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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Heir Apparent Arabs recognise Syrian rebel bloc to open food It is the legitimate representative of opposition, says PM; other groups urged to join security forum DOHA: The Heir Apparent CAIRO: The Arab League states, Iraq and Algeria expressed H H Sheikh Tamim bin yesterday recognised a newly reservations about the statement, Hamad Al Thani will open the formed Syrian opposition bloc an Arab League official said. International Conference on as “legitimate,” urging more The coalition’s newly installed Food Security in Dry Lands opposition groups to join the leader, Ahmed Moaz Al Khatib (FSDL) at the Qatar University coalition. made a concerted effort to address tomorrow. The two-day confer- Arab foreign ministers in a the sectarian and ethnic acrimony ence is organised by the National statement after talks called the underlying 20 months of civil war Food Security Programme in National Council, formed in Doha that has killed 38,000 people. “We collaboration with a consortium on Sunday, “the legitimate repre- demand freedom for every Sunni, of national, regional and inter- sentative and main interlocutor Alawi, Ismaili, Christian, Druze, national partner institutions. with the Arab League”. Assyrian ... and rights for all parts More than 400 participants from “It is the legitimate repre- of the harmonious Syrian people,” 50 countries and some 40 high- sentative of the Syrian opposi- he said, calling on Syrian soldiers level officials will be attending tion,” Qatar’s Prime Minister and to desert and all sects to unite. the event. Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Qatar’s Minister of State for See also page 3 Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Foreign Affairs H E Khaled Al Thani, who heads the Arab League Attiya said recognition would group for Syria, told reporters. remove any obstacles to the oppo- Military exercises Arab League Secretary General sition’s securing arms for rebel Nabil Al Arabi and the UN-Arab fighters on the ground. begin today envoy to Syria Lakhdar Al Brahimi “When they get the legitimacy DOHA: Qatar’s defence forces were present. from the international arena they have urged the public not to panic The top diplomats called on can go and contract whatever as a three-day training exercise “the rest of the opposition to join they want themselves, because is scheduled to begin today in dif- this national coalition so that it they would be recognised as full ferent areas and streets of Doha, brings together all segments of legitimate government whether Qatar News Agency reports. The the Syrian people”. They also in exile or whether inside Syria,” exercises will also involve troops urged “regional and international he said in an interview to be aired from several friendly and ‘broth- groups to recognise (the bloc) as on Al Jazeera television. erly’ countries, the agency said. a national representative of the Meanwhile, the Gulf The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani arriving for Arab League Lekhwiya as well as the Civil aspirations of the Syrian people.” Cooperation Council, earlier in foreign ministers’ meeting on Syria at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo yesterday. Defence and military police will They granted the coalition the the day, said that its six mem- also have their vehicles operating in status of an observer. The min- ber states have decided to recog- the United Arab Emirates — The statement said the GCC The GCC chief also said he the exercises that last till Thursday. isters called on the UN Security nise the newly formed National became the first to recognise the was “looking forward to Arab hoped that the formation of the The public has been asked to take Council to approve a ceasefire reso- Coalition of the Syrian opposition opposition coalition. states and the international new coalition “would lead to precautions presumably as the lution in line with Chapter VII of as the legitimate representative of “The states of the coun- community recognising the coa- ending the bloodshed, protect troop movements could cause traf- the UN charter. They assigned the the Syrian people. cil announce recognising the lition”. “Council states will pro- the territorial unity of Syria, and fic snarls. “The General Command chairman of the Arab League Syria The Gulf Cooperation Council’s National Coalition for the Forces vide support to this new entity, to hold a general national con- of the Qatar’s Armed Forces has committee and the Arab League move came a year to the day of the Syrian Revolution and in order to achieve the aspira- gress to pave the way to build a cautioned the public not to panic Secretary General to head to the after the Arab League suspended Opposition... as the legitimate tions of the Syrian people, in state ruled by law and open to all and called on them to cooperate in UN Security Council to seek an Syria’s membership. The GCC representative of the brotherly hope that this (coalition) will be its citizens without exceptions order to the facilitate the movement urgent action regarding Syria. members — Bahrain, Kuwait, Syrian people,” GCC Secretary- a step towards a quick political or discrimination”. AGENCIES of troops,” QNA said. In a sign of divisions among Arab Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and General Abdullatif Al Zayani said. transfer of power,” Zayani said. See also pages 7 & 10 THE PENINSULA

Messi in Saudi Saudi complains Qatar to invest $200bn to UN about Iranian intrusion in infrastructure sector JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has DOHA: The size of Qatar’s becoming a becoming a two-way accused Iran of straying onto its infrastructure investment is investments, he said. territory near oil and gas fields projected to exceed an esti- The Minister noted Qatar’s in the Gulf and warned it was mated $200bn over the next leading economic indicators looking at how to respond, the ten years. The country has are as strong as any developed Saudi ambassador to the United already decided to invest economies. The country’s econ- Nations said. $140bn in the sector during the omy has been growing double In a letter to UN Secretary- coming five years, H E Yousuf digit over the past several years. General Ban Ki-moon, Saudi Hussein Kamal, Minister of Driven by huge increase in the authorities said Iranian helicop- Economy and Finance said prices of hydrocarbon, Qatar’s ters flew several times over a here yesterday. nominal GDP has grown to a gas field at Hasba, Abdullah Al Delivering the opening high 36.3 percent, he said. Mualimi was quoted as saying in address at the four-day Mena To support the growth in the the daily newspaper Okaz yes- Investment Management Forum dynamic private sector, Qatar terday. The letter also said two (MIMF) here, the minister said, has got one of the best legal Iranian navy boats intercepted a with announcement of multi- and regulatory environments in vessel belonging to state-owned billion development projects, place. The country’s tax system oil giant Saudi Aramco. Qatar has emerged as the glo- and institutional framework “I have submitted to Secretary- bal leader in the infrastructure are ideal and conducive for the General Ban Ki-moon a letter Argentinian football player Lionel Messi is escorted by security personnel as he arrives with his team in investment. strong growth of the financial that details Iran’s breaches of Riyadh yesterday. Argentina will play a friendly match against Saudi Arabia tomorrow. “The investment in the infra- sector. the official conventions and trea- structure projects is a major With its strong economic fun- ties between it and Saudi Arabia,” source of Qatar’s economic diver- damentals and highest standard Okaz quoted Mualimi as saying. sification. The upcoming rail of transparency, Qatar offers A Foreign Ministry spokesman and metro projects, New Doha great confidence to investors. A declined to comment. Mualimi International airports and the competitive tax structure and was quoted as saying the Saudi Forged papers used for firms’ renewal Lusail City projects offer wide a legal system based on English government had not requested range of funding opportunities common law are integral part of international intervention but was for the investors.” Qatar’s financial sector. “studying the appropriate practical DOHA: Some companies whose with a white paper and make a concerned to immediately stop all With Qatar Investment The international best prac- steps to deal with the issue”. He said commercial registration has photocopy in colour so that the the activities of that company. We Authority and its subsidiaries tices being pursued by the Qatar the kingdom reserved the right to been suspended or frozen try document could pass as original. can also refer such cases to the looking forward to forming well- Financial Centre has attracted respond with appropriate action to to get it renewed using forged “Some Mandoobs are doing this Public Prosecution,” said Al Ahwal. picked portfolio of assets, the many international companies protect its territory and oil. documents, an official of the to help their companies or under However, there are some country is looking beyond domes- that sought to get a base in the The Saudi Foreign Ministry Ministry of Justice has said. their instruction,” said Al Ahwal. Mandoobs who resort to such tic investments. region, Yousuf Hussein said. has sent a letter to the Iranian The certificate authentication Companies that resort to such tactics without knowing the seri- Qatar’s proposed development The regulatory authorities Foreign Ministry asking that such office at the Ministry has come falsification are mostly those that ousness of their act, he added. projects offer great opportuni- have taken series of steps to incidents are not repeated and across several forged documents fell in trouble due to indebtedness Falsification is also detected in ties for the potential investors reform the financial market to stressing that the areas where submitted by representatives or financial crisis. documents of some car rental and local banks. There is enough help boost liquidity and deter- the incidents occurred are Saudi- (Mandoob) of such companies, Al When the Office suspects a foul companies which try to sell out scope for the fund managers mine a fair market price. Qatar owned under agreements signed Sharq reported yesterday quot- play it asks for further documents their vehicles to other companies. to tap various portfolios. The has amended laws to encour- between the two countries in 1968, ing Saeed Saleh Al Ahwal, head and verify the authenticity of the He said the office endorses an upcoming projects will not only age trade settlements and Mualimi said. of the office. certificate by cross checking with average 140 documents daily of benefit Qatar but would act as attract investments to Small Separated by about 250km One of the common techniques the copy that will be available at different types. It has a branch a great impetus to the growth and Medium-sized Enterprises of Gulf waters, Iran and Saudi used by the Mandoobs is to cover its archives. at the Ministry of Business and agenda of neighbouring coun- (SMEs). Arabia have often tense relations. the seal which shows the regis- “When we detect the forgery, Trade to deal with sale contracts. tries. The world of investments THE PENINSULA REUTERS tration is suspended or frozen we would ask the authorities THE PENINSULA is fast changing. It is increasingly See also page 21

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Emir meets Croatian President WISE begins today Heir Apparent with delegates from over 100 countries DOHA: The fourth World Innovation Summit for to open food Education (WISE) will begin today at the Qatar National Convention Centre under the theme ‘Collaborating for security forum Change’ and will look at how different collaborations can become the driving force for innovation in education. Experts to discuss dry land farming This year the second day of the summit is considered highly DOHA: The Heir Apparent of the Global Dry Land Alliance important as H H Sheikha Moza H H Sheikh Tamim bin (GDLA). This Qatar-led initia- bint Nasser will launch a new glo- Hamad Al Thani will open the tive aims to establish a platform bal initiative to bring high quality International Conference on for collaboration among dry land education to the hardest to reach Food Security in Dry Lands countries working to overcome 61 million primary school age chil- (FSDL) at the Qatar University the challenges of food and water dren who are denied a basic edu- tomorrow. insecurity by collectively harness- cation, 28 million of whom are in The two-day conference is ing their science, technology and conflict zones worldwide. organised by the National Food finance capabilities. The summit will today award Security Programme (QNFSP) in The conference is supported an individual or a team in rec- collaboration with a consortium by 10 international organisations, ognition of an outstanding con- of national, regional and interna- including the International Fund tribution to education with the tional partner institutions. for Agricultural Development WISE prize for education for the More than 400 participants (IFAD), the Islamic Development second year. from 50 countries and some 40 Bank (IDB), the World Bank The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with the Croatian President Ivo Josipovic at the Emiri Diwan The 2012 WISE Book, high-level officials including min- (WB) and the Climate Change, yesterday. The two leaders reviewed bilateral relations and a range of regional and international issues. “Learning a Living: Radical isters and undersecretaries, heads Agriculture and Food Security Innovation in Education for of regional and international Research Programme (CCAFS) Work,” that explores the relation- organisations and public insti- of the Consultative Group on ship between education and the tutions are expected to attend International Agricultural Heir Apparent meets Bulgarian Minister world of work, will be presented the event. The conference presi- Research (CGIAR). Advisory Council to the participants today. dent and executive chairman of The opening ceremony, the ple- The Annual WISE Awards will QNFSP, Fahad bin Mohamed nary panel discussion, the minis- sets up five be given to six innovative educa- Al Attiya described the confer- terial dialogue sessions and the tion projects on the second day of ence as “a groundbreaking event closing session will be held at the committees the summit. that seeks to address some of the Ibn Khaldoun Conference Hall of The three-day summit will most daunting challenges dry land Qatar University. DOHA: The Advisory gather 1,000 prominent education, countries face in their search for The thematic sessions are Council at its weekly ses- corporate, political and social food security.” organised by conveners from sion yesterday set up five leaders from over 100 countries, The conference will focus on 10 partnering organisations, permanent committees to with a large representation form three main issues: food security; including IFAD, WB, the United deal with different issues the Arab countries. demand and management of Nations Food and Agriculture and areas. On the first day the opening water resources and responsible Organization (FAO), the United The committees are: Legal plenary session will be on the agricultural investments. It will Nations Education, Science and and legislative affairs (11 summit’s theme ‘Collaborating for have 12 parallel technical sessions Culture Organization (UNESCO), members), Finance and eco- Change’ with politicians, cooper- and a “ministerial dialogue on dry the International Centre for nomic affairs (10 members), ate sector and representatives of land agriculture in a changing Agricultural Research in Dry Services and public facilities Unesco. This will be followed by climate.” Areas (ICARDA), the Center (10 members), Internal and the thematic plenary session on Some 30 papers, analytical for International and Regional external affairs (13 mem- ‘Educating for Our Times.’ studies and presentations will be Studies (CIRS) of Georgetown bers), Media and cultural On the third day the summit presented at the various sessions. University, the Kings College affairs (13 members). will examine forms of effective In addition to setting the stage London (KCL) and Qatar The Council chairman and practical collaboration in for discussions on climate, the Environment and Energy The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Mohammed bin Mubarak Al designing the future of educa- conference deliberations are Research Institute (QEERI) of Bulgarian Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Liliana Khulaifi presided over the tion and the plenary sessions will expected to contribute to boost- Qatar Foundation. Bvalova at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. meeting. THE PENINSULA be held on ‘Building a Learning ing support for the establishment THE PENINSULA World.’ THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QR60,000 for Pakistani visas in black market Salaries may DOHA: Work visas for crime,” said Al Dosri. And a new exists only on paper so it man- be reined in because the illegal Pakistanis carry a huge pre- trend is emerging in the black ages to get work visas) and then visa trade is posing grave threats mium in the black market and marketing of the visa — after a it is the expatriates who help such to social stability and security as are available for up to an incred- victim has arrived here having company owners to sell ‘free visas’ its victims are forced to take to increase by ible QR60,000 even as the public paid through his nose for a ‘free at exorbitant rates, Al Sheeb said. crime in desperation. representative body, the Central visa’ the nasty racketeers (who And the victims are known to “They (the victims) sell their Municipal Council (CMC), says have sold him the visa) declare these unethical expatriates. properties or take loans back it is readying itself to raise the him a runaway worker in order According to Al Dosri, fake home to get employment here but issue of the illegal visa trade to safeguard themselves against companies must be identified at when they arrive here they are 5.6pc next year and fight the menace. any possible legal repercussions. the time they apply for renew- frustrated to find there is no job Local Arabic daily Al Raya “Normally, a fake company ing their commercial license and so they are forced to indulge in reported yesterday quoting a busi- owner would approach the law- action should be initiated against crime like selling drugs or doing nessman, Rashid Al Dosri, that the enforcement agency after a few them so their nasty operations immoral activity,” said Al Jefairi. 8pc of firms project a salary freeze rate of ‘free visas’ for Pakistanis days or weeks of the arrival of cease, suggested CMC member, CMC chairman, Saud Al had soared to QR60,000, while a victim worker and file a com- Mohamed Saleh Al Khayarin. Hanzab said that CMC was aware DOHA: Aon Hewitt, the global Country variations that for Bangladeshis ranged plaint that he has run away,” Another CMC member, Hamad of the thriving visa racket and human resources business of between QR15,000 and QR20,000. CMC member, Ahmed Al Sheeb, Saleh Al Haul, said that the public would discuss the issue thread- Aon Plc yesterday announced Anticipated Actual He added that the hapless vic- told the daily. representative body has actually bare. The illegal visa trade is the results of its annual Middle Salary Salary Country Change tims of the money-spinning visa Then, there are some fake com- urged the Ministry of Interior human trafficking in the eyes of East Salary Increase Survey rises in rises in racket had no choice but to take panies that manage to sell 10 to to crack down on the ‘free visa’ the law so it must be dealt with an 2012. The report, based on 2013 2012 to crime. 20 work visas and allow the work- racket and bring the culprits to iron hand, he said. Mohamed Al inputs from a robust compara- “A victim pays so much of ers to take up jobs elsewhere only book. Hajri, another CMC member, said tor group of over 500 organi- Bahrain 4.7% 4.4% +0.3 money to land here to take up a to collect a ‘fee’ from them on a A former member of the that even educated people were sations from 26 sectors in the Egypt 9.5% 8.8% +0.7 job and when he finds there is no monthly or yearly basis, he said. Advisory Council, Abdulrahman falling victim to the visa racket- Middle East, suggests that Jordan 6.6% 6.1% +0.5 job for him it is natural that he One or two persons (a refer- Al Jefairi, said that the issue was eers and some were forced to take there will be an average salary Kuwait 5.8% 6.2% 0.4 gets utterly frustrated. He can, ence to fellow nationals) set up once raised in the House and it up menial jobs. increase of 5.6 percent for Qatar therefore, take to all kinds of a fake company (a company that was discussed that fake companies THE PENINSULA next year, based on the input of Lebanon 6.0% 6.4% 0.4 42 Qatari companies participat- Oman 5.6% 5.4% +0.2 ing in the survey. No Qatar 5.6% 5.6% Aon Hewitt has been conduct- Change ing the survey on an annual basis Saudi No 5.8% 5.8% across the globe for 36 years and Arabia Change launched it in the Middle East for UAE 5.1% 5.2% 0.1 Shafallah researchers take part in US forum the first time in 2009. The survey is conducted in nine countries in macro-indicators have shown that DOHA: Four researchers from American Society of Human research activities they performed advances in bioinformatics tools the region, including: Bahrain, the economic scenario continues the Shafallah Medical Genetics Genetics members and leading in the Shafallah Medical Genetics that were adopted by the Shafallah Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, to move in a positive direction Center (SMGC) took part in scientists from around the world Center in Doha. Medical Genetics Center to ana- Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and with corporates continuing to an international human genet- were selected to present their Two posters reported on gene lyze large sets of genomic data. United Arab Emirates. show confidence in the 2013 eco- ics meeting in San Francisco, research findings or poster ses- discovery in two rare genetic con- Two posters identify novel A 6.08 percent salary increase nomic outlook. In Qatar, we are California, in the United States. sions, during the five- day event. ditions. One condition is found in mutations in previously described was projected next year for the seeing more and more employ- They presented findings of their In addition, the event show- one Qatari family and is related to genes and their relation to specific Middle East as a whole and an ers projecting a salary freeze for research projects that were pro- cased state-of-the-art medical mental retardation and multiple genetic disorders. average increase of 5.4 percent for 2013 which implies that employ- duced in Qatar. and laboratory equipment, prod- birth defects. The results of the research pre- the GCC, the same as the projec- ers are being cautious following The meeting that concluded ucts, services and computer soft- The other condition represents sented at this meeting will be pub- tion made last year and this year. the decision to increase salaries on Friday was the largest human ware designed to enhance human a skin disease associated with a lished in good scientific journals, The report highlights that for Qatari nationals working with genetics meeting and exposition genetics research, teaching and kidney defect with abnormal skin thus marking the contribution of fewer organisations in the Middle state departments by 60 percent in the world. It attracted about diagnostics. and low potassium levels in the Qatar to the human genetics lit- East are thinking about salary last year. However, the good news 7,000 delegates and more than 200 The four researchers presented blood of patients. erature. THE PENINSULA freezes. Only 1.3 percent of organ- for employees is that, at large, exhibiting companies. five posters that reflected on the A third poster reflected on the isations in UAE have projected a there are no further reductions salary freeze next year compared in the salary increase projections to 4.1 percent this year. for the next year. We have also The major exception to this observed that organisations have trend is Qatar where at least 8 increasingly been linking salary percent of organisations have pro- rewards to performance, which jected a salary freeze next year is a healthy trend and indicates against 2.4 percent this year. This the increasing maturity level of may be attributed to the high the market.” salary increase given to Qatari The survey is part of Aon National employees in 2011, Hewitt’s suite of evidence-based, with organisations now trying to research-led studies includ- induce market competitiveness to ing Qudurat, Best Employers normalise the impact. Middle East (BEME), Total Martin McGuigan, Head Compensation Measurement of Reward Consulting, Aon (TCM) and People Risk Index Hewitt Middle East said: “All (PRI). THE PENINSULA

Researchers from the Shafallah Medical Genetics Center at the meeting. An illustration map of the diversion. Street No. 15 roundabout closed Vodafone expands customer base DOHA: Public Works Authority and U-turn on the rounda- (Ashghal) has announced the bout, between Salwa Road and DOHA: Vodafone Qatar has expanded its customer base by closure of the roundabout at Muntaza Street will remain 7 percent in the second quarter, it said in a Qatar Exchange street No. 15 at Industrial Area closed. Commuters can turn filing yesterday. The company had 936,300 mobile customers effective from November 11 southward or take U-turn near as of September 30, up from 878,200 at June-end. Its financial until a new diversion is opened street No. 29 or near Muntaza year starts on April 1. The company will report its second- at the project site. Street roundabout. quarter earnings tomorrow. THE PENINSULA During this period, left turn THE PENINSULA

School Health Unit moved to new building DOHA: The School Health Unit has moved to a new building at the Mesaimeer health center, the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) announced yesterday. The School Health Unit provides students with psy- chiatry services, as well as paediatric, clinical psychol- ogy and social worker serv- ices. However, all students requiring the services of the ENT, Ophthalmology, and Obesity/Dietary Clinics, must go directly to their registered primary health care centre. Entrance for the stu- dents to the new facil- ity will be from the rear entrance of the Mesaimeer Health Center. The students utilising the school health services will still have the same physicians consulting them. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Annual neural networks meet opens in Doha Qatar first Arab country to host conference

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DOHA: Qatar is committed to ensure a knowledge based economy and post-hydrocarbon prosperity through diversifica- tion of industries, investment in education and research and collaboration with international organisations, the Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman of Qatar Petroleum, H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, has said. Dr Al Sada was speaking at the opening of the four-day 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) yesterday at the The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada Renaissance Doha City Centre speaking at the opening of the 9th International Conference on Neural Hotel. Information Processing in Doha yesterday. ABDUL BASIT Qatar is the first Arab country to host the annual conference of the Asia Pacific Neural Network many fields since its inception in recommending action, selection Assembly (APNNA) which wel- 1994. and design of Enhanced Oil and comes distinguished scholars in Artificial neural networks, a Recovery (EOR) processes, well the field of neural networks. biologically inspired computing stimulation, testing and logging Part of its plans as an oil and methodology, have the ability to and prediction of fluid properties. gas producing nation under the learn by imitating the learning “Texas A&M at Qatar is hon- wise leadership of the Emir H H method used in the human brain. oured to help bring this impor- Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al The minister said over the tant conference to Doha. As Thani, the Minister said “Qatar years, neural networks appli- Qatar moves toward becoming a is committed to ensure its post- cations have led to remarkable knowledge-based economy, dia- hydrocarbon prosperity through advancement on various sectors logues such as ICONIP become development and diversification of such as financial, medicine, manu- even more important to growth industries into a knowledge-based facturing and engineering. as they help academics and indus- economy.” He stressed the useful applica- try practitioners come together to “In line with this strategy tion of neural networks in impor- solve tomorrow’s problems with Qatar is investing on education, tant fields especially on oil and these new techniques,” said Dr technology, scientific research. gas exploration and determining Mark Weichold, Texas A&M at Qatar is also forging partner- reservoir properties from well Qatar dean and CEO and confer- ships with international organi- logs. ence chair. sations paving way to developing a Neural networks’ uses in the Scholars from 60 countries sub- knowledge-based society,” he told energy industry include inter- mitted nearly 700 papers for pres- hundreds of people in attendance. preting logs, diagnosing and entation at the event. In addition Opportunities for scientific col- prescribing remedies for stuck to nearly 320 oral presentations laboration and exchange such as drill pipes, locating mineral and 100 poster presentations, ICONIP, he stressed are a part deposits, configuring seismic the program includes about 30 of the country’s exciting future. processing runs, selecting opti- keynotes, plenary and invited He lauded ICONIP for hav- mal drilling mud, identifying speeches and two panels. ing paved the way to advances in the causes of chemical spills and THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Piracy a major challenge in Gulf waters: Official Pakistani Naval Ship ‘Khaibar’ berths in Qatar to take part in ‘Ferocious Falcon 3’ defence exercise

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DOHA: Somali sea pirates are not only fierce, they are quite shrewd as well as they ‘reinvest’ their ill-gotten ‘earnings’ from piracy in high-tech equipment to further their sinister opera- tions, says a senior Pakistani naval officer. With the ransoms they get from their victims they buy better GPS (global positioning systems) equipment and modern weapons, said Commodore Zafar Mansoor Tipu. Merchant navy ships moving in the seas that the Somali pirates have sway over are literally defenceless against them because Captain Muhammad Faisal Abbasi, the Commanding Officer of PNS Khaibar as per international maritime (left) and Commodore Zafar Mansoor Tipu, the Defence Attache of the rules, they cannot carry weapons Pakistani Embassy during the press conference on board the PNS Khaibar or firearms even for self-defence, in Doha yesterday. PICTURES BY ABDUL BASIT according to Tipu. He, however, noted that with the presence of taskforce 151 and the exercise. “This includes tac- “Cargo worth tens of millions other countries operating there tics to protect oil platforms, LNG of dollars move from this area in independently, there has been a carriers, and then, ways to pro- vessels and apart from human reduction in the piracy attacks. tect the tankers from pirates or and economic risks, there are Tipu was speaking at a press hijackers,” Captain Muhammad other factors as well such as ter- briefing at Pakistan Naval Ship Faisal Abbasi, Commanding rorism,” Commodore Tipu said. Muhammad Sarfraz Ahmad Khanzada (centre), the Ambassador of Pakistan, cutting a cake with top Armed Forces (PNS) ‘Khaibar’, which is in Officer of PNS Khaiber, said. This includes smuggling of personnel from other countries during a reception at PNS Khaibar at Doha port on Sunday. Qatar to participate in the multi- The 269-crew ship is a type 21 weapons and people and illicit national “Ferocious Falcon 3” fleet destroyer, which is fitted with trade through the North Arabian exercises conducted by the Qatar weapon systems such as the Sea. coalition based in Bahrain. It “This has projected the true There are a number of Armed Forces (QAF). surface-to-air missiles, anti-sub- The Pakistani Navy has many monitors and stops suspect ships strength of the Pakistani Navy Pakistanis currently serving in The exercises essentially deal marine torpedoes, and modern years of experience of anti-piracy to pursue potential terrorists as because it shows we have the the Qatar Navy, Armed Forces with crisis management and the sensors, including long range air and anti-terrorism operations at part of the Maritime Security capability to command interna- and the Emiri Guard both on broader project includes partici- search radars, surface radars and sea, the naval officer said. Operations (MSO). CTF-151, tional taskforces, as we have taken deputation and contractual basis, pation from Qtel, Hamad Medical sonar for submarines. In order to safeguard the move- meanwhile, deals with shipping charge of actual war ships and its said Tipu, who is also the Defence Corporation (HMC), Ministry of Talking of the Arabian Sea, ment of vessels at sea, inter- lanes off the coast of Somalia. operations,” Captain Abbasi said. Attaché of the Pakistan Embassy Interior among other organisa- Tipu said it and especially terri- national taskforces have also Pakistani Navy recently handed Pakistan also sends a number here. Pakistan-Qatar defence tions here. tories around the Gulf countries been established. One of them control of CTF-150 to Britain and of officers on deputation to Saudi relations further strengthened PNS Khaibar, however, will face major risks from sea pirates is Combined Task Force 150 will resume command of CTF-151 Arabia, Oman, UAE and Bahrain, after the 2010 defence agreement, take part in the maritime part of and terrorists. (CTF-150), which is a 25-nation from December. apart from Qatar. he added. THE PENINSULA

Central Market Media leaders discuss industry’s prospects Xpress Money, destroys 2,000kg of PNB launch vegetables, fruits daily DOHA: Top representatives in publishing, electronic media, remittance DOHA: The central market digital media, public relations daily destroys around 2,000kg and advertising joined forces of vegetables and fruits which yesterday in a first-of-its-kind card for Indians are not suitable for consump- forum to assess the present tion, reported an Arabic daily and future prospects for the DOHA: Xpress Money, one on Sunday. development of Qatar’s media of the fastest growing global Qatar being a country consum- industries. money transfer brands, has ing a huge amount of vegetables “This is the first time that announced the launch of India’s and fruits, the central market Qatar’s media professionals first remittance card – the receives 560 tonnes of such prod- have come together to formally PNB Xpress Money Remit Card ucts everyday discuss our industry. The active - in partnership with Punjab “Less than 2,000kg of vegeta- participation here today demon- National Bank (PNB). bles and fruits are destroyed every strates not only that there is an PNB Xpress Money Remit day, which is not a high quantity interest in greater industry-wide Card is a prepaid product that in comparison to the whole con- engagement, but also that Qatar features a unique combination sumption,” said Ali Nasser Al enjoys a vibrant media scene offering dual benefits of “Debit + Hajiri, Public Inspector at the ready for growth. Gatherings Remit” that will make it easier Central Market. like these demonstrate the for a customer in India to access He also explained that there are potential influence our industry funds remitted to them by loved different departments inspect- could have through greater coop- ones residing abroad. ing the central market as public eration,” commented Mohamed Through this card customers monitoring section that monitor Jaidah, chief executive officer of anywhere in India can withdraw hygiene and violations by vendors, Firefly Communications, dur- foreign remittances through while the health department and ing the inaugural session of the ATMs using the PNB Xpress the consumer protection depart- Qatar Media Industries Forum, Money Remit Card. With the ment also oversee the activities of held at the W Hotel. card being accepted at PoS ter- the central market. Representatives from Oryx minals as well, consumers can Mohamed Ibrahim, head of Media Services, Aljazeera conveniently use this card for all the marketing unit in the cen- Network, Qtel, Qatar News their shopping needs. tral market said that it opens for Agency, local papers, as well as This card facilitates foreign traders at 3am and that by 11pm other businesses and organisa- Al Sharq, Al Sharq, inward remittances under Money on the previous day the inspec- tions that make up Qatar’s media Jaber Al Harami, Editor-in-Chief of and Khaled Al Jaber, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of with Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) tors will check the vegetables sector were in attendance. Northwestern University in Qatar Dean and CEO, Everette E Dennis at the media forum yesterday. and will enable the Xpress Money and fruits before selling to the The forum was a significant customers to send and receive retailers. step forward for Qatar’s media Qatar organised and facilitated remarked, ‘Media attributes in for roundtable discussions, mod- money overseas in a secure man- Nine inspectors have been industry – while sister cities the forum, headed by NU-Q dean Qatar, just as the rest of the erated by NU-Q faculty. Each ner — 24 hours a day, 7 days a assigned at the Central Market elsewhere in the Gulf cluster and CEO, Everette E Dennis. country, continue to evolve at a group debated one of four key week. to carry out the checks. organisations in “media cit- Dean Dennis’ report “Qatar’s phenomenal pace and a number sections in Dean Dennis’ report: The prepaid card facility would Also the inspectors suggest ies”, this forum provided the Media Scene: Current State and of possibilities have arisen that Qatar’s existing media attributes, be available free to the beneficiar- having two markets separately for first structured opportunity Possible Future” served as the could lead to disciplined pri- barriers to market entry, chal- ies with no annual fees and can be the daily consumers and retailers, for exchange and community- basis for discussion. orities in line with the Qatar lenges for media development, collected from any of the 300 UAE to make the place less crowded building within Qatar’s media Addressing the leadership National Vision 2030 roadmap.’ and potential areas for media Exchange branches across India. and make the inspection easy. industry. gathered from across Qatar’s The assembled media business exploration. On completion of the regular THE PENINSULA Northwestern University in media industries, Dean Dennis leaders were divided into groups THE PENINSULA Know Your Customer (KYC) process at an UAE Exchange branch the beneficiary will be provided with the Remit Card and a secure Personal Identification Number (PIN); the card would then be activated by the bank Most of Mena employees not happy with salaries: Poll immediately. Once the sender remits money from any Xpress DUBAI/DOHA: A majority Twenty percent of the respond- suggests companies looking to (although 35 percent would like A further 13 percent claim Money Agent location across the of the people working in the ents felt that they would like reduce churn should consider to grow more). that their co-workers are world, the funds would be auto- Middle East and North Africa to change their training and more training and motivation Management style contin- unprofessional, though 95 per- matically loaded onto the prepaid (MENA) region feel they are development path. schemes for their staff,” said ues to play a significant role in cent state that they do in fact card. not well compensated for Data for the poll was col- Suhail Masri, VP of Sales, Bayt. employee levels of satisfaction, get along with their co-workers. Sudhesh Giriyan, Head of their jobs, a survey reveals. lected online from September com. with the majority (45 percent) Overall, the majority (58 per- Xpress Money Business, said: According to the ‘Work 13 to October 29, with 13,655 An overwhelming 90 percent of the respondents stating that cent) of people in the MENA “We are proud to empower NRIs Satisfaction in the MENA’ poll respondents covering more of employees in MENA claim to they are supervised ‘just right’; region are satisfied with their residing in the GCC and else- conducted by Bayt.com, 61 per- than 12 countries in the MENA be loyal to their company. that their management’s expec- current employment, with 27 where in the world with a safer, cent employees in the region region. When asked if they feel chal- tations of them are mostly real- percent of these being ‘very more cost-effective way of send- say that they are not well com- In terms of possibilities lenged in their current position, istic (according to 60 percent), satisfied’. ing money to their loved ones pensated in their current job. for promotion, a quarter (23 83 percent stated ‘yes’, with a and that the communication Seven out of 10 (71 percent) in India. This product has been Thirty-two percent of those percent) said that there are further three quarters claim- channels in their company are like the company that they designed to increase the con- surveyed said that the thing ‘plenty’ of opportunities in their ing that their job stresses them open (70 percent - though 36 work for, while eight out of 10 venience of the beneficiaries of they want to change the most company, but a majority – 38 either ‘occasionally’ (39 per- percent of these state that they (80 percent) are proud of their remittances who will now enjoy about their job is their sal- percent – said that there are cent) or ‘most of the time’ (35 are not open enough). employer’s brand and 94 per- multiple benefits such as money ary, whereas 23 percent said none. percent). Only 28 percent of polled cent say that their job is mean- transfer, ATM use and shopping that they would like to change “These seem to be mostly Most feel that they are grow- professionals believe that their ingful to them. at PoS from one single product.” their role and responsibilities. incentive-based, which ing and learning in their job management is unprofessional. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 More rockets hit Israel despite truce efforts Mounting Gaza clashes pose immediate risk of war

JERUSALEM: Sporadic mis- salvoes. Six Palestinians including neighbouring Egypt. The coun- sile fire from the Gaza Strip hit four civilians have been killed by tries made peace in 1979. southern Israel yesterday for a Israeli shells fired on Gaza, and But Netanyahu may be reluc- fourth straight day, with Egypt 40 wounded. tant to seem weak ahead of a trying to secure a truce and “We will need to toughen January 22 election that opinion Israel warning it would toughen our response until Hamas says polls currently predict he will win. its response if the violence ‘enough’ and ends the firing,” Yaalon admitted there was no continued. Israeli Vice Prime Minister “bang and we’re done” solution Prime Minister Benjamin Moshe Yaalon told Army Radio. and declined to say if Israel would Netanyahu convened foreign Gaza is governed by the return to a policy of targeted kill- ambassadors in what appeared to Islamist movement Hamas, which ings of Gaza leaders. be an attempt to pre-empt inter- does not recognise Israel’s right to There have been regular bursts national censure should Israel, exist. While it took part in mis- of violence in recent months, with whose 2008-2009 Gaza offensive sile launches at the weekend, it the intervening periods of quiet exacted a costly civilian toll, again did not claim responsibility for getting shorter. go in hard. yesterday’s attacks, suggesting it Israel said the latest flare- Netanyahu briefed the envoys was looking to step back. up started on Thursday with a in Ashkelon, a port city within A Palestinian official who fierce border clash. On Saturday, range of some Palestinian rockets. declined to be named said Egypt a Palestinian missile strike “None of their governments had been trying to broker a wounded four Israeli troops would accept a situation like this,” ceasefire between Israel and the patrolling the boundary, trig- he said. Palestinian factions and that, gering army shelling of Gaza in Trails of smoke are seen after the launch of rockets from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel, yesterday. “As the prime minister of although no formal truce was in which the four civilians died. Israel, I am not prepared to place, Hamas understood the need In turn, dozens of mortars and accept such a situation, and we for calm. Yesterday’s launches rockets were launched at Israel, “The president of the biggest has yet to be approved, would see meeting was primarily about will take action to stop this.” were claimed by smaller groups, which carried out a series of air neighbouring Arab country (has) Itamar expanding five-fold from approval for buildings already The Israeli military said including a radical Salafi organi- strikes in Gaza. said: We will not allow a new war 137 homes to 675. According in place, and stressed that plans Palestinians had fired 11 rockets sation that rejects Hamas’ author- The top-selling Israeli daily on Gaza, and Palestinian blood is to Peace Now spokesman Lior for new construction had not yet in the morning, after more than ity. Hamas was due to convene Yedioth Ahronoth said the United our blood,” Youssef Rizqa wrote Amihai, a defence ministry been approved. 110 in the preceding 72 hours. a meeting of other Palestinian States had given a green light in the pro-Hamas daily Felesteen. committee was to convene on “Regarding construction Netanyahu said a million factions. for an Israeli operation in Gaza. Wednesday to start preparing beyond what exists now, the Israelis - around one-eighth of the The political adviser to Ismail HUGE EXPANSION PLAN plans for adding 538 homes. defence ministry must provide population - were in danger. Israel ELECTION CAMPAIGN Haniyah, Gaza’s prime minis- Israel is preparing for a huge “We see this as very dramatic,” further approval,” it said in a has been deploying its Iron Dome Israel has shown little appetite ter, said he believed Egypt’s new expansion of the Itamar settle- he said. “To enlarge it to 675 is to statement. “There is currently rocket interceptor, air raid sirens for a new Gaza war, which could president, Mohammed Mursi, ment in the northern West Bank, enlarge the settlement to almost no approval for any further and blast shelters, but eight peo- strain relations with the new provided “a safety net” for the the Peace Now settler watchdog five times its size.” construction.” ple have still been wounded by the Islamist-rooted government in Palestinians. said yesterday. The plan, which The defence ministry said the REUTERS

Syrian opposition forms new coalition Syria’s fractious opposition finally put aside fierce argument to rally behind a new leader Israel fires into Syria for second day within a new coalition that its Western and Arab backers hope can topple Bashar al-Assad Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces Umbrella group to have 55 to 60 members drawn from DAMASCUS: Deadly fighting overseas opposition figures and civilian activists in Syria flared on Syria’s border with Provincial councils Syrian National Council Turkey yesterday, while Israel 14 seats 22 to 24 seats fired across the ceasefire line President on the Golan for a second day, Ahmed Mouaz al-Khatib stoking fears of a spillover of the

20-month conflict. Activist, lecturer, geologist and Unlike on Sunday, when Israeli former Imam troops fired only a warning shot, the Israeli army said it scored Vice Presidents: “direct hits” on the source of the new mortar fire which struck the part of the Golan it occupies. But even the earlier fire - Israel’s first across the Riad Seif Suhair Atassi A third VP to be Businessman & Activist leader elected after the UN-monitored ceasefire line activist leader Kurdish National Council gives its since the 1973 Middle East war final approval in - left UN chief Ban Ki-moon joining the coalition “deeply concerned by the poten- tial for escalation,” his spokesman Gen. Secretary Martin Nesirky said. Air strikes Mustafa al-Sabbagh Businessman and shelling of rebel positions in “National figures” the town of Ras al-Ain on the Munzer Makhous - Alawite Haytham al-Maleh - Former judge Turkish border killed at least 12 Rima Fleihan - Writer, activist Sadiq Jalal al-Azm - Professor The Muslim Brotherhood will have people, the Syrian Observatory Abdul-Kareem Bakkar - Islamist around 5 to 7 seats including a seat for for Human Rights said. Walid al-Bunni - Veteran opposition Not determined Ali Sadreddine al-Bayanouni One bomb exploded less than Coalition objectives 150 metres (yards) from the bor- ▶ Bring down the regime, ▶ Work to unify and ▶ Form an aid fund ▶ After gaining international dissolve its security apparatus support the military to provide recognition, to form a der, with the blast blowing out and hold those responsible for councils and all armed humanitarian aid to government in waiting. spilling the blood of Syrians groups to form a supreme Syrians inside and Delegates say it will include windows in houses in Ceylanpinar, accountable military command outside the country about 10 ministers where there were also injuries, The coalition’s headquarters will be in Cairo, Egypt. A big explosion is seen after a Syrian aircraft bombed Ras Al Ain town at the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar, yesterday. Source: Reuters the Turkish town’s mayor told Anatolia news agency. That blast killed four Syrians a photographer said. A food fac- control of the village of Malikiya on the Syrian-controlled side of response, IDF soldiers fired tank southern outskirts of the capital and wounded scores of others, tory seized by rebels was targeted, after troops loyal to President the strategic plateau resulted shells towards the source of the fire, near a Palestinian refugee camp around 20 of them seriously, Anatolia said. Bashar Al Assad withdrew, the in the mortar round being fired confirming direct hits.” killed seven civilians, it added. the agency said, later adding Near the town, helicopters Observatory said. across the UN-monitored cease- Israeli military sources said: The Observatory said 13 sol- that six of the wounded died of strafed rebel forces who for the It was the latest in large fire line. Three rebel fighters “Syrian mobile artillery was diers were killed in a rebel their wounds in hospital. The past three days have besieged swathes of territory in Kurdish- were killed in the clashes, the directly hit.” On the Jordanian ambush in the Homs region Observatory said seven rebels and an army post manned by 75 sol- majority areas of the northeast Observatory said. frontier, shelling and clashes of central Syria, while war- five civilians died in the raids. diers, said the Observatory which and the northwest to escape cen- The Israeli military said: “A with rebels left two Syrian bor- planes also launched raids in the The air strikes sent a new relies for its information on a tral government control without mortar shell hit an open area in der guards dead, the Observatory provinces of Damascus, Raqa, wave of civilians pouring across network of activists and medics going over to the Arab-led rebels. the vicinity of an IDF (army) post said. Warplanes also bombed rebel Hasakeh, Idlib and Deir Ezzor. At the border to the Turkish side, on the ground. At the far east- The exchange of fire on the in the central Golan Heights, as part positions on the strategic highway least 52 people were killed across adding to the 9,000 refugees ern end of Syria’s border with Golan came after renewed clashes of the internal conflict inside Syria, between Damascus and second Syria yesterday, including 24 civil- who already fled late last week, Turkey, Kurdish militia took between loyalist troops and rebels causing no damage or injuries. “In city Aleppo, while clashes on the ians, said the Observatory. AFP

UAE court rejects citizenship Arafat’s tomb closed ahead of exhumation appeal of seven Islamists RAMALLAH: Palestinian what had killed him, many “We are currently in con- ABU DHABI: A UAE court yesterday rejected leader Yasser Arafat’s tomb Palestinians are convinced he tact with French investigators, an appeal by seven Islamists in a lawsuit they filed was screened from public view was poisoned by Israel. experts in Switzerland and the against the interior ministry for revoking their citi- yesterday in what a Palestinian French prosecutors opened a Russian government to open the zenship over alleged “terror” links. official said was preparation murder inquiry in August after tomb of Yasser Arafat,” Abbas The Federal Appeals Court in Abu Dhabi said in its for forensic examination of his Al Jazeera television broadcast said in a speech in Ramallah to ruling that it did not have the jurisdiction to examine a body. an investigation in which Swiss mark the eighth anniversary of federal decision, confirming an earlier ruling by a lower A journalists saw the iconic experts said they had found high his predecessor’s death. court. “The (interior) ministry had implemented a federal leader’s mausoleum, at the levels of radioactive polonium on Polonium is a highly toxic sub- decree, and that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the entrance to presidential head- Arafat’s personal effects. stance rarely found outside mili- administrative court,” it said. The seven men, who were all quarters in the West Bank city A French team is due in tary and scientific circles. naturalised between 1976 and 1986, have been behind bars of Ramallah, was surrounded by Ramallah on November 26 to It was used to kill former since April 9 after refusing to obtain new nationalities. blue tarpaulins. begin work on exhuming the Russian spy turned Kremlin In a rare move, the UAE revoked their citizenship late “Since this morning, Arafat’s body, Palestinian sources said critic Alexander Litvinenko, who last year for allegedly threatening the Gulf state’s secu- mausoleum was closed as a pre- last month, adding that Swiss died in 2006 in London shortly rity. The men have all identified themselves as members liminary step in the investiga- experts would arrive at the after drinking tea laced with the of the UAE’s Reform and Social Guidance Association tion of his death,” Tawfiq Tirawi, same time for an operation that poison. (Al Islah), which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. head of the Palestinian investi- could take “several weeks or a The French murder inquiry They have also signed a petition calling for political gative committee on Arafat’s month.” was opened in late August at reforms which was launched by UAE intellectuals and death, said. Palestinian president the request of Arafat’s widow activists in March 2011. The UAE has not seen any popu- Arafat died in a French Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday Suha, who had refused to give lar protests calling for reforms such as those that have military hospital near Paris on that Russia would also be help- her permission for an autopsy swept other Arab countries, including nearby Bahrain November 11, 2004 and with ing the investigation although he at the time of his death. and Oman. AFP French experts unable to say did not specify in what role. AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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I’m extremely concerned about the development The other side we have seen since (the elections), not least related to recent arrests of political Quote of opponents in Georgia. Complex reality sinks filtering plan Anders Fogh Rasmussen the day Nato Secretary-General EVIN Rudd promised mandatory internet filtering before Labor’s 2007 election win and the idea probably had wide initial Kappeal. Who but a small, sick handful of people wanted open access to the worst of the muck to be found online? Five years on, the idea of treating the internet exactly like traditional media has proved unworkable. For one thing, many online users strongly believe the internet is different because it is free and should stay that way. Others believe the harm done by depraved online content justifies censorship. However, it is not just debate over principle, but the costs, limited effectiveness and technical concerns that sank the plan. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has offered only modest consolation for those who feel betrayed by the government’s backdown. Internet service providers have agreed to block sites depicting child abuse. Rather than filtering all material deemed off-limits by domes- tic regulators - a secret list that would not have been independently reviewed - Interpol-listed sites will be blocked at the request of police under the powers of the Telecommunications Act. The Interpol listing process is transparent and there can be little argument about block- ing sites that promote or rely upon criminal acts of child abuse. Some providers have already been blocking listed sites. Far fewer sites than promised will be affected, but that must be weighed against the the democratic objection to filtering all internet use, impacts on speed and usability, and the costs to users, estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Experts advised that experienced users would have been able to bypass the filter and that content can be hidden on peer-to-peer networks. Given that the plan inspired strong resistance from younger voters, and that voters’ hip-pocket sensitivi- ties are on a hair trigger, Labor may be happy to drop it. That still leaves a real concern about the vulnerability of children to the dark side of the net. The Age favours the approach suggested in 2010 by a coalition of schools, librarians, internet bodies and service providers. The Safer Internet Group warned against simplistic solu- tions. Its ideas to help children safely navigate the net included better education and more dialogue about safety and comprehensive policing of illicit content. A broad-based approach is the best way to ensure young people ben- efit from the best of the internet and are protected from the worst. The complexities of life in the real and virtual worlds should have taught us to be sceptical of ‘’silver bullet’’ solutions. THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate India wants more than crony capitalism

BY JAYATI GHOSH the country. While it seems that water; and so on. It was evident unfettered by adherence to any supposedly technocratic argu- for a while, particularly in economic illegality, fraud and in tax breaks and other fiscal rule of law that treats all citi- ments for economic policies that the first tenure of the United HILE global attention corrupt practices have ballooned incentives to encourage higher zens as equal, and reliant on close force most citizens to suffer while Progressive Alliance (UPA) coa- has been focused on in recent times, most of the rev- profitability of corporate invest- relations of capital with the state a few are rapidly enriched. lition government (2004-09), Wrecent political change elations that are pouring out now ment. It showed in the allocation to ensure high levels of surplus The fortunes of the Congress when outside pressure from the (or lack of it?) in the United do not relate to recent events but of financial resources, including extraction. It is obvious how eas- party reflect this process. For leftwing parties forced the gov- States and China, developments to things that happened several credit provided through public ily and quickly this can turn into a long time, national politics in ernment and the Congress party elsewhere may be just as signifi- years ago, precisely in the middle sector banks at attractive rates a more smelly system of crony India was synonymous with the to honour at least some of its own cant for geopolitics. The cur- of the boom. of interest. capitalism. This was not aberrant party, as it extracted prolonged electoral promises and imple- rent political churning in India The period of most rapid It manifested in the blind eye behaviour but rather an essential benefits from its involvement in ment some popular schemes like reflects more than just the grow- growth turns out to have also that was turned to blatant abuse part of the growth strategy. the freedom struggle. But from the rural employment guarantee. ing fragility of the government in been the period of the greatest of many legal provisions and laws This strategy is now proving the mid-1970s, its organisational But it is less likely to work power: it brings to the forefront economic skulduggery. that protect workers, local people to be unsustainable for several weaknesses became apparent, in future, because the govern- shifting equations and chang- The past two decades have and other stakeholders, if these reasons. The social tensions that and the subsequent attempt to ment and Congress party are ing public perceptions that are seen strongly “corporate-led” were seen to interfere with the sharply increasing inequalities rely only on the personal cha- now more closely identified with likely to define the future politi- growth, with massive rises in aggressive pursuit of profit. generate are less easy to hold risma of the Nehru-Gandhi fam- the negatives of crony capi- cal economy of the country. the ratio of profits and interest All this was done in the name in check. Progressive legislation ily has generated uneven results. talism that underpinned the Two recent tendencies are par- to GDP. Much of this was deter- of growth, because the govern- such as the right to information A new book on the party, growth story. Allegations against ticularly important: the explo- mined by the use of state power ment’s officially stated position act has allowed people to unearth Congress after Indira, by Zoya the “first family” – particularly sion of revelations about corrupt (not just central government has been that GDP growth is the more about the dirt that has Hasan, highlights that at the Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of practices that point to the worst but also state and local levels) to best indicator of the economic accompanied much of the previ- moment “Congress has no ideol- the Congress president Sonia excesses of crony capitalism extract resources and surpluses. wellbeing of the people, that ous boom, and more and more ogy, only strategy. If there is one Gandhi – are now combining in a deeply divided society and This was critical in the handing this is best delivered by large citizens who have finally had ideology that the party continues with almost daily revelations increasingly unequal economy; over of natural resources to pri- private corporate investment – enough are empowering whistle- to represent, it is the ideology of about other scams and scandals and the associated disarray and vate players: land, of course, as and so the government’s job is to blowers and activists to break the power. Economic liberalisation that have cost the public excheq- lack of energy in the Congress the recent controversies about encourage and enable such pri- “omerta”. As the murky links has accentuated this trend and uer huge sums and reduced pub- party, which has hitherto repre- land transfers and land use vate players. between business and political brought individual and special lic resources for ensuring the sented itself as the natural leader changes make all too evident; But this generated Wild classes become more evident, interests out into the open.” most basic needs of the citizens. of the “secular” political forces in mineral resources; spectrum; West-style economic dynamism: there is less willingness to accept This could still work politically THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 The revolution you might have missed

instance, won’t go into effect until 2014. The United States And in some cases, the extraordinary efforts were meant to keep something of America, a land from happening. Our success in stopping another Great Depression will be studied by economists for years to come, but in where slaves were real people’s lives, that work meant less change, not more, though we should be kept 150 years ago thankful for that. Political journalism, meanwhile, is built to obscure change once it’s happened. The and bathrooms demands of reporting the news require us to focus on what’s being done, rather were segregated as than what’s been done (notice how, mere days after a presidential election, we have already moved on to talking about the recently as 50 years Petraeus affair). The focus on conflict elevates voices that argue that we haven’t ago, elected and done nearly enough, or that what we’ve done wasn’t worth doing. The community reelected our first of the media encourages a kind of jaded cynicism — you’re always safer pretend- ing to have seen it all before than to never Black president. have seen anything like it. There is a theory in evolutionary biol- BY EZRA KLEIN ogy called “punctuated equilibrium.” It holds that most species don’t change ive days isn’t a long time to much for long periods of time, but then digest a presidential election, they change dramatically, in rapid bursts, all that came before it, and all over geologically short periods of time. that’s likely to come after. But Political scientists Frank Baumgartner it’s long enough to get a bit of and Bryan Jones have argued that “punc- Fperspective. tuated equilibrium” describes the path Max Weber wrote that “politics is the of political systems, too. Typically, poli- strong and slow boring of hard boards.” tics is held in stasis, with little progress It is not a vocation that rewards impa- being made in the slow boring of those tience. Progress is slow. It’s tough. It hard boards. But when change does come, requires compromises and is marked by it’s not a steady process of incremental disappointments. It’s incremental even advances but a breathless flurry in which when it needs to be transformational. At the boards split all at once. least, that’s how it usually is. Whether we intended to or not, Step back and take an accounting of whether it was sufficient or not, whether these last few years: The United States US President Barack Obama delivers remarks on Veteran’s Day, following a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in we liked it or not, we have been living of America, a land where slaves were Arlington, Virginia, USA, yesterday. through a remarkable period of political kept 150 years ago and bathrooms were change in these last few years. We have segregated as recently as 50 years ago, split so many hard boards that we’re no elected and reelected our first black legalised marijuana. We killed the most pace of change has been breathlessly Care Act is the most ambitious effort to longer surprised when they crack in half, president. We passed and ratified a uni- dangerous terrorist in the world and fast. We have toppled so many barriers, move American health care towards a and we mainly wonder why we haven’t versal health-care system. We saw the managed two wars. We’ve seen inequal- passed so many reforms, completed so pay-for-quality paradigm ever mounted. gotten through more of them, or why we first female Speaker of the House, the ity and debt skyrocket to some of the many long quests, begun so many experi- The even more frequent complaint is didn’t choose different ones. first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice highest levels in American history. We ments, that even those of us who’ve been that the pace and scale of change has But viewed against most other eras in and the first openly gay member of the passed a stimulus and investment bill paying attention have become inured to been, if anything, insufficient. The stim- American life, the pace of policy change Senate. We stopped a Great Depression, that will transform everything from how much has happened. ulus should’ve been bigger, the health in these last few years has been incred- rewrote the nation’s financial regulations, medical records to education and began It is common, for instance, to hear reforms more ambitious, the largest ibly fast. Historians, looking back from and nearly defaulted on our debt for the a drone campaign that will likely be seen pundits wonder why the president didn’t banks broken apart, the wars either more quiescent periods, will marvel at first time in our history. Connecticut, as an epochal shift in the way the United invest in long-term infrastructure after finished more swiftly or expanded more all that we have lived through. Activists, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, States conducts war. the financial crisis or move Medicare decisively. All that may be true, but it frustrated at their inability to shake New York, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, Americans of good faith disagree over beyond fee-for-service as a way to cut the doesn’t obviate the remarkable pace and their countrymen out of their tranquility, Washington and the District of Columbia the worth of these initiatives and the debt, either forgetting or never knowing scale of the changes that have come. will wish they’d been born in a moment legalised gay marriage, and the president nature of these milestones. None of us the stimulus was one of the largest one- More troublesome is that even once when things were actually getting done, and the vice president both proclaimed know the verdict that history will render. time infrastructure investments in the change has happened, it takes time for a moment like this one. their support. Colorado and Washington But we can say with certainty that the nation’s history and that the Affordable it to be felt. The health-care law, for WP-BLOOMBERG China’s ruling elite can’t ignore growing calls for change

migrant workers). Their case The National People’s Congress of non-payment of wages is one of tens of thousands across the has begun amid growing country. The video attracted over 1 million viewers within two days. Messages of solidarity from discontent. Party leaders will other workers poured in. This has stunned the national media, who soon have to loosen their grip have followed the official line in reporting the “Sparta” and writ- ten about the “model workers” on power to survive. who were sent to the congress to praise the Communist party. BY HSIAO-HUNG PAI the greatest insecurity in their China’s social media population life. They face unemployment, – largely young, working age, and hina’s 18th National job insecurity and the burden of many living away from home – People’s Congress has privatisation of public services – are the world’s most active. They begun, and 2,200 dele- and they are not keeping silent spend, on average, 46 minutes Cgates are gathered in the any more. each day on social media sites, capital, about to “elect” the pre- There has been a sharp increase higher than their US counter- ordained leaders of the country in of “mass incidents” (the govern- parts (37 minutes). a once-in-a-decade power change. ment’s term for all forms of civil They are well informed and As the elites sit inside the Great disobedience) across the coun- politically aware. More and Hall of the People (that excludes try: the number reached 80,000 more, it appears they have cre- the “people”), Beijing’s taxi driv- in 2008 and then increased to ated a cyber civil society capa- ers have been ordered by state 100,000 within two years. ble of effecting change. We saw security to remove their window And more than ever, China’s the wave of protests known as handles; knife shops are told to citizens are speaking out through the jasmine revolution, inspired close business during the event; the growingly active social media. by the Arab Spring, organised no one should buy anything that The hidden voters – the internet online in 2011. The same year, can fly, including balloons; and users – are demonstrating their a dozen online supporters of pop songs containing words like frustration and anger at the the Wukan villagers’ uprising “death” or “step down” have been absence of democracy. (against land grab) organised censored. They have already labelled the protests in Guangzhou. But what marks out the 18th congress Sparta – a code word Bloggers’ sites might get cen- congress as different from any designed to get around the coun- sored and closed down, but they of its predecessors is the grow- try’s internet censors. are set up again elsewhere, under ing demand for change from All over Sina Weibo and Qzone new names. It is a guerrilla war below. During the 14th con- – the latter the world’s largest of the working class. gress of 1992, the first after the social networking site, with 9.5m All this development points Tiananmen Square massacre, new blog entries registered every Eleven-year-old Zhang Jiahe raises his hand to ask questions during a press conference on the sidelines of the to a clear future direction: the there was no such idea as “citi- day – citizens’ anger is boiling 18th Communist Party Congress (CPC) in Beijing, China, yesterday. ruling elite can no longer expect zen” as the atmosphere of repres- up. As the world watches China’s the working class to be doc- sion had silenced society. Even leaders change hands, Chinese corruption and misconduct in benches when our feast-loving Chinese is an internet user. Do ile and trade off their political during the 17th congress in 2007, citizens say they feel excluded the state bureaucracy,” said Shen politicians do expensive banquets they really think they can block rights for “economic freedom”. there was relative social calm and ridiculed. Zewei. and keep their family wealth as a us and stop us from telling them When people are encouraged to and little enthusiasm for politi- Bloggers demonstrate a total Another questions the exces- state secret?” what they don’t want to hear?!” consume and help the economy cal debate among the popula- lack of confidence in the govern- sive wealth of the political class “The need for democracy … can- More so than ever, migrant grow, they want to have a say in tion. But discontent has grown ment’s ability to address cor- – demonstrated by the Bo Xilai not be stopped; they cannot block workers too are speaking out. A how their workplaces and the steadily, mainly as a result of the ruption, which is particularly scandal as well as revelations us,” said blogger Leiwusheng. few days ago, Miao Cuihua posted country is run too. Their anger economic slowdown. Many work- rampant at a local level. “Our of Wen Jiabao’s £1.68bn for- “During the 16th congress [in a protest video online demand- will continue to be channelled ing-class people are bearing the political system excludes civil tune – comparing it with their 2002], there were only 50 million ing the payment of overdue wages into calls and action for change. brunt of the global slump and, participation … The central Taiwanese counterparts: “Why is internet users; during the 17th to construction migrant work- Soon enough, those at Sparta will in the third decade of the eco- leadership lacks legitimacy … it that their officials [in Taiwan] congress, there were 200 million ers in her workplace in Tianjin. have to loosen their grip in order nomic reform and opening-up era The market economy has exac- have lunch in canteens and eat of us; today, there are over 530 She claimed to be a spokesper- to survive. (gaige kaifang), are experiencing erbated the serious problems of bentos [cheap lunchboxes] on million of us. That is, one in three son for the nongmin-gong (rural THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Saudi woman Kurdistan leader in Tehran sues ministry Hezbollah slams over driving ban RIYADH: A Saudi women’s Syria’s new rights activist said yesterday she has filed a lawsuit against the interior ministry over a decree banning women from obtaining driving licences in the opposition bloc kingdom. Nassima Al Sadah is the third woman to file such a lawsuit this year over the rule which enforces It is US invention, says Nasrallah a traditional ban on women driv- ing in the Muslim desert nation. BEIRUT: The head of Lebanon’s Syria’s disparate opposition “I filed the lawsuit against the Shia group Hezbollah, a key ally groups agreed on Sunday, after traffic department of the interior of Syria’s President Bashar Al four-day marathon talks and ministry at the Dammam court” Assad, yesterday denounced a reports of pressure, to form a in Eastern Province, she said. newly formed Syrian opposition united National Coalition to put Before her, Manal Al Sharif, bloc as a US invention whose forward a credible alternative to who became a symbol of a cam- refusal to negotiate would only Assad’s regime. paign to drive after she was lead to more destruction. The new grouping was rec- arrested last year for defying the “They (the Syrian opposition) ognised yesterday by the six- ban, and rights activist Samar met in Doha, locked themselves in nation Gulf Cooperation Council Badawi also filed similar lawsuits. a hotel to form a new group and as the Syrian people’s legitimate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government, Sadah said she made a point did what (US Secretary of State representative. Nechirvan Barzani, in Tehran, yesterday. by trying repeatedly to apply for Hillary) Clinton and America The Syrian revolt has deepened a driving licence at the traffic wanted,” Hassan Nasrallah told political and religious divisions in department in Eastern Province. a Beirut ceremony, speaking by Lebanon, which is split between Saudi Arabia is the only video link. supporters and opponents of the Khamenei’s nod required for US talks: Iran country in the world that bans “But the most dangerous Damascus regime dominated women from driving. In June aspect is that the opposition by Alawites, an offshoot of Shia TEHRAN: Iran stressed yes- between the two countries ... is about possible direct talks between 2011, women activists launched a parties decided unanimously Islam. terday that any decision to hold up to the supreme leader,” Salehi Tehran and Washington surfaced Women2Drive campaign on social in Doha to reject dialogue and Hezbollah, which dominates the direct talks with the United said when asked about Russia’s after Iran, reeling from interna- media networks, with many also a political solution,” Nasrallah government coalition in Beirut, States on Tehran’s disputed expressed backing of any one-on- tional sanctions over its nuclear braving the ban and posting vid- said, his speech relayed on a has been accused of sending fight- nuclear programme would have one meetings between Tehran and programme, found itself facing four eos of themselves driving. giant screen. ers to fight for Assad’s forces. to be taken by supreme leader Washington. Deputy Russian for- more years with Barack Obama as “That is to say, they have cho- But last month, Nasrallah said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. eign minister Sergei Ryabkov told leader of the United States. sen the path of destruction. And the party had taken no decision The two arch-foes have pre- the Financial Times at the week- Iran has not ruled out direct Kuwait summons who will profit from this? Clinton, to join the fighting in Syria but viously held indirect discus- end that Russia would support talks with Washington but says the United States, Israel and cer- that some Lebanese living there sions within regional forums on direct US-Iran talks. these will not come overnight. Islamist activist over tain regional parties.” had taken up arms to support subjects such as the conflicts in “We will not have a word Salehi yesterday also expressed He again called on the Syrian the regime “in order to defend Afghanistan and Iraq but hold- against this. Of course, we would hope that negotiations on its 10-year-old article opposition to engage in dialogue themselves.” ing direct bilateral talks would hope we would be informed on the nuclear programme with the with Assad, an appeal already “The party has nothing to do be “different,” Iranian Foreign content of these arrangements,” P5+1 - the UN Security Council’s KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s rejected outright by the dissidents with their decision, but I cannot Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told Ryabkov said. “We want something five permanent members plus public prosecution has sum- who say any talks are conditional tell them not to go fight,” he said. reporters. “A decision on compre- that will bring everyone out of Germany - would resume soon. moned Islamist activist Hakem on Assad’s departure. AFP hensive, bilateral political talks this morass,” he said. Speculation AFP Al Mutairi over an article he wrote 10 years ago and deemed to undermine the emir’s status, the writer said yesterday. Mutairi, a former president of the Islamist Ommah Party, said on Twitter that he was called in Iran launches air drills as ‘warning’ to enemies for interrogation over the article that was first posted in 2003 and then reprinted in the Kuwaiti DUBAI: Iran launched military Tehran’s nuclear programme, enemy’s unmanned aircraft” vio- “They are busy out there modi- September Farzad Esmaili, com- newspaper Alam Al Youm in 2007. drills across half the country the “Velayat-4” manoeuvres will lating its airspace. fying, adapting, doing things to mander of the army’s air defence “The public prosecution has yesterday, warning it would act involve the biggest air drills the Senior researcher Pieter their technologies. They have force, said Iran was planning a accused the editor of Alam Al Youm against aggressors less than a country has ever held, Iran’s Wezeman of the Stockholm made the most of what they large-scale air drill in coming (Abdulhameed Al Daas) and myself week after Washington accused English-language Press TV said. International Peace Research have,” he said.Western pow- months. of undermining the status of the Iranian warplanes of firing on a Western experts have chal- Institute said an international ers have imposed sanctions on Various radar and other fixed, emir,” said Mutairi, who is a pro- US drone. lenged some of Iran’s military arms embargo imposed against Iran’s oil trade to press it to halt tactical and airborne surveil- fessor of Islamic affairs at Kuwait The manoeuvres take place assertions, saying it often exag- Iran meant the country was nuclear work they fear is aimed at lance systems would participate, University. “Authorities think that this week across 850,000 sq km gerates its capabilities. using outdated military equip- developing the capability to build Esmaili told state news agency through these oppressive measures, (330,000 sq miles) of Iran’s north- “These drills convey a message ment, including aircraft. “The nuclear bombs. Iran denies the Irna on Thursday. The exercise they will stop me from challenging east, east, and southeast regions, of peace and security to regional UN embargo on supplies of most charge, saying its atomic activities will also test bombers, refuelling tyranny. This didn’t work before Iranian media reported. countries,” Shahrokh Shahram, types of major weapons to Iran are purely for peaceful purposes. planes and unmanned aircraft, the Arab Spring, how will it work About 8,000 elite and regu- spokesman for the exercises, told is blocking Iranian military mod- The United States and Israel Esmaili said. now?” Mutairi said. lar army troops will participate, Press TV yesterday. “At the same ernisation,” he said. “Iran is more have not ruled out military action Iranian media said yesterday The article covered Mutairi’s backed by bombers and fighter time they send out a strong warn- and more falling behind in mili- if diplomacy fails to resolve the that F-4, F-5, F-7, and F-14 fight- view that the Arab world needs planes, while missile, artillery ing to those threatening Iran.” tary terms.” dispute. ers would take part. Shahram fundamental change and reform and surveillance systems will be Last week, the US Pentagon But London-based defence Although the Iranian air told Irna the drills would also to achieve justice and equality, tested, they said. said Iranian planes opened fire on analyst Paul Beaver said Iran’s drills come just days after the focus on improving coordination saying such objectives can be Played out against a back- an unarmed US drone over inter- military should not be underesti- Pentagon’s announcement, the between Iran’s military and the achieved through peaceful pro- drop of high tension between national waters on November mated, describing it as “a pretty exercises appear to have been elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard tests. AFP the United States and Iran over 1. Iran said it had repelled “an impressive organisation”. planned well in advance. In Corps. REUTERS Makkah slum dwellers fear eviction as high rises multiply MAKKAH, SAUDI ARABIA: so kind. “I couldn’t continue my Close to Makkah’s Grand studies after my father was diag- Mosque and the glitzy 5-star nosed with cancer,” says Saleh, a hotels surrounding it lie slums sharp-eyed Yemeni who was born whose mostly immigrant dwell- and raised on Jabal Omar. ers fear they will be evicted to “I’m happy here. It’s a great make way for new high rises neighbourhood,” he says with a and malls. grin. “Really, as long as I’m on In one such slum on Jabal the mountain I’m happy.” (mount) Omar, humans, cats, “Killings and thefts are more lizards, and mosquitoes co-exist frequent if you climb further up among piles of garbage, with sew- the mountain, but here we haven’t age running openly along the nar- got such things,” he says. row tracks on the rugged hill. Saleh says many of the people Children and old men in rags living on Jabal Omar have been move about idly among the there “for 40 and 50 years. They cracked adobe buildings. are used to it... They could live The impoverished neighbour- nowhere else.” hoods are divided by national- He points at a thick cable run- ity, with the Yemeni quarter at ning along the ground where a the bottom of the hill, then the stream of sewage is flowing. “This Africans and finally, at the very is the electricity we get,” he says. top, the Burmese, residents say. “As for water, we haven’t had any “I first arrived here from in about two months.” Yemen when I was 15 years old,” The residents of this and other says 58-year-old Abu Ali. “I used poor neighbourhoods across the to work as a plumber, but now holy city fear only one thing: that I’ve grown old and weak I a plan by Saudi authorities to work as a janitor.” demolish the whole area to give Despite such squalid condi- way to modern developments. The Omar mountain development project next to a slum area in the holy city of Makkah, in Saudi Arabia. Right: Poor neighbourhood of Jabal Omar. tions, “I’m better off here than “I rent the house I’m living in I would be in Yemen,” said Abu now for SR1,000 ($267/¤210),” government or taking shares in ancient mud brick buildings have is developing a 230,000 square anything they can get their hands Ali, referring to the kingdom’s said Abu Ali. “If it’s gone, I the new projects. given way to skyscrapers. metre (2.5 million sq foot) project, on, including food, clothing and poverty-striken neighbour, from wouldn’t be able to find another People who have rented apart- The Makkah Development of which 52 percent will be dedi- carpets. “I come with my moth- which many try to flee to Saudi apartment for less than 2,000 riy- ments there, mostly immigrants, Authority’s website says the slums cated to residential buildings. er’s friends who sell things here,” Arabia in search of a better life. als. That’s my whole salary.” will also be offered assistance in in Makkah, as well as in Jeddah The company’s development, says 16-year-old Shaza. “We sell Further up the hill’s steep Makkah Mayor Osama Albar finding flats at prices similar to and Taif, where a combined total which also features towers and everything.” incline dotted with piles of trash, has said the slum development what they now pay. of nearly one million people live, shopping areas, lies across the “We’re fine here, but we’re now 24-year-old Mohammed Saleh sits project will cost “around $3bn” Around the Grand Mosque, the “create a security, environmental road from the Grand Mosque’s worried about having our houses on a time-worn step joking with and will take place in phases. government has for years been and health challenge.” plaza. At the foot of the hill, demolished,” she said. a group of friends. It will offer home owners liv- expanding facilities to accommo- In Makkah, some 70 slums African women, most of them If this happens, “we don’t know Beneath his tough exterior, ing in these shabby, hilly neigh- date the increasing numbers of make up 25 percent of the Nigerians who usually come what we’ll do. If we can, we’ll Saleh reveals a vulnerable young bourhoods a choice of either pilgrims arriving every year for city’s urban area, it says. Jabal during the annual Haj and stay, stay here. Otherwise we’ll have man to whom life has not been selling their properties to the the major Haj pilgrimage. The Omar Development Co says it spread along the road selling to return home.” AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Georgian PM Flood in Venice criticised over arrests Arrests raise fears of score-settling

BRUSSELS/PRAGUE: Nato is integration into the European and European Union lead- family,” he told reporters after ers upbraided Georgian Prime talks with European Commission Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili President Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday over the arrest of and European Council President political opponents as he visited Herman van Rompuy. Brussels to try to bolster ties Barroso said democracy was with the West. about more than elections. Ivanishvili, a billionaire whose “Situations of selective justice coalition won a parliamentary should be avoided as they could election last month, has been harm the country’s image abroad accused by opponents of being too and weaken the rule of law,” he said. close to Russia, but signalled by “I’ve addressed this issue to the making Brussels his first foreign prime minister and he responded People walk in a flooded street during a period of seasonal high water in Venice yesterday. The water level in the canal city rose to 149cm (59 inches) destination that relations with to me in a very concrete way.” above normal, according to local monitoring institute Centre Weather Warnings and Tides. the West were his priority. Ivanishvili did not respond to Fears of political score-settling the criticism directly before the have been raised by the detention media but said he had told Barroso of a former interior minister and that his government would do its two army commanders on sus- best to protect human rights and picion of insulting servicemen advance democracy. $2bn diamonds siphoned out of Zimbabwe a year ago. They have not been A European Commission source charged but could be jailed for up said Ivanishvili and his ministers to eight years if found guilty of were “trying to portray themselves VICTORIA FALLS: Around no prior mining experience, often But the PAC report ‘Reap What which took place in the resort abuse of power. The commanders as very pro-European and pro- $2bn worth of diamonds have under very questionable terms or You Sow: Greed and Corruption town of Victoria Falls. have been freed on bail but the ex- reform”. Ivanishvili is due to meet been siphoned out of Zimbabwe circumstances,” it said. in Zimbabwe’s Diamond Fields’ Mugabe said that a diamond law minister is still being held. Rasmussen tomorrow. Ivanishvili’s in the past four years by a net- “He has solicited and approved said: “Hundreds of millions of dol- was in the offing “to further assure “I’m extremely concerned election victory in October ended work of government ministers applications from members of lars owed to Zimbabwe’s treasury the global diamond industry that about the development we have the nine-year dominance of Georgia and military officials aligned Zimbabwe’s security forces, have been lost in both illegal and the government takes seriously seen since (the elections), not by President Mikheil Saakashvili, with President Robert Mugabe, including those implicated in legal trades.” good governance in the extraction least related to recent arrests of who had in 2008 secured a promise an Ottawa-based global watch- human rights abuses in Marange,” Finance Minister Tendai Biti, and eventual trading of diamonds.” political opponents in Georgia,” of Nato membership. dog said yesterday. the report added. Zimbabwe’s dia- a member of the anti-Mugabe “Diamonds from Zimbabwe Nato Secretary-General Anders The country of 4.5 million is a “Conservative estimates place mond industry has been tarnished Movement for Democratic Change must... be allowed market space in Fogh Rasmussen said during a transit country for Caspian Sea the theft of Marange goods by allegations of graft, and labour party, complained in July that of order to trade competitively and visit to Prague. “It’s for the legal oil and gas exports to Europe, at almost $2bn since 2008,” and human rights violations since the $600m in diamond revenues fully benefit the nation,” he added. system, the judicial system, in but has been a focus of tensions Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) Harare deployed security forces expected this year, only $46m had An industry expert said Georgia to sort out these cases. between Russia and the West. said in a report that coincided to drive away illegal miners from materialised. “Many top securo- Zimbabwe was selling its diamonds But of course it’s important that Months after gaining its Nato with the start of an international the Marange diamond fields. crats loyal to” Mugabe and his to few takers at rock-bottom prices such trials are not undermined by promise, Georgia increased diamond conference held to boost Global watchdog Kimberley ZANU-PF party were under scru- as most foreign buyers shunned the political interference.” qualms in Europe and Nato Zimbabwe’s diamond sector. Process suspended exports from tiny by PAC, one of the global natu- country, which has been isolated by The 56-year-old Ivanishvili, about letting it into Europe’s PAC referred to diamond fields the area at the time, but lifted the ral resource extraction watchdogs. its former western allies. who made his fortune mainly in mainstream by going to war in eastern Zimbabwe. The report ban after the government said it But Mugabe blamed western Chaim Even-Zohar, president of Russia, has vowed to take action with Russia over the breakaway singled out Mines Minister Obert had pulled the security forces out sanctions on selected individu- the Tel Aviv-based diamond con- against former officials suspected regions of South Ossetia and Mpofu by saying that he had of the area. In an interview with als and firms for the low revenue sulting service Tacy Limited, said of wrongdoing. He has also said he Abkhazia, which Russia says are cleared mining concessions for the state-controlled newspaper from the sale of diamonds. “Due that Zimbabwe has the potential will be better at building bridges now independent states. The security chiefs. “Far from defend- The Herald, Defence Minister to the illegal sanctions imposed to produce eight to 10 percent of with Moscow than with the West. EU is pushing Georgia to make ing the best interests of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa denied the on the local diamond mining global gem production but was not “We will do our best to speed up reforms in many areas, including Minister Mpofu has presided over charges that diamond profits had companies, the country has not benefiting fully as potential buyers and accelerate our aspiration of media freedom, the justice system a ministry that has awarded con- been funnelled out of the country been able to realize full benefits,” were worried about trading with achieving our ultimate goal, which and labour rights. REUTERS cessions to dubious individuals with by people close to Mugabe. he told the diamond conference, the country. AFP

Merkel in Lisbon French surgeons begin strike over Race to lead Italy’s pay limits centre-left kicks off

PARIS: French surgeons began ROME: The race to elect a According to a November opin- yesterday an open-ended strike candidate from Italy’s centre- ion poll, Bersani is forecast to win to protest against perceived left to run for prime minister with 42 percent of the vote, Renzi threats to their freedom and in the general election began will snap up to 37 percent and pay. The protest has been called in earnest yesterday with a tel- Vendola will take 15 percent. The by 30 unions and professional evised debate between the top other candidates are expected to bodies who are making vari- five contenders. get up to four percent. ous demands, with organisers The debate comes ahead of the Should none of the candidates claiming a significant impact in centre-left primary on November manage to muster 50 percent plus some regions. 25 in a period of intense political one vote, the primary will go into Hospital surgeons’ union Bloc uncertainty, with a series of cor- a second round to be held on the is leading a protest against an ruption scandals within the main following Sunday. agreement accepted by the three parties sparking disgust with tra- The centre-left is hoping to largest doctors’ unions at the end ditional leaders and voter apathy. get close to three million voters of October, which says any fees Democratic Party (PD) leader to the polls to give the winning over 2.5 times the basic state tar- Pierluigi Bersani, the candidate candidate a large popular major- iffs is excessive. thought most likely to win the ity — but the party’s bid to gal- The surgeons argue they have primary, is running against the vanise supporters comes amid the right to charge higher rates. youthful mayor of Florence, growing disgust with traditional Meanwhile, state hospital interns, Matteo Renzi, who hopes to oust politicians. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) with Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho at the end who have joined in the strike, are an ageing political establishment. At a regional election in Sicily of their joint press conference in Lisbon yesterday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the resolve of fighting against feared new moves The debate will see them face last month, the centre-left man- the Portuguese people to deal with the debt crisis. limiting the freedom of young off with Nichi Vendola, head of aged to take the governorship in doctors to work where they want. the Left, Ecology and Freedom what used to be a centre-right Thousands of interns wear- party (SEL) and one of Italy’s few stronghold, but the win was over- ing white coats and surgical openly gay politicians; former MP shadowed by widespread absten- masks marched in Paris shout- Bruno Tabacchi, and PD member tion and protest votes. ing: “Tomorrow’s health lies with Laura Puppato. AFP German opposition defends ties with Fatah young doctors” and “No to dis- counted medical care”. BERLIN: The leader of Gabriel told reporters: “I don’t that if they failed to drop their Health Minister Marisol Germany’s main opposition party understand the criticism.” ties, the Social Democrats would Touraine yesterday insisted that expressed bewilderment yester- He noted that Fatah recognised be “unfit for government”. the October agreement was a Corsican teen on trial for killing family day after the country’s Jewish Israel’s right to exist and had Abbas’ Fatah party runs the “good” one. Bloc official Xavier community angrily denounced served as the Palestinian inter- West Bank and is seen as far Gouyou-Beauchamp said there AJACCIO, FRANCE: A 19-year-old went on trial yesterday in the a joint paper it issued with the locutor for several Israeli govern- more moderate than the Islamist was a very strong response to French Mediterranean island of Corsica for shooting dead his parents Palestinian Fatah party. ments in peace talks. movement Hamas, which con- the call, adding that 70 percent of and 10-year-old twin brothers in an act he said occurred while he was The head of the centre-left Last week SPD general secre- trols the Gaza Strip. Addressing private clinics would be affected. in a trance-like state. The accused, named as Andy, exterminated the Social Democrats (SPD), Sigmar tary Andrea Nahles and a Fatah Graumann’s criticism, Gabriel In Strasbourg, the protest entire family in August 2009 with his father’s Winchester rifle. Gabriel, said he was stunned by the delegation released a document noted that Hamas would “not be a made a huge impact with 95 per- He had demanded a public trial hearing, saying he had been “cut criticism of the document pledging in which they spoke of deepen- good alternative” as a Palestinian cent of surgeons on strike, said off from the world since three years and this will also allow people to strategic dialogue with Palestinian ing cooperation based on “shared interlocutor and pointed out that Guillaume Lohr, the head of three come to support me,” but the judge turned down the request. President Mahmoud Abbas’s party. values” and “shared goals”. the SPD had maintained ties with private clinics in the eastern city. Judge David Macouin also highlighted the need “to protect this youth The president of the Central Graumann called on Gabriel Fatah for several years. The national surgeons’ union from the impact of a public trial” and ordered a closed door session. Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter and the party’s candidate to chal- He said the two parties believed meanwhile said up to 70 percent After wiping out his family, Andy left the house with a laundry bag Graumann, had told Bild newspa- lenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in rejecting violence, recognising of the operating theatres had stuffed with ¤2,500 ($3,200) he took from a safe as well as an expensive per: “The SPD is linking up with a in next year’s general election, Israel’s right to exist and work- been affected in Brittany. watch. He was found by an uncle the next night on a nearby beach terror organisation that calls for Peer Steinbrueck, to “distance” ing toward the establishment of Paris public hospitals body in shock, barefooted and wearing shorts. “I didn’t know where I was hatred and agitation against Jews.” themselves from the document. a Palestinian state — all posi- AP-HP said a clearer picture of anymore. I didn’t hear anything, and my vision was blurred. There “The party should be ashamed of He told Bild he hoped the SPD tions shared by the German the magnitude of the walkout was someone else in my place,” he told investigators at the time. Andy itself,” Graumann said. “knows what kind of organisation government. would only be known later. is being held in Borgo prison in Corsica, where he completed his bac- Asked about the remarks, they are dealing with”, and said AFP AFP calaureat in 2011. The trial is scheduled to wrap up on Friday. AFP

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Abu Qatada wins Two top BBC executives step aside appeal against Acting director general vows to get a grip of the crisis; PM questions pay to ex-chief deportation to Jordan LONDON: The BBC’s acting In an email to staff, Davie said director-general pledged yes- he took over as acting director- LONDON: A radical Muslim terday to “get a grip” of the cri- general “determined to give the cleric described as an “enor- sis at the broadcaster as two top BBC the clarity and leadership mous risk” to UK security won executives stood aside over a it deserves” until a permanent a last-minute appeal yester- scandal surrounding its report- replacement is found. day against deportation to face ing of child sex abuse. He confirmed that Boaden terrorism charges in Jordan, Former PepsiCo executive and Mitchell would be tem- in a blow to Britain which has Tim Davie said his job was to porarily standing down as he being trying to remove him for restore leadership following the sought to implement a “single a decade. dramatic resignation of his pred- management to deal with all A senior judge at a special ecessor George Entwistle over a News output, Savile-related or London court said there was a BBC report wrongly accusing a otherwise”. risk that evidence obtained using senior political figure of abusing Culture Secretary Maria Miller torture may be used against Abu children. told parliament yesterday the Qatada and he may not receive a The BBC said earlier that BBC was facing the “most serious fair trial in Jordan. director of news Helen Boaden of crises” and said it must act to The case of Qatada, a Jordanian and her deputy Stephen Mitchell restore public confidence. cleric of Palestinian origin were standing aside over a linked At the heart of the crisis facing described by a Spanish judge as scandal surrounding a decision the BBC is the role of staff and “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand to drop a BBC probe into claims managers at its flagship current man in Europe”, has been a thorn that late star Jimmy Savile was a affairs programme Newsnight. in the side of successive British paedophile. Newsnight broadcast a report governments. The publicly funded broadcaster on November 2 falsely implicating Britain says videotapes of his has also found itself embroiled in a former Conservative party treas- sermons influenced Mohammed row over the £450,000 ($715,000) urer Alistair McAlpine in abuse Atta, the ringleader of the payoff for Entwistle, the equiv- at a children’s home in Wales September 11, 2001 attacks on alent of a year’s salary, which in the 1970s, which it was then the United States. The court Prime Minister David Cameron forced to retract. ruled there was a “real risk” that said was “hard to justify”. The programme was already evidence obtained by torture from The chairman of the BBC facing accusations that it axed two other men by could be used Trust, Chris Patten, who is a report into claims of sex abuse against him in a Jordanian court. himself facing calls from some against Savile last year because it The ruling, delivered at a spe- quarters to quit over the crisis, would have embarrassed the cor- cial court that deals with secu- defended the package. poration as it prepared to run a rity cases, said British Interior Entwistle’s departure on tribute to the presenter. Minister Theresa May had been Saturday has left the BBC in Police have since said that wrong not to revoke an ear- chaos as it battles to restore its Savile, who died in October 2011 Staff members leave BBC Broadcasting House in central London yesterday. lier deportation ruling against journalistic reputation following aged 84, may have abused up to Qatada, and allowed his appeal. the botched child abuse report 300 children over four decades. the Newsnight report. last year’s Savile programme — Thompson, who took up his new The decision is a setback for and allegations that it covered up Newsnight editor Peter Rippon “Consideration is now being and Davie said this was the root job as chief executive of the New May and the Conservative-led allegations against Savile. stood aside last month over the given to the extent to which of the problem. A review into the York Times yesterday, said he was administration, both keen to fos- “We’ve had an honourable man axed Savile report. individuals should be asked to Newsnight fiasco had revealed “very saddened” by the crisis at ter an image of competence and leave the BBC. My job now is to The BBC insisted that they account further for their actions a “lack of clarity in the lines of the BBC. decisiveness on security issues. get a grip of the situation and take had not been sacked and were and if appropriate, disciplinary editorial command and control in In a video on the ITV News The court was considering action,” Davie told BBC News. expected to return to their jobs action will be taken,” the BBC BBC News”, Davie said. website, he said: “I believe the whether to grant bail to Qatada, But in a sign of the pressure after the inquiry by former Sky said. Fran Unsworth has now been BBC is the world’s greatest broad- who has been in and out of jail in Davie is under, Davie walked out News boss Nick Pollard was pub- Boaden and Mitchell were not appointed acting director of news, caster, and I’ve got no doubt that Britain since his arrest in 2002, of a bad-tempered interview with lished into why the Savile inves- involved in the Newsnight chil- Ceri Thomas as acting deputy it will once again regain the pub- spending seven years in detention the rival Sky News television, say- tigation never made it on the air. dren’s home piece because they director and Karen O’Connor as lic’s trust both in the UK and without charge. ing he had no more time to talk But the corporation warned had distanced themselves from acting Newsnight editor. around the world.” Jordan has convicted him in because he had a job to do. heads were likely to roll over the show pending the inquiry into Former director-general Mark AFP his absence of sending encourage- ment to militants there who were planning two bomb attacks in 1999 and 2000. May’s department said in a statement it strongly disa- greed with the ruling and would seek leave to appeal. British churchgoers tweet with vicar’s blessings Robin Tam, a lawyer for the British government, told the court WESTON-SUPER-MARE, questions answered,” he tells the The youthful looking 47-year- message out.” In most churches, 14 days? Lets give it a go!” says that Qatada “remains a man who United Kingdom: The pews at congregation. old introduced Twitter Sundays at using a smartphone or laptop @rev2bshaz, a member of the poses an enormous risk to national St Paul’s Church are full of wor- Six flatscreen televisions hang the start of the year and they now during the Sunday service would congregation. security.” Britain had argued that shippers but they’re not pray- from the pillars of the 100-year- take place about once a month. be frowned upon at best. The tweet appears on the a 2005 deal with Jordan and more ing; instead they’re all logged old church showing the tweets of “The Romans had roads and But here, many members of screens for everyone to see. recent diplomatic assurances would onto Twitter and Facebook. the faithful as Champness deliv- that enabled them to travel and the congregation are logged on. Then come more, like one from ensure that Qatada would obtain a “Today is a Twitter Sunday ers his sermon. take the message out; in the medi- One teenager is updating his parishioner Charlotte Pike: “Is fair trial there. so it’s time to get your Twitter The church also has a wi-fi eval period they had printing Facebook profile, a dad is looking what you think the same as what It had maintained that the agree- on,” intones Brian Champness, network with the password: presses and that enabled them to up a recipe. you say? Can it have the same ments with Jordan were sufficient to the children’s pastor of the “Abraham 123.” print and get the message out,” Others, meanwhile, are using repercussions ?” overcome a ruling by the European Anglican church in the south- The project is the brainchild of Alden said. the technology to give their reac- “Excellent question!” says Court of Human Rights that Qatada western English seaside town of Andrew Alden, the vicar of the “Today we have Twitter and tion to the Sunday sermon. Champness, whose iPad lies next could not be deported because of the Weston-Super-Mare. church, who says that he is follow- the Internet, YouTube, we have “Can a feasting on positive to his red-leather covered Bible possibility that a trial there could use “If you have a question, tweet ing in the footsteps of Christians Facebook, these are the tools words & blessing, & a fast on on his wooden pulpit. torture evidence. it and will see if we can get some from the past two millennia. that God has given us to get the negativity change our town in AFP REUTERS

Donating in the Questions mount on wake of Sandy gets social Petraeus affair probe WASHINGTON: Pressure September 11 attacks on the US with apps for a more detailed account- consulate in Benghazi, Libya, but ing of the affair that brought he now will be replaced by acting TORONTO: People eager to down CIA chief David Petraeus CIA Director Michael Morrell. support relief efforts following grew yesterday amid reports But Feinstein said the Senate Hurricane Sandy can use apps that senior FBI and Justice Intelligence Committee could that provide creative ways of Department officials learned of decide to ask Petraeus to testify. donating to charity and nudge it late last summer. The scandal has shocked and friends to do the same. The New York Times, which surprised friends and associates of Budge, an iPhone app released disclosed the latest twist in the the retired general, a celebrated last week, aims to make donat- timeline, said it was unclear military leader who played pivotal ing to charity social. Friends can whether FBI Director Robert roles in the US wars in Iraq and challenge each other in games Mueller or Attorney General Eric Afghanistan before assuming the and activities such as chess or Holder were informed at the time. helm of the CIA 14 months ago. charades and the loser makes $1, Key members of Congress He admitted to the extramari- $2, or $5 donations to one of the demanded a fuller explanation of tal affair in a resignation message charities supported by the app. an affair that could have involved to the CIA’s work force on Friday, “For us it’s really about changing a national security breach, angrily calling the lapse of judgment the way people think about donat- complaining they were left in the “unacceptable” for a husband and ing,” said Hillan Klein, co-founder dark until just before the scandal leader. He has been married to his and CEO of New York-based broke on Friday. wife Holly for 38 years. company Budge. “We are driving “It just doesn’t add up,” Peter President Barack Obama to change the culture and say you King, the top Republican on learned of it two days after the can have fun while you do good.” the House Homeland Security US elections, according to the Repairs continue on West 20th Street in the Chelsea section of New York as the city recovers from the effects of The challenges are meant to Committee, told CNN on Sunday. White House, and accepted his Hurricane Sandy, yesterday. be activities that friends already “I have real questions about this. I resignation the following day. enjoy doing together. For couples, think a timeline has to be looked at In the US military, adultery can it could be doing the dishes or charities, and to get more friends that deal with first respondents— Another web app, Raise5, allows and analysed to see what happened.” be considered a crime. As CIA taking out the trash. involved. The app supports 11 some of them have lost their homes its users to list services online, Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic director, Petraeus was a civilian “It’s relative to people and their charities, including the American in Hurricane Sandy themselves and which can range from web design chair of the Senate Intelligence but the potential security breach relationships with their friends, Sustainable Business Council they’re still out there helping oth- and proofreading, to lessons on Committee, also said “absolutely” left him open to blackmail. which makes it a personal experi- which has setup a relief fund ers,” said Klein. making jam. Services range from she would pursue why the FBI failed Steven Boylan, a retired army ence,” said Klein. for businesses affected by Sandy, Budge, which is free and avail- $5 to $50, with all funds donated to to notify leaders of the congressional colonel and former Petraeus Although the donations are Breastcancer.org, the National able in the United States and the charity selected by the service oversight committees. spokesman, said his former boss small, Klein said they add up. Multiple Sclerosis Society and Australia, receives a fee of up to donor. CEO Mike Tang said Raise5 “We received no advanced told him over the weekend that “People are still donating $25, the World Food Programme USA. five percent of each transaction. supports more than 100 charities notice. It was like a lightning bolt,” the affair with Paula Broadwell $40, or $50 over the course of Klein said the company is look- At the moment the login is including the World Society for the she said on Fox News Sunday. began about two months after he the month,” he said, adding that ing for more charity partners to through Facebook but the com- Protection of Animals and Virgin Petraeus had been scheduled to became CIA director and ended smaller donations enable donors aid with Sandy relief efforts. pany plans to change that and to Unite. testify Thursday at closed door four months ago. to disperse funds across a range of “An example would be non-profits release an Android app. REUTERS congressional inquiries on the AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Manila to boost fight against trafficking Accomplishments of IACAT proof of government’s ‘strong commitment’ to curb human trafficking

MANILA: The Philippine gov- partnership and political will, and measures have been put in place trafficking, most notably through of the council, also reported that “The Philippines is unreserv- ernment vowed to intensify the through the lessons that we have through joint efforts of the DOJ, the use of strategically placed they have provided intermediate edly committed to combating and campaign against human traf- shared through this mission, we law enforcement agencies, and the television consoles that carry treatment and counselling facili- eradicating trafficking in persons, ficking in the country follow- are assured of our eventual vic- Bureau of infomercials, discussions, and ties for rescued victims of human which is rightly condemned by the ing a preliminary report of a tory against human trafficking Since 2011, the agents of the documentaries on trafficking in trafficking. law of nations and the conscience United Nations expert saying in a world where the inalienable bureau have undertaken the strict persons, added De Lima. The agency has assisted in of humanity. The programmes we this perennial problem has not rights and transcendent dignity inspection of travel, employment In terms of partnership, she the processing of 920 overseas are now undertaking form only declined. of every human being is guaran- and financial documents of out- bared: “We are also continuing Filipino workers repatriated from the spearhead of the ever-expand- Justice Secretary Leila de Lima teed by both State and society,” going passengers in airports and to expand our cooperation with conflict-hit Syria and initiated a ing scope of our campaign,” De said there has been significant she said in her address. seaports to identify and protect foreign governments, and IACAT project to expand and enhance Lima told the reporters. progress in the campaign against De Lima reported during the trafficking victims in transit, has forged strong partnerships the Philippine Anti-Trafficking She, however, admitted there human smuggling as cited by UN meeting the accomplishments of while duly respecting their con- with the Global Alliance for the Database through the assistance are still challenges facing the special rapporteur on trafficking IACAT, which Ezeilo said were stitutional and human rights. Protection of Children Online and of the Netherlands. campaign against human traf- in persons Joy Ngozi Ezeilo dur- proof of the government’s “strong The DOJ chief said a total of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit In the prosecution aspect, the ficking in the country. ing their meeting last Friday at commitment” to the drive against 736 persons victimised by traf- to protect minor victims of exploi- IACAT officials told Ezeilo of the The IACAT Secretariat has also the conclusion of the latter’s fact- cross-border human trafficking. ficking syndicates were rescued tation,” she said. convictions of 100 people for viola- monitored and reported a total of finding mission in the country. “We take this opportunity to from April 2011 to September Just last Oct 30, IACAT con- tion of Republic Act 9208 (Anti- 1,693 cases pending in trial courts De Lima, who chairs the recapitulate the updates pro- 2012 at the Ninoy ducted a joint operation with Trafficking in Persons Act of and in the DOJ, of which 364 were Inter-Agency Council Against vided by the Philippines in the Aquino International Airport the Netherlands against a group 2003), 70 of which were secured filed just last year. Trafficking (IACAT), said meas- four areas of prevention, protec- alone. suspected of committing transna- by DOJ under the administration To effectively address the prob- ures are already in place and tion, prosecution and partnership To supplement its efforts, tional trafficking and other crimes of President Aquino pursuant to lem, Ezeilo suggested the creation additional reforms to improve under the mandate provided by IACAT has also implemented a in Amsterdam and Manila for the its programme of providing “a of a specialised court to expedite this effort as suggested by Ezeilo the Anti-Trafficking in Persons wide-ranging public education purpose of labour exploitation. truly impartial system of insti- the trial of human trafficking would be considered. Act of 2003,” De Lima said. campaign to inform vulnerable Justice Undersecretary Jose tutions that deliver equal justice cases. “We believe that through De Lima said preventive sectors of the dangers of human Vicente Salazar, officer-in-charge to rich or poor.” THE PHILIPPINE STAR Massacre anniversary S Korea’s first lady to face land deal probe Japan high court clears

SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak’s politician after long trial wife will be questioned in writ- ing by special prosecutors prob- TOKYO: Japan’s onetime polit- of the now-governing Democratic ing alleged irregularities in ical kingmaker Ichiro Ozawa Party of Japan (DPJ), which he the purchase of a retirement was cleared yesterday of misre- once led. home for her husband, officials porting political funds, ending But his star has largely faded said yesterday. The question- a drawn-out legal battle for one in recent times and his depar- ing of First Lady Kim Yoon-Ok of the country’s more colourful ture from the DPJ to set up his comes at a sensitive time, with politicians. own party earlier this year did South Korea just weeks away The appeal court upheld an not prove the terminal blow to from a presidential election on earlier ruling that Ozawa had Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda December 19. done nothing wrong when he that commentators speculated he Park Geun-Hye, daughter of failed initially to report 400m was hoping for. assassinated military dictator yen ($5m) that he had loaned to Yesterday, presiding judge Shoji Park Chung-Hee, will contest the funding body supporting his Ogawa of the Tokyo High Court from President Lee’s ruling New political machine. upheld an April acquittal for the Frontier Party. Ozawa was once one of Japan’s 70-year-old on charges he had Prosecutors have already grilled most powerful politicians, earning conspired not to report the 400 Lee’s brother and son, but assist- the moniker “Shadow Shogun” for million yen loan in 2004. ant special counsel Lee Chang- behind-the-scenes manoeuvring The funding body used the Hoon said protocol dictated that that shaped large parts of the par- cash for a 350m yen land deal Kim would not be required to liamentary landscape. and reported having received the appear before the investigation A former player in the long- money in documents submitted team in person. ruling Liberal Democratic Party, for the accounts in a different “We have decided to conduct he is credited with engineering year. Hundreds of East Timorese march carrying portraits of relatives to mark the 21st anniversary of the Santa a written questioning of the first the 2009 general election victory AFP Cruz massacre in Dili yesterday. Protesters demanded justice for the killings when Indonesian troops opened lady,” Lee told reporters. fire on a memorial gathering, which had turned into pro-independence protest, at Dili’s Santa Cruz cemetery The probe is focused on alleged on November 12, 1991. More than 200 Timorese were killed. irregularities in the purchase of a plot of land on the southern edge of Seoul to build a retirement home for President Lee when he China not serious about immolation probe: Dalai Lama formally leaves office in January.

Taiwan tests new TOKYO: The Dalai Lama said issue since the Communist Party an image of national unity during visitor and where he has a size- views it considers unacceptable. yesterday that China is more congress began in Beijing last the highly stage-managed gather- able following. During a trip here in November anti-ship missile interested in criticising him Thursday. ing amid unrest in minority areas. He was in Okinawa in the last year the 77-year-old said TAIPEI: Taiwan tested its long- than finding the reason behind On Saturday an 18-year-old The escalating protests have country’s far south on Monday, Tibetans faced “cultural geno- est range ship-to-ship missile a spate of Tibetan self-immo- Tibetan died after setting him- been aimed at undercutting the but was due to return to Tokyo on cide” under Beijing’s hardline within a month of China putting lations threatening to mar the self ablaze in front of a monastery facade, according to representa- Tuesday, where he was expected rule, which he blamed for a wave its first aircraft carrier into Communist Party’s leadership in northwestern China’s Gansu tives of the Tibetan government- to speak to a cross-party group of of self-immolations at the time. service, a report said yesterday. change. province, the state-run Xinhua in-exile in India. parliamentarians. “Chinese communist propa- Dubbed an “aircraft carrier The exiled Tibetan spiritual news agency said. On the sidelines of the con- More than 100 lawmakers are ganda create a very rosy picture. killer”, the missile has a range of leader told reporters in Japan Sixty-nine people have set gress on Friday, officials from the expected to attend the speech, But actually, including many 400 kilometres (250 miles) and that Beijing is not looking “seri- themselves on fire to protest Tibetan Communist Party angrily said the secretary of opposi- Chinese from mainland China is capable of achieving Mach 3.0, ously” at the protests taking place Chinese rule of Tibet since 2009, denounced the Dalai Lama and tion party member Hakubun who visit Tibet, they all have the or triple the speed of sound, the across the country during the of whom 54 have died, the India- overseas Tibetan “separatists” for Shimomura, who will jointly host impression things are terrible,” he Taipei-based United Daily News highly choreographed meeting. based Tibetan government- orchestrating the immolations to the meeting, adding that politi- told journalists in Tokyo. reported. “The Chinese government in-exile said before the latest breed unrest. cians will establish a Tibet sup- “Some kind of policy, some “The Chung-shan Institute of should investigate the cause (of incident. “The Dalai Lama clique and port group. kind of cultural genocide is tak- Science and Technology finished the incidents). China does not But the immolations have overseas Tibetan separatists have Tokyo formally recognises ing place.” a series of tests off Taiwan last look into it seriously and tries to gained pace in recent months and been sacrificing other people’s Beijing’s position that Tibet is a Tibetan anger at Beijing’s con- month,” it said, in reference to end (the incidents) only by criti- particularly in the past week as lives for their own secret political part of China and in a nod to this, trol has simmered for decades but Taiwan’s arms development unit. cising me,” he said, according to the Communist Party opened its aims,” said Losang Gyaltsen, vice- the government bars its officials burst into violent rioting against “No ship is capable of with- a Kyodo News report in Japanese. sensitive congress on Thursday chairman of the Tibet region’s from meeting the Dalai Lama Chinese rule in the Tibet regional standing its high-velocity impact,” The comments come after to pass the baton of power to government. during his frequent visits. capital Lhasa and across the the paper quoted an unnamed seven people set themselves on the next generation of party The Dalai Lama is nearing the China criticises Japan for Tibetan heartland in southwest- military source as saying. fire in a week and are thought to apparatchiks. end of a 12-day visit to Japan, a allowing the visits, which it says ern China in March 2008. AFP be the Dalai Lama’s first on the The party has sought to project country to which he is a regular give the monk a platform for AFP State visit Sri Lanka military defends Myanmar struggles to reach quake victims

killings during prison riot SINT KU: Myanmar rescu- ers struggled yesterday to bring COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s mili- and (fire) burst around. If we did help to outlying villages hit by an tary yesterday defended its sol- not go in, there was a risk of 4,000 earthquake that aid agencies say diers who have been accused of convicts escaping and posing a has killed at least 13 and caused massacring prisoners during a bigger danger,” he added. a bridge and mine to collapse. jail riot last week, saying the The army was deployed at the A series of powerful aftershocks inmates were heavily armed and request of the police in line with rattled nerves after Sunday’s posed a danger to the public. legal provisions of the Criminal 6.8-magnitude quake, which sent Sri Lanka’s main opposition Procedure Code, Wanigasooriya terrified people running from party has accused security forces said, rejecting opposition claims their homes in Myanmar’s sec- of killing in cold blood after the that the military had no authority ond-biggest city of Mandalay. deaths of 27 inmates in maxi- to intervene. Authorities said they were pro- mum-security Welikada jail in the The main opposition United viding help to victims including capital Colombo during a riot on National Party on Sunday called those without shelter after more Friday and Saturday morning. for a parliamentary investigation than one hundred homes were “I reject these allegations into the prison riot, the worst in damaged but that communica- completely,” military spokesman nearly thirty years. tion problems made it difficult Ruwan Wanigasooriya said, add- The opposition said 16 convicts to assess the scale of damage and ing that there was “stiff resist- were killed on late Friday evening reach more remote areas. Waiters serve tea as Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki (left) talks with Vietnam’s President Truong ance” from prisoners armed with while 11 more had been gunned Villagers in settlements said Tan Sang in front of a statue of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace assault rifles looted from the down early on Saturday after they had yet to see rescue teams in Hanoi yesterday prison armoury. troops were called in. following the quake. “Our objective was not to go in AFP AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Afghan massacre ‘too Burnt buses big’ for lone US soldier Soldier allegedly left base twice to carry out killings

WASHINGTON: A lone children. He allegedly set several have had to be involved. shooter could not have commit- of their bodies on fire. “I was thinking this is not a ted the massacre of 16 Afghan Prosecutors at a pre-trial hear- thing that one person can do,” villagers blamed on a US sol- ing, held on an army base south he said, while adding that he dier, a witness testified late of Seattle, have alleged that Bales believed the attacks occurred Sunday, stressing the scale of left the base twice to carry out at the same time as each other, the atrocity. the killings, returning in between somewhere between midnight The defence witness said the and even telling a colleague what and 3:00 am. extent of the carnage, wrought he had done. Bales was flown from overnight in two villages near a For the last three nights it has Afghanistan back to Fort US army base in March, was too heard testimony by video link Leavenworth, Kansas shortly great for it to be the work of only from southern Afghanistan -- after the alleged massacre, Sergeant Robert Bales, facing a held at night to allow witnesses before being moved back to Fort possible court martial. to give their accounts during the Lewis-McChord recently, home “One person cannot do this daytime. base of the US 2nd Battalion, 3rd work,” said Khudai Dad of the Dad, the last witness to appear Infantry Regiment. Afghan Uniform Police, who by video link, said he believed the His wife and two children were Buses that had been set on fire after unrest broke out as a result of target killing in Karachi, Pakistan, yes- searched the scene of the killings two attacks must have happened moved to the sprawling military the next morning. “One person simultaneously. base south of Seattle for their own terday. Reports state 37 persons were killed in a week in Karachi. The recent wave of target killings has doesn’t have the courage to go He said he went first to the US security, and to shield them from sparked fear among residents. from one village to another in base, then to what was described the glare of the media in the wake the night.” as the first crime scene. Although of the killings. Bales, balding with close- the Afghan National Army (ANA) Before the hearings, Bales’ cropped blond hair and wearing were only supposed to secure the wife reiterated her belief that he ‘Afghan’ mortars kill four in Peshawar standard army combat uniform, scene until he arrived, some shell was innocent, saying he did not showed no emotion as he watched casings were missing. remember the shootings and was PESHAWAR: Mortar rounds of South Waziristan, when Afghan Afghanistan and Pakistan the testimony on a small monitor “The ANA was there before I shocked when he was told details fired from Afghanistan have forces fired mortar shells from typically blame each other for placed in front of him. (arrived). They picked up all the of the allegations against him. killed four civilians in a border across the border,” a security offi- violence by Taliban Islamic mili- He faces 16 counts of murder, shell casings, all the rounds,” he The massacre is thought to be village in Pakistan’s northwest- cial based in Peshawar said. tants plaguing both sides of their six of attempted murder, seven said, adding that he himself had the deadliest crime by a US sol- ern tribal belt, Pakistan secu- A second security official said 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) of assault, two of using drugs and found a total of 13 shells. dier during the decade-long con- rity officials said yesterday. the victims were collecting wood border, known as the Durand one of drinking alcohol. Seventeen In one house, “there was blood flict and tested Washington and The late Sunday incident comes and were hit by the mortar shells Line. of the 22 victims were women or in the entrance when the woman Kabul’s already tense relationship as a delegation of Afghanistan’s as they loaded it into a vehicle. In recent months shelling children and almost all were shot came to the front door and was to the limit. High Peace Council prepare Two children were among the across the porous mountain fron- in the head. shot,” said Dad, slight man with The so-called Article 32 pre- to travel to Islamabad to meet four dead, the second official said. tier, which militants can easily The 39-year-old allegedly left a mustache and spectacles, trial hearing, to decide whether Pakistani political and military The Pakistan foreign minis- penetrate, has raised tensions and his base in the Panjwayi district After searching three homes in Bales should face a court mar- leaders for talks on peace in their try condemned the shelling as in early October a senior Afghan of Kandahar province on the the two villages involved, he said tial, started on November 5 and war torn country. “unhelpful and unproductive” general visited Islamabad to dis- night of March 11 to commit he was struck by the impression is expected to wrap up this week. “Four civilians were killed in and urged Kabul to take steps to cuss the issue. the killings, which included nine that more than one person would AFP Nez Naarai village, in Shawal area prevent any repeat. AFP

Islamabad plans Malala School closed in Peshawar for lack of teachers schools for poor children PESHAWAR: I haven’t seen while the rest abandoned educa- in the Education Management boys and 53 percent among a single child go to this educa- tion after their parents told them Information System report issued girls). Likewise, the dropout rate tional institution for the last to stay home. The school wore a in the last four years are not more calculated for class six-10 over ISLAMABAD: Pakistan plans classrooms, a verandah, a toilet four years, says a resident of deserted look when a visit was than 450 though E and SE Minister five years is 45 percent (46 per- to honour Malala Yousafzai, and space to extend the building if the Ghari Mosam Khan point- paid to it. The doors of its two Sardar Hussain Babak has time cent among boys and 43 per cent the schoolgirl education cam- needed. It will cost 800,000 rupees ing to the government girls classrooms were taken away by and again claimed that more than among girls). paigner shot by the Taliban, by ($8,220) and provide basic educa- primary school on the out- the people, while electricity and 900 schools in the province have They said around 10,518 schools opening special schools in her tion to both girls and boys. skirts of Peshawar, the capital other facilities, too, were missing. been reopened in two years. had been without electric supply, name for poor children, officials The Pakistani government of Pakistan’s northwest Khyber While the international com- In 2010, the education depart- 5,482 without boundary walls, said yesterday. has announced a plan to pay Pakhtunkhwa province. munity has been pushing the ment introduced rationalisation 7,432 without drinking water and The “Malala Schools” are poor families to send their chil- According to Hameed Khan, Pakistani government for encour- policy for transferring teach- 4,458 without toilets. planned for 16 areas around dren to school and UN education who runs a shop near the school, aging girls to get education since ers from schools in city areas to Officials said currently, 3.73 Pakistan affected by conflict or envoy Gordon Brown held talks he remembers well that a cou- little female education activist those closed due to unavailability million children were out of natural disasters, Nafisa Shah, in Islamabad at the weekend to ple of years ago, girls used to Malala Yousafzai of Swat was of teachers. schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chairwoman of the National begin a plan to bring more than go through the lush green fields shot by the Taliban, closure of According to officials, schools due to inaccessibility to schools, Commission for Human five million out-of-school young- every morning to reach the pri- schools due to unavailability of in city areas are overstaffed as missing facilities inside schools Development said. sters into the classroom. mary school. teachers and pathetic conditions teachers wants to stay there to and poverty. And of them, 1.809 The aim is to give children in Taliban hitmen shot Malala However, the school located some at the functional ones point to get additional allowance not given million are aged between five and these areas, who often have little on her school bus a month ago in three kilometres from Peshawar another serious educational issue to those appointed to rural area 10 years and 1.924 million between in the way of educational oppor- Mingora in Pakistan’s northwest- on the bank of the Bara River has in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. educational institutions. 11 and 15 years. tunities, a chance to go to school, ern Swat Valley. been closed for four years. And the Ironically, the elementary and They also said thousands of In this light, it is stated that Shah said, but added that money Miraculously the 15-year- closure came after the lone teacher secondary education department schools in the province, mostly the government could increase for the scheme had not yet been old survived and her courage of the school was transferred. has no data of schools closed due primary ones, lacked basic facili- access of children, especially girls, found. has won the hearts of millions Since there was no teacher, the to unavailability of teachers and ties causing high dropout rate. to education in the province by “We have identified the places around the world, prompting the students stopped coming to the other reasons. It is enough to According to officials, the overall setting up more schools, providing and (will) soon launch a fundrais- United Nations to declare last school. show the department’s indiffer- dropout rate calculated for pre- basic facilities to the existing ones ing scheme to generate finances Saturday a “global day of action” Some took admission in another ence to the issue. paratory-5th class in government and observe merit while transfer- for these schools,” Shah said. for her. primary school located at a dis- The number of closed schools in primary schools over six years is ring teachers. Each school will have two AFP tance of around one kilometre, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as shown 45 percent (39 percent among INTERNEWS

Germany to decide Hopes weak for peace talks on Afghan troop

ISLAMABAD: A high-level then head of the peace council, since he became chairman of the withdrawal pace Afghan delegation arrived in was assassinated by a suicide council,” Yusufzai told AFP. KABUL: German Defence Pakistan Monday for talks on bomber in Kabul. “How is it possible to achieve Minister Thomas de Maiziere peace in the war-torn nation, Afghan officials lashed out at results in such a situation when said yesterday on a visit to but analysts warned that with- Islamabad over the killing of the the council has not been in con- Afghanistan that his govern- out Taliban involvement little former president of Afghanistan, tact with the Taliban?” ment would decide in the com- would come of the negotiations. saying it was planned in Pakistan Preliminary contacts between ing days on the next steps in Members of Afghanistan’s High and carried out by a Pakistani, the United States and the Taliban withdrawing troops from the Peace Council, led by chairman while Islamabad blamed Afghan in Doha were broken off in March country. Salahuddin Rabbani, are to meet refugees living in Pakistan. when the militants failed to De Maiziere told a press confer- Pakistani political leaders and the Suspicion and mistrust have secure the release of five of their ence with his Afghan counterpart head of the powerful military over long dogged ties between the comrades held in Guantanamo Bismullah Khan Mohammadi the coming three days. two neighbours and Kabul has Bay. Yusufzai said that while that the cabinet would agree Pakistani Prime Minister Raja accused Pakistan of supporting Pakistan has some influence over “within the next week” on troop Pervez Ashraf expressed hope Taliban Islamists in their 11-year the Taliban it was unrealistic to levels during the drawdown over that the visit by the delegation insurgency against the Western- think Islamabad could convince the next two years. “will pave the way for closer backed government of President the militants to return to the “First of all the redeployment relations between the two coun- Hamid Karzai. This week’s talks negotiating table. of our troops until the end of 2014 tries,” a statement said after he come as efforts to end the Taliban Such a move would require will be reliable, sufficient and sus- met Rabbani and accompanying insurgency in Afghanistan gain a “confidence-building measures” tainable,” said De Maiziere. members. new urgency as the withdrawal from the United States, he said, Germany currently has around “There is consensus in Pakistan of US-led NATO combat troops and in any event could trigger a 4,800 troops in Afghanistan. that both Afghanistan and -- planned for the end of 2014 -- split in the Islamist movement. it is also currently the third Pakistan should work together for looms ever closer. Analyst Hasan Askari said largest contingent under Nato’s peace in the region,” the state- But analyst Rahimullah that while Kabul and Washington International Security Assistance ment issued by the PM’s house Yusufzai warned that no progress might be keen for some kind of Force, behind Britain’s 9,500 said. Support from Pakistan, of any substance would be made accommodation with parts of the troops and the some 68,000 US which backed the Taliban regime this week, beyond Rabbani getting Taliban, the insurgents had little troops. that held power in Kabul from to meet the Pakistani side for the incentive to talk, knowing NATO It has agreed with its Nato 1996 to 2001, is seen as crucial to first time. will leave in two years. “They are partners to gradually pull com- peace in Afghanistan beyond 2014. “The problem is that the waiting for withdrawal of inter- bat forces out of the country by Afghan-Pakistani talks were Afghan government has not been national troops and are confident Pakistan’s Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf (right) shakes hands with the end of 2014 as Afghan troops derailed more than a year ago in contact with (the) Taliban. that they can make life for (the) Salahuddin Rabbani, chairman of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, assume more responsibility for amid a welter of accusations when Even Rabbani has not been able Kabul government miserable,” he before their meeting at the prime minister’s residence in Islamabad, security. Rabbani’s father Burhanuddin, to get in touch with the Taliban said. AFP yesterday. AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 MIM withdraws support to federal, state govts Congress government in Andhra may land in crisis

HYDERABAD: In a signifi- only turned a blind eye to MIM’s my friend,” he remarked indicat- cant development which could demands to withdraw cases ing that MIM may ally with YSR alter political equations in against innocent Muslims and Congress of Y S Jaganmohan Andhra Pradesh, the Majlis- take action against the guilty but Reddy, who is currently in jail in e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) pandered to the Sangh Parivar. a disproportionate assets case. yesterday withdrew support to The MIM’s decision came after When asked about the MIM’s the United Progressive Alliance the government allegedly allowed possible alliance with YSR (UPA) government in New construction of a canopy over a Congress, Owaisi said he would Delhi and the Congress govern- temple abutting the historic answer the questions at the time ment in the state. Charminar in alleged violation of of elections. He added that while MIM chief and its lone MP court orders to maintain status changing the leadership in the Asaduddin Owaisi announced quo. state was the Congress’ preroga- the decision of the party’s execu- Owaisi criticised the chief min- tive, the present government tive and declared that his party ister for ignoring the high court under the leadership of Kiran would now go after the state gov- order to maintain status quo. Kumar would weaken the party ernment for its “communal” and “Because of this decision of the in the state. “anti-people” policies. Congress government, because Saying that MIM had sup- Addressing a news conference, of its communal behaviour, dilly ported the Congress since 1998, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi yesterday. Owaisi said his party was com- dallying, pandering and sup- Owaisi claimed that it was with pelled to take the decision due porting Sangh Parivar activists the support of MIM and Muslims to “the communal behaviour of for ensuring that the BJP gets that the party came to power in Kiran Kumar Reddy’s govern- strengthened in Hyderabad and 2004. Karzai seeks investment ment in Andhra Pradesh”. surrounding areas, we are com- He said after Y S Rajasekhara “We will not be an ally of Kiran pelled to withdraw support,” Reddy’s death in 2009, parts of NEW DELHI: Visiting Afghan is more confident of its future and signed last year for deepening Kumar Reddy’s government. It Owaisi said. the state and Hyderabad had President Hamid Karzai yes- that is willing to receive invest- security and economic links. is improper that I continue my The MIM has seven members witnessed communal violence. terday made a strong pitch for ments from its friends”. The prime minister said the two support to UPA. We will also in the 295-member assembly and He said the inaction of the gov- investment by Indian business On Saturday, while speaking to had discussed “the need to develop withdrawing support to UPA gov- its support is crucial for the sur- ernment emboldened the Sangh in his war-torn country as he India Inc in Mumbai, the Afghan a strategic economic partnership, ernment,” he announced. vival of the Congress government, Parivar activists. and Prime Minister Manmohan president had wooed Indian busi- which will build on our economic In a letter faxed to President which has a narrow majority. The MIM leader flayed Kiran Singh reaffirmed their shared ness to invest in his country, tell- synergies for mutual benefit”. Pranab Mukherjee, the MIM The Muslim party, which had Kumar saying he had emerged vision of a “stable, strong, ing them not to be “shy when He also “reiterated to President president informed him of his bailed out the government dur- as the successor of former prime united, sovereign and prosper- thinking of Afghanistan”. Karzai our belief that Afghanistan’s party’s decision. He sought an ing the opposition-sponsored minister P V Narasimha Rao in ous Afghanistan”. He had offered India Inc a regional economic integration will appointment with the president no-confidence motion, was non- the Congress. “He should remem- Addressing a joint press con- “red carpet” if they invest in contribute to overall prosperity to explain the circumstances committal on whether it would ber that by using police force he ference with Prime Minister Afghanistan. Karzai was full of and stability in the region”. which compelled MIM to take support a no-confidence motion can’t break our will. We will fight Manmohan Singh after their praise for Indian Prime Minister Prime Minister Manmohan the decision. if moved by the main opposition till the end, come what may,” delegation-level talks here, Karzai Manmohan Singh terming him a Singh said India remains com- Owaisi said his party legisla- Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Owaisi said. said investment opportunities are “good friend” of Afghanistan and mitted to supporting Afghanistan tors would meet Governor E S L “Our main priority is to ensure Owaisi demanded an end to the “better” in his country now. praised India as a “very gener- in its development efforts. India’s Narasimhan to inform him of the that this government falls. We curfew-like situation in his con- “My visit this time to India is ous and front-line supporter” for development assistance commit- decision to withdraw support to will go to every nook and corner stituency. He said he was ready focused particularly in talking to Afghanistan’s re-construction and ment to Afghanistan is at $2bn. the Congress government. of the state to expose the govern- to cooperate with police and and asking and requesting Indian development. Manmohan Singh India and Afghanistan inked Giving a detailed account of ment’s anti-people and communal the government in maintaining business to come to Afghanistan,” said the two leaders had reviewed four agreements to cooperate in communal riots in the state and actions,” said Owaisi. peace and appealed to the people Karzai said, adding “Investment the progress in implementation areas of social welfare, fertilizer, Hyderabad since 2010, he alleged “Jaganmohan Reddy is my to remain calm and not believe opportunities in Afghanistan of the Strategic Partnership coal mining and youth affairs. that the Congress government not friend, Kiran Kumar Reddy was rumours. IANS today are better. A country that Agreement, which they had IANS

Kejriwal’s aide RSS ideologue blames Modi for Gadkari’s woes fears for life NEW DELHI: The needle rejects such insinuation as it is another BJP MP and son of apprehended that Gadkari could national executive, Vaidya said GHAZIABAD: Poet-activist of suspicion in the campaign totally unfounded. All central Ram Jethmalani, quit the party’s cause hindrance to his (Modi’s) that if Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Kumar Vishwas, an aide to against the ultra-Hindu nation- leaders and its chief ministers national executive last week pro- ambition to become the prime min- Singh and Shatrughan Sinha activist-politician Arvind alist party BJP chief Nitin have been working cohesively testing Gadkari’s continuation ister, said Vaidya. “I do not think shared Ram Jethmalani’s views, Kejriwal, has told police that he Gadkari points to Gujarat Chief and unitedly,” Gadkari said in a in office despite the allegations Modi has any chance of leading the then should quit the BJP. faces danger, and claimed that Minister Narendra Modi, RSS statement here. He also rejected against him. BJP in the next election,” he added. On who would be BJP’s prime police were not taking the situ- ideologue M G Vaidya yester- Vaidya’s attempt to link the anti- Vaidya, 87, a Nagpur-based “L K Advani and Gadkari have ministerial candidate, Vaidya ation seriously. In a complaint day said, sparking swift denials Gadkari comments by party MP former chief editor of Tarun made it clear they are not in the race said: “This is not the right time lodged with the Indirapuram from both the organisations. Ram Jethmalani with Modi. Bharat, the RSS mouthpiece, for prime minister. However, Modi, to decide. The party that gets the police, Vishwas said he may have While the Rashtriya “The BJP is firmly and unit- said in his blog in Marathi that who seems to have strong prime maximum MPs in 2014 would earned the wrath of some peo- Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), BJP’s edly behind Modi and we are con- the roots of the campaign against ministerial ambitions, has said noth- elect the next prime minister.” ple due to his “frank and fear- parent body, distanced itself from fident the party will win decisively Gadkari had to be in Gujarat. ing on this issue,” Vaidya pointed In Chennai, BJP leader M less views”. Vaidya’s remarks, Gadkari called in the Gujarat elections,” he said. Besides seeking Gadkari’s out.Reacting to Vaidya’s blog, RSS Venkaiah Naidu hit out at Vaidya. He said that in the past too he his comments “unfounded” and Gadkari has been under attack resignation, Ram Jethmalani spokesman Ram Madhav said: “It is “That is his idea, I don’t know had received threats to his life on insisted that there was total unity for alleged financial impropri- wanted Modi to be declared the not the opinion of the Sangh.” where he got the information phone and by other means. He filed in the Bharatiya Janata Party ety in connection with his busi- party’s prime ministerial candi- Referring to Mahesh (about Modi being involved). It is the complaint late Sunday after a (BJP). “The BJP completely ness groups. Mahesh Jethmalani, date. This could be because Modi Jethmalani’s exit from the wrong...” IANS group of youngsters came to his house and told him that they wished to join India Against Corruption (IAC). But they fled seeing a televi- Tibetans protest sion crew at his house. “These guys spoke very roughly with me,” Vishwas said: “The way One killed in Assam, they spoke to me was certainly hostile and intimidating.” At the time of the incident, security beefed up former BJP legislator Roop Kumar Chowdhary and IAC activist Sanjay Singh were at GUWAHATI: Following the isolated one and added that the Vishwas’ house. killing of a man by unknown situation is under control. Later, his driver told him that assailants, a mob protesting Some of the protesters had also the men were back and this time the alleged murder laid siege blockaded railway lines at some their number had swelled. to a police station in Assam’s places in the district but police The youths again fled after Kokrajhar district yesterday, dispersed them, he said. spotting the television crew. police said. Security has been Earlier, an alert had been Vishwas said their intrusion beefed up after the incident. sounded in Kokrajhar Friday appeared to be a “threat of sorts” The killing took place at after a man was shot dead at and Kejriwal told him to file a Bhumka under Tulsibeel police Badugaon under Gosaigaon police police complaint. station. The victim has been station on Friday and another “We have taken serious note identified as Ali Hussain, police died after being attacked with of the complaint, Till now the said.Kokrajhar along with sharp weapons the same day. intruders have not committed any Udalguri, Baksa and Chirang Following the incidents, Assam crime. We would verify the motive districts comprise the Bodoland Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had after receiving the details (of Territorial Areas Districts asked the civil and police admin- their vehicles),” Superintendent Police personnel detain Tibetan activists shouting slogans during a protest near the Chinese embassy in (BTAD), which is run by an istrations to deal with the situ- of Police Shiv Shankar Yadav said. New Delhi yesterday. elected autonomous council. ation firmly and to ensure that Vishwas argued that police “Suspected miscreants killed such incidents did not recur. were not taking the situation a man in Bhumka today. We are Gogoi had also directed top offi- seriously and officer Yadav “would investigating and have picked cials of Assam Police, including understand the gravity only after up 12 people for questioning,” the director general of police, to he (Vishwas) gets eliminated”. Farmers protests turn violent Inspector General of Police beef up security and to take firm If police wanted, Vishwas said, (BTAD) G P Singh said. action against those indulging in they could get details about any SANGLI, MAHARASHTRA: Sanghatana, who served as the mostly by Nationalist Congress Singh said the incident was an violence. IANS vehicle within minutes. IANS A farmer was killed when police leader of the farmers, and his Party and Congress politicians. opened fire to control a crowd close associate, Sada Khot. Opposing the arrests, angry of farmland activists in Vasgade The two men were arrested mobs of agitating farmers pelted village in Sangli district yester- from Indapur, Pune district, just stones and attacked a police van, day afternoon, police said. before they were set to launch while law-enforcers burst tear- Four Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh In a related incident, Pundalik a state-wide agitation to block gas shells and later opened fire Kokate, a farmer, was killed when all major roads and highways to in the air to control the mobs RAIPUR: Four Maoists were Maoist literature from a for- Andhra Pradesh. a truck ran over him during an press for their demands. Shetti in Sangli district. However, one gunned down in Chhattisgarh ested site at Bijapur. Police teams from both states agitation in Kolhapur. The ongo- has been leading the farmers agi- of the agitators here, identified yesterday in a joint operation by According to Bijapur encircled the place. The Maoists ing six-day old farmers’ agitation tation demanding minimum sup- as Chandrakant Nalawade, sus- the Chhattisgarh and Andhra Superintendent of Police Prashant opened fire, leading to an hour- turned violent yesterday when port price of `3,000 for sugarcane tained a bullet injury and later Pradesh Police, officials said. Agrawal, the operation followed long gun battle. Some of the police arrested Raju Shetti, MP growers, rattling the sugar lobby of succumbed, a Sangli district The security forces also recov- a tip off that top Maoists were insurgents escaped into the dense and chief of Swabhimani Shetkari western Maharashtra, controlled police official said. IANS ered arms, ammunition and in the Tarlaguda forest adjoining jungles. IANS TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Indians in GM crops must for country, govt tells Supreme Court Colombo prison safe: Official NEW DELHI: The cen- court in an affidavit last week. the court-appointed Technical fields.” “Ban on GM crop field the success of the green revo- tral government has told the The central government said Expert Committee (TEC) trials will be highly detrimen- lution was driven by sufficient NEW DELHI: All 38 Indians Supreme Court that it could GM crops would not only lead report, which had recommended tal and not in national inter- human resources available. in Sri Lanka’s Welikada prison not achieve the goal of reduc- to increased food security but a 10-year moratorium on GM est,” the central government Making a strong plea for field are safe and some had sustained ing the number of hungry would also reduce pressure on crops field trials. said in its affidavit on Friday. trials of GM crops, the govern- minor injuries in the wake of a people by half without taking land use. In the last 13 years, The TEC was appointed by In an attempt to persuade ment said that “a 10-year mora- prison riot in which 27 people recourse to genetically modi- the average availability of land the apex court while hearing the apex court to reject the torium would have a “cascading were killed. The Indian high com- fied (GM) crops, which could per head had shrunk from 0.21 a petition by Aruna Rodrigues recommendation of the TEC, effect” of putting all the related mission in Colombo was arrang- herald the second green revo- hectares to 0.10 hectares. seeking a mechanism mandating the central government’s affi- research fields which thus far on ing delivery of food packets to the lution in the country. While the population had scientific examination of all the davit said: “In biotechnology the upswing into a decline”. prisoners to mark Diwali today, “Despite rapid economic increased by 181 million in the aspects of biosafety before GM and genetics, the principle sci- It added that it would be a an official source said. growth in the past two decades, last decade, the land under sow- crops are released for commer- ences behind the GM crops, “blow to Indian science as it The high commission yesterday India is unlikely to meet the tar- ing remained static at 140-143 cial cultivation. India has done exceedingly well would put the country 20 years secured access to the Indian pris- get of cutting the proportion of million hectares since 1970. Pitching for field trials of in investing in HRD, education back in scientific research in oners and met all 38, the source hungry people by half if recourse The central government pro- GM crops, the government said: and training since 1986 with the comparison to fast growing said. “All are safe. Some of them to advanced and safe biotechnol- nounced its position backing “Genetic engineering prom- establishment of department of economies who are developing had minor medical complaints ogy tools are not adopted,” the field trials of GM crops while ises remarkable advances in biotechnology, the first country GM crops like Brazil, China etc”. that are being attended to. central government told the apex junking the interim report of medicine, agriculture and other to do so globally.” It added that IANS “Considering the harrow- ing experience they have gone through, the high commission is arranging delivery of food for them tomorrow (Diwali),” the offi- cial said. Hundreds of prisoners in Couple arrested Colombo’s Welikada prison appar- ently revolted on Friday after a crackdown on illegal drugs and mobile telephones, leading to vio- lence that left at least 27 of them over $91 million dead. Most Indians in the prison are from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. As the violence raged, they sent desperate messages claiming their investment fraud lives were in danger. Police receive over 14,000 complaints Trinamool leader held with firearm NEW DELHI: A married However, instead of returning couple has been arrested in the investments as promised, the KOLKATA: A Trinamool Maharashtra in connection accused suddenly shut down their Congress district leader, with what is believed to be one of office and decamped with all the accused of threatening offi- the biggest frauds in the coun- collected funds. cials in a private hospital in try after they cheated over two “Their scheme to induce public West Bengal’s Birbhum district lakh people of a total of $91m at large was quite elaborate with with a firearm, was yester- through an oraganised racket conferences and distribution of day arrested and remanded to across India, police said yester- very attractive brochures in five- police custody, police said. The day. Ulhas Prabhakar Khaire, star hotels all over India. They incident came to light after the 33, and his wife Raksha J Urs, also had multiple agents across closed circuit television footage 30, were arrested in Ratnagiri the country who mobilised funds of the private hospital - which last week. on their behalf,” said the officer. was aired on television channels “They duped the people, pos- Till date, as many as 14,303 - showed Ashish Dey beating up ing under the fake names as complaints have been received in and brandishing a firearm to Lokeshwar Dev and Priyanka this matter in EOW, Delhi. threaten the hospital officials Saraswat Dev, on pretext of Investigations revealed a total at Suri. Dey surrendered at investment in their company of 94 bank accounts spread the Suri police station yester- ‘Stock Guru India’ situated at over 20-odd banks. These bank day and later a court remanded (west) Delhi’s Rama Road on the accounts were opened and oper- President Pranab Mukherjee (fourth right), holds the new Aakash Version 2.0 tablet, at the National Education Day him to police custody for five promise of lucrative returns and ated by the couples in the names 2012 function to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in New Delhi. days, police said. Dey, however, against promissory notes provided of at least 13 different names claimed he was framed. “It’s a by the accused and others,” Joint and entities in Delhi and outside cooked up case. The CCTV foot- Commissioner of Police-Economic Delhi. age has been tampered with.” Offences Wing (EOW) Sandeep “Around 12 properties includ- New version of world’s Trinamool MP from Birbhum Goel said. Investigation of these ing eight flats in Dwaraka, one Satabdi Roy said Dey had been cases revealed that there were flat each in Bhiwadi, Alwar and expelled from the party earlier. about 2,05,062 investors who Moradabad and one villa in Goa But local television channels had invested $185 each or more owned by the accused has come to showed him on stage alongside totalling an investment of about light,” the official said. cheapest tablet on sale former railway minister Mukul `4.93bn in the ‘Stock Guru India’ Khaire, a resident of Nagpur Roy and current state Industries company. in Maharashtra, left stud- NEW DELHI: India has official launch function. price,” stated pluggd.in, an Indian Minister Partha Chatterjee at The couple was also involved in ies after Class 11 and started a launched a new version of its “This must be adapted to our website that analyses gadgets. separate programmes. several other cases of cheating, construction business. A case of ultra-low-cost tablet computer specific needs and introduced The first 100,000 devices will forgery and fraud registered in cheating was registered against with a quicker processor and expeditiously in all educational be sold to students at engineer- Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, him in Nagpur after that he left an improved battery, on sale to institutions across the country,” ing colleges and universities at a Winter aid for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Nagpur in 2004. In 2005 he came students at the subsidised price he added. subsidised price of 1,130 rupees Sikkim and Maharashtra, Goel to Bangalore, where he mar- of $20. The first version of the Aakash (20 dollars) and subsequently elderly in Odisha said. Following two cases related ried Mysore girl Raksha Urs, The Aakash tablet, dubbed the was launched by the government Aakash 2 will be distributed to to ‘Stock Guru’ registered in June and started working in a finance world’s cheapest computer, has in October last year but it was book stores in Indian universities. BHUBANESWAR: Odisha 2011 on the complaint of two company. been developed as a public-pri- marred by problems including Datawind says the commercial yesterday announced financial Haryana-based people, the case “Till 2009 they they had only vate partnership aimed at making a short battery life, initial long sale price without subsidies for assistance for its elderly, wid- was transferred to EOW here and made sporadic forays into crime. computing technology available waiting lists and difficulties with Aakash 2 is `3,500 ($64). ows and disabled people to ena- the accused were arrested more In 2009, they first entered into an to students in a country where distribution. Over 15,000 teachers at 250 col- ble them to buy winter clothes than a year after the incident. organised racket. They moved to Internet usage is only at around The paperback-book-sized leges have been trained on the use as the mercury started drop- The victims were induced to Dehradun and opened an institute 10 percent. Aakash 2, developed by Indian of Aakash for education, accord- ping in some parts of the state. invest money in the company of psychotherapy and counselling. Makers of the tablet, Britain- engineers at elite IIT public uni- ing to India’s human resource The beneficiaries would receive ‘Stock Guru India’. After collecting vast money they based Datawind, say the Aakash versities, runs the Google operat- development ministry. `200 each on December 15 along “The accused had guaranteed moved to Delhi in December 2009 2 is powered by a processor that ing system Android 4.0 and has The country has nearly 115 with their monthly pension, to provide a 20 percent return under the names of Lokeshwar runs three times faster than the a screen measuring seven inches million Internet users, giving it according to an official statement per month up to six months on Dev and Priyanka Dev,” said the original, has a bigger touchscreen (18 centimetres) wide. the the third-largest number in issued by Chief Minister Naveen the principal amount followed officer. “They are now on police and a battery with a life of three “Unlike the previous version the world after China and the Patnaik’s office. The aid would cost by a subsequent refund of the remand. Efforts are on to trace hours. which was a non-starter, this United States, but low penetra- the state exchequer `340m and principal amount in the seventh the other co-accused people and “Technology enabled learning time around there are some func- tion rates, data from the Internet would benefit about 27 lakh eld- month, through prudent and carry out more recoveries in the is a very important aspect of edu- tions and features around the and Mobile Association of India erly people, six lakh widows and source based investments in the said cases,” said the officer. cation,” Indian President Pranab Android tablet which make it a (IMAI) shows. four lakh physically challenged share market,” said the officer. IANS Mukherjee said on Sunday at an decent computing device for that AFP people, it said. AGENCIES

Diwali lights 2G auction gets muted response

NEW DELHI: India yester- slowly,” a telecom ministry official Court cancelled 122 licences day began auctioning mobile said, declining further comment. issued to eight companies in 2008 spectrum reclaimed after The lacklustre response con- after it ruled the government the Supreme Court scrapped trasts with the 2010 sale of 3G under-priced the permits and cost licences due to a graft-tainted airwaves in which the government the exchequer as much as $39bn allocation process, but the proc- raised more than $12bn. in lost revenues. ess drew a lukewarm response. Two foreign operators - Bharti and Vodafone were not Prime Minister Manmohan Norway’s Telenor and Britain- hit by the court order. But they Singh’s government hopes to raise based Vodafone Group - and want more bandwidth to improve `400bn ($7.2bn) from the auction three domestic firms -- Bharti service as mobile firms in India of second-generation (2G) spec- Airtel, Idea Cellular and Videocon battle to win new clients in the trum as it seeks to close a gaping Industries - are taking part in the world’s second-largest cellular budget deficit. auction. market. But industry critics said the The auction is crucial for com- Nineteen people including a starting price of `140bn which the panies such as Telenor’s Indian former telecoms minister, senior government set was too high and unit and Videocon, which both bureaucrats and corporate execu- deterred bids. lost their telecom permits, as tives, have been charged with cor- “The high reserve price has well as for Idea Cellular, seven of ruption over the 2008 2G sale in been dampening enthusiasm,” R S whose licences were revoked by what has become one of India’s Matthews, director general of the the Supreme Court. biggest-ever political scandals. Cellular Operators’ Association The companies are allowed While the 2010 3G auction of India, said, adding the govern- to continuing supplying services lasted more than a month, the ment “will be lucky” if it gets half under their cancelled permits current auction could be over A girl lights earthen lamps in a formation to form the shape of Hindu deity of prosperity, on the eve of Diwali, the sum it is seeking. until mid-January. within a couple of days, industry the festival of lights, in Chandigarh, yesterday. “It (the auction) has been going Early this year, the Supreme executives have said. AFP

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PRAYER TIME ‘Bang and News in Numbers FINANCIAL flash’ engine INDICATORS CHART: 2 Fajr (Dawn) 4:30 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:49 trouble hits Zuhr (Noon) 11:18 Emirates A380 Asr (Afternoon) 2:25 Maghrib (Sunset) 4:48 SYDNEY: An engine problem forced an Emirates A380 super- Isha (Night) 6:18 jumbo to turn back to Sydney, the airline said yesterday, with passengers hearing a loud bang Main Financial Indicators in Millions of QR and seeing a flash of orange. Particular Qatar Exchage WEATHER The pilot of the Dubai-bound Airbus plane carrying 380 pas- Traded Traded Market No. of Listed Rate of Weather sengers made the decision to Year Volume Index Today Wednesday Thursday turn back shortly after take-off Value Companies Change % Conditions: Capitalization on Sunday night. “Emirates flight (1000) Clear Clear Mostly sunny EK413 from Sydney to Dubai on Misty at firsrt 2009 16.9 6,959 1.1 November 11 turned back shortly 3,450,087 92,165 320,081 10 44 5 at places with after take-off due to an engine some clouds. High: 32° High: 32° High: 30° fault,” the carrier said. 2010 2,094,392 67,185 450,20323.1 43 8,682 24.8 Low: 26° Low: 25° Low: 24° “Emirates apologises for any inconvenience caused to its cus- 2011 2,302,770 83,419 457,35217.1 42 8,779 1.1 tomers. However, the safety of our passengers and crew is of the DOHA - SUN & SEA highest priority and will not be Q2 481,762 18,252 445,07716.8 42 8,361 -1.1 SUN TIDE SEA compromised.” Fairfax journalist Matt Q3 342,062 14,189 440,207-0.1 42 8,394 0.4 SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND Campbell was on the plane and told the Sydney Morning Herald 05:49 | 16:48 03:00 & 14:00 08:30 & 20:450 05-12 KTS Q4 668,567 8,779 4.6 the aircraft was still climbing. 21,249 457,352-1.9 42 “It seemed about half an hour THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW into the flight when I saw a Q1 514,861 17,803 463,346-2.1 42 8,791 0.1 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER bright orange flash, heard a loud 2012 bang and there was a big thump MUSCAT 31/23 Clear 31/23 Mostly sunny through the cabin,” he said. Commercial Banks MAKKAH 32/24 Mostly sunny 34/24 Mostly sunny “The flight attendants were 2009 2010 2011 2012( Q1) KUWAIT 27/20 Mostly sunny 28/18 Clear rushing about through the cabin BAHRAIN 31/25 Mostly sunny 29/24 Mostly sunny and then eventually the PA came

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-65,013 ISLAMABAD 26/10 Clear 27/11 Clear AFP Source : http://www.qcb.gov.qa/ Financial Stability & Statistics Department Bieber, Swift win big at MTV Europe Music Awards Odour-eliminating pants a hot seller FRANKFURT: Pop superstars Justin Getting Back Together” in the show’s finale. Rae Jepsen for the catchy “Call Me Maybe”, TOKYO: Underpants which are care and to hospitals. “But to our Bieber and Taylor Swift dominated the “This was our first European tour — which she collected from US reality show claimed to neutralise the smell of surprise, lots of ordinary people, like 19th annual MTV Europe Music Awards thank you for giving me one more amazing star Kim Kardashian. “All I can say is I was flatulence are proving a hit in Japan, businessmen who are in positions on Sunday, but South Korean Internet reason to come back and see you.” not expecting this,” she said as she hoisted whose hard-working businessmen that require them to see people on phenomenon Psy clinched the coveted Psy, whose single “Gangnam Style” has the statuette, a globe topped with a wobbling seem to like the idea of breaking a daily basis, bought them,” she said. Best Video prize. more than 700 million views on YouTube MTV logo on a spring. wind without getting rumbled. The underwear is manufactured Canadian heart-throb Bieber, fresh from and spawned countless videos copying his Jepsen, 26, thanked Bieber, who set her A Japanese textile company has with niff-absorbing ceramic particles breaking up with his girlfriend of two years, signature horse-riding dance, paid tribute song on its trajectory by promoting it online. developed a range of underwear which in the material fibres. Seiren developed Selena Gomez, scooped Best Male Artist for to his wife of six years and loved ones back German-born supermodel Heidi Klum, it says prevent unwelcome odours. “It the technology after being contacted the third year in a row, with millions of fans home when he picked up his award. “I’d like 39, hosted the show, and made her entrance took us a few years to develop the first by a doctor who wanted something to voting to name the winners. to thank all my family who’s got to live with at the century-old Festhalle, decorated for deodorant pants that are comfortable disguise the regular parps emitted by Bieber, 18, who did not attend the cer- a selfish job, with a selfish guy,” the 34-year- a circus tent theme, in a sexy bridal gown enough to wear in daily life but effi- people suffering from irritable bowel emony in the western German city of old quipped. and jaunty black top hat. She sat perched cient in quickly eliminating strong syndrome. The company’s range has Frankfurt, also bagged Best Pop Act and Han Geng of China beat out Rihanna for on a trapeze as the prize handout began. smells,” said Nami Yoshida, a spokes- now expanded to 22 items, including Best World Stage Performance. Best Worldwide Act, awarded for only the Kardashian had a minor wardrobe mal- woman for the company, Seiren. socks that prevent feet from smelling Swift of the US claimed the gong for Best second time. The 24-year-old Barbadian function when she came on stage as a spike “At first we thought about selling and t-shirts that mask the whiff of Female Artist from presenter Lana Del Rey beauty, who had led with six nominations, heel got caught in the train of her low-cut them to those who require nursing sweaty armpits. AFP as the show got underway and went on to pick went home empty-handed, as did flamboy- black Stephane Rolland gown, leading her up honours for Best Live Act and Best Look. ant US trailblazer Lady Gaga, who was up to stumble. “I’m clumsy,” she later joked “This is my very first EMA — I’m so for three awards. backstage. US soul singer Alicia Keys led excited,” said the 22-year-old blonde, who Del Ray claimed Best Alternative Act a tribute to Whitney Houston, as Beyonce later dressed up as a circus ringleader and Nicki Minaj won for Best Hip Hop. lent a voice-over to a video in honour of the to perform her hit “We Are Never Ever The Best Song prize went to Canada’s Carly late US singer. AFP Sun, moon and earth to align tomorrow

SYDNEY: Tens of thousands of people were flocking to Australia’s tropical north yesterday to watch a rare total solar eclipse, a phenomenon officials say has not been seen in the region in 1,300 years. The Queensland state government expects up to 60,000 visitors will witness tomorrow the alignment of the sun, moon and earth which creates one of the most spectacular sights in nature, essentially turning day into night. Northern Australia is the only place where crowds will be able to view the eclipse, which will mainly take place over the vast South Pacific. “This one is a bit unique because we are not going to have another eclipse in Australia for years,” said Journeys Worldwide managing director Dick Cijffers, who runs specialist eclipse tours. The eclipse starts at sunrise in the Northern Territory east of Darwin and passes across Australia’s top eastern cape before heading out over the South Pacific towards the north of New Zealand. From sunrise tomorrow (2035 GMT on Tuesday) the moon will begin to cross in front of the sun, gradually passing over it until it is completely covered, bringing with it a shadow path. The whole process will take several hours, with the skies in the path gradually dark- ening and lightening again, but the maximum duration for the total eclipse on the Australian mainland will be two minutes and five seconds. The best place to view the eclipse will be between Cairns and Port Douglas, tourism hotspots close to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree rain forest. A partial eclipse will be visible in Papua New Guinea, the extreme eastern part of Indonesia, eastern Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, part of Antarctica and the south- ern part of Chile and Argentina. AFP Tuesday 13 November 2012 28 Dhul-Hijja 1433 Volume 17 Number 5517 Price: QR2

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DOHA: Financial services have of initiatives to develop the coun- a major role to play in diversi- try’s financial sector, partly with fying Qatar’s economy and the a view to further developing the country has made good progress investment management indus- in that direction. The Finance, try. Measures have been intro- Insurance, Real Estate and duced to deepen and broaden Business Services sector now capital markets. Sovereign bond contributes about 10 percent of issues by the State of Qatar have GDP – one of the biggest sec- helped to build a yield curve. tors after hydrocarbons – and A Treasury bill programme the country expect it to grow has been started. The Qatar further, Abdulrahman Ahmad Exchange has introduced mea- Al Shaibi (pictured), Managing sures to help increase the acces- Director and Board Member, sibility, liquidity and efficiency of Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) the stock market. Authority has said. According to Al Shaibi, Qatar The Minister of Economy and Finance and Chairman of Qatar Financial Centre Authority H E Yousuf Hussein Kamal, Helping to promote the expan- is also looking at more specialist addressing the 6th Annual Mena Investment Management Forum at the Grand Hyatt Hotel yesterday. (SALIM sion of Qatar’s financial sector is activities. Wealth and asset man- MATRAMKOT) the principal purpose of the QFC. millionaire households and one of agement and project finance pres- It is not an offshore centre or free the highest proportions of High ent opportunities for Sharia’ah trade zone but an integral part of Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs). compliant finance as well. The Qatar’s financial system. At the It has a savings rate of about 49 global market in Shariah com- heart of the QFC’s strategy is the percent, well above the Gulf aver- pliant finance is still fragmented determination to win and retain age and around twice the world and immature, but it is cer- the confidence of all stakeholders average.” tainly expanding quickly. Citing in the financial services market Banks are preparing for an recent studies, he noted that the place, he said while addressing upsurge in project financing as addressable universe for Islamic the opening session of the Mena project plans are finalised and fund managers was more than Investment Management Forum contractors look to raise fund- $500bn and growing by at least here yesterday. Underlying the ing. Financing will come from 10-15 percent a year. This year fact there is immense scope for domestic sources as well as has seen a surge in Sukuk issues investment in Qatar, Al Shaibi international ones. Some financ- and the Islamic Financial Service said: “Opportunities for invest- ing could be from Public-Private Board has estimated that half of ment managers abound in Qatar. Partnerships or bond issues – all financial services provided in The country has one of the highest both of which call for commit- the Gulf by 2015 will qualify as per capita incomes in the world, ment by financial institutions. Shariah. one of the highest proportions of Qatar has undertaken a string THE PENINSULA

SocGen close to sale Brent slips as fiscal cliff fears of Egypt arm to QNB offset Middle DUBAI/PARIS: Societe prior to the suspension. Generale is nearing the sale of QNB, the Gulf state’s larg- East tension its majority stake in an Egyptian est lender by assets, approached bank to Qatar National Bank SocGen early this year to buy NEW YORK: Brent crude (QNB), sources familiar with its 77 percent stake in NSGB as prices slipped yesterday in the matter said, in a move to part of plans by the Qatari bank choppy trading, as concerns help shore up the French lend- to beef up its regional footprint. about US fiscal problems off- er’s capital base. For SocGen, which recently set tensions in the Middle East QNB, part-owned by Qatar’s sold its fund management unit and signs of strong oil demand sovereign wealth fund, will TCW, a sale of one of its best- growth in China. also make a mandatory offer to performing overseas assets is a US crude futures seesawed, minority shareholders for the way to shore up its capital base, receiving support from a stron- remaining 23 percent of Egypt’s which has been hit hard by the ger opening on Wall Street before National Societe Generale Bank sovereign debt crisis in Europe. equities pulled back as worries (NSGB), the sources said. France’s No. 2 listed bank lags about looming automatic tax The two deals will value all its larger peer BNP Paribas in increases and spending cuts in of NSGB at about $2.6bn, three capital strength and although its the United States, the so-called sources said, speaking on condi- management has said its expects fiscal cliff, continued to sow cau- tion of anonymity as the matter to comply with tougher Basel III tion among investors. is not public. capital targets by the end of 2013, “The battle continues between the That is below NSGB’s stock analysts have said that depended negativity from the slowing of the market value of around $3.2bn, in part on the bank’s ability to global economy compared to what based on Sunday’s closing price. sell assets at the right price. global stimulus programs might However, the shares have risen QNB, meanwhile, which has a do to the economy going forward, nearly 40 percent in the 10 weeks market value of around $26bn, while geopolitics have continued to since SocGen said it was in talks has been on an expansion spree, remain an issue for market partici- with QNB and are up 140 percent snapping up stakes in regional pants,” said Dominick Chirichella of year-to-date. lenders as it seeks to build an New York’s Energy Management QNB officials were not immedi- emerging market franchise Institute. ately available to comment, while with the backing of its gas-rich Brent December crude fell SocGen declined to comment. government. 47 cents to $108.93 a barrel by In a statement to the Egyptian The bank, which raised $1bn in a 12.18pm EST (1718 GMT), below bourse, NSGB said its parent has bond issue last week, raised its stake the 100-day moving average at made it aware that negotiations in Commercial Bank International $109.19 and having traded from with QNB were still ongoing but to 39.9 percent from 16.5 percent $108.56 to $110.39. US December no price had been determined. recently. It also increased its stake crude slipped 63 cents to $85.44 Trade in NSGB shares was in Iraq’s Mansour Bank and bought a barrel, after reaching $86.54. suspended yesterday pending a a 49 percent stake in Libya’s Bank Crude futures received support statement by the bank on the of Commerce and Development in from data suggesting that implied talks, the stock exchange said. April. oil demand in China. The shares had risen 3.6 percent REUTERS REUTERS TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Dolphin Energy Qatari bourse awards Qatar gas plant deal to L&T ABU DHABI: UAE group dips as investors Dolphin Energy has awarded a $250m contract to Indian group Larsen & Toubro to upgrade a gas plant in Qatar. cut positions Larsen & Toubro will install three new Rolls Royce Trent gas turbine compressors and related facilities at the processing plant at Abu Dhabi hits highest in 9 months Ras Laffan by end-2014, Dolphin Energy said yesterday. DOHA: Qatar’s benchmark estimates for the three months “They will improve overall reli- dropped 0.4 percent to its low- to September 30. ability and availability of natu- est finish since October 14. A Traders said there did not ral gas exports to the UAE and lack of catalysts as well as the appear to be any fresh news Oman,” it said. global environment spurred event behind yesterday’s rally, Dolphin — the only cross-bor- investors to cut positions. but that retail investors poured der gas supply line in the Gulf — Qatar Exchange index slipped money into banks to try to ride carries two billion cubic feet gas 33.85 yesterday to 8,494.34 points the momentum. per day from Qatar’s North Field from the previous closing of “If you look at UAE banks in to the UAE coast. Much of the 8,528.19 points on Sunday. general, what people are look- gas is burned within metres of The volume of shares traded ing for is credit quality and asset its arrival in the UAE, with some fell to 3,433,330 from 3,916,080 on expansion — NBAD has the low- sent to Oman. Sunday, and the value of shares est non-performing loan ratio Long-term customers for decreased to QR162,621,019.07 and FGB is in the top of its class Dolphin gas from Qatar are the from QR196,766,150.82 on Sunday. in asset expansion,” said an Abu Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Among the top losers were Dhabi-based trader who asked Company, Dubai Supply Authority Islamic Holding whose share not to be identified. and the Oman Oil Company. dropped 1.45 percent to QR37.40, But Nabil Al Rantisi, Managing The $136m contract for Rolls Gulf International lost 1.67 Director at Menacorp in Abu Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori (left) handing over a memento to Jiang Yang. Royce was announced in April. percent to QR29.50, United Dhabi, said NBAD and FGB had Development Company fell 2.17 already priced in the bullishness Gulf Investment percent to QR17.60 and Qatar of investors. CSRC seeks Qatar-China capital Navigation was down 2.71 percent “NBAD is at a critical area, Corp picks banks to QR64.60. and cooling down a bit is the The banking and financial sec- most likely scenario for now for bond issue tor dropped 0.59 points while — a retracement back to the 9 market consolidation the insurance sector added 0.82 (dirham) level is something that DUBAI: Gulf Investment Corp, points. The industrial sector was will happen in the short term. DOHA: A top executive of working relationship with both the ETF’s and REIT’s and enhance a financial institution owned down 11.30 points and the services “A retracement before continu- China Securities Regulatory Shanghai Futures Exchange and the principles of transparency by the six nations of the Gulf sector lost 284.49 points. ing upwards is the most likely sce- Commission (CSRC) has the China Securities Regulatory in the market in preparation for Cooperation Council, has picked Meanwhile, shares in Abu nario, as the general outlook on stressed the need for further Commission”, Al Mansoori said. the anticipated development in four banks to arrange investor Dhabi made their biggest one- the UAE equity markets remains bolstering Qatar-China bilat- He also stressed the importance Qatar’s capital market . meetings ahead of a potential day gain in nine months yester- bullish,” Al Rantisi added. eral relation to consolidate the and necessity of mutual coopera- Yang briefed the Qatari manage- bond sale. day, while most other Gulf stock Index heavyweight Etisalat rose capital markets. tion between the two markets and ment on the Chinese capital mar- The company mandated BNP indexes slipped as investors 2.3 percent while some small-caps The visiting delegation headed by briefed the delegation on QE and ket and the role of the CSRC in Paribas, Citigroup, National booked gains against a weak glo- gained in heavy trade, boosted by Jiang Yang, Vice Chairman of the its various initiatives that have providing regulatory function for Bank of Abu Dhabi and Standard bal backdrop. speculative buying by retail inves- CSRC and Yang Maijun, Chairman been ongoing in an effort to trans- the securities market. He stated Chartered to arrange roadshows Abu Dhabi’s main market index tors. Eshraq Properties and Green of the Board of the Shanghai form QE from a local exchange into that the daily trading volume in the which will begin in the United finished 1.3 percent higher, its Crescent Insurance Co jumped 9.7 Futures Exchange yesterday noted a regional exchange. Chinese securities market is over Arab Emirates on November 18 largest daily rise since Jan. 31. and 9.1 percent respectively. the strengthening of the capital Al Mansoori stated that QE $20bn in which the individual trad- and take in Singapore and London Banks helped lift the benchmark, Dubai’s Gulf General markets could attract more foreign went on various development ing volume accounts for about 80 in the subsequent two days, the which closed at a level last seen Investment Co soared 8.4 percent investments to both the countries. stages, especially after signing the per cent. There are 2600 compa- arrangers said yesterday. in July 2011. helping the Dubai index climb 0.8 The Chinese delegation visited strategic partnership with NYSE nies listed in two exchanges, along A benchmark dollar-denomi- National Bank of Abu Dhabi percent to finish at its highest Qatar Exchange (QE) and met Euronext. He also explained with more than 100 brokerage nated bond may follow the meet- (NBD) rose 3.4 percent to Dh9.81, close since October 24. Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori, CEO the latest initiatives that QE companies and 60 fund manage- ings. Benchmark size is understood extending this year’s gains to 23.2 In Saudi Arabia, however, the of Qatar Exchange, and several persisted in its efforts to be in ment companies. to mean at least $500m. percent. Abu Dhabi Commercial bourse slipped for a third straight department directors of QE. line with the largest and most CSRC is China’s nationwide cen- Kuwait-based GIC was set up Bank climbed 1.5 percent, while session from Wednesday’s six- “China is such an important advanced exchanges in the world tralized securities supervisory sys- in 1983 to provide financial serv- First Gulf Bank (FGB) ended flat, week high, closing 0.8 percent global market place for Qatar and through introducing new diversi- tem. The CSRC formulates policies, ices to support private sector eco- having gained 37.4 percent so far lower. by having the delegation visit the fied traded products, enhancing laws and regulations concerning nomic growth in the GCC. in 2012. Most sectors in the kingdom Exchange shows the importance the technological infrastructure markets in securities and futures GIC held meetings in Banks have in the last couple fell with turnover the highest in of dialogue and discussion in mov- and developing legislative frame- contracts and oversees issuing, trad- Switzerland last month, arranged of weeks posted strong growth in insurance stocks. The sector’s ing the relationship between the work in order to provide differ- ing, custody and settlement of equity by BNP Paribas and Royal Bank quarterly earnings, with NBAD index dropped 0.9 percent. entities forward. We look forward ent investors with diversified shares, bonds, investment funds. of Scotland, which led to a 300m and FGB beating analysts’ AGENCIES to a long and mutually beneficial investment tools, including the THE PENINSULA Swiss franc ($316m) three-year issue - its debut offering in francs. Taqa picks 5 banks Gulf Standards panel for oil & gas industry holds workshop for dollar bond ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) DOHA: More than 70 experts Standardisation Organisation and achievements, which were European CEN TC 12, discussed and Gas Producers (OGP) and the has mandated five banks for a and representatives from (GSO), and the European presented by the Committee the importance of international American Petroleum Institute (API) dollar-denominated bond which Qatar and other GCC countries Standards Technical Committee Secretary Dr Muayad Ajjawi, standards and regional regulations to have one set of global standards. could be issued before the end attended the 14th Meeting and for Materials, Equipment and Head of Regulations & Standards from the European perspective and The second part of the work- of the year, a spokesman for the Workshop of the Gulf Standards Offshore Structures (CEN TC Development at QP. he lauded the excellent progress shop, which was mediated by company said yesterday. Technical Committee for the Oil 12). Nawaf Al Mana, Director of made by the ISO TC67 WG11, Al Naimi, discussed the impor- Taqa has picked BNP Paribas, & Gas Industry in GCC Countries Saif S Al Naimi, Director the Standards and Metrology which is chaired by Qatar. He also tance of unifying the standards Citigroup Inc, HSBC Holdings, (GSO TC 7). of QP’s HSE Regulations and Department of the Ministry of gave an overview of the standards and technical regulations for the National Bank of Abu Dhabi and The event, which was held last Enforcement Directorate, chaired Environment (Qatar Standards), development process in CEN TC oil and gas industry in the Gulf Standard Chartered for the bond, week at the Four Seasons Hotel, the workshop and his address then presented a comprehensive 12 and the process of harmonising region and the proper way to the spokesman said. “Subject to was organised and hosted by Qatar focused on the essential issues overview of the development the CEN standards with European engage the regulators in stand- approval from our board of direc- Petroleum‘s HSE Regulations and related to the adoption of stand- and application of standards regulations, specifically with regards ards development and the stand- tors and favourable market con- Enforcement Directorate. The ards and regulations, as well as and technical regulations, and to the safety of offshore structures. ards developers in regulation ditions, we may proceed with an workshop was also attended by their development and compliance the agreements with the inter- He also explained the progress on development, thus achieving the issuance this year,” the spokes- the Ministry of Environment – within the oil and gas sector. His national standards organisation International standards develop- objective of having good standards man added without elaborating Department of Standardization speech was followed by an over- in Qatar. ment and the current efforts by for regulators to use. on specific details. and Laboratories, the Gulf view of the GSO TC 7 activities Gilles Trican, Chairman of the the International Association of Oil THE PENINSULA AGENCIES UK Buzzard oil field suffers another glitch

LONDON: The Buzzard oil field suffered another pro- duction glitch on Saturday, a trade source said, frus- trating traders and prompting one to say the frequent disruptions to the flow of crude that sets the Brent benchmark were “worse than Nigeria”. Buzzard is the largest of the fields that contribute to the Forties crude blend, the most important of the North Sea crudes underpinning the Brent crude benchmark. It had restarted on November 3 after an extended, two-month shutdown. “It was back up to full output but tripped on Saturday. There was a further trip on Sunday, and pro- duction is still shut down,” said the source, who added the field was expected to begin restarting later yesterday. A series of delays in the field’s restart has disrupted shipments of Forties crude, leading to an increase in the premium in the price of Brent oil for immediate delivery. The premium widened further yesterday. The field’s operator, Canadian oil company Nexen, could not immediately be reached for comment yesterday. Buzzard shut on September 4 for planned maintenance that traders initially expected to take 28 days but which was pushed back during October. The latest disruption, which may further delay ship- ments of Forties crude loading in November, frustrated traders in the North Sea market. “It is literally unbelievable,” said one. “It is easy to say from the sidelines, but still, this is worse than Nigeria.” Output in Nigeria, Africa’s top exporter, is often disrupted and has been curbed by oil theft and flooding in recent weeks. REUTERS

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Global Agenda Summit Egypt sees US to overtake initial IMF deal this week, Saudi as top says minister

CAIRO: The Egyptian govern- ment expects to sign a memo- randum of understanding with oil producer the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8bn loan before an IMF negotiating team leaves Shale gas spurring activity: IEA report Cairo on Wednesday, Finance Minister Mumtaz Al Said said. LONDON: The United States oil producer, he said. The United The government also plans to will overtake Saudi Arabia and States will rely more on natural eliminate its subsidy on 95 octane Russia as the world’s top oil pro- gas than either oil or coal by 2035 gasoline effective as of Wednesday ducer by 2017, the West’s energy as cheap domestic supply boosts or Thursday, he said, a move that agency said yesterday, predicting demand among industry and suggests the government wants Washington will come very close power generators, the IEA said. to show it is taking active steps to achieving a previously unthink- Birol said he realised how opti- to close the deal. able energy self-sufficiency. mistic the IEA forecasts were Egypt has been drawing up an The forecasts by the given that the shale oil boom was economic reform plan in part to International Energy Agency a relatively new phenomenon. help convince the IMF it is serious (IEA), which advises large indus- “Light, tight oil resources are about economic reform. Analysts trialised nations on energy policy, poorly known ... If no new resources say the IMF usually requires that were in sharp contrast to previ- are discovered (after 2020) and governments take active meas- ous IEA reports, which saw Saudi plus, if the prices are not as high ures before signing off on loans. Arabia remaining the top pro- as today, then we may see Saudi Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (centre), Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler “We will sign a preliminary mem- ducer until 2035. Arabia coming back and being the of Dubai, looks on during a tour for opening plenary of Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai, yesterday. orandum of understanding before “Energy developments in the first producer again,” he said. The fifth Summit on the Global Agenda is convening 88 World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils they leave,” the minister said by tel- United States are profound and The IEA said it saw US oil pro- with more than 1,000 of the world’s foremost experts from academia, government, business, civil society and ephone, adding that the team would their effect will be felt well beyond duction rising to 10 million barrels media to collectively discuss the world’s most serious and pressing issues. remain in Egypt until tomorrow. North America — and the energy per day (bpd) by 2015 and 11.1 mil- The government wants the sector,” the IEA said in its annual lion bpd in 2020 before slipping to $4.8bn IMF loan to help it nar- long-term report, giving one of the 9.2 million bpd by 2035. row a budget deficit running at 11 most optimistic forecasts for US Saudi Arabian oil output would percent of gross domestic product energy production growth to date. be 10.9 million bpd by 2015, the Asia’s Mideast crude market to drop and a balance of payments deficit “The recent rebound in US IEA said, 10.6 million bpd in 2020 that has gobbled up more than oil and gas production, driven but would rise to 12.3 million bpd $20bn of its foreign reserves since by upstream technologies that by 2035. SINGAPORE: Asia’s Middle “Refining margins are poorer, jumps in the last quarter of the the uprising that toppled Hosni are unlocking light tight oil and That would see the world rely- East crude spot market may fuel oil is weaker than ever, so year as winter in the northern Mubarak in February 2011. shale gas resources, is spurring ing increasingly on Opec after weaken further when trading in the lower OSP (which is for the hemisphere pushes up demand Egypt’s cabinet will meet with economic activity — with less 2020 as, in addition to increases January cargoes kicks off this heavier grades) may not be help- for heating fuel. President Mohamed Mursi on expensive gas and electricity from Saudi Arabia, Iraq will week as weak product margins ing much,” said a trader with an Early signs of a recovery in Tuesday to review the government’s prices giving industry a competi- account for 45 percent of the are expected to weigh on prices Asian refining firm. China, the world’s biggest oil “comprehensive development tive edge,” it added. growth in global oil production to even as winter buying could pro- “The rest of the distillates consumer, also offer a glimmer of plan”, Prime Minister Hisham The IEA said it saw a contin- 2035 and become the second-larg- vide some support. cracks have also come off, so I hope. Kandil said on his Facebook page. ued fall in US oil imports with est exporter, overtaking Russia. Producers raised their official reckon the high OSPs for lighter China announced on Saturday The meeting would be followed by North America becoming a net oil Opec’s share of world oil pro- selling prices (OSPs) for lighter grades will also work against that it is effectively turning the a news conference, he said. exporter by around 2030 and the duction will rise to 48 percent grades sold to Asia, while heavy the premium for this month’s corner on its economy and is likely No economic plan has yet been United States becoming almost from 42 percent now. and medium grade OSPs were trading.” to meet its growth target for the released to the public. But gov- self-sufficient in energy by 2035. Russian oil output, which over lowered. Spot premiums for December year. ernment officials have outlined a “The United States, which cur- the past decade has been steadily Abu Dhabi National Oil Co’s crude had weakened last month China’s crude oil imports in range of proposed measures such rently imports around 20 percent above Saudi Arabia, is predicted crude grades turned more expen- from the multi-month highs October rose 13.8 percent from a as cutting back on fuel subsidies, of its total energy needs, becomes to stay flat at over 10 million bpd sive as their differential to Dubai recorded for November cargoes as year earlier to about 5.58 million raising the sales tax on goods and all but self-sufficient in net terms until 2020, when it will start to increased across all grades. The almost all producers raised their barrels per day, the third-high- services and taxing IPOs on the — a dramatic reversal of the trend decline to reach just above 9 mil- hikes may result in most grades OSPs. est pace this year, customs data stock exchange. Leaks to Egyptian seen in most other energy import- lion bpd by 2035. trading at lower premiums to Light crudes, which were raised showed. media are seen as an effort to pre- ing countries,” it said. “Russia, which remains the OSPs than a month ago. by a higher margin, were the The country’s implied oil pare the public for steps that are IEA Chief Economist Fatih largest individual energy exporter Product cracks have weak- worst affected with premiums for demand grew 6.5 percent in certain to be unpopular. Birol told a news conference in throughout the period, sees its ened with front-month fuel oil Adnoc’s light sour Murban crude October from the year before, Among the measures reported in London he believed the United revenues from oil, natural gas and cracks near 17-month lows and slipping to 10-15 cents above OSP, close to September’s record high, recent days are raising the price of States would overtake Russia as coal exports rise from $380n in gasoil cracks close to four-month from 90 cents in November. according to Reuters calculations natural gas piped to homes as of next the biggest gas producer by a sig- 2011 to $410bn in 2035,” the IEA troughs, while the discount on Still, winter demand will keep based on refinery output and net month and a one percentage point nificant margin by 2015. By 2017, it said. naphtha cracks has widened since buyers in the market and support imports of refined fuels. increase in sales tax to 11 percent. would become the world’s largest REUTERS the start of the month. prices. Crude buying typically REUTERS REUTERS Sabic sets QATARI MARKET Bridges Middle East summit begins in Doha Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 09/04/2014 USD 106.19 0.72 % Aa2 AA DOHA: As part of Qatar’s efforts to tackle key sights on US challenges facing the region’s infrastructural Qatar Govt 3.125% 20/01/2017 USD 106.06 1.62 % Aa2 AA advancement, the 5th annual ‘Bridges Middle shale gas boom Qatar Govt 6.55% 09/04/2019 USD 126.50 2.11 % Aa2 AA East’ summit kicked off yesterday at the Ritz- Qatar Govt 5.25% 20/01/2020 USD 119.63 2.27 % Aa2 AA Carlton Hotel in Doha. Professionals from around JUBAIL, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Qatar Govt 4.5% 20/01/2022 USD 114.88 2.66 % Aa2 AA the world devoted to planning contemporary Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) Qatar Govt 9.75% 15/06/2030 USD 182.50 3.45 % Aa2 AA bridges and tunnels gathered to discuss ways the is considering investing in the nation can better utilise its current transporta- United States to capitalise on Qatar Govt 6.4% 20/01/2040 USD 141.25 3.92 % Aa2 AA tion means. the shale gas boom there, its Qatar Govt 5.75% 20/01/2042 USD 131.25 3.94 % Aa2 AA Larry B Krauser (pictured), President of the chief executive said yesterday. Qatari Diar 3.5% 21/07/2015 USD 105.88 1.27 % Aa2 AA Post-Tensioning Institute and Vice-President of Sabic and other petrochemical Qatari Diar 5% 21/07/2020 USD 117.25 2.52 % Aa2 AA General Technologies introduced the two day event, producers in Saudi Arabia have been Comqat 5% 18/11/2014 USD 106.63 1.64 % A1 A- which began with an overview of Qatar’s Expressway looking for additional gas supplies Programme. Designed to help relieve traffic conges- to fuel their expansion plans, with Comqat 3.375% 11/04/2017 USD 104.50 2.30 % A1 A- tion and build efficient and safe roads in Doha, the Sabic now casting its gaze overseas. QIB 3.856% 07/10/2015 USD 104.75 2.16 % NR NR plan was explained by Ian Flynn, Principal Bridge “We have to participate in the QNB 3.125% 16/11/2015 USD 104.00 1.76 % Aa3 A+ Design Engineer with KBR’s programme manage- shale gas business and we have to QNB 3.375% 22/02/2017 USD 105.25 2.09 % Aa3 A+ ment consultancy team, who presented strategies for participate in other sources that Doha Bank 3.5% 14/03/2017 USD 104.00 2.52 % A2 A- meeting its expected 2017 completion date. Meeting can also be competitive,” said CEO deadlines, staying within budget, and building dura- Mohamed Al Mady, who expects a Qtel 3.375% 14/10/2016 USD 105.50 1.91 % A2 A ble and attractive structures were noted as some of environment that exists here,” said Flynn. short-term slowdown in the growth Qtel 7.875% 10/06/2019 USD 130.75 2.73 % A2 A the project’s fundamental challenges. Iman Soliman, Project Engineer for DeutscheBahn of the sector in Saudi Arabia. Qtel 4.75% 16/02/2021 USD 112.88 2.98 % A2 A “It is essential that we work to maximise all of these International (DB) introduced the nation’s “We can look for investment, Qtel 5% 19/10/2025 USD 113.75 3.66 % A2 A deliverables, and when we started the program we broke Integrated Railways Project, an impressive metro we can look for joint ventures.” Rasgas 5.5% 30/09/2014 USD 108.50 0.94 % Aa3 A down client expectations to ensure that we could actu- network that will potentially include 89 stations and Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest ally meet our deadline. We are looking at the initia- four separate lines. Construction, maintenance and oil exporter, is focusing on boosting Rasgas 5.832% 30/09/2016 USD 110.88 2.85 % Aa3 A tives we have proposed and examining their particular operation methods were specifically highlighted as gas production to help it to meet Rasgas 5.298% 30/09/2020 USD 113.00 3.40 % Aa3 A requirements, it’s not just a case of taking something key components for building durable railway bridges. rapidly rising Saudi fuel demand. SOVEREIGNS off the shelf, we are actually modifying our plans for the THE PENINSULA REUTERS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 08/04/2014 USD 107.19 0.37 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 08/04/2019 USD 127.75 2.10 % Aa2 AA Dubai Govt 6.7% 05/10/2015 USD 110.63 2.85 % NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 02/05/2017 USD 105.88 3.47 % NR NR UAE working on bill for debut sovereign bond Dubai Govt 7.75% 05/10/2020 USD 121.13 4.54 % NR NR Dubai Govt 6.45% 02/05/2022 USD 111.88 4.87 % NR NR DUBAI: The United Arab a lot of thoroughness and a lot of the final nod. In February, Khouri originally planned for 2012. Qatar Govt 4% 20/01/2015 USD 106.19 1.13 % Aa2 AA Emirates government is still reviews to have a solid law,” he said the UAE expected its first The federal budget accounts for Bahrain Govt 6.273% 22/11/2018 USD 112.63 3.90 % NR BBB working on a public debt law said. ever federal sovereign bond issue only around 11 percent of overall Bahrain Govt 5.5% 31/03/2020 USD 106.88 4.40 % NR BBB that would pave the way for a The country’s top advisory to be around $1bn after the public fiscal spending in the UAE as most Egypt Govt 5.75% 29/04/2020 USD 103.75 5.14 % B2 B debut federal sovereign bond, a council passed a new public debt debt law was approved. expenditure is conducted by the senior official at the country’s bill, aimed at establishing the The new legislation would limit oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi. Morocco Govt 4.5% 05/10/2020 EUR 99.75 4.54 % NR BBB- finance ministry said yesterday. local debt market, in December UAE government debt to 25 per- The UAE central bank, which *Periodic Distribution Amount A federal debt offering from 2010 but the legislation has been cent of the Gulf country’s gross held a seminar on developing IMPORTANT NOTE: Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which the UAE, the world’s No. 3 oil going through a review process domestic product, or Dh200bn the local debt market last week, is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services exporter, has been mooted for since then. It needs presidential ($55bn) according to the 2010 said in a Sunday statement cit- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary the past few years but only bond approval to become law. draft. ing Governor Sultan Nasser Al data and subject to change. 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You should consider these matters and Prime Minister’s office and the has to be approved by the rulers deficit this year as it can plug an Asked about the ongoing consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. Council of Ministers,” Younis Al of all seven emirates.” expected Dh2bn shortfall from its absence of the public debt law, Khouri, undersecretary and direc- The ministry already has a gen- own reserves. Suweidi told reporters on Monday: tor general at the federal finance eral debt issuance strategy with a Last month, the UAE govern- “Some emirates have issued laws ministry, said. timeline but details have not been ment approved a balanced federal and that’s enough for us for the “We have not dealt with such an finalised, he added, declining to budget with spending of Dh44.6bn time being.” important law lately. It required say when the draft law might get for 2013, higher than Dh41.8bn REUTERS TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Australian miners dig for Groupon fights for its new commodity cash BY JAMES REGAN AND UMESH DESAI

nce darlings of the Australian mining boom, small and life as daily deals fade middle-tier prospectors are now running low on cash as BY NIVEDITA BHATTACHARJEE commodities markets lose their lustre, pushing miners turned out to be costly, and the repeat busi- earlier. AND ALEXEI ORESKOVIC Oto look near and far for funds to keep afloat. ness they generate uncertain. The company has also suffered a string Seven out of 10 miners in Australia will need some form of “A lot of people made the mistake of of high-level executive departures as its funding within the next year, according to a survey by consult- roupon and its compatri- overlooking the price-promotion part of market value has shriveled to just $1.8bn, ant Grant Thornton of firms with a market value of less than ots in the much-hyped daily this model,” said Utpal Dholakia, Professor down from nearly $13bn when it went public. A$500m ($520.48m). deals business were supposed of Management in Rice University’s Jones Groupon has also been dogged by contro- Some companies, already mired in debt, are venturing overseas to change the very nature of Graduate School of Business. “Normal versy over its accounting methods, though it for financing. Others are trying their luck in the capital markets, small-business advertising. advertising, yellow pages advertising, it said last week that it had $1.2bn in cash and which have become more difficult this year. GInstead, it is the daily deal vendors that really doesn’t have a price promotion, it cash-equivalents with no long-term debt. “In Australia, the equity markets are broken,” said Chris Tonkin, are racing to change as evidence mounts doesn’t have discounting component. That’s Groupon cites an array of new services managing director of Perth-based Arafura Resources Ltd. “On the that their business model is fundamentally what makes this difficult to do again and and features that it hopes will make the debt side we will be approaching sovereign funds, export credit flawed. again.” company a crucial partner for many types agencies, as well as banks.” Groupon last week reported another A Raymond James survey of roughly of merchants over the long run. Arafura, a victim of that cash crunch, is A$30m short of the quarter of disappointing earnings as its 115 merchants that used daily deals serv- Groupon Goods, a more traditional A$70m needed to conduct a feasibility study for a rare earths core business stagnated, sending its stock ices during the fall found that 39 percent discount online retail operation, already mine. The project itself would cost A$1.9bn to build. down 30 percent to an all-time low of $2.76. of merchants said they were not likely to accounts for much of the company’s rev- Tonkin said the door is still open for alternative financing via Its biggest rival, Living Social, is piling up run another Groupon promotion over the enue growth. strategic investors, adding that there are many cash-rich indi- losses, and part-owner Amazon.com earlier next couple of years. The top reasons cited “We’re investing in the development of viduals in China, Russia and the Middle East. this month recorded a quarterly loss after were high commission rate and low rate of products and technology that help our “Raising large amounts of capital by junior and mid-cap miners writing down its Living Social investment. repeat customers gained through offering merchants run their businesses more effec- at reasonable valuations over the last 12 months has been chal- Both companies are racing to diversify, a promotion. tively, from payments and POS services to lenging,” said Tim Day, head of the Perth, Australia branch of venturing into more generic e-commerce The survey also found that 32 percent of our evolving suite of marketing services UBS. “This has meant that a number of companies in the space areas like off-price sales through ventures the merchants reported losing money on the including the daily deal,” said Kal Raman, have less funds than they may prefer.” such as Groupon Goods and LivingSocial’s promotions, and nearly 40 percent said the Groupon’s senior vice president of interna- In January-September, the number of financing and capital- Shop. Groupon offer was less effective than other tional operations, in an email. raising deals fell to 167 worth A$14bn, according to Ernst & “It’s clear that they need to have other types of marketing. “By this combination we become a true Young’s senior mining analyst Paul Murphy. That compares with models besides the email daily deals busi- “I’ve always maintained that this is a hype merchant partner, serving the yin and the 201 deals valued at A$28.2bn a year earlier. ness,” said Aaron Kessler, an analyst at driven business built on an unsustainable yang, both the operational and marketing That’s bad news for miners that are already struggling with Raymond James. “The problem is that a business model both for the merchants pieces of each business.” thinning profits and ebbing cash flow. lot of these newer businesses have lower and for Groupon,” said Rakesh Agrawal, A key part of that is the massive sales A Thomson Reuters analysis of 71 miners which reported margins.” principal analyst at reDesign mobile, a San force that Groupon has built to market its annual results in June shows their free cashflow levels (FCF) Critics say the torrid growth that ena- Francisco consulting firm. daily deals to small businesses. The rela- turned negative for the first time in 10 years. FCF measures bled Groupon to go public at $20 a share Existing customers interested in sign- tionships it has built with merchants and the cash generated from operations after subtracting capital just a year ago was fuelled by merchants ing up for daily deals has waned - Groupon a retail subscriber base that recently hit expenditure. buying into a new type of marketing that reported last week that the average revenue 200m could help it beat back competition in The analysis also shows the total debt for the 71 companies they didn’t fully understand. The discounts per active customer fell to $63.96 in the 12 daily deals and broaden its offerings, some rose to $45.7bn, the highest in at least a decade. offered through the Groupon coupons have months to September 30 from $76.49 a year analysts say. REUTERS “The small cap guys have struggled massively since the glo- bal financial crisis” said Angelo Catalano, director at Chimaera Capital Markets. “Liquidity is very poor and banks no longer take on project finance risk on small companies.” According to the Grant Thornton survey, 35 percent of the companies polled hold less than A$2m in cash, while 29 percent hold between A$2m and A$5m. In the next three months, 22 percent of the companies will need funding, 21 percent within six months and another 25 percent within the year. Junior and mid-cap miners, once seen as leveraged investments, have fallen from grace as most commodities with the exception of gold retreat to levels near those seen in 2007. As a reflection of their sagging fortunes, most of the country’s junior and mid-cap miners, comprising 36 percent of all Australian Stock Exchange listings, are now trading at steep discounts to valuation. “The blip we had on commodity markets has put the scare in some lenders,” Catalano said. “So you have names like Consolidated Minerals Pty Ltd, Atlantic Ltd and Mirabela Nickel Ltd trading way below par because of project risks and also because of soft prices due to China.” Sinking valuations are also threatening to slow mergers and acquisitions in the sector, with companies reluctant to market themselves too cheaply, some analysts and fund managers say. “In the past when you look at M&A deals, a 30 percent premium was normally sufficient for deals to go through,” said Catherine Raw, co-manager of investment manager BlackRock’s BGF World Mining Fund, which oversees $11bn in mining stocks. “But in the current market where companies are trading at significant discounts to NPV (net present value) but aren’t in distress, boards of these companies won’t even consider bids unless the premium is closer to 50-70 percent,” Raw said. Falling commodity prices are also realigning the stars in Australia’s mining industry. The most prominent change in a list of top-50 mid-tier min- ers is the emergence of gold producers and the exit of the once- dominant coal companies, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The top-50 comprises 19 gold producers - up from 11 the year before. Gold miners make up 26 percent of the sector’s value. This reflects a 142 percent rise in the US dollar gold price over the past five years, according to PwC energy, utilities and mining leader Jock O’Callaghan. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Hudson’s Bay faces tough sell as it prepares for IPO

BY ALLISON MARTELL Taylor competes with a resurgent otherwise stalled IPO market is now Canada by King Charles II. C$1.4bn last year, or roughly Manhattan flagship, while Kohl’s AND PHIL WAHBA Macy’s Inc, and in Canada, HBC in Canada. A recent PwC sur- It went private in 2006, as shop- three weeks of revenue at Macy’s, and Nordstrom are opening new faces competition from Target vey counted three issues on the pers fled to specialty retailers and which sold Lord & Taylor off in stores. f Hudson’s Bay Co wants and other US companies intent on Toronto Stock Exchange in the US-based heavyweights like Wal- 2006. Hudson’s Bay had sales of Last year, Lord & Taylor to provide some measure shaking up the retail landscape. first nine months of 2012, down Mart Stores Inc. C$2.2bn. spent C$91m to improve its of comfort to investors in “I think an investor in the Bay from 14 in the same period last NRDC Equity Partners, con- HBC has focused on its two stores, including a facelift at its Iits upcoming initial public would be well-advised to wait year. trolled by US real estate inves- marquee banners, winding down Manhattan flagship. Industry offering, it might have to throw until Target has entered the mar- HBC says it will use the pro- tor Richard Baker and his family, discount chains Fields and Zellers, experts say the chain, founded in in some of its signature striped ket and they have some insight as ceeds to pay down debt, although bought out HBC’s other investors and selling many of its Zellers 1826, let its high-end aura erode wool blankets. to what the business climate will it will remain heavily indebted in 2008, and integrated it with leases to Target in a C$1.83bn over the years, relying too much The retailer, owner of two of be for the Bay on a real basis, not - as of July 28, total short- and Lord & Taylor, which operates 48 deal. Home Outfitters, HBC’s on discounts. the most venerable names in on a speculative basis,” said Mark long-term debt came to C$1.37bn. stores across the United States. 69-outlet Canadian housewares It has ramped up offerings by department stores - Hudson’s Bay Cohen, former chief executive of Ryan Bushell, a portfolio A recent study by consul- chain, is not much mentioned in US designers like Elie Tahari, and in Canada and Lord & Taylor in Sears Canada Inc and now a pro- manager with Leon Frazer & tancy Kantar Retail singled out the prospectus. shows the biggest image improve- the United States - faces a big fessor of marketing at Columbia Associates in Toronto who man- Hudson’s Bay’s 90 outlets as par- Columbia University’s Cohen ment among shoppers in the last challenge in convincing inves- University in New York. ages the IA Clarington Canadian ticularly vulnerable to Target. said the remaining Zellers loca- 13 months, according to market tors it can win the turnaround HBC says its transformation Conservative Equity Fund, said Early HBC investors will have tions may prove costly to liq- research firm YouGov. But it still game, especially with a hip and is a work in progress, with more he was briefed on the IPO but is little chance to gauge the impact uidate, and Hudson’s Bay just lags Macy’s and Nordstrom. agile competitor like Target Corp upside to come. staying on the sidelines for now. of Target’s 2013 arrival in Canada doesn’t have a strong market “Lord & Taylor has a very about to arrive in Canada. “The focus will be the oppor- “We wouldn’t be stepping into before buying in. position. loyal customer base,” said retail As HBC prepares for its tunity to close the margin gap, more consumer sensitive names “I wouldn’t touch it (the IPO) High-end Nordstrom Inc, leg- industry veteran Walter Loeb, C$400m ($399m) initial public the opportunity to grow same- right at this moment,” he said. with a 10-foot pole,” said Barry endary for its customer service, who earlier in his career was a offering in Toronto, it is touting store sales,” said Walter Stackow, “We’d rather see how the mar- Schwartz, vice president and will start rolling out its namesake senior merchant at Macy’s and a “transformation” that includes analyst with Manning & Napier, ket digests this IPO and see a few portfolio manager at Toronto’s department stores and lower- analyst at Morgan Stanley. “But rising sales at established stores, which invests in retail stocks. quarters of execution as a public Baskin Financial Services. “I priced Rack outlets in Canada they have to build a new customer a figure investors watch closely. HBC has estimated it will sell company.” think it’s an opportunistic idea to in 2014. Even Canadian luxury base.” But both chains face increasing up to 19 percent of the company HBC declined to comment for take advantage of a pretty good retailer Holt Renfrew is launch- Another potential problem for competition, a likely medium- and in the IPO at between C$18.50 and this piece. market and the fact that Target ing a new lower-priced banner. HBC is lagging e-commerce. Last long-run negative for the stock. C$21.50 per share, giving it a mar- Founded in 1670, Hudson’s Bay hasn’t made any impact yet.” For its part, Lord & Taylor year, it got 2.1 percent of sales The department store sector has ket value of C$2.4bn, according to was a fur trading business long With a presence primarily in must take on Macy’s, Nordstrom online, compared with 8 percent grown slowly as shoppers look a fund manager who has reviewed before it operated department the US northeast, Lord & Taylor and Saks Inc, all of which are to 15 percent for the publicly online or seek out discount stores. the firm’s sale documents. stores, having been granted con- is small relative to its publicly expanding their outlet chains. traded US department stores. In the United States, Lord & The company is braving an trol of a significant part of what traded peers. It had sales of Macy’s is spending $400m on its REUTERS TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Tour title in Florida LONDON: Andy Murray insists his semi-final defeat against Roger Federer at the The American overcomes panic attack at Magnolia course ATP Tour Finals can’t take the Federer shine off a dream year for the world number three. LAKE BUENA VISTA, “I did not feel well this morn- The 25-year-old Scot has Florida: Charlie Beljan capped ing. I woke up, not the same wows fans enjoyed a host of golden moments a wild week with an emotional symptoms, but my stomach was over the 11 last months and he first US PGA Tour victory yes- hurting, my head was pounding has no intention of thinking nega- terday, posting a two-stroke and I was like here we go again,” in Murray’s tively about any part of his 2012 triumph just two days after he he said. “You know, that may have season. was hospitalised with a panic took the other nerves off.” backyard Murray became the first British attack. Beljan missed the green at the man to reach the Wimbledon final Beljan carded a three-under first hole, leading to a quick bogey. for 74 years in July and, although par 69 final round, countering a He rebounded with birdies at LONDON: Roger Federer (pic- that memorable run ended in a double-bogey and three bogeys two and four, but a bogey at the tured) unique appeal showed tearful defeat to Federer, he used with eight birdies for a 16-under fifth dropped him into a tie for no sign of waning as he gate- the pain to motivate him to new total of 272. the lead. crashed what was supposed to heights over the following weeks. Matt Every and Robert Beljan got hot at the seventh, be Andy Murray’s party in the First he avenged the Garrigus both shot four-under 68 however, draining a birdie putt semi-finals of the ATP World Wimbledon final loss to Federer in the final round to share second from off the green. At the par-five Tour Finals. by demolishing the Swiss great on place on 14-under 274, and Brian eighth he landed his third shot Up against Britain’s first male Centre Court to win the Olympic Gay was a stroke further back within two feet and made that for grand slam champion for 76 years singles gold medal, and then he after a 70 for 275. birdie, and at nine he drained a and an Olympic gold medallist for finally ended his long wait for Beljan, who came into the final 30-footer. good measure, the 17,000 crowd a first Grand Slam title with a tournament of the season at 139th He made his fourth birdie in at the O2 Arena should by rights dramatic victory over Novak on the money list, needed a good as many holes at the 10th, then Charlie Beljan poses with the trophy and Mickey Mouse after winning the have been roaring for Murray as Djokovic in the US Open final. week to move into the top 125 and drained another long birdie putt Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Classic at the Disney Magnolia course he attempted to reach the final of “It was an incredibly positive secure full playing privileges for at 12. in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday. the prestigious year-ending tour- year. I would have loved to finish next season. His momentum slowed with a nament for the first time. the year on a win of course but With the victory, he’s guaran- double-bogey from a greenside As it turned out Federer that didn’t happen,” Murray said. teed his tour card for the next two bunker at 13. charmed them with the kind of “But for me, it’s been the best seasons and a berth in the PGA “I still had a three-shot lead, so McIlroy targets Kerr wins Lorena dazzling tennis that has capti- year of my career by a mile. So Championship, but for a time it I knew I just had to keep plugging vated crowds around the globe why I would look back on that looked as if he wouldn’t even be away,” Beljan said. more honours Ochoa Invitational for the best part of a decade in negatively now? That would be able to finish the tournament. Tim Herron closed with a 69 to which he has won 17 grand slams. silly because I’ve achieved things “I’m speechless. My family flew finish tied for ninth, just squeak- SINGAPORE: Two Major GUADALAJARA, Mexico: “It’s something definitely that I’ve never achieved before. in last night, I’ve got everybody ing into the top 125. titles, world number one, money Cristie Kerr rallied to win the makes playing, well, easier to “If you told me last year I’d be back home rooting for me. I didn’t But there was disappointment titles on both sides of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational yes- be quite honest,” the 31-year- sitting in this position with the even think I’d get to finish my for some who started the week Atlantic, and still only 23 -- but terday as Stacy Lewis locked up old Swiss told reporters when results I had last year, I would round on Friday. on the edge. as Rory McIlroy made crystal LPGA Player of the Year hon- asked if he was ever surprised by have agreed and signed up for “Yesterday I showed up just Australian Rod Pampling and clear this weekend, he’s just ours with a tie for fourth place. the goodwill that flows his way, that straightaway.” hoping to be able to finish 18 American Billy Mayfair, who both getting started. Kerr had six birdies and three whether it be in London, Paris or After being accused of play- holes and now here I am ... the missed the cut, fell to 127 and 128, After clinching a European bogeys and parred the last three New York. ing too passively on the key champion. respectively at the US PGA tour- Tour-PGA Tour money race dou- holes at Guadalajara Country “I guess because I’ve been in the points in the past, Murray has “This is the greatest feeling nament. AFP ble in Singapore, McIlroy said Club to hold off fellow American game for so long, I do have many thrived by taking the attack to ever,” Beljan said. his golf game was still a work in Angela Stanford and overnight people who just enjoy watching opponents more often this year Beljan, who held his seven- US PGA scores progress, and set his sights on leader Inbee Park and win by one me play or feel like it’s a throw- and he admits that more posi- week-old son as he walked off Leading final-round scores yesterday in the Europe’s Colin Montgomerie’s stroke. back maybe to the back-in-the- tive approach has been key to his the 18th green, was in hospital $4.7m US PGA Tour event at Disney World eight European merit wins, and Kerr claimed her 15th LPGA day times when they used to play success. on Friday night, after a panic Resort (USA unless noted, par-72) even Jack Nicklaus’s 18 Majors. title and her first since she won with one-handed backhands, and “I think that’s what I have to be attack had him battling shortness 272 Charlie Beljan 68-64-71-69 “Monty (Montgomerie) won the LPGA Championship. AFP they like me because of those most pleased with because when I of breath, an elevated heart rate 274 Matt Every 67-69-70-68, Robert eight order of merits in his prime, things. had opportunities in big matches and light-headedness during the Garrigus 68-68-70-68 and I have won one so there is LPGA Lorena Ochoa “I don’t know what it is, but I this year, I did try and take them. second round. 275 Brian Gay 69-69-67-70 plenty of ground to make up,” he Invitational scores do get a lot of support and do it I went for it,” he said. He even told his caddie he 276 Scott Stallings 66-70-71-69, Josh Teater said, before jetting off to Hong Final-round scores yesterday in the $1m appreciate it.” “I’ve been trying to go out there thought his life was in jeop- 71-67-67-71, Boo Weekley 70-67-72- Kong, to play a tournament this LPGA Lorena Ochoa Invitational (USA unless “We have played here twice and win matches rather than ardy, but he opted to return to 67, Charlie Wi (KOR) 64-71-70-71 week. noted, par-72): before, and twice the crowds waiting for my opponent to lose the course on Saturday and had “Also, Jack Nicklaus won 18 were amazing, electric, and some- them.” 277 Mark Anderson 68-67-74-68, Tom 272 Cristie Kerr 67-69-67-69 emerged from the third round Majors and I now have my name times even in my favor. So today Murray acknowledged Federer, Gillis 72-66-70-69, Tim Herron 71- 273 Inbee Park (KOR) 67-68-66-72, with a two-shot lead. on two, so targeting the Majors was somewhat similar again,” he is almost impossible to subdue in 70-67-69, Jerry Kelly 71-68-72-66, Angela Stanford 66-67-72-68 Even so, Beljan said he wasn’t will still be my main focus next added after his semi-final win that mood. Russell Knox (SCO) 66-72-72-67, 276 Candie Kung (TPE) 66-71-71-68, feeling so great yesterday season,” the Northern Irishman against Murray at 02 Arena in “I think he played well,” Murray Joey Snyder 69-70-72-66 Stacy Lewis 67-70-71-68 morning. told reporters yesterday. AFP London. REUTERS said. AFP Clippers secure third straight win

LOS ANGELES: With NBA results and standings their reserve players Brooklyn 82 Orlando 74 sparking play in the final LA Clippers 89 Atlanta 76 quarter, the Los Angeles Memphis 104 Miami 86 Clippers pulled away Oklahoma City 106 Cleveland 91 from the pesky Atlanta LA Lakers 103 Sacramento 90 Hawks to end a tightly contested game with a “That was the first flourish and an 89-76 win time that happened this yesterday. year, that we had really Back-up guard Eric a let-down in the fourth Bledsoe contributed 12 (quarter),” said a subdued points, Jamal Crawford Horford. “They made a run 11 and Matt Barnes 10 as and we didn’t really handle the Clippers outscored the it as well as we could have. Hawks 24-16 in the fourth “Give them credit, they period to claim their third took over the game. We consecutive victory. need to be a little smarter Twice All-Star Blake with the ball.” Griffin scored a game- The Clippers made an high 16 points and Chris erratic start with a rash Paul weighed in with 15 of turnovers and poor points and eight assists for shooting from the field to Los Angeles but they were trail 19-18 after the first indebted to their bench quarter. unit after the team shot There were seven lead only 45.7 per cent from the changes in the second field in the first half. period but a late scor- “It is unbelievable how ing burst by point guard they come into games and Paul, who followed a two- put the pressure on teams point jump shot with a and increase the lead,” for- driving layup, helped Los ward Griffin told reporters Angeles edge ahead 39-37 while paying tribute to the at half-time. Clippers’ reserves. Guard Kyle Korver’s “A lot of these guys could three-pointer gave the be starting on any team in Hawks their biggest lead the NBA. I don’t like to at 50-45. call them the second team Barnes stole the ball because there is not much from Ivan Johnson before of a drop-off when they racing away that put his come into the game. team ahead 70-62. Forward Josh Smith A Bledsoe three-pointer led Atlanta as the Hawks padded that lead to 79-65 slipped to 2-3 for the sea- with 6.29 minutes left, and son. The Clippers improved there was no way back for to 5-2. Atlanta. REUTERS TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 Mourinho happy with QNB Qatar Stars Cup action players after 2-1 win Morata scores late winner at Ciudad de Valencia Stadium

MADRID: Real Madrid coach gave everything,” Real coach Jose Jose Mourinho has praised his Mourinho said. side for battling to a 2-1 win at “The team had to show char- Levante in challenging condi- acter and strength. Without tions, to keep them in sight of Cristiano it has been even more league leaders Barcelona and difficult. second-placed Atletico Madrid. “Callejon and Morata have done Youngster Alvaro Morata came a fantastic job, the boy scored off the bench to head home a with his first touch and we leave crucial late winner after just one with an important three points.” Real Madrid’s minute on the pitch on Sunday Ronaldo suffered a cut above Alvaro Morata night, guiding a Xabi Alonso free- his eye on three minutes after a celebrates kick home for his first league goal clash with David Navarro and his after he scored for the Spanish champions. team was struggling to come to against Levante Angel Rodriguez had earlier terms with the wet conditions, during their struck a second-half equaliser to with a lot of surface water mak- La Liga match level Cristiano Ronaldo’s opener ing the pitch almost unplayable. at the Ciudad Umm Salal’s Adan Ali Adan (right) and Qatar SC player battle for ball and it seemed Madrid would rue However when the ball dropped de Valencia possession during their side’s QNB Qatar Stars Cup clash at Al Gharafa a missed penalty by Alonso. to him from a defensive clearance Stadium in Stadium yesterday. Qatar SC won 2-0. In the other two matches played The win means Real remain on 21 minutes he did not hesitate Valencia late on yesterday, Al Arabi beat Al Sadd 2-1, and Al Sailiyah beat Lekhwiya by eight points behind Barca who before thumping a volley home for the same scoreline. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT won 4-2 at Mallorca while his twelfth of the season. Sunday. Atletico remain second, three Levante were always a dan- points behind the leaders, after ger and the equaliser came on beating Getafe 2-0 at home. 62 minutes when the substitute Lampard in talks with “It’s a long time since I’ve Angel beat Pepe to a Obafemi seen a game like that in those Martins flick before guiding the conditions, we had to adapt and ball past Casillas. play 4-4-2 because it was not a Morata appeared to score the Chinese team: Official game to pass in, it was a battle priceless winner with his first between two honest sides that touch. AFP BEIJING: Chelsea star Frank “Yes, we are in contact with Lampard (pictured) could be Lampard but so far nothing has Terry to be out a step closer to fol- been settled,” said dep- PSG held by Montpellier lowing former team- uty board chairman mates Didier Drogba Yang Xiaoyu. for weeks, not and Nicolas Anelka Dai was quoted PARIS: Remy Cabella cancelled Guillaume Hoarau was handed with a move to China, by the state-run out a rare goal from Maxwell as a rare start by Ancelotti, but the months: Chelsea after Guizhou Renhe China Daily as saying Paris Saint-Germain were held French striker’s participation confirmed yesterday Lampard would join to a 1-1 draw at faltering defend- came to an abrupt end as he was they were in talks Renhe as captain in ing champions Montpellier late substituted after just 12 min- LONDON: John Terry has suf- with him. January. on Sunday. utes with PSG forced to reshuf- fered “no significant damage” The England inter- A winter arrival Both sides finished the match fle following Sakho’s red card following a scan and will be out national midfielder would give the 34-year- with 10 men as Mamadou for a professional foul on Gaetan for weeks, Chelsea announced has been linked since old time to settle in Sakho was dismissed for the Charbonnier. yesterday. Terry suffered an March with a move before the 2013-14 visitors, while Younes Belhanda Despite their numerical dis- injury during the Blues’ 1-1 draw to the Chinese Super Chinese Super League received his marching orders for advantage, PSG went in front on against Liverpool on Sunday. League. season begins in March. Montpellier in a tetchy affair that 37 minutes as Maxwell lofted an A statement said yesterday: But speculation intensified High-flying Renhe qualified saw PSG return to the Ligue 1 exquisite chip from just inside the “Today’s MRI scans on John after Renhe chairman Dai Yongge for their first AFC Champions summit. area over Geoffrey Jourdren. Terry’s right knee thankfully was quoted in the domestic League competition with a fourth- Marseille had provisionally But the hosts equalised on show no significant damage to the press on Saturday as saying that place finish in the league, which assumed control of top spot ear- the hour-mark as Remy Cabella cruciate ligaments. Lampard had signed. ended last week. lier in the day following a 2-2 dispossessed Blaise Matuidi, “Chelsea FC’s medical team will Chelsea manager Roberto Di The club is based in Guiyang draw at home to Nice, but a point advanced into the box before PSG’s Gregory Van Der Wiel (left) conduct further tests over the Matteo played down the reports in the southwestern province for Carlo Ancelotti’s side at Stade striking into the far corner past vies with Montpellier’s Remy Cabella next two or three days once the after his side’s 1-1 draw with of Guizhou. It is bankrolled by de la Mosson was enough for the Salvatore Sirigu. during their French L1 match at the swelling has subsided to deter- Liverpool on Sunday. But a Renhe Dai, who is boss of underground Parisians to usurp their arch- Meanwhile, Lyon are third Mosson Stadium in Montpellier, late mine how long John will be out, official confirmed in a brief state- shopping centre developer Renhe rivals on goal difference, albeit after their 1-1 draw at struggling but it will be a matter of weeks ment that talks with Lampard Commercial Holdings Company. on Sunday. having played one game extra. Sochaux. AFP not months.” AFP were underway. AFP WADA calls for wider effort to tackle doping PARIS: The World Anti- One way that the indus- Doping Agency (WADA) try had helped so far was yesterday called for by making available to wider efforts to tackle WADA samples of certain the use of banned sub- medications not yet avail- stances in sport, warn- able to the wider public to ing that lack of funding help develop tests more was hampering its fight quickly and effectively against increasingly when they are adapted for sophisticated cheating. illegal use in sport. “With $25-30m (20- Philip Thomson, a 24m euros of funding) a senior vice-president year, WADA’s budget is at global pharma giant less than some European GlaxoSmithKline, said the footballers earn,” the company was working on organisation’s director- three new medicines and general David Howman had provided samples told a conference in Paris. from one to WADA to be “The (Lance) tested. Armstrong affair espe- Gabriella Battaini- cially has shown that Dragoni, assistant sec- we’re dealing with a more retary-general of the and more highly developed Council of Europe, added: process, a real conspiracy, “The economic stakes with unwarranted pres- are high and therefore sures on teams,” he added, give rise to corruption referring to the shamed through illegal betting and US cyclist. match-fixing. “WADA isn’t in a posi- At a separate confer- tion to tackle this type of ence in the Qatari capital, sophisticated cheating.” Doha, the chief medical Howman and others officer of the International said that in the wake of Cycling Union (UCI), the Armstrong scandal, Mario Zorzoli, said the which saw the Texan sport, had made great stripped of his seven progress to catch dope Tour de France titles and cheats. banned from the sport for Zorzoli said he was opti- life, anti-doping agencies mistic for the future. had to work more closely “We have new testing with the pharmaceutical procedures that are far industry. more advanced than the The president of the testing procedures we had International Olympic even five years ago. There Committee, Jacques are things like the biologi- Rogge, added: “The fight cal passport that monitor against doping is too big athletes over a long period for a single organisation of time,” he said., yester- to tackle on its own.” day. AFP TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Qatar urged to focus on coaching The knowledge of the game comes with good coaching: NBA star Dikembe Mutombo

BY RIZWAN REHMAT on to play in the NBA. Some of the greatest shot blockers and NBA careers of top names lasts them have reached the NBA level defensive players of all time, win- to three to five years. For me, I DOHA: Sound coaching can and that’s good,” the 46-year-old ning the NBA Defensive Player of was there for more than 18 years. help sports-loving Qatar become explained. the Year Award four times. “You can’t ask for more than a basketball powerhouse, former “You know things move when On January 10, 2007, he sur- that,” Mutombo said. NBA player Dikembe Mutombo you get good coaching. passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “I have achieved a lot. I didn’t said yesterday. “Coaching is important. That’s as the second most prolific shot win a Championship but I was a Qatar, who won the GCC bas- the key message here. You can blocker (in terms of career champion at heart. I think I can Eight-time ketball title last month, has a have a great body: you can be 7 blocked shots) in NBA history, live with that,” the Congolese- All Star and fiercely contested nine-team and a half foot tall, 260 or 280 behind only Hakeem Olajuwon. American said. 4-time NBA national league. pounds but if you know the tech- From 1991 to 2009, Mutombo Mutombo urged young players “I think they already have the nique of basketball, only then you played for Denver Nuggets, to go to the Olympics to polish Defensive resources to promote basketball. can be a good basketball player. Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia their game. Player of the They got money, the facilities, the “Just being tall and huge won’t 76ers, New Jersey Mets, New “It’s great (the Olympics). They Year, Dikembe training places and now they have get you anywhere,” Mutombo said. York Knicks and the Houston have taken the game further. Mutombo to look at coaching,” Mutombo “I would like to learn more Rockets in his illustrious career. Olympic Games can help young during said during a chat at Aspire4Sport about the game here. I am very However, ‘Mt Mutombo’, is players to become the champions Aspire4Sport conference yesterday. pleased to be here. happy just being a spectator. at some stage. The Games give at Aspire “I think that’s very important,” “This has been a good journey “I think I work much longer the young players a feel of the Dome Mutombo said. “The knowledge of to Doha. I will be holding a clinic now than when I was playing,” national level. yesterday. the game comes with good coach- for kids and will go to a basketball Mutombo said when asked about “Yes, the modern-day greats PICS: ing,” he added. game also,” the Kinshahsa-born his retirement days. are doing job in promoting the SHAIVAL “They got to have clinics for added. “I have a family to look after. I sport by being at the Olympic DALAL coaches. They can send their local Mutombo, a retired professional also work for the NBA. So heck Games,” he said. coaches to NBA and spend a year basketball player, last appeared no, I don’t miss the sport. I am “The Games come only once in at an American college to learn for the Houston Rockets. very happy with my career. four years. all the techniques that can help He was the oldest player in the “I had an 18-year-career. I was “If you play one, you are never guide young players,” the former NBA at the time of his final sea- accomplish a lot of things in the sure if you’d be there at the next Houston Rockets player added. son in 2009. game of basketball. I have no edition. If I was there playing, I’d “We’ve already seen some ath- The 7 ft 2 in, 120 kg center is regrets. make sure I’d be there,” he added. letes come to Qatar and then go commonly referred to as one of “If you look at the players, the THE PENINSULA

Pre-game ECG Liverpool star Liverpool legend for athletes Ian Rush conducts a is important, training camp Rush in awe of for children says UAE on the sidelines of official Aspire4Sport Doha facilities at Aspire DOHA: Pre-participation Academy screening that includes eco- cardiograms (ECGs) can BY DENZIL PINTO in Doha here. It’s one of the best in the yesterday. prevent up to 90% of sudden world,” he added. Rush is the cardiac deaths on the field, DOHA: Liverpool legend Ian The Welshman who scored all-time a senior representative from Rush yesterday praised Aspire 229 goals for Liverpool in a two- the UAE Sports Medicine leading goal- Academy, saying the sports spell period (1980-1987 and 1988- Committee said yesterday. scorer for facilities in Doha are ‘bet- 1996) as well as having stints Speaking at Aspire Med, the ter than the English Premier with Italian giants Juventus Liverpool, first of three forums held at League (EPL) club complexes’. and English side Leeds United, having scored Aspire4Sport, Dr Abdelhameed “The sports facilities here in believes it is essential that people a total of 346 Al Attar, Chairman of the UAE Qatar are incredible,” said the benefit from the facilities. goals in all Sports Medicine Committee, 51-year-old, who was speaking He said: “You need to have competitions part of the Emirati Olympic after conducting coaching ses- these sort of facilities for people for the Committee, explained that sions with Global Academy stu- to improve their game. They can Merseyside many countries exclude ECGs dents at the Football Festival. pick up a lot of things here.” club. from athletes’ pre-participa- The sessions were part of the Nineteen-time EPL champions tion screening because it is not Aspire4Sport Sports Congress Manchester United and last sea- considered cost-effective. that started yesterday and ends son’s Champions League runners- “Many practitioners think on Thursday. up Bayern Munich have trained these deaths occur too rarely Rush said: “It is the first time I at the Aspire Academy during a striker said that the country are be done with building new sta- with 346 goals, will conduct fur- to justify pre-screening; how- have been here and the facilities winter training camp in 2010 and heading in the right direction to diums and transport,” he said at ther football sessions today and ever, earlier reports are based are simply amazing – it’s better 2011 respectively. hosting the prestigious football Aspire Academy. tomorrow. on media stories and insurance than English Premier League The German club will also hold tournament. “The World Cup is still ten Rush later visited the Aspire company reports,” Al Attar said. clubs. It’s got the grass, the astro a training camp in January next “The sports organisers are years away but I think with these Academy exhibition area where He added that more sci- turf, everything that is needed for year. going the right way in prepar- fantastic facilities, Qatar will the conference has attracted entific data collection had someone to improve their football With Qatar hosting the FIFA ing for the World Cup, especially benefit and should be ready,” he scores of policy-makers and revealed higher incidences of skills.” World Cup in 2022, the first time with facilities like this (Aspire emphasised. sports personalities. sudden cardiac deaths among He added: “I think there is no it will be played in the Middle Academy),” Rush said. The striker, who is the leading The Welshman retired in 1999. performing athletes that had better place to learn football than East region, the 5 foot-11 former “There is still a lot of work to scorer for Liverpool of all-time THE PENINSULA not caught the public eye. Speaking alongside Al Attar was Dr Othman Salah, Cardiologist at Aspetar Orthopeadic and Sports Medicine Hospital, who pre- sented the findings of the Cancer survivor eyeing F1 comeback screening of 5,200 athletes from across the GCC in the BY ARMSTRONG VAS Stoneman. “I didn’t sit there and widest effort undertaken yet cry. I said: ‘Can you cure me?’ in the Middle East and Africa DOHA: Williams team driver They said there is a 40% chance to understand sudden cardiac and cancer survivor Dean of survival and it was hard to take deaths among athletes. Stoneman is eager to get back to in. But we sat there and dealt “Most African athletes had what he loves the most: racing with it. never been examined by a doc- in Formula One. “The specialist said if I didn’t go tor before, and Aspetar, in its “My aim is to be back in in and have treatment I was two research, provided a front line Formula One,” said the 21-year- days away from being untreatable service to them,” Dr Salah said. old who was diagnosed with tes- and two weeks from being dead. According to the research, ticular cancer in January last “At the end of the day my time Arab and African athletes are year. was not up, it was not my turn, more likely to present uncom- Stoneman was speaking to The and I am a fighter,” said the tal- mon ECG results and require Peninsula on the sidelines of the ented driver, who has an agree- additional testing. Aspetar Aspire4Sport Business and Sports ment with Williams Advanced doctors diagnosed 17 athletes conference, at Aspire Academy Engineering to fine-tune the out of the group who were at yesterday. advanced simulator technology risk of sudden cardiac death The Englishman looked set being developed at the Williams and were required to stop to become the next big name in Technology Centre in Qatar. playing sport. Aspire Med F1 having made steady progress What followed for the next kicked off yesterday morn- ever since he took to karting as a weeks and months were visit to ing with opening remarks by youngster and capped his steady hospitals for chemotherapy ses- Dr Khalifa Al Kuwari, CEO, rise by clinching the Formula 2 sions and a series of operations. Aspetar Orthopaedic and World Champion title in 2010. “I was having 14 hours of Sports Medicine Hospital. The Formula Two title secured chemotherapy a day. Because I “Aspire Med brings together him a young drivers’ test with the am a racing driver I was push- physiotherapists, orthopedic Williams F1 team, until disaster ing things all the time, having an surgeons, doctors of sports struck in the form a life-threat- hour break and then going back Dean Stoneman, a former F2 World Champion, during Aspire4Sport at Aspire Dome in Doha yesterday. Stoneman medicine, dieticians, train- ening cancer. and doing another session. And I ers and coaches to learn from won the FIA F2 Championship in 2010, securing a test drive with the Williams F1 team at the end of the season. “After winning the F2 champi- had four operations so far,” dis- international and regional onship, I was training very hard closed Stoneman. industry experts,” Dr Al for the F1 test. It was in Abu Stoneman is now focusing on racing again. And hopefully go powerboat racing this year - as he racing. My father was a power- Kuwari said. Dhabi in January that I discov- reviving his F1 dream having back to where I was at the end had cancer-related fitness issues boat champion in 1985. Racing on “From today’s conference ered that I had cancer. To be told resuming training and driving of last season,” Stoneman added. to address - and emerged with top road and on water is similar. You we can all learn what makes that is not a nice thing to hear. and he hopes to race again soon, The Wessex Cancer Trust honours. have the corners in both places. sense for athletes in Qatar, the The cancer spread to my liver, having got the green signal from Ambassador has been equally at Stoneman claimed nine wins in But racing a car demands the Middle East and around the lungs and to the brain. It was a doctors treating him to do so. ease racing on water. the P1 SuperStock series this year. highest level of concentration,” world.” THE PENINSULA big shock to the system,” recalled “My goal this season is to go Stoneman made the switch to “I am not new to powerboats he said. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 Aspire4Sport kicks off in Doha

Former SSpanish player H E Yousef Hussain Fernando Kamal, Qatar Minister Hierro at of Economy and Aspire4SportA Finance, is seen with at Aspire Sheikh Saoud bin Dome Abdulrahman Al Thani, yesterday. Secretary General of TThe former Al the Qatar Olympic RRayyan player Committee (QOC) and is mostly other officials moments kknown for his after inaugurating the spells with Aspire4Sport exhibition Real Madrid at Aspire Dome and Spain, yesterday. appearing in more than 500 official games with tthe former and representing the latter on nearly 100 occasions, whilst appearing in four World Cups and two Euro ttournaments.

ABOVE: Khaleel Al Jabir, Director RIGHT: British of Sports Affairs at Qatar London Games Olympic Committee, and other boxing gold officials during a panel session medallist Anthony at Aspire4Sport yesterday. Joshua strikes RIGHT: Liverpool legend Ian a pose with his Rush high-fives with a young medal at Aspire kid during a training camp for Dome yesterday. children on the sidelines of Joshua, 23, is an Aspire4Sport yesterday. BELOW: English amateur A Williams Formula One car on boxer from display on the exhibition floor at Watford, England, Aspire Dome yesterday. competing in the 91kg+ (super heavyweight) division. PICTURES: SHAIVAL DALAL

RIGHT: Christian Karembeu, retired French football legend, Nasser Al Khater, Communications and Marketing Director for Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, Joan Cusco, Vice President of FIFA Beach Soccer and Carlos Alberto Lisboa, Qatar Beach Soccer Coach, during a press conference at Aspire Dome yesterday.

LEFT: Four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dikembe Mutombo is seen on a camera screen during a television interview at Aspire4Sport conference yesterday. RIGHT: A view of the exhibition floor at Aspire Academy in Doha. The third edition of Aspire4Sport conference is being held at the same venue. Tuesday 13 November 2012 28 Dhul-Hijja 1433 Volume 17 Number 5517 Sport Price: QR2 LATEST NEWS UPDATES IN TAMIL FILIPINO LANGUAGE DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED FROM QATAR! Beljan claims Qatar urged TAMIL TIMES WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Middle East Edition AVAILABLE maiden Tour to focus on AT ALL LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS title in Florida coaching Available every Wednesdays in all leading IN QATAR supermarkets and shops in Qatar & Bahrain Tel. : +974 44557622 / 44557623 FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: Fax. : +974 44557759 DAR AL SHARQ TEL: 4455 7623 EMAIL: [email protected] Sport | 28 Sport | 30 email: [email protected]

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DOHA: Qatar will play host hosting an unforgettable World who was voted best player in the to the Asian qualifying rounds Cup in 2022.” World Cup in 2002, believes that for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer “Hosting the Asia Qualifier is hosting the qualifiers can raise World Cup. an opportunity for the general the profile of the sport in Qatar. The announcement was made public in Qatar and visiting fans “Playing host to the qualifying during a press conference yester- from neighbouring countries to round is an exciting opportunity day at the Aspire4Sport congress. come to a fun event, support for our team. I have been work- The qualifying rounds will be their national teams and utilise ing with the team for the last two played from January 22 to 26 at the incredible beaches that our years. We have to practice and Katara Beach. nation has been blessed with,” Al practice, so that we realize our Teams will vie for three spots Khater said. dream of qualifying for the main at the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer Joan Cusco, FIFA Beach Soccer draw in Tahiti.” World Cup, which will be held on CEO and FIFA Beach Soccer Nenem said he is looking to the Pacific island of Tahiti. Committee Member, thanked add more talented players to the Qatar’s national Beach Soccer Qatar for supporting the sport squad. team will be attempting to qual- and elaborated on why Qatar is “I hope we will qualify, inshal- ify for the first time, under the an ideal destination for the Asian lah, but we have to work hard. We stewardship of Brazilian coach, qualifying rounds. have been back from China after Nenem. “Beach Soccer has been taking part in a Beach tourna- Qatar 2022 Supreme received tremendously well in ment. We are planning to have a Committee has joined hands with this region. We hosted the Asian good pre-season training ahead of FIFA Beach Soccer to host the qualifiers in Oman in 2011 and the qualifiers. qualifying rounds. at the beginning of this month And playing at home will have Qatar 2022 Supreme hosted the Samsung Beach Soccer its advantages said the Brazilian. Committee Marketing and Intercontinental Cup in Dubai, “We will have the advantage of Communications Director, Nasser which will now be held on an playing our matches in front of Al Khater said hosting the Beach annual basis. The quality of the a home crowd. I hope that host- Soccer tournament is part of the beaches, combined with Qatar’s ing the event will engage the local strategic plan to host high profile commitment to sport and Soccer public with the sport and raise sports events and promote sports in particular, makes Doha an ideal awareness of the talent that we tourism. destination for us. have in our squad.” FROM LEFT: Christian Karembeu, former Real Madrid and FIFA Beach Soccer Ambassador, Nasser Al Khater, “Our decision to partner with Beach Soccer’s popularity has Christian Karembeu, former Communications and Marketing Director for Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, Joan Cusco, FIFA Beach Soccer FIFA Beach Soccer to host the risen sharply in recent years, evi- Real Madrid and FIFA Beach CEO and Carlos Alberto Lisboa, Qatar Beach Soccer Coach during a press conference at Aspire Dome yesterday. Asian World Cup qualifiers dem- denced by the number of nations Soccer Ambassador spoke about PICTURE BY: SHAIVAL DALAL onstrates our commitment to bidding to host the 2015 FIFA the sport from a player’s view. the growth and development of Beach Soccer World Cup - twelve “Beach Soccer requires skill, will enjoy being here. The beach said they around 16 countries take part in the Qatar qualifiers,” Soccer in Qatar and the region. in total.” agility and speed and the play- surfaces are perfect for Soccer.” are likely to submit their entries disclosed Cusco. The FIFA Beach It provides Qatar with an oppor- Qatar’s national Beach Soccer ers that represent their national The official draw for the quali- to Asian Football Confederation Soccer World Cup is a bi-annual tunity to showcase its hosting coach, Carlos Alberto Lisboa, pop- teams are extraordinarily tal- fiers will take place in Doha before the deadline for entries. international beach football com- abilities in terms of organising ularly known as ‘Nenem, who is ented. With the qualifiers, Soccer following the closure of team reg- “India, Saudi Arabia, Australia petition contested by the national a successful event with the aim the top Brazilian goals scorer in fans in Qatar will be treated to istrations on December 19. and India are some of the coun- teams of the member associations of building toward ultimately the history of Beach Soccer and an incredible week. The players FIFA Beach Soccer officials tries who have shown interest to of FIFA. THE PENINSULA Aussies push for victory at Gabba Rain ruins Kiwis’ BRISBANE, Australia: Scoreboard Majestic Michael Clarke unfurled another double cen- South Africa (I Innings) ...... 450 tury and opener Ed Cowan victory hopes Australia (I Innings) scored his first Test hundred as E Cowan run out (Steyn) ...... 136 Australia batted South Africa D Warner c Kallis b Steyn ...... 4 HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka: get better. Today’s a good start.” out of the opening Brisbane Test R. Quiney c Steyn b Morkel ...... 9 New Zealand’s hopes of posting Opener Upul Tharanga (60) top- yesterday. R. Ponting c Kallis b Morkel ...... 0 a consolation win against Sri scored for Sri Lanka, cracking Clarke produced an imperious M. Clarke (batting) ...... 218 Lanka were shattered by rain as eight fours before being caught captain’s knock with his third M. Hussey (batting) ...... 86 the fifth and final one-day inter- by wicket-keeper Bradley-John huge innings this year to share Extras (LB11, W1, NB22) ...... 34 national was called off after 28.3 Watling off Southee in the 29th in a record stand with Cowan and Total (4 wkts, 121 overs) ...... 487 overs in Hambantota yesterday. over. put the Australians ahead on a Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-30, 3-40, 4-299 Sri Lanka won the five-match He added 47 for the fifth wicket batting-friendly Gabba pitch. Bowling: Steyn 27-3-109-1 (1nb), Philander series 3-0, with the first and last with skipper Mahela Jayawardene At the close of the fourth day, 25-2-82-0 (8nb), Morkel 26-6-109-2 (2nb), one-dayers abandoned due to rain. (24), the highest stand of the Australia were 487 for four in Kleinveldt 17-0-81-0 (11nb, 1w), Kallis 12-3- New Zealand were strongly innings, after four wickets had reply to South Africa’s 450, a lead 30-0, Smith 9-0-36-0, Amla 2-0-9-0, Pe- placed to register their first win fallen for 44 runs. of 33 with Clarke unconquered tersen 3-0-20-0 of the series as they reduced Sri “We are looking forward to on 218 and Mike Hussey breez- Lanka to 123-8, with fast bowler the Test series now as we haven’t ing along on 86, giving the home the more positive you’ve got to be Tim Southee taking three wickets played Test cricket for some time team an outside chance of victory and that was certainly my intent to put the hosts under pressure. now. We’ll try to be as consistent on the final day today. from the first ball I faced,” Clarke Southee, who finished with as possible,” said Jayawardene. “I definitely think we can have said. 3-18 off 5.3 disciplined overs, was Southee did the early damage a crack at winning. The key is “I wanted to be positive and brilliantly supported by seamers when he bowled opener Dinesh tomorrow morning to be nice play my way, and put it back Australia’s Michael Clarke plays a shot against South Africa during the first Andrew Ellis (2-22), Trent Boult Chandimal for no score and then and positive and see how we go on the South African bowlers Test match at the Gabba in Brisbane, yesterday. (1-23) and Adam Milne (1-17) to had Lahiru Thirimanne caught leading up to lunch, and then give because I know they’re a very give his team a hope of victory. behind to reduce Sri Lanka to ourselves a couple of sessions to good attack.” “The bowlers pitched the ball 33-2. be able to bowl South Africa out,” His stand with Cowan was the the stumps. It was Cowan’s first Duminy, brought his own off-spin up and gave us a chance. We knew Thirimanne, promoted in the Clarke said. highest fourth-wicket partnership century in his eighth Test match into the attack to add variety. the rain was going to be around,” batting order, contributed a Australia were in some danger by Australia at the Gabba, sur- and dispelled doubts about his Duminy ruptured his Achilles said New Zealand skipper Ross 15-ball 17 with three boundaries. at the start of the day at 111 for passing Clarke and Mike Hussey’s Test credentials after coming tendon while warming down after Taylor. Boult dismissed Angelo three and trailing the Proteas by 245-run effort against Sri Lanka into the series with an average Friday’s first day’s play and will be “Hopefully, we can have a good Mathews before Milne got his 339 runs. But Clarke and Cowan in 2007. It was also the biggest of 29.86. out for six months. couple of days off and look ahead maiden one-day wicket when he laid the foundations for their fourth-wicket stand by Australia “I want to be playing cricket for The Proteas bowled 22 no-balls to the Tests. We have made some had Kumar Sangakkara caught team’s lead with a record 259-run against South Africa and the fifth a long time for Australia,” Cowan with debutant Rory Kleinveldt improvements and we need to behind for five. AFP stand for the fourth wicket. biggest overall against the Proteas said. “There’s only one way to do (11) and Vernon Philander (8) the Clarke continued his flourish- in Test history. that and that’s scoring runs. I’m main culprits, to blow out extras Scoreboard ing batting form as skipper with The partnership was only happy to be judged by the runs I to 34 in the Australian innings. his 20th Test hundred and his ended by a freakish run-out of score.” “At the end of the day it took its Sri Lanka Extras (LB3, W3) ...... 6 third double century of the year, Cowan for 136 shortly before tea. Hussey maintained the momen- toll a little bit. Everyone is feel- U Tharanga c Watling b Southee ...... 60 Total (for eight wkts; 28.3 overs) ...... 123 after his unbeaten 329 and 210 He batted for 388 minutes and hit tum with his lively undefeated 86 ing a bit knackered right now,” D Chandimal b Southee ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-33, 3-34, 4-44, 5-91, against India at home in January. 18 boundaries. off 109 balls, joining in a rollicking South Africa bowling coach Allan L Thirimanne c Watling b Southee ...... 17 6-92, 7-119, 8-123. He is the highest scorer in It was the only wicket South 188-run partnership with Clarke Donald said. A Mathews c Southee b Boult ...... 0 Bowling: Boult 5-0-23-1 (w1), Southee 5.3-2- Tests this year with 1,000 runs at Africa took all day. to ram home the advantage. “The wicket really looks fantas- K Sangakkara c Watling b Milne ...... 5 18-3 (w1), Milne 5-0-17-1, N McCullum 7-0- 111.11 and as Australian captain The left-hander backed up too The vaunted South African tic. That’s a positive from a bat- M Jayawardene run out ...... 24 28-0, Nicol 2-0-12-0, Ellis 4-0-22-2 (w1). is averaging over 60 with the bat. far at the non-striker’s end and bowling attack was toothless at ting perspective. I don’t think it’s J Mendis c Taylor b Ellis ...... 0 Result: Match abandoned due to rain “One of (the) things Warney’s was out when bowler Dale Steyn times. Skipper Graeme Smith, going to go low or uneven as you T Perera c Milne b Ellis ...... 11 Series result: Sri Lanka win five-match series (Shane Warne) taught me over got his fingers to a stinging Clarke without the services of inca- would expect from a wearing Test S Eranga not out ...... 0 3-0 the years is the better the bowling, drive and deflected the ball onto pacitated part-time spinner JP pitch.” AFP