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Qatar, UK sign security cooperation deal Minimum wages Crackdown hits for GCC citizens under study mobile phone DOHA: There is a proposal to fix minimum wages for GCC citizens working in both public and private sectors in member- states that are not their home repair outlets countries. The proposal is part of moves to extend the unified pension scheme to the private sector Customers worried about blackmail across the GCC states for GCC citizens working in member DOHA: Exchange of mobile drastically after the August countries. phones and the mobile repair arrests. Currently, although each business have been hit hard People have generally turned GCC state has its own pen- by the crackdown on several suspicious and were not able to sion scheme, some 22,576 GCC service outlets by the Ministry trust these outlets, said the serv- nationals who have retired of Interior last August follow- ice shop official. “The fear is on serving in member-states that ing customer complaints about both the sides — customers as are not their home countries blackmail. well as the service shops.” are beneficiaries of the pension Service shops are complaining Being a conservative society, scheme of the country in which of low customer turnout after people here don’t want to share they were working. some 35 staffers of various dig- or make public their personal and A two-day meeting of pension ital sales and service outlets were family images and video clippings authority officials of the GCC arrested in August for blackmail- as well as personal details. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with British Home Secretary Theresa May at his residence states in Kuwait have decided ing their clientele, mostly women. The Ministry of Interior has, in London yesterday. Qatar and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding on security to study the impact of fixing The arrested had copied images meanwhile, cautioned the public cooperation. The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah signed the MoU on behalf of Qatar, minimum wages for GCC citi- and videos saved on customers’ that getting applications down- while Theresa May represented her government. See also page 2 zens employed in other GCC phones without their knowledge loaded on smart-phones with states on the unified regional and used them for blackmail. help from service shops can also pension scheme. They demanded huge sums from be risky as many of them require THE PENINSULA device owners threatening to post personal details. the images and videos could be For example, downloading pro- Thunder, rains likely posted on social networking sites. grammes like iCloud can be risky, After the arrests, some repair particularly for women. “So there New licensing rules for hospitals for three days and maintenance outlets are so is a need to be cautious,” said the scared that they have stopped Interior Ministry on its tweet DOHA: The Supreme Council of “The existing licensing rules He said the new standards will DOHA: The weather is entertaining Qatari customers, account. Health (SCH) is working on new were prepared several decades ago encompass all aspects of healthcare expected to be unstable from particularly, for software-related The Ministry said in a state- licensing rules and standards for and since then the healthcare sec- services such as infrastructure, today until Friday with chances work. ment earlier in August that cop- private clinics and hospitals as tor has witnessed massive changes. facilities, patient safety, hygiene, of thunder and rain at places at “If the repair is for hardware, ying data from others’ devices part of efforts to raise the quality There is a need for new rules and quality of care, medical records, times accompanied by light to we accept a mobile phone hand- without their permission is a of healthcare in the country. standards to raise the quality of medical practice, customer care, moderate northeasterly to east- set but definitely not for main- punishable offence. The new licensing standards services and meet demands of the among others. All new and existing erly wind. tenance, installation or repair of Knowledgeable circles, mean- will be linked to the national rapid developments,” Dr Jamal facilities will be required to comply The Met Office said in a press software,” said an official from a while, said that digital exchange accreditation standards that are Rashid Al Khanji, director of the with the new rules and standards, statement issued yesterday that service shop. and service centres should be also in the making, a senior SCH Healthcare Quality and Patient once they are in place. This will the unstable weather will be He said customer turnout for asked to sign written undertak- official has disclosed. The pilot Safety Department at SCH and be a necessary precondition for caused by low pressure extend- repair and maintenance and ings at the time of being licensed. phase of the National Licensing acting CEO of the Qatar Council renewal of licence. ing from the Arabian Sea. exchange of old mobile phone THE PENINSULA and Accreditation Programme for Healthcare Practitioners THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA handsets had also come down Continued on page 6 was launched on Sunday. (QCHP) told this daily yesterday. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir meets Qatari students in UK

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Qatari students in the United Kingdom at the Dorchester Hotel in London yesterday. The Emir stressed the state’s keenness to provide higher learning opportunities to stu- dents and the need for them to be goodwill ambassadors of their homeland. No Interpol warrant for PM meets outgoing Uruguayan envoy Al Jazeera journalist Egypt’s request to issue red notice rejected

DOHA: Interpol, the interna- earlier this month in absentia The award-winning network tional organisation for police by an Egyptian court and given that recently won an Emmy and cooperation, has rejected a a 15-year jail term for carrying has been the benefactor of multi- request from Egypt to issue one out alleged torture during the ple journalistic awards said that of its red notices against Ahmed January 25th revolution in 2011. it remained committed to its mis- Mansour, an Al Jazeera jour- Mansour rejected the charges sion of putting the human being at nalist, according to a statement as absurd, while Al Jazeera dis- the centre of its news agenda and from Al Jazeera network. missed the accusation as a flimsy giving a voice to the voiceless in An Interpol red notice is one attempt at character assassina- the face of continuing harassment of the closest instruments to an tion against of one of its leading and imprisonment of its journal- international arrest warrant. The journalists. ists by the Egyptian authorities. network says the rejection of the In an email to Al Jazeera’s law- The network also reiterated its request by Interpol is another clear yers, Interpol confirmed receiving call for the release of the three indication of how the targeted cam- a request from Egypt’s National Al Jazeera English journalists who The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with Uruguay’s paign by Egypt against Al Jazeera is Central Bureau about Mansour, have been in jail since December Ambassador Dr Jose Luis Remedi on the occasion of ending his tenure in Qatar. The Prime Minister wished failing in the eyes of global opinion. but said that the red notice request 29 as part of a separate case. the ambassador success in his future tasks. Mansour was convicted “did not meet Interpol’s rules”. THE PENINSULA

WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Land prices in posh areas skyrocketing 741 sq metre plot in Al Sadd sold for QR56m; last week’s real estate deals touch QR1.58bn

DOHA: Real estate prices con- with other areas of Doha as well. in the week from October 19 to by the Ministry of Justice show. the rate per sq metre being a high also witnessed large numbers of tinue to go up amidst mega A 741 square metre plot in Al 23 with the collective value of the The Ministry’s real estate reg- of QR66,400. land transactions. In expatriate- development projects being Sadd has been sold for an incred- deals being a huge QR942m. istration department put the total This was the first week in dominated working class locality launched for the 2022 FIFA ible QR56m — the per square The total value of real estate number of deals concluded in the recent times when so many plots of Ummghuwailina in Doha, a event. Land prices in the city’s meter rate being QR75,500. deals all over the country in the week at 141. One plot of land in of land were sold out in Al Sadd. 2,626 sq meters of house was sold posh locality of Al Sadd have This was among 23 plots that week was, however, a massive Al Sadd, admeasuring 1,506 sq Al Wakra, Al Rayyan, Umm for a huge QR67.84m. been skyrocketing as is the case were sold out in Al Sadd alone over QR1.58bn, details released meters, was sold out for QR100m, Salal, Al Dhakhira and Al Dayeen THE PENINSULA Deadline for biomedical programme extended DOHA: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has extended the deadline for applications to its Biomedical Research Training Programme for nationals. The program was launched in 2011 and so far, 18 Qatari nationals have graduated from the scheme. The research training programme is an opportunity for recent graduates to gain invaluable experience in world- class research laboratories. Although the programme is aimed at recent graduates who are interested in pursuing a career as a bench or clinical researcher, or research administrator, applications will be welcomed from nation- als with a variety of degrees, for example computer sci- ence, business management or communication. The training programme — which recommences in January — is a full-time, six-month employment commit- ment with trainees receiving a graduation certificate upon completion. The trainees are paid a stipend as part of a comprehensive compensation package. The programme is fully funded by WCMC-Q, and is organised in partner- ship with the Qatar Science Leadership Programme at Qatar Foundation. Applications can be submitted online until November 1 at http://researchtraining.qatar-weill. cornell.edu/pages/application.aspx. Interested candi- dates could also require further details from program coordinators Yassir Hussain, at yah2012@qatar-med. cornell.edu or Shaikha AlQahtani at saa2049@qatar- med.cornell.edu New lawyers take oath DOHA: The Lawyers Admission Committee met yesterday under the chairmanship of the Minister of Justice H E Dr Hassan Lahdan Saqr Al Muhannadi. Lawyers Rashid Saad Al Rashid Saad Al Kuwari, Rashid Bakhit Al Bakhit Al Gharah Al Marri and Gadoun Salem Algesman took the oath before the com- mittee which accepted and registered them to practice as the lawyers, while accepting and registering lawyers Jassim Mohammed Hassan Al Maliki ,Lulwa Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Nuaimi and Nora Ali Haji to operate as lawyers who are to be under training. THE PENINSULA/QNA WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Al Attiyah in Washington Qatar-Turkey cultural ties Municipality shuts 4 eateries, groceries in Al Rayyan DOHA: Al Rayyan Municipality has temporar- ily closed down four eating and food stuff outlets for violating health and safety rules. The decision to temporar- ily close the establishments were issued by the director of Al Rayyan Municipality after health inspectors found the The Chairman of Administrative Control and Transparency Authority H E Abdullah bin The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari (left) violations including selling Hamad Al Attiyah (second right), during the 23rd Annual Arab-US Policymakers Conference and his Turkish counterpart Omer Celik exchanging the signed documents for cultural expired food items that were in Washington yesterday. cooperation in Ankara yesterday. not fit for human consumption. The closed outlets included a falafel cafeteria in Al Shahaniya area, Al Khayal Restaurant for Lebanese Food in Muraikh area, Baba 60 world-class boats on display Al Rayan supermarket also in Muraikh area and a gro- cery shop selling fruits and Mourjan Marinas in Lusail City to host Qatar International Boat Show from November 11 vegetables in the Al Mara Al Sharqiya area. DOHA: Sixty boats will be on Al Nuaimi said that the display at the second edition of municipality inspectors were the Qatar International Boat intensifying their inspec- Show (QIBS) to be held from tions to crackdown on all November 11 to 15 at Mourjan food related outlets that vio- Marinas in Lusail City. late the health requirements. “A total of 60 boats will be on Once a violation is spotted the display at QIBS 2014, including inspectors first demand that world acclaimed brands such as the outlet rectifies the viola- Azimut, Sea Ray, Princess, Ferreti, tion in a specified time and if it Riva, Gulf Craft, Sunseeker, fails to do this then the outlet Prestige, Itama, Al Shaali Marine, is temporarily closed until the San Lorenzo, Benetti, Sunreef, violations are addressed. Esen Yachts, Ares, Lagoon, Amer Also according to the Law Yachts, Cranchi, Everglades No. 4 of 2014 on the regula- and more,” said Faysal Mikati, Organisers at the press conference. tion and monitoring of food Vice President of Snow Comms outlets, the closed outlet will Conceptual Communications & been admitted as the first candi- “IFBSO pulled out all the indeed,” said Mikati. communications sponsor; Lusail be disclosed with its name and Events, organisers of the show. date member of the International stops for us, which is testament He said that as well as the City, Qatari Diar – the venue location on the ministry’s web- The event, organised under the Federation of Boat Show to the high regard that QIBS has Marina Display, an External for QIBS; Murwab Hotel – offi- site as soon as the decision of auspices of the Prime Minister Organisers (IFBSO), which already generated in the industry Area, Shipyards and Boatyards, cial hospitality partner; Qatar closure is implemented. and Interior Minister H E Sheikh brings together more than 30 of after only one show. We will be Equipment Accessories and Airways – the official carrier; Last week a popular Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa the world’s leading boat shows joining an elite family of mem- Services, there will also be a new Ulysse Nardin – the official time- Turkish food restaurant Al Thani, will see the participa- and marine and maritime trade ber shows, including Monaco, section this year devoted to lux- keeper; Mourjan Marinas -Lusail called Marmara was closed for tion of many of the top names in exhibitions. Members of IFBSO London, Düsseldorf, Miami, ury products and services. These City – a leading industry provider up to two months pending a the international maritime indus- own or operate events in 24 coun- Istanbul, Dubai, Amsterdam, areas will be topped by a unique for marinas and management probe after several customers try. Snow Comms said bookings tries on four continents. All mem- Shanghai, Barcelona, Genoa, Floating Media Lounge and also services; ‘World of Yachts and complained of food poisoning. from exhibitors have now reached bers are required to comply with Fort Lauderdale and others; but one of the most atmospheric VIP Boats’ – official magazine; ‘Sur Sources said that all the peo- full capacity, despite the show the IFBSO Code of Excellence, given that some other well known areas of all boat shows worldwide. La Terre’ – lifestyle partner; and ple who suffered from the food being double the size it was last ensuring that they meet the high- boat shows have still not yet been QIBS 2014 sponsors include ‘Yachts XL’ – official video part- poisoning have now been dis- year. est expectations of exhibitors and officially recognised by IFBSO, Masraf Al Rayan Bank as official ners. charged. 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Emir sends greetings ‘Kashmir Black Day’ observed Doha to host to Czech president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of greetings to President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman Intel Science on the occasion of his country’s National Day. The Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent Competition similar greetings. QNA Unstable weather Students from 11 countries to participate Continued from page 1 A mass of cold air in the upper DOHA: The fifth Intel Science a total of 89 projects in a range layers of the atmosphere would likely Competition Arab World 2014 of diverse categories, including cause thunder and rain at places at (ISC AW) an annual Pan energy, environmental science, times, particularly in the afternoons Arab Science, Technology, engineering, computer science, bio- on the three days. This is a result Engineering and Math (STEM) chemistry, behavioural and social of the changing season from sum- competition for students in sciences. Students qualified for the mer to winter. The interim phase grades 9 to 12 is set to take ISC AW by winning their home (the current one) is the autumn place in Qatar next month. country’s science competition and season, said the Met office. A fresh Joint organisers Intel now set to meet and compete with spell of unstable weather is expected Corporation (Ltd.), the their international peers. Students to hit the country in the first week Pakistan Ambassador Shahzad Ahmad delivering a speech at a ceremony organised to mark ‘The Kashmir Research and Development will be presenting their projects and of November as well, the weather Black Day’at Pakistan Embassy yesterday. Afzal Khan, First Muslim Labour Member of the European Division of Qatar Foundation competing in Arabic, with the aim of bureau said. THE PENINSULA Parliament from Britain was the keynote speaker. He spoke on the importance of early resolution of Kashmir for Education, Science and building confidence and experience issue and highlighted the significance of the day. ABDUL BASIT Community Development (QF of working with the language in the R&D), and Supreme Education field of science. Council, (SEC) have announced Dr Ayman Bassil, Head the ISC AW will take place from of Research Training at QF November 9 to November 11. R&D, said, “Qatar Foundation Competition for young Qatari filmmakers The ISC AW will be hosted is delighted to jointly organise in Qatar for the first time, with the ISC AW, as the competition more than 100 students partici- inspires young people to become DOHA: The National Health in Qatar and to reflect what this that we can harness young talent kicked off with an intensive five- pating from 11 countries across passionate about science and pur- Insurance Company (NHIC) means in our society and to the in our community and give them day workshop led by acclaimed the Middle East and North sue scientific careers.” and the Doha Film Institute public. Doing so through the eyes the tools they need to share sto- Emirati screenwriter Mohammed Africa all competing for prizes. “Scientific expertise and (DFI) have launched a film- of aspiring young filmmakers is a ries from their own perspective. I Hassan Ahmed known for such The three-day event takes place innovation is fundamental to making competition for young fantastic opportunity to support thank NHIC for the opportunity to films as Sea Shadow. More than at the Qatar National Convention advancing society and develop- Qatari filmmakers on the theme local talent and the burgeoning collaborate for the benefit of local 15 script ideas were pitched by Centre. Alongside Intel and SEC, ing knowledge-based economies. “Tradition of Care” in Qatari cultural scene in the country,” filmmakers and look forward to the workshop participants and six QF R&D’s involvement in the As the ISC AW is helping to fos- society. said Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain sharing the results with the com- were selected to progress to the competition stems from its core ter the next generation of scien- “As a social health insurance Ali, acting CEO of the NHIC. munity of Doha at the upcom- production phase. The completed mission areas of supporting pro- tists in Qatar and the rest of the scheme providing all Qataris with Fatma Al Remaihi, Acting CEO ing Ajyal Youth Film Festival in films will be viewed by a panel of grammes in education, driving Arab World, it is firmly in line access to healthcare, the concept of DFI said: “We are delighted to December.” judges consisting of NHIC and the science and research culture with Qatar Foundation’s role in of ‘caring’, of supporting people, partner with Seha on this project Participants in the filmmak- DFI representatives, with the best in Qatar and furthering learning contributing to human develop- is at the very core of what Seha which we believe will draw atten- ing challenge will write, produce, three selected for screening at the and knowledge. ment nationally, regionally, and does. Our objective in partnering tion to an important aspect of our shoot and edit compelling short “Made in Qatar” section of Ajyal Qatari judges will be joined by internationally.” with the DFI is to explore the tra- community minded society. It is films with the support of mentors Youth Film Festival. international experts to appraise THE PENINSULA dition of care that has long existed through partnerships such as this, from the Institute. The challenge THE PENINSULA

QTA to participate in ITB-Asia expo Qatar committed to supporting Syrian DOHA: Qatar Tourism Cigale Hotel, Regency Holidays, longer stopovers for travellers people: Minister Authority (QTA) is partici- Arabian Adventures Qatar and en route from South East Asia pating at the annual ITB-Asia Travel Designer. to Europe. Contributing to this BERLIN: Assistant Foreign exhibition, a three-day B2B Emphasis will be placed on effort, a significant portion of Minister for International trade show and convention the country’s exceptional loca- the Qatar stand will be devoted Cooperation H E Sheikh which starts today at Sands tion and accessibility, thanks to showcasing the country’s Mohamed bin Abdurrahman Expo & Convention Centre in to direct flights to over 140 cit- cultural attractions. Al Thani, who is also head of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. ies around the world through A key message at ITB-Asia Qatar’s delegation participat- The QTA delegation, which the Qatar Airways network, will be Qatar’s attractions as ing in the Berlin Conference on includes seven leading Doha including excellent services a MICE destination. In this Syrian refugees has stressed hotels and three destination to all major South East Asian regard, an important USP will country’s commitment to mak- management companies, will capitals. be the outstanding facilities of ing efforts to help alleviate the represent and promote Qatar QTA views the rapidly the Qatar National Convention suffering of the brotherly people as a unique and leading desti- developing economies of Asean Centre. of Syria by delivering humani- nation in the MICE and leisure region as a major potential ITB Asia will provide a forum tarian assistance to all those in tourism. growth market for both busi- bringing more than 850 Asia need inside and outside Syria. The Qatari delegation ness and leisure travel. Besides Pacific and other international The minister urged the inter- includes Wyndham Grand extensive point-to-point travel exhibitors from all travel trade national community to shoul- Regency Hotel Doha, Doha connectivity via Doha and sectors together. Attendance is der its humanitarian and moral Marriott Hotel, Plaza Inn Doha, its state-of-the-art Hamad expected exceed last year’s total responsibilities towards the The Torch Doha, The St. Regis International Airport, QTA of 9,100 visitors from 110 coun- Syrian people. Doha, Oryx Rotana Hotel, La will be actively promoting tries. THE PENINSULA QNA Accreditation mandatory Continued from page 1 “New facilities will be licensed only after meeting these requirements, while the existing facilities will be given a grace period to upgrade their standards, if they are not up to the mark,” said Al Khanji. He said, in a unique initia- tive globally, Qatar will be linking the licensing standards to the national accreditation standards. Accreditation has been made mandatory for all healthcare facilities in the country. Accordingly, several public and private hospi- tals have either obtained accreditation from recognised international bodies or are in the process of getting that. “All health facilities must be accredited either by an international body recognised by ISQUA (International Society for Quality Healthcare) or by the competent author- ities in Qatar. We are developing national accreditation standards, closely linked to the licensing standards,” said Al Khanji. There will be basic standards of accreditation, as well as additional standards. The basic standards will be mandatory while the facilities can opt for a higher level of accreditation to raise their profile in the market. The national accreditation standards will cover the dental services as well that are normally exempted from accreditation all over the world, he added. He said facili- ties that have obtained an international accreditation will not be required to apply for a national accreditation. “They can choose between the two but obtaining an international accreditation would be much more expen- sive than the national accreditation, once it is imple- mented,” he added. THE PENINSULA Women targeted to blackmail Continued from page 1

They should commit not to indulge in unethical prac- tices like copying images and data and breach customers’ privacy and subject them to any kind of blackmail. Asked why he thought some service shops in Qatar resorted to unethical practices like copying images and videos of customers and blackmail, a social behaviour expert said greed could be one of the factors. Sexual frustration could be another reason as most customers subjected to blackmail were women, he added. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Network project Breast cancer cases rising in Qatar connects several ministries 65 percent of cases diagnosed are in women below 50 years DOHA: Qatar National Broadband Network (Qnbn) BY FAZEENA SALEEM “Overall, the incidence of breast affects women at a younger age, partners in Qatar, the imple- enhancing, or suppressing an and malomatia have connected cancer in Qatar (51.3 per 100,000 tends to be more aggressive and mentation of this project will immune response. several ministries as part of the DOHA: Breast cancer repre- per year) is lower than that of is diagnosed at a more advanced establish a foundation for genetic “Sidra’s researchers, as well Government Network Project, sents about 20 percent of all Western countries like the US stage,” said Dr Bedognetti. mapping of diseases in the entire as other teams across the world, said the company in a press cancer cases diagnosed in Qatar but is rising fast and is expected He also said that more specific Qatari population; create the first have shown that some tumors release yesterday. every year, being the most com- to match that of Western coun- research is needed to find the Qatar-Middle East genome ref- are associated with low relapse The project has seen signifi- mon cancer in the country. tries in the near future,” said Dr exact reason behind high preva- erence; set up a robust approach risk, favourable prognosis and cant progress over just a few About one third of these cases Bedognetti. lence of breast cancer in Qatar. to neonatal screening and assess- increased chances of successfully months, following the signing of are diagnosed in Qatari women The age pattern of breast can- The Qatar Genome Project ment of genetic disorders preva- responding immunotherapy. We the first government contract at young age, according to a cers in Arab countries, including (QGP) and similar initiatives lent in Qatar; and establish a are interested in understanding with the Ministry of Information health expert. Qatar, is different from Western will help to find out why some model for the study of complex why this happens, why immuno- and Communications Technology However, incidence of breast countries. In Europe and the US, individuals and populations are diseases, such as cancer,” said Dr therapy works in some patients (MICT) in April 2014. A consor- cancer is less in comparison with the median age at diagnosis is 63 predisposed or protected to cer- Bedognetti. but not in others, in order to tium led by malomatia and Qnbn Western countries, Dr Davide years, while in Qatari women it is tain diseases, cancer being among Speaking about Sidra’s future develop personalised immuno- manages the project with the aim Bedognetti, Director, Tumor 47 years, with about 65 percent of them. Sidra has been involved in research interests in regard to therapies. By using state-of-the of connecting all ministries and Biology, Immunology and Therapy breast cancer cases in Qatar being the development of the QGP since breast cancer, Dr Bedognetti said art technologies, we aim to under- government entities over this Section at the Sidra Medical diagnosed in women younger than its outset to support bioinformat- that they would explore more in stand the genetic basis of this dedicated and secure communi- and Research Center told The 50 years. ics and sequencing needs. to immunotherapy, a method of phenomenon,” he said. cations platform. Peninsula yesterday. “What causes concern is that it “Working together with our treatment of disease by inducing, THE PENINSULA Mohammed Al Mannai, Chief Executive Officer at Qnbn said, “The private network will improve data sharing and enhance e-serv- ice security capabilities, while setting a common world-class standard in connectivity between Europe’s top jazz all government ministries”. A state of the art Network Operations Center (NOC) was established as part of the first musicians to phase of the project to serve as the nerve center of the Government Network, with many government entities already connected to the perform in Katara NOC. The NOC is managed and operated by malomatia which will DOHA: Some of the best jazz The film ‘Michel Petrucciani’ be further developed to meet the musicians Europe has to offer was screened last night at the needs of the full network. are set to converge in Katara to Drama Theatre marking the Yousef Al Naama, Chief enthrall lovers of the genre at start of the five-day festival. Executive Officer of malomatia the first ever Katara European Another film ‘Les Fils du vent’ said: “In just a few months the Jazz Festival this week. will be shown at 7.30pm at the Government Network is already The Embassies of Austria, same venue. connecting many of the coun- France, Germany, Italy and The concerts to be held at the try’s biggest government agen- Switzerland have collaborated courtyard behind Building 5 begin cies. This rapid deployment is with Katara in order to bring tomorrow with a performance unprecedented in an industry the five-day festival to the diverse by Stefano Battaglia’s Trio from where quality standards are para- audience of Qatar filled with jazz Italy at 7pm. mount. We are especially pleased performances, film screenings Italian Ambassador Guido De by the quality controls and pro- and workshops, all for free. Sanctis said the Italian band is fessionalism demonstrated by all Ahmed Alsayed, deputy man- under the leadership of Stefano parties involved in making this ager of operations at Katara, Battaglia, a musician whose most phase of the project a success”. said the festival was a collabo- recent works take inspiration By connecting ministries through rative effort among the five from classic and modern litera- a point-to-point fiber network, European embassies and Katara ture. Salvatore Maiore on double ministries will benefit from secure, to open important windows of bass and Roberto Dani on drums high-speed communications and FROM LEFT: Chargé d’Affaires at Austrian Embassy Sieglinde Fedele di Catrano, French Ambassador Eric Chevallier, culture and civilization to intro- are among the best known musi- dedicated bandwidth to enhance Katara Deputy Manager for Operations Ahmed Alsayed, German Ambassador Angelika Storz-Chakarji, Italian duce art and creativity to differ- cians in the international jazz their services. THE PENINSULA ent peoples. scene. Ambassador Guido de Sanctis and Swiss Ambassador Martin Ashbachr. BAHER AMIN Speaking at a press confer- Following the performance Qatar panel in Jakarta ence yesterday, Alsayed stressed is German band Jan Schneider independent and talented musi- French Ambassador Eric Catrano said that the group the power of music as a universal Quartett at 9pm. cians from Switzerland named Chevallier assured people will includes three of Austria’s most for Crime Congress language that links people and German Ambassador Angelika “Alptraum” at 7pm and a French enjoy the performance of the promising young musicians JAKARTA: A delegation from promote cultural and that the Storz-Chakarji said the group jazz group composed of well excellent French jazz group including leading trumpeter the Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) festival is also a platform for consists of professional musicians known musicians. composed of French percus- Mario Rom, Lukas Kranzelbinder, department held preparatory artistic creativity and musical based in the cities of Cologne Swiss Ambassador Martin sionist Bertrand Renaudin, one of the country’s most talks with Indonesian envoys expression, a unique global event and Düsseldorf, has been regular Ashbachr said the band com- Thierry Bonneaux on vibra- requested jazz and drummer ahead of the 13th United Nations of its kind. guests in numerous Jazz Festivals posed of Marco Käppeli, Nick phone, Jean-Louis Pommier on Maximilian Andrzejewski who has Congress on Crime Prevention “The festival presents in Europe such as the North Sea Gutersohn and Jean-Jacques trombone and Yves Torchinsky shared stage with virtually every and Criminal Justice. European music, and provides Jazz Festival and the Jazz Open Pedretti creates a unique musical on double bass. respected German musician. Chairman of the UN Congress a rare opportunity for all the in Stuttgart and has produced language that captures elements The final concert will be held Workshops will also be organ- Preparatory Committee Major musicians of Qatar to meet with various CD recordings with taken from various traditions on Saturday at 7pm featur- ised by a group of interna- General Dr Abdullah Yusuf Al European performers and dis- musicians from a broad range of and cultures, a fusion of impro- ing Austrian band Mario Rom’s tional musicians in Qatar Music Mal led the talks in Jakarta yes- cover European jazz music, as well cultural backgrounds. vised and strict composed music Interzone. Academy, in collaboration with terday with Indonesian envoys, as learning its diverse patterns,” Two jazz bands will be featured reflecting today’s global and vari- Chargé d’Affaires at Austrian local music students. the Public Relations Department he said. on Friday including a trio of egated environment. Embassy, Sieglinde Fedele di THE PENINSULA of the MoI said. QNA PHCC cartoon family to promote health

DOHA: The Primary Health characters — Abu Rashid, Um Care Corporation (PHCC) has Rashid, Rashid, Amal, Abdullah, introduced cartoon characters Mariam, Salem and Hayat. Abu that represent a family called and Um Rashid are the parents ‘Rashid’s Family.’ The family of Rashid and the grandparents portrays the day-to-day life of of the children. They are 75 a Qatari family unit. years and 65 years old respec- The ages of the family mem- tively. Rashid is physician aged bers encompass all stages of the 45 and his wife Amal is a science lifecycle from infancy, through teacher who is 40 years old. childhood, adolescence and The couple have four children adulthood, to old age. together: 17-year old Abdullah; The characters will be uti- 13 year old Mariam; nine year lised to convey essential infor- old Salem and one year year old mation and messages about the Hayat. importance of the adoption of The introduction of the car- a healthy lifestyle to the gen- toon family aims to emphasise eral public. This is in line with the key message of PHCC’s first PHCC’s strategy, which aims campaign which is ‘Care’, gain to develop a prevention-based a higher degree of stakeholder and adolescents about health. In for the promotion of wellbeing approach to tackling diseases. engagement and build the inter- fact, the characters will provide and health. The family consists of eight est and knowledge of children a more family-friendly approach THE PENINSULA

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HE discovery of another mass grave yesterday in Mexico since 43 students went missing in a southern state points to a shockingly heightened Tstate of lawlessness in the country. Mexico has long been known as a staging post for drug mafia which presents US brought back torture a mounting challenge to the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto who had promised to crack down on narco criminals during his election campaign. The restive southern state of Guerreo grabbed world headlines after buses carrying 43 college students were spurned by many regimes attacked by the Guerreros Unidos gang in cahoots with the police on September 26. It is widely believed that police BY JONATHAN POWER focus is on discerning whether the use for three years, wrote of how he handed over the students to gang members on the instructions of torture gained valuable intelligence. admired the English attitude. of the Mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca. The controversial SOON-to-be released report It concluded that it did not. In his book “The Rule of Law”, pub- mayor is believed to have ordered the attack to prevent the of the US Senate criticises When President Barack Obama was lished four years’ ago, Tom Bingham, students from disrupting a public event organised by his wife the CIA under President elected he swiftly moved to ban water- the former senior law lord on the George W Bush for torturing boarding and other torture techniques. Supreme Court, wrote, referring to who is suspected to be a member of the Unidos gang. A Al Qaeda suspects. However, it doesn’t However, he refused to authorise a full, the Blair government, that “it can- The discovery of the first mass grave on October 15 had a assess the responsibility of Bush him- in depth, Justice Department inves- not be said that the UK has shown nervous nation watch in trepidation as authorities conducted self nor his vice president Dick Cheney. tigation which, if it had taken place, the implacable hostility to torture that DNA tests. However, there was collective shy of relief after According to the Senate Intelligence would doubtless have pointed a finger should be expected from a state whose the government said that the 28 bodies in the grave were not Committee’s chairwoman, Dianne at Bush and Cheney. courts led the world in rejecting it”. of the abducted students. Since then, a number of mass graves Feinstein, the 6,000 page report is “one In the UK it is alleged that Prime In Prussia torture was abolished in of the most significant oversight efforts Minister Tony Blair — Bush’s principal 1740, in France in 1789 and in Russia have been found in the country — fogging up the investigation in the history of the US.” ally — accepted torture. The UK is not in 1847. In the US, Congress passed in the disappearance of the students. The report shows that the CIA did accused of conducting torture on its the eighth amendment to the consti- That authorities haven’t been able to trace the missing not provide accurate information to own soil but of sending those it wanted tution which forbade “cruel and unu- points to an unpardonable travesty Congress and also provided misleading vigorously interrogated to countries sual punishment”. Torture returned of law and order in the largely information. which sanction torture. with a vengeance during the twenti- democratic society. Mexico, The report also In 2005 the UK government argued eth century — in Stalin’s Soviet Union, One more concludes that unsuccessfully before the Supreme Franco’s Spain, Hitler’s Germany and mass grave Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela the CIA impeded Court for the right to use torture. Mussolini’s Italy. are infested by the drug mafia effective White This was the first time in over In 1972 Amnesty International in Mexico is that takes advantage of loose From the House oversight 200 years that a government had opened a campaign for a UN Anti- governance structures and lack of and decision- attempted to make it legitimate. Not Torture Convention. In 1981 it won another pointer integrity among members of the fifteenth century making. While even when Nazi prisoners were cap- the support of Sweden, the first coun- the report was tured was torture used, it being judged try to take up the cause. In 1984 the law enforcement authorities to ply to the state of onwards being prepared that it wouldn’t reveal much more UN finally approved a legally binding their trade. the CIA pene- than what sophisticated interrogation treaty against torture. Quite soon after lawlessness in The Iguala mayor accused of England set its trated the Senate techniques could. Ancient Rome tor- the treaty was ratified by most mem- ordering the kidnappings has Committee’s com- tured the early Christians. The Church, bers of the UN, including the US of the country. been missing since the incident. face against the puters, arousing repelled by what had happened then, President Ronald Reagan and the UK Mexican police is hot on the chase the fury of its for more than a thousand years used of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. use of evidence members. its influence to ensure that torture In 1999 in the UK Supreme Court, for of the politician whose purported Bush and was abolished in Europe. In 1215, the the first time anywhere, a high court role signals a breakdown of law in Guerreo, forcing even the produced under Cheney were Lateran Council condemned torture decided that sovereign immunity must state governor to resign. Lawlessness in developing societies deeply involved as cruel. Tragically, as a tool of the not become sovereign impunity and that is not new and is linked to relative deprivation, poor social, torture. The in initiating the Inquisition, the Church brought it back. under the UN convention the ex-presi- economic and educational standards and a skewed distribution US shares its torture pro- From the fifteenth century onwards dent of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, then in of income. French sociologist Emile Durkheim characterised a gramme. The England set its face against the use London, could be prosecuted for torture. common law Administration of evidence produced under torture. Yet still, says Amnesty, torture con- lawless society as one where traditional norms and values have claimed that (The US shares its common law with tinues to be practiced by most coun- been lost and new ones failed to develop. He names this state with England. the waterboard- England.) The judges who presided tries, although the EU, the US and of disequilibrium Anomie. ing 183 times over these decisions pointed to the Russia are now free of it. A disproportionate rise in criminal activity may lead to a (hosing the face inherent weakness of the evidence in The US has rightly condemned similar condition in modern societies that are characterised with water so that the prisoner feels confessions procured by torture since Russia for breaking international law he is drowning) of Khalid Sheikh a person subject to unbearable pain by snatching Crimea and sending some by high levels of industrial activity achieved with the help of Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, led will say anything to stop it. Only the soldiers into Ukraine. But the US has automation. The societies of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and to the foiling of a terror plot against special Court of the Star Chamber broken international law itself with its Venezuela have been at the receiving end of drug-related Los Angeles’s Library Tower. But the could issue torture orders but in 1640 use of torture against Al Qaeda. Maybe crimes so much so that one might draw parallels with Anomie. Senate report concludes that the infor- the court was abolished and since then the new Senate report will lead the US The Mexican government is pulling all stops to nab the culprits mation could have been learnt without no torture warrant has been issued in to face up to its inconsistencies. behind the kidnappings. A long term solution to fight drug- using torture. The report’s primary Britain. Voltaire, who lived in London THE PENINSULA related crime though needs concerted regional efforts. The other side Quote of Polio emergency the day

F it is obvious that Pakistan — its efforts to tackle the challenge a “dis- If Pakistan does indeed know best, Why are there cases of children having population and its relations with the aster”, adding that “nothing short of why has the polio eradication initiative succumbed to the virus even though rest of the world — is in grave danger transformative action will do”. — spread over two decades and having they had received the OPV? Possible Ithanks to the growing presence of What has the state’s response soaked up millions upon millions of dol- answer: because the follow-up dosage A boycott will never polio, it is also clear that neither the been to this clarion call? As reported lars given largely by international donors schedule was not followed. centre nor the provincial administrations on Monday, Minister of State for — produced such an impressive state If access to children in North and give any positive have taken any action to prove they care National Health Services, Regulation of shambles? South Waziristan made vaccination dif- effect. We trust about the threat. and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarar said Pakistan is the only country where ficult, why do tens of thousands remain On Saturday came a report by the that “since the IMB report was issued the virus is spreading, and as the IMB unvaccinated even though, having fled the country, its Independent Monitoring Board of the over the weekend, we have not been said in a letter to the Unicef executive the military operation, they are now government. FIFA Global Polio Eradication Initiative. It is able to review its recommendations director, if this country is not somehow mainly housed in IDP camps in acces- a damning indictment of our failure to thoroughly”. induced into urgently implementing its sible areas? unconditionally battle the “Pakistan poliovirus”. A high-level meeting will be called recommendations, “hundreds of millions Perhaps because the state’s coor- The latter is being transported “in a day or two”, she further promised, of dollars [would have to be] spent every dination has been poor. Why is the supports the staging abroad, giving us the dubious distinction before reiterating that Pakistan knew year solely to keep [the] Pakistan polio- virus surfacing in areas earlier thought of the World Cup by of harbouring 80pc of the world’s polio best which of the IMB’s recommenda- virus out of other countries”. to be polio-free, such as Punjab and Sepp Blatter cases. The report has called domestic tions should be implemented. There are too many serious questions. Balochistan? DAWN Russia. FIFA Chief WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Arab Spring lives on in Tunisia’s 2nd poll Tunisia faces a real danger from the surprisingly large numbers of young Salafis who reportedly have gone to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and who may ultimately return home and threaten the safety of the government.

BY NOAH FELDMAN are giving up their legislative plurality peacefully — without the need for a coup. he American diplomat That means Ennahda will be able to con- Edward Djerejian once tinue to participate in politics, whether famously remarked that if as the loyal opposition or, as its mem- Islamists were democrati- bers would no doubt prefer, as part of a cally elected to office, the national unity coalition with the secular- Tresult might be “one man, one vote, one ist Nidaa. Either way, democratic institu- time.” Preliminary results from Tunisia’s tions should continue to function. second democratic election show that The lesson for Egypt is powerful and this concern was unwarranted, at least clear. If secularists who didn’t like the in Tunisia. Muslim Brotherhood had organised The Islamic democrats of Ennahda, themselves, waited for elections and voted who won a plurality in Tunisia’s first the Brotherhood out of office, democracy democratic vote in 2011, appear to have in Egypt could have been preserved. finished second to the secular alterna- Instead, the secularists went to the tive, Nidaa Tounes. Far from clinging to streets and essentially invited the army power, Ennahda conceded defeat even to step in and do the dirty work of regime before the results were final. “We have transition for them. Only too happy to accepted this result, and congratulate the oblige, the Egyptian army returned the winner Nidaa Tounes,” a party official country to the status quote ante. General told Reuters. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi is a younger, more Supporters of Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda party, attend his speech after the legislative election on Monday. Ennahda’s electoral defeat is a vic- popular Mubarak. tory for democracy — and in the end, it The same will not be true of Nidaa contenders. Essebsi could decide strate- — with or without Ennahda — respects who reportedly have gone to join Islamic may actually be a victory for Ennahda leader Beji Caid Essebsi. For one thing, gically to avoid this possibility by agreeing democratic rights and makes no attempt State in Syria and Iraq, and who may too. Consider the comparison to Egypt, Essebsi is 87. He will not become the to a national unity government. to suppress dissent, an undivided govern- ultimately return home and threaten the the poster child for how the election long-term dictator of Tunisia, for the If he does so, Ennahda will support ment might actually be a good thing for safety of the government. The existence of Islamic democrats can go horribly simple reason that he’s too old for the job. him implicitly or explicitly, and his elec- Tunisia’s democratic future. of this threat could be used by Essebsi as wrong. For another, Essebsi’s party has now tion will be assured. Tunisia’s political Data compiled by the scholar Cindy an excuse to exclude Ennahda, which was After the Arab Spring and the fall of been elected democratically. The party culture has long displayed a predilection Skach suggests that in semi-presidential initially soft on Salafism before eventu- Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood therefore wouldn’t gain appreciably for consensus. If Essebsi wants to be the systems like the one created by Tunisia’s ally cracking down. took office in Egypt, only to be ousted from suppressing Ennahda — because consensus candidate, his choice is clear. constitution, divided government corre- But if Essebsi is wise, he will see the by a two- stage coup perpetrated by the he knows that Ennahda is prepared to Yet having won the election, Essebsi’s lates with democratic failure. It’s espe- Salafi threat as a reason to keep Ennahda Egyptian constitutional court, which accept the electoral results. This raises Nidaa is in a position of strength. Many cially hard to distinguish cause from within a national unity government. invalidated legislative elections, and the the probability of successful democratic of his followers are staunch secularists effect in comparative politics. Islamists are much better positioned Egyptian army, which arrested elected governance. who will not want to bring Ennahda into But regardless of whether divided gov- ideologically to crack down on radical president Mohammed Morsi and thou- Presidential elections now loom. the political fold. They will argue, with ernment hurts democratisation or simply Islam than secularists like Essebsi. sands of Muslim Brotherhood activists. Ennahda initially promised it wouldn’t some plausibility, that Ennahda cannot reflects conditions that make democ- What Tunisia needs is a consensus The return of dictatorship destroyed field a presidential candidate, prefer- win a presidential vote any more than it ratisation difficult, it may well be that against terrorism and radicalism — and democracy in Egypt, probably for a gen- ring the chance to lead a parliamentary could win legislative elections. According Tunisia would be better served by unified in favour of democratic institutions. With eration. Just Sunday, Egypt’s newspapers coalition. to this view, Essebsi can become presi- government. both, the small country may be able to “voluntarily” declared they would be lim- Now there will be pressure within dent and his party can lead a parliamen- In the medium to long term, Tunisia continue as a beacon of democracy in the iting criticism of the government. Ennahda to run a candidate, or at least tary government at the same time. faces a real danger from the surpris- Arabic- speaking world. In Tunisia, the Islamic democrats to back one of the already announced So long as an Essebsi government ingly large numbers of young Salafis WP-BLOOMBERG No victory parade for Afghan troops Putin can’t be a leader The truth is that British forces of anti-US resistance took big risks and worked hard in BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY experienced conflicting emotions as I read Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent declaration of a new Cold War in a speech a series of engagements that did to the Valdai Club of Russia experts. The Russian leader blamed Ithe United States for what he sees as the collapse of the global not constitute a genuine strategic security system and warned America not to mess with Russia. At many points in the speech, I found myself nodding in agreement — but it’s impossible to buy the entirety of Putin’s message, because he is the campaign. wrong messenger. While the US unilaterally declared itself the winner of the Cold War, Russia never recognised its defeat, even semi-officially: For former BY MICHAEL CLARKE in this way might have brought President Boris Yeltsin, the Soviet Union’s collapse was a release from Pakistan itself nearer to real the crippling Communist ideology that prevented Russia from rejoin- nd so we have reached collapse. Staying engaged in ing the civilised world. To me and many of my friends, that made it a the end of Britain’s Afghanistan after the Taliban win, not a loss. latest Afghan war, its and Al Qaeda were sent packing As Putin pointed out, the Cold War did not end in any kind of peace Afourth. It is commonly was the least worst option. An treaty. That left the US free to act unilaterally. It hasn’t always used assumed that Britain always even more disruptive crisis across that power wisely. Iraq and Afghanistan hardly are better off after the loses in Afghanistan, but that’s south Asia was, and remains, a US interventions, and what Putin calls an “expanding space of chaos” British troops prepare to depart upon the end of operations for US Marines not true. strong possibility. in the Middle East is in part the result of US policies. The first Afghan war ended The problem was that the and British combat troops in Helmand on Monday. The US, Putin said, “keeps fighting the results of its own policy, ambiguously, and the second and western powers did not then stay throwing its might at removing self-created risks and paying a grow- third were decisive British vic- genuinely engaged, with the next and economic chances than when insurgents across a wide area, and ing price for it.” There’s some truth to that. tories. There were some notable five years wasted until the second they arrived. But therein also lies civilian mentors who can work As Putin’s pronouncements so often do, the speech last week was defeats on the battlefield, such as phase began in 2006. the problem. Britain took on a with the host government to help a mix of truth, half-truth and outright lies. It isn’t true, for exam- the ill-fated retreat from Kabul to They were distracted by the single province in a big coun- create the political conditions for ple, that it was the US’s decision in 2002 to abandon an anti-missile Jalalabad in 1842 and the crushing Iraqi intervention, which was a try and found itself severely peace. The British had neither of defence treaty with the Soviet Union that led more countries to develop defeat at the battle of Maiwand in genuine strategic blunder, and stretched when the security chal- these levers to pull. British forces nuclear capacity. Helmand province in 1880. in those years of distraction the lenges were worse than had been were reduced to a “cope and hope” Nor was it the European Union’s decision to do a trade deal with But imperial Britain was not Hamid Karzai government went anticipated. strategy. Ukraine that sparked a “civil war with huge casualties.” Putin likes to thwarted in any of these wars – rogue on its western backers and Operating in Helmand, as dif- Whereas in post-colonial string facts into dubious chains of cause and effect. however questionable we may now became a significant part of the ficult as it was, did not put Britain operations, and even in the The main problem, however, is with Putin’s attempts to offer an judge those conflicts to have been. problem itself. in a position to really influence Balkans, the British had a great alternative to US dominance. While stating that Russia doesn’t want From the first Afghan war in 1839 The other regional powers that the future of the country. The deal of influence with the host to be a superpower, he tried to claim moral leadership: to the third in 1919, London’s stra- mattered – India, China, Saudi overall campaign for Afghanistan governments they supported Putin’s Russia could be a major power — it is more fearsome now tegic objectives – keeping Russia Arabia and Iran – were happy to could have been lost in Helmand, and could choose to hand over than at any time since the Soviet Union disappeared. Yet that isn’t clear of India – were achieved. stand back and see how the west- but it could never have been won control when they were confi- the kind of power Putin claims to want. He sees himself as a respected However, this fourth Afghan ern powers fared. there. dent about the outcome, here arbiter of global disputes, a moral authority who enforces the rules. war will be assessed against dif- They would not genuinely com- The truth is that British forces they have simply reached the That, however, is a role for which his career makes him singularly unfit. ferent strategic criteria. It will mit to any broadly agreed solution took big risks and worked hard in end of what they can usefully A history of selective justice for political enemies, rigged elections, take some time to make a defini- for Afghanistan, and hedged their a series of engagements that did contribute. Now that they have one of the world’s most expensive and shameless propaganda machines, tive judgment. bets against western failure – a not constitute a genuine strategic no option but to let events take the fostering of a lazy resource dependency, a group of billionaire One part of that judgment strategy that made failure itself campaign. their course. friends who keep winning government orders and a personal life that will have to be counter-factual. more likely. Rather, British commanders So as the UK troops leave is shrouded in mystery none of this allows Putin to pull off a convinc- If the powers that removed the In the midst of this interna- strove to maintain a distinctive Camp Bastion, they will not be ing Gandhi impersonation. Taliban after 9/11 had just left tional collapse of will, the British British identity in what were coming back with a victory to be It’s easy to see why Putin is not much of an inspiration to Ukraine, Afghanistan at the end of 2001, it took responsibility for Helmand essentially tactical operations. celebrated in Trafalgar Square. which has just voted overwhelmingly against pro-Russian political is entirely possible that the coun- in 2006. It was a move dictated They struggled to maintain clar- Nor, however, have the results of forces. The US and its European allies didn’t buy these votes: resist- try would have broken up into a as much by our relations with the ity of purpose in the face of mul- their efforts been dishonourable ing Putin makes Ukrainians worse-off economically; they are rejecting north-west centred on Kabul and US as by our interest in south tinational strategic objectives that or a national humiliation. They the kind of repressive, ignorant, cynical society he has built in Russia. Herat, and a south-east based Asian security. seemed to change with monoto- have done a good job in support The world may need powers that can challenge the US Putin’s Russia around Kandahar. This segment Nevertheless, putting aside nous regularity. of an imperfect strategy, the suc- or Xi Jinping’s China don’t fit the bill because these are not examples includes the Pashtun heartland the current activities of the A real counter-insurgency cess of which they can no longer anyone would want to follow. By laying claim to undeserved moral that straddles the Pakistan Taliban in the upper Sangin val- campaign involves military com- influence. authority, Putin and his ilk are undermining the arguments they make border. ley, British troops leave behind a manders who can direct signifi- They coped; now we hope. for a more just, more stable international system. An Afghanistan fragmented province that has better political cant resources to outmanoeuvre THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Israel to buy second batch of Bahrain bans US F-35 fighters JERUSALEM: Israel and the United States have agreed opposition for the sale of a second batch of Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters to the Jewish state, Israeli media reported yesterday. Haaretz newspaper said the three months deal, concluded by US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Israeli counterpart, Moshe Move ‘irrational’, says Al Wefaq Yaalon, was for “at least 20” of the planes. DUBAI: A Bahraini court The United States had voiced The Israeli defence ministry banned the Gulf state’s main “strong concerns” over the law- did not immediately respond to opposition movement for three suit, warning of its potential AFP’s request for confirmation. months yesterday, just weeks impact on the November 22 polls. The Jerusalem Post said Israel before a parliamentary election Not only has Al Wefaq signed a $2.75bn (¤2.17bn) deal the group had already said it announced a boycott, but so have in 2012 to buy a squadron of 19 would boycott. other opposition groups. F-35s from Lockheed Martin Al Wefaq said it was seriously In July, Bahrain’s chief prose- and received Pentagon approval concerned by the move, which cutor tested relations with close to purchase an additional 75. it described as “irrational and ally Washington when he charged Both papers said delivery of irresponsible”. Al Wefaq head Ali Salman, and the initial order should start by The Manama administrative his political aide, ex-MP Khalil the end of 2016 and be completed court ruled that Al-Wefaq, which Marzooq, with violating a law on by 2018. The first planes of the draws most of its support from foreign contacts by meeting US second squadron should start the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s Shia Assistant Secretary of State for arriving in 2019, they said. majority, had violated the law on Democracy, Human Rights and The Post said that the two associations, a court official said. Labor Tom Malinowski. Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary General of Al Wefaq (centre), meets top members of the party during a closed-door defence ministers finalised the Political parties are banned in Following the meeting, Bahrain meeting in Manama yesterday. new purchase “in recent days.” key US ally Bahrain, as in other told Malinowski he was “unwel- The men met last week in Gulf Arab monarchies. Al Wefaq come” and said he should leave are appointed by the king. It is ministry has offered protection. weeks until Bahrain’s parliamentary Washington to a backdrop of has the status of an association. the country “immediately”. also demanding the prime minis- And government spokeswoman elections, the decision to suspend Al fresh tensions between the two In July, the justice ministry Elections for a new 40-seat ter be appointed by parliamentary Sameera Rajab wrote on Friday Wefaq looks far from coincidental.” allies over Israeli criticism of sued Al Wefaq, demanding it lower house of parliament are the majority, instead of the king. on Twitter that “elections in With the decision, Al Wefaq US foreign policy and Israeli rectify its “illegal status follow- first since 2011 protests demand- Bahraini authorities accuse Al Bahrain are facing organised ter- would no longer be able to carry announcements of settlement ing the annulment of four general ing more representative democ- Wefaq of fuelling unrest across rorism”. But no major incidents out public campaigns to persuade expansion. assemblies for lack of a quorum racy. Municipal elections will be the kingdom, as people in Shiite or casualties have been reported. people not to vote in the election, and the non-commitment to the held simultaneously. villages hold frequent protests The opposition took part in two said Dooley. “Today’s ruling takes Morocco arrests public and transparency require- Al Wefaq, which led the pro- and sometimes clash with mem- rounds of dialogue after the upris- Bahrain further off the path to ments for holding them.” test movement against the Sunni bers of the security forces. ing but withdrew from the talks, democracy,” he said. three ‘IS jihadists’ The court gave the group three regime, made slender gains in the But Al Wefaq insists on the saying the authorities were not Al Wefaq vowed to “continue months to hold a general assembly last election, in 2010. But it with- “peaceful” nature of its movement. making enough concessions. in its struggle for democratic RABAT: Morocco has arrested to elect its leaders, the official said. drew its 18 MPs after the gov- Tensions are already running In reaction to yesterday’s deci- transition and justice to build a three men — a Frenchman, Without commenting on the ernment crushed the protests in high with the pre-election cam- sion, New York-based Human democratic state for all Bahrainis a French-Moroccan and an accusations, Al Wefaq responded March 2011. paign marked by sporadic acts of Rights First warned it could “lead and end the totalitarian rule that Algerian — accused of planning saying “the tyrannical dictator- The opposition is demanding violence. to more friction and instability in is excluding the people through to join the Islamic State jihad- ship in Bahrain is ruling with an an independent electoral com- The authorities have been the country as it prepares for par- harsh sentences and security ist group, the interior ministry iron fist and moving to destroy mission and the dissolution of the accusing dissidents during the liamentary elections”. measures that violate fundamen- said yesterday. the political and social life by Consultative Council, parliament’s past weeks of attacking can- Human Rights First’s Brian tal human rights.” The French-Moroccan and blocking the people out.” upper chamber whose members didates to whom the interior Dooley said: “With less than four AFP the Frenchman were detained on Monday after allegedly “engaging in activism and prop- aganda” including disseminat- ing press releases and video recordings “apologising for ter- rorist acts,” the MAP state news Israel denies barring Palestinians from buses agency said, quoting a ministry statement. It said the two men were pre- JERUSALEM: An Israeli plans forbidding West Bank-based through the Eyal military check- where the Palestinians’ bus ride homeward leg by putting the work- paring to join the Islamic State official denied yesterday the Palestinian workers from travel- point, near the West Bank city of would leave them back at Eyal ers through one point. “To say the (IS) group, whose fighters have existence of a blanket ban on ling to and from Israel on buses Qalqiliya, where they are checked where it would terminate. ministry’s response is disingenuous seized large parts of Iraq and Palestinians sharing buses with used by settlers. before being allowed to board. The defence ministry source said is an understatement,” she said. Syria. settlers in the occupied West Israeli rights group B’Tselem On the return journey they are “the workers will have to return “The reality of the situation is The Algerian was arrested in Bank, after the Jewish state was on Sunday accused Yaalon of issu- free to choose alternative routes, through the same crossing from that these settlers do not want to the central city of Fez after alleg- accused of racial segregation. ing a racially motivated edict. “It including those passing straight which they left in order to keep tabs travel on buses with Palestinians. edly planning to travel to join his “There is no prohibition on is time to stop hiding behind tech- through checkpoints and calling on entry and exits as all sovereign They’re simply not interested in wife, who is already a member of travelling on buses with Israelis,” nical arrangements... and admit at settlements inside the West countries do, which reduces the these workers coming home on IS, the statement said. a senior source at the defence this military procedure is thinly Bank, that get the Palestinians chance of (militant) attacks,” add- their buses after they’ve worked.” In mid-October authori- ministry wrote in response to a veiled pandering to the demand closer to their homes and with ing that there was no blanket pro- The new rules would initially ties announced the arrest of a query. for racial segregation on buses,” less delay, said B’Tselem spokes- hibition on travelling with Israelis. apply only to Palestinians com- Moroccan, with his two young On Monday Attorney General said B’Tselem. woman Sarit Michaeli. Michaeli said the plan was ing through Eyal and not to those French daughters in tow, as he Yehuda Weinstein was reported Palestinians heading to work in Those options would disap- meant to appease settlers who entering at other crossings through- sought to join up with the extrem- to have asked Defence Minister the Tel Aviv or central Israeli area pear under the new plan, which objected to sharing public trans- out the West Bank, she said. ist group. Moshe Yaalon to explain alleged currently enter the Jewish state she told AFP was a “pilot scheme” port with the Palestinians on the AFP AGENCIES

New Turkish Presidential Palace Lebanon in talks to prevent killing Sudan begins registration of two soldiers for 1st post-secession vote

BEIRUT: Lebanon is negotiat- KHARTOUM: Sudan began commander who rules in an alli- ing with Sunni militants to pre- registration yesterday for its ance with hardline Islamists, has vent the killing of two captured first elections since the south contested three elections since soldiers, the country’s health of the country won independ- coming to power in 1989. minister said yesterday. ence, but many voters said they He won 68 percent of the vote Wael Abu Faour would not would ignore polls they believe in the last polls in 2010, accord- say which group he was talking are guaranteed to extend the ing to government figures, though with but both Islamic State and 25-year rule of President Omar international monitors cast doubt Al Qaeda’s Syria wing, the Nusra Hassan Al Bashir. on the fairness of that election. Front, have captured Lebanese Wanted by the International This time, the economy will soldiers. Three have been killed. Criminal Court for crimes against play a much bigger role for those “We received a specific request humanity, Bashir had promised to who choose to go to the polls. from the kidnappers in exchange step down in April’s presidential Sudan’s economy has been in for halting the execution of the and parliamentary elections. free fall since the oil-rich south- soldiers ... Matters are going in a But the ruling National ern third of the country seceded positive direction,” he said, with- Congress Party named him on in 2011 and the government has out giving details on the demand. Saturday as its presidential can- slashed services and subsidies Many Sunni Syrian rebels and didate, dashing hopes that the as its foreign exchange reserves hardline Lebanese Sunni Islamists vote would mark a new start shrink. accuse Lebanon’s army of work- Workers clean the area in front of the new Turkish Presidential Palace prior to an official reception on Republic for a country facing diplomatic With inflation at 40 percent, ing with the Lebanese Shia move- Day in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. isolation, economic sanctions voters are concerned with find- ment Hezbollah, which has sent and armed insurrection in five ing jobs and feeding their families. fighters to aid Syrian President provinces. “I am sure the elections will not Bashar Al Assad, a member of the Some Sudanese, alarmed by change anything in my life and Shia-derived Alawite minority. the chaos that has engulfed Libya will not provide us with jobs after A two-day battle over the week- Libya PM accepts Sudan peace plan and Syria, say they would prefer graduation,” university student end between Sunni militants and the stagnation under Bashir to an Samia Ibrahim said. “Bashir is the army ended on Monday when gov- unknown future if he stepped next president and my voice does ernment forces retook neighbour- KHARTOUM: Sudan said last month it accused Sudan of gave no further details of the aside. Even so, they may not not mean anything. Can anyone hoods in the coastal city of Tripoli. At yesterday that Libya’s interna- arming “terror” groups on its plan, only saying it would be bother to sign up to parliamen- but Bashir win?” least 11 soldiers, eight civilians and 22 tionally recognised premier has territory. discussed with ministers at the tary and presidential elections With the three main opposi- militants were killed in the fighting. accepted its proposal to bring Libyan Prime Minister next neighbouring countries of whose results they say are a fore- tion parties boycotting the elec- The fighting marked the worst together different groups in Abdullah Al Thani “accepted Libya meeting in the Sudanese gone conclusion. tions along with smaller liberal spillover of Syria-related violence his strife-torn North African the plan presented by President capital. “I will not participate because and communist parties, many into Lebanon since early August, nation for talks on ending the (Omar) Al Bashir to bring dif- His remarks came after the they are not free elections. The are asking the same question. when Islamist insurgents staged conflict. ferent Libyan groups together, Libyan premier, who was in outcome is known and Bashir is Candidate registration will take an incursion into the border town Mounting unrest across Libya and we have a clear plan,” said Khartoum for a three-day visit, the next president,” 70-year-old place at the end of December, of Arsal and took about 20 soldiers has virtually confined the inter- Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali met with Bashir and other senior pensioner Ibrahim Ali said after when it will become clearer who captive. nationally recognised government Karti. Sudanese officials. Bashir’s renomination. will participate. REUTERS to the eastern city of Tobruk, and Speaking to reporters, Karti AFP Bashir, a former military REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Al Qaeda seizes Iraq Kurdish fighters head to Kobane territory from No plan to send ground forces across border, says Turkey; US-led strike fails to break IS hold moderate

ARBIL/MURSITPINAR: weapons from the Kurdistan Syrian group Iraqi peshmerga fighters headed Region to Kobane, which began for the Syrian town of Kobane this evening,” Brett McGurk, BEIRUT/AMMAN: Fighters yesterday to help fellow Kurds a deputy envoy tasked by US linked to Al Qaeda have seized repel an Islamic State advance President Barack Obama with territory from a moderate that has defied US-led air building a coalition against IS, Syrian rebel group in a three- strikes and become an impor- said on Twitter. day campaign that has expanded tant test of the coalition’s ability The Iraqi Kurdish region’s their control into one of the few to combat the Sunni insurgents. parliament voted last week to areas of northern Syria not held Kobane, nestled on the border deploy some peshmerga to Syria by hardline Islamists. with Turkey, has been besieged although a Kurdish government Syrian opposition activists by Islamic State for more than spokesman later said they would and a military commander said a month. Weeks of air strikes on not engage in direct combat in the Nusra Front had taken sev- the insurgents’ positions and the Kobane but rather provide artil- eral villages in Idlib province deaths of hundreds of their fight- lery support. from the Syria Revolutionaries’ ers have failed to break the siege. Kurdistan’s Minister of Front led by Jamal Maarouf, a Islamic State has caused inter- Peshmerga, Mustafa Sayyid prominent figure in the mod- national alarm by capturing Qader, told local media yesterday erate opposition to President large expanses of Iraq and Syria, that no limits had been set to how Bashar Al Assad. declaring an Islamic “caliphate” long the forces would remain in “This has happened before and erasing borders between the two Kobane. we came through it. But this time and slaughtering or driving away The fighting around Kobane the mobilisation is very large,” Shia Muslims, Christians and has exacerbated the flow of ref- said a military official in the Syria other communities who do not ugees from Syria’s 3-year civil Revolutionaries’ Front. share their ultra-radical brand war, with more than three mil- Twenty of the group’s fighters of Sunni Islam. lion people already sheltering in had been killed on Monday, the The Islamic State (IS) has neighbouring countries including official said. threatened to massacre Kobane’s Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. “Jamal remains steadfast,” defenders in an assault which has Jordan’s foreign minister said the official, who declined to sent almost 200,000 Syrian Kurds warned yesterday the huge be named because he is not an fleeing to Turkey, and triggered demand for housing, schools, jobs official spokesman for the group. a call to arms from Kurds across and health care generated by the A convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters drive through Arbil after leaving a base in northern Iraq, on their way to Speaking via Skype, he added the region. refugees meant Syria’s neighbours Kobani, yesterday. that the Syria Revolutionaries’ Hemin Hawrami, a senior offi- were reaching the limits of their Front had taken 25 Nusra fight- cial in the Kurdistan Democratic ability to cope. ground troops with the same risks for a long-term strategic plan to use ground troops, is sending ers prisoner. Party in Iraq, wrote on his Twitter Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet on our border?” Davutoglu said. for Syria involving the removal some peace-oriented or moderate The Nusra Front is al Qaeda’s feed that peshmerga combatants Davutoglu said earlier that air Turkish officials have rebuffed of President Bashar Al Assad troops to Kobane. What are they? official affiliate in the Syrian civil were flying from Arbil airport in strikes alone would not be enough international criticism over their from power, fearing that Assad’s Peshmerga ... and Free Syrian war and one of the strongest northern Iraq to Turkey, from to push back the insurgents and reluctance to do more to help forces or Kurdish militants will Army (Syrian opposition forces),” insurgent groups fighting to top- where they would travel overland that only the peshmerga and Kobane’s beleaguered Kurdish fill the void if Islamic State is Davutoglu said. ple Assad. to Kobane. moderate Syrian rebel forces defenders, whom they accuse neutralised. Davutoglu renewed calls for But it has been overshad- Saleh Moslem, co-chair of could oust Islamic State from of being linked to the militant Iran accused Turkey yester- the United States to train and owed by the Islamic State, the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Kobane. Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), day of prolonging the three-year arm fighters from the Free which has seized swathes of Union Party (PYD), said later “Saving Kobane, retaking which has fought a decades-long armed conflict in Syria by insisting Syrian Army (FSA), a loose, dis- northern and eastern Syria that around 150 peshmerga had Kobane and some area around insurgency against the Turkish on Assad’s overthrow and support- organised coalition of groups who and is being targeted by US-led entered Turkey from Iraq and Kobane from ISIS, there’s a need state. ing “terrorist groups” in Syria. have been battling Assad and air strikes. were expected to reach the area for a military operation,” he said That stance has enraged After pressure from Western who have long been supported The official said Islamic State of Kobane later yesterday night. in an interview with the BBC Turkey’s own Kurdish minority allies, Turkey last week agreed to by Turkey. fighters were reinforcing the A Kurdish television channel broadcast on Tuesday. But he — about a fifth of the population let peshmerga forces from Iraq Washington has committed to Nusra Front in the assault. showed footage of what it said made clear neither Turkey nor and half of all Kurds across the traverse its territory to reach arming the Syrian opposition to But the Syrian Observatory was a convoy of peshmerga vehi- Western allies would commit region. Kurds suspect Ankara Kobane as its preferred alterna- fight Islamic State, but US offi- for Human Rights, which cles in northern Iraq loaded with troops. would rather see Islamic State tive to US planes air-dropping cials remain concerned about tracks the civil war, said it was weapons and on their way to the “If they (international coali- jihadists extend their territorial weapons to Kurdish fighters in identifying effective, moderate another hardline group, Jund besieged town. tion) don’t want to send their gains than allow Kurdish insur- the town. groups in the increasingly sectar- Al Aqsa, that was providing the “We welcome the deploy- ground troops, how can they gents to consolidate local power. “The only way to help Kobane, ian Syrian conflagration. backup. ment of peshmerga fighters and expect Turkey to send Turkish Turkey has repeatedly called since other countries don’t want REUTERS REUTERS Iran accuses Turkey of prolonging Syria war IS lures more Germans,

ANKARA: Iran accused crossing into Syria to fight his President Tayyip Erdogan, who to join the US-led military coalition Turkey yesterday of prolong- forces, while Iran has supported was quoted by Turkish media on against the Islamic State unless it says spy agency ing the three-year conflict in him both militarily and politically. Monday accusing Iran of playing also confronts Assad, a demand that neighbouring Syria by insisting “Ankara’s interference in on Syria’s sectarian divisions. Washington, which flies air missions BERLIN: Islamic State (IS) Assad’s forces have largely on President Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian internal affairs has unfor- “When we have bilateral meet- over Syria without objection from militants will be able to mount turned their backs on Syria’s overthrow and supporting “ter- tunately resulted in prolonging ings with Iran, they agree on solv- Damascus, has so far rejected. operations in Iraq “for the fore- sparsely populated east, allowing rorist groups” in Syria, the offi- the war and extensive deaths of ing this issue together. When it Iran and the United States have seeable future” despite US-led IS to expand there, it added. cial Irna news agency reported. innocent Syrian civilians,” Iran’s comes to action, unfortunately, been arch-foes for decades but now air strikes and efforts by Iraqi In a parallel statement, Tehran and Ankara back official Irna quoted a senior they have their own way of work- share a strategic interest in revers- security forces to regain terri- BND’s sister agency BfV, opposing sides in the civil war, Foreign Ministry official as saying. ing,” Erdogan was quoted by the ing the territorial gains of IS that tory, Germany’s BND foreign which handles domestic intel- which pits rebel forces including “The crisis in Syria could have Hurriyet newspaper as saying. threaten to redraw the map of the intelligence agency said. ligence, said the number of radical Sunni Muslim fighters ended three years ago if Turkish The Syrian conflict has under- Middle East. The military gains German intelligence also Salafist Islamists was rising from the Islamic State against officials stopped demanding mined what were once close ties by Islamic State fighters challenge sounded the alarm about a ris- in Germany, and with it the Assad, Tehran’s closest regional regime change and supporting between Iranian officials and Tehran’s strategy of projecting power ing number of Islamist militants number of potential recruits ally. terrorist groups in Syria,” the Erdogan, whose Syria policy has from the Gulf to the Mediterranean inside Germany ready to join IS in for IS. Some 450 people have Turkey, which has called for official said. put him at odds with Iran, Russia through its mainly Shia allies in Iraq, Iraq and Syria and warned of an travelled from Germany to join Assad to step down, has been a main The comments appeared to be and, at times, the United States. Syria, and Lebanon. increased risk of violent clashes the radical Islamist fighters. transit point for foreign militants a response to remarks by Turkish NATO-member Turkey has refused REUTERS on German streets between rival Salafists espouse a strict, puri- radical groups. tanical form of Islam. Islamic State (IS) has seized The BfV said some Chechens Syrian neighbours swathes of territory in Iraq living in Germany were joining and Syria this year, declared Salafist groups and added that risk ‘host-country an Islamic ‘caliphate’ and has many of those recruits were executed or driven away Shia especially active and violent. fatigue’, Berlin Muslims, Christians and other It also warned of increased groups that do not share their clashes in Germany between radical version of Sunni Islam. Islamist groups and supporters meet hears United States has committed of Kurdish separatists, in an echo to arming the Syrian opposi- of the Kobani conflict. BERLIN: Syria’s neighbours tion to fight Islamic State, but “Salafists are recruiting fight- are approaching “host-coun- US officials remain concerned ers for IS. Since the summer of try fatigue” because of huge about identifying effective, mod- 2014 the Kurdistan Workers demand from refugees for hous- erate groups in the increasingly Party (PKK) is recruiting ing, schools, jobs and health sectarian Syrian conflagration. its followers to fight against care and scant resources like In a statement yesterday, BND IS,” said BfV president Hans- water, Jordan’s foreign minister said IS was still able to operate Georg Maassen in the agency’s said yesterday. successfully in the western Iraqi statement. Lebanon and Turkey echoed province of Anbar and outside The PKK, a secular group, has that message at an international Baghdad and was working to con- been fighting Turkish security conference in Berlin on what U vince more Iraqi Sunnis to turn forces for decades in a campaign N refugee chief Antonio Guterres against the US-led coalition fight- to carve out a Kurdish homeland called “the most dramatic human- ing against it. in southeast Turkey. itarian crisis the world has faced “The continuation of the politi- The fighting in and around in a very long time”. cal and security vacuum in Iraq Kobani in recent weeks has German Foreign Minister for the foreseeable future will put renewed pressure on a Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose make fighting terrorist, radical fragile peace process pursued country has led the way in Europe From left: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, German groups considerably harder,” it by Turkey and the Kurdish by taking in 70,000 refugees and Minister for Economic Cooperation Gerd Mueller and President of the Swiss Confederation Didier Burkhalter said. separatists. giving nearly ¤650m in aid, said during a a conference on the current refugee situation in Syria and neighbouring countries at the Foreign Office In Syria, the BND said fight- “We are concerned that violent international efforts to stop in Berlin yesterday. ing between IS and Kurdish clashes between extremists on our Islamic State’s “murderous ram- forces in Kobani near the streets could escalate,” Maassen page” would fail without a parallel sheltering more than three mil- Ministers from those countries “The contribution that we have Turkish border showed that the said, referring to a recent wave solution for the growing refugee lion people who have fled Syria in appeared unconvinced that the received from the international militants were still in a position of fighting in German cities problem. a 3-year civil war that has killed broader international community community — only $250m — has to attack, even if their mobility between Salafist groups and local “We are approaching host- nearly 200,000 people. But he said is playing its part. fallen significantly short of our has been impaired by US-led air Kurds, and most recently between country fatigue in which the limit simply providing the basics was “The neighbouring countries, expectations,” he said. strikes. Salafists and a group of far-right of our ability to address the needs not enough. including Turkey, have to date With IS posing a threat to an Due to limited resources, supporters in the western city of of Syrian refugees is being tested “Hopelessness and despair had to shoulder an unfair share of expanse of territory inside Syria the forces of President Bashar Cologne. and has already been reached,” make people vulnerable to radi- the humanitarian burden result- that is home to about 5 million Al Assad are concentrated in The BND and BfV statements said Jordan’s Nasser Judeh, add- calisation and manipulation. This ing from the conflict in Syria,” people, “we are faced with the risk urban centres of Damascus, were released ahead of a planned ing that his country alone hosts is a real threat as half of the refu- said Naci Koru, deputy foreign of further humanitarian disasters Homs, Hama and Aleppo along news conference on Tuesday by 1.5 million Syrian refugees and gees are children and teenagers,” minister of Turkey, which has and continued large-scale move- Syria’s north to south axis and German intelligence chiefs and economic migrants. he said. “We must ensure that taken in more than 1.6 million ments of Syrians towards our the coast, where they have seen the interior minister on the fight Steinmeier praised the gener- these people have a chance to Syrian refugees so far, at a cost borders”, Koru added. some military successes, the against terrorism. osity of neighbouring states for receive an education.” of $4bn. REUTERS BND said. 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Vaccine trials to Survivors join Ebola fight in W Africa start this week in Switzerland Stigma continues amid hope GENEVA: Ebola vaccine trials are set to start in Switzerland CONAKRY/LIBERIA: High too, survivors are signing up to this week after receiving the school teacher Fanta Oulen work in Ebola Treatment Units, green light from the country’s Camara spent two weeks in to care for children orphaned by authorities, the World Health March fighting for her life the disease, and to provide coun- Organisation said yesterday. against the deadly Ebola virus selling to victims in an attampt Swiss regulators announced but her darkest days came after to break the taboo surrounding they would allow trials of an she was cured of the disease and the outbreak. experimental vaccine made by returned to her home in Guinea. There is hope that blood from Britain’s GlaxoSmithKine, and “Most of my friends stopped survivors can also be used as a tests on some 120 individuals visiting. They didn’t speak to me. serum to treat the disease. In were set to get under way at They avoided me,” the 24-year-old Liberia, plans are underway to the CHUV hospital in Lausanne said. “I wasn’t allowed to teach store survivors’ blood and the Friday, the hospital said. anymore.” The worst outbreak of World Health Organisation has “We have never before received Ebola on record has killed 5,000 said that treatment could start so many volunteers so quickly,” people in West Africa, mostly in as early as December. Blaise Genton, who heads CHUV’s Guinea and neighbouring Liberia For Dr Oulare Bakary, who set infectuous disease division, told and Sierra Leone. But thousands up the survivors association three reporters. more have survived, ostracised by months after he beat Ebola, peo- He said the volunteers, who fearful communities ravaged by ple who recover have an role to must be between the ages of 18 the disease. play in demystifying a virus that and 65, were mainly medical stu- In the face of such stigmatisa- has caused a violent backlash, dents and would all receive 800 tion, Ebola survivors like Camara partly because it has never before Swiss francs ($845) for their par- are joining an association in struck West Africa. ticipation. Genton stressed they Guinea that assists the growing Bakary was infected while would receive payment for their number of people who recover and treating patients in March, days time, since they would be spend- seeks ways for them to help com- before the mysterious virus in the ing “numerous hours with us”. bat the disease. forests of Guinea was confirmed Most of the volunteers will Survivors are believed to have as Ebola. “Everyone has been fac- receive the experimental GSK vac- immunity from Ebola thanks to ing stigma and rejection,” he said. cine called ChAd3, which is based antibodies in their blood, making “We needed to send a message to on a genetically modified chim- Blaise Genton, Head of Infectious Diseases Service, speaks to the media at the University Hospital of Lausanne them a powerful weapon in a fight the people about the epidemic and panzee adenovirus, but 20 of them (CHUV) in Lausanne yesterday. Switzerland said that it had approved the testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine against the virus. A shortage of also the possibility to be cured.” would receive a placebo he said. from GlaxoSmithKline on healthy volunteers, some of whom will be travelling to West Africa as medical staff. healthcare workers means weak He said that Camara’s story was AFP West African governments are all too common: not only had she losing the battle to contain Ebola, lost her job, but when her brother despite pledges of hundreds of went to his office, he was told to Australia bans travel from epidemic-hit countries millions of dollars in foreign aid. never come back as well. “It’s not The virus is spread by the bod- only the survivors of Ebola, it’s ily fluids of victims, who bleed, their friends and families who are SYDNEY: Australia has issued a blanket ban Africa,” Morrison told parliament on Monday. when a victim shows symptoms. Ebola, which vomit and suffer diarrhoea in its the collateral damage.” on visas from West African nations affected “These measures include temporarily can cause fever, vomiting and diarrhoea, final stages. Ordinary medical and In Liberia, where more than half by the Ebola outbreak to prevent the disease suspending our immigration programme, spreads through contact with bodily fluids sanitary staff must wear heavy the deaths have been registered, reaching the country, Immigration Minister including our humanitarian programme from such as blood or saliva. Personal Protective Equipment to UN child agency Unicef is enlisting Scott Morrison said, becoming the first rich Ebola-affected countries, and this means we Australia has contributed A$18m to help prevent infection, denying scared survivors to help care for the rising nation to shut its doors to the region. are not processing any application from these fight the disease but has been criticised by patients the chance for human con- number of children whose parents Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola affected countries.” All non-permanent or medical groups, opposition lawmakers and tact — but survivors do not have to. have either been killed or isolated despite a number of scares, and conservative temporary visas were being cancelled and per- rights groups for not sending teams to affected Camara, who lost six members in treatment units. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has so far resisted manent visa holders who had not yet arrived regions. The risks to Australia were already of her family to Ebola, works Unicef estimates that 3,700 repeated requests to send medical personnel to in Australia will be required to submit to a small due to its geographical isolation, said Dr with medical charity Medecins children have been orphaned by help battle the outbreak on the ground. 21-day quarantine period, he added. Adam Kamradt-Scott, a senior lecturer at the Sans Frontieres at a clinic in Ebola. Many of those who survive The decision to refuse entry for anyone A number of US states, including New York University of Sydney’s Marie Bashir Institute Guinea’s dilapidated ocean-front are deeply traumatised and terri- from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, while and New Jersey, have also imposed mandatory for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity. capital Conakry. “We share our fied by anyone wearing protective touted by the government as a necessary quarantines on returning doctors and nurses The visa ban, he said, would do nothing to own experience with those people, equipment. Only people who have safety precaution, was criticised by experts amid fears of the virus spreading outside of protect the country from Ebola while poten- explaining that we were sick but survived the disease already can and advocates as politically motivated and West Africa. Federal health officials say their tially having a negative public health impact now we have been cured,” Camara bring personal care to these terri- shortsighted. “The government has strong approach is extreme. by unduly raising fears about the disease and said. “We give them hope.” fied, yet possibly contagious, kids. controls for the entry of persons to Australia The disease has an incubation period of creating a general climate of panic. In Liberia and Sierra Leone REUTERS under our immigration programme from West about three weeks, and becomes contagious REUTERS

Italy president Mugabe skirts raging testifies in mafia case succession battle HARARE: Zimbabwe President Mujuru and accused her of plot- ROME: Italy’s President Giorgio Robert Mugabe opened parlia- ting to oust Mugabe at a party Napolitano testified for more ment yesterday, steering clear congress in December. than three hours yesterday in an of a succession struggle raging Mujuru, Mugabe’s deputy both unprecedented appearance in a in his ZANU-PF party following in the party and government for major trial that accuses the state his wife’s sensational attempt to the last 10 years, has been a front- of holding secret talks with the force his deputy out of office. runner to succeed Mugabe but Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s. As the 90-year-old addressed faces a stiff challenge from Justice Palermo prosecutors seeking the new parliament, dozens of Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, to shed light on a murky period ZANU-PF members sang his an enduring politician known as when the mob targeted the state praises outside the building, but “The Crocodile”. with assassinations and bombings also taunted each other over fac- During more than three dec- questioned a sitting head of state tional allegiances in the party ades in power in the southern in a mafia trial for the first time that has run Zimbabwe since African country, analysts say in the country’s history. independence from Britain in Mugabe has neutralised challeng- Among the defendants are 1980. ers by playing off ZANU-PF fac- Nicola Mancino, who was inte- Mugabe, one of Africa’s long- tions, and may be doing the same rior minister at the time and is est-serving leaders, said he would with his wife’s sudden emergence charged with giving false testi- invest in infrastructure, offer into front-line politics. mony, and Salvatore Riina, once free fertiliser and seed to farm- Mujuru, a battle-hardened vet- Italy’s most powerful mafia boss. ers and revise tax and labour laws eran of the 1970s liberation war Citizens walk near a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (background) dressed with a Ukrainian national Riina and eight others in the dock to improve an investment climate with a nom de guerre that means flag at a square in the eastern town Kramatorsk, near Slaviansk. face charges of trying to blackmail clouded by his nationalist policies. ‘Spill Blood’, won Mugabe’s sup- the state. All deny any wrongdoing. He made no direct reference port for the vice-president post in The 89-year-old Napolitano to the succession battle in his 2004 but now appears to be in a is not accused of any crime. He party, which went into overdrive precarious position ahead of this Russia backs rebel vote in Kiev was called as a witness who may this month when his wife, Grace, year’s congress. have knowledge useful to the trial, attacked Vice-President Joice REUTERS KIEV: Moscow has announced truce. “Russia’s intentions directly and spurred the kind of east-west but the hearing may tarnish the it will recognise separatist polls contradict the Minsk accord, tensions last seen during the cold image of a president who has in Ukraine next weekend, fuel- undermine the agreed process on war. Kiev and its western back- guided Italy in a period of politi- ling tensions with the country’s de-escalation and peaceful resolu- ers consider the six-month upris- cal and economic turmoil. Unrest in Burkina Faso newly elected pro-western lead- tion, and continue to weaken trust ing and the seizure of Crimea an Napolitano responded to ques- ers as they negotiate on forming in it [Russia] as a reliable interna- attempt by Vladimir Putin to pre- tions with the “maximum amount a coalition government. tional partner,” Kuleba said, calling vent Ukraine from reorientating of transparency and serenity” The rebel elections on Sunday the separatists terrorists. itself toward the west. and without invoking his consti- should go ahead as agreed, The row followed an increase Moscow, which has a large tutional right to remain silent, a Russian foreign minister Sergei in ceasefire violations, including naval base on the strategic statement from the president’s Lavrov said. “We will of course artillery exchanges, in the wake Crimean peninsula, says it only office said afterward. recognise the results,” he told the of last Sunday’s parliamentary wants to help Russian speakers “He said he had been a spectator Izvestia daily yesterday. elections, where the pro-western — a majority in Crimea and the to the events (of 1992-93), nothing Moscow rejects accusations in president Petro Poroshenko’s east — who feel threatened by more,” Luca Cianferoni, lawyer for Kiev and western capitals that it allies won a convincing victory. Ukrainian nationalism. the Corleone-born mob boss Riina, is behind the armed uprising in Artillery explosions and small With almost 85 percent of bal- told reporters outside the presi- Ukraine’s industrial heartland, arms fire could be heard into the lots counted from Sunday’s poll, the dent’s Quirinale Palace where the which has left 3,700 people dead early hours yesterday, witnesses shape of Poroshenko’s future rul- closed-door hearing took place. since April. But the decision to lend in rebel-controlled Donetsk said. ing alliance was becoming clearer. Prosecutors allege senior politi- legitimacy to the rebels’ vote was In Brussels, EU states were His bloc remained a hair’s breadth cians and police, hoping to stem one of the most overt acts of sup- reviewing sanctions imposed on behind prime minister Arseniy mounting violence, held talks with port so far for the two unrecognised Russia. The EU sanctions, coupled Yatsenyuk’s people’s front, with mob bosses after anti-mafia mag- “people’s republics” insurgents are with similar measures by the US, about 22 percent of the vote each. istrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife carving out in eastern Ukraine. are meant to pressure Russia over The third-placed Self-Reliance and three bodyguards were killed Senior Ukrainian foreign min- its backing for the rebels and its party, likewise nationalist and pro- by a mafia bomb planted under Burkina Faso riot police face opposition supporters in Ouagadougou istry official Dmytro Kuleba said annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea western, could join in a three-way a road in 1992. At the time of yesterday as hundreds battled police after a mass rally against plans Moscow was violating the peace province of Crimea in March. coalition. Yatsenyuk is expected to the bombings, Napolitano was to let the long-serving president extend his rule beyond 30 years. deal it had sponsored in Minsk in The sanctions have bitten deeply remain as prime minister. president of Italy’s Chamber of September, ushering in an uneasy into the faltering Russian economy THE GUARDIAN Deputies. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Another mass grave shocks Mexico President Nieto meets security cabinet amid concern over fate of 43 missing college students

MEXICO CITY: Mexico recoiled in according to press reports. fresh horror yesterday over the discov- The 43 male students went missing on ery of yet another mass grave, in the September 26 in Iguala after their buses futile monthlong search for 43 missing were attacked by police and members of college students. the Guerreros Unidos gang, killing six President Enrique Pena Nieto ordered people. a meeting of security officials in hopes Prosecutors suspect that the young of “restoring order” in restive Guerrero men were delivered by police to the gang, state, site of the latest macabre find, and but do not know what happened to the also where the students disappeared last students after that. month. Meanwhile, authorities said Monday Scores of bodies have been found in four more members of the cartel were unmarked graves in the search for the arrested in connection with the abduc- missing students, laying bare the extent tion, including two Guerreros Unidos of the rampant killings in the region, members suspected to have orchestrated which law enforcement officials have the crime and two others accused of aid- blame on ongoing drug violence. ing the alleged masterminds. It was not clear whether the bodies Mexico’s attorney general said the in the grave in the town of Cocula were arrests were important, as two of the sus- those of the missing students, who van- pects confessed to being directly involved ished on September 26 in the nearby in the disappearances in crime-plagued town of Iguala, after their buses were Guerrero. attacked by police. “We have identified the orchestrators. The mayor of Iguala, some 130 kilome- Today, we have detained those respon- tres southwest of Mexico City, and his sible for the disappearance of these wife, who are suspected of ordering the youth,” Attorney General Jesus Murillo students’ abduction, are currently on the Karam said. run. A total of 56 people have been arrested Around 40 municipal officers also have in connection with the abductions, been arrested in connection with the including other Guerreros Unidos gang disappearances. members who have said the students Meanwhile, Guerrero’s governor were likely killed. The case has sparked resigned last week, amid criticism outcry across Mexico, with protests in that he had not done enough after the several towns and cities where demon- disappearances. strators have occupied and even torched President Enrique Pena Nieto said government buildings. Guerrero’s new governor, Rogelio Ortega Federal authorities accuse on-the-run Forensic examiners look for human remains below a garbage-strewn hillside in the densely forested mountains on the outskirts of Cocula, Martinez, would meet with the country’s Iguala mayor Jose Luis Abarca of order- Mexico, yesterday. top security brass to address the incident. ing the attack to prevent the students “I have instructed my security cabi- from disrupting a public event held by his Democratic Revolution Party as the college known for staging protests, were disappearance of the students. net to meet with the governor to come wife, who is suspected of being a member former Guerrero governor Angel Aguirre, in Iguala for a fundraiser when they were The families of the missing students up with actions to restore order and of the Guerreros Unidos cartel. who resigned last week. attacked. The government announced a have promised to continue to stage pro- security,” President Pena Nieto said, The mayor belongs to the same leftist The students, from a radical teachers $110,000 reward for information in the tests until the young men are found. AFP UN votes US nurse leaves hospital after Ebola cure UK tightens to lift US security at top ATLANTA: The second of two fluids of an infected person and is American nurses who became not airborne. tourist site embargo infected with Ebola while treat- The Emory hospital declared ing a Liberian man who died Vinson virus-free on Friday, but LONDON: Armed soldiers have of the disease in Texas was she spent four more days in the been deployed at a top tour- released from an Atlanta hos- facility before being discharged. ist attraction in the heart of on Cuba pital yesterday having been “After a rigorous course of London’s government district as declared free of the virus. treatment and thorough testing, a precautionary measure after UNITED NATIONS: For the “I’m so grateful to be well,” a we have determined that Miss an Islamist gunman attacked the 23rd straight year, the United smiling Amber Vinson, 29, told Vinson has recovered from her Canadian parliament last week, Nations voted yesterday in reporters at Emory University infection with Ebola virus and a military source said yesterday. favour of lifting the US embargo Hospital before hugging the doc- that she can return to her fam- The source told Reuters that the on Cuba, with Iran saying the tors and nurses who had treated ily, to the community and to her decision to deploy the troops at ban was undeserved given her since her October 15 arrival. life without any concerns,” Emory the entrance to Horse Guards Havana’s help in fighting Ebola. “While this is a day for celebra- University Hospital’s Dr Bruce Parade in London’s Whitehall The UN General Assembly tion and gratitude, I ask that we Ribner told reporters. was not motivated by a specific adopted the non-binding resolu- not lose focus on the thousands of Ribner added, “We all recog- threat but was designed to be a tion on ending the five-decade families who continue to labour nise that there is a lot of anxiety, visible deterrent. embargo by a vote of 188 in favour, under the burden of this disease and that is understandable. But Large throngs of tourists with two countries voting against: in West Africa,” added Vinson, Amber Vinson (right) hugs lead physician Dr Bruce Ribner, medical director the American healthcare system gather each day at Horse Guards, the United States and Israel. looking fit. The infections of the of Emory’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit after she is released as has been successfully able to treat a short distance from Prime The Pacific island-states nurses in a Dallas hospital at the disease-free yesterday in Atlanta. patients with the Ebola virus.” Minister David Cameron’s official of Micronesia, Palau and the beginning of October illustrated Vinson is the fourth patient residence, to watch the ceremo- Marshall Islands abstained. the initial lack of preparedness successfully treated for Ebola nial changing of the guard. The outcome was the same as in the US public health system School sued over ban on daughter at Emory’s hospital. Vinson and The source said the decision last year. to safely deal with Ebola, which Pham treated Liberian Thomas had been taken by a local military Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno has killed about 5,000 people in NEW YORK: The father of lawsuit in US district court in Eric Duncan, who had travelled to commander in response to events Rodriguez told the 193-nation three impoverished West African a Connecticut third-grader Connecticut and asked the court Dallas in late September. He was in Canada last week, when a sol- assembly that voting to lift the countries — Liberia, Guinea and sued her local school yester- to order the schools in Milford, the first patient diagnosed with dier standing guard at an Ottawa embargo showed “that the cur- Sierra Leone — and raised fears day, saying his daughter was Connecticut to immediately per- Ebola in the United States and war memorial was fatally shot rent serious problems facing of a wider outbreak. discriminated against and mit his daughter to return to he died on October 8. by a man police said was a radi- humanity make it imperative to The other nurse who worked banned from school based class. Opayemi’s daughter has With concerns mounting cal recent convert to Islam who change our way of dealing with at Texas Health Presbyterian on irrational fears of Ebola not experienced any symptoms over the spread of the virus, the then charged into the parliament each other.” Hospital in Dallas, Nina Pham, 26, because she attended a family associated with Ebola and her Pentagon said Defence Secretary building. The economic damage inflicted was declared virus-free on Friday, wedding in Nigeria. health is fine, the suit says. Chuck Hagel is considering a rec- London’s Metropolitan Police on Cuba totals more than one tril- left the Maryland hospital where Stephen Opayemi filed the REUTERS ommendation from top military force was responsible for security lion dollars, Rodriguez argued, she had been treated and met commanders for a “quarantine- on the streets of the British capi- warning that the human cost is with President Barack Obama. like” 21-day monitoring period tal and armed soldiers had only on the rise. Vinson’s case caused wider and back on commercial planes. they show symptoms of Ebola, a for all US troops returning deployed at the tourist attraction About 77 percent of Cubans alarm when it was revealed that Ohio state health officials are haemorrhagic fever that can only from Ebola response efforts in because it was also a military bar- were born under the embargo she had flown from Texas to Ohio still monitoring 163 people in case be transmitted through the bodily West Africa. REUTERS racks, the source said. REUTERS regime, which causes hardship to families, he said. “No honest person, whether in the United States or the world, could agree with the devastat- ing consequences caused by the Canadians pay tribute to soldier killed in terror attack blockade,” he said. The minister said countries should cooperate to fight the OTTAWA: Thousands of exchanged fire with police before been earned by the soldier and Ebola outbreak and new security mourners lined the streets of being shot dead. then donated to all of us.” threats, making it necessary to the Canadian city of Hamilton The attack was one of two tar- “Most of us can never truly “change our attitude” and seek yesterday for the funeral pro- geting Canadian soldiers just days understand the significance to a cooperation for “the survival of cession of a soldier killed last apart. Another soldier, Warrant soldier of the simple act of stand- humanity.” week in an attack in the nation’s Officer Patrice Vincent, was killed ing reverently on guard at that Cuba has sent some 250 doc- capital. on October 20 in a hit and run place,” he said. tors, nurses and other health Wailing bagpipes and a solitary east of Montreal. He will be laid “Corporal Cirillo, who felt care workers to West Africa to drum beat broke a solemn silence to rest on Saturday. the calling of a soldier when he fight the Ebola epidemic, winning as hundreds of soldiers, veter- Both attacks came as Canada was just a 13-year-old cadet, he praise from the United States and ans and police officers marched deployed fighter jets to join US-led understood. He knew what he was other countries for its help. alongside the flag-draped casket air strikes on the Islamic State protecting and what he was pre- Iranian Ambassador Hossein of Corporal Nathan Cirillo to a group in Iraq. Police say both serving. He died protecting and Dehghani called the embargo cathedral in his hometown. assailants were converts to Islam preserving it.” “undeserved” and said Cuba had His bereaved family, including with alleged extremists views. In Ottawa, visiting US shown it was a valued interna- his six-year-old son wearing his “Two of our own have made the Secretary of State John Kerry tional player. father’s beret, also participated in ultimate sacrifice, and we cele- laid a wreath at the tomb of the “Cuba’s response to Ebola was the funeral procession, viewed on brate their lives and mourn their unknown soldier where Cirillo and continues to be far more television by millions nationwide. deaths,” said Governor General fell, in his honour. robust than many countries far Cirillo was fatally shot last David Johnston. Washington’s top diplomat said wealthier than it -- and is a fur- People rise as the coffin of Cpl Nathan Cirillo is carried by pallbearers at week while standing watch at In his eulogy, Prime Minister he came to offer condolences and ther proof the constructive role his regimental funeral service in Hamilton, Ontario, yesterday. Cirillo was the War Memorial in Ottawa. His Stephen Harper said the war express America’s “deep solidar- that Cuba plays in international standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa last Wednesday attacker, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, memorial is a reminder that ity” with its northern neighbour affairs,” he said. AFP when he was killed by a gunman who went on to open fire on Parliament Hill. then stormed into parliament and “freedom is never free. It has and closest ally. AFP WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

Former military officer took Ghani to help China fight extremists massive bribes BEIJING: A once-power- Official says China to give $245m to Afghanistan and train 3,000 Afghan professionals ful retired Chinese military officer has confessed to taking BEIJING: Afghanistan’s Central Asian countries to step “massive” bribes and will be President Ashraf Ghani has up the fight against religious mili- prosecuted in court, the offi- pledged to help China fight tants, which the Chinese govern- cial Xinhua news agency said Islamist extremists, a senior ment says were behind a spate yesterday. Chinese official said yesterday, of attacks in Xinjiang and across General Xu Caihou, a former after Ghani met President Xi China that have left hundreds vice chairman of the powerful Jinping in Beijing on his first dead in the past two years. Central Military Commission, visit abroad since his September Experts, however, dispute was court-martialed in June. He inauguration. the influence of foreign mili- has been stripped of his title and China, which is connected tant groups within China, and expelled from the military, Xinhua to Afghanistan by the narrow, argue that economic marginali- said, citing military prosecutors. almost impassable Wakhan sation of Muslim Uighurs, who Military prosecutors had fin- Corridor, says militants seeking call Xinjiang home, is one of the ished investigating his case and to set up a separate state called main causes of ethnic violence had started a procedure to file East Turkistan in its western there. the case with judicial authorities, Xinjiang region are holed up along Ghani began his four-day trip Xinhua said. the ungoverned Afghan-Pakistani to China less than a month after Xu took advantage of his posi- border. being sworn in following a pro- tion in awarding promotions, Leaders in Beijing, who have tracted election stalemate. Xinhua said. He accepted “huge been bracing for more responsi- The Taliban have stepped up amounts of bribes” personally and bility in Afghanistan as the bulk attacks ahead of the withdrawal through family members. of US-led troops pull out, worry of most foreign troops from He also sought profits for oth- that ethnic Uighur separatists Afghanistan at the end of the ers in exchange for bribes, Xinhua from Xinjiang will take advantage year, seeking to weaken the new said. if the country again descends into government. The statement also noted chaos. Speaking to Xi at Beijing’s that Xu’s expulsion from the “In the area of security, Great Hall of the People, Ghani Communist Party had been President Ghani expressed the pressed China to open the formalised. readiness and staunch support Wakhan Pass connecting the two Earlier this year, authorities from the Afghan side in China’s countries, a long-held request charged one of Xu’s protégés, fight against East Turkistan from Kabul which hopes to see Lieutenant-General Gu Junshan, Islamic Movement terrorist an influx of Chinese development. with graft. forces,” Kong Xuanyou, Director China has resisted, fearing unrest The buying and selling of sen- General of the Foreign Ministry’s will spill over into Xinjiang. ior jobs in the military, an open Asian Affairs Department, told Ghani also offered uncondi- secret, has worried reformers who journalists after Ghani and Xi tional support on China’s own ter- say it leads to those with talent met. Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd right) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai attend a signing ceremony ritorial problems, citing “Taiwan, being cast aside and damages Kong said China would give at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, yesterday. Tibet, and other issues”. morale. $245m in aid to Afghanistan over On Friday, foreign ministers Chinese President Xi Jinping the next three years and would from Asian and Central Asia has vowed to target high-ranking help train 3,000 Afghan profes- troops in Afghanistan but has So far, China’s commitment around $250m and its security countries will gather in Beijing for “tigers” as well as lowly “flies” in a sionals over the next five years. promised to play a “huge” com- to Afghan reconstruction since support has been mostly limited a fourth round “Istanbul Process” sprawling campaign against cor- China says it does not seek to mercial role in helping rebuild the the fall of the hardline Islamist to counter-narcotics training. conference on Afghanistan. ruption. REUTERS replace the departed Western country. Taliban regime in 2001 has been Xi has repeatedly urged REUTERS Prominent defector says North Korea has taken his father hostage

SEOUL: A prominent North for crimes against humanity. He said the North had put He urges Shin to “come to your for showing me that he is alive.” Those interviewed in the video Korean defector who has advo- North Korea says the accusa- his father in a propaganda video senses and return to the embrace “I think it’s probably because said Shin was lazy and unreliable cated UN action to stop the tions of human rights abuses are released this week that portrays of the Party,” referring to the of everything that’s going on at as a worker at a mine, and he left country’s human rights abuses fabrications and “wild rumours” Shin as a criminal active in fab- North’s ruling Workers’ Party, the United Nations ... maybe the the country to avoid punishment said yesterday authorities have peddled by “hostile forces” deter- ricating human rights problems. which Kim Jong Un heads. message is if I refuse to be quiet, for the rape of a 13-year-old girl taken his father hostage in a mined to undermine its leader- “The dictator is holding my Speaking later by telephone they will kill him.” and he now spread “preposterous campaign to discredit his story ship, and points to the United father hostage,” Shin said in a from South Korea, where he The video was titled “Truth false information” about human of survival and escape from a States as the mastermind. post on his Facebook page yes- lives, Shin said he could not be and Lies” and was released rights. prison camp. Shin Dong-hyuk is one of the terday, referring to North Korean sure where the video was taken by the China-based Website Shin said the accusation of North Korea has been on a most prominent defectors from leader Kim Jong Un. The page or whether his father had been Uriminzokkiri, which carries pro- sexual assault was a fabrication diplomatic campaign to counter North Korea whose account carried a series of still images of brought from a prison camp to North Korea propaganda, aimed which he had heard before. charges by a UN commission of torture and escape from a an elderly man taken from the produce the footage. at Koreans abroad. Neither the narrator in the that highlighted widespread political prison camp gripped video interview. “I had thought my father had It also showed people it said video nor any of the people human rights abuses and a move international investigators The man in the video was died. But this is definitely my knew Shin before his escape and filmed made any mention of by some member states to refer examining the North’s human speaking in a modestly fur- father,” he said. “I’d never thought by his former name “Shin In North Korea’s network of prison it to an international tribunal rights conditions. nished Korean-style living room. I’d be grateful to North Korea ... Gun.” camps. REUTERS Umbrellas against teargas Anwar faces final appeal against sodomy conviction

KUALA LUMPUR: A The government rejected the Malaysian court is due to decide notion of political interference this week on an appeal by oppo- saying Malaysia had an inde- sition leader Anwar Ibrahim pendent judiciary and the case, against a sodomy conviction brought by a former male political and five-year prison term, with aide, was between two individuals a ruling against him likely to all and a matter for the courts. but end his political career and The conviction, Anwar’s second inflame tension. for sodomy, shattered his political A court convicted Anwar in plans which had been given a boost March of sodomising a former by opposition gains in a 2013 elec- political aide and sentenced him tion. His lawyers appealed and a to five years in prison. Sodomy is court will take up the case yester- illegal in Malaysia. day, with a decision possible today. Anwar, who in the mid-1990s If Anwar, 67, loses, he faces a was the ruling party’s rising return to jail and would be barred star before falling out with then from contesting the next general premier Mahathir Mohamad, election that must be held by 2018. condemned the verdict as a “cho- He told reporters on Monday reographed” travesty. Supporters he had decided he would not go Pro-democracy protesters open their umbrellas for 87 seconds, and rights groups said it was abroad to avoid the possibility of marking the 87 rounds of tear gas that were fired by the Hong Kong politically influenced. jail. REUTERS police at unarmed student protesters in exactly the same location one month ago, at the Admiralty, Hong Kong, China, yesterday. Japan nuke plant gets approval to restart

TOKYO: A town in south- Nineteen of the city’s 26 world’s worst nuclear disaster Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s west Japan became the first assembly members voted in since Chernobyl in 1986. government is pushing to to approve the restart of a favour of restarting the plant An earthquake and tsunami restart nuclear reactors, but nuclear power station yester- while four members voted struck the Fukushima Daiichi has said he will defer to local day, a step forward in Japan’s against and three abstained, a plant, 220 kilometres northeast authorities to approve a policy fraught process of reviving city assembly member said. of Tokyo, sparking triple nuclear that is still unpopular with large an industry left idled by the The restart of Japan’s first meltdowns, forcing more than swaths of the public. Fukushima catastrophe in reactors to receive clearance 160,000 residents to flee from The restart divided commu- 2011. to restart under new rules nearby towns and contaminat- nities nearest to the plant, pit- Satsumasendai, a town of imposed since Fukushima ing water, food and air. ting the host township that gets 100,000 that hosts the two- is unlikely until next year as Japan has been forced to direct benefits from siting reac- reactor Kyushu Electric Power Kyushu Electric still needs to import expensive fossil fuels tors against other communities Co plant, is 1,000 kilometres pass operational safety checks. to replace atomic power, which that do not reap the benefits but southwest of Tokyo and has long All 48 of the country’s nuclear previously supplied around say they will be equally exposed relied on the Sendai plant for reactors were gradually taken 30 percent of the country’s to radioactive releases in the government subsidies and jobs. offline following Fukushima, the electricity. event of a disaster. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 41,600 cops to be deployed for Undas Filipinos to visit cemeteries on All Saints’ Day

MANILA: At total of 41,600 13 bus terminals, four airports, 20 The North Cemetery will start policemen will be deployed in shopping malls and stations of the tightening security on October 30 cemeteries, terminals, major Light Rail Transit and the Metro in anticipation of the bulk of peo- roads and vital installations Rail Transit within the district’s ple who will pay their respects to nationwide to ensure peace and area of coverage. their departed loved ones. order during All Saints’ Day “We hope that the situation Private cars will no longer be (Undas). will be generally peaceful. To allowed to enter the cemetery In press briefing yesterday, date there is no monitored threat starting October 30. Interior and Local Government reported,” Roxas said. Estrada advised families going Secretary Manuel Roxas II said Last year, eight incidents to cemeteries not to bring weap- the entire Philippine National were recorded nationwide from ons and liquor to prevent them Police (PNP) would be on full October 31 to November 2. from being apprehended, fined alert starting October 30. It would The city government of Manila and jailed. remain until November 3 when is also ready for the observance of Sound systems are also people who flock to cemeteries All Saints’ Day. prohibited. Health workers wear protective suits and equipment during the “One Nation, One Direction for EBOLA Prevention” and provinces are expected to “The North and South cem- “From October 30 to November training at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine hospital in Alabang, Muntinlupa, south of Manila yesterday. return to Manila. eteries are now clean. Security 1, drinking of liquor will be Roxas said each of the 17 police preparations have already been strictly prohibited in cemeteries regional offices would deploy at made by the city government and in Manila. We want the observ- least 4,034 policemen. the Manila Police District (MPD). ance of Undas orderly and clean.” The National Capital Region Vendors will be regulated,” Manila “We have made the complete New group formed to fight Ebola Police Office will deploy 4,278 Mayor Joseph Estrada said. information drive already to guide policemen, with 2,595 concen- Doctors, nurses and ambu- those families who will visit their MANILA: A new working measures and develop proto- taken, especially in information trated in cemeteries in Metro lances will also be deployed in departed relatives,” Estrada group has been formed to pre- cols in case the virus enters the dissemination. Manila. cemeteries in Manila to give first added. pare for any Ebola threat fol- Philippines. No timelines have been dis- About 14,000 policemen in the aid and other assistance should The Parañaque City govern- lowing a meeting of the National “We need to put forward and cussed yet for the working group metropolis will be manning their visiting families need medical ment, meanwhile, announced Disaster Risk Reduction let people know the right infor- to release protocols, she added. regular posts and patrol around assistance. rerouting and safety plans along and Management Council mation on what it is and how it The DOH will head the work- residential areas to prevent bur- The management of the North its major roads from October 31 to (NDRRMC) yesterday. can be transmitted,” she said. ing group to be comprised of glary, as many families are out on Cemetery earlier said that fami- November 2 as the largest private In a phone interview, spokes- Marasigan said the Department representatives from local gov- vacation. lies have until October 29 to cemeteries in the metropolis are man Mina Marasigan said the of Health (DOH) had assured ernments, Office of Civil Defence, The Southern Police District clean the tombs of their departed in this city. NDRRMC had tasked the tech- the NDRRMC that all meas- the police and the military. will also be providing security at relatives. PHILIPPINE STAR nical working group to draw up ures and processes are being PHILIPPINE STAR Typhoon-hit Tacloban fails to rebuild homes Aquino says 2nd term

MANILA: The mayor of the close to 8,000 people and displaced danger zones, many in tents and Romualdez did not mention central Philippine city worst hit as many as four million. we want them all transferred graft as a factor in one of Asia’s not the right solution by a super typhoon a year ago “Building more permanent to transitional shelters by next most corrupt countries. said yesterday fewer than 100 homes is very slow and takes month,” Romualdez said. The Philippines came in MANILA: President Aquino in Manila last Friday, Aquino of 14,500 promised permanent time. Hopefully, by January next “...One year after typhoon at 94 out of 175 countries in ended yesterday speculations on also hinted before local investors homes had been built and that year, the pace will pick up,” Mayor Haiyan, we are back but only Transparency International’s a possible term extension, tell- that he did not have any more thousands were still living in Alfred Romualdez, nephew of about 50 percent,” he said, say- corruption perceptions index last ing a group of businessmen that plans to extend his term as he danger zones. the Philippines’ former first lady, ing the recovery effort was slowed year. having six more years in office reverted back to saying that he Typhoon Haiyan wiped out or Imelda Marcos, told reporters. down by bureaucracy, shortage The Aquino government has a was not “the right solution” to was in the “last two minutes” of damaged practically everything He blamed the lack of suitable of manpower and resources and six-year $3.80bn master plan to sustain the country’s growth. his administration. in its path as it swept ashore on land where houses which could other delays. rebuild devastated areas, building Instead the solution, Aquino Yesterday, Aquino was asked November 8, 2013, with seven- withstand 250kph winds could be Construction materials, like about 200,000 homes and provid- said, is choosing the next leader about how the Philippines could metre storm surges destroying built but said he hoped the 14,500 galvanized iron sheets, were also ing more sustainable jobs for 2.6 wisely. maintain or increase its com- around 90 percent of the city of homes would be completed by scarce, he said, forcing people to million people who living below “With regard to how do we petitiveness after Asean integra- Tacloban in Leyte province. 2017. use fallen coconut trees to build the poverty line. sustain this after 2016, then per- tion and how sustainable growth Haiyan killed or left missing “There are still 3,000 people in temporary shelters. REUTERS haps I will vote for the right can- would be after 2016. didate. And if I can ask you also Aquino reiterated his adminis- to discern properly as to who is tration had been investing much US marine protest extolling populist sentiments on education and skills training with no substance as opposed to to equip the people, especially the those who not only say the right young, for employment. Philippines is things but whom you can trust to He said he would never be sat- deliver the same,” Aquino told the isfied and had been pushing his 9th in gender Semiconductor and Electronics officials to achieve more than Industries in the Philippines Inc. their targets. equality at work (SEIPI) during its 13th CEO “I think we will redefine cer- Forum and 118th general mem- tain parameters... the 110 percent GENEVA: The Philippines bership meeting in Makati. from current standards (will) just ranked ninth among 142 coun- He did not identify any pre- be the next 100 percent,” Aquino tries for gender equality in the ferred successor. said. workplace, according to a report “At the end of the day, again I “We believe the greatest single published by the World Economic have to reemphasize, this is really resource of the country is the peo- Forum (WEF) yesterday. a collective effort. Even if there ple, hence all of the investments, The five Nordic countries, led are some quarters saying I should not just in education but also in by Iceland, remained the most try and go for a second term, I other social concerns like health,” gender-equal. don’t think that’s a right solution. he said. They were joined by Nicaragua, We all have a time card in this Aquino said 82 percent of the Rwanda, Ireland, the Philippines world and we have to prepare for population had already been and Belgium in the top 10, while the eventuality of being called to enrolled in Philippine Health Yemen remained at the bottom meet our Maker. So there has to Insurance Corp. of the chart for the ninth year in be that continuation of people of “We have expanded not just a row. like mind who will deliver on the the… coverage in terms of people Meanwhile, the United States promises that are real and not but also coverage in terms of dis- climbed three spots from last just self-serving or nice, pleasant eases, so that a catastrophic ill- year to 20th, after narrowing its to hear,” Aquino said. ness will not bring you back below wage gap and hiking the number During the 40th Philippine the poverty line,” he said. of women in parliamentary and Business Conference and Expo PHILIPPINE STAR ministerial level positions. France catapulted from 45th to 16th place, also due to a narrow- Activists display placards of US Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton during a protest outside ing wage gap but mainly thanks the presidential palace in Manila yesterday. The Philippines will put Pemberton on trial for killing a transgender to increasing numbers of women Filipina in Olongapo City but prosecutors have yet to decide whether to charge him with murder or homicide. in politics, including near-parity Comelec to lease more in the number of government ministers. With 49 percent women min- machines for 2016 polls isters, France now has one of the Ex-justice says BBL unconstitutional highest ratios in the world. Britain dropped eight spots MANILA: More Optical Mark clauses for the Comelec,” he said. to 26th place, amid changes in MANILA: Retired Supreme unconstitutional in 2008. homeland,” when the term “ter- Reader (OMR) and Direct In the 2013 elections, the income estimates. Court (SC) Associate Justice “I regret, however, that despite ritory” in law refers to a part of Recording Electronic (DRE) Comelec invoked the “option to Among other large economies, Vicente Mendoza warned the splendid progress made the country separated from the machines will be leased for use purchase” clause in acquiring the Brazil stood at 71st place, Russia yesterday that the proposed toward the peaceful solution rest or a geographical area under in the 2016 elections. PCOS machines for P1.8bn. at 75th, China at 87th and India Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) of the Mindanao conflict, I still the jurisdiction of another sover- The Commission on Elections The BAC said P90,000 per at 114, the report showed. could reduce the powers of the entertain doubts concerning the eign power. (Comelec) Bids and Awards unit has been set for OMR and But the WEF report said that national government and lead constitutionality of certain con- The phrase on the recogni- Committee (BAC) reported yes- P75,000 for each DRE. while women are rapidly clos- to the break-up of the Republic. cepts and provisions embodied in tion of the right of the people terday that some P2.07bn has “Bids received in excess of ing the gender gap with men in Speaking before a House of House Bill 4994,” he said. to self-determination to chart been allocated for the lease of the Approved Budget for the areas like health and education, Representatives ad hoc commit- The ad hoc committee on the their political future reinforces 23,000 OMR units and another Contract (ABC) shall automati- inequality at work is not expected tee, Mendoza said the proposed proposed BBL chaired by Cagayan the notion that Bangsamoro is a P30.75m for 410 DRE machines. cally be rejected at bid opening,” to be erased until 2095. law is beyond the power of de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez separate political entity under the Spokesman James Jimenez said the BAC said. The organization, which yearly Congress to pass. resumed deliberations at the jurisdiction of the Philippines, he the lease contracts shall have an The Comelec has also allocated gathers the global elite in the At least five of its provisions are House yesterday after holding added. “option to purchase” clause simi- a budget for the purchase of other plush Swiss ski resort of Davos, unconstitutional, he added. public hearings in Mindanao last Mendoza said such a politi- lar to the agreement entered into election materials like ballot said that the worldwide gender Mendoza said the bill might week. cal entity is only a little differ- with Smartmatic International boxes, as well as for the payment gap in the workplace had barely end up like the Memorandum of Mendoza said the bill refers to ent from that of the Bangsamoro during the 2010 elections. of technicians who will operate narrowed in the past nine years. Agreement on Ancestral Domain the envisioned Bangsamoro region Juridical Entity in the voided “Just like in 2009, these will be the machines. PHILIPPINE STAR (MOA-AD) that the SC declared as a “territory” and “ancestral MOA-AD. PHILIPPINE STAR leases with option to purchase PHILIPPINE STAR WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Afghan forces prepare to fight alone Army set to battle without safety net, aerial surveillance

KANDAHAR AIR FIELD: The international military Some 4,000 Afghan soldiers On watch for a possible Taliban coalition is now in the process of and police have died nationwide attack, Afghan forces yester- ending its mission nationwide by this year fighting the Taliban, day patrolled the perimeter and year-end and shifting to a sup- along with 66 international forces, manned guard towers of a vast port role with only a few thou- according to Lieutenant Colonel military base deserted by US sand military personnel. Joseph Anderson, the second-in- and British forces in a volatile “I’m certain we can maintain command for international forces southern province. the security,” said Major General in Afghanistan. A day after foreign troops left Sayed Malouk, commander of The district of Sangin was the crucial base in Helmand, the the Afghan National Army’s 215 particularly contested, in part Afghan army and police prepared Corps that has taken over the because it is the hometown of a to fight on their own without the base. It is due to become a train- number of Taliban leaders and safety net of air support and aer- ing centre and house about 1,800 also because it lies on a tran- ial surveillance formerly provided Afghan soldiers. sit route for the lucrative $3bn by their Western allies. Malouk said Afghan forces opium smuggling business that The last US Marine unit in were already fighting mostly on fuels the insurgency. Afghanistan and the last British their own without relying to for- US Brigadier General Daniel combat forces were airlifted out of eign troops. For the past year, he Yoo, the commander who handed their former regional headquar- said, the safety net of the US and over the Helmand base over the ters on Monday, a symbolic end British forces had mostly been weekend, said the Afghan forces to more than a decade of US-led psychological. proved their mettle in the fight fighting against the Taliban. “They were in the battlefield. for Sangin. What happens next in No district has been taken over “A lot of the stuff you heard Helmand could be indicative of by the Taliban,” he said. about was tactical-level, check- Afghanistan’s wider ability to points changing hands. But never US Marines and British combat troops prepare to depart upon the end of operations, in Helmand yesterday. protect itself against the Taliban, RESURGENT TALIBAN where they lost a checkpoint they and any imminent escalation of The Taliban may not yet con- couldn't take it back,” he said. hostilities in the province would trol much territory in Helmand He added that while the inter- themselves.” specially trained Afghan security - there are international forces at be a major concern to regional but the insurgents, who ruled national coalition provided some He said that he and Malouk forces moved in to take up the a base in Kandahar province 160 powers. Afghanistan with a harsh inter- intelligence and close air support, met for months to plan the hando- exact same positions. kilometres away. Helmand has been one of the pretation of Islamic law from foreign forces never fired a shot ver of the Helmand base, and that He said he had confidence in the "Everything that we did deadliest battlefields of the war 1996 to 2001, have been launching to help Afghan forces in Sangin. by the time the last international Afghans' ability to hold Helmand for them, they can do from which has seen some of this year’s increasingly fierce attacks, test- “We didn’t do any fire sup- perimeter guards pulled back to and the base, but if worse comes Kandahar," Yoo said. "They really fiercest fighting. ing the abilities of Afghan forces. port for them. It was mostly board the final helicopters out, to worst, help was not far away could." REUTERS Three soldiers killed Govt facing tough economic decisions in wave of violence ISLAMABAD: The govern- try to utilise funds for politically- had recovered its previous loans ment of Pakistan will have to motivated development schemes after providing $6.67bn credit line KABUL: At least three Afghan In the meantime, Azimi said choose between tough reforms by compromising the macroeco- under the Extended Fund Facility National Army (ANA) sol- Afghan National Army forces for successful implementa- nomic stability. (EFF). diers were killed in separate conducted military operations tion of the $6.67bn IMF bailout Pakistan’s economy stands at After one due instalment in Improvised Explosive Device in two different provinces in the package or resort to popular a crossroads whereby the efforts near future, the IMF will be (IED) attacks in the past 24 past 24 hours. measures to please the general made by Finance Minister Ishaq able to recover its previous loans hours. According to General Azimi, masses for mustering political Dar in the last 17 months could amount that was given during the Spokesman for the Afghan at least six militants were killed support in the wake of protest evaporate if the government PPP tenure. “It seems that the Ministry of Defence (MoD), during the operations and vari- sit-ins. adopted the path of ruthless IMF will get tough after the com- General Zahir Azimi said at least ous types of weapons, ammuni- The IMF wants further curtail- spending, which could ultimately pletion of fourth and fifth reviews two ANA soldiers were killed tion and explosives, including 60 ment of budget deficit as it has force the government to abandon under which Pakistan is expect- following IED attack and direct rounds of IED were seized. slashed down its projection for the IMF programme. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar ing release of $1.1bn in the coming enemy fire. The anti-government armed budget deficit target by fixing it Although, the finance ministry December,” added the sources. He said another Afghan soldier militant groups have not com- at 4.4 percent of GDP against the had achieved budget deficit tar- economy, investment declined by Pakistan’s foreign currency was martyred early yesterday in mented regarding the reports so officially envisaged target of 4.7 get of 1.2 percent of GDP for the 26 percent in the first quarter reserves stand at $13.464bn and eastern Khost following an IED far. percent of GDP for the current first quarter of the current fiscal and rupee depreciation has added there is no possibility of an abrupt attack. Khost is one of the 34 provinces fiscal year. year through expenditure man- Rs260bn to the public debt. balance of payment crisis in the General Azimi further added of Afghanistan, located in the east- The next few months will make agement yet picking up of over The stock market showed an country. On the long-term basis, another soldier was also injured ern part of the country next to clear which path the government dozen balls at the same time could improvement after dipping in the undertaking reforms seem dif- following the incident which Pakistan’s Federally Administered opts for to move ahead. Either it become harder with the passage last two months but those who ficult but it will yield dividends took place Yaqoobi area of Khost Tribal Areas (FATA). will push reforms ahead by stick- of every month. lost had never gained again. to the economy and the people of province. AGENCIES ing to financial discipline or will On the negative side of the On the other hand, the IMF Pakistan. INTERNEWS

Clifton beach in Karachi Pakistan’s Malala wins World’s Children’s Prize

STOCKHOLM: Girl’s 2000 and is part a worldwide rights champion Malala educational programme in Yousafzai, the youngest which children learn about Nobel Peace Prize laureate global issues, democracy and in history, won the World’s their own rights. Children’s Prize yesterday, The programme finishes after a global vote involving with a global vote on who to millions of children. give the prize to. Malala, 17, was shot in the This year’s honorary awards head in 2012 by the Taliban went to former Microsoft near her home in Pakistan’s executive John Wood, founder Swat Valley for her advocacy of the Room to Read literacy of girls’ right to go to school. group, and Indira Ranamagar “Millions of children have from Nepal, for her work for voted to award Malala this the children of prisoners. year’s World’s Children’s Prize Nelson Mandela, Graca for the rights of the child,” Machel, Anne Frank and Kofi the organisation said in a Annan have previously been statement. honoured in the awards. “Nobody has ever received Malala will receive the prize the Nobel Peace Prize and the at a ceremony in Mariestad World’s Children’s Prize -- near Stockholm today. often dubbed the ‘Children’s This year’s laureates will Nobel Prize’ by the media -- in share $100,000 to be used in the same year.” their work for children’s rights. Girls clad in burqas take picture with a tablet while visiting Karachi’s The award was created in AFP Clifton beach yesterday. According to local media, Pakistan authorities have closed coastal belt due to the tropical cyclone Nilofar which has gained further strength as it continues to move inwards. UN recognises Pakistani role in peace talks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s reconstruction, rehabilitation, The Foreign Office spokesper- and handed over control to support for a peaceful, sta- regional and economic coop- son in a statement said recent Afghanistan, the UN says it bile, united and prosper- eration with Afghanistan. developments in Afghanistan will continue efforts in sup- ous Afghanistan has been Kubis was informed by the and in Pakistan-Afghanistan port of Afghanistan’s peace and acknowledged by the United Adviser to Prime Minister on and relations came under development. Nations when yesterday, Security and Foreign Affairs discussion. In this regard, “the UN UN Secretary General’s Sartaj Aziz and Special Pakistan’s support for affirmed its commitment for Special Representative Assistant to the Prime UNAMA in dealing with issues continued engagement and con- for Afghanistan Jan Kubi Minister on Foreign Affairs post-2014 was also reiterated. sultations with Pakistan on all acknowledged her important Syed Tariq Fatemi that As foreign troops continue relevant issues, including eco- contribution towards peace Pakistan wants to open a ‘new to exit from Afghanistan, nomic development and refugee and stability and deeper chapter’ in its bilateral rela- those from the UK on Sunday, repatriation”. engagement on issues of trade, tions with Afghanistan. wrapped up their operation INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 India, Vietnam to boost energy, defence ties ONGC-PetroVietnam to explore two oil blocks in South China Sea; India to sell four naval patrol vessels

NEW DELHI: India and four naval patrol vessels. international law and seriously Vietnam yesterday ramped up Modi termed the bilateral implementing the Declaration cooperation in exploring for oil defence cooperation with Vietnam on the Conduct of Parties in the and gas in the contested South “among our most important South China Sea and for early China Sea, ignoring Chinese ones” and said India “remains formulation of a code of conduct objections, as Prime Minister committed to the modernisa- in the South China Sea. Narendra Modi said Hanoi is at tion of Vietnam’s defence and “Vietnam highly appreciated the forefront of his government’s security forces”, which would India’s position regarding the intensified engagement in Asia include expanding the training East Sea issue and India’s con- Pacific after holding talks with programme, joint exercises and tinued cooperation with Vietnam his visiting Vietnamese coun- cooperation in defence equipment. in oil and gas exploration and terpart Nguyen Tan Dung. “We will quickly operation- extraction in the exclusive eco- Both sides inked seven agree- alise the $100m Line of Credit nomic zone and continental ments, including between ONGC that will enable Vietnam acquire shelf of Vietnam in the East Videsh Limited and PetroVietnam new naval vessels from India. We Sea (Vietnamese term for South for exploration of two oil and gas have also agreed to enhance our China Sea),” he said. blocks in Vietnam. security cooperation, including in In a tangential reference to Vietnam has earlier offered counter-terrorism.” China, the joint statement said India five hydrocarbon blocks in While Modi touched upon the that both agreed that “freedom the South China Sea for explo- discussions on promoting regional of navigation and overflight in ration. India Tuesday agreed to peace and stability, saying both the East Sea/South China Sea take up two of the blocks for sides have “shared interest in should not be impeded and called exploration. maritime security, including free- the parties concerned to exercise ONGC Videsh Ltd, the over- dom of navigation and commerce restraint, avoid threat or use of seas arm of state-owned Oil and and peaceful settlement of mari- force and resolve disputes through Natural Gas Corp, signed an time disputes, Prime Minister peaceful means in accordance agreement to pick up to 50 per- Dung was more expansive. with universally recognised prin- cent stake in PetroVietnam’s two He said his country “reaffirms ciples of international law”. exploration blocks in the South its support for India’s Look East Both sides have also agreed to China Sea. Policy towards Southeast Asia as boost economic ties to $15bn by Appearing before the media well as India’s increasingly impor- 2020 from the $8bn at present. after the bilateral talks, Prime tant role in the region and the Bank of India is to open a Minister Modi said: “Since world at large”. branch in Vietnam and direct entering office, my government Stressing both sides stood for air connectivity is slated to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak at a function has promptly and purposefully maintaining maritime stability begin early next month with Jet in New Delhi yesterday. intensified our engagement in and security of lines, Dung men- Airways and Vietnam Airlines the Asia Pacific region, which is tioned the South China Sea spe- linking the two countries, giving cooperation in space, including My Son, a World Heritage site prayers at the Mahabodhi temple. critical to India’s future. It is no cifically. Vietnam and China have a boost to economic and people- satellite launches. Dung invited in Quang Nam province and on His visit is the third high- surprise that Vietnam has been at been at odds over maritime rights to-people connectivity. Modi to visit Vietnam. The offer setting up a centre for English level visit after that of President the forefront of our efforts.” with Beijing laying claim to the Modi has also invited was accepted and the dates will Language and Information Pranab Mukherjee, who paid Both sides have also agreed entire stretch of the resource-rich Vietnamese companies to join in be finalised later. Technology Training at the a state visit to Vietnam in mid to intensify defence coopera- sea and its islands. the ‘Make in India’ programme. Among the agreements inked Telecommunications University. September and External Affairs tion. India has already extended Dung said both are for resolv- Both sides agreed to continue are on establishment of Nalanda Dung began his two-day visit Minister Sushma Swaraj who was a $100m Line of Credit to ing maritime disputes in the cooperation in the peaceful use University, an MoU on restora- from Monday when he visited in Hanoi August end. Vietnam and also offered to sell South China in accordance with of nuclear energy and explore tion of ancient Hindu temples at Bodh Gaya in Bihar and offered IANS Modi docks into Ganga riverside port idea Prohibitory orders

NEW DELHI: The reform- The development comes fol- that inland waterways are sub- “Ports are being proposed to be minded Narendra Modi govern- lowing Shipping Minister Nitin stantially underused and such a developed along the riverside sys- relaxed in Trilokpuri ment is considering riverside Gadhkari’s calculation which development will help in further tems across India (like Mahanadi ports at major cities and indus- placed river transportation as the developing the sector. in Odisha and Sagar Island in NEW DELHI: The prohibi- houses, bought essential com- trial clusters on the Ganga most cost-effective. “Inland waterways in India are West Bengal). A robust policy tory orders on gathering and modities and discussed the issue to boost its ‘Make in India’ The government will initially substantially underused by inter- with standard bidding documents movement of people in Delhi’s with each other. initiative. put in the capital required for national standards and so the for such ports will help in miti- Trilokpuri area following a “It seems that we were con- Converting waterways into constructing the infrastructure, government is quite right to pur- gating risks and ease regulatory communal clash were relaxed fined for months. I feel happy commerce way is now a priority while private players will manage sue this policy direction,” Julian issues,” Zaidi said. for three hours yesterday as after the relaxation of prohibitory for the government, a senior offi- the business aspect and share the Michael Bevis, senior director, India has about 14,500km of no fresh violence was reported, orders and wish that the situation cial said. revenue with the government. group relations, South Asia for navigable waterways which com- police said. remains calm,” Habib, who runs For this, a detailed Request for “If it costs Rs1.50 per km to The Maersk Group, said. prise rivers, canals, backwaters “The prohibitory orders were a grocery shop in Block 35, said. Qualification (RFQ) tender will transport goods by road, it costs Bevis’ views are corroborated and creeks. relaxed for three hours from Kishan Pratap Singh, a soon be issued to private players less than Rs1 by rail and this by Adil Zaidi, director, govern- About 55 million tonnes of 2pm to 5pm as there has been 25-year-old resident of Block who are ready to manage and suc- comes down to only Rs0.50 when ment and transaction advisory cargo is moved annually by inland no fresh case of violence,” Joint 27, said:” I never saw such kind cessfully run the system. goods are transported through services, Ernst & Young, who said water transport (IWT). Around Commissioner of Police (Eastern of a situation in Trilokpuri. I Port infrastructure is the inland waterways,” Gadhkari that a policy in this regard with 23,684,728 metric tonnes (MT) Range) Sanjay Beniwal said. was thinking that my house has planned at cities like Varanasi, had said earlier at a conference standard bidding documents will of cargo moved on the national “As the situation was normal turned into a prison. I could not Allahabad and Patna among here. help in mitigating risks and ease waterways-1, 2, 3, in 2012-13. today (Tuesday), we are plan- go outside my own house.” others, the official added. The industry agrees, stating regulatory issues. IANS ning to give six hours relaxation Delhi Police officials met clerics in prohibitory orders tomorrow of both Hindu and Muslim com- (Wednesday),” he said. munities to keep the situation Yesterday morning, people calm. Cleaning up for Chhath festival were only allowed to venture out An unmanned aerial vehicle of their houses to buy milk, veg- was also used to take pictures of 1,000-hour etables and other essential food houses where stones and bricks items. were collected by people for their bandh hits Like on Monday, police pro- safety. vided essential commodities “We cleared the bricks and through Safal outlets and Mother stones collected by people on life in Assam Dairy kiosks. their roofs after identifying Schools and offices in the area their houses with the help of an remained closed Tuesday as well, unmanned aerial vehicle,” a police district while children studying in schools official said. GUWAHATI: Normal life outside the area were allowed to Two groups of Hindus and was disrupted in Assam’s go. Muslims clashed on Diwali Karbi Anglong district yester- Almost all shops in the local- October 23 after which the day, in the wake of the 1,000- ity opened during the relaxation authorities imposed prohibitory hour bandh called by a group period and people were allowed to orders under Section 144 of CrPC of organisations demanding move freely, but police personnel (which bans illegal gatherings). autonomous state status jointly were deployed at every intersec- Police, however, said the “situ- for Karbi Anglong and Dima tion of the narrow streets. ation was under control, but still Hasao districts. Residents of Trilokpuri heaved tense”. There was no report of any a sigh of relief Tuesday, four days Trilokpuri, divided into 36 violence from anywhere in Karbi since they were confined to their blocks, is being manned by over Anglong during the bandh which homes because of the prohibitory 1,000 security personnel from started at 5am on Monday. The orders following the communal Delhi Police, Rapid Action Force bandh did not affect Dima Hasao clash. and Central Reserve Police Force and other parts of the state. An announcement to lift the along with over 30 police vans, Most educational institutions relaxation till 5pm was being water cannons and riot control and commercial establishments made by police patrol vehicles, vehicles. in Karbi Anglong’s district head- A worker cleans the banks of Yamuna river on the eve of the Chhath festival in New Delhi yesterday. Chhath and residents came out of their IANS quarters Diphu remained closed. is an ancient festival dedicated to Surya, also known as Surya Shashti. Government offices too recorded thin attendance. The bandh had no impact on national highway 39 that con- nects the neighbouring states of World’s first Magic Planet to open in Kerala on Friday Nagaland and Manipur. Police arranged escorts for vehicles on the highway. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: for the public,” Muthukad told street magicians and the edu- Theatre’ where through magic, for promotion of this unique The Joint Action Committee Magic Planet, the world’s first reporters here yesterday. cational needs of their children. information is provided. There will ‘tourism product’. “This is a for Autonomous State (JACAS) magic-themed edutainment com- Built on one-acre of land in the I want the art of magic to go on be 25 professional magicians who stand-alone product and... is now —a conglomeration of many plex, is all set to open on Friday Kinfra Film and Video Park near forever and the only way for it to will perform for the visitors, besides going to be promoted by the tour- organisations — had called the here. Built at a cost of Rs150m, the Technopark IT campus, Magic keep it going is supporting the street magicians,” added Muthukad. ism department,” said Kumar. bandh, demanding the central the complex is fruition of the dec- Planet is going to be an experience street magicians,” said Muthukad. The entry fee is Rs200 for chil- Hundreds of rare vintage post- and state governments resume ade-old dream of popular magi- not only for those who come to At Magic Planet, children and dren and students and Rs250 for ers, photographs and engravings tripartite talks for granting cian Gopinath Muthukad. spend the day here but also to the elders not only can see and expe- others and at a time 600 visitors can at the state-of-the-art History of autonomous state status to the “It’s definitely a dream come numerous street magicians who rience magic but also learn maths spend time at the Magic Planet that Mystery museum will tell the visi- two districts. true for me as for the past one can perform here and earn a living. and even literature. would be open from 11am to 6pm. tors the story of the evolution of The bandh is supposed to con- decade this was within me and, “The entire proceeds from these “There is a section called ‘math- State Tourism Minister A P magic and its greatest practitioners tinue till December 7. after three years of real hard events, after meeting the expenses, emagic’ (where students can learn Anil Kumar said that all efforts from the Middle Ages to the 1950s. IANS work, it is now ready to be opened will go towards rehabilitation of maths) and also a ‘Shakespearian would be made by his department IANS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Pushkar Fair Three Russian Black money: women drown off Goa coast PANAJI: Three Russian SC wants full women tourists drowned when their boat capsized while on a dolphin-sighting excursion off a beach in Goa, police said yes- terday. The tour operator has list of names been booked for negligence and endangering lives. A representative of the Russian Govt ‘protecting’ account holders consular services, however, asked how a boat could be allowed to NEW DELHI: The Supreme “It will never happen during our venture into the sea when a Court yesterday directed the cen- time,” the court said expressing its cyclone warning was in place. tral government to furnish, in a misgivings on government’s asser- The incident took place around sealed cover by today, the names tion that under the SIT’s supervi- mid-day yesterday off the Betul of all Indian foreign account hold- sion, the income tax department beach in south Goa, 50km from ers given by the German, French will issue statutory notice to the Panaji. and Swiss authorities. people with foreign bank accounts A police official said the women A bench of Chief Justice H L whose names were disclosed by were on a dolphin-sighting trip in Dattu, Justice Ranjana Prakash the foreign government. a motor-powered boat when the Desai and Justice Madan B Lokur “We will never know that,” the vessel capsized after encountering told Attorney General Mukul court observed as Rohatgi said a large wave. Rohatgi that the government the government would come to “They were trapped under the need not do anything but just dis- the court after concluding the boat and drowned because they close the names to the court and investigations. A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in Rajasthan yesterday. Thousands of animals, mainly could not breathe,” said a police it will decide whether the mat- The court refused to modify camels, are brought to the fair to be traded. official engaged in the rescue ter should be investigated by the its earlier order saying: “By this work. income tax authorities or by the application you want to re-argue Dolphin-sighting tours are Central Bureau of Investigation. the entire case.” It said that it common along popular Goa As Rohatgi said that the verac- too had the same concern as peti- beaches where speedboats are ity of the disclosed accounts is tioner Ram Jethmalani, while used to chase down dolphins being investigated by the income noting Rohatgi’s submission that Fadnavis to head first BJP swimming in the sea more than tax authorities, Chief Justice the government was “not inter- a kilometre off the coastline. Dattu said: “Why do you want to ested in holding back any name. The deceased women have not have the trouble of investigating. We have disclosed all the names been identified. But post-mortem You give it to us. We will direct the and details to the SIT headed by ministry in Maharashtra formalities were being conducted CBI or the income tax authori- two former judges of the apex at the Hospicio government hos- ties to undertake investigation in court. Once we get their veracity MUMBAI: Devendra Fadnavis youngest chief minister after President Amit Shah and other pital in Margao, 35km from here. a month’s time. We don’t want the checked, the process would be set will head Maharashtra’s first Sharad Pawar, who was 38 when party colleagues. Vikram Varma, a lawyer for money that belongs to this coun- into motion”. BJP government after its newly he took charge in 1978, and the Informed sources said the BJP the Russian consulate in Mumbai, try to go outside,” he added. Faced with a situation where he elected legislators set aside their second Brahmin to preside over leadership decided after days alleged negligence on the part of “I have the list of 500 names, was unable to persuade the court differences to pick the 44-year- the state after the Shiv Sena’s of internal deliberations that the water sports operator who some of them are very sketchy,” on the government’s intention to old as their house leader. Manohar Joshi. Fadnavis would be the best bet arranged the dolphin sighting Rohtagi told the court trying to unearth black money and reveal Bharatiya Janata Party activ- Fadnavis, who took to politics to lead the party in the state after trip, as meteorological officials hold his ground. the names of those who stashed ists here and across the sprawl- when he was barely 22 years old, it came on top of a fractured elec- and the state fishing department The government had told that it in tax havens, Rohatgi told the ing state celebrated after Eknath pledged to provide good govern- toral verdict. have directed people not to ven- court on Monday that it could not court: “Tell me that what can I do Khadse, who was a contender ance — a la Narendra Modi. Fadnavis will be sworn in at a ture into the sea which was tur- disclose the names to the apex to allay your impression that we for the post, proposed Fadnavis’ “I assure the people of public ceremony at the Wankhede bulent because of cyclone Nilofar court even in the proceedings want to hide something.” name at a meeting overseen by Maharashtra that we will make Stadium on Friday to be attended which is passing along the state’s under the Constitution’s Article Finding that the court was party veterans from Delhi. efforts to take Maharashtra for- by Modi, Shah, BJP chief minis- coastline. 32 under which the apex court unrelenting on its insistence to Fadnavis’ candidature was sec- ward the way (Prime Minister ters and over 30,000 guests. could be moved for upholding get the names, he said: “The court onded by Vinod Tawde, Sudhir Narendra) Modi has given good Hailing from Nagpur, the NDRF ready as fundamental rights. will have to take the responsibil- Mungantiwar and Pankaja Munde, governance and is guiding the 1970-born Fadnavis has strong But the court refused the argu- ity that that I will not be able to daughter of the late Gopinath Munde country on the path of develop- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ‘Nilofar’ nears ment. “First give us the names, we enter the treaty” scheduled to who too was in the race for the chief ment,” said Fadnavis, who is mar- (RSS) connections that helped will get them investigated. Not just be signed with US in December minister’s post at one point. ried to bank manager Amruta him overcome the challenge to Gujarat coast one, two or three (names), give us wherein confidentiality of infor- Home Minister Rajnath and father of a teenaged daughter, his leadership, including by men- in a sealed cover what you have mation is integral. Singh and party leaders Rajiv Divija. tor and central minister Nitin NEW DELHI: The National got from French, German and “We are not that helpless. We Pratap Rudy, O P Mathur and Speaking in Marathi and Hindi Gadkari. This will be for only the Disaster Response Force Swiss governments,” the court told will deal with the problem when J P Nadda were at the meeting as supporters burst firecrackers second time in the state that a (NDRF) yesterday said it has Rohatgi, wondering why the gov- it comes,” Chief Justice Dattu said at the Maharashtra Legislature and distributed sweets, Fadnavis non-Congress government will deployed rescue and rehabilita- ernment was having “protective brushing aside the contention. complex. credited the BJP’s showing in assume office. tion teams at various locations umbrella” for the account holders. IANS Fadnavis will be Maharashtra’s the assembly polls to Modi, party IANS as cyclone Nilofar approaches the Gujarat coast. NDRF teams are being deployed in vulnerable areas to mitigate the impact of the cyclonic storm, an official release said here. Supreme SC upbraids centre over delay in Delhi govt formation “The National Disaster Response Force is fully geared up for rescue operations in the wake of cyclonic Court rejects NEW DELHI: The Supreme the date of the hearing?,” asked the of forming the government by the possibilities and the court could storm ‘Nilofar’ in Arabian Sea Court yesterday expressed its constitution bench of Chief Justice inviting the Bharatiya Janata not issue any direction restricting along Gujarat coast,” it said. displeasure at the central gov- H L Dattu, Justice H Chelameswar, Party (BJP), the single largest the time available to the president Cyclone Nilofar which devel- Nithari ernment’s delaying formation Justice A K Sikri, Justice R K party in the assembly. “Suppose in taking the decision. oped over the Arabian Sea is of a government in Delhi, even Agrawal and Justice Arun Mishra. Lieutenant Governor is going to But the court shot this down. “Our likely to make landfall in Kutch killer’s plea as it was told that the president “Is it such a big issue for the invite the largest party (BJP). Are understanding was to give time to district of Gujarat Friday, packing has given consent to invite the Lieutenant Governor to take so they in a position to form the gov- the Lieutenant Governor to decide. winds of 100-110 kmph. NEW DELHI: The Supreme BJP for the purpose. much time to decide whether to ernment?” the court enquired. If you had told us that we (the gov- The release added that NDRF Court yesterday rejected the “Just before every date of the hear- do or not to do (a thing),” the The central government sought ernment) cannot take a decision, we has alerted its three battalions plea by Nithari killer Surinder ing, some statement is made about court said, as it was told the to wriggle out of the situation, say- may have heard the (Aam Aadmi situated at Vadodara (Gujarat), Koli seeking recall of the judg- the attempt being made for the for- president has okayed Lieutenant ing that after putting the Delhi Party) petition and decided the mat- Pune (Maharashtra) and ment upholding his death sen- mation of a government but why Governor’s Najeeb Jung’s sug- assembly under suspended anima- ter either way,” the court said. Bathinda (Punjab). tence in Rimpa Haldar murder things are not being done well before gestion to explore the option tion, it had a year’s time to explore IANS IANS case. A bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu, Justice Anil R Dave and Justice S A Bobde, in the first open court hearing of the review petition of death sentence cases, said: “We are fully satisfied that India reverts to penny-wise approach with NRI tax this court has not committed any error that may persuade us to HOSE who play around remittances that overseas Indians liable to service tax as the person The expansion in South Asia review the order” upholding his with trillions are saying it’s send home. THE NR EYE sending the money and the com- region is being led by flows from death sentence. Tjust a few rupees more to Leaders from the major pany conducting the remittance the Gulf Cooperation Council Referring to the argument by pay for expatriates sending money manpower exporting states Moiz Mannan are located outside India, the cir- countries, where skilled and senior counsel Ram Jethmalani home to their families. They’d do had joined the anti-tax cho- cular issued by the Board had said. unskilled workers are finding that Koli was not given proper legal well to ask the housemaid or the rus. Former union minister and criticised the proposal by the The CBEC further clarified renewed job opportunities. assistance to defend himself, the driver how much it means to them. Thiruvananthapuram MP from Congress-led United Progressive that an Indian bank or finan- Remittances sent home by court directed that in future the trial After having jettisoned the Kerala, Shashi Tharoor, a mem- Alliance (UPA) government. cial institution which charged migrants to developing countries court will ensure that the accused move to tax remittance services ber of the ruling party then, had Giving the issue a political twist, the foreign bank for the services are equivalent to more than three in other cases be given proper legal in 2012, the Indian authorities shot off a letter to the prime min- Majitha claimed it was a ploy by provided at the receiving end, was times the size of official develop- assistance by a lawyer of expertise have again decided to levy a 12.36 ister to stay the measure. Kerala the ruling alliance to target the not liable to service tax. ment assistance. According to and who can devote time. percent charge on the services Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Punjab and Gujarat where non- And so, one wonders, how that World Bank studies, remittances Jethmalani said the entire evi- provided by India-based operators who personally met the then Congress parties were in power. interpretation has now changed generally reduce the level and dence relied upon by the trial court to their foreign correspondents. prime minister, Dr Manmohan Majitha had described the move and why? In its new circular the severity of poverty and lead to: in convicting and sentencing Koli In a circular, the Central Board Singh, had claimed to have won as counter-productive as it would board says that an Indian bank higher human capital accumula- to death clearly shows that he was of Excise and Customs (CBEC) said a respite through that meeting. hamper the flow of remittances to or other entity acting as an agent tion; greater health and educa- tormented by police to give evi- banks and financial institutions He told the media later that the the country as well as give a fresh to money transfer service opera- tion expenditures; better access to dence against himself and autopsy which levy a fee or commission for prime minister had “dismissed lease of life to the illegal ‘hawala’ tor, facilitating in the delivery of information and communication report shows that the murder of facilitating the transfer of money the reports” about the new charge system of money transfer. the remittance to the beneficiary technologies; improved access to 14 children was done by medical from abroad will have to pay serv- and sought relevant details from Following the protests, the in India for a fee will be liable to formal financial sector services; expert precision with the alleged ice tax. It is obvious that the service the Finance Ministry. government of the day had issued pay tax. enhanced small business invest- objective of trading in organs. providers will pass on the charge The local economies of several a clarification. “The matter has Ironically, the tax is being lev- ment; more entrepreneurship; He said that in none of the 14 to their customers, ie, the migrant states, including Kerala, Andhra been examined and it is clarified ied at the time when India has better preparedness for adverse cases of killing was the torso of the workers sending money home. Pradesh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, that there is no service tax per se retained its top spot with $71bn shocks such as droughts, earth- dead recovered and referred to the A little over two years back, Karnataka, Gujarat and Punjab, on the amount of foreign currency remittances this year. Globally, quakes, and cyclones; and reduced autopsy report to buttress his point. the proposal for the new tax was depend heavily on remittances from remitted to India from overseas,” The growth rate this year is sub- child labour. He pointed to the possible dimen- introduced through the Proposed abroad. Besides, the NRIs and their the Central Board of Excise and stantially faster than the 3.4 per Remittance costs have fallen sion of organ trade in the case. Place of Provision of Service Rules. dependents also form a major politi- Customs (CBEC) said. It added, cent growth recorded in 2013, steadily in recent years, but they Earlier the apex court on July There was a hue and cry raised cal resource for parties and leaders. “remittance comprises money, driven largely by remittances remain high in certain regions. 24 had rejected Koli’s plea seeking by NRI organisations across the Interestingly, the last time the the activity does not comprise a to Asia and Latin America, the World Bank estimates tell us that the recall of its February 15, 2011 world, particularly those in the service tax on NRI remittances ‘service’ and thus not subjected to World Bank has said. The bank reducing the average remittance order upholding his death sen- Gulf, and ‘well-meaning’ politi- was proposed, Punjab politician service tax.” estimates remittances to develop- price to 5 percent, in line with tence in one of the 16 cases of rape cians in India. Social network- and the minister in-charge of In case any fee or conversion ing countries will continue climb- G8 and G20 targets, could save and killing being faced by him. ing sites were agog with protests NRI affairs in the state, Bikram charges are levied for sending ing in the medium term, reaching migrants around $14bn a year. IANS against the proposed charge on Singh Majitha, had severely such money, they are also not an estimated $454bn in 2015. THE PENINSULA

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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Graduated TU Delft University student Alec Momont shows his design of an ambulance drone with a built-in defibrillator in Delft yesterday.

MUSCAT 29/24 Chance of rain 29/24 Partly cloudy MAKKAH 37/24 Clear 37/23 Clear KUWAIT 35/22 Partly cloudy 34/22 Partly cloudy BAHRAIN 33/24 Clear 33/24 Clear ‘Ambulance drone’ prototype unveiled SANAA 23/09 Clear 25/09 Clear RIYADH 35/21 Clear 34/22 Clear THE HAGUE: A Dutch-based emergency services of around 10 Once at the scene, an opera- mask to a person trapped in a fire DUBAI 36/23 Clear 34/23 Clear student yesterday unveiled a pro- minutes, while brain death and tor, like a paramedic, can watch, or an insulin injection to a diabe- BAGHDAD 32/20 Chance of rain 29/17 Chance of rain totype of an “ambulance drone”, fatalities occur with four to six talk and instruct those helping tes sufferer. a flying defibrillator able to reach minutes,” he said in a statement. the victim by using an on-board However, the drone is still in THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW heart attack victims within pre- “The ambulance drone can get camera connected to a control its infancy as far as developing cious life-saving minutes. a defibrillator to a patient within room via a livestream webcam. its steering mechanism and legal HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Developed by Belgian engineer- a 12 square kilometre (4.6 square The prototype has already issues regarding its use are con- ing graduate Alec Momont, it can miles) zone within a minute, attracted the interest of emer- cerned, Momont said. ATHENS 18/13 Chance of rain 19/13 Chance of showers fly at speeds of up to 100km per reducing the chance of survival gency services including that He said he hopes to have an WASHINGTON 21/10 Showers 17/07 Clear hour (60 miles per hour). from 8 percent to 80 percent.” of Amsterdam, the Dutch daily operational emergency drone net- SYDNEY 28/15 Clear 31/21 Clear “Around 800,000 people suffer Painted in emergency services Algemeen Dagblad said. The work across the Netherlands in LONDON 14/12 Chance of rain 18/14 Cloudy a cardiac arrest in the European yellow and driven by six propel- Dutch Heart Foundation also five years. The drone is expected PARIS 18/12 Chance of showers 19/11 Partly cloudy Union every year and only 8 per- lers, the drone can carry a four applauded the idea, the newspa- to cost around ¤15,000 ($19,000) ISTANBUL 17/13 Cloudy 15/12 Rain cent survive,” Momont, 23, said at kilogramme load — in this case a per added. each. “I hope it will save hundreds MANILA 31/24 Partly cloudy 32/24 Partly cloudy the TU Delft University. defibrillator. It tracks emergency Momont however wants his of lives in the next five years,” DHAKA 31/20 Partly cloudy 32/20 Clear “The main reason for this is the mobile calls and uses the GPS to drone to become a “flying medical Momont said. DELHI 31/18 Mostly cloudy 32/18 Mostly cloudy relatively long response time of navigate. toolbox” able to carry an oxygen AFP ISLAMABAD 24/13 Clear 25/12 Clear Rocker Phil Collins Vandals leave Finding hidden gems in brings Alamo Sabatini statue collection ‘back empty-handed cities with new apps home’ to Texas TORONTO: News apps are on its free iOS and Android apps BUENOS AIRES: Perhaps it helping users share information that shows people entries about SAN ANTONIO: British rock was meant as a backhanded com- about sights and hidden gems in nearby places, landmarks, histori- legend Phil Collins brought his pliment. Vandals have made off cities and countries around the cal events and monuments. massive collection of Alamo with the racket that was clasped globe so other people can benefit “It’s a great thing to do when artifacts yesterday to the San in the hands of a newly unveiled from their knowledge. wandering through a new city, Antonio site those in the Lone statue of Argentine tennis star Findery, a free app for iPhone and it’s the number one thing peo- Star State call the “Shrine of Gabriela Sabatini here. and Android available worldwide, ple asked us for,” said Katherine Texas Liberty” for a museum The miscreants left the art- lets people view trivia and stories Maher, chief communications that will be named in his honour. work looking rather empty- about favourite locations, whether officer of the San Francisco-based “This completes the journey handed just a few weeks after it it’s a building, beach, or a land- Wikimedia Foundation,. for me,” Collins said in front of was made public on the Rio de mark like the Eiffel Tower. HistoryPin, free for iOS, Android a building across the street from la Plata waterfront. They sev- “We want to help bring curi- and Windows phone, allows people the Alamo that will temporar- ered the bronze-coloured racket osity, adventure and exploration to explore history through photos ily house the collection while a that was formerly clasped tightly into daily life,” said Caterina Fake, geo-tagged on a map. Users can planned $100m centre to display in the statue’s hands, leaving founder and CEO of Findery, also overlay historic photos over the Phil Collins Alamo Collection Sabatini sans racket as she lines based in San Francisco. When the present view with the app’s is being built. up for a backhand smash. users open the app they can read augmented reality view. “These artifacts are com- The statue is located among notes and inside tips or view pho- People wanting to discover hid- ing home,” said Collins, 63, who other tributes to Argentine sport- tos and videos by others about den culinary locations can use became fascinated by the Alamo ing greats, such as tennis player nearby locations, which can be apps such as Find. Eat. Drink, for while watching Fess Parker star Guillermo Vilas and basketball viewed on a map. iPhone, and Chefs Feed for iPhone as “Davy Crockett, King of the player Manu Ginobili. The app includes copious notes and Android. Foodies profile their Wild Frontier”, while he was a The work by artist Carlos about cities like New York and favorite restaurants on the apps. small child growing up in subur- Benavidez was made with polyes- San Francisco and information Craig Palli, chief strategy ban London. ter resin and fiberglass, then rein- about countries around the globe. officer of Boston-based mobile The items include the fringed forced with various paints, inks and “We want to ground people in app marketing firm Fiksu, says leather pouch that Davy oils that look like bronze and pro- the place they’re standing and Findery is likely to strike a chord Crockett carried from his home tect the statue from the weather. where they are, which technol- with consumers, but its long-term in Tennessee into Texas, then a During her 11 years as a pro, ogy has the tendency to take us staying power will depend on peo- part of the Republic of Mexico, Sabatini, now 44, won 27 titles away from,” Fake said. ple contributing notes. and the Alamo. The bronze statue of Argentine former tennis champion Gabriela Sabatini including the US Open, when she Findery and other apps aim to “It will need to hit critical mass. The pouch, containing two at the Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires yesterday. The racket of the statue, beat Steffi Graf in 1990. She is enhance the travel experience. If they can hit scale, I think it’s an musket balls and two tortillas, inaugurated on October 8, was stolen. the only Argentine to have won a Wikipedia recently re-intro- excellent premise,” he said. was recovered by a Mexican colo- Grand Slam singles victory. AFP duced a feature called Nearby REUTERS nel following the 1836 battle, in which Crockett and nearly 190 other defenders were killed. Also included in the donation is an original Bowie knife that Jim Bowie had in his possession dur- ing the battle, and one of only four Leonardo da Vinci’s self-portrait in rare public show remaining rifles known to have been owned by Crockett. TURIN: The only existing a Unesco world heritage site. Collins first became known as self-portrait by Italian master “The library contains 4,500 drummer and lead vocalist for the Leonardo da Vinci is to make a manuscripts, 1,500 parchments and rock group Genesis, later winning rare appearance in a new exhibi- over 3,000 drawings by the great- global fame as a soloist along with tion in Turin in northern Italy, est artists,” Maurizio Cibrario, head numerous awards, including some organisers said yesterday. of Consulta, an association which for movie sound-tracks. The fragile and fading chalk restores and promotes Turin’s cul- REUTERS sketch, which has only been put on tural heritage, said. show for the public three times in The exhibition, which runs until the last century, will be displayed January 15, will include works for two-and-a-half months as part by Renaissance artist Raphael, of “Leonardo and the treasures of Baroque painter Carrache, Dutch the king”, which opens tomorrow. master Rembrandt and Flemish The exhibition will be made up of Baroque portraitist Anthony van some 80 masterpieces conserved in Dyck, as well as manuscripts and the Royal Library in Turin, which nautical manuscripts. Visitors must was founded in 1839 by Charles reserve tickets, with admission lim- Albert — then King of Piedmont ited to 25 people every half hour. A woman visits the exposition “Leonardo, and the Treasure of the King” at Biblioteca Reale in Turin yesterday. and Sardinia — and is now part of AFP Wednesday 29 October 2014 5 Muharram 1436 Volume 19 Number 6233 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Real estate stocks lift Woqod net profit grows by 2.8pc DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod) and gave his directives. Despite recorded a net profit of QR856m increasing capital base through for the third quarter of 2014, up issuing 30 percent bonus shares QR23m, or 2.8 percent, as com- in 2013, earning per share (EPS) Qatar bourse up 1.2pc pared to QR833m posted for the amounted to QR10.14 as com- same period of 2013. pared to QR9.86 for last year. The results were announced While total assets reached Ezdan jumps 8.1 percent after stellar third quarter after Woqod’s Board of Directors, QR10.7bn increased by 12.4 chaired by Sheikh Saoud bin percent from last figures, total BY SATISH KANADY shares on Monday. The real estate rise in third-quarter net profit. Abdulrahman Al Thani (pic- shareholder’s equity recorded a stocks are rallying on strong gov- Ooredoo made a profit of QR375m tured), discussed the finan- gross rate of 5.3 percent to reach DOHA: Spurred by real estate, ernment data. ($103m) while analysts had cial results achieved during the QR6.6bn for that period. Al Qatar bourse’ benchmark index Qatar Central Bank’s (QCB) on average expected QR802m, period ended September 30, 2014, Kuwari added that Woqod is cur- jumped 1.2 percent to end the third quarter real estate price according to a Reuters report. yesterday. rently involved in implementation day at 13,647. On the back of a index is a major trigger. The The Qatari bourse began to Announcing Woqod’s financial of more than 22 projects under solid third quarter earnings, weekly real estate transaction restore investor confidence after results Chief Executive Officer financial results achieved dur- construction and 16 projects in real estate sectoral index dem- data released by the Ministry of posting positive corporate finan- Ibrahim Jaham Al Kuwari said ing this period. The Board also design and approval stages, in onstrated a strong show by Justice yesterday noted the sales cial results especially for leading that the Board of Directors examined current and future addition to 3 projects in tender- surging 5.6 percent . contract registered at the minis- stocks, Mubasher quoted market reviewed and approved the projects and other related issues ing process. THE PENINSULA Qatar bourse was strongest in try between October 19 and 23, experts as saying. Nawaf Al Awn, the region yesterday. Property 2014 hit a new peak of QR1.5bn. technical analyst, told Mubasher major Ezdan Holdings surged 8.1 Banking and insurance sectors the benchmark index faces strong percent, after announcing a ster- were other major drivers. Market resistance at 13,700 in the medium ling 42 percent increase in its net cap increased QR6bn to QR735bn. term, noting that moving above profit for the third quarter. Barwa The turnover increased to such a level will drive the index StanChart shares tumble on low profit Real Estate, which reported a 44 QR849m, compared with QR614m higher towards 13,993 points. percent jump in its net profit for and traded volume rose to 23 mil- Alkhabeer Capital, a leading HONG KONG/LONDON: aims to cut $400m more from of the next earnings downgrade the first nine months yesterday, lion shares from 14.82 million. asset management and investment Asia-focused bank Standard costs next year. Its London-listed cycle, but volume, revenue and was up by 1.97 percent. Barwa said Strong buying and shifting of firm in the region, said yesterday Chartered Plc warned inves- shares tumbled more than 8 per- cost trends are weak,” said Joseph the profit growth was mainly due positions boosted several blue the foreign ownership of Qatar tors that profits would fall in cent to their lowest level for five Dickerson, analyst at Jefferies. to the timely steps taken by the chips and small-cap stocks, mainly equities accounts for 8 percent of the second half of this year, years. Analysts said the grim He estimated average earnings company to boost its revenue and Ezdan , Mazaya, Barwa, QNB and QE’s total market capitalisation after quarterly earnings were results showed the tough task fac- forecasts for this year will come also improve is cost management. United Development. compared to 6.3 percent of Dubai hit by a surge in bad loans and ing Chief Executive Peter Sands, down by about 15 percent and will The total value of realty stocks Telecom major Ooredoo, which markets. The total foreign owner- higher regulation and compli- as he tries to turn around the also be cut for 2015. jumped to QR314m from the pre- delivered a ‘not-that-exciting’ ship of Saudi equities currently ance costs. bank after its 10 years of record “The (Q3) numbers indicate vious session’s QR196m. The day numbers yesterday fell 1.03 per- stands at around 1.2 percent of the Standard Chartered said that earnings came to a shuddering the continuing challenges we saw traders changing hands of cent. The telecommunications total market capitalization, ana- as bad debts rise in key markets halt last year. face,” CEO Sands told reporters more than 13 million real estate operator missed estimates by a lysts at Alkhabeer Capital noted. like India and China, it will step “Not only has credit started to on a conference call. shares compared to 7 million wide margin with an 11 percent THE PENINSULA up its restructuring plan and deteriorate and will be the driver REUTERS

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Mashreq Diversify to counter oil posts 35pc price fall: Kuwait Emir increase in net profit Call for reducing the reliance of economy on oil DOHA: Mashreq, one of the UAE’s leading financial KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Emir of our economy on oil,” he said. Global oil prices tumbled to institutions, has reported H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al “And here we are seeing four-year lows below $83 per a 35 percent increase in its Jaber Al Sabah said yesterday a another cycle of low oil prices as barrel this month, threatening net profit for the first nine fall in oil prices cast a shadow a result of political and economic — if current levels are sustained months ended September 30, over the Opec member state’s factors shaking the global econ- for a long period — to push the 2014, climbing to Dh1.76bn economy, showing the need to omy, casting a negative shadow state budgets of some of the six (about $480m) compared to diversify sources of income that on our national economy,” he said members of the Gulf Cooperation Dh1.30bn (about $354m) for rely heavily on petroleum. in remarks carried by the official Council into deficit after several the corresponding period In a speech to the opening of news agency KUNA. years of big surpluses. in 2013, according to a parliament, the Emir urged the Kuwait has long sought to There are some signs that press statement released assembly and the government develop its oil industry, and its officials in Gulf Arab states are yesterday. to issue legislation to protect non-energy companies are active using the oil price drop to jus- The bank’s total operating the country’s national wealth in the region’s property, banking, tify reforms. This month Kuwait The Emir of Kuwait, H H Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Al income for the period grew to and safeguard it for future investment and telecoms sectors. revealed plans to slash costly state Sabah (centre) addressing the opening of the third regular session of the Dh4.3bn, an increase of 24 per- generations. But frequent deadlock in par- subsidies on diesel, kerosene and 14th legislative term of the Kuwaiti Parliament in Kuwait City yesterday. cent compared to a year ear- “I have appealed from this liament makes it difficult to jet fuel — relatively minor reforms lier, driven by both net interest podium many times to ...work approve large projects involving — and it is studying hikes in elec- roughly a quarter of the govern- oil and financial wealth, which is income and net fee and com- to develop and build productive foreign investment, and critics tricity and water costs that would ment’s projected spending this fis- not only ours, but is also the right mission income. economic activities that provide also point to the government’s have a bigger effect. cal year, according to government of future generations we have to The bank’s net interest opportunities for the youth to frequent personnel changes, lay- Lavish subsidies, mostly on figures. utilise to ensure the continued ... income at the end of September work, diversify the state’s sources ers of bureaucracy and general energy, swallow about KD5.1bn The Emir said the government growth of our national economy.” 2014 was up by 33 percent com- of income and reduce the reliance lack of dynamism. ($17.7bn) annually in Kuwait, or and assembly should “protect our REUTERS pared to a year earlier, driven by 18 percent year-on-year increase in loan volume and 27 bps improvement in net inter- est margin from 2.91 percent in September 2013 to 3.18 percent Qatargas delivers this year, which was predomi- QNB receives Best Affluent Card Award nantly a function of a change in first Q-Max balance sheet structure. DOHA: QNB has been awarded discuss innovations in the pay- Mashreq’s best-in-class net cargo to Dubai the Best Affluent Card Award ments industry. fee, commission and other across all of the Middle East The award recognises and cel- income to operating income and Africa markets for its ebrates both product excellence ratio remained high at 48.6 DOHA: For the first time, World Elite MasterCard Credit and best practice in customer percent led by 18 percent Qatargas has delivered LNG Card programme for private service amongst Middle Eastern growth in net fee and com- on-board a Q-Max Vessel to banking customers. and African based companies. It mission income and 38 percent the Dubai Supply Authority The prestigious award, rec- also aims to encourage companies growth in investment income (DUSUP) LNG Terminal ognising the product being the to be service focused and to pro- as compared to September located at the Jebel Ali Port, first of its kind in the MEA mote the importance of customer 2013. General and adminis- said a statement yesterday. region, was presented at the service across the region. trative expenses for the period The Q-Max LNG ves- MasterCard Innovation Forum Commenting on the significant increased by 7 percent com- sel Lijmiliya has a capacity of 2014, held recently in Singapore. achievement, Heba Al Tamimi, pared to a year earlier to reach 263,000 cubic metres, a length The two-day event saw more than General Manager Group Retail AED1.6bn; however Mashreq’s of 345 metres and is one of the 400 MasterCard partners and Banking at QNB, said: “It is a efficiency ratio improved from largest LNG vessels in the world. customers from southeast Asia, reflection of our ongoing com- 43 percent in September 2013 The Lijmiliya under charter to the Middle East and Africa in mitment to be the dominant bank to reach 37.3 percent at the Qatargas is owned by Qatar Gas attendance, providing a unique in Qatar and a leading finan- end of September 2014. Transport Company (Nakilat) and platform for MasterCard to pro- cial institution across the MEA THE PENINSULA operated by Shell International mote the exchange of ideas and region.” THE PENINSULA Trading and Shipping Company QNB official receiving the Best Affluent Card Award. (STASCo). The Lijmiliya was partially loaded with 150,000 cubic metres Daman Islamic Insurance net of LNG in the Port of Ras Laffan and arrived on the morning of October 27 alongside DUSUP’s profit increases 26pc in Q3 125,000 cubic metre Floating DOHA: Daman Islamic Insurance Company’s (Beema) net profit Storage and Regasification Unit attributable to its shareholders stood at QR37m for the third (FSRU), Golar Freeze, which is quarter of 2014, up 26 percent compared to the corresponding moored at a jetty in the Jebel Ali period in 2013. The total premium for the third quarter increased Port for unloading its cargo. This 27 percent to over QR200m. Announcing the results, Sheikh being the first occasion for Q-Max Jassim bin Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of vessel to call at Jebel Ali, the ves- the Board of Directors, note that what has been achieved during sel will take approximately two past nine months of the year 2014 is remarkable achievement days to un-load cargo. considering the highly competitive environment in the insur- Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani, ance market in the country. THE PENINSULA CEO of Qatargas, said: “Qatargas has been safely and reliably delivering LNG to Dubai since Barwa Real Estate profit up 44pc November 2010 on board Q-Flex DOHA: Barwa Real Estate Company revealed a net profit of vessels. Today’s delivery marks the QR673.4m for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014 culmination of a lot of hard work in comparison to a net profit of QR467.4m for the corresponding by Qatargas, DUSUP, Nakilat period last year, a 44 percent rise. The company’s earnings per and STASCo teams, taking an share amounted to QR1.73 for the period versus QR1.20 for the innovative risk based approach, corresponding period in 2013. Barwa’s foundations were laid on to ensure that the Golar Freeze November 15, 2005. It began operations on 19 January 2006. The could safely receive LNG from the company is primarily engaged in the acquisition, reclamation, world’s largest LNG carrier.” development and reselling of lands. QNA THE PENINSULA

Gulf Air’s maiden flight to Moscow takes off

Officials at the celebration of the launch of Gulf Air flights to Moscow. Gulf Air’s direct four weekly Moscow flights will depart from Bahrain on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9am and will be operated by an Airbus A320-ER aircraft with 110-seat capacity in a two-class configuration. WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qapco teams with IBM and SAP Al Mansoori elected Strategic relationships will drive innovation and growth in the country to World Federation DOHA: Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) QSC, one of the leading petrochemical pow- of Exchanges board erhouses in the region and a pioneer in petrochemical produc- tion, announced strategic rela- DOHA: The annual general tionships with both IBM and SAP meeting of the World Federation for the development and imple- of Exchanges (WFE) held at mentation of an innovative enter- Seoul yesterday elected Rashid prise resource planning (ERP) bin Ali Al Mansoori (pictured), platform that will improve the CEO of Qatar Exchange (QE), company’s overall performance. as the board member of WFE, “This collaboration with SAP The meeting also elected new and IBM will enhance our proc- board chairman, vice chairman, esses and operational perform- chairman of working committee ance, while empowering Qapco to and a number of board mem- deliver long-term, sustainable value bers representing the world’s to all its stakeholders,” said Dr different regions; the Americas, Mohammed Yousef Al Mulla, Vice Asia-Pacific, and Europe-Middle Chairman and CEO of Qapco. “We East-Africa. believe the implementation of these Al Mansoori was elected by technology solutions will translate the WFE general assembly to into significant efficiency gains and represent Europe-Middle East- strengthen our competitive advan- Africa region for three-year term. tage, ensuring we are well equipped He expressed his satisfaction for to pursue our innovation drive and being elected as a member of the growth aspirations.” board of WFE, which is the larg- Officials at the signing ceremony between Qapco and IBM. SAP’s innovative ERP software est international platform for the solutions will provide Qapco with world’s stock, futures and options a cutting-edge platform that will to Qatar’s ongoing economic IBM will enable Qapco to General Manager, Middle East exchanges. “It’s a great achieve- enhance the company’s operational strength. The company’s success make the most of investments in and Pakistan. ment for Qatar stock exchange. performance and increase business can be attributed to its strong ERP software through business Qapco will initially use the ERP The representation reflects Qatar efficiencies by allowing for more commitment to both its people and strategy consulting and advisory technology solution to focus on Exchange’s prominent regional streamlined processes across pro- processes, and now SAP is helping solutions. “IBM will bring the operations, manufacturing and and global position. We are happy curement, manufacturing, service, to bring those two critical assets best of its global practices and a supply chain, and will place a spe- to be part of an organisation that Mansoori added. finance, and HR. even closer together, achieving even regional services team of experts cial emphasis on its health, safety represents markets worldwide.” Al Mansoori held several “After forty years in operation, greater performance now and into to develop a long-term strategy and environment (HSE) perform- The WFE is a central reference meetings with senior officials of Qapco is a regional petrochemical the future,” said Gergi Abboud, to help Qapco best complete this ance and processes. point for the securities industry, a number of Arab and interna- powerhouse and a vital contributor Managing Director, SAP Gulf. project,” said Amr Refaat, IBM THE PENINSULA and for exchanges themselves. tional stock exchanges and par- The WFE offers members guid- ticipated in a number of panel ance on their business strategies, discussions that accompanied the and on improvements and har- meetings and addressed a number monisation of their management of issues of concern to exchanges ExxonMobil practices. The WFE develops and and investors. Qatar Rail signs MoU with QPMC promotes standards in markets, The WFE 2014 Annual publishes research on topical Meetings were officially opened programme subjects, supports reform, inter- yesterday morning with key- DOHA: Qatar Railways national cooperation and coordi- note addresses by the Geun- trains more than Company (Qatar Rail) has nation among regulators. hye Park, President of the signed a memorandum of under- “WFE exchanges are home Republic of Korea; and Je-Yoon standing (MoU) with Qatar to more than 45,000 listed com- Shin, Chairman of the Korean 100 employees Primary Materials Company panies and the WFE statistics Financial Services Commission; (QPMC) to secure the finest database covers more than 350 and Kyungsoo Choi, Chairman & DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar’s construction materials for its indicators and 70 years of data CEO, Korea Exchange. Tamayoz training programme projects. from exchanges worldwide,” Al THE PENINSULA enhanced the skills of more than The MoU formalised by Qatar 100 employees from valued joint Rail’s CEO, Saad Al Muhannadi venture partners like Qatar and QPMC’s CEO, Eisa Al Petroleum, RasGas and Qatargas Hammadi, came at the sidelines of from June to mid-October 2014. Qatar Construction Specifications The training and develop- Conference and Exhibition. Q-Chem holds annual ment opportunities were held in The signing ceremony, that Doha and included advanced gas took place on October 26 in pres- processing, reservoir eengineering, ence of senior officials from both project controls overview and gas parties, was also an occasion to townhall meeting business fundamentals. enhance ties between the two In addition, two leadership and leading companies. DOHA: Qatar Chemical has embarked to develop national personal effectiveness courses Speaking at the MoU signing Company Ltd (Q-Chem) held cadre to achieve the compa- were also held. All initiatives are ceremony, Saad Al Muhannadi recently its annual townhall ny’s strategic goals. Al Emadi led by ExxonMobil subject-matter said: “Qatar Rail seeks excellence meeting for Qatari employees espoused the company’s vision and experts and are offered free of in all relevant sectors and places working in the company, under Qatarisation drive as the priority. charge for participants with the premium materials at the heart the banner ‘In Their Footsteps’. He also underlined the impor- aim of transferring knowledge to of the executive strategy of all its The meeting was attended by tance of team work company wide valued partners. projects in order to guarantee a Qatar Rail CEO Saad Al Muhannadi and QPMC CEO Eisa Al Hammadi at the senior management, group and the importance of preserving “The Tamayoz training pro- first-class railway network with- the MoU formalising ceremony. and department managers, and high performance achievement gramme consistently reinforces out significant inflation in the all Qatari employees working at and standards especially on safety, ExxonMobil’s commitment to Qatari market. The MoU signed planned railway network set to primary materials in Qatar and Q-Chem companies including health, and environment. This, he Qatar National Vision 2030 through with QPMC, seeks to guarantee facilitate traffic in the capital and the wider region. Q-Chem II and Ras Laffan Olefins said, will guarantee sustainability each training opportunity,” said the flow of the primary materials its surroundings.” Qatar Rail is the company Company Ltd (RLOC). and competence among big play- Bart Cahir, President and General to our projects and stabilises the Established on the instruc- responsible for the design, con- Q-Chem General Manager, ers in petrochemical industry. Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar. market rates.” tion of the Qatari government in struction, commissioning, opera- Ahmed Ibrahim Al Emadi opened The meeting presented the “By regularly providing individual For his part, Eisa Al Hammadi 2006 to ensure supplies of build- tion and maintenance of the the session and expressed his company’s Qatarisation drive training courses, ExxonMobil sub- said: “QPMC is honoured to be ing materials to the local market, entire rail network and systems appreciation to the commitment progress and included variety of ject-matter experts impart tech- working with a home-grown com- QPMC is at the forefront of facili- within Qatar. Its scope of work and loyalty of Qatari employees motivational and self-empowering nical, commercial and operational pany responsible for handling tating the construction boom in is driven directly from the Qatar towards the company. He said, sessions alongside team-build- expertise with Qatari partners in pioneer projects in Qatar. We Qatar. The company stands for National Vision as the country “We mutually pledge our lives ing activities. These activities a way to maximise knowledge- believe this MoU will contribute quality, reliability and efficiency aims to sustain its development to develop skills and empower- were intended to bring together transfer and provide meaningful towards further strengthening and provides complete solu- and provide a high standard of ing talented Qataris to achieve employees and unleash their sustainability for Qatar’s future.” our business ties as well as our tions for the excavation, trans- living for its people by 2030. their goals”. hidden skills. THE PENINSULA capabilities to support Qatar’s port, storage and delivery of key THE PENINSULA Since its inception, Q-Chem THE PENINSULA

QDB showcases Qatari exporters’ products at Paris food expo DOHA: Qatari companies, including Kenya and Tanzania. welcoming 150,000 visitors from which participated in the Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al 100 countries. Of the 10 compa- recently concluded global food Khalifa, CEO of QDB, said: nies hosted at Qatar’s Pavilion, industry exhibition in Paris, “Qatar’s participation in SIAL seven came from Qatar’s food attracted great interest from was impressive and the opportu- industry, two from the plastics regional and international nities were promising. Countless industry and one from the hos- markets, said a press statement discussions and meetings were pitality sector. issued by Qatar Development held between Qatari companies Hassan Khalifa Al Mansoori, Bank (QDB) yesterday. and businesses from around the Executive Director of Tasdeer, QDB successfully concluded its world.” said: “SIAL provided a powerful participation at SIAL, a leading Al Khalifa said: “It is clear platform and invaluable oppor- global food industry expo held in from our participation at this tunity for Qatari companies to France from October 19 to 23. event that Qatari companies connect with potential buyers and Through its export arm Tasdeer, are competitive, garnering great suppliers in key markets around QDB hosted 10 Qatari compa- interest from regional and inter- the world. It allowed Qatari com- nies at the Qatar Pavilion, which national markets. We will con- panies to receive positive expo- received high profile visits from tinue to provide Qatari exporters sure in the global market, identify public and private sector deci- with all the financial and advi- possible opportunities and estab- sion makers including Qatar’s sory services support they need lish new business partnerships.” Ambassador to France, Sheikh to reach new markets and drive He added: “QDB has con- Mishaal bin Hamad Al Thani. continued growth in Qatar’s pri- tributed, through Tasdeer, to During the event, Qatari com- vate sector.” strengthening Qatari exports panies met with business delega- SIAL attracted nearly 6,000 and opening trade opportunities tions and trade officials from key leading food and agriculture com- in strategic markets.” QDB pavilion at the recently concluded SIAL expo in Paris. export markets around the globe panies from around the world, THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Rousseff will struggle to Wage hike could solve restore Brazil’s economy BY ALONSO SOTO the productivity puzzle BY KATIE ALLEN resident Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election by resorted to cheap labour to make money of examples of where higher pay has bred spending heavily and promising to extend the fight rather than investing in machinery or inno- higher productivity, rather than vice versa. against poverty but she will need to restore order to public s recoveries go, this one brings vations. So employment has stayed high but One good illustration comes from a sec- Pfinances in her second term to get Brazil’s stalled economy rich pickings for politicians. the money available to pay each employee is tor not usually renowned for productiv- back in gear. The rest of us may be baf- tight. This last factor is crucial. So long as ity growth nor decent pay. London-based Rousseff edged out opposition candidate Aecio Neves in Sunday’s fled that the slowest trudge Britain fails to do something about its stag- home care provider Penrose Care was election runoff, helped by strong support from the poor despite out of recession in history has nant productivity – output per hour worked one of the first in its sector to sign up to her struggles to tame high inflation, attract investment and revive Abeen followed by the fastest growth of any – the money to share out will remain tight. the living wage, set at £8.80 an hour in an economy in its fourth year of lackluster growth. advanced economy. You may be asking why Median wages per hour – the hourly pay London and £7.65 elsewhere, compared With the bruising re-election campaign behind her, Rousseff now unemployment has tumbled, yet wages have received by the typical British worker – with the national minimum wage at £6.50. faces the daunting task of returning the shine to an economy that not risen. And why all that austerity, only have been growing below productivity since Penrose’s staff turnover is close to zero, as was once a Wall Street darling but has been hit by policy missteps for George Osborne to have drifted further the early 1990s, and markedly so since the is the number of sick days, says co founder and global economic headwinds that hurt demand for Brazilian from his deficit goals? early 2000s, he notes. It is a phenomenon Robert Stephenson-Padron. exports. To do so, she needs to move swiftly to staunch the bleed- But for MPs gearing up for an election, the UK shares with the US, and when you Consultancy KPMG says it cut the cost ing in Brazil’s fiscal accounts, which has added pressure to inflation it is a take-your-pick kind of recovery. One think about what those two have in com- of running its buildings by introducing the and eroded investor confidence in Latin America’s largest economy. man’s Britain mired in a “cost-of-living cri- mon you begin to explain where the gains living wage along with more flexible shifts Failure to clean up public finances could lead to a credit rating down- sis” (Ed Balls) is another’s “employment are going. and more holiday for cleaners and other grade next year. Rousseff struck a conciliatory tone in her victory powerhouse” (Danny Alexander). The Resolution Foundation has also staff. Turnover dropped and workers were speech on Sunday night, pledging to work with political adversaries It is this discrepancy in the jobs market looked at ordinary workers experiencing happy to take on more responsibility. and business leaders alike to usher in a new era of economic growth. that is most widely felt and keenly pondered. growth without gain. Its Commission on These are just two of many examples. She also extended an olive branch to investors worried about Employment is rising fast and yet wages are Living Standards highlighted distribution Research has found that there can indeed Brazil’s deteriorating finances, saying she was committed to fiscal falling once inflation is taken into account. changes. In 1977, of every £100 of value gen- be a virtuous circle from higher pay to discipline and to keeping inflation in check. What this means for pay has been totted erated in the UK economy, workers in the higher productivity. The Living Wage But the jury is out on whether Rousseff, a leftist who believes up by various politicians and economists. bottom half of the earnings distribution Commission said raising coverage of the in state-led economic growth, is committed enough to fiscal dis- Labour says average wages after inflation received £16 as wages; by 2010 this share living wage alongside improved training cipline to take on politically difficult tax and pension reforms or are down £1,600 a year since 2010. Another had fallen to £12. Workers in the top 10 could even plug the UK’s productivity gap cut spending on popular welfare programmes. estimate, from Professor Paul Gregg at the percent increased their share of value from with the other G7 countries. That is wishful “Everything will hinge on fiscal policy, but there is not much University of Bath, is £5,000 a year. Real £12 to £14 over the same period. thinking. But it is better than shaky prom- scope to make a very drastic adjustment in the short term given wages are some 20 percent below where One solution to this problem of low and ises that a return to productivity growth the rigidity of the budget,” said Otaviano Canuto, a World Bank they would be had trend wage growth con- falling pay that is not talked about enough will herald the long-awaited wage recovery. official who some government officials say is a contender to be tinued over the past six years, he says. is simply to pay more at the bottom. How do On recent trends there is every chance it finance minister in Rousseff’s new term. Plenty of reasons have been put forward you that before productivity rises? You do it will merely make the rich richer. About 90 percent of Brazil’s budget spending is mandated by for this. There has been a surge in self- so that productivity will rise. This sounds Employers would do well to try another law, meaning the government does not have much wiggle room to employment, where pay is often low. There too easy to be true, but the living wage way. Raise pay and watch productivity fol- significantly cut expenditures without reducing public investment is a bigger supply of labour. Companies have movement is providing a growing number low. THE GUARDIAN or social programmes. Brazil’s budget deficit has widened sharply under Rousseff, who increased public spending and granted dozens of tax cuts to struggling industries to bolster the economy. Brazil’s sovereign wealth fund, could be as much as 2 percent of gross domestic product, BNP Paribas estimated in a recent research report. Rousseff’s headaches won’t be limited to the fiscal realm. After keeping fuel and electricity rates artificially low in recent years to help keep contain inflation, the president is under pressure to finally let those prices rise. Investors are far from convinced that Rousseff will act decisively to tackle Brazil’s many economic challenges head on in her second term, which starts on New Year’s Day. Some hold out hope that the threat of a credit downgrade could force Rousseff to take a more market-friendly tack. But Brazil’s stock market and currency plunged on Monday as most bet it would be more of the same in a second Rousseff administration. The Bovespa index lost as much as 6.2 percent in early trade while the real weakened more than 3 percent against the dollar. In a bid to calm markets, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the next administration will redouble efforts to improve fiscal dis- cipline and tackle high inflation. Many observers remain sceptical. Local businesses have long lobbied for bold reforms to cut Brazil’s red tape, simplify its Byzantine tax code and overhaul a pension system that is piling pressure on public finances. Rousseff agrees that many of those reforms are needed, but so far has shown little desire to engage in the political give-and-take required to push initiatives through Congress. Even with a clear majority in Congress, Rousseff has struggled to pass legislation to unify minor taxes and slightly lower the pen- sion burden. An even more fragmented Congress in a second term will further complicate any efforts to lower the staggering cost of doing business in Brazil. Brazilian companies on average spend 2,600 hours a year calculating what they owe in taxes, according to the World Bank’s annual Doing Business study, which compares business practices around the world. That is almost 15 times the amount of time needed to do taxes in the United States. Mexico and Colombia, which have embarked on more ambitious reforms to open their economies, are growing at a rate more than two times that of Brazil. The Brazilian economy is expected to barely grow at all this year and expand just 1 percent in 2015 - a far cry from the 7.5 percent growth rate in 2010, just before Rousseff took office. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

NY court is good friend to global banks, foreign account holders

BY ALISON FRANKEL in their refusal to pay Motorola from StanChart’s account, and restraining order contradict New the $30m. If the Uzans prevailed, adoption are still valid. what they owe, which has led to Jordanian bank examiners seized York’s long-standing “separate StanChart would be out $30m of In a stinging dissent, Judge ew York’s highest court additional post-judgment pro- StanChart documents in their entity” rule, which holds that its own money to repay the $30m Sheila Abdus-Salaam said that did a big favour for ceedings. In February 2013, US country. bank branches are, well, separate it turned over to Motorola – a the majority’s decision overstates international banks District Judge Jed Rakoff of StanChart’s dilemma – caught entities and you can’t get at assets hypothetical that UAE banking the significance of an obsolete Nlast week in its deci- Manhattan issued a restraining between a US court order and held in one branch by taking regulators assumed when they rule, ignores the Koehler prec- sion in Motorola v Standard order barring anyone with notice bank regulators outside of the action against another. According debited StanChart’s account at edent and gives fugitives a way Chartered. But they’re not the of the order from transferring United States – generated quite to the banks, they’ve always relied the central bank by $30m. to evade US judgments. That’s only beneficiaries of the ruling, Uzan property. a bit of panic from other interna- on the separate entity rule to Banks call the dual exposure a policy fiasco, according to at least as the banks tell the Motorola served the order on tional banks. They’ve been pre- protect the foreign-held assets to judgment creditors and their Abdus-Salaam. story. According to amicus briefs the New York branch of Standard dicting exactly this scenario since of their customers, which, they own customers “double dipping.” “Today’s holding permits banks in the case from the Securities Chartered, a British bank with 2009, when the New York Court of contend, should not be subject to They claimed that if the Court of doing business in New York to Industry and Financial Markets operations all over the world. Appeals ruled in Koehler v Bank a seizure under a New York court Appeals repudiated the separate shield customer accounts held Association (SIFMA) and the Standard Chartered had no of Bermuda that a New York court order just because they have a entity rule and exposed financial in branches outside of this coun- city bar’s banking law committee Uzan money in New York, but it can order a foreign bank to turn dollar clearinghouse in New York. institutions to double dipping, try, thwarts efforts by judgment (among others), New York’s posi- turned out that the Uzans held over an account holder’s stock For the banks, moreover, banks would opt not to open creditors to collect judgments and tion as a centre of international $30m in Uzan assets in branches certificates to a judgment credi- the issue isn’t just protecting branches in New York. allows even the most egregious finance would have been endan- in the United Arab Emirates. The tor. Typically, a judgment creditor their customers, according to The Court of Appeals agreed. and flagrant judgment debtors gered had the Court of Appeals bank froze the money and asked has to bring an action in a foreign SIFMA lawyer Timothy Nelson Motorola’s lawyer, Howard Stahl to make a mockery of our courts’ gone against Standard Chartered. Judge Rakoff to lift the restrain- jurisdiction to recover a debtor’s of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher of Fried Frank Harris Shriver duly entered judgments,” she The case stemmed from ing order. He agreed, but after assets there. The Koehler case, as & Flom: It’s shielding themselves & Jacobson, argued throughout wrote. “In an age where banks Motorola’s long-running litiga- Motorola appealed to the 2nd the banks read it, suggested that from foreign regulators and dou- the case and at the high court are being held more account- tion against the notorious Uzan US Circuit Court of Appeals, the creditors could bypass the foreign ble liability. Motorola’s Uzan that double dipping is a risk the able than ever for their actions family of Turkey, which Motorola federal appeals court ordered proceeding and use a New York case is a perfect illustration. banks took on when they opened vis-à-vis their customers, today’s accused of misappropriating most StanChart to keep the $30m fro- order to get their hands on bank StanChart froze the $30m in the branches in New York. But the holding is a deviation from cur- of a $2bn loan that was intended zen. The 2nd Circuit then referred customers’ overseas assets. United Arab Emirates. Under Court of Appeals wasn’t willing rent public policy regarding the to finance telecom operations but the question of the legality of the The banks claimed that Judge Rakoff’s original New to expose foreign banks to liabil- responsibilities of banks and a allegedly ended up in the Uzans’ asset seizure to the New York Motorola and other judgment York court orders, that money ity they didn’t expect when they step in the wrong direction.” pockets. Motorola obtained a Court of Appeals. creditors could use the global should have been turned over to opened here. Banks relied on the Great rhetoric, but not the law. $2.1bn judgment against the In the meantime, Standard institutions’ New York branches – Motorola. But the UAE didn’t century-old separate entity rule The Court of Appeals, with an Uzans in 2003, with another Chartered was subjected to often just a trading desk or other recognise the validity of the US when they came to New York, assist from Standard Chartered $1bn in punitive damages tacked regulatory action in the UAE limited operation – as a back court orders, so the Uzans could wrote Judge Victoria Graffeo for and its friends, has kept New York on three years later. The Uzans and Jordan. The UAE’s central door to bank accounts all over have pursued an action against the majority, and the policy con- safe for international banking. have been downright Argentine bank unilaterally debited $30m the world. They said Motorola’s StanChart in the UAE to recover siderations that led to the rule’s For good or ill. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 13,647.84 1.20 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 20,355.62 1.20 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,544.63 0.84 % RATE QE All Share Index 3,443.9 0.93 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 3,425.75 0.47 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5433.961 -7.989 -0.15 5672.3 5072.7 QE All Share Industrials 4,482.81 0.28 % QR144.4860 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 QE All Share Transportation 2,340.92 0.24 % Cac 40 Index/D 4116.86 20.12 0.49 4598.65 3789.11 QE All Share Real Estate 2,735.1 5.56 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.8354 QR 5.9168 QE All Share Insurance 4,085.11 1.46 % Dj Indu Average 16817.94 12.53 0.07 17350.6 15340.69 QR 2.0223 Euro ...... QR 4.5974 QR 4.6620 QE All Share Telecoms 1,576.35 0.72 % CA$ ...... QR 3.2172 QR 3.2810 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 7,226.26 0.62 % Hang Seng Inde/D 23520.36 377.13 1.63 25362.98 21137.61 Services Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8105 QR 3.8640 QE Market Summary Comparison Iseq Overall/D 4696.7 27.89 0.6 5195.97 4275.26 Yen ...... QR 0.0334 QR 0.0340 Aus$ ...... QR 3.1898 QR 3.2524 Today Previous day Karachi 100 In/D 30225.62 -13.34 -0.04 30639.78 25273.11 CRUDE OIL 28-10-2014 27-10-2014 Ind Re ...... QR 0.0589 QR 0.0600 Index 13,647.84 13,486.13 Nikkei 225 Index 15329.91 -58.81 -0.38 16374.14 13885.11 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0350 QR 0.0357 Change 161.71 57.91 BRENT Peso ...... QR 0.0806 QR 0.0822 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2019.26 1737.92 % 1.20 0.43 $ 85.83 SL Re ...... QR 0.0276 QR 0.0282 YTD% 31.49 29.93 Straits Times/D 3211.65 -14.46 -0.45 3387.84 2953.01 Taka ...... QR 0.0466 QR 0.0476 Volume 23,004,980 14,827,166 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0368 QR 0.0375 Value (QAR) 849,994,365.83 614,950,543.12 Straits Times/D 3290.99 -1.82 -0.06 3387.84 2953.01 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3302 QR 0.3369 Trades 8,034 5,764 $ 84.11 Straits Times/D 3274.06 -8.82 -0.27 3291.83 2953.01 Up 24 | Down 14 | Unchanged 05

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market, struggling Chivas USA formally Robinson tallies 10 tackles and sack that injures Romo in the third ceased operations on Monday and will be replaced by a new ARLINGTON, Texas: rush early in the fourth. Dallas club later this week. Replacement quarterback Colt answered with backup QB MLS Commissioner Don McCoy overcame a limping Tony Brandon Weeden, briefly tak- Garber said in a statement that Romo to lift the Washington ing over for Romo, finding Jason the new Los Angeles franchise Redskins to a 20-17 overtime Witten on a 25-yard connection and its ownership group would victory over the red-hot Dallas that sent the game into overtime. be announced on Thursday with Cowboys on Monday, snapping The Washington defense the club set to begin play in 2017. the home team’s winning streak applied pressure to Romo all The decision on Chivas USA at six games. night, sacking him five times. was made unanimously by the McCoy, who was named as Brandon Meriweather had two MLS board of governors, after starter after filling in for a strug- of them while Keenan Robinson a comprehensive review of the gling Kirk Cousins last week, led tallied 10 tackles and made the league’s strategy for the Los Washington to a winning drive on sack on Romo that sent him out Angeles market. Consequently, the first possession of overtime of the game in the third. the league will feature 20 clubs with Kai Forbath booting the “He caught me pretty good,” in the 2015 season. decisive 40-yard field goal. said Romo, who underwent back “As part of our new strategy “It was our moment,” third- surgery in December. “Even if I for Southern California ... we string quarterback McCoy told hadn’t had back surgery I would believe that engaging with a new reporters. “I made some mistakes probably feel that one. It was a ownership group which has the tonight but my team mates stuck direct shot.” resources and local community with me, we found a way to win Romo finished with 209 yards ties, and a plan for a dedicated and it feels great.” passing and threw a TD to soccer-specific stadium, provides Trailing by three, Dallas had receiver Dez Bryant in the first us with the best chance for suc- one last chance to reply but failed for a 7-3 lead. cess,” Garber said. to make it through the first set Washington moved ahead in With the addition of Orlando of downs with a bruised Romo the second on a five-yard run City and New York City in 2015, tossing two straight incomplete from Alfred Morris, but the MLS will have 20 clubs for the passes to end the game. Cowboys tied it 10-10 with Dan league’s 20th season and will Romo was taken out of the con- Bailey’s field goal before halftime. feature a new conference align- test in the third quarter with a Washington Redskins’ quarterback Colt McCoy (centre) celebrates after scoring a touchdown in the fourth NFL-leading rusher DeMarco ment, with the Houston Dynamo back injury but returned in the quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas. Murray registered his eighth and 2013 MLS Cup Champions final minutes of regulation to try straight 100-yard running game Sporting Kansas City moving to to lead an ultimately unsuccessful Dallas (6-2) lost for the first time turnovers,” said Redskins coach McCoy was strong in his start- for Dallas, compiling 141 yards on the West. comeback. since the season-opener. Jay Gruden. “This is a heck of a ing opportunity as he tossed for the ground along with 80 yards MLS will conduct a dispersal It was the second straight “(McCoy) kept us in the game win for us to really get started for 299 yards and put Washington receiving in the defeat. draft of the Chivas USA roster win for the Redskins (3-5) while and we didn’t have any major the rest of the season.” ahead 17-10 with a seven-yard REUTERS in the near future, and further details will be announced at a later date. Chivas USA, which became the 11th MLS team in 2004, failed to reach the playoffs for a fifth con- Royals return home for last shot at fairytale ending secutive season and had the worst attendance figures in the league. KANSAS CITY, Missouri: Beyond the masterful Madison Despite only one really tight The struggling franchise, which The World Series heads back to Bumgarner, who has won game following a postseason full shared its home venue with Los Kansas City for another help- two games in this series, San of nailbiters, this series has been Angeles Galaxy at StubHub ing of baseball American League Francisco has been sparked by entertaining for its likeable per- Center in Carson, was purchased style and the Royals hope that two of their most dynamic hit- sonalities, emphasis on funda- by the MLS in February under familiarity will revive their ters and personalities. mental baseball and outstanding plans for it to be sold to new Cinderella story. Hunter Pence has batted a blis- glove work. owners. The Royals, who opened their tering .474 with six runs scored “Our two teams have grinded According to media reports, first postseason appearance in 29 and five RBIs. the whole year, we’ve battled,” the new franchise will be bought years with a record eight consecu- Pablo Sandoval, who required said Hosmer. “It’s always fun for around $100 million and the tive wins, are now one loss away an IV before Game Four after when you’re competing against ownership group is expected to from elimination in the best-of- being hit with nausea from a guys who have proven themselves include Vietnamese-American seven championship against the stomach flu, had a key hit in that and have multiple championships. venture capitalist Henry Nguyen San Francisco Giants. win, a two-out, two-run single “So it’s a blast coming into this and Hollywood producer Peter But Tuesday’s Game Six and, that put the Giants ahead for park and coming into this envi- Guber, who is a co-owner of if necessary, Wednesday’s Game good. ronment with the fans, and how baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers Seven, will be at Kauffman “He’s right up there with some much energy they have here and and basketball’s Golden State Stadium in front of success- of the great players I’ve had, the seeing all the orange out there. Warriors. REUTERS starved Royals fans with desig- great talents,” Giants manager It’s the same way in Kansas City. nated hitter (DH) Billy Butler Bruce Bochy said of the beefy So it’s been a fun experience.” back in the lineup to beef up the third baseman, who is nicknamed The Royals, like the Giants, attack. “Panda.” come through as a close-knit Since taking a 4-1 lead in the “I think good players, great team. Many of the players have third inning of Saturday’s Game players have a way of rising to come up together through the Four, the Royals have been out- the occasion, and he’s one of those minor leagues. scored 15-0 over the next 15 FROM LEFT: Kansas City Royals’ infielders Eric Hosmer, Alcides Escobar, players. “It’s a tough grind to get to this innings and are in dire need of Jayson Nix and Mike Moustakas wait during a pitching change against Pence has been an all-round level,” Hosmer said. “I remember an offensive spark. the San Francisco Giants in the eighth inning during game five of the threat, making outstanding plays when (All Star catcher) Salvador Butler had only one at-bat, as 2014 World Series at AT&T Park in San Francisco. in the field as well as in the bat- Perez got sent down to rookie a pinch hitter, in the three games ter’s box. ball and we were in low-A, and played under National League baseman Mike Moustakas. “He’s two games of the series would now “Once we got him, he was every it seems like a blink of an eye, rules, which prohibit the use of a a great hitter and brings a lot to swing to the Royals’ favor. bit what I thought he was, a guy and we’re in the World Series A Chivas USA fan cheers during DH, in San Francisco. the table for us.” “They give us a lot of energy,” that came out to play every day, together. It’s really special. Our a game against the San Jose “Any time you can get Billy First baseman Eric Hosmer Hosmer said about the Royals 100 percent in everything he families have gotten really close Earthquakes at StubHub Center back in the lineup it’s huge for said the home effect he believed fans. “We feed off of them back does,” Bochy said. “That’s why we with each other. It’s one giant in Los Angeles on Monday. us,” said Kansas City Royals third had helped the Giants win the last home.” call him ‘Full Throttle.’” family now.” REUTERS New York Rangers rally to beat Minnesota Wild

NEW YORK: The New York from any three-goal deficit in the The Wild appeared to be Kreider and Moore could be Rangers could have been third period to win was December in complete control nearly all facing supplemental discipline counted out multiple times 27, 1992, against Boston. night, but left with a stunning from the NHL for separate hits against the Minnesota Wild on “It was a pretty crazy game,” loss. Kuemper gave up only four that led to the ejection of both. Monday night. Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh goals in five previous games this Despite receiving a pair of Such as when forward Chris said, “but in the end you want to season. 5-minute power plays that com- Kreider was ejected in the first be on the good side of those.” “This is twice already this year bined to take up 9:45 of the sec- period or when defenceman John Rangers defenseman Kevin where we’ve blown third-period ond, the Wild still haven’t scored Moore was kicked out in the sec- Klein started the comeback at leads,” coach Mike Yeo said. “I a man-advantage goal this season ond, or when the Wild scored 2:52 of the third. Rick Nash made don’t know if we did that twice in 24 opportunities. two even-strength goals and then it 3-2 at 4:48, but Jason Zucker all last year. But they struck for three even- carried a three-goal lead into the restored the Wild’s two-goal lead “We didn’t respond very well strength tallies in the second, and third period. 47 seconds later. tonight, no question.” have outscored opponents 13-1 in But with only 20 minutes to go “When they scored the fourth Derick Brassard made it 4-3 at the middle period this season. against the NHL’s hottest goalie, one, that was a tough one,” goalie 7:54, and the 19-year-old Duclair, New York was outshot 24-8 the Rangers found a way to forge Henrik Lundqvist said. “We came playing his seventh NHL game, through 40 minutes — includ- one of their most improbable back with two goals and we had tied it. Zuccarello won it with his ing 11-3 in the second. But the wins. the energy. We had the build- first of the season. Rangers (5-4) regrouped and Despite recording only eight ing going and they killed the “It hasn’t sunk in yet, I don’t began a stretch of 10 of 13 games shots through 40 minutes, New momentum.” think,” Duclair said. “It was a at Madison Square Garden in York stormed back against Darcy That, too, was fleeting. Youth big comeback for us. It speaks thrilling fashion. Kuemper and the Wild, scoring and some fresh legs carried the to the leadership in this locker Kreider received a major pen- five goals in the third period for a Rangers to victory. room.” alty for boarding defenseman 5-4 victory Monday night. Anthony Duclair scored his Nate Prosser, Matt Cooke and Jonas Brodin late in the first Only one other time — January first NHL goal with 3:48 remain- Jason Pominville scored second- period, and Moore was ejected 4, 1956, against Detroit — has ing, and Mats Zuccarello put the period goals for the Wild (4-3), midway through the second for New York Rangers’ Derick Brassard (left) celebrates his goal with Carl New York come back from a 3-0 Rangers ahead 37 seconds later in who held a 30-20 shots advantage a blatant hit to the head of for- Hagelin during the third period against the Minnesota Wild at Madison hole in the third period to win. New York’s biggest third period but had their two-game winning ward Erik Haula that resulted in Square Garden in New York on Monday. The last time the Rangers rallied since January 1993. streak snapped. a match penalty. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

CAS reopens Qatar set for Formula Kite Course case against Kreuziger after UCI appeal

Racing Championship next month GENEVA: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said yesterday it had reopened Five Qatari sailors to compete in five-day championship at Pearl-Qatar a case against Roman Kreuziger after the International Cycling Union appealed a Czech decision DOHA: The Qatar Sailing and to clear him of doping charges. Rowing Federation (QSRF) 2014 Formula Kite The Czech Olympic Committee will host the 2014 Formula Course Racing announced last month it was Kite Course Racing Asian clearing the cyclist of the dop- Championship from November Championship ing charges that had seen him 10 to 15 at The Pearl-Qatar, it Anastasia Akopova (Russian); Bader Al banned from the sport for months was announced here yesterday. Madani (Qatar); Khalifa Al Misnad (Qatar); over problems with his biological For the first time, kiteboard- Astrid Berz (Swiss); Anke Brandt (Germany); passport. ing is coming to the Gulf region Catherine Dufour (Canada); Aga Grzymska But the International Cycling and Doha will host the five-day (POL); Rahel Holliger (Suisse); Ariane Imbert Union (UCI) appealed the inaugural Championship under (France); Jade OConnor (Ireland); Bilge Ozturk decision Monday, as it had the auspices of the Qatar Olympic (Turkish); Katja Roose (NED); Omar Abdel warned it might after presi- Committee (QOC). Fattah (Egypt); Omar Alhammadi (Qatar); dent Brian Cookson said there “Kiteboarding is one of the fast- Thiago Arteaga Vera (Spain); Alexander was “a very strong indication of est growing sports in the world, Bachev (Bulgarian); Andrea Beverino (Italy); manipulation.” and this trend is reflected here Oliver Bridge (British); Mario Calbucci (Italy); In its appeal, UCI requested on the shorelines of Qatar,”QSRF Pierluigi Capozzi (Italy); Alejandro Climent that CAS set aside the Czech deci- Advisor for Sport Sarah Lord Hernandez (Spain); Alessandro Di Benedetto sion from September 22 clearing said. (Italy); Ivica Dolenc (Croatia); Martin Dolenc Kreuziger of any violations of the She added that the nationals (Croatia); Ivan Doronin (Russia); Ricardo UCI anti-doping rules. are extremely lucky to be given Dutra Pessoa Filho (Brasil); Pietro Fazioli It requested that the Czech the support from the federation (Italy); Louie Fernando (Filipino); Alaa Festok cyclist be banned from the sport to be able to achieve high level (Qatari); Khalid Festok (Qatar); Max Feudoroff for between two and four years training in kiteboarding. (Russian); Mattia Galeazzi (Italy); Florian and that all of his results since “It is with great pride that we Gruber (Germany); Erwin Gruber (Germany); March 2011 be erased. will enter five Qataris in the com- James Hoad (British); Tomek Janiak (Polish); It also demanded that he be petition, who have been training Julien Kerneur (French); Ricardo Andrea fined 770,000 euros ($980,000). hard to learn the tricky discipline Leccese (Italy); Jannis Maus (German); Following the appeal, CAS said of kiteboarding racing over the Petter Olstad (Norwegian); Chanon Phrakaew yesterday it had “initiated a pro- last year. We wish them every (Thailand); Narapichit Pudla (Thailand); cedure” against Kreuziger. success in the championship and Ranno Rumm (Estonia); Dean Seton (Kenyan); “The arbitration procedure is we are happy that they have the Osama Shihab (Jordan);Pablo Sola Garcia in progress and the CAS will not fantastic opportunity to compete (Spain); Denis Taradin (Russian); Bridge comment further at this time,” against the best kiteboard racers A file picture of the Kiteboarding competition. Stephanie (UK) it said. in the world,” Lord added. Kreuziger’s lawyer Jan Stovicek Since the initiative was taken said his client had been expecting two years ago, the QSRF now men’s and an open women’s fleet. kiteboarding event, with the the UCI appeal. have 18 Qataris registered in The Pearl-Qatar with its pic- inclusion of five Qatari com- “However, the strong argu- the kiteboarding programme. turesque views, advanced facili- petitors, after only two years ments remain on our side,” Most recently, a training site has ties and waterfront aspect has of starting the programme is a he said in a statement, insist- been established on the beach of provided the ideal venue for this great indicator of how the sport ing that the expert panel Fuwairit, where all nationals are event, allowing the championship is developing in the country. of the Cycling Anti-Doping welcomed to participate in the to be held in the Qanat Quartier The event is sanctioned by Foundation “decided on sport. beach area. the International Kiteboarding the alleged guilt of Roman The Qatari squad includes “We welcome this exciting new Association (IKA), who has been Kreuziger on the basis of Khalifa Al Misnad, Omar Al sport to our region and to The working closely with the QSRF incomplete and insufficient Hammadi, Bader Al Madani, Pearl-Qatar. Qanat Quartier, to ensure a successful event in information.” Khalid Festook, and Alaa Festook. where the competition will be Qatar. The Championship will Stovicek pointed out that his “Since I started with the QSRF held, offers a spectacular setting start on November 10, with client suffered from a poorly programme two years ago, I never to all sorts of beach activities and registration for all competitors functioning thyroid gland, and as imagined then that I would be water sports ensuring competi- and practice races starting from the condition worsened he was competing in an international tors and spectators both enjoy the 1pm. required to take high doses of a championship now! It has been championship,” said The Pearl- For the next five days, the substitute hormone L-Thyroxine a great experience, Kiteboarding Qatar’s Director of Operations Championship will run from 9am during the time when suspicions is life changing. I love everything Saeed Al Sulaiti. to 4.30pm daily, with races ongo- against him arose. about it, getting out in the fresh Qatar Sailing and Rowing ing, leading to the grand final “We firmly believe that com- air, being on the ocean, and keep- Federation President Khalifa Al being held on November 15. mon sense will prevail,” he said. ing healthy are all a bonus of the Sewaidi expressed his joy and The premises at The Qanat The anomalies in his biological sport,” said Qatari participant pride in heading the host country Quartier beach will be trans- passport date from 2011 and 2012, Omar Al Hammadi. on this new venture. formed to accommodate all event during Kreuziger’s time with the The Qatari participants will be “As a national sailing organi- participants, with the provision of controversial Astana team, but competing alongside the worlds sation, it was difficult to ignore seating areas. Live commentary only came to light earlier this top Kiteboard racers, including the explosion of kiteboarding on of races will be broadcast on the year. course racing world champion the international scene. It was a beach. The problems with his biolog- Florian Gruber of Germany. delight to hear of the recognition For more information on ical passport saw the 28-year- In total, up to 60 men and of the sport by the International Sailing in Qatar, please visit old Tinkoff-Saxo rider, who 30 women will compete at the Sailing Federation (ISAF), which www.qatarsailing.org. Those had finished fifth in last year’s championship. prompted a decision to be made who wish to follow the Qatar Tour de France, omitted from Although, this is an Asian to develop this as a national sport. National Kiteboarding team can his team’s squad for this year’s Championship, the event is open The sport has only just begun to see facebook page Qatar National Tour. to the entire world, allowing all develop in Qatar, with a high level Kiteboarders – QNK. He was later provisionally sus- to compete under different age of interest shown from our local Information on registering for pended by the UCI, forcing him categories. people,” he said. Kiteboard training can also be to miss the Tour of Spain and the An Asian champion will be He added that being the host found on the Facebook page. Qatar Sailing and Rowing Federation President Khalifa Al Sewaidi World Championships. crowned, in addition to an open country to an international THE PENNSULA REUTERS Robredo rumbles on as Verdasco stuns Simon

PARIS: Spanish veteran felt I was fit, I had energy and I a morale-boosting victory and Tommy Robredo survived a Paris Masters could have played a lot. pounded his chest in celebration. first round scare at the Paris “But I was not controlling the Verdasco will now play either Masters yesterday before pre- Results ball the way I wanted to and I’m former champion and last year’s vailing 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5) over PARIS: Results on the second day of the ATP not happy with the way I played. finalist David Ferrer or Belgian Canada’s Vasek Pospisil. Paris Masters yesterday (x denotes seeding): “I’m extremely disappointed talent David Goffin. Former world number five Tommy Robredo (ESP) bt Vasek Pospisil because I like this tournament The 23-year-old Goffin, who lost Robredo was evidently still feel- (CAN) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5) and I felt I could do well here.” the Basel Open final in straight ing the effects of reaching the Pablo Cuevas (URU) bt Leonardo Mayer added Simon. sets against Roger Federer on final of the Valencia Open on (ARG) 7-6 (7/3), 1-0 retired Simon, who lost to Roger Sunday but has two ATP wins Sunday where he was beaten by Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Federer in the final of the this season, overpowered Czech Andy Murray in the longest final Kenny De Schepper (FRA) 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 Shanghai Masters last month, Republic world number 29 Lukas of the year. started brightly against Verdasco Rosal 6-4, 6-3. Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Now ranked 17 in the ATP and broke in the opening game Earlier, Jeremy Chardy, who Joao Sousa (POR) 6-1, 6-4 rankings, the popular 32-year- before holding serve for a 2-0 lead. reached his second career semi- David Goffin (BEL) bt old has reached three finals this Verdasco broke back immedi- final at Valencia last week, edged Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6-3, 6-4 season but lost them all as a 13th ately and then levelled the match compatriot and qualifier Kenny career title continues to elude Second Round before Simon cracked at 4-3 down De Schepper 7-6 (7/5) 7-6 (7/4) him. Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt Gilles Simon when he lost his serve for the sec- in a battle of Frenchmen. Pospisil, who came into the (FRA x15) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 ond time and eventually the set in “I didn’t expect him to play so week ranked 54, rained down 13 second round. 32 minutes. well from the baseline, he was aces against Robredo’s one, and French hopes were badly Simon, whose best result in moving well, and he didn’t miss led 4-2 in the third set before dented when Shanghai Masters Paris was a semi-final appear- much,” said Chardy. painfully falling at the final finalist and 15th seed Gilles ance in 2012, levelled the match “We had good rallies, it was a hurdle. Simon, crashed out in the second at one set all by dominating the good fight for the whole match, Robredo, who wasted five round against Spaniard Fernando second 6-3. because neither of us wanted to match points against Murray at Verdasco. It then came down to a nail- give up, and the two sets were in Valencia in a match that lasted 3 The world number 33 broke in biting deciding set that went with a tiebreaker, and I’m happy I won hours 20mins, seized a 6-3 advan- the final game to outlast Simon serve until Verdasco went 5-4 up them.” added the world number tage in the decisive third set tie- 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in 1hr 53min. and Simon was serving to stay in 30. Chardy’s reward is a second break and squandered two of “It’s always the same, I didn’t the match. round match against Swiss leg- them before Pospisil hit long to control anything,” said a dejected The right-hander from Nice end Federer who has a bye after Tommy Robredo of Spain returns the ball to Vasek Pospisil of Canada end the match. Simon, who was making his ninth faced match point at 30-40 winning his sixth Basel crown on during his first round match at the BNP Paribas 2014 Masters tennis Robredo now plays Japanese straight appearance at Bercy. and after a marathon rally Sunday and 82nd ATP tourna- tournament in Paris, France, yesterday. sixth seed Kei Nishikori in the “It’s a pity, because physically I hit long as Verdasco claimed ment. AFP WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 More F1 teams could go bust, warns Mosley ‘It’s not a fair competition,’ says former FIA President

LONDON: More Formula One particularly if you have a cost teams could follow Caterham cap where you limit the amount The winners of the tournament held by the Qatar Badminton Association and Marussia into administra- of money each team is allowed to pose at Abu Obaida Independent School in Doha. tion or failure, the former head spend.” of the sport’s governing body Formula One has revenues Max Mosley warned. of more than $1.5bn, with more This week’s US Grand Prix in than half going to the commer- Austin, Texas, will have just nine cial rights holders CVC. Teams Qassim shines in teams on the track, the lowest share 47.5 percent as a prize fund number since 2005, and Mosley but the distribution is based on feared the number could fall performance. further. Certain teams, such as Ferrari, badminton meet “It’s not a fair competition also get additional payments any more,” said the former based on past achievements and DOHA: Promising 10-year- well and drew a lot of applause International Automobile to recognise their importance to old player Ahamed Qassim from the crowd for his abilities. Federation (FIA) President. “The the sport. was the star performer of the This victory is a huge achieve- big problem is the big teams have Rising engine costs compared tournament held by the Qatar ment for the players and for so much more money than teams to last year have also made the Badminton Association at Abu Qatar national badminton team like Caterham and Marussia. sport more expensive, with a Obaida Independent School on coach Manoj Sahibjan. “In the end they were bound to complex V6 hybrid turbo replac- October 22 and 23. These young players were drop off. And they may not be the ing the old V8 engines this year Qassim performed brilliantly under the training of Sahibjan last,” the Briton said. and an engine supply costing a in the under-19 category and from September 2012 onwards. Marussia were put into admin- customer team more than $30m emerged victorious. He outclassed The coach believes that players istration on Monday, a week after over a season. Ali Adel Al Saadi 21-10, 21-19 to can shine in the international Caterham. “I’m in favour of the greener claim the under-19 crown. He also tournaments and bring honour Both teams were the ‘paupers’ Former FIA President Max Mosley. engines,” said Mosley. “The mis- won the under-13 category. to both country and the team if of the paddock, struggling on take was not saying to the big Qatari player Abdul Aziz Badar they all perform and train in the budgets of $80.59m or less com- FIA helm and said there should he added. manufacturers that you can Al-Nahdi, 14, won the under-15 same manner. pared to 200m or more for the be some basic level of equality. “A team like Ferrari will spend as much as you want on category. He played against the The prizes for the winners and likes of Ferrari, Mercedes and “From a sporting point of view, always get more sponsorship research but the maximum you young Qassim who played bril- the runners–up were given by Red Bull. the sport should split the money than Marussia but if they all get can charge per season is some- liantly in other two categories. Hamad Al Malki, an official rep- Mosley tried and failed to bring equally and then let the teams get the same basic money then they thing like three to four million Abdul clinched the game from resenting the QBA. a cost cap during his time at the as much sponsorship as they can,” all start on a level playing field, pounds.” REUTERS Qassim 21-9, 21-14. Qassim played THE PENINSULA Austin’s double earns QPR victory over Aston Villa

LONDON: Charlie Austin All of QPR’s points this sea- scored twice to lift Queens Park son have come at home and they Rangers off the bottom of the proved to be difficult opposition Premier League table with a 2-0 again for Paul Lambert’s side. home win against Aston Villa in Scenes of jubilation from the the Premier League on Monday. home fans were in stark contrast Manager Harry Redknapp was to Lambert’s men, who must under pressure after his strug- be wondering where their next gling side had won just once in league goal is coming from. their opening eight games but a Prolific marksmen Christian goal in either half from Austin Benteke made only his second helped lighten the mood at Loftus start since March but he drew a Road. blank as Villa’s inability to score Aston Villa, beaten in their became almost farcical. last five games without scoring a The visitors had started like a goal, started brightly but Austin team determined to get back to calmed the home fans’ nerves Queens Park Rangers’ Charlie the winning ways that had seen when he lashed an excellent half Austin celebrates after scoring his them reach as high as second in Qatari players and officials at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha during the 26th Arab volley into the bottom corner with second goal against Aston Villa the table in the opening weeks of Squash Championship that began yesterday. 17 minutes gone. with Eduardo Vargas (R) during an the season. As the visitors went in search English Premier League match in But the hosts turned the tide of an equaliser the QPR striker when Bobby Zamora nodded a London on Monday. struck again after 69 minutes long ball down to the edge of the Knockout punch kills female boxer with a deft side-footed finish man into midfield we started see- area for Austin to finish. inside Villa keeper Brad Guzan’s ing more of the ball and hit the Ciaran Clark nearly equalised JOHANNESBURG: A South South Africa President Jacob “Boxing SA not only grieves at the near post from an Eduardo post before scoring a second. after the restart when Benteke African female professional Zuma expressed his “heartfelt passing of a wonderful and tre- Vargas cross. “There’s no reason why Charlie headed down to the defender but boxer has died following a condolences on the untimely mendous individual but also for The win lifted Redknapp’s side Austin can’t score a lot of goals he failed to apply the finish only knockout punch two weeks ago death” of Mwelase. the loss her family suffers. Our to 19th on seven points, ahead this season, I’m pleased for the yards from Robert Green’s goal. that put her in a coma, the His office said in a statement hearts and prayers go out to them of Burnley on four, while Villa lad.” To compound Villa’s miseries sports and recreation depart- on Tuesday. “She joined a sport at this difficult time.” dropped to 15th in the table with Villa had previously played last Austin quickly made it 2-0, mak- ment said yesterday. that is predominantly male, and Mwelase is the third athlete to their search for a league goal season’s top five league teams in ing the miss even more costly. Light middleweight Phindile was proving that women can also die in sports-mad South Africa extending to over eight hours. consecutive fixtures, enduring a Vargas nearly added a third Mwelase, 31, fell into a coma on succeed in boxing. in less than a week. National soc- “It was an excellent perform- miserable run of four straight when substitute Junior Hoilett October 10 after a fight against “Her untimely passing has cer goalkeeper and captain Senzo ance,” Redknapp said. “They defeats, but any hopes of picking put him through on goal but the Liz Butler, who defeated her by a robbed us of a role model.” Meyiwa was shot dead by intrud- dominated possession in the sec- up easy points at QPR were soon Chilean fired straight at Guzan. knockout. She died on Saturday In a statement on their web- ers at his girlfriend’s home on ond half but once we put an extra dispelled. REUTERS at a Pretoria hospital. site Boxing South Africa added: Sunday night. REUTERS

Mohammed Salem Al Kuwari (right), Qatar Volleyball Association (QVBA) official and the General Coordinator of the FIVB Qatar Open beach volleyball tournament, with Vivian Rios Balbino, the acting Ambassador of Brazil in Qatar, in Doha yesterday. Al Kuwari visited the Brazilian embassy in Doha to brief her about the upcoming November 4-8 event to be hosted by QVBA. It will be the first time that Doha will be hosting the FIVB World Tour event in which 56 teams will participate. Four teams will represent Qatar at the championship. RIGHT: Al Kuwari with Angel Barkina, the Ambassador of the Republic of Paraguay, in Doha. WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Azkals, Nepal set for Doha friendly Proceeds to be donated to Philippine School Doha, match at Al Alrabi Stadium on Friday

DOHA: The Philippine national official. football team, better known Khalid Mubarak Al Kuwari, as Azkals, will play a friendly Chief Operations Officer at match against Nepal on October Qatar Football Assocaition (QFA) 31 at Al Arabi Stadium, it was thanked Al Ahli club and offi- revealed here yesterday. cials for their Corporate Social The match, the second between Responsibility programme. the two countries in six months to “The last match between Nepal take place in Qatar, will be played and Philippines was to raise funds after the Qatar Stars League for people affected by cyclones (QSL) encounter between Al Ahli and earthquake. The proceeds and Umm Salal which kicks off from match on Friday will be at 7.45pm. donated to the Philippine School Azkals won the last match Doha,” said Al Kuwari. played in April this year at Al The Azkals, who arrived here Ahli Stadium 3-0. yesterday, will also play a second The match is part of the friendly match against a Qatari Corporate Social Responsibility club on November 3. programme of QSL club Al Ahli. Their Friday opponents also The proceeds from the match checked into Doha yesterday. will go towards the construction Azkals will take on Thailand on of a new school building for the November 11, the second friendly Filipino committee in Qatar. match in preparation for the Crescente R Relacion upcoming Suzuki Cup, which will Philippine Ambassador to Qatar be held in November. said the football community in Twenty-one players were called Qatar has had helped the com- to join the Azkals’ training camp Crescente R Relacion (third left), Philippine Ambassador to Qatar, Khalid Mubarak Al Kuwari (fourth left), Chief Operations Officer at Qatar Football munity in the past on many right before their forthcom- Association; Ram Hari Gairhe (left), a representative from the Nepalese community; Nasser Yaqoob (second left), Marketing Manager, Al Ahli Club; occasions. ing friendlies, Filipino media Hassan Al Kuwari, Head of Events and Hospitality at Qatar Stars League (QSL), and Dr Alexander S Acosta, Principal, Philippine School Doha pose “I wish to thank Qatar reported. for a picture after a press conference at the Al Sadd Stadium in Doha yesterday. PICTURE BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT Football Association, Qatar 19 out of the 21 players, cho- Stars League besides clubs like sen to play in the two friendlies, Al Ahli, Al Arabi who have sup- ply their trade in United Football Phil Younghusband, James for. Trigo has Filipino-Spanish forward to take the ranking from kingdom players lost to Yemen ported us in different cultural League (UFL), the Filipino Younghusband and Anton Del ancestry. Two familiar names are 134th in the world to 129th. 2-0 in March and also suffered a and sports events. We thank league, while the remaining two Rosario, Stallion FC’s Simone not on the team’s line-up for the The improved record of the loss against Azkals in April. Qatar Football Association, play overseas. Rota and Team Socceroo FC’s coming international friendlies. team came after they dominated Among those present for the Qatar Stars League (QSL) and Global FC’s Amani Aguinaldo, Tomas Trigo are UFL players of Team captain Rob Gier will the visiting Papua New Guinea press conference were Ram Hari the QSL clubs for joining hands Patrick Deyto, Misagh Bahadoran, Azkals. skip the games due to a family side, 5-0, in a friendly at their Gairhe, a representative from to organise this match,” Relacion Curt Dizon, Mark Hartmann and Foreign-based players include commitment while Jason De Jong, home turf in Manila. the Nepalese community, Nasser said while addressing a press Daisuke Sato, Kaya FC’s Kenshiro Jerry Lucena who plays for one of the mainstays of the Azkals A majority of the players with Yaqoob, Marketing Manager of conference at Al Sadd Stadium Daniels and Chris Greatwich, Danish Superliga side Esbjerg midfield, announced his retire- Azkals team have a foreign lin- Al Ahli Club, Hassan Al Kuwari, here yesterday. Ceres La Salle FC’s Jeffrey fB and Major League Soccer’s ment from international play. eage, with one of the parent or Head of Events and Hospitality The last match between the two Christiaens, Juani Guirado, Sporting KC player Martin The Azkals got a major boost grandparent being a non-Filipino. at Qatar Stars League and Dr was organised to raise funds for Manny Ott, Patrick Reichelt, Steuble. at the start of this month with For Nepal, with FIFA ranking Alexander S Acosta, Principal of the victims of natural disasters and Paul Mulders, Loyola Meralco Trigo, a goalkeeper with Team an improved FIFA world rank- of 179, this is their third match in Philippine School Doha. in Philippines, said the Filipino Sparks FC’s Simon Greatwich, Socceroo has got his first call-up ing inching their way five paces Qatar this year, the Himalayan THE PENINSULA Qatar’s investment in football paying off, says Stielike

DOHA: German legend Uli to coach, saying critics of Qatar Stielike says that Qatar’s invest- should also take a look at the ment in football is paying off in positives which the country can the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA offer – like a compact tournament World Cup, with the country with no flights needed. showing ‘outstanding’ recent “I have read the comments made results at junior and senior by (FIFA) President Blatter saying levels. that a World Cup in November is The national coach of South the best option, and I agree because Korea, who won the 1980 it would show the most comforta- European Championships and ble side of Qatar to people. Hosting played for Real Madrid in an a compact World Cup will be com- illustrious career, has been at the fortable for teams. There will be no helm of the Asian football giants time zone differences, no air travel since the start of October. required, and fans can see up to The former coach of Al Arabi three games a day.” and Al Sailiya in the Qatar Stars The tough-tackling defender League said that with 10 out of who reached the final of the 1982 16 teams at the forthcoming 2015 FIFA World Cup said that he had AFC Asian Cup in Australia from been received well by fans in his the Middle East region, there new home: “The experience has would be serious contenders in been very positive so far. They the fray from the Arab world. put a lot of importance on educa- “We will play Jordan and Iran tion here, and everyone has been soon and it will show us the way German legend Uli Stielike (right), a former Al Arabi coach, in this file very helpful. We have played two in which we will have to play,” said picture of 2013. games, with a win and a loss, but Stielike. the fans are happy because of the “From my experience in Qatar way we played. I think we can I know that there has been a lot catching up. Because of my work in Germany like Mainz which tickle out a bit more from these of investment in football, and that with the DFB youth I always fol- have them in their team. They players.” this is now showing effects. The low the Under-19 and Under-20 are very happy with the perform- Concluding with the thought results that Qatar has shown teams, and it is clear that if you ances because they never cause that Asia should be given an winning the Under-19 Asian work well at the youth level than problems off the pitch. I am very additional half qualifying spot for Championship, as well as the you can produce a good team, like happy with my players and how future editions of the FIFA World senior national team in recent Hong Kong or Qatar have shown they have been responding so far.” Cup, Stielike pointed to his ambi- months have been outstanding. recently.” Reflecting on South Korea’s tion to return the South Koreans To beat Uzbekistan, Lebanon and He highlighted the close links legacy from hosting the 2002 to old strengths. Australia convincingly without between the co-hosts of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Stielike said: “We want to keep our tradition conceding a goal shows stability FIFA World Cup and the hosts of “The country is profiting from as the top team in Asia. Obviously in their team. They are going to the 2022 edition, saying: “Qatar the infrastructure, the World Cup there is a big rivalry with Japan be contenders in the Asian Cup has close links to South Korea, 5 stadiums are in good condition, and that will not change. At the in January in Australia.” or 6 players from the Qatar Stars but the league can still improve. moment we are fourth in the Stielike added that smaller League are in my group of play- We get into a car and travel Asian rankings but we want to nations were closing the gap on ers, with four having been called around the country, trying to see move forward, and try to win the Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo poses with Best Forward trophy dur- giant countries like China in the up in my recent squad. South as many matches as possible.” Asian Cup in Australia. Of course ing the Professional Soccer League (LFP) awards gala held at Principe Asian confederation. Korean players are very popular Stielike also keeps a regular it won’t be easy.” Felipe auditorium in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. “The smaller nations are in Qatar, and I also talk to clubs eye on the country where he used THE PENINSULA Organisers confident West Indies will be at World Cup

MELBOURNE: Organisers always among the most popular Indies as well as taking legal told reporters on Tuesday. United Arab Emirates in Pool B. England Lions first-class squad are confident West Indies will teams at the 50-over showpiece. action against the WICB, which “We’ve got 108 days until the The World Cup runs from for the matches against South take part at the World Cup in Caribbean cricket was plunged could have a devastating financial World Cup and from our point of February 14 to March 29. Africa A beginning in January. Australia and New Zealand into turmoil on Oct. 17, however, impact on cricket in the region. view I’ve no doubt the West Indies Meanwhile, batsman Jonathan South Africa-born Trott early next year despite the cri- after the series in India was John Harnden, the chief execu- will be here and entertaining the Trott has been selected for the returned to competitive action for sis caused by their withdrawal aborted over a protracted pay- tive of the World Cup, said there crowd as only they know how.” England Lions tour of South Warwickshire at the start of the from the tour of India earlier ment dispute between the play- was a contingency plan in place West Indies are scheduled to Africa, his first international call- season having spent four months this month. ers and the West Indies Cricket for a West Indies no-show but open their campaign against up since leaving last year’s Ashes away from cricket after leav- West Indies, who won the first Board (WICB). doubted it would be needed. Ireland in Nelson, New Zealand tour with a stress-related illness. ing the Ashes tour of Australia two World Cup tournaments in India’s powerful cricket board “We see that everyone’s very on Feb. 16 and also play defending The 33-year-old, who has because he was feeling “emotion- 1975 and 1979 and reached the (BCCI) responded by suspending focused on resolving the situa- champions India, South Africa, scored 3,763 runs in 49 Tests for ally and mentally spent”. quarter-finals in India in 2011, are all future tours involving West tion as quickly as possible,” he Pakistan and Zimbabwe and the England, has been included in the AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 FIFA boss Blatter opposes Russia World Cup boycott The Swiss says a boycott will never give any positive effect

MOSCOW: World football boss opening match. Sepp Blatter yesterday opposed “It’s possible,” he said. any boycott of the 2018 World “We tried to do that at the Cup in Russia and backed the 2006 World Cup in Germany but huge preparations undertaken it didn’t work well. by President Vladimir Putin’s FIFA “But I’m confident that in 2018 government for the mega event. President the ceremony should go off ear- “A boycott will never give any Sepp lier. There are three stadiums in positive effect,” Blatter told the Blatter Moscow where we can hold the R-Sport news agency in com- (right) event’s opening ceremony.” ments translated into Russian. speaks as FIFA secretary general Jerome “We trust the country, its Russian Valcke, who is also in Moscow, government.” President said the football’s governing body “FIFA unconditionally supports Vladimir was happy with an inspection tour the staging of the World Cup by Putin of the Russia’s World Cup venues Russia,” Blatter added. looks this month. Diplomatic sources said last on” in The joint FIFA and local organ- month that European nations ising committee group went to Moscow were discussing a possible boycott the construction site of the Zenit yesterday. of the World Cup because of the arena in Saint Petersburg, the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Kazan arena, which is already Some politicians in Britain, operational, the Sochi Olympics Germany and the United States Fisht arena and the reconstruc- have called on FIFA to withdraw tion of Moscow’s Luzhniki sta- the World Cup from Russia. dium and Spartak Moscow’s “When we receive letters from “There was the same situation years remaining before the event’s 42,000-seat Otkrytie arena, which North America (asking for the ahead of Sochi, but neither during start,” Blatter said. went into service in September. World Cup to withdrawn), we tell nor after the Games, has there Blatter toured Moscow’s iconic “The inspection tour was very them that this is football,” Blatter been a single word against these Luzhniki stadium that is under- well-organised,” Valcke told said. Games.” going a major rehaul and met reporters. “Russia is the world’s biggest Blatter was in Moscow to check with Russian President Vladimir “We’re completely satisfied country. You know, Russia is in up on Russia’s preparations for Putin, who pledged to get the with all of the facilities of the the eye of the international media. the sporting extravaganza and to work done on time. World Cup in Russia. Football can not only unite Russia attend a ceremony for the official “We have no doubt that Russia “Russia has done a great but show the whole world that launch of the championship logo. can complete all the work on ammount of preparation work at South African Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula (right) comforts Senzo it is stronger than any protest Blatter said he was happy with schedule. And, of course, at the all of the levels.” Meyiwa’s father, Sam Meyiwa during a memorial for Pirates club and movement.” Russia’s work on the 2018 World highest level of quality,” Putin told The 2018 World Cup will take South African national team captain Senzo Meyiwa at the Meyiwa home He compared the situation with Cup. Twelve stadiums in 11 cities the FIFA delegation. place in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, in Umlazi, south of Durban in Durban yesterday. South Africa launched Russia’s hosting of the Winter are to be used. The FIFA boss added that the Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, a manhunt to catch the killers of Meyiwa, who was shot dead during a Olympics in the Black Sea resort “I can say that in comparison opening ceremony of the 2018 Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, robbery at his girlfriend’s home, 30 kilometres south of Johannesburg of Sochi this year, when Western with Brazil, Russia is consider- World Cup could take place a Yekaterinburg, Samara, Sochi and on Monday. leaders stayed away. ably ahead of schedule with four day ahead of the tournament’s Rostov-on-Don. AFP Russia, Ukraine to be kept Tevez recalled by Argentina apart at World Cup: Blatter after three years in cold BUENOS AIRES: Argentina MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine have picked Carlos Tevez (pic- will be put into different groups tured) in their squad for the at the 2018 World Cup finals if first time in more than three the Ukrainians qualify and rela- years for friendlies next month tions between the two countries against Croatia and Portugal, the do not improve, FIFA president Argentine Football Association Sepp Blatter said yesterday. said yesterday. “You can be sure about this,” The striker, who last played said the head of world soccer for his country at the 2011 Copa when asked by R-Sport agency America on home soil, missed this whether the two teams would be year’s World Cup in Brazil despite kept apart given the current poor scintillating form for Juventus. political climate with Kiev accus- From left: Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko, Moscow Mayor Sergey Tevez was among four for- ing Moscow of backing Russian Sobyanin, Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Sepp wards including captain Lionel separatists in the east of Ukraine. Blatter look on at a scale-model of Luzhniki Stadium during their visit Messi, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Blatter, who was on a visit Higuain in the squad picked by in Moscow yesterday. to Moscow for the unveiling coach Gerardo Martino and of Russia’s official World Cup that this is football. We believe preparations for the 2014 World posted on the AFA website (www. emblem, said political situations in the country (Russia) and their Cup, Russia is well ahead of them afa.org.ar) around the world should not have government. with four years to go.” Argentina will play Croatia an impact on sport. There have “Russia is the world’s biggest He said the third place play- at West Ham United’s Upton July 2011. World Cup finals but was over- been calls to move the 2018 tour- country. You know, Russia is off will be kept despite calls from Park ground in London on Nov. His recall gives the former looked by coach Alejandro Sabella nament to a different country due in the focus of the world press. teams to abolish it. 12 and Portugal six days later at Boca Juniors, Corinthians, West for the Brazil tournament where to Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. Football cannot only unite Russia, “We will not be getting rid of it. Manchester United’s Old Trafford Ham, Manchester United and Argentina reached the final before “A boycott never achieves any- but can also show the whole world It’s very important. If there was stadium where Tevez spent two Manchester City striker the losing to Germany. thing and does not have a positive that it is stronger than any pro- no third place playoff then the years from 2007 to 2009. chance to help Argentina win Martino also called up effect. FIFA is fully supporting test movement,” he said. head of (European body) UEFA, Tevez’s last action in an the South American title held by Manchester City goalkeeper the World Cup in Russia,” said Blatter said he was pleased Michel Platini, would never have Argentina shirt was missing the Uruguay at next year’s tourna- Wilfredo Caballero, understudy the 78-year-old. with Russia’s preparations for the taken home a bronze medal. These penalty that sealed Argentina’s ment in Chile. to England number one Joe Hart “When we received letters from tournament. games are always well fought,” the elimination by Uruguay in their The 30-year-old, capped 64 at the Premier League champi- North America, we answered “In comparison with Brazil’s Swiss said. REUTERS Copa America quarter-final in times, played at the 2006 and 2010 ons. REUTERS Germany dominate controversial Ballon d’Or list

BERNE: Germany domi- a Champions League semi-final at the tournament’s most influential Schweinsteiger (Germany) nated the FIFA Player of the home to Real Madrid, ended in a players. Angel Di Maria (Argentina) Year shortlist, with six nomi- 4-0 defeat. FIFA, who organise the award Javier Mascherano (Argentina) nees among the 23 candidates Almost inevitably, Chelsea’s jointly with France Football, said Lionel Messi (Argentina) Andres announced yesterday, while Jose Mourinho also sneaked in the final three candidates for both Iniesta (Spain) Sergio Ramos the 10-man coaching short- despite failing to land a trophy awards, officially known as the (Spain) Diego Costa (Spain) list was full of anomalies and on his return to Stamford Bridge. Ballon d’Or, would be announced Karim Benzema (France) Paul controversy. The players’ list showed simi- on December 1 with the award cer- Pogba (France) Gareth Bale Juergen Klinsmann was lar anomalies and appeared to emony in Zurich on Janaury 12. (Wales) Eden Hazard (Belgium) included among the coaches after be based more on European club “The list of 23 male candidates Thibaut Courtois (Belgium) leading United States to the last football than FIFA’s flagship has been drawn up by football Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) 16 of the World Cup but Jorge Luis tournament. experts from the FIFA Football Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden) Pinto and Jose Pekerman, who Manuel Neuer, Thomas Committee and by a group of Neymar (Brazil) Arjen Robben took Costa Rica and Colombia Mueller, Toni Kroos, Mario experts from France Football,” (Netherlands) James Rodriguez respectively to the quarter-finals, Goetze, Philipp Lahm and Bastian FIFA said. (Colombia) Yaya Toure (Ivory were overlooked. Schweinsteiger were six players “The list of ten coaches has Coast) Jorge Sampaoli, whose hugely from world champions Germany been drawn up by the committee Coach of the Year: Carlo entertaining Chile side knocked to be included and beaten final- for Women’s Football and FIFA Ancelotti (Real Madrid) Antonio out defending champions Spain ists Argentina had three, Lionel Women’s World Cup and by the Conte (Italy/Juventus FC) Pep on their way to the last six- Messi, Angel Di Maria and Javier Pep Guardiola Jose Mourinho FIFA Football Committee, as well Guardiola (Bayern Munich) teen, and Vahid Halilhodzic, who Mascherano. as by a group of experts from Juergen Klinsmann (United took an inspirational Algeria to Last year’s winner Cristiano France Football.” States) Joachim Loew (Germany) the knockout stages, were also Ronaldo was duly named along the only African player short- United States goalkeeper Tim Player of the Year short- Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) Manuel ignored. with his Real Madrid team mates listed, Neymar was Brazil’s sole Howard and Costa Rica stopper list: Mario Goetze (Germany) Pellegrini (Manchester City) On the other hand, there was Gareth Bale (Wales) and James representative, and there were Keylor Navas, both outstand- Toni Kroos (Germany) Philipp Alejandro Sabella (Argentina) room for Bayern Munich’s Pep Rodriguez (Colombia). none at all from CONCACAF ing in Brazil, and Costa Rica Lahm (Germany) Thomas Diego Simeone (Argentina) Louis Guardiola, even though his team’s Manchester City and Ivory region or Asia. defender Giancarlo Gonzalez, Mueller (Germany) Manuel van Gaal (Netherlands). most important match of the year, Coast midfielder Yaya Toure was Notable absentees included who many critics saw as one of Neuer (Germany) Bastian AFP Wednesday 29 October 2014 5 Muharram 1436 Volume 19 Number 6233 Sport Price: QR2

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DOHA: An eight-person IAAF its belt the 2006 Asian Games, Commission’s visit. Evaluation Commission will the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Shubenkov joins a host of the arrive here today to begin Championships, the 2011 Arab world’s greatest international assessing the Qatari capital’s Games and the annual IAAF athletes in supporting the bid, bid to host the 2019 World Diamond League meeting, which which include shot put leg- Championships, just weeks has been held every year since end Valerie Adams, Canadian before the vote to decide where 1997. Commonwealth high jump cham- the prestigious event will be In the coming year, Doha will pion Derek Drouin and Bahamian held. host other world-class sport- sprinting hero Chris Brown. They Doha officially submitted its ing tournaments, including the have all competed in Doha and candidature file to host the flag- 12th FINA World Swimming recognise Doha’s ability to host ship athletics event on September Championships (25m), the Qatar successful athletics events, its 25 and is competing against ExxonMobil Open (ATP) and fantastic facilities and the oppor- bids from the Spanish city of the 24th Men’s Handball World tunities that hosting the 2019 Barcelona and the American city Championships — demonstrat- World Championships will bring of Eugene. The commission has ing Doha’s readiness and proven to the whole region. already visited these two cities experience in playing host to some Qatar’s own athletes, including earlier this month. of the world’s premier sporting this year’s IAAF Diamond Race The final decision will be taken events. winner and IAAF World Indoor by the IAAF Council at its meet- Doha 2019 believes that host- Champion Mutaz Barshim, World ing in Monaco on November 18. ing the World Championships in Junior Champion Ashraf Elseify The commission — chaired by the Middle East for the first time and up-and-coming female ath- IAAF Vice-president Sebastian ever will present an unparalleled letes Mariam Farid and Dalal Coe and consisting of IAAF opportunity to connect the world Ajmi are all backing the bid. It Council Members, senior staff and of athletics to a new generation of is their joint dream to compete sponsors — will attend working future athletes and fans. Doha is in Doha in 2019 in front of a meetings during their two-day The Khalifa International Stadium in Doha a gateway to 450m people across home crowd and create a lasting visit and tour key Doha 2019 sites 22 countries and 60 per cent of legacy for their country and their such as the Khalifa International and complex congresses and one the commission and the world across the region to choose athlet- these people are under the age of region. Stadium — where the champion- of the most sustainable venues in that Doha has many unique ics as their number one sport.” 30. This huge population would be Dalal Ajmi said: “It is my ships will be held if the Qatari city the world. offerings. Our bid will utilise our The Doha 2019 Bid Committee, inspired to participate in athlet- dream to be World Champion wins the bid. Over the span of their two-day proven experience of hosting consisting of members of the ics, creating more elite athletes but to do this in Doha, in front The Khalifa International visit, the commission will exam- world-class events, our existing Qatar Athletics Federation and from across the region, provid- of my friends and family, would Stadium is currently being ine Doha’s ability to success- state-of-the-art facilities and our the Qatar Olympic Committee, ing more role models, spreading be amazing. I would be so proud upgraded to the highest techni- fully host the 2019 IAAF World world-leading sporting innova- has meticulously prepared for the the values of sport and engaging to represent my country in my cal standards. Members of the Championships. tion, all of which we believe will visit in cooperation with the bid’s the whole population through country. We are training so hard commission will also stopover at The President of the Qatar enable us to deliver an exceptional partners Aspire Zone, Msheireb athletics. to collect medals and show eve- the Qatar National Convention Athletics Federation, Dahlan Al World Championships in a new Properties and BeIn Sports. Recently-appointed Doha 2019 ryone what we can do. The Qatar Centre, where, if successful, the Hamad, said: “We are greatly region. Doha 2019 presents an The Qatari capital is no Ambassador, Russian hurdler Athletics Federation supports us IAAF Congress would be held. The honoured to welcome the IAAF excellent opportunity to connect stranger to impeccably hosting Sergey Shubenkov, will join the so much — they are like our fam- impressive venue is already host Evaluation Commission to Doha. athletics with an untapped mar- world-class international sport- Doha 2019 Bid Committee for the ily and we will make them proud.” to the world’s most prestigious This is our opportunity to show ket and inspire more young people ing events and already has under duration of the IAAF Evaluation THE PENINSULA

Members of the Afghanistan Under-16 squad pose with the Asian Cricket Council’s Development Officer and Technical Director Iqbal Sikander (top row, fifth from left), Qatar Olympic Committee representative Eisa Ali Ghanem (top row, sixth from left) and Qatar Cricket Association General Secretary Manzoor Ahmad (top row, seventh from left) at the presentation ceremony in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: The captain and manager of Afghanistan’s Under-16 cricket team receive the winners’ trophy yesterday. PICTURES: ABDUL BASIT Afghanistan beat Hong Kong to win ACC U-16 Elite League

DOHA: Afghanistan won the 216 off their 40 overs. Hong Kong overs of the Afghanistan innings the turn, and though some posi- 2014 ACC U-16 Elite League lost a wicket on the first ball of Brief Scores produced 52 runs, the ball flying tive strokes were attempted, yesterday by beating Hong Kong their innings and never recovered Scores from the Afghanistan versus Hong Kong match at West End to all parts. failed to score even a single for to top the table on the final day as leg-spinner Abdul Wasi took 5 Park on day six of the ACC U-16 Elite League A run-out on the first ball of long stretches of the tournament. wickets for 19 runs. Afghanistan won the toss and chose to bat Hong Kong’s innings put them on They played with smiles on Both teams were unbeaten in A crowd of 500 Afghan sup- the back foot and when captain their faces and there was joy to Afghanistan: 212 for 8 off 40 overs (S. Mujahid 52, R. Rahmani 40; J.Subramanyan 3-51) the tournament going into yester- porters cheered their team on. Subramanyam was “Waqared” the cricket of the Afghans. Hong day’s match and whichever them “We’ve worked solidly for four Hong Kong: 66 all out off 24.2 overs (A.Wasi 5-19) by his counterpart Yousaf Zazai Kong’s talented players were just won the encounter would go on to months for this. We had national Man-of-the-Match: Abdul Wasi (Afghanistan) and had to limp off in the sev- brushed aside and soon the tribal win the league. trials across all the regions, chose Result: Afghanistan won the match by 150 runs and the league on points enth over, left shoe in hand and drums and bagpipes came onto Right from the moment cap- 270 boys, then 54, then did the unable to return, Hong Kong were the field and the dancing began. tain Yousaf Zazai called it cor- bone-tests (age verification) until With this victory Afghanistan were on the receiving end of some in deep trouble. During the presentations, rectly at the toss, it was clear that we had our final 14,” said Afghan continue their run of ACC tour- fierce hitting and aggressive field- Zazai, for all his pace and Yousaf took time to ask after the day belonged to Afghanistan. coach Khaliqdad Noori. “The nament successes. ing and pace-bowling. At one stage fire went wicket-less, but Abdul Jhatavedh’s health as Afghanistan Their batsmen played powerful, Afghanistan Cricket Board and After posting 293 against Iran it looked like Afghanistan could Wasi’s fizz and guile paid dividend. emerged worthy winners. surging cricket and took them to Dr Noor did a lot of work.” on Sunday, yesterday Hong Kong be kept to 180 but the last five Hong Kong were febrile against THE PENINSULA