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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Pakistan PM congratulates Emir Ramadan Plan to build begins huge fish tomorrow DOHA: The fasting month of Ramadan begins tomorrow, the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic breeding farm Affairs announced yesterday. “July 10 will be the first day of Ramadan for the Islamic calen- dar year –Hijri—1434,” the min- Central fish market to be rebuilt istry said, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA). DOHA: The Ministry of Since the five year plan of the The head of Qatar’s new moon Environment, under which the ministry (2006-11), fishing boats sighting committee, Thaqil bin fisheries department falls, is are not being allowed to venture Saer Al Shummari, said the new building a huge fish breeding into the sea more than three moon was not sighted yesterday farm and has plans to rebuild times a month during the breed- “so the Hijri month of Shaban will and expand the existing central ing period in April and May every be of 30 days and Ramadan (the fish market in the city. year. Hijri month that follows Shaban) The fish market was established Al Mohannadi said that there will begin from Wednesday”. in the 1970s with a capacity of 10 are restrictions on catching king The Ministry of Interior, tonnes, but with the population of fish from August 15 to October 15 meanwhile, announced Ramadan the country and the demand for every year for similar reasons and timings for some of its key depart- fish having multiplied, the market that the Cabinet has approved a The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received yesterday congratulations from Pakistani Prime ments and said some of them will presently handles some 35 tonnes. proposal to give fishing boat own- Minister Nawaz Sharif on the occasion of his assuming the reins of power in the country. The congratulations work in two shifts — morning and The market is to be, therefore, ers monetary compensation and were conveyed by Shahbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Punjab province, at the Emiri Diwan. evening. rebuilt at a huge cost and in three they are provided QR5,000 by the The immigration and traffic phases, said a senior official of the fisheries department during the departments will be open from environment ministry. said season. The total number of 9am to 2pm, and from 8pm until Talking of the fish farming boats engaged in catching king 1am. These timings will also apply facility being set up, Mohamed fish and eligible for compensa- Laden probe slams Pakistan govt to the Nationality and Travel Saeed Al Mohannadi, direc- tion is 192. Documents Department. tor of the fisheries department, Some 428 fishing boats have The traffic investigation said that bids have already been been linked through electronic ISLAMABAD: Osama bin most wanted man was killed on “illegal manner” in which the department will, however, remain invited. devices so they can identify one Laden was able to avoid detec- May 2 that year in an episode that operation was conducted. open round-the-clock. The finger “Work on the project will start another while at sea. In the latter tion and live in plain sight for humiliated Pakistan’s military “The US acted like a crimi- printing section at the External in August this year and would phase other fishing boats would almost a decade due to the and heavily strained ties between nal thug,” said the report by the Services Centers will also work in likely be completed in February also be linked. incompetence and negligence the strategic allies Washington Abbottabad Commission, formed two shifts, from 9am to 2pm and of 2015.” Traditional fishing boats made of Pakistan’s intelligence and and Islamabad. a month after the raid to investi- 8pm to 1am. There are also plans to set up of wood are being provided finan- security services, Pakistan’s The much-anticipated 336- gate the circumstances surround- The finger printing section at an ice factory in the fish market cial assistance of QR15,000 every official report into his killing page report, obtained and circu- ing bin Laden’s killing. the Industrial Area will, though, with a daily production capacity year for maintenance because concluded yesterday. lated late yesterday by Al Jazeera, “But above all, the tragedy work in a single shift, from 9am of eight tonnes. their upkeep is quite expensive. Following a decade-long offered a scathing read, with evi- refers to the comprehensive fail- to 6pm. Another project that is being These boats need to be preserved hunt, the CIA tracked down the dence of incompetence at almost ure of Pakistan to detect the pres- The Criminal Evidences and launched by the ministry is to because they are part of Qatar’s Al Qaeda leader in 2011 to a com- every level of Pakistan’s vast secu- ence of OBL (Osama bin Laden) Information Department’s head set up model research centres for heritage. The official lamented pound within sight of an elite rity apparatus. on its territory for almost a dec- office will be open from 9am to fisheries, animal husbandry and that Qatari youth were not enter- Pakistani military academy in It also chastised Pakistan’s ade or to discern the direction 2pm during the holy month. agriculture. ing the fishing trade due to low Abbottabad, a city close to the leadership for failing to detect of US policy towards Pakistan THE PENINSULA The fisheries research centre profits and so the entire busi- capital Islamabad. CIA activities on its soil in the that culminated in the avoid- will include research on sweet ness was dominated by Asian In a secret night-time mission run-up to the raid, while criti- able humiliation of the people of water fish water fish farming. expatriates. THE PENINSULA by US Navy SEALs, the world’s cising the United States for the Pakistan.” REUTERS More Qatar visas for Pakistanis

DOHA: Qatar will increase the quota for Pakistani visas by December this year, the visit- Egypt to hold elections in ing Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, said yesterday. He was here on a one-day visit to pur- six months; 51 killed sue LNG deals with Qatar. An investment plan to set CAIRO: At least 51 people were killed yesterday of it apparently taken from a helicopter. up a 5,000 megawatt coal-fired when the Egyptian army opened fire on support- Emergency services said 435 people were wounded. power plant in Karachi was also ers of ousted president Mohammed Mursi, in Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood urged people to rise proposed to Qatari investors by the deadliest incident since the elected Islamist up against the army, which they accuse of a coup to Pakistan. leader was toppled by the military five days ago. topple the president. The movement’s leaders are Full report on page 6 A late night announcement by the interim head of calling for peaceful resistance, but the risk remains state said Egypt will hold new parliamentary elec- of fringe elements pursuing a violent agenda. Pilots questioned tions once amendments to its suspended constitu- At a hospital near the Rabaa Adawiya mosque tion are approved in a referendum, setting out a where Islamists have camped out since Mursi was timeframe that could see a legislative vote in about ousted, rooms were crammed with people wounded in air crash probe six months. in the violence, sheets were stained with blood and LOS ANGELES: Investigators Protesters said shooting started as they performed medics rushed to attend to those hurt. probing the Asiana Airlines morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where “They shot us with teargas, birdshot, rubber bul- plane crash in San Francisco Mursi is believed to be held. lets — everything. Then they used live bullets,” said began interviewing cockpit But military spokesman Ahmed Ali said that at Abdelaziz Abdel Shakua, a bearded 30-year-old who crew of the Boeing 777 yester- 4am (0200 GMT) armed men attacked troops in the was wounded in his right leg. day amid mounting indications area around the Republican Guard compound in the Bloody scenes from Cairo, three days after clashes that pilot error may have caused northeast of the city. between pro- and anti-Mursi protesters across the the fatal accident. Two teenage “The armed forces always deal with issues very country claimed 35 lives, have alarmed Egypt’s allies, Chinese girls were killed and Two Muslim Brotherhood members sit in front of barbed wires as army wisely, but there is certainly also a limit to patience,” including Israel, with which it has had a US-backed more than 180 people injured in soldiers keep watch during clashes with Republican Guards in Cairo the uniformed Ali told a news conference, at which peace treaty since 1979. REUTERS the crash. yesterday. he presented what he said was video evidence, some See also page 10 See also page 13 Son disagrees with Qaradawi’s fatwa to support Mursi DOHA: The son of Dr Youssef Al made and none of the things that were reported yesterday quoting an Egyptian people of your generation had.” “You have said (in your fatwa) that Qaradawi, the eminent Islamic cleric, expected of him as head of state. website alyaum7.com. The junior Al “That is why I felt that what you have Egyptians waited for decades to elect a has in a letter addressed to him said “We agreed with him that he would Qaradawi continued: “The current situ- publicly announced is different from president from their free will and you that he doesn’t agree with his recent install a participatory government but ation in Egypt is one of confusion com- what I learnt from you as my father and have asked all sections of Egyptian soci- fatwa calling on the people of Egypt to he didn’t keep his word. We agreed with plication and totally different from what teacher. You have supported Mursi in ety to back Mursi”. “Your comparison of back and reinstate the ousted presi- him that he would clean up the police your generation has experienced.” your fatwa.” Hosni Mubarak and Mursi is not accept- dent Mohammed Mursi. force but he didn’t do that.” “You haven’t seen a real revolution like “It’s a watershed moment in the his- able, because our generation cannot wait Abdul Rahman Al Qaradawi said that “We agreed with him that he would the one that is happening in Egypt now.” tory of Egypt, which you love so much. for so long under a dictator. We will not Mursi had failed the people of Egypt on be president of all Egyptians but he “The views and ideas that the present That’s why you entitled your autobiogra- allow any dictator to rule us.” all counts and left them utterly dejected disappointed us,” wrote the younger Al generation of the Egyptians have are phy as The Son of Village and the Book”. THE PENINSULA as he fulfilled none of the promises he Qaradawi, local Arabic daily Al Watan totally different from the ones that The younger Al Qaradawi continued: Continued on page 7 TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar Airways raises Amman flights to nine AMMAN: Qatar Airways has Officer Akbar Al Baker said the and flexibility to their travel added two more flights between extra capacity would be a great plans. “As part of Qatar Airways’ its hub in Doha and Amman, boost as it would improve connec- ever-expanding route map, a key bringing the total number tions from Amman to around 100 pillar is to also evaluate exist- of services to Jordan to nine cities across the airline’s global ing routes and increase capacity weekly flights. network, offering passengers more where there is passenger demand. Qatar Airways Chief Executive choice with further convenience “Qatar Airways can seamlessly connect travellers from Amman via our Doha hub to diverse cities like London, Dubai, Kuwait, Khartoum, Manila, Dhaka, Muscat and many others. “At the same time, with our new additional services, we offer travellers from around the world increased connectivity to access popu- lar heritage tourist spots in Jordan such as the ancient city of Petra.” Qatar Airways began operations to Amman in May 1994. The Doha - Amman route is oper- ated by an Airbus A320, featuring 12 seats in First Class and up to 132 seats in Economy. Selected A320s feature seatback TV screens pro- viding all passengers in both cabins with the next generation interactive on board entertainment sys- tem — a choice of more than 800 audio and video on demand options. AMMAN-DOHA FLIGHT SCHEDULES: Depart Amman QR403 at 1130 hrs, arrive Doha 1410 hrs Mondays and Fridays only Depart Amman QR401 at 1635 hrs, arrive Doha 1915 hrs Daily Depart Doha QR402 at 0745 hrs, arrive Amman 1030 hrs Mondays and Fridays only Depart Doha QR400 at 1250 hrs, arrive Amman 1535 hrs Daily THE PENINSULA

TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Six hotels receive QTA quality awards

DOHA: Qatar Tourism industry. The ‘Hotel Quality Authority (QTA) yesterday hon- Rating Program’ evaluated the oured six hotels in Qatar with services and facilities provided the “Hotel Quality Standards by the hotels in Qatar, including Award” for their excellence in rooms, restaurants, reception, service and product quality. health club and others. The winning hotels included The programme was estab- Kempinski Residences & Suites lished to raise the level of hos- Doha Hotel; The St Regis Doha; pitality facilities and services Oryx Rotana Hotel; W Doha Hotel offered in Qatar to comply with & Residences; La Cigale Hotel and international standards, spread Wyndham Grand Regency. They the spirit of competition among received a rating of 90 percent and hotels and position Qatar as a above in quality rankings. leading hospitality destination. The award was part of QTA’s “We congratulate the winning “Hotels Quality Rating Program” hotels on this award that reflects conducted in collaboration with a our appreciation of the hospitality specialised international agency. industry’s efforts in enhancing the QTA Chairman Engineer Issa bin Mohammed Al Muhannadi with representatives of award-wining hotels. The programme aims at improv- level of services offered in Qatar. ing the quality of services in the “The award showcases the criteria including service of pre- quality of services offered by the the level of the services and the to the growth and development hospitality and tourism industry excellence of the winning hotels arrival, service while on-site, food hotels in Qatar as compared to facilities of the hotel in addition to of the tourism industry and posi- and creating a national bench- and will drive industry players to & beverage, rooms, public areas, industry standards. the staff’s ability to resolve fabri- tion Qatar as a destination that mark of local high standards. raise the quality of offerings. We business services, leisure facilities, The programme employed mys- cated problems. attracts businessmen and tourists. QTA Chairman Engineer Issa look forward to welcoming new cleanliness, respect of privacy, tery guests who randomly selected Guests then completed a full The newly launched upgraded bin Mohammed Al Muhannadi hotels in the upcoming year,” said safety/security and others. hotels in Qatar and tested their technical report evaluating the website provides tourists and presented the awards to repre- Al Muhannadi. QTA launched the programme services and facilities during a two- hotel and its services for final those planning a trip easy access sentatives of the hotels at a cer- The evaluation of the hotels this year in association with a or three-day stay. rankings. to all of the information needed emony, attended by officials from was based on a rating system specialised international hospi- From the booking process on QTA is working on a number about Qatar. QTA and the local hospitality that evaluated a wide number of tality company to measure the through the stay, guests assessed of initiatives that will contribute THE PENINSULA Ramadan offers for Hala, Shahry customers DOHA: Ooredoo is offering SMS and local call minutes for continue to enjoy free unlim- largest number of customers more than ever for customers our customers, so that people ited calls to local landlines. can benefit. The increase in during Ramadan, with Hala can share Ramadan greetings Customers using the Shahry 55 local minutes and SMS applies Weekly and Shahry Pack cus- with all their friends, families Packs will jump from 200 call to all calls made to Ooredoo tomers enjoying five times and loved ones.” minutes and SMS to 1,000. lines and to customers of the more local minutes and SMS With the additional allowance For Shahry Pack custom- other operator. for all customers. announced yesterday, custom- ers, only the original minute By boosting the number As an added opportunity ers using the QR40 Hala Weekly allowance can be used with of minutes and SMS avail- to spread the joy this month, Pack will jump from the stand- the International Key serv- able, Ooredoo is supporting Ooredoo has also pledged to ard 200 local call minutes and ice, which enables customers customers during one of the donate 1 dirham to charity for SMS to get an additional 800 to transfer local minutes into peak seasons for phone and every local call made over the minutes and SMS, making for International traffic. For both SMS greetings. The increased coming month. a total 1,000 minutes and SMS Hala and Shahry customers, allowance will be valid until 10 Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al every week. Customers using the standard minutes and SMS August 2013. The company has Thani, CEO, Ooredoo, said: “In the QR10 weekly pack will enjoy will be consumed first, before also added a charitable element the spirit of the Holy Month, 175 local minutes and SMS — the additional bonus allowance this year, aiming to raise a sig- we’re wishing all our custom- five times the usual allowance. will be used. nificant donation by pledging 1 ers ‘Ramadan Mubarak’, and Customers using the Shahry The major increase in local dirham for every local call made are adding a charitable dona- 750 Pack will see their monthly call minutes and SMS will be in Qatar on an Ooredoo line tion for every call made. We are allowance leap to 32,500 local reflected across all Hala Weekly during the Holy month. also increasing the number of call minutes and SMS, and will and Shahry Packs, so that the THE PENINSULA QIB to open 10 branches in evening during Ramadan

DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has announced that its 10 branches will provide all banking services each evening and on Saturday morning during the Holy month of Ramadan. The branches at Al Fanar, Salwa Road, Airport Road, Al Gharrafa, Al Rayyan, Al Sadd, Al Wakra, Al Kharaitiyat, and Muaither will operate from Sunday to Wednesday from 9pm to 11pm, and on Saturday from 9am to noon. In addition, QIB’s City Centre branch will be open from Saturday to Thursday in two shifts (10.30am to 2.30pm, and 9pm to 11pm) and on Friday from 9pm to 11pm. As for the rest of QIB branches, they will be operating from Saturday to Thursday as per the official working hours 9am to 2pm. QIB’s management affirms that the ultimate objective is to provide a convenient banking experi- ence for the clients. The evening shift will help customers complete their banking needs eas- ily and efficiently while QIB e-channels are avail- able 24/7 through Internet banking, QIB mobile, phone banking and over 170 ATMs spread across the country. THE PENINSULA Qatar-Morocco ties discussed RABAT: Morocco’s Minister-delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of the Administration of National Defence Abdellatif Loudiyi met here yesterday Qatar’s Ambassador Abdullah bin Falah Al Dossari. They discussed bilateral rela- tions. QNA

TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Hotline for consumers to complain against food outlets DOHA: The Consumer send text messages on 92665 or to produce a copy of the receipt which a price freeze has been the outlets to ensure they are 1.8 liters are ceiled at QR16.50 and Protection Department (CPD) fax at 44932004 or send email at of the product because without imposed. complying with the fair price list. QR17.50 respectively and Corn oil at the Ministry of Economy and [email protected], a release issued proper documents it would be This includes wheat flour, sug- As per the discounted price of Noor and Mozola of 1.8 liters are Trade has set up a hotline for by the Ministry said. very difficult for CPD to track ars, rice, edible oils, milks, frozen list, a five kilogram packet of fixed at QR 19.25. consumers to lodge complaints Consumers can also approach the outlets. chicken, juices, pastries and fro- QMF flour number (1and 2) is Prices of full and low fat as against outlets violating the Department in person with writ- The Minister of Economy and zen vegetables in the food cat- available on QR16 and number 3 well fresh and long life milks of fair price list on food and non- ten complaints attached with Trade, H E Sheikh Ahmed bin egory and the non-food items will be sold on QR19. Al Marai and only low fate fresh food items during Ramadan. necessary documents. Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, include wrappers, tissue papers However, the price of same milk of Nadec and low fate milk People have been urged to call The applicant should mention issued decision number 30 for and other cleaning items. quantity of flour bag of Kuwait of Al Safi of two liters are QR10, on the toll free number 8005000, his full name, address, profession, 2013 for discount price list for The Minister urged people to for all purpose is fixed at full fate of nadec of 1.75 liters are hotline numbers 4494550, name of erring outlet, its address, foods and non-food items for the inform the CPD if they find any QR19.50. available on QR8.50 and long life 44945500 and landline number business activity, type of violation fasting month. outlet violating this decision. The The edible oils, sunflower Olite milk of nadec for four liters are of the ministry 44945555 against and the damages the caused by The decision is attached with civic inspectors of the ministry of 1.5 liters is available on QR14.50, QR12.25. violating shops. They can also the violation. It is also required a list of 320 commodities on will launch inspection drive on Sunflower oil of Noor, Mazola of THE PENINSULA More visas for Pakistanis by December: Shahbaz Islamabad seeks investment for 5,000MW power plant

BY AZMAT HAROON Pakistanis will be increased in in the near future. December and more job oppor- Pakistan, currently suffer- DOHA: Qatar will increase tunities will be provided to fellow ing from a severe power crisis, the quota for Pakistani visas by Pakistanis,” Sharif said during a is also negotiating the import of December this year, the visit- press briefing. two million tonnes of LNG per ing Chief Minister of Pakistan’s He was accompanied by a high- annum from Qatar. Lack of infra- Punjab province, Mian level delegation from Pakistan structure was cited as a major Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, comprising the Federal Minister challenge faced by Pakistan in said yesterday. He was here on for Water and Power, Khawaja importing gas. a one-day visit to pursue LNG Mohammad Asif, and Minister for Qatari authorities have sug- Mian Shahbaz Sharif (second right), Chief Minister of Punjab province in Pakistan, with Khawaja Mohammad Asif deals with Qatar. Petroleum and Natural Resources, gested that it is crucial for (right), Minister of Water and Power, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Federal Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources An investment plan to set up a Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Pakistan to establish LNG termi- (second left) and Pakistan’s Ambassador Syed Hassan Raza during a meeting with Pakistani executives in Qatar 5,000MW coal-fired power plant The delegation also met the nals, while proposing the idea to yesterday. ABDUL BASIT in Karachi was also proposed Prime Minister and Interior build floating terminals that are to Qatari investors by Pakistan. Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah reportedly more viable. Once Pakistan builds LNG termi- is why the transportation cost of “The minimum electricity Sharif was visiting Doha as a bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, “Qatar has clearly said that it is nals, it will also be able to import gas would be cheapest from here,” (power) deficit in the country special envoy of the Pakistani and the Minster of Energy and willing to supply gas but the ter- LNG from the United States and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said. right now is 6,000 megawatt and Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin minals would have to be built by Australia, among other countries Khawaja Mohammad Asif, it will take time to overcome it. Nawaz Sharif, who is also his elder Saleh Al Sada. Pakistan itself,” Sharif said, add- in the world. meanwhile, said that there were But in the next three to four brother. The Chief Minister said ing that Pakistani government “So far we have only renewed no short-term or immediate plans years, we expect the supply of “The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Pakistan plans to provide skilled plans to pursue energy deals seri- projects with Qatar so as to have to end load-shedding in Pakistan electricity to increase and for the bin Hamad Al Thani has assured workers certified by Pakistan’s ously so as to show the suppliers in a stable supply. Geographically, as the generation of electricity prices to come down as well.” us that the work visas quota for provincial governments to Qatar the world that it means business. Qatar is closest to Pakistan which will not increase overnight. THE PENINSULA

Aspetar launches Ramadan class Ramadan guide to raise awareness

DOHA: Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital officially launched a public awareness campaign yesterday ‘Healthy Ramadan.’ It aims to raise gen- eral health and sports aware- ness across the community by providing useful tips on how to stay active and fit throughout the Holy month in alignment with Muslim traditions. The campaign will continue until the end of Ramadan. The Healthy Ramadan guide can be found on Aspetar’s offi- cial social media pages, Aspetar. A scholar giving a lecture after Isha prayers at the Abu Bakr Al Siddiq Masjid on the importance of Ramadan. Many people turned up for Tharaweeh, com/Facebook and Aspetar.com/ a special night prayer during Ramadan yesterday, hoping the fasting would begin today, but went back as Awqaf declared Ramadan will start tomor- Twitter, and includes advice on row. SALIM MATRAMKOT how to maintain a healthy diet, a balanced exercise regime as well as sleeping tips. The recom- mendations have been developed following healthy eating habits.” Traffic Department, Qatargas to hold road safety drive by leading medical and research He added, “If fasting is done experts at Aspetar who have stud- in a responsible and conscious ied the effects of fasting on the way, the community will realise DOHA: The Traffic Department Department, said: “We thank human body. that there are in fact many ben- and Qatargas is organising a Qatargas for its continued com- Dr Khalifa Al Kuwari, the Chief efits that can be found if a bal- Ramadan Road Safety Campaign mitment to promoting road Executive Officer at Aspetar (pic- anced diet and sports schedule are for the seventh consecutive year, safety. Spreading awareness is a tured) said: “It is a nationwide maintained.” it was announced at a signing key aspect of improving road safety misconception that, throughout The health guide includes edu- ceremony at Qatargas head office and people’s driving behaviour. By Ramadan, we have no choice but cational information on how to yesterday. making the right choices with to let our healthy eating habits exercise effectively, tips on sleep- A part of the Ministry of regard to road safety, we can save and work-out regimens disap- ing patterns, and advice on how Interior’s (MoI) national road our lives and the lives of our loved pear due to the strenuous effects to manage a nutrition plan dur- safety campaign ‘One Second’, ones and others around us. Road that fasting can have on the ing Iftar and Suhoor, as well as the campaign is under the slogan safety is our joint responsibility and body. However, our goal with the recommendations on fluid intake. “Don’t Kill their Dreams.” this is the message we are trying Healthy Ramadan campaign is Aspetar’s previous Ramadan The campaign focuses on rais- to spread through this campaign.” to make sure that this is not the campaign, ‘Ramadan and Health’ ing national awareness on road As part of the campaign, case. Ramadan is an opportunity which launched in July last year, safety in a bid to significantly Qatargas will launch a special for all residents to enjoy the fes- was well received by the local com- reduce the number of accidents road safety TV commercial titled tivities whilst maintaining and munity due to the interactivity that and casualties on Qatar’s roads. “Don’t Kill their Dreams” to be it created amongst those celebrat- Ghanim Al Kuwari, aired on Rayyan TV throughout ing the holy month. The program Chief Operating Officer — the month of Ramadan and in became the go-to guide on how to Administration, Qatargas said: cinemas during the Eid holidays. enjoy the festivities without sacri- “We are proud to continue our The TV commercial focuses on ficing healthy lifestyles. partnership with the Traffic the aspect of children becoming Dr Al Kuwari continued, Department in the Ramadan victims of the unsafe driving hab- “Aspetar prides itself in provid- Road Safety Campaign. As a Brig Mohammed Saad Al Kharji (left), Director of Traffic Department, and its of adults and how their dreams ing the community with advice socially responsible company, we Ghanim Al Kuwari, Chief Operating Officer for Administration at QatarGas, are killed when they are involved and health education in areas see this as an excellent opportu- during the signing ceremony of the Ramadan Road Safety Campaign at in serious traffic accidents. that are especially prevalent at nity to support the efforts of the the QatarGas headquarters yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL Iftar packs will be distributed this time of the year. This year Traffic Department in spread- to motorists on a daily basis on we are taking it one step further ing awareness on road safety the importance of protecting our Acknowledging Qatargas’ con- key roads and traffic intersections by providing the community with especially among our younger children from traffic accidents. tinued commitment to promoting in Doha. In addition to dates and the necessary tools for maintain- generation.” Children, who are the future of road safety and its collaboration water, the packs will also contain ing healthy lifestyles whilst enjoy- We have selected ‘Don’t Kill our country, are often the inno- with the Traffic Department, a booklet, car sticker, and other ing the festivities.” their Dreams’ as the slogan for cent victims of the unsafe behav- Brigadier Mohammed Saad informative materials on safe THE PENINSULA this year’s campaign to highlight iour of adults.” Al-Kharji, Director of Traffic driving. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

‘I can’t keep silent Emir sends message PM receives Pakistan leader to Yemeni president because it’s a fatwa’ SANA’A: Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has received a written message Continued from page 1 from the Emir H H Sheikh “You taught us that freedom comes before Shariah. That’s what Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, we achieved on Janaury 25 (2011) at Tahrir Square and that’s what dealing with bilateral ties. The we achieved on June 30 (this year).” message was handed over by “In your fatwa you have asked all Egyptians to unite and support Qatar’s Ambassador in Sana’a Mursi. We did that for one year but he did not respond. Mohammad bin Hamad Al “I respect what you said. It’s a religious fatwa and not a political Hajri. opinion,” said the younger Al Qaradawi hinting that this was the President Hadi asked time when Egyptians must differentiate between what relates to Ambassador Al Hajri to convey religion and what relates to politics to know when a cleric can talk his greetings to the Emir and and when a politician can talk. the Father Emir H H Sheikh Abdul Rahman said that, rest assured, his generation would not Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and allow a military rule in their country. his wishes of good health and “I know some people would treat my letter as a sign of disobedi- happiness for them and of more ence to you but I can’t keep silent because it is a fatwa.” progress and prosperity for Qatar THE PENINSULA and its people. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with the Chief QNA Minister of Punjab province in Pakistan, Mian Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif, yesterday. Qatar Airways honours 35 QAC graduates 14 aircraft maintenance engineers and 21 cadet pilots to begin full-time career with national airline

DOHA: Qatar Airways hon- to support Qatari high school oured 35 graduates of the Qatar graduates in their education, to Aeronautical College (QAC) develop their skills and guide during their graduation cer- them toward key leadership emony on Sunday at the Ritz- roles within the airline. Carlton Hotel Doha. “Qatar Airways is a demand- The group, comprising 14 air- ing and competitive airline setting craft maintenance engineers high standards for our employ- and 21 cadet pilots, will now ees,” continued Al Baker. “I am embark on a full-time career delighted to say our staff feel with the national airline, having proud to be part of an organisa- completed their studies under tion that has earned tremendous Qatar Airways’ Nationalisation amount of praise, appreciation Department. and recognition. Qatar Airways Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al VP Nationalisation Dr Kholode Baker presided over the gradu- Al Obaidly said: ation ceremony, attended by “This graduation ceremony government officials including heralds the beginning of a world the Undersecretary from the Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker with graduates from the Qatar Aeronautical College (QAC), at a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Doha. of new opportunities for some of Ministry of Labour Hussain Qatar’s leading talent. Yousif Al Mulla; Director of “We are here in celebration of Government Budget from the “This reflects our commitment Qataris in their education to plans to adopt the Qatar 2030 strong local workforce. their educational achievement Ministry of Finance Sheikh Soud to attract, develop, and more develop the right set of skills vision. The graduates are the Al Baker said that the airline and wish them well as they are Bin Nasser Al Thani; Director importantly, retain our highly required by our rapidly growing latest success story in Qatar is not only hiring Qataris to about to begin representing General of QAC Ali Al Malki and qualified Qatari nationals,” said business.” Airways’ pursuit to fulfil the Qatar work, but is also helping them one of the world’s leading air- the Director of Higher Education Al Baker. “Tonight’s graduation The company’s National 2030 vision to create a sustainable build their career paths in the lines – Qatar Airways,” added from the Supreme Education ceremony is part of our long-term Scholarship Programme is a key future for Qatar by investing in aviation industry. Qatar Airways Al Obaidly. Council Dr Khalid Issa Al Hurr. drive to support young talented driver of the airline’s ambitious local Qatari talent and building a has a number of programmes THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ANY are expecting the US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East peace efforts to be a blip, something that would wilt under the How Andy Murray banished the Mpressure of realities on the ground. But whatever the outcome of his efforts so far, nobody can doubt his sincerity and determination. Reports say that he is returning to the region later this week to resume efforts to draw the Israelis ghosts of British sporting failure and the Palestinians back into the direct negotiations. This shows that his efforts could be making some progress. Though this progress could ultimately prove to be no progress at all, BY JONATHAN FREEDLAND cricketers confound the bookies and lose become such a place. there is room of some optimism. the Ashes this summer, we’ll be back to British Future’s Sunder Katwala, Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel towards the end of ERHAPS it will prove a passing the usual script. But the difference is, a sports obsessive concerned with the week on what would be his sixth visit to the region in as summer fancy, as fleeting as the failure no longer feels fated, defeat no issues of national identity, reckons the Psunshine. But the sight of a Briton longer the default. And that might have Thatcher era changed things too. “This many months. On his previous visit, a four-day trip which lifting the Wimbledon trophy, a nov- an explanation – and an impact on the is uncomfortable for the liberal left,” he ended on June 30, Kerry held hours and hours of intensive elty to almost anyone under the age of way Britain sees itself – that goes far says, but the 1980s emphasis on individ- talks with both sides in a mission which he said had 80, along with a string of other recent beyond sport. ualism, with “its message that ‘you can achieved “real progress.” Even in his absence, the work has sporting successes, prompts an unlikely Start with the how. There are tech- be a winner’ and with less sympathy for been going on. Kerry has appointed two aides to continue question: after years of self-doubt, self- nocratic answers aplenty, chief among losers” was, he suspects, also conducive mockery and what sometimes felt like them the new professionalism and to greater sporting success. his work, and reports say a senior adviser on the peace outright self-harm, have the British at investment that followed abject British At the very least, Thatcher sought process has been meeting “almost daily” Israeli negotiators last become a nation of winners? failure at the 1996 Olympics, when rhetorically to reverse the myth of Tzipi Livni and Yitzhak Molho as well as chief Palestinian It’s an unlikely question because, for Team GB won only a single gold medal. decline that had haunted postwar negotiator Saeb Erakat. decades, losing seemed to have become The exemplar is British cycling, now Britain, a myth that both contaminated Despite Kerry’s enthusiasm and determination, Israelis part of our collective DNA. Sometimes run with a discipline and will to win national sport and was fed by it, growing and Palestinians don’t hold the defeat came by admired around the world – and which larger with each new failure. For dec- a whisker, just produces victors from Bradley Wiggins, ades, each time our athletes lost, it was same views on his mission. The as victory had Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton to the a reminder that we were not the great Palestinians said there had been appeared nail- current wearer of the Tour de France power we used to be: witness the shock John Kerry “no breakthrough” that could chewingly close yellow jersey, Chris Froome. felt when Hungary thrashed England is returning lead to a resumption of direct The sight of – think Tim Cynics will say British sporting tri- 6-3 at Wembley in 1953, a humbling negotiations following a gap of the Scot lifting Henman or the umphs are a misnomer because success that anticipated the Suez disaster three to the region nearly three years. biennial ritual of frequently came in spite of Britain, years later. the Wimbledon the England foot- not because of it: Murray escaped That myth seems to be fading now, again to pursue According to details available, ball team, felled these shores and the mediocre Lawn the triumph of London 2012 perhaps a the talks Kerry has proposed trophy prompts in a quarter-final Tennis Association, learning his craft turning point. Part of it is generational. peace. His would take place within the penalty shoot- in Barcelona instead. More cynical It’s doubtful that even Andy Murray’s framework of six to nine the question: has out. Sometimes it still are those who insist many of these grandparents were raised with the old determination months. Under a proposal he came in the joyous winners are, in the Daily Mail’s phrase, imperial expectations of British suprem- Britain become exuberance of the “plastic Brits” who could have competed acy and the subsequent disappointment has made, the talks would is commendable. a nation of no-hoper – take under other flags. The tennis rising star when our sporting representatives failed be based on a 2011 speech by a bow, Eddie “the Laura Robson was born in Melbourne to match that standard. It took us a President Barack Obama in winners? Eagle” Edwards. and Froome in Kenya. So many England long time to adjust to what seemed to which he called for a Palestinian state on the basis of the But no matter how cricketers were born in South Africa be our diminished standing in the world, lines which existed before the 1967 war, but there would be it was dressed, – Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott, but now we might have moved beyond no specific reference to a settlement freeze. Israel’s cruel defeat followed us around. Matt Prior and former captain Andrew such “declinism” altogether. Tellingly, a Now, though, the curse seems to have Strauss – the joke used to run: “Where YouGov survey found it was Ukip sup- settlement expansion has been the biggest obstacle to the lifted. Murray won Wimbledon and, last do England stay when they tour South porters – those voters who still perhaps peace process and there is no guarantee that Kerry will year, the US Open. That rounded off a Africa? With their parents.” believe Britain’s best days are behind us succeed in his efforts to make Israel give concessions on summer in which Britain won a dispro- But that may be just a negative way of – who had been most pessimistic about this front. Even if he wins a temporary freeze on settlement portionately large sack of medals from telling a positive story. Immigration has Murray’s chances. expansion, Israel will unashamedly break it later. Israel has the London Olympics, a fortnight hailed played a part in this transformation of When Murray was playing, it was this demonstrated repeatedly over the past two decades that it around the world as an organisational, as fortunes. It’s done it directly, broadening that was most striking. There were set- well as sporting, triumph. Last month, the talent pool so that Somali-born Mo backs and reverses, of course, but he was is unwilling to make any sort of compromises a two-state Justin Rose became the first English Farah could win double gold for Team not derailed by them. He did not seem to peace deal would require. golfer since 1970 to win the US Open. GB. But it may also work more subtly. be on the brink of the old British near- Kerry’s latest trip comes at a time of heightened turmoil And Murray’s weekend began with a The US has long believed itself to be miss or heroic failure. He believed he in the region, when Egypt is collapsing into chaos and series victory for the British and Irish both a nation of winners and a nation would win. And, most incredibly, those Syria’s civil war rages unabated. This has provoked some Lions in Australia, the first for 16 years. of immigrants and these two narratives watching believed it with him. Now of course sport turns on the are linked. After all, the self-esteem of a For a long time failure felt endemic in head-scratching among some diplomats and experts who tiniest margins. A mistimed play could nation is surely boosted when so many these islands. But now, we are discover- are asking what makes Kerry intensely pursue the peace have made losers of Rose and Murray of its people actively chose to be there. ing, success can be contagious too. initiative. and lambs of the Lions. And if England’s Over the past few decades, Britain has THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Snowden’s asylum bid the day DWARD SNOWDEN finally anti-American states of the southern are on the mainland. The Venezuelan the anti-American oligarchy and issues has a couple of options to hemisphere have made public their President Nicolas Maduro has said such as asylum, political refuge and the choose from. The former CIA desire to host Snowden and, to a great that he had decided to offer Snowden modus operandi in which espionage Econtractor who is reportedly extent, believe that the whistleblower is “humanitarian asylum so that he could activities are conducted would be up holed up in the transit lounge at a victim of capitalist-espionage, and had live away from the imperial North for review. This is not my Moscow airport could soon be acted in good conscience in making American prosecution”. So much for Snowden who had applied for politi- winging his way to the South American the world realise more about the dou- the diplomatic reciprocity and the cul- cal asylum with almost 27 countries political comeback. continent if he signs on the required ble standards at work in Washington. ture of coexistence that US President — and is awaiting formal approval dotted lines. The respective presidents of the three Barack Obama was vying to build with from at least one of them — is likely When I return to The US intelligence leaker, if reports Latin American states apparently are adversaries in his backyard. to be more influenced to take refuge are to be believed, is in possession of the view that Snowden had upheld Snowden, for them, is another valu- in Russia itself, if President Vladimir the podium it will of asylum offers from Venezuela, human rights norms by leaking the able addition in the list of people — the Putin looked the other way. So is the be to speak to the Nicaragua and Bolivia. classified information on tapping of first being WikiLeaks founder Julian case with many more countries who To further strengthen the case, personal phones and shadow-teas- Assange — who had the courage to are waiting in the wings to offer asylum French people about France and Germany are fuming after ing of individuals in the United States stand up against the bureaucratic fief- but haven’t staked their names fearing France. revelations that the NSA had been and, of course, against other member doms of the West. The whistleblower attempted US interference. Nicolas Sarkozy spying on their officials. The so-called countries whose diplomatic missions is now no less than a prized catch for Khaleej Times Former French President TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Obama’s nuclear deal with Russia Even with Obama’s proposed cutbacks, the US and Russia would remain ahead of everyone else in the size and capabilities of their nuclear forces.

BY MICHAEL O’HANLON and cuts make sense. STEVEN PIFER Third, while Russia may not like additional cuts, given its diminished resident Barack Obama conventional military forces, long land recently unveiled in Berlin borders and shrinking population, there a new proposal to have the is no reason to give up on the negotiabil- US and Russia reduce their ity of the idea in advance. The Russians long-range deployed nuclear often say “no, no, no” — until they say Pweapons by roughly one-third, relative “yes.” to levels under the 2010 New Strategic Moscow may also wish to save the Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). money required to stay at New START Arms control sceptics swiftly attacked levels as its Soviet-era systems age and his plan. They asserted that reducing require replacement. It is at least worth deployed US and Russian strategic war- testing the waters. heads to about 1,000 each would risk US Even with Obama’s proposed cut- and allied security — especially when backs, the US and Russia would remain other countries are now modernising ahead of everyone else in the size and their nuclear forces. They also claim capabilities of their nuclear forces. that Russia will not take up the offer. Fourth, not incidentally, this accord These critics, however, fail to make a could save Washington money too. We persuasive case that Obama’s proposed estimated in our book that it could save cuts go too far. In fact, 1,000 deployed $2bn to $3bn a year — not enough to pay strategic warheads is a solid proposal. down the national debt, but real money The case is compelling: nonetheless. These savings could also First, this strategic nuclear force increase in subsequent years, if a new allows Washington to retain a robust, arms control deal meant Washington A Russian Topol ballistic missile mounted on a mobile launcher. reliable and even redundant nuclear had to buy fewer missiles, bombers and deterrent. It is hard to imagine, even submarines. during the George W Bush administra- nuclear weapons policy and nonprolif- reserve strategic warheads too. in a war scenario, that more than tens Fifth, critics complain that Obama tion, and Iran began its secret nuclear eration are not so simple.) In addition, it would be desirable to of nuclear warheads would ever wisely wants to cut even as other countries program during the Reagan administra- The Bush and Obama administra- ask medium nuclear powers to make be employed against an adversary. are modernising their nuclear forces. tion. The point is not partisan; Bush and tions’ success in convincing the world politically binding promises not to Second, what drives Russia and the Nuclear powers are at different points Reagan, in fact, also pursued nuclear community to apply stronger sanc- expand their arsenals while Moscow US to keep thousands of nuclear war- in their modernisation cycles. cuts. tions against Iran and North Korea in and Washington are reducing theirs. heads are Cold War-legacy war plans Consider, in a decade’s time, the But the idea that the world’s nuclear response to their nuclear shenanigans And any further round of arms control based on destroying each other’s nuclear Pentagon will likely be building a new troubles can be linked to Obama’s pur- was aided by the fact that both presi- beyond what is envisioned in this new forces. bomber and seeking to extend the life suit of lower levels of nuclear arms dents could credibly argue they were Berlin proposal probably will need to be These plans are entirely unrealistic of its intercontinental ballistic mis- and, ultimately, a nuclear-free world — trying to contain nuclear dangers by multilateral. — since neither side could disarm the siles. Sixth, some cite North Korea a goal he shares with Ronald Reagan curbing the US arsenal. The Obama administration’s new other. They also have a circular logic: and Iran’s recent actions to assert that — does not hold water. (Countries like All that said, some arguments critical nuclear plans offer a pragmatic and sen- The more weapons each side possesses, Obama’s earlier nuclear cuts have been the Soviet Union, China and Pakistan to Obama’s proposal do merit attention sible set of next steps for enhancing US the greater the case for the other to counterproductive. built up their nuclear programs at times by the administration. security — and curbing the most dan- retain excess capacity. This is exactly But North Korea broke out of the in the past when we were expanding A future accord, for example, should gerous weapons ever invented by man. the dynamic in which negotiated mutual Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ours, too — so the linkages between US ideally include capture of tactical and REUTERS Three scenarios vs Egyptian army German poll: Merkel’s Tahrir didn’t celebrate third term may be rocky BY NOAH BARKIN election result in the post-war era an expansion of liberty, four years ago. he German election Senior members of the party is still more than two are vowing to prevent a repeat but the exclusion months away but for in September — even if it leads Tmany the vote’s final to months of post-election of one part of the chapter has already been written. uncertainty. Angela Merkel, it is widely After a string of regional vic- assumed, is cruising to a third tories in recent years, the SPD Egyptian people by victory at the polls. When she now governs in 13 of Germany’s wins, the thinking goes, there will 16 states. The party’s regional another. be few, if any, major changes to barons are particularly worried German policy. about another “grand coalition” BY OMAR ASHOUR The vote could well play out and are exerting huge pressure according to script. Merkel’s con- on the SPD leadership to explore n September 2011, I was part of a diverse servatives hold a dominant 16-19 other options after the vote. group of Egyptian activists, from liberals point lead over the next strong- Despite the reluctance, Frank to Salafis, we set up for a single purpose: est party, the centre-left Social Decker, a political scientist at ITo persuade all candidates running in the Democrats (SPD), and recent Bonn University, believes the SPD presidential election to commit to keeping the polls suggest she may be able to will not be able to avoid partner- military out of politics for good. renew her centre-right coalition ing with Merkel if she fails to All but one candidate, the former UN dip- with the Free Democrats (FDP) get her preferred centre-right Soldiers sit on top of an armoured personnel carrier near the site of a demonstration by Mursi’s lomat Mohamed ElBaradei, signed up. When after September 22. majority. we sent a petition to the Supreme Council of supporters in Cairo. But should she fail to secure a That’s because all other the Armed Forces, asking it to make the same parliamentary majority with the coalition combinations seem pledge — to end military rule and hand over to the electoral system and lose in the next soldiers. This is a black hole in the formal FDP, the election aftermath is far-fetched. power to civilians — it didn’t bother to reply. election. It assumes, too, that the military will economy that by some estimates accounts for likely to be far messier than many I’m telling this to show how little regard quickly oversee elections and retire into the 20 to 40 percent of the GDP. casual observers of German poli- POUND OF FLESH Egypt’s army commanders have had for civil- background again, leaving the Brotherhood So far, the coup matches none of the above. tics presume. With her decision to pull ian politicians from day one. free to campaign and win re-election The generals and the Muslim Brotherhood In this scenario, Merkel would out of nuclear power after the Now, citing demands from the people (and unobstructed. have acted less aggressively than their coun- probably have to pay a very heavy Fukushima disaster in Japan, there is no doubt many Egyptians wanted a Given the deep sense of injustice on one side terparts in Algeria 1990s. At the same time, price in terms of policy conces- Merkel removed the biggest coup), the military, led by Defence Minister and the cynical approach to civilian politics on events have been less “postmodern” than in sions to stay in the Chancellery. hurdle to a partnership with Abdel Fatah Al Sisi, has deposed the first the other, this isn’t going to happen. On July Turkey. Mursi didn’t obligingly step down Under the German political the environmentalist Greens, a freely elected president, Mohammed Mursi, 5, 36 people were killed in pro-Mursi protests when asked, and the military suspended the system, leaders must secure a combination that has been tried after a year in office, and suspended the in Cairo, and a day later militants blew up the constitution. majority in the Bundestag lower at state but never at the federal constitution 64 percent of Egyptian voters pipeline that carries natural gas to Jordan. Troops were sent into the streets, leaders house of parliament to rule. level. approved in December 2012. The generals will The second scenario resembles the expe- of the winning party arrested, their homes Merkel’s conservatives may be But the cultural divide and probably now appoint a committee to draw rience of Turkey in 1997, when a group of searched, and some pro-Mursi protesters far ahead of the SPD in opinion policy gap between the parties, up a new one. generals from the National Security Council shot. It remains possible that the Muslim polls, but they are unlikely to win particularly on economic issues, The junta overnight voided 14 nationwide sent a memo to the Islamist prime minister, Brotherhood will be declared illegal. more than 40 percent of the vote are seen as too big to overcome. rounds of free and fair democratic votes. Six Necmettin Erbakan, asking him to resign. There is another Turkish scenario: The 1980 on election day, meaning she will Still, if the election result is of these were for the lower house of parlia- Erbakan obliged, and arrests and mild coup of General Kenan Evren, now on trial have to find a partner to stay in not clear-cut, the expectation is ment; four for the upper house; two for presi- repression followed, including the closing of for his actions, more than two decades later. power. that the major parties will sound dential election; and two were constitutional the Welfare Party and the jailing of Recep As in Egypt today, Evren’s coup was genu- If she can’t do that with the each other out on most of these referendums. Tayyip Erdogan, then mayor of Istanbul and inely popular among swaths of the Turkish FDP, which may not reach the combinations. The winners were the same in every case, a member of the Islamist party. population, but quickly turned sour, producing 5 percent threshold to enter Everyone will be talking to eve- and some are in jail. The losers were the same The third and most disturbing possible out- a terrible constitution and widespread abuse the Bundestag, the likelihood is ryone, meaning talks on forming each time, too. They included ElBaradei, who come for Egypt is Algeria in 1992: A harsh of human rights. Evren’s intervention caused that she turns to the SPD, with a new government could stretch on July 6 accepted an offer to become interim crackdown on elected Islamists by the military, a 20-year setback for democratic progress in whom she ruled in her first term well into November, as they did prime minister, only for it to be withdrawn followed by a vicious civil war. Turkey. between 2005 and 2009. in 2005 when incumbent Gerhard after opposition from the sole Islamist party One reason to hope Egypt won’t follow It was beyond imagining to see Tahrir Schroeder initially refused to con- that supported the coup. that path is that the military hasn’t yet been Square, a place that in 2011 symbolised the HAUNTED cede defeat to Merkel because of It is important to grasp all of this clearly to threatened. After the fall of Hosni Mubarak in struggle for Arab democracy and freedom, The problem this time around her razor-thin margin of victory. understand the mindsets of the two groups of 2011, the army had three red lines to protect. cheering the end of a democratic process and is that the SPD is dead-set on A poll this week for public tel- people who will determine Egypt’s fate — the It needed a veto in high politics, such as the annulling the votes of millions of Egyptians avoiding a “grand coalition” under evision station ARD showed that military and the Muslim Brotherhood. There relationship with Israel, and immunity from last week. Merkel. 81 percent of Germans expect are broadly three possibilities. prosecutions in civilian courts. On July 3, Tahrir didn’t celebrate an expan- That’s because the party is Merkel to remain chancellor One, the most hopeful and least likely is It also required security for a commercial sion of liberty, but the exclusion of one part still haunted by their previous after the vote, compared to just that the coup will serve as a launching pad empire that features preferential customs and of the Egyptian people by another. The con- partnership, when Merkel co- 13 percent who see her SPD chal- for liberal democracy. exchange rates; no taxation; land-confiscation sequences are impossible for any of those opted many of her rival’s policy lenger Peer Steinbrueck taking For this to work will require the Muslim rights (without paying the treasury); and a involved to predict. ideas, coaxed away its supporters power. Brotherhood to acquiesce, return peacefully virtually cost-free labour force of conscript WP-BLOOMBERG and left the SPD with its worst REUTERS TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Rowhani all set World condemns Egypt violence to be president All sides warned against provocation on August 3 TEHRAN: Moderate cleric PARIS/WASHINGTON: The ensure the military keeps its Hassan Rowhani will assume United States and the European promise of a swift handover to a Iran’s highest elected office on Union yesterday condemned civilian government. August 3, ending Mahmoud violence in Egypt and called for In Brussels, EU foreign policy Ahmadinejad’s controver- utmost restraint after the kill- chief Catherine Ashton warned sial eight-year presidency, a ing of dozens of supporters of all sides against “provocation or deputy speaker of parliament the ousted Islamist president. escalation” after the Islamists’ said yesterday. Washington called for Egypt’s call for an uprising. Rowhani will become presi- military, which last week removed “All those who claim legitimacy dent once supreme leader President Mohammed Mursi, to must act in a responsible way for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the exercise “maximum restraint” the good of the country and avoid ultimate decision-maker in after 51 Mursi loyalists were any provocation or escalation of the Islamic republic, formally killed. violence.” endorses his surprise June The Muslim Brotherhood, to Ashton “reiterates in the election. which Mursi belongs, called for an strongest possible terms her That ceremony, attended “uprising” following the killings. call for utmost restraint and an by top officials, will take place “We remain deeply con- immediate end to the violence,” on August 3, deputy speaker cerned about the increasing vio- the spokesperson said. Mohammad Reza Bahonar lence across Egypt. We strongly Earlier, Ashton spokesman said in remarks reported by condemn any violence or any Michael Mann said that the the state broadcaster’s website. incitement to violence,” State 28-nation bloc was keeping the A day later, on August 4, Department spokeswoman Jen billions of euros it has pledged to Rowhani will take the oath of Psaki told reporters. Egypt “under constant review” office before parliament and “Egypt’s stability and demo- although he emphasised there will then have two weeks to cratic political order are at stake,” was “no plan to change our aid form his proposed cabinet, she said. regime”. Bahonar said. White House spokesman Jay Turkey’s Foreign Minister His win was seen as a rejec- Carney, meanwhile, condemned Ahmet Davutoglu said he tion of Ahmadinejad’s contro- what he said were “explicit “strongly” condemned what he versial policies. calls to violence by the Muslim termed a “massacre”, expressing Egyptian supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi wave their national flag as they attend a rally outside The 64-year-old mid-rank- Brotherhood.” his country’s “solidarity with the Cairo’s Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque yesterday. ing Shia cleric has vowed He said Washington had not Egyptian people”. to form a government that yet determined whether the mili- He called for a “normalisation” bridges the divide, using skilled tary’s ouster of Mursi last week of the situation in Egypt, saying independent investigation and experts from the conservatives was a coup, as the Brotherhood it was “the hope for the rising urged all forces “to act with mod- as well as currently marginal- claims, or part of a popular revolt calls for democracy in the Middle eration and to renounce violence PM deadlock drags on ised reformists. against a failed government, as East”. in all forms”. Rowhani says he aims to supporters insist. Gaza’s Islamist Hamas rulers “There is grave concern that CAIRO: The Deadlock over interim prime minister entered a ease international tensions The US provides Egypt, a also described the killings as a there could be a further escala- third day yesterday after the Islamist Nour Party rejected can- over Tehran’s nuclear ambi- key Middle East ally, with some “massacre” and expressed their tion of violence in Egypt,” the didates for interim prime minister, prolonging the impasse amid tions and to resolve domestic $1.5bn a year in mostly military “profound pain and sadness over foreign ministry in Berlin said in huge protests that turned violent and killed more than 50. woes, including economic hard- aid which could be suspended the victims”. a statement. Egypt’s military, which overthrew elected leader President ships exacerbated by Western if it determines that the mili- In its statement, Hamas also While not commenting directly Mohammed Mursi on Wednesday, can ill afford a lengthy political sanctions targeting the coun- tary has overthrown an elected called for “an end to the blood- on the recent violence, Iran vacuum at a time of violent upheaval and economic stagnation in try’s vital oil income. government. shed among the Egyptian people”. slammed as “unacceptable and the Arab world’s largest nation of 84 million people. Carney said it would “not be Meanwhile, prominent disturbing” the intervention of The transitional administration, installed by the army to steer in our best interests” to imme- Egyptian liberal leader and the army in political affairs. Egypt to fresh elections, put forward two possible liberal-minded France woos UAE diately cut off aid, adding that it Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed “It cannot be denied that for- choices for the key position of interim prime minister over the week- would take time to consider the ElBaradei “strongly condemned” eign hands are at work here,” end. On both occasions the Nour Party said no. Nour had signed up to buy satellites continuation of funding over the the killings, stressing “violence said foreign ministry spokesman to the army’s roadmap for the political transition, giving Islamist long term. begets violence” and asking for Abbas Araqchi, adding: “The legitimacy to an audacious overthrow rejected by Islamic parties ABU DHABI: French His remarks implied that the an independent probe. polarisation of Egyptian society aligned to Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood. REUTERS Defence Minister Jean-Yves US might try to use the aid to Germany also called for an is dangerous.” AFP Le Drian was in Abu Dhabi yesterday for talks on mili- tary cooperation with Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahayan, state news agency WAM reported. Sudan war crimes suspect According to French business daily La Tribune, Paris is try- ing to convince the UAE to buy injured in Darfur attack two surveillance satellites built by Astrium and Thales Alenia KHARTOUM: A suspect Sudanese workers from the aid Space, in a contract worth more wanted for war crimes in group World Vision. than ¤500m. Sudan’s Darfur has been left As a result of the fighting, France has also been trying wounded after an attack which food aid to an estimated 400,000 for years to sell the United Arab reportedly killed two of his men, needy people in the area will Emirates its Rafale jet fighters, sources in the region’s largest be disrupted, the World Food which have struggled to find city Nyala said yesterday. Programme said. buyers, to support a project that Ali Kushayb, a former com- Kushayb was hurt as residents has cost tens of billions of euros. mander of the feared Janjaweed ran for their lives during fresh WAM said that Sheikh militia, was attacked on Sunday fighting and looting in Nyala on Mohammed, deputy head of during battles in the city, which Sunday. The state-run Radio the armed forces in the oil-rich state officials blamed on “differ- Omdurman reported late Sunday Gulf state, discussed “friendly ences” between members of the that Kushayb “was saved from relations” and “the excellent security forces. assassination” but did not say he coordination” between the two “It’s Kushayb who was injured,” was wounded. countries. They also discussed one source said, referring to His driver and guard were bilateral cooperation and the man who is wanted by the killed, the report said. “developing it to serve their International Criminal Court. Kushayb is wanted by The common interests, especially “Not sure what the injuries Hague-based ICC for crimes military and defence,” it added are,” but Kushayb was to be trans- against humanity and war crimes without giving further details. ferred to Khartoum, the source allegedly committed earlier in the added, asking for anonymity. decade-long Darfur conflict. The urban warfare which first On Sunday afternoon, a wit- Tunisia extends erupted in Nyala on Wednesday ness saw an ambulance under night has killed at least eight peo- police guard at the Nyala hos- A Turkish police officer fires tear gas to disperse protesters near Taksim Square in Istanbul yesterday. emergency ple and wounded more than 20, pital, where onlookers said an according to official media. “important person” was to be TUNIS: The Tunisian presi- Among the dead are two transferred to Khartoum. AFP dency said yesterday it would extend by three months the Turkish police fire rubber bullets, state of emergency in place since the uprising that top- pled former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January Jewish women activists tear gas to end park protest 2011. “The president of the repub- ISTANBUL: Turkish riot “You should be ashamed of nationwide protests against lic Moncef Marzouki decided to blocked at Western Wall police yesterday fired rub- yourself. Go on, shoot me too!” Turkish Prime Minister Recep extend the state of emergency ber bullets, tear gas and water one of the protesters yelled Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic- by three months,” the official JERUSALEM: Several thou- Prayer rites at the site, revered cannon to block demonstrators at a police officer on top of an rooted government. TAP news agency reported. sand ultra-Orthodox protest- by Jews as a perimeter wall of from entering a small Istanbul armoured vehicle. Protesters occupied the small The three-month period will ers effectively blocked Jewish the Biblical Temple, are part of park, the birthplace of deadly Some angry shopkeepers at park and put up tents to remain start retroactively from July 3, women activists campaigning a long struggle between Israel’s unrest that engulfed the coun- a fish market close to Taksim around the clock before being it said. for equal worship rights at the secular majority and ultra-Ortho- try last month. square lashed out at police and evicted by police on June 15. The agency said the “deci- Western Wall from holding a dox minority over lifestyle in the Police moved after Turkish anti-government demonstrators, Since then, the park has been sion was taken following a pro- monthly prayer session yester- Jewish state, where institutions authorities reopened Gezi Park accusing them of ruining their closed. posal by security leaders and day at the holy site. such as marriage, divorce and to public use earlier in the day. business. But in the face of public after meetings with the prime Israeli police spokesman Micky burial are controlled by rabbis. “Four people died for this park. Earlier yesterday when Turkish anger, authorities planted addi- minister and the president Rosenfeld said members and sup- Women pray at a separate sec- This park will reopen!,” a young authorities reopened the park tional trees and a Turkish court of the Constituent National porters of the Women of the Wall tion, set apart from men. demonstrator shouted, while oth- they warned that no further pro- annulled a government decision to Assembly”. Tunisia’s authori- group were escorted by police to Women of the Wall want to ers were trying to convince the tests would be tolerated. redevelop the park, saying locals ties have renewed the state of a spot a short distance from the be able to practice the rituals police that their action was unfair “Gezi Park has been reopened had not been sufficiently con- emergency by periods ranging Western Wall “to make sure there reserved by Orthodox law for and they should stop emptying to public but there are many calls sulted about the project. from three months to a year would be no incidents”. men - such as wearing prayer the park. for unauthorised protests aimed Residents feared the redevelop- since the 2011 uprising when A spokeswoman for the move- shawls and reading out loud from But later in the day after police at turning the park into an occu- ment plan would turn the area Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia. ment, which is challenging the the Torah, or holy scriptures - in sealed off access to the central pation zone,” Istanbul governor into a shopping district, while The state of emergency has Orthodox monopoly over rites their section. Taksim square and the adjacent Huseyin Avni Mutlu wrote on urban planners and ecologists said given extra powers to the army at the Western Wall, called the “It’s the first time in 25 years park, the cat-and-mouse game Twitter. the proposals did not respect the and police to help them contain incident a setback after a court we could not reach the plaza,” of with protesters ensued in the A brutal police crackdown on environment. radical Islamist militants, who decided in April the women could the wall, Shira Pruce, a group nearby thoroughfares. May 31 against a peaceful sit-in Nearly three weeks of protests have launched several attacks legally don prayer shawls that spokeswoman said. “They (police) At least one demonstrator was to prevent 600 trees from being in Turkey have left four people since the fall of Ben Ali. Orthodox ritual says are meant held up back. It’s our right to go seriously wounded, with his left cut down in a park redevelop- dead and some 8,000 injured. AGENCIES for men only. there.” REUTERS eye abundantly bleeding. ment scheme sparked June’s AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Syria’s Baath party replaces leadership Interim rebel premier Hitto announces resignation

DAMASCUS: Syria’s ruling state news agency SANA. He said rebel premier Ghassan Hitto Baath party replaced its top the party needed “to put in place announced his resignation, which leadership in a surprise move new... criteria for the selection of the Coalition accepted. yesterday, while in Turkey, party representatives, in order for Hitto quit nearly four months interim rebel prime minister them to be able to achieve (soci- after his appointment and after Ghassan Hitto announced his ety’s) objectives”. failing to form a government. resignation. Bassam Abu Abdullah, direc- His decision comes two days The political developments tor of the Damascus Centre for after secular dissident Ahmad come as troops loyal to President Strategic Studies, said the over- Assi Jarba was chosen to lead the Bashar Al Assad advanced into haul was the result of deep-seated opposition. the rebel-held Khaldiyeh district party discontent. Jarba is seen as close to Saudi of Homs on the 10th day of an “There has been a lot of Arabia, which opposed the choice assault there. criticism from within the base of Hitto to head the interim gov- The Baath party reshuffle, towards the leadership, which has ernment in March. its first since 2005, includes the been accused of being inflexible, Dissidents say Hitto, who is replacement of Vice President both before and since the crisis,” close to the opposition’s Islamist Farouk Al Sharaa, although he he said, of the uprising. ranks and who was backed by will keep that post. A second analyst noted that Qatar, was unable to work because Assad urged the party to the new leaders include a former of divisions within the Coalition. “develop” and work more closely ambassador, Syria’s ex-envoy to Hitto said he resigned in order with the people to help end the Egypt Yussef Ahmad, for the first “to help... the Coalition’s new country’s 27-month war, state time. leadership to act according to its media said. “They’ve decided to bring in a political vision, especially with The party’s central commit- younger leadership that is seen regards to the interim govern- tee published the names of 16 as more open to the international ment and its executive functions”. members of the new leadership, community,” he said on condition In a statement, the Coalition which included none of the party’s of anonymity. said “it will start accepting candi- old chiefs with the exception of The Baath party has been in dacies for the post of prime min- Assad, who will remain secretary power since March 8, 1963. ister in 10 days’ time”. general. The move comes against the On the ground, the army One of the vehicles that was destroyed by a bomb in a regime-held area in Homs yesterday. Among those newly elected to backdrop of the ongoing conflict pressed a fierce assault on the leadership are parliament in Syria, which began in March besieged districts of the central chief Jihad Al Laham and Prime 2011 with peaceful anti-govern- city of Homs, dubbed “the capital in the Akrameh district. Most said. “Regime forces have been The United Nations has esti- Minister Wael Al Halqi. ment protests but has become a of the revolution” by activists. residents of Akrameh are, like able to enter parts of Khaldiyeh mated some 2,500 people are “The party must develop in bloody civil war estimated to have State media reported two Assad, members of the Alawite after heavy shelling and scorched- trapped amid the fighting there. step with reality on the ground, killed more than 100,000 people. car bombings in a regime-held community. earth tactics.” Yesterday’s violence comes a and promote a culture of dia- In Istanbul, Turkey, as the main area in the city, and the Syrian “The ruthless campaign against He said the assault was the day after at least 95 people were logue and voluntary action by opposition National Coalition Observatory for Human Rights Homs is continuing for the 10th fiercest in Homs since the upris- killed throughout Syria, the group the people,” Assad said, cited by ended a five-day meeting reported five killed in one of them, day in a row” activist Abu Bilal ing began. said. AFP

Over 30 dead Tunisia police ordered to Lawyer seeks bail for Abu Qatada AMMAN: The lawyer of cleric Abu Qatada, who Jordanian military prosecutors charged Abu in two days of pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in Jordan Qatada on Sunday with “conspiracy to carry out following his deportation from Britain, said he terrorist acts,” just hours after his deportation from Iraq violence probe attack on actors applied yesterday for his client’s release on bail. Britain. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded I applied today (Monday) to the state security in custody for 15 days in the Muwaqqar prison, a BAGHDAD: Two days TUNIS: Tunisia’s public prosecutor the theatre troupe. “The artists should court to release Abu Qatada on bail,” Taysir Diab maximum security facility built in 2007 that houses of violence in Iraq killed yesterday ordered police to inves- receive a summons from the police said. “The court said it will examine my request and 1,100 inmates, most of them Islamists convicted of 31 people, police and doc- tigate an attack on 19 actors by now,” he said. decide after 48 hours,” he said without elaborating. terrorism offences. AFP tors said yesterday, the Salafist Muslims, while they decided The group was putting on a per- latest in a wave of unrest whether to charge the artists with formance in the western town of Kef in which more than 190 alleged “indecency”, a lawyer for the in a small theatre and in the street people have died in just drama group said. when ultra-conservative Salafists eight days. “The public prosecutor decided ...to attacked them. Iraq has been hit by a allow the investigation to progress so Supporters of the actors said police surge in violence that has that police officers could hear the had not bothered the Salafists, while killed upwards of 2,400 artists’ statements as victims,” their they arrested the artists and asked people this year, which lawyer Ghazi Mrabet said. The actors for them to be prosecuted for inde- analysts link to widespread had been due to appear before the cent behaviour, a charge that carries a discontent among minor- public prosecutor yesterday, and were sentence of up to six months in prison. ity Sunnis who accuse Shia expected to be charged with indecency. Police have not made their statements authorities of marginalis- Mrabet added that the prosecutor available to the actors’ defence law- ing and targeting their had not yet decided whether or not to yers, so the exact nature of what they community. press charges against the members of are accused of remains unclear. AFP Anger among Sunnis gives militant groups increased room to manoeu- vre, boosts recruitment and feeds motivation for more attacks, analysts say. Yesterday’s deadliest violence was in the north, where a car bomb south of the city of Mosul killed six people, including three chil- dren, and wounded eight. Gunmen in Mosul also shot dead Qahtan Sami, the spokesman of the Nineveh governorate, while a car bomb killed one person and wounded four in the city. In Madain, south of Baghdad, a bomb exploded near a football field inside a sports club, killing at least five people. AFP Gunmen kill top Yemeni officer ADEN: Gunmen shot dead a high-ranking Yemeni army officer Monday in the country’s southeastern Hadramawt province as he was head- ing to work, a military official said. The unknown assail- ants opened fire on Colonel Ahmed Al Suhaili, com- mander of a military camp in Hadramawt’s city of Seiyun, the official said on condition of anonymity. The defence ministry confirmed the attack on its website 26sept.net and said Suhaili responded by shooting at the assail- ants who were in a vehicle and wounded one of them before he died. It said a search was on to hunt down the attack- ers but did not blame any particular group for the assault on Suhaili. AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Spain festival Prosecutor seeks Merkel govt criminal charges for toppled Czech prime minister defends ‘legal’ PRAGUE: A Czech prosecutor has asked lawmakers to strip outgoing prime minister Petr Necas of his immunity from prosecution over a bribery and ties with NSA spy scandal that toppled his government, the parliament speaker said yesterday. Intelligence fully regulated: Official “On July 8... Speaker of Parliament Miroslava Nemcova BERLIN: Angela Merkel’s gov- Merkel’s spokesman Steffen received a request from High ernment said yesterday that Seibert said that talks between State Prosecutor Ivo Istvan for its cooperation with American European Union and US experts parliamentary consent to begin intelligence was fully regulated should clarify the NSA’s activities. criminal proceedings against law- by strict legal guidelines after a “The Federal Intelligence Agency maker Petr Necas,” Nemcova’s magazine reported that the US (BND) cooperates within its legal office said in a statement. National Security Agency was in framework with partner agencies, Rightwinger Necas, 48, quit close cahoots with German spies. including for decades the NSA,” office last month after his chief Germany’s opposition, with an he said. The BND is Germany’s of staff and alleged lover was eye on September’s election, when main overseas intelligence agency. indicted for abuse of power and the chancellor will seek a third “In the fight against terrorist bribery alongside seven other term, demanded that her govern- threats, we can only protect the senior figures, including military ment explain how much it knew population if we cooperate with intelligence heads and former about US surveillance tactics others. This cooperation takes lawmakers. All but one are still ahead of talks with Washington place within strict legal and judi- in police custody. about the NSA. cial guidelines and is controlled Prosecutors believe the aide, “In the light of the latest media by the competent parliamentary Jana Nagyova, had military spies reports, it is even more urgent committee,” he said. A cow chasing revellers jumps into the sea during the “Bous a la Mar” festival in the eastern Spanish coastal tail Necas’s wife of 25 years, whom to ask what Germany’s secret Merkel has said Germany has town of Denia yesterday. During this festival revellers emerging from protective barriers provoke bulls to he is divorcing. Necas yesterday services and above all what the avoided terrorist attacks thanks chase them until they both fall into sea. The bulls are then rescued by small boats which tow them to safety. denied having offered lucrative Chancellery knew about eaves- to tip-offs from its allies, while posts in state-run companies to dropping activities,” said the at the same time saying that U.S. three rebel lawmakers from his Social Democrats’ (SPD) chancel- and British snooping on close EU own party in exchange for their lor candidate, Peer Steinbrueck. allies, if confirmed, would be unac- resignation — a case for which Der Spiegel’s report that the ceptable “Cold War” methodology. Nagyova and the three ex-law- NSA works with Germany and She has spoken directly with makers have been indicted. other Western states on a ‘no President Barack Obama about Sarkozy returns to political stage “There was no deal on swap- questions asked’-basis under- the reports that the United States ping the resignation as lawmaker mines the chancellor’s indig- has bugged electronic communica- PARIS: Former French presi- as the only person who can reu- run if his mentor does not, just 10 for top posts,” Necas said in a nant talk of “Cold War” tactics tions and institutions in Germany dent Nicolas Sarkozy made nite a party that fractured into two percent support. statement, playing such deals revealed by former NSA contrac- and elsewhere in the EU, and is his first political appearance feuding camps, one with a hard- Sarkozy only fanned specula- down as political horse-trading tor Edward Snowden. “They are sending her interior minister to since losing power, staging an line stance on immigration and tion he is plotting his return by rather than corruption. in bed with the Germans, just like Washington this week. appeal to hundreds of conserv- the other more moderate, after telling the audience that it was “Political deals cannot be con- with most other Western states,” Intelligence agencies are coor- ative lawmakers yesterday to his May 2012 defeat to Socialist not the moment to talk about sidered a crime... it’s not clear to Snowden said in an interview in dinated by Merkel’s office and help save the UMP party from Francois Hollande. the next election. “The day that me what I should be accused of Der Spiegel. overseen by a parliamentary financial ruin. “This is not my political come- I make a comeback, I’ll make and why,” said Necas. “Other agencies don’t ask us committee, whose deliberations Greeted by a mass of fans as back,” Sarkozy tweeted as the it known,” he said. Any come- In office since July 2010, Necas where we got the information — including testimony about the he arrived at UMP headquarters, meeting began - his first state- back will hinge, however, on the led a wobbly three-party centre- from and we don’t ask them,” he NSA from the head of the BND Sarkozy called for donations to ment on Twitter since his elec- outcome of a rash of legal cases right coalition that survived eight said. “That way they can pro- last week — are secret. Germany’s prop up the party after France’s tion defeat. “When I return to the involving people close to him, confidence motions. tect their top politicians from domestic spy agency has said it top legal body ruled last week that podium it will be to speak to the including allegations of illicit Leftwing rival President Milos the backlash in case it emerges did not know about such extensive it overshot spending limits on his French people about France.” campaign financing and political Zeman has since appointed long- how massively people’s privacy is U.S. and British eavesdropping. failed 2012 re-election campaign Recent surveys by pollster rigging in an arbitration payout to time ally and former finance min- abused worldwide.” But the opposition insists that and must repay ¤11m ($14.15m) Ifop show only 40 percent of vot- a high-profile businessman. ister Jiri Rusnok as his successor. Germany has publicly Merkel or her chief of staff Ronald in state subsidies. ers want Sarkozy back as presi- Sarkozy has immunity for Zeman is due to approve demanded explanations for Pofalla, who coordinates the secret While Sarkozy denied the meet- dent, but among UMP supporters life for any official acts carried Rusnok’s cabinet tomorrow, but Snowden’s allegations of large- services, must have known more. ing marked the start of his politi- 58 percent want him to run in out while he was president, but analysts say it is unlikely to win scale spying by the NSA, and by “The citizens of our country should cal comeback, the former president 2017, leagues ahead of his closet would suffer if investigations confidence in a parliamentary Britain via a programme code- be able to trust in the secret serv- has made clear that he is mulling a rival and former prime minister, lead to charges against people in vote that must take place within named ‘Tempora’, on their allies ices respecting the law and their re-election bid for 2017 and opin- Francois Fillon, at 16 percent. his inner circle or if he is found 30 days. To survive, it needs back- including Germany and other rights,” said Steinbrueck. “All the ion polls show more than half of Respondents gave the UMP’s to be at fault over his 2007 cam- ing from a simple majority of the European Union states, as well facts must be put on the table.” UMP supporters want him to do president, Jean-Francois Cope, a paign funding. lawmakers present in the 200- as EU institutions and embassies. REUTERS so. Many on the right see Sarkozy Sarkozy ally who says he will only REUTERS seat chamber. AFP

Pope visits Italy refugee island Mandla rejects bid to remove Shipwreck captain’s him as clan chief trial to begin in Italy JOHANNESBURG: Nelson GROSSETO: The captain of The Costa Concordia crashed into Mandela’s grandson yesterday the Costa Concordia cruise ship a rock off Giglio on the night of denounced efforts to remove which crashed and sank off Italy January 13, 2012 with 4,229 peo- him as chief of the anti-apart- last year will go on trial today, ple from 70 countries on board, as heid icon’s clan following a bit- charged with the manslaugh- Schettino was trying to perform a ter family feud, as the former ter of 32 people who died in the risky “salute” manoeuvre just off president started a second nighttime tragedy. the Tuscan island. month in hospital. Francesco Schettino, dubbed The ship hit a rock, veered Mandla Mandela rejected “Captain Coward” by the tabloids sharply and keeled over near the attempts by Thembu King for abandoning ship while terri- shore, sparking a panicky and Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo to strip fied passengers were still trapped delayed evacuation and a bit- him of his Madiba chieftaincy as onboard, was expected in court in ter confrontation between the the latest in a line of “delusional” Grosseto, the city closest to the coastguard and Schettino, who statements from the monarch. accident off the island of Giglio. claimed he had fallen to safety “He doesn’t have the authority Up to 450 witnesses and 250 into a lifeboat. to do that,” Mandla’s spokesman plaintiffs could be called during a Schettino’s lawyers, Domenico Freddy Pilusa said. Mandla, 39, ear- trial, long-awaited by the families and Francesco Pepe, have called lier said processes to appoint and of the victims, although the actual 100 witnesses and pledged to show remove chiefs were lengthy. “King start of deliberations may be post- that “no single person was respon- Dalindyebo has a habit of mak- poned because of a lawyers’ strike. sible” for the disaster. They plan ing delusional announcements,” Schettino, 52, faces three charges to probe the role played by ship Pope Francis looks at a laptop on a boat during his visit to Lampedusa Island, southern Italy, yesterday. The Mandla said in a statement. for multiple manslaughter, as well owner Costa Crociere managers, Pope celebrated mass on the tiny Sicilian island to commemorate thousands of migrants who have died “You don’t just wake up and call as causing environmental damage the type of steel used to build the crossing the sea from North Africa, underlining his drive to put the poor at the heart of his papacy. a meeting of followers and make and abandoning the ship, but his ship, as well as the apparent mal- such a decision,” he added. Nelson defence claims more people are functioning of sealed doors and Mandela handpicked Mandla as to blame, pointing the finger at back-up generators on board. his successor to head the Madiba crew members and the company. AFP clan — one of many in the Thembu nation — in the Eastern Cape prov- ince’s village of Mvezo in 2007. Nigeria insurgents target schools But a bitter family argument over the 94-year-old Nobel peace LAGOS: Islamist extrem- gruesomeness of the school mas- not solve the problem. Jonathan laureate’s burial place has put Nine killed in Spanish bus crash ists have massacred dozens sacre drew widespread disgust. declared a state of emergency in Mandla in the firing line. of students in recent weeks in A spokesman for President the northeast on May 14, saying Fifteen family members won a TORNADIZOS DE AVILA: A ended up nearly on one side, a Nigeria’s northeast, opening a Goodluck Jonathan said those Boko Haram had managed to take court order to rebury the remains bus carrying more than 30 pas- buckled safety barrier prevent- new phase in their insurgency behind the attack “will certainly control of a number of remote of Mandela’s three deceased chil- sengers careened off a central ing it from sliding further down despite a nearly two-month-old go to hell.” Military officials did not border areas, and a sweeping mili- dren, after Mandla moved them Spanish highway and ploughed a roadside slope. military offensive against them. respond to requests for comment. tary offensive followed. two years ago without consulting into a metal safety barrier yes- Windows on the entire right- The latest attack on Saturday The school shooting marks the Abubakar Tsav, a respected relatives. terday, killing nine people in an hand side of the bus were torn saw gunmen storm a secondary third such attack in three weeks. former police commissioner for the The family accused Mandla of impact that blew out windows and away and the buckled frames left boarding school in the village of The insurgents’ reasons for economic capital Lagos, said secu- exhuming the graves to ensure tore away one side of the vehicle. exposed after the bus apparently Mamudo, where they rounded up targeting students are unclear, rity forces should focus more on that Mandela is buried on land Another 22 people were injured, scraped along a rocky wall before students and staff in a dormitory, though some observers say they on-the-ground intelligence. That owned by his grandson, who they five seriously, when the bus came striking the metal barrier. threw explosives and opened fire, may be seeking to generate should be accompanied by an hon- said wanted to cash in on tourists off the road as it travelled down- The bus’s broken windscreen killing 42 people, almost all of as much attention as possible est attempt at dialogue, he said. visiting the gravesite. hill on a winding road near Avila hung open like a curtain. them students. through shocking tactics. “In a situation like this, what Mandela has said in the past he northwest of Madrid, trapping “Nine people have died and 22 Nigerians have grown accus- Some have called for the should normally happen is gov- wants to be buried with his family. several passengers in the wreck- have been injured,” said a state- tomed to mayhem inflicted by government to take a smarter ernment should be able to send Last Thursday Mandla lashed out age, emergency services said. ment by the emergency services Islamist extremist group Boko approach in efforts to end Boko plainclothes police and security against his brothers, aunts and The blue single-decker bus, for the region of Castile and Leon. Haram — as well as the military’s Haram’s four-year insurgency, men,” said Tsav. other relatives in a televised news which carried the markings of It was Spain’s deadliest bus crash heavy-handed response — but the warning that military force will AFP conference. AFP a private bus company, Cevesa, in five years. AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Britain to ban Train blast cause still a mystery Nigeria’s Boko None of the dead identified yet; police struggle to find 40 missing in Quebec town Haram under

LAC-MEGANTIC, QUEBEC: anti-terror law Canadian police yesterday strug- gled to find the remains of people LONDON: The Nigerian- killed when a driverless crude based Islamist extremist group oil train derailed and blew up in Boko Haram is to be banned in a small Quebec town over the Britain under anti-terror laws, weekend as questions grew over the British interior ministry how the disaster had occurred. announced yesterday. The five locomotives and 72 The Home Office said British- oil cars had been parked about based extremists Minbar Ansar eight miles from Lac-Megantic Deen, also known as Ansar Al on Friday night. The brakes then Sharia UK, would also be pro- somehow released and the train scribed from Friday, subject to gathered pace as it rolled down parliamentary approval. a hill into the centre of the town “This will make membership early on Saturday morning. of, and support for, these organi- It derailed and exploded into a sations a criminal offence,” the gigantic fireball, flattening dozens ministry said. “The government of buildings and killing five people. is determined to work with the Another 40 are missing and few international community to residents hold out hope that they tackle terrorism and take the will be found alive. steps necessary to keep the UK Police said they had been una- public safe. “Proscription of these ble to examine much of the town groups sends a clear message that center overnight because the area we condemn their activities.” was still too dangerous. Dozens Some 3,600 people have been of tanker wagons, some of them killed during Boko Haram’s four- destroyed, are lying at the acci- year insurgency in north and cen- dent site. “It’s an area that is still tral Nigeria, according to Human extremely risky... The fire service Rights Watch. decided they could not allow us The group has claimed to to go there for security reasons. be seeking an Islamic state in We’ll see what we can do today,” Nigeria, but is believed to include police spokesman Benoit Richard An aerial view of the wreckage of the crude oil train in Lac Megantic yesterday. various factions with different told reporters. aims. The British government One of the destroyed buildings Board, which is probing the disas- Burkhardt said the engineer had and the brake pressure will drop be linked to the derailment. In said its ban on Boko Haram would was a music bar popular with ter, has retrieved the train’s black shut down four of the five locomo- finally to the point where they Nantes, a shopkeeper said locals give police the power to target young people. None of the dead box data recorder and a separate tive units on the train, a stand- can’t be held in place any longer,” were often irritated by trains British support for the group. have been identified. Two of the device that contains details of ard procedure, before heading to Burkhardt said. being parked while still running The British-based Minbar badly burned bodies recovered so the braking system. The train — Lac-Megantic to sleep. Somehow, Adding to the mystery is the fact their engines but said she had Ansar Deen allegedly promotes far have been sent to Montreal operated by the Montreal, Maine he told the Toronto Star, the fifth that after the train was parked on never heard of any cases in the terror through its website and for identification and the other & Atlantic Railway — had been locomotive was also shut down. Friday night, a part of it caught town of vandalism on the tracks. encourages people to travel three will be transported there parked at Nantes, 12km to the “If the operating locomotive is fire. Local firemen were called to “This, for our small community, abroad to engage in extremist soon, the coroner’s office said. west of Lac-Megantic, on Friday. shut down, there’s nothing left put out the blaze. It was not clear is an accident like 9/11,” she said. activity, the Home Office added. Canada’s Transportation Safety Company chairman Ed to keep the brakes charged up, if the actions of the firemen could REUTERS Under the 2000 Terrorism Act, the home secretary, or interior minister, can ban an organisa- tion if it is believed to have ter- ror links. If the ban on Boko Haram and Minbar Ansar Deen Manning seeks is approved by parliament, it will be a criminal offence in Britain to dismissal of Asiana pilot was in 777 training belong to or support the groups, as well as to arrange meetings or SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL: the descent less than two sec- Asiana said Lee Kang-kuk was the landing with less than two wear clothing supporting them. some charges The pilot of the Asiana plane onds before it hit a seawall on the in the pilot seat during the land- seconds to go, the US National Al Qaeda and Somalia’s Shebab that crashed at San Francisco landing approach to the airport, ing. It was not clear whether the Transportation Safety Board said. insurgents are also proscribed FORT MEADE: The US sol- International Airport was still in bounced along the tarmac and senior pilot, Lee Jung-min, who NTSB Chairwoman Deborah under British law. AFP dier who admitted to leaking training for the Boeing 777 when burst into flames. had clocked up 3,220 hours on a Hersman said information col- a trove of secret documents to he attempted to land the aircraft It was Lee’s first attempt to Boeing 777, had tried to take over lected from the plane’s cockpit WikiLeaks will ask a military under supervision on Saturday, land a 777 at San Francisco air- to abort the landing. voice recorder and flight data Plane crash in judge to dismiss some charges the South Korean airline said. port, although he had flown there “It’s a training that is common recorder indicated there were against him in his espionage Lee Kang-kuk was the second 29 times previously on other types in the global aviation industry. no signs of problems until seven Alaska kills 10 trial, a legal officer said. most junior pilot of four on board of aircraft, said South Korean All responsibilities lie with the seconds before impact, when the Defence lawyers are scheduled the Asiana Airlines plane. He had Transport Ministry official Choi instructor captain,” Yoon Young- crew tried to accelerate. WASHINGTON: Ten people to begin presenting the case for 43 hours of experience flying the Seung-youn. Earlier, the ministry doo, the president and CEO of the A stall warning, in which the were killed when an air taxi Bradley Manning but first plan long-range jet, the airline said. said Lee, who is in his mid-40s, airline, said. The plane crashed cockpit controls begin to shake, aeroplane crashed on Sunday to file motions arguing the pros- The plane’s crew tried to abort had almost 10,000 flying hours. after the crew tried to abort activated four seconds before impact, at the airport in the US city of ecution has failed to back up four and the crew tried to abort the land- Soldotna, in the state of Alaska. charges, a military officer said. ing and initiate what is known as a The National Transportation Manning, 25, has admitted to giv- “go around” manoeuvre 1.5 seconds Safety Board said on its Twitter ing WikiLeaks more than 700,000 before crashing, Hersman said. She feed that it has sent a team to secret military intelligence files said the plane was “well below” the investigate the crash. Alaska local and diplomatic cables in the worst target air speed of 137 knots. media said the plane was a De leak of classified information in In a tragic twist, the San Havilland DHC-3 Otter aircraft American history. Francisco Fire Department said operated by Rediske Air. But he is contesting 21 charges, one of the Chinese teenagers may Clint Johnson, head of including the most serious count have been run over by an emer- the NTSB’s office in nearby that he “aided the enemy” by fun- gency vehicle as first responders Anchorage, said that the plane neling the files to the anti-secrecy reached the scene. with the pilot and nine passengers website. The prosecution rested The two dead girls, Ye on board crashed early on Sunday its case last week but suffered Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were and then caught fire. Johnson an embarrassing setback after friends from the Jiangshan Middle said that the NTSB pulled back acknowledging the military had School in Quzhou. More than 30 an investigator who was heading lost the contract Manning signed people remained hospitalised. to San Francisco to help investi- laying out the terms of his access Eight were listed in critical con- gate the Asiana Airlines disaster to classified information. dition, including two with paraly- to handle the Soldotna crash. AFP sis from spinal injuries, hospital “Yes, we have launched another officials said. Interior damage to go-team to investigate the crash Kerry’s wife may the plane was extreme, Hersman in Alaska,” the NTSB said. said. The NTSB released photos Soldotna is located some 120km have suffered seizure showing the wrecked interior southwest of Anchorage in the far An interior view of Asiana Flight 214 in San Francisco yesterday. cabin with oxygen masks dangling northwestern US state. WASHINGTON: The wife of US from the ceiling. REUTERS AFP Secretary of State John Kerry remained in hospital yesterday for tests, but her condition appeared to be improving after she suffered what may have been a seizure. Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, spent the night in Massachusetts British royal baby faces succession legal wrangle General Hospital in Boston where she was flown late Sunday after LONDON: Britain’s new royal baby will up with different monarchs in different In French-speaking Quebec the issue in line to the throne. Harry, a helicopter pilot first being rushed to a local hos- be third in line to the throne but a legal states. It can only come into effect when is a court challenge to the way that the with the British army, will drop further down pital on Nantucket Island. wrangle in the Commonwealth is holding all the realms have ratified it. Canadian parliament passed a law to agree with any future children that William and “After conducting tests over- up new law ensuring that a female heir But the process is not proving as to the succession changes, rather than a Kate, or their offspring, may have. night and this morning, doctors... cannot be overtaken by a younger brother. straightforward as had been hoped, with problem with the changes themselves. In a new move, the baby will bear the have upgraded Teresa Heinz Prince William and his wife Catherine’s challenges thrown up by Quebec in Canada Queensland, meanwhile, does not want title of prince or princess and enjoy the Kerry’s condition from critical to baby, due this month, will be born directly and Queensland in Australia. to refer the powers to change the succes- style of royal highness from birth, following fair,” Kerry’s personal spokesman in line to become king or queen, after “It’s a pretty complicated operation in sion law to the 54-nation Commonwealth letters patent issued by Queen Elizabeth on Glen Johnson said in a statement. Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest son Prince which 16 countries in all have to change of mainly former British colonies. December 31 last year. Just as there are no Kerry and one of Heinz Kerry’s Charles, and then William, his eldest son. their law or their constitution,” Robert By sheer coincidence, formal agreement set duties for the heir to the throne, there sons remained at the Boston hos- Ending male primogeniture had been Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit to proceed with legislation was received on are even fewer for those further back in the pital with her along with other talked about for decades but William and at University College London, said. the same day last December that Kate’s queue, with the royal baby facing a lengthy family members, he said, adding Kate’s wedding in April 2011 jolted gov- “If they had a girl and then a boy and pregnancy was announced. wait for the crown. that they were “touched by the ernments into action to ensure that if the if the new law had not been brought into Sped through parliament in Britain, the Patrick Jephson, former chief of staff outpouring of well-wishes”. couple’s first-born is a girl, its gender could effect, then the boy would be next in line to Succession to the Crown Act 2013 gained to William’s mother Diana, said: “One of Johnson did not specify what not keep it from the throne. the throne, so it’s not secured yet.” royal assent on April 25. “In determining the big problems facing the future of the Heinz Kerry was suffering from, The premiers of Britain, Australia, But if and when it is passed, then the leg- the succession to the crown, the gender British royal family is this issue of a surplus but another source close to the Canada, New Zealand and the 12 other islation will be backdated to apply from the of a person born after October 28, 2011, of heirs. “As long as most British people family said they had become con- countries where Queen Elizabeth reigns 2011 Commonwealth summit agreement does not give that person, or that person’s can remember they have had the same cerned on Sunday “when they reached agreement in principle at the last onwards. “It’s not a race against time,” said descendants, precedence over any other sovereign. “A lot of young people, I would noticed symptoms which were Commonwealth summit in October 2011. a spokesman for Britain’s Cabinet Office person (whenever born),” it says. imagine, are keener there should be a king consistent with a sort of seizure”. The law change must be unanimous and ministry. “All the realms agreed that they The new baby will push back William’s and queen of their own generation.” AFP identical in each country to avoid ending would do this.” younger brother Prince Harry, 28, to fourth AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

Bomb attack ‘Asia’s tallest Abe pushes man’ in hospital BEIJING: A 2.55-metre Chinese man who is among the world’s tallest living peo- ple has been hospitalised for a for restart of hip replacement, reports said yesterday. Wang Fengjun has been measured as 29 centime- tres taller than China’s tow- ering former NBA basketball player Yao Ming. Wang’s N-reactors hands are 30 centimetres long and he wears specially made size-75 shoes. Chinese Four firms apply for inspection media widely describe him as Asia’s tallest man. Wang, 37, TOKYO: Japan moved a step applications for inspections by the from the province of Henan, closer to restarting nuclear Nuclear Regulation Authority for developed gigantism due to a reactors yesterday as four util- 10 reactors at five plants under tumour on his pituitary gland. ity companies applied for safety new safety requirements that have He has been suffering from inspection of 10 idled plants, just come into effect. Applications osteonecrosis of the hips and the clearest sign of a return to for two more reactors are expected was offered free treatment by atomic energy nearly two and a later in the week. a Henan hospital. China’s Yao half years after the Fukushima Reactors that pass the stricter Defen was the world’s tallest disaster. rules will possibly be allowed to woman at 2.34 metres when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has restart early next year, with each she died last year, aged 40. pushed for restarts since taking inspection expected to take several office in December, freezing the months. Critics say the rules have Buddhists jailed previous government’s nuclear loopholes, including grace periods phase-out plan. Resumption of for some safety equipment. Security personnel inspect the wreckage of a military truck after a bomb attack by suspected militants in Pattani for murders nuclear power plants is part of his Hit by soaring gas and oil costs province, south of Bangkok, yesterday. ruling party’s campaign platform to run conventional power plants YANGON: Myanmar has in parliamentary elections in two to make up the energy shortfall, sentenced two Buddhist men weeks. Japanese utility companies have to seven years in prison for With all but two of the country’s lobbied hard to put their reactors murders during religious 50 reactors offline since a tsunami back online. Nearly all utilities that US scientist ended life: Coroner violence in March that left swept through the Fukushima own nuclear plants reported huge dozens of people dead, offi- Daiichi plant in March 2011, Japan losses last fiscal year due to higher SINGAPORE: A Singapore China’s Huawei Technologies, Chay rejected Adelstein’s tes- cials said yesterday. They has been almost without nuclear costs for fuel imports. Hokkaido coroner ruled yesterday that accused by the US of involve- timony, calling it “nothing short were convicted after sepa- energy that once supplied about a Electric Power Co. said it has been US scientist Shane Todd found ment in espionage. of bizarre and extremely unhelp- rate trials at the district third of its power. hit with additional daily fuel costs hanged in 2012 committed sui- There was no immediate ful in the way that it detracted court in Meiktila for their Four Japanese nuclear plant of 600m yen ($6m) to make up for cide during a bout of depression reaction from the family to the from the critical pathological part in rioting in the town, operators — supplying the regions three idled reactors. Nuclear oper- and was not murdered as his verdict. issues before the court”. which targeted Muslims of Hokkaido, Kansai, Shikoku ators have requested rate hikes or family claimed. Coronor Chay said the evi- The US said Todd’s family and sparked religious unrest and Kyushu — yesterday filed plan to do so. AFP The US government said the dence also showed that Todd had “was given the opportunity to across the country. One man, inquiry was “comprehensive, fair suffered a relapse of depression. participate in the hearing and 24, was sentenced on June 28, and transparent”. Witnesses earlier testified that was represented by experienced becoming the first Buddhist The body of 31-year-old was he had suffered from the condi- Singapore legal counsel”. Todds’ known to be sentenced for a discovered by his girlfriend in tion as university student. lawyer Gloria James-Civetta said serious offence over the riot- his flat in June 2012 and his par- IME and Huawei said they the family would issue a state- ing, which left 44 people dead. China ex-minister handed ents refused to accept Singapore only held preliminary talks on ment on their website Justice 4 The second, 21, was handed police findings that he had killed a potential project with com- Shane Todd. an additional one year with himself. mercial applications, but did not The death was thrust into the hard labour for his part in the suspended death for graft The family, citing documents proceed. Their star witness, US spotlight after Financial Times killings. found in Todd’s computer files, pathologist Edward Adelstein, said in February that the fam- BEIJING: China’s former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given had said he was working on a recanted an earlier theory that ily suspected he was murdered ‘Godfather of a suspended death sentence yesterday for “especially huge” brib- secret project with military appli- Todd was garroted with a cord because of his work on an IME- ery, becoming the first highest-ranking official to be punished cations and murdered as part of a in his own apartment. Instead he Huawei project involving gallium Heroin’ dies for corruption since new leaders vowed to clean up the ruling conspiracy involving his former presented a new scenario: Todd nitride, a semiconductor mate- Communist Party. employer, Singapore’s Institute was killed by assassins who made rial with military and commer- YANGON: A crony of Once hailed as the “father” of China’s flagship high-speed rail of Microelectronics (IME), and his death look like suicide. cial applications. AFP Myanmar’s former junta, network, Liu, 60, was convicted of bribery and abuse of power by a dubbed by the US the court in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency said. He was sacked “Godfather of Heroin” after in 2011 after eight years in the post over the scandal involving 800m decades as a global trafficker, yuan ($130m). He was convicted of accepting 64.6m yuan in bribes has died, aged 80, his family to help 11 people secure contracts and promotions. said yesterday. Lo Hsing Han, The No 2 Intermediate People’s Court held that Liu’s crimes Communist leader’s widow honoured a major trafficker since the involved an “especially huge amount of money” and “caused colossal 1970s, avoided a death sen- losses in the public assets, violating rights and interests of the state BEIJING: The Russian-born widow of an early Kishkin, born in 1914 to an aristocratic Russian tence in his early drug career. and the people.” “He was sentenced to death with two years’ suspen- Chinese Communist leader received France’s family and a student of French, married Li in Along with his business part- sion,” a court official said. Suspended death sentences are normally Legion d’honneur yesterday as a witness and sur- Moscow in the 1930s, where he had been summoned ner and son Steven Law, he commuted to life imprisonment. AFP vivor of a tumultuous 20th century. by Joseph Stalin for “self-criticism” for not obeying was targeted by the US with Lisa Kishkin, 99, accepted the award in a hospi- orders in the Soviet-backed Communist movement. sanctions from 2008. Seized goods destroyed tal room with family and friends looking on as the Li was arrested by the NKVD, the precursor to French ambassador praised her personal strength. the KGB, one night in 1938 as part of Stalin’s purges. Myanmar frees Kishkin experienced frequent turmoil, including He was freed in 1940, reportedly at the interven- eight years in a Chinese prison, as the wife of Li tion of Zhou Enlai, who later became China’s pre- child soldiers Lisan, Mao Zedong’s predecessor as leader of the mier. Li returned to China, where Kishkin joined Chinese Communist Party, who later fell out of him in 1946. Three years later the Communists took YANGON: Myanmar has favour and was said to have committed suicide. power after winning the civil war. Kishkin attended discharged 42 children and Ambassador Sylvie Bermann called her a “living Mao’s declaration of the People’s Republic of China young people from its armed emblem of resistance to extraordinary forces that in October 1949 while her husband stood beside the forces, UN agencies said yes- throughout the 20th century sought relentlessly to Great Helmsman, though his image was erased from terday, urging more efforts deny the sacredness and dignity of the human being”. official photos after he fell from grace. AFP to free child soldiers as the country emerges from military rule. The former junta-run nation, vilified for rights abuses committed by its “tadmadaw” military, Elderly shoplifters on rise in Tokyo has decreased, but not yet stopped the recruitment of TOKYO: Elderly people caught be lonely, having no one to talk Around a quarter of 128 million children to the armed forces, shoplifting in Japan’s capital to, and no hobby to enjoy,” he said. population is aged 65 or older, and the UN said. city have outnumbered teen- Statistics showed 3,321 peo- Japan has a far-below replace- agers for the first time since ple aged 65 or above were held, ment birthrate of an average 1.39 American killed records began, a report said accounting for 24.5 percent of children for every woman. yesterday. the total, while those aged 19 or There are regular reports of over taxi fare A quarter of the people held on younger made up 23.6 percent, bodies lying unfound for weeks suspicion of the crime last year with 3,195 individual arrests. Both or months after a single elderly BANGKOK: A 51-year- were at least 65 amid warnings of figures are slightly down in abso- person has died. Commentators old American working at their increasing isolation. lute terms from 2011. say the phenomenon is a result the US Caterpillar plant “Even though the number of It was the first time since com- of the fraying of familial ties as in Bangkok was hacked to arrests has been declining, the parable data had been collected Japan has modernised. death by a machete-wielding ratio of elderly people is on the that the elderly made up a higher A government survey last week taxi driver in a dispute over rise,” the Tokyo Metropolitan proportion of suspected thieves, found 3.5 million elderly women a $1.60 fare, police said. Troy Police said. “Our survey shows the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and 1.4 million elderly men live Lee Pilkington was cut with a that elderly shoplifters tend to said. alone. AFP 12-inch machete on Saturday A steam roller machine destroys seized products at a Jakarta police sta- night. The driver, Chidchai tion yesterday. Utmacha, 32, confessed and faces charges of murder and carrying a weapon in public without reasonable cause. Top 70 retailers vow safety of Bangla factories Leader to end DHAKA: Top 70 top retailers prom- repairs put in place if necessary,” the pact’s identify the best people and put together pact will be set up in Amsterdam with self-exile ised to open their Bangladesh factories steering committee said. the team in Bangladesh who will be another office in Dhaka, it said. to safety inspections within nine months Labour umbrella groups, including charged with carrying out this vital work,” While leading European retailers have PHNOM PEHN: Cambodia’s as part of a pact in the wake of a deadly Swiss-based Industrial and UNI Global said UNI Global Union General Secretary joined the agreement, American brands charismatic self-exiled oppo- garment factory collapse. Union, stepped up pressure on Western Philip Jennings. Retailers will submit such as Walmart and Gap have snubbed sition leader has vowed to The mainly European brands will under- retailers to sign the deal. details of their suppliers in Bangladesh the accord and opted for self-regulation. return ahead of this month’s write repairs and renovations if inspec- Retailers, including Inditex, H&M and by July 15 which will then be publicly The task of inspecting and improving general election to challenge tions reveal their factories to be unsafe, Primark, started agreeing to the Accord released. factories could prove hugely daunting. A the 28-year rule of Prime according to the agreement, signed with on Fire and Building Safety in May to A team of inspectors aim to “identify survey by a prestigious Dhaka-based engi- Minister Hun Sen. The gov- unions after the collapse of the nine-storey improve factory conditions. The coun- grave hazards and the need for urgent neering university last week found nine out ernment said yesterday that Rana Plaza in Dhaka on April 24 killed try is the world’s second biggest apparel repairs” at the factories. Retailers must of 10 Bangladeshi garment plants are risky Sam Rainsy is welcome home 1,129 people. exporter, with clothing accounting for 80 commit for two years to the garment structures, and many were built with- but could face arrest. Rainsy “Initial inspections at every factory will percent of overseas shipments. plants flagged for safety improvements, out qualified engineers. The Bangladesh is barred from running for be completed at the latest within nine “The terms of reference and the rules the statement said. A headquarters to Garment Manufacturers and Exporters office. AGENCIES months, and plans for renovations and of the accord are set in place, we can now oversee implementation of the five-year Association welcomed the accord. 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Police arrest Mindanao clashes toll hits 86 four fugitives MANILA: Police arrested four fugitives in separate Government-Milf panel gives military three days to enforce law and order operations, the Philippine National Police’s Criminal MANILA: As many as 86 per- Gapuz said the information for Bangsamoro independence. deference to the holy month of after the three-day operation. Investigation and Detection sons have been killed in clashes that 80 BIFF members had been Army reports said the BIFF Ramadan. “They (BIFF) are now scat- Group Chief Superintendent in Central Mindanao in the days slain was based on reports from has conducted sporadic attacks “The only clearance given to us tered. Perhaps they are dizzy Francisco Uyami said yes- leading to the resumption of the the ground. on civilian communities and by the joint (government-Milf) because of the encounter so it’s terday. Ray Rios, wanted for peace talks and the celebration “They (soldiers) only saw 18 military detachments since last panel is three days to conduct the quiet now,” he said. murder in Quezon City, was of the holy month of Ramadan, (bodies). We cannot just retrieve month. law enforcement operations, so we Hermoso said operations were arrested on July 7 in a slum the military said yesterday. them because that is against their Last June 19, the BIFF attacked have to abide by that because we conducted in Barangay Ganta in in Barangay Tatalon, Quezon Major General Romeo customs and tradition,” Gapuz said, civilians in barangay Bagumbayan do not want to derail the peace Shariff Saydona Mustapha town City. The Quezon Regional Gapuz, chief of the 6th Infantry noting that Muslims immediately in President Quirino, Sultan process,” he said. and Barangay Damablas in Datu Trial Court had issued a non- Division, said they have received bury their dead. “On our part we Kudarat, killing a farmer and a Gapuz, nevertheless, said they Piang, both in Maguindanao. bailable arrest warrant. In reports that 80 members of the have six killed, one officer and five militia man. are prepared to thwart any attack “These are their (BIFF) Purok Licao-licao, Bulacan, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom enlisted personnel and we have two On that same day, the BIFF to be staged by the BIFF forces. strongholds. They no longer have police nabbed Paquito Fighters (BIFF) had been killed wounded in action,” he added. troops led by a certain Uztads “When it (BIFF atrocities) a base because we captured Camp Salindayao. He has a standing in law enforcement operations Security forces conducted Zukarno Sapal also harassed a is happening in plain view, it is Omar in 2012 so they converge in non-bailable warrant issued conducted last week. law enforcement operations in patrol base of the 33rd Infantry not proper for the AFP (Armed the two barangays,” he said. by the Malolos Regional Government forces, meanwhile, response to recent attacks of the Battalion in the same community Forces of the Philippines) and Hermoso said they would con- Trial Court for murder. In suffered six fatalities, includ- BIFF, which broke away from the The BIFF also launched a series PNP (Philippine National Police) tinue to remain vigilant to pre- Zambales, a warrant was ing an army lieutenant Shariff Milf due to differences. of attacks during the commemo- not to react,” he said. empt atrocities and to ensure the issued by an Olongapo City Saidona Mustapha who died in a BIFF has vowed to sabotage the ration of Ramadan last year. Colonel Dickson Hermoso, peaceful commemoration of the court against Venerando Paje landmine attack last Saturday in peace process between the gov- Gapuz said they have called off spokesman of the Army’s 6th divi- Ramadan. for attempted rape, who was Maguindanao. ernment and the Milf and to fight their operations late Saturday in sion, said the area became quiet THE PHILIPPINE STAR nabbed at Barangay Consuelo Norte, San Marcelino Zambales on July 5. On July Barricades protest 4, Roberto Pabon was held in Lapaz, Iloilo City, for attempted murder. Sulu files complaint Assistance for fire victims against Malaysia MANILA: Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay MANILA: The Sultanate of Sulu has filed a complaint with the ordered yesterday the release United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR), of financial and material accusing Malaysia of violating a 1963 agreement over the arrest of assistance to some 121 fami- several people involved in the attempted takeover of Sabah earlier lies in Barangay Tejeros this year. which was hit by fire on Sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani maintained the people Sunday night. Makati Fire arrested by Malaysian authorities were never involved in the attempt. Marshal Ricardo Perdigon Idjirani said the complaint against Malaysia was filed at the UN said the fire started at about office in Makati City last week. 9:41pm and reached the The complaint detailed several human rights violations committed by third alarm at 9.55pm. Arson Malaysians against Sultan Jumamul Kiram III and other personalities investigators are still prob- suspected to have provided support to the failed invasion. ing the cause of the fire that Idjirani pointed out Malaysia is a party to the accord signed in razed some 40 houses. The Manila in 1963. blaze was put out at 10:37pm. He said the Manila Accord was signed on 31 July 1963 by the Makati Social Welfare and Federation of Malaysia, Republic of Indonesia and Republic of the Development chief Ryan Philippines. Barcelo said the victims are The countries agreed to abide by the wishes of the people of North presently sheltered at the Borneo (now Sabah and Labuna) and Sarawak, within the context of open court in Batute St, the UN General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), Principle 9 of the Barangay Tejeros. He said Annex, taking into account referendums in North Borneo and Sarawak the victims are undergoing that would be free and without coercion. standard registration and The accord also called for the peaceful resolution of the Philippine validation process to deter- claim to North Borneo or Sabah. mine the legitimate recipi- “The arrest of Datu Amirbahar Kiram, who was not involved in the ents of financial assistance. standoff, is a clear violation of the treaty,” Idjirani said. “Datu Amirbahar, a nephew of Sultan Kiram, was never involved Student hurt in in the fighting. In fact, he was mediating for the peaceful resolution of the standoff,” he said. THE PHILIPPINE STAR A policeman walks in front of a barricade set up by a resident in Muntinlupa City yesterday. Hundreds of residents set up barricades to block a public service road in protest against a government drive to demolish homes to rebel attack make way for a commercial district. MANILA: A student was wounded when suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas fired at a police car escorting a fun run activity Eco-friendly gold mining technology developed in Gubat, Sorsogon yester- day, in an apparent move to MANILA: A mercury-free Small-Scale Miners Associations, miners are practicing mercury- mercury-free mining was already today for Indonesia to teach their avenge the killing of eight gold mining process being prac- Inc, said their system has been free mining by adding a sluice being practiced by some miners Indonesian counterparts the rebels in an encounter with ticed by small-scale miners in proven to be “more profitable” box in a stage after the rocks are who did not want to use the toxic environment-friendly gold min- government security forces Benguet for several years is get- so it has been widely used by crushed right before they go into chemical. ing process. last week, the military said. ting the attention of their for- many small-scale miners in the a chute during the process. The system was refined and Na-oy is also set to go to Bolivia Reports reaching Camp eign counterparts. mineral-rich Northern Luzon The system also requires a improved with the help of Danish in September as he has been Aguinaldo said the 17-year- The process does not require province. controlled flow of water during scientist Peter WU Appel. invited by mining groups there old female student was hit in rocket science and does not “We have seen that it results the crushing and washing proc- Appel and Na-oy came up with that are interested in the mer- both feet after rebels harassed involve the use of a substitute to in better gold recovery,” Na-oy ess to find the gold ore among the a paper “How to Mitigate Mercury cury-free gold mining process. policemen securing an activ- mercury or expensive equipment, said in a phone interview. “We crushed rocks or sand. Pollution in Tanzania” after they His next trips are to Peru ity of the Bicol University in but merely the tweaking of the recover better gold grades from Na-oy said that in the olden introduced the mercury-free min- and Ghana also upon miners’ Barangay Buenavista. ore grinding process during which the process.” days, gold miners in Benguet ing system to Tanzanian small- invitation. rocks are crushed to get to the Na-oy explained that their sys- did not use mercury in the rock scale miners in 2010. Na-oy is a History graduate of Rape suspect in gold within. tem only introduces innovations crushing stage. Mercury was Their paper was recently the University of Baguio in 1987. Leoncio Na-oy, a member of in the early stage of the mining introduced into the process published in the Journal of He ventured into small-scale gold police net the Emerald Small-Scale Miners process when rocks are crushed only in the 1970s by large-scale Environment Protection. mining when he failed to get a job Multi-purpose Cooperative to search for gold ore. miners. Na-oy and fellow small-scale after graduation. KIDAPAWAN CITY: under the Benguet Federation of He said Benguet small-scale In the late 1980s, he said, gold miner Rudy Onos are leaving THE PHILIPPINE STAR Policemen, disguised as peas- ants, arrested early Sunday a rape suspect who escaped Facelift from the detention facility of the city police last March. Superintendent Leo Ajero, city police director, said the Tourist arrivals rise 48-year-old Armando Minoza did not resist arrest when policemen barged into his friend’s house in Barangay despite travel alerts Paco, where he has been hid- ing since his escape from MANILA: Travel advisories issued by foreign governments against prison last March. Minoza the Philippines have hardly affected the number of foreign tourist was litigated for rape by the arrivals in the country, a Palace official said over the weekend. Regional Trial Court here. “Well, it’s not the first time that a travel warning was issued by the US and other countries. But given the numbers in tourism that we More Filipinos have seen, I think foreign tourist arrivals have in fact increased a bit,” deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said. She said the Aquino administration respects the “right of any coun- dying of Aids try to issue precautionary measures for the safety of their citizens MANILA: More and more while visiting the Philippines.” Filipinos are dying of Aids, “In the same way that the Philippine government or our post in the Department of Health other countries has also issued similar warnings whenever we feel that said yesterday. Data from our citizens should take extra precautions in light of events happen- the National Epidemiology ing in other countries,” she added. Valte cited the alert level that the Centre show at least one Department of Foreign Affairs issued for Filipinos in Egypt last week. Filipino dies every month. “The travel advisory was not aimed at the entire country. If you The department said 177 look at it, and if you look at the travel advisory issued by any country people died last year com- in particular, you would see that there are specific areas that were pared to 69 in 2011. In the mentioned,” she said. first five months of 2012, 65 Last Friday, the US embassy advised Americans in the Philippines died. Experts said the highest to take “extreme caution” when traveling to Sulu due to kidnapping number of deaths occurred threats as well as insurgency-related violence. Australia and Canada among the 25-29 age group, earlier warned their citizens against traveling to the cities of Cotabato, followed by 30-34 and 35-39 A worker cleans up a statue of Guan Gong, a Chinese general from the Eastern Han Dynasty, at the Museum of Zamboanga and Davao following reported threats of kidnapping and groups. AGENCIES Manila yesterday. The museum will feature exhibits from China, Egypt and Greece. terrorism in Mindanao. THE PHILIPPINE STAR TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Afghan spies Burned Nato containers nab translator over torture Kandahari worked for US forces KABUL: Afghanistan’s intel- special forces to leave Wardak, ligence agency is holding an a hotbed of Taliban insurgent Afghan-American translator on activity. suspicion of torturing and kill- The Afghan government had ing civilians while working for accused Afghans working with US US special forces, officials said troops of torture and murder, and yesterday. said it would tackle the alleged Zakrya Kandahari, who abuse which had triggered wide- worked with the elite US troops spread outrage. in Wardak province bordering A compromise deal was Kabul, was detained in May by the arranged in which US special National Directorate of Security forces left Nerkh district but not (NDS) following an order from the rest of Wardak. President Hamid Karzai. “Kandahari was in Wardak in “Zakrya Kandahari... a transla- 2012, he is accused of torturing tor for American special forces in and even murdering people while A security official stands guard near burned trucks carrying logistic supply for Nato forces in Afghanistan, after they were attacked by militants, in Nerkh district of Wardak, accused working as translator with US Quetta, Balichistan province, Pakistan, yesterday. Three trucks were attacked, but there were no casualties. of multiple felonies, was arrested special forces,” Wardak provincial in a special operation,” the spy spokesman Attaullah Khogyani agency said in its first report on said. the case. “We have established a com- Three guns, a laptop and sev- mission so that the people who Govt ally escapes unhurt as blast kills six eral fake documents were found have suffered from his actions can in his possession during the raid appeal. We are collecting evidence PESHAWAR: A bomb target- other Al Qaeda-linked militants Troops have for years been Meanwhile, two policemen were in the southern city of Kandahar, against him.” ing a tribal elder allied to the have strongholds. locked in deadly battles with killed while defusing a bomb in the NDS added in a statement. The New York Times reported Pakistan government killed “A remote-controlled device domestic insurgents in parts of the district of Swabi, 50km north- Jawid Faisal, a spokesman for yesterday that Afghan investi- six people and wounded 11 in a planted in a vehicle owned by the northwest. west of Islamabad, police said. the governor of Kandahar, told gators believe Kandahari had northwestern town yesterday, Malik Habibullah, a local pro- The US has in the past accused “They had defused four bombs AFP that Kandahari was arrested duties beyond his official role as police said. government elder, went off, killing Pakistan of not doing enough to planted near a government boys’ 45 days ago while hiding in a an interpreter, and had decided The attack took place in the six people and injuring 11,” local crack down on the militants, school but a fifth bomb exploded friend’s house in the city and had who should be detained for town of Doaba, 190km west of police chief Sajjad Khan said. who also plot attacks on Western while being defused, killing been sent to Kabul. questioning. the capital Islamabad and near He said Habibullah was not in targets and in neighbouring them,” local police chief Mian Karzai in February ordered US AFP the tribal belt where Taliban and the car when the bomb exploded. Afghanistan. Muhammad Saeed said. AFP MQM without Altaf ruled out Bomb analysis lab in Kabul hunts for killer clues KARACH: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) member KABUL: In a discreet laboratory in basis, often planted in dirt road tracks. challenge, with the insurgents constantly Karzai to try to thwart bomb production. and former legislator Haider Kabul, a French military officer scans The Multi-National Theatre Exploitation re-inventing their fatal designs. “But on the border with Pakistan (where Abbas Rizvi said yesterday a long list of telephone numbers scroll- Laboratory is located inside the Kabul “They adapt, they are clever, they man- the Taliban have bases) the controls are that people thinking of the ing down a computer screen. “This is the airport military complex, a large highly- age to combine techniques. And on the very difficult to enforce.” MQM without the leader, call that triggered the explosion,” he says, secure area that is a major base for Nato’s Internet, you will find many of the plans,” IEDs come in all shapes and sizes, using Altaf Hussain, were living pointing to one. International Security Assistance Force said the adjutant. One recent graphic plastic water jugs, steel cookers and pipes, in a fool’s paradise. He told a The French-run facility is the nerve- (ISAF). example shows the rebels’ ability to come and are placed on roads, footpaths and in workers’ meeting that leaders, centre of Nato efforts to analyse and trace Clean, calm and quiet, the laboratory is a up with deadly new ideas. trees. Bigger attacks are designed to rip activists and supporters of the how thousands of homemade bombs made far cry from the frontlines where the IEDs “In late February, an American soldier apart even US armoured trucks, while party had full faith in Hussain’s by insurgents are evolving and becoming are picked up. The devices are investigated saw an American radio placed on the road,” “daisy-chain” links are often used to attack leadership. Rizvi said they had more sophisticated. in small rooms containing computers, mon- said Lieutenant Colonel Charles, head of convoys so that one explosion triggers a neither accepted the minus- The team of 15 forensic specialists puzzle itors, spectrum analysers and oscilloscopes the centre. “The soldier recovered the series of follow-up blasts. Altaf formula in the past nor over how the devices are designed and how measuring voltage. radio, put it in his vehicle and a few sec- The laboratory in Kabul tries to gather would they accept it now and to prevent them from being detonated — It is here that electronic experts onds later it exploded, leaving many dead.” information on the identity of the bomb- that the MQM had adopted clues that could also lead back to the rebel Adjutant Olivier, who gave only his first With materials for making IEDs freely makers by carefully gathering fingerprints a constitutional course to bomb-makers themselves. name in line with French military policy, available, their use is hard to counter. and DNA traces. improve the situation. The IED (improvised explosive device) says he makes hard drives, USB memory The devices were responsible for 60 per- The analysts can even lift prints off tape came to widespread public attention dur- sticks, data cards and mobile phones “talk cent of ISAF fatalities in 2009, though the wrapped around a pressure plate by the Move to seek ing the Iraq war and has also become the to him”. figure fell to 42 percent last year. insurgents. The tape is placed in a sealed signature guerrilla tactic in Afghanistan, “You can retrieve calendar items, incom- “You only need two components — tank in which glue is heated up until it drone expertise where the Taliban and other insurgent ing and outgoing calls, contact lists, text an oxidiser and a fuel, such as gasoline becomes a vapour. groups have fought US-led forces since messages, multi-media content and even or motor oil. It is very easy to do,” said This reacts with residue from finger- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan 2001. erased images, videos and files,” he said Captain Julian, a military chemist working prints to make them visible, and they can will formally request the US The device typically uses old battlefield enthusiastically. in the laboratory. then be sent to a US forensic centre for to transfer drone technol- ordnance, explosives from mining or agri- He also tracks the frequencies used to “This is ammonium nitrate gel,” said checking. With most of the Nato force ogy as part of efforts to end cultural fertiliser, and is detonated by an detonate IEDs remotely — a life-or-death the captain, pointing to a bottle contain- about to depart Afghanistan next year, the stalemate over the CIA- electronic signal such a telephone call, a calculation as it allows signal jammers to ing a white jelly recovered after an attack the future of IED analysis is uncertain, but led campaign in Pakistan’s manual trigger line or a pressure plate. be set correctly and prevent bombs being in Kabul. “It is normally used in quarries Charles said that the laboratory had proved tribal areas. A senior offi- Cheap, relatively-easy to make and triggered near ISAF vehicles. instead of dynamite. Everyone knows where its worth many times over. cial engaged with the US adaptable, it is the militants’ weapon of Although the lab specialists employ the it comes from, exactly which company in “It has enabled the arrest of... several on the subject, said that choice, killing US and Afghan soldiers, gov- latest hi-tech equipment to fight against Pakistan,” he said about the substance, hundred insurgents,” he said. “And kept us preliminary discussions to ernment officials, and civilians on a daily the IED threat, they face a difficult which was banned by President Hamid up-to-date with new threats.” AGENCIES find alternatives to drone use had started. He said that the premier’s National Ramadan preparation Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the proposal Kayani to brief all-parties on the sidelines of the Asean Regional Forum in Brunei. Singer comes forum on national security third in contest PAKISTAN: Pakistan’s Minister for war on terror and national security policy Information and Broadcasting, Pervaiz are on the agenda of the forum. Rashid said PESHAWAR: A singer, Rashid, said yesterday that preparations political will was needed to curb terrorism songwriter and guitarist for an all-parties conference on July 12 and militancy and added that the govern- from Peshawar has won the had been completed. ment would hold talks with the Taliban third position in the recent He said the Chief of Army Staff General within the limits of the constitution. He US-based International Ashfaq Pervez Kayani will brief the forum blamed the previous government for not Songwriting Competition for on national security. He said the PML-N taking steps to root out terrorism. 2012 which attracted more government was committed to overcoming He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dis- than 20,000 participants from terrorism and would send invitations to all cussed with politicians and heads of intel- 119 countries. Jehangir Aziz parties for the conference. ligence and law enforcement agencies ways Hayat won the third place PTI Chairman Imran Khan has cancelled to prepare an anti-terrorism policy. On in the competitive adult con- his trip to Europe to attend the forum. He the cases against former president Pervez temporary category for his will go to Europe to meet his children and Musharraf, he said the matter was sub song What Makes Me Happy. have a check-up on July 13 upon a request by judice and would be tackled according to the government. Drone attacks, Baluchistan, the constitution. INTERNEWS 12 killed in A labourer pulls a cart loaded with mango crates at a fruit market ahead of the holy month of Ramadan in Islamabad yesterday. road mishap ISLAMABAD: At least 12 people, including four chil- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM vows to continue as PTI secretary general dren, were killed and 27 injured when a passenger bus ISLAMABAD: Vowing to continue as “Only three members raised the matter after the party affairs. He said the office- matter about my dual office for point-scoring,” overturned on Indus Highway the secretary general of Pakistan Tehrik- at the meeting. And the majority of the bearers of the party had also announced he said, adding that he would follow instruc- in southern Pakistan yester- i-Insaf (PTI), the Chief Minister of members of the central executive commit- support to him over the issue, adding that tions of the party chairman Imran Khan. The day. Police said that the inci- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, tee and workers reposed confidence in me,” two-third majority of the members had chief minister insisted there was no bar on the dent took place near Bhan said some vested interests were raising he told reporters here. voted in his favour through a unanimous dual office in the PTI constitution. Saeedabad. The bus was going the dual office issue just for point-scor- Khattak said the party chairman Imran resolution during the meeting of the cen- He said process of negotiations had been to Karachi from Shahdadkot. ing as there were no differences in the Khan asked him to retain the office of the tral executive committee of the party. started with coalition parties about the local AGENCIES party on the matter. secretary general and continue to look “Some of the members had raised the elections in province. INTERNEWS TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 All eyes on In troubled waters Khurshid’s trip to Nepal Visit curtailed to a day from two

KATHMANDU: As India’s chairman of the Interim Elections External Affairs Minister Council Khil Raj Regmi, and lead- Salman Khurshid begins his ers of major political parties. first visit to Nepal today, politi- “It is a goodwill visit pledg- cal leaders and diplomats in ing support for the democratic Kathmandu expect that the trip aspirations of the Nepali people,” will help the country overcome a senior diplomat at the Indian the long political stalemate it is embassy in Kathmandu told facing. IANS. The visit, announced earlier as Nepal will hold elections to a two-day one, has been trimmed the Constituent Assembly on to a day. Khurshid was to arrive November 19. today morning in Kathmandu and Ram Karki, the foreign depart- will return to New Delhi in the ment chief of Nepal’s UCPN evening. (Maoist) party, however, has a dif- The current peace process, ferent perspective on Khurshid’s elections to the Constituent visit. Assembly and drafting a consti- “We must welcome the guest, tution were the results of a New but at a time when we are in a Delhi-backed 12-point agreement deep political stalemate, it would in 2005, an instrument that sub- be good if the close neighbours sequently released Nepal from a keep away from our internal century-old monarchy and later affairs,” Karki said. declared the Himalayan nation He was also referring to the An Indian Ministry of Defence photograph shows MV Mol Comfort in flames as a Coast Guard ship Samudra Prahari (unseen) tries to douse the flames. as a secular, federal and republic recent visit of Chinese State The ship with 26 crew members was heading to Singapore from Jeddah last month when it split into two some 200 miles from the Yemeni coast. country. Councillor Yang Jiechi, who The crew including 12 Russians and 14 Filipinos were rescued. Since the signing of the agree- pledged 10 million yuan as elec- ment in New Delhi in 2005, India toral assistance to Nepal. has constantly said it wants to Karki claimed that of late, see a political stabile, economi- Nepal’s two giant neighbours, cally progressive and a prosperous India and China, have upped Nepal. their “tentacles” in Nepal and are “Nepal-India relations are gradually increasing their engage- Court notice to CBI, accused in ’84 riots case unique,” Nepal’s former foreign ments at multiple levels. minister Upendra Yadav told “They (India and China) both NEW DELHI: The Delhi High for rioting. On another plea of murder and rioting and awarded families that despite they being IANS. fear that Nepal should not turn Court yesterday issued notice the victims’ families, the bench life term, Yadav and Kishan eyewitness to the role of the “At a time when Nepal is into another Balkan state or to the CBI and two accused issued notice to the CBI seek- Khokkar were convicted only for respondents during the riots, the struggling to come out from the Afghanistan. If instability remains who were acquitted of mur- ing enhancement of the life sen- rioting and awarded three years’ trial court acted in a casual man- protracted political transition, long-drawn-out, it will have direct der charges in a 1984 anti-Sikh tence to death penalty awarded to jail term. ner while pronouncing its verdict. Khurshid’s visit would help us ramification on India and China.” riots case. other convicts Balwan Khokkar, Senior advocate H S Phoolka, “The trial court gives finding as overcome remaining difficulties of Khurshid will also meet his A bench of Justice G S Sistani Girdhari Lal and Captain appearing for the victims’ fami- to the credibility of these eyewit- the peace and constitution draft- Nepali counterpart Madhav and Justice G P Mittal sought the Bhagmal, for murder. lies, sought compensation and nesses that they are natural and ing processes,” Yadav said. Ghimire, and discuss the entire response of the probe agency by The court also called for the said the April 30 verdict of the truthful, but in a cursory man- Yadav was deputy prime min- gamut of bilateral relations, eco- August 27 on the appeal filed by trial court record in the case on trial court was erroneous. ner has acquitted the respond- ister and minister for foreign nomic assistance to Nepal and Jagdish Kaur and Nirpreet Kaur, the next date of hearing. “The trial court has not given ents for such a heinous crime,” affairs during 2008-09 when Indian solidarity for Nepal’s deci- both relatives of riot victims. On April 30, the trial court any substantial, compelling, good said the plea. The case relates to Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal sion to hold polls. “We do not limit The two women challenged the acquitted Sajjan Kumar, a and sufficient reason and ground the anti-Sikh riots that broke out Dahal “Prachanda” was prime this visit as a customary one, at trial court’s order that acquitted Congress leader and former Lok to acquit the respondents under after the assassination of the then minister. a time when Nepal is undergo- former Delhi legislator Mahender Sabha member from Outer Delhi, the charges of murder framed prime minister Indira Gandhi on During his trip to Kathmandu, ing huge political transition,” Yadav and Kishan Khokkar of but convicted the five others. against them,” said the plea filed October 31, 1984. Gandhi was shot Khurshid will be meeting said former Nepali ambassador murder charges, while sentenc- Balwan Khokkar, Lal and by the victims’s kin. dead by two of her bodyguards at President Ram Baran Yadav, Shambu Ram Simkhada. IANS ing them to three years in jail Bhagmal were convicted for It was also claimed by the her home here. IANS

Kashmir protest Surging rivers Haj quota of tour firms flood 80 cut after Saudi move more villages NEW DELHI: With Saudi for the pilgrims, said a statement Arabia slashing by 20 percent here yesterday. in Assam the Haj quota for all foreign pil- India conveyed its concern grims this year, the Indian gov- to the Saudi authorities on the GUWAHATI: Flooded riv- ernment yesterday decided to 20 percent cut in quota — from ers have submerged 80 more reduce the Haj seats of private 170,025 seats to 136,020 seats and villages in Assam, taking the tour operators. sought a reconsideration of the number of such habitations to As per the India-Saudi Arabia decision. 300, and damaged roads and bilateral agreement on Haj 2013, But on June 21, the Saudi gov- embankment in the state, offi- inked on March 16 in Jeddah, the ernment conveyed its inability to cials said yesterday. quota for India was fixed at 170,025 accept the Indian request. The 80 villages are located in seats — comprising 125,025 seats In the meantime, the HCOI pil- Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Chirang for the Haj Committee of India grims had already been selected districts. As many as 11 districts (HCOI), Mumbai, and 45,000 for and partial payments received are facing flood fury, the Assam pilgrims going through private from them and work on their State Disaster Management tour operators (PTOs). accommodation and air transport Authority (ASDMA) told IANS. But in June, the Saudi authori- was in an advanced stage. Officials said over 40,000 peo- ties announced a 50 percent cut Most of the HCOI pilgrims, ple have been affected. There has in the Haj quota on local Saudi who number 123,511, are first tim- been no loss of life. applicants and 20 percent on for- ers. From this year, Haj through According to ASDMA, parts eign Haj pilgrims. HCOI is to be restricted to “only of Dhemaji, Golaghat, Jorhat, This was done to facilitate the once in a lifetime” rather than Kamrup, Chirang, Karimganj, infrastructure work being carried the earlier “once in 5 years”, the Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Kashmiri government employees try to escape a purple jet from a water cannon during a protest in Srinagar out around the Haram Sharif and statement said. Sivasagar and Tinsukia districts yesterday. Police detained dozens marching towards the Civil Secretariat. Employees have been demanding to keep the area safe and secure IANS have been hit by the surging regularisation of contractual jobs and an increase in salary. waters of Brahmaputra and its tributaries. The floods have damaged crops in 4,222 hectares, the offi- cials said, adding that Morigaon Kerala chief minister in hot water over solar panel scam and Dhemaji districts were the worst hit. Authorities have opened over KOCHI: In a jolt for Kerala to the office of Chandy.... after After the interview was tel- Following the businessman’s being cheated at a court in 900 relief camps, mostly in Chief Minister Oommen some time (Chandy’s then aide) ecast, Chandy was closeted at statement, Communist Party of Pathanamthitta and last Dhemaji district. Chandy in the solar panel scam, Tenny Jopan led me in. Chandy his official residence with senior India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo Saturday, gave a statement to the While flood waters entered a businessman, who was alleg- was introduced to me by Saritha party leaders. member and former home min- magistrate. the Kaziranga National Park edly cheated of Rs4m, yester- S Nair. Earlier yesterday, Chandy had ister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said “I have given the exact state- a few days ago, parts of Dibru day claimed he visited Chandy’s “He (Chandy) said it was good told the assembly that he met that Chandy has no more right ment to the magistrate about Choikhowa National Park in office with accused Saritha S that you people have come for Sreedharan Nair twice and dis- to continue. what I told in this interview,” he Tinsukia district have also been Nair, who introduced him as an projects like this and I can go cussed issues facing the quarry “He has to resign and then only said. swamped, forest officials said. investor. ahead strongly. Soon he left the industry but did not say that they the investigation in the case can Meanwhile, Congress legis- The Central Water Commission Sreedharan Nair told Reporter office and I also along with Nair had discussed the solar panel go ahead. He should be interro- lator T N Prathapan said that said the Brahmaputra was flow- TV that Saritha Nair had asked accompanied him in the lift and project or if Saritha Nair was gated by police and hence he has Sreedharan Nair has retracted ing above the danger level at him to come to Chandy’s office then we went our way,” he said. present at their meetings. to step down,” said Balakrishnan, his claims many times since this Nematighat in Jorhat district July 9 last year. Nair added that he paid Rs4m He had also blamed the Left, who yesterday sought leave of the controversy broke out. while the Jia Bharali river was “I was asked to reach Chandy’s in three installments to Saritha saying its own government had house for an adjournment motion “This is part of a conspiracy flowing above the danger mark office and I went along with a Nair to erect a solar panel factory not properly probed the case it on the scam. being hatched to tarnish the in Sonitpur district. friend of mine. She (Saritha) was at Palakkad after being convinced had filed against Saritha Nair’s Sreedharan Nair has already image of the chief minister,” he IANS waiting outside and I was taken that the project was viable. firm in 2010. filed a private complaint against alleged. IANS TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Man held over Bodh 13 killed in hotel collapse HYDERABAD: Thirteen peo- on the busy Rashtrapati Road, by the municipal authorities led ple were killed and 19 injured it was famous for its Iranian tea, to the mishap. yesterday when a hotel known snacks, biryani and other tasty Krishna Babu said it was not for Iranian tea and snacks col- dishes. Officials said if the build- a dilapidated structure and was Gaya temple blasts lapsed in Secunderabad, the ing had collapsed a couple of also not among 57 buildings in twin city of Hyderabad, police hours later, the death toll could Secunderabad which were issued said. have been much higher. There demolition notices. CCTV footage shows two men planting explosives The two-storey City Light were few customers at the time “The buildings looked stable. Hotel on Rashtrapati Road came of the crash. Even the road was The construction of a ‘bhatti’ for PATNA: Police arrested a crashing around 6.30am. almost deserted. haleem (beef stew) on top of the man yesterday over weekend Police, fire fighters and res- The Andhra Pradesh govern- building may have weakened the bomb attacks targeting one of cuers evacuated 25 people from ment announced a probe into the structure but the exact reason Buddhism’s holiest sites and the rubble and shifted 19 of them incident. The police booked the will be known only after a probe,” were studying CCTV footage to the government-run Gandhi hotel owner for causing death by he said. that appeared to show two men Hospital. The condition of some negligence. The hotel owner was report- planting explosives. of the injured was said to be The authorities declared an ex- edly building the ‘bhatti’ or kiln The government condemned critical. gratia of Rs750,000 each to the for cooking haleem, a popular the “terror attack” after multi- The dead included daily wage kin of those killed. dish during the holy month of ple small bombs exploded at the workers sipping tea. Four employ- Greater Hyderabad Municipal Ramadan. historic Bodh Gaya Buddhist tem- ees of the hotel as well as the Corporation (GHMC) com- After visiting the site, Chief ple complex on Sunday morning, owner’s son were among the dead. missioner T Krishna Babu told Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy wounding two monks at the pil- Owner Hussain Bolloki was bat- reporters that though only the held a meeting with top officials grimage destination in eastern tling for life while his son Mustafa families of workers were entitled and directed them to take steps Bihar state. Bolloki died in the disaster. for the compensation under the to identify and demolish all dilapi- “The police are doing every- They belong to a family of labour law, the government had dated buildings in the city. thing to identify the two persons Iranian descent. The tragedy decided to extend this ex-gratia The municipal commissioner on the basis of the CCTV foot- sent shock waves among owners to kin of all victims. said the GHMC would launch a age,” local police official Chandan of Iranian hotels in Hyderabad Teams of GHMC, fire fighters, special drive from today to inspect Kushwaha told AFP. Buddhist monks from Thailand offer prayers while armed security personnel and Secunderabad. Central Industrial Security Force 50-year-old commercial buildings Security camera foot- stand guard in the background at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh The nearly six-decade-old City (CISF) and Hyderabad Metro and would identify dilapidated age released of the complex, a Gaya yesterday. Light Hotel was a popular land- Rail cleared the debris. structures for demolition. UNESCO World Heritage site, mark in Secunderabad. Located Locals alleged that negligence IANS also showed pilgrims running south of the state capital Patna, temples, a celebrated 80-feet- from the scene after one of the Bharadwaj said. tall statue of the Buddha, and blasts. Delhi police said they had ear- dozens of monasteries housing Indian Home Minister lier warned officials that Islamist monks from around the world. Sushilkumar Shinde said 10 militants could target the temple It also contains the holy Bodhi bombs exploded at the site, complex as revenge for unrest tree, where Buddhists believe the increasing the previous number involving Buddhists and Muslims Buddha reached enlightenment in from nine, with three more in neighbouring Myanmar. 531 BC. After meditation beneath devices discovered and defused. Attacks on Buddhists are rare the tree, the Buddha is said to “Today, I have the information in India, but there have been ten- have devoted the rest of his life of 10 blasts. A total of 13 bombs sions in the region recently fol- to teaching. were placed there... (but) I will lowing the clashes in Myanmar, The complex houses multiple not go into details where they as well as frictions in Sri Lanka shrines marking the places where were kept,” Shinde told reporters. and Bangladesh. Buddha is said to have spent No one has claimed responsi- Sri Lanka stepped up security time after his enlightenment. He bility for the attack, but police yesterday for its holiest Buddhist founded an order of monks before arrested a local man who was being temple, containing the sacred Sri dying at 80. questioned in connection with the Maha Bodhi tree, following the The complex, 110 kilometres blasts. “A man identified as Vinod blasts, police said. south of Patna, is one of the ear- Mistri was taken into custody in “We have asked all units to be liest Buddhist temples still stand- connection with the serial bomb extra vigilant,” a police official ing in India. The Dalai Lama, the blasts in Bodh Gaya,” state police told AFP on condition of ano- Tibetan spiritual leader, makes official S K Bharadwaj told AFP. nymity. “We had a discussion with frequent trips to the complex, Police picked up Mistri in the the chief monks and decided on a which attracts visitors during the Barachatti area, a stronghold of string of new measures.” peak tourist season from October Police and rescue workers search for survivors trapped under the debris of the collapsed building in Hyderabad Maoist insurgents 130 kilometres The Indian complex contains to March. AFP yesterday.

Coal scam probe status report filed NEW DELHI: The CBI yester- The apex court is moni- Ashwani Kumar vetting the CBI’s day filed in the Supreme Court toring the Central Bureau of status report on its investigations a status report on its ongoing Investigation (CBI) probe into in the scam that was to be filed in investigation into the alleged the coal blocks allocation scam. the apex court. irregularities committed in the The Comptroller and Auditor An angry court had asked allocation of coal blocks between General of India while adversely “whether the central govern- 2006-09. commenting on the procedure ment intends to bring some law The report was filed in a sealed followed in the allocation of coal to ensure the independence of the cover. blocks had estimated that it CBI and its functional autonomy The report would be taken up caused public exchequer a loss of and insulate it from extraneous for consideration tomorrow by billions. influences and interferences and the apex court bench of Justice During the period under inves- making it a non-partisan investi- R M Lodha, Justice Madan B tigation, the government received gating agency”. Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph 2,100 applications out of which While describing the CBI’s which is hearing two petitions 160 applicants were allocated 368 functioning as one of a “caged seeking cancellation of coal blocks coal blocks. In earlier hearings, parrot that speaks in different allocated in an irregular manner the court inquired under what voices of different masters”, the and probe by the special investi- circumstances 950 applications court said: “The CBI must know gation team (SIT). were not found eligible. how to stand up against all pulls The petitions were filed by During the last hearing May and pressures by government and NGO Common Cause and advo- 8, the court had taken exception its officials.” cate petitioner M L Sharma. to the then union law minister IANS

Digvijaya submits Telangana Officials in Kabul to hold talks on report to Sonia Gandhi military supplies HYDERABAD: Congress said he conveyed to Digvijaya General Secretary Digvijaya Singh the need to keep the NEW DELHI: A team of Singh has submitted his report state united. He told reporters Indian officials is in Kabul to on Telangana issue to party in Guntur that if a decision is hold talks on enhanced military president Sonia Gandhi. taken to divide the state, he would cooperation between India and He told reporters in the decide whether to remain in the Afghanistan, which was sought national capital that while he has party or quit. by Afghan President Hamid given his report, a final decision State Finance Minister Anam Karzai during his visit here in would be taken after the chief Ramnarayana Reddy said they May. minister, deputy chief minister had urged the central government A team of civil and military and the state party chief submit to keep the state united. officials is in Afghanistan for their roadmaps to the leadership. Another minister S Sailajanath talks on enhanced cooperation Digvijaya Singh, who is incharge said that the December 23, 2009 in equipment supplies, informed of party affairs in the state, said statement of the central gov- sources told IANS. a decision on the contentious ernment on the issue and not External Affairs Minister issue depends on when the three December 9, 2009 statement Salman Khurshid, in an interview leaders make their presentation should be treated as final. The with Straits Times last week, had before the leadership. minister, who is convenor of said India would help Afghanistan He said a meeting of Congress Samaikya Andhra public repre- with non-lethal equipment. “I core committee would be held sentative forum, said December don’t think we are either in the at a time convenient to Prime 9 statement was history. position to or willing to contribute Minister Manmohan Singh and Sailajanath said in Anantapur lethal weapons right now,” he had Gandhi. “The core committee that the central government was said. In May, ahead of Karzai’s will then take an early decision,” only holding consultations over visit, Afghan ambassador Shaida he said but declined to give a the issue and that there was no M Abdali had urged enhanced deadline. During his visit to the proposal to divide the state. defence ties with India, including state last week, the central leader Then union home minister the supply of lethal and non-lethal had heard the view of leaders of P Chidambaram on Decmeber 9, military equipment. India has said all three regions — Telangana, 2009 had announced that a proc- it was ready to discuss and con- Andhra and Rayalaseema. ess for formation of Telangana sider Afghanistan’s request for Meanwhile, Congress MP from state would be initiated. arms supplies provided it is raised Guntur Rayapati Sambasaiva Rao IANS through the proper fora. IANS

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PRAYER TIME Mars Rover News in Numbers SCH ANNUAL REPORT Curiosity begins 2012 CHART: 1 138 Fajr (Dawn) 3:21 delayed road trip Shorook (Sunrise) 4:50 LOS ANGELES: Martian Zuhr (Noon) 11:39 mountain, here Curiosity comes. Asr (Afternoon) 3:03 The Nasa rover has officially kicked off its long-delayed road Maghrib (Sunset) 6:30 trip to Mount Sharp, a trek Isha (Night) 8:00 that involves rolling over rocky landscapes. Since July 4, the six-wheel rover has driven 190 feet to the WEATHER southwest, leaving behind the spot where it spent the past seven months performing science Today Wednesday Weather Thursday Conditions: experiments. Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy From this point on, the team is Hot during in a “drive, drive, drive mentality,” Primary Health Care day with some mission deputy scientist Ashwin Vasavada said yesterday. High: 40° high clouds to High: 40° High: 40° The journey, expected to last Low: 33° Low: 33° Low: 31° relatively humid • ‘Extremely satisfied’ with the ‘quality of services by night and nine months to a year with stops, will take Curiosity through unfa- available’ • Satisfied with the ‘range of medical hazy. miliar terrain. With the help of specialties available’• Three-quarters will re-visit images taken from space, mission DOHA - SUN & SEA managers plotted a path that was PHCC centers in the future •Three-quarters will mostly straight with not a lot of SUN TIDE SEA boulders, steep slopes and other recommend the visited PHCC clinic to others. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND potential obstacles. Still, the drive was expected to 04:53 18:25 18:15 & 04:30 10:30 & 01:00 04-12 / 17 KT be rugged, but Curiosity was built to handle a few bumps, Vasavada THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW said. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Perhaps the trickiest part will come toward the end when MUSCAT 35/30 Partly cloudy 35/30 Partly cloudy Curiosity will have to cross a bank KUWAIT 46/33 Clear 45/33 Clear of sand dunes to reach the base of the mountain. BAHRAIN 43/27 Partly cloudy 44/29 Partly cloudy Curiosity landed in Gale Crater SANAA 30/17 Partly cloudy 30/16 Chance of storm near the Martian equator to great RIYADH 46/31 Partly cloudy 46/30 Partly cloudy fanfare last August with its sights DUBAI 47/32 Partly cloudy 42/33 Partly cloudy set on the three-mile-high Mount BAGHDAD 45/29 Clear 45/29 Clear Sharp rising from the crater floor. About the size of a car, Curiosity is the most high-tech THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW rover sent to the red planet. At HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER $2.5bn, it’s also the most expen- sive Mars mission. ATHENS 31/25 Clear 31/24 Clear Instead of making a beeline WASHINGTON 31/23 Chance of storm 33/25 Chance of storm for the mountain, project leaders decided to make a pit stop east of SYDNEY 16/10 Chance of rain 15/09 Mostly cloudy the landing site so that Curiosity LONDON 26/15 Clear 26/13 Partly cloudy can drill into rocks. PARIS 28/19 Clear 27/16 Clear The detour turned out to be sci- ISTANBUL 27/20 Clear 24/21 Clear entifically worthwhile: Curiosity MANILA 32/25 Chance of storm 33/25 Chance of storm came across an ancient stre- DHAKA 33/26 Chance of storm 33/26 Chance of storm ambed and found rounded rocks DELHI 35/24 T-storms 33/25 T-storms that were shaped by the forces of ISLAMABAD 36/26 T-storms 33/22 T-storms past water. Source : http://www.sch.gov.qa/ AP Pollution cuts north China lifespans Bruce Springsteen WASHINGTON: A decades- incidence of cardiorespiratory In all, the estimates suggest other countries, showing that old Chinese policy of giving free mortality,” said the study, carried that the policy may cost the 500 long-term exposure of an addi- coal for winter heating to resi- out by researchers from China million people living in northern tional 100 micrograms of partic- dents in the north has shaved and Israel. China some 2.5 billion life years, ulate matter per cubic metre is band challenged more than five years off life Researchers looked at the said the study. linked to a lower life expectancy expectancy there, a study said increase in a type of pollution “It’s not that the Chinese gov- at birth of about three years. yesterday. called total suspended particu- ernment set out to cause this,” Chinese government agencies The practice of providing no- lates found in soot and smoke, Greenstone said. have described particulate-matter by request song cost coal to homes and offices which were 55 percent higher “This was the unintended con- levels of more than 400 micro- north of the Huai River began in the north during the period sequence of a policy that must grams per cubic metre between LEIPZIG: Bruce Springsteen icon has been filling stadiums prior to 1980 during China’s era of studied,1981-2001. have appeared quite sensible.” 1981 and 2001. In comparison, jumped off the stage and into and venues around the world for central planning, said lead study The difference equalled about The policy gave free coal for the United States had total sus- a frenzied German crowd nearly 16 months on a 130-stop author Michael Greenstone, pro- 184 micrograms of particulate fuel boilers to heat homes and pended particulates of about 45 of 45,000 fans on Sunday in “Wrecking Ball” tour. fessor of environmental econom- matter per cubic metre. offices to cities north of the Huai micrograms per cubic metre in Leipzig to pluck a sign with a It’s been a tour full of audience ics at the Massachusetts Institute The researchers then analyzed River, which divides China into the 1990s, the authors said. hand-written request scrawled requests that has tested the musi- of Technology. mortality statistics from 1991 north and south. It was in effect “The analysis suggests that on it — as he has been doing cal skills of Springsteen and his The result has been much to 2000, both north and south for much of the 1950-1980 period the Huai River policy, which had all summer on his popular tour E Street band but at the same heavier pollution in the north, up of the river, and found evidence of central planning, and, though the laudable goal of providing across Europe. time given audiences something to 55 percent more than in the of shorter life expectancy in the discontinued after 1980, it has left indoor heat, had disastrous con- But when Springsteen whirled new every night to cheer about at south, and life expectancies that free-coal areas. a legacy in the north of heavy coal sequences for health, presumably around and held up the name of shows from Spain to Sweden and are 5.5 years lower, said the study “We can now say with more con- burning, which releases particu- due to the failure to require the the song for his band to see, jaws Scotland to Switzerland. in the Proceedings of the National fidence that long-run exposure to late pollutants into the air that installation of sufficient pollution dropped and a frightened look Even many hardcore fans who Academy of Sciences. pollution, especially particulates, can harm human health. abatement equipment,” the study crossed their faces. The sign read trek around Europe to see his con- The earlier deaths are “almost has dramatic consequences for life The researchers said their concluded. “You never can tell” by Chuck certs have been impressed by his entirely due to an increased expectancy,” said Greenstone. analysis can also be extended to AGENCIES Berry, a 1964 tune made popular ever-changing gigs. The set list is in the 1994 film “Pulp Fiction.” never the same as he draws titles “Every night we try to pull one from his 17 studio albums in five out that we haven’t played since decades and other artists. Cold comfort we were, I dunno, 16,” Springsteen Many are Springsteen hits but said, savouring the challenge of many are from other artists that figuring out how to play an unfa- he and his band might not have miliar song from another artist heard or played in years — or even on the spot in front of a stadium decades. His forays into the crowd audience. for obscure titles cause his band “Let’s see how we do,” visible concern but make each Springsteen said. He began hum- concert unique. ming the tune as encouragement In Hanover in May, Springsteen to the worried-looking band mem- grabbed a sign in which a fan bers who seemed flummoxed by offered a body organ to hear the melody and unsure of the key. “Drift Away”. Springsteen told “Try it boys,” he said, growing the fan he didn’t really know the impatient after a few minutes of song but wanted him to go home tentative strumming, tooting and in one piece so he’d give it a go. drumming. “Let’s hear it now!” Even after 50 years perform- Springsteen and the E Street ing, Springsteen still packs sta- band then nailed “You never can diums. Leipzig has a population tell” and the crowd loved them of 500,000; there were 45,000 at for it just as an even larger crowd the concert. Moenchengladbach did last Saturday at the Stade de has 250,000 and 35,000 were at France in Paris when he took a the stadium. request in the crowd for “Lucille”. His six-leg, 130-stop “Wrecking “Someone’s trying to stump Ball” began on March 18, 2012 in the E Street band,” Springsteen Atlanta and will conclude in Rio laughed before the band aced the de Janeiro on September 21. Little Richard number in Paris. Most crowds are on their feet Leipzig was as enthralled by the after about 30 minutes into the boundless energy of Springsteen three hour shows. But not always. on Sunday as were similarly “I’m up here with the sweat large and enthusiastic crowds in running down my back. I realize Moenchengladbach, Germany on I haven’t done my job yet,” he said. A couple sits inside the Minus5 beverage outlet in New York yesterday, which is made from pure Canadian ice and named for its constant minus Friday, in Geneva on Wednesday “I see so many fine Leipzig-ians five degrees Celsius temperature. and in London last Sunday. still sitting in their seats.” The 63-year-old American rock REUTERS Tuesday 9 July 2013 30 Shaaban 1434 Volume 18 Number 5755 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Brent crude Helium2 plant slips towards $107 on dollar at RasGas strength LONDON: Brent crude oil slipped towards $107 a barrel yesterday because of a rising begins output dollar, after reaching a three- month high earlier in the day due to unrest in Egypt that Qatar becomes world’s largest exporter stoked concerns about global oil supplies. DOHA: RasGas Company “With the commencement The U S dollar rose to a three- Limited (RasGas) yesterday of production at our Helium2 year high and was poised for more announced that its recently plant, which is the world’s larg- gains on expectations the Federal completed Helium2 plant pro- est helium refining facility, we are Reserve might wind down its duced the first liquid helium today the largest exporter and the massive stimulus programme as for delivery to contracted cus- second largest producer of helium early as September. tomers. Qatar has now emerged in the world,” added Dr Al Sada. A strong dollar makes commod- as the world’s largest exporter “The Helium2 plant, which ities such as oil that are priced in and second largest producer of broke ground in May 2010, is the US unit more expensive for helium. the second helium project to be holders of other currencies, typi- The plant is twice the size of built in Qatar, and we are very cally pushing down prices. RasGas’ Helium1 plant, which pleased to report that in over 5m Brent, the European bench- began operations in 2005. The man hours worked to complete mark, was down 67 cents at new plant is expected to produce this project, we have maintained $107.05 a barrel by 1149 GMT, approximately 1.3bn cubic feet per a lost time incident rate (LTIR) Officials during a tour of RasGas’s Helium2 plant. after hitting $108.04, the highest year when fully operational. With of zero. Achieving such a remark- since April 4. U S crude slipped a combined annual production of able safety milestone is a clear second first half of 2010. Air expensive to extract, purify and superconductors and in the retail 46 cents to $102.76 a barrel, after two billion cubic feet, the two testimony to RasGas’ commit- Liquide will receive 50 percent, make available for commercial use. and entertainment businesses as a earlier touching a fresh 14-month plants will meet around 25 per- ment to create and maintain a Linde Gases 30 percent and the The design and construction of the pressurising, lifting and purge gas. high of $104.12. cent of current total liquid helium safe work environment in a com- Iwatani Corporation 20 percent of helium purification and liquefac- Future growth in consump- “Oil is at record high levels in global demand. Both facilities are plex construction project that the annual production up to 2032. tion plant incorporated highly tion of helium is expected to be dollar terms for emerging market managed and operated by RasGas. involved thousands of contrac- The plant is co-owned by Qatar complex and advanced technol- driven by demand from electronic economies such as India, Turkey The Minister of Energy and tors and employees,” said Hamad Liquefied Gas Company Limited 2 ogy that will capture, extract and manufacturers in Japan, China, and Brazil,” Olivier Jakob, of Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Rashid Al Mohannadi, RasGas (Qatargas 2), Qatar Liquefied Gas refine crude helium from six exist- Republic of Korea and Taiwan. Petromatrix in Zug, said. Saleh Al Sada, expressed pleas- Chief Executive Officer and Vice Company Limited 3 (Qatargas 3), ing LNG processing trains, includ- Since 2000, world demand for “For global demand, that will ure at the new milestone saying Chairman of Qatar Petroleum Qatar Liquefied Gas Company ing: RasGas’ Trains 6 and 7, and helium has increased by around be an issue, because that’s where “it was a testament of Qatar’s (QP). Limited 4 (Qatargas 4) and Ras Qatargas’ Trains 4, 5, 6 and 7. 20 per cent – the bulk of this the growth is coming from.” Any strategy of creating added value Off-take agreements were Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Helium is used across a increasing demand can be met conflict in the Middle East raises by sound development and maxi- signed with Air Liquide, Iwatani Company Limited (3) “RL3.” number of industries including from Qatar’s North Field for worries of disruption to major oil- mum utilisation of its natural Corporation and Linde Gases, Helium is often trapped in Magnetic Resonance Imaging many years. producing areas or oil shipments. resources. a Linde Group division in the deposits of natural gas making it (MRI) scanners, electronics for THE PENINSULA REUTERS

Indian rupee Oxy Qatar, GDI sign QR273m deal tumbles as DOHA: Occidental Petroleum operational excellence and a on contract for drilling operations of Qatar Ltd (Oxy Qatar) has proactive safety culture. The with OXY Qatar, resumed service US jobs data signed a QR273m contract with results have been impressive, after the completion of its major Gulf Drilling International and Oxy Qatar is proud to have maintenance programme. Thus boosts dollar Ltd (GDI), a subsidiary of Gulf supported the establishment GDI has maintained 100 percent International Services (GIS), of GDI as a world class Qatari operating rate for all its rigs. MUMBAI: India’s rupee slid to provide drilling services drilling company. Our continu- GDI’s offshore rig “Al Wajba” to a new record low against the with the continued use of the ing partnership with GDI will be which is now drilling for Oxy dollar yesterday as the US cur- Al Rayyan rig. The contract is key to the success of our future Qatar had returned to service rency was boosted by stronger set for a two year period until development plans and we look after completing its periodic than expected US jobs numbers. March 2015. forward to maintaining and fur- maintenance and full update. And The currency hit Rs61.20 to the Steve Kelly, President and ther improving performance in thus GDI has maintained a 100 US unit — moving past its previ- General Manager of Oxy Qatar, the coming years.” percent utilization rate for all its ous low of 60.76 rupees on June and Ibrahim Jassim Al Othman, Ibrahim Jassim Al Othman, drilling fleet. 26 — as worries mount that the CEO of GDI, signed the con- CEO of GDI commented: “I am GDI has started implement- US Federal Reserve will reduce tract on behalf of the respective very pleased to sign yet another ing its expansion plan, which its stimulus programme that entities. contract with Occidental includes construction and plac- has prompted investor flows into Oxy Qatar continues to use Petroleum of Qatar Ltd for GDI. ing into operation of 3 offshore emerging markets. two drilling rigs Al Rayyan and It represents the second consecu- rigs in addition to new product The Indian currency recovered Al Wajba for its extensive devel- tive contract using our Al Rayyan line of accommodation jack-up in afternoon trade amid reports opment programmes of the Idd drilling rig, and is proof of an barges. In the process GDI has that the central Reserve Bank of Al Shargi and Al Rayyan fields. asset of value, that delivers the also added new clients to their India likely sold dollars through Steve Kelly President and performance that Oxy demands. business in Qatar and continu- state-run banks to prop up the General Manager of Oxy Qatar I am proud of the relationship we ously improved safety records ailing rupee, dealers said. said: “Over the past five years, have nurtured that delivers ben- to be the best in class. This has The currency closed yesterday Oxy Qatar has developed a efits to our clients, our stakehold- enabled the performance that is at Rs60.62 to the dollar. strong working relationship ers and our company.” beyond expectations. “There was possible (RBI) Officials exchanging documents at the signing ceremony. with GDI which focuses on GDI’s offshore rig “Al Wajba” THE PENINSULA intervention at Rs61.02 lev- els,” said Param Sarma, Chief Executive at NSP Forex, a forex consultancy firm in Mumbai. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet industry leaders on July 29 to discuss the rupee’s Eurozone grants $8.7bn lifeline to Greece fall and ways to close the coun- try’s gaping current account defi- BRUSSELS: Greece secured countries in July, said officials threatening to reignite the euro memorandum and get out of a “mobility scheme” by the end cit, the broadest measure of trade, a ¤6.8bn ($8.7bn) lifeline from close to the talks. zone debt crisis. here!” the workers chanted, in of summer - meaning they will India’s Economic Times reported. the eurozone yesterday, officials The agreement foresees a fur- Meanwhile, thousands of Greek the first protest since the lend- be transferred or fired within a The current account deficit— said, but was told it must keep ther payment from euro zone municipal workers and school ers completed their latest review year - prompting some workers which stems mainly from huge its promises on cutting public countries of ¤500m in October. teachers took to the streets of of Greece’s cost cutting efforts on to break into tears. oil and gold imports and weak sector jobs and other reforms in Central banks in the Athens yetserday in a noisy pro- Sunday, a sign of the resistance “It’s not fair,” said Georgia exports amid the global economic order to get all the cash. Eurosystem will contribute ¤1.5bn test against public sector layoffs the government may face. Martaki, a state school guard. downturn — hit a record 4.8 per- The deal, which spares Greece in July and ¤500m in October, the the government has promised its Hundreds more rallied out- “I pay my rent, my electricity cent of GDP in the fiscal year to defaulting on debt that falls due officials said. The International international lenders in exchange side the Interior Ministry later and phone bills only because I March. in August, will see Athens drip fed Monetary Fund will give ¤1.8bn for bailout funds. on Monday, where the admin- have this job. It’s not fair to fire The rupee has also been support under close watch from in August. “That’s the way it will More than 6,000 local admin- istrative and interior ministers a 50-year-old woman like me, to dragged down by the sharply its international creditors to drive be done,” said one of the officials. istration workers, among them were meeting with local govern- throw me in the rubbish.” slowing economy. “Sentiment is through unpopular reforms. After more than three years on guards and uniformed municipal ment representatives, chanting The largest public sector union, extremely fragile for the rupee. Under the terms of the deal, life support from Europe, Greece’s police on motorbikes, marched “Thieves” and “Traitors”. ADEDY, also staged a work stop- Strong US economic data is driv- eurozone finance ministers agreed governing coalition is split over to the Administrative Reform The head of the POE-OTA page in Athens. Municipal work- ing the dollar up (and weakening to make staggered payments of how to meet the demands of Ministry in central Athens, wav- union, Themis Balasopoulos, ers planned another 24-hour the rupee),” said Sarma. aid to Greece starting with a its bailout programme, putting ing black flags, honking horns broke the news to workers that nationwide strike today. AFP ¤2.5bn instalment from eurozone the country centre stage and and sounding sirens. “Take your school guards would be placed in REUTERS TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Serbia pledges China growth at 23-year low public sector reforms IMF warns on budget deficit

BELGRADE: Serbia will begin of GDP, has shaken investor con- reforming its costly public sec- fidence and piled pressure on the tor and pension system before dinar currency. the end of the year, the govern- The IMF warned in May that ment said yesterday, as the IMF the deficit could breach 8 per- pressed the country again to do cent of gross domestic product more to bring its high budget (GDP) and called last week for a deficit under control. “comprehensive” overhaul of the Public sector wages and pen- pension system and measures to sions in the former Yugoslav contain the public sector wage republic account for around half bill. of state outgoings, and the high The government’s reluctance to fiscal gap means the ruling coali- cut wages has helped doom talks tion faces the politically unpal- with the IMF on a new precau- atable prospect of having to cut tionary loan deal, which Belgrade back on jobs, wages and pensions. now says looks unlikely this year. Parliament on Friday adopted a The government instead says it revised budget for the year based wants budget support from the on a deficit forecast of 4.7 per- World Bank. cent, though Serbia’s top fiscal Deputy Prime Minister advisory body warned the revision Aleksandar Vucic told Monday’s A man takes pictures of office buildings in the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai yesterday. China’s resolve to revamp its economy for the was “optimistic” and the shortfall conference that the government was long-term good will be tested this month when a slew of data shows growth is grinding towards a 23-year low, with no recovery in sight. would probably hit 5.3 percent. preparing a reform of the pension The revision stops short of system and would start reforming freezing or cutting public sector the public sector and state enter- wages or pensions, something prises before the end of the year. Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic Public enterprises needed to Qatar to invest $140bn in infrastructure: Deloitte said on Monday would hurt behave “in line with the market,” domestic demand and growth. he said. He said structural reform was the The World Bank’s representa- DOHA: Qatar plans to invest reach 3.7m by 2022. This growth awareness. The immense oppor- Preparing for the competition is only long-term solution. tive in Serbia, Loup Brefort, said over $140bn in transport infra- also creates opportunities for the tunities exist for developers is as important to everyone on the The International Monetary the Bank stood ready to offer fur- structure in anticipation of the development of commercial units, partly due to the infrastructure built environment, as it will be Fund said the new budget was a ther support. “Whether we will FIFA World Cup 2022. Plans such as various shopping malls requirements of the FIFA World when the games start.” “step in the right direction” but offer financial support in addition to construct new roads and around Qatar. Cup 2022, and as part of realizing Deloitte’s latest findings are in more needed to be done. to technical backing ... it will be the metro system are to sup- Environmental sustainability Qatar’s National Vision plans. line with another report issued by “Additional (fiscal) measures known in the coming weeks,” he port the anticipated influx of has become a key item in the gov- Jesdev Saggar, Managing it during May 2013. This report are needed, not only in 2014 but told the conference. visitors, a Deloitte report that ernment’s agenda. One of the key Director, Infrastructure & Capital highlighted that the ingredients in the medium term,” the IMF’s Finance Minister Dinkic said assessed Qatar’s construction goals for the Q2022 programme Projects at Deloitte Corporate for capital projects could not be resident representative in Serbia, World Bank support might sector noted. is to improve environmental sus- Finance Limited commented: better in the GCC region as the Bogdan Lissovolik, told an eco- improve prospects of an IMF loan Deloitte experts noted Qatar tainability, not only limited to “With the world focused on I&CP (Infrastructure & Capital nomic conference in Belgrade, deal to replace a previous ¤1bn Tourism Authority plans to invest the event but also for the entire Qatar’s every move, it is impera- Projects) market is growing rap- also attended by Dinkic. ($1.28bn) arrangement frozen by about $20bn on tourism infra- country. The report suggests that tive that the local industry pre- idly with governments announc- Market concern over Serbia’s the Fund in early 2012 over bro- structure as the number of tour- the programme may deliver a pares itself for the plethora of ing projects across the Middle budget deficit and public debt, ken spending promises. ist arrivals grows at a rate of 15.9 new environmental sustainability international organisations that East region. which is forecast to hit 65 percent REUTERS percent compounded annually, to standard and improve nationwide are ready to descend on Doha. THE PENINSULA QInvest’s QMAP funds included in RBC Investor platform

DOHA: QInvest, Qatar’s leading investment bank has announced the inclusion of the QInvest Managed Account Platform (QMAP) funds to the global fund platform of top 10 global custodians and asset service provider RBC Investor & Treasury Services, a press statement said yesterday. QMAP, launched by QInvest in the first quarter of 2013, is the world’s first open architecture Sharia’a compliant managed account fund platform, which brings the capabilities of some of the best managers in the world to investors, who would like to adhere to the principles of Sharia’a. Through the RBC Investor & Treasury Services’ platform, investors and fund selectors from across the globe that use the platform’s open architecture environ- ment can now access a wide selection of Sharia’a compliant funds. The global fund platform helps both managers and buyers fully exploit and adapt to the changing dynamics of the global fund distribution market. It allows fund buyers to optimise fund selection with access to over 90,000 share classes registered with a network of over 400 transfer agents. QInvest’s CEO, Tamim Hamad Al Kawari, said: “QMAP is a pioneering solution that provides QInvest clients and shareholders with a new investment platform that comply with Islamic Sharia’a. We are very pleased to include QMAP offering on the RBC Investor & Treasury Services distribution platform. This will significantly strengthen QInvest’s reach to global investors.” THE PENINSULA Oil flow via Kirkuk-Ceyhan link to resume soon

KIRKUK: The flow of crude from Kirkuk in Iraq to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey will resume in two to three days after being interrupted for weeks due to a pipeline leak, two sources in Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) said yesterday. Pumping through the pipeline has been suspended since June 21 because of the leak in the Ain Al Jahsh area, around 290km northwest of Baghdad. A senior Turkish energy official said Iraq had given notice flows would resume by Friday. “Iraqi officials told Turkey that the flow on Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline will resume by Friday at the latest, but it is possible that it may be delayed until after Friday,” the official said. Flows through the pipeline, which has an official capacity of 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd), are regularly interrupted due to technical problems and attacks by insurgents. “Every time we had a bomb attack, a quick fix was required to avoid disruption to exports from Ceyhan, but that’s not working anymore as parts of the pipe have become like a sieve,” an NOC official said on condition of anonymity. Work on the pipeline was suspended last month after unidentified militants ambushed a repair crew, killing two technicians and two members of the oil police, NOC and Iraqi security sources said. Security forces have since been sent up from Baghdad to provide cover for the repair team, and an oil ministry official said security measures along the pipeline would be reviewed. Shipping and trading sources said loading of Kirkuk crude onto tankers at the Turkish port of Ceyhan had been halted for more than two weeks because there was not enough oil in storage there. Typically, when the pipeline is idled, tanker loadings at Ceyhan can continue for a few days using stored oil, maintaining supplies to the Mediterranean market. “The pumping had been very problematic over the past couple of months. Every single ship has had to wait for at least 2-3 days... the problem is on the Iraqi side,” said a Ceyhan-based shipping source, adding that eight tankers were currently waiting to be loaded. The stoppage contributed to a decline in OPEC member Iraq’s June oil exports to 2.328 million b/d from 2.484 million the previous month, short of its 2.9 million bpd target for 2013. REUTERS TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Qatar bourse Osram debuts on Frankfurt Stock Exchange index slips by 80.25 points Egypt sinks 3.6pc as crisis deepens

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index deficit, or to negotiate a long- slipped by 80.25 points or 0.86 delayed, $4.8bn loan with the percent to hit 9,282.88 points International Monetary Fund. from the previous closing of The benchmark stock index lost 9,363.13 points. 3.6 percent, extending its losses The volume of shares traded since it jumped to a one-month fell to 3,739,978 from 5,391,593 on high last Thursday immediately last day, and the value of shares after Mursi was overthrown. It increased to QR232,748,874.25 has now given up more than a from QR174,934,487.22 on Sunday. third of its gains since it began Among the top losers were rallying in late June. Qatar National Bank whose share Investors have not completely dropped 1.86 percent to QR158.60, abandoned hopes that an effec- Industries Qatar lost 0.38 percent tive, technocratic government will to QR157.30, Barwa Real Estate be installed. Yields dropped at a fell 1.28 percent to QR26.95 and government bond auction yes- Electricity and Water down 1.50 terday while the Egyptian pound percent to QR158.10. strengthened slightly in both the The banking and financial sec- official and the black markets. tor lost 1.11 points while the insur- United Arab Emirates markets ance sector was down 0.65 points. rallied as investors bought shares Wolfgang Dehen (centre), Chairman of Osram Licht AG, rings the stock exchange bell on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange The industrial sector dropped 0.41 ahead of second-quarter earnings next to Reto Francioni (right), Chairman of the Deutsche Boerse AG, and Peter Laier, Technical Chairman of Osram, in Fankfurt/Main, yester- points and the services sector fell announcements in coming weeks. day. The light specialist was listed yesterday. 0.52 points. But trading volumes stayed thin Meanwhile, Egyptian stocks fell with many investors away for sharply yesterday as the country’s summer holidays. political crisis deepened, with Dubai’s defensive stocks, which violence on the streets blocking tend to pay high dividends, and Nigeria halves fuel debt to traders paying $1.4bn efforts to form a new government some others expected to post following the ouster of president strong quarterly earnings growth Mohammed Mursi. led a rally on the bourse. LONDON: Nigeria has repaid loans it could have restricted the six months for the money to be over five years with NNPC At least 51 people were killed “What you’ve seen today is $1.4bn in mostly overdue debts future borrowing capacity of disbursed as the deal structure putting 15,000 barrels per day of when, according to Islamist dem- accumulation in certain securi- to fuel traders after raising the Africa’s second largest economy needed to be validated with mul- oil production as collateral, the onstrators enraged by the mili- ties that people are expecting will money via an oil prepayment just as it was preparing to issue tiple stakeholders and Nigerian source said. Crude will be sold by tary’s overthrow of Mursi, the announce good Q2 results,” said loan from international lenders, a $1bn Eurobond authorities, sources said. Nigerian trader Sahara Energy. army opened fire during morn- Marwan Shurrab, fund manager successfully concluding some of “The fact that this debt was not Almost all major trading house The remaining $1.7bn of debt is ing prayers at the Cairo bar- and head of trading at Vision the most painful and lengthy solved was creating a lot of tensions including Mercuria, Glencore, owed to trading houses as well as racks where he is being held. The Investments. “It’s retail buying debt talks in its history. — both for Nigeria’s desire to put its Vitol, Arcadia and Trafigura are oil majors BP, Royal Dutch Shell military said it was repelling an backed by institutional buying The $1.4bn repayment, which finances in order and for traders, among Nigerian creditors. and Total for supplies of fuel in attack by “a terrorist group”. and defensive stock-picking.” follows a smaller payment to cred- because a lot of these debts were The Opec member is among the the last three years. The markets have become Budget carrier Air Arabia and itors of $400m earlier this year, massively overdue,” said a high-level world’s top 10 crude oil exporters Repaying this debt will be more partly inured to such violence, telecom operator Du advanced will allow the country to halve its source at a major trading house. but has insufficient refining capac- challenging as NNPC has com- and although Mursi’s Muslim 3.6 percent and 5.3 percent. fuel debts to $1.7bn, sources at The prepayment facility, guar- ity to meet its domestic fuel needs mitted most of its available oil Brotherhood leadership called Contractor Arabtec rose 2.9 three trading companies said. anteed by future oil sales, was led and is heavily reliant on imports, flows for the next five years and for an uprising against the percent after the firm said its It will ease the threat of large by Standard Chartered and also on which it pays costly subsidies to which can generate additional army, many analysts doubt the Dh2.4bn ($653m) rights issue write-downs for big trading included BNP Paribas, Societe keep a lid on retail petrol prices. cash only if oil prices stay much body as a whole has the will or was oversubscribed by nearly houses, oil firms and Nigerian Generale, Natixis and several President Goodluck Jonathan above $75 per barrel. the public support for such a 30 percent; the offer period was banks, as well as lowering the Nigerian banks. attempted to end fuel subsidies but “Some more recent PPMC cred- campaign. extended after it initially failed risk of insurance claims and legal The funds were used to settle backed down after the move sparked itors did not get any proceeds from Without a smoothly oper- to sell out. action from traders, bankers and old debts of state oil firm NNPC’s wide-spread protests. Decades of the recent drawdown, and cannot ating transition government, Dubai’s index climbed 2.6 per- insurers against the Nigerian marketing unit PPMC for petrol mismanagement and corruption afford to be waiting for another Egypt is unlikely to be able to cent to finish at 2,341 points, its National Petroleum Corporation and jet fuel imports made three have left NNPC heavily indebted, five years with no clear repayment begin addressing economic prob- highest close since June 20. (NNPC). years ago. The loan was agreed several audits have shown. roadmap,” one source said. lems such as a ballooning budget AGENCIES Had Nigeria defaulted on these back in December but it took The $1.4bn loan will be repaid REUTERS

Dubai could QATARI MARKET Etihad passenger revenue up 8pc Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P raise $1bn from Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.31 0.68 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 103.75 2.02 % Aa2 AA ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi air- the second quarter and the first partnerships in the second quar- line Etihad raised passenger half of this year. ter by adding JAT Airways. The telecoms stake Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 118.75 2.98 % Aa2 AA revenues by eight percent in “This reflects not only the airline said in June it was mull- Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 111.75 3.24 % Aa2 AA the second-quarter, helped by continuing popularity of our Abu ing taking an equity stake in the sales: J P Morgan Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.00 3.67 % Aa2 AA higher turnover from its code- Dhabi hub, but the growing matu- Serbian carrier. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 154.00 4.99 % Aa2 AA sharing and equity alliance rity of our airline partnership It also announced new part- DUBAI: Dubai Holding could Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 113.50 5.43 % Aa2 AA partners. strategy and the strength of our nerships with Air Canada, South raise almost $1bn from the sale Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 104.50 5.44 % Aa2 AA Passenger revenues for the cargo operations, which continue African Airways and Belavia of of its minority stakes in two tel- Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.63 1.68 % Aa2 AA three months to June 30 totalled to well exceed industry growth Belarus, which would take effect ecoms firms, J P Morgan said in $921m versus $855m in the year rates,” James Hogan, president in the third quarter, the state- a research note, part of a strat- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 109.25 3.50 % Aa2 AA ago period, the state-owned air- & CEO, said in the statement. ment said. egy by state-linked companies Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.50 1.62 % A1 A- line said in a statement. For the Codesharing involves two or The airline is still awaiting to sell assets to repay the emir- Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 101.75 2.88 % A1 A- first half of 2013 the rose 13 per- more airlines sharing the same regulatory approval from Indian ate’s debt pile. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.91 % NR NR cent to $1.8bn. flight with passengers able to authorities to acquire a 24 per- The conglomerate is among a QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 102.25 2.14 % Aa3 A+ Some $184m came from code- purchase a ticket on one airline cent stake in Jet Airways , having group of state-linked companies QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 102.50 2.65 % Aa3 A+ sharing and equity alliance air- although the actual flight may be agreed a $370m deal in April. trying to recover from a 2009 Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 102.50 2.78 % A2 A- line partners in the quarter, up operated by another under a dif- Etihad’s cargo business, in ton- property crash. The firms face Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 103.75 2.18 % A2 A 25 percent over the same period ferent flight number or code. nage terms, grew 26 per cent in debt repayments of about $50bn last year. Partnership revenue Unlisted Etihad, which has the second quarter year-on-year, over the next three years. Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 121.75 3.75 % A2 A comprised 20 percent of the air- stakes in Air Berlin and Virgin the statement said. Dubai Holding’s unit Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 103.50 4.21 % A2 A line’s total passenger revenue in Australia, increased such REUTERS Emirates International Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 100.00 5.00 % A2 A Telecommunications LLC (EIT), Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.75 % Aa3 A has put its 26-percent stake in Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.60 % Aa3 A mobile phone retailer Axiom Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 107.00 4.17 % Aa3 A Thai economy revised down Telecom and 35-percent stake in Tunisie Telecom on the block, SOVEREIGNS sources aware of the matter told Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Reuters in June. Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.75 0.43 % Aa2 AA Citigroup Inc is advising on the Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.25 2.56 % Aa2 AA sale of Axiom stake, while Credit Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.88 3.03 % NR NR Suisse has been hired to help sell the Tunisie Telecom stake, the Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 103.75 3.83 % NR NR sources said. 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LONDON: Since celebrating Australia have won half their 24 his Test debut with a dazzling Clarke’s stats in Test cricket Tests, lost seven and drawn five. century, Michael Clarke has Tests, innings, not outs, runs, top score, 100s, 50s, 4s, 6s, catches Yet Clarke has never been a combined the brash self-confi- 92 154 15 7275 329* 52.33 23 26 821 35 105 popular sporting hero at home in dence of his native Sydney with the fashion of Border, Chappell a purity of style allied to fluent In tandem with coach Bobby after a breakdown in discipline, and Steve Waugh. The day he footwork in the finest Australian Simpson, Border instilled his was then sacked 16 days before took over as Australia’s 43rd cap- tradition. own gritty work ethic into an the start of the Ashes campaign tain, a poll in Sydney gave him a Last year the Australia captain under-performing side, weeded and Clarke resigned his post as a 15 percent approval rating. Australia added a Bradmanesque appe- out the players he did not want national selector. “It may be his self-conscious coach Darren tite for Test runs, accumulating and backed those he thought pos- “We have no excuses,” said metrosexual airs and graces,” Lehmann 1,595 at an average of exactly 106, sessed the right stuff. Clarke. “The Australian public wrote the Australian cricket (right) including three double centuries Australia won the World Cup in and us as players want to have journalist and historian Gideon speaks with and a triple. He was selected as India in 1987 and two years later success. Haigh at the time of Clarke’s Australia’s the leading international crick- Border’s men defeated England “We know what the expecta- appointment. captain eter for 2012 by the Wisden 4-0 in a six-match series. England tions and standards are off the “It may be his habit of appear- Michael almanack. did not regain the Ashes until field as well in regards to behav- ing on billboards advertising this, Clarke during Clarke’s blend of elegance and 2005. iour, and we have no excuses for that and himself. It may be the a practice acquisition led former Australian Can Clarke emulate Border? not upholding those values. We’ve tattoos, of which Clarke has 10, session off-spinner Ashley Mallett to After losing three Ashes series been very disappointed with our including one on his right shoul- at Trent suggest that the right-hander out of the last four, Australia’s performances so far on this tour der that celebrates his bikini- Bridge in was now an amalgam of Victor run-up to tomorrow’s first Test and we have to turn that around.” model ex Lara Bingle. But this I Nottingham, Trumper and Don Bradman, who at Trent Bridge could hardly have Clarke is by instinct an imagi- know, to sum it up, they do not central also forged their reputations in been less promising. native, attacking captain, who has like him.” England Sydney. Clarke presided over the first won praise from Ian Chappell, one Tattoos and billboards hardly yesterday. “He possesses the majesty of three losses during this year’s of Australia’s best leaders. make Clarke a rarity in the mod- Trumper...and much of the effi- 4-0 whitewash in India, before “His entertaining approach is ern sporting world and he has Australia ciency of Bradman, who collected returning home with a recurrence based on one premise, trying to since demonstrated conclusively take on runs like a frequent flyer clocks of the degenerative back problem win the match from the opening that, whatever his image might hosts miles,” enthused Mallett. which has troubled him since he delivery,” Chappell said. be, he is clearly as devoted to the England A modern and more relevant was a teenager. “This should be the aim of all cause of Australian cricket and in the first parallel could be drawn with Allan He missed his team’s unsuc- international captains, but sadly the business of making runs as Ashes Border, another Sydneysider who cessful Champions Trophy cam- it isn’t.” any of his predecessors. cricket Test was the initially reluctant captain paign in England last month and Following his feats last year “For me the reason I sit where I starting of a side who lost series against was in London receiving treat- Clarke averages 66.10 as a cap- am today is because of hard work,” tomorrow. West Indies, England, Pakistan ment when David Warner threw tain, placing him fourth in an he said. “Preparation and hard and New Zealand. a punch at England batsman all-time list of players who have work are the only two answers for Like Clarke, Border stood Joe Root in a Birmingham bar. led their country at least 10 times me to be representing Australia, figuratively head-and-shoulders The batsmen stayed on tour but headed, inevitably, by Bradman and that’s something that I will above his team-mates as a bats- received a suspension until the with 101.51. continue to push with the young man; tough, pragmatic and at his first Test. Since he took over from Ricky Aussie boys who haven’t played best in the perennial crises afflict- Coach Mickey Arthur, who Ponting for the fifth Test against too much cricket around us.” ing his team. suspended four players in India England in Sydney in 2011, REUTERS Pakistan off to West Indies Star batsman Pietersen

KARACHI: Pakistan’s one- day squad left for the Caribbean with captain Misbah-ul Haq hoping to reverse the team’s divides and conquers dwindling fortunes in the lim- ited over matches. LONDON: Love him or loathe that he is not a team player. But Twenty20 series against Pakistan Pakistan will play five one-day him, Kevin Pietersen’s return when he dazzles the crowd and and was punished again last year and two Twenty20 matches on from a knee injury in time to opposition with his flamboyant for using the social media site to the tour, with the first match in face Australia in the Ashes strokeplay and performances such criticise a pundit. Guyana on July 14. England’s series will have left England as the swashbuckling 158 at the His most recent transgres- Misbah-ul Haq will lead the Kevin supporters breathing a sigh of Oval in 2005 that helped secure sion occurred last year when he one-day team while Mohammad Pietersen relief. the Ashes and a career-best 227 was dropped for the final Test Hafeez will skipper the Twenty20 attends a The controversial South in Adelaide in 2010, much can be against South Africa at Lord’s side. practice Africa-born middle-order bats- forgiven. after sending provocative texts Misbah said the tour was session man, who divides opinion off However, the spontaneity to opposing players. Pietersen important as it would help the at Trent the field with as much ease has Pietersen displays in his batting underwent a process of reintegra- team regain their confidence after Bridge in he destroys opposition bowlers has had a tendency to show itself tion and committed to playing for a humiliating Champions Trophy on it, is the England player the as rashness off the field. He fell England in all three forms of the Nottingham, last month, in which Pakistan lost Australians fear the most. out with his captain at his first game before being allowed back central all three matches. “There’s only certain players county side, Nottinghamshire, into the national fold. “We will do our best to play England that you can fear and they’re the and threatened legal action in a He made his comeback in India hard and positive cricket and yesterday. Pietersens, the (Brian) Laras and bid to leave the club. in November and in characteristic ensure that a poor show in the Viv Richards,” former Australian In 2008, Pietersen was fashion reminded England what Champions Trophy is behind us,” batsman Damien Martyn said. “In appointed England captain but they had been missing by blasting Misbah said before their depar- Pietersen you can sense he can quit five months later following 186 in his second Test back. ture late Sunday. “The squad is win a game in a session - he’s the breakdown of his relationship “When Kevin’s got a point to focused on putting up a good show dangerous.” with coach Peter Moores, who prove he usually proves it with which will help in ending the dis- Pietersen, 33, has played little was sacked. The advent of social the bat,” his former England team appointment of our fans and bring cricket since returning early from media has only served to bring mate Andrew Flintoff told the the confidence back.” the tour of New Zealand in March examples of Pietersen’s impetu- BBC last year. Misbah said they faced a chal- due to injury but the right-hander ous nature to the notice of a wider Australian great Shane Warne lenging proposition playing the scored a century for Surrey last audience. told Sky Sports news in May: “I Windies on their home soil. month in his first innings of the In 2010, he was fined for a foul- think he’s that big a player for the “West Indies is a tough oppo- season. Pietersen has a history mouthed outburst on Twitter England team. Everyone feeds sition and their batting strength of falling out with colleagues and after being left out of the England off him. He’s such a destructive is aggressive but I am sure that his antics have led to accusations squad for the one-day and player.” REUTERS our team will do well in all three departments of the game,” said Misbah. Things you need Pakistan’s Wasim to marry Swann dismisses talk of Dashing all-rounder Shahid Afridi was recalled in the to know about KP Australian girlfriend 16-man squad after missing the Engand ‘dominance’ (pic- Champions Trophy in England, Born in Natal in 1980 to a South KARACHI: Legendary Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram tured below) while there were also recalls African father and English mother, Kevin said yesterday he will marry his Australian girlfriend, NOTTINGHAM: Graeme Swann said yesterday that England did for Umar Akmal and Ahmed Pietersen began his cricketing career as who has converted to Islam and will settle in his home country. not regard themselves as a “dominant force” in world cricket ahead Shahzad. REUTERS an off-spinner. Australian media reported that Wasim of this season’s Ashes series. proposed on bended knee to Shaniera England, third in the world Test rankings behind leaders South Thompson in her living room. Africa and second-placed India, begin their bid for a third straight He first came to England’s notice in “Yes, I will marry next year and I’ve series win over Australia at Nottinghamshire off-spinner Swann’s 1999 when he made 61 not out, bat- known Shaniera for the last one-and-a- Trent Bridge home ground tomorrow. ting at nine, and took four wickets for half years and she has converted to Islam,” “I don’t think we see ourselves as a dominant force,” said Swann. KwaZulu-Natal against Nasser Hussain’s Wasim said by telephone from England. “We climbed up to number one in the world, which was a feat we aimed side in a tour match. “I feel lucky that I have got a second to do and we were pleased with, but we didn’t stay there for long so chance in life.” we’re continually aiming to improve,” added England’s premier spinner. Frustrated at South Africa’s racial The 47-year-old’s first wife Huma died “We want to get back up there and until we are, we won’t see our- quota system, Pietersen left for England in 2009. selves as a dominant force. I’m sure there’s 11 players in our dressing and ended up at Nottinghamshire in Wasim said Thompson, a former pub- room and 11 in theirs that have been looking forward to this for a very 2001 where he averaged almost 60 with lic relations consultant, will settle in long time. I’ve just been at Trent Bridge, the best Test cricket ground the bat in his first season. Pakistan. in England, soaking up the sunshine and the pre-Ashes atmosphere “She is close to my kids who are also is very exciting.” He became eligible for England in excited and my in-laws (Huma’s parents) Swann, known as more of a joker than a sledger, played down sug- 2004 and made his debut in a one- also endorsed the decision after meeting her,” said Wasim, who has gestions of verbal intimidation by England’s bowlers, although, given day series in Zimbabwe, announcing two sons from his previous marriage. how well the teams know each other and how often they are due to his international arrival with a man- “It will be a new life, a new beginning and I hope that we will settle meet in the next few months, it would be no surprise if there were of-the-match 77 in his second game down well with the best wishes of family and fans,” he said. some frayed tempers on the field. Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi before going on to make three centuries Wasim, who made his debut in January 1985, played 104 Tests and “Any altercations we’ve had in the past are firmly in the past,” said arrives at Karachi International against the country of his birth in 2005. 356 one-day internationals for Pakistan in a career lasting more than Swann, set to be a key member of England’s attack given the number Airport before his departure to 18 years. Wasim retired in 2003. of left-handers, for whom his stock ball turns away from the bat, in the Caribbean yesterday. The In 94 Tests he has scored 7,499 He was regarded as one of the best left-arm fast bowlers to have Australia’s side. played the game and remains a major celebrity in Pakistan. “You don’t go out there looking to pick a fight or cause a rumpus, Pakistani cricket team will play runs at an average of 49.01. Captain Wasim was player of the tournament in the country’s only triumph you go out there desperately hoping to do well yourself. I think any five one-day and two Twenty20 and opener Alastair Cook is the only in the World Cup, in Australia in 1992. tetchiness may come about because of hot weather or frustrated bowl- matches in the Caribbean active England player to have scored more (7,524). He captained Pakistan to a runners-up finish in the 1999 World Cup ers, and hopefully that will be on the Australian side as we come in for starting on July 14. in England. AFP tea time on day one with 300 for nought,” he jokingly added. AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

British Don’t squander my success, press calls for Murray tells Great Britain knighthood LONDON: British newspa- pers were in raptures yes- terday after Andy Murray’s The Scot admits it was ‘very stressful’ after losing first four Slam finals Wimbledon win, with several calling for him to receive a LONDON: Andy Murray has knighthood for ending the warned the country’s tennis country’s 77-year wait for a establishment that if the mil- men’s champion. lions of dollars generated by Every single national daily Wimbledon are squandered, devoted its front page to Britain may wait another 77 Murray’s straight-sets vic- years to celebrate a homegrown tory over Novak Djokovic on champion. Sunday, with almost all of them The 26-year-old Scot became splashing huge pictures of the the first British man since 26-year-old brandishing the Fred Perry in 1936 to win the trophy in the blazing sun. Wimbledon singles crown with his The Times newspaper led the 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory over world calls for Murray to be knighted. number one Novak Djokovic on “Arise Sir Andrew, knight of Sunday. the holy grail,” it said. But amidst the hysteria and the “Impossibly, dreamily, unbe- congratulations, which poured in lievably and yet somehow from Hollywood stars to Queen almost easily, somehow almost Elizabeth, Murray highlighted inevitably, Andy Murray won that the sport is still struggling the Men’s Singles final at in Britain. Wimbledon yesterday,” it said. World number two Murray is The Times came swathed in Britain’s only player in the top a huge souvenir wraparound 200. picture of Murray surrounded James Ward is the next best at by a sea of spectators as he 219 with Daniel Baker at 255 and climbed into the families’ box Alex Bogdanovic, at 275, in the at Wimbledon’s Centre Court, slipstream. with the headline: “The History Only Ward, who is already 26 Boy”. years old, and top junior, South The 77-year gap between the African-born Kyle Edmund, Britain’s Andy Murray looks at the winner’s trophy as the lid falls off after beating Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the final of Wimbledon at the All England last British winner, Fred Perry, joined Murray at Wimbledon but Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on Sunday. RIGHT: Murray poses with trophy during the Wimbledon Champions Dinner in central London was an “awfully long time”, it both were knocked out in the first late on Sunday. said, noting that he was the round. “first Brit to win the title in All this despite Wimbledon short trousers”, as in Perry’s making a profit of $56.248m in it shouldn’t take another 70 odd Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association improvements, massive changes, I’ve dealt with them a lot better.” time male tennis players wore 2012, all of which was ploughed years.” who have been under pressure to but every year my ranking was Murray won Wimbledon at long ones. back into the sport in the country. Murray spent his formative cut the dead wood in the system. going in the right direction. his eighth attempt while his US The Daily Mail reported that “I would hope that it wouldn’t years outside of the British train- “I think I persevered. That’s “I was always going a little Open win came after he had lost Murray would be recommended be that long again. It’s an incred- ing system, spending most of his really been it, the story of my bit further in the slams. I kept all four of his first Grand Slam for a knighthood. ibly difficult tournament to win, time as a junior in Spain. career probably. I had a lot of learning and I just kept working final appearances. “Now it’ll be arise Sir Andy!” so it’s possible that it could take He believes his success at tough losses, but the one thing I as hard as I could. “It’s hard. It’s really hard. You said the Mail’s front page head- a long time,” said Murray. Wimbledon and his independent would say is I think every year I “When I lost those matches know, for the last four or five line over a picture of Murray He added: “I think with the tennis upbringing taught him to always improved a little bit,” said sometimes I dealt with them years, it’s been very, very tough, kissing the golden Wimbledon amount of money that’s invested be tough, to persevere and not Murray. badly, but I think the last few very stressful, a lot of pressure,” trophy. in the sport in this country, then to rely on the cash handouts of “They weren’t major losses that I’ve had in slam finals he added. AFP It said that sources in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Murray’s victory Downing Street office said I will learn from final The top two are new the government would pass his name to Britain’s Honours and facts Committee in the same way it Wimbledon is Murray’s sec- had done with cyclist Bradley defeat, says Djokovic ond Grand Slam title after he age warriors now Wiggins after he won the Tour won the 2012 US Open de France last year. LONDON: Novak Djokovic stronger, I guess. I need to have It is the 36th time a British LONDON: Thanks for the quarter-finalist at the French The Mail also featured a “glo- (pictured) insists he will that kind of mentality and move man has won the Wimbledon memories Roger and Rafa, but Open. rious picture pull-out souvenir absorb the lessons of his painful on. singles title - more than any it’s the Novak and Andy show Nadal missed the Australian plus Murray victory poster” Wimbledon final defeat against “I’m still young and hopefully other nation now. Open through injury and is under with nine pages of coverage in Andy Murray and come back I have more opportunities to win Andy Murray’s Wimbledon tri- pressure never to play Wimbledon the front section of the paper, stronger than ever. this title.” Fred Perry was the last umph on Sunday, when he beat again to protect his increasingly normally dedicated to news. Djokovic slumped to a Even without the British man to win Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in troublesome knees. The Sun, Britain’s biggest lacklustre 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 aches and pains from the completing a hat-trick of wins the final, was Britain’s first by a Mats Wilander, the Swedish selling newspaper, typically defeat at the All England del Potro clash, Djokovic in 1936 male player since Fred Perry in star who won seven Grand punned on Murray’s first name Club on Sunday as the acknowledged it might Harold Mahony was the only 1936. Slam titles in the 1980s, believes with its headline “And of Hope world number one failed still have been hard for other Scotsman to win the But it also re-emphasised the Murray and Djokovic are now and Glory”. to recapture the domi- him to stop a fired-up Wimbledon singles title - in 1896 new dominance at the Grand the undisputed superpowers of “Finally, after 77 years, 15 nant form that saw him Murray from taking the Murray is the most successful Slam level of the world’s two top the sport. PMs, three monarchs... Brit sweep through to the title. British man in terms of Grand players, both aged 26 and born “I think Andy Murray can win man wins Wimbo”, the tabloid final. With the painful Slam match wins with 113, ahead just seven days apart. six, seven, eight, nine, 10 majors. said. It also came with a pullout The 26-year-old has memories of last year’s of Fred Perry on 106 Djokovic and Murray have now The only man that can stop him is section saying that Murray had lost on the big occasion Wimbledon final loss to contested three of the last four Novak Djokovic,” said the Swede. been “Born to Wim.” before -- this was his fifth Grand Roger Federer still fresh in his Murray has reached seven Grand Slam finals. “These two are going to decide The Daily Telegraph also Slam final defeat -- but it was the mind, Murray was on a mission Grand Slam finals, behind Fred Meanwhile, Roger Federer, the who gets ahead in the history focused on Britain’s long wait way he allowed Murray to dictate to make amends and he played Perry on 10 deposed champion of Wimbledon books. I hope they both decide for a Wimbledon champion, the tempo that was so surprising. with a steely-eyed determination Murray attended Dunblane who was knocked out in the sec- this is a rivalry that’s just going saying: “After 77 years, the wait The Serb knew he could have that Djokovic found impossible to Primary School, and he was in ond round this time around, will to grow and become great on all is over.” no complaints about the result match. school on the day that Thomas find himself at number five in the the different surfaces, in all four “The shame has passed. after making 40 unforced errors “I knew I had to be on top of my Hamilton shot 17 people during world today, his lowest ranking majors.” Frustration has been ban- and he vowed to study the per- game in order to prevail in this the Dunblane Massacre. Andy for over a decade. Federer has seen his decision ished. Wimbledon fortnight is formance again in a bid to clean match. He had a huge motivation hid in a classroom, but said he Until he won his seventh to slim down his schedule in 2013 no longer a ritual of hope and up his game in time for the US to win his first title,” Djokovic was too young to really know Wimbledon 12 months ago, the backfire. despair. Centre Court has shed Open in August. said. what went on. 31-year-old had not won a major But he has surprised many by its inhibitions,” it said. “I try to always analyse, espe- “I wasn’t patient enough in the Murray has won over 20 titles since the 2010 Australian Open, a deciding to play two low-pro- The Daily Mirror’s front page cially the losses, because that’s moments when I should have been, and made over $25m in prize 10-tournament gap at the majors. file claycourt events before the headline said Murray had where you have done something when I should have looked for the Rafael Nadal, like Federer a American hardcourt swing at “History In His Hands”, with a money. wrong,” Djokovic said. better opportunity to attack, and former world number one, was Hamburg from July 15 and Gstaad picture of him lifting the golden “It’s my life. You try to improve. my serve wasn’t as good as it was Murray is Britain’s only shocked in the first round at the following week. cup skywards. What doesn’t kill you makes you the whole tournament.” AFP player in the top 200. Wimbledon for his earliest ever Having defeated just one top- The Mirror also asked if exit at a major in 10 years as a 10 player all year -- Jo-Wilfried Murray would now propose to professional. Tsonga at the Australian Open his long-time girlfriend Kim Quarter of Brits The 27-year-old Spaniard, who quarter-finals -- Federer is des- Sears, who has followed him was off tour for seven months perate bounce back from his around the world supporting before his barnstorming return Wimbledon misery, where he lost him at tournaments for years. watched the saw him capture a record eighth in the second round to Ukraine’s The Daily Express dubbed him French Open, has not won a 116-ranked Sergiy Stakhovsky in “Magical Murray”. Wimbledon final major away from Paris since the what was his worst Grand Slam Both the Guardian and the 2010 US Open. defeat for a decade. Independent newspapers both In all 33 of the last 34 Grand His shock Wimbledon loss opted for the simple headline LONDON: More than a Slams have been won by Djokovic, ended his run of 36 consecutive “Champion” over pictures of quarter of the British pop- Murray, Federer and Nadal, but Grand Slam quarter-final appear- Murray that covered the entire ulation tuned in to watch seven of the last 11 have been ances, having not gone out of a front page. AFP Andy Murray become taken by the world number one major before the last eight since Britain’s first men’s Serb and the world number two the 2004 French Open. Wimbledon champion since British player. Federer is adamant that he will 1936, BBC figures released This year alone, Djokovic has be back next year at Wimbledon yesterday showed. won his fourth Australian Open, when he will be six weeks short The British Broadcasting lost a tight five-setter to Nadal of his 33rd birthday. Corporation said Sunday’s in the French Open semi-finals If he were to win a record final attracted a five-minute before his runner-up spot to eighth Wimbledon in 2014, he peak of 17.3 million viewers. Murray at Wimbledon. would become the oldest man to Murray’s triumph drew Murray was runner-up to clinch the title, surpassing Arthur the highest domestic tel- Djokovic in Melbourne and Ashe who was six days away from evision audience for a British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) welcomes Wimbledon skipped Paris because of a back his 32nd birthday when he tri- Murray yawns before an inter- Wimbledon final since at champion Andy Murray as he arrives at 10 Downing Street in central injury. umphed in 1975. view after the tennis player least 1990. AFP London yesterday for a reception a day after he won the Wimbledon But Federer, the holder of a “I still have plans to play for admitted he got one hour of final against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic. record 17 majors, was a beaten many more years to come,” said sleep on Sunday. semi-finalist in Australia and a Federer. AFP TUESDAY 9 JULY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Al Neama, Qatar Al-Anabi’s AlBalooshi Al Nasser finish third in Sarasota wins NHRA race in Ohio SARASOTA, Florida: Qatar’s Ali Al Neama and Mohammed Al Nasser finished third in the Langdon loses semi-final but reclaims top spot in the point standings Superboat class in yesterday’s race on a 5.3-mile course at the 29th Annual Suncoast Super NORWALK, Ohio: Second- team. I am happy to win for Boat Grand Prix Festival at year Top Fuel driver Khalid Sheik Khalid, everybody on the Sarasota in Florida. alBalooshi won the Summit Al-Anabi team, everybody in The Spirit of Qatar 20 crew Racing Equipment NHRA Qatar and everybody who helps held fourth in the unofficial Nationals yesterday for the us with our car.” points standings behind WHM Qatar Al-Anabi Racing Top AlBalooshi pointed out: “After Motorsports, Team Stihl and Fuel Team. we lost here a year ago (12th first- JD Byrider before Sarasota and The two-time World round loss in a row), we were moved closer to JD Byrider in Championship team is owned really down – all the luck seemed third after this excellent podium by Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad to be against us, but after we got finish. Al Thani and the race was the that first round win the next Team Stihl’s Robert Noble and 13th of 24 meets that make up race (Denver, 2012) everything Grant Bruggemann led from the America’s 2013 NHRA Mello changed. Things just seemed to start to record a sensational vic- Yello Drag Racing season. come together for us. My crew tory in the Superboat class from The win is the team’s fourth in chief, Jason McCulloch, has done WHM Motorsports’ Billy Mauff 13 races so far this season. a great job. We had a good car and Jay Muller, as the two boats AlBalooshi was simply bril- today, and the luck seemed to be pulled clear of their rivals in the liant behind the wheel of the with us.” Superboat points standings. 8,000-horsepower gold Al-Anabi The Al-Anabi team played host Sheikh Hassan bin Jabor dragster. to a young guest this weekend Al-Thani, president of the He beat 2012 World Champion in nine-year-old Jacob Delling Qatar Marine Sports Federation Antron Brown in the opening a big drag racing fan from Clio, (QMSF), and British throttle- round and went on to beat Chris Michigan who has lost sight in man Steve Curtis were not able to Karamesines and Clay Millican to both eyes. make the start of the race in their advance to his second final round The Al-Anabi Pro-Mod team new turbine boat, Al Adaa’am 96, of the season where he would face befriended Delling at a race in after a fuel leak was reportedly No. 1 qualifier Doug Kalitta. Michigan last week and then discovered on the new boat. Both drivers left the starting went on to victory there. The stunning new race craft line together. Delling attended the Summit Dubai driver Khalid alBalooshi celebrates his victory at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in was in the pits over race weekend The tyres on Kalitta’s car lost Racing Equipment NHRA Norwalk, Ohio on Sunday. It was AlBalooshi’s first win of the year and the second Top Fuel win of his career. alongside Miss Mary Mac, but traction with the race track, Nationals in Norwalk this week- PICTURE BY: GARY NASTASE further work is required before and alBalooshi sped to a big lead end and had a chance to climb the Mystic boat, which is powered before the tires on the Al-Anabi into alBalooshi’s car earlier in by Whispering turbine engines, is car lost traction. the weekend. AlBalooshi’s win is the third With his semi-final appearance, in Qatar. Our silver Al-Anabi ready for its race debut and ongo- AlBalooshi lifted off the throt- After alBalooshi won the race, in the last four years for the Langdon moves back to first place car was a good-running car all ing competition. tle and got back into it but the car Delling attended the Winner’s Al-Anabi Racing Team at Summit in the NHRA Mello Yello Top weekend; it was great to get that Heavy rain and unsafe condi- went sideways. Circle celebration where he held Motorsports Park. Fuel point standings with a one- track record in the first round on tions on the Ohio River meant He lifted off the throttle again and waved the trophy alBalooshi Also, alBalooshi claimed point lead over Tony Schumacher. Sunday (yesterday).” that racing at the Madison and got back into it just in time received for winning the race. the final automatic spot in the It is the sixth time in as many He explained: In the semifi- Regatta, round three of the 2013 to beat the quickly-closing Kalitta “Once I saw Jacob in the car, I Traxxas Nitro Shootout set for races that an event has ended with nals, we just came out on the H1 Unlimited Championship, for car in the opposite lane and claim knew I had to try to do something September in Indianapolis. either Langdon or Schumacher in wrong end of a great drag race the Lucas Oil Indiana Governor’s his first win of the season and the special this weekend,” alBalooshi Meanwhile, Shawn Langdon the points lead. with Doug Kalitta. We got the Cup race was cancelled. second of his career. added. was the No. 5 qualifier and he set “Today was definitely a great points lead back from Tony Therefore, Kip Brown was not “I felt our car was going to do With the win, alBalooshi the track record for elapsed time day for the Al-Anabi team with (Schumacher), Khalid won the able to take to the water in Spirit something special this weekend,” remains sixth in the NHRA Mello with his 3.752-second pass in the Khalid getting the win,” Langdon race so we have both cars in the of Qatar 95 and attempt to close alBalooshi said. Yello Top Fuel point standings, first round that defeated JR Todd. said. Traxxas Shootout and Khalid is the gap on Jimmy Shane and He added: “Our crew has been but he is just 28 points out of He went on to beat Bob He added: “It’s always good to moving up in points so overall, it Steve David in the H1 National doing a very good job, and this is fifth place and just 36 points out Vandergriff before losing to get a win for team Al-Anabi, for was just a great weekend for the High Points’ standings. a very good win for our Al-Anabi of fourth place. Doug Kalitta in the semi-finals. Sheikh Khalid and everybody team.” THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Corbin breaks McKenzie to Bayern striker Gomez drought to lead replace Deans Diamondbacks as Wallabies to join Fiorentina MUNICH: Mario Gomez will leave Bayern Munich and join Serie past Rockies coach: Reports A’s Fiorentina for next season, ending four years at the Bavarian club during which he scored goals at a prolific rate, won titles and ARIZONA: Patrick Corbin MELBOURNE: Robbie yet ended up losing his first-team place. earned his first win in more Deans’s tenure as Wallabies Treble-winning Bayern confirmed that the clubs had agreed terms than a month as the Arizona coach could end as early as for the 28-year-old Germany international. Diamondbacks marched to a today, with the Australian “It was Mario Gomez’s wish to leave Bayern Munich for Fiorentina,” 6-1 victory over the Colorado Rugby Union set to name Bayern’s chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told the Bavarian Rockies yesterday. Ewen McKenzie as his club’s official website (www.fcbayern.telekom.de). The 23-year-old Corbin (10-1), replacement following the Fiorentina have steered clear of big-name signings in the last few who last enjoyed a winning start disappointing series loss to years and are battling to hold on to key player Stevan Jovetic. on June 2, ended his drought the British and Irish Lions, Gomez will have to go without Champions League football next just one day after being named a according to the local media season as Fiorentina finished fourth in Serie A last season, one place National League All Star. Jonas Blixt of Sweden poses with the trophy following his victory in the yesterday. off the Champions League playoff spot. Corbin tossed eight strong Greenbrier Classic at the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Australia’s first foreign coach, The Germany striker became the Bundesliga’s most expensive sign- innings and had 10 strikeouts for Virginia, yesterday. the 53-year-old New Zealander ing when he moved to Bayern from VfB Stuttgart four years ago and first-place Arizona (47-41), win- is contracted until the end of has a prolific record for the Bavarians, scoring 75 goals in 115 leagues. ners of five straight. the year, which would include However, he spent much of last season as a reserve for Mario The Rockies suffered an injury the Wallabies’ season-ending Mandzukic as Bayern claimed a Bundesliga, German Cup and to outfielder Carlos Gonzalez, Golf: Sweden’s Blixt northern hemisphere tour, but Champions League treble. who left after swinging at a pitch the ARU is unlikely to wait Gomez, who had previously been linked with Napoli, had a disap- in the ninth inning, as well as much longer with two years left pointing first season at Bayern, managing 10 Bundesliga goals and 14 pitcher Roy Oswalt who exited until the 2015 World Cup. in all competitions. in the second inning with a ham- claims Greenbrier title McKenzie, who coached He came good the following year as he scored 28 goals in the string ailment. Super Rugby side Queensland Bundesliga, and 39 in all competitions. In St Louis, Lance Lynn’s WHITE SULPHUR Reds to the southern hemi- He followed that by notching up 26 league goals in the 2011/12 season, 11th win of season allowed the SPRINGS, West Virginia: US PGA Greenbrier sphere title in 2011, will be plus 13 in the Champions League and two in the Cup, but he failed to Cardinals to beat Miami 3-2 and Sweden’s Jonas Blixt outdu- unveiled today as the Wallabies’ score when it mattered, in the final against Chelsea when Bayern lost catch Pittsburgh for first place in eled four rivals in near dark- Classic Scores coach until the next World Cup, on penalties after a 1-1 draw. REUTERS the NL Central. ness yesterday to win the $6.3m WHITE SULPHUR the Sydney Morning Herald Lynn (11-3), who had lost his Greenbrier Classic by two SPRINGS, West Virginia: reported. Abidal returns last two starts, tossed seven strokes for his second career US Leading scores yesterday after The ACT Brumbies’ World innings and allowed two runs PGA Tour title. the final round of the $6.3m US Cup-winning coach Jake White to catapult St. Louis to the big In a final round that was halted PGA Greenbrier Classic (USA was also considered a strong to Monaco triumph. for more than three hours by a unless noted, par-70): candidate but eventually lost Matt Holliday hit a home run thunderstorm and ended in twi- out to McKenzie, according to MONACO: French interna- 267 Jonas Blixt (SWE) and the home team added two light gloom, Blixt fired a three- the reports. tional defender Eric Abidal (pic- 66-67-67-67 runs in the third. REUTERS under par 67 for the third day in The 2-1 series loss to the tured) has signed a one-year a row to finish on 13-under 267, 269 Steven Bowditch (AUS) Lions, capped by a thump- contract with Ligue 1 newcom- his first top-10 PGA Tour finish 65-67-69-68, Matt Jones ing 41-16 defeat in the Sydney ers Monaco, the big-spending Baseball Results of the year. (AUS) 69-66-66-68, decider on Saturday, offers the principality club said yesterday. Cleveland 9 Detroit 6 “It has been a bad year for me Jimmy Walker 69-65- perfect excuse for the ARU to The 33-year-old, who left Baltimore 2 NY Yankees 1 but I just pulled it off,” a tearful 64-71, Johnson Wagner strike. Spanish La Liga champions 62-70-64-73 Toronto 11 Minnesota 5 Blixt said. “I can’t believe it. I’m “One of the things we do at Barcelona at the end of last season 271 Ted Potter 69-66-69-67, Seattle 3 Cincinnati 1 just really happy.” the end of a series like this is following six years in Catalonia, Brian Stuard 71-66-67-67, Washington 11 San Diego 7 Blixt won the $1.13m top prize a review and that will be part has an option for a second season. and clinched a berth in next year’s Pat Perez 71-65-66-69 of the review,” ARU boss Bill It is a return to Monte Carlo Philadelphia 7 Atlanta 3 French international football Masters, a huge feat for a golfer 272 Daniel Summerhays 65-67- Pulver said in comments pub- for Abidal, who has played most Tampa Bay 3 Chicago White Sox 1 defender Eric Abidal holds his who has never played in a major 73-67, Davis Love 67-70- lished by The Australian news- of his career at left-back but did football jersey as he poses after Oakland 10 Kansas City 4 championship. 68-67, David Lingmerth paper yesterday, referring to feature in the middle of defence a press conference, yesterday. NY Mets 2 Milwaukee 1 “A dream come true,” Blixt said. (SWE) 71-66-67-68, Tim Deans’s tenure. for Barca, having spent two sea- St Louis 3 Miami 2 “I watched (the Masters) when I Petrovic 69-68-67-68, Tag The publication added: “We’ll sons there at the beginning of the Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 3 was a kid. I always wanted to play Ridings 65-69-68-70, Rory start that this week. It will be last decade. in April earlier this year. Abidal there. It’s a special place, almost Sabbatini (RSA) 70-65-67- imminent. We need a brief cool- The former Lille and Lyon had said he wanted to remain Texas 5 Houston 4 like a religious experience to be 70, Lee Dong-Hwan (KOR) ing-off period to observe what player underwent a liver trans- at Barca but the Spanish giants LA Dodgers 4 San Francisco 1 there. 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MADRID: Atletico Madrid reached an agreement to sign experience in Ashes series Spain striker David Villa from Spanish champions Barcelona yesterday, in what could be one of the bargain deals of the The hosts, Australia renew rivalry tomorrow in first Test at Trent Bridge closed season. The 31-year-old, Spain’s all- time leading scorer, will move for LONDON: A battle-hardened a fee of up to €5.1m ($6.55m) with Itinerary and experienced England side Barca reserving 50 percent of the go into the five-match Test rights over any future transfer. July 10-14: 1st Test, Trent series against a callow-look- Atletico will pay €2.1m this sea- Bridge ing Australian team as strong son, a further €2m if the player July 18-22: 2nd Test, Lord’s favourites to retain the Ashes. continues to play at the Calderon August 1-5: 3rd Test, Old While Australian preparations in the 2014/15 season, and another Trafford have been dogged by problems on one million if he extends his con- and off the pitch, Alastair Cook’s tract to 2016, Barca said in a August 9-13: 4th Test, England have quietly gone about statement. Chester-le-Street their business, beating New “The agreement and the sign- August 21-25: 5th Test, The Zealand 2-0 in a warmup series ing of Villa as a new player at Oval and on Saturday they named a Atletico will be formalised after familiar 13-man squad. the player has taken a medical,” Squads “This bunch of cricketers have Atletico said on their Twitter fought a lot of campaigns and won feed. England: Alastair Cook cap- a lot together,” England coach The arrival of young Brazil for- tain), Joe Root, Jonathan Trott, Andy Flower said. ward Neymar at the Nou Camp Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Jonny “They are match-hardened had threatened to push Villa even Bairstow, Matt Prior, Tim - that should give them a lot of further out of the reckoning in Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Graeme confidence. Tito Vilanova’s side, after a season Swann, Steven Finn, James “We were pretty clear what our where he struggled to hold down Anderson, Graham Onions. squad would be and what our XI a regular first team place. Australia: Michael Clarke will be,” added Flower. LEFT: England’s Graeme Swann gestures as team-mate Kevin With the World Cup finals (captain), Shane Watson, The mercurial Kevin Pietersen Pietersen looks on during a training session before tomorrow’s looming in Brazil next year, Villa Brad Haddin, Ryan Harris, has been recalled after missing first Test match against Australia at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, will be keen to make sure he is Ed Cowan, Peter Siddle, David the New Zealand series due to England, yesterday. TOP: Australia’s Michael Clarke (left) looks on playing regular football at the injury and his presence in the highest level. Warner, Phillips Hughes, Steven as Shane Watson takes a catch. Smith, Mitchell Starc, Usman middle order gives Cook another The signing is something of Khawaja, James Pattinson, major weapon in his first Ashes a coup for King’s Cup winners James Faulkner, Nathan Lyon, series as captain. “The English quicks are cer- experience in the middle order than a genuine wicket-taker like Atletico, who were looking for a Matthew Wade. “Pietersen’s got that X-factor. tainly as good as there are in the and the form of captain Michael Swann. replacement for Colombia striker He hasn’t played much cricket world at the moment and have Clarke will be vital. England have won three of the Radamel Falcao after he left to but he’s like Shane Warne - he been for the last few years,” said Thirty-two-year-old Clarke last four Ashes series includ- join Monaco. REUTERS Past Five loves the big moments and Ashes Australia opener Shane Watson has struggled with a back injury ing a 3-1 victory in Australia in series,” former Australia batsman ahead of the first Test. this year, missing last month’s 2010-11 but Martyn believes the Damien Martyn said. “It is the ultimate challenge to Champions Trophy, but he has appointment of Darren Lehmann Ronaldo wants Results England’s batsmen have made be able to take on the best bowlers looked in good touch in the war- as coach two weeks ago gives the 2002/03 over 80 Test centuries between with a brand new ball, sometimes mup matches. touring side a better chance of to retire at Real, Hosts Australia won 4-1 them, Cook leading the way with with bowler-friendly conditions as His form with the bat since reclaiming the urn. 25 followed by Pietersen on 22. well, so if I can’t get up for that taking over the captaincy has “In Australia, there’s a huge says Perez 2005 But the team’s recent success has there’s no point in playing.” been outstanding and he has made buzz now the coach has changed,” Hosts England won 2-1 been built around their fast bowl- Watson will be a key player for 23 Test centuries in total, nearly he said. “There’s a lot more 2006/07 ing attack led by James Anderson Australia and will open the bat- twice as many as his team-mates excitement. MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo Hosts Australia won 5-0 and Stuart Broad. ting with the 35-year-old Chris have managed between them. “We’re starting to believe that wants to play out the rest of 2009 Steven Finn, Tim Bresnan and Rogers who has only played one Peter Siddle, James Pattinson we can win this, we can compete his career at Real Madrid, club Hosts England won 2-1 Graham Onions are fighting for Test match in his career. and Mitchell Starc will lead the with England and pull off a win.” president Florentino Perez said the final place in the attack with The retirements of Ricky pace attack, probably supported The first Test of the series starts in an interview yesterday. 2010/11 off-spinner Graeme Swann cer- Ponting and Michael Hussey by off-spinner Nathan Lyon who at Trent Bridge, Nottingham The Portugal forward and Visitors England won 3-1 tain to play. have left Australia very short of is a more of a containing bowler tomorrow. REUTERS former World Player of the Year has a contract with the Spanish giants until 2015 but media specu- lation has linked the 28-year-old with a possible move away from Andy Murray poses with the the Bernabeu. Wimbledon trophy next to a “The person who wants to Murray targets more statue of Fred Perry, the last retire at Real Madrid is Ronaldo, British player to win the same and Real want him to retire here event in 1936, at the All England too,” Perez, who has just been Club in Wimbledon, yesterday. elected for another four-year Slams after historic win term as president, told broad- caster Univision in quotes carried in the Spanish media. LONDON: Andy Murray said is worth it. I just need to make means - I think that will take “There haven’t been any nego- yesterday he was determined sure I don’t get sidetracked by longer than 24 hours to sink in tiations (on a new deal) because to push on from his historic anything after the next few days. and understand it.” he is on holiday. Be in no doubt, Wimbledon win and add fur- Yes enjoy it and celebrate, then Despite the win, his second Cristiano will retire here because ther Grand Slam titles to his go away, rest up and get ready for Grand Slam triumph after the he wants to. Just as (Zinedine) achievements. the US Open. US Open, Murray will remain Zidane and other great players Speaking after a near sleep- “I’ve never had to defend a as world number two behind the have done.” less night, Murray returned early Grand Slam before, that will be a Serb. Real have presented two new morning to his press duties hailed new experience for me, and I look Replacing him one day as the signings as they start to rebuild as a national hero, having become forward to that.” top ranked player was something under new coach Carlo Ancelotti, the first British player to lift the Murray said that the whirlwind he aspired to, but Murray knows with playmaker Isco and defender famed gold trophy in 77 years. of media interviews and official that will unlikely be this year as Dani Carvajal brought in from His emotion-charged 6-4, 7-5, duties as a Wimbledon winner he cannot gain any points at the Malaga and Bayer Leverkusen 6-4 win over top seed Novak had left him in a kind of a daze. US Open as he is the defending respectively. Djokovic on a baking-hot centre “No-one could really believe it champion. The nine-times European court on Sunday left the 26-year and I was the same,” he said of his “It’s a tough one for me because champions have been linked Scot drained. Next up, he knows, own feelings and that of his family right now I’ve won two slams and with a possible bid for Wales will be the defence of his US Open and entourage. been in the final of a third one and Tottenham Hotspur winger crown in New York in September “You don’t want to go to sleep and I hold the Olympic gold, and Gareth Bale, but Perez played with the US hard court season set in case you wake up and it didn’t I’m nowhere near being number down the speculation. to kick in at Montreal in less than actually happen. I was just mes- one.” he said. “He is a great player that a month’s time. saging my friends and laying in “I don’t know exactly why that belongs to a club we are very “I hope I don’t lose hunger. bed. It was tough to get to sleep is. Maybe I need to be more con- friendly with,” he said. “But we I should be able to use this for last night. sistent in the other events. Murray’s historic win sparked that he could think of no-one haven’t made any offer.” motivation, the Scot said of his “I’m sure I will see some of the “Missing the French Open immediate speculation that he who was more deserving of such While Real are reportedly Wimbledon triumph. newspapers around. I’ve some of obviously didn’t help that but I would be awarded a knighthood an honour. close to landing Real Sociedad “I know what it’s like losing in a the back pages and front pages would rather not get to number by the queen for his achievement. Asked about the possibility of midfielder Asier Illarramendi, Wimbledon final and I know what of the newspapers this morning. one and win more grand slams Prime Minister David Cameron, a knighthood, Murray remained the future of Argentina striker it’s like winning one, and it’s a lot “I know I won Wimbledon than never win another Grand who watched the final from the coy saying that he was not sure Gonzalo Higuain remains uncer- better winning. The hard work yesterday but what it actually Slam and get to number one.” centre court Royal Court, said he was worthy of it. AFP tain. REUTERS