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SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 • 27 RAMADAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6845 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Clashes in Jerusalem Emir greets Governor Airfares soar General of Canada DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to the Governor General of Canada, amid Eid and David Lloyd Johnston, on the occa- sion of his country’s National Day.

Muslims urged to look vacation rush for Shawwal moon

Although this is not a peak sea- DOHA: The Ministry of Awqaf son to Katmandu and Manila, the and Islamic Affairs has urged Airfares have airfares have seen a slight increase all Muslims to look for the cres- surged by 80 to 100 than usual days. Nepal peak season cent moon (Shawwal) on Monday is starting from first week of Octo- evening. percent due to Eid ber to end of September. Manila’s Anyone who sees the moon is rush as most Asian peak season is in December and advised to report it to the Moon January. Sighting Committee at the head- expatriates prefer to The peak season in Doha started quarters of the Ministry located spend Eid holidays around June 25 and will be until Sep- at Tower area and give testimony and school summer tember 15 — from the day school before the panel. vacation starts till the end of Eid Al Palestinians take cover from a water cannon being fired by Israeli security forces during clashes at The committee will hold a Adha in September. Within this peak meeting on the same day after breaks in their native the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, yesterday, as Israeli authorities banned season, the first week of July sees the Maghrib (sunset) prayer to countries. men under 45 from accessing the Al Aqsa Mosque compound for Friday prayers. highest demand. announce Eid day, Qatar News According to industry sources, Agency reports. flights to destinations like the Egyptian capital Cairo, Sri Lankan By Fazeena Saleem capital Colombo, and South Indian The Peninsula cities, including Chennai and cit- ies in Kerala, would cost 75 percent to 100 percent more than the nor- Qatar 2022: Arch installed at Khalifa Stadium mal fare. DOHA: Airfares to several destina- A round trip to Cairo on regular tions from Doha has surged by 80 days would cost QR800, it will be QNA 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar matches last piece of the arch at Khalifa Inter- and Legacy (SC) project manager for to 100 percent due to Eid rush and QR1,350 to Colombo, and a similar through to the quarterfinals. national Stadium shows that progress Khalifa International Stadium and Al beginning of summer vacation. trip to Kozhikode will cost QR1,400 The last segment to be placed is well underway with the renovation Bayt Stadium in Al Khor City said the Air tickets have soared for des- and it will be QR1,250. A return trip was a 22-metre piece installed at a of the stadium. The next step will be milestone will allow the start of the tinations like Colombo, Cairo and to Katmandu would cost approxi- DOHA: A major milestone has been height of 120 metres. However, prior the installation of the roof. We have installation of the roof membrane. the Indian cities of Chennai, Mum- mately QR1,300 and one to Manila achieved at Khalifa International to lifting, the segment was tilted to been able to achieve this thanks to the All materials used were made of bai and Kozhikode, said industry QR2,200. Stadium with the installation of the the required angle at the ground level productive cooperation of all parties steel and fabricated locally at Ever- sources. There is around 30 percent fall last segment of the venue’s emblem- using a smaller crane. Other major involved,” Mansoor Al Muhannadi, sendai’s factories in Qatar and in UAE. Most Asian expatriates prefer to in ticket fares during off season atic arch. The achievement marks elements such as bottom, top com- Khalifa International Stadium project Due to the size of all the pieces to be spend the Eid holidays and school compared to last year, said indus- the start of the countdown towards pression rings and column segments manager at Aspire Zone Foundation, assembled in to the top ring of the arch, summer breaks in their native coun- try sources. the completion of the renovation were pre-assembled at site also using said. the materials were delivered on site by tries while some travel to Europe and and upgrade works at the stadium smaller crawler cranes. Mohemed Elamin Ahmed, 18-metre trailers and unloaded using the Far East. → Continued on page 2 as a proposed host venue for the “The successful installation of the Supreme Committee for Delivery 100- and 250-tonne mobile cranes.

Qatar condemns Mediators question Israel’s bomb attack in Bahrain commitment to two states AP efforts which the United States has QNA led. But following Secretary of State John Kerry’s failure to broker a peace agreement in April 2014, the Quartet DOHA: Qatar has strongly con- UNITED NATIONS: International is now trying to take on a bigger role demned the criminal bombing mediators trying to promote Mideast and give efforts to reach a peace deal which targeted Bahrain’s East Al peace warned in a highly antici- much broader international backing. Eker killing a woman and injur- pated report yesterday that Israel’s In a statement released with the ing three children. settlement expansion is eroding the report, the Quartet invited Israel and The Foreign Ministry, in a state- viability of a Palestinian state and the Palestinians “to engage with it ment, said while Qatar condemns raises “legitimate questions” about its on implementing its recommenda- this criminal act which aims to ter- commitment to a two-state solution. tions and creating the conditions for rorise people contrary to all human Without urgent action, the medi- the resumption of meaningful nego- values, principles and teachings of ators warned that “a one-state tiations that resolve all final status Islamic Shariah, it emphasises its reality of perpetual occupation and issues.” Palestinian official Saeb solidarity and keenness on standing conflict” will become entrenched Erekat said the report on first read- alongside brothers in the Kingdom of which “is incompatible with realis- ing “does not meet our expectations” Bahrain. The statement expressed ing the national aspirations of both because “it attempts to equalise government’s sincere condolences peoples.” responsibilities between a people Skid marks are seen on a new road in Doha. Pic: Abdul B / The Peninsula to the government and the broth- The Quartet, which is supposed under occupation and a foreign mil- erly people of Bahrain and to the to guide the two parties to peace, itary occupier.” families of the victims. had been sidelined in peacemaking → See also page 4 IS takes hostages Stunt drivers disturb residents in Dhaka cafe By Sidi Mohamed drifting rise during Ramadan. We do roundabout,” he added DHAKA: Gunmen stormed a res- The Peninsula not have any specific campaign for “The month of Ramadan is a time taurant popular with expatriates in such drivers but we keep check on for calmness. People need to take rest the diplomatic quarter of the Bang- them by regular campaigns,” Major at their homes, but these riders cre- ladeshi capital last night and took DOHA: The cases of stunt driving Jaber Mohamed Rashid Odaiba, ating such sounds disturb our sleep QUARTER Germany vs Italy 10pm about 20 people hostage, includ- and drifting see huge spike during Assistant Director of Media & Traf- at night,” said a resident in Al Wakra. FINAL ing several foreigners, in an attack the Holy Ramadan. These drifters fic Awareness Department, told The “The authorities should have a spe- claimed by Islamic State. and stunt drivers usually come out Peninsula. cific campaign to stop this nuisance MATCH → See also page 5 on roads at night between 3am and “Such drivers can be seen in of stunt driving,” he said. 7am, creating nuisance and noise for the streets between 3am before The police patrols are in the people in residential area. Fajr prayer till 7am. This is the street to monitor such things espe- RAMADAN Many people have complained time when people take rest at their cially in residential areas, and anyone TIMING about drifting and have asked police homes. They should respect oth- caught drifting doing such prohibited to increase campaigns and patrols ers and should not create problem things will be violated depending on Today’s Iftar 6 : 31 pm against such drivers who put lives of for people who are fasting. Eve- the act. Tomorrow’s Imsak 3 : 08 am other drivers at risk. ryone can see the marks of their “The cases of stunt driving and drifting tyres in intersections and → Continued on page 2 02 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 HOME

Last Friday in Ramadan Deputy Emir sends greetings to Governor Qatar’s industrial General of Canada

DOHA: The Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al sector index Thani has sent a cable of congrat- ulations to the Governor General of Canada, David Lloyd Johnston, on the occasion of his country’s National Day. The Prime Minister and Inte- increases in April rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a similar cable to the Gover- nor General of Canada, David 2016. The rise in the index was primarily Lloyd Johnston, on the occasion attributed to the increased in prices of “Crude of his country’s National Day. The surge in the index petroleum and natural gas” by 1.3 percent. was largely due to However, on year-on-year (Y-o-Y) basis, the PPI of April 2016, witnessed a significant QTA inspects improvement in the fall of 35.2 percent compared to the counter- performance of Mining part index of April 2015. Ramadan tents Manufacturing sector index registered an and Manufacturing increase of 2.4 percent in April, 2016, compared and hotels to the previous month’s (March). Increase in sectors, data released prices were noticed in “Other chemical prod- by the Ministry of ucts” by 5.2 percent, “Refined Petroleum DOHA: Throughout the holy Products” by 3.9 percent, “Rubber and plas- month of Ramadan, a specially Development Planning tics products” by 3.1 percent, “Beverages” by 1.1 trained team from Qatar Tour- percent, ”Basic Metals” by 0.9 percent, “Juices” ism Authority (QTA)paid visits to and Statistics show. by 0.4 percent, “Basic chemicals” and “Cement Ramadan tents, hotels and other and other non-metallic products” by 0.3 per- tourism establishments to assess cent each. quality of their tourism experi- However, a decline in prices were seen in ence offering and compliance By Mohammad Shoeb “Dairy products” by 0.6 percent and “Grain mill with QTA’s guidelines for the holy The Peninsula products” by 0.2 percent. The prices of “Paper month. Thirteen venues were and Paper Products” remained unchanged. issued citations for violationsof Comparing with the index of counterpart in these guidelines. DOHA: The general monthly Producer Price the previous year (April 2015), “Manufacturing” During their visits,inspectors Index (PPI) of Qatar’s Industrial Sector for April PPI of April, 2016 showed a sharp decline of 17.9 ensured hotel and tourism estab- 2016 was estimated at 43.8 points, showing an percent. The major groups which explain this lishments abided by the guidelines increase of 1.6 percent compared to the PPI price fall were “Refined Petroleum Products” set for Ramadan event market- index of March this year, data released by the by 22.6 percent, ”Basic Metals” by 19.7 percent, ing efforts. QTA representatives Ministry of Development Planning and Sta- “Basic chemicals” by 10.9 percent, “Dairy prod- also evaluatedthe quality of tistics show. ucts” by 1.8 percent. However, prices rise were food, the diversity of dishes and The surge in the index was largely due to also noticed in “Juices” by 10.1 percent, “Cement their presentations at Iftar and improvement in the performance of “Mining” and other non-metallic products” by 8.1 per- Suhour. Décor, lighting and qual- sector (which includes crude oil and natural cent, “Other chemical products” by 4 percent, ity of Ramadan activitiesas well as gas), and “Manufacturing” sector. and “Beverages” by 1.7 percent. how heavily popular local dishes The PPI, like other price indices, measures The PPI of Electricity and Water showed feature on the menu was also the average changes in the prices of industrial a decrease of 1.6 percent compared to March surveyed. goods received by domestic producers for their 2016, resulting from a decline in “Water” by Checks to ensure that all output. The index covers goods relating to Min- 4.8 percent, while a rise in “Electricity” by 0.8 Ramadan activities held in hotel ing sector (weight:72.7 percent), Electricity and percent. When compared the PPI of April, 2016 establishments had received the Water (0.5 percent) , and Manufacturing sec- to the PPI of April, 2015 showed an increase required licensing from govern- tor (weight:26.8 percent). (Y-o-Y) of 2.1 percent, resulting from the price Faithful attending the last Jumua prayer of the Holy moth of Ramadan at the ment authorities and adherence to The Mining sector PPI of April, 2016 showed rising in “Water” by 2.7 percent and “Electric- crowded Abu Bakr Al Siddiq Masjid in Doha. Pic: Baher A/The Peninsula QTA’s instructions were also per- a rise of 1.1 percent compared the PPI of March ity” by 1.5 percent. formed by the team. Woqod gives gift bags to station attendants WISE creates learning opportunities

The Peninsula for Syrian refugees in Jordan DOHA: On the occasion of Ramadan Qatar Fuel (WOQOD) continued the The Peninsula in Azraq refugee camp and one Giving children, especially those CSR Project named ‘Gratitude for in a community center in Hashmi living in refugee camps or war zones, Gas Station Attendants. This was in Shamali, Amman. Since the end an opportunity to learn Arabic has cooperation with group of volun- of March 2016, children aged 6-10 been a priority for eduTechnoz, but teered ladies and with members of DOHA: World Innovation Summit for have been able to access eduTech- the organization has faced challenges Woqod PR team. Education (WISE) facilitated a collab- noz educational content, monitor in providing proper tablets and a reli- The project aimed to show Grat- oration between Libraries Without their progress and collect badges able Internet connection. itude for gas station attendants in Borders and eduTechnoz to help Syr- through the Ideas Box. Partnering with Libraries With- Qatar, for their hard work and ded- ian children in Jordan benefit from Long-term crises, such as the out Borders provided a unique ication by gifting them with a small Arabic lessons. conflict in Syria, have put the educa- chance to bring children tangi- bag of essential items. Primarily the The two organizations, which are tion of entire generations in danger, ble education opportunities and campaign targeted fuel pump attend- supported by the WISE Accelerator diminishing human capital crucial to to better serve disadvantaged and ants and this year efforts were made Program, are now able to provide rebuilding a war-torn country. vulnerable children in Jordanian to reach attendants of all gas stations technologically innovative materi- Children who experience vio- refugee camps and eventually in Qatar. als for Syrian children in Jordan to lence and uncertainty at a young age elsewhere in the region. This part- A gratitude bag with essential learn Arabic and gain increased lit- must be given the means to obtain a nership combines the innovative Arab items like T-shirt and a cap, packaged eracy skills. sense of normality and happiness in learning pedagogy of eduTechnoz with disposable razor, deodorant, tooth- Libraries Without Borders their lives. For these reasons, innova- access to the latest technologies avail- brush and toothpaste, small hand developed the Ideas Box, a porta- tive, game-based education caters to able on the education market provided towel, antibacterial soap and sham- ble multi-media toolkit facilitating both the educational and emotional by the Ideas Box. Woqod officials with gift bags. poo, hair comb, sun protection lotion and strengthening access to non- needs of refugee children. “This partnership would not be and a sunglass were packed with a formal education for vulnerable Libraries Without Borders and possible if it was not for the Accel- “Thank You” card written in English attendants at petrol stations. We and encourage good deeds. communities such as refugees; while eduTechnoz decided to work together erator Program organized by WISE. and Hindi that says “Dear Brother, urge people to come forward in the Other Ramadan CSR initiatives of eduTechnoz offered the game-based after their representatives met Thanks to such an opportunity, Please accept our humble gift in ‘Gratitude for Gas Station Attend- Qatar Fuel (WOQOD) included distri- educational online resources for chil- within the framework of the WISE eduTechnoz and Libraries Without appreciation for all the hard work ants’ project by filling reusable bag bution of 4000 Iftar boxes through dren to learn Arabic. Accelerator Program, which offers borders found a way to combine you do for us and for our country, with essential items, while hand- WOQOD petrol stations, sponsor- The collaboration facilitated by opportunities for innovative educa- their expertise and learn from each Best Regards from WOQOD team”. ing over, the public is encouraged ing of Charity Iftar – RAF Mobile WISE, part of Qatar Foundation for tion projects to scale-up and extend other through building a collabora- The campaign aims to encour- to post pictures on Instagram and Iftar, distribution of Garangao bags Education, Science and Commu- their services. The WISE facilitated tion that will support Syrian refugee age public during the holy month of other social media channels with through WOQOD petrol stations and nity Development (QF), means the project is now generating a mean- children’s educational experiences,” Ramadan to distribute gratitude bags the hashtag #Gratitude For Gas Sta- donation to Qatar Foundation for Eld- resources of both companies have ingful impact for the most vulnerable said eduTechnoz Founder and CEO as gifts with basic essential items to tion Attendants, to raise awareness erly Care. now been deployed in Jordan: one children in need of help. Diana Al Dajani.

Families urged to take care of kids Fares of budget airlines jump by 75% Strong winds → Continued from page 1 likely today The violations vary from seizure of the vehicle for one to three months, → Continued from page 1 airlines,” said a source. cost between QR1,580 and QR3,200. and some cases are transferred to the public prosecution if the motorist Meanwhile, European cities like However, travel agents say that DOHA: Residents in Qatar are likely to has repeated the violations multiple times or if he has hurt or damaged the However, during peak season London and Paris remain the favour- the airfares are subject to fluctua- face windy day today as Qatar Meteor- public property. Erring motorists are fined around QR3,000 depending on (July) , fares are almost double of aver- ite holiday destinations of most tion depending on the date of travel. ology Department has forecast strong the violations type. age rate and a round trip to Cairo will Qataris while Dubai is the main shop- “Air ticket prices are always high wind across the country. Strong winds “If the motorist has exposed people’s life’s to danger, his vehicle will cost QR1,500, to Colombo QR2,500, ping stop, according to travel industry when it comes to peak season. But, will lead to poor visibility and blow- be booked and will be transfer to public prosecution,” said Major Odaiba. to Kozhikode QR2,950 and QR2,600 experts. Fares to these destinations there is no fare as the current price. It ing of dust. “ Strong wind over all areas He said drifting by cars is more dangerous than drifting in bikes because to Mumbai. have also gone up. “Europe remains always depends on the date of travel and poor visibility is expected at places of comparatively bigger size and also the noise from cars is more loud than Even budget airlines’ fares have the favourite Eid holiday destination and date of purchase,” said a another due to blowing dust,” said the Depart- that of bikes. jumped by 75 percent and flights to for Qataris, some have a special pref- travel adviser. ment in a weather forecast for today. The problem of dealing with such people that they move to another area, most south Asian destinations are erence for London. There are several Passengers who booked tickets The Department, on Wednesday, creating annoying sounds when we start a patrolling in that area. fully booked. Industry experts say that others who travel to Dubai for shop- before three or four months, have had issued a statement forecasting a The Ministry of Interior urged families to take care of children, who tend airfares increase during the holiday ping during Ramadan,” said a travel a comparatively affordable aver- windy days on Saturday and Sunday to play outside their home when parents are busy praying or preparing for season mainly because airlines make consultant. age fare. “For example if a passenger due to the extension of Indian mon- Eid. Playing outside on the roads late at nights will expose them to traffic changes based on demand. A return trip to London in econ- booked tickets by end of March to soon seasonal low over the region. accidents due to harsh driving. “Airlines remove the lowest omy class would cost about QR4000, travel during the first week of July, The Department has urged all Parents should only allow their children to play in designated areas and price from the system, so obviously and the fare can go up to QR7000. A he would have paid around 40 per- residents to be cautious and to avoid ven- not play on internal roads in residential area. The ministry also advised the fare begins at a higher price. It similar trip to Paris would cost a simi- cent less than the present ticket fare,” turing into sea during periods of strong motorists to be cautious on its official facebook account./ is a very common practice among lar amount. A return trip to Dubai can he said. winds as well as to follow latest updates. Ramadan Thoughts

SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 03 Philanthropy and Zakat

Islam considers rich people’s properties not absolutely theirs. Unless they pay the rights of the poor, Zakat, they are considered transgressors. Zakat is also a yearly reminder that what we earn and what we have is not really ours. It is a gift from God.

By Habib Alli

liver Goldsmith, the Irish poet, once said: “Where wealth accumulates, men decay.” Phi- lanthropy is more than just a is full of knowledge arid wisdom. (9:60) his means: and the man whose resources are natures-not like the monsters that consume full advantage of our flip-flop approach monetary gift-love of mankind Have you thought how intertwined char- restricted, let him spend according to what everything in the name of globalization or the toward Islam. He writes in his book Islam shown by practical kindness and ity is in our life? E-mails begging for orphans Allah has given him. Allah puts no burden on selfish who relegate us to food stamps in the and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments Ohelpfulness to humanity is its dictionary meaning. of a disaster; money needed for a new coun- any person beyond what He has given him. After name of anti-capitalism. of Islamism ” (2004): The system has 1 mil- Zakat is the third pillar of Islam; it is hard cilor’s campaign; help wanted in building a a difficulty, Allah will soon grant relief. (65:7) Allah has blighted usury and made lion beneficiaries, which represent about to translate the word or find its closest mean- new mosque or school; the fundraising walk almsgiving fruitful. (2:276) 10 percent of the Pakistanis situated below ing in English. In Arabic, the word is derived for the homeless; chocolate sales for support Consequence for not-paying Zakat Sadaqa is for everyone. During Ramadan, the country’s poverty line. An official report from the root, “z-k-a.” The verb, zakka, “to of a school; remembering a poor relative back The person who has some wealth and still for example, Muslims may send Ramadan notes in this connection that in its eight years purify,” also means, “to make something grow home and wanting our fitra and zakat counted does not take zakat from it is regarded as a great hampers to local food banks. Hunger has no of operation, Pakistan’s state-administered and develop.” Zakat is commonly known as in the Ramadan drive for the homeless locally. sinner in the sight of Allah and will be severely religion. Zakat was originally a tax on pos- zakat system has had little visible impact “almsgiving.” This translation is not accurate It goes like the swirling waterway of a deep punished on the Day of Judgment. According sessions with the proceeds going mostly to on inequality. There has been no noticeable if we consider the philosophy behind that brook. It touches different soils of need and to hadith, “The person who possesses gold and aid the poor (though the money might also decline, it says, in the number of beggars and pillar. There is a difference between almsgiv- embellishes various roots of humanity as it silver and does not give zakat for it, then on the be spent for other purposes, such as ransom- no discernible alleviation of poverty. Under ing-Sadaqa-and Zakat. Sadaqa is a voluntary meanders into the wide ocean of Allah’s mercy Day of Judgment, slabs of fire will be made for ing captives of war). The word, however, now the circumstances, people are losing faith not service of any kind that is given from one per- harvested in the Hereafter. him. These slabs will be heated in the fire of Hell more commonly refers to almsgiving. Are we only in the system, but also in the belief that son to another. The parable of those who spend their sub- and his sides, forehead and back will be branded aware of our own local needs before we trol- Islam offers a better economic order. The Blessed Prophet (peace be upon him) stance in the way of Allah is that of a grain of with them. When these slabs become cool, they ley off huge sums to favourite faraway spots? The Caliph ‘Umar, on seeing an old Jew encourages everyone to give sadaqa, also corn: it grows seven ears and each ear Hath will be re-heated and the entire process will be Although in the past Islamic States would begging, brought him to his house. He gave known as khairat. A smile, words of sympathy, 100 grains. Allah gives manifold increase to repeated.” Also, “The person who has been given have organized their collection and disburse- him some cash and told the treasury officer even giving half a date can be sadaqa. Whatever whom He pleased: And Allah cares for all and wealth by Allah and despite this does not give ment, today, in the absence of such ideal that such people who could not earn their liv- the words-differentiated for juristic reasons- He knows all things. (2:261) zakat for it, then on the Day of Judgment, this situations (and allowing that some spurious ing should be granted stipends from the public the spirit is to alleviate humanity’s sufferings. Zakat is the right of the needy. By selfishly wealth of his will be turned into a huge poison- organizations send their administrative over- treasury. Once, seeing some non-Muslim lep- Such was the example of Caliph ‘Umar, who leaving it sitting in your account to grow, you ous snake that will encircle his neck. It will then heads sky high, forgetting the real needy), we ers on his way back from a journey, he issued sat watching children play after he had per- would only cause self-ruin and malaise. tear the sides of his mouth apart and tell him: should revamp our efforts to see that zakat orders that they should be provided mainte- sonally brought food to their poor family. Yet And in their wealth and possessions (was ‘I am your wealth and I am your treasures.’ ” carries with it the true emblem of voluntary nance from state funds. In a letter addressed how blessed and reminiscent is the Western remembered) the right of the (needy), him who We seek refuge in Allah. Let us not fear philanthropy. Say: “My Lord hath commanded to Adi ibn Artah, ‘Umar ibn ‘Abdal- ‘Aziz wrote: Social Security system that there is a sense of asked, and him who (for some reason) was man and ensure that our debts and taxes are justice; and that ye set your whole selves (to “Be kind towards dhimmis (free non-Mus- monetary security, however lacking, for people prevented (from asking). (51:19) never missed, nor do we ever forget God for Him) at every time and place of prayer, and lim sub- ject of the Islamic State). If you find akin to zakat recipients: the sickly, unemployed, Purifying our souls from greed and check- His small kindnesses to His creatures! call upon Him, making your devotion sincere some of them old or help- less, give mainte- invalid, divorcee, the disaster struck victim, ing our humanity is what giving zakat every Islam considers rich people’s proper- as in His sight: such as He created you in the nance to them.” etc. Aren’t they a breakdown of the Quranic year does-calculated best by spending some of ties not absolutely theirs. Unless they pay the beginning, so shall ye return.” (7:29) So keep your duty to Allah and fear Him as miskeen and fuqara-the destitute and needy? it throughout the year on appropriate projects. rights of the poor, Zakat, they are considered It is nearly impossible for every individ- much as you can; listen and obey; and spend Alms are for the poor and the needy, and The tax deductibles are just a returned gift and transgressors. Zakat is also a yearly reminder ual, from the filthy rich to the common man, in charity, that is better for your- selves. And those employed to ad- minister the (funds); for do not rob us of our re- wards. If you wish to that what we earn and what we have is not to pay zakat in the prescribed way and for it whosoever is saved from his own covetous- those whose hearts have been (recently) rec- give that away too, such uninhibited generos- really ours. It is a gift from God. The reward to reach the deserving people. Meanwhile, an ness, and then they are the successful ones. onciled (to Truth) ;for those in bondage and in ity will smack of true Companion-style giving. is such that an entire economic system rests increasing number of Muslims would be fall- (64:16) debt; in the cause of Allah; and for the way- They gave until it hurt. Yet they were unhurt. on it-balancing the haves and have-nots with ing below the poverty line every day. farer: (thus is it) ordained by Allah, and Allah Let the man of means spend according to modest cognizance of one another’s rights and Economics professor Timur Kuran takes www.islamcity.org The excellence of prayer at night

BY MUHAMMAD FATHI NIGHT OF REWARD AND GOODNESS with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with said: “Whosoever performs Qiyam (night him) reported that one year, when the month vigil prayer) during Lailat Al Qadr (Night of Ramadan started, the Prophet said: This of Decree), with faith and being hopeful of he most blessed time of Ramadan month (of Ramadan) has begun and there is Allah’s reward, will have his former sins for- has come. The showers of mercy and a night in it better than one thousand month. given.’’ (Bukhari and Muslim) blessings are heaped on the believers So, any one deprived of its blessings is actually Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) during the last ten nights of Ramadan. deprived of all goodness. Indeed, He is truly reported: I asked: “O Messenger of Allah! If TIt is time to put more effort and be more ded- deprived who is kept away from its good. (Ibn I realise Lailat Al Qadr (The Night of Decree), icated. It is a golden chance for those who Majah and authenticated by Albani) what should I supplicate in it?’’ The Prophet were careless in the past days of Ramadan replied, “You should supplicate: Allahumma to make up and get a great share of the Ram- IN SEARCH OF LAYLAT AL QADR innaka afuwun, tuhibbul afwa, fa’fu anni (O adan’s reward. And it is a long awaited season Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) Allah, You are Most Forgiving, and You love for the devoted to get closer to Allah and to reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: forgiveness; so forgive me).’’ (Tirmidhi) ascend in higher ranks of dedication. Fol- “Seek Lailat Al Qadr (Night of Decree) in the Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) lowing is a collection of the Prophet’s ahadith odd nights out of the last ten nights of Ram- reported: The Prophet kept standing in prayer that shed light on the privileges of these nights adan.’’ (Bukhari) so long that the skin of his feet would crack. and how the Prophet (peace and blessings be I asked him: “Why do you do this, while you upon him) spent them: I’TIKAF: THE SPIRITUAL RECHARGE have been forgiven of your former and latter Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) sins?’’ He said, “Should I not be a grateful serv- reported: When the last ten nights (of Ram- reported: The Prophet (PBUH) used to engage ant of Allah?’’ (Bukhari and Muslim) adan) would begin, the Messenger of Allah himself in I’tikaf (seclusion for worship in the Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with (peace and blessings be upon him) would mosque) during the last ten nights of Ram- him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) his wife to pray and if she refuses, he sprin- are recorded among the men and women who keep awake at night (for prayer and devo- adan till he passed away; his wives followed said, “The best month for observing fasting kles water on her face (to make her get up). celebrate remembrance of Allah.’’ (Abu Dawud) tion), awaken his family and prepare himself this practice after him. (Bukhari and Muslim) after Ramadan is Allah’s month of Muharram, May Allah show mercy to a woman who gets to be more diligent in worship. (Bukhari and Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased and the best Salah after the prescribed Salah up during the night and performs Salat, awak- SEIZING THE VALUABLE MOMENT Muslim) with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) used is Salah at night.’’ (Muslim) ens her husband for the same purpose; and if Jabir (May Allah be pleased with him) Aishah also reported: The Messenger of to observe I’tikaf every year (during Ram- he refuses, she sprinkles water on his face.’’ reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah Allah (PBUH) used to strive more in worship adan) for ten days; in the year in which he FAMILY DEVOTION (Abu Dawud) (PBUH) saying, “Every night there is a spe- during Ramadan than he strove in any other passed away, he observed I’tikaf for twenty Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased Abu Sa’id and Abu Hurairah (May Allah cial time during which whatever a Muslim asks time of the year; and he would devote him- days. (Bukhari) with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Mes- Allah of any good relating to this life or the self more (in the worship of Allah) in the last (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “May senger of Allah (PBUH) said, “When a man Hereafter, it will be granted to him; and this ten nights of Ramadan than he strove in ear- WHAT TO DO IN LAYLAT ALQADR Allah show mercy to a man who gets up dur- awakens his wife during the night and they moment comes every night.’’ (Muslim). lier part of the month. (Muslim). Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased ing the night and performs Salat, awakens both perform two-Rak`ah prayer together, they www.onislam.net 04 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Rebels capture Israel must stop and kill Syrian pilot: Army settlements: AFP

BEIRUT: Islamist rebels captured and killed a Syrian air force pilot Quartet report after his plane crashed near Damas- cus yesterday, the army said. A monitoring group, the Syr- ian Observatory for Human Rights, Council on Thursday on the Quar- said earlier that the plane went tet report, which he told reporters down in the mountainous region of The draft report said had been submitted to the Quartet Qalamun, northwest of the capital. Israel had taken for members for final approval and was The pilot ejected and landed likely to be released soon. near the town of Jayrud, 60km its exclusive use Diplomatic sources said the northeast of Damascus. The army, some 70 percent of report carries significant politi- quoted by state news agency SANA, Area C, which makes cal weight as it has the backing of said the pilot landed in an area close Israeli ally the United States, controlled by Jaish Al Islam rebels up 60 percent of which has struggled to revive the after his plane developed “a tech- the occupied West peace talks amid tensions between nical problem during an exercise”. Netanyahu and US President Barack “This crime committed by the Bank and includes Obama. Relations between the right- terrorists of Jaish Al Islam will not ist Israeli leader and the Democratic go unpunished,” it said. The Saudi- the majority of Members of the Israeli police and emergency personnel inspect the scene where an Israeli died and three president have yet to recover from backed rebel group claimed it had agricultural lands, their bitter feud over last year’s US- of his relatives were wounded after a suspected Palestinian gunman opened fire at their car on route 60, hit the plane — identified as a Rus- natural resources and led international nuclear deal with near the Al Fawar refugee camp, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, yesterday. sian-made Sukhoi Su-22 — and Israel’s foe Iran. captured the pilot. land reserves. The draft report said Israel had Jaish Al Islam’s spokesman, taken for its exclusive use some 70 Islam Alloush, posted a photo and percent of Area C, which makes up Israel slaps security and cash curbs a video of the pilot on his Twitter 60 percent of the occupied West account, saying he belonged to the Reuters Bank and includes the majority of Alawite sect of President Bashar Al agricultural lands, natural resources Assad. He said that a jihadist with and land reserves. on Palestinians after attacks Al Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affili- “The transfer of greater powers ate in Syria, had executed the pilot. UNITED NATIONS: Israel should and responsibilities to Palestinian stop building settlements, denying civil authority in Area C, contem- Libya forces seize key Palestinian development and desig- plated by commitments in prior AFP US-Israeli national Hallel Yaffa Ariel Israel transfers around $127m in nating land for exclusive Israeli use agreements, has effectively been in her home at the Jewish settlement customs duties levied on goods des- sector in IS bastion that Palestinians seek for a future stopped and in some ways reversed of Kiryat Arba adjoining Hebron. tined for Palestinian markets that state, the Middle East peace “Quar- and should be resumed to advance Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter transit through Israeli ports monthly. TRIPOLI: Libyan pro-unity gov- tet” recommended in a draft of an the two state solution and prevent a JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday Lerner said the army was imposing Netanyahu’s office accused the PA of ernment forces said they seized a eagerly awaited report. one state reality from taking hold,” announced a lockdown on the West a closure on and around Hebron and supporting the families of militants key central district of the Islamic The draft report by the Quar- the draft Quartet report said. Bank city of Hebron and cuts in deploying two additional battalions with funds transferred “by various State jihadist group’s coastal bas- tet countries sponsoring the stalled The draft report said that at least monthly tax payments made to the to the area. laundering methods”. tion of Sirte yesterday. peace process — the United States, 570,000 Israelis are living in the Palestinian Authority, after a wave Lerner noted that approximately Earlier, a young Palestinian Fighters allied to the Gov- Russia, the European Union and the settlements, which most countries of deadly attacks. 80 attacks by Palestinians against woman was killed at a security ernment of National Accord took United Nations — said the Israeli pol- deem illegal. “Israel should cease The measures, including increas- Israeli civilians and security forces checkpoint at the Hebron shrine control of a residential area called icy “is steadily eroding the viability the policy of settlement construc- ing Israel’s military presence in the over the past nine months “originated known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi the “700 housing units” near Ibn of the two state solution”. tion and expansion, designating land West Bank and described as “the in the Hebron area”. The measures Mosque and to Jews as the Cave of Sina hospital and the city’s Oua- “This raises legitimate questions for exclusive Israeli use and denying most substantial” in two years, come were decided upon by Defence Min- the Patriarchs. After arousing sus- gadougou conference centre, the about Israel’s long term intentions Palestinian development,” the draft after a surge in nine months of vio- ister Avigdor Lieberman and the picions she was taken aside for a GNA’s forces said on social media. which are compounded by the state- report recommends. lence and as Muslims near the end of military, Lerner said. He could not “thorough check” and “suddenly They said the jihadists were also ments of some Israeli ministers that It said that only one permit for fasting month of Ramadan. say how long the closure on Hebron, drew a knife and tried to stab the coming under air strikes. there should never be a Palestinian Palestinian housing construction An Israeli man was killed and the largest West Bank city, would last. policewoman who was searching A field commander, Siraj Daw, state,” according to the draft report. in Area C was reportedly approved three close relatives were wounded But Internal Security Minister Gilad her”, a police statement read. Another said that fighting was getting The day before Israeli elections in 2014, while there did not appear yesterday when a suspected Pal- Erdan said it should stay in place “for officer shot her dead. closer to the Ouagadougou cen- in March 2015, Israeli Prime Minis- to have been any approved in 2015. estinian fired on their car south of an extended period of time”. Palestinian officials named her tre which IS has been using as its ter Benjamin Netanyahu said there Mladenov said the report con- Hebron in the occupied West Bank, As the security measures were as Sarah Tarayra, 27, a relative of field headquarters. “The resistance would never be a Palestinian state cluded that continuing violence, the army said. He was identified as announced, Prime Minister Benjamin Mohammed Nasser Tarayra, 19, has been fierce but we have dealt on his watch, only to reverse him- terrorism and incitement; Israeli Michael Mark, 48, from the nearby Netanyahu ordered that the amount who on Thursday fatally stabbed with the (IS) snipers and wiped self days later and recommit to the settlement expansion and a lack of Otniel settlement. His wife and two of tax funds transferred monthly to 13-year-old US-Israeli national them out... We’ve captured many objective of a two-state solution. control of Gaza by the Palestinian children were taken to hospital. the Palestinian Authority be cut by Hallel Yaffa Ariel in her bedroom vehicles and weapons,” he told UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Authority “severely undermine hope On Thursday, a 19-year-old Pal- the equivalent of the fiscal support at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat reporters. “They have many dead,” Mladenov briefed the UN Security for peace”. estinian fatally stabbed 13-year-old paid to militants’ families. Arba adjoining Hebron. he said, without giving figures. Istanbul bombers ‘planned hostage-taking’ ICRC collects DNA to

AFP identify Lebanon’s civil war dead ISTANBUL: The suicide attackers who launched the deadly Istanbul airport assault were planning to take AFP ICRC, Carboni said. He estimated dozens of passengers hostage, Turkish that 4,000 families in Lebanon have media reported yesterday, as CCTV of missing relatives. Carboni said the the bombers’ faces emerged. ICRC’s aim was to reach every one Turkish officials have pointed BEIRUT: The International Committee of the 4,000 families over the next blame at the Islamic State jihadist of the Red Cross has started collecting two or three years. group for Tuesday night’s gun and DNA samples to help identify thou- This is the second phase of a bomb spree at Ataturk airport, which sands of people who disappeared project launched by the ICRC in Leb- left 44 people dead including 19 for- during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, anon in 2012 to set up a database eigners. “They say they are doing the ICRC said yesterday. of information about each missing this in the name of Islam,” President The ICRC called on the Leba- person — down to where they went Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on a visit nese authorities to create a “national missing and what they were wearing. to Istanbul. “That has nothing to do mechanism” to help match victims’ So far, 2,300 families have taken part. with Islam. Their place is in hell.” bodies with their families. The war, In 2014, the ICRC called on the State-run news agency Anadolu which started on April 13, 1975 and Lebanese police to help collect bio- said 24 people had been detained in lasted 15 years, officially left 150,000 logical data. “Two years later, we still Istanbul in a string of raids over the dead and 17,000 missing, dozens of haven’t had a response,” said Carboni. attack over the past two days, includ- them allegedly still detained by the He also called for “the creation ing 15 foreigners. Nine other suspected Syrian government, a key player in of a national mechanism which one Turkish anti-riot police officers stand guard as people walk nearby the explosion site at the Ataturk jihadists were rounded up in the west- the conflict. day will deal with the opening of the ern port city of Izmir, but officials International Airport terminal yesterday. “It is more than 40 years since graves and mass graves and will do the declined to confirm a link with the the events took place and we are still work of matching and give answers to bloodshed in Istanbul. occasions and became one of the top series of attacks in the past year Syrians and other Arabs, and paid asking ourselves how we are going the families”. Carboni said it was time Officials say the three men who lieutenants for the minister of war for blamed on either IS jihadists or Kurd- 24,000 Turkish lira ($8,300) in advance to give answers to the families,” said to “to remind the Lebanese authorities carried out the latest in a series of ISIS operations,” McCaul told CNN. ish rebels. The latest assault sparked for a year’s rent. The police raided the Fabrizzio Carboni, the ICRC’s chief of their responsibilities”. deadly attacks to hit Turkey were The pro-government Sabah global condemnation, with con- apartment after the attack, accord- in Lebanon. “We know that there Wadad Halawani, who has had a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz newspaper reported that the attack- suls from a dozen countries around ing to an upstairs neighbour, who said are graves all around the country, no news of her husband for 30 years, national. Turkish media identified ers scouted the scene and planned to Europe and beyond gathering at the the men kept the curtains closed. She and that at one stage we will have heads an organisation for families of the strike’s organiser as Akhmet take dozens of passengers hostage airport yesterday to lay flowers in never saw the attackers, but she heard to match the DNA of these mortal the disappeared. “All the people who Chatayev, the Chechen leader of an IS inside before carrying out a massacre. memory of the victims. them, and complained to neighbour- remains with ones of the families.” committed crimes are in power,” she cell in Istanbul who reportedly found But they began the assault early Hundreds of mourners also gath- hood officials about a strange smell. “A Carboni spoke at a press con- said. “They still hold important posi- accommodation for the bombers. after attracting suspicion, Sabah said. ered in Istanbul on Thursday for very weird, chemical smell,” she said. ference held to announce that the tions in the government.” Chatayev allegedly organised two CCTV images released by police show the funeral of popular 28-year-old “Police came after the bombing... I lived ICRC would start taking saliva sam- Ahmed Assaad Ajam, 76, said deadly bombings this year in the heart the three alleged attackers arriving, teacher Huseyin Tunc, who was at on top of the bomb.” ples from relatives of the missing. he hoped to find out about his son of the city’s Sultanahmet tourist dis- wearing dark coats over their suicide the airport to welcome a friend. “We Hurriyet also quoted a local Several Lebanese with missing Jamal. Pinned on his chest was a trict and the busy Istiklal shopping vests — clothing that was much too still can’t believe it,” one of his pupils, plumber, identified only by his initials relatives attended the press confer- black-and-white picture of the young street, the Hurriyet newspaper said. heavy for a hot summer night. Batuhan Karabey, said. “He was more E.S., who says one of the attackers came ence and some were unable to hold man who disappeared in 1982. “I’m Michael McCaul, chairman of More images show a plainclothes than a teacher to us — he was like a to his shop to ask if he could fix their back tears. The Lebanese government waiting to see my son. Even dead, the US House Committee on Home- police officer confronting one of the big brother, helping us a lot. Really, I tap. “He spoke in broken Turkish. He in 2000 acknowledged the existence even if they only bring me a bone, land Security, described Chatayev as men by an elevator and asking to see can’t believe it’s true.” took me home,” the plumber said. “I of mass graves in Beirut, but it has I’ll finally be able to relax,” he said. “probably the number one enemy in his identification. The attacker pulls The Hurriyet newspaper reported changed the tap. I saw three people made no effort to identify the bodies. “I still hold out hope. I hope one day the Northern Caucasus region of Rus- out a gun and shoots him. that the bombers had rented a flat in inside. They looked like bandits — one “Several hundred families” have to have the slightest information” on sia”. “He’s travelled to Syria on many Turkey has been rocked by a Istanbul’s Fatih district, home to many of them always stood by me.” already given DNA samples to the what happened to Jamal. ASIA / PHILIPPINES SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 05 Duterte urges communists to kill criminals

AFP rule of law was “uncompromising”, speech on Thursday to a slum com- was found in a Manila slum with a apparently seeking to assuage con- munity in Manila attended by only sign on it saying: “I am a Chinese drug Duterte called on cerns from human rights groups that a few journalists, Duterte called on lord”, local police said. communist rebels he planned to orchestrate mass extra- ordinary Filipinos to kill drug addicts, The murder bore all the hallmarks MANILA: Philippine President Rod- judicial killings. But yesterday, Duterte which is also illegal. of an extrajudicial killing, which rigo Duterte (pictured) yesterday waging one of Asia’s called on communist rebels waging “If you know of any addicts, go would make it the first of Duterte’s urged communist rebels to start kill- longest insurgencies one of Asia’s longest insurgencies to ahead and kill them yourself,” Duterte presidency. ing drug traffickers, adding another hold their own guerrilla court hear- told a crowd of about 500 people. Manila police district deputy layer to a controversial war on crime to hold their own ings and then carry out executions. Duterte also vowed to kill drug director for operations Marcelino in which he has warned thousands guerrilla court “Drugs have reached the hinter- traffickers, using foul language he Pedroso told AFP the death was being will die. lands... what if you use your kangaroo promised in recent weeks to “tone considered a summary execution Duterte won May’s election in hearings and then courts to kill them to speed up the 4,000-strong New People’s Army, is down” as president. because the victim was apparently a landslide after a campaign dom- carry out executions. solution to our problem,” Duterte, a known for assassinating civilians “They are destroying our children. killed due to alleged involvement in inated by his pledge to end crime lawyer and former city prosecutor, deemed to have committed so-called I warn you, don’t go into that, even drugs. He said there were no suspects. within six months, promising to do said in a speech before the military’s crimes against the people. if you’re a policeman, because I will With Duterte’s encouragement, so by unleashing security forces inauguration speech on Thursday, top brass in Manila. However its courts and summary really kill you,” said Duterte, 71. Before police had already killed dozens of with shoot-to-kill orders. In his Duterte insisted his adherence to the The communists’ armed wing, the executions are illegal. In a late-night dawn yesterday a bullet-riddled body alleged or suspected drug traffickers .

Attackers storm Dhaka Delicious portrait

Two children hotel; take hostages dead as Nepal Agencies school collapses IS claims responsibility KATHMANDU: Heavy mon- DHAKA: The Islamic State soon rains caused parts DHAKA: As many as nine gunmen group claimed responsibility for of a school to collapse attacked a restaurant popular with the gun attack on a restaurant in Nepal’s capital yester- foreigners in a diplomatic zone of in Bangladesh’s capital popular day, killing two pupils and the Bangladeshi capital yesterday with foreigners that sparked a injuring 24 others, police night, taking dozens of hostages and deadly firefight with police, an said. Police said that the exchanging gunfire with security IS-linked news agency reported. pupils, who were aged forces, authorities and a witness said. nine and 10 and were in One police officer died of his the third grade, had sat wounds at a hospital, according to the lives of the people trapped down for a lesson when his nephew Mishu Hasan. Author- inside,” Ahmed said. He would one of the walls of the ities had not yet reported the death. not say how many people were classroom came crashing A huge contingent of secu- trapped inside. At least 35 people, down, burying them. rity forces cordoned off the area including about 20 foreigners, were “Two students were around the Holey Artisan Bakery still trapped inside the restaurant, killed and 24 others suf- in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. Several according to kitchen staffer, Sumon fered injuries after the other wounded police officers were Reza, who was among more than 10 Cafe owner fixes a cake featuring a portrait of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte inside Quim’s wall collapsed,” said local hospitalised after security forces people who managed to run to the police chief, Pitambar exchanged fire with the attack- rooftop and escape. Cafe in Quezon city, Metro Manila, yesterday. Adhikari. ers inside the restaurant who also He said the attackers chanted The injured are receiv- hurled bombs. A local resident Lut- God is Great as they launched the ing treatment at hospitals ful Amin said that he heard several attack around 9:20pm yesterday, ini- in Lalitpur, a densely explosions, the last of which went tially opening fire with blanks. populated district in Kath- off around 10:45pm. In Washington, State Department Taiwan firm mandu valley, Adhikari The head of the elite anti-crime spokesman John Kirby told report- Myanmar must protect said. force, Rapid Action Battalion, said ers: “We are aware of reports of what reporters yesterday night that they appears to a hostage situation in the caused fish were working to save the lives of the Gulshan neighborhood of Dhaka.” Rescued people trapped inside the restaurant. Kirby said that all American cit- deaths: Vietnam Rohingya Muslims: UN Authorities The hostages included izens that are under the authority orangutans an unknown number of foreigners. of the diplomatic chief of mission in “Some derailed youths have Dhaka were accounted for and were AP released back entered the restaurant and launched not involved in the incident, but the AFP “My visit to Rakhine State unfor- the attack,” Benazir Ahmed said. department is still checking on pri- tunately confirmed that the situation JAKARTA: Three oran- “We have talked to some of the peo- vate American citizens who may HANOI: Vietnam’s government on the ground has yet to significantly gutans rescued when ple who fled the restaurant after have been in the area said toxic discharges from a Tai- change,” Lee told a press conference forest fires destroyed the attack. We want to resolve this He said it was too early to say wanese-owned steel plant were YANGON: Myanmar’s new civilian in Yangon, describing overcrowding, their Indonesian rain- peacefully. We are trying to talk to who was involved in the assault and responsible for massive fish deaths government should prioritise end- dilapidated shelters and poor san- forest habitats were the attackers, we want to listen to their motivation. Bangladesh, a tra- that have decimated tourism and ing deep discrimination against the itation in the camps. She stressed returned to the wild on them about what they want.” ditionally moderate Muslim-majority fishing in four provinces and high- Rohingya and other Muslims in res- that putting an end to “institutional- Borneo island Karmele “Some of our people have been nation, has recently seen an upsurge lighted the risks of rapid growth in tive Rakhine state, a United Nations ised discrimination against Muslim Llano Sanche, Interna- injured. Our first priority is to save in militant violence. foreign investment. An estimated envoy said yesterday. communities in state” must be “an tional Animal Rescue 70 tons of dead fish washed ashore Yanghee Lee, the UN Spe- urgent priority”. programme director in along more than 200km of Viet- cial Rapporteur on Myanmar, was “The continuing restrictions on Indonesia, made a three- nam’s central coastline in early speaking after a nearly two-week the freedom of movement of the day journey through the April, sparking rare protests across visit to the Buddhist-majority nation, Rohingya and Kaman communities forest to release the ani- the country when authorities could her first since Aung San Suu Kyi’s cannot be justified on any grounds mals in Bukit Baka Bukit not initially pinpoint the cause. pro-democracy party took office of security or maintaining stability,” Raya National Park. A government minister, Mai several months ago, ending five dec- Lee added. “You know, it’s amaz- Tien Dung, told reporters on ades of military rule. While Kaman Muslims are ing to see a big orangutan Thursday that Formosa Ha Tinh Suu Kyi, a globally celebrated recognised by the government as like that moving across Steel Corp., a subsidiary of Tai- champion for human rights, has an official ethnic minority, the the forest, this is home wan’s Formosa Plastics Group, faced criticism for not taking a Rohingya are not. Many in Myanmar back home,” Sanche said. admitted it had caused the envi- stronger stance on the Rohingya’s reject the term Rohingya and insist Sabtu, 25, was saved ronmental disaster and has plight as she leads her country into the group are illegal immigrants in March 2015 from a pledged $500m to clean up the a new era. from neighbouring Bangladesh, village near the IAR sanc- environment and compensate Lee’s visit included a trip to despite their deep roots in the coun- tuary in Ketapang, West affected people, including helping strife-torn Rakhine, a western try. Suu Kyi’s government ordered Kalimantan province, fisherman to find new jobs. Dung region scarred by bouts of religious officials ahead of Lee’s visit to refer one of the areas most said waste water containing toxins bloodshed between Buddhists and to the group simply as “people affected by the fires last such as cyanide and carbolic acids Muslims in 2012. The state has since who believe in Islam” rather than year. Butan and Marsela, was released into the sea during been almost completely divided Rohingya -- a term whose use has both around seven and a test run of the plant. Formo- on religious grounds, with Muslim in the past set off protests by Bud- eight years old, were also sa’s $10.6bn steel complex, which communities trapped in camps or dhist nationalists. rescued by IAR when their includes a steel plant, a power isolated communities and subject to The Nobel peace prize win- home was destroyed by plant and a deep sea port, is one a range of restrictions on their move- ner has asked for “space” while her Bangladeshi security personnel stand guard after gunmen stormed fires. of the largest foreign investments ments and access to basic services administration seeks to build trust a restaurant in Dhaka’s high-security diplomatic district early today. in Vietnam. and employment. between religious communities. Abu Sayyaf bomb expert captured ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Xi talks tough ahead of tribunal ruling over maritime row Philippines’ military announced yesterday that a bomb-maker from a AFP serried ranks of top officials in Bei- saying: “We will not show up at other tighter authoritarian stance at home. top-ranked officials. “The biggest Daesh-affiliated militant jing’s Great Hall of the People, to people’s front doors to flex our mus- Xi heaped praise on the ruling party threat to our ruling party is corrup- group was captured in a rapturous applause. cles. That does not show strength or and vowed to maintain the country’s tion,” he said, calling for a “complete majority Muslim southern “No foreign country... should scare anyone.” An international tribu- centralised political system. purification of the party’s political island province. BEIJING: China will never compro- expect us to swallow the bitter pill nal in The Hague will rule on July 12 “All party comrades must remem- environment”. Soldiers and police mise on sovereignty, President Xi of harm to our national sovereignty, in a case brought by the Philippines ber what we are constructing is He credited the Communist nabbed Abu Sayyaf sub- Jinping said yesterday ahead of an security or development interests,” challenging China’s claims in the stra- socialism with Chinese characteris- party with expelling “imperialism” leader Mudzrih Abih international tribunal ruling over Xi said, adding: “We are not afraid tegic waterway. Beijing insists that the tics, and not any other ideology,” he from Chinese soil, and stressed the Adjalan -- alias “Idol” -- Beijing’s maritime claims, as he cel- of trouble.” His remarks come as Permanent Court of Arbitration has said. The Communist party, which country’s economic growth in recent and a suspected follower, ebrated the Communist Party’s 95th regional tensions rise over Beijing’s no jurisdiction over the issue and has had some 88.7 million members at the decades. He stressed the need for identified as Yasin, during anniversary. claims to nearly all of the South China boycotted the proceedings. end of last year, must maintain “abso- “Mao Zedong thought” but did not a joint operation around The ruling party must main- Sea, with the US sending naval patrols Since assuming the party’s top lute leadership,” he said. Xi has won refer to the tens of millions killed dawn in Ungkaya Pukan tain absolute power in the country, close to artificial islands Beijing has post in 2012, Xi has rapidly consol- popularity with a much-publicised in famines and political campaigns town in Basilan. strengthen its military and enhance built in the disputed waters. idated power while overseeing a anti-corruption campaign that has launched by the founder of the Peo- its role on the world stage, Xi told Xi took an apparent stab at the US, more assertive foreign policy and a claimed the scalps of several former ple’s Republic. 06 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 ASIA / AFRICA Taiwan misfires missile towards China

AFP the death of the skipper,” Taiwan’s destroyed. The navy said that the staff Council, which handles China pol- Meet to decide defence ministry spokesman Chen sergeant who launched the missile icy, said it had notified Beijing of the The navy said that the Chung-chi told reporters. had accidentally chosen “war mode” incident through a quasi-official body. future of MH370 staff sergeant who “We apologise to the family of the and “missile loading mode” during the Official communications between TAIPEI: A Taiwanese warship mistak- skipper and would like to convey our practice drill. the council and its Chinese counter- search on July 19 enly launched a supersonic “aircraft launched the missile condolences to them.” “Our initial investigation found part have effectively been frozen by carrier killer” missile towards China had accidentally The missile was fired during a that the operation was not done in Beijing over Taiwan’s new government KUALA LUMPUR: Malay- yesterday, hitting a fishing boat and drill at around 8:10am from a 500- accordance with normal procedure,” refusing to recognise the “one China” sia announced yesterday killing one person, the navy said, as chosen “war mode” tonne missile ship docked at a naval Vice Admiral Mei Chia-shu said. concept, agreed by Beijing and Tai- that a ministerial meeting ties between the island and its once and “missile loading base in the southern city of Tsoying Helicopters and navy ships were wan’s then-ruling Nationalists in 1992. with China and Australia bitter rival deteriorate. and flew in the direction of China. sent to search for the missile, Mei said, “At a time when the mainland to determine how to pro- The Hsiung-feng III (Brave Wind) mode” during the The navy said the missile, which adding that the military had reported repeatedly stressed it wants to sustain ceed with the search for missile flew about 75km before hitting practice drill. has a range of 300km, went through the mistake to the island’s top security peaceful development of the cross- missing Malaysia Airlines the trawler in waters off Penghu, a the trawler, but did not explode, nor body, the National Security Confer- strait ties on the political foundation flight MH370 will be held Taiwanese-administered island group did it sink the fishing vessel. Televi- ence. The accident has prompted of ‘92 consensus’, I felt the influence July 19 in capital Kuala in the Taiwan Strait. The skipper on including a Vietnamese and a Filipino, sion images showed the upper part angry calls from members of par- from the event could be very severe,” Lumpur. the Taiwanese 60-tonne trawler was were injured. “An initial investigation of the cabin, where the capitan was liament for the defence minister to said the head of China’s Taiwan Malaysian Trans- killed and three other crew on board, showed that the incident has caused when the boat was hit, scorched and resign. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Affairs Office in Beijing Zhang Zhijun. port Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that the meet- ing with his counterparts will deliberate on the next series of action regarding Australian elections the search for the air- craft that vanished from military radar March 8, 2014 with 239 people on likely to be a cliffhanger board.

AFP economic leadership only the coa- lition can deliver.” He added that the Gunmen ambush alternative was “chaos, uncertainty, dysfunction, higher deficits, higher bus in Kenya; SYDNEY: Australia’s leaders made debt, higher taxes, less investment, last-gasp pitches yesterday to woo less jobs”. “That’s what Labor and the six dead voters on the eve of elections as Greens and independents are offer- polls pointed to a cliffhanger and ing,” he said. NAIROBI: Six people were the media swung behind “reformer” Economic management has been killed yesterday when sus- Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. a key election battleground with pected Islamist gunmen Liberal Turnbull and Labour last week’s shock decision by Brit- fired on two buses in Ken- opposition leader Bill Shorten both ain stoking anxiety about pressures ya’s far northeast close to campaigned in Sydney on their final facing Australia’s economy. the Somalia border, police day on the hustings as a poll in The Ex-union chief Shorten has said. Sydney Morning Herald showed campaigned on improving health “Police on the scene them locked in a dead heat on a and education while pledging more have found six persons Protesters march along a road during a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong, yesterday. two-party basis. But the survey of renewable energy and a fairer tax shot dead,” said police 1,377 people also said that when all system, and remained upbeat that chief Joseph Boinnet. candidates were included, 27 per- Labor could cause an upset. “The hunt for the terror- cent planned to vote for the Greens “I am talking to millions of Aus- Pro-democracy rally draws thousands ists is under way.” or other minor parties and inde- tralians who want to see Labor lunge Boinnet said two peo- pendents, raising the prospect of with every inch of energy towards ple were also injured. It a hung parliament where no side the finishing line,” he said. Reuters “This is a very grave threat to the cross-border enforcement opera- was unclear whether the commands a majority in the 150- “I say to these people, we do not safety of Hong Kong residents that tions. The tactics have raised fears casualties were civilians seat lower house. Turnbull, who has give up and we are confident and an unknown force is spying on peo- of Communist Party rulers in Beijing or police officer guards capitalised on the instability sparked we believe there’s a good chance ple,” said pro-democracy lawmaker eroding the so-called “one country, aboard the buses. by Britain’s decision to exit the Euro- we can win the election.” Another HONG KONG: Thousands of Hong Cyd Ho at the rally. “The Hong Kong two systems” formula, granting Hong The early morning pean Union, said the uncertainty of poll in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph has Kong residents marched in pro- government has to follow up with the Kong a high degree of freedom and ambush happened near a hung parliament would be a dis- Turnbull’s conservatives 51-49 per- test on the 19th anniversary of the central government on what’s really autonomy since its 1997 return from El Wak in Mandera county, aster as he appealed for voters not cent in front on a two-party basis, financial hub’s return to Chinese happening behind the scenes.” British to Chinese rule. an impoverished rural to go down that road. as the country’s major newspapers rule on yesterday as tensions sim- The city has been unnerved over China has denied wrongdoing. part of the country where “We have seen that film before. also rallied behind the ruling party, mer against Chinese authorities over the past year by the disappearances Lam, who had been due to lead similar deadly attacks It’s not a pretty one,” he said, refer- with News Corp Australia and Fair- the abductions of several Hong Kong of five booksellers who specialised the July 1 march that each year draws in the past have been ring to the 2010 elections where a fax Media mastheads citing the need booksellers. in works critical of Chinese lead- thousands, pulled out, citing safety claimed by the Somali- similar scenario occurred after Julia for stability. Rupert Murdoch’s The Some waved banners criticis- ers. One of the men, Lam Wing-kee, concerns after being followed by two led Al Qaeda group, the Gillard failed to win majority rule. Australian said Turnbull offered “a ing Beijing for the cross-border who was detained for eight months unknown strangers, a lawmaker said. Shabaab. “Right now, Australia needs path to national economic success”, abductions as acts of a “totalitar- by Chinese agents and released last “He feels increasingly concerned strong majority government, a clear a stance backed by its tabloid stable- ian” regime, as well as calling for the month, criticised Beijing for “violating about his own personal safety,” said national economic plan. That’s the mate The Daily Telegraph. release of leading dissidents. Hong Kong’s rights” through illegal pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho. Ten dead in China landslide BEIJING: Heavy rain On way home Temple worker hacked caused a landslide in southwestern China yes- terday that killed at least ten and left 12 others to death in Bangladesh missing, local officials said. The landslide hit early AFP from one temple to another to serve morning and buried 29 the Hindu devotees. He came to this people in the village of temple only yesterday,” said local Pianpo, in the province of police chief inspector Hasan Hafi- Guizhou, the official Xin- NEW DELHI: A Hindu temple zur Rahman. hua news agency said, worker was hacked to death in west- “He was attacked as he walked citing the county govern- ern Bangladesh yesterday, police outside the temple to collect flow- ment. 17 had been pulled said, the latest in a series of attacks ers for prayer services,” he told AFP. from the rubble as of early on religious minorities by suspected No group has claimed respon- Friday evening -- ten of Islamists. Three men on a motorcy- sibility for the attack, but police whom were pronounced cle attacked Shyamananda Das as he said it bore the hallmarks of recent dead at the scene, it said. walked along a road near the tem- murders of religious minorities by Rescue efforts were con- ple early in the morning, police said. suspected homegrown Islamist mil- tinuing with some 800 “They hacked him on his neck itants. Last month a Hindu priest, soldiers and relief workers three times and there was one 70-year-old Ananda Gopal Ganguly, on-site, according a state- stabbing mark in his head,” dep- was hacked to death in the same dis- ment from the province’s uty district police chief Gopinath trict.Days later, a Hindu monastery civil affairs department Kanjilal said. “He died after he was worker was murdered in the same on its official social media brought to hospital.” Police said the way in a northwestern district. account. Flooding is com- 50-year-old, also known as Babaji, An activist with the student mon during the summer Indonesian policemen patrol as people wait their train for making their way back to their hometowns was a volunteer who helped conduct wing of the country’s largest Islam- monsoon season in south- to celebrate Eid Al Fitr at Senen Train Station in Jakarta, yesterday. prayers at temples. “He was an itin- ist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had been ern China. erant temple volunteer who travels arrested over the attack. UN warns over malnutrition deaths in northeast Nigeria

AFP was unfolding at the camp for inter- for social protection, described it as are nominally open but vehicles are exaggerated. But he said some 1,800 for Nigeria Munir Safieldin. “The nally displaced people (IDPs) in Bama, “an overwhelming situation for any still vulnerable to attack from the of the most vulnerable had been conditions we are seeing there are Borno state. government to handle”. Islamist militants, who have been evacuated to Maiduguri for special devastating,” he added, urging “a At least 188 people died between “The state government has done pushed into the bush by the military treatment and feeding. The United much faster and wider response”. BAMA: Nigeria has pledged to do May 23 and June 22, mainly from diar- its best. We came to see things for since January 2015. Nations said in a statement Thursday More people in urgent need of more to tackle food shortages among rhoea and malnutrition, while more ourselves. We will go back and make Many displaced people from in its agencies and partners in northeast assistance are being found as hard-to- people made homeless by Boko than 1,200 graves, many of them for reports and soonest there will be and around Bama are currently stay- Nigeria were “reporting high levels reach remote locations are opened up Haram, as the United Nations warned children, had been dug near the camp some relief, more relief coming this ing in camps and host communities of severe malnutrition and desper- and Unicef Nigeria representative Jean some 50,000 children could starve in the last year, MSF said last week. way.” Domestic and international aid in Maiduguri. ate conditions” in recently liberated Gough had a stark warning if nothing to death this year in one northeast- A Nigerian government delegation agencies rely on the military to drive MSF’s claims angered the Nige- areas. was done. “We estimate that there ern state alone. visited Bama on Thursday to see con- the 70km from the state capital Mai- rian government and Borno state “Improving security has enabled will be almost a quarter of a million Medical charity Doctors Without ditions for the 25,000 people living duguri to Bama, which was liberated health commissioner Haruna Mshe- humanitarians to access areas that children under five suffering from Borders (MSF) has also warned “a cat- there. Maryam Uwais, special advi- in March last year. lia dismissed reports of severe acute were previously cut off,” said act- severe acute malnutrition in Borno astrophic humanitarian emergency” sor to President Muhammadu Buhari Roads in to and out of Maiduguri malnutrition at the Bama camp as ing UN humanitarian coordinator this year,” she said in a statement. PAKISTAN SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 07

Congregational prayers Heavy rains Around 500 forecast from today tribal area Internews

LAHORE: As the plains of Pakistan reeled under the stifling heat again schools closed yesterday, the Pakistan Meteoro- logical Department warned the government agencies to gird up and resources of the schools with their loin to handle widespread less than 70 boys and 65 girls will be rain that might be heavy at isolated The closure of shifted to nearest schools in the area places, generating urban and flash schools is part of Civil in a bid to improve their standard. flooding from today to Monday. “Instead of wasting resources The urban flooding was likely Secretariat FATA’s at a school having low enrollment, in big cities and flash flooding in ‘rationalisation plan’. we have decided to shift funds and vulnerable areas of Punjab and teaching staff of those schools to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Rain and another government-run schools the glacier-melt water could also which will ultimately boost quality burst some glacial lakes in Chitral, of education in those schools,” said Gilgit, Ghizer and Shigar areas, the Internews an official of Directorate of Educa- department said in its monsoon tion, who deals with the plan. People offer Jummat-ul-Vida, the last congregational Friday prayers in Ramadan, at the Data Darbar forecast yesterday. “Some critics in the secretariat Mosque in Lahore, yesterday. The three-day spell would be calling it an irrational plan,” said the caused due to strong monsoon PESHAWAR: As a campaign for government should hold accountable currents likely to penetrate in access to education is going on all those officials, who had approved upper parts of the country in the around the world, authorities in the such ‘infeasible scheme.’ next 48 hours, and an approaching Federally Administered Tribal Areas Zar Ali Afridi, a rights activ- fresh westerly wave. The depart- (FATA) of Pakistan are going in the ist from Fata, said the government Police rule suicide for teen burnt alive ment forecast that upper Punjab opposite direction by closing down should take that policy back because (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, 497 schools in the region. it was against children’s rights. Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions) The closure of a large number of He argued that the terrain, the AFP late May, and died several days later. “This is very disturbing and and Islamabad will receive wide- schools, majority of them primary local culture and tribal rivalries At the time police said she gave shocking that police are changing the spread rain-thundershowers with schools both for boys and girls, is demanded that if the government a statement before she died naming facts and manipulating the investiga- isolated heavy rain accompanied part of Civil Secretariat FATA’s had the resources, it would be the man who had allegedly proposed, tion in the favour of accused party,” by strong gusty winds. Scattered ‘rationalisation plan’ prepared in ideal to have a school on every ISLAMABAD: A teenager allegedly as well as his father, among others as Sadaqat Hussain told reporters. rain-thundershowers with isolated November 2015. doorstep.“Instead of closing down burned alive for refusing a marriage her attackers. Prominent women’s rights activ- heavy rains are also expected in The list obtained from the Direc- schools, there is need to increase offer actually committed suicide, But yesterday police discounted ist and lawyer Asma Jehangir, who central and South Punjab (Multan, torate of Education FATA shows that enrollment of more children in police said yesterday, in a statement her dying words, claiming Sadaqat has formed a committee to examine Sahiwal, D G Khan, Bahawalpur 13 schools have been closed down schools,” he said. slammed by a prominent rights activ- and the man had been in a “relation- the incident, also rejected the report. divisions) during the period. in Bajaur Agency, 105 in Mohm- Interestingly, implementation of ist and the girl’s father. ship” for years and that in thousands “This case does not appear to be The system will cover Khyber and Agency, 86 in Orakzai Agency, the ‘rationalisation plan’ has coin- The death of 19-year-old Maria of text messages exchanged between a suicide. (The) girl’s hands were not Pakhtunkhwa (Malakand, Hazara, 58 in Kurram Agency, 28 in Khyber cided with announcement of the Sadaqat made international head- the pair she had begged him to marry burned,” she said. Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat, Bannu, Agency, 23 in Frontier Region (FR) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor, the lines after claims she was tortured her. She had also warned in a text mes- “And if she wanted to commit Dera Ismail Khan divisions) and Kohat, 11 in FR Bannu, five in FR chief executive Fata, vis-à-vis edu- then set alight in the conservative sage that he would be held responsible suicide she would have swallowed Kashmir (Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Lakki Marwat, 101 in FR Tank and cation emergency, having the sole northeast for refusing the proposal. for her suicide, officials said. some poison or shot herself instead Poonch divisions) and FATA (Kur- 67 in FR Dera Ismail Kahn. North objective to enroll around 400,000 Hundreds of women are mur- The petrol used to set her ablaze, of putting herself in such pain and ram, Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Waziristan and South Waziristan out-of-school children in the next dered by their relatives in Pakistan police added, came from her father’s agony,” Jehangir continued. Orakzai, North and South Agen- agencies have been exempted due to three years. each year on the pretext of defending workshop, and no forensic evidence “Also, there is the dying declara- cies).Scattered rain-thunderstorm militancy although Orakzai Agency The enrollment drive was what is seen as family honour. supported the claim she had been tion of the girl,” she said, pointing out is also expected in Gilgit-Baltistan and parts of Khyber Agency were launched in April last and 45,000 Sadaqat was said to have been attacked. Investigation head Abubakar that some of the accused men had from today to Monday. Meanwhile, also badly affected by militancy. students were enrolled against the attacked by a group of people near Khudabaksh confirmed the report. gone on the run after the incident the energy sapping high temper- The self-perceived rationale set target of 150,000 out-of-school the summer hill resort of Murree, But the girl’s father accused rather than coming forward to say ature and humidity continued to behind the policy is that students children. outside the capital Islamabad, in police of manipulating the probe. Sadaqat’s statement was false. pester people across the country.

Beating the heat €6m Germany grant to monitor Pushing fast against melting glaciers militants could lead Internews to ‘blowback’: Aziz ISLAMABAD: Germany has approved grant of €6m to monitor 5,000 melting glaciers in Pakistan. Reuters The German government through its KfW Development Bank will provide the amount to the Water and Power Development ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top foreign Authority (Wapda) for a project policy official warned yesterday that “Glacial monitoring for energy pushing too fast against all Islamist and water security in Pakistan” militants in the country could lead for telemetric equipment in lower to “blowback” in the form of more stretches of glaciated areas. terrorist attacks. Economic Affairs Division Sartaj Aziz (pictured) sought to Secretary Tariq Bajwa, Wapda deflect criticism that Pakistan has Member (Water) Shoaib Iqbal and not done enough to crack down on KfW Country Director Wolfgang the Haqqani network and that it Möllers signed the grant financ- still shelters Afghan Taliban lead- ing agreement. ers, highlighted by the US drone Two state-of-the-art strike that killed Taliban chief Mul- energy-efficient buildings will lah Akhtar Mansour in May. “without distinguishing between People take bath in a stream to cool off from the heat on a hot summer day in Islamabad. be constructed in Lahore and Aziz said he would defend Paki- ‘good and bad’ Taliban” but sug- Skardu for housing the staff and stan’s record of fighting militants gested that seeking a large-scale the equipment. when meeting this weekend with crackdown on all at once would a US congressional delegation overstretch the armed forces and headed by Senator John McCain, lead to more terrorist attacks. chairman of the Senate Armed “So we have to make sure that Govt to review Forces Committee. we move in a decisive way, but at “I think what we have achieved a measured pace and according to NAB ordinance Sharif tells party not to hold in these three years is quite remark- our capacity, and ensuring that the able,” he said, citing the ongoing blowback is manageable,” he said. military operation to destroy mil- He also downplayed strained Internews grand welcome ceremony itant hideouts in North Waziristan relations with the US following the near the Afghan border. May 21 US drone strike that killed “But there are risks involved Mansour and Congress’s blocking of ISLAMABAD: A five-member Internews recovering. “I appreciate concern you of how far we can go and in what financing for Pakistan to buy Amer- National Assembly subcommit- have shown for me, which is a great sequence we should go and in what ican F-16 fighter jets. tee will propose amendments to asset for the party as well.”“I have scale we should go.” “I don’t see the relations are National Accountability Bureau come to know that you are planning The military operation in North tense at the moment,” Aziz said. Ordinance-1999 after the gov- ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz to throw a grand reception upon my Waziristan targetted loosely allied “They are moving in the right ernment agreed yesterday to Sharif (pictured) has forbidden party arrival,” he notes, but warns “instead fighters, including the Pakistani direction and there are of course dif- completely review it. leaders from hosting a grand wel- of planning festivities to celebrate my branch of the Taliban—which fights ferences, but I don’t think there is “Under the Charter of Democ- come back event in his honour when homecoming, in a few days the great to overthrow Pakistan’s government. any major crisis in the relationship.” racy, both PML-N and the PPP he returns from London after Eidul Fitr. occasion of Eid is coming, hence, you Also based in the area were ele- He also said Pakistan would agreed to replace NAB with a more In a statement, titled ‘The prime should concentrate on celebrating it with ments of the Afghan Taliban and the continue to resist the US pressure powerful and vibrant commission. minister’s message to party workers full religious and traditional fervour.” Haqqani network, which direct their to roll back development of short- Instead of one or two amend- and people of Pakistan’, Sharif appre- He advised the party’s rank and attacks across the border to tar- range “tactical” nuclear weapons ments, NAB Ordinance-1999 should ciated tremendous love and affection file to keep in their prayers all those get the US-backed government in in response to regional rival India’s be reviewed in totality,” Federal Law that workers had sent his way during Pakistanis who lost their lives dur- get-together for the prime minister. Afghanistan. defence strategy. Minister Zahid Hamid suggested to his stay in hospital. ing recent terrorist attacks. Some even suggested a series of Critics, particularly in the US “If India keeps expanding its National Assembly standing commit- In the message, Sharif notes it’s Many in senior party leaders, functions in major cities to welcome Congress, say Pakistan has spared nuclear arsenal and other arsenal, tee on law and justice. The committee because of people’s love and good at conclusion of budget session last Sharif, as a response to the anti- the militants that limit their attacks Pakistan cannot stay quiet. It has met Virk to discuss four bills, seeking wishes that he had a successful week, were of the view that party government rallies PPP and PTI are to inside Afghanistan. to achieve adequate deterrence,” amendments to NAB laws. ‘sensitive operation’ and is now fast should organise a special welcome planning after Eid. 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EDITORIAL Dhaka attack Home grown radicals a weak angladesh is lurching deeper into crisis. Gunmen attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the country’s capital yesterday and took an unknown spot in Turkey’s fight against IS Bnumber of people hostage, including foreigners. The attack follows a series of killings in the country by Islamists targeting bloggers and members of religious minorities. Earlier in the day, a Hindu temple worker was hacked to death the bombers. “We don’t want a Until the launch in 2012 of a a police investigation. in the south-west of the country. But the attack at the diplomatic mukhtar sheltering Islamic State,” peace process, which has since Turkey was initially a reluctant the graffiti said, referring to the collapsed, it was a largely mili- partner in the U.S.-led coalition quarter shows the terrorists are accelerating their war on the state. local elected official respon- tary campaign. With Islamic State, against Islamic State, arguing Harming diplomats will have international repercussions and will sible for administration in the the challenge is more complex. there could be no end to a war put the government of Sheikh Hasina under intense pressure. neighbourhood. A minority of people in Turkey, threatening regional stability The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s Turkey, part of the Nato mili- whose population is largely Sunni without the departure of Syrian attack. An IS-linked news agency claimed that “more than tary alliance and a member of the Muslim, have sympathy for the President Bashar al-Assad, and twenty people of different nationalities’ have been killed in the U.S.-led coalition which has been group’s ideology, if not its meth- advocating for his ouster. bombing Islamic State in Syria and ods, several polls have shown. Critics say Ankara was too attack, while the CNN said 20 people were being held in the Iraq, has been hit by at least half a Eight percent of Turks viewed ready to back hardline Islamist restaurant. But the government in Dhaka denies the involvement By Humeyra Pamuk dozen suicide attacks blamed on Islamic State favourably, a study groups fighting Assad, contrib- of foreign militant organisations and Reuters the group over the past year. by US-based company Pew in 11 uting to the conditions which blames two local groups for these acts The deadliest was in the cap- countries with significant Muslim enabled Islamic State to take hold. The attack on of terrorism -- Ansar-al-Islam and ital Ankara last October, a double populations showed last Novem- Ankara denies such charges, say- suicide bombing at a rally of pro- ber, with 19 percent saying they ing it was quick to declare Islamic a restaurant Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. The attacks in Bangladesh have a Kurdish activists that killed more had no opinion. Turkey ranked State a terrorist group and that at the FEW months after than 100 people. Prior to the air- fifth in terms of the highest levels Turkey has the most to lose from pattern and have invited international he started attend- port attack, two in Istanbul this of sympathy towards the group. its rise. Turkish police have been diplomatic attention and condemnation due to the ing meetings of a year have targeted foreign tourists, “A considerable part of the monitoring the activities of sus- quarter in gruesome nature of these killings, the hardline Islamic killing a total of 16 people, most of population in Turkey does not pected low-level Islamic State Dhaka shows choice of targets and the regularity of community group them German and Israeli. see groups like Islamic State or Al militants since as early as 2013, these murders despite the government’s in a poor Istanbul Security forces have tightened Nusra as terror groups. This shows prosecution documents seen by that the suburb, 25-year-old Murat Kipcak controls on the Syrian border and how they can potentially find sup- Reuters show. efforts to prevent them. The three-year A stopped reading the Holy Quran deported or detained thousands port,” said Suleyman Ozeren, a Aaron Stein, senior fellow government murder spree has a broadened target and going to the mosque. of suspects in recent years, but terrorism expert and head of the at the Atlantic Council, said the must do more base. First they came for bloggers, He accused his conservative intelligence experts say Turkey, Ankara-based Global Policy and authorities appeared not to inter- to root out secularists and intellectuals, and then Kurdish family of being infidels like many European countries, Strategy Institute. vene as part of a surveillance went for aid workers, members of and said their murder would get the is struggling to counter radical- Murat Kipcak made no secret strategy to map out the network terrorism. minority groups and even Muslims who killer to heaven. Soon after, he sent isation at home and to adapt to of his plans to go to Syria and and target its leaders. “The lessons opposed the hate agenda. In a country word that he, his young child, and the group’s new tactics. “Are we join Islamic State, his father said, suggest counter-terror officials which is known for social harmony, his wife had travelled to Iraq to join prepared for the next attack? openly praising the group and need to be far more aggressive in Islamic State, his father Tahir told Unfortunately not,” said Hilmi socialising with others sympa- disrupting mid-level recruiters, peaceful coexistence and tolerance among different religious and Reuters at his home in Sultanbeyli, Demir, a researcher at Ankara- thetic to it. Like several other working within different Turkish ethnic groups, these terrorist acts have caused huge shock and a district on the eastern outskirts of based think-tank TEPAV who families contacted by Reuters, he communities,” Stein said. Turkish dismay. It’s certain that the perpetrators have a bigger agenda Turkey’s largest city. specialises in extremist groups. said his warnings to the authori- officials declined to comment on than eliminating atheists and secularists from the country. “We gave the police phone “A new set of strategies and ties went unheeded. intelligence operations. The motive could be political -- an attempt to destabilise the numbers, names, car plates, we tactics are needed and we need “The police say these peo- In the wake of Tuesday night’s government. gave them everything. But noth- to understand why these people ple are going willingly and they attack, police have stepped up ing happened,” Tahir said, saying are radicalised ... Islamic State has have the freedom to travel, so it their raids on suspected safe The police have surrounded the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe and he had reported his son’s depar- very powerful ideological tools. can’t stop them,” said a 25-year houses. But for Mehmet, whose are trying to ensure the hostages’ safety in a peaceful manner. The ture to Iraq after the family grew You can’t fight such groups with old resident of Bayrampasa, brother has been incommuni- government can heave a sigh of relief if the police succeed in their increasingly concerned about his military and counter-terrorism another working class Istanbul cado since 2015, it comes too late. mission, but if any foreigner is taken hostage or their lives are at activities. measures alone.” suburb, giving his name as Meh- “These people who become mil- risk, the consequences will be bigger than the government can Murat’s story - a working class Turkey’s experience in coun- met. He said his brother left to join itants in Syria are the boys of our manage and will spread to the economic and diplomatic fronts. high school graduate turned rad- tering militancy has been shaped Islamic State in Syria in 2013. The neighbourhood. The police know The attack at the diplomatic quarter in Dhaka sends a powerful ical Sunni militant within months by its fight against the Kurdistan brother had since returned twice them, where they hang out. But - highlights Turkey’s vulnerability Workers Party (PKK), which took and last time left for Iraq, Meh- they say ‘gathering and talking message which the government can ignore only at its own peril. as it tries to prevent Islamic State up arms in 1984 demanding Kurd- met said, declining to give his full about Islam is not a crime’,” Meh- The government of Sheikh Hasina must crack down on extremists from carrying out further attacks ish autonomy in the southeast. name because his family is part of met said. “And so it goes on.” and bust their underground cells. This is a war which many like this week’s at Istanbul airport. countries are fighting, and Dhaka must be given all the support it Three suicide bombers opened needs. fire at the international terminal late on Tuesday before blowing themselves up, killing 44 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the world’s busiest avia- tion hubs - a symbol of Turkey’s Quote of the day global standing. The attackers are believed to have been Islamic This country voted for State militants from Russia, Kyr- gyzstan and Uzbekistan, Turkish change and I am going officials have said, but they appear to deliver it. to have relied on logistical support from Islamic State cells in Turkey. Police have detained 24 peo- ple in two days of raids across Istanbul on suspicion of involve- Michael Gove ment in planning the bombing, Britain’s Justice Minister some of them in Sultanbeyli. In Fatih, another district near the city’s historic heart, a resident was cleaning graffiti off a home Tahir Kipcak shows photograph of his son Murat during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey. thought to have been used by

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By Amina Ismail and Lin Noueihed Canal extension, which have been rushed Reuters through under military supervision. Sisi said in his TV interview that such projects were needed because of a leg- acy of underinvestment in infrastructure. t is a hot afternoon in the Mus- However, while they have shown lim fasting month of Ramadan and rapid results, they have failed to create the New Cairo club house is empty. jobs for a rapidly growing population. Hisham Genena, Egypt’s erstwhile “What were the three main pillars Icorruption tsar, settles in a corner. “It’s that he promised? Stability, economic quiet here,” he says. “We can speak growth and security and he has failed on freely.” all three counts,” said Timothy Kaldas, It has been a long way down for non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Insti- Genena, a former policeman and judge tute for Middle East Policy. who was appointed to head Egypt’s cor- “So they are doubling down... If ruption watchdog in 2012 and is now on they can get away with expanding their trial, accused of defaming the state by repression against high-level targets and exaggerating the scale of public sector keep people in line, why wouldn’t they?” graft. Genena says he has done nothing “NO ONE CARES” wrong and his case is being used to dis- Without international pressure, say courage others from speaking out in a activists, Sisi has little incentive to loosen country he says is increasingly in the grip his grip. France has sold Sisi’s Egypt bil- of security agencies. lions of dollars worth of arms and U.S. “I am keen on the success of any military aid has continued as Egypt bat- president because his success is our tles Islamic State militants in Sinai. success... but the attitude I’m seeing “Nobody is going to twist Egypt’s arm of using a security grip or reproducing about this now. No one cares. They think the police state will not be produc- it is the best they will get right now,” said tive,” he told Reuters. Kaldas. “Another thing that helps them is “When political parties are absent, that the population has had two uprisings, NGOs are absent, local media is being in their eyes anyway, and after both the crushed, international media too... is that situation did not improve. On the con- a sign of a healthy environment in which An August 14, 2013 file picture shows Egyptian security forces escorting detained supporters of ousted president trary, it deteriorated.” a country can flourish?” Mohamed Mursi during an operation to dismantle a huge pro-Islamists protest camp near Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque But with the country lurching from Three years after general-turned- in eastern Cairo. Three years after, democratic hopes have given way to a spiralling crackdown on freedoms in the one crisis to the next, criticism has president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the name of stability. mounted on social media and burst into Muslim Brotherhood, a crackdown that the once-fawning press, as Egyptians have first targeted opposition activists has begun to openly mock Sisi’s increasingly now turned on establishment figures standing trial for the first time in the insti- set up by Sisi said those numbers were The Brotherhood won Egypt’s first free par- rambling speeches. like Genena to TV presenters and street tution’s history. misleading, according to government- liamentary and presidential elections after Early this year, videos appeared online performers. And this week, citing alleged visa owned Al Ahram. the 2011 revolt but faced protests within in which a group of youths performed skits Judges who have opposed mass death violations, police deported the British- The court has yet to rule on Genena’s a year amid power cuts, petrol shortages in the street satirising Egypt’s crackdown, sentences have been retired. The head of Lebanese host of a talk show launched case, but he lost his job as head of the and resistance from state institutions. mocking its foreign policy and skewer- the Press Syndicate and his deputy are after the 2011 uprising which ended Hosni Central Auditing Authority in March. “Cor- Its supporters see Sisi as a usurper. But a ing its leader. Mubarak’s 30-year rule and raised hopes ruption is very dangerous,” Genena said. broad cross section of the public admired By early May, four members of Atfal Al of a new era of political openness and “Corruption fosters and creates a fertile the stern general in dark sunglasses, who Shawareh, or Street Children, were behind social justice. environment for the growth of terrorism.” promised to restore stability. bars accused of trying to overturn the rul- A law requiring interior ministry go- Sisi has called Islamist militants an Even after security forces killed hun- ing order and undermine the state. A fifth ahead for any public gathering of more existential threat and has made security a dreds of Brotherhood supporters in the is out on bail. Friends and family said they than 10 people is so strictly enforced that priority for Egypt, a country of more than street and detained thousands, shops sold were shocked that a handful of videos by Three years after general-turned- police on Monday dispersed hundreds of 80 million people in a region beset by con- out of cakes decorated with Sisi’s face. A an unknown group could prompt such president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi pupils protesting that their exams had been flict in Libya, Syria, Iraq and beyond. year on, Sisi was elected president with serious charges. delayed because the questions were leaked. In a recent TV interview to mark his 97 percent of the vote. More than 200 people were detained ousted the Muslim Brotherhood, “Egypt’s past chasing its future,” one com- achievements in office, Sisi said the fight But Sisi’s star has faded as an in April in connection with protests a crackdown that first targeted mentator tweeted, with a picture of riot against graft was ongoing and unimpeded. economic renaissance has failed to mate- against the government’s plan to hand police chasing secondary school children. He said that unnamed evil-doers rialise; inflation has reached seven-year over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Ara- opposition activists has now turned Critics, including Genena, say that sought to harm Egypt but dismissed highs, hard currency is in short supply, the bia—a subject that featured in Atfal on establishment figures like TV state repression has gathered such claims that Egypt’s jails were bulging with pound is under pressure and economic al-Shawareh’s skits. Many have received momentum since Sisi took power that political detainees, saying 90 percent of growth is slowing. jail terms or fines but most have since presenters and street performers. it can only be compared to the 1950s, inmates were criminals. “Tell Sisi, tell the president, we can’t been acquitted. Judges who have opposed mass when Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Free Offic- Sisi also said Egyptians were free to live like this,” said Mohamed Mahmoud, “Can you imagine how it is to be a ers toppled the king, imposed military rule express themselves but urged more focus a baker in a poor area of Cairo. He says young person in medical college or any death sentences have been retired. and silenced dissent. Genena fell foul of on rights to security, education and health. beleaguered customers have cut spend- other college and be imprisoned for a year The head of the Press Syndicate and authorities when he told reporters last ing and his profit is now about 50 pounds or two,” said Mohamed Sadat, who heads his deputy are standing trial for the year that graft had cost the state 600 bil- NO ECONOMIC TURNAROUND a day, not enough for the family of seven. the human rights committee in parlia- lion Egyptian pounds ($68 billion) in four Sisi seized power on the back of pro- Economists have derided what they ment. “Will they come out good citizens? first time in the institution’s history. years—an estimate he says is based on tests that began on June 30, 2013 and ended see as Sisi’s ill-conceived infrastructure Or people full of hatred... without loyalty official reports. A fact-finding committee a divisive experiment in Brotherhood rule. mega-projects, crowned by the costly Suez or belonging to this country?” Washington still gets it wrong on Islamic State

card,” stated an Iraqi spokesperson to “defeating” it, as if it is World War Those actions remind many Sunnis political environment. Turkey has in response to the attacks. Two again and we are watching blue of why they supported Islamic State effectively supported Islamic State The reality is just the opposite. arrows move across the map toward (and al Qaeda before them) in the first with porous borders for transit in A day after the June 26 liberation Berlin. Envoy McGurk, following Fal- place. and out of Syria, and has facilitated of Fallujah, car bombs exploded in lujah, even held a press conference Suicide strikes reduce the the flow of oil out of Syria and Iraq eastern and southern Baghdad. Two announcing Islamic State has now lost confidence of the people in their gov- that ultimately benefits the group. other suicide bombers were killed 47 percent of its territory. ernment’s ability to protect them. In At the same time, however, Turkey outside the city. An improvised explo- However, simultaneously with Iraq, that sends Shi’ite militias into the opened its territory to American sive device exploded in southwest holding and losing territory, Islamic streets, and raises questions about the aircraft conducting bombing runs Baghdad a day earlier. State uses terror and violence to value of civil institutions like the Iraqi against Islamic State. Attacks in Tur- Washington should know bet- achieve political ends. National Police. Victories such as the key may be in response to pressure ter than to underestimate the power Islamic State has no aircraft and retaking of Ramadi and Fallujah, and on the nation to shift its strategy more of small weapons to shape large no significant long-range weapons, a promised assault on Mosul, mean in line with Western demands. Russia By Peter Van Buren events. After Secretary of Defence making it a very weak conventional little to people living at risk inside the (no friend of Islamic State) and Turkey Reuters Donald Rumsfeld labeled Iraqi insur- army when facing down the combined nation’s capital. have also recently improved relations; gents as “dead enders” in 2003, they forces of the United States, Iran and American commanders have the attack in Istanbul may have been To believe suicide began taking a deadly toll of Ameri- Iraq in set piece battles. It can, how- already had to talk the Iraqi gov- a warning shot reminding Turkey not bombings represent uesday’s attacks at Istanbul’s can forces via suicide bombs. It was ever, use suicide bombs to strike into ernment out of pulling troops from to get too close. main airport, which appear the 2006 bombing of the Shi’ite al- the very heart of Shi’ite Baghdad (and the field to defend Baghdad, even The suicide bombings - in Turkey a weakening of at this time to be the work Askari Golden Mosque that kicked the Syria, Jordan, Yemen, and Turkey - as as roughly half of all Iraqi security and elsewhere - are not desper- Islamic State of Islamic State, are the lat- Iraqi civil war into high gear. It was Tuesday’s bombing reminds us), acting forces are already deployed there. ate or defensive moves. They are not Test reminder that the United States improvised explosive devices and car as a strong transnational insurgency. This almost guarantees more Amer- inconsequential, even if their actual is a near-total should not downplay the group’s rudi- bombs that kept American forces on Why does such strength matter ican soldiers will be needed to take numbers decline. They are careful misunderstanding mentary - yet effective - tactics. the defensive through 2011. in the face of large-scale losses such up the slack. strategy, the well-thought out appli- Since the wave of Islamic State To believe suicide bombings rep- as Fallujah? Anything that pulls more Ameri- cation of violence by Islamic State. of the hybrid nature suicide bombings in May - killing resent a weakening of Islamic State is Violence in the heart of Iraqi can troops into Iraq fits well with the The United States downplays them of the group; 522 people inside Baghdad, and 148 a near-total misunderstanding of the Shi’ite neighborhoods empowers anti-American Islamic State narrative. at great risk. Islamic State melds people inside Syria - American offi- hybrid nature of the group; Islamic hardliners to seek revenge. Core Sunni Few Iraqis are left who imagine the cials have downplayed the strategy State melds elements of a conven- support for Islamic State grows out of United States can be an honest broker (Peter Van Buren, who served in the elements of a as defensive. Brett McGurk, the Spe- tional army and an insurgency. To the need for protection from a Shi’ite in their country. A State Department State Department for 24 years, is conventional army cial Presidential Envoy in the fight “win,” one must defeat both versions. dominated military, which seeks to report found that one-third of all Ira- the author of “We Meant Well: How I against Islamic State, said the group Islamic State differs from a tra- marginalize if not destroy the Sunnis. qis believe the Americans are actually Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and an insurgency. “returned to suicide bombing” as the ditional insurgency in that it seeks to Reports of Shi’ite atrocities leaking supporting Islamic State, while 40 and Minds of the Iraqi People,” a look To “win,” one area under its control shrank. The hold territory. This separates it from al out of the ruins of Sunni Fallujah are percent are convinced that the United at the waste and mismanagement of American strategy of focusing pri- Qaeda, and most other radical groups, thus significant. Fallujah was largely States is trying to destabilize Iraq for the Iraqi reconstruction. His latest must defeat both marily on the “big picture” recapture and falsely leads the United States to destroyed in order to “save” it, gener- its own purposes. book is “Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story versions. of territory seems to push the suicide believe that retaking strategic cities ating some 85,000 displaced persons, In a country like Turkey, suicide of the #99 Percent.” The opinions bombings to the side. “It’s their last like Fallujah from Islamic State is akin mirroring what happened in Ramadi. bombings play out in a more complex expressed are his own.)

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Reuters world’s fastest expanding aviation can afford to use. Civil aviation minis- “Economic activity should grow where airports are too small or not Raju said yesterday that fund- market while encouraging airlines try officials, however, said yesterday to such an extent that these routes yet built. In the western state of Rajas- ing for the scheme would be set at like IndiGo, SpiceJet and Jet Airways to that the government has identified 30 are economically viable,” Civil Avi- than, a region the size of Germany, around 5bn rupees per annum, with fly more people to and from smaller, recently built airports, and another ation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju there are only a handful of airports states putting in up to 20 percent of NEW DELHI: India will push to get often poorer cities. 60 nearing completion, that it says told reporters. currently open to commercial flights the money, or 10 percent in the case 90 new airports up and running over Scores of new airports have been it can get airlines to start flying to at India’s aviation growth has been and new airports are not being used. of the remote northeast. the next 12 months, under a govern- built around the country but many are the earliest. driven by flights between larger cities, Last month the government A small charge to be levied on air- ment plan to service smaller cities that yet to open because airlines do not Individual states will offer free catering to a growing middle class as approved a policy to cap air fares on lines on major trunk routes would also have missed out on the country’s air see sufficient demand as ticket prices land and emergency service support the country enjoys economic growth services to smaller cities at Rs2,500 raise funds. travel boom, officials said yesterday. are too high for the majority Indians. to all newly built airports, while land- of more than 7 percent a year. ($37) per hour of travel, with the gov- The draft policy has been put out Prime Minister Narendra Modi That has raised worries the gov- ing charges and taxes on aviation fuel But the government believes there ernment providing part of the funding for public consultation and the rules wants to accelerate growth in the ernment is building infrastructure few will be kept at low levels, they said. is latent demand in smaller cities to make it viable. will be finalised within a month. First indigenous Indrani Mukerjea combat plane killed daughter: Ex-driver

enters service MUMBAI: Shyamvar Rai, a prime accused-turned- approver in the Sheena it was cleared for development, Bora murder case, yester- India’s fighter aircraft marking a long-held goal of cutting day revealed that it was expensive imports to build a domes- Sheena’s mother Indrani fleet, made up of tic defence-industrial base. Mukerjea who had pinned a mix of Russian, India’s fighter aircraft fleet, her down and strangu- made up of a mix of Russian, Brit- lated her to death. British and French ish and French planes, is down to 33 In his confessional planes, is down to 33 squadrons as against the air force’s recorded before a mag- requirement of 45 to face Pakistan istrate, Rai added that at squadrons as against and China. the time, he had gagged the air force’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sheena, while Indrani’s government has nudged the mil- former husband Sanjeev requirement of 45 itary to accept the first version of Khanna had held the vic- A priest waits to perform prayers next to Tejas, India’s first locally-built Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), before its to face Pakistan and the “Tejas” Light Combat Aircraft tim’s hands and hair. induction into the Indian Air Force at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport in Bengaluru, yesterday. China. to make up for the shortfall while a The statement more powerful subsequent model is recorded last year before under development. Indigenously developed Tejas fighter The single-seat Indian fighter is world in its class,” said retired Air Vice a magistrate under Crim- Indian Air Force officers broke jet inducted into Air Force. considered superior to counterparts Marshal Manmohan Bahadur now a inal Procedure Code coconuts and priests held multi-faith Tejas will take our air strength to like the JF-17 aircraft jointly built by fellow at the Centre for Air Power Stud- Section’s 164 was handed Reuters ceremonies to mark the induction of new heights,” Defence Minister Mano- China and Pakistan. ies in New Delhi. over to all the other co- two planes in the southern city of har Parrikar, who has led the driv0e Tejas has had no accident in 3,000 But the challenge for state-run Hin- accused in the case and Bengaluru. Later, the aircraft took for indigenisation, said in a Twitter hours of flying and its use of compos- dustan Aeronautics Limited, which is the sealed envelope was off in the colours of the air force as post. ites helps lower its radar signature, making the aircraft, will be to stick opened by the Special CBI NEW DELHI: India’s first locally- fire tenders sprayed water on he tar- Early this month China said it is making it harder to detect early, air to the production schedule as the air Court following the Bom- built combat aircraft officially took mac in a military ritual. still testing its first stealth fighter, the force officials said. force seeks to arrest the decline in the bay High Court directives to the skies yesterday, 33 years after “Moment of national pride. J-20, but it would enter service soon. “The LCA is as good as any in the number of planes it can deploy, he said. on Thursday. Rai further claimed that Indrani implicated him in the arms case by planting a gun on him Two dead in Kashmir clashes International counterfeit shortly after Sheena’s murder. He said that after the murder in April 2012, Indrani handed over a currency racket busted packet and three months’ salary and asked him to go, and when he opened IANS was held Friday in Bihar where he the packet he found a had come to deliver a consignment crude gun in it. of FICN with a face value of `6 lakh. The officer said that the FICN NEW DELHI: Four members of an was being pumped by Pakistan in Modi to embark international gang involved in cir- India through Bangladesh. culating Fake Indian Currency Notes “These fake notes are first smug- on four-nation (FICN), pumped into India by Paki- gled in Malda (West Bengal) through stan via Bangladesh, have been Bangladesh-India border and then African tour arrested, police said yesterday. handed over to FICN racketeers in Sheikh Fazullah, 25, Sheikh Seh- various parts of the country includ- NEW DELHI: Prime Min- zad, 39, Habibur Rehman, 35, and ing Delhi. The exchange of these fake ister Narendra Modi will Rehman, 42, were arrested from notes also take place through Nepal embark on a four-nation Delhi and Bihar in a series of raids border,” the officer said. tour of Africa from July conducted by Delhi Police this week. The arrested persons revealed 7, it was announced yes- Police personnel prepare to throw stones towards Kashmiri protestors during clashes in Srinagar, “We were trailing the racket police that the prevailing market rate terday. Modi will be yesterday. Forces killed two suspected rebels in the clash. for more than last four months and is `40-50 for each `100 note of fake visiting Mozambique, managed to identify their names. We currency. South Africa, Tanzania recovered FICN having face value “As large transactions are still and Kenya from July 7 to of `10.25 lakh (in denominations of made in cash, hence, there is huge 11, External Affairs Min- `1,000 and `500) from the posses- demand of fake currency in Delhi- istry Spokesperson Vikas sion of the arrested persons,” said NCR,” the officer said. Swarup said in his weekly Deputy Commissioner of Police “The currency notes have most media briefing here. Govt exchanges lists of prisoners (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav. of the security features and it is The Prime Minister will Sehzad and Fazullah, both impossible to differentiate with first visit Mozambique on IANS neously in New Delhi and Islamabad India signed on May 21, 2008, under belong to same village in Bihar’s naked eyes. They further told that July 7 and will be in South through diplomatic channels. which both countries are required to Motihari district and currently resid- all the new security features intro- Africa on July 8 and 9. He While India’s list contained exchange lists of prisoners in each ing in Uttar Pradesh’ Meerut, were duced by the government are quickly will be in Tanzania on July NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan names of 505 prisoners, includ- other’s custody twice a year on Jan- arrested on June 25 while exchang- updated in fake currency notes also,” 10 and on July 11 he will yesterday exchanged lists of pris- ing 372 civilians and 133 fishermen, uary 1 and July 1. “India remains ing a consignment of FICN near the officer said. Sehzad, Fazullah be in Kenya. oners, including civil prisoners and Pakistan has 518 names, including committed to addressing on priority Wazirpur bus depot in north Delhi. and Rehman informed police that fishermen, lodged in jails of either 55 civilians and 463 fishermen. The with Pakistan humanitarian matters, Rehman was arrested near east they used to receive FICN consign- country. Ministry of External Affairs handing over of the lists is in line with including those pertaining to pris- Delhi’s Dilshad Garden Metro Station ments from Bihar and then sold it to Javadekar: PM’s spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that the provisions of the Consular Access oners and fishermen in each other’s on June 27 with FICN with face value retail customers in smaller quanti- the lists were handed over simulta- Agreement between Pakistan and country,” Swarup said. of `25,000, while Habibur Rehman ties of `10,000 to `20,000. meeting was not for reshuffle KOLKATA: Union Environ- ment Minister Prakash 22 people dead in heavy rains hit Uttarakhand Javadekar yesterday clari- fied the meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi IANS over the loss of life. More than two “In Chamoli district, nine people spoke to Rawat and took stock of the the bereaved families,” he said. with his council of minis- dozen people remained untraced. have died and six others are miss- situation. “Spoke to CM U’khand Shri Flooding has been reported in ters was an “exercise of NDRF teams have been rushed to the ing,” he added. Chief Minister Harish Harish Rawat regarding the situa- many areas of the state when the accountability” and had affected areas and additional teams Rawat has asked officials to camp in tion post the cloud burst in the state. Alaknanda river rose above the dan- nothing to do with a cabi- DEHRADUN: At least 22 people have also been kept on alert. the affected areas and ensure that Centre is providing all possible assist- ger level-mark after rainfall of up to net reshuffle. were killed following cloudburst “As many as 25 people have there is no dearth of ration. He also ance,” Singh tweeted. 54mm was received in the last 24 “What we have and landslides as heavy rains lashed been trapped in the debris following said that helicopters will be provided He said NDRF teams have been hours. Officials said a cloudburst in achieved on Thursday Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts of landslides in Bastia village of Kanal- to ferry the injured to the hospitals. rushed to the areas affected by the Pithoragarh led to severe inundation is really an exercise of Uttarakhand, officials said yesterday. ichhina block in Pithoragarh district. “We are saddened by the news of cloudburst and additional teams of in the region, causing hardship to the accountability as Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bodies of 13 persons have been recov- the deaths. A compensation of Rs two NDRF were on standby. people. Large tracts of agricultural takes a keen interest in Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ered by the district administration lakh has been announced for the kin “I am deeply pained at loss of pre- fields were inundated in Suva village accountability,” Javadekar and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Har- team with the help of local people,” of each of the deceased,” Rawat said. cious lives in Uttarakhand due to flash of Dharchula area and three bridges said here. ish Rawat have expressed their grief a police official said. Meanwhile, Home Minister Singh floods. My heartfelt condolences to linking the village were washed away. EUROPE SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 11 Cameron’s ‘successors’ push for Brexit delay Russia slams EU Britons voted by 52 percent in favour centenary ceremonies in France. of leaving the European Union, with He said a speedy Brexit “would for extending Justice Minister the ruling Conservatives and opposi- EU membership offer avert all the uncertainties and insta- Michael Gove said he tion Labour party in disarray and the bility, especially in the economic and sanctions country deeply polarised. financial domains. The faster it goes, had “no expectation” As he outlined his bid for Cam- to ‘Remain-ian’ Brits the better it will be for them”. that Article 50 would eron’s job yesterday, top Brexit Interior minister May supported MOSCOW: Russia yester- campaigner and Justice Minister Reuters united Europe, leave the Brexiters, the “Remain” campaign but has day blasted the European be invoked this year. Michael Gove said he had “no expec- the quarrelling and the weather assured “Leave” supporters she will Union for extending eco- tation” that Article 50— the formal behind. Start a brand new life in a respect the result, saying: “Brexit nomic sanctions over the procedure for leaving the EU—would BUCHAREST: Romanians are loving Romanian family,” an online means Brexit”. Dozens of MPs have Ukraine crisis, insisting the be invoked this year. offering a glimmer of hope for mil- campaign launched by the daily signed up to her campaign. punitive measures would AFP He also said he would pull Brit- lions of disappointed Britons who newspaper Gandul reads. The winner of the vote to replace not make Moscow change ain out of the single market, end free voted to remain in the European The campaign has attracted Cameron as Conservative leader and course. movement of people and impose a Union last week - adopting British 15,000 Romanian volunteers, with therefore prime minister—a switch The foreign ministry new immigration system favouring ‘Remainians’ and providing them more than 5,000 symbolic Roma- that requires no new general elec- said it viewed the move LONDON: The favourites to succeed skilled workers. with symbolic identity papers. nian identity cards issued so far for tion under the British system—will as “a continuation of the Prime Minister David Cameron, yes- Gove’s rival and current favour- “Dear Brits who believe in a British citizens, organisers said. be named on September 9. short-sighted policy of terday pushed for a delay in initiating ite in the race, Theresa May, had said In the coming days, Conservative Brussels” and that it was Britain’s talks to leave the EU as French that Article 50 “should not be invoked MPs will whittle down the candi- “absurd” to link them to a President Francois Hollande insisted before the end of the year”. on economic growth and a potential cannot be delayed and it cannot be dates to two in a series of votes and failure to make progress “Brexit” cannot be cancelled or delayed. EU leaders have called for a domino effect in eurosceptic mem- cancelled, now they have to face the the rivals will then tour the country to on a peace deal to end Britain has been plunged into swift divorce however, fearful of the ber states. consequences,” Hollande said on appeal to some 150,000 party mem- fighting in eastern Ukraine. extraordinary political turmoil since impact of Britain’s uncertain future “The decision has been taken, it the sidelines of Battle of the Somme bers for their vote. Four Hungarian explosives experts Health woes Austrian far-right gets dead in blast

BUDAPEST: Four Hungar- poll defeat annulled ian army explosives experts were killed in eastern Hun- gary yesterday after a AFP on the election result, but in vain. device on a former military Yesterday’s ruling stops in its shooting range detonated tracks Van der Bellen’s planned while being made safe. inauguration on July 8. It is unclear A fifth soldier was seri- VIENNA: Austria’s Norbert Hofer when a new election will be held. ously injured and was yesterday won another shot at being In the meantime, current Pres- being treated in hospital, elected the European Union’s first ident Heinz Fischer will still step according to a statement far-right president after a court dra- down as planned and will be by the defence ministry matically annulled May’s closely replaced on an interim basis by published by the Hungar- fought election result because of three parliamentary officials—one ian news agency MTI. irregularities. of whom is Hofer. The incident took place The Constitutional Court ruled The decision sets in motion what in Hortobagy National that the May 22 runoff, which saw is likely to be a hard-fought and nail- Park close to the city of independent candidate Alexander biting new summer election battle Debrecen. van der Bellen beat Hofer of the between van der Bellen and Hofer. Freedom Party (FPOe) by just 30,863 It remains to be seen whether the votes, must be held again. FPOe’s success in getting the election Slovenian foreign “The challenge brought by Free- held again will translate into getting Demonstrators hold placards reading “Epidemic does not know nationality”, “Will stop AIDS and dom Party leader Heinz-Christian Hofer into the Habsburg dynasty’s minister offers tuberculosis together”, “Human rescue by medication but not promises”, in front of German embassy Strache against the May 22 elec- former imperial palace, the Hofburg. in Kiev, yesterday. The demonstration aimed at increasing donor countries funding for programmes tion... has been upheld,” court It is possible that Britain’s ref- to quit over scam to fight HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. president Gerhart Holzinger said in erendum decision on June 23 to an announcement live on national become first member of the Euro- LJUBLJANA: Slovenia’s television. pean Union to leave the bloc could Foreign Minister, Karl Gun enthusiast Hofer, 45, came also turn Austria’s future member- Erjavec, said yesterday top in a first round in April but then ship into a key election issue. he had offered to resign Russian sought lost in a runoff with the 72-year- Hofer, echoing French National over a scandal involving a Czech govt rejects president’s old Van der Bellen, sparking relief Front leader Marine Le Pen, said leaked tape that led to a to bug Lithuanian among Europe’s centrist parties. after the Brexit bombshell he would breakdown in the country’s Preliminary results had given be in favour of holding a referendum international border arbi- call for referendum on EU Hofer a narrow lead but after some in Austria if EU fails to implement tration with neighbouring president’s home: 700,000 postal votes were counted, necessary reforms “within a year”. Croatia. the Greens-backed Van der Bel- “If (the EU) evolves in the wrong Erjavec told report- Prosecutors Reuters “I disagree with those who are len was declared the winner of the direction, then time has come to ask ers he had offered to for leaving the European Union,” largely ceremonial post the next day. Austrians if they still want to be part resign after the Permanent Czech Radio quoted Zeman as say- The FPOe, which is topping opin- of it,” Hofer told the Oesterreich tab- Court of Arbitration in the AFP ing at a meeting with citizens in the ion polls ahead of the next scheduled loid on June 26. Hague decided to continue PRAGUE: Czech President Milos eastern town of Velke Mezirici late general election in 2018 tapping Chancellor Christian Kern of its work on border issue Zeman called for Czech Republic on Thursday. rising unease about immigration, centre-left Social Democrats (SPOe), though Croatia had with- VILNIUS: A Russian spy to hold a referendum on European “But I will do everything for launched a legal challenge on June who in mid-May replaced Werner drawn from the arbitration attempted to recruit Lithua- Union and Nato membership follow- them to have a referendum and be 8 claiming massive irregularities. Faymann after he quit after his pres- process last year. nian officials to bug the home of ing Britain’s shock vote to leave the able to express themselves. And the These included allegations that idential candidate was knocked out in the Baltic Nato state’s president, EU, a suggestion quickly rebuffed by same goes for a NATO exit too,” the tens of thousands of votes were first round, has ruled out such a vote. prosecutors said yesterday. the government. centre-left president said. opened earlier than allowed under “It makes no sense... This is a Ukraine will join The case is the latest in a string Zeman said he would back his The Czech government election rules and that some votes time to learn lessons and dispel peo- of Cold War-style espionage affairs country staying in the EU and Nato. responded swiftly to Zeman’s sug- were counted by people not author- ple’s doubts and fears,” he said. EU within a involving Russians in eastern Nato He has no power to call a referen- gestion. “Membership in these ised to do so. Van der Bellen, is staunchly pro- member nations amid intensified dum but is an influential leader in organisations is a guarantee of sta- As the court heard from dozens EU. As Austrian president, he said decade: PM East-West tensions. a country where euroscepticism is bility and security,” Prime Minister of witnesses, Van der Bellen’s law- he dreams of a border-free “United Identified only as Russian widespread. The Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka’s spokesman said yer had described the transgressions States of Europe” that defends the BERLIN: Ukraine will join FSB security service agent N F, joined the bloc in 2004. in a statement. as having an “insignificant” impact rights of minority groups the EU within the next the Russian citizen was charged decade, Prime Minister with espionage, document forgery Volodymyr Groysman said and illegally crossing the border, yesterday, adding his coun- the prosecutors’ office said in a try still believed strongly in statement. Britain & France mark 100 years since Battle of Somme the bloc despite Britain’s Recruitment efforts targetted vote to leave. security officials “in an attempt to Groysman said Ukraine install special listening devices” to AFP cannot be delayed or cancelled,” said saw its future in the West bug President Dalia Grybauskaite Hollande. He said a speedy Brexit and hailed an association at her home and office. “would avert all the uncertainties and agreement with the EU as The Russian has been under instability, especially in the economic a “driving force” behind arrest since April 2015 after being THIEPVAL, FRANCE: Britain and and financial domains. The faster it reforms in Kiev. detained on his way to Belarus on a France recalled horrors of the Battle goes, the better it will be for them.” train from the Kaliningrad region, of the Somme yesterday, 100 years “I want to recall it is the European Russia’s westernmost outpost bor- after their troops fought and died idea which allowed us to overcome Croatia receives dering Lithuania and Poland. together in one of the defining offen- divisions and rivalries between states, The announcement, came a sives of World War I. and which has brought us peace for first group of week before a Nato summit set Britain’s royal family, Prime the past 70 years,” he said. to endorse a military build-up in Minister David Cameron and French During the ceremony narrators, migrants eastern Europe to deter Russia. President Francois Hollande took using old letters, poems and songs, The efforts focus on four part in a commemoration at the Thi- took some 10,000 guests—who ZAGREB: Croatia yester- battalions in Estonia, Latvia, epval Memorial in northern France to scrambled to pull on plastic ponchos day received first group of Lithuania and Poland after Rus- remember one million who were left as the clouds burst—through one of migrants - four Eritreans sia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea dead, injured or missing in the 141- the deadliest battles of all time. arriving from Italy - under and meddling in eastern Ukraine. day battle. “There was high explosives, a European Union relo- Kremlin strongman Vladimir Guards of honour, bagpipes and shrapnel, everything you can imag- cation scheme which has Putin on Thursday accused the military bands accompanied the mov- ine. Terrific, hurtling death,” read a prompted criticism and US-led alliance of tearing up the ing ceremony in shadow of imposing letter from Private Sean Fendley of resistance from some ex- FROM LEFT: French President Francois Hollande, Britain’s Prince military balance in Europe, a claim memorial inscribed with names of the British Army of the first time sol- communist member states William, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, Britain’s Princess strongly rejected by Lithuania’s 72,000 servicemen who went miss- diers went “over the top” to face their of the bloc. Defence Minister Juozas Olekas. ing in the surrounding fields. German enemy. Catherine, Britain’s Prince Harry and Britain’s Princess Camilla march Croatia is due to receive “Nato presence restores the However, modern political battles The offensive was launched to towards the Thiepval Memorial to attend a ceremony marking the 100th 1,583 migrants under the balance because for the last dec- could not be ignored, and Hollande ease pressure on French forces tak- anniversary of the World War I battle at the River Somme, yesterday. relocation scheme agreed ade Nato has reduced its defence had a brief exchange with Cameron ing a hammering at Verdun, and was last September. resources while Russia increased after the ceremony, a week after Brit- preceded by the largest artillery bom- However, this was not enough to their trenches, 20,000 would be dead capabilities(...) and attacked neigh- ain voted to leave the EU. “ bardment in history, with some 1.5 break German defences, and of some by the end of first day of fighting—the bours”, Olekas said yesterday. The decision has been taken, it million shells lobbed at the Germans. 55,000 soldiers who scrambled out of bloodiest in British military history. 12 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 AMERICAS

Attorney General regrets On their toes meeting with Bill Clinton

The outcome of investigation is bound to influence presidential cam- Lynch said she paign, whether to Clinton’s benefit if understood that her she emerges unscathed or Republican rival Donald Trump in the event that meeting with Clinton she or anyone close to her winds up might be seen prosecuted. Bill Clinton’s approach of attorney general also could reinforce as compromising suspicions that the Clintons play by neutrality of different rules and aggravate ques- tions of trust that already hang over investigation, even Hillary Clinton in the minds of some though she said voters — even if she’s never charged. the probe of Hillary would follow the recommendations Trump tweeted that “Bill’s meet- of career prosecutors on whether ing was probably initiated and Brazilian Navy members exercise security measures as part of defence manoeuvers against a possible Clinton was not to file criminal charges in the case, demanded by Hillary,” without offer- terrorist attack along Rio de Janeiro coast, in view of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, discussed. removing herself from that decision. ing evidence of that. “Does anybody in Rio de Janeiro. Her statements were aimed at really believe that meeting was just tamping down concerns that the a coincidence?” he asked. The Clin- investigation could be politically ton campaign declined to comment AP tainted or that Lynch, an Obama on Lynch’s remarks. administration appointee, might Lynch said in Colorado that she overrule the findings of agents and had decided even before the meeting 4 children fatally stabbed in Memphis prosecutors who have spent months with Bill Clinton to heed the recom- WASHINGTON: Attorney General looking into the possible mishandling mendations of a team of federal Loretta Lynch (pictured) acknowl- of classified information on the pri- agents and career prosecutors who AP that has shocked us to our core,” Old- stabbing occurred is in a gated com- edged yesterday that her meeting vate email server Clinton used as have been working on the case. But ham said. “I will never understand munity with a golf course called The with Bill Clinton while his wife is secretary of state. she acknowledged that the talk with how anyone can do this.” Greens at Irene. Yesterday afternoon, under federal investigation “cast a Lynch said she understood her Clinton, which occurred on her plane The investigation is in a very deputies were standing at the gate shadow” on the public’s perception of private meeting with Clinton aboard in Phoenix, had become a “painful” MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE: Four young preliminary stage and investiga- house questioning motorists as they a case playing heavily into the presi- her plane in Phoenix might be seen episode that reinforced the need for children in suburban Memphis were tors do not know if the mother had tried to drive into the neighbourhood. dential campaign. as compromising neutrality of the her to cede ultimate decision-mak- fatally stabbed yesterday and their any mental health issues, Oldham Neighbour Patricia Johnson said “I certainly wouldn’t do it again,” investigation, even though she said ing authority to others. mother was taken into custody. said. He said authorities are work- she wasn’t allowed to leave for two Lynch said of the meeting, which the probe of Hillary Clinton was not The encounter was especially Deputies were called to an apart- ing to notify the next of kin and won’t hours as deputies investigated the created immediate bipartisan angst discussed. sensitive given the repeated efforts ment shortly before 1 pm yesterday, release names before that. scene. Oldham said district attor- and underscored the political con- Asked what she was thinking in by Lynch and FBI Director James said Shelby County Sheriff Bill Old- “One of the most difficult ques- ney general’s special victims’ unit sequences of the FBI-led probe into permitting the meeting to occur, she Comey to stress that their investiga- ham, who did not allege that the tions in any investigation is always, has been called in and Shelby County the former secretary of state’s email. said, “I completely get that question, tion is being done independently and mother had stabbed the children. ‘Why did this happen?’” he said. Mayor Mark Luttrell has promised all Lynch hastened to add that she and I think it is the question of the day.” without regard for politics. “This is an egregious act of evil The apartment where the resources necessary for investigation. US: Up to 116 civilians dead in drone & other air raids US House reignites

AP protecting civilians a central element in do not reflect US air attacks in “This is something we’ve been US military operations planning. Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria, countries working on for 10 years,” he said. gun control debate The order requires an annual deemed “areas of active hostilities.” Having civilian protections “in heart release of casualty estimates. It says Human rights groups have long of military planning is a big deal.” WASHINGTON: The Obama admin- the government should include “cred- claimed the administration under- Reprieve, an international human with planned vote istration said yesterday that between ible reporting” by non-government counts civilian casualties and new rights organisation based in New 64 and 116 civilians have been killed groups when it reviews strikes to information is unlikely to satisfy York, says administration’s previous by drone and other US strikes in Paki- determine if civilians were killed. them entirely. London-based Bureau of statements about the drone pro- stan, Yemen and Africa since President But the directive won’t necessarily Investigative Journalism, has estimated gramme have been proven to be false Reuters government’s “No Fly List” for ter- Barack Obama took office in 2009. be binding on the next president, who anywhere from 492 to about 1,100 civil- by facts on the ground and US gov- rorism suspects or the “Selectee List” But the administration’s first such could change the policy with an exec- ians killed by drone strikes in Pakistan, ernment’s own internal documents. for extra airport screening. public assessment put civilian death utive order of his or her own. Yemen and Somalia since 2002. “But more importantly, it has to A source on Ryan’s conference toll significantly lower than estimates While sketchy details often Federico Borello, executive direc- be asked what bare numbers will WASHINGTON: The Repub- call said the speaker said the House by various human rights groups. emerge about individual drone tor of Center for Civilians in Conflict mean if they omit even basic details lican-controlled US House of would act next week on a gun meas- These range as high as 1,100 killed. strikes, the full scope of US drone in Washington, applauded Obama for such as the names of those killed Representatives, under mounting ure as part of a larger terrorism Seeking to create a precedent for programme has long been shrouded the executive order. He said his group and the areas, even the countries, pressure to advance gun-control package, calling the gun restriction his successor, Obama also signed an from view. It is a key tool of Obama’s probably would call on Congress to they live in,” Reprieve said in a state- legislation, will vote next week on “just common sense.” executive order that details US policies counterterrorism strategy. codify it into law so that future pres- ment ahead of the administration’s a measure to keep guns out of the Before the announcement, Rep- to limit civilian casualties and makes The civilian casualties disclosed idents cannot throw it out. announcement. hands of people on government ter- resentative Bob Dold of Illinois, a rorism watch lists. Republican backer of Curbelo bill, House Speaker Paul Ryan urged Ryan and House Majority announced the plan in a conference Leader Kevin McCarthy to opt for Judge grants new call with lawmakers, a week after bipartisan measure. Eating spree Democrats staged a 25-hour sit-in on Alternatively, Republican lead- trial for Serial the House floor to push for gun control ers could choose a Republican bill following mass shooting in Orlando. by Representative Lee Zeldin of Democrats, who have vowed to New York as a companion to a Sen- murderer keep pushing for tighter gun restric- ate measure from Senate Republican tions when Congress returns from Whip John Cornyn of Texas. The AFP its US Independence Day break next Cornyn measure failed in the Senate week, warned if Republican lead- last week in the face of opposition ers opt for a watered-down measure from Democrats who claim the NEW YORK: A US judge ordered backed by the National Rifle Associ- measure was written by the NRA. a new trial for a man convicted of ation, they will not accept it. “House Democrats will keep up murdering his ex-girlfriend, whose Republican leadership aides our efforts to push for the majority to case was turned into a global sen- declined to provide details. One said allow a vote on gun violence legisla- sation by a hit podcast. the package was still being worked tion, but bringing up a bill authored Adnan Syed, 35, son of Paki- out. Following the June 12 shoot- by the NRA just isn’t going to cut it,” stani immigrants, was sentenced ing that killed 49 people at a club said Drew Hammill, an aide to House to life imprisonment 16 years in Orlando, gun-control proponents Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. ago for murder of Hae Min Lee ratcheted up pressure for legislation. The Cornyn-Zeldin measure in suburban Baltimore. The case “We are going to get something would give officials three days to was largely ignored in the media done this year, I predict,” Senate decide whether a gun sale should until it was taken up by weekly Democratic leader Harry Reid told be blocked. Democrats argue the podcast Serial and turned into a reporters. “I think we’re going to take timetable is insufficient, and that blockbuster when an American a bite out of the NRA.” the government would have to per- journalist revisited the story and Reid said he was hopeful for a bill suade a court that a would-be buyer cast doubt on Syed’s guilt. introduced by Republican Senator “has committed or will commit an Judge Martin Welch granted Susan Collins of Maine, and a bipar- act of terrorism” before it could block Syed’s request for a new trial in a David “Tiger Wings and Things” Brunelli (right) and Molly Schuyler, who won by eating 28 burgers tisan House companion bill backed a gun sale. court document. “We won a new in 12 minutes, compete in the Zburger Independence Burger Eating Championship, in Washington, by Republicans including Represent- Under the Collins and Curbelo trial for Adnan Syed,” tweeted his DC, yesterday. ative Carlos Curbelo of Florida, to bills, a court would have 14 days to defence lawyer Justin Brown. prevent gun sales to anyone on the decide on appeals. Trump floats idea of using Nato in fight against IS

Reuters Trump made the comments in gotta take them out,” Trump said. of ours involved. I want Nato to be presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with Hillary Clinton for the first time an interview with ABC News. The Under President Barack Obama, involved,” Trump said. “We spend is under federal investigation. in her 2016 White House bid. They presumptive Republican presiden- the United States has relied heavily a tremendous amount of money on Trump told radio talk show host are to appear together in Charlotte, tial nominee has for months raised on US airstrikes to attack IS targets Nato. We take care of countries that Mike Gallagher the meeting was proof North Carolina, on Tuesday. A Reuters/ WASHINGTON: Republican Donald questions about the money the United in Syria and Iraq. Republicans have frankly should be taking care of of his charge the US political system Ipsos poll this week showed Clinton Trump said that if elected president States pours into Nato, which he says criticised this policy as not enough themselves in terms of economically.” is “rigged” in favour of political elites. 11 points ahead of Trump. on November 8, he would be open needs to be reconfigured to take to stop the militants. Trump’s comments came amid “It’s unheard of,” Trump told ABC At the White House, spokesman to drawing Nato forces into the fight account of today’s threats. Trump said the idea of using the an uproar over a meeting between News. “You have this massive inves- Josh Earnest made clear that Obama against Islamic State (IS) militants in “I like the idea of using Nato Cold War-era alliance would be to former President Bill Clinton and tigation on emails and they’d have a believes an impartial investigation is a new mission for an alliance he has and also neighbours that aren’t ease the load on American forces. Attorney General Loretta Lynch at a meeting like this.” crucial and noted that Lynch had said called obsolete. in Nato and take them out. You “I don’t want to get too much time when Clinton’s wife, Democratic Obama is preparing to campaign the conversation was benign. BREAK TIME SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 13

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Reuters materials behave in unexpected and unknown ways. Mission to Jupiter MOST READ “We’re working in a new envi- ronment,” said Frances Bagenal, NASA’s Juno spacecraft hurtled closer toward Jupiter on Friday headed Ashghal opens new bridge at Izghawa interchange CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa’s Juno a planetary scientist with the for a July 4 leap into polar orbit around the solar system’s largest planet 1 for commuters heading to Doha via north road spacecraft hurtled closer toward University of Colorado in Boul- to analyze how it formed and helped set the stage for life on Earth. Jupiter yesterday headed for a July der. “We don’t know the physics Qatar Airways said to weigh raising 4 leap into polar orbit around the of how things work at these high 2 stake in British Air owner solar system’s largest planet to pressures.” From vantage points Juno Jovian Auroral Plasma Waves Magnetometer analyze how it formed and helped as close as 3,000 miles (4,800km) 20 m* Distributions Instrument (MAG) Diameter: Experiment (JADE) New bridge at Izghawa set the stage for life on Earth. from the planet’s cloud tops, the Height: 3.5 m 3 Interchange opens During a 20-month study, Juno spacecraft is to not only search for Mission cost: ~$1.1 bln is expected to circle the gas giant water but assess whether Jupiter in 37 egg-shaped orbits to measure possesses a dense core beneath its Will investigate Jupiter’s microwaves radiating from inside atmosphere. origin, interior structure, TWEET OF THE DAY the planet’s thick atmosphere, map “We’re about to embark on deep atmosphere and its massive magnetic field and an incredible journey,” Bolton magnetosphere conduct other experiments. said during a news conference Will be the first solar Junocam Scientists are particularly keen from the Jet Propulsion Labora- array-powered spacecraft Ultraviolet to learn how much water Jupiter tory in Pasadena, California. Juno, to go this deep into space Gravity Microwave Spectograph contains, a key to unlocking the careening toward Jupiter at more Named after the Science Radiometer origins of the largest celestial body than 160,000 miles per hour, over goddess-sister-wife of the in the solar system after the sun. 200 times the speed of sound, has Roman god Jupiter Jupiter currently orbits the sun been programmed to fire its brak- Trajectory Earth flyby Jupiter Energetic- at a distance about five times farther ing rocket at 11:18 p.m. EDT on particle Detector Oct. 9, 2013 away than Earth, but it may have Monday (0318 GMT on Tuesday) Instrument (JEDI) (Obverse view) formed in a different location and in order to slow its course. migrated, gravitationally elbowing The rocket must be precisely Jovian Infrared Auroral aside other planets along the way. positioned and burn for 35 min- Mapper (JIRAM) “Something happens that utes to reduce its speed enough to allows a star to be born and then allow it to be captured by Jupiter’s Jupiter Juno launch arrival Atmosphere afterwards the planets ... That gravity and swing into orbit. Aug. 5, 2011 Molec eventually leads to us,” said the “If that doesn’t all go just right, July 4, 2016 ula r H mission’s lead scientist, Scott we fly past Jupiter,” Bolton said. yd r Jupiter Liquid o Bolton, a space physicist with the Only one other spacecraft, g Metallic e Southwest Research Institute in Nasa’s Galileo space probe, has Diameter: 142,984 km | Mass: 317.8 Earths Hydrogen n San Antonio, Texas. orbited Jupiter, circling the planet Volume: 1,321 Earths | Moons: 67† More than half of the material for eight years before colliding Distance from sun: 778 million km left over from the formation of the with the gas giant in 2003. The Follow us on sun 4.6 billion years ago ended up first spacecraft to fly past Jupi- Composed primarily of gaseous and liquid matter, its core is often Snapchat in Jupiter, which has a circumfer- ter was Nasa’s Pioneer 10 in 1973. described as rocky but its exact ence nearly 11 times bigger than Juno, which will arrive at Jupi- composition is still unknown Open Snapchat and Earth’s and is itself orbited by 67 ter after a journey of five years and known moons. nearly 2 billion miles (3.2 billion km), Juno will orbit Jupiter 33 times, scan the Snapcode skimming to within 5,000 Great Jupiter is made almost entirely is expected to end its mission as the kilometers above the planet's Red Spot to add The Peninsula of hydrogen and helium, the two Galileo probe did, crashing itself into cloud tops, for about one year Earth to scale account. simplest and most abundant ele- the planet to avoid possible contam- ments in the universe, but the ination of Jupiter’s ocean-bearing Sources: NASA; Southwest Research Institute *Solar arrays deployed. † 17 unconfirmed. planet’s enormous mass gener- moon, Europa, with any microbes ates such high pressure that the carried by the spacecraft. C. Inton, 01/07/2016 Men of letters: Thais master Rome’s Colosseum gets makeover

AFP Tod’s, whose billionaire owner and other cultural events, including Scrabble without English Diego Della Valle reportedly put up re-enactments of some of the kind of €25m for the works, said it was proud shows the ancient Romans enjoyed. ROME: The first phase of a multi- to have been part of the restoration The floor was removed by exca- million-euro makeover of Rome’s of “a true historical symbol of Italy.” vators in the late 19th century while AFP Colosseum was completed yester- The Colosseum is the latest in a the bits of the exterior structure that day with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi string of famous Italian monuments are missing were mostly removed for pledging cash would be made avail- to have been renovated with funds other construction projects in the city, able to spruce up other crumbling from private donors, often from the including the underground. BANGKOK: Komol Panyasophonlert historic sites. luxury sector. Roman fashion house There are also plans for a new vis- struggles to string an English sen- In a project largely funded by Fendi paid for a 16-month clean-up itor centre and the renovation of the tence together, but the 31-year-old fashion and shoewear group Tod’s, of the Trevi fountain which has been underground vaults where wild ani- Thai computer programmer is still the amphitheatre where gladiators acclaimed by visitors. And upmarket mals and prisoners destined for public hoping to be crowned champion of once jousted with lions has been jeweller Bulgari is behind the ongoing execution were kept ahead of their the wordsmith’s favourite boardgame, water-sprayed to remove centuries renovation of the Spanish steps, also appearances before the Roman crowds. Scrabble, this week. of encrusted dirt and grime. located in the capital’s historic centre. Completed in 80 AD, the Colos- Komol, the world Number Three, Works to strengthen the arched Renzi’s government has promised seum was the biggest amphitheatre is one of several top-ranked Thais structures of the northern and south- €18m for a second phase of renova- built during the Roman empire. It hoping to showcase their talents in ern facades and replace metal gates tion of the Colosseum which will stands 159 feet high and was capable of the King’s Cup tournament, which and barriers in the ground level involve rebuilding the arena floor and hosting 80,000 spectators. It now wel- kicked off in Bangkok on Thursday. arches have also been completed. make it capable of hosting concerts comes over six million visitors a year. While he claims to have mem- Participants playing games of Scrabble during the King’s Cup orised “more than 90 percent of the dictionary” in English, he can only tell tournament — the globe’s biggest Scrabble competition — in Bangkok. you what a few of those words mean. “I memorise small words first, then big whom is a fluent English speaker— are starting at a 40,000 word defi- words later,” he explained in Thai, add- is testament to what really drives cit,” said Williams. Despite the Thais’ ing that he tries to spend at least half an victories in the top tier: an analyt- home advantage, this year’s King’s hour each day hitting the books. ical mind. Cup title is expected to go to Nigel With some 6,000 players set to “At the highest level Scrabble is a Richards, the famously shy New Zea- attend, the King’s Cup is the globe’s math game. It’s like poker. It’s all about lander who dominates the field and biggest Scrabble competition and probabilities and managing a rack (of is considered the best player in the an indication of its wide popularity tiles),” said John Williams a former game’s history. in Thailand. The game is a favourite director of the US’s National Scrabble The three-time world champion among schoolteachers who use it as a Association. “You don’t have to know has won the King’s Cup 11 times and language-learning tool, and the king- the definitions,” he added. stunned the francophone world last dom is the only Asian country to field With players at the King’s Cup July when he also won the French world champions, despite its notori- laying down words like “ZOOTY,” — championship. He doesn’t speak the ously low levels of English proficiency. a synonym for flashy — and “VUGS” language and only spent nine weeks Amnuay Ploysangngam, who — a small rock cavity — even native studying the official French Scrab- founded Thailand’s first Scrabble English speakers could be forgiven ble dictionary. association in the 80s and is credited for failing to recognise their own Thailand’s Komol, who lost to with popularising the game, said today language on the board. The world’s Richards in the 2013 world champi- nearly three-quarters of schools have best Scrabble players commit up to onship, still remembers his favourite Scrabble clubs. “We never expected 100,000 words to memory, a figure word from that match — GAZUMPED that one day we would become world more than double the lexicon of an — meaning “to swindle”. champions,” he said. average English-speaking adult. Not that Komol will be using Yet the success of Komol and “What makes (the Thais) extraor- it much. “I already forget what it A view of the Colosseum after the latest stage of restoration by luxury goods firm Tod’s in Rome, Italy. other elite Thai players — none of dinary is they have no context and means,” he said. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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totally digested yet and the uncer- AFP Wall Street was also tainty into which markets have been thrown remains a great source of higher as attention worry for coming weeks and even focused away months,” economists at Saxo Banque in Paris said. from Brexit and Yesterday, Tokyo ended 0.7 per- towards solid US cent higher despite data showing manufacturing data weak confidence among Japanese businesses, while consumer prices and auto sales. dropped for a third straight month in June. Sydney added 0.3 percent and Seoul 0.9 percent. Shanghai climbed 0.1 percent, with dealers unmoved by LONDON: British finance min- AFP figures showing China’s manufactur- ister George Osborne (pictured) ing sector contracted last month. warned yesterday he would scrap “The mood for more easing is the government’s promise for a LONDON: Global stocks rose yeste- likely to spread around the world, budget surplus by 2020 owing to day, with the London market now in and stock prices are headed up,” Juichi fallout from Brexit, sparking fore- a much better place than before the Wako, a senior strategist with Nomura casts of more austerity pain. outcome of Britain’s shock EU vote, Securities Co, said. The Conservative government and others were firmly on the road “It’s not to say that the crisis has of Prime Minister David Cameron to recovery. now turned into a blessing, but the who resigned last week after los- Asian stocks led the way, end- heightened sense of urgency among ing a referendum on Britain’s ing the week with another rally on authorities will allow market-favour- EU membership, had previously optimism that central banks globally able policy responses to continue.” vowed to eliminate the budget def- will step up to support growth in the While markets are on the rise, icit by the 2019/2020 financial year Traders work at their desks in front of the German share price index, DAX board, at the stock exchange in face of uncertainty caused by Brit- analysts remain cautious about the in a key austerity pledge. ain’s vote. Frankfurt, yesterday. long-term effects of Britain’s exit from “We will continue to be tough Wall Street was also higher as a four-decade partnership with one on the deficit, but we must be real- attention focused away from Brexit recovery,” analysts at UniCredit said. On Thursday, Bank of England bank could do. His comments sent the of the world’s biggest trading blocs. istic about achieving a surplus by and towards solid US manufacturing The benchmark London FTSE- boss Mark Carney became the lat- pound tumbling Thursday, but provided The International Monetary the end of this decade,” Osborne data and auto sales. 100 index stood 1.1 higher at 6,577.83 est to provide assurances, indicating the equity market with what Hewson Fund described the Brexit as a major told business leaders in Manches- After the shock of the referendum at the close, representing a jump of policymakers could embark on fresh called a “Carney bounce”. threat to world growth and Stand- ter, northern England. result sent world markets into initial over seven percent over the week, monetary easing -- raising the possi- Yesterday, sterling slipped a tad ard & Poor’s cut its credit rating for “This is precisely the flexibil- free fall last Friday, they have surged and well above its 6,338.10 level on bility of a cut in rates. more against the dollar, while the the EU by one notch to AA, its third ity that our rules provide for. And over the past week as authorities June 23, before the British result was Carney, who had urged Britain to euro clawed back some of the week’s highest level. we need to reduce uncertainty by moved to soothe concerns another published. vote to stay in the EU, said “the eco- losses against the US currency. Eurozone unemployment fell to moving as quickly as possible to a rout was imminent. The Paris and Frankfurt stock nomic outlook has deteriorated and Analysts warned that although the a near five-year low in May, official new relationship with Europe and “A massive increase in risk aver- markets were also higher, but some monetary policy easing will likely initial Brexit fear factor has subsided, data said on Friday, in a rare positive being super competitive, open for sion in the aftermath of the UK vote remained below their pre-Brexit be required over the summer”, although markets are still on edge. sign for a sluggish European economy business and free trading. That’s was followed by encouraging signs of vote highs. he said there were limits to what the “The Brexit shock wave is not struggling to return to solid growth. the plan and we must set to it.” London bankers now face London property market cools

AFP economic activity and consumer market will be much quieter,” said Brexit choice: Lobby or leave confidence. He also warned unem- Ibby Aziz, a partner at Unsworth ployment may rise in the coming Rose solicitors in the upmarket area LONDON: The Brexit vote could cool months. of Primrose Hill, near Regent’s Park. Reuters in the EU, or those in Asia and the denominated in euros. Likewise, London’s superheated property mar- Given these factors, IHS predicts He has seen deals that had been United States. the right of banks based in Brit- ket, with some professionals already that British property prices will fall agreed in principle before the ref- Banks and other financial firms ain to operate across the EU under noting signs of a slowdown, though by five percent in the second half of erendum, only for the buyers to LONDON: A week after Britons have rallied together, forming a group the bloc’s financial “passporting” Gulf investors have signalled their the year, and by another five to seven demand a 20 percent reduction in voted themselves out of the Euro- to devise a strategy for protecting arrangement could also go if it loses interest is so far undimmed. percent in 2017. price afterwards. Many sellers would pean Union, many London-based the turf of an industry that is Brit- access to the single European market. After a slump in 2008 during Other analysts are more cautious, be unlikely to proceed in those cir- bankers and their employers face ain’s biggest exporter and accounts Britain has yet even to say when the global financial crisis, the sector saying that the extent of any eco- cumstances, he told AFP. two options if they are to secure their for more than 10 percent of its tax it will formally inform the EU of its recovered, first tentatively and then nomic slowdown has yet to become Emphasising the uncertainty, a futures: lobby or leave. revenues. intention to leave, a move that will at full pelt, with average prices this clear, making it too early to predict top Singapore bank, United Overseas Some investment banks, anxious Even Britain’s biggest lenders are start two years of divorce negotia- year reaching 54 percent higher than the impact on the property market. Bank (UOB), said Thursday that it has not to stir speculation of an exodus relying on the group - led by Shriti tions. Prime Minister David Cameron their pre-crisis peak. Monica Malik, chief economist at suspended loans to anyone wanting from the historic City of London and Vadera, chairwoman of the UK arm has said he will resign, but left the The growth was fuelled by pop- Abu Dhabi Commercial bank, said to buy property in London. its modern counterpart at Canary of Spain’s Banco Santander who is formal exit notification to his suc- ulation pressure, a desire by Britain’s that with so much invested it would “As the aftermath of the UK ref- Wharf, have given out “business as also a former business minister - for cessor who is unlikely to be installed wealthier classes to put their savings take more than the Brexit vote to erendum is still unfolding and given usual” messages since last week’s guidance in such uncertain times. until September. into bricks and mortar, and the deci- shake Gulf confidence in the London the uncertainties, we need to ensure shock referendum result. “We are looking to them to have Leading “Leave” campaigners sion by mangates from the Gulf and property market. “In the near term, our customers are cautious with their But beyond the soothing words an intelligent response,” Barclays have also yet to say precisely what Russia that London property was a there will be a sentiment of cautious- London property investments,” it the wider industry is hastily organ- chairman John McFarlane told an they want, beyond stating their desire safe place to park their fortunes. ness but we do not expect a marked said. ising a lobbying effort in the hope industry event on Thursday. “We nei- to control the right of EU citizens to But cracks were already start- sell-off,” she said. Property development, notably London can keep selling financial ther know the shape or direction of work in Britain - something Brus- ing to appear before Britain’s shock “A knee-jerk reaction or panic is the construction of so-called “ice- services across Europe, a right to things to come. It’s far from certain sels says is impossible if the country vote on June 23 to leave the Euro- unlikely,” she said. berg” basements that add several which it has become accustomed but what we might be able to secure from wants to stay in the single market. pean Union, and these are now being “Property in the UK is very new floors below traditional Victo- may lapse when Britain finally exits discussions with the EU.” So while the financial sector is magnified by fears of the economic attractive and has been a well-per- rian homes, is expected to be an early the 28-nation bloc. With the British government in poised to lobby, it has little idea of fall-out and uncertainty that follows. forming asset class. The underlying casualty of the market’s new fragility. The alternative for banks and disarray, European politicians are whom it must present its case to on “Housing market activity and foreign demand is expected to remain John Foldes has been planning a bankers, growing increasingly inse- threatening to clip the wings of the the British side. prices now look to be at very serious strong once the uncertainties large extension on his house in Clap- cure in an information vacuum that London financial centre that is home “We are ready to talk, but we risk of an extended, marked down- subside.” ham, in southwest London, but said has developed since the June 23 vote, to more than 250 foreign banks and don’t know who we should be talk- turn following the UK’s vote to leave But some property professionals he was reconsidering his plans after is to get out. more than three-quarters of the EU’s ing to,” said a senior banking industry the EU,” said Howard Archer, chief in London have already seen buyers the Brexit vote. Headhunters report a level of capital markets activity. source involved in the discussions. UK and European economist at IHS hesitate in the stifling atmosphere “We may decide to make one anxious calls they haven’t seen French President Francois Hol- “No-one has defined ‘leave’, so we Global Insight. that descended following the June less bathroom and make the setting since the 2008 global crisis, with lande has backed calls for London, don’t know what it is that we’re deal- The process of Britain’s exit 23 referendum. a little bit simpler,” he told AFP, add- bankers asking about prospects in the world’s biggest currency trading ing with ... September feels a very remains unclear, but Archer said “People are cautious to say the ing that he was trying to reduce the rival financial centres that remain centre, to lose its right to clear deals long way off.” the vote was likely to weigh down least. They will take more time, the budget by 20 percent. 18 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 BUSINESS Hershey rejects $23bn Mondelez takeover offer

founder a century ago. The maker of Hershey ranks number five. Their A merger of two Hershey’s Kisses and Reese’s Peanut merger would put them in the top Butter Cups saw its shares trade above place at 18 percent of the market, of the world’s top Mondelez’s bid of $107 per share in according to market research firm five candy makers cash and stock, indicating investors Euromonitor International Ltd. The would add expected a new offer. combined company would leapfrog A merger of two of the world’s Mars Inc, which has 13.3 percent of Hershey’s strong top five candy makers would add the global market. US business to Hershey’s strong US business to Mon- A fusion of the two would give delez’s global footprint. Mondelez control over the production Mondelez’s global Earlier, a source said that and distribution of Cadbury brand footprint. Mondelez had sought to provide chocolates in the United States, which assurances to Hershey that it would Hershey currently holds the license to keep its name and preserve jobs. Mon- produce, paying royalties to Mondelez. delez sees little antitrust risk given the It would also give Mondelez the limited geographic overlap of the two US production and distribution rights Reuters companies’ businesses, the source for Kit Kat, one of the most popular added. chocolate brands in the world, which “The board of directors of the industry sources said would be a sig- company unanimously rejected the nificant boost to Mondelez. Nestle SA Hershey’s chocolate bars for sale in Chicago, Illinois. NEW YORK: Hershey Co said it had indication of interest and determined manufactures Kit Kat worldwide, but rejected a $23bn takeover bid by Mon- that it provided no basis for further Hershey has the rights in the United Trust, one of Pennsylvania’s wealth- Milton Hershey to provide for the Mil- investigating conflicts of interest and delez International Inc that would discussion between Mondelez and States, paying Nestle royalties from iest charities. The trust has about 81 ton Hershey School, a private school insider-trading accusations against seek to expand the latter’s limited US the company,” Hershey said in a sales. Mondelez’s bid could put pres- percent of Hershey’s voting rights and for children from low-income fami- board members. A top trust official footprint and create the world’s larg- statement. sure on Nestle to consider its own bid in 2002 prevented the Hershey, Penn- lies, the trust has been the subject of was also sacked in May and pled est confectioner. Hershey shares ended trading on for Hershey. sylvania-based company from being an investigation recently by Pennsyl- guilty to wire fraud. The snub underscores the chal- Thursday up 16.8 percent at $113.49, Upon change of control at Her- acquired by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co for vania’s attorney general over conflicts Tigress Financial Partners LLC lenges Mondelez Chief Executive while Mondelez rose 5.9 percent to shey, the license would revert back $12bn. Pennsylvania’s attorney gen- of interest and mismanagement. analyst Philip Van Deusen said he Irene Rosenfeld faces in wooing Her- $45.51. to Nestle for free, depriving value for eral also sued to block the Wrigley The trust’s chief compliance expected the offer price to increase, shey’s controlling shareholder, the Mondelez, the maker of Oreos a potential acquirer. deal, arguing it would hurt the local officer was put on leave last month given the rise in Hershey’s shares. Hershey Trust, a $12bn charity cre- cookies, is the second-largest con- The bid pits Deerfield, Illinois- community. after a leaked memo showed “I think ($107) is a good starting ated by the eponymous company’s fectionary company globally, while based Mondelez against the Hershey Created by Hershey founder the board had spent nearly $4m place,” he said. Surge in Japanese land values attributed to tourists

Bloomberg could be adversely affected if the happily said their cottages “are visited by a larger number of tourists Shinsaibashi-Suji shopping street in yen becomes stronger due to Brit- already fully booked for the Decem- from the United States as well as Asian Chuo Ward, Osaka, was 39.6 percent, ain’s decision to leave the European ber to early January period, and most and European countries. In the nearby the second highest rate in the coun- Union. Real estate agents say the rate of the reservations have been made areas, vacation homes are under con- try. Along with the Ginza district in TOKYO: This year’s land value fig- of increase in these regional land val- by foreigners.” struction while the US luxury hotel Tokyo, the shopping street is known ures, released yesterday by the ues could slacken. Land values along the Niseko chain Park Hyatt plans to open a hotel for Chinese tourists’ “bakugai,” or National Tax Agency, rose sharply in In the Niseko area in Hokkaido, Kogen Hirafu-sen street of a there as well. bulk product purchases. At Kyoto’s sightseeing areas and on busy streets whose popular ski resorts spread Hokkaido prefectural road in Kutchan Many foreigners have purchased Shijodori, near the popular Yasaka across the country, thanks to devel- across Kutchan and two other towns, rose 50 percent from the previ- vacation houses for investments, Shrine in Higashiyama Ward, the rate opment projects and the opening of accommodation facility operators ous year, making it the largest leap with a local real estate agent saying of increase stood at 21.6 percent. EU should give new stores to attract foreign tourists. have been enjoying brisk business. in major areas of the country. The demand “has been spreading among The Dotonbori Hotel near Shinsai- The number of foreign travelers At a company that manages rental Niseko area has been popular for foreigners from a variety of regions.” bashi shopping district has a total of UK a quick and to the country hit a record high of cottages in the town, a 32-year-old about 10 years, especially among Aus- The rate of increase in land val- 116 rooms, all fully booked until the 19.73 million last year, but the trend woman in charge of sales promotion tralian skiers. These days, it also is ues at Shinsaibashi-Suji 2 on the end of this year. fair exit deal: Bundesbank

Chinese factory growth slows America’s offshore tax Reuters

cheats are feeling FRANKFURT: The European Union should give Britain a quick and fair exit deal to minimise the the heat once again economic cost and not hinder the process for the sake of setting a political example, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann (pic- Bloomberg of their undisclosed offshore assets, tured) said yesterday. while overseas residents paid none. “Neither side has an inter- Another 54,000 Americans took est in putting up trade barriers,” NEW YORK: US taxpayers who a more arduous route in voluntarily Weidmann, who also sits on the entered into an IRS program that disclosing their offshore accounts to European Central Bank’s Govern- made it easier to disclose their hid- the IRS since 2009, including their ing Council, said in a speech. “But den offshore bank accounts may dealings with bankers and advis- the EU should also not give the UK have thought they put their legal ers. They were hit with penalties a better treatment than it does to troubles behind them. Instead, pros- of as much as 27.5 percent of their Switzerland and Norway.” ecutors may try to put some of them assets, in addition to the total of $8bn He also said that while Brexit in jail for not telling all. in back taxes and other penalties. will weigh on euro zone growth Since 2012, 30,000 Americans But the government agreed to never and further dampen bank earn- avoided stiff tax penalties by declar- prosecute these taxpayers over the ings, it is ultimately a political ing they had innocent reasons for disclosures. Some tax lawyers were crisis so there is no need for more failing to disclose offshore hold- critical of Davis’s warnings about European Central Bank stimulus. Chinese workers assemble toy cars at a toy factory in Jinjiang, southeast China’s Fujian province, ings. But under the program they possible prosecutions. Britain’s referendum sent mar- yesterday. Activity in Chinese factories suffered its sharpest deterioration for four months in June, received no guarantees that they Those statements might have “a kets into a tailspin, weighing on figures showed yesterday, as weak demand and industrial overcapacity weighed on the world’s wouldn’t be prosecuted in the future. chilling effect” on people consider- currencies and depressing bank second-largest economy. And now the Justice Department ing using the streamlined program, shares, raising market expecta- and the Internal Revenue Service said tax attorney Barbara Kaplan, tion for more ECB stimulus to prop are combing through thousands of of Greenberg Traurig. That “under- up growth. secret records obtained from 80 mines the IRS interest in bringing as “Monetary policy is already Swiss banks to determine whether many people as possible” into tax expansionary and I’m doubtful the taxpayers were truthful. compliance, she said. that an even more expansionary We’re “taking all of that data and But attorney Jeremy Temkin said stance would have stimulatory China cement deal collapses scrubbing it for leads,” Nanette Davis, it’s been clear to tax advisers for the effect at all,” Weidmann said. “This a trial attorney in the Justice Depart- last year that the Justice Department is a political crisis which must be ment’s tax division, said at the New might prosecute people who lied in solved politically.” York University Tax Controversy their declarations. His advice: Clients Weidmann said Britain was AFP Tuesday before they were suspended office blocks, bloating to more than Forum last week. The effort has been should disclose any bad facts to the making a mistake by leaving the from trading. 3,300 firms. Beijing has said it wants fruitful already, she said. With some IRS. “It is important to present both EU but that it was an opportunity The companies said in a joint to reorient the economy away from taxpayers, “we say ‘we could indict the positive and negative facts and for Frankfurt to become an even statement Thursday to the Hong Kong relying on such debt-fuelled spend- this case tomorrow,”’ said Davis, who let the IRS decide,” said Temkin of bigger financial hub. The German BEIJING: A deal for China’s largest Stock Exchange that they would “con- ing to boost growth and towards a is overseeing the review. Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason government should step up efforts cement maker to take over a major tinue to explore future opportunities consumer-driven model, but the he US government got a trove of & Anello PC. to attract firms. rival collapsed after failing to gain for business collaboration in differ- transition has proven challenging. data from Swiss banks under settle- IRS trial attorney John C. McDou- “For the Frankfurt financial government approval, the company ent structures or manners”. Anhui Conch is a state-owned ments in which they disclosed how gal suggested at the conference that centre, new opportunities could said yesterday, in a blow to Beijing’s China’s government has repeat- enterprise (SOE) controlled by the they helped Americans evade taxes. the review of the streamlined sub- arise,” Weidmann said. “This will pledges to tackle oversupply. edly pledged to tackle overcapacity, government of China’s eastern prov- The banks handed over account missions isn’t as dire as Davis made require political backing but we Anhui Conch Cement offered which is rife in its inefficient, largely ince of Anhui. information, as permitted by Swiss it sound because they’re being should welcome businesses relo- nearly $600m for a controlling state-owned heavy industry. Analysts said its easier access secrecy law, and recordings of phone looked at in the same way as other cating to Frankfurt from London. stake in struggling West China But most major industrial firms to financing as an SOE would have calls with US clients. In exchange for tax returns. The IRS has begun for- The European Central Bank, Cement late last year, but China’s have powerful political backers, mak- boosted highly-indebted West China the cooperation, the US agreed not to mal examinations in some of the Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank commerce authorities failed to ing efforts to shutter or merge them Cement’s ability to borrow after it prosecute those banks, which paid cases, he said. Still, the threats to and the Bundesbank are all head- approve it by the June 30 deadline, particularly challenging in the face posted losses of 309 million yuan penalties totaling $1.37bn. taxpayers who lied may be mount- quartered in Frankfurt, making the scuttling the deal, Anhui Conch said of vested interests. ($46m) last year. The risk of being scrutinized falls ing as more financial institutions Germany city a key financial hub on its website. China’s cement industry boomed In recent months the stock had on those taxpayers who came forward step forward. Davis said offshore on the continent. Though markets Rumours the deal was in dan- during the country’s three decades rallied as investors expected the under the government’s so-called entities not yet under investigation have calmed since the vote, Wei- ger saw West China Cement shares of massive investment in highways, deal to go through due to govern- streamlined program. Those living are voluntarily approaching the US dmann warned that heightened plunge 33 percent in Hong Kong on airports, apartment buildings, and ment commitments to cut oversupply. in the US paid penalties of 5 percent to cooperate. uncertainty is still possible. BUSINESS SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 19

EasyJet demands Manufacturing EU flights certificate sector shifts into after Brexit AFP high gear in US LONDON: British no-frills air- line EasyJet said yesterday it had applied for a European Union licence to keep flying throughout growth from contraction. the bloc even after Brexit, becom- Shepherdson pointed out the ing the first carrier to activate a Growth in boost from stronger export orders, contingency plan. production, new which rose a percentage point to The carrier said it had begun 53.5, the highest level since Novem- a formal procedure to obtain an orders and new ber 2014, reflecting the rebound in air operator certificate (AOC) to export orders import demand from China. keep the status quo after Brit- accelerated. “This follows the clear upturn in ain’s vote last week to quit the China’s PMI imports index, which European Union cast doubts over also has now been sustained for a airline routes. few months,” he noted. Some man- “EasyJet is lobbying the UK ufacturers reported slower growth, government and the EU to ensure FROM LEFT: Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, Harald Krueger, CEO of German car maker BMW and Amnon but others said growth was steady. the continuation of a fully liberal AFP A survey respondent in the pri- Shashua, co-founder, chairman and CTO Mobileye NV, pose after a press conference in Munich yesterday. and deregulated aviation market mary metals sector said that orders within the UK and Europe,” it said from China were slowing, while in a statement. American customers were “still BMW teams up with Intel and “This would mean that EasyJet WASHINGTON: The US manufac- steady.” “Demand continues to be and all European airlines can con- turing sector shifted into higher gear robust,” said a person from the plas- tinue to operate as they do today. in June, picking up momentum in the tics and rubber products sector. “As part of EasyJet’s con- fourth straight month of growth, a Shepherdson forecast the ISM Mobileye for self-driving cars tingency planning before the private survey showed yesterday. figure would rise to a solid reading referendum we had informal The Institute for Supply Manage- near 55 by the end of August. discussions with a number of ment said its purchasing managers “Talk of a manufacturing reces- European aviation regulators index for manufacturing rose to 53.2 sion never made much sense, in our AFP driving technologies will make travel Tesla announced earlier that a driver about the establishment of an AOC in June from 51.3 in May. view, and we now expect it to fade safer and easier,” they said. was killed in a car crash in Florida in an European country to enable The nearly two-point jump on rapidly,” he said. The aim of the collaboration in May while using the “autopilot” easyJet to fly across Europe as we the PMI index was unexpected. The Buoyed by robust demand from was to develop solutions that would self-driving mechanism on one of do today. consensus estimate was for a mar- US consumers for crossover SUVs FRANKFURT: German top-of-the- enable drivers not only to take their its models. “EasyJet has now started a for- ginal increase to 51.4. A 50 reading and trucks, automakers reported range car maker BMW announced hands off the steering wheel, but also The National Highway Traffic mal process to acquire an AOC,” marks the boundary between strong June sales in those catego- yesterday that it is joining forces with reach a stage where they could also Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it said. growth and contraction. ries yesterday, while overall sales US computer chip giant Intel and the take their eyes of the road and ulti- it had opened a “preliminary eval- EasyJet stressed that it had no “The manufacturing slowdown figures were a mixed picture. Israeli technology firm Mobileye to mately their mind off driving, the uation” into the performance of the plans to move from Luton, which is over,” said Ian Shepherdson of Nissan, Ford, Fiat Chrysler’s US develop self-driving cars. statement continued. autopilot function in the wake of the lies north of the British capital and Pantheon Macroeconomics. “The unit and Honda all reported sales The three companies “are collab- The final stage would then be crash. where the airline has been based headline index is now at a 16-month increases, while GM, Toyota and orating to bring solutions for highly “driver off”, or without a human BMW, Intel and Mobileye insisted for two decades. Britain’s airline high, though it remains well below Volkswagen fell short. and fully automated driving into driver inside. that “the future of automated driving industry has soared over the last the peaks seen before oil prices GM, the largest US automaker, series production by 2021,” they said “This establishes the opportunity promises to change lives and socie- two decades under the EU’s Single rolled over” and battered the oil sec- struggled again as it pivots away in a joint statement. for self-driving fleets by 2021 and lays ties for the better.” European Sky system, which lifted tor’s capital spending, he said. from sales to businesses, such as The news comes amid growing the foundation for entirely new busi- Nevertheless, “the path to get to trade restrictions on EU airlines The June gain was broad-based. rental fleets, to focus on retail sales. interest in self-driving cars follow- ness models in a connected, mobile a fully autonomous world is complex whose headquarters are located Growth in production, new orders The automaker said June sales fell 1.6 ing tests over the past few years by world,” the partners said. and will require end-to-end solutions within the EU. and new export orders accelerated. percent from a year ago to 255,210 Google and research by several major While the auto industry sees that integrate intelligence across the Unless British negotiators Price gains rose at a slower pace and vehicles, after they fell 13.4 percent automakers. “BMW, Intel and Mobi- self-driving cars as the way for- network, from door locks to the data manage to secure preferential the backlog of orders switched into in May. leye are convinced that automated ward, US electric car company centre,” they said. conditions, British airlines will lose this status once the coun- try leaves the EU. This will mean they no longer enjoy rights includ- ing being able to freely set airfares, Belarus cuts 4 zeroes from banknotes India’s Iran oil imports and to launch any route in Europe without getting prior authorisation. In concrete terms, passengers surge 39% in June leaving or arriving in the United Kingdom will face new taxes, while British airlines will be slower Reuters services on the Thomson Reu- to develop new routes. ters terminal. Indian refiners took Since the June 23 referen- in about 381,500 barrels per day dum, both EasyJet and British (bpd)of Iranian oil in June, the data Airways owner IAG have issued NEW DELHI: India’s Iran oil imports showed. profit warnings, as the pound rose about 39 percent in June year The June shipments were about has plunged against the euro on on year, preliminary data obtained 0.6 percent higher from Iranian vol- financial markets. EasyJet said by Reuters shows. In the first half umes in May, the data showed. In on Monday that the surprise vote of 2016 India’s Iran oil imports June last year India shipped in about would create uncertainty in the surged by about 58 percent to about 274,800 bpd oil from Iran. India’s oil economy and among consumers, 342,000 bpd, the data showed, in imports from Iran are set to surge to impacting its second-half per- comparison with 216,500 bpd in a seven-year high in the year that formance that ends in September. the same period last year. began April 1, with the nation’s state- “Britain being in Europe is the HPCL-Mittal Energy, majority owned and private refiners together best thing for Britain,” EasyJet chief owned by state refiner Hindustan buying at least 400,000 bpd. executive Carolyn McCall told AFP Petroleum Corp, halted oil imports In April-June, the first quarter of a few months before Thursday’s from Iran in November 2012 under the current fiscal year, India’s Iran referendum. pressure from Western sanctions oil purchases rose 25.6 percent to “That is based on the fact that over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. HPCL- 384,500 bpd from about 306,000 deregulation of aviation has been Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL), partly bpd in the same year ago period, the a fantastic benefit to consumers,” owned by steel tycoon Lakshmi N. data showed. Private refiner, Essar she said, noting that it had reduced An employee holds bank notes at a fast food restaurant in Minsk yesterday. Belarus is slashing four Mittal, took a cargo from Tehran Oil, was the top Indian client of Iran fares by 40 percent and increased zeros from banknotes in a move authorities hope will curb inflation. New banknotes, ranging from 5 to after a three-and-a-half year break. in June, importing about 180,600 routes by 170 percent. 500 Belarusian ruble notes, were put in circulation yesterday. The Belarussian ruble - which currently Last month HMEL took a million bpd, followed by Mangalore Refinery Airlines are among the indus- stands at close to 20,200 to the US dollar - has suffered heavily from inflation in recent years together barrels of Iranian oil, according to and Petrochemicals Ltd with about tries in Britain, in addition to with the nation’s centralised economy. preliminary tanker arrival data from 69,000 bpd, and Reliance Industries banks, to have been left especially trade sources and ship-tracking Ltd with about 64,000 bpd. exposed by the shock Brexit vote. Investors encouraged by Argentina’s market, but can’t find stocks

Reuters the South American country’s debt. issues and also the inflationary issues said Belkis Rodriguez, Vice President market regulator with direct knowl- pesos 3bn ($201m) in May in the coun- Investors scooped up $16.5bn of its that a lot of the banks are dealing of Equity Trading, Latin America at edge of efforts to increase investment. try’s first initial public offering since multi-tranche sovereign bonds, and with, we just have not had a posi- market maker INTL FCStone Finan- But it is more focused on a proposed 2010. another $4bn from its provinces and tive outlook on either the banks or cial Inc. tax amnesty for residents with unde- Argentina’s stock markets are so NEW YORK: After long consider- assorted corporations. the utilities.” Portfolio managers say “Because of all the hurdles of clared funds. opaque that even the Global X MSCI ing Argentina’s equities, Manning & Another US dollar bond sale was the country’s capital controls and settling a trade locally, it’s very “For now (the stock ownership Argentina ETF, which has seen $43m Napier Inc portfolio manager Ben announced on Thursday. But equi- restrictions had long kept them from expensive,” Rodriguez said. “And issue) is being studied but there is in inflows this year, roughly dou- Rozin was finally motivated to buy ties remain problematic. “The biggest investing in Argentine stocks or add- few brokers know the process or even nothing certain,” said the source, who bling its size, does not invest in actual late last year, taking a stake in agri- issue is that there aren’t a lot of com- ing to existing positions. want to deal with that.” asked not to be named due to the sen- Argentine stocks. It is made up mostly culture company Adecoagro SA. panies listed,” said Rozin, one of Macri’s reforms have included Investing in countries like Bra- sitivity of the matter. of ADRs, with other stocks that have Rozin is one of several fund several investors who had interest in removing capital controls, relaxing zil, Chile and Colombia requires As a result of the roadblocks, those exposure to Argentina or have oper- managers encouraged by last year’s buying stocks after Macri’s election, reserve and deposit requirements and that investors have local registration interested in buying Argentine equi- ations there. election of market-friendly Presi- but have struggled to do so. cutting the country’s holding period or work with broker-dealers in the ties have typically had to buy ADRs, “If capital controls remain lifted dent Mauricio Macri. But as Manning Argentina’s benchmark Merval on foreign investment — though he country, Rodriguez added, but it is a which are essentially surrogate stocks for a while and foreign investors & Napier has sought to broaden its index, which has rallied 29 percent has not removed it entirely. dramatically simpler process than in issued by a US bank and traded on a become more comfortable invest- exposure to Argentina, a one-time this year after a 36-percent rise last But he has yet to tackle some of Argentina. US exchange. ing in the local securities, what you market pariah, it has been hindered year, comprises only 15 stocks. The the biggest impediments to invest- “There’s so many things that the “I wish we had more oppor- could see is the need to invest in by a lack of publicly-traded Argen- overwhelming majority are regu- ment: the government’s requirement government has to do,” she said. “We’d tunities, more choices to invest in ADRs becomes lower,” said Jay Jacobs, tine companies. lated utilities like Pampa Energia or that investors physically be in Argen- like to see progress made on the equi- Argentina,” said Luiz Ribeiro, senior director of research at Global X, which Argentina’s recent deal with commodity-dependent, like oil com- tina to purchase stocks and that they ties side, but I don’t know how long equities portfolio manager for Deut- operates the fund. The Argentina ETF “hold-out” hedge funds — who for pany YPF. buy stocks in pesos, which remain dif- that’s going to take.” sche Bank’s Latin America Equity is based on a benchmark set by index years battled former President Cris- “The banks and the utilities ficult to exchange for dollars. The government is aware of Fund, which owns American depos- compiler MSCI, which has said it will tina Fernandez de Kirchner — has present a large amount of the market Those have often sent investors in the issues foreign buyers face, said itary receipts (ADRs) in Supervielle. consider reclassifying Argentina to an thrown the doors open to buyers of cap, but for us, due to the regulatory search of other more accessible assets, a source within Argentina’s stock The financial group raised around emerging market next year. 20 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS Indonesia faces Even in crisis, EU not a environmental time bomb after coal bust lead actor in world oil

By Fergus Jensen elected in 2014, Indonesia has Reuters promised to turn around its dis- mal environmental record. The administration has also wrested control over natural resources away HOUSANDS of mines are from local leaders, giving it to pro- closing in Indonesia’s tropical vincial governors instead. coal belt as prices languish Awang Faroek Ishak, East Kali- and seams run dry. But mantan’s governor, has issued a Talmost none of the companies have moratorium on new licenses. He is paid their share of billions of dollars threatening to punish mining com- owed to repair the badly scarred land- panies that have failed to restore scape they have left behind. the land, he said in an interview. Abandoned mine pits dot But the data on mining compa- the bare, treeless hillsides in nies and funds for rehabilitation Samarinda, the capital of East are missing, he said. Kalimantan province on Indo- “How can we look into this if nesia’s part of Borneo island. It is we don’t have the documents,” he ground zero for a coal boom that complained. Greenpeace activist made Indonesia the world’s biggest Kiki Taufik says governors do, how- exporter of the mineral that fuels ever, have the authority to freeze power plants. Abandoned mining permits and operations while they pits have now become death traps investigate. “The governors have for children who swim in them, authority, but they never use this and their acidic water is killing authority.” nearby rice paddies. Most of the mining licenses Indonesia has tried, mostly went to small firms, many of in vain, to get mining companies which have gone bankrupt or to keep their promises to clean simply abandoned their opera- up the ravaged landscape. But it tions, mining industry officials say. doesn’t even have basic data on who “For now, it’s really difficult not to holds the many thousands of min- lose money,” said Budi Situmo- ing licenses that were handed out rang, a mining engineer at small during the boom days, officials say. coal miner CV Arjuna. “All we can “Nobody was in control,” said really do is hold on. Looking at the Dian Patria, who works on natural 56 mines in Samarinda, no more resources at the country’s Corrup- than 10 are still active.” tion Eradication Commission (KPK). The mining companies them- Patria estimated that 90 percent selves are supposed to restore the of the more than 10,000 mining land from money they paid into By Libby George and Ron Bousso demand has been in decline (more or less) since last decade. license holders had not paid the accounts held at state banks and Reuters 2007,” Jefferies analysts wrote in a note. Jef- This has limited the continent’s impor- reclamation funds they owe by law. supervised by local officials. feries estimates that the impact on oil demand tance in producing the diesel, petrol and jet One-third are for coal. “That’s what you’re supposed to from changes to GDP in emerging markets is fuel that flow through global markets. Even if they wanted to, many do, but in practice very few people some five times what it is in Europe - “a far In France, strikes in May closed nearly half companies now lack the cash. The do it,” except for the major min- HE European Union’s crisis holds greater risk factor.” its refineries, as well as its main ports, forc- same large banks that leant billions ing firms, the head of Indonesia’s political and economic leaders The International Monetary Fund warned ing it to tap strategic crude and fuel stocks during the boom have now pulled Coal Mining Association, Pandu transfixed, but for the oil market that Britain’s vote could set back its growth to keep running. The shock boosted diesel out of coal, wary of the sector’s Sjahrir, told Reuters. it merely underlines the region’s by 1.4 to 5.6 percent by 2019, and said it could profits, and led to hopes that a rush to restock commercial outlook and contri- The central government has established role as only a sec- also lower the growth forecast for Germany, would further support refining. When similar bution to climate change. had a list since 2011 of nearly 4,000 ondary engine to global energy the bloc’s largest economy. strikes hit the country six years ago, global The problem is not unique to licenses that have failed to meet Tdemand. Britain’s vote to leave the European Typically during economic crises, fears oil prices spiked as it scrambled to restock. Indonesia. As mineral prices lan- their requirements. It expects to Union and strikes that crippled France’s energy over a drop in consumption stoke oil price Instead, French refiner demand has been guish, even major global miners are be able to revoke the problematic industry in May, elicited barely a lasting rip- declines. But Europe’s withered oil demand subdued as they slowly unloaded the roughly trying to avoid hundreds of millions permits only by January 2017. ple on global energy markets. growth due to energy efficiency and a shift 19 million barrels of crude that was stranded of dollars in increasingly hefty clo- Patria’s team at the anti-cor- “In terms of oil, it’s the best place to have away from heavy industry has cut its impor- on tankers during the strikes, and strategic sure costs, mostly by selling off pits. ruption agency is pushing for the an economic slowdown without having a tance to the world’s demand growth. stock agencies also gave companies three After pro-democracy protest- national government’s Supreme big impact on demand growth,” said Chris Because most European economies are months to return what they took during the ers swept Indonesia’s authoritarian Audit Agency (BPK) to investigate Main, oil strategist with Citi Group. “Euro- no longer industrially focused, even the slip industrial action. president Suharto from power in miners - including over unpaid pean industry just doesn’t contribute much into recession that some economists warned The impact on diesel was blunted as well 1998, the Jakarta government gave rehabilitation funds estimated in to global demand growth.” could hit Britain has failed to create signifi- by the fact that refinery hubs have shifted out towns and districts control of natu- the hundreds of millions. In oil demand growth, and in refining, cant oil demand loss fear on the global level. of Europe since the last strikes. ral resources as part of far-reaching Even that is only a fraction of the spotlight has for long According to the International Energy Two French refineries have closed since decentralisation reforms aimed at the cash that would actually be shifted to developing mar- Agency, demand growth in Europe accounted 2012, while the Middle East has developed preventing the archipelago from required, says Merah Johansyah kets in Asia, the Middle for 180,000 barrels per day (b/d) in the first into a refining mega centre with massive, die- fracturing. from the Mining Advocacy Net- East and even the United quarter of the year, dwarfed by the 956,000 sel-heavy units helping to pump a growing Newly empowered local lead- work (JATAM). States, where drivers hit- b/d growth in Asia’s developing countries. excess in European storage tanks. This has ers handed out thousands of mining Pressure from campaigners is ting the road in record Risk consultancy Eurasia Group said that kept prices across crude and refined oil prod- licenses, many of them to small increasing as mine closures reach numbers are fuelling a Europe’s 13.7m b/d of total demand is only ucts from spiking, as it did following the last operators, as coal prices leapt from a peak by 2020, according to some resurgence in demand about 14 percent of the global total. It added widespread French strikes in 2012. around $40 per tonne in 2005 to industry estimates. One set of 2,272 growth. Oil traders are that every 1 percent change in GDP would “The Middle East was not supplying as nearly $200 at their peak in 2008. coal permits and contracts, com- accustomed to seeing knock roughly 70,000 b/d off oil demand much distillates as they are now, and Rus- In East Kalimantan alone, around piled by mining consultancy SMGC Europe’s 13.7m b/d of the EU as a market with growth, a small figure compared with the sia is exporting more distillates,” said KBC half the province was covered in and reviewed by Reuters, showed total demand is only barely any potential to use group’s demand growth forecast of 1.5m b/d principal consultant Ehsan Ul-Haq of the coal mining permits. the average expiry date of the per- more motor fuel. in 2016 and 1.1m b/d in 2017. changed market. “A few years agothe impact Under President Joko Widodo, mit is October 2017. about 14 percent of “GDP in the UK and Amid fading demand, pressure on refiner was much bigger,” Ul-Haq said of the strikes, the global total. Europe is not energy profits forced the closure of more than 2m adding that now, “producers have more than intensive, and indeed oil b/d in European refining capacity over the enough diesel”. How MTN sliced billions off its Nigerian telecoms fine

By Joe Brock and Ulf Laessing any, that Holder played in the change of heart. The NCC said at the time that it had not But when MTN announced on June 10 that Reuters MTN, Holder, Malami and the NCC all agreed to enter into any talks with MTN and it reached a deal with the government to pay declined to comment on the negotiation process. that it stood by the 780bn naira penalty. Rather a fine of 330bn naira - just 30bn naira more There is no indication that any individ- than dealing directly with the regulator, Holder - the NCC appeared to have altered its view, uals acted improperly, and companies have approached Malami to help broker a settle- notifying parliament in a letter dated the same ELECOMS firm MTN hired former often reached settlements with regulators in ment, according to the government sources day of a “full and final” settlement. US attorney general Eric Holder in Nigeria. Lawmakers have however criticised and letters seen by Reuters. “It was never about the money it was January to help it reduce a $3.9bn the opaque nature of the settlement process, In a letter dated the same day MTN about making clear the rules are the rules,” fine imposed in Nigeria over unreg- saying it set a precedent for other firms deal- announced it was dropping its court challenge NCC spokesman Tony Ojobo told Reuters on istered SIM cards. Five months later, ing with Nigerian authorities. - February 24 - Holder wrote to Malami on June 13. “The MTN listing is a big positive for Tit struck a deal to pay less than half of that. The 780bn naira fine - $3.9bn at the behalf of the company offering to pay 300 Nigeria and will benefit the country.” When The entrance of Holder, who stood down as exchange rate at the time - was set by the NCC billion naira and list MTN’s local unit on the asked about the March 1 letter and what had attorney general last year after presiding over in December over MTN’s failure to deactivate Nigerian stock exchange to end the dispute. changed the NCC’s view, Ojobo said he would The entrance of Eric some of the largest corporate settlements in more than 5 million SIM cards not registered by Under the Nigerian constitution, the attorney not discuss the negotiations. Holder, who stood down American history, marked a change of strat- customers. Nigeria has been trying to halt the general can mediate in a dispute involving a A parliamentary committee on telecom- egy for the South African company. use of unregistered cards over concerns they state body after the matter has been taken to munications is reviewing the deal and the as attorney general last MTN dropped a three-month legal challenge are being used for criminal activity, includ- court. Malami asked NCC to review the MTN negotiations that led to it. Such reviews by year after presiding against the fine and, according to government ing by Islamist militant group Boko Haram. offer but the regulator was not impressed. lawmakers are standard practice after big cor- sources and letters seen by Reuters, asked Nige- MTN, Africa’s biggest telecoms company, ini- “The proposal to pay the sum of 300bn porate settlements and are aimed at ensuring over some of the largest rian Attorney General Abubakar Malami to put tially launched a high court challenge against the naira ... is not supported by any verifiable jus- that there has been no wrongdoing by any party corporate settlements in forward a proposal for a reduced fine to the fine, arguing the watchdog had no legal grounds tification,” NCC Chief Executive Umar Garba involved and that the public interest has been American history, marked communications regulator, the official author- to order it. The law states that the NCC does have Danbatta said in a March 1 letter to Malami. served. The deal has exposed divisions within ity in the dispute. the right to impose such a penalty. In Febru- Nor was the NCC convinced by MTN’s the Nigerian government; officials within Pres- a change of strategy The regulator, the Nigerian Communica- ary, however, MTN withdrew the lawsuit and sweetener of a local listing. “This is a business ident Muhammadu Buhari’s team were also for the South African tions Commission (NCC), rejected the proposal paid a “good faith” payment of 50 billion naira to decision absolutely within MTN’s prerogative unhappy with Malami’s plans to strike a deal as unjustifiable, documents show, but three the government which it said was part of efforts and primarily to its benefit. There is no justi- with MTN which they considered too gener- company. months later it accepted a broadly similar deal. to reach an amicable settlement and would go fication for bringing this along in discussing ous, leading to heated discussions between Reuters was unable to determine the role, if towards the eventual fine agreed. the present issue,” Danbatta said. the two camps, two government sources said. SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 21

Beaten Rudisha named Bolt storms into semis in Kenya Olympic team at Jamaica trials Reuters

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ELDORET: Olympic and world 800m champion David Rudisha (pic- KINGSTON: Usain Bolt negotiated a series of delays and a false tured) scraped into the Kenyan team start in his own race before easily winning his quarter-final of for the Rio Olympics after finishing the 100m in 10.15 seconds at Jamaica’s national championships. third in the east African nation’s tri- Although sluggish from the blocks, the world record holder sepa- als yesterday. rated from the field after 40 metres before cruising across the line Rudisha, enduring a poor sea- with the quarter-finals’ joint second fastest time. son, was passed on the final bend by The six-time Olympic gold medallist, however, was upset at the youngster Ferguson Rotich and sur- amount of time he had to wait before getting to run after a succes- prise winner Alfred Kipketer. Boniface Mucheru. The second and sion of false starts in other races. Rudisha, also the world record final day of the trials produced other “It’s just the whole system which bothers me, you know I was holder, finished third in 1:44.23 after upsets. Former world 800m cham- out there too long,” Bolt said after warming down. getting boxed in. Kipketer’s time was pion Eunice Sum was beaten into “They (organisers) just sent everybody out and a whole lot of false 1:43.73 and Rotich ran 1:44.05. second place by Margaret Nyairera starts and I was in the last heat and I kind of got cold so I didn’t feel World half-marathon cham- to second place with the winner tim- as fluent as I wanted to and that’s what I was really annoyed about. pion Geoffrey Kamworor and Bedan ing 1:58.27 and Sum 1:59.63. “If I can get through that then I’ll be fine.” Karoki were named in the Olympic Defending Olympic 3,000 Nickel Ashmeade, who win the third of the four quarter-finals, team at 10,000 metres despite both metres steeplechase champion was the fastest qualifier in a time of 10.07 seconds. Asafa Pow- failing to finish the race at the trials. Ezekiel Kemboi toyed with the ell clocked 10.17, while Yohan Blake and Kemar Bailey-Cole both Kamworor had a stomach upset and field, deliberately slowing down as recorded 10.26. Karoki as injured. Paul Tanui won he approached the finish line and Two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (11.38), the race ahead of Charles Yossei and allowing 2008 Olympic cham- Simone Facey (11.31), Elaine Thompson (11.38) and Veronica Camp- both were named in the team for Rio. pion Brimin Kipruto and Conseslus bell-Brown won their heats in the women’s 100 to move into the World 400 metres hurdles champion Kipruto to pass him. World jave- semi-finals. Nicholas Bett, who did not run in the lin champion Julius Yego produced trials, was also named in the Games a throw of 81.04 metres to win the team along with African champion event.

Tour lab able to detect Rosberg tops rain-hit micro-doping, says report practice, Vettel spins

AFP “There are some circuits that just Hamilton second in FORMULA ONE: feel right and good and, for me, this AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX one is not one like that. SAINT-LO, FRANCE: A French both sessions as rain “It’s not the track and it’s not the laboratory testing doping sam- interrupts afternoon car. It’s just me. I have to find the ples at the Tour de France is successive victories in tomorrow’s extra pace from inside me.” now able to detect micro doses session race and take clear control of the Vettel’s spectacular spin at the of EPO, French sports newspa- drivers’ championship,. end of the session was caused, he per l’Equipe said yesterday, as Nico Hulkenberg was third fast- said later, by a problem with the cycling battles to mend its dam- AFP est for Force India, six-tenths of a brakes of his car. He will face a five- aged reputation. second behind the two Mercedes place grid penalty for the race after Many cyclists, such as men, ahead of Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari decided to change his car’s disgraced American Lance Ferrari. gearbox. Armstrong, have been banned SPIELBERG, Austria: Nico Ros- Vettel spun his car in the final “We had an issue with the brake for using the blood-booster berg dominated an incident-filled minutes, losing control ahead distribution,” said Vettel. “It caught EPO, but there were fears opening day of practice for this of Turn Two, where he ended up me by surprise, but it didn’t matter that riders had taken to using weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, “beached” in a gravel trap and too much as, fortunately, nothing Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team British driver Lewis Hamilton (front) and micro-doses that were unde- narrowly topping the times in both caused the deployment of a Virtual happened. I lost a couple of minutes tectable to anti-doping testers. sessions ahead of frustrated Mer- Safety Car to conclude the session. so it didn’t make a big difference. Germany’s Nico Rosberg drive during the second practice session of the Micro doses of just 500 cedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Australian Daniel Ricciardo was “We had a decent day and we Formula One Grand Prix of Austria at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria units “injected before 11pm The German, who turned 31 fifth fastest in the leading Red Bull are not entirely clear where we are, yesterday. will still be detectable at 6am on Monday, clocked the fastest lap on the team’s home circuit, ahead of in competitive terms, because we the next day and even after in both the dry and the wet after a Carlos Sainz for Toro Rosso. didn’t have much running in the the sample has been diluted by downpour interrupted the action Hamilton, never one to hide afternoon. I think we should be ok.” involvement after running over new I think it would be better just to have one excess hydration”, said the lab- in the afternoon when Hamilton, his feelings and trailing Rosberg Vettel’s problems were nothing -- and controversial -- yellow kerbs straight kerb rather than several small oratory in a statement quoted tenacious and fast as ever, was only by 24 points in the championship, compared to those of Dutch teenager dubbed “baguettes” by the teams. ones. They are hard for the car - harder by l’Equipe. 0.019 seconds adrift. admitted he was frustrated in try- Max Verstappen, who was involved “I understand we have to respect the than I expected.” Tour director Chris- Rosberg recorded a best lap in ing to unlock the extra pace he felt in two incidents in the morning that track limits,” he said. “But it’s better to Looking ahead to qualifying and the tian Prudhomme hailed the one minute and 7.967 seconds to he possessed. damaged his Red Bull. put a wall there. I mean, I destroyed two race, Verstappen admitted he was hop- progress made in the anti-dop- pip his British rival at the Red Bull “It’s there,” he said. “It’s in me, One came at Turn Eight and front wings and a front suspension today ing the wet weather would return. ing fight. Ring, in the Styrian Alps, where he but I don’t know if I can find it and the other at Turn Five, the second and, yeah, I think it’s too high. “I hope it rains, with storms,” he said. The research is progressing seeks to complete a hat-trick of use it... resulting in a premature end to his “I try to avoid them, but at Turn One “That would be good for us.” on all sides,” he said. “The fight continues.” EPO became the cheat’s drug of choice during the 1990s due to the huge boost it gave to an athletes endurance. Magnificent McIlroy grabs share of French Open lead The hormone produces extra red blood cells, thus carrying greater amounts of oxygen around a person’s blood Agencies “It was disappointing to make five at the last, but it won’t be the and to their muscles. only bogey I make this week.” That and blood transfu- Meanwhile, Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this month’s sions were the methods that SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES: Rory McIlroy fired a brilliant British Open, organisers the Royal & Ancient Golf Club said cheats such as Armstrong used five-under-par 66 to surge into a share of the lead after his sec- yesterday. to make huge improvements in ond round of the 100th French Open at Golf National yesterday. The news was merely a formality as there was never any indi- their performances. The Northern Irishman is in a five-way tie at the top of the cation that Woods would be healthy enough to play in the July Armstrong’s sordid past leaderboard heading into the third day. 14-17 event at Royal Troon in Scotland. finally caught up with him Finn Mikko Ilonen, South African Brandon Stone, Thailand’s The 40-year-old has not competed in almost 11 months and when in 2014 he admitted in Thongchai Jaidee and South Korean Jeunghun Wang are all level has offered no timetable on a possible return to action after under- an interview on American tel- with McIlroy on five under par overall. going back surgery last September. evision that he had cheated The world number four struggled with swing trouble in his He has won the British Open three times -- at St Andrews in throughout his career. opening 71, but he had no such problems on Friday. 2000 and 2005 and at Royal Liverpool in 2006. By then the evidence McIlroy dropped his only shot of the day on the 18th hole when Woods tied for ninth the last time the Open was held at Troon against him had already been he hit his tee shot into the water and took a bogey five. in 2004. Australian Marcus Fraser replaces American Woods in mounting and he was stripped Birdies at the third, sixth and seventh holes got McIlroy off the Open field. of his record seven Tour titles in to a quick start, and a four on the par-five ninth pulled him to a row from 1999-2005. within one of the leading mark. His compatriot Floyd Two further birdies on the back nine gave him sole possession FRENCH OPEN SCORES Landis, a former team-mate, of the lead, and it could have been even better for the four-time 137 Rory McIlroy 71-66, Brandon Stone (RSA) 69-68, Mikko Ilonen had his victory in 2006 over- major champion if not for narrow misses for birdie on the 10th (FIN) 69-68, Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 67-70, Jeunghun Wang turned due to doping. Northern and 16th greens, and that wobble at the last. (KOR) 71-66 Other Tour winners such Ireland’s Nevertheless, after the disappointment of missing the US Open 138 Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 67-71, Anders Hansen (DEN) 70-68, as Dane Bjarne Riis (1996), Jan Rory McIlroy cut at Oakmont less than a fortnight ago, McIlroy was delighted Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL) 70-68 Ullrich of Germany (1997) and in action at to find himself firmly in contention ahead of the weekend. Italian Marco Pantani (1998) “I played very well, I didn’t really put a foot wrong until the 139 Joost Luiten (NED) 69-70, Thomas Pieters (BEL) 67-72, Francesco French Golf Molinari (ITA) 68-71, Andy Sullivan 69-70 eventually either admitted to Open on 18th,” he said. using EPO or tested positive for “I’m really happy with how I played out there. I’m still con- 140 Adrien Saddier (FRA) 70-70, Matthew Southgate 70-70, Lucas Thursday in Bjerregaard (DEN) 66-74, Alex Noren (SWE) 72-68, Lasse Jensen the substance retroactively. Guyancourt. tinuing to work hard and think hard on my golf swing, but it seems to be working so far this week, so I’ll continue to do that.” (DEN) 69-71 22 SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 SPORT

Sri Lanka’s Maharoof hopes for Qatar’s Faris books Rio berth ‘perfect game’ against England

AFP see Sri Lanka stay above England momentum which has been lacking. in the International Cricket Coun- England chased down a revised cil ODI rankings and give them a Duckworth/Lewis target of 308 in morale boost ahead of Tuesday’s lone 42 overs with 11 balls to spare to win LONDON: Sri Lanka all-rounder Twenty20 in Southampton -- their Wednesday’s fourth ODI at The Oval Farveez Maharoof says the tour- final match of this tour. after opener Jason Roy made 162 on ists need to play the “perfect game” And a one-day win in the Welsh his Surrey home ground. if they are to defeat England in the capital would be timely given Sri Maharoof said that while England fifth and final one-day international Lanka will return to Cardiff during had batted well, Sri Lanka’s attack in Cardiff today. next year’s Champions Trophy -- a should have been able to defend a Maharoof’s team have yet to win tournament for the world’s top eight total of 305 for five. a match in England this tour, with ODI teams. “The batsmen have done a decent two drawn warm-up games preced- “It’s been a tough tour, losing the job up to now,” Maharoof said. “It was ing a 2-0 loss in a three-Test series Test series as well as the one-day- a good score in the last game -- it’s that ended in a rain-affected draw ers, but we just have to go again,” said just as a bowling unit we couldn’t hit at Lord’s. Maharoof in Cardiff on Friday. our straps.” Sri Lanka did win their two one- “It’s one more game and up to us However, Sri Lanka have looked dayers in Ireland but they now find to showcase our talent and willing- some way short of that standard themselves 2-0 down with one to ness to win. The boys are up for it, against England and Maharoof said: Qatar’s weightlifter, Faris Ibrahim confidently booked place in the Olympic Games 2016 to be held play in a five-match ODI campaign and we hope we can give it a good “It’s been tough work. from August 5 to 21 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The Qatari star secured his spot in Rio Olympic Games against England. show.” “The guys are putting in a lot of after winning two bronze medals at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships taking place Although they cannot win the He added: “We just have to play hard work, and I’m sure it will pay in Georgia, according Qatar Olympic Committee’s website. series, victory in Cardiff would a perfect game and get back the off one day.” Resurgent Ben Arfa makes Ibrahimovic reunited with ‘dream’ move to PSG

AFP pitch,” he added on PSG’s website. Ben Arfa moves to the French cap- Mourinho at United ital after a 17-goal haul last term which inspired Nice into a club-best PARIS: France international mid- third in the table. At Nice, under the fielder Hatem Ben Arfa has signed south coast club’s then coach Claude I am absolutely a two-year deal with Paris Saint- Puel, he shed his sometimes badboy Germain from Ligue 1 rivals Nice, image forged by various run-ins with delighted to be the French champions announced former coaches. joining Manchester yesterday. He had a largely disappointing “Paris Saint-Germain is happy to spell in England with Newcastle United and am announce the signing of Hatem Ben and a loan spell with Hull City fol- looking forward to Arfa’s contract until June 30, 2018,” lowed by six months out of the game playing in the Premier the club said on its Twitter account. in 2015 before his career-boosting The former Lyon, Marseille and move to Nice. League, says Swedish Newcastle winger becomes the club’s His arrival came the day after superstar first recruit since new Spanish coach PSG’s out of contract Swedish super- Unai Emery replaced Laurent Blanc star Zlatan Ibrahimovic announced this week. he was joining Manchester United. Both Emery and the gifted Ben Ben Arfa is the first signing of AFP Arfa will be officially presented by new coach Emery, who was named the club at their Parc des Princes Tuesday as the man to finally achieve ground on Monday by the club’s PSG’s long quest for Champions Qatari backer Nasser al-Khelaifi. League success. MANCHESTER: Swedish superstar The 29-year-old Ben Arfa, who Emery terminated his contract striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic completed missed out on Didier Deschamps’ with Sevilla this month, having his free transfer to Manchester United Euro 2016 squad, is available on a guided the Spanish side to three suc- yesterday, with coach Jose Mourinho free transfer after his contract with cessive Europa League titles. declaring: “He needs no introduction.” Nice expired this summer. Ben Arfa signed for the four-time The 34-year-old – who left “Paris Saint-Germain has always French champions after reported French champions Paris Saint Ger- had a special place in my heart and interest from Barcelona, Sevilla, main at the end of last season having wearing this jersey at the Parc des and one of his former teams, Lyon. This file photo taken on February 17, 2015 shows Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored 156 goals in 180 appearances Princes is a childhood dream,” said He made his debut for Lyon at – is reunited with Mourinho, under speaking with Chelsea’s Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho (right) at the end of the UEFA Champions Ben Arfa, who comes from Clamart just 17-years-old in 2004 and went whom he played at Inter Milan. League round of 16 match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Chelsea in Paris. on the outskirts of Paris. on to play 91 times for the club, win- Ibrahimovic is Mourinho’s sec- “I’d like to thank Nice, who ena- ning four straight Ligue 1 titles. ond signing of the summer after bled me to refind pleasure in playing He moved from there to highly rated Ivory Coast centre-back domestic league titles but never the delight fans at Old Trafford next sea- L’Equipe magazine. “Ligue 1 wasn’t football and to show the French Marseille in 2008, switching to New- Eric Bailly from the Spanish outfit Champions League, will not only be son and that his experience will be up to my level nor of the clubs where public what I’m capable of on the castle three years later. Villarreal. a crowd pleaser but also help the invaluable in helping to develop the I’d played before. “I am absolutely delighted to be development of younger players, said younger players in the squad.” “Its the simple truth. So there was joining Manchester United and am Mourinho. Mourinho has been tasked with clearly a risk to me, for my value, for This file photo taken looking forward to playing in the “Zlatan needs no introduction. making United realistic title contend- my image,” added Ibrahimovic. on November 10, Premier League,” said Ibrahimovic, The statistics speak for themselves. ers again after barren years under The blunt Swede, who aside from 2015 shows France’s who will help bring back some much- Ibra is one of the best strikers in the first David Moyes and then Louis PSG and Inter Milan also played forward Hatem Ben needed swagger to Old Trafford, along world and a player who always gives van Gaal, who was sacked having for AC Milan, Juventus, Barcelona Arfa arriving for a with Mourinho. 100 percent,” said Mourinho, who delivered the FA Cup but crucially and Ajax, said he had entered the press conference in “It goes without saying that I can- along with Ibrahimovic shares an not Champions League football for unknown by joining a French league Clairefontaine-en- not wait to work with Jose Mourinho antipathy towards Manchester City next season. that lacked the passion and the glam- Yvelines, outside once again. He is a fantastic manager manager Pep Guardiola. “He has won Ibrahimovic, who hit 62 goals in our of Serie A. Paris. and I am ready for this new and excit- the most important league champion- 116 appearances for Sweden before He rounded the interview off with ing challenge. ships in the world of football, now he retiring after a miserable Euro 2016, a typical flourish. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my has the opportunity to play in the best couldn’t resist leaving France without “I symbolised for a while Paris’s career so far and have some great league in the world and I know he will a trademark burst of frank speaking. image,” said Ibrahimovic, who had a memories. I am now ready to create grasp this opportunity and will work “I wasn’t expecting very much poor Euro 2016, failing to score and more special memories in England.” hard to help the team win titles. of Ligue 1 when I signed for PSG,” he quitting after Sweden’s first-round Ibrahimovic, who has won 11 “I am certain that his talent will told Sport & Style, a supplement to elimination. Djokovic facing Wimbledon humiliation as Serena, Venus survive

Serena Williams AFP on the outside courts. By that stage, compatriot Christina McHale 6-7 teenager Daria Kasatkina 7-5, 4-6, celebrates her win only 17 of the scheduled 32 ties had (7/9), 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Court, only 10-8 in a tie featuring a rain stoppage against Christina McHale been completed. just avoiding what would have been when she held match point. during their women’s Djokovic, who has an 8-1 record her earliest-ever Wimbledon defeat. Williams, 36, was 7-6, 40-30 up singles second round LONDON: World number one and over Querrey, has made at least the The six-time Wimbledon cham- on Kasatkina’s serve in the final set match at Wimbledon at defending champion Novak Djoko- quarter-finals on his last seven visits pion will face Germany’s Annika Beck on Court One when play was halted. The All England Lawn vic was facing Wimbledon humiliation to Wimbledon since losing to Marat for a place in the last 16. Seventy-five minutes later, the Tennis Club, yesterday. yesterday before rain saved him from Safin in the second round eight years “It was a really good match. She players returned with Kasatkina his worst defeat at the tournament ago. played great and she always plays saving the match point, the second since 2008. He has also made the last eight of great against me,” Williams said after of the day. The three-time champion, who each of the last 28 Grand Slams since seeing off the world number 65. But Williams eventually tri- is already halfway to the first calen- losing to Philipp Kohlschreiber in the “I know mentally no-one can umphed at the third time of asking dar Grand Slam in 47 years, dropped third round of the 2009 French Open. break me. I knew, down a break in the when the 19-year-old dumped a fore- the first two sets of his third round Meanwhile, Serena and Venus third, that I was going to have to put hand into the net. clash against American 28th seed Sam Williams survived marathon duels as my mind in it and that’s what I did.” Williams, the eighth seed, goes on Querrey 7-6 (8/6), 6-1. the rain, which has plagued the tour- Serena was far from her best, to face Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro But after just 73 minutes of action, nament, forced organisers to consider even picking up a code violation for for a place in the quarter-finals. rain sent them running for cover off playing on the middle Sunday for the smashing her racquet into the turf at “I’m not sure I’ve ever played a Court One, giving 12-time major win- first time since 2004. one stage. 10-8 set. That was pretty intense. All ner Djokovic welcome sanctuary World number one and defend- Five-time champion Venus you can think is ‘hold serve’. Easier before play was called off for the day ing champion Serena defeated US reached the last-16, seeing off Russian said than done,” said the American. SPORT SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 23

Iceland’s Iceland shirt is Euro 2016’s success is must-have item

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matter ANNECY: Iceland’s march to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals has caught the football world AFP by surprise - and left new- found fans struggling to get their hands on a replica shirt. ANNECY: The jokes have been doing Iceland’s eye-catching blue the rounds on social media since Ice- playing shirt has become the land’s stunning 2-1 victory over England tournament’s must-have item put them in the Euro 2016 quarter- after their shock 2-1 win over finals. England in the last 16 thanks Kolbeinn Sigporsson’s winning goal to Kolbeinn Sigthorsson’s win- made him a hero in Iceland while the ning goal. last 16 defeat signalled the end of Roy Because of the Nordic Hodgson’s career as England manager. nation’s European Cham- “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, pionship success in beating We’re out of the Euros, And out of the England demand for the shirts EU #engice,” quipped one England fan has been almost 2,000 percent after Monday’s defeat and the Brexit German players warm up during a higher than expected, Iceland referendum. training session at the team’s training team press officer Omar Smar- Now hosts France are the next grounds in Evian yesterday, on the ason said yesterday. big name hoping to avoid being made eve of their Euro 2016 quarter-final laughing stocks by the Nordic minnows match between against Italy. in tomorrow’s quarter-final in Paris. A big chunk of Iceland’s population Poland exit ‘not of 330,000 is in France to support their team and the island is going nuts for the end’ for football. The mood in the Iceland camp is Germany desperate to snap Nawalka relaxed. There are lots of jokes in their press conferences alongside a confident air AFP of determination. “This is the biggest game in our his- tory,” said midfielder Birkir Bjarnason. out of Italy nightmare MARSEILLE: Poland’s “I don’t think any team is going to heartbreaking Euro 2016 quar- underestimate us after the England ter-final exit to Portugal on result.” penalties should not dampen Unusually, the team has two game to the Italians going back manager Oliver Bierhoff. “This is a matches. Their so-called three- optimism of great things to coaches -- Heimir Hallgrimsson, who almost half a century but are con- new game, maybe the Italians are man BBC defence, led by Giorgio come, insisted coach Adam works as a part-time dentist, alongside World champions yet fident they can end a streak that even stronger than in 2012 and we Chiellini playing alongside Juven- Nawalka. Sweden’s Lars Lagerback. to concede a goal in includes one World Cup final and have been warned. tus teammates Andrea Barzagli and Jakub Blaszczykowski’s “We’re the team behind the team,” two semi-finals and the Euro 2012 But the game will start from Leonardo Bonucci, has been key to spot-kick was saved by Rui said Lagerback. the tournament and last four. zero for both teams and the past their success. Patricio as Portugal prevailed The duo have shared the duties confident despite poor There are signs that it be Ger- does not interest us.” “We have the Juve trio who 5-3 in the shootout after Ren- since 2014, but this is their last joint record against Azzurri many’s turn to smile today, with the Coach Joachim Loew will have a guide us, they’ve not been winning ato Sanches had cancelled out venture and Hallgrimsson, 49, will take 2014 World Cup winners having yet full squad to choose from with Jonas for five years for nothing,” said fel- Robert Lewandowski’s quick- over after Euro 2016 as head coach. to concede a goal in the tournament. Hector having recovered from the low defender Mattia De Sciglio. fire opener in Marseille. Media interest in the smallest After topping Group C with two flu and captain Bastian Schwein- Conte will likely be without Poland were unbeaten nation to qualify for a major tourna- wins and a draw, they quickly dis- steiger fully fit after playing only a midfielder Daniele De Rossi, who in their five games in France ment has exploded since the England Reuters posed of Slovakia 3-0 in the round minor role so far following a long- picked up a thigh injury in Monday’s and Nawalka believes there win. of 16 with an impressive perform- term injury. 2-0 win over holders Spain. Thi- is cause to look forward to “Things went a bit crazy,” said press ance in which their frontline burst “I feel Bastian is ready now. He ago Motta, his usual replacement, the World Cup in Russia in officer Omar Smarason. into life after three below-par belongs to the players that Loew can is missing through suspension. two years time with plenty Journalists want to know the secret BORDEAUX: Title contenders Ger- performances. now count on 100 percent,” Bierhoff That is unlikely to deter the Ital- of hope. behind Iceland’s success, but the simple many will come face to face with Forward Mario Gomez, ini- said. ians, according to De Sciglio. “I hope this is the begin- answer is hard work -- and not being their ultimate tournament night- tially left on the bench, has now Antonio Conte’s Italy lack the big “Conte would be on the pitch ning not the end. We are still “sloppy”. mare when they take on Italy in struck once in each of their last two names of the past but were among with us if he could be,” he said. making progress,” he said. “We have set guidelines to work their Euro 2016 quarter-final in Bor- matches and looks set to spearhead four teams unbeaten in qualifying “He has taught us to fight for every “This tournament has within, it’s about creating a standard deaux today. their attack again. for the tournament and have kept inch. Fighting for every ball is proven that, both in the group both on and off the pitch,” explained The world champions have lost “We know that everything will their momentum going in France, our strength as we do not possess stage and the knockout stage.” Lagerback. every single tournament knockout be demanded from us,” said team conceding just one goal in their four superstars.” “For example, standards were a lit- tle sloppy and in the euphoria of the win (over England), a few of the guys were late to dinner the day after. “Normally we’re flexible, but that was one of the details we brought up. Ronaldo’s ‘dream’ still alive after shootout win “’Don’t think you are over the hill just because you beat England - keep the standard’ “I think the best way to challenge a footballer is to ask if he is 100 percent AFP cherishes is a world or European title. side of the area and hit a fierce shot professional.” And at 31, he knows time is running that deflected off Grzegorz Krychowiak There was nothing sloppy about out. and beat Lukasz Fabianski at his near how Iceland qualified for France. “The dream is getting closer and post. They made the football world take MARSEILLE: Cristiano Ronaldo took anything can happen now. I’m not Portugal should have hit the win- notice by beating the Netherlands home his “dream” of an international title missing anything (in honours) and even ner on 85 minutes, but after sneaking and away. Before that, Iceland almost another step closer when Portugal if my career finished today I would still behind Pazan to meet a high ball from qualified for the 2014 World Cup before beat Poland in a penalty shootout to feel privileged,” said the Real Madrid substitute Joao Moutinho, Ronaldo’s left losing a play-off to Croatia. reach the European Championship star. foot failed to connect with what looked Iceland had finished second-bot- semi-finals. “But I’ve always said, and I don’t like a simple chance. tom of their group in the Euro 2008 Robert Lewandowski scored barely hide it, that I would love to win a title Goalkeeper Rui Patricio and and Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns. 100 seconds into the latest night of with the national team. We’re on the Ricardo Quaresma were Portugal’s Iceland’s success in France is Euro 2016 drama before Portugal right road.” shootout heroes. Patricio dived left the fruit of a decision made by their unleashed the player who many say Poland started strongly, with Rob- to save Jakub Blaszczykowski’s tame national football association (KSI) could lead the country’s post-Ron- ert Lewandowski scoring his first goal fourth shot for the Poles, who had fifteen years ago to invest in indoor aldo era. of Euro 2016 before the stadium had reached the quarter-finals for the first football arenas and improve coaching. Making his first start at Euro 2016, settled. Kamil Grosicki hurried past time. Quaresma was next up for Por- Lagerback has also been important. Renato Sanches, a powerful 18-year- Southampton right-back Cedric Soares tugal and made no mistake firing high Before he started to work with Ice- old and already a 35 million euro ($38 to deliver a great cross for Lewand- into the net to beat Fabianski. land in 2011, the 67-year-old had taken million) player, smashed home a 25 owski to drive past a flailing Rui Ronaldo looked vulnerable, but his native Sweden to five major finals and metre drive to equalise the match that Patricio as Poland made a flying start. Portugal coach Fernando Santos hailed coached Nigeria at the 2010 World Cup. went into extra time and then penalties. It was the Polish striker’s first his performance as “amazing”. “His contribution has been price- Sanches followed Ronaldo in hit- goal of the competition, after hitting “People focus on Ronaldo because less,” said Hallgrimsson. ting home his spot kick as Portugal a record 13 in qualifying. he has to score, but he played amaz- “You have to realise that Iceland is won 5-3, having again failed to win a Sanches, his new teammate at Bay- ing, he is a great captain.” a very small country, the coaches there game in the alloted 90 minutes. That ern Munich, came to Portugal’s rescue. Poland were disconsolate. are amateurs. did not prevent relieved Portuguese German referee Felix Brych waved “It hurts and it will hurt for a “So to have a guy come in, with all Portugal’s defender Fonte celebrations. away Ronaldo’s claims for a penalty on long time,” Lewandowski said as he his international experience, was a big and skipper Cristiano Ronaldo said it had been an “unfor- 31 minutes despite replays suggesting watched Ronaldo celebrate. deal,” added Hallgrimsson. Ronaldo celebrate after getable” night as Portugal had reached the Real Madrid star was bundled over Portugal play Belgium or Wales. Results in France have put Iceland winning the Euro 2016 their target of a semi-final place. “Eve- by centre-back Michal Pazdan as he The final two quarter finals are on the footballing map, but Hall- quarter-final match ryone should be congratulated.” went to meet a cross. between Germany and Italy today, grimsson says the challenge is to carry against Poland at the But the Real Madrid star acknowl- Two minutes later, Sanches col- followed by France against underdogs the success into the 2018 World Cup Stade Velodrome in edged again that the prize he really lected Nani’s cutback from the right Iceland tomorrow. qualifiers. Marseille on Thursday. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 IbrahimovicIbrah reunited Ronaldo’s ‘dream’ with Mourinho still alive after at United shootout win

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Sagna warns France to avoid last-minute heroics

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CLAIREFONTAINE-EN-YVE- LINES, France: France risk being “punished” if they keep on win- ning Euro 2016 games at the last minute, defender Bacary Sagna warned yesterday. The Manchester City star said that Iceland - France’s quarter- Saevarsson final opponents tomorrow- are the Leicester City of the European Championship and France’s status wants max as a favourite could be a handicap in the match. “We are the hosts and maybe focus for we have put extra pressure on our- selves by taking time to get into it,” Wales’ Sam Vokes scores their third goal against Belgium during the Euro Sagna told a press conference at France 2016 Quarter-final played at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, France yesterday. the French team base. “There have been a lot of matches where we have made the AFP difference in the final minutes and one day we will be punished,” he added. ANNECY: Birkir Mar Saevarsson Late goals saw France to group says Iceland can not afford to wins over Romania and Albania lose concentration for a second Rampant Wales outplay and they drew their last game against hosts France in tomor- against Switzerland 0-0. row’s Euro 2016 quarter-final if Coach Didier Deschamps had they want another upset result. to read a half-time riot act to get Iceland made the footballing the French to step up the pace world sit up by dumping England against the Republic of Ireland in out of the European Champi- the last 16. onship finals with a shock 2-1 Belgium, reach semis “We have got to be active from win in the last 16 to set up Sun- the warm-up and not wait for half- day’s quarterfinal at the Stade time to talk to each other and get de France. Wales talisman Gareth Bale will other previous tournament-winners and Courtois fielding Bale’s low shot into it,” said Sagna. France will be “better and now go head-to-head with his Real in this half of the draw, defeat repre- and a Robson-Kanu header. The veteran defender said more cohesive” than England, Robson-Kanu Madrid team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo sented a massive missed opportunity. Wilmots stiffened his midfield at France needed to concentrate from said right-back Saevarsson who spearheads historic when the tournament’s last British Heavy pre-match downpours half-time, sending on Marouane Fel- the start. ensured England’s left winger representatives face Portugal in Lyon in Lille heightened fears about the laini for Carrasco, and his side made “When we meet a more com- Raheem Sterling had a quiet 3-1 win to book on Wednesday. pitch, which was relaid just a week a flying start to the second period, pact team that handles the end of game in Nice. Portugal meeting In beating Belgium, who they ago, but the slick playing surface held with Lukaku, De Bruyne and Haz- matches better, it will not work,” he “We expect a different game also defeated in qualifying, Chris firm and provided the platform for ard all narrowly missing the target. warned of France’s trend of scor- to the one against England, the Coleman’s men surpassed the Wales an electrifying game. But it was Wales who scored next ing last-gasp winners. French play at a higher tempo, greats of 1958, whose quarter-final In the 13th minute Belgium with a 55th-minute goal that lit up Sagna hailed Iceland’s per- but they also have dangerous AFP showing at that year’s World Cup in went ahead when Nainggolan met the tournament. Ramsey’s lofted formance in slaying England to individuals. They are better and Sweden had been the country’s best Hazard’s lay-off with a blistering cross from the right found Robson- reach the quarter-finals. more cohesive than England,” previous achievement. 30-yard shot that whistled into the Kanu, who took Thomas Meunier, “They are kind of the Leices- said the 31-year-old defender. But they will have to do without top-left corner. Fellaini and Jason Denayer out of ter of Euro 2016,” he said. Saevarsson plies his trade LILLE: Hal Robson-Kanu scored a both Ben Davies and Aaron Ramsey, Welsh indiscipline at the back the game with a sublime Cruyff turn “They deserve to be there. for Swedish side Hammarby sensational goal as Wales came from who set up two of the Wales goals, was costing them as Davies, James before planting a shot past Courtois. They showed in the qualifying and is preparing for the biggest behind to stun Belgium 3-1 in yester- after they received bookings that Chester and Chris Gunter all picked In a taut finish to the game, Fel- tournament that they could beat game of his career at the sold- day’s Euro 2016 quarter-final in Lille ruled them out of the semi-final. up bookings, the former’s yellow laini and Ramsey also received the big teams like Netherlands and out Stade de France. and reach their first major tourna- Belgium coach Marc Wilmots will card ruling him out of the semi-final. suspension-incurring bookings, Czech Republic. He described the differ- ment semi-final. face difficult questions about his fail- But their reaction to falling the latter tarnishing perhaps his “It is a quality team and you ence to playing at a Euro finals Radja Nainggolan gave Belgium ure to achieve more with one of his behind was exemplary and after Neil best ever Wales performance with must not underestimate them. The compared to Swedish league a 13th-minute lead, but Ashley Wil- nation’s finest collections of football- Taylor had been denied by Thibaut a needless handball. danger is that it is Iceland and us,” football. liams equalised before a dazzling ers, who also fell in the last eight at Courtois, Williams met Ramsey’s Belgium huffed and puffed, said Sagna. “The players here are bet- strike from Robson-Kanu, whose the 2014 World Cup. right-wing corner with a thumping Fellaini heading wide and Wil- “We are capable of being the ter and quicker, they have more contract with English second-tier He was missing three of his downward header to equalise. liams being very fortunate to avoid best, but we have a status and we technique, so you must keep club Reading expired on Thurs- four first-choice defenders - Vin- The goal seemed to unsettle conceding a penalty for catching have to live up to it. We want to do your concentration or you get day, and a late header by substitute cent Kompany and Jan Vertonghen Belgium and Wales ended the first Nainggolan, before Vokes delivered too well and sometimes that holds punished,” he said. Sam Vokes earned Wales a historic through injury, Thomas Vermaelen half on top, with Williams heading the coup de grace with a stunning us back.” victory. through suspension - but with no another Ramsey corner over the bar header from Gunter’s cross. “We have to be ready and grab the match from the start.” Sagna said that France have to start against Iceland like they finished against the Irish, in com- plete control. Italy must be extraordinary to beat Germany: Conte While Iceland have been enjoying their newfound star sta- tus, France have been cloistered Reuters work cut out to overcome world our opposition,” he added. “If you top players willing to work hard, we away from the press for most of champions Germany, who are yet can bring together talent and organ- can overcome obstacles that appear the past two weeks by Deschamps. to concede a goal at Euro 2016 and isation like they have, you have a difficult from the start.” Sagna said this had brought thumped Slovakia 3-0 in the round heady mix. Italy have an enviable record “serenity” to the team. BORDEAUX: Having eliminated of 16. “It’s no surprise they’re world against Germany at major tourna- “We need to be together. The holders Spain, Italy coach Antonio Nonetheless, Conte is qui- champions. They are the best team ments, having won all four of their public fever in France is unimag- Conte (pictured) is quietly confi- etly confident that Italy can again in the world.” knockout stage meetings, includ- inable and it is good for the team dent his side can pull off another prove the doubters wrong and top- Despite gloomy pre-tourna- ing the Euro 2012 semi-final against but it does us good as well to work major victory in today’s quarter- ple a side he considers to be the best ment forecasts, Italy have emerged Joachim Lowe’s much fancied side together in calm. final against old nemesis Germany, on the planet. as genuine title contenders after in Warsaw. Sagna said he had “grown in a team he considers to be the “We did something extraor- silencing their critics. “There are a number of par- maturity” by watching the chaotic world’s best. dinary against Spain,” Conte told “When we started our jour- allels between tomorrow’s match events in the team camp in South Despite being considered before reporters on Friday, “and tomor- ney we had little credibility in the and the previous Euros,” said goal- Africa after Nicolas Anelka was the tournament as having one of the row we have to do something even eyes of the Italian press and the keeper Gianluigi Buffon. sent home. weakest Italy teams in years, Conte more extraordinary. We have a lot international media,” Conte said. “On paper, the gap between To lose in the quarter-final or has forged a cohesive unit and mas- of respect for Germany, they are the “Everyone thought it was the dark the two sides could be even greater semi-final would be “a failure”, he terminded a run to the last eight number one side in the world, but days regarding talent in the Ital- considering they’ve won the World declared. after topping Group E and ousting we will try and play our hand as ian game. Cup in the meantime.” “I am not thinking about defeat the European titleholders 2-0. we did against Spain. We are well “We’ve shown that through hard “We know there will be diffi- today. I am not thinking about However, they will have their aware of our strengths and those of work, organisation and having 23 culties,” added Conte. going on holiday anytime soon.”