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Qatar soar in FIFA’s first PM opens Al Majd Road ranking of 2019 QNA The largest road project links Al Wakrah, Al Khor & Lusail ZURICH Newly-crowned Asian cham- The new road, part of a 195km-long road pions Qatar have climbed to project, extends from Mesaieed to Al Khor 55th in the latest FIFA World and Lusail. Al Majd Road provides seven Ranking, gaining 38 places lanes of free-flow dual carriageway with the and reaching their best position since 1993 — on the capacity of over 14,000 vehicles per hour in back of their stunning success each direction. in Asian Tournament. The Asian runner ups, SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Japan, gained 23 places THE PENINSULA climbing to the 27th, whereas South Korea reached 38th, climbing 15 places. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Jordan jumped 12 posi- Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani inaugurated yesterday Al Majd Road tions to reach the 97th place, which is the largest road project in the country. Iraq eight positions to reach The new road, part of a 195km-long road project, extends the 80th and Iranian team, from Mesaieed to Al Khor and Lusail. Al Majd Road provides seven the leader of the Asian lanes of free-flow dual carriageway with the capacity of over Ranking climbed seven steps 14,000 vehicles per hour in each direction reducing over 50 to occupy the 22nd place in percent travel times. It has two dedicated lanes for trucks and the international ranking. five lanes for light vehicles in each side. The top ten positions The road was named after Tamim Al Majd, the symbol of pride remained unchanged toped aPrime Minister and and resilience in facing the blockade imposed on Qatar. Ahmed by Belgium, followed by Interior Minister H E Al Maadheed, the artist behind the iconic Tamim Al Majd portrait France, Brazil, Croatia, gifted a painting depicting Al Majd Road to the Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin England, Portugal, Uruguay, during the opening ceremony. The Prime Minister witnessed flag Nasser bin Khalifa Al Switzerland, Spain and march on Al Majd Road. Thani inaugurating the Denmark, respectively. The ceremony included the announcement of the completion 195km Al Majd Road. As for the African teams, of construction works of four new roads totalling 195 kilometre Senegal maintained their lead in length, including Mesaieed Road, Hamad Port Road, Al Wukair _A map showing in the 24th position of the Road as well as Al Majd Road. The construction work of four new the route of the newly- FIFA ranking, followed by roads totalling 195km commenced in 2014. opened Al Majd Road Tunisia in the 28th and The event was attended by the Speaker of the Shura Council, H which connects all the Morocco in the 43rd place. E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud; Minister of Transport major highways in Qatar. and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti; Minister of Finance H E Ali Shareef Al Emadi; Minister of Municipality and Environment
Vehicles passing Al Khulaifi elected H E Eng. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie; President of through the new road the Public Works Authority (Ashghal), Dr. Saad bin Ahmed Al after the opening to UEFA Executive Mohannadi a number of diplomats and other senior officials. `P2 ceremony. PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA Committee

The four mega road projects 89 million 7 million 1,300,000 10,000 200,000 The four new roads took 4 years Tonnes of Cubic meters light poles were installed along Tonnes of reinforcement and approximately 89 million asphalt used of concrete the road for greater safety. steel used working hours to construct.

QNA QP, partners announce UN: Khashoggi murder ROME Nasser Al Khelaifi (pictured), planned, carried out the Qatari President of French major condensate giants Paris Saint-Germain, was yesterday officially by Saudi officials appointed club representative discovery in South Africa on UEFA’s Executive Committee, at the Congress REUTERS planned and perpetrated by offi- of European football’s THE PENINSULA The Brulpadda well that will enable Qatar Petroleum GENEVA cials of the State of Saudi Arabia,” governing body in Rome. DOHA encountered a gas to grow and expand our inter- Agnes Callamard, U N special rap- The 45-year-old had been condensate pay in national footprint.” A United Nations-led inquiry porteur for extrajudicial summary elected at the end of January Qatar Petroleum and its Lower Cretaceous Al Kaabi added: “I would like into the murder of Saudi jour- or arbitrary executions, said in at a meeting of the Executive partners, led by Total, to congratulate our partners, nalist Jamal Khashoggi said statement. Saudi officials had Committee of the European announced yesterday a signif- reservoirs. Following and to thank Total for the out- yesterday that evidence pointed “seriously undermined” and Club Association (ECA) which icant gas condensate discovery the success of the main standing performance that led to a brutal crime “planned and delayed Turkey’s efforts to inves- defends the interests of big in the Brulpadda prospects, objective, the well was to this important discovery.” perpetrated” by Saudi officials. tigate the crime scene at its European clubs and is chaired located in Block 11B/12B in the deepened to a final This discovery has opened Khashoggi’s killing by a team Istanbul consulate for 13 days in by Juventus president Andrea Outeniqua Basin, 175 kilometers depth of 3,633 metres. up a new play in South Africa of Saudi operatives on October October, she said. Agnelli. off the southern coast of South where Qatar Petroleum and its 2 provoked widespread revulsion Callamard, reporting on a But his candidacy had yet Africa. Energy Affairs, President & CEO partners are well positioned to and tarnished the image of week-long mission with her to be ratified and was done The Brulpadda well encoun- of Qatar Petroleum, H E Saad bin test other prospects on the same Crown Prince Mohammed bin team of three experts to Turkey, so during the UEFA Congress, tered a gas condensate pay in Sherida Al Kaabi, said: “We are block. Salman, previously admired in said that they had had access which was done yesterday. Lower Cretaceous reservoirs. pleased to announce the Brul- Block 11B/12B covers an area the West for pushing deep to part of “chilling and “I would like to thank Following the success of the padda discovery as the first dis- of 19,000sqkm, with water changes including tax reform, gruesome audio material” of again my esteemed col- main objective, the well was covery in Qatar Petroleum’s depths ranging from 200 to infrastructure projects and Khashoggi’s death obtained by leagues at ECA for trusting deepened to a final depth of international exploration ven- 1,800 metres. It is operated by allowing women to drive. the Turkish intelligence agency. me to represent them on the 3,633 metres and has also been tures. This achievement is an Total with a 45 percent working “Evidence collected during Callamard said that she had UEFA Executive Committee,” successful in the Brulpadda- important milestone that reflects interest, alongside Qatar my mission to Turkey shows “major concerns” about the said Al Khelaifi expressing deep prospect. the soundness of our strategy, Petroleum (25 percent), CNR prime facie case that Mr. fairness of proceedings for the 11 happiness for being a part Commenting on this in which international explo- International (20 percent) and Khashoggi was the victim of a Saudis facing trial and had sought of European “football occasion, Minister of State for ration forms an important pillar Main Street (10 percent). brutal and premeditated killing, an official visit to the kingdom. family”. 02 HOME FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019

Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, with Minister of Finance, H E Ali Shareef Al Emadi; Minister of Transport and Communications, H E Jassim bin aif Al Sulaiti; Minister of Culture and Sports, H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali; Speaker of the Advisory Council, H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud, with other officials during the opening of the Al Majd Road, the longest road that links Al Wakrah, Al Khor and Lusail, which connects several other roads and residential areas in the country. PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT / THE PENINSULA PM opens largest road project ‘Al Majd’ FROM PAGE 1 infrastructure. He added that Al Majd Moreover, it will foster colossal Road will be the main artery of Qatar’s investment opportunities, enhance The previous two lanes in each road network and it will facilitate existing commercial activities through direction Truck Route was upgraded access to 2022 FIFA World Cup sta- the provision of direct access to Qatar’s to seven lanes in each direction com- diums and it has been delivered four airports, sea, and land ports. prising a dedicated two lane truck route years in advance. Al Majd Road is linked to Al Wukair and five lanes for light vehicles. The “Al Majd Road forms a major part Road, G Ring Road, Salwa Road, Al median along the full stretch of the of the integrated road network being Sailiya Road, Dukhan Road, Al Rufaa project’s highway serves as provision constructed by Ashghal and will serve Street, Al Shamal Road to Al Khor for a future road expansion to a pos- the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It provides Expressway on one end and Rass Laffan sible nine lanes or a potential railway direct connectivity to both Al Rayyan on the other. track. and Lusail Stadium and facilitates Al Majd Road serves approximately H E the Minister of Transport and access to all other stadiums namely Al 30 residential areas such as Mesaieed, Communications, while speaking to the Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Al Wakra Al Wakra, Al Wukair, south of Doha media person of the sidelines of the Stadium, Al Thumama Stadium, Ras Bu including Ain Khalid, Umm Al Seneem. event, expressed that the inauguration Abboud Stadium south, as well as Edu- Also, Al Waab, Al Aziziya, Al Murra, Abu of Al Majd Road will be a major con- cation City Stadium and Khalifa Inter- Nakhla, Mekaines, Muaither, Al Sailiya, tributor to the country’s transport national Stadium,” said the Al Mearad. infrastructure and will lead to a boom President. It facilitates access to Al Wajba, Al in the internal and external trade. Al Majd Road is a vital arterial road Rayyan, Al Shahaniyah, Dukhan, Al It will allow free flow movement that beats in the heart of Qatar. It flows Kheesa, Umm Slal Mohammed, Umm of goods and people across key access from south of Qatar to north and east Slal Ali areas, all the way to Lusail and A view of the flag march at the opening of the Al Majd Road. and trade points in Qatar. Al Majd Road to serve current and future urban com- the Pearl. Moreover, it connects to directly connects to Hamad Port in the munities on either side of it. These areas in the north such as Al Khor, and south and will provide efficient access H E Minister of Finance, said that the name of the road came after “Tamim communities will be hubs for economic, Rass Laffan. to Rass Laffan and Al Ruwais Port to strategic leadership allocated an ade- the Glorious” the symbol of pride and industrial and agricultural trade as well The opening of Al Majd Road con- the north. It will also facilitate access quate budget to complete this project. resilience in facing the blockade as contributing to the development of tributes to the completion of 2022 FIFA to Hamad International Airport. He added that the government is com- imposed on Qatar. the modern state that is Qatar. World Cup infrastructure on time. It In further reference to the road’s mitted to providing the dedicated funds He added that Al Majd Road serves Al Majd Road, being the core of the also provides direct access to several significance, the Minister highlighted to deliver and develop various infra- many municipalities and facilitates road network in Qatar, will be a key stadiums including Al Rayyan stadium, that Al Majd road serves many eco- structure projects especially the road traffic flow and access to 30 residential component of the significant transfor- Al Khor stadium and Lusail stadium. nomic areas, such as the Industrial network that will facilitate access to areas. mation of the land transport network. The new road facilitates access to area, Economic zones Company 2022 FIFA World Cup stadiums. The President of Ashghal, said that It will be indispensable in developing Al Wakra stadium, Al Thumama (Manateq), and the Mesaieed Industrial H E Minister of Municipality and the completion of this road on schedule, adjacent areas and creating new resi- stadium and Ras Abu Abboud Stadium Area. In addition, it is connected to Environment said that the inauguration despite the unjust blockade on Qatar, dential areas, which may lead to a as well as Qatar Foundation Stadium; Lusail City from one side and facilitates of Al Majd Road has a great meaning proves that the country is fast pro- radical change in Qatars’ Khalifa Stadium and other sports facil- access to the business hubs in West Bay. and significance, explaining that the gressing in delivering world-class demographic. ities and training grounds.

Shura Council Mazzraty celebrates success of its products participates in Arab Parliament “Our products are free of hormones and antibiotics and come from production facility hearing session which is fully automated. The chickens are THE PENINSULA slaughtered in fully automated line with no DOHA human interaction involved,” Saad Al Mana, Spokesperson, Al Mana Holding told The A Shura Council delegation Peninsula. “We have begun distributing our chaired by the Deputy Speaker of the Council, H E products to all major outlets in Qatar,” he Mohammed bin Abdullah Al added. Sulaiti, in a hearing session held by the Arab Parliament at the headquarters of League SACHIN KUMAR THE PENINSULA Qatar,” he added. of Arab States in Cairo, to The Qatari company has full remove the Republic of the control over the supply chain Sudan for the list of States Mazzraty, a subsidiary of Al to ensure high quality of the sponsoring terrorism. Mana Holding, yesterday cele- product. The company imports The session is held based brated success of its products eggs from Belgium and after on the resolution of the at Monoprix at Doha Festival that the entire process from Council of the League of Arab City. hatching, breeding to slaugh- States at its 29th ordinary The company launched its tering and packaging is done at session to adopt the plan of hormone and antibiotic free the company’s production the Arab Parliament to chicken products in January in facility. remove the name of Sudan Qatar. The current production from the list of States spon- The products come from its capacity of the company can be soring terrorism.The reso- state-of-the-art production expanded to meet additional lution calls on the Arab Par- facility spread over 2 million demand. The officials of Mazzraty at the launch of its products at Monoprix at Doha Festival City yesterday. liament to implement the square metre area in Abu Nakla. “If needed, we can expand provisions of this plan and “Our products are free of the capacity of our existing pro- process. “By launching our “We are ready to provide analyse and provide scientific enable it to move at all levels hormones and antibiotics and duction facility by 100 percent, products in the market, we have not only high-quality fresh food information on poultry pro- to implement it. A delegation come from production facilities to meet excess demand in the made our contribution to to the final customer, but also duction, apply full environ- from the Shura Council will fully automated with no human future. We have the ability to Qatar’s self sufficiency in the top-level feedstock to other mental friendly technology such participate in the third session interaction involved,” Saad Al increase it in six months,” Al poultry products,” he said. producers in the agricultural as treatment water facilities and of the Third Legislative Term Mana, Spokesperson, Al Mana Mana added. The poultry products are business”, explained the solar energy panels, and follow of the Arab Parliament, to be Holding told The Peninsula. The company said that res- not costly as company has kept company. advanced techniques of air held at the Arab League head- “We have begun distributing idents of Qatar can visit the pro- prices in line with other Mazzraty also has built the chilling processes and sealed quarters in Cairo from Feb- our products to all all outlets in duction facility to see the companies. largest lab in the country to packaging. ruary 10-12. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 HOME 03 MOCI participates in expo Qatar, Italy hold round of political consultations of ‘Sanea’ competition

THE PENINSULA The Ministry’s the most important facts about DOHA participation is aimed intellectual property and the essential role it plays in eve- The Ministry of Commerce and at raising awareness ryday life. The campaign shed Industry (MOCI) has participated of the importance of light on intellectual property in the exhibition of “Sanea” intellectual property protection and students were competition 2019 which was familiarised with the impor- organised by Qatar Scientific protection and tance of registering intellectual Club in cooperation with the promoting innovation property rights, copyrights or Ministry of Education and and creativity among trademarks to protect creative Higher Education. students. ideas against infringements The Ministry’s participation Students were also briefed in the exhibition is aimed at on the Ministry’s initiatives in raising awareness of the impor- Commerce and Industry and the terms of adopting the highest tance of intellectual property Qatar Scientific Club, in a bid to international standards in the protection and promoting inno- instill a culture of intellectual protection of intellectual vation and creativity among stu- property rights in the local com- property rights as well as pro- dents, innovators and inventors, munity, and to enable inno- viding a high-quality integrated A round of political consultations was held yesterday in Rome between the foreign ministries of Qatar to equip youth with the prac- vators and inventors to protect electronic system to support and and Italy. The Qatari side was chaired by the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tical and professional skills to their inventions. enable owners of trademarks, protect their inventions. During the event, the Min- inventors, innovators, authors H E Dr Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi, whereas, the Italian side was chaired by the Secretary-General The participation in the istry organised an awareness and holders of neighbouring of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic, Elisabetta event comes also within the campaign to introduce sec- rights to preserve their rights Belloni. During the consultations, they discussed bilateral relations and ways to boost and develop framework of the ongoing coop- ondary school students to a and protect their work and them in various fields, in addition to discussing the latest regional and international developments. eration between the Ministry of beginner’s guide that outlines inventions. QU’s Research New offer introduced on Ooredoo tv Qatari students take part in and Graduate ‘Maker Fair’ expo in Kuwait Studies section THE PENINSULA Entertainment, Movies, Pehla as is a quality product and reliable DOHA Prime Add-on, Pehla Variety service. We’re delighted to THE PENINSULA hosts Open Day Add-on and Pinoy Add-on announce this new promotion for DOHA Ooredoo announced yesterday an And if this is not enough, OSN our Ooredoo tv customers, which exciting new offer for its Ooredoo subscribers on Ooredoo tv can now will mean they get even more value The Ministry of Education and Higher Education is partic- THE PENINSULA tv customers, bringing even more have access to OSN’s online on- from their subscriptions. We hope ipating in the activities of the 2019 manufacturer’s inter- DOHA value and content to its subscribers. demand service, OSN Play, and they’ll use these OSN add-ons to national exhibition ‘Maker Fair’, in its third edition, Ooredoo tv customers can now enjoy live channels and over 1,000 discover new channels and make currently held in Kuwait. Qatar University (QU) enjoy premium entertainment with hours of premium entertainment the most of Ooredoo tv.” The Qatari delegation participating in the exhibition Research and Graduate an OSN add-on of their choice, for anytime, anywhere and on any The promotion will run for two comprises a group of high school students and two super- Studies section conducted three months at no additional cost device. Content includes movies, months starting from February 6, visors. A number of activities and events are scheduled Open Day to provide infor- when subscribing to an OSN basic series, comedy, talk shows, Arabic 2019, and is open to new customers during the exhibition, which will run through February mation and respond to all package with Ooredoo tv. series, cooking, lifestyle programs or Ooredoo tv customers who don’t 11, in two sections; technological projects, and arts. Various questions for those inter- The basic packages eligible for and more. currently subscribe to any of the activities are scheduled to be held on the sidelines of the ested in completing their the offer are, Entertainment Get- Speaking about the new offer, OSN add-on packages on Ooredoo exhibition. higher studies. The QU Started, Pehla Variety, Pehla Prime, Manar Khalifa Al Muraikhi, Director tv. Customers need simply call 111 The Head of the Qatari delegation, Yousef Al Abdullah, Library also participated in OSN Pinoy Plus Extra, OSN Pinoy of PR and Corporate Communica- or visit any Ooredoo store to sub- said that the exhibition is witnessing a great turnover and the open day to familiarise Plus and OSN TFC Plus. tions at Ooredoo Qatar, said: “We scribe to the OSN basic package is of great importance, as several projects are displayed, attendees with resources, Available OSN add-ons at no know value for money is an and select the OSN add-on of their pointing out that the State of Qatar is participating in this books and research that additional cost are Ultimate important factor for our customers, choice. exhibition with projects. enrich the learning process. The admissions department participated in the open day by providing students with information QNRF, Qatar Shell sessions about programmes, dates, admission forms and on funding opportunities announcements. The Min- istry of Administrative Development, Labour & THE PENINSULA have participated in the 23 Social Affairs (MADLSA) was DOHA cycles of UREP, with more than also present and provided 1,000 projects being awarded students with requirements Students from local universities funding. related to external and participated in two information Dr Abdul Sattar Al Taie, internal scholarships, con- sessions held jointly by Qatar Executive Director of QNRF, ditions and sponsorship National Research Fund (QNRF) said, “The main aim of UREP is programs. – a member of Qatar Foun- to support the next generation Professor Mariam Al Ali dation (QF) – and Qatar Shell of scientists, researchers, Al Maadeed, Vice-President to learn about funding oppor- thinkers, and innovators to for Research and Graduate tunities and new initiatives foster a thriving R&D ecosystem Studies, said of the event, designed to support the next in our region, and contribute “The Open Day is one of the generation of researchers and towards achieving the aims of most important events held scientists. Qatar National Vision 2030. under the supervision of the The sessions outlined the The collaboration will see graduate studies pro- aims of the recently-announced Qatar Shell Research and Tech- LEARLEARN MOM RREE gramme, targeting all stu- partnership between QF and nology Centre (QSRTC) offer its dents both inside and outside Qatar Shell to co-fund the dynamic world-class research QF.ORG.QA/NSD2019 the university. QU has a large Undergraduate Research Expe- and development expertise to selection of internationally rience Program (UREP), QNRF’s the awarded projects. Partici- competitive study pro- flagship programme for devel- pants in UREP will gain expe- grammes that are enriched oping research infrastructure rience of team-based research with diverse research, to in Qatar by establishing the collaboration with faculty, post- develop the community and basis of scientific research at doctoral fellows, graduate stu- help with intellectual undergraduate level. More than dents, and other undergrad- development.” 3,700 undergraduate students uates or research staff in Qatar. Young Qatari footballers meet England team at QFA-Generation Amazing event 19

QNA Stadium a proposed tournament direction.” Head of Women’s 0 2 DOHA venue for the 2022 FIFA World Football at the English Football Cup in preparation for this sum- Association Baroness Sue Qatar Football Association (QFA) mer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, Campbell, welcomed the oppor- and the Supreme Committee for which will take place in France. tunity to meet and inspire Delivery and Legacy’s social The General-Secretary of the Qatar’s young footballers and JOIN THE ACTION OF NATIONAL SPORT DAY AT 10AM responsibility programme QFA Mansoor Al Ansari, said: members of Generation IN EDUCATION CITY.

(Generation Amazing), organised “We were delighted to host the Amazing. 12 FEBRUARY a training session between England women’s team for their The President of the Qatar Put your speed, agility, stamina, and determination to the test England women’s team and their winter training camp as part of Women’s Sport Committee, Qatari counterparts and their preparations for the World Lulwa Al Marri, handed over a by participating in the QF Race, a 3km obstacle challenge. members of the Generation Cup. We hope the team enjoyed Qatar national team jersey to The top three competitors will receive grand prizes, Amazing programme on the the exceptional facilities and got England head coach Phil Neville sponsored by Vodafone. sidelines of the winter training the best out of their visit.” and Baroness Campbell after the camp in Doha. Generation Amazing coach activity, and thanked the The event focused on the Jafla Al Hajri said: “We had some England players for inspiring the Silver Sponsor Platinum Sponsor importance of preparation, along great conversations with the local girls. Al Marri expressed with the impact of inspirational players and, from what we thanks to the players of the role models. observed, the training sessions English team to motivate and England spent a week we organize through Generation inspire Qatari players to achieve training at Khalifa International Amazing are going in the right their ambitions in football. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 Work has accelerated on Manbij roadmap: Turkey ANATOLIA State [Mike] Pompeo are asking Manbij deal between Turkey and or desired, we are against that,” out joint efforts regarding the US decision came after a phone call WASHINGTON for immediate implementation the US focuses on the withdrawal said Cavusoglu. He said Turkey withdrawal of troops from Syria with Turkish President Recep of this [roadmap]. of YPG/PKK terrorists from the will support a solution that will and Turkey’s security Tayyip Erdogan in which the two Work on the roadmap for ridding He said Ankara and Wash- city to stabilise the region, which address its concerns and bring concerns. leaders agreed on the need for Manbij, Syria of PKK/YPG ington would not have experi- is located in the northern part of stability to Syria. A joint mission force has more effective coordination in terrorists has accelerated, enced tensions if the Manbij deal Syria’s Aleppo province. In his remarks, Cavusoglu been formed between Ankara the war-ravaged country. Turkey’s foreign minister said. had been implemented earlier. On a possible safe zone in also said Turkey is aware that and Washington to coordinate Earlier in the day, in his Speaking to members of the Despite the progress, Syria, Cavusoglu said concrete some countries had financially the latter’s pullout from the war- speech at a meeting of foreign Turkish press in Washington, however, Cavusoglu said the ideas have yet to emerge on the encouraged radical groups in torn country, he said. ministers from member coun- Mevlut Cavusoglu said the US roadmap “must be fully and issue and Turkey has been Syria to breach an agreement US President Donald Trump tries of the US-led coalition to had been responsible for a immediately implemented”. holding talks with Russia and signed by Ankara and Moscow made the unexpected decision defeat IS, Cavusoglu called for a slowdown in the roadmap. Turkey has vowed to carry working to coordinate with the last year to establish a demilita- in December to withdraw all coordinated effort to eliminate “There has been an acceler- out a counter-terrorist operation US. “It is important what we rized zone in the country’s last 2,000 US troops from Syria, the remnants of the IS terror ation when compared to the in Syria, east of the Euphrates, understand about a ‘safe zone’. opposition stronghold of Idlib. drawing criticism from many group in Syria and the with- past...In particular, the US following two similar successful That is, if a buffer zone that will Cavusoglu also said Ankara allies and security aides, drawal of US troops from the administration and Secretary of operations since 2016. The safeguard terrorists is envisaged and Washington were carrying including his own Cabinet. The region.

Uganda police arrest BBC UN urges full rights for Syria’s displaced children Rights experts said being discriminated against. “We journalists all children living ask the state to change the law in opposition-held to avoid this situation, which REUTERS results in children that are KAMPALA areas and returning stateless,” Cardona said. as refugees should Yasser Kelzy, of Syria’s Ugandan police arrested a be given official interior ministry, told the panel team of BBC journalists for documents and full that birth registrations had been illegal possession of a major wartime challenge, but prescription drugs, but the access to health, that a unified civil status office country’s government education and social was being set up. spokesman said the reporters services. The panel cited credible had been helping to expose information on “thousands of corruption, and demanded children killed” in wartime their immediate release. REUTERS attacks including with “indis- Patrick Onyango, GENEVA criminate, disproportionate or Uganda’s police spokesman, unlawful weapons.” Children said yesterday five suspects A UN watchdog urged Syria have been tortured in detention, had been detained overnight. yesterday to grant full rights to others unlawfully recruited by They included two Ugandans its displaced children, adding the warring sides or subject to and one Kenyan working for that thousands had been killed, sexual violence, it said, calling the British broadcaster, as tortured or enslaved during the for an investigation into possible well as the wife of a local country’s civil war. war crimes. journalist from NBS Tele- Rights experts said all The President Bashar Al vision who was working with children living in opposition- Assad has reclaimed most of the Internally displaced Syrian children who fled Raqqa city stand near their tent in Ras Al Ain province, them, and a driver. held areas and returning as ref- country following nearly eight Syria. Fourteen boxes of tablets ugees should be given official years of civil war, though a peace had been seized, along with documents and full access to deal remains elusive. other vaccines. health, education and social registration, the United Nations record during the conflict. areas,” panel member Jorge The UN refugee agency says Government spokesman services. Committee on the Rights of the “The Committee is very con- Cardona told a news briefing. 5.6 million Syrian refugees live Ofwono Opondo said the Many displaced or besieged Child said. cerned about children who are Children with Muslim in five neighbouring countries — journalists had been cooper- families had not been able to The panel of 18 independent not registered...in particular mothers and non-Muslim Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt ating with the State House register births due to the war, yet experts issued its findings after those who are displaced or live fathers, or unmarried parents or and Iraq — and it is not yet safe Health Monitoring Unit to were being fined for late a two-day review of Syria’s in besieged and hard-to-reach born as a result of abuse were for them to return. investigate the theft and sale of Ugandan government drugs in neighbouring South Sudan and Democratic Tunisian govt, Republic of Congo. Sudan’s Al Bashir vows to release journalists “I am yet to find out the logic why police arrested labour union these journalists, who in my ANATOLIA press agencies. According to the security services, according to the opposition puts the number view were helping gov- KHARTOUM official Sudanese News Agency, the non-governmental Network at closer to 50. Last month, Al reach deal on ernment to unearth the rot Al Bashir further vowed to of Sudanese Journalists. Bashir pledged to carry out which is in the system,” said President Omar Hassan Al Bashir resolve “all issues related to press The NGO puts the total urgent economic reforms amid Opondo. has pledged to release all jour- and media”, even voicing his number of detained journalists continued calls by the opposition public wages Uganda’s decrepit nalists detained by Sudanese readiness to ease the tax burden at 13, including Adam Mahdi, to protest. healthcare system is riddled security forces since protests on the domestic media sector. who has reportedly been slapped Sudan has struggled to ANATOLIA with corruption and doctors erupted across the country in Since popular demonstrations with a three-month prison term. recover from the loss of some TUNIS and nurses frequently com- mid-December. erupted across Sudan on Sudanese officials say three quarters of its oil output — plain about shortages of basic Al Bashir made the remarks December 19, several journalists around 31 people have been its main source of foreign cur- Tunisia’s largest labour union supplies like gloves, medi- at a Wednesday meeting with the have been arrested — or sum- killed since the protests began rency — following the secession yesterday concluded a cines and vaccines. heads of Sudanese media and moned for questioning — by the almost two months ago, although of South Sudan in 2011. preliminary deal with the government to increase public-sector salaries. The draft agreement calls for raising the wages of more Palestinians label US-led than 650,000 civil servants, 5-year-old girl rescued from Tunisia’s total public-sector Middle East meeting an workforce, a source from the Tunisian General Labor Union ‘American conspiracy’ collapsed building in Turkey (UGGT), said. The source, who pre- AFP to get the participants to adopt AGENCIES ferred anonymity as he was RAMALLAH the US views on issues of the ISTANBUL not authorised to speak to region, particularly the Pal- media, said the draft The Palestinian government estine question”. A 5-year-old girl was rescued agreement would now be rejected yesterday a US-led It said the Palestinian gov- from the rubble of the eight- referred to the UGGT for conference on Middle East ernment would ignore all con- storey apartment building in approval. The agreement peace and security due to take clusions made by the Istanbul yesterday, raising the follows months of negotia- place next week in Warsaw, conference. number of survivors of the tions between the UGGT and branding it an “American The Palestinians have collapsed structure to 13. At the government. conspiracy.” The joint US-Polish refused to talk to the Trump least eight people have been Last month, the union conference, which was first administration since the US found dead. threatened to organise a announced last month by US leader recognised Jerusalem as The girl, Havva Tekgoz, was two-day general strike by Secretary of State Mike Israel’s capital in December pulled from the debris about 18 civil servants on February 20 Pompeo, will be held on 2017. hours after the building in the and 21. On January 17, thou- February 13 and 14 and host They see the eastern part of mostly residential Kartal dis- sands of Tunisian civil ministers from across the globe. the disputed city as the capital trict, on the Asian side of the servants stayed home as part The Palestinians were not of their future state and have city, collapsed. She was carried of a general strike organised invited to the meeting amid a said Washington’s pro-Israel to a waiting ambulance on a The 5-year-old Havva Tekgoz is rescued on the 18th hour of by the UGGT to demand breakdown of relations with the bias meant the US could no stretcher with her neck in a rescue mission after a seven-storey building on Istanbul’s Asian higher wages. That strike, United States, though the longer be the main mediator in brace, as one person in a crowd side collapsed, yesterday. however, failed to persuade Israeli-Palestinian conflict stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace of onlookers chanted “God is the government to meet long- could be discussed. talks. great!” Overnight, emergency had guests at the time of the hearts are with them,” Yer- standing demands for higher Among those expected to The Trump administration services also rescued a 9-year collapse, without providing likaya said in reference to public-sector salaries. attend are Israeli Prime Min- has delayed multiple times the old boy. Authorities haven’t dis- details. people who may still be Since Tunisia’s popular ister Benjamin Netanyahu, as launch of a proposed Israeli- closed how many people Kurum said the emergency trapped. “We are continuing uprising in 2011, the country well as US President Donald Palestinian peace plan, though remain unaccounted for. The teams are still “receiving with our search and rescue has weathered at least three Trump’s senior advisors Jared officials still say they still intend building had 14 apartments sounds” suggesting signs of life efforts so that we can deliver major labour strikes to protest Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, to present one. with 43 people registered as from the under the rubble. good news (about survivors).” deteriorating economic con- as well as Pompeo. The Palestinian foreign residents. Murat Kurum, the Istanbul Gov. Ali Yerlikaya The cause of the collapse was ditions. Tunisia was the birth- In a statement yesterday ministry also criticised Trump environment and urbanisation said earlier that three of the under investigation but officials place of the “Arab Spring” the Palestinian foreign ministry for hailed the US embassy move minister, told reporters at the injured were in serious con- said the top three floors had uprisings that swept the labelled the meeting “an in his State of the Union address scene that some apartments dition. “All our prayers, all our been illegally built. Middle East and North Africa American conspiracy intended Tuesday. in early 2011. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 ISLAM 05 The prophetic ethics: Our daily challenge

DR MUZAMMIL H SIDDIQI It is reported that the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be But those will prosper who purify them- selves, glorify the name of their Lord, and upon him) said: My Lord gave me nine (lift their hearts) in Prayer. Nay (behold), bits of advice and I give them to you. you prefer the life of this world; but the Hereafter is better and more enduring. He advised me: And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelations), the Books of Abraham and Moses. (Holy Quran 87:14-19) To be sincere whether in

ur daily challenge is how to private or in public live in this world in the way To do justice whether in of the prophets of Allah, all the prophets of Allah from anger or in happiness Adam to the last and final To be moderate whether in OProphet, Muhammad – peace be upon all of them. The way of the prophets of riches or in poverty Allah was one and the same. They came To join (in relations) with those to give the same message and followed basically the same principles and values. who (try) to cut me off The way of the prophets was not the way To give to those who deprive me of kings or rulers, the way of politicians and military commanders, the way of To forgive those who do the rich and comfortable people. The way of the prophets was different from wrong to me what the world expects or from what That my silence be thoughtful we are used to seeing and observing in this world. That my speech be mindful (of Allah) The way of the prophets was to That my vision be to take uphold the real and permanent over the ephemeral and transitory, the spiritual admonition. over the material, the moral and ethical over that which brings quick profit or results. The way of the prophets was not example of these virtues. He also gave not watching them, their behavior revenge and punish. Prophet the way of power but the way of inner this advice to us. This advice contains changes. Real sincerity comes from the 4. Silatar Rahm (Keeping the ties Muhammad (peace and blessings be strength and energy. Their way was not the basic ethic of Islam, which is not an fear of Allah. In another version of this of kinship): upon him) has given us the best example the way of worldly pomp and glory but ordinary ethic but is divine and pro- hadith, it is mentioned that Prophet These are family ties. This means of this value. He was ever willing to the way of humble devotion to Allah and phetic. The ethical principles given here (peace and blessings be upon him) said, good relations between all members of forgive his enemies. service of humanity. require special effort, training, and sac- “The fear of Allah (khashyah) in private the family and taking care of those who It is reported that the Prophet rifice. It is not easy or simple to live by or in public.” are in need. The challenge is not only to 7. Fikr (Thinking and reflection): Muhammad (peace and blessings be these principles, but they have lasting help those relatives who are nice or who It is good to be silent as much as upon him) said: My Lord gave me nine values and they bring eternal blessings. 2. Al Adl (Justice): give, but to give also to those who possible. To speak only when it is nec- bits of advice and I give them to you. He This is our daily challenge. Our chal- Justice and fair dealing is necessary withhold and do not give anything at essary. But silence should be with advised me: lenge is how to live by this ethic in our with all people, with friends and foes any occasion. Family is moral com- thinking and reflection. – To be sincere whether in private daily life. The challenge is not to live by alike, whether in happiness as well as mitment. One should not be good to or in public these values and principles in the situ- in anger. Sometimes it is easy to talk of family members only when they are 8. Dhikr (Remembrance and – To do justice whether in anger or ation of ease and happiness, but to live justice in the situation of comfort when good, but one should be good even to speaking of Allah): in happiness by them in all circumstances. The chal- there is no commotion or conflict, but those relatives who do not treat you Our tongue is a great gift of Allah to – To be moderate whether in riches lenge is to live by these principles, teach the real challenge is to uphold justice well. us. We are distinguished from animals or in poverty them to our younger generation, and to even in relation to those who make you because we can use our tongue. We – To join (in relations) with those form and build a community of faithful angry. Justice even to those who hate 5. Ata’ (Generosity): should use our tongue to praise Allah who (try) to cut me off who are willing to dedicate themselves you and who never stop opposing and Believers are always generous. They and give thanks to Him, but we should – To give to those who deprive me to them. mistreating you. Justice not only in give to all and everywhere. There is a also keep Allah in mind whenever we – To forgive those who do wrong to words, but in words and deeds both. great reward in helping people in their open our mouth. A lot of sins of the me 1. Al Ikhlas (Sincerity): needs. However, the extraordinary char- tongue, such as lying, backbiting, gos- – That my silence be thoughtful The first principle of the Islamic 3. Al Qasd (Moderation): acter is to give to those who do not give siping, using bad words, et cetera, come – That my speech be mindful (of ethic is sincerity, which means purity of It is to follow the middle path. Mod- and to also give to those who purposely because we do not remember Allah. Allah) the heart and purity of the mind eration should be in everything, not only deny and deprive us. – That my vision be to take (intention). It means truth and honesty. in financial matters but in every aspect 9. Ibrah (Learning and taking admonition. Sincerity in every situation whether of life. In tight situations, people become 6. Al Afw (Forgiveness): lessons): These are some very important alone or in public. There are many who extremist, upset, and afraid. In affluence It is not easy to forgive those who Our eyes and minds must remain points of advice that Allah gave to are not sincere. They live the life of also people lose control over themselves. do wrong to us. Islam teaches that one open to understand things and to take Prophet Muhammad (peace and hypocrisy. There are some who show The rich do not see the need for mod- should forgive as much as possible, but lessons from the events around us. We blessings be upon him). He lived by them themselves very sincere when in public, eration, but moderation is good for all the greatest forgiveness is when one should be very thoughtful always. in his whole life. He was a perfect but in their private life when others are people in all circumstances. pardons while one is capable of taking

Forgiveness: Great quality of the Prophet The difference between

great quality of Prophet About this incident Almighty Allah polytheists of Makkah obstructed her Muhammad (peace be upon says: “Lo! They who spread the and Habar ibn al-Aswad inten- Quran and Hadith Qudsi Ahim) was that he never took slander are a gang among you. Deem tionally threw her down from the revenge on anyone for personal it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is camel. She was badly hurt and mis- he Scholars of Hadith have differen- This is so because the latter is not the ver- reasons and always forgave even his good for you. Unto every man of carried as a result. Habar committed tiated between two distinct types of batim word of Allah. firm enemies. His wife A’ishah them will be paid that which he has many other crimes as well. He THadith which are termed as al- 3.The Quran is recited in every Prayer reported that Allah’s Messenger earned of the sin; and as for him wanted to run away to Persia but hadithan-nabawiand al-hadithal-qudsi. but a hadithqudsicannot be recited in any (PBUH) was not unseemly or obscene among them who had the greater then he came to Prophet Muhammad The former type is restricted to the sayings Prayer. in his speech, nor was he loud-voiced share therein, his will be an awful (PBUH), who forgave him. of the Prophet (peace and blessings be We can also say that a hadith qudsi in the streets, nor did he return evil doom.” (An-Nur: 11) Yet Prophet Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) upon him), while the latter pertains to the (Arabic plural ahadith qudsiyyah) is a for evil, but he would forgive and Muhammad (PBUH) forgave him and was all for forgiveness and no sayings of the Prophet through the medium statement in which Prophet Muhammad pardon. offered his funeral prayer and prayed amount of crime or aggression of divine inspiration. (peace and blessings be upon him) reports The people of the Quraysh Allah to forgive `Abdullah. But after- against him was too great to be for- Qudusmeans holy or sacred. The a statement and he refers it directly to rebuked him, taunted and mocked wards, Allah revealed: “And never given by him. He was the complete sayings that are termed asal-qudsiare such Allah. The regular hadith or what is gen- at him, beat him and abused him. (O Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)) pray example of forgiveness and that while the Prophet (peace and blessings erally known as a hadithNabawiis a hadith They tried to kill him and when he for one of them who dies, nor stand kindness, as mentioned in the fol- be upon him) was relating them to his in which one of the Companions reports escaped to Madinah, they waged by his grave. Lo! They disbelieve in lowing verse of the Qur’an: “Keep Companions (may Allah be pleased with the Prophet’s statements, deeds, or things many wars against him. Yet when he Allah and His Messenger, and they to forgiveness (O Prophet them), he mentioned that Allah, in effect, that happened in his presence and he entered Makkah victorious with an died while they were evil doers.” (At- Muhammad (PBUH)), and enjoin had communicated them to him. However, approved of. There are more than one army of 10000, he did not take Tawbah: 84) kindness, and turn away from the these communications do not form part hundred qudsi hadiths. They are very revenge on anyone. He forgave all. An Abyssinian slave who had ignorant.” (Al-A`raf: 199) of the Quran. beautiful and deal mostly with spiritual Even his deadliest enemy, Abu killed Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s He always repelled evil with Such reports are included within the and ethical subjects. Sufyan, who had fought so many beloved uncle Hamzah in the Battle good, for, in his view, an antidote was category of hadithqudsi. An example of this The scholars of Hadith have mentioned battles against him, was forgiven, as of Uhud was also forgiven when he better than poison. He believed and type of hadith is one that has been reported five main differences between the Quran was anyone who stayed in his house. embraced Islam after the victory of practiced the precept that love could by Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with and the hadith qudsi: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) also Makkah. The wife of Abu Sufyan, foil hatred and aggression could be him) in which it is mentioned that the 1.The Quran was revealed to the pardoned the leaders of Ta’if, who who had cut open Hamzah’s chest won over by forgiveness. He Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had engaged ruffians to pelt him with and torn his liver and heart into overcame the ignorance of the said that Allah said, “If My servant likes to verbatim, that is, both its words and stones when he visited that town to pieces in the Battle of Uhud, quietly people with the knowledge of Islam, meet Me, I will love to meet him.” meanings are from Allah. The hadithqud- invite them to Islam. came to the Prophet and accepted and the folly and evil of the people While the common factor between the siwas not a verbatim revelation; its words Abdullah ibn Ubayy, the leader Islam. He recognised her but did not with his kind and forgiving hadithqudsiand the Quran is that both are from the Prophet (peace and blessings of the hypocrites of Madinah, worked say anything. She was so impressed treatment. contain words from Allah that were be upon him). all his life against Prophet by his magnanimity and stature that With his forgiveness, he freed revealed to the Prophet (peace and 2.The Quran was revealed via Angel Muhammad (PBUH) and Islam and she said, “O Allah’s Messenger, no people from the bondage of sin and blessings be upon him), they are, never- Jibreel while the hadith qudsi may have left no stone in trying to defeat his tent was more deserted in my eyes crime, and also made them great theless, distinct from each other as pointed been inspired by other ways, such as in mission. He withdrew his three than yours; but today no tent is more friends of Islam. He was an exact out here: the form of a dream. hundred supporters in the Battle of lovely in my eyes than yours.” image of the following verse of the 1.The Quran contains the verbatim 3.The words of the Quran are mirac- Uhud, which almost broke the Habar ibn Al Aswad was another Qur’an: “Good and evil are not alike. words of Allah, while a hadithqudsicon- ulous or inimitable (mu`jizah) while the backbone of the Muslims. He vicious enemy of Prophet Repel evil with what is better. Then tains the message of Allah conveyed to the words of the hadithqudsiare not of this engaged in intrigues and acts of hos- Muhammad (PBUH) and of Islam. He he, between whom and you there people by the Prophet (peace and blessings nature. tility against the Prophet of Islam and had inflicted a grievous injury to was hatred, will become as though be upon him) in the Prophet’s own words. 4.The Quran is recited in formal the Muslims. He tried to discredit Zaynab, daughter of the Prophet. She he was a bosom friend.” (Fussilat: 34) 2.The Quran is inimitable and unique, Prayers (salah), but the hadithqudsi cannot Allah’s Messenger by spreading was pregnant when she emigrated but such is not the case with a hadithqudsi. be recited in Prayers. slander about his wife `A’ishah. from Makkah to Madinah. The https://archive.islamonline.net 06 ASIA FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019

4-year B Ed 30 students return course from from US after next year: Javadekar ‘pay-to-stay’ sting IANS NEW DELHI

IANS Telugu organisations The government is going to HYDERABAD, working with the introduce a four-year Bachelor in Education (B Ed) course from At least 30 students from students, who had next year with an aim to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana enrolled in a fake improve the quality of have returned from the US. university floated by teaching, Human Resource They were those who were not Development Minister Prakash detained or served notices by the US authorities Javadekar said here yesterday. the US authorities in the “pay- to expose the “We are going to launch a to-stay” scam, according to immigration racket, four-year integrated course Telugu organisations. said returning home from next year. The standard of Telugu organisations teaching has gone down working with the students, who was the safest option because it tends to be last option had enrolled in a fake uni- for them. for those who join. This should versity floated by the US be first choice. This should be a authorities to expose the immi- professional choice, not some gration racket, said returning subsequently availed Optional March for jobs and better education facilities leftover,” Javadekar said while home was the safest option for Practical Training (OPT). addressing principals of Ken- the students who were not “To stay in the US and work, Demonstrators shout slogans as they participate in a march demanding jobs and better education driya Vidyalayas and Jawahar detained or received notices for they took admission in this uni- facilities, in New Delhi, yesterday Navodaya Vidyalayas on the violation of immigration laws. versity for another MS as it second day of the two-day As many as 129 students, all lured the students with the offer conference. from the two Telugu states, con- that they need not attend the The B.Ed course, in works tinued to remain under “admin- classes,” said Buchiram. for over a year, will be con- istrative detention” since the The students doing MS in ducted in three streams — BA, racket was busted last week. any US university have to attend Modi to flag off Train 18 on Feb 15 B.Com and B Sc. The cur- About 600 foreign students, classes for a specified period to riculum has been reworked by 90 per cent of them Indians, had avail Curricular Practical IANS While the passengers trav- India’s fastest train by hitting a the National Council for enrolled themselves with a fake Training (CPT) or to work as NEW DELHI elling from New Delhi to Kanpur speed of over 180kmph during Teacher Education, a statutory University of Farmington floated intern during the course period. and Prayagraj will have to pay a trial run. body responsible for coordi- by the US authorities under a “Even if a university is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Rs155 and Rs122 for executive It would soon start replacing nating teacher education. sting operation. More than 80 offering online courses, the stu- will flag off the indigenously class and chair car, the Shatabdi Express trains and The course, when imple- percent of these students were dents should find out if it has built Train 18, called the Vande respectively. run between Delhi and mented, will save one year of from the two Telugu states. physical presence or not. This par- Bharat Express, on February 15 From Varanasi to New Varanasi. aspirants’ since they can join While eight students, who ticular university was offering from here, a Railway Ministry Delhi, the passengers will be The gleaming blue-nosed it right after their Class 12, worked as recruiters, were online courses but had no physical official said. charged Rs 49 and Rs288 in the train comes fitted with the against the current system of arrested, 129 were kept under presence,” said Buchiram. Since Train 18, the country’s first executive class and chair, world class amenities like first doing graduation and administrative detention at dif- many of students had taken bank engine-less train manufactured respectively. They will be high-speed on-board WiFi, then the two-year B Ed. ferent places. loans for the studies in US, they by the Integral Coach Factory in served evening tea with snacks GPS-based passenger infor- The Minister also said “Those who had shifted to wanted to continue to stay and Chennai, will be flagged off at and dinner. mation system, touch-free bio- 15-20 states will be con- other universities are safe but work there to repay the loans. 10am from the New Delhi The Railway Ministry had vacuum toilets, LED lighting, ducting examination from there is no problem for others Each student had paid railway station. earlier indicated that the fare of mobile charging points and a Class 5 to 8 after the in returning home,” Buchiram $20,000 to $25,000 to enrol in “He will also address people Train 18 would be 40-50 climate control system that scrapping of the no-detention Kalapatapu, chief coordinator, the fake University of Farm- while flagging off the train,” the percent higher than that of the adjusts the temperature policy, a part of the Right to Andhra Pradesh Non-Resident ington, which recruited stu- official said on Wednesday. Shatabdi Express. accordingly. Education Act in January. Telugu (APNRT) Society, said. dents in 26 states across the US. The passengers travelling Railway Minister Piyush The 16-coach train will have “We lost 10 years of edu- Those working with the Ravikumar P Vemuru, Pres- from New Delhi to Varanasi in Goyal had earlier said that the two executive compartments cation because of the no- “victim” students believe that ident of APNRT Society, had earlier the executive class will be indigenously built train would which will have 52 seats each detention policy. It was a there should be no problem for said that since there was no clear- charged Rs 399 for morning complete the distance of 795 km and trailer coaches will have 78 mistake. But now, about the students returning home in cut intention by the students to tea, breakfast and lunch, while in eight hours, 35 per cent faster seats each. 15-20 states will start con- finding suitable job opportunities defraud the US government, the travellers in the chair car will than other fastest trains on The executive class will have ducting exams from this in India. They had already done maximum punishment they could need to pay Rs344 for the route. rotating seats to match the year,” Javadekar said. MS from other universities and undergo was deportation. same. Train 18 recently became direction of the train.

Former Maldives president to be Lobbyist Deepak Talwar has link with Mallya: ED charged with IANS Prosecutors D P Singh and Nitesh Special Judge Santosh Snehi investigation for uncovering the company of Talwar in Singapore NEW DELHI Rana told the court. then allowed the ED to quiz money trail. “The custody of and that he is being probed for money laundering Investigation on routing of Talwar till February 12. Talwar is required to unearth the his suspected role in the irregular Corporate lobbyist Deepak the funds through various Talwar was presented before proceeds of crime laundered seat sharing on Air India’s prof- AP Talwar has links with fugitive entities registered in India and the court on expiry of his seven- through these companies,” ED’s itable routes with some interna- MALE liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the other countries will enable the day ED custody. counsel said. tional airlines. Enforcement Directorate (ED) agency to determine the bene- The ED told the court that Talwar’s counsel opposed Talwar had fled to Dubai Police in the Maldives have told a Delhi court yesterday ficiaries of money laundering, Talwar’s custody is required as the plea, saying that Talwar was after the Indian agencies started asked the country’s prose- while seeking extension of his they said. he needs to be confronted with forced to take names of politi- probing his role in concealing the cutor general to charge a custody for interrogation. “It would also throw light on documents as well as his son cians and that some companies income of more than Rs 1,000 former president with money “Investigation has revealed the involvement of the public Aditya Talwar, who is abroad were his. crore as well as facilitating avi- laundering and his former his (Talwar) links with fugitive officials and other persons con- and his associate Yasmine Talwar was deported from ation contracts during the UPA Cabinet minister with aiding Vijay Mallya when both the said nected to generation of proceeds Kapoor. the UAE on January 30 night. He regime. him. persons were evading the of crime by the said accused It also told the court that the was presented before a court on He is accused of brokering A statement from the atoll process of law and the investi- (Talwar)/his associates as a syn- probe has disclosed Talwar and January 31 which sent him to aviation sector deals, getting nation’s police force on gation on the said aspect is dicate,” the ED said adding that his family members were owners seven days ED custody. government approval for foreign Wednesday night said that ongoing for determining the trail further custody of Talwar will of eight offshore companies and The ED said that Rs 200 companies, and securing favours investigators have found of the tainted money in the help in ascertaining key ele- the credit into the bank accounts crore was allegedly received in for clients due to his ties with grounds to charge Yameen instant case,” Special Public ments of the case. of these companies are under one of the bank accounts of a UPA functionaries. Abdul Gayoom and his former Legal Affairs Minister Azima Shakoor. The case stems from an allegedly shady deal to lease Myanmar villagers islands for tourist resort development and the dis- covery of $1m in Yameen’s flee Rakhine fighting bank account. Police also said they REUTERS recruits from the Rakhine asked the prosecutor general YANGON/DHAKA ethnic group, have displaced to charge Yameen and more than 5,000 people in Shakoor with providing false Scores of ethnic minority parts of Rakhine and Chin states information to villagers have crossed from since early December. investigators. western Myanmar into Bang- Myanmar’s leaders have Yameen lost the presi- ladesh in recent days amid vowed to crush the rebels, who dential election last year after fighting between the Myanmar are fighting for autonomy for a five-year strongman rule, military and ethnic Rakhine Rakhine State, and blocked most during which he was accused rebels, Bangladesh border guards aid agencies from reaching the of corruption and suppressing and an activist said yesterday. area, raising fears of more civilian freedoms. Members of 38 families said suffering in an area long scarred His successor, Ibrahim they fled their homes fearing by complex ethnic divisions. Mohamed Solih, has promised attack from military heli- While Rakhine State is to investigate corruption and copters, said Colonel Zahirul majority Buddhist, in 2017 other allegations against Haque Khan, the Border Guards attacks on security posts by Yameen and members of his Bangladesh (BGB) commander insurgents from the Muslim administration. in Bandarban district where the Rohingya minority provoked a Maldives is an Indian Priyanka attends Congress meeting group of 136 people are now military crackdown that forced ocean archipelago known for living in shelters. 730,000 people from their its expensive and exotic island Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, attends a meeting inside Clashes between Myan- homes and into camps in Bang- tourist resorts, attracting thou- the party’s headquarters in New Delhi, yesterday. mar’s military and the insurgent ladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, sands of holidaymakers. Arakan Army, which mainly according to U N agencies. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 ASIA 07 Ghani condemns arrest of Pashtun activists in Pakistan

REUTERS Pakistani Foreign Rights group Amnesty Inter- ISLAMABAD Minister Shah national issued a statement saying authorities “must imme- The arrest of a group of ethnic Mahmood Qureshi diately and unconditionally Pashtun activists at a rally in rejected Ghani’s release protesters belonging to Pakistan this week rekindled comment. “Such the peaceful Pashtun Tahaffuz an angry row with neigh- irresponsible Movement”. bouring Afghanistan yesterday “It is shocking that the Paki- as Afghan President Ashraf statements are only stani authorities have resorted Ghani condemned Islamabad’s gross interference,” to such heavy-handed treatment of the protesters. he said in a tweet, methods,” Amnesty South Asia The members of the adding that Ghani researcher Rabia Mehmood said. Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement PTM blames the military and (PTM) were detained during an should focus on other state agencies for what it Islamabad protest against the “longstanding says are forced disappearances police violence on Tuesday, the grievances of the resulting in thousands of missing latest in a series of moves persons’ cases, mainly from the Northern Territories Day rally in Japan against the group which was Afghan people”. Pashtun region bordering founded a year ago to protest Afghanistan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves from an annual Northern Territories Day rally that the death of a Pashtun man The group is viewed with demands the return of a group of disputed islands controlled by Russia in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. killed by police in the Pakistani Pakistani Foreign Minister deep suspicion by the military port city of Karachi. Shah Mahmood Qureshi rejected which says it undermines Islamabad’s crackdown Ghani’s comment. “Such irre- Pakistan. The army has said it against the group, whose sponsible statements are only does not detain individuals support comes mainly from the gross interference,” he said in a without evidence. northwestern region of Khyber tweet, adding that Ghani should The arrest last month of Pakistan women’s rights activist Pakhtunkhwa, has drawn crit- focus on the “longstanding senior PTM leader Alamzeb icism and protests from over grievances of the Afghan Mehsud in Karachi drew an the border in Afghanistan, people”. outcry on social media. He was released from detention where Pashtuns are estimated Tuesday’s protests followed charged under anti-terrorism to be the largest single ethnic the death of PTM regional leader and public order laws, but his AFP know where I was,” she said, extra-judicial murders, or group. Arman Loni in southwestern supporters say he was arrested ISLAMABAD adding that she had been freed “encounter killings” as they are Tuesday’s incident, reo- Balochistan province which the for protesting against abuses by late on Wednesday. commonly known in Pakistan. pening longstanding tensions group blamed on police. the military. One of Pakistan’s leading She was separated from the He accused Ismail and the between Kabul and Islamabad, Mohsin Dawar, a member Following a series of women’s rights activists has been other activists, she said, and was other activists of uttering “anti- comes as Pakistan has been sup- of parliament and founding nationwide protests last year, released from police custody, she not placed under official arrest. state slogans”. porting efforts to open a peace member of PTM, said police had hundreds of PTM activists were said yesterday, after Amnesty “They didn’t charge me with Ismail was briefly detained process with the Taliban to end singled Loni out and beat him arrested and detained across the International said she and others anything. They didn’t let me in October after speaking at more than 17 years of war in to death. country in a large-scale had been detained “arbitrarily”. contact my lawyer. They just kept another PTM meeting. Her brief Afghanistan. A police spokesman said crackdown. Gulalai Ismail was arrested moving me around,” she said. “You disappearance this week has “The Afghan government Loni died of a heart attack after Dawar and Wazir, founding along with 17 other members of cannot arrest citizens and just dis- inflamed social networks, with has serious concerns about the clashes between protesters and PTM members, were elected to the Pashtun Protection appear them.” An Islamabad police the hashtag #WhereIsGulalai violence perpetrated against police. parliament in July from the Movement (PTM), a peaceful official dealing with the case swept going viral. peaceful protesters and civil PTM leader and member of Pashtun majority Waziristan organisation defending the rights the claims aside. She has been freed, but “as activists in Khyber parliament Ali Wazir told region bordering Afghanistan, of ethnic Pashtuns, during a Police follow “a proper pro- a human rights defender, she is Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan,” Reuters that 18 activists were highlighting the group’s protest in Islamabad on Tuesday. cedure and her claims of an still not safe,” said Rabia Ghani, himself a Pashtun, wrote still in custody after one of those growing appeal among Paki- “It was very painful for my encounter are unthinkable,” he Mehmood, a researcher for in a tweet. detained was released this week. stan’s 35 million Pashtuns. family, who tool 30 hours to told AFP, referring to Amnesty International.

Nawaz taken back to Kot Philippines hit by deadly measles outbreak

Lakpat jail AFP gence in recent years. over the safety of the Dengvaxia 837,000 students as part of a wondering if their children MANILA Figures from the Philippines’ dengue vaccine. public immunisation were at risk. from hospital national health authorities show “The measles vaccination campaign. The World Health Organi- A growing measles outbreak in cases jumped from 791 in 2017 coverage has been in decline in The vaccine’s maker, Sanofi, zation in November 2018 warned INTERNEWS the Philippines killed at least 25 to 5,120 last year. There were the last five years,” health under- set off a panic when it said a new that measles cases globally had LAHORE people last month, officials said 1,813 confirmed cases in January secretary Eric Domingo told a analysis showed Dengvaxia jumped more than 30 percent in yesterday, putting some of the alone. press conference Thursday. could lead to more severe 2017 compared to the previous Former Pakistan prime blame on mistrust stoked by a The most recent numbers “In the recent years, it was symptoms for people who had year, in part because of children minister Nawaz Sharif was scare over an anti-dengue fever available show measles killed 30 the issue of Dengvaxia vaccine not previously been infected not being vaccinated. taken back to Kot Lakpat jail vaccine. in the first eight months of last that contributed,” he added, as with dengue. San Lazaro hospital in the from Services Hospital Most of the dead are children year, and five in all of 2017. the government pushed parents Sanofi has unequivocally Philippine capital reported more yesterday. and the toll is expected to rise as Authorities said vaccination to get children vaccinated. said its product is safe, but than 50 deaths from measles and The former premier, who more cases are confirmed of the rates in the Philippines have The scare started in late Manila still halted the cam- over 1,500 patients in January is currently serving his prison highly contagious disease, which been declining for years, but also 2017, shortly after the Philip- paign and left hundreds of alone, which is subject to health sentence in the Al Azizia Still has made a worldwide resur- pointed to the recent controversy pines gave Dengvaxia to some thousands of terrified parents department confirmation. Mills corruption case, was shifted to Kot Lakhpat jail amid tight security. A day earlier, Nawaz had refused to go to the Punjab Thailand to investigate Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Lahore and insisted on returning to Kot Lakhpat jail. disappearance of Nawaz had maintained that he was taken to the PIC before being shifted to the Services Hospital and felt it dissident Vietnamese was not appropriate for him to be wandered around. REUTERS the country illegally and what The Services Hospital’s BANGKOK may have happened to him. “I’ve medical board had on ordered an investigation into this Tuesday recommended that Thailand will investigate the matter,” Surachate said. Nawaz be shifted to a cardiac disappearance of a dissident Rights groups called for an health facility. Vietnamese journalist after a investigation after Radio Free On February 2, the rights group said he may have Asia reported on Tuesday that deposed premier was shifted been abducted from Bangkok Nhat, who was jailed in Vietnam from the Kot Lakhpat prison where he applied for U N in 2014-15 for “conducting to Services Hospital. A refugee status, a senior immi- propaganda against the state”, medical board constituted to gration official said yesterday. had gone missing. monitor Nawaz’s health had The disappearance of Radio “Vietnam has a track record recommended that he be Free Asia contributor Truong Duy of abducting its exiles and ref- shifted to a hospital from Nature’s fury Nhat comes after criticism of ugees abroad. Thai and Viet- prison. Thailand’s detention of a Saudi namese authorities must urgently Nawaz is serving seven This picture taken at Pehe port on Siau island, Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, shows Karangetang asylum-seeker in January, and the come forward with information years’ imprisonment in the volcano spewing smoke, yesterday. The volcano has been active and forced dozens of people to separate arrest of a Bahraini about Truong Duy Nhat’s disap- Al-Azizia Still Mills corruption evacuate on February 4. football player with refugee status pearance,” Minar Pimple, case. in Australia who is now fighting Amnesty’s senior director for extradition back to Bahrain. global operations, said. Nhat is believed to have been Rights groups said Nhat fled abducted from the Thai capital to Thailand after receiving a tip around Jan. 26 after he fled that he was in danger of being re- Pakistan orders 9-day custody for PTI member Vietnam fearing arrest and applied arrested. “Nhat was in Thailand for asylum with the U N Refugee for one reason only, to apply for AP for nine days so that an anti- bodies, Abdul Aleem Khan, on Khan is a close friend of the Agency (UNHCR), Amnesty Inter- asylum and someone obviously LAHORE graft body can question him on suspicion that he possesses premier and a senior member national said this week. didn’t want him to - so now the corruption allegations. assets “beyond his known of his ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf Thai immigration chief Sura- Thai government should launch A Pakistani court has ordered Yesterday’s development sources.” party, which came to power in chate Hakparn said there was no an immediate investigation to find that a senior politician from comes a day after the National Khan resigned his post, last year’s parliamentary elec- official record of Nhat entering out what happened to him,” said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Accountability Bureau arrested vowing to fight the charges and tions. The two men are not Thailand, but his office was Phil Robertson, deputy Asia ruling party be held in custody the provincial minister for local denying any wrongdoing. related. looking into whether he entered director for Human Rights Watch. 08 VIEWS FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 Win some, lose some: Iran, the ESTABLISHED IN 1996 EU and Trump’s three-way game CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ROXANE FARMANFARMAIAN MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED AL JAZEERA [email protected] ver since last May, when Wash- ington pulled out of the nuclear DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR deal signed under then-Pres- MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Eident Barack Obama and reim- [email protected] posed sanctions on Iran, Europe has promised to soften the economic blow by offering Iran a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). Last week, after months of anticipation, and timed to coincide with a controversial Middle East conference cohosted by Poland and the United States that is widely expected to tar-and- EDITORIAL Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU Foreign Policy Chief, Federica feather Iran, the first step of the SPV was Mogherini before a meeting in Brussels, Belgium. rolled out. “Oversold and under- financed,” was how several Iran Al Majd Road watchers described it. With its details still new sanctions regime against Iran were currency. Moves and countermoves are part unclear, the new vehicle, called Instex, being finalised in Washington last fall, of the three strategies that are gradually y opening the Al Majd Road yesterday, Qatar has registered in France with a German soybean farmers in Mississippi, facing a emerging in this game, with each player shown to the world that it is marching ahead at Director and British board, will likely not sudden drop-off in China’s imports due to winning some and losing some. Trump’s Ba fast pace in regard to overall development of be fully operational for several months. Trump’s trade-war, found an unexpected plan is to squeeze Iran until it agrees to the country and the infrastructure requirements of the It is designed only to handle, at least new market - Iran - which was stockpil- talks, so he can take credit for a better deal state. initially, trade in medical, food, and other ing strategic commodities in anticipation than Obama’s. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh humanitarian products that in any event of the sanctions. Relieved to have a market The EU is attempting to play three hands Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday inau- are exempt from sanctions. Yet, the deci- open up suddenly, Mississippi farmers qui- at once, attempting to keep the US happy gurated Al Majd Road, the name inspired by “Tamim Al sion by Europe to hold its ground against a etly shipped over 300,000 tonnes of the and Iran in compliance, while maintain- Majd” (Tamim the Glorious), the symbol of pride and strong US policy decision appears historic, crop to Iran, convincing Trump’s admin- ing its own moral high ground. And Iran is resilience in facing the illegal blockade imposed on Qatar as the EU has loyally marched in lockstep istration to keep agricultural products off attempting to find ways around the sanc- by some of its neighbours. with Washington’s foreign policy for dec- the sanctions list. tions (much as it has done for the 35 years The four new roads, totalling 195 kilometer in length, ades (with the exception of France’s decision For its part, the EU has engaged in it has been sanctioned by the US) before includes Mesaieed Road, Hamad Port Road, Al Wukair not to support the 2003 coalition inva- projects to keep relations warm with Iran, the economy goes into freefall. Road and Al Majd Road. These roads will boost the land sion of Iraq). even as delays plagued the SPV rollout and So far, the Europeans have offered suf- transport infrastructure and this in turn will help internal The SPV is an important, if small, step by other areas of friction arose. Under the ficient promises that Iran remains in the and external trade as it provides better connectivity to Europe to encourage its companies to do busi- umbrella of Unesco, the EU is funding an JCPOA. But time is running out. Hardlin- all the entry and exit points in the country like Hamad ness with Iran expanded presence in Tehran to act as a ers are accusing Foreign Minister Javad Port in the south, Al-Ruwais Port to the north and also by insulating node on the organisation’s Silk Roads Herit- Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani of to Hamad International Airport. It also seamlessly con- them from US age Corridors project, designed to “promote being naive and putting the national inter- nects major industrial towns like Rass Laffan and threats and and facilitate partnerships, improve com- est at risk by trusting “the Great Satan” Mesaieed to these ports. The EU is attempting retaliation. munication” and build capacity through (a common Iranian euphemism for the The project to construct to play three hands Still, it income generation and job creation. US) to keep its promises while delivering the four roads took just four at once, attempting may be too For Iran’s sanctions-hit economy, where nothing to Iran. Technocrats and reform- years for Ashghal to com- to keep the US happy little too late. the currency has lost 70 percent of its value, ers are on the back foot, and increasingly plete even with the siege On January 29, inflation exceeds 35 percent and food costs likely to lose out to conservatives in the imposed by the four Arab and Iran in compliance, Iran reversed have more than doubled - this is a welcome next election. Unless bitcoin can turn the The blockade was states since June 2017. The while maintaining its its ban on the arrival. However, by engaging in the res- economy around, and fast, the US game effectively overcome blockade was effectively own moral high ground. use of bitcoin, cue of a cultural heritage corridor that has will deliver Iran on a platter to its hardest by the authorities overcome by the authorities And Iran is attempting which it previ- recently gained more public notice as the line politicians. by finding new by finding new suppliers and to find ways around ously worried route of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, The Europeans, for their part, are routes to get materials. The the sanctions (much would pro- the EU is neatly playing a double game. finding the middle ground increasingly suppliers and routes quick action in identifying mote capital Or even a triple one. It has chosen not uncomfortable. They have few real eco- to get materials. new markets and setting up as it has done for the flight, and to utilise the waivers to import Iranian oil nomic benefits to offer the Iranians, and The quick action shipping lines resulted in 35 years it has been announced it that Washington awarded both Greece and increasingly little to negotiate with the US sanctioned by the US) in identifying new better financials and faster could be used Italy. And it has shown that Washington’s as the Trump administration puts pressure completion of projects. before the economy as a currency efforts to highlight “malign activities” by on NATO and demands better terms on its markets and setting The four roads took goes into freefall. of exchange. Iran, including its missile programme, are economic trade with the EU. up shipping lines approximately 89 million Further, it of sufficient concern that the EU has moved Finally, Trump’s hope for an Iran sum- resulted in better working hours to construct. authorised to constrain Iran in alternative ways. In mit, and ultimately a deal, in the mould More than 7 million tonnes initial coin offerings (ICOs), tokens, crypto- January, the EU put sanctions on an entire he minted with North Korea, is becoming financials and of asphalt, around currency wallets, cryptocurrency exchange department of Iran’s Intelligence Minis- increasingly unrealistic. Even though his faster completion of 1,300,000 cubic meters of bureaus, and legalised mining, all which try in retaliation to its purported role in a deals deliver considerably more fanfare, projects. concrete and more than indicates that crypto-currencies can now bomb plot in France. and significantly less detail, than Obama’s 200,000 tonnes of rein- be used to legally bypass American regu- Germany, meanwhile, last week with- JCPOA, and hence, could be a windfall for forcement steel were used lators and finance its oil trade. drew landing rights for Mahan Air to fly Iran, the Islamic Republic is refusing to play for the construction of these roads proves the magnitude Since the Trump administration backed into its airports, arguing the carrier was Trump’s game. The only winner is likely of the project and the fact that it was finished before out of the 2015 nuclear accord, or JCPOA being used to shuttle military equipment to be National Security Adviser John Bol- projected time shows the efficiency of Ashghal and other (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), to Syria. It was a move Iranians found par- ton, who is playing a waiting game until stakeholders involved in the project. The team at Ashghal calling it “the worst possible deal”, the game ticularly stinging, as Mahan is the country’s the other three strategies fail. At that point, deserves all the praise for delivering such a huge project has taken unexpected turns, many beyond only airline to have Airbus 340s, making his claim that regime change is the only before time despite trying situations like blockade. the glare of public scrutiny. What’s more, it not only the safest of its fleets, but also game in town could justify a war timed to What makes it even more creditworthy is that the many of the moves are scoring points in the only one able to fly to Europe and back leverage Trump’s re-election campaign. construction quality and safety features are of the other games as well. without refuelling - a key issue until the SPV And that will be a losing game for highest international standards. It is one of the safest Indeed, even as the last details of the makes it easier for Iran to spend its hard everyone. roads, owing to its unique and international standard design, which strategically provides two dedicated truck lanes and five light vehicle lanes to significantly reduce accident risks. This is one giant step towards 2022 World Cup as US, Russia must avoid arms race despite INF treaty disagreement these roads will connect most stadiums and also many residential areas. And this comes almost four years JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI States and Russia signed in 1987, instead must make their fullest last October, has not presented before the World Cup proves that Qatar is way ahead stipulates that ground-launched diplomatic efforts to keep the INF any concrete strategy toward of schedule and proves how resilient Doha is. ow can an uncon- missiles with ranges between treaty from becoming invalid. Russia. trolled arms race 500 kilometers and 5,500 kilom- What the United States Also, because of the scandal between the United eters must be totally abolished. regards as problematic is Rus- of Russian conspiracy allegations HStates and Russia, Thanks to the treaty, the situ- sia’s new ground-launched surrounding the Trump admin- with China joining in, be ation of the United States and cruise missile. Since the era of istration, there is little likelihood avoided? An environment Russia confronting each other in the previous U.S. administra- for summit talks between Trump must be created in which Europe with their nuclear mis- tion under President Barack and Putin to be held now. How QUOTE OF THE DAY these nuclear powers can siles has been eliminated, and Obama, the United States has will Trump obtain a toehold for break through the current sit- the confidence-building meas- stressed its view that Russia has improving bilateral relations uation of rivalry with their ures taken through verification been violating the treaty and has with Russia, which are said to Turkey is hard-line stances and discuss work created the trend toward demanded that Moscow elimi- be at their worst since the end “determined” to arms control level-headedly. ending the Cold War. nate the missiles. of the Cold War? fight against all The administration of U.S. The lapse of a treaty that Russia obstinately denies Meanwhile, China, unfet- terrorist groups, President Donald Trump noti- played a historic role will be a having violated the treaty. Such tered by the INF treaty, has been fied Russia that the United heavy blow to the arms reduction a stance of abdicating the duties building up its medium-range particularly Daesh, States will leave the Interme- system. The New START (Stra- of arms reduction as a nuclear missile capabilities. It is impor- threatening itself, diate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) tegic Arms Reduction Treaty), state cannot be overlooked. It is tant for the United States and the region and the treaty, on the grounds that Rus- which limits long-range nuclear understandable that the United Russia to steadfastly maintain sia has been violating it. Russian forces and the like, will also States is beefing up its deterrence the existing framework, and also world. President Vladimir Putin has expire in 2021. Talks on extend- so as to protect itself and its allies. for China to be brought into the also announced Russia’s with- ing this treaty will inevitably be The problem is that the arms reduction efforts. The U.S. Recep Tayyip Erdogan drawal from the pact. The treaty adversely affected. recent U.S. notification of the administration must deepen its Turkey’s President will become null and void six The United States and Russia treaty withdrawal came while cooperation with its allies and months after the notification. must not leave the current situ- Trump, even after he announced work out its strategies toward The treaty, which the United ation to take its own course but a policy of leaving the INF treaty Russia and China. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 OPINION 09 Qatar has a lot to show and share MUHAMMAD ASLAM KHAN This included discussing aspects of Last month, an annual report from spending, particularly as Qatar pre- joint cooperation, especially in the field ‘Numbeo’, the world’s largest database of pares to host the World Cup in 2022. pre-Socratic Greek philos- of economic, trade and investment. user contributed data on cities and coun- Although, the government has opher Heraclitus (circa 535-475 According to media reports there are tries, had said Qatar has retained its global maintained high capital spending lev- BCE) was, and still is, con- 144 Australian companies operating in distinction as the safest country among els for ongoing infrastructure projects, A sidered the most significant Qatar, of which 15 are wholly owned by Arab countries as well as globally after low oil and natural gas prices in recent mind in the living world. Australians, while 129 are joint venture being ranked first in terms of safety and years. He was born in the Greek city of Ephe- companies with Australian-Qatari cap- security among 118 countries. Despite the dominance of oil and Qatar may be small sus. Surprisingly not much is known of ital. The companies are engaged in the In November last year, the Direc- natural gas, Qatar has made signif- his life, and the modern world has a few fields of trade, contracting, construction, tor-General of Public Security Staff icant gains in strengthening non-oil in size, but it’s sentences of his work. engineering consultancy, marine serv- Major-General, Saad bin Jassim Al Khu- sectors, such as manufacturing, con- turned out to be Quotation from Heraclitus: “Day by ices, food trade, and others. laifi had said Qatar holds a high ranking struction, and financial services, leading no small miracle. day, what you choose, what you think and Lately, Qatar was declared by the Glo- on the list of safest countries in the world non-oil GDP to steadily rise in recent Despite having what you do is who you become.” bal Safety Finance Safety Index Score and its successful development is a reflec- years to just over half the total. Follow- And this applies to one and all - all “safest country in the ME, and eighth tion to the stability, safety and peace in ing trade restriction imposed by Saudi its borders closed of humankind. (after Norway) in the world. the state, despite all challenges and cri- Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt because of a Saudi- If the Gulf bloc cannot (it appears so), Does it not show that “what” and ses in the region. in 2017, Qatar established new trade led boycott, Qatar and have no intention of doing so — who “whatever” Qatar is doing in various parts Back to Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ routes with other countries to main- is booming. The should, and who would. of the world, is bearing fruit. quotation: “Day by day, what you choose, tain access to imports. It is they (the pessimist lot) who deserve Also, its economic posture is correct what you think and what you do is who From the world surveys, it appears world’s renowned to be accused of prolonging the disgust- and foreign policy is in the right direction. you become.” the Qatari leadership has been burning Forbes magazine ing crisis, not Qatar. The holders of top positions are European Qatar surely is making the right the midnight oil to come up to the expec- placed Doha among Such fowl are in great abundance in countries. Who doesn’t know why? Obvi- choices, and is thinking and doing the tations of its people, and neighbours the 15 world famous the ME region (and beyond) who are cry- ously they boast developed economies right things that have made it a safe and who are in the clutches of regional sus- ing ‘foul’ while sitting on broken- glass and health care systems. secure destination for business and soci- picions and jalousies. No small wonder cities that attract mounted boundary walls of the countries, The safety score for countries equally ety. It’s no surprise that the leadership of that western universities have estab- the most visitors. which have fallen under their control. weighs each of the three factors: war and Qatar has a head for business and a heart lished their campuses; stadiums and Likewise the New For long this see-everything-and-do- peace, personal security, and natural dis- for culture. related infrastructure for the FIFA world York Times included nothing group has been expecting the aster risk. The safety score aggregates the The capital Doha has become a visible Cup 2022 are coming up fast. western winds to come, and blow away indexes from these three risks, thus pre- symbol of success and stability. This has The National Museum is scheduled Doha among 52 the ME crisis for them. senting a comprehensive view of safety for given rise to a national bonding among to open next month. It is committed such capitals of the In the hope of better relations, Qatar each country, implying that a high level of the peoples of all segments of society. to preserving the dhows and fishing world. has been actively reviewing bilateral rela- risk in one factor will have limited effect Undoubtedly, this has compelled the tools and trade, once Doha’s lifeblood. tions with western economies. on the country’s overall ranking. world community to change its opinion Then there is the Museum of Islamic about Qatar. And, this is the result of the Art, and the Msheireb Museums are an country’s leadership’s resolve to succeed, integral aspect of the inner city’s regen- and supersede competitors in all forms eration of the old commercial centre and forums. in Doha with its traditional commu- Qatar may be small in size, but it’s nity-based lifestyle. turned out to be no small miracle. Despite Last but not least, is the Sheikh having its borders closed because of a Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum. Saudi-led boycott, Qatar is booming. The Qatar has so much to show and world’s renowned Forbes magazine placed share. No wonder its opening up to vis- Doha among the 15 world famous cities itors and is making unthinkable offers, that attract the most visitors. Likewise the like visas on arrival, to the worthy and New York Times included Doha among some less-worthy alike. 52 such capitals of the world. Looking at Qatar’s development and growth it is Aslam Khan is Islamabad based understandable that its GDP was $167bn columnist. as of December 2018. Meanwhile, the GDP Growth: 1.6%, GDP per Capita: $63,500, Trade Balance/ GDP: 3.9%, Population: 2.4M, Public Debt/ GDP: 54%, Unemployment: 8.9%, Infla- tion: 0.4% Qatar’s oil and natural gas resources D-RING ROAD are the country’s main economic engine POST BOX: 3488 and government revenue source, driving DOHA - QATAR Qatar’s high economic growth and per cap- [email protected] ita income levels, state spending on public A general view of the National Museum of Qatar. entitlements, and booming construction EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 unisia’s politicians and political be compensated for inflation… they are African National Congress. A third option activists tiptoe around the coun- responsible people,” says Ridha Belhaj, is to endorse a list of nominally independ- MANAGING EDITOR TEL: try’s largest labor union. Not general coordinator of the Nidaa Tounes ent candidates made up of union members 4462 7505 only does the Tunisian General party, which won a plurality in the 2014 and sympatico politicians. T DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Labor Union, better known by its French parliamentary election. If UGTT does enter the political fray, it TEL: 4455 7769 acronym UGTT, have the power to bring Legitimate? Responsible? The civil- should consider Solidarity and COSATU as the country to a halt, as it did most service wage bill has already doubled cautionary tales. The Polish union faded LOCAL NEWS SECTION BOBBY GHOSH recently on January 17, demanding since 2010, and accounts for more than quickly as a political force, despite the pres- TEL: 4455 7743 BLOOMBERG higher salaries for civil servants. It also 40 percent of the budget, possibly the tige of its leader, Lech Walesa, who served largest proportion in the world. Bough- as the first post-communism president. BUSINESS NEWS SECTION diri argues that inflation has eaten up any The South African union’s participation TEL: 4462 7535 gains from the previous pay hikes, and in electoral politics may be indirect, but it the union claims the government could too has lost much of its influence. The alli- SPORT NEWS SECTION easily absorb the estimated $700 million ance with the ANC is at a breaking point, Tunisia’s labour troubles TEL: 4455 7745 cost of salary increases by cracking down and membership has fallen steeply. on the large underground-and untaxed- Boughdiri says UGTT has not yet ONLINE SECTION economy. Economists are skeptical that decided which way it will go, but acknowl- TEL: 4462 7501 block its path to reform this would suffice, even if it were possible. edges that it will not remain neutral, as it [email protected] It is true that inflation has greatly did in 2014. “We are going to be more inter- reduced real purchasing power, but the ested in the election,” he says. PUBLIC RELATIONS union’s demands are complicating the gov- Some politicians, fed up with UGTT’s TEL: 4455 7613 ernment’s attempts to bring prices under exercise of power, would be happy for the [email protected] commands enormous respect among control. UGTT also stands in the way of union leaders to have some responsibil- ordinary Tunisians, as a protector of the privatising an economy where the state ity to go with it. “The best scenario is if ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT freedoms they won in the Arab Spring. makes or sells-with characteristic pub- they form a political party,” says Yassine TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 UGTT, with three other civil-society lic-sector inefficiency-everything from Brahim, leader of the Afek Tounes party. FAX: 4455 7870 organizations, won the Nobel Peace cement to tobacco. “Come to the land of politics, and defend [email protected] Prize for its role in managing the tran- The next nationwide strikes are sched- your ideology; if Tunisians like it, then you sition from dictatorship to democracy uled for February 20 and 21. Since UGTT get to run the government.” CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT after the revolution of 2011. represents 670,000 public servants, a large Others are already courting the union It is true that TEL: 4455 7857 The union takes great pride in its role, chunk of the working population in a coun- for an alliance. Nidaa Tounes, which has lost [email protected] inflation has first as an anti-colonial force before Tuni- try of 11.5 million people, the strikes will control of the government despite winning greatly reduced sia’s 1956 independence from the French, likely succeed in shutting down the coun- a plurality in 2014, is reportedly pitching SUBSCRIPTION & real purchasing and thereafter as a check on government try again. That’s assuming the government the idea of a secular “national front” with DISTRIBUTION power. “UGTT is different from any union doesn’t cave before then, mindful of the UGTT to hold off the Islamist Ennahda power, but the TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 in the world,” says Mohamed Ali Bough- general election scheduled for October. Party. “A UGTT-Nidaa Tounes alliance is FAX: 44557819 union’s demands diri, its secretary general. “We fight not After all, 670,000 members, plus their fam- needed,” says Belhaj. Nidaa Tounes’s leader, [email protected] are complicating just for bread and clothing, but for national ilies, make up a sizable vote bank. “They President Beji Caid Essebsi, may also need the government’s dignity.” have the real power in Tunisia, and they the union’s support if he stands for reelec- That explains why, in a week’s worth will get what they want,” says Hachemi tion-the presidential poll is in December. attempts to bring of interviews in Tunis, with people across Alaya, an economist and founder of Tema, Whether the union stands alone or All thoughts and views prices under control. the political spectrum, I heard only the a Tunis think tank. endorses another party, it will need a expressed in these columns UGTT also stands in mildest criticisms-quickly accompanied The question that politicians worry broader platform than just salary increases are those of the writers, the way of privatising by caveats-of the union. And this, despite about is what UGTT will want next. There’s for civil servants. Boughdiri says its eco- the huge hurdles that the union’s demands a general expectation that the union will nomic agenda will include pro-business not of the newspaper. an economy where pose to badly needed economic reforms. make a play for direct political power in policies, but also the protection of state “Their demands are legitimate, but the parliamentary election. It could form enterprises in “strategic sectors.” These the state makes All correspondence or sells-with the state doesn’t have the resources,” a a political party of its own, following the will include electricity (production and presidential advisor tell me, asking not example of another labor union that mid- distribution), gas, water supply, trans- regarding Views and characteristic public- to be named. “Their demands are legiti- wifed a democratic transition: Poland’s portation, cement, olive-oil plantations, Opinion pages should be sector inefficiency- mate; life has got harder and harder,” says Solidarity. Or it could throw its support phosphate mining, education, and health. send to editor-in-chief Lina Ben Mhenni, a blogger and activ- behind an existing party, taking a leaf “The private sector is only after profits,” he everything from office or mailed to the cement to tobacco. ist who was at the forefront of the Arab from the Congress of South African Trade explains. “State-owned companies defend Spring uprising. “They are only asking to Unions, or COSATU, which is allied to the the national interest.” [email protected] 10 EUROPE FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019

Latvia: Favourable terms for Brits in case EU, UK teams to resume Brexit talks of no-deal Brexit British Prime Minister Theresa May said that she saw and heard a desire from European Union AFP/RIGA leaders to ensure Britain leaves the bloc with a deal. Latvia’s parliament yesterday resolved to grant British residents “favourable” terms in case of a REUTERS & BLOOMBERG deliver Brexit, I am going to no-deal Brexit and called for BRUSSELS deliver it on time, that is what I reciprocal measures for its am going to do for the British citizens living in the UK. Britain British Prime Minister Theresa public. I will be negotiating hard is on course to leave the EU on May went to Brussels, and the two in the coming days to do just March 29, but efforts to put a deal sides agreed to send their teams that,” May said. in place to manage the departure back into the negotiating room Meanwhile, a French gov- have so far proven to be fruitless. for the first time since last year. ernment official said yesterday “The UK is and will remain But if May doesn’t clinch conces- France would oppose any British an important partner and ally of sions by next week — which now request to delay Brexit if London Latvia, which wants further close looks unlikely — then members was simply delaying making a cooperation with the UK, espe- of the UK Parliament will have decision, but could agree if cially in matters of residents’ another chance to force her to London presented a credible rights, security, defence, foreign rewrite her plans on February 14. political solution. affairs, economy, mobility and Theresa May said that she saw The warning came as British education,” the declaration reads. and heard a desire from European Prime Minister Theresa May held In it, parliament also asked Union leaders to ensure Britain talks in Brussels with European the government to prepare all the leaves the bloc with a deal. Union leaders to plead for a necessary amendments to adapt “What I see and hear from change to the divorce deal she to the changes brought by Brexit, leaders is a desire for us to work negotiated last year in the hope including a transition period European Parliament President Antonio Tajani shaking hands with British Prime Minister Theresa together to ensure that we can of getting it through the British allowing British citizens residing deliver the UK leaving the parliament. May before a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels, after she agreed earlier with European in Latvia to register their stay on European Union with a deal,” May French President Emmanuel Union President to hold further talks on Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc, after what they described similar terms until December 31, said after meeting Commission Macron has vocally championed as a “robust” meeting. 2020. The government is President Jean-Claude Juncker and an EU refusal to reopen the expected to bring the legislation Council President Donald Tusk. agreement and water down a economic shock. Extending the needed more time to be year’, we would be open to that.” before parliament next week. “It is not going to be easy but provision designed to ensure withdrawal period would need finalised. “Fundamentally, we French officials believe The resolution calls on Britain crucially President Juncker and I there is never a hard border the approval of all 27 remaining oppose an extension without a Britain is running down the to grant Latvian citizens residing have agreed that talks will now between Ireland and the British EU members. plan. That’s clear. We won’t clock in the expectation that the in the UK similar favourable terms start to find a way through this, to province of Northern Ireland. Paris would be willing to accept it,” the official, speaking EU will cave in on the Irish of residence and employment. find a way to get this over the line If Britain does not must reach grant an extension of up to a on condition of anonymity, said. backstop. The official said this There are over 71,000 Latvian cit- and to deliver on the concerns that a deal acceptable to the EU and year if Britain called an election “If, however, the British told was a fundamental mistake and izens living and working in Britain, parliament has so we get a majority its own parliament in the next 50 or a second referendum, or pre- us: ‘To build a new political underestimated the EU’s resolve mostly in London and the Mid- in parliament,” she said. days, it will crash out of the bloc sented a new plan that was solution, we need an extra three to protect Ireland and its own lands, according to the Latvian- “I am clear that I am going to with few measures to cushion the acceptable to all sides but months, six months or even a credibility. British Chamber of Commerce.

France recalls envoy to Italy Spain’s PM under fire over concession to Catalan separatists AFP Sanchez to accept the presence and maintain his hold on power. December elections with the people that this (rapporteur) after yellow MADRID — as asked by Catalan separa- Not so, retorted Foreign support of Vox. figure was harmless (but) it is tists — of an independent “rap- Minister Josep Borrell, who Opinion polls say the three clear that it’s an unacceptable vest meeting Spain’s prime minister was porteur” in future talks between stressed the talks between parties could even form a concession that crosses a red caught between the fury of parties in the northeastern Catalan parties monitored by this majority at the national level if line” for Sanchez’s critics, he AP conservative opposition parties Spanish region. rapporteur would not in any way early general elections were added. PARIS and the anger of top members These talks will take place affect “state institutions nor rela- called. “A felon,” “illegitimate” They accuse him of “having of his Socialist party after he in parallel with negotiations tions between the government “traitor”, “compulsive liar”: PP called into question a funda- France is recalling its ambas- made a concession to Catalan between the central and Catalan and the Catalan executive.” head Pablo Casado has been mental principle in order to sador to Italy amid mounting separatists. governments as Sanchez tries to No matter. The conservative scathing towards Sanchez after remain in power.” tensions after Italy’s deputy The controversy comes just ease a secession crisis that came Popular Party (PP), centre-right his concession to the Catalans. Sanchez heads up a minority prime minister met with days before the highly sensitive to a head in October 2017 when Ciudadanos and far-right Vox He has even touted a no- government, with his socialist French yellow vest protesters trial of 12 Catalan separatist separatists made a short-lived have all called on their sup- confidence motion, although this party having just 84 lawmakers and a string of critical Italian leaders begins and as Pedro declaration of independence. porters to take to the streets of has little chance of succeeding. out of 350. comments toward French Sanchez tries to pass his 2019 The seemingly minor con- Madrid on Sunday against “The government made a He therefore needs the votes President Emmanuel budget, for which he needs the cession has caused a furore as Sanchez. The three-way show miscalculation,” says Fernando of Catalan separatist lawmakers Macron’s government. support of Catalan pro-inde- critics accuse Sanchez’s socialist of force comes after the PP and Vallespin, a political scientist at -- alongside others -- to approve French Foreign Ministry pendence lawmakers in the government of yielding to the Ciudadanos formed a regional the Autonomous University of his 2019 budget and remain in spokeswoman Agnes von der national parliament. “blackmail” of separatists in government coalition in Madrid. power until the next general Muhll said in a statement It centres on a decision by order to get the budget approved southern Andalusia following “It thought it could convince elections planned for 2020. Thursday that the ambassador is being brought back for “con- sultations,” and urged Italy to return to friendly relations worthy of “our common destiny.” Ukraine bans Russians France’s Foreign Ministry called that an “unacceptable” interference in French democracy, and unprece- from monitoring polls dented since the two neighbors joined together AFP Security and Co-operation in after World War II to help KIEV Europe (OSCE) is preparing an create the European Union. extensive mission for the March “The campaign for the Ukrainian lawmakers yesterday 31 poll. Russian senators told European elections cannot voted to ban Russians from news agencies that Moscow justify the lack of respect for monitoring a forthcoming pres- might not recognise the results each people or for their idential election, as tensions of the Ukrainian election if democracy,” von der Muhll between the neighbours flare Russian observers are not said. Italy’s Luigi Di Maio met before the polls. allowed to monitor them. this week with supporters of a Kiev, fighting a Moscow- Russia’s OSCE envoy Alex- yellow vest group seeking to backed insurgency in eastern ander Lukashevich called the run in the European Parliament Ukraine, has said it suspects ban “a gross violation of elections in May. Di Maio has Russia of planning to interfere Ukraine’s OSCE commitments said his populist movement is in the election. and international legal norms,” ready to help France’s anti-gov- Lawmakers also voted to in comments carried by the RIA ernment protesters, and has allocate around US$350m news agency. Volodymyr Zel- accused France of fueling (¤308m) to the intelligence ensky, a comedian who plays Europe’s migrant crisis. Di Maio’s services to counter the per- the Ukrainian president in a TV meeting with yellow vest Students march against climate change ceived threat. Yesterday’s series, is currently favourite to activists came after Italian Students hold placards as they gather to stage a protest against the government’s climate policy within measure would block Russian take on the real-life role, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini the “Youth for Climate” demonstration at Malieveld Square in The Hague, Netherlands, yesterday. nationals from taking part in according to polls. called Macron “a terrible pres- international election-moni- Zelensky is ahead of former ident” in January. toring missions, and would also prime minister Yulia apply to parliamentary and Tymoshenko and incumbent local votes. The proposal has Petro Poroshenko, as many been condemned by Moscow voters turn their backs on the and Kiev’s Western allies alike. political class. But there are a Former West Ham defender jailed after car sale scam Kurt Volker, the US special record number of candidates representative in Ukraine, said and the race remains unpre- Russians should take part in dictable. Ties between Moscow AFP West Ham United in London as telephone number. sentence,” said judge Alice Hav- monitoring as long as they were and Kiev dramatically deterio- PRAGUE well as turning out 46 times for The former defender was also likova, rejecting a heavier sen- overseen by international rated after a pro-Western gov- his country. But the 45-year-old arrested for drunk driving twice, tence proposed by the prose- organisations. If they do not ernment came to power fol- Former Czech Republic interna- has had a string of brushes with and was sentenced to community cution. He is appealing the sen- take part, this allows “people to lowing a 2014 revolt against a tional Tomas Repka was jailed police since his retirement in 2014. service last year for failing to pay tence, his lawyer said. question election,” Volker pro-Kremlin leader. for 15-months yesterday on He was sentenced to a six- alimony. Selling the Mercedes, Repka picked up 20 red wrote on Twitter ahead of the That year Moscow annexed charges of selling a leased months suspended prison term which he had been using on a cards in his career and was left vote. “No games. Ukraine needs Crimea and began backing Mercedes for ¤46,500 ($52,700). last year after posting an advert rental basis, was the last straw. out of the Czech squad that made to have confidence in its own rebels in a conflict in eastern Repka played three years at offering escort services featuring “Unfortunately we have no the final of Euro 96 after a two- democratic institutions,” he Ukraine that has already Fiorentina in Italy and five at a photo of his ex-wife and her choice now but to inflict a prison match international ban. said. The Organization for claimed some 13,000 lives. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 EUROPE / AMERICAS 11

At least five dead in Russia welcomes Brazil after powerful Trump offer of new storm lashes Rio REUTERS N-pact, awaits details RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second- largest city, awoke to scenes of BLOOMBERG Trump said in his chaos yesterday after thrashing MOSCOW State of the Union wind and rain whipped through neighbourhoods, felling trees, Russia welcomed an offer by address on Tuesday flooding streets and sweeping away US President Donald Trump to that the US may be buses in a storm that killed at least renegotiate a landmark nuclear five people. missile pact after he quit the open to negotiating Some of Rio’s most iconic agreement, while cautioning another agreement neighbourhoods, including tourist that it’s received no specific hot-spots like Ipanema and Copac- proposals yet. to replace the 1987 abana, were battered by winds of “We saw President Trump’s Intermediate-Range up to 110 kilometers per hour (68 statement about the possibility mph) on Wednesday night, with of a new treaty, which should Nuclear Forces precarious hillside favelas hit by include other countries,” Treaty, one that mudslides that closed roads. Russian Deputy Foreign Min- At least five people died, with could include China People surround the area where a bus ran off the road due to heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ister Sergei Ryabkov told one more person potentially killed yesterday. reporters in Moscow as well as Russia. in a bus that was hit by a mudslide, yesterday. Rio’s mayor, Marcelo Crivella, told “When our American col- local news media. The storm came just days degrees Celsius (107.6°F). buildings, while street-cleaners leagues actually get to the point violating the pact, has fueled “It was a lot of water that ended after Rio experienced its hottest Yesterday morning, fanned out across the city, where they give us something growing tensions between up causing this tragedy,” Crivella January in 97 years, with some doormen swept up branches trying to bring order to the post- concrete, we will look at this Washington and Moscow, said. “It was unexpected.” days reaching as high as 42 outside upscale apartment apocalyptic scenes. with interest and I hope in a and raised the threat of a positive way.” renewed missile build-up in Trump said in his State of Europe. the Union address on Tuesday Ryabkov also warned that that the US may be open to time is running out to begin New panels to re-examine Srebrenica, Sarajevo victims negotiating another talks on extending the other key agreement to replace the 1987 nuclear weapons accord REUTERS Bosniak Muslim communities, report in 2004 which endorsed whole country. Dodik has Intermediate-Range Nuclear between Russia and the U.S., the SARAJEVO under the peace deal that ended the internationally accepted rejected rulings by two war Forces Treaty, one that could New START treaty, before it the bloodiest of the 1990s wars account that Serb forces killed crimes courts, the International include China as well as expires in 2021. The government of Bosnia’s Serb that followed the breakup of about 8,000 Muslims in and Criminal Tribunal for the Former Russia. Negotiations must be Republic set up panels yesterday Yugoslavia. around Srebrenica. But law- Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Inter- The US gave Russia written wrapped up by the end of the to re-examine the number of A massacre of Muslim pris- makers asked the government national Court of Justice (ICJ), notice on Monday of its decision year, before the US enters a victims in Srebrenica and oners in the town of Srebrenica in August to revoke that report. that the Srebrenica atrocity con- to withdraw from the Cold new campaign period for the Sarajevo during Bosnia’s 1992- and the long siege and bom- The move was initiated by stituted genocide.Though War-era accord, which bans 2020 elections, said Ryabkov, 1995 war, a move rejected by the bardment of the multi-ethnic the region’s then-President acknowledging a crime occurred, deployment of short and who expressed alarm at what international community as a capital Sarajevo were two of the Milorad Dodik, a nationalist Dodik says the numbers of those medium-range missiles. he described as assurances by push to revise history. most notorious crimes of the war, advocate of the Serb Republic’s killed had been exaggerated, The US decision to US officials that there’s still Bosnia is formed of the Serb both of which have led to convictions secession from the rest of while the number of Serbs killed withdraw from the INF treaty plenty of time to resolve the Republic and a federation rep- of Serb leaders for genocide. Bosnia, who is now the chairman in the capital Sarajevo had been after accusing Russia of issue. resenting its ethnic Croat and The Serb region accepted a of the tripartite presidency of the underestimated.

Council of Europe US House panel plans action alarmed by Italy’s migrant policy on gun background check bill AP/ROME REUTERS succeed in the Republican-led WASHINGTON Senate. The Council of Europe’s Nadler’s announcement human rights commissioner The US House of Representa- came a day after the House says she is “deeply tives Judiciary Committee will Judiciary Committee held the concerned” about Italy’s take up legislation next week first congressional hearing on treatment of migrants at that would require universal gun violence in years and heard home and at sea and is background checks for gun testimony from witnesses seeking clarification from the buyers, the panel’s Democratic including Houston Police Chief government about a recent chairman said yesterday. Art Acevedo, who voiced law and move to empty big The panel will mark up the support for the legislation. migrant welcome centers. bill, known as the Bipartisan Gun violence represents an Commissioner Dunja Background Checks Act, on Feb. epidemic that claimed the lives Mijatovic told Premier 13 and send it to the House floor of nearly 40,000 Americans in Giuseppe Conte in a letter for a vote, committee Chairman 2017. Of those deaths, the U.S. released yesterday that she Jerrold Nadler told a news con- Centers for Disease Control and regretted the “apparent hast- ference. The legislation has 230 Prevention said in December iness” with which one center Call for fund cutting House co-sponsors, including that 60 percent were was emptied. She also cited five Republicans. self-inflicted. US Representative Rashida Tlaib (Democrat), participates in a news conference to call on Congress to “disconcerting reports” that “It’s finally time for action The US Constitution pro- cut funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the US Capitol in Washington, US, yesterday. some migrants deserving of in Congress,” Nadler said. “This tects the right of Americans to protections might be made bill will close the loopholes that bear arms. The measure is homeless by a new law have allowed felons, domestic fiercely defended by restricting their benefits. violence abusers and other pro- Republicans. Mijatovic also took aim at Trump, Xi unlikely to meet before March 1 trade deadline hibited persons to purchase At Wednesday’s House Italy’s refusal to let aid group guns through private sales.” The hearing, Republican lawmakers rescue ships dock and its REUTERS reach a trade deal, two US another round of talks is bill would require background warned that the new legislation “relinquishing responsibility” WASHINGTON administration officials and a scheduled for next week in checks for all firearm sales and could lead to a national gun of rescues to Libya. source familiar with the nego- China. White House economic most firearm transfers. registry and asserted that US President Donald Trump and tiations said. adviser Larry Kudlow told The legislation would expanded background checks Edinburgh to become Chinese President Xi Jinping are The countries had taken a reporters that the leaders of the likely pass the Democratic- would penalize law abiding cit- unlikely to meet before their 90-day hiatus in their trade war two economic superpowers controlled House. But there izens but not protect people first city in UK to countries’ March 1 deadline to to hammer out a deal, and could still meet later. are no signs that it would from gun crime. introduce tourist tax REUTERS/LONDON Scotland’s capital Edinburgh Germany: No choice but to reject terrorist extradition to US is to become the first British city to introduce a tourist tax to try to better manage the AP To extradite him to face trial had violated German laws, but to deport a dangerous terrorist of US servicemembers,” US impact of swelling visitor BERLIN in the US on terrorism charges the decision angered American —Adem Yilmaz— to Turkey, Ambassador to Germany Richard numbers and booming hotel would constitute double officials. rather than to extradite him to Grenell said in a tweet on occupancy, its council said. An American request for the jeopardy under German law, American officials filed addi- the United States to face justice Thursday. “This failure to One of Britain’s most pic- extradition of a Turkish man Frankfurt state court spokes- tional assurances on Monday, for his complicity in the murder extradite him to the United States turesque cities, Edinburgh wanted in the United States on woman Gundula Fehns-Boeer attempting to address the of two American servicemen,” violates the terms and spirit of had 1.75 million foreign vis- terrorism charges was rejected said. Frankfurt court’s decision, but acting US Attorney General our Extradition Treaty.” itors on average annually because there was no other “An extradition could have the deportation was carried out Matthew Whitaker said in a The indictment against between 2015 and 2017, option under German law, only occurred if the Americans before those arguments could be statement later Wednesday after Yilmaz, brought in the Southern making it the second most- authorities said yesterday, in a said they would restrict the considered. the two diplomats had met. District of New York and visited in Britain after case that has raised the ire of charges to crimes not already After learning of the depor- In addition to the allegations unsealed earlier this week, London. Hotel occupancy officials in Washington. punished,” she said. tation, Deputy US Secretary of of participating in attacks on the includes charges of providing was the highest among all UK Adem Yilmaz, who was After the Frankfurt court’s State John Sullivan called a Afghanistan-Pakistan border, material support to a terrorism cities in 2017, at an average indicted under seal in the US in decision on the American meeting with German Foreign Yilmaz was charged with giving organization and aiding and of 83.7 percent. The council 2015 on charges of participating request last week, Hesse state Minister Heiko Maas, who was advice and instructions on mil- abetting military-style training. said it would use funds raised nearly 10 years earlier in officials on Tuesday deported in Washington to take part in itary-type training to a man He had been in prison in by the £2 ($2.60) per room attacks on US military forces Yilmaz to his native Turkey, said meetings of the coalition fighting involved in a 2008 suicide Germany until October 2018 per night tax “to improve along the border between state Interior Ministry against the Islamic State group, bombing in Afghanistan that after his conviction for facilities and better manage Afghanistan and Pakistan, was spokesman Marcus Gerngross. to express American killed two American soldiers and involvement in a foiled 2007 plot the city”, as other European convicted of membership in a Gerngross said there was displeasure. injured at least 11 others. to attack American citizens and cities such as Barcelona and terrorist organization in “nothing unusual” about “We are gravely disap- “Adem Yilmaz is responsible facilities in the country, including Rome have done. Germany in 2010. deporting a foreign national who pointed by Germany’s decision for the deaths the US Air Force’s Ramstein base. 12 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019

Federica Mogherini (centre), High Representative of the Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of European Union, arrives to Executive Tower in Montevideo as European and Latin American leaders gathered in Uruguay to discuss “good faith” plan for Venezuela, yesterday. UN says ready to send aid if Caracas govt approves

AFP Organisation, part of the WHO, have blocked a crossing point GENEVA operating programmes in devel- from Colombia. Maduro has opment and prevention, which rejected all aid shipments saying UN agencies are ready to send they plan to expand. they would open the way for a aid to Venezuela as requested But the World Food Pro- US military invasion. by opposition leader Juan gramme, which provides emer- UN Secretary General Guaido, who more than 40 gency aid to countries in crisis Antonio Guterres in a letter to nations recognise as interim and conflict is not operating in Guaido on January 29 responded president, but they can only act Venezuela at the moment. that the UN is ready to expand with authorisation from the “There is an urgent need for its activities in Venezuela for Caracas government, a more humanitarian assistance,” humanitarian aid and devel- spokesman said. a UN spokesman in Geneva said. opment, the UN spokesman said. Backed by the United States, Venezuela’s crisis has “However, he added that for European and Latin American deepened since last month when this the United Nations needs allies, Guaido is challenging Guaido, head of the National the consent and cooperation of President Nicolas Maduro for Assembly, declared himself the the government,” the the leadership of the oil-wealthy country’s legitimate leader. But spokesman said. nation to end a crisis that has Maduro has rejected calls for Venezuela’s opposition- caused medicine and food elections and retains the support controlled parliament has shortages and forced more than of Russia, China and Turkey as approved a plan for distribution 2.3 million Venezuelans to flee well as the Venezuelan of food and medical aid sent by since 2015. military. the United States and Colombia Some UN agencies are on Guaido has tried to organise through Colombia and Brazil the ground like Unicef and the shipments of US aid across the which have borders with Pan American Health border but Venezuelan troops Venezuela. Lula given nearly 13 years in new graft conviction

AFP contracts with the state-run oil His prison is in Curitiba. RIO DE JANEIRO company Petrobras. He was The leftist former leader given a sentence of 12 years and ruled Brazil between 2003 and A Brazilian court handed a near 11 months by the court in the 2010. He has denied all the 13-year sentence to Luiz Inacio southern city of Curitiba. charges against him, claiming Lula da Silva, in a new A legal expert, Thiago they are politically motivated corruption conviction for the Bottino do Amaral of the Getulio with the aim of preventing him former leftist president already Vargas Foundation, said that, competing in elections last year serving a lengthy jail term in a under Brazilian law, prison that were won by Brazil’s new separate case. terms can be served one after far-right President Jair Lula, 73, was found guilty by the other as long as the total Bolsonaro. a court in the southern city of time behind bars does not Defending himself in the Curitiba of accepting renovation exceed 30 years. latest case, he said the farm- work by two construction com- Lula, since April last year, is house did not belong to him and panies on a farmhouse in already serving a 12-year term its title was in the name of one exchange for ensuring they won for corruption in a separate case. of his friends, Fernando Bittar.

Vatican advances probe of Argentine bishop close to Pope

AP BUENOS AIRES

The Vatican is proceeding with an investigation into an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis who has been accused of improper behaviour with semi- narians. The Argentine Diocese of Oran said that the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops had entrusted the next phase of the investigation to Tucuman Archbishop Carlos Alberto Sanchez. The development is sig- nificant because it signals that a preliminary investigation conducted by the Oran diocese and sent to the Vatican was deemed credible to warrant further investi- gation by an outside party. The Vatican received indications of inappropriate behaviour by Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta in 2015 and again in 2017, with reports from his former vicars and the sem- inary rector. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 CLASSIFIEDS 13

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That tool has informed REUTERS will push the 9,000 firms it invests “What we would like to see divestments in some 30 com- LONDON in to disclose more data on green- more of is scenarios, including a panies in 2018, fund CEO Yngve house gases they emit and how two-degree scenario, and we Slyngstad told Reuters, helping Oil fell yesterday after data they adapt to climate change want better disclosure of the show that these companies did not showing a rise in US inventories Brent crude oil during the coming annual general assumptions for these scenarios,” have a sustainable business model weighed on sentiment already futures were last meeting season, a top fund official Carine Smith Ihenacho (pictured), over the long-term. He did not rattled by the global economy, down 50 cents, or said. the fund’s chief corporate gov- name them. Presentation material reporting climate-related data, though prices were buoyed by The world’s largest sovereign ernance officer, told Reuters. showed two of the 30 divested citing for instance banks and oil the prospect that supply could 0.8, at $62.19 a wealth fund invests the revenues “We want clear targets for companies were involved in palm and gas companies as “quite good” fall short of global demand. barrel by 1310 GMT. of Norway’s oil and gas pro- CO2 emissions and other green- oil; one in rubber; ten in coal- examples. Brent crude oil futures US crude futures duction and has stakes in some house gases, including methane. based power; and one in “CO2 But others, like power pro- were last down 50 cents, or 0.8, were down 75 cents, 9,000 companies across 72 And we want to see reporting of intensity”. ducers, were lagging. “There is still at $62.19 a barrel by 1310 GMT. countries. progress against the targets,” she The next step in the soft- far to go for many companies to US crude futures were down 75 or 1.39 percent, at It was an early mover among added. “We would like to see it ware’s development, first dis- report at the level we would like cents, or 1.39 percent, at $53.26. $53.26. international investors in trying more disaggregated, meaning not closed by Reuters in October, is to to see,” she said. “WTI and Brent crude oil to assess climate change risk, for the whole company, but more develop the platform to see how The fund itself “emitted” 107 both remain rangebound fol- supply from Iran and Venezuela wanting to avoid investments in broken down, for instance much of the carbon cost can be million tonnes of carbon dioxide lowing a failed attempt to move from US sanctions have led one sector negatively impacting regional or even on an asset level.” passed on to customers and how equivalents in 2018 via its own- higher,” said Ole Hansen, head many analysts to forecast that another - so-called “externalities” As part of its green push, the much companies must pay them- ership stakes -- roughly twice the of commodity strategy at Saxo the market will be balanced in - and hurting its overall fund has been developing an in- selves. “It is still in the works,” amount emitted by Norway in Bank. 2019. portfolio. house software, called Angle, that Slyngstad said. 2017 -- according to its annual “Supply fundamentals have The oil price is showing a This year, it will make a fresh can take non-financial data, such Smith Ihenacho said com- responsible investment report increasingly been turning sup- 20 percent gain so far this year. push on firms to explain how their as CO2 emissions, combine it with panies were generally better at released yesterday. portive in recent weeks, but Further price support is against this the market still provided by supply cuts led by worries about the yet-to-be- the Organization of the realised - if at all - impact on Petroleum Exporting Countries demand from weaker macr- (Opec) to tighten the market. QSE index oeconomic fundamentals.” Saudi Arabia, the world’s Though the United States top oil exporter, told Opec it had closes at published robust jobs data last pumped 10.24 million barrels week, global markets remain per day (bpd) in January, two nervous after China reported Opec sources told Reuters, 10,505.19 the lowest annual economic exceeding requirements agreed growth in nearly 30 years in in the supply pact. The kingdom points January. That focuses yet more pumped 10.643 million bpd in attention on the outcome of US- December. THE PENINSULA China talks to end a trade spat “We believe that financial DOHA between the world’s top two markets may be overestimating economies. the risks of a global recession,” Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) The oil price also came said Jean-Pierre Durante, Head benchmark lost 215.12 points, under pressure as weekly data of Applied Research at Pictet or 2.01 percent, last week published by the US Energy Wealth Management. when the bourse closed yes- Information Administration on “Moreover, lower oil prices terday at 10,505.19 points. Wednesday showed an - prices were between 14 Trading value during last unwelcome increase in stocks percent and 18 percent lower week decreased by 22.37 of crude oil. in January than their 2018 percent to reach QR1.05bn Some analysts, however, average - are likely to stimulate compared to QR1.35bn. were relieved that US crude oil economic activity and oil Trading volume inventories rose by only 1.3 demand, particularly in decreased by 10.06 percent million barrels in the week to emerging markets.” to reach 38.34 million shares, Feb. 1, against expectations for Meanwhile, U.S. sanctions Global Business Summit 2019 as against 42.63 million an increase of 2.2 million against Venezuela’s oil industry shares, while the number of Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani (centre) walks back to his seat after speaking to the audience barrels. are expected to freeze sales transactions fell by 16.82 at the Bengal Global Business Summit 2019 in Kolkata, yesterday. A decline in Opec pro- proceeds of Venezuelan crude percent, to reach 24,192 duction and a squeeze on exports to the United States. transactions as compared to 29,083 transactions. Market cap fell by 1.88 percent to reach QR604.30bn as compared to QR615.86bn Amazon cuts India deal to return products to website at the end of previous week, reports QNA. BLOOMBERG The deal allowed Amazon to a Singapore-based Amazon entity. to 30 percent previously. Banking and Financial BENGALURU recover a big chunk of item “Catamaran has always been Lawyers representing Services sector led traded listings frozen since February 1, 100 percent compliant with every Amazon and Walmart have been value last week with 32.51 Amazon.com Inc resurrected when newly introduced e-com- law of our country, India. We will toiling without pause to stitch percent of the total traded thousands of suspended product merce regulations threw Ama- continue to do so in the future,” together new deals. Meanwhile, value. Industries sector listings in India by selling much zon’s and Walmart Inc.’s plans for Catamaran CEO Abishek Laxmi- Amazon is working out a similar accounted for 22.90 percent. of its stake in top local venture the world’s fastest-growing online narayan (pictured) said in a process with its other large seller Real Estate sector accounted partner Cloudtail, a hastily retail arena into disarray. Heeding statement yesterday. “On Feb- called Appario Retail Pvt, the for 13.79 percent and Con- arranged deal intended to comply complaints from small merchants, ruary 6, 2019, Catamaran has people said. sumer Goods and Services with stringent new e-commerce Narendra Modi’s government effected the required changes to Meanwhile, items on Amazon sector accounted 10.83 regulations that upended the banned Amazon and Walmart’s be 100 percent compliant with” Pantry grocery service also made percent. market. Flipkart from cutting exclusive the new regulations. a comeback on the platform. QNB led trading value With the transaction, arrangements with sellers, Despite Cloudtail’s return to Amazon Retail India Pvt, the food during last week accounted Cloudtail resumed selling offering deep discounts or holding Amazon.in, thousands of products retailing unit of the Seattle giant, for 11.42 percent of the total products as of midnight, people any business interest in online remain missing from the virtual was deemed compliant with trading value. United Devel- familiar with the matter said. The merchants on their websites. shelves of Amazon and Flipkart, India’s laws, which allow 100 opment accounted for 8.18 Amazon entity sold 25 percent of previously, they said. The Amazon’s deal with Catama- which together account for 70 percent foreign investment in percent and Ooredoo its shares to Prione Business remaining 24 percent is now ran’s Prione complies with that percent of India’s online retail food retailing. The company has accounted 6.51 percent. Services Pvt, a company run by owned by a non-Indian arm of the latter rule, the people said, as market. Arvind Singhal of consul- written to the government When compared on daily billionaire Narayana Murthy’s US retailer’s called Amazon Asia- Amazon’s Indian entity, the mar- tancy Technopak Advisors Pvt, seeking further clarity on the fully basis, the QSE index dropped Catamaran Advisors LLP. Prione Pacific Resources Ltd, they said, ketplace called Amazon Seller has estimated their revenue owned food retailer selling on 178.75 points, 1.67 percent, now owns 76 percent of the asking not to be identified talking Services Pvt, has no direct relation growth could fall to 15 percent in Amazon’s platform, said people yesterday compared to venture from 51 percent about a private matter. to Prione whose stake is held by coming months from 25 percent familiar with the developments. Wednesday’s closing. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 BUSINESS 15 India’s RBI cuts key lending rate REUTERS departure in December of its gov- fountainhead of the BJP. also eased curbs on some state- NEW DELHI ernor, Urjit Patel, and his But it still wasn’t enough, he owned bank lenders and is set to replacement by Shaktikanta Das, said. provide the government with a The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) whose views were much more in “The new governor has passed bigger dividend out of surplus surprise decision to cut interest line with the Modi the litmus test, though with 50 central bank funds. rates for the first time in 18 months administration. percent marks,” said Mahajan, co- The BJP welcomed the deci- yesterday is a pre-election There have been signs that convenor of the Swadeshi Jagran sions as they will help to dispel stimulus gift from a compliant Modi’s support has crumbled in Manch, adding that the rate cut any perceptions that the gov- central bank for Prime Minister parts of a countryside that sup- should have been at least half a ernment has not addressed credit Narendra Modi. ported his Hindu nationalist percentage point. issues facing businesses. Some of But businesses and farmers - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Four of six members of the those issues worsened dramati- and even some of his own sup- last election in 2014. Among the RBI’s monetary policy committee cally after the government sud- porters - say it may be too little, voters’ biggest concerns are the (MPC) voted to cut the rates, while denly banned the use of then too late to help the economy ahead impact of low farm prices on rural all six members voted for a change existing high-denomination ban- of voting, which must be held by incomes and whether there is in the monetary policy stance to knotes in 2016 and hastily intro- early May. enough job creation. “neutral” from “calibrated duced a new national sales tax in The quarter-point reduction The rate cut will benefit Modi’s tightening”. 2017. in the benchmark repo rate follows government as it will boost eco- The RBI also eased bank The rate cut comes after the intense pressure late last year on nomic growth and lending to small lending restrictions for non- government introduced a budget the RBI to listen to government businesses, according to Ashwani banking finance companies and last week that also provided and business concerns and ease Mahajan, a leader of the economic raised the limit on “collateral free” stimulus for the economy, monetary policy. wing of the powerful Hindu farm loans in an attempt to boost including handouts for farmers The threat to the central nationalist group, Rashtriya lending to nearly 120 million rural and modest tax cuts for the lower bank’s autonomy led to the Swayamsevak Sangh, which is the households. In recent weeks, it has middle class. Brexit uncertainty cascading through the economy: BoE

BLOOMBERG settled has yet to be settled. The global backdrop has LONDON The economy isn’t ready for a weakened, as highlighted in the no-deal, no-transition Brexit, European Commission’s sweeping Growing Brexit uncertainty is cas- Carney said, adding that the prob- cuts to the euro-area economic cading through the UK economy, ability of such an outcome has outlook yesterday. The UK officials delaying business decisions and increased. A chaotic exit would noted the impact of China’s hurting consumers, according to increase the chance of a quarterly slowdown and said trade wasn’t Bank of England (BoE) Governor contraction in economic output, he contributing as much to growth as rate at 0.75 percent, as predicted Mark Carney (pictured). said. they expected. by all economists in a Bloomberg Carney was speaking after the The BoE is the latest central The pound declined after the survey. The bank last lifted the rate central bank delivered a pessimistic bank to take a downbeat turn this report was published, before in August. view of the UK’s outlook, fore- year, after recent dovish statements erasing its losses. It was little With Brexit hanging over the casting growth this year at the from the US Federal Reserve and changed at $1.2944 as of 1:36pm. in outlook, the bank said that its fore- lowest since 2009, while predicting European Central Bank. The bank London. In the press conference, casts would need to be updated a dramatic slump in investment now forecasts 1.2 percent growth Carney stuck to his line that more “once greater clarity emerged and lowering its prediction for pay this year, down from 1.7 percent rate increases will probably still be about the nature of EU with- gains. The “fog of Brexit” is also cre- predicted three months ago, the necessary to keep inflation in drawal.” Acknowledging the huge ating tensions, Carney said. biggest downgrade since the 2016 check. impact of uncertainty, it ran an The UK is now just 50 days referendum. It also lowered its The forecasts came alongside analysis showing that less uncer- away from a March 29 deadline to forecast for pay growth -- currently the latest policy decision by the tainty would lead to much stronger leave the European Union, and an a rare bright spot for the UK -- for Monetary Policy Committee. It growth -- 1.6 percent this year and agreement for its new relationship 2019 and 2020. voted 9-0 to hold the key interest 2.2 percent in 2020.

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AMAVAS Far away from the bustle of the city, a young couple is looking forward to their stay in a once-abandoned palatial mansion. SPORT Friday 8 February 2019 PAGE | 17 PAGE | 19 Injured Al Sadd Vinales blazes skipper Xavi to first; Marquez ruled out feels pain in for 4 weeks Sepang test Asian Cup triumph: Germany legend Klose hails Qatar’s ‘big success’

ARMSTRONG VVASAS of the Bayern Munich Under-17 team Klose was also a class act for Bayern where DOHADOHA which is taking part in the ongoing Al Kass he scored 52 goals in four seasons from Cup tournament. 2007 to 2011, helping the club to five major WinningWinning thethe AFC AAsian Cup title is the Klose, one of the most famous strikers This is what happens if you are trophies as well as reaching the Cham- bestbest tthinghing wwhichhich hasha happened for the of the game, said the Al Kass Cup Under-17 pions League final. 20222022 World Cup hostsho Qatar ahead of competition is a good opportunity for the changing and developing many After ending his playing career in Serie thethe FIFA sshowpiecehowp event in three youngsters to hone their skills. factors, like they do here at Aspire, A, where he scored more than half-a- yearsyears time, GGermany’s leading “The tournament is being shown on where you have the possibilities century of goals over two seasons with scorerscorer MiroslavMirosl Klose said. TV here, so it is certainly something special to train and practise certain things Lazio, Klose moved into coaching when “T“Thehe AsianAsi Cup win is great for the local community. However, we see joining the backroom staff of the German fforor the ppeopleeop of Qatar. Partic- it more as a training camp. We have come with good people. In time, you will national team, and now he is charged with uularlylarly llookingook at them hosting here with quite a few very young players, be able to reap the rewards: Klose developing the best teenage talent at thethe next WorldW Cup here, I so our main objective is to simply play Bayern. believe, iit is definitely a big football.” at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the compe- Klose, whose own youth football was success,” said the 40-year-old Bayern Munich made a losing start to tition that always seemed to bring out the spent at SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf, has PolishPolish boborn striker. the eighth Alkass International Cup with best in him. plenty of promising talent to work with, KloseKlos said Qatar’s a 3-2 defeat in the hands of Etoile Sportive Klose is the top goalscorer in the as seven players with international expe- iinvestmentnvestm in Aspire Du Sahe. history of the FIFA World Cup with 16 rience are among the Bayern squad in AAcademycade and having a Klose took over from Holger Seitz as goals, scoring five at each of his first two Doha this year. pprofessionalrof set up is head coach of Bayern’s Under 17 team nine appearances in the sport’s showpiece event Despite the defeat, the Germans payingpay off. months ago and is hoping to produce the in 2002 and 2006. He won the Golden Boot showed enough attacking flair to suggest “Qatar is nice, I next in a long line of star strikers to rep- at the latter, held in Germany, and added they will win far more than they lose. havhave now been here resent the Bavarian Reds from Germany. four more goals at the 2010 competition Bayern have five Bundesliga Under-17 seveseveralral ttimes. This is what Whether the next Robert Lewand- before overtaking Brazilian legend Ron- titles to their name but with a legend like happenshappens if you are changing owski, Gerd Müller, Thomas Müller or aldo’s record of 15 goals four years later. Klose coaching the club it should not be and developindevelopingg mmany factors, like they Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was on show at Klose is Germany’s all-time top-scorer too long before they add to that tally. do here at Aspire, wwhere you have the Aspire Academy remains to be seen but with 71 goals in 137 appearances and the Klose’s side will look to bounce back possibilitiespossibilities to train and practise certain the Bayern teenagers could not ask for a national team never lost a game in which when they take on Turkish side Altinordu thingsthings withwith goodgood people.peo In time, you will better role model to learn from. he scored. tomorrow, when they look to find their Miroslav Klose bebe ableable to reap ttheh rewards,” added Klose was a legend for club and Although best known for his perform- scoring boots much earlier than they did Klose, who iiss cucurrentlyrren in Qatar as head country alike, helping Germany to glory ances with the Germany national team, against Etoile Sportive.

QMMF President Suwon hold former champions Real Al Mannai elected THE PENINSULA Gudjohnsen – the son of former Chelsea and Real Madrid as member of FIM’s DOHA Barcelona star Eidur – and Victor Gordo went and Suwon close with headers as Real tried to find an Samsung Governance panel Former winners Real Madrid came from equalizer and they appealed for a penalty after players vie behind to snatch a draw against South Carmona and keeper Kim collided when going for the ball QNA Koreans Suwon Samsung in a game of two for a high ball, which led to the Spaniard being possession DOHA penalties as the Al Kass International Cup at taken off with a cut to his head. during their the Aspire Zone in Doha, yesterday. As Real pushed forward, the Koreans Al Kass Yong Joon Cho put Suwon ahead on 71 made a dangerous counter attack that saw International The International Motorcycling Federation minutes but the Koreans’ hopes of victory Hojoon Lee through on goal but Miguel Cup match (FIM) announced the election of Abdul- were dashed when the impressive Pau Aran Ramon did well to get back to make a crucial at the rahman Al Mannai (pictured below), Pres- levelled in the closing stages. tackle. Aspire Zone ident of Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Feder- The Spaniards controlled the first half Real finally drew level on 90 minutes in Doha, ation (QMMF), as a member of the global but created few chances as the South Koreans after Zamora was brought down. Initially a yesterday. governing body’s Governance Committee. got everyone behind the ball and made it dif- free-kick was awarded but VAR intervened The selection of the members of the Gov- ficult for Real to find a route to goal. and the decision was changed to a penalty. ernance Committee, which includes five The introduction of Aran, who starred in Aran stepped up to score his second goal of members of the most prominent heads of Real’s 3-2 victory over Spartak Moscow two the tournament, beating the outstretched federations globally, led by Qatar’s Abdul- days earlier, for the second half sparked more hand of Kim from the resultant spot kick. rahman Al Mannai, was done by the FIM creativity from the Spanish side. Aran and With seven minutes added on, following Board of Directors members. Peter Carmona went close with two efforts the delay caused by Carmona’s injury, Real The election of Al Mannai is a great asset apiece as the favorites stepped up a gear and tried to find a winner but despite the for Qatar in general and for Qatari sports in it seemed a matter of time before Real took influence of player of the match Gudjohnsen particular, as he will be an active member the lead. they had to settle for point. of the committee concerned with the eval- But the Koreans stunned the Spaniards Earlier, tournament debutantes Altinordu uation and monitoring of the performance when taking the lead with a harshly-awarded claimed a deserved 1-0 victory at the death of the International Federation and the penalty. Intaek Hwang went down but Rafael against Etoile Sportive du Sahel (ESS), who development of future plans and policies. Zamora appeared to have played the ball and showed limited ambition for much of the The Governance Committee is one of could not believe a penalty had been game. However, the match was perhaps most the most important committees of the Inter- awarded, and Cho’s made no mistake with notable for the controversial application of national Motorcycling Federation. It is a perfect spot-kick. VAR technology, which saw a goal ruled out responsible for organising and supervising Talented Icelandic youngster Andi for either side. the work within the Federation, as well as establishinggpp rules and principles for the managementmanagement andand controcontroll ofof thethe Federa-Federa- tion’son’s activities.activities. TheThe committee is scheduledcheduled to holdhold itsits Stage set for 7th leg of Hathab Series firstrst meeting in mid-Februarymid-February at THE PENINSULA The event carries a prize money of Chairman of the Organising Com- noted that the event is very popular thehe FIM headhead-- DOHA QR10,000. mittee, said: “The Hathab Series is among the masses in its third year quartersuarters in Geneva, The second event of the day is of very high value for upcoming since its inception. Switzerland.witzerland. Action of the hugely-popular Hathab the Medium Tour, (120 - 130cm) for riders who are learning to become Hathab, meaning ‘Center’ in Equestrian Tour resumes after a brief individuals as well as the teams. A future stars. In the meantime, the Arabic, is an initiative of H E Sheikh break as the seventh round of the total of QR40,000 will be on offer series also aims to increase the cul- Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, President series kicks off today at the Qatar for the winners of the Medium Tour tural values among the masses, of the Qatar Olympic Committee Equestrian Federation’s (QEF) Main today. develop the media interest in the (QOC). Arena. Tomorrow, the final day of the sport, and groom young Qatari riders The series is aimed at improving The third edition of the Hathab seventh round, Future Riders’ Cham- for their future appearances in local the standard of horse riding among Series offers a staggering QR1m in pionship will begin the proceedings, and international tournaments.” Qatari youth while encouraging the overall prize money. followed by the Big Tour class, He also praised Youssef Al involvement of private stables and Today’s first event will be the 130-145cm. Rumaihi, the Event Director, for individual horse owners to spread Small Tour, which will see riders Omar Al Mannai, Commercial playing his part in making the awareness of horsemanship as part competing in 120- 130cm category. Manager of Al Shaqab and Deputy Hathab Tour a huge success and of Qatar’s history and tradition. FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 SPORT 17 Xavi ruled out for 4 weeks QSL teams face off in friendlies ahead THE PENINSULA rejoining the squad for training. The first team DOHA is currently preparing for the resumption of the QNB Stars League (QSL), which will see of Round 16 action Al Sadd Captain Xavi Hernandez has been the Wolves play Al Khor in their Round 16 ruled out of action after sustaining an injury game on February 16 at the Jassim bin Hamad THE PENINSULA while training with the team earlier this week. Stadium. DOHA The Barca legend underwent a medical Meanwhile, Al Sadd’s Qatari international examination which revealed the extent of the players rejoined the team for training on Umm Salal and Al Ahli are preparing to face muscle injury in his right foot. Wednesday, after the end of their rest which off in a friendly encounter today as part of Xavi He is now expected to take up to four followed their Asian Cup triumph with the their preparations for the 16th round of the Hernandez weeks of treatment and recovery before Qatar national team. QNB Stars League (QSL). Umm Salal had recently lost to Chinese Super League side Jiangsu, who were camping in Doha. Both Umm Salal and Al Ahli utilised the EPL title race turns into a three-way tussle long break in the QSL by working on their areas of improvement. Umm Salal will play Al Gharafa in Week 16 of the QSL on February 14, while Al Ahli will face Al Kharaitiyat the next day. Umm Salal are currently placed eighth City go top with win at Everton in the QSL standings with 17 points, while Al Ahli are fifth with 26 points. REUTERS Tomorrow, Al Sailiya will take on Al Khor LIVERPOOL in another friendly match. Al Sailiya coach Sami Trabelsi and his Al Champions Manchester City went top Khor counterpart Bernard Casoni are set to of the Premier League with a disci- make the most of the friendly before their plined 2-0 win over Everton at matched in the next round of QSL. Goodison Park on Wednesday that Al Sailiya will be away at Al Duhail on saw them leapfrog Liverpool on goal February 16, while Al Khor will travel to Al difference. Sadd the same day. Aymeric Laporte headed the Al Sailiya are third in the standings with opener just before the interval and 28 points, whereas Al Khor are 11th with nine substitute Gabriel Jesus sealed the points. victory deep in stoppage time for City, who returned to the league’s summit for the first time since December 8. Wembley to host Both City and Liverpool have 62 points, but Pep Guardiola’s side have North London derby played one game more than the Mer- seysiders, who have drawn their last REUTERS two encounters and host Bourne- LONDON mouth on Saturday. With Tottenham Hotspur on 57 Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League north points, the title race has turned into a London derby against Arsenal will be played genuine three-way tussle and while at Wembley Stadium as the club still awaits City rarely sparkled against Everton, safety certificates on its new ground. it was a key win in a busy week in In January the club said all its February which they had already beaten home fixtures would be staged at their Arsenal and host Chelsea on Sunday. adopted Wembley home owing to con- “Four or five days ago we could tinued delays to their new 62,000-seater have been seven points behind, it is a ground which is costing close to £1bn lesson to never give up,” said ($1.3bn). Guardiola. That left open the possibility of chris- “Now we have an incredible test tening the new stadium with a home clash on Sunday against Chelsea. I don’t against Arsenal, but that was ruled out by know how far we will get, maybe we club chairman Daniel Levy yesterday. will die in the road, but we are trying. “Once again, thank you all for bearing “We have played one more game with us and for the great support we have Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero shoots at goal with a overhead kick as Everton’s Andre Gomes (right) looks on than Liverpool, it’s good to be top but received from so many different quarters. during their Premier League match played at the Goodison Park in Liverpool, Britain, on Wednesday. Liverpool (still) has a game at Old These next few weeks are pivotal,” Levy Trafford,” he added, referring to Liv- said in a message to fans on the club’s erpool’s match at Manchester United well as his side closed down City and After the break ninth-placed depth that their substitutes combined website. on Feb. 24. limited their control of possession. Everton, who had been well beaten for the second goal deep in stoppage The delays have chiefly been caused by The game against Everton was a Yet after all that good work, it was at home by Wolves on Saturday, time with Kevin De Bruyne playing remedial work being carried out on wiring re-arranged fixture caused by City’s Everton’s sloppiness at set-pieces stuck at their task well, but for all Jesus in on goal. and safety systems. advance to the League Cup final and which cost them yet again. their graft they rarely threatened Although the Brazilian’s shot was “The success of this testing is critical to highlighted the difficulties to come for David Silva curled in a free kick City’s lead. blocked by Everton keeper Jordan our ability to obtain a safety certificate and a side still involved in four competi- from the left and Laporte was The home side did get a sniff of Pickford, he reacted quickly to head open the stadium,” the club said in a tions as there were some signs of wea- somehow left unattended to head an opening when Kyle Walker, deep home the loose ball. statement. riness in their display. home from close-range. in his own half, gave the ball away “Everyone (helped) win the Tottenham, third in the Premier Everton manager Marco Silva left The goal was the 17th conceded to substitute Richarlison, but the game,” said Jesus. League, have used Wembley for league two of his main creative players, Gylfi by Everton from a set-piece in all Brazilian’s pass towards Cenk “We know that it is going to be games since the beginning of last season Sigurdsson and Richarlison, on the competitions this season -- Tosun was over-hit and the danger difficult. We want to play well in after the historic White Hart Lane ground bench and opted for three central prompting further questions about passed. every game and at the end of the was demolished at the end of the 2016-17 midfielders -- a tactic that worked Silva’s insistence on zonal marking. It was a sign of City’s strength in season we want the title,” he said. campaign. Liverpool face Malcom to the rescue as Barcelona test of nerves draw with Real in Copa semi-final

REUTERS be decided in the second leg. There BARCELONA REUTERS were chances for both sides to win the MANCHESTER But defeat at home by Chelsea game. It’s 50-50, even though they’re and a 3-3 draw at Crystal Palace Winger Malcom’s second half strike at home. As Manchester City fans left saw Manchester City, who won secured Barcelona a 1-1 draw with Real “The goal will give (Malcom) a lot Goodison Park after a 2-0 victory their last five games, grab the title Madrid to leave the Copa del Rey semi- in terms of confidence, we hope that over Everton on Wednesday that on the final day. final evenly poised on Wednesday everyone in the squad can help us.” sent their team back to the top of Now with City above Liverpool after the first leg. Malcom has struggled for game the Premier League, they aimed for the first time since Dec. 8, the Brazilian Malcom, who started in time since joining from Bordeaux last their chants across adjacent pressure is firmly on Klopp’s team, place of Lionel Messi, curled home in July as he is behind Messi, Suarez, Stanley Park to title rivals who host Bournemouth at Anfield the 58th minute to pull Barcelona level Ousmane Dembele and Philippe Liverpool. tomorrow. after Lucas Vazquez had fired Real Coutinho in the pecking order. The taunt of “Juergen’s After successive draws - at Madrid ahead early on. However, Messi’s injury gave him cracking up” directed at Liverpool home to Leicester and at West Ham Vazquez struck after just six the chance to impress and the 21-year- manager Juergen Klopp was - Liverpool sorely need to pick up minutes to silence the Nou Camp at old was Barcelona’s liveliest player, perhaps a reference to the slightly three points. the end of a slick team move, with San- always probing at Madrid’s defence. tetchy television interviews the Liverpool have not gone two tiago Solari’s side impressing in the Wednesday’s result would also German had given after his team’s home matches without a win since opening stages. have gone some way towards healing 1-1 draw at West Ham United on December, 2017 and have only However, Ivan Rakitic clipped the Real’s wounded pride as their last visit Monday. ever lost once to the Cherries -- a crossbar with a header as Barcelona to the Nou Camp ended in a 5-1 La Liga It was, of course, banter of the 4-3 defeat in Bournemouth in 2016. fought for an equaliser and Malcom thrashing last October in what turned kind football fans love to engage City get a chance to respond to eventually found it when Luis Suarez’s out to be Julen Lopetegui’s final game in but the feeling that Liverpool are whatever happens at Anfield when shot rebounded to him off the post. in charge. nervously feeling the pressure of they face Chelsea on Sunday, a Messi, who suffered a thigh injury “Both sides have the chance to go the title race is growing widely. match their manager Pep Guardiola at the weekend against Valencia, through,” said Madrid goalkeeper Liverpool have not won the describes as an “incredible test”. appeared for the final half hour but Keylor Navas, who made good saves domestic league title for 29 years. Third-placed Tottenham are Barcelona’s Brazilian forward Malcom Filipe could not help champions Barcelona from Suarez and Malcom. That run should have ended in only five points behind the leaders celebrates after scoring a goal during the first find a late winner. “It was a good game. Everyone on 2014 when Brendan Rodgers’s and are coping well with the leg of the Spanish Copa del Rey semi-final “Speaking generally, the draw was the team worked hard when we team featuring Luis Suarez in absence of captain Harry Kane, fair,” said Barcelona midfielder Sergio needed to and we played well too.” against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou Stadium attack found themselves five points having won the last three league Busquets. The second leg takes place on Feb. in Barcelona, on Wednesday. clear with three games remaining. games without him. “It was very even, everything will 27 at the Santiago Bernabeu. 18 SPORT FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 Pacer Starc out of India tour AFP Lanka in Canberra this week, “This means he will be una- Stanlake and allrounder Marsh AUSTRALIAN SQUAD SYDNEY will miss the series. vailable for the tour of India, were dropped, which has Hazlewood remains side- but we will instead target a opened the door for pacemen Aaron Finch (capt), Usman Khawaja, Shaun Pace spearhead Mitchell Starc lined as he recovers from a return to play for the ODI series Kane Richardson and Nathan Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, was yesterday ruled out of back injury picked up in Aus- against Pakistan in the UAE in Coulter-Nile, and hard-hitting Ashton Turner, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey, Australia’s Twenty20 and tralia’s Test series loss to India. March.” batsman Ashton Turner. 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The squad for the Pakistan players, as well as the stars who WithW Hazlewood out, Pat series, that immediately follows have won the titles in previous CumminsCum was named co-vice India, will be named later with years, such as Spain’s Rafael Nadal, ButB ut captaincapta alongside Alex Carey. the possibility that Steve Smith Swiss Martina Hingis and Belgium’s vveteraneteran AaronAaro Finch remains skipper and David Warner may be con- Kim Clijsters. seamerseam e r OpenerO D’Arcy Short was sidered for the latter part once The tournament witnessed the PeterPeter Siddle,Siddle, includedinclu as cover for Shaun their bans for ball-tampering participation of 64 players in the fastfast bowlerbowler BillyBilly MaMarshrs as he recovers from a expire on March 29. main rounds of individual boys from all over the world, where about 7,000 tennis players participated in the pre-qualifying rounds and Smith on track for Cup after surgery Leach tells then only 350 qualified for the final stage. On the same level, Qatari player AFP Warner become eligible England to Rashid Nawaf secured ninth place SYDNEY for international selection in the European rankings after his again on March 29 after improve, not successful participation in Le Petit Former Australia cricket serving year-long bans for AS tournament. captain Steve Smith’s The intent is that their part in attempting to complain Nawaf will start his first tour of surgery for an elbow Smith will play alter the ball during a Test the International Tennis Federation injury went ‘very well’ and in the Indian against South Africa. REUTERS (ITF) for the first time in March in he remains on track for the Premier League Warner also returned Doha with the aim of winning his World Cup in England, his home from Bangladesh to GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA first spot in ITF category and he management said. and then the have an injured elbow intends to participate in the U-14 Smith, whose one- World Cup and assessed, but it is not England must prepare their World Championship qualifiers. year ban for ball-tam- then the Ashes: believed to be as serious batsmen to handle different pering expires in late Cricket Australia as Smith’s. He was due to types of pitches and not just March, was forced to drop undergo minor surgery in complain about unfamiliar out of the Bangladesh late January. tracks if they are to be more Khachanov suffers Premier League Twenty20 ready to play),” he said. Australian Test skipper consistent overseas, spinner tournament last month “The intent is that Tim Paine on Monday said Jack Leach has said. with the ligament Smith will play in the he expected both of them England suffered a second round exit problem. Indian Premier League to play “a huge” role in this 10-wicket defeat to the West He went under the and then the World Cup year’s Ashes series against Indies in the second Test last at Sofia Open knife and is currently in a and then the Ashes,” the England. week as their batsmen brace. statement added. Without the experi- struggled to cope with the Smith’s manager His comments enced pair, Australia have variable bounce on a green REUTERS Warren Craig told the appeared to rubbish struggled, although they Antigua wicket, managing SOFIA Cricket Australia website reports this week that ended their summer on a scores of 187 and 132 in two late on Wednesday the Smith may miss the high with a 2-0 series win innings. Russian top seed Karen Khachanov surgery had ‘gone very one-day World Cup and over Sri Lanka. That display followed suffered a shock 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-4 well’. return to cricket through “We know how good another batting failure in the defeat by unheralded Italian Matteo “Until the brace the Australia A tour of they are and hopefully first Test at Barbados, where Berrettini in the second round of the comes off we don’t know England that coincides once their bans are up the tourists were bundled out Sofia Open yesterday. for sure but all current with the showpiece tour- they’ll be welcomed back for 77 and 246 to lose by 381 The 22-year-old Khachanov was Steve Smith opinion is that he’ll then nament that begins in late and they will win Test runs on a flat wicket. in devastating form at the start as he have about three-and-a- May. matches like they did “We need to challenge dropped only two points in his first half weeks (before being Smith and David before,” said Paine. people to be better at four service games. After bagging the cricket rather than com- first set tiebreak, he then unex- plain about pitches,” left- pectedly lost his way. arm spinner Leach, who The 53rd-ranked Berrettini fired missed the first two Tests, down nine aces en route to booking WI recall Gayle for England ODIs told British media. a place in the quarter-finals. “We need players to “It was a very difficult first set, AFP WEST INDIES SQUAD runs -- trailing only Brian cricket for the first time,” said experience different I didn’t play so well,” said GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA Lara (10,405). Browne. surfaces. Berrettini. Jason Holder (captain), Fabian Allen, His 215 against Zim- “He is clearly a young “I don’t know if that “But then I improved my per- West Indies recalled veteran Devendra Bishoo, Darren Bravo, Chris babwe in the 2015 World Cup player with undoubted talent comes from the top or the formance in the second set and I think batsman Chris Gayle Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope, alsoalso represents tthehe highesthighest andand we believebelieve hhee can aadddd counties, but it’s a big thing. I played very well in the third.” yesterday for the first two Evin Lewis, Ashley Nurse, Keemo Paul, limited-overslimited-overs score bbyy a WesWestt valuevalue to our middlemiddle order.”order.” There are very few times Sixth seed Fernando Verdasco set one-day internationals Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell, Ke- IndiesIndies batsman.batsman. Browne saidsaid fastfast where you spend 150 overs up a second-round showdown with against England in prepa- mar Roach, Oshane Thomas “We bobowlerwler ShaShannonnnon in the field and it’s a batting Romanian Marius Copil, who out- ration for this year’s World Fixtures welcomewelcome the GabrielGabriel wouldwould be paradise.” classed Swiss Stan Wawrinka in the Cup. 1st ODI - February 20, Bridgetown returnreturn ofof cconsideredonsidered forfor Leach, who has honed opening round. Verdasco secured a The hard-hitting, 2nd ODI - February 22, Bridgetown ChrisChris GayleGayle later in the series,series, his skills on a Taunton pitch comfortable 6-2 6-1 victory over Bul- 39-year-old Gayle last played 3rd ODI - February 25, St George’s whowho missedmissed althoughalthough experi-experi- that offers turn, picked up 18

garian qualifier Alexandar Lazarov. for West Indies during a home 4th ODI - February 27, St George’s the last ttwowo encedenced batsmanbatsman wickets as England com- “I played very well today, very series against Bangladesh last 5th ODI - March 2, Gros Islet seriesseries aandnd MarlonMarlon SamuelsSamuels pleted a 3-0 sweep at Sri solid,” the 35-year-old Verdasco July, and could renew an AsAshleyhley is unavailableunavailable Lanka last November. said. explosive opening part- NurseNurse fromfrom due to a kneeknee However, the 27-year- Fourth seed Roberto Bautista nership alongside Evin Lewis. preparations, the upcoming injury.injury. We injury.injury. old said England had a ten- Agut, who won the tournament in Lewis and Gayle both series against the top ranked areare pleasedpleased dency to view spinning 2016, came back from a set down to missed the recent ODI series ODI side is a great oppor- to inintroducetroduce wickets negatively. beat Australian Matthew Ebden 3-6 in India and Bangladesh but tunity for us to gauge where NicholasN ich olas “But if it’s seaming 6-3 6-2 in the last 16, while Hun- have been included as part of we are as a team,” said West PooranPooran to thethe around we’re not too garian Marton Fucsovics upset Italian a 14-man squad that saw left- Indies chairman of selectors ODIO DI bothered. That needs to be eighth seed Andreas Seppi 6-2 7-6(2) handed batsman Nicholas Courtney Browne. addressed, how they mark in a first round tussle. Pooran called up for the first “This allows us to identify pitches,” the left-arm spinner Defending champion Mirza Basic time. any areas that need added. was beaten by Slovakian big-hitter West Indies and England addressing relating to “So as much as I think Martin Klizan in another first-round will contest five one-dayers selection and also helps the Chris Gayle spinning pitches are match. following the conclusion of coaching staff to fine tune important, playing on flat World number 38 Klizan clinched the Test series, in which the their game strategy.” ones, too. You can’t do things a 6-0 3-6 6-2 victory over the hosts hold an unassailable Gayle holds the West you haven’t practised 27-year-old Bosnian, who lifted the 2-0 lead ahead of the finale Indian record for most ODI before.” trophy in Armeets Arena last year as in St Lucia tomorrow. hundreds with 23, and is their The third Test begins in a qualifier, winning seven matches “As we continue our second-leading runscorer in St Lucia tomorrow. in a week. Cricket World Cup the 50-over format with 9,727 FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019 SPORT 19

Yamaha Factory Racing’s Spanish rider Maverick Vinales in Stage set for penultimate action yesterday. rounds of QSTK and QTCC

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Stage is set for exciting rounds of Qatar Superstock 600 (QSTK 600) and Qatar Touring Car Championship (QTCC) this weekend at Losail International Circuit. Vinales blazes to After the great performance and double victory of Abdulla Al Qubaisi in the last round, Qatar’s young rider will push hard to first; Marquez feels reduce the gap in the standings, as there are only two rounds left to end the championship and he pain in Sepang test has options to win the title. Saeed Al Sulaiti is leading the championship with 140 points AFP MOTOGP TEST TIMES and Al Qubaisi is second with 119 SEPANG points. Action from the previous round of Qatar Touring Car Championship (QTCC) 1.Maverick Vinales (ESP/Yamaha) 1min “I am looking forward to at Losail International Circuit. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales 58.897sec, 2.Alex Rins (ESP/Suzuki) at another exciting round this made a late charge to finish first 0.527, 3. Jack Miller (AUS/Ducati) 0.620, weekend and I will try to win on day two of the MotoGP pre- 4. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) both races again to secure the season test in Malaysia yes- 0.665sec, 5. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Hon- championship before the last terday, while champion Marc da) 0.669, 6. Valentino Rossi (ITA/ round. In the last track day. I QSTK Trophy with the maximum Saeed Al Sulaiti is leading the QSTK 600 Championship Marquez slipped to eighth after Yamaha)0.728, 7. Tito Rabat (ESP/ wasn’t feeling very good so I points, 150 points, as he has won with 140 points and Al Qubaisi is second with 119 suffering with an injured Ducati)0.767, 8. Marc Marquez (ESP/ couldn’t test too much the bike, all the rounds in his category. points. Mishal Al Naimi, is third in the standings. shoulder. Honda)0.893, 9. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/ but hopefully, this weekend, we Kuwaiti rider, Mohammad Al

Vinales of Spain, who rode have a good set up and be Zaidan is second with 120 points

Ducati) 0.948, 10.Takaaki Nakagami 63 laps in Sepang, pulled off an focused for another win,” said and Hassan Al Mansoori is third (JPN/Honda) 1.069 Abdulla Al Khelaifi, with 96 points will try to extend the incredible performance in the Al Sulaiti. with 83 points. points lead to secure another QTCC Championship title, closing moments to post the Mishal Al Naimi, is third in This weekend will also be as he has a considerable gap in the standings. fastest time of 1min 58.897sec. “I will not be 100 percent the standings with 104 points the penultimate round of the Rival Alex Rins, on a Suzuki, in Qatar... but it will not be a big and cannot make any mistake QTCC, and the leader, Abdulla maintained his overnight problem. My target is to arrive this weekend if he wants to keep Al Khelaifi (96 points) will try to position and was 0.527 seconds in Argentina 100 percent,” he fighting for the title. extend the points lead to secure to an exciting battle this round,” 1 and at 13:00 for QTCC Race 1. behind his countryman. said, referring to the season’s “In the last round I had some another championship title, as said Al Khelaifi. There is free entrance for all Jack Miller made a big second race on March 31. problems with the tyres and the he has a considerable gap in the Ghanim Al Maadheed is third the fans at the grandstand and improvement on his Ducati to Marquez also said he was front fork of the bike. In the last standings with the second clas- with 47 points and very close to also at the Paddock. finish third with 1min 59.517sec. not prepared to push hard track day, I tried a different set sified, Hamad Al Sulaiti (52 him, with 43 points, Mohamad Qatar Superstock 600 and The Australian had ended 11th during the Sepang test due to up and I reduced my lap timings, points) Al Khaiat. Qatar Touring Car Champi- on Wednesday. fears that it could cause inflam- so hopefully I can have the same “My goal is to secure 20 Today, track activity starts onship are organised by Losail Meanwhile, MotoGP world mation to his shoulder muscles. rhythm for the race weekend points this round to take the at 9:00 and finishes at 16:10. Circuit Sports Club and Qatar champion Marc Marquez slipped “I can keep riding and and fight for the win’ com- championship title before last Tomorrow, there will be the two Motor and Motorcycle Feder- from first to eighth, complaining riding in pain but the problem mented Al Naimi,” he said. round. Good luck to everyone races for each championship, ation with Pirelli Qatar as of pain from his left shoulder is if I have a big inflamation ... I Jassim Al Thani is leading the else and I am looking forward starting at 11:10 with QSTK Race sponsor. after surgery in December. lose one week of my recovery,” The 25-year-old reigning he said. and five-time champion com- Ducati rider Italian Andrea pleted only 37 laps, fewer than Dovizioso set the early pace on Action from the previous round half the number of laps com- day two but finished fourth, of Qatar Superstock 600 at Losail International Circuit. pleted by some riders. He 0.665sec off the fastest rider. I am looking underwent a four-hour shoulder Englishman Cal Crutchlow, operation in December. returning from the ankle injury forward to “In the beginning, I felt that ended his 2018 season another exciting better than yesterday. Then early, put up a strong per- round this immediately in the 2nd and 3rd formance on his LCR Honda to weekend and I runs I started to feel the energy end fifth. go down on the shoulder and Valentino Rossi, in his 24th will try to win started to lose power and more year of motorcycle grand prix, both races again pain,” he said after ending his was sixth. to secure the test runs much earlier than The official first pre-season championship planned. test runs ends today. But Marquez quickly down- The season starts in Qatar before the last played concerns about not on March 10. Sepang will host round: Saeed Al being ready for the opening the penultimate race of 2019 Sulaiti Qatar race in March. on November 3.

NBA: Warriors thump Spurs Nitties sinks record

AFP guys being out,” Kerr said. 9 successive birdies LOS ANGELES “We kind of wore them down. It’s important on a night REUTERS The Golden State Warriors eased like tonight, when you know that MELBOURNE to the top of the Western the other team’s best two players Conference on Wednesday, aren’t out there, that you stay Australian James Nitties I had a good chance outclassing an under-strength focused. made nine successive birdies San Antonio Spurs to score a The Warriors now lead the in the opening round of his for that 10th birdie comprehensive 141-102 win at West with 38 wins and 15 losses, home Vic Open in Barwon but I didn’t want to the Oracle Arena. pulling 1.5 games clear of Heads yesterday, matching break it: Nitties San Antonio coach Gregg second-placed Denver, who suf- Mark Calcavecchia’s Popovich rested star players fered a 135-130 defeat to 10-year-old record. LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar Brooklyn. D’Angelo Russell once Starting from the 10th cool,” said Nitties after DeRozan citing “load man- again led the scoring for the Nets hole at 13th Beach Golf Links, carding an eight-under-par agement”, and could only watch with 27 points on a night when Melbourne man Nitties made 64 to stand in a share of as the powerful Warriors romped seven players cracked double his remarkable run from the second two strokes behind away with an emphatic win. digits for Brooklyn. par-four 15th through to the leader Nick Flanagan. The reigning NBA champions The defeat left Denver par-five fifth at the European “I had a good chance for started with five NBA All-Stars second in the West with a record Tour co-sanctioned event. that 10th birdie but I didn’t in their line-up -- Kevin Durant, of 37-17. The 36-year-old’s streak want to break it. Draymond Green, DeMarcus Elsewhere on Wednesday, set a European Tour record “It’s such a long-standing Cousins, Klay Thompson and James Harden extended his while equalling former record and I wouldn’t do that Stephen Curry -- and had red-hot scoring streak as the British Open winner Cal- to Mark... It’s good to hold it opened up a 66-52 lead at Houston Rockets overwhelmed cavecchia’s US PGA Tour with him.” half-time. the Sacramento Kings on the mark set in the second round Austria’s Bernd Wies- An explosive third quarter road. of the Canadian Open at Glen berger rolled in nine suc- saw the Warriors outscore their Harden scored 36 points in Abbey in 2009. cessive birdies at the 2017 opponents by 49-31 to make the a 127-101 win for the Rockets, A par on the par-four Maybank Championship in Golden State Warriors guard Klay fourth quarter a formality. the reigning MVP’s 28th straight sixth ended his bid to move Malaysia, a European Tour Thompson (left) attempts a shot over Warriors coach Steve Kerr game where he has scored 30 past Calcavecchia but the co-sanctioned event, but his San Antonio Spurs guard Bryn Forbes was satisfied at the ruthless points or more. Gerald Green Australian had few regrets. haul was not officially recog- during their NBA game in Oakland on streak shown by his side against added 25 from the bench while “I don’t hold any other nised as a record because the Wednesday. their depleted opponents. starters Eric Gordon (20) and world records that I know of round was played with pre- “Reality kind of set in terms Chris Paul (15) backed Harden so to be a part of one is pretty ferred lies. of the talent disparity with their with useful contributions. 20 MORNING BREAK FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 04. 56 AM Long-time Doha resident opens solo exhibition SHOROOK 06. 14 AM RAYNALD C RIVERA Sabrina Puppin said ZUHR 11. 48 AM MAGHRIB 05. 25 PM THE PENINSULA her work is about the ASR 02. 59 PM ISHA 06. 55 PM An impressive collection of 27 individual perception of reality obtained paintings created by contem- WEATHER TODAY porary artist Sabrina Puppin through visual is on show at “Fluid Percep- meditation. tions” — her first solo exhi- bition in Doha launched yesterday at The Corridor Gallery of Grand Hyatt Doha. fluid, abstract forms and A long-time Doha res- glossy hyper-colourful paints ident, the former realistic depicting intangible space painter showcases some of the creating its own reality. latest paintings she has done “Through the use of in Qatar when she redirected hyper-colorful, shining, and her focus towards abstract art. overwhelming abstract They are an abstract visual arrangements, I depict and interpretation of reality in investigate the distorted per- which she attempts to under- ception of the reality around stand and appreciate me, aiming to express my abstraction as a phenomenon feelings and daydreams of perception and inclusion in through work that wants to be Visitors view the paintings on display at “Fluid Perceptions”, an exhibition by artist Sabrina Puppin, reality, where each and every felt, walked in front of, stared which opened yesterday at The Corridor Gallery at Grand Hyatt Doha.PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA perception by anyone is a at, and dwelt on, rather than valid attempt to understand merely be illustrative,” she the truth. said. exhibited internationally and “Visual Meditation” is cur- Institute & University in “While walking through She said her work is about is shown regularly in galleries rently on show at Chashama Cincinnati and a BA in Studio my life I am overwhelmed by the individual perception of and museums and repre- Gallery Space. Practice and Art History at visions in which the world as reality obtained through visual sented in private and public Her residencies include Norwich University in seen and known begins to meditation. collections. Expo 2015, Qatar Pavillion, Montpelier. o o dematerialise and the under- “ I do not want to add “Fluid Perceptions” Milan (2015), Italy, Turquoise Before deciding to fully 16 C 23 C lying spatial relationships dis- noise in a world already so follows her three successive Mountain Institute and Con- commit to her art work, she Minimum Maximum appear. My work is an inves- disturbingly loud. I want to exhibitions in New York temporary Center Afghan Art, has been the Founder and tigation of my observation of add pleasant sounds, a music cementing her rising position Kabul, Afghanistan (2013 and Director of Dar Al Founoun art Misty at places at first becomes mild reality and the distorted per- which helps to relax, meditate, as a significant contemporary 2014). school at Waqif Art Center and daytime with some clouds. Relatively cold ception I have of that reality,” and find strength to continue artist. In December 2018, Puppin earned an MFA in the Head of Art Education and by night. Puppin said in a statement. to live. The need for positive Cluster Gallery hosted her solo Fine Arts at the School of Art Programs department at

HIGH TIDE 06:36 – 18:02 LOW TIDE 00:45 –14:22 The paintings never fail to emotions in the world today show “Distorted Reality” while Visual Arts in New York; a the Museum of Islamic Art. Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department attract every viewer’s has never been greater,” she Gallery 440 included her work Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary The paintings are for sale attention with their unique said. in “The 14th Annual Small Study and an MA in Art History and the exhibition is open visual appeal characterised by Puppin’s work has been Work.” Her solo exhibition and Anthropology at Union until February 27. Mars rover named after Rosalind Franklin Humans push large animals AFP STEVENAGE, UNITED KINGDOM to extinction A British-made rover that will set off for IANS Mars next year in search for signs of life NEW YORK was named on Thursday after DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin. Increased consumption of UK astronaut Tim Peake revealed meat by humans has led to the name of the first European scavenger the decrease in the number of the Red Planet at the Airbus factory of at least 200 species of large just north of London where it was built. animals and have put more Cambridge-educated Franklin than 150 under the threat of “helped us understand life on Earth and extinction, finds a study of now her namesake will do the same on nearly 300 species of “mega- Mars,” UK Science Minister Chris fauna”. Skidmore said at the unveiling. The use of various body The brilliant, but long-unrecognised, parts for food and medicines The British astronaut, Tim Peake, poses with a working prototype of the Rosalind 20th century British scientist’s name was was identified as the reason Franklin ExoMars Rover following its naming ceremony at the Airbus Defence and selected with the help of a public com- behind the decline of the petition in which nearly 36,000 took Space facility in Stevenage, north of London, yesterday. “megafauna”, defined as part. “Just as Rosalind Franklin overcame mammals and fish weighing many obstacles during her career, I hope scientists and engineers to come,” said into the hot planet’s surface to sample over 100kg, along with ‘Rosalind the Rover’ will successfully Skidmore. and analyse the soil. It will use solar amphibians, birds and rep- persevere in this exciting adventure, The new rover will try to answer that power to drive around with the help of tiles over 40 kg. inspiring generations of female question by drilling two metres (6.5 feet) optic sensors. Of these species, 70 percent are declining, and 59 percent are threatened with disappearing from the globe, said William Ripple, Professor Third of Himalayan glaciers can no longer be saved at the Oregon State University (OSU). “Direct harvest for human AP of Himalayan glaciers will melt, consumption of meat or body KATHMANDU it said. parts is the biggest danger to The 2015 Paris Agreement nearly all of the large species One-third of Himalayan glaciers was a landmark moment in with threat data available,” will melt by the end of the international diplomacy, Ripple said. century due to climate change, bringing together governments Nine “megafauna” species threatening water sources for 1.9 with vastly different views to have gone extinct in all wild billion people, even if current tackle global warming. It set a habitats in the past 250 years, efforts to reduce climate change headline target of keeping including two species of giant succeed, an assessment warns. average global temperatures tortoise, and two species of If global efforts to curb from rising by more than 2 C, or deer. Nearly 2 percent of climate change fail, the impact 1.5 C if possible. “megafauna” species and 0.8 could be far worse: a loss of two- According to a recent report percent vertebrates have thirds of the region’s glaciers by by the Intergovernmental Panel gone extinct over the past 500 2100, said the Hindu Kush on Climate Change, emissions of years. Himalaya Assessment released the most abundant greenhouse In the future, 70 percent on Monday by the International gas, carbon dioxide, would need will experience further pop- Centre for Integrated Mountain to be reduced to a level the ulation declines and 60 Development. planet can absorb - known as net percent of the species could “Global warming is on track zero - by 2050 to keep global become extinct or very rare, to transform the frigid, glacier- warming at 1.5 C as envisaged in according to the study, pub- covered mountain peaks of the the agreement. lished in the journal Conser- Hindu Kush Himalayas cutting The International Centre for vation Letters. across eight countries to bare Integrated Mountain Devel- “Our results suggest we’re rocks in a little less than a opment said the study included in the process of eating ‘meg- A view of a glacier in the Everest region of Nepal, in the Solukhumbu district some 140km northeast century,” said Philippus Wester work by more than 350 afauna’ to extinction... of Kathmandu. of the centre, who led the report. researchers and policy experts through the consumption of The five-year study looked from 22 countries. It said it had various body parts, users of at the effects of climate change The assessment said that the in Dhaka, described the findings The study said that even if 210 authors and 125 external Asian traditional medicine,” on a region that cuts across Asia impact of the melting could of the report as “very alarming,” the most ambitious Paris climate reviewers. Ripple said. through Afghanistan, Pakistan, range from flooding from the especially for downstream accord goal of limiting global The Kathmandu-based Loss of habitat, coupled India, Nepal, China, Bhutan, increased runoff to increased air nations such as Bangladesh. warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius center said it receives donations with snares and traps, also Bangladesh and Myanmar. The pollution from black carbon and “All the countries affected (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the from regional countries, non- poses major negative cumu- area, which includes the world’s dust deposited on the glaciers. need to prioritize tackling this end of the century were met, regional countries such as Aus- lative effects on these species. tallest mountain peaks, has gla- Saleemul Huq, director of the upcoming problem before it more than a third of the region’s tralia, Austria, Norway, Swit- “Preserving the remaining ciers that feed into river systems International Center for Climate reaches crisis proportions,” he glaciers will be lost. zerland and the United Kingdom, ‘megafauna’ is going to be dif- including the Indus, Ganges, Change and Development, an said in an email. Huq was one of If the global rise in temper- and other international pro- ficult and complicated,” Yangtze, Irrawaddy and Mekong. environmental research center the study’s external reviewers. ature were 2 C (3.6 F), two-thirds grams such as USAID. Ripple said.