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Bolt and his hat-trick Emir congratulates Clinic to treat President of India

DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to India’s behavioural President Pranab Mukherjee on his country’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior disorders soon Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent similar cables to President advice on how to deal with violent Mukherjee, reports QNA. behaviour and other disorders,” The MoI clinic will Lieutenant Dua Al Fayyadh, Super- Emir greets South function under visor, Tawasul, told The Peninsula yesterday. Korea’s President Tawasul service and “We also receive some drug provide counselling addiction cases. We will soon open a DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim clinic to treat such problems among bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday to people, people of all ages,” she added. sent a cable of congratulations especially youth, Al Fayyadh said most such cases to South Korea’s President Park involve youth. Psychologists and Geun-hye on her country’s who fall victims psychiatrists will be available in the National Day. to behavioural clinic in morning and evening shifts. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh disorders. “We have trained specialists to deal Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with all behavioural disorders.” and Prime Minister and Interior A wide range of awareness pro- Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (left) posing for pictures after winning the men’s 100m final during the athletics Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah grammes and activities are being event at Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium yesterday. Bolt roared into Olympic history, bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani held under Tawasul for all seg- capturing an unprecedented third consecutive 100m crown to confirm his place in the pantheon of also sent congratulatory cables to By Sidi Mohamed ments of society, Al Fayyadh said in President Park. the greatest athletes the world has ever seen. The Peninsula an interview published in the latest edition of the ministry’s magazine Al Shurtha Maak (Police with You). Sudan ceasefire “Tawasul focuses on the vision DOHA: The Ministry of Interior will that every citizen and resident must soon open a clinic to treat people have a healthy and safe life, by pre- talks collapse suffering from behavioural disor- venting crime,” said Al Fayyadh. Qatar’s inflation rate at 2.8% in July ders, an official said yesterday. Tawasul uses advanced methods Reuters The clinic will function under and techniques in the treatment of the Tawasul service launched by behavioural disorders. By Mohammad Shoeb period last year. The annual infla- 2016 was estimated at 108.5, show- the ministry last December to raise “Tawasul aims at reaching out The Peninsula tion based on Consumer Price Index ing an increase of less than one KHARTOUM: Talks to secure a awareness about behavioural prob- to all categories of people to deal (CPI) in July 2016 stood at 2.8 per- percent compared to 107.6 CPI of lasting ceasefire in Sudan’s three lems and provide counselling to with all types of behavioural prob- cent. Compared on monthly basis, June 2016. warring regions under a road map people, especially youth, who fall lems. If not treated properly, they the overall prices of consumer goods A month-on-month analysis of for peace have collapsed, Ibrahim victims to such disorders. can lead to social deprivation and DOHA: The cost of education, rec- and services in July witnessed a mar- CPI for July compared with June CPI Mahmoud, the government’s lead “We receive an average two crimes. So the best way is to prevent reation and culture has increased ginal increase of 0.8 percent against showed that there were seven main negotiator said yesterday. cases daily, some for follow-up. Most such mistakes from the very begin- between six and seven percent the previous month. groups, where respective indices in “Talks failed because of lack cases are related to behavioural ning,” she added. from a year ago which pushed up According to data released by the July had risen. of seriousness of the armed move- problems of children and youth. Qatar’s inflation rate by 2.8 percent Ministry of Development Planning ments to reach a deal... they are Their parents come to us seeking → Continued on page 4 last month compared to the same & Statistics, the general CPI for July → Continued on page 3 warlords invested in war,” he said.

Moody’s affirms Virtual experience More than 30 Syrian rebels Ooredoo’s ratings; outlook stable dead in IS suicide blast

The Peninsula AFP Syria towards the rebel bastion of Azaz, in Aleppo province. The attack killed 32 rebels as DOHA: Global credit ratings agency they were entering Turkey, the Moody’s has affirmed Ooredoo’s A2 BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) Britain-based observatory said, long-term issuer rating. jihadist group yesterday claimed updating an earlier toll. Moody’s also affirmed the A2 sen- responsibility for a suicide bomb- Its head Rami Abdel Rahman ior unsecured ratings of Ooredoo’s ing that killed over 30 Syrian rebel said the toll could rise further as wholly owned finance vehicle, Oore- fighters in a blast near the Turkish other fighters remained critically doo International Finance Limited border. wounded. and the A2 senior unsecured rating IS, in a statement published on IS’s statement said the attack left of Ooredoo Tamweel Limited. The out- Twitter and the messaging service “nearly 50” rebels dead, charging look on all ratings has been changed Telegram, said a suicide bomber they took orders from the US-led to stable from negative. detonated an explosive belt among coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Moody’s recognises that Ooredoo rebels “getting ready to fight the Syria. is entering the next phase in its devel- Islamic State”. IS has tried to advance on rebel opment, shifting away from further The blast struck the Atme border territory in Aleppo province — international expansion and focusing crossing between Turkey and the particularly the towns of Azaz and on a well-established portfolio of oper- northern Syrian province of Idlib, nearby Marea — for several months. ations. It expects that Ooredoo’s credit according to the Syrian Observa- A major jihadist offensive in profile will continue to strengthen as tory for Human Rights. May saw IS encircle Marea, but A young girl playing a virtual reality game at a Qatar Summer Festival stall at Dar Al Salam Mall the company executes further effi- The monitoring group said the rebels pushed back the assault the ciency gains, additional centralising yesterday. Pic: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula anti-regime fighters were travel- following month after receiving of group procurement, cash conserva- ling by bus to Turkey then back into ammunition from the coalition. tion and deleveraging delivery. → See also page 17 Qatar Charity unveils smart screens to facilitate donations

MEDAL STANDINGS The Peninsula frequented by crowds and allow cash and Al Dossari explained how the experiment its headquarters in Al Rayyan (men and electronic donations. started with 50 devices to collect donations women offices), Al Kharaitiyat (men and Countries G S B T “The devices were distributed in crowded He said the new device is safer for donors women offices), Al Khor, Ruwais (men and United States 26 22 24 72 places, service locations and malls. Some are and will help charity work in Qatar in general women offices), Al ‘azeezya (men and women DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has launched a kept for events, exhibitions and festivals,” and the benefiting countries, in particular. offices), Al Gharafa, Al Markhiyah (men and Great Britain 16 16 8 40 new application for collecting donations said Abdullah Abdul Hadi Al Dossari, Direc- “QC has launched the mechanism women offices), Al Hilal (headquarters), Al China 15 14 17 46 aimed at facilitating the donation process tor, Collection Management. QC. because donation collection systems are a Wakrah, Umm Salal, Khamees and Jum’a Russia 9 12 11 32 and offering new services to donors. “There are some 1,434 devices for elec- priority for continuous development and Souqs, Ain Khaled and Muaither (men and Germany 8 6 6 20 New smart screens have been installed tronic and cash donations and spread update to achieve greater interest and receive women offices). Italy 7 9 6 22 at various locations on which donors can everywhere to facilitate the donation proc- bigger donations.” view QC’s projects. The devices are in areas ess and save time and effort,” he added. QC has 21 branches in Qatar, including → Continued on page 3 02 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 HOME New 3.3km phase of Dukhan Highway Central opens

The new phase provides more efficient and safe transit between Doha and Al Sheehaniya.

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DOHA: Ashghal has opened a new phase of Dukhan Highway Central to traffic in both directions. The 3.3km phase of the road is between the Temporary Truck Route and Al Wajbah Interchange. The new phase passes under the bridges of Al Jahhaniya Inter- change and Orbital Highway, and it will allow road users to shift from Al Shehaniya. The newly opened will connect road users to local res- temporary speed limit of 80kmph Ashghal has completed three a key part of Ashghal’s express- temporary local and service roads phase of the project is part of Al idential and business properties on the phase, given that construc- flyovers and the road that connects way upgrade scheme, will establish to four free-flowing traffic lanes on Jahhaniya Interchange construc- and Al Rayyan Stadium which will tion works are in progress on other Celebration Road to the Dukhan a 15km highway from the west of the Dukhan Highway. tion works. host 2022 FIFA World Cup. sections of the Dukhan Highway Highway earlier this yea, as part of Doha to Al Sheehaniya and other It provides more efficient and Upon completion by the end of To ensure the safety of road and the nearby New Orbital High- Dukhan Highway Central project. key public venues, Ashghal said in safe transit between Doha and this year, the four-level interchange users, Ashghal will implement a way and Truck Route. The Dukhan Highway Central, a statement yesterday. Indian Embassy & schools celebrate I-Day with fervour

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DOHA: Indians in Qatar yesterday marked their country’s 70th Inde- pendence Day with traditional zeal and fervour. In a ceremony, Ambassador Sanjiv Arora hoisted the Indian national flag at Indian Cultural Centre, attended by a large number of community members. Students sang the national anthem and traditional songs. Arora also read out President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to the nation. Mukherjee said: “India will grow Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora reading the Independence Day supplement published by The Peninsula only when all of India grows. The during celebrations at the Indian Cultural Centre. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula excluded ones have to be included in the development process. The hurt and the alienated have to be brought back into the mainstream. “In this age of technological advance, machines are being pitted against men. The only way to survive this is to acquire knowledge and skills and learn to innovate. “Inclusive innovations linked to the aspirations of our people can benefit a wide spectrum of society and preserve our diversity. “We as a nation must nurture cre- ativity, science and technology. Here, our schools and institutions of higher Flag-hoisting ceremony at Shantiniketan Indian School. Birla Public School learning have a special responsibility. “We often celebrate the achieve- ments of our ancient past but it would anthem. Vice-President Yasir Nainar ceremony in the presence of students, it becomes a developed country. Cel- be wrong to rest on our laurels. It is and several members of the executive staff, parents and management com- ebrations included the singing of much more important to look to the committee and the council were also mittee. The Indian national flag was patriotic songs, speeches and patri- future.” present. unfurled by Lukose K. Chacko, Chair- otic dance. Ceremonies were also held in Noble International School Vice- man of the school. Shantiniketan Indian School cele- Indian schools across Qatar. Chairman Abdul Rahim Kunnummal In a speech, Chacko said the coun- brated the occasion, with President K DPS Modern Indian School (DPS hoisted the flag on the school premises try is in the hands of the younger C Abdul Latheef hoisting the national –MIS ) marked the occasion with while students presented cultural generation who are the future leaders flag, followed by the singing of the traditional gaiety. President Hassan events. of the biggest democracy in the world national anthem. Chougule unfurled the national flag, Birla Public School also marked and should take part in the develop- A large number of students, staff, followed by the singing of the national the occasion with a flag-hoisting ment of our nation in a big way so that parents and guests were present.

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Qatar-Kuwait ties reviewed Mercedes-Benz PHCC guidelines to avoid C Class 2015 infections during Haj models recalled The Peninsula

mouth, avoid direct contact with the DOHA: The Ministry of Economy Personal hygiene infected people or use of their per- and Commerce, in collaboration sonal gadgets, avoid direct contact with Nasser Bin Khaled Automo- and vaccinations with camels and staying away from biles, dealer of Mercedes-Benz against infectious their gathering places, wear masks, vehicles in Qatar, has announced especially when in crowded places the recall of Mercedes-Benz C respiratory diseases and maintain good personal hygiene. Class 2015 models due to the recommended. “We advise pilgrims with flu decorative foil on the body of the and the common cold to use masks vehicle on the left and right, both because this may reduce the chances outside mirrors potentially not of transferring the infection to oth- being installed according to spec- Minister for Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs The Peninsula ers. We also recommend washing ification, and the stop plugs on the H E Dr. Issa bin Saad Juffali Al Naimi yesterday met outgoing hands often with soap and water, spare wheel potentially not being Kuwaiti Ambassador Mutib Saleh Al Mutawtah. Talks dealt with especially after coughing or sneez- installed. relations between both countries and means of enhancing them. disease. Seasonal influenza, pneu- ing,” said Dr Shaikhan. The ministry said the recall is DOHA: Haj pilgrims have been mococcal and acute meningitis, He said seasonal flu symptoms within the framework of its ongo- advised to take precautions and which is known as spinal fever, are will be typically fever, cough, sore ing efforts to protect consumers comply with health guidelines to transmitted through respiratory throat, runny nose, sneezing, head- and ensure dealers follow up on curb the spread of respiratory infec- system. ache, muscle pain and fatigue in the vehicle defects and repairs. tions. “Pilgrims should take precau- body. The ministry will coordi- 92 donation collection Transmission of infectious res- tions such as visiting the doctor and If any of the symptoms is devel- nate with the dealer to follow up piratory diseases increases due to get vaccines 10 days before travelling oped, pilgrims are advised to consult on maintenance and repairs and a large number of pilgrims from and take care of personal hygiene the doctor in charge of them imme- communicate with customers to points across Qatar different parts of the world, said such as wearing masks in crowded diately. “Most people feel better ensure repairs are carried out. Dr Fahad Shaikhan (pictured), Com- places and washing hands,” said Dr within one or two weeks. However, It urged customers to report any munity Medicine Specialist, Primary Shaikhan. some people develop serious com- violations to Consumer Protec- Health Care Corporation (PHCC). He advised pilgrims to wash plications such as pneumonia and tion and Anti-Commercial Fraud Continued from page 1 QC has allocated more than six Health authorities also rec- hands with soap and water or dis- respiratory failure,” he added. Department through call centre points to receive and distribute dona- ommend that pilgrims should be infectant, especially after coughing Also pilgrims with chronic ill- 16001; email: [email protected]; Qatar Charity has 92 collection tions in kind in Al Khor, Industrial vaccinated against seasonal influ- and sneezing, use disposable tissues nesses are advised to consult their Twitter: @MEC_Qatar; Instagram: points and offices in complexes and Area Street No. 48, Industrial Area enza. Vaccination is particularly when coughing or sneezing and dis- doctor ahead of the travel date and MEC_Qatar; and the ministry’s malls across the country, including 5, Al Khamees, Al Jom’a, Barwa, recommended for those with an pose of them appropriately, avoid carry sufficient amount of medicine mobile app for Android and IOS: City Center, Hyatt Plaza, Landmark, Mesaieed, Al ‘azeezya Tent and increased risk of developing severe hand contact with the eyes, nose and during the pilgrimage. MEC_Qatar. Lulu, Villaggio and The Pearl-Qatar, Aspire Square. It has also prepared among others. 215 containers for donations in kind. ‘Restaurants and Hotels’ prices drop by 0.3%

Continued from page 1 and services grouped under ‘Tobacco[; due to increase in the cost of edu- ‘Miscellaneous Goods and Services’ ‘Health’; ‘Communication]; and ‘Edu- cation, recreation and the prices of (4.8 percent); ‘Housing, Water, Elec- The main groups that wit- cation’ have remained flat at the last fuel, utilities and some other goods tricity and other Fuel’ (4.1 percent); nessed increase in prices in July month’s price level. and services. ‘Transport’ (3.3 percent)’ ‘Furniture were: ‘Transport’ (by 2.8 percent); The year-on-year comparison of The eight groups which wit- and Household Equipment’ (1.5 per- ‘Recreation and Culture’ (2.4 per- the CPI for July with the CPI for July, nessed an annual increase in prices cent); ‘Clothing and Footwear’ (0.7 cent); ‘Miscellaneous Goods and 2015 show that the general index were: ‘Education’ (by 7.1 percent); percent); and ‘Communication’ (by Services’ (1.5 percent); ‘Furniture increased by 2.8 percent primarily ‘Recreation and Culture’ (6.1 percent)’ 0.1 percent). and Household Equipment’ (1.0 per- cent); ‘Clothing and Footwear’ (0.4 percent); ‘Food and Beverages’ (0.2 percent); and ‘Housing, Water, Elec- tricity and other Fuel’ (0.1 percent). A decline in prices was also noticed in ‘Restaurants and Hotels’ New smart screens at a Qatar Charity collection point. by 0.3 percent. The prices of goods Bangladesh mission observes National Mourning Day

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DOHA: The Bangladesh Embassy in Doha observed the National Mourn- ing Day and 41st death anniversary of the Father of the Nation Banga- bandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman yesterday. The day-long programme started with Ambassador Ashud Ahmed hoisting the national flag at half- mast at the embassy premises in the presence of officials and a large number of community members. Later, a meeting recalled Rah- man’s life and works. Participants stood in silence for one minute as a mark of respect to Rahman and the martyrs of the August 15, 1975. Messages from the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs were read out. Speakers highlighted Rahman’s contributions to the independence of Bangladesh and urged all to work whole-heartedly to fulfil his dream of a prosperous Bangladesh. They also stressed the need for educating the younger generation about his life and works. Students of Bangladesh School also spoke on Rahman’s glorious life . In a speech, Ambassador Ahmed recalled the Bangabandhu’s epic role in Bangladesh’s emergence as an independent country. He said the August 15 is the saddest chapter in the history of Bangladesh and as a nation we must Bangladesh Ambassador Ashud Ahmed hoisting the national flag at learn a lesson here — our pain should half-mast at the embassy premises in the presence of officials and be turned into our strength and we community members. should work hard to fulfil Rahman’s dream of a golden Bengal. He thanked the community A documentary on Rahman’s life of the departed souls of Rahman, his for hard work and contribution and works was screened. family members, the mafirs of the to the economic development of After the meeting, a special Liberation War and the peace and Bangladesh. prayer was offered for the salvation prosperity of Bangladesh. 04 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 HOME

Ezdan Mall relaunches NHRC chief meets Kenyan envoy Green Dream campaign

Various communities have the other innovative initiatives of the joined hands with the mall in the mall under the campaign such as “It’s a green dream project which have made it possi- recycling and energy conservation. we sowed years ble to plant trees whose number has Visitors at the event had a taste now reached thousands, according of watermelons directly harvested ago and we are to Awan. from Ezdan Mall’s organic garden. trying to replicate “Thousands of saplings were “We currently have three out- planted across the country so far door gardens and the watermelons that dream into our and we have communities and green being distributed here came from mall environment,” ambassadors to promote the mission. our organic garden. We are also in We provide them a platform so any talks with communities and schools General Manager individual or community in Qatar so we can go and create gardens with Malik Qaiser Awan can come and work with us,” he said. them,” he explained. National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Chairman H E Dr. Ali bin Samikh Al Marri yesterday met Kenyan said. The Green Dream Academy, A variety of crops are cultivated which is the mall’s latest initiative in the gardens including cucumber, Ambassador to Qatar, Muka Jalma Borough. Talks dealt with cooperation in issues on humanitarian under the programme, has already cabbage, coriander watermelon and affairs and mechanisms to enhance communications between both the countries. seen success just months after it different fruits, according to the gen- By Raynald C Rivera began. “We started the Green Dream eral manager. The Peninsula Academy in February and in a few “And now we have experts on months’ time thousands of people board. This Friday some members have come to us to learn how to cul- of the Indian community are coming Tawasul gives tivate plants. Our main objective is to in to advise us what kind of vegeta- Al Emadi affirms depth of DOHA: Ezdan Mall has stepped up educate children and create aware- bles we can grow. They have already efforts to help achieve a greener ness on the importance of planting,” experimented on this.” free counselling environment for Qatar by re-launch- he said. He said they have also started Continued from page ing the Green Dream Academy under Currently, this latest project is an initiative to spread the culture Qatar-Palestine relations its Green Dream 2022 campaign indoor but there will be school vis- of gardening in schools. Besides face-to-face interac- aimed at planting 22 million trees its when the schools open and the “We want also to come up with tions, Tawasul also provides free across the country by 2022. weather permits. learning gardens in schools. We have counselling through social media QNA Thousands of trees have been “Today after a month’s break already done it with three schools and mobile phone, she said, add- planted across Qatar and thousands and on the National Day of Pakistan, and our objective next year is to do ing that all cases are treated with of people from various schools and the Pakistan Bikers Association, it in 50 schools,” he said. strict confidentiality. GAZA: Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza communities have been involved the Pakistan Welfare Forum and The re-launch event, which coin- “We also participate in Strip H E Ambassador Mohammed Ismail Al Emadi said that the series of since the campaign was launched. Pakistan-Qatar Business Coun- cided with Pakistan National Day, workshops and exhibitions and meeting he recently held with different Palestinian society segments in Ezdan Mall’s outdoor gardens have cil requested us to re-launch the was attended by hundreds of mem- distribute leaflets to raise aware- Gaza confirms the depth of the inherent relationship between the State of also been converted into green academy,” said Awan, adding a tree bers of the Pakistani community ness,” she said. Qatar and the State of Palestine. spaces where organic vegetables planting programme is in the works including Imran Mughal, president The service was officially Addressing a gathering of scholars during a dinner banquet he hosted and fruits are being grown. “which we will probably do with the of Pakistan Bikers Association and launched at Darb El Saai last today, HE Ambassador Al Emadi said that the State of Qatar with all its “It’s a green dream we sowed Pakistan Bikers Association.” Ahmed Hussain, president of Paki- December. People can avail of official and popular institutions wishes the good of the Palestinian peo- years ago and we are trying to rep- The mall’s basement level, where stan-Qatar Business Council. the services of Tawasul by calling ple. It has always supported the Palestinian cause in all Arab and Islamic licate that dream into our mall the event was held, turned green in A number of restaurants and 30088400 or through its social forums and also provided support in all forms of educational institutions environment,” General Manager design and also with activities for shops in the mall offered discounts media accounts on Instagram, in the Gaza Strip. Malik Qaiser Awan told this daily at children to promote green. and promotions on the occasion of Twitter, SnapChat and Youtube ( He expressed hope that his meeting with academics and scholars in the re-launch event on Sunday. It also provided an overview of Pakistan National Day. tawasul_qa@ ) Gaza would be an important step towards promoting education and sup- The public can also access its porting educational institutions as well as dissemination of inherent Arab services by visiting its offices at culture to serve the future of the nation. Area 36, Street No. 362, Building Ambassador Al Emadi expressed his wishes to all the Palestinian edu- No 63, First Floor. cational institutions for progress and prosperity to serve the future of the Palestinian cause and the future of the younger generations. Three restaurants closed down RAF provides uniforms to students The Peninsula than 45,000 students in 20 coun- The Peninsula tries in Asia and Africa. The aid costs QR1m and it aims to provide food to poor families DOHA: Al Wakra Municipality DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdul- and also assist sending their chil- shut down three restaurants for lah Foundation for Humanitarian dren to school. It also provides small selling food unfit for human con- Services (RAF) has provided school projects to poor families as a means sumption. The restaurants found bags and uniforms to 770 students of stable income and this prevents selling expired food, and prepar- in Kenya, in addition to the usual children in their families from doing ing food in unhealthy conditions. monthly provision of food items to labours. Through these initiatives, The closure was during an the families. RAF wants to terminate illiteracy inspection conducted by the The aid came as part of the new and poverty in poor societies. health monitoring inspector at the phase of RAF’s “food and light” RAF provides food and educa- Malik Qaiser Awan, General Manager of Ezdan Mall, and Ahmed Hussain, President of Pakistan Qatar Municipality as part of the mis- international initiative which was tion for one year to families and Business Forum, with other officials and guests cutting a cake to mark the re-launch of Green Academy sion to prevent unhealthy food launched at the end of last year to even build schools in areas where at the Ezdan Mall on Sunday. Pic: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula practices. provide educational support to more schools are not there. Qatar’s e-government experience praised

QNA This came in a statement by Dr. Al-Qahtani of which we shall take advantage and it rep- to Qatar News Agency (QNA) on the side- resents a source of pride for ARADO , he said, lines of a press conference organised here adding that the State of Qatar have made sig- CAIRO: Dr. Nasser Al Hatlan Al Qahtani, today to launch the Arab Forum on Contin- nificant steps in multiple areas, including Director General of the Arab Organization for ued E-Government “The Road to Sustainable electronic, aviation and e-government fields. Administrative Development (ARADO) yester- Development” due to be held in Sharm Al The State of Qatar has made great achieve- day hailed the State of Qatar’s experience in Sheikh, Egypt, in December. ment and is considered as a source of pride e-government field, describing it as “success- Qatar’s experience is among the success- not only for the Gulf region but also the Arab ful and pioneer.” ful Arab experiences in the management field region in general, Al Qahatani went on saying.

Summer of entertainment HEC Paris in Qatar concludes educational visit

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DOHA: The 2017-batch of HEC Paris in Qatar has concluded its educational visit to some famous institutions and companies in France and Germany. The visit lasted for more than a week and ended on July 19. The University’s main headquarters at Paris and some showrooms in Germany, like Mercedes and Porsche, were among the places visited. Abdul Mohssain Al Yafee, a student participant said that the aim of the trip was to increase cooperation among the students and acquire valuable experience A girl colouring a Qatar Summer Festival booth of Qatar’s iconic buildings and areas in Ezdan as well as get acquainted with cul- Mall yesterday. Pic; Baher Amin / The Peninsula tures of others and discover the shared values among people. MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 05 Turkey sets terms for migrant deal with EU

Reuters an insensitive response from West- Cavusoglu told Bild: “I don’t want to security threats which include Commission declined to comment on failed putsch on US-based Mus- ern allies to the failed putsch in which talk about the worst case scenario - Islamic State militants in neighbour- the interview directly but said the EU lim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his 240 people, many of them civilians, as talks with the EU are continuing ing Syria and Kurdish militants in its continued to work together with Tur- followers. were killed. but it’s clear that we either apply all mainly Kurdish southeast. key in all areas of cooperation. Amid rising tension with the ISTANBUL: Turkey could walk away Europe and the United States treaties at the same time or we put European Commissioner Guen- Selim Yenel, Turkey’s ambas- West, Turkey has sought to normalise from its promise to stem the flow have been worried by the crack- them all aside.” ther Oettinger has said he does not sador to the EU, said last week that relations with Russia, sparking fears of illegal migrants to Europe if the down following the coup. Some Visa-free access to the EU - the see the EU granting Turks visa- efforts were continuing to find a in the West that Erdogan and Russian European Union fails to grant Turks Western governments are concerned main reward for Ankara’s collab- free travel this year due to Ankara’s compromise with the EU on visa lib- President Vladimir Putin might use a visa-free travel to the bloc in October, this could affect stability in the Nato oration in choking off an influx of crackdown after the failed military eralisation and he thought it would be rapprochement to exert pressure on Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu member and suspect that President migrants into Europe - has been sub- coup. Cavusoglu said treaties laid out possible to handle this in 2016. Washington and the EU and stir ten- told a German newspaper. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using the ject to delays due to a dispute over that all Turks would get visa freedom Since the coup, more than 35,000 sions within Nato. His comments in Bild’s yesterday purges as an excuse to quash dissent. Turkish anti-terrorism legislation, as in October, adding: “It can’t be that people have been detained, of whom Asked if Turkey would leave Nato, edition coincide with rising tension Asked whether hundreds of thou- well as Ankara’s crackdown. we implement everything that is good 17,000 have been placed under for- Cavusoglu told Bild that while Turkey between Ankara and the West fol- sands of refugees in Turkey would Brussels wants Turkey to soften for the EU but that Turkey gets noth- mal arrest, and tens of thousands remained one of the biggest support- lowing the July 15 failed coup attempt. head to Europe if the EU did not grant the anti-terrorism law, which Ankara ing in return.” more suspended. ers of the 28-nation Western alliance, Turkey is incensed by what it sees as Turks visa freedom from October, says it cannot change, given multiple A spokesman for the European Turkish authorities blame the it was also looking at other options. South Sudan Iraqi cinema turns 61 Saudi intercepts illegal Africans considers in Red Sea RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has intercepted a boat car- rying 31 illegal migrants, new UN force most of them Sudanese, that was trying to reach the kingdom, the Bor- the deployment of a new contin- der Guards force said gent with a stronger mandate. “We yesterday. We need to be need to be engaged in a discourse The guards have engaged in a and exchange ideas on what is the reported repeated inter- best way forward, rather than be ceptions of migrants in discourse and presented with a fait accompli from the Red Sea over the past exchange ideas on outsiders,” Kiir said. two months. In the lat- On Friday the UN Security est case, a patrol “foiled what is the best way Council approved a US-drafted an attempt by a group forward, rather than resolution backed by regional bloc of 31 people from dif- be presented with IGAD to strengthen the 12,000-per- ferent nationalities to son peacekeeping mission, known enter Saudi waters on a a fait accompli from as UNMISS. It is hoped a strength- wooden boat”, Border outsiders: Kiir ened UN force might prevent a Guards spokesman Colo- repeat of this and many other Iraqi dancers, from the Folk Arts group, perform on the stage of the National Theatre, to mark the nel Sahir Al Harbi said. atrocities. Kiir said he was “not He said the group instinctively or automatically” 61st anniversary of the founding of the cinema of Iraq, yesterday. comprised 20 Sudanese, AFP against the UN-mandated force, six Nigerians and five but he insisted that sovereignty Ethiopians. “They were comes first, winning cheers from coming from Sudanese the assembled MPs in a parliament shores,” he said, quoted JUBA: South Sudan’s President dominated by his loyalists. by the official Saudi Press Salva Kiir said yesterday that he “We welcome assistance, we are Agency. is not opposed to the deployment attentive to advice. But assistance At least 339 illegal of a strengthened UN force while requires dialogue, it should not turn immigrants have been expressing “very serious concerns” into an imposition that becomes an intercepted by Saudi bor- over the internationally-backed intervention, in which our sover- der guards off the coast plan. eignty is compromised and our since the first half of June, The comments come as the ability to govern effectively dimin- according to figures cited UN faces renewed criticism over ishes,” Kiir said. South Sudan’s civil by SPA. repeated failures to protect civil- war began in December 2013 when ians, including foreign aid workers. Kiir accused his former deputy Riek In a speech at the opening of Machar of plotting a coup. A peace Seven dead in parliament in the capital Juba, deal signed between the govt and Kiir said more time and further rebels almost a year ago has so far Yemen hospital negotiations were needed before failed to end the conflict. air strike DUBAI: A coalition air Istanbul detains 136 in coup probe strike hit a hospital in Yemen’s northern Hajja province yesterday, res- AP idents and local officials said, killing at least seven people and wounding 13. ISTANBUL: Police teams yesterday apprehended 136 personnel A Reuters witness at in operations conducted at three Istanbul courthouses as part the scene of the attack in of an investigation into the July 15 abortive coup. the Abs district said med- Turkey’s Anadolu news agency said the Istanbul chief pub- ics could not immediately lic prosecutor’s office had issued a detention order for 173 evacuate the wounded personnel working at Istanbul’s Caglayan, Bakirkoy and Gazi- because war planes con- osmanpasa courthouses. Police entered the courthouses tinued to fly over the yesterday morning to detain the suspects and conduct area and first responders searches of their offices and computers, while other teams feared more bombings. were searching their homes.

Iraq parliament approves cabinet overhaul

Reuters city under Islamic State control. new interior minister. The where- US envoy to the anti-Islamic State abouts of a seventh, former trade coalition Brett McGurk welcomed minister Milas Mohammed Abdul the approval of the five ministers, Kareem, are unknown after author- BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament saying in a tweet that parliament’s ities investigating alleged corruption approved the appointment of Jabar endorsement had overcome months issued an arrest warrant for him in Ali Al Luaibi, former head of the of deadlock. October. Abdul Kareem has said the main state oil firm, as oil minis- Demonstrations by supporters allegations were not based on solid ter in a cabinet overhaul yesterday of powerful Shia cleric Moqtada Al evidence. that bolsters Prime Minister Haider Sadr in support of anti-graft reforms The other ministers refused to Al Abadi’s leadership. turned violent in May, after influen- budge, with the support of influen- Luaibi, who led the South Oil tial political groups blocked Abadi’s tial political groups who thrive on Company that produces most of the plan. the patronage system that allows OPEC nation’s crude, was one of six The premier announced in Feb- them to amass wealth and influence. candidates Abadi nominated to fill ruary his intention to overhaul the Abadi could also suffer a setback vacant ministerial jobs. Parliament cabinet by appointing independent should parliament withdraw con- approved five of them, state televi- technocrats as ministers to loosen fidence from Khaled Al Obeidi, the sion said, rejecting only Abadi’s pick a political patronage system that defence minister he wants to keep for trade minister. breeds graft. for the sake of maintaining momen- The vote eases a political crisis Five of the 22 government tum against Islamic State. that broke out in February over anti- ministers resigned following his Parliament voted yesterday to graft reforms sought by Abadi, and announcement, followed by a sixth, reject explanations given by Obeidi consolidates his position ahead of the interior minister, after a mas- after they grilled him earlier this a battle planned for later this year sive bombing in central Baghdad month on allegations of corruption to recapture Mosul, the largest in July. Abadi has yet to propose a involving weapons contracts. 06 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 ASIA / AFRICA

Japanese Emperor Akihito (right) and Empress Michiko offer silent prayers during the official annual memorial service for war victims in Tokyo, yesterday. RIGHT: South Korean lawmakers wave national flags as they visit the South Korean-controlled Dokdo islets in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Japan and South Korea strike conciliatory note

tionship and Japan’s prime minister Emperor Hirohito announced the and earning a rare diplomatic rebuke deep remorse, I earnestly hope that Korean security personnel based President Park called denouncing the “horrors of war”. surrender. In South Korea it is from close ally the United States. the ravages of war will never be there. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent marked as the day Japan’s harsh He has since refrained and reac- repeated,” he said. South Korea has long controlled for a ‘future-oriented’ a ritual donation to a controversial 35-year occupation of the Korean tions by China and South Korea to China’s official Xinhua news the islets in the Sea of Japan (East relationship with Tokyo war shrine but again avoided peninsula came to an end. visits by cabinet ministers and law- agency in a commentary said Abe’s Sea) which are known in Japanese visiting it, in an apparent nod to China, which was partially occu- makers, while still critical, have comments missed the mark as as Takeshima, but Tokyo has never Tokyo. China and South Korea. pied by Japan from the early 1930s become less intense. he “failed again to offer a sincere renounced its claim. South Korean President Park to 1945, marks the end of the war on Separately, Abe and Emperor apology for the country’s wartime “We absolutely cannot accept Geun-Hye, meanwhile, called for a September 3. Akihito both reiterated Japan’s aggression in Asia”. this,” top government spokes- AFP “future-oriented” relationship with A frequent flashpoint for nation- commitment to peace at an official Park, however, stressed the need man Yoshihide Suga said, calling it Tokyo even as a group of Seoul law- alist tensions is Yasukuni Shrine, ceremony to commemorate the war to look forward in her nationally tel- “extremely regrettable”. makers sparked official anger in which honours millions of war dead dead. evised speech in Seoul. “We should Abe and Park are scheduled to TOKYO: Tokyo and Seoul struck a Japan by visiting islets claimed by including senior military and polit- “We shall never again repeat the newly define relations with Japan to visit China early next month for a conciliatory note yesterday on the both nations. ical figures convicted of war crimes horrors of war,” Abe said. Akihito forge future-oriented ties.” Group of 20 summit hosted by Pres- anniversary of the end of World August 15 is an emotional date in after the conflict’s end. expressed similar sentiments. But her remarks coincided with ident Xi Jinping, while Japan is due War II, with South Korea’s president both countries, remembered in Japan Abe visited in December 2013, “Reflecting on our past and the visit by 10 lawmakers to the to host a trilateral leaders’ meeting calling for a “future-oriented” rela- as the day in 1945 when wartime sparking fury in Beijing and Seoul bearing in mind the feelings of Dokdo islets where they met South later this year. Three suspects wanted Mahama promises prosperity over Chibok girls: Army Reuters healthcare as a sign of improve- ments to come. Indonesian AFP abducted persons to enable us to Ghana signed a three-year, rescue them.” CAPE COAST: Ghana’s President $918 million aid programme with airlines cleared Usman said the military would John Mahama (pictured) told sup- the International Monetary Fund in LAGOS: Nigeria’s army said yes- work with other security agencies porters the country was overcoming April 2015 to tackle high public debt, to fly to US terday wants to question three to bring in the suspects if they fail its economic problems and promised steep inflation and power outages, suspects, including a journalist, for to turn themselves in. a return to prosperity as he launched but economic problems persist. JAKARTA: Indonesian air- allegedly concealing information on Usman said the authorities his campaign on Sunday ahead of Public debt stood at 71 percent lines have been cleared the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls. wanted to talk to the suspects over what is expected to be a close-run of gross domestic product at the end to fly to the United States The announcement came just the video released on Sunday in election. of 2015, and two months ago Nigeria after regulators there a day after Boko Haram released which a masked man called on the Ghana was one of Africa’s fast- cut gas supplies to Ghana because of scrapped a nearly dec- a new video purportedly showing government to free Boko Haram est-growing economies at the unpaid bills. ade-long ban imposed for some of the more than 200 girls prisoners if it wants the girls to be beginning of the decade thanks to economy was turning the corner. Akufo-Addo has criticised safety reasons, an official who were seized by Boko Haram in rescued. exports of gold, cocoa and oil. But “We have managed to sail Mahama’s mishandling of the econ- said yesterday. northeastern Nigeria in April 2014. Salkida is said to have high-level growth has tumbled since 2014 due through adversities,” he told National omy and has pledged to restore US transport officials Army spokesman Colonel Sani contacts among the group’s lead- to a slump in commodities prices, Democratic Congress party support- economic stability, although he said in a letter Indone- Usman said local journalist Ahmad ers and is believed to have been leading to a fiscal crisis and unpop- ers, who had spent the afternoon has not yet published his election sia’s aviation sector had Salkida had been in contact with involved in failed talks between ular austerity measures. dancing and blowing vuvuzelas manifesto. met international stand- Boko Haram, as had Ahmed Bolori Boko Haram and the government The economic problems have as they awaited his speech in the Recent polls put the National ards and its safety rating and Aisha Wakil, both activists of former president Goodluck weakened the standing of Mahama, 16,000-seat Cape Coast Stadium, Democratic Congress just 3 percent- had accordingly been familiar with the workings of the Jonathan. who will seek a second term in a which was filled to capacity. age points ahead of the opposition, upgraded. Islamist group. The journalist said in his per- presidential election on December “Our focus in the last four years with nearly 15 percent of respond- “Today all Indo- “There is no doubt that these sonal blog he would report to the 7, when he will run against Nana was to stabilise the economy, and we ents undecided, a senior source close nesian airlines can fly individuals have links with Boko authorities as soon as he returns to Akufo-Addo, leader of the opposi- have put the worst of our power cri- to the government said in July. to the United States,” Haram terrorists and have contacts Nigeria, without giving his current tion New Patriotic Party (NPP). sis behind us,” he said. “We are still grappling with director general of civil with them,” he said. whereabouts. “In the coming days I On his first official day of cam- Continuing a theme of his pre- blackouts despite the huge sums of aviation, Suprasetyo said “They must therefore come for- will seek to get a flight to Abuja and paigning in the seaside town of Cape campaign speeches, Mahama money being spent by this govern- yesterday. ward and tell us where the group is avail myself to the army authori- Coast, Mahama, who has been in highlighted investments in edu- ment under the cloak of fixing the “This will have a very keeping the Chibok girls and other ties,” he said. power since January 2013, said the cation, transport, electricity and problem,” said Seth Opoku. positive impact on our aviation sector and pub- lic trust.” 51 die in DR Zambian president re-elected in disputed vote Congo machete

Reuters in the regalia of the ruling Patri- attack: NGOs otic Front (PF), took to the streets, chanting slogans and hooting car LUSAKA: Zambian President Edgar horns in celebration soon after the GOMA: Civil society Lungu narrowly won re-election announcement. groups in the Democratic yesterday, in a vote his main rival But Hichilema’s United Party Republic of Congo yester- Hakainde Hichilema rejected on for National Development (UPND) day said the number of claims of alleged rigging by the accused electoral officials of col- people hacked to death in electoral commission. luding in favour of Lungu since vote the restive east this week- Lungu faced a tough chal- counting started on Thursday night end has risen to 51. lenge from Hichilema to rule over and said it would appeal the result “Our team on the Africa’s second-largest copper pro- at the Constitutional Court. ground has counted ducer, which has suffered from an “We have evidence to the 51 bodies slain with economic slump due to depressed effect that the votes for Hakainde machetes,” said Teddy commodity prices. Hichilema have been deliberately Kataliko, a member of Lungu, who narrowly beat Hich- reduced in collusion with the Elec- a local alliance of NGOs ilema in a vote last year to replace toral Commission of Zambia,” party and unions working in late president Michael Sata, won lawyer Jack Mwiimbu said. the troubled town of 50.35 percent of the vote, against “We have confidence that the Beni. 47.63 for his opponent, the Election constitutional court will rise above Local mayor Edmond Commission of Zambia (ECZ) said board and declare the results a Masumbuko on Sunday recently. nullity.” said 42 people had died “I honourable Justice Esau The commission and Lungu’s in Saturday night’s mass Chulu, being the returning officer PF have both rejected the UPND’s killing in Beni; the gov- for the election, declare Edgar charges. ernment in Kinshasa had A file picture shows Zambian Ruling party Patriotic Front presidential candidate and incumbent Zambian Chagwa Lungu president elect,” the Under President Michael Sata, earlier put the death toll President Edward Lungu (centre) dancing and gesturing before delivering a speech during his presidential ECZ chairperson said. Lungu served as Minister of Justice at 36. campaign closing rally in Lusaka. Lungu’s supporters, draped and Minister of Defence. ASIA / PHILIPPINES TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 07 South Koreans protest deployment of THAAD

Park defends missile shield Demonstrators insist that THAAD should AFP month by announcing deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude not be deployed at all, Area Defence system -- a move not just in Seongju, SEOUL: South Korea’s president which sparked domestic protests yesterday defended the proposed as well as complaints from China. but anywhere in deployment of a US anti-missile “I urge the North Korean gov- South Korea. system as an act of self-defence ernment to immediately stop all against North Korea, as hundreds provocations and threats target- of residents shaved their heads in ing South Korea as well as the protest at the plan. development of weapons of mass Reuters Tensions have been running destruction,” said President Park high on the divided Korean penin- Geun-Hye in a televised Liberation sula since the North carried out its Day speech. She also warned the SEONGJU: About 900 South Kore- fourth nuclear test in January and fol- North that all attempts to provoke Seongju residents get their heads shaved during a protest against the government’s decision to place a ans shaved their heads yesterday to lowed up with a series of missile tests. and intimidate the South would be US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-missile defence unit in their town, in Seongju, South protest against a government deci- South Korea responded last counter-productive. Korea, yesterday. sion to place a missile defence system designed to counter North Korean a string of test launches of missiles. its potential to be a wartime target. missile threats, in the southeastern South Korea announced in The plan has also angered China fame, sat in sombre silence as they in South Korea,” said Yoo Ji-won, a the head-shaving part of the protest, county of Seongju. July that a US THAAD anti-missile and prompted a North Korean warn- had their heads shaved while a pro- 63-year-old melon farmer. “We res- organisers said. Tension has run high since defence unit would be deployed in ing of retaliation. test leader led a crowd in chants of idents gathered here and shaved “This is the most powerful way North Korea conducted its fourth Seonjgu, but residents have pro- Seongju residents, many of them “No THAAD!” heads to demonstrate against its of displaying protest,” protest leader nuclear test in January and fol- tested, citing safety fears over the farmers cultivating a melon variety “THAAD should not be deployed at deployment.” Kim An-soo said. “We cannot protest lowed up with a satellite launch and system’s sophisticated radar and that has brought the county domestic all, not just in Seongju, but anywhere As many as 908 people joined in any bigger”. New explosions rock Thailand Maoist rebels optimistic

AFP The area, which was annexed a international terrorism and say the century ago by Thailand, has been culprits are “local saboteurs”. ahead of Norway talks 5.6 magnitude battered by 12 years of violence But they have dismissed any sug- NARATHIWAT: Fresh explosions between the Buddhist-majority state gestion southern insurgents were quake off rocked Thailand’s deep south and shadowy Muslim rebels seeking behind the attacks. AFP rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni said. seriously wounding one soldier yes- greater autonomy. “It is not right to say it is an Jalandoni, speaking from exile Fukushima coast terday, days after a spate of bomb Near-daily shootings and road- extension of the deep south insur- in the Netherlands, is to meet Phil- and arson attacks struck multiple side bombs have left more than gency,” deputy junta chief General MANILA: Maoist rebels waging ippine government officials in Oslo TOKYO: A magnitude 5.6 tourist resort towns. 6,500 dead since 2004, most of them Prawit Wongsuwan said. a decades-old insurgency in the on August 22 for five days of talks, undersea earthquake Last week’s attacks have civilians. With southern insurgents ruled Philippines expressed high hopes during which he said both sides are struck Japan yesterday heightened concerns Thailand’s But the violence has largely out by the junta, official suspicion for peace yesterday before talks in expected to agree to declare unilat- off the coast of Fuku- long-running but local southern remained local with militants loathe has fallen on militants within the so- Norway next week, with guerrilla eral ceasefires. shima prefecture, though Islamist insurgency may have spread to spark international outrage by called “Red Shirt” movement loyal to leaders set to be freed within days. Norway has offered to be an there were no immediate after years of stalled peace talks -- a targeting Western tourists. ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra. President Rodrigo Duterte, who intermediary in the long-running reports of damages. suggestion the kingdom’s junta has Last week’s attacks hit tour- The Red Shirts have denied won a landslide election victory in peace efforts. The quake struck at been keen to deny. ist resort towns further north -- a any suggestion of involvement and May, is seeking a political settlement The rebels also want to discuss about 4:00pm (0700 A string of overnight attacks highly unusual assault in a country accused the junta of using the bomb to one of Asia’s longest insurgencies the crafting of a general amnesty GMT) at a depth of some have highlighted how the insurgency where foreign visitors are rarely blasts to roll out a fresh crackdown which has claimed tens of thou- proclamation by Duterte covering 28km, the US Geological continues to rage in the three Mus- caught up in political violence. against them. sands of lives since 1969. all 550 detained members of the Survey said. lim majority provinces bordering The attacks bore many hall- Analysts have been cautious Five previous presidents had Communist Party of the Philippines There was no threat of Malaysia. marks of the southern insurgents, about the capability of militant Red failed in that objective, and the and its armed wing the New Peo- a tsunami from the quake, “One soldier was seriously who never claim their operations, Shirts to carry out such a sophisti- process appeared to sour on July ple’s Army. the Japan Meteorological injured from a bomb buried under including coordinated multiple cated attack. 30 after Duterte cancelled a days- The rebel army is believed to Agency said. the road” on Monday (yesterday) strikes and the type of devices Away from the deep south Thai- old unilateral ceasefire when a rebel have fewer than 4,000 gunmen, The crippled Fuku- morning, Police Captain Wiroge used. land has been battered by a decade ambush killed a government militia down from a peak of 26,000 in the shima Daiichi nuclear Boonkae, from Bacho police sta- Four people died and scores were of political unrest, driven by a bit- member and wounded four others. 1980s, according to the military. power plant has shown tion in southern Narathiwat province wounded, including many European ter power struggle between the “In general the relationship But it retains support among the no irregularities in radia- said. tourists. military-allied elite and populist between the revolutionary move- deeply poor in rural areas, and its tion levels, a spokesman Police said a further three blasts No one has claimed respon- forces loyal to ousted democrati- ment and Duterte is excellent... forces regularly kill police or troops for operator Tokyo Elec- struck neighbouring Yala province, sibility for the bombing spree but cally elected governments run by glitches like these can be fixed while extorting money from local tric Power said. though no injuries were reported. Thai authorities have ruled out the Shinawatra clan. through peaceful dialogue,” chief businesses. Five Thai military soldiers die in Rights victims urge Supreme Court to block Marcos burial helicopter crash

Reuters Court seeking a temporary restrain- where he died three years later. His BANGKOK: A Thai mil- ing order to stop the plan. remains were returned in the early itary helicopter that “The interment of the remains 1990s and have been kept in a family went missing on Sunday MANILA: Leftist activists and vic- of Marcos at the ‘Libingan ng mga mausoleum in his hometown. crashed in bad weather in tims of human rights abuses in the Bayani’ (Heroes’ Cemetery) with The critics said Duterte’s plan to northern Thailand, killing Philippines urged the Supreme the honours that supposedly befit transfer Marcos’ remains would also all five people on board, Court yesterday to block the burial only Filipino heroes with overall violate military regulations that bar the army said yesterday. of former President Ferdinand Mar- unblemished integrity and dignity from the cemetery “those who have The dead included cos at a cemetery for national heroes, is contrary to the constitution,” they been dishonourable discharged from Major General Nopporn saying it would be unconstitutional. said in the petition. service or personnel convicted of an Ruanchan, who was com- President Rodrigo Duterte has Marcos was a soldier and guer- offense involving moral turpitude”. mander of the army’s ordered the army to bury Marcos, rilla leader during World War Two Chanting “Marcos, not a hero,” 4th Infantry Division, said who ruled with an iron fist for two when the former US colony was hundreds of people held a protest on Lieutenant General Som- decades, at the cemetery, saying he occupied by Japanese forces. Sunday at a park to oppose the gov- sak Ninbanjerdkun. was fulfilling a campaign promise to As a dictator in the 1970s and ernment plan. The UH-72 light hel- have him interred there as a former ‘80s, Marcos, his family and cro- Presidential Press Secretary icopter went down in president and soldier. nies amassed an estimated $10bn Martin Andanar, said the president Chiang Mai, near Thai- Critics of the plan include Vice in ill-gotten wealth and thousands was not bothered by the protests and land’s highest mountain, President Leni Robredo and sen- of suspected communist rebels and the plan was going ahead. he said. ators allied with former President political foes were killed. His wife, Heroes’ Cemetery is a fitting “It was returning to Activists and victims of martial law raise clinched fists in front of the Benigno Aquino. Imelda, denies amassing wealth resting place for Filipino military base in Phitsanuloke from Supreme Court in Manila, yesterday, after filing a temporary restraining Yesterday, victims of rights illegally. personnel from privates to gener- a flood mission.” order to disallow the burial of the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos abuses during the rule of Marcos and In 1986, he was ousted in a “peo- als, as well as Filipino heroes and at the Heroes’ Cemetery. leftist activists went to the Supreme ple power” revolt and fled to Hawaii martyrs. Demands grow for probe into abuse of refugees in Pacific Islands

AFP after they were allegedly attacked Nauru,” opposition Labour leader Bill others from making the dangerous the documents must be systemati- its moral compass in terms of where with an iron bar by locals on Papua Shorten said yesterday. journey to Australia, but that refu- cally and properly investigated and it’s going,” he said. New Guinea’s Manus Island. “Just because people are in deten- gees should not be left to languish in those responsible held accountable,” The Nauru reports published SYDNEY: Australia was facing The graphic images follow the tion doesn’t mean that they have to Pacific camps indefinitely. said Ravina Shamdasani, spokes- by The Guardian allege incident growing opposition demands for an leaking last week of some 2,000 be mistreated and it doesn’t mean The leaked documents, which person for the Office of the UN High like guards threatening a boy with inquiry into its treatment of asylum- incident reports filled in by workers that they should be kept in indefi- allege that asylum-seekers on Nauru, Commissioner for Human Rights in death. seekers on remote Pacific islands on the second island to which Aus- nite detention,” he said. including children, suffer violence, Geneva. Mental stress caused by pro- after further allegations emerged of tralia sends asylum-seekers arriving “That’s why Labour is leading the sexual assault and degrading treat- New Zealand’s Labour opposi- longed detention was deemed to be abuse against refugees. by boat, Nauru, detailing abuse suf- push to have a Senate inquiry.” ment, have prompted the UN to tion has also weighed into the debate, the cause of alleged cases of self- Photographs published in Aus- fered by asylum-seekers. Shorten said he still supported the repeat calls for offshore processing with David Shearer describing the harm, including a woman trying to tralian media on the weekend “We’re seeing more and more offshore processing of asylum-seek- to end. policy as unsustainable. hang herself and a girl sewing her showed two bloodied Afghan men disturbing reports coming out from ers on Nauru and in PNG to dissuade “The allegations contained in “It’s almost like Australia has lost lips together. 08 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Turkish-Russian restoration Republicans against Trump ith roughly three months left before the efforts and Nato relations crucial US presidential polls, 41 prominent Republicans — from ex-governors and presidential candidates to high-profile aides any international assessments on disappointments. — have openly said that they cannot support Turkey would be unrealistic and At this point, a new Nato pro- politically biased. The determin- Restoration of curement project might bring Wparty candidate Donald Trump. Another reports say over 100 ing references of geopolitics are Turkish-Russian hope. At the time of writing, the Republican officials, including at least six former members of mainly based on realpolitik and bilateral ties could US State Department approved Congress and more than 20 former staffers at the Republican balance of power. Turkey’s role an arms sales program in which National Committee (RNC), have signed a letter asking the party in contemporary international pave the way for Nato would be the lead buyer of chairman Reince Priebus to stop helping Trump’s campaign as affairs should be seen through more effective advanced weapon systems from the real estate mogul is ‘posing a threat to the party and to the this lens. the US, and would act as a pool- Geostrategist Nicholas Nato-Russian ing source for member nations nation’. Spykman underlines a crucial cooperation in the to reach advanced weapons with One of the prominent GOP senators, Susan Collins, writing By Dr Can Kasapoglu point: “If the three land masses cost efficiency. Currently, a $231 in the Washington Post, has openly declared she won’t be voting Anatolia of the Old World can be brought southern flank for million sale of high-tech sys- for Donald Trump in the general election as ‘he does not reflect under the control of a few states addressing ISIS tems to the Nato Support and historical Republican values and is unworthy of being our and so organised that large (Daesh) and the Procurement Agency – for dis- president’. Collins did not say who she unbalanced forces are available tribution to Belgium, the Czech ou’re landing at for pressure across the ocean foreign fighter Republic, Denmark, Greece, the will vote but she said unequivocally it As Trump New York’s LaGuar- fronts, the Americas will be polit- threats. Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, skips from would not be the Republican candidate. dia Airport on ically and strategically encircled.” and Spain – is awaiting Con- As Trump skips from one gaffe to the “expressway” Notably, the US Joint Operating gress’ approval. Without a doubt, one gaffe the next, GOP leaders in the capital approach—it’s called Environment-2035 report quotes it remains to be seen that the new to the and in the most competitive states have Ythat because you come in low Spykman’s above analysis ver- US-Nato acquisition model would next, more begun openly contemplating turning enough to buzz the Grand Cen- batim, and draws attention to it necessarily suggest that Tur- extend to co-production options their backs on their presidential tral Parkway and Mets’ Citi “antagonistic geopolitical balanc- key is distancing itself from the in the future. Yet, related to this Republican Field before dropping down ing” and “shattered and reordered Alliance. Rather, it could pave the new acquisition model, any sig- nominee to prevent what they fear officials have quickly on a runway that regions” among the key con- way for more effective Nato-Rus- nificant progress in Nato’s Smart will be wide-scale Republican losses perches over the middle of a bay. texts of future conflict in coming sian cooperation in the southern Defense Initiative, especially come openly on November 8. Collins is not the first In the 21st century, Nato- decades. In other words, pivot flank for addressing ISIS (Daesh) based on the 2012 Chicago Sum- against him Republican Senator to shift stand. Russian competition is more of a nations “in the three land masses and the foreign fighter threats — mit decisions, could be helpful Illinois Senator Mark Kirk has called geopolitical contest than an ide- of the Old World” are invaluable the latter is especially a menacing in addressing Turkey’s concerns. Trump ‘too bigoted and racist to be ological, Cold War remnant. On and very hardly replaceable, such issue for Russia – while Moscow Above all, it should be under- president’, while Lindsey Graham called on fellow Republicans the one hand, as explained by the as Japan and South Korea in the is likely to remain a competitor stood that Turkish foreign and Warsaw Summit Communiqué, Far East, and Britain in Europe. on the eastern flank, notably in defense policies are not only to unendorsed Trump back in June. Yes, Trump’s irresponsible, Nato’s threat perceptions from Within this understanding, Tur- the Baltics. shaped by fluctuations in the con- unethical and immoral speeches and comments have created Russia primarily emanate from key is no exception. As a matter of fact, when juncture. Rather, Ankara follows apathy and strong disappointment among his party colleagues violations of sovereign borders The outcome of the Warsaw commenting on the rapproche- its own geostrategic perspective as well as many voters who are not endorsing his rival Hillary. by force, first and foremost Cri- Summit suggests that, geograph- ment between Turkey and Russia in several key issues. For instance, Trump’s personal attack against President Barak Obama last mea-Ukraine, and large-scale ically, three regional flashpoints on the occasion of President Turkey will resume nuclear week accusing him as the ‘founder of Islamic State’, and Hillary snap military exercises near Nato come into the picture as the pos- Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent energy projects with Russia, borders, coupled with Moscow’s sible confrontation lines between meeting with his Russian coun- not as a shift in its foreign pol- as the ‘co-founder’ was the latest in a series of remarks that was aggressive nuclear and military Nato and Russia: The Baltics, the terpart, Vladimir Putin, US State icy directions, but in accordance widely condemned by critics as an invitation to violence. And rhetoric. These threat perceptions Eastern Mediterranean, and the Department spokesperson Eliz- with the long-pursued strate- the rejection was most acute when Trump attacked the family of the Alliance have been fueled Black Sea. Of these three flash- abeth Trudeau emphasised the gic priority of diversifying its of a fallen US soldier after his father, Khizr Khan, spoke at the by Russia’s non-linear – or hybrid points, Turkey remains a key common goal of confronting energy portfolio. Besides, high- Democratic National Convention. — warfare concepts in Ukraine. In actor in the Eastern Mediterra- ISIS in Syria. Thus, the high- level energy projects such as the The new opinion polls are alarming enough for Rupublicans. response, Nato openly voiced its nean and the Black Sea, where level visit to St Petersburg by Turkish Stream could be resumed USA Today/Rock the Vote Poll shows Hillary trouncing her rival concerns at the 2014 Wales Sum- Ankara has special national President Erdogan could signal as well, reflecting Turkey’s strate- mit, and initiated the Readiness interests and is able to project a possible compartmentalisation gic objective of becoming a hub. by 56%-20% among those under 35. In the last two presidential Action Plan, which is recognized considerable power. Further- in Nato-Russian relations, namely Yet Ankara will not change its polls overwhelming support among voters under 30 was a as the most important collective more, Turkey’s contribution to pragmatic cooperation against policies in the Nagorno-Kara- crucial part of Obama’s winning coalitions. This indicates that defense reinforcement since the Nato’s new defence and secu- the threat of violent extremism bakh dispute, will keep boosting Trump is heading towards the worst showing among younger end of the Cold War. rity concepts are crucial for the on Nato’s southern flank, along its political-military alliance with voters in modern US history. As Obama said, how and why On the other hand, the Rus- alliance as well. In this regard, with collective defense-related Azerbaijan, and has been main- Republican leaders, who have frequently spoken out against sian military doctrine (2014) Turkey is expected to assume the competition on the eastern flank. taining a position in Syria that is describes Nato and its enlarge- framework nation role in form- According to media reports, at odds with the Kremlin. In all of Trump’s irresponsible remarks, still continue to endorse him? ment as the number one ing the Very High Readiness the two leaders also talked these geopolitical disputes, Rus- “external military danger”. In Joint Task Force – Nato’s spear- about cooperating on defense sia and Turkey have diverging fact, Moscow’s threat percep- head asset against hybrid threats issues at the St Petersburg meet- perspectives. tion is augmented by its “near – and plays a crucial role in the ing. It should be understood that Likewise, Turkey will not abroad” concept. Modern Rus- Alliance’s missile defense archi- it is unlikely for Turkey to seek withdraw from its Nato com- sian strategic thinking places tecture, and will become an even an alternative to its traditional mitments that are un-welcomed Quote of the day utmost geopolitical importance more important player in con- defense ties with the West. Yet, by Moscow, such as contribut- on its surrounding regions – near fronting future chemical and a critical issue seems back on ing to the Baltic Air Policing (the We will persist in abroad – from the Baltics to the biological warfare threats that the table again: Turkey has long Nato air defense scrambling mis- undertaking our South Caucasus, and tends to are likely to stem from the Mid- had unmet defense priorities. sion to protect Baltic airspace), or define its immediate surround- dle East. Besides, Turkey has the Firstly, technology transfer has framing the Very High Readiness religious and historical ings as the sphere of privileged potential to function as a critical had top urgency in Ankara’s pro- Joint Task Force. Yet, the Turkish responsibilities towards interests, or sphere of influence. link between Nato and its Medi- curement policies. And secondly, administration will most likely Al Aqsa Mosque.... which In this respect, some experts even terranean Dialogue and Istanbul due to the ballistic missiles and preserve Turkey’s traditional faces repeated violations claimed that Russia’s recent mil- Cooperation Initiative partners, weapons of mass destruction Montreux priorities when han- itary interventions, being in line which are key assets in fostering (WMD) warheads threat at Tur- dling Nato’s Black Sea policies. by extremist groups. with its geopolitical concept, aim the Alliance’s cooperative secu- key’s Middle Eastern doorstep, Notably, Nato cooperated with to pursue a renewed Yalta Con- rity and soft power leverages Ankara has perennially been in Russia in Afghanistan. On July 13 Abdullah II ference status quo with the West. against radical extremism. need of defensive strategic weap- of this year, the Alliance even held King of Jordan In the absence of the Restoration of Turkish- ons support from Nato, such as a Russia-Nato Council meeting, above-mentioned analytical Russian bilateral ties is not a the Patriot deployments. In both something which was suspended framework as a starting point, disadvantage for Nato, nor does cases, Turkey has been facing in 2014 due to the Ukraine crisis.

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By Josh Rogin The Washington Post

resident Barack Obama’s last-minute drive for a for- eign-policy legacy is making US allies nervous about their own security. Several allied Pgovernments have lobbied the adminis- tration not to change US nuclear-weapons policy by promising never to be the first to use them in a conflict. The governments of Japan, South Korea, France and Britain have all pri- vately communicated their concerns about a potential declaration by Obama of a “no first use” nuclear-weapons pol- icy for the United States. US allies have various reasons for objecting to what would be a landmark change in America’s nuclear posture, but they are all against it, according to US officials, foreign diplomats and nuclear experts. President Barack Obama delivers a speech in Prague’s Hradcany Square in this file photo. Japan, in particular, believes that if Obama declares a “no first use” policy, “It’s my understanding that the first use” was not gaining traction. Diplomats from allied countries document that stated that conditions for deterrence against countries such as defense ministries of many of our allied National Security Council spokesman argued that if the United States takes a such a move were not ripe but pledged North Korea will suffer and the risks of nations have lobbied the White House Ned Price told me that the administration nuclear first strike off the table, the risk that the America would “work to estab- conflict will rise. Japanese Prime Minis- against changing this doctrine, and is “always looking for additional ways of a conventional conflict with countries lish conditions under which such a policy ter Shinzo Abe personally conveyed that there’s been particularly strong oppo- to achieve progress” on Obama’s Prague such as North Korea, China and Rus- could be safely adopted.” message recently to Adm. Harry Harris Jr., sition from the UK, France, Japan and agenda — named for the disarmament sia could increase. Regimes that might Since 2010, the world has only grown the head of US Pacific Command, accord- South Korea,” said Joe Cirincione, pres- aspirations the president set out in his refrain from a conventional attack in fear less stable. Nevertheless, proponents of ing to two government officials. ident of the Ploughshares Fund, an April 2009 speech in the Czech capital of nuclear retaliation would calculate the the new policy say concerns about the US allies in Europe have a separate, anti-proliferation advocacy group that — “while maintaining a credible deter- risks of such an attack differently. change are unfounded. additional concern. They don’t want any supports the policy change. “We have an rent for the United States, our allies and Moreover, allied governments don’t “North Korea understands that any daylight between their nuclear policies interest in creating an international norm partners.” believe that a unilateral “no first use” conventional attack will be met with a and those of the United States, espe- that no one should use nuclear weapons Foreign officials from multiple allied declaration would necessarily help to devastating response, but it doesn’t have cially since Britain, France and the United first. The allies lobbying against it are countries said that their governments establish an international norm, because to be a nuclear response,” said Arms Con- States all are permanent members of the nervous nellies.” were upset about a lack of consultation there’s no guarantee that other countries trol Association executive director Daryl UN Security Council. In the case of an The White House is considering on the possible declaration of a “no first would follow suit. They also believe that Kimball. “If we don’t need to use nuclear emergency, those differences could cause declaring a “no first use” nuclear-weap- use” policy, which would affect all allies nuclear weapons play a role in deterring weapons to retaliate against North Korea, real coordination problems. ons policy as one of several ways Obama who live under the US nuclear umbrella. chemical and biological attacks. why should we?” can advance his non-proliferation agenda Many said that allied governments first Republicans in Congress also strongly The same question could be asked the in his final months in office. Several learned about the policy debates in The oppose the change and are already upset other way. If all US allies believe a “no Republicans in Congress also strongly options are under debate, and no final Post. that the Obama administration plans first use” policy weakens deterrence and oppose the change and are already decisions have been made on “no first “While the goal of a ‘no first use’ to seek a UN Security Council resolu- increases the risk of armed conflict with- use.” policy is correct — to never be the first tion calling on all states to refrain from out producing any benefits, why should upset that the Obama administration The president wants to roll out country to launch a cataclysmic nuclear nuclear testing. They don’t believe such we do it? Advancing Obama’s personal plans to seek a UN Security Council announcements on nuclear policy in strike — doing so unilaterally could run moves are appropriate this close to the legacy isn’t a good enough reason. September to coincide with his final the risk of weakening our allies’ confi- arrival of a new administration and with- resolution calling on all states to appearance at the UN General Assem- dence in our security guarantees. This out legislative advice and consent. Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Glo- refrain from nuclear testing. bly, officials said. One administration would not be in our interest,” said Joel The Obama administration first bal Opinions section of The Washington official told me that, in part because of Rubin, a former Obama administration expressed its desire to move the United Post. He writes about foreign policy and allied concerns, the internal push on “no State Department official. States to “no first use” in a 2010 policy national security. Thai junta too quick to dismiss insurgency

the past 12 years — had played a role. provinces scarred by ongoing insur- Although peace talks in 2015 amount to an admission of policy National Police Chief Chakthip gency violence. Similarly, a bomb stalled over Thailand’s failure to failure and undermine the claim by Chaijinda, on the other hand, said the attack in May 2013 at the corner of recognize insurgent claims that the the authorities that they have suc- perpetrators “may” be connected to a busy Bangkok street was also dis- region was originally independent, ceeded in containing the conflict to the insurgency. In other words, if missed right away as having any Bangkok has consistently insisted the Muslim-majority, Malay-speak- it was the insurgents from the far connection to the far South. that their policy is on track, point- ing region. South, it could very well be that they Again, it was revealed later in the ing to the fact that the overall number The collective region of Pattani, were working with an anti-junta course of investigation that the four of attacks has decreased over the Yala and Narathiwat — a Malay his- Under the 2001- entity to discredit the government. suspects, who were eventually con- years and the fact that the theatre of torical homeland — came under 2006 rule of Prime But talking privately to Anadolu victed and sentenced to a 66-year violence has been contained to the direct Bangkok rule at the turn of Agency on Sunday, security officials jail term each, were residents of Malay-speaking southernmost bor- the century after Siam and British Minister Thaksin working within the southern com- Narathiwat, also one of the three der provinces. Malaya agreed on a common border. Shinawatra — whose By Don Pathan munity have accused the junta and conflict-affected provinces. According to figures from the But insurgency erupted in Anatolia policy makers in Bangkok of reach- Thai military and police officers Prince of Songkhla University — the the mid-1960s in response to the family dominated ing premature conclusions about the are now accusing policy makers in oldest university in southern Thai- Thaipolicy of assimilation that local Thai politics for motivation and identity of the cul- Bangkok of being too eager to pro- land — violence peaked in 2007 with Malays strongly objected to as it came prits, while the case is still under tect the country’s tourism industry. 1,850 insurgency-related violent inci- at the expense of their cultural and 15 years until his entral authorities in Thailand investigation. They have said that Speaking on condition of ano- dents, with it dropping to 821 in 2008. historical identity. sister’s government are dismissing the notion that such an attitude does more harm nymity given the sensitivity of the The Thai Army took credit for the Outside of last year’s Koh Samui was deposed in a CMalay insurgents in the far than good for the integrity of the case situation, they say the Thai govern- decrease in numbers, but sources bomb, in December 2013 separatist south could be the main organisers itself, suggesting that the credibil- ment also doesn’t want to make the from the Barisan Revolusi Nasional militants stole a truck from the far 2014 coup — several of Thursday and Friday’s bombings, ity of law enforcement and whatever connection to the far South because (BRN) — a Pattani-based independ- South, packed a twin-bomb with a missteps resulted in but local officials on the ground con- findings they come up with could be they do not want to admit policy fail- ence movement — have said that the blast radius of 500 meters on the sider the rejection premature. compromised. ure. Under the 2001-2006 rule of drop has to do with pressure at grass- back and parked it behind a police the loss of innocent The military junta has been quick Historically, it is nothing new for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra roots level, as well as from religious station in Phuket. The bomb didn’t lives, the most to reject suggestions that interna- senior officials in Bangkok to quickly — whose family dominated Thai leaders who demanded some degree go off, but was no failure as it was tional terrorists were involved in the rule out the possible involvement of politics for 15 years until his sister’s of civility in their BRN activities. left purely as a warning, separatist famous being the blasts that killed four, but have given Malay Muslim separatists in inci- government was deposed in a 2014 These demands and pressure sources have told Anadolu Agency. 2004 suffocation contradicting comments about the dents outside the southernmost coup — several missteps resulted in have not only forced the number to There was also a spate of bomb- death of 78 Muslim possibility that they were the work provinces.Often, however, it is a knee the loss of innocent lives, the most come down but brought an end to ings on New Year’s Eve 2007 that of Malay Muslim insurgents from the jerk reaction. Government and army famous being the 2004 suffocation various acts, such as the beheading killed three and injured 38 people. detainees after southernmost provinces. spokesmen were quick to dismiss a death of 78 Muslim detainees after and castrating of dead government Although initial reaction from the they were stacked On Saturday, Defence Minister car bomb in the parking lot at a Koh they were stacked atop one another soldiers, arson attacks against pub- military-installed government of Prawit Wongsuwan was quoted in Samui shopping mall in April 2015. in trucks following a demonstration. lic schools and teachers, as well as Surayud Chulanont dismissed any atop one another in the Bangkok Post as saying: “Poli- However, their claims were under- Since then, Thailand has pursued attacks on Buddhist temples and link to the insurgency in the south, trucks following a tics could be one cause... but I cannot mined after it was discovered days what it says is a “peaceful resolution” monks. If it was discovered that last a police team tasked with investigat- confirm it.” However, he ruled out the later that the truck in which the bomb to the insurgency, but has so far failed week’s spate of bombings and arson ing the incident ruled three months demonstration. insurgency in Thailand’s far South was hidden had been stolen from to negotiate with all the different fac- attacks were the work of the insur- later that Malay Muslim separatists — which has claimed 7,000 lives in Yala, one of the three southernmost tions in the conflict. gents from the far South, it would were responsible for the attack.

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 PAKISTAN Taliban capture Pakistan rock climbers scale new heights key district in AFP ISLAMABAD: A dozen young men and women stand before a rock face on the outskirts of Islamabad, chal- lenging and cheering each other on Afghan north as they take turns scrambling up the limestone in front of curious onlook- ers. The country has long been a Dahan-e-Ghori district was under magnet for mountaineers, drawn by Afghan forces fought siege for days and the Taliban man- the grandeur of regions like Gilgit- aged to seize it late on Sunday as Baltistan, where three of the world’s for days but no help dozens of Afghan forces made “a greatest mountain ranges -- the Kar- arrived and they had tactical retreat”. akoram, the Hindu Kush and the The district is next to the provin- Himalayas -- collide. to retreat and the cial capital of Pol-e-Khomri, which Highlights include the savage Taliban captured the has been threatened by insurgents K2, the world’s second highest peak for months. at 8,611 metres but often deemed a district: Official “Afghan forces fought for days more challenging climb than the but no help arrived and they had to highest, Mount Everest. retreat and the Taliban captured the But despite the tales of glory KUNDUZ: Taliban insurgents, district,” Hussainkhil said, adding from professionals, usually from seeking to force the Nato-led coali- that five Afghan police were killed. the mountainous north, the sport of tion out of Afghanistan and bring in Taliban spokesman Zabihullah climbing has never been particularly Islamic law, captured a key district Mujahid said the fighters captured the popular in the rest of the country. A file picture shows president of ECO Adventure Club (EAC) Nazir Ahmad gives tips to climbers during a in the northern province of Baghlan district and hoisted their white flag. Until now: Climbing enthusi- training session at Shahdara on the outskirts of Islamabad. away after days of fighting, officials “Many Afghan and militia forces asts such as Nazir Ahmed, who runs said yesterday. have been killed and 33 soldiers are the Eco Adventure Club in Islama- Wearing T-shirts and track- student at the Quaid-e-Azam Uni- Its walls stretch 40 feet high with Fighting has escalated in captured,” Mujahid said. bad, which organised the day at the suit bottoms -- some are even bare versity who won a sports scholarship various difficulty levels. The more Afghanistan as the Taliban insur- Both sides often release casu- climbing wall for its young members, foot -- the climbers opt for routes said: “I represented my university testing gradients slope backwards, gency spreads from its traditional alty figures without independent say there is growing interest in rock based on their skill level, while twice in inter-university climbing forcing a climber to fight hard not strongholds in the south and east of verification. and mountain climbing. their instructor handles the rope and championships and won gold and to slip. the country to once peaceful regions In the southern province of “People are attracted to climb- offers guidance. silver medals.” In addition to the wall, he and the in the north. Helmand, there has been fighting ing because they are active on social Most are themselves from Gilgit- Climbing will for the first time group “discovered rock and estab- Despite air support from US in four districts as Afghan forces media, they see it on Facebook, Baltistan, a vanguard of dedicated be included as an Olympic sport in lished routes in the Margallas,” he said. and Afghan warplanes, govern- hold off insurgents advancing on on Twitter, on Instagram and get adherents on a mission to spread Tokyo in 2020, potentially giving Not every city is blessed with ment troops are struggling against the provincial capital, government impressed, it’s a good sign,” he said. their love of mountain climbing Pakistan -- which sent a team of only natural hill and rock faces that allow the resilient Taliban, with senior officials said. He says his club now has 500 among the people of the lowlands. seven people to the current Games in for climbing, so in 2013 Khan set up a government officials saying the In Nuristan province in the east, members who gather every week- And it seems to be working. Many Rio -- a tantalising new medal route. new club and wall in a Lahore park. insurgents are becoming better dozens of Taliban attacked Want end in the Margallas, the foothills locals start by taking it up as a hobby, Jamshed Khan, a tall 29-year-old He said most of the peo- trained and equipped. Waygal district as Afghan forces of the Himalayas, which run along before channelling their energies into with a piercing green gaze, helped to ple coming to the park in Lahore Amir Gul Hussainkhil, dep- killed 40 militants during days of the edge of Islamabad -- up from 20 organised competition. found the first club in Islamabad with were children aged between six to uty police chief of Baghlan, said fighting, according to officials. when they started four years ago. Adnan Ali Shah, a sociology funding from a German NGO in 2007. fourteen. Pakistani foundation sets up research library for Karachi varsity

Internews The foundation stone was laid Hussain Library, the main library of dedication and love for the varsity. the globally acclaimed scholar of of the faculty of management and by Dr Jalibi, who is a renowned the university. “Dr Jalibi is a role model and the Urdu literature was himself present administrative sciences, Prof Dr Kha- researcher, writer, critic, interna- The research library will also host manuscripts he is giving to the uni- on the occasion. lid Iraqi, and Dr Moiz Khan were also KARACHI: Renowned Pakistani tional scholar and an institution in a modern resource centre, which will versity will help the generations to He said that it was his father’s present on the occasion among other writer Dr Jameel Jalibi did what is himself. help students in conducting their come,” said Dr Qaiser. wish to gift his academic and liter- faculty members. perhaps the best anyone can do for The research library will be built researches. He said that he hoped that the ary material to the university. KU is one of the oldest univer- the youth - his foundation is setting by the foundation within a span of “His tenure as KU’s vice-chancel- library will help increase the intel- “I am thankful to the VC for his sities in Pakistan being established up a new research library at Kara- eight months and will include books lor was tremendous and exemplary,” lect of the students. personal efforts and interest in the as a federal university in 1951 under chi University (KU), which has more and historical academic manuscripts said KU’s VC, Prof Dr Muhammad The library will also have modern fulfilment of this dream,” he said. the leadership of Oxford trained Dr than 100,000 books and historical that belonged to the personal library Qaiser. and state-of-the-art infrastructure He also lauded the efforts of Prof ABA Haleem. academic manuscripts from Jalibi’s of Dr Jalibi. He thanked him for taking the and a resource centre to help meet Malahat Kaleem, the incharge of Dr Karachi University is Paki- personal collection. Due to his ailing health, Dr Jal- pains of attending the ceremony in all the needs of modern day research. Mehmood Hussain Library, for her stan’s largest university with a The Dr Jameel Jalibi Research ibi, who is wheelchair-bound, came person despite his ailing health and Jalibi’s son, Export Processing efforts in the project. distinguished reputation for multi- Library’s foundation stone-laying to the inauguration ceremony in an for providing a great academic gift. Zones Authority chairperson Dr The dean of the faculty of phar- disciplinary research in science and ceremony was held at KU on Inde- ambulance and laid the foundation According to Dr Qaiser, his Muhammad Khawar Jameel, said macy, Prof Dr Iqbal Azhar, gave the technology, medical research, and pendence Day. stone at the garden beside Mahmud donation of books proves his that this was a historic moment as welcome address while the dean social sciences.

US renews pledge Painting on wall 7,000 dead in war on to help build ‘vibrant’ Pakistan terror last year: Study

Internews the war in Pakistan and Afghanistan Internews since 2001. Since May 2015 alone, around 24,000 people have been ISLAMABAD: Around 7,000 peo- killed in the two countries. Most ple have been killed in Pakistan in of these casualties, however, are WASHINGTON: In an Independ- the war on terror since 2015 though militants. ence Day message, US Secretary violence on both sides of the Durand In Pakistan, there has been a fall of State John Kerry has renewed Line continues to pick up in the in violence in recent years with the America’s commitment to working current year, a study published yes- number of suicide attacks in 2015 with the people to build a vibrant terday said. the lowest they have been at any Pakistan. The war has also claimed the lives time since 2006, while civilian “On behalf of President of around 62,000 people and injured deaths were the lowest since 2007. Obama and the American peo- 67,000 others in Pakistan since 2001, It said that in Pakistan since ple, I send our best wishes to the Express Tribune reported. 2001, 22,100 civilians and 8,214 people of Pakistan as you cele- This was stated in a study on security officials have been killed. brate your Independence Day on the human costs of the conflict in However, it identified an Aug 14,” Kerry said. Pakistan and Afghanistan released upward trend in of violence in Paki- In a statement released by his earlier this week by ‘Costs of War’ a stan in the first half of 2016. office, the top US diplomat noted project based at Brown University’s “If the pattern established in that since independence, the Paki- Watson Institute for International the first six months of 2016 holds, stani nation had endeavoured to and Public Affairs. there will be a rise in the number build upon the democratic ideals According to the report, which of people killed and injured in sui- of the country’s founders. was based on data collected by cide attacks in 2016 as compared to The people of the country, various organisations and figures 2014 and 2015,” wrote Neta Craw- Afghan women walk past a mural bearing the image of Afghan AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad (right) Kerry added yesterday, were released by respective governments, ford, a political science professor at working hard to strengthen secu- painted on a barrier wall at the Ministry of Information and Culture in Kabul, yesterday. 173,000 people have been killed and Boston University and the author of rity, economic stability and the 183,000 others have been injured in the study. democratic principles that ben- efited all Pakistanis. “On this occasion, the United States joins you in celebrating the anniversary of Pakistan’s birth New law to protect marginalised communities on anvil and we renew our commitment to working with you as you build a vibrant Pakistan,” Secretary Internews Disabled persons, transgender law and justice ministry and finally The panel will have at least two As per the proposed draft of the Kerry said. people and minorities will be able to parliament, he said. women and two minorities member. bill, the tribunal or trial court will Pakistan’s Independence to file complaints against violation According to the document, the According to the draft, the tri- have the powers to inquire into Day, observed annually on 14 ISLAMABAD: : The Pakistan gov- of their rights at the proposed tribu- Tribunal for Disadvantaged Person bunal will have the powers of civil human rights violations, abetment August, is a national holiday in ernment is set to introduce a law to nals, according to the draft of the bill. will have nine members including a court defined in Code of Civil Pro- or negligence in the prevention of Pakistan. ensure protection of marginalised Human rights ministry’s legal chairman and it will hear complaints cedure Act, 1908. such violation. It commemorates the day communities and for that purpose consultant Sharafat Ali Chaudhry, of marginalised people. It will have the power to summon Similarly, the tribunal shall have when Pakistan achieved inde- a draft has been finalised by the who played a key role in the drafting The chairman of the tribunal will witnesses, examine them under oath, the power to require any person to pendence and was declared a human rights ministry for the Tri- the bill, says that the draft has been be a retired high court judge and the order any documents, receive evi- furnish information or to produce sovereign nation following the bunal for Disadvantaged Persons sent to cabinet division for approval. remaining members will be legal dence on affidavits and requisition documents relevant to the subject end of the British Raj in 1947. Bill, 2016. From there it will be sent to the experts. public record. matter of an inquiry. INDIA TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 11

LEFT: Schoolchildren wear tricolour bangles as they pose in a circle while performing during Independence Day celebrations at South Central Railway Grounds in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, yesterday. CENTRE: A policeman rides through a wall of fluorescent tubes in Srinagar. RIGHT: People look at balloons released during a march in Ahmedabad. Modi calls for social harmony Barring Kashmir and Manipur, I-Day financially weaker section. A nation divided because of caste and religion In his over 90-minute cannot achieve great things.” Independence On the economic front, Modi celebrated peacefully said major global rating agencies Day speech from now ranked India as one of the best the ramparts of investment destinations in the world. the Red Fort, the He said his government had reined IANS Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of in inflation and “did not let it rise Tripura lashed out at the central Prime Minister also above 6 percent” despite two years government for what he called its emphasised that his of drought. attempts to snatch all powers of the Modi mentioned about the pan- NEW DELHI: India yesterday marked state governments and for trying to government’s main India Goods and Services (GST) tax 70 years of its independence with force the states to beg for aid. aim was to empower regime that he said would strengthen peace and joy but the celebrations In Mumbai, Chief Minister Dev- the economy. He thanked all political were marred by bombings in Manipur endra Fadnavis recalled the Indian the common Indian. parties for the passage of the relevant and a militant attack in Kashmir that Freedom Movement, services of the bill to initiate the process. killed a para-military officer. freedom fighters and sacrifices of the Modi listed areas where he said Chief ministers across the state martyrs for India’s freedom from the India has made significant progress listed achievements of their gov- British rule. IANS in the past couple of years, notably ernments in their Independence Himachal Pradesh Chief Minis- financial inclusion through Aadhaar, Day addresses watched by millions. ter Virbhadra Singh announced a six expanding energy services to the Many of the governments announced percent hike in dearness allowance needy, and faster delivery of public a string of measures for their people. (DA) for state government employ- NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Naren- services like the issuance of a passport. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind ees and pensioners from January 1 dra Modi yesterday openly came out Modi said the government was Kejriwal urged the Prime Minister this year. in support of “freedom” for Balo- trying to link all government schemes to implement his wage hike scheme In Haryana, Governor Kaptan chistan and “Pakistan-occupied with Aadhaar to avoid leakage of throughout the country. “Those who Singh Solanki felt giddy at the Inde- Kashmir” and stressed the need for benefits. “We have connected 70 have less in life should have more in pendence Day parade due to hot and social harmony in India. crore Indians to Aadhaar and social law. So we have decided to increase humid conditions after he unfurled In his over 90-minute Independ- security schemes,” he said. the minimum wages in Delhi by the national flag. ence Day speech from the ramparts Similarly, while it took six to eight about 50 percent,” Kejriwal told a Down south, Kerala Chief Minis- of the Red Fort, the Prime Minister months to get a passport, it just takes packed Chhatrasal Stadium in the ter Pinarayi Vijayan asked the people also emphasised that his govern- a couple of weeks now even though national capital. to be watchful against fundamental- ment’s main aim was to empower about two crore people apply for Amid terror threats, the authori- ists and sought public support in the the common Indian. it annually compared with about ties had thrown thick security cover stand against subversive thoughts In a first for any Prime Minis- 20,000 earlier, he said. in and around the city. and activities. ter in an August 15 address, Modi On energy, the Prime Minister Security was also heightened in In the Karnataka capital Ben- referred to human rights abuses in Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers his Independence said, renewable sources are his gov- the restive Kashmir Valley. A CRPF galuru, patriotic fervour gripped the Balochistan and the part of Kash- ernment’s focus, notably solar and commandant and two militants city as thousands of people, includ- Day speech from the Red Fort in New Delhi yesterday. mir Pakistan controls. “The world wind. So far, he said, 13 crore LED were killed in a gunfight in Srinagar ing women and children attired in is watching. People of Balochistan, (light-emitting diode) bulbs have despite a strict curfew in the Kashmir colourful clothes, thronged cele- Gilgit, Baltistan and occupied Kash- country. Violence is being carried shortcomings were hindering India’s been distributed for a price of Rs50 Valley. Nine paramilitary troopers brations for the Independence Day mir have thanked me a lot in the past out in the name of Maoism in forest progress and urged people to fight each and the target is 77 crore bulbs. were also injured in the attack. They anniversary. few days. I am grateful to them,” Modi areas and in the name of terrorism against such practices and strengthen To reach electricity to the remote cor- have been shifted to a hospital. In Chennai, the capital of Tamil said, referring to his comments last at the borders,” he said, referring to social harmony. “Every citizen should ners of the country, 50,000km of In Manipur, three security per- Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa week on excesses in Pakistan’s largest Maoist insurgency in parts of central fight against the differences in the transmission lines are being installed sonnel and two girls were injured said, “Freedom does not mean just province and in the Kashmir it holds. and eastern India and militancy in society on the basis of caste and now as opposed to 30,000-35,000 as two bombs exploded on deserted the right to speak, write... True free- Modi’s third speech from the Red Jammu and Kashmir and northeast. class. Only economic development km earlier, said the prime minister. streets of Imphal amid a shutdown dom rests in economic freedom.” Fort came amid continuing violence “All those who are killing will not help because without social Modi also claimed to have turned called by militants, officials said. The Independence Day was also cel- in the Kashmir Valley. He avoided innocents...I want to tell them that this harmony and unity, development will around public sector enterprises, say- In Mizoram, Chief Minister Lal ebrated in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, any reference to Kashmir but warned country will not tolerate terrorism and not be complete. “We have to take ing Air India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Thanhawla said the state “is the most Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Telen- those disturbing the country’s unity. militancy. Return to the mainstream.” everyone together be it Dalits, trib- Ltd, and Shipping Corporation of India peaceful in the country heading for gana, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, “Violence has no place in our He explained how certain als, oppressed and people from the are now making operational profits. a steady progress of development”. Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. From Nehru till today, Kashmir is central Freedom 251: Good, basic-level leadership’s mistake: Mehbooba smartphone for the masses

IANS Kashmir, his ally urged the two nations to come IANS together and solve the Kashmir problem SRINAGAR: Chief Min- jointly. “So much blood ister Mehbooba Mufti has flown in the Jhe- NEW DELHI: What can you think yesterday blamed the lum river and it has no of buying for Rs251 — a sumptuous central leadership from capacity to bear further burger, a refreshing coffee or ticket Jawaharlal Nehru to bloodshed,” she said. to your favourite movie? How about incumbent Prime Min- The Chief Min- a real, working smartphone? ister Narendra Modi ister urged people to Noida-based startup Ringing for the mess in Jammu denounce violence and Bells Pvt Ltd has done the impos- and Kashmir and asked said: “If we can’t find our sible. After months of bickering and The single SIM (GSM) device has India and Pakistan to solution in the world’s bad press, the less than $4 “Freedom a 1450mAh removable battery and join hands because only a biggest democracy, we 251” smartphone has finally started connectivity options include Wi-Fi, dialogue — and not con- won’t find it anywhere reaching people. Bluetooth and FM radio. Sensors on frontation — will solve else. We hope that the According to the company, after the phone include a “Proximity” sen- the problem. Smoke rises as unseen members of a bomb disposal squad effort that was incom- successfully delivering the first sor which can detect the presence Mehbooba said peo- conduct a controlled explosion of a handgrenade after a plete in Atal Behari 5,000 devices, 65,000 more hand- or absence of objects using electro- ple of her state were not gunfight in Srinagar yesterday. Vajpayee’s time would sets are now on their way. magnetic fields. to be faulted for the tur- now be completed Let us see what “Freedom When in lock position, you can WHAT DOES NOT WORK? moil that has rocked is dialogue. We have resolved so under Narendra Modi.” 251” has for you. Running on the also open the device by swiping your Call it strange but when the the Kashmir Valley in the past five many issues but why have we failed The Chief Minister faced some Android 5.1 operating system and finger on the screen and it will take battery goes low, the text settings weeks. “Neither is our country India to take forward the dialogue process embarrassment as she hoisted the sporting a 4-inch qHD IPS display you to your password. Basically, this change automatically into Hindi bad. In one way or the other, the mis- here,” she asked, stressing on talks tricolor that fell off the post while with 540x960 pixels resolution, a gesture control feature allows you to and one has to go back to settings takes have been committed by the to resolve the problems in the state. being unfurled. Witnesses said when 3.2-megapixel primary (rear) and unlock the device without touching to correct it back to English. Maybe leadership from the time of Jawa- Mehbooba’s first Independence she pulled the string, the flag landed a 0.3-megapixel front camera, it the power button. some tweaking is what is required harlal Nehru to today. The fault is Day speech was in sharp contrast on the ground. Two security person- obviously cannot match the mid- For moderate usage with What- in upcoming handsets. theirs,” the Chief Minister said after to Prime Minister Narendra Modi nel later held the flag in their hands range smartphones, but yes, it works sApp, calling and texting, listening to For the rest, at Rs 251, it is indeed unfurling the national flag at Srina- address in Delhi. Her PDP and Modi’s as Mehbooba gave the ceremonial smoothly. music and surfing the internet, we a basic-level, functional device that gar’s Bakshi Stadium. BJP govern the state in coalition. salute to the tricolor. The flag was Powered by 1.3GHz quad-core did not face any problems. Neither even defies “affordability” and can She said the central government While Modi lashed out at Paki- later set right and hoisted atop the and 1GB RAM, the phone packs did the device get heated up. One help the masses shift to smart- has confined democracy in Jammu stan for supporting terror and post. The Chief Minister has ordered 8GB of internal storage that can charge was sufficient for almost one phones from basic feature phones. and Kashmir to electoral politics openly supported freedom for Balo- state police chief to suspend those be expanded up to 32GB using a and a half days with normal usage Meanwhile, think what else can you only. “The biggest part of democracy chistan and Pakistan-administered responsible for the incident. microSD card. which is quite good. purchase in Rs 251. 12 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 EUROPE Russia & Ukraine urged to abide by Minsk accord

hostilities in eastern Ukraine. that has worried us,” said Steinmeier, into emotions or extreme scenarios, “For now the main thing is not to US tanks join German foreign The minister, Frank-Walter Stein- in comments translated from Ger- but to act with restraint and focus on give in to emotions, not to slip into meier, said he was worried about man into Russian by state TV. stabilising the situation.” taking some extreme actions but Polish army minister said he rising tensions between Moscow and “The main thing is that the situa- Lavrov made clear Russia was not to try to stabilise the situation with Kiev after President Vladimir Putin tion doesn’t get out of control. We call ready to drop allegations that it had restraint and concentration,” Lav- parade was worried about last week accused Ukraine of using on everyone to de-escalate.” caught Ukrainian saboteurs planning rov said. rising tensions terrorist tactics to try to provoke a Russia has repeatedly accused a bombing campaign against Crimea. Lavrov, however, warned that between Moscow and new conflict over annexed Crimea. Ukraine of not honouring its obliga- “We have additional material to Moscow would take “comprehensive WARSAW: American Ukraine flatly denied this. tions under the Minsk peace accords. what has been shown on TV, incon- measures to make sure any attempts tanks and soldiers have Kiev after Russian Putin said at the time that there Ukraine says Moscow is the one stir- trovertible evidence that it was to make incursions into our territory taken part in a yearly President Vladimir was no point in holding a new round ring trouble in eastern Ukraine by sabotage, long planned by Ukrainian are nipped in the bud”. military parade in War- of talks about the troubled peace backing pro-Russian separatists military intelligence, to destabilise Russia’s FSB security service saw, a symbolic show Putin accused process in eastern Ukraine on the there. Moscow denies this. Russian Crimea,” said Lavrov. said last week that one of its officers of increased US military Ukraine of using sidelines of a G20 summit in China Lavrov said Russia would play its “We’re ready to present these and a soldier died in clashes as Mos- involvement in a region next month, stoking speculation that part in ensuring the Minsk accords additional facts ... to our Western cow thwarted “terrorist attacks” in shaken by a more asser- terrorist tactics. Moscow might be preparing to aban- were honoured. partners who are seriously interested Crimea by Ukrainian military intel- tive Russia. don the Minsk process. “We analysed the prospects for in such things not being repeated.” ligence and beat back armed assaults. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, But Steinmeier, at a news confer- a possible revival of talks in the Lavrov appealed for calm after Russian President Vladimir the US Army commander ence with Russian Foreign Minister Normandy format,” Lavrov said, a flare-up with Ukraine over the Putin pledged not to let the alleged in Europe, said the US Agencies Sergei Lavrov in the city of Yeka- referring to negotiations around the annexed Crimea peninsula but incidents go unpunished but his participation in Poland’s terinburg, said that even though Minsk deal which Putin has said were warned Moscow was ready to stamp Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poro- armed forces national the Minsk deal had stalled in places not worth having for the time being. out any attempts to destabilise the shenko dismissed the accusations as holiday yesterday under- it should remain the focus of the “I don’t think we’re now in a situ- region. Lavrov said Moscow remained “fantasies” aimed at giving a pretext lines the increased MOSCOW: Germany’s foreign min- peace process despite the alleged ation when someone is interested in committed to a stalled European-bro- for Moscow to ramp up its aggression. presence that the US ister urged Russia and Ukraine plot around Crimea, which Russia cutting diplomatic ties (between Rus- kered peace plan to end fighting in two Steinmeier said that while the plans in Poland and else- yesterday to reduce tensions over Cri- annexed from Ukraine in 2014. sia and Ukraine),” said Lavrov. “That’s eastern regions between Kiev and pro- details of the latest flare-up in Cri- where in the region. mea and stick to the troubled Minsk “In recent days there has been a an extreme measure and it seems to Russian rebels and cautioned against mea remained unclear, Germany was peace accords as a way of ending spike in tensions around Crimea and me that the main thing is not to give succumbing to “emotions”. concerned by the surge in tensions. Russia starts navy drills in Epic entertainment Home of Swiss train eastern Med Moscow: Russia’s navy yesterday launched drills attacker searched including artillery and missile fire in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the AFP woman “burning from head to defence ministry said. toe, like a torch”, and said another “A Russian navy attack woman suffered stab wounds to group started tactical her stomach and the child had burn drills in the east of the GENEVA: Local officials have injuries to her face. Mediterranean Sea,” the searched the Lichtenstein home of Police have so far only been able ministry said in a state- a man who started a fire on a Swiss to question one of the victims with ment. “During the drills train and stabbed passengers this less critical injuries, as well as a wit- the ability of the navy’s weekend, police said yesterday. ness who attempted to help those forces to deal with resolv- Police had already searched the hurt in the attack, ATS news agency ing crises of a terrorist official residence of the 27-year-old reported. nature will be tested,” it Swiss national in eastern Switzer- They were unable to question said. land on Saturday, hours after the the perpetrator before he died, Russia has previously attack. and have yet to speak with any of beefed up its naval forces But yesterday Swiss police said the victims in hospital, Rezzoli told in the area to support its he also had a home in the tiny prin- reporters replying to a query. bombing campaign in cipality of Liechtenstein. According to the Blick daily, the support of Syrian Presi- The authorities are working attacker, who the paper identified dent Bashar al-Assad. to determine what led the man to as Simon S, had been subletting an carry out the grisly attack on Satur- apartment in the 25-square-kilo- day, on a moving train in the eastern metre principality of Liechtenstein Serbia tries to Swiss region of Saint Gallen. for the past three years. “It is too early to say anything “The police were there for sev- stem continued Ukrainians take the form of various known characters of ancient Kiev to entertain visitors at a historical about (the motive),” Saint Gallen eral hours and took pictures,” the festival “Epics of the Ancient Kiev”, in Kopachiv village of Kiev. police spokesman Gian Andrea paper quoted one Liechtenstein res- migrant flow Rezzoli told reporters, reiterat- ident as saying after the search. ing that there was no indication Neighbours described the ZAJECAR, Serbia: Ser- it was a terrorist or politically- attacker as a “loner”, who was tall, bian border guards said motivated attack. thin and lanky, with glasses, the they have prevented over He said Swiss police were paper said. 2,000 migrants from Firecrackers spark stampede in French town preparing to study the mate- “He was a quiet, friendly guy, crossing from Bulgaria rial retrieved on Sunday in the but I have a feeling he had prob- and have caught 24 peo- Liechtenstein search at the man’s lems with himself,” Blick quoted ple smugglers in less than Reuters loud bangs for gunfire and 41 were The Alpes Maritimes fire brigade home. one acquaintance as saying. a month. injured in the rush to get away. said on its Facebook page 21 peo- Both the attacker and a female “You could tell he had been Serbia has recently Photos and video posted online ple had been treated and discharged victim died of their injuries on teased his whole life,” he added, say- deployed joint army and showed overturned tables outside from hospital and remaining 20 Sunday. Five other people suffered ing the man “had no friends. He was police patrols on its bor- PARIS: Firecrackers sparked panic cafes that would have been full of would be released soon. both burn and stab wounds in the often alone... He never answered der with Bulgaria where in a Mediterranean seaside town, people enjoying an evening drink Around France, people are on attack, which took place on the line when you said hello.” migrants have been com- sending a stampede of people fleeing in the upscale beach resort. Le edge, security is tight and several between Buchs and Sennwald near The attacker worked part- ing in through illegal what they feared was a gun attack, Parisien newspaper reported the events have been cancelled follow- Salez station. time at an car parts supplier in the routes, mostly guided by injuring dozens, French media firecrackers had been thrown from ing a string of attacks over the past A 17-year-old woman’s life region, where he had previously people smugglers. reported, yesterday. a passing car. two years. remained in the balance. However, completed a vocational training, Serbia’s military Just a month after an attack in Eyewitness video showed peo- The government has main- a six-year-old girl was in serious but and he also studied at a technical spokesman Jovan Kri- nearby Nice in which 85 people ple rushing and yelling and pictures tained a state of emergency put in not critical condition, Rezzoli told university in Buchs, Blick reported. vokapic said yesterday were killed by a truck deliberately showed the injured on stretchers, place after 130 people were killed reporters.. Germany, France and Belgium that 2,275 mostly Syrians, driven into a crowd, locals and tour- with ambulances at the scene, lights in Islamist attacks in Paris in A witness told the 20 Minut- are on terror alert following series Afghans and Pakistanis ists in Juan-les-Pins mistook the flashing. November. ten daily that he had seen a young of attacks in the recent past. have been turned back since the joint patrols were introduced on July 22. He said 454 migrants who were caught inside Portugal and Spain try Friendly gesture Serbia were transferred to douse raging wildfires to refugee centres. Man injured in

AP ground crews attack flames in the axe and shooting northwestern province of Galicia, which has lost around 17,300 acres attack in Cologne to fire. BARCELONA, SPAIN : As residents Galicia’s government said five BERLIN: A man was doused their homes with water, fire- firefighters were taken to the hos- injured in a knife and fighters in Portugal and Spain kept pital— four due to smoke inhalation shooting attack in battling scores of wildfires yes- and one from injuries received in a Cologne city centre terday after a week of worst fire road accident. yesterday, German news- destruction in years on the moun- Televised images from both the paper Express reported, tainous Iberian Peninsula. countries showed residents dous- adding that two suspects Stoked by winds and high tem- ing homes and nearby woods to were on the run. peratures, the wildfires have killed try to stave off the flames through The paper said several at least four people in Portugal and Sunday night and into yesterday people told the police one in Spain over the last week and morning. that three or four peo- forced hundreds to flee their homes. Last week over a dozen major ple seemed to be having Yesterday, authorities in Portu- wildfires forced the deployment of problems with another gal said almost 2,000 firefighters almost 4,500 firefighters through- man. Eyewitnesses supported by 10 water-dumping out Portugal. The worst fire reached reported seeing men aircraft were tackling over 40 dif- the capital of the Atlantic Ocean attacking each other with ferent fires throughout the country. island of Madeira, where it killed axes, Express said on its One of the most stubborn blazes, three elderly people, injured over website. A man who sus- however, had been brought under 300 and razed homes and a hotel. tained a stab wound tried control near the central town of Sao Spanish police have made to flee in his car but other Pedro do Sol. several arrests of alleged arson- Spanish rejoneador Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza touches a Hermanos Sampedro bull at Dax arena men shot at him, though In Spain, 10 water-dump- ists suspected of setting some of during the Dax Feria, southwestern France, yesterday. they only hit the car. ing planes and helicopters helped the fires. AMERICAS TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 13 Earthquake in Peru leaves at least four dead

AFP American who died in a hotel in whole Colca valley,” the mayor of emergency in this zone,” said Prime it difficult for rescue teams to reach The quake knocked Yanque that was badly damaged due Caylloma, Romulo Tinta, told RPP. Minister Fernando Zavala. the region, Civil Defense chief Alfredo to the quake. “We have no communication Among the worst-hit spots was Murgueytio said. down about 50 Earthquakes are fairly common links between the surrounding Yanque, a rural village of mud huts Peru lies on the so-called “Ring LIMA: A moderate 5.2-magnitude homes and cut off in Peru but this one hit at a shallow villages,” he added. “We are ask- with some 1,200 inhabitants. of Fire”—an arc of fault lines that cir- earthquake in Peru killed at least four depth of eight kilometers (five miles) ing for heavy machinery to gain About 60 percent of the buildings cles the Pacific Basin and is prone to people including a US tourist and left roads and power Sunday night so damage could be access.” in the village were destroyed, said frequent earthquakes and volcanic 52 injured, crushing villagers under in the southern heavy near the epicenter. The governor of Arequipa, Yamila local mayor Anastasia Suyco. eruptions. rubble and blocking roads, officials The epicentre was 10 km from Osorio, called for food and clothing She said land access to the area The last serious quake in Peru— said yesterday. Arequipa region. the city of Chivay, capital of Caylloma to be airlifted to people left homeless was cut off. with a magnitude of 7.9 -- struck on Earlier, the authorities had put province, according to the Geophysi- by the quake. “What we most need is to evacu- August 15, 2007. Its epicenter was the death toll to nine. However, the cal Institute of Peru. “We are taking aid to Caylloma ate the wounded,” she told RPP. on the central coast, just west of latest figures claimed to be four. Several aftershocks hit the region and the other districts affected by the “There are people who have been the major city of Pisco. It killed 595 The quake knocked down about of the hard-hit village of Yanque. yesterday. earthquake,” Peru’s President Pedro crushed by walls. The buildings here people. 50 homes and cut off roads and “The electricity has got cut off. The quake caused damage Pablo Kuczynski said in a message are rustic.” Two major 7.6-magnitude earth- power in the southern Arequipa We still have water but we don’t throughout an area of Arequipa on Twitter. Highway police official Leandro quakes jolted eastern Peru near its region. know what will happen next,” he called the Colca Valley, and several More than 80 homes have been Flores told reporters work was under border with Brazil in November. They “It was tragic. They got told RPP radio. villages have been cut off. left uninhabitable, but crews cannot way to clear two major roads in the were felt across several South Amer- wounded people out as best they The civil defence service said “We felt a very strong tremor. reach the epicenter, Osorio said. Chivay region. ican nations, but no major damage could,” said John Rivera, a resident one of the victims was a 66-year-old It has caused devastation in the “We will have to declare an The blocked roads were making was reported.

Two Houston 20,000 rescued in children found dead under Louisiana floods neighbour’s home AFP rains lessening as they move west and the sun appearing in some AP flooded areas. The flooding submerged large WASHINGTON: Emergency crew in parts of the region, after water- HOUSTON: Two children were flood-devastated Louisiana have res- swelled streams and rivers began found dead under a neighbour’s cued more than 20,000 people after rising. Thousands were evacuated house after their mother matter- catastrophic inundations that left at in Livingston Parish, near Baton of-factly told someone helping her least six dead, reports said yesterday. Rouge, the sheriff’s department said. move that she had drowned them As many as 10,000 people are In one dramatic rescue in Baton in a bathtub, authorities said. living in shelters after a weekend of Rouge captured on video, rescuers Sheborah Thomas, 30, was torrential rains that has prompted on a boat pulled a woman from a car charged with capital murder and the federal government to declare that had just slipped under water. “all indications are she is the one a disaster, according to Louisiana The woman shouts, “Oh my God, who acted alone” in the deaths of governor John Bel Edwards. I’m drowning!” her 7-year-old son and 5-year-old At least six people have died in A rescuer jumps into the murky daughter, Houston police spokes- the flooding, including a woman brown water and pulls her out by man Kese Smith said. Authorities whose car was washed away on the arm. When she tries to dive have not yet confirmed a cause of Saturday night when she tried to under for her dog, he goes underwa- death but said the woman alleg- turn around in high water, CNN ter and reappears holding the dog. edly told an acquaintance that she reported, quoting officials in East Most of the flooding has been had drowned the children. Baton Rouge. The White House around the capital Baton Rouge. Smith said investigators were action makes emergency federal Edwards said he and his family still interviewing the woman and funding available to support res- were forced to leave the governor’s had not determined a motive. She cue crews working nonstop. mansion after water filled the base- was turned in to police by the “This is a serious event,” ment, shutting off electricity. acquaintance, who came upon Edwards said of the record floods. The heavy rains began Friday, her throwing away trash in a field, Residents being evacuated from floodwaters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday. Emergency crew in flood- “This is ongoing,” he added. with 15 to 25 centimeters of rain fall- where she allegedly told him she devastated Louisiana have rescued more than 20,000 people. “This is not over,” even with the ing on parts of southeast Louisiana. needed help moving right away. When the man asked about her kids, she calmly said she had killed them, Smith said. Mississippi town “She was so matter of fact Tension flares up again in Milwaukee about it he didn’t think she was serious. He thought she was jok- mourns deaths ing,” Smith said. Reuters One police officer was hospital- that video from officer’s body camera At the news conference with Smith said the man eventually of 3 couples in ised after a rock smashed a patrol car showed Smith had turned toward him Mayor Tom Barrett, Flynn said the realised something was wrong windshield, the city police depart- with a gun in his hand. officer who fired the fatal shot was when he asked again and got the plane crash ment said. Another squad car was Earlier, about 200 people had black, and media reports also iden- same answer. He then drove the MILWAUKEE: Tension flared again damaged by rioters hurling bricks, gathered to light candles near the tified Smith as black. woman toward a nearby police overnight in Milwaukee, with one rocks and bottles, it said, adding that spot where Smith was killed in He said a silent video of the inci- precinct and flagged down an AP person shot and a police officer officers made multiple arrests. Sherman Park neighbourhood. A dent appeared to show the officer officer, Smith said. injured in the second night of riots Police said they began trying to few officers looked on as faith and acting within the law. The officer had The mother tried burying triggered by the fatal shooting of a disperse crowds after shots were community leaders implored pro- stopped Smith’s vehicle because the the children at first but put them TUSCALOOSA: Three married suspect by an officer. fired and some protesters threw testers to restrain their anger. driver was behaving suspiciously and under a neighbor’s house when couples killed in crash of a small Police violence against Afri- objects. A tense standoff continued “We are not ignorant and stupid then had to chase him on foot into an that proved too difficult, Smith said. airplane in Alabama all lived in can-Americans has ignited sporadic, yesterday morning, punctuated by people,” one pastor told the crowd, enclosed space between two houses, Authorities were not immedi- the university town of Oxford, sometimes violent protests in the intermittent reports of gunfire. echoing a feeling among many of the Flynn said. ately aware of the woman having Mississippi, where city flags were past two years. It also has prompted a Wisconsin Governor Scott city’s African-Americans that they Because the audio was delayed, any history of mental health prob- lowered yesterday as residents national debate over race and policing Walker activated the National Guard are systematically mistreated. he said, it was not clear when the lems, Smith said. He said police grappled with loss of so many while fueling the growth of the Black in case more trouble broke over the “Every single person needs to be officer fired his weapon. had been to the home before but lives at one time. “I don’t even Lives Matter civil rights movement. death of Sylville K Smith, 23, who looked upon as human beings and “I’m looking at a silent movie for “nothing major.” know what to say,” said Oxford Violence erupted in Milwaukee was shot while fleeing a traffic stop. not like savages and animals.” that doesn’t necessarily tell me State child welfare officials Mayor George “Pat” Patterson. on Sunday after peaceful vigils by Despite the violence, police said On Saturday night, shots were everything that will come out in a had previously visited with family, Friends, relatives and officials small groups of demonstrators, and the National Guard had not been fired, six businesses were burned thorough investigation,” Flynn said. said Tejal Patel, a spokeswoman for identified the dead as dentists police said late that night that they called in, as authorities worked to and police cars damaged before calm “Based on what I saw, didn’t Texas Department of Family and Jason Farese and Lea Farese; den- had rescued one shooting victim, restore order. was restored in the area, which has hear, don’t know what the autopsy Protective Services. She said she tist Michael Perry and his wife, who was taken to a hospital. It was Aiming to reassure the community a reputation for poverty and crime. results are going to be, (the officer) could not disclose nature of those Kim Perry, a nurse practitioner not immediately clear if the injured that the police acted properly, Chief Seventeen people were arrested, and certainly appeared to be within law- visits but said a “top to bottom at University of Mississippi; and person was a protester. Edward Flynn told a news conference four officers were injured. ful bounds.” review” of the family will be done. dentist Austin Poole and his wife, Angie Poole. The three couples were parents of 11 children total. The Oxford Eagle reported that the plane went down while the six Fire roars into California town; wipes out over 100 homes were returning home to the city of 19,000 following a dental seminar in central Florida. AP Lt. Doug Pittman, a Marin County Berlant said more than 100 “It’s just a sad day,” said Pat- sheriff’s spokesman working on homes burned but didn’t have the terson, who knew all the victims. behalf of the forestry department. exact breakdown of the 175 res- “The families were invested with The blaze was one of 11 large idences, businesses and other their time and talents in the LOWER LAKE, CALIFORNIA: A wildfires in the state. In central Cal- buildings lost. At least 1,500 more community.” wind-whipped wildfire roared through ifornia, a day-old wildfire burned 20 structures were threatened. The Federal Aviation Admin- a Northern California town wiping out structures and threatened 150 homes. Firefighters, who carried goats istration said a twin-engine Piper more than 100 homes and businesses The fire in Lower Lake exploded and other animals to safety as homes carrying the six left Kissimmee, and forcing thousands of people to flee, to nearly 5 square miles as it fed on burned around them, were hopeful Florida, and crashed while try- authorities said yesterday. bone-dry vegetation. Besides the the wind won’t pick up again. ing to land in Tuscaloosa. Police The fire seemed calm before wind, 100-degree heat hindered fire- Residents who thought condi- there said the aircraft had engine gusts kicked up flames that tore fighters struggling to get a handle on tions were calm a day earlier went problems, but further details were through neighborhoods in Lower the largely out-of-control blaze. on errands in town and came back not available. Lake, a rural town of roughly 1,300 “We are prepared for whatever to roaring flames and smoke. Some It wasn’t clear whether a stop about 90 miles north of San Fran- erratic behavioor the fire throws at used hoses or water from their pools was planned in Alabama before cisco. No one was injured, but it us today,” said Berlant, a California to try to protect their houses. the trouble occurred. reached Main Street and burned the Department of Forestry and Fire Pro- Rick Davis, 40, told San Francisco National Transportation post office, an antiques store, a historic tection spokesman. Chronicle that he went to lunch in Safety Board investigator Heidi firehouse and Habitat for Humanity Officials said at least 175 struc- Lower Lake and rushed home when he A burning house damaged by the Clayton Fire is seen near Lower Lake Kemner, speaking to reporters office as thick, black smoke loomed tures were destroyed in the town heard the fire exploded. He used a hose in California, yesterday during a briefing on the over small downtown strip. with working-class families and reti- to wet down his roof. “I’m just scared,” crash, said she has located pilot’s “This fire roared through the city rees drawn by a slower lifestyle and he said. “The wind can just change.” “If I see embers and ash rain newspaper. “But this is my grand- log book and would try to locate like a wave of water — it was a wave lower housing prices compared with Nearby, Garrett Reed, 43, made down, I will turn the sprinklers on father’s house, and I’m not going to aircraft maintenance records. of fire that came through here,” said the San Francisco Bay Area. similar preparations. the roof and get out,” he told the lose it.” 14 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 AMERICAS

Police question Trump calls for ‘extreme vetting’ of immigrants suspect in fatal Trump also said his Democratic rival The US would stop issuing visas in any his native city of Scranton that Trump Offering himself as a powerful shooting of NY The Republican Hillary Clinton lacks the “mental and case where it cannot perform adequate was “totally, thoroughly unqualified” character witness for Clinton, Biden physical stamina” to take on the screenings. to be president, calling him a danger- portrayed her as the most qualified presidential nominee Islamic State (IS). He said destroying Trump did not clarify how US ous voice on national security and person to lead the country, singling Muslim cleric said his Democratic the terror group would be the cen- officials would assess the veracity foreign policy. out her foreign policy experience and trepiece of his foreign policy and he of responses to the questionnaires On economy, he said, Trump’s passion for improving people’s lives. rival Hillary Clinton would partner with any countries or how much manpower it would revealing in his TV reality show tag- He cited his long history with Clinton, Reuters lacks the “mental that share that goal — specifically require to complete such arduous line, “You’re fired,” showed his true saying he’s known her for three dec- singling out Russia as a nation the US vetting. Nor did the campaign say colours. “He’s trying to tell us he cares ades, since before she was first lady and physical could have a better relationship with. whether additional screenings would about the middle class? Give me a in the 1990s. “Hillary has forgotten NEW YORK: New York City police stamina” to take on “Any country that shares this goal apply to the millions of tourists who break. It’s such a bunch of malarkey,” more about American foreign policy yesterday questioned a suspect in will be our allies,” Trump said. “We can spend billions of dollars visiting the Biden told a crowd of about 3,000 at then Trump and his entire team will the killing of a Muslim cleric and the Islamic State. never choose our friends, but we can United States each year. Riverfront Sports, adding: “He doesn’t ever understand,” he said. his associate as they left prayers never fail to recognise our enemies.” The Republican nominee’s for- have a clue.” And he cited Clinton’s gender as a at a mosque in the borough of While Trump has been harshly eign policy address comes during a Pennsylvania has not supported a powerful asset, saying electing first Queens, local media reported, in critical of Obama’s handling of the rocky stretch for his campaign. He’s Republican in a presidential election female president would change the a crime that shocked their Bang- AP threat posed by the IS, his own pol- struggled to stay on message and has since 1988, but is among the most-con- lives of American women and girls. ladeshi community. icies for defeating the group remain consistently overshadowed his pol- tested battleground states between “Hillary Clinton is going to write Citing unnamed police vague. His most specific prescriptions icy rollouts, including an economic Clinton and Trump, who are both vying the next chapter in American his- sources, local media including centred on changing US immigration speech last week, with provocative for white working-class voters here. tory,” he said. NBC News and The New York YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO/ SCRANTON: policy to keep potential attackers statements, including his comments Even as polls show her leading Introducing Biden, Clinton sought Daily News said the suspect was Republican presidential nominee from entering the country. falsely declaring that Obama was the Trump, Clinton has faced lingering to sow doubts about Trump’s ability detained on Sunday night but Donald Trump yesterday called for Trump’s campaign aides said the “founder” of the IS. questions about her trustworthiness to bring jobs back to blue-collar com- has not been charged. A police “extreme vetting” of immigrants new ideological test for admission to In Scranton, Vice President Joe in the fallout of her use of a private munities like Scranton, where Biden spokesman could not immedi- seeking admission to the United the United States would vet applicants Biden assailed Donald Trump’s ability email server as secretary of state and lived for the first decade of his life ately confirm the reports. States, vowing to block those who for their stance on issues like religious to lead America at home and abroad over her family’s sprawling founda- before moving to Delaware. Police have yet to establish a sympathise with extremist groups freedom and gender equality. The gov- yesterday, branding him as indiffer- tion. She has tried to make the case She acknowledged that many motive behind the murders and or don’t embrace American values. ernment would use questionnaires, ent to the needs of Americans in his that working-class voters would fare people in the audience might have have said there was no evidence He said the policy would first require social media, interviews with friends first campaign appearance with better under her economic policies friends considering voting for the the men were targetted because a temporary halt in immigration from and family or other means to deter- Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. than Trump’s and that her opponent Republican, but offered this advice: of their faith. But they have said dangerous regions of the world. mine if applicants support American Biden, who decided not to make a would inject danger into an already “Friends should not let friends vote nothing was being ruled out. Res- Speaking in swing state Ohio, values like tolerance and pluralism. third presidential bid last year, said in unstable world. for Trump.” idents demanded authorities treat the brazen daylight shooting as a hate crime. The gunman stalked the pair from behind and shot both in the Laziness Day Several hotels in US may head at close range at about 1:50 pm (1750 GMT) in the Ozone Park neighbourhood of Queens, one of the city’s five boroughs, police have been hit by hackers said in a statement. The victims, identified as Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and AP address and contain this incident Thara Uddin, 64, were wearing promptly after it was discovered.” religious garb, police said. Offic- HEI said that once it found out ers found them bleeding in the about the problem it transitioned street and took them to a hospi- NEW YORK: Hyatt, Sheraton, Marri- payment card processing to a stand- tal where they were pronounced ott and Westin hotels in 10 states and alone system that’s completely dead. District of Columbia may have been separate from the rest of its net- “While we do not yet know targetted by hackers for months. work. It disabled the malware and the motivation for the mur- According to the hotel operator is in the process of reconfiguring ders of Maulama Akonjee and HEI Hotels & Resorts, malware put various components of its network Thara Uddin, we do know that into place in at least 20 locations and payment systems to make them our Muslim communities are in may have collected names, card more secure. the perpetual crosshairs of big- account numbers, card expiration The company said it’s con- otry,” New York City Mayor Bill de dates and verification codes. tinuing to cooperate with law Blasio said in a statement. “Rest Data from customers may have enforcement investigation and coor- assured that our NYPD will bring been collected from early Decem- dinating with banks and payment this killer to justice.” ber, through late June. At some card companies. The men were attacked a cou- properties, HEI said, data collection Anyone who used a card at ple of blocks from the Al-Furqan may have begun as early as March HEI hotels in the given time frame Jame Mosque, from where they 2015 at hotel locations where peo- should review their account state- had just left afternoon prayers. ple bought food or drinks. ments and look for discrepancies Ozone Park, a diverse, largely HEI said in a company release or unusual activity over past sev- working-class neighbourhood, A woman lies in bed as she takes part in an event marking the World Day of Laziness in Itagui, Colombia. that “We are treating this matter eral months and going forward, the is home to a growing number of as a top priority, and took steps to company said. Muslims of Bangladeshi descent. JFK airport resumes Fifth body found Georgia police officer fatally shot after apartment AP Dutton said Deeds, 24, then threatening injuries and is recov- operations after scare explosion; fled the scene. The Georgia Bureau ering after surgery. of Investigations said it is offering The shooting occurred outside the search continues a $10,000 reward for information Gallery Apartments when three offic- AP Terminal 1 after they said they ATLANTA: A police officer in a small, leading to Deeds’ whereabouts. ers responded to a call about people received additional reports of shots central Georgia city was shot and Smith had been with the East- breaking into cars, Wallace said. fired in that terminal. A highway AP killed by a suspect who remains on man Police Department since 2011. The officers approached two approaching the airport also was the loose, authorities said. Eastman He is survived by three children. suspects who were inside a vehicle, NEW YORK: Two terminals at New shut down. Patrol Officer Tim Smith was fatally Smith’s death came before Wallace said. One of the suspects York’s John F Kennedy International Passengers posted pictures SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND: A shot in a residential area, Georgia two suspects were arrested after from the vehicle started shooting Airport resumed normal operations and videos on Twitter that showed fifth body was recovered after an Bureau of Investigations spokesman exchanging gunfire with officers in at the officers, striking one of them. yesterday morning after reports of crowds of people gathered outside explosion and fire at an apartment Scott Drbutton said. suburban Atlanta city of Marietta. Three officers returned fire, shots fired prompted evacuations of the terminals. complex in Maryland, authorities Smith, 30, was responding to Officer Scott Davis was shot in hitting one of the suspects. Both and grounded and diverted flights. Demetrius Pipkin told WPIX-TV said as firefighters continued amid a suspicious person call when he the leg, Marietta police spokes- suspects were eventually arrested, The reports, which led to some he was in Terminal 1 waiting for his sweltering heat to comb through the encountered Royheem Delshawn woman Kelah Wallace said. Wallace said. The wounded suspect frightening moments for fliers, were Norwegian Airlines flight when the rubble to search for several others Deeds, exited his patrol car and was Davis, a 10-year veteran, was was taken to the hospital with inju- later determined to be unfounded and reports of shots fired came in. who remain missing. shot, Dutton said. taken to the hospital with non-life ries that were not life-threatening. the airport was given the all-clear. “We were previously told to get The explosion on late Wednes- “At this time, no firearm, rounds on the floor and take cover behind day night sent debris hundreds of or shell casings or other evidence of any thing we could find,” said Pip- feet, and people more than a mile shots fired has been found,” said Joe kin, who described the terminal as away reported the blast was strong Pentangelo, a spokesman for Port a “madhouse” with panicky passen- enough to shake their homes. Fun of colours Authority of New York and New Jer- gers bolting for the nearest exists. Two bodies were recovered on sey Police Department. According to flight tracking Thursday and another on Friday. Police evacuated Terminal 8 as company, FlightAware, all inbound The victims have been trans- a precaution after receiving calls flights were held at their origin “due ported to office of chief medical about shots fired near departures to security.” Port Authority police examiner in Baltimore and haven’t area. Port Authority police called said travellers should contact their been identified. in officers from the New York carriers. They also warned of a “sub- Eight people remain unac- Police Department to assist with stantial PAPD and NYPD presence” counted for, including two the investigation. at JFK and LaGuardia due to the children, Montgomery County A short time later, police closed investigation. Police Department said. Police say they believe the first four bodies that have been found among the eight unaccounted-for people. Police said earlier the first four bodies recovered were among the eight unaccounted people. They did not immediately address whether the fifth body found is among that number. More than 100 local and federal officials were on scene battling dangerously high temper- atures to search for the missing and gather evidence to deter- mine the cause of the explosion, said Pete Piringer, spokesman for Members of Port Authority Police Department stand guard at Terminal Montgomery County Fire & Res- Participants are covered in coloured powder as they celebrate in The Colour Run in Lima, Peru. 8 at John F Kennedy International Airport, yesterday. cue Service. BREAK TIME TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 1517

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INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY AFP only for important elders and local practised, he explained. Christian a “honai”. This wide domed, thatch- heroes among the Dani people -- he missionaries and Muslim preachers roofed hut is tended year round by a was embalmed and preserved with encouraged the tribespeople to bury select few villagers who keep a fire WAMENA: Cradling the centuries-old smoke and animal oil. the corpses, and the tradition has faded burning to ensure the corpse remains Men carry a dog, wearing remains of his mummified ancestor, Nine generations on and his as the centuries drifted by. dry and preserved. a costume and seated on a tribe leader Eli Mabel lays bare an descendent Eli Mabel is the current But Mabel is determined to retain The duty of caring for the mummy stool, as a form of respect as ancient tradition that has all but van- chieftain in Wogi village -- an isolated the ancient rites and rituals for future often falls to Mabel, he said. He spends they believe that dogs found ished among the Dani people in the hamlet outside Wamena that can be generations. “We must protect our many nights sleeping alone in the water for their ancestors, Papuan central highlands. reached only by hiking and canoe. culture, including the ceremonies honai, ensuring no harm befalls his during a local festival for The tiny, blackened, shrunken He said the exact age of Agat Mam- for the mummy, the way we treat it, ancestor. Eventually, the duty of car- the Miao ethnic minority in figure he carries was Agat Mamete ete Mabel was not known, but said this and maintain and fire for it,” the Dani ing for the mummy will be passed to Jianhe county, Guizhou Prov- Mabel, the chieftain that ruled over ancestor was the last of the village to tribesman said. The mummy, deco- others, he said. Mabel hopes his own ince, China, August 14, 2016. this remote village in Indonesian receive such a funeral. Once common rated with pig tusks slung around the children will bear some responsibil- Papua some 250 years ago. Honoured among his forebears, the ritual method torso, a feathered headpiece, and tra- ity for keeping their customs alive, but upon death with a custom reserved of smoke embalming was no longer ditional gourd rests in a hut known as worries they are far away.

Depression in Art of business How societal cooperation grandparents led to larger human brain bad for kids IANS disproportionately large brain size in humans exists as a consequence of humans evolving in IANS large and complex social groups. LONDON: A team of researchers has found that “Our new research reinforces this hypothe- judging other people in social groups and decid- sis and offers an insight into the way cooperation NEW YORK: Children whose ing whether or not to cooperate with them has and reward may have been instrumental in driv- parents and grandparents are promoted the rapid expansion of the human ing brain evolution, suggesting that the challenge suffering from depression are at brain’s size over the last two million years. of assessing others could have contributed to the a higher risk of suffering from The findings showed that evolution favours large brain size in humans,” explained Robin major depressive disorder (MDD), those who prefer to help out others who are at Dunbar, Professor at University of Oxford. according to a study. least as successful as themselves. For the study, the team used computer The study published by the “Our results suggest that the evolution of modelling to run hundreds of thousands of journal JAMA Psychiatry, Myrna cooperation, which is key to a prosperous society, simulations, or ‘donation games’, to unravel the M Weissman, who is a researcher is intrinsically linked to the idea of social com- complexities of decision-making strategies for at the Columbia University, stud- parison - constantly sizing each up and making simplified humans and to establish why certain ied 251 grandchildren (average age decisions as to whether we want to help them or types of behaviour among individuals begins to 18), their biological parents and A Palestinian street vendor displays his goods in front of a mural painting in not,” said lead author Roger Whitaker, Profes- strengthen over time. In each round of the dona- grandparents. Gaza City. sor at Cardiff University in Britian. tion game, two simulated players were randomly While comparing two gener- According to the social brain hypothesis, the selected from the population. ations, the study suggested that grandchildren with depressed parents had twice the risk of MDD compared with non-depressed parents, as well as increased risk for disruptive disorder, substance Venus could have once hosted life: Nasa dependence, suicidal ideation or gesture and poorer functioning. Comparing three generations, IANS Letters, were obtained with a model mission to Venus in the 1980s first ideal for making a planet habitable, as Venusian continents. The study the authors reported that grand- similar to the type used to predict suggested Venus originally may have according to the scientists. also factored in an ancient sun that children with both depressed future climate change on Earth. had an ocean. There seems to have been enough was up to 30 percent dimmer. Even parent and depressed grandparent NEW YORK: Today’s Venus is a hell- “Many of the same tools we use to Previous studies have shown that water to support abundant life, with so, ancient Venus still received about had three times the risk of MDD. ish world with temperatures reaching model climate change on Earth can how fast a planet spins on its axis sufficient land to reduce the planet’s 40 per cent more sunlight than Earth Children without a depressed 462 degrees Celsius at its surface and be adapted to study climates on other affects whether it has a habitable sensitivity to changes from incoming does today. grandparent but with a depressed almost not water vapour, but for up to planets, both past and present,” said climate. A day on Venus is 117 Earth sunlight. The researchers simulated “In the GISS model’s simulation, parent had an overall worse func- two billion years of its early history, the paper’s lead author Michael Way, days. But recent research showed that conditions of a hypothetical early Venus’ slow spin exposes its dayside tioning than children without a the planet could have hosted life, a a researcher at GISS. Venus could have had an atmosphere Venus with an atmosphere similar to the sun for almost two months at a depressed parent. Nasa study says. “These results show ancient similar to the Earth’s today. Another to Earth’s, a day as long as Venus’ time,” co-author and fellow GISS sci- “In this study, biological In those days, Venus may have Venus may have been a very differ- factor that impacts a planet’s climate current day, and a shallow ocean entist Anthony Del Genio said. offspring with two previous gen- had a shallow liquid-water ocean ent place than it is today,” Way noted. is topography. consistent with early data from the “This warms the surface and pro- erations affected with major and habitable surface temperatures, Today’s Venus has a crushing car- The team postulated ancient Pioneer spacecraft. duces rain that creates a thick layer depression were at highest risk according to computer modeling of bon dioxide atmosphere 90 times as Venus had more dry land overall The researchers added infor- of clouds, which acts like an umbrella for major depression, suggesting the planet’s ancient climate by sci- thick as Earth’s. Scientists long have than Earth, especially in the tropics. mation about Venus’ topography to shield the surface from much of the potential value of determin- entists at Nasa’s Goddard Institute theorised that Venus formed out of That limits the amount of water from radar measurements taken the solar heating. The result is mean ing family history of depression in for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. ingredients similar to Earth’s, but fol- evaporated from the oceans and, as a by Nasa’s Magellan mission in the climate temperatures that are actu- children and adolescents beyond The findings, published in the lowed a different evolutionary path. result, the greenhouse effect by water 1990s, and filled the lowlands with ally a few degrees cooler than Earth’s two generations,” said Weissman. journal Geophysical Research Measurements by Nasa’s Pioneer vapour. 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Moody’s affirms Ooredoo’s A2 ratings; outlook stable

ratings of Ooredoo’s wholly owned and cost savings are realised across comfort level of around 2x net debt sale of non-core assets, the ratings right issues the Government of Qatar finance vehicle, Ooredoo Interna- the group,” Rowlings added. / EBITDA. Over the past few years, agency noted. held 55 percent directly in Ooredoo Moody’s recognises tional Finance Limited (OIF); and the Moody’s recognises that Oore- Ooredoo has successfully removed Ooredoo’s credit profile contin- where it now holds 51.6 percent. that Ooredoo is A2 senior unsecured rating of Oore- doo is entering the next phase in its some of the currency volatility that ues to benefit from the support and Ooredoo’s overall rating of A2 can entering next phase doo Tamweel Limited. The outlook development, shifting away from had begun to feature in its credit pro- rating uplift offered by the Govern- withstand up to a one notch down- on all the ratings has been changed further international expansion and file, by matching debt funding raised ment of Qatar (Aa2 negative), which grade of the Government of Qatar’s in its development, to stable from negative. focusing its attention on a now well- at its operating subsidiaries to local owns 68.6 percent of the company Aa2 rating with no ratings impact. and focusing attention “The affirmations with a stable established portfolio of operations. currency cash generation. Around through direct and indirect hold- On the rationale for the ‘stable outlook reflect our view of Ooredoo’s The rating agency expects that Oore- 70 percent of Ooredoo’s bank debt ings. Moody’s views favourably the outlook;, Moody’s noted: “Ooredoo’s on a now well- credit metrics being restored back to doo’s credit profile will continue to at operating level is now denomi- demonstrated track record of will- shift away from capital-intensive established portfolio levels commensurate with its baa2 strengthen as management executes nated in local currency. ingness and capacity of the Qatari international expansion towards baseline credit assessment or stan- further efficiency gains, additional At the same time, the affirmation government to offer financial sup- optimising existing operations will of operations. dalone alone rating, which exclude centralising of group procurement, of the ratings with a stable outlook port to Ooredoo through flexibility likely ensure credit metrics remain any potential uplift from the Govern- cash conservation and deleverag- recognises the significant inroads of dividend payments where the comfortably in line with those set for ment of Qatar, its majority owner,” ing delivery. that the company has made in deliv- board continually manages this with the baa2 baseline credit assessment.” said Douglas Rowlings, Assistant Vice Moody’s expects that capital ering cost savings across the group. respect to Ooredoo’s cash and delev- According to the global ratings The Peninsula President at Moody’s. expenditure will be limited to small This has shored up margins, arrested eraging requirements, with dividends agency, Ooredoo’s liquidity posi- “We expect with the traction ticket items going forward such as EBITDA decline in absolute terms and per share cut recently to QR3 ($0.82) tion is excellent, with significant being realised on Ooredoo’s rational- improving upon passive infrastruc- alleviated pressures experienced by from QR4 ($1.10); subscription to right cash resources available together isation strategy that EBITDA margins ture, acquiring additional spectrum, some of its underperforming opera- issues totalling $0.89m (QR 3.24bn) with robust cash flow generation DOHA: Moody’s Investors Serv- will be sustained above 45 percent and ongoing licence renewal fees. tions in Algeria, Tunisia (Ba3 stable), in 2008 and $1.04bn(QR3.79bn) in expected to meet forecast cash uses ice yesterday affirmed Ooredoo’s and that net debt/EBITDA will trend With lower capital expenditure and Iraq. Ooredoo has also profita- 2012; and deferral of royalties and for the next 18 months and upcom- A2 long-term issuer rating. As part below 2x over the next two years. Free related cash burn the rating agency bly exited from some of its operations dividends for the period 2006 to ing maturities, with cash balances of the rating action, Moody’s also cash flow will likely also improve as forecasts that the company will be such as Pakistan (B3 stable) and the 2010 following the onset of the glo- alone covering all group debt matu- affirmed the A2 senior unsecured capital expenditure spend tapers off able to deliver deleveraging to its Philippines (Baa2 stable) as part of a bal financial crisis. At the time of the rities to 2018. Qatar’s balance of payment deficit narrows

By Satish Kanady rose to 38.8 percent in 2015 from 34.1 The Peninsula percent in 2014, while exports fell to 55.4 percent of GDP (vs. 68.1 per- cent) on lower oil prices. The shares of private consumption and invest- DOHA: Qatar’s deficit in the over- ment are expected to increase on all balance of payments narrowed high population growth and strong from $2.9bn in Q4 2015 to $0.7bn in government investments; lower Q1, 2016. The capital and financial expected oil prices in 2016 should account recorded a surplus of $2.5bn reduce the share of exports. over the same period. The country’s Private consumption rose to current account swung into a defi- 22.0 percent of GDP in 2015 from cit of $2.3bn in Q1 2016 on lower oil 14.1 percent of GDP in 2014, with prices, QNB noted yesterday. imports similarly increasing from “For 2016, we expect a current 30.5 percent to 35.5 percent of GDP account surplus of 2.0 percent of on growing population needs. GDP as oil prices recover and a cap- On the banking sector, QNB Oil market talks with ital and financial account deficit of expects the bank assets will grow by 2.7 percent of GDP due to investment 9.9 percent in 2016 driven by lending overseas from Qatar.”, QNB said in its related to investment projects and Saudi developing: Russia monthly report on Qatar. population growth. QNB analysts also expect that Bank loan growth fell to 13.2 Qatar’s merchandise trade surplus percent in June from 20.1 percent Reuters and are determined to continue will rise in the second half of 2016 to 671,000 barrels per day (b/d) in sector grew by 7.8 percent year- on- in May. Loans to the public sector dialogue to achieve market sta- as oil prices recover. The country’s May 2016 from 625,000 b/d in April. year; while the hydrocarbon sector slowed from 30.5 percent year-on- bility,” he said. “We are ready to trade surplus rose to $2.3bn in June QNB expects Brent crude oil prices contracted by 0.2 percent over the year growth in May to 17.7 percent in achieve the widest possible level compared to a month earlier, but was to average $44.7 per barrel in 2016 same period. In 2016 and 2017, QNB June; the private and foreign sectors DUBAI: Russia, the world’s top of coordination... and put in place down from $4.1bn a year earlier. The and $55.0 in 2017 as the rebalanc- expects growth of 3.3 percent and witnessed growth of 10.0 percent and oil producer, is consulting with joint measures to achieve oil year-on-year decline was due to the ing of the oil market continues, with 3.9 percent, respectively. Investment 16.7 percent respectively, moderat- Saudi Arabia and other pro- market stability, with the condi- fall in exports, which decreased by strong growth in demand and sup- spending and population growth ing from higher growth the previous ducers to achieve oil market tion that these measures will not 28.1 percent year-on-year on lower ply cuts among high-cost producers, will drive non-hydrocarbon sector month. stability, Energy Minister Alex- be for a limited period of time.” oil prices, failing to offset the fall in particularly in the US and non-Opec. growth (6.5 percent and 6.9 percent) QNB expects credit growth to ander Novak (pictured) said, Novak’s comments come imports of 1.6 percent over the same Qatar’s real GDP grew by 3.7 while the Barzan gas project should reach 11.0 percent in 2016 driven adding that the door is still open only days after Saudi Arabian period. percent in 2015 on strong non-hydro- raise hydrocarbon output. by lending related to investment for more discussions on freezing Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih Qatar’s crude oil production rose carbon growth. Non-hydrocarbon Investment as a share of GDP projects and population growth. output levels if needed. said his country would work In an interview published with Opec and non-Opec mem- yesterday, Novak also told bers to help stabilise oil markets. Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq An informal meeting of al-Awsat that a complete return major producing countries is of market stability is only likely scheduled in Algeria late next QCB offers bonds in first riyal sale this year in 2017. “With regard to the month. Members of the Opec cooperation with Saudi Ara- will meet on the sidelines of the bia, the dialogue between our International Energy Forum Reuters according to bank data. The new offer comprises highs, with the three-month interbank offered rate two countries is developing in (IEF), which groups producers QR1.5bn of three-year bonds at a fixed rate of 2.25 quoted at 1.54 percent, down from June’s multi- a tangible way, whether in the and consumers, in Algeria from percent, QR1bn of five-year debt at 2.75 percent, year peak of 1.77 percent though still up sharply framework of a multi-party September 26 to 28. DUBAI: Qatar Central Bank (QCB) is offering QR250m of seven-year debt at 3.25 percent and from 1.13 percent 12 months ago. structure or on a bilateral level,” Oil prices extended gains QR3bn ($825m) of government bonds in its first QR250m of 10-year debt at 3.75 percent, accord- The central bank has helped to improve liquid- Novak was quoted as saying. after Falih’s remarks on Thurs- domestic bond sale this year, suggesting liquidity ing to an offer document. ity in recent months by reducing the size of its “We are cooperating in the day, which indicated that Saudi conditions are easing in a banking system pres- Plunging state revenues due to low oil and gas Treasury bill issuance, a senior banking indus- framework of consultations Arabia, Opec’s largest producer, sured by low oil and gas prices. prices have cut flows of new petrodollars into the try source said. regarding the oil market with is worried that oil prices could A central bank official said results of the offer banking system this year, pushing money rates “Liquidity has gradually got better in the past Opec countries and producers fall toward $40 per barrel or would be known on Tuesday. If it succeeds, it would up sharply and causing the central bank to can- six weeks, though it is still tight. The cost of depos- from outside the organisation, lower due to oversupply. be the bank’s first such issue since it sold QR6.5bn cel several monthly sales of short-term bills. Since its hasn’t come down,” a Qatari commercial banker of conventional bonds and sukuk last November, June, however, money rates have come off their said. 18 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS

ANZ reviews Investcorp QCB and Ooredoo conduct Asian retail banking to acquire workshop on cybersecurity operations The Peninsula Reuters

SINGAPORE/SYDNEY: UK’s Nebulas DOHA: Aiming to enhance online Australian and New Zea- security in Qatar, Ooredoo, the land Banking Group country’s leading telecom services is reviewing its retail provider, and Qatar Central Bank operations in Asia as it (QCB) hosted a development event continues to “reshape” its Nebulas Solutions for Qatar’s leading financial insti- institutional products and is UK’s largest tutions. services in a bid to slash The cybersecurity workshop, costs and boost returns, a independent cyber which took place at QCB’s new senior executive said. security service premises in Doha, included a range Australia’s No.4 lender provider. of presentations on cyber-security is alone among the coun- issues that were tailored specifi- try’s four major banks to cally to needs of the financial sector have a large business in Participants at the cybersecurity workshop. in Qatar. Asia, but is pulling out of Security experts from Ooredoo less profitable areas to The Peninsula as well as from leading security bolster earnings as regu- partners such as Si Consult, Arbor, best practice to deliver more effec- solutions can enable local financial latory costs rise. Investors and Zscaler, participated in the tive managed security.” institutions to comply with QCB’s have long lamented ANZ’s workshop, discussing information Yousuf Al Kubaisi, COO of Oore- security requirements. Asia push, citing the bank’s DOHA: Investcorp, a global pro- formidable business focussed on security challenges in the finan- doo Qatar, said: “Ooredoo is the Ooredoo’s MSSP solutions can struggle to generate steady vider and manager of alternative providing best in class cyber secu- cial sector and how businesses can leading Managed Security Services be tailored to any company size, returns. investment products, yesterday rity services to its clients. Secure address these effectively. Provider (MSSP) in Qatar, and we are from a small broker’s office up to “We are doing a strate- announced that it has, together with Link and the cyber security industry Abdel Hadi Ahen, Acting Director working with a growing number of large banks, and includes a secu- gic review on retail,” said its portfolio company SecureLink have witnessed exceptional growth of Banking, Payments & Settlement companies to help them secure their rity operations centre with 24x7 Mark Whelan, head of Group NV (SecureLink), acquired and I am delighted that Founder and Systems Department, at QCB, said: data and their organisations. In-line incident detection response, web ANZ’s institutional busi- the UK’s largest independent cyber Chief Executive Officer, Nick Gar- “Qatar Central Bank seeks to pro- with the QCB’s regulations relating to security and more. ness, speaking in Singapore security service provider, Nebulas lick, and the Nebulas team will be mote and maintain financial stability data security and online systems, we The event was attended by 35 during a tour to explain the Solutions (Nebulas). joining us on this exciting journey in Qatar, and we are working hard are helping our financial sector cli- leaders from the technology, IT, bank’s strategy to Asia staff. Nebulas provides a broad range as we seek to execute our ambitious to address the new generation of ents to achieve full compliance and security, and risk management The move is expected of IT security products and services European expansion plans. We all online threats facing the financial offer the highest level of safety and departments in financial sector to strengthen the bank’s including managed security serv- share the same vision and I am very sector today. This event provided security for their own and their cus- organisations. balance sheet, helping it ices and cyber threat intelligence to much looking forward to the many an important opportunity to outline tomers’ information.” Ooredoo has been a pioneer in meet more stringent cap- predominantly mid to large enter- great things that I believe will come Qatar’s enhanced security require- During the event, Ooredoo educating businesses on cyber-secu- ital rules that Australian prises in the UK. from our synergies.” ments; demonstrate the range and representatives gave a detailed rity in Qatar, and the event aimed and global regulators now Combined with the recent Over the last 12 months, depth of solutions available within presentation of core solutions for to teach attendees the importance demanded. acquisition of Scandinavia’s Core- Investcorp’s European Corporate the market; and to encourage organ- financial companies, and explained of online security, as well as com- sec Systems (Coresec), Secure Link Investment team has witnessed isations to work together and share how Ooredoo’s cyber-security plying with strict security policies. and Nebulas will operate across six its most active investment period countries in Europe, employ over since the inception of the Firm, 550 members of staff and generate having signed five new deals and more than €235m in revenue. successfully exiting nine portfolio Johannes Glas (pictured), Man- companies. Just under two months aging Director at Investcorp in ago, Investcorp announced the Japan’s economic growth fizzles out in Q2 Qatar, said: “Nebulas is yet another acquisitions of Coresec and lead- great addition for Secure Link and ing luxury Italian menswear brand Investcorp as we continue to build a Corneliani. Recent exits include the AFP expansion, as weak exports and a fall “Today’s data are quite disap- pan-European leader in cyber secu- sale of Tyrrells to Amplify, the sale in business spending dented activity. pointing,” said Junko Nishioka, rity. We believe this acquisition puts of assessment provider GL Edu- On an annualised basis, the chief economist at Sumitomo Mit- SecureLink on the right track to grow cation, the initial public offering economy expanded by a slight 0.2 sui Banking. its geographical footprint, expertise of Asiakastieto on Nasdaq Hel- TOKYO: Japan’s economy stalled in percent in the latest period, well off “The situation is becoming and product offering. We are very sinki, the sale of Icopal to Standard the April-June quarter, data showed expectations for a 0.7 percent rise tougher and tougher. There is the pleased with this acquisition and Industries, the sale of N&W to Lone yesterday, missing market forecasts and a 1.9 percent growth rate seen rally in the yen and worries about believe that it will help us drive long- Star Funds, the full sale of Skrill and rekindling worries about the in the first quarter of the year. Japan’s prospects in overseas mar- term value for Secure Link.” Group to Optimal Payments (now government’s faltering bid to stoke Japanese officials are under kets. And so companies are becoming Marco Barkmeijer, Chief Exec- renamed Paysafe Group plc), the a recovery. growing pressure to deliver as econ- more pessimistic about making utive Officer of Secure Link, added: IPO of Sophos Group plc on the Growth in the world’s third larg- omists increasingly write off Prime investments.” “The UK is the largest and most London Stock Exchange and the est economy was flat at 0.0 percent Minister Shinzo Abe’s (pictured) Inflation dropped for a fourth advanced IT security market in complete exit of a minority stake on-quarter, falling below economists’ years-long bid to cement a lasting straight month in June, delivering a Europe and Nebulas has built a in Autodistribution. expectations for a modest 0.2 percent recovery, dubbed Abenomics. fresh blow to Abe’s war on deflation. Oil impact: GCC corporate profits and net margins in most sectors slip

The Peninsula Interestingly, the net profit mar- weighted down by poor perform- cycle has eroded margins for contrac- sectors have all done well in the past Going ahead, Marmore expects gins of large cap stocks (5yr average ance from two operators - Vodafone tors, construction material providers five years. Margins for firms provid- margin pressures to continue in of 17.5 percent) in GCC were much Qatar and Mobile Telecommunica- such as cement and steel companies ing financial services such as loans, basic materials (2015 – 11.1 percent), higher than those of mid cap (5yr avg, tions Company (Saudi Arabia). These and infrastructure firms by 200bps working capital, insurance, wealth industrials (11.2 percent) and energy DOHA: The corporate earnings 9.9 percent) and small cap stocks (5yr two companies are relatively new to 800bps over the past five years. management products and leasing (8.3 percent) sectors as oil price is not for GCC companies have been dis- avg, 5.8 percent). Outperformance is entrants to the market and are yet to For firms operating in energy and solutions have expanded by 980bps expected to rebound any time soon appointing for the first half of this possible as most large caps such as break-even. Phenomenon of nega- industrial sectors, lower realisa- in the past five years. Lower cost of and restrained government spend- year, as they continue to face head- SABIC, Qatar Industries and Emaar tive margins was witnessed largely in tions for petrochemical products and capital, ample liquidity and regula- ing could lead to stalled infrastructure winds from plummeting oil prices Properties often enjoy extra govern- small-cap sector especially in compa- stronger currency has affected mar- tions that call for mandatory purchase projects. Poor labour productivity which has resulted in slower eco- ment patronage in terms of contracts, nies operating in telecom, technology gins; intense competition leading to of insurance have aided in their stel- would continue to squeeze margins nomic growth for the region and access to raw materials and funding. and energy sectors. This could be declining Average Revenue Per User lar growth. in labour intensive sectors while reduced government spending. Net margins varied widely among because they are still establishing (ARPU), saturated market and for- Food processing firms, retailers, increasing interest rates and liquidity Corporate profits and net margins, the sectors depending on the size of themselves to gain a foothold. eign exchange losses have restrained wholesale distributors and traders for problems could pose as a headwind for at an aggregate level, have been on their operations. For instance, large- Profit margins in sectors such as profit margins for telecommunication whom the consumer demand is resil- financials. It is hard to sustain higher a clear downtrend for most sectors cap telecom companies like Emirates basic materials, industrials, energy, service providers. On the other hand, ient to vagaries of business cycle have margins as profitable industries are in the region. However, the aggre- Telecommunications Group Co, Saudi utilities and telecommunication there are sectors that have bucked the also done well. Favourable demo- bound to attract competition. How- gate profit margin conceals a broad Telecom Co, Ooredoo etc, with their services were affected by various trend and successfully expanded their graphics, rising per capita incomes ever, companies that can successfully divergence of trends among various first mover advantage and govern- factors. Subdued activity in infra- margins as well. Firms in technology, and a lifestyle which is consumption- create moats by establishing a signifi- sectors, Marmore MENA Intelligence, ment support, have enjoyed healthy structure space, softening real estate financials — particularly Non-Bank- driven have benefitted the consumer cant competitive advantage over their research subsidiary of Kuwait Finan- double-digit margins while mid-cap activity as evidenced by stagnating ing Financial Corporations (NBFCs), non-cyclical sector whose margins rivals could weather the competition cial Centre “Markaz”, said yesterday. telecom companies in the region were sales and prolonged working capital healthcare and consumer non-cyclical have increased by 480bps since 2011. and sustainably grow their profits. Kalyan Jewellers unveils new diamond collection Barwa Bank announces

The Peninsula of Kalyan Jewellers said: “The dancing diamond collection Glo is an ode to the Thara’a 10th round winners multidimensional woman of today and DOHA: Kalyan Jewellers, one of the is an extension of her personality. Jewel- GCC’s leading jewellery brands has lery differs in motifs and designs across The Peninsula 10th round was conducted under the super- announced the launch of Glo, a collec- different regions around the world and vision of a representative of the Qualitative tion of ‘dancing’ diamond jewellery. This Kalyan Jewellers understands the need Licence and Market Control Department at the collection features pendants, rings, ear- to fulfill distinct customer preferences DOHA: Barwa Bank has announced the names Ministry of Economy and Commerce. rings and bracelets, expertly crafted and based on local and cultural sensibilities. of winners of the 10th round of Thara’a, its Totalling QR3m, Thara’a cash rewards are placed in a way that allows the diamond We believe that the collection will reso- Shari’ah compliant savings account, draw. distributed on both a monthly and biannual in the center to dance gracefully, with nate well with our customers in the region Khalid Mohd S Al Kuwari, Jamal Abdu A H Al basis to customers holding a minimum bal- every twist, every turn and every heart- and will be a perfect adornment for any Ammari, Faisal Ahmed R A Alnaimi, and Noora ance of QR10,000. On a monthly basis, there beat. special occasion.” Rashid E S Al Enazi, each won a cash prize of are seven winners per draw for the cash prize Glo Dancing Diamonds are a perfect Glo Collection will be showcased in a QR10,000. of QR5,000, as well as four winners per draw match of craft and innovation in jewel- new brand campaign featuring style icon Daleen Munther M Alkhatib, Taleb Moham- for the cash prize of QR10,000. Additionally, lery technology. A ring of carefully set and Kalyan Jewellers prestigious brand med T A Ahmed, Hassan Ahmed A M Al Mutawa, twice-a-year there are four winners per draw diamonds is suspended in an orb, cre- ambassador Sonam Kapoor. The collec- Khalid Nawaf, Saoud Ali A A Al Tamimi, for the cash prize of QR25,000, two winners ating a lighting effect. Commenting tion is priced at QR1,800 onwards and is Mohammed Gamal Mohammed Zian and per draw for the cash prize of QR50,000 and on the new collection, T S Kalyanara- available at all Kalyan Jewellers show- Abdulmajeed Abdulrahman M A Alyafei, each one winner per draw for the grand prize of man, Chairman and Managing Director rooms across Qatar. won a cash prize worth QR5,000. The draw’s QR1m. In total, 102 winners are rewarded. BUSINESS TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 11,128.17 0.67 % QE Total Return Index 18,004.64 0.67 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,239.64 0.30 % QE All Share Index 3,060.06 0.52 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 3,021.36 0.49 % QE All Share Industrials 3,356.33 0.47 % QE All Share Transportation 2,593.1 0.49 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,780.68 0.30 % QE All Share Insurance 4,500.91 1.11 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,259.03 1.96 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,565.66 0.31 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 14-08-2016 Today 11-08-2016 Previous day Index 11,128.17 11,053.88 Change 74.29 98.57 % 0.67 0.90 YTD% 6.70 5.99 Volume 8,129,351 6,769,223 Value (QAR) 371,867,722.64 230,580,818.84 Trades 5,385 4,031 Up 26 | Down 14 | Unchanged 02

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5633.81 7.508 0.13 5691.8 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4505.85 5.66 0.13 4607.69 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 0 0 0 18638.3 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 22932.51 165.6 0.73 22816.75 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6070.64 18.05 0.3 6791.68 5286.65 Karachi 100 In/D 40030.52 122.88 0.31 40083.06 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 16869.56 -50.36 -0.3 18951.12 14864.01 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2188.45 1810.1

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rather than disputes like the South rates,” Yi told a news briefing, add- leaders of countries including the China Sea, senior officials said yes- ing this would be the first G20 to United States, Japan, South Korea The meeting comes terday. discuss foreign exchange markets in and Australia are all also expected as clouds continue The summit of the world’s 20 big- such detail. to touch upon tricky subjects such as gest economies in the eastern city The G20 will also discuss how to China’s increasingly assertive moves to hover over global of Hangzhou will be the highlight better monitor and respond to risks in the South China Sea, diplomats say. growth prospects of President Xi Jinping’s diplomatic presented by global capital flows, he Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong and worries about agenda this year, and the govern- said. did not directly answer a question ment is keen to ensure it proceeds Despite increasingly protection- about whether the G20 was the right China’s own slowing smoothly. The September 4-5 lead- ist rhetoric around the world, the place to discuss the South China Sea, economy. ers’ meeting comes as clouds continue G20 is strongly opposed to anti-trade saying various countries always had to hover over global growth prospects and anti-investment sentiment, Vice their own agendas to push on issues and worries about China’s own slow- Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said. of concern at such meetings. ing economy. “We really do need to make sure “This meeting, this G20 summit Reuters Last month’s meeting of G20 pol- FROM LEFT: People’s Bank of China Vice-Governor Yi Gang, Vice-Finance that the people, the public, bene- in Hangzhou, has as its theme eco- icymakers was dominated by the Minister Zhu Guangyao and China’s Vice-Foreign Minister Li Baodong fit from economic development and nomic growth,” Li said. impact of Britain’s exit from Europe growth. If people don’t feel like they “How can we have sustainable, attend a conference on the upcoming G20 Summit in Beijing, yesterday. and fears of rising protectionism. are beneficiaries of economic devel- balanced and inclusive growth. This BEIJING: China expects next month’s Yi Gang, a Vice-Governor of the opment, if they don’t think their lot is what everyone is focused on and is summit of the G20 which it is host- People’s Bank of China, said the through open, inclusive trade and confidence and ensure there are no in life is improving, that’s when they the consensus. We believe that mem- ing will focus on boosting economic summit will focus on how to stimu- the development of robust financial competitive devaluations but rather start getting all kinds of ideas.” ber states will discuss this important growth and other financial issues late sluggish global economic growth markets. “We need to instil market let the market determine exchange But meetings between Xi and the subject and find a resolution.” 20 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

Crowdfunding Opec oil output freeze catches on in India

By Saritha Rai deal to be a tough task “Innovative ideas have the best Bloomberg chance of success,” said Priyanka Agarwal, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant who co-founded the Mumbai-based site Wishberry. hen farmers in the Local sites benefit from the scorched village of spread of technology. India is now Horti in Western the world’s second-largest inter- India were strug- net market, with more than 342 Wgling to raise money for a canal, million mobile users and online they turned to an unlikely source: payment options that make it a crowdfunding website called easy to give money. FuelADream. Projects are wide-ranging. In The farmers had never heard Indore, a town in central India, of crowdfunding before, but a crowdfunding is used to provide local non-profit group suggested board, lodging and schooling for the site and helped them write 31 children orphaned by farmer a proposal that explained how suicides. In Delhi, the technol- a canal would help feed local ogy has been used to develop a families. Within weeks, they had matchmaking app called Love- raised Rs300,000 ($4,490) from ability that connects people with about 100 people. They donated disabilities. And in Bangalore, an equal amount of their own vChalk has raised about $2,400 money and built the storage duct. to offer remedial English and Monsoon rains arrived a few math classes for the children of weeks ago, filling the new 8km street vendors, factory workers long, 10-metre wide waterway and security guards. “Crowd- that runs through fields where funding ensures that we won’t farmers will soon plant soybeans, run out of funds till investors sugarcane and cereal grains. come in,” said Daniela Gheorghe, “Who would imagine that who co-founded vChalk in 2014. strangers would donate money Two former athletes in A police officer stands guard on the rooftop of Opec headquarters in Vienna. to help build a canal in a place Mumbai, Shriyans Bhandari they had never even seen?” asked and Ramesh Dhami, turned to Manohar Kulkarni, 69, a retired crowdfunding last year when By Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler rival for the position of the world’s top oil of freeze talks in April, Iran is no longer the government official and native they came up with the idea of Reuters producer, boosted output to 10.67 million only obstacle to the deal. of Horti, which used to rely on refurbishing old sports shoes so barrels per day in July from 10.2 million in Iraq, Opec’s second largest producer, tankers trundling along its rut- the underprivileged could have January, when the freeze idea first emerged. which in April was saying it would support ted roads to supply water. comfortable footwear. Their ven- Since 2014, Saudi Arabia, Opec’s de facto the deal, has since agreed with oil majors on In India, crowdfunding is ture, Greensole, raised money pec will probably revive talks leader, has been raising output to drive new contract terms to develop its massive taking an unusual twist. While from the likes of Rolls-Royce on freezing oil output lev- higher cost producers out of the market fields, which will allow output to rise further US sites like Indiegogo and and the Tata Group and then els when it meets non-Opec and win back share from rivals such as the next year by up to 350,000 bpd. RocketHub focus on financ- gave away 10,000 pairs of shoes. nations next month as top United States, where output soared on the Nigeria and Libya could present further ing startups and new products, The for-profit startup now plans exporter Saudi Arabia appears back of the high oil price of the past decade. complicating factors, delegates said. Nigeria’s India’s crowdfunding compa- to sell its products online. “This Oto want higher prices, according to Opec As a result, oil prices collapsed to $27 per output hit its lowest in over two decades this nies are using the power of the medium has the ability to democ- sources, although Iran, Iraq and Russia barrel in January from as high as $115 in mid- year due to attacks on oil sites and Libya is internet to tackle social causes, ratise funding and get market present obstacles to a deal. 2014, capping output of the United States but pumping a fraction of the pre-conflict level - including early education, child- validation for any new venture,” Riyadh sharply raised expectations for a also hitting hard Saudi Arabia’s budget and raising the question of what level they should hood nutrition and support for said Satish Kataria, founder and global production deal between on Thursday resulting in a record fiscal deficit for Riyadh. limit supplies at. indigent farmers. Given the coun- managing director of the Mum- when Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih said A previous attempt to freeze output at While Nigeria supported April’s freeze try’s poverty, donors can make a bai-based Catapooolt, the site Saudi Arabia will work with Opec and non- January levels to support prices collapsed initiative, Libya declined to join the talks. difference with small amounts of where Greensole raised money. Opec members to help stabilise oil markets. in April after Saudi Arabia said it wanted Russia, which back in April was ready money, and entrepreneurs get the Piyush Jain has been think- “The comments by the Saudi energy min- all producers, including regional rival Iran, to freeze production in the first coordinated opportunity to experiment with ing about crowdfunding in ister give a positive indication that they are to join the initiative. Tehran argues it needs action with Opec since 2001, also signaled it new ideas before pitching them India since he was a student at willing to go for a freeze deal but the ques- to regain market share lost during years of was no longer very keen on a dialogue and to big-time financiers or gov- Harvard University from 2011 tion remains: on what level?” said an Opec Western sanctions, which have been only would continue boosting output. ernment officials. “There are a to 2013. He wrote his graduate source from a key Middle Eastern producer. softened in January. Its output currently hovers near an all billion dreams waiting to come thesis on leveraging the tech- “Will the freeze be Over the past few months, Iran, Opec’s time high of 10.85 and Russian officials true,” said Ranganath Thota, a nology to solve the country’s at January levels? And third biggest producer, has boosted output expect it to edge up further next year. former PepsiCo executive, who developmental problems and what about Iran? And close to pre-sanctions levels and has repeat- And even Saudi Arabia itself has raised started the Bangalore-based Fue- began work on his site Impact then there is Nigeria, edly signaled it has no plans to join the freeze its output to record levels in July, which Falih lADream a year ago. Guru in the school’s innovation which has lost a lot of initiative. “I do not see any real chance,” a has explained was due to rising seasonal The crowdfunding industry lab. Now based in Mumbai, he’s production since Janu- source familiar with Iranian oil thinking said domestic demand and customers asking for provided about $34.4bn in capi- run hundreds of campaigns in the ary,” the source added. on Saturday in reference to the prospect of more oil worldwide. tal globally last year and is set to past two years and raised about Only days after Fal- a freeze deal in September. These increases arise as countries which surpass venture capital this year, $180,000, including for the edu- ih’s remarks, Energy Opec members will meet on the side- usually do not join any global actions such as according to California-based cation startup vChalk. “Knocking A previous attempt Minister Alexander lines of the International Energy Forum (IEF), North American producers are expected to research advisory Massolution. on people’s doors or cold-calling to freeze output Novak was quoted as which groups producers and consumers, in add more barrels. The International Energy No reliable numbers are available to solicit donations can only go so at January levels saying Russia is consult- Algeria on September 26-28. Agency expects non-Opec output to rise by for India which, by all estimates, far,” said Jain. “The old ways are ing with Saudi Arabia “However, if prices go down further, some 300,000 bpd next year after a decline of accounts for a small fraction of not working anymore.” to support prices and other producers to Opec members will try to send positive sig- 900,000 bpd in 2015 as North American this. But local crowdfunding sites He’s working to find new collapsed in April after achieve oil market sta- nals to the market to keep prices at least at output stabilises. are proliferating and drawing applications for the technology. bility, adding that the current levels,” the source added. Hence, persuading countries such as attention from backers includ- Later this month, Impact Guru Saudi Arabia said it door is still open for Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh Iran, Iraq and Russia to return to output con- ing the World Bank and Silicon will partner with the United wanted all producers, more discussions on said in parliament last week he wanted to trols will be a difficult task for Riyadh but a Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla, Nations Development Fund for output freeze, if needed. take the country’s output to 4.6 million bpd worst option would be to raise expectations who is financing market-based Women to run a crowdfunding including Iran, to join Saudi Arabia, within 5 years — much above the current of a deal that doesn’t happen, like in April. approaches to development. contest. the initiative. together with Russia 3.6 million bpd and pre-sanction levels of “No agreement will collapse the market, and the United States a 3.8-4.0 million bpd. But since the collapse and Opec,” said the first Opec source. Bank of Japan money target up for debate in review

By Leika Kihara maintain its pledge to hit 2 percent inflation whether more money printing will help hit Takahide Kiuchi, have also warned of the Reuters as soon as possible. That suggested that the 2 percent inflation, the sources said. side effects of the aggressive bond purchases, most likely outcome of the review might be “If the BOJ’s main goal is to push down such as drying up market liquidity. modest fine-tuning of its “quantitative and long-term rates, one feasible idea is to set With prices sliding three years into the qualitative easing” (QQE) programme, which an interest rate cap. The BOJ already holds adoption of QQE, there is also less convic- he Bank of Japan’s policy review combines buying bonds and riskier assets enormous amounts of government bonds, tion within the BOJ that expanding money could put up for debate its target with negative interest rates. so it can probably keep yields low without printing to meet the base money target has for expanding base money through Tweaks might include changing the buying too much further,” said Hideo Hay- had much impact on inflation expectations. massive asset purchases, sources average duration of bonds the BOJ holds, cur- akawa, a former top BOJ economist who is These factors all heighten the allure Tsay, but the challenge would be to avoid rently between seven and 12 years, so that well versed in the bank’s policy. “This may be of abandoning the base money target, but spooking bond markets used to years of the central bank has more flexibility over the better option, particularly for a country that risks triggering a sell-off in the govern- unprecedented buying. which bonds to buy when assessing market like Japan, which has a huge fiscal deficit,” ment bond market if traders fear the BOJ is The Bank of Japan’s The BOJ’s announcement last month of a supply and demand. But sources familiar said Hayakawa, whose views are closely fol- withdrawing its stimulus programme, the announcement last month thorough review of its policy and its effects with the BOJ’s thinking say a more radical lowed by incumbent policymakers. sources said. The BOJ could try to limit the triggered a sharp bond sell-off as inves- makeover of the program isn’t off the table. To be clear, there is no consensus yet on risk by committing to keep long-term rates of a thorough review of tors feared the central bank, wary of its One option could be to shift its target from how the comprehensive review could affect below a certain level, though some BOJ offi- its policy and its effects dwindling policy tools, might lean toward base money to long-term interest rates, which the direction of monetary policy. It is also cials worry that any tweaking of the base triggered a sharp bond reducing its government bond purchases. would relieve the BOJ from the pressure to uncertain whether this will emerge as a money target could hurt already weak infla- It is currently buying roughly 110-120 keep up the current level of bond buying, strong option as debate on the review heats tion expectations. sell-off as investors feared trillion yen in bonds each year to meet its which could soon exhaust the available sup- up. But the fact the review is taking place The idea would also face resistance from the central bank, wary pledge to expand base money — or cash and ply. “The BOJ is now in a war of attrition, which underscores a growing feeling within the BOJ BOJ Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata, among deposits in circulation — by an annual 80 means it needs to try and extend the lifespan that some changes need to be made to QQE. the architects of QQE and a staunch believer of its dwindling policy trillion yen ($790bn). But after initial suc- of QQE,” said one source. “Reconsidering the The BOJ already holds a third of the entire that printing more money will push up infla- tools, might lean toward cesses in the asset-buying programme, base money target could be one solution.” government bond market, and the Interna- tion. Still, the idea would give the BOJ some which is aimed at ending two decades of The idea of reviewing the base money tional Monetary Fund has warned the BOJ welcome wiggle room in its bond buying pro- reducing its government deflationary pressure, prices are falling target, floated by several former BOJ exec- will run out of bonds to buy in coming years. gramme, as its rapidly expanding balance bond purchases. again. Sources said that the BOJ had already utives, has gained support from some in the Some on the BOJ board, such as former sheet boosts the potential losses it would suf- prepared an outline of the review that will central bank who have grown doubtful on market economists Takehiro Sato and fer from sharp falls in bond prices. TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 21

Herath’s six-for restricts Australia

Skipper Smith and Pakistan deserve to Marsh hit centuries as the visitors take a narrow 24-run lead be No 1, says Misbah

AFP AFP think it’s easy -- the UAE suits us, we win -- but just getting every day away from the country, with- out family and friends and all games COLOMBO: Centuries from skip- LONDON: Pakistan captain Mis- out of Pakistan, it’s really difficult,” per Steve Smith and Shaun Marsh bah-ul-Haq (pictured) said his side Misbah told reporters at The Oval gave Australia hope of a consola- will deserve to be the world’s top- on Sunday after Pakistan won with tion victory in the final Test against ranked Test team after they came more than a day to spare. Sri Lanka yesterday before being from behind to draw a four-match “It’s mentally tough -- I’ve only pegged back by their bogeyman Ran- series 2-2 in England. seen my mother and sister once in gana Herath. Their 10-wicket thrashing of the a year, some friends I haven’t seen Smith and Marsh put on a record hosts in the fourth and final Test at for three or four years. 246 runs for the second wicket, rais- The Oval on Sunday gave Pakistan, “It’s not easy, given those cir- ing Australian hopes of building a currently third in the standings, a cumstances but the team is playing match-winning lead in response to chance of climb- competitive cricket. Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 355 ing to the top of the “I am really before the veteran Herath put the table. proud of them and brakes on with a six wicket haul. But for that to this team really Australia were eventually all out happen later this deserves to be for 379, a lead which was reduced month they need Sri number one.” to just two runs by the close of play Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath (centre) appeals during the third day of the third and final Test match against Lanka to win 2-0 or Pakistan’s suc- as Sri Lanka reached 22 at stumps, Australia at The Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) Ground in Colombo, yesterday. 3-0 at home to Aus- cess at The Oval albeit with the loss of opener Dilru- tralia, coupled with -- which was wan Perera who was lbw to Mitchell a 2-0 or 2-1 series achieved on the Starc for eight. Silva who has so far made six at the are trailing 0-2. Herath -- who took a The marathon partnership win for India away 69th anniversary Dimuth Karunaratne was Sinhalese Sports Club ground in the hat-trick in the last Test and 10 wick- between Smith and Marsh was to the West Indies. of the country’s unbeaten on eight, alongside Kaushal final match of the series. Australia ets in the first match of the series the highest second-wicket stand Pakistan’s foundation as -- again brought the hosts back into between the two countries. achievement is all an independent SCOREBOARD contention by taking six for 81. The pair ensured that Australia the more impres- state -- was built Sri Lanka (I innings): 355 Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-267, 3-275, 4-283, The 38-year-old veteran ran did not lose a wicket in the first ses- sive as they have on a brilliant 218 through the Australian tail with help sion as the visitors took lunch on 235 not played a Test by Younis Khan, Australia (I innings): 5-316, 6-353, 7-367, 8-376, 9-377, 10-379. from fellow spinner Dilruwan Pere- for one. series on home soil a hundred from D Warner c K Perera b de Silva 11 Bowling: Perera 44-4-129-2; de Silva 7-0- ra’s two wickets. Marsh, who was drafted into the since an armed attack on Sri Lanka’s Asad Shafiq and five second-innings S Marsh b Lakmal 130 27-1; Herath 38.1-11-81-6; Sandakan 19-0-70- Medium-pacer Suranga Lakmal Australia side because of his long team bus in Lahore in 2009 turned wickets for leg-spinner Yasir Shah. S Smith st K Perera b Herath 119 0; Lakmal 13-0-54-1; Mathews 4-1-5-0. struck with the second new ball in experience of Asian conditions, sur- the country into a no-go area for the It was an especially impressive A Voges lbw Herath 22 Sri Lanka (II innings): the second session to get the wicket vived a dropped catch on 67 early in world’s leading Test nations. result given that after their 75-run

of Marsh and break the dangerous the morning against Herath but soon The United Arab Emirates has win in the first Test at Lord’s --

M Henriques st K Perera b Herath 4 D Perera lbw Starc 8 partnership. took control. since become their adopted base. where 42-year-old skipper Misbah M Marsh c Mendis b Herath 53 D Karunaratne (batting) 8 Marsh, who had hit his 19th He brought up his hundred But for all their success in con- made a hundred -- Pakistan had P Nevill lbw D Perera 14 K Silva (batting) 6 boundary off the previous delivery, with an inside edge off Dilruwan ditions similar to those on home suffered heavy defeats, by 330 and M Starc (not out) 9 Total (for 1 wkt) 22 was bowled on 130 after he chopped Perera that went for a boundary soil, Pakistan often find themselves 141 runs, at Old Trafford and Edg- N Lyon c Mendis b D Perera 3 To bat: K Perera, K Mendis, A Mathews, D Lakmal’s good length delivery onto and celebrated the milestone by facing in the dispiriting position baston respectively. his stumps. hugging his skipper at the other of playing before meagre crowds But Misbah was even happier J Hazlewood b Herath 0 Chandimal, D de Silva, R Herath, L Sandakan, S Smith, who hit 10 fours and a six end. rather than in front of their own with his side’ conduct on their first J Holland c Mathews b Herath 1 Lakmal. during his 119-run knock, departed Smith, who resumed the day on passionate supporters. tour of England since a controver- Extras (B-4, LB-9) 13 Fall of wicket: 1-8. after being stumped off Herath, with 61, reached his 15th Test century to “This team deserves that (going sial trip in 2010 saw often strained Total (all out) 379 Bowling: Starc 3-0-19-1; Lyon 2-0-3-0. the third umpire ruling in favour of improve on his previous best of 55 to number one) for six years of no Anglo-Pakistani cricket relations the bowler in a close decision. in the series. cricket at home, sometimes people sink to an all-time low.

Pakistan fined for Cook laments familiar failings after defeat slow over-rate at The Oval AFP probably never will be,” added Cook in a reference to the Pakistan leg- spinner, who took 10 wickets in the AFP tourists’ first Test win at Lord’s and LONDON: England captain Alastair five for 71 in England’s second innings Cook said his side had still to conquer across London at The Oval. some longstanding problems after “But he continues to work incred- LONDON: Pakistan have been Pakistan had derailed their quest ibly hard at it - and he picks up vital fined for a slow over-rate in the to become the world’s number one wickets. fourth Test against England at The Test side. “It’s an area of the game which Oval, the International Cricket Pakistan’s emphatic 10-wicket we’ll look at.” Council announced yesterday. win in the fourth Test at The Oval, England’s fallible close catching Match referee Richie Rich- a victory achieved with more than a was another worry for Cook. ardson, the former West Indies day to spare, saw the tourists deserv- “We can’t afford to drop as many captain, imposed the fine after edly end the four-match series all catches as we have in this series if we Misbah-ul-Haq’s side, who won square at 2-2. want to bowl sides out on good wick- by 10 wickets on Sunday to draw In the process they ended Eng- ets like this one here,” he said. the four-match series 2-2, were land’s immediate hopes of returning But Cook said the team’s prob- ruled to be one over short of to the top of the world rankings for lems at The Oval were a fair their target of 158 overs when the first time since 2012 and pre- reflection of their overall standing time allowances, which include vented Cook’s side from holding as a side who now remain fourth in third umpire referrals, drinks bilateral series trophies against all the world rankings. breaks and injuries, were taken the other nine Test-playing nations. “At the beginning of this game it into account. Opening batsman Cook and was ‘you can become number one, Under the ICC code of con- number three Joe Root continued to could do all this’,” he said. duct, players are fined 10 percent England’s Joe Root and Alastair Cook (right) look dejected after a missed chance during the fourth Test rack up the runs, but the rest of Eng- “Probably these four days (show) of their match fees for every over land’s specialist batsmen struggled match against Pakistan at the Oval on Saturday. exactly where we are.” their side fails to bowl in the allot- against Pakistan. A bad Test for Hales was made ted time, with the captain fined Cook and Root scored a com- worse when he was fined 15 percent double that amount. bined 935 at an average of 66.78 over they should be putting the icing on Hales the latest batsman to be given a Pakistan series came at an expensive of his match fee for confronting third Consequently, Misbah, who the four Tests, whereas the equiva- the cake, not making the cake. chance to make the position his own. average of 46.54 apiece and denied umpire Joel Wilson following his con- accepted the punishment handed lent tally for the other members of “It is frustrating. It’s a big area “It’s not easy,” Cook said. “Until Cook the control he wanted in the troversial first-innings dismissal off down by Richardson, has been the top five -- Alex Hales, James we’ve got to keep working on -- and you get that score, it is a very hard field. a low catch. fined 20 percent of his match fee. Vince and Gary Ballance -- was 498 obviously, for us to take that next place to be. But there is a hell of a lot “With the spin, Mo has done a Nottinghamshire and England If Pakistan commit another runs at 22.63. step, top-order first-innings runs of talent in the guys who are playing.” fantastic job for us since he came team-mate Stuart Broad received a minor over-rate breach in a Test “Consistently, we haven’t scored are vital.” Ever since former captain Spin remains an issue too, with into the side as a batter who bowled 20 percent fine for his Twitter com- within 12 months of this offence enough runs at the top of the order,” Andrew Strauss retired four years Moeen Ali’s position as the lone spe- a bit -- and he’s had to share a lot of ments on the topic. with Misbah as captain, it will Cook said. ago, England have struggled to find a cialist slow bowler in a five-man responsibility to do that as part of a “It’s not ideal,” he said of Hales’s be deemed a second offence “It’s great we’ve got strength in reliable partner at the top of the order attack again under scrutiny. five-man attack.” conduct. “In the heat of the moment... by Misbah and he will face a depth. But the majority of the time for Cook, with Nottinghamshire’s The off-spinner’s11 wickets in the “He’s not a Yasir Shah, and I’m sure he won’t do that again.” suspension. 22 TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 SPORT

Suarez gives Barca edge in Supercup

well by goalkeeper Sergio Rico. Fenerbahce Second half strikes At the other end Jorge Sampaoli’s team worked their way into the game from the Uruguayan but despite plenty of possession in choose and El Haddadi seals dangerous areas, they couldn’t cre- ate any clear-cut chances to worry Advocaat a 2-0 win at Sevilla Claudio Bravo. After Gerard Pique half-cleared the ball Vitolo fired in a stinging drive but Javier Mascher- AFP ano was alert, bravely blocking the forward’s effort. Luis Suarez spurned another good chance at the start of the sec- MADRID: Luis Suarez and Munir El ond half when Rico saved his flicked Haddadi shot down Sevilla to give effort, but it was third time lucky for Barcelona a comfortable victory in the Uruguayan. Denis Suarez lofted the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup a neat ball into the area and Turan final on Sunday. chested it home for the forward to The Uruguayan opened the scor- finish with aplomb. ing early in the second half, making Messi should have doubled the AFP amends for two misses earlier in the lead moments later, but Rico made game, before Munir sealed the win a fine stop from his dinked effort, when he ran on to a Lionel Messi after good work by Turan and Sua- ISTANBUL: Dutch coach Dick through-ball. rez carved the Argentine an opening. Advocaat (pictured) yesterday Having been beaten 4-0 by Ath- Eventually substitute Munir El arrived in Istanbul to take over as letic Bilbao in the first leg of last Haddadi managed to, after Messi manager of Turkish giants Fen- year’s final, Barcelona were deter- fed through an inviting through-ball erbahce and reverse the club’s mined to improve on that showing which he stroked past Rico with the fortunes after it failed to win sil- and have set themselves up nicely outside of his left boot. verware last season and exited for the second leg at Camp Nou on It was evident that neither team this year’s Champions League. August 17. Barcelona forward Luis Suarez reacts during the first leg the first leg of the Spanish Supercup match between were as fit as they would have liked, Advocaat’s rapid appoint- Luis Enrique sprang a surprise against Sevilla FC at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Sevilla on Sunday. with Sevilla energy levels falling ment follows the sacking of Vitor with his selection, picking Jeremy away in the second half, no doubt as a Pereira in an acrimonious parting Mathieu at left-back and Arda Turan result of playing 120 minutes against that ended with the club unilater- at left-wing in place of the absent both Lucas Digne and Denis Suarez appearance for Barcelona, taking The first period saw few chances Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup ally terminating the contract of Neymar, with all four summer sign- had to be brought on for their offi- over from Carles Puyol as the player created, although the best of them fell earlier in the week. Barcelona, mean- the Portuguese. ings left out. Sergi Roberto was also cial debuts, with Jeremy Mathieu and with the second most appearances to Luis Suarez in the sixth minute. while, are still below their best, with He arrived late afternoon at chosen out of position at right-back, Andres Iniesta injuring their ham- for the club, behind Xavi Hernandez, Sergio Busquets played him in and Messi struggling to get into the game Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport ahead of Aleix Vidal. string and knee respectively. but it was ended prematurely after a after spinning masterfully away from at times, although he still put the sec- for final talks, Fenerbahce’s tele- However, by the 35th minute Iniesta was making his 594th fierce challenge by Gabriel Mercado. the defence his low strike was saved ond goal on a plate for Munir. vision channel said. In a lightning fast process, he could be taking charge of the team’s training as soon as today, the NTV channel and Fanatik sports daily reported. Germany’s Podolski ends In a statement to Fanatik, Advocaat, 68, appeared to con- firm the appointment, saying he thought he would not return to club management but Fenerbahce international career made an offer he could not refuse. “Fenerbahce made me an unbelievable offer. And I agreed. You don’t turn down such an offer Reuters my time with the DFB (the Ger- for Galatarasaray, was an unused from such a big club,” he was man Football Federation) is over,” substitute in the 2014 World Cup quoted as saying. Podolski said in a statement on his final when Germany edged Argen- In a colourful managerial Instagram account. tina in extra-time to claim a fourth career spanning over three dec- BERLIN: Germany’s World Cup win- The 31-year-old said he has title. ades that has seen spells with ner Lukas Podolski announced his informed coach Joachim Loew of He made one brief substitute some two dozen clubs and coun- retirement from international foot- his decision. appearance at his seventh major tries, Advocaat had most recently ball yesterday, bringing to an end a “I am dedicating myself more tournament as Germany reached managed clubs including Zenit St glittering 12-year career. to other things, mainly my family,” the semi-finals of Euro 2016 where Petersburg and Sunderland. Podolski retires as Germany’s he explained. “The national team they were defeated by France. Fenerbahce decided to part third highest capped player with has always been in my heart, and He made his Germany debut as company with Pereira after the Germany’s forward Lukas Podolski celebrating with the World Cup trophy 129 appearances, behind only Lothar they always will be, but I felt after a teenager in 2004 despite interest team’s defeat at the hands of Matthaeus and Miroslav Klose, hav- the Euros and the vacation that my from Poland, the land of his birth, after winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup final match against Argentina Monaco in the third qualifying ing scored 48 goals. focus has shifted.” and was voted best young player of at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in this. July 13, 2014 round of the Champions League “Everything has its time - and Podolski, who currently plays the 2006 World Cup on home soil. file picture. earlier this month. PIBAQ: Junalvin retain Senior’s Open Division tile

The Peninsula advantage from a rainbow basket of Ronald Batarao. Wild cheers from Junalvin fans reverber- ated the venue just after the final buzzer was DOHA: Junalvin Doha Cables is back to back sounded. champion of Senior’s Open Division of Oore- PIBAQ has chosen Ooredoo’s Jojo Longalong doo Ambassador’s Cup 2016 after it thwarted a with Most Valuable Player plum for Season 20 valiant Ooredoo, with a convincing 99-86 win while Robin Mendoza was named Finals MVP. in their game over the weekend at Al Gharafa Junalvin coach Felix Lloren Jr was adjudged Training Gym. best coach of the season. The champions of Pinoy Basketball of Qatar Completing the line up were Mythical Five (PIBAQ) 20th Season were so overwhelming Awardees incljuding Jerson Sales of Batang throughout the game with double digit edge Sanna as guard, Junalvin’s Robin Mendoza as even with at times Ooredoo tried to fought guard, team Vintage’s Restie Mangulabnan as back, the most crucial of which was when it forward, Junalvin’s Oscar Butial as forward and closes in with just 8-point deficit from a bas- Ooredoo;s Jojo Longalong as center. ket in the three-point territory by Jay Abejero. Apart from a plaque and medal, the awar- Junalvin however bounced back to 10-point dees were also given each cash award. lead with Oscar Butial perfect from the free The Ooredoo 20th Season Ambassador’s throw line with 20 seconds left. Cup of Pinoy Basketball of Qatar (PIBAQ) is pre- Ernesto Garcia nailed the coffin and sealed sented by Alicafe. safely the game from a three-point basket with The tournament is broughtby Qatar three seconds left to capture the crown. Basketball Federation and the Philippine Both teams traded baskets in the first half Embassy in Qatar and Co-Sponsored by but the real test of the battle was seen in the Diana Jewellery and Watches, Power Horse third quarter as both teams refused to budge Energy Drink, Control-P Seventh Spectrum showing tenacity to grab the crown. GO Sports, Philippine Airlines and Shutters- Ooredoo gave Junalvin a big scare with bug Photography. just a point edge with six minutes left from the A round trip ticket Manila to Doha and basket of Owen Pichache and one of two con- Manila to Doha will be given away by Phil- version of Cris Mendoza from the free-throw ippine Airlines to a lucky fan during the Junalvin Doha Cables players proudly beams with pride on their medals and crown as winners of Ooredoo Ambassador line. championship game of which a raffle draw Junalvin started to pull away in double digit will be drawn on August 12. 2016 Seniors Open. SPORT TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2016 23

Barshim raises Qatar’s hopes SUNDAY’S MEDAL STANDINGS Countries G S B T United States 26 21 22 69 Britain 15 16 7 38 China 15 13 17 45 of a medal, cruises into finals Russia 9 11 10 30 Germany 8 5 4 17 France 7 8 7 22 Italy 7 8 6 21 Star high jumper Japan 7 4 15 26 flawless in qualifying Australia 6 7 9 22 South Korea 6 3 5 14 round; Ogunode Hungary 5 3 4 12 among Al Anabi stars Netherlands 4 2 3 9 to be seen in action Spain 3 0 2 5 today at Games New Zealand 2 6 0 8 Canada 2 2 9 13 Kazakhstan 2 2 4 8 The Peninsula Colombia 2 2 0 4 Switzerland 2 1 2 5 Belgium 2 1 1 4 Thailand 2 1 1 4 RIO DE JANEIRO: Qatar’s main Croatia 2 1 0 3 medal hope, high jumper Mutaz Iran 2 0 1 3 BarshIm qualified for the finals at the Rio Olympics, after displaying a Jamaica 2 0 1 3 flawless show in Rio on Sunday. South Africa 1 5 1 7 BarshIm successfully cleared Sweden 1 4 1 6 2.29m without any failure of all his Denmark 1 3 3 7 attempts. North Korea 1 3 2 6 BarshIm won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London Brazil 1 2 3 6 and is seeking to win a gold medal or Belarus 1 2 1 4 at least retain his bronze. Kenya 1 2 0 3 The Qatari champion has scored Cuba 1 1 3 5 before a height of 2.43m with a differ- Poland 1 1 2 4 ence of 2cm from the current world record holder Javier Sotomayor . Romania 1 1 2 4 Commenting on his performance, Slovenia 1 1 1 3 BarshIm said it was extremely diffi- Argentina 1 1 0 2 cult to predict the final outcome of Slovakia 1 1 0 2 the competitions. Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim competes in the men’s high jump qualifying round during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Vietnam 1 1 0 2 “The high jump competition is Czech Republic 1 0 5 6 very strong this time as it includes Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. BELOW: Ali Al Thani of Qatar riding First Division jumps. world top high jumper,” he explained, Uzbekistan 1 0 4 5 adding that he does not pay attention Ethiopia 1 0 3 4 to the level of competitors and only will undoubtedly be the men’s high Taiwan 1 0 2 3 focus on his personal performance jump final at 02:30am (Doha time) IOA* 1 0 1 2 to achieve the highest record. tomorrow will see Barshim compete Greece 1 0 1 2 On Sunday, team Qatar excelled against the greatest high jumpers in with the equestrian show jumping the world in a bid to build on his pre- Fiji 1 0 0 1 team qualifying for the individual vious performance in London 2012 Kosovo 1 0 0 1 event as well as the team event, with Games. Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1 the next qualifiers slated to be held Qatar’s beach volleyball team Singapore 1 0 0 1 today at 16:00 (Doha time.) also impressed in Rio before bow- Ukraine 0 3 1 4 Team Qatar’s equestrian athletes ing out of the competition following will look to emulate their success in a loss against Russia. Azerbaijan 0 2 0 2 their next rounds today. Qatar’s Nasser Al Attiyah who Indonesia 0 2 0 2 The team, consisting of Sheikh Ali claimed bronze medal in London Lithuania 0 1 2 3 bin Khalid Al Thani, Ali Al Rumaihi, Olympics failed to emulate his show Georgia 0 1 1 2 Bassem Mohammed and Hamad Al- in skeet shooting event. Mongolia 0 1 1 2 Attiyah, have already made history as Al Attiyah, who is also a Dakar Bahrain 0 1 0 1 the first every Qatari equestrian team Rally champion finished on 30th to compete in the Olympics. place in the opening round. Grenada 0 1 0 1 The equestrian athletes qualified The start made it very difficult to Ireland 0 1 0 1 to the team and individual events, repeat the feat he achieved in London Malaysia 0 1 0 1 with Sheikh Al bin Khalid Al Thani 2012, while his compatriot Rashid Philippines 0 1 0 1 cruising to the next round without a Hamad Al Athba ranked 32nd in the Turkey 0 1 0 1 single penalty point. same competition. Also today Qatar’s Femi Ogun- Al Attiyah complained of the dif- Venezuela 0 1 0 1 ode will take to the track in the 200m ference in wind speed between his Norway 0 0 3 3 heats at 17:50 (Doha time). training and the competition when Egypt 0 0 2 2 The highlight of the competition there was no wind. Israel 0 0 2 2 Estonia 0 0 1 1 Kyrghyzstan 0 0 1 1 Portugal 0 0 1 1 QWF felicitates Fares after impressive show Jebet wins Bahrain’s first Tunisia 0 0 1 1 UAE 0 0 1 1 ever Olympic gold medal *Independent Olympic Athletes

Reuters runner to win a medal at Rio Games, World champion following Eunice Jepkirui Kirwa’s silver in the women’s marathon on Bett crashes out Sunday. RIO DE JANEIRO: Teenager Ruth A host of athletes from Kenya’s of 400m hurdles Jebet won Bahrain’s first ever Olym- running heartlands have switched pic gold medal yesterday, blowing allegence to compete for Middle away the competition in the wom- Eastern countries over the past AFP en’s 3,000 metres steeplechase but decade, in part due to the dearth of narrowly missing out on the world support and financial rewards for record. aspiring runners in the East Afri- RIO DE JANEIRO: Reigning world The 19-year-old stormed into can nation. champion Nicholas Bett of Kenya the lead after a few laps and set a Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi, crashed out of the first round of the blistering pace to win in eight min- who won the world title in Beijing men’s 400m hurdles yesterday. utes 59.75 seconds, shy of the 8:58.81 last year, was almost 50 metres Bett, who was the event’s surprise world record set by Russia’s Gulnara behind Jebet in second place. winner in the Beijing world cham- Galkina at the 2008 Beijing Games. “I am so happy,” said Jepkemoi. pionships last year, clipped the last “I admit it was too easy for “The last two laps were really hard. hurdle and jogged the final metres. me but nobody told me about the I just tried to stay strong and see if I Also missing from today’s semi- record. I wanted the gold medal,” could catch her.” finals will be American Michael Jebet said. American Emma Coburn won Tinsley, who won silver at the Lon- Galkina and Kenyan-born Jebet, United States’ first ever medal in the don Olympics in 2012. Qatar Weightlifting Federation (QWF) welcoming Fares Ibrahim (second left) for his impressive show who was the world junior champion, steeplechase as she grabbed bronze Two of Bett’s team-mates, Haron in Rio. Fares secured 8th position despite being the youngest competitor. Fares is now preparing for are the only two women to have run and a new national record. Koech and Boniface Tumuti, qual- the Islamic Solidarity and Afro Asian Championship to be held from September 2 to 8. a sub-nine minute time. “I feel very honoured,” Coburn ified with no such problems in the Jebet is the second Kenyan-born said. competition. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 23 Herath’s six-wicket Barshim raises haul restricts Qatar’s hopes of a Aussies in Colombo medal at Games

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Brilliant Bolt makes history in Rio

Jamaican sprint king storms to third 100m Olympic gold in a row as South Africa’s Van Niekerk breaks Johnson’s 400m record

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RIO DE JANEIRO: Usain Bolt stormed to an unprecedented third straight Olympic 100m title as Wayde van Niekerk smashed Michael Johnson’s long-standing 400m record in Rio on Sunday. FROM LEFT: Andre De Grasse of Canada, Bolt, Jimmy Vicautof France and Justin Gatlin of USA compete sprints towards finish line. On a night of high drama, Bolt galloped past drug-tainted US rival Justin Gatlin to RIGHT: Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa reacts after winning the 400m final on Sunday. cross in 9.81sec and become the first athlete to win the 100m three times in a row. The victory set the Jamaican showman The fireworks came after an emotional record, Bolt was happy with the performance headlines again as Russian long-jumper off on his quest to complete the ‘triple triple’ Andy Murray won his second straight men’s but admitted he had been “shocked” at boo- Darya Klishina was cleared to compete in – 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold medals at singles tennis gold as Britain reeled in five ing from the crowd directed at Gatlin, who Tuesday’s event. three consecutive Olympics. gold medals in one day. Fellow Brit Justin has twice been banned for doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport over- “Somebody said I can become immor- Rose became the first Olympic golf cham- He started slowly but reeled in Gatlin turned an IAAF ban saying she had complied tal. Two more medals to go and I can sign off. pion in 112 years. within 70 metres and eased up, thumping his with all conditions for competing. Immortal,” said Bolt. America’s Simone Biles stayed on track chest as he crossed the line. Canada’s Andre Klishina had been the only Russian com- Minutes earlier, jaws dropped as Van for a record five gymnastics gold medals at de Grasse took bronze. petitor accepted by the IAAF for the Olympics Niekerk timed a lightning 43.03sec in the a single Olympics when she clocked up her “Kenya’s Jemima Sumgong won the first after inquiries found mass “state-sponsored” 400m, breaking Johnson’s 17-year-old record third, on the balance beam. athletics gold of the day, making light of sear- doping in the country. But she was banned Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates after he set in 1999. And fears over Rio de Janeiro’s fragile ing heat to triumph in the women’s marathon Friday after further information emerged won the men’s 100m final during the “I have never seen anything like that,” security rose after Ryan Lochte and three fel- at the Games. regarding her case. athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Johnson told the BBC. “That was a massacre low US swimmers were robbed at gunpoint Colombia’s world champion Caterine Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko wel- Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de by Van Niekerk. This young man has done by criminals posing as police. Ibarguen won the women’s triple jump with comed the decision as fair, saying “you cannot Janeiro on Sunday. something truly special.” Although way short of his 9.58sec world a leap of 15.17m in the contest. Doping made punish her for what she did not do.”

Gold medalist Wlodarczyk Murray outlasts Del Potro Andy Murray of Britain reacts after receiving shatters world his medal in to secure gold for Britain Rio on Sunday. record for hammer gold Reuters Argentine fans. Del Potro had blown open the tournament by beating top Reuters seed Novak Djokovic in the first round and then edged Rafa Nadal in RIO DE JANEIRO: Britain’s Andy a three-hour semi-final contest but RIO DE JANEIRO: Pole Anita Wlo- Murray beat Argentina’s Juan Mar- the exploits had left him exhausted. darczyk underlined her absolute tin del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 in a Against Murray, he said he was dizzy dominance of the women’s ham- compelling Olympic tennis final on and felt close to passing out. mer by throwing a world record Sunday to become the first player to “I left the last of my toenails on 82.29 metres to win Olympic win two men’s singles gold medals. the court,” said Del Potro, whose gold by more than five and a half The world number two and his ranking has slipped to 141 after a metres yesterday. Argentine opponent shared a long series of wrist injuries over the past The only woman to have hug at the net, with both man trying six years. thrown the hammer further than to hold back the tears, after a punish- “I was tremendously tired. It 80 metres, the 31-year-old world ing, see-sawing, four-hour contest was the crowd that made me keep champion had already broken played out in front of a boisterous Silver medalist Juan Martin Del running.” the Olympic record with a second crowd at the Olympic Tennis Centre. Potro (ARG) of Argentina. The 2009 US Open champion, throw of 80.40 when she entered Murray’s consistency proved whose route to the final included the ring for the third time. decisive. He was able to wear down being stuck in an Olympic village ele- Wlodarczyk screamed in Del Potro’s weaker backhand and fre- matches I’ve had to play for a big vator for 40 minutes before his first delight before the projectile even quently drew the fatigued Argentine title.” round win, claimed his second Olym- landed, knowing she had done into the net with deftly placed drop “There were so many ups and pic medal after a bronze at the 2012 enough to better the mark of 81.08 shots as the contest wore on. downs in the match... this has been London Games. she set in Cetniewo in Poland ear- Del Potro served for the fourth set much harder than London,” he told His blistering forehand pro- lier this month. at 5-4 but Murray broke the Argen- reporters in reference to his gold duced several winners but said he Zhang Wenxiu of China threw tine in consecutive games to claim medal win four years ago. had no complaints about the final 76.75 to add a silver medal to the the match, his 18th straight victory The Scot, Britain’s flag-bearer at result, crediting Murray for playing bronze she won in London four following his second Wimbledon title the opening ceremony in Rio, had “smarter” tennis at crucial moments. years ago. in July. been a hot favourite to retain his Japan’s Kei Nishikori, who will Sophie Hitchon was third The 29-year-old Scot, winner title but he was pushed all the way still be in his prime at his home with a British record 74.54 as she of three grand slams, called the by an impressive Del Potro, who was Olympics, secured a bronze medal claimed a first ever medal for her Rio encounter “one of the hardest roared on by hundreds of passionate in Rio by beating Nadal 6-2 6-7(1) 6-3. country in the event.