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Municipalities Emir meets Turkish envoy OPINION Syria: From set to decide military action to political building colours solution wonder if we will ever see light at the end of the Move to ensure colour uniformity ISyrian tunnel DOHA: The Cabinet yester- parks, schools and hospitals all after all day approved a draft law which, need municipal approval. these kill- once put in force, would author- And the 1985 law makes it man- ings of ise the municipalities to decide datory for an engineer or a con- women the colour of the exteriors of all tractor hired to carry out such and chil- buildings — including the pri- alterations to make sure that the dren, with vately-owned ones. building owner does have the civic death the The existing law permits build- clearance for the purpose. toll cross- Khalid Al Sayed ing owners to choose the colour of The punishments provided for ing 110,000 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF a building’s exteriors out of three in this legislation for non-compli- and refu- or four specified colours, and seek ance of civic rules, including the gees numbering at over two approval from the municipality of usage of a building (whether resi- million scattered in camps in the area later. dential, commercial or industrial) neighbouring countries. The The law was issued way back are lighter — fines up to QR200 human loss is in addition to in 1985, and amendments were to QR500 per sq m of encroached the massive destruction of introduced to some articles of the land. The new draft law is expected infrastructure and heritage legislation four years ago, in 2009. to make the punitive provisions The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani presenting the Sash of Merit to the outgoing Turkish of a country known for its The new draft law seeks to tougher to deter non-compliance Ambassador Emre Yunt at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. diversity of faith. make further amendments to of municipal regulations. During the past two weeks, some provisions of the 1985 legis- According to the 1985 legisla- we have been hearing about lation, Qatar News Agency (QNA) tion, an owner can carry out main- military strikes against the reported yesterday. tenance work and do minor repairs Syrian regime by US and The proposed amendments vide in a building periodically provided some Western countries after the new draft law largely pertain the type of repair figures on the US Senate okays Syria strikes the alleged use of chemical to authorising the municipalities list of those that are approved by weapons by the regime forces to decide the colour of exteriors the civic minister. WASHINGTON: The US The compromise is more limited The full Senate is expected to which killed 1,429 people, 426 of all types of buildings in their Sources told this newspaper Senate Foreign Relations than US President Barack Obama’s vote on the resolution next week. of them children. Statements jurisdiction. The other purpose that the new draft legislation that Committee approved a resolu- original proposal but meets the The House of Representatives also from US President Barack of the amendment is to make aims to authorise the municipali- tion yesterday authorising a administration’s goal of punishing must approve the measure. Obama and French President stricter provisions to punish ties to decide the colour of the limited US military intervention Syria for what the US says is the Obama and administration offi- Francois Hollande show that non-compliance — those who do exteriors of buildings might be in Syria, setting the stage for a use of chemical weapons on Syrian cials have pushed Congress to act a military strike is now inevi- not follow a building’s design as aimed at ensuring colour uniform- debate in the full Senate next civilians, killing over 1,400. quickly, saying US national secu- table, though will be limited. approved by the civic authorities, ity zone-wise in cities and remote week on the use of military force. The authorisation still faces rity and international credibility The tone of their state- or encroach on government land. areas of the country for beauty. The committee voted 10-7 in significant resistance in Congress, is at stake in the decision whether ments shows that a broader Making alterations in a build- Sources say that since the draft favour of a compromise resolution where many lawmakers fear it to use force in Syria to punish military action against the ing, carrying out repairs or ren- has already been approved by the that sets a 60-day limit on any could lead to a prolonged US mili- President Bashar Al Assad’s gov- regime is unlikely, as the US ovations, and encroaching on Cabinet it could be expected to see engagement in Syria and bars the tary involvement in Syria’s civil ernment for chemical weapons is not seeking to overthrow government land meant for public the light of day soon. use of US troops on the ground for war and spark an escalation of use. REUTERS the regime of Bashar Al amenities such as roads and public THE PENINSULA combat operations. regional violence. See also page 10 Assad. Continued on page 7 Eight private Not many families keen on hiring European maids schools to BY FAZEENA SALEEM here,” was the standard answer new markets as the Philippines have no plans to get maids from They said a straight no when of most manpower agencies this and Indonesia, the two major the new countries and get stuck prodded to hazard a guess. DOHA: More than three newspaper contacted to know domestic manpower exporting in the absence of demand. “We don’t know the reason open this year months have lapsed since the how the recruitment of domes- countries, raised the minimum According to them, Bangladesh and we don’t want to guess. All government allowed local man- tics from the five new countries wages of their nationals coming is the only country so far for we can say is no one wants a DOHA: Eight new private power agencies to recruit maids that were opened up last May here to work as maids. whose women there is some European maid,” an agency offi- schools and five private kinder- from Bosnia and Macedonia, was going on. Several manpower agen- demand in the domestic sector. cial said, visibly irritated. gartens are expected to open but no family has so far shown Bosnia and Macedonia were cies said they were willing to Asked what possibly could The answer to the enigmatic during the new academic year interest in hiring a European among the countries that got bring maids from Bosnia and be the reason for families here question was provided by sources which begins on September 10, maid, enquiries made with at the approval which also included Macedonia, but they haven’t so not willing to hire Bosnian and in the Qatari community which according to Al Sharq. least 10 agencies suggest. Bangladesh, Vietnam and far because no family has asked Macedonian maids, officials of relies heavily on domestic work- A statement issued by the “There is no demand for Cambodia. for one. manpower agencies said they ers. THE PENINSULA Supreme Education Council (SEC) Bosnian and Macedonian maids The government opened up the Recruiting agencies say they had no idea. Continued on page 7 yesterday put the total number of Independent and private schools in the country at 349. This figure does not include the kindergar- Protests in Bahrain tens. SEC said yesterday that it had completed all preparations for Ministerial panel to curb visa trade the new academic year. DOHA: A powerful inter-ministerial committee has been set up to A total of 17 catering companies look into the causes and sources of the thriving illegal visa trade have been selected to serve food at and curb it with an iron hand. Independent school canteens. The panel, set up in collaboration with the anti-human trafficking They were selected from 41 watchdog — Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking applicants based on a rigorous (QFCHT) — will also help the victims of the thriving illegal trade in process that started in May this work visas. year, SEC said. A list of dishes The panel has on it representatives from the Ministry of Labour and proposed for school canteens along Social Affairs, Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the prices has been circulated that of Economy and Commerce, besides QFCHT officials, local Arabic to the catering companies. daily Al Watan reported yesterday. The committee has been working The school canteens have been for a while and the idea is to protect the rights of foreign workers. monitored by a committee com- THE PENINSULA prising representatives from the SEC, Supreme Council of Health and the Ministry of Municipality New airport to operate from early next year and Urban Planning. The committee will conduct DOHA: The New Doha International Airport (Hamad surprise visits to the canteens International) will begin operating from early next year, Qatar to ensure that the catering com- Airways’ CEO, Akbar Al Baker, said yesterday. panies comply with the health He said when the plans to open the new airport would be announced, regulations. An average of 20 Qatar’s Airways would also announce further expansion of its network. inspections are conducted every Anti-government protesters throw stones at riot police during clashes in the village of Selah, west of Manama, He was responding to a question about the New Doha International week. The erring firms will face yesterday. Clashes erupted after the funeral procession of Sadeq Sabt, who died from injuries after a car hit Airport’s opening plans at a news conference that was held in the action, warned the SEC. him while he was trying to create a road block in the village by burning tyres. Chinese city of Chengdu, the sixth Qatar Airways’ destination in China THE PENINSULA which Qatar Airways has begun serving. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Partial closure of Al Markhiya street from today

DOHA: A section of Al Markhiya street will remain closed from this evening as part of works to convert Corniche roundabouts to intersections. The street will be closed from Al Barzan intersec- tion on Al Markhiya Street to the Ludaihi rounda- bout on the Corniche. The closure will last for one month. During this period, com- muters can use Al Funduq street that leads to the Sheraton roundabout instead of the closed road. THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Drug peddler jailed for 7 years Qatar, UK fashion meet in London DOHA: A Criminal Court has sen- was also found underneath a bed in the tenced an Asian expatriate to seven room of the convict. However, the con- years in jail for possessing two small vict refused to confess that the boxes Fashion show to showcase works by Qatari and UK designers packets of heroin meant for ped- belonged to him. He claimed that he dling and fined him QR100,000. The was only sleeping in the room and the DOHA: Qatari and British showcasing the work of one of convict has also been ordered to be drugs belonged to his roommate. cultures will combine to stun- UK’s most respected designers. deported after serving the jail term. But secret information confirmed ning effect as the Victoria This unique collaboration will On a tip off, law enforcement offi- that the convict was indeed involved and Albert Museum (V&A) cultivate recognition, under- cials, after seeking approval from the in drug trafficking. The court was in London hosts Fashion standing, and appreciation of Public Prosecution, raided the resi- convinced by the evidence produced Exchange. Qatari culture, and explore pos- dence of the convict, where they found by the Public Prosecution and based The fashion show that will sibilities for the future, which two small boxes full of powdered mate- on it, the verdicts were issued. feature work by internationally is exactly what Qatar UK 2013 rial suspected to be heroin. Some cash THE PENINSULA renowned UK designer Philip Year of Culture is all about.” Treacy and emerging female Aisha Ghanem Al Attiyah, entrepreneurs from Qatar’s Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture Roudha Centre, Elham Al spokesperson said: “We are Ansari, Fathiya Al Jaber and delighted to have been part in Hessa Al Mannai. this exceptional fashion project. The September show will For six months, the Year of pair Abayas and Jalabiyas by Culture has provided people in the Qatari designers with head- Qatar and the UK with unique dresses by Philip Treacy with opportunities to engage with the aim of challenging percep- Qatari and British cultures, tions of the Abaya and the role largely in the arenas of per- of women in Gulf societies. forming arts, education, cultural The Abaya will be celebrated exchange, sport and community as a garment of style, modesty outreach. As the Year of Culture and expression much like the aims to strengthen bilateral Kimono and Sari have been with relations between Qatar and the Japanese and Indian cultures. UK, this fashion show is very Fashion Exchange forms symbolic for us.” part of Qatar UK 2013 Year Caroline Rush, CEO, British of Culture which celebrates Fashion Council, said: “The the long-standing relationship British Fashion Council is between the two countries and delighted to welcome emerging aims to forge new and support Qatari designers to London and existing partnerships in the we hope to find more ways to arts, education, sport and sci- collaborate and support Qatar ence, while promoting an aware- UK 2013”. In December, Fashion ness and appreciation of each Exchange continues with six country’s culture, achievements upcoming British designers and heritage. selected by British Fashion Graham Sheffield, Director of Council, travelling to Qatar for a Arts for the British Council and series of shows in Doha’s elegant Chair of the Qatar UK 2013 Year Salam Gate Mall. An abaya designed by Fathiya Al Jaber. of Culture Steering Committee Fashion Exchange will cul- said: “This spectacular show minate in a private show with IM Pei’s spectacular Museum Spring Summer 2014 collection, provides a platform for emerg- established designers like Alice of Islamic Art, featuring and handbags and hats by Treacy. ing Qatari designers whilst Temperley and Philip Treacy at Temperley’s iconic gowns and THE PENINSULA Manchester hosts Arab Football Forum

DOHA: The Arab Football Forum 2013, Dr Richard Giulianotti, Professor of “Football is the most popular sport in organised by the Qatar Olympic and Sport Sociology at the School of Sport, Exercise the world and the peculiarities of the Museum (QOSM) and part of Qatar UK and Health Sciences at Loughborough Mena region deserve a dedicated forum 2013 Year of Culture, was held yester- University (UK) and Visiting Professor at to discuss them. The QOSM is proud to day at the National Football Museum, Telemark University College, Norway; Dr contribute with organising the AFF2013. Manchester. Abdullah Baabood, Director of the Gulf QOSM is a sports heritage institution The aim of the forum is to bring together Studies Programme at Qatar University; that torganises different cultural and football experts to discuss the main issues James M Dorsey, Senior Fellow at the S academic activities in order to contrib- of the game in the Middle East and North Rajaratnam School of International Studies ute toward the development of knowl- Africa (Mena). The one-day Forum was held at Nanyang Technological University in edge, not only in football but also in on the last day of the acclaimed ‘Football 150 Singapore and the author of the blog, The sports in general as a social-cultural Conference’. Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer; Dr phenomenon.” The forum is hosted a debate where Dag Henrik Tuastad, Senior Lecturer in the Nayef Essa AlRomaihi, spokesperson for panellists discussed topics around Arab Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Qatar UK 2013, said: “Sport, and in particu- identity and football, including Arab chal- Languages at University of Oslo, Norway; lar football, unites people on a global scale. lenges in the football world. The panel dis- and. Florian Mader, Member of the Discover We are excited that ‘the beautiful game’ has cussions were moderated by Dr Christian Football project. been able to bring our two nations closer Wacker and Luis Henrique Rolim Silva, Dr Christian Wacker, Director of the like this.” both QOSM. The guest speakers included Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, said: THE PENINSULA Aspire sports expo from November 16

DOHA: Many local and interna- tional businesses will be partici- pating in the the ASPIRE4SPORT Congress and Exhibition, which will take place from November 16 to 19 at Aspire Dome. A diverse set of companies and organisations have set their sights on ASPIRE4SPORT to tap into expand- ing sports business sectors including construction, sports medicine and sports technology. Hamad Saif Buhindi (pictured), Executive Director of ASPIRE4SPORT said: “ASPIRE4SPORT has proven to be the gateway to the sports industry of the region, and we would like to retain our vanguard position during the 2013 round. Our aim is to demonstrate to the whole world, and specifically to Qatari companies, how business and sports contribute to the growth of each other.” Among those companies committed, Grimshaw Architects plan to exhibit in the Exhibition’s construc- tion segment, Aspire BUILD, while others such as Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) plan to take part in Aspire MED, its sports medicine segment. Thhis year’s exhibition will be broken down into five key sports industry areas: Aspire TECH, Aspire BUILD, Aspire LOGISTICS, Aspire ORG and Aspire MED. Also exhibiting in Aspire BUILD is Neptune Qatar, which brings a rich and diversified portfolio of projects. Neptune is celebrated for its exceptional work on major projects in Qatar including Sidra Medical and Research Centre, Al Farjan Stadium, Sumaisma and Barzan Youth Centre the new Qatar Petroleum building, Qatar Academy, BMW showroom at the Industrial area, among many others. International exhibitors include UBIFRANCE – the government-backed agency leading participation of French companies at ASPIRE4SPORT. Spanish archi- tecture firm Fenwick Iribarren Architects, which recently opened an office in Doha, is one of several companies returning to ASPIRE4SPORT for the fourth consecu- tive year. As the leading regional platform for businesses, sports entities, athletes and decision makers, ASPIRE4SPORT 2013 will feature the latest sports products, services, and technologies while discussing hot-button industry trends and topics. THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Rota to observe world FM meets Belgian counterpart charity day today Charity promotes rights of the marginalised: Official

DOHA: Reach Out To Asia protection of cultural and natu- our vision and mission to ensure (Rota) will commemorate ral heritage. It also promotes the all young people have access to International Day of Charity rights of the marginalised and the education they need in order today as a part of its ongoing underprivileged and spreads the to realise their full potential and charitable work. message of humanity in conflict shape the development of their The UN General Assembly situations,” said Essa Al Mannai, communities,” added Al Mannai. adopted a resolution to designate Rota Executive Director. “Rota believes that together September 5, the anniversary The UN General Assembly with partners, volunteers, and of the passing away of Mother adopted resolution invites all mem- local communities it can ensure Teresa, as the International Day of ber states, organisations of the that people affected by crisis Charity. The designation of the day United Nations system and other across Asia and around the world will create a universal platform to international and regional organisa- have continuous access to rel- enhance visibility, organise spe- tions, as well as civil society, includ- evant and high-quality primary cial events, create synergies and ing non-governmental organisations and secondary education.” thereby further increase public and individuals, to commemorate In its effort to promote edu- support for charity, a press release the day by encouraging charity, cation, Rota implements educa- said yesterday. including through education and tional projects in countries where “Charity can alleviate the public awareness-raising activities. immediate action is needed. Ten worst effects of humanitarian “Rota has been at the forefront countries have been identified as crises, supplement public serv- of charity work by empowering Rota’s priorities: Afghanistan, ices in health care, education, local communities by providing Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, housing and child protection. It access to quality primary and Iraq, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, Foreign Minister H E Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah with his Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders (right), assists the advancement of cul- secondary education to children Palestine and Yemen. at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, yesterday. ture, science, sports, as well as the affected by crisis across Asia. It is THE PENINSULA Call for speedy completion of Most Indian schools to reopen as scheduled DOHA: Several Indian schools “We have been told that circu- announcement. The school yes- parking facility at arrival terminal here said yesterday that they lar applies to schools that start terday sent text messages to will resume classes after the their academic year in September. parents saying that classes will DOHA: Many Qataris and expatriates are urging the authorities concerned to complete the con- summer break as scheduled ear- Indian schools here have begun resume on September 10. It was struction of the parking facility at the arrival terminal of the Doha International Airport (DIA) at lier following a clarification from their academic year in April. We originally scheduled to re-open on the earliest. the Supreme Education Council are re-opening on September 8 as September 9. A large portion of the facility was recently closed down for the construction of a multi-story parking (SEC) that they have been announced earlier,” an official of “We have decided to reopen on area, which resulted in a parking crisis and angered many Qataris and expatriates returning to Doha exempted from its decision to the Shantiniketan Indian school September 10 because the SEC from holidays. reopen schools on September 10. told this daily yesterday. circular does not exclude private Some speculated that the opening of the new Hamad International Airport (HIA) might even be Most of these schools are sched- Officials of the Birla Public schools. Besides that, two inter- delayed further as the authorities were expanding the parking facility outside DIA. “It appears that uled to reopen on September 8 School, DPS Modern Indian national schools run by our man- the new airport will not open soon if the authorities are building new parking area,” a local Arabic and September 9. SEC had sent a School and the MES Indian agement are also opening on the daily quoted a Qatari saying. circular to these schools informing School also clarified that there same date, in line with the SEC People are also calling for more lanes for passengers to walk through outside the airport. Long them that all schools in Qatar will is no change in their schedules. directive,” said DMIS Principal walking distance is a concern as the current parking bay is located away from the waiting lounge and resume classes on September 10. They said that they had sought Jai Gopal Jindal. visitors as well as passengers have to walk over 500 metres at times with their luggage. This becomes Officials of several Indian approval from the SEC before The Pakistan Education Center more difficult as many people park their vehicles along the road. Some said that the traffic department schools said yesterday that they announcing the dates. (PEC) that started the new aca- needed to step in and fine drivers who parked vehicles along the road outside the arrival terminal of DIA. had sought clarification from the At least one Indian school demic year in April is also resum- THE PENINSULA SEC on the circular and were told — Doha Modern Indian School ing classes on September 10, it has that they can go ahead with their — has, however, rescheduled its been learnt. original schedule. reopening in line with the SEC THE PENINSULA

Cabinet approves proposal BFPIS students on academic years excel in HSSC examinations DOHA: The Cabinet meet- of the second semester at the ing presided over by the Prime university. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Bringing closer the beginning bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and end of the academic year yesterday approved a proposal of the University of Qatar and by the Minister of Education schools as closer as possible. and Higher Education for The meeting approved the opening and closing dates of enforcement of the provisions of academic years 2013/2014 to Law No. 24 of 2002 on retirement 2015/2016. and pensions for Qatari employ- These dates have been unified ees at Qatar Holding Company. at schools and the University of A draft agreement on coopera- Qatar according to directives by tion in the field of education and the Cabinet and in the light of an higher education and scientific Advisory Council recommenda- research between governments of tion and in coordination between the State of Qatar and the Kyrgyz the Ministry of Education and Republic was also approved. Higher Education and the The Cabinet considered ideas Sarah Aziz University of Qatar as follows: of ministries and government and Unifying the mid-term holi- public authorities and corpora- days of the University of Qatar tions on the application of the and schools from academic years government Human Resources 2013/2014 to 2015/2016. Planning System (Mawarid). Introduction of holidays for the It also discussed a letter by second mid-term at schools in line Qatar Financial Information Unit with the University of Qatar to on its annual report for 2012. be compatible with the holidays QNA

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Qatar Airways Chengdu flight Indian Navy Qatar reelected ships to visit Doha on Tuesday DOHA: Indian Navy’s Western to UNWTO Fleet Ships INS Tabar and INS Aditya will be visiting Qatar from September 10 until September 13. INS Tabar is a part of the committee state-of-the-art Talwar class ships (Talwar, Trishul and Tabar) of the Indian navy. The ship is commanded by Captain QTA takes part in General Assembly Venkat Raman, said a release issued by the Indian embassy DOHA: Qatar was reelected across the wide range of tourism yesterday. as a member of the Credentials activities described under Law 6 INS Aditya is one of Indian Committee of the Middle East of 2012, described as the “Tourism Navy’s indigenously built Fleet region during the 20th UN Law.” Replenishment Tankers. The World Tourism Organisation The meeting saw the larg- ship commonly referred to as the (UNWTO) General Assembly est participation ever, with 121 lifeline of Indian Navy’s Western meeting held recently. member states in attendance. Fleet, is capable of carrying and A delegation comprising mem- Delegates discussed three key transferring all types of liquid bers of Qatar Tourism Authority challenges facing international cargo. It can also operate a vari- (QTA) returned after their tourism and urged decision- FROM LEFT: Liu Shou Cheng, Vice Mayor of Chengdu, Akbar Al Baker CEO of Qatar Airways, and Jared ety of helicopters. The ship is successful participation in the makers to address them. The Lee, Country Manager for Qatar Airways during a press conference in Chengdu, China, after the launch of commanded by Captain Roopam meeting. first challenge is visa facilitation, Qatar Airways flight. Bembey. “The Qatari presence at the which can hinder or enable the Following the goodwill visit 20th UNWTO General Assembly flow of travel and tourism. of Indian Navy ships, Qatar will resulted in excellent insights and The second challenge is the be hosting the third meeting of relationship building with peers creation of connectivity and har- the Joint Committee on Defence in the global tourism industry. mony between tourism policies Cooperation (JCDC) between These meetings also serve as an and travel policies. The third Quebec woos immigrants India and Qatar on September opportunity to communicate the challenge is the continuous rise 15 and September 16. excellent results we are achieving in travel taxes DOHA: The Quebec file their cases at the earliest Lt. skilled workers will be accepted. JCDC will discuss implemen- in raising the level of tourism in Qatar’s tourism industry and Immigration authorities have Colonel B S Sandhu (retd), CMD, So, all the skilled workers should tation of the bilateral agreement Qatar,” said Issa bin Mohammed society in general has witnessed announced new changes which WWICS Group, said. hurry up and file their cases on defence cooperation signed in Al Mohannadi, Chairman of QTA. a leap forward, which has drawn are set to benefit profession- This is a new opportunity as before the programme is capped. Doha on November 9, 2008 during “We are able to benchmark attention from around the globe als such as nurses, machining the points awarded under the Some other professionals who are the visit of Indian Prime Minister ourselves against our peers while to Qatar. technicians, and insurance and Area of Training to these profes- in demand in Quebec are banking Dr Manmohan Singh to Qatar. also participating in debates and In a short period of time much financial advisors. sions have increased. professionals, accountants, engineers- The two governments have agreed exchanges on some of the most momentum has been gathered in The Canadian province enjoys It will make it easier for them civil, construction, transportation, to renew this agreement for a fur- pressing issues facing our indus- tourism and across society. Today, the sole right of deciding upon the to obtain the qualifying points and computer, metallurgical and materi- ther period of five years, said the try. The future is bright for us, Qatar is a fast growing market by rules and policies of its province. they have an edge over other pro- als, healthcare professionals, etc. statement. and we look forward to contin- any measure — recently upgraded Quebec Immigration is a point fessionals. The qualifying score for THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA ued multi-lateral opportunities to emerging market status by based immigration system and a single person is 55 points for dialogue.” MSCI, having among the highest there have been some changes and that for every mar- QTA’s participation in the per capita GDP in the world, the made in the points allotted to ried person is 63 points, General Assembly meetings fol- tourism sector growing by double many professions. All these whereas for applicants lowed the recent agreement digits last year and at a rate of changes have come in effect from from the Francophone signed by QTA and UNWTO 13 percent in the first quarter of August 1, 2013 and will remain till countries, the qualifying to develop Qatar’s tourism poli- 2013 over the same period 2012. March 31, 2014. points are 49 and 57 for cies and procedures in line with Tourism activities in the Middle “This change in the points single and married people, international best practices. The East grew by 11 percent despite awarded to various professions respectively. agreement will also see UNWTO the conditions in the region. 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Asian maids Use of force must for solution preferred Continued from page 1 Continued from page 1 hold talks with Iran on Syria, negotiation table does not mean This is because Washington is and was committed to a political a surrender or weakness, but “We wouldn’t prefer our chil- worried that an escalation of the solution, and would work for the a necessity, to save the lives of dren to be raised by a European conflict or a wider war might convening of a peace conference Syrians. And bringing two par- woman. We prefer Asian maids,” affect Israel. There is also a fear in Geneva. ties to a dispute together at a said a Qatari woman requesting that the country will fall into But the crisis has shed point in the middle of the road anonymity. “Keeping a maid in the the hands of Al Qaeda and its enough blood and Syrians is better than standing on the house is about trust and comfort.” front groups. So, the strikes are have suffered heavily in their wayside, without hope. A young Qatari woman profes- meant to strip the regime of its struggle for freedom, justice Moreover, the international sional said she thought the whole idea chemical weapons and achieve a and human dignity by fighting community and the superpow- of bringing European maids could be military balance on the ground a tyrant empowered by some ers have a moral responsibility because of the increasing number of between rival parties. countries in the region and to protect Syrian people as the expatriate families in the country. Although murder is murder some superpowers. However, crisis is growing every day. If it “This could help western expa- whatever the weapons used, the as the issue has become more is not remedied now, it will burn triate families, but I wouldn’t like number of Syrians killed in the complicated due to the conflict- everyone, without exception. a European maid in my home. last two years is far greater than ing and entangled interests of Therefore, all parties should not Presently, we have two maids from the number who fell victim to various parties and the cold miss this rare opportunity to the Philippines, and if either or chemical poisoning two weeks war between East and West, a stop the killing machine, before both of them leave, I will look for ago. political solution through mili- the situation descends towards another Asian maid,” she said. Days after the House of tary means is the only way out. the division of Syria, or Syria Recruitment agencies say Commons vote against any Force must be used to reach a becomes a state that lacks the the demand for maids from the military strike on Syria, British political solution, which shall components of a state, or a state Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Foreign Minister William Hague be binding on all parties, inter- without people. Kenya and Ethiopia remained high. said his country was ready to nal and external. Sitting at the THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE military strike against the Syrian regime is almost a certainty. With Barack Obama receiving enough support from lawmakers to carry out US strike on Syria could derail This threats, the focus has shifted to the scale and duration of the strikes. But in the flurry and fury, it’s unfortunate that those who actually need help are forgotten: Syrians. As refugee camps overflow and tens of Iran president’s master plan thousands flee the battlefront on a daily basis, there is no genuine effort to provide them succour, no efforts to find BY YEGANEH TORBATI a lasting solution to the conflict, and no efforts to put the A US strike on Syria would spell “the valid argument that if the US attacks suffering of ordinary Syrians at the centre of any plan. end of a diplomacy aimed at reducing Syria, Iran will feel an even greater At the end of the planned strikes, whenever it ends, Syria F ONE thing could scuttle Iranian tensions with the West and recon- need for a nuclear deterrent,” said would be a bigger wreck. President Hassan Rouhani’s big plan ciliation with the world,” wrote Sadeq Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst with the I- to fix Iran’s economy by winning Zibakalam, a professor at Tehran Carnegie Endowment for International According to the latest figures, more than 110,000 people some relief from Western sanctions - a University, in Etemad, another reform- Peace think-tank in Washington. have died in the conflict in Syria since March 2011. he US strike on Tehran’s ally Syria is it. ist newspaper, last week. When considering their response Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll since Rouhani’s June election landslide won “The atmosphere between Syria’s to any strike on Syria, Iranian leaders the beginning of the 29-month uprising now stands at him the cautious backing of Supreme allies and the West, after a Western must weigh the costs and benefits of 110,371 people, with at least 40,146 civilians killed including Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to pur- attack on Syria, will become so cold and backing Assad, versus the advantage to sue his pledge to engage with Western dark that there would be practically no be gained from a possible detente with nearly 4,000 women and more than 5,800 children. countries and attempt to ease Iran’s iso- space for reducing tensions and improv- the United States, the prospect of a On Tuesday the United Nations, declared Syria the 21st lation over Tehran’s nuclear programme. ing relations ... Iran will be forced to nuclear deal and the easing of sanctions. century’s worst crisis as the number of refugees passed the But the hardliners Rouhani defeated change its tone towards the West to a So far, Iran’s response to the chemical two million mark. The commissioner for refugees, António at the polls still dominate parliament hostile one.” weapons attack suggests disagreement Guterres described it as a “disgraceful humanitarian and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary In Washington, some reason that within the corridors of power in Tehran. calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in Guard Corps (IRGC), and are poised a US military strike on Syria would A chorus of Revolutionary Guards to return Iran to the familiar posture improve the prospects of a deal with commanders have issued daily dire recent history”. With the crisis of defiance if the president’s message Iran by reinforcing the credibility of the warnings that US strikes on Syria would still far away from a solution, of moderation implicit US threat to use force to pre- result in a conflict engulfing the whole As strikes the future looks horrifyingly falls on deaf ears vent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapons region - implying retaliation against bleaker. abroad. capability. Israel, presumably by Iran’s Lebanese against the Yet, pledges of funds seem As the presi- “If there are a set of finite but effec- ally Hezbollah. reluctantly made. The war in Syria is Iran’s dent prepares tive strikes against Syria, the effect on “An attack on Syria will mean the Syrian regime to travel to New the Iranians will be real,” said Dennis imminent destruction of Israel,” IRGC Syria has just become a game of sole regional ally, York to attend the Ross, a former White House and State commander Mohammad Ali Jafari was loom, no one numbers. Even groups providing and Western foes United Nations Department official who served as one quoted as saying last week in an inter- aid, such as the medical charity say Tehran is General Assembly of President Barack Obama’s key advis- view with the Tasnim news agency. is talking MSF, report a slow response. this month, US ers on Iran. Yet the Iranian government line has supporting Syrian military strikes “It raises the stakes for them of not been more measured. Rouhani con- about helping International agencies engaged President Bashar on Syria could having diplomacy succeed,” said Ross, demned the use of chemical weapons, in humanitarian activities are derail Rouhani’s now with the Washington Institute for pointing out that Iranian troops were Syrians. not showing the same interest Al Assad with diplomacy before Near East Policy think-tank. victims of gas attacks during the 1980- they are known for during arms, cash and it even starts. Conversely, Ross said a US failure to 1988 Iran-Iraq war. He stopped short of crises of this magnitude. And “You can hardly punish Syria for crossing Obama’s “red apportioning blame. there is a general feeling of helplessness, a feeling that the Revolutionary think of a more line” with the use of chemical weapons Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad inevitable cannot be averted. In other words, the crisis has Guardsmen to unlucky situa- might make Iran believe it could pursue Zarif went further and blamed rebels tion for a moder- its nuclear programme with impunity. for the attack. He also warned the become so complex that suggesting solutions would sound train militia to ate government This argument is reinforced by the United States not to get involved: “The foolish. help win the civil which wants to view held by many in the United States Syria crisis is a trap set by Zionist pres- While there is a paucity of aid, there is also problem in relax tensions that it is sweeping US, European Union sure groups for (the United States),” the disbursal of aid already available. Large amounts of aid war. with the world,” and United Nations sanctions on Iran Iran’s English-language channel Press are coming from Syria’s Arab neighbours, but because this wrote columnist that have brought about Iran’s new TV quoted him as saying. is not integrated into the wider relief effort, it is hard to Maziar Khosravi in Iran’s reformist willingness to engage over its nuclear But Zarif has also offered some mild Sharq newspaper on Monday, referring programme. criticism of the Syrian government. co-ordinate efforts. There are several gaps and wasteful to the likelihood of US strikes to punish However, there are those who make “We believe that big mistakes made duplications. Assad for an apparent chemical weap- the opposite case: that strikes on Syria by the government in Syria unfortu- The talk about Syria needs to shift from war to helping ons attack near Damascus on Aug. 21. would reinforce those in Iran who nately provided an opportunity for Syrians and providing aid. Even f there is no international Syria is Iran’s sole regional ally, and favour obtaining nuclear weapons and abuse,” Iranian media quoted him as consensus on overthrowing Bashar Al Assad, countries Western foes say Tehran is support- undermine a potential deal. saying this week. He has also repeatedly ing Syrian President Bashar Al Assad “There’s a valid argument to be called for diplomacy as an alternative to need to arrive at a consensus on helping the victims of this with arms, cash and Revolutionary made that US inaction in Syria will Obama’s stark alternatives of military war. The UN and humanitarian groups must shed their Guardsmen to train militia to help win embolden Iran to move forward with strikes versus inaction. lethargy and speak more forcefully. • the civil war. its nuclear ambitions. There’s an equally REUTERS The other side Quote of Questionable move: Murder charges against Musharraf the day ERHAPS inevitably, given the right says much about the ideological revisit the past. As 2007 rolled around, complex. For one, it took too long for the furore and great controversy motivation behind the demand. That the capital was under siege from a new Musharraf administration to decide that surround-ing the episode, is also precisely why the Lal Masjid form of moral policing and vigilantism. the activities of the Ghazi brothers had to The governorship of Pformer president-cum- operation remains hugely controversial: From the memorable image of cane- be shut down. Then, after that decision army chief Pervez Musharraf is to be there are segments of the population wielding women stalking the streets of was taken, the failure of negotiations led the central bank is investigated by the capital police, at the that have no problem with vigilantism, Islamabad, looking to purge it of vice as to a predictable, if ill-advised and imme- behest of the Islamabad High Court, for kidnapping, illegal occupation of state defined by them, to occupying a chil- diately unnecessary full-scale attack on not meant to win one the murder of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and land and sundry other crime so long as dren’s library, from kidnapping to illegally the complex. Perhaps a better trained, votes or Facebook his mother in the Lal Masjid operation. it is done in the name of religion. stockpiling arms to setting up its own more cautious administration would have Mr Musharraf has much to answer for Yet, there can be no room in a courts to dispense so-called Islamic tried less lethal tactics to evacuate the ‘likes’. But I hope to in his years ruling this country and the law-abiding, pluralistic, tolerant and justice, Islamabad, indeed the country, complex and get the recalcitrant core of do the right thing, Lal Masjid episode was mishandled rights-respecting Pakistan for the many had never seen anything like it before. would-be martyrs to surrender. But that from the start, but in this case murder threatening, illegal and violent acts of It was unacceptable and no administra- still does not add up to murder charges no matter what the charges are really a step too far. That the the Lal Masjid leadership in the months tion could tolerate it. Something had to against Musharraf. Islamabad could not criticism, even while shrillest voices calling for murder charges leading up to the military assault on the be done. be allowed to succumb to the brazen Raghuram Rajan against Mr Musharraf in this particular mosque. When memories are short, and There were clearly mistakes made vigilantism and threats of the Lal Masjid looking to learn from Reserve Bank of India case can be heard from the religious perhaps deliberately selective, it helps to in the operation against the Lal Masjid brigade. DAWN the criticism. Governor THURSDAY 5 SEPETEMBER 2013 QATAR PERSPECTIVE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Hot issues before the new govt

hen the new govern- upgrading education by putting be brought to book. Those who this agency said: “Let’s finish our ment was formed special focus on the gains of society MOHAMMAD ALI AL KUBAISI award contracts to specific compa- work in Doha first and then we on June 26, 2013, I and its experiences. They called nies and contractors disregarding will have time for the other cit- Wposed a minor ques- for giving up the propensity for rules of fair competition must be ies”. The government seeks to curb tion on my Twitter account: What importing educational systems as “small”. They said although called to account. Those who give the migration of citizens to Doha are the hot issues facing the gov- from abroad without adapting Qatar ranked as a country with jobs only to their friends and rela- from other cities. But the situation ernment of H E Sheikh Abdullah them to the aspirations of the local one of the highest per capita tives, overlooking experienced and on the ground encourages citizens bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani? society. Some tweeters said Qatari incomes in the world, part of its talented individuals, should also be to leave all other cities for Doha. A few seconds had hardly passed society was full of expertise in the population (around 12,000 people) brought to account. 9. Honest aides when answers to the question field of education and educational was living at the subsistence level 7. An elected Shura Council A large number of tweeters started to trickle in. Here I list planning. They said these people or an even lower level. Everybody Tweeters were divided on this expressed the hope that the Prime some of the most important would be more useful than for- The larger group asked what QR2,250 could fetch issue. One group called for speed- Minister would enlist the services answers in this regard. eigners who are unfamiliar with when commodity prices kept ing up the process of drawing up of talented and experienced indi- 1. Health the religion or traditions of Qatari called for scrapping soaring. rules for the election of the Shura viduals who cared about the inter- Only a healthy society can func- society. They added that these the concept of 5. Giving citizenship to Council so that the people can ests of Qatar and would advise him tion effectively. This is one reason foreigners were only interested in an elected Shura foreigners choose their representatives. This on various issues. why most tweeters focused on making a quick buck regardless of Tweeters made a distinction was a considerably small group. The fact is that the list of hot the health of individuals and the whether the Qatari society ben- Council. They among three categories of foreign- The larger group called for scrap- issues can be endless, but the space society in general. They sought to efited from them or not. expressed fear ers: Children of Qatari women, ping the concept of an elected of one column makes it necessary invite attention to the condition 3. Priority to citizens, not long-time residents of Qatar and Shura Council. They expressed for me not to go any further. Still, I of our country’s hospitals, particu- foreigners that the painful newcomers to this country. They fear that the painful experience can mention some more examples larly those which have lavish decor Most of those who sent answers experience of Kuwait expressed sympathy for the first of Kuwait would repeat itself in of hot issues. Some people men- but poor services, especially when to my question underlined the would repeat itself in and second categories of people.As Qatar. These people thought that tioned the human resources law; it comes to the number of doctors need for the government to pay for the third category, most tweet- the formation of the current coun- pensions; mortgage; the retire- and beds, which are hardly enough more attention to Qatari citizens Qatar. ers agreed in that strong measures cil matched the make-up of Qatari ment law; controlling commodity for even half of Qatar’s population. by giving them positions they were needed to prevent them from society. They said it adhered to prices; speeding up the reclama- Since the health insurance scheme deserve, instead of excluding them getting Qatari citizenship. They the constitution because it rep- tion of lands given to citizens; the had already been approved, most from development programmes. said most of the time there were resented all segments of Qatari attitude of Qatar Airways towards of those who sent answers to my They said Qatari citizens were salaries and training. Most impor- no strong links between these peo- society. Qatari citizens, and charity houses’ question focused on the need for the ones who would remain in the tantly, these citizens should not be ple and Qatar and its people. 8. Paying attention to cities ownership bonds (the last one is offering all Qataris health insur- country at the end of the day and subject to the whims of govern- 6. Combating corruption and villages my suggestion). ance cover, both inside Qatar and they would be the ones who will ment officials who sometimes nip Financial and administrative I felt some astonishment when To conclude, I hope that the ten- outside. develop this country. They added their dreams in the bud with their corruption is the target here. one of the tweeters mentioned ure of the Emir will be one dur- 2. Education that we should learn a lesson from unconsidered decisions. This is about bringing to account this issue, drawing support from ing which all-important projects It is one of the basic pillars of what happened in Kuwait follow- 4. Social Affairs, salaries government officials who harm other tweeters. I went to one of the are completed. I have hope that development of countries. Most ing the Iraqi invasion. This is why Several tweeters described the public interest, regardless of who agencies concerned and enquired everybody in this country, espe- of those who sent answers to my it is important to give priority to salaries given to widows, the disa- they are. Civil servants who do about towns and villages out- cially Qatari citizens, will enjoy question focused on the need for Qatari citizens when it comes to bled and those with special needs not do their work properly must side Doha. One of the officials in prosperity.

KHALID AL JABER Denying the Holocaust The fate of those who fall from pulpits paid a visit to Afghanistan in launched by Egyptian Defence veryone must have experienced varying degrees of oppres- 2004 on an invitation from ABDEL AZIZ AL MAHMOUD Minister General Abdel Fatah Al sion, torture and isolation, but what is worse is a situa- the Afghan government in Sisi. Then I remembered the same tion where some people are sent to die, be burnt alive or Iorder to attend a ceremony occasion when I saw Amr Khalid Eslaughtered while others watch idly. This is one of the commemorating the death of the A four-wheel-drive car took with his childish talk, which he failings of mankind that has recently repeated itself in Syria, in ‘Lion of Panjshir’, Ahmed Shah us to Sayyaf’s house, which was started in a truncated manner, what will surely not be its last manifestation, as killings, destruc- Masood. I could not understand located in one of the suburbs of the but one that had the same style tion, massacres and shelling are being denied. anything said during the cer- Afghan capital, Kabul. The roads as Gomaa’s speech. People try to give political, geographical and religious justifica- emony as almost everybody spoke were unpaved and full of rainwa- These speeches were used to tions, and sometimes cite the fear of religious conflict between in Farsi. The speakers recited ter, which forced the driver to use mobilise soldiers and policemen Muslims and Christians, or sectarian Sunni-Shia or Kurdish-Arab poetry while the others nodded Religion was used in all the capabilities of his vehicle to against demonstrators. The result strife, and of the spread of the conflict over the entire region. their heads mechanically. the Egyptian crisis keep moving. has been more than 2,000 dead, Although justice always prevails My friend, who was a journalist, Sayyaf received us in his mod- including many women, children in the end, the conflict may take a and I thought many times of leav- as a weapon against estly furnished house. He talked and old people, and 10,000 injured. long time to end and claim many Although justice ing the hall where the event was those who called about everything except his posi- Most of the injured could not find innocent lives. held. But we decided to stay a few for the return of tion on the Karzai government. anybody to treat them because The Nazis created the largest con- always prevails minutes, lest our exit be misunder- When I asked Sayyaf about this, they are a bunch of “infidels” who centration camps at Oswiecim near stood. We finally decided to go out legitimacy. It was the his face changed, as if he had not want to divide Egypt. the Polish city of Krakow between in the end, the quietly one after another, in order strongest weapon expected me to ask him this ques- Religion was used in the 1940 and 1945. At the Auschwitz not to attract attention. tion. I do not remember Sayyaf’s Egyptian crisis as a weapon camp, more than a million people conflict may One of those invited to the event used against them. answer to the question, because it against those who called for the were killed, the majority of them was a Sudanese academic. I could was unconvincing to me anyway. return of legitimacy. It was the Jews, besides Polish gypsies, Russian take a long not understand why he had been We left Sayyaf’s house angry at strongest weapon used against prisoners of war and others. invited. He was given the opportu- him and his talk. When we were them. To utilise such a weapon, Trains used to carry the victims time to end and nity to speak in Arabic. His speech was fabricated as the Sudanese by ourselves, my friend said: “This only a turban and a few verses to the camp on a daily basis from was translated into Farsi by a per- academic said. Are we the by- man owns a palace at the top of from the Holy Quran, cited out different European countries under claim many son standing by him. The transla- products of a big lie? a mountain guarded by a battal- of context, are needed. An igno- Nazi occupation during the Second innocent lives. tor did exactly as the speaker did: My friend kept looking at the ion of his soldiers. He only invites rant audience is also needed. All World War. he screamed, smiled and got angry Sudanese academic, and suddenly foreigners and journalists to this these elements were present, that Countries, both in the east and like him. said, “Let’s go, I feel disgusted by palace. As for this house, where is why this weapon was used to the west, watched this as if this mat- This Sudanese academic did not this man”. he invited us, he keeps it only for the full. ter was of no concern to them. All the teachings of the Age of spare any part of Islamic history a Then we wanted to visit some donors from the Gulf. He shows Sayyaf disappeared from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution had gone in vain. Some harsh attack. We, he said, were the people who had been at the centre his artificial modesty, something picture after using religion to people even denied the existence of the gas chambers. Not only by-products of a fabricated history of media coverage for a long time. he has mastered over the years. serve his own interests. He will die that, some even defended Adolf Hilter, like some people are doing made up of lies and hypocrisy. He One of them was Abdul Rasul This man has managed to collect quietly in one of his houses, which now with Bashar Al Assad and his Baathist regime. said we did not have anything Sayyaf, who had played a big role in much money employing his tal- are scattered across Afghanistan A few days ago, some Islamic figures of various nationalities right or beautiful in our history. recruiting a large number of young ents. His big crime, however, is and Pakistan. Nobody, however, visited the Nazi Holocaust camp of Auschwitz to show their soli- Those present shook their heads men for the war in Afghanistan. that he convinced so many youth will mourn his death. Ali Gomaa, darity against attempts by former Iranian president Mahmud in agreement like they had done The man’s thick beard, big turban to fight alongside him, but turned Amr Khalid and others who use Ahmadinejad to deny the Holocaust. Their programme included in reaction to all other speakers. and large frame had left an indel- his back on them when he got religion to gloss over their crimes prayers in Arabic, English, French and other languages. They were ignorant in the most ible mark in the minds of a large what he wanted, becoming one of will also disappear in similar fash- The late Palestinian thinker Edward Said used to say that the part. They were exploited by this number of Arab youth. the Afghan warlords.” ion. Those who fall down, partic- relationship between the Holocaust and the Palestinian crisis could academic to promote his ideas. We wanted to know his attitude I remembered this when I saw ularly from pulpits, are usually not be denied, as the Holocaust led to the Palestinian crisis and I turned to my friend and asked towards the Hamid Karzai govern- Ali Gomaa insulting his Al Azhar rescued by no one. this requires recognition of both of them. him whether this man was in ment and the reason why he had turban with his speech, which was History does not mention schol- Holocausts keep happening in the Arab world these days. The his right mind. He spoke so elo- backed this government in elec- recorded by the Egyptian army. In ars who eat sweets at the courts fear is that these Holocausts will spread from the Gulf to the ocean quently, but without providing tions in total contrast to what he his speech, Gomaa asked the sol- of rulers. It only remembers those like wildfire, burning everything in their way, including all seekers any evidence for what he said. I had said to Arab delegates during diers to kill peaceful demonstra- whose teachings leave an indelible of freedom, justice and human dignity, while the whole world stands asked him whether our history fundraising campaigns. tors who opposed the military coup mark on the walls of prison cells. idly by, denying the Holocaust like in the case of Syria. Children who are growing old before their time

t is not only me who is bothered by watching I then recalled an international report that was was how our children reacted. the bloody news from the Arab and Islamic MARYAM AL KHATER published by international news agencies during Who oppressed whom? And who killed whom? world, which is full of disorders; our little the difficult period that preceded the chemical What happened? Why mosques and places of wor- Ichildren too are, as they sit beside us hearing, and it was all just a dream, or more specifically, massacre. The report shed light on how bloody ship being destroyed? A child’s question is so hard. observing, asking, crying and feeling the pain of a nightmare. conflicts affect the mental health of children in “What is left mom?” my son asked. Like politics others, including children. I hugged my son to calm him and to get him the Arab Spring Countries. like life, easy abstainer is harder than any other One morning, I woke up my ten-year-old son ready for a new day. Then my mind boggled. I This sinful scene of civilians being attacked by abstainer is. to get him ready for school. To encourage him to started thinking of the children of Syria whose nerve gas amid negligence from the international All this happens and we mourn our bloody get up I looked at the window and said, “Look at entire lives, not just their dreams, have turned into community threatens not only humanity or the Arab reality. These realities have taken mercy the clouds and the sight of lightning cleaving the hell; their toys have become battens they use while children’s mental or physical health, but also the out of many hearts, that increased divisions in sky,” as I live in the southern hemisphere, where playing the roles of the Syrian Army and the Free mental health of the international community due every country, took mercy out of our hearts and it is winter. The boy suddenly said, terrified, “Do Syrian Army. Therefore, a political predicament to the absence of humanity. divided many hearts, making us mourns a dead not mention lightning, when I saw it last night I was formed as one people start killing each other, Our children get frightened just as they watch international conscience, one that conspires to had a terrible dream,”. This encouraged me to ask whereas neither victim nor victimiser knows why the news or listen to an innocent Syrian girl get- abuse human beings and crush children’s rights. him about his dream. he is in his position. ting startled because of an explosion behind her These rights were usurped in fields that were never “I dreamed that I was standing in a public park I later turned on the television to watch news of while she was singing amputates her friend’s leg. made for war. where you stood at the entrance. Suddenly a bomb a new massacre with chemical weapons in Ghouta, Another explosion at two mosques in Lebanon We as well mourn the innocence of our children blew off, shaking the whole entrance. I started Damascus. The residents of this area were killed added more insult to injury. It added more pains that turned their dreams into nightmares. Our screaming and calling for you. I realised that the while the whole world was watching. Our hearts to the ones Arabs already experience in Syria, children grow old before their time because of the explosion was strong and not simple,” my son said. are full of pain as we watch this gas destroying Egypt and Libya, Tunisia and Iraq. pains they experience, pains that take the stead of Then I woke him up just to see that I was fine Syrian lives. “Egypt! This is new,” that hope in their lives. THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Russia warns Putin chides of catastrophe if reactor hit US; Assad by US strike ST PETERSBURG: Russia said yesterday that a military strike on Syria could have catastrophic effects if a missile hit a small reactor near Damascus that con- ally defects tains radioactive uranium. The Foreign Ministry called on the UN nuclear agency to urgently assess the risk as the Obama working to build support United States considers military action to punish Syria’s govern- AMMAN: General Ali Habib, military echelon, and they know ment for an alleged gas attack. a former Syrian defence minis- this,” Putin said. “He is lying and “If a warhead, by design or by ter, has become the most sen- knows he is lying. It’s sad.” chance, were to hit the Miniature ior member of President Bashar Having surprised friends and Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) Al Assad’s ruling Alawite sect foes alike by seeking approval near Damascus, the consequences to defect, opposition figures from Congress before attacking, could be catastrophic,” a ministry said yesterday, as Washington Obama has been working to build statement said. debated a military strike on the support at home and abroad. In It said nearby areas could be war-racked country. Stockholm en route for Russia, contaminated by highly enriched Habib had been under house he appealed to lawmakers’ con- uranium and that it would be arrest since he resigned in pro- sciences: “America and Congress’s impossible to account for the test at Assad’s crackdown on credibility is on the line,” he said. FROM LEFT: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, United Nations, nuclear material after such a demonstrators in 2011 but had “The question is how credible is High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres, Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour and strike, suggesting it could fall into reached the Turkish border late Congress when it passes a treaty Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu before a meeting in Geneva to discuss the growing number of Syrian the hands of people who might use on Tuesday with Western help, saying we have to forbid the use refugees, which are flooding into neighbouring nations. Syria’s refugee crisis is one of the biggest tragedies of it as a weapon. Kamal Al Labwani of the Syrian of chemical weapons.” Russia urged the UN our times, the UN said, with more than two million Syrians having fled their war-ravaged country and some 4.2 National Coalition said. Earlier, Putin had said that he International Atomic Energy million displaced internally. Other sources also said Habib could not absolutely “rule out” Russia Agency secretariat to “react had fled but Syrian state televi- supporting a UN Security Council swiftly” and present IAEA mem- sion denied he had left his home. resolution to punish Assad — if it bers “an analysis of the risks Turkey’s foreign minister said could be proved he had used poison German spy agency sees Assad role linked to possible American he could not confirm the gen- gas. Briefing members of congress strikes on the MNSR and other eral had defected. A Gulf source in Washington, Kerry said those facilities in Syria”. said that Habib had crossed the comments were “hopeful” and in chemical attack, cites phone call Moscow has been the most Turkish frontier on Tuesday “there may be a road forward powerful ally of Syrian President with three other people. He was where Russia would consider not Bashar Al Assad, shielding him then taken across the border in blocking action”. BERLIN: A Hezbollah offi- A BND spokesman declined In 2011 Britain’s Guardian news- from tougher UN resolutions and a convoy of vehicles. A senior Western official said cial has said Syrian President to comment on Monday’s brief- paper reported Iraqi defector Rafid warning that a Western military Kerry said he did not know if that, while Moscow was unlikely Bashar Al Assad ordered a poi- ing, saying German intelligence Ahmed Alwan Al Janabi, code- attack on Syria would raise ten- the report of Habib’s defection to say so in public, there were signs son gas attack last month and speaks only to the government named “curveball”, had made up sions and undermine efforts to was correct but “there are cur- Russian officials believe Assad was that it considered the move a and to parliamentary committees claims told to German intelligence end the country’s civil war. rently defections taking place, I indeed responsible for the deaths mistake which showed he was on highly sensitive matters. officials that Saddam Hussein had “The IAEA is aware of the think there are something like 60 on August 21 and that it had losing his grip, according to A Hezbollah spokesman was not weapons of mass destruction to statement but has not received a to 100 in the last day or so, officers strained Russian support for him German intelligence. available for comment. The US help topple his government. The formal request from the Russian and enlisted personnel.” — providing an opening for a new, Participants at a confidential goverment says about 1,400 peo- information from Janabi formed Federation,” an IAEA spokes- Washington and Syria’s main concerted drive to end the conflict. meeting of German lawmakers on ple, hundreds of them children, the basis of a 2003 speech by person said. “We will consider backer Russia remained publicly However, Putin’s characteristi- Monday said the head of the BND died near Damascus on August former US secretary of state Colin the questions raised if we receive at odds over US plans for a possi- cally blunt tone towards the US foreign intelligence agency told 21 in what it says was a sarin gas Powell before the United Nations such a request.” ble military strike but both raised position appeared to limit prospects them it had intercepted a phone attack by the Syrian government. Security Council. The IAEA said in a report to the prospect of easing the deadlock for a breakthrough in a stalemate call believed to be between a high- France’s military and foreign Some German lawmakers also member states last week that when President Vladimir Putin that has prevented international ranking member of the Lebanese intelligence services submitted expressed concern that German Syria had declared there was a hosts world leaders at a G20 sum- action to rein in the conflict. Shia militant group and the to French lawmakers on Monday intelligence on Syria could be used “small amount of nuclear mate- mit today. US President Barack Following the failure of British Iranian Embassy in Damascus. a report suggesting that forces by the United States to justify rial” at the MNSR, a type of Obama said he would continue to Prime Minister David Cameron “The BND referred to a phone loyal to Assad in the country’s military intervention without a research reactor usually fuelled try to persuade Putin of the need to win parliamentary backing call they had heard between a two-year-old civil war, had car- UN mandate. Berlin has ruled out by highly enriched uranium. for punitive strikes on Assad for for air strikes last week, France Hezbollah official and the Iranian ried out the attack. participation in a military inter- Nuclear expert Mark Hibbs, of using chemical weapons when the and Turkey are the only military embassy in which he spoke about One participant at the Berlin vention in Syria, which would be the Carnegie Endowment think- two meet in St. Petersburg. powers lining up behind Obama. Assad having ordered the attack,” meeting said German lawmak- deeply unpopular at home. tank, said the MNSR was a very But Putin again questioned The French parliament debated one of the participants said. ers of all parties were sceptical Last month a German naval small reactor and there would not Western evidence. He accused Syria, though President Francois In the phone call, the Hezbollah about a military intervention in reconnaissance vessel, the Oker, be a lot of nuclear material there. US Secretary of State John Kerry Hollande does not need approval official says Assad’s order for Syria and had quizzed the BND sailed from Sardinia to the east- But he said there could be “a outright of lying when, in urging for action. His foreign minister, the attack was a mistake and over faulty intelligence on weap- ern Mediterranean. German serious local radiation hazard” Congress to approve strikes on Laurent Fabius, said using force that he was losing his nerve, the ons of mass destruction in Iraq media reported that the boat is if there was irradiated nuclear Syria, Kerry played down the role against Assad could pave the way participants reported the BND used to justify the US-led invasion fitted with technology to eaves- material in the reactor and it was of Al Qaeda in the rebel forces. for a new round of diplomacy. briefing as saying. Both Iran and of 2003. No such weapons were drop on activities in Syria. dispersed by a weapon strike. “Al Qaeda units are the main REUTERS Hezbollah support Assad. found. REUTERS REUTERS Syria will not give in ‘even if there is third world war’

DAMASCUS: Syria said yesterday that it had taken “every measure” to retaliate if hit by a feared US-led military strike and would never give in, even if a third world war erupts. “Syria has taken every measure to retali- ate against... an aggres- sion,” Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad said, although he refused to provide any clue as to what that might mean. “The Syrian government will not change position even if there is World War Men ride a motorbike past damaged buildings on a deserted street in the besieged area of Homs yesterday. III. No Syrian can sacrifice the independence of his country,” he added. Cluster bombs use in Syria decried The regime categori- cally denies any respon- GENEVA: The Syrian regime weapons. “Syria’s extensive use convention, and yesterday’s sibility for the alleged has used cluster munitions of cluster munitions has caused report hailed the speed at which attack in Damascus “extensively” in the second half needless civilian casualties,” signatories were destroying their suburbs and has said it of last year and first half of this lamented report editor Mary stockpiles — many of them years is cooperating with UN year, causing many civilian cas- Warenham, of Human Rights in advance of their deadlines. inspectors who are cur- ualties, according to a report Watch, in a statement. Netherlands finished destroying rently analysing samples published yesterday. But she welcomed the fact that its once-massive stockpile in 2012, taken from the sites of the It said at least 165 people were 113 countries had condemned and along with Denmark, France, suspected incident. killed or wounded by cluster muni- Syria’s use of the weapons, indi- Germany, Italy, Britain and others Analysts fear that the tions in Syria last year alone, rep- cating “stigma against cluster destroyed a record 173,973 cluster conflict currently tearing resenting a vast majority of the 190 munitions is strong.” Cluster munitions and 27 million submu- Syria apart will spill over known casualties from the weap- bombs can be dropped from nitions over the 12-month period. permanently into frag- ons around the world in 2012. planes or fired from artillery and Seventeen countries, mainly ile, neighbouring coun- “Syria used cluster munitions spread hundreds of submunitions, in Asia and Europe, meanwhile tries such as Lebanon, extensively in the second half of or “bomblets”, over a wide area. continue to produce cluster muni- where supporters of the 2012 and the first half of 2013, As many of these devices fail to tions or reserve the right to do Damascus regime are causing numerous civilian casu- explode on impact, countries often so in the future, according to the already pitted against its alties,” according to the Cluster have a difficult job clearing their report. Only three of the produc- opponents. Munition Monitor Report. territory of what become de facto ing countries are known to have And allies Russia and The annual report provides landmines. Furthermore, many used such weapons in the past: the Iran have warned that an overview of how countries bomblets are brightly coloured, United States, Russia and Israel. any military intervention are implementing the 2008 attracting children and exploding The report was published ahead of would have devastating Convention on Cluster Munitions, when they are picked up. the fourth meeting of state parties regional consequences. which bans all use, production, As of July 31, 2013, 112 countries to the convention, set to be held in AFP transfer and stockpiling of the had joined the cluster munition Zambia next week. AFP THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Al Jazeera Brotherhood newspaper soldiers on accuses Egypt Reporters and editors lead underground existence as crackdown intensifies authorities of CAIRO: Whenever Muslim “The greatest form of jihad is a journalist,” said Tawfiq, a slight He and about 50 others pro- footage of the sniper firing the jamming signal Brotherhood journalist Islam speaking up against an unjust man with a close-cropped beard duce Freedom and Justice. It used shot that killed him. He was one Tawfiq files a story about the authority,” Tawfiq, 27, said by who joined the Brotherhood as a to be a 16-page daily but is now of at least five journalists from all DOHA: Al Jazeera has accused group’s struggle for survival telephone from an undisclosed boy. “My hope is for my work to be half that length because, since the media killed since July 3. Egyptian authorities of jam- for its newspaper Freedom and location, citing the words of the stronger then Sisi’s bullets against arrest of Saad Al Katatni, chair- A mystery is why the govern- ming the network’s satellite sig- Justice, he fears his Internet Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Egyptians.” man of the Freedom and Justice ment, which has closed down nals, as the broadcaster kept up address will tip off state secu- The Brotherhood, which won The Brotherhood developed Party and the newspaper’s finan- Islamist television channels, still its critical coverage of Cairo’s rity agents to his whereabouts. every election after the 2011 the skills of clandestine unarmed cier, it has no money. allows the paper to be printed on crackdown on Islamists. Thousands of Brotherhood revolt that toppled president resistance under the iron rule of “We don’t have access to our the presses of the state-run news- “Independent experts” used members have been arrested in a Hosni Mubarak, has been on the one Egyptian military-backed bank account,” said Azouni. paper Al Ahram. by Al Jazeera have determined widening crackdown on the group defensive since Mursi’s downfall. leader after another. This time, Reporters have not been paid in Some suggest it may help where the jamming was coming since the army deposed Islamist Security forces crushed pro-Mursi the government seems more two months. The paper’s print keep tabs on the movement, in from, the network said on its web- president Mohammed Mursi on protest camps in Cairo, killing determined than ever to crush it. run has been cut from 100,000 the knowledge that the paper site late on Tuesday. July 3. Reporters for the newspa- nearly 1,000 people, and forced For the reporters, going to the to 10,000, and it is now available is struggling to stay afloat and The experts were “confident per, which still appears in a tiny many members underground. newsroom to discuss stories with only in Cairo, not in other towns reaching only a small audience. about both the locations and fraction of its previous circulation, Many Egyptians turned against editors is no longer an option. and cities. Editors, also in hid- It also could provide a defence who is responsible,” Al Jazeera see themselves as the last people the movement after Mursi gave Meeting sources in public is out ing, receive stories by email from against accusations that the gov- said, adding that trackers have left to tell the Brotherhood’s side himself sweeping powers and of the question. Most live away reporters who often switch com- ernment is suppressing dissent. identified locations east and west of the story in a country domi- mismanaged the economy. They from home and might not see puters to avoid detection by state None of the paper’s staff are now of Cairo, and specifically identi- nated by media that back the now revere the man who toppled their families for weeks at a time. security agencies. jailed, but police raided the news fied military installations as the military crackdown. Mursi, army chief General Abdel “It’s a charged environment. Assem Ahmed, a 26-year-old director’s apartment on Saturday, source of interference. The net- The price, the journalists say, is Fattah Al Sisi. I expect that things will only photographer for the paper, was according to Tawfiq, and men work said it has been forced to an underground existence, mov- “Part of my goal in my report- get worse for us,” said reporter one of more than 50 people killed broke into the paper’s long-shut- change frequencies several times ing from place to place, communi- ing is to fight the coup. Not lit- Mohamed El Azouni, meeting in a when Republican Guardsmen tered headquarters searching for to allow viewers to watch its news cating from Internet cafes, rarely erally with weapons and blood, Cairo restaurant. He had not seen fired on a pro-Mursi protest in information on the journalists. and sport channels. seeing family or friends. but with my way of fighting... as his family in two months. July. His last image was video REUTERS Egyptian authorities and local media have accused Al Jazeera of biased reporting on the popularly- backed coup that toppled Islamist president Mohammed Mursi on July 3 and on its bloody after- Peace talks with Israel math. The Qatari network has given wide coverage to demonstra- tions that followed Mursi’s arrest and the crackdown on Muslim going nowhere: Official Brotherhood protesters. AFP RAMALLAH: Peace talks agreement,” the official said. between Israel and the The US State Department Turkish envoy to Palestinians are proving point- said on Sunday that Israeli and less and will not bear fruit Palestinian delegations had been return to Egypt without much greater pressure meeting continuously since direct from Washington, a top aide to talks resumed on July 29, adding ANKARA/CAIRO: Turkey’s Palestinian President Mahmoud that a US envoy had taken part envoy to E g y pt, re ca l le d last month Abbas said yesterday. in one of the encounters. after a crackdown on support- In the most damning US Secretary of State John ers of deposed Islamist president Palestinian assessment to date, Kerry has given the two sides nine Mohammed Mursi, was return- Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the months to work out their differ- ing to Cairo yesterday, but Egypt negotiations, which kicked off in ences, with meetings going on in said it would not reciprocate until late July after a three year hia- both Jerusalem and the occupied Turkey stopped its “interference”. tus, had made no progress. “These West Bank. Little information has A senior Turkish official said the negotiations are futile and won’t leaked about the focus of the initial Turkish ambassador, recalled after lead to any results,” Abed Rabbo talks, but Abed Rabbo said contin- more than 600 people were killed told Voice of Palestine radio. ued Israeli settlement building in when security forces broke up pro- “I don’t expect any progress at the West Bank and East Jerusalem test vigils in Cairo on August 14, all unless there is huge and pow- on land the Palestinians want for would return to Cairo soon. erful American pressure, such their future state, had undermined However, an Egyptian Foreign as the one we are seeing from the negotiations. Ministry spokesman said Cairo’s America to deal with the Syrian “Israel did not commit to stop- ambassador, recalled from issue,” added Abed Rabbo, one of ping settlements and we see the Ankara by the interim military- just two officials authorised by continuation of the settlement backed government in response to Iraqis stand at the site of a car bomb attack near a restaurant in Talbiya district, eastern Baghdad, yesterday. Abbas to discuss the talks. policy as destroying any possible Turkey’s move, would not return An Israeli official in Prime chance of (a deal),” he said. “until Turkey stops interfering in Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel announced tenders for, or Egyptian affairs”. 18 members of Shia family killed office declined to comment on advanced the planning process on Relations are in diplomatic the remarks, saying the two sides about 3,100 housing units in the limbo. Ankara says that, while it had agreed that only the United West Bank and East Jerusalem will work with the government, BAGHDAD: Attacks around Latifiyah lies within a con- evening’s violence yesterday. At States should speak about the last month. it does not officially recognise it. Baghdad and north Iraq left 35 fessionally-mixed region known one restaurant, where windows talks. “We are abiding by that REUTERS REUTERS people dead yesterday, includ- as the “Triangle of Death”, so were completely shattered by the ing 18 members of a Shia family named for the brutal violence that blast, three men were consoling killed by militants, the latest in plagued the area during the peak each other as they tried to clean a nationwide surge of violence. of Iraq’s sectarian war in 2006- up the aftermath of the attack. Sunni cleric The unrest came a day after 2007. Last week, another attack “Please, we have cried enough,” a wave of bombings targeting on a Shia family in the same town one of them told another, before released in Shiites in Baghdad and shootings killed at least five people. himself breaking into tears, and bombings elsewhere killed 61 No group claimed responsibility while one man held up the Lebanon people, further raising fears Iraq is for the latest violence. Separate clothes of a friend who died in slipping back into the all-out sec- attacks in Besmaya, Iskandiriyah the attack and shouted, “These bombings case tarian bloodshed that left tens of and Tarmiyah, also on Baghdad’s are his clothes—what should I do thousands dead in 2006 and 2007. outskirts, killed nine people, with them?” BEIRUT: A Sunni cleric Yesterday’s violence struck including seven soldiers. Also yesterday, a spokes- charged over a double car towns on the outskirts of Baghdad A shooting and bombings in man for the Counter Terrorism bombing in the northern as well as predominantly Sunni three Sunni-majority cities north Service announced the arrest of Lebanese city of Tripoli cities in the north of the country, of the capital killed eight people, HusseinAl Khazraji, who security last month that left 45 with the deadliest attack hitting including five policemen who died forces say is a top aide to Izzat dead was released yester- south of the capital. in a suicide car bombing against Al Duri, Saddam’s vice president. day, a judicial source said. Shortly after midnight, mili- a police station in Mosul. Saddam’s Baath party has said A military court tants bombed adjacent houses The latest bloodshed came as Duri, the king of clubs in the US decided on the provisional belonging to Shia brothers in the Baghdad was still reeling from deck of cards showing the most- release of Sheikh Hashem town of Latifiyah, which lies about a wave of car bombs targeting wanted members of the ousted Minkara, who heads the Al 40km south of Baghdad. A total Shia neighbourhoods on Tuesday president’s regime, died in 2005. Tawhid organisation which of 18 people were killed, includ- evening that killed 50 people, But audio messages have been is close to the Damascus ing five women and six children, while unrest elsewhere left 11 attributed to him in recent years regime, the source said. and a dozen others were wounded, others dead. and he is accused of orchestrating Minkara is accused of according to an army officer and a Workers were still picking violent attacks. having known about a doctor at a nearby hospital. up the pieces from the previous AFP “terrorist project and not having alerted authorities”. Twin car bombs exploded outside mosques in the mostly Sunni port city of Five Saudi ‘Qaeda’ members Tripoli on August 23. Israel police free Islamist A Syrian army captain go on trial in Yemen is among four other people preacher on bail charged for the country’s deadliest attack since the JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday released a fire- SANA’A: Five Saudis accused of belonging to end of its 1975-1990 civil brand Arab-Israeli Islamist preacher on bail, a Al Qaeda and of plotting attacks went on trial war. Captain Mohammed day after arresting him over “incitement” against yesterday in a Yemeni court set up for terrorism Ali and another Syria the Jewish state, a police spokeswoman said. cases, the official Saba news agency reported. stand accused of having (Sheikh) Raed Salah was sent home “after accept- The five men face charges of plotting “in associa- placed the two car bombs. ing the conditions of his release,” Luba Samri said. tion with an armed group belonging to Al Qaeda Neither of the two Salah had refused, during an initial appearance to carry out criminal acts against members of the Syrians are currently in in court on Tuesday, to pay a fine and bail of 50,000 armed and security forces in Yemen,” Saba said. Lebanon, but if convicted, shekels ($14,000) and to stay at least 30km away They are also on trial for “forging identity docu- they face the death sen- from Jerusalem for 180 days in return for his release, ments to obtain passports that enable them to visit tence. Minkara and two Samri said. A second court session was scheduled Sudan and then Syria,” where foreign Islamists have other Lebanese have also yesterday morning, but Salah agreed to the condi- joined rebel forces, a judicial source said. All five been charged. His deputy, tions before it took place so the hearing was called defendants have pleaded innocent, the source said. Sheikh Ahmed Al Gharib, off, Samri explained. The next hearing is to take place on September and a journalist who had A spokesman for Salah confirmed “the Sheikh was 11. In the latest violence, a senior police officer in previously done freelance at home” in the northern city of Umm Al Fahm. The the southern province of Shabwa was wounded in a work for Al Manar televi- cleric had been on his way to the Holy City to hold a roadside bombing outside his home yesterday. The sion, have been accused of press conference at the Al Aqsa compound when he device, placed at the door of Commander Adlan Al belonging to “a terrorist was detained for questioning on Tuesday. Dalie, exploded as he left his house, said the official, cell that placed” the bombs. AFP accusing Al Qaeda of responsibility. AFP AFP THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Gorbachev lauds New laws likely to curb NSA powers ailing Mandela GENEVA: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Risk of abuse greater, says Obama yesterday lauded ailing Nelson Mandela as an icon of the glo- STOCKHOLM: Barack Obama was dominated by the Syria cri- bal drive for democracy, after has raised for the first time the sis. But the first question was on his South African fellow Nobel prospect of new legislation to the NSA from a Swedish reporter, laureate was discharged from limit the powers of the NSA, who asked about the extent to hospital. the US spy agency caught up in which it had stirred up an angry “He made a tremendous con- controversy over the sweep of reaction, including in Sweden, tribution. And this says it all. No its surveillance operations. and the impact it is having on US more, no less. Tremendous is the Answering a question at a relations round the world. word to characterise him,” said joint press conference with “This is a question I have Gorbachev, whose role in ending Swedish prime minister Frederik received in previous visits to the Cold War two decades ago Reinfeldt yesterday, Obama said Europe since the stories broke won him the Nobel Peace Prize. there were “legitimate questions” in the Guardian; [a question] I “He made a tremendous contri- about the NSA. He said existing suspect I will continue to get as bution by taking a political posi- laws may not be sufficient to deal I travel through round the world tion on democracy, on transition with advances in technology that for quite some time,” Obama said. to democracy, a moral stance,” have allowed the NSA to gather Defending the NSA, Obama Gorbachev said. “I regard him much more data than before. said that the US, like other as a great man,” the 82-year- There have been calls for countries, had an intelligence old added, as he wrapped up a new legislation from members operation aimed at improving its visit to Geneva to mark the 20th of Congress to limit the powers understanding of what is happen- anniversary of his Green Cross of the NSA, but this is the first ing round the world. Since 9/11, environmental foundation. time that Obama has hinted he he added, much energy had been might back such a move. Until focused on counter-terrorism. now, Obama has only proposed “What I can say with confi- Manning files formal limited changes and is awaiting dence is that when it comes to our recommendations from a review domestic operations, the concerns pardon appeal body he set up. that people have back home — we WASHINGTON: Chelsea The president’s language was do not surveil the American peo- FROM LEFT: Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, US President Barack Manning, the US soldier con- more sympathetic towards the ple or persons within the United Obama, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Davia Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, attend the victed of transmitting hun- privacy camp than it has been States. There are a lot of checks Nordic Dinner in Stockholm, Sweden, yesterday. dreds of thousands of state over the past few months. Just and balances in place designed to secrets to WikiLeaks, has for- because the US intelligence agen- avoid a surveillance state,” Obama Addressing this, Obama said: duration, location and other infor- an announcement last month mally appealed to President cies could do something did not said. “Now when it comes to intelli- mation about phone calls, emails of minimal changes such as the Obama to have her 35-year meant it should, Obama said, Some members of Congress are gence-gathering internationally, and other private information creation of a review body but the sentence commuted. particularly if the US is being pressing for changes to the Patriot our focus is on counter-terrorism, being scooped up daily round the controversy has refused to die. The army private, 25, formerly too intrusive in looking into the Act to end the NSA’s power to weapons of mass destruction, world by the NSA. The review body he set up was known as Bradley Manning, behaviour of other governments. scoop up the phone records of cybersecurity — core national In spite of his insistence that derided by some privacy activists has written to Obama and the Technological changes meant millions of Americans. security interests of the United there was no mass snooping on as lacking independent voices. secretary of the army, John the “risks of abuse are greater Obama and other US politicians States. But what is true is that content, Obama acknowledged the The issue will also be kept in McHugh, asking to be granted than they have been in the past”, have caused upset with repeated the United States has enormous concerns. the public eye by congressional a pardon. In a statement, which he said. statements that the NSA does not capabilities when it comes to Apart from the backlash round hearings, court cases and calls the soldier already made public Obama, visiting Stockholm on read the emails of Americans or intelligence.” the world, Obama is also hav- by Internet companies - suffering following last month’s sentenc- his way to St Petersburg for the listen in on their phone calls - and Obama was careful to speak ing to contend with problems from their association with the ing, Manning said her decision G20 summit, held a joint press that the surveillance applies only only about content and avoided in the US over surveillance. He NSA - for greater transparency. to leak to Julian Assange’s anti- conference with Reinfeldt that to non-Americans. the issue of metadata - the timing, hoped to deflect the issue with GUARDIAN NEWS secrecy group was “made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in ... It was never my intent to hurt anyone.” Cleveland kidnapper found hanged inside Snowden can feel safe in Russia: Putin ‘US spied on Assange at German IT expo’ US prison cell MOSCOW: Russian President yesterday. “I don’t get what he is the United States revoked his was flying to us two hours before Vladimir Putin described the thinking. passport and urged countries the plane landed,” he said. Putin BERLIN: WikiLeaks CHICAGO: A US man who former US intelligence contrac- “Basically he doomed himself not to let him pass. By doing so, insisted Russian intelligence had founder Julian Assange has held three young women captive tor sought by Washington on to a pretty difficult life. What will Putin said Washington effectively not obtained any information filed charges in Germany for a decade was found hanged espionage charges as a “strange he do next, I don’t even imagine. stranded Snowden in Russia. from the 30-year-old American. claiming a US Marines intel- in the Ohio prison where he was guy” but said he could rest easy But it’s clear now that we won’t He defended Moscow’s decision “We have national interest and ligence officer spied on him serving a life sentence, officials that he would not be handed give him away, he should feel safe not to expel him, saying it has we don’t want to undermine... during a Berlin computer said yesterday. over to US authorities. here.” no extradition agreement with US-Russian ties,” he said. conference four years ago, The death of Ariel Castro, 53, US President Barack Obama Russia has used Snowden to Washington. Despite Russia’s refusal to media reports said yesterday. brought an abrupt and dramatic withdrew from a bilateral sum- portray itself as a protector of The former National Security hand over Snowden, Putin voiced Assange said the spying at the ending to a sordid case that mit with Putin last month after human rights and defuse criti- Agency contractor first met sympathy for the United States’ Chaos Computer Club’s 2009 shocked America and the world Moscow granted asylum to cism from the West over its track with Russian diplomats while desire to prosecute him. annual congress was made with its revelations of depravity Edward Snowden who had leaked record in that sphere. It has also still in Hong Kong, Putin said, “If it really were secret infor- public when the ex-Marine and brutality carried out in an details of secret US government pointed to the case as an exam- but shied away from those talks mation and if such a person would gave witness testimony in ordinary Cleveland home. surveillance programmes. ple of what it says is Washington’s after Russia lay down the condi- inflict any damage on us, then, June this year in the mili- “It does appear to be an appar- “He is a strange guy,” Putin double standards. tion that Snowden must halt any undoubtedly, I would seek to put tary trial of Bradley Manning, ent case of suicide,” JoEllen Smith, said of Snowden in an interview Snowden flew to Moscow activity that could hurt the US in him in front of the Russian law in who was later sentenced to 35 a spokeswoman for the Ohio pris- with Russian state television and from Hong Kong in June and got exchange for shelter. all its severity,” he said. years’ jail. AGENCIES ons department said. the Associated Press released stuck in the transit zone after “I was told that Mr. Snowden REUTERS Castro — who was sentenced last month over the abductions, rape and torture of the women — was being housed in protective Labour unrest in South Africa custody, which means he was in a cell by himself and guards Joined hands heal scars of checked on him every 30 minutes. Officials tried in vain to resus- citate Castro after his body was France and Germany’s past discovered at 9:20pm on Tuesday at the Correctional Reception ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, victims and tell them: I am at Center in Orient. He was pro- France: The presidents of your side,” he said. nounced dead about 90 minutes Germany and France yester- “I am 73 years old, I was born later, according to a statement day joined hands with a survi- during the war, I was steeped in from the Ohio Department of vor of the Nazis’ worst atrocity the discussion of our guilt... I will Corrections. AFP on French soil in a historic tell the victims and their families: moment of reconciliation. We know what was done.” On a day laden with symbolism, During his visit, Gauck was New Mali president President Joachim Gauck became also at pains to reassure people the first German leader to visit like Hebras that Germany is a vows to unite nation Oradour-sur-Glane, a village in changed country. west-central France where SS “The Germany that I have the BAMAKO: President Ibrahim troops massacred 642 people on honour of representing is a differ- Boubacar Keita pledged yes- June 10, 1944. ent Germany from the one that terday to unite Mali and end The village has been a ghost haunts their memories,” he said. endemic corruption as he was town ever since, deliberately pre- Some 205 children were among sworn in to lead the deeply- served in that state as a memorial victims of the atrocity, which left divided west African nation’s to those who died on one of the deep scars in France. emergence from months of polit- darkest days of World War II. After the war, General Charles ical crisis and conflict. The most poignant stage of de Gaulle, who later became pres- Keita, a former prime minister, Wednesday’s visit came after ident, decided that the village Mine security men guard the entrance to the Tau Tuna mine in Carletonville, southwest of Johannesburg, yester- began his five-year term in the Gauck, French President Francois should not be rebuilt but remain day, where most workers were at work as the unions are coming up with a wage solution. South African unions presence of outgoing transitional Hollande and 88-year-old Robert a memorial to the barbarity of and gold producers appeared ready to compromise on wage negotiations, as the mining strike took its toll on leader Dioncounda Traore and Hebras entered the church in Nazi occupation. A new village one of the country's key industries. The National Union of Mineworkers, which represents around two thirds of more than 1,000 Malian politi- which the women and children of was built nearby. the miners, hinted it might lower its demands, while two small gold producers reached a deal with their workers. cians, diplomats and military per- the village were killed with toxic In 1999, then French presi- sonnel as he took the presidential gas before the church was set on dent Jacques Chirac dedicated a oath at a ceremony in the capital fire and their bodies burned. memorial museum which includes Bamako. Hebras, whose mother and sis- items recovered from what “I will not forget for a moment ters perished that day, was briefly became known as the “Village of Berlusconi ups pressure on shaky coalition that you put me where I am to overcome with emotion as he Martyrs”. take care of all aspects of the life of explained what had taken place. They include watches stopped ROME: Allies of Silvio leader of Italy’s centre-right, was mean the government’s collapse, our nation. National reconciliation Hollande stepped forward at the time the owners were burnt Berlusconi stepped up pressure convicted for being at the centre PDL Senator Altero Matteoli remains the most urgent priority,” to take his hand, Gauck placed alive, glasses melted from intense on the shaky coalition govern- of a giant tax fraud scheme at his replied: “Of course.” he said. a comforting arm around his heat and other personal items. ment of Italian Prime Minister Mediaset broadcasting empire. For weeks, the billionaire Mali’s constitutional court con- shoulders and the three men then Yesterday’s events were redo- Enrico Letta yesterday, threat- Senators from Berlusconi’s media tycoon’s supporters have firmed Keita’s landslide victory stood, hand-in-hand, in silence for lent of a 1984 commemoration ening to bring it down if the People of Freedom party (PDL) alternated conciliatory signals three weeks ago in the August 11 several moments. in which then French president Senate votes to expel the met yesterday to discuss tac- with threats to pull out of the presidential run-off against former The apparently spontaneous Francois Mitterrand and former former premier following his tics and said the government coalition with the centre-left minister Soumaila Cisse after an gesture of the three men reflected German chancellor Helmut Kohl conviction for tax fraud. could not continue if the Senate patched together in April after election campaign focused on law, what Gauck had said he hoped his joined hands while attending a The fate of Letta’s government decides to strip Berlusconi of his deadlocked elections which left order and ending the culture of visit would achieve. memorial service for fallen sol- has been in the balance since seat in the upper house. Asked no party able to govern alone. impunity in public office. AFP “I want to reach out to the diers at Verdun. AFP last month when Berlusconi, the if Berlusconi’s expulsion would AFP THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Philippines finds more blocks on reef Chinese PM plays down territorial rows, stresses trade

MANILA: The Philippines Shoal, said defence department dialogue over territorial rows. said yesterday it had spotted spokesman Peter Galvez. “We have also noticed that there more concrete blocks alleg- “These can be used for plat- exist some disruptive factors in edly installed by China within forms (or) foundations, that is the region that are against stabil- Filipino territory in the South why we said earlier this could be ity and development, but they are China Sea, raising concerns a prelude to any other form of con- not mainstream,” he said accord- Beijing is planning to build in struction,” he told reporters. ing to a transcript of his speech the disputed waters. Chinese foreign ministry carried by Xinhua. Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert spokesman Hong Lei rejected the “The Chinese side maintains del Rosario said the Philippines Philippine allegations. that the South China Sea disputes will be filing a diplomatic protest “What has been said by the are not an issue between China against China over the issue. Philippines isn’t true. Huangyan and the Asean, and they should China’s planned occupation of Island is China’s inherent terri- not and will not affect the overall the disputed shoal was aimed at tory,” Hong said in an answer to a China-Asean cooperation.” expanding its territory ahead of question posed by state television China claims most of the South Cars manoeuvre through floodwaters on a road in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, yesterday. Heavy rain is expected to a regional agreement governing CCTV at a press briefing, using China Sea, including waters close spread across a wide area of Japan today after a typhoon made landfall in the southwest of the country. maritime rules, del Rosario said. the Chinese name for the shoal. to the coasts of its neighbours. He urged Southeast Asian “In accordance with the consti- Scarborough Shoal is a small neighbours to speed up talks on tution, Chinese government ships group of reefs and outcrops about a binding code of conduct (CoC) maintain routine patrols in waters 220 kilometres off the main that will govern behaviour in the of Huangyan Island to safeguard Philippine island of Luzon, within Japan hit by quake, tornados sea. our sovereignty over Huangyan the country’s internationally rec- “We think that China is try- Island and to maintain order of ognised exclusive economic zone. TOKYO: Tornados hit east- About 600 households lost Tokyo. We see no risk of a tsu- ing to stay ahead of the CoC, “ del relevant waters. That is China’s The outcrop is about 650 kilome- ern Japan yesterday, tearing off power for around three hours nami,” a spokesman for the Rosario said in an interview. “We legitimate right and interest and tres from Hainan Island, the near- roofs, shattering windows and in Yaita city, said Tokyo Electric Japanese weather agency said. think that they have an asser- it is beyond dispute.” est major Chinese landmass. injuring at least three people, Power, which covers the region. The quake, measured at 6.9 by tion agenda that they are trying Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has The Philippines had earlier while a strong 6.5 magnitude The weather agency said Japanese seismologists, was cen- to complete before they are able downplayed simmering territorial released an aerial photograph earthquake shook buildings. at least one tornado had torn tred on a spot more than 600km to sit down and negotiate a CoC.” disputes. taken on Saturday of what it said Television footage showed badly through Yaita. south of Tokyo, the US Geological “There are some sectors that Addressing the 10th China- were about 30 concrete blocks at damaged houses in Yaita, around More than 60 buildings were Survey said. believe China’s delaying action on Asean Expo and business and Scarborough. 100 kilometres north of Tokyo, partially damaged or totally Journalists in the Japanese the CoC is a strategic procrastina- investment summit in the south- A second surveillance flight some with their roofs peeled off. destroyed in wider Tochigi pre- capital reported feeling a long, tion on their part ... because the ern Chinese city of Nanning, Li on Monday photographed more A 60-year-old man was slightly fecture, the local authority said. rumbling quake that shook build- CoC looks forward, not back.” said China’s trade with Southeast blocks scattered over a two- injured in Yaita. The quake struck at 0018 GMT ings. They said it was the largest Aerial surveillance has discov- Asia could more than double to hectare section of the shoal, said Similar gusts hit nearby at a depth of 404 kilometres. they had felt in the city for some ered about 75 blocks scattered $1tn by 2020. Galvez. Kanuma city, injuring at least two “The epicentre is in the Pacific, time. on a section of the Scarborough Li reiterated Chinese calls for AGENCIES men, a local police spokesman said. hundreds of kilometres south of AFP

Needlefish kills Thai protesters target Opposition urges Cambodian fisherman ZAMBOANGA CITY: A man was killed when a southern airport needlefish flipped and pierced king to resolve poll dispute his throat shortly after mid- SURAT THANI: Thousands of told reporters in Bangkok. night yesterday in this city. angry rubber farmers blocked Thailand is the world’s top PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s will protest peacefully on Saturday transparency and justice that the Jesus Guerrero, 63, died the main entrance to an airport exporter of natural rubber and opposition party has called on in one of the largest opposition Cambodian people want,” Rainsy minutes after he pulled the fish in southern Thailand yesterday, farmers say they have been hit the nation’s king to resolve a dis- demonstrations for a decade. said in the letter which emerged from his neck. Guerrero, along increasing pressure on the gov- hard by weak global markets. pute over elections in July which Final poll results are expected yesterday. with his son and brother, was ernment to provide assistance “The rubber farmers’ income saw strongman Prime Minister to be announced by September 8, Cambodia’s king is the official fishing in the waters off Sitio to cope with a price slump. is not enough to live,” said one Hun Sen retain power. after which there will be no fur- head of state but analysts say the Gapuh. The men were checking The decision to target Surat of the protest leaders, Manoon Preliminary official poll results ther legal challenges available to office no longer exercises political their hooks when a needlefish Thani airport — used by some Uppla, 53. handed victory to Hun Sen’s long- the opposition. power, giving Hun Sen — who has leapt out and hit the victim. foreign tourists to travel to the “We cannot control people. ruling Cambodian People’s Party, With time running out, its been in office for nearly three dec- popular island of Koh Samui — Their feelings against the gov- dismaying the opposition Cambodia leader Sam Rainsy on Monday ades — full control. 22 inmates bolt appeared to mark an escalation in ernment are very strong,” he said. National Rescue Party (CNRP) sent a letter to King Norodom Security forces and armoured the action by the farmers. The government earlier which alleges massive vote-rigging. Sihamoni urging him to step in vehicles have been deployed around jail in Bukidnon Airport director Attaporn declined demands to guarantee a The CNRP, which has so far and break the impasse. “I request the capital since the July 28 poll, in Nuang-udom said flights were rubber price of 120 baht ($3.7) per unsuccessfully demanded an inde- your majesty to intervene in a move the opposition decried as MANILA: Some 22 inmates still operating but passengers kilo — about 50 percent higher pendent probe into the election, order to find a resolution for the intimidation. bolted a city jail in Bukidnon were forced to use alternative than the current price on world has said thousands of its supporters irregularities in the election with AFP last afternoon, the Philippine access roads. markets. National Police reported. “We have notified airlines to Instead it proposed paying PNP spokesperson Senior ask passengers to gather at a cer- farmers 1,260 baht per rai (0.4 Supt Reuben Sindac, quoting tain place and we’ll send a bus to acres) of rubber plantation to Police Chief Inspector Surki pick them up and drive them to help with production costs, along Senenas of the Police Regional the airport,” he said. with funds to boost the efficiency Filipinos in Malaysia told to carry IDs Office 10 Tactical Operations, Riot police with batons and of rubber processing -- an offer said the jailbreak happened shields stood guard near the air- rejected by the protesters. MANILA: The Philippine undocumented foreigners has in said facility,” Consul General around 3.30 pm at the jail in port, which the government has “They want us to guarantee embassy in Kuala Lumpur has resulted in the arrest of 2,433 for- Medardo Macaraig said. Brgy Pinatilan, Valencia City. vowed to defend. the price at 92 baht per kilo,” said advised Filipinos to complete eigners so far. Reports said most On Monday, Ambassador Tracker teams managed to Protests by royalist activists in Surat Thani governor Chatpong their immigration documenta- of them are Indonesians (717), J Eduardo Malaya called on recapture one of the inmates, 2008 that paralysed Thailand’s Chatraphuti, who took part in tion and always carry proper Burmese (555), Bangladeshi (387) Minister for Home Affairs Dato who yielded a shotgun and two main airports dealt a heavy blow negotiations yesterday. identification documents follow- and Nepali (229). Sri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and getaway motorcycles. to the kingdom’s economy. He said the government rep- ing the Malaysian government’s “We checked with the immi- exchanged views on the concerns “We will not allow an airport resentative would take the pro- biggest crackdown on undocu- gration detention facility in of Filipinos in Malaysia, includ- Rebels turn to shutdown because it will affect posal to Prime Minister Yingluck mented foreigners that started Putrajaya, and we were informed ing access to education by Filipino tourism and confidence,” Deputy Shinawatra to consider. last Sunday. that Filipinos are not among school-aged children. ugly tactics Prime Minister Pracha Promnog AFP Malaysia’s crackdown on those arrested and currently held THE PHILIPPINE STAR MANILA: Communist rebels in the Philippines smeared a roadside bomb that injured Wage protest seven soldiers with human Organisers defend faeces and snake venom, the S Korean MP accused of military said yesterday. Indonesia pageant The wounded soldiers tested positive for potentially deadly JAKARTA: The organisers of North Korea plot detained bacteria, said Lieutenant the Miss World beauty pageant Victor Dado, medical officer at in Indonesia insisted yesterday SEOUL: South Korea’s spy formal arrest by state prosecutors. the military hospital where the the show would go on, as Islamic agency yesterday detained a Rival political parties ear- men were taken for treatment hardline protests began to leftist lawmaker accused of plot- lier joined forces to approve following Tuesday’s attack near spread across the country days ting an armed revolt in support Lee’s arrest on sedition charges. the town of Pantukan. “It will before the contest starts. of North Korea after parliament Without such a vote, lawmakers aggravate the effects of the More than 600 demonstrators voted to approve his arrest. cannot be detained while the leg- landmines,” Dado said. took to the streets yesterday in The National Intelligence islature is in session. two other major cities on the Service (NIS) took United Some 258 legislators voted for Australian main island of Java — Surabaya Progressive Party (UPP) legisla- the arrest while 14 objected. and Bandung. tor Lee Seok-Ki away from his Hundreds of police, including escapes death “Miss World is an immoral office in parliament after a con- riot officers carrying shields, had event. If it goes ahead, we will frontation with his supporters. stood guard outside the National KUALA LUMPUR: An all be punished by God,” one pro- Scuffles erupted as UPP mem- Assembly as the vote was under Australian truck driver was tester shouted to the crowd in bers blocked dozens of NIS agents way, with riot vans blocking acquitted of drug trafficking Bandung, where some 300 pro- at the office door. roads and a water cannon atop by a Malaysian court yes- testers responded with chants of Police eventually stepped an armoured vehicle. terday, ending an 18-month “God is great”. in to end the noisy stand-off About 200 UPP members had ordeal in which he faced a But Hary Tanoesoedibjo, head which lasted for nearly one hour. staged a sit-down protest outside mandatory death sentence if of MNC media group, which will Television showed Lee surrender- the assembly building. convicted. “I’m very surprised. broadcast the pageant and is also ing and walking out. Justice Minister Hwang Kyo- It’s good news,” Dominic Bird the local organiser, said: “I can “I came here of my own will to Ahn told lawmakers that in May said. He was arrested on assure you that there is nothing avoid clashes,” Lee told reporters Lee — believing war with the March 1, 2012 for alleged pos- in this event that isn’t in accord- after he was taken to a court at North to be imminent — told his session of 167 grams of meth- ance with our culture.” Bangladeshi garment workers march during a protest in Dhaka yester- Suwon just south of Seoul. secretive leftist group to prepare amphetamine and charged The contest begins on Sunday day. Hundreds of workers took part in the protest to demand a minimum He will be held at the court, for attacks on South Korea’s com- with drug trafficking. on the resort island of Bali. monthly wage of 8,000 taka ($103). which had issued a warrant munication lines and railways. AGENCIES AFP for his detention, pending his AFP THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN

Pakistani navy IMF extends officer shot dead KARACHI: A senior Pakistan navy officer was shot dead and his Swedish wife wounded in $6.7bn lifeline Pakistan’s port city of Karachi yesterday, police said. The couple were shot on a busy thoroughfare near the National Stadium, a cricket venue, in the city’s eastern district. to Pakistan “Two gunmen riding a motor- bike intercepted Captain Naveed’s vehicle and opened fire, killing $540m to be disbursed initially him on the spot,” local police offi- cial Tahir Naveed said. WASHINGTON: The weakness that require time to He had only one name for the International Monetary Fund address. dead officer. Naveed’s wife sus- yesterday threw Pakistan a The repayment period for an tained a bullet injury in the attack $6.7bn lifeline to help the strug- EFF loan is between 4.5 and 10 and has been taken to a naval hos- gling country pursue economic years. pital, he added. reforms, particularly in the The EFF is aimed at reducing Naveed taught at the Karachi energy sector. Pakistan’s fiscal deficit — which campus of the National University The IMF executive board neared nine percent of gross of Sciences and Technology. authorised a three-year loan, domestic product last year — A naval intelligence official also making an initial disbursement of to a more sustainable level and Pakistani police check vehicles on a checkpoint outside the Sindh provincial governor's office in Karachi, where confirmed the killing. $540m available to the Pakistani reform the energy sector to help Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held a special cabinet meeting on the deteriorating security situation in the city. There was no immediate claim authorities. resolve severe power cuts that of responsibility for the attack. The remaining amount will be have sapped growth potential. Taliban militants raided a evenly paid out over the duration The country’s daunting array naval base in the city in May of the programme, subject to the of problems range from an energy Few takers for Nawaz Sharif’s 2011, destroying two P-3C Orion completion of quarterly reviews, sector crippled by $5bn of debt surveillance planes and killing 10 the Washington-based global to dwindling foreign exchange personnel in a 17-hour assault. lender said. reserves and a sinking cur- Karachi, which is Pakistan’s Adherence to the programme rency, all the while facing down promise of peace in Karachi largest city, is suffering from would likely encourage financial a Taliban insurgency. an unprecedented wave of kill- support from other donors, it In July, Pakistan asked the IMF KARACHI: When Prime no secret that all of them have Gulistan-i-Jauhar, and replaced ings and kidnappings blamed on added. for at least $5.3bn in funds as for- Minister Nawaz Sharif assured militant wings. The Muttahida them with those of the PAC. Islamist militants, criminals, and “Despite the challenges it eign reserves sank to a danger- all segments of society yester- Qaumi Movement, which claims Political observers, rights activ- ethnic and political tensions. faces, Pakistan is a country with ously low level. day that peace would be brought to enjoy the electoral mandate of ists and security experts agree on Gang wars fed by ethnic and abundant potential, given its geo- The request came just weeks back to Karachi, many were not the city, has a blood-soaked history one point: time is running out. political bitterness, drugs and the graphical location and its rich after the new government of ready to buy his words as his- and a violent track record. With over 1,890 people having Taliban, have created a culture human and natural resources,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s tory has made them sceptical. The PPP has links with the out- already been killed in targeted of impunity in the city, and the the IMF said. Pakistan Muslim League-N party Despite the seriousness showed lawed Peoples Amn Committee attacks in the first eight months past two years have seen record “The authorities’ programme was sworn into office after May by the federal government, peo- (PAC), accused of running an of the year across Karachi, they death tolls. In the first six months is expected to help the economy elections that marked the coun- ple in Karachi wonder what lies extortion racket across the city. suggest even-handed action of 2013, 1,726 people were killed rebound, forestall a balance of try’s first democratic transition ahead for them, with threats As for the law enforcement against every individual and group compared with a previous high of payments crisis and rebuild of power. ranging from militancy to tar- agencies, the police are corrupt involved in crimes. 1,215 in the same period last year, reserves, reduce the fiscal defi- The nuclear-armed state aban- geted killings and street crimes and politicised, and the paramili- Apart from politically motivated according to the Human Rights cit, and undertake comprehen- doned a $11.3bn IMF loan pro- to kidnapping for ransom tor- tary Rangers are fast learning the killings, deadly attacks carried out Commission of Pakistan. sive structural reforms to boost gramme in 2011 after refusing to menting them daily. ropes from the police. for sectarian reasons have seen a Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif investment and growth.” carry out strict financial reforms Experts concur that all the Political observers wonder surge, with banned outfits such as is currently in Karachi for talks The IMF aid is an Extended three years into the programme. stakeholders responsible for mak- under what policy the Rangers Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Tehreek-i- with political parties designed Fund Facility, a type of assistance The country is paying off ing Karachi a peaceful city have have evicted gangsters belonging Taliban Pakistan, as well as Shia to come up with a strategy to aimed at helping a country that the loan but still owes the IMF systematically sowed violence in to the Awami National Party, par- groups, undertaking tit-for-tat improve the worsening law and faces serious balance-of-payments around $4bn. the metropolis over the years. ticularly after the May 11 elections killings. order situation in the city. problems because of structural AFP Take the political parties. It is from a few city localities, including INTERNEWS AFP

Karzai backs Campaigners press Islamabad, Overland oil supplies to parliament Washington on Bagram detainees Nato troops resume seat for Afghan PESHAWAR: Overland oil Four oil tankers had now Hindus, Sikhs ISLAMABAD: Campaigners “The Afghan government took together to release the pris- supplies to Nato troops in reached the border town and urged Pakistan yesterday to back 3,000 prisoners from the oners before the end of 2014. Afghanistan resumed through were undergoing security clear- KABUL: Afghan President put pressure on the United US. Why can we not do that for The 50-page report, called Pakistan yesterday with stepped ance, Afridi said. Hamid Karzai yesterday States to free around 60 for- our 40 people?” Pakistani lawyer “Closing Bagram, The Other up security after a four-month Paramilitary Frontier Corps ordered parliament to create eigners held without charge Sarah Belal told a news confer- Guantanamo”, proposes a series hiatus due to attacks, Pakistani troops also escorted the tankers a new seat for the tiny Hindu at Bagram prison before Nato ence in Islamabad. of steps to accelerate the release officials said. to the border. and Sikh minority after MPs troops leave Afghanistan next The issue gets scant attention of the Pakistani detainees and to Pakistani contractors stopped A local administration official, snubbed their demand for year. in Pakistan, but campaigners facilitate their return home. driving oil supplies from Karachi Miraj Khan, and a local intel- separate representation. The foreigners, suspected hope the new Pakistani govern- The United States faces huge on the Arabian Sea to the ligence official also confirmed There are an estimated Islamist fighters who include ment, elected in May, and the challenges deciding what to do Torkham crossing on the Afghan resumption of supplies. 4,000 Sikhs and Hindus in around 40 Pakistanis, some looming end of the Nato mission with detainees it regards as border in June due to frequent Pakistan is a key transit route Afghanistan. The community Saudis and Kuwaitis, were will inject new urgency. dangerous, who have been held attacks on their vehicles. for the Nato mission in landlocked complain of discrimination, exempt when the United States “We want the new government in some cases for years without “We resumed these supplies Afghanistan. From November abuse and prejudice in the handed final responsibility for to take notice of this issue ... It is trial — an issue that has fuelled from today after hiring the serv- 2011 to July 2012, Pakistan shut ultra-conservative Muslim more than 3,000 detainees at our government’s job to fight with anti-American sentiment in the ices of a private firm, which will its Afghan border to all overland country. Bagram to Afghan authorities the Americans” for the release of Muslim world. provide security to our convoys Nato traffic after botched US air Their request for a seat in in March. these detainees, Belal added. Washington has repatriated from Karachi to Torkham,” con- raids killed 24 Pakistani troops. the 249-member lower house They remain under US con- In a report financed by foreign terror suspects impris- tractor Azad Khan Afridi said. Pakistan and the United States was included in an election bill, trol at the prison north of Kabul, the US-based Open Society oned without trial in Bagram, He said contractors suspended have signed a deal allowing Nato passed in July after the clause which has been compared to the Foundations, Justice Project but the process can drag on for supplies after the government convoys to travel into Afghanistan was scrapped on the grounds Guantanamo Bay detention cen- Pakistan calls on Islamabad years. refused to provide them with until the end of 2015. that the community was so tre in Cuba. and Washington to work AFP extra security. AFP small. Members of the minority then threatened to migrate en masse and Karzai stepped in World Hijab Day yesterday with his decree. Under the Afghan con- India hands over recordings stitution, the president has the power to issue legislative decrees when parliament is in of Jinnah’s speeches recess but it must be approved by MPs to pass into law. LAHORE: After four years Sources said the recorded If parliament approves the of hectic efforts by Pakistan speeches would reach Islamabad new seat, it would be contested Broadcasting Corporation in two to three days and they at Afghanistan’s next parlia- (PBC), All India Radio handed would be sent to all stations of mentary elections in 2015 and over recordings of two key Radio Pakistan next week. raise to 250 the number of rep- speeches by Quaid-e-Azam Sources also confirmed that resentatives in the lower house. Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Radio Pakistan had started mak- AFP Pakistan yesterday. ing arrangements to broadcast The PBC plans to broadcast the Quaid’s speeches. the two speeches — delivered on They said initially the quality June 3, 1947 and on August 11 and authenticity of the speeches the same year — next week. The would be checked and then they 271 Pakistani speeches have been handed over would be broadcast, “as both the to Pakistan High Commission in speeches were highly important prisoners freed India and would be sent to PBC with regard to foundation of ISLAMABAD: As many Islamabad in due course. Pakistan”. 271 Pakistanis who had com- Sources in Radio Pakistan said The Quaid’s June 3, 1947 pleted their sentences on minor PBC had been in correspondence speech was in reaction to a charges in jails in different coun- with All India Radio for the last British plan to hold a referen- tries have been released after four years to get all the recorded dum in the erstwhile North West payment of Rs16m ($155,339). speeches of the Quaid-e-Azam, Frontier Province (now Khyber The Foreign Office provided adding that Indian authorities Pakhtunkhwa) to know whether the information during a recent had provided recordings of two the area should be merged into meeting of the Senate Standing speeches to the Pakistan High Pakistan or India. Committee on Interior and Commission in New Delhi as the The other speech was delivered Narcotics Control. Seventy-seven “first instalment”. by Jinnah in the first assembly of prisoners, who had completed The sources said the Indian Pakistan on August 11, 1947, in their sentences but were not Veiled activists of the Pakistani fundamentalist political party Jamaat-i-Islami march during a rally in Lahore authorities had agreed to pro- which the founder of Pakistan being released due to non-pay- yesterday to mark World Hijab Day. The Islamist party observed the day stressing the importance of the veil vide other recorded material declared the country a secular ment of fines, were freed from for Muslim women. related to the Quaid-e-Azam to state. Dubai during May and June 2013. Pakistan. INTERNEWS INTERNEWS THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Manmohan Singh arrives in Russia Maharashtra Pension bill to get modern madrassas at gets clearance Rs100m

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government yesterday announced major sops to modernise and in Lok Sabha madrassas upgrade in the state. The government has decided to allocate Rs100m as financial Minister expects more FDI inflow assistance to the madrassas for various academic purposes in MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Managers Pvt Ltd, in which the current financial year, Chief lower house of parliament (Lok US-based BlackRock Inc is a Minister Prithviraj Chavan said. Sabha) approved changes aimed minority partner. The move will benefit the 1,889 at luring foreign asset manag- Foreign firms thronged to India madrassas with a student popula- ers to run retirement funds, a when they were allowed to invest tion of around 200,000. Chavan small victory in government in the insurance and mutual fund said 200 of these madrassas will efforts to rescue the economy industries last decade, but once be selected for the grant this year before elections next year. in place they generally found it with priority to those running for Yesterday’s vote will slightly difficult to flourish. more than three years. loosen rules governing foreign In the last two years there have The madrassas must be regis- investment in pensions, and is been high profile exits such as ING tered either with the Wakf author- a step towards creating a viable and New York Life from insur- ity or the charity commissioner to private pension industry to cater ance and Fidelity Investments avail the benefits. The decision was to the growing middle class in from the mutual fund industry. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (left) is welcomed upon his arrival at Saint Petersburg’s airport in Russia sharply criticised by the Shiv Sena the world’s second most populous The move for pension sector ahead of the G20 summit yesterday. and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena nation. reform comes a decade after India which termed it an “appeasement “When the bill is passed, I established an interim regulator of the minorities”. expect that some more FDI to steer the industry. So far, there Under the new scheme, a one- will come in,” Finance Minister has been little interest from private time grant of Rs250,000 will be P Chidambaram said after the players, with just eight asset manag- provided to the madrassas for basic debate, referring to foreign direct ers, including Blackrock, operating Opposition questions govt infrastructure, drinking water, investment. schemes managing about Rs300bn toilets, laboratories, libraries. The bill must now go to the ($4.5bn) in private sector assets. In addition, three qualified upper house, where it is expected This compares with the com- teachers will be given grants to get final approval. bined Rs5 trillion ($76bn) man- on coal-block investigation for teaching non-religious gen- But foreign firms say the new aged by the state-owned provident eral subjects like English, Hindi, law is unlikely to immediately fund and pension fund and over NEW DELHI: Political par- proceed ... documents are miss- India Anna Dravida Munnetra Marathi, science, social science trigger the flood of investment Rs7.60 trillion ($115bn) managed ties yesterday slammed Prime ing and oral evidence will not be Kazhagam said the prime minis- and mathematics. the government is looking for by Indian mutual funds. Minister Manmohan Singh’s allowed,” he said. ter should accept that files were Besides, madrassa students who to kickstart Asia’s third largest The push for a more inclu- statement on the missing coal Communist Party of India- missing. are now in the ninth or tenth class in economy and help stem a sharp sive pension industry is part of block allocation files and asked Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury Derek O Brien of the Trinamool local schools will get an annual schol- depreciation in the rupee. Indian financial planners’ broader how investigations would pro- criticised the prime minister for Congress said the prime minister arship of Rs4,000 while those study- The bill links the ceiling on for- agenda to expand social support ceed in the absence of documen- his remarks that it would be pre- had said that he was not a custo- ing in junior colleges will get Rs5,000. eign investment in pensions to a and channel domestic savings into tary evidence. mature to say some papers were dian of the missing files. Minorities Development related law governing the insur- the capital markets. Raising the issue in the Rajya missing. “Who is the custodian. A time Minister Naseem Khan said that ance industry. A revised insur- Most of India’s half a billion Sabha after repeated adjourn- “Either the files are there or line is maintained of files. Can the decisions have been made in ance law in the works would raise workers still have little or no ments, leader of opposition Arun not. It is a matter of reality, not he present timeline (of missing tune with the 2006 recommen- the cap to 49 percent from 26 access to social security and stick Jaitley of the Bharatiya Janata views,” Yechury said. files),” he asked. dations of the Justice Rajindar percent in insurance, and there- to buying gold and real estate Party said the prime minister in He wondered why the gov- D Raja of the Communist Party Sachar Committee in the fore pensions, but it is opposed by instead. his statement had made it appear ernment had not lodged a first of India said CAG had said the “Report on Social, Economic and opposition parties and unlikely to The new law will regulate pri- that the issue of missing files was information report in relation financial loss due to coal block Educational Status of the Muslim be approved soon. vate asset managers who run hypothetical. to the missing files. Yechury said allocation was to the tune of Community in India”. Even at 49 percent, some fund retirement funds under a New Jaitley said a newspaper had the Comptroller and Auditor Rs186,000 crore. “That files are In an attempt to ensure that managers say India’s current eco- Pension Scheme (NPS), open to reported an official investigat- General (CAG) had examined the missing is in public domain. The the funds are properly utilised, the nomic crisis means new investors pension contributions even from ing the coal block allocations coal block allocation files and the prime minister cannot say he is state government has threatened will be slow to step up. workers who do not have a stable had sought oral examination of government could procure these not a custodian of files,” he said. to stop grants to those madrassas “This is a welcome push for monthly income. the prime minister as he was in from the agency if they had kept Minister of State for which fail to ensure that their the industry as the bill has a pro- At present, almost all pension charge of the coal ministry from a record. Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev students appear for the Class X gressive approach, but increas- obligations in the country are 2006 to 2009 but the Central Naresh Agrawal of the Shukla said the process of seek- examinations. “The objective of ing the FDI cap in the pension managed by the state-owned pen- Bureau of Investigation decided Samajwadi Party said Coal ing clarifications on the coal min- the cabinet decision is to impart sector might not immediately sion fund, which has been criticised against it. Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal ister’s statement on the missing regular education in madrassas result in a large inflow of for- for providing measly inflation- He said files contain documen- should have taken moral respon- files had not ended. Shukla said he along with religious education to eign capital,” said Anil Ghelani, adjusted returns and catering for tary evidence about the decisions. sibility for the missing files and would convey views of members to bring the Muslims into the national chief investment officer at India’s only a fraction of the workforce. “Somebody has to respond resigned. the minister. mainstream,” Khan said. DSP BlackRock Pension Fund REUTERS how the investigation is going to V Maitreyan of the All IANS IANS

Asaram to remain in jail Over 200 languages lost in diverse India, finds study NEW DELHI: More than 200 indigenous or tribal peoples. Devy’s team of 3,000 volunteers census conducted in 1961 which adversely by changing sea-farm- as bail plea languages have vanished in Ganesh Devy, who spearheaded fanned out across India, visiting stated that some 1,100 languages ing technology, a wonderfully India over the last 50 years, a the survey, said 480 tribal lan- communities in the most remote existed throughout the country. abundant terminology for fish new study says, blaming urban guages are among those still spo- parts of the country of 1.2 billion The first five of some 50 and waves is of no use in inland rejected migration and fear among ken in India, where Hindi and people, to study and document liv- detailed volumes of the team’s areas,” he said. nomadic tribes of speaking English are strengthening their ing languages spoken and written People’s Linguistic Survey of India Tongues are also dying out JAIPUR: A Rajasthan court in their traditional tongues. grip in an increasingly mobile and today. will be released in New Delhi on among nomadic tribes, branded Jodhpur city yesterday rejected The extensive study, conducted interconnected world. The team scrutinised evidence Thursday. criminals by many in the past the bail plea of controversial throughout the country over four “I am concerned and alarmed of the existence of a language Devy said languages of coastal and considered at the bottom spiritual guru Asaram Bapu years and released this week, that a very large number of lan- such as a community’s use of folk communities seemed to have of India’s caste system. Many who was arrested for sexually has found 230 languages have guages have been rapidly declin- songs and stories in their mother eroded the most over the years as attempt to conceal their identity, assaulting a 16-year-old girl, “elapsed” while another 870 have ing in India,” Devy, an author and tongue as well as terms used for traditional fishermen, whose live- including by not speaking their lawyers said. survived the test of time in richly founder of the non-profit Bhasha their geographical surroundings. lihoods have declined, move inland traditional dialects, to “escape Asaram, 72, is currently lodged diverse but rapidly modernising Trust, which seeks to preserve The team compared their findings in search of employment in cities. harassment”, Devy said. in Jodhpur Central Jail after a India, home to a vast number of languages, said. with the results of a government “For coastal communities, hit AFP court on Monday sent him to 14-day judicial custody. District and Sessions Judge (Rural) of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas rejected Asaram’s bail plea after the prosecution opposed his Conjoined Nigerian kids application. Public Prosecutor Anand Purohit told reporters here: “We raised issues regarding threat to healthy after surgery police officials connected with investigations and also that two NEW DELHI: Doctors their mother’s earrings. Malama of his close aides... are still miss- declared yesterday that a pair of Badariyya Badaru, the mother of ing, so he (Asaram) should not formerly conjoined twins were the twins, said she was overjoyed be given bail, as he can influence healthy and happy after they at finally being able to hold the them.” It seems we have been were successfully separated in girls in her arms “individually”. successful in satisfying the court a marathon “nerve-wracking” The girls, sporting hair bands that the incident falls under the operation in India by a team of of different colours to make rec- non-bailable (offence) category 40 specialists. ognition easier, looked curiously so he should not be given bail,” The one-year-old girls from at the cameras during the confer- he added. Nigeria, sporting matching bright ence at the BLK Super Speciality Asaram’s lawyer Jagmal Singh pink dresses, sat patiently on their hospital. “It was all nerve-wrack- Chaudhary said the rejection of parents’ laps as doctors explained ing work. But it feels great to see bail plea would be challenged in the separation last month dur- them happy, healthy and inde- the Rajasthan High Court. “We ing an 18-hour operation at a New pendent,” Jain said. will approach the high court in a Delhi hospital. “They were fused The single surgery was carried day or two after going through the at their back when they came to out in three stages, preparation, order,” he said. us which is very rare,” paediatric separation and then reconstruc- Asaram, who was arrested surgeon Prashant Jain said. tion of their shared organs which from his ashram in Indore in “Usually the twins are joined include the lower spine, lower Madhya Pradesh last week, in the head or the upper body. intestinal and urinary tracts as sought bail claiming that police It posed a huge challenge to our well as genitals. erred in booking him under rape team of doctors,” Jain said. “We carried out rehearsals charge, which is non-bailable. He Doctors held the media con- using dummies. All tubes, wires, was sent to judicial custody after ference as the twins, Hussaina injections and drugs were colour- questioning at a guest house of the Badaru Mannir (left) holds his daughter Hassana Badaru while Hussaina Badaru is held by her mother Malama and Hassana, sat happily, grab- coded in pink or blue (for each Rajasthan Armed Constabulary. Badariyya Badaru, after a surgery to separate the conjoined twins at BLK Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi bing at a mobile phone, clutch- girl) to avoid any mistake,” he said. IANS yesterday. ing a rattle and trying to pull off AFP

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DOHA: Qatar’s banking sector is ready the capital and project finance required to that lending institutions and stakeholders can to rise to the challenge of financing an deliver mega projects in the country in the adopt in order to succeed in Qatar’s lucrative as competitive expected $100bn boom in the country’s years leading up to 2022 and beyond. banking sector from a lenders’ perspective. projects industry until 2022, according to Already, Qatar’s financial sector has been a “Project finance stakeholders will have MEED, which is hosting the Qatar Banking key foundation of its still rapidly developing access to the latest information on infrastruc- Summit scheduled on September 10-11, 2013 economy, with finance, insurance and rein- ture financing, and gain a better understand- at the Renaissance Doha City Centre Hotel. surance outputs now accounting for about 10 ing of the implications of emerging risks as economy “We are talking about a huge scale of percent of the country’s GDP last year. well as which capital market options (from infrastructure financing requirement,” says Moreover, total assets for Qatar’s banking sukuks and syndications to PPPs and IPOs) Bhupendra Jain, head of corporate banking industry increased at a compound annual rate are the best way forward in funding mega at International Bank of Qatar (IBQ). “The of 30 percent in the last 10 years to almost infrastructure projects,” said Edmund O’ WEF rankings announced metro alone is going to be about $35bn and $225bn; while bank lending to domestic cus- Sullivan, Chairman, MEED Events, organis- the Port project is estimated at $7bn-$8bn. tomers grew by a similar amount in the same ers of the Qatar Banking Summit. DOHA: Qatar topped the Middle significant attention to developing Then there are roads, electricity and water, period to $130bn, a MEED press note said here. Despite the massive activity currently tak- East and North Africa (Mena) into a knowledge and innovation- sewage, Aviation City, the stadiums for the Qatar Central Bank Governor H E Sheikh ing place in Qatar’s projects industry and its region in the global competitive- driven economy. World Cup plus hotels, new shopping malls, Abdullah bin Saoud Al Thani will deliver the continued rise in the next few years, there is ness ranking index compiled by The Forum further added Lusail City etc. The bonding requirements for event’s keynote address where he is expected a consensus among experts that the country’s World Economic Forum. Qatar’s patenting activity remains these projects will be a percentage of these to provide a comprehensive overview of the regulators should manage the timing of major The 2013-14 Global low by International standards, numbers and that’s a very complex algorithm. latest initiatives Qatar is implementing as part infrastructure finance transactions, which will Competitiveness Report’s index, at 60th, although some elements We expect infrastructure finance demand will of its aspirations to become a leading financial also be discussed in the summit. “I estimate that placed Switzerland at the top that could contribute to foster- be in excess of $100bn.” hub in the Gulf region. the value of infrastructure required worldwide of the ranking, ranked Qatar 13th ing innovation are in place. The Leading global and regional experts on the This will be followed by a comprehensive to 2030 is roughly equal to global GDP today,” on the global list, while the UAE government drives innovation by projects and finance industries speaking at overview of Qatar’s project finance and bank- says Anthony Holmes, co-founder and director stood at 19th. Saudi Arabia fell procuring high-technology prod- the summit will confirm that Qatar’s financial ing sector, with dedicated panels discussing the of the Institute for Infrastructure Studies. two places and ranked 20th. ucts, universities collaborate with sector has indeed enough liquidity to provide most attractive opportunities and strategies THE PENINSULA “Qatar reaffirms once again its the private sector, and scientists position as the most competitive and engineers are readily available. economy in the region at the 13th “To become truly innovative position. The country’s strong economy, Qatar will have to con- performance in terms of competi- tinue to promote a greater use tiveness rests on solid foundations of the latest technologies, ensure Brent crude oil made up of a high-quality insti- universal primary education, and tutional framework”, the Forum foster more openness to foreign settles lower index released yesterday noted. competition…” In the index, Qatar ranked 4th In terms of openness to for- NEW YORK: Brent crude oil place in the competitiveness of eign competition, Qatar’s rank- settled lower yesterday, but with “institutional framework” glo- ing is globally 30th, a ranking that a less dramatic drop than US oil, bally and ranked 6th in the ‘macr- reflects barriers to international as it appeared a military strike oeconomic environment’ segment. trade and investment and red against Syria would remain lim- Qatar was ranked 3rd in the “effi- tape when starting business, the ited, quelling fears of supply dis- cient market” category. Forum report noted. ruptions in the Middle East. Low levels of corruption and On the UAE, the report noted Markets are already coping undue influence on government higher oil prices have buoyed the with a supply loss from Libya as decisions, high efficiency of gov- budget surplus and allowed the strikes at ports and pipelines have ernment institutions, and strong country tor educe public debt and shrunk exports to around 80,000 security are the cornerstones of raises the savings rate. barrels per day, less than a tenth Qatar’s solid institutional frame- The US continues to be a world of capacity. work, which provides a good basis leader in bringing innovative Front-month Brent crude oil for heightening efficiency. products and services to market. futures settled 77 cents lower The World Economic Forum Its rise in the ranking is down to at $114.91, after trading as high report noted reducing the coun- a perceived improvement in the as $116.09 and as low as $114.40. try’s vulnerability to commodity country’s financial market as well US crude oil for October delivery price fluctuations will require as greater confidence in its pub- settled at $107.23 a barrel, $1.31 diversification into other sectors lic institutions. However, serious lower, or 1.2 percent, after trading of the economy and reinforc- concerns persist over its macr- between $106.77 and $108.61. Last ing some areas of competitive- oeconomic stability, which ranks week, US crude oil traded at its ness. As a high-income economy, 117 out of 148 economies. highest peak this year at $112.24. Qatar will have to continue to pay THE PENINSULA REUTERS

Expert outlines challenges H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada receiving a memento. ahead in run-up to 2022 Oryx GTL achieves safety benchmark DOHA: Oryx GTL held a spec- bin Hamad Al Thani.” Oryx GTL invests extensive tacular event for all its employ- “It was under the guidance of hours in training, coaching and DOHA: Mobilisation of labour completing several key projects as ees and contractors at Qatar His Highness that the National working with both employees force and primary construc- per the schedule. But having com- National Convention Centre to Development Strategy stipu- and contractors to ensure safer tion materials would be the mitted to complete large number celebrate achieving a Zero Total lated that Qatar workers should working practices and working key challenges Qatar’s project of projects concurrently, the con- Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) feel safe and secure while in the environments to help embed its industry would be facing in the struction companies must foresee for two consecutive years. workplace and called for pro- safety culture and philosophy, run-up to the World Cup 2022. the possible disruptions in the sup- With the realisation of this tecting employees from potential which states that “Safety is our Given the aggressive sched- ply chain of construction materials. new benchmark, Oryx GTL - a work-induced diseases, injury or way of life”. ules of critical projects, Qatar The construction companies must pioneering gas-to-liquids fuel death… and to better address the This is part of an organisation- will have to look for non-tradi- locate new countries to sources company - confirms its leading dangers associated with risky wide, zero-compromise approach tional sources to mobilize the these materials in case of emer- position as one of the world’s saf- jobs.” Al Sada added. to safety. The Road to Zero Harm resources, a US-based project gencies. “A well-planned project is est energy companies commit- In his speech, the Minister of is a formal system integrated into management expert told The half-done. The contracting compa- ted to safety, high sustainability Energy and Industry said “Qatar’s every aspect of the business, help- Peninsula yesterday. nies must understand their project standards and environmental commitment to the environment, ing define and use best practices to “Manpower, both semi-skilled thoroughly and plan accordingly,” responsibility, a company press health and safety of our society manage safety and health issues. and un-skilled, is going to be a Umesh said. release said. is also captured within the Qatar Lean Strauss, Board Director, big challenge for Qatar’s ambi- Qatar also needs to prioritise its Speaking on the occasion, H National Vision 2030, which said: “We are proud of the tious development projects. With 2022 projects. With the country’s E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al encourages responsible economic remarkable production achieve- a large number of projects com- population projected to multiply Sada, the Minister of Energy development in a manner that ments and safety record of our ing up simultaneously, the coun- in the next three years, priorities and Industry and Oryx GTL’s protects its natural environment joint venture Oryx GTL, a world try will have to depend on a huge must come out with fresh plans to should be given to augmentation Chairman of Board of Directors, for future generations. class company, which serves as a contingent of fresh labour force. attract these workers. of water network system, waste congratulated Oryx GTL for an Commenting on its ‘Beyond model for modern GTL projects The region is already experienc- The contracting companies will water projects and power distri- outstanding world class achieve- Zero Harm’ campaign, Oryx GTL around the world. The future ing a slowdown in the flow of also have to look for non-tradi- bution network. ment of approximately 16 million CEO Abdulrahman Al Suwaidi looks bright.” workforce from Asian countries tional sources to make sure the The New Jersey-based JCMS man-hours without a Lost Time said: “Having achieved the Zero Oryx GTL values incorpo- like India and Nepal. Qatar needs construction materials are reach- Global , which has recently opened Incident, and the completion of Harm benchmark more than rate Sustainable Development, a to address this problem on war ing at the project sites well in its country office in Doha, has two years with a Total Recordable once , ORYX GTL looks to go concept that is based on a cul- footing,” said Umesh K Jois (pic- advance. Currently, Qatar is mainly a legacy of providing construc- Incident of Zero. beyond that and to establish a ture of operational excellence tured), President & CEO JCMS depending on UAE for primary tion management services on Al Sada said: “Safety is a valu- culture of safety and security as and continuous improvement in Global, US. construction materials like Gabbro over two hundred infrastructure able attribute and a core constit- an integral part of our way of life. a zero harm manner. The Zero The Asian countries, major sup- and Limestone. Once the project projects ranging in size from $1m uent of our business. It is also This requires us to do our best TRIR celebration featured sev- pliers of the region’s labour force, works pick up, Qatar may not be to over $6bn in size. These include an organizational commitment to create such a culture in the eral brain-storming contests on are giving better wages to the work- able to afford the luxury of depend- runways, air terminal buildings, that is aligned with the holistic minds of our employees, and to health and safety matters where ers from their respective countries. ing on its neighboring countries. bridges, tunnels, highways, rail vision pursued by the govern- make them spread this culture winners were honored with valu- Despite economic slowdown, con- Long delays will ultimately end up networks and power substations. ment under the wise leadership outside work, in order to enjoy able awards. struction sector is very active in in the enhancement of project cost. THE PENINSULA of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim an accident-free society.” THE PENINSULA India. The construction companies “Qatar has a history of THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS New RBI chief raises hopes with action plan Indian central bank to subsidise hedging costs for banks raising overseas funds; rupee reverses slide

MUMBAI: India’s new cen- and Indian stocks, especially those Indians. India has the world’s tral bank chief kicked-off his of banks, to react positively on second-biggest diaspora, accord- term with a bang, announcing a Thursday. “Overall, the way and ing to the Ministry of Overseas spate of measures to support the kind of steps he has announced India Affairs, and the country embattled rupee and unveiling a will instill confidence in the mar- has turned to overseas Indians raft of steps to liberalise financial ket, which was in short supply.” for help in past financial crises. markets and the banking sector. A prominent former The central bank will also In an unexpectedly detailed and International Monetary Fund offer forex swap into rupees at wide-ranging briefing, Raghuram chief economist, Rajan, 50, suc- a concessional rate below mar- Rajan outlined plans to attract ceeds Duvvuri Subbarao at the ket levels for banks who raise more funds from overseas by sub- helm of the Reserve Bank of dollar funds through overseas sidising hedging costs for banks India. He enters office in the eye borrowings. and making it easier for import- of a financial storm as the country Among Rajan’s measures, he ers and exporters to hedge cur- grapples with its worst economic said banks should gradually be rency risk. crisis since 1991, which has sent allowed to decrease their man- He made clear his intention the rupee skidding by some 20 datory holdings of government to liberalise markets, including percent this year. securities, which would free up pushing for more rupee trade set- “The governorship of the cen- capital for lending. tlement, introducing new finan- tral bank is not meant to win He also said new bank licences cial products such as overnight one votes or Facebook ‘likes’. But should be awarded on an ongoing interest rate swaps and removing I hope to do the right thing, no basis. The central bank is now in curbs on opening new branches by matter what the criticism, even the process of awarding the first Indian banks. while looking to learn from the new bank licences in a decade. “Some of the actions I take will criticism,” he told reporters. Rajan also proposed the issue of not be popular,” said Rajan, who Many critics and investors inflation-indexed bonds linked to famously predicted the global have complained about what they the consumer price index, an indi- financial crisis and took over at viewed as inconsistent commu- cation that the central bank may the central bank in Mumbai yes- nication and insufficient action soon shift its inflation benchmark terday after nearly a year as chief from policy makers as economic from the wholesale price index. economic adviser in the finance growth has crumbled to a four- Rajan also pushed back the date ministry in New Delhi. year-low of 4.4 percent in the of the RBI’s next monetary policy His forceful debut, which June quarter and as the rupee review by two days to September contrasted with more circum- last week hit a record low. Raghuram Rajan (left), the newly appointed governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), hugs outgoing governor 20. That will give the central bank spect public comments in recent Earlier, the rupee rallied after Duvvuri Subbarao during the taking over ceremony at the bank’s headquarters in Mumbai yesterday. more time to consider the out- months, drew rave reviews from suspected dollar sales by the come of what is expected to be central-bank watchers. central bank and after Reuters from expatriate Indians. Rajan, of a broader push to lure inflows. Under the plan, the central a pivotal two-day meeting of the A. Prasanna, economist at ICICI exclusively reported that the in his remarks, outlined the plan The rupee recovered sharply bank will offer a swap window US Federal Reserve, ending on Securities Primary Dealership, RBI was considering a plan that to attract more funds from non- from a day’s low of 68.62 per dol- to banks for fresh dollar depos- September 18. said he expects bonds, the rupee would help lenders raise money resident Indians (NRIs) as part lar to close at 67.065. its mobilised from non-resident REUTERS

European stocks rise; gold falls Top Indian Global 2013 smartphone sales to hit 1 billion, says survey LONDON: European stocks On the London Bullion Market, net profit range of $750m-$790m”, trade team rose yesterday despite the air- gold prices slid to $1,390.00 an it said in a statement. WASHINGTON: Global that in the smartphone segment. lines sector flying into turbu- ounce from $1,399.50. The gloomy news sent shock- smartphone sales are expected Smartphone growth is the result lence after Irish no-frills carrier With no surprises likely waves through the rest of Europe’s to top one billion in 2013, driven of a variety of factors, includ- Ryanair issued a shock profits from the the European Central airlines sector. Easyjet dropped to visit Doha by low-cost handset and gains in ing steep device subsidies from warning. Bank and Bank of England at 5.1 percent to 1,215.00 pence. emerging markets, a research carriers, especially in mature Stocks initially fell deep into their interest rate meetings on International Airlines Group — DOHA: A 14-member high level firm said yesterday. economic markets, as well as negative territory but recovered Thursday, investors were able to which owns British Airways and Confederation of Indian Industry International Data Corp said a growing array of sub-$200 as Wall Street pushed into positive take advantage of a loosening of Spanish carrier Iberia — slid (CII) business delegation is arriv- it sees the smartphone market smartphones. territory ahead of the release of the tensions over prospects of mili- 1.3 percent to 291 pence, despite ing in Doha on a three-day visit growing 40 percent this year, “Two years ago, the worldwide US Federal Reserve’s “Beige Book”, tary intervention in Syria. announcing a hike in traffic in from September 8. and will likely grow to 1.7 billion smartphone market flirted with which gives a read of US regional “Another factor weighing August thanks to its budget The delegation is led by K K annually by 2017. Overall mobile shipping half a billion units for economic conditions and could pro- on sentiment was an apparent Spanish carrier Veuling. Lufthansa M Kutty, Chairman of CII’s Gulf phone sales will grow 7.4 percent, the first time — to double that vide clues on whether the central softening of tone by Russian slumped 2.9 percent to ¤12.93, Committee and CEO and MD of rebounding from a nearly flat year in just two years highlights the bank is likely to taper its aggressive President (Vladimir )Putin, when while Air France-KLM shares slid South West Group of Companies, in 2012, IDC said. ubiquity that smartphones have bond-buying stimulus programme. he suggested that he was not, in 0.35 percent to close at ¤5.65. and includes CEOs and other sen- Total mobile handset sales achieved,” said Ramon Llamas, London’s benchmark FTSE 100 principle opposed to a strike on Asian stock markets, mean- ior representatives of companies are expected to be some 1.8 IDC’s mobile research manager. index ended the day up 0.10 per- Syria, if it was proved that Assad while, closed mixed as profit- engaged in a wide range of sectors billion, with more than half of AFP cent at 6,474.74 points. Frankfurt’s was guilty of the use of chemical taking tempered buying including infrastructure; energy; DAX 30 climbed 0.19 percent to weapons,” said CMC Markets UK sentiment, dealers said. Tokyo heavy engineering; manufactur- 8,195.92 points and the CAC 40 analyst Michael Hewson. ended 0.54-percent higher, follow- ing; engineering and other con- QATARI MARKET in Paris added 0.16 percent to The profits warning by Ryanair ing gains of more than four per- sultancy; communications and Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P 3,980.42 points. sent airline shares tumbling cent in the previous two sessions. information technology; financial Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 102.69 0.53 % Aa2 AA Madrid rose 0.53 percent while across Europe. Its own share price Shanghai was up 0.21 percent, but services; international trading; Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 103.94 1.91 % Aa2 AA Milan dropped 1.35 percent amid plunged by about 15 percent at one Hong Kong fell 0.31 percent and pharmaceuticals and health care. renewed fears over the govern- stage. In late trading, Ryanair’s Sydney slipped 0.67 percent. The visit of CII’s business mis- Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 118.63 2.92 % Aa2 AA ment’s stability as former prime share price was down 12.22 per- Wall Street rose ahead of the sion is taking place in the context Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 110.63 3.38 % Aa2 AA minister Silvio Berlusconi tries to cent at ¤5.95 on Ireland’s main release of the Fed’s Beige book. of the vast potential and enhanced Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 104.75 3.83 % Aa2 AA avoid being expelled from parlia- stocks index, which was showing In midday trading, the Dow interest on both sides to further Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 154.50 4.93 % Aa2 AA ment for his tax fraud conviction. a loss of 1.86 percent overall. Jones Industrial Average rose expand business partnerships. Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 112.50 5.50 % Aa2 AA In foreign exchange trading, Ryanair warned that its annual 0.74 percent to 14,943.71 points. The India embassy appreciated Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 104.13 5.46 % Aa2 AA the euro firmed to $1.3217 from net profits could miss forecasts The broad-based S&P 500 added the support of the government Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.34 % Aa2 AA $1.3170 late on Tuesday, when it owing to intense competition and 0.90 percent to 1,654.54, while of Qatar, Qatar Chamber of had hit a one-month low point falling airfares. Ryanair “now the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Commerce and Industry, and a Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 107.88 3.69 % Aa2 AA at $1.3139. The dollar was flat at expects the full-year outturn will Index climbed 1.01 percent to number of business, financial/ Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.75 0.98 % A1 A- 99.54 yen. be at the lower end of its full-year 3,649.08 points. AFP banking and professional organi- Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.00 2.50 % A1 A- sations in preparing a programme QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.78 % NR NR for the visiting mission. QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.38 1.56 % Aa3 A+ CII is a premier business asso- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.25 2.39 % Aa3 A+ ciation of India with over 7100 Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.00 2.60 % A2 A- members, including MNCs and Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.00 2.04 % A2 A SMEs, and an indirect member- ship of over 90,000 enterprises Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 121.38 3.72 % A2 A from around 257 national and Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.13 4.10 % A2 A regional sectoral industry bodies. 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Next Android to be called ‘KitKat’ Tunisian inflation Qatar bourse rate falls to 6pc in August

TUNIS: Tunisia’s annual index down by inflation rate fell for the sec- ond month running to reach 6 percent in August against 6.2 percent in July and 6.4 percent in June, official data 1.89 percent showed yesterday. It com- pared with March’s 6.5 per- cent, which was the highest Mideast markets hit new lows rate in at least five years. Food and drink prices rose 7.8 per- DOHA: Qatar Exchange was haven’t changed. In the medium cent in August, while clothing down 179.80 points or 1.89 per- term, even if there is a limited and footwear prices dropped cent to 9,356.32 points yester- attack, it will benefit the UAE in 6.5 percent, the state statistics day from the previous closing terms of capital inflows - it has in institute said. Rising prices of 9,536.12. Among the top los- the past and I don’t expect it to may add to pressure on the ers were Qatar National Bank change now.” government of Prime Minister whose share dropped 2.44 per- Small-caps stocks that saw Ali Larayedh as it struggles cent to QR163.90, Industries heavy speculative buying in recent to restore stability after the Qatar lost 1.25 percent to weeks were hardest hit. Bluechips assassination of opposition QR150.30, Commercial Bank will likely outperform in the near politician Mohamed Brahmi, of Qatar fell 0.75 percent to term as investors seek companies the second such attack this QR66.50 and Ooredoo was down with strong fundamentals, analysts The Android mascot made of Nestle’s KitKat chocolate bars in front of Google headquarters in Moun-tain year. The Tunisian economy is by 3.77 percent to QR132.80. said. Abu Dhabi’s index fell 2.3 per- View, California. Google said the next version of Android will be called “KitKat” in keeping with its penchant for struggling with a big external The banking and financial sec- cent and Qatar lost 1.9 percent, giving tasty names to its software for powering mobile devices. Android software powers more than a billion deficit, hurt by falls in income tor index dropped 1.91 points, also hitting eight-week lows. smartphones or tablets worldwide, according to Google. from tourism. the consumer goods and services Kuwait’s bourse dropped 2.6 sector index lost 2.54 points, the percent in its ninth straight loss Delta orders 40 industrial sector index was down to slump to its lowest finish since 0.88 points while the insurance April 24. “The game changes a little Airbus jets sector index was up by a point. bit now — we will have more vola- NEW YORK CITY: Delta Meanwhile, Middle East mar- tility in the markets and it will be Egyptian pound strengthens Air Lines announced yester- kets slumped to multi-week lows closely linked to Syria news flow,” day an order for 40 aircraft yesterday after the United States said Sebastien Henin, portfolio CAIRO: The Egyptian pound It has rationed out dollars in pound to strengthen to 6.8952 from European aircraft maker moved a step closer to launching manager at The National Investor. jumped 1.2 percent yesterday at $40m foreign currency sales three pounds to the dollar at the $1.3bn Airbus, including 10 wide-body punitive strikes against Syrian Saudi Arabia’s measure fell 2.2 a $1.3bn foreign currency sale — times a week since a run on the sale, up from the cut-off price of A330-300s and 30 narrow- President Bashar Al Assad follow- percent to its lowest close since July its biggest ever — as the central pound in December cost more 6.9752 pounds at the last regu- body A321s. Delta said the ing his forces’ alleged use of poison 3. Yesterday’s drop cut 2013 gains bank gambled a large chunk of than $2bn to bring under control. lar sale on Monday. “The central new aircraft, to be delivered gas. Russian President Vladimir to 12.7 percent. The retail sector its reserves to show that Egypt’s Despite the sales and a more bank is signalling that it believes over the 2015-2017 period, are Putin signalled a readiness to benchmark dropped 3.7 percent. The economic turbulence was com- expensive dollar, businesses have the crisis is over. Rates are down, part of an effort to renew the drop his opposition if Damascus banking index fell 2.1 percent and ing to an end. racked up hundreds of millions reserves are up and now the cur- US airline’s fleet with a focus were proven to have carried out a petrochemical sector’s measure lost Since the 2011 popular upris- in unfulfilled requests for foreign rency is rising,” Simon Williams, on enhancing profitability and chemical weapons attack. 1.7 percent, despite higher oil prices. ing, foreign reserves have more currency, forcing them to turn to an economist with HSBC, said. keeping a close rein on capac- Dubai’s bourse tumbled 3.7 per- Elsewhere, Egypt’s main than halved to less than $20bn, a black market that has mush- The sale was designed to ity. “This Airbus agreement cent to an eight-week low as many benchmark slipped 0.1 percent, the budget deficit has widened roomed in recent months. finance strategic imports such is another opportunistic fleet retail investors opted to cut their extending 2013 losses to 5 percent. to 14 percent of gross domestic “We’re covering all the back- as wheat, meat and cooking oil, transaction for Delta in which market exposure. “Everything is Selling was capped on the bourse product and the currency has lost log in the different sectors to help the central bank said when it we acquire economically effi- in risk-off mode and given the as bargain hunters stepped in. more than 17 percent of its value revive business,” a central bank announced the sale on Tuesday, cient, proven-technology air- scale of the fall, this is retail Shares in Arabia Cotton Ginning against the dollar. official said. “This will definitely its largest since the $800m it craft,” Richard Anderson, investors staying cautious,” said surged 9.9 percent, up for a third The bank has kept the pound have a very positive effect on the offered in May. One currency Delta’s chief executive, said. Amer Khan, fund manager at day. Traders said the firm may rising since the army deposed industrial side, covering all the dealer said the sale could elimi- The value of the deal at offi- Shuaa Asset Management. transform into a real estate com- Islamist president Mohammed needs. So it was a very important nate the black market in dollars cial catalog prices is around “These are headline-driven pany and use its land holdings to Mursi on July 3, thanks to $12bn move to make,” the official said. for several months. $5.6bn. fears as local fundamentals build properties. REUTERS in aid from Gulf Arab countries. The central bank allowed the REUTERS Toyota recalls 370,000 vehicles TOKYO: Japanese car giant Toyota Motor said yesterday that it was recalling some Exports, spending pull eurozone out of recession 370,000 vehicles worldwide over glitches that could cause BRUSSELS: A bounce in government spending made its years in August as orders rose for of 0.7 percent in the second quarter, The eurozone’s fragility was them to stop mid-journey. exports and spending pulled first positive contribution to the the first time since mid-2011, a Eurostat’s breakdown highlighted evident in the muted shopping The world’s biggest auto the eurozone out of recession in economy since late 2009 when separate survey showed. the softening of the austerity poli- of Europeans during July, when maker said around 170,000 the second quarter of 2013, data Greece plunged the euro zone into A string of reports in recent cies that many economists blame retail trade volumes increased units were being recalled shows, in the first signs of recov- its debt crisis. days point to renewed growth for for worsening the eurozone’s one- just 0.1 percent, Eurostat said. because bolts pinning a valve ery after the bloc’s longest slump. “Everything is pointing to a the 17 countries sharing the euro, and-a-half year-long recession. That was not enough to recoup control system inside the Stronger-than-expected growth recovery,” Dirk Schumacher, an appearing to weaken the case for That was accompanied by the first June’s 0.7 percent fall and was engine could become loose. In from Germany to Portugal helped economist with Goldman Sachs, another interest rate cut by the quarterly rise in household spend- below economists’ expectations the worst case scenario, the the bloc’s economy expand 0.3 per- said, adding he sees 0.1 percent European Central Bank when it ing since late 2011. of a 0.4 percent increase. glitch could stop the engine, cent in the April-to-June period, growth in the third quarter. “We meets today. A Reuters survey of Portugal’s economy grew 1.1 The eurozone’s economy is set it added. The recall affects the European Union’s statistics do have some divergence between 60 economists forecasts the bank percent, while Spain’s contrac- to shrink 0.4 percent this year, Crown, Mark X, and various office Eurostat said yesterday in countries, but the upswing is will keep rates on hold at 0.5 per- tion was just 0.1 percent, offer- the European Commission says, Lexus models built in Japan its first breakdown of the data. helping everyone to benefit.” cent and stay put until at least ing hope that southern Europe and the return to growth in 2014 between July 2005 and July Exports to the rest of the world Firms in the eurozone — almost 2015, while euro zone inflation will be able to end a social crisis is likely to be less than in Britain 2011, a spokeswoman said. rose sharply in the quarter after a fifth of the world’s economy — remains subdued. highlighted by popular unrest and and the United States. AGENCIES six months of falling sales, while had their best month in over two Behind Germany’s strong growth record youth joblessness. REUTERS US trade deficit widens in July as exports dip

WASHINGTON: The US trade reflected rises in industrial supplies, deficit widened slightly more than automobiles and consumer goods, sug- expected in July as exports dipped, gested some strengthening in domestic but a rebound in imports pointed to demand. some firming in underlying domestic Imports of goods and services rose 1.6 demand early in the third quarter. percent to $228.6bn. Imports of autos, The Commerce Department said yes- parts and engines were the highest on terday that the trade gap increased 13.3 record in July. Exports of goods and percent to $39.1bn. June’s shortfall on services dipped 0.6 percent to $189.4bn the trade balance was revised to $34.5bn in July. However, exports of petroleum from the previously reported $34.2bn. products hit a record high. Economists polled by Reuters had Weak overseas demand, especially expected the trade deficit to widen to in Europe, has caused an ebb in export $38.7bn in July. growth after trade helped to lift the US When adjusted for inflation, the trade economy out of the 2007-09 recession. gap expanded to $47.7bn from $43.8bn in But there are signs the global economy June. This measure goes into the calcula- is picking up and US manufacturers have tion of gross domestic product. also been reporting an increase in export Trade’s contribution to GDP growth orders. in the second quarter was neutral, but The Institute for Supply Management economists expect it to add to growth said on Tuesday its gauge of new export this quarter and the rise in the so-called orders rebounded in August after slipping real trade deficit is probably not enough in July. In July, exports to the 27-nation to change that view. The economy grew European Union fell 7.4 percent resulting at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the April- in a record trade deficit. Exports to the June quarter, stepping up from the first- EU in the first seven months of the year quarter’s 1.1 percent pace. were down 4.4 percent compared to the “We expect some narrowing in the same period in 2012. trade deficit in the third quarter. It’s Exports to China fell 4.9 percent. China consistent with some pickup in the glo- has been one of the fastest-growing mar- bal demand,” said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an kets for US goods, but growth there has economist at BNP Paribas in New York. slowed in recent months and exports to The three-month moving average that country were up just 4 percent for of the trade deficit, which irons out the first seven months of 2013. Imports month-to-to month volatility, decreased from China jumped 8.3 percent in July, to $39.1bn in the three months to July lifting the contentious US trade deficit from $39.3bn in the prior period. with China to a record $30.1bn. The increase in imports in July, which REUTERS THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Libya PM warns Clampdown on time running out for oil protests shadow banking TRIPOLI: Libya’s patience with protesters who have halted its onshore oil output is running out and action against them launched in EU nearer, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said yesterday. “The government has been patient,” Zeidan said. “To pre- Money market funds face stiffer rules serve national unity we saw fit to use all peaceful means to resolve BRUSSELS/LONDON: Special intertwined with banks, who this issue but at some point we funds used by big companies often sponsor the funds as well may reach a point in which the to park billions of euros of cash as relying on them for finance state should exercise its role seri- face stricter rules to make them themselves. “We are not pointing ously to stop this.” safer, the European Commission an accusing finger at the sector. Oil industry executives say said yesterday, taking a first step We just want it to work smoothly. Zeidan’s shaky central govern- to reform unregulated finance There should be transparency and ment risked widening violence known as shadow banking. there should be good supervision,” that could descend into civil war if The draft law, criticised by Barnier told reporters. “Finance it uses force to recapture oilfields. industry as too harsh but by should be serving the economy Libya’s oil production has fallen Germany as not strict enough, and not itself alone.” further to around 150,000 barrels will regulate the euro money mar- The European plans draw on per day (b/d) — from around 1.4m ket funds sector, demanding some ideas in a global blueprint that b/d in April — confined to offshore funds set aside cash buffers to will be submitted for approval to rigs protestors cannot reach, a avoid a panic should many inves- the world’s 20 leading economies National Oil Corp official said. tors withdraw money at once. when their leaders meet in Russia A file picture of a 2013 Chrysler 300 sedan at the Washington Auto show. Armed groups have also threat- This would lower what EU today and tomorrow. ened to close the Wafa gas field, financial services chief Michel The reform is a response to the which if shut would cause severe Barnier said was a risk to the 2007-2008 financial crisis, which power shortages in the capital. financial system from the trillion was brought on by the collapse in US auto sales in top gear Wafa, in the south west, is the euro sector, but users of the funds prices of securities tied to risky only major gas field left open to warn that demanding funds hoard home loans. “Shadow banking was supply power stations. Libya is more for a rainy day would make at the heart of the crisis,” said DETROIT: US auto sales were percent. Both carmakers easily Erich Merkle said the auto indus- importing much more diesel and them too expensive. Frederic Hache, a former deriv- on a pace to show a gain as beat analyst expectations. Toyota try will show a 17 percent US sales fuel oil for electricity plants that The changes are part of efforts atives banker who works with high as 17 percent in August sold 4.6 percent more vehicles in gain for August, and a seasonally previously relied on gas. to shine a light on shadow bank- public-interest group Finance as the industry raced toward the United States than Ford in adjusted annualised selling rate Crude oil exports have fallen to ing, a ¤24 trillion industry in Watch. “As bank regulation has its strongest month since just August. It was the second straight of more than 16 million vehicles. around 80,000 b/d, several traders Europe — half the world’s total since tightened, activity may shift before the start of the 2007- month that the Japanese carmaker Before the 2008-2010 indus- close to the matter said, confined — that comprises money market into the shadow sector.” 2009 recession. outsold Ford, ranking it No. 2 try downturn, it was routine for to the offshore Bouri and Al Jurf funds, some hedge funds, and The most controversial element Last month’s sales will top 16 behind GM. U.S. auto sales to top 16 million platforms. Crude exports from the firms involved in securities lend- in Barnier’s proposal is a require- million vehicles on a seasonally Before July, Toyota had not vehicles each year. In a 10-year Brega port have been diverted to ing and repurchase markets. ment for one type of money market adjusted annualised basis, several bested Ford in monthly sales since span ending in 2007, US auto sales keep the Zawiya oil refinery in the Such groups borrow and lend, fund, known as constant net asset carmakers said, which would be March 2010. “The auto industry averaged 16.7 million vehicles. west running. just like banks do, but because value funds, to hold a cash buffer the first time US sales topped continues to be a bright spot in Pickup truck sales remained “Those Libyans who stopped they are not banks they often fall equivalent to 3 percent of their that level since November 2007. the economic recovery,” said Bill strong in August for the major exports, this is a national crime outside the remit of regulation, assets, with a three-year phase in. General Motors Co said August Fay, Toyota division group vice US carmakers, continuing a trend that is tantamount to treason, which is why they are considered Such funds seek to maintain a auto sales were 16.3 million vehi- president and general manager. that began almost a year ago. because you are cutting the to be in the “shadow” of tradi- stable price of 1 euro per share cles on a seasonally adjusted Nissan Motor Co also had a Ford said it sold 71,115 F-Series income of Libyans. You are some- tional finance. In the European when investors redeem or buy annualised basis. This would eas- good sales month, showing a 22 pickup trucks, up 22 percent, one who had been entrusted with Union, money market funds are shares in them, to keep the value ily top the 15.8 million annualised percent increase. Monthly auto which matches the line’s year- the task of protecting the coun- mainly based in France, Ireland of their holding steady. sales rate forecast by 45 analysts sales are viewed as an early indi- to-date gains. try’s wealth, yet you are abusing and Luxembourg and are heavily The buffer would provide a surveyed by Thomson Reuters. cator of the US economy’s health. GM’s Chevrolet Silverado it for your ends,” Zeida said. used by companies in Germany, safety cushion in case there is a Consumers, driving vehicles The industry has held up better pickup truck sales rose 14 per- In the east, where most oil Britain and elsewhere. run on the fund, as seen in the that are on average more than than the broader economy due cent and through August has production is based, many of the For companies, they are an United States when the value of 11 years old, are securing cheap in part to consumers’ need to increased its sales 25 percent. workers and armed militias that alternative home for short-term one U.S. fund “broke the buck” financing to buy new cars and replace aging vehicles, which now Chrysler’s truck brand, Ram, guard oil installations are pushing cash so that they can spread and fell below $1 per share. trucks, said Ken Czubay, Ford average more than 11 years. showed a robust 29 percent sales federalist demands and calling for their reserves rather than leav- Funds whose share prices Motor Co US sales chief. He said Chrysler Group LLC and Ford gain in August, and has a gain of a bigger share in the country’s oil ing them with one bank. Unlike float in line with performance carmakers were aggressive in each said their August U.S. sales 25 percent through August. wealth. Others press for changes banks, the funds have no access are spared the requirement of their Labour Day weekend mar- rose 12 percent, and both carmak- Auto companies are making in management and higher pay. to support from central banks maintaining the buffer. Excluding keting, which boosted sales for the ers reported that pickup truck the gains as the average trans- Finance Minister Alkilani such as the European Central them is meant to prompt funds to last three days of August. models led the way, in part due action price for a new vehicle in Abdelkarim Al Jazi said the stop- Bank if things go wrong. adopt the model of floating share GM, the No. 1 seller in the US to the rising housing market. the United States climbed to a pages have cost Libya billions of But the vast unchartered ter- prices, which are seen by regula- market, yesterday reported August Ford’s sales outstripped ana- record $31,252 in August, said dollars in lost revenue and were ritory unnerves regulators in tors as more transparent. US sales up 15 percent, and Toyota lyst expectations and Chrysler’s TrueCar.com. already affecting its $52bn budget. part because the sector is closely REUTERS Motor Corp said sales gained 23 matched them. Ford sales analyst REUTERS REUTERS

China boosts ties with Turkmenistan Syria cancels Turkish central bank to tender to buy rice as traders use gross forex reserves ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central “We will most likely see lower steer clear bank suggested yesterday that reserve option coefficients and more surprises lay ahead in its reserve requirements on forex ABU DHABI: A Syrian purchas- unorthodox efforts to manage liabilities,” said Burcu Unuvar, a ing agency has cancelled an urgent a weakening lira, pressured by senior economist at Is Investment, tender to buy 135,000 tonnes of concerns over the future of US adding not everyone at the meet- white rice, the third state food ten- stimulus, war in Syria and the ing was convinced the strategy der to fail in two weeks as a new country’s current account gap. would be enough. payment system to avoid problems In a presentation on its web- In a rare interview with the from financing sanctions failed to site accompanying a closed-door state-run Anadolu news agency attract traders. meeting with economists, the (www.aafinans.com) last week, The General Foreign Trade bank said it would start using gross Basci forecast the lira would Organisation (GFTO) sought forex reserves — as well as the net recover by the end of the year to the rice in a tender that closed reserves it has employed until now around 1.92 to the dollar, but gave on August 25. A source at GFTO — to manage forex liquidity. little indication of how it would would not comment on the number That could mean lowering forex get there. of offers received but said another reserve requirements for lenders, Economists said central bank tender for the same quantity would thereby boosting dollar liquidity officials at yesterday’s meeting — Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping launch produc- be issued next week. and supporting the lira without who included two members of its tion at the Galkynysh (Renaissance) gas field, some 500km from the capital Ashgabat, yesterday. The Chinese The tender document, issued on adding to the $8bn of net reserves rate-setting policy committee and President and his Turkmen host launched production from the world’s second-largest gas field in Turkmenistan July 28, cited “extreme urgency”. it has already whittled away at its chief economist but not Basci in the latest sign of Beijing’s growing presence in Central Asia. It stated that payment could be forex auctions this year. himself — appeared to retreat made from Syrian bank accounts The lira hit a record low of 2.07 from that year-end forecast. abroad that have been frozen by against the dollar a week ago, “They seem very, very reluc- Western sanctions. down around 15 percent from its tant to raise rates,” said Standard The European Union, United February peak, after central bank Bank’s head of emerging market Saudi retailer plans 250 new stores States and other Western coun- Governor Erdem Basci ruled out research Timothy Ash. tries have imposed sanctions on interest rate hikes to defend it. “So the mix now is basically KHOBAR: Saudi Arabian The trend has been noted by it secured through its purchase President Bashar Al Assad’s gov- That surprise announcement fixed/anchored policy rates, retailer Fawaz Abdulaziz investors, with Alhokair’s share of Nesk Group last year. ernment over his crackdown on the left economists wondering how and a willingness to live with a Alhokair plans to open nearly 250 price climbing nearly 91 per- Alhokair owns franchise rights to revolt in the country. The sanc- the bank would support the cur- weaker currency,” he said in an stores at home and abroad this cent in the year to September 3, market 75 international brands in tions do not target food shipments, rency in the face of fears about an email from the meeting, which is financial year, a top executive against the wider Saudi market’s Middle East, including Zara, Marks but a financing freeze has hindered imminent tapering in US stimulus, a regular monthly event. said, as the kingdom’s booming 15.2 percent gain. & Spencer, Gap, Aldo, Monsoon, Syria’s ability to import food sup- the conflict in Syria, and Turkey’s In one of the world’s most com- retail sector provides a platform Alhokair net profit rose nearly Accessorize and Topshop. It has plies, including grain and sugar. gaping current account deficit. plex monetary policy mixes, the to expand into new markets. 37 percent year on year in the about 1,300 stores worldwide in In recent weeks the govern- Its gross reserves include dollars bank has been using required Alhokair has benefited in three months to June 30, and countries including Jordan, Egypt, ment has offered to pay for food kept at the central bank by lend- reserves and other macro pru- recent years from a buoyant President Abdulmajeed Alhokair Morocco and Kazakhstan. with funds held in frozen bank ers and the Treasury. Reducing dential tools, as well as weekly consumer goods sector, boosted said this week that it now plans “We will open in Saudi and the accounts abroad. But those deals forex reserve requirements would repo rates and overnight borrow- by rising incomes on the back of to strengthen its presence both Middle East around 250 stores — would require sellers to secure cut those gross reserves and leave ing and lending rates to manage government efforts to improve at home and abroad, with the on average one shop every day and permission from European gov- more dollars in the market, easing liquidity conditions. the plight of Saudi nationals after Commonwealth of Independent a half,” the president said, adding ernments to unfreeze the funds. pressure on the lira. Highly respected for his pro- the 2011 Arab Spring. States a particular focus. that about 170 of these would be Traders appear to have shied The bank could also reduce digious command of academic The average salary in the king- “The company opens 200 in its home market. away rather than accept respon- the “reserve option coefficients” theory, Basci sees himself as a dom jumped by about 55 percent stores every year, but this year Acquisitions are also part of the sibility for unfreezing the money. it uses to determine how much maverick central banker free to between 2009 and 2012, HSBC the number will be a bit higher company’s growth plans. Alhokair The GFTO on Tuesday lenders must pay if they choose experiment with policy tools often data shows, partly thanks to because of the new brands and said the firm is in talks to buy announced a tender for 276,000 to hold a portion of their lira untested by more orthodox peers, measures including increased new locations in Saudi,” he said, two companies in Saudi, though tonnes of white sugar after two required reserves in forex or gold, those who have worked closely public sector employment and a referencing franchises such as he declined to give details. previous attempts to buy that again potentially increasing dollar with him say. new minimum wage. Mango and Stradivarius, which REUTERS same amount failed. REUTERS liquidity. REUTERS THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Two quarters of economic Why the Internet is perfect growth don’t mean George Osborne’s policy has worked for price discrimination BY FELIX SALMON Ozimek says that this kind of price dis- new products, for which it can then charge BY ED BALLS crimination will be “creepy, invasive, and varying amounts of money. This is a lot of rice discrimination is one of those unfair”. He doesn’t mention this, but the work, and has reportedly created tensions t last economic growth is returning – not just in America, concepts that only an economist obvious place for this kind of price dis- between the CEO and the editor when some but now in the eurozone and Britain too. Risks remain, could love. But the theory is clear: crimination is newspaper paywalls. The FT of the new products report up to the former prices are still rising faster than wages and, as Mark Pthe more that a vendor can discrim- already does it: there’s no real list price for rather than the latter, even when they’re ACarney, the new governor of the Bank of England, has inate according to willingness to pay, the an FT subscription, and the paper basically being built by journalists. Instead of think- warned, the UK’s recovery is set to be “measured rather than more value that vendor can add. just charges whatever it thinks it can get ing in terms of creating a wide range of rapid”. But the stalled recovery finally resuming is welcome news. Rory Sutherland uses air travel as an away with, given what it knows about you. different products, then, maybe the NYT Predictably David Cameron and George Osborne now claim example: having a mix of classes allows For newspapers with more price-sensitive should just try to do the best journalism it their economic policy has worked after all. But that won’t wash. price-sensitive people to pay low fares, while readers, smart price discrimination is even can, and then sell that journalism at a wide Two quarters of positive growth does not begin to repair the the rich have a large number of flights to more important. Ideally, you’d charge every range of different prices. damage from three years of flatlining. choose from. On top of that, he could have reader just a little bit less than they were That would be a very tough decision to Osborne gambled that faster tax rises and spending cuts would added, airlines are extremely good at exer- willing to pay and especially the regular make: consumers, as a rule, viscerally dislike boost private investment and growth. But instead he choked off cising price discrimination within classes, so readers who come back often enough to price discrimination. If you know that your growth and delivered the slowest recovery on record. This failure that two people receiving identical service hit paywalls. friends and neighbours are getting exactly has done long-term damage: youth unemployment at almost one might be thousands of dollars apart in the To take a simple example, they know if the same product that you are, but are pay- million, business investment lost and deficit reduction stalled. It amount they paid for their tickets. those readers are looking at local sports ing a different price for it, then someone is will mean tough decisions on public spending for Labour in the Airlines have always used a multitude of reports, or whether they’re looking at gen- going to feel ripped off. Still, at the margin, next parliament. proxies to determine customers’ willingness eral entertainment news. The former group the NYT can start to implement something The talk of economic recovery rings hollow for ordinary families to pay: how far in advance people are book- will be much more willing to pay than the like this without having to charge different across the country, who are still seeing their living standards fall. ing, whether they’re going one-way or return, latter. But they’re also quite likely to know prices. For instance, it can hold off on the This is how economic policy must respond to their concerns. First, whether they’re staying a Saturday night, and a lot more about you than that, including paywall for certain readers while putting the Treasury must not take recovery for granted. Around the so on and so forth. But nowadays, online, the exactly where you live. it up quite aggressively for others, such as world emerging markets are jittery, China is slowing, oil prices amount of information that companies have The NYT will shortly roll out a new, perhaps the ones who spend a lot of time are rising and the eurozone is still stuck with chronic low growth. about their customers has never been higher. lower-priced product, giving some subset of on the business pages. And if you price dis- And in the UK, with bank-lending to small firms still falling and And the obvious way to monetise that its news to people who don’t want to pay for criminate by giving away discount codes, few fiscal policy dragging growth down, the IMF and the Bank of information is through price discrimination: the whole thing. But that’s just going further people object at all. England are right to warn of “downside risks”. charge the people with high willingness to pay in the wrong direction. Already the pric- The internet is a zone where companies Carney fully understands these threats. His sensible “forward more money than those who will only buy if ing is sending all manner of bad messages: sell products with zero marginal cost, and guidance” on keeping interest rates low is just the kind of flexible the price is low. access to nytimes.com plus a phone app is with a lot of information about exactly who and forward-looking leadership that has been so woefully lacking Adam Ozimek explains: The more informa- $15 every four weeks, access to the website their audiences are. In that world, it would over the past three years. With our economy still well below its tion we have, the more profitable first degree plus the tablet app is $20, and access to the be weird if they didn’t try to charge different pre-crisis peak, there is plenty of room for stronger growth – we price discrimination will be. As big data and website plus both phone and tablet apps is prices to different customers. We’re used to need growth of 1.4 percent a quarter just to recover the ground online buying increases the information that $35. Which logically means that access to the freemium model, which is very basic lost since 2010. business have on us, the ease and profitabil- the website itself is worthless. (If A+B=15, price discrimination. In future, expect that But he is not a miracle worker, and it is very hard for low inter- ity of first degree price discrimination will and A+C=20, and A+B+C=35, then A=0.) model to become a lot more sophisticated. est rates to propel the recovery forward. That is why I continue to become difficult to resist. The NYT is in the process of building REUTERS agree with the IMF, which has urged the UK to act now to support recovery by bringing forward £10bn of infrastructure investment. This would allow us to build 400,000 affordable homes, create more than half a million jobs and make our economy stronger for the long term. Second, we need a long-term plan to deliver the right kind of growth – producing a balanced and sustained recovery that can last. Over the last three years both UK business investment and exports have underperformed. Since 2010 UK exports have grown more slowly than America, the OECD average, the Eurozone and the EU. But the government has no plan to put this right. The Business Investment Bank still does not exist. The Heseltine growth plan is being scaled back. Banking reform is being watered down. Energy policy is in chaos. The Green Investment Bank has been neutered. Apprenticeships for young people have fallen year on year. And major infrastructure projects are stalled. Simply boosting housing demand with a taxpayer guarantee – yet doing little to increase the supply of housing, which is at a historic low – is not going to deliver a sustained and balanced recovery. Third, we need a recovery that benefits everyone, not just a few. With prices rising faster than wages in 37 of the 38 months since the last election, working people are on average almost £1,500 worse off a year since David Cameron became prime minister. As Labour will highlight in parliament today, not only are energy bills, childcare costs and rail fares soaring, but wages are stagnant and more than three million people want to work more hours but are unable to do so. Yet bank bonuses soared in April as payments were delayed so the highest paid could benefit from this government’s top rate tax cut. That’s why Labour is calling on the government to reverse its ill-judged tax cut for millionaires and use the money to help struggling families. It is why we want to help make work pay by introducing a lower 10p starting rate of tax, paid for by a mansion tax, and to repeat the tax on bank bonuses to pay for a compulsory jobs guarantee for young people. After three years of stagnation, any growth is better than no growth. But the country is crying out for real change – not more of the same. We need a stronger recovery and a more balanced economy which boosts the living standards of the many and not just a few at the top. At our conference in Brighton this month, we will set out Labour’s way forward for Britain. THE GUARDIAN Five reasons you should be worried about the economy BY NEIL IRWIN imported petroleum products for of its $85bn-a-month in injections leading candidate, by contrast, policy. This could be a volatile few The starting point ain’t that Americans, depressing growth. of money into the economy, per- has given little clear indication months in the money markets. great. Through the first eight e are at a strange, ■ It’s fiscal standoff time . . . haps starting at its policy meeting of his monetary policy stance, ■ Delayed effects from higher months of 2013, the US economy jittery moment for again. The government again just two weeks away. and so analysts have tried to fill rates. Rates started spiking seems to have done . . . fine. More the US economy. needs to be funded, and the debt That seems to have been in the blanks based on Summers’ well before the Summers boom- of the same. Ho hum. Fiscal aus- WWe’re like a car on ceiling again needs to be raised, priced into markets already, since speeches and comments over the let, dating to when the Fed first terity hasn’t caused the sharp a winding road about to turn a and Republicans are again looking Chairman Ben Bernanke began years. began its talk of tapering bond slowdown many economists bend with no idea whether it’s a to use their control of the House signaling that direction in June, They’re concluding — from that purchases. But changes in the feared. nice, smooth road ahead or a per- to extract some policy concessions though all these other factors limited evidence — that Summers cost of borrowing affect the over- Federal Reserve policy has ilous mountain climb. Here are from the White House in order to hanging over the outlook could will be a more hawkish Fed chair all economy only gradually, over probably helped offset some of the the reasons to think that it may go along. There is a striking dif- make some at the central bank than Bernanke has been or Yellen many months. pain. Growth has been in the 2 be a rocky next few months. ference of views on what is likely hesitant about pulling the trigger would be. And the increased like- For example, a spike in mort- percentish range, which is pretty ■ Syria could spiral in who knows to happen among Washington pol- in September. lihood that he gets the job appears gage rates may eventually mean much where it has been for the what direction. The violence in icy types compared with financial That said, some recent data to be a factor behind higher inter- fewer homebuyers, less upward duration of the sluggish recovery Syria is escalating, and Western market mavens. has pretty clearly pointed to est rates. pressure on prices and then over the last four years. We’ve powers appear on the verge of On Wall Street, by contrast, continued growth, including a As Fed-watchers this summer less homebuilding activity, but added an average of 192,000 jobs air strikes. The turbulence has there is a sense of calm, with the report Tuesday that the nation’s pointed to Summers as the front- that series of events takes many a month in 2013, which is just a already driven oil prices up on Washington worriers playing the manufacturing sector grew more runner for Fed chief, 10-year bor- months to pan out. And rates have little bit better than the 183,000 global markets, and it is quite role of the boy who cried wolf. quickly in August. A crucial rowing costs have risen from 2.5 been rising rapidly since the start a month added in 2012 or 175,000 uncertain where things go from They’ll work it out, because they unemployment report due out percent to nearly 2.9 percent. It is of May. The 30-year fixed-rate of 2011. here. Almost no one is predicting always work it out, goes this logic. Friday may well tip the balance. hard to know with any precision mortgage is up from 3.4 percent This isn’t the late 1990s, where a peaceful end to the civil war in Any who bet otherwise during the ■ WWLSD (What Will Larry how much of that is a Summers to 4.46 percent since the start of the starting point was 4 percent the foreseeable future; the best fiscal cliff standoff last December Summers Do?). Essentially, back effect and how much is other fac- May, according to Bankrate. growth, so a little emerging mar- that people worrying about the paid a price; while there was an in the spring, the path forward for tors, like signs that the Bernanke We don’t know exactly how kets crisis here, higher interest US economy can hope is that it uptick in volatility in the final day Fed policy seemed as clear as day. Fed itself is looking a bit more much damage higher rates might rates there, a fiscal standoff there remains contained to Syria and or so of negotiations, it was short- Janet Yellen, the vice chair and, hawkish than it did a few months do to housing, auto sales and could damage the economy but doesn’t spill out into something lived, and the financial markets it seemed to many at the time, ago. Add to that general view of other credit-dependent markets. still leave growth in healthily pos- more disruptive across the Middle enjoyed a veritable boom in the the slam-dunk candidate to suc- Summers’ hawkishness the fact We don’t know when it will hit. itive territory. If one or more of East. early months of 2013 once the fis- ceed Bernanke, even sketched that, if appointed, he will face But it’s hard to imagine that large these factors exacts major dam- The price of oil has risen cal cliff was resolved. out in a speech on exactly what what could be a tumultuous con- a swing in rates having no effect. age to growth in 2013, not much nearly $20 a barrel since April. ■ The Fed looks to the exits. The future interest rate policies firmation process, in which mar- To these five reasons to be wary stands between the United States Those increases will start to nation’s central bank has signaled she thought would be justified kets will seize on every utterance of the economic future, we can and another downturn. filter into higher prices for that it will begin slowing the rate over the years ahead. The other to try to predict the course of Fed add a bonus No 6: WP-BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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US Open results NEW YORK: US Open results on Tuesday (x denotes seeded player): Serena, Djokovic send Men’s singles - Fourth round Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x21) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 7-5 warning shots to rivals Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x5) 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (8/6), 6-2 Andy Murray (GBR x3) bt Denis Istomin Li Na first Chinese to reach US Open semi-finals; Murray advances (UZB) 6-7 (5/7), 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 Women’s - Quarter-finals NEW YORK: World number ones Serena Williams and Hewitt learning losses not Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Novak Djokovic ruled supreme Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x18) 6-0, 6-0 on Tuesday, sending ominous the end of the world Li Na (CHN x5) bt Ekaterina warnings to their rivals with Makarova (RUS x24) 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2 dazzling, runaway victories over Spanish opponents at the US NEW YORK: Lleyton Hewitt’s five-set loss to Russian Mikhail Fourth Round Open. Youzhny at the US Open on Tuesday still stung, but the Australian Djokovic said he played some veteran said having his family around him lessened the pain of Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Ana Ivanovic of his best tennis on the Arthur defeat and helped him get his priorities right. (SRB x13) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Ashe Stadium court in trounc- Hewitt’s wife, Australian actress Bec Cartwright, and his three Men’s doubles - Quarter-finals ing Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-0, children were all at Flushing Meadows during his magical run to the 6-0, and Williams could not have fourth round. Leander Paes/Radek Stepanek (IND/CZE done better, handing Carla Suarez After losing to Youzhny 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5 on Louis Armstrong x4) bt Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/Jean- Navarro a 6-0. 6-0 beating at the Stadium, Hewitt said defeats had become easier to stomach since he Julien Rojer (PAK/NED x5) National Tennis Centre. became a father to seven-year-old Mia, four-year-old Cruz and two- 6-1, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4 Dominant performances are year-old Ava. Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA not out of the ordinary for those “Every loss still hurts, but it puts everything in perspective,” he said. x2) bt Jamie Murray/John Peers (GBR/ rankings leaders but fifth-seeded “Your priorities have changed. I still get in and prepare for matches Li Na provided something special as well as possible, but obviously you don’t dwell on matches quite as AUS) 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 6-4 by breaking another barrier for much because you have other things to worry about.” Women’s doubles - Quarter-finals Chinese tennis. Hewitt led 4-1 in the fourth set and 5-2 in the fifth before letting The 31-year-old Li became Youzhny off the hook. He said the physical exertion required to beat Ekaterina Makarova/Elena Vesnina (RUS/ China’s first semi-finalist ever at Argentina’s sixth seed Juan Martin Del Potro in the second round two RUS x2) bt Cara Black/Marina Erakovic the US Open by beating Russian was still taking a toll. (ZIM/NZL x13) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, 6-7 “It’s great to come into the tournament and have a tough draw Mixed doubles - Quarter-finals (5), 6-2 on Tuesday at a windy against a quality player in second round, and beat him,” the 32-year- Flushing Meadows. old said. Anabel Medina Garrigues/Bruno Soares Li pumped both fists in joy “It was always going to be hard physically to keep coming out match (ESP/BRA x5) bt Lucie Hradecka/Frantisek after 24th seed Makarova sailed after match, because in the second round that obviously took a lot out Cermak (CZE/CZE) 6-4, 6-7 (3/7), 13-11 a backhand long to end the two- of me to get through del Potro. hour, 20-minute match at Arthur “I left it all out there this week ... week and a half.” Abigail Spears/Santiago Gonzalez (USA/ Ashe Stadium as the crowd show- Hewitt was closing in on his first quarter-final berth in New York MEX) bt Liezel Huber/Marcelo Melo (USA/ ered her with cheers. since 2006 when he had Youzhny on the ropes in the fourth and fifth BRA x8) 2-6, 6-1, 11-9 “For me, this is the first time sets. He was two points from the match in the fifth. Kristina Mladenovic/Daniel Nestor(FRA/ to come to the semi-finals, so I’m “It could have gone either way,” he said. “There was a lot of momen- CAN) bt Chan Hao-Ching/Martin Emmerich very proud of myself,” said Li, who tum changes, right from the start. It’s disappointing to lose but there’s (TPE/GER) 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 looked about to claim victory in not a whole lot more I could have done.” REUTERS two sets after winning the first three points of the tiebreaker but was extended to a third set. Tennis star Other winners were also tested Serena as defending men’s champion Williams of Andy Murray of Britain worked the US fires hard to get past 65th-ranked The 31-year-old Williams, a forehand Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan, 6-7, aiming to become the oldest US against (5), 6-1, 6-4, 6-4, and women’s sec- Open women’s winner since ten- ABOVE: Novak Spain’s ond seed Victoria Azarenka over- nis turned professional in 1968, Djokovic came Ana Ivanovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to has lost just 13 games in her five Carla Suarez of Serbia complete the women’s quarter- matches. Navarro finals field. Djokovic said his game was celebrates his during their The lone upset by rank- clicking just as planned. 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 US Open ings was registered by ninth- “Today, the second and third win over Marcel quarter-final seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of set have been some of the best Granollers of on Tuesday. Switzerland, who ousted fifth tennis that I’ve played on Arthur Spain during Serena won seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Ashe in my career,” said Djokovic, their US Open 6-0, 6-0. The Republic 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (6), 6-2. who won the title in 2011 and was match at the four-time Wawrinka, who has now won a finalist last year and in 2007. USTA Billie winner of five of his last six matches against “I was wishing to be more Jean King the US Open Berdych, advanced to a quarters aggressive as the tournament National Tennis title is the clash against Murray. progresses,” added the Serb, who Centre in New defending Li will not have too long to won the first 25 points on his York. champion in revel in her achievement as the serve and 28 of 30 points he con- New York. win set up a semi-final date with tested at the net. defending champion Williams. Djokovic moved into the quar- “I played really good,” acknowl- ters against Russia’s Mikhail edged four-time US Open winner Youzhny, who ended the magi- The 32-year-old unseeded Azarenka, runner-up last year first Chinese to make a Grand The 29-game match had 16 Williams after her 52-minute cal run of 2001 US Open winner Hewitt, who had upset sixth- to Serena Williams, will play Slam final when she finished service breaks with Azarenka rout of Suarez Navarro. Lleyton Hewitt by escaping a 1-4 seeded former champion Juan unseeded Daniela Hantuchova of runner-up in Australia and a few ending it by breaking Ivanovic “I’m having a blast this week. hole in the fourth set and a 2-5 Martin del Potro in the second Slovakia in the last eight. months later she won the French for the ninth time. For me, I have to stay in that stranglehold in the fifth for a 6-3, round, gave credit to the Russian. The US Open had been the last Open to become China’s first “It was a big battle. That’s what moment of fun, but intensity, but 3-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5 win. Youzhny, “In the end, he played the big grand slam where Chinese women Grand Slam champion. I was expecting from Ana,” said calm. If I can try to do those three the 21st seed, took pride in out- games when he needed to,” said had stalled before reaching the Li smashed 44 winners against Azarenka of Belarus. things, it works out.” battling renowned fighter Hewitt the Australian. final four. just 15 for 25-year-old Makarova, Ivanovic tried to see the bright It was only the second love-love in the nearly four-hour match. Earlier, women’s second seed Zheng Jie was the first Chinese though the Chinese struggled side. “It’s very encouraging, win in a US Open women’s quar- “I know he’s a great player and Victoria Azarenka overcame Ana player to reach a Grand Sam with eight double faults. because I know I’m right there,” ter-final dating back to 1968, and he’s great fighting player, who is Ivanovic, the 13th seed, to com- semi-final, making the last four Azarenka and former world said the Serb. “It’s definitely a lot first since Martina Navratilova fighting for every point, every plete the women’s quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2008 and the number one Ivanovic had even of positives to take from this week subjected Manuela Maleeva of match. For me, this way that I field after their contest was post- Australian Open in 2010, but Li more trouble serving in a match and this match. But it still doesn’t Bulgaria to the embarrassment beat him today, it’s really impor- poned from Monday due to nearly has enjoyed even greater success. where holding serve was the change. It’s disappointing and it in 1989. tant,” he said. five hours of rain delays. Two years ago, Li became the exception rather than the rule. hurts.” REUTERS Quarter-finals line-up Get off Federer’s back, NEW YORK: US Open men’s singles quarter- finals line-up (x denotes seeded player): Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x21) says top gun Djokovic Andy Murray (GBR x3) vs Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x9) NEW YORK: World number was No. 1 and he was so domi- Murray, the defending cham- Richard Gasquet (FRA x8) vs one Novak Djokovic leaped to nant,” said the Serb. pion, said he was surprised to see David Ferrer (ESP x4) the defense of Roger Federer “For me, he’s still playing really Robredo beat Federer for the first on Tuesday, telling critics of well and definitely deserves to be time in 11 meetings. Tommy Robredo (ESP x19) vs the slumping Swiss to give the one of the top five players in the But he believes a series of wins Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) 17-time major winner a break. world, no question about it.” could restore Federer’s place in Federer suffered a stunning US Djokovic said he would not the elite. Open fourth round straight-sets be advising Federer on what his “I think a lot of players go ABOVE: Britain’s upset at the hands of Spanish 19th future plans should be despite his through periods where they’re Andy Murray, seed Tommy Robredo on Monday. rival having slipped to seven in not playing their best tennis, and watched by girlfriend It is the first year since 2002 the world, his lowest ranking for that has obviously been the case Kim Sears and that the 32-year-old has not made over a decade. with Roger since around probably coach Ivan Lendl, a Grand Slam final and sparked “How long he’s going to play? Wimbledon time,” said Murray in action during his feverish speculation over his That’s a question for him. who, like Djokovic, is safely into men’s singles fourth- future in the sport with the loss to “But he’s what, 31, 32 years old? the quarter-finals. round match against Robredo coming on the heels of a Tommy Haas is 35 and close to “He had a few issues with his Denis Istomin of second-round exit at Wimbledon. the top 10. back this year as well. He’s still “Roger did not play close to “So I think people are seeing hitting the ball well. He still has Uzbekistan on day his maximum level so it’s always Roger always being a top three, the same strokes. It’s just when nine of the US Open. a question of why is he not play- top two guy and competing for you lose a few matches you are Murray won 6-7 (5/7), ing well. People need to give him a Grand Slam titles. That’s not hap- supposed to win, then you lose a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. break a little bit, because I think pening, and all of a sudden it’s a little bit of confidence. it’s normal to expect that he’s not huge surprise.” “That’s huge in this game.” moving as well as he did when he World number three Andy REUTERS THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT CA chief lashes out at Simpson, Spieth, de Jonge and racist abuse of Ahmed Leishman chosen Sutherland disgusted with comments on social media for Presidents Cup SYDNEY, New South Wales: OHIO: Fred Couples opted for a Red-hot PGA Tour rookie Cricket Australia chief James blend of experience and emerg- Spieth was a much bolder selec- Sutherland has lashed out at ing talent while Nick Price tion but had captured Couples’ “racist comments” directed at banked on current form when attention with a sizzling run of Muslim Fawad Ahmed after the they announced their captain’s form over the past two months. leg-spinner asked not to wear a picks yesterday for next The 20-year-old won kit displaying the logo of beer month’s Presidents Cup his maiden PGA Tour brand VB. in Dublin, Ohio. title at the John Deere Pakistan-born Ahmed, who Couples chose former Classic in July, lost out became an Australian citizen in major winner Webb in a play-off for last July after his application was fast- Simpson and rookie sen- month’s Wyndham tracked, did not have the logo on sation Jordan Spieth as Championship and his shirt during his international his wild cards for the US rocketed into a tie for debut in last week’s T20 matches team. Price went for fel- fourth at the Deutsche against England. low Zimbabwean Brendon Bank Championship on It emerged Tuesday that he de Jonge and Australian Monday after closing had “expressed discomfort with Marc Leishman to with a 62. the conflict this created for him, round out his 12-man Fred Couples Burly Zimbabwean de due to his religious beliefs”. International lineup. Jonge, though yet to win Cricket Australia agreed with Spieth, Leishman and de Jonge on the PGA Tour, has established his request to wear an unbranded will be making their first a reputation as a ‘birdie shirt, but this sparked criti- appearances in the bien- machine’ on the US cir- cal comments on the Cricket nial team competition cuit and gained Price’s Australia website and other social Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland talks to the media in this 2010 file photo. RIGHT: A file photo taken on while Simpson is set for nod after a consistent media. August 31, shows Australia’s Fawad Ahmed (centre) celebrating with team-mates Shaun Marsh (left) and Shane his second stint with 2013 campaign capped “Legitimate reason RELIGION, Watson after claiming an England wicket during the Twenty20 International match at the Riverside Ground, the US after making his by a strong start to the no its not, it’s a game of cricket, Chester-le-Street, northeast England. Cricket Australia agreed to a request from Fawad Ahmed not to wear the Cup debut in Australia FedExCup play-offs. not praying at a church,” said one logo of a beer sponsor on his playing shirt due to his Muslim faith. Sutherland has slammed ‘racist comments’ in 2011. Whereas, Leishman, reaction. that were directed at Ahmed following the Australian bowler’s decision. Simpson, the 2012 US whose only PGA Tour “It is driven by money and fans Open champion, was victory came at the 2012 not by religious fanatics. Those widely expected to be Travelers Championship, who don’t like the Australian cul- a statement that was released has been permitted not to wear But the Senegal international included for the Ryder has recorded four-top- ture should leave, or keep mis- yesterday. the logo of Cricket South Africa has since donned a Newcastle Cup-style competition 10s this season. guided values to themselves.” “CA does not condone racism sponsor Castle, a beer company, shirt featuring the logo after after spending most of Nick Price The victory helped Sutherland said he was dis- in any way, shape or form. on his kit. talks with the club and Islamic the past two years in him effectively sealed gusted with such comments. “CA is fully supportive of The sensitive issue also reared teachers. the automatic top 10 in his Cup debut by finish- “Cricket Australia would like Fawad’s personal beliefs and he up in English football with The rise of Ahmed, a former the US points standings before ing 16th at the Deutsche Bank to express its extreme disap- is a valued and popular member of striker Papiss Cisse pulling out refugee who fled his home in finishing up in 11th. Championship. REUTERS pointment over racist comments the Australian cricket team and of Newcastle United’s pre-season the Pakistan border region near towards Fawad Ahmed on social the wider cricket community.” tour this year, saying he was not Afghanistan, where he said he was media... some of which are falsely South African batsman Hashim prepared to promote the club’s targeted by the Taliban, has seen Teams attributed to former Australian Amla, also a Muslim, is another sponsors, money-lending com- him become a hero e in Australia’s US team: Tiger Woods, Brandt Snedeker, Phil Mickelson, Matt cricketer Dean Jones,” he said in player in a similar situation and pany Wonga. immigrant communities. AFP Kuchar, Keegan Bradley, Jason Dufner, Steve Stricker, Bill Haas, Hunter Mahan, Zach Johnson, Webb Simpson, Jordan Spieth. International team: Adam Scott (Australia), Charl Schwartzel Zimbabwe move Agar learns (South Africa), Jason Day (Australia), Ernie Els (South Africa), Morgan backs Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa), Hideki Matsuyama (Japan), Test venue to valuable lessons Branden Grace (South Africa), Graham DeLaet (Canada), Richard Sterne (South Africa), Angel Cabrera (Argentina), Marc Leishman Carberry to come save costs from Warne (Australia) and Brendon de Jonge (Zimbabwe). HARARE: Zimbabwe have SYDNEY: Teenage Australian moved the venue of next week’s spinner Ashton Agar (pictured) second Test against Pakistan says he plans to put advice from Italy’s Manassero good for England from Bulawayo to Harare for Shane Warne into practice logistical reasons and to save and win back MALAHIDE, Ireland: Eoin against Australia at Headingley costs, the Zimbabwe Cricket his Test place hoping for fresh start Morgan has backed Michael tomorrow. Union announced yesterday. after a stun- Carberry to make it as an “It’s too early to predict what The Test will still be played ning debut dur- CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland: Champion Italian golfer England opening batsman we are going to do because we from September 10-14. ing the recent Matteo Manassero returns to competition this week high in the despite his disappointing one- picked a team specifically for A saving of some $75,000 will be Ashes series. Swiss Alps having ‘cleared his head’ of the frustration of recent day international debut in today’s (Tuesday’s) conditions, made by playing the Test at the The 19-year- months. Tuesday’s win against Ireland so we will re-evaluate tomorrow Harare Sports Club, where the old set the Manassero has not teed up in a tournament in a nearly a month in Malahide. when we land in Manchester and first Test of the series is currently cricket world on since his lowly finish in the PGA Championship at Oak Hill. Carberry, who had already move on from there,” added the underway, officials said fire with a quick- The 20-year Verona-born golfer has failed to rekindle the form dropped two catches and con- England captain who will keeps The ZCU said it was a logistical fire 98 batting at that saw him capture the European Tour’s flagship BMW PGA ceded 12 runs in his only over the job for the five-match series challenge to move the two teams, number 11 on Championship at Wentworth and then finish fourth a week later in with the ball, was dismissed in the while the original captain Alastair officials and television crew from his Test debut in the Nordea Masters. fourth over for 10 to complete an Cook is one of the big names who Harare to Bulawayo, some 450km the Ashes opener Manassero then missed the cut in both the US Open and British unhappy day when he was con- takes a break following the Ashes south of the Zimbabwe capital, against England at Trent Bridge Open and with his best finish since Sweden being 22nd in the French sistently barracked by the huge victory. with just three days between the in July. Open. home crowd, after his fumbles in Meanwhile Boyd Rankin, the two Tests. He also played in Australia’s “I just needed a good rest after Oak Hill as I wasn’t playing that well the field. Irishman who made his England Cash-strapped Zimbabwe have colossal 347-run second Test and I was really worn out at the PGA and even before that,” he said. But Morgan, the Irishman who one-day debut against his home had to deal with the threat of a defeat at Lord’s. “I was getting very frustrated by not playing well and my head was led England to an emphatic six- country, seems likely to keep his boycott from their players, who But, after taking just two wick- in a different place. I just felt a bit burnt out and very tired and was wicket victory, said the 32-year- place after finishing with figures are still owed outstanding wages ets in all at a hugely expensive desperate to get away from the game. old, who played one Test against of four for 46 in Ireland’s 269 for from ZCU. average of 124, Agar was left out “I spent a couple of days in New York after the PGA and also went Bangladesh in 2010, would be seven. Batsman Sean Williams of the team that drew the third to the Caribbean but for much of the time I’ve just been resting, and stronger for the experience. “It is frustrating when a couple refused to play in the first Test Test at Old Trafford and did not it was only in the last six days I’ve started working hard again on my “Debutants are on a hiding of Irish lads play against us and it while the rest of the team agreed feature again in the series. game trying to put things together. to nothing most of the time and just happens that they were their to wait until before the start of Agar idolised leg-spinning leg- “So I feel I have cleared my head and I’m fresh and ready to play more often than not they don’t go top performers,” said William the second Test to receive their end Warne while growing up, again.” right for you,” Morgan said. Porterfield, the Ireland captain . outstanding monies. and was able to pick his hero’s Manassero returns to competition in today’s European Masters at “Carbs is a very experienced “They want to play Test cricket ZCU spokesman Lovemore brain before the third Test in Crans-sur-Sierre in Switzerland ranked 31st in the world and fifth cricketer who will pick himself as well and unfortunately Ireland Banda said Zimbabwe were also Manchester. He knows he has behind Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, and new Deutsche Bank champion, up and we will encourage him to can’t offer them that at the in discussion with Sri Lanka over some technical issues to iron out on the Race to Dubai money list. play with the freedom he does minute. postponing their proposed visit if he is to challenge Nathan Lyon The Swiss event is the first of three events in succession for with Hampshire and we have a “But the positive is that Ireland next month. as Australia’s leading spinner. Manassero including next week’s KLM Open and the Italian Open a very strong belief in him as an can produce cricketers like that Sri Lanka have already “He just talked a lot about week later in Turin. opening batsman,” added Morgan and we have lads coming through announced they have been asked game sense, tactical moves and He then will represent Europe in the October 6th starting Seve who refused to give any clues as to who are aspiring to be like Eoin to postpone the trip but are seek- everything that comes with Trophy compete in France a week later ahead of the closing four ‘Final the likely England line-up for the and Boyd,” he added after the ODI ing more clarity from the ZCU. spin bowling,” Agar told report- Series’ events in China, Turkey and Dubai. first match of the one-day series match. AFP REUTERS ers as he prepared for the Perth “It is such a big stretch from now to the end of the season for me Scorchers’ Twenty20 Champions with the big goal for me to win again and maybe have a chance at win- League campaign in India, which ning the Race to Dubai. I am a fair way behind Henrik but given the starts on September 17. amount of prize money, particularly near the end of the year, everyone’s “I was able to learn a lot from position can change,” he said. AFP him. “With Shane Warne, if he didn’t get you out one ball, he’d Baseball Results make you feel like he was going Cleveland 4 Baltimore 3 to get you out the next. NY Yankees 6 Chicago White Sox 4 Zimbabwe batsman “That was one of his greatest Washington 9 Philadelphia 6 Malcolm Waller in strengths. Obviously he had a lot Boston 2 Detroit 1 action during the of skill. But he accompanied that second day of the with his great tactical mind and Atlanta 3 NY Mets 1 first Test match theatrical side.” Cincinnati 1 St Louis 0 against Pakistan at Western Australia coach Justin Miami 6 Chicago Cubs 2 the Harare Sports Langer said Agar learned valuable Kansas City 4 Seattle 3 Club, yesterday. lessons from his axing in England. Pittsburgh 4 Milwaukee 3 “It’s a tough time in the sense he was left out, but he’ll be better Minnesota 9 Houston 6 for this experience,” Langer said. LA Dodgers 7 Colorado 4 “He’s a smart guy, so he’ll work Toronto 10 Arizona 4 things out.” Tampa Bay 7 LA Angels 1 The first of five Tests in the return Ashes series starts in Texas 5 Oakland 1 Brisbane on November 21. AFP San Diego 3 San Francisco 2 THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Putin vows no Istanbul and Madrid trade discrimination at Sochi Games

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed there would be no discrimina- blows as 2020 race hots up tion against gays at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, despite a storm of controversy over a new law banning the dis- Barcelona striker Messi gives his backing to Madrid ahead of IOC vote semination of gay “propaganda” to minors. In an interview with Channel BUENOS AIRES: The battle of Real Madrid - but also to One television, Putin dismissed for the right to host the 2020 Istanbul as he promotes Turkish speculation about the law and Summer Olympics entered the Airlines, one of the main sponsors argued that the legislation was final stages yesterday with the of the Olympic bid. directed only against the propa- Istanbul bid saying in Buenos Istanbul, though, will hope the ganda of “non-traditional” sexual Aires that of the three candi- revelation that their budget would relations among minors. dates they would need to spend be the lowest in terms of expendi- “We don’t have any laws pointed the least on ‘dedicated Olympic ture will strike a chord with IOC against persons with a non-tradi- projects’. members. tional sexual orientation here in The claim will surprise many Several of the candidates seek- Russia,” Putin said. as one of their rivals Madrid’s ing to replace retiring IOC presi- The Russian President added: strongest selling points was that dent Jacques Rogge on September “Russia has adopted a law that the economic crisis in Spain 10 have made it clear they don’t prohibits the propaganda of would not affect their bid because want to see the Games getting unconventional sex relations their budget was a modest one of bigger and more expensive and among minors, which is a com- €2.37bn ($3.12bn) as most of the unaffordable for some cities to pletely different case.” venues and the infrastructure host. The law on gay “propaganda”, were already in place. “Istanbul will have the lowest A picture taken on July 3, 2013 shows members of the delegation of Madrid 2020 Candidate City. FROM LEFT: which was signed by Putin earlier The Istanbul bid, which is also expenditure on dedicated Olympic Madrid 2020 CEO Victor Sanchez, Spanish Minister of Economy Luis de Guindos, Madrid mayor Ana Botella, this year, has prompted calls for a up against the third candidate projects,” said Istanbul 2020’s President of Madrid 2020 Bid Committee Alejandro Blanco, Spanish IOC member Juan-Antonio Samaranch boycott of Sochi or for the Games Tokyo, may have hoped to take Director of Sport Alp Berker at Junior and Madrid 2020 CEO Theresa Zabell posing during a press conference after their bid presentation to be moved outside Russia. a bit of the wind out of the sails their opening press conference, before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members in Lausanne. “I can assure you that during of Madrid, but the Spaniards had just two days away from when the the Olympics or any other major their own moment of triumph International Olympic Committee sports events, Russia will strictly when they secured the support members will vote on who hosts - was a case in point of projects there is a link between Beijing “It is very important to host stick to the Olympic principles of four-time world footballer of the Games. being completed. and London which means a lot to the Olympics in the country which forbid any kind of discrimi- the year Lionel Messi. “Three billion dollars worth “Our politicians promise and the Turkish people.” where I live. I was very lucky to nation of people on any basis,” The 26-year-old Argentinian’s are already completed and in the they deliver,” he said. Arat, a former professional participate in the Olympics for Putin said. support for Madrid may have ground.” “The Marmaray Tunnel has basketball player turned success- Argentina and it is an amazing Putin added that the law was come as something of a rude Hasan Arat, the dynamic leader fulfilled dreams that endured ful businessman, said the vote on experience for all athletes,” added aimed not at discrimination shock not only to supporters of of the bid, said the Marmaray Rail for 150 years of the Silk Road Saturday could be a game changer Messi, who arrived on Tuesday but reversing Russia’s alarming his club Barcelona - bitter rivals Tunnel - the deepest in the world traversing East and West. Now for the IOC should Istanbul win to prepare for a 2014 World Cup demographic decline. and bring the Games to a pre- qualifier against Paraguay. “The people who initiated the Hasan Arat, Bid dominantly Muslim country for Tokyo kept a lower profile with enactment of this bill acted on the the first time. the Governor of Tokyo Naoki premise that the same-sex mar- Chairman and the Vice “It would be a turning point Inose saying they remained firmly riages cannot produce children,” President of the Turkish for my country and also for the on track. the president said. National Olympic Olympic Movement,” he said. “Our Bid is completely united, “Meanwhile, Russia is expe- Committee, Alp Berker Madrid, third and second in the one ‘Team Japan’ with Prime riencing certain demographic (left), Director of Sport races to host the 2012 and 2016 Minister (Shinzo) Abe. The problems and we’re interested at Istanbul 2020 and Games respectively, were buoyed overwhelming support from the to have more traditional families Nese Gundogan (right), by Messi’s support. Japanese people has given us even and more children.” Secretary General “I think it is good for sport if greater determination to do our He noted that most people of Turkey’s National Madrid is awarded the Games - very best to win,” he said. believe that the great Russian Olympic Committee not only for the city, but also for “We are the safe pair of hands, composer Tchaikovsky was gay. give a news conference the top-level athletes in Spain,” one of the world’s safest cities “So what? There is no need to in Buenos Aires on said Messi, who wore the Madrid and we have a substantial Games make a mountain out of a molehill September 3. 2020 T-shirt and raised a flag of Hosting Fund of $4.5bn already and nothing terrible is happening the Spanish Bid. in the bank.” AFP in the country.” AFP Tokyo brushes Murray backs squash aside radiation Bolt mulls retirement worry, says it’s for Games status NEW YORK: Reigning Olympic, Wimbledon and US Open cham- as safe as New pion Andy Murray (pictured), who played squash as a youth before after 2016 Olympics becoming a tennis star, is backing squash’s bid to join the family of York, London Olympic sports in 2020. BRUSSELS: Jamaican track The 26-year-old Scotsman said on Tuesday after advancing to the star Usain Bolt is considering Jamaican BUENOS AIRES: Tokyo’s quarter-finals of the US Open that he will retiring after the 2016 Olympics sprinter Usain Olympic bid chief yester- be cheering on squash to get approval in an in Rio de Janeiro, he said Bolt with day played down fears the International Olympic Committee vote on yesterday. headphones Fukushima water crisis could adding a sport Sunday in Buenos Aires. But any plans for going out to during a press dent the city’s gambit to host Olympic officials will consider squash, a grass at the age of 30 would come conference the 2020 Summer Games, say- combined baseball/softball bid and wres- after three more years of domina- ing the Japanese capital is as tling after earlier dropping wrestling from tion that might include a pop at in Wetteren, safe as London, New York City a certain spot in the offerings for the 2020 the Commonwealth Games next Belgium, and Paris. Summer Games, whose site will be chosen at year and another shot at better- yesterday. The International Olympic the same meetings. ing his own 200m world record. Bolt will Committee (IOC) will vote Murray said he supports growth in racquet Bolt has dominated the com- compete in on Saturday in Buenos Aires sports in the Olympics lineup. petitive world of sprinting since the Memorial to decide whether Istanbul, “I played it a little bit when I was younger,” claiming three gold medals at the Van Damme Madrid or Tokyo will be Murray said. “I used to play at our local sports 2008 Beijing Games but hinted IAAF awarded the world’s biggest club. We had two squash courts. I used to go ahead of tomorrow’s season- Diamond and most expensive multi-event and watch my dad playing club matches. ending Diamond League meet in League sporting extravaganza. “I like it. I think it’s a tough sport. I think Brussels that Rio would be his international Japanese officials have been physically it’s very challenging. I could be third and last. athletics eager to show the spread of wrong, but I think why it’s not on TV as much “After the 2016 Olympics: that meeting in irradiated water is under con- is because it almost seems like the same point seems to be a good idea, retir- Brussels trol, even as radiation levels at is getting played.” ing when I’m still on top of my tomorrow. parts of the Fukushima nuclear That might not be the biggest help to career,” said the six-time Olympic BELOW: Bolt plant have spiked to record squash’s case given the importance of television rights fees revenue gold medallist. stands guard highs. to the Olympic organizers but for its athletes, it would clearly be a “But again, if I want to con- “Right now Tokyo’s radiation dream come true. tinue to dominate on the track I after a press level is comparable to London, “It’s maybe not the best spectator sport, but it’s a very difficult sport can’t afford an off season, that is conference. Paris and New York and here as to play,” Murray said. “You have to be extremely fit, have very good a lesson that I have learned. This well,” said bid leader Tsunekazu hand-eye coordination, good feel, and good touch. wasn’t a perfect season for me. yesterday. “It’s another racquet sport,” Murray said. “When you play one, you I won but it was not in a ‘Usain Takeda in Buenos Aires, like to tend to like to watch the other ones, as well. I love watching Bolt fashion’.” making the case for the city badminton, too.” AFP ‘Usain Bolt fashion’ or not, the alongside the honorary chair- 27-year-old Jamaican still claimed man of Toyota Motor Corp., a treble gold at last month’s world Fujio Cho. championships, taking his world “It’s absolutely safe,” said gold medal haul to eight. like I did in any other season. Takeda, adding he had written a “Now that I’m getting a bit The Commonwealth Games? I’ve letter to IOC members to stress older, I know that I have to stay never been there before but I’ll radiation wasn’t a threat to injury free, maintain focus and act leave it up to my coach to decide Tokyo, located some 230 km responsible,” he said. on my competition programme.” (140 miles) from the stricken Bolt added that any plans for Bolt also hinted that bettering plant. the 2014 season, a year with no his own world record in the 200m, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, global championships, would be could be on the cards as well. who has helped lead the cam- taken in October after he had “The 100m world record (which paign to host the Games, is due taken some time off. he also set) is the hardest to break to fly in to the Argentine capital “I will prepare for the next sea- because it is more technical,” Bolt ahead of the high-stakes vote. son very well. First, I encouraged said. Japan’s government is in my coach (Glen Mills) to turn it “In the 200m, if I can master touch with experts in the United down a bit but he convinced me the bend and stay injury free, States and elsewhere on ways to that that is a bad option,” he said. there is room for improvement. control the Fukushima crisis, “You need to continue work- “I will prepare well to race as trade and economics minister Japanese Fencing Olympian Yuki Ota participates in a demonstration ing hard, reduce the risk to get fast as possible in 2014, and with Toshimitsu Motegi said earlier with talking robot Mirata during a news conference in support of the injured and not having to pick it no championships on my mind I yesterday. REUTERS Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics bid in Buenos Aires, yesterday. up from scratch. can concentrate on just trying to “So in 2014 I will be racing race as fast as I can.” AFP THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Al Rayyan, Al Kharaitiyat in final Sheikh Jassim Cup: Nilmar scores a brace for Al Rayyan; Al Kharaitiyat stun Eljaish

DOHA: Al Rayyan and Al Kharaitiyat will clash in the final of the Sheikh Jassim Cup. In yesterday’s semi-finals, Al Rayyan cruished to a 3-0 win Players of over Al Wakra, while in other Al Rayyan encounter Al Kharaitiyat stunned (red) and Eljaish 2-1. Al Wakra At Al Gharafa Stadium in action Brazilian striker, Nilmar scored during the a double for Al Rayyan. semi-final. The ace shooter opening the scoring in the 22nd minute, and added the second one ten min- utes later. Al Rayyan continued to trouble the rival defence but could not add more goals, only at fag end of the match they added the third one. Rodrigo Tabata scored the third and final goal for Al Rayyan in the 90th minute. In the second semi-final, Al Kharaitiyat rallied after been down by a goal to register a fight- Action from the match between Al Kharaitiyat and Eljaish at ing win. Qatar Sports Club yesterday. Murad Naji gave Eljaish the lead in the 7th minute of the match. However, Al Kharaitiyat bounced back to score the equal- iser in the 28th minute with Yusif Al Qedewy having his name on the scorers list. Kharaitiyat again took the lead in the 76th minute with Yehya Keibe finding the tar- get. Thereafter Eljaish exerted pressure on the rival defense but could not make beat the rival keeper. The final will played on Saturday. The Sheikh Jassim Cup, organised by Qatar Football Al Rayyan striker Nilmar (right) tries to shoot during the semi-final match of the Sheikh Jassim Cup against Al Wakra at Al Gharafa Stadium Association, kicked off the new yesterday. RIGHT: Al Rayyan players Nilmar (9) celebrates after scoring his second goal with Tabata (10) and a team-mate. football season in Qatar. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL/ABDUL BASIT THE PENINSULA FA chairman Dyke sets England 2022 target

LONDON, England: Football claimed that it was now the most Since winning the World Cup The commission will also exam- Association chairman Greg successful domestic championship on home soil in 1966, England ine proposals to change the loan Dyke set England the target of in the world, he said it was also have reached the semi-finals of a system to help young English winning the 2022 World Cup harming the national team. major tournament just twice -- at players get more playing time, as during a wide-ranging speech Describing English football as the 1990 World Cup and the 1996 well as evaluating the feasibility about the future of the national “a tanker that needs turning,” he European Championship -- and of a winter break. game in London yesterday. said: “In the future, it’s quite pos- Dyke said the country’s entire “I know setting up a commis- Dyke said England as a country sible we won’t have enough play- football framework needed to sion might be seen as a bureau- must address the “frightening” ers qualified to play for England come together to look for answers. cratic response to a serious lack of English players playing playing regularly at the highest He announced that he will problem, but if we are to have any in the Premier League and set a level in this country. set up a commission, including chance of success going forward, nine-year plan of improvement “Last season, 32 per cent of the chairmen of the Premier it’s important that football as a English Football for the national side. Premier League players were League, the Football League, the whole recognises the problem and Association (FA) “Today I want to set the whole English. Do we let the trend League Managers’ Association also buys into the possible radical Chairman Greg of English football two targets,” continue, or do we do something and the Professional Footballers’ solutions,” he said. Dyke addresses he told journalists. about it? Association, to answer three key He added: “We have to do the media at “The first is to at least reach “What happens when the questions. something. If we do not, it’s hard Millbank Tower in the semi-finals of Euro 2020. And number goes from 32 to 25 to 20 “Why has it happened? What to see England even challenging London, yesterday. the second is for us to win the to 15? Do we still ignore the prob- can be done? How can you make for the World Cup or the Euro World Cup in 2022.” lem, or do we act now?” changes?” he said. Championships in the years ahead In his first public address since A succession of England “The FA has to up its game, but -- let alone meeting the targets succeeding David Bernstein in coaches and players, such as cur- all of English football has a prob- I’ve set. July, Dyke said the FA would be rent assistant coach Gary Neville, lem. All of English football has to “If we do not, we will be letting “letting the country and thou- have insisted that the most tal- find a solution.” down generations of English kids sands of England fans down” if it ented English players will always Dyke said the committee would who might otherwise have made did not act to give young English rise to the surface, but Dyke ques- investigate the possibility of intro- it at the top level in football but players more opportunities to play tioned that mindset. ducing a quota on foreign players, weren’t given the chance. in the Premier League. “Gary Neville said the cream although he admitted that from a “If we do not, we will be letting Dyke helped found the Premier will always rise to the top, but I’m legal perspective, it would prove down the England fans who turn League in 1992, but although he not so sure,” he said. “complex”. up in their thousands.” AFP

Carter back World 9-Ball Pool Championship for All Blacks

WELLINGTON: Flyhalf Daniel Carter will return to the New Zealand side for Saturday’s Rugby Championship clash against Argentina after recov- ering from a calf strain, while centre Francis Saili will make his Test debut. The 31-year-old Carter had been expected to play the first Rugby Championship match against Australia in Sydney last month but pulled up with the injury at training and missed the return fixture in Wellington. Aaron Cruden and then debu- tant Tom Taylor played in the two wins instead with Beauden Barrett also out injured with a calf strain. Barrett was named as the replacement flyhalf on Thursday for the match at Waikato Stadium with Cruden (knee) and Taylor (ribs) not considered because of injury. Carter’s return to the side allowed coach Steve Hansen to give inside centre Saili his first test cap and allow Ma’a Nonu Yazed Turki of Qatar in action during the qualifying round of the World 9-Ball Pool Championship at Al Arabi Indoor Hall in Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Mohammad Alkhaldi of Qatar lines up an opportunity to rest an ankle a shot during his match. The qualifying rounds of the championship end today. Players from 43 countries are taking part in the $250,000 championship. The twelve-day event will end on injury he sustained before the September 13. The Stage 2 of the championship will begin on September 7. PICTURES BY: KAMMUTTY VP Rugby Championship. REUTERS THURSDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Italy, Germany eye 2014 World Cup berth Jordan, Uzbekistan vie for the play-off place from Asia

LONDON: Former world day on Friday.With the opening Group B leaders, face second- would be the Germans’ 16th suc- champions Italy and Germany match in Sao Paulo on June 12, placed Bulgaria in Sicily knowing cessive appearance in the finals - are among seven countries who just over nine months away, hosts that victory, and a win against the the last one they missed was when could confirm their places in Brazil and the four Asian quali- Czech Republic on Tuesday, will the World Cup was held in Brazil next year’s World Cup football fiers of Japan, Australia, Iran and give them a spot in the finals. in 1950 following World War Two. finals in Brazil when the quali- South Korea are the only coun- The main talking point in Louis Van Gaal’s Netherlands fying tournament swings back tries through so far. Italy has been who might suc- team are the only ones with a into action after a three-month On Friday, the seven nations ceed coach Cesare Prandelli if, as perfect record after winning their break. who will join already-qualified expected, he announces as soon opening six matches and they are The Netherlands, three times Ivory Coast, Egypt and Algeria in as qualification is secured that he seven points clear of Hungary finalists, could also qualify from the final African qualifying round will leave the job after four years and eight clear of third-placed Europe with wins on both Friday will be known. at the end of the finals. Romania. and Tuesday while Switzerland The 10 teams will be paired up The Italian players know what The Dutch are likely to seal and Bosnia could go through if and play each other home and to expect in Brazil after their their place in the finals following they win and other results go away to decide Africa’s five quali- experience in the Confederations a trip to Estonia on Friday and a their way. fiers for Brazil. Cup in June when they reached visit to tiny Andorra on Tuesday. The United States would seal In Asia, Jordan and Uzbekistan, the semi-finals before losing to Anything other than two wins the first qualifying place from the neither of whom have reached the Spain on penalties. would be a major surprise. CONCACAF region with victo- finals before, will meet over two They will be missing five first- World champions Spain should ries in Costa Rica and at home legs on Friday and Tuesday to choice players against Bulgaria keep their grip on Group I, which to Mexico while Argentina can decide who qualifies for a play-off including the suspended Mario they lead by one point from guarantee a trip to neighbouring against the eventual fifth-placed Balotelli, Riccardo Montolivo and France. Coach Vicente del Bosque Brazil if they beat Paraguay on South American team for a World Pablo Osvaldo, but the trio will is without several key players Tuesday. Cup place. return for the game against the for Friday’s tie against Finland. The former world champions, Jordan’s hopes of a first World unimpressive Czechs. Finnish coach Mixu Paatelainen who top the South American Cup finals appearance lie in the Germany are likely to secure has described the game as “a Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo trains ahead of the World Cup standings, could even qualify hands of Egyptian twin broth- their place sooner rather than David and Goliath situation”, Group F qualifier against Northern Ireland in Belfast, yesterday. Portugal before they face the bottom- ers, with Hossam and Ibrahim later, with Group C matches although Finland did hold Spain top Group F with 14 points from seven matches, two points above placed Paraguayans if results go Hassan leading the West Asians against Austria on Friday and to a 1-1 draw in Gijon in March. second-placed Russia, who have one game in hand. their way when they have a rest in the first leg. Italy, the European the Faroe Islands on Tuesday. It REUTERS Loew bemused Injuries not a worry for England by Real selling LONDON: England will be without striker for error in their final two home qualifiers Ozil to Arsenal Wayne Rooney and defenders Phil Jones against Montenegro and Poland. Hodgson will and Glen Johnson for tomorrow’s World also be without Andy Carroll, Alex Oxlade- Cup qualifier against Moldova at Wembley Chamberlain and goalkeeper Ben Foster, BERLIN: Mesut Ozil’s move to but should still easily pick up another three leaving him with a young and relatively inex- Arsenal is good for the German points on the road to Brazil. perienced squad with 11 of the 25 players hav- national side, coach Joachim More worrying for coach Roy Hodgson is ing fewer than 10 caps. Loew (pictured) believes, but that Rooney, who faces three weeks out after Moldova, who have five points from their he is bemused by Real Madrid’s suffering a nasty head wound in training last seven matches and no chance of qualifying for decision to sell their midfield week, and the two defenders will also miss the the finals, never recovered after conceding a star. far more difficult Group H qualifier against third-minute Frank Lampard penalty in the Ozil, 24, joined Premier League Ukraine in Kiev next Tuesday. opening qualifier before Lampard, Jermain side Arsenal for 50m euros England began their campaign with a con- Defoe, James Milner and Leighton Baines ($65.88m, £42.5m) on Monday’s vincing 5-0 win over Moldova in Chisinau a added more goals. transfer deadline day after Real year ago but since then it has turned into a Nevertheless, Moldova coach Ion Caras was completed the signing of Gareth Bale must earn tense affair with three wins and three draws optimistic his side would produce a “solid per- Bale from Tottenham Hotspur. from their six matches. formance” against England and said playing Loew said he was happy to see Montenegro top the standings with 14 at Wembley would inspire his team. Ozil move to the Gunners to work place: Real points from seven games but blew a great “The mood of my players is good. To play at under coach Arsene Wenger, but chance to establish a five-point lead when Wembley just once is something many foot- bemused as to why Real let him Madrid coach they were beaten 4-0 at home by Ukraine ballers dream about. There is a saying: ‘If you go. in June. played and triumphed in a lot of matches but “The transfer is good for the LONDON, England: Gareth Ukraine are third, one point behind did not play once at Wembley then you never national team, he will have a top Bale (pictured) will not be England, and are virtually guaranteed three got to the top’. coach at Arsenal and will be play- guaranteed to start every England midfielder Steven Gerrard attends points when they face minnows San Marino on “Given that the group situation is a difficult ing at a very high level, that’ll game at Real Madrid despite a training session ahead of their World Cup Friday while Poland, who are fourth on nine one, England will strive to beat us and they suit him well,” said Loew with his enormous price tag, the 2014 European zone group H qualifying match points, will keep the pressure on the top trio have super-class players to do this.” Germany hosting Austria in a Spanish club’s assistant against Moldova at their St George’s Park if they beat Montenegro in Warsaw. In a show of loyalty to Moldova’s neighbours, World Cup qualifier in Munich coach Paul Clement warned training complex in Burton-on-Trent, central If England are to qualify directly for the he said he thought Ukraine would finish top on Friday. yesterday. England, yesterday finals they have to win both matches. A of the group, with England in second place. “I have heard a few players The Welshman was offi- draw in Ukraine would mean no margin AFP like Cristiano Ronaldo or Sami cially presented as a Madrid Khedira are player on Monday, after sign- sad to lose a ing from Tottenham Hotspur class player. on a six-year contract for a fee Rooney wound is a “And for of around £80m ($124m, 94m me it’s hard euros). to understand However, Clement says that why Real let Bale must prove his worth if he horror show: Walcott one of their is to hold down a place in man- top scorers ager Carlo Ancelotti’s team. LONDON, England: The head (Rooney) is like,” Carrick said. go, but that’s “There’s a lot of competi- injury that has sidelined Wayne “If there was a way of playing, business.” tion for places -- no-one will be Rooney looks like “something he would. It is easy for people to Ozil netted guaranteed anything,” Clement out of a horror film”, according look at the past and compare with 10 goals for told BBC Sport. to his England colleague Theo what has gone on, but every situ- Real last season, setting up a fur- “Coach Carlo Ancelotti has a Walcott. ation is different.” ther 24 as Cristiano Ronaldo fin- clear idea how to use him, but Rooney was left with a sizeable Liverpool striker Daniel ished as Real’s top scorer with 55. things can change.” gash on his forehead after being Sturridge had been in line to While Spanish sports daily AS Ancelotti must also decide caught in the face by Manchester deputise for Rooney at home to have quoted Ronaldo as being how to accommodate Bale United team-mate Phil Jones ear- Moldova on Friday, but he is now “angry” about Real’s decision to in his team. The 24-year-old lier this week. doubtful with a thigh injury that sell Ozil, Germany’s Arsenal for- habitually played on the left The wound required stitches prevented him from training on ward Lukas Podolski has said he for Spurs, occasionally being and forced the 27-year-old striker Tuesday. is delighted at the prospect of deployed in the centre, but to withdraw from England’s squad With Tottenham Hotspur’s playing with his national team- the left flank at Madrid is for the World Cup qualifying dou- Jermain Defoe yet to start a Retired Argentine football player Diego Maradona (right) embraces mate on a regular basis. Ronaldo’s established domain. ble-header against Moldova and league game this season, it Brazil’s congressman and former football star Romario during a news “That’s great for us, Arsenal “Carlo is flexible enough Ukraine. means either Rooney’s United conference in Sao Paulo, yesterday. Maradona and Romario are in are getting a fantastic player,” to use Gareth and other Asked to describe the injury team-mate Danny Welbeck or Sao Paulo along with other former players and managers of football said Podolski. players in different capaci- during a press conference at Southampton’s Rickie Lambert clubs to discuss South American football and events organized by the “I am convinced that he fits ties,” said Clement, who pre- England’s St George’s Park train- will lead the line against Moldova. Confederation Sudamericana de Futbol (CONMEBOL). well into our sporting concept, viously worked alongside ing base, Walcott pointed to a bot- “It is sad to see Wayne out, but we play lots of quick passes and Ancelotti at Chelsea and Paris tle of water beside him and said: it is an opportunity for someone our style will suit him. Saint-Germain. “I’ve seen a picture of it and it’s to come in and take their chance,” “I am sure he will be able to “At Southampton, Bale about that big. Walcott added. Mario Suarez help us.” played at left-back, which “It is a very big gash. It is not a “Danny Welbeck has started Loew said he has already (left) and Pedro he also did at Spurs, where nice sight, to be honest. It is not the season well for his club and noticed Ozil is clearly “happy and Rodriguez of he became a more left-sided going to help his looks, I wouldn’t Rickie Lambert has had a great satisfied” with the move during player. He recently became think. It’s not very nice to see. start to his England career, so the Spain attend his training sessions with the more central. He’s got that It’s like something out of a hor- manager has some great options a press con- Germany squad in Munich. versatility. ror film.” and I am sure he knows what to ference near “He’s a sensitive player who “It’ll be interesting to see United midfielder Michael do.” Madrid, Spain, needs a lot of confidence in him how players fit in together. Carrick, who saw Rooney get Defence is also an area of yesterday. from his club and coach,” said We’ll be trying to find their injured, dismissed suggestions concern following a run of four Spain will face Loew. best position and what’s best from journalists that his team- games without a clean sheet, and Finland in the “I phoned him in the days for the team as quickly as mate should have taken inspira- centre-back Gary Cahill admits FIFA World before the transfer, because you possible. tion from Terry Butcher’s iconic, the squad are still adjusting to Cup 2014 qual- could feel that this trust was not “Gareth has the goal scor- blood-stained performance in a life without John Terry and Rio ifying match quite 100 percent there.” ing talent and ability to set up 1990 World Cup qualifier against Ferdinand, who both retired from tomorrow. 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HARARE: Half-centuries by lunch score of 67 for one, Vusi innings cautiously and contrib- Malcolm Waller and Sikandar Sibanda was caught behind for 31 uted only 11 in the first 50 runs Raza enabled Zimbabwe to take off the last ball of an over from of the partnership, although he a first innings lead on the sec- Junaid Khan. Captain Hamilton picked up the pace either side ond day of the first Test against Masakadza was deceived by a of tea, reaching his fifty off 98 Pakistan at the Harare Sports Saeed Ajmal doosra and bowled balls. Club yesterday. for 19 by the first ball of the next Ajmal, Pakistan’s most suc- Zimbabwe were 281 for seven over. cessful bowler with four for 74, at the close, a lead of 32. Waller hit a boundary off the had Waller caught at slip after an Waller changed the tempo of first ball he faced from Ajmal and innings which lasted 100 balls and the match with an aggressive continued to go for his shots as included 14 boundaries. 70, while Pakistan-born Raza he reached his third Test half- Raza, 27, whose family moved Zimbabwe bats- made 60 on his Test debut. The century off 63 balls with 11 fours. to Zimbabwe in 2002, also fell men Malcolm pair added 127 for the fourth Raza, who was a late inclu- to the off-spinner, mistiming Waller (left) and wicket. They came together after sion in the side when regular an attempted lofted drive to be Sikanda Raza Zimbabwe lost two wickets off captain Brendan Taylor with- caught at midwicket. He batted celebrate a successive balls. drew because of the birth of his for 118 balls and hit ten fours. 50-run partner- With only one run added to the first child, started his first Test Elton Chigumbura (40 not out) ship during the and Prosper Utseya (16) took second day of Scoreboard Zimbabwe into the lead with a the first Test seventh wicket partnership of 43 match against before the latter was bowled by Pakistan (I innings): kadza 1-0-1-0. Pakistan at the Khurram Manzoor lbw Panyangara...... 11 Zimbabwe (I innings): Rahat Ali in the penultimate over of the day. Harare Sports Mohd Hafeez c Sibanda b Chatara ...... 5 T M K Mawoyo c A Akmal b J Khan ...... 13 Club, yesterday. Azhar Ali c Sibanda b S. Masakadza ...... 78 V Sibanda c A Akmal b J Khan ...... 31 It took Zimbabwe just two balls Younis Khan b Panyangara ...... 3 H Masakadza b Saeed Ajmal...... 19 to wrap up the Pakistan innings at Misbah c Sibanda b Utseya...... 53 Sikandar Raza c Misbah b S Ajmal ...... 60 the start of play, with the tourists Asad Shafiq c Mawoyo b Utseya ...... 4 M N Waller c Mohd Hafeez b S Ajmal ...... 70 losing their last wicket without Adnan Akmal b Chatara ...... 18 E Chigumbura (batting) ...... 40 adding a run to their overnight Abdur Rehman lbw S Masakadza ...... 7 R Mutumbami lbw S Ajmal ...... 13 249 for nine. Saeed Ajmal b Chatara ...... 49 P Utseya b Rahat Ali ...... 16 Ajmal was bowled by the J Khan c Mutumbami b Panyangara ...... 17 S W Masakadza (batting) ...... 2 first ball he faced from Tendai Rahat Ali (not out) ...... 0 Extras (B-5, LB-10, W-2) ...... 17 Chatara on his overnight score of Extras (LB-3, W-1) ...... 4 Total (for 7 wkts) ...... 281 49, one short of his second Test Total (all out) ...... 249 Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-68, 3-68, 4-195, half-century. Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-21, 3-27, 4-120, 5-212, 6-235, 7-278. Tina Mawoyo and Sibanda put 5-132, 6-157, 7-173, 8-182, 9-249. Bowling: Junaid Khan 20-6-61-2; Rahat Ali on 25 for Zimbabwe’s first wicket. Bowling: Chatara 22.1-6-64-3; Panyangara 18-3-53-1 (2w); Abdur Rehman 19-5-56-0; After bowling four overs from brought immediate success as Akmal for 13. It was a disappoint- opponents, although Rahat 20-2-71-3; S. Masakadza 22-8-40-2; Chigum- Saeed Ajmal 26-3-77-4; Younis Khan 4-1-19- over the wicket, the left-armed Mawoyo nudged tentatively at ing day for Pakistan, with only bowled a hostile three-over spell bura 2-0-15-0; Utseya 23-1-55-2; H Masa- 0. Junaid switched to around the the first delivery of the new over Ajmal and Junaid posing a con- with the second new ball. wicket and the change of angle and was caught behind by Adnan sistent threat to their underdog AFP

US Open results Saudi Arabia NEW YORK: US Open results yesterday (x denotes seeded player): Messi and Pennetta in US Women’s singles Quarter-finals father pay 5m very much in Flavia Pennetta (ITA) bt Roberta Vinci (ITA x10) 6-4, 6-1 Men’s doubles Quarter-finals euros in tax race to host Open semi-finals Ivan Dodig/Marcelo Melo (CRO/BRA x10) bt Treat Huey/Dominic Inglot (PHI/GBR x16) 7-5, 6-3 Women’s doubles Quarter-finals fraud case Asia Cup 2019 NEW YORK: Italy’s 83rd- Open quarter-finals three times Sania Mirza/Zheng Jie (IND/CHN x10) bt Hsieh Su-Wei/Peng Shuai (TPE/CHN x4) 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) ranked Flavia Pennetta before. Andrea Hlavackova/Lucie Hradecka (CZE/CZE x5) bt MADRID: Barcelona for- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has advanced to the final four at a “I feel really good,” Pennetta Nadia Petrova/Katarina Srebotnik (RUS/SLO x3) 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 ward Lionel Messi and his denied it is excluded from the Grand Slam for the first time by said. “This is the first week where father Jorge have paid 5m shortlist of countries bidding to beating 10th-seeded compatriot I feel better, feel like myself, euros ($6.6m) to the Spanish host Asia Cup 2019, the coun- Roberta Vinci 6-4, 6-1 in a US maybe play better.” authorities after they were try’s football governing body’s Open quarter-final yesterday. The only lower-ranked women accused in June of filing false spokesperson said. Pennetta, the fourth-worst in a US Open last four were tax returns, a court state- Saudi Arabian Football ranked of any US Open women’s unranked 2009 winner Kim ment said yesterday. Federation (SAFF) spokesperson semi-finalist ever, will next face Clijsters, unranked 1979 semi- The pair had deposited Adnan Al Moaibed said the coun- the winner of the match between finalist Billie Jean King and 5,016,542.27 euros last month try is in the race to bid for the Belarus second seed Victoria 92nd-ranked German Angelique as a “corrective payment”, the right to host Asia Cup 2019 along Azarenka and Slovakia’s 48th- Kerber, a 2011 semi-finalist. court in Gava near Barcelona with other contenders - the UAE, ranked Daniela Hantuchova. After an exchange of breaks said. They were still due to Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Thailand Pennetta, who has not lost a in the first two games, Pennetta appear at a hearing on September and Iran. set in the tournament and has broke Vinci again in the fifth 17, although their lawyer had The SAFF has received an dropped only 25 games in five game of the first set but sur- asked for it to be postponed as invitation from Asian Football matches, owns a 3-2 career edge rendered a break to equalize by he had another commitment that Confederation (AFC) to attend a against Hantuchova and has split netting a backhand in the eighth day, the statement added. workshop on the bidding process two matches with two-time reign- game. The Argentine World Player to be held at AFC headquarters ing Australian Open champion Pennetta won the next six of the Year and his father, who in Kuala Lumpur on September Azarenka. games to seize command, break- both denied wrongdoing, alleg- 10 and 11, he said and added that Top-ranked defending cham- ing back to lead 5-4 when Vinci edly hid more than four mil- the meeting also reviewed the pion Serena Williams and Chinese sent a forehand beyond the base- lion euros by filing incomplete plans submitted by the finance fifth seed Li Na will meet in line and holding to capture the returns for the years 2006 to and marketing committee for tomorrow’s other semi-final at first set when Vinci netted a 2009. The sale of Messi’s image all national tournaments and its Arthur Ashe Stadium. backhand volley. rights had been hidden using a various age group teams. Williams, Li or Pennetta -- all Pennetta raced to a 4-0 lead complex web of shell companies The spokesperson said this fol- 31 -- would become the oldest US and broke again in the final in Uruguay, Belize, Switzerland lowing a meeting of SAFF Board Open women’s champion by win- game on a forehand lob winner and the United Kingdom, the of Directors held on Tuesday in ning Sunday’s final. to advance after 65 minutes. prosecutor’s office for tax Riyadh. Eleven countries had Pennetta, who only avoided “I started to be more aggres- crimes in Catalonia said. expressed their interest to host having to qualify for the US Open sive,” Pennetta said. “My serve “I never take care of that Asia Cup 2019 when the bidding main draw after Kazakhstan’s was working really good.” Flavia Pennetta of Italy reacts after defeating compatriot Roberta Vinci stuff myself and neither does started. Lebanon, Malaysia and Yulia Putinseva withdrew with a Vinci, whose only prior Slam during their quarter-finals match on the tenth day of the 2013 US Open my father,” the 26-year-old Myanmar have since pulled out back injury, made a breakthrough quarter-final was last year when Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center at Flushing player said in July. of the race. triumph one year after missing she was ousted by conmpatriot Meadows, New York, USA, yesterday. “We have our lawyers and Representatives from the the event for right wrist surgery. Sara Errani, hit 14 winners but our wealth managers to take remaining eight Member “It’s amazing,” Pennetta said. made twice as many unforced care of that and we trust them Associations - Bahrain, China, “I’m really happy. I can’t believe errors. Azarenka, who lost to Williams Hantuchova, whose only Grand and they will sort this out,” he Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, it.” “It’s tough to play against in last year’s US Open final, Slam semi-final was at the 2008 added. Thailand and the UAE - are The injury is only now begin- Roberta,” Pennetta said. “I think defeated the American in the final Australian Open, would make this “The truth is that I don’t invited to attend the workshop. ning to fade and allow Pennetta, she also feels the pressure. It’s not of a tuneup event in Cincinnati the first women’s Grand Slam have a clue about all this and Information on the rights, who won only one hardcourt easy to play one of your friends, and is seen as the top threat to final four in history with every that is why we have people roles and responsibilities will be tuneup match, to recapture the but this is the tour.” end the world number one’s US participant over age 30 if she taking care of it.” REUTERS given to the bidding associations form that saw her reach the US Open reign. upsets Azarenka. AFP during the workshop. QNA