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Three youth killed in road accident DOHA: Three Qatari youth died and one was in critical condition in the inten- sive care unit of a hospital after a road accident yesterday, the Al Sharq website reported. The victims, in their 20s, were on their way to Al Shamal when the driver lost con- trol of the vehicle, which was going at a high speed, and it turned turtle. The vehicle UNEASY (pictured) was badly damaged. Hackers sabotage Saudi govt websites RIYADH: Several government web- sites in Saudi Arabia were sabotaged in a series of heavy cyberattacks from abroad in recent days, disabling them briefly until the attacks were repelled, the gov- ernment said. An investigation traced the “coordinated and simultaneous attacks” to hundreds of Internet protocol addresses in a number of countries, an unnamed source at the Saudi RIDE Interior Ministry told state news agency SPA. The interior ministry website crashed on Wednesday after it received a “huge THE ISSUE amount” of service requests, but was back online less than two hours later after the “necessary technical drills” were performed to counter the attack, the source said. A common complaint of taxi users but whether action is taken is not known. similar woes as the previous taxi driver. The report made no mention of a pos- in the country is that not many Mowasalat officials were not immediately The third taxi operator pays a monthly sible motive. cabbies start the meter when available for comment but they told a local salary of around QR2,500-2,600, but then Arabic daily sometime ago that if their inter- the minimum number of kilometres a cab- ferrying a commuter and instead nal probe based on a customer complaint bie must cover in a month is 10,000, which US vows help to insist on charging a lump sum. proved that a cabbie was at fault, he could most cabbies say is an uphill task. even be dismissed. Another major customer complaint against That’s in the rule book, but whether a drivers is that most don’t speak English, Bangladesh nterestingly, state-run transport giant driver has ever been fired and sent packing and those knowing Arabic can literally be WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Mowasalat, which operates Karwa taxis, home is not known. counted on one’s fingers. Many don’t know John Kerry said yesterday that the US says the ride for a commuter is free if The company instead blames commuters the routes as they are new here. wanted to work with Bangladesh on Ithe meter has not been switched on or for falling prey to bullying cabbies and pay- The result is that instead of a cabbie tak- workers’ rights and safety in the wake of is not working for some reason. ing the fare even when the meter has not ing a commuter to a place he wishes to go, it the deadly factory collapse, and offered Ironically, though, the company that oper- been used. is the latter who must guide him to his desti- help after a killer storm. ates some 2,000 taxis has done little to raise Drivers also have their share of woes and, nation. Often, a commuter is new and doesn’t Welcoming his Bangladeshi counterpart awareness about this rule and the result prima facie, it appears that it is the system know the place so he ends up paying double Dipu Moni to Washington for talks, the is that some of its taxi drivers exploit peo- under which they work that forces many to the fare as the taxi would keep detouring. top US diplomat said “our hearts go out ple’s ignorance about the regulation to their violate rules and exploit commuters. Most sufferers are people who come here to the families” of the 1,127 people killed advantage. One company forces its drivers to pay a on tourist or business visas. when a garment factory complex crumbled So, commuters are either forced to pay minimum of QR265 for an 11-hour shift, and “Most cabbies not knowing English or not on April 24. up a lump sum as fare or there is a verbal petrol is free. A driver can pocket whatever having the global positioning system in their “We hope that this will be able to help all exchange or often a scuffle. he makes over QR265. taxis that would guide them to places have of us cooperate on the issue of labour and Incidents are galore where women com- Drivers say it’s hard for them to make tourists relying on taxi services in problems. labour standards and workers and workers’ muters have been bullied by some drivers QR265 each day, as there isn’t enough busi- This is affecting tourism promotion,” said a rights,” Kerry told Moni after Bangladesh’s after dark to cough up more money. ness all days of the week. “Sometimes we travel and tourism industry source. worst industrial accident. Even male commuters are coerced into have to pay the company from our pockets,” But taxi companies insist they provide Bangladesh is the world’s second-biggest paying more and some cases have recently said a cabbie not wanting his name in print training to newly recruited drivers before apparel maker and the $20bn industry been reported to police. as that would offend his employers. they are allowed to take to the road. One accounts for up to 80 percent of annual PAGEMowasalat and6 the other private Another taxi company asks its drivers company says it provides orientation to exports. companies that operate taxis get cus- to pay QR235 a day but then they must freshly-arrived cabbies for as many as four Kerry promised the United States had tomer complaints about the bad behav- buy the petrol. “It’s a tough call,” a cab- months. “a number of initiatives” it wanted to share iour of their drivers on a regular basis bie from this company said, narrating Continued on page 2 with Bangladesh. 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Pic: Shaival Dalal More taxis, more problems Passengers say their grievances go unanswered; drivers blame companies

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA remunerative work there had an Asian expatriate. to the management, saying they become difficult. The Mowasalat management worked on rental basis and could DOHA: When the taxis of two Many of his colleagues, he had earlier said that allowing do as they wished, he added. One cab for private companies recently said, had already left the country private taxi firms to operate The situation is virtually the hit Doha’s roads, commuters because they could not cope with here reflected Mowasalat’s desire same for Al Million drivers, as thought it would help solve the the situation. to promote healthy competition the driver must give the company every 647 transportation problems here, Driven by the need to meet his in the industry, provide more Many drivers say QR235 at the end of his shift and, particularly the scarcity of target for the day and provide options to customers and improve according to one driver, it is they taxis. They did not expect the for his family, he admits tricking the quality of the taxi service. they work on rental who pay for the petrol. people situation to get worse with the his customers, setting the meter However, this is not happening, “My monthly salary is QR1,200 additional taxis. to the night time rate or that many say. basis and can do and that is not enough as I have Continued from page 1 The introduction of the private for places outside Doha, which A senior official of the state- whatever they want to spend for food and other basic Given that the population taxi companies was welcomed by increases his daily income by 50 owned transport company once needs and send money to my fam- of the country is 1.94 million the public because many believed percent. said more taxis could solve the when customers ily,” the driver said, adding that it and the number of taxis is competition would mean better Mowasalat has set uniform taxi problem of illegal taxis operat- was difficult to earn QR235 a day 3,000, there is one cab for services and cheaper rates; how- fares for all the three operators: ing in the city. However, many of threaten to report as he sometimes came across bad every 647 people. ever, that was not to be. the daytime rate in Doha is QR1.2 these illegal taxis ply the streets them to the customers. The figure looks With the coming of the new for every kilometre and the night of Doha because a lot of people Many customers, he said, pre- impressive but what makes taxi companies the number of and out of Doha rate is QR1.8/km. prefer them to the poor serv- management. ferred not to go by the meter and the taxi business challenging cabs plying on the city’s streets “I don’t choose which taxi to ices and high fare of the three bargained for a lower fare. There is that private cars are no has increased by 50 percent, take because there is really no dif- operators. had also been instances of cus- less than a million, and there from 2,000 Karwa taxis to 3,000 ference when it comes to the fare. “I don’t understand why the tomers, especially young boys, just are innumerable illegal as Al Million and Alijarah were I expected the new taxi companies taxi fare in Doha is so high when running away without paying the private taxis operating on allowed to operate 500 taxis each. to offer more choice to everyday petrol is so cheap compared to our bear,” said an Asian expatriate. fare, he said. the sly, and a vast majority Recently, Mowasalat allowed the commuters like me, but it appears country, and the drivers deceiv- Many a time, Karwa drivers To make both ends meet, some of the population consists of two companies to operate 150 there is really no competition ing passengers makes the cost of were not bothered when a cus- drivers do part-time jobs. low-income foreign workers additional taxis each, and by the among the taxi operators,” said transportation here impossible to tomer threatened to report them “One time I helped during the who either prefer state-run end of next month, a third pri- National Day celebrations and bus services or rely on share vate company is expected to com- was paid QR150,” said an Alijarah taxis during weekends. In mence operations with 300 taxis. taxi driver, adding that he had to addition, there are limousine The problem now is not lack work doubly hard to earn QR375 a services. of taxis but unscrupulous drivers day as he has to pay the company Sources say that despite who try to cheat or coerce pas- QR10,000 a month, a quarter of a crackdown by authorities, sengers to get more money from which is his monthly salary. illegal private taxis have them. “Time is very important for me. been thriving, albeit they “You are lucky if you find one I have to have a customer every seem to have changed their honest taxi driver nowadays as 30 minutes for me to reach my strategy and way they most of them have devised their quota, and I don’t sleep when I operated earlier. own way of cheating customers don’t earn that amount,” he said, It’s hard to get an illegal to earn some extra bucks,” said adding he was planning to leave private taxi on the road, Lina, an aggrieved expatriate who in two months. which was the case earlier, recently decided to hire an illegal “Many taxis, no customers, and as a number of operators cab on a regular basis as she finds low salary. These, I think, are the have recently been rounded it cheaper and more reliable than main reasons why many drivers up by law enforcement taxis. act illegally,” he added. officials from the Doha She is just one of many com- As the mercury shoots up in the International Airport and muters who face similar problems summer months, the taxi drivers major shopping centres. as they travel to and from work say the number of customers Most illegal taxi every day and who, like the taxi drops during daytime as people operators now have their drivers, toil to provide for their prefer to stay indoors rather than fixed clientele and only families back home with their venture out into the heat. This cater to them and would hard-earned money. hits their daily earnings and then not trust strangers. Users For low- and middle-income more of them resort to fraud, insist they find illegal expatriates in Qatar, every riyal taking the hapless passengers private taxi operators counts, but many times they are for a ride, in every sense of the more reliable than cabbies. made to pay extra for taxi rides phrase. THE PENINSULA by dishonest taxi drivers. THE PENINSULA While some drivers manipulate the meters, others don’t switch them on and instead bargain with the passengers to their advantage. There are also those who don’t reset the meter after a trip, mak- Action against erring cabbies sought ing the next passenger pay more. Taxi drivers justify their deceit- ful ways by pointing out what they BY FAZEENA SALEEM receiving comments, complaints and sug- know that no action would be taken,'' he several bad experiences with cabbies, say are unfair conditions set by gestions from passengers. It is manda- added. Ali Bahzad, director of the Taxi especially their refusal to go by the meter. their companies, including low DOHA: Many commuters are demand- tory for the passengers to give their name, and Limousine Department at Mowasalat, It is learnt that complaints against the wages and the big amount they ing that taxi operator Mowasalat take email id and phone number and limit the recently said that they receive 200 com- cabbies are mostly taken lightly. In most have to pay their company from strict action against its drivers who complaint to 100 words. plaints every day but are unable to take cases, they are just asked to give a verbal their takings. violate rules. They have also criticised “I have made two complaints to action because details like the taxi’s explanation. They get a warning letter or “I have to give QR265 to the it for not responding properly to their Mowasalat. But they didn’t even acknowl- number and the place, date and time of get suspended from work for three days company after 11 hours of work,” complaints against taxi drivers. edge the complaints. I have no clue the incident are not mentioned. if it is a police complaint. said Sudheer, a Karwa driver who Some passengers say they do not know whether they took them into considera- “If the passenger has not given accurate “When the company receives a com- works on rental basis. He does not if their complaints are heeded or simply tion or just ignored them,” said a safety details and if they are serious about tak- plaint, we are called for an explanation. receive a salary and has to make ignored. Others are of the opinion that it engineer who usually hires a taxi when ing action, they can easily contact them A warning is given if there are many sure he earns more than QR265 is better to complain to the police rather his car is not available. because all their details are mentioned complaints against us, but if it is serious, every day to have something left than give a written complaint to the taxi “We have the right to know what hap- in the complaint,” said a passenger who such as a police case, usually the driver for himself. operators. pens to our complaints,” he added. has once made a complaint to Mowasalat. is suspended from work for three days,’’ There are days when he is for- Complaints to Karwa, Al Million and An employee of a popular food chain ''I think it’s better to log a police com- said a taxi driver, requesting anonymity. tunate to meet his target, he said, Alijarah taxi companies have to be made said he had called the Al Million hotline plaint about taxi drivers because we can Taxi drivers are given training on the but on lean days he is not able to through the Mowasalat website. But some to register a complaint but was asked to at least be sure that the issue would be routes and rules before they start work. reach his quota, and rarely does commuters complain by calling their hot- file a written complaint, yet he had not looked into,'' said a passenger, referring Karwa usually gives six months of train- he exceed it. lines or by email. The majority of them received any response. “They just ask us to a recent news item published in The ing, but Al Million and Alijarah provide “I have to send QR1,300 a have complained about cabbies demanding to make a formal complain, but I think no Peninsula about a cabbie being jailed for only a few days of training and the driv- month to my family back in my more money, refusing to switch on the action is taken.” one month. ers are given a fact sheet detailing traffic country -- enough to sustain meter and refusing to take passengers to “When I told the taxi driver that I ''Complaints should be made to the rules and information about the daily rent them for a month -- as my wife certain destinations. would complain against him, he didn't police at least in serious situations,'' sug- and working hours. doesn’t have a job,” he said, adding The Mowasalat website has a page for take it seriously. 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H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser during an event to promote Educate A Child programme, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, yesterday. A R AL BAKER Sheikha Moza highlights plight of out-of-school kids New York meet draws best known philanthropists NEW YORK: H H Sheikha has set itself the goal of reaching to children affected by conflicts, Moza bint Nasser, the Unesco 10 million of these by the end of natural disasters and restrictive Special Envoy on Basic and 2015. This may sound ambitious, cultural practices. Higher Education, offered the but I know it is possible. In just After a series of field trips by ‘Educate A Child’ (EAC) pro- four months, we have reached out Sheikha Moza, EAC was launched gramme to an elite of some of to 600,000. There is so much to do, in Doha last November and has the New York city’s best known but we cannot do it alone,” said found school places for over 600,000 philanthropists who gathered Sheikha Moza. children. at Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Guests were treated to a spe- EAC, a global education pro- designed to address the plight of cial performance by jazz legend, gramme designed to ensure every 61 million out-of-school children Wynton Marsalis, in the presence child has access to quality edu- around the world and those who of special guest Chick Corea. cation, officially announced two are denied access to quality pri- The evening was hosted by new worldwide partners — Qatar mary education. Jazz At Lincoln Center and Airways and Jazz at Lincoln In an evening attended by ben- Qatar Airways, who had the day Center. efactors and celebrities, Sheikha before announced their support In the last six months, the ini- Moza sought to raise awareness of for EAC at a press conference, tiative has given 600,000 children the 61 million children worldwide with a multi-year programme of the opportunity to fulfil their who are denied primary school support. right to primary education, which education. “These 61 million have EAC is a programme led by would otherwise have been denied been forgotten by the world. It is Sheikha Moza that seeks to pro- to them because of poverty, dis- unacceptable. Educate A Child vide quality primary education crimination or conflicts. QNA MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Emir greets German firms Norway king DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a cable of greetings to King Harald V of Norway on keen to invest the occasion of his country’s National Day. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a similar cable congratulating the in healthcare king. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al 20-member delegation arriving Thani also greeted King Harald V. DOHA: A delegation of almost as well as specialised in funer- 20 German companies will be als, health in general and even visiting Qatar next month to the University of Dresden. The Three-day Arab meet experts from the medi- group also includes a company cal and health fields as well as dedicated to the chronic care Town Organisation ministries and institutions, the management of Diabetes melli- head of the delegation said. tus–Telemedicine as option in a meet concludes This will be the sixth visit to changing supply situation with Qatar led by Lindenau, Managing general practitioners, specialists DOHA: The three-day Director of German Export in internal medicine, endocrinolo- Conference of the Arab Town Promotion Agency. This spe- gists and gastroenterologists. Organisation (ATO) concluded cialised agency in the field of This disease management sys- with participation of more foreign-trade oriented market- tem is combined with advanced than 600 ministers, officials Some of the latest wedding gowns showcased at the 6th International Wedding Exhibition and Fashion Show at ing activities has been cooperat- services for patients in Diabetes from municipalities, experts SALIM MATRAMKOT ing with institutions at home and mellitus and developed to capture the Doha Exhibition Centre. in urban issues in addition to abroad, authorised by the German all relevant disease and diagnos- representatives of regional and ministries as a main mediator in tic parameters in diabetes care, international organisations. the framework of business promo- to monitor patients’ parameters Discussions dealt with a tion projects for many years. The such as applied insulin values, Wedding expo for women today number of issues relating to projects are meant to initiate and blood glucose measurements and urban planning, the envi- intensify commercial contacts. carbohydrate units, among other DOHA: The sixth International 5 to 5.45pm, Hossam Taha from enable students of well-known ronment, urban poverty, cli- During past visits, Lindenau uses. Wedding Exhibition and 5.50pm to 6.15pm, Sposabella from universities to establish their mate change, water and waste met Sheikh Jabor bin Mansour Distributors are interested Fashion Show Doha (IWED 6.30pm to 7.15pm, The Couture mark. The award-winning fash- management in cities and bin Jabor Al Thani to discuss the in Qatar due to “the burden of 2013) will open its doors exclu- Gallery London from 7.40pm to ion designer Walid Attalah is the municipalities. participation of German entre- diabetes in the country and the sively for women today from 8.30pm and Hossam Taha from Guest of Honour and main fash- The forum also discussed preneurs in the project for a new positive outcomes which can be 3pm to 10pm, featuring six 9pm to 9.15pm. ion designer for the exhibition. government councils in the Arab hospital. realised with the application and fashion shows. In a 5,000 sq m area, this year’s The event will conclude on countries and the world. The delegation also held meet- use of the system.” Over 15,000 people are expected edition introduces, along with Sunday, after opening from 3 to Director of Doha Municipality ings with various companies to The dental companies aim to at the IWED 2013 which is tak- the fashion shows, the pampered 10pm. The last day will comprise and Head of Higher Committee introduce their products, offer meet with officials from the health ing place at the Doha Exhibition area. This new section delivers five fashion shows. The first one of the conference, Engineer their services and assess their ministry, especially for dental Center until tomorrow. The four- round-the-clock tips and tricks of the day will be that of David Mohammed Ahmed Al Sayed, chances in this market. They also issues, with dental departments day event has gathered 110 com- on improving the overall look, Martinez from 5 to 5.45pm, fol- said the Doha Declaration met representatives from Hamad of private and governmental hos- panies that specialise in all details with the help of a professional lowed by Hossam Taha from 5.50 which was issued on Wednesday Medical Corporation and Al Ahli pitals, dental faculties of universi- regarding the special day, coming style consultant. to 6.15pm, Hanina from 6.30 to intended to meet aspirations and Hospital, among others. ties, as well as dental dealerships from Europe, Mena and Qatar, Another first timer at IWED 7.15pm, Leen Fashion from 7.40 to ambitions of Arab cities’ active The delegation that will be in or wholesaler for dental products The schedule of fashion shows 2013 is the ‘Steps’ young designer 8.30pm and Al Motahajiba from presence in regional and inter- Doha on June 2 and 3 comprises and dental associations. will be as follows: Zaffa Show from award competition for young 8.45 to 9.30pm. national forums. companies from the dental sector, THE PENINSULA 4.30 to 4.45pm, Nara Salon from aspiring designers, which will THE PENINSULA QNA Sidra medical team visits Malawi 250 students to attend

DOHA: Sidra Medical and travelled to Malawi to begin to mental maths contest Research Center employ- determine how we could use sim- ees Elaine Sigalet, Simulation ulation and education to improve DOHA: The Childhood Cultural Corporate Social Responsibility’s Consultant, and Renee Pyburn, training for healthcare profession- Centre (CCC) in collabora- (CSR) 2013 Year of Education Project Manager, travelled to als and ultimately improve paedi- tion with Universal Concept campaign. Malawi last week as part of a atric and neonatal morbidity and of Mental Arithmetic System Abdulla Hashim, Public group of eight simulation edu- mortality in Malawi,” said Renee. (UCMAS) Qatar Centre, will Relations Manager at RasGas cators from the International The team met with senior offi- host Qatar’s first National said, “RasGas is proud to support Pediatric Simulation Society cials from the Ministry of Health Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Qatar’s first UCMAS competition. (IPSS). and the public healthcare system, Competition. Initiatives such as this com- The group included paediatric as well as the Dean of the School A total of 250 students from petition stimulate the minds of physicians, nurses, a pharmacist, of Nursing and educators from the across Qatar’s independent and Qatar’s youth together in a fun emergency medical technician universities and the public health- public schools enrolled in the and engaging way. Social respon- and research professionals. care system. To gain insight into UCMAS Programme and will sibility is integral to our business Malawi has one of the highest the inherent challenges in health take part in the competition. and our proactive programme rates of death in children under service delivery, the team attended The CCC is organising the con- is aligned to the Qatar National the age of five in the world. In a an ETAT course and visited the test as part of its efforts to real- Vision 2030 and the National commitment to improve these Central Hospital in Lilongwe, dis- ise its objectives of promoting and Development Strategy 2011-16.” statistics a partnership was trict hospitals and rural health firmly establishing the principles The competition, due to be held formed between IPSS, Malawi’s centres. The team is in the proc- of children’s early education as on May 25, at the Doha Sheraton Ministry of Health, the World ess of reviewing all the data col- well as enhancing the role played will be held under the patronage Federation of Pediatric Intensive lected from interviews with various by private organisations in realis- of Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman and Critical Care and the World stakeholders to develop a plan and ing social development in Qatar. Al Thani, the Secretary General Health Organization (WHO). in collaboration with Malawi edu- RasGas Company Limited of Qatar Olympic Committee “Our team of eight interna- cators develop a faculty training (RasGas) is a platinum sponsor (QOC). tional paediatric professionals programme. THE PENINSULA Eight paediatric professionals from Sidra who travelled to Malawi recently. for this competition, as part of its THE PENINSULA

11 new kindergartens in Sept DOHA: Lulu Mango festival lines up 85 delicious varieties A total of 11 kindergarten schools will open from September to increase capacity in preparation for the new education law which is DOHA: Lulu Hypermarket Group, fresh mango fruit season begins in the due to make this schooling mandatory, Al Sharq as part of their promotion calen- month of May, when the rich fragrance daily newspaper reported yesterday. dar, has launched Mango Festival of the fruit heralds its arrival, and is This step will serve as grounding for the expected (Mango Mania) from Thursday. All usually harvested while they are green education law that will make three school levels the Lulu outlets in Qatar have made but perfectly mature. Unripe ones are obligatory starting from kindergarten schooling, it convenient for the connoisseurs of extremely sour in taste. It is believed once the issued law is approved. This regulation this exotic fruit to taste the versa- to be originated in the sub-Himalayan will replace the current policy that only makes tility, and to buy the best taste that plains of Indian subcontinent and is elementary and middle school mandatory. suits their palate. The idea behind one of the most popular, nutritionally The new law is expected to improve the quality the festival was to introduce various rich fruit with unique flavour, fra- of education output and minimise school dropout, varieties of mangoes and to make it grance, taste, and heath promoting which is especially important among children over popular among the local community qualities making it a common ingredi- 12 years, given that amid this age group and above, and in the Middle East. ent in new functional foods often called the number of students decreases. This year a variety of more than 85 ‘super fruits’. It is quite interesting to THE PENINSULA popular and delicious mangoes from know that mango is the national fruit the US, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Peru, of many countries — India, Pakistan Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia, Sudan, and the Philippines — and mango tree Yemen, Pakistan, Egypt, Kenya, is the national tree of Bangladesh. In Thailand, India and Sri Lanka are Australia, where mangoes are consid- on display. Organic, Kent, Palmer, ered to be a symbol of summer, the first Tommy Atkins, Manalagai, Cengkir, tray of mangoes of the season is tradi- Harum Manis, Long Mango, Kesat, tionally sold at an auction for charity. Customers at Lulu Hypermarket on D-Ring Road. Grape Mango, Sundhari, Sindhooram, Fresh stocks of mangoes from 16 Nadan, Panchavarnam, Vazhakoombu, countries have been imported for Neelam, Kader, Kazhaled, Chenkal Nadan, Dilpasanth, Gova Mango, Thottapuri, Kesar, Rajapuri, Peather, the festival. Leading varieties of Varikka, Rumali, Kilichundan, Gudadat, Jailer, Ko Mango, Kudoos, Roja, Omlet, Green Sweet Mango, mangoes are now on sale at all Lulu Mallika, Malgova, Kalapadi, Ladu, Moovandan, Nadasala, Natti Chockanan Mango, Mahachanok, Hypermarket outlets at highly mod- Himapasanth, Kotturkonam, Colour, Nattiya-1, Nattiya Big, natty are among them. The festival will est prices. The festival of mangoes Aanathala, Allover, Ammini, Apple Gold, Ottumalgova, Palgova, Priyoor, also feature a range of mango-based will continue until Monday at all Lulu Gound, Badampuri, Black Rose, Red Apple, Red Rose, Santhi Malgova, products. Hypermarket outlets in Qatar. Chakkara Gound, Cheeri, Cheru White Malgova, Alphonso, Badami, Mangoes are seasonal fruits and THE PENINSULA MAY 18, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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HERE in Qatar can you see Wthe important monuments and landmarks of the country in one place? Since it opened a year ago, Barzan Olympic Park has been a hit with sports enthusiasts, with a number of areas where they can practise their chosen sport. The park has two football grounds, two tennis courts, a basketball court, a swimming pool, a cycling track and walking lanes. But the most fascinating feature of the park are small-scale replicas of the country’s monuments, including forts such as Al Wajbah, Al Kout, Al Wakrah and Al Zubarah, as well as the Barzan, Al Khor and Clock towers. There are also replicas of the Fanar building, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulwahab Mosque, Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar University, the Emiri Diwan, Sheraton Doha and the Torch Tower at the park in Umm Salal. MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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HE 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner is beginning to lose his peace. Barack Obama is going through one of the most bruising weeks of his presidency, with Tscandals over Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service Once a beacon, Obama under and Justice Department delivering fatal blows to his image. Just six months into his second term, the president has found himself in a place he could never have thought of: that of Richard Nixon. A legion of experts are wondering if he is the fire over civil liberties 21st-century Richard Nixon – the shamed 37th president BY JOAN BISKUPIC and indefinite detentions. Obama said last live in a world unclouded by bureaucratic of United States who left office early after the Watergate DAVID INGRAM month he would revisit that pledge and and political obstacles. As President, scandal. They have looked at revelations that the Internal blamed Congress for blocking his plan to however, Barack Obama needs to Revenue Service singled out conservative groups and that E MAY have been the first close the camp, partly through restric- impose his basic beliefs and priorities the Justice Department targeted Associated Press journalists African-American president tions on transfers of detainees. on the vast bureaucracy. ... His failings, in a secret sweep of their phones as signs that Obama’s Hof the Harvard Law Review The administration has defended its in my view, have much more to do with administration is paranoid and over-reaching its power. Add and taught constitutional law at the aerial drone strikes abroad, which have whatever he has permitted to take place University of Chicago. He may have included targeting a U.S.-born terror- under the supposed oversight of (indi- to them the outrage over whether or not the White House written a book extolling constitutional ism suspect, as essential to the fight vidual Cabinet secretaries) than they manipulated reaction to the death of four Americans in an values in a democracy. And he may have against al Qaeda and other militants have to do with his own constitutional attack on the US diplomatic mission in Libya. run for president on a civil liberties ban- in places such as Pakistan and Yemen. understanding and commitments.” The president has suffered more setbacks than he can ner, pledging to reverse the legacy of On Tuesday, Holder defended the When Obama won his place as the handle. The Guantanamo Bay and drone attacks continue George W. Bush. seizure of journalists’ records, saying it first African American in the White to haunt him, with no early solutions in sight, and the But as US president for the last was part of an investigation into a leak House, many Americans applauded 4-1/2 years, Barack Obama has faced that he called “very, very serious.” A law another advance in the country’s long immigration and healthcare reforms still remain major accusation after accusation of imping- enforcement official said the probe is civil rights movement. challenges. The latest scandals raise serious questions about ing on civil liberties, disappointing his related to information in a May 2012 But while Obama has long presented the president’s ability to deliver the changes he has promised liberal Democratic base and provid- AP story on a foiled Yemen-based Al himself as a progressive Democrat, and also about his ability to master his ing fodder for rival Republicans as he Qaeda plot. he has not been known as a fiery civil Just six own presidency. It has been barely six deals with the realities of office. News The phone records seizure was the libertarian. months since Obama was celebrating in the past week latest in a series of crackdowns on leaks His wont has been to assert the need months into of the federal by the Obama administration. Obama for dialogue and consensus-building. the second a comfortable win over Republican seizure of phone has disappointed some because of his In his 2006 book, “The Audacity of challenger Mitt Romney in the 2012 records from the background, and because he followed the Hope,” he wrote: “The scope of presi- term, Barack election and delighting his liberal Barack Obama has Associated Press Bush presidency that had responded to dential power during wartime. The eth- Obama is being base with a promise of four years of news agency the attacks of September11, 2001, with ics surrounding end-of-life decisions. progress and reforms. faced accusation and the Internal what liberal critics saw as a trampling These weren’t easy issues; as much as compared with Revenue Service’s of civil liberties. I disagreed with Republican policies, I The AP scandal has particularly after accusation targeting of con- “There were reasons to think he would believed they were worthy of serious Richard Nixon, been damaging not only to Obama, of impinging on servative Tea be different,” said New York University debate. No, what troubled me was the but to America as a whole. The civil liberties, Party groups, law professor Barry Friedman, who process - or lack of process - by which America’s world learnt with shock that the US has intensified teaches constitutional law and has the White House and its congressional most shamed Justice Department secretly seized disappointing his criticism already written about public attitudes on the allies disposed of opposing views.” AP journalists’ phone records. The liberal Democratic simmering over law. “He seemed to be inculcated with Obama’s administration has some- president. the Guantanamo constitutional values, because of his times come under fire for its efforts to journalist’s great sin was exposing the base and providing Bay prison camp background and because of what he said control the message, leading to allega- story of a CIA operation in Yemen. We fodder for rival and aerial drone during the campaign.” tions of manipulation. don’t know why the administration needs to know the identity strikes abroad. Friedman and other law professors In the case of the IRS and Tea Party of the journalist responsible for the story, and instead of saying Republicans. Asked at a acknowledge the Constitution is a text groups, Iowa Republican Senator sorry, Obama justified the spying. news conference open to myriad interpretations and that, Charles Grassley wrote to Steven The AP scandal shows that there is a desperate need for on Tuesday why in situations such as the use of drones, a Miller, acting IRS commissioner, on the administration had not done more constant balancing of national security Tuesday asking for all records relating more protection of press freedom. Badly mauled, the White for civil liberties, Attorney General Eric and individual liberties occurs. to the decision to reveal its mistakes at House is now talking about introducing a law to protect Holder said: “I’m proud of what we have Obama is also contending with a a meeting on Friday of an American journalists from government intrusion. Such a law can help done” and emphasized the administra- polarized political scene and clashes Bar Association committee instead of repair some of the damage caused by the current controversy. tion’s shift from Bush era harsh inter- with Republicans. to Congress. Some analysts say that But it’s not clear how the Obama administration is going rogation practices of terrorism suspects Harvard University law professor because of his background Obama has that had drawn international criticism. Laurence Tribe, a professor, mentor and been held to higher expectations. “He ahead with it. The president needs to act expeditiously and When he took office in 2009, Obama longtime supporter of Obama, said his was elected by a constituency that convincingly if he is not to squander away his reputation, promised to close the Guantanamo famous former student was facing the would expect him to be more sensitive to whatever that remains. This is a turning point in his second camp for foreign terrorism suspects, realities of being president. civil liberties,” said author Larry Sabato, term – the next turn he takes will decide how he will be but it remains open with 166 detainees, Tribe wrote in an email to Reuters director of the University of Virginia judged by history – whether he will become another Nixon. many on hunger strikes in protest at that on campus, “Barack Obama could Center for Politics. REUTERS The other side Quote of Getting back into the game the day NDIAN sport might just get a democratic values and ethics in sports athletes a worried lot as they stand to statute before a fresh election is held. chance to make a comeback on administration. India is a founder- suffer the most if they are barred from The IOC ultimatum is an opportunity to the international field. The Indian member of the Asian Games and the competing in major events or stay purge various federations of powerful With respect to a Isports delegation’s meeting with men’s hockey team has won eight ineligible for IOC training grants. politicians and bureaucrats who treat the International Olympic Committee Olympic titles. If India has not won many The IOC seems to have come around the bodies like fiefdoms. With power no-fly zone ... it is not (IOC) officials at Lausanne recently Olympic medals in other disciplines, to the view that the government — finan- concentrated in a few hands, grassroots has raised hopes of a turnaround in the blame can be largely laid at the cial benefactor to all federations — was administration and development of talent a decision that could sports administration. Assurances doorstep of their self-serving sports not trying to interfere in the functioning have all but vanished. Bindra pointed out be taken between from sports minister Jitendra Singh administrators, many of whom have of the sports bodies but only wants to how officials make little effort to bring in and the players’ viewpoint put forward clung on to their posts for decades. inject fairness and ethics in their running, funds or prepare development plans and the United States by Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra The IOA was suspended in December issues enshrined in the Olympic Charter. instead enjoy power and feed on the tax and Turkey. It is have evoked a positive response that after its elections were declared null The meeting is a start, and a demon- payers’ money. Despite a more liberal will result in the global governing body and void due to the violation of its stration by the minister that the intent to economic climate over the last decade, something that would revoking the suspension of the Indian own constitution. It came after a change things for the good is strong. The sponsors are wary of dealing with sports have to come through Olympic Association (IOA) if it adheres prolonged tiff with the sports ministry tough part will be implementation. The bosses who don’t have a professional to a slew of reforms. It is a humbling over adhering to age and tenure issues. IOC has insisted on time-bound action in approach. the UN Security Recep Tayyip Erdogan experience for India, to be tutored in The suspension has left the country’s terms of reforms and changes in the IOA Hindustan Times Council. Turkish Prime Minister MAY 18, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Flight paths of UK, Poland US should do diverge in disunited Europe more for Libya BY FREDERIC M WEHREY Saturday night, the ministries had returned to business. Poland is eyeing a hile many In the wake of the violence in Americans have Benghazi, there have been similar place in the group of been riveted by displays of outrage, with citizens Wrecent congres- demanding that the government sional testimony and debate about replace the militia groups in the leading EU countries the September 11, 2012, attack city with formal police and army on the US diplomatic outpost in troops. It was a stunning display just as Britain seems Benghazi, this country has been of people power, reminiscent of the caught in its own drama. demonstrations by civilians who In recent days, amid Libya’s stormed the militia headquarters to be leaving. worst political crisis since the in Benghazi in September after 2011 revolution that toppled the death of US Ambassador Muammar Gaddafi, the US and Chris Stevens and three of his BY TIMOTHY GARTON ASH other Western governments have colleagues. On Thursday, the gov- evacuated their diplomatic staff. ernment heeded these calls, send- ike two Spitfires tipping their wings A Marine quick-response team ing in special forces to shut down in the sky, Britain and Poland are and a Special Operations unit a notorious arms market in the beginning to fly in different direc- were placed on alert. But this city and deploying troops along tions. The Polish pilot is heading is precisely the time for greater its major roads. for Berlin, not to strafe it but to engagement, not retreat, not only But civil society alone cannot Ljoin it. The British pilot is steering out into with Libya’s beleaguered govern- succeed against the enormous the Atlantic. Their old friendship is strained. ment but also with its increas- challenges facing this country. Each country’s choice is influenced as much ingly assertive civil society. Most crucially, the “political by history, politics and emotion as it is by any David Cameron Engagement is crucial for secur- isolation law” is polarizing soci- cool calculation of self-interest. Both flight ing Libya’s future and prevent- ety and impeding progress on paths carry risks that the pilots may not see ing its weakness from inflaming many fronts. At one level, the clearly enough from the cockpit — and both Cameron’s commitment to a 2017 referendum most to an EU budget from which Poland is conflicts in North Africa and the law reflects deep-rooted ques- may yet change course. on Britain’s membership in the EU will not be — and, under the seven-year deal agreed in Middle East. tions about whether the count- The tensions became apparent at a some- set in the stone of law during this parliamen- February, will continue to be — by far the larg- Over the past two weeks, less bureaucrats and technocrats times emotional meeting of the Polish-British tary session; 114 of the rebels were Cameron’s est single beneficiary. Getting a load of money armed militias have laid siege who served in Gaddafi’s machine Round Table in Krakow last week, very differ- own backbenchers. “Very well, alone!” they from Brussels certainly helps a nation to love to government ministries in the — even if they personally commit- ent in tone from the shared optimism of our cry, like the British soldier standing atop the the EU. And the very fact that past enemies capital, Tripoli, demanding that ted no crimes — should be allowed first encounter in Poland’s former royal capital white cliffs of Dover in a famous 1940 cartoon. have become partners generates a positive the elected parliament pass a con- to remain in their posts. six years ago. A Polish participant said “our And now such a law will be proposed as a emotional charge, in a way that the old but troversial law that would bar a On another level, it is a dis- friendship is getting harder these days” and private member’s bill by a Tory backbencher, neglected friendship with Britain does not. range of officials who served in turbing political game: A bid by deplored the British government’s “transac- with full support from the Conservative party. So while the British-educated Polish for- the Gaddafi regime from govern- Islamist elements and politicians tional approach” to the EU. A British politi- Britain’s “Island Story” will, they insist, be eign minister Radek Sikorski calls for more ment employment. Effectively and the powerful city-state of cian wondered why the Poles were not more carried forward much better if we Brits are German leadership in the eurozone, he says held at gunpoint, legislators Misurata to force the hand of grateful for everything the UK had done for freed from the shackles binding us to a scle- that Britain is a country of “special concern”. passed the bill last week, but the the elected government. The law’s them — including Tony Blair’s extraordinary rotic continent and sick eurozone. Contrast And he argues that if Poland gets into the siege continued until this past passage by force set a dangerous opening of the British labour market to what the latest US growth figures with those eurozone, it could be part of a leading group weekend, with militias encamped template for armed intimidation turned out to be up to a million Poles. for the eurozone. There is a whole world of of three to five countries from which Britain at the ministries and demanding other disgruntled factions could Yes, replied a Polish politician, that helped dynamic, emerging economies out there, is currently resiling itself. the ouster of Prime Minister Ali try to emulate. when there was high unemployment in which post-imperial Britain, speaking the Yet the fact that planes tip their wings in Zeidan and his cabinet. Libya’s porous southern bor- Poland and a Polish referendum on joining world language of English, is well-placed to opposite directions does not mean they will for- “A slow-motion coup” was ders have become thoroughfares the European Union. But Britain had no right embrace. Remarkably, two big-hitting former ever continue on diverging flight paths. Most how one Libyan described the for smugglers, illegal migrants to expect eternal gratitude — and not every- Conservative cabinet ministers, Nigel Lawson, Poles like their country’s membership of the EU standoff to me. Meanwhile, an and jihadists. Arms from Libya thing Britain had done in history had been so who as chancellor of the exchequer wanted to but only one in three of them currently wants explosion on Monday in front of are fuelling conflicts in Mali, positive for Poland. (The word “Yalta” was not bring Britain closer to the European monetary it to join the euro. Polish experts have learned a Benghazi hospital killed three, Gaza and Syria. The regular army spoken, except by me in a whisper, but hung system, and the half-Spanish Michael Portillo, from the examples of Spain and Italy that you sparking outrage across Libya at and police remain hollow shells, heavy in the Polish air.) And after all, it was a have already said they would for Britain to have to be very well prepared before you join the ongoing security vacuum in while the various militia coali- British statesman, Lord Palmerston, who said leave the EU in an in-or-out referendum. that club. If Germany does the necessary to ena- the city. In nearly every crisis in tions, although nominally under that Britain has no eternal allies, only eternal By contrast, Poland’s current government ble the eurozone to grow again, I think Poland Libya since 2011, civil society has government control, are the real interests. Poland, too. will do everything it can to be at the very will be right to join — but it will take many more helped pull the country back from arbiters of power. But you will be worse off without us, cried heart of Europe. Here too, history and emo- years and tough, careful preparation. the brink. Last Friday, thousands For many Libyans, there is the Brits. Asked one: “Do you want to be left tion play a large role. After decades of being Meanwhile, as the British debate gets of Libyans marched toward the gnawing disenchantment with alone … I don’t want to use the phrase … at cut off from the west by the iron curtain, and slightly more real, the risks of leaving the EU besieged Foreign Ministry to con- the pace of progress and even the mercy of Germany?” To which a Polish centuries of feeling itself to be on the periph- become more apparent. It is already extraordi- front the armed militias. Those I hints of nostalgia for the old participant replied: “If the UK leaves, it’s not ery of the ancient Carolingian core of Europe nary that so much euro-denominated financial spoke with said they were march- order. Added to this, many are the German demons we’re afraid of — it’s — “a suburb of Europe”, as the Polish histo- business is done outside the euro currency ing for the principles of due proc- disheartened by the retreat the Southerners, the French demons …” For rian Jerzy Jedlicki titled his book about 19th area, in London. The chairman of The City ess and democracy. of Western governments and Poland wants to be part of a strong, disciplined century Polish attitudes to western civilisa- UK, representing Britain’s financial services Many disagreed with the gov- companies. While an ultimate northern Europe. Having escaped from Soviet- tion — the Poles want to seize their chance to industry, says the idea that the City could ernment, its corruption and resolution of the political crisis dominated eastern Europe and reinvented be in the hard core at last. And if that means thrive outside the EU is “poppycock”. its inefficiency. But their signs rests with decision-makers and itself as part of central Europe, Poland now being part of a German Europe, well, so be So maybe the British and Polish Spitfires and banners bore witness to the civil society, outsiders can do sometimes speaks of itself as a north European it. It is also explicable. Poland’s elites judge will end up flying in roughly the same direc- idea that changes in govern- much more. A potential window country. Germany’s economic model to be a lot more tion after all, albeit at different ends of a ment should come through legal, is closing. Now is the time for On Wednesday night, 130 members of the solid than Britain’s. A quarter of the country’s rather widely spread squadron, and with a peaceful means, not by armed greater assistance from the US British House of Commons voted to express trade is with Germany. Germany is a power- friendly Messerschmitt in between. intimidation. By late Friday and Libya’s Western allies. their regret that Prime Minister David ful friend in the EU. Berlin also contributes THE GUARDIAN evening, the militias had fled; by WP-BLOOMBERG Accused American spy’s tools get a laugh from Russians

BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY a legally binding agreement to Facebook. “But why did the spy not a legislator or top bureau- exchange information on anti- Fogle need a compass?” crat, can never hope to earn that wo wigs, one blond, missile systems, a high-level Russian KGB veterans were much in salary. one dark. Three pairs bilateral commission on economic less sarcastic: They pointed out “What would you have done? I of glasses. Two knives. cooperation, further nuclear arms that a spy needed to avoid modern am just shocked by the size of the TTwo envelopes contain- cuts and a direct encrypted video high-tech devices to make detec- payoff and proud of the honesty, ing 500 euro notes. One flashlight. link between the two presidents. tion more difficult. Nonetheless, valour and incorruptibility of our One can of mace. One compass. The Kremlin said it would reply they had a low opinion of the officer,” he wrote. One paper map of Moscow. One by May 20. CIA’s attempts to infiltrate According to the FSB, the ancient Nokia phone. One let- Footage of the arrest, released Russian special services. potential Russian recruit had ter in Russian, addressed “Dear by the Federal Security Service “When Americans have to deal reported the US diplomat’s friend.” (FSB), shows a Russian counter- with foreigners, they believe there advances several months ago and These, according to the state- intelligence officer lecturing Fogle is the American way and the made the arrest possible. controlled news agency RIA and US embassy officials who had wrong way,” Soviet military intel- The FSB said on May 15 that it Novosti, were the objects seized come to pick him up: “Against ligence defector Viktor Suvorov had caught another US spy, also from Ryan Christopher Fogle, the background of improving told the TV channel Dozhd. “They a third secretary at the embassy, Third Secretary of the US US-Russian relations we have a are psychologically unprepared in January but had decided not embassy in Moscow, when he was US diplomat committing a crime for such work.” to make that information public arrested by Russian counterintel- against the Russian Federation.” Another former intelligence at the time. ligence late in May 14 for allegedly Yet Russian bloggers couldn’t officer, the banker Alexander Why then did Russian officials trying to recruit a Russian special help laughing as they watched Lebedev, told Dozhd: “It looks make a public display of Fogle? services officer. the spy thriller unfold: Fogle’s like counterintelligence did its Perhaps it was a signal from Putin Russia declared Fogle persona alleged toolkit was too 20th cen- job well, but the CIA operative that he wasn’t impressed with non grata and is demanding that tury. “I can’t get rid of the feel- looks silly. Well, there are spies Obama’s peace offering. he be sent home as soon as pos- ing that this is a clown’s farce,” like this, too, and this is how they The Kremlin has recently sible, the Foreign Ministry said in wrote blaster2009, a LiveJournal are trained and what they look stepped up its anti-US rhetoric in a statement and Deputy Foreign user. like.” response to Congress’ Magnitsky Minister Sergei Ryabkov con- “It’s as if the CIA wanted to The money Fogle suppos- Act, which barred a number of veyed a “protest” to Unite States make the FSB look stupid and edly carried — 100,000 euros Russian bureaucrats suspected Ambassador Michael McFaul. tried too hard, overacted. Or ($129,000) in large bills — was no of human-rights violations from This was serious business: maybe they wanted to distract joke to anyone, and neither was entering the US. Fogle was apprehended just as people from something serious. the promise of $1m per year for “Relations have never been President Vladimir Putin was This is just no way to recruit “long-term cooperation,” spelled so bad since the end of the Cold preparing a reply to an impor- anyone.” out in the confiscated letter. War,” Alexei Arbatov of the tant letter from President Barack The alleged spy’s methods elic- “The stakes are not just high, Moscow Carnegie Centre think Obama. ited mockery, too. “OK, I under- they are exorbitant,” blogger tank told Gazeta.ru. “One spy A month ago, Obama proposed stand: a wig, a knife, a flashlight Sergei Kolyasnikov wrote on here or there just could not make a number of steps to improve — that’s intelligence,” Moscow LiveJournal. things any worse.” Ryan Fogle (right), a Third Secretary at the US embassy in Moscow, with US-Russian relations, including editor Dmitri Butrin wrote on “A rank-and-file operative, WP-BLOOMBERG other officials at the FSB in Moscow. MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East No peace Two blasts deal without Palestinian at mosque unity: Turkey

WASHINGTON: It will be impossible to reach a Middle East peace deal with- in Iraq kill 43 out a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip 712 died in April, UN figures show Erdogan warned yesterday. “The process of unity between BAQUBA, IRAQ: Two bombs sometimes hit Sunni targets to Fatah and Hamas, this has to exploded outside a Sunni provoke conflict. be achieved. If this reconcili- Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city Sunni Islamist insurgents and ation is not achieved, then I of Baquba as worshippers left Al Qaeda’s local wing, Islamic don’t believe that a solution Friday prayers, killing at least State of Iraq, have stepped up or result will come out of the 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks since the start of the year Israeli-Palestinian discussions,” attacks in a month-long surge to try to provoke a wide-scale Erdogan told a Washington in sectarian violence. sectarian confrontation like the think-tank during a visit to the The increasingly sectarian slaughter that killed tens of thou- United States. civil war in neighbouring Syria is sands of Iraqis in 2006-2007. He was speaking after con- emboldening Iraqi Sunni insur- The Sunni militants accuse firming following talks with US gents and straining relations Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki’s President Barack Obama that he between the two Muslim groups Shia-led government of discrimi- Women stand on the balcony as they watch a protest against President Bashar Al Assad after Friday prayers in planned to visit the Hamas-ruled in Iraq, where tensions are at their nating against their sect. Raqqa province, east Syria. Gaza Strip as well as the West worst since US troops pulled out The United Nations said lead- Bank some time next month at the end of 2011. Yesterday, one ers from all groups needed to end despite US opposition. bomb exploded outside the mosque the violence. “Small children are UN, Russia for urgent Syria meet; The dual stops mean Erdogan in Baquba, about 50km northeast burned alive in cars. Worshippers would meet with the Hamas of the capital Baghdad, and a sec- are cut down outside their own rulers of Gaza as well as with ond explosion tore into crowds of mosques. This is beyond unac- Palestinian president Mahmud people rushing to help victims of ceptable,” said UN envoy Martin France opposes Iran’s presence Abbas, likely in Ramallah. the first attack, police said. Kobler. April was Iraq’s bloodiest “I place a lot of significance Local television showed images month for almost five years, with on this visit in terms of peace of bodies, pools of blood and the 712 people killed, according to MOSCOW/NEWYORK: UN said. “Nothing is possible without Washington and elsewhere to stop in the Middle East. I’m hoping victims’ scattered shoes. UN figures. Since the American chief Ban Ki-moon and Russia this.” supplying President Bashar Al that that visit will contribute to “I was about 30 metres from withdrawal, Iraq’s coalition gov- agreed yesterday that a peace France said yesterday it is Assad’s forces. One of the officials, unity in Palestine,” the Turkish the first explosion. When the first ernment has been caught up in a conference on Syria should be opposed to having Iran attend a who spoke on condition of ano- leader said Thursday at a joint exploded, I ran to help them, and power struggle between majority held “as soon as possible”, even peace conference on Syria despite nymity, said the latest Yakhont press conference with Obama. the second one went off. I saw Shias, minority Sunnis and eth- as Moscow defied growing glo- Damascus’s ally Russia wanting surface-to-air missiles were Washington had urged bodies flying and I had shrapnel nic Kurds who split cabinet posts bal pressure over its arms sup- Tehran’s presence at the event delivered recently. The transfer Erdogan to postpone any visit in my neck,” said Hashim Munjiz, between them. plies to the Damascus regime. expected in the first half of June. of the missiles was first reported to the impoverished Gaza Strip, a college student at the site. Sunnis, who lost their domi- Ban met Foreign Minister Foreign ministry spokesman by the New York Times. There was saying it would be a “distrac- Another eight people were also nance when the US-led inva- Sergei Lavrov before starting Philippe Lalliot said: “We do not no immediate comment from the tion” from its efforts to revive killed and more than 20 wounded sion toppled Saddam Hussein, talks with Russian President want Iran. The Syrian crisis is Russian government. the moribund Middle East peace when a roadside bomb hit peo- have been protesting for months Vladimir Putin about an impend- contagious and affects the entire The Geneva talks were agreed process. ple gathering for the funeral of against Maliki, demanding ing international meeting on Syria zone. Regional stability is at stake during a May 7 visit to Moscow by “As we’ve said consistently, a Sunni Muslim cleric killed in reforms to tough anti-terror- that should include representa- and we cannot see how a coun- US Secretary of State John Kerry we oppose engagement with Baghdad in an attack a day ear- ism laws they say are used to tives of the two warring parties try (Iran) that threatens this and are seen as a rare joint peace Hamas, a foreign terrorist lier. No group claimed responsi- unfairly target their sect. Iraqi for the first time. stability can participate in this push by the two former Cold War organization which remains a bility for the attacks. Sunni insurgents, some linked to “There are high expectations conference.” rivals some 26 months into the destabilizing force in Gaza and Shia militias, which fought US al Qaeda, say they have formed and the meeting should be held as The new talks are meant to Syrian war. But US President the region,” State Department troops for years after the 2003 an alliance with the Al Nusra soon as possible,” Ban told report- include both the fiercest rebels Barack Obama admits that mis- spokeswoman Jen Psaki told invasion, have said they are pre- Front Islamist group fighting ers alongside Lavrov. Russia’s top and members of the regime — a trust lingers between Moscow and reporters later. pared in case they need to return against Syrian President Bashar diplomat added: “The sooner this difficulty considering some oppo- Washington and the world com- “We urge all parties who to war. Sunni insurgents also Al Assad. REUTERS conference is held, the better.” sition members’ refusal to recog- munity remains particularly con- share our interest in the crea- But Lavrov still cautioned that nise President Bashar Al Assad as cerned by Russia’s arms deliveries tion of a Palestinian state to take it was too early to name the date a negotiating partner. to its longstanding ally Assad. steps that promote the resump- of the Geneva meeting — now Moscow is also calling for the Israeli Prime Minister tion of peace talks between the Somali PM to face confidence vote expected for the first half of June inclusion on this occasion of its Benjamin Netanyahu urged Putin Palestinians and Israel.” MOGADISHU: Somalia’s prime minister Abdi Farah Shirdon — because the actual makeup of trading partner Iran and US ally in Sochi on Tuesday not to follow Erdogan’s announcement that Saaid is expected to face a vote of confidence next week, lawmakers the Syrian delegations had not Saudi Arabia as a counterweight. through with Russia’s reported he would also visit the West said, and backers of the challenge said they were frustrated with yet been set. “We have to come up Russia has sent Syria advanced decision to ship powerful S-300 Bank appeared aimed at sooth- the pace of political reform. Lawmakers confirmed the motion had with a decision about the Syrian anti-ship missiles, US. officials surface-to-air missiles that can ing US anger that he would been filed and said a debate in the 275-seat chamber was expected delegations and the group of this said yesterday, bolstering Syrian take out fighter jets. meet with militant Hamas lead- on May 22. REUTERS conference’s participants,” Lavrov defenses despite pleas from AGENCIES ers in Gaza. AFP Bahrain forces raid top Shia cleric’s house

LONDON: Bahraini secu- from the sheikh’s family were rity forces raided the house in the house at the time of the of top Shia cleric Sheikh Isa raid, but the sheikh was not Qassim yesterday, the oppo- at home, Al Wefaq said. Noone sition said, an act likely to was reported hurt. enrage the island’s majority In a statement to state Shia population which is at media, Bahrain’s chief of pub- loggerheads with its Sunni lic security made no mention rulers. of the raid but said police on Bahrain, where the US Fifth duty in Duraz early yesterday Fleet has its base on Iran’s door- had come under fire from a step, has been in violent turmoil “locally made weapon”, injur- since Shia-led pro-democracy ing two officers. protests erupted in 2011. In response, “necessary Protests continue and often measures were taken to rein- Senior Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim (centre), speaks with Bahraini MP end in clashes between demon- force the security force patrols Hussain Al Mutagawi after Friday prayers at a mosque in the village of strators and police. At least two with members of an anti-ter- Diraz, west of the capital Manama. people have died this year. rorism unit ... to uncover the Security personnel forced source of the gunfire,” Major- security forces had entered the in Bahrain,” said Mohammed Al open the door of Sheikh Isa’s General Tariq Al Hassan told sheikh’s house in pursuit of fugi- Maskati, president of the Bahrain home in the village of Duraz in the state news agency BNA. tives who had fled there from a Youth Society for Human Rights. the early hours yesterday and He said the shooting was neighbouring house. “People see him as a red line. I searched the house, main oppo- still under investigation. “This is the first time (his house expect that this will cause a big sition bloc Al Wefaq said on its A leading Bahrain human was raided) and it’s hugely offen- reaction.” website. Women and children rights activist said he believed sive for a huge number of Shi’ites REUTERS

Egypt police shut Rafah crossing in protest

CAIRO: Egyptian police The captured policemen State media has said that that toppled veteran president closed the Rafah border cross- worked at the Rafah border security officials were in talks Hosni Mubarak. ing with Gaza yesterday in terminal, a security source said. with the abductors via media- Islamist militants have taken protest at the kidnapping of Yesterday, their colleagues tors — local Bedouin leaders advantage of a security break- colleagues in the Sinai penin- padlocked the gates leading who hold sway in the Sinai down after the uprising to use sula, a security source and to the terminal to protest the peninsula. the Sinai as a launchpad for witnesses said. abductions, witnesses and the A spate of hostage-taking has attacks on security forces, a Three policemen and four security source said. rocked the Sinai, which borders strategic gas export pipeline to soldiers were abducted on The protest comes a day after Israel as well as Gaza, but they Egypt’s neighbours and on Israel Thursday by armed men who President Mohammed Mursi usually last for no longer than across the border. are demanding the release of held crisis talks with his defence 48 hours and are often carried The most serious incident a group of prisoners held at a and interior ministers over the out by Bedouin seeking the was in August 2011, when gun- police station in the North Sinai abductions, and as negotiations release of jailed relatives. men slipped across and staged town of El Arish, official media to secure the release of the serv- Such abductions have been on a series of ambushes that killed reported. icemen were underway. the rise since the 2011 uprising eight Israelis. AFP MAY 18, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Litvinenko UK US plans tough immigrant controls inquest in doubt after Russia Representatives’ bill fails to address issue of low-skilled foreign workers evidence ruling WASHINGTON: A bipartisan a comprehensive bill and instead over the border as children with amendments to try to resolve The Senate effort requires DHS plan brokered in the House of want to take smaller steps to fur- their parents, would be put on the matter, according to aides. to pursue tough border security LONDON: The inquest into Representatives will be tougher ther bolster US borders against ille- a faster path to citizenship. But Republicans control the House measures. But the 11 million would the death in Britain of Russian on illegal immigrants living in gal crossings and to improve access details were not available. by a narrow majority. be able to move almost immedi- dissident Alexander Litvinenko the United States than a Senate for foreign high-skilled workers. The Service Employees The bill in the Democratic- ately to temporary legal status. is close to being scrapped after counterpart, congressional While the lawmakers them- International Union said the ten- controlled Senate relies on a However, in at least one area, the the coroner ruled yesterday he aides said yesterday. selves refused to discuss details, tative deal showed that momen- low-skilled worker programme House measure might be viewed as could not hear evidence about But it fails to address the diffi- which will be translated into leg- tum for immigration legislation that was worked out by the US more progressive than the Senate the alleged role of the Kremlin cult issue of how many low-skilled islative language over the next was building. Eliseo Medina, sec- Chamber of Commerce and the bill, according to an aide. in his poisoning. foreign workers should be allowed week or two, some congressional retary-treasurer of the 2.1 mil- AFL-CIO labour organisation. “People will find the family Coroner Robert Owen said into the country. aides familiar with the plan lion-member union, added that That deal has been criticised by reunification (provision) is bet- in a pre-hearing ruling that he Late on Thursday, the eight sketched out bits of the agreement it was “the responsibility of the some business interests as provid- ter under the House plan than the would be failing in his duty “to Republican and Democratic yesterday. House leadership to ensure this ing too few slots for foreign work- Senate plan,” the aide said. Like undertake a full, fair and fearless House negotiators working on an According to those aides, the bipartisanship continues.” ers hoping to apply for American the Senate bill, the House deal inquiry into the circumstances of immigration bill announced that House measure, as expected, will Congressional aides confirmed construction jobs. Labour unions eliminates an avenue for siblings Mr Litvinenko’s death” if he was they had successfully wrapped up set a 15-year path to citizenship for that the negotiators failed to have been pushing hard for strin- living abroad to win visas. forced to disregard the evidence a four-year effort and had ham- the approximately 11 million undoc- agree on one of the most conten- gent controls, saying a flood of But the aide said the House bill for national security reasons. mered out a tentative deal. umented residents, many of whom tious issues in immigration reform foreign workers would displace will grant more leeway than its He suggested that the death Republican Representative have been in the United States for efforts: the future flow of work- domestic job-seekers. Senate counterpart on granting visas could instead be considered in Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, one years and are raising families here. ers from abroad that American Aides said that the House deal to adult offspring of US residents. a public inquiry in which the of the negotiators, told reporters on The Senate bill, which is now firms want to hire as construction also would be more stringent than One of the last areas of disa- evidence alleging Russian state Friday that he was “confident” that being debated in that chamber’s workers, hotel maids, waiters and the Senate bill by requiring the greement among the House nego- involvement “could be taken into the deal will get a full airing in the Judiciary Committee, sets a for other low-skilled jobs. Department of Homeland Security tiators had to do with whether account”. House Judiciary Committee that 13-year time frame. Instead, if and when a compre- (DHS) to achieve new border secu- newly legalised residents would The coroner said he now has oversight of immigration policy. Like the Senate bill, those ille- hensive immigration bill reaches rity measures before the 11 million be able to participate in President wanted to hear submissions from Many Republican members of gal immigrants who are serving in the full House, Democrats and undocumented immigrants could Barack Obama’s healthcare law. Litvinenko’s widow Marina and that panel are opposed to moving the military or who were brought Republicans will offer competing begin moving into legal status. REUTERS his son on the possibility of hold- ing an inquiry which would have to take place partly behind closed doors. Litvinenko, 43, suffered a slow and agonising death after he was Ex-Argentine dictator poisoned with radioactive polo- nium-210 after drinking tea at an upmarket London hotel in 2006. British Foreign Secretary Videla dies in prison William Hague has sought to pre- vent information regarding the BUENOS AIRES: Jorge Rafael euphemism for kidnapped and death from being revealed during Videla, an austere former army murdered — during the dictator- the inquest, which is due to start commander who led Argentina ship, which began in March 1976 later this year. during the bloodiest period of a when Videla and two other mili- The coroner said he partly “dirty war” dictatorship and was tary leaders staged a coup against agreed with Hague’s request. unrepentant about kidnappings President Maria Estela Martinez It is thought that Litvinenko and murders ordered by the de Peron, the widow of former was working for Britain’s MI6 state, died yesterday at age 87. leader Juan Domingo Peron. intelligence service at the time of Videla was the first president to Videla was born in the town his death and his family believe head the military junta that “dis- of Mercedes to a middle-class he was killed on the orders of the appeared” thousands of suspected family in 1925. He followed in Kremlin. leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he the footsteps of his father, an British police have sought the spent his final years behind bars army colonel, enlisting in the arrest of two Russian nationals for human rights crimes, includ- military academy where he was in relation to the death — Andrei ing the systematic theft of babies well-respected. Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun — but born to political prisoners in Following the coup of 1976, Moscow has refused to hand them secret torture centres. the mustachioed Videla headed a over. He died of natural causes in three-man military junta and he Alex Goldfarb, a friend of the his jail cell in a prison outside the led the country until 1981. Litvinenko family, said the coro- capital, Buenos Aires, a govern- The junta pledged to end left- ner’s decision was “deeply dis- ment spokesman said. wing subversion, put the econ- maying”, and accused the British “He spent his life doing great omy in order and respect human government of prioritising its damage, which left a mark on rights. Videla said several times Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (centre) being escorted by federal police in San Martin, Buenos relationship with Russia over the the life of the country,” Argentine that the aim of his government Aires province, Argentina on July 17, 2012. need to hold an open inquest. human rights activist and Nobel was to return Argentina to He said: “It appears the British Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez democracy. the economy and rid Argentina of the excesses against those suspected Minister Jose Martinez de Hoz. government is more concerned Esquivel told Reuters. “His death However, he conditioned that influence of former strongman Peron. of left-wing activities. He did away with import tariffs about the use of chemical weap- ended his physical presence but on the “Process of National He quickly suspended the nor- It was also the government of and revalued the peso against the ons in Syria than radioactive not what he did to the country.” Reorganisation,” in which the mili- mal functions of Congress, local “sweet money” when Argentines US dollar, helping Argentina build weapons being used on the streets Rights groups say up to 30,000 tary planned to foster sweeping government and the Supreme briefly enjoyed the benefits of the up a $50bn foreign debt. of London.” people were “disappeared” — a reforms to reduce the state’s role in Court, and oversaw the worst monetarist policies of Economy REUTERS AFP

Norwegian National Day Muslim religious Dozens killed in Nigeria leaders to visit Auschwitz assault on Islamists WARSAW: Fourteen Muslim KANO: Nigeria’s military yes- capital Maiduguri, killing more clerics from across the globe terday attacked Boko Haram than 800 people and forcing the will visit the former Nazi Islamist strongholds across the insurgents underground for a German Auschwitz death camp northeast, launching air strikes year. in southern Poland next week as on insurgent camps, with doz- In the town of Gamburu Ngala part of a Holocaust awareness ens of militants killed in the on the border with Cameroon in and anti-genocide programme, fighting, the military said. northern Borno, residents said organisers said yesterday. Several thousand soldiers have that heavily armed troops and “This is an opportunity for spread across three northeastern tanks arrived on Wednesday, imams who are influential in states where President Goodluck sealing off previously unmanned their communities to look at the Jonathan imposed a state of border posts. Holocaust first hand and to go to emergency after Boko Haram Northeast Nigeria, the epicen- Auschwitz, to see what that kind seized territory and declared war tre of the Boko Haram insur- of hatred led to,” Poland’s Chief against the government. gency, has porous borders with Rabbi Michael Schudrich said Forces have also been deployed Cameroon, Chad and Niger, with yesterday. to seal some of the region’s porous criminal groups and militants “It’s to make sure that civilisa- borders and block the insurgents flowing freely between the coun- tion doesn’t fail again.” from fleeing, according to residents. tries. “Since January the border The visiting imams are from FROM LEFT: Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Prince Sverre Magnus, Princess “There have been air strikes since posts have been abandoned... but Bosnia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Ingrid Alexandra, Queen Sonja and King Harald wave from the balcony of the Royal Palace in Oslo, on Wednesday,” defence spokesman now these posts have been taken Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Saudi Norwegian National Day, yesterday. Brigadier General Chris Olukolade over by soldiers,” said resident Arabia, Turkey and the United said, specifying that they were con- Haruna Garba. States. tinuing yesterday. Olukolade confirmed that They will also visit a new “Every one of their strongholds forces had been sent to the region, museum in the Polish capital is under attack,” he said. “Dozens but would not say whether the Warsaw focusing on centuries of Bulgarian president calls parliament of the insurgents have likely been borders had been sealed. Jewish life before the Holocaust, killed,” he added, without offering Reports of Boko Haram’s pres- John C Taylor from the US a precise figure. ence in Cameroon first emerged State Department’s Office of SOFIA: Bulgarian President and all other parties are refusing illegal ballots. Anew government is The offensive is under way in all in February, following the kidnap International Religious Freedom Rosen Plevneliev will convene to work with GERB. needed quickly to address popular three states put under emergency there of a French family visiting a said yesterday. parliament on May 21, in an “The biggest challenge now is anger, negotiate EU funds and draft decree, including Adamawa and game park near the Nigerian bor- Meeting are also planned with attempt to have a government to restore the trust of the people, a budget. Yobe, but the extremists’ traditional der. The abduction was claimed local Catholic, Muslim and Jewish formed quickly and end a politi- which can only happen through a But GERB wants the vote held base of Borno state is expected to by Boko Haram and the family religious leaders. cal impasse in the European working parliament and govern- again because other parties held see the most intense fighting. was released in April. “If we want the world to Union’s poorest country. ment,” Plevneliev said yesterday, media conferences the day before Many have warned that there Soldiers have surrounded the remember the horrors of the Under Bulgarian law, the after talks with leaders of the the election, when campaign- is a risk of high civilian deaths town of Krenuwa in Marte dis- Holocaust so that neither geno- president must call the assembly four parties which will be repre- ing should have finished. Legal and Nigeria’s military has been trict, also in northern Borno, cide against the Jews, nor any- within a month of an election. sented in the assembly. experts said a ruling on the rerun accused of massive rights viola- one of the areas where Boko one else should ever happen again, Only then can he ask the largest GERB’s government was forced from the constitutional court tions in the past, including indis- Haram took power, chased then we have an obligation to have group — centre-right GERB — to to quit in February after street may take months, by which time criminate attacks on civilians. away all government officials communal leaders understand try to form a government. protests over living standards and a Socialist-proposed broad alliance The operation is the largest and removed Nigerian flags, what happened,” Schudrich said. The election on May 12 pro- corruption, and has been damaged would probably be up and running. against Boko Haram since 2009, residents said. AFP duced a deeply divided parliament by scandals over wiretapping and REUTERS when soldiers flooded Borno’s AFP MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia ‘Myanmar’s China map from milk cans Spring’ is irreversible US to welcome Sein on Monday

YANGON: President Thein Sein was due to leave Myanmar Sein’s historic invitation to the late yesterday and return next White House is an endorsement Thursday, a Myanmar govern- of ‘Myanmar’s Spring’ and a ment official who did not want further sign that the former to be named said. The former pariah’s reforms are irrevers- junta premier came to power in ible, a senior Myanmar official March 2011 in the wake of elec- said. tions marred by widespread alle- Washington will welcome the gations of fraud and intimidation. former general on Monday in Under his leadership, Myanmar a hugely symbolic reward for has released hundreds of political sweeping changes since he took prisoners, eased censorship, taken power two years ago. He will be steps to open the economy and the first leader of the former allowed opposition leader Aung military-ruled nation to visit San Suu Kyi — a Nobel peace lau- since 1966. But the trip comes reate who spent most of the past amid heightened concerns over two decades under house arrest the direction and durability of — to enter parliament. Myanmar’s democratic reforms, Myanmar yesterday freed in particular following several about 20 more political prison- A map of China, made with more than 1,800 cans of baby formula by dissident artist Ai Weiwei, is displayed in Hong Kong yesterday reflecting the outbreaks of deadly communal ers, in a move Zaw Htay later said controversy over mainland demand for milk powder. A surge in demand sparked by fears over the safety of domestic milk powder has seen shop and religious violence. showed the president’s determi- shelves around the world cleared out by Chinese buyers. Zaw Htay, director of Thein nation to have an “inclusive politi- Sein’s office, said his country cal process”. would not backtrack on its path Activists say some 200 politi- towards democracy. “Myanmar’s cal prisoners remain in jail and N Korea may Spring is more concrete than the accuse Myanmar of using a series Abe aide arrives in Beijing after Arab Spring. It represents the of headline-grabbing amnesties for have 200 values that the US has been pro- political gain. Rights groups have moting around the world,” he said. also decried recent anti-Muslim launchers He hailed the “momentum” of violence and accused the security ‘sincere’ talks in North Korea the reforms as well as warming forces of failing to stop — or even SEOUL: North Korea is Myanmar-US ties since President supporting — sectarian attacks. TOKYO: An aide to Japan’s despite coverage of it by the according to Japan’s national now thought to have around Barack Obama’s own visit to A recent Human Rights Watch premier said yesterday he had North’s official Korean Central broadcaster NHK yesterday. twice as many mobile missile Myanmar in November. report accused the country of a held “sincere” talks with North News Agency (KCNA). In it, Kim said he appreci- launchers as previously esti- Thein Sein’s trip shows “US “campaign of ethnic cleansing” Korean officials during his con- South Korea dubbed the trip ated Iijima’s work on bilateral mated by Seoul, a report said support for the president’s lead- against Muslim Rohingya, a troversial visit to the country. “unhelpful” to international relations. yesterday, quoting a state- ership and his reform process,” minority group who are not even Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to efforts to forge a united front “I am well aware that you have run military analysis unit. he said. considered citizens of the pre- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo against Pyongyang, while the made efforts for a while. I value it Yonhap news agency said the “The US worries how firm our dominantly Buddhist nation. Abe, was tight-lipped about the United States expressed its sur- highly,” Kim told Iijima in Korean, Korea Institute for Defence country’s steps towards democ- The White House on Thursday subjects of his discussions when prise and urged Japan to share according to NHK. Analyses had revised its fig- racy will be and whether we may said Obama would offer US help in he arrived in Beijing. information. Kim’s translator was also seen ures after seeing a related go backwards or not,” he added. the “many remaining challenges “By visiting there, I was able Iijima was a senior aide to saying in Japanese that Iijima Pentagon document. It now “President (Thein Sein) has to efforts to develop democracy, to hold sincere talks for a long Japan’s former prime minister returned to Pyongyang with an estimated that Pyongyang firmly stated that he will never address communal and ethnic time,” Iijima, a political fixer, told Junichiro Koizumi, and is known extremely important mission, had up to 50 medium-range go backwards.” tensions and bring economic reporters in the Chinese capital, to have played a role in organis- NHK said. missile launchers and 150 for Thein Sein’s government had opportunity” in Myanmar. according to Jiji Press. ing his trips to Pyongyang in 2002 Japanese government minis- short-range projectiles. warned earlier he might delay his The trip is part of Washington’s “I have no plan to grant inter- and 2004 for talks with then- ters, from Prime Minister Abe departure depending on Cyclone diplomatic drive to reward views. I want to closely examine North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. on down, have refrained from Murderers Mahasen, but officials said yes- reforms in the resource-rich and (what was discussed) and con- The North’s state media showed discussing Iijima’s visit to the terday he would go ahead with strategically significant nation, sider it,” he said. footage of Iijima’s talks Thursday North, including its purpose and executed the visit after the storm sparred which borders China. The Japanese government has with Kim Yong-Nam, North’s the length of his stay. Myanmar from major damage. AFP refused to discuss Iijima’s visit, Korea’s ceremonial head of state, AFP JAKARTA: Indonesia exe- cuted three convicted mur- derers yesterday, an official said, the second time that the country has done so since 2008 in a move that drew con- demnation from rights groups. Indonesia court boosts indigenous land rights Suryadi Swabhuana, Jurit, and Ibrahim, all Indonesians, JAKARTA: An Indonesian that a 1999 law should be changed an upsurge in disputes between The group said Friday’s ruling forest” was far lower, and stressed were put to death by firing court has ruled indigenous peo- so it no longer defines forest that authorities and communities over affected 40 million hectares (98 it could take time to implement squad in Nusakambangan ple have the right to manage has been inhabited by indig- the classification of indigenous million acres) of forest -- slightly the changes as local governments prison, on an island off the forests where they live, a move enous groups for generations as land. In March, seven villagers larger than Japan, and 30 percent would all need to issue a decree. coast of the main island of Java. which supporters said prevents “state forest”, according to court were shot and at least 15 police of Indonesia’s forest coverage. Stepi Hakim, Indonesia direc- “We executed the three men the government from handing documents. officers were injured in northern They said this area was legally tor of the Clinton Climate early Friday,” said Mahfud over community-run land to “Indigenous Indonesians have Sumatra, where a dispute over a classified as “customary forest”, Initiative, said the ruling would Mannan, the deputy attorney businesses. the right to log their forests and forest claimed by both the com- the term that describes forests give legal grounds for indigenous general for criminal cases. “They Disputes between indigenous cultivate the land for their per- munity and government has been that have been inhabited by indig- communities to challenge busi- were convicted in two separate groups and companies have sonal needs, and the needs of simmering since 1998. enous people for a long time. nesses operating in their forests, cases of premeditated murder.” become increasingly tense in their families,” judge Muhammad The National People’s “About 40 million indigenous but this could lead to a string of 46-year-old Swabhuana was recent years, as soaring global Alim said as he handed down the Indigenous Organisation filed the people are now the rightful own- new disputes. convicted of murder and theft in demand for commodities like ruling, state news agency Antara challenge to the 1999 law, which ers of our customary forests,” said “As soon as this policy is deliv- 1991, according to government palm oil has seen plantations reported. they say has let officials sell per- the group’s chief Abdon Nababan. ered, local governments have to records. Jurit and Ibrahim, encroach on forests. While environmentalists wel- mits allowing palm oil, paper, However, a senior forestry be ready to mitigate conflicts,” who both go by one name like In Thursday’s ruling, comed the ruling, they warned mining and timber companies to minister official said he believed he said. many Indonesians, were con- Constitutional Court judges said it could unintentionally lead to exploit their land. the total amount of “customary AFP victed of murder in a second case. Further details were not available. Baby joy after the cyclone Death for China Kim reshuffles military top brass businesswoman BEIJING: A businesswoman SEOUL: North Korean leader top military figures who helped Jong-Un as supreme commander. in China has been sentenced Kim Jong-Un has pushed out a support the young leader follow- And despite the shake-up, to death for defrauding her high-profile military figure who ing the death of his father, Kim other old-guard figures remain clients of around $70m in once played a key role under his Jong-Il, in December 2011. in influential positions in the an investment scam, state late father — the latest in a series But Kim has reshuffled his commission and other leadership media reported yesterday as of top-level personnel changes. military top brass in an appar- bodies. The changes come as the authorities crack down on The Korean Central News ent attempt to secure his leader- Korean peninsula emerges from a illegal banking. Agency (KCNA) identified a ship since taking over the reins period of highly elevated military Lin Haiyan, 39, from the new figure, Jon Chang-Bok, of power. tensions that followed the North’s eastern city of Wenzhou, a as first vice-minister of the In changes disclosed on Sunday, nuclear test in February. free-wheeling business hub, People’s Armed Forces Ministry Jang Jong-Nam, a relatively young Meanwhile, US defence official was condemned after ille- in a report on Thursday which field commander believed to be said last week that two North gally raising ¥640m ($104m) detailed Kim’s trip to an army in his mid-50s, replaced hawkish Korean missiles that had been from relatives, friends and food-processing factory. defence minister Kim Kyok-Sik. primed for firing as tensions on other investors, the National The People’s Armed Forces Kim Kyok-Sik, appointed six the peninsula flared in the run-up Business Daily reported. Ministry is essentially the defence months ago, had been seen as a to the North’s national celebra- She put the money into ministry and comes under the hardline choice given that he was tions on April 15 had been moved securities and futures, racking control of the powerful National widely believed to have directed from their launch site. up huge losses, the report said Defence Commission. KCNA did the 2010 shelling of a South US and South Korean officials citing a court in Wenzhou, but not say when Jon, a relatively lit- Korean border island. had been worried that any test of claimed she was making profits tle-known figure, was appointed Jang, who will now have Jon the Musudan missiles would trig- in order to swindle more funds to the post, but he replaces Vice as his number-two, is not the ger a fresh surge in tensions, which in an attempt to pay back inves- Marshal Hyon Chol-Hae. most senior figure in the Korean escalated after the North carried tors and speculate further. Bangladeshi Jyuotsna Begum holds her baby, Mahasen, who was born The 79-year-old Hyon was military. The National Defence out a nuclear test in February. AGENCIES after the cyclone, at an evacuation centre in Patuakhali yesterday. regarded as one of the North’s Commission is chaired by Kim AFP MAY 18, 2013 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY

Vice president’s Taiwan vows to protect Filipinos wealth soars MANILA: Vice President Jejomar Binay became richer President Ma urges calm amid anger over killing of fisherman in Philippine waters by almost P2m in 2012, as shown in his latest statement TAIPEI: Taiwan’s leader yes- as he went to work in southern of assets, liabilities and net terday called for calm and Taiwan. He was treated at hospi- worth submitted to the Office promised to protect Filipinos tal for a facial injury. of the Ombudsman recently. on the island amid widespread Taiwan’s Foreign Minister The increase in his wealth is anger at the Philippines over David Lin also urged calm at a reflected mostly in the amount the killing of a Taiwanese press conference aimed at seeking of cash he has on hand and in fisherman. more international support for banks, which went up from Anti-Manila sentiments the diplomatically isolated island P21.3m in 2011 to P22.5m last mounted after a 65-year-old fish- in the lingering dispute. year. Binay’s receivables also erman was shot dead last week by “We consider the Filipino peo- increased from P3m to P6m Philippine coastguards who said ple as our friends... We call on our along with the value of his his vessel intruded into Philippine people to treat them well, and our vehicles: A Ford Club Wagon waters. government will continue to pro- and a Toyota Land Cruiser Taiwanese media have vide a friendly environment for that went up by P600,000. reported an attack on a Filipino, them,” he said. The second highest executive tourists cancelling planned vis- Only 23 countries have diplo- official of the country said his its to the Philippines and some matic relations with Taiwan. The personal and other assets are supermarkets removing food Philippines officially recognises now valued at P66.4m while his from the Philippines from their Beijing over Taipei but maintains properties are worth P13.8m. shelves. trade ties with the island. “We will continue negotiating Taiwan has rejected Manila’s 94 held for the issue with the Philippines claims that the incident took and I hope everyone can calmly place in Philippine waters and buying votes and peacefully resolve the issue that it was “unintended”, while to avoid hurting bilateral ties,” Ma described the incident as MANILA: Ninety-four peo- President Ma Ying-jeou said while “cold-blooded murder”. ple have been arrested for meeting a group of international “If (Philippine) civil servants allegedly buying votes since scholars. used automatic weapons to fire the start of the election Ma said he has instructed rel- at unarmed and provocative fish- period in January. evant Taiwanese units to protect ing boats, this was not carrying The Philippine National some 87,000 Filipinos living and out their job duties. This is cold- Police (PNP) reported that working on the island to ensure blooded murder,” Ma said. the number arrested, 83 had they are not harmed. Taipei has repeatedly pressed been charged while 11 were still Taiwan’s ETTV cable news Manila to issue a formal govern- being investigated. A total of channel reported that a Filipino ment apology, to compensate the Former police officer Abner Afuang burns a replica of Taiwan's national flag as he protests against the mistreatment P1.164m was seized from the was allegedly attacked by four fisherman’s family, and to appre- of Filipinos working overseas, along a main street of Manila yesterday. suspects, with P1.163 m con- Taiwanese wielding iron bars hend the killer. AFP fiscated from those facing charges, the PNP said. The data covered the start of the gun ban from January 13 to May 13. The region with the most number of vote-buying incidents was Calabarzon with Manila to recruit China warship tails Spratly boat 10, followed by Zamboanga with eight, and Ilocos region with MANILA: A Chinese warship is being used as a Naval detach- winning the three-cornered may- seven. chased and tailed, in a provoca- ment by the Western Command oralty contest in Kalayaan town tive manner, the utility boat of (Wescom) to house Filipino in the Spratlys region during the Policeman 60,000 teachers Kalayaan island town with 147 troops on forward deployment in conduct of the May 13 mid-term MANILA: The Department of Education yesterday announced civilian passengers, including Ayungin. national and local elections. electrocuted that 60,000 new teaching positions will be opened this year. the group of re-elected Mayor Several Chinese warships and Out of the total number of reg- DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro said that the Department of Budget Eugenio Bito-onon, while sailing surveillance ships were monitored istered voters in the island town, BATANGAS CITY: A and Management (DBM) also approved the funding of teachers being back to Palawan from Pag-Asa to have taken up position in the Bito-onon got 108 votes, while his 32-year-old policeman died redeployed from schools with excess teacher items to areas with short- Island in the hotly-contested area for several days now as part closest rival, businessman Noel when he was electrocuted at ages. Luistro said the DBM has made available 61,510 new teacher items Spratly region. of China’s aggressive move in lay- Osorio got 69 and retired mili- Ca mp Jose Ra zon in Nasugbu, for this year to address the demand for teachers on account of increasing Bito-onon said the Chinese ing its territorial claim to almost tary man and former Kalayaan Batangas, police said. enrolment in public elementary and secondary schools nationwide. warship coming from the east the entire South China Sea. Vice Mayor Rosendo Mantes, got Superintendent Jeremias “We welcome the opening of new teacher items and the provision of side area of Ayungin Reef, used its Bito-onon said the Chinese 46 votes. Aglugub, Nasugbu police chief, teacher redeployment allowance as part of the government’s continuing powerful floodlights while chas- warship only stopped tailing The conduct election in Kalayaan identified the victim as Police effort to rationalise teacher placement in all public schools across the ing and tailing M/T Queen Seagull them when their boat was already has been considered as the fastest Officer 2 Carlo Bryan Laid. country,” Luistro said. early on Thursday. navigating around the Half Moon electoral process in the country’s Aglugub said Laid was pre- Based on Order No 23, teachers to be redeployed will receive a one-time “The Chinese warship was Shoal, an area where a Chinese history. Voting started in the island paring a Power Point presenta- allowance of P18,000. Only teachers who are coming from schools with only 50 meters away from our gunboat ran aground last year. at about 7am and in a matter of tion when a power failure hit excess teacher item and are being redeployed to schools with teacher own boat,” Bito-onon said, add- “For almost an hour, the six hours the electoral process was the camp in Barangay (village) shortage shall receive the redeployment allowance. ing that the incident started when Chinese warship tailed our boat,” completed, with Bito-onon emerg- Bilaran at around 9.30pm. Heads of schools with identified excess teachers should prepare an M/T Queen Seagull, that left Pag- Bito-onon said in a phone inter- ing as a runaway winner. Laid went to the guardhouse inventory of teaching staff that contains information on the grade/year Asa Island Wednesday morning, view shortly after the docking “Aside from the PCOS result, to check the reason for the level being handled and subject being taught by the excess teacher and was passing by the Philippine- of M/T Seagull at Buliluyan Port we also conducted a parallel brownout when a live electri- ranked in ascending order — the first in the list being the most junior. occupied Ayungin Reef at past in Palawan’s southern town of manual count. The election in cal line fell on him. Any teacher from schools with excess teacher items may express will- midnight. Bataraza. the island is the most peaceful,” ingness to be redeployed by writing a letter of intent to their respective A grounded Philippine Navy Bito-onon is heading back Bito-onon said. Leftist rebel superintendents. THE PHILIPPINE STAR transport ship, BRP Sierra Madre, to Puerto Princesa City after THE PHILIPPINE STAR killed in clash Business tycoon MANILA: A member of the leftist rebel group New People’s Army (NPA) was Rights panel killed following a brief fire- Customs team seizes fight with soldiers in Surigao to look into del Norte yesterday, a mili- tary official said. displacements $1bn smuggled goods Major Leo Bongosia, spokes- man of the Philippine Army’s KORONADAL CITY: The MANILA: Agents of the of duties and taxes on their 4th Infantry Division, said Regional Human Rights Bureau of Customs yesterday importations. the soldiers were conduct- Commission (RHRC) has seized $1bn worth of allegedly According to him, the raid was ing pursuit operations when intensified efforts to address smuggled cigarettes and condi- conducted on the strength of a they encountered the NPAs human rights issues especially ments during a raid on a ware- “Letter of Authority” he issued at Cabugo village, Claver town for internally displaced people house in Tondo. pursuant to Section 2536 of the at around 2pm. Bongosia said in the region. In a press release, Customs Tariffs and Customs Code of the the military launched pursuit In a press briefing, RHRC Commissioner Rozzano Rufino Philippines. operations after troops from Chairperson Atty Laisa M Alamia Biazon said the seized items were Among the items confiscated the 30th Infantry Batallion said their office is not only focused believed to have been illegally were several boxes of various clashed with 15 NPAs also on monitoring cases but is also imported from China. brands of cigarettes. The raiding in Claver town yesterday. A collaborating with other agencies He said the owners or repre- team also found boxes containing soldier died following a brief for potential solutions. sentatives of the storage facility food seasoning. encounter between the NPAs The RHRC was established last failed to present proof of payment AGENCIES and government forces. year following the enactment of AGENCIES Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act 288. Alamia said that her agency has been receiving support from various sectors in Mindanao including a new vehicle recently US embassy unveils health projects donated by the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees. MANILA: Thirteen projects approach to health service deliv- Development Goals through tar- Alamia said that the vehicle will that will help enhance the health ery and greater partnership geted interventions in areas where be used in its monitoring activi- of Filipino families under the between the public and private the poor are most concentrated ties while noting that the autono- US-Philippines bilateral health sectors.”“We are encouraged by and unmet needs are highest, ” mous region houses a number of agreement were launched. the wide-ranging reforms under- Ona said. displaced individuals. Health Secretary Enrique taken by the Philippine govern- The US government, through “Forced displacement gave Ona and US Ambassador Harry ment under President Aquino, and USAID, helps to reduce maternal birth to human rights concern Thomas Jr launched the P7.96bn we hope our support will help push and newborn deaths, unmet need and we are banking on establish- projects to be implemented over the already growing momentum for family planning, prevalence of ing human rights profile mecha- a five-year period in 48 provinces for lasting change in the country, tuberculosis and the spread of the nism in the 110 municipalities nationwide. particularly with respect to health AIDS virus in the country. across the region,” she said. Thomas said the projects, to be outcomes,” he said. “We are proud of the strong “Despite shortage in person- implemented by the US embassy Ona said the projects are in line partnership between the DOH and nel and technical resources, we Manila’s United States Agency with the Philippine Development USAID, and look forward to con- are ready to strategise provin- for International Development Plan and the DOH Universal tinued collaboration over the com- cial human rights action centres Filipino businessman, Henry Sy Sr, attends a mass prior to the ceremonial (USAID) in cooperation with the Healthcare Strategy. ing years,” said USAID-Philippines throughout the region,” she added. opening of his giant Mall in Taguig City, Manila. He is said to be the richest Department of Health (DOH), “Our objective is to help attain mission director Gloria Steele. AGENCIES Filipino with $13.2bn net worth and listed 68th on the world billionaires' list. “will support an integrated health-related Millennium THE PHILIPPINE STAR MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan

Eye disorders 13 killed by bombs hit 480 daily RAWALPINDI: In Pakistan, 480 people develop eye disorders every day and this worrisome increase in eye diseases has now outside mosques reached to the proportions of epidemic raising new challenges, said Lieutenant Blast near cricket star Iram Khan meeting General Hamid Javaid, pres- ident of the Al-Shifa Trust PESHAWAR: Twin bomb Survivors said that the bombs Watan Party (QWP). Eye Hospitals at a seminar attacks yesterday killed at least exploded as people were leaving “Our province has badly suf- here yesterday. 13 people outside mosques in the mosques at the end of the fered due to terrorism and we He said that around 14,000 northwest Pakistan, where the weekly Friday sermon. need unified efforts to bring people are exposed to eye party of cricket star Imran Iqtidar Khan, 28, said he sus- peace,” Pervez Khattak, PTI’s diseases every month, which Khan is forming a coalition gov- tained head injuries. nominee for provincial chief min- means that a person is catch- ernment, officials said. “I came out of mosque after ister, told a news conference on ing disease every three min- The blasts targeted the two saying prayers when something Thursday. utes, which is distressing the mosques in the Baazdara area of pulled me with full force,” he said PTI emerged as the largest whole society. northwestern Malakand region, by telephone from hospital after party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by senior local administration official the attack. “A piece of brick hit securing 35 out of the 99 directly Fishermen Amjad Ali Khan said. my head after a big bang. I could elected seats in the provincial “The two blasts killed at least see nothing but smoke and blood assembly. JI and QWP secured free whale 13 people and wounded 48 others,” on the stairs of the mosque,” he seven seats each. Khan said. “Eight of the injured added. Its electoral success appears KARACHI: A juvenile whale people are in a critical condition,” He said the front gate and the rooted at least in part in Khan’s shark, which got trapped he added. roof on the veranda of the mosque call for an end to military opera- in a net near Sonmiani Bay The bombs were detonated by were destroyed by the blasts. tions and peace talks with the in Pakistan’s southwestern remote control but information Northwestern Khyber Taliban. province of Balochistan, has was slow to filter through from Pakhtunkhwa province is on the Friday’s attack was the dead- been successfully released by the far-flung, mountainous area frontline of a nearly seven-year liest in Pakistan since last fishermen. where there is no mobile phone Taliban insurgency and abuts Saturday’s general election, won World Wide Fund of Nature coverage. the semi-autonomous tribal by former prime minister Nawaz (WWF) officials said yesterday Administration official Imran belt where Pakistani troops are Sharif, giving him an historic that the 3.5-metre-long whale Khan also confirmed the death fighting against homegrown third term as head of the centre- shark got entangled in the gill- toll had risen to 13. militants. right Pakistan Muslim League-N net during tuna fishing near “One blast took place inside The attack came just one day party. The Taliban, who denounce Sapat area, part of Sonmiani a mosque and the second one after Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek- democracy as un-Islamic, killed Bay, two days ago. occurred at the main gate of the e-Insaf (PTI) party said it was more than 150 people during the second mosque,” he said. Officials forming a coalition with the election campaign, including 24 Medical staff treat an injured victim at a hospital following twin bomb attacks Eight varsities had earlier put the death toll at right-wing religious Jamaat-e- on polling day last weekend. in the Dargai area of Pakistan’s northwestern Malakand region, yesterday. eight. Islami (JI) and secular Qaumi AFP lose status ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) yesterday cancelled the degree-awarding status of eight universities after Pakistan wheat for Iran to pay electricity bill they failed to meet standards. According to the HEC, the eight institutions are: ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has was delayed by preparations for The EU and the US have global banking system, hindering hampering industrial output,” My University (Islamabad), authorised the export of 100,000 Pakistan’s May 11 election. imposed toughened sanctions payments for imports, on which Ashraf said. “Connecting far- Darul Madina International tonnes of wheat to Iran in trade “The wheat is being given to meant to discourage Tehran’s Iran relies for much of its food. flung areas to Pakistan’s grid is University (Islamabad), South not jeopardised by Western Iran against the outstanding nuclear programme, which they Pakistan is battling a chronic a costly affair.” Asian Strategic Institute sanctions, to settle dues for elec- payment of $53m for electric- say has a military purpose. energy shortage, which is inflam- Electricity from Iran costs University (Islamabad), tricity supplied to Pakistan’s ity supplied to Pakistani border Iran rejects that claim, saying ing public anger and stifling around $3m a month and is sup- Capital University (Islamabad), energy-starved border areas, areas from the Iranian grid,” its programme aims at the peace- industry. Power outages can last plied to towns near the border, the Pakistan Institute of the Commerce Ministry said ministry spokesman Mohammad ful production of electricity. eight to 10 hours a day in cities, including the port city of Gwadar. Management (Karachi), yesterday. Ashraf said. “The interim cabi- Western sanctions do not tar- with much more frequent cuts Pakistan is building a $7bn gas Habib University Foundation The shipment of 100,000 net has approved the decision and get food shipments, but financial in rural areas. “Pakistan is an pipeline with Iran, despite US (Karachi), Nazeer Hussain tonnes was to have been deliv- exports will be initiated as early measures have frozen Iranian energy-starved country facing pressure to back out of the project University (Karachi) and Lal ered to Iran in mid-February but as possible.” companies out of much of the severe power cuts that are badly last month. REUTERS Shahbaz University (Karachi). AGENCIES Indian fishermen to be freed Russia mulls border troops ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- Government will “reciprocate warm, with Pakistan’s incom- terday said it would release 51 the gesture” and release Pakistani ing prime minister Nawaz Sharif imprisoned Indian fishermen on prisoners incarcerated in Indian pledging to further strengthen ties. after Nato leaves Afghanistan humanitarian grounds, hoping jails, the statement said. Sharif said he would be that New Delhi will reciprocate It said there were currently “very happy” to invite India’s the goodwill gesture as relations 482 Indian prisoners in Pakistani Manmohan Singh to his swear- KABUL: Russia, predicting the Soviet and Nato-led wars, between the two nations warm. jails, while 496 Pakistani prison- ing-in ceremony, while Singh instability once Nato-led troops and the Taliban have repeatedly The decision was taken at a ers were being held in India. has expressed hope for better withdraw from Afghanistan by warned Washington that it will high level meeting chaired by “The government of Pakistan relations. the end of next year, is consid- encounter the same fate met by caretaker Prime Minister Mir was awaiting the confirmation of Pakistan and India frequently ering deploying border guards Moscow. Hazar Khan Khoso, according to national status of other Indian arrest each other’s fishermen on on the Tajik-Afghan border, After the dispirited Soviet exit a statement from his office. prisoners,” the statement added. charges of violating their respec- Moscow’s envoy to Kabul said in 1989, the Afghan communist Khoso “decided to release 51 Khoso directed the ministry tive zones in the Arabian Sea. in an interview. government collapsed, leading to Indian fishermen on humanitar- of foreign affairs to initiate dia- India and Pakistan have fought Moscow, still sore from its infighting between warlords and ian grounds as a gesture of good- logue with India for the release three wars since independence in disastrous, decade-long war a civil war that reduced much of will. These prisoners have already of Pakistani prisoners and the 1947, two of them over Kashmir, in Afghanistan in the 1980s, is Kabul to rubble and paved the served their sentences,” the state- return of Indian prisoners, the which is divided by a heavily mili- increasingly concerned by what it way for the Taliban’s rise to power ment said. statement said. tarised Line of Control but which describes as the combined threat in 1996. The prime minister expressed The declaration came as rela- both countries claim in full. of narcotics and terrorism reach- “What have they been doing the hope that the Indian tions between the two countries AFP ing Russia through former Soviet for the past 12 years?” Avetisyan Central Asian countries. asked of the current campaign, “We prefer to tackle this prob- America’s longest war. lem on the Afghan border to stop “Fighting against terrorism Election protest these threats,” Andrey Avetisyan with 150,000 troops without any said late on Thursday in the success,” he said, adding that a Russian embassy in Kabul. continued troop presence after Its sprawling grounds host a 2014 “doesn’t make any sense”. Soviet-built teal Volga car recov- President Hamid Karzai US President Barack Obama is ered in Afghanistan by embassy expected to soon announce how staff and a memorial to the 15,000 Intensifying violence across many combat troops Washington Soviet lives lost in the war against Afghanistan, less than two years will leave after the withdrawal. mujahideen fighters. before foreign combat troops Many Afghans are eager to know “We used to have a serious withdraw, has sent tremors of the size of the post-2014 force, presence on the Afghan-Tajik worry across Russia, which is fearing chaos and civil war could border and, at that time, the situ- battling an Islamist insurgency erupt with no foreign presence. ation there was much better, so it in its North Caucasus as well as The United States is widely would be in the interest of both widespread use of heroin and a expected to retain nine bases Russia and Tajikistan and even huge increase in the incidence of across Afghanistan after 2014, Afghanistan if Russia is present HIV and AIDS. Nato officials said after Afghan there,” he said. Russia is involved in a series of President Hamid Karzai revealed Avetisyan said such a pres- ambitious construction projects the plan this month. ence would involve Russian bor- in Afghanistan, including rebuild- But Avetisyan said any future der troops, but declined to give a ing its Soviet-era cultural centre, US military role in the country number. aimed at fostering stability in the must be an international legal Russian border guards used country which produces 90 perent arrangement approved by the to patrol the Tajik frontier with of the world’s opium. United Nations Security Council, Afghanistan but left in 2005, Avetisyan, who also worked for in which Russia has veto power. ending a Soviet-era legacy and the Soviet government in Kabul “A long-term or permanent handing all power over to local during Moscow’s war, said fighting military presence of a foreign authorities. Ex-Soviet Uzbekistan in northern Afghanistan — tra- force will be a reason of concern and Turkmenistan also border ditional bastions of anti-Taliban for us, especially if they are mili- Afghanistan to its north. power groups — offers proof of tary bases. We would like to know Avetisyan said any agreement a “general destabilisation of the what the purpose is and we still Supporters of religious party Ahl-i-Sunnat Wal Jamaat shout slogans during a sit-in in Islamabad, yesterday. on border troop deployment would situation”. don’t have answers to these ques- They were protesting against what they said was rigging in some polling stations during the general election. “of course” have to be agreed upon Comparisons are being tions,” he said. with Tajikistan. increasingly drawn between REUTERS MAY 18, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Observing urs Indian American S&P warns of buys NBA team WASHINGTON: Indian American software mag- nate Vivek Ranadive, who credit rating has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basket- ball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. downgrade “It’s going to be exciting,” he told the USA Today after secur- ing an agreement to buy 65 per- Nothing to worry about, says govt cent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball NEW DELHI: Ratings agency do seem to have a different view. Association (NBA) league-record Standard & Poor’s (S&P) yes- The government will continue valuation of $535m. terday said its outlook on India to do what is necessary to keep “We’re going to build a global remained negative and there India on a stable, sustainable, brand with the Kings. We’re going was a one-in-three chance of a and strengthening growth path,” to give the fans the product that downgrade within the next 12 Rajan said in a statement. they deserve,” the minority owner months. But the government S&P’s report came at a of Golden State Warriors said on asserted that there was nothing time when Finance Minister P achieving his longtime goal. to worry about as it was tak- Chidambaram was in Paris to The development came just a ing the right measures to keep woo overseas investors by selling day after NBA owners officially the country on a sustainable India’s growth story. rejected a bid by the Maloofs, growth path. The agency, however, said there who have owned the team since “The outlook on the long-term was scope to upgrade India’s sov- 1998, to relocate the Kings from rating remains negative,” S&P ereign ratings if the government Sacramento, California, to Seattle, said in a report, affirming its unleashed public and private Devotees throng the 600-year-old Shah-e-Alam Roza in Ahmedabad to mark the 801st urs (death anniversary) Washington. ‘BBB minus’ long-term and ‘A-3’ investments to spur growth. of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Moinuddin Chisti. Sufi Muslim pilgrims converged at shrines in India yesterday at “It’s a little bittersweet, obvi- short-term unsolicited sovereign “High fiscal deficits and a heavy the conclusion of week-long events to commemorate the urs. ously because I’m a huge Warriors credit ratings on India. government debt burden remain fan and I have a lot of friends This is the lowest investment the most significant constraints here,” Ranadive told USA Today grade rating. Any downgrade on our sovereign ratings on India. Sports. “I’m very, very excited to would take India’s sovereign Nevertheless, the government has start the new (challenge).” ratings to junk status, making regained control of public finances Ranadive, who left India as a overseas borrowings difficult and and embarked on fresh structural Bengal notifies poll schedule 17-year-old to attend MIT and costlier. reforms since September 2012,” later founded his $4bn company The agency’s ratings came just S&P credit analyst Takahira KOLKATA: The West Bengal Roy did not rule out writing to enthusiasm,” said Left Front in Silicon Valley, Tibco, has the within a month of the govern- Ogawa said. government yesterday issued the state government on the issue. representative and CPI-M state sort of competitiveness and deep ment’s meeting with representa- India’s long-term growth pros- a notification proposing three- “The SEC can always write to secretariat member Rabin Deb. pockets that could lead one of the tives of S&P here, during which pects, underpinned by its favour- phase panchayat polls on July 2, the state government. The three- “The month of Ramzan begins league’s most poorly run fran- it made a strong pitch for an able demographic profile, and its July 6 and July 10. However, the day time-frame given by the court on July 11. Keeping in mind the chises back to respectability, the upgrade. high foreign exchange reserves deadlock on the issue continued, was to the government, and not Rath Yatra festival, the final USA Today said. The government expressed support the ratings. The coun- with State Election Commission to the SEC,” he said. phase can be brought forward NBA Commissioner David disappointment over the obser- try’s large fiscal deficit and debt, (SEC) officials expressing their An SEC official said there were to July 9. Election Commissioner Stern has made a concerted vations of the ratings agency and as well as its lower middle-income reservations on the schedule. differences between the commis- Meera Pandey recorded our sug- effort of late to grow the game said it would continue to take economy, constrain the ratings, The schedule will be finalised sion and the state government gestion and said she would speak in Ranadive’s native India, where steps to boost economic growth S&P said. once the SEC issues a notification over the schedule on the district- to the government,” said Congress “basketball is but a blip on their and curb deficits. The negative outlook signals at after studying the state govern- wise division and on eletion dates leader Manas Bhuniya. sporting radar,” the newspaper “I think it is a narrow way of least a one-in-three likelihood of a ment’s proposal. clashing with religious occasions Deb also expressed his oppo- said. looking at reforms,” Economic downgrade in the next 12 months. “We have received a notifica- like Rath Yatra and Ramzan. sition to Howrah district being “I’m going to do what I do in Affairs Secretary Arvind “We may lower the rating if we tion from the state government. “As per the proposed schedule, included in the first phase of the my business, which is surround Mayaram told reporters here. conclude that slower government We are examining it and accord- more than 60 percent of the poll- polls. “The Howrah Lok Sabha myself with people that are way “We are on the right track, and reforms than we currently expect ingly we will take a decision,” said ing will be over on the first day. by-polls are scheduled for June smarter than me,” Ranadive said. I don’t think there is anything to would not lead economic growth SEC secretary Tapas Roy. That includes the three left-wing 2. So ahead of that, there would “But I am a huge fan. I’m going to worry about,” said Mayaram. to recover to levels experienced The government notification extremist-hit districts of West be a 48-hour no campaign period. be there at all the games, be there Added chief economic advi- earlier this decade,” it said. proposed polls in nine districts Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia. If the district is included in the to support the team in every way.” sor in the finance ministry, According to the agency, India’s — North 24 Paganas, South 24 We will have to examine it,” said first phase, the campaign period “It’s one step at a time,” Raghuram Rajan: “It is disap- real GDP growth per capita is Parganas, Howrah, Hooghly, East the official. for the panchayat polls will be far Ranadive said. “I’m one of these pointing that S&P has not seen likely to rebound to 4.6 percent Midnapore, West Midnapore, The opposition Left Front and less. The poll schedule has been guys who doesn’t like to get ahead it fit to improve its outlook for in the current financial year from Bankura, Purulia and Budwan the Congress said at an all-party drawn up carelessly,” he said. of the game. We still have a lot of India, especially given that it 3.6 percent in the previous year. — in the first phase. Four dis- meeting yesterday that the third The lead up to the polls has work to do. I’ve learned a lot, but acknowledges the important steps This is higher than most of its tricts — Malda, Murshidabad, phase clashed with the Rath Yatra been marred by constant friction there’s a lot more to learn. And taken by the Indian government peers but substantially lower than Birbhum and Nadia — go to the and should be advanced to July 9. between the Mamata Banerjee it’s going to be a process. It’s not in recent months.” about six percent on average over hustings in the second, and four “In the third phase, the polls led state government and the going to be an overnight miracle “International institutional the five years up to the fiscal year other districts — Cooch Behar, are proposed to be held in Cooch SEC, as both claimed primacy in there, so it’s going to take some investors, who have invested over ended March 2012, it said. Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and Behar, where the Rath Yatra announcing the schedule. work,” he was quoted as saying. $17bn into India so far this year, IANS South Dinajpur — in the final leg. festival is celebrated with great IANS IANS

Gang rape victim’s mother seeks justice NEW DELHI: The mother mother, saying that she had lost lived in their neighbourhood. happened to her daughter of the December 16 gang rape a daughter and he did not want On the fateful day, she said, and that she should come to victim yesterday pleaded, to hurt her feelings by asking her daughter left the house at Safdarjang Hospital. with tears in her eyes and questions. 4 pm, telling her that she had to “I, along with my husband, folded hands, at the fast-track During the cross-examina- make some purchases and would rushed to the hospital and there court to “give justice to her tion, she said the victim was her also watch a movie. I found my daughter admitted daughter”. eldest child and was studying “When she did not return till in emergency (ward). I could The mother of the 23-year- in Dehradun, and was in Delhi about 9 pm, I made a call on her not talk to my daughter at that old physiotherapy student, who for her vacations from the first mobile. However, her phone was time as she was being taken for was gang-raped by six men in a week of November. switched off. My husband then operation,” she said. moving bus on December 16 last She said that on the day of the returned from his office and I The last time she spoke to year, appeared before Additional incident, her daughter told her informed him that she (daugh- her daughter was on December Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna that she would watch a movie ter) had not reached home. We 25, before she was taken to to depose as a prosecution wit- with her male friend, adding both were very worried about Singapore for treatment. ness in the case. that even earlier her daughter our daughter,” the mother said. The victim died on December She was cross-examined by sometimes went to watch mov- She said she had also called 29 in Singapore and her body the counsels of accused Vinay ies at a cinema. her daughter’s friend, but his was handed over to the family Sharma, Pawan Gupta and She said she had known phone was also switched off. at Indira Gandhi International Akshay Thakur. her daughter’s male friend The mother said that at 11 Airport here, the mother said Accused Mukesh’s counsel for the past two years as he pm, she received a call from during her cross-examination. refused to cross-examine the used to visit his uncle, who the police that something had IANS

Two held for murder of Staines

Student beaten by teacher dies BHUBANESWAR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) yesterday arrested two absconding accused in KOLKATA: A ten-year-old stu- classroom during class. However, the Graham Staines murder case. A CBI team arrested dent in a primary school in West Mondal claimed that the mother Ghanashyam Mohant, 35, and Ranjan Mohant, 38, from Bengal’s South 24 Parganas dis- of another student had com- their villages in Keonjhar district. Australian missionary trict died here yesterday, days plained that Joardar regularly Staines and his two sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, six, were after he was thrashed by his beat up her son. burnt to death on January 22, 1999, while they were sleeping teacher, who allegedly beat him “I tried to stop him when I saw in their station wagon in a village in Keonjhar, about 400 km with a stick and banged his head him quarrelling with a classmate. from here. The main accused, Dara Singh, and his accom- against a wall. I never wanted to kill him.” plice Mahendra Hembram were jailed for life. Bapi Joardar, a student of A student said Mondal banged Nirdeshkhali Notunpara Sishu the heads of the two students Japanese man jumps to death Siksha Kendra at Basanti, died against each other. “Then she at the state-run SSKM hospital. beat Joardar with a stick and also GURGAON: A Japanese national working as a senior “He had a head injury and banged his head against a wall.” executive at Maruti Suzuki’s ancillary company died after died of excessive haemorrhage at The student hid the matter jumping from a multi-storey building in the Sushant Lok around 4.45 am,” said a hospital from his parents when he went area, police said yesterday. Y Fujii, 54, jumped from the 15th official. home, but later started vomit- floor of Summit Apartments at Sector 54 here. He had been The teacher, Champa Mondal, ing and fell unconscious. He was living there for a few years. He died on the spot. He was has been arrested and a case of taken to a hospital in the district working as general manager (sales) in a company that man- culpable homicide not amounting and moved to Calcutta National ufactures spare parts for Maruti Suzuki India limited. Police to murder slapped against her. Medical College and Hospital found a suicide note in his apartment. The two line note said The victim’s family said when his condition worsened. He in Japanese: ‘I am dying, no one is responsible’. Joardar was pulled up by Mondal was then taken to SSKM hospital. IANS for throwing bags across the IANS ON SATURDAY 14 MAY 18, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Rise in European car sales Total boosts Cyprus growth exploration, production to return by drive: CEO PARIS: The development of new oil reserves and a more aggressive exploration strategy 2015, says IMF will enable French oil group Total to meet its targets for boosting production of oil and Fund warns of structural pitfalls gas, chief executive Christophe de Margerie said yesterday. WASHINGTON: Cyprus bailout, in the form of a low- Speaking to a general meeting should return to growth in interest loan, agreed with the of shareholders, he said that Total 2015 after three years of deep IMF, European Commission and was developing new reserves with recession, the International European Central Bank. capacity of 800,000 barrels of oil Monetary Fund said yesterday, Cyprus will have to raise another equivalent per day in extra output. but will need to ensure that its ¤13bn through a wide range of This would help the group sweeping austerity programme measures, most already adopted, achieve the target for hydrocarbon does not slip off the tracks. that include a restructuring of the production of 3.0 million barrels The IMF agreed in March to bloated banking sector, tax increases, per day by 2017, compared with provide Cyprus with some ¤1bn in spending cuts and the part privati- 2.3 million barrels in 2012, and to aid, along with another ¤9bn from sation of state companies. increase production by 3.0 percent the European Union, to stave off The IMF report praised the E mployees of the BLG Logistics Group working on a line of new Mercedes-Benz cars in Bremerhaven, on average from 2011-2015. a meltdown of the cash-strapped government of President Nicos Germany. European car sales posted their first gain in 20 months, rising 1.7 percent in April compared with Margerie told a general meet- economy. Anastasiades for having showed the same month last year, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said. ing of shareholders: All this gives A staff report issued yesterday “exceptional resolve in addressing us visibility in terms of produc- backed that decision, praising the the crisis”, which it said “averted a tion. The three million barrels government for the steps it has potential accident with unknown per day are now off the starting taken to restructure the economy consequences for the euro-zone”. blocks. There is no reason for not but warning that it must go even fur- But it said “time will be needed achieving this.” ther to achieve long-term stability. for the economy to adjust to the Oil rises despite firm dollar However he said that as hap- The report said real GDP deep structural changes to its pened last year when an accident should grow by a modest 1.1 per- financial sector and adapt its busi- NEW YORK: Oil climbed for its third straight rise. US crude energy industry intelligence pro- occurred in the form of a big gas cent in 2015, after plunging 8.7 ness model”. And it said the “mac- a third straight session yes- has swung between $97 a barrel on vider Genscape reported the leak on the North Sea Elgin percent this year and a further roeconomic risks remain unusually terday, supported by a raft of May 6 and $92 a barrel on May 15. 400,000-barrel per day Seaway pipe- platform, incidents could arise 3.9 percent in 2014. high, given the uncertain impact of strong economic data from top The spread between Brent crude line was shut down, sending Brent but they should not obstruct the At the same time, it forecast that the banking crisis and fiscal consol- oil consumer the United States and US crude traded between $8 and US crude prices down nearly intention to increase output and already high unemployment should idation on economic activity and the that also boosted US equities, and $9 on Friday. On Tuesday, $1 by 11.20am (1520 GMT). Seaway investments. reach 15.5 percent in 2013 and peak adaptation of the business model. although a strong dollar limited it narrowed to $7.20, which was carries crude oil from Cushing, Margerie, referring to a sudden at 16.9 percent next year before eas- “Financial sector risks to the gains in oil prices. the lowest since the end of 2011. Oklahoma, to Freeport, Texas. probe by European Union officials ing to 14.6 percent in 2015. programme are particularly acute, “Everyone’s feeling buoyant, Since then it has widened past $10 Enterprise Product Partners at several companies in the oil The IMF’s forecasts for including lingering concerns about and we got a nice little bounce before easing back yesterday. LP, Seaway’s owner, said the pipe- sector on Tuesday on suspicion 2013 and 2014 are virtually the the high reliance of the largest bank on the S&P 500,” said Phil Flynn, “We’ve had such a wild swing line was operating normally. of manipulating prices, said that same as those in the European (Bank of Cyprus) on central bank energy analyst at Price Futures in the US crude here in the last Flynn said lower gasoline prices Total was not involved. Commission’s recently published support, the system’s rising non- Group in Chicago. Brent crude couple of days, so there seems to in most parts of the country had He was “very surprised” that spring outlook, which did not give performing loans and the future rose by more than $1 and then be a little bit of spread activity,” bolstered consumer sentiment, but manipulation could have been estimates for 2015. impact of administrative restric- retraced some gains to trade up said Rich Ilczyszyn, chief market refinery and pipeline outages ahead carried out, given his knowledge On April 30, the parliament in tions, but also the potential conse- 55 cents at $104.33 a barrel by strategist and founder of iitrader. of the summer driving season could of the ethical code of conduct in Nicosia narrowly approved the quences of their premature lifting.” 1.17pm EDT (1717 GMT). com in Chicago. push oil and refined products higher. companies mentioned. 10-billion-euro ($12.9-billion) AFP US oil rose 70 cents to $95.86, At 10.30am EDT (1430 GMT), REUTERS AFP US consumer sentiment rebounds

NEW YORK: US consumer Raymond James in St Petersburg, Higher earners more fre- sentiment rebounded in early Florida. quently reported having less May to the highest level in “Most economists are looking debt and higher asset values, nearly six years, an encourag- for stronger growth in the sec- though consumers were still not ing sign after recent data that ond half of the year and into next that much more optimistic they has suggested economic growth year.” would see higher income in the is cooling. The Thomson Reuters/ year ahead. A gauge of future economic University of Michigan’s prelimi- Upper income households are activity released yesterday also nary reading on the overall index more likely to be invested and suggested the expected slowdown on consumer sentiment rose to therefore reap the benefits of would be temporary, with the 83.7 from 76.4 in April, topping the stock market rally that has index rising to a near five-year economists’ expectations for 78. taken the market to record highs high in April. It was the highest level since this year. Since the beginning of Economists expect growth will July 2007. 2013, the benchmark S&P 500 is likely slow in the second quarter Americans felt better about up about 16 percent. from the 2.5 percent pace at the their financial and economic The rise in stocks may also be beginning of the year as tighter prospects, but the gains were offsetting any hit to consumers fiscal policy starts to bite. But particularly seen among upper- following the expiration of the recent stronger than expected income households. payroll tax holiday at the begin- improvement in several areas, More consumers gave a ning of the year, which raised including the labour market and favourable view of their per- taxes for many Americans. retail sales, has suggested the sonal finances than in anytime “For (upper income) people, recovery remains resilient. since 2007, with the largest the payroll tax and gasoline prices “We’re still definitely on the gains among households in the didn’t really matter much, but recovery path. We expect that upper third of income levels. stock prices and home prices this is going to be a very long More respondents also thought rising, that’s a big, big plus,” said and gradual recovery,” said the economy would continue to Brown. Scott Brown, chief economist at improve in the year ahead. REUTERS

Malaysia’s UMW may raise $1bn in Chances of stimulus after energy unit IPO Carney arrival: BoE official KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s UMW Holdings Bhd plans to BIRMINGHAM: The Bank of something Weale said made him sell 39 percent of its oil and gas England (BoE) may have more — and the majority of the MPC unit in an initial public offering scope to boost the economy —reluctant to approve more econ- this year that could raise up to after Mark Carney starts as omy-stimulating bond purchases. $1bn, a source said yesterday. governor because of tentative “Failure to damp sufficiently The state-backed conglomer- signs of lower inflation ahead, any new shock pushing up on ate’s announcement is the latest a member of its policymaking inflation would result in infla- in a slew of planned listings, look- body said yesterday. tion expectations becoming more ing to build on last year’s momen- Finance minister George entrenched. That, in my view, tum that saw the Southeast Osborne has Canadian Mark limits the scope we have to sup- Asian nation become one of the Carney, who starts as the next port demand at the current junc- world’s top IPO destinations. governor in July, the task of ture,” Weale said in a speech. UMW said in a filing to the reviewing whether Britain should However, things may be start- stock market late on Thursday give more detailed guidance on ing to change. Earlier this week that the listing of its UMW Oil future monetary policy, consid- the central bank forecast inflation and Gas Corporation Bhd was ered a way to help growth. would fall faster than it predicted expected to go ahead by the Martin Weale, who serves on the three months ago and that growth fourth quarter of the year. BoE’s rate-setting Monetary Policy this year would be a shade higher. The company plans to sell Committee, said on Friday the “The situation does look as though 648.6 million shares in the unit, central bank’s ability to support it is getting rather better at the which provides offshore drilling demand had recently been con- moment, both in terms of what and oilfield services, to institu- strained by its need to keep public looks like an improving growth tional investors, while another confidence in its commitment to outlook and possibly ... inflation 194.6 shares will be earmarked get inflation back to 2 percent. pressures may be somewhat weaker for the retail offering, it said. Inflation has exceeded its tar- than they have been,” Weale said. AFP get for most of the past five years, REUTERS MAY 18, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Turkey hails investment grading Investors’ ire Moody’s assigns Baa3 rating with stable outlook; Bond yields at record lows

ISTANBUL: Turkey hailed its disarray in the European Union, “This decision is as correct as it to ease policy even more freely if cap- second investment grade rat- which Turkey has long sought to is late. Due to the right steps that ital inflows pick up due to this move. ing yesterday, seeing it as a seal join despite strong opposition from we have taken on the economy, our We think they will be keen to protect of approval from international many in the bloc. country’s indicators in global mar- the exchange rate from appreciation markets for a decade of eco- “Turkey long deserved this rat- kets have for a long time been on given rising current account vulner- nomic reform. ing, or an even higher one, both a similar level as those countries abilities,” UBS’ Narain said. Investors joined in, driving sov- economically and politically. I with investment-grade credit rat- Addressing upgrade-related ereign bond yields to record lows. see this as a delayed recognition ings,” he said in a statement. risks, Finance Minister Mehmet Government enthusiasm was of what we deserved,” Economy The lira was at 1.8387 against the Simsek said in London there was tempered, however, by some con- Minister Zafer Caglayan said in dollar, having softened to 1.8300 on concern about corporate liabili- cern that the move, coinciding with a statement. Thursday after the rate cut. ties, given Turkey’s large current a visit by Prime Minister Recep “We now expect much greater The main share index, which account deficit. Tayyip Erdogan to Washington, investments, both in terms of has surged 18 percent this year, “An investment grade can lead might trigger over-large capital direct and portfolio investments. was up 0.2 percent at 92,132.97 to an excessive build up of risks inflows into the lira currency. The central bank needs to be ready points, having touched a record and we may have to look into that. Moody’s assigning a Baa3 rat- for the pressures this will exert on intraday high in early trade. It We can always step in to stop cor- ing with a stable outlook to Turkey the lira,” he said. outperformed the main global porates borrowing,” Simsek said, late on Thursday, making it eligi- Turkey’s two-year benchmark emerging markets stock index. while welcoming the prospect of a ble for inclusion in a number of bond yield hit an all-time low of “Turkey is a great example of an bigger investment pool and more investment-grade only bond indi- 4.61 percent, extending Thursday’s economy ... where the debt-to-GDP favourable rates. ces and adding to the economy’s falls after the central bank cut key ratio is shrinking,” said Arvind Moody’s said Thursday’s one- switch from an emerging market interest rates by 50 basis points Rajan, international chief invest- notch upgrade was based on to a developed one. The yield rebounded to 4.74 per- ment officer in the fixed income structural improvements in the Fitch Ratings lifted Turkey to cent in afternoon trade, but they division at Pramerica, the asset economy and in public finances investment-grade in November, were at more than six percent at management arm of Prudential that will better insulate Turkey while Standard & Poor’s rates the start of the year. Financial from external shocks. It expected Turkey one notch below. “(This) should attract longer “With negative real yields show- Turkey’s debt burden to decline in Since his conservative, pro-mar- term capital inflows into the econ- ing on most developed market the coming years after falling 10 ket AK Party first came to power omy and support growth. This is bonds, investors might as well percentage points to a “manage- in 2002, Erdogan has transformed a very impressive achievement in increase exposure to those types of able” 36 percent of GDP since the a crisis-prone economy with turbulent global conditions,” said emerging market economies where beginning of 2009. chronic inflation into Europe’s Manik Narain, emerging markets they are still hugely underweight,” Turkey’s ability to finance debt fastest growing country, tripling strategist at UBS. Rajan said. is helped by a relatively low and per capita income, in stark con- Deputy Prime Minister Ali The central bank cut rates to decreasing share of debt denomi- trast with neighbouring euro zone Babacan, who is in charge of the stimulate the economy, which has nated in foreign currencies, it member Greece, which Moody’s economy, echoed Caglayan’s criti- been faltering a bit, and to keep the said, estimating foreign debt stock Two women speak in front of a vandalised Bankia’s bank office with rates 11 notches lower. cism of the time it has taken for lira from appreciating due to mon- dropped to 27.4 percent at the end papers stuck on it forming the Spanish word that reads as “thieves”, The largely Muslim country’s Turkey to attain its current rating etary easing by other central banks. of 2012 from 46.3 percent in 2003. in Barcelona, yesterday. The words read as “Spanish ‘corrallito’ of success coincides with economic levels. “The central bank may be prepared AGENCIES LaCaixa and 52 other banks. More than a million people cheated 8.25% of the Spanish population”.

GDF Suez signs huge US LNG Oil price probe widens to include Dutch trading company LONDON: The European investigation said yesterday. The the probe into rigging of Libor editorial director Dan Tanz said. vice president, Oil Products and deal with Commission investigation into mid-sized trading company, which benchmark interest rates. Meanwhile Neste Oil, a Finnish Renewables said in a statement. possible oil price manipulation deals in physical oil products and The source said that inspec- refinery, said it had received The investigation is focused on extended beyond three major owns storage facilities, was visited tors were still on the premises a request from the European whether there was collusion to Japanese firms companies to a smaller niche by inspectors from the European of Argos Energies yesterday and Commission to provide informa- distort prices of crude, refined oil trading house, while a Finnish Commission on Tuesday. that it was also the last day of the tion, although it said it was not products and ethanol traded during PARIS: French energy group refinery said it had been asked Authorities raided the London inspection at the company. under inspection. the Platts market-on-close (MOC) GDF Suez has signed a joint- for information. bureau of pricing agency Platts Platts said trading in the oil “We will naturally cooperate system - a daily half-hour “win- venture with US firm Sempra Dutch trading house Argos in London’s Canary Wharf and market has not been significantly with this request and provide the dow” of trading during which the Energy and Japanese groups Energies is being investigated the offices of Statoil, Royal Dutch affected by the investigation. information requested to assist the agency determines prices through Mitsubishi and Mitsui relating by the European authori- Shell and BP on Tuesday in the “Market participation and European Commission in its inves- a series of bids, offers and trades. to the construction of a huge ties, a source familiar with the biggest cross-border action since liquidity are unchanged,” Platts tigation,” Matti Lehmus, executive REUTERS liquefied natural gas factory in the US , it said yesterday. QATARI MARKET The deputy managing director responsible for gas operations at Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P GDF Suez, Jean-Marie Dauger, Miners threaten to bring Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.88 0.73 % Aa2 AA said that “the Cameron LNG Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.88 1.47 % Aa2 AA project will enable the group to Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.50 2.11 % Aa2 AA diversify and increase its LNG Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 117.50 2.40 % Aa2 AA (liquefied natural gas) interests South Africa to ‘standstill’ and also its flexibility in supply- Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 113.25 2.77 % Aa2 AA ing existing and future markets in RUSTENBURG, South president that we need a meet- “It’s very difficult to decipher Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 174.00 3.81 % Aa2 AA zones of strong growth.” Africa: The leader of South ing in order to talk about these properly what is going on,” ANC Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 134.50 4.23 % Aa2 AA GDF Suez says that it is the Africa’s biggest platinum min- issues at Rustenburg, of the kill- deputy president and NUM Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 124.50 4.26 % Aa2 AA biggest importer of LNG in ing union threatened yesterday ing of our members,” he said on founder Cyril Ramaphosa told Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.13 1.11 % Aa2 AA Europe and the third biggest in to bring Africa’s No. 1 economy Johannesburg’s Talk Radio 702. the radio broadcaster. the world, accounting for 16.0 “to a standstill” and demanded “This is the show of AMCU’s “There’s union rivalry, fighting Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 114.63 2.74 % Aa2 AA million tonnes per year from six a meeting with President Jacob commitment to peace,” he said. for turf, and there are obviously Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.50 1.26 % A1 A- countries. Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric “We said we are going to bring the other elements coming into the Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.38 2.20 % A1 A- The company operates six in an 18-month labour crisis. economy to a standstill.” space. We keep hearing about the QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.75 1.81 % NR NR tankers built to carry methane The rand, which tumbled to a AMCU’s emergence since early Socialist Workers Party or what- QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.75 1.59 % Aa3 A+ gas. four-year low against the dollar 2012 as the most powerful platinum ever and that seems also to be The development of LNG gas on Thursday on fears of a strike union has turned mining labour rela- fanning the flames,” he said. QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.75 2.06 % Aa3 A+ facilities generally, together with at Anglo American Platinum tions on their head and sparked fears In Rustenburg, the heart of the Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 2.26 % A2 A- the boom in exploitation of shale (Amplats), extended its slide on of a wave of worker militancy stretch- platinum belt 120 km (70 miles) Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 106.00 1.56 % A2 A /*- gas in North America, are two concerns about further disruptions ing from the car plants of Durban to northwest of Johannesburg and Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.50 2.43 % A2 A /*- big developments in global energy to an already struggling economy. the vineyards around Cape Town. home to 80 percent of known glo- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 111.88 3.02 % A2 A /*- markets. The currency fell as low as The crumbling of the decades- bal platinum reserves, confusion The new LNG factory, built 9.4334, its lowest since April 2009 long monopoly of the National is compounded by fear. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 109.50 4.02 % A2 A /*- by Cameron LNG, a subsidiary when emerging markets were still Union of Mineworkers (NUM) An AMCU organiser was shot Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.63 1.30 % Aa3 A of Sempra Energy, will be estab- reeling from the effects of the glo- has also opened the door to an dead at the weekend in a bar Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.25 3.23 % Aa3 A lished on the site of the company’s bal financial crisis. array of worker committees and in Marikana, just miles from Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 110.75 3.62 % Aa3 A terminal for the transportation Joseph Mathunjwa, head of the anti-capitalist activists opposed to Rustenburg, where police killed of methane gas at Hackberry in Association of Mineworkers and the ANC and South Africa’s post- 34 AMCU-linked Lonmin workers SOVEREIGNS Louisiana. Construction Union (AMCU), apartheid economic status quo. last August - the biggest loss of Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P The plant will comprise three said Zuma’s ruling African Faced with such a diverse and life at the hands of security forces Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.38 0.50 % Aa2 AA liquefaction lines capable of pro- National Congress (ANC) was novel range of forces, the ANC since the end of apartheid in 1994. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.75 1.77 % Aa2 AA ducing 12 million tonnes per ignoring violence against its mem- is running blind even though AMCU members have also been year, and will be operated by bers in the platinum belt near the the decline of NUM - its ally in implicated in the violence, includ- Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.25 2.23 % NR NR Cameron LNG, said GDF Suez northwest city of Rustenburg. the decades-long anti-apartheid ing the killing with machetes of Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.25 2.95 % NR NR in a statement. “We are going to write another struggle — is likely to hurt it in security guards and police last year. Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.50 3.76 % NR NR AFP last letter to the office of the an election next year. REUTERS Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.38 3.99 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.81 1.07 % Aa2 AA Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 2.98 % NR BBB Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.50 3.75 % NR BBB Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 91.50 7.33 % Caa1 CCC+ Vimpelcom plans to delist Orascom stock Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.00 3.42 % NR BBB- *Periodic Distribution Amount CAIRO/MOSCOW: IMPORTANT NOTE: source close to Vimpelcom said. dispute at Vimpelcom, saddled the assets directly, which will help to Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which Emerging markets telecoms Vimpelcom acquired a controlling company with heavy debts and improve the quality of manage- is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services group Vimpelcom wants to stake in OTH in 2011 along with prompted it to launch a strategic ment of the businesses such as Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data delist Cairo-based subsidi- 100 percent in Italy’s Wind from review of the assets. (Djezzy) in Algeria,” a source close and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of ary Orascom Telecom Holding Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris The company has already to Vimpelcom said. “Vimpelcom the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into (OTH) from the Egyptian and in a $6bn-plus deal, expanding sold businesses in Vietnam and spends around $50m a year on its account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity London stock exchanges so it outside its Russian home market. Cambodia and sources say it may Cairo HQ, and taxes in Egypt are or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable can manage it directly, two Together with subsidiaries, exit more emerging markets. very high,” said another source indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your sources said yesterday. Vimpelcom owns 51.92 percent of It is also struggling to end familiar with Vimpelcom’s plans. financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. The move will also allow OTH, which has mobile businesses uncertainty over the fate of its The source said material reg- Vimpelcom to cut costs associ- in Canada, Algeria and other emerg- lucrative Algerian business Djezzy ulatory risks, such as extra tax ated with running the Egyptian ing markets such as Bangladesh. that the Algerian government claims, and political risks due to office and avoid regulatory and The purchase of Wind and wants to nationalise. broader instability, added to the political risks, a source familiar Orascom, which was overshad- “This is part of the strat- reasons for the move. with Vimpelcom’s plans and a owed by a bitter shareholder egy. There is a task to run the REUTERS MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Views

UK trade may struggle Does inequality help growth? BY CHRYSTIA FREELAND written a draft paper for the Centre for His worry is financial instability. This is American Progress, a progressive research a variation of an argument by Raghuram for rights on EU exit ne of the most urgent ques- group that investigates the first argument. Rajan, a politically centre-right professor tions in economics today is the Howell argues that the US and Britain have at the University of Chicago, who has sug- BY TOM MILES connection between inequality acted over the past three decades on what gested that rising income inequality was and growth. That is because he calls the laissez-faire theory, that the one of the drivers of the financial crisis. s British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to one of the big economic facts equation of rising inequality and increasing As income inequality increased, and the accommodate eurosceptics in his party, trade experts Oof our time is the surge in income disparity, gross domestic product is correct. incomes of the middle class stagnated, the warn that quitting the European Union would force particularly between those at the very top Howell tested that view by comparing the US government responded by increasing ABritain not just to rework trade relations with the EU, and everyone else. The other big fact is the US and Britain to their peers. He asked the consumer credit available to the mid- but also with the EU’s trade partners and probably the World recession set off by the financial crisis and whether “compared to other rich countries, dle class. Trade Organization. the consequent imperative to jump-start US income inequality has paid off in rela- In the short term, that was a win-win Moreover, it would struggle to maintain the same level of trad- economic growth. Figuring out the rela- tively high growth.” His answer: Not par- solution: consumption, and therefore the ing rights it enjoys, they say, including those that benefit London’s tionship between these two tent-pole issues ticularly. He finds that “there is no simple economy, grew, and the middle class was financial centre, a major contributor to the national economy and is therefore a good way for economists to correlation between our measures of growth quiescent because stagnating incomes were a significant exporter. spend their time. and income inequality.” masked by increasing consumer debt. But in Cameron has pledged an in-out referendum in 2017, and opinion There are two main and contradictory That may come as a surprise to many the medium term that Goldilocks scenario polls suggest the public is inclined towards the exit, which would ideas about how that relationship might Americans, who are accustomed to hear- broke down — the middle class consumption leave Britain in need of a deal to ensure exports to the EU are work. One is that inequality is the price ing, as Howell explained, “that the US mid- bubble, and the Wall Street bubble it helped not hit with EU import tariffs, which averaged 5.3 percent in 2011, of robust economic growth. If the private dle class is doing relatively well, at least finance, popped with devastating conse- and 13.9 percent in agriculture. sector is thriving, the most successful capi- compared to Europe, because of produc- quences. Howell and Osberg are sceptical, at “I don’t see any advantage in doing it,” said Roderick Abbott, a talists will be getting very rich. Creating a tivity growth and because we allow higher best, of the value of rising income inequal- Briton who served as deputy director-general of the WTO and system that allows — indeed, encourages — inequality.” But the reality is that at least ity as a driver of economic growth. When the European Commission’s trade department. the best and the brightest to pull away from some of those allegedly sclerotic European you put that conclusion together with the “Could we negotiate a free trade area with the EU? It would be everyone else is how you shift your economy economies, dragged down by their highly arithmetic of democracy — rising income feasible, but you have to be sure that’s what the other side wants. into its highest gear. redistributive welfare states, have outper- inequality means a majority of voters are Having said ‘we want to shut the door and stop paying into your There is, however, another theory, and it formed the US. on the losing end of the deal — a political budget’, can we then say ‘please give us free trade for free?’” has been winning adherents in the after- “The US is anywhere from an OK to mid- backlash seems inevitable. About half of Britain’s goods exports and over a third of its math of the financial crisis. In this view, dling performer in the Age of Inequality,” “Go back to the 1920s or the 1870s and services exports go to the EU, about £234bn ($356bn) in 2011. rising inequality is not a symptom of a fast- Howell said, using his term for our era. But economists were worried about the stability Imports were £261bn. growing economy or an incentive that will while his work suggests inequality is not of the capitalist system,” Osberg said. “One Without a good deal, Britain could find itself in a worse position help create one. Instead, too much income needed to get growth, he does not show that of the things the 1930s experience teaches than competing exporters, such as Norway, Switzerland, South inequality crushes economic growth. inequality actually hurts growth either: “I us is there are some catastrophic outcomes Africa, South Korea and many others, which have preferential There are different arguments for don’t show a strong measurable inverse which can happen.” trade agreements with the EU. why that might happen. One is that high effect.” The investing class and the academic Those agreements gradually eliminate tariffs on goods traded income inequality creates an unstable sys- Lars Osberg, an economist at Dalhousie world are focused on those dangers. “Can between the two sides. A WTO study shows virtually all South tem that is vulnerable to costly booms and University in Nova Scotia, takes on this sec- capitalism survive?” is one of the trendiest Korea’s exports to the EU will be duty-free by 2016. busts. Another is that when too much of ond argument — the case that inequality, conference topics among red-blooded capi- By leaving the EU, Britain would also lose the duty-free advan- the income goes to the very top and not at least beyond a certain point, can stifle talists and left-leaning professors alike. So tages on the other side of those deals. That would mean paying enough goes to the middle, spending slumps growth. He, too, adopts a comparative lens, far, at the ballot box and on the street, this tax on exports to countries like Switzerland, its biggest non-EU — how many yachts does a plutocrat need? looking at Canada, the US and Mexico. question has not been as salient. That does market in 2012 after the US and China. — putting a brake on growth. Osberg argues that a growing chasm not mean it will not be in the future — and The EU is currently pursuing deals with the United States and David Howell, a professor of econom- between those at the very top and everyone in ways we cannot predict. Japan, too. The US deal, championed by Cameron, seeks to go far ics at The New School in New York, has else imperils the overall economy. REUTERS beyond tariff cuts and make it much easier for European and US firms to do business in each other’s markets. “The size of the British economy is still to be reckoned with in the world economy but of course its share is rapidly shrinking, and that means the willingness of other countries to prioritise the UK ahead of others is probably going to shrink,” said Fredrik Erixon, who heads the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. Petros Mavroidis, a WTO expert at Columbia University, said there would be no need to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the global trade body, since both it and the EU are already members. But that would depend on Britain not trying to take any of its rights to EU agricultural subsidies and quotas with it. Apportioning the right to agricultural subsidies would be made easier by the fact that the EU is using only a fraction of the agreed limit imposed by the WTO — €8.76bn of the €72.2bn ceiling in 2009/2010. But import quotas may be trickier because they apply EU-wide and are the result of negotiations with suppliers. For beef alone that would reopen negotiations with countries like Argentina, the US, Canada and Australia, who enjoy a certain quota of low-tariff exports to the EU. So unless it gave up its claims, Britain would have to haggle over the size of its portion, first among EU states, and then negotiate any new deal with the rest of the WTO. Abbott said such an exercise should be technical and “with goodwill” could be done in six months, but there is a risk other countries could see it as a chance to demand better terms. Worse still would be any loss of access to the EU’s single mar- ket for services. While Britain has a goods deficit with the EU, services are in surplus. TheCityUK, which promotes Britain as a place to do business, said Britain had a financial services trade surplus with the EU of £17.6bn in 2011, and EU banks in Britain held £1.4rtn in assets, 17 percent of the national total. “I think the City of London ought to be a lot more anxious about all this,” said Abbott. With no say in EU decisions, Britain would also lose its right to defend against policies such as the European Central Bank’s effort to bring clearing houses of euro-denominated securities onto euro zone territory, Erixon said. “It’s going to force a lot of financial activity to move outside London and inside the eurozone,” said Erixon. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Will Treasury admit high-speed rail link HS2 is a fiasco?

BY SIMON JENKINS long”, and it was time to “expose None of the arguments stack HS2’s £32bn tag has received the nearest the public sector gets Yorkshire. To Westminster such the far-too-cosy relationship up. The new service is supposedly scant cost analysis. An official to sex appeal. They suffer no prior projects are for peasants: they hat a surprise. The between politics, government, a “premium” one, but as such, 2011 report by consultancy Atkins audit and claim no return beyond come nowhere near London. National Audit business and money”. The evi- it would supplement first-class showed other ways of meeting political glory. Any rubbish will There are two ways to pump- Office has found a dence for this is Cameron in capacity out of Euston, where Euston overcrowding with more do to sustain them. Cameron will prime an economy in recession W£3.3bn hole in the power. there are already two competi- platforms, longer trains and bet- doubtless be claiming that HS2, — by boosting consumer demand finances of the high-speed rail When I asked a transport tors and an oversupply of first- ter signals. These yielded rates of like the Olympics, will “deliver and letting the market decide link HS2. economist why the BBC couldn’t class seats. return as high as 1:4. Meanwhile £13bn for British exports”. where to grow, or by state invest- It doubts if the project will find a member of his profession There is no longer evidence road congestion remains a far There is no such purchase in ment in grand projects. do much for Britain’s economic to defend HS2 on air he said, that faster trains would close the greater cost to the economy than merely upgrading the old west Governments prefer the latter, growth or the “north-south “because there aren’t any”. As the north-south divide. Business time rail overcrowding. Road projects coast main line. A politician never because they gain political kudos divide”. It also questions the official ratio of costs-to-benefits on railways is no longer “wasted”. have benefits four, five or six times eats a sandwich when offered a in ordering them. benefit of shorter journey times tumbled from 1:2 to 1:1.4, sanity High-speed trains consume nearly cost. banquet. Certainly, the lead- The coalition seems fixated in an age of Wi-Fi and 3G. To the drained away. The biggest scep- twice as much energy per head as Lord Adonis, once HS2’s most ers of Birmingham, Sheffield with state projects of the utmost strident Margaret Hodge, of the tics were in the transport depart- ordinary ones As for jobs created, fanatical champion, faced such and Manchester have welcomed cost and showiness. It has devoted Commons public accounts com- ment, including its former top McLoughlin’s figure of 100,000 scepticism that he set up a private HS2. For them it is either £1,000 taxpayers’ money to aircraft car- mittee, the £32bn project is “ludi- economist, Tom Worsley, who left seems snatched from thin air. company, HS2 Ltd, to push the a head from every taxpayer in riers, nuclear missiles, wind tur- crous” and “not up to scratch”. last year, and its “challenge panel” High-speed trains are like project “offshore” from Whitehall. Britain or nothing. They would be bine arrays, “free” schools and Even Labour, normally a sucker of assessors. mainframe computers — always He spent hundreds of millions mad to refuse. The people of the now high-speed trains. None will for Whitehall’s grandest projects, The project has gradually been oversold by their makers. They on consultancy fees to lobby his Midlands and north were never stimulate demand in the short says HS2 has “issues”. labelled “political” rather than have left French railways with own government. Assessors came asked what else they might do term, and all will increase debt None of which make a differ- economic. Ministers have had to £25bn of debt. in from firms such as Capita- with such an enormous sum. If it in the long term. ence. You could stuff HS2’s mouth waffle about “bridging the north- England lacks the long dis- Symonds, Ineco, Arup and CH2M were their money they would not What is strange is that the tra- with garlic and nail its heart to south gap” and “competing with tances between stops of France or Hill, who were less likely than touch it with a bargepole. ditionally anti-spending Treasury the crossroads at midnight and it China”, as did the Transport Spain, meaning that time-saving Whitehall to bite the hand that No one offered them a is as potty for these projects as would still drink blood from the Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, is less critical and the price of fed them. Birmingham subway, a high- the spending departments that nation’s arteries. this morning when asked to driving through populated areas The truth is that when these speed Manchester-Sheffield link glory in them. Too many interests have cash impersonate an economist on far higher. High speed is esti- schemes acquire offices, design- or a Nottingham-Derby-Stoke Social security is butchered, at stake. In opposition, David Radio 4. It is a white elephant, mated to cost four times more ers, subcontractors, PR consult- motorway. No one did a rate of but there is no lobby to curb Cameron warned that lobbying a glamour flagship, the Olympics per kilometre than elsewhere in ants and political backing, no one return on extending the M65 wild extravagance on the capital “has tainted our politics for too without the fun. Europe. wants to hear of doubts. They are down the congested Aire valley in account. THE GUARDIAN MAY 18, 2013 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

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Emir Cup final today at Khalifa International Stadium - Kick-off 6:45pm Football giants lock horns for final match of season Al Rayyan wary of Al Sadd’s ‘impact players’ in the Emir Cup final

BY RIZWAN REHMAT Al Rayyan DOHA: Al Rayyan are eager to captain end their ‘troubled season’ with Fabio Cesar Emir Cup the winner’s trophy in the final (left), coach of the Emir Cup but for that to Diego Aguirre champions happen the boys in red will have (second left), DOHA: A list of the Emir Cup champions to tackle Al Sadd’s impact play- Al Sadd coach since 1973. ers Raul and Khalfan Ibrahim Hussein 2012 Al Gharafa in the title clash today, captain Amute 2011 Al Rayyan Fabio Cesar has said. (second right) 2010 Al Rayyan Al Sadd, who won the Qatar and club 2009 Al Gharafa Stars League (QSL) title last captain Raul 2008 Umm Salal month, have been in devastating (right) are 2007 Al Sadd form ever since Raul, the former seen with a 2006 Al Rayyan Real Madrid giant, joined them on QFA official 2005 Al Sadd a one-year deal last year in May. (centre) 2004 Al Rayyan The QSL champions, who 2003 Al Sadd reached the Heir Apparent Cup at a press conference 2002 Al Garrafa final earlier this month, will be 2001 Al Sadd in Doha. Al attempting to win their 14th Emir 2000 Al Sadd Sadd take on Cup title. 1999 Al Rayyan Al Rayyan in Al Rayyan, last year’s Heir 1998 Al Gharafa the final of Apparent Cup champions, are 1997 Al Gharafa eyeing their 6th Emir Cup the Emir Cup 1996 Al Gharrafa triumph. today. 1995 Al Gharrafa “They are in a very good shape. 1994 Al Sadd They play well as a team under 1993 Al Arabi pressure and their key players answering questions at a press “Al Sadd, what can I say?. fans at Khalifa Stadium or it is didn’t win the QSL title but they 1992 Al Ahli Raul and Khalfan have been doing conference. “Our preparation has They are the best team in Qatar,” full of people. What is important fought well in the season.” 1991 Al Sadd their best all through this season,” gone well,” a glum-looking Raul Aguirre said. “They won the is the players move the ball on the Raul predicted it could be one 1990 Al Arabi Cesar said ahead of the final game said. “The motivation to win this league this year. They won the pitch. So the players are impor- of the finest games of football in 1989 Al Arabi of the season today. final is at the highest level. We AFC Champions League (title in tant,” Amute said when asked if the country. 1988 Al Sadd “The experience of Raul and are ready for the final,” he added. November 2011). I know they have the fan pressure would be tough “I think it could be the best the form of Khalfan will be cru- When ribbed for some insight a very good team,” he said. to handle for his players. final in the history of Emir Cup,” 1987 Al Ahli cial for them,” the 32-year-old into the strengths of the oppo- “But we know it is possible to Amute said his team was raring the Spaniard said. “Don’t forget, 1986 Al Sadd midfielder said. sition, Raul said: “Al Rayyan is win the Emir Cup. This is the last for the final to start. it is the last game of the season,” 1985 Al Sadd “We have had a troubled sea- a quality side. They play well as opportunity for us to win a title “I feel it is a special final. It is he added. 1984 Al Arabi son but this final can give us the a team. The have experienced this season,” Aguirre said. not an ordinary final,” he said. “It “This will be a tough game for 1983 Al Arabi opportunity to close the season on players.” “The players are motivated to is a game that is most valued in both sides,” he said. “We know 1982 Al Sadd a good note,” the national team Al Rayyan coach Diego give their best. I trust my players the country. I feel a quality game each other really well,” he added. 1981 Al Ahli player said. “It is a privilege to Aguirre said the presence of they will deliver. It could be the is most likely,” he said. When asked about the mood in 1980 Al Arabi play this final,” Cesar said. “We two quality teams would ensure best final for many years,” the Al When reminded about the his camp, Aguirre said: “I can’t 1979 Al Arabi have done the best of preparation a thrilling encounter at Khalifa Rayyan coach added. Emir Cup final he took part in promise that we will win. But I 1978 Al Arabi and we feel we will arrive for the International Stadium today. Hussein Amute, the Al Sadd as an Al Sadd player a few years can tell you that everyone in Al 1977 Al Sadd final in the best way possible,” Aguirre was quick to acknowl- coach, presented his trademark back, Amute said: “I hope that Rayyan side, the coaches, the 1976 Qatar SC Cesar added. edge that Al Sadd were indeed ‘studious’ look at the pre-final result could be repeated. But I backroom staff, all of us want to 1975 Al Sadd Raul, the 35-year-old striker, the ‘Doha giants’ when it came press conference. know Al Rayyan is strong. They win this title. It is possible.” 1974 Qatar SC wasted little breath while to football in the country. “I don’t care if there are 2,000 fight for titles. They probably THE PENINSULA 1973 Al Ahli The Emir Cup I am very happy with my Emir Cup ‘very special’ factfile season: Al Sadd star Raul

Emir Cup is a tournament played every DOHA: Spanish soccer icon Raul Gonzalez (pictured) is pleased season by 16 first and second division with his performances and that of Al Sadd, a club he helped win the for Al Rayyan captain teams. The most successful club is Al Qatar Stars League (QSL) title last month. Sadd who have won the tournament 13 Raul, 35, signed a BY DENZIL PINTO times. Emir Cup was played for the first one-year deal with time in 1973 and was won by Al Ahli. Al Sadd exactly a DOHA: Al Rayyan captain year ago. Fabio Cesar has fond memories Al Ahli SC won the first ever Emir of “I am happy of the Emir Cup and will be hop- Qatar Cup (as it was called then), defeat- with the way I have ing to cherish another by lifting ing Al Rayyan 6-1 under the leadership played,” Raul said. “I the prestigious trophy today, a of Sudanese coach Mohammed Kheiri. am happy with our tournament which he regards Till this day, it is the joint-largest score- season. Al Sadd did as ‘very special’. line ever recorded in an Emir Cup final. It well. Last season’s Heir Apparent was refereed by Ali Al Absi, while Abdullah “I have enjoyed my Cup winners will face Qatar Siddiqi scored the first ever goal in an time in Qatar,” he Stars League (QSL) champions Emir Cup final. said without elabo- Al Sadd in the 41st edition of the rating if he would Emir Cup, and the Qatari is hop- renew his contract. Two years later, Al Ahli were denied ing to win the prestigious trophy “This has been another Emir Cup title in a tight match again, after triumphing six years a happy season for against Al Sadd SC which Al Sadd won ago with Umm Salal. me,” the former Real 4-3. In this match, the first ever hat-trick “It is a very special tournament Madrid star said. in my heart. I hope to finish it in an Emir Cup was scored by Iranian Ever since he was (the match) in a good way,” Cesar player Qassim Falah who played for Al given the captain’s said. Ahli. armband by coach When asked of his specific Emir Hussein Amute, Raul Cup moments that he remembers, The first ever Emir Cup final to be has been in inspira- the 34-year-old cited the penalty broadcasted on colour television was the tional form for his shoot-out triumph with Umm 1975 final which took place at Al Ahly side. Salal in 2008. He said: “The first Stadium. Al Sadd last month Emir Cup I reached with Umm dethroned Lekhwiya Salal was special. It was also The highest scoring match in the Emir as QSL champions because it was the first Emir Cup Al Rayyan skipper Fabio Cesar, 34, is all smiles during a press conference Cup took place in 1981-82 between Al and then reached the for me.” at Grand Heritage Hotel in Doha yesterday. Sadd and Al Shamal SC. Al Shamal were Heir Apparent Cup He added with a smile: “I defeated 16-2. final which they lost reached the final twice with Al to Lekhwiya. Rayyan and I hope to lift it again happy note for Al Rayyan with a team. They have some great play- Today, Al Sadd take on Al Rayyan in the Emir Cup final at Khalifa for the team. The special one will comprehensive 4-1 win at Al Sadd ers who have performed very well 1991/92 is the only season to ever be International Stadium. be the next one which is hopefully Stadium. this season like Raul and Ibrahim held in an away/home format. Al Ahli SC “This has been an important season for Al Sadd and I am happy to on Saturday.” Despite the negative result, Al Khalfan.” won that year, defeating Al Rayyan SC. be part of this team,” Raul said. The Qatari midfielder, whose Sadd, led by former Real Madrid After finishing fourth in Amute, the Al Sadd coach, said a good start to their QSL season side had to beat Eljaish 5-4 on and Schalke 04 striker Raul the league, losing in the Heir In the 1992/93 edition, the tournament helped the Doha giants gather momentum and purpose to their suc- penalties after it finished 1-1 in regained their composure and Apparent Cup semi-finals (3-1 saw a record number of red cards handed cessful title race. regulation time in the semi-finals, won the QSL title in April. against Al Sadd) and failing to out - Al Sadd players received 4 red cards, “Last year (2011-12 season) it was a different but this season, we is braced for a difficult match The Brazilian-born midfielder advance to the knock-out stages while Al Arabi SC only received 1. Al Arabi had an amazing start in September (2012),” Amute said. against Al Sadd. insists his team needs to be wary of the AFC Champions League, won the match 3-0, thanks to a brace by “We were undefeated in the first nine matches of the QSL. From He said: “It will be for sure a of all players in the Al Sadd team the ex-Napoli player insists the Khalifa Salem and a goal by Edison. Said September last year to April this year, we played very good football,” tough match. It is the Emir Cup and not just Raul and Ibrahim season will only be success if vic- Belqola was the first foreign referee to the Al Sadd coach said. final against a big team (Al Sadd) Khalfan, who have recently been tory prevails today. officiate an Emir Cup final match in 2001. “So I don’t want to add pressure on my players (ahead of the Emir but we are ready to play this game nominated for the QFA Player of He said: “It will depend on how On March 20 2012, the QFA signed a deal Cup final),” he said. and we want to win.” the Year Award. we finish it. We hope to finish it with Al Nahdi Group to be an official spon- “The players are very motivated to go and win this trophy,” the The last time the two oppo- He said: “We need to be wary in a good way.” sor of the Emir Cup. former Emir Cup winner with Al Sadd added. nents met in QSL ended on a of all the players in the Al Sadd THE PENINSULA The match kicks-off at 6:45pm. 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Rome Masters ROME: Results on the sixth day of the ATP Rome Masters/WTA Rome Open yesterday Taylor leads New Zealand (x denotes seeding): Men’s Quarter-finals Benoit Paire (FRA) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP) 6-1, 6-0 Rafael Nadal (ESP x5) bt David Ferrer (ESP revival in first Test at Lord’s x4) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 England’s Anderson claims 300th Test wicket; visitors trail by 79 runs Women’s Quarter-finals Simona Halep (ROM) bt Jelena Jankovic LONDON: Ross Taylor’s fluent and Dean Brownlie continued the (SRB) 4-6, 6-0, 7-5 66 lifted New Zealand to 153 for New Zealand revival with a part- Strauss wants Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Carla Suarez four in reply to England’s 232 on nership of 47. Navarro (ESP) 6-2, 6-0 a fluctuating second day of the Brownlie was lbw to Steven Pietersen fit for first Test at Lord’s yesterday. Finn for 23 after England called Sara Errani (ITA x7) bt Maria Sharapova England collapsed to 201 for for a review but Williamson was Ashes series (RUS x2) - walkover eight in the morning but James still undefeated on 44 when bad Anderson claimed his 300th Test light ended the day’s play with LONDON: Former England wicket to reduce New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum on captain Andrew Strauss Berdych stuns to seven for two before Taylor one. said yesterday it was impor- became the first batsman to reach England, resuming on 160 for tant for the side’s Ashes Djokovic at fifty in the match. four after a desperate struggle prospects that star batsman Anderson returned to dismiss for runs, survived the first hour Kevin Pietersen regained full England’s Taylor but Kane Williamson, and the second new ball with rela- fitness. Rome Masters James Anderson badly dropped on 23 by wicket- tive ease as Joe Root and Jonny Pietersen is currently side- celebrates after keeper Matt Prior off Anderson, Bairstow dug in. REUTERS lined with a knee problem and ROME: World number one reaching 300 in his absence England strug- Novak Djokovic crashed to Test wickets gled to 232 all out in the first defeat at the Rome Masters at after dismissing Scoreboard innings of the first Test against the hands of big-serving Tomas New Zealand at Lord’s. Berdych yesterday while Maria New Zealand’s England (I innings): 28.2-8-58-4; Wagner 28-8-70-3 (2nb, 2w); Peter Fulton Strauss retired from all Sharapova withdrew from the A Cook c Watling b Boult ...... 32 Martin 26-12-38-1 (1nb); Williamson 3-1-8-0. during the first cricket following a 2-0 series women’s event through illness. N Compton c Southee b Martin ...... 16 New Zealand (I innings): defeat by South Africa last year Berdych, who had beaten top- Test cricket where Pietersen was dropped seeded Djokovic only once in match at Lord’s J Trott c Brownlie b Boult ...... 39 P Fulton c Swann b Anderson ...... 2 I Bell c Watling b Wagner ...... 31 H Rutherford c Cook b Anderson ...... 4 from the team for sending text their last 14 meetings, prevailed cricket ground messages critical of his captain 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 to book himself an J Root c Watling b Southee ...... 40 K Williamson (batting) ...... 44 in London, to Proteas players. unlikely place in the semi-finals yesterday. J Bairstow c&b Southee ...... 41 R Taylor lbw Anderson ...... 66 But Strauss, always insisted and boost his chances ahead of the M Prior lbw Southee ...... 0 D Brownlie lbw Finn ...... 23 the texts had not hastened his French Open which gets under- S Broad lbw Wagner...... 0 B McCullum (batting) ...... 1 retirement. way on May 26. G Swann c Watling b Wagner ...... 5 Extras (B-4, LB-7, NB-2) ...... 13 In an interview with Sky “I lost this match by myself,” S Finn lbw Southee ...... 4 Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 153 Sports at Lord’s, he said admitted Djokovic, who had led Pietersen was the “best player” by a set and 5-2 and had suffered J Anderson (not out) ...... 7 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-7, 3-100, 4-147. he’d played with . a second round loss to Grigor Extras (B-1, LB-9, W-2, NB-5)...... 17 To bat: BJ Watling, T Southee, B Martin, N “The vast majority of the Dimitrov at last week’s Madrid Total (all out) ...... 232 Wagner, T Boult. time he’s very easy to manage Masters. Fall of wickets: 1-43, 2-67, 3-112, 4-157, Bowling: Anderson 15-7-32-3; Broad 15- because he works really hard, “I just lost a bit of concen- 5-192, 6-192, 7-195, 8-201, 9-221. 3-48-0 (1nb); Finn 11-2-42-1 (1nb); Swann he’s very professional in the tration. I started playing more Bowling: Boult 27-10-48-2 (2nb); Southee 8-0-19-0; Trott 0.4-0-1-0. way he goes about his busi- defensively. ness,” Strauss said. “The match turned around, he “And we all know what he gained confidence and I had a few brings. As far as I’m concerned unforced errors. he’s the best player I’ve ever “At this level you have to take played with, in terms of sheer the opportunities when they come IPL: Sunrisers keep play-off hopes alive talent, in terms of the ability to to you.” take the game away from the Berdych will now meet defend- HYDERABAD: Sunrisers 20 overs. With two crucial points, Punjab entering the semi-finals. his counterpart Cameron White opposition -- he’s outstanding,” ing champion Rafael Nadal after Hyderabad brightened their Sunrisers have taken their tally to The home team’s bowlers in the eighth over. added Strauss, set to join five coming through a tough quar- chances of entering the semi- 18 and moved up to fourth posi- bowled with discipline once again Sunrisers had another break- other ex-England captains in ter-final against fellow Spaniard finals of Indian Premier League tion on the points table. to defend a modest total. Amit through in the very next over the Sky commentary box for David Ferrer. (IPL) by beating Rajasthan If they win their last league Mishra, Karan Sharma, Dale when Rahane was held by Dhawan the Ashes. Nadal prevailed 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 Royals by 23 runs in a crucial match here against Kolkata Steyn and Thisara Perera bagged at deep cover while going for a big “But you know what you’re in a 2hr 46min thriller in which tie at Rajiv Gandhi interna- Knight Riders, they will make two wickets each. hit off Sharma. getting with someone like Ferrer’s challenge only petered tional stadium here yesterday. it to the play-offs even if Royal Royals made a cautious start Royals scored 30 off first five Kevin, obviously. He has got a out in the deciding set. Chasing a target of 137, Royals, Challengers Bangalore beat with Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya overs but the next five overs big ego, and he likes to be the It is Nadal’s second win over who were playing their first match Chennai Super Kings in Bangalore Rahane adding 39 runs for the first yielded only 14 runs with the centre of attention and that’s Ferrer inside a fortnight after his after the arrests of their three today. wicket before Dravid departed loss of two wickets. Samson also always going to rub some peo- quarter-final victory over him on players in spot fixing scandal, The Sunrisers’ win has elimi- after he found himself short of departed in the 12th over. ple up the wrong way.” AFP his way to the Madrid Masters could only score 113 for nine in nated the chances of Kings XI the crease to a direct throw by IANS title last week. Earlier French surprise pack- age Benoit Paire continued his Pakistan beat Scotland in ODI good run of form by qualifying for Trio confesses; BCCI suspends his first Masters semi-final with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Spaniard Marcel Granollers. another player in spot-fixing case Maria Sharapova said the thought of not recovering in NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket since March 2013. They also said that escorts were time to defend her French Open in India (BCCI) swung into action yesterday used to lure the players into the net. title had prompted her to pull calling an emergency meeting and suspending a Sources also said that when Sreesanth was out of the Rome Open before her cricketer, but more and more sordid details of arrested from Trident Hotel in south Mumbai’s quarter-final. the spot-fixing scandal came tumbling as the Nariman Point late Wednesday, he was with a Sharapova, a two-time win- three arrested players, including S Sreesanth, woman. Police refused to give more details about ner and the world number two, reportedly confessed to their crime. her. They also ruled out her involvement in spot had been due to play Italy’s Sara The BCCI called for its working committee meet- fixing. Errani, who she defeated in last ing in Chennai tomorrow to discuss the arrests The three players, who along with 11 bookies year’s French Open final. of the three cricketers and suspended Gujarat have been remanded to five days’ police custody, However, the Russian medium pacer Amit Singh who, during his stint have been lodged in the office of Delhi Police’s announced her withdrawal on with Rajasthan Royals, was allegedly used by the Special Cell in Lodhi Colony. Friday morning, citing sickness bookies to fix deals with cricketers. Police said all the three players have confessed and claiming she had run a tem- After a day of intense interrogation and inves- to their crime. perature overnight. tigation, Delhi Police sources said they stumbled While Sreesanth was the only who went with- Saeed Ajmal of Pakistan bats during the One-Day International (ODI) “I’ve a lot on my schedule and on the spot fixing racket after they recorded the out dinner, his two team mates along with the 11 cricket match against Scotland at Grange Cricket Club in Edinburgh, they all mean a lot for me and phone calls of aides of Tiger Memon with bookies. bookies had a hearty meal Thursday night in police yesterday. Pakistan won the ODI by 96 runs. The visitors posted a score obviously with the French Open They also found out that one of the players was told custody. of 231/7, while Scotland were all out for 135. coming up it is important to make to rope in others in the sordid saga. But the fast bowler had rajma-chawal as brunch smart decisions,” said Sharapova, It was Ajit Chandila, arrested Wednesday night yesterday, police sources said. who was runner-up to Serena from Mumbai along with his Rajasthan Royals col- After he had had his brunch, Sreesanth was Williams in Madrid last weekend. leagues Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan, who report- questioned by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Scoreboard Sharapova said she felt physi- edly told police that he tried to rope in two more Kumar. cally under-par during her SUNRISERS HYDERABAD RAJASTHAN ROYALS players at the behest of bookies who had promised Coming out of the Special Cell office, the top win over Sloane Stephens on to offer him Rs.20 lakh for bowling a fixed over. cop said Sreesanth was “cooperating” in the P A Patel b Faulkner ...... 2 R Dravid (run out-White) ...... 25 Thursday, but that she had also But the two players refused. investigations. S Dhawan c Rahane b Faulkner ...... 1 A M Rahane c Dhawan b K V Sharma 12 been “a bit off” in Madrid last “During questioning, Chandila told police that he The first to break down was Chavan, a senior G H Vihari c Sachin Baby b Trivedi ...... 19 S R Watson c Sammy b Perera ...... 11 week. met bookies at Country Club in Manesar (adjoin- police officer said. C L White c Trivedi b Watson ...... 0 S V Samson c Steyn b Mishra ...... 5 “You could see it in my energy ing Delhi) on April 6. In the meeting, the bookies “He broke down when we questioned him. He B B Samantray c Cooper b Faulkner .....55 S T R Binny b Perera ...... 8 last night,” she said. “I was already asked him to rope in more players for spot fixing. accepted that he made a mistake. He also accepted a bit off in Madrid and played He gave two names and the bookies asked him his role in spot-fixing,” he added. D J G Sammy c Hodge b Faulkner ...... 23 B J Hodge b Steyn ...... 8 through it and it came back last to bring them to a party where the deal could be Of the 11 bookies, Chandresh Patel, who was N L T C Perera (not out) ...... 17 Sachin Baby lbw Mishra ...... 3 night and I got sick again. discussed,” police sources said. arrested from Mumbai’s Andheri area, may be the D W Steyn b Faulkner ...... 0 J P Faulkner c Perera b K V Sharma...... 6 “It’s not smart to again com- However, the two cricketers refused to attend main conspirator in this case, police said. He was K V Sharma (run out-Cooper) ...... 4 K Cooper c Samantray b Steyn ...... 26 pete two or three rounds to win the party. into the profession for many years, police added. A Mishra (run out-Cooper) ...... 0 P V Tambe (not out) ...... 3 the tournament and with Paris Chandila also reportedly told interrogators that Sources also said that Sreesanth was directly starting next week.” Extras (B-1, LB-9, W-5) ...... 15 S K Trivedi (not out) ...... 0 in the 2012 IPL season, the last two overs of a approached by cricketer-turned bookie Jiju Asked whether the fact that match between Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Janardhan, his distant cousin who has also been Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 136 Extras (LB-4, W-2) ...... 6 it was her boyfriend’s (Grigor Royals might have been fixed. arrested. He had played for Kerala U-25 cricket Did not bat: I Sharma. Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 113 Dimitrov) birthday on Thursday Amidst media reports that Rajasthan Royals team. Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-4, 3-5, 4-49, 5-105, Fall of wickets: 1-39, 2-40, 3-51, 4-61, was a factor, she replied: “Is that co-owner Shilpa Shetty, her husband Raj Kundra Although the three accused confessed to their 6-125, 7-129, 8-136, 9-136. 5-65, 6-75, 7-82, 8-85, 9-112. a question or a comment? I don’t and captain Rahul Dravid would also be questioned, crimes, their families and lawyers maintained they Bowling: B J Hodge 1-0-3-0; J P Faulkner Bowling: D W Steyn 4-0-17-2; I Sharma think that has anything to do police denied calling them for the probe. were innocent. Deepak Prakash, Sreesanth’s law- with it.” 4-1-16-5 (2w); S R Watson 3-0-19-1; P V 4-0-22-0 (1w); K V Sharma 4-0-33-2; D J G The police said they were able to trail the sleazy yer, said: “Sreesanth has been falsely or mistakenly Top seed Williams, meanwhile, connection when they started to intercept the calls arrested. They (Delhi Police) have got some wrong Tambe 3-0-20-0 (2w); S T R Binny 1-0-9-0; Sammy 1-0-4-0; A Mishra 4-0-8-2; N L T C sailed through to her semi-final of aides of Tiger Memon, who is said to be in Dubai, information or mistakenly arrested him.” IANS S K Trivedi 4-0-20-1; K Cooper 4-0-39-0. Perera 3-0-25-2. with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro. AFP MAY 18, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Scholes ‘sad’ Second year Farewells take centre to see old ally of Euro ban Beckham retire for Malaga LONDON: Paul Scholes says his former Manchester waived stage on final day in EPL United and England team- mate David Beckham’s deci- sion to retire is a “sad day”. MADRID: The second season Arsenal, Spurs to battle for Champions League berth Scholes and Beckham, both of a two-year suspension on 38, came through the youth Malaga competing in European ranks at United together in competition has been lifted by LONDON: With Champions the early 1990s and enjoyed UEFA after the Spanish club League qualification the only huge success as midfield part- proved they have no outstanding major issue still to be decided, ners before Beckham left for debts to other clubs, employees focus on the final day of the Real Madrid in 2003. Scholes or the tax authorities. Premier League season tomor- remained at United, but he, Malaga made it to the quarter- row will fall on the characters too, will bow out of the game finals in their first ever partici- bidding goodbye to English at the end of the season, having pation in the Champions League football. announced his retirement last this season, but are currently It is certain to be a momentous week. “It’s a sad day, but hope- banned from competing in Europe day at The Hawthorns, where fully David is happy with what next season should they qualify Alex Ferguson will bow out after he’s done,” Scholes told British as UEFA found in December a record-breaking 26-year spell newspaper The Daily Mail. they were in breach of European as Manchester United manager, “From the start, you knew football´s governing body’s new while veteran midfielder Paul the quality he had and the financial fair play rules. Scholes is also expected to play professionalism. His range They were given until March 31 his final game for the club. FROM LEFT: Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes and of passing and his free-kicks to show it had cleared those over- Ferguson heralded the end of Stoke City striker Michael Owen. The trio will mark their final games in the English Premier League season were brilliant and that was no due debts to avoid being banned an era when he announced his tomorrow before retiring from their respective roles in football. Also to retire will be Liverpool defender Jamie accident -- he was out there for another season. retirement last week and was Carragher, who will take up a TV punditry role. practising all day long. However, the club confirmed given a rapturous send-off at Old “That’s our year finished that UEFA had now accepted Trafford last Sunday when United now. I think there’s only Ryan they have complied with those beat Swansea City 2-1 in his final “We’re not there for a party on “There are very few manag- Liverpool’s fans, meanwhile, Giggs, who was a year older requirements. home game. Sunday,” he said. ers who have the opportunity to are preparing to say goodbye than us, still going as strong “Malaga football club has today Tomorrow’s trip to West “Our party will be with our be cheered off in your last game to long-serving defender Jamie as ever.” received communication from Bromwich Albion will be supporters at the end of the as manager,” he told students at Carragher, who is set to make Meanwhile, Arsenal man- UEFA that its financial control Ferguson’s 1,500th match as game when the players get the Cambridge University during a his 737th and final appearance ager Arsene Wenger has committee has confirmed that, United manager, but the 71-year- chance to thank the fans and the speech earlier this week. at home to Queens Park Rangers revealed that he was once after an analysis of the situa- old Scot has warned his players fans get the chance to thank the “I have to thank everybody at before taking up a position as a interested in signing Beckham. tion of the Martiricos club on not to be distracted by the emo- players for the season. That’s the Everton and the supporters for television pundit next season. Beckham spent periods 31 March, 2013, it leaves with- tion of the occasion. only party we’re interested in and that it showed real class. The Tottenham Hotspur hope to pip training with Arsenal dur- out effect the second conditional Speaking at the club’s end-of- we’ll do what we can to finish on atmosphere was incredible. I Arsenal to the fourth and final ing close-season breaks for year of suspension against the season awards party, he said: “We a high.” didn’t expect it. Champions League place, but to the LA Galaxy, but Wenger Andalusian club,” said a state- need to win the game on Sunday. Ferguson’s successor-in-wait- “I have one more game to go. If do that they must win at home to said he was deterred by the ment on the club’s website. We won the last home game and ing, David Moyes, will end his we win then it will be our high- Sunderland and hope their north former England captain’s The club are also appealing the I don’t want to lose my last game, 11-year association with Everton est points total during my time London rivals lose at Newcastle wage demands. Asked if he initial decision taken by UEFA to that’s for sure.” at Chelsea, who on Wednesday there. Who knows? I may be back United. had wanted to sign him, the the Court of Arbitration(CAS) for United received the Premier claimed a last-gasp 2-1 victory one day.” Wigan Athletic’s relegation Frenchman replied: “Yes I was, Sport to get the entire ban over- League trophy after beating over Benfica in the final of the The trip to Stamford Bridge on Tuesday ended the suspense but it was at the period where turned and have been awarded a Swansea and with West Brom Europa League. will also mark Everton captain in the battle to avoid demotion we could not afford to pay him. licence from the Spanish Football already certain to finish no lower Moyes, who will take over from Phil Neville’s last game for the to the Championship, but all the “After that it was a question Federation to play in Europe next than ninth, there is little riding Ferguson on July 1, said farewell club, while another United old clubs have a financial incentive mark as well before he went to season should that appeal be on the match, but Ferguson’s to Goodison Park after last week- boy, Michael Owen, will hope to to finish the season as high up (AC) Milan (on loan), but he successful. opposite number, Steve Clarke, end’s 2-0 defeat of West Ham feature in Stoke City’s game at the table as possible due to the was in a position where we did A decision from the CAS is wants his side to end the cam- United and he has thanked the Southampton after announcing incremental allocation of end-of- not really need (players).” AFP expected to be announced on June paign with a flourish. club’s fans for their reaction. he will retire. season prize money. AFP 4. AFP PSG, Emirates renew deal Beckham to play; Ancelotti keeps quiet on future

PARIS: Retiring David Paris, although in a non-playing Beckham will feature in Ligue capacity. 1 champions Paris St Germain’s “I met him yesterday, he match at home to Stade Brest believes in the PSG project,” Al today, coach Carlo Ancelotti Khelaifi said in a separate news said yesterday. conference. “He is going to play,” Italian “He enjoyed the last six Ancelotti, who ducked questions months, we have time to discuss, Paris Saint-Germain’s about his own future, told a news we’ll be discussing over the next coach Carlo Ancelotti conference. two weeks and hopefully we will holds the French Beckham, 38, said on Thursday announce an agreement together. Championship trophy that he would retire from play- “I told him ‘the door is open for after a news conference ing at the end of the season after you’ and he wants to be involved at the Camp des Loges a short stint at PSG, triggering so we will see now.” training centre in Saint- an avalanche of tributes to the Al Khelaifi still has to meet Germain-en-Laye, near former England captain. with Ancelotti to discuss the Paris, yesterday. Ancelotti joined the chorus, Italian’s future amid speculation saying: “He loves his job, he is a he could leave. very very humble player, these Ancelotti, whose contract runs are the best qualities I saw in his until June next year, was not too Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club’s chairman Nasser Al Khelaifi character. worried about it. (left) and the Executive Vice President of Emirates company Thierry “He had fantastic passing qual- “I haven’t thought about it. I Antinori hold a press conference yesterday at the Parc des Princes ities, he was one of the best in the have been busy with the (title) Stadium in Paris. PSG have extended their sponsorship deal with world in that department.” celebrations and other things,” Emirates Airline until the end of the 2018-19 season. According to It will be Beckham’s 10th Ligue he said. reports, no official figure was mentioned but Antinori did say the amount 1 appearance this season after he Asked when he would announce Earlier this week, Al Khelaifi discussed it with them. He’s got was “a three-digit figure, so between €100 ($129.17m) and €999m” over joined PSG in late January. his decision, he replied: “I don’t said that he had turned down a contract with us for one more five years in which Emirates will be the only sponsor to appear on the Earlier yesterday, club presi- know”, adding that he would not a Real Madrid move to hire year...for me, he’s here next year,” PSG shirt next season. dent Nasser Al Khelaifi reiterated answer questions on the matter Ancelotti. the president said on Monday last his desire to see Beckham stay in until he has made up his mind. “They (Real) came and I week. REUTERS

Cavendish claims fourth win at Al Arabi trounce Al Ahli; Qatar SC defeat Al Sadd DOHA: Al Arabi yesterday Giro; Wiggins out crushed Al Ahli 3-0 winning their Emir Cup clash without dropping a set. CHERASCO, ITALY: Mark Backed by home fans, hosts Al Cavendish claimed his fourth Arabi won 25-20, 25-15, 25-21. win of the 96th Giro d’Italia In another clash, Qatar SC yesterday after sprinting to vic- defeated Al Sadd 3-1 (27-25, tory in the 13th stage, at 254 23-25, 25-20, 26-24). km the longest of the race, from Earlier on Wednesday, Police Busseto to Cherasco. stunned Eljaish, while Al-Rayyan Italian Vincenzo Nibali outclassed Al Gharafa at Al Arabi remained in the race leader’s Indoor Halls. pink jersey with Australia’s Cadel After losing their opening Evans in second place at 41secs. match against Al Rayyan last Earlier, top favourite Bradley Saturday, Police outplayed strong Wiggins and defending champion El Jaish for a comprehensive Ryder Hesjedal pulled out of the 24-26, 26-24, 26-24, 25-18 win. race due to illness. On the other hand, Al Rayyan Cavendish, a former world registered their second win beat- champion from the Isle of Man, ing Al Gharafa 25-12, 25-17, 25-17 took his 13th win from five edi- in a one-sided affair. tions on the Giro on Thursday. According to a Qatar Volleyball A player of Qatar Sports Club spikes the ball during their Volleyball Emir Cup match against Al Sadd at Al Arabi Stadium yesterday. RIGHT: Players A number of teams, including Associations (QVA) statement, of Al Ahli Club (in green) and Al Arabi in action during the Volleyball Emir Cup match at the same venue. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL Australians Orica-GreenEdge, Khalid Ali Al Mawlawi, President had hoped to stop the Manxman of QVA addressed a group of bud- dominating again on one of the ding players who were attending players along with QVA Assistant The QVA President congratu- by the rules of the game and give and the sport’. The Emir Cup last remaining chances for the a training session. Secretary General Yousef Kanu lated the players to be part of the it utmost importance as they rep- final will be held on May 25. non-climbers. AFP Al Mawlawi addressed the and coach Sharif Shemarli. team and urged them ‘to comply resent the future for the country THE PENINSULA MAY 18, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Handball: Qatar win Asian Beach Championship title

The Qatari beach handball team members and officials pose for a picture after winning the Asian Beach Handball Championship in Hong Kong recently. Qatar beat Oman 2-0 and will play in the World Cup finals that will be held in Morocco in 2014. Qatar won the first half 18-16 and the second 14-12. Bahrain finished third in the competition. RIGHT: Members of the Qatar team show their winning medals and the trophy. Course-record 60 puts Spurs hold off Warriors Bradley on top in Texas

IRVING, TEXAS: Keegan “Just a really fun round,” Bradley fired 10 birdies and Bradley said. “Kind of felt like a an eagle in a course-record 60 Saturday morning round with my yesterday to seize a three-shot buddies.” to advance in play-offs lead after the first round of the The 60 ties the tournament US PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson record for a low round held by Championship. Sam Snead and Arron Oberholser, NBA: Knicks defeat Pacers 85-75 to keep hopes alive Bradley’s sizzling 10-under par who shot their 60s on different round came despite two bogeys courses. on the TPC Four Seasons Resort Cameron Beckman, Justin OAKLAND, California: The course, where he took advantage Leonard and Charlie Rymer San Antonio Spurs booked a of a rain-softened course to set shared the TPC Four Seasons return trip to the NBA Western Tony Parker an early target that no one could course record of 61. Conference finals yesterday, (9) of the San match. Bradley, the 2011 Byron Nelson holding off the Golden State Antonio Spurs South African Charl Schwartzel Championship winner, notched Warriors 94-82 to win their congratulates had seven birdies and no bogeys the lowest round of his PGA Tour second-round play-off series. Stephen Curry in his seven-under 63, which gave career, improving on his previous San Antonio’s Tony Parker (30) of the him sole possession of second best of 63. endured a difficult night of 3-of- Golden State place. He teed off on 10, and had five 13 shooting, but two of those bas- Warriors after “I birdied more holes than I birdies in his first seven holes. kets were crucial three-pointers Game Six of didn’t, which is rare,” Bradley After back-to-back bogeys at 18 in the final four minutes to help their Western said. “It was just an explosive type and one, he played his last seven the Spurs fend off the determined Conference of round.” holes in eight-under par, including young Warriors team. semi-finals The former PGA Championship an eagle at the par-five seventh. The Spurs won the best-of- during the winner said playing partners Schwartzel benefitted from a seven series four games to two and 2013 NBA Jason Dufner and Matt Kuchar morning tee time. will face the Memphis Grizzlies in kept the round relaxed. AFP play-offs at the Western Conference finals for the Oracle a place in the league’s champion- ship series. Arena in Ji, Thompson Byron Nelson San Antonio will host the Oakland, Championship Grizzlies in game one tomor- California, share lead row. Two years ago, the Grizzlies yesterday. Scores shocked the Spurs in the first Spurs won MOBILE, ALABAMA: South round. The Spurs returned to the 94-82 to take Korea’s Ji Eun-Hee fired a 60 Keegan Bradley Western Conference finals last the series 4-2. bogey-free seven-under 65 yes- season, but fell to Oklahoma City. terday to grab a share of the 63 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) Tim Duncan scored 19 points to Mobile Bay LPGA Classic first- 64 Ted Potter, Harris English, Robert lead the Spurs. Parker and Manu round lead alongside American Karlsson (SWE) Ginobili both struggled with their stretch the Spurs lead back to five State’s Thompson and Curry both up with me. Tonight I just didn’t Lexi Thompson. shooting but combined for 19 points after Golden State’s Klay saw three-point attempts rattle have it. Thompson, trying to improve 65 Ryan Palmer, Angel Cabrera (ARG), assists. Thompson had drained a three- around the rim and fail to fall. “But I just kept believing in me. on her runner-up finish in the Camilo Villegas (COL) Ginobili scored five points on pointer to trim the deficit to three Parker, meanwhile, drained My teammates were behind me, same tournament last year, had 1-of-6 shooting -- his only basket points with 10 minutes remaining. another three-pointer to put the kept telling me: ‘Keep shooting, eight birdies and a bogey. 66 Will Claxton, Bae Sang-Moon (KOR), of the night a driving layup to Back-to-back jump shots by Spurs up 88-79 with 1:15 to play. they’ll go in.’ They were one stroke in front Scott Piercy, Sean O’Hair, Marc Thompson and Stephen Curry “As we’ve said a lot in the “I made the two big threes at of Jessica Korda, who had six Leishman (AUS) cut the Warriors’ deficit to 77-75 playoffs, sometimes in the end the end of the game, so thank you birdies in her six-under 66. NBA Results with 4:52 to play. it comes down to making shots. to all my teammates believing in Nicole Castrale, Mina Harigae, Eastern Conference A Spurs turnover then gave Down the stretch we made a cou- me and Coach Pop leaving me on Dewi Claire Schreefel, Thidapa Mobile Bay LPGA In New York Golden State a chance to tie, but ple of threes ... we did make some the court.” Suwannapura Park Hee-Young, Classic Scores New York 85 Indiana 75 Curry was off-target with two shots down the stretch and they Elsewhere in another match, Jennifer Johnson and Chella Choi attempts. didn’t,” said Spurs coach Gregg Carmelo Anthony had a game- were tied on 67. (Indiana lead series 3-2) A three-pointer by Parker saw Popovich. high 28 points and the New York Defending champion and world 65 Ji Eun-Hee (KOR), Lexi Thompson Western Conference the Spurs regain some breathing Parker scored 10 of his 13 points Knicks staved off elimination yes- number two Stacy Lewis, looking In Oakland room. in the final four minutes. terday with a wire-to-wire 85-75 for a solid showing to gain ground 66 Jessica Korda San Antonio 94 Golden State 82 Kawhi Leonard also made a big “I was just tired, obviously,” victory over Indiana in game five on absent world number one Park three-pointer for San Antonio in Parker said of his shooting woes. of their second round NBA play- In-Bee, carded a two-under par (San Antonio win series 4-2) 67 Nicole Castrale, Mina Harigae, Dewi the waning minutes, while Golden “I think all the minutes caught off series. AFP 70 that gave her a share of 33rd Claire Schreefel (NED), Thidapa place. Suwannapura (THA), Park Hee- Ji, the 2009 US Open champion, Young (KOR), Jennifer Johnson, made five birdies on the front Chella Choi (KOR) Kings shock Sharks, take 2-0 series lead nine. AFP LOS ANGELES: Stanley Cup as the most valuable player dur- It was his fourth playoff goal a brilliant sequence of four-way champions Los Angeles fought ing last season’s play-offs, made this season, and the 25th of his passing. The Sharks then stunned back from a goal down with 28 saves for Los Angeles, who career in the play-offs. the Staples Center crowd into less than two minutes to play to have now won 12 Though the near silence by tying the game stun the San Jose Sharks 4-3 in straight games Sharks were ini- at 2-2 when defenceman Brad a frenzied finish to Game Two on home ice NHL Results tially much bus- Stuart netted with a slap shot at of their Western Conference since March. Eastern Conference ier on offense, 14:21 in the second period. semi-finals series yesterday. Antti Niemi the Kings went As the towel-waving home fans With the Kings on a five-on- stopped 27 shots In Boston 2-0 up when chanted “Go Kings Go”, San Jose three powerplay, captain Dustin for the Sharks, Boston 3 New York Rangers 2 (OT) defenseman defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic Brown tied the score with a back- who will have to Drew Doughty was credited with the goal that hand shot at 18:17 in the third rebound when (Boston lead series 1-0) scored on a pow- put the Sharks 3-2 up at 8:56 of period to spark thunderous roars the series shifts erplay with a the third, the puck having been Western Conference from a sellout crowd of 18,527 at to San Jose for slap shot into the deflected through a tangle of Staples Center. Game Three In Los Angeles upper-left corner bodies. Just 22 seconds later, center today. at 4:10 in the sec- The Sharks appeared to have Trevor Lewis pounced on a loose The Kings Los Angeles Kings 4 San Jose 3 ond period. the game under control but they puck from the left side of an open made a fast start (Los Angeles lead series 2-0) However, San paid a heavy price for two late net for the go-ahead goal and the when center Jeff Jose cut the defi- penalties as first Stuart, for trip- Kings held on to take a 2-0 lead Carter opened cit when center ping, and then Vlasic, for delay- in the best-of-seven series. the scoring with a wrist shot Patrick Marleau scored with ing the game by sending the puck Keegan Bradley hits a shot during the first round of the 2013 HP Byron Goaltender Jonathan Quick, from the right at 3:06 in the first a tip-in on a powerplay a little over the glass, were both sent to Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, yesterday. who won the Conn Smythe Trophy period. more than five minutes later after the penalty box. 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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Macedonian high school graduates dance during the 13th Quadrille Dance Parade at the main square in Skopje, the capital of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) yesterday. The parade being held parallel in various cities around FYROM and neighbouring countries is said to MUSCAT 42/28 Clear 39/28 Clear be the largest simultaneous dance in the world. MAKKAH 43/30 Clear 42/30 Clear KUWAIT 36/25 Clear 38/26 Clear BAHRAIN 34/28 Clear 35/29 Clear SANAA 30/16 Scattered clouds 29/15 Scattered clouds RIYADH 34/23 Clear 36/25 Partly cloudy DUBAI 35/25 Partly cloudy 34/25 Partly cloudy George Michael hurt in car crash BAGHDAD 33/23 Partly cloudy 37/23 Partly cloudy LONDON: British pop star traffic accident yesterday evening, were dispatched to the scene. This service sentence and a two-year THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW George Michael suffered minor no third party was involved,” is the latest in a string of car- driving ban. injuries in a car crash on a Filippello said. related calamities for Michael. Michael was forced to cut short HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER motorway north of London, his “He is being treated for super- The Careless Whisper singer his Symphonica tour in Austria in publicist said yesterday. ficial cuts and bruises but is fine. served a four-week prison sen- November 2011 after he was rushed ATHENS 31/20 Clear 33/21 Partly cloudy The 49-year-old, who shot to We have no further comment at tence in 2010 after he crashed his to a hospital in the capital Vienna WASHINGTON 22/16 Chance of storm 23/18 Sunday showers fame as a member of the 1980s this time.” Range Rover into a shop in north with a severe bout of pneumonia. SYDNEY 19/08 Clear 20/11 Partly cloudy pop duo Wham!, is “fine” after the The East of England Ambulance London while under the influence The singer, who has sold more LONDON 16/08 Cloudy 21/11 Chance of rain car he was travelling in crashed Service said another man in his of cannabis. than 20 million copies of his 1987 PARIS 19/12 Rain 17/12 Chance of rain on the M1 route on Thursday 40s had been airlifted to a spe- Three years earlier he had been debut solo album “Faith”, later ISTANBUL 22/17 Clear 25/19 Mostly cloudy evening, Connie Filippello said in cialist unit in London with head found collapsed in his Mercedes admitted it was “touch and go” at MANILA 34/26 Chance of storm 34/26 Chance of storm a statement. injuries after the crash. and had admitted another drug- times during the month he spent DHAKA 32/27 Chance of rain 32/27 Chance of rain “George Michael was a pas- Officials said three ambu- driving charge, but avoided jail in hospital. DELHI 44/30 Clear 45/31 Clear senger in a vehicle involved in a lances and an air ambulance with 100 hours of community AFP ISLAMABAD 41/24 Clear 43/27 Clear Pet lovers take blogging to the next level Iranian scores Cannes

TYSONS CORNER, Virginia: bloggers — people who embrace dogs in Colorado on a blog titled loyal, and they trust the word When Dexter the cocker span- social media to rave about pets. Scratchings and Sniffings. “I would of bloggers,” said Bridget Evans, hit with melodrama iel tore a ligament in his hind The Fifth Annual BlogPaws guess we’re going to hit close to a San Diego publicist attending leg a few weeks ago, he didn’t Conference, with 500 participants 3,000 by the end of the year,” she BlogPaws for VetIQ, a newcomer CANNES: Iranian Oscar- out for a gripping performance suffer in silence. Instead, his and perhaps as many critters, is said as bloggers (predominantly to the pet medication and health winner Asghar Farhadi drew as an ambivalent mother and owner wrote a blog post. a chance to network, swap ideas female) and their pets (predomi- supplements business. enthusiastic applause yester- partner. “The vet told me my dog needed and maybe win a coveted Nose- nantly dogs) took over the lobby of It’s come to the point, DiVita day for one of the most keenly Farhadi said his decision to surgery, and I thought, ‘You know, to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social the Sheraton hotel on Thursday. said, where some popular blog- awaited films at Cannes, with a set his film in France this time there’s got to be something else’,” Media award (for which The With Americans spending gers with solid track records and Paris-set tale about love and its was for the sake of the story, not said Carol Bryant, who writes a Intrepid Pup, about a peripatetic $53.33bn on their pets last year, substantial followings can give agonies. because of any crackdown on art- “canine-centric online magazine” Vizsla called Tavish, is nominated according to the American Pet up their day jobs and earn a good The Past picks up many of the ists at home. called A Fidose of Reality. in three categories). Products Association, and 62 per- middle-class income — or better wrenching family themes and the “I can work for years out- Responding to her blog entries, Workshops include a primer on cent of households owning a pet, — through online advertising. taut drama of the Tehran-based side Iran but I do remain a very readers told Bryant that Dexter using Google Analytics to gauge the pet care industry is taking the “I know bloggers that are mak- A Separation, which saw Farhadi Iranian director. Of course, didn’t have to go under the knife. online readership, building bridges bloggers seriously. ing upwards of six figures,” she scoop the Academy Award for the set may change but I don’t He had options, like laser therapy between bloggers and veterinar- In an exhibition hall, big hitters said, while others are content best foreign-language feature last change,” he told reporters, speak- and a leg brace he’ll be wearing ians, and Schmitty the Weather like pet food maker Nestle Purina with just a few hundred dollars. year. ing through an interpreter. for the next six months. Dog demonstrating a just-released rub shoulders with upstarts like “We’re kind of the rock stars of Lead actress Berenice Bejo He referred to Nobel-winning So good is his progress that Sony canine video harness. the Spoiled Pup Boutique, a New the pet industry,” added Bryant, dials down the glamour of her author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dexter has come with Bryant In its online community, York area canine couturier, woo- who cautions that the key to blog- role in another Oscar winner, The asking: “If (he) goes into a dif- from rural Pennsylvania to this BlogPaws has 2,200 members, said ing bloggers to test and endorse ging success is finding a unique Artist, to play Marie, a mother in ferent country to write, is it Washington suburb for the big- co-founder Yvonne DiVita, who their products. “The followers voice and then keeping it real: Paris’ multicultural suburbs who fair to say the work is no longer gest US gathering ever of pet writes about her cat and three and readers of pet blogs are so AFP asks estranged husband Ahmad Colombian? (Ali Mosaffa) to return from Iran “I don’t think so. The national- to finalise their divorce. ity of the film is perhaps the link In the meantime, Marie has that each viewer forms with it.” invited her new boyfriend Samir, He said that while Iran had played by Tahar Rahim of 2009’s official censorship, filmmakers Chopard jewels theft A Prophet, to take his young son in the West faced a kind of “eco- and move in with her and her two nomic censorship” in their strug- daughters from another failed gle to get pictures made. relationship. Farhadi said later that winning rocks Cannes Festival But Ahmad’s arrival upsets the Oscar had resolved any financ- the delicate new balance, as it ing problems for his projects and CANNES: Jewellery worth of its stores, complete with its becomes clear that his connec- insisted that official restrictions more than $1m due to be loaned own red carpet, lies on the palm- tion with Marie is anything but in Iran were constantly changing. to stars at the Cannes Film fringed beachfront, just opposite ancient history. “At times there are some open- Festival was stolen from a local the venue. The reasons he returned to ings that make things easier and hotel in a pre-dawn heist yes- The jeweller redesigned the Tehran four years before remain then there are periods that are terday but the coveted Palme Palme d’Or trophy and each year unclear. tougher,” he said. d’Or trophy was safe, officials lends out jewellery to stars for But Farhadi hints that an ina- “I don’t want this image to be said. their walk up the red-carpeted bility to practise his profession in given of censorship being strong In a scenario itself worthy of a steps at the Palais des Festivals. France drove him into a depres- and powerful and the directors movie, thieves entered the hotel The photo-calls are hugely sion that he only escaped by leav- being completely passive and just room of an American woman valuable to makers of gowns and ing Marie. undergoing the situation that employee of Swiss bijoutier jewellery, providing media expo- Meanwhile Samir’s own former they live in. I think that creative Chopard and ripped out the sure around the world. wife is lying in a coma, suspended power is always stronger than the strongbox in the wardrobe, Actresses at this year’s festival between life and death after a sui- censors’ power. There are periods according to police reports. who have donned Chopard jewel- Journalists stand outside Novotel hotel, where jewels meant for film stars cide attempt. of victory or periods of failure but They then made off with the lery include Julianne Moore, Lana were stolen, in Cannes, yesterday. Marie’s teenage daughter they still go on struggling.” safe and the jewels inside. Del Rey, Cindy Crawford, China’s and a North African immigrant He said despite possible red The robbery took place before Fan Bingbing and Spain’s Blanca gold, with a value of more than robbery took place shortly after working illegally at Samir’s dry- flags such as an unmarried couple 5am (0300 GMT) at the Novotel Suarez. ¤20,000 ($26,000), set in a base the world premiere of The Bling cleaning shop become catalysts in living together, the film would be hotel, which is located about 15 Details about what was sto- of rock crystal. Ring, a true-to-life tale of a explosive events that force each shown unchanged in Iran. minutes from the festival venue, len were sketchy, but one police The history of the trophy dates group of wealthy teenagers who character to reckon with the past. “I got the information just two they said. source said the jewels were “a back to 1955 — by coincidence, the burgle the homes of Hollywood Critics warmly welcomed the days ago by the Iranian distribu- Police are looking at footage matched set.” year that Alfred Hitchcock made celebrities. picture and took to Twitter to tor of the film that they have from the city’s security cameras An official linked to the festival To Catch A Thief, about a gentle- The Cannes Film Festival is declare it a favourite when jury the permission to show it as it to hunt for clues, they added. said the trophy was safe. man robber and a jewel heist on ranked as the world’s most pres- president Steven Spielberg hands is because the story takes place Chopard is one of the official The Palme d’Or features 118 the French Riviera. tigious movie showcase. out the awards on May 26. outside Iran,” he said. sponsors of the festival, and one grammes (four ounces) of yellow And in another twist, the AFP Bejo in particular was singled AFP