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Emir receives Mauritanian President Severe cyclone heading towards Labour City in Yemen, Oman: UN

GENEVA: The UN’s weather agency warned yesterday a “super cyclonic storm” was heading Mesaimeer to towards Oman and war-ravaged Yemen, where it could strike with hurricane force and dump torrential rain that may trigger landslides. Named Chapala, the storm is open tomorrow brewing in the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall in northern Yemen and the adjoin- Region’s most modern labour camp complex ing Oman coast around midnight on Monday, the World Meteoro- DOHA: The region’s most modern com- There are a total of 9,872 rooms in the logical Organisation (WMO) said. plex of labour camps, the Labour City in entire complex and it covers an area of a “Tropical cyclones are Mesaimeer, is all set to open its doors to its staggering 1.8 million square metres. It is extremely rare over the Arabian residents — foreign workers — tomorrow. literally a whole city and aptly named so. peninsula,” WMO spokeswoman The City is being inaugurated under the Known as Barwa Al Baraha project, in Clare Nullis told reporters, add- patronage of the Prime Minister and Min- its first phase a massive parking area was ing that the storm might well be ister of Interior, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin built for 4,200 trucks and other types of the first of its kind to hit Yemen. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. vehicles along with related facilities. “We hope the humanitarian The City has the capacity to accommo- And during its second phase, the Labour impact (of Chapala) on Yemen date 53,000 workers and has all kinds of City was developed. The project has been will be limited,” Nullis said. The amenities, including stadiums, mosques, developed by state-backed Barwa Real WMO described Chapala as “an playgrounds, shopping centres, a large Estate Company. extremely severe cyclonic storm.” clinic and a number of restaurants. It is the largest development project ever Chapala is poised to strengthen The clinic will be manned by experi- built not only in Qatar but in the entire to become a “super cyclonic enced and specialist doctors and more region, to house workers. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks with President Mohamed Ould storm” within the next 24 hours, significantly, it will boast an accident and The city has a police station to maintain Abdel Aziz of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. They dis- packing wind speeds of between emergency unit. law and order and ensure workers’ safety cussed bilateral ties and ways of enhancing them as well as a number of issues of com- 220 and 230km per hour in the The playgrounds and stadiums also and security. mon concern, particularly the latest developments in the region. Later, the Emir hosted next 24 hours, it added. include facilities for outdoor games such The city also boasts green space spread a luncheon in honour of the visiting president. “Because of the dry air from the as volleyball, cricket and football. over an area of 32,500 square meters. Arabian desert and lower ocean The entire city complex has 64 residen- The supervisory authority for the city thermal energy, we do expect it tial buildings, with each building having sometime ago began asking companies that will weaken before it makes land- 130 rooms for workers. Each building, of are interested in taking premises on rent fall,” Nullis said. four floors which can accommodate up to to house their workers to come forward US to send troops to Syria, In both countries, WMO 780 workers, also has a large dining area. and apply. expects “the most serious impacts These buildings are grouped into four These are modern living quarters offer- to be from the very, very, very major sub-complexes, each with 16 build- ing a higher standard of living for workers heavy anticipated rainfall,” Nullis ings. in low-income categories. powers divided on Assad said, citing reports that the area Besides, there are 16 other residential The city is set to be a model accommo- might get the equivalent of more buildings meant to house executive single dation for workers in the entire region. It VIENNA: The United States announced refugees to Europe. Syrian regime allies than a year’s worth of rainfall in workers or senior staff members of compa- will also have some 49 used car showrooms. yesterday its first sustained deployment Russia and Iran are resisting Western and a matter of days. nies that take premises here on rent. Each of ground troops to Syria to help the anti- Saudi pressure to force Assad from power. of these buildings have 97 rooms. THE PENINSULA jihadist fight, as major powers remained US Secretary of State John Kerry said he divided over President Bashar Al Assad’s had “agreed to disagree” with his Iranian 17 migrant kids fate. and Russian counterparts on the fate of the The decision to send a small special Syrian leader. Kerry said Washington still die off Greece forces team marks an escalation in Wash- believes Assad leaving office would smooth ington’s efforts to defeat the Islamic State the path to a deal to end Syria’s war and ATHENS: At least 17 children (IS) group, which has seized more Syrian help to defeat IS. drowned when three boats sank territory despite more than a year of US- Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov en route from Turkey to Greece, led air strikes. and Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif disa- officials said yesterday, the latest The White House rejected accusations greed, he admitted, but all three would con- tragedy to strike migrants brav- that President Barack Obama was tinue to work together to pursue a political ing wintry seas to seek asylum backtracking on a promise not to put boots settlement. He said the participants had in Europe. on the ground. “Our strategy in Syria hasn’t agreed to ask the United Nations to broker Nine adults also lost their lives changed,” spokesman Josh Earnest said. a ceasefire. Kerry and Lavrov also said they when the boats went down, with “These forces do not have a combat mission.” had agreed that Syria must emerge from the drownings once again high- Officials said an initial deployment of war as a unified secular state. lighting the human cost as Europe “fewer than 50” special forces would be Participants found common ground in struggles with its worst migrant sent to northern Syria—parts of which some areas although they remained divided crisis since the Second World are controlled by Syrian Kurdish forces over Assad’s future, French Foreign Min- Wa r. Although rescue officials fighting IS. ister Laurent Fabius said. in Greece and Turkey managed The announcement came as key backers “There are points of disagreement, but to pull another 157 people from of Syria’s rival sides meeting in Vienna we advanced enough for us to meet again, the water, such drownings have sought to narrow their divisions over a in the same configuration, in two weeks,” become an almost daily occurrence. A view of a section of the Labour City which is ready to host its residents. conflict that has claimed a quarter of a he told reporters. million lives and triggered an exodus of AFP AGENCIES

Al Ahli tackle Al Khor Abbas meets war crimes prosecutor

THE HAGUE: A Palestinian and nine Israelis died. war. Some 2,200 Palestinians, “Achieving justice is essential delegation led by President The almost daily clashes and mostly civilians, were killed for the Palestinian victims, dead Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday knife attacks have sparked fears in the 50-day war in July and and alive,” said Malki in June. with the International Criminal they may herald the start of a August 2014, as well as some 73 “Palestine has chosen to seek Court to hand over a file third Palestinian uprising, or Israelis, mostly soldiers. justice, not vengeance, this is documenting alleged Israeli intifada. Bensouda has officially why we are here today.” crimes such as “ethnic cleansing,” Top Palestinian official Saeb opened a preliminary inquiry to Malki was to address the Palestinian officials said. Erakat said a 52-page dossier see whether there is sufficient press after Friday’s talks, a Abbas arrived late yesterday was to be handed over to court evidence of crimes by either Palestinian official said. at the court for talks with officials yesterday. the Palestinians or the Israelis Israel, which has not signed Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda It includes details of alleged which would merit formal up to the ICC, has vehemently accompanied by Palestinian “summary executions, collective investigation. opposed the Palestinian attempt Foreign Minister Riad Al Malki, punishments, house demolitions To support its case, Malki to trigger a full investigation for a correspondent said. and ethnic cleansing,” Erakat handed over two files to the ICC war crimes. The talks at the world’s only said in a statement. in June. One dealt with alleged The move also angered permanent war crimes court The dossier “gathers all the Israeli crimes committed in Israel’s ally the United come amid an increase of Israeli- information on the Palestinian Gaza. States which denounced it as Palestinian violence and marked martyrs and their identities, The other file delved into “counterproductive”. Abbas’ first meeting with the way in which they were Israel’s occupation of the West The ICC was set up in 2002 Bensouda since the Palestinian executed, and is backed by Bank and East Jerusalem. to investigate and try those Authority joined the tribunal in verified photos and videos.” Abbas has also since called on responsible for genocide, war January. To Israel’s fury, the Bensouda to probe the August crimes and crimes against In recent weeks, Israel and the Palestinians have already firebombing of a Palestinian humanity, where national Al Ahli’s Pedro Miguel Correia (left) vies for the ball possession against Palestinians have been gripped formally asked the ICC to home blamed on Jewish authorities cannot or will not Madson Formagini Caridade of Al Khor during their QSL match at Al Ahli by a wave of violence that has investigate it for alleged war extremists, in which a toddler prosecute. Stadium yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP left more than 60 Palestinians crimes during the 2014 Gaza and his father died. AFP SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Turkish embassy marks Republic Day

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DOHA: The 92nd Anniversary of the Turk- ish Republic was celebrated with a fascinating show at the Turkish Embassy on Thursday. An official reception was hosted by the Ambassador Ahmet Demirok to mark the Republic Day, which is a national holiday in Turkey. The reception was attended by Deputy Prime Minister H E Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mah- moud, Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Abdel Rahman bin Khalifa Al Thani and Minister of Economy and Trade, H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jasim Al Thani, as well as ambassadors and military officials from Turkey and Qatar. Ambassador Demirok delivered the mes- sage of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Following the speech, Ottoman Military www.swiss-belhotel.com Band, ‘Mehter’ played the nation’s patriotic songs, turning the reception into a glorious Tel night. Fax Folk dancers and singers from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism also made a Dignitaries during an official reception hosted by the Ambassador Ahmet Demirok to mark special performance on the occasion. Despite it formally marks the end of Turkey’s Republic Day, in Doha on Thursday. Tel the Ottoman Empire, the republic day has Fax been celebrated with Ottoman symbols in The day commemorates the events of declared that the country was henceforth recent years, aiming to keep ceremonies 29 October 1923, when Mustafa Kemal a republic. more accessible to the public. Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey THE PENINSULA

Tel Fax Winter UK committed to ensuring Tel + 974 44298888 camping Fax season starts Gulf security: Hammond Tel tomorrow Fax DOHA: The winter Syria, Yemen issues discussed with Emir camping season will start tomorrow and last until DOHA: Britain’s Foreign Sec- political agreement has become suffering and most of them are Tel March 31, the Ministry of retary Philip Hammond said his very complicated. forced to flee the country thus Fax Environment (MoE) has country is committed to ensuring On the outcome of his talks exacerbating the refugee crisis announced. Twenty-three security of the Gulf and support- with Saudi officials, Hammond that we are trying to address . camping sites located ing the GCC countries. said that there is a common and He said the Russian inter- on beaches, inshore and Speaking to Qatar News Agency strong bilateral relations between vention constitutes a threat to Tel desert areas have been (QNA), Hammond pointed out his country and Saudi Arabia in opposition forces and working Fax allocated for this season. that his country has full commit- all fields, and there are many to divide them, pointing out that A total of 2, 322 Qataris ment to the security strategy for issues to be discussed. the United Kingdom is seeking to www.doha.hilton.com have booked camping sites. the Gulf region which will crystal- “I had discussed with my Saudi continue its support to the mod- The Environment lise in the next few months. counterpart the latest develop- erate opposition to ensure the Tel 44233333 974+ Protection Department At the end of his visit to Doha, ments in Syria in light of Saudi continued strength of the opposi- at the MoE has finished Hammond said that the situation Arabia’s big role for resolving the tion on the ground and so are not Fax 44233000 974+ preparations on receiving in Syria, particularly after Rus- crisis in addition to the strategic dislodge by Russia under a pretext campers. It has increased sian military intervention, and situation in the Gulf region and the of fighting Daesh group. environment patrols at Vienna talks were the core issues Yemeni issue,” Hammond said. With regard to the ability of the camping sites whose task in his meeting with the Emir H He also met the Custodian moderate Syrian opposition to fill is to supervise the setting H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al of the Two Holy Mosques King the political vacuum in Syria, UK up of camping sites making Thani. Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Foreign Secretary said Bashar Al sure campers follow the The UK Foreign Secretary said Arabia and reviewed with him Assad must go and the moderate MoE’s camping regulations he had reviewed with the Emir the overall strategic issues in the opposition will not hold any set- and environment protection situation in Yemen, stressing that region, bilateral relations and the tlement agreement with him. laws. The Department has both Qatar and the United King- regional status quo. He said the Syrian opposition is Tel deployed 200 inspectors dom share same concern about On his country’s vision towards fighting Daesh group and the Syr- who work 24 hours in the deteriorating humanitarian current situation in Syria after ian regime and we must ensure a Fax shifts to monitor and catch situation there. the Russian military interven- political solution to end this war violators. The meeting also tackled politi- tion, the British official stressed and double efforts of all forces to cal process in Libya, which he that the situation in Syria is still eliminate Daesh group. THE PENINSULA described as disappointing, as the catastrophic, where civilians are QNA Tel Fax

Tel SEC organises Fax workshops for employees Tel DOHA: The Supreme Educa- Fax tion Council (SEC) organised yesterday training courses for its employees, in cooperation with Qatar Finance and Business Tel Academy. One of the courses was held for Fax the council’s employees responsi- ble for Independent school affairs. The course was on planning, fol- low up and evaluation. It provided Tel the employees with a walkthrough Fax of how to implement the three Dr Tricia Wetchndroff, Associate Director of Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, addressing processes. Another course was a workshop organised by the General Directorate of Civil Defence at Hilton Hotel Doha. on the verification of the data. It provided employees with tips to improve their verification tech- Civil Defence holds workshop niques and ensure any adminis- trative data is solid.

Tel on disaster management Mauritanian leader Fax DOHA: The General Directo- cept of evacuation, types and The workshop observed the leaves Doha rate of Civil Defence recently stages of evacuation, elements that some countries may appear held a workshop on “key meth- for the success of evacuation that they are far from risk and DOHA: President Mohamed Ould Tel ods and techniques of evacu- plan, importance of forming a disaster but it is learned that Abdel Aziz of Mauritania left Doha Fax ation and how to deal with working group in the evacua- there are so-called latent dan- yesterday, after a short visit. different stages of fire” was tion in institutions and facili- gers that may appear at any The Mauritanian President and held at Hilton Hotel Doha. ties and responsibilities during time, which requires attention his accompanying deleagtion were www.marriottmarquisdoha.com The workshop was held as the decision of evacuation in to the science of disaster man- seen off on departure at Hamad part of the 5th Civil Defence case of disasters. agement and the preparation International Airport by Minis- Tel + 974 44195000 Exhibition and Conference to Dr Tricia Wetchndroff for the proposed solutions in ter of Economy and Commerce H Fax + 974 44195100 be held next week. emphasised the importance of accordance with the potential E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Dr Tricia Wetchndroff, the availability of an instruction risks. The workshop was second Mohammed Al Thani, Qatar’s Associate Director of Disas- manual explaining the methods of its kind in the series of pro- Ambassador to Mauritania ter Research Center, Univer- of evacuation, experiences and grammes held prior to the 5th Abdulrahman bin Ali Al Kubaisi, sity of Delaware, presented expected scenarios pointing Civil Defence Exhibition and and Mauritania’s Ambassador the topic. The workshop dis- out that there is a relationship Conference. Sidi Ould Mohamed Laghdaf. cussed different aspects of between social sciences and cri- the topic including the con- sis and disaster management. THE PENINSULA QNA SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Foreign Minister attends Turkish Festival and Bazaar Vienna meeting on Syria

VIENNA: Minister of For- eign Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah partici- pated in the expanded meeting to discuss a political settlement to the Syrian crisis, in Vienna yesterday. The meeting was attended by delegations representing Russia, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, UAE, Jordan, Ger- many, France, Egypt, Italy, Brit- ain, Iraq, Lebanon, China, Oman as well as the UN Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and the High Representative of the European Hundreds of visitors yesterday thronged the Museum of Islamic Art Park to sample authentic Turkish food Union Federica Mogherini. offered by five-star hotels and restaurants at the Turkish Festival and Bazaar which runs until today featuring The meeting discussed specific musical performances, movie screenings, a photo exhibition and a bazaar selling Turkish handicraft. proposals to activate the political BAHER AMIN process in Syria. Earlier Al Attiyah has par- Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah at the ticipated in a working breakfast talks on Syria in Vienna, yesterday. on the sidelines of the plenary meeting. The delegations from “It is out of the question to have been at play in the conflicts in the US, France, Germany, Brit- our soldiers’ feet on the ground,” Syria and Yemen. Attiyah also Maalouf dedicates concert for women ain, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the he said. urged Iran to “calm down the lan- UAE and Jordan also attended “They can liberate their coun- guage” to help facilitate dialogue DOHA: Renowned French-Leb- the meeting. try themselves. What they want between the two sides. anese musician Ibrahim Maal- Al Attiyah has ruled out boots is financial support, they want On the Israel-Palestine conflict, ouf has dedicated his concert in on the ground in Syria, adding people to listen to them.” he warned Israel that security Katara to the women of today. that financial aid is more needed Referring to a recent call by measures at the Al Aqsa Mosque The trumpet player performed in the war-torn country. the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim compound are provocative and at the second Katara European Despite having recently claimed bin Hamad Al Thani for dialogue are effectively “offending 1.5 bil- Jazz Festival 2015 on Thursday that Qatar would consider “mili- between Gulf countries and Iran lion Muslims” globally. along with Eric Legnin on key- tary intervention” to protect Syr- to solve political differences, he “Anything that protects the boards, François Delporte on ians caught in a war between the said: “We don’t see the dispute Syrian people and Syria from par- guitar and Stephane Galland on Syrian army and opposition fight- with Iran in the region as a tition, we will not spare any effort drums. The concert was entitled ers, Attiyah ruled out the possi- Sunni-Shia thing. to carry it out with our Saudi and “Red and Black Light” which is bility of Qatari ground forces or “What we are seeing and what Turkish brothers, no matter what also the title of his latest album air strikes being deployed, in an we are fearing is an Arab-Persian this is,” Al Attiyah said. released last month. interview with Al Jazeera aired conflict which we want to avoid.” “Red and Black Light is an yesterday. Arab-Iranian tensions have QNA/AGENCIES ode to the women of today and to the founding and fundamen- tal role she plays in the hope of a better future,” said Maalouf. He stressed the inspiration women in his family gave him and their French-Lebanese musician Ibrahim Maalouf performing at the second Internal Auditors huge influence in his music. Katara European Jazz Festival 2015 at Katara. “Despite living in a labyrinth Institute seminar where life is complex and often Intercultural Dialogue between trumpet and vocal effects, Danilo DOHA: The Institute of Inter- dramatic, they hold power and Arab and Western Worlds” from Gallo on double bass and electric nal Auditors Qatar conducted stability such as some sort of Unesco and ‘Artist of the Year’ bass, and Zeno De Rossi on drums a seminar on the topic “Ethics invincible trance. They give me by the French equivalent of the and percussion. and Compliance Programmes” the impression of never losing Grammys. Launched on Wednes- Tonight, Albin Brun Alpin at Oryx Rotana Hotel. sight of the essential,” he said. day, the five-day jazz festival fea- Ensemble from Switzerland will The presenter, John M The nine-track album was tures musicians from Austria, play at 7pm followed by Biel Ball- Fuchko, III, works as Chief Audit inspired by Egyptian music icon France, Germany, Netherlands, ester Trio from Spain at 9pm. The Officer and Vice Chancellor for Oum Kalthoum and has a cover Italy, Spain and Switzerland. festival concludes tomorrow with Internal Audit & Compliance, version of a Beyonce hit. Yesterday’s concert featured a performance by Michiel Borst- University System of Georgia Maalouf has gained wide top Italian jazz musician Francesco lap from The Netherlands at 8pm. (USG). acclaim throughout his career Bearzatti along with Tinissima 4et In this capacity, John oversees including “Young Artist for composed of Giovanni Falzone on THE PENINSULA the USG internal audit, risk man- Experts deliver lectures at Katara. agement, and compliance and eth- ics programs comprising over 25 campus audit shops and 80 pro- Katara holds lectures fessional staff. Maersk Oil is John holds certifications as a Certified Internal Auditor, Certi- on Qatari heritage Platinum Sponsor fied Risk Management Assurance, a Certified Compliance and Eth- DOHA: The Cultural Village among the attendees. of ITMA Congress ics Professional, and a Lean Six Foundation-Katara organised two The discussions focused on Sigma Green Belt. lectures on Qatari Heritage in the etiquette of hospitality and DOHA: Maersk Oil Qatar is the John served two terms as Katara Building 15 on Thursday. the mechanism in dealing with platinum sponsor of the 24th Chairman and two terms as Pres- A significant number of peo- a guest as well as rules of eti- World ITMA Congress on Traf- ident of the 1900-member Insti- ple from various nationalities quette in drinking Arabic coffee. fic Medicine and Road Safety tute of Internal Auditors Atlanta attended the lecturers delivered Information about Qatari tradi- to be held in Doha during 16-18 Chapter, USA. by Saleh Ghareeb, an expert on tional customs for both men and November. Ethics and Compliance pro- Qatari traditions and Khalifah women in different occasions and The agreement was signed gramme should contain seven Sayed Al Maliki, a researcher on the Qatari cuisine and traditional by Brig Engineer Muhammad core elements: popular traditions. food that fit in the nature of soci- Abdullah Al Maliki, Secretary of Standards and Procedures, They have lauded the role of ety were also discussed. the National Traffic Safety Com- Brig Engineer Muhammad Abdullah Al Maliki and Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani Programme with assigned the cultural village at boosting The lectures also offered a mittee and the Chairman of the responsibility, Background the cultural exchange through glimpse on traditional Qatari fes- Organising Committee and Faisal exchanging the signed documents. checks, Training, Evaluation of organising distinctive events and tivities such as Al Garanqao and bin Fahad Al Thani, Deputy Man- programme & Hotline capabil- lectures that sought to introduce Hyah Byah children festivities aging Director of Maersk Oil Qatar Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani huge challenge for all countries, so ity, Incentives and disciplinary other Qatari identity and its that connect them to their roots in the presence of Capt Mubarak said: “Maersk Oil Qatar has a we are helping to bring experts to actions and Respond to miscon- popular traditions. The lectures, and traditions. Salim Al Bouainain, Asst Director proud history of supporting pro- Qatar as part of the 24th ITMA duct. which delivered both in English of Public Relations Department at grammes that bring meaningful Congress.” THE PENINSULA and Arabic, saw more interaction THE PENINSULA the Ministry of Interior. benefits to Qatar. Road Safety is a THE PENINSULA

Municipality shuts cafeteria Renowned scholars to attend MEEA-DI conference

DOHA: The scientific commit- opment in the MENA Countries,” gins of Power, Prosperity, and Qatar,in particular,” said Dean tee of the Middle East Economic has attracted a higher number of Poverty. Aly. Previous MEEA conferences Association (MEEA) announced abstracts than the average. Also scheduled to participate were held in various international today that it received more than “We received 50 more abstracts is Shantayanan Devarajan,Chief cities including Tunis, Dubai, 130 scholarly abstracts to par- than we did in past MEEA con- Economist, Middle East and Istanbul, and Alexandria. It will ticipate in the Fifteenth Interna- ferences and the number of North Africa in the World be hosted in Doha for the first tional Annual Conference hosted participants who authored or co- Bank. time. by the School of Public Admin- authored the paper’s proposals This annual conference, The DI is an independ- istration and Development Eco- exceeded 200,” said Dean Aly. addresses a number of very timely ent institute for learning and nomics of the Doha Institute for As for the countries and topical issues such as the research, based in Doha, in the Graduate Studies (DI) to be held represented,it surpassed 35. “In impact of oil shocks on economic fields of social sciences, humani- March 23-25, 2016. addition to the usual submis- growth in the MENA region; ties, public administration and “This high number of abstracts sions from Arab countries, Iran, the way economic development development economics. submitted this year’s an indica- Turkey, Europe, the US, Canada, reacts to oil prices under differ- Programmes of study are tor that the MEEA/DI conference and Australia, there are countries ent market conditions;the current offered at the master’s degree will be one of the most important participating for the first time and future states of the oil shale level in its two schools: the School events to be held in Doha next ever such as Indonesia, South industry; the impact of oil price of Social Sciences and Humani- year,” said Professor Hassan Y Korea, Cyprus, and Malaysia,” he drops on MENA’s financial mar- ties and the School of Public Aly, Dean of the School of Public said. kets and exchange rates; to name Administration and Develop- Administration and Development The list of some of the world- of few. ment Economics. Designated as Economics and the current presi- renowned economists who are “The conference seeks to enrich a not-for-profit, private institu- Al Rayyan Municipality recently shut down a cafeteria in Mesaimeer dent of the Middle East Economic expected to participate in the the academic research in the field tion, the DI operates exclusively area for ten days for selling food unfit for human consumption. It also Association. conference includes Professor of energy and economics which for educational, research and closed down a restaurant in Mesaimeer Street for 14 days for violating The conference, entitled “The James A Robinson of Harvard would in turn promote positive public service purposes. health regulations. Impact of Oil Price Changes on University and bestselling author discussion on economies of the the Economic Growth and Devel- of Why Nations Fail: The Ori- Arab world, GCC countries, and THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST

Joint communique Attacks on Syria rebel issued after talks on Syria in Vienna

VIENNA: Following is the full strongholds kill 91 text of a joint communique issued yesterday after ministerial talks on a political solution to the Syr- Over a dozen regime rockets hit Douma town ian civil war as agreed by 17 countries, the European Union BEIRUT: At least 91 people, It said 10 were killed in the target it with rocket fire, shell- and the United Nations. including 17 children, were killed Fardous neighbourhood, and two ing and air raids, and opposition Meeting in Vienna, on October yesterday in attacks on opposi- children were killed in the Sala- groups in Douma also launch 30, 2015, China, Egypt, the EU, tion strongholds in the north and heddin district. The raids killed rockets into the capital. France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Italy, outside Damascus, the Syrian another 20 civilians — half of In August, 117 people were Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Observatory for Human Rights them children — in Maghayir, killed in a single day of air strikes Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, said. the Observatory reported, add- in the town, causing a global out- United Arab Emirates, the United The deaths came as top diplo- ing that dozens were wounded or cry. Government air strikes there Kingdom, the United Nations, and mats from 17 countries, including missing. More than 250,000 peo- on Thursday hit a market and a the United States came together Iran and Saudi Arabia, met for ple have been killed since Syria’s hospital, killing at least nine peo- to discuss the grave situation in the first time in Vienna hoping war began in March 2011. ple, the Observatory said. Syria and how to bring about an to find a political solution to the Both the government and A photographer said Thurs- end to the violence as soon as pos- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) and US Secretary of State conflict. Of the 91, at least 59 died opposition forces have been con- day’s attack had wounded hospi- sible. John Kerry (right) listen while UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in government attacks on Douma, demned by rights groups for firing tal staff, limiting the treatment The participants had a frank speaks during a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Vienna yesterday. a town on the eastern edges of indiscriminately on civilian areas. available for yesterday’s wounded. and constructive discussion, cov- the capital. The opposition National Coali- He said the latest attack as res- ering major issues. While sub- 6. Da’esh (Islamic State), and and fair, with all Syrians, includ- “The toll has risen to 57 peo- tion said those killed in Douma on idents gathered at the market left stantial differences remain among other terrorist groups, as desig- ing the diaspora, eligible to par- ple, including five children and Friday morning had been struck corpses piled on top of each other. the participants, they reached a nated by the UN Security Coun- ticipate. two women” when more than a by Russian air raids. In the chaotic aftermath, a man mutual understanding on the fol- cil, and further, as agreed by the 8. This political process will be dozen regime rockets struck the “The National Coalition holds in his thirties cried over the body lowing: participants, must be defeated. Syrian led and Syrian owned, and town, the monitoring group said. Russia, Iran, and the regime of of a young boy. 1. Syria’s unity, independence, 7. Pursuant to the 2012 Geneva the Syrian people will decide the Another two people were killed (President) Bashar Al Assad “Since your father was killed territorial integrity, and secular Communique and U.N. Security future of Syria. in government air raids on Duma responsible for the deaths of these in the last massacre, your mother character are fundamental. Council Resolution 2118, the 9. The participants together later, Observatory head Rami civilians,” a coalition official told has been telling you to stop work- 2. State institutions will remain participants invited the UN to with the United Nations will Abdel Rahman said. AFP, speaking on condition of ing in the market. Why did you intact. convene representatives of the explore modalities for, and Douma is in Eastern Ghouta, anonymity. go? Why?” he cried. 3. The rights of all Syrians, Government of Syria and the Syr- implementation of, a nationwide the largest opposition stronghold He said the attacks “indicated Corrugated metal rooftops, regardless of ethnicity or religious ian opposition for a political proc- ceasefire to be initiated on a date in Damascus province. an attempt to undermine the twisted and blown apart in the denomination, must be protected. ess leading to credible, inclusive, certain and in parallel with this Elsewhere, 32 civilians, among efforts to stop the violence” dur- attack, were left dangling over 4. It is imperative to acceler- non-sectarian governance, fol- renewed political process. them 12 children, were killed last ing the Vienna meeting. mangled bicycles and shredded ate all diplomatic efforts to end lowed by a new constitution and The participants will spend the afternoon in air strikes on oppo- Douma has been a frequent signs. The Douma Coordination the war. elections. coming days working to narrow sition-held areas of Syria’s second target of government attacks. Committee, a local activist group, 5. Humanitarian access will be These elections must be remaining areas of disagreement, city Aleppo, the Observatory said. “Douma is one of the areas in published a gruesome video of ensured throughout the territory administered under UN super- and build on areas of agreement. The Britain-based monitor said Syria where there are the highest what it said was the aftermath of Syria, and the participants will vision to the satisfaction of the Ministers will reconvene within the strikes were believed to have number of deaths since the begin- of more than a dozen rockets hit- increase support for internally governance and to the highest two weeks to continue these dis- been carried out by regime or ning of the war,” Abdel Rahman ting the market. displaced persons, refugees, and international standards of trans- cussions. Russian warplanes. said. Government forces regularly AFP their host countries. parency and accountability, free REUTERS

Saudi cabinet Palestinian baby dies from teargas as clashes continue defers decision JERUSALEM: A Palestinian Israeli troops near the home of targeted Israeli forces come from baby boy died yesterday after Ramadan Thawabteh “asphyxi- the Hebron, a stronghold of the on 40-hour choking on tear gas fired by ated” the baby, a spokesman for Islamist Hamas movement. Israeli forces, Palestinian officials the Palestinian health ministry Yesterday, dozens of protesters said, as clashes shook Jerusalem said. outside Ibrahimi Mosque, con- work week and the West Bank. Clashes also erupted in Ramal- demned restrictions on access Eight-month-old Ramadan lah where a journalist reported an imposed by Israel. Hebron, a city DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s cabinet Thawabteh became the latest Israeli army jeep hit a crowd of of 200,000 Palestinians, has long has deferred for further study a victim of a wave of violence that protesters, injuring a young man. been the commercial heart of the decision on limiting the private erupted a month ago in Jerusalem The Palestinian health ministry occupied West Bank. sector work week to 40 hours, but has since shifted to the occu- reported eight youths wounded But the presence of 500 Israeli part of proposals designed to pied West Bank. by gunfire and another hit by a settlers near the city centre, pro- push more Saudis into private Jerusalem saw its first knife rubber bullet in Ramallah. tected by barbed wire, watchtow- employment, the Labour Minis- attack in two weeks yesterday In the blockaded Gaza Strip, ers and a buffer zone patrolled by try said. when a 23-year-old Palestinian where 17 Palestinians have died the army, has helped make it a In an announcement on Twit- stabbed and lightly wounded an in clashes in recent weeks, pro- hotbed for unrest. ter, the ministry said the cabinet American tourist before being testers clashed with Israeli forces The Maariv newspaper reported had delayed its decision in light of shot dead, police said. along the northern and eastern that more army checkpoints feedback from business owners. It Many fear the surge of unrest borders. were being set up in Hebron at did not elaborate or say when a heralds a new intifada, or upris- More than 50 Palestinians the entrances and exits to Jewish decision would be made. ing, against Israel by a generation were wounded by Israeli gunfire areas, where Palestinians aged 15 Authorities face a dilemma as gripped by despair and anger over in Gaza, and two were in a critical to 25 will not be allowed to pass. they try to boost private sector decades of occupation and stalled condition, medical sources said. One trigger for anger in Hebron employment in a period of low oil peace efforts. Tensions first flared in Septem- in recent days has been an Israeli prices, which are straining state In the city of Nablus, two Pales- ber over the status of the flash- policy of withholding the bodies finances and threaten to slow the tinians were shot, police said. One point Al Aqsa mosque compound of attackers as a deterrent, infu- economy. died and the other was wounded in Jerusalem, before spiralling riating Muslims who have strict Most Saudi workers are in the and arrested. into a series of violent attacks burial rites. public sector, which offers gener- Elsewhere in the West Bank, from October 1. The Israeli army said yester- ous conditions such as a 35-hour in the volatile city of Hebron Palestinians accuse Israel of day it had returned seven bodies work week plus big pensions and hundreds of youths threw stones seeking to change the rules gov- to Palestinian families in what health benefits. Most private sec- and firebombs and rolled burn- erning the site. The death of the appeared to be an effort to ease tor jobs are held by 10 million for- ing tyres at Israeli soldiers who baby took the number of Palestin- tensions. eign workers. responded with tear gas and rub- ians killed in the recent unrest to However, this is likely to lead Border guards arrest a journalist during clashes between Palestinian To reduce the burden on ber bullets, a journalist said. 65, including many shot during to massive gatherings at funer- demonstrators and Israeli security forces at the entrance of the Palestinian the public sector and curb the Bethlehem also saw violent protests. als today. town of Al Bireh on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, number of foreign workers, the clashes, and tear gas fired by Many of the attackers who have AFP yesterday. government has been consider- ing a proposal to lure more Saudis into private companies by limit- ing the working week to 40 hours, Search for shelter down from 48 in many firms, and Efforts to find increasing the weekend to two EU mulls Libya sanctions days from one. But much of the business com- political solution munity has argued that the move over stalled UN peace deal would hurt the economy by rais- in Yemen ‘failing’ ing companies’ costs, deterring DUBAI: A senior Houthi leader TRIPOLI/BRUSSELS: Rival Libyan political leaders could face investment and possibly forcing said efforts to convene UN- European asset freeze and travel sanctions if they are deemed to be companies to make up for the backed peace talks for Yemen deliberately blocking attempts to broker a settlement between the shorter work week by hiring more were failing and blamed the country’s warring factions, diplomats said yesterday. foreigners. United States. After months of negotiations, the UN envoy has presented Libya’s The UN envoy Ould Cheikh rival factions with a proposed national unity government, but hard- Ahmed said last week he was liners on both sides have resisted the power-sharing deal and talks 2,000 militants hoping to begin preparatory talks have stalled. with the government and Houthis The United Nations has warned about possible sanctions before and killed at home and separately and expected formal the European Union has previously considered travel bans and asset talks between the sides “in the freezes against five Libyan military commanders threatening violence abroad: Erdogan coming weeks”. against a future government. Displaced Iraqis carry matresses and blankets through flooded water at “All understandings for a politi- Lawmakers in both the elected House of Representatives parliament ISTANBUL: Turkey has killed a camp in Baghdad following heavy rainfall yesterday. cal solution leading to the cessa- in eastern Libya and the rival General National Congress in Tripoli around 2,000 militants in recent tion of aggression have failed,” in the west of the sprawling North African Opec state have delayed operations inside and outside its Houthi spokesman Saleh Al any official vote on the deal. borders and the operations will Samad wrote on Facebook. Western powers say a UN-backed agreement for a unity government continue, President Recep Tayyip “Statements put out by the is the only way to end the conflict between the rival factions and their Erdogan said yesterday. 26 killed in attack on Iran oppn camp media of the aggressor do noth- armed allies competing for power four years after rebels overthrew “Now 2,000 terrorists have been BAGHDAD: At least 26 people were killed and many more wounded ing but deceive and mislead.” Muammar Gaddafi. killed inside and outside of the in a rocket attack on a camp housing members of a dissident Iranian A Saudi-led coalition has been They have been prodding both sides to accept the peace plan and country,” Erdogan said in com- organization near Baghdad, the United Nations said yesterday. carrying out air strikes on Houthi promised more aid, worried that Islamist militants and people-smug- ments broadcast by television sta- According to Iraqi security sources, at least 15 rockets fired from positions for seven months, seek- glers have gained ground in Libya’s chaos just across the Mediterranean tion AHaber. an area west of Baghdad called Bakriya struck late Thursday in and ing to restore the Yemeni govern- from mainland Europe. Turkey has carried out attacks around Camp Hurriya, also known as Camp Liberty. It was not clear ment forced into exile last year “Sanctions are back on the agenda. The option of UN sanctions on Islamic State militants in Syria who was behind the strike. The former US military base near the after the Iran-allied rebels took would be better, but if we can’t do that we can go through the EU. We and also on Kurdish militant posi- international airport houses members of the People’s Mujahedeen over the capital of Sana’a. will at some point need to look at who meets the conditions for these tions at home and in northern Organization of Iran (PMOI). sanctions,” one diplomat said. Iraq. REUTERS REUTERS REUTERS AGENCIES SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 GULF / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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WO more gruesome boat tragedies involving migrants show that the world has done precious little to address one of the biggest humanitarian Tcrises in decades. Is there a place for an Greece yesterday said its coast guard rescued 144 refugees and recovered the bodies of 22, including four infants and nine children, after their boats sank in two separate incidents in the Aegean sea. In the first incident, 138 migrants were rescued and 19 drowned after their unelected chamber? wooden boat capsized off the island of Kalymnos late on By Noah Feldman Thursday. In the second case off the island of Rhodes, of statutes, rules, principles and prec- pered by wise people chosen undemo- edents subject to uncertainty, negotia- cratically. Indeed, critics condemned the three people, including a child and an infant, drowned HERE’S something inescap- tion and debate. original Senate as aristocratic. and four were missing. Six people were rescued at sea, the ably charming about the House This rule in particular dates back Yet it remains the case that rational coastguard said. Some 16 people, including two infants and of Lords, the upper chamber more than a century. In 1909-10, the deliberation can be enhanced by a check, eight children, were confirmed dead and 274 people were Tof the British Parliament with Lords initially blocked, and then under however brief, on major, transforma- rescued when a wooden boat they were on literally fell 817 active members. But the usually dis- pressure passed the so-called people’s tive legislation. Because the Lords can creet charm of the aristocracy is under budget, which systematically redistrib- only delay legislation, not block it, their apart in rough seas off the Greek island of Lesbos late on attack this week after the Lords used its uted wealth through social programs goal is always to drive further public Wednesday. power to delay tax-credit cuts passed by for the first time in British history. reflection. The death toll from drownings at sea has increased the Conservative majority in the House The aftermath was the Parliament Bill In democracies, the public sometimes recently due to a change in weather and the desperation of Commons. of 1911, which significantly limited the forgets to pay enough attention to major of migrants to reach Europe before the harsh winter The prospect of a Tory government power of the House of Lords. It speci- issues. A delay, judiciously deployed, is sets in. Due to the change in the weather, the sea has complaining about tradition is deli- fied that the Lords could delay money a signal to the public to sit up, listen ciously ironic, but it does raise two bills by a month, and gave the speaker and weigh in. If not overused, the delay become turbulent, turning the wind-whipped waters into serious questions: Is there a place for of the Commons the authority to certify should push the government to justify a deadly passage for thousands of refugees crossing from an unelected chamber in a modern what was a money bill and what was not its programs convincingly. Turkey to Greece. If weather is a major factor in the democracy? And under the terms of the law. Knowing that a Lords majority latest tragedies, more deplorable is what benefits, if The upshot is that any constitutional from other parties might delay legisla- the inability of the world to stem any, stem from its crisis over the current delay will have tion therefore forces the government An increase the flow of migrants into Europe by slowing or delay- to be resolved by the Commons and the to internalise the costs of potentially ing the operation Lords themselves. It’s broadly accepted unpopular laws that it wants to pass. In in death taking whatever measures necessary. of the elected gov- that the Commons could, if it wanted, a democracy, that’s a benefit — one that Syrians are willing to die in their ernment? pack the already overstuffed House of no other state institution is well-placed toll from desperate bid to rebuild their lives UK’s usually It should be Lords with new conservative peers. to deliver. drownings in because life in Syria is worse than discreet charm noted that there’s Although a few MPs have recommended In theory, an elected upper chamber death. a nice question that course, it’s unlikely to be taken. with the same limited powers could per- of constitutional That leaves the underlying challenge form the same role. Since 1999, there the sea shows It’s not late to act. These of aristocracy law at stake in to the unelected chamber’s legitimacy have been multiple proposals to elect the that the world drownings are likely to continue as is under attack the controversy. in a modern, democratic state. It helps Lords. That would give the chamber a is doing little nothing is being done to prevent it. after the House Ordinarily, the a little that today’s Lords, unlike their democratic pedigree. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Lords’ delaying historic predecessors, mostly did not But if the election of the Lords takes to solve the expressed “shame” over Europe’s of Lords used its power doesn’t inherit their posts. place at the same time as the election failure to prevent yet another extend to money In 1999, almost all of the hereditary for the Commons, the results should be refugee crisis. power to delay bills. The excuse peers were purged from the house by roughly parallel. If that happens, the humanitarian tragedy, and said it provided by the legislation that left just 92 behind. The checking function would disappear. was crucial to prevent the Aegean tax-credit cuts Labour-Liberal current Lords are in essence lifetime This would raise the question of why Sea from becoming a graveyard for passed by the Democrat coali- political appointees — a bit like US an upper chamber is needed at all, given people fleeing war and misery. Tsipras is in fact speaking tion that slowed Supreme Court justices, but with much that the House of Commons is already for migrants and his warning must be taken seriously. Conservative the bill was that, less power. elected. The migrant flow has created a crisis for Greece. The in form, it isn’t The classic justification for an upper It emerges that some lag in the com- majority in budgetary at chamber is to slow down the enthu- position of the two houses is a good country has been a transit point for more than 570,000 the House of all, but rather a siasms of popular democracy. In the thing. Party control should ideally be refugees and migrants fleeing conflict in the Middle East “statutory instru- famous metaphor attributed to George different in each. That won’t always and beyond this year, triggering disputes among European Commons. ment.” Washington, the US Senate (then happen, of course. But the more it does, nations on how to deal with the issue. What’s fasci- elected indirectly by the state legisla- the better. It’s true that there is no easy solution to the war in nating to con- tures) was like a saucer. The hot tea Properly configured, then, an unelected stitution buffs of legislation passed by the directly upper house is actually a boon to democ- Syria, but there are other steps that can be taken to avert worldwide is that elected House of Representatives could racy. And, anyway, wouldn’t it be a shame tragedies, like a crackdown on smugglers. Refugees have the constitutional rule that the Lords be poured into the saucer to cool it down to give up on the old-fashioned pleasure reported smugglers offering ‘discounts’ of up to 50 percent can’t delay money bills isn’t written before drinking. of saying “M’Lord” and M’Lady,” even if on tickets costing between 1,100 to 1,400 euros to make down in a single constitution — nor As the metaphor shows, there’s some- it’s only to a bunch of retired do-gooders the journey on inflatable rafts in bad weather, UN refugee can it be resolved by a court. The UK’s thing slightly paternalistic, even conde- and superannuated politicians? agency UNHCR said on Thursday unwritten constitution is, and has scending about the idea that the people’s . always been, a complex combination democratic expression needs to be tem- THE WASHINGTON POST The other side Quote of China’s ending of decades-old ‘one-child policy’ the day HAT THE Communist Party of the CPC’s 18th Central Committee has make or break, as the country will either nate rural poverty, equalize public serv- China has officially proposed outlined for more balanced develop- become mired in the dreaded middle ices, and extend urban public services putting an end to the ment over the next five years. income trap, or survive the pains of to rural areas, shows the course the decades-old “one-child” family Indeed, the development philosophy transformation and accomplish a sus- leadership is charting to avoid that Tplanning policy is certainly something of the conference communique - “inno- tainable economic rebirth. notorious trap. sensational. Which was why it was vative, coordinated, green, open, and Given the growing downward pres- While the main theme of the ple- instantly picked up late on Thursday shared by all” - is focused on address- sures on the economy and the subse- num boils down to “continue concen- by all major news outlets; way ahead ing imbalances. quent signs of a slowdown, as well as trating on doing our own things well”, Now 2,000 terrorists of the rest of the CPC’s blueprint for The meeting is worth all the media the conspicuous wealth gaps between its emphasis on “open development” the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan hoopla it has generated, not because regions and groups of people, it took should also be a reassuring message to have been killed (2016-20). it announced the five-year road map, tremendous confidence for top leader the rest of the world. The communiqué inside and outside of Yet, the eye-catching decision to but because this five-year period is of Xi Jinping to declare China will not be states the country will pursue a mutually allow all couples to have two children, particular significance, as it coincides caught in the “middle income trap”. beneficial, win-win opening-up strategy, the country. which is meant to correct the impend- with the deadline for fulfilling the Party’s The plenum’s call for “strategic and seek to build a “broad community ing imbalance in the country’s demo- centenary goal of realizing a moderately concentration” on comprehensive, bal- of shared interests”. graphic structure, is only one of many well-off society in an all-round manner. anced economic and social progress, Recep Tayyip Erdogan measures the fifth Plenary Session of These five years are likely to be along with specific proposals to elimi- CHINA DAILY President of Turkey SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 OPINION www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 A strongman in battle against resurgent Taliban By Sudarsan Raghavan

militia fighter wearing a loose-fitting Afghan tunic and sandals, and with a Gechi is neither a district governor nor rocket-propelled grenade launcher strapped to his a tribal elder. But in this sun-scorched Aback, stands at a checkpoint by a rickety territory of northern Kunduz province, bridge. To pass him requires the permis- sion of Nabi Gechi. where US troops left long ago and there To get married here also requires Gechi’s blessing. And to commit a robbery are no soldiers or police, Gechi and his requires a contribution to Gechi’s arse- nal. “If a person steals one watermelon, fighters are the only resistance against a he has to buy me an AK-47,” he said. “If he steals a sheep, he has to buy me a PK resurgent Taliban. machine gun.” Gechi is neither a district governor nor a tribal elder. But in this sun-scorched territory of northern Kunduz province, where US troops left long ago and there people like a bird,” said Amanullah Oth- In October 2012, the US military com- are no soldiers or police, Gechi and his manzai, an influential Pashtun tribal mended Gechi, saying in a citation that it fighters are the only resistance against elder. “If they find the slightest oppor- had the “greatest respect and apprecia- a resurgent Taliban. And that makes tunity, they will escape from their cage.” tion” for his “leadership.” him the most influential man for miles For much of his adult life, Gechi has A cellphone rings and Gechi picks up. around. been at both ends of a gun. At 18, he left On the other end is an aide who informs “Now, no one dares to steal anything his family farm in Qala-e-Zal to join him that two villagers are in a heated Nabi Gechi, with binoculars, look for Taliban attackers in June from atop a fortress built in my area,” the militia commander said. the US-backed mujahideen fighting the argument that threatens to escalate by US and German Nato forces. With its forces straining to combat a Soviet occupation. Back then, he was into a gun battle. Gechi orders one of his spreading insurgency, the Afghan gov- known as Abdul Nabi. In later years, he fighters to break up the dispute. “This doesn’t happen in my territory,” AK-47s, fingers on the triggers. On a ernment is partly outsourcing the war would earn the moniker “Gechi,” which These days, hardly anyone in Qala-e- Gechi said. “I don’t abuse the people.” rickety pole, the Afghan flag sagged in to irregular militias, many of them US- means “goat” in the Turkmen language. Zal goes to court or any other govern- In interviews, though, villagers and the windless sky. funded, even as President Ashraf Ghani “Whenever he fought, he had quick ment office with their problems. tribal elders said that he and his force A Taliban position was less than a mile has pledged to disarm them. As a result, moves like a goat,” said Hamdullah Dani- “The people come to me to solve dis- often prey on citizens, especially when away. A day earlier, the insurgents had new strongmen have emerged while shi, until recently the deputy governor of putes because they know if they go to they refuse to pay taxes. killed two of his men. Gechi stopped at established ones have grown more pow- Kunduz province. the government, they have to pay a huge “He forces people to sit on a wall, with an opening to a tunnel. “On good days, erful. Operating with little accountability The scars on Gechi’s body map amount of bribes,” Gechi said. If the prob- one leg on one side, the other leg on other we fight from the rooftop, and on bad and accused of human rights violations, Afghanistan’s numerous conflicts. In lem is serious, he convenes the tribal side,” said Othmanzai, the tribal elder. days, we fight from down there,” he said, they have deepened ethnic divisions and one battle against Soviet troops, a bul- council he controls to deliver justice. “Then he hangs some weights on their pointing down the hole. weakened the central government’s influ- let went through his face and came out Other residents come to him for finan- legs, to torture them into giving money.” There were plenty of bad days this ence in many areas. his neck. A second bullet grazed his face cial help when they get married or if they A 27-year-old ethnic Pashtun teacher year. “Why are the Taliban so strong in The increasing reliance on the militias during the civil war that erupted after need a loan. He usually gives 70 kilos of from Qala-e-Zal, who did not know Oth- Kunduz?” Gechi asked. “It’s because the is the latest sign that the United States’ the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989. rice as a wedding gift, he said. manzai, described similar intimidation. security forces are not doing enough.” signature effort in Afghanistan after the Gechi would survive five more shootings Gechi requires villagers to hand him Gechi’s fighters, he said, have accused What was needed, he added, were 9/11 attacks — building a capable army as an anti-Taliban battlefield commander Islamic taxes, about one-eighth of an villagers of being Taliban loyalists and more “local uprisers” like him. and police force — is buckling under a for the Northern Alliance rebels. individual’s earnings, similar to what forced them at gunpoint to pay $850 — or Soon, there may be. challenge from the Taliban. That has After the puritanical Islamist regime the Taliban took. He takes a portion of face arrest. On September 28, the Taliban seized prompted President Obama to cancel the was ousted in 2001, Gechi put down his harvests, livestock sales, land sales, any “There is no difference between Gechi the provincial capital, Kunduz city, the planned withdrawal of US troops, pro- weapons. He moved his three wives and 11 form of income. The money, he said, pays and the Taliban in the way of collecting first major urban area to fall to the insur- longing the United States’ longest war. children to the northern city of Hairatan for the ammunition, food and salaries for money,” said the teacher, who spoke on gency since 2001. For the next 15 days, In Qala-e-Zal district, power is in the to start a restaurant. his men not covered by the government. the condition of anonymity because he the militants wreaked havoc. In response hands of Gechi, a stout former muja- By 2009, though, the Taliban had seized to the assault, the government is consid- hideen warrior with a thick salt-and-pep- Qala-e-Zal and other areas in Kunduz. ering a plan to increase the number of per moustache, who was once bankrolled Turkmen tribal elders and officials from ALP fighters from 29,000 to as many as by US forces and is again a beneficiary of Afghanistan’s spy agency, the National 45,000. A spokesman for the Afghan Inte- their largesse. Directorate of Security, urged Gechi to The scars on Gechi’s body map rior Ministry, which oversees the forces, In these rural parts, the ethnic Turk- return to fight, promising weapons and said that ALP abuses were not a wide- men, 53, is not just the general. He is funding. “I entered here with one Kalash- Afghan-istan’s numerous conflicts. In spread problem and that the ministry is the judge, the police chief and the tax nikov rifle,” he said, recounting a story creating structures to better vet recruits collector. “I am the government here,” he that has become part of the local lore. one battle against Soviet troops, a bullet and control the militias. declared, seated on a floor covered with “And the villagers all took out their weap- “Our army and police cannot reach red carpets and pillows in his headquar- ons, their AK-47s and their muskets, and went throu-gh his face and came out everywhere,” said Sediq Sediqqi, the ters, along with his followers. we started to fight. In 21 days, we pushed spokesman. “We’ll continue to invest in His supporters, including provincial the Taliban out.” through his neck. the ALP because they are a very impor- government officials, describe him as Gechi remained in Qala-e-Zal, accept- tant element of our security forces.” a saviour who provides security where ing protection money from the villagers, Many observers are skeptical. A recent Afghan forces cannot. The US-backed most of them ethnic Turkmens. report from the International Crisis government is paying the salaries of 100 In 2011, US forces also began paying “The people of Qala-e-Zal think they feared for his life. Group concluded that the ALP pro- of Gechi’s mostly Turkmen fighters, from Gechi’s force and other militias. They have to pay these Islamic taxes to some- Danishi dismissed the abuse allega- gram had done little to improve security money provided by the US military. It made Gechi the district head of the one,” said Hafizullah Safi, 45, an elder tions, saying that Gechi was “a worthy and “even exacerbated the conflict in a has also supplied his militia with ammu- Critical Infrastructure Police, paying him who serves on the tribal council. “So why commander.” “These human rights people number of districts.” When the Taliban nition, olive-green Ford Ranger pickup $200 a month and his 225 fighters $150 not pay it for a good cause?” are destroying us,” he added. “If it weren’t seized Kunduz, the ALPs fled instead of trucks and tan Humvees. each per month, according to US military Others call the taxes extortion. for their criticisms, we would finish off fighting back. “Commanders like Nabi Gechi are very documents. “Nabi Gechi has become a wealthy the Taliban.” This month, Danishi was Gechi, in the end, also was unable important,” said General Abdul Sabur US officials renamed the fighters man,” said Amruddin Wali, deputy leader promoted to provincial governor. to protect his territory. In the Kunduz Nasrati, the provincial police chief. “guards.” But their ranks included men of the provincial council in Kunduz city. And Gechi is now the ALP commander offensive, the Taliban fighters also took “Without their support, the Afghan secu- with checkered pasts. At one point, “The government pays for 100 of his men, for Qala-e-Zal, said Kunduz provincial control of nearly two-thirds of Qala-e- rity forces cannot do anything.” Gechi’s deputy was replaced because he and yet he still charges every family.” police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hus- Zal. Even after the insurgents withdrew Gechi’s critics, however, contend that was in jail on human-trafficking charges. Human rights activists have accused saini. Gechi and his fighters receive funds from the city October 13, they remained the government is legitimising a warlord By the following year, then-president the pro-government militias of extra- through a programme supported by the in the district. “Sometimes we attack whom they accuse of abuse and extortion, Hamid Karzai shut down the programme, judicial killings, rapes, torture, kidnap- US Department of Defense. them, sometimes they attack us,” Gechi particularly directed against ethnic Pash- fearing that the militias could one day pings and drug trafficking. Although the One hot day last summer, in the village said in a recent phone interview. “But we tuns, who, as a group, form the core of challenge the government. But kept in militias are nowhere near as deadly as of Jagharogh, at the edge of his domain, will clear them out.” The fortress, though, the Taliban. His tactics, they say, propel place were hundreds of other troubled the Taliban, last year the United Nations Gechi entered a hilltop fortress built for is now under Taliban control, he said. more people to support the insurgency. US-created irregular forces known as the recorded that they killed 53 civilians, him by US and German Nato forces. His “These militias are imprisoning the Afghan Local Police, or ALPs. nearly triple the number in 2013. fighters stood atop the walls with their THE WASHINGTON POST Rubio, unfazed and throwing punches, gets his moment

By Karen Tumulty His unspoken invitation to GOP Bush, whose famous last name six network and cable news shows primary voters: Imagine the char- has become as much a liability as the morning after the debate, he enator Marco Rubio was ismatic 44-year-old son of Cuban an asset. Bush criticised Rubio side-stepped opportunities to keep already cruising to a brea- immigrants on a debate stage a If Wednesday’s debate was any for missing more votes than any bashing Bush. He told Savannah Skout performance in the year from now, up against pre- other senator this year. Guthrie, host of NBC’s Today latest GOP presidential debate sumed Democratic nominee and indication, Rubio has learned “What is it, like a French work show: “I still have tremendous when an attack from Donald former secretary of state Hillary week? You get, like, three days admiration for him both as a per- Trump opened up more air time Rodham Clinton. not only the rules but also the where you have to show up?” Bush son and what he did as governor for him to respond according to Privately, some strategists for said. “You can campaign or just of Florida. I’m not going to talk the evening’s format. the likely Democratic nominee, playbook. And he has reached the resign and let someone else take bad about Governor Jeb Bush. My “Well, I’ve learned the rules on who has lately been on a roll, the job. There are a lot of people campaign is not about him.” this,” the senator of Florida said acknowledge that this is the pros- point where he appears ready to living paycheck to paycheck in Instead, he trained his criticism coolly, proceeding to swat back pect that most worries them as Florida as well; they’re looking on Clinton and on another foil he Trump with ease on the signature well. Of course, there is a long way execute it. for a senator that will fight for cited frequently during the debate issue of the celebrity billionaire: to go between now and then, and them each and every day.” — the news media. immigration. many obstacles remain for Rubio. Rubio had seen that one coming Rubio said Clinton’s testimony If Wednesday’s debate was any “The election wasn’t decided and was ready with a devastating last week before the House Select indication, Rubio has learned not last night, and we’re going to a comprehensive immigration bill who is equipped to bring together — and patronising — counterat- Committee on Benghazi had only the rules but also the play- have another debate in 14 days, that passed the Senate in 2013 — the party’s establishment and tack. He noted that Bush, in his raised new, troublesome issues, book. And he has reached the and that will replace in people’s which has been his chief accom- insurgent wings. attempts to regain his standing as which had been covered up by a point where he appears ready to memory this one, so it’s part of plishment there and one he now “Marco is uniquely positioned the establishment favourite, had blanket of fawning coverage. execute it. a process,” Rubio said on Thurs- largely disavows — may be a dis- to be able to unite the Republi- compared his efforts to those of “In that testimony, it was Rubio showed during the day morning on CNN. The next qualifier in the view of many in can Party,” Rubio spokesman Alex Senator John McCain, who resur- revealed that Hillary Clinton knew debate that he could take a hit — debate is November 10. the conservative base. Conant said. “If Marco is the nom- rected a campaign that had been early on, and was telling her fam- and swing back — something that He lags far behind in the polls, To many Republicans, the idea inee, we will defeat Hillary Clinton. left for dead and went on to win ily and telling her friends, that the might have been in doubt, given in which outsiders Trump and of electing a first-term senator There is a very clear generational the party’s nomination in 2008. attack on the consulate was by ter- his youth and the roughness of retired neurosurgeon Ben Car- who is long on eloquence but contrast between her message and “I don’t remember you ever rorists, Al Qaeda-like terrorists. this election cycle. Until this point son have captured the favour of short on accomplishments seems Marco’s, and America is ready to complaining about John McCain’s And yet for a week, not just her, in the campaign, he has run a rel- an angry GOP base. uncomfortably reminiscent of turn the page.” That could also be vote record,” Rubio said. “The but a lot of people in the adminis- atively low-key effort, not making Rubio also is running behind in then-Senator Barack Obama’s said of the signal that he is trying only reason why you’re doing it tration were going around telling a grab for the spotlight. His strat- the traditional metrics, of money, run for the White House in 2008. to send to his own party. now is because we’re running for the families of the victims and the egists have said he was waiting organisation and endorsements, Then again, with the Iowa cau- A pivotal moment of the debate the same position, and someone American public that it was due to for a moment to put his natural where more-established candi- cuses less than 100 days away, it was an exchange between Rubio has convinced you that attacking a video,” Rubio said on CNN. political talents on display. dates have an edge. is hard to imagine anyone else in and his one-time political men- me is going to help you.” It came on Wednesday night. Moreover, his role in crafting the sprawling, fractious GOP field tor, former Florida governor Jeb As Rubio took a victory lap of THE WASHINGTON POST SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA China’s naval Malaysia deports Maldives blast suspect KUALA LUMPUR: A man he was arrested in connection residents on Wednesday. Malay- Yameen, 59, has provoked suspected of involvement in the with an investigation into a Sep- sian police said the others were street protests in Maldives with attempted assassination of Mal- tember 28 blast on a speedboat also deported, but the Maldives a crackdown on political dissent, dives President Abdulla Yameen transporting President Abdulla foreign ministry said: “Four Mal- including the arrest of the coun- chief warned last month was deported yester- Yameen after his return from the divians held by Malaysian police try’s first democratically elected day from Malaysia to the Indian haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. with Hamid Ismail were released president, Mohamed Nasheed. Ocean archipelago, police in Yameen was unhurt but his today. They were not deported.” Nasheed was sentenced to 13 Kuala Lumpur said. wife and two aides were injured. A commission probing the years’ jail this year on terrorism The Maldives foreign ministry Maldives Vice President Ahmed explosion said in a statement on charges. identified the suspect as Hamid Adheeb was arrested on Saturday Thursday that Saudi investiga- Maldives Foreign Minister US of war risk Ismail, who it said worked as in connection with the explosion. tors had reported they had found Dunya Maumoon denied on Tues- “investment ambassador” for the Defence Minister Moosa Ali Jaleel traces of “RDX, a chemical rated day that dissidents were trying to island nation south of India best was sacked in mid-October. as a high explosive and the main unseat Yameen and said he was US naval move called ‘provocative’ known for its tourist resorts. Ismail was arrested in Kuala element used in making powerful in control. The foreign ministry confirmed Lumpur with four other Maldives explosives such as C4.” REUTERS BEIJING: China’s naval com- “If the United States contin- mander told his US counterpart ues with these kinds of dangerous, that a minor incident could spark provocative acts, there could well war in the South China Sea if the be a seriously pressing situation United States did not stop its between frontline forces from “provocative acts” in the disputed both sides on the sea and in the North Korea waterway, the Chinese navy said air, or even a minor incident that Myanmar oppn MP attacked yesterday. sparks war,” the statement para- Admiral Wu Shengli made the phrased Wu as saying. YANGON: A candidate for digging tunnel comments to US chief of naval “(I) hope the US side cherishes Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition operations Admiral John Rich- the good situation between the was wounded by a sword-wield- ardson during a video teleconfer- Chinese and US navies that has ing attacker while canvassing in at nuclear site ence on Thursday, according to a not come easily and avoids these Yangon, his party said yesterday, SEOUL: North Korea is digging Chinese naval statement. kinds of incidents from happening as tensions rise just over a week a new tunnel at its nuclear test The two officers held talks again,” Wu said. before Myanmar holds key elec- site with an eye to conducting after a US warship sailed within Speaking earlier, a US offi- tions. more tests of atomic devices in 12 nautical miles of one of Bei- cial said the naval chiefs agreed Naing Ngan Linn, a sitting the future, a South Korean news jing’s man-made islands in the to maintain dialogue and follow MP for the National League for report said yesterday. contested Spratly archipelago on protocols to avoid clashes. Democracy (NLD), suffered inju- The site is on North Korea’s Tuesday. Indeed, Wu said he believed ries to his head and arms when he east coast, where three previous China has rebuked Washington the Chinese and US navies had was set upon on Thursday as his nuclear tests were conducted, and over the patrol, the most signifi- plenty of scope for cooperation campaign group toured a town- there’s an active movement of cant US challenge yet to territo- and should both “play a positive ship in his constituency. workers and vehicles working on a rial limits China effectively claims role in maintaining peace and “(The man) started punch- new tunnel, Yonhap news agency around its seven artificial islands stability in the South China Sea”. ing an NLD member. Then peo- quoted an unnamed government in one of the world’s busiest sea ple tried to make him go home source as saying. lanes. REUTERS because he was drunk. But he “The fact that they are con- came back with a large knife,” structing a new tunnel indicates said Thet Htar Nwe Win, another the intention is to conduct a Beijing to reject tribunal’s decision NLD candidate, who witnessed nuclear test at some point,” the the incident. Naing Ngan Linn, a candidate for the NLD party, lies on a bed in a Yangon source was quoted as saying. “Naing Ngan Linn tried to stop hospital as his wife takes care of him, yesterday. There was no evidence to con- BEIJING: China will disregard any findings by an international him... that’s why he sustained clude the preparation was for an tribunal on a case brought by the Philippines over disputed islands in many injuries,” he said, adding on Thursday. His condition was power away from the military and imminent test, the source added. the South China Sea, Beijing said yesterday after the court decided several other men had attacked not life threatening. its ruling party allies for the first South Korea’s Unification Min- to consider the action. the group but were unarmed. “The man who attacked was time in generations. istry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee The Permanent Court of Arbitration — which is based in The Hague It was not clear what motivated shouting abusive words against Campaigning has largely been declined to confirm the report but — ruled on Thursday that it did have jurisdiction on the issue. the assault, which left three NLD when our vehicle arrived,” calm, although the NLD has said the country and the United But China has refused to participate in the proceedings, arguing that other NLD members with minor she said. complained that its rivals have States are closely watching for the case is about sovereignty and the court cannot rule on it. wounds. Political tensions are high used religion as a political tool. any nuclear activity by the North. “We will not participate and we will not accept the arbitration,” Vice Thet Htar New Win said in former junta-run Myanmar, NLD spokesman Nyan Win North Korea announced Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters in Beijing. at least two people had been where Suu Kyi’s opposition is said the attack on Naing Ngan yesterday it would convene a “The ruling or the result of arbitration will not affect China’s posi- arrested. contesting nationwide elections Linn was “the worst case during congress of its ruling Workers’ tion,” he added. Khin Sandar Win, the injured for the first time in a quarter our campaign so far” and called Party for the first time in 35 years, “It won’t affect China’s sovereignty rights and jurisdiction in the MP’s wife, said he suffered wounds of a century. The party is likely for immediate action from police. reviving a forum last gathered South China Sea, our rights will not be undermined.” on his forehead, hands and wrists to make major gains in the vote, under the rule of current leader AFP and had undergone an operation potentially tipping the balance of AFP Kim Jong-Un’s grandfather, Kim Il-Sung. The congress will be held in May next year, the party central Marble shop committee’s politburo said in a Court threatens to statement carried by the North’s HK student leader faces trial official KCNA news agency. The statement gave no specific jail Zimbabwe’s HONG KONG: Prominent Hong take part in an unlawful assem- indication of what the congress Kong student activist Joshua bly,” relating to the September 26 would discuss, although it top prosecutor Wong vowed to continue his fight incident. mentioned the need to “further HARARE: Zimbabwe’s constitu- for democracy yesterday as a trial The teenager was in court strengthen the party... and tional court has threatened to jail date was set over a protest that yesterday for a half-hour hear- enhance its leading role.” the country’s top prosecutor for sparked mass rallies in the city. ing which set the trial date for Observers said it would refusing to allow action against a Wong, 19, will face trial in Feb- February 29. It is scheduled to provide an opportunity to signal ruling party legislator accused of ruary for the demonstration on last seven days. any significant policy shifts or raping a child. September 26 last year which Wong could face up to five years reshuffle the party leadership. The court sentenced prosecu- saw students climb into the city’s in prison if convicted. The last congress was held way tor-general Johannes Tomana government complex as part of Wong, a university student, also back in October 1980 under North to 30 days in prison if he fails to a campaign for free leadership faces two other separate cases Korea’s founding leader Kim Il- comply with two earlier court elections. over protests last year. Sung. Kim Il-Sung’s son and suc- orders within 10 days, sparking It triggered wider rallies that He has repeatedly described cessor Kim Jong-Il never called a calls yesterday for his resignation. exploded two days later when the cases against him as political congress and next year’s gather- One of the two cases which police fired tear gas to disperse and has pleaded not guilty to all ing will also be the first for third Tomana refused to pursue involves Stone engravers work on tombstones at a marble shop in suburban crowds in central Hong Kong. the charges. generation Kim dynasty leader a legislator from President Robert Manila yesterday, ahead of All Saints’ Day. Millions of Filipinos will flock to Wong is charged with “unlawful Kim Jong-Un. Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, Mun- cemeteries around the country to visit departed relatives and loved ones assembly and inciting others to AFP AGENCIES yaradzi Kereke, who is accused of as they mark All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day on November 1 and 2. raping an underage girl. The other case involves fraud charges against Jane Mutasa, a former chairwoman of a mobile telephone company. Indonesia reviewing land-burning laws to reduce haze menace The court ordered on Wednes- day that Tomana be jailed unless JAKARTA: Indonesia is review- to cut short an official trip to the annual fires when the burning Revising the law may need par- than fires. The haze has caused he allowed private prosecutions of ing laws that allow farmers to United States and pushed the gets out of control. liamentary support, which could pollution levels across the region the accused within 10 days. burn up to two hectares, forestry country’s greenhouse gas emis- “The problem is that some peo- delay changes until 2016, said to spike to unhealthy levels, and “This is an officer of the court officials said, the latest in so-far sions above the daily average from ple take advantage of this excep- Bakar, adding that the govern- forced school closures and flight who deliberately disobeys a court unsuccessful efforts to halt fires all economic activity in the US. tion,” Indonesia’s environment ment was therefore considering cancellations. Warships are on order. It’s not something that that have sent choking smoke A 2009 law allows smallholder and forestry minister, Siti Nur- an emergency regulation. standby to evacuate infants and this court will take lightly,” chief across much of Southeast Asia. farmers to use slash-and-burn baya Bakar said. Forestry experts say the best other vulnerable residents of justice Godfrey Chidyausiku was Indonesia is also considering practices to clear land for agri- “In our last cabinet meeting, the way to clear forested areas is haze-hit areas, while other coun- quoted as saying by local media. declaring a national emergency cultural purposes, and has been president assigned us to review a by tractors, chainsaws or hand tries have been asked for help to over the fires, which this week cited by green groups and plan- regulation that allows land burn- tools. These methods are more tackle the fires. AFP caused President Joko Widodo tation firms as a key cause of the ing for two hectares.” expensive and time-consuming AFP

US drill ‘Comfort women’ central to Park-Abe talks TOKYO: South Korean President the Asahi Shimbun daily yester- will be no further hurt for either cient because it was not official. Park Geun-hye said the emotional day, Park said efforts by Japan to side on this.” Park told the Asahi that steps issue of “comfort women”, who resolve long-festering issues such Japan says the matter of com- must be taken soon, perhaps were forced into prostitution at as the “comfort women”, as the pensation for the women was even within this year, given that Japanese wartime brothels, would mostly Korean women forced settled under the 1965 treaty most of the surviving women are be central at this weekend’s bilat- into prostitution are known, was setting diplomatic relations. In around 90-years-old. eral summit and key to stable ties needed for a “stable relationship”. addition, then-Chief Cabinet Sec- Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary with Japan. “For that to happen, more than retary Yohei Kono apologized in Koichi Hagiuda said that Japan’s Park and Japanese Prime Min- anything, some kind of progress a 1993 statement acknowledging stance on the matter remained ister Shinzo Abe are set to hold on the important issue of victims authorities’ involvement in coerc- unchanged. their first two-way talks since of the Japanese military comfort ing them. In 1995, Japan created “There are many difficult issues taking office, an effort to mend women (system) is essential,” Park a fund to make payments to the between our nation, but that ties chilled by what South Korea was quoted as telling the Asahi in women from donations, budgeted should mean no conditions are put sees as repeated failures by lead- written replies to questions. money for their welfare sup- on a leaders’ meeting beforehand The USS Ronald Reagan, a 100,000-tonne US nuclear-powered aircraft ers in Tokyo to properly atone for “I hope that this summit will be port and sent letters of apology — as we have said repeatedly,” he carrier, arrives at a port in the southeastern coastal city of Busan, South wartime atrocities. a chance to set a goal for a solu- from successive premiers. South added. Korea, yesterday to take part in US military exercises. In an interview published in tion of this issue and that there Korea has said that was insuffi- REUTERS SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Pakistan vows Militants are heroes for quake survivors

REHANKOT: The United terrorist” by the United States in Nations says Pakistani charity 2010. Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front for The JuD has 30,000 volunteers swift aid before a deadly militant group blamed and hundreds of workers, paid for a bloody 2008 attack on the between $100 and $200 a month, Indian city of Mumbai. But to Rauf and other JuD officials said. survivors of this week’s earth- It also pays for about 500,000 quake, the Islamist aid workers copies of weekly publications and winter sets in are heroes. runs 300 seminaries. About 2,000 Jamaat-ud-Dawa JuD publicly disavows armed (JuD) volunteers fanned out militancy. It promotes conserva- Earthquake survivors to get cash across northern Pakistan after tive Islamic rule and calls for last Monday’s quake, highlight- Pakistan to retake Indian-admin- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has “After November 15 there will ing the organisation’s well-oiled istered Kashmir. vowed swift compensation to sur- be three to four feet of snow here disaster response and ability to Last Wednesday, JuD founder vivors of a powerful earthquake and we have nothing to protect work alongside the military. Hafiz Saeed, who also led LeT that flattened thousands of homes us,” Mir Wali, whose village JuD’s freedom to operate before it was sanctioned, issued this week so that they can rebuild Charun Ovir is 3,000 metres up despite US and UN sanctions a statement blaming Pakistan’s before the harsh winter sets in, in mountainous terrain in the contrasts sharply with an intensi- “un-Islamic” government and an official said yesterday. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district of fying crackdown on international “public vulgarity”. Money will be distributed from Chitral, said last Thursday. aid groups. It also spotlights After the Mumbai attack, the Monday, chief of the National Nawaz said military helicopters Pakistan’s reluctance to reign in United States offered $10 million Disaster Management Author- and transport planes were trans- anti-India militants, a potential for information leading to Saeed’s ity (NDMA) Asghar Nawaz told porting tents, blankets and food flashpoint between the neigh- arrest and conviction. a press conference in Islamabad, supplies to remote mountainous bours. India says Pakistan uses Pakistani earthquake survivors carry relief aid from a distribution centre in Charities such as JuD are grow- adding that the rescue phase areas where the Pakistani Met militants as proxy forces to attack the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province yesterday. ing in strength as Pakistan cracks has now concluded and authori- office has forecast rain and snow- India, a charge Pakistan denies. down on international aid groups, ties were focusing on relief fall in coming weeks. This week, Pakistani Informa- “Maybe those who preach attack in which 166 people were accusing some of being spies. operations. “The distribution of compen- tion Minister Pervez Rashid told humanitarianism like the US killed. In three hours after this The clampdown began after it Victims will receive up to sation money for rebuilding and media that banned groups would should come here and help us,” week’s quake, a single Lahore- emerged that the CIA had used a 200,000 rupees ($2,000), the gov- repairing of houses will start from not be allowed to provide aid. Alam said. based JuD worker, Muhammad doctor who had contact with an ernment has said. Monday and our priority is that But 50-year-old herbal healer The United Nations and United Zubair, told Reuters he raised international aid group to hunt Last Monday’s 7.5 magnitude affected people are able to have Najib Alam, whose mud-and- States say they sanctioned JuD 1,000,000 Pakistani rupees (nearly for al Qaida chief Osama bin quake ripped across Pakistan and shelter from cold weather as win- stone house was damaged by the and its sister organisation, the $10,000) for relief supplies. JuD Laden, killed in a 2011 raid. Afghanistan Monday, killing more ter sets in in the area,” he said. 7.5 magnitude quake, says the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation, declined to say how much it had This month, the interior min- than 390 people in total. Since last Monday 67 after- JuD are the only charity in his because they exploit disasters to raised in total. istry announced plans to vet all Pakistan’s confirmed death toll shocks have been felt. No further mountain village of Rehankot in raise volunteers and funds for JuD members say they are international charities. The min- so far stands at 272, with 2,227 damage had been reported, but the Upper Dir region. militants. unjustly accused. istry will cancel registrations people injured and nearly 25,000 there was still danger from these “JuD are the only people here,” They say JuD is a front for “This is propaganda. The UN of any group carrying out work homes damaged, mostly in the tremors to damaged houses and Alam said, the floor of his wrecked Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba put sanctions on Jamaat ud Dawa contrary to the “national inter- northwestern province of Khyber buildings, Nawaz said. home trembling as he pointed out (LeT) group, which carries out but we were never told what ter- est”. Charities say that could be Pakhtunkhwa, where tempera- Army, paramilitary forces and missing chunks of wall. attacks in Indian-administered rorism we do, and neither has interpreted as anything critical of tures are already plunging below civilian administration are dis- The village’s winding Kashmir. The disputed Hima- anyone ever proven any allega- the government or military. zero at night. tributing food to survivors, he alleys were littered with rub- layan region is divided between tion of terrorism against us,” The government imposes few Survivors have appealed for added. ble; atop one pile lay the India and Pakistan and claimed said Abdur Rauf, head of JuD’s restrictions on JuD, Rauf said. help from the government before remains of a Koranic inscrip- by both. Lashkar-e-Taiba was humanitarian relief operations. the winter sets in. AFP tion from the wall of a mosque. also blamed for the 2008 Mumbai Rauf was designated a “global REUTERS Pakistani mother begs for reunion with son stuck in India

KARACHI: A Pakistani mother Now 15, Ramazan was found by father and stepmother, Rama- Pakistan to put in a formal whose son has been stuck in the charity Childline in Bhopal, zan ran away, straying into India request for his repatriation. India for years begged yester- capital of Madhya Pradesh state, where he wandered from town In Pakistan, the Ansar Burny day for them to be reunited after two years ago and has been cared to town, sleeping and eating at Trust has requested the govern- they made contact last month for for by them ever since. shrines and railway stations ment’s help in bringing Ramazan the first time since 2008. “When I heard about him, before being picked up by Child- home, the human rights organi- In a story mirroring that of well... I can not express in words line in Bhopal. sation’s director Shagufta Burny Geeta, the deaf-mute Indian my immense affection as a Director Archana Sahal said said. woman who returned to Delhi mother,” his mother said tear- this week that he speaks regu- “Only a border is in between... this week after spending more fully yesterday. larly with his mother since they there should be flexibility so that than ten years trapped in Paki- “For so many years he has been made contact a month ago, and the child can reunite with his stan, Mohammad Ramazan far from me. I earnestly desire the pair have exchanged videos mother,” Burny said. wandered into India years ago that he should live with me now,” and photographs. “When I speak to my mother, without a passport and has been she said. Ramazan’s identity has been we both cry,” Ramazan said in trapped there ever since. Ramazan’s parents divorced in established “beyond any doubt”, Bhopal. Around six weeks ago his 2004, and his father took him to she said. “I want to go back to my home mother Razia Begum, who lives in Bangladesh in 2008 without his Sahay said the Indian gov- as soon as possible... I want to be Karachi, stumbled across his story mother’s knowledge, she said. ernment has told the char- with my mother. Razia Begum, mother of Mohammad Ramazan, shows her son’s picture and photograph on the Internet. Claiming he was abused by his ity they are waiting for AFP in Karachi yesterday.

Imran seeks divorce after 10-month marriage Will not tolerate delay

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani oppo- He was considered his coun- sition leader and former play- try’s most eligible man until he in CPEC project: Sharif boy cricketer Imran Khan is to suddenly announced his plans to divorce for a second time, ending marry shortly after launching a his marriage to a TV journalist movement to topple the govern- ISLAMABAD: Any delay in timely will not be part of the just ten months after they wed. ment in August 2014, which he implementing the China-Paki- team. Imran Khan, 62, married called off in December after a stan Economic Corridor (CPEC) “The CPEC is the future of 42-year-old Reham Khan, a Taliban attack on a school that projects will not be tolerated, Pakistan and its timely comple- former BBC weather host and a killed 150 people. Paksitani Prime Minister Nawaz tion is top priority of the govern- divorced mother of three, in Janu- Reham Khan, host of a local Sharif said yesterday. ment,” he said. ary this year in a simple ceremony TV talk show, was widely criti- “Delay in completion of CPEC The prime minister would at his Islamabad home. cised after she appeared at pub- projects will not be tolerated,” personally review the pace and “We have decided to part ways lic meetings of Imran Khan’s Xinhua quoted a statement from progress of the projects through and file for divorce,” Reham Khan Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) the PM office as saying. the core team and direct the said in a brief statement on her party, with opponents accusing The CPEC, a 3,000km network concerned authorities to update Twitter account yesterday. her of seeking to boost her own of roads, railways and pipelines project benchmarks on a monthly Imran Khan tweeted that it profile. She found particularly linking Kashgar in China’s Xin- and quarterly basis that would be was a “painful time” and that harsh reception in northwest jiang Uygur region and Pakistan’s monitored by the prime minister he has “the greatest respect Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan yesterday ended his marriage with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Gwadar Port, is a major project of on a weekly basis. for Reham’s moral character & television journalist Reham Khan (right) yesterday. governed by PTI. China’s “Belt and Road” initiative. “The CPEC would lead to gen- her passion to work for & help She also sparked controversy During a meeting with Finance eration of employment opportuni- the underprivileged”. Naeem ul matter, so I won’t be able to com- ning Pakistan its only World Cup after it emerged that she had not Minister Ishaq Dar on the sta- ties across the country and would Haque, Imran Khan’s spokesman ment more or state any reason for in 1992, Khan’s sporting prow- actually attended a college where tus of the CPEC projects, Prime lead to enhancement in trade and said the decision to divorce was it,” he said. ess and rugged good looks also she claimed to be a student on her Minister Sharif said that the con- poverty reduction,” he said. mutual. Loved by millions across the brought him international celeb- website. cerned officers and officials who “It’s a painful and personal cricket-obsessed nation for win- rity in a country lacking glamour. AFP fail to complete related projects IANS

UN urged to probe ‘strong evidence’ of Rohingya genocide in Myanmar BANGKOK: There is “strong 140,000 and spurred an exodus dence to support a conclusion ings with Munyan. The clinic The Myanmar government human rights abuses,” Silk said. evidence” that Myanmar has from the country by boat. that genocide has occurred,” identified the Myanmar army, could not immediately be reached “There is a lot of evidence that committed genocide against Fortify Rights, a campaign said Katherine Munyan, one of police force and now-disbanded for comment. But in response to states that show a lack of concern Rohingya Muslims, according group focusing on the Rohingya, four students who conducted the Nasaka border administration the report, Myanmar’s informa- for the human rights of their citi- to a Yale law school report that said there are about 1 million eight-month analysis under the force as responsible for acts that tion minister, Ye Htut, told local zens sometimes do not care about called for a United Nations com- Rohingya in Rakhine state and at supervision of Lowenstein direc- could constitute genocide. It also news site Mizzima the govern- what the rest of the world says.” mission of inquiry to focus world least 160,000 have fled since 2012. tor and law professor James Silk. exposed links between perpetra- ment “rejects the accusation As such, seriously questioning leaders’ attention on abuses in Yale’s Allard K Lowenstein “We determined that the next tors and the central government. completely.” Myanmar has long whether genocide is going on may western Rakhine state. International Human Rights logical step would be for the Motala said a commission of pushed back at criticism of its act as an incentive for Myanmar The Rohingya, a stateless eth- Clinic analysed research con- United Nations human rights inquiry by the UN Human Rights treatment of the Rohingya, call- to act, “if only to repair the coun- nic Muslim minority that lives in ducted by Fortify Rights and Al council to convene a commission Council should provide an “inclu- ing it an internal matter. try’s image with the rest of the apartheid-like conditions in pre- Jazeera, to see if genocide had of inquiry to examine the atroci- sive, comprehensive and extensive “The statement that this is world with which it wants to have dominantly Buddhist Myanmar, been committed as defined by the ties in Rakhine state,” added investigation to the human rights an ‘internal matter’ is a classic good relations,” Silk said. have faced worsening persecution 1948 UN genocide convention. Tasnim Motala, a member of the atrocities occurring in Rakhine statement made by leaders of and violence that has displaced “We think there is strong evi- team who presented the find- state”. states that are engaged in serious REUTERS SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA Bengal madrasa Envoy: Pakistan wants teachers’ strike enters 30th day KOLKATA: The hunger strike to formalise 2003 truce by teachers of unrecognised madrasas from West Bengal demanding better pay and state Islamabad awaiting response on four-point formula aid entered its 30th day here yes- terday. BENGALURU: Pakistan wants border and implement the cease- rorism and Kashmir peacefully. A group of teachers affiliated India to formalise the understand- fire in letter and spirit to prevent “As the people in both countries to the West Bengal MSK Staff ing the heads of the two states violations from both sides,” said want peace and strong cultural, Welfare Association have been on reached in 2003 as an agreement Basit, who is on a four-day visit to trade and economic ties, both a relay hunger strike near Hazi to end ceasefire violations at Karnataka, a first by a Pakistan the governments should work Mohammad Mohsin Square in the Line of Control, High Com- envoy. together to resolve all outstanding central Kolkata demanding the missioner Abdul Basit said In view of the trust deficit issues on the basis of agreements inclusion of 495 madrasas under yesterday. between the two countries on and understandings reached in the state Madrasa Education “As reiterated recently by many issues, especially on border the past since the Shimla agree- Board. The madrasas seeking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif firing, he urged posting a third ment in 1972,” he urged. recognition are Madrasa Shiksha in the United Nations General party like the United Nations as Hoping that both the countries Kendras (MSKs), Shishu Shiksha Assembly, we need to formal- an observer at the LoC to check would soon resume dialogue and Kendras (SSKs) and Madhyamik ize the 2003 understanding our who was violating the ceasefire give shape to what was agreed Shiksha Kendras. (then) president General Pervez and ensure peace. upon by Sharif and Prime Min- According to a representative Musharraf and (then) Indian “If you (India) say we are violat- ister Narendra Modi at Russia’s of the welfare association, the prime minister Atal Behari ing the ceasefire with unprovoked Ufa on July 10, Basit said he dis- state government has gone back Vajpayee had on a ceasefire on firing, we also have evidence of covered that people even in this on its promise of giving recogni- the Line of Control,” Basit said your troops doing the same 400 city want both the countries get tion to the madrasas. here. times so far in which about 40 of together soon and strive for peace Chief Minister Mamata Baner- The agreement proposal was our people died,” Basit stressed. and development. jee said her government couldn’t part of the four-point formula Reiterating that Pakistan “There is a strong desire for offer financial association to the Sharif had flagged in his UN was keen to have good relations greater people-to-people contacts, madrasas because of fund crunch, address on September 30 to revive with India at all levels, espe- economic cooperation, regional the representative said. talks between the two countries cially between the people and connectivity, trade promotion, Meanwhile the Opposition — and resume bilateral ties. promote cultural, trade and tourist travel and increasing vis- Congress and Left Front-have “We are waiting for the Indian economic levels, he said both its by relatives of citizens in both reached out and expressed soli- government’s response to the the countries should move from countries,” he added. Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit (left) gestures while his wife darity with the agitating teachers. four-point formula so as to sta- the past, stop blame-games and Summiya Basit looks on after being felicitated by the Press Club of bilise the tense situation on the resolve all issues, including ter- IANS Bengaluru following a press meet yesterday. IANS

Kashmir protest Man gets death for murder of Andhra techie

MUMBAI: A women’s court “Justice has been done and we the vehicle registration number. from Nashik on March 3 and here yesterday sentenced to are grateful to the police, courts As there was no other form of charged with the crime. death a 29-year-old man found and media for taking up the cause commute available at that hour Meanwhile, unable to commu- guilty of robbing, raping, burn- so diligently...It will serve as a and though she did not have bal- nicate with Esther, her anxious ing and killing Esther Anuhya, a deterrent to others,” Prasad said ance in her mobile, she pretended father, Jonathan Prasad lodged techie from Andhra Pradesh, on outside the court. to make a call to her family before a missing person complaint with January 5, 2014. The woman had arrived from accepting the motorbike ride. Vijayawada Railway Police before Terming it as the ‘rarest of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh at En route, he stopped the bike coming to Mumbai and lodging rare cases’, Special Judge Vrush- the Lokmanya Tilak Railway Ter- on the service road near Kan- another complaint with the Kurla ali Joshi pronounced the verdict minus after a Christmas break to jurmarg suburb, on the pretext Railway Police. against Chandrabhan Sudam rejoin work at the Tata Consul- that petrol in the motorcycle was Mumbai Police recovered a Sanap, who was found guilty of tancy Services in Goregaon here. exhausted. In the foggy wintry charred and decomposed body multiple crimes on October 27. The incident happened after morning on the deserted highway, in Kanjurmarg on January 16. Judge Joshi observed, “This is the train arrived early that morn- he dragged Esther into the bushes Esther’s identity was established the rarest of rare cases... For the ing around 5am at Lokmanya and attempted to rape her. on the basis of a ring she was murder charge, the accused shall Tilak Terminus and Sanap, posing As she strongly resisted, an wearing. be hanged by the neck till death.” as a cabbie, offered to drop her at enraged Sanap banged her head Later, Sanap was arrested The women’s court also sen- her hostel in south Mumbai. They repeatedly with a stone and and the Special Public Prosecu- tenced Sanap to life imprison- negotiated an amount of `300 for strangled her with her dupatta. tor Raja Thakare examined 39 ment under the Indian Penal the commute. However, when she Later, he took some petrol from witnesses, including two who Code Section 376A (rape), and walked out of the terminus with his motorbike and attempted to said they had seen the accused awarded 10 years’ imprisonment her luggage, she found Sanap had burn her in the thick bushes and the victim together. Mumbai under Section 376(2) (M) for per- neither a taxi nor an autorick- beside the Eastern Express High- Police spokesperson Dhananjay sistent sexual assault. shaw, but a motorcycle. way near Kanjurmarg. Kulkarni said yesterday that the Kashmiri protesters clash with police during a demonstration against the The 23-year-old victim’s father, When Esther refused to sit on He fled the scene after grab- prosecution successfully secured killing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Abdur Rehman alias Abu Kasim, in Jonathan Prasad and brother the motorcycle pillion, he asked bing her bag and a strolley which the conviction under all sections downtown Srinagar yesterday. Security forces killed the LeT commander Thomas Noble — welcomed the her to make a call and inform contained her laptop and other of the law. on Thursday in a gunfight outside Kulgam town, 89km south of Srinagar. verdict. her family about his details and belongings. Sanap was arrested IANS

Diwali lamps Dress code mandatory for BJP blames Congress-RJD for RAS exam Bihar unrest in memo to EC JAIPUR: Women candidates set to take the Rajasthan Adminis- NEW DELHI: The BJP yes- BJP said. The memorandum BJP also took on Lalu Prasad trative Services (RAS) exam can terday knocked on the doors of was signed by union Minister for calling BJP president Amit appear only if they are wearing a the Election Commission blam- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP Gen- Shah a “man-eater”. salwar suit or saree, a directive ing the JD(U)-RJD-Congress of eral Secretary Arun Singh, Sud- “Statements of Lalu Yadav issued by the Rajasthan Public making attempts to disturb com- hanshu Trivedi, Sambit Patra and against Amit Shah that “man- Service Commission (RPSC) has munal harmony in Bihar during Siddharth Nath Singh. eater has become mad”, calling said. the ongoing five-phased assembly The letter quoted Rahul Gan- Prime Minister Narendra Modi The RPSC has issued the man- polls. dhi saying in an election rally, “brahma-pishach” are highly con- datory dress code for men as well, The memorandum blamed “The BJP wants to get votes by demnable and such statements saying, “The boys appearing in the Congress vice president Rahul making Hindu and Muslims fight violate election code of conduct competitive examination would Gandhi, Janata Dal-United’s Nit- with each other.” and provisions of the Representa- only be allowed to appear in half ish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata It also blamed RJD chief Lalu tion of the People Act,” the BJP sleeve shirts and slippers (chap- Dal’s Lalu Prasad for flaring up Prasad, and JD(U) leader and said. pals) or sandals without socks,” communal sentiments in the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish “These statements are a con- an RPSC official said. state. Kumar. spiracy to disturb communal har- “The full sleeve shirts are not “The RJD-JD(U)-Congress “Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar mony in the state.” allowed, so are the shoes,” he are trying to disturb commu- have been making provocative The BJP urged the Election added. For girls too, "only slippers nal harmony in Bihar Assembly and personal statements against Commission to ensure free and or sandals are allowed” he said. elections for last several days,” the BJP leaders to communally fair elections in Bihar. A woman dips earthen lamps in green paint during preparations for the a memorandum submitted to polarize the situation in Bihar,” upcoming Diwali festival in Mumbai yesterday. The earthen lamps, used IANS the Election Commission by it said. IANS during Diwali, are filled with oil or fuel for illuminating and decorating homes and adjoining premises. BSF marks golden jubilee Defence minister assures think tank of support with cultural show NEW DELHI: The defence min- inputs to the government and latter was nearly through, he G K Pillai, Gulshan Rai Luthra, istry will extend full support to help in decision making, adding disclosed. The newly appointed Ambassador Swashpawan Singh, NEW DELHI: A three-day Chaudhary also released a short the Institute for Defence Studies that IDSA’s various seminars and director general, Ambassador Jay- Air Marshal M. Matheswaran exhibition titled ‘Ek Swaranim film on the organisation. A photo and Analyses (IDSA) think tank research papers have been useful ant Prasad, briefed the members (retd), and Lt Gen Prakash Anubhav’ was inaugurated here exhibition and a free medical to strengthen its research work, to the government. about the Institute’s activities Menon (retd). Staff Representa- yesterday to celebrate the golden check-up and awareness camp Defence Minister Manohar Par- Parrikar, who was elected last in the past and the projects in tive: Meena Singh Roy jubilee year of the Border Secu- are the other major events of the rikar said yesterday. year as the IDSA president in his hand. As a society, IDSA is gov- The defence secretary and rity Force (BSF). Inaugurat- celebrations. The minister appre- Addressing the 49th annual capacity as the defence minister, erned by an Executive Council foreign secretary are ex-officio ing the exhibition at Jawaharlal ciated the display of BSF weapons general meeting of the Institute, also said that IDSA could possi- (EC) drawn from various fields. members of the EC. Funding Nehru Stadium, union Minister and artillery. Several colourful which functions as an autonomous bly have an institutional arrange- Its members can continue for two for the Institute is provided by of State for Home Affairs Harib- cultural programmes showcas- body despite being affiliated to the ment with the proposed Indian years each, and the members of the defence ministry, although hai Parathibhai Chaudhary lauded ing the cultural diversity of India deffence ministry, he assured the National Defence University the newly constituted EC are: project-based assistance is some- the role of the BSF in guarding have also been planned. members that required funding (INDU), which will be set up in President: Manohar Parrikar, times given by the external affairs the country’s borders. would be available to IDSA to Haryana in the near future. Members: Charan D Wadhwa, ministry. During the inaugural ceremony, IANS enable it to provide independent The draft paperwork for the Vice Admiral Anup Singh (retd), IANS SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 ASIA / INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Court to hear Govt plans to make air plea for ban on websites with travel more affordable jokes on Sikhs

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Draft policy aims to reduce airfares, revive airports Court will look into a plea for a ban on websites with jokes on NEW DELHI: New Delhi yes- It outlines plans to revive middle-class Indian to start fly- the Sikhs, as a lawyer-petitioner terday announced a plan to make India’s dilapidated airports and ing,” Choubey said, adding the told the apex court yesterday that air travel affordable for millions airstrips, of which only about 75 scheme would start in April 2016. the community was projected as more Indians, with schemes to out of 476 are in use, build “no- “We will be giving several people of low intellect, stupid and revive ailing airports and connect frills” airports and set up a fund incentives in order to bring down foolish through such jokes. rural areas that it said would to improve access to rural areas. the cost of flying as much as we As petitioner Harvinder Chow- “take flying to the masses”. “The prime minister has said... can.” dhary urged for directions to ban Members of security forces try to douse burning copies of ‘Indian The long-awaited draft policy it should be a policy which takes Only 70 million of India’s 1.2 webites spreading jokes on Sikhs, Government Organised Carnage-Nov 1984’ during a protest in New Delhi aims to bring down airfares to flying to masses, it should no billion citizens flew domestically an apex court bench of Justice T S yesterday. 2,500 rupees ($40) per hour of longer confine flying only to the in the year to March, according Thakur and Justice Kurian Joseph flying on many regional routes elite,” Secretary for Civil Aviation to the Sydney-based Centre for asked her why she wanted such through a slew of tax incentives, Rajiv Nayan Choubey said. Asia-Pacific Aviation, making it a ban as “this (Sikh) commu- subsidies and a two percent levy “We should promote regional one of the world’s most under- nity is known for a great sense of on international and some domes- connectivity in a manner which penetrated markets. humour and they also enjoy such Court notice to cops in tic routes. makes it possible for the ordinary The draft policy, which looks jokes”. Chowdhary said whenever to overhaul rules dating back to she travelled in public transport, the 1930s, has been submitted to including Delhi metro, she came anti-Sikh riots case aviation stakeholders for review. across instances where even on The industry has criticised trivial issues people were ridiculed the government for failing to while citing jokes relating of the NEW DELHI : The Delhi High able under the Indian Penal Code, carry out aviation reforms. With Sikh community. Court yesterday issued notice to including murder, rioting, kidnap- the exception of budget carrier Referring to a recent comment three Delhi Police officials on a ping and threatening to give false IndiGo, most domestic airlines are by Prime Minister Narendra Modi plea challenging their acquittal in evidence. The trial court held that suffering losses and mired in debt. during electioneering in Bihar the killing of three members of a the complainant and witnesses The government is also consid- that Bihar residents were the family in Nangloi in the national turned “hostile and contradicted ering scrapping or amending the most intelligent people, the peti- capital during the 1984 anti-Sikh their earlier statements”. “5-20 rule”, which requires local tioner said it reflected as if other riots. A bench headed by Justice The trial court noted that a tes- airlines to operate for five years communities were not intelligent. Sanjeev Khanna sought response timony of complainant Gurbachan and have a fleet of at least 20 As Justice Thakur responded that from the policemen by December Singh, whose three family members planes before they can fly inter- the prime minister would say the 11 on an appeal filed by the cops. were burnt to death allegedly by nationally. However, some Indian same thing about Sikhs if he went A trial court on September 25, the accused on November 1, 1984, airlines are opposed to scrapping to Chandigarh, Chowdhary said 2014, acquitted the then station was inconsistent and he repeat- the rule, saying it would favour the PM would not say so because house officer of Nangloi police edly changed his stand. The com- cash-rich international airlines the BJP was in rift with its ally, station, Ram Pal Singh Rana, the plainant claimed that despite his An aircraft belonging to Air India taxies past the main terminal of Indira coming into the domestic market. Shiromani Akali Dal. then sub-inspector Dalel Singh repeated attempts, police did not Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi prior to take-off. and the then head constable lodge an FIR in the case. AFP IANS Karam Singh of offences punish- IANS

Delhi L-G alleges pressure Delhi govt move on power suppliers quashed from AAP over court cases NEW DELHI: In a setback to “All the power of state govern- are constrained to observe, has the high court said. The bench the Arvind Kejriwal government, ment relating to electricity now undertaken a misguided exer- headed by Chief Justice Rohini the Delhi High Court yesterday stand vested in DERC,” the bench cise by issuing a direction to the said after re-enactment of law NEW DELHI: Delhi Lieuten- Minister Satyendra Jain brought quashed the executive decision to said, slamming Kejriwal’s decision CAG to audit the accounts of the relating to the power sector and ant Governor (L-G) Najeeb Jung a file containing the details of get the accounts of the capital’s to audit the discoms as a “mis- discoms when the report of such having substituted the powers of yesterday accused the Delhi gov- criminal cases pending against three private power distribution guided exercise”. audit would not have any sanctity the state government with that of ernment of “insisting” he with- the Delhi CM and other senior companies (discoms) scrutinised The high court order upheld in law for achieving the desired the regulator, it was unable to find draw criminal cases against AAP AAP leaders,” the statement read. by the CAG. the plea of the three discoms — result,” the high court verdict any purpose which a report of the leaders, including Chief Minister According to statement, “Jain Chief Minister Kejriwal, how- Tata Power Delhi Distribution, reads. official auditor would serve under Arvind Kejriwal. asked Jung to clear the file by ever, said the setback was “tem- BSES Rajdhani Power and BSES “We are unable to decipher direction of the NCR government. A statement from the L-G withdrawing 24 cases against porary” and that the Supreme Yamuna Power -- contesting the anything which DERC cannot and “Once the discoms, before office rubbished the government’s AAP leaders which are pending Court will be moved in appeal. Delhi government’s January 7, which CAG can unearth. DERC is incurring any expenditure above allegation of considering former in various Delhi courts”. A Delhi High Court division 2014, order to get their accounts neither found to be helpless nor a limit, are required to obtain Haryana chief minister Om Pra- A fresh file was received from bench of Chief Justice G Rohini scrutinised by the Comptroller dependent on the balance sheet the prior approval of the DERC, kash Chautala’s parole. Delhi chief minister’s office last and Justice R S Endlaw said, and Auditor General of India. filed by the discoms,” it added. and therefore, once the DERC The statement alleged the Wednesday evening with notes of “There can be no other audit at They are private companies, Audit of the discoms under approves the said expenditure, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Kejriwal and Jain which alleged the instance of state government” and not government entities, and the prevalent legal regime can- we fail to see how the CAG can Delhi government had mounted Jung for pressurising the home as there is already a watchdog, as such they do not come within not serve the object of bringing be allowed to arrive at a different pressure on Jung to withdraw 24 minister to consider the parole of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory the purview of the CAG, they down power tariff, “even if were conclusion,” the bench said in its criminal cases registered against the INLD leader, Chautala. Commission (DERC), with pow- maintained. it to find that the allegations (of 139-page judgment. its leaders, including Kejriwal. ers to audit the accounts of dis- “The Delhi government, instead inflating their previous losses) “On September 11, Delhi Home IANS coms. of strengthening the DERC, we against the discoms to be true”, IANS

Fasting for husband Meghalaya protesters demand Odisha CM has loan of `1.5m chief minister’s resignation BHUBANESWAR: Even as he continues to be the richest among SHILLONG: Thousands of peo- legislators to become members of The procession held yesterday his cabinet colleagues, Odisha ple took to the streets here yes- autonomous district council. has clearly demonstrated that the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik terday to seek the resignation of The rallyists burned an effigy of people of Khasi and Jaintia Hills has a loan of `1.5m on his head. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Sangma near the additional secre- no more have confidence in him,” Patnaik has been ruling and his ministers and demand re- tariat and raised slogans against Kharshiing said. the state for the last 15 years. insertion of a provision in law for Deputy Chief Minister Rowel The federation has been at log- According to the properties and legislators to become autonomous Lyngdoh, District Council Affairs gerheads with the government on assets statement of Patnaik for district council members. Minister H D R Lyngdoh and several issues, including alleged the year 2014-15, the chief minis- Even as the state capital of Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen delay by Governor V Shanmuga- ter, who has a deposit of `2.3m in Meghalaya came to a standstill for Lyngdoh. nathan to give his assent to bills his four accounts in Odisha and several hours due to the protest “If our demands are not met passed by the Khasi Hills Autono- New Delhi, took a personal loan march, the agitators set a Novem- before November 4, the federation mous District Council and Jaintia of `1.5m from his sister in the last ber 4 deadline for the Congress- along with people from across the Hills Autonomous District Coun- fiscal. led government to meet their state will march and demonstrate cil to empower traditional insti- Women pose during the Karva Chauth (Husband’s Day) festival in Siliguri “Temporary loan of `1.5m charter of seven demands. in front of the main secretariat tutions. yesterday. Married women observe Karva Chauth by fasting and offering from Geeta Mehta, received vide The protest march was organ- on November 5,” federation chief Last month, the Meghalaya prayers seeking welfare, prosperity and longevity for their husbands. cheque no 479486 dated 09.03.2015 ised by the Federation of Village Werlock Kharshiing told journal- assembly passed a bill amending drawn on Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubi- Chiefs of Hynniewtrep (Synjuk ists. the Prevention of Disqualifica- shi, UFJ Ltd, New Delhi,” said Ki Nongsynshar Shnong Ka Bri He said in the recent elections tion (Members of the Legislative Patnaik’s statement. U Hynniewtrep). to Garo Hills Autonomous Dis- Assembly of Meghalaya) Amend- His movable properties include They asked the Sangma govern- trict Council (GHADC), people ment Bill, 2015, to prohibit people ` an Ambassador car of 1980 vin- Gold worth 9.57m ` ment to convene a special assem- had rejected Sangma’s leadership. holding a public office from hold- tage valued at 17,000, bank bly session to re-insert an earlier “People have rejected his leader- ing another elected office. deposits of `2.3m and jewellery clause in statute that permits ship in recent GHADC elections. IANS worth `189,000. seized at Goa airport Patnaik has inherited a farm- land from his mother Gyan Pat- PANAJI: Customs authorities low pipe above the wheels of their naik measuring 22.7 acres and in Goa yesterday seized gold baggage trolleys,” the spokesper- a building at Tikrikhera village worth `9.57m from an Air Asia son said, adding that this was the near Faridabad in Haryana, which Man charged for carrying fake notes flight and arrested four persons, first time that gold was seized is valued at `7.25cr. including two women, while they from a Malaysia-inbound flight. He also inherited property on A KOLKATA: The National Inves- here, Ali has been charged with stability of India,” the agency were trying to smuggle the yel- Earlier this month, chairman P J Abdul Kalam Road (formerly tigation Agency (NIA) yesterday several offences including under said. low metal from Malaysia to Goa’s of Central Board of Excise and Aurangzeb Road) in New Delhi submitted a charge sheet indict- the Unlawful Activities (Preven- Ali was apprehended by the Dabolim international airport, an Customs Najib Shah had said worth `360m from his father Biju ing an accused of conspiracy tion) Act (UAPA). Border Security Force from official said. that gold smuggling was a “major Patnaik and his two-thirds share involving cross border smuggling “Ali has been charged for his Daulatput border outpost in the A customs department official challenge” for the enforcement from Naveen Nivas in the state of fake Indian currency notes. involvement in a terrorist con- district on May 6. said yesterday that the seizure officials. Dabolim airport has capital. It is valued at `57m, the The case involves seizure of spiracy with a gang, involved Considering the gravity of was made from accused Chivag- emerged as a major transit facil- statement said. The property fake notes of the face value of in cross border smuggling of offence and the linkages of gang nanam Muruka, 46, Paneerselvam ity for international smugglers for statement furnished by Patnaik nearly `65 lakh from the accused extremely high quality fake with operatives in Bangladesh, Balaji, 33, Prabakaran Laxmi, 39, ferrying gold to Karnataka and said he did not acquire any new Barkat Ali near the Bangladesh Indian currency notes (FICN) the union home ministry in June and David Arulmani, 37, all from Kerala, especially contraband gold asset, either movable and immov- border in West Bengal’s Malda across Indo-Bangladesh border handed over the probe to the NIA. Chennai who had arrived in Goa shipments inbound from the Gulf able, during the last financial year. district in May. for further circulation in India, on Air Asia flight AK-96. region. Filed before a special NIA court thereby damaging the monetary IANS “The gold was hidden in a hol- IANS IANS SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE

Osborne to take Tsipras ‘ashamed’ of EU reform push to Germany YORK, England: Britain’s finance minister will outline EU migrant handling how he wants to protect London’s financial services industry in a reformed European Union when European countries trying to fudge responsibility: Greece he travels to Germany next week. Prime Minister David Cam- ATHENS: Greece’s prime 570,000 refugees and migrants Turkey’s shoreline. eron is trying to convince other minister said yesterday he was fleeing conflict in the Middle East But he said there should be EU leaders to agree to changes in ashamed to be a member of a and beyond since January, trig- more effective focus on patrol- the way the 28-country bloc is run European Union that he said gering bickering among European ling Turkey’s sea border to ensure ahead of Britain’s in-out member- was sidestepping responsibilities nations. that refugees did not risk their ship referendum which is due to over the migrant crisis and cry- Speaking during prime minis- lives getting to Europe in the first be held by the end of 2017. ing hypocritical tears for chil- ters’ question time, Tsipras also place. “We are now starting to nego- dren who have drowned trying said any suggestion that Greece Greece has agreed to tempo- tiate directly with our colleagues to reach its shores. was not effectively safeguarding rarily host up to 50,000 refugees in Europe through the Euro- In some of the hardest-hitting the EU’s outermost borders — he pending their relocation to other pean Council and setting out comments yet on a crisis resonat- referred to leaders of “certain countries. That agreement was more detail of what we think ing throughout Europe, Alexis European countries” — was borne struck at a meeting of several Refugees and migrants react as their boat sinks off the Greek island of is required,” Finance Minister Tsipras told parliament Greece of ignorance of international law European nations last Sunday in Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey yesterday. George Osborne said yesterday didn’t want a “single euro” for dictating protection of the lives of Brussels. in the English city of York. saving lives as thousands of refu- people in distress at sea. Although his migration minis- put a price on the human cost. Christian Democrats (CDU), has Osborne said that in Berlin he gees continued to arrive daily on “These are hypocritical, croco- ter was quoted as saying earlier “I’m not addressing you,” he told favoured an open-door policy and would add details of how the Brit- its shores, and the EU remained dile tears which are being shed this week that EU financing was a lawmaker. “I’m addressing those says Germany can cope. ish government hopes to achieve at odds on how to deal with the for the dead children on the needed for a subsidised housing European partners who are wag- Seehofer, head of the Christian its twin aims of addressing the influx. shores of the Aegean. Dead chil- programme to work, Tsipras said ging their finger at Greece. Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria, concerns of voters at home about At least 35 people drowned dren always incite sorrow. But Greece did not expect to get paid Meanwhile, Germany’s Social the entry point in Germany for the relationship with Europe, trying to cross the sea between what about the children that for saving lives. Democrat Vice-Chancellor, Sig- many of the migrants, has said whilst convincing European Turkey and Greece this week. are alive who come in thousands Over just a two-day period on mar Gabriel, warned yesterday the existence of the conservative peers that British-led reforms Authorities fear the death toll will and are stacked on the streets? October 29 and 30, 595 refugees that a dispute among the con- bloc was at stake if she did not will improve the bloc. Polls show rise as more people attempt the Nobody likes them.” were rescued at sea, the coast- servatives over how to handle “correct” her asylum policy. British voters are largely split on short but dangerous passage to The humanitarian crisis is add- guard said. record inflows of migrants into Gabriel, leader of the Social whether to leave the bloc, with a Greece before the onset of winter. ing to misery in Greece, which “Greece is in crisis. We are a the country was jeopardising the Democrats, the junior partner small majority currently saying “I feel ashamed as a member was forced to seek a third inter- poor people, but we have retained government’s ability to act. in the ruling coalition, said in they would vote to stay a member. of this European leadership, both national bailout this year to stave our values and humanity, and we Merkel and Horst Seehofer, an interview with Spiegel Online In talks with his German coun- for the inability of Europe in deal- off bankruptcy and its exit from aren’t claiming a single euro to do the leader of her Bavarian sister that the conservative parties were terpart Wolfgang Schaeuble, ing with this human drama, and the euro. our duty to people who are dying party, have frequently clashed acting “irresponsibly” and creat- Osborne is expected to explain for the level of debate at a senior Tsipras said it was important in our back yard,” Tsipras said, over how Germany should deal ing even more uncertainty among Britain’s fears that ever-closer level, where one is passing the that the European Union had after an opposition lawmaker with the estimated 800,000 to the population as concerns mount integration of the euro zone could buck to the other,” Tsipras told begun a dialogue with Turkey on asked what Greece had received one million it expects this year, that Germany cannot deal with leave London sidelined in financial parliament. the creation of so-called hot spots in return for agreeing to host many of them from war zones in the new arrivals. policymaking, affecting its bank- Impoverished Greece has been to register refugees on Turkish refugees. the Middle East. ing sector. a transit point for more than soil and for effective patrols along His country, he said, couldn’t Merkel, the leader of the AGENCIES Varoufakis hails old foe Merkel for Last UK resident imprisoned in Guantanamo returns home refugee support BERLIN,: Greece’s firebrand LONDON: The last British res- Aamer arrived at Biggin Hill fighter for Al Qaeda, as well as Aamer’s US lawyer Clive Staf- prisoners’ rights and an organ- ex-finance minister Yanis Var- ident detained in Guantanamo airport south of London on a being a close associate of Osama ford Smith his client’s first act iser of hunger strikes. oufakis had words of praise yes- Bay landed back in London yes- direct flight from Guantanamo Bin Laden, but never charged him. would be “to see a doctor and have He remained on hunger strike terday for his former nemesis, terday having been released after Bay aboard a Gulfstream jet. Prime Minister David Cam- a full medical check-up.” as Obama’s administration German Chancellor Angela Mer- spending over 13 years at the US The plane taxied into a hangar eron’s office said on Thursday “It’s going to be really hard announced last month that he kel, over her refugees policy. military jail in Cuba, officials said. and an ambulance was seen arriv- there were no plans to detain him. for him,” he told Sky News. “He was to be freed, leading his fam- Varoufakis, an outspoken critic “We can confirm that Shaker ing and leaving the terminal “As soon as he is returned to would say to him that he’s only ily to fear they would not see him of Merkel’s austerity-for-aid Aamer has been released from building. the UK he is no longer in deten- ever responded to his prison again. response to the Greek debt crisis Guantanamo Bay and has The United States accused the tion. He is free to be reunited with number 239 all these years.” A medical examination ordered during his half-year in office, told returned to the UK,” the Foreign 46-year-old Saudi national of act- his family,” said Cameron’s official The lawyer said Aamer was by his lawyers in December 2013 German daily Die Welt that her Office said in a statement. ing as a recruiter, financier and spokeswoman. planning to set up a charitable found Aamer was suffering from open-door stance regarding asy- “It is a case that he has per- foundation “to help get the truth post-traumatic stress disor- lum seekers had been exemplary. sonally raised with the president. so in the future we don’t repeat der and depression, as well as “As a European, it fills me with He also wanted to support the the same mistakes of history”. migraine headaches, asthma and great pride how Chancellor Angela president’s efforts to close Guan- Aamer was born in Saudi Ara- kidney pain. Merkel is reacting,” he said, when tanamo Bay,” she said, referring bia in December 1968, and lived Rights goup Amnesty Inter- asked about the influx of asylum to US President Barack Obama. in the United States before set- national, which took up Aamer’s seekers to Europe. I wish everyone Following the release of Mau- tling in Britain, where he mar- cause, called his detention “intol- in Europe would do the same.” ritanian detainee Ahmed Ould ried a British woman and, in 1996, erable”. He contrasted her policy with Abdel Aziz from Guantanamo became a resident. “We should remember what a that of countries such as Hungary, this week, the US defence min- In 2001, he took his family to terrible travesty of justice this which has fenced off its borders istry said 113 detainees were Afghanistan, but sent them to case has been,” said UK director with Serbia and Croatia to keep left. Pakistan after the September 11 Kate Allen said. migrants out. “Imagine if Merkel The father of four, who was attacks. He said he was about to “Having been held in intoler- had wanted to do what Hungary did. twice cleared for release from the join them when he was detained. able circumstances for nearly 14 What should she have done? Erect camp in 2007 and 2009, has always Aamer claims to have suf- years, Mr Aamer will need to fences? And then allow the police denied the allegations against him fered sleep deprivation, beatings time to readjust to his freedom.” and the army to shoot if someone and said he was in Afghanistan and humiliation at the hands of British Pakistani Moazzam tried to climb over?” he asked. working for a charity. American troops while being held Begg, who was detained in Guan- “No, she did the right thing Aamer’s father-in-law Saeed at the notorious Bagram Prison tanamo for nearly three years, and thus she deserves praise... Siddique called it “a delightful day north of Kabul. wrote on Twitter: “Many ques- She acted like everyone in Europe for all of us.” “It’s really a mira- He was transferred to Guan- tions re UK complicity in #Shak- should act: she didn’t try to shove cle,” he told the BBC. tanamo Bay on February 14, 2002 erAamer torture & Iraq war link the problem off onto other coun- “Everybody is looking forward — the day his youngest child was but for another day. Today cel- tries but rather saw it as a Euro- to seeing him, especially after all born — where he said the mal- ebrate his release.” pean problem.” Well-wisher Andrew Jackson holds a placard after the aircraft carrying this time. But it won’t be neces- treatment continued, leading Shaker Aamer landed at Biggin Hill airport near London, yesterday. sarily today.” him to become an advocate for AFP AGENCIES

Court rejects Polanski German boy killer suspect admits second murder

BERLIN: A German man An eight-hour autopsy extradition to US accused of sexually abusing confirmed the body was that and killing a four-year-old of Mohamed, prosecutors said KRAKÓW: A Polish court Baby can still be appealed, court Bosnian refugee has admitted to yesterday. yesterday quashed a US bid to spokeswoman Beata Gorszczyk murdering another child, police The boy had been missing since extradite Oscar-winning director said earlier yesterday. said yesterday, as investigators October 1, when his mother took Roman Polanski, who pleaded “The case would then be sent probed possible links to other him and his sisters to Berlin’s guilty in 1977 to raping a 13-year- to a higher court, which could missing children. main refugee registration centre, old girl but left the country before uphold the regional court’s “The man confessed overnight Lageso, which receives hundreds sentencing. decision, overturn it or send it that he had also killed Elias,” said of asylum seekers daily. The court ruled “inadmissibility back for retrial,” she said. Berlin police spokesman Stefan His disappearance triggered a in extraditing Polish-French Polanski was in Krakow but did Redlich, referring to a six-year- massive police operation, with the citizen Roman Polanski to the not attend the open court hearing old German boy who had been missing child’s photo appearing US,” presiding judge Dariusz “because of emotional reasons”, missing since July. regularly on television screens in Mazur said at the court in the his lawyer Jan Olszewski said Investigators were combing Berlin’s subway trains. southern city of Krakow. earlier. through a garden allotment Police also released CCTV In a two-and-a-half-hour Local media reported that for Elias’ body after the man footage of a bearded man leading ruling, Mazur criticised the Polanski — who has been married identified as Silvio S said his a child who was holding a stuffed German police officers stand at a garden allotment “Eckbusch” in original US investigation, saying to French actress Emmanuelle corpse was buried there. toy. But the search turned out to Luckenwalde, south from Berlin, yesterday where they were searching the the judges and prosecutors there Seigner since 1989 — had been A photographer at the scene be futile as the boy “was already body of six-year-old German boy named Elias, who was been missing in “seriously broke the rules of a fair waiting for the verdict from saw police transporting a body dead on October 2, the day Potsdam since July. trial”. aboard a plane at Krakow airport. away from the allotment. after his kidnapping,” the police “Had Poland accepted the US If the Polish prosecutor’s office, The suspect was arrested on spokesman said. security guard in Berlin, admitted said. Mohamed’s family has extradition request, it would which is representing the US Thursday after his mother told Forensic investigators found taking Mohamed from the refugee been living in Germany for more have violated the rights of Mr side, decides to appeal and the police he may have been involved signs of strangulation on centre to his flat where he sexually than a year and on the day of Polanski and at the same time the extradition is ultimately cleared in the kidnapping of the Bosnian Mohamed’s neck, prosecutor abused him, von Hagen said. his kidnapping, the mother had European Convention on Human at the court level, then Poland’s boy, Mohamed. Michael von Hagen said on But when the child began gone to the registration centre Rights,” the judge decided. justice ministry would still have Police later found the body of Thursday, adding that the accused squealing, the suspect killed him to obtain her social allowances, The decision in favour of the the final say. a child packed in cat litter inside had admitted using a belt to choke to prevent anyone from hearing, according to local media. 82-year-old director of The the suspect’s car, which appeared the child to death. before hiding the body in cat litter Pianist, Chinatown and Rosemary’s AFP to have been dead for some time. The man, who worked as a to hide any odour, the prosecutor AFP SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Budget deal goes to Obama after Senate nod Plan provides for $50bn spending increase in fiscal 2016; deal adds $31bn into an emergency war fund

WASHINGTON: The US Sen- damaging default. It provides crises that have harmed our econ- ner’s final legislative achievement. ting sidetracked by ideological while doing little to pare down the ate passed a two-year budget deal for a $50bn spending increase in omy,” he added. There was a sense of urgency to provisions that have no place in nation’s $18 trillion deficit. yesterday that avoids a poten- fiscal 2016 — split about equally Republican and Democratic the Senate vote, which occurred America’s budget process”. “Republican majorities have tially drastic debt default — a between defense and domestic lawmakers fought several battles hours before sunrise yesterday. His message appeared aimed just given President Obama a compromise legislative effort that programmes—and $30bn in fis- over borrowings between 2011 and The Republican-controlled Con- at conservative lawmakers who diamond-encrusted, glow-in-the- President Barack Obama said cal 2017. 2014 that roiled financial markets, gress needed to raise the federal this year said they would risk the dark AmEx card,” Senator Ted should “help break the cycle” of The deal also adds $31bn into caused an unprecedented down- borrowing limit by November 3 to threat of a government shutdown Cruz, who is running for presi- fiscal crises. an emergency war fund for the grade of the country’s triple-A avoid risking a crippling default if the administration would not dent, fumed late on Thursday The bill passed the House of Pentagon, offset by tweaks to debt rating by Standard & Poor’s, on the national debt. agree to defund Planned Par- as he excoriated his own party’s Representatives earlier this week some entitlement programsme. and forced a partial government Overall, the new budget would enthood, the large non-profit leadership. and now goes to Obama, who “It will keep us safe by investing shutdown for 16 days in 2013. set 2016 discretionary spending at women’s health provider whose Senator Rand Paul, another said he would sign it as soon as it in our national security” and pro- The deal is the result of weeks $1.067 trillion, of which about half services include abortions. Republican presidential hopeful, arrives on his desk. tects seniors by avoiding deep cuts of secret negotiations between the is for defense. The figure would Several conservatives, includ- accused lawmakers from both The measure, which passed 64 to Medicare public health care White House and just-departed rise slightly in 2017, to $1.071 tril- ing a number of candidates vying parties of having “come together votes to 35 in the dead of night, and the Social Security pension Republican speaker of the House lion. Congressional appropria- for the Republican presidential in an unholy alliance to explode provides lawmakers with some system, Obama said in a state- John Boehner, who sought to clear tors will need to decide how the nomination, have blasted the deal the debt”. “The left gets more fiscal breathing room through the ment, applauding Democrats and the decks of any fiscal crises before funds will be divided among the as fiscal recklessness. welfare, the right gets more mili- 2016 presidential election after Republicans who “came together” his successor took the gavel. vast slate of federal programs Critics say it marks a sell-out tary contracts, and the taxpayer years of bruising spending fights. to pass the budget agreement. Boehner stepped down on by December 11, when a stopgap to the Obama administration is stuck with the bill,” Paul said The plan suspends the statu- “It locks in two years of funding Thursday, when congressman spending measure expires. because it busts through congres- in a one-hour, 1:30am floor speech tory federal borrowing cap until and should help break the cycle Paul Ryan was elected as the new Obama urged Congress to pass sionally mandated spending caps attacking the deal. mid-March 2017 and averts a of shutdowns and manufactured speaker, and the bill marked Boeh- those spending bills “without get- and extends borrowing authority, AFP

One dead in NY building collapse Plane fire in Florida investigated Jeb Bush denies 2016 campaign MIAMI: Two adult passen- gers remained hospitalised as is on life support National Transportation Safety Board investigators began exam- WASHINGTON: Jeb Bush ining the engine on a Venezuela- stumbled at Wednesday’s debate, bound 767 aeroplane that burst but the following day he spirit- into flames before takeoff on edly denied suggestions his White Thursday at a South Florida air- House campaign is on life sup- port, officials said. port, insisting he remains the Twenty-one people were best candidate to defeat Hillary taken to Broward Health Medi- Clinton. cal Center for evaluation, one The former Florida governor, in serious condition, as 101 pas- a son and brother of two presi- sengers and crew evacuated the dents, has not lived up to the hype Dynamic International Airways’ and monumental fundraising of Boeing 767-200ER using inflatable the first months of his campaign, emergency slides, hospital spokes- when he was riding high as pre- Bystanders record with their mobile phones the scene where a building woman Amy Erez said on Friday. sumptive Republican frontrunner. undergoing demolition work partially collapsed, in New York yesterday. Nineteen people were treated He is stuck in the middle of a One person was killed while another was trapped in the rubble. and released, she said, and both Passengers evacuate from a plane on fire at Fort Lauderdale airport, Florida. broad GOP field, watching help- of the patients admitted were in lessly as brash billionaire Donald stable condition as of yesterday. mac. Neither of the airport’s two Greensboro, North Carolina- Trump and retired neurosurgeon Most of the injuries were runways was damaged. based Dynamic said it had oper- Ben Carson, both political outsid- bumps and bruises, according to Television images showed the ated wide-body aircraft since ers, sit atop the Republican heap. Broward County Sheriff’s Office plane surrounded by white foam 2009 and issued an apology to its Eager for a breakout moment, Teen, police battle in spokesman Michael Jachles. and firefighters’ trucks as thick passengers. he went after his onetime politi- Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood black smoke engulfed the left Operations Director Don Dod- cal protege at the debate, Senator International Airport officials on wing engine. son said in a statement that the Marco Rubio, calling him out for Friday said the fire was knocked The 29-year-old aircraft was company was cooperating with skipping votes in the Senate. viral dance-off video out within four minutes before leaking fuel before departure, the authorities and would not specu- But the attack fell flat, and sev- it could reach the cabin. “Oper- Federal Aviation Administration late on the cause of the accident. eral commentators interpreted WASHINGTON: On Monday, dance. Then the officer, in bulky ations-wise and safety-wise, it said, and an alert pilot on a jet The carrier flies from Fort Lauder- the exchange as the moment the while the US public was capti- body armor and boots, showed off couldn’t have worked any better,” taxiing behind it warned the crew dale and New York’s JFK airport apprentice surpassed the politi- vated by footage of a teenager her own dance moves. By the time Kent George, the airport’s direc- about the leak. to Caracas and Maracaibo in Ven- cal mentor. Pressed by Fox News, being flipped over her desk and it was over — both sides report- tor of aviation, told reporters. The airport reopened about ezuela, as well as to Georgetown in whose anchor cited analysts dragged across the classroom, edly claimed victory — the tension Between 45 and 50 gallons of three hours after the incident, neighboring Guyana, according to remarking that Bush’s campaign another video was going viral too. had lifted. fuel leaked onto the taxiway, he and both its runways were oper- its website. was “terminal”, Bush laughed and In it, a teen appears to chal- President Barack Obama sin- said, requiring repairs to the tar- ating yesterday, officials said. REUTERS shrugged it off. lenge a police officer to a dance- gled out the dance-off on Thurs- “I knew this was going to be a off. The officer accepts and they day as a model for police looking long journey, but to suggest that dance, circling each other, for a to build relationships with neigh- the campaign is terminal? Come nearly a minute. Both girls are borhoods—a pressing issue as out- on, that’s pretty funny,” Bush said. black, both officers white. Both rage at police brutality has grown “Were still in October,” nearly teenagers reportedly defied police in the past year. US urges Mexico Paul Ryan elected Speaker 100 days before the first state- orders. Beyond that, the similari- “Who knew community polic- wide vote in the 2016 presidential ties fade. ing could involve the Nae Nae? progress on WASHINGTON: US lawmakers late on Thursday elected Paul Ryan, primary, he noted. “All across this After the student in the first Great example of police hav- a conservative Republican who helped steer budget and tax policy in country, we’re the one that has video reportedly refused to put ing fun while keeping us safe,” missing students Congress, as speaker of the House of Representatives, seeking to end the best organization. And I’m away her phone in class, South he tweeted under the handle @ months of political disarray. going to work hard to be able to Carolina officer Ben Fields POTUS. The contrast between MEXICO CITY: The US ambas- Ryan, 45, now holds the most powerful job in Congress and is second earn people’s support.” grabbed her in a violent response the two videos highlighted a point sador to the United Nations called in line to the presidency after the vice president, should the com- Bush said he remains the that cost him his job. Obama made on Tuesday, as the on Mexico to show progress in mander-in-chief be impeached or otherwise vacate the Oval Office. Republican whom Democrats fear Meanwhile in Washington, DC, jarring classroom scene played on solving the disappearance of 43 The nine-term congressman from Wisconsin quickly called for most, “because I have a proven police broke up a group of fight- repeat on cable news. students and other high-pro- returning the House to “regular order,” a nod not just to the Democratic record of success,” an apparent ing teenagers Monday and asked “With today’s technology, if just file allegations of human rights minority, but to rank-and-file conservatives who had felt marginalized knock against outsiders Trump, the kids to clear out of the area. one of your officers does some- abuses. by Ryan’s predecessor. “Let’s be frank. The House is broken. We’re Carson and former Hewlett-Pack- Instead of leaving, according to thing irresponsible, the whole Samantha Power spoke to not solving problems; we’re adding to them. And I am not interested ard chief executive Carly Fiorina. the Washington Post, one teen- world knows about it moments journalists after a three-day visit in laying blame,” Ryan told fellow lawmakers after winning the vote. “I can win, and that’s why I get age girl approached a female later,” he told an audience of police to Mexico, where she held talks “We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean. A lot is attacked by the left more than officer while playing the hit song chiefs. “And countless incidents of with the foreign minister and the on our shoulders,” he said. Ryan earned 236 votes in the 435-member any other candidate,” Bush said. “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” on effective police work rarely make attorney general, including dis- chamber, becoming the youngest speaker since 1869. her phone and doing her version it on the evening news.” cussions on security cooperation. AFP AFP of the signature shoulder-swaying AFP The United States has blocked 15 percent, or $5m, of the anti- drug security and training aid it provides to Mexico over human rights concerns. Power said the authorities can regain the trust of their people by solving prominent Brazil likely to end most curbs on gun ownership law crimes such as last year’s disap- pearance of the students in the RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil, which the good citizen’s right to self- critics say would seriously weaken southern city of Iguala. has one of the highest murder tolls defense,” said the law’s author indigenous tribes’ control over “If progress could be made on on the planet, could soon end most Laudivio Carvalho, from the pow- their ancestral lands. the Iguala case, or if progress restrictions on gun ownership, erful centrist PMDB party. One of the most noted mem- could be made on the (other) risking what one critic called a But opponents fear that Brazil’s bers of this right-wing caucus is cases... and resources are dedi- “Wild West” scenario. orgy of gun violence would simply Eduardo Cunha, the lower house cated and if accountability could A draft law stripping away spin further out of control. speaker who is the key figure in be achieved, that sends a very current limits has already been “It’s a return to the Wild West,” an ongoing battle by opponents of important signal,” she said. approved in committee and is due said Ivan Valente, a deputy from leftist President Dilma Rousseff The diplomat welcomed Attor- to go to the lower house of Con- the leftist PSOL party. The bid to to seek her impeachment. ney General Arely Gomez’s gress in November. overturn the existing 2003 law on Deputy Joao Rodrigues, from decision to accept the recommen- Under the law, anyone over regulations is part of a conserva- the right-wing PSD party, said dations of independent experts 21, including people accused of tive agenda in Congress where the gun law is necessary because from the Inter-American Com- crimes or convicted of less than Evangelists and the so-called the state “does not fulfil its obliga- mission on Human Rights, who serious crimes, would be allowed “bullet-caucus” of right wing poli- tions” to defend citizens. rejected the findings of the official to purchase up to nine firearms ticians with links to the security A study of 14,000 weapons investigation. a year and 50 rounds of ammuni- services are a powerful force. confiscated between 2013 and Prosecutors say Iguala’s tion a month. Related draft laws include 2014 showed that 86 percent municipal police abducted the State employees and public fig- A woman handles a pistol at a gun shop in Sao Caetano do Sul, Sao Paulo. seeking a legal definition of fam- had been made in Brazil, he said. students and handed them over ures, ranging from government ily that would exclude homosexual About 500,000 weapons have to a drug gang, which killed them inspectors to politicians, would bought legally by people obtaining plagued by violent robbery and couples and criminalizing abor- been sold since the current law and incinerated their bodies at a be authorized to carry arms, as a license on a case-by-case basis. intense confrontations between tion for women in cases of rape. came into effect and 170,000 gun landfill in September last year. would private citizens often in the Supporters say freeing up gun drug gangs and police, with some The same congressional wing permits issued, according to offi- public eye such as taxi drivers. sales will allow people to pro- 40,000 gun-related deaths a year. is allied to the agricultural lobby cial statistics. AFP At present, weapons can only be tect themselves in a country “Our proposal is to guarantee and is pushing for legislation that AFP SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Demand for Airbus ramps up A320 output as profits climb PARIS: European aircraft based group said sales rose six maker Airbus announced yester- percent to ¤14.1bn in the three day that it will ramp up produc- months. The figure is still sub- tion of its best-selling A320 jet as stantially less than the $25.85bn halal products overall profits climb sharply. in sales reported by Boeing in the Airbus, like its main rival Boe- same period. “We again increased ing, is enjoying strong sales in a revenues, profitability and cash “healthy” international market generation due to a good opera- for passenger aircraft. tional performance,” Chief Execu- rising: Report In a sign of Airbus’ confidence tive Tom Enders said. in its financial position, the group Airbus’ board had decided to also revealed it is launching a start the ¤1bn share buyback GCC to play a crucial role ¤1bn buyback of its own shares. immediately, he said, prompted Citing a robust commercial air- by progress in the business, By Sachin Kumar and services is attracting more craft market, Airbus said it was divestments and the company’s attention,” said the report. increasing monthly output of the cash position. The share buyback DOHA: The Gulf Cooperation Traditionally, halal was referred popular single-aisle A320 family should be complete by June 30 Council (GCC) countries are set only to meat and poultry, specifi- to 60 in mid-2019 from just over next year, Enders said. play more crucial role in the fast cally with reference to the method 42 now. The Airbus production New aircraft orders over the growing halal market in coming of slaughter. More recently, this target eclipses that of Boeing, first nine months of the year years, according to a report by has grown to include non-meat which aims to raise monthly out- An Airbus 320 aircraft taking off in Toulouse, southern France. soared 42 percent to ¤112bn. the International Trade Centre. foods such as dairy, baked goods, put of its single-aisle 737 from 42 Airbus is also pushing up produc- The halal food and beverage mar- snacks, confectionery, ready-made now to 52 in 2017. H135 twin-engined helicopters, “consolidates its position as the tion of its new twin-aisle A350, ket, spread across various coun- meals and other processed food and The news came a day after often used by emergency serv- leading helicopter manufacturer which it said was “challenging”. tries and cultures, was estimated beverage products. state-owned China Aviation Sup- ices, a source close to the matter in the Chinese market.” The group said it expects to break to be around $1.37 trillion at the “From a business perspec- plies Holding Group signed a deal said. The firm dubbed the accord, Airbus said group net profit even on the double-decker A380 end of 2014. tive, the halal market undoubt- to buy 100 A320 aircraft, worth under which it will open a facil- rose 42 percent from a year ear- superjumbo this year. Airbus pre- “Given that the GCC, both as edly offers a range of compelling $9.7 billion at list prices. ity in the eastern city of Qingdao lier to ¤376m in the three months dicted the world economy and air a collective and among individual opportunities. As many tradi- Airbus has also signed a let- to assemble the helicopters, a to September 30 as it reaped the traffic would grow this year with members, is actively pursuing a tional markets reach saturation, ter of intent in a ¤750m deal to “major step forward for Airbus benefits of strong sales and a firm no major disruptions. more prominent role in the halal the emergence of a new market, sell to China 100 of its versatile Helicopters in China,” one which dollar. The Toulouse, France- AFP ecosystem, we can expect to see based on halal values and prin- the GCC becoming more influ- ciples, is in effect creating a new ential in the halal market in the commercial paradigm,” said the coming years,” said ‘Halal Goes report. “This is strongly led by Sharp profit plunges 86pc Global’ report released recently the food and beverage sector, and by the International Trade Cen- has more recently expanded into Taiwan economy shrinks tre in Doha during a conference. the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and “Significantly, the GCC with food personal-care sectors, driven by and beverage expenditure of increasing consumer awareness for first time in six years $93bn, represents 21 percent of and an entrepreneurial eye for the Middle East and North Africa new market opportunities,” added TAIPEI: Taiwan’s economy was designed to “improve people’s (MENA) total and is generally the report. shrank for the first time in six purchasing appetite” and spark viewed as the key market in the The halal market is now catch- years in the July-September a retail boom. Taiwan has been region,” said the report. ing the attention of companies. quarter, dragged down by worse- struggling to spur growth in its Halal food has been around for The potential for this new mar- than-expected exports and export-focused economy, which more than 1,400 years, but only in ket sector was highlighted in AT domestic spending, the govern- has suffered with a slow recov- recent decades have halal prod- Kearney’s 2008 report ‘Address- ment said yesterday. ery from the global financial crisis ucts gained global prominence. ing the Muslim market – can you The drop of 1.01 percent from while also facing greater competi- The demand for halal products afford not to?’, which pointed out a year earlier missed forecasts tion in the key tech sector. and services is set to rise due to that ‘Muslims are the fastest by the Directorate General of “The deterioration of the rise in Muslim population. growing consumer segment in the Budget, Accounting and Statis- external economic environment “The global Muslim population world. Any company that is not tics, which had predicted GDP has started to affect domestic exceeds 1.6bn, is growing at twice considering how to serve them is growth of 0.10 percent year-on- demand, causing consumer confi- the rate of the non-Muslim world missing a significant opportunity year in the third quarter. dence and the employment rate to and is expected to reach 2.2bn by to affect both its top and bottom A man walks past display showing a logo of Sharp Corp in Tokyo It was also much steeper than fall,” Claire Huang, a Hong Kong- 2030. It is therefore not surprising line growth. yesterday. Sharp reported an 86 percent plunge in second-quarter the 0.5 percent decline forecast based economist at Societe Gen- that the market for halal products THE PENINSULA operating profit. by a Bloomberg survey of econo- erale AG, said before the release. mists. On the heels of the result, However, Huang added a sec- Taiwan announced it would pour ond consecutive quarter of con- Tw$4.08bn ($125.5m) into the traction — meaning a technical economy between November recession — was unlikely. “Contin- and February to boost consumer ued recovery in developed econo- Nigeria gives spending. There will be subsidies mies such as Europe and the US US consumer spending, income for home appliances and new should boost demand in the fourth mobile phones, as well as promo- quarter,” she said. MTN two tions for Internet shopping and The government said Chi- see smallest gain in September domestic travel. na’s domestic supply chain was “The measures... encourage “crowding out” Taiwan. Taiwan’s weeks to pay WASHINGTON: US consumer chief US economist at Capital tion, consumer spending rose businesses to offer greater pro- exports in the third quarter plum- spending in September recorded Economics in Toronto. 0.2 percent in September after motions and discounts with help meted 13.86 percent, including a $5.2bn fine its smallest gain in eight months Consumer spending, which increasing 0.4 percent in August, from the government,” the exec- 7.88 percent decline in electronics. as personal income barely rose, accounts for more than two- suggesting consumption will utive yuan, or cabinet, said in a LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG: suggesting some cooling in thirds of US economic activity, continue to support the economy statement. It added the move AFP Nigeria’s telecoms regulator domestic demand after recent edged up 0.1 percent last month through the rest of the year. yesterday gave MTN Group hefty increases. after rising 0.4 percent rise in Personal income ticked up 0.1 two weeks to pay a $5.2bn fine The Commerce Department August. September’s consumer percent in September, the small- imposed on Africa’s biggest data and another report from the spending data was included in est rise since March, after increas- mobile phone company for failure Labour Department yesterday also Thursday’s third-quarter gross ing 0.4 percent in the prior month. to cut off millions of users with showed weak inflationary pres- domestic product report. With spending sluggish, inflation unregistered SIM cards. sures, which would argue against Consumer spending rose at a remained benign last month. The Nigerian Communications the Federal Reserve raising inter- brisk 3.2 percent annual pace in A price index for consumer Commission (NCC) imposed the est rates at the end of the year. the third quarter, helping to lift spending slipped 0.1 percent, the penalty on Monday on MTN’s US central bank policymak- GDP growth to a 1.5 percent rate. first decline since January, after Nigeria unit, the group’s biggest ers this week put a rate hike Spending has increased at a rate being flat in August. In the 12 market by subscribers, sending in December on the table with of more than 3 percent in each of months through September, the the phone operator’s stock tum- a direct reference to their final the last two quarters. personal consumption expendi- bling by about 20 percent this meeting of the year. The Fed has Growth in the third quar- tures (PCE) price index rose 0.2 week, though they bounced 2 per- kept benchmark overnight inter- ter was constrained by business percent, the smallest increase cent by midday yesterday. est rates near zero since Decem- efforts to whittle down an inven- since April. It increased 0.3 per- The fine comes months after ber 2008. “Today’s batch of data tory bloat, a strong dollar and cent in August. Excluding food Muhammadu Buhari swept to the releases aren’t going to convince ongoing spending cuts by energy and energy, prices rose 0.1 percent helm of Africa’s biggest oil pro- the doves to vote for a December companies. for a fifth straight month. A boat sails inside Keelung port, northern Taiwan, yesterday. ducer after a campaign in which rate hike,” said Paul Ashworth, When adjusted for infla- AFP he promised tougher regulation and a fight against corruption. The telecoms regulator said MTN failed to disconnect sub- scribers with unregistered or incomplete SIM cards, after Eurozone exits deflation but pressure for ECB boost persists ordering all network operators to do so. NCC said only MTN had failed to comply with the BRUSSELS: Eurozone inflation rose to dropped to 10.8 percent in September, the on the measures needed to push inflation Just weeks ahead of elections, Spain directive. zero percent and out of negative territory lowest level since January 2012. Across back to more suitable levels. The exit from posted a still high 21.6 percent, though this An NCC source has said the in October, official data showed yesterday, the EU’s 28 members, the rate stood at deflation came as the steep fall in energy was down from 24.0 percent a year ago. regulator’s decision was based but the level is still low and will press the 9.3 percent, it said. prices, led by oil, slowed in October to 8.7 Youth unemployment in Spain stood at on advice from Nigeria’s state European Central Bank to pump up its In March, the ECB launched a more percent annually instead of 8.9 percent the 46.7 percent, but steeply lower than 53.7 security service, which suspected stimulus. than one-trillion-euro stimulus plan run- previous month, the data showed. percent a year earlier. In Italy, the rate unregistered SIM cards were ECB head Mario Draghi hinted heavily ning through to September next year in ING analyst Teunis Brosens said the was 11.8 percent last month, down from being used for criminal activity in this month that the central bank will boost order to get inflation closer to its 2.0 per- inflation data made the “inflation anxie- 11.9 percent in August. a country facing Islamic militant its contested bond-buying programme cent target. ties” expressed by the ECB last week seem French unemployment crept lower to group Boko Haram’s insurgency. given low inflation levels across the 19 Despite that, the ECB’s chief econo- “odd”. Unemployment in the eurozone has 10.7 percent from a month earlier but was NCC spokesman Tony Ojobo countries that share the euro. mist this week said that there is a grow- fallen steadily from the 12.1 percent peak still up from 10.4 percent a year ago. said MTN had until November The step up to zero percent from nega- ing risk that inflation in the eurozone will reached in 2013, but divergences across In Germany, unemployment remained 16 pay up, but the two sides were tive 0.1 percent a month earlier will do not return to levels conducive to healthy the monetary bloc remain wide. Crisis- at historically low level of 4.5 percent, as in talks to resolve the matter. little to reverse Draghi’s course, ana- economic growth, thus opening the door to hit Greece again posted the highest rate measured by Eurostat, down from 5.0 per- lysts said. The EU’s Eurostat statistics more central bank action. of unemployment in the eurozone at 25.0 cent a year earlier. REUTERS agency also said eurozone unemployment “There are no taboos,” Peter Praet said, percent in July, the latest data available. AFP SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Opec October oil output falls, finds survey Supply falls by 120,000 b/d to 31.64m b/d; Saudi Arabia trims production on lower domestic use

LONDON: Opec oil output has the highest since Reuters records lower refinery runs due to main- from Opec’s two west African pro- forecast in the polls conducted to break above $50 a barrel next fallen in October from the pre- began in 1997. tenance and lower direct burn.” ducers, Nigeria and Angola, and this year. year and saw the chances of a vious month, a Reuters survey The Opec increase has added Direct burn — the use of crude from Libya. Angola and Nigeria US crude is projected to aver- drop to $20 at below 50 percent. found yesterday, as declines in top to ample supplies, which have in Saudi power plants — usually exported more crude this month, age $54.44 a barrel next year, up The bearish mood in the mar- producers Saudi Arabia and Iraq helped cut prices by more than drops in cooler months due to but a force majeure on shipments slightly from last month’s fore- ket was aggravated by a drop outweighed higher supply from half from June 2014 to below $50 reduced air-conditioning needs. of Nigeria’s Forcados limited the cast of $54.10. Production in the in refining profitability while African members. a barrel. Still, with reductions in Maintenance was being carried increase from that country. Lib- United States will continue to demand growth slowed, analysts The drops are not indicative capital spending by oil compa- out at the Saudi Yasref refin- yan output rose slightly, the sur- decline in response to cheaper oil, at Jefferies said in a note. of deliberate supply cuts to prop nies expected to curb future sup- ery, reducing crude consump- vey found, but remains a fraction but this is not likely to translate Most analysts expect the Opec up prices, sources in the survey ply, analysts see signs that Opec’s tion. Saudi output, at 10.10m b/d, of the pre-conflict rate. into higher prices, the analysts to stick to its stance of maintain- said, and the Organisation of the strategy will deliver. remains not far below the record Output in Iran, Opec’s second- said. ing record-high production when Petroleum Exporting Countries “Clearly, Opec’s long-game high of 10.56m b/d it pumped in largest producer until sanctions “We think prices will grind it meets on December 4, a year is still pumping close to a record strategy is working,” said Harry June. forced a cut in exports in 2012, slowly higher over the next after it chose to defend market high as major producers focus on Tchilinguirian, global head of Exports from Iraq’s main out- continues to edge up, the survey few years, which should help to share rather than prices. defending market share. commodity strategy at BNP Pari- let, its southern terminals, were found. A lifting of sanctions on ease the falls in production but The exporter group is “about to Opec supply has fallen in Octo- bas. “In the end, Opec’s strategy is higher for much of October — Iran has the potential to boost we don’t expect a sharp rally in reap the fruit of last November’s ber to 31.64 million barrels per creating the conditions for higher reaching a record 3.1m b/d in the Opec output further in 2016. prices or a surge in output,” Tho- tough decision not to cut pro- day (b/d) from a revised 31.76m prices for longer in a couple of first 27 days of the month — but Meanwhile, slowing US pro- mas Pugh of Capital Economics duction”, Giorgos Beleris, senior b/d in September, according to years’ time.” have slowed since as poor weather duction is unlikely to offer much said. The oversupply scenario analyst with Thomson Reuters the survey, based on shipping data The biggest supply drop in delayed cargoes, shipping data respite to low oil prices into next could also be aggravated by an GFMS, said. Opec would want and information from sources at October has come from Saudi showed. year as high Opec output feeds a emerging trend of build-ups in US oil production to decline fur- oil companies, Opec and consult- Arabia, which trimmed output Shipments from Iraq’s north by persistent supply glut, a Reuters refined products. ther so the supply glut is reduced ants. With one day left in October, due to reduced use of crude in the Kurdistan Regional Govern- survey showed on Friday. Influential Wall Street bank without any decline in its share, the final figures could be revised. domestic power plants and refin- ment via Ceyhan in Turkey have Benchmark North Sea Brent Goldman Sachs said crude prices said Rahul Prithiani, director Even so, Opec has boosted pro- eries, sources in the survey said, edged lower, while those by Iraq’s crude is expected to average could drop sharply as storage sites at CRISIL Research. Bernstein duction by almost 1.5m b/d since despite higher exports. State Oil Marketing Organisation $58.52 a barrel in 2016, marginally for refined products come close to had the highest 2016 forecast the November 2014 switch to “Supply to the market is down,” have fallen to zero from about down from last month’s poll and maximum capacity. for Brent at $86 a barrel, while defending market share. Despite said a source who tracks Saudi 20,000 b/d in September, the sur- above $55.94 seen so far this year, Goldman’s head of commodi- Natixis had the lowest at $48.50. the decline this month, output is output. “Exports are up but this vey found. the survey of 32 analysts showed. ties research, Jeff Currie, said not far below July’s 31.88m b/d, has been more than offset by Smaller increases have come This is the lowest average 2016 in October he did not expect oil REUTERS Chevron plans Oil groups slashing costs, to lay off but investors spared 7,000 jobs NEW YORK: US oil giant Chev- PARIS: Oil titans are slashing which reported losses of ¤299m. to pay for the strategy, Andlauer ron said yesterday that it was costs and investments as a plunge In an all-out battle to cut costs, cautioned. “Instead of cutting the going to cut between 6,000 and in oil prices batters profits but however, dividend payouts to share- dividend they are cutting invest- 7,000 jobs and continue with asset there is still one area they dare holders remain intact. “The big oil ments. So they are cutting finan- sales as the company retrenches not touch: Dividend payouts to companies are all slashing capital cial results, profitability from amid sharply lower oil prices. investors. expenditure to enable breakeven 2020. From an industry view, it The layoffs equate to about Crude oil prices have more operations at around $60 per bar- is a shame to act in such a way.” 10 percent of its workforce, and than halved since mid-2014 in a rel,” said Jasper Lawler, analyst at It is unclear how long the oil come after the company already global glut, squeezing the finan- European financial trading special- companies can maintain dividend announced in July cuts of 1,500 cial results at major oil groups ists CMC markets. payouts in any case, said Chris- jobs. Chevron also said it would and forcing them to rethink the “The idea is that in the medium topher Dembik, economist at the pursue further asset sales, expect- viability of some of their costlier term oil prices will average $60 per Danish investment bank Saxo ing to raise $5bn-$10bn through oil exploration plans. barrel. This allows big oil to keep Bank. “They are in a streamlining 2017 after bringing in $11bn from British energy giant BP, rav- dividends intact by using low inter- phase, trying to save the furni- sales over the past two years. The aged by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico est rates to run up debt levels in ture, above all to satisfy share- A view of the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. company is slicing capital expen- oil spill, said profit plunged 64 the short term,” Lawler said. holders. But there is no strategic ditures next year by 25 percent to percent in the third quarter of Oil groups will do anything development plan,” he said. $28bn at most. this year. BP has axed its 2015 to avoid lowering payouts to ExxonMobil earnings plunge “We expect further reductions in investment budget by $4bn com- their shareholders, said Alexan- BRENT CLIMBS spending for 2017 and 2018, to the pared to last year. dre Andlauer, analyst at French Meanwhile, oil rose on easing NEW YORK: ExxonMobil reported a big drop in third-quarter earn- $20bn to $24bn range, depending “We are now in action to rebal- equity research group AlphaV- supply glut fears, partly arising ings yesterday as lower oil and gas prices weighed on its exploration on business conditions at the time,” ance our financial framework in alue. “They prefered to cut capital from recent investment cutbacks and production business. Chairman and Chief Executive this new price environment,” BP expenditure again by two or three by top global energy firms, ana- Earnings fell 47.5 percent to $4.2bn, with profits from the upstream John Watson said in a statement. Chief Executive Bob Dudley said. billion rather than touch the divi- lysts said. Oil prices bounced division that finds and produces oil sinking to just $1.4bn from $5.1bn “With the lower investment, we At Royal Dutch Shell, the pain dend,” Andlauer said. higher on news that US oil sup- in the year-ago period. Revenues fell 37.1 percent to $67.3bn. anticipate reducing our employee was more intense as it took losses “The majors want to respond to plies rose less than expected The big drop in upstream earnings reflects the impact of about a 50 workforce by 6-7,000.” of $7.4bn in the third quarter on market expectations, in this case last week. The US government’s percent fall in oil prices from 2014 due to lofty global crude supplies The US oil major reported a huge write-downs after scrap- investment funds,” he said. “If Department of Energy said that and the uncertain outlook for demand. 63.6 percent fall in earnings to ping expensive projects in Alaska they cut the dividend there will be commercial crude supplies rose ExxonMobil’s troubles in upstream were offset somewhat by the $2.04bn in the quarter to Sep- and Canada, vowing to become a an outward flow of those actors.” 3.4 million barrels in the week gains in its downstream division, which buys oil to process into gasoline tember 30 compared to a year ago. “more focused and competitive Total aims to pay for its divi- ending October 23. and other products. Earnings from refining and processing doubled Upstream earnings — the company”. dend through its own finances in In afternoon London deals, to $2bn. exploration and production part Likewise France’s Total, which 2017. Failing that, it would keep Brent North Sea crude for Decem- Chemical earnings were essentially flat at $1.2bn. “Quarterly results of the business — barely cleared reported a 69-percent fall in net open the option of paying the divi- ber delivery rose to $48.90 a barrel. reflect the continued strength of our downstream and chemical busi- a profit, with just $59m, against profits for the same period and dend in shares instead of cash. In US benchmark West Texas Inter- nesses and underscore the benefits of our integrated business model,” $4.65bn a year ago. Holding up trimmed its investment budget Europe, only Eni has so far dared mediate for delivery in December said ExxonMobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson. The results translated profits were downstream opera- for this year by 10 percent, or to cut the dividend, announcing a increased to $45.82 a barrel com- into $1.01 per share, 12 cents above analyst expectations. ExxonMobil tions, which earned $2.21bn. Italy’s Eni which made a loss lower payout in March. pared with $44.86. shares rose 0.5 percent to $82.65 in pre-market trade. of ¤952m and Norway’s Statoil But there is a longer term price AFP AFP AFP BoJ cuts growth as Japan economy stalls RBS warns of higher TOKYO: The Bank of Japan lier 1.7 percent projection. It also yesterday cut it growth outlook forecast it would reach its two misconduct charges and pushed back the timeline for percent inflation target in the a key inflation target, but held six months ending March 2017 — LONDON: Royal Bank of Scot- £4.5bn to cover regulatory and off fresh easing even as Tokyo’s half a year later than previously land said costs relating to alleged legal actions, including £2.4bn blueprint for reviving the world’s expected. past misconduct could be sub- for litigation. “Since 2008, RBS number three economy falters. Some analysts said it was only stantially higher than expected, has gone through a very difficult The central bank’s chief left the a matter of time before the BoJ potentially hampering plans by period and there are still quite door open to more stimulus, how- has to ramp up its stimulus again, the British government to sell a few obstacles to be overcome ever, and said there was “no limit” possibly at its next meeting in more shares in the bank soon. before we’re back to full health,” to what policymakers could do. mid-November, when official July- RBS is facing a number of Chairman Howard Davies said. Japan is teetering on the edge October growth figures are pub- probes into alleged wrongdoing, The ongoing investigations of recession in the face of slowing lished. “They could move after the disrupting Chief Executive Ross threaten to derail the British growth in China and shaky glo- next meeting — expectations for McEwan’s efforts to turn around government’s plans to sell three- bal economy, while weak inflation more easing aren’t going away,” the lender that was rescued by a quarters of its stake in the bank and consumer spending at home said Mitsuo Shimizu, deputy gen- £46bn ($70.5bn) government bail- over the next five years. Britain’s have also helped slam the brakes eral manager of Japan Asia Secu- out during the 2007-09 financial finance ministry sold a 5.4 per- on growth. rities Group. The BoJ’s forecasts crisis. They include an investiga- cent stake in August, taking a Some analysts had pre- highlight Japan’s fading prospects tion by authorities in the United loss of £1.1bn, and is keen to sell dicted the Bank of Japan would and underscore how the central States into claims it misled inves- more shares as early as December, expand its massive 80 trillion yen bank’s war on deflation has been tors in mortgage-backed securi- according to sources with knowl- ($665bn) annual asset-buying tougher than hoped. Residents look at items for sale in a commercial district in Tokyo yesterday. ties and a review of its treatment edge of government thinking. scheme, launched more than two The vast monetary easing is a of struggling small firms by Brit- Court documents filed in the US years ago to kickstart growth and cornerstone of Prime Minister markets by expanding the pro- percent in September from a year ain’s financial regulator. in June suggested the bank could drag prices out of a decades-long Shinzo Abe’s pro-spending growth gramme to its current level. ago, the month after posting its The bank yesterday reported have to pay $13bn to settle the downward spiral. blitz, dubbed “Abenomics”, which Yesterday, he acknowledged first price decline since 2013. a third-quarter operating loss mortgage-backed securities claims. But it stood pat yesterday — has faltered after initially set- that salaries were not rising as While falling or stagnant prices due to restructuring costs and The bank is being investigated by despite concerns the economy ting off a stock market rally and much as expected, but insisted may seem like a good thing for said it expected further charges the US Federal Housing Finance shrank in the three months weakening the yen, giving a lift to that a plunge in crude oil prices consumers, they tend to put peo- relating to misconduct and litiga- Agency and Department of Justice. through September for the second corporate profits. was the main culprit slowing ple off buying goods and that, in tion which could be substantially Senior RBS executives have consecutive quarter — and hours But Abe has struggled to cut down the BoJ’s inflation goals. turn, hurts firms which roll back greater than the provisions it has said the most damaging issue for later underscored the problems red tape and shake up the regu- “We’ll adjust policy without their new investment and hir- already made. the bank’s reputation is the inves- it faces by cutting its growth and lated economy, with the wider hesitation with additional easing ing. Household spending also fell RBS, which is now 73 percent tigation by Britain’s Financial inflation predictions. impact of his programme being or whatever else — I don’t see any last month, in a sign that efforts owned by the government, has Conduct Authority (FCA) into The central bank said it now limited. Central Bank Chief limit to our policy options,” he to turn around Japan’s so-called given similar warnings in the the activities of the bank’s Glo- expected growth to come in at Haruhiko Kuroda has repeatedly told reporters. Also, government “deflationary mindset” were past given the uncertainty sur- bal Restructuring Group (GRG) 1.2 percent in the fiscal year to insisted that the plan is on course data showed core consumer prices struggling. rounding ongoing investigations. turnaround unit. March 2016, down from an ear- a year after the bank shocked — excluding food — contracted 0.1 AFP The bank has so far set aside REUTERS SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS Apple’s Chinese miracle Economic growth cools appears to be over

By Leonid Bershidsky

ERHAPS the most important number in Apple’s quarterly as US firms record gains release last Tuesday came from China, and it’s not the good news Apple makes out. The company’s over reliance Pon the Chinese market is starting to hinder its progress By Michelle Jamrisko cent pace in the first half of the year as a 3.9 lon of regular gasoline fell to $2.20 on Octo- despite management’s attempts to give it a positive spin. percent surge in the second quarter more ber 27, the lowest since February, according During last Tuesday’s earnings call, Apple chief executive HE economy in the US expanded than made up for a first-quarter slowdown to auto group AAA. That compares with a Tim Cook sang the praises of the Chinese market, saying it at a slower pace in the third quar- caused by frigid weather, a labour dispute daily average of $3.34 in 2014. will one day be Apple’s largest. In fiscal 2015, which ended ter as companies took advantage at West Coast ports and cutbacks in the A smaller gain in inventories subtracted for Apple on September 26, Greater China provided 25 percent of gains in consumer and busi- energy industry. GDP expanded 2.4 percent 1.4 percentage points from growth, the big- of the company’s revenue, for the first time overtaking Europe, ness spending to reduce bloated in all of 2014. gest drag since the last three months of responsible for just 21.6 percent of Apple sales. An economic Tstockpiles. A separate report from the Labour 2012, the Commerce Department’s report slowdown? Gross domestic product grew at a 1.5 per- Department showed the number of applica- showed. The $59.8bn slowdown at an annual cent annual rate, in line with the 1.6 percent tions for unemployment benefits were little pace from the prior quarter was the biggest ECONOMIC ISSUE median forecast of economists surveyed by changed last week, hovering near the lowest since the third quarter of 2011. Not according to Cook, who is worth quoting at Bloomberg, Commerce Department data levels in four decades. Jobless claims rose by Outside of inventories, business invest- length here: showed yesterday in Washington. Exclud- 1,000 to 260,000 in the period ended October ment held up last quarter. Spending on new “Frankly, if I were to shut off my web and shut off the TV ing the biggest swing in inventories in four 24. Today’s Commerce Department third- equipment climbed at a 5.3 percent annu- and just look at how many customers are coming in our stores years, the pace of growth was 3 percent quarter growth estimate showed household alized rated, the most in a year. However, regardless of whether they’re buying, how many people are com- compared with 3.9 percent in the previous purchases, which account for almost 70 per- outlays on intellectual property such as soft- ing online, and in addition looking at our sales trends, I wouldn’t three months. cent of the economy, rose at a 3.2 percent ware and research and development cooled, know there was any economic issue at all in China. And so I don’t Household purchases, buoyed by job and annual pace compared with a 3.6 percent growing 1.8 percent, the smallest gain in two know how unusual we are with that. I think that there’s a mis- income gains, will probably continue to pace in the prior three-month period. Per- years. The trade deficit was little changed, understanding, probably particularly in the Western world, about underpin the world’s largest economy even sonal consumption added 2.2 percentage while government spending advanced as China’s economy, which contributes to the confusion. That said, as weaker demand from overseas custom- points to growth. gains in federal non-defense and state and I don’t think it’s growing as fast as it was; but I also don’t think ers holds back exports and manufacturing. After-tax incomes adjusted for inflation local outlays made up for a drop in military that Apple’s results are largely dependent on minor changes in The quick re-balancing of stockpiles to be climbed at a 3.5 percent annual rate, almost procurement. growth.” more in line with domestic demand head- three times the 1.2 percent gain in the prior Federal Reserve policy makers said at The statistics Cook cites in support of this view are impres- ing into the holiday season indicates factory three months. That allowed the saving rate the close of their two-day meeting in Wash- sive: 87 percent growth in iPhone sales year-on-year in Greater production will soon stabilise, eliminating a to increase to 4.7 percent from 4.6 percent, ington Wednesday that they will consider China (which includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau) despite source of weakness. indicating consumers have plenty of fire- tightening policy at their next meeting in the entire market’s four percent growth; revenue almost twice “This number is stronger than it looks,” power to continue to drive growth. December, without making a commitment as high in the last quarter as a year ago; and the iPhone 6 now Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Stable job growth in 2015 and cheaper to act this year as the economy continues the bestselling smartphone in China, with the iPhone 6 Plus at Financial Services Group Inc. in Pittsburgh, prices at the pump have helped cushion to expand at a “moderate” pace. number three. These numbers are less relevant, however, than said before the report. Americans’ pocketbooks, supporting the The officials removed a line from Sep- two others: a drop in quarter-on-quarter sales in Greater China The median forecast for GDP, the value of household spending that makes up the big- tember’s meeting statement about glo- and an erosion of Apple’s overall market share there. all goods and services produced, was based gest share of US growth. While payrolls bal economic and financial developments In the last quarter of fiscal 2015, Apple made $12.5bn in rev- on a survey of 80 economists. Projections advanced at a slower pace than forecast restraining economic activity, and added enue in Greater China, a 5.4 percent drop compared to the previ- ranged from gains of 0.9 percent to 2.4 per- in August and September, the pace of hir- a reference to the possibility of increasing ous three months, despite the inclusion of the first weekend of cent. The estimate is the first of three for ing this year has averaged 198,000 a month, the rate at the “next meeting” based on iPhone 6s sales in the fourth quarter, 2015 data. In 2014, the new the quarter, with the other releases sched- beating the annual average for seven of the “realised and expected” progress in reach- iPhone 6 wasn’t immediately available in China, so the fourth uled for November and December when 10 years through 2014. ing their employment and inflation goals. quarter didn’t benefit from the new product boost — and still more information becomes available. Gasoline costs have been receding for the sales were higher than in the previous three months. The economy grew at an average 2.3 per- past two months. The average price of a gal- BLOOMBERG Cook is wrong to say the Chinese slowdown isn’t affecting his company’s sales. The effect has been immediate and quite obvious. But Apple’s market share in the Asia Pacific region, which includes China, wasn’t growing even before it manifested itself.

SHARE GAINS According to a data, in the second quarter of this year, Apple’s market share of smartphone unit shipments in the region dropped to 7.7 percent from 10.8 percent in the previous quarter as Chinese leaders Huawei and Xiaomi increased their shares. Apple is the Asian smartphone market leader in terms of value, but its share by that measure also dropped in the second quarter — to 34.1 percent from 42.7 percent in the previous three months. Again, Huawei and Xiaomi posted gains, although Korean producers such as Samsung and LG also managed to pick up some of Apple’s losses. As Apple’s revenue in the region dropped, it was unlikely to have made share gains in the last quarter. Cook is banking on the future growth of the Chinese middle class, and that’s an obvious long-term bet to make, but under the current economic conditions, this growth is not likely to be explo- sive. Besides, Apple won’t even be able to grow its sales at the same rate because many Chinese consumers will opt for better-value devices from local producers, as they’re already doing, judging by the market share data. Improving distribution in China yielded strong revenue gains for Apple this year. Greater China accounted for 53 percent of the company’s revenue growth in fiscal 2015. Unless China’s economic troubles are miraculously cured over the next year or Huawei and Xiaomi stop making cutting-edge devices for a fraction of Apple’s prices, this growth engine has stalled. Nor does Apple have any comparable opportunities for extensive growth anywhere else in the world. Cook’s bet on China was, of course, no mistake: It would be a crime for a device producer not to develop a strong presence in the world’s most populous country. Focusing on China was a business decision that produced gains comparable to a ground- breaking product launch, especially in 2015. There are no more miracles coming out of China, however, and no more technological rabbits coming out of Apple’s hat. It’s time for some stagnation and retrenchment — at least by this company’s remarkably high standards. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Pfizer, Allergan merger talks raise tax hackles By Bill Berkrot A spokesman for Democratic US tax code needed an overhaul. Pfizer’s effective tax rate is ucts unit to pare the business and business it is considering selling. front-runner Hillary Clinton said “These corporate inversions 25 percent, while Allergan’s focus on innovative, patent-pro- Since the Warner-Lambert FIZER Inc, the No. 1 US the candidate had not seen details take capital and, more impor- is 15 percent. Given that both tected medicines. Allergan, the purchase, Pfizer has acquired drugmaker, and Botox of the proposed merger, but is tantly, jobs offshore,” he said in a sides characterized the talks as product of a recent merger with Pharmacia and Wyeth, each deal maker Allergan Plc said against tax inversion maneuvers, statement. “We need leadership “friendly,” Pfizer is likely to have generic drugmaker Actavis, is under a different CEO. Pthey were in friendly in which US companies relocate in Washington to get the tax a much smoother path outside of selling a large portfolio of generic The deals have led to many talks to create a pharmaceutical overseas to take advantage of code changed so companies will the United States after running medicines to Teva Pharmaceuti- thousands of job cuts. It is not colossus, but the prospect that lower tax rates. be coming to America, not looking into intense political opposition cal Industries Ltd for $40.5bn. known how many cuts would the company would seek to avoid “Clinton is committed to crack- for ways to leave.” in Britain and from AstraZeneca A purchase of Allergan, with result from a tie-up with Aller- US taxes sounded political alarm ing down on so-called ‘inversions,’ Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, Plc’s board in its failed, unsolic- a market value of more than gan. Apart from the tax con- bells. where a company chooses to leave who has endorsed Trump and ited bid last year. $113bn, would be the biggest in siderations, the deal would give Both New York-based Pfizer the US on paper to game the tax launched a $150m political action “It’s definitely a far easier tar- Pfizer’s long history of huge deals, Pfizer access to Allergan’s wrinkle and Dublin-based Allergan said system, and believes we should committee advocating tax reform get for Pfizer than AstraZeneca,” eclipsing the $90bn Warner-Lam- treatment Botox, with $2.4bn in no agreement has been reached reform our tax code to encour- to eliminate inversions, said a said Christophe Eggmann, invest- bert acquisition through which it annual sales, and its $1.3bn Resta- and declined to discuss any terms age investment in the US, rather Pfizer-Allergan deal would result ment director at GAM, who holds gained control of Lipitor, once the sis dry eye treatment. of the deal, which would poten- than shipping earnings and jobs in the loss of the country’s 10th shares in both companies. “The world’s top-selling medicine. By September 10, deal-mak- tially set up Pfizer to take advan- overseas,” Clinton spokesman Ian largest company to Ireland. hurdle will really be the price.” It would also restore the Viagra ing in all sectors of healthcare tage of Ireland’s lower tax rates. Sams said. Analysts speculated a deal Moody’s Investor Service said maker as the world’s largest phar- this year had reached a record Allergan shares rose 6 percent Democratic US Senator could be all or primarily done the deal would have “credit posi- maceutical company, worth about $447.5bn, according to Thomson to $304.38 in US trading, while Charles Schumer of New York with stock because under new tive implications for both compa- $330bn, a position it relinquished Reuters data. Other large pend- Pfizer closed off 1.9 percent at said in a statement, “The contin- US rules aimed at curtailing tax nies.” after Lipitor went off-patent. ing tie-ups include pharmacy $34.77. ued pursuit of inversions, mergers inversions, shareholders of the A tax inversion is being dis- Allergan expects revenue of chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Pfizer is already facing politi- and foreign acquisitions of major overseas company must own at cussed in the current talks, a more than $8bn in the second Inc’s planned purchase of smaller cal pushback at home that is only US companies for purely tax pur- least 40 percent of the combined person familiar with the mat- half of 2015, not including generic rival Rite Aid Corp announced likely to intensify with the US poses shows there is a lot more entity. Credit Suisse analyst ter told Reuters. 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DBQJUBMDMFBOJOH!HNBJMDPN SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Qatar SC pull off first victory QSL: Coach Lazaroni’s return works; Al Ahli earn lucky win over Al Khor

DOHA: After five defeats and a They are now in sixth place draw, Qatar Sports Club finally with 11 points, seven behind Al collected their first win at the Rayan. Qatar Stars league (QSL) with a Meanwhile Al Khor remain in 2-0 victory over Mesaimeer on a 13th position with two points. The dramatic day at Al Ahli Stadium win is also Al Ahli’s second in a yesterday. row after beating Qatar SC 3-0 The win for Qatar SC coincided last week. with the return of coach Sebas- In today’s matches, Al Gharafa tiao Lazaroni who was appointed will meet Umm Salal, Lekhwiya Al Rayyan’s coach Jorge Fossati (right) is confident ahead of the crucial after a poor start which saw the face Al Rayyan while Al Sadd will QSL match against defending champions Lekhwiya. club parting ways with coach take on Al Arabi. Radhi Shenaishil. Al Sadd coach Hussein Ammo- It was the first match for the uta has warned his team of mis- Brazilian in his new stint with the takes as the football giants meet Qatar SC. an ‘improved’ Al Arabi in the Buoyant Al Rayyan eye win However, it was not an easy seventh round of the Qatar Stars win for Qatar SC as Mesaimeer League at Lekhwiya Stadium showed a lot of resistance in the today. again in Lekhwiya clash best part of the match. Ammouta described the The winners could score their upcoming encounter as a tough first goal in the 75th minute with clash saying his team will have to DOHA: Defending champions of this expectation, and pressure Mousa Majid Allaq giving the wel- be at best against their counter- Lekhwiya are desperate for a win in every game because they have come breakthrough. parts. as they host leaders Al Rayyan had such a good start,” he said. Mouhssine Iajour sealed the “Arabi - Sadd have always been in a crunch Qatar Stars League “They are expected to win victory by netting the ball in tough games. This season it will (QSL) today. every one of their matches from injury time. be stronger. It’s an important Lekhwiya have lost two matches now on. But we are here to give Earlier, in a dramatic match, game,” said the Al Sadd coach. in a row while Al Rayyan who them a tough fight on Saturday. hosts Al Ahli SC recorded a nar- “Arabi have had a good start Qatar Sports Club’s Mouhssine Lajour (right) attacks Mesaimeer SC’s made a comeback in the league We are confident in our players row victory over Al Khor, thanks and are playing in a more organ- defence during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Al Ahli Stadium are yet to lose a point, winning and in our strategy to block their to an own goal by Al Khor’s Mous- ised fashion. Simply put, the team yesterday. Pics: Kammutty VP six matches on a trot. strengths. We are working hard tafa Jalal in the 77th minute. that will play better will win,” The defending champions are to be ready for this game.” aware of a tough challenge ahead Al Rayyan Head Coach Jorge he added. Ammouta said: “The at their own backyard. Fossati was confident ahead of challenge is there when we play QSL RESULTS “It will be a difficult game. They the match. against a good team. All players Al Ahli bt Al Khor 1-0 are having a good run of games,” “Every week is a new test, a like such games. The motivation is Qatar SC bt Mesaimeer 2-0 said Lekhwiya’s Assistant Coach new challenge. We are always there. But we can’t take too much Bruno Oliveira ahead of the thinking that the next game is Today’s fixture pressure. We will give our maxi- match. the most important. This game Al Rayyan vs Lekhwiya (5:30pm) at Lekhwiya mum. If you make any mistakes “They have had successful against Lekhwiya will not be Stadium against big teams then it will cost wins so far. They are a strong an exception. It will be a tough you.” Al Sadd vs Alrabi (7:45pm) at Lekhwiya team which has invested a lot,” game but we have big confidence Al Sadd’s players echoed his Stadium he added. in our players. We trust in coach’s comment. Al Gharafa vs Umm Salal (5:30pm) at Al “There are big expectations them and hope to try to get the “It will be a tough game. We Gharafa Stadium from the fans and media. So we victory again this weekend,” he have known this all season. We expect a tough game. But these said. are playing for all the titles on affair,” he added. Al Arabi’s coach are the kind of games that we Lekhwiya can come back to offer. We have the experience of Gianfranco Zola hoped his team like to play. We like this kind of winning ways but we will try and playing such important games. will continue a good show of form intensity, pressure and quality. delay that. I believe in my players We hope the fans will come and against the former champions. That’s the only way we will evolve and I have always said my idea enjoy this battle,” he said. “This is the third game of three to a higher level. We are very is to take it game by game. We “This match remains the great difficult fixtures that we knew we enthusiastic about the game.” know that it will be a very tough Al Ahli’s Mojtaba Jabari Kordgheshlaghi (centre) attempts to score derby as it was before. Arabi have were going to play.” Oliveira added: “It’s definitely game but I have confidence in my against Al Khor during their QSL match at Al Ahli Stadium yesterday. changed a lot this season. And we not a must win game for us. It players.” expect it to be a keenly-contested THE PENINSULA could be for them. They have all THE PENINSULA

Exciting start to Qatar International Endurocross More matches

DOHA: The opening round of tion in the E2. The South African decided at SOP the Qatar International Endu- Michael Anderson ended in third rocross kicked off yesterday at place in E2. handball event Sealine with the participation of In the Veterans category, 56 riders divided into the differ- the overall win was for Tomi DOHA: Under the theme “ Sport ent categories of E1, E2, Veterans Sarivaara from Finland and the and Media”, the handball com- and Quads. Canadian rider Luc Dubois fin- petitions for secondary schools In the E1 category, the over- ished second and Yannic Le Gov- (boys) at the prestigious 9th all winner was the Kuwaiti rider erned from France finished third editions of Schools Olympic Pro- Mohammed Jaffar, who finished in veterans. Qatari rider Moham- gramme (SOP) were held on last season as runner up in the E2 med Abu Issa finished in second Thursday. category and this year he shifted place and the Kuwaiti rider Fahad Ahmad bin Hanbal School to the E1 category. Al Musallam came third. defeated Al Shahaniya School 6-1 “It was a great start in the Trophies were presented by and thrashed Egyptian Language Qatar International Endurocross, Mohammed Jaffar of Kuwait on Nasser bin Khalifa Al Atti- School 10-6 to lead the respective for this season I got sponsor for his way to win in E1 category on yah, FIM Deputy President and group. the E1 category, so I changed from opening day of Qatar International QMMF President, Sultan Zaher Meanwhile Omer bin Abdulaziz the E2 category. I won the E1 cat- Endurocross at Sealine yesterday. Al Morraikhi, QMMF Board Winners of all the categories at the Qatar International Endurocross School outclassed Al Hikma Inter- egory two years ago and hopefully Member and Isa Al Awadi, FIM pose for a group photo yesterday at Sealine yesterday. QMMF President national School 3-1 while Ahmad I repeat the same again, but this Asia Vice President. Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah is also seen. bin Hanbal School and Omer bin year is more difficult, more riders, pionship, the South African rider ‘We are extremely happy for Abdulaziz School joined the other the level is higher.” Ross Runnalls this was a double the opening round of the season schools which have qualified for The second position went to win in his debut. He won both of Qatar International Enduro- higher and we are very proud of Qatar International Endurocross the second round. Omar bin Al Meshari Abou Shaibah and Moath races and took the first position cross , this is an amazing event this,” said Al Attiyah at the end and we are looking for the second Khatab School, Doha Secondary Al Ansari also from Kuwait came in the overall category in the E2. and year by year, event by event of the event. round of endurocross in Bahrain. School also advanced. in third place. The Emirati rider Mohammed the number is increasing, the “All riders and spectators For the newcomer in this cham- Al Balooshi came in second posi- level of the competition is getting enjoyed a lot the opening round of THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA More big names join stellar line-up for FINA World Cup in Doha DOHA: A further wave of swim- Swimming Championships (25m) swimming this year, claiming the and current 200m freestyle world ming stars have confirmed their in Doha, she equalled the 100m 100m and 200m backstroke World champion Federica Pellegrini, and places at the upcoming FINA breaststroke short course world Champion title. Team-mate Mel- the USA’s World Championship airweave Swimming World Cup record time of 1.02.36. anie Wright also stormed to vic- medallist and butterfly star, Tom 2015, Doha event, set to thrill Rta Meilutyt, earlier this year, tory at Kazan 2015, and will join Shields. crowds at Hamad Aquatic Centre the breaststroke specialist became Delaney, Larkin and Seebhom as Khaleel Al Jabir, President of from November 2. the first Jamaican swimmer to part of Team Australia in Doha Qatar Swimming Association and Olympians, World Champions medal at a long course worlds at next month. Chairman of the Local Organis- and World Record holders will all the 2015 FINA World Champion- Other top names ready to go ing Committee explains: “Prepa- take to the 50m pool to battle for ships in Kazan when she touched to battle in Doha include world rations are well under way for the crucial World Cup points in the the wall third behind Yuliya Efi- record holder and World Cham- FINA airweave Swimming World penultimate meet of the series. mova of Russia and 100m breast- pionship medallist Rikke Møller Cup here in Doha and excitement Crowds can expect to see action stroke world record holder Ruta Pedersen, is mounting across the city.” like never before as the world’s Meilutyte. British Olympian Liam Tan- best will also be looking to claim At October’s FINA World Cup cock, 2008 Olympic Champion THE PENINSULA their place at next year’s Rio 2016 meet in Singapore, the 26-year- Katinka Hosszu (centre) will be among the stars to watch at the upcom- Olympic Games, with the two-day old spoke of her hopes to win her ing World Cup in Doha. RIGHT: Tyler Clary of USA in action. Doha World Cup meet doubling country’s first Olympic medal in up as an Olympic qualifier. swimming. “I’ve accomplished a Adding to an already incredible lot of things in the sport, even Australia will be sending its became only the fourth person line-up is Jamaica’s woman of the things that I didn’t think were dream team to Doha, includ- – and the first in 10 years – to hour, Alia Atkinson. possible before. Going into 2016, ing current second in the FINA complete the world 100m-200m Competing in the upper ranks I want to do something that World Cup 2015 rankings and backstroke double. of the sport since 2004 when she Jamaica swimming has not done Olympic silver medallist, Ash- Hotly tipped to medal at Rio made her first Olympic Games before. For the most part, we have ley Delaney. Joining him is ris- 2016, fans in Doha can expect appearance, Atkinson has made medalled in every (swimming) ing star, Mitch Larkin, reigning big things from this young star. real strides in the past year. meet — but not the Olympics — 100 and 200 backstroke World Emily Seebhom has also made a At last year’s FINA World so that’s the goal.[1]” Champion who earlier this year name for herself in Australian SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Stage set for classic encounters in Qatar Qatar’s lone player in the main draw Abdullah Al Tamimi faces World No. 1 Mohamed Elshorbagy today

DOHA: Three-time World Champion Ramy Ashour and QATAR CLASSIC 2015 Nick Matthew of England may be missing from the line up at the First round matches PSA World Series stop in Doha Men’s matches for the 2015 Qatar Classic. But that has certainly not Today’s matches ( Start at 6.00pm) taken away the sheen of the event. There will be enough firepower [1] Mohamed Elshorbagy (Egy) vs [wc] and entertainment for the next Abdullah Al Tamimi (Qat) mon, James one week at the Khalifa Interna- Willstrop (Eg) vs [Q] Mohamed Abouelghar tional Tennis and Squash Com- (Egy), Max Lee (Hkg) vs [Q] Greg Lobban plex from today when the PSA (Sco) , [5] Simon Rosner (Ger) vs Steve and WPA series kicks off with Coppinger (Rsa), [7] Mathieu Castagnet the other top ranked players in (Fra)vs [Q] Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) mon, action. Marwan Elshorbagy (Egy)vs Chris Simpson World No.1 Mohamed Elshor- (Eng), Adrian Waller (Eng) vs Nicolas bagy will both be looking to bag Mueller (Sui) , [3] Miguel Rodriguez (Col) vs yet another title haveing won the Cameron Pilley (Aus) world championship here last year. Tomorrow Elshorbagy will take on Qatar’s [Q] Leo Au (Hkg) vs [4] Omar Mosaad Abdullah Al Tamimi in the first round match today. (Egy), Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) vs Mazen After the exit of the three Hesham (Egy), [Q] Alan Clyne (Sco) vs Qatari players in the qualifying, Daryl Selby (Eng) tue, [Q] Ali Farag (Egy) vs Abdullah is the lone hope for the [6] Peter Barker (Eng), Karim Abdel Gawad host nation. (Egy) vs [8] Tarek Momen (Egy) tue, [Q] This is the 14th consecutive Gregoire Marche (Fra) vs Tom Richards year of PSA World Tour action Action from the qualifying rounds of the Qatar Classic squash tournament at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. (Eng), Fares Dessouki (Egy) vs Saurav in Doha. RIGHT: A player talks to his parents after winning her qualifying match. The first round matches of the men’s and the women’s tournament kicks Ghosal (Ind) tue, Borja Golan (Esp) vs [2] With all of the world’s top play- off today. Gregory Gaultier (Fra) ers, Gregory Gaultier and Miguel Angel Rodriguez, in the draw the what promises to be a fantas- Wall, and Hania El Hammamy QATAR CLASSIC QUALIFYING Women’s 2015 Qatar Classic has the poten- tic tournament, building on the won her all-action all-Egyptian Today’s matches ( start at 12 noon) tial to deliver the same drama and success of last year’s astounding match with Nouran El Torky. MEN’S excitement witnessed in the venue World Championship, and to wel- Also upsetting the odds to [1] Alan Clyne (Sco) 3-0 [12] Joe Lee (Eng) 11-4, 11-4, 11-3 [1] Raneem El Welily (Egy) vs Joshana 12 months ago, druing the world come the best female players back reach the main draw for the first Chinappa (Ind), [13] Dipika Pallikal (Ind) championship and this season will to Doha for the first time since time was England’s Fiona Mov- [6] Leo Au (Hkg) 3-2 Abdullah Almezayen (Kuw) 6-11, 11-4, 10-12, 11-9, 11-2 vs Yathreb Adel (Egy), [10] Sarah-Jane also see the return of top level 2011,” said Qatar Squash Federa- erley, and while Olivia Blatchford [10] Greg Lobban (Sco) 3-2 [7] Zahed Mohamed (Egy) 11-9, 3-11, 5-11, 11-7, 13-11 Perry (Eng) vs Habiba Mohamed (Egy) women’s squash to Doha - with tion president Nabeel Bin Ali. and Coline Aumard justified their mon, [5] Omneya Abdel Kawy (Egy) vs Line [14] Ali Farag (Egy) 3-1 [4] Omar Abdel Meguid (Egy) 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5 the women’s PSA World Series “Qatar continues to grow as a seedings to win, Aumard finds Hansen (Den), [8] Nouran Gohar (Egy) vs returning to the Khalifa Stadium squash nation year-on-year and herself up against fellow French- [3] Gregoire Marche (Fra) 3-1 [13] Nasir Iqbal (Pak) 8-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-7 [Q] Nadine Shahin (Egy) mon, [13] Emily for the first time since 2011. we are delighted to continue our woman Camille Serme - who was Whitlock (Eng) vs [Q] Amina Yousry (Egy), 2011 champion Nicol David will support of the PSA World Tour coaching her during the match - [5] Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) 3-0 [15] Olli Tuominen (Fin) 11-7, 11-4, 11-7 be aiming to continue her domi- for another year in what is a in the first round. In the men’s [15] Salma Hany Ibrahim (Egy) vs [Q] Fiona [8] Mohamed Abouelghar (Egy) 3-2 [9] Raphael Kandra (Ger) 11-5,10-12,11-8,9-11,11-4 nant form, having taken six of the brand new era of joint-governance draw six of the matches went to Moverley (Eng) mon, [4] Laura Massaro previous seven titles available in for the sport.” seeding, although none could be [2] Ryan Cuskelly (Aus) 3-0 Charles Sharpes (Eng) 15-13, 11-5, 11-6 (Eng) vs [Q] Mena Nasser (Egy) Qatar, but will be up against new Meanwhile, in the qualifying classed as easy wins. Tomorrow’s matches World No.1 Raneem El Welily in rounds, it was another good day Greg Lobban and Ali Farag WOMEN’S what looks to be a compelling for the Egyptian girls as they progressed against the seedings, [12] Mayar Hany (Egy) 3-2 [1] Donna Urquhart (Aus) 7-11, 12-10, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8 [Q] Coline Aumard (Fra) vs [3] Camille women’s draw. claimed five of the eight spots. Lobban beating Zahed Mohamed Serme (Fra) tue, [Q] Hania El Hammamy [6] Coline Aumard (Fra) 3-1 [11] Millie Tomlinson (Eng) 11-3, 11-8, 8-11, 12-10 The joint-event will bring over Young Mayar Hany opened the in five to book himself match (Egy) vs [14] Amanda Sobhy (Usa), Heba El 100 of the world’s finest squash day by beating top seed Donna against Max Lee, a repeat of [9] Nadine Shahin (Egy) 3-0 [5] Milou van der Heijden (Ned) 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 Torky (Egy) vs [9] Rachael Grinham (Aus) practitioners to Doha for a jam- Urquhart, and Mena Nasser fin- their US Open first round, while [3] Olivia Blatchford (Usa) 3-0 [6] Lee Ka Yi (Hkg) 11-5, 11-7, 11-9 tue, [Q] Olivia Blatchford (Usa) vs [6] Nour packed week that will see over 100 ished it by putting out second Farag came from a game down to El Sherbini (Egy), Joey Chan (Hkg) vs [7] matches played out over six days seed Misaki Kobayashi, who had beat fellow-Egyptian Omar Abdel [10] Fiona Moverley (Eng) 3-0[4] Mariam Metwally (Egy) 12-10, 11-5, 11-8 Annie Au (Hkg) tue, [Q] Mayar Hany (Egy) to the delight of the tournament to retire injured after a collision Meguid. Today’s women’s matches vs [11] Jenny Duncalf (Eng), [16] Victoria organisers. early in the fourth game. start at 12noon while those in the Amina Yousry (Egy) 3-0 [13] Sina Wall (Ger) 11-6, 11-4, 11-8 Lust (Eng) vs Tesni Evans (Wal) tue 15.00, “We’re very pleased to wel- In between Nadine Shahin got men’s section at 6.00pm. (14] Hania El Hammamy (Egy) 3-2 [7] Nouran El Torky (Egy) 11-9, 11-6, 3-11, 6-11, 11-4 come the best squash players in the better of Milou van der Hei- Nicolette Fernandes (Guy) vs [2] Nicol the world to Doha once again for jden, Amina Yousry beat Sina THE PENINSULA [16] Mena Nasser (Egy) 3-1 [2] Misaki Kobayashi (Jpn) 7-11, 11-6, 11-7, 3-4 rtd David (Mas)

Caironi lowers 100m world record at IPC Athletics Worlds to take gold in Doha

DOHA: Martina Caironi obliter- Paralympic Games being secured, and set a new F43 world record. to his previous best in the men’s ated her own 24-hour-old world and overall it’s a beautiful day for Uzbekistan also claimed their high jump T44. record yesterday with a sensa- me.” first ever world title thanks to Great Britain’s Broom- tional run to win 100m T42 gold Two countries won their first KhusniddinNorbekov’s throw of Edwards (2.05m) and the USA’s at the 2015 IPC Athletics World ever world titles yesterday, the 53.81m in the men’s discus F37. Jeff Skiba (1.96m) joined Lepiato Championships. penultimate day of competition. The shot put bronze medal- on the podium. The 26-year-old Italian ran A highly emotional Marcio list beat Australia’s Guy Henly A final round leap of 11.67m 15.01 in Thursday’s heats, but in Miguel Da Costa Fernandes shed (53.41m) into silver and Ukraine’s by Ristoski, added 25cm to the the final went even faster, power- tears of joy on the podium as the MykolaZhabnyak (52.17m) into 13-year-old women’s triple jump ing home in an impressive 14.61. Cape Verde national anthem was bronze. In addition to Caironi and T20 world record, and secured Germany’s Vanessa Low (15.41), played for the first time at an IPC Stewart’s performances, Poland’s Croatia their second Doha 2015 the long jump gold medallist, took Athletics World Championships. MaciejLepiato and Croatia’s gold. The Portuguese pair of Erica silver with a personal best and The 32-year-old, who now trains MikelaRistoskialso rewrote the Gomes (10.89m) and Ana Felipe Brazil’s Ana Claudia Silva (16.28) in Bedford, Great Britain, as a record brooks. (10.07m) won silver and bronze claimed bronze. result of a pre-London 2012 train- Lepiato secured his third suc- respectively. “This is my personal answer ing camp, won the men’s javelin cessive world title by adding 1cm After adding three more gold back to Vanessa Low after steal- F44 with an African record of medals yesterday, Tunisia now ing my gold medal in the long 56.24m. ONES TO WATCH AT DOHA 2015 has 10 titles, two more than their jump a few days ago,” said a An Oceania record by Rory Rheed McCracken (AUS) vs previous best at a World Champi- delighted Caironi who took silver McSweeney (55.80m) secured him Walid Ktila (TUN) onships. SomayaBousaid (4:33.51) in that event. silver and Iceland’s F42 thrower led from start to finish to win the After taking three gold medals in the men’s “I’ve now got two world records HelgiSveinsson (55.18m) picked women’s 1,500m T13. Russia’s 100m, 400m, and 800m T34 Tunisian in two days, which was my goal up the bronze with a champion- Elena Pautova (4:41.50) took sil- superstar Walid Ktila will be competing in this year. I’m totally happy and ship record. ver and Chile’s Margarita Faun- his last event on the final day of the cham- satisfied. Now I can relax in the Trinidad and Tobago’s Akeem dez(4:51.88) finished with bronze. pionships in the men’s 200m T34 race with knowledge of my place in the Rio Stewart (54.77m) finished fourth his eyes set on a fourth gold medal. Mean- A championship record by Abbes while Australia’s Rheed McCracken hopes Saidi (4:09.92) won him a closely to make amends for his 4th and 5th place fought gold in the men’s 1,500m finishes in the 100m, 400m, 800m events. T38. Silver and bronze went to France’s Louis Radius (4:10.17), Andrey Vdovin (RUS) who ran a European record, and Andrey Vdovin’s due to compete in the Australia’s Deon Kenzie (4:11.60). Qatar’s Mohamed Al Khubaisi in Round 1 heat 1 Mens 200 metres T men’s 100m T37 race on Saturday where Tunisia’s hat-trick of golds 34 at the IPC Athletics World Championships at Qatar Sports Club he wants to get his third gold medal in the came in the field through Mar- Stadium in Doha yesterday. SYED OMAR Doha 2015 IPC Athletics World Champion- ouaIbrahmi (6.18m) who fol- ships. The 21 year old is the current world lowed up club gold by topping record holder of the event and will have the podium in the women’s shot 12.74. Days after collapsing in the HuseyinKacar (4:16.58). to fight off stiff competition to keep it that put F32. Algeria’s MouniaGasmi 5,000m within 90 metres of gold, With victory in the women’s way. (4.54m) and Australia’s Louise Brazil’s Odair Santos (4:08.48) 400m T20, Poland’s Barbara Hannah Cockroft(GBR) Ellery (4.26m) took silver and bounced back to claim the win in Niewiedzial (57.58) became only bronze respectively. the men’s 1,500m T11. the sixth athlete at Doha 2015 Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft will take to The first gold medal of yester- “Everything happens for a rea- to complete a hat-trick of world the track once more on the final day of the day was taken by the USA’s Deja son, I was leading in the 5,000m titles. She added the 400m title World Championships with two gold med- Young (12.69) in the women’s 100m race but unfortunately I fell to her 800m and 1,500m crowns als in the 100m and 800m T34. Cockroft T47. The 200m silver medallist down and woke up in hospital. leading home Ukraine’s Nata- is hoping to add another gold medal to her won a thrilling race that saw the God has his reasons for every- lia Iezlovetska (59.19) in second tally in the 400m race before she departs top three finishers separated by thing and thankfully this is my and Malaysia’s Siti Noor Isaah Doha and is in top form to do just that. Brazil’s Odair Santos (right), gold medal winner in the Mens 1,500 0.05 seconds. A photo finish gave redemption,”said Santos who beat Mohamad (1:00:35) with an Asian Hannah has set two Championship records China’s Yanping Wang the silver Chile’s 5,000m champion Cristian record in third. metres T11, with his guide at the victory ceremony of the IPC Athletics already so don’t miss out on this exciting from Poland’s AlicjaFiodorow in Valenzuela (4:14.00) to the line. World Championships. race. bronze as both sprinters clocked Bronze went to Turkey’s Hassan THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

FACTBOX Factbox on World Cup finalists New Zea- NZ aim for place among rugby greats land %Winners in 1987 and 2011. Runners-up in 1995. World Cup: All Blacks eye Wallabies scalp; 80,000-plus crowd guaranteed at the finale % New Zealand are hoping to become the first team to retain the Webb Ellis Cup. The All TWICKENHAM, UK: Richie Blacks have yet to win the World Cup outside McCaw and Dan Carter will lead of New Zealand. New Zealand’s charge for a place % New Zealand have won 13 successive among rugby’s all-time greats World Cup matches, a competition record. today when they battle Australia % Richie McCaw will extend a World Cup in the World Cup final at Twick- record in captaining his side for the 13th time enham. in the competition. He also extends the world A convincing win over Michael record for test appearances to 148. Cheika’s reborn Wallabies to %With his 22nd appearance in a World Cup become the first country to win match, McCaw equals the competition record two straight world titles --and -- 22 by England’s Jason Leonard. three in all -- could see the All % McCaw is the leading try scorer in tests Blacks acclaimed as the best of against Australia on 11. Centre Ma’a Nonu is the all time. only other player in double figures (10). A titanic battle is guaranteed % for the 80,000-plus crowd who will Fourteen players in the All Blacks’ squad for this tournament were part of the 2011 side. witness the first final between two New Zealand’s Dan Carter during kicking practice yesterday at London’s They are Keven Mealamu, Owen Franks, Ben sides who have dominated rugby’s Twickenham Stadium. RIGHT: Australia’s hooker and captain Stephen Franks, Sam Whitelock, Jerome Kaino, Richie showpiece since it started in 1987. Moore (left) takes part in the captain’s run yesterday at Twickenham McCaw, Kieran Read, Victor Vito, Dan Carter, At least one of them has been Stadium on the eve of the Rugby Union World Cup 2015 final. Colin Slade, Ma’a Nonu, Conrad Smith, Sonny in every final, except 2007. Never Bill Williams and Tony Woodcock. together though. % Cheika is sure it will be another Carter, who has a world record road to the final -- beating Wales, Mitchell needs one more try to New Zealand and Australia Winger Julian Savea is the leading try big chapter in punishing duels at 1,579 Test points, will be in his England, Scotland and Argentina equal the World Cup total record have a unique relationship where scorer at Rugby World Cup 2015 with eight. He this World Cup. The Austral- fourth World Cup but in his first -- but Cheika there is “still have of 15 held by former All Black they are brothers-in-arms eve- is tied for the record in a single World Cup with ian coach paid tribute to the All final. lots of scope to improve,” added Jonah Lomu and South Africa’s rywhere except the sports field Jonah Lomu (1999) and Bryan Habana (2007). Blacks’ powerful game. The match has been billed the player. Bryan Habana. where they are the fiercest of Factbox on World Cup finalists Australia “It’s pretty much their modus as the battle of the breakdown, And with his usual gritty deter- Mitchell marks Nehe Milner- rivals. %Winners in 1991 and 1999. Australia are operandi, they have got great leg McCaw leading the All Black mination, he added: “We want to Skudder, a first year All Black There is a need to settle the in the World Cup final for the fourth time having drive and I love that style of play,” marauders against Australia’s be proud of what we do on Sat- who is one of three finalists for score this year where they have also lost in 2003. Cheika said at Twickenham yes- jackals David Pocock and Michael urday and make Australians even the “breakthrough player of the one win each, and the need to see % Australia’s track record in Rugby World terday. Hooper. more proud of us, by giving eve- year” award. which side will be the first to win Cup matches in the northern hemisphere is 22 “We want to bring physicality Cheika has played up the rything we’ve got on Saturday.” Mitchell, who has returned to a third World Cup. wins and one defeat. The only team to beat to the game too,” he added. underdogs tag. But he has aces If the breakdown is going to be the Wallaby side after a three “There’s nothing more compet- Australia in a RWC match north of the equator New Zealand coach Steve up his sleeve with Pocock a hot decisive, it is on the wings where year exile because he is based itive than Australia versus New was England in the 2007 quarter-finals. Hansen is banking on the expe- contender for player of the tour- the action will be. abroad, said Australia must now Zealand. No matter what code, %Centre Matt Giteau played in the Wallabies’ rience of McCaw, fly-half great nament. All Blacks left wing Julian show the defending champions what occasion. Cricket, football, last World Cup final, against England in 2003 Carter and their fellow Test cen- A running game is in the off- Savea is the leading try-scorer in too much respect. you name it,” Ashley-Cooper said when he came on as a blood replacement. turion Ma’a Nonu. ing from two of the world’s best the tournament with eight, need- “They have achieved a lot before the 2011 semi-final which % Winger Drew Mitchell has scored 14 McCaw is at his fourth World attacking sides. ing one more to set a World Cup not just for New Zealand,” said New Zealand won 20-6. career World Cup tries. Only Jonah Lomu (New Cup and led New Zealand to their “The boys are feeling fresh and record. Mitchell. New Zealand’s two World Cups Zealand) and Bryan Habana (South Africa)have narrow 8-7 win over France in energised,” said Hansen. Adam Ashley-Cooper, tasked “We will give them due respect, have both been on home soil in recorded more, having both touched down 15 the 2011 final. “I couldn’t be happier with with stopping the giant New but at the same time we want to 1987 and 2011. Australia won in times. “He’s probably the greatest where we are at. We’ll be looking Zealander, scored a hat-trick in go out there and perform. We will 1991 at Twickenham and in 1999 %Winger Adam Ashley-Cooper has recorded player we’ve had play the game, to put in a performance all of us the Wallabies semi-final win over congratulate them afterwards in Cardiff. more tries against New Zealand (nine) than any- certainly from New Zealand any- can be proud of.” Argentina. but there will not be any of that one else in test history. way,” the coach said. Australia have taken a tough Wallabies left wing Drew before the game.” AFP Pakistan seek series win over England as ‘farewell’ gift for captain Misbah

SHARJAH: Pakistan target likely to bring in middle-order victory over England in the third batsman James Taylor for Jos and final Test from tomorrow in Butler who has failed as wicket- what would be a fitting ‘farewell’ keeper/batsman, managing just for Misbah-ul-Haq, the country’s 34 in four innings. most successful captain who has If that happens, Jonny Bairstow hinted he’s ready to retire. will keep wicket. The 41-year-old, who quit one- Skipper Alastair Cook said day cricket after the World Cup changes will be decided after Members of the Afghan cricket team display the trophy on their return earlier this year, had suggested inspecting the pitch. after winning the bilateral tournament against Zimbabwe, in Kabul yes- that he would leave the game “Naturally when you lose a after a two-Test series against game or people haven’t performed terday. Hundreds of Afghan cricket fans welcomed the national cricket India in December-January. as well as they would have liked, team home at the airport in Kabul – after their first major series win But with relations between the people will look at the team. We against full member Zimbabwe in 50-over format and T20 matches arch-rivals once again strained have a good squad and players held in Zimbabwe. and with that series in doubt, this itching to get in,” said Cook. England series may be Misbah’s “We’ll look at our team and last. if we sustain the type of cricket “To be honest, I haven’t made we’ve played for five days rather Afghan team gets heroes’ a decision on my retirement yet. than four-and-a-half we’ve got a I don’t know if we will be play- Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq in action during nets at the Sharjah Cricket really good chance.” ing against India this season or if Stadium yesterday. If England, currently third in welcome after triumph there will be an alternative series the rankings, lose the series 2-0 coming up, so I’ve not made up they will drop to as low as sixth. KABUL: Hundreds of dancing, flag-waving Afghan fans yesterday gave mind yet,” Misbah wrote in his the four innings of the series. But who took eight wickets in Dubai, a heroes’ welcome to their cricket team as they arrived home after a column for cricket.com.au. he said a player should leave the and left-armer Zulfiqar Babar, AFP triumphant tour of Zimbabwe. Pakistan are 1-0 up against game on a high. who managed three wickets, play- Afghanistan sealed a historic first on Wednesday with a 2-0 Twenty20 England after winning the second “One should think about leav- ing a key role. SQUADS series victory over Zimbabwe. Test by 178 runs in Dubai. The ing the game with respect rather Shah worked with legendary And last Saturday Afghanistan became the first Associate nation to first Test ended in a draw in Abu than leaving it when he is forced Australian spinner Shane Warne Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Ahmed defeat a Test-playing country in a one-day series with a comprehensive Dhabi. to leave,” said Misbah. in the nets on Thursday. Shehzad, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Moham- win over Zimbabwe. A 2-0 series win will lift Misbah will hope his team does Pakistan are likely to bring mad Hafeez, Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Younis The victories offered a rare glimmer of good news in a nation beset by Pakistan to number two in ICC not squander a good opportunity in Azhar Ali -- who missed the Khan, Shoaib Malik, Sarfraz Ahmed, Yasir Shah, decades of war and which was recently hit by a catastrophic earthquake (International Cricket Council) to win another Test series, like first Test with injury and second Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat that left 121 people dead and thousands of homes damaged. Test rankings, previously briefly they did against New Zealand to after his mother-in-law died -- to Ali, Junaid Khan, Bilal Asif, Mohammad Rizwan A traditional Attan folk dance erupted at Kabul’s international attained by them for few days in who fought back for 1-1 in Sharjah open the innings in place of Shan England: Alastair Cook (capt), Moeen Ali, airport yesterday as hundreds of fans gathered to welcome the team. August 2006. last year. Masood. James Anderson, Samit Patel, Jonny Bairstow, “Our players performed exceptionally well, making the whole country Misbah’s personal form and The Sharjah stadium pitch has England, who were routed 3-0 Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, proud,” said Saeed Kamal, a 19-year-old student, sporting a headband fitness suggest he can carry on, been relaid and is likely to help by Pakistan in the United Arab Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, featuring the Afghan national flag. having scored 3, 51, 102 and 87 in spinners, with leggie Yasir Shah, Emirates three years ago, are Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Mark Wood. AFP Aussies rule out ‘wild’ experiments against NZ

SYDNEY: Chief selector Rod under new captain Steve Smith, they get off to a good start. “And I summer but was not named in the Marsh said yesterday it was contains six players with less than don’t personally think it was time Ashes squad for England. not the time for “wild experi- 10 Test caps following the retire- for just wild experimentation. The rest of the squad is as mentation” after opting against ments of an influential group of “I think we had to be very expected, with all-rounder Mitch- including any debutants in the senior players earlier this year. measured in what we did with ell Marsh and veteran batsman Test squad to face New Zealand, Australia are rebuilding after this team to allow the new cap- Adam Voges both retained and despite a number of retirements. the departures of skipper Michael tain the best chance of getting off Peter Nevill getting the nod as Selectors decided not to pick Clarke, Shane Watson, Chris Rog- (to a good start).” wicketkeeper. 22-year-old batsman Cameron ers, Brad Haddin and Ryan Har- Burns and Khawaja, who were The three-Test series, which Bancroft for his debut, prefer- ris. included in the Test squad for will be Steve Smith’s first as ring Joe Burns to open the innings “What we tried to do was pick this month’s postponed tour of permanent captain, starts on with vice-captain David Warner the best side,” Marsh told report- Bangladesh, both scored centu- November 5. in Brisbane next week, the start ers in Adelaide. ries for a Cricket Australia XI in “We think this squad has the of a three-Test series. “We know New Zealand are last weekend’s tour match against goods to do it and also provides Usman Khawaja was also going to be very worthy oppo- New Zealand in Canberra. an opportunity for some exciting recalled and is likely to bat at nents. In fact, they’re a damn Khawaja has not played for younger players to make their South Africa’s Imran Tahir appeals unsuccessfully during play on the number three after more than good side. Australia since being dropped mark in the Test arena,” Marsh first day of a two-day match against Indian Board President’s XI at the two years out of the national “And it’s very important for during the 2013 Ashes series, said. Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, yesterday. team. Steve Smith and David Warner, while Burns took part in two The 12-man squad, the first the two leaders of our group, that Tests against India last southern AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

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SINGAPORE: Garbine Mugu- racked up a match total of 15 ruza continued her dream debut WTA FINALS RESULTS combined breaks between them, Gasquet survives at the WTA Finals by completing Singapore: Collated results from the the last arriving in the 11th game season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore on round robin play with a perfect of the deciding set when Mugu- Friday (x denotes seeding): Karlovic ace 3-0 record to advance to the semi- ruza moved 6-5 ahead on Kvitova’s Women’s singles finals after a hard fought 6-4 4-6 backhand error. White Group barrage 7-5 victory over Petra Kvitova Despite finally gaining an yesterday. Garbine Muguruza (ESP x2) bt Petra Kvitova advantage, Muguruza needed to (CZE x4) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 By topping the White Group, dig deep to prevent the contest BASEL, Switzerland: France’s Lucie Safarova (CZE x8) bt Angelique Kerber the Spaniard set up a show- from going to a third set tiebreak, Richard Gasquet survived 32 (GER x6) 6-4,6-3 down against Poland’s Agnieszka maintaining her composure to aces from Ivo Karlovic to keep Radwanska while Kvitova (1-2) grown accustomed to facing left- seal the contest on her fourth his hopes of a World Tour Finals received a huge boost from her handers in a group containing a match point with a backhand place alive yesterday with a 6-4, Czech Fed Cup team-mate Lucie trio of southpaws and the recent volley. The second match followed 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (8/6) quarter-final Safarova (1-2), who beat Angel- China Open winner edged ahead a similar pattern to the first as win at the Swiss Indoors. ique Kerber to help her advance. in the middle of a tense first set both players struggled in an early Gasquet is chasing one of the Germany’s Kerber (1-2) only then raced through the eighth exchange that saw Safarova edge last two spots remaining in the needed to win a set in Friday’s game to move 5-3 up. ahead by getting the better of eight-player season finale in Lon- second match to move on but the Kvitova sent down back-to- three consecutive breaks and she don from November 15. already-eliminated Safarova (1-2) back aces to ensure Muguruza rode the advantage all the way to But the Frenchman with the found her best form of the week would need to serve for the set a one-set lead. picture-book, single-handed back- to blast the German off the court and the world number three Safarova’s serve improved in hand faces almost impossible and out of the eight-woman event duly obliged to claim the set she the second set and she was able to odds, needing to win titles both with a 6-4 6-3 win. needed to ensure she would at apply pressure on a visibly frus- this weekend and next week at Kerber’s loss was Kvitova’s least advance from the pool as a trated Kerber, who was having his home Paris Masters. gain and the double Wimbledon top-two finisher. more success bashing her racket Anything less will send rivals champion claimed second place in The second set turned into against the ground than she was Kei Nishikori and Spain’s David the group courtesy of sets won to a war of attrition as both play- making clean contact with the Ferrer to the year-end showpiece. book a last four berth against Red ers coughed up point after point ball. Ferrer and Nishikori are both Group winner Maria Sharapova. on their fragile second serves to The Czech never looked threat- injured and neither is playing this While her rivals were left exchange six breaks in the first ened in the second, breaking early week. The London field already scratching their heads and fret- seven games before Muguruza and again the ninth game to seal includes Novak Djokovic, Roger ting over the various permuta- ended the sequence to hold in victory on her fourth match point Federer, Andy Murray, Stan tions, Muguruza was spared the the eighth. when Kerber sent a forehand Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych and agony of relying on others by The 22-year-old dropped her into the tramlines as both play- Rafael Nadal. claiming a third straight triumph. racket and let out a yelp of pain ers bowed out of the tournament. AFP “It’s amazing to reach the semi- when she turned her ankle in the “That’s teamwork,” Safarova finals,” Wimbledon finalist Mugu- ninth game and while her move- said of the win that sent her com- SWISS INDOORS ruza said in a courtside interview. ment appeared unaffected, her patriot through to the last four. “I Basel, Switzerland: Results from the fourth “To be here is a great payoff for accuracy faltered as she allowed am happy for her that she went Spain’s Garbine Muguruza hits a return against Czech’s Republic Petra day of the ATP Swiss Indoors yesterday (x an amazing year and hopefully I Kvitova to level the match with through to the semis and I am denotes seeding): can continue winning and playing another break. happy for my win today as well.” Kvitova during their women’s singles round robin tennis match at the Second Round like this.” Both players continued to WTA Finals in Singapore yesterday. The Spanish right-hander had struggle on serve as the pair AFP Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 Donald Young (USA) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA x4) 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) Jack Sock (USA) bt Federer into Basel quarters after win over Kohlschreiber John Isner (USA x6) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 Marin Cilic (CRO x7) bt BASEL, Switzerland: Six-time probably drove him down a bit -- Sock earned his second win 1,000 aces in ATP play this sea- and keeps me in the race for Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-3, 6-1 champion Roger Federer defeated thanks to everyone. from six attempts against Isner as son, the first time that mark has London. Karlovic is such a tough Richard Gasquet (FRA x5) bt Dominic Thiem Philipp Kohlschreiber for the 11th “It’s always difficult against the 23-year-old claimed his 34th been achieved since records began opponent. His serve is unbeliev- (AUT) 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 time on Thursday with a 6-4, 4-6, Philipp, he’s such a tough oppo- match of the season. in 1991. able. I just have to concentrate on Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB) 6-4 win which booked a Swiss nent. I may have beaten him a lot Seventh-seeded 2014 US Open Fifth-seeded Richard Gasquet returns, I will need to play really 7-6 (7/4), 7-5 Indoors last-eight place. but it’s not been easy. winner Marin Cilic earned a place extended his outside bid for a well.” Quarter finals Top seed Federer, playing at the “Today was another battle and in the quarter-finals, beating Rus- place in the season-ending World With the last two spots in the Jack Sock (USA) bt Donald Young (USA) venue where he got his start in I’m just relieved to get to the sian Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-3, 6-1 Tour Finals as he beat Dominic season wrap-up still in play, the 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 the game as a ballboy two decades quarter-finals.” but managing just seven aces in Thiem 7-6 (7/1), 6-4. situation was complicated by the ago, will Friday face Belgium’s Federer, with five titles this the process. The Frenchman needs to win pullout in Valencia of David Fer- Richard Gasquet (FRA x5) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO) 6-4, 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (8/6) David Goffin who he beat for the season, won his 55th match of Cilic will face 14-time major the Basel title and next week’s rer. title in 2014. 2015 against nine losses. winner Rafael Nadal on Friday Paris Masters to have a chance The 33-year-old Spaniard, who ATP VALENCIA OPEN After defeating his German America’s Donald Young for a place in the semi-finals. to claim a place in the eight-man won the Vienna title last week- Madrid: Results from the fifth day of the Valencia friend Kohlschreiber in 98 min- stunned South African fourth Serve king Ivo Karlovic London showpiece. He next faces end, was suffering with an elbow Open yesterday (x denotes seeded player): utes with 13 aces and two breaks seed Kevin Anderson 6-2, 7-6 enjoyed a 7-6 (7/4), 7-5 win over Karlovic. injury, a problem which forced Quarter-finals of serve, Federer was happy to (8/6) to reach the quarters. Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic, with “I played a good tiebreaker him off court for three months Vasek Pospisil (CAN) bt Daniel Brands (GER) escape with the win. Young, the world number 49, the Croatian firing 25 aces just which was key,” said Gasquet. this season. 6-3, 6-3 “The support really made the goes on to face 29th-ranked com- a day after knocking out Swiss “I hit some great shots when Ferrer stands joint seventh Joao Sousa (POR) bt Pablo Cuevas (URU) difference for me tonight, espe- patriot Jack Sock who withstood second seed Stan Wawrinka I needed to. My backhand was in the points chase, level with 6-4, 6-4 cially at the end of the match,” 14 aces from fellow American and with 21. working really well and I got con- Japan’s Kei Nishikori who is also said Federer. sixth seed John Isner’s racquet in Anderson, Isner and Karlovic fidence from it. out injured. Steve Johnson (USA) bt Guillermo Garcia- “The fans helped me a lot and a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 win. have each delivered more than “It was a super match for me AFP Lopez (ESP x6) 7-5, 6-4

NHL RESULTS Besieged Mourinho faces former nemesis Klopp Carolina 3 Ny Islanders 2 New Jersey 4 Philadelphia 1 LONDON: Loic Remy insists and we don’t want to give up,” ter how to win. They want to do Pittsburgh 4 Buffalo 3 beleaguered Chelsea boss Jose Remy said. what I say,” he said. Mourinho remains the right man “We were champions together “They think about football and Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 1 to halt the spluttering champions’ only last season and he is a really not pressure and I think they St. Louis 2 Anaheim 1 slide down the Premier League great manager. Of course I don’t know why they won.” Winnipeg 3 Chicago 1 table. want him to leave. I think all the Meanwhile, Manuel Pellegrini Just five months after leading players don’t want that. vows Manchester City will aim for Dallas 4 Vancouver 3 Chelsea to the title, Mourinho is “I’m really sure that Saturday another goal glut as the most pro- Edmonton 4 Montreal 3 fighting to save his job and the will be a big game, but we can still lific side in the Premier League fixture list offers little respite for be in the top four of the league if set their sights on struggling Nor- NBA RESULTS the under-fire Portuguese coach we win games.” wich City. with Liverpool’s visit to Stamford Remy has started just one Pellegrini’s table-toppers suf- Memphis 112 Indiana 103 Bridge today looming as another league game this season, but he fered a rare blank last Sunday Atlanta 112 NY Knicks 101 potential landmine. is in contention to face Liverpool when they ground out a 0-0 draw LA Clippers 104 Dallas 88 With five defeats from their after Diego Costa was taken to at Manchester United. first 10 league matches, Chelsea hospital with a rib injury sus- That was the first time City find themselves languishing nine tained at Stoke. had failed to score this season EPL FIXTURES points adrift of the top four in While Mourinho’s future and, despite picking up a useful 15th place and, to make matters remains uncertain, Liverpool point away to one of their title Today (1500GMT unless stated) worse, they slumped out of the manager Jurgen Klopp, who rivals, their conservative tactics Chelsea vs Liverpool (1245GMT), Crystal League Cup in midweek after a famously stunned Mourinho’s drew criticism from some quar- Palace vs Manchester Utd, Manchester City penalty shoot-out loss at Stoke Real Madrid in the Champions ters. However, City manager vs Norwich, Newcastle vs Stoke, Swansea City. League semi-finals when he was Pellegrini has made it clear he vs Arsenal, Watford vs West Ham, West Amid reports of a dressing in charge of Borussia Dortmund, doesn’t expect a repeat against Brom vs Leicester room mutiny against Mourinho is looking forward to a bright Norwich after normal service Sunday from players unhappy with his future at Anfield after securing was resumed in midweek when a stern man-management, the the first win of his reign in mid- 5-1 win over Crystal Palace took Everton vs Sunderland (1330GMT), Blues have won only one of their week. City into the League Cup quarter- Southampton vs Bournemouth (1600GMT) last seven matches and Mourinho The 1-0 League Cup victory finals. Monday has cut an increasingly troubled over Bournemouth was a first “It is the way we normally play. Tottenham v Aston Villa (2000GMT) and tetchy figure. for Klopp in four matches since Maybe it was an accident on Sun- But, despite different reports he took over from Brendan Rodg- day that especially in the second surfacing that claim a number of ers and the German hopes it will half we couldn’t create chances,” MLS CUP RESULT senior players at Chelsea want be the catalyst for a significant Pellegrini said. Montreal: Result of MLS Cup playoff result Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp (left) celebrates at the end of the Mourinho to go, French striker improvement in results. “But it is not our style, so it here yesterday: Remy says the boss still has the “I saw in the eyes of all the was very important for the team game with Jordon Ibe during the Capital One Cup Fourth Round match Montreal Impact 3 (Bernier 18, Piatti 33, at the Anfield on Wednesday. support of his squad. players they wanted to win. I to return to score goals.” “It’s important for him to stay think the players understood bet- AFP Drogba 39) Toronto FC 0 SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 EASY SUDOKU CROSSWORD 1234 5678 9101112 SKR I LLEX ORDERS

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33 34 35 CHOCOLAT GBS AYN PANAM OTTER 36 37 38 39 PENA SALAD SOTS 40 41 42 USERS ALLOT MI T LIGETI YOURCALL 43 44 45 46 ADUN I T UNBEATEN 47 48 ROTARY PETEROSE Yesterday’s answer 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 57 58 59 60 DOWN 29 La-la preceder 1 Some men’s underwear 30 Commercial lead-in to 61 62 63 Easy Sudoku Puzzles: Place a digit from 1 to Lodge 9 in each empty cell so every row, every column 2 Boor 64 65 66 and every 3x3 box contains all the digits 1 to 9. 3 State symbols of 31 Is ___ (probably will) Massachusetts and North 32 Sag Dakota 37 Hermes or Hades ACROSS 39 Mr. ___ (Peter Lorre role) 4 The third “w” of www 38 British ref. work 1 With 66-Across, left speechless 40 Heel 5 Start of the musical scale 39 Having X and Y 5 “Just ___” (Nike slogan) 41 Cookie with white filling 6 Tulsa sch. chromosomes 9 ___ mark 42 Division of a long poem 7 Poison ivy annoyance 41 Gumbo ingredient (# symbol) HYPER SUDOKU 43 Left speechless 8 “So there!” 42 Frank who directed “It’s a 13 Mouselike animal 47 “___ you out of your mind?!” Wonderful Life” 14 Kinda maybe 9 Hashish pipe 48 “Uh-uh!” 44 Roman ruler who said “The 15 Cincinnati’s home 10 Sailor’s call 49 Some hair highlights die is cast” 16 Left speechless 11 Small, medium or large 53 Big part of an elephant 45 “Hold on …!” 18 Seep 54 Preceder of “loves me” and 12 Tools for weeding 19 Aves. and blvds. “loves me not” 14 Precious stringed 46 Wanders 20 Anger 57 Hairdos that are hard to wear instrument, informally 49 Bay Area force: Abbr. 21 “You betcha!” hats with, familiarly 17 “No ___, Bob!” 50 Beech or birch 23 Trolley 58 Left speechless 22 Sky: Fr. 51 Repetitive learning 24 Aunt, in Acapulco 61 Org. that loves fur … but not 23 B’way booth in Times 52 Fly high 25 Left speechless on humans Square 54 Distort 62 Desert green spots 33 Direction opposite from sur 25 Talent 55 Wife of Zeus 63 Group of buffalo 34 Spoken 26 Hawkeye State native 56 Small whirlpool 64 Does and bucks 35 E.M.T.’s specialty 27 Words to live by 59 Troop grp. 65 Transylvanian count, informally 36 Fills with wonder 28 ___ this world 60 “___-ching!” 37 Reached 66 See 1-Across

Yesterday’s answer

How to play Hyper Sudoku: A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like a normal Sudoku. BABY BLUES BABY

NOVO How to play Kakuro: SHOWING AT The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any KAKURO SCREEN 1 The Guardian Angel 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 & 11:45pm VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells SCREEN 2 Goosebump (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 & 11:55pm TEL: 444933989 / 444517001 like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, SCREEN 3 Shandaar (2D/Hindi) 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some Goosebump (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00 & 4:10pm cells will contain two numbers. SCREEN 4 Burnt (2D/Comedy) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm, 12:00am However, in a crossword the numbers reference SCREEN 5 Coconut: The Little Dragon (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 11:45am, 1:30, 3:15 clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! & 5:00pm: Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 7:00, 9:00 & 11:15pm They denote the total of the digits in the row or SCREEN 6 The Martian (2D/Action) 6:00, 8:45 & 11:30pm column referenced by the number. The Little Prince (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00, 2:00 & 4:00pm Within each SCREEN 7 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2D/Horror) 11:30am, collection of cells 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm - called a run - any SCREEN 8 The Last Witch Hunter (2D/Action) 10:20am, 12:30, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, of the numbers 1 9:40pm &11:55pm to 9 may be used SCREEN 10 Goosebump (2D/Action) 12:40, 5:10 & 9:40pm The Last Witch Hunter (2D/Action) 10:20am, 2:50, 7:20 & 11:50pm but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. MALL

Yesterday’s SCREEN 1 Naanum Rowdydhaan (2D/ Tamil) 2:15 & 10:45pm answer Goosebump (2D/Action) 5:00 & 7:00pm Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Burnt (2D/Comedy) 9:00pm SCREEN 2 Coconut: The Little Dragon (2D/Animation) 2:30 & 4:00pm Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 5:30 & 11:30pm The Guardian Angel (2D/Action) 7:15pm. Main Aur Charles (2D/Hindi) 9:15pm SCREEN 3 The Guardian Angel (2D/Action) 2:30pm ALL IN THE MIND Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge (2D/Crime) 4:30pm Main Aur Charles (2D/Hindi) 6:15pm Can you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal, Ennu Ninte Moideen (2D/Malayalam) 8:30pm vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards. Burnt (2D/Comedy) 11:30pm LANDMARK

SCREEN 1 Naanum Rowdydhaan (2D/ Tamil) 2:15 & 10:45pm Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 5:00pm Goosebump (2D/Action) 6:45 & 8:45pm SCREEN 2 Coconut: The Little Dragon (2D/Animation) 3:00 & 4:30pm The Guardian Angel (2D/Action) 6:00 & 11:30pm Burnt (2D/Comedy) 8:00 & 9:45pm SCREEN 3 Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge (2D/Crime) 2:30pm The Last Witch Hunter (2D/Action) 4:15pm Hoy en la Historia Ennu Ninte Moideen (2D/Malayalam) 6:15pm Titli (2D/Hindi) 9:15pm October 31, 2014 Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 11:30pm The Virgin Galactic space plane, SpaceShipTwo, broke up and ROYAL PLAZA crashed into California’s Mojave SCREEN 1 Coconut: The Little Dragon (2D/Animation) 2:30 & 4:00pm Desert soon after takeoff. One of Burnt (2D/Comedy) 5:30 & 11:30pm the two pilots was killed Goosebump (2D/Action) 7:30 & 9:30pm SCREEN 2 Titli (2D/Hindi) 3:00 & 11:15pm 1863: The Maori Wars, between New Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 5:30pm Zealand’s colonial government and the The Guardian Angel (2D/Action) 7:15 & 9:15pm indigenous population, resumed as SCREEN 3 Goosebump (2D/Action) 2:30pm British troops invaded Waikato Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge (2D/Crime) 4:15 & 11:30pm 1995: Nigerian rights activist Ken The Last Witch Hunter (2D/Action) 6:00pm Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death Apocalypse (2D/Horror) 8:00pm Burnt (2D/Comedy) 9:45pm 2000: The first full-time residents of the ARGON, ARSENIC, BARIUM, BORON, BROMINE, ASIAN TOWN CADMIUM, CALCIUM, CARBON, CHLORINE, CHROMIUM, International Space Station blasted off COBALT, COPPER, FLUORINE, GOLD, HYDROGEN, IODINE, in a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan 10 Enradhukulla (2D/ Tamil) 2:00 & 7:30pm IRON, KRYPTON, LEAD, LITHIUM, MAGNESIUM, Main Aur Charles (2D/Hindi) 3:45 & 6:30pm MANGANESE, MERCURY, NEON, NICKEL, NITROGEN, 2000: An Italian tanker carrying 6,000 Ennu Ninte Moideen (2D/Malayalam) 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, OXYGEN, PLATINUM, PLUTONIUM, RADIUM, RADON, tonnes of toxic chemicals sank off 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:00 & 11:00pm SILICON, SILVER, SODIUM, STRONTIUM, TITANIUM, the coast of northern France Naanum Rowdydhaan (2D/ Tamil) 4:45 & 10:15pm TUNGSTEN, URANIUM, XENON, ZINC. Picture: Newscom © GRAPHIC NEWS Shandaar (2D/Hindi) 1:00pm SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

Prayer Timings Weather Fine becomes partly cloudy at places with Fajr 04.23 am Zuhr 11.17 am Maghrib 04.56 pm Minimum: 28o C Maximum: 34o C weak chance of scat- Shorook 05.41 am Asr 02.35 pm Isha 06.36 pm HIGH TIDE 07:45 - 19:00LOW TIDE 00:15 - 14:45 tered rain and slight dust at times. Bond is shaken and stirred by fate of migrants

PARIS: James Bond actor Daniel ing to reach England since June. Having claimed that he would stiff resistance from his principal Craig yesterday urged European Craig, who has been an advo- rather “slash my wrists” that play love interest Madeleine Swann, governments to “step forward cate for humanitarian issues, the brooding MI6 agent again, played by French star Lea Sey- and sort out” the migrant crisis urged governments to act to Craig — who earned a reported doux, even if the the actress’ tormenting the continent. resolve the crisis. $17m from the last Bond film feminist credentials took a knock “There is a human tragedy “Some fictional spy is not going Skyfall — has since tried to row when she told reporters at the going on. It is up to European gov- to fix this,” he said. “People are back on his comments to Time Out film’s London premiere that “I ernments to step forward and get not thinking about James Bond magazine. don’t know if I’m a Bond girl, I’m this sorted,” the British actor said as they struggle with their fami- “I don’t know, honestly, that is just a blonde girl”. in an interview to promote 007’s lies across the Mediterranean, it a straight answer,” he told AFP. The change of tack comes after latest adventure Spectre. is the furthest thing from their “I have spent two years of my life Skyfall — a global box office hit — The movie is already breaking minds.” doing this now... That’s enough for was pilloried by some critics for box office records in Britain, but Ironically, Craig has also the time being. its alleged misogyny. But Craig the success has not quelled Craig’s become the face of a drive by “I am not in crisis. In fact, — who has appeared in drag to well-publicised doubts over con- tourism chiefs to attract more I’ve never been happier making highlight discrimination against tinuing in the role — the 47-year- visitors to Britain. these films. The creative proc- women — insisted he had pushed old admitted he “did not know” An international billboard ess has been better than it has for strong female characters. how much longer he would keep campaign proclaiming “Bond is ever been... why would you walk “I want characters to go up playing the suave secret agent. Great Britain” is being rolled out away from that? There is a lot of against him, for Bond to be chal- Spectre sees Bond flit back and to coincide with the release of the shit in the press about this at the lenged by them, otherwise it is forth across borders in the blink British actor Daniel Craig poses for a selfie with a fan as he arrives for the film, the 24th in the spy series moment, but the simple answer is just dull if he is this alpha male of an eye despite being grounded French premiere of ‘Spectre’ in Paris on Thursday. that began six years before Craig I don’t know.” that walks around and dominates by British intelligence and having was even born. In Spectre, Bond battles the every scene. If you are going to his passport removed. port of Calais resorting to desper- tar trains and two Iranians man- Spectre has taken $24.5m in its eponymous shadowy criminal net- attract actresses like Lea Seydoux But in reality entering Brit- ate measures to cross the English aged to walk the 50km length of first three days in Britain — but work — the Special Executive for and Monica Bellucci, you have got ain illegally has become ever Channel. the tunnel earlier this month it is still unclear whether Craig Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, to offer them something worth more difficult, with thousands of Some have tried to climb onto before being arrested by British will reprise the role that he has Revenge and Extortion. doing,” he added. migrants marooned in the French or underneath high-speed Euros- police. At least 15 have died try- given a harder, more brutal edge. Yet 007 also faces unexpectedly AFP

Magnificent Jewels’ auction Male and female Low-fat diets not best for brains work the same way: Study NEW YORK: There is no such weight loss, says study thing called a “male brain” and a “female brain”, suggests new PARIS: Low-fat diets do not ever fatter, the quest for an easy Tobias said more research research that found no difference yield greater weight loss than weight-loss plan has taken a high must be done to “identify better in the size of the hippocampus, a other slimming regimes, said a priority. approaches for long-term weight crucial part of the brain that con- study yesterday, adding to the Dietary fat has long been tar- loss and weight maintenance”. solidates new memories and helps long-running debate on how best geted, said the study, for the A comment on the study, pub- connect emotions to the senses. to shed extra pounds or kilos. reason that every gramme (0.04 lished by the same journal, said Hippocampi are located on both A review of 53 scientific stud- ounce) of it contains more than it showed that weight loss overall A Christie’s employee displays the ‘Moonwatch’ Apollo IX 1969, a sides of the brain, under the cer- ies, covering nearly 70,000 adults double the calories of a gramme was poor, regardless of the diet gold limited edition chronograph wristwatch with bracelet and gold ebral cortex. The findings chal- in several countries, found “no of carbohydrates or protein. chosen. dial, during a preview at the auction house in Geneva yesterday. The lenge the common claim that a good evidence for recommending But research through the years “What seems to be clear is disproportionately larger hippoc- watch is estimated to sell between $9,898-$14,847) during Christie’s low-fat diets,” said lead author has yielded contradictory results. that long-term diet adherence is ampus explains females’ tendency Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva on November 10. BELOW: A Deirdre Tobias of the Brigham Just last month a small-scale abysmal, irrespective of whether toward greater emotional expres- and Women’s Hospital in Mas- study in the journal Cell Metabo- low-fat or other diets... are pre- cushion-shaped fancy Vivid Pink diamond of 16.08 carats on display siveness, stronger interpersonal sachusetts. lism said cutting back dietary scribed,” wrote Kevin Hall of the in Geneva. The diamond is estimated to sell between $23m-$28m. skills, and better verbal memory. “The science does not support fat caused obese people to lose National Institute of Diabetes and “Many people believe there is low-fat diets as the optimal long- more body fat than restrict- Digestive and Kidney Diseases in such a thing as a ‘male brain’ term weight loss strategy.” ing carbohydrates. But the lat- Maryland, United States. and a ‘female brain,’” said lead In fact, low-carbohydrate diets est contribution, in the form of Added Tom Sanders of King’s researcher Lise Eliot, associ- led to greater weight loss than a meta-analysis of other studies College London: the best diet is to ate professor of neuroscience at low-fat ones, according to study comparing low-fat diets to other eat less and exercise more. Rosalind Franklin University of results published in The Lancet ones, found the contrary. “To me, the take-home message Medicine and Science in North Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. “Behind current dietary advice from this paper is that energy Chicago, Illinois, US. Weight loss on a low-fat diet to cut out the fat... the thinking intake determines the extent of “But when you look beyond the was just 360 grammes (13 ounces), is that simply reducing fat intake weight loss rather than the rela- popularised studies — at collec- compared to 1.15 kilogrammes will naturally lead to weight loss,” tive proportions of fat and carbo- tions of all the data — you often (2.5 pounds) on a higher-fat, low- Tobias said in a statement. “But hydrates in the diet,” he said via find that the differences are mini- carbohydrate eating plan. our robust evidence clearly sug- the Science Media Centre. mal,” Eliot explained. The team As the world’s population grows gests otherwise.” AFP examined findings from 76 pub- lished papers, involving more than 6,000 healthy individuals. There is no difference in the size of the corpus callosum, white matter that allows the two sides of the brain to communicate, nor do Novelist Chabon readies script for Bob the Musical men and women differ in the way their left and right hemispheres UBUD, INDONESIA: A movie “And everything he hates musical comedy duo Flight of the with Universal Music Publish- opportunities,” said Chabon, now process language, according to the musical starring Tom Cruise about musicals, that people sing Conchords, is composing the music ing Group to be an in-house pop 52. He and Ronson were both big researchers. The study appeared could be nearing production after and dance at the drop of a hat, and lyrics for Bob the Musical. lyricist. Universal will look for fans of 1970s rock group Steely Dan in the journal NeuroImage. a decade languishing in develop- he finds himself doing just that McKenzie won an Oscar for best opportunities for him to collabo- and the story-telling elements of IANS ment, the screenwriter, Pulitzer against his will,” Chabon said at original song with Man or Muppet, rate with musicians, he said. that group’s lyrics and immediately Prize winning novelist Michael the Ubud Writers and Readers for The Muppets movie. The deal grew out of a song- hit it off, Chabon said. Nobel Prize medal Chabon, said. Festival on the Indonesian island Chabon’s career is swerv- writing partnership with producer Chabon, who says he listens to Bob the Musical, directed by of Bali. ing towards music as well, said Mark Ronson on the latter’s 2015 music all the time as he writes, fetches nearly Michael Hazanavicius, (The Art- Chabon said he had just turned the author of several acclaimed best-selling album Uptown Special. says the skill set of writing song ist), tells the story of a man who in the first draft for the Walt Dis- novels, including Mysteries of Chabon wrote the lyrics for nine of lyrics with musicians is entirely $800,000 at auction hates musicals and then wakes ney Pictures production, first con- Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and The the album’s 11 tracks, but not, he different than the often lonely up one day to find that his life ceived in 2004, before coming out Amazing Adventures of Kavalier said wryly, for the album’s mon- pursuit of writing a novel, which LOS ANGELES: The Nobel and the world around him is one to the Asia-Pacific for a tour of and Clay, which won the Pultizer ster-selling single, Uptown Funk. for him can sometimes take years. Prize awarded in 1963 to a Cam- big extravaganza of singing and literary festivals. Prize for fiction in 2001. “When I turned 50, I started bridge professor for his revo- dancing. Bret McKenzie, one half of Earlier this month, he signed feeling inclined to saying yes to new REUTERS lutionary work on the central nervous system has sold at auc- tion for nearly $800,000. The 23-carat gold medal Bieber concert awarded to the late Alan Lloyd Hodgkin went under the hammer Fish ‘cry for help’ to escape predators in Los Angles late on Thursday and was purchased by an uniden- SYDNEY: Distressed fish caught in... and start chasing the preda- of prey because it’s so advanta- tified private collector. by predators emit a cry for help to tor that first caught the little prey geous,” McCormick said. “Lo and Bidding for the medal sold by attract other carnivores so they fish and in doing so, disrupt the behold, who comes to save the day Nate D Sanders Auctions began at can escape during the ensuing initial predator. but other dangerous predators.” $450,000 and shot up to $795,614 chaos, Australian scientists said. “The inital predator ends up The scientists said the next step as four people vied for the prize, While researchers had discov- 40 percent of the time, we found, would be to expand the research the auction house said. ered that fish emit a chemical sub- dropping the prey and the prey to see how fishes’ distress calls The medal features the relief stance found in their skin when swims off and survives.” were affected by damaged reefs. portrait of Alfred Nobel on its injured to alert others nearby of The research, published in the “When reefs degrade... in some front and the laureate’s name and the dangers, they did not know journal Proceedings of the Royal species, the chemical cues are quite the year it was given on the back. whether the distress call also ben- Society B, studied damselfish — a disrupted. The environment ends Another Nobel Prize auctioned efited the captured prey. small, primarily tropical marine up modifying or masking those in May sold for $765,002. “Within a minute (of the species — that have similar char- chemical alarm cues so they can Since early 2014, about 10 Nobel chemical alarm being emitted), acteristics to larger, more com- no longer be used in the same way,” medals have gone up for auction you get this aggregation of little mercially important fish such as said McCormick, who is based at as laureates or their families cash predators coming in,” the study’s coral trout and snapper. the university’s Centre of Excel- in on the prestigious prize. Singer Justin Bieber stands on stage during a concert in Oslo late on co-author Mark McCormick of “You can see how that (call lence for Coral Reef Studies. The 1936 Peace Prize awarded Thursday. Canadian pop singer Bieber, who made a triumphant return James Cook University said and for help) would have developed “It means that the fundamental to Carlos Saavedra Lamas of added that most fish displayed and how, because of the benefit way that predators interact with Argentina went for a staggering to the European stage at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan on similar behaviour. “For them, it’s of attracting other predators, prey, and vice versa, will change.” $1.16m last year, after being found Sunday, abruptly cancelled his concert in Oslo after performing one song. like somebody ringing a dinner that alarm-cue signalling would in a pawn shop. bell. So other predators swoop be maintained in the population AFP AFP