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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Academy to Mad rush for gold bars, coins train Qataris Asian and Arab expatriates on buying spree; bullion traders exhaust stocks as prices slide to operate DOHA: Gold bars and coins have literally disappeared from rail network the Qatari market amid what traders say is a mad rush for DOHA: Qataris will now be the yellow metal as its prices trained to operate trains, with continue to slide. work in progress to establish a Major bullion traders yes- rail and metro network in the terday said they had exhausted country ahead of the 2022 FIFA stocks of gold coins and bars World Cup. of various sizes, including the Plans are afoot to set up an standard 116-gram pure gold academy at Qatar University that (24-carat) bar, demand for will graduate students in ‘Railway which is peaking. Studies’ — a facility that would be “We had nearly 800 bars (of 116 the first of its kind in the country grams each) and they sold out like once operational. hot cakes in just two hours today,” Qatar and Germany yesterday a senior official of Gulf Exchange, signed an agreement for estab- which also deals in bullion, told Gold buyers seen queuing up at Gulf Exchange yesterday. The exchange lishing the academy at Qatar this newspaper yesterday. house opened three counters for gold sale due to the mad rush. RIGHT: A University. The deal was inked The 116-gram bar was selling buyer exults after buying two gold bars. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH between three parties: Qatar for QR19,000. Its price was slightly University, German railway com- higher in jewellery stores, some of pany Deutsche Bahn, and the which still have limited stocks of run out of stocks of gold coins and Bars, on the other hand, are and Indians, are the largest buy- in South Asian countries due to Qatar Rail firm. coins and bars since their sales bars. of 24 carats, or pure gold, and ers of gold bars and coins as well their purity. Qatar Rail had signed a multi- pitch focuses on jewellery. Gulf Exchange said it had they also come in various sizes — as gold jewellery. Gold rates in the local market billion dollar agreement with Malabar Gold, a well-known nearly 2,000 gold bars of smaller five, 10, 20 and 30 grams, among Expatriates prefer to carry gold yesterday were QR170 per gram Deutsche Bahn for Qatar’s metro jewellery outlet, said it still had sizes and they were all sold out others. bars and coins home for sale and for pure gold (24 carats), QR157 and railway projects, which will pure gold bars of various sizes — in just a few days. “We are get- The customers engaging in jewellery-making, especially dur- for a gram of 22-carat gold, also link the country with Bahrain 116, 100, 50, 10 and five grams. ting fresh stocks,” the exchange what is being described by jewel- ing marriages in their families. QR147 for 21 carats, and QR128 and Saudi Arabia. Their rates were, however, a lit- official said. Gold coins, made of lers and bullion traders as fren- Some prefer to stock up on gold for 18-carat gold, jewellery made The first batch of Qatari stu- tle on the higher side. 22-carat gold, come in different zied buying are mostly Asian and as an investment for the future. of which is mostly preferred by dents graduating from the pro- Al Fardan Exchange, which is sizes — five, eight, 10, 20 and 30 Arab expatriates. South Asians, Pure and 22-carat gold from Filipinos. posed institute will be trained in a major bullion trader, said it had grams — and are more in demand. particularly Pakistanis, Nepalese the GCC states carry a premium THE PENINSULA operating the railway and metro networks in Qatar under the supervision of German engineers, according to the agreement. It will also enable exchange of information and expertise between Aljazeera film Qatar races to develop experts from the two countries. “We are proud of this joint ven- festival opens ture, which is a very important solar-powered cooling step in the field of education and development in Qatar,” Dr Sheikha BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Abdullah Missned, president of BERLIN: Qatar is racing to ones installed in each of the 12 Qatar University, said. DOHA: The spotlight is on develop efficient solar-powered stadiums it is building, he said. Abdullah Turki Al Subai, Chinese documentary films at cooling technology to counter “When you don’t use it for administrative director of Qatar this year’s Aljazeera International the searing heat of the Middle the stadiums you feed it into the Rail Company, said the institute Documentary Film Festival, Eastern summer in its stadi- grid,” he said. The state devel- will be the first of its kind in the which opened here yesterday. ums during the 2022 soccer oped a small, solar-powered region offering training in oper- More than 30 films from China World Cup, a senior organising prototype stadium seating 500 ating trains. THE PENINSULA are part of the festival, and one of committee official said. during the bid process but wants them was screened as the opening Nasser Al Khater, the organis- to develop more efficient tech- film late last evening. Appointment, ing committee’s communications nologies ahead of 2022. Ooredoo to bid a 15-minute documentary, is a love and marketing director, also said “With solar, the big challenge is story involving a deaf and talented the state would construct its sta- how do you deal with solar tech- boy and a kind and beautiful girl diums with modular technology nology in the desert in terms of for Maroc Tel who meet again after being sepa- so it could downscale them after withstanding the elements and DUBAI: Ooredoo, formerly rated since childhood. the tournament, and donate seat- getting it clean so it is efficient,” Qatar Telecom, has secured a The festival, which is in its ninth ing to countries with little sports Al Khater said. He said he had loan of up to $12bn from a group year, has 205 films in competition, infrastructure. met several German companies of 10 banks to support its bid up from 168 last year. The entries Aljazeera Media Network Director General Sheikh Ahmad bin Jassim Al Al Khater said the state already during his trip to Berlin that had for Vivendi’s stake in Maroc include 23 long films, 82 medium Thani (left) presenting the posthumous honorary award to relatives of the boasted the world’s first cooled sta- interesting proposals. Germany Telecom, several bankers said. films, 53 short films, 36 new-hori- slain Aljazeera reporter Mohamed Al Massalama during the opening of the dium, albeit with traditional energy has been a pioneer in solar Vivendi wants to sell its 53 per- zon films and 11 promising films. 9th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival at the Sheraton Doha sources. “We showed (world gov- technology. cent stake in the Moroccan telco THE PENINSULA yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT erning body) FIFA how the cool- Many leading voices in football to help reduce its debts. Ooredoo Continued on page 3 ing technology works, it was warm such as UEFA President Michel is battling with Etisalat over the outside but in stadium was cold Platini have called for the World Maroc Telecom stake, after South and they wanted their jackets,” Al Cup to be held in December or Korea’s KT Corp dropped out of Khater said during a trip to Berlin January rather than in the middle the race. for a Qatari business and invest- of the year. Al Khater said Qatar The loan is being provided by UAE arrests seven ment conference. “So cooling a sta- would go ahead researching and JP Morgan, Qatar National Bank, QNB prices 200m Swiss franc bond dium is not the issue.” installing the cooling technology Morgan Stanley and HSBC, as well LONDON: Qatar National Bank has completed a 200m Swiss franc, Arab plotters The issue is that Qatar has either way as the stadiums would as Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Royal three-year floating rate note, pricing the deal at 53 basis points promised to hold a carbon-neutral be used in the summer months even Bank of Scotland, Bank of Tokyo over three-month Swiss Libor. The Qatari lender, rated A+/Aa3/ linked to Al Qaeda World Cup and so is researching after the World Cup. “Whether it Mitsubishi UFJ, Development Bank A+, priced the deal at par via Barclays, RBS and QNB Capital. The solar-powered cooling technology. is a winter or summer World Cup of Singapore and Citigroup, two deal is QNB’s second Swiss franc bond issue this year, following its DUBAI: The United Arab It will either create a central solar we will be ready,” he said. bankers close to the deal said. debut in January with a 300 million Swiss franc, 23-month floating Emirates said yesterday that it power farm or have individual REUTERS Full report on page 13 rate note. That deal priced at 40 bps over three-month Swiss Libor. had arrested a seven-member cell linked to Al Qaeda that was Kerry warns of Syria break-up planning attacks on the state. The UAE, an important mili- Up to 15 killed in Texas fertiliser plant blast WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned yester- tary, counter-terrorism and busi- day that the conflict raging in Syria could cleave it into rival enclaves, ness partner of the West, said the as he prepared for talks on the crisis in Turkey. The aim of the next seven were Arab nationals who Friends of Syria talks in Istanbul tomorrow is “to get everybody on had been helping Al Qaeda with the same page with respect to what post-Assad” Syria will look like, recruitment, financing and logis- Kerry told US senators. But the top US diplomat warned “that time is tical support. not on the side of a political solution. It’s on the side of more violence, “The cell was planning actions more extremism, an enclave breakup of Syria”. See also page 4 to target the country’s security and the safety of its citizens and Iran hit by second earthquake residents, and was carrying out recruitment, and promoting the TEHRAN: A 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit northwestern Iran yes- actions of al Qaeda,” WAM said. terday, only days after a deadly temblor struck near the border with “It was also supplying it (Al Pakistan, media reported citing the seismological centre at Tehran Qaeda) with money and provid- Smoke rises from the scene of an explosion at the West Fertilizer Co plant in West, Texas, yesterday. Rescuers University. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage ing logistical support and seeking carried out a painstaking search for survivors after the blast tore through the plant, killing between five and in the latest quake which struck at 3:09pm, at a depth of 8km in the to expand its activities to some 15 people and injuring more than 160. Full report on Page 8 town of Tassouj, which is located less than 100km from the provincial (other) countries in the region,” capital Tabriz, where the quake was also felt. AGENCIES WAM said. REUTERS FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Students show their Chief of Staff meets British defence attaches fashion design skills VCU-Q holds annual fashion show to packed houses

DOHA: Virginia Awards, given to the most out- and design of two bespoke collec- Commonwealth University standing students in the fashion tions which will be sold exclusively in Qatar (VCU-Q) pre- design department. within a dedicated space in Salam sented its Fourteenth Annual Awarded students were Kinda Stores, Doha. Fashion Show, ‘Fingerprint’ Morshed for Best Children’s The final sponsored award of to full houses from Tuesday to Collection, Dylon Sergei Adonis the evening was presented by yesterday. for Most Outstanding Sophomore, Texture Boutique to Sultana During the event, hosted by Hisham Dawoud for Best Junior Jesmine which gives her the Salam at The Gate Mall, the var- Collection, Maha Ghanim Al exclusive opportunity to show- sity presented its Golden Needle Kuwari for Most Outstanding case her collection at the lavish Junior, Dana Masoud for Most concept boutique for one month Outstanding Senior and Rabab later this year. Texture Boutique Abdulla for Most Outstanding is the brainchild of Kholoud and Senior Collection. Dana Al Mana, both graduates of The show also acknowledged VCU-Q. the contributions of VCU-Q Linda For the first time this year, Smith-Turczyn, adjunct profes- the 14-member jury comprising sor in the Fashion Design depart- sponsors Salam, the W Doha and ment; Victoria Bleick, image Texture Boutique, besides other resource curator at VCU-Q; and industry professionals, who select guest designer Eric Gaskins who the designs that go into the show, were presented with the Friends eliminated none of the garments of Fashion awards. during the final juried round. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Maj Gen Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah met Lt Col Joe Mike Palmer, the The award is given annually to The fashion show is part of the former defence attache at the British embassy in Qatar, and Lt Col Graeme Davis, the new Defence Attache, individuals or organisations who annual activities of VCU-Q’s fash- yesterday. He thanked Lt Col Palmer for his services during his term and wished him success in his future have made significant contribu- ion design programme, to develop missions and welcomed the new attache. tions to VCU-Q’s Fashion Design the country’s growing fashion department. industry, with support from Qatar For the third consecutive year, Foundation for Education, Science the W Doha Hotel and Residences and Community Development. sponsored the W Doha Fashion Showcased during the three- ictQatar-Intel MoU boosts Doha meet to Award, presented to the most day event, ‘Fingerprint’ was the outstanding and innovative culminating academic project for VCU-Q fashion design student of Fashion Design students at VCU- Qatar’s digital programme shed light on the year. Clara De Lama, direc- Q, and every aspect — from the tor of marketing at the W Doha, jury-selected student designs presented the award to Rabab and model try-outs to show pro- smart cities Abdulla. The award includes the duction — reflected their aca- opportunity to use W Doha, and demic and creative efforts while another W Hotel around the launching senior fashion students in Mideast globe, as a platform to showcase from student life into successful her collections at various events careers. DOHA: Ideas and strategies happening throughout the year. New York-based guest designer for developing smart cities The Salam Fashion Award, Eric Gaskins’, whose collection across the Middle East will be introduced this year by Salam opened the show, featured luxu- discussed at the Arab Future International Investments rious evening pieces, clearly reit- Cities Summit, to be held at St Chairman and CEO Issa Abu Issa, erating why his classic style is so Regis Doha on April 22 and 23. to support a graduate’s transition popular with celebrities such are Over 500 city stakeholders from student designer to a career Salma Hayek, Natalie Portman, have registered to attend the A model walks the ramp during one in design was presented to Dana Sharon Stone and Kim Cattrall summit. of the VCU-Q fashion shows. Masoud. The award includes among others. Some of the biggest names in mentoring in the development THE PENINSULA smart city technology including IBM, Philips, Thales, Schneider Electric, Microsoft, SAP and Barwa Bank will be showcasing their cutting-edge technologies and solutions at the event. Intel Corporation and ictQatar officials after signing the MoU. The Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Sheikh DOHA: Intel Corporation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Abdul Rahman bin Khalifa Understanding (MoU) with ictQatar to collaborate on a national Al Thani will be opening the digital inclusion programme in Qatar. summit. The initiative will advance integrated digital technology and encour- The keynote speakers include age various digitally excluded target groups to learn and possess tech- Mohammed Ahmed Al Sayed, nological skills needed today. Intel will provide a complementary Intel Director of Doha Municipality, Easy Steps Programme that provides adult learners with hands-on Manel Sanroma, CIO of digital experience. Instructions are provided in a non-technical man- Barcelona City Council, and ner, accommodating learners with minimal computer experience and Jeddah’s Vice Mayor for Strategic providing an opportunity for adult learners to enhance social and Planning and Chief Planner Dr economic self-sufficiency through digital literacy. Abdulgader Othman Amir will be ictQatar will provide the courses in English and Arabic through flex- presenting strategies and iden- ible programmes in community settings, as well as “train the trainer” tifying best practices for devel- workshops in which 60 selected individuals will become instructors, oping smart cities across the and will be taught class management, so they are able to cascade the Middle East. training to their peers. A crucial part of the collaboration is to develop The event is organised by customised content for Qatar and target groups in Arabic. Expotrade, a global confer- “Technology has become a necessity in multiple aspects of our daily ence and event organiser under lives, and it is imperative to ensure we provide the basic tools to sup- the patronage of the Ministry port and encourage adult learners; this is something we will achieve for Municipality and Urban through our collaboration with Intel, allowing us to strengthen our Planning. digital education initiative across the nation,” said Damian Radcliffe, Qatar Green Building Council’s Dana Masoud receives ‘The Salam Fashion Award’ at the ceremony. ICT and Society Acting Executive Director at ictQatar. Director Eng Meshal Al Shamari THE PENINSULA will give a presentation on the affordability of sustainable buildings. Other key speakers include Dr Mohammed Imad Rouf Al Naimi of Kahramaa, Christopher Al khaliji’s drug Sorensen of Masdar, Sunil Japan mission donates books to CCQ Gomes of Doha International awareness efforts Airport, Yousef Al Emadi of DOHA: Japanese embassy in Ashghal, and Volker Schaffler of win MoI honours Qatar, donated 80 Japan-related Vienna’s TINA VIENNA Urban books to the Community College Technologies & Strategies. DOHA: Al khalij Commercial of Qatar (CCQ) yesterday. The summit will consist of Bank (al khaliji) QSC recently Kenjiro Monji, Ambassador of more than 20 sessions over two joined Ministry of Interior’s Japan to Qatar, donated 80 Japan- days including keynote presenta- Permanent Committee for Drug related books to Dr Ibrahim Al tions from local and international and Alcohol Affairs (PCDAA) Naimi, Acting President of the smart city experts, case-studies in a campaign to create aware- Community College of Qatar, dur- of successful sustainability ini- ness among people. ing a ceremony at the College’s tiatives, and roundtable sessions al khaliji dedicates its coun- female campus library. where delegates will explore solu- try-wide ATM network, with all Ambassador Monji said, “As tions to some of the challenges machines displaying a message the Embassy of Japan has been facing Arab cities today. to create awareness against drug enjoying good cooperative rela- Participants will also have the and alcohol use. tions with Qatar in the area of opportunity to discover cutting- The bank was recognised by the education, I hope that the new edge technologies at the Future Ministry of Interior Permanent relationship with the Community Cities Lounge, where sponsors for its support and continuous College of Qatar would be further will be showcasing their smart role played in the organization’s promoted in the future.” city solutions. campaign to raise awareness Ambassador Monji and Dr Al Included in this display will be against drugs and trafficking. Naimi also discussed the future Japanese Ambassador Kenjiro Monji and Acting President of CCQ Dr Ibrahim Al Naimi with other officials. the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé The Permanent Committee cooperation between the Embassy and video presentations featur- for Drug and Alcohol Affair’s and the College. With yester- ing the ongoing development campaign runs annually and it day’s contribution the Japanese college library has become a Qatari institutions is conducted Japanese government in 1972 to and breadth of BMW i8, a fuel includes seminars and workshops embassy has donated 106 books to resource for providing Qatari by the Japanese Embassy in promote international cultural efficient plug-in Hybrid which is in schools and other institutions the Community College in Qatar. students with a wide range of close cooperation with the Japan exchanges and mutual understand- expected to hit the Middle East as private sector organisations The book collection in Arabic, information about Japan. Foundation, which is a public ing between Japan and the rest of market in 2014. across Qatar. THE PENINSULA English and Japanese at the Donation of books to various organisation established by the the world. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Entrepreneurs, volunteers honoured SDC awards ceremony held at QNCC

DOHA: The Social Winners of the Individual Development Center (SDC), a Volunteer Award were Eng Faraj member of Qatar Foundation Saleh Al Merri, Sabah Rabiee for Education, Science, and Al Kuwari, Hissa Nasser Al Community Development, held Naser and Abdullah Mahmoud the SDC Awards Ceremony Abdullah. recently in an event announc- Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah ing winners of its two most Foundation for Humanitarian celebrated awards pro- Services (RAF) won the Projects grammes — Reyada Award for Award category for their project the Qatari Entrepreneur and “New Life, while Ahmed bin SDC’s Volunteer Awards. Hanbal Independent School for The joint ceremony was Boys won the Institution Award held at the Qatar National of the year. Convention Center. In the Science Projects cat- The awards were presented egory, Raba’a Al Adawiya to the winners by Sheikha Secondary Girls Independent Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa School was awarded for its Al Thani, Chairperson of Qatar project on the smart conversion Museum Authority, accom- of acoustic energy into electrical panied by Amal Al Mannai, energy, and Amna bint Wahab Executive Director, SDC, as Independent Preparatory School well as a number of VIPs and for Girls for its project titled renowned figures in Qatari soci- ‘One Drop is Enough.’ ety. Late Sheikh Abdullah bin In the Student Activities cat- Ibrahim Al Ansari bin was hon- egory, Abdul Rehman bin Jassim Chairperson of Qatar Museum Authority Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Executive Director of SDC Amal Al Mannai with some oured the Honorary Volunteer Independent Preparatory School of the award recipients. Award in its 11th Edition. for Boys received the award for Commenting on the occasion proposing to organise the first Amal Al Mannai, Executive forum for the integration and into three different categories, New Venture Challenge category Ahmed Al Sulaiti was Outstanding Entrepreneurial Director, SDC, said, “Today is empowerment of individuals including the New Venture include Hamad Al Badr, who also awarded first place for Support Award category, Injaz an exceptional day for SDC. We with disabilities. Challenge Award, Entrepreneur earned the Golden award for Entrepreneur Achiever Award Qatar won the Golden award for are so honoured and excited to SDC received 80 nominations Achiever Award and Outstanding initiating ‘BeehivEnurship Café’ for initiating ‘Qatar Pharma’ its corporate social responsibility recognise some of the brightest for its Reyada Awards for the Entrepreneurial Support Award, project, followed by Fatima Al project while Abdullah Al efforts to support entrepreneur- entrepreneurs as well as highly Qatari Entrepreneur. Launched with each award featuring Gold Kuwari, recipient of the Silver Nuaimi ranked second in that ship, while Rodah Center won committed and motivated volun- for the first time last year, the and Silver honours. award for initiating the ‘Fatima category for initiating the the Silver award in the same cat- teers in Qatar.” Reyada Awards are divided Winning entrepreneurs in the Al Kuwari Cakes’ project. ‘Park View’ project. In the egory. THE PENINSULA

Emir condoles Jazeera fest gets 1,392 entries with US president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Continued from page 1 Aljazeera Media Network, highlighted the Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani The festival has received a total of 1,392 festival’s role in opening new horizons for and the Deputy Emir and Heir entries from 90 countries. human creativity through a platform that Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim The festival is hosting a number of Arab “goes into the heart of the people”. bin Hamad Al Thani yes- guests who will showcase the literature, Slain Aljazeera reporter Mohammed Al terday sent cables of condo- art and culture of the region. They include Massalma was honoured at the opening of lences to US President Barack Noor Al Sherief, Egyptian actor and musi- the festival at the Sheraton Doha. Obama for the victims of the cian Iman Elbahr Darweesh and Iraqi poet The 33-year-old Syrian reporter, who explosion that devastated a Abdulrazzaq Abdulwahid. used the pseudonym Mohamed Al Horani, fertiliser plant in Texas. A seminar on ‘Cinema and Human was shot by a sniper three times while The Prime Minister and Rights’ will take place at 6.30pm tonight. A covering fighting in the southern prov- Foreign Minister H E Sheikh seminar on ‘Italian cinema and Palestinian ince of Deraa in Syria three months ago. Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al cause’ will also be held. The four-day festi- He was an activist in the revolt against Thani sent a similar cable to the The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari (centre), Director- val also features an exhibition of TV chan- President Bashar Al Assad before joining president. General of Aljazeera Media Network Sheikh Ahmad bin Jassim Al Thani (left), and Director of nels, media and advertisement companies the network. The death toll in Texas the ninth Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Abbas Arnaout during the opening from different parts of the world. Sheikh Ahmad presented a posthumous ranged from five to 15 people of the festival yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT Inaugurating the event, Sheikh Ahmad honorary award to Al Massalma’s family. and was likely to change as res- bin Jassim Al Thani, Director-General of THE PENINSULA cuers were still busy. QNA Parents can buy school uniforms from any shop: SEC

DOHA: Katara opens Spring art The Supreme must be comfortable, not tight, pink for the skirt, preparatory not exceeding QR5 and properly Education Council (SEC) has said the circular. schools can select from maroon, convey this information to all the asked Independent schools to The school must provide par- brown and grey while secondary parents. allow parents to buy school ents with the uniform design to schools are given the options of Schools must provide the fair at amphitheatre uniforms for their children allow them get it stitched from grey, dark blue and black. uniform design with a sample of from shops of their choice. wherever they want to. Parents Schools in all three levels can the colour while registering new DOHA: The Spring Outdoor and for the people that want to The directive has come in a cir- are also free to buy the clothes choose white, beige or pink for students and to students of KG Art Fair kicked off at the buy art,” he said. cular issued by SEC’s Education from shops of their choice. The the shirt. and Grade 1. The SEC has also amphitheatre of Katara One of the main objectives of Institute to Independent schools school should not have any finan- Sports uniform for all directed all the schools to display Cultural Village yesterday. the Spring Outdoor Art Fair is to for girls related to specifications cial interest in the project. Independent schools (boys/girls) a copy of the SEC announce- A total of 44 artists are taking stimulate the art market in Doha of uniforms for the academic All schools must choose plain in all levels must be black, white, ment at the main gate of their part in the exhibition that will be and to support Qatar-based art- year 2013-2014. colours for the uniforms that are dark blue or maroon (trousers) premises in a prominent way. open today and tomorrow from ists through maximising opportu- Uniforms for girls must be available at a reasonable price and white, dark blue or maroon The circular comes in line 10am to 10pm. Artists have been nities for them to both exhibit and designed according to “modest in the local market. They have (shirt) with the policy described in the offered an opportunity to exhibit sell works, affordable to a general Islamic dress standards” (long been given a range of colours to The SEC has asked all schools executive regulations of Decision and sell their works for free. audience interested in art. and loose garments, long sleeves, choose from. Primary schools to provide the SEC logo (to be No. 1 of 2008 regarding school Among the participants in the For Maha Nagy, an Egyptian not transparent). The dress can choose light blue, grey or fixed on the uniform) for a price uniforms. THE PENINSULA event is the Katara Visual Arts student at the Visual Arts Center, Center, which has eight students this is a “great opportunity to sell taking part. The centre works on our work for the first time and, the development of artistic and especially, to gain the apprecia- cultural events, which promote tion of other people. I paint all the cultural exchange. time but I rarely have the chance HMC performs over 180 robotic surgeries The centre also offers train- for others to admire my work”. ing opportunities in a variety of The art fair team counted on DOHA: The Hamad Medical surgery programme in Qatar, artistic fields including photogra- the support of all artists and the Corporation (HMC) has per- said in his lecture that the estab- phy, digital graphics, oils painting, artistic community in this effort formed more than 180 surgical lishment of the Qatar Robotic screen painting and more. towards developing more organ- procedures, including 39 heart Surgery Center has helped robot- Mustafa Issa is a professor at ised and focused opportunities for surgeries, using robotic tech- assisted surgery to gain wider the centre that has the support artists to be able to exhibit and niques since the method was acceptance. of the Ministry of Culture. “It’s a sell their artwork in Doha. first introduced in Qatar in He said there are plans to great opportunity for the students THE PENINSULA 2008. expand the coverage of robotic Robotic surgery is increasingly surgery to include more speciali- being used for different kinds of ties, including gynaecology and surgery at HMC’s Heart Hospital. bariatrics surgery. HMC is now planning to “The symposium allowed us to expand the technique to more share our local experience and specialities, including gynaecol- exchange knowledge with inter- ogy and bariatrics surgery national experts who spoke dur- The technique is gaining wider ing the second half of the session,” acceptance among patients said Dr Abdul Wahid Al Mulla, because it is minimally invasive Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and recovery times are faster, Surgeon at Heart Hospital. according to experts who spoke at He said there are plans to hold A robotic surgery in progress at HMC’s Heart Hospital. Qatar’s First Robotic Symposium a bigger symposium in the future. held recently by Qatar Surgical According to Al Mulla, 39 cases Society and Heart Hospital. using this method. A notable use and covered a range of medical of robot-assisted cardiac surger- The Robotic Symposium, has been for the management of specialities where robotic surgery ies have been conducted at HMC. attended by around 150 physi- snoring and sleep apnea. is utilized, including cardiac, urol- These operations involve patients cians and surgeons discussed the HMC is currently the only ogy, paediatric, ENT, gynaecology with single-vessel coronary artery latest research and technology in provider of robot-assisted sur- and general surgery. disease, a common type of heart the field of robotic surgery. gery in Qatar. The one-day sym- Dr Abdulla Al Ansari, acting disease, where there is a nar- Since robot-assisted surgery posium held at Heart Hospital’s chairman of Surgery at HMC’s rowing of an artery that then started at HMC in 2008, about Al Zahrawi Auditorium featured Hamad General Hospital, who restricts blood flow to the heart. Some of the artworks that will be on offer at the fair. SHAIVAL DALAL 183 operations were performed local and international speakers gave an overview of the robotic THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Kuwait vows Israeli officials crackdown after violent to visit Turkey protests KUWAIT: Kuwait said yester- day rioting and violence would be met with a firm response on Monday after it made several arrests at a protest over the conviction of an opposition politician for Delegation to discuss compensation insulting the country’s ruler. Witnesses said police fired ANKARA: An Israeli delegation Tayyip Erdogan said. teargas on Wednesday to dis- will visit Turkey for the first time That leaves a resumption in ties perse thousands demonstrating in three years next week in another hostage to Israeli policy towards the against the conviction of former sign of thawing relations since the Palestinian enclave. member of parliament Musallam United States brokered a break- Israel has made clear it did not Al Barrak, who was sentenced to through in March, but any further commit to ending its Gaza blockade five years in jail for the comments advancement in ties was expected as part of the reconciliation, saying last year. to be incremental. days after the apology that it could Despite Kuwait saying it was a Israel apologised to Turkey over clamp down even harder on the fair hearing, Monday’s trial has the killing of nine Turks in a 2010 enclave if security is threatened. rekindled tension after a period naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla The reconciliation may have of relative calm following a par- and the two agreed to normalise fallen well short of the end to the liamentary election in December, relations in phone calls arranged by Gaza blockade which Erdogan had with supporters staging nightly US President Barack Obama on his routinely insisted on, but mindful of protests in the OPEC member recent trip to Israel. elections next year in which he hopes state. “Any form of riot, violence, Brokering a rapprochement could to run for an empowered presidency, instigating of riots and violence bolster US influence in the Middle his ruling AK Party has nonetheless or lawlessness would meet (a) East, help ease Israel’s diplomatic iso- presented the episode as a decisive resolute and firm response,” the lation as it confronts the challenge diplomatic victory. Interior Ministry said on state of Iran’s nuclear programme and Billboards thanking Erdogan Iranian soldiers march at a parade to commemorate Army Day at the mausoleum of the Founder of the news agency KUNA. improve regional coordination over for securing the apology sprang up Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran, yesterday. Syria’s two-year-old civil war. around the capital Ankara within $15mn for Syria’s refugees But for all the diplomatic flurry, hours. Turkish media praised the Kuwait has donated $15m to there were no illusions on either prime minister for his “principled the United Nations to help war- side that the relationship would be diplomacy” and the “diplomatic coup” Israeli threats like a dog’s torn Syria’s 500,000 Palestinian patched up as fully as Washington that led to the Israeli “surrender”. refugees, the United Nations said might hope, at least not any “The AK Party is focusing on the yesterday. time soon. apology for domestic policy use and The UN agency for Palestinian “The honeymoon period between trying to ignore other parts of the bark, says Iran commander refugees, UNRWA, says half of Israel and Turkey is over,” said deal,” said Cagri Erhan, a political sci- the Palestinian refugees in Syria Ufuk Ulutas from the Ankara-based ence lecturer at Ankara University. DUBAI: Israeli threats to quoted him as saying. New hardware unveiled in have been internally displaced by Foundation for Political, Economic “The lifting of the blockade seems attack Iran’s nuclear sites are With little progress reported yesterday’s parade included a the conflict and that 45,000 have and Social Research (SETA), a very unlikely and some families of the harmless barking of a dog, at talks this month between radar-evading attack drone, fled to neighbouring Lebanon and thinktank close to the Turkish victims are not ready to drop the Iran’s military said yester- Iran and world powers, Israel called Sarir, and updates to Jordan. government. “Even if Israel takes legal case even if the compensation day, marking the last Army has reiterated that it reserves its air defence systems. The “Kuwait has given UNRWA other steps besides the apology, the is paid,” he said. Survivors of the Mavi Day ceremony of Mahmoud the right to resort to military Iranian air force also put on $15m of its overall pledge of two countries will not return to the Marmara incident said this month Ahmadinejad’s presidency operations to stop what it display an air-refuelling mane- $300m to the UN to help the heyday of the 1990s.” Monday’s visit the apology did not go far enough with trademark acerbic rhet- says is Iran’s attempt to build ouver by Russian-made Sukhoi organisation meet the over- by the Israeli delegation, led by an and vowed to pursue Israeli soldiers oric against the Jewish state. nuclear weapons. 24 fighter jets, Fars news whelming humanitarian needs adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin in court. Ahmadinejad, who steps Iran has responded to Israel’s agency reported. generated by the crisis in Syria,” Netanyahu, will focus on the question But so strong is the US interest down at elections in June after threat with regular combat Iranian officials regularly UNRWA said. of compensation to the families of in a rapprochement — Secretary eight years at the helm of the drills, announcements of new emphasise the country’s abil- “This is one of the largest single those killed by Israeli marines aboard of State John Kerry described it as Islamic Republic’s government, advances in military technology ity to develop and construct donations UNRWA has received the Mavi Marmara three years ago. vital to regional stability — that there has used the podium at previ- and threatening statements of its own military hardware and for what we are doing in Syria and But that was always going to be could be a resumption in intelligence ous Army Day parades to lash its own. announce sophisticated new surrounding countries,” UNRWA the easy part. sharing on issues including Syria and out at the United States and Iran denies it is seek- equipment but Western ana- Commissioner General Filippo Ankara set precise conditions for Iran behind the scenes. its allies. ing nuclear arms and says lysts say their real capabili- Grandi said in the statement. reinstalling ambassadors and fully With so many common concerns, Yesterday, Ahmadinejad its atomic work is peace- ties cannot be independently “With this money we will be normalising ties: an apology, compen- both Turkey and Israel are eager confined himself to praise of ful and aimed at generating verified. able to provide critical assistance, sation and Israel lifting its embargo to keep their relationships with the country’s armed forces, electricity. “Iran does a good job of such as emergency accommoda- on the Gaza strip. Washington strong. and it was Iran’s ground forces Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who advertising its equipment for tion to about 8,000 Palestinians “We had three conditions and “There are huge interests here. commander Ataollah Salehi as commander in chief has ulti- deterrence purposes,” said and Syrians in some of our our view has not changed. Talk of The United States is a major player who spoke up against Iran’s mate authority over the armed Michael Elleman, a missile schools,” he said. Syria’s two-year Turkey ignoring the other two con- in this and it wants its allies to coop- sworn foe. forces, said last month the expert at the Bahrain offices uprising against President Bashar ditions after the apology is noth- erate with it on first and foremost “A dog does nothing more Islamic Republic would raze Tel of Britain’s International Al Assad has left at least 400,000 ing but rumour and not a reflection on Iran ... and Syria,” senior Israeli than bark and we have no con- Aviv and Haifa to the ground Institute of Strategic Studies Palestinian refugees in the coun- of our position,” an official close defence official Amos Gilad told Israel fidence in these threats,” Iran’s if Israel “made the slightest (IISS). try in need of humanitarian aid, to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Radio last month. REUTERS state news agency (IRNA) mistake”. REUTERS UNRWA says. AGENCIES Syria troops capture strategic Homs village

BEIRUT: Syrian troops captured a stra- Meanwhile, rebels in the area captured tegic village in central Homs province the abandoned Dabaa military airport, seiz- on Wednesday, putting pressure on rebel ing munitions left behind by the retreating forces in the area, the Syrian Observatory regime forces, the group said. for Human Rights said. “This airport should have allowed the The army seized Abel, on the main route rebels to ease the pressure on them in the between the city of Homs and Qusayr, a area, but with the capture of Abel by the rebel stronghold near the border with army, it has become more complicated,” Lebanon, the Observatory said. Abdel Rahman said. The village is also just four kilometres In recent days, troops have concentrated from the main route that runs between their efforts on Qusayr and the surround- Homs, Damascus and the northern prov- ing villages, with the Observatory saying ince of Aleppo. soldiers have been aided by fighters loyal to “This will hamper the movement of rebels Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah. between Qusayr and the city of Homs,” Homs province as a whole is considered a Internally displaced Syrian children line up for Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman strategic prize because of its location, con- food in the Maiber Al Salam refugee camp along said. necting Damascus to the coast. AFP the Turkish border in the province of Aleppo.

Mubarak sent Bahrain protesters clash with cops to prison DUBAI: Bahrain riot police protesters, boasted on its tightening the lid on pro- from hospital fired tear gas and stun gre- Twitter account that people took test as the Formula One race nades at Shia protesters who to the streets with “a steel will”. grows near,” said Sarah Leah CAIRO: Egypt’s ousted presi- hurled petrol bombs dur- It said people were “imposing a Whitson, HRW Middle East dent Hosni Mubarak was taken ing demonstrations yester- different rhythm in the street, director. back to prison from an army day against this weekend’s in the first round of Volcanos “The Formula One organis- hospital yesterday after appear- Formula One Grand Prix, of Flames” — referring to the ers apparently prefer to bury ing fitter at his aborted retrial witnesses said. name they have given to a week their heads in the sand, risk- on charges of complicity in the “No. No to blood Formula” of demonstrations against the ing holding their race against killings of protesters in 2011. and “your race is a crime,” F1 race in the state. repression it has provoked,” Hundreds of his supporters chanted protesters who took Police announced they had she added. The interior minis- blocked the road in front of the to the streets in Shia villages, arrested six people for block- try said late on Wednesday that hospital late on Wednesday, the denouncing the decision of ing roads and setting cars police arrested “a number of MENA state news agency said. Formula One to go ahead with ablaze, as the protests intensi- terrorists accused of commit- “We love you Mubarak” and the race despite complaints of fied ahead of today’s practice ting terrorist attacks in several “Down, down with the rule of the rights abuses. sessions at the Sakhir circuit areas of the kingdom.” Muslim Brotherhood,” chanted The protests ended in vio- south of the capital. It said police arrested a the protesters. The retrial of lence when demonstrators Advocacy group Human man suspected of setting a Mubarak will start again on May threw petrol bombs at riot Rights Watch accused Formula car on fire on Sunday at the 11, a Cairo appeals court said police who responded with One of “ignoring rights abuses”, Financial Harbour neighbour- on Wednesday. A first attempt tear gas canisters and stun gre- saying that security forces in hood of Manama. Four others collapsed on Saturday when nades, the witnesses said. Bahrain have “increased their were arrested over stealing and the presiding judge withdrew The February 14 Revolution repressive actions in the lead burning a car in the middle of from the case and referred it to Youth Coalition, a clandestine up to the 2013 race.” a roundabout in Hamad City another court. REUTERS cyber group that mobilises “Bahrain is already suburb of Manama. AFP FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 ISLAM www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 The concept of work in Islam BY KAMAL BADR of a working and productive soci- ety. The Quran says what means: slam lays great emphasis on ...and help one another in good- God tells us in work. In many places in the ness and piety, and do not help one Quran it is made clear that another in sin and aggression; and the Quran to Itime should not be wasted. In be careful of your duty to Allah. traverse the the Quran, God draws attention (Al Ma’idah 5:2) to all the magnificent creations The Prophet Muhammad universe and as an indication of the proper (peace be upon him) himself, who make use of all planning that leads to wonderful is considered a paragon of vir- results—for Muslims believe that tues in Islam, used to pray seek- the abundant He creates nothing haphazardly. ing God’s refuge from laziness God relates in the Quran how the or idleness. Even before he was resources that heavens and the earth were cre- chosen as a messenger of God, have been ated in seven days and describes he was a hardworking person. that as a sign for humankind. This earned him the respect created for us. Then the Quran directs a mes- of his employer, Khadijah, who sage to humanity that it should later proposed marriage to him contribute positively to the earth, because of all the merits and vir- Two, I know that a work that that is, it should work to make use tues she saw in him. is mine must be performed by me, of what is created for its benefit: In his instructions to Muslims so I do not decrease my efforts in That man can have nothing but on this aspect, the Prophet performing it. what he strives for; That the fruit of Muhammad strikes a balance Three, I believe that my Lord his striving will soon come in sight: between worship and work. So, is Omnipresent (watching me), Then will he be rewarded with a as Muslims have to be constant so I do not like Him seeing me reward complete. in their acts of worship, they committing sins. (Annajm 53:39-41) also have to work hard to make Four, I know that death is In Islam work is given spe- a living, as it is recorded in one somewhere waiting for me, so cial importance to the extent of the famous sayings of schol- I prepare for it (through good that it is considered as an act ars: “Work hard (for making a deeds).” of worship in itself. Although living and survival) as if you are In this way, Islam lays down some people believe that they going to die” (Al Albani, Series of a practical framework for life are not obliged to work because Weak and Fabricated Hadiths). by making these principles and they dedicate themselves to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) himself, who Also, in exhorting Muslims on the guidance. Islam strives to erad- worshiping God, this is actu- importance of work, the Prophet icate social ills and vices that ally a wrong perception of the is considered a paragon of virtues, used to pray seeking Muhammad (PBUH) made it result from unemployment, idle- concept of worship. God’s refuge from laziness or idleness. Even before he clear that getting one’s suste- ness, and poverty, by instruct- Scholar Imam Al Ghazali men- nance from one’s work is one of ing the youth to rise up to the tioned in his book Ihyaa Ulumudd- was chosen as a messenger of God, he was a hardworking the praiseworthy acts of worship. challenge of shouldering respon- een (Revival of the Religious It is recorded in his traditions sibility at an early age, and also Sciences) that Jesus (peace and person. This earned him the respect of his employer, how he turned a man who came for the old not to give up their blessings be upon him) once saw a to him begging into a productive efforts in benefiting the society man who had completely devoted Khadijah, who later proposed marriage to him because of member of the society by teach- with their experience and work- himself to worship. When he all the merits and virtues she saw in him. ing him how to work and provide ing skills. Thus, the true mes- asked him how he got his daily for himself. sage of Islam is not just for a bread, the man replied that his One of the scholars of Islam, Muslim to profess faith and do brother, who worked, provided Imam Hasan Al Basri, was nothing for his or her society. him with food. Jesus then told Al Khattab, who used to stress rains gold nor silver” (The Book tells us in the Quran to traverse asked one day the secret behind Rather, Islam teaches that the him, “That brother of yours is this point further by telling peo- of Provision, Chapter 1). the universe and make use of all his asceticism. The imam men- true faith is what is demon- more religious than you are” ple, “Never should anyone of you Therefore, Islam is a religion the abundant resources that have tioned four things in reply: “One, strated through sincere deeds (The Book of Provision, Chapter think that dua’ (supplication) of worshiping the Creator, with been created for us. I believe that my sustenance will that make a noticeable addition 1). Al Ghazali also mentions the for sustenance without work an essential part of that worship Islam is a religion that orders never be hijacked by anybody (so to the progress of society. Prophet’s Companion Umar ibn will avail him, for heaven never being working for survival. God its followers to be part and parcel I work to attain it). www.onislam.net How Islam views begging BY YUSUF AL QARADAWI

he fundamental attitude of Islam towards man’s position in the world is Tthat Allah the Almighty has made the earth for his ben- efit. He has given him control over it. Then it becomes man’s duty to profit from this favour and to exert himself to seek Allah’s bounties throughout the earth. It is not permitted for a Muslim to stay idle doing noth- ing to make a living on the pretext of devoting his life to It is not permitted for a Muslim to stay worship or putting trust in Allah. He should know that the idle doing nothing to make a living sky never rains gold or silver. on the pretext of devoting his life to Also, it is not permissible for him to depend on charity while worship or putting trust in Allah. He he is able to earn a sufficient sub- should know that the sky never rains sistence for himself and his fam- ily through his own efforts. In gold or silver. this regard, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, says: (on the Day of Resurrection) with designated amount is received “Charity is Halal (lawful) neither no flesh on his face.” (Reported by and then he should stop asking; for the rich nor for the able bod- Bukhari and Muslim) for a calamity-stricken man who ied.” (Reported by Tirmidhi) By such strong admonitions, loses his property, it is permis- The Prophet, peace and bless- the Prophet intended to train the sible for him to seek financial ings be upon him, has made Muslim to safeguard his dignity, assistance until he is able to it Haram (prohibited) for a develop self-reliance, and steer stand on his own feet; and for a Muslim to beg money from oth- clear of depending on others. man who is starving, with three ers without dire necessity, thus As the Prophet was aware of reliable persons from his com- losing his honour and dignity. He situations of necessity, he stipu- munity testifying to that saying says: “He who begs without need lated that if one is forced to seek ‘Oh, this man has been reduced is like a person holding a burn- financial help from the govern- to hunger!’ It is permissible for ing piece of coal in his hand.’’ ment or from individuals out of him to ask (for charity) until (Reported by Al Bayhaqi and by dire need, he is blameless. The he is able to stand on his own Ibn Khuzaymah) Prophet says: feet.’ Except for these cases, He also said: “Anyone who “Begging is similar to scratch- Qubaysah, begging is fire, it is begs from people in order to ing the flesh off your face; so if devouring fire.’” (Reported by increase his wealth will have someone wants to save his face he Abu Dawud and An-Nisai) his face scratched on the Day of should avoid it, except for asking Here is the crucial question: Resurrection, and will eat burn- from the ruler or asking in case Who are the worthy recipients ing stones from Hell; so let him of dire need.” (Reported by Abu of Sadaqah? It should be given to reduce it (his punishment) or let Dawud and An-Nisa’i) a Muslim who happens to deserve him increase it as he pleases.” In his Sahih, Muslim quoted it. If, however, it is known that (Reported by Tirmidhi) This Abu Bishr Qubaysah ibn Al he will use it to perpetuate what means that it is up to him to Makharaf as saying: “I agreed Allah has forbidden, then he’s not decrease his punishment by not to pay Himalah (an amount of entitled to it. It is preferable that begging, and vice-versa. money paid to two quarreling par- one who pays Sadaqah should give Again, he says: “A person keeps ties to reconcile them) and came it to the pious, the knowledgeable, on begging until he meets Allah to the Messenger of Allah, peace and those of a kind disposition. and blessings be on him, asking Abu Sa’id Al Khudri quotes “He who begs for help. Thereupon, the Prophet the Prophet as saying: “The like- said: ‘Wait until alms (Sadaqah) ness of a believer and the likeness without need are brought to us and we will give of belief are similar to the horse is like a person you from that. Qubaysah,’ (the that, tied to its post, oscillates holding a burning Prophet went further) ‘asking for around. The believer may forget, money is not permissible except but he returns to his belief. Thus, piece of coal in his in three cases: give your food to the righteous peo- hand.’’ (Prophet) For a man who takes it upon ple and entrust your favours to the himself to pay Himalah, he believers.” (Reported by Ahmad) may seek people’s help until the www.onislam.net FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE Syrian conflict, long in a state of flux, seems to be getting more complicated. In a candid interview to state TV channel Al-Ikhbariya, embattled President TBashar Al Assad said that the West is going to pay US Senate vote shows size of a heavy price for supporting terror groups. He compared the situation to Afghanistan, saying that the Taliban was propped up by the United States to fight the Soviet occupation and the militants have now come to haunt Washington. This was the challenge to gun-control group Syrian leader’s second major interview given to a television BY SAMUEL P. JACOBS channel lately. He was speaking to the channel on Syria’s told the story: Four months after reasonable American to help me tell independence day, celebrated to mark the end of French rule in Newtown jolted America, the 54 sena- the truth about the cowardice these 1946. Days earlier, Al Assad had taken the Turkish government n the end, nothing could persuade tors who voted to expand background senators demonstrated. ... I’m asking to task in an interview to a Turkish channel. Sounding brazen, enough US senators to approve the checks were three less than the 57 who citizens to go to their offices and say, he took on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, most significant gun legislation voted for a Republican-backed plan to ‘You’ve disappointed me, and there will criticising him for acting against Syrian interests. In an acerbic Iin two decades: Not the carnage expand Americans’ rights to carry con- be consequences.’ “ attack on the Islamist Prime Minister, Al Assad said that from Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 cealed weapons. At the White House, an angry Obama children and six adults were massacred That tally also was short of the 60 struck a similar tone. Erdogan was trying to stay longer in power for which he needed by a gunman in December, igniting a votes needed to clear the Senate. But “This was a pretty shameful day for the support of Islamists. Al Assad said that rebellions in many national debate on gun control. taken together, the votes made a state- Washington,” he said. “This effort is not countries had brought the Brotherhood to power and Erdogan Not the impassioned pleas of ment about Americans’ devotion to guns over. ... If this Congress refuses to listen was thinking that a similar dispensation in Syria later would Newtown survivors’ families, whose — there are estimated 270 million guns to the American people and pass com- help him keep his position. calls for expanded background checks in circulation across the nation — and mon-sense gun legislation, then the real for gun buyers so moved a pro-gun sena- the success of the powerful gun lobby, impact is going to have to come from Al Assad told Al Ikhbariya that if he goes, Syria would tor from West Virginia that he became led by the National Rifle Association. the voters.” collapse, but the Syrian people are not going to let this happen. their advocate. So where do gun-control advocates In his interactions with the media, a defiant Al Assad has And not the support of President go from here? ‘THEY WILL HAVE A LONG painted a picture of himself as a Barack Obama, who was inspired by On Wednesday, amid their disap- MEMORY’ The war in leader who is indispensable. He has Newtown to make gun control the first pointment, frustration and anger, it For all the determination of the gun- sought to play up the complicity major initiative of was clear that the new groups who have control groups — and for all of the public Syria has come his second term. driven the gun-control agenda since support they enjoy — the Senate’s vote of foreign governments in the war The US Newtown already were taking aim at showed that challenging the nation’s to the point in Syria, and underscored the Senate’s key vote the 2014 and 2016 elections. attachment to guns or Americans’ where Assad presence of militant groups like the on Wednesday New York City Mayor Michael devotion to guns is a politically tenu- Al-Nusra Front, which it has now On Wednesday, wasn’t exactly Bloomberg, whose personal fortune has ous exercise. should be forced been revealed is allied with Al Qaeda. amid their a rejection of helped to fund a group called Mayors Affection for guns and hunting — and The Syrian leader, who has seen his expanded back- Against Illegal Guns, called Wednesday’s respect for the NRA, which spent $18.6m into talks by the disappointment, ground checks, vote a “damning indictment of the in the 2012 campaign cycle, according to international regime rocked on multiple fronts frustration and gun-control advo- stranglehold that special interests have the Sunlight Foundation — was a theme by the two-year-long insurgency, is cates were careful on Washington.” He said that his group throughout Wednesday’s debate. Several community to trying to stay in power by disowning anger, it was to point out. would work to defeat opponents of gun senators — including West Virginia stanch further his role in the conflict. Despite all clear that the new Most senators control in the 2014 midterm elections, Democrat Joe Manchin, who co-spon- round calls for him to resign and — 54 — approved saying that “our ever-expanding coali- sored the background checks plan and groups who have the measure, tion of supporters will work to make often became emotional in praising the bloodshed. the Arab League throwing Syria driven the gun- which polls sure that voters don’t forget.” Newtown families — made a point of say- out of the fold, Assad’s hubris hasn’t indicated was ing that they supported gun rights and waned. Probably, what is keeping him anchored is the support control agenda backed by more GIFFORDS: ‘I WILL NOT REST’ had been proud to be in line with the of powers like Russia, China and Iran. Syria’s bete noire, since Newtown than 80 percent In an opinion piece that appeared in NRA’s pro-gun platform. Israel, has become sceptical after realising that Islamist groups already were taking of Americans. The New York Times yesterday, former Four Republicans — Ron Kirk of may lay their hands on chemical and other deadly weapons, But because US Representative Gabrielle Giffords Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine, John aim at the 2014 and Republicans — who was critically wounded in a mass McCain of Arizona and Pat Toomey of thus posing a grave threat to Tel Aviv, which has for decades 2016 elections. threatened to shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011 and Pennsylvania, Manchin’s co-sponsor — occupied Golan Heights. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu use a filibuster founded Americans for Responsible backed the background checks plan. said in an interview yesterday that Israel had the right to stop to block any gun Solutions, a group that focuses on gun But four Democrats from gun-friendly weapons falling into the wrong hands. proposal that did violence — vowed not to give up. states — Max Baucus of Montana, Mark The conflict is acquiring multiple dimensions but the not get 60 votes in the 100-member “On Wednesday, a minority of sena- Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of international community is still dragging its feet as blood flows Senate, the plan to expand background tors gave in to fear and blocked com- North Dakota and Mark Pryor of checks to sales made online and at gun mon-sense legislation that would have Arkansas — rejected the background in Syrian towns and cities and innocent civilians continue to shows fell short. made it harder for criminals and people checks plan. Baucus, Begich and Pryor pay the price of Assad’s intransigence with their lives. Military And just like that, the most aggres- with dangerous mental issues to get hold are up for re-election in 2014. “I wish intervention apart, western powers should launch a concerted sive push for gun control in a generation of deadly firearms,” Giffords wrote. Newtown was our last mass shooting,” effort for one-to-one talks with Assad. Even though he may did, too. How galling was the defeat for “I will not rest until we have righted said Daniel Webster, director of the be reluctant to do so initially, tough sanctions and adequate the new gun-control movement? the wrong these senators have done,” Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy Another Senate vote on Wednesday she continued. “... I am asking every and Research. REUTERS prodding may force him to come to the talks table • The other side Quote of Not on the list the day

CCORDING to the State ban and an asset freeze because of Russian officials complicit in the perse- list for political reasons. One is Kadyrov, Department, the government their complicity in human rights crimes, cution of Magnitsky, as well as in other who reportedly is included in a classified of the Russian republic of Kadyrov was not on it. The list of names human rights crimes, and publicly sanc- annex of officials who are to be denied AChechnya under Ramzan — mandated by Congress in legislation tion them. visas but not be subject to an asset Issues of equal Kadyrov “has committed and continues that the administration strongly resisted Some advocates of the law won- freeze. We were told that the administra- treatment, family to commit such serious human rights — is a step toward holding the regime dered why the list was so short; some tion did not want to target senior office- violations and abuses as extrajudicial of Vladimir Putin accountable for its 60 Russian officials have been connected holders, out of concern that Russian policy, also the killing, torture, disappearances and abuses, but it also is another example to Magnitsky’s case alone, not to mention reciprocation would ban members of rape.” Kadyrov, State added in an of President Obama’s questionable other notorious cases such as that of Ms. Congress, Cabinet members or state childcare benefit, August 2011 letter, “has been implicated catering to the Kremlin. Sixteen of the Politkovskaya, who was gunned down governors (the equivalent of Kadyrov) personally” in “the killing of US citizen 18 names on the sanctions list are con- on Putin’s birthday in 2006. There are from visiting Russia, further complicat- such things are Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had nected to Sergei Magnitsky, a whistle- some good reasons: An asset freeze by ing US-Russian relations at a time when always discussed reported widely on human rights abuses blowing Russian lawyer who died after the Treasury Department, which can be Obama is still seeking to strike deals with in Chechnya.” being imprisoned and abused; it was his subject to legal challenge, has to meet a Putin. As it is, the Kremlin issued a sanc- by us in the CDU Yet when the Obama administra- case that prompted Congress to pass relatively high standard of evidence. tions list over the weekend that included with a great deal of tion last week released a list of Russian the law last year. Under its provisions, Administration officials concede, how- several officials of the George W Bush Angela Merkel officials who are to be subject to a visa the administration is required to identify ever, that some names were left off the administration. The Washington Post passion. German Chancellor FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Australia should start to wean itself off China BY WILLIAM PESEK asked why they were glum about the future, three words kept iewed from afar, coming up: The strong dollar. even the bad news in Even so, it’s time for Australian Australia looks pretty leaders to stop complaining about Vgood. Unemployment the unfairness of the situation reached a three-year high last and start addressing the real month and is 5.6 percent. Obama weaknesses in their underlying or Hollande would kill for such economy. For years now, theirs a number. Australia has avoided has been, as the title of Donald a recession for 21 years, boasts a Horne’s 1964 book had it, a “lucky budget remarkably close to sur- country.” Arguably, no developed Personnel from the three branches of the military carry the coffin of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher out of St Paul’s Cathedral at the plus and continues to enjoy low economy has benefited more from end of her ceremonial funeral in central London. inflation. the reforms unleashed in China That stellar performance by Deng Xiaoping in the late should make Prime Minister Julia 1970s. The Chinese boom has led Gillard a shoo-in for another term, to soaring demand for Australia’s right? Oddly, the prospects for natural resources, such as iron her Labour Party in September ore, coal and copper. Time to bury Thatcherism elections appear to dim with each As a result, rapid growth has new batch of economic data. Less come almost too easily. Australia BY SEUMAS MILNE over 3 percent. Despite claims of a Thatcher than 30 percent of voters are has benefited from skilled treasur- The ex-premier didn’t “productivity miracle”, productivity growth was satisfied with her — her weakest ers, including Gillard’s right-hand hey have themselves to blame. higher in the 60s (and has gone into reverse numbers since September 2011. man, Wayne Swan, and former Protests were always likely at save Britain or turn under Cameron). What her government did Only 35 percent are satisfied with Prime Minister John Howard’s any official send-off for the most was redistribute growth from the poor to the opposition leader Tony Abbott, finance chief, Peter Costello. socially destructive prime minister rich, driving up profits and slashing employees’ according to a Newspoll survey Yet they have only really had to in modern British history. But by the economy round. share of national income through her assault published on April 9. Economic manage good times. Meanwhile, Tturning Margaret Thatcher’s funeral into a on trade unions. It felt like a boom in better-off insecurity ranks as the main con- elected officials have focused their state-funded Tory jamboree, puffed up with We need to break Britain, as the top rate of tax was more than cern among voters. On Monday energies on keeping the commodi- pomp and bombast, David Cameron and his halved, while real incomes fell by 40 percent for China reported slowing growth, ties boom going. Mining takes up acolytes have made them a certainty — and the poorest in her first decade in power. sending Australia’s main stock a disproportionate amount of fuelled a political backlash into the bargain. with her failed model You only have to rehearse what Thatcher’s index down the most in a month. the government’s attention, for As the bishop of Grantham, Thatcher’s government unleashed a generation ago to rec- “We need less talk and more instance, even though it employs home town, put it, spending £10m of public to escape its baleful ognise the continuity with what’s been hap- help dealing with rising prices, just 2.5 percent of the working money to “glorify” her legacy in the month pening since: First under John Major, then and more progress creating new population. benefits are slashed and tax cuts handed to under New Labour, and now under Cameron: and better paying jobs,” Laurie Politicians forget that Horne the rich is “asking for trouble”. What was consequences privatisation, liberalisation, low taxes for Bracker, a 34-year-old insurance meant the title of his book sar- planned wasn’t a national commemoration, the wealthy and rising inequality. Thatcher agent, said in Sydney. donically. “Australia is a lucky but a military-backed party spectacle. handouts to the rich; why she was so unpopu- was Britain’s first woman premier, but her Such concerns aren’t unique country,” he wrote, “run by sec- It was a state funeral in all but name, laid lar when in power; and the striking similarity policies hit women hardest, as Cameron’s are to Australia, of course, but they ond-rate people who share its on for none of the last seven prime ministers. with what’s being done by Tory-led coalition. doing, while Tony Blair says he saw his job as speak to Gillard’s paradox. Her luck.” Instead of using the strong Nothing of the kind has been seen since the So there’s been no polling bounce for “to build on some of the things she had done almost three-year-old govern- dollar as an excuse to wean them- death of Winston Churchill, who united the Cameron, even as he claimed that Thatcher rather than reverse them”. ment has played by the rules: selves off China, politicians in country against the mortal threat from Nazi “saved our country”. While people recognise But Thatcherism was an early variant It has kept the national budget Canberra and corporate execu- Germany. Thatcher did the opposite, though her strength, polls show opposition to many (following her friend General Pinochet, the in, or close to, surplus, has con- tives from Sydney to Perth are every effort will be made to milk her short but of her flagship policies, including privatisation. Chilean dictator) of what became the neo- ducted monetary policy credibly urging the central bank to come bloody colonial conflict in the south Atlantic Only a quarter think it’s delivered a better liberal capitalism adopted or imposed across and has done more than oth- to their rescue. Gillard and others for its jingoistic worth. There’s been talk about service. Most don’t believe she “put the ‘Great’ the world. The model imploded in the crash of ers to tax the carbon emissions are essentially abdicating their a need for dignity and respect. But the pros- back into Great Britain”, her economic policies 2008. Her reforms could be said to have “sowed heating up our planet. And what responsibilities to Glenn Stevens, pect of the leader of a class war government are seen to have done “more harm than good”, the seeds” of the current crisis. thanks has Australia gotten for the Reserve Bank of Australia being treated like a respected head of state and her legacy is regarded as one of division More than 20 years after Thatcher was forced heeding the gospels the West? Governor. is an insult to the half of Britain that recoils and inequality. out of office, the evidence is that most British An overvalued Australian dollar Australian leaders should from her memory and the millions whose com- Far from saving Britain, Thatcher’s govern- people remain resistant to her individualistic that is hollowing out the coun- instead be using this time to pre- munities were devastated by her policies. ment delivered inequality, social breakdown, small-state philosophy, believing, for example, try’s export industries. pare the country for the day when From the moment she died there has been disastrous financial deregulation, pulverising that it’s the government’s job to redistribute When we think of economies Chinese demand inevitably begins a determined drive by the Tories and their deindustrialisation and mass unemployment. A income across the spectrum and guarantee a vulnerable to the dark side of to dry up. media allies to rewrite history and rehabilitate North Sea oil bonanza was frittered away on tax decent minimum income for all. zero-interest rates, countries The government should be tak- a damaged brand. For a few days of fawn- cuts for the wealthy and a swollen benefits bill The economic model that underpinned the such as the United States and ing advantage of the lowest bench- ing wall-to-wall coverage it seemed like that as public services were run down, child poverty policies of Thatcher and her successors is bro- Japan, Brazil and Thailand, leap mark rates in 53 years to borrow might be working, as happened in the US after escalated and social mobility ground to a halt. ken. As the Labour frontbencher Jon Trickett to mind. Yet Australia’s currency and invest. Funds are required to Ronald Reagan’s death in 2004. Her apologists insist she did what was nec- argued this week, we need a “rupture” with the has soared 75 percent against the rebuild crumbling infrastructure But a week on, it’s clear revisionists have essary to turn the economy round. But she “existing economic settlement” — the Thatcher US dollar and 89 percent versus and upgrade the education sys- overplayed their hand. Anger and revulsion didn’t. Growth during the 1980s, at 2.4 per- settlement. That’s the challenge of the politics of the yen since the 2008 collapse of tem, encourage a shift to higher keep bursting into the open. Raising her cent, was the same as during the 1970s and our time, not only in Britain. As we remember Lehman Brothers precipitated a value-added manufacturing and record reminds people of the price paid for lower in the post-Thatcher 1990s, at 2.2 per- blighted lives and communities, it’s time to bury global financial crisis. When offi- promote innovation. unrelenting deregulation, privatisation and tax cent, while in the corporatist 1960s it averaged Thatcherism. THE GUARDIAN cials and business leaders were WP-BLOOMBERG Mass hysteria Boston terrorist’s greatest weapon BY SIMON JENKINS it is impossible. But who dares say craves us to give him publicity, so, when the great god terror stalks reaction and retaliation. The know who the real terror- the land, hand-in-hand with the media is his megaphone. There ists are. Some of them set BBC’s World at One? is a world of difference between off a bomb during the Boston Joseph Conrad’s secret agent reporting a bombing and giving Imarathon, killing three peo- declared that the bomber’s aim was it blanket coverage. This week’s ple and injuring 176. Such things not to kill but to create fear of kill- media has shown no inclination to happen regularly round the world. ing. That is why the terrorist and deny terror the oxygen of public- For those in the wrong place at the policeman “both come from ity. Asked what the significance the wrong time it is a personal the same basket”. The terrorist’s of the Boston bomb was, the US catastrophe. achievement would be to generate terrorism expert Rick Nelson told Such deeds are senseless mur- such fear that the police would be the BBC: “The fact that here we ders, but they are not terrorism reduced to “shooting us down in are talking about it.” as such. What makes them ter- broad daylight with the approval of The most sensible remark rorist is the outside world rush- the public”. Half his battle would be yesterday came from the White ing to hand their perpetrators a won “with the disintegration of the House, where President Obama megaphone. Murder is magnified old morality” — by which Conrad refused even to use the word ter- a thousandfold, replayed over meant liberal tolerance. rorism. Much good it did. The and again, described and ana- At present terrorism draws world cried 9/11 and that was lysed, sent into every home. A strength from the West’s adoption that. After the bomb, mass hys- blast becomes a mass psychosis, of extra-legal violence as a coun- teria is terrorism’s second-best impelling a terror of repetition termeasure. A democracy acting weapon. It was loaded, cocked and and demands for drastic counter- in what it regards as self-defence fired. We now wait only for some measures. An act of violence that may differ from the mindless rage deranged idiot to bless us with his A man places a Boston Red Sox at a makeshift memorial organised in response to Boston Marathon bombings, deserves no meaning is given it. of the jihadist. But America is tak- message, which we will of course In Britain, Margaret Thatcher’s ing the “war on terror” away from on Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts. broadcast to the world. memorial service was being any specific theatre into a realm of On the day before Margaret “reviewed in the light of the “out of area” assassination, rendi- to terror is ubiquitous. Back in “national security” and left to Nothing will stop people set- Thatcher’s funeral, I recall the intelligence and security envi- tion and drone killing. As such it is Britain there is not 10 minutes’ account only to public fear. It ting off bombs. Anarchists, most courageous thing I ever ronment”, as if Boston had sud- easily seen as giving itself a licence peace on a Virgin train without employs millions of Americans, republicans, jihadists and fanat- saw a politician do. Within hours denly rendered London insecure. for random violence. a voice intoning that we should in a country under no existen- ics have done so since the inven- of escaping an assassination Sunday’s London Marathon was To Waziri or Yemeni villagers “look out for any suspicious tial threat. I asked a British civil tion of dynamite. They are best attempt in 1984, and with friends likewise “under discussion”, as obliterated by a drone, the fact objects or persons and report servant if, at planning meetings, countered by quiet espionage dying round her, she refused to officials had to deny that it might that they were not the “intended” to the police”. This is pure Big anyone ever suggested a particu- within dissident communities. let security be her master. She be cancelled. David Cameron had victims is immaterial. They are as Brother, the mutualisation of lar counter-terror measure might Otherwise we must accept that changed her clothes, stalked into to speak. Boris Johnson had to dead as the Boston victims. Such suspicion. A quiet walk round be over the top, such as surface- living and moving in a free com- her conference hall and made a speak. Could the Boston bomber cruel, arm’s-length “crime preven- Westminster or Kensington is to-air missiles at the Olympics. munity involves risk, especially in speech that barely mentioned have been awarded any greater tion” is precisely what Conrad’s jarred by wandering policemen The answer was no one would nations such as Britain and the what had happened. Terror was accolade? special agent sought to provoke. If toting machine guns. They may be dare. Richard Branson lacks the US, claiming the right to tell the in its proper place. Thatcher set I heard a radio reporter intone America claims legitimacy in sow- just showing off, but showing off guts to stand down his scaremon- world how it should be run. an example to the pusillanimous, that it was “incredibly difficult ing terror from the air, Islamists to what purpose? We have even gers. The Met’s Bernard Hogan- The Chinese proverb bids us cowering, overprotected, risk- to make sporting events safe and claim likewise on the ground. come to regard it as normal. Howe lacks the guts to call off his always to ask what the enemy averse politicians of today. secure”. It is not incredibly difficult, This heightened sensitivity Domestic security has become Westminster Tonton Macoute. most wants us to do. The terrorist THE GUARDIAN FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Mississippi man charged for ricin Up to 15 dead in Texas blast threat to Obama WASHINGTON: Federal pro- Over 160 injured in fertiliser plant disaster; toxic fumes force evacuation of half of town secutors yesterday filed crimi- nal charges against Paul Kevin WEST, TEXAS: A fiery explo- the blast site was being treated as Curtis, the Mississippi man sion tore through a fertiliser a crime scene for the time being. arrested a day earlier in the plant and leveled dozens of “We are not indicating that it FBI’s investigation of letters homes in a small Texas town, is a crime, but we don’t know,” believed to have contained the killing as many as 15 people, Swanton told reporters yesterday, deadly poison ricin. injuring more than 160 others some nine hours after the blast. A criminal complaint filed and spewing toxic fumes that “What that means to us is that in US District Court for the forced the evacuation of half the until we know it is an industrial Northern District of Mississippi community, authorities said. accident, we will work it as a charges Curtis45, of Corinth, Police initially estimated that crime scene.” He said there was with threatening to harm US between five and 15 people had per- no immediate evidence of a crime. President Barack Obama and ished in the blast, which rocked the West Mayor Tommy Muska said making other threats through the town of West, located about 32km that five or six volunteer firefight- Postal Service. north of Waco and 130km south ers who were among the first to Three letters believed to con- of Dallas, shortly before 8pm local arrive at the fertilizer plant were tain ricin were addressed to a US time on Wednesday. missing. Firefighters had been senator, the White House and a Public safety officials said they battling the blaze and evacuating Mississippi official, the FBI said. expected the death toll to climb nearby residences and a nursing An affidavit from the FBI and the as search teams combed through home for about 20 minutes before Secret Service filed in court yester- the rubble of the demolished plant the explosion occurred. day said that all three letters con- and surrounding homes. “I’ve Officials said flames that con- tained the same eight-line message. never seen anything like this,” tinued to smolder inside the plant “Maybe I have your attention McLennan County Sheriff Parnell initially posed two threats: The now / Even if that means some- McNamara said. “It looks like a possibility of setting off further one must die,” the letters said in war zone with all the debris.” explosions and the emission of The remains of the fertiliser plant burn after an explosion in the town of West, near Waco, Texas. part, according to the affidavit. Ground motion from the blast, hazardous fumes into the town. The letters ended, “I am KC and triggered by a fire of unknown Swanton said a residual fire burn- winds shift. Officials said a full Wilson said 133 people had two who lives less than a mile I approve this message.” origin at the West Fertilizer Co ing underneath additional chemi- assessment of property damage been evacuated from the nursing from the plant, said he heard fire The initials “KC” led law plant, registered as a magnitude cal tanks had been brought under would not come until after dawn. home, which was heavily dam- trucks heading toward the facil- enforcement to ask the staff of 2.1 seismic tremor and created a control, “and I don’t think that is Wilson said 50 to 75 homes aged. A middle school in town ity five minutes before the explo- the US senator, Republican Roger jolt felt in Dallas and beyond, the any longer a threat”. were damaged by the explosion also was heavily damaged. Three sion and felt the blast as he stood Wicker of Mississippi, about any US Geological Survey reported. Texas Public Safety Department and a fire that followed, and a hospitals in Waco and Dallas on his front porch. “My windows constituents with those initials, Waco Police Sergeant W spokesman D L Wilson said about nearby 50-unit apartment com- that were receiving the bulk started rattling and my kids and the investigation then focused Patrick Swanton said investiga- half the town, about eight to 10 plex had been reduced to “a skel- of patients from the disaster screaming,” Shelton said. “The on Curtis, the affidavit said. tors would examine whether the blocks, had been evacuated and eton standing up”. Muska put reported treating more than 160 screen door hit me in the fore- The letters were undergoing blaze was the result of foul play or that “we might even have to evac- the number of destroyed homes injuries combined. head ... and all the screens blew more extensive testing. a chemical reaction, adding that uate on the other side of town” if at between 60 and 80. Jason Shelton, 33, a father of off my windows.” REUTERS REUTERS US president slams ‘shameful’ ‘Evil’ Boston bombers will be found: Obama defeat of gun reform drive

BOSTON: US President Barack Obama, who also met relatives no arrests have been made in of at least one potential suspect WASHINGTON: Bristling with anger, President Barack Obama Obama vowed yesterday that the of the dead and recovering vic- connection with the worst attack and are seeking “to locate and branded Wednesday’s defeat of his gun reform drive in the US “evil” Boston marathon bomb- tims at Massachusetts General in the United States since the identify that individual.” The sus- Senate as “shameful,” and accused lawmakers of caving in to ers would be found as investiga- Hospital, said Americans had seen September 11, 2001 atrocities. pects have not yet been identified the powerful firearms lobby. A deeply emotional Obama lashed tors focused their efforts on two “the face of evil” in the attacks. But media reports said authori- though, reports said. The Federal out after a bid to expand background checks for gun buyers — potential suspects. Obama has vowed a relent- ties would later release images of Bureau of Investigation says it has the last meaningful piece of his trimmed effort to retool gun “Yes, we will find you, and yes, less hunt for the attackers and two men who could have planted launched a “worldwide” hunt. laws after the Newtown school massacre — failed to pass. Ringed you will face justice,” Obama told authorities say they want to the bombs that sprayed nails, ball The FBI released photographs by dazed and grief-stricken relatives of some of the 20 children a special service in the city, three speak to individuals seen in sur- bearings and other metal frag- of the mangled metal remnants of gunned down in Connecticut in December, Obama accused the days after the two bombs killed veillance camera images around ments into the crowds. a pressure cooker believed to have firearms lobby of lying to thwart change but vowed he would not three people and injured about 180 the marathon finish line that “Authorities have clear video been used for one of the bombs. give up the fight. “Families that know unspeakable grief sum- in a hail of nails and ball bearings. was devastated by the pressure images of two separate suspects in The lid of one pressure cooker moned the courage to petition their elected leaders not just to “We will find you, we will hold cooker bombs. the Boston Marathon bombings was found on the roof of a hotel honor the memory of their children but to protect the lives of you accountable,” he told a con- “There is some video that has carrying black bags at each explo- near the marathon finish line. all of our children,” he said in the White House Rose Garden. “A gregation of 2,000 at Boston’s raised the question of those that sion site and are planning to release More than 100 of the injured have minority in the United States Senate decided it wasn’t worth it.” Cathedral of the Holy Cross in a the FBI would like to speak with,” the images today,” the Boston Globe left Boston hospitals, but about 10 As he absorbed the first significant political defeat of his second special visit to show national soli- Homeland Security Secretary Janet said, quoting an official. The images remain in critical condition. At term, the president said “the gun lobby and its allies willfully darity after Monday’s attack. “If Napolitano told a Congressional were from surveillance cameras in least 12 people have lost at least lied about the bill. “All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for they sought to intimidate us, to hearing. But she added that she Boylston Street in Boston where one of their legs because of the Washington.” The background checks bill did attract a majority terrorize us,” Obama said, then “it would not call the “individuals” in the marathon ended. blast from the bombs, which fired vote — 54-46 — but 60 senators were needed for passage. should be pretty clear by now that the images suspects. A law enforcement official said the metal fragments at low level. they picked the wrong city to do it.” No claim of responsibility and that investigators have images AFP Venezuela’s Maduro eyes inauguration

CARACAS: Nicolas Maduro steamrolled toward inauguration as Venezuela’s president yesterday despite days of flaring tensions over opposition demands for a recount in elections to replace Hugo 4 Britons jailed for Qaeda Chavez. The late Chavez’s political heir, Maduro appeared to have regained control of the situation after post-election protests turned violent in parts of the country, leaving eight people dead and more inspired bomb plot than 60 injured. “We have defeated the coup d’etat,” Maduro has declared, while accusing his rival Henrique Capriles of “sowing LONDON: Four Britons were jailed yesterday for plotting violence”. Preparations were under way to swear Maduro in with Al Qaeda inspired bombings across the country, including pomp and circumstance today to complete Chavez’s six-year term, an attack on an army base using a remote-controlled toy car cut short by his death from cancer March 5 after 14 years in power. packed with explosives which they planned to drive under the gates. Prosecutors said the men, who were captured after an No winner in second round of Italy vote operation involving London’s Counter Terrorism Command and the MI5 domestic spy agency, were “dangerous and com- ROME: Italy’s parliament failed to elect a new president during mitted terrorists”. a second round of voting yesterday, with no candidate winning Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad the required two-thirds of the vote. The majority of the ballots and Syed Farhan Hussain, from Luton, north of London, had were spoilt by party members from across the political sphere all pleaded guilty last month to preparing for acts of terrorism. playing for time in the hope of agreeing on a winning candidate. Prosecutors said Iqbal was a “terrorist facilitator” who A third vote is set to take place today morning, and the ballot arranged for people, including Ahmed, to travel to Pakistan for will continue with two votes a day until a president is elected. extremist purposes. Meanwhile Ahmed, who with others also underwent training in the Snowdonia mountainous region of Gunmen kill six in eastern Kenya town North Wales, had recruited Arshad and Hussain. “All four men have shown a deep commitment to engage in NAIROBI: Gunmen in the volatile eastern Kenya town of Garissa violent jihad,” said Deborah Walsh, deputy head of Counter- yesterday night shot and killed six people, police said. “Six people Terrorism at Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service. Iqbal and have been killed after people armed with guns stormed a hotel,” a Ahmed were jailed for 11 years with the possibility these terms police officer said and added that a security operation was under- could be extended, while Arshad was imprisoned for almost way to track the attackers. He said nine other people had been seven years and Hussain for more than five years. injured in the attack. Guns are common in the impoverished north- REUTERS eastern region, which hosts more than 500,000 Somali refugees. AGENCIES Kosovo, Serbia to resume talks today

PRISTINA: Kosovo and Serbia will advisor Bekim Colaku confirmed to local defuse their long-standing tensions. resume talks in Brussels today following media that the talks would resume today. An agreement is needed in the coming another failure to clinch a deal to normal- In Brussels, an official at the Serbian days if Belgrade is to win endorsement from ise ties and ease tension in the Balkans, mission to the EU confirmed that Belgrade a June EU summit to open much hoped- officials here said. would take part in the talks and that Prime for negotiations to become a member of The Kosovo delegation, which was on its Minister Dacic would attend. the bloc. Failing progress before next week, way home after the failed 11th-hour talks An EU source in Brussels said that only Serbia’s integration into the EU could be on Wednesday, returned to Brussels for the two issues are outstanding — over police in delayed indefinitely. new meeting, the Pristina government said the north of Kosovo where Serbs make up Pristina, which unilaterally declared inde- yesterday. the majority and the question of Kosovo’s pendence from Belgrade in 2008, is eyeing The negotiators “returned back from representation in international organisa- an association pact with the EU as a reward the airport in Ljubljana to Brussels to con- tions such as the United Nations. for normalising ties if a deal is reached. tinue meetings” with the Serbian delegation Pristina suddenly raised the second issue Serbia has refused to recognise Kosovo’s after a request from EU foreign policy chief on Wednesday, although it was not part independence, even though more than 90 Catherine Ashton, the government said in of prior negotiations. Late on Wednesday countries have done so, including the United a statement. each side blamed the other for rejection States and all but five EU member states. Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s of a Brussels-brokered proposal on how to AFP FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Asean-China code of conduct urged Manila says time ‘ripe’ to discuss agreement to ensure peace, stability and freedom of navigation in the region

MANILA: The time is “ripe” some of the provisions that were Conduct would be crafted as soon for the Association of Southeast laid out in that document have as possible,” Hernandez said. Asian Nations (Asean) and not been fully implemented,” Chinese occupation of the China to have a legally binding Hernandez said. Panatag Shoal started on April code of conduct to prevent occu- “We are talking about provi- 10, 2012, when surveillance vessels pation of disputed and non-dis- sions like not inhabiting islands from Beijing barred the Philippine puted areas in West Philippine in the West Philippine Sea, which Navy from arresting Chinese Sea and Panatag Shoal. some countries have newly inhab- poachers who had illegally har- In a press briefing at ited. So those are the things that vested endangered marine species Malacañang, Foreign Affairs have to be discussed and decisions in the shoal. spokesman Raul Hernandez said have to be made for the full imple- Philippine officials want the “China has said that they will only mentation of the DOC,” he said. Panatag incident tackled in Asean discuss this with Asean when the “That should not be the case. and included in the documents of time is ripe.” That is a violation of the provi- the regional grouping because it “We are hoping that the time sions of the DOC. What we need is within the country’s exclusive is ripe now for such discussion to do is to be able to implement economic zone and has not been because this actually would be those provisions to the full so that considered a disputed area until very good for the region, and will peace and stability in the region the Chinese adopted a nine-dash- put peace and stability and free- can be undertaken.” line policy, claiming the whole dom of navigation in the area that He said the Philippines would of the West Philippine Sea and we are talking about,” Hernandez continue to advocate maritime encroaching on other countries’ said. security and cooperation, push territories. He said it is up to He said President Aquino would for the full and effective imple- Asean senior ministers to come attend the 22nd Asean leaders’ mentation of the DOC as well as up with an agreement on the code summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, the early conclusion of a substan- of conduct that would be shown Brunei on April 24 and 25. tive and legally binding code of and discussed with the Chinese. The summit’s theme for this conduct, and review the Asean Hernandez said the Philippine year is “Our People, Our Future Charter to streamline the work efforts to have a legally binding Together,” emphasising the and meetings of Asean. code of conduct would not affect importance of Asean citizens in Hernandez said they are hope- arbitral proceedings it initiated realising the vision of an Asean ful that negotiations on the code of against China under the 1982 community by 2015. conduct would start soon for the United Nations Convention on “As to the DOC (Declaration on interest of all parties concerned. the Law of the Sea to clarify its the Code of Conduct in the South “I think Asean is ready to push maritime entitlements in the Philippine coast guard personnel inspect frozen pangolins, or scaly anteaters, found in the cargo hold of a Chinese China Sea), I think there is really this with China so that a substan- West Philippine Sea. boat which ran aground off Tubbataha reef, in Palawan island. a need to implement that because tive and legally binding Code of THE PHILIPPINE STAR Aquino airport tightens security Illegal workers to be deported Myanmar labour MANILA: Following the bombings at the Boston MANILA: Overstaying through an interpreter. in Saudi Arabia. Al Hassan said Marathon last Monday Filipino workers in Saudi “I would say in a very crystal that if the said illegal workers fail that killed three people and Arabia will be arrested and statement after this 90-day grace to rectify and regularise their sta- team arriving injured 144, authorities have deported for violating the period, of course. Within this tus within the given grace period, tightened security at the Kingdom’s immigration laws period, we expect that the con- they should leave the Kingdom. Ninoy Aquino International even during the three-month cerned authorities for those legal “This new policy measures are MANILA: A top level labour and Myanmar,” said Baldoz. The Airport (NAIA) in Pasay grace period given by the Saudi residents should have to do what implemented not only for over- delegation from Myanmar delegation will visit agencies that City. Manila International government for undocumented they can do in order to deport seas Filipino workers but for all led by its Labour Minister U deal with labour migration, dis- Airport Authority (MIAA) foreign workers to rectify their these illegal workers,” he added. overseas workers residing in the Maung Myint will arrive in cuss policies and management senior assistant general man- status. The 90-day grace period started kingdom illegally. Within the the Philippines next week for a systems, and see first-hand pro- ager Vicente Guerzon placed Saudi Ambassador to the last April 6. grace period, they should leave,” study visit, a senior Philippine grammes and services that cater the entire airport security Philippines Abdullah Al Hassan “After this period has lapsed, he said through an interpreter. government official said today. to migrant workers. personnel on full alert and said that the Kingdom will have to we will have to implement Meanwhile, Al Hassan said Philippine Labour Secretary Baldoz said one of the objec- issued a memorandum to implement its immigration laws the full measure of the law to the government of Saudi Arabia Rosalinda Baldoz said the study tives of the tour is for Myanmar all concerned employees to regarding overstaying foreign- strengthen and to apply the would not be extending any visit of Myanmar’s labour offi- to identify areas in labour migra- maintain vigilance 24 hours ers in the same manner that the law as we have done here in the assistance to the undocumented cials is scheduled on April 22 to tion management they wish to a day. Guerzon said that all Philippines have deported over- Philippines. There are Saudi Filipino workers who are now 26 and is part of the International learn about, and which could be security officers were ordered staying Saudi nationals. nationals who are coming here camped outside the Philippine Labour Organisation’s (ILO) addressed by Manila with the to strictly implement access “It is not our main focus to in the Philippines and with your Consulate in Jeddah. Asean Triangle Project. support of the Asean Triangle control, set up checkpoints, penalise people who are sup- immigration law. It is the royal According to the Department “I look forward to the visit to the Project. The project aims to enforce rigid security screen- posed to be penalised. What con- embassy of Saudi Arabia who will of Foreign Affairs, the number Philippines of Minister U Maung reduce the exploitation of migrant ing and inspections, maintain cern we have is to implement our take care of their deportation,” of those camped outside the Myint and party. His visit will workers in the Southeast Asian security visibility and con- own laws. And those who are not Al Hassan said. Philippine Consulate in Jeddah be an opportune time to discuss region through increased legal duct mobile patrols. He also staying illegally, of course, they Al Hassan said the 90-day grace has swelled to at least 700 as of ways of strengthening the labour and safe migration and improved directed personnel to deploy will enjoy the protection given period is applied to all foreign last Tuesday. migration management systems labour protection. bomb sniffing dogs in sen- to expatriates,” Al Hassan said workers who are residing illegally THE PHILIPPINE STAR and services of the Philippines THE PHILIPPINE STAR sitive areas of the airport, strictly implement crowd control measures, intensify drives against illegal elements and activities to protect pas- sengers, send off and welcome parties at the terminals. Abu Sayyaf leaders Overseas voting escape offensive in Jeddah put off MANILA: The start of MANILA: Two Abu Sayyaf Indama has been blamed for the overseas absentee vot- commanders survived a mili- the 2007 beheadings of 10 Marines ing (OAV) in Jeddah, Saudi tary offensive that killed eight in Basilan, a widely condemned Arabia, did not push through militants and led to the seizure atrocity that prompted a major due to delay in the release of their jungle lair and bomb military offensive against the ban- of ballot boxes by Saudi materials in a remote village dit group. Customs, the Commission in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, officials Galvez said Hapilon and on Elections (Comelec) said. said. Indama are also accused of try- Comelec Chairman Sixto The assault by more than 100 ing to sabotage infrastructure Brillantes said the ballot Army troops targeted Isnilon projects, including the construc- boxes were not released in Hapilon and Furuji Indama tion of a road and a power barge, time for the April 16 start of — suspects in the kidnapping and of trying to extort money OAV, and he could not ascer- of a former Australian soldier from several business firms. tain the cause of the delay. freed last month — in Barangay “Both their signatures appeared “Maybe now the ballot boxes Silangkum. The leaders, however, on the extortion letters,” he said. have already been released. managed to escape and were still Lieutenant General Rey Ardo, So as soon as ballot boxes, being hunted by government forces, commanding general of the voting will start,” Brillantes Army brigade commander Colonel Western Mindanao Command said in an interview. To make Carlito Galvez said. At least three (Westmincom), said the troops also up for lost time, the voting soldiers were wounded in the main pre-empted the plan of the bandit hours in Jeddah would have assault and two gunbattles with group to stage bomb attacks. to be extended. about 30 Abu Sayyaf gunmen. Ardo said the troops from the Troops overran the bandit lair, Light Reaction Company (LRC) DFA monitoring where they found bomb-making and Army Scout Rangers recov- Filipino Marines and US troops simulate an amphibious assault of a hostile area during a military exercise at the materials and equipment, along ered electronic parts, circuitry, Philippines Marine Base in Tarnate town, Cavite. US plant blast with sniper rifle parts, Galvez said. wires, alligator clips, digital clocks, Washington has offered a $5m and other electronic equipment MANILA: The Department reward for the capture or killing contained in a plastic toolbox. of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of Hapilon, who has been accused Ardo said the camp was used by assured that it is monitoring of involvement in deadly bomb the Abu Sayyaf to train its follow- Philippine-US war games end the massive explosion in a fer- attacks, kidnappings and behead- ers in bomb-making and demoli- tilizer plant near Waco, Texas, ings, including of Americans in tion. “Troops were searching the MANILA: This year’s joint map for holding joint war exer- of Balikatan, we know you would that killed an undetermined the past, landing him on the most area for possible IED (improvised Philippines-United States cises, a yearly drill sanctioned come to our aid as well,” US number of people and hurt wanted list of the US Federal explosive device) which the Abu Balikatan exercise ended with by the 1951 Mutual Defence embassy deputy chief of missions dozens. Spokesperson Raul Bureau of Investigation. Sayyaf might have assembled,” a US embassy official thanking Treaty (MDT) between the two Brian Goldbeck said. Hernandez said in his Twitter Indama is also wanted for his Ardo said. The attack took place the Philippine government for countries. Del Rosario, Defence account that the Philippine alleged involvement in deadly near an encampment of the Moro its support to the US in case a “We remain with you. Not just Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, and Consulate General in Los bombings and kidnappings of sev- Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), conflict in the Korean peninsula for the annual exercise, but when- US Ambassador Harry Thomas Angeles, California, is try- eral people, including Australian the largest Muslim rebel group in turns into a full-blown war. ever our partnership is needed. As Jr attended the opening of this ing to determine if there are Warren Rodwell who was freed last the country with which the govern- Both Filipino and US military Secretary (Albert) Del Rosario year’s Balikatan but skipped clos- Filipino casualties from the month after 15 months in jungle ment has been negotiating a peace planners will be meeting again (of the Department of Foreign ing ceremonies. incident. AGENCIES captivity and payment of ransom. accord. THE PHILIPPINE STAR next month to lay down the road Affairs) has stated at the opening THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

Indonesia boat N Korea makes tough conditions mishap claims 3 SAMARINDA: Indonesian rescuers yesterday pulled Pyongyang offers US, South Korea list, including denuclearisation of peninsula, before talks two more bodies from a river after a boat carrying tim- SEOUL: North Korea yester- “The denuclearisation of the ber company workers sank, day offered the US and South Korean peninsula can begin with bringing the death toll to Korea a list of conditions for the removal of the nuclear war three, with 30 still missing, talks, including the lifting of UN tools dragged in by the US and it officials said. The boat car- sanctions, signalling a possible can lead to global nuclear disar- rying 63 workers sank on end to weeks of warlike hostility mament,” it added. It called for Wednesday after being hit on the Korean peninsula. an end to military exercises such by a huge wave as it travelled The North Korea’s top military as the annual US-South Korean across the Mahakam River in body also said the denucleari- drills that began in March and East Kalimantan province in sation of the peninsula would end this month. the Indonesian part of Borneo begin when the US removed The US has offered talks, but island. Search for survivors nuclear weapons Pyongyang says on the pre-condition that they is still under way. Washington has deployed in the lead to North Korea abandoning region. its nuclear weapons ambitions. China bird flu The move is likely a sop to the North Korea deems its nuclear North’s only major backer, China, arms a “treasured sword” and has strain probed which signalled its growing unease vowed never to give them up. over the escalation of threats, and South Korea has also proposed BEIJING: China is inves- said talks were the only correct talks Pyongyang rejected as an tigating the possibility of way to end the tension. insincere move. human-to-human transmis- “Dialogue and war cannot North Korea stepped up its sion of a new strain of bird co-exist,” the North’s National defiance of UN Security Council flu that has killed 17 people Defence Commission said in the resolutions in December when it and is examining “family statement carried by the official launched a rocket it said put a clusters” of people infected KCNA news agency. scientific satellite in orbit. Critics with the virus, Feng Zijian, “If the US and the puppet said the launch aimed to nurture Director of the health emer- South have the slightest desire to technology needed to deliver a gency centre at the Chinese avoid the sledge-hammer blow of nuclear warhead on a long-range Centre for Disease Control our army and people ... and truly missile. and Prevention said yester- wish dialogue and negotiations, That was followed in February day. “We are still analysing they must make the resolute deci- by its third test of a nuclear South Korean air force personnel participate in a drill at an air base in Chungju, yesterday. in-depth to see which has sion,” it said. weapon. That triggered new UN the greatest possibility — did The commission said UN sanctions in March, toughening The US remains open to aboard Air Force One. “The bel- concerning the future of the it occur first from avian-to- Security Council sanctions, “fab- existing measures, which led to “authentic and credible” negotia- ligerent actions and words that closed Kaesong industrial zone. human transmission, and ricated with unjust reasons” must intensification of North Korean tions with North Korea, but the we’ve seen emanating from the North Korea has blocked access then a human-to-human be withdrawn. “They should bear threats of nuclear strikes against country would first need to show North Korean regime actually to Kaesong, 10km inside its bor- infection, whether they had in mind that doing so would be South Korea and the US. it is serious about abandoning its indicate the opposite.” der since April 3. a common history of expo- a token of goodwill towards the South Korea saw the demands nuclear ambitions, a White House UN Secretary General Ban He also vowed to advance sure, were exposed to infected DPRK,” it said. The North’s as “regretful” and “cliched” and spokesman said. Ki-moon urged North Korea “meaningful dialogue” between objects or whether it was official name is the Democratic called on North Korea to with- “So far, we have not seen that,” to “seriously” consider an offer the two Koreas. caused by the environment.” People’s Republic of Korea. draw them. Josh Earnest told reporters of dialogue from the South AGENCIES Anti-Vietnam activist jailed HANOI: A Vietnamese activist has been jailed for US warship adds a punch China urges Japan three years for conducting “anti-state propaganda”, offi- cial media said yesterday, in to cut jets scramble an intensifying crackdown on dissent by the commu- to Asia ‘pivot’ in Singapore nist regime. Pham Nguyen BEIJING: China called on Japan yesterday to stop sending jets up Thanh Binh, arrested last SINGAPORE: A US warship The ship, the US Navy’s first to maintaining a strong presence against Chinese aircraft after Japan said it had scrambled its fight- year, appeared in court in desig ne d to fig ht i n coasta l a reas littoral combat ship designed in the region to ensure stability. ers twice as often in the past year amid a territorial dispute. southern Ho Chi Minh City arrived yesterday in Singapore to fight close to the shore, will In naval terms, it also under- The number of scrambles against Chinese planes nearly doubled to on Wednesday and pleaded for its Southeast Asian deploy- be deployed for the next eight pins the US’ commitment to 306 in the year that ended in March. That accounted for the increase guilty to the charge of “anti- ment, underlining President months in the region, where it ensuring freedom of navigation,” in the overall number from 425 to 567, the highest level in 22 years, state” activities. He agreed Barack Obama’s new strategic will participate in naval exercises he said. Japan’s Defence Ministry said. he had written eight articles, focus on Asia. and visit other ports. The-then US defence secretary China and Japan have been involved in an increasingly acrimonious libelling the communist party, The deployment of the USS Regional security expert Ian Leon Panetta announced last year stand-off over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, the government and its lead- Freedom comes at a time of Storey said the Freedom’s deploy- that Washington will shift the called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. ers, according to the report. heightened tensions on the ment signals Washington’s com- bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific “We all know that when it comes to the Diaoyu Islands issue Japan has Korean Peninsula and as China mitment to ensuring freedom of by 2020 as part of a new strategic been continuously taking provocative actions to raise tensions. This is the ‘Hashish’ man publicly flexes its naval muscle in navigation in the region, which focus on Asia, where China is an root cause of the present very tense situation over the islands,” Chinese the South China Sea, where it has hosts some of the world’s busiest emerging power. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing. faces court competing territorial claims with shipping lanes. China is embroiled in a mari- Japan, she said, should instead “show more sincerity and take practi- some Southeast Asian states. “The forward deployment of time dispute with four Southeast cal steps to work hard with China to find a way to appropriately man- DENPASAR: A Frenchman US Navy officials said the these ships is part the US pivot, Asian countries — Brunei, age and resolve the problem through dialogue, talks and consultations. appeared in an Indonesian Freedom, a littoral combat ship, rebalancing away from Iraq and Malaysia, the Philippines and This would be best for both countries.” court yesterday, charged sailed into Changi Naval Base Afghanistan and towards Asia,” Vietnam — over territorial claims The waters around the disputed islands are rich fishing grounds and with trying to smuggle 69 at around 11am (0300 GMT) in said Storey, a senior fellow at in the South China Sea. have potentially huge oil and gas reserves. grammes of hashish into Singapore, a long-standing US the Institute of Southeast Asian Beijing claims nearly the entire The dispute has escalated in recent months to the point where China the resort island of Bali, an ally that assists in logistics and Studies in Singapore. sea, including areas much nearer and Japan have scrambled fighter jets while patrol ships shadow each offence punishable by death. exercises for forces in Southeast “It demonstrates to US allies to the other claimants. other, raising fear that an unintended collision could lead to a broader Vincent Roger Petrone, 43, Asia. and friends that it is committed AFP clash. REUTERS was charged in court after being detained in January by customs officials as he Vermillion fest arrived from Kuala Lumpur. Officials became suspicious as he appeared “in a rush” to get through airport security, EU to lift Myanmar sanctions prosecutors said. The hash- ish was found in his stomach. BRUSSELS: The European approval on Monday, will allow and lift sanctions entirely to Union is expected to lift all sanc- European companies to invest in remove an element of uncertainty Tourists under tions on Myanmar next week, Myanmar, which has significant over their investments. except for an arms embargo, natural resources and borders “The US will no doubt carefully Lanka watch in recognition of the “remark- economic giants China and India. consider the lifting of sanctions able process of reform” in the “The EU is willing to open a by the EU and the rationale for COLOMBO: Sri Lanka, country, a document showed on new chapter in its relations with that step in determining the next which saw record tourist Wednesday. Myanmar, building a lasting part- steps that the US takes in rela- arrivals last year, yesterday The EU agreed a year ago to sus- nership,” said the document which tion to its Myanmar sanctions,” said it had started tracking pend most of its sanctions against contains the draft conclusions of said Marae Ciantar, a Singapore- those same tourists to crack Myanmar for a year in response to Monday’s EU foreign ministers’ based lawyer at Allens, an inter- down on crime and ensure a dramatic series of reforms, but meeting. national law firm. national security. The deci- it is now expected to go further by The move could put pressure Ciantar, who advises a multi- sion to track the tourists, agreeing “to lift all sanctions with on the United States, which sus- national telecoms company seek- requiring hotels and guest- the exception of the embargo on pended sanctions in May last year ing to invest in Myanmar, said he houses to submit weekly arms”, the document said. and allowed US companies to expects the lifting of sanctions to reports on their foreign The step, which was agreed by invest through a general licence. give EU companies an edge over guests, comes after several EU ambassadors on Wednesday, Some American executives have US companies. foreign visitors were arrested A Nepalese man smeared with vermillion powder looks on during the paving the way for ministerial urged Washington to go further REUTERS for crimes. Sindoor Jatra festival in Thimi on Monday. The festival is celebrated to mark the Nepalese New Year and the start of spring. Poll-meddling probe ends SEOUL: Two members of EU CO2 crisis will not hurt domestic plans: Beijing South Korea’s spy agency interfered in last year’s pres- BEIJING: The crisis facing were a “domestic requirement”. strategy. No matter what happens targets by purchasing carbon quotas allocated to other firms. idential poll by conducting the European carbon market They were, he said, designed to to our economy, we cannot make credits from the market, enabling Xie said China ultimately an online smear campaign will not deter China from plans address longstanding inefficiency any change.” them to keep emitting greenhouse sought to link its carbon trading against Democratic United to establish its own emissions and environmental problems, and The global financial crisis gases. Many credits have been platforms with those elsewhere, Party candidate Moon Jae-In, trading platform or its other cli- did not depend on other nations, has saddled Europe’s Emissions generated by low-carbon projects but was focused now on domestic police claimed yesterday. The mate pledges, the senior official or on the state of the economy. Trading Scheme (ETS) with a in China as part of a United needs. agents, including a woman, responsible for climate change “China has pledged these tar- crushing oversupply of carbon Nations scheme known as the “In the future we will establish 28, used IDs to post messages said yesterday. gets to the international commu- credits and record low prices, Clean Development Mechanism. a link, but in the next few years and articles on websites criti- Xie Zhenhua, Vice-Director of nity to deal with climate change but the EU parliament this week China is planning a similar we first need to establish a car- cal of Moon, who was defeated the National Development and and they will not change,” he said rejected proposals to bail the mar- domestic scheme in which car- bon market according to Chinese in the December 19 vote Reform Commission in charge at an event in Beijing. “Even if ket out. bon-intensive enterprises and conditions and the conditions of by current president, Park of climate policies, said efforts other countries say they will The ETS allows enterprises industries can meet their own developing countries,” he said. Geun-Hye. AGENCIES to cut greenhouse gas emissions do nothing, we will keep to our to meet their carbon reduction targets by acquiring the emission REUTERS FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Court orders Musharraf’s arrest Ex-general to appeal, may be put under house arrest

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani highest court against the arrest he said on condition of anonymity. court yesterday ordered the order. He said if the Supreme The case is one of three against arrest of former military ruler Court upholds the order, then Musharraf in the Pakistani courts. Pervez Musharraf, who immedi- Musharraf is expected to be put He is also accused of conspiracy to ately sped off to his villa on the under house arrest, describing the murder opposition leader Benazir edge of Islamabad, protected by retired general as “composed and Bhutto in 2007 and over the death barbed wire and armed police. confident”. “I think if an arrest of a rebel leader during a military Musharraf faced no resist- is necessary, the authorities will operation in 2006. ance from scores of law enforce- declare the farmhouse a sub-jail,” The retired general seized ment agents when he left the APML spokesman Muhammad power in 1999 in a bloodless coup, Islamabad High Court after the Amjad said. “Musharraf did not which was widely welcomed at judge ordered his arrest over his flee the court. Actually there was the time in Pakistan. The man controversial decision to dismiss no police official to arrest him and he ousted, prime minister Nawaz judges when he imposed emer- nobody tried to arrest him,” he Sharif, is now the frontrunner in gency rule in 2007. added. the campaign for general elec- Police guarded the main gate of It remains unclear if and when tions on May 11. the luxury villa and closed access he could be detained, but yester- Musharraf was forced out, to the street in the upmarket sub- day’s order was the latest humili- threatened with impeachment in urb of Chak Shahzad where TV ating blow against the man who August 2008 and has had a rude trucks and other media camped returned to Pakistan last month awakening since flying back to outside Musharraf’s gate. to contest elections after four Pakistan on March 24. Dozens of supporters chanted years in self-imposed exile. On Tuesday, he was disquali- “this is injustice” and “long live The Supreme Court is hearing fied from running for parliament, Musharraf” as his office appealed a separate petition from lawyers ending his ambitions of a politi- against the order in the Supreme demanding that Musharraf face cal comeback built on the prom- Supporters of Pakistan’s former president and head of All Pakistan Muslim League Pervez Musharraf chant slogans Court, denouncing the deci- trial for treason for subverting ise that he alone could “save” outside his residence in Islamabad, yesterday. sion as motivated by “personal the constitution by imposing the country from poverty and vendettas”. emergency law in 2007, punish- insecurity. ensure that he presents himself make a mockery of claims that city on December 27, 2007. “We expect this unwarranted able by death or life imprison. A day earlier, he told journal- for arrest. “General Musharraf’s Pakistan’s armed forces support In 2010 a UN report said judicial activism, seemingly moti- A senior police official said on ists that he was prepared to go to act today underscores his disre- the rule of law and bring the mili- Bhutto’s death could have vated by personal vendettas... will condition of anonymity that nor- jail, at a press conference meant gard for due legal process and tary further disrepute that it can been prevented and accused cease and the Supreme Court, mal procedure would have been to unveil his party manifesto but indicates his assumption that as ill afford,” he added. Musharraf’s government of failing without prejudice, will immedi- an immediate arrest at the court, overshadowed by a barrage of ques- a former army chief and military On Wednesday, a court in to give her adequate protection. ately grant necessary relief,” his but conceded no effort appeared tions about the cases against him. dictator he can evade account- Rawalpindi extended his bail until Bhutto’s son, Bilawal Bhutto office said. to have been made to detain him The US-based watchdog ability for abuses,” said Pakistan April 24 over Bhutto’s killing. The Zardari, who is chairman of the A spokesman for his All there. “His house will now most Human Rights Watch called on director, Ali Dayan Hasan. former prime minister died in a outgoing Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League said likely be declared as sub-jail and the military authorities oversee- “Continued military protec- gun and suicide attack at the end has accused Musharraf of her Musharraf will appeal in the he will be put under house-arrest,” ing Musharraf’s protection to tion for General Musharraf will of an election rally in the garrison murder. AFP

Mild earthquake Taliban pledge jolts Baluchistan Pakistan transgender to contest poll ISLAMABAD: A mild revenge over earthquake hit parts of Dalbandin and adjacent SUKKUR: Stereotyped as business and started supplying areas in Baluchistan of Guantanamo dancers, beggars and prosti- bed sheets and ladies clothes door Pakistan in the early hours KABUL: The Taliban yester- tutes, Pakistan’s vibrant but to door, allowing her to make new yesterday. The meteoro- day pledged to take revenge shunned transgender commu- contacts in the city. logical department said the on US troops in Afghanistan nity is striking out into poli- Then she branched out into epicentre of the quake, meas- after guards at Guantanamo tics with individuals contesting welfare, providing care to elderly uring 4.9 on the Richter prison fired non-lethal rounds elections for the first time. eunuchs and registered her own scale, was in the northwest at inmates to quell unrest. They may only be seven out charity in 2009. of Dalbandin. On Tuesday, Guards at the US-run prison of 23,000 candidates with little Today, her two-room apart- dozens of people were killed in Cuba fired the rounds last chance of getting elected, but ment serves as a home, an insti- and injured in Baluchistan Saturday to halt unrest as they they have livened up an otherwise tute offering transgender people when a powerful earthquake relocated inmates into individual lacklustre campaign and set an computer training and therefore in Iran hit the border area cells, US military officials said. important marker for their rights the prospect of more respectable of Pakistan. Forty-one peo- Officials faced resistance from in the country. work, the headquarters of her ple died when the earthquake some detainees as they moved In Pakistan, there are an esti- charity and as a campaign hub. jolted Mashkel, levelling mud inmates from communal housing mated 500,000 “eunuchs” — tra- “I decided to live for others, houses. More than 12,000 to individual cells. No detainees ditionally paid to help celebrate because everybody lives for them- people were also affected. were seriously injured, according the birth of a son or to dance at selves but nobody sacrifices their to the officials. Dozens of detain- weddings. life for others,” she said. Four rebels die ees are in the third month of a When the Supreme Court in Having won the hearts of hunger strike at the prison. 2009 recognised them as a “third Sukkur’s transgender community in Afghanistan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah gender”, ordering they be issued Transgender Sanam Faqeer (right), an independent candidate for Pakistan’s and hundreds of poor people, she Mujahid said his insurgent group with separate identity cards, it general election, speaking with local residents while campaigning in the says her community asked her to KABUL: Four Taliban insur- would avenge the incident by was hailed as a landmark deci- southern city of Sukkur. stand for election. gents were killed and four attacking American troops in sion in a nation battling enormous All the transgender candidates arrested during operations Afghanistan. human rights abuses and chronic are running as independents, by Afghan security forces “The Mujahideen of the Islamic violence. the poor, welfare to the old, pro- tendencies. limiting their chances of success. and International Security Emirate... vow to avenge these But in a country where sexual mote meritocracy and the lives of After her father died, her Politics in Pakistan is based heav- Assistance Force (ISAF) in wronged prisoners by target- relations outside marriage are cleaners and remove unemploy- brothers forced her out aged 15 ily on patronage, giving wealthy Afghanistan in the past 24 ing the American invaders in taboo and homosexuality is illegal, ment. Once elected, I will make and she was taken under the wing landlords and entrenched political hours in different regions of Afghanistan with all might at transgender people are treated as my city cleaner and end the traf- of a prominent member of the parties a huge advantage. the country. ISAF said in a their disposal, Allah willing,” sex objects and often become the fic chaos,” she said in her office. transgender community. In the eastern town of Gujarat statement issued yesterday. Mujahid said in the statement. victims of assault, ending up as Born in 1975 as Essa Gul, the She changed her name, grew close to the Indian border, ISAF said operations were The spokesman also called on little more than beggars. ‘son’ of a radical prayer leader, out her hair, dressed permanently Resham is taking on the impos- carried out in the provinces rights groups to condemn “such Now Sanam Faqeer has given she has overcome immense per- as a woman and spent the next sible: Going neck and neck with of Kandahar, Samangan, cowardly actions of America up dancing to focus on campaign- sonal pain. decade dancing and working as the outgoing deputy prime min- Nuristan and Uruzgan. and take a firm stance against ing for the May 11 polls, telling Her strict father kept his chil- a prostitute. She became popular ister and a former defence min- it based upon evident humane that the world of politics is more dren at home to be taught only and earned good money, but her ister for a seat in the national Four civilians principles”. serious. the Holy Quran and she was bul- ambitions spread wider. assembly. Islamabad free of “My aim is to give justice to lied by her brothers for “girlish” She invested in a textiles AFP killed in Karachi KARACHI: At least four P3 polio: WHO Earthquake survivor people, including a woman, were killed in different fir- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ing incidents in Karachi yes- struggle against polio was terday. The woman died in marked by two pleasant devel- Malala among 100 Fakera Ghoth, while three opments yesterday. bodies were recovered from The first is a WHO confirma- different areas the city, tion of Pakistan being free of the Dunya News said. The bodies type 3 poliovirus strain (P3), one ‘most influential’ were stuffed in gunny bags of the two globally continuing and it appeared they were strains of the wild poliovirus. NEW YORK: Malala Duchess of Cambridge, Kate killed after being kidnapped. The second is the appoint- Yousafzai, the Pakistani school Middleton. The bodies were shifted to ment of Dr Sania Nishtar as the girl and advocate for girls’ edu- President Barack Obama the Civil Hospital Karachi focal person and coordinator of cation who survived a would-be appears on the list for the eighth for medico-legal formalities. the federal government for all assassin’s bullet, is among the time and First Lady Michelle They were yet to be identified. health-related subjects, in addi- 100 most influential people in Obama, has made it to the list, tion to her already assigned duties the world, Time magazine said too. Other politicians include US Strong ties with as Minister for Education and yesterday. Senator Rand Paul, China’s Xi Training, Science and Technology, Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban, Jinping, Myanmar’s Aung San India urged and IT and Telecom. has also appeared on the cover of Suu Kyi and North Korea’s Kim “The last time Pakistan the magazine. Jong-Un. SpaceX founder and ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and reported a P3 case was on April The 15-year-old, nominated for entrepreneur Elon Musk is men- India should remove non-tar- 18, 2012. It is a historic break- this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, had tioned, as is Pope Francis. iff barriers to boost bilateral through in the fight against surgery in February to repair the Pop music is represented by trade, as these are the main polio that the virus has not been hole left in her skull by the bullet, Justin Timberlake and Jay Z and impediments to cross-border detected in any part of the coun- and lives in exile in Britain. his wife Beyonce, among others. trade, S M Muneer, President try in the last one year,” stated Time’s annual list picks lumi- In the world of sports, Italian of the Indo-Pak Chamber of the Chief of Polio Eradication at naries from art, business and football player Mario Balotelli is Commerce and Industry said the World Health Organisation, politics whose achievements make included, as are US basketball star yesterday. “Pakistan should Dr Elias Durry. them among the most vital and LeBron James and Alpine skiing consider granting early most- According to reliable data, vibrant figures. star Lindsey Vonn, although her favoured nation status to Pakistan reported 36 P3 cases in A Pakistani Frontier Constable carries an injured quake survivor into This year’s list includes beau, top world golfer Tiger Wood, India, as it would greatly help 2008, 28 cases in 2009, 24 cases in an army helicopter in the Mashkail area of southwestern Baluchistan Hollywood director Steven is not in the list. increase trade between both 2010, and 2 each in 2011 and 2012. province, yesterday. Spielberg, Oscar-winning actor Short bios of each appear in the countries.” AGENCIES AGENCIES Daniel Day Lewis and Britain’s magazine. AGENCIES FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Power tariff protest Eight killed in Right to life, Bengal storm KOLKATA: At least eight peo- ple were killed in a storm that development lashed parts of West Bengal on Wednesday evening, an official said here yesterday. While three deaths were reported from the state capital for every child Kolkata and adjoining districts on Wednesday, five more deaths were reported from other parts of the state yesterday. Cabinet clears policy on children The state government has announced a compensation of NEW DELHI: Every child in guiding principles that must be Rs200,000 to the victims’ next of India will now have a right to respected by national, state and kin, an official said. life, development, education and local governments in their actions The storm lashed Kolkata and protection. The government and initiatives affecting children. other districts with a maximum yesterday guaranteed it by com- According to senior officials of wind speed of 116km per hour, ing out with the national policy the women and child development disrupting normal life as road, rail for children, which was cleared ministry: “the policy has identi- and air services were badly hit. by the union cabinet, chaired fied survival, health, nutrition, Locally known as Nor’wester, by Prime Minister Manmohan education, development, pro- the storm also uprooted hun- Singh. tection and participation as the dreds of trees. A number of wall “The union cabinet today gave undeniable rights of every child collapse incidents were reported its approval to the National Policy and has also declared these as key from various parts of the city and for Children, 2012,” the govern- priority areas.” Demonstrators holding kerosene lanterns shout slogans during a protest against a power tariff hike, in the the state. ment said in a statement issued Keeping in mind that children’s western city of Ahmedabad, yesterday. State power regulator Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission, IANS after the meeting. needs are multi-sectoral, inter- has allowed an average 34 paise ($0.63) per unit of tariff hike for state-run distribution firms. The policy recognises every connected and require collective person below the age of 18 years action, the policy aims at active as a child and that “childhood engagement and partnerships is an integral part of life with a with all stakeholders. value of its own.” It also aims to set up a com- The Congress-led United prehensive and reliable knowledge Death penalty for Pune blast convict Progressive Alliance (UPA) gov- base and sensitisation and capac- ernment said it “reaffirms” their ity development of all those who PUNE: Indian Mujahideen verdict in a packed courtroom. and they had neither arrested nor Choudhary and Fazzay Kagti. “commitment to the realisation work for and with children. operative Himayat Baig was During arguments on the quan- presented the six other accused Another accused, Zabiuddin of the rights of all children in the The cabinet said that a national awarded the death sentence tum of sentence in the afternoon, in the case. Ansari alias Abu Jundal, is cur- country. “ plan of action will now be devel- by a Pune court yesterday for Baig broke down claiming inno- “Vodafone provided evidence rently undergoing trial in other Of its population of 1.2 billion, oped to give effect to the policy. murder, criminal conspiracy cence and pleaded for mercy. based on phone records that at terror cases in the country. India has 400 million children A national coordination and and other charges in the 2010 He was held guilty by the court the time of the blast, Baig was Rahman said though he below the age of 18 years. action Group will also be consti- German Bakery terrorist attack. on April 15. in Aurangabad. The accused respected the court’s verdict, he The policy promises a long- tuted to monitor the progress of Baig was the only accused According to the prosecution, had never been to Pune before would appeal against it in the term, sustainable, multi-sectoral, implementation. arrested for his role in the explo- Baig planted the bomb under the blast and six witnesses also Bombay High Court. integrated and inclusive approach “Similar plans and coordination sion, which killed 17, including five one of the tables in the German gave evidence to this effect. The Among other offence, Baig for the harmonious development and action groups will be consti- foreigners, in what was the worst Bakery. prosecution could not prove the has been convicted under Indian and protection of children. tuted at the state and district lev- extremist strike after the 2008 His lawyer A Rahman opposed conspiracy theory nor did it pro- Penal Code Sections 302, 307 Now with the policy, every els,” the statement added. Mumbai terrorist attacks. the prosecution’s claim that duce the other accused before the (murder and attempt to mur- child in India will be provided by The National Commission for The verdict draws the curtains there was a link between Indian court,” Rahman said soon after der), 435, 474 (mischief by fire and the government the right to life, Protection of Child Rights and on the Valentine’s Day-eve trag- Mujahideen, banned since 2004, the verdict. explosive and forgery) and 120(b) survival, development, education, State Commissions for Protection edy of February 13, 2010, which and terrorist group Lashkar-e- The prosecution had named (criminal conspiracy), besides protection and participation and of Child Rights are to ensure that shook the state’s academic and Taiba, and that the two groups Baig and six other accused in other charges under the Unlawful equal rights for all children “with- the principles of the policy are cultural capital. jointly carried out the attack. the charge sheet, including Activities Prevention Act and the out discrimination.” respected in all sectors at all levels. Pune Sessions Court Special He further contended that Baig absconders Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Explosives Act. The policy lays down the IANS Judge N P Dhote delivered the was framed by the investigators Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Mohsin IANS

No breakthrough in Bangalore blast; Rs 500,000 for clues SC cancels 49

BANGALORE: The the incident on Wednesday in the not reveal use of any improvised was a special alert from the union between two cars before the inci- mining leases Karnataka government yes- upscale locality of Malleshwaram, explosive device as shrapnel, nails home ministry to step up vigil in dent. As the blast site is at a dis- terday announced a reward of Pachau said four special teams or ball bearings were not found view of the assembly elections on tance from the party office, the in Karnataka Rs.500,000 to anyone providing were formed to coordinate with in the wreckage at the blast site May 5 and the ongoing Indian cameras could not capture the credible information on the blast the National Investigation Agency or in the three gutted vehicles, Premier League T-20 cricket two men’s images clearly. NEW DELHI: The Supreme near the ruling Bharatiya Janata (NIA) and forensic experts in including the motorcycle on matches in the city. As no one was killed and inju- Court yesterday cancelled all Party’s (BJP) office in the city, in cracking the case. which a medium-intensity bomb “We regularly get alerts and ries to the 11 policemen and five leases for iron ore extraction which 16 people were injured. “Joint Commissioner of Police was planted. inputs from all sources though civilians were not major, sleuths in 49 category C mines — with “We will reward Rs500,000 to Pranab Mohanty is heading the “We are working on many clues we cannot share details with are probing why the ripped the highest degree of illegal anyone providing credible infor- teams and following leads from and leads we got so far. As the case media or public in the interest of motorbike with the explosive mining — in Bellary, Tumkur mation on the bomb blast that the evidence collected at the blast is sensitive and investigation is in security and investigation being was parked between the two cars, and Chitradurga districts of would help us in cracking the site. As chemicals like ammonium progress, we cannot share details carried out in the blast case,” which bore the brunt of the blast. Karnataka. case and arresting the suspects,” nitrate and a battery-operated till we identify the suspects and Auradkar clarified. “Impact of the blast would have The apex court’s forest bench state Director General of Police timer were used to trigger the find out the motive behind the NIA sleuths and forensic been worse and even fatal if the of Justice Aftab Alam, Justice Lalrokhuma Pachau told report- explosion, the incident appears to bomb blast,” Auradkar said. experts are also scanning foot- motorbike was parked elsewhere. K S Radhakrishnan and Justice ers. There has been no break- be a terror attack,” Pachau said. Asked if the city police had age from four CCTV cameras Luckily, there was no one inside Ranjan Gogoi, while accepting the through in the case yet. City police commissioner intelligence inputs about the blast, installed at the BJP’s state office the two gutted cars,” a police offi- recommendations of the Central Admitting that there was no Raghavendra Auradkar said Auradkar said there was no spe- to identify two persons who came cial said. Empowered Committee (CEC) breakthrough even 24 hours after preliminary investigation did cific information. However, there on the motorbike and parked it IANS on green matters in its February 3, 2012 report, said the “leases in respect of ‘C’ Category mines will stand cancelled....” Category C mines are those in which the CEC detected the Plan for Gandhi Case against Indian baron dropped highest level of illegal mining and GENEVA: The Swiss chief prosecutor’s office said yesterday that encroachment. There are lesser memorial at it had closed a probe of an Indian-born telecoms baron who was illegal activities in Category B accused of fraud in a scheme that sold pre-paid phone cards but mines, and the least violation of allegedly cheated users out of call time. laws in Category A ones. birthplace of But in a sign that its suspicions remained strong, the office said Ranjit Justice Gogoi said: “The pro- Masuta had brought the probe upon himself due to “illicit behaviour”. ceeds of the sales of the iron ore Orwell shelved Masuta’s operations were placed under investigation in 2005 at the of the ‘C’ category mines made request of Germany. through the monitoring com- PATNA: Plans to create a “The investigation showed that, via his corporation, Ranjit Masuta mittee will stand forfeited to the memorial park for independ- produced at least 141 types of cards, with most of them sold in large num- state. The monitoring commit- ence hero Mahatma Gandhi bers,” the office said. The cards were handled by servers in Frankfurt. tee will remit the amounts held that would have encroached on “For the bulk of these cards, it is assumed that the programming of by it on this account to the SPV the birthplace of British novel- the servers cut the call credit in a continued and unjustified manner,” (special purpose vehicle) for uti- ist George Orwell have been the office said. lisation in connection with the shelved, officials said yesterday. It underlined, however, that it had not been possible to identify the purposes for which it had been Last week, a state minister laid individuals who bought the cards and who were affected by the alleged constituted.” the foundation stone for the pro- fraud, and therefore to estimate the total losses inflicted on the victims. The court confirmed its earlier posed Gandhi park on land sur- “There is therefore insufficient evidence to file charges,” it said. order permitting mining activities rounding Orwell’s birthplace in AFP in 18 category A mines. A signpost announces the birthplace of British author George Orwell in Motihari town in Bihar, causing The court, however, put an front of a dilapidated residence in Motihari, Bihar. concern among fans of the writer. embargo on mining activities “In view of questions raised under seven mining leases, in the by several people, the district Service during the time of British park in memory of Gandhi should Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh bor- administration has stopped the rule over the subcontinent. be developed away from the pro- der region. construction of the park around For years, the family’s bunga- tected site,” Mukherjee said. Seven more Mumbai blast convicts The court said mining activi- the premises of Orwell’s birth- low has been left to decay. “It is unfortunate that although ties under the seven mining leases place,” district magistrate Vinay It was damaged in an earth- the place has no connection with get four weeks to surrender would remain suspended till the Kumar said. quake in 1934 and has since Gandhi, some people with vested NEW DELHI: A day after it gave four weeks’ time to film star boundary between the two states Kumar said the district admin- served as an occasional home to interests were trying to develop Sanjay Dutt to surrender to serve his remaining sentence in the was demarcated. istration had instructed local offi- stray animals. Recently, Orwell’s it as a place associated with the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, the Supreme Court yesterday The court vacated its earlier cials to keep away from the site statue at the site of the house was freedom fighter,” he added. granted similar respite to seven other convicts. order restraining issuance of housing a white colonial bungalow vandalised. Orwell, writer of such novels A bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice B S Chauhan granted fresh mining leases. belonging to Orwell’s family. Deo Priya Mukherjee, who as Animal Farm and 1984, never four weeks’ time to seven convicts on the grounds of ill health and “Grant of fresh mining leases Orwell, born as Eric Arthur heads an Orwell commemora- returned to his birthplace and advanced age. and consideration of pending Blair on June 25, 1903, lived in tive committee in the state, died in 1950 after a life that Those who were given the relief of four weeks to surrender were applications be dealt with in Motihari for a year as a child said he was delighted with the saw him live rough in London Zaibunisa Kazi, Ashrif Abdul Gafoor Parkar alias Dadabhai, Issaq accordance with law, the direc- before leaving for England in 1904 development. and Paris, fight in the Spanish Mohammad Hajwane, Altaf Ali Syed, Essa alias Anjum Abdul Razak tions contained in the present with his mother and sister. “We welcome the decision to civil war and serve as a wartime Memon, Yusuf Mohsin Nulwala and K C Babu. The court denied similar order as well as the spirit thereof,” His father, Richard W Blair, stop the construction of the park broadcaster for the BBC. relief to Yusuf Khan alias Kayum Kasam Khan. the court said. worked for the Indian Civil at the birthplace of Orwell. The AFP IANS IANS FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Ooredoo lines up loan up to $12bn for Maroc Telecom bid Ten banks to support move for Vivendi’s stake, sources say DUBAI: Ooredoo, formerly Qatar Telecom (Qtel), has secured a loan of up to $12bn from a group of 10 banks to support its bid for Vivendi’s stake in Maroc Telecom, sev- eral bankers working on the deal said. The loan is being provided by JP Morgan, Qatar National Bank, Morgan Stanley and HSBC, as well as Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Development Bank of QIF enters into new deal in Singapore and Citigroup, two bankers close to the deal said. Vivendi wants to sell its 53 percent stake in investment management the Moroccan telco to help reduce its debts — a deal seen as more critical since Vivendi failed DOHA: The Qatar Investment Fund (QIF) has announced that to sell video game firm Activision Blizzard and it is entering into a new investment management agreement from Brazilian telecom unit GVT as part of a much- October 31, 2013 with current manager Epicure Managers Qatar heralded strategic shift. Limited (EMQL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Potential bidders need to show they can Company. The revised agreement is for a one year period, with come up with cash to cover the $6bn market the same fee arrangements as those that were in place prior to the value of the stake, as well as fund the buy-out revised agreement. option which minority shareholders must be The proposed revised fee arrangements commencing on 1 November offered. 2013 are a reduced management fee of 1.05 per annum of the net asset Ooredoo’s finance package also includes value of the Company, calculated monthly and payable quarterly in funds in case the Moroccan government arrears, with such management fee reducing further to 1.0 percent decides to sell its 30 percent stake in the telco from 1 November 2015 for the final year of the agreement. There will — although it is currently unclear whether it be no change in the performance fee arrangements or any other mate- would want to divest its stake in a strategi- rial terms as exist currently. Ooredoo Chairman Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Thani (second left); Deputy Chairman cally-important sector. The lower management fee will reduce significantly the overall costs Ali Shareef Al Emadi (third left); CEO Dr Nasser Mahrafi (left); and Qatar CEO Sheikh Saud bin Nasser A consideration in Ooredoo’s thinking is for the Company. Combined with other cost saving measures that a February 22 note from Standard & Poor’s, Al Thani, during the Annual General Meetingheld in Doha recently. SALIM MATRAMKOT have been recently implemented, the ongoing charges will fall below 2 warning that it could downgrade the firm’s percent of net asset value per annum based on the current size of the A rating by one notch if it took on too much Telecom stake, after South Korea’s KT Corp is very tight as you would expect from a top Company. Nick Wilson, Chairman of the Company said: “Following debt to fund future acquisitions. dropped out of the race, sources said on tier name but you still see banks willing to the tender offer in December 2012, the Board undertook a thorough That may mean that Ooredoo funds part Monday. fund,” said one. review of all the Company’s expenses and implemented a number of of any acquisition with its own cash — it had Etisalat is set to sign an $8bn loan facility Ooredoo last tapped the bond market in cost-cutting measures including renegotiating arrangements with QR14.8bn ($4.1bn) at the end of 2012 — or next week with as many as 16 banks to help January, when it raised $1bn from a two- several of our service providers.” through equity, having raised $1.9bn in a rights fund its stake bid, bankers said on Wednesday. part issue of 15-year and 30-year paper. The issue last year to support stake hikes in Iraq’s Those bidding for the stake need to submit former was trading to yield 162.5 basis points Asiacell and Kuwait’s Wataniya. a binding bid by April 22. over z-spreads, with the latter at 182.2 basis One of the two bankers said Ooredoo had points over z-spreads at 1515 GMT, according Obayashi&HBK wins Msheireb’s lined up a loan of up to $12bn to cover the FAVOURABLE TERMS to Thomson Reuters data. full purchase price, but the final size could JP Morgan Chase is advising Ooredoo on The z-spread expresses relative value by Downtown project contract be lower. the bid, while Qatar National Bank is admin- calculating the number of basis points that Three different bankers who are also work- istering the finance package. need to be added to a zero-coupon yield curve DOHA: Msheireb Properties has awarded contract for Phase-III ing on the deal said Ooredoo asked banks to A number of options were being considered to make the bond’s discounted cash flows equal construction of Downtown regeneration project to the joint venture commit at least $1bn each from which it will for the financing structure, including a short- its present value. Obayashi & HBK. Msheireb Properties, Qatar`s leading sustainable take the necessary amount, adding some had term loan to be refinanced later or a long-term Ooredoo also completed a $1bn four-year real estate developer, met only Obayashi & HBK joint venture as sin- put up more. loan and a bond, either to fund the acquisition revolving credit facility at the beginning of gle qualified contractor. The Msheireb Properties has also appointed Ooredoo was not immediately available for itself or to take out loan debt later, the three April, funded by 14 banks, to be used for gen- a consortium of Obayashi and HBK Qatar as the main contractor comment. separate banking sources said. eral business purposes and to help refinance for the QR20bn regeneration project. This is the fourth package The Qatari firm is battling with the United The pricing on the loan is expected to be an existing $1.25bn facility. that HBK Contracting Co. was appointed in Msheireb Downtown Arab Emirates’ Etisalat over the Maroc favourable to the company, they said. “Pricing REUTERS Doha. THE PENINSULA Twitter launches music app to deepen multimedia offering

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter Inc will be streamed via Rdio and Spotify, post, Twitter’s engineers said the new In its early years, Facebook Inc launched a stand-alone music- the subscription-based music services, service “uses Twitter activity, includ- gained popularity by allowing its streaming app yesterday, opening and iTunes, Apple Inc’s music store. ing Tweets and engagement, to detect service to be integrated with YouTube another front in the micromessag- Twitter said in its blog-post and surface the most popular tracks and music-streaming apps like ing service’s ambitious expansion announcement that #music will be and emerging artists.” Spotify. And Apple, Google Inc and into multimedia content. available in the US, Canada, the UK, “It also brings artists’ music-related Amazon Inc have all recently held The iPhone app, called #music, will Ireland, Australia and New Zealand Twitter activity front and center: go talks with music industry executives recommend and stream songs based beginning Thursday. to their profiles to see which music about entering the music streaming on who users follow on Twitter and A release date for the Android app artists they follow and listen to songs business. artists’ recommendations. The songs has not yet been announced. In a blog by those artists.” REUTERS Nokia sales tumble overshadows Lumia pick-up

HELSINKI: A sharp fall in earlier, far short of the ¤6.5bn 121 million euros that markets sales of Nokia’s basic phones forecast by analysts in a Reuters expected. overshadowed a stronger per- poll. Nokia has said it wants NSN to formance from its Lumia Nokia’s future is seen depend- be sold or publicly listed, and on smartphones in the first quar- ing on higher-margin smart- Thursday said the strong results ter, rekindling fears over its phones as a growing number of showed it was closer to becoming future and sending its shares global consumers want access to independent. tumbling to year lows. apps such as Twitter from their The joint venture agreement The results renewed pressure handsets. lapsed earlier this month, freeing on Chief Executive Stephen Elop, But it still sells more regular both parties to sell their stakes who was hired in 2010 to turn mobile phones than smartphones, without consulting each other, the Finnish mobile phone maker and needs to protect its position although sources have said no around after it fell behind rivals in the basic handset market so deals are imminent. Some ana- Samsung and Apple in the smart- buyers of its cheaper handsets lysts questioned why Nokia would phone race. don’t defect to other brands let go of NSN now. He made the controversial when they eventually upgrade to “We remain surprised that decision to switch to Microsoft’s smartphones. given that NSN generates all the untried Windows Phone software In markets such as China, EBIT and the cash flow of Nokia in early 2011 and had said the Nokia faces strong competi- that Nokia keeps talking about transition would take two years, tion not only from rivals such as NSN becoming independent,” said a period that’s now over. Analysts Samsung but also from emerging, J P Morgan analyst Rod Hall. said he was running out of time. cut-price competitors. Nokia’s shares briefly fell 12.7 “Basically, he has only the sec- “The fall in numbers for the percent to a year-low of 2.30 ond quarter,” said Mikko Ervasti low-end devices is quite alarm- euros. At 1420 GMT the shares at Finnish investment banking ing,” said Nordea analyst Sami were down 8.7 percent at 2.40 and wealth management group Sarkamies. “Even with Lumia euros, above the all-time low of Evli. doing better, we still care about 1.33 hit last year, but a far cry The headquarters Nokia, one of the world’s biggest mobile phone makers, in Espoo, Finland. Nokia said it sold 5.6 million those. Nokia is still a second- from their 65-euro peak in 2000. units of Lumia handsets in the tier player in smartphones, and Nordea’s Sarkamies said the first quarter, up from 4.4 million it’s only because of its position Elop said it would also revamp In addition to Lumia sales, a cash drain for co-parents Nokia weak results in mobile phones in the previous quarter, and fore- in mobile phones that it’s still its Asha range of mid-tier feature first-quarter results showed a and Siemens but now profitable may force analysts to reconsider cast stronger growth in the cur- relevant.” phones this year. few bright spots. Its underlying after massive cost cuts and as its what they see as the sum value rent quarter. Elop told reporters that the Analysts also said that while loss, which excludes special items, focus on fourth-generation (4G) of the company’s parts, which But shipments of mobile phones main reason for the fall in mobile the pick-up in Lumia was encour- shrank to 0.02 euros per share Long Term Evolution (LTE) net- include its handset business, slumped 21 percent to 55.8 units, a phone sales was tougher competi- aging, rivals weren’t standing still from 0.08 euros a year earlier. works has begun to pay off. Navteq mapping unit and stake far steeper decline than the 8 per- tion and the company would fight either. Markets had expected a 0.04 per While NSN’s quarterly sales in NSN. Many analysts had esti- cent fall that markets expected, back by launching more innova- Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is set to share loss, according to a Reuters were slightly weaker than ana- mated that to be around 4-5 euros with unit sales down in every tive, cheaper products. go on sale later this month and is poll. lysts had forecast, its underlying before Thursday.“Worries about region. Nokia recently launched a 15 expected to outsell its predeces- That was mostly helped by profit, or adjusted earnings before the mobile phone business are As a result, overall net sales fell euro phone in an effort to boost its sors with monthly sales of around its equipment venture Nokia interest and taxes (EBIT), of 196 now greater,” he said. 20 percent to ¤5.9bn from a year share in emerging markets, and 10 million. Siemens Networks (NSN), once million euros was higher than the REUTERS FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatar bourse remains India to boost export bearish for 4th week Benchmark Index loses 58.94 points this week

DOHA: Bearish spell continued for the for 8.86 percent. The QNB ranked third 0.68 percent to QR132.80, Qatar Insurance fourth consecutive week on Qatari bourse accounting for 7.17 percent. The bourse rose 0.71 percent to QR56.50, Doha Bank as the benchmark Index lost 58.94 points added 12.93 points or 0.15 percent on yester- gained 1.15 percent to QR44.05 and Qatar or 0.69 percent during this week to close day’s trading to advance to 8,422.26 points Navigation up by 0.67 percent to QR60.00. at 8,422.26 points. from Wednesday’s 8,409.33.The volume of The Banking and Financial sector index Market capitalisation fell by 0.78 percent the shares traded was up 4,515,081 from up 0.28 points while Consumer Goods and to reach QR464.71bn compared to QR468bn 3,173,070 on Wednesday. The value of shares Services sector index dropped 0.23 points. at the end of previous week. All the sectors, increased to QR155bn from Wednesday’s The industrial sector lost 0.33 points while except the Insurance, ended in negative ter- QR145bn. Among the top gainers of the day insurance sector rose 0.39 points yesterday. ritory this week. were Qatar National Bank which was up THE PENINSULA Medicare Group, Ezdan Real Estate, Dlala Holding, Qatar General Insurance and Reinsurance and Qatar Oman Investment Company were the top losers. Qatar European stocks end mixed Insurance, Aamal Holding Company, Islamic Holding Group, Al Ahli Bank and Qatar Electricity & Water Company were the gainers of the week. as US data snuffs out rally Trading value during this week decreased by 12.63 percent to reach QR847.6m com- LONDON: European stocks ended flat or down on Thursday with disappointing US pared to previous week’s QR970m. Trading data erasing gains made on hints from a European Central Bank council member volume increased by 16.73 percent to reach about a possible eurozone interest rate cut. over 22m shares, as against 19.28m , while Sentiment was also boosted after Germany’s parliament approved an international the number of transactions rose by 16.38 bailout package for stricken eurozone member Cyprus by a large majority, but rumours percent to reach 14,282 transactions as com- about a French bank running into trouble briefly sent markets sharply down. pared to 12,272 transactions last week. At the end of an erratic session, London’s FTSE 100 index of leading companies closed The Industrials sector led trading value essentially unchanged at 6,243.67 points, losing less than a point. during this week accounting for 32.97 per- In Paris the CAC 40 also ended nearly flat at 3,599.36 points, but in Frankfurt the cent of the total value, followed by Banks and DAX 30 slid 0.39 percent to 7,473.73 points. Financial Services sector which accounted In foreign exchange activity, the European single currency firmed to $1.3075, from for 30.11 percent. The Consumer Goods and $1.3028 late in New York on Wednesday. Gold rose to $1,393.75 an ounce on the London Service sector ranked third, accounting for Bullion Market from $1,392. It had Tuesday struck a two-year low at $1,321.95 on 13.59 percent followed by Telecom sector. weaker-than-expected Chinese economic growth data. The Telecom sector led trading volume “Europe’s markets initially had a slightly more stable tone today” on the German during this week accounting for 26.99 per- approval of the Cyprus bailout and a succesful Spanish bond auction, said CMC Markets cent of the total trading volume followed by UK analyst Michael Hewson. Banks and Financial Services sector which “In the afternoon session however equity markets started to roll over on vague chatter accounted for 24.08 percent, followed by the that a French bank might be in trouble and this, in turn, sent banking stocks sharply Industrials and Real Estate sectors. lower,” he added. US stocks fell yesterday after data showed signs of slower growth The Industrials sector led trading number ahead for the US economy, with traders zoning in on technical factors to anticipate the of transactions during this week, account- market’s next move. The S&P 500 briefly traded below its 50-day moving average for ing for 30.28 percent of the total number the first time this year, an indication that the market’s medium-term uptrend could be of transactions, followed by Banks and in peril after this week’s strong declines. Financial Services sector accounted for 29.11 The level was also the floor of the trading range during the last month, making percent. The Consumer Goods and Services 1,543 a key technical support, according to Richard Ross, global technical strategist at sector accounted for 12.28 percent followed Auerbach Grayson in New York. “A close below 1,540 will generate a ‘sell’ signal as we by Real Estate Sector. transition into this period of weak seasonality,” said Ross, noting that the S&P 500 has !0 companies of the 42 listed companies posted negative second quarters in the last three years. “The 50-day is the key.” Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma with a copy of the ended this week higher, while 28 fell and 4 The Nasdaq 100 and the Russell 2000 indexes have both closed below their 50-day country’s Foreign Trade Policy manifesto in New Delhi, yesterday. The gov- companies remain unchanged. averages this week, adding to the overall technical pressure on the market. ernment announced a host of incentives, including interest rate subsidy and The Industries Qatar led trading value The Dow Jones industrial average fell 37.11 points or 0.25 percent, to 14,581.48, the during this week accounting for 23.79 per- S&P 500 lost 4.91 points or 0.32 percent, to 1,547.1 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped liberalisation of norms for special economic zones, to boost exports. cent of the total trading value, followed by 24.54 points or 0.77 percent, to 3,180.13. AFP The Commercial Bank which accounted

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Barclays chief Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.44 0.52 % Aa2 AA Heavy taxes prevent African Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.50 1.34 % Aa2 AA for investment Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.88 2.10 % Aa2 AA stands down Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.25 2.32 % Aa2 AA airlines from making profit Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.31 2.66 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 174.50 3.80 % Aa2 AA LONDON: Rich Ricci, who led Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 136.75 4.12 % Aa2 AA Barclays’ investment banking CAPE TOWN: Africa’s air- violation of international prin- fees — was “limiting the eco- division during the Libor rate- lines are set to earn $100m in ciples which prohibit the taxa- nomic benefits that aviation could Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 127.00 4.14 % Aa2 AA rigging scandal, has “decided to profits this year but face heavy tion of jet fuel for international be bringing”. Safety was Africa’s Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.50 1.03 % Aa2 AA retire”, the bank has said. Ricci, taxes with fuel costs that are operations,” said Tyler. Aviation biggest challenge, with the conti- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 114.63 2.76 % Aa2 AA 49, who was right-hand man to way above the global average, fuel is 21 percent more expensive nent accounting for about three Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.75 1.29 % A1 A- disgraced former chief executive the industry’s body chief said in Africa than the world average percent of global air traffic but 17 Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.44 2.20 % A1 A- Bob Diamond, will walk away yesterday. “Much of the prob- and accounts up 44 percent of percent of accidents. with a year’s salary when he lem is that government policies costs, said Tyler. The body is lob- Last year there was one acci- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.98 % NR NR stands down on 30 June. Ricci’s in Africa tend to see aviation bying governments to review this, dent per five million flights on QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.13 1.49 % Aa3 A+ pay is not revealed as he is not as something of an elite prod- and has met success in Angola, average globally. But in Africa, QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.69 2.10 % Aa3 A+ an executive director, but in uct,” said International Air Uganda and Ghana. one jet was lost for every 270,000 Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.75 2.22 % A2 A- 2010 he collected £44m in pay Transport Association (IATA) The aviation sector in general flights, said Tyler. However moves Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.75 1.67 % A2 A and bonuses. Director-General Tony Tyler. was seen as “a soft target” by were afoot by African states to Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.88 2.43 % A2 A Tom Kalaris, head of Barclays’ The sector was not seen as “a governments, he told the Cape bring airline safety to global wealth management business critical part of the continent’s Town Press Club. The IATA was standards by 2015. Globally, the Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.38 2.97 % A2 A and another Diamond ally, has economic infrastructure”. working to convince African gov- sector is set for $10.6bn in profits Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.25 3.86 % A2 A also “decided to retire” and will “As a result of that, it’s heav- ernments that a combination of this year with a net profit margin Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.13 1.19 % Aa3 A leave on the same day. Both men ily taxed and often it’s taxed in taxes — from VAT to tourism of 1.6 percent. AFP Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.25 3.28 % Aa3 A will step down from the bank’s Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.13 3.58 % Aa3 A executive committee at the end of the month. Eric Bommensath Set for sale SOVEREIGNS and Tom King are to take over Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P as co-chief executives of Barclays’ Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.88 0.40 % Aa2 AA corporate and investment bank- ing from 1 May, the bank said. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 126.50 2.02 % Aa2 AA Antony Jenkins, current chief Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.13 2.44 % NR NR executive, who has vowed to instil Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.25 2.98 % NR NR a new culture in the scandal- Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.50 3.79 % NR NR ridden bank, said he wanted a Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 117.69 4.09 % NR NR “clearer line of sight for myself” over Barclays’ investment banking Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.50 0.81 % Aa2 AA business. “Since I became group Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 3.02 % NR BBB chief executive, a major area of Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.00 3.85 % NR BBB focus for me has been to stream- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.50 6.93 % Caa1 B- line and improve how the bank Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.13 3.41 % NR BBB- is managed, while strengthening *Periodic Distribution Amount control,” he said in a statement. IMPORTANT NOTE: “Today’s changes are the next Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which step in that journey, and they will is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services ensure we have the right senior Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary team in place.” data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Ian Gordon, an analyst at out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not Investec, told Bloomberg: “The take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant market will see this as an inevita- liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not ble and appropriate piece of tran- a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and sitioning. Few tears will be shed consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. and the reshuffle will be broadly welcomed.” Jenkins has promised to ring the changes, after the A customer leaves a Fresh and Easy grocery store in San Francisco, California, yesterday. After three months bank was fined £290m last year of review, British grocer Tesco has announced that it will attempt to sell off its 200 store grocery chain in the for its role in the Libor-rigging US that has lost over $1.8bn over the past five years. scandal. GUARDIAN NEWS FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

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The Grizzlies eliminate Jazz from Western Conference play-off race KAPOLEI, Hawaii: Thai teen- ager Ariya Jutanugarn struck an eagle and seven birdies in an LOS ANGELES: The Los the third seed in the West with a eight-under par 64 yesterday to Angeles Lakers gained the NBA Results 118-98 victory over Phoenix and grab a one-shot lead after the last berth in the NBA play- Toronto 114 Boston 90 will take on Golden State in the first round of the LPGA Lotte offs courtesy of a Utah defeat first round. Championship. Brooklyn 103 Detroit 99 on Wednesday, then battled to The Warriors closed the regu- Ariya hit six birdies in her first a 99-95 overtime victory over NY Knicks 98 Atlanta 92 lar season with a 99-88 victory nine holes, her only miscue of the Houston in their regular-season Charlotte 105 Cleveland 98 over Portland. day a bogey at the par-four 10th. finale. Miami 105 Orlando 93 Memphis, who had 25 points But she bounced back with an In Memphis, the Grizzlies held Philadelphia 105 Indiana 95 and 19 rebounds from Zach eagle at the par-five 14th, where the Jazz to their lowest points Chicago 95 Washington 92 Randolph, were already locked she drained a 20-footer. total of the season, triumphing in to the fifth seed in the West. “I had a really good front nine, Memphis 86 Utah 70 Metta World 86-70 to eliminate Utah from They’ll open the playoffs on the Peace (15) but I just wanted to make more post-season contention. Dallas 99 New Orleans 87 road against the Los Angeles birdies,” said the 17-year-old, who of the Los Utah’s defeat meant the Lakers Minnesota 108 San Antonio 95 Clippers -- who secured home was hoping to beat her personal Angeles Lakers were assured of a play-off berth Milwaukee 95 Oklahoma City 89 court advantage in the first round best of eight-under for a round. before their game against playoff- Denver 118 Phoenix 98 with a 112-108 triumph over throws a pass “When I have bogey on number over James bound Houston tipped off. LA Lakers 99 Houston 95 Sacramento yesterday. 10 I feel not very confident with Harden (13) of Their close-run victory showed LA Clippers 112 Sacramento 108 The Clippers beat the Grizzlies my putting. So when I have eagle just how tough a task they have in seven games in the first round the Houston it made me more confident.” Golden State 99 Portland 88 ahead of them in a first-round last season. Rockets at Ariya, a rookie on the Ladies series against the San Antonio “They’ve been a pain in our Staples Center European Tour this season, won Spurs with Lakers superstar Kobe the devastating loss of Bryant last butts, but we’ve just got to go out in Los Angeles, her first professional title at the Bryant sidelined after season- week. there and worry about us, play California, LET tournament in Morocco last ending Achilles tendon surgery. Although the Lakers shot less hard, value every possession, yesterday. month. It’s likely not as tough, however, than 37 percent from the field, play in-and-out basketball and The Lakers She qualified for this week’s as a first-round series against Gasol said their determined stick to the things that got us to won 99-95 in tournament at Ko Olina Golf Club Oklahoma City -- which the defence made the difference. this point,” Memphis guard Tony overtime. by winning a qualifier on Sunday. Lakers avoided with the win. Once Utah were out of the pic- Allen said of the rematch. “I was very confident today,” Pau Gasol notched a triple-dou- ture, the Lakers and Rockets were Reigning NBA champions said Ariya, who was in conten- ble of 17 points, 20 rebounds and battling to decide which would be Miami, with the best record in the tion for an LPGA tour title in 11 assists for the Lakers. seventh and which eighth in the league and already assured of the her native Thailand in February Steve Blake led the Lakers in Western Conference. top seed in the East, cruised to only to surrender a two-stroke scoring for the second straight James Harden scored 30 points a 105-93 victory over Orlando in lead at the final hole in a tourna- game with a season-high 24 points for the Rockets, who ended up their regular-season finale, with ment won by South Korea’s Park and center Dwight Howard added as the eighth seed and will face superstar LeBron James sitting In-Bee. 16 points and 18 rebounds for Los Western Conference top seeds out to rest a sore hamstring for She had a one-shot lead yes- Angeles, who closed the season Oklahoma City in the first round. the first-round playoff series erday over Norway’s Suzann with five straight victories despite The Denver Nuggets clinched against Milwaukee. AFP Pettersen and South Korean Seo Hee-Kyung. South Korea’s Kim Hyo-Joo and American Danielle Kang were a shot further adrift on 66. Kiwis face Kim played in a group with Ariya and 15-year-old New Murray in shock Monaco exit Zealand sensation Lydia Ko, who has yet to turn pro. Ko carded a big task MONTE CARLO, Monaco: sends him back to the practise 71. AFP Roger Federer will return court for the next fortnight in to second in the ATP stand- hopes of repairing his game for against ings next week after Andy the Madrid Masters in early May. Day seeks to Murray collapsed to a 6-1, 6-2 “I made a lot of mistakes, 24 third-round loss to Stanislas unforced errors is far too many. bounce back Kangaroos Wawrinka at the Monte Carlo That’s a set’s worth. That’s where Masters yesterday. half the points went,” said Murray A shell-shocked Murray com- who had regained the number two HILTON HEAD, South SYDNEY: New Zealand will mitted 24 unforced errors as he world ranking on the strength of Carolina: Australian Jason Day be without their two superstars lost to Federer’s Swiss compa- his win in the miami Masters. is among the players seeking to Benji Marshall and Sonny Bill triot, seeded 13th, in 58 minutes. “I’ve played some good tourna- bounce back from disappoint- Williams as they try to halt a Murray, a quarter-finalist here ments here. But, yeah, it does take ment at the Masters by play- losing five-match run against a year ago, went nil for two on me time to feel comfortable on the ing at the $5.8m US PGA Tour Australia in their rugby league break points and lost his own surface. Heritage tournament starting Test today. serve five times in the rout which “I need matches against top today. The Kangaroos are fielding players to see what’s going wrong Day, fellow Australian Marc a full-strength side in the first Monte Carlo and what’s going right, things I Leishman and American Brandt league Test played in the national need to work on to get better. Snedeker were all in contention in capital Canberra against the Masters “Normally towards the end of the final round of the year’s first World Cup holders. MONTE CARLO, Monaco: Results from the fifth the clay court season, I start to major, but fell short. Playmaker Marshall is out day of the Monte-Carlo Masters yesterday (x feel better with my game and I’ve Day, who admitted the pres- with an injured toe while denotes seeding): had some good results, but at the sure at Augusta National “got Williams, back in the 13-a-side start I have struggled a little bit.” to me a little bit,” surrendered Third Round code after a spell in rugby union Rafael Nadal stepped up his a last-round lead with back-to- during which he won the 2011 Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Juan Monaco campaign for an historic ninth back bogeys and failed to make World Cup with the All Blacks, (ARG x14) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 straight title at the event as the a playoff in which Aussie Adam has knee trouble. Richard Gasquet (FRA x7) bt third seed won his 44th match Scott triumphed over Argentina’s The Kiwis have been further Marin Cilic (CRO x9) 7-5, 6-4 in a row at the venue with a Angel Cabrera. weakened by the six-game suspen- Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x13) bt 6-2, 6-4 defeat of German Philip Day said he was glad to have a sion of their Newcastle Knights Andy Murray (GBR x2) 6-1, 6-2 Kohlschreiber. The Spanish new challenge to focus on. back-rower Jeremy Smith. Fabio Fognini (ITA) bt great lifted his record at the “It’s nice to be here and have The Kangaroos have not lost Tomas Berdych (CZE x4) 6-4, 6-2 seaside Country Club to 46-1 at sunshine and just kind of relax,” to the Kiwis since the final of the Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) bt a tournament where he suffered he said. “I’ve got to move on to 2010 Four Nations in Brisbane Florian Mayer (GER) 6-2, 6-4 his lone defeat in 2003 against the next one and try and win this and are heavily favoured to extend Rafael Nadal (ESP x3) bt Guillermo Coria. Nadal will next one.” their winning sequence. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x16) 6-2, 6-4 line up in the quarter-finals today Leishman finished tied for But Australia centre Greg Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka celebrates after winning his match against Grigor Dimitrov, who beat fourth with Tiger Woods at against Britain’s Andy Murray during the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x6) bt Inglis said the Kangaroos would Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 6-3, 6-0 Germany’s Florian Mayer with an Augusta while Snedeker shared not take the Kiwis lightly, with Tennis Tournament in Monaco, yesterday. Wawrinka won 6-1, 6-2. identical 6-2, 6-4 scoreline. AFP sixth place. players from both teams looking It’s not the first time Day has to impress ahead of the World arrived at Hilton Head’s Harbour Cup in England and Wales later Town Golf Links after a Masters this year. letdown. “It’s a World Cup year and In 2011, he shared second place people are playing for their posi- Olympian Okoye chases NFL dream at Augusta National and finished tions,” Inglis said. tied for ninth at Harbour Town -- “And I’m pretty sure (Australia when Snedeker won in a playoff. coach) Tim Sheens and the selec- LONDON: British discus the Kansas City Chiefs, the worst league where the top stars are Snedeker admitted he had trou- tors will be having their eye on thrower Lawrence Okoye (pic- team from last year’s season, rewarded with multi-million dol- ble sleeping on Sunday, after his the other team running around tured) has embarked on a making the first selection. lar contracts. putting let him down on the rain- this weekend.” remarkable bid to become an Showing off some of the drills “Success would be becoming a soaked greens at Augusta. AFP Coach Stephen Kearney dis- American Football star even he has learnt already, with the dominant player in the league,” he missed suggestions his New though he has never played the help of the London Warriors said. “I feel like I have the talent Baseball Results Zealand side were there for the sport. at the London Soccerdome in to get it done. I wouldn’t count taking. The 21-year-old from Croydon, Greenwich, Okoye yesterday success as being on the roster for Kansas City 1 Atlanta 0 “We’ve got closer with our per- south London, finished 12th in the explained American Football had years and not playing. Oakland 7 Houston 5 formances the last three Tests,” Olympic Games’ discus final last always been something he wanted “In 2010, when I started discus, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 0 he said. August. to try. nobody would have thought that I Tampa Bay 6 Baltimore 2 “Eighty percent of the group But while on a discus training “I don’t want to look back in would have got to the level I did in Boston 6 Cleveland 3 have been here for the last four camp in the United States at the 50 years and think I missed out two years, so I’m looking at doing NY Yankees 4 Arizona 3 years and we’ve got some really start of this month he decided to on this opportunity,” said Okoye, something similar. good talent coming through. apply to try out for the National whose transition to discus from “This is a different ball game Pittsburgh 5 St Louis 0 “We believe we give ourselves Football League (NFL). being a coveted rugby player at and it is going to be tough.” Chicago White Sox 7 Toronto 0 a real opportunity on Friday That meant attending Atlanta’s school was swift enough to break Okoye has already visited last Cincinnati 11 Philadelphia 2 night.” Regional Combine, the first round the British record two seasons year’s Super Bowl runners-up the Washington 6 Miami 1 Marshall’s absence will give of selections. There, he impressed running. San Francisco 49ers, as well as Milwaukee 4 San Francisco 3 New Zealand Warriors’ Shaun to be chosen for the Super He only received proper train- several other teams, to show off Detroit 2 Seattle 1 Johnson his chance to impress at Regional Combine in Dallas, in ing from the age of 18, having his talents. San Diego 7 LA Dodgers 2 international level. He will team front of all 32 NFL teams. deferred a law degree at Oxford He can take heart from the up with Manly standoff Kieran Now Okoye has been given the to pursue an opportunist dream success of Michael Carter, who Foran in the New Zealand halves chance to enter the NFL draft of competing at the Games in his won a silver medal in shot put at NHL Results for the first time. at Radio City Music Hall in New home country. the 1984 Olympics and went onto Pittsburgh 6 Montreal 4 “Shaun takes up the Marshall- York from April 25-27. While admitting he had have a dominant NFL career with Buffalo 3 Boston 2 type game and we’ve played Over seven rounds, teams achieved nothing yet, he has the 49ers. Kieran before and we know what have the chance to sign players set his sights high and wants But he is not setting himself a Calgary 3 Detroit 2 to expect,” Sheens said. AFP - mostly from US colleges - with to become an elite player in a timescale. AFP Columbus 3 Anaheim 2 FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Football fixtures (All times in GMT) Manchester United English Premier League Tomorrow Fulham vs Arsenal (1400) Norwich City vs Reading (1400) held at West Ham Queens Park Rangers vs Stoke City (1400) Sunderland vs Everton (1400) Swansea City vs Southampton (1400) City edge past Wigan 1-0; Chelsea win West Bromwich Albion vs Newcastle United (1400) LONDON: Manchester United Wigan reached the FA Cup West Ham United vs Wigan Athletic (1400) may have to wait a little longer to English Premier League final for the first time in their reclaim the Premier League title LONDON: English Premier League results on history after beating Millwall on April 21 Wednesday: after being held to a 2-2 draw at Saturday and they took the game Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City Fulham 0 Chelsea 3 West Ham, while Manchester to Wembley opponents City in the (1230) City won 1-0 against Wigan on Manchester City 1 Wigan 0 first half. Wednesday. West Ham 2 Manchester Utd 2 But City made it five wins Liverpool vs Chelsea (1500) Alex Ferguson’s team were cross with a header down to from their last six matches when Manchester United’s Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic (right) is chal- April 22 below their best for long periods Ricardo Vaz Te and the striker Argentina forward Tevez lashed lenged by West Ham United’s English striker Andy Carroll during the Manchester United vs Aston Villa (1900) at Upton Park and needed Robin headed in from close-range for his into the top corner in the 83rd English Premier League match at the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, in van Persie’s late strike to rescue first goal since October. minute. The defeat left Wigan east London, on Wednesday night. Scottish Premier League a point. Ferguson’s team drew level stuck in the relegation zone and Today Second placed City took advan- in the 31st minute when Shinji three points from safety but with tage of United’s slip, with Carlos Kagawa skipped through the a game in hand of their rivals. Dundee United vs Motherwell (1845) Tevez netting the winner in Hammers defence and crossed “I was not frustrated. It was a April 21 their FA Cup final rehearsal at for Antonio Valencia to tap in his difficult game because we played Barca announce Eastlands. first goal of the season. three days ago and Wigan play Celtic v Inverness Caledonian Thistle (1145) That allowed the champions to Ferguson still ended the half good football,” City manager St Johnstone sv Ross County (1505) close the gap on the leaders to 13 furious as a fearsome challenge Roberto Mancini said. points, meaning Ferguson’s club from Carroll pole-axed United “We were so tired and didn’t Malaysia fixture Regular - Relegation Group can only win their 20th title in goalkeeper David De Gea. play well in the first half. In the Tomorrow the next round of fixtures if City There was no sign of an second half we started so so but BARCELONA: Spanish giants Barcelona will play a friendly Kilmarnock vs Hearts (1400) lose at Tottenham on Sunday improvement in Ferguson’s mood in the last 20 minutes we finished against a Malaysian XI at the 100,000 capacity Bukit Jalil Stadium and United beat Aston Villa on when West Ham moved ahead well.” in Kuala Lumpur, organisers said yesterday. St. Mirren vs Dundee (1400) Monday. thanks to Senegal midfielder Noting that United had enjoyed Barcelona managing director Antoni Rossich announced the August Regular - Relegation Group “We had to stand up to a lot, Mohamed Diame’s brilliant curl- a stroke of luck with van Persie’s 10 fixture alongside Asian Football Confederation vice president Prince we went down twice but we kept ing strike from the edge of the goal, Mancini added: “If they Abdullah Ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah in the Malaysian capital. It April 22 going. We played like champions area. hadn’t scored an offside goal it will be the four-times European champions’ first fixture in Malaysia, Hibernian vs Aberdeen (1830) tonight,” Ferguson said. But van Persie earned United a would be even fewer points.” where they will face a side led by the country’s national team coach “It’s one more game away, that’s share of the spoils when he fired Chelsea climbed to third place K Rajagopal. Meanwhile, Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez said Ligue 1 five left. We’re determined to into the roof of the net after as John Terry’s double inspired in an interview broadcast yesterday that he believes the treatment of Today win, we don’t like losing and they Kagawa’s shot hit both posts and a 3-0 win at west London neigh- sidelined Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas at Real Madrid has been unfair. showed that tonight again.” rebounded to the Dutch forward, bours Fulham. Rafael Benitez’s Casillas broke a bone in his left hand while playing for Real against Montpellier HSC vs Olympique Lyon (1830) It was Sam Allardyce’s team who looked to be in an offside team bounced back from the Valencia on January 23 and despite returning to training in recent Tomorrow who looked more motivated in position. disappointment of Sunday’s FA weeks, has yet to win his place back in Jose Mourinho’s side.Spain Olympique Marseille vs Stade Brest (1500) the early stages and they took the At Eastlands, City had to ride Cup semi-final defeat against coach Vicente del Bosque on Wednesday indicated that he was likely lead in the 16th minute. their luck before making the most Manchester City in emphatic to name Casillas in his squad for the Confederations Cup in Brazil in April 21 Andy Carroll met Matt Jarvis’s of United’s sloppy display. fashion. AFP June. REUTERS Bastia vs Lille (1200) AS Nancy vs Evian Thonon Gaillard FC Qatar Stars League Egypt renew (1500) standings Sochaux vs Girondins Bordeaux (1500) spectator ban Stade de Reims vs Valenciennes (1500) How they finished Toulouse vs FC Lorient (1500) Al Sadd 22 16 3 3 47 23 51 at CAF fixtures Paris St Germain vs Nice (1900) Lekhwiya 22 14 4 4 42 22 46 JOHANNESBURG: Aljaish 22 13 1 8 25 23 40 Leading La Liga Egyptian football club Zamalek Today Al Rayyan 22 11 4 7 49 37 37 will host a CAF Champions Umm Salal 22 9 4 9 30 37 31 League qualifier in an empty Real Mallorca vs Rayo Vallecano (1900) AlG Gharafa 22 8 6 8 26 28 30 Cairo stadium this weekend Tomorrow after recent incidents trig- Al Khor SC 22 7 8 7 26 24 29 gered the renewal of a ban on Granada CF vs Real Valladolid (1400) Qatar SC 22 7 5 10 31 34 26 spectators. Real Madrid vs Real Betis (1600) Authorities allowed crowds lim- Al Wakra 22 7 5 10 27 31 26 Barcelona vs Levante (1800) ited to 3,000 for earlier fixtures Al Kharaitiyat 22 4 8 10 21 27 20 this year involving Zamalek and Valencia vs Malaga (2000) Al Arabi 22 3 8 11 25 40 17 fellow Cairo club Al-Ahly in the April 21 premier Confederation of AFrican Al Sailiya SC 22 3 4 15 29 52 13 Football club competition. Getafe vs Espanyol (1000) But despite spectators being Deportivo Coruna vs Athletic Bilbao (1500) Qatar Stars League outnumbered by security forces at the 90,000-seat Borg El Arab Osasuna vs Real Sociedad (1700) results stadium there was trouble at the Sevilla vs Atletico Madrid (1900) matches. Al Kharaitiyat 0 Al Sailiya 2 April 22 Zamalek supporters ripped Al Wakra 2 Al Arabi 1 Lekhwiya’s Yusuf Al Msakni (right) and Al Sadd’s Mesaad Ali Al Hamad vie for the ball during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. The match ended in a two-all draw. In other last up seats after a 7-0 thrashing Celta Vigo vs Real Zaragoza (2000) Al Khor 0 Umm Salal 1 of Chadian visitors Gazelle -- a Al Sadd 2 Lekhwiya 2 round matches of QSL, Umm Salal defeated Al Khor 1-0, Al Rayyan edged past Eljaish 2-1, while Al Gharafa Serie A overcame Qatar Sports Club 2-0. In the other two matches, Al Wakra won 2-1 against Al Arabi and Al Sailiya strange way to celebrate a one- Al Rayyan 2 Eljaish 1 sided result that ensured the Tomorrow Al Gharafa 2 Qatar SC 0 handed a 2-0 defeat to Al Kharaitiyat. PICTURE BY: SHAIVAL DALAL White Knights of overall victory. Genoa vs Atalanta Bergamo (1600) Ahly fans threw projectiles on the pitch during a game against Udinese vs Lazio (1845) Mourinho set Kenyan visitors Tusker with one April 21 landing close to the visiting goal- Evian pour cold water keeper just before the home team Inter Milan vs Parma (1030) for Real exit, scored the second goal in a 2-0 AS Roma vs Pescara (1300) win that secured qualification. Bologna vs Sampdoria (1300) says report While Zamalek host Saint George from Ethiopia in Cairo Catania vs Palermo (1300) on PSG double hopes this weekend, Ahly visit Tunisia Fiorentina vs Torino (1300) MADRID: Speculation over for a match against CA Bizertin. Jose Mourinho’s future intensi- PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Evian side Lens to win 3-2 and book Both are first leg fixtures with the Napoli vs Cagliari (1300) fied yesterday after he report- hopes of a domestic double this coach their place in the semi-finals. overall winners advancing to the Siena vs Chievo Verona (1300) edly told youth team coaches he season ended on Wednesday as Pascal Bordeaux had Malian forward lucrative mini-league phase. would not be manager of Real Ligue 1 minnows Evian elimi- Dupraz Cheick Diabate to thank as a The incidents in Alexandria Juventus vs AC Milan (1845) Madrid next season. nated them 4-1 on penalties excused double from him propelled them plus clashes between spectators Dutch championship Spanish sports daily As raised after their quarter-final ended his side to into their first appearance in the and police in Ismaily after the the prospect of the Portuguese’s 1-1 after extra-time. those who last four of the competition since home side were eliminated from Today departure from the nine-time PSG - who were knocked out wanted 2003. the Arab Champions League con- Ajax Amsterdam vs Heerenveen (1800) European champions in an inter- of the Champions League last the glam- On Tuesday, Ligue 1 outsid- vinced sports minister Farouk Tomorrow view with Manuel Alvarez, club week by Barcelona - had taken our club ers Lorient and Troyes had pro- Al-Amry to act. president of Canillas, where the the lead through Javier Pastore to win. gressed to the semi-finals. “Because of incidents involving Groningen vs ADO Den Haag (1645) Real boss delivered a coaching in the eighth minute. “We Jeremie Aliadiere’s stoppage- Ahly, Zamalek and Ismaily, which Heracles Almelo vs RKC Waalwijk (1745) master class on Monday. However, Tunisian interna- have elim- time strike took Lorient through put the safety of fans at risk and “Mourinho told us that next tional Saber Khlifa nipped in inated as they beat League Cup finalists damaged property, my ministry Willem II Tilburg vs Roda JC Kerkrade (1745) year he wouldn’t be able to give behind a static David Beckham PSG and Saint-Etienne 2-1 away which has decided to ban spectators AZ Alkmaar vs PSV Eindhoven (1845) the master class, that it would be two minutes from half-time to we are gives them a chance of winning from African and Arab club fix- impossible because he would no level. sorry,” the Cup for only the second time tures,” he said. April 21 longer be here. Neither side could gain the he said in their history. This is a massive blow for Ahly VVV-Venlo vs Twente Enschede (1030) “He said it half jokingly, half upper hand in the second-half tongue firmly in cheek. Former Arsenal striker and Zamalek, the two most suc- Utrecht vs NAC Breda (1230) seriously,” Alvarez was quoted as and extra-time was only memo- “But we also wanted to go to Aliadiere’s 18th goal of the sea- cessful clubs in the Champions saying. rable for the straight red card for the Stade de France! son sealed Saint-Etienne’s first League with seven and five titles NEC Nijmegen vs PEC Zwolle (1230) “He didn’t tell us where he Thiago Motta for a foul on Cedric “We said when the quarter- defeat of 2013 and also put paid respectively, and serious title con- Feyenoord vs Vitesse Arnhem (1430) was going because we didn’t ask Barbosa two minutes from the final draw was made that the to their dreams of winning a tenders this year. him any further questions,” the final whistle. best thing that could happen to domestic Cup double. Ahly defied the odds to defeat old Bundesliga president of Canillas, a club in the PSG endured a dreadful us was to draw PSG. They could gain quick compen- rivals Esperance of Tunisia and win Today Madrid suburbs, added. penalty shoot-out with Zlatan “We hope now that this win sation, however, should they beat the 2012 Champions League as the On Sunday another Spanish Ibrahimovic (pictured) and will also give us the confidence Rennes in Saturday’s League Cup final was the only match of seven Borussia Moenchengladbach vs FC Augsburg paper, El Pais, linked Mourinho Thiago Silva missing the first two to retain our Ligue 1 status final encounter at the Stade de en route to glory in which spec- (1830) to a return to his former club spot kicks for the visitors. (Evian are fifth from bottom France. tators were permitted. Zamalek, Tomorrow Chelsea, who have also been Barbosa was to have the last three points above the relegation In a meeting of two clubs in the with a much weaker team than linked to Malaga’s Chilean coach laugh as he whacked home his places)and get to the final. Ligue 1 relegation zone, Troyes this year, also had to play most Bayer Leverkusen vs Hoffenheim (1330) Manuel Pellegrini. spot kick to seal the Ligue 1 “That wouldn’t be too bad beat Nancy 3-0, with Jeremie games behind closed doors and Borussia Dortmund vs Mainz (1330) Mourinho’s contract with strugglers a place in the last four either would it!” Brechet, Julien Faussurier and made a timid group-stage exit Eintracht Frankfurt vs Schalke 04 (1330) the Spanish giants runs until and end PSG’s hopes of a ninth Earlier Bordeaux had to come Fabien Camus all scoring in the after failing to win in six home 2016. AFP Cup trophy. from behind against Ligue 2 second half. AFP and away outings. AFP Hamburg SV vs Fortuna Duesseldorf (1330) FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Pakistan’s Bangladesh reply Gul out of Champions strongly in Harare Trophy

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Taylor’s Test best helps hosts post 389 Champions Trophy challenge suffered a major blow yesterday as pace spearhead Umar Gul HARARE: Captain Brendan not out. Taylor’s eight-hour epic “He showed amazing applica- was ruled out with a knee injury Taylor marked Zimbabwe’s was also the highest Test score tion, and I think he changed his that will keep him out of action Independence Day with a by a Zimbabwean captain, eclips- game -- especially yesterday -- to for up to 12 weeks. record-breaking score, but ing Andy Flower’s 156 against the type of wicket he was play- The 29-year-old complained of Bangladesh’s bold reply with Pakistan at the same Harare ing on. knee trouble during last month’s the bat allowed them to end day Sports Club venue in 1995, and the “There’s always been a lot of tour of South Africa and was side- two of the first Test with the eighth best by any Zimbabwean. pressure on him as one of the lined after playing the first two initiative. Batting coach Grant Flower, best batsmen in the side, if not games of the five-match one-day Taylor’s 171 formed the back- who played 67 Tests for the best, which is pretty similar to series. bone in a Zimbabwean total of Zimbabwe and scored a double- what Andy’s situation was.” The Pakistan Cricket Board 389 all out, before Bangladesh century himself, rated Taylor’s Taylor had shared in a century (PCB) announced Gul would head responded positively to go to knock as one of the finest in his stand with Malcolm Waller on to Australia for an operation next stumps on 95 for one with country’s history. the first day, and enjoyed another month. Jahurul Islam unbeaten on 38 “It was definitely up there one with Graeme Cremer on the “Gul complained of right knee and Mohammad Ashraful on 23 around the top,” said Flower. second to keep Zimbabwe ticking pain during the South Africa tour. along -- albeit at a slow scoring He was rested for imminent dam- rate. age to his medial meniscus and Scoreboard After resuming on their over- bone of right knee. On his arrival Zimbabwe (I innings) Nasir 5-2-3-0; Enamul 47-5-133-3; Sohag night total of 217 for four, with back to Pakistan he underwent T Maruma lbw Robiul Islam ...... 10 22.3-1-55-2; Mahmudullah 3-0-7-0; Shakib Taylor on 105, the hosts lost MRI scan which confirmed knee Elton Chigumbura and Richmond problem,” a PCB release said. V Sibanda b Robiul Islam ...... 5 7-3-14-0. Mutumbami in quick succession Bangladesh batsmen Mohammad Ashraful and Jahurul Islam walk off at Gul’s initial reports were sent H Masakadza c Mahmudullah b Enamul 25 Bangladesh (I innings) at the start of the day’s play the draw stumps on the second day of the first Test against Zimbabwe to Australia where a special- B Taylor c Mushfiqur b Enamul ...... 171 Jahurul Islam (not out) ...... 38 before Cremer provided sturdy at Harare Sports Club Ground yesterday. ist advised surgery and rest and M Waller b Rubel ...... 55 Shahriar Nafees c Maruma b Jarvis ...... 29 support in a 107-run partnership gave a timeframe of 8-12 weeks E Chigumbura c & b Rubel ...... 12 Mohammad Ashraful (not out) ...... 23 for the seventh wicket. Bangladesh’s openers opted for a at third slip by Cremer off the for full recovery. The PCB said R Mutumbami c Mushfiqur b Robiul .....11 Extras (B4, W1) ...... 5 Although Taylor and Cremer more aggressive approach. bowling of Kyle Jarvis, it unset- they hoped the operation would G Cremer c Mahmudullah b Sohag ...... 42 Total (1 wkt, 25 overs) ...... 95 departed in the space of three “We thought that the wicket tled the rhythm of Zimbabwe’s go ahead in Melbourne early next K Meth c Nasir b Enamul ...... 21 Fall of wickets: 1-53 deliveries, with the latter dis- looked a bit better after the first bowlers and ensured a brisk month. S Masakadza c Jahurul b Sohag ...... 21 To bat: Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, missed for 42, Keegan Meth and session yesterday, and that it’s a start. The bowler has taken 163 K Jarvis (not out) ...... 3 Mahmudullah, Nasir Hossain, Sohag Gazi, Ena- Shingirai Masakadza prolonged really good pitch now,” Enamul Jarvis did enjoy success when wickets in 47 Tests and 167 in Extras (B1, LB5, NB5, W2) ...... 13 mul Haq Jr, Rubel Hossain, Robiul Islam. the innings by adding 21 runs Haque said. he induced a leading edge from 116 one-day internationals. He Total (all out, 152.3 overs) ...... 389 Bowling: Jarvis 8-1-39-1; Meth 8-2-22-0; S apiece. “We can still win this match if Shahriar Nafees that was snaffled is also the leading wicket-taker Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-22, 3-65, 4-192, Masakadza 6-1-16-0; Chigumbura 2-0-14-0; Whereas Zimbabwe had bat- we think positively.” by Timycen Maruma at point, but in Twenty20 internationals with ted cautiously for the majority of While their approach nearly the fast bowler was also guilty of 74 in 52 matches. Pakistan are 5-223, 6-238, 7-344, 8-344, 9-381, 10-389 Cremer 1-1-0-0. their innings, with the run-rate led to a dismissal in the first bowling too full and conceded 39 in Group B alongside India, the Bowling: Robiul 38-11-84-3; Rubel 30-6-87-2; Match situation: Bangladesh trail by 294 runs. never rising above 2.7 per over, over when Jahurul was dropped runs in his eight overs. AFP West Indies and South Africa in the Champions Trophy to be played in England from June 6-23. Pakistan to Defending champions Australia, Sri Lanka, England and New Chennai extend Delhi’s misery Zealand form Group A. allow Butt, Meanwhile, Pakistan’s cricket NEW DELHI: Michael Hussey Scoreboard subdued start with Hussey and authority yesterday presented Asif to play and Mohit Sharma scripted a Suresh Raina (30) taking the the International Cricket Council huge win for Chennai Super CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: Manpreet Juneja lbw b Sharma ...... 2 team to 60 for one in 10 overs. (ICC) with a new constitution, Kings against the listless Realising the need for accelera- after it was warned to run its Michael Hussey not out ...... 65 Mahela Jayawardene lbw b Morris ...... 6 Delhi Daredevils in the Indian tion, the two southpaws changed board democratically in line with post-ban Murali Vijay lbw b Morkel ...... 18 Jeevan Mendis run out (Raina/Jadeja) ..12 Premier League here yesterday. gears. Raina freed his arms to hit global standards. Hussey (65 not out) and Suresh Raina c Jadhav b Pathan ...... 30 Kedhar Jadhav c Bravo b Morkel ...... 31 two successive fours off Umesh The ICC last year directed all LAHORE, Pakistan: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (44) Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Mendis b Yadav 44 Irfan Pathan c Bravo b Jadeja ...... 2 Yadav and Hussey followed suit 10 of its members to run their Pakistan will allow disgraced pushed Chennai to 169 for four Dwayne Bravo run out (Mendis/Jadhav) ..3 Ajit Agarkar c Bravo b Ashwin ...... 3 in the next over, punishing Ajit boards in a democratic way and former captain Salman Butt and pacer Sharma led the bowl- Extras(LB 4, W 5) ...... 9 Morne Morkel b Ashwin ...... 2 Agarkar for a six and four. without government interfer- and Mohammad Asif back ers’ charge to dismiss the hosts Total: (for four wkts in 20 overs) ...169 Shahbaz Nadeem (not out) ...... 2 Raina was soon caught behind ence, threatening sanctions for into domestic cricket once for 83, the lowest total so far in Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-90, 3-164, 4-169 Umesh Yadav c Raina b Bravo ...... 1 off Irfan Pathan, leading to any board which did not meet its they serve their bans for spot- IPL-6. Bowling: Shahbaz Nadeem 3-0-22-0, Irfan Extras (W 4) ...... 4 Dhoni’s arrival in the middle. requirements by June 2013. fixing, the country’s cricket Delhi remain winless in the Pathan 4-0-30-1, Morne Morkel 4-0-42-1, Total (all out in 17.3 overs) ...... 83 Much to the delight of fans, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and chief said yesterday. competition with six losses in as Umesh Yadav 4-0-33-1, Virender Sehwag 1-0- Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-13, 3-30, 4-30, 5-61, Dhoni promoted himself to Bangladesh were directly affected Butt, Asif and team-mate many games. Chennai would wel- 9-0, Ajit Agarkar 4-0-29-0 6-68, 7-73, 8-80, 9-82, 10-83 number four in the batting order. by the new ICC ruling as the head Mohammad Aamer were come the result after their shock He opened his account by spank- of the cricket board in these coun- Bowling: Albie Morkel 3-0-13-1, Mohit Shar- banned for a minimum of five loss against the Pune Warriors ing Pathan for a boundary over tries is not elected but instead DELHI DAREDEVILS: ma 3-0-10-3, Chris Morris 2-0-13-1, Dwayne years by the International Monday. They now have three mid-wicket. It was a run feast nominated by the government. Cricket Council (ICC) after wins from five matches. David Warner b Sharma ...... 1 Bravo 1.3-0-8-1, Ravindra Jadeja 4-0-21-1 from there on. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) being found guilty of spot-fixing Openers David Warner and Virender Sehwag c Hussey b Sharma ...17 Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-18-2 Big shots from Dhoni and chairman Zaka Ashraf presented at the 2010 Lords Test against Virender Sehwag (17) had to fire Hussey’s bats became a routine. a copy of the authority’s new con- England. to give Delhi a chance of surpass- meaning Delhi had lost all their resistance before succumbing to The crowd turned wild when stitution to Alan Isaac, the ICC On Wednesday, the Court of ing the steep target. But that did key batsmen. Manpreet Juneja the pressure of mounting run Dhoni smashed Morne Morkel president, in Dubai. Arbitration for Sports rejected not happen as Sharma sent the also fell to Sharma while skip- rate. The Sri Lanka’s run out left for a six and four in the 17th over The new constitution “con- appeals from Butt and Asif. dangerous duo back in the hut by per Mahela Jayawardene was Delhi needing 108 from the last which eventually went for 19 runs. forms to the requirement of ICC Aamer, who had pleaded guilty, the sixth over. adjudged leg before off Chris nine overs. Chennai knew they He also had luck on his side as he with regard to Independence of did not appeal. Sehwag getting caught at Morris. Kedhar Jadhav (31) and had sealed it by then. was dropped by Ajit Agarkar on the Boards. AGENCIES Butt was banned for 10 years, mid wicket made it 30 for four, Jeevan Mendis (12) provided brief Earlier, the visitors made a 19. IANS five suspended, and Asif for seven years with two suspended. ICC gives Aamer’s five-year ban was the minimum the ICC could impose. Tendulkar quashes retirement talks cash boost to All three were jailed by a British court in 2011 but were released last year. NEW DELHI: Batting legend have played cricket giving their Pakistan Cricket Board Sachin Tendulkar once again opinions and there are also some Afghanistan (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf quashed speculations about his who have never played the game said Butt and Asif will have to retirement, saying his job was to also giving their opinions. I am KABUL: Afghanistan has serve their spot-fixing bans. play cricket and he will carry on not worried about too many opin- received a financial boost from “They will have to serve it. doing that. ions. You have to balance it out. the world cricket governing Then we will include them in Tendulkar, who for long has But at the end of the day, you have body to develop the sport in first-class domestic cricket and been asked about his retirement, to do what you practise everyday,” the war-ravaged nation, it was see how they perform,” said once again reiterated that he said Tendulkar. announced yesterday. Ashraf. would continue playing till the The batting maestro added that Cricket has become one of Butt on Wednesday vowed to time he wanted to. the media never focussed on his the most popular sports in revive his career. “I think people have been ask- much awaited 100th hundred dur- Afghanistan since it was intro- “I have completed half of ing me this question for long. ing the 2011 World Cup. But post- duced by returning refugees, who my punishment, so in 2015 I The first time it was asked was World Cup it suddenly became learnt the game in the refugee will be eligible to play and I in 2005. Your job is to ask ques- the talk of the town. camps of Pakistan after fleeing am motivated and fit to revive tions and mine is to keep playing,” “During the 2011 World Cup the 1979 Soviet invasion. my career,” Butt told a news Tendulkar said on the sidelines the media forgot that I was on Afghanistan became an affili- conference. of a promotional event here 99 hundreds because there were ate member of the International Ashraf said no player should yesterday. too many things to focus on. But Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001 and ever fix. Tendulkar’s comments came suddenly after the World Cup, my in 2009 it attained one-day status. “If he does, he will destroy his on a day when legendary South 100th century was the talk of the Its ambition now is to qualify for future and bring a bad name, African cricketer Graeme Pollock town.” the 2015 World Cup. not only to himself but to his said he was sad at not seeing Tendulkar also said that he The ICC decided this week to country,” said Ashraf. Tendulkar and Australian Ricky took to social networking site allocate $422,000 to develop the Former captain Rashid Latif Ponting score big in the Indian Twitter to connect with his fans, National Cricket Academy in said Butt and Asif had a right to Premier League (IPL). who were being misguided by a Kabul, the Afghanistan Cricket play after their bans “provided “I am watching the IPL with fake account in his name, but Board announced yesterday. they are fit and have the will interest, just a little bit sad that now Twitter has become a part Its chief executive Noor to play”. the great players Tendulkar and of his charity in the aid of cancer Mohammad Murad said the “I would have been disap- Ponting haven’t really hit it off. patients. board has requested a total of $1m pointed if they were let off,” It is always a hard decision to “I took to Twitter because in assistance. Latif said. know when to get out,” Pollock someone else was making com- “The ICC has approved West Indies’ Marlon Samuels said on his Facebook account ments on my behalf. But now it it $422,000 for now. They will send is the only player to return to yesterday. has become a part of a cause. We a delegation to visit Afghanistan’s international cricket after being Tendulkar, when asked about are trying to raise some funds for Cricket Board in two or three banned for having links to a the opinions of former cricketers, cancer patients and it feels great weeks, and they will decide bookmaker. He was out of the Mumbai Indians batsman Ricky Ponting (left) and Sachin Tendulkar walk opined that he will carry on doing to see that some children are ben- whether or not to approve the game for two years, returning in to bat during their IPL match against Royal Challengers Bangalore at what he “practises everyday”. efiting out of it,” he said. rest of the money,” Murad said. in 2010. AFP M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in this file picture of April 4, 2013. “There are some people who IANS AFP FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Basketball arch-rivals set for Emir Cup final Defending champions Al Sadd take on mighty Al Rayyan

DOHA: Qatar National League champions Al Sadd are eyeing their second major catch of the season in the Emir Cup final against the might of Al Rayyan today but winning the title clash will be decided by the team that Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, President of Qatar Basketball makes fewer mistakes, star Saad Federation (QBF), and Hagop Khajirian, Secretary General of FIBA Asia, Abdulrahman said yesterday. during the signing ceremony of St Regis hotel yesterday. Basketball giants Al Rayyan are also seeking second win of the season following their Heir Apparent Cup win last month in what will be a repeat of last year’s final which was won by Al Sadd. Qatar to field “Eventually it is going to come down to the team that makes the fewer mistakes,” Al Sadd shooting guard Abdulrahman said ahead two teams at of today’s title clash Al Gharafa Indoor Hall. “The team that is going to make the least number of mistakes is going to win. If you are making a FIBA 3x3 event lot of mistakes, then you have no chance (against Al Rayyan),” the 25-year-old Qatar national team DOHA: Qatar will field two teams in the inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 player said. Championship for men and women, it was confirmed yesterday. “That’s the message to my Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrehman Al Thani, President of Qatar team,” he added. Basketball Federation (QAF), said the May 15-16 event - to be held “Mistakes could be a lot of in Doha - will also feature top 16 countries in both categories. things. Mistakes could be strat- FIBA Asia has invited teams from 15 national federations for the egy, it could be guys being over inaugural FIBA Asia 3x3 Championship to be hosted at Villaggio emotional. It could be missed Al Saad team captain Saad Abdulrahman Ali (left) and Rayyan skipper Yassen Musa hold the Emir Cup trophy Centre. assignments, but we have our after a pre-match press conference at St Regis Hotel in Doha yesterday. The final will take place at Al Gharafa FIBA Asia Secretary General Hagop Khajirian said: “We couldn’t game-plan intact. Most impor- Indoor Hall at 6:00pm today. PICTURES: SHAIVAL DALAL have asked for a better and more hospitable hosts for our inaugu- tantly it is just another game. We ral 3x3 events.” He added: “The QBF headed by Sheikh Saoud bin don’t need to make it bigger than Abdulrahman Al-Thani has generously extended the invitation to it already is,” Abdulrahman said. it is going to be an okay season,” in four years. So we want to win “Something that pleases me host the FIBA Asia 3x3 Championship for women simultaneously The 6’ 4” shooter said Al Sadd he explained. tomorrow,” he added. is that we don’t panic no matter with its hosting the FIBA Asia 3x3 Championship.” camp is eager to erase the mem- “Guys understand that we lost “We’re excited and we’re ready. what the situation is,” Rowsom Khajirian said: “We are sure that these two days will be full of ory of getting eliminated in last in the Heir Apparent Cup. Worst Playing on Tuesday has given us explained. fervent action in what we believe a festive atmosphere for the top month’s Heir Apparent Cup. thing is winning the league and an advantage because we did not “We have an experienced team teams in FIBA Asia. Of course let us not forget the usual tremendous “We were eliminated in the then getting eliminated in the have a lot of time off. This gives us so if we are not playing, we can organisational abilities of QBF.” Heir Apparent Cup early. So Heir Apparent Cup after such a the momentum going into tomor- come together and regroup. Sheikh Saoud said the event will be broadcast live on Al Jazeera tomorrow is redemption (time). great high. That left a bad taste row’s match,” the Al Rayyan Hopefully we can come out and Sports Channel and Al Kass television networks. We have to show that winning the in our mouth. We must redeem coach said. play better. If we are losing in a THE PENINSULA league was not a fluke ... we must ourselves,” Abdulrahman said. “Yes, we do (have weaknesses). game then we always give our- win,” Abdulrahman said. Al Rayyan coach Brian Rowsom I see them every day (smiles). We selves the chance to win. In a “Losing the semi-finals of the said today’s final would decide the don’t want to tell about this every game like this, there’s going to be Heir Apparent was a big disap- giants of the season. day,” Rowsom said. a lot of highs and lows,” he said. 2013 FIBA 3x3 World pointment for us. We were physi- “I call this the ‘Championship “Al Sadd also have weaknesses Al Sadd coach Dejan Tomic cally tired in the Heir Apparent of Qatar’. They won the league, we and I have been thinking about urged his team players to savour Cup. But since then we have won the Heir Apparent Cup. This those. That’s why I saw their vid- the moment of playing the final. Tour calendar unveiled regrouped in the Emir Cup. We is the tiebreaker,” Rowsom said. eos to find more weaknesses,” he “This is a big game. Every time have got some players who are “So if we win, then it is going to added. I tell the players - ‘guys enjoy the DOHA: FIBA has officially announced the calendar for its 2013 playing very well together. If we be very successful season for us. Rowsom said Al Rayyan had game. Don’t allow the pressure FIBA 3x3 World Tour, with some of the world’s most cosmopoli- win tomorrow, it will be a great We won the Heir Apparent Cup an edge over the defending of the game become greater than tan cities set to play host for the second season of the fast-paced season. If we don’t win tomorrow (last month) for the first time champions. the pleasure of the game. This discipline. game you will not play every day. In 2013, the FIBA 3x3 World Tour will visit Prague, San Juan, So enjoy. And do what we did the Olympic capital Lausanne, 2016 Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro and whole season’. This is my way of 2020 Olympic candidates Tokyo and Istanbul. helping them release pressure,” The FIBA 3x3 World Tour sees teams representing cities from Tomic said. around the world qualify for five 12-team Masters events via a world- “Every game is a different wide network of qualifying tournaments. story. So that’s all I say to them. Any tournament in the world can be part of the network and have We have to treat this game the its teams qualify directly or indirectly to the FIBA 3x3 World Tour. normal way,” Tomic added. The only requisites are the use of the 3x3 Rules of the Game and the Tomic said ‘small things’ would EventMaker, FIBA’s proprietary state-of the-art freeware to organise make the difference in the final. 3x3 events. “Little things will decide big Any team of four players is eligible to participate. games every time. The desire and The 12 best teams from the Masters events qualify for the FIBA 3x3 passion is always the key,” Tomic World Tour Final, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey. said. “Tomorrow I don’t need to The 3x3 Founding Partners, who support the development of this motivate the players in any addi- new discipline are Samsung and Nike; FIBA 3x3 events are played on tional way. SportCourt’s floors and with Schelde backstops. AGENCIES “They will be highly motivated. We will try control them or limit The 2013 FIBA 3x3 World Tour calendar their efficiency. We know each · July 20-21 Tokyo, Japan other well. I don’t expect surprise · August 10-11 San Juan, Puerto Rico tactics in the final,” he said. · August 24-25 Prague, Czech Republic In the semi-finals, Al Sadd · August 30-31 Lausanne, Switzerland beat Al Arabi whereas Al Rayyan · September 14-15 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Al Rayyan coach Brian Rowsom (left) and Al Sadd coach Dejan Tomic. crushed Eljaish on way to the final. THE PENINSULA · October 5-6 Istanbul, Turkey – World Tour Final F1: Bahrain race is unifying force, says official

MANAMA: Formula One is a unify- skirmishes between police firing teargas Alzayani said a 25,000-strong crowd atheist” - had officiated at the 2011 Indian wish we had more events that we could ing force for Bahrain and local support and protesters throwing petrol bombs. was expected on Sunday, which would Grand Prix after Bahrain was cancelled all agree on.” for the Grand Prix is ‘overwhelming’ “I am totally against violence. No mat- be a bigger turnout than 2010 and last and their show of unity had inspired the Critics have accused the government despite continuing unrest in the coun- ter what cause you have, you have no year’s race. slogan that critics said had politicised of using the race as a vanity project, try, circuit chairman Zayed Alzayani right to disrupt the normal cause of life Watched by millions around the the race. incurring hefty losses on hosting fees said yesterday. for others in the country,” said Alzayani. world, the Grand Prix is Bahrain’s big- “After the race, all of them got in four estimated at around $40m a year, but Speaking in his office at the Sakhir “That’s not democracy, that’s terror- gest annual sporting event but also the big trucks and drove laps with Bahraini Alzayani said it had never been intended desert circuit, Alzayani told reporters ism. There’s no two ways about it,” he most controversial on the Formula One flags on the Indian track. to make money. security arrangements for Sunday’s race told reporters. calendar due to continuing violence and “That showed to me the unification... “The intention of the track was never were the same as last year and suggested “Whether you do that hiding behind human rights concerns. that’s why we came up with ‘UniF1ed’,” to be a profit-making organisation as a that any protesters who resorted to vio- human rights, or political, or religious Bahrain’s main opposition bloc has said Alzayani. stand-alone. The intention is mainly to lence would be guilty of ‘terrorism’. motivation, it’s wrong.” called for peaceful demonstrations lead- This year’s slogan is ‘Imagine Your promote Bahrain internationally which “We don’t feel there is a direct threat Bahrain has arrested several people ing up to the race, but there have been Moment’. I think we have been very successful in to the track and nor have we received any accused of stealing and burning cars amid frequent clashes in mainly Shi’ite villages “I don’t think Formula One splits the doing,” he said. threats,” he added as teams and drivers tight security in the island kingdom, a where F1 visitors rarely venture. nation,” said Alzayani, who said only a “The benefits for the economy by arrived to work on cars and carry out strategic state that is home to the US Alzayani defended the controversial ‘tiny percentage’ were opposed to the far exceed the actual costs of host- media duties. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. slogan of “UniF1ed” used last year to race. ing the event. We have to look at BIC “We don’t feel any extra threat is upon One car exploded in the financial dis- promote the race, which made its debut “Those don’t bother us. We cater for (Bahrain International Circuit) as more us this year,”he said. trict last Sunday. on the calendar in 2004 as part of a vision the majority and the majority support the of an infrastructure/promoting Bahrain The race was cancelled in 2011, due to Human Rights Watch said last week to promote Bahrain’s image abroad as a race,” he added. venture.” an uprising and subsequent bloody crack- that police had arrested 20 opposition modern banking and tourist hub. “It is the only event in Bahrain today Alzayani declined to provide any finan- down that left at least 35 dead, and last activists in towns near the circuit to pre- Alzayani said 156 Bahraini marshals where we have the opposition, the gov- cial figures. The current contract for the year’s event went ahead after nightly vent a repeat of last year’s protests. - “Men, women, Muslim, Christian and ernment and the nation all agreeing. I race runs to 2016. 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Maghrib (Sunset) 5:59 WASHINGTON: Use your cell Isha (Night) 7:29 phone in Judge Raymond Voet’s Michigan courtroom and you’ll be held in contempt. Over the years, he has confiscated phones WEATHER from all sorts of people, even police officers. Today Saturday Sunday Weather So what happened when Voet’s Conditions: own phone went off during the Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Fair closing arguments of a trial? Partly cloudy Voet, a man who honours his with a chance own convictions, fined himself and High: 36° High: 36° High: 35° of scattered held himself in contempt. Low: 26° Low: 25° Low: 24° rain at places. “Judges are humans,” Voet said. “They’re not above the rules. I broke the rule, and I have to live by it.” The Sentinel-Standard reported DOHA - SUN & SEA that the judge promptly issued himself a $25 fine and admitted SUN TIDE SEA he was embarrassed, saying the SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND incident was accidental as he 05:08 17:59 11:15 00:00 07:45 15:15 05-15/25 KT is learning to use a new type of “Save The Arctic” movement takes part in the world’s largest participatory art project — the acclaimed phone. “Inside Out” project — by creating a unique art piece at the North Pole. Over a thousand self-portraits were “I’m guessing I bumped it. It THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW submitted from all over the world by individuals calling for a ban on destructive industry in the Arctic. These started talking really loud, say- were combined into a massive composite eye image, which was carried to the top of the world and placed HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER ing, ‘I can’t understand you. Say on the Arctic ice by a group of activists after a gruelling seven-day trek. something like Mom,’” he said. MUSCAT 43/33 Clear 43/33 Clear For years, Voet used a MAKKAH 39/24 Clear 41/23 Fair BlackBerry. He recently switched KUWAIT 37/23 Clear 35/23 Clear to a touchscreen smartphone. BAHRAIN 33/25 Fair 33/25 Partly cloudy “That’s an excuse, but I don’t SANAA 29/16 Showers/clear 28/16 Showers/clear Man serves resignation — on a cake take those excuses from anyone RIYADH 38/27 Partly cloudy 36/17 Partly cloudy else,” Voet said. LONDON: DUBAI 41/30 Partly cloudy 38/28 Fair Airport worker Chris Holmes made a bold deci- “I set the bar high because cell sion to pursue his dreams — and he wrote all about it, in phones are a distraction and there BAGHDAD 33/18 Fair 28/14 Clear frosting, in a resignation letter on top of a cake (pictured). is very serious business going on. Holmes’ brother-in-law posted a picture of the cake to his The courtroom is a special place TODAY TOMORROW THE WORLD Twitter account. in the community and it needs HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Holmes had worked at the Border Force as an immigration more respect than that.” officer for the past four years. Voet says he implemented the ATHENS 19/07 Partly cloudy 20/08 Showers/clear As brother-in-law Stuart Jackson wrote in his Twitter photo ban as a means of avoiding unnec- caption: “So, my brother-in-law has resigned from his 9-to-5 job essary distractions. But cell phone WASHINGTON 27/11 T-storms 18/06 Partly cloudy in spectacular fashion. Jerry Maguire meets Masterchef.” use in the courtroom can have SYDNEY 18/10 T-storms 21/13 Fair The now-former employer has taken the resignation graciously. greater consequences than mere LONDON 13/01 Showers/clear 12/00 Clear “Chris handed in the cake, along with a more formal letter, yes- distractions. PARIS 16/06 Showers/clear 13/04 Partly cloudy terday,” Bill Form, Border Force assistant director at Stansted, Last week, a Chicago judge ISTANBUL 14/07 Partly cloudy 16/09 Showers/clear told the BBC. “He leaves with our very best wishes and we wish banned the use of phones in his MANILA 36/26 T-storms 36/27 Showers/clear him well for the future.” courtrooms, saying that audio DHAKA 34/22 T-storms 32/21 T-storms The picture of the cake resignation letter has gone viral since recordings and photos taken of DELHI 39/24 Fair 36/24 Showers/clear first being posted on Monday. For his part, Holmes says he has witnesses inside the courtroom ISLAMABAD 29/16 Showers/clear 29/17 Showers/clear been “overwhelmed by the positive response” from the public. had directly resulted in intimi- AGENCIES dations and even murder. AP