a Molotov cocktail in your tion for 24 hours, whereas a of the security forces, the judici- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yes- rity legislation yesterday follow- help Kobani, the unrest revived hand, the right to assembly and prosecutor’s consent is required ary and the internet. terday beheaded a Pakistani ing deadly protests this month, bitter memories of the street protest ends and an act of vio- under existing legislation. A pros- In recent years, Turkey’s convicted of drug smuggling, the amid growing fears that the violence that has punctuated a lence begins. Any act which turns ecutor will be able to extend the western partners have expressed interior ministry announced, government is using the unrest three decades long insurgency by to violence will be considered a detention by 48 hours. alarm at apparent signs of creep- bringing to 58 the number of exe- to tighten its grip on power. Kurdish militants against Turkish crime.” Government officials have ing authoritarianism in Ankara, cutions in the kingdom this year. Around 40 people were killed authorities. It also recalled mas- Under legislation that will insisted the changes are necessary while President Tayyip Erdogan’s Baz Mohammed Ghul in violence that swept southeast sive anti-government protests presented to parliament soon, to maintain order, with Davutoglu international standing has been Mohammed was found guilty of Turkey after Kurdish protest- that rocked Turkey last year. those involved in violent protests saying the new law is in line with tarnished by police brutality attempting to smuggle a “large ers took to the streets to express “If there are people who want to will face longer jail sentences European Union standards. towards anti-government pro- amount of heroin” by hiding it in their fury over the fate of the revive these events, the state and and those protesting with their But critics argue the country testers and high profile bans of his stomach, the ministry said in Syrian Kurdish border town the nation has the power to put faces covered would be viewed as is heading towards becoming a Twitter and YouTube. a statement. of Kobane, besieged by Islamic them in their place,” Davutoglu “potential criminals”. police state, pointing to a raft of REUTERS AGENCIES

London hotel thief guilty of attack Bashir to seek re-election on UAE sisters KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al LONDON: A thief who crept Bashir in power since a 1989 into a London hotel room and coup — will stand for re- brutally attacked three sisters election in 2015 after being from the United Arab Emirates retained yesterday as leader of with a claw hammer was found the ruling National Congress guilty of attempted murder Party, a top aide said. yesterday. Bashir, the only sitting Philip Spence, 32, attacked the head of state wanted by the three women tourists as they International Criminal Court slept with their children at the (ICC), was re-elected as both four star Cumberland Hotel on leader and presidential candi- April 6. A jury of seven women and date of the NCP at a party con- five men at London’s Southwark vention, said his chief assistant, Crown Court found Spence, from Ibrahim Ghandour. Harlesden in north-west London, The 70-year-old career sol- guilty and he could be sentenced to dier took power in an Islamist- life in prison. “The sentence I will backed coup, and there had have to consider is a full life term,” been doubts about whether he said Judge Anthony Leonard. would run again in the contro- The Emirati sisters — Ohoud, versial election, slated for April. Khulood and Fatima — were In a March interview, sharing adjoining rooms in the Ghandour said Bashir “declared hotel and had left their doors many times that he’s not will- open to allow a fourth sister to ing to” stand again but that return later. Spence crept in and the final decision was with the was seen by Khulood shortly party. Two knee operations before 1:30am, rifling through over the summer also raised Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir addressing the National handbags. worries over his health. Consultative Council in Khartoum yesterday. The “sustained and vicious” But Bashir’s name was put attack left all three uncon- on the party’s shortlist of five scious, prosecutor Simon Mayo candidates and his tally in yes- One advisory council mem- “I think the NCP members told jurors. “Each woman was terday’s vote was enough to rule ber who chose not to vote said chose Bashir because he was struck repeatedly to the head out further voting, Ghandour he abstained because he felt the the only one all of the could by a man wielding a claw ham- said. five candidates were not serious agree one,” said Mohammed mer — their skulls fracturing and The president garnered about reforming the impover- Ali Jadain, a professor at splintering under the onslaught,” 266 out of the 396 votes cast, ished, war-ravaged country. Omdurman Ahlia University. he said. Ohoud, 34, now has only Ghandour said, with the “Those five have been ruling “He is the only one who can five percent brain function, has remainder of the 522 advisory for 25 years, and this means prevent their party from divid- lost one eye and cannot speak. council members choosing not that they are not serious about ing,” he said. Khulood, 37, and Fatima, 31, still to take part. reforms and they do not repre- In November 2012, intel- require medical treatment for The other four nominees sent the diversity of Sudan,” he ligence chief Salah Gosh was their injuries. were all senior NCP offi- said, speaking anonymously on arrested and charged with The court heard how drug cials seen as close to Bashir: the sidelines of the convention. plotting a coup, before being addict Spence made off with Ghandour himself, senior But one analyst said the released as part of an amnesty iPads, gold jewellery and mobile member Nafie Ali Nafie, ex- NCP delegates may have picked the following July. At the time, phones, before dumping the claw vice president Ali Osman Taha Bashir as a consensus candi- experts said it reflected a power hammer close to the crime scene. and First Vice President Bakri date, as there have been signs struggle in Bashir’s govern- AFP Hassan Saleh. of divisions within the party. ment. AFP

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ANCTIONS are meant to punish errant leaders and force them to fall in line. The West had tried this method umpteen times before, and is still trying. But Swhile it does punish leaders and countries, what it does not do is force them to change their position. Out of Afghanistan The latest example is Russia. The western leaders have slapped sanctions on Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions are inflicting some pain, especially BY JONATHAN POWER “The principal ghosts are the dead on because oil prices are falling in the international market. every side. In 35 years of unfinished civil But there are no signs that this punishment is making HE Soviet Army invaded war, made worse by foreign interven- Putin rethink his stance. In a quick but high-profile trip to Afghanistan in December, 1979 tion, close to 15,000 Soviets dead, over In 35 years of unfinished and withdrew, exhausted and 1,500 Americans, nearly 400 British and meet leaders in Milan last week, the Russian leader was no Tdemoralised, 10 years later. 500 from other countries. Above all, civil war, made worse by more disposed than he has been to retreat from Ukraine In Moscow a joke had long circulated: the sons and daughters of Afghanistan or redraft his agenda for the region. Moreover, cocking a “Why are we still in Afghanistan?” itself: some 20,000 troops and as many foreign intervention, close snook at Western leaders who are after him, he reiterated Answer: “ We are still looking for the as two million civilians.” Hundreds, if to 15,000 Soviets dead, at a press conference he addressed in Italy that eastern people who invited us.” not thousands, of aid workers have also The same is true for the Americans been killed. Ukraine was Novorossiya, a 19th-century czarist term that over 1,500 Americans, and Nato who are now moving through American involvement began with conveys his conviction that the region should rightly be ruled the exit door. They came to obliterate President Jimmy Carter’s decision, nearly 400 British and from Moscow. As he spoke, his forces were still attacking Al Qaeda after 9/11, 2001. fashioned by his National Security government positions at the Donetsk airport and elsewhere, There was certainly no invitation Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to send 500 from other countries. in spite of a September 5 ceasefire that he is supposed to issued by the Afghani government, then in covert military aid to the mujahedin Above all, the sons and follow. At the news conference, he also made a demand that controlled by the militant Taliban. The that were trying to end the Soviet occu- US was angry that Afghanistan shel- pation. They did. Brzezinski’s ambition would consolidate Russian position: he said the first priority tered Al Qaeda and didn’t have the time was, in his words, “to give the Soviets daughters of Afghanistan of any peacemakers should be to finalize a territorial line of day to discuss an invitation. their Vietnam” and to undermine the itself: some 20,000 troops dividing Ukrainian territory from that of Russian-backed After an air and ground campaign political stability of the USSR. forces. That would only allow the it savaged Al Qaeda. Its rump, includ- The victorious mujahedin, always a and as many as two consolidation of Novorossiya as ing its leader, Osama bin Laden, fled fissiparous group, despite US and Saudi million civilians. Western a statelet that Putin could use to the barely Arabian military aid, were eventually accessible moun- dominated by the Taliban who imposed sanctions to keep Ukraine in a permanent tains of Pakistan. a peace that lasted until the massive Afghanistan’s future, to say the least, state of instability. Ordinary Afghans bombing launched by President George is unclear. The newly-elected govern- are causing The world knows that Russia Ordinary Afghans had never really W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11. Then ment must face the fact it has to forge has much at stake in Ukraine, liked Al Qaeda the Taliban was forced out of Kabul and a power-sharing deal with the Taliban some pain and these stakes are too high had never really and they certainly has continued ever since to wage war (as in Northern Ireland). Since the lat- never equated with the Western invaders. Despite all ter seem uninterested in a nation-wide to be forgotten in the face of to Putin, but liked Al Qaeda their home- the blows received over the last dec- deal it will have to be a slow process of sanctions. It’s highly unlikely and they certainly grown Islamist ade it still remains strong, especially in negotiating local cease-fires. are unlikely that Putin will be intimidated by movement, the the south. Who would say the West has The country is awash with guns. to make him sanctions and it’s time for the never equated Taliban, with garnered a military victory? At best it It has been traumatised by war. The West to look at other alternatives. the Arab-led is a sort of stalemate. omens are not good. Unfortunately, they don’t have their home- extremists. At the moment the Western-backed, Pakistan whose army’s secret serv- rethink his Yet the US and democratically elected, government is in ice provides covert help to the Taliban, any. One achievement of the grown Islamist position on its allies were the saddle in Kabul. It claims it presides partly, if not largely, because it wants to sanctions has been that the movement, the not prepared to over most of the country which, thanks remain on the winning side- although Ukraine. Barack Obama administration was declare victory to Western governmental and NGO aid, publically it is on the Western side- has able to preserve a transatlantic Taliban, with and leave. They has good roads, electricity, many more to be persuaded that it must end its front and unity. But that’s a small changed the goal- hospitals, clinics and schools, (including support. Pakistan has to take the risk consolation in the face of a larger objective. the Arab-led posts and stayed girl pupils), with a fast declining infant of refusing to do anything that would on to confront the mortality rate, increased longevity, and work to undermine the Kabul govern- At the same time, it will be wrong to think that the extremists. Taliban, deter- much increased economic activity. But ment, (even though India is Kabul’s sanctions are hurting Moscow alone. It’s hurting Ukraine mined to drive no one can honestly say that in the end ally). After all Pakistan must know that too badly. Russia and Ukraine failed to reach an accord on them into the the Taliban will not triumph. in the long run a Taliban government gas supplies for the coming winter in EU-brokered talks ground and to nurture the creation of The US leaves Afghanistan in a bet- in Kabul would not make life easy for yesterday. Ukraine is already dependent on Western aid to a democratic government. But there ter state than it did Vietnam or Iraq. Pakistan. was still no invitation. Only after the However, it took the long road round Afghanistan remains one of the prop up its economy and a continuation of the crisis will only longest war in American history are the the mountain- thirteen years of warfare world’s messes. If only the US and Nato worsen its woes. And the European Union relies on Russia US and Nato now leaving, albeit leav- to do what could have been done with a had limited themselves to destroying for around a third of its gas, roughly half of which flows via ing behind a sizeable residue of special good, well thought out, aid program, in Al Qaeda, Afghanistan would have Ukraine. Two previous forces to continue “training” the coun- half the time. (I’ve seen the speed and remained an introverted Islamist back- price rows between Russia and Ukraine in 2006 and 2009 try’s own army. efficiency of a fast aid program at work water, slowly but steadily developing did have an impact on supply to EU nations As Jonathan Steele writes in his sem- in Uganda after the fall of President Idi with outside aid, capable of harming no . inal book, “The Ghosts of Afghanistan”, Amin who had devastated the country.) one but itself. THE PENINSULA The other side Quote of Markets go down and markets go up the day

INCE the mid-summer, major largest manufacturer and trader, The US continues to rebound — and also bear in mind that major market markets around the world China is experiencing a five-year there are three million more Americans indices in the West over the past two have been experiencing a low in growth levels, with the current back at work than there were last year. years have been on a strong growth Leaders on both period of flux, with most of the quarter expected to reflect levels not That means more homes being bought, trend. That is difficult to sustain and S (Israel and Palestine) indices witnessing a sell-off — some seen since the first quarter of 2009. more consumer goods, more demand a correction was both needed and in the region of up to 20 per cent. The reality, though, is that China’s for China’s goods and greater confi- expected. sides must overcome Combined with this global decline in economy is expected to grow by dence. US companies too are sitting on Oil production is soaring in the US markets’ capitalisation levels, the price some 7 per cent year over year in the larger cash balances than at any time as more shale comes on tap. But bear their differences and of oil has also seen a sharp decline. July-September period. After a sus- in the past six years. Yes, uncertainty in mind that shale oil is costly to pro- dispense with the From trading at the $100 (Dh367) per tained five-year stretch of continued over Daesh (Islamic State of Iraq and duce with the current benchmark at barrel mark then, the price of oil is fluid, growth, a slowdown is to be naturally the Levant) is a question — and so too the top end of the effective limit. So unilateral initiatives floating at the $80 level. expected. The question then is: Is this is the fear that exists over Ebola and what is the lesson? Simply this: Hang In terms of markets, inves- merely a pause for China or is there tensions in Ukraine and Russia’s rela- tight, ignore the doom sayers and all that serve only to tors are viewing developments in something more fundamental happen- tionship with the West. These concerns will rebound — later, if not sooner. fuel mistrust and China with concern. As the world’s ing to the global economy? have added to market jitters. But let’s Gulf News Ban Ki-moon polarisation. UN Secretary-General WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Indispensability is killing US democracy

reelection race facing him, Obama could War was a not escape the imperatives of America’s role as the indispensable nation. The disruption — commitments are too many, the engage- ment too permanent, the capacity unri- valled — seemingly making all things entered into only possible. As a result, this former pro- fessor of constitutional law has governed with prior debate over the greatest assertion of executive authority — claiming the power to make war, to surveil, arrest, detain and even and consideration kill Americans without prior judicial review or due process. by Congress, His Justice Department has used espionage laws against reporters and whistleblowers. The secrecy shields mas- the elected body sive waste, fraud and abuse, as the mil- itary-industrial complex that President whose members Dwight D Eisenhower warned against consumes the bulk of the national budget, best reflected the aside from payments on the national debt and the insurance programmes of Social Security and Medicare. attitudes of their When President George W Bush was about to launch the war in Iraq, millions constituents. of Americans – as well as many people around the globe — marched in protest. The large demonstrations against war BY ROBERT L BOROSAGE led the New York Times to dub world public opinion a second superpower. Bush merica — proudly dubbed the sought authority from Congress and a “indispensable nation” by its dramatic congressional debate took place, national-security manag- with strong dissent against the war. ers — is now the entangled When Obama committed the US to the nation enmeshed in conflicts fight against IS, he claimed the authority Aacross the globe. to act without Congress, though adding US President Barack Obama, scorned US troops manoeuvre an amphibious assault vehicle during the Mechanised Assault Training in San Antonio, Zambales, recently. The he would “welcome” congressional sup- by his Republican critics as an “isolation- training is part of the Amphibious Landing Exercises 2015 between the US and Philippine militaries held all over Luzon. JONAS REYES port. Yet with the midterm elections then ist” who wants to “withdraw from the a few months away, both Republicans and world,” is waging the longest war in US war for personal aggrandizement or of a robust democracy. Yet from the the next intervention. Democrats in Congress chose to postpone history in Afghanistan, boasts of toppling national glory. So they gave Congress the absence of free, full-day pre-K to afford- It is only America, as the president the debate and the vote. the Muammar Gaddafi regime in Libya, power to declare war, intent on “clogging, able colleges to advanced training, the US said in a speech announcing his inten- The bombing began on presidential launches air strikes in Iraq and Syria not facilitating” the rush to war. is skimping on investment in educating tion to “degrade and ultimately defeat” order. Americans accepted their role against IS and picks targets for drones For the Republic, peace would be the its citizens. IS, that “has the capacity and the will to as spectators, registering no significant to attack in as many as eight countries, normal state of affairs. War was a dis- A modern infrastructure is also essen- mobilise the world against terrorism … objection to this presidential war-mak- while dispatching planes to the Russian ruption — entered into only with prior tial to a competitive, high-wage economy. against Russian aggression … to contain ing. The indispensable nation is not border in reaction to its machinations in debate and consideration by Congress, But while Washington spends $3tr on … Ebola and more.” only spending lives and resources on Ukraine, and a fleet to the South China the elected body whose members Iraq, there hasn’t been a serious discus- This president, more than his pred- endless wars abroad, it is shredding its Sea as the conflict over control of islands best reflected the attitudes of their sion about bringing America’s aged infra- ecessors, understands the perils of being Constitution at home. and waters escalates between China and constituents. structure, including our roads, bridges the “indispensable nation.” Elected in Ironically, America’s democracy is still its neighbours. The US, in the words of conserva- and airports, up to standard — which large part to get the US out of the seem- strong enough to render it less than com- The indispensable nation is perma- tive John Quincy Adams, would provide would cost about the same. ingly endless wars in the Middle East, petent as a global policeman. Our military nently engaged across the globe. But end- a shining example of liberty as long as Instead of this funding, the US and its he now finds himself forced into another is the finest in the world, but still finds less war undermines the Constitution. “she goes not abroad in search of mon- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies open-ended commitment. it hard to win a war. Korea, Vietnam, Democracy requires openness; war jus- sters to destroy. She is the well-wisher spend more on their militaries than the In his speech to the National Defence Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate that tifies secrecy. Democracy forces atten- to the freedom and independence of all. rest of the world combined. Washington University in 2013, Obama argued, “We while presidents can commit the nation tion be paid to the common welfare; war She is the champion and vindicator only maintains more than 1,000 bases, called must define the nature and scope of this virtually anywhere, Americans sour on demands attention and resources be of her own.” “military sites,” across the globe, plus struggle, or else it will define us, mind- long, costly interventions on the other spent on distant conflicts. But now the pursuit of monsters to 11 aircraft-carrier task forces that are ful of James Madison’s warning that ‘No side of the world. Democracy involves forging coali- destroy is unrelenting. Almost inevi- essentially moveable bases. nation could preserve its freedom in the This leads to strategies like “no boots tions to get action in the Congress; tably, it seems, the restraints of the US conventional and nuclear forces midst of continual warfare.’ ” on the ground” — designed not to rouse war is waged on executive order. The Constitution are being trampled. With are unrivalled — yet Washington plans Obama warned specifically about this. public opposition but almost certain to Constitution restrains the executive in little debate, US leaders have chosen per- to spend another trillion dollars over the “The choice we make about war,” the fail. Polls show that Americans have times of peace; constitutional strictures manent global intervention even at the next 30 years modernising nuclear weap- president said, “can impact — in some- no interest in policing the globe. If the are trampled in times of war. cost of undermining the Republic. ons that the US aims never to use. US times unintended ways — the openness Constitution no longer constrains the When the founders wrote the For the cost of war can be measured in intelligence and covert forces are perma- and freedom on which our way of life president from making war, the public Constitution, they worried about the ten- dollars not spent here at home. nently engaged, often secretly creating depends.” still limits his ability to wage it. dency of kings, or presidents, to make An educated citizenry is the foundation the implicit commitments that will force Yet even with this awareness, and no REUTERS Beating Ebola through a national plan They voted for you: How we’re taking back politics

The US healthcare system has the BY MATTHEW LANDAUER and resources and talent to deal with KATHERINE SZUMINSKA veryone should know what their politicians do and say on their behalf in parliament. If they don’t, how can they be held to a larger challenge, but it must account? And how can we begin talk to them about what we Ewant them to do? move immediately to build a truly Trust in politics is at an all time low. Yet we live in a time when technology has the potential to bring us closer than ever to our rep- resentatives. It’s time we started using it. scalable model. What we see on television or read about parliament focuses on argu- ments in question time. We see adversarial battles, emotional rhetoric BY JOHN T FOX finger-pointing. We need to grasp and partisan spin. It can be a distraction. It’s not an accurate view of this opportunity to put a system what goes on in parliament. he appointment of Ebola in place that can serve as a model We need to look behind what they say and examine how they vote, czar Ron Klain is an moving forward. because the most important things that politicians do in parliament is important initial step in The existence of four specially vote. They vote to make new laws, and update and amend the existing mobilising a coordinated designed isolation units, includ- ones. Changes to the law can and do have a profound effect on our T Mayor Mike Rawlings (left) speaks during a news conference about the national effort to confront this ing Emory’s, has helped buy some society, and the way we go about our daily lives. Yet if we want find out deadly virus. time, but we are operating with a recent Ebola infections with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Dallas how they voted, we have to roll your sleeves up, trawl through pages As the first US hospital to razor-thin margin. County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson at the and pages of Hansard, votes and proceedings and journals of the Senate successfully treat Ebola patients, Even a modest surge of 10 to 20 Dallas County Administration Building in Texas on Monday. and try to make sense of it all. This is not an easy task. Emory University Hospital has a patients would strain the capacity Parliament should be easy, and accessible. That is why yesterday unique perspective on the scope of these centres. The US health- At the same time, we need to: standards and mechanisms for the OpenAustralia Foundation launched a new site – They Vote for of the effort and skill required to care system has the resources and Require every major metro- coordination of transportation You – so you can find out how your representatives in parliament vote care for such patients while also talent to deal with a larger chal- politan area to help prepare its services, supply distribution, on issues you care about. protecting the staff and public. lenge, but it must move imme- two or three largest health-care specimen handling and waste Our political researchers have been working to accurately summarise One key lesson learned has diately to build a truly scalable systems to care for Ebola-infected management. votes and connect these with easy to understand policy positions. So been that training and strictly model. patients and give them the needed The logistics involved in safely now you can see where everyone in parliament stands on issues that following protocol are paramount. On September 29, the US mil- resources and training. caring for patients with Ebola are you could talk to them about, issues that your member of parliament Although that may sound simple, itary sent 4,000 troops to West These regional care centres extraordinary and must be a pri- or senators might vote on again in the near future. They Vote for You it takes an enormous amount Africa to establish treatment must have significant subspe- ority for any health-care system. is a small but vital piece of civic infrastructure which help build the of dedication, resources and centres. The troops are tasked cialty support capabilities, includ- These measures sound daunt- roads and bridges that 21st century citizens need to help them get to planning. with building modular hospitals ing critical care expertise and ing — and they are. But our where they want to go. The staff at Emory Healthcare known as Expeditionary Medical capacity, particularly for nurs- national experience with Ebola A mistake could be as simple as a spelling error, or as subtle as one is committed to sharing our Support Systems (EMEDS). ing. Appropriate training must has revealed vulnerabilities in word in a description which changes how you interpret the result of a knowledge with the Centres for Plans included building a 25-bed be provided to establish a culture our public health preparedness vote. In our short life as a charity the OpenAustralia Foundation,has Disease Control and Prevention, hospital for health care workers of safety. that must be addressed. Getting already created several other non-partisan pieces of civic infrastruc- as well as hospitals around the and 17 treatment centres with 100 Require all US hospitals to this right will serve us well into ture. OpenAustralia allows you to keep tabs on what politicians say world, including through a new beds each. undergo a prescribed level of the future. in parliament. With PlanningAlerts you receive an email any time website listing our protocols. The federal government preparedness based on their We cannot be a country ruled something new is planned to be built or knocked down in your local Sharing information in this should create a national medi- size, location and other factors. by fear. We must care for those in area. With RightToKnow you can access inside information on what way is critical, but it will not be cal infrastructure. We can start Establishing a common approach need. But a few hospitals cannot your government is doing by making a freedom of information request enough. The new czar and other by establishing several National to classification of patients poten- combat this public health threat easily. With ElectionLeaflets we monitor the leaflets that people receive officials must create a long-term Ebola Support Centres, beginning tially at risk will help immensely alone. We need government lead- in the mail during elections. If you live in Victoria, you can even upload local, regional and national strat- with ones at Emory, Nebraska in treating and controlling Ebola, ership to provide the resources election leaflets you get in the mail for the upcoming state election. egy to tackle not only Ebola, but Medical Centre and the National as well as in preparing for future necessary to implement a coor- The right to know what politicians say in parliament and how they also other life-threatening infec- Institutes of Health, to serve as outbreaks of other infectious dinated, scalable national plan. It vote on our behalf is one that has been fought for and won by citizens. tious diseases that we will face in clinical training bases for other diseases. can be done. It’s a right that we must not take for granted. the future. This is not a time for hospitals around the country. Establish regional and national WP-BLOOMBERG Now it’s time to bring it bang up to date. THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Nurse infected Total CEO killed in Moscow jet crash with Ebola in Spain cleared of disease Business jet collides with snow plough during take-off; Boisseau seen successor MADRID: A Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid MOSCOW: The Chief machine,” the company said in a industry captain and a patriot.” A staunch defender of Russia while caring for a priest who Executive of French oil major statement. A graduate of the Ecole and its energy policies amid the later died of the virus has been Total, Christophe de Margerie The plane’s three crew also Superieure de Commerce busi- conflict in Ukraine, de Margerie cleared of the deadly disease (pictured), was killed when died, said Total, France’s second- ness school in Paris, de Margerie said in a July interview that after testing negative two times a business jet collided with biggest listed company with a became chief executive officer of Europe should stop thinking in a row, doctors said yesterday. a snow plough during take- market value of ¤102bn. Total in February 2007, taking on about cutting its dependence on “We consider her cured of the off at Moscow’s Vnukovo There was no immediate word the additional role of chairman in Russian gas and focus instead on Ebola virus by World Health International Airport, the com- on the cause of the collision. May 2010, after previously run- making those deliveries safer. Organization criteria,” said Jose pany and airport officials said. Visibility was 350 metres at the ning its exploration and produc- He said tension between the West Ramon Arribas, doctor at the The collision occurred late on time, the airport said, adding tion division. and Russia were pushing Moscow Carlos III Hospital in Madrid Monday, just minutes before mid- that civil aviation authorities had De Margerie said in July that closer to China, as illustrated by where the nurse is being treated. night Moscow time, the airport launched an investigation. he should be judged based on new a $400bn deal to supply Beijing Teresa Romero, 44, was diag- said in a statement. The Dassault Vnukovo is Moscow’s oldest and projects launched under his watch, with gas that was clinched in May. nosed with Ebola two weeks ago, Falcon business jet carrying de third biggest airport. Located such as a string of African fields. “Are we going to build a new Berlin becoming the first person to catch Margerie had been due to travel southwest of the capital, it is used He also said then that Total would Wall?” he said in the interview. the disease outside West Africa in to Paris. by President Vladimir Putin and seek a successor from within the “Russia is a partner and we the current outbreak which has “Total confirms with deep other government officials. company rather than an outsider. shouldn’t waste time protect- killed thousands in Liberia, Sierra regret and great sadness that De Margerie, 63, was on a list recognizable figures among the Philippe Boisseau, head of ing ourselves from a neighbour Leone and Guinea. Chairman and CEO Christophe of attendees at a Russian govern- world’s top oil executives. Total’s new energy division, and ... What we are looking to do is The infection in a high-security de Margerie died just after 10pm ment meeting on foreign invest- “France is losing an extraordinary Patrick Pouyanne, who was tasked not to be too dependent on any ward caused recriminations in (Paris time) on October 20 in a ment in Gorki, near Moscow, business leader who turned Total with reducing the group’s expo- country, no matter which. Not Spain, with health workers say- private plane crash at Vnukovo on Monday. With his distinctive into a world giant,” French Prime sure to unprofitable European from Russia, which has saved us ing hospitals were not prepared to Airport in Moscow, following a bushy moustache and outspoken Minister Manuel Valls said in a refining sectors, have long been on numerous occasions.” cope with an Ebola outbreak and collision with a snow removal manner, he was one of the most statement. “France is losing a great seen as potential successors. REUTERS staff had not received adequate training and equipment. Romero tested negative twice with a 48-hour interval between Queen with Singapore president examinations. She will not be discharged from hospital until Canada fears Islamist she has fully recovered. Ebola can cause severe damage to vital organs like the kidneys and liver. The virus spreads through con- threat as soldier killed tact with bodily fluids and can cause fever, bleeding, vomiting MONTREAL: Canada was suspected attacker and any out- and diarrhoea. faced with the spectre of lawed groups. Romero had cared for two Islamist violence yesterday The Royal Canadian Mounted priests repatriated from West after an attack by a suspected Police, meanwhile, said the sus- Africa with the disease who later jihadist killed a soldier, a day pect “was known” to the state’s died. She was treated in an isola- before Ottawa deployed war- anti-terrorism task force. tion unit at the hospital. planes to bomb Islamic State Last month, IS spokesman Abu Her husband and 14 other peo- militants. Mohammed Al Adnani called for ple who came into contact with The assailant was fatally shot supporters living in coalition Romero were also sent to a spe- by police on Monday after he ran member countries, including cial isolation unit in the hospital over two soldiers with his car in Canada, to launch spontaneous to be monitored for signs of Ebola, a Quebec parking lot — a scenario attacks against their non-Muslim though none have so far shown which had been depicted only last countrymen. any symptoms. month in IS propaganda. “If you can kill a disbelieving The suspect was described by American or European — espe- Panama arrests Canadian authorities as some- cially the spiteful and filthy one they believed had become French — or an Australian, or judge on suspicion “radicalised.” a Canadian or any other disbe- At a press conference, Public liever... including the citizens of of corruption Safety Minister Steven Blaney the countries that entered into Queen Elizabeth and Singapore’s President Tony Tan view a display of Singaporean items from the Royal said the attack was “clearly linked a coalition against the Islamic Collection at Buckingham Palace in London yesterday. Tan and his wife Mary Chee are on a four-day state PANAMA CITY: A to terrorist ideology.” State, then rely upon Allah, and visit to Britain. Panamanian supreme court “I am horrified by what took kill him,” he said. judge who previously headed the place here,” he said. “This is a “Smash his head with a rock, or tribunal has been placed under terrible act of violence against slaughter him with a knife, or run house arrest and suspended from our country, against our military, him over with your car...” his post pending an investigation against our values.” Yesterday, six Canadian fighter Pistorius given five years in jail into suspected corruption, a con- The driver smashed his car into jets took off from their base in gressional committee said. the two soldiers in a supermar- Cold Lake, Alberta and headed Alejandro Moncada is sus- ket parking lot before fleeing with to Kuwait, where they will join a PRETORIA: South African at a decision that was “fair and a chord in a country with one of pected of crimes including money police in pursuit. US-led force launching airstrikes Olympic and Paralympic just to society and to the accused”. the world’s highest rates of violent laundering and illicit enrichment, Police said the 25-year-old sus- on the Islamic State group in Iraq. sprinter Oscar Pistorius was The 67-year-old also rebuffed sug- crime. marking the first case of its kind pect crashed his Nissan Altima The Islamic State group gained sentenced to five years in prison gestions that Pistorius — a wealthy The ruling African National for the Central American coun- into a roadside ditch and rolled it international attention in August, yesterday for killing his girl- and influential white man — might Congress’ Women’s League, which try, according to the committee over. When he extricated himself when its fighters and allied mili- friend Reeva Steenkamp, end- be able to secure preferential jus- is at the forefront of political formed a few weeks ago to inves- from the wreckage brandishing a tant groups swept through the ing a trial that has gripped tice despite the “equality before efforts to tackle violence against tigate the judge. knife, officers shot him. Iraqi city of Mosul and over- South Africa and the world. law” guarantee enshrined in South South African women, immedi- “In the view of this commit- The slain soldier had been ran territory north and west of As judge Thokozile Masipa read Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. ately called for an appeal by the tee, the suspension is justified admitted in critical condition Baghdad. out her decision on Pistorius’ “It would be a sad day for this state against the culpable homi- due to the existence of enough to a hospital in Saint-Jean-sur- Western governments fear September 12 culpable homi- country if an impression were cide conviction. incriminating evidence against Richelieu, 40km southeast of that the group could eventually cide conviction, the 27-year-old, created that there is one law for However, Steenkamp’s family the accused relating to the deed Montreal. strike overseas, but their biggest whose downfall has been likened the poor and disadvantaged, and said it was satisfied. reported,” said Congresswoman Officials said the injuries worry for now is its gains in Iraq to that of American football star one law for the rich and famous,” “Justice was served,” family Katleen Levy, a spokeswoman to the other soldier were not and Syria and the likely eventual O J Simpson, stood resolutely in she said. lawyer Dup De Bruyn told report- for the committee. Levy did not life-threatening. return home of foreign fighters. the dock. Steenkamp, a 29-year-old law ers outside the court. The judge elaborate on any evidence. The motive behind the attack This specific concern led His only reaction was to wipe graduate and model, died almost had given “the right sentence”, The congressional committee is being investigated. Police said Ottawa to also provide its intel- his eyes before two police officers instantly on Valentine’s Day last he said. was created after media reports the suspect may have stalked his ligence agency with new powers led him down to the holding cells year when Pistorius shot her With no minimum sentence last month accusing Moncada of victims, noting he sat in his car in to track Canadian citizens with beneath the High Court in the three times through a locked for culpable homicide, South purchasing expensive apartments the parking lot for more than two suspected terror links when they heart of the South African capi- toilet door at his luxury Pretoria Africa’s equivalent of manslaugh- in Panama with illicit means. hours before the attack. travel abroad. Ottawa said it was tal. An armoured police vehicle home. ter, Pistorius could have been Moncada rejected the accusa- Quebec police said the “terror- aware of more than 130 Canadians took him from the court building. The athlete maintained that punished with a period of house tions on Monday and said he had ist thesis (was) being considered overseas who are “suspected of Masipa — only the second black he fired in the mistaken belief arrest combined with community been set up by political enemies by investigators,” but they did terrorism-related activities.” woman to rise to the bench — an intruder was hiding behind service. following the order for his arrest. not specify any links between the AFP stressed the difficulty of arriving the door, a defence that struck REUTERS AGENCIES

Woman killed as hurricane hits UK Argentina complains LONDON: A woman was found dead beneath a fallen tree in to BBC over Clarkson London yesterday as the tail end of Hurricane Gonzalo brought LONDON: Argentina’s ambas- Argentine embassy said Castro high winds and travel disrup- sador in London has made a had called for the BBC to apolo- tion to Britain. formal complaint to the BBC, gise for “Clarkson’s provocative Police said they were called accusing Jeremy Clarkson, the behaviour and offensive remarks out to reports of a falling tree in host of globally popular TV towards the government and the the plush Kensington district and motoring show Top Gear, of pro- Argentine people.” found a woman trapped under- vocative and insulting behav- She presented the BBC’s neath it. “She was pronounced dead iour during the filming of an Director of Television Danny at the scene,” Scotland Yard said in episode in Argentina. Cohen with a dossier of letters a statement. “Enquiries continue Alicia Castro visited the BBC’s from British citizens, lawmakers to identify the deceased woman.” offices in person on Monday to and celebrities which she said Wind and rain led to 110 allege that Clarkson had evoked condemned Clarkson’s behav- flights being cancelled at London memories of the 1982 Falklands iour. She said she was awaiting Heathrow Airport, the world’s war during filming and then a response. The BBC said it had busiest international passenger made insulting remarks about the received a complaint and would air hub. British Airways said it Argentine government and people. apply its usual processes. had scrapped a number of flights Diplomatic relations between The outspoken Clarkson made and advised passengers to check Britain and Argentina have headlines in the British press their bookings online. been strained ever since the earlier this month with vivid Hurricane Gonzalo caused war over the sovereignty of accounts of an incident in which widespread damage and a power the remote islands, 300 miles he said an angry mob objected to blackout in Bermuda, the British off the Argentine coast, which the registration number of a car Overseas Territory on the other they respectively refer to as the he was driving through Argentina side of the Atlantic Ocean. Falklands and the Malvinas. during filming. AFP Rescue services at the site where a tree fell killing a woman in Knightsbridge, Central London, yesterday. A statement from the REUTERS WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 No breakthrough in HK protest talks Five student leaders hold dialogue with govt officials

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s government “vague” in its com- earlier this month and then res- government held its first talks mitment to finding a compromise urrected after recent outbreaks of yesterday with pro-democracy and saying they would need to violence between protesters and protest leaders but made no consult before agreeing to fur- police, will help find some sort of breakthrough in their bid to ther negotiations. “The govern- compromise. end three weeks of disruptive ment played tai chi for two hours,” Five student leaders, dressed mass rallies which have posed a student leader Lester Shum told in T-shirts bearing the slogan major challenge to Beijing. crowds of cheering supporters. “Freedom Now”, faced off against Student leaders faced off with Several major intersections in five suited senior government offi- government negotiators during the business hub have been para- cials in talks at a medical college the tense two-hour meeting in lysed since September 28 by mass campus. During the discussions, which both sides agreed on little rallies demanding free elections, government officials said there as the discussions were broadcast in one of the biggest challenges was still room to make the panel Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) talks to the journalists at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta yesterday. live to thousands of rapt democ- to Beijing’s authority since the charged with vetting candidates Widodo played down expectations of radical change in the early days of his administration, as he began his racy demonstrators camped out Tiananmen pro-democracy pro- for the city’s next leader more first full day in office. on the street. tests of 1989. democratic. The crunch talks came as Protesters are demanding They also said they would brief the embattled leader of the China rescind its insistence that Beijing on recent events and sug- Widodo considers clean cabinet semi-autonomous Chinese city candidates for the city’s next gested both sides could set up a extended a potential olive branch leader be vetted by a pro-Beijing committee to discuss further to protesters hours before the committee before standing for political reform beyond 2017. JAKARTA: New Indonesian avoid the same type of corruption watchdogs. The list has not been talks began, saying he was open election in 2017 — a proposal “Today’s dialogue will hopefully President Joko Widodo said scandals that tainted his predeces- made public. The Corruption to creating a more democratic dubbed “fake democracy” by be the first of several rounds of yesterday he was re-evaluating sor’s final term in office. Three of Eradication Commission (KPK) committee to help choose his suc- demonstrators. dialogue,” Chief Secretary Carrie some of his choices for cabinet former President Susilo Bambang considered some candidates cessor. Government negotiators Protesters want the public to Lam, who led the government jobs after an anti-graft agency Yudhoyono’s ministers were impli- on Widodo’s list “problematic” responded positively to the meet- be able to nominate candidates team, told reporters whilst raised concern about possible cated in corruption cases. or “potentially problematic”, ing saying they hoped for further but the city’s government has said emphasising there could be no problems with some candidates. Widodo, who took office on Zulkarnain, the KPK’s deputy talks down the line. China will never allow that. changing Beijing’s mind on the Widodo, who won a closely Monday, submitted a list of can- chairman, was quoted as saying But the students were notice- Observers hope the talks, rejection of civil nomination. fought July election on promises didates to fill his cabinet of 33 in the Jakarta Post newspaper. ably more muted, calling the which were abruptly cancelled AFP of clean government, will want to ministers to two government REUTERS

Briton found dead with US Marine a no-show at preliminary probe BY BEVERLY ESCOLANGO Santos said Pemberton’s absence nation,” Roque added. Roque, who investigation, Pinlac lamented the Laude’s family denounced throat slashed in yesterday’s hearing only meant came with the Laude family, also fact that Pemberton’s lawyer did Pemberton’s absence. Laude’s OLONGAPO CITY: It was a that he had already waived his thanked the media for covering the not say whether her client would be mother, Julita criticised the US in Bali: Police no-show for the US Marine, right to reply to or refute the Laude murder case saying that “It able to appear in the next inquiry. for allegedly hiding a “good-for- the principal suspect in the statements against him by his is necessary for the whole nation to “There was no concrete statement nothing” person who should not be DENPASAR: The body of a killing of transgender Jeffrey accusers. She directed Flores know what has happened and pre- (form Pemberton’s lady lawyer) emulated. “He (Pemberton) has British man was found yes- “Jennifer” Laude, at the pre- to present Pemberton during vent this violent crime from hap- that Pemberton would show up on not showed up until now. Where terday tied up in a ditch with liminary investigation of the the next hearing scheduled on pening again. The Filipino people October 27,” said Pinlac. should we get help for him to show his throat slashed on the murder case filed by Philippine October 27. also need to know if we will attain “The American soldiers here up? They are hiding a good for Indonesian resort island of authorities at the Olongapo City A disgruntled Lawyer Harry justice in this case.” are displaying their superiority nothing person who should not be Bali, police said. prosecutor’s office. Roque, counsel for the Laude Lawyer Virgie Suarez-Pinlac, and arrogance. They are show- emulated…If he was a good person Local residents found the Lawyer Rowena Garcia-Flores, family, said he is expecting that also appearing as counsel for the ing sense of impunity as if they why did he kill my child who was man, identified by police as the lawyer for Private First Class the Philippine government will Laude family said: “This is the are above the law,” Pinlac added. a good person?” Julita asked. She 60-year-old Robert Kelvin Ellis, Joseph Scott Pemberton, said the make good its promise that the most important time that the During the hearing, the pros- assured that her family would not after they investigated a suspi- subpoena that his client received United States government will media is present to expose the ecutor asked the police for the give up in finding ways to seek jus- cious looking object next to a does not oblige the US Marine to present Pemberton in all investi- rottenness and weakness of the forensic results on the swab and tice for Jennifer. paddy field. appear at the preliminary inves- gations and hearings of the case. Philippine government.” semen samples from the crime Outside the Hall of Justice, “The body was covered with tigation. She added that his client “We are waiting here not only Pinlac added the Laude case scene. She also ordered for an rally speakers took turns lam- plastic and bed quilts,” said detec- is given 10 days after the latter’s for Pemberton (to appear at the will be a litmus test to see if the ocular inspection of crime scene basting the government for its tive Wisnu Wardana. receipt of the October 17 subpoena justice hall) but we are all wait- Philippines is really a sovereign and Ambyanz Disco Bar, where inability to “take custody of the “His body and hands were tied to submit a counter affidavit. ing for the beginning of a (long) nation. “Otherwise, this govern- Laude and Pemberton report- US Marine accused of murdering and there was a wound on the vic- During the hearing, however, process of seeking justice for ment will be inutile,” she added. edly met before they went out one of us here in our soil.” tim’s neck. The neck was almost City Prosecutor Emilie Fe Delos the Laude family and the whole After the preliminary and checked in at Celzone Lodge. THE PENINSULA completely cut.” The body was starting to decompose when it was discov- ered in a village between the tour- ist areas of Ubud and Kuta, the detective said, leading police to believe the victim died more than 24 hours previously. It was far from any houses, and people in the area had previously seen an object in the ditch, but did not realise it was a body. Police said Ellis had been liv- ing at a villa in the tourist area of Sanur for some years and his Indonesian wife had ear- lier reported him missing. She is now being questioned, police said. Ida Bagus Putu Alit, head of forensics at Bali’s main hospital, confirmed the body was tied up and suffered serious injuries. A spokesman at the British embassy in Jakarta said: “We were notified of the death of a British national in Bali. We stand ready to provide consular Lawyers Virgie Suarez-Pinlac and Harry Roque (4th and 3rd right), counsels for the Laude family, appear at assistance.” AFP the preliminary investigation of the murder charge against US Marine yesterday. JONAS REYES

Lanka polls cast doubt on Pope’s visit Death toll in Nepal COLOMBO: The Catholic Church in Sri January. An early election had been widely storm rises to 43 Lanka yesterday asked the government expected, but Monday’s announcement to clarify its plans for a snap presidential was the first confirmation that Rajapaksa KATHMANDU: Rescuers yesterday election, amid fears the polls will scupper is seeking a fresh mandate after removing pulled out three bodies of Nepali citizens a planned visit by the Pope. the two-term limit on the presidency soon killed in last week’s freak blizzards and ava- Sri Lanka has not yet announced an elec- after winning reelection in 2010. lanches, taking the toll in the Himalayan tion date, but the information minister said Official sources said January 7, 8 and 9 nation’s worst trekking disaster to 43. The on Monday that the polls would be held in were considered astrologically auspicious for blizzards struck the Annapurna Circuit. January, when Pope Francis is due to visit. Rajapaksa and the vote could be held on any “Three new bodies were taken out from The Church had earlier said it would be of those three days. Rajapaksa gained popu- snow near Thorongla pass,” said Baburam “inappropriate” for the Pope to visit any coun- larity among Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese Bhandari, chief of Mustang district, the worst try at the time of a national election. “We are community by crushing a Tamil separatist among the four districts hit by the blizzards yet to decide anything,” church spokesman rebellion in May 2009 and ending a 37-year- triggered by cyclone Hudhud. Officials said Cyril Gamini Fernando said. “There will be a long Tamil separatist war. 518 people including 304 foreign trekkers meeting of the bishops to discuss this.” But his party’s popularity has fallen in were rescued in the operation in which more Official sources said Church authori- recent months and saw its share of the vote than 70 sorties were made by army and civil- ties had asked the government to clar- plummet by over 20 percentage points in ian helicopters. “This is the biggest rescue ify Information Minister Keheliya September local elections. Roman Catholics operation ever conducted in high Himalayan Rambukwella’s announcement on Monday account for around six percent of the popu- snow and difficult mountain slopes,” said D that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would lation in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka. B Koirala, chief of the Himalayan Rescue run for a third term at an election in AFP Association Nepal. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Pakistani Taliban sack leading spokesman Shahidullah’s move to defect to the Islamic State shows signs of growing divisions within the fractured group

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani not be independently verified and the spokesman’s real name was The powerful Mehsud tribe although the Middle Eastern Syria, wants to create a global Taliban have sacked the move- Shahidullah’s mobile phone has Sheikh Maqbool. It did not name has virtually refused to accept group’s radical rhetoric is likely caliphate. ment’s influential spokesman, been switched off ever since. his successor. the authority of the group’s new to have captured the imagination Yet activists sympathetic to IS according to a statement yes- The Taliban leadership said he One Taliban commander said leader, Mullah Fazlullah, who of many fighters. have been recently spotted in the terday, in a sign of growing no longer worked for them and Shahidullah’s pledge of allegiance came to power last year after his There are many fundamental Pakistani city of Peshawar, dis- divisions within the deeply frac- reiterated their support for the to IS was a move to seek publicity. predecessor was killed in a US differences between the Taliban tributing leaflets praising IS, and tured group. Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah “He used our name and tried drone strike in the remote moun- and IS, and Al Qaeda-linked com- Islamic State flags have sprung The move followed last week’s Omar. to make it big news in the media,” tains on the Afghan border. manders are believed to be wary up at street rallies in Indian- release of an audio message pur- “As far as allegiance to ISIS the commander said. Moreover, militants from the of Islamic State’s inroads into administered Kashmir. porting to have been recorded (Islamic State) is concerned, The Pakistani Taliban have Mohmand region have split from South and Central Asia. As it seeks to expand its mis- by the spokesman, Shahidullah (Taliban leader) Amir Mullah been deeply divided for years, the main Taliban movement and Taliban insurgents in sion globally, IS is likely to be Shahid, saying he and a group of Fazlullah has clarified that with dozens of smaller groups formed a separate group called Afghanistan and Pakistan keen to set up base in South and other commanders had defected our allegiance is to Mullah jostling for influence, although Jamaat ul Ahrar. are fighting to topple govern- Central Asia, a region rife with to the Middle Eastern jihadist Mohammad Omar Mujahid,” they the movement itself says its There is little evidence of ments there and set up a strict anti-Western ideology and full of group, Islamic State. said in the statement. divisions are exaggerated by the direct contacts between militants Sharia state based on Islamic unemployed men ready to take up The authenticity of that The leadership said Shahidullah Pakistani authorities to discredit operating in Pakistan’s tribal law, whereas IS, which controls arms to fight for their beliefs. recording, posted online, could Shahid was a nom de guerre and the group. areas and Islamic State leaders, swathes of land in Iraq and REUTERS Afghan recruitment Licence of Qadri calls off sit-in anti-govt parliament protest TV channel

ISLAMABAD: A cities across the country suspended Canadian-Pakistani including Karachi, the cleric whose support- main commercial hub. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ers have camped outside “You should now pack yesterday suspended a the country’s parliament up and go back home television channel sup- building since August, with a sense of victory,” portive of anti-govern- demanding the govern- he added without elabo- ment protests being held ment resign, called off rating. The hundreds of by cricketer-turned poli- his sit-in protest yester- Qadri supporters who tician Imran Khan and a day to take the demon- remain camped in tents populist cleric in the capi- strations countrywide. in recent weeks comprise tal Islamabad. Tahir-ul-Qadri the majority of the pro- ARY News, a popular (pictured) arrived in testers at the site and station, is being taken Islamabad in mid-August their withdrawal could off air for 15 days for along with cricketer- effectively end the sit-in. ‘maligning honourable turned-politician Imran Observers had begun courts and judiciary,’ the Khan and thousands of their sup- to question how long they could Pakistan Electronic Media porters, with the aim of forcing remain there without returning to Regulatory Authority Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to work or allowing their children to (PEMRA) said. step down over alleged rigging in last attend their regular schools. ARY News was also fined year’s election. Witnesses who visited the site had Rs10m ($97,089), the media Recruits who passed Air Force exams are being sent for further military training in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. The protests unnerved the govern- also found that in some cases, labour- authority added, saying Foreign combat troops are set to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 after handing over all security respon- ment, shook investor confidence and ers were being paid around Rs400 a that the channel has a his- sibilities to Afghan forces. triggered speculation that the coun- day to attend. Both Qadri and Khan tory of not complying with try’s powerful army would intervene allege massive systematic rigging in PEMRA laws. as it had in the past. the 2013 poll that swept Sharif to The channel’s leader- Tension peaked at the end of August office — the country’s first peaceful ship was not available for with violent clashes that saw three transition of power from one civilian comment. Opium cultivation hits Air strikes kill protestors killed as they attempted government to another in a country Amnesty said the sus- to storm parliament, but cooled once that has been ruled for half its exist- pension was politically it became clear the military was not ence by the military. motivated. “ARY TV must new high in Afghanistan 28 militants prepared to topple Sharif. It remains unclear whether Khan will be immediately allowed Speaking to reporters in front of follow suit with a similar move — though back on air. There is sim- WASHINGTON: Opium poppy poppy cultivation calls into ques- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s mil- parliament, Qadri said: “This phase of his party has already staged large rallies ply no justification for cultivation in Afghanistan hit tion the long-term effectiveness itary yesterday said it had killed the Revolution March in Islamabad in the country’s major cities of Lahore, the Pakistani authori- an all-time high in 2013 despite and sustainability of those prior 28 militants in air strikes in the is now over and participants can Karachi and Multan — possibly indi- ties to silence sections of years of counter-narcotics efforts,” he said. Afghanistan pro- restive tribal region near the go back home.” He added the focus cating rising support among the urban the media solely because efforts that have cost the United duces more than 80 percent of the Afghan border, a region where of the protests would now shift to middle classes. AFP of their political lean- States $7.6bn, the US govern- world’s illicit opium, and profits it has been battling Islamist ings,” said Mustafa Qadri, ment watchdog for Afghanistan from the illegal trade help fund groups for more than a decade. Amnesty’s Pakistan reconstruction spending said the Taliban insurgency. The strikes, that also killed a researcher. yesterday. US government officials blame number of foreign fighters, took The suspension comes at The UN Office on Drugs and poppy production for fuelling cor- place yesterday in Dattakhel an uneasy time in Pakistan Crime reported that Afghan ruption and instability, under- area of North Waziristan dis- where the government farmers grew an “unprecedented” mining good government and trict, a stronghold of Taliban- has been under pressure 209,000 hectares of opium poppy subverting the legal economy. linked groups, the military said. following a long period of in 2013, surpassing the previous The United States has spent In June, the army began an protests which some com- high of 193,000 hectares in 2007, $7.6bn on counter-narcotics efforts operation in the North Waziristan mentators say were backed said John Sopko, the special in Afghanistan since launching the agency after a bloody raid on by the all-powerful army inspector general for Afghanistan programmes following the start of Karachi Airport ended falter- keen to sideline Prime reconstruction. the 2001 war, it said. Sopko said the ing peace talks between the gov- Minister Nawaz Sharif. “In past years, surges in opium UN drug office estimated the value ernment and militants. North One of ARY’s lead- poppy cultivation have been met of poppy cultivation and opium Waziristan is a major base for ing journalists, Mubashir by a coordinated response from products produced in Afghanistan the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Luqman, has been partic- the US government and coalition in 2013 at about $3bn, a 50 percent (Pakistani Taliban), which began ularly critical of Sharif’s partners, which has led to a tem- increase over the $2bn estimated in its campaign against the state in administration, making porary decline in levels of opium 2012. “With deteriorating security 2007 and also provides shelter to a regular accusations against production,” Sopko said in a letter in many parts of Afghanistan and number of foreign militant groups. the government and the to Secretary of State John Kerry, low levels of eradication of poppy judiciary on his popular Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel fields, further increases in cultiva- show, Khara Sach. and other top US officials. tion are likely in 2014,” Sopko said. 4 soldiers die AGENCIES “The recent record-high level of REUTERS in Kabul blast

KABUL: At least four Afghan Anti-polio drive soldiers were killed and around a dozen people including six civilians wounded when a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded in the Afghan capital yesterday, officials said. The blast, caused by a remote- controlled bomb, targeted an Afghan army bus in the western part of Kabul, the Ministry of Defence said. Broken glass and debris were strewn around the site of the attack as security officials cordoned off the area. Briton killed MUZAFFARABAD: A gun- man shot dead a British national in in Mirpur, 114km south of Muzaffarabad, police said yes- terday, as authorities struggle to piece together a motive behind the murder. “Jumma Khan, 70, was shot in chest from a short range by a gunman when he opened door of his house after it A Pakistani health worker (right) administers the polio vaccine to a child during a vaccination campaign in was knocked (on) late on Monday, killing him on the spot,” police Lahore yesterday. The number of polio cases recorded in Pakistan has soared to its highest level in 14 years official Imran Qasim said. after attacks on immunisation teams led to a surge in incidences of the disease, health authorities said. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Police Martyrs Day Modi to spend Khattar to be Diwali with Srinagar flood-hit NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend Haryana CM, Diwali with the flood-affected people of Srinagar, an official release said yesterday. “Will be in Srinagar on Diwali, oath on Sunday October 23 and will spend the day with our sisters and broth- ers affected by the unfortunate floods,” the prime minister said Ex-RSS pracharak vows transparency in a statement. More than 1.5 million people CHANDIGARH: Haryana is legislator with no administrative were affected by the floods in all set for a BJP rule for the experience, the BJP chose the man Jammu and Kashmir, the worst first time, with Chief Minister- from the Punjabi community to play the state has seen in 50 years. designate Manohar Lal Khattar its debutante leading role in the Over 280 people were killed, while scheduled to be sworn in on Jat-dominated politics of Haryana. widespread damage was caused Sunday. Khattar is seen as a “no- to public and private properties, Haryana Governor Kaptan nonsense man” with organisa- commercial establishments and Singh Solanki yesterday invited tional skills. Naidu and Sharma infrastructure. Khattar, who earlier in the day attended the meeting of the leg- Modi has already announced was elected leader of the Haryana islators as observers sent by the Rs100bn for rehabilitation of the BJP Legislative Party, to form the BJP’s parliamentary board. state and promised to do what- new government in the state. “The name of Khattar was ever else the government can. The oath-taking ceremony proposed for chief minister by will take place at the Tau Devi Haryana BJP President Ram Terror attacks Lal Sports Stadium in Panchkula, Bilas Sharma and he (Khattar) Madhya Pradesh police contingents pay tribute during a parade on the Police Martyrs Day in Bhopal, yes- near here, instead of the Haryana was unanimously elected,” BJP terday. The day marks respect to policemen who lost their lives in the service for the nation. likely during festive Raj Bhavan. central observer Dinesh Sharma Khattar, 60, will be the first told media. The BJP got the season: Rajnath Bharatiya Janata Party chief majority on its own for the first minister of the state, which was time in Haryana in the results of NEW DELHI: Home Minister formed on November 1, 1966. the elections to the 90-member Differences in BJP? Gadkari in Rajnath Singh yesterday said The former Rashtriya assembly declared on Sunday. terror attacks “can’t be ruled Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ‘pra- Besides Khattar, other names out” during the festive season. charak’ was chosen by the newly earlier doing rounds for the chief “The possibility of terror elected BJP legislators as their minister’s post were those of race for Maharashtra CM post attacks can’t be ruled out during leader at a meeting here. state BJP President Ram Bilas the festive season. Terror threats The BJP, which created politi- Sharma, state BJP spokesperson MUMBAI: Indicating differ- general feeling among legislators Diwali, leaving the field wide are there and alerts are being cal history on Sunday by winning Abhimanyu, senior legislator Anil ences in the BJP, Transport and that he should become the next open for manipulations by vari- issued,” he told reporters on the 47 seats in the Haryana assembly Vij and BJP Kisan Cell leader O P Shipping Minister and senior chief minister. He is a central ous contenders. sidelines of an event here. polls, yesterday staked its claim Dhankar from among the recently leader Nitin Gadkari emerged minister now, but we would like One section of BJP leaders Asked what advisory has been to form the next government in elected legislators. as a front-runner for the post him to lead the state... He has a wants to project Pankaja Munde’s issued by the ministry Monday the state. The BJP, till now, used Other names being mentioned of Maharashtra chief minister lot of administrative experience name as the first woman and to all the states on possible com- to play second fiddle to other were of union ministers Sushma here yesterday. behind him which can benefit Other Backward Castes chief munal tension, the home minister regional parties in the state. Swaraj, Rao Inderjit Singh In denial mode since the Maharashtra.” minister whose candidature may said: “We issue such advisory on A letter from the party was and Krishan Pal. The name of past two days, the leader from This latest development in the attract the reluctant Shiv Sena’s the basis of information we get.” submitted to the Haryana gov- Congressman-turned-BJP leader Vidarbha put up an apparent party which emerged as the sin- support, but she later claimed to “The festival of Diwali and Kali ernor by Khattar after he was Birender Singh also figured in the show of strength with at least 40 gle largest entity with 122 legisla- have backed out of the chief min- Puja will be celebrated in various unanimously elected leader of the speculation. party legislators meeting him to tors plus one from ally Rashtriya isterial race. parts of the country on October BJP legislative group. Birender Singh, Rao Inderjit seek “blessings and guidance” in Samaj Paksha in the 288-mem- In the meantime, the BJP is 23. Issues like bursting of fire Khattar was accompanied to Singh and Sushma Swaraj, all of Nagpur yesterday. ber assembly, may dampen the continuing efforts to lure seven crackers, use of loud speakers, Raj Bhavan by union minister whom are leaders from Haryana, Since the assembly election aspirations of others like former independents and other smaller raising of provocative slogans by Venkaiah Naidu, BJP national were conspicuous by their absence results were announced, Gadkari Leader of Opposition in the parties to prop up its govern- members of one community near vice president Dinesh Sharma, as the BJP elected its first chief (58), had said that he was “not in assembly Eknath Khadse, Leader ment, besides weaning potential religious places of the other com- state BJP president Ram Bilas ministerial candidate. the race” for the chief minister’s of Opposition in the council Vinod supporters from the other major munity could lead communal ten- Sharma, union minister Krishan This is the first time that the post, but the mood seems to have Tawde and late Gopinath Munde’s parties. sion during the festivals,” said the Pal Gurjar and other BJP leaders. BJP will form its own government changed following his meetings daughter Pankaja Munde-Palwe. The BJP’s calculation is that advisory issued on Monday. “I have been chosen by the in the state. The party won only with Prime Minister Narendra Mungantiwar has also called with the support of independ- The advisory further said that party legislators and the BJP four assembly seats in the 2009 Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party upon the Shiv Sena to extend ents and smaller parties, it will it is necessary that continued leadership for this responsibility. polls. Results of the Haryana president Amit Shah. unconditional support to the BJP succeed in reaching the figure of vigil and proper security arrange- I can assure you that we will work assembly elections were historic Interestingly, Gadkari’s name and welcomed the “unconditional around 135 — still short of the ments are made at places of wor- for the welfare of the people of for the BJP as the party romped was floated by former minis- external support” by the Sharad magic figure of 145. ship during the observance of the Haryana,” Khattar said. home with 47 legislators. ter and state party chief Sudhir Pawar-led Nationalist Congress If invited to form the govern- festival especially in the commu- “My government will be trans- The Indian National Lok Dal Mungantiwar, leaving a question Party. ment as the single largest party, nally sensitive areas to prevent parent and there will be no dis- (INLD) followed with 19 legislators, mark on the fate of Nagpur legis- Home Minister Rajnath Singh, it could still sail through the first disturbance. crimination with any area. We will while the Congress, which was in lator and another strong favourite who along with newly appointed hurdle of vote of confidence with It also said that communal take everyone together,” Khattar, power since March 2005, managed Devendra Fadnavis, the current in-charge of Maharashtra J.P. 135 and the “unconditional exter- atmosphere was strained in some sporting a light blue half-jacket, to get only 15 seats. Two seats went state party president. Nadda, cancelled his visit to the nal support” of the NCP which of the states during Bakrid over told media persons. to the Haryana Janhit Congress. Mungantiwar said: “Gadkari state twice in the past couple of has 41 legislators. issues related to animal sacrifice. Despite being a first-time IANS is a senior leader... There is a days, is now expected only after IANS IANS Rajasthan seeks CBI probe into ambulance scam

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government “The government is being politically vin- Police conducted an inquiry following yesterday sent an official letter to the dictive,” a Congress leader said. former Jaipur Municipal Corporation Centre seeking a CBI probe into the “There is pressure from the state gov- mayor Pankaj Joshi’s complaint of July alleged ambulance scam in which senior ernment on police in this matter. I believe 2013 and decided to register a case Congress leaders, including former chief the truth will soon come out. I also believe against Gehlot, Pilot, former state Health minister Ashok Gehlot and state party he who makes mistakes must be punished,” Minister AA Khan, former union finance chief Sachin Pilot, have been named. Gehlot said. minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti P “A letter was today (Tuesday) sent to State Health Minister Rajendra Rathore Chidambaram, former union minis- the union government requesting for a said the Congress “should not complain or ter Vayalar Ravi’s son Ravi Krishna on CBI probe. We expect the Central Bureau have any problem with a CBI inquiry. They charges of cheating and dishonesty, for- of Investigation to start a probe into the should rather welcome it”. gery of valuable security and criminal ambulance scam in the next 10-15 days,” a A first information report (FIR) was filed conspiracy among others. state home department official said. June 10 against Gehlot, Pilot and six others Joshi had alleged financial irregularities Meanwhile, a war of words broke out at the Ashok Nagar police station here over in operating the ‘108’ ambulance service between the Congress and the ruling allegations of a scam in the running of the during the previous Congress regime. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the issue. ‘108’ ambulance service. IANS

Auspicious shopping E-toll collection from October 27 NEW DELHI: Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will launch the electronic toll collection system across the country on October 27, an official statement said yesterday. “With the inauguration of electronic toll collection (ETC) system by the Minister of Road Transport and Highways on October 27, a uniform and accept- able standard of service to the commuters would become a real- ity,” the statement said. E-toll plazas have been installed at 55 locations on national high- ways around the country while a pilot project for interoper- able ETC system of 10 toll plazas between Mumbai and Ahmedabad has already been tested. The state- ment said that the government has issued orders to incorporate ETC lanes as a mandatory clause in the contracts awarded for all C ustomers buy utensils in the market on the occasion of Dhanteras festival, two days before the Diwali the highway projects in future. festival, in Jammu, yesterday. On this day, purchasing of utensils is considered auspicious. IANS WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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MUSCAT 35/27 Clear 34/26 Clear MAKKAH 38/27 Partly cloudy 39/28 Clear KUWAIT 29/15 Clear 31/17 Clear FROM LEFT: Natsumi Matsuoka, Sakura Miyawaki, Haruka Kodama and Rino Sashihara, members of HKT48, a girls pop group at a photo session to BAHRAIN 32/26 Clear 31/23 Clear promote Lotte’s prototype “Rhythmi-Kamu”, earphones that count and record the number of times you chew during its press preview in Tokyo yesterday. SANAA 24/11 Clear 23/09 Partly cloudy RIYADH 32/22 Clear 33/22 Clear DUBAI 33/22 Clear 34/22 Clear BAGHDAD 25/12 Clear 28/17 Partly cloudy Chewing too much a hassle? Japan’s got just the thing THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW TOKYO: Are you worried that you’re just “Chewing, unless you make a conscious any given period, should that need ever arise. not chewing enough to keep your mind and effort, can be seen as a bit of a pain,” Katsumi The technology can also be used to switch HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER body in tip-top condition? Then never fear: Kawai, chief marketing officer of Lotte said, on or off music on phone by chewing in a cer- Japan has invented something to help you adding the firm has noticed some people con- tain pattern, Lotte says, while admitting mas- ATHENS 23/20 Clear 22/15 Chance of showers count your bites. sider chewing gum to be something of a hassle. tering the skill takes a bit of practice. WASHINGTON 16/11 Showers 14/10 Chance of showers A small-scale Japanese study last year, “As a gum maker, this is a great concern,” he Hiroshima City University engineer SYDNEY 25/16 Partly cloudy 24/16 Chance of showers among others, suggested there was a connec- said. Lotte’s “Rhythmi-Kamu” — a pun on the Kazuhiro Taniguchi, whose ear-switch tech- LONDON 14/09 Mostly cloudy 16/13 Cloudy tion between chomping and cognitive function, English word “rhythmical” and “kamu” (“to nology was used in the device said he was PARIS 14/10 Partly cloudy 16/11 Partly cloudy and the belief in a link between chewing and chew” in Japanese) — uses sensors mounted pleased with how it had turned out, adding ISTANBUL 21/16 Clear 23/16 Partly cloudy health is widely held in Japan. inside ear pieces to carefully measure each that the gadget had “satisfying functions”. MANILA 30/23 Partly cloudy 31/23 Chance of storm Now a Tokyo-based gum-maker has created bite. Lotte has no plans to commercialise the DHAKA 32/21 Clear 32/20 Clear earphones that record the number of times It bleeps and flashes as it sends the data to Rhythmi-Kamu, but would like to persuade DELHI 31/20 Partly cloudy 31/21 Clear you move your jaw, along with the speed and a smartphone app, which can be used to track research institutions to use it to advance stud- ISLAMABAD 28/18 Clear 27/18 Clear strength of each bite. exactly how much chewing a user has done in ies on human chewing. AFP

Why Internet goes Parents more accepting of violence in PG-13 films: Study to ‘sleep’ in some WASHINGTON: Are PG-13 Paediatrics. In the study, 1,000 for this story but has pointed to category has grown as the PG and Sense Media said it would give its parts of the world movies really appropriate for parents were randomly shown some academics and studies that R category slowly shrink. In 1999, own seal of approval for “family- teenagers? A new study puts several short clips with violence show parents have become more 35 percent of top-grossing movies friendly” films. In cooperation with WASHINGTON: Do you know fresh scrutiny on the movie and explicit sexual content from tolerant of mature content over were rated PG-13. Last year, 47 Disney, the group gave Alexander why Internet is always up and industry’s largest ratings cat- top-grossing movies such as 8 Mile, time, a reflection of evolving cul- percent were PG-13 and only one and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, running in the US and Europe egory, showing that parents Die Hard, and Taken 2. tural attitudes. film was rated G. Very Bad Day, its first seal, which while people suffer many out- who were repeatedly exposed Early in their viewing, parents The PG-13 rating was created But for many parents, the will appear on DVD cases. The ages over the course of the to violence and sexual content said the movies were only appro- in 1984 after parents complained PG-13 rating is too broad. Movie group came up with the seal day in Asia, South America became progressively more priate for older audiences, and, about violence and gruesome studios draw limited audiences for because, it said, too often parents and Eastern Europe? It hap- accepting of the material. on average, the films were appro- scenes from movies such as Indiana G and PG films, with kids want- took their children to films and pens because Internet goes to That may explain what priate for viewers 17 years old. Jones and the Temple of Doom. The ing to see the hottest action films, were surprised by violence, mature ‘sleep’ almost like a living crea- researchers describe as “rat- But the more clips the parents idea was that too many PG movies such as PG-13 rated Guardians language and sexual content. ture in those part of the world, ings creep,” the growing number watched, the more they began to were creeping closer to being like of Galaxy. R-rated films have “We don’t see enough great mov- researchers have discovered. of violent and sexual scenes in assign lower ages and ended up R-rated films. So the MPAA added pushed the edge of their rating ies with positive role models and “The study correlates coun- PG-13-rated movies, many of saying most of the material was a new category for PG-13 films too, deleting just enough content messages that make parents feel tries with strong Internet access which contain more images of gun appropriate for PG-13 audiences. with the label: “Parents Strongly to be appropriate for teens. like a trip to the movies is time with lower GDP — meaning that violence than even R-rated films. What that could mean, Romer Cautioned — Some Material May The new study comes amid well spent together — and we think the richer a country is, the more “We need people to think about said, is that parents become Be Inappropriate for Children criticism that Hollywood has families deserve better,” Jim Steyer, likely it is that the Internet will what is happening here with the desensitised to the mature con- Under 13.” In the last three dec- neglected family-friendly mov- founder and chief executive of be up and running 24/7,” said John huge increase in violence in movies tent after repeated exposure. And ades, PG-13 movies have become ies. Last year, Romer published a Common Sense Media, said. “The Heidemann, research professor and if this is harmful,” said Dan this is significant, because it may the biggest and most profitable study that showed the amount of Common Sense Seal will recognise at the University of Southern Romer, a co-author of the report often be parents who watch mov- category for Hollywood. gun violence in PG-13 movies has the best in family movies with a California’s Viterbi School of Parental Desensitisation to Violence ies and assign MPAA ratings in According to the Rentrak movie tripled since 1985, and in 2012 the goal of inspiring studios to create Engineering. and Sex in Movies, which was pub- the first place. research firm, more movies have category had more gun violence more films that kids and parents This work is one of the first to lished by the American Academy The Motion Picture Association been rated PG-13 than any other than in R-rated films. can enjoy together.” explore how networking policies of Paeditratics’ publication, of America declined to comment rating every year since 2008. The Child advocacy group Common WP-BLOOMBERG affect how the network is used, Heidemann added. There are four billion Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet addresses. Window Of The World IPv4 is the fourth version in the development of the Internet Film shows reality sinking Protocol (IP) and routes most traffic on Internet. Heidemann and his team in for ‘nuclear refugees’ pinged about 3.7 million address blocks (representing about 950 TOKYO: Before the Fukushima nuclear crisis forced them from million addresses) every 11 min- their homes, residents of Futaba had praised the Daiichi power utes over the span of two months, plant that brought jobs and money to the Japanese coastal town. looking for daily patterns. Now, more than three years after the disaster, they remain stuck in “This data helps us establish cramped emergency housing facing the reality they will likely never a baseline for the Internet — to go home, with Futaba set to become a storage site for contaminated understand how it functions, soil, a new documentary film shows. so that we have a better idea “I think this is almost a human rights violation,” said Atsushi of how resilient it is as a whole, Funahashi, director of Nuclear Nation 2, which opens in Japanese cin- and can spot problems quicker,” emas next month. “(They) are forced to live in this temporary housing Heidemann said. without hope for the future,” he told a question and answer session after The finding will help scientists a screening at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan last week. and policy makers develop bet- Funahashi’s Nuclear Nation films follow the residents of Futaba, who ter systems to measure and track were evacuated after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami trig- Internet outages, such as those gered meltdowns at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, that struck the New York area dousing their town with radiation and turning it into a “no-go zone”. after Hurricane Sandy. IANS In the broader region, tens of thousands were forced to flee. He filmed the first instalment, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival less than a year after the disaster, at an abandoned high school in a Tokyo suburb where 1,400 Futaba evacuees were living in classrooms. Nuclear Nation 2, produced by Documentary Japan and Big River Films, picks up from New Year 2012 and covers a two-year period. Evacuees at the school wish each other well for the coming year, admire New Year A woman poses for a selfie in front of a miniature replica of London’s Houses of Parliament, at a theme park cards and chat over “bento”, single-portion takeout meals, trying to called “Window Of The World” in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The park’s 48 hectares contain about 130 maintain a semblance of normal life. Funahashi’s lens deftly captures a reproductions of some of the world’s most famous tourist attractions. television news programme in the background reporting on the nuclear regulator and the problem of decontamination, underlining the issue at hand and foreshadowing discontent to come. REUTERS Wednesday 22 October 2014 28 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 Volume 19 Number 6226 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar stocks Real estate rise on solid earnings price index at DOHA: Qatar stocks staged a relief rally yesterday, after shed- ding 6.43 percent in the past week. Analysts noted the rally was triggered by solid corpo- all-time high rate earnings. Yesterday’s rally was triggered by solid corporate earnings delivered by over half- Surges record 42pc in September a-dozen companies on Monday. The Qatar Exchange (QE) main BY SATISH KANADY points from April’s 216 points. index, which plunged 1.41 percent The prices, however, rebounded the week ended October 2, 2014. Qatar, after public sector insti- surge 77.8 percent year-on-year a day earlier, yesterday dropped DOHA: Qatar’s real estate by hitting 230.6 points, or 7.8 per- The outlook for Qatar’s real tutions. However, the central to $ 86bn in 2014. The value of another 50 points during the intra- price index hit an all-time high, cent, up in June. estate sector has been projected bank’s latest financial stability new projects in Qatar and the day before gaining 113 points to surging a record 42 percent Data available from the as ‘strong’ by various market ana- report noted the credit to real UAE would rise significantly to finish at 13,076. Doha Bank , which this September, compared to Ministry of Justice suggests high lysts. Investments in Qatar’s real estate sector was marginally $26.2bn and $15.8bn, respectively, announced a 5 percent growth in the same month last year. land value is the main driver estate sector are set to increase in down by 0.2 percent during the in 2014 from just $9.4bn and less net profit yesterday, was the top Qatar Central Bank’s (QCB) of overall real estate prices in the coming months, Al Asmakh year 2013, from a high 12.3 per- than $3bn in 2013. gainer among the bank stocks. quarterly update of the index Qatar. For instance, the month noted in its quarterly report on cent recorded during 2011-12. The Global Investment House Its shares were up 2.48 percent. touched record 253.8 points in of March witnessed land trans- Qatar’s real estate sector. But the performance of real (GIH) in its GCC construction International Islamic which deliv- the month, rising much higher actions worth an approximate QInvest, Qatar’s leading invest- estate stocks in Qatar Exchange sector analysis for the month ered a 10 percent growth in net than Qatar’s pre-Asian games QR2.8bn making an estimated 67 ment bank, said on Monday it (QE) was not matching the of September 2014 noted the profit edged 0.73 percent up, while levels of 192.2 points, and is up percent of overall transactions. has witnessed a marked growth central bank’s real estate price region’s construction market is QNB added 0.95 percent. from 178.6 percent recorded a The Ministry’s weekly transac- of investor interest in the real index. In September, when the valued at $2.5 trillion. Despite its weak numbers, the year ago. tion data for September shows estate sector across the region. prices hit all-time high, the real Saudi Arabia continues to market heavy weight Industries The index shows that real steady increase in the trans- Craig Cowie, QInvest’s Head of estate sectoral index on the local enjoy the highest market share of Qatar (IQ) gained 1.26 percent. estate prices are up 10 percent action value. The transaction Principal Investment and Real bourse fell by 0.83 percent. The 44.3 percent, with projects valued The market gyrations are a higher on quarter-on-quarter value between August 31 and Estate Investment & Advisory, sector edged 0.48 percent up yes- at $1.1 trillion. The UAE holds reminder that short-term volatil- and 5 percent higher on month- September 4 recorded QR431m. said the bank has closed several terday. Barring one, all the real the second-highest share at 30.3 ity is the price that investors have on-month basis. The value further rose to real estate transactions this year estate stocks were up. percent, with project value total- to pay for long-term outperform- The QCB index that tracks the QR684m for the next week with a combined value total of According to Ventures ing $717.7bn, whereas Qatar has ance. Slowing growth, steady fall country’s real estate prices has before jumping to QR831m in the $1.8bn. ONSITE, a leading Mena con- projects worth $270.1bn, account- in oil prices, geo-politics, the end been steadily rising throughout following week. According to the QCB data, struction project tracker, the ing for 11.2 percent of the total of quantitative easing are all con- this year sans May, when the The transaction value jumped real estate sector accounts for value of new infrastructure construction market. tributing to the market volatility. index fell marginally to 213.8 to a whopping QR1.49bn during highest share of bank credit in projects in GCC is expected to THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Doha Bank’s Q3 net profit up 5pc to QR1.13bn Net operating income up by 14pc to reach QR2.2bn

DOHA: Doha Bank recorded September 2013 to QR70.3bn as high return on average assets of an impressive net profit of at September 30, 2014. 2.2 percent which is a clear dem- QR1.13bn for the third quarter Net loans and advances onstration of the effective utilisa- of 2014, reflecting a 5 percent increased to QR44.6bn from tion of shareholder’s funds. The growth compared to QR 1.07bn QR38.9bn for the same period core revenue streams have shown for the same period in 2013. last year, registering a growth strong growth over the prior year “This is another outstanding of 15 percent. Deposits showed a period reflecting on the bank’s result and is clear demonstra- year-on-year increase of 10 per- intrinsic strength towards recur- tion that Doha Bank continues cent from QR40.1bn to QR44bn ring earning capacity and also on to perform consistently,” Sheikh as on September 30, 2014 which the bank’s productive operational Fahad bin Mohammad bin Jabor is evidence of the strong liquidity performance.” Al Thani, Chairman of the Board position of the bank. During the period, the Board of of Directors of Doha Bank said Sheikh Abdul Rehman bin Directors unanimously approved while announcing the results yes- Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, the Scheme of Amalgamation to terday. The bank increased its net Managing Director of Doha Bank enable Doha Bank QSC, India operating income by 14 percent to said “The bank continues to per- to take over and to combine the reach QR2.2bn. Fees and commis- form well with total equity at banking business of HSBC Bank sion income showed an impressive QR11.3bn, registering an increase Oman SAOG, India with Doha Doha Bank Chairman Sheikh Fahad, Managing Director Sheikh Abdul Rehman and Group CEO R Seetharaman. growth of 27 percent, reaching of 25 percent during the last 12 Bank, QSC India operation as a QR363m as compared to QR286 months. Through the efficient going concern in line with the the shareholders for a meet- Doha Bank EMTN Programme. is testimony to our positive and m for the same period in 2013. asset allocation model, the return bank’s international expansion ing to consider and approve the On Doha Bank inaugurating its aggressive ambition to expand Total assets increased by on average equity is 16.3 percent strategy. Accordingly, the Board amalgamation scheme as well as first electronic branch in Dubai, foot-print by increasing ATM and QR7.3bn, a growth of 12 per- one of the best in the industry. also resolved to call the Extra authorise issuance of debt or any Group CEO Dr R Seetharaman, Electronic Banking Network”. cent, from QR63.0bn as at 30 The bank has achieved a very Ordinary General Assembly of other suitable instrument using said: “The new electronic branch THE PENINSULA Qatar’s GNI estimates MPHC nine-month profit hits QR1.4bn DOHA: Mesaieed and fuel gas under long-term have a single, wholly-owned sub- unit as on September 30, 2014 for Q2 up by 7.9pc Petrochemical Holding supply agreements with Qatar sidiary, while Q-Chem II also has were QR6.7bn, and total debt was Company (MPHC), a subsidi- Petroleum and the recognition an effective ownership of 53.85 QR1.6bn. The entire debt balance ary of Qatar Petroleum and one of a tax refund from the Public percent of Ras Laffan Olefins was due by Q-Chem II, while the DOHA: Qatar’s Gross National of 10.5 percent. The significant of the region’s premier diversi- Revenues and Tax Department. Cracker Company Limited. combined companies’ cash reali- Income (GNI) estimates for increase in household consump- fied petrochemical conglomer- Cash across all group compa- Q-Chem reported a revenue sation ratio was over 100 percent. Q2, 2014 stood at QR182.6bn tion expenditure was attributed ates, recorded a net profit of nies as at September 30, 2014 of QR1.2bn for the nine-months QVC registered revenue of ($50.14bn), up 7.9 percent com- to rising population and the price QR1.4bn for nine months ended remained at QR2.2bn indicating period ended September 30, QR591.5m, while the third quar- pared to the GNI estimates rise of consumer items in the September 30, 2014. MPHC the group’s strong cash position. 2014, while third quarter rev- ter revenue of QR243.3m was of QR169.21bn ($46.47bn) in country have led to this rise. closed the nine months with The utilisation rates during the enue was QR385.4m, a decrease up by QR69.5m, or 40 percent, the corresponding period last The share of HFCE in the nom- the liquidity position across third quarter remained strong. of QR13.2m, or 3.3 percent, due to from the previous quarter since year, according to the lat- inal GDP, in Q2, 2014 is estimated the group remaining strong at The group consists of six a drop in polyolefin sales volumes all the plants were fully opera- est Quarterly Sequence of at 14.5 percent. The correspond- QR2.2bn. companies, with three of them by 7.3 percent versus the prior tional during the third quarter. Accounts (QSOA) released by ing figures for Q1, 2014 and Q2, The group’s third quarter net directly held: MPHC holds 49 quarter. Results for the nine months were the Ministry of Development 2013 are 13.8 percent and 13.9 profit was QR477.5m, an increase percent of the issued share capi- Revenue reported by Q-Chem impacted by planned shut-downs Planning and Statistics. percent, respectively. of QR41.8m versus the second tal of each of Qatar Chemical II for the nine months was QR1.6 of the company’s EDC, VCM and GNI, also called Gross National The Government Final quarter representing an increase Company Limited QSC (Q-Chem) bn, while third quarter revenue caustic soda facilities. Net profit Product (GNP), is derived by Consumption Expenditure of 9.6 percent. and Qatar Chemical Company II was QR539.7m, an increase of recorded during the third quar- adding Net Factor Income (GFCE) for Q2, 2014 has been The group continued to main- Limited QSC (“Q-Chem II”), and QR45.9m, or 9.3 percent, due to ter was QR23.7m, an increase of from Abroad (NFIA) to Gross estimated at QR26.86bn as tain strong EBITDA margins 55.2 percent of the issued share an increase in the ethylene sales QR5.4m from the previous quar- Domestic Product (GDP). If the against QR24.39bn recorded in which were aided by resilient key capital of Qatar Vinyl Company volumes versus the prior quarter ter while the net profit during income paid to the rest of the Q2, 2013, showing a an increase product prices, supply of com- Limited QSC (QVC). Both Total assets of the combined the nine months period was QR world (outflow) is greater than of 10.2 percent. The percentage petitively priced ethane feedstock Q-Chem and Q-Chem II each Q-Chem and Q-Chem II business 42.0m. THE PENINSULA the income received (inflow), then share of GFCE in nominal GDP GNP will be lower than GDP. during Q2, 2014 has been esti- Since the net outflow of prop- mated at 14.2 percent. The corre- erty income from Qatar has sponding shares for Q1, 2014 and shown a decline of 18.2 percent. Q2, 2013 have been 13.7 percent, This explains the year-on-year each respectively. China’s growth slowest since global crisis rise in the national income in this The Gross Capital Formation quarter. However, on quarter-on- (GCF) has been estimated at quarter basis, GNI in Q2, 2014 has QR57.7bn in Q2 of 2014 as against BEIJING: China grew at its slowest things going on. You have credit growing at the gone down by 1.3 percent com- QR49.66bn in Q2, 2013, showing pace since the global financial crisis in the slowest pace since 2002. You have real estate China’s economic growth pared to the GNI of Q1, 2014. an increase of 16.2 percent. September quarter and risks missing its offi- investment slowing on a monthly basis and you China’s economic growth cooled to 7.3 percent between The gross saving of the nation The percentage share of GCF cial target for the first time in 15 years, add- have industrial production averaging slightly July and September from a year earlier. has been estimated at QR111.76bn in nominal GDP during Q2, 2014 ing to concerns the world’s second-largest above 8 percent on a quarterly basis, slightly in Q2, 2014 over QR105.76bn in has been estimated at 30.4 per- economy is becoming a drag on global growth. down from Q2. With that being the most reli- GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT Q2, 2013, showing a year-on-year cent. The corresponding shares A pick-up in factory output and government able component of GDP on a quarterly basis, Year-on-year percentage change Target rise of 5.7 percent. However, when for Q1, 2014 and Q2, 2013 have confidence that the labour market remains sta- 7.3 percent seems a bit high to me.” 12 compared to the previous quarter been 27.8 percent and 27.9 per- ble were offset by further slowing in the prop- The data added to expectations that growth (Q1, 2014), the gross saving has cent, respectively. erty sector, and economists remained divided on will come in below the official 2014 target of gone down by 4 percent. The combined value of exports whether authorities would step in with major 7.5 percent, which would be the first miss since 10 7.3% The gross saving ratio to nom- of goods and services, including stimulus measures such as interest rate cuts. 1999. Premier Li Keqiang has stated repeatedly Q3 ’14 inal GDP (at current prices) in re-exports from the country has China’s gross domestic product grew 7.3 percent that authorities will tolerate growth slightly 8 Q2, 2014 is placed at 58.9 percent. been estimated at QR135.09bn in in the third quarter from a year earlier, official below target as they try to reshape the economy The comparative figures for Q1, Q2 of 2014 as against QR131.89bn data showed yesterday, the weakest rate since so it is driven more by domestic consumption 6 2014 and Q2, 2013 are estimated in Q2, 2013, showing an increase the first quarter of 2009. and less by exports and investment. to be 60.1 percent and 59.5 per- of 2.4 percent. This year-on-year That was slightly above the 7.2 percent fore- Li told delegations for APEC finance min- cent, respectively. increase in the Q2, 2014 is mainly cast by analysts but slower than 7.5 percent isters meeting to be held today that despite 4 The household final consump- driven by the rising exports of in the second quarter, and even then some improvement in employment reforms will take tion expenditure (HFCE), also some of the services like Travel economists were surprised. “It’s hard to square time. “Meanwhile, we are faced with a com- 2 called estimate of the expenditure and Transportation. the GDP print with the industrial production plex and changing external environment, large component of GDP, in Q2, 2014 The percentage share of numbers for the quarter,” said Andrew Polk, downward pressure and difficulties for China’s 0 has been placed at QR27.14bn as exports in nominal GDP during economist at the Conference Board in Beijing, economy. It takes time for China’s reformative 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 against QR24.80bn estimated in Q2, 2014 has been estimated at one of the more pessimistic research houses measures to be fully effective,” the Xinhua news Source: Thomson Reuters Q2, 2013, showing an increase 71.2 percent. THE PENINSULA on the Chinese economy. “There are confusing agency cited Li as saying. REUTERS St ff 21/10/2014

Embraer unveils new cargo jet Ukraine’s gas New iPhones deliver talks with Russia falter big profits for Apple BRUSSELS: Ukrainian, SAN FRANCISCO: New big- in revenues. “I view it as a speed Russian and EU negotiators screen iPhones helped propel bump, not a huge issue,” Apple failed to conclude a deal on gas Apple’s profit and revenue in the chief executive Tim Cook said of pricing at talks in Brussels yes- last quarter, as the California the decline in iPad sales during a terday and will meet again in tech giant smashed earnings conference call with analysts. t he hop e of a n a c c or d on O c t ob er expectations. “I know there is a popular view 29, EU Energy Commissioner The company reported that the (tablet) market is saturated, Guenther Oettinger said. profit rose 13 percent to $8.5bn, we don’t see that.” “Today we reached a posi- as revenues jumped to $42.1bn in As appetites for tablet have tion that will be discussed by the fiscal fourth quarter ending diminished, Apple’s market share all the parties with their gov- September 27. Apple said it sold has slipped to 25 percent, com- ernments, with directors of the more than 39 million iPhones pared to 70 percent for the rival companies involved and here in in the quarter, boosted by last Android platform, according to the Commission, in consultation month’s launch of the large- Strategy Analytics. with the Council (of European screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which People are holding onto iPads Union governments),” Oettinger hit some markets on September longer than they do iPhones, and told a news conference after a 19. That compared with 33.8 mil- Apple is still researching when day of talks. lion in the same period a year ago. consumers typically upgrade to “On the basis of this draft doc- The iPhone accounted for more new tablets, according to Cook. ument, at the next meeting which than $23bn in revenue, over half He saw some promising devel- we hope will be the final trilateral of Apple’s overall earnings for the opments for iPad sales, includ- meeting next Wednesday here in quarter. Sales of iPads — which ing a recent alliance with IBM Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer unveils its new cargo KC-390, in Gaviao Peixoto yesterday. Embraer Brussels, we will be able to reach may have been lower ahead of the to improve tablet capabilities is betting it can not only match the gold-standard Hercules but outperform it on many fronts by using jet a decision and we’ll have the October launch of new models — for businesses. “I am very bullish engines instead of the sturdy turboprops that have powered Lockheed’s workhorse since the 1950s. signature of all the partners,” fell from a year earlier to 12.3 mil- on where we can take iPad over he said. REUTERS lion, producing some $5.3 billion time,” Cook said. AFP WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Doha deal would make QIB announces winners of world $11 trillion richer ‘Double Your Salary Campaign’ DOHA: Three lucky custom- ers of Qatar Islamic Bank Economists say WTO trade deal will reduce poverty (QIB), Qatar’s leading Islamic Bank, have doubled their sal- GENEVA: Sealing a global free ary for one month, following trade deal would add $11 trillion the Bank’s Personal Finance to the world economy and pull US risks trade sanctions Campaign which gave those 160 million people out of poverty who applied for personal finance by 2030, economists said in a the chance to win a prize worth study published yesterday. in WTO meat label dispute the same amount as their Member states of the World GENEVA/WASHINGTON: The United States faces potential monthly salary. The winners Trade Organisation launched trade sanctions from Canada and Mexico after the WTO ruled it were Ali Mesallam J A Almarri, negotiations in 2001 in Doha for a had failed to bring its meat labelling regulations fully in line with Mubarak Mohammed Almarri, global deal on slashing trade tariffs international fair trading rules. The WTO said the US had not and Osama Sayed Mohamed. and removing subsidies, but have done enough to change its labelling rules, requiring retailers such The campaign, which lasted failed to reach an agreement. as grocery stores to list the country of origin on meat, after it lost for two months through July Economists commissioned by an earlier WTO challenge. Canada and Mexico called on the US to and August, was directed at both think-tank Copenhagen Consensus repeal the rules and said they were prepared to retaliate if needed existing customers of QIB who The winners of the Double Your Salary Campaign with QIB officials. Centre said however in a series of against US exports. Previous estimates have put the cost of tariffs applied for personal finance and studies published yesterday that as high as $2bn. “Canada and Mexico will remain vigilant to ensure non QIB customers who opened such a global agreement would the harm generated by the protectionist ... policy is brought to an new account, transferred their D Anand, QIB’s Personal where customers need financial be an extraordinary investment. end and that international trade commitments are respected,” the salaries and applied for personal Banking General Manager, said support the most, mainly due to Implementing the deal would not two countries’ trade and agriculture ministers said in a statement. finance. All these customers dur- the Bank’s goal is to enable its holiday which is then followed be free, the economists said but ing the above mentioned period customers to fulfill their finan- by back to school. Therefore, we for every dollar spent on putting were able to enter the draw. In cial needs. “We are committed to wanted to show our full support in place the agreement, coun- Crisis talks on as India gets tough addition, those who applied for offering the best financing deals in and give back to our customers tries could reap at least $2,000 financing packages were eligible the market to satisfy our custom- an additional one month salary in benefits. “The costs are very GENEVA: India made no sign of dropping its veto on a glo- for complimentary QIB — Qatar ers’ requirements. We realise that that would enable them to achieve small,” Australian economist and bal trade deal yesterday, forcing WTO chief Roberto Azevedo Airways co-branded credit cards. July and August are the months their goals.” THE PENINSULA lead author of the studies, Kym to announce a week of talks to try to chart the future direc- Anderson, said. tion of the Geneva-based body. Some diplomats had said a WTO And the biggest winners would meeting yesterday was the last chance for India to let a glo- be developing countries, which bal trade deal go through or other countries would abandon the tend to have the highest trade global talks and split off into smaller groups instead, a devel- barriers — with around $3,400 in opment that many experts think would undermine the WTO. Coke income hit by slow economies return for every dollar spent there, WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell said he had never seen a simi- they said. “Our crude estimates lar situation at the 19-year-old WTO, which has been dogged by NEW YORK: Soft drinks king and especially the strengthening economic slump, but also by slow show that by 2030, there will be “impasse” in trade talks for a decade. REUTERS Coca-Cola made headway in of the US dollar against most growth in the United States and 160 million fewer people in extreme global volume sales in its third other currencies took a toll on the sharp economic slowdown in poverty if (Doha) is implemented,” quarter but net earnings fell the company. If currency swings Latin America and elsewhere. Anderson said. “You would end up Copenhagen Consensus Centre, and Development (UNCTAD) sharply, hit by slower economic were factored out, the company Sales volumes in Europe were with a huge gain,” he added. referring for instance to some and David Vanzetti of Australia growth and volatile currencies. said, earnings per share would be down five percent in the third The WTO itself had estimated European farmers who might see National University meanwhile Coke reported a slight fall in up six percent. quarter from a year earlier, and last year that a global trade deal subsidies vanish. But they would said in a reaction to the economists’ total operating revenues around Still, the flat revenue showed off one percent in North America. could add several hundred billion by far be outweighed by winners, study that economic growth alone the world to $11.98bn for the the challenge the company faces Revenues gained 0.6 percent in dollars, or even over a trillion dol- especially in developing countries, was not enough to ensure broader quarter to September 26. Net in boosting sales and earnings Europe lost while falling 2.1 per- lars, to the annual sum of global he said. “This could fundamentally development. “Investment is the income however dropped 13.6 per- in a tough global environment. cent in North America. commerce. But over a decade of change the world. We could make key. Capital needs to be allocated cent to $2.12bn, and earnings per It stressed the focus during But Coke’s smallest region, negotiations have borne no fruit as the world about 10 percent richer correctly and used productively. share dropped to 48 cents from the period on maintaining Eurasia and Africa, showed firm developed countries refuse to slash in 2030 than it would otherwise Governance is critical,” they wrote. 54 cents. volume sales and market share growth, with volumes up 5 per- subsidies to farmers while develop- be, and make every person in the If Doha remains elusive, the anal- Excluding exceptional items, with “a rational approach to cent and sales up 6.0 percent. ing nations refuse to bring down developing world $1,000 better off.” yses showed Asia-focused regional earnings per share were flat at pricing” and intensified market- And in Asia, which has shown tariffs imposed on industrial goods. Economists Santiago Fernandez free trade agreements could also 53 cents, matching the average ing efforts. the strongest growth for several “There will be losers,” acknowl- de Cordoba of the United rake in nearly $2,000 in benefits forecast of analysts. Coke said Atlanta-based Coke has been years, volume grew two percent edged Bjorn Lomborg of the Nations Conference on Trade for every dollar spent. AFP volatile foreign exchange markets challenged especially by Europe’s and revenues 5.3 percent. AFP

A QP official explaining to visitors the activities of the corporation’s Research & Technology Department. QP sponsors IASP World Conference

DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) This year’s event marks the first corporation’s extensive opera- is the “Silver Sponsor” of the time ever that the IASP World tions as well as the activities of 31st International Association Conference is held in the Middle its Research and Technology of Science Parks and Areas East region, since the launching Department. of Innovation (IASP) World of the event in 1984. In line with The Qatar Petroleum Research Conference, which is currently its theme “Science Parks: Where and Technology Center (QPRTC), ongoing until October 22 at Technology Goes to Work,” the which is based in QSTP, is the Qatar National Convention conference programme focuses involved in a diverse range of Centre. mainly on the important role of research projects in collaboration Hosted by the Qatar Science STPs as catalysts for technologi- with its partners in the industry & Technology Park (QSTP), the cal developments as well as the and academia. Its research activi- annual event brings together sci- value of close cooperation between ties focus, among others, on acid ence and technology parks (STP) universities and companies. stimulation, carbon dioxide (CO2) professionals from all over the As part of its sponsorship of the storage, oil fingerprinting, acid gas world, industry experts, technol- event, QP has an exhibition stand removal, tyre safety, oil-in-water ogy developers as well as delegates on the sidelines of the conference, treatment, and rapid petroleum from the public and private sectors. and it prominently showcases the profiling. THE PENINSULA

QIC to list subsidiary focused on foreign markets

DUBAI: Qatar Insurance after a long drought. International includes units oper- Company (QIC) said yesterday QIC provided no details of ating in Oman, Kuwait and Malta. its board had approved a move to the planned flotation of QIC The plans follow the February IPO list the firm’s international sub- International and said only that of Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding sidiary on Qatar’s bourse, paving the subsidiary was incorporated Co, Qatar’s first stock market list- the way for a second initial public under Qatar Financial Centre. ing since 2010, which attracted offering (IPO) in the Gulf state According to QIC’s website, QIC strong demand. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Oilfield closure may spark Saudi-Kuwait tension Disagreement over Kuwait’s curbs on Saudi unit of US oil major Chevron’s operations DUBAI/AL KHOBAR: Saudi two Opec allies are watched A Chevron spokesman said the The sources say Kuwait was steam injection project in the claim to part of the field. Arabia’s closure of an offshore closely by oil majors getting company complies with the laws angry because it was not con- onshore Wafra field to boost out- Kuwait agreed with Riyadh in oilfield it shares with Kuwait has ready to return to Kuwait after and regulations of the countries sulted when the Chevron con- put of heavy oil there by more 2000 to jointly develop the field revived speculation of renewed years of fruitless talks and fierce where it operates, and does not cession to operate Wafra was than 80,000 bpd. they desperately need to satisfy tensions between the two, and political opposition to foreign comment on discussions it has renewed by Riyadh in 2009 until Last year, Saudi Arabia and their growing gas need. put Chevron’s role in the shared firms taking a role in produc- with governments about its busi- 2039. Kuwait shelved a project to More than a decade on, lit- Neutral Zone in focus. tion in the past. ness operations. But the row goes back even fur- develop another venture in the tle progress has been made Crude output from their Diplomatic and industry The Saudi’s 60-year concession ther, to 2007, when a land dispute Neutral Zone, the Dorra offshore and it has now been shelved jointly-run offshore Khafji oil- sources have said that Kuwait with Chevron was first granted between Kuwait and Saudi led to gas field, after disagreeing over indefinitely. field has been halted temporarily has been placing restrictions on to the US Getty Oil Company in a delay in Kuwait’s plans to build how to share the gas back on land. The Neutral Zone is the only to comply with environmental the Saudi unit of US oil major 1949. Texaco acquired Getty Oil an oil refinery. Kuwait blames Riyadh for end- place in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait rules. Chevron which operates another in 1984, and Chevron took over Chevron has had a lease on ing that project despite its des- where foreign oil firms have “Little things lead to big things, jointly run Neutral Zone field, Texaco in 2001. some of the land on Kuwait’s side perate need for gas for power equity in fields, which are other- it’s an accumulation of the past. Wafra, as a result of various A senior Kuwaiti official dis- which was earmarked for the new generation. wise owned and operated by state Each party says a different story,” disputes. missed any political implica- refinery. “These issues between the two oil companies. Crude output is said Kamel Al Harami, an inde- The curbs have affected oil tions and said the Kuwaiti side In recent months, Kuwait countries have started several divided equally between the two pendent Kuwaiti analyst. output from the Neutral Zone, was informed of the Khafji has been making it more dif- years ago. Relations soured when countries. The loss of Khafji’s 280,000 which dates back to 1920s trea- shutdown. ficult for Chevron to acquire Saudi stopped the Dorra project It survived the nationalisa- barrels per day of Arabian Heavy ties to establish regional borders. Recently, Kuwait’s oil market- work permits to operate in the from proceeding,” said another tion of the Saudi oil industry crude will be felt more in Kuwait, Output capacity from the Zone ers have been challenging their Zone, because of legal misinter- Kuwaiti official. in the 1970s. Since then, Saudi which has far less spare output has been around 600,000 bpd Saudi counterparts in an increas- pretation of the agreement, the He added there have been also reserves of 264 billion barrels than its neighbour, the world’s top until last year, according to the ingly competitive battle for mar- sources said. disagreements over the distribu- — around a fifth of the world’s oil exporter. Oil prices rose briefly US Department of Energy. ket share, selling oil to buyers in “Kuwait has been giving tion of investments costs with the proven oil reserves — have been to over $86 a barrel on Monday But industry sources say it has Asia at the widest discount to Chevron a hard time,” one diplo- Saudi side. Dorra has long been off limits to international oil on the news. been in decline in recent months a comparable Saudi grade in 10 matic source said. a bone of contention between companies. Any differences between the even before the Khafji shutdown. years. Chevron is leading a full-field Kuwait and Iran, which also lays REUTERS

Land Rover plant launch Saudi Fransi Capital says three big IPOs in pipeline

RIYADH: Investment bank private sector growth, the Capital Arabia’s National Commercial Saudi Fransi Capital has three Market Authority announced in Bank is currently conducting a big initial public offers of shares July that it would open the stock $6bn IPO, the largest ever launched in the pipeline as the Saudi market to direct foreign invest- in the Arab world. Arabian equity market booms ment in the first half of next year. The deepening of the Saudi and firms become keener to list, “We have an excellent deals stock market through IPOs and the company’s chief executive pipeline...We think we will see its opening to foreign inves- said. one IPO every quarter from Saudi tors are expected to support The kingdom’s $550bn stock Fransi Capital for the coming five growth for asset managers in the market, by far the largest in the quarters,” Yasir Al Rumayyan said kingdom. Arab world, saw just five IPOs in an interview at the Reuters “Our assets under management in 2013 worth a total of around Middle East Investment Summit. (AUM) is about 10 billion riyals, $506m, down in both volume and Each of the three big IPOs cur- but this number is growing tre- value from the previous year. rently in Saudi Fransi’s pipeline mendously, as it was less than 5 But volume and value are both is larger than SR1bn ($267m), billion in 2010,” Rumayyan said. set to rise this year as the securi- Rumayyan said: Sulaiman Al “We want to grow like 15 to 25 ties regulator encourages listings Habib Medical Group, one of percent on an annual basis, and of companies which it believes the largest private providers of we think it is doable because we contribute to economic growth. healthcare in the region; water have been doing it in the past Although the main equity and power project developer three or four years.” index has pulled back in the last ACWA Power; and Petromin, a Rumayyan said his company two weeks because of sliding oil lubricants producer. would open an office in Dubai to prices and concern about global “I have a bigger list than this cater to international investors in economic growth, it is still up 16 one...We have another IPO in the the brokerage and asset manage- The Chery Jaguar Land Rover plant before the opening ceremony in Changshu, Jiangsu province, China. percent year-to-date and up 45 steel sector, and one in build- ment sectors. In the past, Saudi British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover Ltd, owned by Indian conglomerate Tata group, expects its China percent since the end of 2012. ing materials,” said Rumayyan, banks have rarely opened over- sales to grow 20 percent this year, Greater China head Bob Grace said on Tuesday. In a reform designed to increase whose company is an arm of seas offices, preferring to focus on the long-term efficiency of the Saudi Arabia’s fourth-largest listed their domestic market. Saudi economy and stimulate lender, Banque Saudi Fransi. Saudi REUTERS

Gulf Air launches China to pitch high-speed Moscow package MANAMA: Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national trains to California carrier, has launched a pro- motional package to mark the BEIJING: State-backed supply up to 95 trains that can about its desire for Chinese start of its direct flights between China CNR Corporation is travel as fast as 354km per investment in the 800-mile-long Bahrain and Moscow that will making a pitch to sell its high- hour, SunGroup said. line from Los Angeles to San commence on October 28. The speed trains to California, “We believe that high-speed Francisco; US media reports promotion offers exclusive inau- signaling China’s growing rail is something that China said governor Jerry Brown met gural fares alongside double export ambitions for such does very well, and it’s a prod- Chinese rail officials in April Falconflyer miles for passengers technology after building the uct that we can export across last year, including those from travelling from across the air- world’s longest network in the world,” SunGroup spokes- Tangshan Railway, to discuss line’s network to the Russian just seven years. man Jonathan Sun said in a the project. capital. It marks the first concrete phone interview, adding that No estimates for the con- Promotional fares, starting attempt by China to sell high- SunGroup, CNR and Tangshan tract’s value have been pub- from as low as $395 from Middle speed locomotives abroad and Railway had been working lished, but in its 2014 business East destinations to Moscow, establish itself as a credible together for four years. plan the California High Speed can be purchased between now rival to sector leaders such as Manufacturers are expected Railway Authority estimated and October 31 and are available Germany’s Siemens, Canada’s to send in expressions of inter- each trainset would cost $45m, for travel until November 30. Bombardier and Japan’s est by today to the California based on a purchase of 70 Additionally, the airline’s spe- Kawasaki. High Speed Railway Authority, vehicles. cial “Double Miles” promotion CNR, its unit Tangshan which will later issue formal “We haven’t officially gone gives its FalconFlyerProgramme Railway and US-based requests for proposals. About a out to bid yet. This is us saying members the opportunity to earn SunGroup USA are submit- dozen firms from places such as to the industry that we need double miles when flying between ting an expression of interest Japan and Spain are expected trainsets. They have to meet October 28 and December 28, to California’s $68bn high-speed to compete, it said. these standards. We’re asking, 2014 on the airline’s new route. rail project for a contract to California has been candid ‘Are you interested in learn- Gulf Air will launch direct ing more, and do you think you services to Moscow from October could do this for us?’” said Lisa 28, further demonstrating the Marie Alley, deputy director of airline’s strategy of strengthen- public affairs at the High-Speed ing its network with key global Rail Authority. destinations that provide strategic China has made no secret business and tourism linksopen- of its desire to export its high- ing up new doors of opportunity speed technology abroad, hav- for trade, tourism and investment ing built over 12,000 kilometers for both countries. The airline will of track at home in less than operate four flights per week to a decade. CNR and CSR Corp Domodedovo International Airport are China’s largest locomotive –the city’s largest airport in terms makers, while China Railway of passenger and cargo traffic. Construction and China Enrolling in the Gulf Air Railway Group build track. FalconFlyerProgramme can be The country has helped or done by visiting www.gulfair.com indicated its interest to build and further information can be thousands of kilometers of found on the airline’s website, high-speed track in countries by visiting the nearest Gulf Air such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia Office or by calling the Gulf Air and Venezuela, though it has 24 Hour Worldwide Contact A high-speed train travelling to Guangzhou is seen running on yet to sell a high-speed train Centre on (+973) 17373737. Yongdinghe Bridge in Beijing. abroad. REUTERS THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Tough road lies ahead Will Americans vote for a for US auto sales far-reaching wealth tax? BY EDWARD NIEDERMEYER BY ROGER FARMER consent, at which time each of us exercises The conservative answer to that ques- aving enjoyed a roaring comeback from the depths of our endowed ability to choose among compet- tion is that “a rising tide lifts all boats”. the global financial crisis, the auto industry is shifting have been slow to home in on Thomas ing alternatives to maximise our happiness. According to that argument, a confiscatory back into cruise control. Though European auto sales Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty- The view of homo-economicus as a utility estate tax would result in lower growth and Happear to have staged a mini comeback in September First Century, but it is hard to ignore seeking machine is not to be found in Smith, all of us would be worse off. (up 6 percent), growth has slowed more dramatically in China the chatter that the book has gener- who had a much richer view of human The rise of democratic institutions in than anyone expected (up just 3 percent). ated from those on all sides of the nature as evidenced by his “other book” on nineteenth century England was a response With the bottom falling out of Russian demand, India stuck in Ipolitical spectrum. The book sheds welcome The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Politics to the redistribution of wealth from land- neutral and South America dipping again, automakers are fac- light on the topic of income and wealth and economics are two parts of a theory of owners to the growing middle class that ing renewed pressure to make up for that weakness with sales inequality and it has rekindled a debate in social democracy. Elections are not simple was created by the industrial revolution. in the US market. the United States and Europe on an age-old horse races between differing opinions, they Democracy was a safety valve that enabled The burning question: Can the US market sustain the growth question: should we care if some individuals are heavily influenced by advertising paid the social cohesion necessary for everyone to automakers need to keep rolling along? According to forecasts by earn much more than others? for by political machines that raise money thrive and it resulted in a massive redistri- JD Power, AutoNation Chief Executive Officer Mike Jackson and As individuals in a modern democracy we from competing interest groups. The New bution of wealth from the landed aristocracy others, there’s nothing to worry about: Sales in the US will rise make social decisions about how much of York Daily News reported, in 2013, that a to the rest of society. That same safety valve to nearly 17 million units next year. But history is littered with each good to produce and consume through US Senate seat now costs $10.5m (£6.2m) to will eventually lead to the enactment of a such optimistic forecasts, subsequently abandoned when growth free trade in a market economy. The rules by win. It is difficult for me to believe that this more comprehensive policy of redistribution slows. And there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that auto sales which we trade with others are determined money is spent to endow potential voters as voters realise that there are limits to the have gone as high as they can go. through democratic elections in which we with facts that they need in order to inform argument that greed is good. The case for optimism is pretty straightforward: Car sales and give power to our representatives to transfer their own preexisting preference orderings One can make moral arguments for or transaction prices have been growing relentlessly since 2010, as resources from one human being to another. over outcomes. Money buys votes by shap- against the redistribution of income and new fuel-saving and infotainment technologies coax buyers out And we interact with each other through ing opinion. wealth but at the end of the day those argu- of older cars into pricier rides. With gas prices likely to remain conversations, free association and social The power of money to influence elections ments only matter if they are persuasive low for the foreseeable future, consumers are likely to continue media or through more organised forms of suggests an answer to what is otherwise to the average voter. In a democratic soci- upgrading to higher-margin trucks and SUVs, too. persuasion such as newspapers and televi- a perplexing question. Why are taxes on ety, the power of money to influence public Despite these trends, the potential for a slowing in US auto sion stations. large estates currently set at such low rates? opinion can perhaps hold back the tide for demand cannot be ignored: The US never had sustained sales above As economists, we are sometimes justly After all, we live in a democratic society another decade. Maybe it can hold back the level of 16.5 million units per year. Indeed, IHS Automotive accused by other social scientists of taking in which the rules of the game are set by public opinion for two or more decades. But sees the market topping out at 16.7 million units in 2016 and 2017 a narrow view of human nature. A human elected representatives in which every US there will come a time when the average before dropping back to below 16.5 million by 2020. being, to the neoclassical economist, is a citizen gets one vote. Further, as Piketty American realises that the dream that his Another major cause for concern is the fact that the US auto preference ordering over all possible actions reminds us, 1 percent of the US population parents aspired to is no longer within his market’s recovery was driven by expanding auto credit, which that he or she may take over the course of controls 30 percent of the wealth. Why don’t reach. And at that point, the enactment of a is now reaching the limit of its stimulant effects. The subprime a lifetime. That preference ordering is fixed the 99 percent choose to confiscate wealth more comprehensive estate tax is inevitable. auto loan boom has attracted widespread media and regulatory at birth and swings into action at the age of from the richest 1 percent? THE GUARDIAN concerns, and lenders are pulling back as delinquencies rise. Increasing loan terms are pushing consumers underwater on new cars. Though fears of systemic risk caused by an auto loan “bubble” are overblown, such a credit expansion has risked pushing future demand forward. Unless the Federal Reserve maintains its quanti- tative easing policy indefinitely (or expands it to buy asset-backed securities, as the European Central Bank might), it seems unlikely that demand for asset-backed securities will persist, cutting off the macro-level support for expanded auto credit. The broader macro policy debate will also determine whether the US car market will continue to grow: If central bank policies hold steady, car sales will continue to improve. But that per- spective overlooks the potential for secular impacts on new-car demand. Improving car quality and changing consumer perspec- tives on auto ownership (specifically, urbanisation and the rise of smartphones and car-sharing apps) may exert downward pressure on US car sales. And while the average age of a vehicle remains at a high of 11 years, rather than indicating pent-up demand, consumers may simply be realising that quality improvements allow them to keep their cars longer. Additionally, the raging success of car sales over the last five years has rebuilt the stocks (and lowered the price) of used cars, once again making them viable alternatives. In short, secular pressures indicate that the new-car market could well be facing downside risk unless central bank policies remain aggressive. It’s also worth noting that this risk may not affect all automakers equally. Due to extreme exposure to the US market, Detroit’s Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — are most likely to be affected by a slowdown, especially if weakened credit markets prevent consumers from upgrading to the trucks and SUVs the companies rely on for prof- its. Moreover, relatively weak brands such as Dodge and Cadillac have already seen sales decline through the first three quarters of 2014 over a year earlier. As slowing volume ramps up the competition, expect marginal players to feel the squeeze the most. How and when the US market reaches maturity may be up for debate, but there’s no question that the days are over when ris- ing global demand lifted all players. The next several years will see intensifying competition and huge expenditures by the major players, who hope to gain some room for growth by knocking out smaller and weaker manufacturers. Anyone hoping to survive the coming endgame will have to fight for every sale going forward. 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We really need to learn the moral economy of debt

BY ROBERT SKIDELSKY debt market that enables rolling The United States debt-ceiling Greece, Portugal, and Cyprus expected to set aside annual precision and an unyielding jubilee to buy debt so cheaply. crisis of 2011 was a stage in the had to restructure their sov- “sinking funds” for repayment. approach to debt obligations are very economic collapse Financial institutions that have ongoing political debate in the ereign debt to avoid outright Morality, however, has not been the rule, conflict and penury soon brings a demand for come to doubt their borrow- United States Congress about the default. Rising debt/GDP ratios entirely on the side of the credi- follow. debt forgiveness. The ers’ ability to repay sell the debt appropriate level of government cast a pall over fiscal policy, and tor. In New Testament Greek, In an effort to stem recurrent Eincomes needed to repay to third parties at knockdown spending and its consequential became the main justification for debt means “sin”. But, though it debt crises, traditional societies loans have evaporated, and assets prices, often for as little as five impact on the national debt and austerity policies that prolonged might be sinful to go into debt, embraced the “law of jubilee”, posted as collateral have lost cents on the dollar. deficit. the slump. Matthew 6:12 supports absolu- a ceremonial wiping clean of value. Creditors demand their Buyers then attempt to profit Indeed, throughout the world, None of this is new. Creditor- tion: “Forgive us our debts, as we the slate. “The law of jubilee,” pound of flesh; debtors clamour by recouping some or all of the the economic downturn of 2008- debtor conflict has been the stuff also have forgiven our debtors.” writes Graeber, “stipulated that for relief. debt from the borrowers. The US 09 increased the burden of pri- of politics since Babylonian times. Widespread social resistance all debts be automatically can- Consider Strike Debt, an off- student loan provider, Sallie Mae, vate and public debt – to the point Orthodoxy has always upheld to creditors’ claims on debtors’ celled in the Sabbath year (that shoot of the Occupy movement, sells repackaged debt for as little that the public-private distinction the sacred rights of the creditor; property for non-payment has is, after seven years had passed), which calls itself “a nationwide as 15 cents on the dollar. became blurred. political necessity has frequently meant that foreclosure has rarely and that all who languished in movement of debt resisters fight- To draw attention to the often- In a recent speech in Chicago, demanded relief for the debtor. been carried to extremes. bondage owing to such debts ing for economic justice and dem- nefarious practices of debt col- Irish president Michael D Which side wins in any situ- The position of debtors was would be released.” ocratic freedom”. lectors, rolling jubilee recently Higgins explained how private ation depends on the extent of further strengthened by the The rolling jubilee is a timely Its website argues that “with cancelled student debt for 2,761 debt became sovereign debt. He debtor distress and the strength prohibition of usury – charging reminder of the continuing rel- stagnant wages, systemic unem- people enrolled at Everest College, said: “As a consequence of the of the opposing creditor-debtor unreasonably high interest on evance of one of the oldest laws ployment, and public service cuts” a for-profit school whose parent need to borrow so as to finance coalitions. money. of social life. people are being forced into debt company, Corinthian Colleges, is current expenditure and, above Morality has always been the Interest-rate caps were abol- The moral of the tale is not, in order to obtain the most basic being sued by the US government all, as a result of the blanket intellectual coin of these conflicts. ished in Britain only in 1835; the as Polonius instructed his son necessities of life, leading them for predatory lending. Everest’s guarantee extended to the main Creditors, asserting their right near-zero central-bank rates Laertes: “Neither a borrower to “surrender (their) futures to loan portfolio was valued at Irish banks’ assets and liabilities, to be repaid in full, historically prevailing since 2009 are a cur- nor a lender be.” Without both, the banks”. almost $3.9m. Ireland’s general government debt have created as many legal and rent example of efforts to protect humanity might still be living in One of Strike Debt’s initia- Rolling jubilee bought it for increased from 25 percent of GDP political obstacles to default as borrowers. caves. tives, rolling jubilee, crowdsources $106,709.48, or about three cents in 2007 to 124 percent in 2013.” possible, insisting on harsh sanc- The truth of the matter, as Rather, we need to limit the funds to buy and extinguish debt, on the dollar. The Irish government’s aim, tions – garnishment of income, David Graeber points out in his supply of, and demand for, credit a process it calls collective refusal. But that is a drop in the ocean. of course, was to save the bank- for example, and, at the extreme, majestic Debt: The First 5,000 to what the economy is capable The group’s progress has been In the US alone, students owe ing system. But the unintended imprisonment or even slavery – Years, is that the creditor-debtor of producing. How to do this and impressive, raising more than more than $1tr, or about 6 per- consequence of the bailout was to for borrowers’ failure to honour relationship embodies no iron law maintain freedom of enterprise is $700,000 and extinguishing debt cent of GDP. And the student shatter confidence in the govern- their debt obligations. of morality; rather, it is a social one of the great unsettled ques- worth almost $18.6m. population is just one of many ment’s solvency. Governments that incurred relationship that always must be tions of political economy. It is the existence of a secondary social groups that lives on debt. In the eurozone, Ireland, debt in costly wars have been negotiated. When quantitative THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Yorkshire ignites overseas interest Steelers rally for in Grand Depart

PARIS: Yorkshire’s success in staging the Tour de France’s Grand Depart this year has win over Texans ignited strong overseas interest in welcoming future editions of cycling’s Blue Riband. NFL: Roethlisberger stars in 30-23 victory After the massive interest stirred up by the northern English county’s participation, Britain has PITTSBURGH: The (three minutes),” Watt said. If we proposed several fresh future Pittsburgh Steelers needed less can stop shooting ourselves in the candidate venues for the Grand than three minutes to score foot I think well be alright.” Depart, among them Manchester, 24 unanswered points in the Pittsburgh’s spark began when Edinburgh and London, scene of second-quarter to help them Roethlisberger lofted a 35-yard the 2007 start. beat the Houston Texans 30-23 pass to Martavis Bryant, who Belgium has suggested Brussels yesterday. made the first catch of his NFL and Antwerp, Germany has put A mixture of trick plays career to pull the Steelers to forward Mannheim. Barcelona is and improbable bounces jolted 13-10. the suggestion from Spain while Pittsburgh from a 13-0 deficit to a On the Texans’ next posses- Italy, which has never hosted the 24-13 lead in a span of 2:54, which sion, Foster fumbled to give the Tour, is backing Venice as a can- erased an ugly start for the home home side the ball at the Houston didate for the honour. side, who had been initially booed three-yard line. Tour organiser Christian by their own fans. Pittsburgh then capitalised Prudhomme has previously said “We fought through some with a play that saw Brown take the Tour de France start must be adversity,” Pittsburgh quarter a hand-off, reverse the field and a “natural” affair - “we have to be Ben Roethlisberger told report- throw a touchdown pass to Lance able to return to France in 3-4 ers after he threw for 265 yards Houston Texans head coach Bill Moore. days so there’s no break”. and two touchdowns. O’Brien covers his mouth as he On Houston’s next play from Next year’s race sets off from “You dont expect to score that talks into his headset in the first scrimmage, defensive end Brett the Dutch city of Utrecht for many points that fast. It was Keisel tipped a pass from QB what will be the event’s 21st over- quarter against the Pittsburgh crazy.” Ryan Fitzpatrick and intercepted seas start. Steelers at Heinz Field in Wide receiver Antonio Brown it after it ricocheted off Foster. Details of the 102nd Tour are also threw for a surprise touch- Pittsburgh yesterday. It resulted in a two-yard scoring due to be unveiled in Paris on down while Le’Veon Bell added connection from Roethlisberger Wednesday, less than nine months 145 total yards and a receiving Pro Bowl defensive lineman to Bell that gave the Steelers their before the July 4, 2015 start, the score. JJ Watt dominated early for the 24-13 halftime cushion. sixth time the Tour has begun in Arian Foster rushed for 102 Texans with a sack and a fum- Shaun Suisham kicked two of the Netherlands. yards and had a receiving touch- ble recovery, but his team never his three field goals in the sec- A Pittsburgh Steelers’ fan holds up the teams logo during the third The only confirmed details for down for Houston but also had a recovered from Pittsburgh’s sec- ond half to put the Steelers ahead quarter of the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-23 win over the Houston Texans next year’s renewal are the two costly fumble as the Texans were ond-quarter outburst. 30-16 with about three minutes at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh yesterday. opening days action in Holland. plagued by three turnovers. “We can’t allow 24 points in left. AFP AFP NHL: Edmonton Oilers stun Tampa Bay Lightning

NEW YORK: The Edmonton the Lightning jumped on top for the Lightning. Meanwhile the great concern to our organiza- Tampa Bay Oilers picked up their first win when a centering pass banked Los Angeles Kings defenseman tion,” the Kings said in a state- Lightning of the young NHL season when in off Oilers defenseman Justin Slava Voynov was suspended indef- ment. “We support the NHL’s they upset the visiting Tampa Schultz’s skate at 1:22 of the sec- initely by the National Hockey decision to suspend Slava Voynov right wing Bay Lightning. ond period and the goal credited League following his arrest early indefinitely during this proc- Ryan Tampa Bay right winger Brett to Tampa Bay center Bill Boyle. Monday on charges of domestic ess, and we will continue to take Callahan (24) Connolly had tied it 2-2 with six Edmonton responded three violence, the league said. appropriate action as the legal battles for minutes left in regulation, but minutes later when a Schultz Voynov, 24, will be paid during proceedings and the investigation the puck with center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins backhander that was headed wide the suspension but will be barred by the NHL take their course.” Edmonton secured the victory, in the Oilers’ banked in off the knob of goal- from all club activities pending a Voynov is in the second year Oilers left sixth game of the season, when tender Ben Bishop’s stick. formal investigation, the NHL said. of a six-year, $25m contract deal wing Taylor he put one in off the post with The Oilers took their first lead It was not immediately clear that pays him $4.16m annually. Hall (4) dur- 3:25 to go. of the game at 14:57 of the second what prompted Voynov’s arrest, The Russian, who has spent his ing the first Oilers goaltender Ben Scrivens when Fayne sent Taylor Hall in on and the league in its statement entire four-year career with period of (22 saves) and defensive pair of a breakaway. The left winger was gave no other details about the the Kings, had two assists in six their game at Mark Fayne and Martin Marincin hauled down from behind, but he incident. Representatives for games this season. Rexall Place kept the NHL’s hottest goal scored with a backhand deke on the team and the league did not Voynov’s suspension was in line yesterday. scorer, center Steve Stamkos, the ensuing penalty shot for his immediately respond to requests with the league’s labor agreement, without a point. fourth goal in five games. for comment. the league said in its statement. After a scoreless first period, Bishop finished with 20 saves “These developments are of AGENCIES

Gulf Basketball Cup winners get heroes welcome

The players and officials of Qatar basketball team, winners of the Gulf Basketball Cup pose for a picture with Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) President Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and other QBF officials on their arrival in Doha yesterday. Qatar won the top honours in the regional championship registering five wins in a row in Dammam, Saudi Arabia on Monday. Kuwait finished second while Bahrain ended third. WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Umm Salal stun Al Arabi, big win for Al Gharafa QSL: Abdulgadir nets match winner for Umm Salal

DOHA: Umm Salal’s Abdulgadir Ilyas Adam scored the lone goal of the match to give his team a stunning 1-0 win over Al Arabi in the eight round match of the Qatar Stars League here yesterday. At Arabi Stadium, Abdulgadir found the net in the 22 minute. Umm Salal now have 11 points from eight matches while Al Arabi have Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark reacts after defeating Maria Sharapova 12 points. of Russia during the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) finals in In the other match yester- Singapore yesterday. day, Al Gharafa trounced Al Shahaniya, the newcomers to the QSL, 3-0. Lopez gave the lead in the 14th minute and 18 minutes later Nene made it 2-0. Fodhayli Wozniacki outlasts scored the third one at the stroke of half time for the winners. Al Gharafa tally 14 points from eight matches. THE PENINSULA erratic Sharapova; QSL Results & Fixtures Results Radwanska wins Umm Salal bt Al Arabi 1-0 Al Gharafa bt Al Shahaniya 3-0 SINGAPORE: Caroline offending lamps. Today’s Fixtures Wozniacki put a huge dent in Having blown a chance to serve Al Sadd vs Al Sailiya, Al Sadd Stadium, 5.30pm Maria Sharapova’s bid to fin- out the match at 5-3, she was Al Shamal vs Qatar SC, Al Shamal Stadium, 5.30pm ish the season as world number raging at the umpire again after Lekhwiya vs Wakra at Lekhwiya Stadium, 5.30pm one by overcoming some dis- being the victim of a poor line call El Jaish vs Al Khor at Lekhwiya Stadium, 7.45pm tracting bright lights to out- and with no challenges left in the last the Russian 7-6(4), 6-7(5), bank. Al Ahli vs Al Kharaitiyat at Arabi Stadium, 7.45pm 6-2 in their marathon opening She regained focus, though, to group match at the WTA Finals force a tiebreak, but fell behind yesterday. early and Sharapova claimed it Following the tense three 7-5 on her second set point. hour 13 minute affair, Poland’s The service breaks and wild Agnieszka Radwanska claimed shots continued early in the third a 6-2, 6-3 win over Wimbledon before a tired-looking Sharapova champion Petra Kvitova to join folded as the match went into a Wozniacki at the top of the White third hour. Group standings. Wozniacki broke to go 5-2 up The Dane had taken advan- before another misfired back- Umm Salal goalkeeper tage of Li Na’s retirement to hand from Sharapova went long Baba Malick makes a grab the final qualifying spot in to complete the win. save against Al Arabi in the eight-woman field but it was “In the third set I feel I stepped their Qatar Stars League world number two Sharapova who it up a little bit, went a bit more (QSL) match at Al Arabi looked the outsider on Singapore’s for my shots, I am happy to have Stadium yesterday. purple hardcourt, as some stun- won,” a beaming Wozniacki said. TOP: Umm Salal players ning winners were lost in a wave “Just a lot more unforced celebrate a goal against of 76 unforced errors. errors than she did,” Sharapova Al Arabi. Umm Salal The third game of a grip- acknowledged. ping match encapsulated the Sharapova, who won the won 1-0. night for French Open cham- season-ending tournament in pion Sharapova -- three perfect 2004 after losing a group stage PICTURES BY: forehand winners to go 0-40 up game, can still finish the year BAHER AMIN on Wozniacki’s serve, before she as number one but must make blasted balls wide or long to let it through to Sunday’s final to the Dane off the hook and hold stand any hope of overhauling for a 3-0 lead. Serena Williams, who began Sharapova, whose previous her Red Group campaign with match was a victory over Kvitova a straight sets win over Ana in the final of the Beijing Open Ivanovic on Monday. earlier this month, found her Radwanska had a similarly feet and range and fought back straightforward opening encoun- to lead, before she creaked under ter, with Kvitova all at sea in their the pressure with two more dou- night match that finished at 0100 ble faults and was broken when local time. serving for the set at 5-4. The Pole looked back on form It went to a tiebreaker, which after a recent spell of early tour- Sharapova led 4-2, but once nament exits, mixing up her spins again she collapsed at the cru- and lengths to move Kvitova all Blind’s late leveller rescues cial moment, allowing the Dane around the court, as she took the to storm back with the next four last four games of the opening set, points, before the Russian offered which she won 6-2. another double fault to gift-wrap The Czech left-hander racked the set 7-4. up 42 unforced errors as she draw for Manchester United Pumped up, Wozniacki broke pushed for the lines to try and in the first game of the second find a hole in Radwanska’s WEST BROMWICH, United by Albion goalkeeper Boaz Myhill. set but lost the advantage in the supreme court coverage. Kingdom: Daley Blind rescued In the absence of the suspended sixth game after becoming both- Kvitova finally found a way to spluttering Manchester United Wayne Rooney, United lacked a ered by a light issue in the Indoor break serve to go 3-2 up in the with a dramatic late equaliser spark in central areas with Juan Stadium. second set, but any hope of a in Monday’s 2-2 draw against Mata and Ander Herrera both A flashing bulb stopped one recovery was quickly extinguished West Bromwich Albion at the not at their best. point, with the Dane then by the world number six, who Hawthorns. Di Maria was more dynamic unhappy about some new lights stormed through with another Albion had twice led through and the former Real Madrid mid- coming on and demanding the four-game burst to seal victory. Stephane Sessegnon and Saido fielder forced a smart save from chair umpire switch off the REUTERS Berahino, but United avoided an Myhill with a long-range effort. embarrassing defeat as substi- Fellaini came on at half-time WTA Finals Results tute Marouane Fellaini equalised as van Gaal looked to spark his SINGAPORE: Results from the season-ending WTA Final in Singapore yesterday (x denotes seeding): with his first United goal before team into life. White Group Blind scored the second leveller in It proved an inspired move the 87th minute to ensure Louis as the Belgium midfielder Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x8) bt Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 van Gaal’s side stretched their required just three minutes to Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x6) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE x3) 6-2, 6-3 unbeaten run to three matches. make an impact, controlling a Valencia Open Results United’s erratic display was Di Maria cross before bursting VALENCIA, Spain: Results from day two of the ATP Valencia Open on Tuesday (x denotes seeding): another reminder to van Gaal past Joleon Lescott and driving First Round that his team remain very much a rising shot beyond Myhill at Manchester United’s Daley Blind (right) celebrates his goal during the Tommy Robredo (ESP) bt John Isner (USA x5) 7-6 (7/3), 6-3 a work in progress. his near post. English Premier League football match against West Bromwich Albion Dusan Lajovic (SRB) bt Joao Sousa (POR) 6-3, 7-6 (10/8) They are without an away It left the Baggies’ media Feliciano Lopez (ESP x4) bt Norbert Gombos (SVK) 6-4, 6-4 league win this season, suggesting FC at The Hawthorns Stadium in Birmingham, Britain on Monday night. department red faced after min- Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) bt Gilles Simon (FRA x8) 6-0, 6-3 they are a long way from rivalling utes earlier their official account Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN) 6-2, 6-1 Manchester City and Chelsea for of their previous three league to charge from his own half deep had tweeted: “Fellaini has now the title this term. matches, with Sessegnon almost into United territory. taken his tracksuit off, fortu- Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 United sit sixth in the Premier sending Berahino clean through Wisdom’s clever cut-back was nately he has a Man Utd strip on Kevin Anderson (RSA x7) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-3, 6-4 League table - already 10 adrift with a threaded pass after five met with a wonderfully whipped underneath”. Fabio Fognini (ITA) bt Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) 6-4, 6-2 of leaders Chelsea and just three minutes. first-time effort from the edge The former Everton star, who ATP Swiss Indoors Results ahead of the Baggies, who were And the home side had to wait of the area from the former has struggled for much of his BASEL: Results on the second day of the Swiss Indoors yesterday (x denotes seeded player): excellent value for their point fol- just another three minutes to Sunderland man which flew inside time at United, looked poised First Round lowing a display which provided take the lead courtesy of a stun- the right upright. to double the hosts’ misery as Milos Raonic (CAN x4) bt Steve Johnson (USA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 further evidence they are pro- ning strike from Sessegnon. United responded with a bril- he bore down on a teasing cross Ivo Karlovic (CRO x8) bt Lukas Rosol (CZE) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 gressing under head coach Alan Van Gaal is unlikely to have liant probing ball from Angel Di from Adnan Januzaj, however Kenny De Schepper (FRA) bt Federico Delbonis (ARG) 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 Irvine. been too impressed with Luke Maria finding Robin van Persie on Craig Dawson came to West Albion began with the confi- Shaw’s defending as the England the edge of the six-yard area, yet Brom’s rescue with a last-ditch Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 6-4 dence of a side who had won two left-back allowed Andre Wisdom his first-time effort was blocked headed interception. AFP Benjamin Becker (GER) bt Gastao Elias (POR) 6-3, 6-2 WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Rugby: Wales call up young prop Smith

CARDIFF, United Kingdom: Halfpenny, Jonathan Davies, glimmer of hope to both Jones and Wales Head Coach Warren Jamie Roberts, Mike Phillips, Hook for a possible Six Nations Gatland yesterday named a well- Luke Charteris and Dan Lydiate return early next year. The Wales tested 34-man squad to contest also taking their places, as squad for the November Test the four-match November Test expected. series against Australia, Fiji, New series with 20-year-old Ospreys Others to miss out, though, Zealand and South Africa: prop Nicky Smith the only include fleet-footed Ospreys Forwards uncapped player involved. wing Eli Walker, Cardiff Blues Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), A total of 12 players return to hooker Matthew Rees and his Paul James (Bath Rugby), Nicky international duty after missing Blues colleague, fly-half Rhys Smith (Ospreys), Richard the summer tour to South Africa, Patchell. Hibbard (Gloucester Rugby), but there was no place for either “We are really happy with the Emyr Phillips (Scarlets), Scott veteran prop Adam Jones or fly- squad,” Gatland said. Baldwin (Ospreys), Aaron Jarvis half James Hook. “There is a lot of experience (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), The pair have more than 170 that has come back in, 12 play- Rhodri Jones (Scarlets), Alun caps between them with 95 going ers who were injured in the sum- Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Jake A view of the new West End Park Cricket Stadium from the stands as curator prepares the pitch for the Twenty20 to 33-year-old Jones who joined mer and didn’t tour South Africa. Ball (Scarlets), Bradley Davies fixture between the World XI and Asia XI teams in this September 2014 file picture. The venue will be one of Cardiff Blues from the Ospreys They are back and fit and we have (Wasps), Luke Charteris (Racing the two stadiums which will host the ACC Under-16 Cricket Tournament which begins today. earlier this year. a couple of exciting youngsters as Metro), Dan Lydiate (Racing Hook, 29, who has played in well. Metro), James King (Ospreys), a number of positions behind “Nicky Smith has been playing Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, the scrum for his country also exceptionally well for the Ospreys. CAPT), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), failed to make Gatland’s cut for We have been impressed with him Dan Baker (Ospreys), Taulupe a demanding series of games less and it’s a great opportunity. Faletau (Dragons). than a year out from the Rugby “When you look through the Backs: ACC U-16 tourney World Cup. squad there is a huge amount of Mike Phillips (Racing Metro), Wales go up against Australia, experience. “We’ve taken a lot Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Rhodri Fiji, New Zealand and South of things into account and made Williams (Scarlets), Dan Biggar Africa. on successive weekends some tough decisions. (Ospreys), Rhys Priestland in Cardiff. “We’ve had to weigh up a (Scarlets), Cory Allen (Cardiff Newcomer Smith is among balance of players who play in Blues), James Roberts (Racing kicks off today six props named in the squad Wales and outside, due to how Metro), Jonathan Davies (ASM - Gethin Jenkins, Paul James, often they can train and are Clermont Auvergne), Scott Samson Lee, Aaron Jarvis and with us, but we are really happy Williams (Scarlets), Hallam Rhodri Jones are the others - with the squad. Amos (Dragons), Alex Cuthbert Hosts Qatar take on Iran in opener with Hook’s versatility not enough “We are looking to the future (Cardiff Blues), George North to catch Gatland’s eye. and the next 12 months ahead (Northampton Saints), Tom There is a recall for Wasps lock with this squad, but it doesn’t Prydie (Dragons), Leigh DOHA: Hosts Qatar will take Bradley Davies, who has been in close the door for anyone not Halfpenny (Toulon), Liam on Iran in the opening match ACC U-16 Elite Cup Fixtures outstanding form this season, selected.” Williams (Scarlets). of the Asian Cricket Council with France-based players Leigh That final comment will give a REUTERS (ACC) Under-16 tournament Date Time Venue Teams which begins here today. 22/10/14 9.00am WEP Stadium Iran vs Qatar The match will be played at 23/10/14 9.40am MIC Ground Afghanistan vs Iran West End Park Stadium, one of 3.00pm WEP Stadium Kuwait vs Hong Kong Registration the two venues for the seven-day 24/10/14 9.40am MIC Ground Hong Kong vs Qatar tournament. Matches will also be 3.00pm WEP Stadium Afghanistan vs Kuwait played at Mesaieed Industrial City open for second (MIC) Ground. 26/10/14 9.40am MIC Ground Kuwait vs Iran The other three teams in 3.00pm WEP Stadium Afghanistan vs Qatar Schoolboys vie Standard the five-nation championship 27/10/14 9.40am MIC Ground Qatar vs Kuwait for ball posses- are Kuwait, Hong Kong and 3.00pm WEP Stadium Iran vs Hong Kong sion during the Chartered race Afghanistan. 28/10/14 9.40am WEP Stadium Hong Kong vs Afghanistan School Olympic This is the second major cham- Program (SOP) pionship being hosted by Qatar this month during the EID holi- “We are planning more cricket inter-school foot- DOHA: Standard Chartered Cricket Association. days with West End Park hosting events at the West End Park ball match at Al Bank has announced the sec- In January, West End Park an Eid Twenty20 Festival fixture Stadium in the coming season. ond 10k race in partnership Sadd Stadium on Cricket Stadium played host to between the World XI and Asia Hopefully, we will host big cricket with Aspire Zone on December Monday. Pakistan Cricket Board women’s XI sides. events this season. After the ACC 13. triangular ODI and Twenty20 Some of the former greats like event, we will also announce to Following the success of 2013 series involving South Africa, Brain Lara and Sanath Jayasuriya hold further tournaments,” West with the first race organised by Pakistan and Ireland. were on hand to entertain the End Park Chairman, Mana Standard Chartered and Aspire Cricket fans in Qatar saw more crowd of 10,000 fans who patron- Ibrahim Al Mana had said earlier. Zone, in which over 720 runners cricket action at the beginning of ised the match. THE PENINSULA participated, this year too will have the event held at the Aspire Zone. The race is an AIMS measured Qatar Shooting and Archery Cup podium winners accurate 10K race for all abilities around the grounds of Aspire on a fast and flat course. Given Standard Chartered’s expertise with races and mara- thons in several countries and the positive response to the race last year, this event is again expected to draw keen participation from both professional and leisure run- ners from Qatar and across the region. There will be two official race categories; a 10k and a 3k fun run with registration fees at QAR 175/- for adults and QAR 90/- for the children’s fun run. Alongside the official distances, the event will include another race category, ‘The Leaders’ Run’, of 1km. Registration for the Standard Chartered 10K race is avail- able online only on Standard Chartered’s website https:// www.sc.com/qa/en/ or at http:// www.premieronline.com/event/ The podium winners in different categories of the Qatar Shooting and Archery Cup pose for a picture at Losail Shooting Range with officials of Qatar Shooting and Archery Association Standard_Chartered_Aspire_ yesterday. Doha_10K_Race_3K_Fun_ Run_1147. Charles Carlson, CEO Standard Chartered Qatar com- mented, “Standard Chartered is already a title sponsor of nine marathons across four conti- nents. Besides marathons, the Bank has organised races on a smaller scale that have been well received and highly antic- ipated. We want to bring the running community of Qatar together in a similar way and encourage health and sport in the country.” “These events have also allowed Standard Chartered to simulta- neously raise awareness about Seeing is Believing, the Bank’s global sustainability programme to help tackle avoidable blind- ness. Any money made from these events after expenses go directly to the charity which is thereafter matched by the Bank,” added the Standard Chartered official here yesterday. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Russia on track for World City in trouble after CSKA Cup, say FIFA inspectors

MOSCOW: FIFA has said it is happy with the progress being draw, Barcelona rout Ajax made by hosts Russia ahead of the 2018 World Cup after the governing body’s inspection Chelsea, Bayern claim huge victories, PSG edge APOEL Nicosia 1-0 committee carried out its first official visit. “As we heard today, everything MOSCOW: Manchester City is going according to plan, which face a massive task to qualify Champions is great news for everyone,” said from Champions League Group committee head Chris Unger, E after letting slip a two-goal League Results whose delegation has visited sta- lead to draw 2-2 with CSKA diums in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Moscow yesterday. CSKA Moscow 2 draw with Man City 2-2 Sochi and two arenas in Moscow. The Premier League champi- Bayern Munich bt AS Roma 7-1 Construction work around ons desperately needed a win in Barcelona bt Ajax 3-1 Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow after an opening defeat Paris Saint-Germain bt APOEL Nicosia 1-0 which will host the World Cup to Bayern Munich and a draw Chelsea bt Maribor 6-0 final, meant that delegates could with AS Roma, and they were only view the arena from the Schalke 04 bt Sporting Lisbon 4-3 coasting to victory with first- outside. half goals from Sergio Aguero and Shakhtar Donetsk bt BATE Borisov 7-0 Work is continuing around James Milner. FC Porto bt Athletic Bilbao 2-1 the clock at the stadium and But CSKA got one back after its surrounding area, which will the break via substitute Seydou Kompany blocking Georgi provide a tournament hub and Doumbia, with Bebras Natcho Milanov’s effort. FIFA’s main office, to ensure eve- equalising with a spot-kick with But it was City who deserv- rything is completed in time for four minutes remaining. edly took refuge from the freez- the Confederations Cup in 2017. The game was played out in ing temperatures at the break two According to Russia 2018 CEO sub-zero temperatures in an goals to the good. Alexey Sorokin, the majority of eerily empty Arena Khimki with As the snow began to fall ten- discussions with the FIFA officials CSKA serving a stadium ban as tatively, the irrepressible Aguero have been office-based, with the punishment for various offences – scorer of all four goals in the inspection due to end tomorrow. including racist chanting. 4-1 defeat of Tottenham – put the He said one of the main topics Frank Lampard was ruled out visitors into a 29th-minute lead. had been how to “maximise the for City after injuring his thigh Edin Dzeko ran onto David space around the stadiums”. The in the win against Tottenham Silva’s pass and charged at CSKA remaining three days of the visit Hotspur on Saturday, one of ‘keeper Igor Akinfeev before would be spent looking at plans five changes made by manager unselfishly squaring to Aguero for stadiums not yet constructed. Manuel Pellegrini. on his right for the Argentine “Everything is going accord- CSKA tested England goal- striker to slot home and settle ing to plan and on the whole, the keeper Joe Hart with two early City’s nerves. The referee gives penalty to Manchester City during their UEFA Champions League Group E match against FIFA delegation have been pleas- shots from forward Ahmed Musa Nine minutes later Yaya Toure CSKA Moscow at Arena Khimki Stadium in Moscow, yesterday. antly surprised with what they and Zoran Tosic, with Vincent floated a pass over the CSKA have seen,” he said. The committee was impressed defence to Pablo Zabaleta who Meanwhile, Neymar and Lionel once from the spot - and an own with the Kazan Arena, which held Barcelona’s nodded the ball back to Aguero. Messi maintained their lethal goal. the World Student Games in 2013. Argentinian For once City’s all-time Premier partnership with a goal apiece as A ruthless Bayern Munich “My first impression: this forward Lionel league top scorer failed to find the Barcelona swept aside Ajax 3-1 in scored five goals in the first 35 is an excellent venue,” Unger Messi (right) is target, but Milner was on hand at Champions League Group F. minutes on their way to an aston- said, before adding that the the far post to slide the ball over The Argentine was the pro- ishing 7-1 win over AS Roma. ‘Fischt’ Arena in Sochi, used for congratulated Afinkeev’s line. vider, slipping the ball through for Arjen Robben scored twice, the Winter Olympic Games in by his team- City could have had a third Neymar to hit the opener with while Mario Goetze, Robert February, “needs some adapta- mate Brazilian seconds later when Milner hit a clinical finish into the corner Lewandowski and Thomas tion for hosting the World Cup”. forward the post and then had a penalty after seven minutes, the he struck Mueller, from a penalty, also The work in Sochi, however, Neymar da shout turned down by referee midway through the half to put chipped in before halftime. pails in comparison to that Silva Santos Istvan Vad after being clattered the hosts in control. Meanwhile, Paris St Germain’s required to get St. Petersburg’s Junior after by a CSKA player. At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Edinson Cavani made up for the stadium up and running. scoring a In the 65th minute a finely- crushed Maribor 6-0 in a pre- absence of talismanic frontman The arena in Russia’s second goal during worked move did put them firmly dictably one-sided Champions Zlatan Ibrahimovic by netting city has been hit by numerous their match back in the match.In a bid to League Group G matchthat saw in the 87th minute to give the delays and costs have escalated against Ajax regain the initiative, Pellegrini Jose Mourinho’s side stretch their French side a 1-0 win over APOEL in excess of the 934m euros($1.19 Amsterdam replaced Dzeko with Jesus Navas unbeaten run from the start of Nicosia in the Champions League bn), according to official docu- at the Camp with 20 minutes remaining, but in the season to 12 matches. on Tuesday. The Uruguayan had ments, agreed with FIFA. Nou Stadium a hugely disappointing finish for Veterans Didier Drogba, 36, toiled all night and appeared to Russia’s Sports Minister, Vitaly in Barcelona, City, the Russians levelled from who scored a penalty, and skipper be carrying a knock but was on Mutko, said last month the arena, yesterday. the spot after Aleksandar Kolarov John Terry, 33, were both on the hand to give the French side win which will accommodate 68,000 brought down Doumbia, with scoresheet along with Loic Remy, that kept them top of Group F on spectators, will be completed by Natcho converting the penalty. Eden Hazard - who scored twice, seven points. AGENCIES the summer of 2016. REUTERS

Arsenal’s injuries offer hope to Real Madrid’s Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo Anderlecht in Group D clash gestures in the rain during BRUSSELS: If Anderlecht are Despite the injuries, midfielder training for the to have any realistic chance of Champions League Mathieu Flamini said there are forthcoming prolonging their involvement in no excuses for a moderate start to UEFA the Champions League beyond Matches Today the season. While failure to reach Champions the group stage, a home win over the knockout rounds for the 12th League, group Arsenal today is paramount. consecutive season would repre- B football Atletico Madrid (Spain) vs Malmo (Sweden) The Belgium side are joint bot- sent failure for Arsenal, getting (1845); Olympiakos Piraeus (Greece) vs match against tom of Group D with one point there would be a massive achieve- Juventus (Italy) (1845); Liverpool (England) Liverpool from their opening two games, vs Real Madrid (Spain) (1845); Ludogorets ment for Anderlecht. at Anfield, two points behind Arsenal and (Bulgaria) vs Basel (Switzerland) (1845); Since 2000-01 when they in Liverpool five behind leaders Borussia Monaco (France) vs Benfica (Portugal) reached the now defunct sec- yesterday. Dortmund. (1845) Bayer Leverkusen (Germany) vs Zenit ond group stage, they have fin- Arsenal are not firing on all St Petersburg (Russia) (1845); Anderlecht ished bottom of their group seven cylinders, however, and Saturday’s (Belgium) vs Arsenal (England) (1845); times, including last season when 2-2 home draw with Hull City left Galatasaray (Turkey) vs Borussia Dortmund they managed a solitary point. Arsene Wenger’s side 11 points off (Germany) (1845) They also have failed to win the pace in the Premier League. any of their last 10 Champions Liverpool expect fans to raise The London club are still for- Theo Walcott is on the verge League matches and were held midable opponents, but if ever of a return after a long-standing 1-1 at Mechelen on Sunday, their there was a good time to face the knee injury while Aaron Ramsey fifth draw in 11 Belgium league Gunners it might be when they (hamstring) and Jack Wilshere matches this season. the roof for Real visit at Anfield are stretched with record sign- (knee) are slight doubts but Arsenal have also drawn five ing Mesut Ozil, Olivier Giroud should be available. of their opening eight in the LONDON: Liverpool will expect they have played for the last five years into becoming a goal-scorer and Mathieu Debuchy injured Reserve keeper David Ospina Premier League and Wenger was their noisy fans to recreate the to 10 years,” he told the club web- has been incredible,” said the and first-choice keeper Wojciech is also injured so third-choice in a tetchy mood after two more special Anfield atmosphere that site www.liverpoolfc.com. former Swansea City boss. Szczesny suspended after his red Emiliano Martinez is expected points were dropped against Hull has helped them become kings “What’s great for us is that “Real have everything, a lot of card against Galatasaray. to start for Arsenal. at the weekend. REUTERS of Europe five times when they we’re playing at home. We have experience, top players, speed and take on Champions League win- a great crowd and this is a team technique.” ners Real Madrid today. that can rise to the level. Ancelotti’s men have hit form Brendan Rodgers’s team, third “Real Madrid, as the champi- in La Liga with five straight vic- in Group B with three points ons, are an exceptionally good side tories but they look likely to be Arsenal’s French from two matches, have not yet but we’ll be ready.” without forward Gareth Bale who manager Arsene shown the swagger that swept Liverpool’s shortcomings has a buttock muscle strain. Wenger (left) attends them to second place in the were all too evident against Defender Alvaro Arbeloa, who training at their Premier League last season and QPR and with striker Daniel spent two and a half seasons with London Colney facility they laboured to a 3-2 win at bot- Sturridge missing with a calf Liverpool, is looking forward to in Hertfordshire, tom club Queens Park Rangers injury and Mario Balotelli short returning to his former club. yesterday ahead of on Sunday. of confidence, breaking down “It will be a great experience their forthcoming Liverpool, though, have won Carlo Ancelotti’s side could be a for me but I have also told my UEFA Champions all three previous games against problem. team mates to enjoy the match League Group D Real in Europe’s elite competition Real have no such issues up at Anfield as much as possible,” football match against and manager Rodgers is confident front and with Cristiano Ronaldo the Spaniard told reporters. RSC Anderlecht in his players will give the 10-times bagging 15 goals in eight La Liga Real top Group B having Belgium today. champions a run for their money matches, Rodgers is well aware already beaten Swiss club Basel in front of a typically raucous of the challenges Liverpool face. and Ludogorets of Bulgaria. “We home crowd. “He is an amazing player and are doing very well and are on “Real are playing as well as his evolution over the past few track,” Arbeloa said. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 De Villiers guides Proteas to win over Kiwis in first ODI South Africa captain scores an unbeaten 89 runs in six-wicket victory

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New The three-match series is Zealand: South Africa cruised essentially a World Cup warm- to a six-wicket win over New up for both sides as New Zealand Zealand in the first One Day prepares to co-host the tourna- Australian batsman Shane Watson International (ODI) at Mount ment next year. speaks to reporters at the Sydney Maunganui yesterday, guided However, South Africa could Cricket Ground (SCG) on Monday. home by a captain’s knock from also overtake Australia as the AB de Villiers. world’s top ranked ODI team if The Proteas ended their run they complete a 3-0 whitewash South Africa’s chase at 236-4 in 48.1 overs, eas- over the Black Caps, who are Watson says ily overhauling the 231 target New ranked seventh. AB de Villiers Zealand set after losing the toss De Villiers said he was pleased bats during the and being sent in to bat. with the side’s performance, first ODI against best years De Villiers top-scored for South aside from his bowlers’ failure to New Zealand Africa with 89, ably supported by snuff out the dogged resistance of played at the Bay JP Duminy (58), who combined Ronchi and Boult. Oval in Mount ahead of him with his skipper for a 139-run “We’ve got to finish big games Maunganui MELBOURNE: Neverending partnership when the Proteas of cricket, especially big games of yesterday. injury concerns and a string of were looking wobbly at 97-4. cricket coming up, I’m thinking promising all-rounders in the Wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi’s of World Cups and must wins,” wings have not dulled Shane gritty 99 was the standout per- he said. Watson’s optimism of playing a formance for the Black Caps but “In the World Cup, if you get leading role for Australia across he had little support apart from teams to nine down you have to all formats of cricket. unlikely strike partner Trent finish them off.” As Michael Clarke’s side have Boult, with whom he set a New New Zealand captain Brendon enjoyed success in the Middle Zealand record 10th-wicket stand McCullum said he was pleased at East against Pakistan, Watson of 74. his side’s fightback after losing has spent time rehabilitating an unlucky ankle injury sustained early wickets and the return of innings, only for their 67-run scare when Boult dismissed de after treading on a ball and then Scoreboard veteran all rounder Dan Vettori partnership to end when wicket- Kock and Faf du Plessis cheaply a calf strain. NEW ZEALAND Bowling: Steyn 7.1-1-28-1; Philander 7-1- after 15 months on the sidelines. keeper Quinton de Kock stumped but the rest of the attack strug- The burly 33-year-old was Martin Guptill c de Kock b Philander ...... 5 38-2; Morkel 8-1-39-2; Tahir 10-1-37-2; “There were some fighting Latham after he strayed from his gled for wickets as New Zealand named on Monday in Australia’s Jimmy Neesham c de Kock b Philander ...... 16 McLaren 8-0-59-2; Duminy 5-0-22-1. qualities there but unfortunately crease pursuing a shot. attempted to defend a modest 13-man squad for three T20 Dean Brownlie c de Kock b Tahir ...... 24 SOUTH AFRICA the class of AB and JP towards Ronchi continued to run out total. matches against South Africa Brendon McCullum c Tahir b Morkel ...... 16 Quinton de Kock c Latham b Boult ...... 9 the end meant we couldn’t win,” of partners and New Zealand Renee Roussouw (26) and next month but breaking back Tom Latham st de Kock b Duminy ...... 29 Hashim Amla b Mills ...... 38 he said. slumped to 156-9, with not much Hashim Amla (38) kept the runs into the test side may prove a Corey Anderson b Morkel ...... 0 Faf du Plessis c Ronchi b Boult ...... 8 New Zealand, in their first ODI expected when Boult arrived at ticking over but failed to capital- more complex undertaking. Luke Ronchi c de Kock b Steyn ...... 99 Rilee Rossouw c Brownlie b Anderson ...... 26 since January, looked rusty at the the crease boasting a previous ise after making good starts. Youngster Mitchell Marsh is Dan Vettori lbw Tahir ...... 0 A B de Villiers (not out)...... 89 crease. ODI high score of five. De Villiers then lived up to his all but certain to make his test Nathan McCullum c de Kock b McLaren ...... 6 J P Duminy (not out) ...... 58 They opened cautiously after The paceman dug in, even man- ranking as the number one ODI debut against Pakistan in Dubai Kyle Mills c Philander b McLaren ...... 1 Extras (LB3, W4, NB1) ...... 8 losing the toss and being sent aging a six off Morne Morkel, batsman in the world, combining today and the tall 23-year-old has Trent Boult (not out) ...... 21 Total (for 4 wkts in 48.1 overs) ...... 236 in to bat, with Jimmy Neesham before the innings ended with with Duminy to comfortably seal a golden opportunity to make it Extras (LB-7, W-5, NB-1) ...... 13 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-30, 3-73, 4-97. waiting until the third over to South African bowlers Vernon the victory. hard for selectors to dislodge him. Total (all out in 45.1 overs) ...... 230 Bowling: Mills 8.1-0-47-1; Boult 10-2-40-2; score the first boundary. Philander, Morkel, Imran Tahir The next match on Friday Though Watson’s body has Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-35, 3-68, 4-68, 5-68, Vettori 10-0-43-0; N.McCullum 10-0-45-0; The hosts slumped to 68-5 and Ryan McLaren all taking two is also in Mount Maunganui, failed him repeatedly and selec- 6-133, 7-134, 8-145, 9-156, 10-230. Anderson 6-0-31-1; Neesham 4-0-27-0. before Ronchi and Tom Latham wickets apiece. with the series wrapping up in tors are no longer willing to pick (29) set about rebuilding the South Africa received a minor Hamilton on October 27. AFP him on the strength of his batting or bowling alone, his self-belief remains as strong as ever. “I feel like I’ve still got my best Eye on top spot, Aussies fret over selection years in front of me,” Watson told Cricket Australia’s website on Tuesday. DUBAI: Australia are fret- a variety of reasons,” Marsh said. “For everything that I’ve been ting over the composition of “We haven’t even come close to Australian batsman through and learnt in every their final XI as Michael Clarke saying this is what the XI will be.” David Warner aspect of my life – not just the and his men embark on their Alex Doolan’s century in the celebrates his cricket perspective – I feel like journey to reclaim the world practice match against Pakistan century during the I’ve only got my best years in number one ranking in the two- A at Sharjah should secure his Ashes series Test front of me, to be totally honest. Test series against Pakistan number three position but Rogers’ against England, in “Every time I get injured I learn starting today. scores of zero and three has the this December 2013 a little bit more about my body. Australia will have to win both 37-year-old left-hander’s place file photo.Warner is This three-four month break that Tests in Dubai and Abu Dhabi to under scrutiny. I’ve had has just been a perfect doubtful starter for go one point clear of South Africa, Phillip Hughes could be the time to really, really freshen up. the first Test against who displaced them at the top in beneficiary, having cracked a sec- “It’s the most excited I reckon July, but there is still little clarity ond-innings half-century against Pakistan. I’ve ever been to get out there and about the side who would walk out the spinning and reversing ball play cricket, because I feel like I’m for the first match at the Dubai in the match Pakistan A won by only going to get better, and hope- International Cricket Stadium. 153 runs. fully that’s the way it works out.” There is some uncertainty Beset with problems of their Watson’s ability to break back about the opening partnership, own, the biggest being the ban into the test side seemingly at with David Warner recovering on leading spinner Saeed Ajmal leisure after a team-disrupting from a groin injury and Chris for bowling with an illegal action, injury has long been a puzzle for Rogers failing twice in the tour Pakistan coach Waqar Younis many cricket fans. match. believes the tour match has But Watson, who has played Team management, wary of the exposed Australia’s fragility. about half of the possible tests pitch, is also undecided over the “It definitely has given us an since his 2005 debut against make-up of the bowling attack. edge or a boost,” he said. Pakistan, has shown himself a Adding to woes, captain Clarke “They are a fine team, very pro- born survivor and always found is low on match practice as he fessional side and do their things support in the dressing room. returns from a hamstring injury well but we have definitely seen Even captain Clarke, who that ruled him out of the one day some weaknesses and we are has admitted to a sometimes internationals in the leadup. working on it and hopefully we testy relationship with the “Anything is possible, it really will deliver the goods.” Queenslander, has backed him to is,” national selection panel chair- On the positive side for recovering from knee surgery, two specialist spinners – a rar- Australia are likely to blood the play on. man Rod Marsh said on Cricket Australia, paceman Peter Siddle Siddle is set to join England tor- ity for Australia – which would highly-fancied Mitchell Marsh, “If Watto can get himself fit and Australia’s website (www.cricket. has added muscle as well as pace mentor Mitchell Johnson at the hand left-armer Steven O’Keefe a with coach Darren Lehmann healthy he’ll certainly play a lot com.au). to return stronger after being front line of the pace attack. long-awaited test debut alongside determined to have an all-rounder more tests, one-day and Twenty20 “There’s more than one spot to dropped in South Africa earlier More intriguing is the possibil- Nathan Lyon. to provide support for the bowlers cricket for Australia,” Clarke said discuss I can promise you that, for this year. With Ryan Harris still ity that selectors might opt for In Shane Watson’s absence, in the heat of Dubai. REUTERS last month. REUTERS Cheika may become Wallabies coach SYDNEY: Michael Cheika is on agreed to take the Wallabies job”. (the Wallabies)?” Cheika still has a list of options in mind, with the verge of taking charge of the Cheika confirmed he had held a year left on his contract with urgency surrounding a decision Wallabies after the shock resig- discussions with ARU officials but the NSW Waratahs and local since the squad is due to leave for nation of Ewen McKenzie, with stopped short of saying he had reports said he may combine both Europe this week. the Super Rugby-winning coach accepted an offer. jobs. As well as Cheika, whose on Monday confirming he was in “It’s a pretty humbling experi- The ARU had no immediate track record includes winning talks and close to agreement. ence to be asked to be involved comment but in a series of tweets the Heineken Cup with Irish McKenzie dropped his bomb- in something like that (the on their official Twitter feed the side Leinster and the Waratahs’ shell shortly after New Zealand Wallabies’ coaching role) but Wallabies said discussions were maiden Super title earlier this narrowly beat Australia 29-28 in we’ll see what happens,” he told ongoing. year, Springbok World Cup- the final Bledisloe Cup Test in reporters. “The #ARU is still in the proc- winning mentor Jake White has Brisbane on Saturday, throwing “There’s a few things to iron ess of investigating options to also been linked to the job. their upcoming European tour out obviously – the logistics etc, replace Ewen McKenzie, follow- Pulver said that if it proved into chaos. everything being so close, so we’ll ing his resignation last Saturday,” impossible to appoint a new coach The Australian newspaper, see how it goes and work it out it said. in time for the five-match tour A file photo taken on August 2, 2014, shows New South Wales Waratahs citing an “informed source”, said from there.” “At this stage, no prospective against the Barbarians, Wales, coach Michael Cheika (right) with captain Michael Hooper after defeating Cheika met Australian Rugby Asked if he was excited about coaches have been confirmed in France, Ireland and England, an the Canterbury Crusaders in the Super 15 rugby union final in Sydney. Union chief Bill Pulver on Sunday the opportunity, he said: “Who the role.” interim coach would be consid- and again Monday and “had wouldn’t be excited in coaching Pulver said on Sunday he had ered. AFP Wednesday 22 October 2014 28 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 Volume 19 Number 6226 Sport Price: QR2

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The President of the Qatar 2015 Organising Committee H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, along with the President of the IHF, Dr Hasan Mustafa (right front), heads the meeting of the Qatar 2015 Organising Committee delegation and top IHF officials regarding the preparation of next year’s World Handball Championship, earlier this week in Basel, Switzerland. IHF hails Qatar 2015 preparation H E Sheikh Joaan heads World Handball Championship organisers’ team in Swiss meet

DOHA: The President of of the Qatar 2015 Organising 2015 Organising Committee is in January 2015. Al Sadd Sports the Qatar 2015 Organising Committee, in addition to the to provide a legacy for handball Hall has been handed over to the Committee proactively initi- committee heads for Qatar 2015. and the IHF, as the cup hasn’t Organising Committee by the ated a meeting to transfer The meeting was also attended by changed over the past fifteen contractors recently, and will and hold the regular meetings Amal Khalifa, Managing Director years in the history of the sport. provide a dynamic and exciting in Switzerland at the head- of the IHF and Patrick Strub, The In addition, the IHF approved venue that can accommodate up quarters of the International Competition Director. President this important step in the history to 7,700 spectators. Handball Federation (IHF) in The meeting was to discuss the of handball and has agreed on the During the meeting in of the Basel, where the Qatar 2015 progress made to date in prepara- final design of the 24th Men’s Switzerland, Dr Hassan Mustafa Qatar 2015 Organising Committee and the tion for the major sporting event. Handball World Championship praised the organising commit- IHF have met this week. The meeting focused on the Organising Cup. tee, under the guidance of H E This is part of a series of steps taken so far in advance of Committee They also discussed the Sheikh Joaan, for their ongoing meetings to provide progress the Championship in 2015, and H E Sheikh arrangementsin place for work to make the 24th Men’s updates of the preparation for outlined the headway made in Joaan bin the 17th Asian Clubs’ League Handball World Championship a the 24th Men’s Handball World developing venues and generat- Hamad Championship, which will take great success. Championship. ing excitement about the major Al Thani place at Al Sadd Sports Hall The meeting also reviewed The Qatar 2015 meeting was sporting event. gestures from November 29 to December the on-going development headed and led by H E Sheikh The IHF expressed their con- during a 11 2014. of the third major venue for Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, fidence that the event will be a meeting with Organising the 17th Asian the Championship, the Lusail President of the Qatar 2015 truly exceptionalone, as a result IHF in Basel. Clubs’ League Championship will Multipurpose Hall, which will Organising Committee and Dr of the on-going efforts of the deliver a second test tournament, soon be complete and ready Hasan Mustafa, President of the Organising Committee and the this time at the new Al Sadd for handover to the Organising IHF. warm support of the people of Sports Hall, which will be one of Committee. The Qatar 2015 delegation Qatar. the main venues for Qatar 2015. All three venues – the Qatar included Ahmed Al Shaabi, During the meeting of the Earlier this year, the Organising Handball Association Complex; Vice President of the Qatar officials, H E Sheikh Joaan bin Committee saw good results from Al Sadd Sports Hall and Lusail 2015 Organising Committee; Dr Hamad Al Thani assured the hosting the IHF Super Globe Multipurpose Hall – will provide Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari, IHF that Qatar 2015 is work- a prime venue for hosting major for the new Championship Cup 2014 in September at the Qatar an incredible visitor experience Director General of the Qatar ing hard to ensure it meets the sports events. H E Sheikh Joaan reflecting and symbolising hand- Handball Association Complex, during the Championship. 2015 Organising Committee; international standards required bin Hamad Al Thani also pre- ball as a gesture from Qatar 2015 the first “test” tournament in The mega event will take and Mohamad Jabor Al Mulla, for the sport of handball, and to sented adistinctive new and mod- Organising Committee. the build-up to the 24th Men’s place in Doha from January 15 to Assistant Director General showcase the image of Qatar as ern design along witha 3D model This shows how keen Qatar Handball World Championship February. THE PENINSULA West Indies board meet for crisis

The West talks after legal threat from India Indies’ players BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: three scheduled Tests, left India India were due to tour the earnings while the WICB argue refused to The West Indies Cricket Board facing losses, according to Indian Caribbean in 2016 and if that tour the new arrangement allows carry on the (WICB) began an emergency media reports, of around $65m. is lost, the WICB will miss out on for more cricketers across the remainder meeting yesterday as the Although WICB lead- lucrative deals. Caribbean to be given central con- of the tour Caribbean body faced up to the ers, including president Dave The WICB is also expected to tracts. Grenada’s Prime Minister of India crisis caused by the abandon- Cameron, were tight-lipped before discuss what, if any, sanctions Keith Mitchell yesterday publicly due to a ment of their tour in India. the meeting, the solemn mood as to take against the players who offered his services as a mediator. payment Just hours after India’s pow- they filed into a conference room rejected a deal struck between “Clearly there are going to be dispute erful cricket board (BCCI) was sign enough of the gravity of the board and the player’s union a lot of reverberations from this. with the announced they would take legal the situation facing them. (WIPA). There must be contracts and action against the WICB and The board was expected to The cause of the conflict signed arrangements that involve West Indies were suspending all planned tours release a statement after their was a new ‘Memorandum of costs and the image of our cricket Cricket of the Caribbean – moves that meeting. Understanding’ and collective team certainly will suffer,” said Board. could have a devastating financial On the agenda will be the agreement between the WICB Mitchell, who said the situa- impact on the West Indies – offi- tricky issue of how to try to repair and WIPA regarding payment tion reflected badly on the whole cials gathered at a beachside hotel relations with the BCCI, the most for players which the leading Caribbean. to deal with the fall-out. powerful domestic body in world test players said was signed in “It is a bit frightening for the The return home of the team cricket, and avoid a legal case September without their consent. region, not just for sports, but for after the fourth of five one day which could cripple Caribbean The players said the deal would our people, our economies on the internationals and before the cricket. result in a significant loss of whole,” he said. REUTERS