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Election in Jordan OPINION Expert blames Egyptian economy after two years Villaggio fire of revolution omor- row, TFriday, January 25, on lamp holder Egypt marks two years since its rev- olution, with ‘Blaze began in sports shoe outlet’ President Khalid Al Sayed Mohammed EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOHA: A fire expert from the are available aplenty in the local Mursi fac- interior ministry yesterday market,” the witness said. ing two major challenges: One told a criminal court hearing The insulating material on of a crisis of governance and the Villaggio Mall fire case electrical wires was of low qual- national dialogue with the that the devastating blaze had ity and not suitable to Qatar’s opposition, and another of a started at a sports shoe outlet weather conditions, the witness critical economic situation. on the ground floor after the told the court. Before the uprising, Egypt’s aluminium holder of a fluores- A defence lawyer disputed GDP was growing at five per- cent lamp melted and came in his claim and said since he was cent, but it declined from contact with sports footwear a chemist by training he didn’t A woman helps her grandmother cast her ballot at a polling station in Amman, as Jordanians voted in a par- four percent in the fiscal year stocked there. have the expertise to talk about liamentary election boycotted by the main Islamist party, the Muslim Brotherhood. See also page 6 2010/2011 to 2.2 percent in The fire then spread to some the cause of the fire. “We had a 2011/2012. 30 nearby shops in the mall, the fire expert who investigated the Continued on page 3 witness, who was from the inte- Villaggio blaze,” the witness said. THE PENINSULA rior ministry’s forensic laboratory, Six witnesses testified during claimed in his deposition. yesterday’s marathon hearing in Indonesia mission to endorse maids’ contracts A copper lamp holder should the criminal court at Al Sadd that have been used instead, argued the lasted more than five hours with a BY MOHAMMED IQBAL a senior official said yesterday. is putting a heavy financial burden Qatar Airways voted witness, suggesting that both the half-hour lunch break. A sudden rise in the number of on the embassy, because we are fluorescent lamp and its holder The second witness was an offi- DOHA: The Indonesian runaway maids seeking shelter at forced to pay air tickets for their best long-haul airline were of substandard quality. cial from the Ministry of Social embassy, which temporarily the embassy had forced the mis- repatriation,” Novi Fitmawati, a “Most fires in Qatar take place Affairs, which is responsible for stopped endorsing job contracts sion to take the extreme step. senior official at the embassy, told DOHA: Qatar Airways was because of the use of substand- licensing nurseries. for Indonesian housemaids “At one point, we had 32 runa- The Peninsula yesterday. voted the Best Long-Haul ard electrical appliances, which, Continued on page 3 about two weeks ago, will way Indonesian maids who were Continued on page 3 Airline at the 18th annual despite their hazardous nature, THE PENINSULA resume the service on Sunday, given shelter at the embassy. This THE PENINSULA Business Travel Awards cere- mony at Grosvenor House Hotel in London this week. British travellers gave the carrier the honour for its com- Russia warns against attack on Iran Netanyahu wins with reduced majority Cameron promises vote on EU exit mitment to quality and superior in-flight service, the airline said MOSCOW: Russia warned Israel and the West yes- JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu set about forg- LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron yester- yesterday. Qatar Airways Vice terday against any military strike on Iranian nuclear ing a new ruling coalition yesterday after Israeli vot- day promised Britons a vote on quitting the European President Commercial Europe, facilities, calling it a “very, very dangerous idea”, but ers fed up with state coddling of ultra-Orthodox Jews Union, rattling London’s biggest allies and some inves- Paul Johannes, collected the suggested Tehran should be quicker to cooperate over chastised him by propelling an upstart centrist party tors by raising the prospect of uncertainty and upheaval. award on behalf of the airline. inspections of its nuclear sites. to prominence. The vote would be held in 2017, he said. See also page 2 See also pages 6 & 7 Voters punish Israeli PM on page 7 Full story on page 10 THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Workshops Qatar Airways continues to shed light award winning streak on issues of Arab families Carrier voted Best Long-Haul Airline by UK travellers DOHA: The Doha International Institute for Family Studies and DOHA: Qatar Airways has been fleet and, of course, look forward prestigious Skytrax organisation. Development (DIIFSD) is pre- voted Best Long-Haul Airline at to the opening of the new Hamad The award follows other recent paring to hold a series of lec- the 18th annual Business Travel International Airport on April 1,” accolades from Business Traveller’s tures and workshops that aim Awards ceremony at Grosvenor Al Baker added. sister publications around the to bring to light real issues, House Hotel in London this Qatar Airways Vice President world; Best Business Class in trends and developments facing week. Commercial Europe, Paul the World by Business Traveller Arab families in today’s world. Organised by Buying Business Johannes, received the award on Middle East and Best Airline in The first lecture, entitled ‘The Travel magazine, UK travellers behalf of the airline. the Middle East and Africa by Flight from Marriage: Has it awarded the Five-Star carrier Johannes said: “We are very Business Traveller Asia Pacific. Come to the Arab World?,’ will for its commitment to quality and pleased with the level of support One of the world’s fastest grow- feature Dr Nicholas Eberstadt, a superior in-flight service, said the we have received from our UK ing airlines, Qatar Airways has political economist and a demog- airline. customers, which further high- seen rapid growth in just 16 years rapher, who is an adviser at the Qatar Airways Chief Executive lights the appreciation of our of operations, now flying a mod- American Enterprise Institute Officer, Akbar Al Baker, said he attention to detail and passen- ern fleet of 118 aircraft to 124 and National Bureau of Asian was delighted that the airline’s ger comfort. We look forward to key business and leisure destina- Research. award winning streak has con- continuing to serve our existing tions across Europe, the Middle The lecture, which is open to tinued into the New Year. UK-based travellers and welcom- East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the the public, will be held on Sunday, “This is a great start to 2013 ing new customers onboard.” Americas with the expansion con- at Georgetown University from and we thank our loyal UK trav- Editor of Buying Business Travel, tinuing well into this year. noon to 1.30pm. ellers for giving us this vote of Paul Revel, said: “The judges felt Over the next few months, The lecture will provide key confidence. We are very proud that Qatar Airways is right up Qatar Airways will launch serv- insights and trends into the fac- to receive this honour, testa- there with the best, with a very ices to a diverse portfolio of tors impacting the role of mar- ment to the world-class service impressive submission, underlin- new routes, including Phnom riage among Muslim families in and personalised treatment that ing the youth and dynamism of Penh, Cambodia (February 20); the Arab world. we provide to all of our custom- this carrier. It has a great prod- Chengdu, China (March 19); Qatar Airways Vice President Commercial Europe, Paul Johannes (centre) Studies have shown that cer- ers. This year will be another big uct, a rapidly expanding network Chicago, the US (April 10); with the award for Best Long-Haul Airline at the Business Travel Awards tain patterns in marriages that year for Qatar Airways as we and plenty of innovation.” and Salalah, Oman (May 22) 2013 in London. With him are English television comedian, actor and host first began emerging in postwar continue to expand our world- Qatar Airways was also named with many more new start-ups of the awards night, Alexander Armstrong (left) and Senior Vice President Europe in the 1940s and more wide network, welcome more Airline of the Year for the sec- planned. of Diners Club, John O’Hagan, a key sponsor of the award. recently evident in modern East aircraft into our ever-expanding ond consecutive year by the THE PENINSULA Asian societies are now also beginning to emerge within the Muslim world. The series of lectures and work- shops by DIIFSD is a testament to the institution’s commitment towards building a well-rounded, Qatar Leadership Centre holds strategic training at QNCC healthy and ultimately a more sustainable Arab society. DOHA: The Current and business environment as part of & Technology Park (QSTP) to this, our participants will continue are driving towards the National In keeping with its vision to be Future Executive Leaders the Management Acumen ele- explore, understand and learn to be exposed to research streams Vision 2030. the global authority in issues fac- Group of the Qatar Leadership ment of the Current and Future more about the current and future and industry themes that consti- As part of the programme, can- ing the Arab family, DIIFSD is Centre will hold a week-long Executive Leaders programme. plans of the organisation. tute one of the fastest growing didates will meet industry leaders paving the way through research, series of strategic training and Psychometric assessment “Globally, research and devel- sectors in the region,” he added. from oil and gas, education, gov- policy, and outreach programmes psychometric assessments at coaching sessions will also be opment in both education and QSTP works in four differ- ernment, healthcare, telecom and that address hard-hitting, real- the Qatar National Convention delivered until Tuesday at QNCC, business remains one of the core ent areas: Energy, Environment, the ICT community. life developments in family Centre (QNCC). where Qatar Leadership Centre drivers for national economic Health Sciences, and Information Following the completion of the matters. Senior lecturers and professors participants will be given feedback, growth and National Vision and Communication Technologies. January courses, the Current and On Monday, DIFFSD will be from Harvard Business School coaching and guidance for per- 2030,” said Sheikh Dr Abdulla As part of the Qatar Leadership Future Executive Leaders group conducting a workshop led by Dr will deliver lectures and train- sonal growth and improvement. bin Ali Al Thani, Board Member Centre course, participants regu- will attend courses delivered by Eberstadt for a panel of experts ing exercises on strategic think- The group of senior Qatari and Executive Director of Qatar larly visit a cross section of indus- Duke CE on Agile Leadership in on the subject of fertility decline ing, networking, industry analysis business and public sector lead- Leadership Centre. tries to meet leading figures and early February. THE PENINSULA in the Muslim world. and competitive thinking in global ers will visit the Qatar Science “Through study trips such as understand how all industries THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Villaggio trial may Labour Ministry to monitor Qatarisation in private sector be fast-tracked DOHA: The Ministry of for Qatari citizens and train Director of Legal Affairs meetings with private institu- non-specialisation jobs have also Labour has set up a com- them to take up jobs in the pri- Department, Mohammad Sad Al tions and companies to ensure been Qatarised. The committee Continued from page 1 mittee to follow up the jobs- vate sector, Al Sharq reported Muraikhi, Director of National how much they are complying will also study job opportunities She told the court the ill-fated nationalisation (Qatarisation) yesterday. Workforces Department and with the jobs-nationalisation in the private sector in a bid to nursery, Gympanzee, where all programme in the private H E Husain Al Mulla, Fawaz Al Rais, Director of the programme approved by the train national cadres for these the 19 deaths were reported from, sector. Undersecretary of the Ministry Recruitment Department, have Cabinet. posts and scholarship opportu- was not licensed by her ministry. The committee also aims to of Labour, has been appointed been appointed as members of The Cabinet has fixed 20 nities to send Qatari graduates Gympanzee was located on the develop contacts with private as the chairman of the commit- the panel. percent job quotas in the pri- abroad to pursue higher studies. first floor of the Mall so it couldn’t companies to fill job quotas tee and Mohammad Ubaydali, The committee will also hold vate sector for citizens and THE PENINSULA have been a licensed nursery because licensing rules require that a nursery must be housed on the ground floor of a building, she Attiyah meets Lebanese top judge said. “Gympanzee had no safety clearance from the Directorate of Civil Defence as well.” Cabinet decision A woman doctor, also from the Interior Ministry, who con- ducted autopsies on the bodies of four of the 19 fire victims — three to raise housing Gympanzee teachers and a child — said they died due to suffocation caused by thick and poisonous smoke. The next hearing in the allowance praised case will be held on Wednesday when the defence is expected to produce their witnesses. DOHA: Qatari citizens have between the value of popular Meanwhile, this newspaper has lauded a decision of the Cabinet housing for the beneficiaries to learnt that it is likely that the to increase housing allowances the former system and the cur- mall fire trial will be conducted for low-income Qatari families rent high loan set as per the on a fast-track basis. The parents whose homes (popular Arabic provisions of law No.2 of 2007 on of some of the deceased children houses that were given away housing system. have made a plea to the prosecu- to them by the government in The Cabinet approved a draft tion to this effect and suggested 1987) have been razed to give decision of the Minister of the trial be conducted on a weekly way to new ones, Qatar News Municipality and Urban Planning basis. It is likely the prosecution Agency reported yesterday. concerning amending some pro- might convey the parents’ plea The beneficiaries of the state visions of the decision of No. 37 The Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah to the Supreme Judicial Council. housing scheme have to stay in of 2011 concerning the setting with Lebanese Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi in Doha yesterday. The Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar Hassan THE PENINSULA alternative rented accommoda- up of divisions at the adminis- Saad was present. tions until their new homes are trative units at the Ministry of ready. Considering the spiralling Municipality and Urban Planning. rental market, the Cabinet yes- The ministers approved a draft terday decided to increase their memorandum of understanding Mission seeks better coordination between agents, sponsors housing allowance. (MoU) for cooperation in the Such families were complain- oil and gas field between Qatar's Continued from page 1 situation. If there is no improve- side of the recruiting agents working on a new law on domes- ing of problems in getting tem- Ministry of Energy and Industry She said the embassy had ment, we may be forced to take as well as the sponsors,” said tic workers. This is a welcome porary shelter on rent due to the and Oman's Ministry of Oil and decided to temporarily stop such measures again,” said the Fitmawati. The main complaints step and we are hoping for early low allowances provided by the Gas. endorsement of job contracts so official. of the runaway maids are related implementation of the law,” said State. The Cabinet agreed on a that the recruiting agents and Every day, three to five runa- to long working hours, lack of Fitmawati. She said the embassy The Cabinet held its weekly draft agreement on air services employers would take the issue way maids seek shelter at the days off, low salary or non-pay- was receiving about 50 job con- meeting yesterday chaired by between Qatar and Ecuador and seriously. embassy. They are then trans- ment of salary. The recruiting tracts daily for endorsement the Deputy Prime Minister and reviewed a letter of the Minister The mission is likely to resume ferred to the deportation centre. agents, sponsors and the maids from employers seeking to recruit Minister of State for Cabinet of Justice concerning the outcome the service on Sunday, hoping “The problem is that there are — all are to be held responsible for Indonesian housemaids. Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah of the 50th meeting of the execu- that the situation would improve no clear rules on who should pro- the rise in the number of runaway “Currently, there are about Al Mahmoud. tive office and the 28th session of in the days to come. vide air tickets for their repatria- housemaids, said the official. 1,000 Indonesian housemaids in The ministers also approved the Arab Justice Ministers held “From next week, we will tion,” said the official. “Addressing this issue is a col- Qatar, and their numbers remain the Social Affairs Ministry's in Cairo in November last year. resume endorsing the contracts “We are expecting better coor- lective responsibility. According to more or less stable,” she said. proposal to paying the difference THE PENINSULA and continue to monitor the dination in this respect from the media reports, Qatar is currently THE PENINSULA

Egyptians must work hard for prosperity

Continued from page 1 just $375m in 2011 from $6bn in The tourism sector, a main Continued uncertainty and 2010, according to central bank pillar of the Egyptian economy, unrest in the last months of 2012 data, declining by nearly $6bn accounted for 11.3 percent of the led to the weakening of growth in year-on-year. The lack of security country’s GDP and had a total the new fiscal year at a time when also scared away investors, with revenue of nearly $12.5bn in 2010, inflation, which rose to 5.6 per- the stock market losing about which fell to $8.8bn in 2011. cent last December, was becoming $8bn in October 2011. According to official figures, a major threat. In November 2011, Moody’s around 9.8 million people visited The revolution cut the GDP downgraded five of the country’s Egypt in 2011, a decline of 33 per- by an estimated $4.27bn, while largest banks, saying it was reas- cent compared with 2010, and the cost to public finances was sessing Egypt’s ability to support there was an 18 percent drop in $5.52bn, according to estimates its banking system amid the polit- tourist nights spent in the coun- given by a Geopolicity study. ical turmoil. try in 2011. Lack of security, and Unemployment is also rising The country’s foreign exchange political instability have driven fast. According to government reserves dwindled from $36bn in tourists away from the country statistics, reported by Bloomberg June 2010 to $14.4bn in July 2012, in search of other destinations. in February 2012, the unemploy- which means Egypt’s net inter- However, as they mark the ment rate rose to 12.4 percent in national reserves went down 60 second anniversary of the revo- the last quarter of last year from percent in a year. The Egyptian lution, all Egyptians should unite 8.9 percent in the same period a pound has fallen dramatically and work together to move to the year earlier, although some ana- against the US dollar and it con- post-revolution period. lysts say the current unemploy- tinued to decline on January 20, They should focus their forces ment rate could be as high as 25 2012, taking its losses to 6.6 per- and potential on fruitful hard percent. cent — the Egyptian pound has work in order to achieve their Foreign investment in the dropped more than 12 percent goals of stability and prosperity country was also hit hard by the since the beginning of the revo- for Egypt. unrest, with investments down to lution in January 2011. THE PENINSULA

Qatar to revolutionise foetal and newborn care

DOHA: Researchers supported “There are two major variables movements, what the health of by Qatar National Research in a signal - time and frequency,” the foetus is and try to make a Fund (QNRF) are using signal Dr Boashash explained. “The way decision before it is too late,” he detection to improve monitor- our approach differs from classi- said. ing of the health of developing cal techniques is that we are going This technology allows for con- foetuses, with the promise of to use these two variables concur- tinuous monitoring of the foetus significant potential benefits for rently. This is major step because, so that any unusual signal pat- women. in the past, either time-delineated terns will be instantly sent to the Through existing technology, or frequency information was physician. This would eliminate movements of a foetus can be read used, but not the two combined. It the need for frequent visits to the over time to detect any unusual would be like trying to represent doctor and would, at the same patterns or a reduction in activity. a person by just looking at the time, monitor the health of the However, this requires a level of height while the person’s weight baby more effectively. expertise based on signal analy- and other factors are ignored.” The team is also working on sis and interpretation techniques The team has developed a sen- newborn monitor systems that that have been largely overlooked sor system that, when placed on work on the same premise, until now, said QNRF. the mother’s stomach, detects whereby signals from an infant’s Dr Boualem Boashash of signals from movements in the brainwaves are transferred into Qatar University’s College womb. The nature of these signals sensors placed in a ‘hat’ worn just of Engineering, along with can be determined to detect any after birth. Australian colleagues from abnormalities in foetal develop- According to Dr Boashash, the University of Queensland’s ment. To ensure that the mother’s the research is especially impor- Centre for Clinical Research and movement is not mistaken for tant in Qatar, where the privacy the University of Melbourne’s that of the foetus, a separate sen- afforded by such technologies Department of Obstetrics and sor is positioned on her back and would encourage more families Gynaecology, are conducting those signals are read separately. to use them. Dr Boashash and research under QNRF’s National “Sadly, some babies die in the his team have published their Priorities Research Programme womb following a period of time findings widely and are now tri- (NPRP) on how to best use these of decreased movements. The alling the monitoring systems in techniques to monitor foetal aim of this project is to infer, Australia to test them in Qatar health. from recordings of the foetal soon. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Ashghal to launch QR100bn projects in 5 years Flagship QR10bn inner-Doha sewerage project to address country’s drainage problems for the next 50 years

BY SATISH KANADY

DOHA: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) is in the process of launching QR100bn worth projects in the next five years. The authority has already started inviting tenders for the key projects from national and international companies. One of its prestigious projects, the flagship QR10bn strate- gic Inner Doha Resewerage Implementation Strategy (IDRIS), was unveiled yesterday before over 600 local and interna- tional infrastructure contractors at an event held at Grand Hyatt Hotel. In September 2012, Ashghal had unveiled 221 projects worth Nasser Ghaith Al Kuwari, Manager of Ashghal’s Drainage Project Department QR50bn. The projects included and (right) the Programme Manager of IDRIS management office at Ashghal, construction, repair and main- Terry L Krause, during their presentations, yesterday. PICTURES BY ABDUL BASIT tenance of highway structures; road improvements in different municipalities, cleaning projects, upgrade and accommodate the over the next seven years, the system. Divided into three main treated sewage effluent return minimise the usual disruption construction of commercial cen- projected population growth of an programme is a result of stud- areas of Qatar, the project com- mains and pump station. associated with utility pipeline tres and complexes and traffic additional one million in Doha’s ies, which took a comprehensive prises a conveyance system con- On completion, the project will work. The only visible signs in flow improvement. oldest area – South catchment. and integrated approach, whereby sisting of 40km of deep main decommission over 30 ageing the construction of many kilome- Nasser Ghaith Al Kuwari, The major tunnelled intercep- various influences on sewage flow trunk sewer and over 70km of pump stations in the inner city tres of pipeline will be occasional Manager of Ashghal’s Drainage tor sewer and advanced sewage were examined, including pro- lateral interceptor sewers; one area of Doha and replace them access shafts and work sites. Project Department, said the treatment works scheme will jected community growth, the large and approximately 60m with a single large deep terminal CH2MHILL has been QR10bn sewerage project is meet the long-term demands of condition of the current drain- deep terminal pump station; pump station 30km outside Doha. appointed as the programme aimed at addressing the country’s hydraulically overloaded condi- age system and planned devel- New Doha South advanced sew- Due to the significant depth management consultancy for the drainage problems for the next tions, and remove over 30 existing opment such as Ashghal’s Doha age treatment works with an ini- below ground of the tunnelling project to develop and oversee 50 years. IDRIS is a world class pump stations. Expressway Motorway System tial capacity of 500 million litres works, IDRIS will utilise sub- implementation of IDRIS. solution developed by Ashghal to Scheduled to be implemented and Qatar Rail Company’s Metro per day and more than 70km of surface techniques that will THE PENINSULA

Muntazah highway to ease Industrial Area traffic DOHA: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has started work on the proposed Muntazah highway that will connect central Doha with Harvard selects HBKU for knowledge-sharing programme the Industrial Area. The 5km road will connect the Industrial Area intersection with DOHA: Hamad bin Khalifa Munatazah Road through the Woqod Roundabout in Abu Hamour. University (HBKU) and This project will be implemented in partnership with leading local Harvard University’s Institute companies, Al Sharq reported on Tuesday. for Global Law and Policy Ashghal said that the project will be completed in the scheduled time (IGLP) will facilitate a knowl- and this will not affect the quality of work. The road will have three lanes edge exchange for both uni- on each direction, besides service roads on both sides and two intersections. versities in the years to come. Once completed, the highway is expected to ease traffic from the Doha After offering it for city to the Industrial Area with wide lanes that can also accommodate three years in Cambridge, heavy vehicles. THE PENINSULA Massachusetts, the IGLP work- shop reached beyond the US to Doha for a second home. The workshop, which took place at Education City recently, attracted 140 scholars, faculty, and young policy professionals to the heart of the Gulf state. Designed and created by Harvard’s Law School in 2008, this year’s workshop stayed true to its origins. The curricu- lum and agenda were chosen by Harvard and adapted to fit within Qatar’s legal and cultural setting. In addition, scholars and faculty who applied to partici- pate were reviewed by the world renowned university and invited based on academic merit. The Harvard University’s Law and Policy workshop in progress at Hamad bin Khalifa University. The workshop’s design brings together people from a multi- tude of backgrounds and careers people of so many differ- region, Asia, Australia, and as participants were taking part and facilitates research and ent backgrounds gathered far away as the US, the IGLP for the first time, there were writing on issues of global law, in one place,” said Hessa Al workshop had something of a few present that had been economic policy, and social jus- Muhannadi, a young policy value to offer to everyone. As attending the conference since tice. Bringing the workshop to professional. “Because of this Suha Jubran Ballan, a PhD its inception. These participants Qatar expanded and deepened diversity, we have been able to student, explained: “At this were attracted to attend this the potential for research in the learn about different parts of workshop, you get to have con- year’s workshop because of its context of the Middle East and the world.” versations you can’t have any- unique location, and the region’s the Arab Spring. With participants that hailed where else.” influence on the sessions. “I have never seen so many from Qatar, the Middle Eastern While some of the THE PENINSULA

Ministry of Culture to hold National Sports Day events

DOHA: The Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage is planning to organise sports activi- ties in celebration of the National Sports Day. The proposed pro- gramme includes holding sport competitions in a number of youth centres affiliated to the ministry and sport matches between different ministry depart- ments, in addition to spe- cial programmes for ladies. This decision reflects the ministry’s belief in the importance of sports, and the constant efforts to make sports part of the community culture as a fundamental approach for the nation’s development. A committee was formed following a decision by the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Design student DFI launches fund to promote GCC film production

DOHA: Doha Film Institute (DFI) regional and international festivals. applicants is they should be either week for shooting and six weeks for has launched Hazawi Fund, a Mahdi Ali Ali, Manager of the Gulf a director or producer of the film post-production. wins VCUQatar new initiative under its Gulf Film Film Development, said the Hazawi project, and a GCC national. All equipment will be provided by Development programme, to pro- Fund builds on the core commitment The DFI will appoint a GCC DFI, along with other technical and mote film production in Qatar and of DFI to promote the growth of the national producer to a project that production support. DFI will provide the Gulf region. regional film industry. has been selected without a producer. mentorship for the key creative crew. scholarship The initiative will see production “With a number of talented young- Scripts must be original and should Submissions to the Hazawi Fund of up to six high quality short films sters stepping into the film indus- not be longer than 10 pages and the will be open until March 1 this year. written and directed by Qatari and try, Khaleeji cinema is fast gaining films must not be more than 10 min- The selected projects will be notified Gulf filmmakers annually. ground. They need tangible support utes. The selected project must be by March 15. Applicants may visit Q22 holds Doha skyline project Each project should be filmed — both in terms of financing and completed in 10 weeks, with three www.dohafilminstitute.com for more entirely in Qatar and will be allocated mentoring. Hazawi Fund is dedicated weeks for pre-production, one details. THE PENINSULA DOHA: Local design student Mona Al Sulaiti was a budget of up to QR250,000. The to help identify emerging talent from awarded a Virginia Commonwealth University in films to be produced will have the the Gulf region and further support Qatar (VCUQatar) scholarship sponsored by Qatar opportunity to premiere at the next them to make compelling short films 2022 Supreme Committee (Q22) after winning the edition of the Doha Tribeca Film under DFI’s supervision,” said Ali. first stage of ‘Doha Skyline Project 2012’ organised Festival and will also be submitted for One of the requirements for by Q22. Lolwa Al Mohannadi and Noora Al Melhim were awarded runner-up certificates by Q22 Brand Guardian, Carmen Smith, during the awards ceremony at VCUQatar. VCUQatar students were tasked with creating their own artistic interpretations of Doha’s skyline in the form of their choosing – sketching, painting, illustration. The submissions then were evaluated by Q22’s brand depart- ment and Lambie Nairn London, Q22’s Brand Agency, for compatibility with Q22 brand identity and uniqueness. The Doha skyline project is the first part of a long- term community engagement programme between Q22 and VCUQatar, to include and integrate work of local students into Q22’s brand identity, which will be used at events and in official publications globally. Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee Communications and Marketing Director, Nasser Al Khater, said: “This project is an important part of our community outreach and ties in with our aim of ensuring that the delivery of a successful 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is achieved through utilising talented and creative young individuals from the local population.” “I would like to congratulate Mona on winning the first stage of the competition and look forward to seeing her work being integrated into our communications output. Our plan is to hold an annual exhibition of all student work where the public in Qatar can visit and see how the students’ designs have been incorporated into our communications,” Al Khater added. The Dean of VCUQatar, Allyson Vanstone, said: “Our engagement programme with Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee is a fantastic opportunity for our students. They have the opportunity to contribute to Q22’s brand identity and play a significant role is shaping Qatar’s design industry.” The programme will continue in the coming semesters with projects focusing on calligraphy, typography and Qatar landmarks. The long-term aim of the programme is for Q22 to work closely with VCUQatar students in order to capture Qatar’s progress creatively in the build-up to hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Road ahead for Egypt Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate he face of a defeated Hosni Mubarak staring through an enclosure of wired mesh in a Cairo courtroom will probably define the times of the Arab Spring. If TTahrir Square became a metaphor for the voice of suppressed people ringing through the Arab World, Mubarak’s Obama’s next climate steps face, with his trademark dark shades, turned into a marquee of arrogance — so very characteristic of dictators who later stuck out amid the jagged contours of the revolution. Friday will mark two years of the Egyptian revolution, a cataclysmic apt to be temperate event that brought about one of the most important changes in the region—the challenge to authority, to dictatorial designs BY VALERIE VOLCOVICI Dakota to hydraulic fracturing, or Division at the EPA. The NSPS is a that worked over decades to subvert the freedom of millions. fracking, that has unlocked massive program under the Clean Air Act that A challenge to a head of state, called a president, but no more he Obama administration gas reserves in several states. Taking sets a limit on the rate at which a facil- than a supremo surrounded by fawning lackeys. is likely to rely mostly on strong environmental steps while still ity can emit using the best available The first spark of the revolution in the Arab world existing rules and on flexing supporting aggressive drilling and emission controls. started in Tunisia where an unemployed youth died of Texecutive power to execute its exploration will be a balancing act. The EPA is required to produce second-term environmental agenda, Fracking is a mixed blessing, greenhouse gas standards for existing self-immolation. sidestepping Congress as it sets about prompting local protests over concerns sources following a 2010 settlement In Egypt, the depredations of Mubarak gave enough radically reducing greenhouse gases about possible water pollution but also with environmental groups and some strength to the masses to turn out in droves at Tahrir. The generated by major polluters. lowering emissions by displacing coal states. It has not yet set a deadline. siege of the landmark square for months-on-end brought it in Just a day after President Barack at power plants. Ed Whitfield, chair of the House focus, so that international media started converging there. Obama said in his inaugural address subcommittee on energy and environ- Pictures of thousands of youth shouting anti-regime slogans that for the United States not to CLEAN AIR CLOUT ment, told reporters that Republicans respond to the threat of climate change Obama is expected to name an would not be able to curb legislatively crystallized opinion against a corrupt regime known more would “betray our children and future entirely new energy policy team in any rules the EPA proposes. for its authoritarian streak, corruption and misgovernance. generations,” White House spokesman the next few weeks. Environmental “The reality is, I doubt the Senate The youth of Tahrir had been brought up on stories of police Jay Carney tamped down expectations Protection Agency administrator Lisa would pass anything we would pass to excesses and rights violations by the for bold new moves. Jackson and Interior Secretary Ken repeal them,” said the Kentucky rep- military. Carney declined to define specific Salazar are departing. Secretary of resentative. “I know there have been Mursi faces policies, suggest- Energy Steven Chu is widely expected court challenges already and I expect It was not long before Mubarak’s ing the White to leave soon. that there will be more.” the hard task men started riding roughshod over House will Carol Browner, Obama’s former Recent court decisions that have of deciding the protesters. Stories abound of expand its cur- White House climate and energy touched on the legal basis for the EPA his partymen ploughing through rent strategy czar, said whoever steps in for Jackson to regulate carbon have mostly come which side demonstrators on camels as security Environmentalists to regulate and and the others would be following a down in its favour. forces looked the other way. reduce carbon “path has already been charted by the David Doniger, policy director of the of history he have judged emissions. president.” Natural Resources Defense Council’s As atrocities on those in the wants to sit. Obama as “The president “I think it’s an agenda that has been Climate and Clean Air Program, said forefront of the revolution increased, will build on, set under presidential leadership and this could embolden the EPA as it tack- it was technology that was the winner. too timid in when it comes to I think that will continue,” Browner les rules that may be more aggressive A Google executive became the face of the revolution as social climate change, said. than those rolled out under Jackson. media worked to spread the message against an oppressive his first term, the progress that Climate analysts guess that the EPA “The agency has a very good batting regime. Though the West, including the United States, made especially after was achieved in could soon announce a move to use its record on the clean air side. Carbon his first term,” authority under the federal Clean Air and climate (regulations) have come some noises, its role in propping up the protests was marginal a Congressional Carney said at a Act to regulate heat-trapping green- through completely unscathed,” he in the least. In came the elections and with it, the Muslim press briefing. house gases. said. Green groups and certain states Brotherhood. Mohammed Mursi’s anointment as the new stalemate ended More details By April the agency is expected to may sue the EPA to force it to regulate Egyptian president brought with it some alarm about Islamist legislative efforts. on climate ini- complete carbon emission standards carbon and other greenhouse gas emis- forces gaining ground after the toppling of a dictator. Mursi tiatives could for building new power plants that sions from other unregulated sources has been facing the heat over his Islamist credentials and the come out of the would effectively prevent any new such as oil refineries and methane president’s State coal-fired facilities from being built. released by fracking. draft constitution framed by the government has come under of the Union address on February 12. Next would come a more controversial While the agency is used to being intense glare by secularists. Environmentalists have judged effort, setting standards for existing sued by both green and industry Mursi has a tough job to do. He has to reconcile the Obama as too timid in his first term, coal-fired plants, which account for 40 groups, the number of cases is apt interests of the Muslim majority with the aspirations of a especially after a congressional stale- percent of US greenhouse gases. The to increase. “This is shaping up to be largely insecure Christian community. There are challenges mate ended legislative efforts. measure is sure to provoke industry four years of litigation,” Christopher The White House has pointed to its lawsuits. Guith, vice president for policy at the ahead— the economy has become shaky, tourism has suffered drafting of emissions standards for the “The most likely area for the admin- US Chamber of Commerce’s Energy and foreign reserves are dwindling. All this amid constant construction of new power plants and, istration to pursue, in light of what the Institute, told Reuters this month. walloping by the opposition and glare of the international along with the auto industry, setting president said, would be using the New Kruger said the EPA would be wise community. It is for Mursi to decide which side of history he stringent fuel efficiency standards for Source Performance Standard (NSPS) to prioritise just a handful of new rules wants to sit on. A progressive path will lead Egypt to stability new cars. The United States is under- for existing power plants under the to tackle as it faces a constrained and prosperity while a regressive one will reverse the gains going a boom in domestic energy pro- Clean Air Act,” said Dina Kruger, a budget in the coming years. duction, from the oilfields of North former director of the Climate Change REUTERS from the revolution. The Other side Quote of Myanmar can’t transform when country’s at war with itself the day S Myanmar’s reformist government The government, once one of the thing happened after a similar govern- respond to government offers of backsliding on promises to find a world’s most repressive, has released ment order Dec. 10. Both cases raise dialogue on Kachin political demands. peaceful resolution to six decades of political prisoners, legalised trade questions about Thein Sein’s control The KIO is understandably wary, Iconflict with the country’s alienated unions, abolished censorship and rec- over the military. Still, it hasn’t helped given its disappointing previous Was it because of minorities? ognised the that the engagements with central govern- a protest or was Recently, the military took the opposition’s victory in parliamentary KIO has declined to reciprocate ments. This administration, however, unusual step of deploying fighter jets by-elections. President Thein Sein has these measure, lending credibility to has proved it because of guys and helicopter gunships to battle the negotiated cease-fires with every ethnic the military’s claim of self-defense. fundamentally different. Given what Kachin Independence Organization in group except the KIO. With minorities The KIO has passed up other oppor- Thein Sein has achieved on other out for a walk one the north. constituting a third of Myanmar’s tunities to test Thein Sein’s peace com- fronts, he deserves a chance on this In truth, both the KIO and central population and occupying half the mitment. The government persuaded one. Too much is at stake — a real night who decided authorities share responsibility for the land, he has named national unity his senior military commanders to partici- chance of ending civil wars that have they’d go kill some violence. Each will have to take steps first priority. pate in claimed as many as half a million lives toward the other to put Myanmar on Last week, the government October’s peace talks in China, but and contributed to Myanmar’s impover- Americans? What a path announced an end to offensive actions the KIO sent such low-level delegates, ishment — for the Kachin not to invest difference, at this to national unity and spur its so-far in the area of the latest escalation. Yet separation of forces negotiations were in the peace Hillary Clinton impressive transformation. the fighting hasn’t stopped. The same impossible. The group has failed to THE WASHINGTON POST point, does it make?” US Secretary of State THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 QATAR PERSPECTIVE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Does Qatar have a privacy law?

MARIAM AL KHATIR Our privacy is violated every once in a while because of the absence of communications regulations that may serve as a deterrent to offenders. Violation of privacy through landlines and cell phones has become a part of our lives although this country has its own communications regulatory authority.

nternational organisations for washing carpets and polishing acknowledge privacy to be a marble tiles.” constitutional right for citi- Or zens, who should be in full “Hello, Miss Mariam, this is … control of their personal company for skincare products Iinformation and private lives. and natural creams. We call to But others always encroach on offer free service and a visit to our privacy every time we use our your home.” cell phone or log on to social net- Or working websites. Therefore, the “Hello, Dr Mariam, this is … need for legislation that protects company for research and serv- our privacy cannot be overlooked. ices. We are conducting a poll and More than 80 countries enforce want to ask you about ….” one sort of information privacy You are bombarded with calls law or another. every now and then from compa- A digital revolution is chang- nies that want to promote their ing the face of life everywhere in products at the cost of your pri- the world. Along with it, breach vacy and time. When they call, once gave your phone number service providers record all com- messages sneak into our private of intrusive calls or messages. of privacy is taking place every- company representatives never to the shop from which you buy munications for security reasons. lives when international calls As such breach of privacy con- where, highlighting the need for give you a chance to utter a word. your goods, but why does this Spam calls fall under the purview of com- tinues, everybody is waiting for protection. They are always fluent. They give shop give your number to every- I received calls from different munications and security agen- action by the agencies concerned Here are some examples of you the impression that they body? How much do shops earn by countries recently, but did not cies in this country? How can in this country, namely the such violation of privacy through know you personally. distributing the phone numbers know how the callers had got my Qatar create a communication Supreme Council of Information phones: Commercial text messages of clients in the absence of state number, given the fact that the security system that protects and Communication Technology Intrusive calls Cell phone inboxes are show- supervision? service provider had not warned both its people’s privacy and its (ictQatar), Qatar Telecom and You tend to answer phone calls ered with ads from all types of Privacy is valued more in devel- me about any breach of the com- national security? Why has the Vodafone. We heard recently for many reasons. Cell phones shops and companies in Qatar. oped countries, where people use munication system in Qatar. We current system not solved this about a draft law being prepared have taken the place of landlines They usually are about special email to reach others, and do not only had broadcast messages on problem despite repeated calls by ictQatar in this regard. for most purposes, including busi- offers and discounts. You wonder call them on the phone every BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and complaints? We are badly in need of a new ness communication and making how these companies and shops time. This does not amount to and WhatsApp Messenger. That is why we sometimes mechanism that offers us protec- appointments. When you pick get your phone number and give violation of privacy. Volunteers had previously told us compare Qatar, a country that tion and acts as a deterrent to up the phone, the caller says, for themselves the right to encroach Using email entails adherence that they too had been penetrated has advanced communication offenders. A quick fix is a must example: on your privacy by using your to a set of regulations and mecha- and warned us against replying to security systems, with other until Qatar creates laws to pro- “Hello, Sheikha Mariam .... wel- phone to promote their products. nisms that ensure that the users these messages. countries where we have lived tect its citizens and national come. This is ... from..., a company You may remember that you do not abuse the service. Also, the How do these calls and but did not get the same kind security.

AMINA ABDULLAH Some hard work before the tourists arrive

he new tourism law, issued spend some time to get ready by the Emir last August, KHALID ABDULLAH AL ZIARA instead. We need to wait until all Promotion or Tcharts the way forward these projects are completed and for the tourism industry in this become a tangible reality on the country in line with the develop- large numbers of tourists. them on the ground yet. This ground. ment Qatar is witnessing in the We have started preparing, but is a big project that will give us In the meantime, Qatar exploitation? urban, economic, cultural and we need enough time to execute all pride, but its implementation Tourism Authority needs to make social spheres. the ambitious projects we have needs patience and persistence. efforts to find ways to apply the rade and promotion are booming in Qatar due to the coun- The law supports the two main planned. This, in fact, is what Current work on the project spirit of the law in the light of try’s prosperity. With investors from all over the world pillars of the tourism industry, prompts me to call for patience includes digging and refilling our future needs. Perhaps Article Tlooking for business opportunities here, there is no dearth namely hotels (which also include as far as application of the new areas where the trains will travel 12, which commits those hold- of mega projects. tourist resorts, camps and float- law is concerned. Some of our underground. This project will ing a licence to operate a tour- We have become more and more accustomed to skyscrapers, ing hotels), and tourist estab- important projects have not been take our country many steps for- ist facility to offering training to foreign labour and skyrocketing property prices. All this is under- lishments (which include tourist completed yet. We need to com- ward. We will feel proud when it their workers, is one of the most standable, as success comes at a price. But we hope that foreign sites, leisure parks and tourism plete these in order to show them is complete, and invite the world important parts of the new law. labour will not affect our national identity and culture. But hope service centres). With this new to the Arab and foreign tourists to celebrate the achievement with The article will enable the human alone is not enough. All of us, individuals and civil society groups, law, our country is way ahead of when they arrive. us. capital in this country to show its should contribute to the preservation of our identity and culture, the rest of the region. Most of our planned tourist Qatar’s ports need to be talent to the world. lest we wake up one day to find that our country has changed But it is pertinent to say that it attractions and facilities are not equipped to receive tourist ships. I do not need to repeat, and beyond recognition. One should not underestimate the threat of is difficult to put all the articles of complete yet. We are still waiting This, I think, needs not a short here I address workers and Westernization. the new law into effect at present, for completion of work on the new time. Other facilities, includ- officials in the tourism sector, This is just an introduction to what Some salons call while we are still in the middle airport, which will, of course, be ing hotels, public parks, the that the current stage is one of I want to say. The promotional meth- of implementing a comprehensive the symbol of our country. Some zoo, and resorts need upgraded preparation and hard work with ods used by businesses are well known people to confirm plan of construction. This plan of our streets are not paved yet, infrastructure. the aim of creating a promising to everybody. Of course, every business- appointments needs patience and persistence leaving them unprepared for Therefore, we should not be future. But to be attained, this man has his own mindset and promotion that were never until we complete infrastructure tourism. We keep hearing about in any hurry to attract foreign promising future needs honest tactics. There is nothing wrong with any projects necessary for receiving the railways, but we don’t have tourists to the country, but work. tactic that does not violate religious, ethi- made. When cal or legal norms. But some businesses the customer use peculiar, and provocative, methods. In the beginning, we condone them out says she had of courtesy. But as such violations per- never made an sist, our courtesy gets exhausted and we appointment or tend to become as rash as the promoters Children need to be shielded from violence themselves. even heard of the Spas and beauty salons, which have spa, the caller seen a boom in this country, are adopting boldly insists that ome terrible incidents that precious thing we have in life. We provocative promotional methods. They take place out there suggest NAEMAH AL MUTAWA’AH must take care of them in order send messages via cell phones offering a session has Sthat the milk of human kind- to give them the right upbringing, the benefits of all their treatments in one been booked ness has turned sour inside many one that provides them safety and session. parents. Another father slapped his four- and ultimately destroys them. makes good citizens out of them. Of course, some women would give it for her. Instead of having mercy on their year-old son in the face only Apart from physical violence, We need not create a mentally a try. And as soon as the session begins, children, some parents treat them because the son wanted the father children are also vulnerable to and psychologically deformed gen- these women give out the phone numbers of their relatives, col- like dolls they can move here and to buy him a doll from the super- psychological violence by their eration that is not able to fulfil its leagues and lady friends. Why do they do so? Because whoever is there as they please. And when the market. The child’s eyes were full parents. Sometimes, children are responsibilities. in charge of these spas and beauty salons says they will give these dolls disobey orders even once, they of tears, but he wept in silence. A subjected to humiliation, and when Our country offers whatever it relatives and friends free sessions as a special gift on their behalf! are punished. third father scalded his daughter they speak out, their parents deny takes for children to be brought Unfortunately, their commercial skills go even further. Some Some merciless parents treat when she committed a mistake, it, but also promise retribution. up well. It provides education and salons call people to confirm appointments that were never made. their children violently and even causing deformities in her body, Mothers sometimes mock their health and social care. It has even When the customer says she had never made an appointment or beat them savagely, as if they were and refused to take the eight-year- children and talk about their fail- created institutions for the reha- even heard of the spa, the caller boldly insists that a session has taking revenge on the children. old girl to hospital. Stories abound ings in front of guests. At other bilitation of victims of violence so been booked for her. These parents do not understand about such violence committed times these mothers rebuke the that they can lead secure and sta- One wonders how these callers give themselves the right to what it means to be responsible for against children. children in front of guests for ble lives. annoy people in such an offensive manner. Is it legal to solicit the upbringing of children and ush- This is bizarre behaviour from a simple mistake. They call the God has made us responsible for customers through such behaviour? And if it is legal, why do we ering in a new generation of good parents who forget that these are children names and yell at them our children. What are we going let them exploit us? citizens. young creatures. They forget that when they are disobedient. These to say in the afterlife when we are “There is money in every inch in Qatar,” one of the residents One father hit his two-year-old parents have to offer care without mothers go the extra mile of dis- asked about whether we carried here said to me once, and the words still echo in my mind. Foreign daughter on the head just because resorting to violence. cussing their children’s mistakes out our duties in this regard? businesses in this country use their promotional skills in good she had difficulty learning how But violence is a way of life in with their schoolmates, even if the or bad faith. Our decision makes us a partner in their business. to walk. One mother killed her some families where the behaviour mistakes were unintentional. This, Therefore, it is up to us to choose to be exploited or not. We must be seven-year-old son because his of the parents contradicts both however, causes the children to lose The views expressed in the articles on this cautious and make sure that the goals of any promotion serve the page do not reflect the viewpoint of the poor mental abilities hindered his social and religious values. This self-confidence. newspaper. best interests of our nation, and never let greed get the better of us. memorization of the holy Quran. erodes stability in these families Our children are the most THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 MIDDLE EAST THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Islamists boycott Jordan polls Russia warns Israel, West Voters punish Netanyahu but keep him in power Brotherhood’s absence reduces the voting to a contest between tribal leaders against attack on Iran MOSCOW/TEHRAN: Russia warned Israel and the West yester- New centrist party scores stunning second place; priority is to stop Iran’s nuclear drive: PM AMMAN: Jordanians voted in day against any military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities but their first parliamentary elec- suggested Tehran should be quicker to cooperate over inspections JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu senior member of Yesh Atid said that fractious. “The first challenge was and tions since the Arab Spring of its nuclear sites. set about forging a new ruling coalition ending exemption from military service remains preventing Iran from obtain- revolts yesterday, but a boy- Speaking at his annual news conference, Russian Foreign Minister yesterday after Israeli voters fed up was central to the party’s platform, as ing nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said, cott by the main Islamist party Sergei Lavrov mixed words of caution over isolating Iran or attacking it with state coddling of ultra-Orthodox was reviving US-backed peace talks with claiming election victory at his campaign guaranteed there would be no with a gentle nudge to Tehran over the inspections by the International Jews chastised him by propelling an the Palestinians. headquarters overnight. repeat of an Egypt-style revolu- Atomic Energy Agency. upstart centrist party to prominence. “Whoever wants Yesh Atid in the coa- Iran denies it is planning to build an tion via the ballot box. “Attempts to prepare and implement strikes on Iranian nuclear Tuesday’s vote crystallised demands lition will need to bring these things,” atomic bomb, and says Israel, widely The popular Muslim facilities and on its infrastructure as a whole are a very, very danger- for attention to bread-and-butter issues Ofer Shelah told Army Radio. believed to have the only nuclear arsenal Brotherhood shunned the poll ous idea. We hope these ideas will not come to fruition,” Lavrov said. over the ambitions of religiously fired Lapid urged Netanyahu “to build as in the Middle East, is the biggest threat saying the electoral system Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted strongly at hardliners and largely sidelined foreign broad a government as possible so that to the region. had been rigged against large, possible military action to stop Iran from developing an atomic bomb. policy issues such as Iran’s nuclear plans we can bring about real change in Israel”. Weakened by the verdict of voters, populated urban areas where it In an election victory speech yesterday, he said preventing Iran from and Palestinian aspirations. Palestinians reacted warily to the out- Netanyahu is almost certain to need is strongest in favour of rural obtaining nuclear weapons would be the main challenge for a new The right-wing prime minister claimed come of the poll, voicing doubts it would centrist partners for a stable coalition. tribal areas where conserva- government. Referring to talks in which the IAEA has been trying to victory after his Likud party and its produce a government more willing to Israeli financial markets gained yester- tive, pro-government forces are negotiate an agreement for inspectors to gain access to sites, officials ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu ally took compromise for peace, even if it included day on investor hopes that he will remain entrenched. and documents, Lavrov said: “The Iranians have said they want this 31 of parliament’s 120 seats, according to centrist parties. prime minister and exclude from his coa- Turnout was 47 percent by document to be agreed in full. We think our Iranian colleagues could a near-final tally. An editorial in the Palestinian daily Al lition ultra-Orthodox parties, which have around 1500 GMT, officials said, do this a little bit faster.” That made it the biggest single bloc, Quds said such parties would provide a long demanded budget-draining state but Islamists accused the authori- despite losing 11 of its previous seats. “cosmetic decoration” for a Netanyahu- subsidies in return for political support. ties of trying to inflate low turn- TEHRAN SUGGESTS CAIRO AS VENUE FOR TALKS Overall, right-wing factions emerged led government that would mislead world The blue-chip Tel Aviv 25 index rose out to disguise the impact of their Iran has proposed Cairo as the venue for the next nuclear talks with with roughly half the total. Final results public opinion without halting a drive 1.75 percent to 1,213.93 points by early boycott. Official results were world powers, its foreign minister said yesterday without indicating are expected today. to expand Jewish settlement on occu- afternoon. expected today. when the meeting, aimed at defusing a standoff with the West, would “A blow for Netanyahu,” was the head- pied land. “We’re not seeking to make Israel posted a budget deficit of 4.2 per- The Brotherhood’s boycott has happen. “When I was in Egypt ... it was suggested that the next meet- line in the biggest-selling daily Yedioth Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at his office in Jerusalem, yesterday. peace with this or that party in Israel,” cent of GDP last year, more than twice reduced the election to a contest Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour shows his ink-stained finger after casting the vote at a polling station ing be held in Cairo,” Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by the Ahronoth, echoing other Israeli media said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, the target, meaning the next government between tribal leaders, establish- in Al Salt, yesterday. Iranian Students’ News Agency. which highlighted the surprise surge of overtures to his opponents by saying he Jewish seminary students and draw- adding that peace required creation of a will probably have to impose tax increases ment figures and businessmen, “This issue was welcomed by our dear friends in Egypt and Egypt will the centrist Yesh Atid (There is a Future) wanted to form as broad a coalition as ing more of the ultra-Orthodox, many Palestinian state to live alongside Israel and spending cuts. with just a few of the 1,500 can- bordering Israel, has seen large riven by sectarian strife. the champion of those disenfran- consult with the P5+1 (group of countries) for hosting this meeting.” party, runner-up with 19 projected seats. possible, a process that is likely to take of whom receive state stipends, into the based on the lines that existed before the Amram Mitzna, a senior member of didates running for recognised protests against corruption and Yet despite the growing pres- chised by the electoral system. Holding the talks in Egypt could indicate warming ties between Yesh Atid and the centre-left Labour several weeks. workforce, steps supported by many secu- 1967 war. former foreign minister Tzipi Livni’s cen- parties. Allegations of vote-buying criticising King Abdullah, though sure for change, the political The wealthy Palestinian business Cairo and Tehran, two of the Middle East’s most influential countries. party, which came third with 15 seats, In an apparent bid to persuade Yesh lar Israelis. Netanyahu has complained that trist Hatnua party, told Army Radio the are rife. not on the scale of those that top- elite is wary of the Arab revolts elite mostly does not vote. After decades of frozen relations with former President Hosni tapped into secular middle-class resent- Atid leader Yair Lapid to join his cabinet, “We awaken to a morning after the Palestinians’ own divisions and the vio- election had “arrested the rightward drift “God willing these elections will pled rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and the rise of Islamists, espe- The tribal establishment is Mubarak, Iran has courted his successor, the Islamist Mohammed ment that taxpayers must shoulder what Netanyahu pledged his administration elections with a clear message from the lence of some groups undermine attempts of Israeli society”. produce a good parliament that and led to civil wars in Libya and cially the Muslim Brotherhood keen to maintain its tight grip Mursi, although opposing views on the Syrian civil war have prevented they see as the burden of welfare-depend- would ensure “a more equal sharing of public, which wants me to continue to to talk. He has unsettled Israel’s Western He mooted an unlikely “dream gov- will consider the needs of the citi- Syria. - Jordan’s most popular party - on power and costly state patron- a rapid rapprochement. Salehi visited Cairo for talks with Mursi on ent ultra-Orthodox Jews exempt from the burden” — a reference to generous lead the country,” Netanyahu told report- friends with his threats of military action ernment” in which Likud would forge a zens. We hope this parliament will The king remains for many which is pressing for major politi- age, drawing resentment from the January 10. military conscription. privileges granted to the ultra-Orthodox ers summoned to his office. against Iran and his tough approach to strong coalition with leftist and centrist be better than the previous one,” Jordanians the ultimate guaran- cal change. Poorer Jordanians of urban poor and the middle classes There was no immediate comment from EU foreign policy chief Netanyahu, who in two terms as 10 percent. He made no direct mention in his the Palestinians. His relations with US parties, leaving far-right and religious said Iskandar Nuqul, a voter in tor of stability in Jordan, whose Palestinian origin, a majority of of Palestinian origin, frozen out of Catherine Ashton, who represents world powers in dealings with premier has enjoyed backing from the Lapid has focused his campaign on remarks of the centrist surge nor to the President Barack Obama, who began factions in the cold. Amman’s first electoral district. neighbours include Israel, civil- the population, are drawn to the the top army, security and gov- Tehran. growing religious minority, quickly made ending military draft exemptions for drop in voter support for his party. A his second term this week, have been REUTERS Jordan, a US-backed monarchy war torn Syria, and an Iraq also Brotherhood, which has become ernment jobs. REUTERS REUTERS

Bomber kills Russia offers Syria refugee meet 22 inside Shia MOSCOW/DAMASCUS: areas and the interest in religious sites of minorities Russian President Vladimir inMeanwhile, Jordan and Turkey. Russian coordinated actions on the in recent months that sug- mosque in Iraq Putin offered yesterday to Foreign Minister Sergei international scene based on gested an escalation of sec- host a conference on help- Lavrov said yesterday that equality, mutual respect for tarian strife. BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber ing Lebanon and other there could be no peaceful interests and non-interfer- Underscoring the damage disguised as a mourner killed countries cope with a flood resolution of the conflict in ence in each other’s internal wrought by the conflict-the at least 22 people inside a Shia of refugees from Syria. Syria as long as opponents affairs,” the minister said in longest and deadliest of the mosque in northern Iraq yes- Putin also said Russia was of President Assad refuse to a statement relayed by Inter- Arab Spring uprisings-the terday when he detonated his ready to provide temporary negotiate with his govern- Fax news agency. UN’s Food and Agriculture explosives in the middle of a homes, tents, medication ment and demand his exit The civil war in Syria has Organisation (FAO) said crowded funeral ceremony. and other humanitarian aid from power as a precondition ravaged vital infrastructure wheat and barley produc- The attack on a religious tar- during talks with Lebanese for peace talks. “Everything and halved output of staple tion in Syria had dropped to get came as Shia Prime Minister President Michel Suleiman runs up against the opposi- crops, the United Nations two million tonnes in 2012 Nouri Al Maliki faces pressure outside Moscow. “We will do tion members’ obsession with said yesterday, as a 22-month from 4-4.5 million tonnes in from mass Sunni protests that our utmost to ... sponsor the the idea of the overthrow of conflict hardened by sectar- normal years. Agriculture is are worsening fears that Iraq organisation of an interna- the Assad regime. As long ian rivalry showed no sign vital to the economy, account- could slide back into widespread tional conference on the refu- as this irreconcilable posi- of abating. What began as a ing for roughly a fifth of gross sectarian confrontation. gee problem,” Putin said. “We tion remains in force, noth- peaceful protest movement domestic product before the Dressed in a suit, the bomber are ready to offer Moscow as ing good will happen, armed against President Bashar Al war. A UN assessment found mingled with mourners before a platform for such a meeting.” action will continue, peo- Assad has killed more than the conflict was destroying the blast at the Saif Al Shuhada - Suleiman said more than ple will die,” Lavrov told an 60,000 people, devastated the infrastructure and irrigation Sword of the Martyrs - mosque in 200,000 refugees had fled to annual news conference. economy and left 2.5 million systems and that insecurity Tuz Khurmato city at a ceremony Lebanon since the uprising Lavrov also said that people hungry. and fuel shortages were mak- for a Shia ethnic Turkman, police against President Bashar Al Moscow will continue to Prospects of a negotiated ing it harder for farmers to and witnesses said. Assad began nearly two years respond to US unfriendly peace have receded as the war harvest crops. “I was sitting in the seats at ago, straining Beirut’s budget. moves, but its primary becomes more overtly sectar- The devastation to farm- the back when all of sudden I The divided Beirut govern- guideline is the readiness to ian, making Western powers ing could push the govern- heard the sound of a huge explo- ment has officially sought to develop Russian-US relations more wary of supporting the ment to spend more money sion. Thank God I was behind “dissociate” itself from the “Certainly, we will con- largely Sunni Muslim-and on imports, further straining because people in front of me conflict in Syria and has tinue to respond to unfriendly increasingly radicalised- the resources of a country saved me with their bodies,” said resisted calls from humani- moves, but the core of our rebellion. Human Rights that officials said was self- Abbas Qadir Mohammed, 35, one tarian agencies to set up for- position is the readiness to Watch yesterday pointed to sufficient in wheat before the of the wounded. Rigot Mohammed, mal refugee camps like those develop the relations in all the burning and looting of conflict. REUTERS an Iraqi army spokesman, said at least 22 people were killed and more than 50 more wounded in the blast in the religiously and ethni- cally mixed city 170km north of the Cairo book fair capital Baghdad. No one claimed Bahrain prepares for responsibility, but Al Qaeda’s local wing, Islamic State of Iraq, often targets Shia pilgrims. reconciliation talks Israeli soldiers kill

DUBAI: Bahrain yesterday said. “They have started taking Palestinian woman asked pro-democracy opposi- steps, but they are still very tion parties to nominate del- slow steps, and no one still has HEBRON: Israeli soldiers egates to prepare for talks to any picture of what is going to shot and killed a 21-year-old try to break nearly two years happen.” Though martial law Palestinian woman near the of political deadlock in the has been lifted and Bahrain has West Bank city of Hebron yes- Gulf Arab state. introduced some reforms, the terday and wounded another The small island state has opposition the measures as cos- local youth, Palestinian med- been in turmoil since protests metic and smaller scale protests ics said. Witnesses said Lubna erupted in early 2011 led by have continued. Hanash and her companions majority Shias demanding an The Justice Ministry said the were walking to Al Arroub end to the Sunni-led monar- first meetings would be to try to College when men in Israeli chy’s political domination and agree on an agenda for the talks, military uniforms travelling in full powers for parliament. BNA news agency said, without a civilian car shot at the group. Thirty-five people died dur- giving any further details. Asked about the incident, an ing the unrest and two months Information Minister Samira Israeli army spokeswoman said of martial law that followed, but Rajab had earlier welcomed the Palestinians had thrown pet- the opposition says that number opposition’s response to the rol bombs at soldiers, who then has risen to more than 80. The invitation, made on Monday by opened fire. Earlier on Wednesday, government rejects the figures. the Justice Ministry on behalf Saleh Al Amareen, 16, died of his A key ally of Washington, of H M King Hamad bin Issa wounds in an Israeli hospital after Bahrain is the base for the Al Khalifa, and said the gov- being shot in the head during US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and has ernment would ask all parties clashes with Israeli soldiers in a accused opposition groups of to name delegates to the talks, refugee camp in the West Bank being linked to Shia power Iran. which she said could start soon. town of Bethlehem on Friday. Khalil Al Marzouq, a leader of “All the steps will start. I think Violence and deadly confronta- the main opposition bloc Wefaq, the time frame will go fast, as tions have become more frequent said the Justice Ministry’s direc- long as all the parties are willing in the occupied West Bank since tor general had contacted him to go through positive, very seri- Israel announced plans late last and asked the opposition to ous dialogue,” she said. She said year to expand settlements and nominate six representatives the government would moderate Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi and Culture the Palestinians won de-facto for the talks. “He was also get- the event, help set the agenda Minister Saber Arab during the opening of 44th Cairo statehood recognition at the ting in touch with other groups and implement any recommen- International Book Fair in the Egyptian capital, yesterday. United Nations in November. from the loyalist side,” Marzouq dations. REUTERS REUTERS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Cameron proposes vote on EU membership Selfish, ignorant, dangerous: Europe’s verdict on British prime minister’s speech LONDON/BERLIN/PARIS: David to call Britain’s bluff and say it was free “paralyse” the union “for years” by leav- new settlement for Britain, pass enabling Cameron swiftly encountered a solid to leave. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ing Britain in a form of European limbo legislation quickly, and stage an in-out wall of European opposition to his said he had told a recent meeting with until well after the next general election referendum by the midway point of a new demands to be allowed to “pick and British businessmen: “If Britain wants - expected in 2015. parliament, if the Tories are returned to choose” what Britain wants from its to leave Europe we will roll out the red Sweden, under a conservative govern- government in 2015. membership of the EU as his conti- carpet for you.” ment that is a natural ally of Downing There is absolutely no sign, how- nental partners worried about being “I’ll take an example which our British Street, argued that you could not have ever, that the big European powers are plunged into years of uncertainty over friends will understand. Let’s imagine an EU that ran at 28 different speeds. prepared to calibrate their eurocrisis the union’s third-biggest state. Europe is a football club and you join. Senior officials in Brussels were responses to Cameron’s timetable nor to Cameron promised Britons a decisive Once you’re in it you can’t say: ‘Let’s play alarmed that the British gambit would have their policy priorities hijacked by referendum within five years on member- rugby’.” serve as a colossal distraction from the haggling over British “opt-outs”. ship in the European Union — provided EU politicians turned to culinary and effort to cope with Europe’s worst ever On Tuesday in Berlin, Hollande and he wins the next election — in a long- sporting metaphors to vent frustration crisis - over sovereign debt and the viabil- the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, awaited speech on whose implications at the prime minister’s promise to rene- ity of the single currency. promised to deliver joint proposals on have alarmed the Obama administra- gotiate Britain’s already semi-detached “Negotiation of a new ‘settlement’ will eurozone reform within four months, tion and are likely to set the markers for membership of the EU and put it to a open a Pandora’s box of demands from rather than Cameron’s four years. an intense debate in Britain and across popular vote if he wins re-election in all over the EU,” said a senior EU offi- Despite the mounting opposition to the Europe. The prime minister’s ultimatum 2015. “Cherry-picking what you want cial. “There will be huge expenditure of British case, there is anxiety in France demanding a new deal for Britain, fail- from Brussels is not an option,” said time and effort at a time when economic that Berlin might nonetheless toy with ing which the rest of the EU would “be the German foreign minister, Guido and international challenges place enor- the notion of indulging the UK argu- diminished” by a possible British exit, Westerwelle. mous demands on Europe’s governmental ments for tactical gain and there was brought absolutely no welcome anywhere “You can’t do Europe a la carte,” said machines.” broad relief on Wednesday that Cameron in the EU except perhaps in the Czech Fabius, adding mischievously that Paris “David Cameron has turned a deaf ear avoided spelling out specifically which Republic, and a welter of criticism from would roll out the red carpet to fleeing The EU and the Union flags fly outside the to those in his own country as well as powers he wanted “repatriating” from the main powers. UK businesses if Britain quit the EU. European Commission Representation in abroad who warned he should be wary Brussels. Even before coming up with Britain’s European partners told David Casting himself as Europe’s great mod- the United Kingdom in central London, of such a move away from Europe,” said new demands, Cameron faces problems Cameron his demand for radical reform ern heretic and iconoclast daring to think yesterday. the leading French newspaper Le Monde. over what to do about 130 Lisbon treaty of the EU and an “in-out” referendum the unthinkable, Cameron both pledged Central to Cameron’s strategy is to instruments governing justice and police on UK membership showed a selfish and his allegiance to a reformed EU while defied his challenge. Senior German poli- seek to use EU negotiations over eurozone affairs in the EU. ignorant attitude. France went so far as warning Britain would probably quit if it ticians complained that Cameron could political integration by 2016 to secure a GUARDIAN NEWS/AFP

Refugees interrupt Vienna hunger strike Clinton defends her handling of

VIENNA: Some 40 asylum seekers were eating again yes- Benghazi attack in testimony terday after calling a tempo- rary halt to a 31-day hunger strike in a Vienna church WASHINGTON: Secretary of against conditions for refugees State Hillary Clinton yesterday in Austria. “We are interrupt- defended her handling of the ing our hunger strike for sev- September 11, 2012 attack on eral days,” 20-year-old Pakistani the US mission in Benghazi that Sayed Muhammed Mustafa told killed four Americans, an event the Kurier daily, without giving that threatens to stain her leg- a reason for the halt. “But we acy at the State Department. are going to stay in the church.” Clinton cast the incident, the Doctors had begun to express first in which a US ambassador serious concerns about the was killed since 1988, as part of strikers, who on average have a long history of such violence lost 15 percent of their body as well as the result of regional weight, with ambulances being instability since the Arab Spring called out to the Votivkirche in of popular revolutions began in central Vienna around 30 times 2011. to provide treatment. The pro- Speaking in congressional tes- testers’ demands include being timony delayed by more than a able to choose where they live, A protester sounds a horn during a general strike of public sector employees month because of her ill health, access to jobs, schools and social in Ljubljana, yesterday. Clinton offered her first detailed security and no more forced accounting of the first days after deportations. They had con- the attack, saying she directed sumed nothing but water, tea and Slovenia gripped by strike, the US response from the State US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign clear soup since late December. Department. Relations Committee hearing on the terrorist attacks on the US Embassy Klaus Schwertner from the char- “I take responsibility,” Clinton in Benghazi, in Washington DC, yesterday. ity Caritas welcomed the halt to government on the ropes said, echoing comments she the hunger strike, telling Kurier first made in a TV interview on sustained assault that killed US due to appear before the commit- that he hoped the government LJUBLJANA: Around 100,000 finances and reassure markets to October 15 and stressing that she Ambassador Christopher Stevens tee on December 20 but had to “will now take steps to engage public sector employees held a avoid becoming the latest member has accepted all of the recommen- and three other Americans. cancel after she suffered a con- with the refugees”. strike over pay cuts in Slovenia of the euro zone to seek an inter- dations of an independent review The official inquiry concluded cussion when she fainted due to yesterday, with the government national bailout. panel that ultimately held lower- that the State Department was dehydration. Doctors later found on the ropes over a corruption State employees are angry over level officials responsible. completely unprepared to deal she had a blood clot in her head Italy approves cyber scandal that could strip the rul- a plan to lay off workers and cut “Nobody is more commit- with the attack, citing “leadership and hospitalised her for several ing coalition of its majority in wages by some 5 percent this year, ted to getting this right. I am and management” deficiencies, days. security measures parliament. adding to a cut of around 3 percent determined to leave the State poor coordination and unclear The controversy over the ROME: Italy’s government said A junior partner in the con- in 2012 as the government tries Department and our country lines of authority in Washington. Benghazi attack also cost Susan yesterday it had approved new servative coalition, the Civic List, to narrow its budget shortfall to safer, stronger and more secure,” The inquiry did not find Clinton Rice, the US ambassador to the measures to beef up online secu- is promising to quit the alliance around 3 percent of national out- she added. personally at fault. United Nations, her chance to suc- rity and protect critical infra- unless Prime Minister Janez put from 4.2 percent last year. The attack could haunt Clinton Four State Department offi- ceed Clinton as secretary of state. structure from increasing cyber Jansa resigns. The public sector strike closed - who is expected to step down cials were put on administrative Republicans in Congress harshly assaults. Attacks on computer Jansa has been named in a almost all schools, kindergartens in the coming days once her des- leave following the board’s report. criticized Rice for her comments security have risen significantly report by an anti-corruption com- and universities in the country ignated successor, Senator John A separate Senate committee days after the attack in which she in recent years, the government mission, which said he was una- of 2 million people. Hospitals Kerry, is confirmed by the US report said the State Department said the attack appeared to be the said, citing data from the infor- ble to explain the source of some were offering limited care with Senate - should she decide to run made a “grievous mistake” in result of a spontaneous demon- mation technology organisation of his income. Jansa has denied reduced staff. Protests over the again for president in 2016, a pos- keeping the Benghazi mission stration rather than a planned Assinform indicating that 40 per- wrongdoing and refuses to quit. cuts and corruption allegations sibility she has played down. open despite inadequate security assault. Rice eventually withdrew cent of attacks take at least four Hit by falling demand for its have caused regular disruption Militants attacked and and increasingly alarming threat her name from consideration for days to resolve. In 90 percent of exports, the Alpine country is and sometimes turned violent. overwhelmed the US diplo- assessments in the weeks before the top diplomatic job. cases, attacks succeeded because battling to stabilise its public AFP matic facility in Benghazi in a the attack. Clinton was originally REUTERS cyber security systems had not been set up properly. Mario Monti’s cabinet said the decree signed on Wednesday established a structure for national cyber security, including a permanent 2 killed, 256 held in violent S Africa protest Stray dogs give support unit and a separate arm to manage emergencies. safety lessons JOHANNESBURG: Two peo- facing criticism for shooting dead ple have been killed and 256 34 strikers last year at a Lonmin BUCHAREST: Stray dogs Mozambique to free arrested for looting and other platinum mine, the deadliest crossing at crosswalks are offences in violent social unrest security incident since apartheid being used by the Romanian journalist murderer that left a trail of damage in the ended in 1994. traffic police in a new safety central South African indus- Petrochemical group Sasol lost campaign to convince pedes- MAPUT: Mozambique will free trial city of Sasolburg, police nearly 1 percent in trading on the trians to be more careful. one of the men convicted of kill- said yesterday. Johannesburg bourse on Tuesday, “If they can do it, then ing celebrated journalist Carlos The protests that began earlier with market players worried the everyone can do it — cross on Cardoso in 2000, in a crime this week over plans to incorpo- protests could hurt its operations, pedestrian crossings!”, says that implicated the president’s rate the industrial area with a which are based in the town. the short TV spot while show- family, state media reported poorer part of the region had Many impoverished areas have ing several stray dogs using yesterday. A judge signed an mostly quieted down after three been rocked by “service delivery zebra and pelican crossings. early release order for Vicente days of some of the most intense protests”, in which residents The dogs were filmed in sev- Ramaya on the grounds of good street battles to hit Africa’s larg- block streets and square off with eral Romanian cities. behaviour, his lawyer told Radio est economy. the police to complain about the “They send us an extraor- Mozambique. “At the moment At their peak, thousands of way the ruling African National dinary message showing that we are waiting for the court’s people torched vehicles, looted Congress has been running their animals can respect important decision to be carried out,” shops and threw stones at police town. The number of such pro- safety rules”, Lucian Dinita, Abdul Gani told the radio. The who tried to break up the protests Protesters clashing with police over the proposed incorporation of several tests averaged 21 annually in the Romania’s traffic police chief, actual release date has not been by firing rubber bullets and set- towns into Sasolburg Municipality, Sasolburg, South Africa, yesterday. five years before President Jacob said. The example of stray dogs finalised. Ramaya was jailed ting off stun grenades. Zuma took office in 2009 but could prove crucial in a country in 2003 —along five others — “There were too many busi- person was killed in a clash out- Democratic Alliance said police jumped to more than 110 since where 360 people died last year for Cardoso’s murder, but has nesses that were damaged, We side a police station and the other fired live ammunition during the then, according to monitoring because of “pedestrian lack of served only 10 of a 23-year sen- are still taking stock,” police colo- died when protesters tried to loot protest, a charge that could fur- group Municipal IQ. discipline”. AFP tence. AGENCIES nel Motantsi Makhele said. One a store, he said. The opposition ther tarnish the image of police REUTERS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 North Korea defiant as Hostage crisis survivor UN slaps new sanctions Pyongyang vows to continue with nuclear programmeme

UNITED NATIONS: The diplomatic effort to engage “This resolution demonstrates UN Security Council ordered Pyongyang in negotiations. to North Korea that there are expanded sanctions on Tuesday The Security Council demanded unanimous and significant conse- against North Korea for a that the North suspend “all activ- quences for its flagrant violation” banned rocket launch, trig- ities related to its ballistic mis- of previous resolutions, Rice told gering a defiant pledge by sile programmeme” and “abandon reporters. North Korea’s foreign Pyongyang to bolster its nuclear all nuclear weapons and existing ministry quickly slammed the deterrent. nuclear programmes in a com- council and hinted that a new The Security Council added plete, verifiable and irreversible nuclear test could be planned. North Korea’s state space agency, manner.” “We flatly reject and condemn the a bank, four trading companies It also expressed “its determi- UN Security Council’s extremely and four individuals to the UN nation to take significant action unfair resolution,” said a ministry sanctions list, and threatened in the event of a further DPRK statement. “We will take physical “significant action” if the North (North Korea) launch or nuclear actions aimed at expanding and stages a nuclear test. test.” The Korean Committee for strengthening our self-defensive The resolution, proposed by the Space Technology, the govern- military forces, including nuclear US, was passed unanimously by ment agency that organized last deterrence.” the 15-nation council, including month’s rocket launch, topped the Last month, a US think-tank North Korea’s only major ally, list of new bodies sanctioned. used satellite photos to suggest China. The list also included Bank of the North has repaired extensive Filipino Larry Villarisa (left), who survived a hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria, arrives in Pyongyang insists its December East Land, which the resolution rain damage at its nuclear test Manila, yesterday. Four more workers arrived in the Philippines from Algeria where they were held hostage 12 rocket launch was a peace- said had been used to transfer site in the northeast of the coun- along with hundreds of workers of different nationalities last week. Six Filipino workers were among those ful, scientific mission aimed at funds to “in a manner that cir- try and could conduct a detona- killed in a siege by militants, while four are still missing. putting a satellite in space. cumvents sanctions” and had tion at two weeks’ notice. The UN resolution condemned dealt with banks in Iran that also China’s Li said that despite his it as a disguised ballistic missile face UN sanctions. country’s support for the resolu- test that violated existing sanc- Korea Kumryong Trading tion, the Council had to be “pru- tions imposed after the North’s Corp, Tosong Technology Trading dent, measured, proportionate, Mindanao flood victims rise to 245,000 nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. Corp, Korea Ryonha Machinery conducive to peace and stability,” The US government had Joint Venture Corp and Leader urging new efforts to “avoid the MANILA: The number of peo- The NDRRMC said a total of 65,611 persons in the afternoon sought a tough UN response to International (based in Hong escalation of tension.” ple affected by floods triggered 59,304 families or 245,487 persons as some people returned to their Pyongyang, as China tried to Kong) were also added to the list. China has been trying to revive by the tail end of a cold front in were affected. homes due to the improved shield its ally from a new set of All were accused of procur- moribund six-nation talks on the Mindanao has exceeded 245,000, As of 3pm yesterday, a total weather condition. sanctions. ing equipment for North Korea’s North’s nuclear programme. the National Disaster Risk of 83,266 people or 19,271 fami- The floods have left six people US Ambassador Susan Rice nuclear and missile development But North Korea’s foreign min- Reduction and Management lies had received assistance from dead and six others injured with said the resolution was a sign or of exporting and dealing in istry said there would be “no dia- Council (NDRRMC) said relief teams. Of this, 65,611 people damage to property estimated at that North Korea will have “an arms. The resolution deplored logue to discuss denuclearisation yesterday. or 14,174 families are still inside P58m. Three bridges and nine increasingly steep price” to pay if the North’s use of “bulk cash” to of the Korean peninsula.” Affected persons include those evacuation centres. roads in Davao and Caraga remain it chooses confrontation. avoid sanctions. Analysts said the expanded living in flooded areas, those dis- The NDRRMC reported that impassable due to flooding. China’s UN envoy Li Baodong The four individuals put on the sanctions would have a limited placed and are now in evacuation the number of residents inside The government has provided stressed that sanctions alone list were all involved in North impact, but stressed the impor- centres or with their relatives, evacuation centres have risen to more than P809,000 worth of would fail unless they were Korea’s technology development tance of China’s backing for the and those who lost properties and 122,776. assistance to the affected people. supplemented by a concerted or bank officials. resolution. AFP livelihood. The number went down to THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Thai militants Sri Lanka faces wrath of world kill teacher in Malaysian govt on the defensive school canteen over citizenship-for-votes probe judges for sacking chief justice NARATHIWAT, GENEVA: Leading judges and in a letter to Sri Lankan President Thailand: Thai insur- jurists from around the world, Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, gents shot dead a teacher KUALA LUMPUR: For years, accusations of treason against what we want to stop,” Ambiga many from developing countries, the speaker of parliament Chamal in front of dozens of chil- charges have swirled that a former prime minister Mahathir Sreenevasan, head of the clean- yesterday condemned the Sri Rajapaksa from the ICJ and the CIJL. dren in a school cafeteria secret Malaysian scheme gave Mohamad, who is alleged to have elections activist coalition known Lankan government’s sacking of It was the latest of a series of criti- yesterday, police said, in citizenship to huge numbers of masterminded the scheme to shore as “Bersih”, or “Clean”, told a press the country’s chief justice, arguing cisms from independent organisa- the latest deadly attack illegal migrants in a politically up support for his government. conference on Tuesday. it violated international law. tions and United Nations officials in on an education worker. important state in exchange for As head of the ruling Barisan The outlines of “Project IC” have The 44-strong group, all mem- Geneva since President Rajapaksa Cholathee Charoenchol, votes for the ruling coalition. Nasional (BN) coalition, Mahathir been whispered about for three bers of the Geneva Centre for the last week dismissed Bandaranayake a 51-year-old Muslim, was Now, an inquiry is finally air- dominated Malaysia for 22 years decades and have bolstered the Independence of Judges and Lawyers as chief justice and appointed one of shot in the head at Tanyong ing detailed allegations that have with his famously hardball political view of Sabah as a reliable “fixed (CIJL), called for the immediate rein- his allies in her place. school in Bacho district in the government on the defen- tactics until he resigned in 2003. deposit” of votes for the BN to help statement of Shirani Bandaranayake. “We are gravely concerned that the Narathiwat province as at sive ahead of elections that pose Current prime minister Najib it weather challenges elsewhere. At the same time, the head of recent action to remove the chief jus- least 30 pupils and several the greatest threat yet faced by Razak is now battling to rally sup- The government allegedly tar- the Geneva-based International tice have been taken in contravention teachers looked on, accord- the ruling bloc that has control- port for the BN ahead of polls he is geted Muslims from neighbouring Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which of the (Sri Lankan) constitution, and ing to officials. led Malaysia for 56 years. A Royal expected to call within months, in Indonesia and the predominantly works to promote the rule of law, said international human rights law and He was the 158th Commission of Inquiry opened last an era when the coalition’s power Muslim southern Philippines. More the move had set Sri Lanka on the standards, including the right to a teacher and other school week with ex-officials admitting grip has slipped. than half of Malaysia’s 29 million path toward authoritarian rule. fair hearing, and the rule of law,” the staff killed during a nine- they gave citizenship to Filipinos But outrage over “Project IC”, people are Muslim ethnic Malays, The judges’ strictures were issued letter said. REUTERS year-old insurgency that and Indonesians in resource- as the alleged scheme is widely but indigenous tribes, many of them has gripped Thailand’s rich Sabah, one of two Malaysian known, is undercutting his claims Christian, predominate in Sabah. Muslim-majority deep states on jungly Borneo island. One that the national electoral roll is They have bridled at the foreigners, south near the border with former official said some 100,000 free of fraud. The opposition and blaming them for crime, drug abuse Malaysia. identity cards (ICs) were handed election-reform advocates allege and economic competition. Bacho police said two out in 1993 ahead of a crucial state massive fraud in voter rolls nation- Najib last June gave in to calls insurgents parked their election, Malaysian news reports wide and have seized on the tes- for an inquiry, but the move could motorcycle in front of the said. Another admitted signing timony as proof of government backfire, said Ibrahim Suffian, school canteen and walked hundreds of thousands of ICs in vote-tampering. head of independent polling firm into the building, where the 1990s. “What we are concerned about Merdeka Centre, calling the rev- one of them shot Cholathee The testimony has revived is that this is still going on. That’s elations “explosive”. AFP with a pistol. “There were between 30 and 40 students in the caf- eteria when he was shot,” local police chief Colonel Pakdi Preechachon said. Thousands of schools closed temporarily in December in protest at a lack of security for teach- ers, who are targeted by the shadowy network of militants for their per- ceived collaboration with the Thai state. They reopened after the government pledged to beef-up security. Colonel Pramote Promin, the spokesman for the army in the south, said a lack of cooperation from Muslim villagers was making it hard to protect teachers “no matter how strict security measures are”. “This school is situated in an area where 100 per- cent of the villagers and all of teachers and students are Muslims,” he said. Near daily attacks — including shootings, bomb- ings and even beheadings — mean violence is a part of life for many in Thailand’s far south. AFP THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN SC to probe PM Afghan female officers investigator’s murder case Father disputes suicide claims

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top “His family members, col- judge yesterday ordered the leagues, friends and the public Supreme Court to investigate at large have shown annoyance the death of an official probing and grievances,” said Chaudhry, a corruption scandal involving reading out the report submitted the prime minister. by the Supreme Court registrar. Kamran Faisal was found dead “And according to them, they last Friday in a government hos- are not expecting free, fair and tel just days after the Supreme honest investigation because of Court ordered the arrest of Prime the involvement of highly influ- Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf over ential political and executive the long-running graft scan- authorities of the country in the dal into so-called Rental Power RPPs scam,” said the judge. Plants (RPPs). The long-running probe into According to the initial findings the prime minister and other of an autopsy, Faisal committed officials relates to allegations of suicide, but his family and some kickbacks during Ashraf’s tenure colleagues dispute that he killed as minister for water and power. Afghan National Army (ANA) female officers hold up their graduation certificates during a ceremony at the ANA training centre in Herat, yesterday. himself. Pakistan’s anti-corrup- Chief Justice Iftikhar tion watchdog, the National Muhammad Chaudhry, who is Accountability Bureau (NAB), hearing the corruption case, for which Faisal worked, has ordered another bench to probe suspended its probe into the Faisal’s death, following a report scandal pending inquiries into Second politician gunned down in Karachi from the court’s registrar listing the death. the doubts of his friends and family. NAB says Faisal, second in KARACHI: A politician was died when gunmen on a motorcy- a house in Gul Bagh area in Budh classrooms and partially damag- “The office is directed to place charge of the RPPs probe, suf- shot dead in Karachi in the cle opened fire on their vehicle,” Bair. Four, belonging to Khyber ing parts of the building. No casu- this case before another bench on fered from “mental stress” and second such killing in a week, police said. Agency, died on the spot. They alties were reported. January 24 (today) before further “psychological issues”. He had police said yesterday, fuelling The attack took place in had recently shifted to Peshawar. On Monday, unknown militants proceedings,” Chaudhry told the asked to be taken off the case, fears that violence may over- the upscale neighbourhood of A case was registered on blew up a preparatory junior court. but the Supreme Court refused a shadow general polls expected Defence. Taimur was the party’s the request of victims’ relative, school in the northwest. He described Faisal’s death written request on January 7 and in May. deputy secretary in Sindh, of Muhammad Rehman. Last Thursday Manzar Imam, as “shocking” and said that his ordered he be reinstated. Mian Taimur was a leader in which Karachi is the capital. Meanwhile, unidentified a provincial MP of the Muttahida family, friends and colleagues Suicide is frowned upon under the southern province of Sindh for Police said nine others, includ- militants blew up a public pri- Qaumi Movement which is a coa- were not satisfied with the cur- Islam and Faisal’s father, Abdul the Pakistan Muslim League-N, ing a doctor, were shot dead in mary school in the Khyber lition partner in government, was rent investigation, being carried Hameed, said on Monday that he the main opposition party led by the city in the past 24 hours. Pakhtunkhwa province. killed with three of his guards in out by police and a government- believed his son was murdered. former premier Nawaz Sharif. In Peshawar, unknown gunmen Police said a bomb planted by Karachi. appointed commission. AFP “Mian Taimur and his father killed four people after ambushing vandals went off, destroying two AGENCIES Survey says Pakistanis want electoral reforms Afghan ‘spy’ killed over US ISLAMABAD: A vast major- sample of men and women from give their views. scrutiny whereby corrupt could be in payment of government dues ity of people in Pakistan, 88 per across the four provinces was According to Gallup Pakistan, barred from taking part in elec- and utility expenses, including drone strikes cent, want electoral reforms in asked to give their opinion on: the survey was carried out among tions, the accord signed between telephone, electricity, gas and the country to get a clean politi- “Some people think that the a sample of 2,642 men and women Qadri and government envisages water charges in excess of 10,000 PESHAWAR: Militants yes- cal leadership, according to a electoral system in Pakistan is in rural and urban areas of all the giving the Election Commission rupees, for over six months, at terday dumped the mutilated survey. really bad, no good political lead- four provinces of the country, of Pakistan one month time for the time of filing his nomination body of a purported Afghan Fifty-six per cent believe that ers come from it therefore there during January 6 to 11. scrutiny of nomination papers for paper. spy accused of collaborating on elections should take place on time should be no elections until the Interestingly, this latest Gallup the purpose of pre-clearance of In addition to this, the US drone strikes that killed a along with changes in the elec- system changes whereas others survey endorses the post Allama candidates under articles 62 and Constitution has also set condi- prominent warlord in Pakistan toral system whereas 32 percent believe that election should be Tahirul Qadri-led long march 63 of the Constitution. tions for parliamentarians to be this month, officials said. want polls only after the electoral on time and the system changed discussion for carrying out the The Constitution bars a person of good character; should not be The body of the man identified reforms were introduced. gradually.” much-required electoral reforms from contesting polls if he or she commonly known as one who as Asmatullah Kharoti was found According to a Gilani Research When theye were asked to com- to ensure that cheaters, fraud- has obtained a loan of 2m rupees violates the Islamic injunctions; in Wana, the main town of the Foundation Survey carried out by ment, 32 percent said the elec- sters, fake degree holders, bank or more from any bank, etc, in his should be sagacious, righteous, South Waziristan tribal district, Gallup Pakistan, there has not toral system should be changed loan defaulters, tax evaders, tax own name or in the name of his non-profligate, honest and ameen; which borders Afghanistan. been even a single voice amongst first and then elections should law violators, etc, are barred spouse or any of his dependents should have adequate knowledge Local officials said he had been the people surveyed opposing the take place while 56 per cent from contesting the upcoming which remains unpaid for more of Islamic teachings and prac- shot dead and there were wounds electoral reforms as the remain- believe that elections should be polls. than one year from the due date, tices obligatory duties prescribed on his neck. ing 12 percent did not give their held on time along with changes Although, the leading political or has got such a loan written by Islam as well as abstains from Two notes on the body ordered view. in electoral system. parties have yet to commit that off; and if he or his spouse or any major sins. the remains to be left on the This nationally representative However, 12 percent did not they would welcome a detailed of his dependents has defaulted INTERNEWS roadside until 10am (0500 GMT) “so that everyone could see the fate of spies”, and the second Brick factory accusing him of being a spy and being responsible for US drone attacks. Mountaineers stuck at “He is a spy and was giving information to US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan about our Broad Peak base camp activities,” a local official quoted the note as saying. ISLAMABAD: Undeterred by degrees Celsius below freezing. “He is responsible for the kill- the 8,047-metre Broad Peak’s While no climber has ever ing of five of our senior members, reputation as unconquerable reached the summit of Broad including Mullah Nazir, in drone in winter, a team of Polish and Peak in winter, this team may attacks. He confessed that he Pakistani mountaineers have stand a chance. installed chips in digital Korans.” taken on the challenge, only to Wielicki, 62, was the fifth per- Nazir was killed in a US drone find themselves stuck for days son to climb all of the ‘eight-thou- strike on January 2. at Base Camp I. sanders’, the 14 mountains more He was the main militant The nine-member team led than 8,000 metres high. commander in South Waziristan by veteran Polish mountaineer Two Polish members of the and sent insurgents to fight US, Krzysztof Wielicki left Skardu team, Adam Bielecki and Janusz Natoand Afghan government last Thursday. Golab, made history last March troops in Afghanistan, and was The temperature was 10 with the first winter ascent of accused of sheltering Al Qaeda. degrees centigrade below zero and 8,068-metre Gasherbrum-I. He was one of the most high- the snow was falling heavily; bad On that climb, Bielecki and profile victims of US drone weather that seems to have fol- Golab were accompanied by strikes in Pakistan, which lowed them all the way to Broad Pakistani mountaineer Shaheen Islamabad publicly criticises as Peak. Baig, a member of the ACP, who a violation of sovereignty but According to the Alpine Club has twice before attempted winter which US officials believe are a of Pakistan (ACP), the team has ascents of Broad Peak. vital weapon in the war against been stuck at Base Camp I for Baig has climbed three of the An Afghan labourer adds coal to the fire in a traditional brick factory in Kholm district of Mazar-i Sharif. Islamist militants. days. The last word received from other eight-thousanders, includ- Two militants from Nazir’s Base Camp came two days ago ing K2, and has taken part in win- group who spoke said accused with the team hoping that yes- ter expeditions to Gasherbrum-II Kharoti of giving Nazir a digital terday will offer clearer weather and other mountains. General Allen cleared of misconduct Koran, fitted with chips to track and an opportunity to continue Rounding out the team are his movements, during a meet- their ascent. Aminullah Baig and other local ing at an undisclosed location in Karrar Haidri, a member of the mountaineers, along with high- WASHINGTON: The outgoing chief of US-led forces in for officers at the US Central Afghanistan. ACP Executive Council, acknowl- altitude porters. Pentagon has cleared the top Afghanistan, paving the way for Command headquartered in “He presented Nazir and oth- edged that Broad Peak in winter Wielicki’s team is not the only US commander in Afghanistan his pending nomination to take Tampa. ers digital Korans as a gift which was no ordinary challenge, saying, group attempting challenging of wrongdoing over emails with up command of Nato forces in She alerted the FBI to anony- were fitted with chips which help “The Mountain is throwing eve- winter climbs this season: There a woman tied to a sex scandal Europe, he said. mous emails she received and US drones strike their targets,” rything at these climbers.” are five foreign expeditions in that forced CIA director David The FBI came upon emails from claimed were threatening. one of the militants said. During winter on the high Pakistan planning ascents on Petraeus to resign, an official Allen in its probe of Petraeus, and The FBI also found emails “When Mullah Nazir was peaks in the Karokaram, he the 8,125-metre Nanga Parbat said yesterday. officials. between Allen and Kelley, and returning, US drones fired mis- added, the wind can blow at another mountain that has never The Defence Department’s Allen had exchanged mes- Panetta ordered an independent siles at him in Pakistani area,” speeds up to 100km an hour, and before been climbed in winter. inspector-general exoner- sages with Jill Kelley, a Florida inquiry. he said. temperatures can drop to 70 INTERNEWS ated General John Allen, the socialite who had thrown parties AFP AFP THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 No death penalty for rapists: Verma panel Three-member committee in favour of at least a 20-year prison sentence, which may extend to life

NEW DELHI: Life imprisonment for report. Justice Verma said the commit- citizens, for not helping the grievously the gang rape, Justice Verma said he the armed forces, the committee said the gang rape, but no death penalty even if tee has not suggested death penalty for wounded young woman and her friend was “struck by the peaceful manner” in brutalities of the forces faced by residents the victim dies or is reduced to a veg- rapists because there were overwhelm- who were thrown off the bus after the which they led the mass movement in the in border areas have led to a deep disen- etative state, were among the recom- ing suggestions by women’s organisations brutal act. national capital. chantment and lack of mainstreaming of mendations of the Justice J S Verma against it. The panel also commented on the “It was an humbling experience... the such people in civil society. panel yesterday. The panel recommended that stalk- “disputes relating to jurisdiction of the youth taught us, the older generation,” Subramanium, a committee member, The three-member committee, tasked ing, acid attacks and voyeurism should police over the area of crime” that leads said Justice Verma, a former chief justice also said security personnel should be with looking into possible amendments be considered separate crimes, but sug- to delay in taking cognisance — an alle- of India and ex-chairman of the National tried under common law if they are the to the criminal law for quicker trial gested seven years for acid attacks as well gation made by the victim’s male friend. Human Rights Commission. accused in sexual assault cases. and enhanced punishment for rapists, as voyeurism, that includes making MMS It also took an open dig at the “pecu- The panel, which included former chief Justice Verma said there was very submitted its report to Home Minister clips and passing it on to others. liarity” of the Delhi government of not justice of Himachal Pradesh Justice Leila poor response from state police chiefs at Sushilkumar Shinde exactly 29 days after It said trafficking should be punishable having the power over the police and said Seth and former Additional Solicitor public meetings called by the committee it was set up following the gruesome gang with rigorous imprisonment for a term this “ambiguity” needs to be removed General Gopal Subramanium, also pro- while preparing the report and asked for rape of a 23-year-old Delhi woman on between seven years to 10 years. to maintain law and order and ensure posed a Bill of Rights for women that review of their appointments. Decemebr 16. “Stalking or attempts to contact a per- accountability. entitles every woman a life of dignity and But, he said, the committee got 80,000 “Gang rape will entail a punishment son repeatedly through any means shall The “apathy of civil society” in not integrity. suggestions from India and abroad from of not less than 20 years, but which also be liable to get a term of up to three coming forward to help the couple also The bill suggests that a woman is women activists to students. may extend to life. Gang rape followed by years,” it said. came in for criticism from the committee. entitled to have the right to express and He also said that it was “shocking” death shall be punished with life impris- The committee, however, did not sug- It also slammed Delhi Police for using experience complete sexual autonomy, that the union home secretary praised onment,” Justice Verma told reporters gest lowering the legally defined age of batons on the anti-rape agitators, saying including with respect to her relation- the Delhi Police chief for “prompt action” after submitting the report. juvenile from 18 to 16 years — a demand it “has scarred Indian democracy”. ships and choice of partners. in arresting the six males involved in “Punishment for causing death or a by women activists after one of the Justice Verma said the government Even as it held that present laws are the December 16 gang rape of the young persistent vegetative state shall be given accused involved in the Delhi gang rape “with its might and resources should act sufficient to maintain law and order, the woman who died 13 days later in a rigorous imprisonment for a term which was found to be below 18 years. fast” and place the report before parlia- committee report said, “Speedy justice Singapore hospital. shall not be less than 20 years but may In its recommendations, the commit- ment in the coming budget session. was essential for efficacy of the law and “He should have asked for his apology be for life also, which shall mean the rest tee came down heavily on the adminis- Hailing the youths of the country its desired impact.” instead,” Justice Verma said. of the person’s life,” said the 631-page tration, including the police as well as for their “spontaneous show” against Coming down heavily on violations by IANS Indian engineering student’s Frozen lake body found in UK canal

BANGALORE: Souvik Pal, the 19-year- late on Tuesday. Souvik, an engineering under- old Bangalore youth who went missing on graduate student at the Manchester Metropolitan December 31 in Britain, was found drowned in a University since September 2012, was last seen at a canal on Tuesday at Manchester. nightclub on New Year eve and went missing later “We are shocked to hear that Souvik is no more under mysterious circumstances. after his father (Shantanu Pal) identified the A pall of glom descended on the Pals’ house in decomposed body, which was recovered from the the northern suburb of Bangalore with his mother Westbridge canal in Manchester by search divers,” being inconsolable after learning about Souvik’s Pal’s family friend said here yesterday. tragic end. According to Manchester police chief detec- Shantanu, a civil engineer in Saudi Arabia, flew tive Colin Larson, an autopsy will be conducted to to Manchester on January 4 to help police in the ascertain the cause of Souvik’s death as there were search operation and stayed back since then in the no visible signs or marks on his body to suspect hope of locating his eldest son. any foul play. Manchester is about 320km north Souvik called his parents on the night of A Kashmiri boatman clears the ice to row his boat in the Dal Lake in Srinagar, yesterday. Kashmir is in the of London. Decmebr 31 to wish them a happy New Year and grip of an intense cold. “We have no further details. Souvik’s family is told them that he would be going with his friends yet to come to terms with the tragic incident after to celebrate the New Year at a nightclub. an agonising three week-long wait. Shantanu called “We first came to know on January 2 that our his wife (Mahuya Pal) and broke the sad news that son was not seen in the hostel after the New Year he was asked by the police to identify a body found party. A complaint was lodged by Souvik’s friends in the canal,” the friend said. with police,” a tearful Mahuya had said on January Police was to hand over Souvik’s body to 9. Shantanu, who joined the Al Nahyan construc- Shantanu after autopsy by late yesterday so that tion firm in Riyadh as an engineer last year, was the family could decide whether to perform the last in Bangalore then on a year-end holiday. rites in Manchester or fly it to Bangalore. The Pals, who hail from Midnapore in West “At this moment, our thoughts and condolences Bengal, have been living here since 2002 when are with the family. We do not believe there is Shantanu came to join Swedish major ABB India any suspicious reason over his death. The autopsy energy firm as an engineer. report may reveal the cause,” Larson told the media IANS

Supreme Court appalled over the plight of undertrials

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yester- day expressed its anguish over the plight of under- trials and violation of their fundamental rights after they are thrown into prisons that are already “bursting at their seams”. “The laxity with which we throw citizens into prison reflects our lack of appreciation for the tribu- lations of incarceration; the callousness with which we leave them there reflects our lack of deference for humanity,” said the apex court bench of Justice D K Jain and Justice J S Khehar. “It also reflects our imprudence when our pris- ons are bursting at their seams,” the judges said. “For the prisoner him- self, imprisonment for the purposes of trial is as ignoble as imprison- ment on conviction for an offence, since the damn- ing finger and opprobri- ous eyes of society draw no difference between the two.” Taking a dig at the insensitive attitude of the instrumentalities of the state, the court said: “The plight of the undertrials seems to gain focus only on a solicitous inquiry by this court, and soon after, quickly fades into the backdrop.” IANS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA New evidence of indentured Indians’ graves Archaeologist pushes for locating mass graves of sugarcane plantation workers in Suriname

NEW DELHI: As the Suriname gov- As Mitrasingh waited for government books on migration and the indenture military map which gives coordinates to Suriname as agricultural labour to ernment granted permission in early permission to commence his investiga- system in Suriname. Hira has been work- and specific locations of the graves,” he work on the sugarcane plantations during January to researchers to begin opera- tion, researchers in the Netherlands — ing on creating a database of all Indian said. The map discovered by Radhinder colonial times. Suriname was first colo- tions to discover the forgotten mass Suriname, a country of a little over 500,00 indentured labourers who arrived in Bhagwanbali looks like a rough sketch nised by the British, and captured by the graves of Indian indentured workers people, gained independence from the Suriname. He has put together a list of that depicts the rail tracks, the roads and Dutch in 1667. Conditions on the planta- killed in police firing in 1902 in the tiny Dutch in 1975 — working in the archives all those Indian workers killed in the other topographical features of the area. tions were miserable with overwork, poor South American nation, where nearly located a map that could give indica- Mariengburg massacre with their names After securing the government’s go- living conditions and low wages. 40 percent of its people are of Indian tions to the site where the mass graves and details about their home villages in ahead, Mitrasingh has been assured full Mareinburg estate and sugar factory extraction, new evidence has emerged were located. Sandew Hira and histo- India from immigration sources. Hira support by the district commissioner, was the biggest business enterprise in that could give significant pointers to rian Radhinder Bhagwanbali have done is keen to get some recognition in India the surveyor’s office and the Marienburg Suriname at one time. the location of the graves. considerable research on the subject of for those who died in the Marienburg coordinator for his investigations. The According to local belief, the bodies of Late last year, Benjamin Mitrasingh, Indian immigrants in Suriname. uprising. surveyor’s office will provide a detailed those killed in the massacre were trans- an archaeologist in Suriname, had pro- Bhagwanbhali had been researching on “I have written a letter to the Indian map of the disused rail system at ported in the train that brought the sug- posed to use modern technology and aer- the subject of resistance on the planta- government with the names, village Marienburg. arcane to the sugar mill and buried in a ial surveys to locate the graves of Indian tions against the indentured labour sys- addresses of those killed in the upris- According to media reports, a local large pit near the rail tracks. indentured workers killed 110 years ago tem. “During his research, Bhagwanbali ing so that they get recognition in their businessman has offered the use of his The plans to locate the mass graves at in Marienburg. The 1902 massacre took went into the archives and studied the homeland. I am still awaiting a response company helicopter for an aerial survey Marienburg have evoked a good deal of place at Marienburg factory and sugar- reports of the Dutch military regarding from the Indian government”, he added. of the area. There were about 10 major interest in Suriname. cane plantation when angry agricultural the uprisings by the workers. He found Hira’s list was sent to the Ministry for incidents of workers protests by Indian An unsuccessful attempt was made workers protesting against low wages this map in the military files,” Hira said Overseas Indian Affairs in July, 2012. indentured labour in Suriname between in 1983-84 when drilling was under- were fired upon by Dutch colonial forces. in an email interview with IANS. A copy However, Mitrasingh is not very hope- 1873 and 1902 and the Marienburg agita- taken at one site. In 2006, a monu- About 24 workers were killed and their of the map was sent to Mitrasingh, he ful of getting any real evidence from tion was among the largest. ment was unveiled to commemorate the bodies dumped in unmarked mass graves. added. Bhagwanbali is the author of three Bhagwanbali’s map. “It is not an actual Indian indentured workers were taken workers uprising. IANS

Martial synchronisation US seeks long jail term for Headley

CHICAGO: US federal pros- Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten ecutors are seeking 30 to 35 for publishing cartoons of Prophet years in prison for Pakistani- Muhammad (PBUH). American David Headley, a In his Tuesday memo, Shapiro key plotter in the deadly 2008 said: “Headley played an essen- Mumbai terror attack staged tial role in the planning of a hor- by Pakistan based terror group rific terrorist attack.” He “not Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). only worked at the direction Headley, 52, son of a Pakistani of Lashkar-e-Taiba for years, father and an American mother, but also with members of Al who changed his given name of Qaeda.” Dawood Gilani to scout targets “Undeterred by the shocking in Mumbai without arousing images of death and destruc- suspicion, has pleaded guilty to tion that came out of Mumbai in his role in the attack that killed November 2008, Headley trav- 160 people. elled to Denmark less than two Ahead of Headley’s sentencing months later to advance a plan to set for today, Gary Shapiro, the commit another terrorist attack,” acting US Attorney in Chicago, he added. in a memo to the federal dis- But the information that trict court on Tuesday said that Headley provided following his the 30-35 year sentence recom- arrest and in subsequent proffer mended by the prosecution for sessions was of substantial value Headley was fair. to the government and its allies, “While his criminal conduct India in particular, in its efforts to was deplorable, the uniquely sig- combat international terrorism, nificant cooperation which he prosecutors said. provided to the government’s “In addition to providing Soldiers march on Rajpath during the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi yesterday. The country will celebrate the 64th efforts to combat terrorism sup- insight into the personnel, struc- Republic Day on January 26 with a large military parade. port the government’s recommen- ture, methods, abilities and plans dations,” he said. of Lashkar, Headley took active Headley could receive up to life steps to further the investigation in prison. Prosecutors had agreed into other terrorists activities.” not to seek the death penalty for “Headley’s cooperation assisted Reduce negative politics, Rahul tells Congress Headley in exchange for his plea the Government in filing crimi- after he promised in 2010 to coop- nal charges against at least erate with US authorities. seven other individuals, and his NEW DELHI: Congress vice the party members have to leaders,” said Rahul Gandhi. He said he wanted to make the US Attorney General Eric testimony helped to secure the president Rahul Gandhi told work hard to implement the Party general secretary Congress “accessible to as many Holder noted at the time that conviction of one co-defendant,” party leaders here yesterday Jaipur Declaration adopted at Janardan Dwivedi later said that people... this is my sentiment”. he had provided extensive “valu- it said. that he wanted to reduce “nega- the Chintan Shivir (introspec- Rahul Gandhi’s meeting “was He said that political discus- able intelligence about terrorist “Headley cooperated with for- tive politics”. tive meet) and he would meet just an informal one and he had sions tended to be “extremely activities.” eign law enforcement, answer- He met party leaders and party general secretaries and a brief interaction with senior acrimonious, fighting with each Headley was the star witness ing questions without restriction All India Congress Committee other leaders collectively and leaders”. other over small reasons. I want against his Pakistan-born boy- from Indian law enforcement over (AICC) members at the Congress individually. Rahul Gandhi said he wanted to try and reduce that, I don’t hood friend Tahawwur Rana, the course of seven full days, and headquarters at 24, Akbar Road “Some leaders told me I need to to try and reduce “negative want to get into negative politics, who was sentenced last week the government expects his coop- in the national capital last implement what I said in Jaipur. politics” and get into “positive but want to get into positive poli- to 14 years in prison for aiding eration to extend well into the evening. The focus is the party and I will politics” which would take the tics as that is what will take the an abortive LeT plot to attack future,” the memo said. IANS The 42-year-old leader said take a feedback on the views of country forward. country forward”. IANS

Netaji’s anniversary Delhi’s ‘Bunty Chor’ Karnataka BJP government in crisis burgles Kerala BANGALORE: Karnataka’s reporters at Raj Bhavan. ready to quit the assembly and NRI’s house BJP government yesterday was Karandlaje said the BJP had they would soon do so. in deep crisis as two ministers ensured the speaker’s absence. Now the focus is both on the KOCHI: Delhi’s infamous quit the cabinet and 13 party “Our information is that a governor and the steps the BJP “Bunty Chor”, who committed legislators, including the two cabinet minister escorted the would take to ensure the survival over 500 burglaries across the ministers, announced they will speaker to the airport last night of the Shettar ministry which country, has struck in Kerala, resign from the assembly too. (Tuesday). We have requested the took over only in July last year. police said yesterday. Public Works Minister governor for a probe and protec- The governor is expected to ask Devinder Singh, alias Bunty C M Udasi and Energy Minister tion to us,” she added. Shettar to prove his majority in Chor, reportedly broke into a Shobha Karandlaje, loyal- Karandlaje said the legislators the assembly which is to meet Feb high security home with latest ists of former BJP leader had appealed to the governor to 4-13 for budget presentation. electronic surveillance devices in B S Yeddyurappa, submitted their ensure that their resignation let- The combined opposition’s — the early hours of January 21 and resignations to Chief Minister ters be accepted immediately. the Congress (71) and Janata Dal drove off with a new SUV worth Jagadish Shettar here. The 13 legislators are staunch - Secular (26) — strength is 97. Rs2.8m, a laptop and two mobile The plan of the 13 Bharatiya followers of Yeddyurappa and will There are six other Independents. phones. The house belongs to Janata Party (BJP) legislators to join his new outfit Karnataka One is a nominated member while Venugopalan Nair, a businessman quit the assembly did not mate- Janata Party (KJP). two seats are vacant. in the UAE. The house had several rialise as Speaker K G Bopaiah Their resignation from the If more than 20 BJP legislators closed circuit cameras, a security was not present in his office, assembly is aimed at prevent- quit the assembly, the BJP would alarm and windows with bullet- though, as Udasi said, he had been ing Shettar from presenting the have to muster support from the proof glasses. Nair had switched “informed” that resignation let- 2013-14 budget as that could help independents for the trust vote. off the alarm close to midnight ters would be submitted to him the BJP in the assembly elections Or hope that either the Congress before he, his wife and two chil- yesterday. due in May. or the JD-S or both walk out dren went to sleep. When they After waiting in the speaker’s The resignations, if accepted, of the assembly ahead of the woke up, the SUV was gone, a bul- chamber for over an hour, Udasi would bring down BJP’s strength trust vote. let-proof glass had been removed led the legislators to Governor in the 225-member assembly Shettar is yet take a decision on and some cameras lay broken. H R Bhardwaj and briefed him to 105 from 118, including the the resignation of the two minis- However, some cameras had about the absence of the speaker speaker. ters as he left on a two-day tour recorded a well-dressed man in Member of the All India Azad Hind Fauj Freedom-Fighters Successors and submitted copies of the res- The ruling party has the sup- of north Karnataka soon after the house at night. After his pic- Association, Santokh Singh garlands a statue of freedom fighter Netaji ignation letters to him. port of one independent member, receiving the quit letters. ture was flashed on TV channels, Subhash Chandra Bose in Amritsar, yesterday, on his 116th birth Bhardwaj “assured” the legisla- who is a cabinet minister. He told reporters that he would a manager of a hotel identified anniversary. tors that he would take action as Udasi claimed that another take decision after “considering him as a man who had stayed in per the constitution, Udasi told four to five legislators were also them (the letters)”. IANS the hotel for two days. IANS

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PRAYER TIME Gangnam Style Dancing face-stand for iPhone earns $8m for Fajr (Dawn) 5:00 YouTube: Google Shorook (Sunrise) 6:20 SAN FRANCISCO: Google Zuhr (Noon) 11:46 said that the YouTube page Asr (Afternoon) 2:51 showcasing the Gangnam Style video by South Korean rapper Maghrib (Sunset) 5:13 Psy has reaped more than $8m Isha (Night) 6:43 in ad revenue. Google Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora revealed the fig- ure while discussing the money- WEATHER making potential of YouTube during a quarterly earnings Today Friday Saturday Weather call with financial analysts. Ad Conditions: revenue from popular YouTube Mostly sunny Clear Clear videos is shared with creators of Fog at first the content. to hazy and In December, Gangnam Style High: 25° High: 26° High: 25° moderate became the first video to break Low: 17° Low: 18° Low: 18° temperature a billion views on YouTube, by day. marking a historic milestone on the Internet. A counter at the YouTube page showed that the music video has been watched DOHA - SUN & SEA more than 1.23 billion times since it was uploaded in July of SUN TIDE SEA last year. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND Gangnam is estimated to have earned the rapper millions more 06:20 17:13 04:00/14: 00 11:30/20:30 03-10/15 KT from digital downloads, advertis- ing deals and on-demand serv- THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW ices. The quirky star, whose real HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER name is Park Jae-Sang, won adu- lation in his homeland for the MUSCAT 24/17 Mostly sunny 25/17 Mostly sunny global hit and was awarded one An employee of Japanese toy maker Tomy displays a new virtual dancing robot “Dancing face-stand for MAKKAH 34/22 Clear 35/23 Mostly sunny of South Korea’s highest cultural iPhone” at a press preview in Tokyo, yesterday. The robot is used to dock iPhones on its face and react to the KUWAIT 22/15 Clear 22/16 Mostly sunny honours, the Okgwan Order of music stored in the iPhone. The face morphing application is provided by software venture Motion Portrait BAHRAIN 23/18 Mostly sunny 23/17 Mostly sunny Cultural Merit. AFP at App Store. SANAA 23/07 Mostly sunny 23/07 Clear RIYADH 29/14 Clear 28/15 Mostly sunny DUBAI 23/12 Mostly sunny 26/17 Mostly sunny BAGHDAD 20/09 Mostly sunny 20/12 Mostly sunny China unmanned car to ‘help driver sleep’: Reports THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW

HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER BEIJING: The Chinese army is it to overtake and make other being on a “highway” and the vehi- believe US drone strikes are a developing an unmanned road manoeuvres safely, the report cle overtook slower-moving traffic vital weapon in the war against ATHENS 16/09 Thunderstorms 15/07 Chance of rain vehicle, official military media said. 33 times, it added, saying that on Islamist militants. Several reported yesterday, adding it The car — which looks like a occasion it refrained from overtak- Western automakers are WASHINGTON -2/-7 Mostly sunny -2/-8 Snow could be put to civilian use to standard sports utility vehicle, ing because it would be dangerous. researching driverless cars. SYDNEY 27/22 Chance of rain 28/22 Chance of storms reduce fatigue at the wheel and with cameras added — completed “Researchers did nothing but set The PLA Daily said of the LONDON 01/-4 Partly sunny 04/01 Cloudy allow drivers to “sleep in peace”. a 114km test drive in 85 min- the vehicle’s destination coordi- Chinese car: “The vehicle can effec- PARIS 01/-7 Partly sunny -3/-4 Partly sunny The Fierce Lion 3 is fitted utes, reaching speeds of 105 kph, nates,” said the newspaper. tively reduce driver fatigue when ISTANBUL 14/08 Rain 14/07 Mostly sunny with a sophisticated computer according to the PLA Daily, the At present military use of used for civilian purposes. When MANILA 30/22 Mostly sunny 30/23 Mostly sunny which can track nearby traffic, official newspaper of the People’s remote-controlled vehicles is the driver is tired, it can enter the DHAKA 25/12 Clear 25/12 Clear along with radar, video cameras Liberation Army. most prominent in Pakistan, unmanned state to allow him to DELHI 17/06 Clear 18/06 Clear and satellite navigation, enabling The exercise was described as where American officials sleep in peace.” AFP ISLAMABAD 17/04 Clear 17/05 Clear

50-carat emerald pendant Filmmaker Alan Parker to Turkey unveils receive BAFTA accolade plan for world’s

LONDON: Filmmaker Alan the highest accolade the BAFTA biggest airport Parker will receive one of the can give an individual. highest accolades in the British “When you make your first film, ANKARA: Turkey plans to film industry next month you’re sure it will be your last. build what it said would be the to mark a career of writing, And then you squeeze your eyes largest airport in the world in directing and producing that together and suddenly, 40 years Istanbul, eventually able to han- spans over 40 years. later, you’re at BAFTA getting an dle 150 million passengers per Parker, 68, will be presented award like this,” Parker said. year, in a project seen costing with the British Academy of Film As well as his directing and more than ¤7bn ($9.3bn). and Television Arts (BAFTA) writing credits, Parker has served Transport Minister Binali fellowship on February 10 at the as chairman of the British Film Yildirim said yesterday that the BAFTA awards, Britain’s annual Institute board, was the founding deadline for bids to build the version of the Oscars, to recognise chairman of the UK Film Council airport, which will be Istanbul’s “outstanding and exceptional con- and a founding member of the third and have a total of six run- tribution to film”. Directors Guild of Great Britain. ways, would be May 3. It was not Parker, whose film cred- Parker, a Londoner, started his clear when the contract would be its include Midnight Express, career writing and directing TV awarded. The airport will add vital Mississippi Burning and Evita, fol- commercials. capacity in the region and enhance lows in the footsteps of Charlie His first feature film as writer the role of Istanbul, the hub for flag Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven and director was the musical gang- carrier Turkish Airlines. Spielberg, and Laurence Olivier in ster film Bugsy Malone in 1976 with “At full capacity the new air- receiving the honour. U.S. film- a cast all of children including Jodie port will be the largest in the maker Martin Scorsese received Foster. This helped him break world in terms of passengers,” the BAFTA Fellowship last year. into Hollywood and he went on to Yildirim told a news conference in Parker, who was nominated make a string of popular box-office Ankara. “We calculate the whole twice for the best director award movies. Parker’s films have won project will cost more than ¤7bn at the Oscars and knighted in 19 BAFTAs as well as 10 Golden excluding financing costs.” An exhibitor displays a 50-carat emerald pendant at the Asahi Jewellery Co Ltd booth during the 24th 2002 for services to British film, Globes and 10 Oscars, according to Turkey’s economy, the fastest- International Jewellery Tokyo (IJT) show, in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. The emerald pendant has a value of said he was “enormously flat- a statement from the BAFTA. growing in Europe, has advanced about 80m yen (some $903,000). The IJT is the largest international jewellery trade show in Japan, and runs tered” to receive the Fellowship, REUTERS rapidly over the past decade under until Saturday. the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and become a major trading partner with Europe and the Middle East. The tender will be for a 25-year lease in a four-stage project, with Dutch architect to build house with 3D printer annual capacity of 90 million passengers planned for the first THE HAGUE: A Dutch architect has printed house, this printer has made art Mobius strips in drawing,” Ruijssenaars possible to print real buildings in 3D and stage, Yildirim said. “The final designed a house “with no beginning or or objects for sea defences, but this is the said. When trying to make a small model affirm that there is a new way to manufac- annual capacity of the airport will end” to be built using the world’s largest first time to build something that can be of the building, Ruijssenaars realised ture buildings,” Dini, 50, said by telephone be 150 million. The first stage will 3D printer, harnessing technology that lived in,” he said. that whatever material you use, from from Italy. be operational in 2017,” he said. may one day be used to print houses on Ruijssenaars said the plan was not ini- paper to lead, “you have to make a strip Dini, who gave up his well-paid job in The tender advertisement will the moon. tially to print the building but the hi-tech and then bend it in order to make this robotics designing prototypes for the foot- be published in Turkey’s Official Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe medium turned out to be the most appro- Mobius strip.” wear industry to build his monster printer, Gazette today. Erdogan said on Architecture in Amsterdam, wants to priate. “We started to ask the question if a “But with a 3D printer, even a small said that 3D printing of buildings remains Tuesday that the tender would print a Mobius strip-shaped building building can be like the landscape, in order model, we could make the whole structure a hybrid process with other building tech- be launched today with the first with around 1,100 square metres (12,000 to make a building that would not harm from bottom to top without anyone seeing niques for reinforcement. stage of construction to be com- square feet) of floor space using the massive the landscape, or at least learn from the where it is beginning or ending,” he said. “And it’s about being competitive with pleted in 3-4 years. D-Shape printer. landscape,” he said. Working with Dutch mathematician and other construction techniques,” he said. Turkish airport operator and The printer, designed by Italian Enrico “We analysed that the essence of land- artist Rinus Roelofs and Dini in Italy, “we One advantage of using printing is that builder TAV and construction Dini, can print up to almost a six-metre- scape is that it has no beginning or end- put the whole thing in the computer,” the you can easily build-in empty spaces for company Limak are among the by-six-metre square (20-foot-by-20-foot), ing, so it’s continuous, not only the fact architect said. plumbing and electrics — and that you can companies that have expressed using a computer to add layers 5-10 mm (a the world is round but also water goes into A Brazilian national park has expressed use rocks found in situ at the construction interest in bidding for the contract. quarter to half an inch) thick. land, valleys into mountains, it’s always interest in the building, which would cost site, which could be almost anywhere. TAV also has the operating rights Ruijssenaars says the building could continuous.” around ¤4m ($5.3m) to construct, the “The great thing about the printer is for Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, the serve as a home or a museum and would The Mobius-strip shaped result bears a architect said, or it could be built as a pri- that you can take it somewhere and then country’s largest, until 2021. It said have parts usually made from concrete striking resemblance to the art of another vate home in the United States. print with the ground you find on location,” the Turkish airports authority printed using broken up rocks and an Dutchman, 20th-century designer and The project would take around 18 months Ruijssenaars said. “So you could take the would compensate it for any losses emulsion binding, while steel and glass illustrator M C Escher. to build and the printer “might be active printer to the moon, assemble it there and if the third airport opened while it would provide the facade. “In this design he’s definitely been an for half a year,” Ruijssenaars said. print with moon material.” was still running Ataturk. “It’s our ambition to have the first inspiration, I would say he’s the king of “The challenge is demonstrating that it’s AFP REUTERS Thursday 24 January 2013 12 Rabial I 1434 Volume 17 Number 5589 Price: QR2

Qatari bourse index rises by 0.34 percent

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qtel launches Clear-cut definition of SMEs soon: CEO of EQ 15 and 30-year Al Fikra 2013 launched dual-tranche bond

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Asked to comment more about LONDON: Qatar Telecom the draft-definition of SMEs and launched a $500m 15-year note DOHA: As part of its efforts expected date, she remained tight at 215 basis points over 10-year to promote and facilitate the lipped about it, and said: “We are US Treasuries, 35 bps inside growth and development of small still in the process of receiving initial guidance, IFR Markets, businesses, Qatar will soon have feedback from the stakeholders. a unit of Thomson Reuters, a clear-cut definition of small We will document their sugges- reported, attributing the infor- and medium enterprises (SMEs) tions, and sent the final draft for mation to a source. The com- to overcome the difficulty of busi- approval to the concerned authori- pany also launched a $500m ness categorisation, a problem ties by the end of this week. It 30-year tranche at 162.5 bps generally faced by local institu- should not take much time. Once over 30-year US Treasuries. tions including private lenders, it is approved it will be announced.” RBS, Bank of America Merrill said a senior official of Enterprise Al Fikra is a national tool to spot Lynch, J P Morgan, Citigroup Inc Qatar (EQ) yesterday. the entrepreneurial talents, iden- and QNB Capital are joint lead EQ, working under the tify the opportunities and invest arrangers and bookrunners on Ministry of Business and Trade, both time and resources to drive the deal. enables entrepreneurs and SMEs them in constructive structured FROM LEFT: Dr. Ilker Baybars, Dean Carnegie Mellon University Qatar; Raed Al Emadi, Chief Operating Officer, Qtel has been raising stakes in to achieve greater success by mechanism to a stage of self-suf- Silatech; Noora Al Mannai, Chief Executive Officer, Enterprise Qatar, Hala Fadel, Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum, its subsidiaries, benefiting from developing a positive ecosystem ficiency and independent growth. Saleh Al Mana, Vice President and Director of Public and Government Affairs, ExxonMobil; and Abdulla Mubarak the state’s healthy financial posi- for startups and SMEs. Al Fikra is now an annual exer- Al Khalifa, General Manager, Corporate Banking, QNB, during the press conference to launch Qatar National tion. It increased its stake in “We have already discussed the cise held every year with an aim Business Plan Competition AL FIKRA 2013 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP Asiacell and Wataniya last year. initial definition (draft-definition) to encourage and support budding The 30-year maturity appeals of SMEs with all the stakeholders, entrepreneurs. Last year, accord- with a platform to better com- recognized and supported by to submit new venture plans for to US insurers and pension funds, including concerned government ing to Al Mannai, more than 400 pete alongside the world’s lead- EQ, MITEF, Silatech, the SILA review by a panel of entrepre- looking to buy and hold corporate institutions and private lenders, entrepreneurs participated in the ing entrepreneurs, and expecting Angel Investment Network, neurs and experts. The partici- debt for the long run. The compa- just a couple of weeks ago. And competition, among them, 35 per- an overwhelming response. “This business development agencies pants will be offered a chance to ny’s last bond, a $1bn long 10-year this week we are collecting their cent represented the technology is an executive, educational and and its academic partners — a access cash and non-cash prizes issue in December, was oversub- feedback so that the same could be sector followed by the services coaching programme specifically Qatar-based consortium of higher that help them to be successful scribed. Qtel has expanded into sent to higher authorities for final and hospitality industry with 29 designed for Qatari entrepreneurs education institutions includ- and competitive both here and more than 16 countries. It has approval”, Noora Al Mannai, the and 11 percent respectively. and students enabling them to ing Carnegie Mellon University, abroad. This year’s Al Fikra pro- hired J P Morgan Chase to advise CEO of EQ, told The Peninsula on And this year, EQ has entered deliver business plans to establish Qatar University, College of North gramme will run from January it on a potential bid for Vivendi’s the sidelines of the launching cer- into a partnership with the MIT new and successful private busi- Atlantic and others. 23 to April 25, but the last date Maroc Telecom, a stake nearly emony of Qatar National Business Enterprise Forum (MITEF), of nesses,” added Al Mannai. The business plan competition of registration for applicants is worth $6bn based on current mar- Plan Competition, Al Fikra 2013, at the Pan Arab Region with an aim Under Al Fikra creative invites undergraduates, gradu- February 4, 2013. ket price, sources told Reuters ear- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel here. to provide local entrepreneurs and innovative ideas will be ate students and professionals THE PENINSULA lier in December. 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RAMALLAH: A central bank in Wazir is the son of Khalil Al Wazir, a Palestinians’ behalf each month as pun- derivatives and are largely isolated from a public school teacher, hadn’t received the making, the Palestine Monetary top Palestinian leader assassinated by the ishment after Palestine secured de facto global financial markets, Palestinian a full paycheck in almost three months, Authority (PMA) is a rare bright spot Israelis in Tunis in 1988. United Nations recognition of statehood banks weathered the 2008 global finan- making mortgage and car loans ever as the economy of the Palestinian terri- Economic prospects for Palestinians in November. cial crisis largely unscathed. more onerous. Rattling off the rising tories struggles with Israeli sanctions. in the West Bank are limited by Israeli Despite the economic difficulties, regu- The banks also owe their vitality to a prices of food and basic commodities, Enforcing on Palestinian banks a regi- restrictions on trade, and the Palestinian lar stress tests of banks, supervised by robust PMA credit bureau which sniffs out Ghashash said the government’s financial men of conservative lending that has kept government is deeply dependent on for- the PMA, have found that only a dooms- and discourages dubious debts. “The credit problems were undermining his family’s bad loans minimal and guaranteed liquid- eign aid and bank credit to pay its bills. day scenario of a massive run on deposits registry, in which all loans and defaults ability to live a decent life. ity, the PMA’s technocratic prowess is the Help from abroad plunged by two- combined with a near-shutdown of the on loans and credit worthiness of custom- “My little daughter had a school field pinnacle of a Palestinian drive to build thirds from four years ago to just $600 private sector could upend the system. ers are examined, is considered one of trip the other day, but we couldn’t afford institutions fit for a future state. million in 2012, as the global economic The banking system’s Tier 1 capital, the best in the region and an example for it. She came to me and said ‘It’s OK, I’ll But its efficiency is meeting a hard downturn and Arab revolts taxed the its main benchmark of health, stood at a other countries,” said Udo Kock, resident just tell my teacher that I overslept,’” he reality: the banks are exposed to around attention of wealthy Gulf state donors remarkably robust 24 percent of assets representative of the IMF, which provides sighed. $2.5bn in debts incurred by the govern- and US funding dwindled. last year, according to the International technical assistance to the PMA. Bank lending for personal consumption ment, its workforce and its private sector Public debt to the Bank of Palestine, Al Monetary Fund. Struggling European The banking sector’s stability contrasts in the Palestinian territories has risen partners — over a fifth of banks’ total Quds Bank and other banks supervised banks’ Tier 1 ratios generally hover with the pain experienced by govern- fivefold in the last two years to $417 mil- assets. “Our room is all in order, spick by the PMA more than doubled in the between 7 and 10 percent, and at around ment employees, who have staged work lion, according to the PMA. and span, on what could turn out to be same period. The government’s budget 8 percent for Israeli banks. stoppages and protests outside govern- But manufacturing, construction and the Titanic,” joked PMA Chairman Jihad deficit has reached $1.3bn, over 12 per- Non-performing loans at Palestinian ment offices with increasing frequency agriculture have now slowed, depriving Al Wazir. cent of gross domestic product. banks stand at less than 3 percent of total in recent weeks because of the state’s the government of yet more indirect rev- “Banks have reached the upper limit The government’s ability to pay its loans, and debt-to-deposit ratios remain inability to pay salaries on time. enue, while the seeming permanence of of what they can prudentially lend (to $300m in monthly expenditures was far healthier than in neighbouring Jordan Luay Ghashash, 45, a worker in the the Palestinian economic malaise has dis- the government) without increasing further hampered by Israel’s docking of and Israel. Since they do not deal in Palestine Liberation Organisation, a couraged foreign investors, analysts say. risks to the system,” Al Wazir said. Al $100m in customs duties it collects on the complex financial commodities such as diplomatic organ, said he and his wife, REUTERS

GCC investment company QNB Group buys additional 49.96pc stake in Tunisian Qatari Bank DOHA: QNB Group has acquired an stake in the Tunisian Qatari Bank. The to allow it to benefit from the Group’s with HQ in Doha soon additional 49.96 percent stake in the Tunisian government later on put most international reach and the dedicated share capital of the Tunisian Qatari of its remaining shareholding in the Bank services provided by its affiliates and Bank, thus raising its total shareholding for sale through an international bid offer wholly owned subsidiaries. DOHA: The GCC Economic Commission at the Ministry of to 99.96 percent, effective the moment the launched in the last quarter of 2012. The These include QNB Capital, incorpo- Forum has given its initial nod to Municipality and Urban Planning Group receives the required approvals of bidding’s results showed QNB Group as rated at the Qatar Financial Centre, QNB set up a GCC investment company is working on several development the regulatory authorities in the Republic the winner, which will raise the Group’s Switzerland, the private banking arm of with headquarters in Doha after a projects including the national plan of Tunisia Republic and Qatar. shareholding to 99.96 percent. The Tunisian the Group in Geneva, and QNB Financial three-day marathon meeting held to develop the plots of lands in the The Tunisian Qatari Bank was estab- Qatari Bank has 19 branches and employs Services, incorporated in Qatar that pro- to shed light on investment oppor- country and to develop Al Khor, Al lished in 1982 as the first investment bank 198 persons. vides dedicated brokerage services. tunities in Qatar. Wukair and Al Dakhira, spokesper- in Tunisia, only to become in 2004 the first QNB Group would strengthen and QNB Group announced excellent financial It was disclosed by the Deputy son of the Ministry told the delega- Tunisian joint venture bank with a license support the technical and administra- results for 2012, with net profits exceeding Chairman of the Forum’s Organising tion during their visit to the Ministry. to undertake all kinds of banking activities tive resources of the Tunisian Qatari $2.3bn (QR8.3 bn), representing an increase Committee and General Manager of There are more development plans in association with the government of Qatar. Bank, and strengthen the risk manage- of 11.1 percent over the previous year. Total Suli Company, Abdurrahman Ahmad like transportation network, separate QNB substituted the government of ment framework in light of the strate- assets rose by 21.5 percent to $101bn. Behzad, at the conclusion ceremony lanes for motorbikes and free trade Qatar in 2008, by acquiring its 50 percent gies adopted by QNB Group, in order THE PENINSULA of the Forum held here yesterday. zones that will create huge invest- The event was attended by the ment opportunities in the country, chairmen of GCC chambers of com- she added. merce and representatives from the The Ministry of Business and Trade Federation of GCC Chambers of explained to the visiting delegation Mannai Corp elects Board of Directors Commerce and Arab Businesswomen’ that foreigners can invest directly Brent up on UK jobs data Council as well some foreign delega- in some sectors like tourism, sport DOHA: Mannai Corporation yesterday held an Ordinary General tions, Qatar News Agency (QNA) and education. It is not true what is NEW YORK: Brent crude futures edged up and US crude Assembly at the Intercontinental Hotel here yesterday. At the reported yesterday. understood by large that there must be dipped yesterday in choppy trading as improving British meeting the shareholders re-elected the members of the Board for The Forum has also recom- Qatari partners to launch the projects employment data lent support, while a lower economic a further three years to January 22, 2016. The size of the board has mended to set up some companies in the country, law allowed foreigners growth forecast from the IMF limited gains. Offering sur- been increased to nine directors. The Chairman welcomed Alekh and launched projects related to to invest in some sectors directly, said prise support to oil were figures showing British unemploy- Grewal, Group Chief Executive Officer, as a newly elected member the precious metals and foodstuff to the Ministry. ment fell for the 10th consecutive quarter at the end of last of the board. The Board shall now comprise: H E Sheikh Hamad bin meet the growing demand in GCC Forum aims to attract regional and year and that jobless claims hit their lowest level since mid- Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani, H E Sheikh Suhaim bin Abdulla bin countries. foreign investments to home by pro- 2011 in December. Khalifa Al Thani, Mohamed Al Kubaisi, Ali Yousef Kamal, Rashid The participants made ground vis- viding investments opportunities in A stubborn eurozone recession and Japan’s weakness will Al Naimi, Khalid Mannai, Alekh Grewal, Keith Higley and Said Abu its to the giant development projects industrial, tourism, real estate and weigh on global economic growth before a rebound in 2014 that Odeh. The chairman of the meeting Mohamed Al Kubaisi thanked in the country, including Lusail City agriculture sectors. It also creates should deliver the fastest expansion since 2010, the International the assembly for their support of the Board. THE PENINSULA project, Pearl Qatar, Doha Heart opportunities for GCC businessmen Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook, released Mshereib Project to know the invest- to meet and set up partnership to yesterday. The IMF trimmed its 2013 global growth forecast ment opportunities there. launch the commercial projects. to 3.5 percent from the 3.6 percent it projected in October, but QATARI MARKET The Development Planning THE PENINSULA said it looked for 4.1 percent expansion in 2014. Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Brent March crude was up 27 cents at $112.69 a barrel at 11:53 Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 105.38 0.64 % Aa2 AA a.m. EST (1653 GMT). Yesterday’s $112.76 session peak was the Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.13 1.54 % Aa2 AA highest price for front-month Brent since Jan. 10, when news of Saudi Arabia’s recent production cuts lifted prices briefly above Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 126.63 1.97 % Aa2 AA $113 a barrel. US March crude was down 25 cents at $96.43 a Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 120.25 2.12 % Aa2 AA barrel, having swung from $96.20 to $96.92. REUTERS Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 115.50 2.56 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 180.50 3.52 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 139.00 4.02 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 128.75 4.05 % Aa2 AA Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.00 1.45 % Aa2 AA European shares eke out Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 117.13 2.48 % Aa2 AA Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.88 1.68 % A1 A- gains; banks retreat Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.31 2.30 % A1 A- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.75 2.04 % NR NR QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.84 % Aa3 A+ PARIS: European shares inched higher yesterday, moving QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.38 2.25 % Aa3 A+ back towards a near two-year high hit recently, although a Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.38 2.38 % A2 A- bout of profit taking on bank and insurance shares limited Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.63 1.80 % A2 A the market’s rise. Corporate results were in the spotlight, with shares of Unilever gaining 3.1 percent to a record high Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 131.50 2.50 % A2 A after the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods group posted better- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.50 2.99 % A2 A than-expected sales. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.50 3.85 % A2 A Novartis added 4.1 percent after the Swiss pharmaceuti- Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.75 1.40 % Aa3 A cals group unveiled a reassuring sales growth forecast. The Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 109.13 3.19 % Aa3 A FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares closed 0.2 Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 112.88 3.38 % Aa3 A percent higher at 1,167.65 points, just a few points below a peak of 1,170.29 points hit two weeks ago, a level not seen SOVEREIGNS since early 2011. Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P However, the euro zone’s blue chip Euro STOXX 50 index fell Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 106.00 0.46 % Aa2 AA 0.3 percent to 2,708.28 points, dragged down by a fall in financial Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 129.13 1.77 % Aa2 AA shares after lofty gains so far this year. Banco Popolare fell 4.1 per- Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 111.13 2.42 % NR NR cent, Credit Agricole lost 2.5 percent and Aegon shed 2.2 percent. Despite the day’s losses, the STOXX euro zone banking index Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 108.38 2.81 % NR NR is still up 10 percent in 2013, by far the best sector performance. Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 128.13 3.54 % NR NR “The newsflow on the political and macro side is very thin, so Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 119.88 3.88 % NR NR there’s a bit of hesitation to chase the market higher and we’re Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.63 1.13 % Aa2 AA seeing some rotation between sectors,” Saxo Banque senior sales Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.44 3.16 % NR BBB trader Alexandre Baradez said. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 111.75 3.63 % NR BBB Around Europe, UK’s FTSE 100 index ended up 0.3 percent Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 101.75 5.45 % B2 /*- B- and Germany’s DAX index closed 0.2 percent higher, whereas Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 104.88 3.76 % NR BBB- France’s CAC 40 dipped 0.4 percent, and Italy’s FTSE MIB *Periodic Distribution Amount dropped 0.8 percent. Following the DAX’s outperformance last IMPORTANT NOTE: year, Societe Generale strategists recommend a ‘long/short’ Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which pairs trade with a long position on the CAC and a short posi- is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services tion on the DAX to take advantage of the combination of more Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary attractive valuation levels for French stocks and the likelihood data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not of a further drop in the risk premium in Europe. take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds While the DAX has almost reached 2007 levels, the CAC can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant is still about 40 percent below its 2007 highs. Some analysts, liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not however, say Germany is still attractive and see other pockets a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and of value in European equities. consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. Investors have been scooping up European shares in the past two months - with the Euro STOXX 50 surging 12 percent since mid-November - as fears about a potential break-up of the euro zone abated while global macroeconomic data improved. REUTERS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Rice harvest QFC Authority to Qatari bourse host Seventh Multaqa Qatar meet on March 11 index rises by DOHA: The Seventh Multaqa Qatar conference will be held here on March 11 and 12, hosts Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority announced yesterday. 0.34 percent The conference organised in partnership with Global Reinsurance magazine will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. UAE markets rally; Egypt gains More than 450 senior executives and experts will convene in Doha DOHA: Qatar Exchange pur- stocks was also aided by the cen- to examine strategic industry sued its upswing trend yester- tral bank’s decision not to intro- opportunities and challenges. day, adding 29.71 points (or 0.34 duce new mortgage lending limits Among other topics, the con- percent) to advance to 8,652.86 boosting, Bruce said. The u-turn ference will discuss the state and points from 8,623.15 on Tuesday. by the central bank followed fierce prospects of the global insurance Among the top gainers were protests from banks. industry, the role of reinsurance Qatar National Bank which was Abu Dhabi’s benchmark in emerging markets, the insur- up 0.15 percent to QR134.60, climbed 1.1 percent, rebound- ance needs of major infrastructure Qatar Insurance rose 0.87 per- ing from Tuesday’s 10-day low. projects and the rise of Enterprise cent to QR69.60, International The market is up 5.8 percent in Risk Management. In addition, Islamic gained 3.97 percent to January, following a 9.5 percent Multaqa Qatar 2013 will feature QR55 and Qatar Electricity and rise in 2012 and backed by an regional CEO and global reinsur- Water was up by 0.72 percent to improving economic backdrop. ance panel debates, organisers said. QR139. Dubai’s index rose 0.9 percent, QFC Authority CEO and Board The banking and financial sec- up for a first session in last three Member Shashank Srivastava said: tor index was up 0.56 points, the since Sunday’s 32-month high. A farmer harvests rice in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, yesterday. “Multaqa Qatar exemplifies Qatar’s consumer goods and services sec- The index is facing long-term commitment to building a vibrant tor index added 0.24 points, the resistance near 1,793 points, the insurance and reinsurance sector. industrial sector lost 0.11 points peak of October 2010. Emaar We believe that the sector is vital while the insurance sector rose Properties climbed 2.8 percent, to facilitating the transformation 0.78 points. Dubai Islamic Bank rose 1 per- Asiacell share offer to be a sell-out of Qatar into a modern, diversi- Meanwhile, UAE markets ral- cent and National Central Cooling fied knowledge economy as well lied in a lacklustre session ahead (Tabreed) added 1.8 percent. as to deepening and broadening of a long weekend for most mar- In Egypt, the bourse made BAGHDAD: Iraqi mobile oper- said demand came from both percent of the shares offered will the country’s financial markets. kets. In Abu Dhabi, shares in marginal gains ahead of the ator Asiacell’s $1.35bn share foreign and local investors. “We be covered,” said Layth Sulaiman, Multaqa Qatar is a unique plat- Aldar Properties climbed 4.4 second anniversary of the revo- sale will be fully subscribed, are opening up a lot of accounts chairman of the ISX board of gov- form for us to harness regional percent, up from Tuesday’s near lution, despite concerns from bookrunner Rabee Securities and we are not refusing anyone,” ernors, warning the offering rep- and global dialogue and thought- three-week low. It hit a 21-month local investors. The anniversary said, though a top bourse official said Taha. “Very roughly, it is half resented a huge amount of shares leadership to promote the devel- closing high on Thursday, but then of the first day of demonstra- and some local investors were Iraqi and half international.” to be sold in the space of a month. opment of Qatar’s insurance and fell after its long-awaited merger tions against Hosni Mubarak in more cautious about the coun- Asiacell and domestic rivals A recent statement on the reinsurance sector.” with Sorouh Real Estate was 2011 — tomorrow — is expected try’s largest ever stock listing. Zain Iraq, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s ISX website said buy orders QFC Authority Strategic confirmed on Monday. “We saw to trigger protests against new As the first major flotation since Zain, and France Telecom affiliate must total at least 75 percent of Development Director Akshay the run-up ahead of the merger President Mohammed Mursi and a US-led invasion toppled Saddam Korek are obliged to sell a quarter shares offered, with the exchange Randeva said: “We have put announcement and it was a clas- his Islamist allies. Hussein in 2003, Asiacell’s share of their shares to the public and to announce the size of the order together a compelling agenda to sic case of buy on rumour, sell on Palm Hills Development offer is seen as a test of confidence list locally as part of their $1.25bn book on January 31. If orders are showcase the burgeoning insurance the news,” Bruce said. gained 1.6 percent, the heaviest in the Opec member’s economy, licences issued in 2007. below this benchmark, the sale and reinsurance sector in the Mena Once the merger is approved traded stock. Large-cap Orascom which is recovering from years of Asiacell will be the first to do so, will be cancelled and the process region and discuss its interrela- by shareholders, Sorouh will Telecom added 0.2 percent, while war and economic sanctions. with all three missing an August will start again, Sulaiman added. tion with the global risk markets. delist from the market and Orascom Construction Industries The country’s No.2 telecom- 2011 deadline, and together these Qtel is expected to account for “This year’s panel of speakers and shareholders will be paid 1.288 was the only loser on the index, munications operator, 53.9 per- listings could nearly double the much of the demand, with the more than 450 expected attend- Aldar shares for every Sorouh slipping 0.9 percent. The meas- cent owned by Qatar Telecom bourse’s current market capitali- former monopoly likely using ees are testimony to the growing share. Some analysts view the ure advanced 0.2 percent to 5,689 (Qtel), is due to list on the Iraq sation of about $4.7bn. the share sale to raise its stake attractiveness of Multaqa Qatar swap ratio as unfavourable for points, up for a fourth session in Securities Exchange (ISX) on The main equity index, which in Asiacell to at least 60 percent, as the industry’s key platform and Aldar shareholders. Sorouh the last six. February 3 following a month- fell around 8 percent in 2012, has as previously agreed in a $1.5bn networking event in the MENA climbed 4.2 percent. On Monday, In Saudi Arabia, the index long book-building process. It about 85 listed firms. Banking deal in June that upped its holding region. We believe that in addi- it rallied to its highest close slipped 0.1 percent to close at aims to sell 67.5bn shares for dominates in terms of mar- from 30 percent. tion to enjoying compelling pres- since December 2010. 6,998 points, hovering around at least 22 Iraqi dinars ($0.02) ket value, although there are Some investors on the Baghdad entations and discussions, our Moody’s has placed Aldar under the key psychological 7,000 level. per share in the offering, which also stocks in industrial, insur- trading floor said the price was too delegates will discover the best review for a possible upgrade. “The “Everyone is watching the 7,000 began on January 3. ance, hospitality and agriculture high and were reluctant to risk of Qatar’s business and cultural Aldar-Sorouh merger will be credit level and wants the market to “I knew there would be inter- sectors. their money while Iraq’s political, environment.” positive with the combined group trade above that level this year,” est, I just didn’t know how much Average daily turnover is economic and security situation Established in 2007, Multaqa having a stronger and more con- said Abdullah Alawi, assistant — I can say that we will easily just $4.9m, according to the remained fragile. “This is a big Qatar has developed into the lead- servatively positioned financial general manager and head of cover it,” Shwan Ibrahim Taha, Federation of Euro-Asian Stock gamble,” said local investor Shamil ing rendezvous for the risk and (re) profile than the current B2 rating research at Aljazira Capital in chairman of sole book runner Exchanges, which may deter Al Moussawi, standing below the insurance industry in the Middle suggests,” Moody’s said in a report. Jeddah. Rabee Securities, told Reuters. potential investors in Asiacell’s electronic board at the ISX. East and North Africa region. Appetite for UAE property QNA/REUTERS “We will be fully subscribed.” He offering. “I am optimistic that 50 REUTERS QNA

World markets calm Kuwait Airways Corp to be but risks remain, Davos summit hears shareholding company DAVOS: Global markets have KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s 15 Airbus and two Boeing air- calmed significantly in the past national carrier plans to buy up craft that were acquired about year, but the world economy to 21 new aircraft over the next 20 years ago, but some of which is not out of the woods yet, a two years after parliament yes- have had technical problems over panel of top officials and bank- terday passed a key bill trans- the past few years. Twenty-nine ers said yesterday as the World forming it into a commercial MPs, including cabinet ministers, Economic Forum opened. company, its chairman said. voted for the bill to turn Kuwait At the first formal session of the “Initially we plan to replace the Airways Corp into a shareholding five-day gathering of the world’s current old fleet of 17 aircraft. We company operating on commer- top business and political leaders, look to purchase 20-21 new air- cial basis. Nine MPs rejected the deputy head of the International craft within the next two years, bill and six more abstained. Monetary Fund Min Zhu drew and the process will be gradual,” Under the bill, initially issued a contrast between today’s mood Sami Al Nasef said after the par- by the Emir in October when par- and that of last year’s meeting. liamentary session. liament was dissolved, the govern- “At this particular moment, He said the airline is already ment will pay all losses incurred things are much better than 12 discussing the purchase with by KAC and estimated by some months ago. A year ago here, we manufacturers. Nasef, who was MPs at more than $1.5bn. The were really concerned about the appointed chairman in November, aim of the new company is to euro crisis, the US fiscal cliff,” told MPs during the debate that restructure the airline and make FROM LEFT: Debbie Stanford-Kristiansen, Rashid Naser Al Hajre, Remy Rowhani and Tom Freyberg at the conference. said Zhu. “With all the policy only 10-12 aircraft of the carri- it profitable before completely pri- actions, much has calmed down er’s ageing fleet were operational vatising it by inviting foreign or now but we’ve got to be very care- and the remainder were under local investors to bid for 35 per- Power-Gen conference from Feb 4 ful. The tail-risk has been moved “extended maintenance.” cent of the privatised company. off the table but there are issues Kuwait Airways has a fleet of AFP DOHA: This year’s Power-Gen Joint Opening Keynote Ceremony environmental challenges facing still there,” he added. 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Polish belt-tightening risks Dubai defies doubters with squeezing growth BY DAGMARA LESZKOWICZ & MARCIN GOETTIG bond issue success HE Polish town of Pabianice is broke. The mayor is sell- BY MALA PANCHOLIA ing off property to raise cash but still cannot afford to a flood of foreign investment. Dubai is also narrowed in the past six months, there is fix the paving stones and the local hospital has racked enjoying a tourism and retail boom, with room for it to narrow further as the emir- Tup more debt than the annual municipal budget. Poland $1.25bn bond issue by Dubai passenger traffic through its airport rising ate’s image improves and the Gulf’s debt has weathered the economic slowdown better than most other underlined the spectacular at double-digit rates. The economy is grow- market matures, some investors argue. European Union members but public finances are under stress recovery of the emirate’s ing at a rate of about 4 percent. “If we assume that Dubai is an implied BBB in small towns and the state treasury alike, and this may deepen reputation since its debt Economic growth is easing the slow, ago- rating and given the improved credit funda- a downturn that is forecast for this year. crisis. But some investors nising process of redeeming and restruc- mentals, and economic indicators as well as A handful of smaller local authorities including Pabianice, a are wondering whether the turing debts at state-backed companies. the positive technicals in terms of increased community of 70,000 which lies 150km southwest of Warsaw, Aworld is once again getting a little too opti- Outstanding provisions for bad loans set liquidity with local banks and corporates, are so indebted that the finance ministry has had to step in with mistic about Dubai. aside by banks in the United Arab Emirates Dubai government bonds still offer value on a loans. “We’re living in a state of poverty,” said Zbigniew Dychto, The emirate attracted over $9bn in bids fell in October for the first time since 2008, relative basis compared to other BBB or even Pabianice’s mayor. “I don’t have money.” for a $750m, 10-year sukuk (Islamic bond) on central bank data showed last month. BB bonds in other emerging markets,” said Tax revenues are falling across the country as the economy Tuesday, paying little more than 1 percent- “Dubai Inc has built confidence among Saeb Elzein, managing partner at Spinnaker slows, forcing Poland to cut the kind of spending which has played age point above what Qatar would have paid international investors in the last year by Capital (Middle East). For example, a sukuk a crucial role in driving economic growth: state investments in to issue debt. Demand for Dubai’s debt was addressing redemptions in a timely and maturing in 2022 and issued by Indonesia, projects such as new roads and public buildings. so strong that it in addition to the sukuk, it proactive fashion,” said Dilawer Farazi, rated BBB-, is trading at 3.08 percent, com- The 2012 budget deficit has yet to be announced, but Reuters unexpectedly sold a $500m, 30-year conven- bond portfolio manager at Invest AD in pared to the Dubai bond’s 3.88 percent. calculations based on finance ministry data show central govern- tional bond at the request of investors. Abu Dhabi. Dubai’s five-year credit default But predictions that Dubai will continue ment revenue was about $2bn lower than projected in the budget, It was an impressive performance for an swaps, used to insure against a government closing the gap with other emerging market about 0.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Such prob- economy that a little over three years ago default, have halved in price over the past bonds depend on many assumptions. One lems are mirrored at the local level. Out of Poland’s roughly 3,000 was engulfed in crisis. State-owned con- year to their lowest level since 2008, before is that restructuring Dubai’s corporate municipalities, only 2 percent were running a budget surplus last glomerate Dubai World announced a $25bn the debt crisis erupted. debt will continue to go smoothly, without year. Several of the biggest cities are at, or near their debt ceilings, debt restructuring, triggering a chain of As much as anything, Dubai’s sheer exu- major defaults or a loss of confidence among so cannot borrow much more to make ends meet. restructurings, and Dubai needed a $10bn berance in a worried, risk-averse world may investors. This is not inevitable - since By comparison, in Hungary, the most indebted of the EU’s eastern bailout from Abu Dhabi to avoid default. be improving its image among investors. In 2009, much of the debt has not been cut countries, the central government took over a huge chunk of local This week’s bond issue was in high the past several months the emirate has but merely had its maturity dates pushed debt last year to give municipalities a fresh start. These problems — demand partly because Dubai is making announced plans to build, among other several years into the future. falling tax revenue leading to budget shortfalls — have grown familiar progress working through its debt pile things, the world’s largest shopping mall, The International Monetary Fund esti- to most EU countries since the financial crisis four years ago. and its economy is recovering faster than five theme parks, a canal by its business mates Dubai’s government-linked entities Poland is more exposed than most of its neighbours for two expected. But the demand is also due to district and a $1bn replica of the Taj Mahal. will need to repay about $9.4bn of matur- reasons. First, it is committed to cutting its deficit and debt as global factors that will not last forever. The spread between the yields of Dubai’s ing bonds and syndicated loans in 2013 and it wants to exit an excessive deficit procedure this year. This was “We agree with the view that risks have outstanding 10-year sukuk maturing in 2022 $31bn in 2014. It calls refinancing these imposed by the European Commission for breaking EU budget declined markedly, and are believers in the and Qatar’s 10-year bond maturing in 2023 amounts “a challenge”. Another risk is any rules, and Poland cannot resort to more borrowing to ease the Dubai success story,” said Gabriel Sterne, has shrunk to 114 basis points from 220 bps change to the global conditions which are pressure on public finances. economist at investment bank Exotix Limited six months ago. Qatar is rated AA by credit pushing money towards Dubai. The emirate Secondly, economic growth depends to a much greater extent in London. He added that Dubai’s banking agencies, the highest rating in the Gulf; is a safe haven for investors fleeing unrest than in many other EU countries on public investment spend- system, where non-performing loans were Dubai has not arranged to be rated, which in the Arab world, and as economic gloom ing, the item most likely to be cut because other items of budget still high, remained a risk. “It’s not the is usually a disadvantage in investors’ eyes. in the West has forced down interest rates expenditure are mandatory. Public investment amounted to 5.7 worst value in the world, but hard to get Historically, bonds in the Gulf have tended there, Dubai debt has looked attractive. A percent of Polish GDP in 2011, European Commission data show, excited at these yields,” Sterne added. to carry higher yields than those in other third risk may be the sheer level of opti- compared with 2.3 percent in the eurozone. The single biggest boost to Dubai has areas of the world, partly because the Gulf’s mism in Dubai. As it resumes spending on This investment has been used to fund the new roads, public been the start of a recovery in its real estate debt market has been illiquid and partly glitzy real estate and speculators once more buildings and sports stadiums that have turned Poland into a big market. Property prices plunged more than because of geopolitical risks in the region. queue at property developers’ officers to buy construction site and helped to make it the only EU member to 50 percent over several years but rose in Although the gap in yields between Dubai apartments, some believe a fresh boom-and- avoid recession over the past four years. some districts last year, partly because of and other emerging market bonds has bust cycle may be starting. REUTERS “Capping investments is a double-edged sword for the govern- ment,” said Wadim Tyszkiewicz, head of the association of local governments which represents mayors struggling to balance their budgets. The strain on the budget comes at a tricky time for Poland because EU funding, which pays for a large chunk of the public investments, is slowing. The European Commission forecasts that Polish public investment will fall 15 percent this year and another 14 percent in 2014. This follows average annual growth of 16 percent between 2007 and 2011.

REVENUE GAP The Finance Ministry estimates GDP grew just over 2 percent last year, a sharp fall from 2011, but this compares with reces- sions in the neighbouring Czech Republic and Hungary. The Polish central bank forecasts growth will slow to 1.5 percent this year, its lowest rate in a decade. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s administration relaxed the general government deficit target for last year and is now aiming for 3.5 percent of GDP. Debt has stayed below the 55 percent of GDP ceiling laid down in Polish law. At the same time, there have been no swingeing cuts in spending or radical tax increases, and Tusk has promised that big public investment projects will continue. However, this robust picture masks problems. For instance, receipts from value-added tax, a major source of government income, were 9 percent below the budget target, deputy finance minister Hanna Majszczyk said. There are ways of mitigating the shortfall. The central bank handed over a dividend — the profit it made on its operations — of 8.2bn zlotys ($2.6bn) to the government. The Tusk government has also dipped into its own reserves. This has covered only part of the shortfall. Borrowing to bridge the gap is not an option as that could lead to the government missing its debt reduction tar- gets, unsettling financial markets. As a consequence, there is no alternative but to cut into the investment spending, despite the risk to economic growth. Majszczyk said investment spending in 2012 was lower than projected in the budget, though she did not say by how much. REUTERS Benghazi aspires to become Libya’s business capital

BY MARIE-LOUISE Turning that dream into real- it held under King Idris until his later moved to Tripoli, back. “If we a careful balance to appease the country before it approves GUMUCHIAN ity will be a challenge. Security is overthrow by Gaddafi in a coup can get these back to Benghazi, we regional rivalries. new ones. Benghazi officials are a major concern for foreign inves- in 1969. With an estimated pop- can make it the economic capital,” That plays in Benghazi’s favour also considering building a free T A construction site tors in the city, highlighted by the ulation of nearly 1 million, it is said Abdelhamid Elhadad, head of and the oil ministry has proposed trade zone and have proposed on Benghazi’s water- attack on the US diplomatic mis- roughly half the size of Tripoli. the industrial and oil committee splitting the NOC into an explora- public works projects to provide front, engineer Seraj sion in September in which the “Everything was here before, of the Benghazi local council. tion and production company based jobs, namely for the former rebel Bushada proudly US ambassador and three other Benghazi is the best place to be “We are trying to restore in Tripoli and a refining and pet- fighters who have yet to lay down points to a giant hole Americans were killed. Only last the economic capital,” said busi- Benghazi to what it once was,” rochemicals company in Benghazi. their weapons. Ain the ground that will make way week a car bomb killed a Benghazi nessman Kais El Bakshishi of he said, sitting in the council’s Residents in eastern Libya as well “We want to look after the fac- for a 48-floor office tower that police officer, the second such the “Benghazi Economic Capital” new offices - where posters claim- as activists and oil workers vehe- tories around Benghazi, we need city officials hope will help trans- attack in as many days and the campaign, which counts about 700 ing “Together we will build our mently oppose the plan, however, to boost manufacturing,” Elhadad form part of this port city into a government is considering impos- members including local business- city” hang next to signs banning and say the whole company should said. “We have an industrial area modern business district. ing a night time curfew on the city. men, activists and academics. weapons. The NOC was formerly relocate to Benghazi. of around 1,000 hectares, we want Unlike the capital Tripoli, Many Benghazans, however, “The main reasons are its the Libyan General Petroleum “If someone steals something to have a real industry here, we Benghazi, Libya’s second-biggest are calling for the country’s new strategic location — a gateway Company, which was founded in from you, you want it back,” Ben want to build more hotels.” city, has few modern high-rise constitution — due to be drafted to Africa and Egypt and histori- Benghazi in 1968. After the NOC Ali said. Other plans for enhanc- Elhadad wants Benghazi to be developments. Construction of in coming months — to give the cally the people of Benghazi are was established in 1970 it relo- ing Benghazi as a business hub twinned with cities like Istanbul the $300m Three Towers project, city powers to manage its own traders. A lot of businessmen in cated to Tripoli. include improving its infrastruc- or Marseille to promote ties and which will include two smaller affairs and a share of the eastern Tripoli are from Benghazi.” “The objection is that it is like ture. Its port is outdated while plans to write to the mayor of blocks housing luxury apartments region’s resources. While the rev- before — everything is control- the airport, which has just one New York, seeking to attract U.S. and a hotel, was delayed due to olution succeeded in overthrowing STRIKING A BALANCE led by Tripoli; this is not why cramped hall, had been slated for interest. the uprising against former dic- Gaddafi, they argue, it has failed Perched on the Mediterranean the revolution took place,” said an upgrade when the war began. Industry in the area focuses on tator Muammar Gaddafi, which to spread wealth more evenly in sea, Benghazi was the first city to Tahani Mohammed Ben Ali, head “The plan before was for 5 cement, and cable and steel pipe began here nearly two years ago. Libya. Benghazi is the main city revolt against Gaddafi and later of the Benghazi workers’ union at million passengers a year, now factories, as well as oil services, The project is now due for com- in eastern Libya, which provides became the rebels’ main base Libya’s biggest oil firm Arabian we want 15 million passengers but badly needed foreign invest- pletion in 2015 and is being pro- around 80 percent of the coun- before Tripoli, some 1,000km Gulf Oil Company (Agoco). a year,” Bakshishi said. South ment is only trickling in. moted in Benghazi’s bid to regain try’s oil wealth, yet the city is still away, fell in August 2011. “There are infrastructure, Korean company Nemo Partners The International Monetary its former status as the country’s dependent on the government in City officials’ first priority is to health, education needs here.” is building a temporary passen- Fund forecast Libya’s economy business capital and end what Tripoli for funding. push the central government to With the country still volatile, ger terminal at the airport. But shrank 60 percent in 2011 due residents see as decades of mar- Some residents and officials move state companies such as the Libya’s new rulers - led by Prime progress on expanding the air- to the conflict but expected it to ginalisation under Gaddafi. “We are calling for the constitution National Oil Corporation (NOC) Minister Ali Zeidan’s cabinet port has been slow as the central expand by 122 percent in 2012 and have to work together to realise to officially restore Benghazi as and Libyan Airlines, which were and the general national con- government is reviewing previ- 17 percent this year. this dream,” Bushada said. Libya’s business capital, a status based here under King Idris but gress - know they have to strike ous foreign investment deals in REUTERS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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WASHINGTON: The compete at top Rally event Winnipeg Jets got their offence on track with a 4-2 win over the Capitals yesterday, keeping Four home drivers to take part in the Qatar International Rally this weekend Washington winless to start the new NHL season. The Jets (1-1-1), who had scored DOHA: Nasser Al Attiyah and just twice in two opening defeats, Khalid Al Suwaidi will be among fell behind 1-0 to Washington four Qataris in action when the Nasser bin before Evander Kane and Andrew 2013 Qatar International Rally Khalifa Al Attiyah Ladd netted power-play goals to gets under way tomorrow. (right), President give the visitors a 2-1 lead in the Al Attiyah will be aiming to first period. of Qatar Motor make it 10 title wins on his home Blake Wheeler and Jim Slater and Motorcycle turf while Al Suwaidi, backed by padded the Jets’ lead to 4-1 in the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federataion, is the second before Troy Brouwer Federation (QMMF), will be seen with Qatari scored a consolation goal late in eager to make his mark in Doha. rally driver Khalid the third. Ondrej Pavelec made 32 Last year’s winner Abdulaziz Al Suwaidi in this saves for the win. Al Kuwari and Al Suwaidi will file photo in 2012. “I thought it was a really solid be driving M-Sport built cars RIGHT: Nasser Al effort from start to finish,” Ladd during the two-day event. The Attiyah is seen in this told reporters. “We had four lines fourth driver to represent Qatar file photo. Al Attiyah going and we were smart with the is Abdullah Al Kuwari, who will and Al Kuwari will pucks. That’s the way we want to be seen in action in his Mitsubishi be taking part in play.” Lancer Evolution X. the 2013 Qatar Alex Ovechkin assisted on The event, organised by the International Rally a first-period goal to Matt Qatar Motor and Motorcycle this weekend. Hendricks for Washington (0-2- Federation (QMMF) will con- 0), who suffered a 6-3 loss to sist of 18 teams, with interna- Tampa Bay in their season-opener tional competitors from the UAE, on Saturday. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Ovechkin, a two-time Hart Germany, Turkey, Italy, Northern Al Suwaidi, who will be joined The Qatari drivers will be The pair will be driving a brand Trophy winner, has yet to score Ireland, England, Lebanon and with co-driver Nicola Arena of expecting a strong challenge from new R3 2WD Citroën DS3s from Qatar Rally this season as the Capitals have Ireland competing. Italy said the new stages will be the Abu Dhabi Racing Team from Citroën Sport. been dominated in the early going The QMMF President Nasser a challenge. He said: “The new the UAE, who will field five teams. Elsewhere, Yazeed Al Rajhi is International - a tough start for Washington’s bin Khalifa Al Attiyah has won stages are quite a challenge. The Led by Sheikh Khalid Al the flag bearer for the Kingdom of new coach Adam Oates, a former this event in 1993. first two are nice, a bit like the Qassimi, the team can count on Saudi Arabia. Al Rajhi is rated as Leading Starters Capitals player who has been This year’s event, which is the stages on Dubai Rally, but the the experienced Sheikh Abdullah one of the fastest Arab drivers on given his first head coaching job. opener for the FIA Middle East third one is rough in places and Al Qassimi who returns for the planet and he and co-driver 1. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (QAT)/Giovanni Washington’s loss was their Rally Championship, has an excit- very challenging. We had three another season of desert rally- Michael Orr will be eyeing a vic- Bernacchini (ITA) Ford Fiesta first home opening defeat since ing new route in the desert in punctures on the recce so it could ing with British co-driver Steve tory in Qatar. 3. Khalid Al Qassimi (UAE)/Scott Martin (GBR) 2000, a game against the Los northern Qatar. be interesting for the rally!” Lancaster in a Ford Fiesta. There are three representative Citroën DS3 Angeles Kings. A multiple former regional drivers from Jordan. Braden Holtby stopped 35 shots Group N champion, Sheikh The talented Alaa Rasheed 4. Abdulaziz Al Kuwari (QAT)/Killian Duffy (IRL) but it was not enough to get the Abdullah’s solitary MERC teams up with Lebanese co-driver Ford Fiesta Capitals a win. win came at the 2000 UAE Joseph Matar in a Motortune Ford 5. Khalid Al Suwaidi (QAT)/Nicola Arena (ITA) “It’s two games out of 48,” said International Rally. Fiesta. Hani Al-Bast (Mitsubishi) Ford Fiesta Washington forward Joel Ward. Neither Mohammed Al Sahlawi and co-driver Ata Al-Hmoud and “We are just focused on the nor Mohamed Al Mutawaa have Zaid Dahshan (Mitsubishi), and 6. Abdullah Al Qassimi (UAE)/Steve Lancaster next day and the next game,” he participated in a rally before and Ramzi Mansour complete the (GBR) Ford Fiesta added after yesterday’s match. Qatar is a baptism of fire for the Jordanian line-up. 7. Yazeed Al Rajhi (KSA)/Michael Orr (GBR) REUTERS two Abu Dhabi Racing Team Rasheed, who will be taking Ford Fiesta rookies. Northern Ireland’s Allan part in the full MERC programme 8. Alaa Rasheed (JOR)/Joseph Matar (LEB) Harryman and Stephen McAuley as well as six European rounds of Ford Fiesta NHL Results are responsible for keeping the the World Rally Championship, Winnipeg 4 Washington 2 newcomers out of trouble. said: “The Fiesta is fantastic to 9. Mishari Al Thefiri (KWT)/Mubarak Al Thefiri Tampa Bay 4 Carolina 1 “I have some experience racing drive. The car gives you confi- (KWT) Mitsubishi Lancer in various disciplines on circuits dence, even on the rougher stages. Montreal 4 Florida 1 10. Abdullah Al Kuwari (QAT)/Khalid Al Kendi but rallying is complete new to You can push a lot harder and New Jersey 3 Philadelphia 0 (UAE) Mitsubishi Lancer me,” said Mutawaa. drive faster. I am really looking Dallas 2 Detroit 1 “Both of us are learning as forward to this rally.” 12. Burcu Cetincaya (TUR)/Ozlem Akguc (TUR) Nashville 3 Minnesota 1 much as possible. We had a test The Rally gets underway Mitsubishi Lancer Chicago 3 St Louis 2 two days ago and sat in a rally car 08.00am tomorrow and finishes on Yazeed Al Rajhi of Saudi Arabia is seen in action in this file picture. Al 14. Michele de Nora (ITA)/Sergio Secchi (ITA) Colorado 3 Los Angeles 1 in Sharjah, but this is all new to Saturday afternoon at 16:20pm. Rajhi will be competing in the Qatar International Rally this weekend. Subaru Impreza San Jose 6 Edmonton 3 us,” he added. THE PENINSULA

NBA: Durant Peter Anders wins at QREC leads Thunder past Clippers

LOS ANGELES: Kevin Durant put on a second-half show to help Oklahoma City overwhelm the Los Angeles Clippers 109-97 yesterday in a possible dress rehearsal for this season’s Western Conference finals. Durant caught fire with 24 of his game-high 32 points coming in the final two quarters, where the league’s leading scorer mixed three-point bombs with a forceful dunk to carry the NBA-leading Thunder (33-9) to an emphatic road victory. “My shots were falling and my team mates were getting offen- sive rebounds and kicking it out for (three-pointers),” Durant told reporters. “When we’re driving and kicking, we’re pretty good.” Despite playing without injured point guard Chris Paul, the Clippers trailed by just four ABOVE: Peter Anders at halftime but were out-scored races to victory at 33-23 in the third quarter to slip the ‘Umm Al Tage to a 14-point deficit. Cup’ Thoroughbred Oklahoma City extended the Handicap advantage by a further two points race at the Qatar early in the fourth before Los Equestian Racing Angeles trimmed the advantage Club. Clean Bowled, in the closing minutes. ridden by Matthew Russell Westbrook added 26 Lawson finished points and six assists for the second, while defending conference champion Andrew Elliot rode Thunder, who have now won Winsom Hearts seven of eight games. REUTERS to third place. BOTTOM: Jockey NBA Results Stephan Ladjadj Cleveland 95 Boston 90 (left), who rode Peter Anders receives Detroit 105 Orlando 90 the trophy from an Milwaukee 110 Philadelphia 102 official. Oklahoma City 109 LA Clippers 97 THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Stephens rallies to stun Serena The US teenager beats the 31-year-old in three sets; Murray, Federer to clash in semis

MELBOURNE: Serena she felt the full force of a back occasions, too, but had something Williams went down smash- spasm. in reserve for the deciding set Australian Open ing rackets and screaming as After lengthy treatment, and finally overcame the seventh she bowed out of the Australian Williams continued but the power seed’s resistance with a smash on Schedule Open quarter-finals yesterday, of her serve and groundstrokes his fifth match point to clinch a hampered by a back injury and were considerably diminished and 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 win. MELBOURNE: Order of beaten in three sets by fellow 19-year-old Stephens took advan- “It was a tough close for sure, play for show courts at the American Sloane Stephens. tage in impressive fashion to run but the whole match was tough. Australian Open today (x The injury robbed Williams out a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 winner in Rod Every set could have gone either denotes seeding): of her serve - the most effective Laver Arena. way,” said Federer, whose victory ROD LAVER ARENA weapon in women’s tennis - but Williams, who smashed her ensured the top four seeds made 11:00 am (0000 GMT) teenager Stephens will take much racket to pieces in frustration in the semi-finals for the 15th time Bob Bryan (USA)/Mike Bryan (USA x1) vs credit for holding her nerve to fin- the third set, tried graciously to at a Grand Slam in the profes- Simone Bolelli (ITA)/Fabio Fognini (ITA) ish off the ailing 15-times Grand- honour the locker-room code that sional era. Not Before 1:30 pm Slam champion. you do not diminish an opponent’s “With Jo, you never know what Li Na (CHN x6) vs Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) Roger Federer’s bid to emu- achievement but was unable to he’s going to come up with. I feel a late Williams as a five-times wholly play down the significance bit lucky to come through but feel Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) vs Sloane Melbourne Park champion sur- of the injury. I played some great tennis and Jo Stephens (USA x29) vived a five-set test at the hands “I even screamed on the court,” did too.” 7:30 pm of an inspired Jo-Wilfried Tsonga she said. “I was like, ‘ahh’. I totally Murray, the US Open cham- Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs David Ferrer and the Swiss marched on to a locked up after that. It was...a lit- pion, ruthlessly exploited (ESP x4) last-four meeting with Andy tle painful. Frenchman Chardy’s weaker MARGARET COURT ARENA Murray, who crushed Jeremy “I couldn’t really rotate after backhand with a number of suc- 11:00 am Chardy. that, which I guess is normal. I cessful raids to the net in his 6-4, Legends doubles followed by Stephens will have 24 hours don’t know. 6-1, 6-2 victory. to prepare for her first grand- “It was giving me trouble. But The third-seeded Briton had Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Marc Lopez (ESP slam semi-final against defend- it was fine. I think my opponent spent just over seven hours on x3) vs Robin Haase (NED)/Igor Sijsling (NED) ing champion and world number played well and was able to do a court in his previous four matches Sania Mirza (IND)/Bob Bryan (USA x3) vs one Victoria Azarenka, who came really good job.” and needed only another 111 min- Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/Frantisek Cermak through a minor scare to beat Federer, also 31, started his utes to complete a one-sided ham- (CZE) Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova. match against Tsonga by break- mering of the world number 36. Nadia Petrova (RUS)/Mahesh Bhupathi (IND “Oh my goodness,” said ing the Frenchman but it was just “I thought I did a pretty good x5) vs Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/Matthew Stephens, teary-eyed and almost one of nine breaks in an absorb- job throughout the match,” Ebden (AUS) lost for words after beating ing three-and-a-half-hour contest the Scot, who was wearing a a player whose picture once that see-sawed back and forth all T-shirt reading “PREPARE, adorned her bedroom wall. “This evening. ATTACK, DESTROY” for his Australian Open is so crazy, but oh my goodness, I Tsonga, a finalist here in the news conference, said with typi- think I’ll put a poster of myself 2008 edition of the competi- cal understatement. Results up now.” tion, was tactically smart, sent “There were a couple of games The 31-year-old Williams, down 20 booming aces and pro- I could have done a bit better on, MELBOURNE: Results from odds-on favourite to claim a third duced some brilliant forehands but for the most part it was good.” Day 10 of the Australian Open successive Grand Slam crown, that overpowered even Federer’s Azarenka had barely been yesterday pulled up to avoid hitting the net defences at times. tested on her way to the last eight Women’s Singles after a backhand drop shot early The 17-times Grand-Slam and the 77-minute first set against Quarter-Finals: Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) bt in the second set and shrieked as champion rode his luck on former US Open and French Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 7-5, 6-1; Sloane Open champion Kuznetsova was Sloane Stephens of the US waves to the crowd after victory in her Women’s Stephens (USA x29) bt Serena Williams (USA longer than her entire fourth- x3) 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. round match. singles match against compatriot Serena Williams at the Australian Open Kuznetsova, refreshed after in Melbourne, yesterday. Men’s Singles missing the entire back end of last Quarter-Finals: Andy Murray (GBR x3) bt season with a knee injury, seemed Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. to catch Azarenka by surprise Men’s Doubles and raced to a 4-1 lead in bright Bryan brothers close in Quarter-Finals: Bob Bryan (USA)/Mike Bryan morning sunshine. Azarenka rode the storm, how- (USA x1) bt Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) 6-3, 7-5; Simone Bolelli (ITA)/Fabio ever, and the slices with which Fognini (ITA) bt Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ the Russian world number 75 on Grand Slam record Robert Farah (COL) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 had bamboozled the Belarussian grew steadily less effective as the MELBOURNE: America’s 23rd Grand Slam final. Victory in Women’s Doubles world number one drove home Bryan brothers reached the Melbourne would give the Bryans Semi-Finals: Sara Errani (ITA)/Roberta Vinci her advantage to win 7-5, 6-1. Australian Open semi-finals a new record of 13 major titles. (ITA x1) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/Elena “It was important to take the yesterday as they neared a new They currently share the record Vesnina (RUS x4) 6-2, 6-4. opportunities to kind of make a all-time record for Grand Slam of 12 with the Australian pair- Mixed doubles big statement,” said Azarenka. men’s doubles titles. ing of John Newcombe and Tony “I think I did that and I turned The identical twins, 34, beat Roche. Quarter-finals: Kveta Peschke (CZE)/Marcin things around into my own way,” Italy’s Daniele Bracciali and his The top seeds will play the Matkowski (POL) bt Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Rohan she addded after his single’s Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy 6-3, unseeded Italian duo of Simone Bopanna (IND) 6-2, 6-3; Yaroslava Shvedova A broken racquet of Serena Williams of the US is seen during her women’s (KAZ)/Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Nuria Llagostera singles match against Sloane Stephens, yesterday. match in Melbourne yesterday. 7-5 to reach today’s semis, where Bolelli and Fabio Fognini on Rod REUTERS they will attempt to reach their Laver Arena today. AFP Vives (ESP)/David Marrero (ESP) 6-4, 7-5.

Armstrong fails Huge response for 2013 Qtel Marathon to convince fans DOHA: More than 1,200 run- professional athletes, people with with confession, ners will take part in the the special needs, ladies and chil- Qtel Marathon, which takes dren will be taking part in the place on January 26, organisers Marathon. It is a good mix.” says opinion poll said yesterday. The Qtel organisers have cho- Since the event was announced sen the date of the race as it takes WASHINGTON: Disgraced last year, there has been a surge place on the coolest week of the cyclist Lance Armstrong failed of interest across Qatar, with run- year. to convince many people he was ners from the wider region also As well as the huge numbers truly sorry for his actions dur- signing up to take part. for the Qtel Marathon, there ing his televised confession to Among those to compete will has been a strong interest in the cheating his way to a record be Chris Arthey, in which Qtel under-18s Youth Run, which also seven Tour de France titles by Chairman Sheikh Abdullah Bin takes place on Saturday. using drugs, according to an Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani Al Kuwari is delighted with opinion poll. presented the “Number One” race the huge response. She said: “We Armstrong, 41, admitted in an bib to the Doha resident. have been delighted by the strong interview with Oprah Winfrey Arthey lost a leg in a road response to the Qtel Marathon, last week that he used perform- accident and has inspired count- and are looking forward to an ance-enhancing drugs and lied less runners around the world by exciting race this weekend. Qtel about it for over decade, finally participating in marathons on an supports a healthier lifestyle for owning up to being at the centre artificial leg. all our customers, and we are of one of the biggest drug scandals Sheikh Abdullah welcomed preparing for the Qtel Marathon in world sport. Arthey’s participation and to be an annual event on Qatar’s Only 12 percent of 1,240 wished all runners the best of sporting calendar.” Americans surveyed in an Ipsos luck. Arthey valued the gesture “In particular, we’re pleased to poll for Reuters, conducted and said the race bib would be an see so many children and young between January 18 to 22, said added incentive to run well in the people set to take part in the Armstrong appeared genuinely Qtel Marathon. Youth Run. The health and fitness remorseful when confronted by The Qtel Marathon will feature of the next generation is impor- Oprah. a 10km run and a half-marathon tant for all of Qatar,” she added. Nearly half of the respondents, (21.1km), with plans to expand Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Officials of the Qatar Telecom (Qtel) Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser Al Thani (left), Director, Corporate Sales or 48 percent, said Armstrong the race to a full marathon in Thani, Head of Corporate Sales and Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Senior Director, Public Relations addressing the media during a press conference had only come clean as he could 2014 and beyond. at Qtel, said: “The response from at the Qtel Headquarters in Doha yesterday. PICTURE BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT no longer continue to deny it and “This year’s race is a pilot Qtel employees and the wider a third said it was a bid to rebuild project, next year’s race race will public has been very strong, and his shattered image. be a much bigger event. We are we’re pleased to see so many peo- and Africa. The Qtel Marathon first place, Samsung Galaxy S3 for Car parking will be available The scandal has pushed confident that the Marathon will ple running. We would encourage is a celebration of health, char- the second place and iPad 3 (16 for participants and support- Armstrong to the bottom of a be one of the major event to be people who are not taking part to ity, and commitment to corporate GB) for the third place. In total, ers, accessible via the port gate list of 12 world-class athletes, in hosted in Qatar,” said Fatima come along and cheer the run- social responsibility. It is also one there are ten categories based on next to the Museum of Islamic terms of reputation, with seven Sultan Al Kuwari, Director, ners, and support their efforts in of a series of major events being age and gender. Art, which is around 400 meters out of 10 people, or 71 percent, Public Relations of Qtel. participating in this race.” held in the run-up to National The winners in the different before the main gate. saying he was a bad role model She said different members of Funds raised from by the entry Sports Day on 12 February 2013. categories of the Youth Run will The participants have been for children. the society and people of all ages fees donated for the charity run At the end of the run, the win- leave with an iPod 64GB for the advisted to arrive at least an hour A majority of people, 57 per- have registered to take part in the will be donated to support the ners in the different categories first place, iPod 32 GB for the sec- prior to the start to collect their cent, said Armstrong should be event. work of the Red Crescent in com- of the adult race will be awarded ond place and iPod 16 GB for the race packs and to warm-up. banned from competing in racing Al Kuwari said: “A lot of munities in the Middle East, Asia with an iPhone 5 (16GB) for the third place. THE PENINSULA in the future. REUTERS THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Olesen has Santos dazzles on day one everything it takes: Bjorn Portuguese leads in Doha; Wall, Whiteford and Kaleka in joint second DOHA: Thomas Bjorn believes compatriot Thorbjorn Olesen DOHA: Portugal’s Ricardo lot of confidence to come here to can become one of the best play- Santos set the early pace with Qatar and continue to improve ers in the world after watching a seven-under-par 65 to head my game. the youngster card a four-under- the leaderboard at the end of “Winning Rookie of the Year par 68 in the Commercial Bank the first round of the $2.5m gave me a lot of confidence. I Qatar Masters first round Commercial Bank Qatar think it’s normal that when you yesterday. Masters at the Doha Golf Club play good the season before that “Thorbjorn has everything it here yesterday. you come to the next season with takes to become one of the best Anthony Wall of England, a different spirit.” golfers in the world,” Bjorn, the Peter Whiteford of Scotland and Wall, who is in joint second world number 47, said after post- Alexandre Kaleka of France all with two others, was happy with ing a 72 alongside the 23-year-old shot 66 to share second, one shot calm morning conditions which Olesen, whose score put him three ahead of a six-strong group on 67 helped his cause. behind leader Ricardo Santos of at DGC. “You don’t often get Qatar Portugal. World No.4 Justin Rose and with no wind and I took advan- Olesen finished in a tie for Ryder Cup team-mates Martin tage of it,” said the 32-year-old second in his last outing at Kaymer and Peter Hanson each from Kirkcaldy – one of the few the Abu Dhabi Championship started with a 68 to lie in a share players competing yet to win in a where world number one Rory of 11 place with ten others. field containing 80 European Tour McIlroy and 14-times major Sergio Garcia, fifth last year, champions. winner Tiger Woods both signed for a 69, while playing Wall has had only one victory missed the cut. partners Paul Lawrie, the defend- in more than 400 European Tour “That means a lot to hear ing champion, and reigning Open starts, but was a joint runner-up Thomas say that about me. Champion Ernie Els both opened in the Irish Open last July. Thomas and Tiger Woods were with even-par rounds of 72. Kaleka a late addition to the my idols when I was a child and World No.5 Louis Oosthuizen, leaderboard after registering first took up the game,” world who played with Rose and a birdie at the last hole said number 42 Olesen said. Kaymer, double-bogeyed the last expressed happiness over his “Over the years Thomas to finish with a 71, tied with the overall form on the first day of has achieved so much for golf likes of American star Jason the event. Ernie Els of South Africa (left) and Paul Lawrie of Scotland walk along the greens during the first round of the in Denmark, without him I Dufner. “I’m pretty happy,” he said. Commercial Bank Qatar Masters at the Doha Golf Club, yesterday. RIGHT: Ricardo Santos of Portugal lines up a would not be playing nor would Instead of the many star play- “I played solid all day; I holed a putt on the 18th green during the first round of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. the many other young Danes ers, it was Santos who grabbed few putts and hit my irons really who are now starting to come all the attention at the top of the well,” said Kaleka. through.” leaderboard. Rose, the highest-ranked “It was really nice to finish so I pitched pretty much straight defending champion Paul Lawrie Bjorn, chairman of the The 30-year-old, last year’s Sir player in the field, birdied the the way I did, with two really at the hole and it landed six, seven and Open Champion Ernie Els European Tour’s Tournament Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year, par-five 18th, while playing part- good swings at the last, which is yards in front, hit the flag and could do no better than 72 and Committee which met last week continued his fine form from Abu ner Kaymer bogeyed the hole to a nice way to get over 17,” said went in, so that was quite a nice will be fighting to survive the in Abu Dhabi to decide the Ryder Dhabi as he started from hole 10 also finish four-under. Rose, whose ball moved on the start,” said Kaymer, who famously halfway cut. Cup captaincy, has notched up 13 with three birdies and a bogey on Rose is following up a runner- 17th green at the same time as holed the putt that ensured “I think overall, it was good. European Tour wins dating back the back nine before adding five up finish in Abu Dhabi, where he he addressed it. Europe retained last year’s Ryder it was decnet start for the first to 1996. more birdies on the front nine. led for the first three days, and “Nobody else in the group saw Cup at Medinah. tournament and first round of the Although Olesen has just the “It’s really nice when you start the tall Englishman started his it, but that’s the good thing about “You would think that would season, obviously a little bit nervy one European Tour win to his a tournament like that, on the campaign in Doha with three golf, it’s self police out there.” kick-start a round, but then I and don’t know excatly what to name at last year’s Sicilian Open, top of the leaderboard. My short birdies and a bogey on the front Kaymer’s front nine featured used the handbrake a little bit except,” Garcia said. in the next three months he has game was really amazing, espe- nine. eight pars and an eagle on the and it was very difficult to make The Spaniard a 10-time the chance to live up to Bjorn’s cially the putting, so I’m really He picked up further shots on 413-yard par-four fourth, and putts. I just kept making pars and European Tour winner ended the billing. happy,” said Santos, who won last 10 and 12 but conceded a bogey on he added birdies on 12, 15 and 16 it was okay. I hit the ball a lot 2012 with a victory in Malaysia in Olesen has qualified for the two year’s Madeira Islands Open in the par-three 17th after calling before closing with a bogey. better than last week,” Kaymer December. World Golf Championship events his native Portugal. a penalty shot on himself before “I got lucky with my eagle. I hit added. Last year, Garcia finished in a in the United States in February “Last week in Abu Dhabi was responding with a fine birdie on my tee shot in the first cut on the Meanwhile, Sergio Garcia tie for fifth place in Doha. and March and has his invitation amazing for me and gave me a the par-five 18th. right and had a perfect yardage, started his season with a 69, but THE PENINSULA to make his US Masters debut at Augusta in April. Having cut his major teeth in Garrido joins 500 club 2012, when he finished tied for ninth place at the British Open and finished 27th in the PGA DOHA: Ignacio Garrido of more,” a smiling Garrido said. Championship, Olesen cannot Spain has joined an exclusive “I guess it’s not easy to reach wait to test himself again. group of professionals who that many tournaments and it’s “After playing in those majors have played 500 European Tour nice to get there. But the main I now know what I have to do events when he began his cam- thing is not only to play the tour- to compete at the highest level. paign in the Commercial Bank naments, but to stay competitive Finishing second in Abu Dhabi in Qatar Masters here yesterday. and keep having a chance to win a field containing the world’s best The Spaniard, who became some of them at some point,” he players has given me confidence,” the 23rd player in history of golf added. said Olesen. to reach the milestone on The “I still have ambition and “Now I am so looking forward European Tour, was presented believe that there is something to playing in America because I with a silver ice bucket, pro- out there for me that I still love the atmosphere they have at duced by Thomas Lyte, by the haven’t achieved and that’s what every tournament.” Commercial Bank Qatar Masters we still work hard for.” American golf fans will soon Tournament Director, David Ignacio made his first appear- warm to Olesen because he has a Probyn to mark the occasion. ance on Tour as an amateur at strict self-imposed policy of trying “I have to be honest and confess the 1990 Spanish Open. He won to smile his way through every that I didn’t know about my 500th the prestigious English Amateur round of golf. appearance until I got here, but Strokeplay title in 1992 before “Playing at the highest level is A golfer rests his hand on the bag it’s nice to know that I’ve been joining the paid ranks and making not going to change me. I am still containing golf clubs at Doha Golf around so long – let’s hope it’s not his first Tour start as a profes- A spectator at the Doha Golf Club yesterday. going to go and enjoy every game,” Club yesterday. the last 500 and there are many sional in 1993. THE PENINSULA PICTURES BY: QASSIM RAHMATULLAH said Olesen. REUTERS European Tour Qatar Masters Scores Scores from the European Tour Qatar Masters at the par-72 course yesterday at Doha Golf Club Tee time for Rooney in Qatar 65 Ricardo Santos (Portugal) 65 66 Anthony Wall (Britain) 66; Peter Whiteford (Britain) 66; Alexandre Kaleka (France) 66 DOHA: Wayne Rooney, lead 67 Brett Rumford (Australia) 67; Chris Wood (Britain) 67; Andy Sullivan (Britain) 67; Gary a group of Manchester United Lockerbie (Britain) 67; Simon Khan (Britain) 67; Martin Wiegele (Austria) 67 stars who headed to the first round of the $2.5m Commercial 68 Victor Dubuisson (France) 68; Anders Hansen (Denmark) 68; Michael Campbell (New Bank Qatar Masters - European Zealand) 68; Peter Hanson (Sweden) 68; Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark) 68; Damien Tour event - which kicked off McGrane (Ireland) 68; Richard Green (Australia) 68; David Horsey (Britain) 68; Marcus here yesterday Fraser (Australia) 68; Martin Kaymer (Germany) 68; Lorenzo Gagli (Italy) 68; Justin Rose Joining Rooney at Doha Golf (Britain) 68; Andreas Harto (Denmark) 68 Club (DGC) were Ryan Giggs, 69 Joel Sjoeholm (Sweden) 69; Marc Warren (Britain) 69; Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain) Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick, 69; Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69; Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina) 69; Garth Mulroy (South Africa) all keen golfers, as the Manchester 69; David Howell (Britain) 69; Steve Webster (Britain) 69; George Coetzee (South Africa) United stars watched some of the 69; Felipe Aguilar (Chile) 69; Matteo Manassero (Italy) 69; Scott Henry (Britain) 69 world’s top golfers. 70 Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 70; Gregory Havret (France) 70; Thongchai Jaidee (Thailand) 70; They were also joined by Lee Slattery (Britain) 70; Fabrizio Zanotti (Paraguay) 70; Michael Hoey (Britain) 70; Jbe Michael Carrick, Rafael and Kruger (South Africa) 70; Tom Lewis (Britain) 70; Paul Casey (Britain) 70; S.S.P. Chowrasia members of United’s backroom (India) 70; Branden Grace (South Africa) 70 team. 71 Mikko Ilonen (Finland) 71; Bernd Wiesberger (Austria) 71; Thomas Aiken (South Africa) All of them were taking a break 71; Alexander Noren (Sweden) 71; Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spain) 71; Mark Foster (Britain) from the warm-weather training 71; Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 71; Gregory Bourdy (France) 71; Prom Meesawat (Thailand) camp in Qatar. 71; Simon Dyson (Britain) 71; Chris Lloyd (Britain) 71; Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (France) 71; Player of the English foot- FROM LEFT: Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes players of Manchester United watching action of the Thomas Levet (France) 71; Darren Fichardt (South Africa) 71; Christian Cevaer (France) ball giants watched the likes of Commercial Bank Qatar Masters at the Doha Golf Club, yesterday. Rafael (right) is also seen. 71; Estanislao Goya (Argentina) 71; Jason Dufner (US) 71; Oliver Fisher (Britain) 71; Justin Rose, Louis Oosthuizen and Robert-Jan Derksen (Netherlands) 71; Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 71; Ignacio Garrido Martin Kaymer, the former world the calibre of his gallery. “I saw sorts of guys. Jamie Redknapp’s Wayne was in a red shirt. That (Spain) 71; Richard Bland (Britain) 71; Simon Wakefield (Britain) 71 No.1 at DGC. the Man United guys were close become a friend of mine. They’re definitely added a bit of focus 72 Peter Lawrie (Ireland) 72; Justin Walters (South Africa) 72; John Parry (Britain) 72; The Manchester United foot- to us on the par-three at hole all mad-keen golfers, which is going into my last shot into 18 as Gareth Maybin (Britain) 72; Soren Kjeldsen (Denmark) 72; Alejandro Canizares (Spain) ballers started and finished their 12, so I went up to them and I cool.” I tried to impress the lads. It was 72; Keith Horne (South Africa) 72; Marcel Siem (Germany) 72; Jeev Milkha Singh (India) afternoon in the Commercial shook Rooney’s hand and Giggsy Rose even responded to the a nice way to finish,” he added. 72; David Drysdale (Britain) 72; Johan Edfors (Sweden) 72; Mikael Lundberg (Sweden) Bank Hospitality Tent overlook- (Ryan Giggs) and the boys. pressure of seeing the football Sir Alex’s men flew first-team 72; Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 72; Romain Wattel (France) 72; Paul Lawrie (Britain) 72; ing the 18th green, but also min- Obviously they’re such legends. greats watching over him as he squad flew out after Sunday’s 1-1 Ernie Els (South Africa) 72; Stephen Gallacher (Britain) 72; Hennie Otto (South Africa) 72; gled with other spectators along It’s hard not to be impressed by played the par-five 18th, record- draw against Tottenham Hotspur Maarten Lafeber (Netherlands) 72; Max Williams (Britain) 72; Espen Kofstad (Norway) 72; the fairways as they followed a them,” said Rose, the top-ranked ing a birdie to finish with a four- for the winter camp at Aspire Tommy Fleetwood (Britain) 72; Colin Montgomerie (Britain) 72; Craig Lee (Britain) 72; Jose selection of groups during the player in this week’s field and a under-par 68. Academy. Manuel Lara (Spain) 72; Chris Doak (Britain) 72 afternoon. European legend of his own at last “I had hold of my three-wood United are due to fly home Selected Even Rose – a man used to September’s Ryder Cup. into 18 and I sort of looked up to today after spending four days playing in front of large, rau- “I’ve met a bunch of football the balcony and I saw all these at the state-of-the-art Aspire 76 Ghanim Al Kuwari (Qatar) cous crowds at the Ryder Cup star over the years like Alan guys, many wearing black, so Academy. 81 Saleh Al Kaabi (Qatar) – was taken aback when he saw Shearer, Michael Owen, all those I knew it was them, although THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 24 JANUARY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Four-tier Raina and Sharma guide club Bradford reach League Cup final

India to ODI series victory LONDON: Bradford City struck a blow for the pau- pers and restored the faith of The hosts beat England by five wickets at PCA Stadium in Mohali those who say Premier League riches have killed the romance of English football by holding MOHALI: Rohit Sharma pressure after losing to England Kohli (26) took the innings for- off aristocrats Aston Villa to finally fulfilled expectations in the Test matches, and to ward before Kohli became the reach the League Cup final on of his class, and along with Pakistan in a short one-day series. victim of a soft dismissal, patting Tuesday. Suresh Raina secured India a The final game will be played back to offie James Tredwell. Protecting a 3-1 lead from a 3-1 series win over England by at the picturesque town of Yuvraj Singh’s (3) wicket made memorable first leg at Valley clinching the fourth One-day Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh it 90 for three in the 23rd over Parade, the League Two side lost International here yesterday. Sunday. with the left-hander falling to 2-1 on the night but won 4-3 on Rohit, asked to open in his first India experienced some nerv- Tredwell for the fourth time in as aggregate to become the first game of the series, struck a sub- ous moments in the run-chase many games. The stylish batsman fourth tier side to reach a major lime 83 before Raina (89 not out) before getting over the line. The disappointed fans at his home English domestic cup final for got the team past England’s 257 start was rather slow. ground by playing an ordinary more than 50 years. for seven in 47.3 overs with five Gautam Gambhir (10), in the sweep shot, trapping him plumb Nine years after falling out of wickets to spare at the Punjab company of his new partner in front. the top flight and into a financial Cricket Association (PCA) Rohit, could not carry on for long Raina then joined Rohit at the meltdown that brought them to Stadium here. as he was adjudged caught behind crease and the duo got the innings their knees, the Yorkshire club Captain Alastair Cook (76) and off Tim Bresnan, but he looked a much needed move on. can look forward to a money- Kevin Pietersen (76) did not prove unhappy with the decision. It was pleasant to see Rohit spinning Wembley final against to be enough for the visitors. The Mumbai batsman hung on doing justice to his talent. European champions Chelsea or The series win was a welcome in conditions where runs were His knock saw elegant drives Swansea City. result for India, who were under hard to come by. He and Virat to go with his pull and cut shots. Rochdale were the last club Raina was at his belligerent best. from the fourth rung of the Scoreboard Rohit was adjudged leg before English football ladder to reach off Finn, leaving India at 158 a major domestic showpiece when ENGLAND 2; R Jadeja 10-2-39-3; S Raina 2-0-10-0. for four with another 100 runs they lost to Norwich City in the A Cook lbw Ashwin...... 76 INDIA needed for the victory. 1962 League Cup final. I Bell c Kumar b I Sharma ...... 10 G Gambhir c Buttler b Bresnan ...... 10 At this juncture, Raina’s back However, that was when the K Pietersen b I Sharma ...... 76 R Sharma lbw Finn...... 83 would have sent panic in the competition was in its infancy E Morgan c Y Singh b Ashwin ...... 3 V Kohli c&b Tredwell ...... 26 dressing room but he was handed and many top clubs did not even S Patel c&b Jadeja ...... 1 Y Singh lbw Tredwell ...... 3 a reprieve after getting caught at bother entering. J Root (not out) ...... 57 S Raina (not out) ...... 89 first slip. Finn came to his res- Bradford’s 6,000 travelling fans J Buttler c Y Singh b Jadeja ...... 14 M S Dhoni c Morgan b Dernbach ...... 19 cue by hitting the stumps on the had dared to dream but Christian T Bresnan c Y Singh b Jadeja ...... 0 R Jadeja (not out) ...... 21 delivery stride with umpire call- Benteke’s 24th-minute opener for J Tredwell (not out) ...... 6 Extras (LB-2, W-5) ...... 7 ing it a dead ball. Premier League strugglers Villa Extras (B-2, LB-8, W-4) ...... 14 Total (for 5 wkts in 47.3 overs) ...... 258 It was a smooth run from there swung the odds back towards the Total (for 7 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 257 Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-72, 3-90, 4-158, on even though skipper Mahendra home side. Fall of wickets: 1-37, 2-132, 3-138, 4-142, 5-213. Singh Dhoni (19) failed to last the However, Bradford weath- 5-220, 6-241, 7-241. Bowling: S Finn 10-1-39-1; T Bresnan 10-1- distance this time around. Earlier, ered the storm and struck back England smashed 100 runs off the through James Hanson’s 55th Bowling: B Kumar 10-2-30-0; S Ahmed 8-0- 59-1; J Dernbach 9.3-0-59-1; S Patel 3-0-21- India batsman Suresh Raina hits the ball during his side’s ODI match last 10 overs to post a fighting minute header to make it 1-1 on 58-0; I Sharma 10-2-47-2; R Ashwin 10-0-63- 0; J Tredwell 10-0-54-2; Joe Root 5-0-24-0. against England yesterday. total. IANS the night and send the visiting fans into ecstasy. Andreas Weimann’s 88th minute goal put Villa in front again at Villa Park and set up a Hughes’ ton helps Aussies level series nerve-jangling finale but Bradford survived four minutes of stoppage HOBART: Phil Hughes innings today. I had found it quite time to etch their name into the returned to form with a cen- tough but luckily enough I got pantheon of great British sport- tury before Xavier Doherty and a few away at the end. We had ing upsets. Moises Henriques took three wickets in hand and that was “This is dreamland, hopefully wickets each to lead Australia always in the back of our mind.” we will have a great following at to a series-levelling 32-run Sri Lanka captain Mahele Wembley and do the club proud,” win over Sri Lanka in the final Jayawardene opted to bowl goalkeeper Matt Duke, hero of one-day cricket international first and handed the ball to Phillip Hughes of Australia their penalty shootout wins over yesterday. Tillakaratne Dilshan for the first plays a cut shot during the Premier League Wigan Athletic Hughes struck 138 not out at over. fifth one-day international and most notably Arsenal on the Bellerive Oval but Sri Lanka were Dilshan did not get to bowl in match between Australia way to Wembley, told Sky Sports. on course to overhaul Australia’s Sunday’s fourth match in Sydney and Sri Lanka at “I am not convinced it will ever 247-5 until Doherty exploited - where Sri Lanka were on top Blundstone Arena in sink in. You dream of this as a kid, spin-friendly conditions to dis- until rain forced an abandon- playing at Wembley, and like I say Hobart, yesterday. miss three of the tourists’ top ment - but he turned the new ball I just want to do the club proud.” four batsmen. immediately. REUTERS Pressure from Doherty reduced He beat David Warner’s outside Sri Lanka from 50-0 at the edge to bowl him for 10 and wick- 10-over mark to 85-4 from 25 and etkeeper Matthew Wade, pushed QPR’s Nelsen to the tourists never fully recovered, up the order to open, was trapped stumbling to 215 all out and a 2-2 lbw by man-of-the-series Nuwan take up Toronto draw in the five-match series. Kulasekara soon after. Australia still have batting con- Australia failed even to equal coaching job cerns despite Hughes’s second ton their dismal series average of 71-4 the ball with ease but the opener, Scoreboard of the series, with David Hussey’s at 20 overs but made the most of in his final match as captain, 34 the next highest score, but the the wickets in hand. holed out to Mitchell Starc off AUSTRALIA L Thirimanne c Hussey b Doherty ...... 1 next month team showed spirit in the absence Hughes had a let-off on 20 Doherty for 38. M Wade lbw Kulasekera ...... 23 D Chandimal b Doherty ...... 6 of injured captain Michael Clarke. when an inside edge from Angelo That started a rot from 57-0 to D Warner b Dilshan ...... 10 A Mathews c Bailey b Johnson ...... 67 LONDON: Ryan Nelsen Australia’s recent woes, which Mathews rolled on to the foot of 77-4. Dilshan was caught behind P Hughes (not out) ...... 138 K Perera c Warner b Johnson ...... 14 will play his last match for included a disappointing 170 all stumps but failed to dislodge the off Henriques for a pedestrian G Bailey c&b T Perera...... 17 J Mendis b Henriques ...... 26 Queens Park Rangers against out in Adelaide and a shambolic bails. He gathered momentum 48-ball 19 and Doherty got rid of D Hussey (run out-T Perera) ...... 34 T Perera b Henriques ...... 7 Manchester City next week 74 all out in Brisbane, looked set from that point, adding 60 from Lahiru Thirimanne for one before G Maxwell c Thirimanne b Malinga ...... 9 N Kulasekara (not out) ...... 14 before taking over as full-time to continue when the home side 96 balls for the third wicket with bowling the dangerous Dinesh M Henriques (not out) ...... 9 R Herath c Henriques b McKay ...... 2 coach of Major League Soccer crawled to 62-2 from 20 overs. captain George Bailey (17) and 98 Chandimal (6). Extras (LB-2, W-5) ...... 7 L Malinga c Johnson b McKay ...... 2 (MLS) club Toronto FC from Hughes, however, overcame a from 102 with Hussey. Mathews and Jeevan Mendis Total (for 5 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 247 Extras (LB-12, W-6, NB-1) ...... 19 February 1, the 35-year-old slow start to rediscover the flu- Hussey was run out by a direct raised hopes of an unlikely win Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-37, 3-97, 4-195, Total (all out in 48.3 overs) ...... 215 defender said yesterday. ency he showed earlier in the hit from Thisara Perera after with 74 off 53 balls after Sri Lanka 5-218. Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-62, 3-71, 4-77, Nelsen was named Toronto series with an unbeaten 154-ball softly serving the ball back to had hit a nadir of 113-5 from Bowling: Dilshan 7-3-22-1, Kulasekara 10-1- 5-108, 6-187, 7-187, 8-195, 9-200. coach last month.The New innings, hitting out with par- the bowler but Glenn Maxwell 35 overs but Henriques bowled 57-1, Mathews 7-0-44-0, Malinga 10-1-49-1, Bowling: C McKay 9.3-0-51-2 (2w); M Starc Zealander, who has also quit ticular flair after he reached his and Henriques each scored at a Mendis for 26 and Mathews holed Herath 10-2-34-0, T Perera 6-0-39-1. 9-0-48-0 (1nb, 3w); M Johnson 10-0-45-2 international soccer, will bow out century. run a ball to help Hughes keep out off Mitchell Johnson for 67. SRI LANKA (1w); X Doherty 8-1-21-3; M Henriques 10-1- of the English Premier League on “Give yourself time early and the scoreboard ticking over. Sri The last five wickets fell for 28 M Jayawardene c Starc b Doherty ...... 38 32-3; G Maxwell 2-0-6-0. Saturday. you can always catch up later,” Lanka were rolling nicely with runs as Sri Lanka were bowled T Dilshan c Wade b Henriques ...... 19 Player-of-the-Match: PJ Hughes (Australia). “We had a talk and we needed Hughes said. “It was one of those Jayawardene driving and stroking out. REUTERS to give QPR as much time as pos- sible to bring in a replacement or Scoreboard sort their things out,” Nelsen said on Toronto’s website (www.toron- NEW ZEALAND G Smith (run out-Franklin) ...... 66 Kiwi captain hails ODI triumph tofc.ca). M Guptill c Du Plessis b Kleinveldt ...... 0 C Ingram c Watling b N McCullum ...... 79 “If they knew I was leaving ear- B Watling lbw Morkel ...... 12 F du Plessis run out (N McCullum) ...... 2 CAPE TOWN: New Zealand McCullum. “It is incredibly sat- as they retrieved some pride after lier, it would have been harder in K Williamson (not out) ...... 145 F Behardien (run out-Guptill) ...... 31 captain Brendon McCullum on isfying to finish off the tour this losing both Test matches by an the transfer window,” added the G Elliott c De Kock b Kleinveldt ...... 48 D Miller (run out-N McCullum) ...... 14 Tuesday acclaimed one of his way.” innings. player, whose one-year contract B McCullum b Morkel ...... 17 R McLaren c Guptill b Franklin ...... 2 country’s finest one-day series McCullum said Williamson’s Williamson and Grant Elliott with QPR was to expire in June. C Munro c Ingram b Tsotsobe ...... 9 R Kleinveldt (run out-Guptill) ...... 0 wins - and an innings by Kane innings was “one of the best we (48) laid the foundation for New Nelsen said he had also con- J Franklin b Tsotsobe ...... 0 R Peterson c N McCullum b Mills ...... 0 Williamson which made victory have seen from a New Zealander.” Zealand’s total with a third wicket veyed his decision to quit inter- J Neesham (run out-Du Plessis) ...... 5 M Morkel (not out) ...... 19 possible over South Africa. Williamson bounced back from stand of 127 off 128 balls. national football to New Zealand N McCullum c Tsotsobe b Morkel ...... 19 L Tsotsobe b Neesham ...... 9 Williamson hit 145 not out a disappointing Test series with Williamson reached his third Football. K Mills (not out)...... 15 Extras (NB-1, W-4) ...... 5 to set up a 27-run win for New a confident, stroke-filled career- one-day international hundred off “I spoke with NZF Chairman Extras (LB-4, W-5) ...... 9 Total (all out in 49.1 overs) ...... 252 Zealand in the second one-day best innings in a New Zealand exactly 100 balls with 14 fours. He Frank van Hattum and All Total (for 8 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 279 Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-167, 3-174, 4-180, international at the Diamond total of 279 for eight. was hampered by cramp in the Whites coach Ricki Herbert ear- Did not bat: M McClenaghan 5-211, 6-215, 7-216, 8-224, 9-232. Oval. Despite Williamson’s heroics, later stages of his innings but fin- lier today to personally confirm Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-32, 3-159, 4-188, Bowling: Mills 9-2-28-2; McClenaghan 10-0- It gave the tourists a winning South Africa were on course for ished with a career-best 145 not my decision to retire from inter- 5-201, 6-202, 7-211, 8-245 51-0 (2w); N McCullum 10-0-56-1 (1w); Wil- 2-0 lead in the three-match series victory until two run-outs in suc- out off 136 balls with 17 fours and national football,” he added. Bowling: Kleinveldt 10-2-45-2 (1w); Tsotsobe liamson 3-0-22-0; Franklin 10-0-52-1 (1w); and was a major turnaround for a cessive overs derailed their run a six. Nelsen retires with the All 10-2-38-2 (1w); Morkel 10-1-71-3 (1w); Neesham 3.1-0-20-1; Elliott 4-0-23-0 (1nb). team who were thrashed in both chase. It was the first century for Whites poised to qualify for McLaren 8-0-57-0 (2w); Peterson 9-0-45-0; Result: New Zealand won by 27 runs Test matches. There were a total of five run- the tourists since Martin Guptill November’s intercontinental play- Du Plessis 3-0-19-0. Series: New Zealand hold a winning 2-0 lead “It is one of the finest one- outs as the hosts limped to 252 made a match-winning 101 not off against the fourth-best team SOUTH AFRICA in the three-match series day series wins in New Zealand’s all out in their reply. The New out in the second Twenty20 from North and Central America, Q de Kock b Mills ...... 25 Man-of-the-Match: Kane Williamson (NZL). history, the ninth-ranked team Zealand players shouted for joy international in East London in with the winner advancing to the against the top team,” said and hugged each other on the field December. AFP 2014 World Cup finals. 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DOHA: Qatar suffered an early their 6-5 victory over Lebanon to The duel will determine who exit after losing 4-3 on penalties boost their chances of advanc- advances to the semi-finals. to Australia at the 2013 FIFA ing to the semi-finals of the Elsewhere, UAE, coached by Beach Soccer World Cup Asian competition. Marcelo Mendes, were convincing Qualifiers, yesterday. The match was one of the most in their 5-2 win against Palestine. The hosts, coached by Nenem entertaining matches of the tour- Mendes’ side top Group C produced a battling display after nament with eleven goals scored which puts them in pole position being thrashed 7-3 by Afghanistan at Katara Beach. to advance to the semi-finals. on the opening day. Iran beat regional rivals Iraq Elsewhere, Oman, who lost to However, despite holding 10-3 to set up a crucial winner- Australia on Tuesday, crushed Australia 3-3 in normal-time, takes-all match against China. Afghanistan 7-0. Qatar could not edge their oppo- China scored 11 goals past the Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia kept nents in the penalty shoot-out. Philippines, who will clash with their semi-final hopes alive by Elsewhere, defending champi- Iran in a match that begins at beating Uzbekistan 8-6, yesterday. ons Japan were made to work for 7:00 today. THE PENINSULA Asian Beach Soccer Results Yesterday’s Results Bahrain 1 Thailand 0 Iran 10 Iraq 3 UAE 5 Palestine 2 Oman 7 Afghanistan 0 Uzbekistan 6 Saudi Arabia 8 Japan 6 Lebanon 5 China 11 Philippines 1 Qatar 3 Australia 4

Today’s Fixtures

Lebanon vs Thailand, 2:00pm Iraq vs Philippines, 2:00pm Palestine vs Saudi Arabia, 3:15pm UAE vs Uzbekistan, 3:15pm Australia vs Afghanistan, 4:30pm Qatar’s Ahmad Al Nuaimi takes a shot goal during his side’s 2013 FIFA Japan vs Bahrain, 5:45pm Beach Soccer World Cup Asian Qualifier match against Australia at Katara Iran vs China, 7:00pm Beach yesterday. Australia won on penalties (4-3) after the score finished Qatar vs Oman, 8:15pm 3-3 in normal time. PICTURE BY: SHAIVAL DALAL