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Emir receives US, French envoys Independent Survey to solve school staff face drinking, immigration smoking ban DOHA: The teaching and non-teaching staff members of Independent Schools have been barred from consuming alcohol woes at airport and using tobacco even while they are off duty and outside of school premises. The Supreme Education Suggestions from public pour in Council (SEC) has said in a cir- cular issued yesterday that in DOHA: Immigration cubicles should be a passport unit at the order to become a role model for at Hamad International Airport airport so a citizen can immedi- students and show exemplary (HIA) should have electronic ately get his passport renewed if behaviour, both the teaching and token system for the waiting it has expired. non-teaching staff members of passengers to guide them to the Some nationals realise while at Independent Schools must not right desk and help avoid delays, the airport that their passports use alcohol, tobacco, drugs or any a respondent to a survey has have expired. such material while they are in suggested. They return disappointed school or even outside of it. Or, at least the cubicles, in despite the fact that they The Education Institute of both departure and arrival sec- must travel urgently, said the the SEC has sent the circulars tions, should have green light respondent. to the operators and directors of which should be automatically One said that at the old airport Independent Schools and urged on when one is empty and ready using the e-gate was easier with The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving credentials of Dana Shell Smith, Ambassador of them to hand them to the staff to serve a waiting passenger, said the identity (ID) card. But at the the US, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The Emir also received new French Ambassador Eric Chevallier. In members and ask them to comply the respondent. new airport, one needs to use the separate meetings, the Emir granted the sash of merit to the outgoing Belgium Ambassador Herman Sercus with the guidelines therein. “This will also give a clear idea boarding pass. and Kazakhstan envoy Azamat Berdibay. Strict action will be taken as to how fast the person sitting There should be a special against those staff members who behind the desk is working.” counter at the airport which violate the guidelines that total 10 The airport’s immigration should help people use smart- and begin by talking about their unit, called the Airport Security cards and it should issue ID relations with students, their par- and Passports Department, has (identity) cards as well, said a SEC rule on absenteeism pays off ents, the community in general launched a survey with the aim respondent. and their colleagues and bosses. of improving its services. In the survey, the airport immi- DOHA: The tough rules being new academic year on Sunday. the first day of the academic year The violators would first be told The survey has been launched gration has asked questions like implemented by the Supreme A decision issued by the with a positive outcome. about the fact that they are flout- on the website of the Ministry of how one feels the services pro- Education Council (SEC) to Minister of Education and Some schools had sent ing the guidelines. They would Interior in the Arabic language vided by the unit are. curb the menace of absentee- Higher Education and SEC text messages to parents to then be issued a warning and even and feedback from the people is “Do you think the desks are ism in Independent schools chairman H E Dr Mohammed get them acquainted with the then if they don’t fall in line their pouring in. enough (in both, arrival and seems to have a positive impact, bin Abdul Wahid bin Ali Al new policy. Most schools used services would be terminated. Doha’s new airport is the best departure sections) to provide the with many schools reporting a Hammadi last week barred the first day of the school to Meanwhile, a Decree Law one in the Gulf after Dubai’s and required services,” is the second relatively high attendance rate Independent school students explain to students the details issued yesterday (No 13 of 2014), it is well-organised, but there are question. from the very first day of the with low attendance from tak- of the ministerial decision and by the Emir, H H Sheikh Tamim delays in people getting cleared, “Do you think the time taken new academic year. ing their continuous assessment its seriousness. bin Hamad Al Thani, asks the said another respondent. for passport handling during exit Attendance on the first two tests and term examinations. “We had a 70 percent attendance SEC to pay school vouchers (term Yet another said that in both and entry at the airport is okay,” days of the opening of schools The rule applies to students from on the first day which was better fees) for Qatari students directly departure and arrival sections is the third question. ranged from 60 percent to 85 per grade 4 to grade 12. compared to the past four aca- to the schools concerned (where there should be clear signs guid- The department then urges cent, which the school officials say Quoting school officials, a local demic years,” Independent school those students are enrolled). ing passengers to the immigration people to give suggestions, if any, was higher compared to the past Arabic daily reported yesterday operator was quoted as saying. However, those Qatari stu- desks. to improve its services. academic years. All Independent that most schools have started Continued on page 4 dents whose fathers get education One respondent said that there THE PENINSULA and private schools opened for the implementing the decision from THE PENINSULA allowance for their children from their employers (state entities) would not be eligible to get these vouchers. Education vouchers are a system whereby the government pays the tuition and other fees for Abbas trying to Qatari students to private schools January World Cup back on Fifa agenda where they are enrolled. destroy unity THE PENINSULA BERNE: FIFA has revived understanding that it would presented with information on Last November, Blatter cat- deal: Hamas the possibility of staging the be staged in the summer the implications of staging the egorically ruled out a winter 2022 World Cup in January and despite the searing heat in the event in winter as opposed to World Cup that could clash with Dubai plans $32bn GAZA CITY: Hamas yesterday February after President Sepp country. summer, as proposed by the FIFA the Winter Olympics. accused Palestinian President Blatter previously ruled out the Although Qatar has insisted executive committee,” said FIFA “The FIFA World Cup can only airport expansion Mahmoud Abbas of trying to idea last year. that a summer World Cup is via- in a statement. be played in November/December sabotage a fragile reconcilia- Three possible time slots were ble thanks to cooling technolo- “FIFA secretary general Jerome 2022, no way it’s going to take DUBAI: Dubai will spend tion agreement after he accused discussed for the tournament as a gies it is developing for stadiums, Valcke clarified that, based on place in January/February,” he $32bn on expanding its sec- them of running “a shadow gov- FIFA task force, set up specifically training areas and fan zones, the hosting agreement, the FIFA told a news conference in Abu ond airport to handle over 200 ernment” in Gaza. to decide once and for all when there is still widespread concern World Cup must be held in 2022. Dhabi at the time. million people annually next In a sharply worded attack it should take place, met for the over the health of the players and “The options of January/ “We have to see how we can decade, roughly triple the cur- on Hamas, Abbas on Saturday first time at the headquarters of visiting supporters. February 2022 and November/ have the FIFA World Cup played rent level of passenger traffic threatened to break off the unity soccer’s governing body yesterday. “Discussions centred around December 2022 were put forward in winter, but only Nov/Dec are through the emirate, airport agreement over the group’s de Qatar was awarded the the 2022 FIFA World Cup in as alternatives to June/July 2022, possible.” authorities said yesterday. facto control of the Gaza Strip. World Cup on the widely held Qatar, and participants were and initial feedback received.” AFP REUTERS But Abbas’s words sparked an angry response from Hamas, with spokesman Fawzi Barhum accusing him in turn of trying “to destroy the reconciliation and play into the hands of the Independence vote: Billions Americans and the Israelis.” Hamas forcibly took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, ousting forces wiped off Scottish firms loyal to Abbas and sparking a bit- ter and bloody split with his Fatah LONDON: Billions of pounds YouGov poll had showed a small movement, which continued for were wiped off the value of lead for the yes campaign. years until the two sides signed a companies with Scottish links American Nobel prize-win- reconciliation deal in April. and the pound was pummelled ning economist Paul Krugman The deal led to the formation as markets took fright at the echoed the analysts’ view, warn- of a government of national con- increasing prospect of Scotland ing Scotland it was unsafe to vote sensus, which took office on June voting next week to break away yes while uncertainty about the 2, following which Gaza’s Hamas from the United Kingdom. country’s currency remained. “If government formally stepped Investors yesterday dumped Scottish voters really believe that down. The spat erupted just two companies with exposure to it’s safe to become a country with- weeks after the end of a major Scotland, including the Royal out a currency, they have been 50-day conflict between Israel and Bank of Scotland and Lloyds badly misled,” Krugman wrote in Hamas militants in Gaza. Banking Group, which owns Bank the New York Times. “The risks of Throughout the conflict, Hamas of Scotland. They also ditched going it alone are huge. You may and Fatah put up a united front, sterling, which at one point fell think that Scotland can become working side-by-side to further to its lowest level against the dol- another Canada, but it’s all too indirect truce talks with Israel in lar for 10 months. likely that it would end up becom- Cairo, which resulted in an open- “Be afraid, be very afraid,” ing Spain without the sunshine.” ended ceasefire that took effect on Supporters of the pro-union ‘Better Together’ campaign hold “No” signs as they listen to Scottish MP Jim Murphy Deutsche Bank analysts warned See also page 11 August 26. AFP addressing crowds in Edinburgh yesterday, ahead of the upcoming Scottish independence referendum. its clients after the Sunday Times THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir appoints ambassadors DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued several decisions. Emiri decision No. 59 of 2014 appointed Mubarak Abdurrahman Mubarak Al Nasr as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Comoros. Emiri decision No. 60 appointed Khalifa Ahmed Mohamed Al Suweidi as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkmenistan. Emiri decision No. 62 appointed Abdullah Ibrahim Abdurrahman Al Hamar as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Vietnam. Emiri decision No. 61 transferred the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Vietnam, Mohamed Jabir Abdullah Al Sulaiti, as Ambassador at the Foreign Ministry. Instruments of ratification issued

DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani chairing the meeting yesterday. terday issued an instrument of ratification, approving a draft agreement between Qatar and the Kyrgyz Republic on avoid- ance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion of taxes on income. The Emir also issued an instrument of ratification, approving a draft agreement on air transport between Qatar and PM chairs Prince Nayef Award meeting Botswana. The Emir issued an instrument of ratification, approv- ing the ratification of amendments to the Convention on Physical DOHA: The Prime Minister unanimous decision of the Arab University for Security Sciences. award highlight the goal of Protection of Nuclear Material 1980, adopted by the Diplomatic and Interior Minister H E interior ministers at their 13th We have been keen to host the enhancing popular participation Conference of States Parties to the Convention on July 8, 2005, Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser session in Riyadh on March 13, ministerial committee tasked in achieving security in Arab soci- on the basis of its Article 20. The Emir issued an instrument of bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday 2013 to establish an award in the with deciding the system and eties and encouraging partnership ratification, approving a draft agreement on the organization of chaired a meeting of the min- name of the late Prince Nayef in regulations for the award set up between security entities and employment of Tanzanian labour in Qatar. The Emir also issued an isterial committee tasked with honour of his pioneering role and upon a decision of the Council of society to develop security and instrument of ratification, approving a draft agreement on secu- deciding on the statute and his honorary presidency of the Arab Interior Ministers at its 31st cooperation. rity cooperation between Qatar and Morocco, signed in Rabat. regulations for Prince Nayef bin council for nearly three decades.” session in Marrakesh, Morocco, He said the award’s categories Abdulaziz Al Saud Award for He highlighted Prince Nayef’s on March 12 this year in recogni- will help encourage participants Emir hailed for boosting joint Arab action Arab Security. good reputation and history, tion of his role, the Premiere said. — individuals, entities, research The meeting at St. Regis Doha achievements in the service of The Premier said the award centres and organisations — to DOHA: The Secretary-General of Arab Interior Ministers Hotel was attended by several Arab and Islamic nations, support carries the message of encourag- contribute to finding the appro- Council, Dr. Mohammed bin Ali Kuman, commended efforts of Arab interior ministers. for their causes in various fields, ing communication between Arab priate solutions to tackle emerging the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to promote In his opening address, the including security, role in the security apparatuses and citizens criminal practices that threaten joint Arab action in various fields. Prime Minister conveyed greet- development of joint Arab action in line with ethical and profes- Arab countries and the world, Speaking at a meeting of the ministerial committee delegated to ings of the Emir H H Sheikh since his inauguration as honor- sional standards. It also boosts particularly those related to coun- decide on the statute and regulations for Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and ary chairman of the Council of cooperation between citizens ter-terrorism, drugs, money laun- Al Saud Award for Arab security here, Dr. Kuman also thanked his best wishes of success to the Arab Interior Ministers in 1982, and security bodies and reiter- dering, human trafficking, illegal the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin meeting. and his efforts to develop the ates the citizen’s commitment immigration and smuggling. He Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani for hosting this and the preparatory He said, “The meeting to decide capacity of Arab security person- to implementation of regulations also hosted a luncheon banquet in meetings. the statute and regulations for nel through his presidency of the and rules. honour of the participating del- Dr. Kuman said the meeting approved the statute and regulations. the award stemmed from the Governing Council of Naif Arab He said the objectives of the egations. QNA He said the Prime Minister has allocated two seats in the Police College for Arab countries through the Arab Interior Council General Secretariat. He said the award focuses on topics, including the promo- tion of community policing and its role in achieving security, as well as the support of human rights. Military, Air Force colleges to be set up Qatar slams Israeli attacks, DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Emiri decision No. 64 of 2014 to establish and regulate Joaan bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College, to be managed by the General Command of the Armed Forces and supervised by the Minister of State for Defence Affairs. The col- lege will have a legal personality and its budget is attached to that land seizures in West Bank of the Ministry of Defence. The Minister will issue a decision to set specifications and regulations for the use of a flag and logo for GENEVA: Qatar strongly open all border crossings for the commissioner of human rights of sustainable development to the college. The Emiri decision stipulates that the college will have condemned the recent Israeli reconstruction of the Strip to during her tenure. the perspective of human rights a supreme council chaired by the Minister and the chief of staff attacks on the Gaza Strip, and maintain fundamental human Al Henzab called on the inter- which is distancing from all that as vice-chairman, along with assistants to the chief of staff, army the continuation of Israeli’s rights of the Palestinian people national community to unite to cause the resumption of violence commanders and college commander as members, in addition to a policy of settlement through and their dignity. solve the Syrian crisis and find and conflicts. representative from the Supreme Education Council and a repre- confiscation of more land in the He stressed that Israel should ways to hold accountable the per- He said Qatar has taken seri- sentative of the academic donor. The minister, based on a proposal West Bank. not escape accountability for its petrators of human rights abuses ous steps to reform the work by the college commander, can appoint any other member to the This came in a speech by Qatar’s war crimes against the Palestinian and crimes committed on daily environment to achieve full pro- council. Permanent Representative to the people. bases against the Syrian people tection of migrant workers, and The Emir also issued Emiri decision No. 65 of 2014 to establish and United Nations Office and other He said Qatar welcomed the for over three years and to move improve their occupational and regulate Al Zaeem (Leader) Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Air international organisations in appointment of Prince Zeid bin ahead towards building a new living conditions according to the Force College, which will be managed by the General Command of Geneva, Faisal bin Abdullah Al Ra’ad Al Hussein as new High Syria that meets the legitimate best international standards. the Armed Forces and supervised by the minister. It will have a legal Henzab. Commissioner of Human Rights, aspirations of its people. He said Qatar seeks to promote personality and its budget is attached to that of the ministry. The He was speaking at the 27th and expressed confidence in his He said ending conflicts and and protect human rights from minister will issue a decision to set specifications and regulations for session of the UN Human Rights ability and wisdom to lead suc- halting the accompanying human the perspective of the achieve- the use of a flag and logo for the college. Council as part of the agenda cessfully the Human Rights rights abuses represent a priority, ment of stability and sustainable The Emiri decision stipulates that the college will have a supreme item No. 2 for public debate on a Office. and said no talks on promotion development for all individuals council chaired by the minister and has the chief of staff as vice-chair- report of the United Nations High Al Henzab reaffirmed Qatar’s and protection of human rights, and communities and its efforts man, along with assistants to the chief of staff, army commanders and Commissioner for Human Rights. commitment to cooperate with Al stability and development could will always continue to focus on college commander as members, in addition to members appointed The session opened yesterday Hussein and his office to help him be made without the elimination cooperation with the interna- via a decision by the general commander of the armed forces based and runs until September 26. carry out his duties and responsi- of hotbeds of conflicts and their tional community to gain access on recommendations from the Minister. Al Henzab reiterated Qatar’s bilities to the fullest. causes. to a world of peace, prosperity QNA call for doubling efforts to end He also praised efforts of Al Henzab also stressed the and respect for the rule of law the Israeli blockade of Gaza and Navi Pillay, former UN high need to focus on linking the goals and human rights. QNA

Harvest Moon

The Harvest Moon seen over Doha skies last evening. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH HOME TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Two schools delay new academic year over safety of students

BY FAZEENA SALEEM “The safety of children in Sherborne Qatar’s new facil- “We shall open just as soon our school is of paramount ity for junior classes of its pre- as we receive approval from DOHA: Two private schools importance and unfortunately paratory school in Al Rayyan Civil Defence and we will con- have delayed opening for the we are not able to guarantee has postponed the opening due tact parents as soon as we can. new academic year due to that because of ongoing con- to a delay in approval by Civil We hope that the delay will be safety reasons. struction and missing minis- Defence. very short,” he said. Qatar Finland International try level documentation for The school has installed fire The school has also School (QFI) and Sherborne school insurance,” Juha Repo, detectors, fire escapes and announced that there will be Qatar’s new building for jun- Principal, said in an announce- emergency lighting on the first a reduction on the term’s fees ior classes of its preparatory ment for parents on the school floor in addition to the existing in proportion to the number of school have postponed the website. fire equipment. days lost as a result of the delay opening. “I am truly sorry for this However, Civil Defence has and this will be set against the The QFI has postponed the inconvenience,” he said. not done the final inspection fees for next term. opening due to a delay in com- However, school staff and scheduled for September 4, Sherborne, in its sixth year pleting construction work to teachers were available to meet according to a letter to parents of operation in Doha, has its ensure students’ safety. parents. posted on the school’s website main campus in Bani Hajer. The school in Al Dohail was QFI is among 15 new schools by Vice-Chairman of Governors It is among the seven schools www.swiss-belhotel.com scheduled to open classes up to approved by the Supreme and Chairman of the Education approved by the SEC to open Tel grade three on September 7. It Education Council (SEC) to Committee, Professor Richard new branches. is expected to open today. open this academic year. Hodder-Williams. THE PENINSULA Fax

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Tel 2014 WISE awards, Prize Fax Tel + 974 44298888 Winners and their projects to be announced during November summit Fax DOHA: A jury of distin- guished individuals for the World Innovation Summit Tel for Education (WISE) has Fax selected winners of 2014 WISE awards for various projects and the WISE Prize for Education Laureate. Tel However, the names of the Fax projects will be announced later this month and the name of the individual or team winning the WISE Prize for Education Tel Laureate will be announced at Fax the annual WISE Summit. Sheikh Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al www.doha.hilton.com Thani, Chairman, WISE, hosted a roundtable for the awards and Tel 44233333 974+ the prize juries as well as dis- tinguished Qatari community Fax 44233000 974+ members and praised the works Sheikh Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Chairman, WISE (third right) with WISE Awards jury and (BELOW) with the of these individuals. jury for WISE Prize for Education Laureate. Dr Al Thani said, “Every year I am humbled by the dedication of the members of the WISE Prize for Education Jury and the WISE Awards Jury who take time away from their impor- tant work to devote themselves to educational advancement by Tel identifying and honouring these Fax worthy individuals and projects. “Their contributions as mem- bers of the juries reflect the highest standards of integrity, as well as our aspirations for Tel WISE in building the future of Fax education worldwide.” The WISE Prize for Education Jury is a panel of internationally distinguished Tel individuals including Julia Fax Gillard, former prime minister Qifeng, former president of and include Vicky Colbert, minister of Education, Guinea, of Australia, Chair of the Global Peking University and Member 2013 WISE Prize Laureate Chair of Forum of African Partnership for Education, Dr of the Standing Committee of and Co-Founder of Escuela Women Educationalists, Chadi Michèle Pierre-Louis, former the National People’s Congress. Nueva education model, Dr Moujaes and Partner McKinsey prime minister of Haiti and The jury, chaired by Dr Al Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Space and Company. The jury, also Tel President of the Knowledge Thani, reviews nominations by Scientist and Founder of chaired by Dr Al Thani, identi- Fax and Freedom Foundation, individuals, institutions or pri- Science Innovation Limited, fies six winners from 15 projects Androulla Vassiliou, European vate organisations pre-selected Professor Yin Cheong Cheng, shortlisted for their impact and Commissioner for Education, by the 2014 WISE Prize for Vice-President and Chair visionary works which have ben- Culture, Multilingualism and Education Committee, and Professor of Leadership and efitted learners in a great vari- Tel Youth, Dr Monique Canto chooses an outstanding indi- Change of Hong Kong Institute ety of contexts. The 2014 WISE Sperber, President, Paris vidual or a team as the winner. of Education, Dr Elizabeth King, Summit for Education will be Fax Sciences et Lettres Research The WISE Awards Jury Director of Education of World held on November 4-6. University, and Professor Zhou comprises education experts Bank, Aïcha Bah Diallo, former THE PENINSULA

Tel Fax Ashghal blamed for traffic chaos on Doha roads DOHA: Members of the Central record time, said Al Hajri, citing the exam- Education Council (SEC) should provide Municipal Council (CMC) are highly ple of changing roundabouts into traffic buses to all schools and make it mandatory critical of the Public Works Authority intersections on the Corniche Road. for every student to be ferried to school and and say the blame for traffic snarls on “They completed the projects in record back home on a bus. Doha roads should go solely to it. time after working day and night. This According to him, there are some families Tel Delays being made by Ashghal in com- shows that if Ashghal wants to do a project with three to four school-going children. Fax pleting infrastructure projects are the main in time, it can,” said Al Hajri. The problem is that they go to different reason for chaos and traffic jams on city According to CMC member, Abdullah Al schools so different cars ferry them. “This roads during peak hours, several council- Athba, infrastructure projects are launched practice must stop.” lors said. in every city across the world but it is per- Another problem is that students come Tel Besides, there is a lack of traffic man- haps Doha where such works lead to full to schools from far-off areas, he said and Fax agement and plan and there is hardly any or partial closure of roads. “Ashghal must wondered why those students cannot go to coordination between traffic authorities and change its work strategy.” schools in their areas. Ashghal, according to CMC members. Another councillor, Hamad Lahdan Al Mubarak Fraish, who represents Al www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Councillor Mohamed Al Hajri, talking Mohannadi, said the CMC had earlier asked Gharrafa in the CMC, said there are of the start of new school year on Sunday, Ashghal to set a plan whereby it is able to more schools in some areas, and a few or Tel + 974 44195000 said traffic jams after schools reopen are complete major development projects dur- no school in other areas. The geographi- Fax + 974 44195100 nothing new, and people get used to them ing the long summer break. cal distribution of schools should be made after first or second day. The problem with Ashghal is that it uniform, he added. Ashghal, he said, should adopt new strat- doesn’t actively coordinate with state agen- Councillor Ahmed Al Sheeb also laid egies to execute development projects. They cies, including the Ministry of Transport, the blame for traffic woes at the door of should do major projects during the sum- the municipalities and the Traffic Ashghal and said traffic snarls had by now mer break. Department. become part of Doha’s life. If Ashghal wants, it can finish a project in Al Mohannadi said the Supreme THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Tributes paid to slain Gaza journalists DCMF event highlights Israeli violations, vows to continue campaign for release of Aljazeera scribes in Egypt

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DOHA: A moment of silence was observed in Doha yesterday during a solidarity meeting, as a mark of respect for the journal- ists slain in the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. The meeting was hosted by Doha Center for Media Freedom (DCMF) at Katara Cultural Centre. Participants also signed a book of condolences in remembrance of the works the journalists carried out to provide information about what had been happening on the ground in Gaza. Seventeen jour- nalists were killed, and homes of Doha Center for Media Freedom officials and media persons at the solidarity event at Katara. many were targeted, in addition to other violations against mem- – we have to be firm and defend scribes and media persons razed, able to inform people, the Israelis mechanisms to pursue justice for and were putting the blame on bers of the media. the freedom of speech and opin- 16 headquarters of media organi- are breaching people’s right those imprisoned or killed, par- the governments. Among those killed was female ion,” Al Alami said, adding this sations and press offices targeted to be informed,” said Mostefa ticipants highlighted the impor- They also highlighted the case journalist Najla Mahmoud Al Haj, commitment is the objective and and destroyed, 10 TV channels Souag, Acting Director-General, tance of combating global spread of Aljazeera journalists serving whose home was bombed in Khan independence of all journalists’ and radio stations jammed and Aljazeera Media Network. of impunity and remembering seven and 10-year jail sentences Yunis in the Strip. race or religion. hacked, several Palestinian web- “We must take this opportunity fallen colleagues. in Egypt on charges of spreading Dr Abdeljalil Al Alami, “Our only commitment is to the sites hacked and five vehicles to stand with journalists, irrespec- Jaber Al Harimi, Editor-in- false news and supporting a ter- Chairman, DCMF’s executive truth,” he added. owned by journalists targeted and tive of their ethnicity, as we are Chief, Al Sharq, moderated the rorist group. committee, said the bereaved According to Al Alami, the damaged. here to support all journalists.” discussion after stressing the role Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed families have given consent to the Israeli aggressions on journalists He said the killing of journal- A short film portraying the suf- the free and truthful media play and Mohamed Fahmy have been centre to pursue legal redressal. were the most ferocious in Gaza’s ists is a violation of human rights fering of journalists while gather- in defending the needy. behind bars for more than 250 He said DCMF will spare no history. — first, the denial of the basic ing news in Gaza was screened. Participants expressed concern days, and the speakers said they efforts in bringing justice to the He said 116 violations were human right to life and, second, During a panel discussion that media companies were not will continue to work towards families. “We are against all forms recorded. Twenty-six journal- the denial of citizens’ right to be on recommendations to how to doing enough to protect their securing their release as soon as of aggression against journalists ist were wounded, 39 homes of informed. “Journalists need to be defend journalists, introduce employees working in war zones possible. THE PENINSULA

QA’s non-stop Phuket flights soon

DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) forward to exceptional levels of “A dedicated non-stop Phuket will boost services to Thailand comfort and QA’s award-winning service will help meet the growing with the introduction of non- five-star hospitality. demand the airline has for this stop flights to Phuket from QA started operations in particular destination. October 26. The airline is serv- Thailand over 14 years ago with “Europe is an extremely popu- ing the Doha-Phuket route daily non-stop flights linking Doha with lar destination for a number of via a linked service through Bangkok. It now serves the Thai Thailand-based locals as well. We the Malaysian capital Kuala capital three-time-a-day and will are pleased to be able to continue Lumpur. increase that to four-times from to offer more options to those QA Group CEO, Akbar Al December 16. looking to travel with us and enjoy Baker, said: “The start of non- QA launched daily flights from our award-winning five-star serv- stop services from Doha to Phuket Doha to Phuket via Kuala Lumpur ice,” added Al Baker. offers travellers from around the in 2010. The new non-stop service QA has seen rapid growth in 17 world access to the popular tour- will facilitate shorter travel times years of operation and is flying a ist destination in a reduced time, for the growing number of tour- modern fleet of 135 aircraft to 144 from across our expanding global ists to Phuket and for those head- key business and leisure destina- network. With the upcoming win- ing out of Thailand. tions in Europe, the Middle East, ter holidays, this is a great oppor- Europe is a particularly strong Africa, Asia Pacific, and Americas. tunity for travellers from the growth visitor market for Phuket The Doha–Phuket (HKT) daily Middle East, Europe, Africa and with the UK, Russia, Germany, flight schedule (all times local): the Americas to plan their break France and Italy among the top Departs Doha (DOH) QR840 with a beach vacation in Phuket. five feeder markets. at 0700 hrs, arrives in Phuket Visitor numbers to Phuket are This makes Doha a strate- (HKT) at 1740 hrs Al Rayyan Stadium Roundabout removed on the rise and QA will look to gic linking point for long-haul Mondays, Wednesdays and take advantage of non-stop con- trips, thanks to the opening of Sundays: Departs Phuket (HKT) DOHA: As part of its work on Saturday, making this part Al Duhailiyyat Roundabout nections to the city in the days to the world’s newest aviation hub, QR841 at 1930 hrs, arrives in Dukhan Highway – Central and of the road a freeway in both instead of Al Rayyan Stadium come,” he said. Hamad International Airport. Doha (DOH) at 2250 hrs to complete roadworks extend- directions. Roundabout. Direct flights to Phuket will be Passengers travelling from Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays ing from Al Rayyan Stadium With the elimination of the Service roads on the side of the operated with an Airbus A330 in European cities to Phuket can and Saturdays: Departs Phuket Roundabout to Al Shahaniya roundabout, road users head- main road are completely open to a two class-configuration of 24 relax, unwind and freshen up in (HKT) QR841 at 1905 hrs, arrives Interchange, the Public Works ing towards Al Shahaniya traffic in both directions as shown seats in Business Class and 236 the modern world-class facility in Doha (DOH) at 2225 hrs Authority — Ashghal — elimi- Interchange who wish to take in the map. in Economy. Passengers can look before they connect to Phuket. THE PENINSULA nated the roundabout on a U-turn will need to use THE PENINSULA Summer Career Camp ‘successful’ Absenteeism ‘a major issue before DOHA: Qatar Career Fair (QCF), a member of Projects and Facilities Management. Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Highlighting the significance of the camp, and after vacation’ Community Development (QF), concluded its Telefat said: “QF continues to support the second Summer Career Camp with outstanding youth through its initiatives to help them move Continued from page 1 success at QF Recreation Centre in Education towards a prosperous future with foundations Another operator, who City last week. in science and knowledge. reported a similar attendance Over the course of a fortnight, dozens of high “The youth of today are tomorrow’s leaders, rate in his school, said the school school students visited the camp to learn skills who will inherit the responsibility of continu- had sent a written notice con- which will allow them to make informed decisions ing the growth and development of the Qatari taining details of the new policy about their academic and professional futures. economy. The camp has enabled them to gain to all parents to be signed by At the closing ceremony on Thursday, students awareness about career paths best suited to them to make sure they were were awarded certificates and congratulated by them to ensure that each and every young informed about the decision and Guest of Honour Engineer Jassim Telefat, Group national will follow a path that will contribute agreed to comply with it. Executive Director, Qatar Foundation Capital to the success of a post-carbon economy.” “We had a very good attend- In addition to career-orientation workshops, ance rate on the first day, about held at the centre, the camp included visits 80 percent. This was made pos- organisations across Qatar, including Aljazeera, sible through our direct contact Qatar Petrochemical Company, Sidra Medical with parents. We sent a letter to and Research Centre, Qatar Gas, Weill Cornell all parents before the opening of Medical College and Qatar National Bank. the school,” said the operator of Students were given the opportunity to gain a boys’ school. first-hand insight into the world of work. Some elementary schools, Rima Toufeily, Talent Acquisition Manager, however, reported a relatively Qatar Airways, one of the companies par- low attendance level — between ticipating in the ‘Student Career Gathering’ 50 and 60 percent. event during the closing ceremony, said: “QF “If we are not strict in imple- is considered a major employment channel for menting the decision from the us as an organisation because of the calibre of very first day, then it would its graduates. An event such as this has been become difficult to implement beneficial for recruitment to our scholarship it ever. Absenteeism is a major programmes.” issue we have been facing, espe- Abdulla Al Mansoori, Director, QCF, said: cially on the days before the “Our camp is part of QCF’s mission to provide vacation and immediately after the youth with opportunities that will allow the opening of the school,” said them to gain practical knowledge and skills another official. relevant to the Qatari labour market. We are Several students also said working on the development and renewal of our that they are taking the decision initiatives to ensure the best possible career seriously. assistance to the youth.” “Preventing from examination Students were also given the opportunity to is a big punishment. However, we take the ‘Tamheed’ psychometric test, provided have to comply with it so as not by the Bedaya Centre for Entrepreneurship and to lose our career,” said a student. Career Development. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Qatar renews support Qapco backs Delni initiative again for Tunisia DOHA: The Deputy Premier Ministry’s campaign targets youth with focus on role and responsibilities of parents, teachers and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin DOHA: As a responsible corporate youth and offering them tools and means Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud citizen, Qatar Petrochemical Company to reach their aspirations. yesterday participated in the (Qapco) Q.S.C. aims to further engage “We are delighted to support again Delni ‘Invest in Tunisia, Start-up and contribute to Qatar’s development as its benefits are evident: Empowering Democracy’ international con- through initiatives and community out- the youth and offering them professional ference in Tunis, along with reach programmes that make a differ- guidance to assist them in making asserted delegations from over 30 coun- ence to society. choices that can positively impact their tries and 20 financial and eco- Qapco is proud to sponsor for the second lives and society in general.” nomic institutions. year in a row the Delni initiative, a national Al Kuwari said the objective of Delni Addressing the conference, Al awareness campaign targeting the youth, is to target teenagers and their parents Mahmoud stressed Qatar’s com- spearheaded by the Ministry of Labour and by familiarising them with the notion of mitment, under the leadership of Social Affairs. responsibility, and encouraging them to be the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin The sponsorship was announced yes- responsible for their actions to avoid poten- Hamad Al Thani to support and terday during a signing ceremony in the tially negative behaviours and practices. stand with Tunisia. presence of Issa Khalifa Al Kuwari from Delni will also focus on the importance “The proper democratic the ministry, the director of Delni, and of education, the preservation of culture approach adopted by Tunisia Dr Mohammed Youssef Al Mulla, Vice- and traditions, while supporting parents in steadily and confidently requires Chairman and CEO, Qapco. developing their parenting skills and offer- support regionally and interna- Delni means ‘Guide Me’ in Arabic. ing them guidance. tionally, especially in the demo- In its third edition, it targets the youth Training courses will be offered by social cratic field, which is the backbone and focuses this year on the role and the specialists and psychologists and imple- of the establishment of genuine responsibility of parents and teachers. mented in schools by teachers, ensuring democracy and the welfare of the By caring for their children and being a global approach beneficial for society at people.” dedicated to students, parents and teach- large. Al Mahmoud said Qatar was ers plays a tremendous role in the life of Qapco has developed focused commu- seeking to provide all it could teenagers, as they are seen an inspiration, nity engagement programmes as part of to support this path by grant- influencers, educators and role models. its corporate social responsibility strat- ing loans and deposits focusing Delni will focus on the group to highlight egy, highlighting its ongoing commitment on investments in various fields, the importance of responsibility among to support Qatar’s social and cultural notably social, housing and the children and teenagers through events, Officials at the sponsorship signing ceremony. development. creation of Qatar Friendship workshops and training sessions for the The company’s community engagement Fund with $79m to finance community, in cooperation with schools. activities support initiatives that align with Tunisian projects for youth Delni that was launched in 2013 and from the alignment of our strategy with believe that contributing to Qatari soci- Qatar’s national objectives and target the and diversify its investments in reached out to over 41,000 students and Qatar National Vision 2030. Every day, ety and serving our country is part of our young generation. Making a difference is Tunisia, including banking and 77 schools. our focus is on ensuring we participate in licence to operate. It is our role to invest in the key driver of Qapco’s CSR strategy. communications services. Dr Al Mulla said, “We draw strength translating the vision into a reality. We the future of our country by supporting the THE PENINSULA He highlighted the impor- tance of the success of Tunisia democratic path and its effort to boost the economy, which is a key pillar in this transition, and said: “The success of Tunisia is a IUME completes first renewable energy internship programme success for us.” He also stressed Qatar’s readiness to implement all that have been agreed upon dur- DOHA: Innovations Unlimited (CNAQ)”. The programme pre- I am very enthusiastic about its ing the meeting and said Qatar ME (IUME), the company sented students with theoretical, potential and Kopernik is giving will continue implementation of behind some of Qatar’s major practical and onsite opportuni- me the opportunity to work with investment projects in the coun- solar energy project implemen- ties that culminated in a project a team that is delivering the very try. He hoped that the conference tations, has completed the first assignment to conclude intern- early projects in my country.” would contribute to advancing the edition of Kopernik, a renewable ship with factual takeaways in Being the first programme of Tunisian economy, which pos- energy internship programme real-life application. its kind in Qatar and likely in sesses all potentials of success. for electrical engineering stu- Students have shadowed men- the region, Kopernik is set to dents in Qatar to help them tors at IUME, spending time in stir the interest of students in 17 illegal street capitalise on the opportunity of the office and on site, getting technologies that promise to play hands-on training. introduced to facets that struc- a major role in the future energy vendors arrested With its diversified range ture a renewable energy business scene of the oil-rich countries in of projects being implemented in Qatar. From understanding the Gulf. It plays an important DOHA: The Doha Municipality’s this year and counting among local and regional drivers, tar- role in pacing the educational General Monitoring Unit, in the early sustainable installa- gets and strategies, drilling into curriculum of participating col- collaboration with the Cleaning tions in Qatar, IUME introduced feasible technologies, designing leges, by equipping interns with Department and Lekhwiya, Kopernik to deliver on its com- system applications, observing intelligence around the reality conducted an inspection drive mitment towards knowledge project progress, and conducting of requirements and implemen- yesterday and caught 17 illegal transfer and fostering local skills site inspections, students were tations on the ground, steering An IUME official with two of the interns. vendors from street No. 34 and development. involved in the full spectrum of a subjects that need to be covered 47 in Industrial Area. Amr Belal, Managing Partner, project implementation, a unique in the next phases of their college Officials also confiscated and IUME, said, “Kopernik aims to opportunity in a nascent industry. education. meticulously prepared and reflec- of the winners later this month.” destroyed goods being sold by the contribute to the creation of a Intern Rehab said, “It’s a valu- Amr and his team were tive of the wealth of information Through Kopernik, IUME vendors. qualified local workforce that able opportunity, we don’t often impressed with the level of detail they gathered throughout their strives to inspire young engi- They said that the drive to nab derives its knowledge from local get the chance to visit construc- interns have applied to their end- training. Internship certificates neers to become clean energy illegal vendors will continue. The projects, putting to practical use tion sites during our college years; of-training presentation. awarded to them. experts Qatar will count on to department said goods sold by the learning from local data under with Kopernik, we can observe “We wanted students to simu- “Kopernik has been shortlisted turn its vision into reality. The the vendors were from unknown local conditions. We are proud closely the work on site chaper- late a real-life example, so we gave for the Construction Week Qatar programme is an yearly engage- sources and of substandard of the first students who have oned by project managers.” them a list of optional projects” Awards 2014 as an eligible sus- ment in which top students with quality, posing threat to buyers’ enrolled in our programme this And intern Mohammed said, says Diala Khairallah, Marketing tainable initiative of the year; we interests in renewable energies health. summer from Qatar University “Renewable energy is increasingly Manager, IUME. are proud of this recognition and compete for their spot. THE PENINSULA/QNA and College of the North Atlantic under the spotlight in the region, “Their sample proposals were anticipating the announcement THE PENINSULA GMC launches all-new 2015 Yukon DOHA: GMC has celebrated the launch of the 2015 new Yukon, one of the most antici- pated new arrivals in Doha, with the first shipment of vehicles reserved by custom- ers and a waiting list form- ing subsequent shipments, according to Mannai Auto Group. Bader Al Houssami, Regional Manager, GM Middle East Operations, said, “The all-new 2015 Yukon was engineered from the ground up, building on a strong legacy of capability to take them to the top of the seg- ment with exceptional refine- ment and purposeful technology. “And when it comes to the tasks people rely on a full-size SUV, they do it better than ever — and with more style,” he Bader Al Houssami (fourth right), Regional Manager, GM Middle East Operations, and Khalid Al Mannai, (fifth added. right), Executive Director, Mannai Corporation, with other officials during the launch of GMC Yukon 2015 Mohammed Helmy, Group model at GMC showroom in Doha yesterday. ABDUL BASIT General Manager, Mannai Auto, said: “Over the years, custom- Technology advances include almost twice the cargo room and rear automatic braking, ers’ preferences have changed new safety and security tech- behind the third-row seat. and GM’s safety alert seat. It and with generational and tech- nologies to support the Yukon’s The Yukon line-up incorpo- offers directional vibrations to nological changes, GMC has greater capabilities, while a rates a forward radar system alert the driver about potential evolved its line-up to meet these more comprehensive list of and the segment’s only front crash threats. demands.” standard features and enhanced seat centre-mounted air bag, The all-new exteriors are The Yukon sports a new infotainment options broadens engineered to provide additional sleeker and more aerodynamic, design and advanced technol- the appeal of one of the most- protection to drivers and front enhancing efficiency on the ogy, including a new family of popular full-size SUV line-ups. passengers in far-side impact highway and contributing to the advanced EcoTec3 engines, Yukon and Yukon XL share crashes. new Yukon’s quiet ride. Styling expected to deliver the seg- design, architecture and power Standard and available safety cues include detailed, chrome- ment’s best V-8 performance train elements, but Yukon XL features, depending on the accented grilles matched with and fuel economy. has about 14-inch (355.6mm) model, include forward colli- GMC’s signature C-shaped LED Combined with bold new styl- longer wheelbase and is about sion alert, front park assist, lane lighting motif. Projector-beam ing and advanced technologies, 20-inch (508mm) longer overall. departure warning, lane change headlamps are standard on the Yukon is one of the best all- This provides greater legroom assist, rear cross traffic alert, Yukon and Yukon XL. new family SUVs in the market. for third-row passengers and adaptive cruise control, front THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Saudi jails six IS using children as bombers: UN for going Militants creating ‘house of blood’ in Iraq and Syria, says new human rights chief abroad to fight RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s UNITED NATIONS: Islamic the position, urged world powers Specialised Criminal Court fighters in Iraq have killed hun- to protect women and minorities jailed six people for up to six dreds of children including in targeted by Islamic State mili- years for security offences summary executions and used tants in Iraq and Syria. He called including travelling abroad to some as suicide bombers, the for the international community fight, adopting militant ide- top UN envoy on children and to focus on ending the “increas- ology and “breaking obedi- armed conflict said yesterday. ingly conjoined” conflict in the ence to the ruler”, state media “Up to 700 children have been two countries. said. The kingdom imprisoned killed or maimed in Iraq since the The Geneva-based UN Human dozens of people last month beginning of the year, including Rights Council last week agreed in security trials amid fears in summary executions,” Leila to send a team to investigate kill- that the conflicts in Iraq and Zerrougui told the UN Security ings and other abuses carried out Syria will radicalise a new Council. Zerrougui said Islamic by the group on “an unimagina- generation of young Saudis. State (IS) fighters were recruit- ble scale”. Zeid, Jordan’s former The six sentenced on Sunday ing boys as young as 13 to carry UN ambassador and a Jordanian were also banned from trav- weapons, guard strategic loca- prince, described Islamic State in elling for fixed periods after tions and arrest civilians. his maiden speech to the Council their release. In February, The “Other children are used as sui- as “takfiris” — hardline Sunni Custodian of the Two Holy cide bombers,” she added. militants who justify killing oth- Mosques King Abdullah bin Militias allied to the Iraqi ers by branding them apostates. Abdulaziz Al Saud decreed government are also using chil- “Do they believe they are act- prison terms of three to 20 dren to combat the jihadists and ing courageously? Barbarically years for travelling abroad to “numerous children” detained slaughtering captives? ... They fight and of five to 30 years for by the government went missing reveal only what a Takfiri state giving moral or material sup- after militias stormed the prisons would look like, should this move- port to banned groups that the in July, she added. ment actually try to govern in the government has designated World governments and the future, said Zeid who succeeds as extremist. These include United Nations have repeatedly Navi Pillay in the Geneva hots- Al Qaeda, Islamic State, accused Islamic State fighters of eat. “It would be a harsh, mean- Nusra Front, the Muslim atrocities since they overran large spirited, house of blood, where no Brotherhood, Hezbollah and swathes of Iraq and Syria in June. shade would be offered, nor shel- Yemen’s Houthi movement. New UN High Commissioner ter given, to any non-Takfiri in Newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jordan’s Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein (right) Officials say there are more of Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al their midst,” Zeid added. before his speech at the Human Rights Council at the United Nations Europeans headquarters in Geneva yesterday. than 2,500 Saudis now outside Hussein, said in Geneva earlier He called on Iraq’s new gov- the country who are believed that the Islamic militants were ernment and prime minister to committed there. “In particular, are at risk of forcible recruit- to lead a normal life free of illegal to be working with militant creating a “house of blood” in the consider joining the International dedicated efforts are urgently ment and sexual violence — and settlements and what he called organisations. zones that they control. Criminal Court (ICC) to ensure needed to protect religious and women, who have been the targets excessive use of force. “On this Zeid, the first Muslim to hold accountability for crimes ethnic groups, children — who of severe restrictions,” Zeid said. point, I also note that Israelis The ambassadors of Iraq and have a right to live free and secure UAE tries 15 Syria, in separate speeches, called from indiscriminate rocket fire,” for combating “terrorist groups” he said, referring to rockets fired Islamists Jihadists using US arms in Syria: Study in their homelands and for halting by militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza. the flow of weapons and funds to Israel’s deputy ambassador ABU DHABI: The trial LONDON: Islamic State (IS) jihadists appear the 1980s. In neighbouring Iraq, IS jihadists seized Islamist militants. “Terrorists must Omer Caspi chastised the Council began in the UAE yesterday to be using captured US military issue arms significant quantities of US equipment from the not be armed, the source of financ- for not naming Hamas as “the of 15 Islamists charged with and weapons supplied to moderate rebels in Iraqi army when soldiers abandoned positions in ing must be stopped. Infiltration perpetrator of war crimes” in a joining and financing Syria’s Syria by Saudi Arabia, according to a study northern areas when faced with a militant offen- of terrorists from abroad must be resolution that set up an inquiry Al-Qaeda franchise and a published yesterday. sive in June. stopped,” said Syria’s new envoy last month on the latest war. rebel group there, the offi- The study by the London-based small-arms The group captured a number of American-made Hussam Edin Aala. The accusations came ahead cial WAM news agency said. research organisation Conflict Armament Humvee armoured vehicles, which are now being The Council has an independ- of a UN summit to be hosted by Eleven of the defendants, Research documented weapons seized by Kurdish targeted in US air strikes, and has reportedly used ent investigation into war crimes US President Barack Obama on whose nationalities were not forces from militants in Iraq and Syria over a them in suicide bombings against Iraqi forces on at by all sides in Syria, where more September 25 on the threat of disclosed, appeared at a first 10-day period in July. least two occasions. than 190,000 documented killings foreign fighters seen as fuelling hearing before the Federal The report said the jihadists disposed of “signifi- The United States spent billions of dollars train- have occurred during the con- the fighting in Iraq and Syria. Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi, cant quantities” of US-made small arms including ing and arming the security forces over a period of flict that began in March 2011, The UN Security Council last WAM said. It was unclear why M-16 assault rifles and included photos showing years, and both American and Iraqi officials repeat- according to a report by Pillay month adopted a resolution that the remaining four were not the markings “Property of US Govt”. edly said they were ready to maintain internal secu- last month. seeks to choke off funding and in court. The 15 are accused of It also found that anti-tank rockets used by IS in rity after US troops departed at the end of 2011. Zeid called for an end to Israel’s the flow of foreign fighters to “joining and collecting funds Syria were “identical to M79 rockets transferred by Islamic State is also believed to have seized large seven-year blockade of the Gaza the Islamists, and warns that the for two terrorist groups abroad Saudi Arabia to forces operating under the (rebel) quantities of weapons from Syrian military instal- Strip and said Palestinians in string of atrocities may constitute — Al Nusra Front and Ahrar Free Syrian Army umbrella in 2013”. lations it has captured, including warplanes. Gaza and the West Bank deserved crimes against humanity. AFP Al Sham” which are fight- The rockets were made in the then Yugoslavia in AFP ing against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s regime. Al Nusra is Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, while Ahrar Al Sham is a powerful Islamist rebel Khamenei has successful group. The defendants are also charged with manufacturing explosives, WAM reported. The next hearing will be on prostate operation September 23, it added. UN Syria envoy to ANKARA: Iran’s top authority Supreme substantial influence over the executive, leg- Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has suc- islative and judicial branches of government visit Damascus cessfully undergone prostate surgery, as well as the military and media. Some feel Iranian state television said yesterday in a his departure could expose rivalries in the UNITED NATIONS: UN rare public report on the state of his health. Islamic Republic. envoy for Syria Staffan de Khamenei, 75, told state television ahead “It would deepen the ongoing political Mistura will begin his first of the surgery that “There is no reason to infighting between various political camps visit to Damascus today to worry. Of course this does not mean that I in Iran. And obviously there is the danger of try to kick-start peace talks don’t need people’s prayers”. State television the Revolutionary Guards, which will want that have twice foundered said later the operation was successful. to cement their power by supporting a more under the United Nations. “The operation took place without anaes- radical candidate, succeeding Khamenei,” De Mistura will travel thetic at a state hospital. The leader will stay said a Tehran-based analyst. “Khamenei is with Deputy Envoy Ramzy at the hospital for a few days to recover like the force behind the establishment. Without Ezzedine Ramzy for the first all other identical cases,” said the head of him, the system will collapse.” round of meetings with Syrian Khamenei’s medical team Alireza Marandi. Khamenei has repeatedly denounced the officials, a UN statement said. In 1989, Khamenei succeeded the origi- West, particularly the United States, over its The Syrian Al Watan newspa- nal Supreme Leader and founder of the actions against Iran’s disputed nuclear pro- per, which is close to the gov- Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah grammes and its broader Middle Eastern ernment, reported that the Khomeini. He was Iran’s president for two policy. But Khamenei has so far supported the envoys will hold three days of A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successive terms from 1981-1989. In 1981, talks between Iran and the six world powers on talks on “prospects for a solu- shows former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) visiting him at a hospital in Tehran Khamenei survived an assassination attempt the nuclear programme, which Western coun- tion” to the conflict that has that paralysed his right arm. tries suspect is aimed at seeking the capability raged since March 2011. yesterday, after a prostate operation. Khamenei has constitutional authority or to build a nuclear bomb. REUTERS AGENCIES Somali Islamists bomb two convoys, killing 12

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Islamist rebel group bombed African peacekeepers and government vehicles yesterday in twin attacks that left at least 12 civilians dead, marking Al Shabab’s first major attack since promising revenge for the killing of its leader last week. The blasts within an hour of each other on the same road southwest of Mogadishu targeted a convoy of African Union (AU) troops and a Somali government convoy of police and national security forces. Civilian buses near the first blast were hit. “We are behind the two car bombs driven by mujahideen (fighters),” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, spokesman for Al Shabab’s military operations, said. The attacks were a reminder that Al Shabab remains a potent threat capable of launching major attacks, even after losing its leader Ahmed Godane Somali government soldiers stand near the wreckage after a suicide car bomb explosion targeting in a US strike last week. peacekeeping troops in a convoy outside Mogadishu yesterday. REUTERS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Israel and New Palestinian in-fighting flares Zealand in spat over new Hamas-Fatah face-off scuppers polls ambassador GAZA CITY: The war with Gaza-based political analyst Israel may be over, but now the Talal Awkel said: “We’re now seeing JERUSALEM: Israel is refus- fight is turning inward with bit- a war of words and mutual accu- ing to accept the credentials of ter rivalry between Fatah and sations being exchanged between New Zealand’s new ambassador Hamas threatening to shatter Fatah and Hamas.” The latest face- because he was also appointed a fragile Palestinian unity deal. off has likely scuppered elections as his country’s representative In the latest spat between the that were supposed to take place to the Palestinian Authority, an factions, President Mahmoud by the end of the year, under the official said yesterday. Abbas accused Hamas of running terms of the April agreement. Foreign ministry spokesman a “shadow government” in Gaza, In a statement last week, Fatah Emmanuel Nahshon said the prompting the Islamist move- accused Hamas of placing 300 of decision to prevent Jonathan ment to accuse him of trying to its members in Gaza under house Curr from taking up the post “destroy” the unity agreement arrest during the seven-week came after Israel discovered he they signed in April. conflict, and wounding dozens was also to present a “letter of The deal ended seven years who dared challenge it. It also introduction” to the PA. of rival Palestinian administra- accused the Islamist movement New Zealand does not recognise tions — with Abbas’s Fatah party of “stealing” aid bound for ordi- Palestine as a state and so instead which dominates the Palestinian nary people in Gaza in order to of credentials its ambassador sub- Authority, ruling the West Bank, “distribute it to its supporters or mits a letter of introduction. and Hamas’s own government sell it on the black market”. Curr had been due to present ruling Gaza. Under the deal, the Hamas dismissed the statement his credentials to Israeli President two sides agreed on the formation as a smear campaign organised Reuven Rivlin later this week. of a national consensus govern- by a movement whose popular- Palestinians sit outside their makeshift shelter near the ruins of their house, which witnesses said was destroyed “The story has nothing to do ment of technocrats which took ity in the West Bank has slumped during the Israeli offensive, in Al Mughraga village, south of Gaza City, yesterday. with New Zealand, it’s a rule of office on June 2. since the war. A recent opinion protocol that has been in place for But after just over a month poll found that if a presidential Abbas is hoping to secure a UN Authority must change their atti- up to the unity deal, Hamas was years,” Nahshon said. in office, everything was put on election were held now, Hamas’s Security Council resolution calling tude and come back into the arms so broke that it could not even pay “An ambassador accredited to hold as Israel and Hamas fought a former premier Ismail Haniyah for an end to the Israeli occupation of their people, instead of the its own 45,000 employees. Israel cannot be the same person deadly 50-day war in and around would easily win, taking 61 per- within three years. In the likely arms of the occupation,” Hamas Israel’s eight-year blockade of to hand a letter of introduction Gaza. Throughout the conflict, cent of the votes compared with event of a US veto, officials say said last week. And it denounced the territory, compounded by an to the Palestinian Authority,” Hamas and Fatah put up a united 32 percent for Abbas. Abbas will consider fast-tracking a ban on demonstrations and a Egyptian lockdown on its south- he said. “If such a situation had front, working side-by-side in During the fighting, Hamas an application to become party to wave of arrests in the West Bank, ern border, has sparked a major existed in the past, we were not indirect truce talks with Israel in was seen as the only Palestinian the International Criminal Court that has seen hundreds of its economic crisis. A dispute over aware of it.” Cairo, which resulted in an open- force willing to stand up to Israel, with a view to possible prosecution members detained. who should pay Hamas employ- Curr is New Zealand’s ambas- ended ceasefire that took effect on squaring up to its military might of Israel over its actions in Gaza The Gaza war was a chance ees after Haniyah’s government sador to Turkey and is based August 26. and firing rockets on Tel Aviv and and the West Bank. for Hamas to show through its stood down in June proved to be there, as Ankara does not have But any illusion of harmony Jerusalem. Fatah, by comparison, But such a diplomatic initiative military prowess that it was still the first crack in the unity deal. an embassy in Israel, Haaretz has quickly evaporated. “Hamas has been associated with the West is unlikely to offset the political relevant, Awkel said, following Fights broke out at banks after newspaper said. Nahshon said he has taken us back to square one, Bank forces who engage in secu- gains chalked up by Hamas dur- charges it had signed the recon- the Palestinian Authority’s Gaza- was confident a solution to the to the days of division,” a Fatah rity cooperation with Israel. ing the war. “After the victory in ciliation deal “from a position of based staff were paid but Hamas problem could be found. official based in Gaza said. In order to redress the balance, Gaza, the forces of the Palestinian weakness”. In the months leading employees were not. AFP AFP

Iraq Parliament okays govt headed by Abadi Ebola: No Saudi ban for

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi parliament approved a new government headed by Nigerians going on Haj Haider Al Abadi as prime minister last night. DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, which has development, as saying there was No interior or defence minister was barred pilgrims from Sierra Leone, no need to worry about Nigerians named but Abadi pledged to do so within a Liberia and Guinea from perform- coming on pilgrimage. “We have not week. Adel Abdel Mehdi from the Islamic ing Haj due to Ebola concerns, stopped issuing Haj visas to Nigerians Supreme Council of Iraq was named oil will allow Nigerians to attend, an and we know that about 70,000 pil- minister while Ibrahim Jafaari, a former official was reported yesterday as grims come from the African country premier, was named foreign minister. saying, suggesting the smaller out- every year,” he was quoted as saying. The outgoing government has faced break there was less worrying. “The WHO knows the situation in criticism that by alienating the Sunni Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone Mina and Arafat during the Haj season Arab minority, it helped create conditions have been worst hit by an outbreak and there is no need to worry about that revitalised Sunni militants including of the disease in West Africa, with a a few Ebola cases that have occurred the Islamic State (IS) group. Washington combined death toll in those three in Nigeria,” he said. “We have taken and the United Nations have repeatedly countries since March put at of 2,097, precautionary measures to prevent an called on Abadi to form a broad-based the World Health Organisation says. Ebola outbreak in the Kingdom during government. A further eight people have died in the Haj season,” Al Khasheem said. The key parliament session opened with Nigeria, out of 23 cases, and there has “We have made early preparations for Speaker Salim Al Juburi struggling to main- been one confirmed case in Senegal. the annual pilgrimage,” he said. tain order among shouting MPs who were There are no approved Ebola vac- He said the ministry’s department sometimes reluctant to remain seated. cines or treatments. for preventive medicine is in constant The issue of Kurdish participation in the This year’s Haj will take place contact with the WHO on the lat- government was a major potential stick- in October. The Arab News quoted est developments on Ebola and other ing point, and their delegation flew from Mohammed Al Khasheem, deputy infectious diseases. Baghdad to the city of Sulaimaniyah in health minister for planning and REUTERS Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region yester- A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter moves into position while firing into Baretle village (background), day to discuss the issue with senior political which is controlled by the Islamic State, in Khazir, on the edge of Mosul, yesterday. The Kurdish leaders. US Deputy Secretary of State for fighters are firing from an area they had retaken from the Islamic State, on Bashiqah mountain. Near Eastern Affairs Brett McGurk and UN Iraq envoy Nickolay Mladenov also over various long-running disputes on issues of efforts to build an international coali- attended the meeting. including territory and the division of Iraq’s tion to counter the IS militants. A State In remarks to parliament outlining his vast oil and gas resources, as well as federal Department spokeswoman said that more proposed programme, Abadi said that “my budget payments to the region. than 40 countries have already indicated a government is committed to solve all sus- Meanwhile, Secretary of State John willingness to help out in some way against pended issues with the Kurdistan Regional Kerry was to leave the United States on the jihadists. Government”. The two sides are at odds a trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia as part REUTERS/AFP

Yemen police Libya militia attacks amount head sacked to war crimes, says HRW SANA’A: Yemen yesterday sacked the TRIPOLI: Libya militias which fought government officials and ordinary citizens chief of its police special forces, a day a fierce five-week battle for control of suspected of siding with the nationalist after violent clashes as they tried in vain Tripoli’s international airport committed forces, said HRW. to disperse a Shia rebel sit-in blocking the “war crimes” against civilians, Human Prime Minister Abdullah Al Thinni has road to Sana’a airport. Rights Watch said yesterday. accused Libya Dawn fighters of ransacking As thousands of Shia Houthis stepped The UN mission in Libya, UNSMIL, last and torching his home in southern Tripoli as up their protest action, General Fadl Al week reported grave human rights viola- well as the residence of Transport Minister Qawsi was replaced by General Mohammed tions during the clashes between mostly Abdelkader Mohamed Ahmed. Al Ghadra, an official close to the interior Islamist fighters and a nationalist militia. “All warring parties, as well as the Libyan ministry said, without disclosing the reason. On August 22, Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn), a government, should respect their obligation Houthi rebels, also known as Ansarullah, mainly Islamist alliance, seized Tripoli air- to protect civilians at all times and to hold said a demonstrator was shot dead and port from the nationalists. Three days later, their forces accountable when they commit around 40 others were wounded in Sunday’s Libya’s embattled government said Tripoli crimes,” said HRW’s Sarah Leah Whitson. clashes with police special forces, who had was in the hands of armed militias. The United Nations estimates that the hurled tear gas canisters and deployed “Libyan militia forces battling for con- Tripoli fighting has displaced at least 100,000 water cannon. trol of Tripoli and surrounding areas have people, and another 150,000 have fled the The special forces unit, known previously engaged in attacks on civilians and civilian country, including many migrant workers. as the central security force, was loyal to property that in some cases amount to war Meanwhile, in Washington, a US judge former president Ali Abdullah Saleh who crimes,” said Human Rights Watch. ordered a delay in the trial of Abu Khatallah, stepped down in February 2012 following “The militias have seized people and accused of being the ringleader of a 2012 a year of often deadly protests against his looted, burned, and otherwise destroyed attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed the US autocratic rule. property,” said the New York-based HRW. ambassador and three other Americans. The Houthi rebels have been pushing for The watchdog said it documented attacks In a brief ruling, US District Judge the government’s resignation, accusing it by both sides but that since Libya Dawn Christopher Cooper granted a motion waiv- of corruption. They also demand greater seized the airport, “its forces have commit- ing Khatallah’s right to a speedy trial, delay- powers within state institutions. ted further violations.” ing until October 20 a hearing that had been AFP They included attacks on journalists, scheduled for today. AGENCIES TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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etro Oleksiyovych Poroshenkowasbeaming on his visit to the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol yesterday. The stately Ukrainian president Ppaid the solidarity visit amid a shaky four-day-old ceasefire,which hinges on how deftly Russia controls the rebels West widens contacts with in the east of the industrial heartland. Poroshenko’s tweets were revealing. He said Mariupol is Ukrainian and nobody will be able to snatch it from Ukraine. Meanwhile, sporadic rebel attacks continued on the outskirts of the city, underscoring Syria’s Kurds amid suspicion the complexity of the peace process. In military fatigues, Poroshenko looked more like a military BY TOM PERRY Turkish side of the border. And pro- Kurds live in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and general than a chocolate-baron turned president of Ukraine. Western Syrian opposition groups Syria, and many have long dreamed of Happiness almost dripping from his voice, he declared that HE FIGHT against Islamic accuse the PYD of having cooperated a state of their own. The closest they Russia-backed rebels freed 1,200 Ukrainian captives during State could at last win with Assad’s government to take control have come is in Iraq, where they rule the ceasefire. That it is challenging to hold the truce in Syria’s Kurds the Western of territory in 2012, which the Kurds an autonomous region that has managed battle-scarred Ukraine was underlined by the Swiss president help they have sought, but deny. to assuage concern from its neighbours they must first clarify their Since Islamic State overran the Iraqi and win support from the West. yesterday who termed the ceasefire shaky. Platitudes of peace Trelationship to President Bashar al- city of Mosul in June, the PYD has been Germany, Britain, France and Italy by Poroshenko notwithstanding, the fragile peace in the Assad and reassure Turkey that they offered a chance to address both issues have all said they will arm Iraqi Kurdish eastern part of the country is hard to maintain. The Moscow- won’t cause trouble on its border. in a flurry of contacts with foreign security forces fighting Islamic State. backed rebels enjoy considerable support on the ground and The United States has entered the officials, including some from “major The Kurds in Syria have received their vise-like grip on the region seems to be getting stronger. war against Islamic State fighters in powers”, said Khaled Eissa, PYD rep- no such help in crucial battles against Yesterday, rebel leaders in Donetsk held a ceremony to mark Iraq with air strikes, but is still trying to resentative in France. He declined to Islamic State fighters, whose arsenals decide a strategy for fighting the group identify the countries involved, citing have become far more potent since June its defence from the Nazis during the Second World War. on the other side of the frontier in Syria. diplomatic protocol. with weapons seized from the Iraqi and Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea set the pace for In Iraq, Kurds are one of the main “They have given us signals that their Syrian militaries. the eastern part of Ukraine flaring up in an insurgency some Western allies against Islamic State. position towards us is changing. But in In July, the YPG fought off a major during the time said could be But in Syria, where Kurdish militia my analysis — based on the contacts I Islamic State attack on Kobani, a The frail suppressed. However, it was not to have carved out a swathe of northern mentioned — there are still obstacles,” Kurdish city also known as Ain Al Arab be. The insurgency in the east has territory and Eissa said by phone. that is important because of its location ceasefire in repeatedly battled “They know the YPG are the most on the Turkish border. Kurdish fighters been growing stronger, emboldened against Islamic effective force against (Islamic State). crossed into Syria from Turkey to help eastern Ukraine by unwavering support from the State during a They want more assurances for the in the fight. offers a brief Kremlin in terms of weapons and three-and-a-half Turkish side,” he said. “Nato states Ocalan Iso, a Kurdish military com- policy, and tethering to Russian- Kurds live in year civil war, allied to Turkey must reassure it and mander in Kobani, says YPG fighters respite to speaking locals who see their Kurds have yet make it understand that Islamic State’s are now taking the fight to Islamic State Turkey, Iran, to win the West’s existence is also a danger to Turkey in nearby areas used as operational future in Russia, a much bigger Kiev, though acceptance as and that the PYD does not wish ill on bases by the Islamists. and blatant power, which has kept Iraq and Syria, the likelihood partners. anyone.” The YPG has also been battling the heat on the West despite being and many have The main The foreign contacts increased last Islamic State at the Iraqi border. It of a festering walloped by crippling sanctions. Kurdish political month when Islamic State fighters in says 35 of its fighters were killed in a insurgency The problem of Ukraine is not long dreamed party in Syria, Iraq besieged thousands of members of two-week battle for control of the vil- that it finds itself overpowered by the PYD, and its the ancient minority Yazidi sect atop a lage of Jazaa at the frontier. The YPG ahead remains. of a state of armed wing, the desert mountain, which U.S. President says it has killed hundreds of Islamic Russia’s hegemonic designs. The YPG, say they are Barack Obama described as a potential State fighters. Slavic nation has been hollowed their own. The obvious allies for genocide. Syrian Kurds worry that if Islamic out by the corrupt regime of closest they have Western states YPG fighters crossed into Iraq to help State fighters are driven from Iraq they Viktor Yanukovich, who was thrown out of power in February. as the only force evacuate the Yazidis. That role improved will become an even bigger threat in A politically and economically emaciated Ukraine has become come is in Iraq, with a proven the PYD’s image, a Western official said. Syria. “It won’t be enough to bomb their susceptible to insurgency supported by the muscle of Russia. track record of “I don’t anticipate a major change of positions in Iraq. If Obama or America where they rule combating Islamic policy, but I do anticipate greater dia- bombs their positions in Syria, there Ukraine’s weaknesses, which make it vulnerable to outside State there. The logue with the PYD.” must be coordination with the Kurdish attacks on its sovereignty, have been of its own making over an autonomous Kurds are dis- Redur Xelil, YPG spokesman, said forces,” Iso said. the years. It is for this reason that even a tough leader like region. missive of the the group had met U.S. military offi- He estimated the size of the YPG at Poroshenko is finding it hard to turn the tide. moderate Syrian cials on the mountain, Mount Sinjar, to 50,000 fighters. The West has been providing sustained support to Kiev opposition that discuss the Yazidi evacuation. But apart It is not yet clear what the United has been backed from that, there had been no contacts States will do about Islamic State’s against the cross-border machinations of Putin. However, it is by the West but outgunned by Islamist between the armed group and the West, foothold in Syria, where US decision- as good as it gets for Western powers’ support for Kiev. With groups. he said. making is complicated by its opposi- the Middle East burning, they have too much on their plate. But the West has so far kept Syria’s “We hope for strong cooperation tion to Assad. Western states that have Ukraine’s Poroshenko and the larger leadership have to Kurds at arm’s length. Nato member with American or European states in backed the uprising against Assad have realise that it is the inner strength of their country that can Turkey has concerns over the PYD’s the fight against Islamic State — be it rebuffed the Syrian government’s call take over Russia-based rebelsand fight insurgency in the long historic links to the separatist PKK either in Syria or Iraq,” he said, speak- for cooperation against Islamic State. that fought for Kurdish rights on the ing by telephone. REUTERS run. And inner strength takes a lot of time to be forged• The other side Quote of Israel’s blockade of Gaza chokes a possible state the day hat could Gaza look like for the former have languished since benefit the Palestinians or make them is to keep Gaza poor, to keep Palestine without the stranglehold the 1990s, and the latter has been prosperous. under-developed, and thus strangle the of Israeli occupation? This destroyed by Israel. The full potential Look, for evidence, at one of the potential for a real state. Wis the question – so rarely of tourism could be exploited, as could most heinous crimes that the Israeli Israel makes a big play of providing asked, despite the Palestinian territory’s the resources of the off-shore gas field , government has committed: the near- power to Gaza, even though the reason We were the prominence in the news these past discovered as long ago as 2000. starvation siege of Gaza. is that Israel’s military keeps bombing months – that The National’s spread All are essential to Gaza’s ability Since the blockade of the Strip the power plants. winner of the yesterday set out to answer. to be a functioning entity, part of an began in 2007, the Israeli military has Israel fears the Palestinian people; And the answer is: quite beautiful. independent Palestine. And it is in that made precise calculations of the daily it fears that, left to their own creativity elections, we are Gaza is blessed with natural resources statement that the true reason why calorie count required to offset malnu- and industriousness, they could build and natural beauty (if not, alas, good Israel strangles the territory becomes trition, restricting the food allowed into an independent state, one not reliant, the winner of neighbours). clear. Gaza so that Palestinians never fell to as Israel is, on billions a year in aid from elections based on Without the occupation, the full The most grotesque element of this “starvation levels” – about which Israel the United States. potential of Gaza’s land could be situation is that it is deliberate. The was concerned at the public relations Gaza, and the West Bank, could be the real and clean Abdullah Abdullah developed – now nearly half of the Israelis have taken a clear decision implications – but were never able to a flourishing country. A supremacist agricultural land is off-limits. Investment to systematically dismantle anything be properly fed. Israel will never allow that. votes of the people. Afghan Presidential could build a port and an airport – plans that could be used to build a state, The reason behind all these policies THE NATIONAL Candidate TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Can social media spur revolution, democracy?

renewing itself constantly and continu- Internet helped ally around rapid changing and develop- ing issues, as well as events of protests, create a basis and manifestations and political dissidents and adversaries. Internet helped create a basis and an an axis for a world axis for a world movement never seen before, against war and with peace and movement never social justice movement in a period of ter- rorism, war and harsh and tough politi- cal conflict. Between the years 1998 and seen before, against 2009, the world witnessed global protests against events, summits, and interna- war and with peace tional conferences through the extensive use of the virtual sphere and the new media. Among the most important events and social justice that witnessed fierce and strong oppo- sition by protesters and demonstrators movement in a who used new media: The G8 summit in Cologne, Germany in June 1999, Davos period of terrorism world economic forum in Switzerland, EU summits, World bank meetings, G7 meetings, World Trade Organisation and harsh and tough summits, G20 summit in 2006 and 2007, world bank and International Monetary political conflicts. Fund meetings in 2007 and 2009, and the list goes on. Networked communication technolo- BY DR MOHAMED KIRAT gies helped movements to shift from institutional centralised hierarchy to he new information tech- decentralisation that gathers different nologies are having huge Social media is social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities. kinds of groups, political players, activists social, economic and politi- and interests without imposing a single cal impacts on¬ the life of The year 2011 has been in the Arab to work as an active participant in social diffusion of Internet and social networks, agenda or a programme of action. This nations, as well as, citizens. world the year of social networks and change. New information technologies the mobilisation of masses entered the means that new media contributed highly TThey are also influencing individuals in radical changes in the political scene help people to search, find, and acquaint virtual era or the “mediated mobili- to the democratisation of political action, terms of how they communicate, with where a score of dictators were ousted. themselves with others. Social move- sation”. New media have become the and the containment and integration of whom and for what purposes. The rapid New political communication networks ments, today depend on the ability of central and pivotal player in mass, and cultural diversity and different messages pace of technological change has affected and mechanisms took place and for the people to create relations, look for, and popular movements. which have never been experienced by tremendously how media professionals first time in Arab political communica- give advices, and take recommendations. Social media attract groups from dif- any public sphere throughout history. do their work, how the media product tion, public opinion was a major political Lievrouw asserts that the modern social ferent backgrounds and with different For the power, impact and influence of is packaged, how news media are struc- player. environment is characterised by an over- causes and problems, and put them in a new media and social networks we have tured, organised and managed and lastly Social networks helped tremendously whelming amount of information, and homogenous and harmonious framework to admit that mobilising people within a how the audience is dealing and interact- the formation of new public sphere where new technologies of information and to exert pressure on the state and the social movement for a just cause is some- ing with the media product. With the the public becomes an active player in communication, and new media which decision maker to fulfil their demands thing, and inducing economic, social and media and technological convergence of rallies, protests, demonstrations and altogether made up “the fourth informa- and aspirations, and to get large publicity political change is something else. The the computer, television, telephone, dig- manifestations. tion revolution” which has very impor- and media presence to influence local and new media and social networks succeeded ital pictures, Internet and a new digital However; and with much realism it can tant implications on politics. international public opinion. in mobilising Tunisians, Egyptians, environment totally different than the be said that at their best new media can Mobilisation in new social movements Media activism, and digital net- Libyans, Yemenis and Syrians, but they one people used to have a quarter century mobilise crowds and masses to rally and is achieved through the cultivation of working have become the main tools of failed, after over three years now, in ago, the major players in the communi- protest. They can give a social perspective common identities, common values, and popular movements, protests and mani- solving the problems of the youth, the cation industry came from all walks of to movements. the spirit of belonging to decentralised festations. ICTs, new media and social economy and the political governance, life. The new communication environ- However, they can’t make change and social webs. New media have the potenti- networks have introduced new type of namely democracy. This is a logical out- ment freed the people and society from implement democracy. After the collapse alities to lead and form public perceptions, politics that differs in its nature, focus, come given the fact that social media can the domination and the monopoly of the of the regimes in the Arab spring coun- opinions and senses. New media and ICTs its complex networking, and its openness be catalysts, can mobilise masses, and can word, image and public opinion by the tries, things are not getting any better. form the means, and the resources used on diverse political identities. This new generate news, videos, pictures and sto- central government and its machinery of There is no democratic transition, and to express the concerns and demands of politics enjoys a high level of sacrificing ries of rallies and protests, whereas, eco- monopoly and control. A new free market the newly established governments are the activists, as well as, the values and political integration for the sake of prag- nomic, political changes and democracy of ideas and opinions emerged. experiencing complex economic, social symbolic representation of the issues, matic political gains and achievements. need more than social media. Are social networks enough to change and political problems. and to change the public discourse and Lievrouw argues that the new politics (Dr. Kirat is a professor of public relations the political and economic scene in the Mobilisation of the masses depends on seek the causes, the background and the which was a product of the new media and mass communication at College of Arts Arab World? Are they able to induce dem- the new media to motivate social move- perspectives of the movement. and social networks is characterised and Sciences, Qatar University.) ocratic change and political participation? ments where people organise themselves With the advent of ICTs and the by its big potentialities and abilities of THE PENINSULA Afghanistan’s fate may rest with a CEO After Ferguson, we need The stability of the unity real definition of racism government will depend on the BY CHARLES D ELLISON n the smoking wake of Ferguson’s fires, everybody wants a hearing. personal relationship between Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, seeing a political opening, has scheduled a September panel on the militarisation of local police. Ghani and Abdullah and their levels ICongressional Black Caucus members, mostly powerless on the House side, want their day of hearings, too. But wondering whether the Republican majority will let them have that is a guess as good as of trust and mutual respect. the breath wasted on it. Marches, town halls and classroom discussions about Ferguson, Mo, are now frequent fixtures in American discourse BY JOHN HUDSON and current results hold, for example, as folks gingerly navigate the contours of the great race debate. YOCHI DREAZEN President Ghani could appoint Ferguson, however, has become a convenient stand-in for the real Chief Executive Officer Abdullah debate over racism and exactly what that is. We may have thought we he future of Afghanistan and allow him to chair impor- walked away from the Twittered images of unrest in Ferguson with, at may come down to a tant meetings of the country’s least, some verification that racism exists, but there’s really no work- simple question: Can a national security council and have ing definition of the term going forward. And we could seriously use Tcountry have a CEO? the country’s ministers of defence that working definition before the conversation suddenly shifts away The job title that’s synonymous and the interior report straight from the racist environment that triggered Ferguson and continues with Wall Street is now domi- to him. By contrast, a President to infect many communities like it. Hearings on police militarisation, A file photo of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani during a press nating backroom discussions in Ghani could also choose to treat after all, shed light only on one element of the problem; bet your bot- Kabul as the country struggles to Prime Minister Abdullah as a glo- conference in Kabul on July 5, 2014. tom dollar that McCaskill and her Senate colleagues won’t talk about decide how to divide power after rified adviser with no real execu- the racialised mindset of police shooting unarmed black men and the a contested presidential election tive authority and keep him in recognise that they will need to Nato Secretary-General Anders racist institutions or systems they work for. We’ve yet to get into mired by allegations of systemic the post for a year or less before work closely to maintain needed Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance what Emory University professor Carol Anderson eloquently outed fraud. The runoff, the first in the ousting him. support from Washington and is prepared to commit $4.1bn in as the “white rage” that “has access to the courts, police, legislatures country’s history, pits Ashraf That could change, but not for other Western nations. funding for Afghan security forces and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually Ghani, the former finance min- at least two years. The Afghan In Afghanistan, Washington once the political stalemate is driven by the most ignoble motivations.” And we’ve yet to reckon with ister, against Abdullah Abdullah, official said Kabul plans to hold remains heavily invested in the resolved. the warning presciently issued by Attorney General Eric Holder to the former foreign minister, who a loya jirga -- a Pashto term for negotiations -- and is clearly hop- Just a few days earlier, the Morgan State University graduates a few months ago, against focusing has been contesting the results a gathering of the country’s key ing the end result will be better Abdullah delegation protested a solely “on outlandish statements that capture national attention and ever since the June 14 vote. religious and political figures than had been the case in Iraq. United Nations audit of millions spark outrage on Facebook and Twitter” at the risk of missing “the Abdullah is disputing the out- -- in 2016 to consider whether “The secretary is regularly in of votes from the runoff, claim- more hidden, and more troubling, reality behind the headlines.” Even come of the election, which is to amend the Afghan constitu- touch with both candidates,” a ing that the process of vetting black members of Congress might find themselves treading carefully expected to declare Ghani the tion and create a prime minister senior US State Department votes was fraudulent. The tur- on the deeper racism conversation. Of course they’ll say there’s a pat- winner as early as next week. position that would have clearly official said Friday. In phone calls moil threatened to spoil what was tern of black men being blasted by white police. But getting deep into To stave off a bloody confronta- defined and legally protected with both candidates in the past supposed to be a celebratory Nato analysis of the root cause and having a broader discussion about the tion, the Obama administration powers. Under such an arrange- week, the official said, Secretary summit feting Afghanistan’s new core problem of racism in America becomes a dangerous, impolitic is pushing for a unity government ment, the Afghan president would of State John Kerry “stressed the leader and marking the alliance’s proposition for them. that would give the losing candi- likely still appoint the prime importance of national unity and upcoming transition away from It’s because society has mangled and deliberately obfuscated terms date the title of “chief executive minister, but that official would a peaceful political process for the combat operations and toward an like “racist” and “racism” to the point where they’re frequently misused officer,” an administrative posi- be able to control much of the future of the Afghan people.” advisory role. In the place of either and often ridiculed. Simply saying something that’s off-colour is greeted tion with uncertain powers and executive branch of Afghanistan’s The uncertainty over Abdullah or Ghani, Afghanistan’s with “Oh, that’s so racist!” And that’s how a functional definition of influence. government. Afghanistan’s future loomed defence minister, Gen Bismillah racism gets twisted into something trivial and unimportant. Still, we’ve The long list of unknowns Ultimately, the Afghan official large over this week’s Nato lead- Khan Mohammadi, attended the about diluted our collective sense of what racism is and how it’s per- about the CEO position could eas- said, the stability of the unity gov- ers’ summit in Wales, despite the Nato summit. petually used to victimise entire groups of people in pernicious ways. ily cause Abdullah to walk out of ernment will depend on the per- emergence of more prominent By December, the Obama Pollsters might ask how we feel about racial equality, but they don’t go negotiations over a unity govern- sonal relationship between Ghani crises in Ukraine, Iraq and Syria. administration is planning to on to ask if we believe that social, political and economic institutions ment. In an interview, a senior and Abdullah and their levels of On Friday, Obama urged the two withdraw all troops save for some have stacked a mountainful of racist odds against us. Afghan official said Afghanistan’s trust and mutual respect. Given Afghan presidential candidates 10,000 to advise the Afghan army And getting upset over images of cops brutally choking, beating and president would have the author- the rancour that has followed the to “make the compromises that and conduct counterterrorism blasting people that look like you doesn’t necessarily address the issue, ity to fire the CEO at any time runoff, it’s easy to assume that the are necessary so Afghans can operations. That number would either. Not if it doesn’t help us identify the name and location of the and sole discretion in deciding two men will take office with lit- move forward together and form shrink by half at the end of 2015 racist infrastructure designed to encourage the behaviour in the first how much power to give the newly tle of either. On the other hand, a sovereign, united and demo- and fall off to just 1,000 at the end place. Once we reach that point, we’ll end up realising that the police appointed official. Assuming the it’s also possible that both men cratic nation.” A day earlier, of 2016. WP-BLOOMBERG are underpaid pawns in this game, too. WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Hollande faces calls Paying tributes to bail out country President’s approval ratings hit all-time low

PARIS: France’s embattled for Hollande is a vote of confi- Valerie Trierweiler’s kiss-and-tell President Francois Hollande dence in the government of his memoirs, which depicted him as is poised to face fresh calls for Prime Minister Manuel Valls on insincere and cold — and most decisive action to haul the coun- September 16. Hollande’s Socialist damaging of all — scornful of the try out of a deep political and Party holds a razor-thin majority, poor. Every day seems to bring economic crisis when parlia- with 290 MPs in a chamber of 577. new blows in the polls, with a sur- ment reconvenes today. In addition, there is the possi- vey published yesterday showing Hollande, the most unpopu- bility that disgraced former trade only 11 percent of French voters lar president in modern French minister Thomas Thevenoud, who believe he has authority, and a history according to the polls, is lasted just nine days in the job mere 16 percent think him “com- being urged from all sides of the before resigning over tax irregu- petent”. His approval ratings have political spectrum to do something larities, may also have to step down hit an all-time low of 13 percent to extract France from its malaise. as an MP, further slimming the and a poll out last week showed he “Change policies completely, dis- majority. To get through the vote would lose in a presidential elec- solve (parliament), resign, it’s up of confidence, Hollande and Valls tion run-off with far-right leader to the president to choose his exit will have to rely on the support of Marine Le Pen. strategy,” said Francois Fillon, a 40 or so Socialist rebels on the left He is likely to lose control of the former prime minister and leading wing of the party, who disagree upper house Senate on September figure of the conservative opposi- with their economic policy, believ- 28 to the UMP, whose divisive tion UMP party. ing it to be a shift to the right. former leader Nicolas Sarkozy is But even those on the left of Hollande has had a truly ter- biding his time for a comeback. French politics are sniping at rible few weeks with figures A defiant Hollande insisted on Socialist leader Hollande, with showing growth stagnant and Friday that he would see out the the head of the CFDT union, unemployment at record highs. rest of his five-year mandate until Laurent Berger, saying: “Adding Added to that was a sudden the end of his term in 2017, but Students of the Segbroek College pay their last respects during the funeral procession of three victims of the to the economic and social crisis, political crisis in August that pressure is on him from all sides. plane crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, in The Hague, The Netherlands, yesterday.One of the victims, we now have a hateful political forced him to sack two rebel Le Pen’s far-right National a young girl, was a student of this school. Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight MH17 with more than 280 pas- climate which is adding to the ministers and pull together a Front (FN) has called for parlia- sengers on board crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. Most of the victims on the plane, which is suspected social desperation.” hasty reshuffle. Then came the ment to be dissolved and for fresh of having been shot down by rebels, were Dutch, Malaysians and Australians. The most immediate risk bombshell of his former partner elections to take place. AFP

EU nations agree Russian sanctions Poroshenko calls for removal of Russian troops BRUSSELS: The European MARIUPOL, UKRAINE: Poroshenko announced that Mariupol, a major port and Union agreed to a new wave of Ukrainian President Petro 1,200 captives held by pro-Russian heavy industry hub on the Sea sanctions against Russia yes- Poroshenko said yesterday it rebels had been freed. “In the past of Azov, has been in the sights terday, but said their entry into was impossible to win the con- four days, we have managed to free of rebels apparently seeking to force would take a few days, flict in the east by force alone, 1,200 of our prisoners,” Interfax- carve out a land corridor between giving time to recent peace and called for the removal of Ukraine quoted Poroshenko as Russia and the annexed Crimean moves by Moscow. “Depending Russian troops. saying as he made a visit of solidar- peninsula. Meanwhile, the head of on the situation on the ground, “It is impossible to win the con- ity to the flashpoint southeastern the OSCE, calling for a political the EU stands ready to review flict just by military means,” he port city of Mariupol. It was not process and urging dialogue over the agreed sanctions in whole said on a visit to the Ukrainian immediately clear if the release sanctions said yesterday a shaky or in part,” said Herman Van port city of Mariupol, where spo- was related to a prisoner swap the ceasefire in Ukraine alone is not Rompuy, President of the radic fighting has flared between warring parties agreed to under enough to end the conflict, European Council in a state- government forces and pro-Rus- a truce deal hammered out on “The ceasefire in itself alone ment, after a last-minute meet- sian rebels despite a ceasefire. Friday aimed at ending five months is not enough,” Swiss President ing of EU envoys in Brussels. “The more we increase the of bloody conflict. Poroshenko Didier Burkhalter, who is act- European capitals were sup- pressure, the more Russian tweeted on his arrival in Mariupol ing head of the Organization posed to give formal approval troops are on our territory,” said that the insurgents began shelling for Security and Cooperation in early to the sanctions — which the president. Poroshenko told checkpoints outside the city after Europe, told reporters in Geneva. include limiting access to financial reporters that the quickest way learning that he intended to visit “We need a political process, markets by Russian oil giants — to achieve “stability and peace” for the first time since the fighting national dialogue (and) dialogue but had failed to do so after falling in Ukraine was simple. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wipes his brow during a visit to erupted in April. between the two presidents,” he short of an unanimous agreement “Withdraw foreign troops and the Ilich Iron and Steel Works in the southern coastal town of Mariupol, “They thought they would insisted, adding that his organisa- on the measures. The delay came close the border and within a yesterday. frighten me. But no-one is afraid tion was “ready to help.” as some of the EU’s member states week we (will) find a compro- of them!” said Poroshenko, Burkhalter, who also serves as in eastern Europe — still depend- mise... I think the peace initiative it was not immediately clear if that if the accord was bringing dressed in military fatigues for Swiss foreign minister, stressed ent on Russian trade and energy is bringing us to this result,” he this was part of the ceasefire home prisoners of war and saving his visit to the only major city the importance of the truce ties — were uneasy at ratcheting said in English. backed by Kiev and Moscow that the lives of civilians and soldiers in the eastern conflict zone still signed in the Belarussian capi- up the sanctions, and as a tenu- Poroshenko had earlier was signed in Minsk on Friday. “this means the ceasefire works”. “I under government control. “It is tal Minsk Friday, warning that if ous Ukraine ceasefire appeared to announced the release of 1,200 He said there had been 10-12 vio- think we win (the war) but... more our land. We will not give it up it did not hold “things could get be holding. But after more than captives held by rebels, although lations of the truce each day but accurately we win the war.” to anyone.” worse than before”. AFP three hours of last-minute talks, a breakthrough was achieved. Italian nuns raped, Morocco-born French minister murdered in Burundi ‘Salafist Police’ patrols BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI: Three elderly Italian nuns files suit after ‘Arabic letter’ spark concern in Germany were raped and murdered in twin attacks in their convent PARIS: France’s National Education, BERLIN: German politicians and media yesterday called for a in the capital of Burundi, police Morocco-born educa- Higher Education and crackdown against radical Islamist propaganda after a group of said yesterday as a hunt was tion minister said yes- Research.” ultra-conservative Salafists took to the streets calling itself the launched for their killers. Police terday she would take In addition, it does “Shariah Police”. initially reported that two nuns legal action after a false not fall within the “No tolerance for Salafists” said conservative daily Die Welt after a were stabbed to death on Sunday letter circulated on the ministry’s purview small group of men, wearing orange vests with “Shariah Police” written afternoon. The killer then bat- Internet advising towns to offer extra-cur- on them, went on a series of “patrols” in the western city of Wuppertal. tered one of the two with a rock, to offer a weekly Arabic ricular activities, as Seeking to enforce their austere moral code, they told nightclub- before fleeing the convent. Italian language class. these are organised goers to refrain from drinking alcohol and listening to music and arcade authorities named the first two The memo, complete at a local level, the customers not to play games for money. killed as Olga Raschietti, 83, and with fake letterhead and ministry stressed. A video circulating online shows among them Sven Lau, a German Lucia Pulici, 75, both Roman signature, says an official Vallaud-Belkacem, a Salafist convert who claims to be one of those behind the patrol idea. Catholic nuns. But in the early from the education min- rising star in French Under current German law, the self-styled “Shariah Police” could hours of yesterday, another nun istry will contact town politics who is the at most face a charge of disturbing public order. in the same convent was killed, halls shortly “to offer a first woman to hold Police said the patrols took place last week and urged people to con- her body beaten and head voluntary hour per week the office of educa- tact them if they saw suspicious behaviour linked to Salafist activity. hacked off. to discover the Arabic tion minister, has No arrests have been made so far, but political leaders warned they language.” found herself the tar- would crack down on the Islamist patrol if it took its campaign any “I strongly advise you get of attacks from further. “We will not tolerate an illegal parallel justice,” warned Justice Warrant for couple to give the green light to the far-right for her Minister Heiko Maas. “Shariah law is not tolerated on German soil,” this activity which aims Moroccan roots. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Saturday’s Bild newspaper. suspected of taking at breaking down the lin- Last week, far- Bavaria state’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann described it guistic barriers that our right weekly Minute as a “direct attack by the Salafists on our rule of law” in comments girls to Mideast children could encounter sparked a fire- published in yesterday’s Bild daily. Stephan Mayer, also from the CSU ORLEANS, FRANCE: in the near future,” reads storm of contro- Bavarian allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, called in French prosecutors said yester- the document signed in versy by describing Sunday’s Tagesspiegel for promoting strict Shariah law to be “penalised”. day that two European arrest the name of the 36-year- her as a “Moroccan Volker Kauder, the parliamentary group leader of Merkel’s con- warrants had been issued for old minister, Najat Muslim” and calling servatives, argued that the police alone was responsible for upholding a couple thought to have left Vallaud-Belkacem. her appointment a public order. “Therefore we must examine a ban of these supposed for the Middle East with four The letter circulated “provocation”. guardians of Islamic virtues,” he told the Welt am Sonntag. The head young girls. The warrants fol- widely on social networks While born in of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany has also condemned low suits filed separately by in France, especially on Morocco, Vallaud- the action by the Salafists in Wuppertal. the former spouses of the cou- Twitter, over the weekend. Belkacem grew up ple. They are believed to have “The education minis- in northern France FOUR ISLAMISTS IN DOCK OVER BOMB PLOT taken with them four girls aged try files suit every time and holds dual Meanwhile, Germany put on trial yesterday four alleged Islamist between three and five. The first there is a case of identity French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem nationality. She has militants for plotting a failed bomb attack at a railway station and suit was filed by Ilham Tarbouni, fraud,” said a spokesman speaking at a press conference in Paris, yesterday. described herself as a planning the murder of a far-right anti-Muslim activist. who had no news of her three- for Vallaud-Belkacem. “pure product of the Defendant Marco Gaebel, a 27-year-old German national, is accused year-old daughter after she went The apparent forgers made a series of errors, Republic”, an example of “happy integration” in of planting a self-made pipe bomb in a sports bag at the main train to her father’s home for the sum- notably with the description of the ministry itself, a country which is home to the largest Muslim station of Bonn, capital of the former West Germany, in December 2012. mer. Police went to the home of which they called the “Ministry for National population in Europe. The bomb failed to go off, but the discovery of the explosives sparked the father, a Muslim convert, and Education”, instead of the full title of “Ministry for AFP a major terrorism alert that caused travel chaos at the station two found it empty. AFP weeks before Christmas. AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ‘No’ camp hits the streets in Scotland Scottish oil wealth at heart of debate over separation referendum on September 18 Don’t split, ABERDEEN, UNITED KINGDOM: Campaigners against independence took to the streets of Scotland’s oil N Ireland first capital Aberdeen with just days to go to a momentous referendum, with polls showing support for the “Yes” growing and voters now almost evenly split for minister and against. Oil is at the heart of the debate over whether Scotland can afford to go it alone tells Scots or would be better off remaining part of Britain on September 18 — and booming BELFAST: Northern Ireland’s Aberdeen demonstrates how wealthy it first minister said yesterday he has made some. would summon “every fibre of his A small group of pro-union support- being” to urge Scottish voters not to ers met up on a street corner to argue leave the United Kingdom as fellow for keeping that wealth within Britain, Unionists fretted about next week’s armed with rucksacks and badges read- referendum. ing “No Thanks” — the main slogan Peter Robinson, whose Protestant against independence. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Team leader Rob Walker handed out shares power with nationalist Sinn leaflets and the group shared out streets Fein in the British-controlled prov- to cover in their walkabout. ince’s devolved government, said it “I think ‘No’ will win but I’m still con- would be a tragedy to lose a “family cerned,” said one of the campaigners, member” Northern Ireland has so Willy Primrose, 62. much in common with. “I feel very Scottish but I want to be An opinion poll on Saturday showed Scottish in the context of a federal UK, for the first time this year that Scots not a small nation,” he said. may vote for independence next week After knocking at the door of one large in a poll that could herald the break home, Primrose got a warm welcome up of the UK, prompting concern bor- from Peter Lewis, an operations manager dering on panic among Britain’s ruling for an oil services company. elite. “I respect the fact that it’s their “It’s an easy sell — I’m a definitive choice, but summon every fibre of my ‘No’”, Lewis said. being to say don’t go! Stay and con- “I think it’s been a little late in the day tinue to shape our nation,” Robinson to be looking at these sorts of things. We wrote in an opinion piece in Northern should have done that years ago and at Supporters for the Yes (left) and No campaigns, argue in Edinburgh, Scotland, yesterday. The referendum on Scottish independence will Ireland’s Newsletter newspaper. the moment it’s one of the best nations take place on September 18, when Scotland will vote whether or not to end the 307-year-old union with the rest of the United Kingdom. “This is not a choice between rule in the world so why would we break it from London or going it alone. The up?” he said. boost the finances of an independent Scottish flags with the pro-independence whether you’re to vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’?” best way to preserve and promote Around 42 billion barrels of oil and gas Scotland. “Yes” slogans could be seen. Connie Hadden asked Michael Lattin, the Union is through devolution,” have been extracted from the North Sea The team continued house to house, Their main target are undecided vot- 64, a resident in a large block of flats. he wrote. “Devolving power into the since the early 1970s and First Minister slipping leaflets under doors without ers, who could swing the September “No, I’m still undecided,” he answered. hands of locally accountable political Alex Salmond hopes the windfall would knocking on the doors where large 18 vote either way. “Have you decided AFP institutions helps to solidify the Union, not dilute it.” A Scottish exit would be a huge psy- chological blow to Northern Ireland’s loyalists, who express their allegiance EU vows to stay out of referendum to London by lining their streets with Britain’s Union Jack flags, some even BRUSSELS: The European Union vowed for the British citizens to decide on the the letter said. Any European state which painting kerbstones in its red, white yesterday to stay out of the Scottish inde- future of Scotland,” she told a daily press respects the EU’s principles “may apply to and blue. pendence referendum debate as questions briefing. “We do not feel at this time, in become a member of the EU,” it said. It would force England and flew over Scotland’s prospects of mem- the... middle of the final stages of the cam- All 28 member states would then have to Northern Ireland to reassess their bership in the bloc if it splits from Britain. paign, that we should interfere with what ratify the entry of the new member at the constitutional relationship, whose divi- European Commission President Jose is an internal democratic process. end of a negotiating process. sive details helped to fuel 30 years of Manuel Barroso angered Scottish nation- “This is why I’m not going to now detail Scottish nationalists however say that the bloodshed between Protestant loyalists alists when he warned in February it would what we’ve already very, very clearly procedure would be different because it is and Catholic republicans who wanted be “difficult, if not impossible” for an inde- described and explained in the past.” already effectively part of the bloc. to unite with the Irish Republic to the pendent Scotland to become an EU member. Commission staff then provided a copy The campaign for Scottish independence south. But commission spokeswoman Pia of a letter Barroso sent to a member of is heating up as an opinion poll published Many Northern Irish Protestants Ahrenkilde Hansen refused yesterday to Britain’s House of Lords, the upper cham- over the weekend put the separatists ahead trace their roots to Scotland via a comment when journalists repeatedly asked ber of parliament, in December 2012 say- of the pro-union camp for the first time. migration in the 16th and 17th centu- what would happen if Scotland voted to ing any state obtaining independence would In a BBC interview in February, Barroso, ries. The main Irish nationalist parties secede from the United Kingdom in the have to apply as a new state. who heads the EU executive, said it “will be in Northern Ireland have maintained September 18 referendum. “A new independent state would, by the extremely difficult to get the approval of a studied silence during the cam- Alistair Darling, leader of the ‘No’, “The European Commission very much fact of its independence, become a third all the other (EU) member states to have paign, insisting the vote is a matter for strokes a West Highland Terrier respects the ongoing democratic process country with respect to the EU and the trea- a new member coming from one member the Scots. REUTERS while campaigning in Edinburgh. and recalls... that it is for the Scottish and ties would no longer apply on its territory,” state.” AFP Gubernatorial primaries Pregnant Kate gets morning sickness LONDON: Britain’s Prince in two US states today William said yesterday he was “thrilled” that his wife Kate BOSTON: Voters in five East State Treasurer Steve Grossman is pregnant with their sec- Coast states head to the polls and healthcare policy expert Don ond child, but admitted it had today for wide-open guber- Berwick and Baker’s Republican been a “tricky few days” as she natorial primary elections rival, Mark Fisher, who owns a struggles with severe morning in Massachusetts and Rhode small manufacturing company. sickness. Island while Republicans in While polls have consistently Kate cancelled an official New Hampshire and Delaware shown Coakley leading her pri- engagement yesterday because will pick challengers to incum- mary rivals and ahead of Baker she is suffering from hyperemesis bent Democratic US Senators. in a theoretical general-election gravidarum, the same condition In Massachusetts, voters could matchup, a key question will be that caused her to be hospitalised set the stage for a general election whether she could win the sup- in 2012 when she was pregnant matchup between state Attorney port of Grossman voters if she with her first child Prince George. General Martha Coakley, a wins the primary, said Peter William attended the public Democrat, and Republican busi- Ubertaccio, chairman of the event in Oxford without her and nessman Charlie Baker, who is political science department told reporters: “It’s been a tricky making his second run at the at Stonehill College in Easton, few days, a week or so, but obvi- office after failing in a bid to Massachusetts. ously we’re immensely thrilled, unseat Democrat Deval Patrick Coakley stunned Massachusetts it’s great news.” in 2010. Democrats in 2010 when she He said it was still “early days, Patrick has opted against seek- lost an off-cycle race for the but I’m hoping things will settle ing a third term in office. US Senate seat held by Edward down and she feels a bit better”, Both Coakley and Baker M Kennedy for a half century to adding: “I’m going to go back to face competitive primaries in Scott Brown, then a little-known look after her now.” their own right, with the other Republican state legislator. Kate, 32, is currently being Democratic candidates including REUTERS treated by doctors at the couple’s London home Kensington Palace, Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, speaks with schoolchildren as he opens The Dickson Poon University a spokesman said. of Oxford China Centre Building in Oxford yesterday. The pregnancy was announced earlier yesterday in an offi- the star status of William and going on at the moment. That’s to have at least two children to cial statement from the palace, Kate. The birth of their first child, where my thoughts are,” William secure the line of succession. Santiago bomb blast injures eight which said that Queen Elizabeth George Alexander Louis, on July said. Cameron said: “On behalf of “I hope it’s a girl,” one woman II, William’s grandmother, was 22, 2013, sparked a media frenzy the whole country, I am sure the wellwisher told AFP outside SANTIAGO: A bomb blast at a fast-food restaurant next to an “delighted” at the news. and prompted messages of good- House will join me in congratulat- Kensington Palace. “An heir and underground train station in the Chilean capital of Santiago injured “Their Royal Highnesses the will from around the world. ing them on this fantastic news a spare! So he’s sorted, isn’t he?” eight people yesterday. Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Yesterday, the BBC’s 24-hour and wishing them well in the The extent of Kate’s morning “At 1400 (1700 GMT) an explosive device was detonated in the center are very pleased to announce news station cut away from months ahead.” sickness raises questions about (mini-mall) by the metro station, and at the moment investigations that the Duchess of Cambridge Cameron’s statement to parlia- Prince George is third in line whether she will be able to fulfil are being carried out to determine the origin,” said Mario Rozas, head is expecting their second child,” ment on last week’s NATO sum- to the throne and his new sibling her first official solo trip abroad to of police communications. the palace said. mit to carry William’s remarks will be fourth in line, pushing Malta, scheduled for September The blast occurred at lunchtime in a small shopping and eating area “The Queen and members of live. But the prince urged a sense William’s younger brother Prince 20-21. She was due to represent next to the Escuela Militar metro station in the affluent residential both families are delighted with of perspective. Harry down to fifth place. the queen as the Mediterranean and shopping neighborhood of Las Condes. Two people were seriously the news.” “It’s important that we all William and Kate made no islands celebrate the 50th anni- injured, a firefighter said, while several others suffered hearing losses. The announcement made head- focus on the big news, and the big secret of wanting another baby versary of their independence REUTERS lines across the world, reflecting international and domestic things and it is also royal convention from Britain. AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Activists denounce rights abuse, call for end to Thai martial law

BANGKOK: Rights activ- peace and order after months of were arrested with 87 now facing After the Coup”, was sched- according to the study, which rights situation in Thailand. ists yesterday renewed calls for protests. legal action, 61 of them in military uled last week but authorities said the jurisdiction of military Junta spokesman Winthai an end to martial law imposed Prayut is now also prime min- courts. warned its authors to postpone courts has also been widened to Suvaree said the report was “one- since Thailand’s coup, accus- ister and is due to lead the first Martial law “is tantamount to publication. hear some lese majeste cases. sided” adding “we don’t under- ing the military of overseeing a meeting of a military-stacked a twilight zone of judicial process The report expressed particu- “Only one in three judges in a stand their (the report authors’) judicial “twilight zone” follow- cabinet on today. during which the officials have lar concern over trials in military military court has to have a law intentions”. ing their power grab. In the days and weeks follow- broad powers without checks and courts and the use of a contro- degree and the rest are simply He also denied anyone detained Army chief General Prayut ing the coup more than 570 people review”, the report said, adding versial royal defamation law commissioned officials who may in the post-coup period has been Chan-Ocha introduced the draco- were ordered to report to authori- such powers may lead to “seri- to protect key members of the not even have any legal back- tortured, as alleged in the report, nian law two days before the May ties, according to a report submit- ous violations... of fundamental monarchy. ground,” it added. adding that lifting martial law 22 coup which he led swept the ted by the Thai lawyers for Human human rights”. Fourteen people have been Last week the United Nations was being “considered carefully... elected government from power. Rights to the interior ministry. The release of the study, “The charged under the strict ‘112’ said it was “seriously concerned” by security agencies and not for He cited the need to restore It said more than 260 people Human rights Situation 100 Days defamation law since the coup, about the worsening human political reasons”. AFP Release jailed trio, US asks North Korea Pardon sought for ailing American

WASHINGTON: The United spokeswoman Jen Psaki. States urged North Korea on “We also request the DPRK Sunday to let three Americans pardon Kenneth Bae and grant held in the reclusive country him special amnesty and immedi- return home, after Pyongyang ate release so he may reunite with said one of them will stand trial his family and seek medical care.” this week. On September 1, the three men Matthew Miller, who is being pleaded for their freedom in an held in North Korea along with interview with CNN. fellow US citizens Kenneth Bae As North Korean government and Jeffrey Fowle, will go on trial minders looked on, they urged on September 14, state media said Washington to send an envoy to earlier on Sunday. the isolated authoritarian state to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (centre) gestures at devotees during his visit to Kelaniya Buddhist Temple in Kelaniya yesterday. North Korea said in June negotiate their release. it would put Miller and Fowle “My situation is very urgent,” on trial on unspecified charges said Miller, who was arrested in related to “perpetrating hostile April after Pyongyang said he acts.” ripped up his visa at immigration The ailing Bae, a Korean- and demanded asylum. Abe ends Lanka trip with visit to temple American described by the North Fowle entered the North on as a militant Christian evangelist, April 29 and was detained after COLOMBO: Japanese Prime cremated at the temple grounds Jayewardene declined compen- Mahinda Rajapakse on Sunday, was arrested in November 2012 reportedly leaving a Bible at a Minister Shinzo Abe offered in 1996. Abe spent 40 minutes at sation from Japan, which had car- the two leaders agreed to forge and later sentenced to 15 years’ hotel. flowers and worshipped yes- the Kelaniya Rajamaha temple ried out several aerial bombing stronger maritime links between hard labour on charges of seek- Bae, who is being held at a terday at a historic Buddhist which Buddhists believe was vis- raids in Colombo and the eastern their countries in a move seen ing to topple the North Korean labour camp, is suffering a range temple outside Colombo as he ited by the Buddha himself more port city of Trincomalee, a strate- as countering China’s influence government. of illnesses and ailments, includ- wrapped up his two-nation than 2,500 years ago. gic staging post for allied troops. in the region. “It is my intention “Out of humanitarian con- ing a severe back problem, his South Asian tour that also took Jayewardene had made an After the San Francisco treaty, to increase cooperation in the cern for Jeffrey Fowle, Matthew supporters say. him to Bangladesh. impassioned plea on behalf of Tokyo became a strong political maritime area for open and safe Miller, and their families, we North Korea is widely accused During his overnight official Japan at the 1951 Peace Treaty and economic ally of the island seas,” Abe told a business forum request the DPRK (North Korea) of having one of the worst human visit, Abe had paid tribute to signing in San Francisco which and is still Sri Lanka’s largest sin- in Colombo attended by leaders release them so they may return rights records in the world. a former Sri Lanka President officially ended World War II, and gle donor of foreign aid. of several high profile Japanese home,” said US State Department AFP Junius Jayewardene, who was demanded war reparations. In talks with President companies. AFP

Japan officials deny links to Aquino to seek EU neo-Nazi head help to sea disputes TOKYO: Two newly-promoted MANILA: President Benigno lane and fishing ground believed Japanese politicians moved yes- Aquino will seek European to hold vast mineral resources. terday to distance themselves support for Philippine efforts This conflicts with the territo- from allegations of extremism to resolve maritime territorial rial claims of the Philippines as after pictures emerged of them disputes with China during a well as Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan posing alongside the leader of a week-long visit to EU nations, and Vietnam. Tensions between domestic neo-Nazi party. including France and Germany, the Philippines and China have Minister Sanae Takaichi and a foreign ministry official said risen as Beijing has pressed its party policy chief Tomomi Inada yesterday. claim, citing “historical facts” and are seen in separate photographs Aquino will also raise a proposal occupying and fortifying outcrops next to Kazunari Yamada on to stop China from escalating ten- and islets. the home page of the National sions in the strategically-vital Last month, the Philippines Socialist Japanese Workers South China Sea, Assistant to protested at China’s increasing Party. secretary Zeneida Collinson said. patrols in the Reed Bank, the site The pictures will add fuel “In all meetings starting with of a confrontation between vessels to claims that Prime Minister Spain, we will seek their contin- from both countries in 2012. Shinzo Abe is increasingly sur- ued support on the Philippine While the poorly-equipped rounding himself with people on position in the West Philippine Philippine military cannot match Relatives of passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 grieve as they visit Yonghe Temple, also the right of Japanese politics. Sea,” she said, using the local China, Aquino has resorted to dip- known as Lama Temple, in Beijing yesterday, still seeking answers six months after the plane disappeared. Yamada’s blog postings indicate term for the South China Sea. lomatic and legal means, includ- admiration for Adolf Hitler and “It’s important for our presi- ing an arbitration case before a praise for the 2001 attack on the dent to have the opportunity to UN tribunal. China has refused World Trade Centre. apprise world leaders directly on to participate. In video footage posted on the what is happening in... the South Collinson said the Europeans Police disperse MH370 families website, Yamada is seen wearing China Sea,” when he visits Spain, had supported the Philippines in a stylised swastika during street Belgium, France and Germany seeking a “peaceful resolution of BEIJING: Relatives of pas- camera-wielding journalists and by the government, there are few demonstrations. from September 13 to 20.” conflict.” sengers of the missing Malaysia shouted for him to stop. civil society groups and so many Captions for the photographs Such support can be “tacit” and During his talks with European Airlines jet MH370 yester- They subdued the crowd, family members of Chinese pas- claim they were taken “some- did not need to be contained in a leaders, Aquino will also bring up day gathered at a temple in shoving the journalists away and sengers have turned to protests, time in June or July 2011 when formal document, she added. his “triple action plan” calling on Beijing to mark the six-month dragging women by the wrists. online posts and uncensored for- (Yamada) visited the conservative China claims almost all of China and other claimants to halt of its disappearance, as plain- “Where are our children?” cried eign media to make themselves lawmakers for talks.” South China Sea, a vital shipping provocative actions. AFP clothes police pressured them one woman. “Mum and dad are heard. Some members say author- Spokesmen for both senior law- to disperse. waiting for you!” cried another. ities have begun to treat them like makers acknowledged yesterday While the members ostensibly “I think the airlines and the dissidents. In July, police detained that the photographs were genu- gathered to pray for their rela- Malaysian government are cheat- about 30 members, including two ine and had been taken in their tives, the meeting quickly turned ing people - and while the world is young children, for attempting offices over the last few years, Gutter oil shame spreads to HK into a demonstration. watching, nobody will tell us any- to sleep at a MH370 relatives but denied there was any politi- The members, mostly elderly, thing,” Dai Shuqin, 61, whose sis- support centre, Dai said, despite cal affiliation. HONG KONG: Pineapple buns and dumplings have been pulled stood in a cluster at the gates ter was on the plane, said before permission from centre staff. At “He was an assistant for an from the shelves in Hong Kong as authorities check whether of the Lama Temple in central the demonstration. “We don’t least two members were beaten interviewer, and was taking notes they contain Taiwanese “gutter oil” which has sparked a growing Beijing, wearing T-shirts that know if [Chinese President] Xi in detention, she said. and photos,” a member of staff at regional food safety scare, officials said yesterday. read “Pray for MH370 to peace- Jinping knows anything or not, “It makes me sad that they’d Takaichi’s office said, referring to An investigation was launched after oil from a Taiwanese company fully return home”. Many sobbed but if he knows something, we treat us this way, because we Yamada. accused of using illegally recycled products, including fat collected from and one man recited poems he hope he’ll tell us.” haven’t done anything illegal,” “We had no idea who he was grease traps, was exported to the southern Chinese city. had written since the plane van- Victims of perceived injustice said Bian Liangwei, a 26-year-old back then, but he requested a Taiwanese authorities say a factory in the south of the island illegally ished. Only a few minutes into in China have few formal chan- resident of neighbouring Hebei snap shot with her. (The minister) used 243 tonnes of tainted products, often referred to as “gutter oil,” to the demonstration, security nels to air their grievances, the province, whose older brother was wouldn’t refuse such requests.” mix with lard oil in a case that has rekindled regional concerns about officers broke through a ring of media and courts are controlled on the flight. THE GUARDIAN AFP food safety. AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Army strikes kill 10 International Literacy Day rebels in Pakistan Gunships destroy five vehicles, cache of explosives

PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s mili- terrorists,” the military said. for Islamist militants of all stripes tary said yesterday it had killed The conflict zone is off-limits to -- including Al Qaeda and the 10 militants and destroyed an journalists, so there is no way to homegrown TTP as well as for- explosives cache in fresh air independently verify the number eign fighters such as Uzbeks and strikes as part of a major offen- and identity of those killed. Uighurs. sive against the Taliban in the Air strikes, artillery, mor- Washington pressed Islamabad northwest. tars and ground troops have all for years to take action to wipe out Pakistan began the long- been used to retake territory in sanctuaries in North Waziristan, awaited push to clear insurgent North Waziristan, which had which militants have used to bases from North Waziristan become a haven for fighters with launch attacks on Nato forces in district, on the Afghan border, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan neighbouring Afghanistan. in June after a bloody attack on (TTP) and other militant outfits. The latest attacks came a week Karachi airport finally sank fal- The military has said the after the army announced it had tering peace talks with the rebels. major towns of Miranshah and killed more than 900 militants “Army aviation gunship heli- Mir Ali had now been cleared of and lost 82 soldiers since the start copters struck in area ahead of insurgents, along with a 90-kil- of the operation. Boya Degan in North Waziristan. ometre road through North After one set of air strikes in In a precise strike on a terror- Waziristan. the Shawal Valley in July, multi- ist hideout, gunship helicopters Pakistan’s semi-autonomous ple accounts by residents said 37 destroyed one explosive dump tribal areas on the Afghan bor- civilians were killed, including 20 and five vehicles and killed 10 der have for years been a hideout women and 10 children. AFP Boys attend school on International Literacy Day in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. The day is held on September 8 every year. This year’s theme is ‘Literacy and Sustainable Development’. Army officer among 3 killed PTI sit-in draws supporters again in Pakistan shrine attack ISLAMABAD: After the gone for an agitation. “All over said a majority of the PTI sup- August 30 clashes with the the world people protest peace- porters did not attend the sit- MULTAN: Gunmen killed received threats from the banned police, the number of partici- fully. They hold protests after in because of the August 30 three people, including a sen- organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba, pants in the Pakistan Tehreek- getting permission from the incident. ior military official, at a mosque which says it wants to expel Shias i-Insaf (PTI) sit-in at D-Chowk administration. He said rain was not a big issue frequented by minority Shia from Pakistan. No one claimed has again started increasing. However, they only criticise the as the PTI supporters had come worshippers in the Pakistani responsibility for the attack. Yesterday, a large number of management of the city if they to the sit-in at Kashmir Highways city of Sargodha, police said Ghulam Murtaza, another sen- PTI workers were seen heading are not given permission to hold in droves despite rain, but stopped yesterday. ior police official, confirmed the towards the venue. a protest. turning up after August 30. Sectarian strife has been wors- incident. The PTI and Pakistan Awami “I supported the PTI with the An organiser of the PTI sit-in, ening in Pakistan, where Shias Sufi shrines are popular among Tehreek (PAT) started their hope that it would promote a new Ali Awan, said he also believed make up about 20 percent of the Muslims in South Asia but have sit-ins at Kashmir Highway on politics in the country. But I don’t that the supporters of the PTI 180 million population. Sunni come under attack in recent August 15. On August 19, both know why the leadership of the PTI Chief Imran Khan and PAT were different in their militants frequently attack Shias years from Sunni extremists in the parties entered the red zone. party took a decision that led to approach to political issues. they see as infidels who deserve Pakistan, who see them as anti- Till August 29, a large number clashes with the police.” not mince a word even if their “Most of the supporters of the to die. thetical to Islam. of people from the twin cities par- He said after the incident of leadership takes them to hell, PTI, who come from the twin cit- “Brigadier Fazal Zahoor was Barelvis make up the major- ticipated in the sit-in of the PTI. August 30, he decided not to take but the supporters of the PTI ies, are not used to rain so they shot by masked gunmen while ity of Pakistan’s Muslims, who However, after August 30, when part in the protest. “However, are educated and can differenti- did not come to the sit-in during taking part in a religious ritual in turn comprise around 97 per- the marchers moved towards when Imran Khan took the sit- ate between a right and wrong rains. Now the rains have stopped at the mosque,” said police offi- cent of the country’s 180 million the Prime Minister House, and in participants back to D-Chowk, decision,” he said. and the supporters of the party cial Farooq Hasnaat, adding the people. clashed with the police leaving I decided to rejoin the sit-in “I did not join the PTI for an are back to the sit-in again,” he attack took place late on Sunday. More than 800 Shias have three people dead and over 500 because it showed the leadership agitation. We should hold peace- said. “The gunmen arrived on motor- been killed in targeted attacks injured, most of the local resi- of the party has realised that they ful protests to give a message to “It is not unusual that after bikes and burst into the mosque. in Pakistan since the start of dents stopped coming to the PTI should not go for an agitation,” the nation that the PML-N rigged such bloodshed people avoid They identified the brigadier and 2012, according to Human Rights sit-in. he said. the elections and is not ready to going to the place of the inci- shot and killed him, his brother Watch. Bilal Ahmed, a resident Naeem Ahmed, a resident of investigate the rigging. dent. After a terrorist attack on Fazal Subhani and a third man Militant groups like Lashkar- of Khayaban-i-Sir Syed in Islamabad and another supporter “We should ensure election the Islamabad district courts, in called Mohammad Ayub.” e-Jhangvi say they are fighting Rawalpindi, who was going to of the PTI, added that there were reforms so that the nation would which 11 people were killed, even The mosque is located in a mili- for a Sunni theocracy and Shias the PTI sit-in yesterday, said that lots of differences between the reject the PML-N in the next some of the lawyers stopped going tary cantonment. should leave the country or be he believed in a peaceful protest PTI and PAT supporters. elections,” he said. to the district courts for a month,” Hasnaat said the brigadier had killed. AGENCIES but unfortunately the PTI had “The PAT supporters might In reply to a question, Naeem he said. INTERNEWS

Blast, rebel fire kill six soldiers in Afghanistan

KABUL: At least six Afghan National Army soldiers were killed following militant fire and improvised explosive device (IED) attack. Defence Ministry spokesman, Gen. Zahir Azimi, said yesterday the soldiers died in the past 24 hours. He did not disclose infor- mation regarding the locations where they were martyred. The anti-government armed militant groups have not com- mented on the reports. According to security officials, the Afghan army deaths stands at four daily on average, mainly due to IED attacks. Meanwhile, at least 35 Taliban militants were killed and six injured following operations by Afghan national security forces in various provinces. The Ministry of Interior released a statement yesterday, Afghan Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (centre) arrives at his residence in Kabul yesterday. saying that Afghan National Police conducted several coun- ter-terrorism operations with Afghan National Army and I have won election: Abdullah NDS to clear some areas of terrorists. Operations were conducted KABUL: Afghan presi- The bitter stalemate over Secretary of State John Kerry, in Kunar, Baghlan, Kunduz, dential candidate Abdullah alleged fraud in the June 14 vote the feuding candidates had Kandahar, Maidan Wardak, Abdullah insisted yesterday has raised fears of renewed eth- agreed to the audit of all eight Ghazni, Khost, Helmand and that he won the country’s nic violence as the 13-year inter- million votes, and to form a Nimroz provinces. disputed election, dimming national military and civilian national unity government Six rebels were arrested by hopes that a UN-supervised development effort winds down. together whoever emerged as Afghan security forces, while audit of votes could soon end “We were the winner of the winner. police discovered and confis- the prolonged political crisis. elections, we are the winner But Abdullah, who was far cated light and heavy rounds of Abdullah repeated claims of elections based on the real behind Ghani in preliminary ammunition. that massive ballot-rigging and clean votes of the people,” results from the runoff vote, Police also discovered and had denied him victory over his Abdullah said in a speech. later pulled out of the audit defused seven types of IEDs rival Ashraf Ghani in the race “We do not accept fraudulent and the unity government talks placed by rebels in Chahar Dara to lead Afghanistan as US-led election results, and we will not have also ground to a halt. district of Kunduz province, the Nato troops withdraw from accept a fraudulent government “Today the political process ministry added. their long war against Taliban for a day.” has reached a deadlock.” AGENCIES insurgents. In a deal brokered by US AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

German FM meets Modi Indians held BJP offered in Iraq safe NEW DELHI: Indians held captive by suspected Sunni mil- itants in Iraq are safe, External Affairs Minister Sushma bribe to rule Swaraj said yesterday. Talking to media persons here, she said 6,593 Indians had been evacuated from different parts of war-torn Iraq. Delhi: AAP Answering a query on Indians in captivity in the country, she said the government had come to Video of alleged bribery released know from indirect sources that the Indians were safe. NEW DELHI: The AAP yes- BJP take power in Delhi by deceit. As many as 39 Indian work- terday released a video show- “The BJP has been wooing our ers are being held hostage by the ing a BJP leader offering money MLAs for the last one month, Islamic State militant group in to one of its legislators, induc- but we will not let them come Mosul town for the past three ing him to quit the assembly to to power.... They are betraying months. The men were working improve the BJP’s chances of the people of Delhi,” he said. for a Turkish construction com- forming a government in Delhi. “The BJP’s dirty game is exposed pany in Mosul when they were The grainy video shot cov- today.” abducted after the militants over- ertly shows Delhi unit vice-pres- The BJP criticised the video but ran the area in June. ident Sher Singh Dagar making made no effort to defend Dagar. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi yesterday. IANS the bribe offer to AAP’s Dinesh “They (AAP) have been doing Steinmeier is on a three-day visit to India. Mohaniya if he resigned so as to this for long. Earlier, they made bring down the effective strength allegations against (now central of the hung Delhi assembly. minister) Nitin Gadkari... and now Dagar made an angry rebut- again they are attacking us. This is tal to the disclosure but no party an attempt to defame the party,” leader came to his defence and BJP leader Vijender Gupta said. SC puts on hold Nithari killer’s execution the party sought to distance itself But Gupta quickly added: “Even from the incident and sought an if Dagar interacted with the NEW DELHI: The Supreme related to Mohd. Arif delivered on The Constitution Bench had because of the absence of hanging explanation from him. (AAP) MLA, it was in his per- Court has put on hold the execu- September 2, the order said. held: “In such cases, the petition- facilities in Dasna. Aam Aadmi Party sources said sonal capacity and not as a leader tion of Nithari killings convict “Considering the urgency of the ers can apply for the reopening He was convicted of the murder that they released the video in a of the BJP.” Surender Koli by a week. matter, we stay the execution of of their review petition within of a girl, Rimpa Halder, who went bid to prevent Lt-Governor Najeeb BJP national secretary R P A bench of Chief Justice- the death sentence of the appli- one month from the date of this missing in Noida in December Jung from inviting the Bharatiya Singh advised Dagar to resign designate Justice H L Dattu and cant/petitioner for a period of one judgment.” 2006. After a police investigation, Janata Party (BJP) to try forming from the party post till he was Justice Anil R Dave passed the week from today (Monday),” the Koli was to be executed yester- she was found to have been mur- a government in Delhi although it proven innocent. order in the intervening night of court said at its urgent hearing day at the Meerut jail. dered by Koli. lacks legislative majority. “I think he should resign from Sunday and yesterday, suspending as it directed that the matter be Koli’s mercy petition was During the probe, the skeletal In the video, played at a press the party till the matter is inves- Koli’s execution on his appeal. Koli listed next week. rejected by President Pranab remains of many other children conference addressed by AAP tigated,” Singh said. was represented by counsel Indira The order staying Koli’s death Mukherjee and he was taken from were recovered from a drain leader and former chief minister Dagar denied he was trying to Jaising. sentence was signed at 1.30 am. the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad dis- adjacent to a house in Nithari, an Arvind Kejriwal, Dagar is seen bribe anyone and insisted that In its brief order, the court said By its judgment delivered on trict to Meerut on September 4 area in Noida where Koli worked exhorting Mohaniya to resign the AAP legislator had come to an application to review the orders September 2, the apex court’s for the execution of his death war- as domestic help for businessman from the AAP and promising him see him at his residence saying he passed on July 24 was placed Constitution Bench said the plea rant, issued by a CBI court. Moninder Singh Pandher. money if he did so. wished to join the BJP. before it at 1 am yesterday. for the review of the court’s ver- Officials had said earlier that Both Koli and Pandher were “Char le lena (Take four),” “He came to me 45 days ago In the application, it was stated dict upholding the death sentence he was to be hanged any time sentenced to death, but later the Dagar is heard saying. Kejriwal and even yesterday (Sunday).... He that the execution of the death would be heard in an open court between September 7 and 12. Allahabad High Court acquitted said “char” stood for Rs40m. wanted to join our party,” Dagar warrant might take place at 5.30 by a bench of three judges. The Central Bureau of Pandher and upheld Koli’s death Dagar also says in the video that said. He claimed he had never yesterday. The Constitution Bench had Investigation (CBI) court in sentence. Koli’s sentence was then after accepting a “token amount”, done any wrong. For recalling and reviewing said its verdict would be applica- Ghaziabad issued a death war- upheld by the Supreme Court. He Mohaniya won’t be allowed to go Dagar had initially called a press the court’s orders, the applicant ble even when the review petition rant to Koli after his mercy peti- filed a mercy petition before the anywhere until the floor test is conference at the party office but relied upon observations made by had been dismissed but the death tion was rejected by the president. president, which was turned down. taken in the Delhi assembly. the venue was shifted to his home the Constitution Bench in a case sentence was yet to be carried out. Koli was shifted to Meerut IANS Dagar is also heard claiming in south Delhi. No reasons were that some other legislators, includ- given. No BJP leader was with him ing three from the AAP, were at the press meet. ready to resign too. Dagar was then served a show The BJP now has 28 members cause notice in the evening. in the 70-seat Delhi legislature “BJP Delhi president Satish Waqf properties to be used commercially after three got elected to the Lok Upadhyay has sought an expla- Sabha. The AAP has 27 mem- nation from party vice president bers and the Congress only eight. Sher Singh Dagar on the basis NEW DELHI: The several waqf properties, including Construction Corporation. would contribute immensely for There are four other members in of media reports indicating his National Waqf Development one in Delhi, two in Rajasthan, six Under the MoU, properties the socio-economic development the house. involvement over his involvement Corporation (NAWADCO) in Madhya Pradesh and seven in lying vacant will be taken up for of minorities. According to the AAP, the in talks with an AAP MLA,” a has identified several proper- Karnataka, which shall be under- easy and early development, said India has the largest number BJP is inducing rival members to party statement said. ties that are being considered taken for development as institu- a statement from the minority of waqf properties in the world. resign from the assembly so as to “The BJP does not believe in for institutional and commer- tional and commercial projects,” affairs ministry. There are more than 490,000 bring down its effective strength. manipulation or dealings and the cial projects, Minority Affairs Heptulla said at the signing of Urban Development Minister registered waqf properties and This will make it easy for the BJP party does not approve of such Minister Najma Heptualla said a memorandum of understand- M. Venkaiah Naidu, who was the annual income from them is to muster a legislative majority. activities in any form,” it added. yesterday. ing (MoU) between NAWADCO also present during the signing about Rs1.63bn. Kejriwal vowed not to let the IANS “NAWADCO has identified and the National Building of the MoU, said the initiative IANS

Mary’s day Samajwadi Party Minister’s son gets anticipatory bail accuses centre BANGALORE: A sessions district, about 230km from here. The case was filed on charges of court here granted anticipa- The judge also directed the rape and cheating under various of vendetta tory bail yesterday to Karthik 30-year-old Karthik to submit his sections of the Indian Penal Code. Gowda, son of Railway Minister passport to the court. Karthik got engaged to Swati, LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi D V Sadananda Gowda, in a The order came after week-long daughter of industrialist Nanaiah Party yesterday accused the rape and cheating case filed arguments by the prosecution and in Kodagu, on August 27. union government and Power against him by Kannada actor Karthik’s counsel, B V Acharya. The probe team interrogated Minister Piyush Goyal of turn- Maithreyi. The court issued an arrest Maithreyi and recorded her ing a blind eye to the power woes Justice Mudi Gowdar of the warrant against Karthik on statement and collected some of Uttar Pradesh and indulging eighth additional chief metro- September 4 after he failed to documents, including certificates, in politics of vendetta. politan magistrate’s court said appear before the investigation photos and voice recordings, Samajwadi Party spokesman Karthik would have to appear team despite repeated summons between August 28 and 30. and Political Pensions Minister before police on the 15th and by police since August 29 for The Gowdas have denied the Rajendra Chowdhary said the 30th of every month and furnish questioning on the charges by the charges and accused Maithreyi of Bharatiya Janata Party-led gov- a Rs200,000 personal bond with model-turned-actress. tarnishing their image. They have ernment at the centre was not sureties of like amount from two As Karthik filed an application also blamed political opponents for cooperating with the Uttar guarantors. for anticipatory bail on August conspiring to bring disrepute to Pradesh government to find solu- Kannada actor Maithreyi 30, his counsel sought time from their family, after Maithreyi said tions to the power crisis in the filed the case on August 27 after police as the plea was being heard she had joined the Congress some state. “The state government is Karthik got engaged to another by the city’s sessions court since years ago as an ordinary member. doing whatever it can from its woman at Madikeri in Kodagu then. IANS limited resources, but the central government and its ministers are busy criticising the UP govern- ment and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav,” Chowdhary said. All districts to have Terming the centre-state Scientist gets US prize relationship as “impractical”, passport offices Chowdhary accused the union WASHINGTON: Indian scientist Kamal Bawa, a distinguished Minister of State for Power, NEW DELHI: External Affairs professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Piyush Goyal, of being “stubborn Minister Sushma Swaraj yes- has won the 2014 Midori Prize in Biodiversity for his research, and factually incorrect”. terday conveyed her resolve to including in climate change in the Himalayas. On the coal shortage that has set up passport ‘seva kendras’ Bawa, founder president of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology hit state-owned power stations, in all districts across India. and the Environment (ATREE) in Bangalore, will receive the prize the spokesman said the union “We will set up passport ‘seva with a cash award of $100,000 during the October 16-17 Conference power ministry was “prejudiced” kendras’ in every district. There of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in South Korea. against the state government. is only one passport seva kendra The prize also honours his contributions to research in ecology of He said it was a sorry state of for every state which is why peo- tropical forests, sustainable use of tropical forests, promoting engage- affairs that Uttar Pradesh, which ple living in other districts face ment of civil society in conservation efforts, and for his leadership role sent 71 BJP leaders to the Lok problems in getting passports,” in setting up ATREE. Sabha, was not being cared for. Sushma Swaraj told the media The announcement of the prize was made yesterday at the Convention State BJP spokesman Vijay here. on Biological Diversity Secretariat in Montreal, and at the AEON Bahadur Pathak said Uttar By October 31, passport ‘seva Environmental Foundation in Japan, co-hosts of the prize, according Pradesh was facing a power cri- kendras’ will be set up in 33 dis- to a media release from ATREE. sis because the state government Devotees attend the Annual St Mary’s Basilica Feast procession in tricts. All the northeastern states The prize honours individuals who have made outstanding contribu- “neither cares nor has a strategy Bangalore. The Roman Catholic Church marks the birth of Mother Mary will have passport ‘seva kendras’ tion to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources at to tackle the grim power scenario”. on September 8 every year. soon, she added. local and global levels, and raised awareness about biodiversity. IANS IANS IANS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Rescue efforts scaled up in Kashmir; toll 160 350 villages submerged; no Haj flights until Sept. 12 SRINAGAR: The Indian mili- stranded on rooftops in Srinagar has distributed 5,000 blankets, 140 tary yesterday scaled up its following days of torrential rains tents, 23,000 litres of water and massive operation to rescue and flash floods. 600 kg of biscuits. thousands marooned in Jammu Disaster officials say at least Water bottles are being airlifted and Kashmir’s worst floods in 350 villages have been submerged from Chandigarh and New Delhi. 50 years, which have claimed by monsoon rains. Eighty medical teams have swung more than 160 lives. With seven more people dying into action. A total of 85 tonnes of With phone lines down and in a landslide in Udhampur yes- medicines have been airlifted. roads cut off, the full scale of the terday, the death toll in a week Fifty-two Indian Air Force disaster in the Kashmir region of devastation has crossed 160, helicopters and transport aircraft was still to emerge but video officials said. have flown 140 sorties and dropped footage shot from army helicop- A defence ministry spokesman 155 tonnes of relief materials. ters showed entire villages under said that the army had rescued But officials admitted that the Soldiers begin work on temporarily fixing the damaged bridge over Tawi river at Mandal village, on the outskirts water, with only tin roofs visible. 23,530 people from different situation was grim and there was The army, navy and the air regions of the state. no contact yet with remote areas of Jammu, yesterday. Half of the bridge was washed away in floods. force used boats, helicopters and Deploying hundreds of men for in the Kashmir Valley now made planes in a bid to reach thousands rescue and relief work, the army more inaccessible by all-round long-time Srinagar resident. “This The only communication tool availability of petrol all over destruction. is like hell.” still up and running was the police Srinagar. Fuel station operators Srinagar, the summer capital of Police and the Central Reserve wireless system. were rationing the fuel, giving just the state, remained mostly under Police Force also joined the res- The army has established shel- one litre to each vehicle. water. The overflowing Jhelum cue efforts, at places transporting ter camps at Poonch, Rajouri, All educational institutes have took virtually the entire city in its the marooned to safer places in Thanamandi, Bela, Potha, Sanai, been shut. All Haj flights to Saudi grip, barring the old parts located trucks. Kishtwar, Akhnoor, Budhal, Arabia have been cancelled until on higher ground. Yesterday, the army airlifted its Gulabgarh, Sungri, Salomé, Gul, September 12. Srinagar air- Residents said that in some communication equipment and Kandi, Samote, Mahore and port was cut off from the city by areas two- and three-storey houses BSNL loads were flown in from Chasana areas. heavy flooding just 700 yards out- had almost gone under water, and Bangalore and Jammu. Each camp is now home to 50 side the terminal, according to a that thousands in Srinagar were Most of Srinagar’s residential to nearly 1,200 homeless people. correspondent. sheltering on rooftoops hoping and and commercial areas have been Except for connectivity between The silver lining is that there praying for an early rescue. inundated. Residents and traders Srinagar and north Kashmir’s was sunshine in both the valley With radio and television serv- scrambled to save whatever they Ganderbal district, all other dis- and Jammu, with the weather ices crippled, most mobile phones could from the muddy and swirl- tricts of the valley - including office saying there would be fair not functional and no Internet ing waters of the Jhelum river. Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, weather for the next four days. connectivity, there were no The waters have entered homes, Shopian, Badgam, Baramulla and The water level in all mountain tweets from Chief Minister Omar shops, businesses, schools and col- Bandipora - were cut off. streams and seasonal drains has Abdullah -- and no easy way to leges, hospitals, mosques and army The Srinagar-Jammu highway gone down. get in touch with senior police and camps. There was a sea of water at and the Srinagar-Leh highway But the Jhelum, which caused civil officials. Lal Chowk, the city centre. were closed for the fourth day maximum devastation, was still Flood-affected people eat food provided by the government in Majheen, “I have never seen anything like People plied boats on flooded yesterday. flowing above the danger mark. about 20km from Jammu, yesterday. this,” said Mohammed Ashraf, a streets to reach higher ground. The floods have hit the IANS Modi-Sharif meeting in US likely Ailing Italian Marine may NEW DELHI: India yester- The possibility of the New York “There is no flaw in our sides would talk to each other be allowed to go home day held out the possibility of talks looked bleak after India Pakistan policy. We had good talks when needed. talks between Prime Minister called off foreign secretary-level during the May meeting between Asked if the Modi government NEW DELHI: External Affairs station once a week. Narendra Modi and Pakistani talks scheduled for August 25 in Modi and Sharif. But they have would speak to the Pakistani mil- Minister Sushma Swaraj yes- It said Lattore was exempted Premier Nawaz Sharif in New Islamabad over the Pakistani high not been able to start trade on itary given the political upheaval terday held out hope of Italian from reporting to the police sta- York this month, with External commissioner in India, Abdul the Wagah-Attari border.” in that country, the minister said Marine Massimilano Latorre tion for two weeks. Affairs Minister Sushma Basit, hobnobbing with Kashmiri “On the foreign secretary talks, India would speak only to the being allowed to return to his The exemption came into force Swaraj saying there were no separatist leaders. Those talks our foreign secretary spoke to elected government in Pakistan. country for two months follow- retrospectively from August 31. full stops in diplomacy and the were meant to be the precursor theirs and it was decided to hold Asked if Pakistan’s response ing a mild brain stroke he suf- Counsel K T S Tulsi, appearing government would respond as to a Modi-Sharif meeting. it in Islamabad, and on August to Modi’s offer of help in relief fered recently. for Lattore, told the court that he situations changed. Sushma Swaraj said that Modi, 25. But before that what was the efforts in Pakistan-administered Answering a query at her first (Lattore) was in depression and In her first press meet since in his talks with Sharif in New need (for the Pakistan envoy) to Kashmir had not been very wel- press conference, Swaraj said was admitted to the Ganga Ram taking charge of the ministry in Delhi after his swearing-in cer- invite the separatists?” Swaraj coming, Swaraj said she did not the government is “not opposed” Hospital in August-end and was May, Sushma Swaraj said the emony, had taken several initia- said. think so. to Latorre being sent back on discharged only on Sunday. government would decide on tives to take forward bilateral “What was the need, what She said Pakistan’s “bhav” “humanitarian grounds”. However, He said Lattore wanted to go talks between Modi and Sharif ties, including proposing trade did they achieve? We have said or feeling was good to Modi’s she said the resolution of the case home to be with his family and on the sidelines of the UN on the Wagah-Attari border and clearly that if you speak with offer “and I think it should be rested on the judicial process. children. The court was told that General Assembly as the situa- the foreign secretary-level talks. them, we will call off talks, and so appreciated”. Her response came as the the Italian ambassador was willing tion developed. “Who derailed this initiative? we called off the talks.... Where is Modi, who visited flood- Supreme Court yesterday asked to give any guarantee for Lattore’s “There are no full stops in It was Pakistan,” she said. the flaw in insisting that they not affected regions of Jammu the government to respond to return upon the expiry of two diplomacy,” she said. “We will Asked if there was a flaw in interfere in our internal affairs?” and Kashmir Sunday, wrote Latorre’s plea seeking to go back months. respond as the situation devel- India’s Pakistan policy in the Swaraj asked. to Sharif offering assistance in to his country for two months for The two Marines have been ops. We are not going with a pre- wake of the sari-shawl diplomacy Answering a query on ceasefire relief efforts. Pakistan in turn treatment. held in India since February 2012 determined mindset,” she said in of good ties between the two lead- violations on the Line of Control, expressed its sadness over loss of Asking the central government when they allegedly shot dead two response to another query on the ers which culminated in the talks Swaraj said the directors general life in Kashmir and offered help. to respond, the bench of Chief Indian fishermen off Kerala, mis- possibility of Modi-Sharif talks. being called off, Swaraj denied it. of military operations on the two IANS Justice R M Lodha, Justice Kurian taking them for pirates. Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali In April 2012, Rome paid Nariman set September 12 as the $190,000 to each of the victims’ next date of hearing. families as compensation. In The court also relaxed its order return, the families dropped their asking the Italian Marines — cases against the marines, but the No FDI in multi-brand retail, says minister Latorre and Salvatore Girone — to state’s case continues. report to the Chanakyapuri police AGENCIES NEW DELHI: The government Sitharaman said, addressing a minds. We are clear that we do the sector, but the BJP does not will not allow foreign direct press conference here on the ini- want FDI in multi-brand retail. intend to scrap this policy. investment (FDI) in multi-brand tiatives by her ministry in the 100 It is just that we do not see there Pointing to the prevailing retail, Commerce and Industry days of the NDA regime. is a need for us to come out with impression that e-commerce is a Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sitharaman said the Bharatiya any notification specifying this as way to bring in FDI into multi- said yesterday. Janata Party (BJP) had clearly we are not sitting on applications,” brand retail through the “back Sahara chief gets 15 “We are clear that FDI will not articulated its position on foreign Sitharaman said. door”, Sitaraman said: “We do not be allowed in multi-brand retail equity in multi-brand retail and The previous UPA government allow FDI in e-commerce as well, trade. We shall not entertain FDI won the elections on the basis of had opened the multi-brand retail as the policy is the same as that days more to sell hotels in MBRT. There is no ambiguity. the manifesto. sector for foreign investment and for multi-brand retail.” There is no confusion on this,” “There is no conflict in our allowed up to 51 percent FDI in IANS NEW DELHI: The Supreme extension end on September 9. Court yesterday granted While granting the exten- another 15 working days to sion, the court noted the state- Sahara Group chief Subrata ment by senior counsel S Ganesh, Ganesh immersion Roy to negotiate the sale of appearing for Sahara, that Sahara three hotels in New York and would try to clinch the deal in the Sena corporator to London to arrange Rs100bn extended time and seek no fur- ($1.65bn) as part payment of ther extension. be Mumbai mayor investors’ money. Roy, 66, has been held in a The part payment of Rs100bn New Delhi jail for more than six MUMBAI: First-time Shiv that group companies SIRECL months after failing to appear Sena corporator and former LIC and SHICL have to pay to market at a contempt hearing over his officer Snehal Ambekar is all set regulator SEBI also happens to be group’s failure to repay billions of to be elected the 73rd mayor of the condition for the grant of bail dollars to investors who were sold Mumbai, while ally BJP’s Alka to Roy and two other group direc- outlawed bonds. Kerkar, a former teacher, may tors, Ravi Shankar Dubey and Roy has been personally negoti- be the deputy mayor, officials Ashok Roy Choudhary, who are ating the sale of the hotels, includ- said here yesterday. in judicial custody since March 4. ing Grosvenor House in London The mayoral elections will be A bench of Justice T S Thakur, and the Plaza in New York since held today as outgoing mayor Justice Anil R Dave and Justice A August 5, when he was allowed to Sunil Prabhu completes his two- K Sikri, while granting another use office facilities in the Tihar and-half-year term. extension of 15 working days in prison complex. As per new norms, this time the conference hall of the Tihar In the course of the hearing, the prestigious post is reserved Jail court complex, said: “If we the court asked Sahara’s counsel for a Scheduled Caste woman shut the doors on him, it does not if they were facing so many dif- candidate, who will be the fourth take him or us anywhere.” ficulties in raising Rs100bn what woman to occupy the post in the The second extension of 15 would happen when they have Municipal Corporation of Greater Devotees gather around the idols of Ganesh, the Hindu deity of prosperity, before they are carried for immer- working days commences on to raise the balance amount of Mumbai’s 124-year-old history. sion in the Arabian Sea on the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai yesterday. September 10 as the 15 work- Rs270-280bn. IANS ing days granted in the first IANS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Louhelainen was then able Dolphin Tale 2 Ripper, whose grisly murders to match DNA from the semen terrorised the murky slums of stains to Kosminski’s descendant. Whitechapel in east London in For Edwards, this places 1888, has been a mystery ever Kosminski at the scene of Eddowes’ since, with dozens of suspects that gruesome murder. Eddowes, 46, include royalty and prime minis- was killed on the same night as the ters down to bootmakers. Ripper’s third victim. An orphan But after extracting DNA from with a daughter and two sons, she Author Russell Edwards (left) and a shawl recovered from the scene of worked as a casual prostitute. She Karen Miller, a direct descendant one of the killings, which matched was found brutally murdered at of Jack the Ripper’s fourth victim relatives of both the victim and one 1:45am. Her throat was cut and Catherine Eddowes, who was killed of the suspects, Jack the Ripper A sketch of Jewish emigre Aaron she was disembowelled. Her face on September 30, 1888. sleuth Russell Edwards claims the Kosminski, who author Russell was also mutilated. The belief is identity of the murderer is now Edwards claims in his new book that the shawl was left at the crime buried three days later at East beyond doubt. was serial killer Jack the Ripper. scene by the killer, not Eddowes. Ham Cemetery in east London. He says the infamous killer is Kosminski was born in Klodawa Some have cast doubt on Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish emi- briefly spent a few years on loan in central Poland on September Edwards’ findings. gre from Poland, who worked as to Scotland Yard’s crime museum. 11, 1865. His family fled the impe- The research has not been pub- a barber. Edwards, a businessman Edwards sought to find out if rial Russian anti-Jewish pogroms lished in a peer-reviewed scien- interested in the Ripper story, DNA technology could conclu- and emigrated to east London in tific journal, meaning the claims bought a bloodstained Victorian sively link the shawl to the murder the early 1880s. He lived close to cannot be independently verified shawl at auction in 2007. scene. Working on the blood stains, the murder scenes. or the methodology scrutinised. The story goes that it came Doctor Jari Louhelainen, senior Some reports say he was taken Professor Alec Jeffreys, who from the murder scene of the lecturer in molecular at Liverpool in by the police to be identified by invented the DNA fingerprinting Ripper’s fourth victim, Catherine John Moores University, isolated a witness who had seen him with technique 30 years ago this week, Eddowes, on September 30, 1888. seven small segments of mitochon- one of the victims, and though a called for further verification. Police acting sergeant Amos drial DNA, which is passed down positive identification was made, “An interesting but remarkable Simpson, who had been at the through the female line. the witness refused to give incrimi- claim that needs to be subjected to scene, got permission from his They were matched with the nating evidence, meaning the police peer review, with detailed analy- superiors to take it for his dress- DNA of Karen Miller, a direct had little option but to release sis of the provenance of the shawl maker wife — who was subse- descendant of Eddowes, confirm- him. He entered a workhouse in and the nature of the claimed quently aghast at the thought of ing her blood was on the shawl. 1889, where he was described on DNA match with the perpetra- using a bloodstained shawl. Meanwhile stains exposed admission as “destitute”. He was tor’s descendants and its power of It had hitherto been passed under ultra-violet light suggested discharged later that year but soon discrimination; no actual evidence US actor and cast member Kris Kristofferson at the premiere of down through the policeman’s the presence of seminal fluid. ended up in an insane asylum. has yet been provided,” Jeffreys ‘Dolphin Tale 2’ in Westwood, California. The movie opens in the US direct descendants, who had Doctor David Miller, reader He died from gangrene in an told The Independent newspaper. theatres on September 12. stored it unwashed in a box. It in molecular andrology at the asylum on March 24, 1919 and was AFP Excited Al Pacino makes a splash at Toronto film festival TORONTO: Al Pacino was so occasional actor Harmony small town who lives alone that they see and I know excited to be promoting his latest Korine (Spring Breakers). with a cat and cannot forget they’ll be supportive.” film Manglehorn at the Toronto As Green was saying he the love of his life, premiered “That was The Godfather. film festival yesterday that he liked Pacino’s “unpredict- last week in Venice before Francis Coppola wanted me knocked over glass after glass of able, playful quality... as an coming to screens in Toronto. in The Godfather above every- water at a press conference. actor,” Pacino accidentally Pacino also appears in Barry body else; nobody else wanted He appeared along with knocked over a glass on a Levinson’s The Humbling, me and he did, and he stuck director David Gordon Green table. Moments later, another which premiered at the fes- with that and he believed me. (Pineapple Express) and co-stars glass was knocked over acci- tival this week too. And I was in it knowing the Holly Hunter (The Piano, Saving dentally, and another, and “I’ve been on so many red whole time about how sup- Grace) and writer-director and another. carpets,” Pacino said. “I started portive he was.” Running off to grab tow- to like it. Just the other day I After 40 years in the film els to mop up, Pacino’s dis- thought, ‘Hey this ain’t bad.’ business, he said he feels that tinctive voice could be heard You can make friends on it, he’s in the “luxurious position shouting in jest: “I’m leaving, you can meet different people, of being able to choose some- they destroyed the press con- old friends come together.” thing I want to do”. Pressed as ference! They threw stuff all More seriously Pacino on to whether the new film was over the place!” “I’m just so his role in Manglehorn com- deserving of a second Academy excited (about the movie),” mented: “I believe when a award — the first was in 1993 he said when he came back. director sees you in a role for Scent of a Woman — he FROM LEFT: Moderator Elvis Mitchell, actors Al Pacino and Holly Hunter at the “Manglehorn” Manglehorn, a Texas-set that you know you’re going to quipped: “Of course!” press conference during the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. story of a locksmith in a get involved with something AFP Tuesday 9 September 2014 14 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6183 Price: QR2

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QR5.2bn LONDON/EDINBURGH: The British pound slid and the stock market shuddered yes- terday after an opinion poll showed for the first time that Scots may vote for independ- contracts ence next week in a referendum that could herald the break up of the United Kingdom. Deals for offshore drilling rigs Sterling fell more than one per- cent — its biggest one-day drop in DOHA: Gulf Drilling The contracts were signed 13 months — to $1.6145 in early International (GDI), a sub- by the Minister of Energy and European trading while more sidiary of Gulf International Industry and the Chairman and than £3bn ($4.8bn) was wiped off Services (GIS), the largest oil- Managing Director of QP, H E Dr the market value of five London- field service company in Qatar, Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, listed companies with large expo- announced to have inked sev- and Ibrahim J Al Othman, the sure to Scotland. eral contracts worth QR5.2bn CEO of GDI. It the ceremony “The speed with which the polls (about $1.43bn) with Qatar was attended by Saad Sherida Al have flipped has clearly been a Petroleum (QP). Kaabi, Director of Oil and Gas shock to a lot of people,” said Adam A press statement issued yes- Ventures at QP. H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada and Ibrahim J Al Othman signing the contracts. Myers, European head of FX strat- terday said that these contracts The new contracts will allow egy at Credit Agricole in London. include four new contracts and continuing, as well as expanding, the GDI Board of Directors for total of eighteen drilling rigs, in psi mud pumps, a 15,000 psi choke After months of polls showing four contract extensions with the important development work their continuous support and addition to one accommodation manifold, 150 man accommoda- nationalists heading for defeat, QP for the provision of drilling Qatar Petroleum is undertak- guidance. jack-up and two liftboats. tion, 10,000 HP power packages, the survey by the respected rig services, each having a term ing. Each of the contracted rigs He said: “GDI fully appreci- The new offshore drilling rig off-line building stands, and a 75 YouGov pollster raised the real of five years. is being customised to meet the ates the value of the partnership “Halul” is currently being built foot cantilever outreach. prospect that secessionists could The new contracts have been best in class criteria specified by that has been developed with QP,” to the proven Mod VB Bigfoot The two new land rigs are cur- achieve their goal of breaking the concluded for the provision of Qatar Petroleum.” adding “These contracts will posi- design, similar to the recently rently under construction in the 307-year-old union with England. two new offshore drilling rigs The Minister praised the high tively impact our revenue growth delivered rig “Dukhan.” These USA. GDI-7 will be a 1500HP rig A vote for independence by “Dukhan” and “Halul” and two quality of services provided by immediately which will positively rigs are expected to be placed into while GDI-8 will be a 3000HP rig, Scotland’s four million voters new land rigs GDI-7 and GDI-8; GDI, and the level of commitment reflect on our profitability for service in Q-4 of 2014 and Q2 of making it the biggest land rig in would be followed by negotia- while contract extensions allow and dedication it has demon- this year and the next five years. 2016, respectively. GDI’s fleet. The bigger rig will tions with London on what to do the continuation of services per- strated to achieve its challenging Furthermore, the addition of a These offshore rigs will be the provide GDI with the capability about the pound, the $2.1 trillion formed by four land rigs GDI-1, goals. new offshore rig for QP “Halul” newest rigs in GDI’s fleet. Each of drilling deeper wells and exe- national debt, North Sea oil and GDI-2, GDI-3 and GDI-4. The Al Othman took the oppor- in 2016 will greatly support our rig will come complete with a cen- cuting extended reach wells to a the future of Britain’s nuclear awarding of these contracts was tunity to express gratitude and long term revenue growth plans.” trifuge system for solids control, much greater depth. submarine base in Scotland ahead announced in previous reports. appreciation of the Minister, and By mid-2016, GDI will have a extra bulk hoppers on deck, 7,500 THE PENINSULA of independence pencilled in for March 24, 2016. With less than two weeks to go before the September 18 vote, the poll put the “Yes” to independence campaign on 51 percent against Qatar’s dependence on hydrocarbon revenues declines “no” camp on 49 percent, exclud- ing undecided voters, overturning a 22-point lead for the unionist DOHA: As a result of continued non-hydrocarbon sector in Qatar’s trends, it is clear that the contri- Petroleum’s subsidiaries), and Since the global financial cri- campaign in just a month, the efforts and government sup- GDP is projected to grow from 49 bution of non-oil public revenue accounted for around 16.9 per- sis, the GCC economies have Sunday Times said. port to diversify its energy-rich percent in 2014 to 57.2 percent by in Saudi and Kuwait is far lower cent of the GDP and almost 44 consistently outperformed their Britain’s benchmark FTSE economy, Qatar has emerged as 2016 with the sector witnessing a that it is in Qatar and the UAE. In percent of total revenues in Fiscal global peers, growing by about 24 100 index fell after the YouGov the least dependent country on double-digit growth. terms of overall revenues, Qatar Year 2013-14. The government’s percent during the last five year poll. Five of the top 10 falls were hydrocarbon revenues among “However, in Saudi Arabia and has registered a double digit long-term objective is to finance period until 2013, supported by companies connected to Scotland the four major GCC economies, Kuwait, the figure is close to 90 growth of 19 percent annually its entire budgetary operations robust oil revenues - which the - Lloyds Banking Group, Royal said a report on major GCC percent and 93 percent, respec- over the last five years, far ahead through non-hydrocarbon rev- GCC countries are highly depend- Bank of Scotland, Standard Life, State’s spending behaviours. tively. This is in contrast to other of others, reflecting a strong rise enue by 2020 and has allocated ent on. energy group SSE and engineer- “Hydrocarbon revenues in resource rich economies such as in both hydrocarbon and non- significant capital towards devel- The report said that the low ing firm Weir group. Qatar and the UAE account for Norway, where revenues from oil hydrocarbon sectors. opment of infrastructure, health contribution of the non-hydro- Banking industry sources told close to 60 percent of the total account for just about 30 percent Qatar has also outpaced other and education. carbon sector primarily reflects Reuters last week that Lloyds is con- revenues of the countries”, said of government revenues,” said the GCC countries in terms of non- The annual budget spending the policy decision of maintain- sidering moving its registered offices the report on ‘GCC budget anal- statement. hydrocarbon sector revenue in GCC countries still continues ing a low or zero-tax environment to London if Scots vote for inde- ysis and government spending The report focused on the growth, posting an 18 percent to be driven almost entirely by to assist private sector activity. pendence. RBS is also examining its behaviors’ released by Alkhabeer region’s four leading economies CAGR over the last five years. A income from the export of hydro- Although there has been specula- options. The two banks have warned Capital, a Saudi-based leading namely, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar major part of the non-hydrocar- carbons although the contribu- tion of introduction of GCC-wide that an independent Scotland would asset management and invest- and Kuwait. Of the GCC coun- bon revenue comes from invest- tion of non-hydrocarbon GDP to value added tax, we do not expect present a significant risk to their ment firm. tries, Saudi and Kuwait are the ment income, which consists of the overall GDP has significantly such a decision in the foreseeable businesses, impacting their funding, According to latest offi- most dependent on oil revenues. transfer of profits from public increased over the past two dec- future. tax and compliance costs. cial statistics, the share of Comparing budgetary revenue enterprises (including Qatar ades across the region. THE PENINSULA REUTERS

Hai Au seaplane begins service Opec pain threshold in view as oil dips

LONDON/DUBAI: Oil’s slide Libya, Nigeria and Iran,” said an zone cited by Saudi Oil Minister Ali below $100 a barrel yesterday Opec delegate. “But the geopoli- al-Naimi in June, when he said oil brings prices closer to levels tics is there and cold weather is at “$100, $110, $95 is a good price.” where more Opec countries face approaching, which will support Estimates from the financial worries, prompting prices,” the delegate added. International Monetary Fund some in the producer group to The United States shale oil indicate that while current prices voice concern about too much boom is inflating global supplies. are comfortable for OPEC’s core oil in the market. Within Opec, Libyan output has Gulf members, they are below Brent crude fell below $100 risen and Iraqi exports have mostly levels members including Iran, a barrel for the first time in 14 continued flowing despite conflicts Algeria and Iraq need in 2014 for months, hit by concerns about in those countries, while output their fiscal balance to be zero. slower economic growth and has edged up in Nigeria and Iran. The group has a nominal tar- ample supply. Top Opec exporter Another Opec delegate said get to produce 30 million barrels Saudi Arabia favours oil at prices were under pressure from per day and in August, pumped $100, which many others in the too much oil, something some more than that level, according 12-member group also support. member countries were watching. to a Reuters survey, due in part For now, Organisation of the However most Opec officials con- to a rise in Libya. OPEC is not Petroleum Exporting Countries tacted by Reuters continued to scheduled to meet to review its delegates said yesterday they see the price drop as short-lived. output policy until late November. were not alarmed, expecting win- “The fall in prices is a tempo- Still, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and ter demand to support prices. But rary thing. They are still within the United Arab Emirates could still, signs of concern are emerg- the acceptable range. There is no trim supply informally such as to ing about the level of supplies. real worry,” said a delegate from make room for a further recovery Containers of Dinh Vu port are seen from a seaplane of Hai Au Aviation during its first flight from Hanoi to “As with concern about the one of Opec’s Gulf members. in Libya, an Opec source said in Ha Long, yesterday. Hai Au Aviation, the sixth airline of Vietnam, started its business by two Cessna Grand drop in oil prices it was a result Opec does not have an official price August, although no evidence of Caravan seaplanes yesterday for the Ha Long Bay tourism route. of weak demand and oversupply target and prices still need to fall this happening has come to light. mainly from the US, recovery in further to be outside an acceptable REUTERS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Electrolux buys GE Appliance for $3.3bn Swedish firm takes on Whirlpool, to double sales in US; Electrolux plans right issue to raise 25pc of price

STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s about it. I think the fit — the Financial Officer Tomas Eliasson family and owner of 15.5 percent GE said last month that it represented 32 percent. Organic Electrolux said yesterday it strategic fit, the industrial logic told a conference call. of Electrolux’s capital, gave the was evaluating strategic options growth in North America was 7 would double US sales by pay- — is compelling,” Electrolux Chief “If they manage to realise the deal and the right issue its stamp for the home appliance busi- percent while in Europe it was ing $3.3bn in cash for General Executive Keith McLoughlin said. synergies, it’s clearly a good mul- of approval. ness, including discussions with 0.4 percent. Electric Co’s appliances business While the price tag is higher tiple,” said Kepler Cheuvreux “As the leading owner, with Electrolux. Rival Whirlpool had revenues in its biggest ever deal, giving than the $2.5bn figure people analyst Johan Eliason, adding a long-term ownership horizon, Last year, GE Appliances — of $18.8bn in 2013 against $22.5bn it the scale to go head-to-head familiar with the deal suggested the inclusion of the Mabe stake we find Electrolux’s acquisition which sells refrigerators, cookers, for a combined Electrolux and GE with larger rival Whirlpool. to Reuters last week, analysts said would strengthen Electrolux’s of GE Appliances industrially air conditioners and water heat- Appliances. GE’s century-old household the company was not overpaying. position in Latin America on top attractive and fully support it,” ers and air conditioners under Whirlpool has also been on the appliance business, which had The deal includes GE’s 48.4 per- of the clout it is gaining in North Investor Chief Executive Börje the GE Monogram, GE Cafe and acquisition path, buying a 60 per- $5.7bn in 2013 revenue, could cent stake in Mexican appliances America. Ekholm said. Hotpoint brands — had sales of cent stake in Italian firm Indesit, help the Swedish company expand maker Mabe. “They’re getting access to Electrolux shares were up 5.9 $5.7bn, 90 percent of which were which had revenues of ¤2.7bn beyond its core European market Electrolux said the price was both North and South America percent at 198.60 crowns at 1048 in North America, with EBITDA ($3.49bn) in 2013. It has also where growth has trailed that in 7.0-7.3 times GE Appliance’s in a very good way, and will GMT, outperforming the wider of $390m, including the share of agreed to buy Hefei Rongshida North America. estimated 2014 earnings before become very strong in all of the Stockholm market, giving the profit from Mabe. Sanyo Electric Co which had 2013 Electrolux, the world’s sec- tax, interest, depreciation and Americas,” Eliason said. company a market capitalisation Electrolux, which sells under revenues of around $850m. ond-largest appliance maker by amortisation (EBITDA), based The deal will be financed by a of $8.7bn. brands such as Frigidaire, AEG Deutsche Bank and SEB sales, will see its annual sales on an enterprise value (includ- bridge facility and the company General Electric Co put the and Zanussi as well as its own Corporate Finance were in North America more than ing debt) of $3.45bn, according to plans a rights issue to raise about profitable but low-margin appli- name, is the world’s second-larg- Electrolux’s financial advisors double to over $10bn, similar in ThomsonReuters data. 25 percent of the price after the ance business up for sale in 2008 est home appliance maker after on the deal, while Davis Polk & size to Whirlpool’s sales there. It Including expected annual deal’s expected closing next year, but talks fizzled out as the global Whirlpool, but has its strongest Wardwell was lead legal advi- also gets to keep the iconic GE cost savings of around $300m, Electrolux said. recession took hold. The unit is market position in Europe. sor. GE was advised by Goldman Appliance’s brands. the multiple paid for GE would Investor, the investment com- almost exclusively focused on the In 2013, western Europe Sachs and law firm Sidley Austin “I think it’s a historic event be much lower at around five pany founded by US market and has lacked global accounted for 28 percent of LLP. for Electrolux. I’m very excited times EBITDA, Electrolux Chief Sweden’s Wallenberg scale. group sales while North America REUTERS

Russian wheat prices soar Sukuk issuance in RBS set to raise $4bn Gulf region declines from US listing

DOHA: Issuance of corpo- relative to levels in the fourth of Citizens rate and infrastructure sukuk quarter of 2013, when sukuk (securities that conform with predominated. LONDON: State-backed Royal Islamic law) has trended down- The small number of corpo- Bank of Scotland aims to raise ward this year in the Gulf rate and infrastructure entities up to $4bn from the share flo- region and Malaysia, despite that currently issue sukuk in the tation of its US bank Citizens continued supportive market GCC and Asia was another rea- Financial Group this month, conditions such as low interest son for fall in issuances. The small it was announced yesterday, rates and appetite from inves- pool means that if even a few key putting it on track to be the big- tors. According to Standard & issuers have no compelling need gest US bank share offering this Poor’s Ratings Services report to tap the capital markets in a year. released yesterday, issuance in given year or have refinanced or RBS, which is 81 percent owned the Gulf Cooperation Council redeemed debt in recent years, by the UK government after being (GCC) fell 33 percent in the the resulting pullback in issuance rescued in 2008, has come under first eight months of the year can have a big impact on overall pressure from UK regulators to to August 31, 2014, on the same volumes. improve its capital base and focus period of 2013, to $6.5bn. The report expects that if con- on its domestic business, and the Performance was somewhat bet- ditions remain broadly conducive bank had already made clear it ter in Malaysia, the largest market to the development of the capital planned to sell up to a quarter of for corporate and infrastructure markets, prospects for greater Citizens this year through an ini- sukuk, declining about 7 percent issuance and more diversity in tial public offer (IPO). over the same period. By contrast, corporate and infrastructure issu- RBS said yesterday it would total sukuk issuance — including ance across entities will grow as H harvesters work on a wheat field of the Solgonskoye farming company in the village of Solgon, southwest sell 140 million shares in Citizens from financial institutions and well. Certain corporate and infra- from Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Russian wheat prices rose for a second straight week. at between $23 and $25 each in sovereigns — performed far bet- structure issuers have established the New York IPO, and could sell ter, growing by 19 percent in the a successful presence in the sukuk a further 21 million shares in an GCC and by 6 percent in Malaysia market and are coming back over-allotment option granted to over the same period. Standard & with second, third, and fourth the underwriters of the offer. Poor’s Ratings Services attributed issuances, each at compellingly Portugal returns to growth in Q2 Up to 29 percent of the bank much of the drop in corporate and low rates relative to the initial will be sold, valuing Citizens at infrastructure sukuk to cheap and issuance. Examples in the GCC the top end of the price range at ample bank liquidity, which has include Saudi Electricity , Majid LISBON: Portugal, which percent in the first three months ¤78bn ($100bn) bailout in 2011 $14bon. RBS did not set a date for made issuers less reliant on the Al Futtaim, and real estate firms exited a multi-billion euro bail- of 2014, slightly better than the from the European Union and the listing, but it is slated for on capital markets. Aldar, Dar Al Arkan, and Emaar. out scheme in May, returned to 0.6 percent contraction the INE the International Monetary fund, or around September 23, a person Low-priced bank debt contin- The bulk of corporate and growth in the second quarter, had reported initially. which Lisbon exited in May. familiar with the matter said. ues to be an attractive option for infrastructure sukuk issuance is avoiding recession in spite of a Year on year, Portuguese GDP The main driver of recovery RBS said the sale would “sig- issuers in the GCC and Malaysia in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. The banking crisis. Portugal’s gross grew 0.9 percent in the second has been an increase in exports, nificantly improve” its capital relative to the capital markets. report estimates that approxi- domestic product grew by 0.3 quarter following a 1.0-percent which grew 1.6 percent in the position and is “an important According to various market mately $17bn of sukuk in the GCC percent in between April and increase in the first three months of second quarter compared with milestone” for both RBS and sources, loans as a proportion of (across all sectors) will mature July, the National Institute of 2014 compared to the previous year. the previous three months. As a Citizens. total GCC funding have increased between July 2014 and December Statistics (INE) said yesterday. Portugal narrowly avoided dip- result, foreign demand grew 0.8 That represents a premium to from just under 50 percent in 2016, which is equivalent to 65 The rebound “is mainly down ping back into recession—defined percent between April and July, RBS shares, which are trading at 2012 to just over 60 percent of percent of primary issuance in to the progression of exports of by two consecutive quarters of after being down 1.9 percent in about 0.7 times book value. U.S. total funding in 2014. Corporate the year to December 31, 2013. goods and services,” the INE said negative economic growth—after the first quarter. banks of a similar size, such as and infrastructure issuers are The resulting refinancing needs in a statement. a prolonged period of contraction The INE also said on Monday Fifth-Third and BB&T Corp., on increasingly turning to conven- could also boost sukuk issuance The institute reduced its initial sparked by 2008’s financial crisis. that Portuguese exports were average trade at near 1.2 times tional issuance over sukuk, based by corporate and infrastructure estimate of 0.6 percent growth in Its economy had been ham- up 1.3 percent in July from the book value, according to Reuters on the issuance levels in the sec- entities over this period. the second quarter. strung by severe austerity meas- equivalent figure in 2013. data. ond and third quarters this year THE PENINSULA Portugal’s economy shrank 0.5 ures imposed in return for a AFP British trade Bad days ahead for Swedish homes unions demand Japan economy shrinks pay rises LIVERPOOL: British trade unions bosses said declining more than expected living standards will be the battleground for next year’s TOKYO: Japan’s economy preliminary estimate. That makes general election after lashing shrank more than estimated it the worst performance since out against government auster- in April-June, revised data early 2009, at the height of the ity measures at their annual showed yesterday, piling pres- global financial crisis. conference yesterday. sure on the government to delay The disappointing result was The nation’s unions chief another sales tax hike, while largely caused by the negative Frances O’Grady also warned the central bank faces calls to impact of April’s sales tax hike, that Europe-wide austerity expand its stimulus. the first for 17 years, which was measures, implemented after the The figures will come as a blow introduced to lift revenue and global financial crisis, were coun- to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as reduce the country’s massive terproductive, hit living standards his programme aimed at rejuve- national debt. and damaged growth. nating growth struggles to gain Prior to that the economy had “We’ve put the cost of living traction. been on the upswing as Abe’s crisis centre stage on the pub- Second-quarter gross domes- growth blitz, dubbed Abenomics, lic agenda,” said Trades Union tic product (GDP) shrivelled 1.8 helped sharply weaken the yen, Congress (TUC) secretary- percent from the previous three giving a lift to exporters’ profit- general O’Grady at its annual months, worse than the previ- ability and driving a stock market conference. ously estimated fall of 1.7 percent, rally last year. A huge monetary The TUC, the umbrella group the Cabinet Office said. easing campaign by the Bank of for unions representing 6.2 mil- The latest statistics confirmed Japan (BoJ) was a cornerstone of lion workers, is using the meeting the world’s third largest economy the programme. to urge an end to the squeeze on had suffered its steepest quarterly However, the initial enthusiasm public sector spending and pay drop since the 2011 quake and that greeted Abenomics has given that has been imposed since the tsunami disaster. way as the effect of the cheaper Conservative-Liberal Democrat On an annualised basis — if yen has petered out while doubts coalition won power from Labour A sapling stands in front of blocks of flats in the Taby suburb of Stockholm. For many Swedish businesses the performance was replicated have emerged over Abe’s willing- in 2010. “So, come the election, and prosperous households, years of falling taxes and reforms that put maids in middle class homes and over a 12-month period — GDP ness to press on with the struc- we all face a choice,” O’Grady told fed a consumer boom in luxury cars and holidays in Asia may be drawing to a close. contracted 7.1 percent, com- tural reforms Japan needs. delegates. pared with 6.8 percent in the AFP AGENCIES TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Qatar Exchange index Tesla-Toyota tie-up likely resumes uptrend Dubai rises after dipping below 5,000 points

DUBAI: Stock markets in since 2008, and Emaar has said it percent after the company said on Qatar and Dubai resumed their would allocate a substantial portion Sunday that it would diversify into uptrend yesterday after mild of the shares to the retail investors solar and nuclear energy projects. profit-taking in the previous who dominate Dubai’s stock market. Saudi Real Estate Co rose 1.4 session, while most markets in Some IPO shares will be ear- percent after the firm said it the region moved little in the marked for Emaar’s own share- would pay a 5 percent dividend for absence of fresh catalysts. holders as of Sept. 10, which looks the first half of 2014, the same as Qatar’s index edged up 0.6 per- likely to support the stock in the a year earlier, and that sharehold- cent but, for the second time this next two sessions. ers as of Sept. 10 would be eligible. month, failed to hold above 14,000 Abu Dhabi’s bourse rose 0.5 Egypt’s main index pulled back points. Conglomerate Industries percent to 5,186 points, a three- 0.2 percent after hitting a six-year Qatar was the main support, month closing high, as telecom- closing high in the previous ses- gaining 1.1 percent. munications firm Etisalat , its sion. Investment banks Pioneers Dubai’s bourse climbed 1.1 per- largest listed company, added 0.4 Holding and EFG Hermes were cent to 5,091 points after briefly percent and large lenders Abu among the main drags, down 3.9 dipping below the psychologically Dhabi Commercial Bank and and 2.2 percent respectively. important 5,000 point level early First Gulf Bank gained 0.7 and Shares in Ezz Steel rose 0.6 Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk poses with a Tesla Model S electric car in Tokyo yesterday. in the session. 0.5 percent respectively. percent. Cairo-based Musk said yesterday that he would not be surprised if there was a significant deal with Toyota Motor Emaar Properties, the emir- The benchmark faces resist- Naeem Brokerage said in a note Corp in the next two to three years. ate’s largest listed developer, was ance at 5,255 points, its May peak. on Monday that, in response to a the main support, rising 1.8 per- Saudi Arabia’s stocks were mixed request from the brokerage, Ezz cent. The company plans to float and its main index rose just 0.07 Steel had denied rumours that it its malls unit this month and sub- percent. Heavyweight Saudi Basic was considering a capital increase scriptions for the shares will open Industries pulled back 0.5 percent. or a rights issue to fund a new Gold inches down on stronger dollar on September 14. But shares in construction facility - which would dilute the The offer would be one of the larg- firm Abdullah Abdul Mohsin stakes of existing shareholders. est equity sales in the Middle East Al Khodari Sons Co jumped 4.2 REUTERS LONDON: Gold edged down Gold has benefitted from low showed supporters of Scottish yesterday as the dollar recov- interest rates in the years after independence from Britain taking ered losses made after a disap- the credit crisis, as this encour- the lead for the first time since pointing US jobs report eased aged investors to put money into the referendum campaign began. concerns about an early inter- the non-interest-bearing assets. Traders said developments in est rate increase, but lower “Gold still struggled to close Ukraine were being watched to Tunisia seeking European shares and uncer- above $1,270 on Friday which see if the ceasefire agreed with the Political unrest to hit tainty over Ukraine limited the suggests to me that surely specu- pro-Russian rebels would hold up. investors for downside. lators, on the modest dollar pull Any worsening of the crisis, which Spot gold was down 0.2 per- back, did not pile massively back has caused the sharpest confron- $6.8bn projects HK economy: Moody’s cent at $1,266.00 an ounce by into gold,” VTB Capital analyst tation between Russia and the 1153 GMT. It fell to a near three- Andrey Kryuchenkov said. West since the Cold War, could month low of $1,256.90 on Friday “The weaker jobs report did not boost gold as it is seen as an insur- GAMMARTH, Tunisia: HONG KONG: Ratings agency 2017, and the resulting credit risk. before gaining support from data wobble the dollar significanty... ance policy during times of politi- Tunisia is seeking foreign Moody’s warned yesterday pro- The agency tempered its warn- showing US employers hired the fianancial players and investors cal and financial uncertainties. investors for $6.82bn worth of longed discord in Hong Kong ing with the view that Hong Kong fewest number of workers in eight in the West stopped buying into For now, the strength in the infrastructure and development over China’s refusal to grant the was well placed to manage any months in August. gold some time ago and it’s still dollar is seen souring demand for projects, as the government key financial hub full democ- economic fallout from ongoing US gold futures fell $0.50 an difficult to see them get back into bullion. Hedge funds and money tries to prop up its faltering racy was still likely and would protests. ounce to $1,266.80. the market when you have much managers decreased their bullish economy. hurt the city’s economy. After 10 years of budget sur- The jobs market is seen as a better returns elsewhere.” futures and option bets in gold for a “We have a 22 projects in Activists in the former British pluses, the city authorities had leading indicator of the Federal The dollar rose 0.2 percent third consecutive week to the lowest many sectors, including energy, colony had their hopes for genu- built up fiscal reserves to “a very Reserve’s rates policy in coming against a basket of leading cur- since June, the Commodity Futures tourism, transport and infra- ine democracy dashed after China high level, equivalent to 36 per- months after the end of the bond rencies, while European equities Trading Commission said on Friday. structure which we will propose announced last week that the cent of GDP”, the statement said. purchases expected in October. dropped after an opinion poll REUTERS to foreign investors present in city’s next leader would be vet- The hub also boasts “one of Tunisia”, said Nidhal Ouerfelli, ted by a pro-Beijing committee. the strongest net international Tunisia’s secretary for economy A coalition of pro-democracy investment positions in the world” affair. groups, led by Occupy Central, allowing it to cope with capital They include projects for the have vowed to usher in a new “era outflows in the event of unrest. construction of dams and port in of civil disobedience” against the However the agency warned the city of Ennfidha. decision, calling on followers to “diminished confidence could start Tunisia will hold its second blockade major thoroughfares in to erode Hong Kong’s standing as free election next month, three the city’s financial district. a global financial centre” if discord years after expelling an autocratic The pro-democracy movement persisted over the long term. regime. Its exercise in democracy has recently lost steam, with sen- The statement from Moody’s is being praised as a model of ior leaders stepping back from echoes similar concerns made by political compromise in an unsta- their more shrill rhetoric and HSBC in July which downgraded ble region. questioning their ability to change Hong Kong’s investment outlook But a successful transition to Beijing’s mind. over the ongoing crisis. democracy depends on stability But Moody’s said it believed HSBC’s statement initially and economic recovery, Prime further demonstrations against blamed Occupy Central’s planned Minister Mehdi Jomaa told China’s decision were likely, protests as being the main cause an investment conference on potentially damaging a vital for the downgrade, though it was Monday. regional trading hub. later altered to tone down the The government cut its fore- “A prolonged period of demon- emphasis on public unrest. cast for economic growth for the strations would likely negatively The updated report said the third time this year on Thursday, affect economic growth, indirectly new rating was due to “the risk from three percent to between 2.3 affecting government finance, of weak residential real estate and 2.5 percent. and confidence and, therefore, prices, the slowdown in mainland Its budget deficit is set to reach capital flows,” Moody’s said in a tourist arrivals, the market’s link 8 percent of gross domestic prod- statement. to US interest rates... and weak uct this year, mostly because of The agency appeared to regard earnings momentum”, before wage costs for public workers and Beijing as bearing ultimate mentioning Occupy. Student subsidies left over from the rule responsibility for any future dis- groups have vowed to press ahead of ousted leader Zine El Abidine turbances through its uncompro- with their own civil disobedience Ben Ali. mising stance on nominations movement separate to Occupy. REUTERS for the chief executive election in AFP

Chinese living standards

Chinese men pass a street lined with old, private businesses in Beihai, a coastal city in southern Guangxi Province. Although China has rapidly strengthened its economy through international trade, it is still considered a developing country due to the fact that the majority of Chinese have a lower living standard than developed countries. TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

UAE credit bureau Lagarde urges Germany to aid recovery starts issuing Germany could go further to help eurozone recovery; region needs more structural reforms consumer data to banks PARIS: International Lagarde told daily Les Echos in International Monetary Fund no net new borrowing for the first Lagarde yesterday hinted that Monetary Fund (IMF) head an interview the process could that it (Germany) can go a bit time since 1969. the global lender could downgrade ABU DHABI: A federal credit Christine Lagarde urged be aided by Germany, which is further, that it can do a bit more, Lagarde told Radio Classique its forecast for world economic bureau in the United Arab Germany to increase invest- borrowing at record-low rates in Germany’s interest.” all the bloc’s member states growth this year when it releases Emirates has begun issuing ments to help spur the euro and on track to record a public Under pressure from major needed to go further than exist- new figures next month. credit information about con- zone’s flagging economic recov- sector surplus for the third year euro zone peers like Italy and ing economic reforms by creating “We are in the process of updat- sumers to banks and finan- ery, adding that the bloc as a running. France to boost public invest- more flexible labour markets and ing our forecasts. World growth cial institutions in an effort to whole needed to make more “We think that public or pri- ment and cut taxes, German freeing up competition. should be just above three percent strengthen the country’s bank- structural reforms. vate investment (in Germany) to Chancellor Angela Merkel has “I think structural reform is this year, between three and 3.5 ing industry. With the eurozone economy finance infrastructure would be left the door open to channelling necessary in terms of labour mar- percent,” Christine Lagarde told Al Etihad Credit Bureau has in the doldrums, the European welcome,” she said, stressing this the budget surplus into spending ket regulations, excessive regula- Les Echos.Lagarde said that for started sending consumer credit Central Bank announced on did not mean making the German programmes. tions in some areas, of areas of the IMF, the European Central reports to banks and financial Thursday a series of measures to economy less competitive. She said investments would economic activity that are too Bank should maintain an expan- institutions that have submitted stimulate growth, with its presi- Asked in a second interview on take priority if Germany had protected and which need to be sionary monetary policy, while historical credit data to it, the dent Mario Draghi expanding on Radio Classique whether Germany money available but the govern- opened up to competition. calling on regulators to keep bureau said yesterday. a call for governments to support could do more to spur a European ment first had to see how the “This goes for everyone... it’s a watchful eye on rising asset Until now, banks in the UAE this process with extra spending. economic recovery, Lagarde told economy developed. true for France, it’s true for prices. have often been unable to access Echoing that sentiment, the radio: “It seems to us at the Germany’s 2015 budget projects Germany, it’s true for Italy.” REUTERS data on consumers at other financial institutions when mak- ing lending decisions. This has allowed borrowers to obtain Stocks discussion money from many lenders and run up big debts which sometimes EU positive of Ireland’s prove impossible to repay. The credit reports include con- sumers’ debt obligations and pay- ment behaviour patterns for the early pay back to IMF past two years. “These reports will no doubt BRUSSELS: European Union portfolio of Ireland, and it is also good contribute positively to the bank- officials support Ireland’s for us,” said the senior EU official. ing sector, playing an important request to be allowed to pay “There are significant savings for role in the assessment and man- back early the International the Irish sovereign,” the official told agement of credit and possible Monetary Fund’s part of its reporters. losses resulting from non-per- bailout because of the money it European Union finance min- forming loans,” the statement would save Dublin, a senior EU isters will discuss the issue on said. official said yesterday. Friday at their informal meeting Individuals can get a compre- In late 2010, Ireland borrowed in Milan. hensive overview of their current money from both the IMF and the Finance Minister Michael financial obligations and debt pay- European Union to avoid bankruptcy Noonan, who will put his proposal ment details of the past two years after it was cut off from market to senior European Commission from the reports, it added. financing. officials in Brussels later yesterday, Some 5.2 million credit facili- The eurozone nation returned to has said he would target the ¤18bn ties of individuals living in the markets after its programme ended ($23bn) of the ¤22bn owed to the UAE have been added to the in December and the cost of replying IMF. bureau’s reporting system. This the IMF is now higher than borrow- Noonan would look to refinance represents 97 percent of all such ing from the European Union and it in three ¤5bn tranches, beginning facilities provided by institutions from markets. before the end of the year. operating in the UAE, the bureau Ireland’s loans to the IMF carry The repayment concessions so said in August. an interest rate of almost five per- far granted by Europe are part of Two German bourse traders chat in front of the DAX share price index board at the stock exchange REUTERS cent, while the cost of borrowing on Ireland’s strategy to even out the in Frankfurt, yesterday. financial markets is less than two repayment schedule of a national percent. debt that it believes peaked at 116 Low bond yields have been helped percent of gross domestic product by investor expectations of a US-style (GDP) last year. bond-buying programme by the The senior EU official said if EU accuses big banks of dodging bonus cap European Central Bank to revive the agreed, Ireland’s early payback to euro zone economy. the IMF would set a precedent for But under Ireland’s bailout deal, other countries to follow. Portugal BRUSSELS:The European Union must and address the claims made that the spirit global banks such as Goldman Sachs and if Dublin wants to pay off any of also ended its bailout programme crack down on banks sidestepping a cap — if not the letter — of Union law is being HSBC have adopted cash allowances in their the loans early, it has to pay back this year. on pay bonuses that were set by Brussels disregarded,” he added. European operations to pay top employees. all lenders, not just one, unless the “There has been no communica- earlier this year, a top EU official said. Designed to curb excessive risk taking in Like bonuses, these do not count towards others agree. tion with Portuguese authorities on Internal Market Commissioner Michel the wake of the global financial crisis, the pensions and can be adjusted year-to-year A senior EU official involved in the this, but it is quite logical that you Barnier said in a letter to the European EU rules came into effect in January and based on performance and other factors. talks said the signs of reaching agree- would start thinking about this,” the Banking Authority, the EU watchdog, that limit bonuses for bankers at 100 percent of In his letter, Barnier urged the EBA to ment were high. official said. “The results of Ireland major Britain-based banks were using so- annual salary or 200 percent with share- accelerate an ongoing review of these prac- “Colleagues are uniformly positive will set an important precedent for called “cash allowances” to reward senior holder approval. Banking is a pillar of the tices “and share with us the result of this about this ... It is good for the Irish other countries.” bankers, adding that they were bonuses in British economy, and the government, which work as soon as possible” so that a suitable sovereign, it is good for the financial REUTERS all but name. “I would like to underline my fiercely resisted the cap, is now fighting the policy response can be found. Barnier’s let- strong concerns with regard to the continu- rules in European courts. ter does not name City of London banks by ing reports of these allowances,” France’s The banks themselves warned that the name, but Britain is by far Europe’s biggest Barnier said in the letter, which was sent limit would seriously undermine recruit- financial hub, far bigger than the centres in on Thursday but emerged yesterday. ing and cause a drain of talent to financial Frankfurt and Paris, and home to some of “It is important to show a collective, centres in Asia, the Middle East and Wall the world’s biggest banking groups. proactive stance on this important matter Street. Since the bonus cap, several major AFP

Nissan to QIMC awards consultancy deal to AEB pay tribute to DOHA: Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company Bathurst 1000 (QIMC), announced that it has awarded the consul- pole position tancy services for their mixed use tower project to Arab DUBAI: Nissan and Norton will Engineering Bureau (AEB), celebrate the 30th anniversary to be located in the West Bay of Nissan’s first Bathurst 1000 area. pole position at the Supercheap Following an international Auto Bathurst 1000 this year. design competition, the team’s Michael Caruso and Dean design for three towers of vari- Fiore’s #36 Norton Nissan Altima ous heights joined at the base will adopt a retro-themed livery by a 4-storey high podium has for ‘The Great Race’ at Mount been chosen. AEB was awarded Panorama this October, depict- full architectural and engineer- ing the colours worn on George ing design services. Fury’s 1984 Nissan Bluebird. QIMC is a 24 years old com- Fury’s turbo-powered entry pany with prime focus on indus- Officials exchange documents during the signing ceremony. stunned the field in the 1984 trial manufacturing. It has event, breaking the lap record in equity interest in 17 operational honey comb pattern, and will Analyzing urban environment, Saturday’s traditional Bathurst projects in various industrial help reduce overall heat gain project is situated along the Top 10 Shootout with a time of sectors. Having a share capital by the building. inclined interlinking circula- 2m13.85s, the first time a man- of QR396m, QIMC is listed in The podium that connects tion system in order to enhance ufacturer other than Ford or the Qatar Stock Exchange. three towers is intended for human interaction and extend General Motors had earned pole Hill International is the a retail space which perfectly streets throughout the entire position for the Bathurst 1000. Project Management consult- complements the 23-storey building. Thirty years on, the Nissan ant and a global leader in man- grade A office tower, 29-sto- Abdulrahman Al Ansari, Motorsport V8 Supercars team aging construction risk. rey hospitality hotel tower and CEO at QIMC said: “Our deci- is paying tribute to the blister- The new project includes 38-storey residential tower. The sion to appoint AEB highlights ing Bluebird by running Nissan’s three towers, joined at the QIMC tower will offer ample our commitment to transform distinctive ‘blue and red’ factory base, planned for hospitality, amount of parking bays located our current headquarters into stripes on the side of the #36 commercial and residential on four basement levels. an iconic building that reflects Nissan Altima. The retro-inspired use. Drawing on its experi- Project valued at QR1bn, the highest standards and spec- colour scheme will also be comple- ence as designer of multitude with a total build-up area of ifications. With over 48 years of mented by a limited-edition range of high-rises in the West Bay 120,000 square meters, is slated experience being lead consult- of Nissan team merchandise. area, AEB’s design is highly for completion in 2018. ant of most successful develop- And as a special treat, Fury will effective, both in terms of space AEB’s design of the project ments in Qatar and the region, drive the actual Bluebird Turbo planning and energy conserva- intends to redefine skyscrapers AEB brings a unique mix of that took him to pole in 1984 at tion. The outer façade design as connecting agent between local and international exper- Bathurst this October in a special is based on the repetition of architecture and the city tise that we and our future ten- on-track demonstration. Titanium Dioxide molecular through the re-composition ants will benefit greatly from.” THE PENINSULA structure forming a uniform of surrounding urban context. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Supply issues could Deflation scares the heck hamper US economy out of European economies BY LAWRENCE SUMMERS BY PAUL MASON total life support – and what it tells us about Some economists believe capitalism has he US economy continues to operate way below estimates the future of capitalism is worrying. simply run out of steam. Productivity, popu- of its potential that were made prior to the onset of S economist Irving Fisher in There are many problems specific to the lation growth and education levels can’t go financial crisis in 2007, with a shortfall of gross domestic 1933 wrote ‘Just as a bad cold euro crisis: this is the one region of the world on rising fast enough to maintain growth. Tproduct now in excess of $1.5tr — or $20,000 per family of leads to pneumonia, so over- where “rules” have triumphed over pragma- Others believe recovery is just a question of four. Just as disturbing, an average economic growth rate of less indebtedness leads to deflation,”. tism, forcing pointless cuts in government time: write down the debts, heal the banks, than 2 percent since that time has caused output to fall further The theory is, if there is too spending and ensuring the politicians were keep the life-support machine on for long and further below those estimates of potential. Almost a year ago, Umuch debt, people spend all their money always three moves behind reality. enough and the patient will recover. I invoked the concept of “secular stagnation” in response to the repaying it and so stop spending. Prices fall However, the euro deflation crisis is also Either way, this debate now has a nick- observation that, five years after the financial haemorrhaging had – inflation turns to deflation. What could a symptom of a more general problem that name – “secstag”, short for secular stag- been stanched, the business cycle was not cycling back to what be bad about falling prices? Well, the debts affects the world economy: stagnation. nation – and is comprehensively outlined had been previously thought of as normal levels of output. don’t shrink – so you end up using more of Last November, the former US treas- in a new, free ebook from the policy portal Secular stagnation, in my version, has emphasised the difficulty your income to service them, and you spend ury secretary Larry Summers alarmed the VoxEU. The optimists in this debate – myself in maintaining sufficient economic demand to permit normal even less. economics profession by resurrecting the included – believe a new technology-driven levels of output. Given a high propensity to save, a low propensity This actually happened in the US between phrase “secular stagnation”. He warned that upswing is possible, but only with a change to invest and low inflation, it has been impossible for real interest 1929 and 1933, leaving economists like if you need zero interest rates to sustain of economic strategy so radical that it might rates to fall far enough to spur the economy to its full potential, Fisher – and indeed the whole of society – growth, you are in trouble. The dominance not feel like capitalism. since nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero. terrified of it happening again. Economists of high finance in a modern economy, its But all sides of the secstag debate agree Given the various factors — rising inequality, the lower capital call this the debt-deflation spiral, and since propensity to boom, bust and panic, means on one thing: the tendencies towards stag- costs needed to enter dynamic businesses, slowing population 2008 politicians have been haunted by the you are always going to need at some point nation are higher in Europe than anywhere growth, increasing foreign reserves and greater spreads between prospect of a repeat. – temporarily – to slash interest rates in the else. As Summers told the IMF ruefully last borrowing and lending cost — operating to reduce natural inter- In Europe, that fear is justified: deflation face of a crisis or downturn. November, a crisis on the scale of the one est rates, it continues to seem unlikely to me that, as currently is now close. Germany’s economy stagnated But when zero interest rates become that Lehman triggered is not over until it’s structured, the US economy is capable of demanding 10 percent in the second quarter of 2014; Italy and normal, you can’t. You have to use printing over. And what Draghi just did means it is more output with interest rates that are consistent with financial France shrank by 0.2 percent. And since money as the anti-crisis measure, and this not over. If Europe goes into stagnation, it stability. So demand-side secular stagnation remains an important 2012, inflation in the eurozone has been is less effective. Printing money takes time is a different ballgame. economic problem. falling steadily, down to just 0.3 percent to work, in a way that cutting interest rates First, much of its debt is owned abroad. But as the work of Northwestern University economist Robert last month. In response, the boss of the does not. The bigger danger with a world Second, it is a place with a propensity to J. Gordon in particular points up, it may well be that now supply- European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, last of zero interest rates is that it promotes conflict. There is no culture of conformity, side barriers threaten to hold back the economy before constraints week slashed interest rates to 0.05 percent stagnation. It’s like being in a car with no and Europe’s youth are quite prepared to on the ability to create demand start to bind. Two ways of looking – a Rizla paper above zero – and signalled first gear or – to adapt Irving Fisher’s image riot over Gaza, let alone GDP. at the situation point up the difficulty. that Europe will, like the US, Japan and the – less like a cold, more like post-viral fatigue. If you were designing an economic First, while I have emphasised that US GDP is still far short of UK, print money. The economy feels listless forever. nightmare, then, deflation or stagnation in what precrisis trends predicted, the unemployment rate, now at If it works, the eurozone will become the What to do if the prediction is correct? Europe would be close to top of your list. 6.1 percent, has reverted most of the way back to even relatively last of the big economic players to go on It depends on what you think the cause is. THE GUARDIAN optimistic estimates of its normal level. In other words, even as growth has been poor, it appears that demand has been advancing rapidly enough to substantially reduce slack in the labour market. As Gordon rightly emphasises, weak growth along with significant decreases in labour slack suggest a major slowing of the growth of potential output. To be fair, one can quarrel with the use of the headline unemployment rate as a measure of slack in the labour market. But the degree to which the labour market appears to be nor- malising is even greater if one looks at measures of job openings and vacancies, new unemployment insurance claims or short-term unemployment. Second, with Friday’s relatively weak employment figures, monthly job growth has averaged more than 225,000 since February. If this trend continued, what would happen to unem- ployment? This, of course, depends on what happens to labour force participation, which has been trending down in recent years because of the aging of the population and long-term structural trends. Assume, for simplicity’s sake, that participation rates remain constant (an optimistic assumption) and that the economy keeps on creating 200,000 jobs a month. A simple calculation reveals that the unemployment rate would fall to the 4 percent range by the end of 2016. While such a low unemployment rate is conceivable, it seems more likely that employment growth will slow at some point, either because of employers having difficulty finding workers, rising wages or government policy decisions. In any of these cases, the economy would be held back not by a lack of demand but a lack of supply potential. Why has supply potential declined so much? This will be hotly debated for years to come. Part of the answer lies in the effect of past economic weakness. Part of it is the brutal demo- graphic realities of an aging population, the end of the trend toward increased women’s labour force participation and the exhaustion of the gains that could be won from an increasingly educated work- force. And part is the apparent slowing of productivity growth. To achieve growth of even 2 percent over the next decade, active support for demand will be necessary but not be sufficient. In the United States, as in Europe and Japan, structural reform — to both increase the productivity of workers and capital and to increase the number of people able and willing to work pro- ductively — is essential. Infrastructure investment, immigration reform, policies to promote family-friendly work, development of energy resources and improvements to the business tax system will become ever more important. WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Gas and bank security have similarities in European Union

BY HUGO DIXON checking whether countries have the gas tests are supposed to energy consumed was produced one country doesn’t undermine different national markets. If one done what they are already sup- be accompanied by contingency within the member states while another’s security. country lost access to gas, it could urope is currently con- posed to have done to improve plans. 54 percent was imported. Donald Tusk, the Polish prime then import it from another. ducting two stress tests. security. Bank recovery plans involve Another way of preventing a minister who has just been cho- Although the EU as a whole One is on its energy sup- After gas via Ukraine was dis- things like raising more capital, financial crisis is to engage in sen as next president of the might still face a shortage, the Epliers, to see how badly rupted in 2009, companies were disposing business and shrinking “macroprudential” policy. The European Council, has advocated hit would be shared around all 28 they would fare if Russian gas told they needed to ensure sup- balance sheets. basic idea is that it is not enough going one step further: involving countries rather than absorbed was disrupted. The other is on plies in the event of a 30-day Gas contingency plans need to to look at individual banks, the Commission in all EU energy by a small number of vulnerable eurozone banks, to ensure they disruption. include boosting storage facilities, because of the cat’s cradle of link- negotiations. states. are strong enough to finance eco- But a buffer of that size is not switching to alternative fuels and ages between lenders. While this would clearly In the past few years, a lot of nomic recovery. enough. Although Ukraine has rationing supplies. They need to Regulators need to examine the increase its bargaining power vis- interconnectors have been built. It is hard to know which of the agreed a ceasefire with rebels be robust. system as a whole. à-vis Russia, it would also contra- But the Commission estimates two is the more important. But it fighting for independence, peace One way of trying to stop banks There is the same impera- vene trade and antitrust policy. that 17bn euros still needs to be is clear that an effective regime on the EU’s eastern frontier is far getting into trouble is to forbid tive in the gas world. The EU A more modest idea, though, spent. This is a top priority for for energy security requires many from guaranteed. them from putting all their eggs already has a body called the is worth considering: get the the next few years. of the same elements as financial And the EU’s ability to confront in one basket. There are “large Gas Coordination Group, which Commission to cosign all gas deals Another way of protecting vul- stability. Vladimir Putin’s revanchism will exposure limits,” which prevent exchanges information and coor- but give it the power to object only nerable countries would be for One is the need for credibility be compromised so long as it is them lending more than a quarter dinates action. if it believes energy security is the EU to set up a fund to help in the stress tests. Europe flunked worried about running out of gas. of their capital to a single counter The EU currently imports 82 being compromised. them pay for LNG in the event its original bank assessments by Policymakers jacked up capi- party. percent of its oil, 57 percent of its The Euratom Supply Agency that Russian gas was cut off, modelling scenarios that weren’t tal buffers in the wake of the What makes the EU vulnerable natural gas and 97.48 percent of already does this with uranium as suggested by Mathew Bryza, sufficiently stressful. The new test financial crisis; they should now in the gas arena is that 27 percent its uranium demands. supplies. director of the Estonian-based being conducted by the European increase minimum gas buffers fol- of its consumption comes from There are concerns that There is, though, one big dif- International Centre for Defence Central Bank looks more credible. lowing the Ukrainian crisis. Russia. Six member states get all Europe’s dependence on Russian ference between gas and banking. Studies. The European Union is only The ECB is the central bank their gas imports from Russia. energy is endangering the Union You can’t print gas in the same Given that LNG is more expen- now conducting its first gas for the eurozone, and thus con- It will take time to diversify and its member countries. The way that you can print money, sive than piped gas, the fund could test. Member states last month trols monetary policy in that area supply to other fuels (such as EU is attempting to diversify its so there can’t be a lender of last finance the extra cost. submitted their results to the with an agenda to maintain price nuclear energy and renewables) energy supply. resort in quite the same way. But The analogy between gas and European Commission, which is stability. or other sources of gas (such as Meanwhile, member states two things can be done that would finance is not exact. But, as now reviewing them before com- Banks don’t just undergo stress shale and liquefied natural gas). are required to inform the have a somewhat similar effect. Europe takes action to improve ing up with recommendations tests. They also have to produce But, eventually, there should be Commission before signing any The most important is to com- its energy security, it can learn next month. It shouldn’t pull its “recovery plans” to make sure an equivalent of “large exposure intergovernmental agreements in plete the single market in gas. the lessons from banking: from punches. they can continue operating if limits” to ensure energy security. the energy field so it can check This means ensuring there are its failures as well as its successes. Part of the gas test involves they suffer a shock. Similarly, Around 46 percent of the that what may be a good deal for enough gas pipelines connecting THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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0 26117 Kajaria Cer-B/D 667 -8.2 31949 Ocl India-B/D 310 -2.3 2764 B Sky B/D 879 -3 570920 Century Text-A/D 630.85 11.1 77300 Godfrey Phil-B/D 3196.1 61.8 2972 Kakatiya Cem-B/D 117.8 3.35 1194 Oil Country-B/D 48.2 1.1 19222 Barclays/D 222.15 -4.1 19375890 Chambal Fert-B/D 58.15 1.2 137560 Goodricke-B/D 174 1.5 64863 Kalpat Power-B/D 169.1 0.1 124981 Onward Tech-B/D 52.15 1.8 1228 Bg Group/D 1193 -25 1435983 Chola Invest-B/D 448.3 22.55 7254 Goodyear I -B/D 631.65 35.3 254555 Kalyani Stel-T/D 108.05 3.3 64757 Orchid Chem-B/D 76.3 1.9 492809 Bp/D 463.8 -3 13738634 TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Levenson to Brazil finally pip Argentina sell Hawks over racially charged mail NEW YORK: Atlanta Hawks to seal quarter-final spot co-owner Bruce Levenson on Sunday said he would sell his controlling interest in the NBA team in the wake of racially Serbia, Lithuania and Turkey also make it through to last eight charged remarks he made in an e-mail two years ago. MADRID: Brazil finally got Levenson’s decision to volun- over their Argentina com- FIBA probes tarily sell comes after the NBA’s plex on Sunday to reach the ugly fight to remove Los Angeles quarter-finals of the 2014 Clippers owner Donald Sterling FIBA Basketball World Cup, Australia after racist remarks he made to where they were joined by the a girlfriend became public. European trio Serbia, Lithuania After months of legal wran- and Turkey. over World gling and resistance by Sterling, Brazil had not beaten their the LA club’s $2bn sale to former South American rivals Argentina Cup defeat Microsoft chief executive Steve at the Worlds since 1967, but Ballmer was made official in ended that drought with an 85-65 BARCELONA: Basketball’s August. win in Madrid. ruling body yesterday launched Levenson clearly hopes to spare Raul Neto led the way with 21 an investigation into Australia the NBA a similar episode. points while Marquinhos Vieira over suspicions that they delib- “After much long and difficult had 13 and Marcelinho Heurtas erately lost a group match at contemplation, I have decided and Tiago Splitter both scored the World Cup to avoid playing that it is in the best interests of 10 for Brazil, who also lost to the United States. the team, the Atlanta community, Argentina at the 2012 Olympics Australia, who rested two of and the NBA to sell my control- and endured World Championship their top players Joe Ingles and ling interest in the Hawks fran- defeats in 1998, 2002 and 2010. Aron Baynes, lost to Angola 91-83 chise,” he said in a statement on “This is historic for our coun- in their last Group D game in Sunday. try. So we want to do something Gran Canaria last Thursday. The team said chief executive special for our country and I The Australians lost 65-64 to Steve Koonin will oversee all team think this is about time,” said Turkey in the last 16 on Sunday operations and take all organisa- Leandrinho Barbosa. to crash out of the tournament tional reports as they proceed Brazil will take on Serbia in the altogether. with the sale process. quarters on Wednesday. “The on-court behaviour dis- Levenson said he was “truly Serbia reached the last eight by played by Australia in that game embarrassed” by the words in handing Greece their first loss of (against Angola) generated huge the e-mail, which he said were the tournament, winning 90-72 disappointment by basketball “inappropriate and offensive” as thanks to Bogdan Bogdanovic fans and experts,” said a FIBA he tried to address issues relating scoring 21 points and Miroslav Argentina’s forward Luis Scola (left) vies for the ball with Brazil’s Marcus Vieira (centre) and Tiago Splitter during statement. to low attendance and the need Raduljica chipping in 16 points their 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup round of 16 match at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid on Sunday. “It is widely suspected that for more season ticket holders and six rebounds. Australia lost that game in order and corporate sponsorship. “It’s a very big and very five rebounds from Nick Calathes, New Zealand put up a fight but make something happen until the to avoid having to face the reign- “I shared my thoughts on why important thing for us and our picked the worst time for their could not finish strong, despite 26 last second,” Turkish coach Ergin ing world champions USA until our efforts to bridge Atlanta’s basketball. During the whole tour- first loss of the World Cup. points from Corey Webster. Ataman said. the semi-finals,” it added. racial sports divide seemed to be nament we showed that we have Lithuania had a battle but Lithuania’s opponent in the Aron Baynes had 15 points Basketball Australia can state failing.” Levenson said. one spirit. I think we deserved got past New Zealand 76-71 to quarters will be Turkey, who got a and seven rebounds in the losing its case to the governing body “I trivialized our fans by mak- to win a game like this,” Serbian move into quarters as Jonas three-pointer from Emir Preldzic effort for Australia. before FIBA decides whether dis- ing cliched assumptions about playmaker Milos Teodosic said. Valanciunas collected 22 points with five seconds left for a 65-64 The Barcelona quarter-finals ciplinary sanctions are imposed, their interests (i.e. hip hop vs. The Serb win was somewhat of and 13 rebounds while Martynas victory over Australia. Preldzic take place today with the United the statement said. country, white vs. black cheer- a surprise since they had lost to Pocius scored 11 points and Darjus and Sinan Guler both had 16 States taking on Slovenia and Australia’s defeat ensured leaders, etc.) and by stereotyping France, Spain and Brazil in the Lavrinovic chipped in 10 for points for Turkey. Lithuania facing Turkey. The that they finished third in the their perceptions of one another group stage with only wins over Lithuania. “I just play my game, “Our character in this World Madrid quarters — Spain vs group. Angola ended the group (i.e. that white fans might be Iran and Egypt. trying to be active and playing for Cup is that we never give up. France and Serbia against Brazil second bottom with just two wins. afraid of our black fans),” he said. Greece, who got 14 points and the team,” Valanciunas said. Every time we believe we will — will be played tomorrow. AFP AFP AFP Manning gets Broncos off to ‘Awesome’ day of Yankees winning start over Colts tributes for retiring Jeter

WASHINGTON: Peyton NEW YORK: Derek Jeter said Manning gained revenge against it was a day he would never for- his former team and put his get, adding that Sunday’s trib- recent Super Bowl nightmare ute for him at Yankee Stadium behind him by leading the as the team’s soon-to-be retired Denver Broncos to a season- captain was both emotional and opening 31-24 victory over the surprising. Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Family, friends, former team- Manning tossed three touch- mates and baseball dignitar- downs, all to tight end Julius ies joined in Derek Jeter Day to Thomas, in the second quarter as salute the five-time World Series Denver grabbed a 24-0 advantage winner and 14-time All-Star as and held on when the Colts made he winds down his 20th and last a final push in the fourth. Major League Baseball season. “It’s a good start, it’s good to One of the surprises for the be 1-0,” Manning told reporters. 40-year-old Jeter was the partici- “(We) never take winning for pation of NBA legend and friend granted. It’s a different year - the Michael Jordan. season opener. We were excited.” “MJ is like a brother to me,” Manning had lost his previ- Jeter said after the Yankees lost ous matchup last season with 2-0 to the AL Central-leading Indianapolis, where he enjoyed Kansas City Royals. a prolific tenure for more than a Quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos runs the offense “I’ve known him for quite some New York Yankees’ shortstop Derek Jeter (left) smiles as he shakes hands decade, and was also coming off a against the Indianapolis Colts at the Sports Authority Field at Mile High time. We first met when I was in with Michael Jordan at a ceremony before the game against the Kansas disastrous 43-8 Super Bowl defeat in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday. the Arizona Fall League (in 1994) City Royals at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. at the hands of Seattle back in when he was playing baseball February. lot of mistakes were made.” Montee Ball rushed for 67 yards and our relationship has grown with former team mates includ- Space Station some 200 miles But in his first chance at The Broncos are coming off a and one touchdown as he has through the years. ing Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, above the Earth. redemption for the 2014 season, record-setting campaign in which taken over the role of lead back “He is like an older brother Bernie Williams, Paul O’Neill and “The Yankees know how to the 38-year-old threw for 269 they set a new mark for points for Denver this year. that I never had. We’ve had plenty Hideki Matsui as well as MLB throw a big ceremony.” yards in his home matchup with scored in one season, among other Thomas had the banner day of conversations about competing, commissioner-elect Rob Manfred. Jeter, considered a consummate Andrew Luck, the quarterback offensive milestones. with his trio of scores and 104 about life both on the court and “It was awesome. It was some- professional focused on winning, who replaced him in Indianapolis. Even without receiver Wes yards receiving. on the field for me, and away from thing I’ll always remember,” said said being honored with three The third-year Luck tossed Welker, serving a four-game sus- On the losing side, Indianapolis’ it. I saw that he was in town and Jeter, who was saluted on the weeks left in the season felt odd for 370 yards, two touchdowns pension for violating the league’s veteran receiver Reggie Wayne thought maybe something was giant video screen by a trio of since the Yankees are struggling with two interceptions, and put performance enhancing drug pol- had nine catches for 98 yards. up.” astronauts traveling in the U.S. to stay in the race for a wild card a scare into the Broncos with a icy, they showed flashes of their The 35-year-old missed nine Jordan had been caught in laboratory above the International playoff berth. late comeback. potent pace. games due to a ligament injury television shots watching Roger “It was very strange, kind of Luck ran for a nine-yard score Second-year running back last season. Federer play during the U.S. Open Baseball Results a different situation,” he said. to cut the lead to 24-7 just before In other matches, the New tennis championship. “Three weeks left in the season, Cleveland 2 Chicago White Sox 0 halftime. England Patriots suffered a shock “It was great that he could be trying to win games.” After a Colts field goal and a NFL Results 33-20 loss to the Miami Dolphins a part of it because I’ve learned Kansas City 2 NY Yankees 0 With Sunday’s loss, the Yankees fourth-quarter Denver score that Atlanta 37 New Orleans 34 on Sunday while Atlanta beat the quite a bit from him,” the five- NY Mets 4 Cincinnati 3 slipped to 73-68, 4 1/2 games back made it 31-10, Luck struck on a Cincinnati 23 Baltimore 16 New Orleans Saints 37-34 in an time Gold Glove winner said of Miami 4 Atlanta 0 in the wild card race with 21 41-yard pass to Dwayne Allen and Buffalo 23 Chicago 20 overtime thriller. Jordan. Toronto 3 Boston 1 games left. Jeter, however, said he again with a nine-yard TD pass The Pittsburgh Steelers sur- Jeter was happy that his fam- enjoyed every bit of the pre-game Houston 17 Washington 6 Washington 3 Philadelphia 2 to Hakeem Nicks that pulled the vived a brave comeback from the ily joined in the festivities on Baltimore 7 Tampa Bay 5 ceremony and admitted to feeling visitors within seven. Miami 33 New England 20 Cleveland Browns to win 30-27 the field, including his grand- some nerves and emotions as he St Louis 9 Milwaukee 1 The Colts’ final drive stalled Tennessee 26 Kansas City 10 with a last-second field goal and mother who turned him into a delivered his remarks at the end, at Denver’s 39-yard-line when NY Jets 19 Oakland 14 there were week one wins for the Yankees fan at an early age, and LA Angels 14 Minnesota 4 thanking the fans. Luck’s fourth down pass fell Philadelphia 34 Jacksonville 17 Houston Texans and the New pleased that kids who have been Pittsburgh 10 Chicago Cubs 4 “I had to guard against being incomplete. Pittsburgh 30 Cleveland 27 Yo rk Je t s . helped by his Turn 2 Foundation Texas 1 Seattle 0 emotional. I think my hand was “Not taking advantage (of Dallas Cowboys quarterback participated. shaking a little bit,” he revealed. Minnesota 34 St Louis 6 Houston 4 Oakland 3 opportunities) put our defense Tony Romo threw three first half Baseball Hall of Famers Reggie Colorado 6 San Diego 0 “The fans are the ones that in a tough position,” Luck said. San Francisco 28 Dallas 17 interceptions in his team’s 28-17 Jackson, Cal Ripken Jr., Dave have made this fun. It’s been an LA Dodgers 7 Arizona 2 “That’s as much the offense’s fault Carolina 20 Tampa Bay 14 home loss to the San Francisco Winfield and one-time manager extremely fun 20 seasons. for not putting drives together. A Denver 31 Indianapolis 24 49ers. AGENCIES Joe Torre were on hand, along Detroit 6 San Francisco 1 REUTERS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Ice-cool Horschel seals BMW Championship win Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG celebrates on the podium after winning the Italian Grand American closes with a 69 at Cherry Hills, McIlroy ties for eighth place Prix in Monza on Sunday.

CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colorado: Unflappable BMW Championship Mercedes American Billy Horschel with- stood an early challenge from Scores Ryan Palmer and a late charge by Bubba Watson to win his sec- Leading scores after Sunday’s reject ond PGA Tour title by two shots final round of the US PGA’s at the BMW Championship on BMW Championship (par 70, Sunday. USA unless noted): conspiracy Putting superbly when the 266 Billy Horschel 68-66-63-69 pressure was at its most intense, 268 Bubba Watson 70-66-66-66 Horschel fired a one-under-par 269 Morgan Hoffmann 72-72-62-63 theory talk 69 at Cherry Hills Country Club 271 Jim Furyk 70-68-67-66, Rickie to hold off his closest pursuers Fowler 71-66-66-68, Sergio Garcia MONZA, Italy: Mercedes team in the PGA Tour’s penultimate (ESP) 68-64-72-67, Ryan Palmer chief Toto Wolff has rejected all FedExCup playoff event. 69-64-67-71 post-race conspiracy talk sur- The 27-year-old American, 272 Adam Scott (AUS) 71-66-69-66, Rory rounding Formula One’s leading who clinched his maiden victory McIlroy (NIR) 67-67-72-66, Jordan team in the aftermath of Lewis on the US circuit at the 2013 Spieth 67-70-68-67 Hamilton’s victory in Sunday’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Italian Grand Prix. 273 Graham DeLaet (CAN) 68-68-69-68 sank clutch par putts from eight Wolff said suggestions that 274 Angel Cabrera (ARG) 71-72-66-65, Charl feet at the 15th and 16th holes on Mercedes had wanted to see Schwartzel (RSA) 72-66-70-66, J.B. the way to a 14-under total of 266. championship leader Nico Holmes 71-68-67-68, Chesson Hadley Horschel safely two-putted for Rosberg miss his braking point 68-70-68-68 par on the 18th green, then gave at the first chicane and so hand a little fist pump in celebration 275 Kevin Chappell 68-72-70-65, Ernie Els the race leadership, and vic- before being warmly embraced by (RSA) 70-69-69-67, Bill Haas 72-68-67- tory, to the Briton were entirely his caddie. 68, Martin Kaymer (GER) 68-70-64-73 groundless. “It just means a lot,” a smiling 276 Camilo Villegas (COL) 70-71-68-67, British media had made much Horschel said after climbing into Jimmy Walker 72-67-69-68, Hideki of speculation that the German second place in the FedExCup Matsuyama (JPN) 69-67-71-69 had been following possible team standings ahead of next week’s 277 Henrik Stenson (SWE) 68-69-72-68, orders to ensure that Hamilton Tour Championship finale in John Senden (AUS) 73-66-70-68, Gary profited from his first pole posi- Atlanta. Woodland 67-73-68-69, Noh Seung-Yul tion in eight races. “I haven’t had the greatest sea- (KOR) 70-71-67-69, Ben Crane 70-70- The latest conjecture came son but I had my game today,” he Billy Horschel of the USA poses with the BMW trophy in his left hand and the J.K. Wadley trophy in his right 68-69, Russell Knox (SCO) 74-69-72-62 just two weeks after the pair had added. “I made some big putts and after his two-stroke victory in the BMW Championship at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Colorado on Sunday. 278 Jerry Kelly 71-73-66-68, Daniel collided on the second lap of the I could rely on my putter because Summerhays 75-68-71-64 Belgian Grand Prix in an accident I am a good putter inside 10 feet. that resulted in Rosberg enlarg- This feels good.” place at eight under par. Spaniard Three ahead of the chasing par-three sixth after finding a he shanked his second shot into a ing his lead in the title race to Masters champion Watson, Sergio Garcia, helped by an eagle pack overnight, he maintained greenside bunker off the tee to creek, to leave his title challenge 29 points after Hamilton retired. five strokes off the pace heading and four birdies in the first 15 that advantage as he and playing make it a two-way tie at the top in tatters. Hamilton’s win on Sunday into the final round, surged into holes, briefly got to 12 under but partner Palmer both birdied the at 13 under. Once again three ahead, trimmed the lead to 22 points as contention for the title with four tripled-bogeyed the 17th after driveable par-four opening hole. A 23-foot birdie putt at the Horschel maintained composure Rosberg came home second in a birdies on the back nine as he chipping his ball across the green Horschel bogeyed the second seventh restored the outright over the last five holes, parring Mercedes one-two. closed with a third successive 66 into water to close with 67 and after ending up in the right rough lead for Horschel, and he did them all as he rebounded from Wolff said it was virtually to secure outright second place. finish in a share of fourth, five off off the tee to slip back to 13 under. well to remain one ahead by his runner-up spot yesterday at impossible for a team to have American Morgan Hoffmann the pace. Both players birdied the par- saving par at the 10th where he the Deutsche Bank Championship executed what happened in the fired a 63 to finish third at 11 Horschel, however, commanded four third before Palmer cut sank a 22-footer after splashing where he dumped his second shot race deliberately. under while Northern Irish world the spotlight as he kept his clos- the deficit to one by picking up out from a poor lie in a bunker. on the final hole into a hazard. He said: “Only a paranoid mind number one Rory McIlroy four- est challengers at bay, twice relin- another shot at the tricky fifth, Palmer again caught Horschel “After last week, a lot of peo- could come up with such an idea... putted the par-three 12th hole quishing the outright lead before where he hit a superb approach with a birdie at the par-five 11th ple on Twitter and out there If it had been our idea, it would for a second day in a row on the regaining it quickly on both to five feet. before he bogeyed the 12th and wanted to call me a choker,” said have been bloody well done! way to a 66 and a tie for eighth occasions. Horschel then bogeyed the ran up a double at the 13th, where Horschel. REUTERS “There was lots of pressure on Nico because Lewis was so quick in qualifying and you could see that in the race.” Wolff added that there was no technical reason to explain why O’Keefe, Marsh surprises in Australia Test squad Rosberg went down the escape road twice in the race, but he SYDNEY: Left-arm spin- UAE but we need to be prepared said. “His attitude to his game has stunning 156 off 63 balls against Test squad: David Warner, Chris explained that the brake balance ner Steve O’Keefe and all- to play two spinners. been first rate and he thoroughly England last year. Rogers, Alex Doolan, Michael on his car had been changed twice. rounder Mitchell Marsh were “Mitch Marsh is a player of deserves this opportunity.” “Having the honour to captain Clarke (capt), Steven Smith, “We tried to protect the rear surprise inclusions yesterday immense talent and is a bright Selectors named only three your country in any form of the Shane Watson, Phillip Hughes, brakes so we went forward with Brad Haddin, Glenn Maxwell, in Australia’s Test squad for prospect for the future of fast-bowlers — Mitchell Johnson, game is something that all young Mitchell Marsh, Mitchell the brake balance. He hit the the upcoming series against Australian cricket,” he added. Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle cricketers dream about,” Finch Johnson, Peter Siddle, Mitchell brake hard and missed the brak- Pakistan in the United Arab “His form with Australia A has — in the Test squad for the said. “It came as a big surprise Starc, Nathan Lyon, Steve ing point — it was bizarre, but Emirates. been fantastic and he carried that anticipated slower, spin-friendly but it was a very nice phone call O’Keefe. there isn’t any mechanical reason The uncapped duo were in a through to the recent Zimbabwe pitches. to receive from Rod Marsh.” ODI squad: Michael Clarke (capt), behind it.” line-up that also includes all- tour. If he gets his opportunity, we Captain Michael Clarke and Young fast bowler Pat Cummins Sean Abbott, George Bailey, Rosberg also dismissed the rounder Glenn Maxwell and the know he will make the most of it.” allrounder Shane Watson were was also included in the T20 James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, speculation and said there were return of batsman Phil Hughes. Hughes will vie with incumbent also named ahead of fitness tests, squad, having last played for Brad Haddin, Nathan Lyon, no reasons for Mercedes to have Australia named their squads Alex Doolan for the number three having been ruled out of the Australia in October 2012 before Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, asked him to sacrifice a win for for the two Tests, three one- spot in the Test batting order. recent one-day tour of Zimbabwe. suffering a back injury. Mitchell Johnson, Steve Smith, Hamilton. dayers and a Twenty20 match He will travel to the UAE Aaron Finch, who tops the In the one-day squad, paceman Mitchell Starc, David Warner, He said: “I’ve heard about that Shane Watson. against Pakistan in the UAE in earlier than his team-mates Twenty20 international bat- Sean Abbott was the big surprise [the conspiracy theory], but what October and early November. to work on his batting against ting rankings, was named as after impressing at state level T20 squad: Aaron Finch (capt), would be the reason for me to do Sean Abbott, Cameron Boyce, “We have picked Steve O’Keefe spin with coaching consultant Australia’s new Twenty20 captain with New South Wales. Pat Cummins, James Faulkner, something like that deliberately?” as the extra spinner for the Test and Sri Lankan great Muttiah after George Bailey stood down to Pakistan have been forced to Brad Haddin, Mitchell he said. “There is no possible tour,” chief selector Rod Marsh Muralitharan. focus on the one-day World Cup. play their home series at neutral Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Kane reason. said. “Phil has been in excellent form The 27-year-old has racked up venues, such as the UAE, since Richardson, Steve Smith, “If you’re ordered by the team “We are unsure what pitch con- and has been rewarded with a an average of 41.25 in 18 Twenty20 militants attacked the Sri Lankan Mitchell Starc, David Warner, to do it then you would do it, but ditions we will encounter in the place in the Test squad,” Marsh internationals, including a team in Lahore in 2009. AFP Shane Watson. there is no reason why the team would ask me to change position, or something like that.” Bangladesh on verge of collapse Lahore Lions get Indian visa Hamilton lost out at the start, fell to fourth and then recovered LAHORE: Pakistan’s domestic Twenty20 champions, the Lahore to win. KINGSTOWN: Bangladesh Lions, received their Indian visas yesterday, ending doubts over Wolff said an electronic issue were on the verge of another Scoreboard their participation in the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) on Hamilton’s car had been the complete collapse at 110 for four tournament as captain Mohammad Hafeez vowed to spread love reason for his bad start. in their second innings at lunch West Indies (I innings): ...... 484/7 decl Bowling: J Taylor 15-4-46-1(w-2); K Roach across the border. “We had an electronic prob- on the fourth day of the first Bangladesh (I innings): 13-4-31-1; S Gabriel 13-2-50-1; S Benn 24.4- Fielding a virtual Pakistan ‘A’ side, the Lions are set to depart today lem which we had on the warm Test against the West Indies at T Iqbal c Da Bravo b Roach ...... 1 8-39-5(nb-1); J Blackwood 6-1-14-2. and will enter the four-team qualifying round in Raipur starting from up lap and also at the start,” he the Arnos Vale Stadium in St S Rahman c Da Bravo b Benn ...... 35 Bangladesh (II innings): September 13. Apart from ex-Pakistan skipper Hafeez, the Lions boast said. “We need to find out what it Vincent yesterday. I Kayes c Da Bravo b Taylor ...... 9 T Iqbal b Benn ...... 53 national players Umar Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad, Wahab Riaz, Nasir was exactly, but we got it wrong. With the home side enforcing M Haque c Ramdin b Gabriel ...... 51 S Rahman c Ramdin b Roach ...... 4 Jamshed and fringe international Aizaz Cheema. We will see.” the follow-on as expected at the M Mahmudullah lbw Blackwood ...... 7 I Kayes c K Edwards b Gayle ...... 25 They face the Mumbai Indians in their opening encounter before After the furore following the M Rahim (not out) ...... 48 start of the day’s play, the tourists M Haque c Ramdin b Benn ...... 12 taking on Sri Lanka’s Southern Express and New Zealand’s Northern Belgian race the Mercedes men N Hossain c Benn b Blackwood ...... 2 go into the afternoon session still M Mahmudullah (batting) ...... 4 Districts. were glad to be celebrating a one- S Hom c&b Benn ...... 16 192 runs away from avoiding an M Rahim (batting) ...... 1 The top two teams from the qualifying rounds will join eight teams two again. T Islam c Da Bravo b Benn ...... 2 innings defeat. Extras (B-8, LB-2, W-1) ...... 11 in the main rounds, starting from September 17. “That was a perfect result, it Only Tamim Iqbal has so far R Hossain c Ramdin b Benn ...... 1 Hafeez said his players would act as ambassadors of Pakistan. was very exciting, there was no Total (for 4 wkts at lunch) ...... 110 offered any substantial resistance A Hossain c Da Bravo b Benn ...... 5 “We are going there with a message of love and I know how much touching but still some great rac- Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-81, 3-104, 4-107. to the West Indies varied attack, Extras (LB-2, NB-1, W-2) ...... 5 they love Pakistan and the cricketers from our country,” Hafeez told ing,” he added. with left-arm spinner Sulieman Total (all out) ...... 182 Bowling: J Taylor 4-0-16-0; K Roach 6-3-18- reporters. “Our aim is not only play good cricket in the field but also “Did we tell Rosberg to miss Benn again featuring prominently. Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-18, 3-80, 4-105, 1(w-1); S Gabriel 5-4-1-0; J Blackwood 6-1- do good acts off the field. his brakes and miss the chicane It was the gangling Barbadian’s 5-110, 6-118, 7-147, 8-155, 9-166,10-182. 25-0; S Benn 11-4-19-2; C Gayle 7-1-21-1. “Both India and Pakistan love cricket and we are hoping to have a and allow Lewis to pass him? No dismissal of Tamim for 53 just very good time there.” not at all! before the interval that has effec- Mahmudullah facing the oner- up for any length of time in pur- The Twenty20 champions of Australia, South Africa, England, New “This is for the drivers world tively extinguished any hopes the ous task of defying a West Indies suit of victory. Shamsur Rahman Zealand, Sri Lanka and the West Indies will also take part in the main championship, Nico was under visitors would have had of a heroic attack in which the fast bowl- was the only wicket to fall to the rounds. Pakistani participation in the tournament began in 2012, its massive pressure from Lewis and rearguard. ers are well rested and will be faster bowlers as a careless drive third edition hosted by South Africa, when the Sialkot Stallions played Lewis deserved the win today. His They will resume with skipper expected to be firing on all cylin- at Kemar Roach offered a catch in the qualifying stages of the event but failed to progress to the main pace was awesome and that’s why Mushfiqur Rahim and all-rounder ders should the spinners be held to the wicketkeeper. AFP rounds. AFP he won it.” AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Albania stun Portugal, Germany beat Scotland

PARIS: Albania pulled off a major shock by downing Portugal as world champions Germany denied battling Scotland and minnows Gibraltar were demol- ished by Poland in the opening salvoes of Euro 2016 qualifying on Sunday. Portugal, first round casualties at the World Cup, were sorely missing their skipper Cristiano Ronaldo but despite the Real Madrid star’s absence the 1-0 loss to a team ranked 71st in the world was a major embarrassment for Paulo Bento’s side. Qatar national football team coach Djamel Belmadi heads a training session at Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. Members of the Qatar national football team run during yesterday’s training Albania, who have failed session. Qatar will take on Peru at Doha’s Lekhwiya Stadium today from 6:30pm. to qualify for a European Championships in half a century, humbled the mighty Portuguese in their own back yard. Slavia Prague forward Bekim Balaj struck the killer blow shortly after the restart, with the home side walking off the pitch in Qatar prepare for Peru Aveiro at the final whistle to boos from their supporters. “It’s a really bad result,” con- ceded Portugal striker Nani. “We’ve started qualifyng badly, now we have to pick ourselves up. We have to improve.” challenge on home soil Down on Portugal’s Algarve coast, minnows Gibraltar were given a lesson on their introduc- tion to competitive internation- Al Annabi take on South Americans in friendly match in Doha today als as a UEFA member by Poland as Bayern Munich’s Robert DOHA: Just days after their On September 3, Qatar drew “Despite the good qualities of well prepared, we were well January this year. Qatar won the Lewandowski scored four times goalless draw against hosts against Morocco in an away game the Moroccan team, our players represented and we were more event. in a 7-0 romp. Morocco in Casablanca, it but the Djamel Belmadi-coached were up to the task and their dangerous.” Peru, coached by Pablo In Dortmund, Germany, is Qatar’s turn to play hosts side will be looking for a win performance was really good,” The Algerian is widely Bengoechea, are ranked 52 in the beaten last week in a friendly by against the visiting Peru side in the home game at Lekhwiya said Belmadi after their goal- respected for his services at vari- world. The North American side Argentina, got their qualifying today. Stadium today. less draw against Morocco last ous levels in Qatar. will be looking for their third suc- campaign up and running with a Preparing for their two key Today’s game starts at 6:30pm. Wednesday. The 38-year-old played for cessive win — they posted a 3-0 2-1 defeat of a spirited Scotland. assignments in the next five Qatar squad — under the “It is with such games against QSL sides Al Gharafa and Al victory over Panama in August A goal in each half from Bayern months — the Gulf Cup in watchful gaze of coach Belmadi - strong opponents that we can Kharaitiyat before retiring in and then accounted for Iraq 2-0 Munich attacker Thomas Mueller November and the Asian Cup in hit the training pitches at Aspire move forward and improve our 2009. in Dubai on Thursday. ensured they won their first com- January — Qatar have outlined a Academy yesterday. level both individually and col- The next two seasons, coach The Qatar players will dis- petitive fixture since the World series of international friendlies. In earlier friendlies under lectively,” the 38-year-old added. Belmadi guided Lekhwiya to perse after today’s friendlies Cup. Qatar, ranked 92 on the FIFA coach Belmadi — who took over “On the technical side, it was a Qatar Stars League (QSL) titles. and join their QSL clubs which Scotland were rewarded for computer, will take on Australia the reigns of the national squad in good warm-up match. We knew it He also managed the Qatar resume action in round three on a positive second-half approach in another high-profile friendly March — Qatar shared the spoils was not going to be easy against national juniors at the WAFF September 11. when winger Ikechi Anya raced on October 14. against Indonesia and Macedonia. the Moroccan team, but we were Championship held in Doha in THE PENINSULA clear to equalise on 66 minutes. But the visitors failed to clear a corner four minutes later and Mueller capitalised to thump Qatar’s Barshim the Asian exception in track and field home his 24th international goal. Mueller’s winner denied Gordon INCHEON, South Korea: The the title he won in 2010 as one backing up the 10.01 he ran in Strachan’s side what would have athletics competition at the 17th of his main objectives this year 2013. been a precious point in a group Asian Games lacks the star- and could set the bar high if Although he has struggled that also includes the Republic dust Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang the weather conditions are with thigh, heel and hip inju- of Ireland, Poland, Georgia and sprinkled over the last couple of favourable. ries this season, Kiryu will be Gibraltar. editions but high jumper Mutaz With Liu leading the way, determined to secure his first Scotland were unable to fashion Essa Barshim brings a touch of China were the dominant ath- major title in Incheon and is a second equaliser and the night genuine world-class talent to letics force in Guangzhou four considering doubling up in the ended on a miserable note when Incheon. years ago, winning 13 of the 47 200m. His compatriot, Chisato Mulgrew was sent off for dissent While the continent has golds and 36 of the 144 medals Fukushima, did the women’s in stoppage time. become more competitive in up for grabs. sprint double in Guangzhou and The result means Germany other high profile sports, success They will again be looking for is again among the favourites in have now gone 33 World Cup and in track and field remains the a good haul over the seven days Incheon, although Kazakh Olga European Championship qualify- exception rather than the rule of competition from September Safranova is the Asian leader ing games without defeat. and there are no reigning world 27-October 3 and although their this year in the 100m (11.23) and German manager Joachim champions from Asia. international strength is in the 200m (22.85). Loew, who revealed Marco Reus Like Liu before him, Qatari field and on the race-walk circuit, Kazakhstan is also the home had picked up another ankle Barsham is the current Asian they are also competitive on the of Asia’s only reigning track and injury, was relieved his side had standout and his battle with track in Asia. field Olympic champion in tri- survived an uncomfortable sec- Ukrainian Bohdan Bondarenko Su Bingtian will be hoping to ple jumper Olga Rypakova and ond half. for supremacy in the air has keep for China the blue riband the 29-year-old has been aiming “I’m really happy that we got been one of the highlights of the 100m title surprisingly won by to peak for her title defence in the three points,” Loew said. Diamond League season. Lao Yi four years ago and will be Incheon after missing last season “Cleary I knew it would be Only one man has ever jumped an integral member of a strong through injury. tough. In the first half we had higher than Barshim and the sprint relay team. A string of East Africans in the complete control of the game. We Qatar’s Mutaz Essa London Olympic bronze med- Nigerian-born Femi Ogunode, colours of Gulf states should dom- didn’t give them any chances and Barshim reacts after allist is inching ever closer to who won the 200m and 400m inate the middle distance events, we created a lot ourselves. winning the men’s high the world record of 2.45 metres double for Qatar as a teenager challenged only by the strong “We lost control of the game jump event during Cuban great Javier Sotomayer set in Guangzhou, is still in the van- Saudi men’s contingent and the a little bit in the second half. the Diamond League more than two decades ago. guard of top Asian sprinters but women of India, for whom Tintu Scotland scored but we reacted athletics meet in The 23-year-old, who is Doha- exciting young Japanese talent Luka is a strong gold medal hope well.” Brussels last Tuesday. born and not an African import Yoshihide Kiryu has the fastest in the 800m. Everton winger Aiden McGeady like many competing for Gulf time of the year in the 100m. Saudi Yousef Masrahi is got the Republic of Ireland’s Euro states, has been in brilliant form The 18-year-old world jun- another exciting homegrown bid off to a flying start with a 2-1 this year, jumping 2.38m to win ior bronze medallist, who many Gulf talent and he will be a strong win over Georgia in Tbilisi. the world indoor title, 2.42m in believe could be the first athlete favourite to take Ogunode’s AFP New York in June and 2.43m to of Asian origin to dip under the 400m crown after running five win the Diamond League final. 10-second barrier in the 100m, sub-45 second times this year. Barshim has targeted retaining ran 10.05 in Kumagaya in May, REUTERS Saudi Arabia selects all-male Asian Games team

SINGAPORE: Saudi Arabia applauded for including two not yet competitive enough for Welfare this year, had discussed (OCA), which organises the Asian has failed to include a single women in their team for the 2012 Asian Games. his country’s plans with the Games, said that while it fully female athlete in its 199-strong London Olympics, a symbolic first “Technically, we weren’t ready International Olympic Committee encouraged the participation of team for the upcoming Asian for the Islamic kingdom. to introduce any ladies and the (IOC). women, it did not comment on Games in South Korea, saying But just over two years later, new president of our Olympic “He doesn’t like seeing them team selections. its women are not sufficiently the oil-rich nation has opted committee (Prince Abdullah bin (female Saudi athletes) being “OCA clearly wants as much competitive. not to pick any females for the Musaed bin Abdulaziz) rejected always the last (place). He wants female participation as possible The Saudi stance sparked criti- 17th Asian Games, to be held sending women to only partici- to do it right and he already com- in the Asian Games. We try to cism from Human Rights Watch, in Incheon, South Korea, from pate, he wanted them to com- municated this to (IOC President) encourage all countries to send which condemned its all-male September 19 to October 4. pete,” said Mishal. Thomas Bach,” said Mishal. their top female athletes,” OCA Germany’s Thomas Mueller (right) line-up, saying the ultra-conserv- Mohammed al-Mishal, the sec- “We will be having women in “We are obliged for Saudi ladies secretary general Randhir Singh celebrates with his team-mate ative state was shutting the door retary-general of Saudi Arabia’s Rio de Janeiro on a good scale, but to participate and we will do our said. Andre Schuerrle after scoring a on female athletes, having previ- Olympic Committee, said that not at the Asian Games.” duty in a manner that doesn’t “Some of the west Asian goal during a Euro 2016 qualifying ously shown signs of wanting to Saudi Arabia was committed to Mishal said Prince Abdullah, contradict with the major rules countries have started sending match against Scotland in break down barriers. sending female athletes to the who was appointed Saudi Arabia’s of the kingdom.” (women) and we encourage it,” Dortmund, Germany, on Sunday. Saudi authorities were widely next Olympics, but said they were General President of Youth The Olympic Council of Asia he added. REUTERS TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Serena bags sixth US Open title American overpowers Wozniacki in the final; increases Grand Slam tally to 18

NEW YORK: World number one Serena Williams won her 18th Grand Slam title at last, overpowering Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3 yesterday to capture her sixth US Open crown. The world number one, shut out in the first three majors of the year, ended a year of wait- ing as she joined Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on 18 majors -- trailing only the 22 of Steffi Graf on the Open era list and six behind the all-time record held by Margaret Court. Williams, who turns 33 later this month, said the goal of an 18th Grand Slam had hung over her “because I was joining Chrissy and Martina, someone I never thought me, Serena Williams, would be in that name group. “Who am I?” said Williams, who grinned with delight as Evert and Navratilova presented her with a gold bracelet bearing an “18” charm. “I never thought you would mention my name with such greats and legends.” Williams lifted the trophy at Flushing Meadows for the third straight year, joining Evert as the only woman in the Open era to win three titles in a row and matching Evert’s six US Open triumphs. She also offered words of encouragement to her beaten Serena Williams of the US reacts with the championship trophy alongside tennis greats Martina Navratilova (left) foe, her friend and confidant as and Chris Evert after defeating Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark to win the women’s final match on the fourteenth both endured difficult months this day of the 2014 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New year. York, USA, yesterday. RIGHT: Serena (left) and Wozniacki during the trophy ceremony. “Congratulations to Caroline, she knows the struggles I have had,” Williams said, adding to “I just wanted to get a good her friend: “You will win a Grand start. I knew that against Serena, Serena Williams Slam title soon.” you have to have a good start, Factfile But former world number one otherwise she starts going in and Unstoppable Serena Wozniacki, owner of 22 WTA being even more aggressive. You NEW YORK: Serena titles, still has that gaping hole know, you’re kind of done.” Williams factfile after the on her resume. Williams didn’t run off with it world number one won a sixth The Dane was just 19 when she right away, but a run of five service US Open and 18th major yes- lost to Kim Clijsters in the 2009 breaks ended with the American vows to add to 18 majors terday with a 6-3, 6-3 win over US Open final, and she hadn’t holding for a 5-2 lead, heaping the Caroline Wozniacki: returned to a Grand Slam title pressure on Wozniacki to hold for NEW YORK: Serena Williams closer to Margaret Court’s all- World ranking: 1 match until Sunday. the first time. She did, fending off believes clinching an 18th time mark of 24. Born: September 26, 1981 With so much on the line for one break point to force Williams Grand Slam title is more signif- “I’m already looking at maybe Birthplace: Saginaw, Michigan, USA each woman, the first set was a to serve it out. icant than the sixth US Open No. 19. I want to continue to rise Residence: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA tense affair with few fireworks. With a set in hand, Williams she won yesterday and vowed and continue to play really hard After saving a break point was moving more freely. Even luck to keep adding to her majors and do the best that I can.” Height: 5ft 9in (1.75m) in the first game with an ace, wasn’t going Wozniacki’s way, as a collection. Williams won her first US Weight: 155lbs (70kg) Williams made Wozniacki pay net cord bounce in Williams’ favor The world number one swept Open in 1999 as a 17-year-old and Plays: Right-handed for a tight first service game, in ended a 20-shot rally to give the past close friend Caroline added further triumphs in 2002, Turned pro: 1995 which the Dane double faulted American a break chance in the Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3 in the final 2008, 2012 and 2013. Coach: Richard Williams/Patrick Mouratoglou twice. first game of the second -- which to go level with Chris Evert as a In her last three visits to Website: www.serenawilliams.com Williams seized the break and she promptly converted. six-time champion in New York. New York she has been taken Twitter: a 2-0 lead with a pair of stinging Wozniacki’s vaunted defen- The win also took her to three sets just twice -- both @serenawilliams service returns. sive skills were on full display in level with Evert and Martina in the finals of 2012 and 2013 by Career titles: 63 “I was a little nervous going out the second set as she doggedly Navratilova with 18 majors. Victoria Azarenka -- and has Grand Slam singles titles: 18 there,” said Wozniacki, who found ran down balls, but she couldn’t Both legends even stumped only been stretched to a single Career prize money: $60,897,689 the noise in Arthur Ashe Stadium match Williams’ power and ability up for a gold bracelet for the Serena holds the US Open tro- tiebreak. Best US Open result: Champion (1999, “overwhelming.” to conjure winners from all areas 32-year-old Williams bought phy after winning her sixth title. She had not won a major in 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014) of the court. from Tiffany in New York to 2014 before Sunday, failing to get Williams finished with 29 win- mark the occasion with ‘18’ dream and a racquet. Living in beyond the fourth round at the Serena Williams’ ners to Wozniacki’s four, belting engraved into its single charm. Compton, you know.” Australian and French Opens as Djokovic to a forehand to give herself match “Maybe the 18th was the most The American star now has well as Wimbledon. Six US Open Wins point. important because I was joining 63 tour titles while her US Open But she came into the US Open skip Davis Cup NEW YORK: Serena That was the first moment she Chrissy and Martina. There was prize money fund took her on- winning two hard court warm- Williams’ six US Open title felt sure of victory, Williams said. so much on the line between court career earnings through ups in Stanford and Cincinnati tie in India wins after her 2014 triumph “Other than that I was really getting to number 18, which has the $63m mark. and finishing runner-up to sister over Caroline Wozniacki tight and nervous the whole been on my shoulder for so long But within three hours of Venus in Montreal. NEW DELHI: World number yesterday: match,” said Williams, who didn’t and I finally got it,” said a tearful her latest major -- a sixth in Williams said that when she one Novak Djokovic will not 1999: bt Martina Hingis (SUI) 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) drop a set in the tournament. Williams. New York added to her five at fell to the ground to mark her play for Serbia in the Davis Cup 2002: bt Venus Williams (USA) 6-4, 6-3 “There was so much on the line. “I never thought that me, Wimbledon, five in Australia and victory she was concerned that World Group playoff tie against 2008: bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 6-4, 7-5 When Wozniacki’s last back- Serena Williams would be in two at the French Open -- she her celebrations may have been India in Bangalore this weekend, hand went long, Williams dropped that group. Who am I? I never was already planning on a 19th premature, concerned that fate team coach Bogdan Obradovic 2012: bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 to her back onthe court, covering thought you would mention in Melbourne. may have conspired against her said yesterday. 2013: bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 7-5, 6-7 (6/8), her face with her hands. my name with such greats and That would take her to within after such a relatively low-key “I spoke to Djokovic last night 6-1 “I just felt so good,” she said. legends. I was just a kid with a three of Steffi Graf’s 22 and year. AFP and he said he will not be coming 2014: bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 6-3, 6-3 AFP to India,” Obradovic was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India in the southern Indian city where the tie opens on Friday. Djokovic, who claimed his sev- Wozniacki undaunted by latest setback enth Grand Slam title in July when he won Wimbledon, was NEW YORK: Caroline come up empty-handed in just right direction with her game. four times lucky the next time.” stunned by Japan’s Kei Nishikori Wozniacki isn’t one to take two Grand Slam finals -- five “I have had a great two weeks Before that happens, there’s the in the US Open semi-final on the easy road -- after all, in years apart. here. I have played really well this marathon to think of. Wozniacki Saturday. November she’ll make the New “I had a game plan in mind, summer,” said Wozniacki, who has announced her plan to run in Serbia won the Davis Cup in York City Marathon her first but it was kind of difficult at come on strong in recent months July, for the benefit of charity, and 2010. But they were relegated road race. the start,” said Wozniacki, who after the painful and public end of fielded questions non-stop during to the play-offs for the first So the tenacious Dane was admitted to some early jitters in her engagement to golf star Rory the Open about the project. time since 2007 when, play- already thinking about what she’ll the packed 23,771-capacity Ashe McIlroy. She insists her training mileage ing without Djokovic, they lost do the next time she gets a shot stadium. Since a first-round French hasn’t interfered with her tennis, to Roger Federer’s Switzerland at Serena Williams, not long after “I was a little nervous going out Open exit she has built a 25-6 in fact she thinks her increased in the World Group first round the world number one virtually there,” she said. “When you walk record that included three wins stamina is a plus on court. in February. Djokovic’s loss is a ran her off Arthur Ashe Stadium into the stadium and people are over top-10 players in August. She did torque it back a bit further blow to the Serbs who court 6-3, 6-3 to win the US Open. screaming so loud you can’t hear That included her fourth-round during the Open, but now it’s full are already depleted by injuries “Next time I’m going to play what you’re thinking yourself, so triumph over former champion speed ahead. to Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor her, I’m just going to try again,” it’s kind of overwhelming. Maria Sharapova in Flushing “So I’m starting with a mara- Troicki. He is likely to be replaced said Wozniacki. “Serve well and “But it’s such a cool experience.” Meadows. thon. I’m just starting off lightly,” for the tie by Ilija Bozoljac. return well, that’s what you have The woman on the other side of She couldn’t get past her she quipped. The 61st-ranked Dusan Lajovic, to do. Today, she was just too the net was intimidating as well. good friend Williams, however, Wozniacki says she does have aged 24, will be the main singles good.” “I tried to push her back, but falling to her in three sets in a time goal in mind, but for now, player. Others in the squad are Wozniacki’s stellar defensive that really didn’t work for me,” Montreal and Cincinnati before she’s keeping that to herself. world number 107 Filip Krajinovic skills have rarely been enough Wozniacki said. “She really just their Flushing Meadows title “To be honest, I would just like and doubles specialist Nenad against Williams, who has won stepped in and she was playing showdown. to finish it. That’s going to be a Zimonjic. India, hoping to return nine of their 10 encounters. aggressive. She was playing better “I have won so many matches. goal,” she said. “So yeah, it’s just to the elite 16-nation World They have helped propel the than me today.” And Serena has stopped me three like me, start on the easy side, just Wozniacki serves to Serena Group after a three-year absence, Dane to 22 WTA titles and back Despite the disappointment, times,” Wozniacki said. “They say 26.2 miles.” will have Somdev Devvarman and during the women’s final match in 2010 and 2011 spells atop the Wozniacki said reaching the final three times lucky. I was hoping And, hopefully, another crack Yuki Bhambri as the two singles yesterday. world rankings, but she has now confirmed she was moving in the for that today. I’m going to try at Serena Williams soon. AFP players. AFP TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Contador Trezeguet says World Cup extends Tour of Spain lead

LA FARRAPONA, Spain: Alberto Contador moved a huge in Qatar will be memorable step closer to his third Tour of Spain victory as he saw off Britain’s Chris Froome to win a gruelling 160.5 km stage from Cooling systems developed by Qatar to benefit players: Jason McAteer San Martin del Rey Aurelio to La Farrapona yesterday. Contador’s first stage victory of DOHA: David Trezeguet, the the race in a time of 4hr 53min striker who scored the golden 35sec took his overall lead to 1min goal that handed France the 36sec over compatriot Alejandro European Championship title Valverde with Froome a further against Italy in 2000, has high- three seconds adrift as he just lighted the opportunities that France’s David failed to move into second in the the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar Trezeguet (left) and general classification. will represent for technological coach Raymond Italian Alessandro de Marchi advancement. Domenech react claimed third on the day, which “The cooling systems will be a to their loss to was also marred by the dis- new technology to discover and it Italy in the penalty qualifications of Italy’s Gianluca will show technological advances shootout dur- Brambilla and Russian Ivan to the world, something which ing their World Rovny for fighting just after the will be very good for players,” the Cup 2006 match midway point of the stage. footballer told www.sc.qa in an in Berlin in this “Today was a very good day for interview. July 9, 2006 file us,” said a delighted Contador, The 36-year-old Frenchman, picture. Trezeguet who only decided to compete in who was also part of the France the race a week before it began appeared in 71 side which won the 1998 FIFA after suffering a broken shinbone games for France. World Cup on home soil, recently in the Tour de France in July. decided to end a three-year stint Trezeguet is per- “I had the power I needed, I in Argentine football to join Pune haps most famous managed to keep going with the City FC in the Indian Super for scoring the pace imposed by Froome and League. golden goal in the when I saw my opportunity I took He is joined in India by former Euro 2000 final advantage of it.” Liverpool forward Luis Garcia, against Italy, which The landmark stage of the as well as Robert Pires - the gave France a 2–1 race, including four category one player who provided the pass for win in extra time. climbs, was expected to play a Trezeguet in the final of Euro decisive role in who is crowned the 2000. winner in Santiago de Compostela Trezeguet added that it was on Sunday. of utmost importance to develop However, the jousting between football in different parts of the the general classification leaders world, and that an element of dis- had been overshadowed by the covery would be an essential part organised and easily accessible appreciation now of how much Qatar won the bid, the reaction better memories from the 2022 punch up between Brambilla and of the experience at the first ever for spectators. work goes into this and how tough was ‘it’s too hot’. When you look FIFA World Cup which McAteer Rovny whilst they were part of a tournament in the Arab world. “Qatar will have short distances a job it is. I’m very impressed with at the technology and see how it’s can’t wait to see come to life. breakaway group of 13. “It is very good that the Arab between venues so it will be ben- what’s happening.” going to benefit the players and “You look at the cooling sys- Rovny even had to ask for a world will have this opportu- eficial to all people who come to The former Liverpool and the fans, it’s amazing.” tems that Qatar is developing and new pair of sunglasses from his nity. Qatar is working very hard. visit. It will be a World Cup of Republic of Ireland midfielder McAteer loved every they just weren’t available back Tinkoff-Saxo team car as they They are a modern nation which short distances. The organisation was given an in-depth tour of the minute of the two FIFA World when I was playing. Ireland played were broken in the fight and is working to present something will be good, and having a com- Supreme Committee for Delivery Cuptournaments he played with Mexico in Florida and it was despite riding on for over an hour new for the FIFA World Cup in pact tournament is a big advan- & Legacy’s technical operations the Republic of Ireland. over 110 degrees. Obviously the both men were eventually told to 2022. They want to show us their tage which Qatar will make the following a recent visit to the From the incredible success Mexicans had a huge advantage stop and expelled from the race. country, the modern stadiums. best of in 2022.” organisation’s Doha headquarters. story for his side as they beat Italy over us and it was very tough. In Froome eventually made a Qatar is developing well and it Meanwhile, Jason McAteer He told www.sc.qa: “As a player at USA ’94, to the drama on and 2022, it will be a level playing field move with just four kilometres will be a great place to discover of Republic of Ireland feels the you don’t appreciate what goes off the park for the Irish team in for everyone, playing in the same of the long climb to the finish line. for visiting fans. It will open the introduction of cooling technol- into a World Cup. I’ve been coming Japan and South Korea in 2002, conditions and same tempera- Contador was able to follow the football world to a new region.” ogy developed by Qatar will bring to Qatar for work for three years McAteer witnessed two editions tures. Sometimes it’s difficult to 2013 Tour de France winner and The former Monaco, Juventus a real benefit to players. now and I understand the culture, of the tournament which were imagine how it will be because you the two managed to distance them- and River Plate striker said he “Starting here everything is I understand what the weather is taken to new regions. can’t imagine technology that’s selves from the chasing Valverde was convinced that the tourna- new and built from the ground like. People from England don’t He believes a new generation of not right in front of your face.” and Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodriguez. ment in Qatar would be well up. I certainly have a great necessarily see that. As soon as players will leave Qatar with even THE PENINSULA Froome, though, couldn’t live with Contador’s acceleration in the final 500m as he strengthened his grip Qatar Sports on the race with just five stages remaining. Qatar and Chile set to clash in “When Froome has a change Club’s Hasek of pace it is difficult to follow him but I managed to do it and I knew gets the chop Valverde and Purito were behind so it could be an important day Aspire Academy Under-19 final for me,” added Contador. DOHA: Ivan Hašek the head “What gives me more reas- coach of Qatar Sports Club DOHA: With two wins out national team of New Zealand. surance is that I am recovering has had his contract termi- of three games the Under-19 It was the second visit for the well, I have the power in my legs nated and will now be replaced national teams of Qatar and England-born coach to Aspire despite the blow I suffered and by Iraqi coach Rathi Snechel. Chile made it to the final of the Academy after 2011, when he now we have a rest day ahead of The decision was taken by the international youth tournament came here with the U17 national us that we need to make the most club’s administration because at Aspire Academy. team of New Zealand. of.” AFP of the bad results in the first The game will be played on “This is really a world class two Rounds of the Qatar Stars today at 8pm and promises to football facility and Aspire League. be an interesting one, since the Academy puts a lot of detail into Tour of Spain The Kings lost their first game first game between the two teams creating the perfect environment 5-0 against Lekhwiya and then ended with a tight 1-0 win for for their players and we were Results lost to Al Ahli 3-1; with the team Chile. pleased to be invited.” LA FARRAPONA, Spain: now at the bottom of the table the The international Under-19 For his team, the tournament Results from the Tour of Spain club felt it best to part ways with tournament has brought four was very important in respect of 16th stage, a 160.5km ride from the Czech tactician. teams from four different con- identifying and selecting players San Martin del Rey Aurelio to Snechel is no stranger to Qatar tinents to Aspire Academy. for the FIFA Under-20 World La Farrapona yesterday: Sports Club and was originally a The U-19 national team of New Cup that New Zealand is going 1. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 4hr 53min player of the Kings; he also played Zealand was happy to finish the to host between May 30 and June 35sec, 2. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) at 15sec, 3. for Al Sadd and Al Gharafa and tournament on a positive note 20, 2015. Alessandro de Marchi (ITA/CAN) 50, 4. Alejandro has been in the coaching set up of with a 3-1 win over Morocco. For Qualifying for this FIFA U-20 Valverde (ESP/MOV) 55, 5. Joaquim Rodriguez the club as well. them, the tournament was also World Cup is also a goal of the (ESP/KAT) 59, 6. Fabio Aru (ITA/AST) 1:06, 7. He coached a number of the a special one, since the men’s Qatari team that is using the Daniel Martin (IRL/GRM) 1:12, 8. Robert Gesink youth teams and the reserve team national team of New Zealand tournament at Aspire Academy (NED/BKN) 1:22, 9. Samuel Sanchez (ESP/BMC) before leaving Qatar to return to was here at same time and used to prepare for the AFC-U19 1:43, 10. Ryder Hesjedal (CAN/GRM) 1:48. his home country. the facilities of the Academy for Championship in October, where Overall The new coach is expected to a training camp. they are going to face Iraq, North 1. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 63hr 25min arrive back in Doha in the next “We stayed in the same hotel as Korea and Oman in the group 00sec, 2. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) at few hours to finalize the necessary the senior players and sometimes stage. 1min 36sec, 3. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 1:39, paperwork and hopefully resur- head coach Anthony Hudson The competition in Myanmar 4. Joaquim Rodriguez (ESP/KAT) 2:29, 5. Fabio rect a team that is currently in invited some of our young play- is crucial for the 2015 U20 World Aru (ITA/AST) 3:38, 6. Daniel Martin (IRL/GRM) free-fall. His first game in charge ers to join the training of the “All Cup, because only the top four Action from the Group stage match of the international youth tourna- 6:17, 7. Robert Gesink (NED/BKN) 6:43, 8. will see him take on Al Sailiya, a Whites”, which was very moti- teams secure themselves a start- ment of Aspire Academy between Qatar and Chile at Aspire Academy Samuel Sanchez (ESP/BMC) 6:55, 9. Warren side who last season finished in vating for them,” said Darren ing place in New Zealand. in Doha. The two teams will play in the final today. Barguil (FRA/GIA) 8:37, 10. Damiano Caruso the top four. THE PENINSULA Bazeley, head coach of the U-19 THE PENINSULA (ITA/CAN) 9:10. Blatter seeks to stay as FIFA president into his 80s MANCHESTER, England: ago, confirmed his candidature candidature in Zurich at the end “I will inform the executive in 2019. In the last 40 years FIFA he will not be re-elected when The prospect of Sepp Blatter for another term as president in of this month. “I got (from) the committee. It’s a question of has had just two presidents. Joao voting takes place at the FIFA continuing as FIFA presi- a recorded interview transmit- last (FIFA) congress in Sao Paulo respect also to say then to the Havelange ruled from 1974 until Congress in Zurich next June. dent into his early 80s came ted to delegates at the Soccerex not only the impression but the football family, ‘Yes I will be ready. 1998 when Blatter, his former sec- Last month Michel Platini a step nearer yesterday when Global Convention. support of the majority, a huge I will be a candidate.’” retary general, took over. ended speculation about his bid he confirmed he was standing “You see a mission is never fin- majority of national associations The news comes as little sur- Before the World Cup started for the presidency when he said for a fifth term of office next ished and my mission is not fin- asking ‘Please go on, be our presi- prise as Blatter had dropped in Brazil in June, five of FIFA’s he would not stand for election - year. ished,” he said in the 42-minute dent also in future.’ strong hints he would stand again six confederations - the exception instead he will seek another term Blatter, who will be 79 when interview, adding that he would “Now I would make an offi- and if he sees out his potential being UEFA - gave Blatter their as the president of European soc- the votes are cast next June and officially tell members of FIFA’s cial declaration definitely in four-year term he will be 83 by the support to continue as president cer’s ruling body, UEFA. who was first elected 16 years executive committee of his September (to stand). time of the next planned election and it is almost inconceivable that REUTERS Tuesday 9 September 2014 14 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6183 Sport Price: QR2

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DOHA: On a good day for Qatari clubs, Asian champi- ons El Jaish moved into the semi-finals of the IHF Super Globe 2014 after routing Brazil’s Taubate 37-27 for their second consecutive victory at the Qatar Handball Association Complex yesterday. Al Sadd brought delight to home fans as they bounced back from the opening day’s defeat to edge out Esperance Tunis 30-29 in a thriller to stay alive in the tournament. Defending champions FC Barcelona, having defeated Al Sadd in their first match, booked their berth in the semi-finals after crushing Sydney University HC’s resistance for a 34-18 victory in the first game of the second day of the prestigious championship. On the other hand, another local club Al Ahli, the wild card entrants lost to SG Flensburg Handewitt 20-29 as the European champions became the third side to advance into the semi-finals. “My players did a good job,” El Amine Banour of Al Sadd Qatar attempts to score against Esperance Tunis during the IHF Super Globe at Qatar Handball Association Complex in Doha yesterday. Al Sadd won 30-29. Jaish coach Zoran Kastratovic RIGHT: Sobhi Saeid of Al Sadd getting treatment on his injured hand. BOTTOM: Al Sadd player Janko Kevic tries to break through the Esperance Tunis defence. PICTURES BY: BAHER AMIN told reporters following the victory. first team from Group A to enter Jaish secured a lead of 13-11 at the day to avoid calculations for “We were very good in the sec- the pre-finals. one stage and went into the half- the semi-final berth. Al Sadd will ond half and I congratulate my The Brazilians started off well time with a 15-14 lead. have to repeat their yesterday’s team for the victory. I also con- and were leading 6-3 before the The first few minutes of the performance if they are aiming gratulate Taubate for their per- home team took the team’s first final session also saw an even to beat the Sydney based club as formance in the first half.” time out. The Asian champi- contest before Markovic and they impressed with their show Spurred with a brilliant show ons came back as an improved Ahmed begun to defy the opposi- against the defending champions. by the duo of Zarko Markovic and side and launched an aggressive tion’s defence. Markovic, the left- Although FC Barcelona Ahmed Elahmar Ahmed, El Jaish strategy to take Taubate under handed goal-machine scored eight clinched the game 34-18, Sydney managed to prevail over a bril- pressure. times while Ahmed struck nine made the holders run for money liant fight by Pan American club Despite a gallant display by goals in the match to take things particularly in the first half in champions Taubate to become goal-keeper Malik Santos, El beyond the Brazilians. which they just allowed them a Although the two victories have slim lead of 12-15. sealed the place for El Jaish in the Meanwhile, in the last match of semi-finals, the coach said they the day, Al Ahli went down fight- will give their hundred percent in ing against Flensburg after a good their last group match against SG first half. Flensberg as both teams will fight The local side in front of the for top spot in the group today. home crowd gave a good fight in “We are all dreaming for a place the opening session which they in final but now we are thinking leveled by 13-13 before Flensburg about the Flensburg game. They took control of the second half’s are the European champions proceedings to win the Group and we will give our best to win B match and advance into the so that we can top the group and knock-out stage of the tourna- face the second best team of other ment. THE PENINSULA group in the semi-finals,” said El Jaish coach. Super Globe 2014 Meanwhile, Bannour Amine Today’s Fixtures excelled by scoring 13 goals to led FC Barcelona vs 2:00 PM Al Sadd’s superb fightback for a Esperance Sportive de close win over African champions Tunis Esperance Tunis in Group B. SG Flensburg-Handewitt 4:00 PM vs El Jaish SC Al Sadd were down 12-15 at the breather but in the second half Handebol Taubate vs 6:00 PM Al Ahli SC they turned the course of the Al Sadd SC vs Sydney 8:00 PM match for an impressive victory. Uni HC Apart from Amine, Husain Venue: Qatar Handball Al Sayyad amd Mario Tomic Association Complex in Duhail chipped in with four goals each Results for the winning team. The Doha- FC Barcelona bt Sydney University HC based club now need a win over 34-18 Sydney Uni HC in today’s game El Jaish bt Taubate 37-27; Al Sadd bt El Jaish goalkeeper Fazekas blocks a try from Gustavo Nakmura of and hope for FC Barcelona’s win Esperance Tunis 30-29 Taubate. El Jaish won 37-27. over the Tunis’ side, earlier on SG Flensburg Handewitt bt Al Ahli 29-20 Global audience witnesses incredible Super Globe

DOHA: The Qatar 2015 Handball Association and Head the warm welcome and incredible Complex. With a seating capac- best World Championship ever. already taking shape as the Qatar Organising Committee staged of the Organising Committee hospitality that Qatar will offer to ity of over 5,400, the Qatar Back in January 2011, when the Handball Association continues a dazzling opening ceremony of IHF Super Globe, and, Dr players and spectators. Handball Association Complex Qatar Handball Association was building the future for handball for the IHF Super Globe Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari, The globally-broadcast cer- provided an ideal setting for the awarded to host the 2015 World in Qatar.” Championship 2014 at the all- Director General, Qatar 2015 emony began with a moving ceremony. It will also be one of Championship, my Qatari friends A special show also dazzled and new Qatar Handball Association Organising Committee. rendition by an Oud player who the primary venues for the Qatar promised me to keep all timelines delighted the crowd with an excit- Complex on Sunday, welcoming The Minister of Youth and played traditional Qatari music, 2015 24th Men’s Handball World for this challenging project. To ing light and music ensemble that sports teams and handball fans Sports unveiled a special plaque to followed by the MC and host of Championship taking place next see handball matches now in the showcased the culture of each from around the world. commemorate the grand opening the evening, beIN SPORTS pre- year. first newly constructed venue, team’s respective nations. It then The ceremony was inaugurated and the inaugural ceremony of the senter Mohammed Saadon Al Dr Hassan Moustafa, President the Qatar Handball Association proceeded with a magical fly- by H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali, IHF Super Globe Championship Kuwari, welcoming the delegates, of the International Handball Complex, proves that Qatar is ing performance by professional Minister of Youth and Sports who 2014. teams and audience to the cham- Federation, said: “I am really on the right track. Constantly acrobats and the spectacular was joined by Dr Hassan Moustafa, Hosting eight clubs from five pionship games. The crowd was impressed by this new arena supported by the International show came to an end with the President of the International continents, the Super Globe is then treated to a video presenta- as it showcases the abilities Handball Federation, the project display of the IHF Super Globe Handball Federation, Ahmed Al set to be an exciting contest, and tion on the building of the world- of the Qatari organisers and to host the first ever Men’s World Championship 2014 trophy. Shaabi, President of the Qatar the opening event demonstrated class Qatar Handball Association their great will to present the Championship in only one city is THE PENINSULA