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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir leaves for Plan for online Astana today DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will leave today for Astana for an official visit to system to help Kazakhstan. He will hold talks with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on bilat- eral relations and other issues. regulate prices QNA Qatar denies Early warning for alerting market arrests in Cairo DOHA: The government is also been set up to look into the planning to put in place an demand of warehouses and the DOHA: The Foreign Ministry online monitoring system to demand and supply of primary has denied reports that some support its efforts to regu- construction materials. Qatari citizens were arrested late the prices of goods and Authorities will conduct a study in an apartment at Jesr Al Suez services. of the problems and challenges area in Cairo. Ambassador Saad An early warning system would faced by Qatari exporters. The bin Ali Al Mohannadi, director be part of the initiative to alert study will also cover issues related of Arab Affairs department at the market about the supply- to warehouses, including the the Ministry told Qatar News demand trends in the interna- shortage of sufficient number of Agency that reports in Egyptian tional market. warehouses in view of the upcom- media about the arrest of some The online system would link ing mega projects. The authorities Qataris holding Palestinian pass- with various warehouses, customs will also look into how to bring in ports were “ totally baseless.” departments at ports, airport and healthy competition in the retail THE PENINSULA border check posts apparently to market. Preparing a database for get an idea of the exact volume the import of poultry and dairy of essential commodities entering products is another initiative to Egypt’s new the local market and stocks avail- be taken up by the authorities to able in the warehouses. regulate the retail market. A car burns amid damage caused by what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria’s President charter gets It will also be linked with The report noted that 301 for- Bashar Al Assad in the Al Fardous neighbourhood of Aleppo yesterday. the International Food and eign companies were set up in Agricultural Organisation (FAO) the country during the period. 98pc yes vote of the UN to give clear indica- The year also saw the establish- tions about the strategic stocks ment of Four Investment Funds, CAIRO: Egypt’s new constitu- of essential commodities across 2,825 new WLL companies and 12 SNC to attend Geneva Two talks tion was approved by 98.1 per- the world. shareholding companies. cent, with turnout higher than The Global Information and The government also set up SILIVRI, TURKEY: The eclipsed by Islamist rebels and representatives arrived in in a 2012 vote under now ousted Early Warning System on Food a joint committee that would main Syrian political opposi- Al Qaeda-linked fighters. Istanbul from Ankara, to weigh Islamist president Mohammed and Agriculture (GIEWS) at look into the requests for foreign tion group in exile, the Syrian “It was a tough vote,” the head in on the decision. Mursi, a senior government offi- FAO keeps the world food sup- investments and to liberalise the National Coalition, said it had of the Coalition’s media office, Out of those that did take part, cial said yesterday. ply and demand situation under procedures to attract the invest- agreed yesterday to attend Khaled Saleh, told Reuters. The 58 Syrian National Coalition The turnout and landslide continuous review, issue reports ment flows into the country. The internationally sponsored peace Geneva 2 process would be a members voted to attend and 14 “yes” vote proved that Mursi’s on the world food situation, authorities have also completed a talks beginning in Switzerland “political and media battle, and on voted against, said the group’s overthrow was a “popular revolu- and provide early warnings of detailed report on the marketing next week. balance we decided that we must media office. Another three tion,” another official told a press impending food crises in indi- of primary construction materials The “Geneva 2” talks with fight it alongside the war on the abstained, it added. conference formally announcing vidual countries. and a set up rules and regulations representatives from President ground,” he added. The international community the results. The State Cabinet’s 2012-13 for the market in the automobile Bashar Al Assad’s government It was not immediately clear had pressed rebels to commit to The new charter replaces an annual report also noted that sector. start in Montreux on Wednesday whether the Coalition’s vote the talks and French Foreign Islamist-inspired one adopted in a the government is planning to The annual report noted that and are seen as the most serious would be backed by a separate Minister Laurent Fabius wel- December 2012 referendum under launch more warehouses in the 7,859 inspections were conducted international effort yet to end the meeting, in Ankara, of Syrian comed the coalition’s acceptance Mursi. Authorities say it protects country, according to Al Sharq. at different commercial estab- near three-year conflict. rebel militias, who would be yesterday. women’s rights and freedom The Ministry of Economy and lishments. The anti-fraudulent The splintered Coalition, based needed to implement any agree- “This brave choice despite the of speech. Electoral committee Commerce is working on a project department received a total of in Turkey, has little influence on ments made at peace talks. provocations and acts of vio- head Nabil Salib said the turn- that would provide warehouse 3,717 complaints on its hotline and the ground in Syria, where many Opposition sources said more lence by the regime, is a choice out in the referendum on Tuesday facilities to Qatar’s Small and 1,199 inspections were undertaken rebels oppose the peace talks. than 40 members had with- to search for a peaceful solution,” and Wednesday, “reached 38.6 Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at a at commercial organisations. Its military arm, the Supreme drawn from the vote because he said. REUTERS percent.” subsidised cost. A committee has THE PENINSULA Military Council (SMC), has been they wanted to wait until fighter See also page 7 AFP

Anti-gag protests US spies to ‘keep eye’ on foreign 60pc of Qatari teens governments obese, says study BERLIN: The US intelligence service will continue to spy on DOHA: A recent study by a The results showed that sed- foreign governments, President group of Qatar University stu- entary behaviour was relatively Barack Obama said in an dents has revealed new data high whereas the level of physi- interview broadcast yesterday, on the alarmingly high preva- cal activity was extremely low. although he assured Chancellor lence of obesity among Qatari Moreover, the combination of Angela Merkel that he would adolescents. sedentary behaviour and the con- not let intrusive surveillance The large cross-sectional sumption of foods high in fat and harm their relationship. study involving a total of 1,167 sugar had a great impact on the The frank admission comes female and male students (14- sample group’s body mass index a day after Obama curtailed 20 years) from 23 independent (BMI), waist circumference and the reach of mass US National schools showed that 59.9 percent waist-to-hip ratio. Security Agency phone surveil- of Qatari adolescents were obese Sarah Al Adgham, Aisha Saleh lance sweeps, but said bulk collec- and 57 percent overweight against and Wafa Al Sadi studied the tion of data would go on to protect 40.1 percent and 43 percent of effect of gender and nationality on America from terrorists. non-Qataris. physical activity, sedentary behav- In Friday’s long-awaited speech The study by Lyan Akhal and iour and dietary habits among aimed at quelling international Haya Al Ali also showed that the adolescents in Qatar. furore over the widespread eaves- waist — hip ratio, a well-known Results showed that stair- dropping revealed by Edward Turkish riot police use water cannons to disperse protesters during an anti-government rally in Istanbul yester- risk factor for non-communicable case use, walking and household Snowden, Obama also said he had day. The protesters were denouncing the parliament’s adoption of a new law that will allow further limitations diseases, was significantly higher activities were the most common halted spy taps on friendly world on the Internet. among girls than boys. activities. Watching TV — a com- leaders. Three student groups from the mon sedentary behaviour — was But Obama told German tel- Human Nutrition Program at QU very common among Qatari evision ZDF’s heute-journal that collaborated with the Supreme adolescents compared to non- intelligence gathering on foreign Council of Health (SCH) on a Qataris. Consumption of fruit, governments will continue. UN staff, IMF official among 21 killed in Kabul series of related studies. vegetable and milk was higher “Our intelligence agencies, like Sarab AlAzzawy, Ahlam among non-Qatari males com- German intelligence agencies, KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen spraying diners with bullets after the bomber blew Al Sadi and Saadah Majid stud- pared to the rest of the sam- and every intelligence agency out attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in himself up near the entrance around 7.30pm local ied the physical activity, seden- ple. Sarah said that during the there, will continue to be inter- the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 time on Friday, just as people had sat down for tary behaviours and eating habits research, she and her colleagues ested in the government inten- people including three United Nations staff and dinner. among those adolescents, show- acquired communication skills tions of countries around the the International Monetary Fund’s top repre- Thirteen foreigners were among those killed, ing the associations with Body necessary for every nutritionist. world. sentative in Afghanistan. according to police, and details about the victims Mass Index (BMI) and waist THE PENINSULA REUTERS Gunmen burst into the Lebanese restaurant began to trickle through yesterday. REUTERS circumference. See also page 5

SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 QR23m spent on community service Speaker leaves for Kuwait DOHA: The Speaker of the Advisory (Shura) Council H E Mohamed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi and his delegation left Doha yesterday afternoon for Kuwait to participate in the 20th Conference of the Arab Parliament to be QRC launches Women’s Forum for Charitable Work; funds cochlear implants held in Kuwait on January 19 and 20. The agenda of the conference includes the election of the Chairman of DOHA: The Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) Arab Parliamentary Union, the report of the Secretary-General on the allocated more than QR23m last year in activities of the Union and discussing the work of the 13th session of the community service and empowerment Union’s executive committee and the ratification of the its decisions in projects in Qatar. The projects included addition to the topic of “the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the state of psychological support for people with dis- Palestine.” abilities, rehabilitation of inmates, coch- The delegation was seen off on departure at Doha International Airport lear implants for deaf children, support for by a number of Advisory Council officials. needy families, training for housewives. QNA QRC’s Women’s Forum for Charitable Work was launched and signed an agree- ment for cooperation between QRC and the Fund for Supporting Social and Sport Activities. In collaboration with the Rumaila Hospital and the Muaither Rehabilitation Centre, QRC held a celebration for over 200 patients with disabilities. Gifts were distrib- uted to 30 people, including winter clothing and other items. QRC’s Social Development Department, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior, carried out a project for inmates in penal and correctional facilities, provid- ing them with support, rehabilitation and training, through workshops in electricity and welding. To sustain and support this project finan- cially, QRC has developed plans to imple- ment development projects and use their QRC officials with a child patient during a visit to the hospital. income for the benefit of the inmates as part of an integral approach to support the delivery of ATM Cards to needy families to throughout the year. These projects include vulnerable groups within the Qatari society. receive a monthly social assistance includ- a special program ‘Recite and Elevate’ to In the field of health empowerment, QRC ing food and money which benefits over 250 honor students who have memorised the has funded, through Patients Help Fund, coch- families on a monthly basis. In collaboration Holy Quran, held every Ramadan, in addi- lear implant surgeries carried out by Hamad with the British Council, QRC implemented tion to the ‘This is my Wish’ programme, Medical Corporation for three children at Springboard Programme for housewives to which grants the wishes of sick children in costing QR320,000. The Fund also supported enhance their abilities, boost their self-con- hospitals and the ‘Outstanding Students’ three cases of kidney transplants within HMC fidence and increase their potential. programme, dedicated to honouring out- to encourage such operations in Qatar, in light QRC’s Department of Social Development standing school students from needy of the high success rates in this field. also carried out a number of social pro- families. QRC implemented a project for the grammes for children and school students THE PENINSULA

Qatar to take part in WHO executive board meeting

DOHA: Qatar will participate Minister of Public Health H E The meeting will also dis- of the Political Declaration of in the meetings of 134th session Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani. cuss communicable diseases, the High-Level Meeting of the of World Health Organisation The meeting will discuss a strategy and global targets for General Assembly on the pre- (WHO) Executive Board to number of reports, work plans the prevention and control vention of non-communicable be held in Geneva between and strategies in addition to of tuberculosis and the global diseases as well as the subject January 20 and 25. other topics on the agenda, most plan of action for the vaccine, feeding mothers, infants and Qatar’s delegation to the importantly the organisation in addition to non-communica- young children, and disability. meeting will be headed by the reforms. ble diseases and the follow-up QNA SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Professionals discuss nuclear medicine HMC holds second Qatar PET and Molecular Nuclear Medicine symposium

DOHA: Healthcare profession- resonance imaging) hybrid imaging. at Imperial College Healthcare NHS many types of cancer, as well as other als from across Qatar on Friday Workshops will be conducted on the Trust, UK; Dr Sze Ting Lee, Nuclear ailments such as brain disorders and gathered to discuss advances in principles of nuclear medicine, and also Medicine Physician at Austin Health heart problems. Positron Emission Tomography on radiation protection for staff and in Australia; Dr. Salvatore Berlangieri, HMC’s state-of-the-art PET-CT (PET) and nuclear dedicine at the family members. Head of the Clinical PET Program at Center for Diagnosis and Research second Qatar PET and Molecular “Hosting the event is part of our Austin Health; and Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim is one of the most technologically Nuclear Medicine Symposium strategy to spread knowledge on cut- Almuhaideb, Consultant Molecular advanced in the region, offering com- (QPET-II), hosted by Hamad ting edge diagnostic and treatment Imaging Radiologist at King Faisal plete patient care ranging from diag- Medical Corporation (HMC) at monitoring technologies that will aid Specialist Hospital and Research nosis to assessment of treatment Hajar Auditorium. healthcare professionals in providing Center and Professor Dr Ahmed response for cancer, cardiology and The event featured presentations optimal patient care,” said QPET-II Khairy, Senior Consultant at HMC’s neurology patients. and open discussions on PET-CT (a Chairperson Dr Nawal Al Tamimi, Radiology Department. “We hope that this symposium will combination of PET and computed Consultant-Nuclear Medicine at the Positron emission tomography benefit the daily practice not only tomography) application in oncology, Radiology Department of HMC. (PET), also known as PET imaging or of radiologists and nuclear medicine breast carcinoma and gynaecological The symposium provided an oppor- a PET scan, is a non-invasive, pain- physicians but also other healthcare malignancies, head and neck cancer, tunity for sharing experiences and less molecular imaging technology that professionals from different specialties. lung cancer, liver tumours, lymphoma knowledge, and will allow participants allows physicians to determine how We have prepared an exciting scientific and neuroendocrine tumours. to learn from internationally recog- organs and tissues inside the body are program and expect that there will be Participant also be discussed the nized experts in the field. Speakers functioning on a molecular and cellular interesting panel discussions,” said Dr evolution, clinical potential and future included Professor Adil Al Nahhas, level. PET is a powerful tool for diag- Al Tamimi. expectations of PET MRI (magnetic Chief of Service of Nuclear Medicine nosing and determining the stages of THE PENISULA Training held for airport security officials

DOHA: The Airport Security Department and Police Training Institute in collaboration with French National Gendarmerie concluded a 12-day train- ing workshop for the air- port security officials aiming at upgrading their knowledge and skills to ensure the highest level of security for passengers at the Hamad International Airport, said a press state- ment yesterday. About 15 officials from Airport Security and Qatar Armed Force took part in the workshop, who were awarded with certificates at a convocation after the suc- cessful completion of the training programme. The convocation cere- mony was attended by the Director of Airport Security Department, Brigadier Essa One of the trainees receiving his certificate. Arar Al Romaihi, Assistant Director of Police Training airports to upgrade to the high- at Doha International Airport in Hamad International Airport. Institute Major Abdul Aziz est level in securing passengers order to prepare for the upcoming THE PENINSULA Al Mohannadi and the Military Attaché of French embassy in Qatar. Al Romaihi said that the workshop was mainly intended to stress on the security measures neces- sary to secure the civil aviation while disasters happen, and to provide employees the knowledge and skills necessary to the security of aviation and SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Study urges awareness drive on energy drink risks QU students study food safety, infections, Thalassaemia

DOHA: Researches by Qatar “Identification of Microbial antigens, thus reducing the effi- University (QU) students Pathogens in street foods in cacy of transfused RBC survival revealed important findings on Qatar using Real Time PCR”, and increasing the dependency on energy drink consumption, food Amal Al Zahiri and Reham transfusion. safety in Souq Waqif, infection Mousa found a high level of food They further found that the rates of Hepatitis virus and safety practices by street vendors multi-ethnicity among the blood nutrition and pain episodes in in Souq Waqif. donor pool further leads to intri- sickle cell anaemia patients. Nadima Haj Ali and Aisha cacy in immune incompetency The findings were part of an Khan presented their work on among Thalassaemia patients. exhibition of senior research infection rates and polygenetic Investigating the dietary projects conducted by students analysis of HGV/GBV-C among behaviour among sickle cell anae- of the biomedical sciences and blood donors in Qatar, finding mia patients in Bahrain, Zainab human nutrition programmes no significant difference between Ahmed found that the intake in the Department of Health Qataris and non-Qataris. of six kinds of food — diet soda, Sciences, College of Arts and However, they found the rates brown and whole wheat bread, Sciences (CAS). to be very close to those found Arabic sweets, nuts, seeds, and In their study, Ana Fatima in neighbouring countries. Their vitamin supplements — were sig- Imtiaz and Mariam Al Wedaei findings suggested a need for nificantly associated with pain investigated patterns of energy a blood screening policy on the episodes, suggesting a possible drink consumption and found virus to be implemented by the correlation between nutrition and that the majority of consum- blood bank in Qatar. pain episodes. Students presenting their research projects. ers are local athletes. The study Fatema Ahmed and Hala The study presented by Maria revealed that most of the con- Alila investigated the presence Smatti and Zahra Ali investi- the viral particles in platelets important to our students to benefit the local community. We sumers had no knowledge of of alloantibodies among trans- gated the presence of Hepatitis would give a better estimation exchange ideas and get feed- are very proud to graduate com- the ingredients found in energy fusion-dependent Thalassaemia C Virus (HCV)-RNA in platelets and a predictive value for anti- back from experts and faculty petent and skilled students who drinks, and suggested the need for patients. The results showed and the impact of its response viral therapy. on their projects. Students will contribute in advancing and awareness campaigns about their that consistent blood transfusion to treatment among chronic Head Department of Health presented many different con- promoting health care services health risks. leads to alloimmunisation against HCG-genotype4 patients. The Sciences Dr Asmaa Al Thani temporary topics that address in Qatar.” In their project titled: different red blood cell (RBC) results showed that measuring said: “This event is very important health issues that can THE PENINSULA

No standard diet plan for diabetes patients, says expert at HMC

DOHA: Every patient diag- into consideration the age, gender, 1 diabetic. Individuals with Type and to control their blood sugar exercise helps in lowering blood reducing walk-ins and allow- nosed with diabetes at Hamad height, weight and physical activ- 1 diabetes are normally restricted levels,” says Al Arabi. “The body sugar levels and improves the body’s ing for the expansion of serv- Medical Corporation’s (HMC) ity of the individual, as well as the by their injection timings and needs 30 calories for each kilo- ability to use insulin,” he added. ices which focus on prevention. National Diabetes Centre meets type of diabetes the patient has; should coordinate their meal plan gram of body weight. To help our The National Diabetes Centre Beyond Hamad General Hospital, with a nutrition expert who pro- individuals with Type 1 diabetes and injections with their doctor patients lose weight, if they need is providing a ‘one stop shop’ that Al Wakra, Al Khor and Women’s vides guidance and education on generally require a more restric- and dietitian,” said Al Arabi. to, we decrease their caloric intake offers all specialities and services, Hospitals offer outpatient diabetic an appropriate meal plan. tive daily regime of insulin doses, Meal plans are adjusted to the to 20 calories per kilogram. We from initial screening through clinics. In all cases patients are Zohair Ali Al Arabi, Clinical meal timings and activity levels. specific needs of each patient make this alteration while keeping to treatment, health education treated by endocrinologists and/ Dietitian Supervisor at Hamad “Not all patients with diabetes and consideration is given to the in mind the need for a balanced and the provision of medication or general medicine experts who General Hospital, says there is follow the same meal plan. There patient’s overall health. For exam- diet, high in fibre and low in sugar, and equipment. In addition to are highly qualified practitioners no standard diet for patients with are general similarities, but each ple, when a patient is overweight salt and refined carbohydrates.” improving access to services, the skilled in the diagnosis and treat- diabetes; meal plans are tailored patient has his or her own needs or obese, dietitians design a meal Al Arabi says dietary guidance is centre has lowered waiting times ment of diabetes. All clinical pro- to the needs of the patient. to which we adjust the meal plan. plan that promotes weight loss. tailored to the patient’s needs and through enhanced appointment tocols meet American Diabetes Dietary management guidelines For example, a Type 2 diabetic “Our goal is always to maintain that the importance of physical scheduling and clinic utilisation, Association standards. for individuals with diabetes take has more flexibility than a Type a healthy lifestyle for our patients exercise is highlighted. “Physical improving the patient experience, THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME/MIDDLE EAST Al Quds Committee calls for curbs on Israeli settlements Panel praises US efforts in peace push

MARRAKECH: Muslim of Morocco opened the meeting nations urged the international Friday by calling for “a strong community yesterday to put mobilisation of our own means pressure on Israel to stop build- and resources... to defend the ing Jewish settlements in the Holy City.” occupied West Bank, at the end Palestinian president Mahmud of talks in Morocco. Abbas later claimed Israel was The Al Quds (Jerusalem) using the peace talks as a “cover” Committee made the call amid to expand settlements in the West heightened concerns settlements Bank. could undermine US-brokered Concerns over settlement con- peace talks that resumed in July struction returned to the fore after becoming bogged down last week when Israel announced three years earlier over the con- plans to build 1,800 new settler struction drive. homes in the West Bank, includ- Some of the health care professionals attending the programme. “The international community ing annexed Arab east Jerusalem, must... put pressure on Israel to which the Palestinians want as stop the illegal and provocative the capital of their future state. 26 nurses join Diabetes Educator Programme settlement construction,” a state- The announcement came only ment said at the end of the two- days after the latest peace mission day meeting in Marrakesh. by US Secretary of State John Kerry, DOHA: A new group of nurses Michener Institute for Applied programmes and services to the second year of the Michener That “will create a favourable who criticised the settlements as have begun an intensive Health Science, in conjunction with people affected by diabetes, and Institute course in Qatar and it context for the pursuit of peace “illegitimate” and “unhelpful.” Diabetes Educator Programme Calgary University- Qatar, and share the latest diabetes informa- is pleasing to see that 26 nurses, negotiations” between Israel and The controversial decision in Doha to learn about the lat- supported by Action on Diabetes tion with care providers to help compared to 22 last year, are the Palestinians, and for relations prompted Britain, Italy, France est developments in diabetes and the Qatar Diabetes Association improve the overall quality of life taking part. Diabetes research between Israel, its Arab neighbours and Spain to summon Israeli care and ultimately improve the (QDA)-Qatar Foundation. for people with diabetes. We are and approaches to treatment and the Muslim world, the state- ambassadors in protest, with the quality of life for those with the Speaking at the launch event, very pleased to work with our are evolving constantly so these ment added. The panel also praised Jewish state calling in European condition. Dr Abdulla Al Hamaq, Executive ‘Action on Diabetes’ partners — courses help to maintain high the United States as a “serious” ambassadors on Friday in a tit- Twenty-six public and private Director of Qatar Diabetes Hamad Medical Corporation, The standards of care in Qatar. broker of the peace talks between for-tat move. sector health care professionals Association — member of Qatar Supreme Council of Health, The In addition to a two day work- Israel and the Palestinians. After Israel unveiled the plans, from Qatar Diabetes Association Foundation, said: “The Diabetes Primary Health Care Cooperation, shops which build on a student’s The committee was founded Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon (QDA) and Primary Health Care Educator Certification course will Novo Nordisk, and Maersk Oil personal knowledge and experience, by the pan-Muslim Organisation launched a tirade against Secretary Corporation (PHCC) join the offer a world class programme to Qatar — to deliver another valu- the Michener’s Diabetes Educator of Islamic Cooperation in 1975 of State John Kerry for his “obses- course, which runs from now until diabetes educators in Qatar. It is able project as part of the ‘Action Programme includes six online to resist the confiscation of sion” with brokering a framework September. the first accredited programme of on Diabetes’ initiative. modules and evaluation through Palestinian land and assets in peace deal by April, sparking a The Diabetes Educator its kind to be run in Qatar. Sheikh Faisal Al Thani, Deputy written assignments, presentations Jerusalem. diplomatic spat with Washington. Programme, now in its second Dr Al Hamaq continued, Managing Director at Maersk and web-based examinations. Chairman King Mohamed VI year, is delivered by the Canadian “At QDA we strive to deliver Oil Qatar, commented: “This is THE PENINSULA

Karak time Qatar University to hold conference on Interdisciplinarity in History

DOHA: Qatar University’s opportunities for the status of his- outreach across various sectors of Department of Humanities tory in modern and contemporary society are central to the vision of at the College of Arts and academia; and the relationship the conference as between aca- Sciences (CAS) will hold an between history, social sciences, demic disciplines, and expressed international conference on humanities, and applied sciences. his gratitude to the local civil soci- ‘Interdisciplinarity in History: Discussions and ideas will also be ety institutions who will attend, An Old Method in New World generated on problems in the perio- and specifically for the valuable Context’ – the first of its kind dization of world history; continuity support of the Arab Center for in Qatar and the region. and change in the writing of con- Research and Policy Studies. The conference on March 5 and temporary Arab history; and peda- He added: “We hope that this March 6 will facilitate scientific gogical methodologies in history. conference will be a successful collaboration and methodologi- Head of the department and model in establishing meaning- cal pluralism between and across associate professor in contempo- ful scientific interaction between disciplines of the humanities and rary history of the Middle East the humanities and social sci- social sciences. Dr Mahjoob Zweiri commented ences that advances the vision Historians and scholars from that the attendance of such dis- and mission of Qatar University, fifteen countries, prestigious aca- tinguished participants confirms and that will help researchers and demic institutions and civil society Qatar University’s role as a lead- history students write the history organizations will present their ing global institution of higher of Qatar and the Arabian Gulf work, exchange ideas and discuss education, and a seat of success- from a coherent methodological issues on changing and understand- ful and innovative international approach based on investigation ing of historiography in modernity scientific initiatives. and critical analysis. Anytime is karak time in Doha but people enjoy it most when it rains and flock to tea joints to enjoy it. A Qatari, and post-modernity; challenges and He noted that collaboration and THE PENINSULA Mohammad pulls over at a popular tea spot in Matar Qadeem area for his fix. (QASSIM RAHMTULLAH) Emergency declared in Two Italians Ashghal hosts Columbia varsity students kidnapped in Libya as clashes erupt eastern Libya TRIPOLI: Libya’s General going to track where they are TRIPOLI: Two Italian con- National Congress declared a going,” he said. struction workers have been state of emergency in the coun- Local sources also said that abducted in an Islamist strong- try yesterday, an official said, the group that took over the base hold in eastern Libya, a security after fresh clashes erupted in was made up of supporters of the source said yesterday. the south when gunmen group ousted regime, to take advantage The men were kidnapped in seized a military base. of the fraught security in the area. Derna, east of Benghazi, where The GNC, Libya’s highest polit- Fighting broke out in Sebha they had been staying in a cement ical authority, made the decision one week ago, pitting gunmen factory, the security source said. during an “extraordinary session” from the Arab Awled Sleiman “There was a group of Libyan about the situation in the south- tribe against tribesmen from the construction workers waiting ern town of Sebha, where tribal Toubou minority. for them on the highway east of clashes have been raging for sev- At least 30 people were killed Derna to fix a hole in the road, eral days, the official said. in the fighting. but the Italians did not arrive,” Fighting flared up again on There has been a wave of the source said. “We are trying to Saturday when gunmen took con- rumours in recent days on social establish the identity of the kid- trol of a military base near Sebha, networks reporting parades by nappers, to find out about their after several days of relative quiet, Kadhafi supporters in some town demands.” Derna is a stronghold the government said. to the west of the capital Tripoli, of radical Islamists in the east But in the evening, defence notably Wershefana and Ajaylat. of Libya, an Opec oil producer ministry spokesman Abderrazak Photographs have been posted struggling with turmoil two-and- Visiting students with Ashghal officials. Al Shebahi said the army had on some websites, although it has a-half years after the overthrow recaptured the Tamenhant base. not been possible to verify them. of Muammar Gaddafi. DOHA: The Public Works Ashghal’s President, Engineer Relations and Communications He said the army was tracking Pro-Kadhafi television sta- The government and its nas- Authority (Ashghal) hosted a Nasser bin Ali Al Mawlawi Manager. the attackers after they fled into tions based outside of Libya have cent army is struggling to con- group of faculty and students hosted a delegation from As part of the visit, the group the desert. fuelled the speculation, and Prime trol the militias, tribesmen and from Columbia University, USA. the Department of Civil went on a site visit to witness Government warplanes also Minister Ali Zeidan has warned Islamists who helped topple The group visited Ashghal’s Engineering and Engineering first-hand Ashghal’s key construc- launched raids “against certain against spreading the allegations, Gaddafi but refuse to disarm and headquarters and selected Mechanics at Columbia tion projects, namely: Hamad Bin targets”, he added. saying they were aimed at “provok- trust the political process to meet project sites to share knowl- University who met key Khalifa Medical City and F Ring The spokesman also said the ing a crisis in the country”.Zeidan their demands. edge and discussions with lead Ashghal executives including Road projects. The group was group was made up of supporters said that the situation was “under Benghazi has been rocked by Ashghal executives. Engineer Mawlawi, Meshal Al briefed on these major infrastruc- of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, who control” in Sebha and that he a wave of assassinations of army In response to a request Hitmi, Shared Services Affairs ture projects and gained on ground was ousted and killed by NATO- would be sending reinforcements and police officers as well as car from the ‘Global Leaders in Director; Saif Al Kaabi, Human experience in knowing the extent backed rebels in October 2011. into the city comprising ex-rebels. bombs. Construction Management Resources Manager and and volume of these projects. “We know them and we are AFP REUTERS Research Group’ (GLCM), Abdulla Saad Al Saad, Public THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Aid finally enters besieged refugee 21 killed camp in Damascus DAMASCUS: Food aid entered the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria yesterday for the first time in four months, in wave of a Palestinian official and Syrian state media said. The delivery of food comes after reports that dozens of peo- ple in southern Damascus camp have died of hunger and lack of Iraq attacks medical care, and a UN warning that blocking aid may amount to a war crime. “A first batch of food aid entered Five die in attack near upscale mall successfully this morning and dis- tribution to residents has begun,” BAGHDAD: Attacks across the mall and quickly made their Palestine Liberation Organisation Baghdad, including car bombs way home, while security forces official Anwar Abdul Hadi said. at an upscale shopping mall and imposed restrictions on movement Abdul Hadi said Syrian author- near a juvenile detention centre, in the area, barring cars from ities helped facilitate the delivery, killed 21 people yesterday as ris- entering or leaving the district, which was a trial run and “fur- ing violence fuels fears of all-out journalists at the scene said. ther batches will be delivered suc- sectarian war. Another car bomb in the cessively from tomorrow.” The bombings and a deadly, Taubchi neighbourhood detonated He said the delivery was made weeks-long standoff in the west- near a juvenile detention centre, People search for survivors amid damage caused by what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to President possible after an agreement was ern province of Anbar, part of a and conflicting reports of a prison Bashar Al Assad in the Al Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo yesterday. reached on Friday between repre- nationwide surge in violence that break spurred the authorities to sentatives of Palestinian factions has already killed more than 600 effectively shut down the area, a and rebels in the camp. this month, come just months journalist said. “The delegation will continue ahead of parliamentary elections. The blast killed five people and holding discussions on the return Diplomats including UN chief left 13 wounded, officials said. Govt bombing kills 34 in Aleppo of the camp’s residents and the Ban Ki-moon have urged authori- An interior ministry official said evacuation of gunmen from it,” ties to pursue political reconcilia- 23 detainees managed to escape BEIRUT: Government war- been battling forces loyal to the people in nearly two weeks. he said. tion with disaffected Sunni Arabs in the chaotic aftermath of the planes yesterrday launched government of President Bashar Elsewhere in the country, gov- “A number of sick and injured to resolve the unrest, but the US attack, but Iraqiya state TV said raids on the northern Syrian al-Assad since they launched a ernment jets pounded two areas persons will be evacuated from has said it will provide training security forces managed to pre- city of Aleppo and the sur- major offensive in the city in the east of the capital Damascus the camp tomorrow morning for Iraqi forces in a third country vent the attempted jailbreak. rounding countryside, killing 34 summer of 2012. in eight raids, the Observatory with help from the Syrian Red and would ship small arms to the Bombs also went off near a people, including five children, The Observatory also said reported, without saying whether Crescent within the framework country’s security forces. bus station in Nahda, a bridge in the Syrian Observatory for “helicopters dropped explosive- there had been any casualties in of the settlement,” Abdul Hadi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki Utaifiyah, while attacks struck Human Rights said. packed barrels on Al-Bab town the attacks. added. has taken a hard line and ruled out the neighbourhoods of Amriyah, Air raids launched by govern- (east of Aleppo) that led to the Meanwhile, the Observatory Syrian state media also dialogue with militants. Jamiyah and Adel, killing 11 peo- ment jets and helicopters left 23 death of several fighters from the said that clashes raged between reported the delivery, citing a In Baghdad last evening, seven ple in all. people dead in the city itself, and (jihadist) Islamic State of Iraq ISIL and rival rebel groups in second Palestinian official. attacks — including six car bombs Yesterday’s unrest was the latest killed another 11 in the surround- and the Levant (ISIL), leaving Aleppo province on Saturday. Yarmuk has been largely under — killed at least 21 people and in a long-running trend of attacks ing countryside, the Observatory an unknown number of people Fighters from groups bat- the control of opposition forces for wounded more than 60 others, striking in the capital during the reported. wounded. tling the jihadist ISIL seized a months and government troops security and medical officials said. evening, when Baghdad’s residents It said five of those killed in yes- Helicopters also launched raids village in the province, but lost have imposed a suffocating siege One of the blasts went off near often congregate at cafes, markets, terday’s bombing were children. with “barrel bombs” on other ground to the other rebels in the that was tightened in September. the glitzy new Mansur Mall, one restaurants and shops. “Warplanes bombed areas in areas of the northern city, once town of Manbaj, according to the Chris Gunness, spokesman for of the capital’s most upscale shop- Violence also struck north of the neighbourhoods of Tariq Syria’s commercial capital, and Observatory. the UN agency for Palestinian ping centres, where families and Baghdad. Twin blasts at a Kirkuk Al Bab and Karam Al Jabal in two villages in the south of Aleppo Nine members of one rebel refugees UNRWA, told AFP that young people often meet in the market killed three people, while Aleppo,” as well as the city’s province, said the Observatory group taking part in the battle the agency had donated 200 food evenings to go to the cinema or gunmen badly wounded a jour- Sukhur district, said the Britain- without giving further details on against ISIL were killed early parcels to be delivered to the eat at Western-style restaurants. nalist after stopping his car at an based monitoring group which casualties. on Saturday, the Observatory camp through an intermediary. At least five people were killed intersection in Baquba. The jour- relies on a network of activists on In December, regime warplanes reported, when a car bomb went He was not able to confirm and 12 more were wounded. nalist managed to escape his car the ground for its reports. launched a series of raids with the off at a checkpoint they were whether the parcels were deliv- The area was deserted after the but was shot three times. The areas are controlled by powerful barrel bombs in Aleppo manning in rural Aleppo. ered during the operation. attack as shoppers rushed out of AFP opposition fighters who have province, killing more than 500 AFP AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE main Syrian political opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), has agreed to attend internationally sponsored peace talks Tbeginning in Switzerland next week. The Geneva Two talks with representatives from President Bashar Al No matter what he said, Assad’s government are scheduled to start in Montreux on Wednesday and are called as the most serious international effort yet to end the near three-year conflict. Obama’s still spying on you It’s disappointing that a peace conference on Syria is happening after such a long time with so little hope -- never BY NOAH FELDMAN before the confidence has been so low about a peace effort on with a terrorist organization instead the companies that generated it in the Syria. Even its participants are not optimistic and are not of three.” In the other, he directed the first place. His proffered explanation sure what outcome will emerge. The reason: so complicated OTHERED that the govern- attorney general to arrange that “dur- was that that relying on the telecom- and disastrous is the situation in the country that the ment has the metadata from ing this transition period” the database munications companies might require number of stakeholders has multiplied, positions have all your calls, so that it can would be queried “only after a judicial them “to alter their procedures in ways hardened, goalposts have shifted and in such a situation, a Bmap out the details of your life finding, or in a true emergency.” that raise new privacy concerns.” Maybe at the click of a button? If you really On the surface, these proposals sound — but the argument misses the very peace conference can only scratch the surface. are, little in President Barack Obama’s pretty substantial — but they aren’t. In essence of the liberty to privacy that is Though the SNC has agreed to participate, the group much-hyped speech on intelligence a game of Six Degrees of Osama bin involved here. When you make a phone has little influence on the ground in Syria. Its presence has gathering should allay your concerns. Laden, the move from three “hops” to call, you know the telephone company been overshadowed by Islamist groups and Al Qaeda-linked True, Obama announced that he would two is minimal. If the suspected tar- has the information about that call. But groups, which are fighting among each other dominance. “end” the metadata- collection program get phone numbers belong to people in you trust the telephone company not to The rebels fighting on the ground will not agree to anything “as it currently exists.” But he never the United States, the odds are good exploit that information to track your explained how, ignoring the recommen- that they have called some widely used patterns of movement and affiliation (at less than the ouster of President Bashar Al Assad, but Assad dations of his own handpicked review number — the Comcast helpline, for least not without your consent), because himself will not agree anything if that involves relinquishing group and instead asking his adminis- example. Anyone else who has ever it is a private firm that would be heavily power. And both sides are in a position to stick to their tration for new technical options on the called that number would still be within criticized if it did so. stances – rebels are failing to make bulk storage of data by the end of March. bounds. Your friends’ friends are still The government, on the other hand, progress on the ground, even losing If you remember the president’s promise two hops away, even if your friends’ is a completely different story. Without The Geneva some of the hard-fought territory, to close the prison friends’ friends’ are now not within the specific legal or constitutional prohibi- at Guantanamo standard range. Ask yourself: Would tions on accessing your metadata, the 2 talks on and the government forces are able to Bay, Cuba, you the intelligence community have agreed government has no reason whatever not make advances. The Syrian regime’s know that “end- to the three to two reduction if they to sneak a look. Put another way, I may Syria are backers – Russia and Iran -- are If you remember ing” something thought it would substantially reduce have privacy interests relative to my unlikely steadfast in their support for the means doing it their capacity to monitor terrorists? phone carrier, but I don’t have privacy regime. the president’s subject to realis- Querying the bulk database only after rights unless the law creates them. And tic constraints — a judicial finding sounds much better. constitutional rights, at least, are in U.S. There are conflicting signals about to achieve promise to close which may keep Yet the president never said that he was restricted to protecting me against the anything. the purpose of the conference. US the program from talking about an individualized or specific government, not against private parties Secretary of State John Kerry is the prison at ending at all. And judicial finding. The Foreign Intelligence acting entirely on their own. insisting that what is called Geneva Guantanamo if you don’t have Surveillance Court has already approved All this comes back to the question 2 is about establishing a process Bay, you know short-term amne- the most general requests imaginable. of whether you really care that the gov- essential to the formation of a transition government body sia, you’ll recall Those that already exist could well be ernment might be looking. One way to that the Obama included in the words “after a judicial read the minimal changes suggested by to replace the regime of Bashar Assad, who, according that “ending” administration finding” — which would mean no change Obama’s speech is that the administra- to him, would be excluded from the transition. It’s likely something means isn’t exactly bris- at all during this “transition.” And what, tion is gambling that you don’t. The that Kerry must have made the statement to prevent the tling with skilled pray tell, counts as a “true emergency” in public may have been temporarily upset talks from collapsing and give confidence to the rebels. doing it subject high-tech advis- the context of counterterrorism? by Edward Snowden’s revelations. But The objective he is targeting is difficult to achieve at this to realistic ers who can As for the longer-term solutions, the to the extent We the People are made up moment, which has been made clear by the Damascus build complicated president could have announced that the of Gmail users, we simply may not care constraints. new solutions government would no longer hold onto that much about metadata privacy. If regime. Syrian officials have pledged to attend the Geneva to technological the bulk-collected metadata. The review this is right, there will be no significant talks, which could be after persuasion from Russia and Iran, problems. panel recommended this change. And negative reaction to Obama’s speech, but they have disputed the invitation letter’s focus on setting The president must have realized it was no congeries of radicals. The five and the intelligence community can get up a transitional authority. According to them, the priority that skeptics might be unimpressed men included, among others, Michael back to business more or less as usual. is to continue to fight terrorism, a phrase they have used to by a promise to try to do something Morell, the former deputy Central Left on the margin will be those unspecified at an indeterminate future Intelligence Agency director; Richard of us who, in our old- fashioned way, describe and tarnish Syrians’ genuine fight for freedom. time. So he added some reforms related Clarke, White House counterterrorism think that the government’s intrusions What is needed to find a solution to the Syrian crisis is to the bulk collection of metadata that adviser under Bill Clinton and George W. into our privacy are more to be feared a consensus among the international community – mainly could be implemented right away. In Bush; and former Obama administration than private industry’s — and that the Arabs and the West – about a possible solution. With one, he announced that the intelligence official (and my Harvard and Bloomberg Constitution was designed to protect opinion divided on every front, a status quo seems the only community would from now on only View colleague) Cass Sunstein. us from the government that is itself solution “pursue phone calls that are two steps Obama rejected the group’s recom- supposed to protect us. . removed from a number associated mendation of leaving the metadata with WP-BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Eliminating poverty in US the day

HEN American president included the ‘war on poverty’, laws his flagship initiative, Americans are has declined from 19 per cent during Lyndon Baines Johnson relating to Medicare and Medicaid, the still engaged in a bitter political debate the Johnson presidency to just 15 per addressed students of landmark Civil Rights Act, and also laws on anti-poverty measures. While cent at present. Constant criticism from WOhio University about seeking environmental protection and Democrats and left-leaning liberals the right has deterred other presidents, As long as I’m 50 years ago, telling them about his aid to education and the arts. claim Johnson’s initiatives have helped including Barack Obama, from launch- ambitious programme to eliminate Johnson was then a popular succes- raise millions of Americans above the ing a similar war on poverty. president of the poverty and racial injustice, nearly a fifth sor to the affable Kennedy, and had not poverty line, many Republicans con- Conservatives claim that the federal of his compatriots were in the poverty yet escalated America’s involvement in tinue to rail against the former presi- and state governments spent nearly United States, bracket. Vietnam. It was much later though that dent. Steve Southerland, a Republican a trillion dollars in anti-poverty pro- Johnson, the ‘accidental president’, he became one of the most despised representative from Florida and head grammes in 2012, which worked out to the chancellor launched his ‘nationwide war on the presidents of the United States, with of the conservative Republican Study about $20,000 for each poor individual of Germany sources of poverty’ in his maiden State anti-war protesters jeering at him with Committee, has argued that despite in the US. It would be worthwhile for the of the Union address 50 years ago, slogans such as ‘Hey! Hey! LBJ! How the government spending $15 trillion government to send them a cheque for will not have to barely weeks after the assassination of many kids did you kill today?’ on its ‘war on poverty’ over the past $20,000 every year, instead of spend- his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The Fifty years after Johnson launched half century, 46 million Americans still ing money on more than a hundred worry about this Great Society legislative initiative that he his ‘war on poverty’ by establishing live in poverty. According to the cen- ‘wasteful’ anti-poverty programmes, Barack Obama launched on taking over as president the Office of Economic Opportunity, sus department, the US poverty rate they aver. Khaleej Times (surveillance). US President SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Egypt’s constitution may not be bad at all To become a more perfect democracy, Egypt’s next political vanguard will have to wage a different type of revolution, one dedicated to institutional reform. BY MICHAEL ALBERTUS example of unelected or tran- In the worst-case scenario, Egypt and VICTOR MENALDO sitional leaders constructing a may go the way of Myanmar, also constitution that sets the rules known as Burma, where democ- gypt’s revolution is of the game under democracy. racy never got off the ground in set for a new phase. Research we have conducted the wake of a constitution imposed The country’s armed indicates that since 1800, only by the military. There, a constitu- forces have taken 29 percent of new democra- tion engineered by the generals their turn writing and cies began with a constitution who ruled for the past half-cen- Ewinning support for a constitution that they created themselves or tury stipulates that one-quarter entirely of their own making. On inherited from a past episode of of the seats in parliament must January 14-15, Egyptians voted on democratic rule in their country. be reserved for the military. Much a heavily revised version of the Prominent examples after World of the remainder is held by mem- December 2012 charter authored War II include Greece, Argentina, bers of the pro-government party. by President Mohammed Mursi the Philippines and Mongolia. Despite recent electoral gains by and the Muslim Brotherhood — A total of 71 percent of new the chief opposition party, the an illiberal document that alien- democracies — including Egypt National League for Democracy, ated the military and secular if the transition goes through — Myanmar’s constitution appears groups and helped precipitate a inherited a constitution that was likely to remain in effect for the coup against Mursi last July. The designed under dictatorship and foreseeable future, given that constitution is expected to pass where outgoing elites dominated three-quarters of the parliament with resounding support. the transition process. Chile, must vote in favour of any consti- The Egyptian military, as well Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia tutional amendment for it to pass. as the United States and the and Thailand illustrate this more Yet Egypt’s future is not international community, strongly common scenario. condemned to be as dim as and publicly pushed for adoption Many countries that inherited Myanmar’s. Many democracies of the new constitution as a pre- autocratic constitutions struggle that did not create their own con- condition for transitioning back with elite dominance over demo- stitution are stable and prosper- A crowd gathers as a vehicle burns during clashes between Muslim Brotherhood, supporters of Egypt’s deposed to elected civilian rule. The new cratic institutions, often mani- ous. In fact, the democracies that president Mohammed Mursi, and riot police in Cairo on Friday. document sets the stage for the fested as high levels of corruption, are most long-lived are those that armed forces to formally relin- illiberalism and economic inequal- inherit constitutions from their quish executive power. Although ity. And some fear that in Egypt autocratic predecessors. Of all outgoing autocratic elites. Since their worst fears — prosecution, served as a model for future tran- the head of the Egyptian mili- a similar outcome will obtain: the democratic regimes that subse- 1950, 31 percent (a total of 19) of forced retirement, seizure of their sitions in Spain and across Latin tary, Gen Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Egyptian military may strangle quently reverted to dictatorship, the countries that democratised assets or even death — will not America. It may also be a useful is widely anticipated to run for the democratic opening augured 58 percent had constitutions that with autocratic constitutions went materialise after a transition. model for Egypt. president, he will be forced to by the new constitution. If el-Sisi were forged under democracy. on to shed their inherited constitu- Forbearance of this type, even if This means that if the Egyptian hang up his military uniform and runs for and wins the presidency, Only 42 percent had constitutions tions and replace them with new unpopular, may give the Egyptian government is to represent its run as a civilian. former regime elements and sym- created under autocracy. social contracts. Returning to the people the opportunity to gradu- entire people, there must be Yet the new charter heavily pathisers will gain a toehold in the Consider Chile since its 1989 Chilean case, incoming president ally revise the military’s constitu- another future phase of reform. favours the military and under- government that affords them democratic transition on terms Michelle Bachelet has vowed to tion, eventually expunging it of its To become a more perfect democ- cuts Islamists. Religious parties veto power over major issues set by Gen Augusto Pinochet’s discard the country’s heavily biased most illiberal precepts. racy, Egypt’s next political van- such as the Muslim Brotherhood such as punishment of outgoing 1980 constitution. Its democratic binomial electoral system, an alba- In Portugal in 1975, for guard will have to wage a different are banned from political partici- regime officials. Bulgaria after institutions are robust, and there tross that represents one of the instance, the exclusion of commu- type of revolution, one dedicated to pation. The military retains the communist rule is one case that is a strong consensus around the most conservative legacies of the nists — who threatened to expro- institutional reform. While some right to try civilians in military exemplifies this: when the former rule of law. Furthermore, the 1980 constitution. priate businesses and land owned of these battles may still be waged courts. And the armed forces have dictator, Andrei Lukanov, was middle class has burgeoned in the If Egyptians are to successfully by former autocratic elites — from in Tahrir Square, many of them a veto over the choice of defence charged with corruption under wake of an enviable record of eco- coax the military from power and the left-wing party alliance that will take place behind the scenes minister for two presidential democracy, the minority commu- nomic growth and targeted social usher in a more liberal demo- headed a transitional govern- and involve lawyers, academics, terms. Despite these “flaws,” the nists in parliament (the Bulgarian policy. Chilean citizens are now cratic future, they must be prag- ment was key to convincing the and other members of civil soci- military’s constitution passed — Socialist Party) successfully the wealthiest and best educated matic. This might entail, like in military to give democratisation ety — including Islamic clerics — partly because Islamists decided pushed the government to drop in Latin America. the case of Chile and Bulgaria, a green light. It also reduced the persuading Egypt’s politicians to to boycott the constitutional the charges against him, despite A new democracy can also jet- completely eschewing retali- likelihood that elites would have a themselves become the advocates referendum. the fact that they only controlled tison or overhaul a constitution ation and extending military reason to topple democracy later of a fuller version of democracy. Egypt is not alone as an 44 percent of the seats. inherited from the military or leaders reliable assurances that down the line. This transition WP-BLOOMBERG Serious doubts over peace conference Coburn leaves lonely If peace is beyond Washington lonelier reach in Syria, then the BY MARGARET CARLSON ou knew what might be coming when Sen Tom Coburn of conference must, at a Oklahoma announced in November that he had a recurrence of cancer. He managed for a long time with a triple threat bare minimum, restore Y— colon and prostate cancer and a benign brain tumour. He announced Thursday that he will leave at the end of this congressional session to spend the time he has left with his three children and seven basic humanity to the grandchildren. It may be one of the only times when a politician says he wants to spend more time with his family and we know it is utterly conduct of war. the truth. Coburn has always had a gift for honesty. He didn’t need consultants to tell him how to be a senator. He had the white hair, all-American BY DAVID MILIBAND accent and a doctor’s wisdom of life and death, his vocation before poli- tics. He talked to the president frequently but didn’t brag about it. His t is a rare peace conference that brings colleagues — fellow Republicans and Democrats — liked to have him immediate peace. But few have sparked around, even though he could be a thorn in both sides. He was often such little optimism as the one planned the first to be asked to join the various bipartisan “Gangs of.” Ifor Wednesday in Montreux, Switzerland, His Washington home was the model for the Amazon.com satire to discuss Syria. As Laurent Fabius, the “Alpha House,” yet he didn’t sign his conservative roommate Sen Mike French foreign minister, has said, there is “a Syrian refugees in their tents at Karkamis’ refugee camp near Gaziantep. Lee’s manifesto calling for defunding Obamacare, because he thought it great deal of doubt” about whether progress was the wrong way to go. When I asked him who among his colleagues can be made. he would drive across the country with, he said Sen Chuck Schumer, the If peace is beyond reach, then the confer- non-combatant — has been lost, as snipers should appoint delegates empowered to nego- New York Democrat with whom he’d formed the gang on immigration. ence must, at a bare minimum, restore basic shoot women, doctors are targeted and sub- tiate the passage of aid and civilians across What a buddy movie that would make. humanity to the conduct of war. This means urbs are shelled. lines of conflict. Coburn believed in the citizen-legislators of the Founding Fathers’ addressing the desperate situation of Syrian The International Rescue Committee has From Afghanistan to Sudan, there is experi- imagination and was planning to retire at the end of this term because civilians trapped by the fighting without food, helped close to a million Syrians gain access ence in negotiating and delivering humanitar- it fit with that philosophy. He’ll leave two years shy of that. He served in health care, education or hope. to medical care during the conflict. But people ian aid during civil wars. The United Nations the House from 1995 to 2001, then won a surprise victory over a highly The problem is often described as one of are burning clothes to stay warm. Clerics issue has a high-level group, made up of member regarded Democrat to move to the Senate in 2004. He was re-elected access for humanitarian agencies. But that is edicts about eating cats and dogs. And polio states, that works under the auspices of its in 2010 by a huge margin. like saying that someone who is being stran- has broken out. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian In the Senate, Coburn pushed the sharpened-pencil auditors at the gled is suffering from lack of access to air. The These issues must be addressed in Montreux Affairs; ensuring that hungry and frightened General Accounting Office to find duplication, fraud, waste and abuse issue is bigger: The Syrian people are facing a — with practical plans for implementation and people receive relief should be its immediate in government. This quest wasn’t merely a rhetorical weapon; he acted blockade. They are under siege. accountability. focus. because no one else was really digging and because both sides were on More than 9 million people have been dis- First, adherence to international humani- Fourth, the fate of Aleppo needs to be the the take. Critics scoffed at the small-bore savings, which seemed to placed from their homes. A third of the coun- tarian law, which governs armed conflict, is test of progress. Aleppo is Syria’s most popu- overlook the goodies enjoyed by such Republican allies as investment try’s housing has been damaged or destroyed. a requirement, not an option, for both the lous city, with 2 million people crammed in. bankers and oil companies. Still, just because you can’t get at everything Public services have been shattered. As of last Syrian government and rebels. The targeting It is now a divided city and therefore home doesn’t mean you don’t get at something. You have to start somewhere. month, nearly 40 percent of Syrian hospitals of civilians, medical facilities and aid workers to precisely the conflict lines that test the And Coburn was an equal-opportunity destroyer. He called the Pentagon had been obliterated and 20 percent had been is illegal and needs to be challenged by sup- humanity of both sides. Aleppo is to Syria the “Department of Everything” for its duplicative job programmes and severely damaged. porters of both sides. what Sarajevo was to Bosnia. If Syria is ever studies of beef jerky. A month ago, he ferreted out $30bn in wasteful spend- Almost 2 million children have been forced Second, the strong October 2 presidential to recover its tranquillity and beauty, this city ing, including eye-popping items such as the Army’s $297m “mega-blimp,” out of school in the past year. statement from the UN Security Council must be saved from descending into hell. or Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, which was intended for The United Nations has the best estimates details the responsibility of all parties to allow If all this does not happen, the price will Afghanistan but made only one trip: a short flight over New Jersey. Or of acute need. A quarter of a million civilians the flow of aid and medical help. But that duty be severe. It will be paid by the Syrian people ludicrous ones such as a $125,000 3-D pizza printer for astronauts. are completely cut off, it reports, in besieged is not being honoured — making a mockery in the form of rampant disease, death and Reporters don’t get to choose the senators they cover, but you can choose areas in Homs, Aleppo and greater Damascus. of both the United Nations and its member destruction. It will be paid in the region by who you ask over to dinner. He was the most ego- free, funny and sensible By UN estimates, 2.5 million people are in states. the further spread of refugees into countries person you could meet — and not just by the low standards of the current “hard-to-reach” areas such as al-Hasakah. All permanent members of the Security decreasingly able to cope. It will be paid by the Congress. It helped that he was a country doctor from Muskogee (4,000 It’s not hard to understand why people are Council, including Russia and China, sup- wider world in the growth of toxic radicalism. babies delivered) and that he preferred to be called Dr Coburn. He admitted hard to reach. Reports emerge daily about how ported that UN statement. If it is being It is easy to talk of “donor fatigue,” complex that his mother-in-law, Mamie, liked my political positions better than he government forces are using siege as a weapon; ignored, they should be challenged to support a emergencies and no good options. But that is did and he asked me to write her a note. When a new senator, Democrat or rebel groups are fighting one another; civilians binding UN resolution with the same wording. no excuse for a return to the Dark Ages in the Republican, arrived in town, Coburn always stopped by for a visit because, are caught in the middle. Third, special provision is needed to reach heart of the Middle East. he said, Washington is such “a lonely place.” Come the end of the month, In fact, the very notion of a civilian — a besieged communities. Parties to the conflict WP-BLOOMBERG it will be even more so. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST South Sudan Turkey purges regulators, state TV regains town Editors in state media removed from rebels ANKARA: Turkey has Among dozens of officials dis- JUBA: South Sudanese gov- extended a purge of official bod- missed in the latest sackings, ernment forces said they seized ies to the banking and telecoms Turkish media reported yesterday the flashpoint town of Bor regulators and state TV, firing that the deputy head of the bank- back from rebels yesterday and dozens of executives in moves ing watchdog and two department Uganda’s army claimed credit that appear to broaden Prime heads had been removed. for the operation, highlighting Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Five department chiefs were the depth of its involvement in backlash against a corruption fired at the Telecommunications the conflict. investigation. Directorate, a body that carries A rebel spokesman in Addis The authorities have already out electronic surveillance as well Ababa, where talks aimed an reassigned thousands of police as serving as telecoms regulator, securing a ceasefire have been officers and about 20 prosecutors, and a dozen people were fired grinding on, said he could not and fired some state television at Turkey’s state channel TRT, yet confirm the status of Bor, officials in response to the cor- including department heads and which has been heavily fought ruption investigation, the biggest senior news editors. over since the conflict erupted in challenge to Erdogan’s 11-year A government official said the mid-December. rule. firings were carried out for “the “The SPLA gallant forces final- Investigators are believed to benefit of the public” and more ised the operation to capture Bor have been looking into allegations could come: “Right now we are from the forces of rebellion by of corruption and bribery involv- working on this issue and if we entering Bor town today,” Philip ing trade in gold with Iran and big identify cases problematic to the Aguer, spokesman for the govern- real estate projects, although full public’s benefit, more dismissals ment SPLA forces, told reporters details of their charges have not could be considered.” in the capital Juba. been made public. Pictures of money-counting The United Nations says thou- The combative prime minister machines and reports of cash sands of people have been killed says the investigations, which stacked in the homes of people and more than half a million began a month ago with arrests of linked to the graft probe have driven from their homes in the People shout slogans as they hold placards that read “stop censorship” during a rally against a bill that would, high profile figures including the caused uproar among the Turkish fighting in the world’s newest among other things, allow Turkey’s telecommunications authority to directly block access to websites. sons of three of his cabinet min- public. nation. isters, are part of an attempted Unver said the aim of the purge It has pitted troops loyal to “judicial coup”. at the telecommunications watch- The bill would give the courts around,” referring to the corrup- repay a loan dating back to 1998. President Salva Kiir against rebels His opponents say they fear a dog could be to prevent further the power to rule on removing tion allegations. Sarigul denied he had an out- backing Riek Machar, who was purge of official bodies will destroy videos and pictures being pub- online material that “violates In a separate move denounced standing debt, describing the sacked as vice president in July. the independence of the judiciary, lished on the Internet. individual rights”, an article by the opposition as an attempt move as “a provocation”. “The SPLA has defeated police and media. “They are seeking a monolithic that opponents say is murky and to target it, Turkish authorities “I have not received one single more than 15,000 forces of Riek “It’s like reformatting a compu- structure over the Internet,” he could lead to arbitrary closure of have seized the assets of Mustafa letter from TMSF in 16 years... Machar,” Aguer said. “The SPLA ter. They are changing the whole said. websites. Sarigul, the main opposition CHP Those who have lost the trust of has frustrated Riek Machar’s system and people in various posi- Several thousand people took In Istanbul’s Taksim Square, party’s mayoral candidate for the people and carried out this plan to advance and attack Juba, tions to protect the government,” to the streets in Turkey’s biggest where police fired tear gas and Istanbul. political attack on me will get and install himself as the ruler of said Akin Unver, assistant pro- three cities yesterday, demon- water cannon to disperse the The state Savings Deposit the answer at the ballot box on South Sudan.” fessor of International Relations strating against a government- crowd, protesters called for the Insurance Fund (TMSF) said it March 30,” he said, referring to Initially triggered by a political in Istanbul-based Kadir Has led draft bill to increase controls government to resign. Some seized Sarigul’s assets after he local elections. row, battle lines have increasingly University. over the Internet. chanted: “There are thieves and his business partners failed to REUTERS followed ethnic lines with Kiir’s Dinka battling Machar’s Nuer. Bor was the scene of a massacre of Dinka by Nuer troops loyal to Machar, during an earlier conflict in 1991. Israel minister attends Uganda, which for years backed Iranian diplomat fatally injured the SPLA in its conflict against Sudan’s government before the south declared independence in UAE renewables meet 2011, has sent its troops to sup- in Yemen shooting ABU DHABI: Israeli Energy states, without specifying which. port Kiir. A spokesman said the Minister Silvan Shalom The UAE hosted an Israeli del- Ugandan People’s Defence Force SANAA: An Iranian diplomat attended a meeting yesterday egation for the first time in 2003 was behind the success at Bor, the was fatally wounded in a drive- of the International Renewable for a meeting of the International capital of restive Jonglei state. by shooting outside the ambas- South African hostage still alive Energy Agency in the United Monetary Fund. “It’s UPDF that captured Bor,” sador’s residence in the Yemeni JOHANNESBURG: A South African teacher held hostage in Arab Emirates, which has no But, unlike fellow Gulf states Ugandan army spokesman Paddy capital yesterday, the third Yemen, whose kidnappers had threatened to kill him, is still alive diplomatic relations with the Oman and Qatar, it has never Ankunda told Reuters after first attack on embassy personnel in but in poor health, an organisation working to free him said yes- Jewish state. hosted an Israeli trade office. announcing the UPDF’s role recent months. terday. A deadline to pay $3m in ransom to free 56-year-old Pierre During its two-day meeting, the Both missions have since been on Twitter. “There was a lot A medic at Sanaa’s Modern Korkie expired on Friday, but a Yemeni mediator confirmed that it assembly is to discuss a draft road closed — that in Oman in 2000, of resistance but our force was German Hospital said the diplo- has now been extended for three weeks. Korkie was abducted along map for achieving a 36 percent and the Qatar one in 2009. overwhelming.” mat, Ali Asghar Assadi, had been with his wife in May in the city of Taiz by members of Al Qaeda in share for renewables in the world The Gulf Arab states have con- Uganda deployed its troops to “hit in the shoulder, abdomen and the Arabian Peninsula. The couple had lived and worked in Yemen energy mix by 2030. ditioned normalisation of relations South Sudan shortly after the stomach.” for four years. Korkie’s wife was freed on January 10. A member of the Israeli delega- with Israel on its acceptance of the fighting began. At first, Uganda “He was taken to the operating AFP tion said that “Shalom is repre- 2002 plan drafted by Saudi Arabia said it troops were there to help theatre then transferred to inten- senting Israel, which is taking part for peace with the Palestinians. stranded Ugandans and protect sive care but died after an hour Yemen’s charge d’affaires in charge are receiving support from in the meeting like all the other Israel’s relations with the key facilities. But it has since and half.” Tehran was later summoned to Shia Iran. member states of this interna- UAE have been clouded by the declared its role in combat. Iran confirmed the death and the ministry, where officials con- In southern Yemen, army shell- tional agency.” January 2010 death in a Dubai Uganda’s involvement has raised swiftly condemned what it said veyed “strong protest.” ing killed a pregnant woman and However, this is the first time hotel of Hamas military com- worries of a broader conflict that was a new kidnap attempt against Iran also demanded Sanaa her young daughters, medics said member Israel has sent a minister mander Mahmud Al Mabhuh in draws other regional players into one of its diplomats in Yemen. In swiftly find the culprits behind the yesterday. to an IRENA meeting since the what investigators believe was an South Sudan, an oil-producing July, embassy staffer Nour-Ahmad shooting, Iran’s ISNA news agency In separate violence, gunmen organisation, whose permanent assassination by Israel’s Mossad nation but one of the poorest in Nikbakht was abducted by sus- reported. shot dead an army intelligence seat is in Abu Dhabi, was founded spy agency. Africa. Ethiopia, one of South pected Al Qaeda militants, and Yemen’s foreign ministry office and two soldiers, security in 2009. At yesterday’s meeting, IRENA Sudan’s neighbours, has voiced its tribal sources say he remains in denounced the attack and said officials said. The Israeli delegate declined Director General Adnan Amin told concerns about Uganda’s role. captivity. Assadi’s murder was aimed at A shell slammed into the home to comment on whether Shalom delegates from 66 countries and Machar and rebel officials have “Ali Asghar Assadi, the Iranian damaging relations with Iran, the of Yassin Said, in the southern hoped to hold any contacts on the representatives from 120 regional demanded Ugandan forces with- diplomat who had been injured official Saba news agency said. town of Daleh, wounding him seri- sidelines with Gulf Arab officials. and international organisations draw before they agree a cease- in the terrorist attack in Sanaa, The attack comes amid deadly ously and killing his wife and their In May, Israeli newspaper that “technology already exists to fire at the talks in Addis Ababa was martyred,” foreign ministry fighting in northern Yemen three- and five-year-old daughters Haaretz revealed the Jewish state double the share of renewables by that are sponsored by the regional spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham between Sunni Islamists and Zaidi late on Friday, medics said. had allocated a budget for a dip- 2030 and even surpass it.” African body IGAD. told the official IRNA news agency. Shia rebels whom their opponents AFP lomatic mission in one of the Gulf AFP REUTERS

Orthodox Armenian Christmas UN team in Iran to Tunisia assembly to review oversee nuclear deal TEHRAN: Inspectors from the UN final articles of new statute nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran yesterday in readiness to oversee TUNIS: Tunisian lawmak- between the majority Islamist implementation of a landmark deal ers will review the final arti- Ennahda party and the secu- that puts temporary curbs on Iran’s cles of a draft constitution lar opposition have repeatedly nuclear programme, state media today, the vice president of obstructed the process, which reported. the assembly said, as they was due to be completed by The team is led by the head of the inch closer to a vote over the January 14, the third anniver- International Atomic Energy Agency’s long-delayed charter. sary of the revolution that top- Iran task force, Massimo Aparo, and Lawmakers pushed through pled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. will hold talks with Iranian nuclear offi- another 15 articles yesterday Adopting the new constitu- cials, the state IRNA news agency said. and will examine the final tion is seen as key to getting It is tasked with reporting back ones on Sunday afternoon, Tunisia’s democratic transi- to the Vienna-based agency on steps said the National Constituent tion back on track, after a Tehran has to take under the deal Assembly vice president political crisis triggered by agreed in November and finalised last Meherzia Labidi. the assassination of an opposi- week between Iran and the P5+1 group The assembly is pushing tion MP last year by suspected of world powers. ahead with adoption of the Islamist militants. Clinched after years of fruitless long-delayed new constitution, The head of Ennahda’s par- negotiations, the accord is to come into examining it article by article, liamentary group Sahbi Atig effect on January 20 and will last for six as required before a vote on on Saturday hailed progress in months during which Iran -- among the whole text can take place. pushing the charter through, other obligations -- must limit its A two-thirds majority of saying it will “be the pride of enrichment of uranium to five percent. parliament’s 217 elected mem- all Tunisian men and women”. It must also begin to neutralise its bers is then needed to adopt But others in the party are stockpile of uranium purified to 20 the charter and avoid it being unhappy about compromises percent, a few technical steps short of put to a referendum. over the rule of Islam in the weapons-grade. Armenian Orthodox clergy attend Christmas celebrations outside the Nativity Church in the West Bank city Articles approved yester- new document, with Ennahda Both measures are to be monitored of Bethlehem yesterday. While most Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6, the Orthodox Armenians day included ones concerning hardliner Sadok Chourou and verified by the IAEA inspectors. of Jerusalem mark the birth of Jesus on January 18, according to an ancient calendar. decentralisation. denouncing it as “still-born”. AFP Often sharp differences AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Farmers take World Cup protest back one more town Mexico drug gangs on back foot

LA HUERTA, MÉXICO: unlawful assault rifles that gangs Self-defence groups made up usually own. of Mexican farmers and other The issue is even on the radar local people have taken over of Washington, where Secretary another town that had been of State John Kerry on Friday overrun by drug traffickers in expressed concern, and said the the restive state of Michoacan. US government is prepared to About 80 men armed with offer assistance if needed. high-powered rifles yesterday “We’re concerned,” Kerry told moved into the village of Huerta, reporters shortly before meeting population of about 500, in a con- with his Mexican counterpart voy of trucks, an AFP reporter at Jose Antonio Meade in the US the scene said. capital. They were followed by a con- “Afraid, no. Concerned, yes, and tingent of federal police who did we will work with the government not try to stop them, despite gov- and we’re prepared to try to be ernment efforts in recent days to helpful if we can,” Kerry said. get civilian vigilante groups in the The foreign minister, mean- Members of social and student organisations hold a banner outside the JK Iguatemi shopping mall in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. They were protesting region to stand down. while, told Mexican radio later against restriction of access to massive gatherings known as “rolezinhos”, which are rampages coordinated via social networks, bringing together The vigilantes also captured yesterday that his government hundreds of thrill-seeking youths, mainly from underprivileged areas, who sometimes trash stores and cause disturbances at shopping facilities. two suspected cartel members has the situation under control. and confiscated weapons, jack- “Mexico has all the elements ets, radios and other goods and needed to work toward and cre- equipment. ate the conditions needed for Federal forces in recent days institutional governance sought have moved into Michoacan, in by Michoacan’s citizenry,” Meade western Mexico, and tried to dis- told Radio Formula. Businessman’s role out in Mandela release arm the local vigilante groups and Michoacan has become the flush out the Knights Templar most pressing security issue fac- PRETORIA: The extraordi- he acted as an intermediary for No one else was able to open up be interviewed. The documentary drug trafficking gang, which has ing Mexico’s President Enrique nary part played by a French secret, high-level contacts within a channel of communication ... I was funded by Ivor Ichikowitz, seized control of large swathes of Pena Nieto, who inherited a businessman in hastening the “frontline states” and South managed my negotiation like a a South African whose fam- Michoacan. bloody war on drugs from his the collapse of apartheid and Africa. circle of dominos. I pushed one, ily’s foundation established the The militias so far have stood predecessor in 2012 that has left Nelson Mandela’s release from He negotiated prisoner causing the next to fall, and African Oral History Archive, their ground, saying they want to more than 77,000 people dead prison after 26 years is revealed exchanges, including that of two so on.” a non-profit initiative preserv- see drug kingpins arrested before since it was launched in 2006. in a documentary to be shown anti-apartheid militants held in The documentary, Plot for ing African history. Like Steven they back down. The government says it is in British cinemas. South Africa and a South African, Peace, is “one man’s untold story Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, Civilians first took up arms in making inroads in its crackdown In the 1980s Jean-Yves Ollivier Wynand Du Toit, captured in of apartheid ... omitted from recording the testimonies of February 2013 to oust the Knights against the cartel, announcing was a commodities trader who Angola while attempting to sabo- history”, its co-director Mandy Holocaust survivors, AOHA col- Templar from the region, saying the arrest Thursday of two senior used business connections and tage oil installations. Jacobson said. It was only after lates those of hundreds who expe- local police were either colluding Knights Templar members. private funds to negotiate an When official talks between she was struck by frequent men- rienced South Africa’s dramatic with gangs or unable to stop the Also on Thursday, vigilante African maze. Under the code- Angolans and South Africans tions of a mysterious Monsieur changes. group’s violence, kidnapping and militia members announced that name Monsieur Jacques, he were impossible, Ollivier con- Jacques in conversations with Appreciation of Ollivier’s con- extortion rackets. they had returned to villagers acted as an unofficial diplomat, vinced the Angolan president that key players that she realised the tribution came from high levels, Officials have alleged that at several hundred acres of land that influencing the course of talks by releasing Du Toit he could con- part he had played, “working in bestowed by the last apartheid least some of the civilian vigilante had been once been seized by the between African and western tribute to Mandela’s liberation. the shadows in several seemingly hardliner, PW Botha, and groups are backed by rival cartels, cartel. political leaders. At a time when He recalls: “I discovered an unrelated events”. She tracked Mandela himself. with critics noting that they used AFP all southern Africa was at war, Africa where mistrust prevailed. him down and persuaded him to THE GUARDIAN Three year French First Lady old’s body found, mom leaves hospital PARIS: President Francois requires all of the president’s Hollande’s partner emerged attention and all of his time, so arrested from a week’s stay in hospital obviously it would be best for yesterday as the French leader everyone if he can resolve the LONDON: Scottish police said faced calls to clear up his per- problems in his personal life yesterday they had found the sonal life after revelations he under good conditions,” said Tulle body of a three-year-old boy had an affair. Mayor Bernard Combes, a mem- who went missing from his De facto First Lady Valerie ber of Hollande’s Socialist party. bed in Edinburgh, calling off a Trierweiler, who was admitted to At restaurant La Taverne du massive search and reportedly hospital on January 10 suffering Sommelier, where Hollande has a detaining his mother. from nervous exhaustion and low permanent table, owner Cecile At Mikaeel Kular, who is of South blood pressure, left the hospital said the president needed to put Asian origin, had last been seen yesterday afternoon, a source in the scandal behind him. on Wednesday evening at his her office told AFP. “Francois Hollande is a very family’s home to the north of the The source said she had gone friendly man but Madame Scottish capital. directly from the Pitie-Salpetriere (Trierweiler) kept her distance, Police had launched a major hospital to a presidential residence she did not seek people out,” At ground, air and sea search while in Versailles where she will “rest said. “The time has come for our more than 200 volunteers helped for a few days”. Concern had been president to make decisions on his comb through woodland and the mounting for Trierweiler, 48, after personal life and for the debate to nearby coastline in a desperate she took ill following the revelation be closed — that there be no more bid to find the little boy. that Hollande, 59, had been having rumours or photos.” Hollande has But early yesterday morn- an affair with 41-year-old actress said he will clarify his relationship ing Assistant Chief Constable Julie Gayet. On a visit yesterday to with Trierweiler before a trip to Malcolm Graham of Police his political stronghold of Correze Washington next month but has Scotland announced that in central France, Hollande again refused any further comment Mikaeel’s body had been found did not comment on the revela- on a scandal that has generated shortly before midnight on Friday tions, focusing instead on local global headlines. In his first trip in Fife, to the north of Edinburgh, issues in a speech in the town of outside Paris since the scandal and that a person had been Tulle. But even longtime allies broke, Hollande focused mainly arrested. were saying the president needs on rural issues, saying he opposed Media reports said the boy’s French President Francois Hollande kisses a child while meeting the families of Gendarmes after an inauguration to deal with the scandal. calls to do away with some local mother, Rosdeep Kular, a 33-year- ceremony in Vigeois, central France, yesterday. “France’s political situation administrations. AFP old with five children, had been detained and that a house in Fife belonging to one of her relatives was being searched. “As a result of enquiries the body of a young child was recov- ered in Fife just before midnight. Cheating, indiscipline hit US nuclear missile force We strongly believe this to be the body of Mikaeel,” Graham said. WASHINGTON: The “mis- — has put the spotlight on a force demise of the Soviet Union, as accounts of negligent handling of of the ICBM force after he went “A person has been detained sileers” who oversee America’s that has posed a recurring head- the mission gradually received a nuclear weapons. on a drunken bender in a trip to in connection with the recov- land-based nuclear arsenal were ache to commanders for years. lower priority and offered a less At the time, Gates said there Russia. ery of the body and members once seen as the tip of the spear After announcing 34 officers promising career path. were signs of “a degradation of In October, officials said mis- of Mikaeel’s family have been for the US military during the had been suspended over the “Since the end of the Cold War, the authority, standards of excel- sile officers were caught twice informed of the recovery. Our tense days of the Cold War. cheating at Malmstrom base in the Air Force level and intensity lence, and technical competence failing to close the blast doors on thoughts and sympathies are with But now the crews face ques- Montana, Air Force leaders called of concentration on its nuclear within the nation’s ICBM force.” their bunkers, violating a strict them at this time. tions about their discipline, their the scandal “unacceptable” and mission has declined conspicu- Reforms were enacted, but security rule. And authorities say “I would like to thank everyone professionalism and even the vowed to rectify the problem. ously,” a Pentagon review found inspections over the past year crew members are under crimi- who has responded to these highly rationale for their job. But concerns about declining in 2008. have turned up fresh problems nal investigation for illegal drug unusual events by assisting with Revelations this week that mis- standards in the intercontinental The report was ordered by at the missile sites. possession. searches and other activities in sile launch officers cheated on a ballistic missile (ICBM) force are former defence secretary Robert In recent months, two senior Air Force officers say the inci- support of this investigation.” proficiency exam — the latest in a nothing new. Gates who fired the Air Force commanders have been sacked for dents do not add up to a crisis. AFP stream of embarrassing incidents The trouble began after the chief and civilian secretary after misbehaviour, including the head AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Several people dead in Myanmar sectarian conflict: Rights group

YANGON: Several people have killed scores and displaced a clash took place in which a said, but added that reports from violence,” she added. The Maungdaw area is pop- including women and a child 140,000 people, mainly from the police officer was presumed to sources in the area on the number Lewa said one villager, who has ulated mainly by stateless have been killed in an attack Rohingya minority. have been killed. of people killed varied widely, worked with The Arakan Project, Rohingya, whose movements on Rohingya Muslims in strife- Details of the latest unrest Chris Lewa, the Bangkok- from around 10 to several dozen. reported seeing the bodies of two are strictly controlled by a heavy torn western Myanmar, a were unclear, but activists said based director of The Arakan US State Department women and a 14-year-old boy with security presence. rights group said on Friday, as at least two women and a child Project, which lobbies for spokeswoman Jen Psaki said stab wounds after returning to the Aid group Doctors Without the United States voiced alarm. were stabbed to death in an attack Rohingya rights, said the attack Washington was “deeply trou- village days after the unrest. Borders (MSF) said it saw on Myanmar’s Rakhine state on a village near the border with on the village of Du Chee Yar Tan bled” by the reports of violence. She said the use of knives sug- Wednesday two wounded people remains tense after several out- Bangladesh earlier this week, with on Monday happened some time “We’re particularly disturbed gested the involvement of local “suffering from injuries inflicted breaks of communal bloodshed possibly several dozen casualties. after the initial clash with police. by reports that security forces Rakhine Buddhists, who have as a result of violence”, one with between Buddhist and Muslim Myanmar authorities denied “There were people killed, may have used excessive force repeatedly clashed with the a gunshot wound and the other communities since 2012 that any civilian deaths but confirmed mostly women and children,” she in (perpetrating) some of the Rohingya, rather than the police. apparently badly beaten. AFP Thai protesters march on despite blast Opposition leader Suthep blames govt for the attack

BANGKOK: Anti-government The incident, which came two Chan-ocha said in a speech that protesters marched defiantly weeks before a general election, it was the army’s duty to protect through Thailand’s capital yes- may have heightened the risk of a the country’s sovereignty, reli- terday, with one group entering move by the Thai army to end an gions and the king, but he made a police compound, undeterred impasse that is starting to dam- no mention of the street protests. by a grenade explosion the day age the economy. Strong support from rural vot- before that wounded 35 demon- Boonyakiat Karavekphan, ers has enabled Thaksin or his strators and killed one. a political scientist at allies to win every election since Friday’s blast sent tension Ramkamhaeng University in 2001 and Yingluck’s Puea Thai rippling through Bangkok after Bangkok, said the attack had Party seems certain to win the several days of relative calm that raised chances of “a significant vote set for February 2. But the had suggested the movement to clash between the protesters and protesters and opposition parties close down the government and groups they perceive to be their are boycotting the poll and want force the resignation of Prime enemies, the police or forces loyal the prime minister to step down Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to the government, in order to immediately. was running out of steam. provoke some sort of military The grenade hurled at dem- It was unclear who was behind reaction and speed up chances onstrators marching in the city the attack on the protesters. of a military intervention.” centre on Friday injured 36. The Their firebrand leader, Suthep The army has staged or Erawan Medical Center, which Thaugsuban, blamed the govern- attempted 18 coups in 81 years monitors Bangkok hospitals, said ment and said the incident would of on-off democracy, but it has one of the injured, a 46-year-old not dent the morale of thousands tried to remain neutral this time, man, died of bleeding during the who on Monday stepped up a and many believe it will stay in night. two-month agitation, blockad- its barracks. Suthep led a march near the ing key arteries of the city and At an Army Day parade in the site of Friday’s explosion. Thai anti-government protesters march through main street during Bangkok Shutdown rally in Thailand yesterday. occupying ministries. capital, military chief Prayuth REUTERS

China starts Seoul orders military to US to cooperate with Bangladesh building second improve border security WASHINGTON: Despite force- past year in pressing Bangladesh’s not suspend assistance, which is aircraft carrier ful criticism of Bangladesh’s elec- notoriously bitter political rivals largely routed through non-gov- tion, the United States largely for a fair and competitive election. ernmental groups. BEIJING: China has SEOUL: South Korean 30 and its call for steps to ease plans to maintain cooperation But, while the United States “I don’t think we advance our started constructing the sec- President Park Geun-Hye yes- tensions around the disputed with a Muslim-majority country said it did not consider the elec- strategic interests by curtailing ond of four planned aircraft terday ordered the military to Yellow Sea border, the scene of it sees as a force for moderation, tion credible, it also indicated that. You don’t end up punishing carriers, officials said. boost border security to protect naval clashes in the past. policy makers say. it would still work with Prime anybody but the recipients, who are The ship is under construc- the country against potential The North also renewed calls The United States and Minister Sheikh Hasina, privately the people on the ground,” the offi- tion in the northeastern port of provocations by North Korea, for South Korea to scrap its European Union voiced disap- concluding that outsiders had cial said on condition of anonymity. Dalian and will take six years to unswayed by Pyongyang’s latest planned joint military drills with pointment over Bangladesh’s limited ability to ease decades of The World Bank, where the build, the reports said quoting peace overture. the United States, an exercise January 5 election, which was intense, personal enmity between United States holds the most vot- Wang Min, Communist Party Park’s orders followed the which Pyongyang routinely con- marred by deadly violence and her and arch-enemy Khaleda Zia. ing power, on Thursday approved chief for Dalian’s Liaoning North’s surprise offer Thursday demns as provocative rehearsals an opposition boycott. A US official said Washington’s $410m to improve basic urban province. for an end to “all acts of provok- for invasion. A US official said Washington key priority was to encourage services for some 3.4 million The country’s first aircraft ing and slandering” from January AFP had been “relentless” over the new elections but that it would Bangladeshis. AFP carrier, the Liaoning, was completed in September 2012 in a symbolic milestone for the Taiwan’s flora country’s increasingly muscu- lar military. Chinese official confirms Japan fishermen hypersonic missile test catch dolphins TOKYO: Fishermen and divers caught at least 25 BEIJING: China’s Defence and at any specific goals.” China dolphins in a controversial Ministry has confirmed that military affairs analysts said the Japanese fishing village yes- weapons designers recently hypersonic vehicle test represents terday, according to envi- conducted the first test of an a major milestone in China’s mili- ronmentalists, who said the ultra-high speed missile vehicle tary buildup of weapons it calls process was captive selection considered cutting edge mili- “assassin’s mace” arms weaponry ahead of a mass slaughter. tary technology. designed to allow a weaker power Activists from the militant US defence officials said the to defeat a stronger one. environmental group Sea test of what the Pentagon is call- Officials familiar with some Shepherd streamed live foot- ing the WU-14 hypersonic glide details of the hypersonic glide age of the dolphin capture in vehicle took place on January 9 vehicle test said the high-speed the village of Taiji, which drew over China. The ministry con- glider appears designed to fit on worldwide attention in 2010 firmed the test after it was first top of an intercontinental ballis- when it became the subject of reported by the Washington Free tic missile. Using that booster, the the Academy Award-winning Beacon on January 13. vehicle is lofted to a height of 62 documentary “The Cove”, a “Our planned scientific research miles or less and then released. hard-hitting film about the tests conducted in our territory It then manoeuvres at speeds as annual dolphin hunt. are normal,” the ministry said high as Mach 10, or 7,680 miles in the statement. “These tests per hour, to its target. S Korea ups are not targeted at any country AGENCIES A man looks at flowers at the Chien Kuo flower market ahead of the Lunar New Year in Taipei yesterday. Flowers are a popular way for Taiwanese to decorate their homes to celebrate the coming “Year of the Horse.” fowl culling SEOUL: Seoul confirmed the outbreak of highly path- ogenic bird flu and said it Myanmar frees scores of Manila accuses Beijing of sea grab would expand the culling of birds to a radius of 3km MANILA: The Philippines to advance its position of undis- “We reiterate our invitation around a duck farm, but a child soldiers in military yesterday said a Chinese rule puted sovereignty over nearly the to China to join us in arbitration nationwide suspension of requiring foreign fishing vessels entire South China Sea,” Foreign as we intend to proceed with or poultry shipment was consid- YANGON: Myanmar’s army people have been released over the to secure permission to enter Department spokesman Raul without China for a final disposi- ered premature. has freed 96 children and young past 18 months as the military has much of the South China Sea Hernandez said in a statement. tion,” he added. The Ministry of Agriculture, people from its armed forces, slowedits use of children. was part of a long-term scheme China’s territorial claims over The Philippines insists that Food and Rural Affairs said the the United Nations said yes- Bertrand Bainvel, representa- to claim the entire body of water. the South China Sea overlap those Beijing’s so-called “nine-dash case reported at a farm about terday, hailing a “historic step” tive for the UN children’s agency China’s southern island prov- of the Philippines as well as Brunei, line” outlining its territorial 300km (186 miles) from Seoul, towards ending the use of child UNICEF in the country, said the ince of Hainan passed the rule in Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan. claims over most of the South was of the highly pathogenic soldiers in the formerly junta- move was “a strong commitment November and it took effect this Hernandez added that China’s China Sea, including waters and H5N8 strain. run nation. by the Myanmar Government and year as tensions escalate over claim to the entire South China islands close to its neighbours, is The strain was previ- The move was the largest sin- the Tatmadaw to end a practice overlapping claims to the waters Sea was in “gross violation of illegal. ously identified in a 2010 gle release of child recruits since that steals the lives, hopes, and between China, the Philippines, international law. It took its case to a tribunal last case reported in China and is Myanmar’s new reformist govern- dreams of children.” Vietnam and other nations. “It is the core issue that must year under the United Nations largely similar to the H5N1 ment and its “tatmadaw” army There are no verifiable figures “The Hainan fisheries law is be singularly and fully addressed,” Convention on the Law of the Sea type, Yonhap news agency said. signed a June 2012 pact with the on how many children are cur- only one of the unilateral meas- he said, calling on China to agree -- a 1982 treaty signed by both AGENCIES UN on the issue. rently serving in Myanmar’s huge ures by China to force a change to have the issue brought to an countries -- but China swiftly A total of 272 children and young military. AFP in the regional status quo in order international arbitration tribunal. dismissed the action. AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Expats among 21 dead in Kabul attack Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for the restaurant attack as revenge for US airstrike earlier this week

KABUL: Survivors of the “Afterwards, the police took us injured.” President Hamid Karzai Taliban suicide attack on a res- back into the restaurant to iden- condemned the attack, and called taurant in Kabul told yesterday tify victims. We identified three on US-led Nato forces fighting in of the carnage and bloodshed, as guards who were killed. Afghanistan “to target terrorism” details emerged of the 21 peo- “There was blood everywhere, in the country. ple, including 13 foreigners, who on tables, on chairs, apparently UN Secretary General Ban died in the assault. the attackers had shot people Ki-moon also denounced the Desperate customers hid under from a very close range.” killings, which his spokesman tables when one attacker deto- The Taverna has been a regular said were “completely unaccept- nated his suicide vest at the for- dining spot for foreign diplomats, able and are in flagrant breach of tified entrance to the Taverna du aid workers and Afghan officials international humanitarian law”. Liban and two other militants and businessmen for several The assault was claimed by stormed inside and opened fire. years, and was busy with custom- Taliban militants fighting against Among the dead were two ers on Friday, the weekly holiday the Afghan government and Nato Americans, two British citizens, in Afghanistan. forces. two Canadians, the International Like many restaurants in A Taliban spokesman said the Monetary Fund (IMF) head of Kabul, it ran strict security attack was to avenge a US air- mission, and the restaurant’s checks, with diners patted down strike in Parwan province on Lebanese owner, who reportedly by armed guards and passing Tuesday night that Karzai said died as he tried to fire back at through at least two steel doors killed seven children and one the attackers. A female Danish before gaining entry. woman. member of the European police Yesterday morning, the “These invading forces mission in Afghanistan and a Taverna’s battered sign was still launched a brutal bombardment Russian UN political officer also in place, hanging over the ruined on civilians... and they have mar- died in the Friday evening mas- remains of the entrance door. tyred and wounded 30 civilians. sacre, which was the deadliest Several badly damaged cars also This was a revenge attack and we attack on foreign civilians since remained at the scene. did it well, and we will continue to the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Among the dead were a Briton do so,” Zabihullah Mujahid said. The United Nations said that and Malaysian working as con- The insurgents regularly make A policeman checks the area near the entrance of a Lebanese restaurant that was attacked in Kabul yesterday. four of its staff had died, though it sultants to the Afghan finance exaggerated claims about death did not release their nationalities. ministry. tolls after attacks. “We were in the kitchen, and The American University of Mujahid said the Taverna du kebab cook Abdul Majid said disregard for human life and a decade of fighting the Taliban, suddenly we heard a big bang and Kabul said one US victim had Liban restaurant was “frequented while being treated for leg frac- shown their intent for the future of but negotiations have stalled over everywhere was dark,” Atiqullah, recently joined its faculty of politi- by high ranking foreigners (who) tures in hospital. Afghanistan,” said General Joseph a deal to allow some US and Nato 27, an assistant chef, relayed by cal science, and the other was a used to dine with booze and “One of my colleagues was shot Dunford, the US commander of troops to stay after 2014. telephone as he attended a funeral member of the student affairs liquor.” and fell down. I ran to the roof Nato forces in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s fledgling secu- for three dead guards. staff. After the blast, elite secu- and threw myself to the neigh- Underlining widespread insecu- rity forces face a difficult year “We used a backdoor to go to “Our latest figure is 21 killed, rity commandos rushed to seal bouring property.” rity across Afghanistan, a Taliban as insurgents attempt to disrupt the second floor. Our manager including 13 foreigners and eight off the small streets around the Kabul’s Supreme Court, presi- rocket yesterday killed three foot- elections on April 5 that will went downstairs to see what was Afghans,” Kabul police chief restaurant as sporadic gunfire dential palace and airport were ball players at a local match in the choose a successor to President happening. We heard some gun- Mohammad Zahir said. erupted. All three attackers died all targeted in militant attacks southern province of Kandahar. Karzai, and as Nato’s combat mis- shots and later found out that he “Five women were among the in the assault. “A man came inside last year. “Once again the Taliban Nato forces are withdrawing sion winds down by December. had been shot dead. dead and about five people were shouting and he started shooting,” have demonstrated their complete from the country after more than AFP

Marine turtle at Pakistani extremists own deadly attack on TV channel Pakistani coast KARACHI: The Pakistani The reason of the attack is that the port city late Friday. press freedom violations. unknown gunmen shot dead a Taliban claimed responsibility in the war of ideologies all media The Pakistani Taliban had Rangers are currently tak- senior Sunni religious leader and KARACHI: An endangered yesterday for a deadly attack channels including Express News attacked Express News in ing part in a joint operation two of his associates. marine turtle, the Hawksbill, on a private television channel are acting as propagandist and December. “We had not incurred with police in Karachi aimed at A police spokesman said was caught by a tuna gillnet in the southern city of Karachi as rival party” Ehsanullah Ehsan any loss of life so we attacked cleansing the city of terrorists attackers sprayed bullets at the from offshore waters near and threatened further vio- said. them again” Ehsan said in a and other hardcore criminals car of Usman Yar Khan, the pro- Ormara on Balochistan coast. lence against media outlets. “We will attack all the media phone call from an undisclosed including hired killers, gun run- vincial deputy chief of Jamiat This is the first time that A spokesman said in a state- houses that are involved in car- location. ners and drug peddlers. Ulema-e-Islam, a religious party the Hawksbill sea turtle - ment that militants had attacked rying out propaganda against us” Media rights watchdog Karachi, a city of 18 million headed by Sami Ul Haq known scientifically known as the an Express News van on Friday he said. Reporters Without Borders people which contributes 42 per- in the West as “father of the Eretmochelys Imbricata - has night, killing three employees, A technician, driver and secu- (RSF) said last month that cent of Pakistan’s GDP, has been Taliban”. been reported in the coun- because the station had acted as rity guard were killed when gun- Pakistan was among the world’s plagued by sectarian, ethnic and There was no immediate claim try. The Leatherback turtle, a “propagandist”. men attacked a van belonging to five deadliest countries for the political violence for years. of responsibility. another rare species, also paid “We claim the responsibility... the paper in the western part of media in its annual round-up of Also in Karachi on Friday, AFP a welcome visit to the country last year when it was reported near Sur, Balochistan. The Leatherback was suc- cessfully released by the US doctor under fire for WWF-Pakistan with the help Govt helpless on energy crisis of other environmental organi- sations and local communities. ISLAMABAD: “My govern- going nowhere, at least not for the set and no execution strategy trying to help Musharraf ment is devoting its time and moment. Fatigue and desperation formulated.” Weather ends resources to tackling the energy are slowly overtaking the minis- His comment isn’t off the mark. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani- president’s heart condition is problem,” Prime Minister ters and Punjab Chief Minister Apart from having substantially American cardiologist from ‘alarming’ enough for him to be Sindh orchards Nawaz Sharif said in his first Shahbaz Sharif, tasked to reform raised the electricity prices for all Texas who wrote the medical admitted to the Texan facility. address to the nation in August. the collapsing power sector and consumers to reduce power subsi- note that may change former Translated: the note demands KARACHI: Severe spell By the time he said this, his woo private investors. dies from 1.8pc to 0.3-0.4pc of GDP, president Pervez Musharraf’s that Musharraf should be allowed of cold in parts of Sindh government had cleared unpaid Potential investors are waiting the government is yet to execute fate is facing hard questions to leave the country, otherwise he has destroyed 70 percent of bills of Rs480bn ($4.57bn) of all for the government to first imple- other aspects of the ambitious pol- in his own constituency and might get a heart attack. banana orchards in Khairpur, public and private power pro- ment the promised power sector icy that promises an investment of beyond about connections with Hashmi insists that he wrote the Naushahro Feroz, Ghotki, ducers and their fuel suppli- reforms before they invest in new over $25bn in the power sector to the former military dictator. medical note on Musharraf’ health Nawab Shah, Tando Allahyar, ers, which, he said, had secured generation projects. end blackouts by 2017 and produce “The entire world has called me at the request of Musharraf’s fam- Mirpurkhas and others. 1,700MW of electricity for the The MoUs signed by the Punjab surplus electricity by 2018. today,” Dr Arjumand ‘AJ’ Hashmi ily, and says his opinion was based Banana grower and trader national grid. and federal governments with The delay in reforms has told his local Texas newspaper. on medical data processed by Abdul Ghaffar Malik said The National Energy Policy Chinese companies “interested” increased transmission and But he is resilient in his denial Musharraf’s hospital, the Armed banana growers are facing (NEP) was also ready towards end- in investing in power generation distribution losses from 28pc that he is helping the former Forces Institute of Cardiology, as hardship due to the destroy- July. Almost six months down the here are so far worthless pieces to 29-30pc and added another strongman avoid facing high trea- well as his own reports. ing of their cash crop. road, his government is finding it of paper. Rs89bn to the unrecovered bills son charges in Pakistan by issuing “Yes, [former] president Malik said Sindh earns tough to meet even the reduced “The so-called energy policy is from July to November 2013. a ‘made-to-rescue’ medical note Musharraf and I are friends. But millions of rupees by export- power demand in winters, while no more than a ‘concept’ paper The campaign against gas and from the Paris Regional Medical I would never do anything wrong ing banana to Punjab, Khyber the gas shortages have left people and its targets are unlikely to be power thieves has fizzled out. The Centre in Paris, Texas. for a friend,” Dr Hashmi said. Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan complaining of the difficulties of achieved in five years,” argues a planned import of electricity from The note, presented by “Also, I’m an American politician, as well as Iran and Afghanistan. cooking food and heating water. At former Pepco boss. Central Asia, Iran and India has Musharraf’s lawyers earlier this and my politics are American, He recalled that 100 to 150 the same time, private power pro- “It is a flawed document been put on the back burner and week to the Special Court that and they do not intersect with truckloads were transported ducers are grumbling about fresh authored by those with no expe- the energy conservation strategy has been constituted to try him the [former] president’s politics daily to Punjab and Balochistan unpaid bills. rience of or stake in the power postponed until summer. for the November 3, 2007 ‘emer- in Pakistan.” from Khairpur mandi. The ambitious NEP seems to be sector. No milestones have been INTERNEWS gency’, suggested that the former INTERNEWS Cancer hospital Chaman’s partridge fight ready in 2015 PESHAWAR: The con- struction work on Shaukat Rules for Pakistan’s tribal youth Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research PESHAWAR: It is up on and minority rights in Fata. An The official said that in the sec- Centre in Peshawar will be Facebook, it is available on the official from the secretariat said tion which deals with gender dis- completed next year while Federally Administered Tribal that in order to ensure the policy crimination in Fata, it was noted the facility will become oper- Area (Fata) Secretariat’s web- was broad and acceptable to the that educated women had limited ational in 2016. site - the Fata Youth Policy people of Fata, they had uploaded employment opportunities in the Chief Minister Pervez draft is here for feedback. it online. area, particularly the government Khattak was told that con- In a vital step, Fata Secretariat The secretariat also plans to sector. struction work on cancer has decided to share a draft of hold a workshop in the last week He added that the literacy rate hospital and research centre the youth policy to interact and of January to discuss the policy for women in Fata was 3 percent spreading over 50-canal land receive a response from stake- draft with young people, journal- while countrywide it was 32.02 started last year and till now holders, including lawyers, activ- ists, lawyers and tribesmen. percent and 18.82 percent in four storeys have been com- ists, parents and the youth, before While talking about the draft, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). pleted at the cost of Rs1bn and they finalise it. the official said that many times According to the policy’s draft, remaining three storeys would The draft covers topics ranging religious minorities were excluded the secretariat wants to promote be completed next year. from terrorism, radical ideology from society and one of their aims and support youth development The hospital to be completed to education, health, development was to ensure equal opportunities organisations. They plan to do at the cost of Rs3bn would have and economic challenges. It also in education and employment. He this by recognising and helping 1700 doctors, technicians and talks about growing up, demo- added that the draft also looked them out by networking and bet- other staff to be recruitment Spectators watch as two red-legged partridges fight during an organised graphic transition, social empow- at policies which would help dif- ter coordination. from the locals. AGENCIES bird fight in the Pakistani border town of Chaman yesterday. erment, political participation ferently-abled young people. INTERNEWS SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

File FIR against Autopsy report BJP, Cong for taking Vedanta donation: Court says Sunanda’s PANAJI: Goa Police have been directed by a trial court to file a First Information Report (FIR) against both the Congress and the BJP state units for illegally death unnatural accepting Rs500m each from a foreign-registered mining com- pany, Vedanta. Body bore injury marks Vedanta Resources has a sig- nificant presence in the Goa min- NEW DELHI: Sunanda Palace hotel in south Delhi on ing sector. Pushkar, wife of Junior Friday. She was cremated in Delhi The order, passed on Friday Human Resource Development last evening. evening by Judicial Magistrate Minister Shashi Tharoor, died Her death came barely 24 First Class (JMFC), follows a an “unnatural, sudden death” hours after she and Tharoor, complaint by a government serv- with her body bearing “injury 57, a Congress MP from ant and Right to Information marks”, said a doctor yesterday. Thiruvananthapuram, declared activist Kashinath Shetye, who Tharoor was later hospitalised they were “happily married” fol- has said that political parties had after he complained of chest pain. lowing the public airing of tweets erred in accepting the donation Sleuths scanned CCTV foot- that hinted at an extra-marital from the UK-registered Vedanta age of the hotel where her body relationship and alleged involve- Resources. was found and questioned staff ment of a Pakistani journalist. “Prima facie, even the Election while sources said that it could For both Tharoor and Pushkar Commission of India has found be “a case of drug overdose” it was their third marriage. Her Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor (second left) stands next to the burning pyre this to be violative of the provisions and also spoke of a verbal spat son is from an earlier marriage. of his wife Sunanda Puskhar at a cremation ground in New Delhi, yesterday. of the Representation of People’s between the high profile couple Sources said: “It could be a case Act, 1951 and the Foreigner while they were on a flight from of drug overdose but things would he blamed unauthorised tweets Reacting to Pushkar’s death, Pushkar had been treated at a Contribution (Regulation) Act, Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi. be clear only after the detailed and distorted media reports for Tarar tweeted: “I’m absolutely Kerala hospital whose doctors led 1976 as replaced by the Foreign “We can say that it is a case autopsy report” and added that the “unseemly controversy”. shocked. This is too awful for by G Vijayaraghavan told report- Contribution (Regulation) Act, of unnatural sudden death. There it could be an overdose of sleep- The statement said the couple words. So tragic I don’t know what ers yesterday that she did not 2010,” the order reads. were certain injury marks on the ing pills. were “happily married”. to say. Rest in peace, Sunanda.” have any grave illness. The police have been asked to body but we can’t divulge details The couple had a “verbal Cricket-loving Tharoor and his Tharoor was admitted in the E M Najeeb, Executive Director file a compliance report before the at this point,” said Sudhir Gupta, spat” during their flight from wife had been staying at the hotel AIIMS ICU after he complained of KIMS Hospital, where Pushkar court within a week. one of the three doctors who Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi, since Thursday while work was of chest pain around 3.30am yes- was admitted on January 12, said Shetye, in his complaint, performed the autopsy at the the sources revealed. being done to their home. terday and was later shifted to a that he met the couple on numer- claimed that Goa Chief Minister All India Institute of Medical In the hotel too they were argu- Television anchor Sagarika private ward. ous occasions in the three days Manohar Parrikar, ex-BJP state Sciences (AIIMS) here. ing, which was disclosed by the Ghose said she spoke to Pushkar An exhausted looking Tharoor that she was in hospital. president Laxmikant Parsenkar “We have retrieved some bio- housekeeping staff to police dur- on Friday, saying she appeared left the hospital in an ambu- “On 12th night, their friend and current president Vinay logical samples and have video- ing investigation. depressed and was sobbing lance around 2.30pm after being from Delhi was staying with her Tendulkar and North Goa MP graphed the whole procedure and “Hotel’s housekeeping staff said uncontrollably. discharged. at the hospital and the next day Shripad Naik had received dona- have taken photos...,” he added. that the couple were seen arguing The Pakistani journalist whom AIIMS spokesperson Amit Tharoor spent the night with her. tions from subsidiary companies Pushkar, 52, who was quite in the lobby,” police sources said. Pushkar accused of “stalking” her Gupta said the minister’s con- On the 14th, she was discharged of the Vedanta Group, including active in social circuits, was found Seeking to draw a line under husband strongly denied having a dition was stable, his ECG was and doctors had asked her to Sesa Goa, to regularise their ille- dead under mysterious circum- the Twitter row, Tharoor issued a relationship with the former UN normal and hypertension was the come back later,” said Najeeb. gal mining operations in the state. stances in her room at The Leela joint statement Thursday in which diplomat. cause of the discomfort. AGENCIES IANS

Govt to act against those misusing Stampede kills 18 mourners of spiritual leader in Mumbai social media MUMBAI: A stampede killed injured in the chaos that erupted people started suffocating, some in crowd control as police and the injured,” Modi tweeted. at least 18 people in India’s shortly after midnight local time fainted and then people began organisers had failed to anticipate The spiritual leader, succeeded PATNA: Union Home Minister financial hub Mumbai yesterday (1830 GMT) when the gates were running and falling on each other the huge turnout of devotees. by his 70-year-old son Syedna Sushilkumar Shinde yesterday when a large crowd gathered shut to the residence of Syedna in a panic,” Mumbai police chief Singh added that he had Mufaddal Saifuddin, led the said the central government to pay their last respects to a Mohammed Burhanuddin, who Satyapal Singh told reporters. ordered a thorough investigation Dawoodi Bohra community for was planning to act against Muslim spiritual leader, police died aged 102 on Friday. In reply to a question, Singh into what led to the pre-dawn nearly five decades. those misusing social media by said. “Organisers had closed the confirmed that 18 people died disorder. Burhanuddin had succeeded his uploading videos of communal More than 40 people were gates. The crowd was so huge that and admitted there was a lapse Burhanuddin, who was due to father Syedna Taher Saifuddin in clashes or anything that hurts celebrate his 103rd birthday in a 1965. others. few weeks, died of a heart attack He was honoured with civilian “The government is serious to at his home, a spokesman said. titles such as the Star of Jordan take action against those found He was a leader of the Dawoodi and Order of the Nile by the gov- guilty of uploading video or foot- Bohra community, a sect of Shia ernments of Jordan and Egypt. age of riots on social media to cre- Islam. The latest disaster comes just ate communal troubles or other Stampedes at public events in months after some 115 devotees law and order troubles,” Shinde India are common as large num- were crushed to death or drowned said. bers of people pack into congested on a bridge near a Hindu temple The minister, here to attend areas. in October, when crowds panicked a function, said misuse of social Panic can spread quickly and, after rumours that the bridge was media for vested interests is not with few safety regulations in going to collapse in the central good for the country. place, the result is often lethal. state of Madhya Pradesh. “Misuse of social media to insti- Home Minister Sushilkumar In 2006, another stampede gate riots and other law and order Shinde told reporters: “I feel very outside the same temple killed trouble is a serious issue and it sorry about the tragic incident”, 50 people as they crossed a river, is under consideration to initiate and expressed his condolences for prompting authorities to build the action against those responsible the 18 deaths. Thousands adorned bridge. for it,” he said. in white scarves and skullcaps India has a long history of Shinde said it was reported had gathered yesterday on the deadly stampedes at religious some people have uploaded objec- streets of Mumbai for the funeral festivals, with at least 36 people tionable video footage of shocking procession of Burhanuddin, TV trampled to death last February incidents on Facebook, YouTube footage showed. as pilgrims headed home from the and other social media medium Narendra Modi, leader of the Kumbh Mela religious festival on that caused communal flare-ups. opposition Bharatiya Janata Party the banks of the river Ganges. He said the government was who has been vilified for deadly Some 102 Hindu devotees were fully in favour of freedom of anti-Muslim riots in his Gujarat killed in a stampede in January expression but would not allow state in 2002, called the incident 2011 in the state of Kerala, while misuse of the social media. “The “unfortunate” on Twitter. 224 pilgrims died in September government has to monitor and “Stampede near Syedna Sahib’s 2008 as thousands of worshippers check it,” he said. residence is very unfortunate. rushed to reach a 15th-century Bohra Muslims take part in the funeral procession of their spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin in Condolences to families of those hill-top temple in Jodhpur. Charges framed Mumbai yesterday. who lost their lives & prayers with AFP against ex-high court judge CHANDIGARH: A Central India, Pakistan banks Bureau of Investigation (CBI) BJP calls UPA’s decade dark court here yesterday framed corruption charges against NEW DELHI: Stating that to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), BJP comes to power, its “good former Uttarakhand High to cross borders the country had witnessed a reflecting the concerns of India’s governance” would “put a ques- Court judge Nirmal Yadav in “dark decade” under the United main opposition party. tion mark on Congress’ political the multi-million rupee “cash- NEW DELHI: India and Earlier reports said the two Progressive Alliance regime, The economic resolution relevance and its very existence”. for-judge” scam. Pakistan yesterday decided to neighbours were working on the Bharatiya Janata Party adopted by the party’s national Talking of the motives of the Yadav was present in the court take a few more steps by the end allowing three banks to set up (BJP) yesterday said India’s council — a body including all Congress, the BJP president said: when the charges were framed by of next month to normalise trade. branches on each others’ soil to “success story” would unfold office bearers of the party — said “The whole objective is to install CBI court judge Vimal Kumar. This includes opening of bank help improve business relations. with the BJP’s return. the nation witnessed a “dark dec- a government at the centre that Charges were also framed branches in each other’s country. The talks which took place “The Indian success story is ade under the UPA regime”. could be destabalised.” He said against four others, including After talks here, trade minis- after a gap of 16 months, however, not over, it is waiting for the BJP While the party appeared confi- the through the politics of power, Delhi-based hotelier Ravinder ters of the two countries agreed did not yield Pakistan formally to come to power,” BJP president dent of coming to power and correct- pelf or compromise, the Congress Singh, former additional advocate also to facilitate commerce over according the Most Favoured Rajnath Singh said, inaugurating ing the economy, the party president would attempt that. general of Haryana Sanjiv Bansal, land by keeping the Attari-Wagha Nation (MFN) status to India. the three-day national council remarked that the Congress is using The BJP president’s refer- Panchkula-based businessman border open 24 hours throughout Both Ministers voiced the com- meeting of his party here. a “mask” to stop the BJP from com- ence was to the formation of the Rajiv Gupta and another person the year. mitment of their governments to While saffron flags and banners ing to power, making an oblique ref- government in Delhi, after the identified as Nirmal Singh. “Central banks of the two coun- provide what they called Non- of BJP dominated the scene, hun- erence to AAP. AAP emerged as the second- Yadav, who was a judge in the tries in principle have agreed to Discriminatory Market Access dreds of saffron “Gandhi topis” “The Congress strategy as of largest party, with support from Punjab and Haryana High Court give banking licences to banks (NDMA) to each nation’s goods (caps) with slogans supporting now is to contain the BJP by hook Congress. Arun Jaitley, however, in Chandigarh earlier, and the nominated by respective govern- and services to establish normal Modi also grabbed eyeballs. or crook, and prevent it from appeared more confident of vic- others, will now face trial for ments,” Commerce and Industry trading. The caps read: “Modi for PM” getting majority or near major- tory: “It will be a big challenge corruption. Minister Anand Sharma said “Let us not (get) stranded on and “BJP is the only alternate”, ity. And for that, it has started for us and our allies to bring the The trial is set to begin on at a joint press conference nomenclature,” said the Pakistan much alike the Aam Aadmi Party’s spreading propaganda against the economy back on track when we February 15. with Khurram Dastagir Khan, minister when asked about MFN. (AAP) caps. The party president BJP with help from other forces,” come in power,” he said. AGENCIES Pakistan’s commerce minister. IANS yesterday made a veiled reference Rajnath Singh said. He said when IANS

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MUSCAT 25/17 Clear 22/16 Chance of rain KUWAIT 17/10 Partly cloudy 17/09 Clear BAHRAIN 18/09 Clear 19/09 Partly cloudy Cultivation of plants SANAA 22/03 Partly cloudy 22/04 Partly cloudy Looted Iraqi museum hopes RIYADH 19/07 Clear 22/08 Clear possible on Mars DUBAI 22/15 Chance of storm 21/15 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 17/07 Partly cloudy 18/07 Partly cloudy soil: Researcher to reopen, minus many relics THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW THE HAGUE: Cultivation of vari- ous plant species, also food plants, is BAGHDAD: A decade on from the 2003 adding an entrance hall, installing electronic HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER possible on the soil of Mars, according US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein screens and refurbishing damaged relics. to ecologist Wieger Wamelink of the and whipped up a tsunami of theft in Baghdad, “This is our dream, to reopen,” said one worker ATHENS 18/14 Partly cloudy 18/13 Clear Dutch research institute Alterra of Iraq’s National Museum is preparing to dis- brushing up a piece of Qajar dynasty-era wood- WASHINGTON 07/-2 Chance of snow 09/-3 Partly cloudy Wageningen University. play its treasures of Mesopotamian culture — work. He asked not to be named because he was SYDNEY 30/20 Scattered clouds 26/20 Chance of storm To investigate whether it is possible even if thousands are missing. not authorised to talk to the media. “The security LONDON 11/03 Partly cloudy 10/03 Mostly cloudy to grow plants in the soil of Mars and The looting of the museum under the eyes of situation, you know, nothing is totally safe in this PARIS 09/06 Rain 09/04 Cloudy on the moon, researchers undertook an US troops has sometimes been compared to the world. There are terrorists living in every place ISTANBUL 14/10 Partly cloudy 15/10 Partly cloudy experiment with 14 plant species on arti- Mongol sack of the Grand Library of Baghdad in the world, not just the Middle East,” he said. MANILA 27/22 Mostly cloudy 29/22 Partly cloudy ficial Martian and lunar soil, provided by in 1258. Then-US secretary of defence Donald The museum boasts an impressive array of stat- DHAKA 28/17 Clear 27/15 Clear Nasa, Xinhua reported. The experiment Rumsfeld shrugged it off with the comment ues, mosaics and bas reliefs of empires from the DELHI 18/09 Mostly cloudy 18/10 Partly cloudy lasted 50 days. “stuff happens”. Sumerians to the Ottomans. Some of the world’s ISLAMABAD 20/07 Partly cloudy 21/05 Partly cloudy “The outcome was quite a big sur- But if many Iraqis still see the museum’s loot- first cities, irrigation systems, legal codes and forms prise,” said Wamelink. “Some species ing as a symbol of the cavalier recklessness of of writing were developed in what is now Iraq, such as rye and cress were already the invasion, its current state is emblematic of earning it the name “the cradle of civilisation”. sprouting within 24 hours. Eventually the bloodshed, political discord and bureaucratic The evidence of the past glory of empires such Shower-cum-bathtub plants on Mars soil were even blossom- dysfunction that have racked Iraq ever since. as the Babylonian and Assyrian contrasts with ing. We fertilised them with a brush, Museum workers also hope it could one day the reality of modern Baghdad, with its faded and with some even seeding. It was exciting encapsulate the promise and achievements of crumbling concrete buildings and streets choked to watch. Tomato plants were growing an oil-rich country which for millennia sat at with traffic and checkpoints. and carrot plants even had small carrots, the heart of human civilisation. “The museum Some of the most striking pieces date to the cress formed seeds.” is now displaying some of the stolen antiquities Abbasid period when Baghdad was the admin- A total of 840 pots were planted with that were recovered and restored. From a his- istrative and cultural heart of an empire that 4,200 seeds. Mars and moon sand, sup- torical perspective and in terms of restoration, once stretched from Spain to Uzbekistan. The plied by Nasa, so-called regolith, is the best it’s a very good thing, and they’re ready to be museum is about as old as modern Iraq. It was possible imitation of real Mars and moon presented,” Shaimaa Abdel Qader, a tour guide founded in 1923 by King Faisal I, scion of a prom- sand. The basis for this is volcanic soil of with the museum, told Reuters on a recent visit. inent family from what is now Saudi Arabia and Hawaii and sand from Arizona. “We did The museum is open to visitors who get special chosen by British colonial rulers to fuse three not know what would happen when we permits — mostly students, officials and foreign disparate Ottoman provinces into a new country. added water to the soil. What turned out dignitaries — but could admit the general public That task was never easy. Iraqi politics was is that the Martian soil holds water well, as early as February or March, depending on a saga of coups and revolutions until Saddam while the moon sand does not.” construction and preparation efforts, she said. climbed to power in 1979 and ruled with an iron All plants germinated in the Martian The plundering of the museum, whose collec- fist until US troops deposed him. soil. The seeds of agricultural crops such as tion comprises artifacts from over 5,000 years Overall, about 15,000 pieces were stolen from rye and cress germinated best, some wild of Mesopotamian history, was one of the most the museum during the invasion. Some 8,000 to plants germinated a lot worse. After 50 sensational episodes in the immediate aftermath 9,000 of those relics have been recovered, includ- days in the greenhouse, a large proportion of the US-led invasion of Iraq. ing the Sumerian-era Lady of Warka stone mask, of the plants were still alive. Compared to Halls and display cases were stripped of price- Abdel Qader said. The Assyrian hall features the nutrient-poor river sands of the Rhine less sculptures, amulets, coins and cylinder seals. statues of colossal winged bulls with human from 10 metres deep layers, the plants did Today, only seven of the museum’s 23 wings heads that once flanked the gates of the ancient even better in the Martian soil. are open. Some sections smell of mildew and are capital Khorsobad and extensive bas reliefs of Lunar soil did not prove fruitful. The only dimly lit by old fluorescent lights. Much of kings, demons and eunuch courtiers. Many of germination was significantly less and the signage is limited to printed paper replete these were simply too big to steal. A model stands next to a shower-cum-bathtub made of marble at the the growth of all species was much worse. with misspellings and mounted in plastic holders. Antiquities still come back to Iraq in a trickle furniture trade show Imm Cologne in Cologne, Germany. The trade Many germinated plants died before the Beyond its walls, shootings, car bombs and from countries in Europe, Asia and North show ends today. end of the experiment on moon soil. suicide attacks are near-daily occurrences. America — although it is unclear how many will IANS Undeterred, employees said the museum was eventually return. REUTERS Brokeback Mountain, the opera, to make world premiere in Madrid MADRID: Brokeback Mountain, opera’s 75-year-old American opera in 2008 from the American the Oscar-winning epic about composer, Charles Wuorinen, composer and Proulx. the relationship between two who was supervising rehearsals Mortier said he deliberately cowboys in the American West, in Madrid this week. scheduled Brokeback Mountain to is coming to the stage as an “In this case, it is two people open straight after the perform- opera, with a world premiere in who in some way want to have a ances of Wagner’s opera of the Madrid this month. relationship, which in their time adulterous love tragedy, Tristan The opera, brought to the is forbidden by society,” he said. und Isolde. screen in 2005 and based on the Wuorinen said he worked “Tristan, Isolde, Jack, Ennis; 1997 short story of the same name closely with Proulx, whose origi- they all don’t understand what’s by Annie Proulx, opens January nal short story was published happening to them but are all 28 at the Teatro Real in the in The New Yorker before being prepared to die for the love they Spanish capital, some six years transported to the screen by feel,” Mortier said in a statement. after it was commissioned. Taiwanese director Ang Lee. The author of more than 260 “The whole opera is about a Depicting the tormented love orchestral, choral, piano and per- typical kind of impossible situa- story of two young cowboys, Jack cussion compositions, as well as tion, a tragic situation,” said the and Ennis, who meet in the spec- of electronic music and ballets, tacular yet hostile mountainous Wuorinen, a New Yorker, denies region in Wyoming, won three creating Brokeback Mountain, in Oscars. which the two heros kiss on stage, “The importance of Annie as a message in favour of homo- Proulx’s novel is that great sexual rights. love is great love even if social Composed in two acts over reflections and conventions are two hours, with dialogues in sim- opposed to it,” said the Teatro ple English with some swearing, Real’s departing director, the Brokeback Mountain is scheduled Belgian Gerard Mortier, who to run at the Teatro Real until commissioned the adaption to February 11. 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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 7th IPTC to QIC nets QR753m profit last year DOHA: Qatar Insurance Company (QIC) has recorded a net profit of QR753m for the kickstart with full-year 2013. This is against QR610m recorded during the same period in 2012. QIC’s gross premium for 2013 was up by 38 percent to reach QR3.5bn. PM’s address The Board of Directors have recommended a cash dividend of QR2.5 per share and special 50th Four-day event begins tomorrow anniversary bonus share of 25 percent. The Board of Directors’ DOHA: The 7th International innovation and investment,” meeting was chaired by Sheikh Petroleum Technology Conference said Saad Al Kaabi, Director of Khalid bin Mohammed bin Ali Al (IPTC) will start with opening Oil and Gas ventures at Qatar Thani, Chairman and Managing remarks by the Prime Minister Petroleum. “Hosting IPTC in Director of QIC. and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Qatar gives us the opportunity to The CEO of QIC, Khalifa Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa highlight some of the technologies Abdullah Turki Al Subaie, said the Al Thani at Qatar National we have deployed during the last company has maintained its credit Convention Centre (QNCC) two decades that have enabled rating this year, currently rated tomorrow. The Minister of Energy the remarkable development of “A/Stable” by Standard & Poor’s and Industry H E Dr Mohammed Qatar’s energy industry.” and also “A” (Excellent) by A M bin Saleh Al Sada will also attend Andrew P Swiger, Senior Best which is considered as one of the inaugural session. Vice-President of ExxonMobil the highest ratings in the region. The four-day event will for- Corporation, said: “As a long-term He also added that in 2013, mally begin tomorrow with IPTC partner of Qatar Petroleum, we the QIC has not only grown its ‘Excellence in Project Integration look forward to co-hosting a suc- established strongholds in direct The meeting of the company’s Board of Directors in progress. Award’ ceremony to be held at St cessful IPTC together in Doha. insurance operations within the Regis Hotel. Advanced technology, coupled with region but have also successfully Q-Re LLC. and have been able to successfully strong results of this year are Qatar Petroleum and visionary leadership, provided the executed its vision to widen the “We are extremely pleased to execute the creation of a struc- concurrent with the celebration ExxonMobil are co-hosting basis upon which our companies company’s global footprint by say that during the year we have ture that would provide us with a of our fiftieth anniversary since the latest edition of IPTC. built the world’s largest integrated establishing a branch at Zurich overcome the varied economic, sustainable global base and ensure establishment,” he said. Representatives from all seg- LNG supply chain. By comple- through its reinsurance subsidiary cultural and regulatory challenges our growth over the years. The THE PENINSULA ments of the energy industry and menting the strengths of Qatar government officials from around Petroleum, we have together cre- the world will gather in Doha to ated a successful model for part- address the challenge of meeting nerships between national and an increasing global demand for international companies.” energy while reducing environ- Through IPTC’s large-scale HSBC, Citigroup mental impacts associated with exhibition, Qatar Petroleum and Moody’s raises Ireland’s rating its production and use. industry participants will showcase suspend four The conference theme of the latest technological develop- DUBLIN: Moody’s raised Ireland, Kristin Lindow, said that the government’s reform ‘Unlocking Energy through ments in the oil and gas industry. Ireland’s sovereign debt rating the positive outlook suggested agenda stayed largely on track” Innovation, Technology and IPTC is an annual event rotat- yesterday, pulling it out of junk improved sentiment for the cash- despite challenging economic forex traders Capability’ sets the tone for ing between Asia Pacific and the territory to an investment-grade strapped eurozone nation. conditions inside and outside the attendees to discuss technologi- Middle East. The scope of the Baa3 in recognition of the euro- “The upgrade reflects the country, the agency said. LONDON: HSBC and cal advancements that make it conference programme and asso- zone country’s exit from a huge growth potential of the Irish Irish Finance Minister Michael Citigroup both suspended for- possible for industry to effectively ciated industry activities address EU-IMF rescue programme. economy which together with the Noonan welcomed the ratings eign exchange traders yesterday manage the risks associated with technology and relevant industry One month after Ireland fiscal consolidation, expected to upgrade as proof of the changes as a global probe into possible energy development. issues that challenge industry reclaimed its economic inde- continue over the next few years, made since the global financial currency market manipulation This important dialogue will professionals and management pendence, the ratings agency also will help bring down the very high storm in 2008 brought the once intensified. be supported by the conference’s around the world. placed the country on a positive debt levels,” Lindow said. booming ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy Regulators from the US arrived impressive programme, which The conference is a collabora- outlook, citing the economy’s Moody’s noted that Ireland to its knees. in London this week, stepping up includes nearly 500 technical tive effort among the American growth potential and improved exited its programme of support “The decision by Moody’s to an investigation in which they are presentations, high-level plenary Association of Petroleum Geologists, debt outlook. from the European Union and the upgrade Ireland’s credit rating working with Britain’s financial sessions and one of the largest the European Association of The one-notch ratings increase International Monetary Fund on reflects the significant progress watchdog to determine whether exhibitions IPTC has hosted. Geoscientists and Engineers, the from Ba1, which had weighed on December 15 “on schedule, with that has been made in stabilising traders at some of the world’s big- “As one of the world’s leading Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Ireland’s ability to raise funds improved solvency and restored the public finances, restructur- gest banks colluded to manipu- energy-providing nations, Qatar and the Society of Petroleum on capital markets, was tied to a market access”. ing the banking sector and, most late the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign is an example of what can be Engineers (SPE). recent rise in economic growth. “Its ability to do so without a importantly, growing the economy exchange market. achieved through cooperation, THE PENINSULA Moody’s lead analyst for precautionary credit line reflects and creating jobs,” he said. AFP The investigations centre on senior traders’ communication of client positions via electronic chatrooms, which featured promi- Zero emissions taxi nently also in a probe into the rig- Algeria to double ging of a key interest rate known Most frontier markets as the London interbank offered gas production in rate, or Libor. As the currency investiga- 10 years: Minister tion ramps up, the banks them- in positive territory selves are scrutinising their ALGIERS: Algeria plans to employees more closely and most double natural gas production LONDON: Tiny stock markets insulating them from tapering and are now carrying out internal and hike oil output by 50 per- in countries such as Vietnam an eventual end of money printing investigations. cent within 10 years helped by and Bulgaria are leaving their in the West. “Frontier markets Sources said that Deutsche major exploration success in bigger emerging and developed have positive local factor stories Bank suspended several trad- 2013, Energy Minister Youcef peers behind, racing to multi- coming out. They are immune ers in New York this week, while Yousfi said. year or record peaks and hint- to tapering. They have a lot of US regulators descended on His comments come one year ing at another year of heady country-specific, idiosyncratic Citigroup’s London offices. A after a bloody assault by armed gains for frontier markets. factors,” said Salman Ahmed, glo- spokesman for HSBC confirmed Islamists at the In Amenas desert MSCI’s frontier index is up bal strategist at Lombard Odier the bank had suspended two FX gas plant, one of the country’s almost 3 percent already in 2014, Investment Managers. traders in London, but declined main upstream facilities, and amid contrasting with losses on the Ahmed cited the example of further comment. steady decline in Algerian gas pro- bigger emerging index which Pakistan, where a general election in The two HSBC traders sus- duction since it peaked in 2005. are feeling the chill from the US May allowed Prime Minister Nawaz pended are Edward Pinto and Serge “Algeria plans very seriously to stimulus wind-down. It also out- Sharif to form a stable government Sarramegna, said a person with double its gas production,” Yousfi strips developed markets, which and implement reforms. Karachi direct knowledge of the situation. told national radio, adding that are flat so far in 2014, with inves- stocks hit record highs on Friday Their positions were not known, shale gas would contribute to the tors seemingly reluctant to take and the country’s 2017 government but Sarramegna has in the past ambitious production plan. He put last year’s record-breaking rally bond also scored to all-time peaks been head of the G10 spot FX desk, Algeria’s recoverable reserves at any further for now. for a yield of 7.2 percent. according to numerous reports. between 25 and 30 trillion cubic feet. Twenty of the 26 markets in Frontier markets such as Both men are listed as active on the The minister described drilling the frontier index that groups Pakistan tend to have a smaller UK regulator’s register of financial results in 2013 as “extremely sat- non-mainstream bourses are in foreign investor component than industry professionals. isfying,” saying the Opeec country positive territory. That makes in bigger economies such as The two men could not imme- had discovered 550 million tonnes the index the top performer so Turkey or Russia where more diately be reached at their of oil equivalent from 32 new oil far in this admittedly short year- than 60 percent of what’s avail- office phones or company email and gas finds, three times the to date, after gold. Some markets able can be in foreign hands. addresses. Sarramegna could not number discovered in 2012. — in Vietnam, Lebanon, Pakistan Some of these foreign investors be reached at his home in Essex, “We are going to see how much and Bulgaria — have already are more likely to be attracted to 45km east of London. we can extract,” he said, but gained 5-11 percent. the higher-yielding assets that A Citigroup spokesman said added that the new finds would A series of country-specific are less correlated with global two FX traders had been sent also allow the country to raise oil A Metrocab zero emissions taxi is parked outside city Hall in London. factors such as privatisations, events. Hence, the recent suc- “on leave”. The Citi traders are production by 50 percent in the The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced plans to make all the repricing of political risk cess of bonds from lesser-known London-based Anthony John and coming decade, from 1.2 million London taxis presented for licensing in the capital, zero emissions. premium and local buying are first time issuers from Africa or Andrew Amantia, who works in barrels per day now. AFP supporting these markets and Central America. REUTERS New York. REUTERS SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Commercial Sub-Saharan Africa on growth path Bank unit holds Growth linked to rising middle class, says QNB Group SME workshop

DOHA: Sub-Saharan Africa community granted most SSA 2000-12, according to the GSM DOHA: Aiming at provid- (SSA) continues its rapid countries generous debt relief Association. This has unleashed ing tailored solutions to local growth momentum. According that enabled them to exit from a digital dividend that extends Small and Medium Enterprises to the latest QNB Group esti- an unsustainable debt burden from mobile banking in Kenya to (SMEs), Enterprise Banking, mates, the subcontinent grew accumulated during the 1970s the launch of smart taxi cabs in an SME-dedicated unit of by 5 percent in 2013 and is and 1980s. South Africa. Commercial Bank, recently expected to reach 6 to 6.5 per- The results of this economic Another important driver is hosted its 5th workshop, said a cent this year on the back of renaissance have been remark- the rise of the African consumer. press statement yesterday. high investment spending and a able. From stagnation and high According to a 2012 study by The workshop on ‘Developing growing middle class. inflation in the 1980s, several McKinsey & Company, the SSA and maintaining a successful rela- This makes it the second fast- African countries have managed consumer industries will grow by tionship with your bank’ was held est economic growth perform- to grow rapidly for the last two $400bn during 2012-20, repre- at the Commercial Bank Majlis in ance in the world and begs the decades under moderate infla- senting the single-largest business Doha Golf Club. question: Could SSA be the next tion. Countries like Ethiopia, opportunity in the subcontinent. Enterprise Banking supports China? Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania This growth is driven by Africa’s the growth and success of SMEs According to QNB Group, and Uganda on average quadru- population — the fastest growing in Qatar by providing value added strong infrastructure investment pled their real GDP growth rates, and youngest in the world — being services such as workshops on and continued prudent macroeco- while bringing inflation generally increasingly urbanized, educated topics relevant to their specific nomic policies will be essential if down into single digits. More and digitally-savvy. business needs. the African subcontinent is to importantly, this has enabled mil- What is stopping SSA from The fifth edition of the work- achieve double-digit growth and lions of Africans to escape poverty growing faster and becoming the shop on SMEs examined how cus- reach emerging market status. and reach middle class status. next China? According to QNB tomers and their bank can have The economic renaissance of Behind the macroeconomic Group, the next phase of the a mutually beneficial relationship. the African subcontinent started statistics though, an even more African renaissance will need to Customer strategies to improve in the mid-1990s. Following years interesting story about the SSA be driven by large infrastructure their banking relationship, such of corruption and economic mis- economic renaissance emerges. investment and continued pru- as the benefits of proper book- management, a new generation While SSA economic growth was dent macroeconomic policies to keeping and greater transparency of African leaders started on primarily linked to international support the rapid growth in other were emphasised. the difficult path of structural commodity prices in the past — sectors of the economy. The workshop was conducted reforms with support from the cocoa, copper, crude oil, etc — the As many have experienced while by Graham Moores, Instructor International Monetary Fund new growth drivers are increas- travelling in Africa, airports are at School of Business Studies, (IMF) and the World Bank. ingly linked to a rising African overcrowded, electricity supply is College of the North Atlantic– This required bringing infla- middle class. unreliable, ports are inadequate and Qatar (CNA-Q). Moores has over tion under control, increasing roads are mostly unpaved. What is 25 years experience in industry tax collections, reducing wasteful DIGITAL DIVIDEND needed is to fill this infrastructure and teaching. subsidies, and redirecting govern- For example, SSA is the fast- gap to enable the subcontinent to avoiding another unsustainable and continued prudent policies, Nadeem Khan, Head of ment spending toward long-term est-growing mobile phone market reach double-digit growth. debt burden that could crip- the African subcontinent will Enterprise Credit at Commercial investments in human capital, in the world: Mobile licences grew This will need skillful poli- ple the fiscal discipline achieved undoubtedly turn into an eco- Bank, also spoke on the credit like education and health. At at an average compound annual cies for governments to finance during the last two decades. With nomic might. review process, the Bank’s reli- the same time, the international growth rate of 44 percent during such large investments while strong infrastructure investment THE PENINSULA ance on a proper credit applica- tion and the Bank’s scope of due diligence. Khan also addressed pitfalls that customers can avoid in order to receive a fast and favourable credit response. QP, Maersk Oil to present 14 Kenneth Clark, Head of Enterprise Banking, Commercial Bank, said: “The theme of this co-authored papers at IPTC workshop centres on banking relationships, as our aim is to DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) applying the right technologies help our customers receive fast and Maersk Oil have partnered and development plans.” and favourable credit responses.” to publish a series of new techni- The QP and Maersk Oil techni- “We can better serve our cus- cal papers and presentations for cal papers provide a snapshot of tomers if we build relationships the 7th International Petroleum some of the breakthroughs in seis- based on trust, confidence in the Technology Conference (IPTC) mic studies, horizontal drilling and information supplied to us, com- taking place in Doha this week. 3D scanning technology that are pliance with the Bank’s conditions The 14 co-authored submis- helping to enhance their under- and, a balanced expectation of what sions highlight a range of tech- standing of the Al Shaheen field. each party can deliver,” said Clark. nical learning and experience In total, Maersk Oil will be pre- In welcoming the workshop par- gained through more than 20 senting 18 technical papers at the ticipants, Gail Gosse, Dean, School years of successfully developing IPTC, several of which focus on the of Business Studies, CNA-Q said: Qatar’s Al Shaheen field. ground-breaking applied research “CNA-Q School of Business is very The technical papers provide being conducted at the Maersk Oil proud of our partnership with insights into the experience and Research and Technology Centre Enterprise Banking, Commercial application of innovative tech- (MO-RTC) in Doha, Qatar. Bank. We have trained many of nologies that have enabled the Jakob Thomasen, Maersk Oil’s their staff in our business and transformation of Al Shaheen, Chief Executive Officer, said: banking programmes. Today we from what was considered a “Qatar Petroleum’s expertise has are pleased to offer you, the fifth marginal and unattractive field, been crucial in the successful in a series of our workshops for Officials pose for a group picture. into Qatar’s largest offshore oil development of the Al Shaheen, Commercial Bank.” producer. so I am delighted that QP and THE PENINSULA Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, QP’s Maersk Oil experts have co- Operational safety challenges discussed Director of Oil and Gas Ventures authored these papers. UK watchdog to and Co-Chairman of the IPTC “By working closely together DOHA: The Second Operational organised by the Best Practice and crisis management, and this 2014 Executive Committee, said: with QP for the past twenty years, review accounting Safety Challenges Forum pro- Technical Committee (BPTC) was followed by a plenary session “Qatar Petroleum and Maersk Oil Maersk Oil has become special- vided an opportunity to exchange of Qatar Petroleum’s Dukhan involving experts in the field. have built and shared knowledge ists in Al Shaheen, developing a changes after deal experiences and share ideas on Operations, was under the patron- Representatives from Qatar since the early 1990s and together unique understanding of its res- effective programmes and poli- age of HE Dr Mohammed bin Shell, Qatar University, Texas we now produce over one-third ervoirs and how to responsibly LONDON: Britain’s compe- cies for ensuring operational Saleh Al Sada, Minister of Energy A&M University at Qatar, the of Qatar’s daily oil production. maximise long-term oil recovery. tition watchdog will review safety for the oil and gas industry. and Industry and Chairman of QP. American Society of Safety The IPTC offers a global plat- Technology will be just as impor- changes it has ordered to prise The three-day forum, which con- It was attended by delegates Engineers (ASSE), as well as offi- form for us to share our expertise tant in the future as it has been open an accounting sector domi- cluded on Thursday, discussed top- from oil and gas companies and cials from QP’s Dukhan Operations, with the broader industry, and to in the past and we look forward to nated by four big players after ics related to emergency response, petrochemical firms operating Corporate HSE Department, Oryx show how even complex fields like discovering, developing and apply- the European Union agreed a crisis management and promoting in Qatar. The final day of the GTL Ltd and Honeywell partici- Al Shaheen can be developed by ing more technologies with our tougher set of reforms. a safety culture in the sector. forum featured a summary of pated in the forum. leveraging knowledge and expe- partner QP.” Britain’s Competition The annual event, which was the presentations on emergency THE PENINSULA rience, working together and THE PENINSULA Commission decided in October the country’s top 350 companies must put their book-keeping out to ten- der at least once a decade, to shake Vintage parade up a market dominated by KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte. Since then, China to be largest energy the EU agreed in December to go a step further and force listed com- panies across the 28-country bloc importer by 2035: Report from 2016 to actually change their accountant every 10 years. LONDON: China is expected percent and natural gas doubling The UK watchdog had initially to exceed Europe to become to 12 percent with oil unchanged backed mandatory switching but the largest energy importer in around 18 percent,” the report said. its final report was watered down. the world by 2035, said a report It predicted China to overtake Both sets of reforms are part of issued by British oil giant BP. the US as the world’s largest oil a regulatory clampdown following The annual Energy Outlook consumer by 2027 and Russia as the 2007-09 financial crisis, because 2035 report forecast global energy the world’s second largest gas auditors had given banks a clean consumption to grow 41 percent consumer by 2025, after the US. bill of health just before many had from 2012 to 2035 — slower than For fast growth of energy con- to be rescued by taxpayers. the growth of 55 percent during the sumption, the report held that “We are keen to follow the princi- 1989-2012 period, Xinhua reported. energy consumed by transport ples of better regulation, including by Of the global energy consumption will surge 120 percent, the fast- ensuring that our orders do not con- growth, 95 percent is expected to est among all the sectors. tradict or duplicate EU regulation,” come from emerging economies, Oil remains the dominant fuel the Commission said. “We antici- while the energy consumption in but loses market share, dropping pate further rounds of consultation developed countries will slow down. from 90 percent to 82 percent in on our revised orders in the third According to the report, 2038 while gas share increases quarter of 2014 and a commence- China’s energy production will from 5 percent to 12 percent, the ment date in quarter four.” rise 61 percent by 2035 while con- report read. Share of shale gas of A key clash between the UK sumption will grow by 71 percent. China and North America will and EU reforms is on the very dif- China’s share in global demand increase to 81 percent by 2035, ferent timetables for phasing in will rise from 22 percent to 27 according to the report. the changes. “We hope that the percent in 2035, and its import BP chief executive Bob Dudley Commission takes this opportunity dependence will rise from 15 per- expressed confidence that energy to consider the interplay between cent to 20 percent. production will be able to keep A French Talbot car is parked on the Concorde Square during the 14th edition of the “Traversee de Paris en their own transition proposals and “China’s energy mix continues pace thanks to the trends in glo- anciennes” (Vintage Paris Crossing), the largest gathering of classic vehicles in the French capital streets, in those of the EU legislators,” said to evolve with coal’s dominance bal technology, investment and Paris recently. Gilly Lord, UK head of regulatory declining from 69 percent to 52 policy. IANS affairs at PwC. REUTERS SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Intel to reduce Commodity imports rise in China workforce by 5pc this year Chip maker plans to shift focus

SAN FRANCISCO: Intel Corp areas where there are fast-grow- plans to reduce its global work- ing markets,” said Bernstein ana- force of 107,000 by about 5 per- lyst Stacy Rasgon. cent this year as the chipmaker, Intel has both added and shed struggling with falling personal- significant numbers of jobs over computer sales, shifts focus to the past decade. Struggling to faster-growing areas, a company fend off a challenge by smaller spokesman said on Friday. rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc The announcement, equivalent in 2006, Intel announced it would to over 5,000 positions, comes a reduce its workforce by over 10,000 day after Intel posted a fourth- positions, but its overall number of quarter earnings report that did employees has grown since then. Vans and cranes are parked in a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province. Chinese commodity imports rose strongly in 2013, with coal and iron little to dispel concerns about a The chipmaker is also not the ore climbing more than 10 percent. slowing PC industry. “This is part only tech company to trim its of aligning our human resources workforce because of slowing to meet business needs,” spokes- demand for PCs since Apple’s man Chris Kraeuter said. iPad started to cut into demand The job reductions may include for laptops in 2010. retirements, voluntary programs Hewlett-Packard Co is in the EU wants common rules for shale gas ‘fracking’ and other options, Kraeuter said, midst of a years-long internal adding that Intel’s typical annual restructuring that would ulti- attrition worldwide is about 4 per- mately see it shed 34,000 jobs, BRUSSELS: The European unaddressed, public concerns will It said it will report again The Commission package due cent. He declined to say whether or 11 percent of its workforce, Commission wants EU mem- persist,” it said. in 2015 and at that point could next week will replace its cur- details of the changes had been through fiscal 2014. Dell suc- ber states to accept common Accordingly, it recommended “decide to put forward legislative rent programme which lays down announced internally. ceeded last year in taking itself environment and health rules if a series of measures the 28 EU proposals.” a target for a 20 percent reduc- On a conference call with ana- off public markets, allowing they use controversial ‘fracking’ member states to follow if they Fracking involves the injection tion compared with 1990 levels in lysts, Chief Financial Officer Stacy CEO and founder Michael Dell to develop shale gas resources. wanted to develop shale gas. of chemicals and water under carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Smith alluded to a reduction in to restructure away from Wall A document prepared for For example, they should very high pressure to fracture In addition, EU member states employment this year and said that Street’s scrutiny. That overhaul the Commission’s 2030 Energy “ensure that a strategic environ- shale rock formations deep are supposed to source 20 percent Intel would increase investments in is expected to encompass layoffs. and Climate Package due on mental assessment is carried out” underground and so release the of their energy from renewable areas such as data centre technol- Intel said a newly built factory Wednesday recognises the impor- before project approval, to gauge gas and oil they contain. sources and achieve a 20 percent ogy, low-power chips and tablets. in Chandler, Arizona, originally tance of the shale gas revolution, the risk to other resources, such Widely used in the United energy efficiency gain by the same Intel dominates the PC chip slated as a $5 billion project that which has driven US gas prices as water supplies. States, it has been heralded as date. industry, but it has been slow to in late 2013 would start produc- down sharply, but also recom- The public should also be an “energy revolution”, help- The European Parliament’s adapt its processors for smart- ing Intel’s most advanced chips, mends strong regulation. “informed of chemicals used in ing put the US economy back environmental committee wants phones and tablets, markets would remain closed for the fore- “Experts agree that shale gas fracking,” it said. on track with US companies a 40-30-40 package but this looks now dominated by rivals such seeable future while other facto- extraction leads to higher cumu- Environmental reporting benefitting from much cheaper ambitious, with member states as Qualcomm Inc and Samsung ries at the same site are upgraded. lative environmental risks and should be transparent, it added. energy prices. focused on getting a economy Electronics Co Ltd. In its report, Intel forecast impacts compared to conventional The recommendations are at That has sparked calls, notably back on track rather than add to “If they’ve got a bunch or March-quarter restructuring gas extraction,” said the draft this stage non-binding but the from Britain, for the EU to adopt business costs. resources in a market that may charges of $200m, a portion of document, on Friday. Commission said it would “closely light-touch regulation on shale Against this backdrop, the not be dead but is not growing a which could be earmarked for If such “environmental and monitor” their implementation gas but others such as France future of shale gas is expected to ton, it probably makes sense to severance pay. health risks, lack of transparency and encouraged member states oppose fracking given the envi- be a major bone of contention in reprioritise those investments in REUTERS and legal uncertainties remain to adopt them as best practice. ronmental concerns. fixing the 2030 guidelines. AFP

The new Chrysler 200 C sedan on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Jeep can hit 1m sales: Chrysler CEO

DETROIT: Now that Italy’s Fiat of production last year and any Marchionne said. Not everyone SpA has almost closed its deal remaining sales were minimal, is a believer that Jeep can jump to buy the portion of Chrysler it so Chrysler Group’s best-selling that much from last year’s global does not already own, one of the brand did not have a midsize SUV, sales of 731,565, up 4 percent from main items on the to-do list of the largest entry in the American 2012 and the second straight full- Chief Executive Officer Sergio SUV market. Cherokee was only year record for the brand. Marchionne is expanding the sold in the final two months of Jeff Schuster, senior vice global reach of the Jeep brand. 2013 and Marchionne said all president of forecasting at LMC And Marchionne, the CEO of signs point to the company mak- Automotive, said Jeep will hit 1 both Fiat and Chrysler, wasted ing up for lost sales this year. million in sales by 2020, but not little time this week in making “And we’ve got the small Jeep this year. a prediction that some analysts coming out of Europe,” he said, “All the planets would have to regard as bold: Jeep will achieve pointing to some late-year sales perfectly align, even those we don’t its goal this year of selling 1 mil- for the unnamed compact SUV yet know about, to hit the target lion sport utility vehicles around to debut at the Geneva auto show in 2014, so we just don’t see that the world. in March. happening,” he said. Mike Manley, That would represent a 37 per- Also helping Chrysler hit its head of the Jeep brand, agrees that cent rise from Jeep’s global sales 2014 sales target, Marchionne Jeep has to avoid setbacks to reach last year. Marchionne said at the said, will be increased production a million in sales this year. Detroit auto show that the lack of of Grand Cherokee, the top-sell- “I’m very focused on getting to a mid-sized SUV in the US mar- ing Jeep in 2013, because some of the million number, but I want to ket hurt overall sales last year, the bottlenecks have been elimi- get a few months under my belt but strong demand for the Jeep nated at the Jefferson North plant before I say ‘yes we’re going to be Cherokee in 2014 will help Chrysler in Detroit. there,’” he said in an interview at to boost sales by 37 percent. Finally, there is some more the auto show. “I want to see a Fiat is expected to close a output expected to be wrung out couple of months of Cherokee,” deal next week that will give of the Wrangler plant in Toledo, he added. “We’re just beginning it full ownership of Chrysler. Ohio, he said. “So we’ll see. It to ship to international markets.” Chrysler’s Jeep Liberty was out should add up to a million,” REUTERS SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Commodity prices rise amid supply issues Brent, US crude edge up; gold shines; sugar futures sink to fresh multi-year lows

LONDON: World oil prices from Libya and Iran has weighed 2014, citing positive developments Intermediate or light sweet crude from $1,768. Three-month lead — a level last seen in April 2009. rose last week as traders bal- on sentiment this week. in Europe and North America. for February grew to $94.29 a gained to $2,191 a tonne from New York prices hit 15.10 US anced positive global economic “The expectation that supply For 2013, the 12-member barrel from $92.27. $2,131. Three-month tin climbed cents, which was last witnessed data against an improving sup- from Libya and Iran could soon Organisation of Petroleum PRECIOUS METALS: Gold to $22,301 a tonne from $21,950. in June 2010. ply picture. return to the market should Exporting Countries estimated prices advanced this week. The Three-month nickel advanced “Sugar values plunged... as Elsewhere on commodity mar- initially continue to put selling demand at 89.86m barrels per day market lacks any firm direction to $14,560 a tonne from $13,752. speculators and funds added to kets, sugar futures sank to fresh pressure on Brent,” said analysts (b/d), up 0.94m b/d from demand and inspiration seems in short Three-month zinc increased to short positions,” said Sucden ana- multi-year lows on prospects of a at Commerzbank. At the same in 2012. In its previous monthly supply,” said analysts at traders $2,066 a tonne from $2,035.75. lyst Nick Penney. “It seems the plentiful harvest. Raw material time, however, various upbeat glo- report in December, growth had Triland Metals. COFFEE: Coffee futures stabi- sugar market is all ‘doom and prices moved also on news that bal economic data releases have been forecast at 0.87m b/d. By late Friday on the London lised, supported by worries about gloom’ at the moment, at least the World Bank had upgraded its stoked hopes of strengthening The revision was helped by the Bullion Market, the price of gold the impact of dry weather on key for producers who see their future 2014 forecast for global economic global energy demand. US economic recovery and hikes rose to $1,250 an ounce from producer Brazil. crops diminish in value and for growth, suggesting potential Oil sank on Monday on news in industrial and transportation $1,244.25 a week earlier. Silver “Worries about forecasts call- traders long of physical inventory improvement in demand. that a landmark deal with world fuel consumption there, Opec said climbed to $20.01 an ounce from ing for unfavourable hot and and unable to place their sugar The World Bank said that powers to curb parts of Iran’s in its monthly report. Oil demand $19.80. On the London Platinum dry weather in Brazil helped to despite the sharp drop in prices.” both high-income and developing disputed nuclear programme, in also started picking up in Europe and Palladium Market, platinum underpin coffee futures, as did By Friday on LIFFE, the countries appeared to be “finally exchange for sanctions relief, will at the end of 2013. increased to $1,447 an ounce from uncertainty surrounding the size price of a tonne of white sugar turning the corner five years after take effect from January 20. Opec added that demand for its $1,425. Palladium advanced to of the country’s upcoming coffee for March slid to $418.10 from the global financial crisis”. Adding to downward pressure, oil was expected to fall in 2014 as $747 an ounce from $737. crop,” said industry publication $424.90 a week earlier. On New Global growth was estimated to Libya is widely expected to con- the supply from non-members BASE METALS: Base or The Public Ledger. York’s ICE Futures US exchange, hit 3.2 percent this year, acceler- tinue to recover lost production. increased by an estimated 1.27m industrial metals prices mostly By Friday on the ICE Futures the price of unrefined sugar for ating from a 2.4 percent annual “Brent has (been)... torn between b/d over 2013. Non-Opec supply rose across the board on a tight- US exchange, Arabica for delivery delivery in March eased to 15.49 pace in 2013, the Bank said. positive global economic data growth was revised higher and ening of supplies. “The situation in March eased to 117.95 US cents US cents a pound from 15.50. OIL: Brent crude prices hit a and an improving supply outlook mainly came from the United has tightened on many metals a pound from 118.75 cents a week COCOA: Futures bounded two-month low Friday on over- from Northern Africa and the States and Canada. markets recently, partly due to earlier. On LIFFE, Robusta for higher on keen demand in Europe supply concerns but ended the Middle East,” said analyst Lucy By Friday on London’s supply and partly due to demand,” March climbed to $1,725 a tonne and North America, traders said. week higher overall as positive Sidebotham at Inenco consultants. Intercontinental Exchange, Brent said analysts at Commerzbank. from $1,714. By Friday on LIFFE, London’s economic growth data indicated Added to the supply picture, North Sea crude for delivery in By Friday on the London SUGAR: The sugar market futures exchange, cocoa for deliv- firmer demand. Brent North Sea the United States is also expected March stood at $106.73 a bar- Metal Exchange, copper for plummeted to its lowest levels ery in March climbed to £1,756 crude for March delivery slid to to ramp up production this year. rel compared with $106.33 for delivery in three months dipped in more than three and a half a tonne from £1,726 a week ear- $105.44 a barrel — the lowest level On Thursday, oil cartel Opec the expired February contract a to $7,302.25 a tonne from $7,306 years, as sentiment was plagued lier. On ICE Futures US, cocoa since the end of 2013. nudged up its world oil demand week earlier. On the New York a week earlier. Three-month alu- by abundant supplies. Sugar dived for March increased to $2,740 a The prospect of more supplies growth forecasts for 2013 and Mercantile Exchange, West Texas minium grew to $1,808 a tonne on Thursday to $413.20 in London tonne from $2,697. AFP

Nintendo slashes sales target for Wii U console

TOKYO: Nintendo on Friday The firm’s revised figures warned it would swing back into came as key domestic rival Sony the red this fiscal year as the saw record demand for its new Japanese gaming giant slashed PlayStation 4 console, which had its sales target for the Wii U already sold more than 4.2 million console, blaming poor sales over units by the start of the year. the key holiday season. The console was launched on The dramatic downgrade November 15. stands in marked contrast to US rival Microsoft has also rivals Sony and Microsoft which seen robust demand for its Xbox have seen huge demand for their One console, which sold more new consoles as the firms battle than one million units in the 24 for control of a sector worth about hours after its November release. $44bn annually. Nintendo said that it expects a GRIM FORECAST loss of 25bn yen ($240m) in the For Nintendo, the grim forecast year to March, reversing an ear- is especially disappointing after it lier 55 billion yen net profit fore- scratched back to profitability last cast, while annual revenue would year thanks to a sharply weaker drop 36 percent. yen, which inflates Japanese The company, maker of the firms’ repatriated profits. Donkey Kong and Super Mario The company has previously brands, also said it expected to blamed weak earnings partly on sell just 2.8 million units world- high development and marketing wide of the Wii U, less than a costs for the Wii U, although sales third of it earlier prediction for of its 3DS handheld console and 9.0 million consoles. related game titles fared better. A woman hands out bags of Spanish fashion brand Desigual at the former Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Nintendo’s hopes for big holi- Nintendo, which cut prices for day season demand to boost flag- both products to shore up flag- ging sales were dashed, forcing it ging sales, launched the Wii U in Spanish fashion label speeds global growth to chop forecasts as demand for late 2012 with high hopes it would the Wii’s high-margin software repeat the original Wii’s block- slumped, it said. buster success. BERLIN: Spanish fashion for the next three years. accounting for over half of sales to be in more channels,” Jadraque “During the year-end shopping But analysts said a lack of label Desigual is accelerating its It is all part of managing direc- from 37 percent now. said. Founded in Ibiza in 1984 by season, we weren’t able to lift games took away some of the fizz expansion in Europe and emerg- tor Manel Jadraque’s master plan “The market for fashion will Swiss designer Thomas Meyer sales momentum for the Wii U,” the company had been hoping for ing markets, seeking to ride to build a powerhouse brand to double in the next 10 years,” said — still the company’s sole share- Nintendo President Satoru Iwata after the 3DS — the world’s first predictions of fast growth in rival those of French luxury group Jadraque, who was wearing one of holder — Desigual says its mission told a press briefing in Osaka. video game console with a 3D women’s apparel while also tak- LVMH, where he worked for a Desigual’s trademark asymmetri- is to put at least one item into “The decrease in game software screen that works without spe- ing the colourful brand into new decade before joining Desigual as cally patterned shirts. every wardrobe in the world. sales is having the biggest impact” cial glasses — had initially suf- areas like perfume and shoes. director of operations in 2004. He said he saw room for compe- To that end, as well as growing on profit, he added. fered from disappointing demand The Barcelona-based company “In the next three years we tition between 20 companies like its existing 400 stores, it plans to Demand was weak in the cru- abroad. has gained a reputation for bright plan to grow about 20-25 percent Zara-owner Inditex , which has multiply concessions in depart- cial European and US markets, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft garments and bold marketing, a year. The big idea is to double grown fast to become the world’s ment stores and increase Internet Iwata said as he apologised to are giants in the global videog- offering free clothes to shoppers the company every four years,” biggest clothing retailer with sales to a quarter of total turno- shareholders. ames industry, but have faced who arrive in their underwear to Jadraque, 44, said in an interview more than 6,000 outlets. Hence ver from about 10 percent now. “My duty, more than anything tough economic conditions in the special sale parties. during Berlin fashion week. Desigual’s move into cosmetics, Jadraque, who took over as else, is to revive our business US and Europe, while also fending After expanding outside Consultancy McKinsey pre- homeware, sports and shoes in managing director in 2012, said momentum,” he said. off a challenge from cheap — or Europe three years ago, it is now dicts the global women’s apparel the last two years as well as its Desigual would concentrate on Nintendo’s Tokyo-listed shares sometimes free — downloada- targeting sales of ¤1bn ($1.4bn) market will grow almost 5 per- drive to open stores in travel loca- locations where the brand is doing ended down 2.75 percent at 14,645 ble games for smartphones and this year — from about ¤820m in cent a year by 2025, up from a tions like airports, train stations best after expanding to 60 new yen on Friday, before the firm tablets. 2013 and ¤440m four years ago — historical average of just over 3 and hotels. countries in three years. made its announcement. AFP and plans to add 100 stores a year percent, with emerging markets “It is an upgrade for the brand REUTERS

Fitting-out wharf of Meyer Shipyards Wipro sees more clients from US

BANGALORE: Signalling a process of finalising their 2014 Europe about 30 percent, while turnaround in global technol- technology budgets, the global Asia-Pacific region and emerging ogy spend, Indian IT bellwether software major expects them markets contributed 12 percent. Wipro is again seeing a healthy (budgets) to remain stable or “We have seen momentum pipeline with customers in the increase marginally. in GIS (geographic information US poised to make discretionary “Within the technology spend, systems) which grew 5.6 percent investments, a top official said. we see increases in the ‘change the sequentially. We expect GIS to “We see a healthy pipeline and business’ budgets and pressure on grow faster than company aver- find customers in the US more the ‘run the business’ budgets,” age given the quality of the pipeline amenable to making discretionary Kurien said after the company and order book,” Kurien recalled. investments, especially in the pre- declared its financial results for The company is making invest- viously challenged sectors,” Wipro third quarter (Oct-Dec). ments in consulting expertise, chief executive T K Kurien said. From a geography perspective, platforms and IP (intellectual Discretionary investments in IT the company saw very strong property) to better leverage its services and products by global cus- growth in the quarter under capability in customer experience, tomers generate more business for review (Q3) from developed mar- analytics and mobility. “Our pro- Indian major vendors like Wipro as kets with the US growing 3.2 per- prietary product (ServiceNXT Employees of Meyer Shipyards work on the inland waterway passenger ship Viking Eistla at the fitting-out against non-discretionary spend- cent and Europe up 5.4 percent. suite) addresses application wharf in Papenburg, Germany. The ship is being produced for Viking River Cruises in the USA. The works on ing, which accounts for repeat busi- Americas accounted for about management, infrastructure the interior will be shortly finished and the ship will be transferred to the Black Sea. ness and routine operations. 50 percent of revenue ($1.7bn) management, cloud and security Though clients are in the from IT services business and operations, Kurien added. IANS SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

You must be joking, Chevy’s euro exit weakens Mr Ben Bernanke

BY JAMES SAFT GM’s deal with Man Utd BY BEN KLAYMAN emerging markets where Manchester United while only 90 million are in Europe. ell, now we know: monetary policy certainly isn’t is popular, but the value took a hit with the Fechter, the sponsorship lawyer, called GM’s rocket science. eneral Motors Co’s recent decision exit from Europe. argument “putting a happy face” on a bad deal Asked on Thursday if he was confident before to pull its well-known Chevrolet “I would not classify it as a bad deal, but that could, however, still work in the end. Wimplementing quantitative easing that it would brand out of Europe suddenly if you could rewind the clock, knowing that Of course, the deal might look better if work, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke quipped: makes its expensive sponsorship you’re not going to be marketing the Chevy United’s performance this season was stronger. “The problem with QE is that it works in practice, but it doesn’t deal with Manchester United, the brand in Europe, would you do this deal at Manchester United are struggling on the work in theory.” Seriously, imagine a NASA official after a moon Gworld’s most recognised soccer club, look like that price? I think the answer is clearly no.” pitch under new manager David Moyes this shot joking that the booster rockets had worked in practice but less of a winner. GM executives dismiss the notion that the season. Going into this weekend’s round of not in theory. Think of the looks he might get from the astronauts When the No.1 US automaker announced deal is less valuable, saying the true payoff matches, United are only seventh in the standing alongside him. in 2012 that it was paying $559m over seven will be in Asia and other emerging markets. 20-team Premier League. They have never Now, of course, Bernanke should be permitted one joke per years to slap the Chevy bowtie logo on the “Anyone who’s ever lived in Europe or under- finished outside of the top three places since four-year term, and he did go on to say that the Fed’s use of QE jerseys of “Man U” players, the steep price tag stands Europe will know that there is not a high the Premier League was launched in 1992. was grounded in practical experience from Japan and elsewhere turned heads. Now, in light of GM’s announce- proportion of Germans that support English Manchester United officials are not fazed as well as theoretical underpinnings from academia. ment last month that Chevrolet will largely soccer clubs. They follow the Bundesliga” or by GM’s decision in Europe. Still. After years of the Fed engaging massively in QE, con- exit Europe by the end of 2015 , the contract German professional soccer league, Alan Batey, “Chevrolet are very clear that the partner- sensus about its effects is far stronger in terms of its effect on has become even more of an overpay because GM’s North American chief, said at the Detroit ship with us is a global one and we both intend financial markets, where it is viewed as an electronic form of players will be wearing a logo for a product auto show on Monday. Batey is also GM’s global to continue this partnership to help build their Viagra, than on the actual economy. that is nonexistent in the region. head of the Chevy brand. “We never, ever did brand around the world,” club spokesman Phil Bernanke went on to say that most research on asset purchases “Understand what this sponsorship deal is this for Europe,” he added. “We did this because Townsend said. has suggested that “while there are differences in views about all about - it’s eyeballs. They’re leaving a big frankly soccer is the sport of the world. We Insurer Aon Plc, the current jersey sponsor how effective QE is, the great majority of studies have found that patch of geography with lots of eyeballs so the really did this for our emerging markets, par- under a four-year deal, instead signed a new (rounds of QE) are at least somewhat effective”. economic value has to go down,” said Gary ticularly China and Asia.” agreement last April that runs twice as long “At least somewhat effective.” Not what you want on your Fechter, an attorney who has represented As with any sponsorship deal, GM will also for $240m to sponsor United’s practice jersey, tombstone, though for many of us it is no more than the truth. companies in sponsorship deals for 35 years. have to spend additional money to advertise training complex and preseason tour. Bernanke’s joke was referring, in part, to a paper delivered Fechter is not involved in GM’s deal. or promote its partnership with Manchester “We think it’s more efficient and effective at the same meeting by his colleague from the San Francisco Though Chevy has long been an iconic United. The automaker is planning a huge pro- for both Aon and Manchester United,” Aon Fed, John Williams, which opened by quoting the old joke that brand in the United States, it never really motional launch when the Chevy bowtie goes Vice President David Prosperi said. “An economist is a man who, when he finds something works in took off in Europe, hurt by the region’s tough on the game jerseys in August and it will also GM may have overpaid for the jersey deal, practice, wonders if it works in theory.” competition and an economic downturn. GM use the Internet and social media to promote but it can still pay off if the automaker reaches Much depends on your definition of “practice”, “theory” and said it plans instead to focus on expanding its its brand with the club’s millions of fans. enough fans, said Simon Chadwick, profes- “works”, especially the last. Opel and Vauxhall brands in the region. Manchester United’s data on its fan base sor of sports business strategy at Coventry As Williams explains, there are two basic theories as to the GM still sells its Chevy brand in most other backs GM’s argument because the club says University in England. mechanism through which QE should, in theory, work. markets around the world. almost half of its 659 million followers globally “It might sound a little outlandish,” he The first broad idea posits that financial markets are friction- Jim Andrews, senior vice president with are in Asia, including 108 million in China. said, “but might we see Manchester United- less (ie populated by profit-maximizing robots), and that therefore IEG, a WPP Plc unit that tracks sponsorships, Another 173 million are in the Middle East branded Chevys driving around Beijing?” QE won’t have an impact on asset prices, inflation or output, but said the deal still holds promise for GM in and Africa, and 71 million in the Americas, REUTERS merely serves as a kind of semaphore through which the central bank can signal its longer-term intentions about interest rates. For those of you willing to entertain the idea of a frictionless financial market, I refer you to the Facebook IPO, or if you must, to any bar at about 11pm on a Thursday near any large financial exchange. ‘Nuff said. The second idea, acknowledging that financial markets are populated by people with conflicting interpretations of their own best interest, supposes that QE drives asset prices higher by forc- ing investors in safer assets out of their usual habitats. “Two themes emerge from this research on the effects of asset purchases on asset prices. First, although individual estimates dif- fer, this analysis consistently finds that asset purchases have siz- able effects on yields on longer-term securities,” Williams writes. “Second, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the magnitude of these effects and their impact on the overall economy.” First, the easy part. Yes, QE drives financial markets. Williams reviews 15 studies and finds that the central tendency, or consen- sus, is that $600bn of asset purchases lowers the yield on 10-year Treasury notes by 15 to 25 basis points. That is significant, and indeed consensus is that QE has had a generally positive effect on financial assets. It is also safe to say that, as a direct effect of QE, this asset price inflation has directly benefited financial intermediaries, a segment of the economy which is arguably overgrown anyway. Also, because the rich tend to own financial assets and others tend not to, QE generally fuelled wealth inequality. Now, as to that real economy. One study found that QE2, the $600bn programme launched in 2011, shaved a quarter of a per- centage point off of unemployment. Another is less optimistic. What does seem clear is that if QE is having an impact it is doing so through the wealth effect, as people spend part of their stock market gains, rather than by encouraging investment, which remains low compared to corporate profitability. So, what does all this mean now that QE is being withdrawn? In some ways the implications are comforting. If QE didn’t help the economy all that much, perhaps QE going away won’t hurt all that much. Unless you own financial assets. Then you are looking at a withdrawal of a support at a time when inflation is seemingly intractably low and the economy, all these years later, not really thriving. Easy come, easy go. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Giving value and dignity to domestic service BY LUCY LETHBRIDGE child or elder care, cleaning, cook- “very fond of them” and how vulnerable to exploitation. If the situations. “I’ve seen CEO’s, comfort of the rich depends upon ing, driving, gardening, or secu- “they were part of our family.” case of the Grillo sisters gives us heads of companies, professors,” an abundant supply of the poor” he word “servant,” with rity — are fiendishly complex and The sisters were equally keen a glimpse of the perils of faux- Lisa Spiegel, director of a family holds as true today as it ever did. its uncomfortable over- difficult to negotiate. And these to say how much they loved them familiarity, then the realities of counselling centre in Manhattan, And rich countries depend on tones of snobbery and tensions go back centuries. back. What in fact was exposed the Indian diplomat’s housekeeper told the New York Times. poorer ones. Many domestics Tservility, is out of fashion. Among the enduring questions was a relationship marked by are its harsh opposite — and a “These are women who are very leave their own families behind The world depicted by “Downton is whether, and to what degree, misunderstanding, unchecked great deal more representative. successful in work relationships, to find work. Abbey” seems far away. But domestic workers are part of the bank statements and airily half- Working as a servant in most but the idea of talking to their One Filipina housekeeper in domestic service is very much family. authorized spending on “treats” parts of the world today looks baby sitter about unloading the London I interviewed said many still with us — as scandals on both Relationships between employ- and “thank yous.” more like $1.42 an hour than dishwasher will give them cramps of her friends would rather clean sides of the Atlantic highlight. ers and domestic employees are A jury last month found in $8,000 spending sprees at Miu for a week.” houses than look after children, In Britain, the public has been ostensibly far more relaxed today favour of the Grillos — one moral Miu. The result is that the home too because it broke their hearts to be fascinated by the case of the Grillo — but they are also more ambigu- being that if you tell your employ- The majority of domestic work- often becomes a minefield of awk- reminded of the ones they hadn’t sisters, two personal assistants to ous. Employers often go to great ees they are part of your family, ers operate outside the formal wardness, resentment and misun- seen in years. celebrity chef Nigella Lawson and lengths to include the nanny or you shouldn’t be too surprised if economy for cash in hand. The derstanding. It’s a picture not all The modern home resembles art dealer Charles Saatchi who the housekeeper in family events, they take you at your word. International Labor Organization that different from the one Celia the home of a century ago more were accused of racking up $1.1m and modern nannies may be on Another source of the murki- reports that “more than half of all Fremlin described after working closely than we may realize. Those in personal spending on their first-name, bathroom-sharing, ness in the employer-employee domestic workers have no statu- undercover as a British domestic science-fiction predictions of employers’ credit cards. space-jostling terms with their relationship has to do with shift- tory limitation of their weekly in the 1930s. robotic servants and three-course Meanwhile, in the United employers. ing attitudes toward the home working hours, [and] more than Fremlin wrote of “fatuous meals in the shape of a single pill States, fallout continues from But are they family? The and questions about the extent to two out of five are not entitled and quite unnecessary agonies have not materialized. Dust still the case of the Indian diplomat forums on the website DC Urban which it is a legitimate workplace. to be paid a minimum wage.” endured by both mistress and gathers, and floors still need mop- accused of circumventing mini- Moms highlight the ambivalence. Of course, that conception is Greycoat Lumleys, a domestic- maid in a class society.” ping. Labour-saving technology mum-wage laws to pay her house- Posters helping their nannies find changing once again. The home employment agency in London, It hasn’t helped mitigate these doesn’t always save much time: keeper less than $1.42 an hour. new jobs often recommend them is increasingly an extension of the told me that its clients typically tensions that the freedoms of Doing laundry by hand was ardu- These cases may be at the on the basis of how well or how office, and technology makes the ask employees to sign a waiver of middle-class women — to go to ous, but you generally did it only extreme ends of the spectrum. quickly they fit in with the family. job only an email or a videoconfer- the European 48-hour workweek, university, pursue careers and once a week. In many ways, they aren’t repre- Yet there are also posts by moth- ence away. to allow “flexible working.” cultivate their inner lives — Now, as in the past, we tend sentative of the 53 million domes- ers expressing concern about The idea that the home isn’t, Attitudes toward the home sometimes rely on the ability to to underestimate the value of tic workers worldwide. nannies kissing their charges. or shouldn’t be, a place of work may also go some ways to explain find other people, usually work- domestic work — and often fail Yet even typical relationships When Lawson and Saatchi took explains some of the resistance to why professionals have trouble ing-class women, to take on the to give it the dignity that it should between employers and domestic the Grillo sisters to court on fraud government regulation of domes- transferring their management labour of the house. be accorded. workers — whose jobs may involve charges, they talked about being tic work. And it leaves employees skills to domestic-employment Voltaire’s observation that “the WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 19 JANURARY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GECM & TENDERS

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday British economy grew at China December export fastest pace last year since growth slows 2007 - NIESR BEIJING: China’s export growth slowed French economy ‘still looking more than expected in December due to a LONDON: Britain’s economy weak’ grew at its fastest pace since higher comparison base a year earlier and Japan logs record current PARIS: US budget deficit plunging 2007 last year, despite a slight France’s unemployment rate a clamp-down on speculative activities is stubbornly high, just below 11%, account deficit on rising in fiscal 2014 slowdown in growth in the disguised as export deals, missing the and economic growth is persistently import cost final three months, a leading official target on foreign trade. But the WASHINGTON: The US Treasury weak. The French economy is still TOKYO: Japan logged its largest economic research body outlook for 2014 is expected to be brighter reported some positive fiscal slightly smaller than it was at the current account deficit in estimated on Friday. as global demand picks up, giving more news on Monday: For the first beginning of 2008, just before November 2013, marking the The National Institute of wiggle room for Chinese leaders to push quarter of the fiscal year that the downturn set off by the global second straight month of red ink Economic and Social Research through reforms to balance the world’s began in October, the budget financial crisis. as a weaker yen pushed up costs said Britain’s economy grew second-largest economy. deficit was $120 billion lower for energy imports, but failed to by 0.7 percent in the last three compared with the same three buoy Japan’s key export sector, months of 2013. months in the year-ago period. according to data issued by the India wholesale inflation Finance Ministry Tuesday. slips to five-month low NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale Argentina says full-year 2013 Rand weakens most among inflation rate slipped to a five- inflation hit 10.9 pc month low in December as food emerging currencies costs started to cool, sparking BUENOS AIRES: Argentine CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s rand hopes that stubbornly high prices consumer prices rose 1.4 percent weakened the most among emerging- which have been weighing on in December compared with market currencies before the release of consumer sentiment and growth November, speeding up from prior data that may show mining production may at last be coming down. months and bringing the rate in Africa’s biggest economy slowed. The wholesale price index—India’s for the year to 10.9 percent, the The figures may provide evidence most widely watched gauge of government said on Wednesday. of whether the export industry is inflation—rose 6.16% in December The country’s official inflation benefiting from the rand’s 19 percent from a year earlier, government figures are widely disputed. slump over the past year. Mining data issued Wednesday showed. Australia jobs unexpectedly fall Private economists polled by commodities account for more than SYDNEY: Australian employers Reuters estimated that Argentine 50 percent of the country’s exports, unexpectedly cut payrolls in December, consumer prices rose 3.0 percent according to government data. sending the local currency to the lowest last month, reaching 25 to 26 in more than three years and reviving percent in full year 2013. the prospect of further interest-rate reductions as mining investment wanes. The number of people employed dropped by 22,600, the statistics bureau said in Sydney today, compared with the median estimate for a 10,000.

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Seahawks’ Harvin to miss Miami beat Philadelphia NFC title game NEW YORK: Seattle Seahawks Heat end three-game slide; LA Clippers knock off New York Knicks wide receiver Percy Harvin, who suffered a concussion dur- ing last week’s victory over the NEW YORK: Chris Bosh a row over the Timberwolves at The Magic (10-30) lost their New Orleans Saints, will not scored 25 points, LeBron James Air Canada Centre. 10th consecutive game, the longest play in the NFC Championship had a near-triple-double and The Raptors (20-18) have won current streak in the NBA. game against the San Francisco the Miami Heat stifled the 17 of 18 from the Timberwolves Josh McRoberts had 17 points, 49ers, Seahawks coach Pete Philadelphia 76ers to fashion a (18-21). including a season-high five three- Carroll said yesterday. 101-86 victory and snap a three- The depleted Los Angeles pointers for the Bobcats (17-24), Harvin suffered the concussion game slide. Lakers staged a rally down the and Kemba Walker had 19 points while trying to make a catch in James finished with 21 points, stretch and defeated an old foe, and 10 assists. the end zone during the first half 10 assists and eight rebounds for spoiling point guard Rajon Rondo’s Forward LaMarcus Aldridge last week and did not return to Miami (28-11), who last lost three return to the Boston lineup. had 26 points and 13 rebounds to the game. It was only the second straight in January 2012. The Lakers scored the game’s lead the Portland Trail Blazers game he played this season. The 76ers (13-26), who lost for final 11 points and pulled out a 107- to a 109-100 win over the San Meanwhile, Cleveland Browns the fifth time in six games, made 104 victory over the Celtics. Antonio Spurs. wide receiver Davone Bess was just two of their 20 three-point The Lakers ended a six-game Aldridge was 11 of 22 from the arrested for assaulting an officer/ attempts. Miami also blocked 12 overall losing streak and a seven- field and hit all four free throws firefighter on Friday morning, shots, five by Bosh, and forced 22 game road skid. as the Trail Blazers (30-9) staved South Florida TV station WBFS turnovers. Rondo, out since tearing his off a furious comeback from San reported. The Los Angeles Clippers right ACL on Jan. 25 last year, Antonio. The arrest comes a day after matched a season-high five became Boston’s 15th captain Guards Wesley Matthews added he posted an image on Twitter straight wins after knocking off before the game and playing four 24 points, Damian Lillard 21 and of what appeared to be mari- the New York Knicks 109-95. five-minute “shifts,” he scored Mo Williams 13 for Portland. juana, indicating he was watching Blake Griffin led the Clippers eight points. Guard Manu Ginobili scored a “Cocaine Cowboys,” a programme with 32 points, Jamal Crawford John Wall had 23 points and 11 season-high 29 points to lead San about illegal drug use in the 1980s, came off the bench to record 29 assists as the Washington Wizards Antonio (31-9). and wrote the message “We da points and DeAndre Jordan regis- won their third straight game and Portland outscored San Antonio real dons!” The photo was later tered his 18th double-double with second over the Chicago Bulls this 19-11 down the stretch to seal the deleted. 11 points and 16 rebounds. week with a 96-93 victory. win. The Houston Texans have The Clippers (28-13), who lead Martell Webster and Bradley Forward Kevin Durant scored a agreed to hire Romeo Crennel as the Pacific Division, are now 5-1 Beal each had 14 points for the new career-high 54 points in lead- their new defensive coordinator, since Chris Paul separated his Wizards (19-19), who reached .500 ing the Oklahoma City Thunder the Houston Chronicle reported. shoulder on Jan. 4. for the third time this season. past the Golden State Warriors Crennel, who was out of the The Knicks (15-24) dropped Washington, who have yet to 127-121. NFL this past season after being their third in a row after captur- post a winning record at any point Durant took 39 points into the fired as the Kansas City Chiefs ing five straight. Carmelo Anthony this season, shot 50.6 percent from fourth quarter before adding 15 head coach following the 2012 sea- led five Knicks in double figures the field in the seesaw affair that points to put the game away. son, met new Texans head coach with 26 points and 20 rebounds. included 12 lead changes and 11 It was Durant’s sixth straight Bill O’Brien about the position a Kyle Lowry scored 24 points and ties before leaving the Bulls at game of at least 30 points and week ago. added six assists and five rebounds 18-20. third game of more than 40 in Crennel will officially replace and the Toronto Raptors defeated Utah rookie point guard Trey January. Wade Phillips as Texans defensive the Minnesota Timberwolves Burke pumped in 20 points and Oklahoma City (30-10) forward coordinator next week, according 94-89 to extend their home win- had a career-high 12 assists to Serge Ibaka added 21 points and to the report. ning streak to six. propel the Jazz to a 110-89 win eight rebounds while the Warriors Hall of Famer Joe Montana It was the Raptors’ 10th win in over Detroit. (25-16) got 37 points on 11-for-18 told USA Today that San Goran Dragic (1) of the Phoenix Suns puts up a shot over Shane Larkin (3) Burke, who led the University shooting from guard Seth Curry. Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin of Michigan to the national cham- The Memphis Grizzlies were of the Dallas Mavericks during the second half of their NBA game at US Kaepernick has room to improve. NBA Results pionship game last season, got a down seven points with 4:01 to Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday. “I like his mobility and that LA Clippers 109 NY Knicks 95 measure of revenge against the play but closed the fourth quar- he’s getting the ball downfield,” Charlotte 111 Orlando 101 Michigan pro team that passed ter with a 10-2 run to defeat the the Cleveland Cavaliers held off assists and forward Dirk Nowitzki Montana said. “But sometimes he Miami 101 Philadelphia 86 on him during the draft lottery Sacramento Kings 91-90. the Denver Nuggets for a 117-109 added 21 points as the Dallas needs to be more accurate in the in June. The Grizzlies (20-19) moved win. Mavericks led from wire to wire pocket with pressure.” Toronto 94 Minnesota 89 The player Detroit (16-23) above .500 for the first time since Guard C.J. Miles and forward but had to hang on to beat the The Washington Redskins Washington 96 Chicago 93 selected ahead of Burke, shooting they were 9-8 on Dec. 3 and Luol Deng added 18 points each Phoenix Suns 110-107. named Wes Phillips as tight ends LA Lakers 107 Boston 104 guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, extended their winning streak to for Cleveland. Forward Wilson The Suns had one last chance to coach, and retained offensive line Utah 110 Detroit 89 was limited to five points as Utah five games. Chandler scored 23 points and tie the score in the final seconds coach Chris Foerster and defensive Memphis 91 Sacramento 90 improved to (14-27). Memphis point guard Mike guard Ty Lawson had 19 points after a basket by Phoenix guard coordinator Jim Haslett, the team Portland 109 San Antonio 100 Veteran center Al Jefferson had Conley led all scorers with 25 and 11 assists for the Nuggets, who Goran Dragic cut the Mavericks’ announced. Cleveland 117 Denver 109 30 points and 16 rebounds to lead points and had six assists. had their four-game home win- lead to three with 6.7 seconds left The Green Bay Packers the Charlotte Bobcats to a 111-101 Guard Kyrie Irving scored 23 ning streak stopped. but P.J. Tucker’s shot from the announced that outside lineback- Dallas 110 Phoenix 107 victory over the hapless Orlando points, forward Tristan Thompson Guard Monta Ellis collected deep right corner spun out. ers coach Kevin Greene resigned. Oklahoma City 127 Golden State 121 Magic. had 20 points and 10 rebounds and 24 points, six rebounds and seven REUTERS REUTERS Chicago Blackhawks Figure skating: Fernandez strikes gold BUDAPEST: Spaniard Javier as national champion Maxim time at 26 years, Voronov scored to make a decision next week. Fernandez boosted his Olympic Kovtum slumped to fifth after an 167.04 for his Tango-themed pro- Fernandez was a surprise win- beat Anaheim 4-2 medal hopes as he defended his error-strewn free skate. gramme for 252.55 overall, with ner of the men’s title last year men’s crown at the European “I had a couple of mistakes that Menshov achieving 165.12 and in Zagreb, becoming the first NEW YORK: Marian Hossa Four different players scored figure skating championships in I have to fix for the Olympics. I 237.24 overall. Spanish figure skater to win a scored twice and wingers Kris goals, two of them on power plays, Budapest yesterday as Russia think with a little bit more I will Russian champion Kovtum medal at an ISU championship Versteeg and Bryan Bickell and the Blue Jackets continued faced a dilemma over who to have a chance,” said Fernandez. slumped to fifth after an error- and he went on to take bronze at added goals as the Chicago their midseason turnaround, choose for their men’s team in He scored 175.55 points for strewn performance. the worlds. Blackhawks beat Anaheim 4-2 routing the Capitals 5-1. Sochi. his free skate to the “Peter The 18-year-old Kovtum had Fifteen-year-old Julia at the United Center. The Blue Jackets have won a The 22-year-old from Madrid Gunn” soundtrack and “Harlem been battling 2006 Olympic cham- Lipnitskaia of Russia became the Chicago’s win snapped season-long five straight games landed three quadruple jumps Nocturne” for an overall total of pion Yevgeny Plushenko for the youngest woman ever to win the Anaheim’s eight-game winning while the Capitals have lost 11 of in the free skating final to take 267.11. berth in Sochi after stunning the European title on Friday night, streak and was only the second their last 15. the gold by a 14.56-point margin “I don’t want to expect any- former three-time world cham- with Italy’s Anna Cappellini and loss in the last 20 games for the The win kept Columbus in sixth on Russia’s Sergei Voronov with thing. I just want to go there pion to win the national title last Luca Lanotte winning ice dancing Ducks (36-9-5). place in the Metropolitan, but only another Russian Konstantin (Sochi), try my best and hope I month. gold earlier in the week. It was goaltender Jonas Hiller’s four points separate seventh-place Menshov taking the bronze medal. can fight to be on the podium,” Plushenko is not compet- The competition concludes first loss after a team record 14 Carolina (49) and second-place There is now a battle for he added. ing in Europeans with the with today’s pairs final. straight wins, the second-most in Philadelphia (53). Cam Atkinson Russia’s sole men’s berth in Sochi On the podium for the first Russian skating federation due AFP NHL history. scored two goals, with James Chicago (31-8-11) had lost four Wisniewski, Ryan Johansen and of their previous five games. Mark Letestu also scoring. Outside of the first-place REUTERS Pittsburgh Penguins, the NHL’s Metropolitan Division looks like a 5 pm traffic jam. The Columbus NHL Results Kueng claims maiden Wengen downhill Blue Jackets and Washington Columbus 5 Washington 1 Capitals are currently headed in WENGEN: Swiss upstart Perhaps because of those Chicago 4 Anaheim 2 different directions. Patrick Kueng dominated a changes, a number of big names shortened Wengen downhill failed to shine on a bumpy course yesterday to claim his first ever which, in the past, has often World Cup win in the sport’s rewarded the sport’s all-rounders. blue-riband event. Swiss veteran Didier Defago Austrian Hannes Reichelt fin- narrowly avoided crashing into Tigers agree one-year deal ished second at 0.06sec for his the safety netting while former fourth podium of the season, with two-time Wengen winner Bode Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal, Miller of the United States missed with pitching ace Scherzer the World Cup downhill and over- a potential podium place after a all leader, completing the podium huge mistake near the bottom. NEW YORK: Ace pitcher Max Scherzer avoided arbitration shortly after finishing 0.07 off Kueng’s Austrian Max Franz then took before Friday’s deadline by agreeing to a one-year contract with the winning time of 1min 32.66sec. the provisional lead in a time of Detroit Tigers for the 2014 season, the Major League Baseball team The legendary Wengen down- 1:32.90, but two racers later his said. hill, at more than 4.4 kilometres celebrations ended when Kueng No financial details were revealed by the club but media reports long, is the longest on the circuit completed the course 0.24secs estimated the deal to be worth $15.525m. but a significant slice of race-day quicker. Franz eventually finished Scherzer, the American League’s Cy Young Award winner last year, drama was removed when strong just off the podium in fourth, with Patrick Kueng of Switzerland in action during his run in the downhill race at will become a free agent after his 2014 campaign and the Tigers hope winds near the top of the course Miller fifth at 0.35. to lock him into a long-term deal. forced a rethink. Canada’s Erik Guay, a former the FIS Ski World Cup at the Lauberhorn in Wengen, Switzerland, yesterday. The 29-year-old earned $6.725m in a breakout season in 2013 when Organisers shortened the course world champion, did not finish he compiled a 21-3 record with a 2.90 earned run average and 240 to 2.68km in length and dropped while Italian duo Peter Fill and affable Norwegian further extend having taken part in the downhill. strikeouts. the start from 2,315 metres in alti- Werner Heel, who had both shone his lead atop the overall World Svindal also remains in top Scherzer led the American League with 21 wins and an .875 winning tude to 1,900m — although that did in training on the longer course on Cup standings to 757 points, with position in the downhill standings percentage and helped his team reach the AL championship series not stop much of the field hitting Wednesday, finished seventh and Austrian Marcel Hirscher in sec- on 360pts from Reichelt (260) and where they lost four games to two to the Boston Red Sox. in excess of 150 km/h on the fast- 15th respectively. ond (675) and American Ted Ligety Kueng (221). REUTERS est section of the Lauberhorn. Svindal’s third place saw the in third (433), the latter two not AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Nani Roma wins Dakar Rally Double for Spain as Marc Coma claims motorcycle title; Qatar’s Nasser finishes third

VALPARAÏSO: Spanish driver Nani Roma won the Dakar Rally yesterday, 10 years after he clinched the motorcycle title in the gruelling event. Roma, 42, overturned a 26-sec- ond overnight deficit on his Mini teammate and 11-time champion Stephane Peterhansel to take victory. South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers (Toyota) won the stage, the 13th and final one of the race over 157km from La Serena, with Roma in second and 2011 cham- pion Nasser Al Attiyah of Qatar taking third. Roma becomes just the third man to win the Dakar title on two and four wheels after Peterhansel and Hubert Auriol. His win came after a controver- sial two days when Mini insisted on team orders which would have seen Roma, Peterhansel and Al Attiyah complete a podium lock- out for the manufacturers. But Friday saw Roma suffer a puncture, allowing Peterhansel to retake the overall lead. Dakar Rally Results Auto Overall 1. Nani Roma (ESP/Mini) 50hr 44min 58sec, 2. Stephane Peterhansel (FRA/Mini) 5:38, 3. Nasser Al Attiyah (QAT/Mini) 56:52, 4. Giniel De Villiers (RSA/Toyota) 1 h 19:07, 5. Orlando Spaniard Nani Roma (right) and his co-driver Michel Perin celebrate their victory in the auto category at the finish line of the last stage of Dakar Rally 2014 at Illapel locality, 150km from Terranova (ARG/Mini) 1 h 27:44, 6. Krzysztof Valparaiso, Chile. (Right) Spain’s Marc Coma celebrates his victory in the motorcycle category after the 13th stage. Holowczyc (POL/Mini) 3 h 55:42, 7. Marek Dabrowski (POL/Toyota) 5 h 34:25, 8. Christian Lavieille (FRA/Haval) 5 h 35:50, 9. Martin It was unclear in the immediate “I always had it in my head that Spain’s Marc Coma, riding for lead over the chasing pack going soaring to 47 degrees at one stage. Kaczmarski (POL/Mini) 6 h 58:12, 10. Vladimir aftermath of yesterday’s conclu- I wanted to win in a car after win- the KTM team, won the motorcy- into the final day, came in 18th. It also witnessed the death Vasilyev (RUS/UKR/Mini) 6 h 59:34. sion whether or not the Mini driv- ning the motorcycles,” said Roma, cle title for the fourth time. “This represents a lot of sacri- of one competitor -- Belgian Moto ers had received new instructions. whose wife also took part in the The Dakar specialist avoided fices,” said 37-year-old Coma. “It motorcyclist Eric Palante on Peterhansel, six times a cham- race, competing in the motorcycle any last day misfortune to add the was an extreme course with some the fifth stage between Chilecito Overall pion on two wheels and five times race. 2014 title to his successes in 2006, good moments and some hard and Tucuman -- as well as two 1. Marc Coma (ESP/Ktm) 54hr 50min 53sec, 2. on four, was fourth on yester- “I don’t know if this is the great- 2009 and 2011. times. Argentine reporters. Jordi Viladoms (ESP/Ktm) 1 h 52:27, 3. Olivier day’s stage and took second place est stress I have experienced, but The 13th and final stage was “Every time I have won this The Dakar Rally also proved a Pain (FRA/Yamaha) 2 h 00:03, 4. Cyril Despres overall, 5min 38sec behind his it was very tough,” said Roma. won by France’s Cyril Despres, rally, I have said I will savour the hit with fans as Argentina police (FRA/Yamaha) 2 h 00:38, 5. Helder Rodrigues teammate. “The second week with hard, the defending champion, on moment as I don’t know if I am estimated around one million (POR/Honda) 2 h 11:09, 6. Kuba Przygonski Al Attiyah, meanwhile, was long stages wasn’t easy. But 10 a Yamaha with Spain’s Joan going to win again.” spectators watched the race get (POL/Ktm) 2 h 31:46, 7. Joan Barreda (ESP/ left to rue the one-hour penalty years after winning on a motor- Barreda (Honda) in second and The 36th edition of the Dakar under way at Rosario, the birth- Honda) 2 h 54:01, 8. Daniel Gouet (CHI/Honda) he collected for missing waypoints cycle also on January 18, I have another French rider, Olivier Pain Rally, which crossed Argentina, place of Che Guevara and Lionel 3 h 10:34, 9. Stefan Svitko (SVK/Ktm) 3 h on the 10th stage as he finished won in the cars. It’s a dream come (Yamaha), in third. Bolivia as well as Chile, proved one Messi. 50:10, 10. David Casteu (FRA/Ktm) 3 h 58:09. 56min 52sec behind Roma. true.” Coma, who had a near two-hour of the toughest with temperatures AFP

Korea’s Mo Reed keeps PGA lead after second 63 takes lead in PALM SPRINGS: Patrick hitting it, so I built confidence Reed, who had fired 63s only Australian Matt Jones plus a Reed matched his PGA career- through the first two holes.” twice before on tour before shoot- pack of seven Americans on 133. windy Thailand best round for the second day Reed’s score is the lowest ing them twice in as many days, South Koreans Charlie Wi and US PGA Humana in a row, firing another nine- opening 36-hole total since Pat seeks his second PGA title, the Noh Seung-Yul were on 134 along BANGKOK: Korea’s Mo Joong- under par 63 on Friday to grab Perez opened 61-63 at this event first coming last year as a PGA with Americans Ben Crane, Jerry Challenge Scores Kyung surged to the top of the a two-stroke lead at the $5.7m in 2009 on the way to his first rookie at Greensboro. Kelly, Cameron Tringale and PALM SPRINGS, United leaderboard in the third round PGA Humana Challenge. career title. American Brendon Todd, the Martin Flores. States: Scores after yester- of the King’s Cup yesterday, The 23-year-old American Reed opened with a birdie, fol- only player without a bogey over Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa was day’s second round of the notching up a two-under-par 70 fired eight birdies and an eagle lowed with a bogey, then sand- the first two rounds, fired a PGA among a dozen players on 135, a $5.7m US PGA Tour Humana as windy conditions blew other against a lone bogey at La wiched birdies at the fourth and career-best 63 at the Arnold pack that also included Scotsmen Challenge at the PGA West players off course. Quinta Country Club to stand on the par-5 sixth around an eagle Palmer course to stand second on Martin Laird and Russell Knox, complex (par-72, USA unless The 42-year-old had been 18-under 126 after 36 holes in an at the par-5 fifth, hitting his sec- 128 with compatriot Ryan Palmer Aussie Stuart Appleby and South noted): trailing in third place at the $1m event played over three courses ond shot to five feet and sinking third another stroke back after a African Rory Sabbatini. 126 Patrick Reed 63-63 Asian Tour event at the Black at the PGA West complex. the eagle putt. 65 at La Quinta. American Keegan Bradley 128 Brendon Todd 65-63 Mountain Golf Club in Hua Hin, “When you go over to La The first-round leader opened Charlie Hoffman was on 130 aced the 180-yard, par-3 third but stood tall against gusts that 129 Ryan Palmer 64-65 Quinta, the fairways are much the back nine with a birdie, added after a 66 on the Jack Nicklaus hole on the Nicklaus course for reached up to 36 kilometres (22 more narrow so you’re really another at the par-3 12th and ran course with countrymen Bill the first hole in one of his PGA 130 Charlie Hoffman 64-66 miles) an hour, shooting six bird- focusing on small targets,” Reed off three birdies in a row starting Haas and James Driscoll on career. 131 Bill Haas 65-66, James Driscoll 68- ies and four bogeys for a three- said. “I just got off to a good start at the par-3 15th to stay on top. 131, Charlie Beljan on 132 and AFP 63 day total of nine-under-par 207. Home favourite Prom Meesawat of Thailand slipped to joint second with Filipino Angelo Que, who carded the day’s lowest score with a 67. Abu Dhabi Lee repels Mickelson charge in Abu Dhabi Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg, who had shared the lead with Prom, Championship dropped to fifth place with a 74. ABU DHABI: Little-known pitching wedge that flew under the “At the start, I didn’t expect Scores Briton Craig Lee withstood a leaves and up on to the green. the winds to be so strong,” Mo barnstorming display from world Lee will play alongside the left- said, according to a report by the ABU DHABI: Collated number five Phil Mickelson to hander in the final group today Asian Tour. “I managed to figure third-round scores in the grab a two-stroke lead after the and said he would take heart out how to combat the winds and $2.7m Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf third round of the $2.7m Abu from unheralded Welshman Jamie I played pretty well coming down Championship yesterday at Dhabi Championship yesterday. Donaldson’s victory in Abu Dhabi the stretch.” the par-72 Abu Dhabi Golf Lee, 36, who had shared the 12 months ago. He credited his fitness regime Club: overnight lead with Spaniard “You can look back on that and for helping him keep pace with his 204 Craig Lee (SCO) 68-67-69 Rafael Cabrera-Bello, lifted say fairytales do happen,” said the younger rivals. 206 Phil Mickelson (USA) 73-70-63, his hopes of scooping the first Scotsman. “I just have to go out “I’m still feeling fine after 54 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 72-68-66 European Tour victory of his and play the best I can. holes,” he said. 207 Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 69-70-68, career by firing a three-under- “My career is starting to Que, who also managed the Rory McIlroy (NIR) 70-67-70 par 69 for a 12-under total of 204. gradually get better and better gusts to make a comeback after Mickelson surged into conten- and steadier and steadier which a disappointing second round 75, 208 Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP) 73-68- tion, a dazzling 63 taking him is probably the most important said: “You never know when you 67, Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 70-70- into a tie for second place on part. To come out on top tomor- might have to play in a typhoon or 68, Matthew Baldwin (ENG) 67-72- 206 along with India’s Gaganjeet Craig Lee of Scotland tees a shot on the third day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC row would be a joyful occasion.” calm weather conditions.” 69, Michael Hoey (NIR) 69-71-68, Bhullar (66). Golf Championship yesterday. Northern Irishman McIlroy He said he was “happy” with Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP) 67-68-73 A further stroke adrift were incurred a two-stroke penalty his game. “I’m not going to think 209 Peter Hanson (SWE) 70-70-69, world number seven Rory McIlroy conjured up a four at the par-five the air in delight when he rolled in after breaching the rules while about the win. I just want to go out Thomas Bjorn (DEN) 70-67-72 (70), who was scuppered by a two- 18th after finding a bunker off the his putt from 30 feet for his clos- taking a drop at the second, turn- and have fun.” 210 Jose Filipe-Lima (POR) 68-75-67, shot penalty, and Spain’s Pablo tee and sandy waste with his sec- ing birdie. ing his par-five at the hole into a Despite slipping to second, Martin Kaymer (GER) 70-71-69, Otto Larrazabal (68). ond shot. “It probably wasn’t very sensible double-bogey seven. Prom remained confident he could Hennie (RSA) 70-71-69, Tyrell Hatton Early starter Mickelson charged With a palm tree in front of of me to try to go for the green but “I guess I just have to try to take his second Asian tour victory. (ENG) 69-71-70, George Coetzee through the field with a dynamic him, the 43-year-old Californian hey, that’s what I do,” Mickelson make up those shots as early as “It is still a very good position to (RSA) 68-70-72, Joost Luiten (NED) round containing nine birdies, one produced a low, fading escape with told reporters. possible tomorrow and try to get be in as anything can happen. The 68-70-72, Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) eagle and two dropped shots. his third effort that scuttled up on “I was fortunate in that I just off to a fast start,” he said. door is still open,” he said. 73-65-72 The five-times major winner to the green and he fist-pumped had enough room to trap out a low REUTERS AFP SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Fencing: Geroudet of Switzerland reigns supreme in Qatar

Tiffany Geroudet (second left) of Swizerland, winner at the Women’s World Cup final, shows off her gold medal along with other podium winners at Gate Mall in Doha yesterday. Geroudet defeated Julia Beljajeva (left) of Estonia in the final. Monika Sozanska of Germany and Julia Revesz of Hungary, losing semi-finalists had to settle for the bronze. RIGHT: The podium winners with officials of Qatar Fencing Federation. Geroudet defeated Chinese Sun Yujie, bronze medalist in the individual and team gold medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, in the fourth round. In the quarter-finals, she defeated for the first time in four games, the London Olympic champion, Jama Shemyakina of Ukraine. In the semi-finals, she overcame Revesz. In the final, she kept her cool to edge out Beljajeva, 2013 World Championship winner in Budapest. The four-day championship will end today with the women’s team championship final. Around 314 fencers from 50 countries are taking part in the Women’s World Cup and the Men’s Grand Prix. Netherlands India’s top ranking on line win inaugural World League

NEW DELHI: Constantijn Jonker scored a hat-trick as the Netherlands thumped New in New Zealand showdown Zealand 7-2 to win the inau- gural Hockey World League in New Delhi yesterday. One-Day International five-match series begins today in Napier The Dutch, who stunned reign- ing world champions Australia WELLINGTON: India put As befitting the global rock in the semi-finals, outplayed the their top spot in the world One- stars of cricket, the Indian bags Black Sticks in a one-sided final Day International rankings on were placed on a trailer and taken at the Dhyan Chand Stadium in the line in a five-match series to their bus while the lowly- the Indian capital. starting in Napier today against ranked New Zealanders carried Two goals from Jonker and a New Zealand side fired up by their own bags away from the one from Billy Bakker helped the new-found self-belief. nets. Netherlands race to a 3-0 lead by Although New Zealand lie a half-time, before Bob de Voogd lowly eighth on the world ladder, But, despite the huge difference Indian captain struck the fourth goal soon after the way they cleaned up their in rankings between the two sides, Mahendra the resumption. series against the West Indies was India captain Mahendra Singh Singh Dhoni Steve Edwards reduced the a confidence booster for a team Dhoni declares he is not taking (right) dur- margin for New Zealand in the with a history of not being able New Zealand lightly. ing a press 37th minute, but the Dutch con- to close out a winning situation. “Especially at home, they’ll conference tinued their scoring spree as “It was good to wrap it up and know the conditions better than in Auckland, Rogier Hofman netted the fifth take a big step for this team,” us and for some who have not goal in the 45th. New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said played here it will be a challenge.” The International Hockey yesterday. after New Zealand beat the West Although New Zealand have a Federation’s (FIH) newest com- Indies 2-0 in the Twenty20s to go clutch of quality bowlers, includ- petition opened with 54 teams with their 2-0 win in the Tests ing key wicket takers Mitch in August 2012, and, after and two-all drawn ODI series. McClenaghan and Nathan three rounds played around “We talked all week about McCullum and rising speedster the world, the top seven joined wanting to close out a series and Adam Milne who tops 150 kilo- hosts India for the title round the way we did it was excellent.” metres per hour (93 mph), India in New Delhi. For India to retain their have a batting depth. England took third place number one ranking they only Virat Kohli, Dhoni and Shikhar with a 2-1 win over Australia have to win the series, but a Dhawan are ranked among the yesterday. New Zealand win could catapult top 10 ODI batsmen and are Dhawan a more modest 43.96. evident in India’s most recent for the fight and we’re keen to be Belgium finished fifth after Australia to the top depending quick-scoring, near faultless New Zealand’s top batsman, ODIs against South Africa where in the mix of a challenge,” Nathan beating India 2-1, while Olympic on the outcome of their current craftsmen. Ross Taylor, averages 38.21 and they lost the first game by 141 McCullum said. champions Germany ended in series against England. The 25-year-old Kohli can be is ranked down in 16th place. runs and the second by 134, fig- The McLean Park pitch for seventh place after a 2-1 win The difference in status a match-winner on his own with But where New Zealand fancy ures which New Zealand duly the opening match has a reputa- against Argentina. between India and New Zealand an average of 51.54 from his 125 their chances is batting against noted. tion for being batter friendly and The FIH named German mid- was evident when they wrapped ODIs which include 17 centu- bowlers unused to the vagaries “The beauty of the New Zealand favouring the side batting last. fielder Tobias Hauke as the player up practice. ries. Dhoni averages 52.88 and of overseas conditions. This was team at the moment is we’re up AFP of the year for 2013. AFP Milan, Fluminense in Al Kass Cup semi-finals

DOHA : AC Milan made it a calm, mature finish that defied however, the two teams looked had forced an equaliser. Awarded through to the semi-finals of his years. entirely different to the ones a free kick inside the Kashiwa box, the Al Kass International Cup Eight minutes later and Reysol who had left the field 15 minutes Cutrone laid off for midfielder following a greatly impressive had doubled their advantage. previously. Michele Spinelli, who delivered a 3-2 win against highly touted Another sublime combination With all of Reysol’s starting 11 low, drilled effort into the Reysol Kashiwa Reysol. move, this time Ota broke at having played earlier in the week wall. The substitute’s fierce shot Having gone 2-0 down, the speed through the Milan midfield against PSG and FC Barcelona, took a deflection and found a way Italians came back strongly before laying off to Nakamura, the Japanese youngsters began past a despairing Someya. in the second half, with goals who did well to skip past two to fade, and it wasn’t long before Now full of belief and con- from Niccolo Zanellato, Michele challenges and fire past Milan Milan got back into the game. fidence, Milan’s third seemed Spinelli, Mattia El Hilali and keeper Fransesco Cancelli. Following a series of assaults inevitable and, in the game’s 84th overturning a daunting deficit. With 65 percent possession in on the Kashiwa goal, with minute, the Italian job was com- Fully deserving of their win, the the first half, Reysol looked by far Patrick Cutrone denied by sev- pleted when Niccolo Zanellato Rossoneri showed fantastic fight- the better side, and were denied eral impressive Someya saves, the crossed into the Kashiwa Reysol ing spirit following a solid first a third goal in the 29th minute Italians pulled one back in the box. half performance from Kashiwa after a questionable decision from 67th minute when the Japanese Rising to meet the ball first was Reysol. Organised, industrious assistant referee Hussain Al Syed. keeper rose prematurely to meet La Ferrara, whose headed effort and combative, the Japanese Slotting home after a fantastic a cross from Cosimo La Ferrara. rebounded off the crossbar into outfit first neutralised then out- through ball from Nakamura, Ota With the ball sailing over the the path of Mattia El Hilali. The played Milan for the entirety of appeared to be at least two yards head of the shot-stopper, Niccolo midfielder made no mistake, nod- the opening half. behind the AC Milan defence Zanellato headed home at the ding home the rebound to make Taigo Ota had the Chiba-based before making his run into the back post to make it 2-1. it 3-2. club off to a perfect start with a box. Unfortunately for the ram- With the Italians now firmly Goals from Fluminense substi- strike that confirmed Reysol’s pant Japanese youngsters, the in the ascendancy, an equaliser tutes Frank Franko and Jobson early dominance. Dispossessing goal was called offside. began to look increasingly likely. Dos Santos fired the Brazilian captain Andrea Malberti inside Yet, despite this setback, as the Cutrone, who had scored four in side into the semi-finals at the his own half, Shunta Nakamura first half ended it seemed certain his last two games, twice came expense of early favourites FC broke through the Milan defence that Reysol were heading for a close to leveling, first with an Barcelona. on 10 minutes before making a comfortable victory, particularly acrobatic bicycle kick that tested Reigning champions charge towards the opposition given the fitness levels that had Someya on 75 minutes, and a Fluminense won 2-0 after holding Action from the Al Kass Cup match between Brazilian club, Fluminense goal. seen them compete strongly then through a headed effort out against a Barca side who had and Spanish club, FC Barcelona at Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. Joined in the box by his attack- throughout their two previous that was ruled offside two min- looked the better team for much Fluminense won 2-0 to advance to the semi-finals. AC Milan also reached ing team-mates, Nakamura pulled games. utes later. of the game. the last four stage by defeating Japanese club Kashiwa Reysol 3-2. back for Ota, who slotted home Coming out for the second half, Soon enough, though, Milan THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

SPL: Celtic cruise to tenth Ronaldo, Bale on target successive win

GLASGOW: Kris Commons grabbed a double as 10-man Celtic cruised to their 10th win in a row after seeing off as Madrid move joint top Motherwell 3-0 at Parkhead yesterday. Celtic took the lead with just over four minutes on the clock Real trounce Betis 5-0; Benzema scores his 100th goal for Real as Commons stroked home the opener. Both sides had chances before MADRID: Real Madrid moved wait long to double their advan- Anthony Stokes earned Celtic level on points with Barcelona Spanish League tage, though, as Bale did make a 39th minute penalty which and Atletico Madrid at the top his mark with a dipping free-kick Commons despatched for his 19th of La Liga with a 5-0 hammer- Results on 25 minutes that beat the sta- of the season. ing of bottom-placed Real Betis tionary Andersen, although the Motherwell’s James McFadden MADRID: yesterday. Spanish league Danish keeper should have done missed a chance to pull one back Cristiano Ronaldo continued results yesterday: better. for his side just after the break his fantastic week after lifting Real Betis 0 Real Madrid 5 (Ronaldo 10, Ruben Castro missed a won- when he failed to beat Fraser the Ballon d’Or on Monday with Bale 25, Benzema 45+1, Di Maria 61, derful opportunity to pull a goal Forster from six yards out before a thumping long-range drive to Morata 90) back for the hosts when he failed former Celtic captain Stephen open the scoring before Gareth Playing today to connect with Leo Baptistao’s McManus turned the ball past his Bale silenced his recent critics Getafe vs Real Sociedad (1100), Villarreal fine low cross six minutes before own keeper in the 68th minute to with a trademark free-kick to vs Almeria (1600), Levante vs Barcelona half-time. Instead, it was Madrid make it 3-0. make it 2-0. (1800), Atletico Madrid vs Sevilla (2000) who struck again before the break Real Madrid’s The only disappointment for Karim Benzema then notched Tomorrow as Modric continued his fantas- Cristiano Celtic, who kept their eighth his 100th goal for Madrid in first- tic form of late with a wonder- clean sheet in a row in the league Athletic Bilbao vs Valladolid (2100) Ronaldo cel- half stoppage time as he blasted ful piece of composed play inside ebrates after for the first time since 1986, came home after classy play from Luka side produced their best display of the box to tee up Benzema to fire scoring against ten minutes from time when Modric. the year to date. home at the near post. Real Betis at the Stokes was shown a straight red Angel di Maria made it four “Bale played well, as did the Andersen redeemed himself Benito Villamarin for a tackle from behind on Keith just after the hour mark with whole team. We played with somewhat at the start of the Lasley. The win means Celtic Stadium another stunning effort from dis- great quality and concentration second period as he made a fine move 13 points clear of Aberdeen, in Seville, tance and Alvaro Morata rounded throughout the game,” he said. low save to his right to prevent who lost 1-0 at home to Inverness, off the scoring in stoppage time. It was once again Ronaldo Ronaldo doubling his tally and yesterday. with two games in hand as they All three leading clubs are now who stole the show early on as he also turned away a fiercely struck extend their unbeaten start to the tied on 50 points, but Barca and opened the scoring 10 minutes effort from Benzema. season to 22 matches. Motherwell Atletico can move back in front in with a thunderous drive from However, there was nothing the had come into the match looking when then face Levante and 25 yards out that flew into the Betis keeper could do to prevent to make it seven wins in a row -- Sevilla respectively today. top left-hand corner of Stephan Di Maria making it four as he a feat they hadn’t achieved since Bale had struggled since his Andersen’s net. arrowed a low left-footed drive 1933 in the top flight. However, return from a calf injury at the Ronaldo nearly had another from 30 yards into the bottom it only took until the fifth minute beginning of the year with coach memorable goal to add to his corner. And Betis’s afternoon was for Celtic to grab the lead with Carlo Ancelotti even admitting on collection 10 minutes later as he summed up in stoppage time when a goal created and finished by Friday that the Welshman could skipped past two Betis defenders Morata nipped in to prod past Commons. do better. before firing across the face of the Andersen as the home defence The Scottish midfielder played But the Italian praised the goal. appealed in vain for offside. a defence splitting pass to Stokes former Spurs man’s display as his The visitors didn’t have to AFP who raced into the box one-on- one with Gunnar Neilsen. The keeper saved his shot but he could only push it away as far as Commons who slammed home Coach Seedorf eyes Milan’s resurgence the rebound into the net. AFP

MILAN: Former playing great But in his first press confer- that the situation will come back playing under former coach Clarence Seedorf (pictured) said ence since arriving at the San to what it once was.” Massimiliano Allegri -- said the Scottish Premiership he has “no doubts” AC Milan Siro on Wednesday, Seedorf Fellow Dutchmen and former Dutchman commands respect. Results will rejoin Italy and Europe’s called on Milan to have faith in Rossoneri Marco Van Basten The Italy striker was spoken to GLASGOW: elite, and is counting on misfir- their potential to climb back up and Ruud Gullit were among at length by Seedorf in midweek Scottish ing striker Mario Balotelli to the table. those who expressed concerns and on Saturday told La Gazzetta Premiership results yesterday: lead the charge. “I think that difficult moments over Seedorf’s lack of creden- dello Sport: “Personally I’m happy. Aberdeen 0 Inverness CT 1 (Williams 22) A new era in Milan’s history have to be analysed with a view tials -- Milan is his first coach- “He’s won everything there is Celtic 3 (Commons 5, 39-pen, McManus begins today when Seedorf, who to finding solutions and never ing appointment. “It’s a risk,” to win and he only gave up playing 69-og) Motherwell 0 spent 10 golden years at the losing sight of the quality that said Van Basten. Gullit added: last week. It’s only normal you lis- Hibernian 2 (Collins 63, 89) St Mirren 3 seven-time European champions we have here,” said Seedorf, the “Clarence has no coaching expe- ten to him. You have a champion (Williams 5-og, Campbell 24, Thompson 26) as a player, takes charge of his first man to win the Champions rience and has to prove himself.” sitting in front of you.” Partick 1 (Higginbotham 4) Kilmarnock 1 first game as coach at home to League with three different clubs But the 37-year-old’s arrival Seedorf said he will tinker with (Muirhead 90) high-flying Verona. after stellar spells with Ajax, Real seems to have had a positive the 4-3-2-1 formation favoured Ross County 3 (Kiss 42, 74, Arquin 69) Milan currently sit 11th in Madrid and Milan. impact, at least off the pitch, so by Allegri to use a 4-3-1-2 that, Dundee Utd 0 Serie A, 30 points behind leaders “The team definitely haven’t far. Seedorf was visited by and in theory, would see new signing Juventus and 20 behind Napoli in expressed their quality in terms lunched with former Milan coach Keisuke Honda play in the hole St Johnstone 3 (May 39-pen, 49, 62-pen) the third and final qualifying spot of the numbers produced, but that Fabio Capello while Balotelli -- just behind Balotelli and Kaka. Hearts 3 (Carrick 58, Nicholson 89, Wilson for the Champions League. can happen and I have no doubt who at times seemed frustrated AFP 90) ‘Lucky loser’ Robert extends fairytale run MELBOURNE: Stephane of 119, failed to come through to the quarter-finals -- more than previous editions of the Australian Robert said yesterday he didn’t qualifying but was handed a spot a quarter of his total career earn- Open, and Cash said there could dare look at the prize money he at the tournament when Philipp ings to date.However, he said he have been a repeat if any French stands to win after extending Kohlschreiber pulled out injured. couldn’t bring himself to look at fans had taken exception. his Australian Open fairytale by Robert was given just 10 min- the prize money or the rankings “It got out of hand a few years becoming the first ever ‘lucky utes’ notice before taking the points he could win, fearing he ago with the Greeks and the loser’ to reach the last 16. court in the first round -- but will jinx himself for his fourth- Croatians having fights, I don’t The 33-year-old French jour- three matches and three wins round clash with Andy Murray. want to get into who started what neyman, with a world ranking later, he’s into the second week. “I’m not checking the prize but if there was French people Yesterday, he beat fellow lucky money. I’m not checking the there they could have been really Australian Open loser Martin Klizan 6-0, 7-6 (7/2), rankings or points, because when upset about what was going on,” 6-4. It was the first Grand Slam I do this, then I lose,” he said. he said. AGENCIES Results third round match between two Meanwhile, Tennis icon Pat MELBOURNE: Results lucky losers since Wimbledon in Cash has criticised fans as being from the Australian Open on 1973. “out of control” at the Australian Australian Open Saturday (x denotes seeding): “I’m very happy. You know, it’s Open after wild scenes during not a dream because I lost in the home hope Nick Kyrgios’s loss to Men’s singles Third Round Schedule qualies (qualifiers), but now after Benoit Paire. MELBOURNE: Stephane Robert (FRA) bt Martin Klizan I got this opportunity, now I’m Cash said he was embarrassed Order of (SVK) 6-0, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4; Roger Federer really in the tournament,” said at the crowd’s baiting of the play on show courts for the (SUI x6) bt Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 6-2, Robert.“Except the first match, French seed and warned there Australian Open today (x 6-2, 6-3; Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x22) bt Milos you know, I was a bit in trouble could be a repeat of the tourna- denotes seeding): Raonic (CAN x11) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (12/10); before the match because I didn’t ment’s infamous crowd violence. Rod Laver Arena Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) bt Benoit Paire know that I was supposed to play. “The crowd were absolutely 11:00 am (0000 GMT) (FRA x27) 6-2, 6-1, 6-4; Andy Murray (GBR “Then the second round and going crazy. Actually I’d say out Angelique Kerber (GER x9) vs Flavia x4) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP x26) 7-6 (7/2), third round I could prepare very of control,” Australia’s Cash told Pennetta (ITA x28); Serena Williams (USA 6-4, 6-2; Kei Nishikori (JPN x16) bt Donald well, and I was very solid these Fox Sports, referring to the five- x1) vs Ana Ivanovic (SRB x14); Fabio Young (USA) 7-5, 6-1, 6-0; Jo-Wilfried two matches. So I’m very happy set marathon on Thursday. Tsonga (FRA x10) bt Gilles Simon (FRA x18) with this kind of performance.” “I thought the umpire didn’t Fognini (ITA x15) vs 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-2; Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Robert said he had just opened handle that at all ... it was a joke. Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) Gael Monfils (FRA x25) 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. a US dollars bank account and “Paire would throw the ball up 7:00 pm Women’s singles Third Round was filling out a form for the ATP and they’d go ‘Miss it!’, stuff like Casey Dellacqua (AUS) vs Eugenie Simona Halep (ROM x11) bt Zarina Diyas when he got the call to play in the this. It was out of control.” Bouchard (CAN x30; Stanislas Wawrinka (KAZ) 6-1, 6-4; Dominika Cibulkova (SVK first round, and went to see the He added: “It’s the Australian (SUI x8) vs Tommy Robredo (ESP x17) x20) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x16) 6-1, tournament referee. Open, it’s got international play- Hisense Arena 6-0; Jelena Jankovic (SRB x8) bt Kurumi “He told me, ‘Okay, you’re ers, it’s not a Davis Cup, it’s not a Nara (JPN) 6-4, 7-5; Maria Sharapova (RUS ready to play? Court 7. Go.’ I saw football match. 12:30 pm x3) bt Alize Cornet (FRA x25) 6-1, 7-6 (8/6); my opponent, I said, ‘Okay, see “A fair amount of the crowd Li Na (CHN x4) vs Ekaterina Makarova Sloane Stephens (USA x13) bt Elina Svitolina you on court. And we went and had no respect whatsoever for a (RUS x22); Florian Mayer (GER) vs David (UKR) 7-5, 6-4; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL played,” laughed Robert. seeded French player, absolutely Ferrer (ESP x3) x5) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x29) After wins against Aljaz no respect. Margaret Court Arena 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Garbine Muguruza (ESP) bt Bedene, Michal Przysiezny and “I was quite embarrassed and Not before 5.00pm Stephane Robert of France celebrates winning against Martin Klizan of Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x10) 4-6, 7-5, now Klizan, Robert will receive I think the officials need to do Slovakia during their third round match at the Australian Open Grand 6-3; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Yvonne Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) vs $118,000 for reaching the last 16, something about it.” Slam tournament in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday. Meusburger (AUT) 6-1, 6-0. rising to $236,000 if he makes it Fan violence has marred Kevin Anderson (RSA x19) SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Messi ready EPL: Arsenal beat to showcase best form, Fulham to stay top says Martino

MADRID: Barcelona coach Goal-line technology aids Man City Gerardo Martino believes Lionel Messi has fully recovered from a hamstring injury that kept LONDON: Arsenal preserved paid to Fulham at the Emirates but Jesus Navas restored the him out for two months and will their lead in the Premier League Stadium. hosts’ lead four minutes later with soon be back to his best. by beating Fulham 2-0 yester- Fulham goalkeeper Maarten a measured finish. Messi is expected to start day, while goal-line technology Stekelenburg had frustrated Yaya Toure added a third goal as Barca travel to Levante in assisted Manchester City as Arsenal in the first half, but he in the 76th minute after a one- La Liga today after scoring they overcame Cardiff City. was beaten in the 57th minute two with Sergio Aguero, who got twice in his first start of 2014 Arsenal knew that anything when Cazorla slid a shot past him on the score-sheet himself three as Barca sealed their place in less than victory might allow after a neat interchange involving minutes later to claim his first the Copa del Rey quarter-finals City to gazump them, but it was Olivier Giroud and Jack Wilshere. league goal since returning from with a 2-0 win away to Getafe not until Santi Cazorla claimed a The Spanish midfielder added a a calf injury. in midweek. quick-fire brace mid-way through second five minutes later, collect- Fraizer Campbell pulled a goal The four-time World Player the second half that they put ing the ball on the edge of the box back late on for Cardiff. of the Year’s second goal in after Nacho Monreal’s cross was Liverpool fought back from two particular was spectacular as partially cleared and drilling a low goals down to record a 2-2 draw he dashed past three Getafe English Premier shot into the bottom-right corner. at home to Aston Villa, but squan- defenders before rounding the City remain a point behind dered an opportunity to close on goalkeeper and finishing from a League Results Arsenal after sinking Cardiff third-place Chelsea, who host narrow angle. LONDON: English Premier League results 4-2 on a day of milestones at the Manchester United on Sunday. Martino had been cautious not yesterday: Etihad Stadium. Surprise victors at Anfield last Arsenal’s German midfielder Mesut Ozil (left) runs with ball against to rush his compatriot’s return Edin Dzeko broke the dead- season, Villa opened up a 2-0 lead and he even left him on the Arsenal 2 (Cazorla 57, 62) Fulham 0 Fulham’s US midfielder Clint Dempsey during their English Premier lock in the 14th minute with a inside 36 minutes after Andreas bench for last weekend’s top of Crystal Palace 1 (Puncheon 51) Stoke 0 League football match at the Emirates Stadium in London, yesterday. goal that was City’s 100th of the Weimann tapped in Gabriel Arsenal won 2-0. the table clash away to Atletico Liverpool 2 (Sturridge 45, Gerrard 53-pen) season and appeared to represent Agbonlahor’s cross and Christian Madrid. Aston Villa 2 (Weimann 25, Benteke 36) the first time that goal-line tech- Benteke exploited an error by However, he believes the mini Manchester City 4 (Dzeko 14, Navas 33, nology has been decisively used Simon Mignolet to head home. West Bromwich Albion tomorrow. Yohan Cabaye scored twice as pre-season Messi did while he Toure 76, Aguero 79) Cardiff 2 (Noone 29, to award a goal in the Premier However, Daniel Sturridge Southampton were denied a Newcastle United bolstered their was out injured should prepare Campbell 90) League. The Bosnian striker’s equalised in first-half injury morale-boosting victory after challenge for European qualifica- him well for the second half of the Norwich 1 (Bennett 87) Hull 0 miscued effort from David Silva’s time, stabbing home from Jordan Sunderland also hit back from tion with a 3-1 success at West season. Sunderland 2 (Borini 32, Johnson 71) pass was hacked away from Henderson’s flick, before Steven 2-0 down to record a 2-2 draw Ham United, who slipped into the “From the point of his unfortu- Southampton 2 (Rodriguez 4, Lovren 31) beneath the crossbar by Aron Gerrard equalised with a 53rd- in an engaging encounter at bottom three. nate injury, he has done different West Ham 1 (Williamson 45-og) Newcastle Gunnarsson, but Hawkeye replays minute penalty after Villa goal- the Stadium of Light. Despite Jason Puncheon catapulted work from the rest of the squad. 3 (Cabaye 16, 90, Remy 33) shown on the stadium’s video keeper Brad Guzan felled Luis being rocked by the resignation Crystal Palace out of the rel- What the rest were doing in July Playing today screens confirmed that the ball Suarez. of chairman Nicola Cortese on egation zone after atoning for a and August, he is doing now,” he had just crossed the line. The draw left Liverpool eight Wednesday, Southampton took woeful penalty miss at Tottenham said. Swansea vs Tottenham (1330GMT), Chelsea vs Manchester United (1600GMT) Craig Noone equalised in the points behind Arsenal and three control through Jay Rodriguez Hotspur last weekend by scoring “A footballer like him, with 29th minute after exploiting points shy of Chelsea, while they and Dejan Lovren, only for Fabio the only goal in a 1-0 win over such talent and who is mentally Playing tomorrow slack defending from Martin are also at risk of being overtaken Borini and Adam Johnson to earn Stoke City. strong, is ready to show us his West Brom vs Everton (2000GMT) Demichelis and Vincent Kompany, by city rivals Everton, who visit Sunderland a point. AFP best form.” A draw against Atletico in Barca’s last league outing left them still tied with Diego Simeone’s men on 50 points at Man United in search of old fire at Chelsea exactly the midway point in the season. LONDON: Manchester as they have amassed only five appears stronger in that match. expect, they have made a strong Lampard will recover from a calf And with Real Madrid just United’s trip to Chelsea today points from a possible 21 in the That’s why I view this game as start to the season. injury in time for today’s game three points behind in third place, represents another opportu- seven games that they have played especially dangerous. I’ve not “We are a little bit disappointed but right-back Branislav Ivanovic Martino echoed Madrid coach nity for the woebegone English against the six teams above them written United off.” at not being in closer contention only returned to training on Carlo Ancelotti’s comments that champions to prove that they in the table. United can at least draw sol- with the teams at the top, but we Friday following a knee problem the eventual champions may have still deserve to be considered Injuries to strike pair Wayne ace from a run of five wins in six are hoping that between now and and is unlikely to feature. to surpass a league record total of among the Premier League’s Rooney and Robin van Persie have league games, but Chelsea’s recent the end of the season we can do Serbian midfielder Nemanja 100 points to win the title. leading lights. only compounded matters, but for form has been even more impres- that. Matic could make his second “The situation is going to be With six defeats to their name all United’s misfortune, Chelsea sive. They have climbed to third “We want to hang in there and Chelsea debut, having returned to close and if all three teams main- already this season and leaders manager Jose Mourinho believes place in the table, nine points if we could win this game it would the club from Benfica this week, tain their consistency, it will take Arsenal 11 points above them, it is still too soon to write them above United, by winning eight make people think we are not that but Mourinho has already con- more than 100 points to win the United’s title defence seems all off. of their last 10 matches and will far away.” firmed that he will not start the championship.” but over and they face a battle “We don’t play a team that is 11 be bidding for a fifth consecutive Victory for United would cer- game. Brazilian forward Neymar just to secure Champions League points behind the leaders. We play victory today. The teams played tainly have a transformative “The coach has to decide, but I misses the trip to Levante as qualification. the champions, we play against out a terse 0-0 at Old Trafford effect on perceptions of Moyes’s am ready,” said the 25-year-old. he has been ruled out for up to David Moyes’s men trailed Manchester United,” Mourinho when they last met in August, side -- Mourinho has never lost “I’m in training, I played (for four weeks after he sprained his fourth-place Liverpool by five said. but Moyes says it is hard to draw a home league game with Chelsea Benfica) on Sunday against Porto, right ankle against Getafe on points ahead of the weekend and “This is the way I feel. I’ve been conclusions from that encounter. and Moyes has never come out on so I don’t have any problems.” Thursday. another setback at Stamford too long in the game, I’ve played “That was a difficult game for top against the Portuguese. United made three visits to Andres Iniesta is also left out Bridge would further compro- dozens and dozens of derbies and both of us that probably came a In the continued absence of Stamford Bridge last season, of the squad as he continues mise their chances of fulfilling classic matches. This is what bit too early in the season,” said Rooney and Van Persie, United winning 3-2 in the league in to recover from a knee knock the minimum requirement of a experience says. the United manager. will once again turn to Danny September but going down 5-4 and Dani Alves is suspended so top-four finish. “On many occasions the team “We know this is going to be Welbeck, who has scored six goals in the League Cup fourth round Martin Montoya is expected to Their form against supposed that looks to be in the most dif- hard because Chelsea are very in his last six games, to lead the and 1-0 in an FA Cup quarter- start at right-back. title rivals does not augur well, ficult situation is the team that strong at home. As you would line. Chelsea hope that Frank final replay. AFP AFP QSL: Lekhwiya rally to down Al Kharaitiyat 3-1

DOHA: Lekhwiya rallied from Qatar Stars League a goal down to register a fight- ing 3-1 win over Al Kharaitiyat Round 15 Results in an exciting round 15 match of the Qatar Stars League here Today’s Results yesterday. Al Sailiyah 2 Al Arabi 3 With the fighting win the two- time former champions main- Qatar SC 2 Muaither 1 tiained their hold over the top Umm Salal 2 Eljaish 1 position. They now have 31 points Al Kharaitiyat 1 Lekhwiya 3 from 16 matches while Al Sadd are with 27 points and have played On Friday one match less. Al Khor 3 Al Gharafa 0 Lekhwiya conceded an early goal with Yahia Kiepi giving Al Al Wakra 2 Al Rayyan 1 Kharaitiyat the lead in the 16th Al Ahli 0 Al Sadd 0 minute. The league leaders were trailing by a goal till the 80th QSL Standings minute. In the last ten minutes of the match Eric Gerets side raised P W D L G GA P the tempo to pump in three goals. Karim Boudiaf secured the Lekhwiya 16 9 4 3 31 17 31 equaliser for Lekhwiya and four Al Sadd 15 7 6 2 30 16 27 minutes Nam Tee Hee (84) gave them the lead and Sebastian Soria Al Arabi 15 7 3 5 23 17 24 (88) put the issue beyond doubt. El Jaish 16 7 3 6 19 17 24 In another match, Al Arabi defeated Al Sailiyah 3-2 to reg- Qatar SC 15 6 5 4 18 19 23 ister their second successive win. Al Ahli 15 6 4 5 26 25 22 With yesterday’s win, Al Arabi moved to the third place with 24 Al Gharafa 15 5 6 4 27 24 21 points, the same as Eljaish, but Al Sailiyah 15 5 5 5 27 26 20 have played one match less than the armymen. Eljaish again fin- Al Khor 15 3 10 2 15 15 19 ished on the losing side yesterday Al Wakra 15 4 6 5 21 23 18 with Umm Salal piling up more misery with a 2-1 defeat. An own Al Kharaitiyat 15 4 5 6 20 21 17 goal in the 15th minute and a Umm Salal 15 3 5 7 18 24 14 strike by Cabore in the 32 spelt dome for Eljaish. Eljaish pulled Muaither SC player Omar Hassan Omar (left) vies for the ball with Qatar Sports Club’s Marcio Jose Oliveira during their Qatar Stars League at Suhaim Al Rayyan 15 3 4 8 17 27 13 one back in the 93rd minute bin Hamad Stadium in Doha yesterday. Qatar SC won 2-1. RIGHT: Action from the match between Umm Salal and Eljaish. Umm Salal won 2-1. through Mohammed Muntari. Muaither 15 3 2 10 16 37 11 PICTURE BY: KAMMUTTY VP THE PENINSULA Sunday 19 January 2014 18 Rabial I 1435 Volume 18 Number 5949 Sport Price: QR2

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LOS ANGELES: US coach Jurgen Klinsmann says the Americans are “pretty sure” of reaching the last 16 of this year’s Muguruza stuns Wozniacki World Cup in Brazil, accord- ing to an ESPN website report yesterday. Murray, Federer, Azarenka and Sharapova progress; Raonic crashes out The former German interna- tional made his confident predic- tion before the team departed for MELBOURNE: Rafa Nadal very good day. That makes me feel “Today was a big step up for a camp in Sao Paulo, where it will beamed with delight after lay- confident, but I am in the fourth me. Feliciano is a top 30 player. be based in June. ing down an emphatic marker round. That’s all.” He’s a tricky opponent to play. So “I’m pretty sure we are going with a brilliant display of all- The top seed will play Kei it was a good test for me and I to make it through to the (knock- court tennis to charge into the Nishikori for a place in the did well.” out) round,” Klinsmann said in last 16 of the Australian Open quarter-finals after the Japanese Murray next meets Stephane the blog posting. yesterday. ended American interest in the Robert, who prevailed 6-0, 7-6 “Nothing will be laid out per- The Melbourne heatwave may men’s draw with a 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 (7-2), 6-4 over fellow lucky loser fectly. Nothing (in Brazil) will be have broken but arch-competitor win over Donald Young. Martin Klizan - the first time a late kind of the German way of 2006 Nadal was still bathed in sweat Federer looked at his own replacement has reached the last where everything was on time after his two-hour 6-1, 6-2, 6-3 imperious best as he dismantled 16 in Melbourne. and ironed out. There will be demolition of the talented but Teymuraz Gabashvili 6-2, 6-2, Azarenka humbled Yvonne delays and logistical challenges error-prone Gael Monfils. 6-3 to reach the fourth round at Meusburger 6-1, 6-0 in exactly with the hotels, fields, stadiums Roger Federer earlier boasted a grand slam without giving up a an hour to set up another meet- or whatever. of his fitness, Maria Sharapova set for the 27th time. ing with American Stephens, who “I call this tournament felt a bit rusty and Andy Murray The Swiss is aware that she beat last year after taking a the ‘World Cup of Patience’ berated himself but all three tougher tests lie ahead, start- medical timeout as she struggled because of the Brazilian style eased into the second week. ing with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried to close out their semi-final. of life. There will be a lot of Victoria Azarenka remained Tsonga in the next round, but was Sharapova continued to don surprises waiting. ... It’s not on course for her third straight delighted to have rid himself of her distinctive ice jacket at going to be a perfect World title but may find the next hur- his back problem. end changes despite the cooler Cup for anybody.” dle trickier after setting up a “I’m just happy not waking up weather as she beat France’s The Americans will need to fin- fourth round tie against Sloane like an old man,” said the 32-year- Alize Cornet 6-1, 7-6, (7-6). Her ish in the top two in their open- Stephens, who she beat amid con- old, who failed to get to a grand boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov took ing-round group to reach the last troversy in last year’s semi-finals. slam final for the first time since a small step out of her shadow 16 knockout stage of the 32-team While there was relief all round 2002 last year. when he reached the fourth round event. at the cooler temperatures after “It was a tough year last year of a grand slam for the first time They were drawn into a four days of stifling heat, Milos and now for the last few weeks, by edging 11th seed Raonic 6-3 group with Germany, the side Raonic and Caroline Wozniacki I’m feeling much better... I’ve done 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (12-10). Klinsmann once coached and both felt the stinging burn of an the hard work and that’s perhaps The Bulgarian prevailed after played with, Portugal, led by upset. why I’m playing well. “ an 156-minute Margaret Court superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and Nadal never looked in any dan- Murray’s back problems are Arena thriller rounded off by Ghana, the team that eliminated ger of an early departure, barring more recent and he admitted to the tensest of tiebreaks which he the US from the 2006 and 2010 a brief injury scare when he jarred feeling a bit of stiffness as he finds clinched on his fifth match point. World Cups. his foot early in the second set. his feet again following surgery The 22-year-old has clearly The schedule also has the US Such was his dominance after and four months on the sidelines. tired of the nickname “Baby Fed”, traveling almost 9,000 miles to he suppressed the Frenchman’s Spaniard Feliciano Lopez gave bestowed upon him because of the play its first-round matches, early charge, the Spaniard was at him a big test in the first set tie- similarity of his free-flowing style the longest travel load of any a loss to pick out an element of break but faded after conceding to that of Federer. team. his game that pleased him most. the second and the fourth seed Wozniacki was left ruing her “I think it is still possible for “I think I have to say that I claimed his 14th straight victory failure to convert more than five us to go eye-to-eye with the big Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates victory in his men’s singles match played well from everywhere, over a left-handed opponent 7-6 of her 16 break points in her 4-6, nations and give them real games against Gael Monfils of France at the Australian Open 2014 tennis tour- no?,” he said. (7-2), 6-4, 6-2. 7-5, 6-3 defeat at the hands of even if it is difficult climate zones nament in Melbourne, yesterday. “Tonight I think I played a “It’s been a good start,” said the rising Spanish talent Garbine or circumstances,” Klinsmann great match ... (but) just one Wimbledon champion. Muguruza. AFP told ESPN. AFP Shehzad hits ton but Pakistan toil for runs SHARJAH, United Arab Scoreboard three-figure mark studded with Emirates: Opener Ahmed seven fours. His second fifty Shehzad scored a maiden cen- Sri Lanka (I innings): ...... 428-9 decl came off 80 balls. tury but Pakistan toiled for runs Pakistan (I innings): He was finally bowled off a in their bid for a series-levelling K Manzoor c Prasanna b Eranga ...... 52 reverse sweep against Herath. win against Sri Lanka in the A Shehzad b Herath ...... 147 Shehzad batted for 339 minutes, third and final Test in Sharjah Azhar Ali c Mathews b Perera ...... 8 hit 12 fours and a six. yesterday. Younis Khan c Prasanna b Herath ...... 17 Shehzad said he was happy to The 22-year-old right-hander Misbah-ul Haq (batting) ...... 36 score a hundred. made 147 in only his second Test Asad Shafiq lbw Eranga ...... 18 “It’s my debut series and I as Pakistan scored 291-6 at close S Ahmed c Prasanna b Herath ...... 5 made a century, so it’s a kind of on the third day, still trailing by Extras (B-1, LB-6, NB-1) ...... 8 dream come true for me,” said 137 runs over Sri Lanka’s first Total (for 6 wkts) ...... 291 Shehzad. innings total of 428-9 declared. To bat: Sarfraz Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul “I was surprised with their Pakistan lost Sarfraz Ahmed Rehman, Mohammad Talha, Junaid Khan. negative approach although they for five, caught behind off spin- Fall of wickets: 1-114, 2-149, 3-189, had 400 runs on board, they had ner Rangana Herath in the last 4-245, 5-274, 6-291. packed the leg side and it made over of the day. Misbah-ul Haq Bowling: Herath 31.3-8-88-3, Lakmal 21- runs hard to come by.” was unbeaten on 36. 4-57-0, Perera 17-1-71-1, Eranga 19-5-53- Shehzad hoped Pakistan With two days remaining and 2 (1nb), Mathews 7-3-15-0 enforce a result in the match. Pakistan lagging well behind they Match Situation: Pakistan trail by 137 runs “I think we should play two will be hard pressed to enforce a with four wickets remaining in the 1st innings. more sessions and equal their result, with Sri Lanka happy for score and we will try to come back a no-result affair. into the match, we are going for While Pakistan struggled for Azhar Ali (eight). Sri Lanka the result in the match, it’s a do- runs, it was a memorable day for mostly employed a six-man or-die for us.” young Shehzad. leg-side field as their bowlers Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Shehzad added a quick 56 for made runs hard to come by, Sangakkara said today’s first hour the fourth wicket with Misbah with Pakistan adding only 23 will be crucial. but Pakistan’s slow and cautious in the first hour’s play. “I think we played well, if we batting amidst some tight bowling But Shehzad, who made 55 get a couple of wickets in the Pakistani batsman Ahmed Shehzad raises his bat and helmet in celebration after scoring a century during blunted their efforts to get closer in the drawn first Test in Abu morning tomorrow, especially the third day of the third and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Sharjah International Cricket Stadium, to Sri Lanka’s total. Dhabi, paced up the innings in Misbah, then we would be able to yesterday. Pakistan, trailing 1-0 in the the last session, helping Pakistan do quite well in the Tests,” said three-match series after los- to 122 runs in the two hours but Sangakkara. ing the second Test in Dubai by Pakistan lost four wickets. In a slow but steady start delivery from paceman Shaminda his 125-ball innings. Ali, dropped wicket. Both Manzoor and Ali nine wickets, managed 150 runs Shehzad reached his hundred Shehzad put on 114 for the open- Eranga but only managed to snick for the first two Tests, battled for challenged the umpire’s deci- in the first two sessions after with a couple towards cover ing wicket with Manzoor. it to wicketkeeper Prasanna 27 deliveries and departed after sions but ended up wasting both resuming at 19-0, losing opener off spinner Dilruwan Perera, Manzoor fell soon after lunch Jayawardene. edging off-spinner Dilruwan Pakistan’s referrals. Khurram Manzoor (52) and taking 230 balls to reach the as he tried to glance a leg-side He hit four boundaries during Perera to slip for his first Test AFP