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Kerry with GCC foreign ministers in Manama Emir sends Driving licence message to can be renewed French President QNA on Metrash 2 PARIS: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a mes- sage to French President Francois Hollande on relations between the Expatriates seeking a ‘return visa’ two countries, means of bolstering for people under personal sponsorship them and latest regional and inter- Motorists can also who have stayed out of the country national developments. apply for a new for more than six months can also The verbal message was con- apply through Metrash 2 or the min- veyed by Foreign Minister H E licence to replace istry’s website. Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrah- the damaged one Passport details of a foreigner can man Al Thani when Hollande met be modified online if the person holds him at the Elysee Palace yesterday. through MoI’s mobile a valid entry visa to and his The Foreign Minister also passport has been lost or damaged. conveyed the Emir’s greetings to app. GCC Secretary-General Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani with GCC foreign ministers and US Secretary In case of expatriates holding Hollande and his wishes of more two visas — one existing and another of State John Kerry before GCC ministerial meetings in Bahraini capital Manama yesterday. progress and development for the new— it is possible to close one and → See also page 3 French people. The Peninsula open the other online using Metrash Hollande asked the Foreign 2 or the ministry’s e-services, after Minister to convey his greetings paying service charges. and to the Emir, his wishes of good The Traffic Department at the health and happiness to him and DOHA: Driving licence can be ministry, meanwhile, extended its more progress and prosperity for renewed through Metrash 2, the offer of 50 percent cut in traffic-related the Qatari people. mobile application of the Ministry fines for another three months, sources 500 more taxis by October of Interior (MoI). said. The offer ends on July 7 instead The renewal fee of QR250 can be of April 7. The department had ear- By Raynald C Rivera Cars Taxi fleet will bring the total franchise operators, Cars Taxi oper- Qatar to chair Arab paid online. The applicant can have lier announced that those paying the The Peninsula number of taxis in Qatar to 4,500 by ates in the country in partnership with the licence delivered at his doorstep fines within three months starting the end of the third quarter. Qatar-based Profit Group. Labour Conference by Q-Post by paying an additional from January 7 will get a 50 percent “Since the launch of Cars Taxi in “This large addition to the existing fee of QR20, the ministry said on its reduction. The offer is valid for all September 2014, we have commis- fleet reflects Cars Taxi’s commitment DOHA: Qatar will chair the 43rd Twitter account. violations committed before Decem- DOHA: Five hundred more lemon sioned 500 taxis in record time and to find balance between the increas- session of the Arab Labour Confer- Motorists can also apply for a new ber 31 last year, to encourage people yellow-roofed taxis will hit Doha hope to commission another 500 in ing needs of taxi riders and availability ence in on Sunday, attended licence to replace the damaged one to pay the fines and comply with the streets by October, Cars Taxi, one of record time in the next four to five of service providers in Qatar. by Arab ministers of labour, busi- through Metrash 2 using the same pro- traffic law. Motorists can enjoy the the four taxi operators in the coun- months,” P Balasubramaniam, Group “Since launching operations two nessmen and representatives of cedures, which have been explained privilege even in case of certain vio- try, announced yesterday. Director, Profit Group, said at the years ago, Cars Taxi has established Arab labour organisations. by the MoI on the popular social media lations committed this year if they Cars Taxi yesterday started the launch at Sharq Village & Spa. itself as a preferred choice of com- Minister of Administrative platform. The ministry has added pay up the fines within one month roll-out with 25 taxis and the number The company also plans to intro- muters throughout the country,” said Development, Labour and Social three important visa-related serv- after the date of violation, as per the will gradually increase to reach the duce environment-friendly hybrid taxis Abdulla Sultan Al Sabbagh, Group CEO, Affairs H E Dr Issa bin Saad Al Jafali ices to its online platform, allowing amended traffic law. additional target, to add to the 500 and special taxis for women, families Cars Taxi Group. Al Nuaimi will represent Qatar. The residents to avail of them without vis- currently operated by the company. and people with disabilities. forum will issues related to the iting a services centre of the ministry. → Continued on page 2 The announcement to double the One of the region’s largest taxi → Continued on page 2 employment sector in the region.

Israel starts work 171st Turkish National Police anniversary peace talks pushed on disputed part of West Bank wall back to April 13: UN envoy

AFP AFP the next round of talks”, he said. The main obstacle is the future of President Bashar Al Assad. BEIT JALA: Israel began construc- The opposition High Negotiations tion on a controversial part of its GENEVA: UN Syria envoy Staffan de Committee has said Assad must go separation barrier in the occupied Mistura said yesterday that the next before a transitional government is West Bank yesterday, near a Pal- round of peace talks will begin on April agreed, while the regime insists that estinian Christian town. 13 after he completes a diplomatic his fate be excluded from the talks. Cranes began lifting eight- tour, including stops in Damascus De Mistura met key regime ally metre-high blocks into place near and Tehran. Russia in Moscow and will head to Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem and The had previously Tehran for talks with another cru- close to Bethlehem. This part of the said that the negotiations in Geneva cial government supporter. wall could cut Palestinians from would resume on April 11 after the last He also plans to meet Turkish offi- their olive groves. round ended on March 24. cials in Europe by the middle of next Nicola Khamis, Mayor, Beit De Mistura told journalists that week. Ankara has emerged as one of Jala, condemned what he saw as meetings with key regional players Assad’s main foes. a land grab. and Syria’s government were crucial De Mistura said he had not “This land is for our families, before the next round begins and that requested a face-to-face meeting our children,” he said by phone he expected to return to Geneva on with Assad in Damascus, but expected from the bridge next to the con- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (centre) walking by police officers as he arrives for a ceremony April 12 or 13. to hold talks with Foreign Minister struction site. marking the 171st anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish National Police at the Presidential “I need to verify the international Walid Muallem. The Israeli army referred ques- Complex in Ankara yesterday. and regional stakeholders’ position” tions to the defence ministry, which in order to have “concrete results in → See also page 3 did not immediately respond. Residents of Beit Jala fear the construction of the wall may lead to the expansion of the nearby Israeli settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo. : Argentina president in storm as global probes begin Khamis said they hoped to battle the wall’s construction, with emer- gency strategy meetings planned, but he conceded they had no fur- AFP from Panamanian law firm . Argentine federal prosecutor Federico Del- Putin ridiculed the international media probe ther appeals within the Israeli legal Investigators around the world, including in gado asked a judge to request information from behind the revelations, deriding it as US-orches- system. Australia, the Netherlands, El Salvador, Costa the national tax authority and anti-corruption trated and boasting that a year-long investigation After a nine-year legal battle, Rica announced probes following the leak, Spain office to determine if Macri “omitted, with mali- had failed to find any mention of his name. Israel’s high court ruled in July 2015 PANAMA CITY: Argentine President Mauricio opened a money-laundering investigation into cious intent, to complete his sworn declaration” The leaks have put a host of world leaders, the wall was legitimate, making Macri became the latest world leader caught in the law firm and Swiss police raided European of assets, a requirement for Argentine public celebrities and sports stars in the hot seat and left only small adjustments. the storm of the so-called Panama Papers yes- football body UEFA’s headquarters. officials. Macri did not list either company in his Panama fighting to salvage its reputation. They “Without this land all the Chris- terday as prosecutors opened an investigation Putin and Xi are only connected to the rev- financial declarations when he became Buenos have toppled Iceland’s prime minister. tians will leave this country,” Khamis into his offshore financial dealings. elations via their inner circles, but Macri is on Aires mayor in 2007 or President last December. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said. “It is impossible to build in Macri joins Russian President Vladimir Putin the board of directors of two offshore firms — Marci denies wrongdoing and says the firms also fended off accusations that his country has Beit Jala. We want to widen Beit and China’s Xi Jinping in the tempest unleashed by one registered in the Bahamas and the other were legitimate operations set up by his father, allowed the rich to hide their funds from global Jala,” he added. the leak of millions of offshore financial documents in Panama. a wealthy business magnate. tax authorities and the law. 02 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 HOME

Deputy PM meets Romanian envoys WISH 2016 to organise Accountable Care Forum

for a pilot study. plan for the remaining subjects; the The forum will outline the bene- development of a care pathway; the The forum will discuss fits of using an integrated accountable establishment of a multidisciplinary the possibilities care system to assist patients suffer- team to manage patient care; and indi- ing from chronic diseases, such as vidualised healthcare plans and project of implementing diabetes, and who require rigorous, monitoring. an accountable all-encompassing treatment plans. Six months after the study has com- healthcare plan, The study will involve a pool of menced, a formal stocktake will be people aged 18 and above diagnosed announced. This will be followed by including the with type-2 diabetes or pre-diabetes a discussion of potentially extending identification of a and those at high risk of developing the pilot study to additional popu- the disease. lations and areas, depending on the suitable cohort in WISH 2016 will be held on Novem- success of the research. Qatar for a pilot ber 29 and 30. The Brookings Institution and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Professor Mark McClellan of Qatar Diabetes Association will have Mahmoud yesterday met former Romanian ambassador Aurel Turbaceanu and incumbent Cristian study. Duke University, who will chair the representatives at the forum to pro- Tudor. Talks dealt with relations between both countries and ways of enhancing them in various fields. forum, said, “In Qatar, local leaders vide their analysis and advice on this have come together in an account- critical topic. able care model to prevent diabetes Participants will also debate the The Peninsula and its complications. objectives of the pilot, discussing “This year’s forum will look at the formation of a localised inte- QC seeks support how policymakers can promote grated strategy that will use available health innovation in their commu- resources to ensure an efficient long- for mobile bakery DOHA: The World Innovation Sum- nities through accountable care.” term healthcare plan for patients. mit for Health (WISH) will host an Conference participants will For example, at-risk individuals Accountable Care Forum during its receive detailed action plans and rec- will be screened and identified via project in Syria 2016 conference to discuss the possi- ommendations, including the process data analysis and will receive indi- bilities of implementing an accountable of identifying the cohort; the singling vidualised healthcare plans outlining healthcare plan, including the identi- out of individuals within the group a wellness strategy for a pre-diabe- The Peninsula fication of a suitable cohort in Qatar suffering from diabetes; a screening tes phase.

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has urged people in the country to support an Plan to introduce hybrid taxis in Qatar ongoing mobile bakery project for displaced Syrian people. QC’s mobile bakery in Syria has benefit 2,400 displaced families since March in the western coun- tryside of Aleppo, by distributing bread through specialised vehicles. A few days ago QC operated another mobile bakery for displaced Schoolchildren taking part in one of the activities. people in interior areas and aims to continue the project to help the needy in their daily lives. Four tonnes of flour is needed at the bakery daily Quranic Botanic Garden to make 38,400 loaves for distribu- tion to displaced families. Mohammed Al Ka’bi, Direc- begins ‘Fun and Learn’ tor, Relief Management, QC, said, “Through this bakery, we intend to alleviate the suffering of the Syri- initiative for school kids ans displaced and affected by the ongoing conflict. We are trying to distribute loaves for free to the largest The Peninsula the language while enabling students number of families to save them the to learn more about plant life and the trouble of moving to other places and environment.” endanger their lives. Our campaigns Al Wafa Model Independent School will continue to help our brothers DOHA: The Quranic Botanic Garden for Boys was selected as the first school and sisters in and outside Syria.” (QBG) has launched ‘Fun and Learn’, an to participate in the programme, with Through the project, QC was educational programme to teach pri- students taking part in interactive able to reduce the burden on other mary school students about plant life activities such as tree planting, which bakeries. The mobile bakery project and the environment through inter- aimed to increase their awareness Officials at the launch of new 25 taxis of Cars Taxi Qatar at Sharq Village and Spa yesterday. was initiated as part of the existing active activities. about tree conservation. initiative ‘Competitors’, launched The initiative aims at primary An educational booklet was cre- Pic: Baher / The Peninsula and adopted by QC to involve Qatari schoolchildren aged 6-11 and will be ated for the initiative to offer students youth in charitable work. It aims to delivered at 20 Unesco-associated detailed information about plant life Continued from page 1 make use of their fame and mar- schools working under the supervi- and the environment. in Qatar — bringing an initiative that 21-day intensive training to drivers keting abilities in highlighting QC sion of the Qatar National Commission QBG, a member of Qatar Foun- “Today we take a major step for- has been successfully implemented in and has equipped taxis with advanced projects for the affected Syrians. As a for Education, Culture and Science. dation, aims to encourage student ward in our efforts to expand our the UAE. There are also plans to intro- mobile data terminals (MDTs), inclu- result, more donations are expected. Fatima Saleh Al Khulaifi, Project engagement and strengthen agri- network,” duce taxis for families and women sive of meters, navigation systems, taxi The bakery and kitchen are operated Manager, QBG, said: “We look for- cultural awareness in Qatar, “As part of our commitment to and special-needs vehicles to cater tracking and dispatch systems and a by the Syrians because QC wants to ward to delivering the programme supporting QF’s dedication to sustain- environmental conservation and to people with disabilities,” Balasub- speed monitoring system allowing a create job opportunities for Syrian at primary schools. The curriculum able development and environmental sustainable development, Cars Taxi ramaniam added. maximum speed limit of 100kmph refugees in Turkey. will be delivered in , promoting responsibility. is looking to introduce hybrid taxis He said the company is giving within city limits. Full fine if not paid within 30 days Third Ecuadorian Food Festival opens Continued from page 1 After that, the fines should be paid in full. The Peninsula The law which came into force The rule, however, does not apply this January 1 has reduced the fines to overtaking from the right side and for certain violations that are on the parking on slots reserved for per- conciliation list by 50 percent if paid sons with special needs, in addition DOHA: The Diplomatic Club has announced the within 30 days. to overweight trucks. opening of the third edition of Ecuadorian Food Festival in Doha. It was opened with a welcome speech by Ecuado- rian Ambassador Kabalan Abi Saab, who expressed delight and said the Ecuadorian cuisine could be Cloudy weather celebrated and could bring global cultures to cel- ebrate Ecuador. He said: “The people around the world have many ways to express their culture and cuisine is one of the best ways to do it. “Our culture is marked by its diversity of language, dress, music, art, literature, poetry and gastronomy. “Biodiversity, fertile land, endemic species, a singular geographical configuration, a multi-cul- tural society and ancestral customs, are some of Officials and visitors at the third edition of the Ecuadorian Food Festival at the Diplomatic Club. the factors that come together to make Ecuador a land with unique culinary wealth. Pic: Baher / The Peninsula “The Ecuadorian table can become a multi-col- oured, multi-flavoured and multi-cultural mosaic; a time for the family and friends to roll up sleeves through constant trial and error of the chefs at the it all depends on what kind of culinary voyage you and enjoy live cooking demonstrations, buffet sta- club who have trained with Chef Dayana for the past wish to take.” tions and mocktails. few weeks. Collaboration between the embassy and For eight days, the club and the Ecuadorian There is also a chance to mingle with the staff the club is a fruitful story to enlighten.” Scattered clouds seen over Al Hilal yesterday. The Meteorology embassy is holding the festival to celebrate the of the club to know more about Ecuadorian cuisine. The culinary route of Ecuador could take you Department has forecast strong winds and cloudy weather country’s fabulously diverse range of food, irre- General Manager Aysha Al Marzouqi said: “We from shrimp soup, spinach salad with raspberry, today, with chances of scattered, thundery rains in some places. spective of whether you’re an Ecuadorian food lover organise the festival to introduce you to the beautiful gorgonzola cheese and walnuts, quinoa with vege- Temperature in Doha is expected to vary between 22 and 29 or a culinary adventurist. country of Ecuador through food, and its stand- tables, fish in coconut sauce and that’s just starters! degrees Celsius. Pic: Qassim / The Peninsula This year, the festival will take place on the out glory. The festival is open from April 6 to 9 and April beautiful and serene beach of the club. It will be “Achievement of this food triumph has come 13 to 16 from 7pm onwards. GULF / MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 03

Kerry urges Iran to help end wars in Yemen and Syria

AFP Tehran and the Gulf states back opposi- rebels in Yemen since March last year, in , and elsewhere in the region during tion sides in Syria and Yemen. Last year Iran a war which the United Nations says has his meeting with Gulf foreign ministers, a US struck a landmark deal with world powers killed around 6,300 people. official said. The GCC comprises Saudi Ara- scaling back its nuclear programme, which Human Rights Watch said yesterday that bia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, MANAMA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has led to the lifting of international sanctions bombs supplied by the United States were used Bahrain and Oman. yesterday urged Iran to help end the wars rag- on the Islamic republic. in coalition air strikes on a market in Yemen , Bahrain and the UAE have ing in Yemen and Syria, criticising the Islamic Sheikh Khalid, whose government that killed at least 97 civilians including chil- carried out air strikes against the Islamic republic’s “destabilising actions” in the Mid- accuses Iran of stoking persistent protests dren last month. State group in Syria as part of a US-led mili- dle East. among the kingdom’s Shiites demanding Asked to comment on the report, Kerry tary coalition. On the first visit by a US chief diplomat to an end to Sunni minority rule, echoed Ker- said he did not have “solid information” on “We’re satisfied, I think, with the overall Bahrain since 2010, Kerry also told authorities ry’s call. weapons used in Yemen. level of support that we’re getting from the in Manama accused of discriminating against Iran’s “interventions through proxies The United States has been exerting efforts Gulf states in the coalition,” the US official said. the country’s Shia majority that respect for in several parts of our region (are) con- to “try to secure a full ceasefire in Yemen”, On Bahrain, Kerry urged authorities to human rights was “essential”. tinuing unabated,” the Bahraini foreign he added. adopt an “inclusive political system”. Kerry was also met his other Gulf Arab coun- minister said. Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to “Here, as in all nations, we believe that terparts, two weeks before President Barack “We want to see them help” in trying to observe a UN-brokered ceasefire from mid- respect for human rights and an inclusive polit- Obama is scheduled to attend a summit of the “reach a political solution” in war-ravaged night Sunday which will be followed by peace ical system are essential,” Kerry said. six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh countries but “yes, we do want to see Iran negotiations in Kuwait on April 18. He said he and Sheikh Khalid “had the when Washington’s Middle East policy is likely change its foreign policy,” he said, speaking The Gulf Arab states have also been staunch chance to discuss the ongoing effort to address to come under the microscope. alongside Kerry. backers of Syrian rebel groups fighting to over- and to reduce sectarian divisions here in Bah- Speaking during a joint news conference US Secretary of State John Kerry Tehran argues that it is Saudi Arabia and throw President Bashar Al Assad’s regime since rain and elsewhere”. with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Kha- speaking at the GCC Ministerial meetings its Gulf allies that are sowing instability in the 2011. “I appreciate the seriousness with which lid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Kerry condemned iin Manama, yesterday region with their air strikes in Yemen and sup- Iran, with Russia, has been among the he considers this issue,” Kerry said. “the destabilising actions of Iran, which the port to the opposition in Syria. regime’s main supporters in the conflict that “We all welcome steps by sides to cre- United States takes very seriously”. All the Gulf Arab states, apart from has killed more than 270,000 people and pushed ate conditions to provide for greater political Kerry said Tehran should “help us end the not intensify, and help us to be able to change Oman, are taking part in a Saudi-led coa- nearly five million into exile. involvement for the citizens of this great coun- war in Yemen... help us end the war in Syria, the dynamics of this region”. lition that has been battling Iran-backed Kerry will also discuss the situation in Iraq, try,” he added.

Saudi King IS accused of kidnapping starts 300 Syrian factory workers visit AFP

at least 250 workers at the plant had and regional stakeholders’ position” been missing since Monday. The town in order to have “concrete results in IS attacked the is divided between IS control in the the next round of talks”. CAIRO: The Custodian of the Two town of Dmeir, east east and rebel control in the west, but The key stumbling block in the Holy Mosques King Salman bin several key positions around it, includ- peace talks in Geneva is the fate of Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia yesterday of Damascus, after ing a military airport and a power President Bashar Al Assad. started a five-day visit to Cairo in a suffering a series of plant, are still in government hands. Syria’s opposition has clung to show of support for Egyptian Pres- The fresh fighting came ahead of its years-long demand that he leave ident Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, with the territorial losses at a new round of peace talks due next power immediately, but the govern- leaders due to sign a raft of invest- the hands of regime week in Geneva, following a ceasefire ment has refused. ment deals. between the regime and non-jihadist The Syrian Observatory for Saudi Arabia has been the key troops in recent rebels that has allowed Syrian forces Human Rights, a Britain-based mon- backer of Sisi since the then-army weeks, including in to focus on fighting IS. itor, said the fighting in and around chief in 2013 overthrew his Islam- the ancient city of The talks are now due to begin on Dmeir was heavy but the jihadists ist predecessor Mohamed Mursi, April 13, the same day as the regime had not managed to gain significant whose Muslim Brotherhood move- Palmyra. is holding legislative elections, UN ground. ment was viewed with suspicion by Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said, “The most violent clashes are near Riyadh. It has pumped billions of delaying them by two days. the airport and the power plant, but IS dollars in aid and investment into “I will be very much insisting and has not entered either yet,” Observa- Egypt’s battered economy, and the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi welcoming the Custodian of AFP pushing for... a serious discussion on tory director Rami Abdel Rahman said. two heads of state are expected to political transition” at the upcoming He said 20 members of regime ink more investment agreements the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia round, de Mistura told reporters in forces and 35 IS fighters had been today amounting to about $1.7bn. upon his arrival at Cairo’s international airport, yesterday. Geneva. He said that before then he killed in the clashes. A Dmeir resident Live footage on state television DAMASCUS: The Islamic State (IS) would complete a diplomatic tour, said she could hear heavy shelling showed Sisi greeting the 80-year- Salman is expected to address the honourable positions in support of group was accused yesterday of kid- including stops in Damascus and around the city and that residents old Salman at Cairo airport, before Egyptian parliament on Sunday, state Egypt and its people will never be napping more than 300 employees of Tehran, to “verify the international were not daring to leave their homes. heading off in a convoy to the Pres- media reported. Egyptian media gave forgotten,” the presidency said in a a cement factory in Syria, in the lat- idential Palace. The two met after full coverage of the visit, with state statement before Salman’s arrival. est mass abduction by the militants. Salman’s arrival and were due to television welcoming Salman to his The visit follows months of reports IS attacked the town of Dmeir, east meet again today, when they will “second country” and playing cele- in both Saudi and Egyptian news- of Damascus, after suffering a series Iraqi forces enter centre sign 14 agreements that include a bratory music as his plane touched papers of strained ties over Cairo’s of territorial losses at the hands of $1.5bn deal to invest in the Sinai down in Cairo. unwillingness to participate fully in regime troops in recent weeks, includ- of IS-held western town Peninsula, the presidency and an “This is the first official visit by the Saudi-led war against Iran-backed ing in the ancient city of Palmyra. Egyptian government official said. King Salman, whose valuable and rebels in Yemen. In another setback for the mili- AP tants, anti-government rebels were reported to have seized their main supply route to Turkey. Syria’s official news agency Sana BAGHDAD: Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces say they have entered 22 South Sudanese sentenced to death said the 300 people seized by IS were the centre of a strategically important western Islamic State-held town. employees of Al Badia cement factory. Government forces reached the centre of Hit on Wednesday. The oper- “The company has informed the ation to retake the small Euphrates river town — initially launched last AFP by judge Abidin Dahi sentenced 22 men taken to camps to be demobilised and industry ministry that it hasn’t been month — was stalled by politics, heavy IS resistance and tens of thou- to death, all of whom are citizens of pardoned by the government, which able to make contact with the kid- sands of trapped civilians. South Sudan,” the head of the defence is where the 25 were discovered by napped individuals,” Sana said. Iraqi troops first entered Hit on Monday under cover of heavy air- team Mahjoub Abdullah said. inspectors and arrested last February The extremist group, which con- strikes. Since the operation was relaunched last week the US- led coalition KHARTOUM: A Sudanese court sen- All 25 had been members of a fac- because of their nationality. trols swathes of Syria and Iraq, has launched more than 18 strikes on the town. tenced 22 South Sudanese to death and tion of the rebel Justice and Equality The 22 sentenced to be hanged a history of mass abductions and Hit sits along an IS supply line that links territory controlled by the jailed three for life on terrorism charges Movement led by Bakhit Abdelkarim were convicted of a range of offences killings. extremist group in Iraq and in Syria. Through the line, IS ferries fighters for fighting with rebels in the western Dabajo, who signed a peace deal with including waging war against the state, Residents of Dmeir, around 50km and supplies from Syria into Iraq. Darfur region, their lawyer said. the Sudanese government in April 2013. undermining the constitutional order from Damascus, earlier reported that “The Khartoum North court headed His troops were disarmed and and on terrorism charges.

1,000 Jewish settlers storm West Bank shrine Lebanon detains Australian mother and TV crew

RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed a AFP the ISF later tweeted. It also said in Lebanon’s Al Jadeed television local shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, a separate tweet that “five Austral- showed the children walking with triggering clashes with Palestinian youths. ians among them the mother, two an older figure, reportedly their “At least 1,150 Israeli settlers forced their way into British and two Lebanese citizens, grandmother. the Joseph’s Tomb shrine under the protection of the : Lebanese authorities were arrested in the kidnapping”. Several figures jump out of a Israeli army and performed Talmudic rituals,” Ahmed yesterday detained an Austral- The mother of the children, nearby car and carry the children Shamekh, a senior official at the nearby Balata refu- ian woman for allegedly abducting identified by Australian media into the vehicle, which then speeds gee camp, told Anadolu Agency. Shamekh said scores her two children and an Austral- as Sally Faulkner, has said their off. Channel Nine said that the of Palestinian youths gathered to protest the storming, ian television crew as well as two Lebanese father, from whom she crew had been unreachable for 15 but Israeli soldiers responded with rubber bullets and Britons accused of involvement. is divorced, took them for a holi- hours but were later tracked down tear gas, leaving at least three protesters injured. The crew were filming an oper- day and then allegedly refused to to a Beirut police station and put Meanwhile, Israeli forces early yesterday detained ation by a child recovery agency return them to Australia. in contact with Australian con- four Palestinians from a number of West Bank districts, involving two young children from “The woman made an sular officials. said security sources and Palestine Prisoner’s Society. Australia who were in Beirut with agreement with the 60 Minutes “It is a relief to know that Aus- Israeli police detained Dalal Al Hashlamun, 47, after their Lebanese father. programme from Channel Nine to tralian officials are about to speak breaking into and ransacking her family house at Aqa- The two children disappeared come help her recover her children to them,” a network spokesman bat Al Khalidiya quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City. on Wednesday while waiting for from Lebanon,” a security source told the channel’s evening news Al Hashlamun’s son, Tareq, told Wafa news agency their school bus. Lebanon’s Internal The grandmother of the kidnapped Elamine family children said. The source said the children bulletin. “The crew knew that this that police also detained ‘Ayda Al Saydawi after storming Security Forces said in a statement carries a picture of one of her grandchildren in the family home had been taken while with their was a risk, going to do this story.” and searching her family house in Jerusalem’s Old City. that they had detained the Aus- in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. grandmother and there was a plan Australian media named two of Al-Hashlamun and al-Saydawi had been barred tralian mother who was with her for them to be removed from Leb- those held as reporter Tara Brown entry into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for several months. two children in Beirut. anon by boat. and producer Steven Rice. To the south of Jerusalem, in Hebron district, forces “The woman and her two a source from Lebanon’s interior programme earlier yesterday for Australian media said the two Foreign Minister Julie Bishop detained a Palestinian during a predawn raid into Surif children are in ISF custody after ministry said. The ISF had detained questioning. The two children, children are a six-year-old girl said in a statement that the pair town, west of Hebron city. being located in a home in Beirut the four-member television crew meanwhile, were “handed to their and a four-year-old boy. A grainy have been “offered all appropri- The detainee was identified as Talab Abu-Fara, 35. 24 hours after their kidnapping,” from Channel Nine’s “60 Minutes” father, based to a judicial order,” video of the incident released by ate consular assistance”. 04 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 ISLAM

It is patience that acts as a light for believers, that keeps them safe The demand of patience from wandering, and saves them from

By Aslam Abdullah the muddy mire of disappointment, desperation and frustration. Patience is n the intricate path of life, when such a basic quality that difficulties and hardships con- Muslims require it to front a person, it is patience that shape their lives in this acts as a light for Muslims, that Ikeeps them safe from wandering, and world. saves them from the muddy mire of disappointment, desperation, and frus- tration. Patience is such a basic quality that Muslims require it to shape their brought against them by God’s tribu- life in this world. nal in which peoples’ own body may Only when armed with patience give evidence against them. should they attend to work. They should About such people the Quran has make it a torchlight for guiding their this to say: “And on the day We gather way, else they will suffer defeat in them together, We shall say to those the field of life. They should prepare who ascribed partners (to Allah), ‘Where themselves to tolerate hardships and are (now) those partners of your make difficulties, and should not complain believe?’Then they will have no conten- unduly. They should not sit idly. They tion except that they will say “By Allah, should not run away from responsibil- our Lord, we never were idolaters.” See ities, whatever they may be. No doubts how they lie against themselves, and and misgivings, no hardship or trouble (how) the thing which they devised has should prompt their intellect to indulge failed them.” (Quran 6:22-24) in violence. They should have plenty How can the reckoning of such of self-confidence. They should not be criminals be taken in the light of divine frightened by the dark clouds appearing knowledge? Their justifiable retribu- on the horizon of life; nay, they should tion will be proper only when all their be fully sure that these clouds of adver- misdeeds are placed before them. Their sities and hardships will disappear, efforts and striving to create corruption and the clear and bright atmosphere and mischief among others and all their of success and glory will appear again. misdeeds will be reviewed before them. Therefore, the demand of wisdom and On these two bases the foundation of farsightedness is that its coming should patience has been set. And for this rea- be awaited with patience, peace, and son religion demands it, but those who conviction. shut their eyes from reality by force Almighty God stresses the point or of rewards and recompense, but properly by the example of the sol- fright, terror, and frustration. Exami- person’s real worth and sincerity are of their nature are dumfounded when sufficiently that people cannot escape He has made it a house of trials. The diers fighting in the battlefield. In the nation comes in the name of plaguing known. Exactly, similar is the case of they have to face hardships, and their tests and trials, so that they may remain time that people spend in this world is battlefield some groups are made to defects that prompt people to be jeal- faith. To find out the truth and sincerity hands and feet become inactive when alert and ready at the time when these really a time for unending experience. fight till they have to lose their val- ous and to nourish rancour against their about faith, it is necessary that Muslims they have to fight difficulties. Their hardships and difficulties descend on They come out of one trial in order to uable lives, so that the lives of other sincere friend. Examination is the name be tried. They should be put in the cru- rashness dislike waiting and patience, them. They should not be frightened undergo another which is harder; that groups may be saved. The security of of the tyranny in which sometimes a cible of fire to see whether they come and they are unable to tolerate them. by these tribulations, and need not be is, people are tested once by one thing others is dependent on the remaining nation occupies the place of God and out glowing like gold or whether they Therefore, when anything untoward disappointed and disheartened: and again by its opposite, as iron is first groups being made to fight in new bat- people offer their blood as sacrifice for will be burnt away with impurities. happens, or they have to suffer some “And verily We shall try you till We heated in the fire and then plunged into tles. This strategy is followed for the retrieving their usurped rights. The his- “Do people imagine that they will kind of failure, or when they meet with know those of you who strive hard water. Similarly, people are tested by wider interest of the society and for tory of life on this earth from the first be left (at ease), because they say We an accident, the earth with all its great (in the cause of Allah) and the stead- favourable as well as opposing means. greater advantages, by the great lead- day till today is very sorrowful. The right believe and will not be tested with afflic- vastness becomes narrow for them, fast, and till We test your record.” When Allah blessed Prophet ership of the army. thing is that people should make their tion? Verily, We tested those who were and the conditions become exasper- (Quran 47: 31) Sulaiman ( peace and blessings of God In this fighting the individual life own way in this life, though they can be before you. Thus, Allah knows those ating. They want to come out of these An Arab poet has echoed the same be upon him) with a grand and mag- of one person has no importance, sure that the way to their destination is who are sincere and knows those who conditions in the twinkling of an eye, idea in these words: “We had antici- nificent empire, he knew about these because the problem is much wider. full of thorns and murk. feign.” (Quran 29:2-3) but it is obvious that in this effort they pated the hardships of the night before natural laws of the world. He said : So it is with luck or fate. People may be The second reality is concerned Undoubtedly, Allah’s knowledge will not be successful, for it is against their coming. So when they descended, “This is of the bounty of my Lord, that put to different kinds of trials, till they with the nature and temperament of covers all manifest and concealed mat- the temperament of the world and reli- there was no addition to our knowledge.” He may try me whether I give thanks or fall down defeated, as there is no other faith. Faith is the name of the relation- ters, and from this examination there gion. It is proper for a Muslim to learn Undoubtedly, if people face accidents am ungrateful. Whoever gives thanks, way for them, except that they should ship between human beings and their will be no addition to His knowledge, to be patient, to wait, and to wait long. and debacles with clear sight and full he only gives thanks for (the good of) his greet the hardship that has arrived Lord. As in the relationship of people, because He knows all the conditions “Man is made of haste. I shall show preparation, they will stabilise their con- own soul; and whoever is ungrateful (is with patience and submission. Since true friendship and sincerity can only from the beginning till the end. Divine you my signs, but ask Me not to has- ditions and consolidate their positions. ungrateful if only to his own soul’s hurt). this life is a testing ground, we should be judged when it is confronted with knowledge cannot be made a basis ten.” (Quran 21:37) Patience relies on two important For surely, my Lord is absolute in inde- strive hard for success in it. unfavourable and bitter conditions, for human beings’ reckoning. Their (Excerpted from the book “Morals realities. The first reality is concerned pendence, bountiful.” (Quran 16:40) What is the trial or examination of when they have to deal with the hard- reckoning will be on the basis of their and Manners: An Islamic Perspec- with the nature of this worldly life. Its The causes of trial through sadness life ? It consists of the hardships and ships brought about by the vagaries of own personal deeds. If some criminals tive” by Aslam Abdullah) details are: Allah has not made this and hardship are vague and unfixed. difficulties that confront people, and time, and when they are surrounded deny their crimes, then on the day of world a house of peace and satisfaction However, we can understand them which open before them the paths of by various problems. At such a time a judgment sufficient proof can only be www.islamicity.org Are we grateful to God? Sayings of the Prophet

“There is a sign for them in the lifeless earth: fulfil the requirements of food, medicine and cloth- We give it life and We produce grain from it for No sensible person can ing and innumerable other needs of the countless Narrated By Abu Huraira : While the Prophet (peace be them to eat; We have put gardens of date palms and kinds of animals and man, who were to be brought upon him) was saying something in a gathering, a Bedouin grapes in the earth, and We have made springs of imagine that these universal, into being after the vegetation on the earth. came and asked him, “When would the Hour (Doomsday) water gush out of it so that they could eat its fruit. all-embracing relationships Anyone who ponders over this wonderful take place?” Allah’s Apostle continued his talk, so some It was not their own hands that made all this. How could be a mere accident. arrangement, if he is not stubborn and preju- people said that Allah’s Apostle had heard the question, but can they not give thanks? ” (Quran 36:33-36) diced, will himself testify that all this could not did not like what that Bedouin had asked. Some of them said This same subtle arrangement have come about by itself. There is certainly a wise that Alllah’s Apostle had not heard it. When the Prophet plan underlying it, according to which harmonies finished his speech, he said, “Where is the questioner, who By Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi points to the fact that this and relationships of the soil, water, air and season enquired about the Hour (Doomsday)?” The Bedouin said, “I cannot be the work of many with respect to the vegetation, and harmonies and am here, O Allah’s Apostle.” Then the Prophet (PBUH) said, relationships of the vegetation with respect to the gods. This is, and can only “When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday).” needs and requirements of animals and human The Bedouin said, “How will that be lost?” The Prophet said, n these brief sentences the vegetable and plant be, the work of One God, beings have been determined, keeping in view the life of the earth has been presented as an argu- Who is the Creator and Lord finest detail. “When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit ment. Man is consuming the products of the No sensible person can imagine that these uni- persons, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday.)” earth day and night and regards this as very of the earth, water, air, sun, versal, all-embracing relationships could be a mere Iordinary. But if he considers it seriously, he will see accident. This same subtle arrangement points to (Bukhari) vegetation, animals and that the growth of rich crops and lush green gar- the fact that this cannot be the work of many gods. dens from the dry earth and the flowing in it of the mankind. This is, and can only be, the work of One God, Who springs and rivers is not a simple thing, which might is the Creator and Lord of the earth, water, air, sun, The Authority Of Al Numan bin Basheer: I heared the be happening of itself, but there is a great wisdom vegetation, animals and mankind. If each of these messenger of Allah (PBUH) saying: “That which is lawful is and power and providence which is working behind had a separate god, it cannot be imagined that such plain and that which is unlawful is plain and between the two it. Consider the reality of the earth. The substances the sky, becomes a means of the rainfall, and pos- a comprehensive and universal plan with such deep of them are doubtful matters about which not many people of which it is composed do not possess any power sesses gases which are necessary for the life and and wise relationship and harmony could be pro- know. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in of their own for growth. All these substances indi- growth of the vegetation. duced, and should have continued to work with regard to his religion and his honour, but he who falls into doubtful vidually as well as after every sort of combination, Fourthly, a relationship was established between such regularity for millions upon millions of years. matters falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who remain inorganic, and thus do not possess any sign the sun and the earth so as to provide proper tem- After giving these arguments for Tawhid (confirm- pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every of life. The question is: How did it become possi- perature and suitable seasons for the vegetation. ing the Oneness of God the creator of the universe), king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah’s sanctuary is His prohibitions. ble for plant life to emerge from the lifeless earth? With the provision of these main factors (which Allah says: “Do they not then give thanks?” That is: Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all If one looks into it one will see that there are some in themselves are combinations of countless other “Are these people so thankless and ungrateful that the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. important factors without whose provision before- factors), the coming to life of the vegetation becomes they do not render thanks to that God Who has pro- Truly it is the heart.” hand life here could not have come into existence. possible. After arranging the suitable conditions the vided all this for their survival, but thank others for First, in particular regions of the earth, on its seed of each species of the vegetation was so con- the blessings and favours done by Him? Are they so outer surface, a layer was arranged of many such stituted that as soon as it received favourable soil, wretched that instead of bowing before Him they (Bukhari & Muslim) substances, which could serve as food for vegeta- water, air and season, vegetable life should begin bow before the false gods, who have not created tion. This layer was kept soft so that the roots of the stirring within it. Besides, inside the same seed a even a blade of grass for them. vegetation could spread in it and suck food. system was so arranged that from the seed of every Narrated By Imran ibn Husain : The Prophet (PBUH) said: If Secondly, a system of irrigation was arranged species a plant precisely of the same species should anyone swears a false oath in confinement, he should make on the earth in different ways so that the food ele- grow with all the characteristics of its own species Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi (September 25, his seat in Hell on account of his act. ments could get dissolved in water and absorbed and heredity. Then, in addition to this, another won- 1903 – September 22, 1979), was a Pakistani by the roots. derful thing was done. Vegetation was not created journalist, revivalist leader, political philos- (Abudawud) Thirdly, the atmosphere was arranged around in twenty, or fifty, or a hundred kinds but in count- opher, a major 20th century Islamic thinker the earth which protects it against the calamities of less species, and they were so made that they should and the founder of Jamaate-Islami. ASIA / PHILIPPINES FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 05

9100 families My teacher, my soldier Two students’ back home in throats cut for real in play WELLINGTON: Two pupils at an exclusive New Maguindanao Zealand school were hospitalised with neck wounds when a produc- soldiers and several rebels dead. tion of “Sweeney Todd: In a text message, Petinglay said The Demon Barber of Security forces that BIFF gunmen opened fire on gov- Fleet Street” became all and local officials ernment forces gathered Wednesday too real, officials said at the village of Tee -- situated in yesterday. had escorted the Maguindanao, a bastion of the MILF The 16-year-old boys displaced families -- to raise the Philippine flag. were taking part in the Petinglay added that security musical about a murder- to their villages forces and local officials had escorted ous barber who slits his after the flag was the displaced families to their villages victims’ throats when they after the flag was hoisted at a former American soldiers interact with students during “My teacher, my soldier” programme wherein Filipino were hurt on Wednesday hoisted at a former stronghold of BIFF captured by troops and American soldiers teach and distribute books to students as part of 2016 Balikatan exercise held night, Saint Kentigern’s stronghold of BIFF during the month-long hostilities. at (WESCOM) Western Command School in Palawan, yesterday. College said. The state-run Philippines News College head Steve captured by troops Agency (PNA) reported Wednesday Cole said the boys necks during the month- that as the government caravan were cut when a prop long hostilities. arrived in the village, rebels from malfunctioned. across a river opened fire, sparking a 30-minute firefight. Only after the Army shelled them Bangladesh finds Egypt-linked Missing jet of Anatolia with artillery did the BIFF forces -- which have claimed allegiance to Japan Air Daesh -- withdraw. Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan malware after bank heist Force found PHILIPPINES: An army official has told local residents that the govern- confirmed the return of over 9,000 ment will protect them and the flood TOKYO: Search and res- Muslim families to villages in five project aimed at saving farming vil- cue teams believe they’ve towns where government troops lages from floods during the rainy AFP seven hours at the time of the theft. his two deputies lost their jobs fol- found the wreckage of fought an almost month-long bat- season. “We sought help from our Egyp- lowing the theft which has hugely an Air Self-Defence Force tle against Daesh-aligned rebels in “Once it is completed, our soldiers tian counterparts to find out the real embarrassed the government and jet that went missing in the strife-torn southern Philippines will leave the area,” Pangilinan said. person who was using that IP address raised alarm over the security of the southwestern Japan. province of Maguindanao. He said government soldiers had DHAKA: Bangladesh police probing during that period,” Alam said. country’s foreign exchange reserves Japan’s Defence Min- Army spokesperson Capt. Jo-ann offered their lives and limbs in pro- an audacious $81m heist from a central Alam gave no further details, but an of over $27bn. istry said that debris was Petinglay said yesterday that around tecting the community from bandits, bank account have found suspicious investigator said on condition of ano- The unidentified hackers man- spotted in a mountain val- 9,104 families had returned to vil- even suffering death and injuries. malware in the bank’s computer sys- nymity that they were seeking clarity aged to shift $81m from the account ley. Six people were found lages where firefights raged for weeks “We are working with the pro- tems that was sending information on whether the computer in Egypt was to a nondescript bank in Manila and nearby showing no vital after Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom vincial government to make this to Egypt, an officer said yesterday. being hacked from a third country. then on to Philippine casinos before signs, according to Japan’s Fighters (BIFF) tried to stop a private community free from lawlessness, Hackers stole the money from the Bangladesh Bank spokesman Sub- the trail went cold. (NHK WORLD) radio. construction company February 5 we will help rebuild schools because Bangladesh Bank’s account with the hankar Saha said he was not aware of They attempted to steal a further The plane with six from working on a P58 million flood your children will benefit from it and Federal Reserve Bank of New York the presence of any Egyptian-linked $850m by bombarding the New York crewmembers disap- control project. they need it,” he said. on February 5 and managed to trans- malware. bank with dozens of transfer requests, peared from radar shortly BIFF is a breakaway group of the The BIFF broke away from MILF fer it electronically to accounts in the The finding has complicated the but the bank’s security systems and after it took off from a Philippines’ one-time largest rebel in 2011 due to differences with the Philippines. probe into the heist. typing errors in some requests pre- base in Kagoshima Pre- group -- the Moro Islamic Liberation MILF leadership in handling the peace Investigator Shah Alam said It has sent shockwaves through vented the full theft. fecture on Wednesday. Front (MILF) -- which is currently negotiations with the government, the malware just discovered in the the banking world and seen Bang- The FBI and Interpol are assisting involved in a longstanding peace proc- which are aimed at bringing an end Bangladesh Bank’s main servers had ladesh investigators seek help from with the Bangladesh investigation, and ess with the Philippines government. to a separatist conflict that has killed allowed information to be sent to an at least three countries. some Bangladesh officers are now in Activist killed in The month-long fighting left two around 150,000 people. email address in Egypt for more than The central bank governor and the Philippines as part of the probe. Bangladesh DHAKA: A Bangladeshi law student who posted against Islamism on his Ex- Thai PM Thaksin warns over democracy and economy Facebook page has been murdered, police said yesterday, the latest in a five or more people have been banned seized thousands of red plastic bowls series of killings of secular by the military, which seized power in he and Yingluck sent supporters as a activists and bloggers in a coup in May 2014. New Year gift. the country. No troops were present at the gath- Thailand has been politically Nazimuddin Samad, BANGKOK: Politicians must love their ering. Southeast Asia’s second-biggest fractured for more than a decade, a 26-year-old atheist people or risk the extinction of democ- economy is slowly recovering from split roughly along north-south lines who had taken part in racy, Thailand’s fugitive former Prime the events of 2014, when months of between supporters of Thaksin and protests against Islam- Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told a street protests and the coup brought Yingluck and the military-backed ist leaders, was attacked gathering of supporters yesterday, the economy to a standstill. royalist elite. The generals and their late on Wednesday near warning that Thais face tough times “Right now our people are in a dif- establishment allies largely despise his university in Dhaka by because of a weak economy. ficult position because the economy is Thaksin and accuse him of vote-buying unknown assailants carry- In recent months, Thaksin, who weak,” Thaksin added in his speech. and harbouring republican sympa- ing machetes. was ousted by the army in 2006, has Junta spokesman Colonel Winthai thies, among other accusations, all of Imran Sarker, who been increasingly vocal in his criti- Suvaree declined to comment on Thak- which he denies. leads Bangladesh’s larg- cism of the ruling military government. sin’s speech, saying he had not yet heard, The Songkran holiday, Thailand’s est online secular activist “Those in politics must love people. or read, the remarks. traditional New Year, is typically a time group, said Samad had If they don’t love people, democracy Thursday’s gathering was seen by when many people leave the city to joined nationwide pro- will die,” Thaksin said in a Skype tel- critics as a continuation of a publicity spend time with family. tests in 2013 against top ephone address to the gathering to drive by Thaksin and his sister Yingluck, In previous years the festival has Islamist leaders accused mark the Thai New Year that starts which has included the distribution of been marred by often violent political of committing war crimes. next week. He did not elaborate on his books, a cooking display and inter- protests, including anti-government At least four athe- remarks, however. views with foreign media. protests in April and May 2010 that ist bloggers and a secular Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra takes part in a The meeting of more than 100 Last week Thaksin said the gov- ended with a military crackdown in publisher were hacked to Songkran festival celebration with opposition Puea Thai party former politicians was a rare event in ernment should focus on dealing with which 91 people were killed, mostly death last year. members at the party headquarters in Bangkok, yesterday. a country where political gatherings of the country’s problems after soldiers Thaksin supporters.

Suu Kyi to press for political prisoners’ release Tribute to victims

AFP the former junta, stirring international unlawful assembly and rioting over outcry and support for Suu Kyi’s pro- education reform protests in March democracy movement. 2015 that were violently broken up by Suu Kyi herself spent some 15 years baton-wielding police in the central YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu under house arrest, while many cur- town of Letpadan. Kyi yesterday vowed to press for the rent National League for Democracy Another 30 or so students are on release of political prisoners and student lawmakers served time in the coun- bail but facing similar charges. activists, hinting that a mass amnesty try’s notorious prisons. Suu Kyi is barred from the pres- may be imminent as her government While the quasi-civilian govern- idency by the junta-era constitution seeks to stamp its mark on power in ment that replaced the junta in 2011 and has anointed her school friend the former junta-run nation. freed hundreds of political detainees, and close aide Htin Kyaw to act as her Suu Kyi’s administration, stacked it also oversaw the detention of scores effective proxy. full of democracy activists who spent more, particularly those involved in That means she does not have the years incarcerated by the military, took land and education protests. direct power to order an amnesty. power last week ending nearly half a According to the Assistance Associa- But the role of state counsellor, which century of repressive army domination. tion for Political Prisoners, 90 political she was officially given to her by Pres- In her first statement since assum- prisoners were in jail and more than ident Htin Kyaw on Wednesday, allows ing a new broadly-defined role as state 400 activists were facing trial as of Feb- her to liaise between the executive and counsellor, Suu Kyi said: “I am going to ruary. The vast majority were arrested legislative branches. try... for the immediate release of polit- before last November’s landmark elec- The position was specially crafted ical prisoners, political activists and tions, which Suu Kyi’s NLD won in a for the leader by MPs from her party Kyrgyz servicemen take part in a commemoration at the ‘Ata-Beyit’ memorial complex for the students facing trial related to politics”. landslide. and is expected to help Suu Kyi live up The routine jailing of dissidents Among them are some 40 stu- to a pre-election vow to rule “above” victims of the 2010 violent revolt, some 20km outside of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, yesterday. was one of the most egregious acts of dents facing a mix of charges including Myanmar’s president. 06 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 ASIA / AFRICA China must shift its rig in disputed sea: Vietnam

centre of a fierce diplomatic stand- zone, triggering their worst row in off between the countries in 2014, decades and an outcry among Viet- The $1bn rig had had moved into an area of the Gulf namese nationalists. moved into an area of Tonkin in the South China Sea about Many experts call the move a mis- which Vietnam said the two coun- calculation by Beijing that played into of the Gulf of Tonkin tries were still “executing delineation the hands of the United States. Since in the South China discussions”. the row, Vietnam has become closer China calls the rig Haiyang Shi- to Washington than ever before. Sea about which you 981. Vietnam refers to it as Hai Vietnam closely tracks the move- Vietnam said the two Duong 981. ment of the oil rig which has operated countries were still “Vietnam resolutely opposes as far away as the Bay of Bengal and and demands China cancel its plan has been close to disputed waters sev- executing delineation to drill and immediately remove the eral times since 2014. discussions. Hai Duong 981 oil rig out of this area,” It was the second occasion this year Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai that Vietnam has protested against Nguyen Xuan Phuc takes the oath of office after being elected new Prime Minister by Vietnam’s Parliament, Binh said in a statement on the gov- the rig’s activity, both times coincid- ernment’s news website. ing with leadership changes in Hanoi. in Hanoi, Vietnam, yesterday. Reuters China claims most of the resource- Vietnam swore in a new prime rich South China Sea amid rival claims minister on Thursday and a new pres- by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, ident last week. Its previous complaint Taiwan and Vietnam. about the rig was in January, two-days HANOI: Vietnam demanded China China, Binh said, should take “no before the start of its Communist Par- Xuan sworn in as Vietnam PM to move a controversial oil rig yes- further unilateral actions that further ty’s five-yearly congress. terday and abandon plans to start complicate the situation, and make Binh also criticised China’s deci- drilling in waters where jurisdiction practical contributions to peace and sion to start operating a lighthouse AFP consensus-based rule by the party’s “How can he resolve public debt, is unclear, the latest sign of festering stability”. on one of its artificial islands in the conservative wing. budget deficits and corruption? I don’t unease among the two communist Two years ago, China parked the Spratly archipelago, which he said “Dung was an individualist work- rely or expect much from him,” he said. neighbours. rig for 10 weeks in waters Vietnam violated Vietnam’s sovereignty and ing within a conservative system of Army General Nguyen Trong Vinh The $1bn rig, which was at the considers its exclusive economic was “illegal and worthless”. HANOI:Vietnam’s parliament collective leadership. His demise is evi- also told AFP the new leader was “noth- approved Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the dence that Vietnam is not yet ready for a ing special” and that he did not expect communist country’s new prime min- modern, world savvy, prime minister,” much change under his watch. ister yesterday, handing him a five-year Vietnam expert Carl Thayer told AFP. In the past, the leadership hando- term and a range of tough challenges Authoritarian Vietnam is run by ver was decided at the party congress from domestic economic reforms to the Communist Party and officially in January but took up to six months to a simmering maritime dispute with led by a triumvirate of the party sec- be confirmed by the National Assembly. China. retary general, president, and prime Analysts say the process has moved Phuc, a former deputy prime minis- minister, with key decisions being more quickly this year, partly because ter, was the only candidate nominated made by the 19-member politburo. several top leaders are retiring from for the position by party officials ear- Top communist leader Nguyen politics, and also because of an upcom- lier this year and won 90.26 percent Phu Trong was reelected in January ing visit by US President of the votes in the rubber stamp par- as party secretary general in a vic- in May. “The new leadership is anx- liament, according to state-run VTV. tory for the party’s old guard. ious to dismantle (former PM) Dung’s “I will do my best to serve the coun- On Saturday, the National Assem- network and gain prestige in the eyes try and people,” said the 61-year-old, bly approved a top police general, Tran of ordinary Vietnamese by meeting whose election marks the completion Dai Quang, as president -- a key if and greeting world leaders,” Thayer of a five-yearly reshuffle of the Com- largely ceremonial role. told AFP, adding that rising tensions munist Party’s top brass. New Prime Minister Phuc is “a with China has added to the urgency. Phuc takes over from former prime competent technocrat” and will stick Well-known dissident Nguyen minister Nguyen Tan Dung, a char- to the party line, Thayer said. “Phuc Thanh Giang, who spent time in jail ismatic leader who championed a does not have the charisma of Dung. for his criticism of the party in the reformist pro-business agenda and He will be a team player,” he added. 1990s, called Phuc’s appointment a talked tough to Beijing over a terri- Even senior party members greeted “step backwards” from Dung. torial dispute in the contested South Phuc’s election Thursday with a luke- “Phuc is not comparable in terms China Sea. warm reaction. Communist Party of competence, experience, interna- Dung lost out in internal party veteran Tran Tuan Hung, 76, expressed tional image. He has no international elections in January, which analysts concern over the financial troubles the reputation and will need a lot of time Chinese oil rig Haiyang Shi You-981 is seen in the South China Sea off the shore of Vietnam. called a move back towards more new premier has inherited. to develop one,” he said. Inquiry finds billions in murky Zuma’s ex-wife touted as possible payments by Malaysian fund South African president Fiji spared as AFP The report comes as the Pan- ama Papers, a vast trove of leaked Tropical Cyclone documents related to a Panama law AFP (AU) Commission fuelled rumours that firm allegedly helping the rich hide she may position herself for a shot at Zena weakens KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian par- assets offshore, has dramatically put the top job back home. liamentary report released yesterday financial probity under the spotlight, Her high-profile term running the SUVA: Fiji lifted emer- said a state-owned fund linked to although Najib has not been impli- JOHANNESBURG: With South African executive branch of the AU, which is gency restrictions Prime Minister Najib Razak made cated in the scandal. President Jacob Zuma facing growing headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethio- yesterday after the Pacific more than $3bn in unexplained over- 1MDB’s board of directors -- which calls to resign over a series of corrup- pia, comes to an end in July after four nation avoided a direct seas payments and called for the fund’s does not include Najib -- released tion scandals, attention is turning to years in the international spotlight. hit from Tropical Cyclone former CEO to be investigated. a statement repeating its assertion one potential contender to succeed “There is no doubt that some Zena and the storm The report presented to parlia- that all 1MDB funds “have been fully him -- his former wife. behind-doors lobbying on her behalf weakened as it moved ment by its Public Accounts Committee accounted for” but adding that the Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, 67 is already underway,” Mcebisi Ndle- offshore. (PAC), which has examined the affair, entire board would resign, which the (pictured), is a long-standing heav- tyana, associate professor of political Authorities had marked the first time an official committee recommended. The report yweight in the ruling African National science at the University of Johannes- terms -- succeeding him are clear. imposed a nationwide Malaysian probe has clearly sug- did not go nearly as far as many who Congress (ANC) party, holding several burg, said. After failing in their bid to “It may provide a bit of comfort, curfew as Zena bore down gested misconduct and recommended have alleged blatant graft, but 1MDB ministerial positions since the end of impeach him this week, Zuma’s oppo- because I don’t think that she would on the main island Viti action in a scandal that has deeply opponents nonetheless seized on it. white-minority rule in 1994. nents now hope to prosecute him on like to see the father of her children Levu overnight Wednes- tainted Najib. Tony Pua, an opposition PAC mem- Confirmation last week that graft charges after he leaves office, jailed,” Ndletyana said. But Dlamini- day, fearing a repeat of Najib, who founded 1Malaysia ber, released a statement saying 1MDB Dlamini-Zuma will not run for re- and the advantages of having his ex- Zuma’s name recognition also presents super cyclone Winston. Development Berhad (1MDB) in 2009, critics have been “vindicated”. election as head of the African Union wife -- with whom he remains on good a dilemma to the ANC. But meteorologists said has for months battled allegations that It remains unclear whether the Zena weakened. billions were looted from the invest- committee’s recommendations will ment vehicle in a vast campaign of hurt Najib. fraud and embezzlement stretching The premier has faced a cascade 5 charged over from the Middle East to the Caymans. of corruption allegations stemming Sea turtles seized from poachers The PAC said more than $3bn in from 1MDB’s troubles and his own Taiwan building unapproved overseas payments were admitted acceptance of a mysteri- made from 1MDB funds. ous $681m overseas payment into collapse It chastised the now debt-stricken his own bank accounts. company for “weaknesses” in man- But since the twin scandals TAIPEI: Five people were agement under the 2009-2013 tenure erupted last year, he has weathered charged yesterday over of former CEO Shahrol Azral Ibra- them by curbing scrutiny by author- the deadly collapse of an him Halmi. ities, purging officials demanding apartment block in Taiwan “As such, enforcement agencies accountability, and stifling media during an earthquake, are asked to investigate Shahrol reporting. including the building’s Azral Ibrahim Halmi and anyone The parliamentary committee owner, with prosecutors else related,” the 106-page report said. cited a range of questionable money saying “corners were cut” It made no further specific rec- movements, particularly more than which made the complex ommendations on investigations and $3bn it said went to Aabar Invest- dangerous. did not mention Najib, who still chairs ments PJS Ltd. The collapse of the 1MDB’s advisory board. A Wall Street Journal expose last Wei-kuan building dur- Najib, 62, and 1MDB have con- year said Aabar was likely a shell com- ing the 6.4 magnitude sistently denied wrongdoing. In a pany created to resemble an Abu Dhabi quake in the southern city statement, Najib vowed to “act on wealth fund with a similar name. of Tainan in February left the report’s recommendations”. Authorities in Switzerland, the 115 dead. It was the only “We must ensure that lessons are United States, Singapore, Hong Kong high-rise to crumble com- learned, and action will be taken if and elsewhere are investigating globe- Indonesian marine police unload sea turtles from a boat which they seized from illegal poachers, pletely, with questions any evidence of wrongdoing is found,” spanning money transfers linked to in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, yesterday. Forty-five sea turtles have reportedly been seized from the raised over shoddy build- he said. He did not address the ques- 1MDB, with the Swiss saying $4bn illegal poachers by the naval police. ing methods. tionable payments. may have been stolen. PAKISTAN FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 07

Pakistan keen Afghan soldiers in Helmand Afghan spy to upgrade captured in Pakistan QUETTA: Pakistani secu- rity forces yesterday its Air Force claimed to have arrested an alleged agent of Afghanistan’s top spy- fleet of about 70 US-made Lockheed ing agency in Chaman and Martin F-16s, which are solely capable seized a huge quantity Its Air Force, which of carrying out precision targeting. of arms and ammuni- will need to retire “Our concern is that we don’t know tion found at two places how long these anti-terrorist oper- in town. dozens of jets over ations will continue,” Pakistan Air According to official the coming years, Force second-in-command Muham- sources, personnel of the mad Ashfaque Arain said. “We have Frontier Corps and intel- lacks the latest weakened them (militants) to a great ligence agencies raided technology and extent, but I don’t see an end in the a house in Boghara area very near future, so all the burden of the border town and relies heavily on a is being shared by the F-16s and its arrested the man said to fleet of about 70 pilots.” be an agent of Afghani- US-made Lockheed Sceptics suspect that Pakistan’s stan’s espionage agency, military is seeking an improved arse- National Directorate of Afghan soldiers take positions at a check-post in Babaji area of restive Helmand province, Afghanistan, Martin F-16s, which nal to counter the growing military Security. are solely capable might of India, its eastern neighbour. yesterday. Over the past six months the Taliban forces have gradually taken control of all but three The two countries have fought three districts in the Helmand province. of carrying out wars since their violent separation in Free WiFi precision targeting. 1947 at the end of British colonial rule. Pakistan’s fleet also includes for public in hundreds of Dassault Aviation French- made Mirage jets that are over 40 years Lahore soon Reuters old and F7 Chinese warplanes that Government and opposition agree are over 25 years old, both of which LAHORE: Punjab Infor- the air force plans to retire over the mation Technology Board next few years. To fill the void, Islam- (PITB) Chairman Umar PARIS: Pakistan wants to upgrade its abad has decided to bet on the JF-17 on international airline bill Saif said yesterday a free ageing fleet of fighter jets in antici- fighter, jointly developed by China WiFi access for the pub- pation of a prolonged battle against and Pakistan, rather than spending lic was on the cards. Saif Islamist militants, although the pur- billions on fifth-generation multi- made the announcement chase of fifth-generation planes would role aircraft like Dassault’s Rafale, Internews during the protest in February against restrict the government from divest- through his social media only be a last resort, a senior air force which rival India is buying, or the the proposed law. ing more than 49 per cent shares of page. official said. Russian Su-35. The accord on the PIAC (Conver- the airline. He said the service US ally Pakistan, a nuclear-armed That option, Arain said, had almost sion) Bill 2016 was reached within a few The committee agreed to approve would be extended to nation of 180 million people, is fighting been ruled out for being too expensive ISLAMABAD: A special parliamentary minutes of the arrival of Finance Min- the bill with a major amendment stat- Multan and Rawalpindi a Taliban insurgency in its northwest, and because Pakistan did not want committee of Pakistan made a signif- ister Ishaq Dar, who had been specially ing that the management control of as well. An official of the a separatist insurgency along its Ira- to mix technologies and resources. icant breakthrough yesterday when called for the meeting. The opposi- PIA would remain with the federal PITB said arrangements nian border in the west, and has a It would only be reconsidered if “it the government and the opposition tion members were of the opinion that government. However, after a lengthy for the free WiFi had been heavily militarised and disputed bor- was pushed against a wall”. agreed on a draft of the controversial the language was not in line with the discussion the two sides agreed on completed. “The free der with arch rival India in the east. Instead, 16 JF-17s will be produced bill seeking to convert the Pakistan assurance given by the finance min- the wording of the amendment with WiFi service will be availa- In 2014, the military launched a this year with a further 20 in 2017, International Airline (PIA) into a lim- ister at the committee’s last meeting an explanation as suggested by Dar. ble at 115 public places in crackdown in the northwestern areas but Arain acknowledged that the jets’ ited company. on March 29. The agreed amendment says that the city,” he said. “These of North and South Waziristan and usefulness in current operations was The opposition parties linked their Dar not only agreed to include “the management control of the air- include 12 parks, 17 mar- has managed to push back militants limited because it lacks precision tar- vote for the bill during a joint sitting major amendments suggested jointly line and its subsidiaries will remain kets, metro bus stations into a few pockets. But its air force, geting. Previous negotiations in 2010 of parliament on April 11 to the with- by the PPP and PTI that the proposed with the Board of Directors which shall and 20 colleges and uni- which will need to retire dozens of jets for a deal worth $1.6bn worth of elec- drawal of termination notices issued law would not be used as a tool in future have representation in proportion to versities, the City railway over the coming years, lacks the lat- tronics and missiles collapsed under to at least 12 PIA employees for bring- to privatise the national carrier, but the shareholdings” and that no more station and the airport.” est technology and relies heavily on a pressure from India. ing the airline’s operations to a halt he also proposed that the draft should than 49pc shares will be divested. Six endangered newborn sheep recovered: Official

AFP Wildlife Fund for Nature in Pakistan, kept them at our check post, they were and are mainly threatened by deg- fed properly and later they were pro- radation of their habitats as well as duced before a court, which ordered poaching. them to be sent to the Lahore Zoo.” ISLAMABAD: Six endangered new- Pakistanis are forbidden from They were later pictured frolick- born Pakistani Urials stolen from their hunting them, though sixteen per- ing at the zoo. Mujahid Akbar Khan, mother have been recovered, officials mits are issued each year to foreigners, the local police chief, confirmed the said yesterday, in a case that has left a who must pay $16,500 for the privilege. case adding that the two policemen pair of local policemen accused of kid- Rana Shahbaz, a senior local wild- had been suspended. “An investiga- napping them feeling rather sheepish. life official, told AFP the lambs had tion is underway,” he added. The three male and three female been taken from the Salt Range by two Pakistan is home to stunning range lambs were illegally picked up from local policemen who are believed to of wildlife including snow leopards, the Jhelum district of central Punjab have been hired by a well-to-do cli- shaheen falcons and Indus dolphins. province, where around 2,500 are ent -- described as a judge by local But an exploding population cur- thought to roam in the wild. daily Dawn. rently around 200 million, and a lack The Punjab Urial, known for their “The lambs are very sensitive, and of awareness around conservation has curved horns which keep growing when they are taken from their moth- led to the destruction of habitats and throughout their lives, are listed as ers they often die,” he said. forests and endangerment of numer- Newborn urials, recovered after been stolen, are seen in an enclosure at a zoo in Lahore, yesterday. “endangered” according to the World “But when we recovered them we ous species.

Pakistan criticises double standards on N-disarmament Buzkashi match

Internews non-proliferation with messianic zeal, on the security of some states while Pakistan’s nuclear policy is shaped the Pakistani envoy said and added being cost-free for those with the larg- by the evolving security dynamics in that this gap between legality and real- est amounts of fissile stocks. South Asia. Our nuclear capability is ity has eroded the global faith in the She pointed out that claims by some geared towards assuring our security ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has assailed mutually reinforcing nature of these that an FMCT would put a quantitative and self-defense based on credible the double standards practiced by some processes. cap on nuclear weapons were false. minimum deterrence, she added. states which preach nuclear disarma- Ambassador Lodhi said that some The reasons she said were self- She quoted Prime Minister Nawaz ment but fail to take necessary steps nuclear weapon states have also evident because the vast stockpiles of Sharif’s address to the General Assem- themselves. concluded discriminatory nuclear fissile material coupled with the con- bly last year in which he said Pakistan Speaking in a session of the UN Dis- cooperation agreements and helped tinued unsafeguarded production for neither wants to nor is engaged in an armament Commission a subsidiary grant waivers in an unfortunate depar- civilian and non-explosive military arms race in South Asia. of the General Assembly Ambassador ture from long held non-proliferation purposes provide a ready reserve of Ambassador Lodhi stressed that MaleehaLodhi said that a handful of principles. fissile material that could be weap- double standards were not only evi- nuclear weapon states advocate absti- She said progress towards nuclear onized at will. dent on nuclear issues but also in the nence for others but are unwilling to disarmament is being delayed and hin- Ambassador Lodhi said that there area of conventional arms. The Paki- give up their large inventories of nuclear dered by some who wish to divert the was no provision in the treaty favoured stani envoy said it was a grim irony weapons or their modernization. Conference on Disarmament’s focus by some states that would constrain that weapons which propel and sustain This doublespeak has only aggra- to partial non-proliferation measures a quantitative or qualitative increase conflicts come from areas or regions vated the sense of insecurity among such as a Fissile Materials Cut Off Treaty in nuclear weapons.Pakistan there- that enjoy peace. other states, she told the 35-member (FMCT). Reiterating Pakistan’s posi- fore cannot support an unequal treaty Only four countries account for An Afghan horseman watches as a horse rolls in the dust as others commission. tion on the FMCT, she said a treaty that has direct implications for our two thirds of global arms exports while Instead of fulfilling their legal dis- that is discriminatory in nature and national security, she added. major importers are developing coun- are prepared to take part in a buzkashi match to mark celebrations armament obligations these States does not address the existing stock- Ambassador Lodhi also explained tries mainly in the Middle East, Asia for the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, in Mazar-i-Sharif, yesterday. have almost exclusively pursued piles of fissile material would impinge that as a responsible nuclear state and Africa. 08 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 INDIA Pakistan says Magisterial inquiry ordered into NIT unrest no to NIA and IANS SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kash- mir government yesterday ordered a magisterial probe into the unrest in the National Institute of Technology suspends talks (NIT), Srinagar, where non-local stu- dents are boycotting classes in protest. “The magisterial probe will be carried out by additional district devel- “India is not ready as yet,” Basit opment commissioner Srinagar who said, but quickly added that “we can will submit his report to the govern- Pakistan High only resolve issues through dialogue”. ment within 15 days,” Deputy Chief Commissioner This is the first official word from Minister Nirmal Singh, who arrived Pakistan about the latest breakdown here last morning from Jammu, told Abdul Basit said in the now-on-now-off peace proc- reporters. that the arrest of an ess with India. Earlier, Director General of alleged Indian spy, After a team of Pakistani offi- Police (DGP) K. Rajendra Kumar cials visited Pathankot to probe visited the NIT campus and spoke to Kulbushan Jadhav, Indian charges that Pakistani ter- the non-local students about their proved Islamabad’s rorists were to blame for the January grievances. 2 attack, New Delhi had expected A police officer said the DGP allegations that New Islamabad to allow a National Investi- assured full security to the non-local Delhi was causing gation Agency (NIA) team to visit that students and advised them to resume country to take the investigation for- their normal academic engagements. unrest in Balochistan. ward. Basit ruled out the possibility. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) “The investigation (into the and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) troopers Pathankot attack) is not about reci- have been deployed inside the cam- procity,” he said. Earlier, reading out pus while police are stationed at the IANS a prepared statement, Basit referred campus gates. to the arrest of alleged Indian spy Jad- NIT Srinagar has around 1,500 hav in Balochistan last month and said non-local students, who have been that it “irrefutably corroborates what boycotting classes after clashes took Medical college students hold placards and shout slogans against the police action on outstation students NEW DELHI: Pakistan yesterday said Pakistan has been saying all along”. place between a group of non-local at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, during a protest in Jammu, the winter capital of the dialogue process with India had “We are aware of all those who students and police on Tuesday. Kashmir, yesterday. been suspended and there was no seek to create unrest in Pakistan While the non-local students have question of allowing an NIA team to and destabilise the country. They accused the police of excesses against visit Islamabad to probe the Pathankot are bound to fail.” them, police said the protesting stu- on duty and obstructing a public serv- and met the non-local students who out of the Kashmir Valley, and action terror attack. He said Pakistan had arrested dents pelted stones at the deployed ant from discharging duty,” a police have been staying away from classes in against some faculty members who Pakistan High Commissioner scores of terror operatives with “for- police personnel and also roughed up officer said. protest since the clash between local allegedly stoked communal and anti- Abdul Basit also said that the arrest eign linkages” over the past month. a deputy superintendent-level officer Srinagar Senior Superintendent and non-local students on March 31 national passions among the students. of an alleged Indian spy, Kulbushan “The presence of such elements is when they were asked not to take to of Police (SSP) Amit Kumar has been after the India-West Indies semi-final The local students on Thursday Jadhav, proved Islamabad’s allega- quite disturbing, to say the least.” the roads outside the campus. staying in the campus to instill confi- of the World T20 cricket championship. attended classes at the NIT, but the tions that New Delhi was causing He also spoke on Jammu and Police on Thursday released video dence among the students and ensure On Monday evening, around 500 non-locals continued their boycott. unrest in Balochistan. Kashmir, saying it was “the root cause footage of NIT students indulging in quick return of normalcy. non-local students raised the slogan Meanwhile, the management Asked at the Foreign Correspond- of mutual distrust and other bilat- violence. A three-member team of the union ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and carried the tri- issued notice asking non-local stu- ents Club about a meeting between the eral issues”. “And attempts to put it Police said two FIRs have been human resource development (HRD) colour, when police prevented them dents who want to visit their homes to foreign secretaries of the two coun- on backburner will be counter-pro- registered at the Nigeen police sta- ministry, headed by Sanjeev Sharma, from moving out of the campus and provide the mobile numbers of their tries, Basit said: “There is no meeting ductive,” he added. “The resolution of tion in Srinagar into the NIT unrest. director of NITs, is also camping in stage a protest on the road. parents so that permission is obtained scheduled for now. I think at present (the) Jammu and Kashmir (dispute) “The FIRs pertain to damaging pub- Srinagar. The protesting students are from them to allow the students to the peace process is suspended. should be fair and just.” lic property, attacking a police officer The team arrived on Wednesday demanding that the NIT be shifted go home.

Heat wave claims 111 lives The Jungle Book in Telangana and Andhra Banks reject indebted tycoon’s too scary for $600m repayment offer kids to see alone IANS AP

AFP His lawyers have until April 21 to HYDERABAD: At least 111 people have died due to sunstroke in Telangana file a response. The businessman was and Andhra Pradesh during last few days as the two states are experienc- known as the “King of Good Times” NEW DELHI: India’s censor board ing intense heat wave conditions, officials said. As many as 66 people died before the 2012 collapse of his air- is requiring parents to accompany in Telangana while 45 succumbed in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Most NEW DELHI: A group of Indian banks line, which left thousands of workers children under 12 at screenings of of the deaths were reported during last one week. rejected yesterday embattled busi- unemployed and millions of dol- Disney’s The Jungle Book because According to Telangana’s disaster management department, Mahabub- nessman Vijay Mallya’s (pictured), lars in unpaid bills. Mallya, who has the special effects made its ani- nagar district accounted for highest number of deaths at 28, while 11 people offer to repay $600m in unpaid loans, not been charged with any crime, mals too scary. died in Medak district. Heat wave conditions claimed seven lives in Nizam- less than half of what his defunct air- stepped down in February as chair- The movie opens in Indian abad, five each in in Khammam and Karimnagar, four each in Adilabad and line owes them. man of United Spirits, the Indian arm theaters today. It’s a computer-gen- Warangal and two in Nalgonda. The banks told the Supreme Court of Britain’s Diageo, following allega- erated remake of the 1967 animated No deaths have been reported from Hyderabad and neighbouring Ranga in New Delhi that they wanted the tions of financial lapses. His surprise film that was based on Rudyard Reddy district. 60-year-old flamboyant entrepre- departure the following month proved Kipling’s book. According to the met department, there ws appreciable rise in maximum neur to return to India so they could an embarrassment for the govern- Censor board chief Pahlaj Niha- temperatures at one or two places in Telangana on Thursday. The highest negotiate with him personally over ment, which was forced to admit he lini justified the restriction by saying maximum temperature of 41 degree Celsius was recorded in Nalgonda, Han- the total $1.3bn owed. But lawyers for the banks said had left the country even as it sought the 3D effects were scary as the amakonda, Khammam, Mahabubnagar and Ramagundam. The founder of Kingfisher Airlines, Thursday that the offer was rejected permission to impound his passport. animals seem to jump right at the In Andhra Pradesh, 45 people died of sunstroke during last one week. who is being chased by the group of after due consideration. The court, Opposition politicians have demanded audience. Deputy Chief Minister N. Chinna Rajappa told reporters in Vijayawada that mostly state-run banks over the unpaid meanwhile, asked the liquor baron to know why Mallya was not arrested “It’s up to parents to decide how 16 of the deaths were reported from YSR Kadapa district while Prakasam debts, left India last month and his to disclose his total assets, along with before he flew out on March 2. much of these effects are suited for accounted for 11 deaths. exact whereabouts are unknown. those of his wife and children. The The businessman, who is also a their children,” Nihalani told report- Four died in Anantapur, three each in Vijayanagaram, Chittoor and Kur- In a case that has gripped the coun- request came after the banks said they member of India’s parliament, has ers late on Wednesday. nool, two each in Srikakulam and Krishna districts and one in West Godavari try, Mallya’s lawyers last week told the wanted him to deposit a substantial denied absconding and has criticised The decision hasn’t gone well district. He said the government would extend all possible help the fami- court that he was willing to pay 40bn amount of money with the court to the media for what he has called a with many. Bollywood producer lies of the heat wave victims. rupees ($600m) by September 30. prove his bona fide. “witch hunt”. Mukesh Bhatt said it was a shame on the country if a film like The Jungle Book was given the “U/A” certificate. Kejriwal and AAP leaders The film will be released in Assam elections the United States with a PG rat- ing, meaning parental guidance is get bail in defamation case suggested because of some scary scenes. Yesterday, Bollywood actor IANS While the chief minister’s adviser Ayushmann Khurrana also found Gopal Mohan stood surety for him, the movie’s certification “unbeliev- Delhi Food and Supplies Minister able” and challenged the criteria Imran Hussain furnished surety for behind it. NEW DELHI: A court here yes- Ashutosh. “Maybe it is because of the 3D terday granted bail to Delhi Chief Uttam Nagar legislator Naresh images of Bhageera and Sherkhan Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five Balyan stood surety for Sanjay Singh, bouncing off the screen. These days other Aam Aadmi Party leaders in Laxmi Nagar legislator Nitin Tyagi for kids are used to reading story books a criminal defamation case filed Vishwas, Burari lawmaker Sanjeev and watching Captain America, and by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Jha for Chadha, and Mehrauli MLA after all these are animated films,” against them in the wake of the Naresh Yadav stood surety for Baj- the Press Trust of India quoted him DDCA controversy. payee. Jaitley, who filed the complaint as saying. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate against Kejriwal and the others, also Compared to Hollywood, Sumit Dass granted bail to Kejriwal was present in the court. movie norms in India are as well as AAP leaders Kumar Vish- After Kejriwal’s counsel R.K. Wad- extremely strict. Censorship was, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Raghav hwa and C.L. Gupta told court that they authorities often order filmmak- Chadha and Deepak Bajpayee after have not been supplied with copies ers — both Indian and foreign they appeared in the court follow- of the documents pertaining to the — to chop scenes deemed offen- ing last month’s summons. complaint, the court directed Jait- sive. Films with graphic content “The offence being bailable, all ley to do so. It then fixed May 19 for can be barred completely. accused persons are admitted to bail,” next hearing. Last year, India’s film censor Congress President Sonia Gandhi walks with the Special Protection Group personnel (SPG) as she the court said. Security at the Patiala House authorities ordered that kissing arrives to address an election rally in Morigaon district of Assam, yesterday. Thousands of voters will The court asked each of them to courts was beefed up since Thurs- scenes in the James Bond movie, elect legislators for the second phase of Assam state polls on Monday. furnish a personal bond of Rs.20,000 day morning in view of the hearing “Spectre,” be shortened before it and a surety of the like amount. in the case. was released in the country. EUROPE / UK FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 09

Brexit supporters Putin says cry foul over govt campaign leaflets

US behind AFP

LONDON: British Prime Minis- ter David Cameron was accused yesterday of using state funds for Panama leak propaganda after his government sent leaflets out to millions of vot- ers urging them to vote to stay in the EU at the upcoming referendum. Cameron said he made “no apol- Russian President Cameron admits ogies” for throwing the weight of the government behind the “Remain” defends close stake in dad’s camp, but campaigners for Brit- friend and cellist ain to leave the European Union offshore fund on June 23 responded with outrage. after outcry. “It is wrong that at a time of aus- AFP terity, £9m of taxpayers’ money is being spent on a one-sided piece of propaganda,” said Justice Secretary AFP LONDON: British Prime Minister Michael Gove, one of four cabinet David Cameron admitted yester- ministers backing a so-called Brexit. day he had a £30,000 stake in an The glossy 15-page booklet is being offshore fund set up by his father, sent to more than 27 million homes PANAMA CITY: Russian President after days of pressure following and will be accompanied by a new Vladimir Putin denied any “element of publication of the so-called Pan- website, produced at a total cost of corruption” yesterday after a massive ama Papers. £9.3m ($13.1m). leak of confidential papers linked a “We owned 5,000 units in Blair- Cameron insisted the gov- close friend to a hidden $2bn offshore more Investment Trust, which we ernment was not neutral in the Vote Leave campaign staff work at their office in London yesterday. empire, and he blamed the United sold in January 2010. That was referendum. States for orchestrating the scandal. worth something like £30,000 Putin boasted that a year-long ($42,000),” Cameron told ITV international media probe into the television. leak of 11.5 million offshore financial documents from Panamanian law Belgium seeks airport bombing suspect in hat firm Mossack Fonseca — the Pan- as $2bn through banks and shadow ama Papers — had failed to find any companies,” according to the Inter- mention of his name. national Consortium of Investigative “They combed through these Journalists (ICIJ). AP station killed another 16 people the According to a video reconstitu- been many people around the hotel offshore accounts. Your humble serv- The ICIJ coordinated the inves- same morning. tion of the suspect’s itinerary presented when the suspect walked by who may ant is not there. What is there to talk tigation with more than 100 media Photos released by prosecutors to reporters, the man left the Brussels now be overseas, and asked for their about?” Putin said, referring to him- groups around the world after the showed the “man in hat” leaving the Airport terminal at 7.58am before two assistance as well. self, at a televised forum for regional mass of leaked data was obtained BRUSSELS: Belgian prosecutors airport on foot, walking to the nearby other men he was with in the building Prosecutors asked “people who media held in Saint Petersburg. from an anonymous source by Ger- launched a public appeal yesterday town of Zaventem and then into Brus- exploded suitcases laden with explo- might have filmed or taken a photo- Instead, the investigating jour- man daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. seeking any information on the “man sels, where all traces of him were sives. He passed by a Sheraton hotel, graph of the suspect or think they can nalists found “some friend of the But “WikiLeaks has shown us in hat” suspect in the Brussels Airport reportedly lost. walked through the town of Zaven- provide extra information” to call a Russian president” and suggested now the fact that officials and offi- suicide bombings that killed 16 people. The suspect also wore a white tem, discarded his jacket, and was seen special telephone number or to email his activities have “an element of cial organs of the United States Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van jacket but discarded it at some point, on video footage at Meiser square in authorities. corruption,” Putin said. “What ele- stand behind this,” Putin said, after der Sypt said authorities were espe- prosecutors said. northeastern Brussels at 9.42am. Earlier yesterday, the lawyer for ment of corruption? There is none the whistleblowing group wrote on cially interested in any people who The appeal for public assistance Eight minutes later, his trail Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at all,” he insisted. Twitter that “US govt funded #Pan- might have filmed or photographed more than two weeks after the suicide vanishes. said it will take some weeks before The probe into financial deal- amaPapers attack story on Putin via the man. bombings indicated that investigators Belgian authorities are hoping that his client can be extradited from Bel- ings by world leaders, celebrities and USAID.” He was seen at the airport with have hit a standstill. Three bombers, they or someone finds the discarded gium to . sports stars found that Putin’s associ- Putin warmly defended his two suicide bombers before they died two at the airport and one in the sub- light-coloured jacket, saying it could Sven Mary spoke after a legal hear- ates, notably his cellist friend Sergei friend as a “brilliant musician” and in the March 22 attacks. A subsequent way, also died in the attacks, which yield precious clues. Federal Prosecu- ing on the Belgian-born French citizen’s Roldugin, “secretly shuffled as much philanthropist. explosion at Brussels’ Maelbeek subway were claimed by Islamic State. tor Thierry Werts also said there had continuing detention in Belgium.

British teen Food for thought Egypt seeks to calm Italy selfie killers over murdered student jailed for life AFP family, their lawyer said. AFP The case is a testing one for Ital- ian Prime Minister , who ROME: Egyptian investigators yes- has fostered a close relationship with LONDON: Two teenage girls who terday spent more than four hours Egypt’s military-backed president, took selfies as they beat a vulner- briefing Italian counterparts on their Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, but is under pres- able British woman to death before so-far inconclusive probe into the sure to respond to public anger over phoning police to ask for a lift home torture and murder of an Italian stu- the case. “The relationship is a huge were yesterday jailed for life. dent in Cairo that threatens to derail deal for Italy but Egypt has burnt most The pair, aged 13 and 14 at the close ties between the two countries. of its credit in the last two months in time of the murder, battered frail A team of five Egyptian prose- a not very smart way,” said Mattia Angela Wrightson over five hours cutors and police has come to Rome Toaldo, of the European Council on in her own home with household with a 2,000-page file on the probe Foreign Relations (ECFR) in London. items including a shovel, a coffee into the murder of Giulio Regeni, a Regeni disappeared in central table and a television set, eventu- 28-year-old PhD student at Cam- Cairo on January 25. ally leaving her for dead. bridge University. His body was found on the out- The rare case — and the young Their work, which Egyptian media skirts of the city on February 3 bearing age of the killers — has sparked described as ongoing, was presented the signs of torture which, an autopsy comparisons with the 1993 mur- to Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Pigna- concluded, had been inflicted over der of toddler Jamie Bulger by two tone and senior security officials in several days. Media coverage of the 10-year-old boys. a closed-doors meeting at a police case has focused international atten- Almost 400 children under the training college. tion on other disappearances and age of 18 have reportedly been con- Italian officials are not convinced rights abuses in Sisi’s Egypt. victed of murder in Britain over the everything is being done to bring Rege- Regeni’s family have threatened past two decades. ni’s killer or killers to justice and have to release pictures of his mutilated Sentencing the girls, judge Henry warned of consequences if the Egyp- body to keep the pressure on over Globe called the crime a “cowardly tians do not present a credible account his death. Their stance was praised attack” that involved “gratuitous Britain’s Prince Harry, left, with Command Sergeant Major Glenn Haughton and Garrison Sergeant of everything they know about his yesterday by the mother of Khaled degradation”. Major Vern Stokes at the Lord Mayor’s Big Curry Lunch in aid of the ABF The Soldiers Charity, in gruesome fate. Said, whose 2010 killing by Egyp- Wrightson, 39, was found London, yesterday. The talks will continue today. To tian police contributed to the wave with more than 100 injuries in date there has been no attempt by the of anger that led to the Arab spring her blood-spattered living room Egyptian team to contact Regeni’s uprising of 2011. in the industrial town of Hartlepool in northeastern England. “This was a sustained attack over a long period of time carried out with weapons in many differ- EU may end visa waiver for Americans and Canadians ent ways,” the judge told the girls, both now 15. Pathology evidence revealed “an absolute minimum” of 70 sepa- Reuters to demand visas from countries who the two (Americans and Canadians),” considerations. Canada had no imme- TTIP, stands a better chance of pass- rate slash injuries, 54 separate blunt have similar requirements in place an EU source said. diate comment. ing before Obama leaves the White force injuries and wounds to the vic- for one or more EU state. Whether such a step would be prac- The discussion, prompted by US House in January. tim’s hands, wrists and arms as she BRUSSELS: The European Union Washington and Ottawa both tical, however, is in question given that and Canadian refusals to waive their Obama is due to visit Britain before tried to deflect the blows. executive is considering whether to demand entry visas from Romanians it would seriously undermine the EU’s visa requirements for holders of some meeting German Chancellor Angela The seven-week trial heard that make US and Canadian citizens apply and Bulgarians, whose states joined vast and lucrative tourist industry. EU member states’ passports, will take Merkel at a trade fair in Hanover on the girls, who came from troubled for visas before travelling to the bloc, the EU in 2007. The United States also The US mission to Brussels high- place on Tuesday, just over a week April 24. backgrounds, were frequent visitors a move that could raise tensions as excludes Croatians, Cypriots and Poles lighted that any proposal by the before US President Barack Obama “There are major question marks to Wrightson’s house and that she Brussels negotiates a trade pact with from a visa waiver scheme offered to European Commission to introduce arrives in Europe on a visit that will over TTIP, no one could now say exactly would often buy them cigarettes. Washington. other EU citizens. such visas could later be overruled include trade talks. how it’ll go in the end. We’ll see if we On the day of the attack, Only Britain and Ireland have opt- “A political debate and decision is by the European Parliament or the Trade negotiations between Brus- can get Obama in Hanover to com- the pair let themselves into her outs from the 28-nation EU’s common obviously needed on such an impor- European Council — which brings sels and Washington are at a crucial mit to more of what we want,” said home before restraining and visa policy and the European Commis- tant issue. But there is a real risk that together the 28 EU leaders — on the point since both sides believe their one European Parliament member torturing her. sion must decide by April 12 whether the EU would move towards visas for grounds of foreign policy, among other transatlantic agreement, known as tracking TTIP. 10 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 VIEWS

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he wall seems to be rising on Donald Trump. The most controversial US presidential candidate and renegade A migrant tries to open a border fence after migrants and refugees tried to open it at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian Republican is trying to shore up support amid border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, yesterday. Tflagging popularity, which is hard to make out despite the Wisconsin battering. He has started talking about walls again — though apparently not sure if he will be able to make one. The billionaire has spawned an industry from masks to mugs to jokes amid the hotting up US election scene in which Hillary looks to be surging ahead despite Bernie Sanders’ finger- Dutch vote highlights EU’s woes jabbing recriminations. After the Wisconsin defeat, Trump seems apparently unfazed, though actually he is not. His campaign team has started fulminating ahead of the forthcoming primaries that would decide if the contest in which the gloves have come off with voters, UK beware would turn bloodier. The billionaire and reality TV star whose campaign demeanour has cast a shadow on US election history Brussels. Most recently the Danish and the efficacy of one of the largest democratic exercises in the government lost a referendum on world, is likely to rile more people as the campaign goes down to opting back in to more EU judicial the wire. and police cooperation. Fresh from two recent spikes in the Trump controversy curve, Almost every time a European the real estate tycoon who traces his origins to placid Scotland government has asked voters any question about “more Europe”, the has not at all been graceful in defeat. answer has been “No”. The few First he got into a tangle with the amiable Ted Cruz, passing exceptions included two in Ire- unsavoury remarks about his family life and dragging his wife land, where voters approved EU into the controversy. Cruz was not one treaties at the second attempt after to be cowered, and Trump got back By Paul Taylor Dublin secured extra assurances what he deserved. Reuters from its EU partners following ref- erendum “No” votes. After the Next came his campaign manager “This confirms a 21st cen- latest who was accused of tugging at the arm tury trend that all referendums clobbering, of a journalist who tried to approach he European Union’s with the EU on the ballot paper the maverick businessman-turned- long-running problem result in ‘No’ to Europe,” former the US with voters just got a lit- British Europe Minister Denis politician. The bruised arm of the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shakes hands with schoolchildren electorate is journalist had the international media tle worse after the Dutch MacShane told. “A low turnout Trejected an agreement on closer helps the anti-EU/Brexit vote. If in after casting his vote in The Hague. likely to see erupt in a fireball. Trump’s haughty EU ties with Ukraine, highlighting UK the referendum has the same a fretting, disposition has not only shown him in a the difficulties of further Euro- turnout as the European Parlia- stakes are far higher than in the borders and foreign policy. fuming and poor light, but undermines the quality pean integration. ment elections (35 percent in 2014) Dutch vote on an arcane issue In the Dutch case, the main- of US democracy and the election Coming less than three then Brexit wins,” said MacShane, that stirred few passions. Some stream centre-right and centre-left fulminating system that had been envisioned by months before a British referen- a pro-European who has forecast of the Dutch electors who both- parties which all supported the Trump. the founding fathers as a model for the dum on whether to stay in the EU a Brexit vote since last year. ered to turn out took the chance Ukraine deal were in a bind. As world to follow. or leave after 43 years of semi- British Prime Minister David to vent discontent over the econ- democrats, they could not publicly detached membership, the Dutch Cameron, who called the risky UK omy, immigration, globalisation urge supporters to abstain in the Trump’s shooting-from-the-hip- vote rang alarm bells in London vote in response to rising euroscep- or the Rutte government’s policies country’s first grassroots-driven disposition renders him unfit for and Brussels. Less than a third of ticism that was tearing apart his rather than EU ties with Ukraine. referendum, but many quietly holding the office of the US president who not only commands the electorate turned out for the Conservative party, is acutely aware The same could easily hap- hoped that “tactical abstention” the most powerful military in the world but takes decisions which consultative Dutch referendum, that he needs to mobilise the elec- pen in Britain, where Cameron would keep turnout below the geopolitically and geostrategically affect many regions. forced by a grassroots petition torate to avoid an historic debacle. has been weakened by divisions threshold for the vote to be valid. The real estate tycoon has left a trail of controversies behind launched by eurosceptics. But it Cameron made a big pitch yes- in his party, a crisis in the steel Some senior EU officials say ref- him. The person who occupies the White House needs to have was enough to make the ballot terday to young people, who polls industry, questions about his late erendums are inimical to the valid and oblige Prime Minister show are more pro-European than father’s use of a Panama-based European project because they sagacity, poise and grace. He should not be seen to be power- Mark Rutte’s government to take their elders but less likely to vote, offshore company and anger over allow voters in a single country to hungry. Such has been the potential of Trump’s controversies account of the result. to register and cast ballots on June welfare spending cuts. block or delay agreements approved that the White House has started to welcome press queries on the Jubilant eurosceptic Dutch 23. Asked about the Dutch vote, he European unity was driven by other national parliaments, caus- maverick figure’s wayward ways. populist leader Geert Wilders said: “I don’t think it has any effect after World War Two by political ing deadlock. All 27 other EU states The Trump bubble is likely to burst soon. The larger the called it “the beginning of the on us because we’ve got a bigger leaders in France and Germany, but have ratified the Ukraine pact. bubble the messier the aftermath. Trump knows it best— he may end of the EU”. His British coun- question: do we stay in this organ- also Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium “Plebiscitary democracy is terpart, UK Independence Party isation or do we leave? and Luxembourg, who had national the enemy of European integra- have been used to real estate bubbles. leader Nigel Farage, said: “Their “But I think it is important that electoral mandates and parliamen- tion but it is the rising trend. I don’t ‘No’ to the EU was a tremendous the European institutions and the tary support, but most did not put see how we avoid it and I don’t see victory for democracy.” The EU’s Dutch government ... listen carefully the issue directly to their elector- how we can advance with it,” said usual way of handling such set- to what people have said, and try ates until the 1990s. When they did, one senior official. The EU’s most backs — pressing ahead while to understand that and try to work they got a nasty surprise. French ardent federalists see the answer giving some side-assurances to with that rather than saying this is voters only approved by a whisker to the conundrum as lying in more the country that voted “No” — something they can’t deal with.” the Maastricht Treaty on economic pan-European democracy and Quote of the day only fuels anger among critics Edouard Lecerf, global direc- and monetary union that created greater powers for the directly who see it as an elitist technoc- tor of Political and Opinion at the euro single currency, after the elected European Parliament, racy that ignores the popular will. pollster TNS-Sofres, said the main Danes had initially rejected it in a even though many voters see their It is all about rolling “It will probably lead to a cos- lesson from the Netherlands for 1993 referendum. national parliament as the centre metic solution, a little legal fix, Britain was that the ability of the French President Francois Hol- of democratic life and most did not up our sleeves and which in future will give more rea- rival camps to get their supporters lande, traumatised by the 2005 cast an EU ballot last time. getting to work. Don’t sons to vote ‘No’,” said Luuk Van to go out and vote will be crucial. referendum defeat of the EU’s Former Belgian prime minister Middelaar, a Dutch historian and “The European question has a Constitutional Treaty which split Guy Verhofstadt, a federalist who make promises you an aide to former European Coun- way of crystallising a whole series his Socialist party, has done eve- leads the centrist liberal group in can’t keep. cil President Herman Van Rompuy. of discontents about institutions, rything to avoid treaty change for the EU legislature, said he was not The Dutch “No” extended a policies and elites, with a high deeper eurozone integration to surprised by the Dutch outcome. dismal run of EU defeats since electoral payoff,” he said. avert another plebiscite. The EU has “Europe is not capable of deal- Hillary Clinton 2000 in plebiscites in Denmark Early polling in Britain sug- advanced beyond the single market ing with the big crises we face,” US Democrat frontrunner and Sweden on joining the euro, gested barely more than half the integration that could be sliced into he said. “We can only solve this and in Ireland, France and the electorate may take part in the a technocratic process and entered by working more closely together Netherlands on approving new referendum, Lecerf said, even far more politically sensitive areas and reform Europe. It is time for treaties giving greater powers to though the economic and strategic of control over national budgets, another way for Europe.”

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By Chelsea Harvey not enough. The researchers consid- The Washington Post ered food surplus to be equivalent to food waste, as it represents food that was not needed but produced anyway. he more scientists study the issue Presumably, the majority of a food sur- of food waste — and its worrying plus is wasted, although the researchers implications for both the envi- noted in the paper that some of it is ronment and global food security likely used for animal feed or is con- T— the clearer it becomes how much of a sumed by humans through overeating. problem it is. Now, new research is giving In order to estimate the greenhouse us a few more reasons to clean our plates. gases associated with food waste, the A study just out in the journal Envi- researchers turned to data from the FAO ronmental Science and Technology on the emissions associated with agri- concludes that we’re already producing culture. It’s important to note that they way more food than the world actually did not include emissions associated needs — but a lot of it is being wasted, with the energy required to operate instead of used to feed people who need farms, such as the electricity needed it. That’s a big problem for global food to run farm equipment -- they only security as well as for the climate, given included emissions produced by soil the huge amounts of greenhouse gases and livestock, mostly nitrous oxide and that go into producing the extra food — methane. This means that the emissions and the study suggests that the problem reported by the new study are signifi- will only get worse in the future. cantly underestimated. Scientists are already aware of how The study found that the global food bad food waste is for the environment. surplus increased overall between 1965 Just last week, we reported on the stag- and 2010 from 310 extra kilocalories gering carbon footprint associated with per person per day to 510 extra kilocal- wasted food — the UN’s Food and Agri- ories, with the greatest surplus growth culture Organization reported that, in rates generally observed in developed 2007, the emissions required to produce nations. all the food that went to waste in the As of 2010, 20 percent more food world amounted to at least 3.3 billion was being produced worldwide than tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, more was actually needed to feed the world’s than most countries emitted. This esti- population, and overall the research- mate included all the emissions required ers estimated that the global surplus to produce the uneaten food, including could be used to feed an extra 1.4 bil- emissions from soil, livestock and the lion people. The UN estimates that about energy required to run a farm. 800 million people worldwide suf- The new research, which was con- fer from undernourishment, meaning ducted by researchers from the Potsdam there’s currently enough wasted food Institute for Climate Impact Research in the world to solve the world’s hun- in Germany, suggests that in the future, ger problem nearly twice over —it just food waste will grow — and the asso- isn’t reaching the people who need it. ciated emissions will grow even faster. The researchers also found that the per year —again, excluding emissions wasted food is equivalent to the need- “When we’re talking about the future agricultural emissions associated with from the energy sector. less release of greenhouse gases, and food requirements — what can we do all the extra food more than quadrupled The study highlights several impor- the problem will only continue to grow to meet the future food demand — we between 1965 and 2010, from 130 million tant problems in the current global food unless concrete action is taken to stop it. found that to investigate food waste is tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to 530 system. First, the finding that there’s Such action will require steps to pre- a quite crucial aspect,” said the paper’s million tons. Again, these estimates don’t more food than necessary in the world, vent food loss on the production side, lead author Prajal Pradhan, a postdoc- include the carbon emissions associated while undernourishment still remains which experts have suggested could toral researcher at Potsdam. with energy use, so the reality is that a global problem, implies that there are be minimized with infrastructural The study highlights The researchers used UN data to the food waste’s carbon footprint was serious failings in the distribution of food improvements along the supply chain, calculate the difference between the even higher — more like 3 billion tonnes, worldwide. as well as action to minimize food waste several important amount of food available in each coun- going by the FAO’s previous research. “So much of poverty and famine on the consumer end. try and the amount its citizens require Moreover, all of these problems are aren’t about a lack of resources overall The latter may prove to be less problems in the in order to be healthy. For each coun- expected to grow worse in the coming -- they’re just distributional [problems],” straightforward, but experts have pro- current global try, there was either more food available decades. The researchers also conducted said Emily Broad Leib, an assistant clin- posed a number of steps, including than was needed to supply the nation’s a series of projections based on differ- ical professor of law and director of the consumer education campaigns and food system. First, requirements -- a food surplus -- or ent hypothetical scenarios involving the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic. more accurate expiration date label- the finding that future world’s energy requirements and “It’s not surprising to see that, and both ling on packaged food. population growth and demographics. across countries and within countries “One of the best outcomes would there’s more food They found that the food surplus will this challenge of the food markets really be getting consumers to make better The new research, which was continue to grow in most countries, and being attainable for certain segments of decisions and have less waste at the than necessary in the global surplus could grow as high the population and not for others.” household level and have supply chains the world, while conducted by researchers as 850 kilocalories per person per day. Addressing this problem, which adjust to that and redistribute that food Future waste-related emissions also likely stems in large part from income earlier in the chain,” said Broad Leib. undernourishment from the Potsdam Institute for increased in every scenario and grew at inequalities in countries where both sur- Such action will likely also be still remains a Climate Impact Research in an even greater rate than the global food plus and hunger exist simultaneously, important in helping the international surplus -- the result of predicted changes will be critical to addressing future food community meet a broader set of sus- global problem, Germany, suggests that in the in the global diet. In the future, meat is security. tainability goals outlined by the UN, expected to become an even greater And, of course, the study also reit- which include the goal of cutting food implies that there future, food waste will grow — component of diets around the world, erates the idea that food waste remains waste in half by 2030, Pradhan said. Pradhan explained — and meat is par- tied up with the issue of climate change. “This study can provide a nice basis are serious failings and the associated emissions ticularly energy intensive to produce. While research on the related carbon to show how much food is wasted now, in the distribution Altogether, food waste-related emissions emissions, themselves, has turned up and this information can be used also will grow even faster. could span anywhere from 1.9 to 2.5 bil- different values depending on the meth- to achieve this sustainable development of food worldwide. lion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent ods used to calculate them, it’s clear that goal,” he said. New reasons to question health of Europe’s banks

who chairs the ECB’s bank super- year it slipped to third, and so far this The current structure of the understood, it’s clear that the sector visory board, said earlier this week year it ranks fourth. At the end of 2015 banking system is “unfeasible,” does play an important role: that the central bank “is aware that the German lender was Europe’s 14 th and 90 percent of the world’s banks Having soundly capitalized banks the low-interest-rate environment is biggest bank; now it’s 20th. will have disappeared in the next turns out to be vital for the transmis- putting pressure on the profitability Deutsche Bank Chief Executive 20 years, sion of monetary policy, also. In this of European banks.” Regulators may Officer John Cryan said last month Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria sense, bank capitalisation ought to be respond by going easier when draft- that, burdened by restructuring and SA Chairman Francisco Gonzalez said a key concern for central banks in ful- ing new rules. legal costs, he doesn’t expect his firm in an interview published by El Pais filling their monetary policy mandate, Bank-failure rules to prescribe to be profitable this year.. It’s far from newspaper last week. Banks that can’t as well as for their financial stabil- how banks design their balance the only struggler; on Tuesday, Bar- cover their cost of capital aren’t via- ity mandate. sheets to absorb potential losses clays warned that its first-quarter ble, making industry consolidation The growing regulator concern A global panel of By Mark Gilbert may be eased, according to a Euro- investment banking income will be inevitable, he said. is sensible, if late. There’s no ques- regulators will Bloomberg pean Commission discussion paper worse than it was last year. In Italy, The conundrum facing Europe tion that the financial crisis exposed prepared last month. Meanwhile, a officials are scrambling to create is that regulators want to solve the the need for tighter regulations and hold a meeting in global panel of regulators will hold a state-backed fund to prop up an too-big-to-fail problem -- and take higher capital standards, and that London this month a meeting in London this month to industry burdened by more than revenge for the financial crisis -- some trading activities come with uropean banks have lost their let banks give additional feedback on ¤200bn ($228bn) of the 1.2 trillion by shrinking the banks. At the same unreasonable risks and are of no ben- to let banks give mojo. A toxic combination of proposed rules about how much cap- euros of bad loans hampering the time, they need the banks to be more efit to the wider economy. additional feedback Enegative interest rates, comatose ital they must set aside to back their euro zone’s recovery. active than ever to help resuscitate But unconventional monetary economies and a regulatory backdrop trading activities. No wonder ECB President Mario the economy. policies and a phalanx of new rules on proposed rules that might euphemistically be described This comes none too soon. The Draghi spent much of his press con- A drop in market capitalization risk destroying the ability of banks about how much as challenging is wreaking havoc with drop in industry capitalisation, ference a month ago answering inhibits banking’s efficacy in serv- to perform their basic role of taking capital they must bank business models. Their collec- which reflects investor unease about questions about the damage negative ing the wishes of central banks. In deposits and funding commercial tive market value has dropped by a future profitability, is rearranging the interest rates are doing to banks. They a speech Thursday to an ECB con- activity. As finance chiefs ponder set aside to back quarter so far this year. pecking order in European finance. have to pay for the privilege of holding ference, Hyun Song Shin, head of what a healthy bank should look their trading The smoke signals emanating Deutsche Bank, for example, was cash on deposit at the central bank, research at the Bank for Interna- like, now is a good time for regula- from the European Central Bank the most active manager of Euro- but can’t pass those costs onto their tional Settlements, said that while tors to pause and ponder what kind activities. in recent weeks suggest regulators pean bond sales in 2014 with a market own depositors. the function of the financial indus- of industry they want and need in aren’t blind to this. Daniele Nouy, share approaching 6.5 percent; last try in macroeconomics is not well the future.

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Kosovo’s former ‘Up All Night’ protests spread through France premier Hashim Thaci sworn in

brings together all those in precari- as president ous situations against the oligarchy”, Students have been describing the goal as “very ambitious”. AFP at the forefront of Students have been at the forefront weeks of sometimes of weeks of sometimes violent protests over the Socialist government’s labour PRISTINA: Kosovo’s powerful violent protests reforms, which will make it easier for former premier Hashim Thaci was over the Socialist struggling companies to fire people. sworn in as president yesterday in The reforms, which have already a session boycotted by opposition government’s labour been diluted once in a bid to placate crit- parties which dispute his election reforms, which will ics, are considered unlikely to achieve to the top job. their stated goal of reining in unem- Thaci’s inauguration followed make it easier for ployment, which stands at 25 percent his election to the post by MPs in struggling companies among young people. February, in a tense vote marred by The “Nuit Debout” (Up All Night) opposition tear gas protests in par- to fire people. movement has even spread across the liament and clashes on the streets border to Belgium, where a couple of of the capital Pristina. hundred people turned out onto the “I swear that I will dedicate streets of Brussels for the first protest all my powers to preserving the AFP there on Wednesday night. independence, sovereignty and Up All Night protesters say they are territorial integrity of the Repub- drawing inspiration from the Spanish lic of Kosovo,” Thaci said as he took protesters known as the Indignados, oath before MPs from the ruling PARIS: Anger over labour reforms has who gave rise to the far-left Podemos coalition and diplomats. spawned a protest movement dubbed party. Later addressing parliament, he “Up All Night” that is taking over French Tens of thousands of Indignados said his goals were Kosovo’s inte- city squares, with young people gath- occupied Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square gration into Nato and the EU and ering until dawn demanding social in 2011, furious over growing inequal- continuing “the process of normal- change. ity, spending cuts and corruption. ising relations with Serbia”. Kosovo Spreading from Paris to the west- Podemos MEP Miguel Urban Crespo declared independence from Serbia Around 200 high school students block the access to their school in Montpellier yesterday to protest against ern cities of Nantes and Rennes as well was among around 1,000 people who in 2008 under Thaci’s leadership, as Toulouse in the southwest, the pro- turned out for Tuesday night’s protest the government’s planned labour reform. but Belgrade refuses to recognise testers have been occupying central in Paris. “One has to understand that its sovereignty. squares overnight until police disperse if we don’t do politics ourselves, (pol- “cannot think they have a monopoly police during protests against the labour “No one knows what this will lead Opposition members refused to them at daybreak. iticians) will do it for us, against our on the truth.” Le Foll admitted there law last week. to (but) don’t forget what was achieved” attend Thaci’s swearing in because In Paris, hundreds of people have interests,” Urban Crespo said. was a parallel with the Indignados, but “I’m not a member of a union or in Spain by the Indignados, said Hegoa they insist his election was unlaw- been gathering every night since March On Wednesday, French government stressed the “contingencies of reality”, a political party,” one woman said as Garay, a worker’s rights activist. ful, claiming irregularities in the 31 at the vast Place de la Republique. spokesman Stephane Le Foll played pointing to the Venezuelan revolution she joined the demo in Nantes. “We “The labour law was a catalyst,” vote, but Kosovo’s constitutional The labour reforms — which have down the importance of the protest “shattered by falling oil prices” and are not in control of our future, we said a 21-year-old philosophy stu- court dismissed their complaint. sparked angry protests across France movement while saying it deserved Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s have no way of acting on the issues dent who gave his name as Loick. Thaci, 47, rose to prominence — are a unifying theme of the gath- “respect”. “There’s no need for con- humiliating concessions to interna- that concern us.” “I think it was a big mistake by the during the 1998-1999 war with erings, but the movement embraces a cern,” he told reporters. “I don’t dispute tional creditors. The movement kicked off Tuesday government, but we thank them,” Serbia as political leader of the range of anti-establishment grievances. the fact that... people need to ask ques- Hundreds of young people in as well in Toulouse, gathering some he smiled. Fresh daytime protests pro-independence ethnic Albanian An organiser said the aim was to tions and that should be respected.” Nantes and Rennes began their pro- 300 people vowing to “bring strug- against the labour law are planned Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and “build a strong social movement that But he said that the protesters tests Tuesday after clashing with riot gles together”. across France for Saturday. he has since served two terms as prime minister. But his reputation has been sul- lied by a 2011 Council of Europe report which accused him of head- Make Yourself Pretty! French minister sets ing a mafia-style network involved in assassinations, unlawful deten- tions and even trafficking captives’ organs during and after the war — up own political party charges he strongly denies. Thaci, who served as foreign minister before his election as pres- AFP Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a former ident, has taken a lead role in the centre-right prime minister, said talks to improve relations between this week he could even imagine Kosovo and Serbia, which are a Macron as premier under a centre- key requirement for both sides to PARIS: Reform-minded French Econ- right president such as Alain Juppe, become EU members. Thaci won omy Minister Emmanuel Macron has who is leading opinion polls ahead support from 71 deputies in the 120- set up his own political movement of the 2017 election. seat parliament in the third and final saying he wants to find “new ideas” “The best prime minister for a pres- round of February’s vote. for France in a move that will fuel ident from the moderate right would speculation over the former bank- be Emmanuel Macron,” Raffarin said. Macedonia oppn er’s presidential ambitions. Macron’s initiative got a cooler response Macron, 38, announced the cre- from the first secretary of the Social- to boycott polls ation of “En Marche” (“On the Move”) ist party, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, in a carefully choreographed appear- with whom he has often clashed. SKOPJE: Macedonia’s main oppo- ance Wednesday in front of 1,500 “If he helps to widen the majority sition party said it will boycott a people in his home town of Amiens in (for the Socialists), then his contribu- “sham” election in June, as parlia- northern France. “I’ve taken my time, tion is positive,” he said Thursday. But ment dissolved ahead of the vote I’ve thought about it, I’ve consulted if he wanted to move the Socialists which is supposed to end a polit- and I’ve decided that we are going to more to the right, “then he is on the ical crisis. The June 5 election is create a new political movement, one wrong track,” he said. Macron has cut part of a European Union-backed that will be neither on the right or the against the grain of French politics deal reached last year between the Copies of the Nefertiti bust wearing sunglasses by German artist Isa Genzken are on display at an left,” said Macron, often dubbed the since Hollande appointed his former government and the opposition to exhibition preview at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. The exhibition ‘Isa Genzken: “rock star” of French politics. economic advisor a minister in 2014 end months of turmoil. Make Yourself Pretty!’ runs from April 9 to June 26. He insisted the 2017 presiden- when he was a virtual unknown. But Zoran Zaev, leader of the tial election — just 13 months away In a country famously adverse opposition Social Democratic Union — was “not my priority today”, but he to change, the former Rothschild of Macedonia (SDSM), said late that pointedly did not throw his support banker and graduate of the elite ENA his party would boycott the election, behind Socialist President Francois school has forced through pro-busi- alleging a lack of reforms required Hollande, who is aiming for re-elec- ness reforms, for example increasing for a fair vote. “The SDSM is not going Eurosceptics hail victory after tion despite abysmal approval ratings. the number of Sundays on which shops to participate in the sham election “Whoever it is in 2017, if we do not can open. He attributes France’s on June 5,” Zaev said before parlia- clearly set out a vision for the country, 10-percent unemployment rate to ment dissolved at midnight. Dutch ‘No’ vote on EU-Kiev deal if there is not an open debate, then “a lack of competitiveness” and the The vote in the former Yugoslav he or she will not succeed,” he said. lack of “mobility” in society. republic of about 2.1 million peo- Macron portrayed the new move- The fresh-faced economy minis- ple had initially been scheduled ment as a think-tank that would listen ter’s private life also fascinates many for April 24, but the ruling VMRO- AFP The bloc is already battling deep what to do next. Dutch news agency to ideas from other parties of the right French people. His wife Brigitte is DPMNE party agreed to postpone it divisions over its handling of the con- ANP projected that while only 32 per- and left—providing they held “republi- nearly 20 years his senior and they met after US and EU ambassadors said tinent’s biggest migration crisis since cent of the electorate had cast their can” ideals, a label often used to exclude at his high school where she taught. preparations for “credible” polls World War II and financial meltdowns ballot, it was enough to ensure the the far-right National Front (FN). She attends some of his meetings. were insufficient. THE HAGUE: The Dutch “No” to an EU in several member countries including non-binding referendum is valid and pact with Ukraine dealt a fresh blow Greece. British Prime Minister David must be considered by the government. to European unity yesterday, handing Cameron nevertheless voiced hope “We are now going to look at the eurosceptics a symbolic victory ahead the vote would not boost the cam- process step-by-step,” Rutte said, of Britain’s in-out referendum in June. paign for Britain to leave the bloc in adding a final decision on what to do Danish police arrest four alleged IS fighters European leaders were lick- the June 23 referendum. “may still take weeks.” Facing a fresh ing their wounds after preliminary “It is important that the European headache on the bloc’s legitimacy, EU results showed that over 61 percent institutions and the Dutch govern- President Donald Tusk said he would AFP and Copenhagen police,” the state- and last month’s bombings in Brussels, of those who voted were opposed to ment listen carefully to what people be in contact with Rutte. ment said. Under Danish terrorism both blamed on homegrown militants the Brussels-Kiev agreement in what are saying, to try and understand that “I need to hear what conclusions law, “letting oneself be recruited to radicalised and trained by IS. was seen as a wider barometer of anti- and to try and work with that,” Cam- he and his government will draw from commit acts of (terrorism)” is punish- Around 4,000 Europeans have trav- EU feeling. eron said. But he added: “I don’t think the referendum and what his inten- COPENHAGEN: Copenhagen police able with up to six years in jail. elled to Syria and Iraq to join extremist “The ‘No’ camp clearly won,” Dutch it has any effect on us because we tions will be,” Tusk said. said yesterday that they had detained “At one of the addresses we groups as foreign fighters, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte — whose have a bigger question.” Rutte “is in a tricky situation,” said four people on suspicion of joining (searched) today we found some weap- a study from the Hague-based Inter- country currently holds the rotating EU However, Nigel Farage, leader of the political analyst Claes de Vreese. “He the Islamic State group in Syria and ons and ammunition,” police inspector national Centre for Counter-Terrorism presidency — said late on Wednesday. anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), will now quickly have to figure out seized weapons and ammunition in Poul Kjeldsen told reporters. A per- released last week. Ukraine itself vowed the results hailed it as a “tremendous victory for what the biggest gripes are of those a search linked to the arrests. son living at the address had links to Data from Denmark showed that would not be an obstacle to its push democracy”. “Time and again, voters who voted no and see if he can do All four were suspected of break- one of Copenhagen’s criminal gangs, 125 people had left the country to fight for closer ties with the 28-member are choosing to reject Brussels when- something about it” in Brussels, De ing Denmark’s terrorism law while in police later said on Twitter. in Syria or Iraq, and that 62 of those European Union away from the orbit ever they are consulted about the EU,” Vreese said. Syria, and were arrested in the Copen- “The arrests took place as part of were believed to have returned to the of former Soviet master Russia. added Matthew Elliott, chief executive “Eurosceptics will of course use hagen area, police said in a statement the effort against people letting them- Scandinavian country. But European Commission head of Vote Leave, another pro-Brexit group. this as an example of growing dis- without giving any further informa- selves be recruited to terror groups in The Danish city of Aarhus has Jean-Claude Juncker, who had warned The Dutch referendum, organised cord over the European Union,” De tion on their identities. the war-torn areas in Syria and north- drawn international attention for ahead of the referendum a “No” could by eurosceptic groups, was seen as an Vreese added. But he and other ana- “The suspects have been identified ern Iraq,” police said. its “soft-hands” approach to battling open the doors to “a “continental cri- embarrassment for Rutte’s coalition lysts warned that given the low turnout, through investigations carried out in A preliminary hearing was sched- the radicalisation of young Muslims sis”, was said to be saddened by the government, which backed a “Yes” the “No” vote was not representative close cooperation between the Dan- uled to be held today. Europe is on edge with social techniques used in gang outcome. vote, and leaves it with a dilemma of of all 12.5 million eligible voters. ish Security and Intelligence Service after the Paris attacks in November exit strategies. AMERICAS FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 13

Venezuelans get Fridays off for Clinton and Sanders get tough two months to save energy Papers,” which lay bare how ter- ror groups, drug cartels and pariah The New York primary countries can hide money in banking AFP on April 19 has turned havens, by conflating it with Clinton’s into a battle ground, support for a 2012 Panama free trade agreement. CARACAS: Venezuelan workers where Clinton needs “I don’t think you are qualified if will get Fridays off for the next two a commanding win you supported the Panama free trade months as part of an emergency agreement, something I very strongly plan to save electricity, the pres- in her adopted home opposed, which has made it easier for ident said. state, which elected wealthy people and corporations all Venezuela has the world’s over the world to avoid paying taxes largest proven oil reserves but its her twice to the owed to their countries,” he told a rally economy is a mess, with rampant Senate in 2000 and in Philadelphia on Wednesday. inflation, shortages of goods as basic 2004. Sanders contended at the time that as soap and toilet paper and con- the free trade agreement would make stant blackouts. it harder for the United States to crack Now, because of a severe drought down on offshore tax havens in Panama. that has left levels at hydroelectric Clinton, who said on a campaign dams at extremely low levels, in AFP stop on Wednesday that she would shut order save on electricity the gov- down “outrageous tax havens and loop- ernment is effectively shutting the holes” if elected president, helped push labor force down for a three-day through the trade deal through Con- weekend, starting this Friday and NEW YORK: Hillary Clinton and leftist gress when she was secretary of state. lasting until June 6. challenger Bernie Sanders turned up The former first lady has repeat- The decision was announced the heat yesterday in the Democratic edly questioned whether Sanders is a by President Nicolas Maduro in race for the White House, locking horns qualified commander-in-chief when a speech on state TV. He said the over trade and the “Panama Papers” the 74-year-old Senator has served country is in dire straits because scandal ahead of the New York primary. his entire career in the small state of of low water level in Venezuela’s 18 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigns with Bronx borough President Ruben Diaz Jr Clinton, the frontrunner and former Vermont, first as mayor then as rep- hydroelectric dams. As an example, secretary of state, holds a six-point resentative in Congress. in New York City yesterday. The former US secretary of state first spoke outside of Yankee Stadium before he cited the Guri dam in southeast lead over Sanders in the RealClear- “It is all about rolling up our sleeves riding the subway from the 161st Street station to the 170th Street station. Bolivia state. It supplies 70 percent Politics national poll average but lost and getting to work. Don’t make prom- of the country’s electricity. Maduro seven of the last eight voting contests ises you can’t keep,” she told reporters part of the state voted Clinton into the interests. You know, she’s really made liability against the parents of the said its water level is just three cen- to the Vermont senator. Thursday while campaigning in the Senate, but critics say they have not seen a deal with the devil, and the devil children killed at Sandy Hook is just timeters (roughly one inch) above The New York primary on April 19 Bronx, where she rode the subway the job growth they were expecting. always wants his due. So that time will unimaginable to me,” she told MSNBC what is considered the critical level. has turned into a battle ground, where joined by a local Democrat politician. Sanders has resonated strongly come,” he said. on Wednesday. Maduro also ordered state-run Clinton needs a commanding win in her “Know what you want to achieve and among voters, particularly independ- In Philadelphia on Wednesday, Clinton and Sanders also sparred industries to cut their electricity con- adopted home state, which elected her then bring everybody together to get ents, for his steadfast opposition the Clinton criticised Sanders, saying for days about holding a debate ahead of sumption by 20 percent, just as he has twice to the Senate in 2000 and 2004. the results and that is what I’m going trans-Pacific trade deal signed by Pres- “in a number of important areas, he the New York primary—now scheduled ordered the government to do. But he Sanders, who was born and raised to do.” ident Barack Obama that Clinton has doesn’t have a plan at all.” for April 14 in Brooklyn, the borough stopped short of ordering electric- in Brooklyn, must capitalise on his New York, America’s largest city and only opposed more recently. This week she also ripped into her where Sanders was born and which ity rationing in the residential sector, recent momentum by winning in New one of its most diverse, has demograph- “If the Clinton campaign wants to opponent for saying in a newspaper Clinton made her national campaign which is the largest consumer of elec- York and in Pennsylvania on April 26 ics that play well to Clinton’s support engage in a more bare-knuckled kind interview that he did not agree with headquarters. tricity in Venezuela, or mandating to keep alive his hopes of snatching the base among the wealthy and minori- of approach, we’re happy to do that efforts by parents of children killed in Clinton leads Sanders 54-42 per- utility rate hikes. Democratic nomination from party ties, but observers warn there may be as well,” Sanders’s campaign direc- a shooting at a Connecticut elemen- cent among likely Democratic voters in favourite Clinton. tougher terrain outside the city. tor Jeff Weaver told MSNBC yesterday. tary school to sue gun manufacturers. New York and 50-44 percent in Penn- The 74-year-old senator sought Communities in the more econom- “Secretary Clinton is funded by “That he would place gun manu- sylvania, according to Quinnipiac US senators vote to capitalize on the leaked “Panama ically hard-hit western and northern Wall Street interests and other special facturers’ rights and immunity from University polls. to bolster travel US teen latest victim in security in FAA bill Reuters

Takata airbag deaths WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted yesterday to bolster travel security in the wake of the Brus- AFP sels attacks with measures that include doubling the number of Investigators suspect transportation security teams with that the chemical bomb-sniffing dogs at domestic air- WASHINGTON: Honda has confirmed ports and other transit hubs. another death involving a Takata air- used to inflate Takata Lawmakers voted overwhelm- bag, bringing the global total to 11 airbags can be ingly to add security measures to a fatalities in a scandal that has set off unstable, especially separate bill that calls for renewing the biggest auto recall in US history. the programs of the Federal Aviation The latest death came last week under constant Administration through September when a 17-year-old Texas teenager heat and humidity 2017. The FAA bill is expected to come died from injuries sustained after up for a final vote later this month. her 2002 Honda Civic collided with conditions, and cause After Republicans and Dem- another car, activating the defective the inflator canister ocrats reached a deal on security airbag. Honda’s US unit on Wednes- measures earlier in the day, law- day confirmed the death, which is to rupture. makers voted to raise the number the 10th reported in the United States of Visible Intermodal Preven- while another person was killed after and regulatory probes over claims it tion Response, or VIPER, teams an accident in Malaysia. covered up the defect for years. within the Transportation Secu- The Japanese carmaker said it Bloomberg News said the firm’s rity Administration from 31 to 60. had sent multiple letters advising airbag-recall costs could reach an VIPER teams, which are intended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (fourth left) during the ‘Women in Defence of Democracy’ event at the that the car should be brought in for eye-watering 2.7 trillion yen ($24bn). as a visible deterrent to attacks, can Planalto Palace in Brasilia yesterday. repairs, but it was never fixed. “Dur- Takata and its carmaker clients, be deployed at airports and train ing an inspection...American Honda including top client Honda, are still or bus stations. confirmed that the Takata driver’s hashing out how the costs would be Other measures would bolster airbag inflator ruptured in the crash shared, Bloomberg said, citing an the vetting of airport employees, Rousseff calls for ‘grand pact’ of a 2002 Honda Civic on March 31, unnamed source. add security to vulnerable check- 2016...resulting in the tragic death of Some 50 million Takata airbags in and baggage claim areas and the driver,” Honda said in a statement. have been recalled globally, includ- authorize the TSA to donate security Tokyo-based auto parts giant ing about 28 million in the United equipment to foreign airports with to save Brazil from crisis Takata is struggling to deal with a States with tens of millions more direct flights to the United States. defect that can cause the airbag to recalls expected. The approved provisions would deploy with explosive force, sending Investigators increasingly sus- also order a new US assessment of AFP case should go ahead. Jovair Arantes, the conservative, pro-impeachment metal and plastic shrapnel from the pect that the chemical used to inflate foreign cargo security programs rapporteur for a special impeach- Democratas party. “Now we have to inflator canister hurtling toward driv- Takata airbags can be unstable, and provide grant money to train ment commission in the lower house find out the position of the whole com- ers and passengers — in some cases especially under constant heat and state, local and foreign authorities of Congress, said he had concluded mission ... and then we move on to killing them or causing grisly injuries. humidity conditions, and cause the in how to respond to mass-casu- BRASÍLIA: Embattled Brazilian the “legal admissibility” of the case the main battle in the full chamber.” Takata has been hit by lawsuits inflator canister to rupture. alty and “active shooter” incidents. President Dilma Rousseff, fighting against the leftist president. Rousseff is accused of presiding impeachment, called yesterday for “The magnitude and scope of over large-scale fiddling of govern- a “grand pact” to unify the country the violations made by the pres- ment accounts to mask the depth of and change the way politics is done. ident of the republic constitute a budgetary shortfalls during her ree- “Brazil needs a grand pact. Bra- serious abuse,” he said. lection in 2014. Tyre innovation could boost Zika control zil has already overcome difficult The decision was given in a lengthy The president — highly unpopular moments by making pacts,” she report that Arantes read aloud, live on because of a severe recession and a said, saying that she should not be national television, to the 65-member giant corruption scandal — says she AFP trap. The strip can be removed weekly creates an opportunity to clean up the forced from office. “No agreement will impeachment commission, sometimes has committed no impeachment-wor- and the eggs destroyed by using fire local environment,” said researcher work without the premise of respect interrupted by deputies shouting and thy crime and claims she is the victim or ethanol. Health experts are hope- Gerardo Ulibarri of Laurentian Uni- for legality and democracy. The first arguing. Although Arantes’ decision of a coup attempt. Ze Geraldo, from ful that the trap could help people versity in Ontario. premise must be the defense of the was non-binding and mostly sym- Rousseff’s Workers’ Party, shrugged OTTAWA: Researchers said yesterday in remote areas where screens and Researchers tested the traps in the popular will demonstrated at elec- bolic, it meant the opposition drew off the setback. that they have found a way to fash- air conditioning are rare, to reduce Guatemalan town of Sayaxche over the tions,” she said. first blood just as an increasingly bitter The lower chamber’s mood swings ion a cheap mosquito trap out of old people’s contact with the kind of mos- course of 10 months. They “collected Rousseff said she would agree to battle to remove Brazil’s first woman almost daily, with Rousseff sometimes tyres that can collect thousands of quitoes that spread Zika. and destroyed over 18,100 Aedes eggs working for “absolutely necessary president from office gathers pace. appearing to have run out of allies eggs that may carry the Zika virus. “We decided to use recycled tyres per month using 84 ovillantas in seven political reforms” if she could stay On Monday, the full commission before winning an unexpected boost. The contraption is called an “ovil- — partly because tyres already repre- neighborhoods,” said the study. in power. “That is the pact I’m look- will vote its recommendation. Then Rousseff’s ruling coalition took a huge lanta”, and consists of cutout tyres sent up to 29 percent of the breeding The tyre traps were also far ing for,” she said in the capital Brasilia. on April 18, the lower house of Con- hit last week when the PMDB party, and a liquid solution that lures Aedes sites chosen by the Aedes aegypti cheaper, costing only 20 percent Rousseff did not give any detail gress meets to hold a decisive vote on headed by Vice President Michel Temer, aegypti mosquitoes, which can trans- mosquitoes, partly because tires are what it would to target adult insects about what she was proposing. whether impeachment will go ahead. went into opposition. Her Workers’ mit chikungunya, dengue and Zika. a universally affordable instrument with pesticides, researchers said. The A parliamentary commission yes- “Today’s vote was expected,” Party is now scrambling to build a The females lay their eggs on a in low-resource settings, and partly project was funded by the Canadian terday found that her impeachment said Mendonca Filho, a deputy from new alliance. wooden or paper strip inside the tyre because giving old tires a new use government. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Qatar’s new insurance instructions credit positive: Moody’s

The Peninsula issued operating instructions and offshore-domiciled Qatar Finan- Insurance Company, Qatar Insurance an economic view of the risks borne actuarial-led reserve-setting, monitor- governance principals for insurers cial Centre),” said Moody’s note. Company, Qatar General Insurance & by insurers, including underwriting, ing and reporting will enhance reserve operating in Qatar. These instruc- “Qatar is the third-largest and one Reinsurance Company, Doha Insurance market, liquidity, credit and opera- adequacy and improve underwriting tions were related to licensing, of the fastest growing insurance mar- Company, Al Khaleej Takaful Group tional risk. profitability by encouraging insurers DOHA: The recent instructions issued regulations and controls, risk man- kets in the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Qatar Islamic Insurance Company. The instructions also set out spe- to set premiums in line with under- by the Qatar Central Bank (QCB) for agement, accounting and actuaries expanding at a compound annual The new law stipulates that listed cific requirements on investments, writing risks and become increasingly insurers operating in Qatar are credit reports. The instructions include pru- growth rate of 21 percent over the insurance companies must have capital changes that we expect will improve selective about the risks they under- positive. These instructions are credit dential requirements and took effect past 10 years, and we estimate that greater than QR100m or their risk- insurers’ asset quality. They include write,” said the note. positive as they will strengthen sev- this month. the insurance market grew at 25 per- based capital (RBC) requirement, while new limits on risky asset classes and “These enhanced regulations and eral credit characteristics, including “The QCB’s instructions aim to cent in 2015, with the top six insurers unlisted insurance companies must concentration risk. implied additional costs of monitor- capital, asset quality and reserve ade- ensure the stability and sustaina- achieving growth of 28 percent in 2015 have capital higher than the figure “We consider asset quality to be ing, managing and reporting may also quacy, said Moody’s Investors Service bility of the insurance industry by in their Qatari operations,” it added. set by the QCB or their RBC require- the key credit weakness for many Gulf encourage consolidation among some in a note yesterday. improving the solvency of the 31 Insurers that will benefit from the ment. The RBC is the company-specific Cooperation Council insurers and these smaller insurers, potentially reducing On March 30, QCB Governor H E insurance companies operating in new law include the largest Qatari minimum capital and solvency cap- steps are a positive development. We competitive pressures and aiding mar- Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al Thani Qatar (17 of which operate in the insurance groups: Damaan Islamic ital requirement that incorporates also expect that a requirement for ket stability,” it added.

Kenya’s Chase Bank put under receivership WTO cuts 2016 QE index gains global trade forecast to 2.8%

133.74 points GENEVA: The World Trade Organ- isation yesterday revised its 2016 global trade forecast downward by more than one percentage point, All Share Index gained 1.13 percent to warning that a slowdown in China The Qatari Investors 2,827.84 points, reports QNA. and broad market volatility contin- However, when compared on ued to threaten growth. Group led trading weekly basis, the QE index lost 211.44 In September, the WTO esti- value last week points, or 2.04 percent, during last mated that global trade would rise week compared to the previous by 3.9 percent this year, but low- and accounted for week. Trading value during the week ered that projection to 2.8 percent, 17.23 percent of the decreased by 7.95 percent to reach in an updated forecast. “Trade is QR1.7bn compared to about QR1.85bn still registering positive growth, total traded value. during the previous week. albeit at a disappointing rate,” Gulf Warehousing Trading volume decreased by 12.41 WTO Director-General Robert percent to reach 42,386,514 shares, as Azevedo said. accounted for 10.25 against 48,392,413 shares, while the The WTO listed “a sharper- percent and Masraf number of transactions rose by 3.52 than-expected slowing in China Al Rayan accounted percent, to reach 26,719 transactions (and) worsening financial market as compared to 25,810 transactions. volatility” as factors that could fur- for 9.55 percent. Market cap fell by 1.87 percent ther suppress global trade this year. during the week to reach QR543.65bn The organisation predicted that Kenyans read a public notice placed on a closed door at a Chase Bank branch in , , yesterday. as compared to QR 554.03bn at the global trade would tick upwards end of previous week. Kenya’s central bank has placed Chase Bank in receivership for 12 months after it misreported its loans by 3.6 percent in 2017, on the back The Peninsula Banking and Financial Services and suffered a mass panic withdrawals. of increased demand for imported sector led traded value this week goods in Asia. with 28.03 percent of the total traded value. Industries sector accounted DOHA: Qatar Exchange’s (QE) for 27.54 percent. Consumer Goods benchmark index gained 133.74 and Services sector accounted for points, or 1.33 percent yesterday 15.82 percent and Transportation when the bourse closed trading at sector accounted for 12.15 percent. ECB insists latest policy measures are working 10,164.76 points. Banking and Financial Services sec- The daily turnover yesterday tor led traded volume during the week increased to QR379.39m with a vol- with 29.89 percent of the total traded AFP “They underline our determina- ECB’s policy moves measures coincided ume of 9,278,837 shares from 5,553 volume. Industries sector accounted tion to fulfil the mandate entrusted to with new economic shocks, such as deals compared to QR349.57m with for 20.86 percent. Real Estate sector us, namely to bring inflation back to the plunge in oil prices. a volume of 7,843,947 shares from accounted for 16.66 percent and the below, but close to, two percent.. These “The monetary policy package the 5,222 deals on Wednesday. share of Consumer Goods and Services FRANKFURT: The raft of recent pol- measures also show we have no short- ECB has adopted since June 2014 has From the 43 companies listed on sector stood at 13.95 percent. icy measures by the European Central age of tools available,” Draghi said. been effective,” Praet insisted. QE, shares of 40 saw trading yester- Banking and Financial Serv- Bank are working and should help push At a meeting on March 9 and 10, But the ECB should not be seen day. From these 31 gained, eight closed ices sector led traded number of eurozone inflation back up to levels the ECB’s governing council fired off as the sole solution to the eurozone’s lower and one remained unchanged. transactions this week with 25.2 compatible with healthy economic a new volley of shots in its ongoing economic woes and other policy areas Barring transport index which percent of the total number of trans- growth, both its president and chief battle to avert deflation in the euro must also act, he said. declined by 0.13 percent, indices of actions. Industries sector accounted economist said yesterday. area and jumpstart economic recov- “We have consistently maintained all other sectors gained. for 25.07 percent. Consumer Goods “The measures we announced on ery in the region. since summer 2014 that a strong and QE Total Return Index gained and Services sector accounted for March 10 will further contribute to The ECB slashed already record- are proving ineffective. “In 2016, it sustainable recovery the crisis requires 1.33 percent to 16,380.42 points. QE 15.29 percent and Real Estate sector achieving our aim of price stability,” low interest rates, said it would pump would have been at least half a per- a comprehensive response that involves Al Rayan Islamic Index gained 0.84 accounted for 11.54 percent. From ECB chief Mario Draghi (pictured) massive new sums into the banking centage point lower than we forecast all economic policies. A return to higher percent to 3,966.25 points and QSE the 43 listed companies nine com- said in a speech in Lisbon. system and, for the first time, would currently and around half a percent- structural growth and employment panies ended this week Addressing the Portugese coun- start buying corporate bonds. age point lower in 2017,” Praet said. cannot depend on monetary policy,” higher, while 33 fell and cil of state, Draghi acknowledged that In a separate speech in Frank- The ECB is currently pencilling in Praet said. one unchanged. “of course, it will take time for these furt, the ECB’s chief economist Peter an annual inflation rate of just 0.1 per- Draghi sent the same message. The Qatari Investors latest measures to start working their Praet said that consumer prices in the cent for this year and 1.3 percent next “The ECB cannot single-handedly cre- Group led trading value way through the economy and deliv- euro area would have declined last year. Turning to economic growth, “the ate the conditions for a sustainable last week and accounted ering their full benefits.” year and economic growth would be impact of the policy measures on euro recovery in growth,” he said in Lisbon. for 17.23 percent of the Nevertheless, they constituted weaker than it is if it had not been for area GDP (gross domestic product) is “Our policies can support a cyclical total traded value. Gulf a “substantial package which gives the measures. also sizeable,” Praet said. recovery, but they cannot by them- Warehousing accounted priority to loans for households and “In the absence of our policy pack- “According to the staff assessment, selves remove structural impediments for 10.25 percent and Mas- businesses, thus further supporting age inflation would have been negative our policy is contributing to raise euro to growth. This requires a concerted raf Al Rayan accounted economic activity in the euro area,” in 2015,” Praet said, countering growing area GDP by around 1.5 percent in the effort in terms of economic and fis- for 9.55 percent. the president argued. criticism that the ECB’s policy measures period 2015-18.” Praet stressed that the cal policies,” the president insisted. BUSINESS FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 15

New car ferry logo Iraq to lower oil Gulf’s bond market thaws price forecast to $32 a barrel in as panic over oil fades 2016 budget

Reuters introduced austerity steps to curb their of issuers followed, including Bahrain’s budget deficits. Most GCC currencies government, Kuwait Projects Co and Improved sentiment have rebounded in the forwards mar- the Jeddah-based Islamic Develop- BAGHDAD: Iraq plans to lower the was seen in the kets, showing investors no longer think ment Bank, but deal flow was sporadic oil price forecast in its 2016 budget response to a devaluations may be imminent. and order books were small. to about $32 a barrel from $45, wid- Improved sentiment was seen in The Ahli Bank bond, with a guar- ening its fiscal deficit by several $500m, five-year the response to a $500m, five-year antor rating of A+ by Fitch and A2 billion dollars, the International debut bond this debut bond this week by Qatar’s Ahli by Moody’s, suggests demand has Monetary Fund (IMF) and a senior Bank , which attracted a sizeable order returned to healthy levels, which could government official said. week by Qatar’s book of around $1.2bn — the kind of encourage a series of new issues in The new price estimate is based Ahli Bank, which total seen before mid-2015, when low the region. Yesterday, Kuwait Food Co on the continued low level of glo- oil prices began to shake confidence said it would seek shareholder assent bal oil prices in recent months, said attracted a sizeable in the Gulf. to issue bonds in currencies includ- Marwa Al Nasaa, Amman-based order book of around A benchmark five-year sukuk sale ing Kuwaiti dinars. IMF resident representative for Iraq. by the Jeddah-based Islamic Corpora- The Ahli deal saw strong interna- “We’re setting it closer to $30 $1.2bn — the kind tion for the Development of the Private tional demand with around 20 percent based on the climate of international of total seen before Sector, which opened on Tuesday, took of investors coming from Asia, 50 per- futures prices since November,” she mid-2015. an additional day to close, however, cent from the Middle East and the rest said yesterday. and was trimmed to $300m from the from Europe and elsewhere, said a The adjustment is expected to $500m originally envisaged. banker involved in the transaction. add about $6bn to the Opec produc- The contrast suggests that while The bond traded at 100.50 points in er’s budget deficit unless offsetting demand has returned to the Gulf the secondary market on Thursday, measures are taken, said the Iraqi Reuters bond market, attitudes to pricing are up from a reoffer price of 99.394. official, who requested anonymity very different than they were before But ICD, which set its initial pric- to speak about ongoing government mid-2015. “Demand for Gulf bonds ing guidance at 125 to 130 basis points deliberations. has improved following stabilised oil over mid-swaps, printed at the wider Iraq’s current budget, which DUBAI: Two issues in the Gulf’s inter- prices, general improvement in the end of that guidance after attracting projects oil exports of 3.6 million national bond market this week show outlook for emerging market credits, orders of less than $500m, mainly barrels per day, predicts a deficit of a panic over low oil prices has faded better regional government finances, from lead managers, a source famil- 24 trillion Iraqi dinars ($20.56 bn). and foreign investors are once again and dividend distribution increas- iar with the matter said. willing to buy into the region’s debt ing liquidity in the hands of regional ICD’s aggressive initial pricing FINANCES HIT — but they remain extremely sensi- investors,” said Chirag Doshi, sen- might have been accepted early last The drop in oil prices over the tive to pricing. ior vice-president for investments at year, when low yields in emerging past two years has battered Bagh- The market froze up in the final Qatar Insurance Co. markets made investors desperate dad’s finances as it wages a battle quarter of last year as oil prices plunged “But investors are increasingly for Gulf debt at almost any price, but against Islamic State militants in below $30 a barrel, raising fears about price-sensitive because there is still that is no longer the case. the north and west and confronts the viability of Gulf economies in an much uncertainty around oil prices.” An October 2020 sukuk from Saudi a political crisis that threatens to The new logo of the car ferry “Jean Nicoli” operated by the era of cheap crude. In mid-January, the emirate of Arabia-based Arab Petroleum Invest- bring down the government. Since then, oil has rebounded to Sharjah reopened the Gulf market ments Corp, which like ICD is rated Corsica Linea company is seen in the port of Marseille, France, Iraq, which relies on oil for around $40 and the six Gulf Coop- after a three-month lull by raising Aa3 by Moody’s, was trading at 155 yesterday. more than 90 percent of its rev- eration Council governments have $500m in Islamic bonds. A handful bps over its Z-spread yesterday. enue and sells at a discount to global benchmark crudes, earned an average of $24 a barrel in the first two months of the year and $28 in March, the Iraqi official said late on Wednesday. “We have Greece hopes for draft deal soon despite EU-IMF rift to rebuild the budget taking this into consideration.” The revised budget, which Reuters the talks told Reuters. “There will be a document from the belt-tightening. But the delays have has not been finalised, is part of The IMF, which will decide whether side of the three European institutions cast a shadow on his plans. Iraq’s negotiations for a standby to co-finance Greece’s third bailout - basically the ESM - and another doc- Some of the measures discussed - agreement (SBA) with the IMF, the after the review and in light of how ument, drawn up with the IMF. These the management of bad loans, pension official added. The SBA financ- ATHENS: Greece hopes to agree this much debt relief Greece receives, documents will look alike but won’t cuts and tax hikes - were politically dif- ing could be approved as early week with its foreign creditors the pack- believes Athens will miss its 2018 be the same,” Finance Minister Euclid ficult for Tsipras’ left-wing government, as June, unlocking $15bn in inter- age of measures it needs to legislate surplus target, even if it implements Tsakalotos said after meeting the four which was re-elected in September national assistance over the next to conclude a crucial bailout review, measures worth 3 percent of GDP, the inspectors on Wednesday. on promises to mitigate the impact three years. but differences among EU and IMF official said. “We hope to finish on Sunday of austerity. “If an SBA is reached, part of institutions remain, sources close to EU institutions believed the target by teatime,” the British-educated To achieve its targets, Athens aims that financing gap will be met by the talks said yesterday. was feasible. Faced with a huge refugee economist said. If concluded, the to save one percentage point from IMF and other donor financing, but The review has dragged on for crisis - which has catapulted Greece review will pave the way for talks on cutting pension spending, another it will not close the entire gap,” months mainly due to a rift among to the forefront of a massive refugee debt relief with the EU and poten- point from raising income tax and 1 Nasaa said. the lenders over Greece’s fiscal short- influx into Europe in the past year, tially unlock an estimated €5bn in percent of GDP from tax measures, “A number of measures are going fall by 2018 - initially seen at 3 percent the EU is keen to resolve the financ- bailout funds. which have not yet been agreed. It to have to come from the govern- by the EU, 1 percent by Athens and 4.5 ing logjam swiftly. Athens needs the money to repay is also considering raising fuel tax ment itself to increase revenues and percent by the IMF. Underlying differences among the €3.5bn to the International Monetary and value-added tax on cigarettes, bring expenditure in line with the Athens and its lenders - the Com- lenders on the extent of fiscal consol- Fund and the European Central Bank among other measures. new revenue reality. It has to be a mission, the European Central Bank, idation Greece needs to pursue would in July, as well as unpaid domestic bills. Tsipras hopes for a compromise combination of both.” European Stability Mechanism and the be reflected in assessment documents Holding a fragile parliamentary before April 22, when eurozone finance The Iraqi official declined to International Monetary Fund - have odds on whether Athens could achieve compiled by the IMF, and the EU insti- majority, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ministers assess its progress. Some specify what measures Baghdad agreed to use 3 percent as the baseline a 3.5 percent primary surplus — budget tutions possibly by Sunday, government (pictured) hopes a debt restructuring euro zone ministers will attend the would take to reduce the deficit, but scenario in the Athens-based talks. balance before debt service payments officials and sources close to the talks will convince Greeks that their sacri- spring meetings of the IMF in Wash- said: “It is a must, otherwise we will But the EU and the IMF are still at — in 2018, an official participating in said. fices are paying off after six years of ington on April 15-17. have to borrow more and more.” EU to give states more Samsung Electronics set for Q1 profit jump

powers on VAT rates Reuters mobile business was probably the top “First quarter earnings will be the following the launch. earner for the first time in seven quar- peak this year,” said HMC Investment “S7 sales popped in the beginning ters, analysts say. analyst Greg Roh, adding that mar- but could very well fade as rivals launch Reuters The Commission will also make A decline in the value of the South keting costs for the mobile business new models,” said Alpha Asset Man- a proposal by the end of the year to SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Korean won is also expected to help will rise in the next quarter, pushing agement fund manager C.J. Heo. “We increase the number of products and flagged a 10 percent jump in quarterly lift the firm’s first-quarter bottom line. profits lower. have learned from the past.” services exempt from VAT. “This would profit yesterday — a sign of robust early But even so, competition from new Investor caution stems from last Other analysts said Samsung’s BRUSSELS: European Union states solve the tampon tax issue,” an official sales for its new Galaxy S7 smartphones products such as Apple Inc’s recently year’s launch of Galaxy S6 phones, decision to launch the Galaxy S7 models will have more powers to set sales said, explaining that this measure would although doubts abound whether launched iPhone SE and Huawei Tech- which boasted major design changes a month earlier than their predeces- tax rates, the European Commission allow Britain to charge no VAT on female momentum can be maintained in the nologies Co Ltd’s upcoming flagship and features and were widely praised. sors may have simply have brought said yesterday, presenting a broad hygiene products, which are currently face of new rival offerings. P9 phone are tempering investor Initially expected to be Samsung’s forward sales that would have been reform of Value Added Tax rules which taxed at a reduced 5 percent rate. The South Korean tech giant’s enthusiasm. best-selling phones ever, sales fizzled made in later quarters. also aims to curb widespread fraud This follows a commitment made estimate for first-quarter operating involving VAT. at the EU leaders’ summit in March profit handily beat market forecasts The plan follows repeated pressure to end the tampon tax row that had and has boosted hopes that its strug- from EU states to scrap the existing become a political football for Brit- gling mobile business will post its first system based on a centralised EU-wide ons campaigning to leave the EU in annual profit gain in three years, also rate-setting mechanism, which limits a June referendum. benefiting from an improved perform- countries’ powers to decide reduced The Commission will also pro- ance for mid-to-low tier devices and levies for specific products, ranging pose this year a cut in VAT on ebooks cost-cutting efforts. from ebooks to sanitary products. and online news publications to align Samsung said January-March Two options remain under dis- prices with their paper versions. The operating profit was likely 6.6 tril- cussion, the bolder of which would Commission’s action plan on VAT also lion won ($5.7bn), well above the 5.6 give states the freedom to set rates proposes to changing the way the tax is trillion won profit tipped by a Thom- as they prefer “so long as it does not collected on trade between EU states. son Reuters StarMine SmartEstimate generate tax distortions”, the Com- At the moment the tax is col- derived from a survey of 23 analysts. mission said in its plan. EU Economics lected by the state where the goods The firm will not disclose a full Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told or services are sold and exporters breakdown of its results until late April, reporters that he favoured the more are exempt. The system is prone to and gave no comment on the perform- ambitious option. A definitive deci- fraud and causes revenue losses of ance of its business divisions. sion will be made by next year. ¤50bn ($57bn) a year in the EU, Com- More than a dozen brokerages had In either case Britain will retain mission data shows. lifted forecasts for Samsung earnings its right to apply zero rates of VAT, a The new VAT regime under con- since late March encouraged by reports legacy entitlement that it shares with sideration would make exporting of better-than-expected sales of its other older member states but which countries responsible for collecting Galaxy S7 models, which boast an London is unusual in using so widely, the tax at the rate applied by the states improved camera, waterproofing and notably on foods and medicines. where the final sale occurs. microSD storage support. Samsung’s An employee at a Samsung Electronics exhibit hall prepares for the start of the business day in Seoul yesterday. 16 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 BUSINESS

Siemens and Airbus sign pact VW managers refuse to forego Fed signals bonuses: Report

AFP caution on FRANKFURT: Top executives at Volkswagen are refusing to forego their bonuses this year, despite prescribing belt-tightening for the carmaker’s workforce in the wake of the massive emissions-cheating rate hikes scandal, the weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported yesterday. Without naming its sources, the magazine said that shortly rates are already so close to zero. before a supervisory board deci- “Many participants indicated that sion that executive board members According to the the heightened global risks and the had made it clear they were willing minutes, many Fed asymmetric ability of monetary pol- to “accept a cut in their bonuses, icy to respond to them warranted but not forego them entirely”, members said they caution,” the minutes stated. even though they have repeat- were concerned that Investors have held doubts the edly told the workforce that the the central bank had Fed would raise rates at all this year crisis threatens the group’s very and the minutes did little to shift bets existence. limited firepower to on the path of policy. VW’s former chief executive respond to shocks Prices for fed futures contracts Martin Winterkorn received a bonus suggested investors still saw the of more than ¤3m ($3.4m) a year FROM LEFT: Siemens AG CEO Joe Kaeser, Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs Ilse Aigner, from abroad because chance of a rate hike in December as ago. A company spokesman said interest rates are just better than even, and they saw Airbus CEO Thomas Enders and other officials pose during the groundbreaking for a new research that the board pay would be pub- virtually no chance of an increase building in Taufkirchen, Germany, yesterday. Airbus and Siemens signed a cooperation agreement to lished in VW’s annual report on already so close to at the April 26-27 policy meeting, develop electric aircraft technology. April 28. “The management board zero. according to the CME group. is determined to set an example According to the minutes, several when it comes to the adjustment in of the central bankers said elevated the bonuses,” he said, dismissing the risks faced by the U.S. economy meant Spiegel article as “pure speculation.” Reuters that raising rates in April “would signal Winterkorn’s successor Mat- a sense of urgency they did not think US weekly jobless claims fall by 9,000 thias Mueller was parachuted in appropriate.” A small minority indi- last year to steer the carmaker out cated a rate hike might be warranted of its deepest-ever crisis which WASHINGTON: The Federal when the Fed meets at the end of April. erupted when VW was exposed as Reserve appears unlikely to raise After that meeting, policymakers next Reuters 57 weeks, the longest stretch since more rate rises this year. The US having installed emissions-cheat- interest rates before June amid convene June 14-15. 1973. The labour market buoyancy central bank raised its benchmark ing software into 11 million diesel widespread concern at the US cen- Policymakers had signaled in is at odds with slowing economic overnight interest rate in December engines worldwide. tral bank over its limited ability to December that four rate increases growth. Recent data on consumer for the first time in nearly a decade. At the time, Mueller told the counter the blow of a global eco- were likely in 2016, and the minutes WASHINGTON: The number of spending, business investment and Last week, the four-week moving workforce that there would have to nomic slowdown, minutes from the of the March meeting highlighted the Americans filing for unemployment international trade suggest growth average of claims, considered a bet- be “belt-tightening at all levels” from Fed’s March 15-16 policy meeting consensus within the Fed around a benefits fell more than expected last slowed to below a 1 percent annu- ter measure of labor market trends management down to the workers. suggest. cautious outlook for the economy. week, suggesting the labour market alized rate in the first quarter after as it irons out week-to-week vola- But according to Der Spiegel, the The minutes released late on Fed chief Janet Yellen said on continued to strengthen despite tepid expanding at an anemic 1.4 percent tility, rose 3,500 to 266,750. former finance chief Hans-Dieter Wednesday showed policymakers March 29 that the US central bank economic growth. pace in the fourth quarter. Employers added 215,000 jobs Poetsch, who was appointed to the debated whether they might hike should “proceed cautiously” in rais- Initial claims for state unem- With the strengthening labor mar- in March, on top of the 245,000 head of the supervisory board in rates in April but “a number” of them ing rates, a view Fed Governor Lael ployment benefits declined 9,000 ket drawing in discouraged and new positions created in February, the October, pocketed nearly ¤10m as argued headwinds to growth would Brainard pushed late last year which to a seasonally adjusted 267,000 for job seekers, which is likely to keep government reported last week. “compensation” for the lower pay he probably persist, with many arguing has been recently embraced by pol- the week ended April 2, the Labour wage growth moderate, it is unlikely An increase in the labor force lifted would receive as a result. they should be cautious about rais- icymakers including St. Louis Fed Department said yesterday. “The per- the Federal Reserve will shift from the unemployment rate one-tenth Unions are concerned that ing rates. “Participants generally saw President James Bullard, who had sistently low level of claims should its policy of gradually raising inter- of a percentage point to 5 percent. the belt-tightening needed to global economic and financial devel- previously warned the Fed might provide some reassurance that the est rates. Government data last week A report on Tuesday showed hiring cope with the fallout from the opments as continuing to pose risks,” hike too slowly. economy is growing, even if that showed about 2.4 million people by US employers surged in February engine-rigging scandal could according to the minutes. Bullard said that economic data growth appears more sluggish that entered or re-entered the job mar- to the highest level since November lead to job cuts. Policymakers had signaled at the has been mixed since the March most would have hoped a few months ket between September and March, 2006. Nearly three million people “We have the impression that close of the March meeting that they meeting, which could make it dif- ago,” said Jim Baird, chief investment the second-largest increase in the voluntarily quit their jobs in February. the diesel engine scandal could be expected to raise rates twice in 2016 ficult for the Fed to raise rates this officer at Plante Moran Financial labor force over a six-month period “The fears of world economic used as a backdoor for job cuts that but the timing of the hikes still appears month. The Fed left its target interest Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan. on record. Fed Chair Janet Yellen has growth (slowing) are not causing a weren’t up for discussion until a up in the air. According to the min- rate for overnight lending between Economists had forecast claims argued that hidden labour market slack concern for business owners here in couple of months ago,” the works utes, many Fed members said they banks at between 0.25 percent and slipping to 270,000 in the latest week. was restraining wage growth. the U.S. with all the help wanted signs council wrote in a letter to the were concerned that the central bank 0.5 percent in March and in January Jobless claims have now been below Fed officials last month down- up in the windows,” said Chris Rup- management of VW’s own brand had limited firepower to respond to after December’s hike which ended 300,000, a threshold associated with graded their economic growth key, chief economist at MUFG Union and published on the website of the shocks from abroad because interest seven years of near-zero rates. healthy labour market conditions, for expectations and forecast only two Bank in New York. powerful IG Metall labour union. Gupta says has resources to back UK steel ambitions

Reuters

MUMBAI: Sanjeev Gupta (pictured), the boss of metals trader Liberty House Group who wants to buy Tata Steel Ltd’s loss-making British operations, says he has the financial resources to match his ambitions. Hitting back at critics who have questioned his capacity to take on a business dragged down by heavy debt and weak sales, the 44-year- old Cambridge graduate said he was strong network among British and serious about making an offer and US financiers. had the backing of a group with $7 Tata, which entered the Euro- billion of revenues. pean steel market with a $12bn “If you look at our financials, acquisition of Anglo-Dutch Corus we are probably the least leveraged in 2007, will only produce steel in LG Electronics’ mobile sales staff pose for a group picture. company in our sector,” Gupta told Europe in the Netherlands once it Reuters in a phone interview. sells its UK business with production “We like to punch above our capacity of 7 million tonnes per year. weight, we like to take on challenges, The British business employs LG prepares sales staff to sell G5 smartphone but we know how to stay in business about 15,000 people, and Gupta so we never over-stretch ourselves.” plans to retain them if a deal goes Asked how profitable Liberty through. But he wants the govern- DOHA: LG Electronics trained its against a mundane training room no one was able to consumerize it House’s businesses were, a spokes- ment to ensure “competitive power mobile sales staff across Qatar on the was also part of the LG G5 campaign until now and we’re happy that LG man for the company said it could prices” so that he can change the capabilities of the upcoming LG G5. The LG G5 will be theme of Let’s Play More.” LG G5 is a was able take on the mantle.” not provide details at short notice. raw material for the steel plants The training was provided at a available by the showcase of cutting-edge technol- LG G5 is a brand new design with Tata, the biggest steel producer to locally available scrap from leading cinema hall in Doha where ogies and rich features thoughtfully a sleek, metal uni-body featuring in Britain, has been forced to try to imported iron ore. the sales staff had a unique experi- 3rd week of April designed to deliver a more play- a Slide-out Battery and a Modu- sell its British businesses due to high The British government, under ence of receiving training from LG in Qatar across ful user experience. lar Type design that gives a greater costs, weak demand and a flood of fire for the way it has responded trainers on a cinema widescreen. The G5 has so far won a record 33 smartphone experience. Complete cheap supplies from top producer to the crisis, opened talks with The training content shown over Jumbo Electronics awards including Best New Smart- with LG Friends, a collection of com- China. The formal sale process for potential buyers for Tata Steel’s UK the wide screen with surround sound showrooms phone at MWC 2016 from the GSMA’s panion devices that include Cam plus, the assets, which the Indian com- operations, including Gupta’s Liberty provided an immersive learning and leading Glomo Awards, the mobile industry’s LG Hi-Fi Plus with B&O PLAY, 360 VR, pany bought in 2007, is expected to House, earlier this week. experience. The sales staff were later longest established awards plat- 360 Cam, Rolling Bot, Tone Platinum, start by Monday. “It’s a loss-making business and treated to lunch at a leading Asian res- hypermarkets. form for innovation, excellence and H3 by B&O Play. With these the G5 can Liberty’s financial advis- a loss-making business is not worth taurant followed by a special screening achievement. “Since MWC, LG G5 and be transformed into a digital camera, ers will start due diligence on the a lot in itself to buy,” said Gupta. of the movie Batman v Superman. only befitting that we trained our Friends have captured the imagina- Hi-Fi player and more. assets within a week from that “It’s more of a question of what C V Rappai, Director & CEO of sales staff in a unique way to help tion of consumers everywhere with The LG G5 will be available by date, said Indian-born Gupta, who are the resources required in turning Video Home & Electronic Centre, them better understand the unique its engaging take on mobile technol- the 3rd week of April in Qatar across founded Liberty House in 1992 and it around.” He declined to estimate said: “The LG G5 is a pioneer phone features that the G5 has to offer. ogy,” said C V Rappai. “Modularity Jumbo Electronics showrooms and is known among friends and former the money needed for a revival of in modular design as such it was Having the training in a cinema as has been talked about for years but leading hypermarkets. colleagues as a risk-taker with a the Tata plants. BUSINESS FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 17

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EXCHANGE RATE Currency Buying Selling US$ QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 UK QR 5.0962 QR 5.1677 INTERNATIONAL MARKETS - A LIST OF SHARES FROM THE WORLD Euro QR 4.1152 QR 4.1728 COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME COMPANY CLOSE NET VOLUME CA$ QR 2.7522 QR 2.8066 NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED NAME CHG TRADED Swiss Fr QR 3.7799 QR 3.8357 Yen QR 0.0333 QR 0.0340 A C C-A/D 1417.1 -10.65 7650 Escorts Fin-B/D 4.1 -0.08 57182 Kajaria Cer-A/D 947.85 6.7 3799 Thirumalai-B/D 209.8 -1.9 27292 Aus$ QR 2.7194 QR 2.7740 Aban Offs-A/D 176.85 2.7 353806 Escorts-A/D 148.55 -2.1 278993 Kakatiya Cem-B/D 240.1 20.1 233712 Timexgroup-T/D 29.55 0.1 6705 Ind Re QR 0.0542 QR 0.0552 Ador Welding-B/D 280 -4.7 4492 Eveready Indu-/D 236 3.45 13992 Kalpat Power-B/D 206.5 -0.05 5946 Tinplate-B/D 68.15 0.1 32531 Pak Re QR 0.0345 QR 0.0352 Aegis Logis-B/D 103.2 6.1 198993 F D C-B/D 183 0.2 2093 Kalyani Stel-T/D 166.7 -7 39797 Ucal Fuel-B/D 101.7 0.5 3232 Alembic-B/D 35.7 -0.15 26850 Federal Bank-A/D 42.95 -1 338523 Kanoria Chem-B/D 65.9 4.3 144209 Ucal Fuel-B/D 101.7 0.5 3232 Peso QR 0.0780 QR 0.0796 Alok Indus-A/D 4.85 0.01 2273838 Ferro Alloys-B/D 4.6 -0.2 12985 Kg Denim-B/D 87.3 -0.2 51443 Ultramarine-B/D 114.7 -1 6759 SL Re QR 0.0249 QR 0.0255 Apollo Tyre-A/D 168.85 -3.8 163461 Fgp Ltd-Xd/D 2.5 0.01 2250 Kopran-B/D 52.7 0.85 139035 Unitech P -A/D 4.98 -0.06 7007388 Taka QR 0.0460 QR 0.0470 Asahi I Glass-/D 155.3 -1.7 4929 Finolex-A/D 365.8 2.2 2336 Lakshmi Elec-B/D 345 -9.1 3957 Uppergsugar-T/D 131.6 -1.8 42784 Nep Re QR 0.0341 QR 0.0348 Ashok Leyland-/D 107 -0.75 670382 Gail-A/D 341.2 0.05 64919 Lloyd Metal-B/D 25 0.15 46709 SA Rand QR 0.2370 QR 0.2418 Ballarpur In-B/D 14.96 -0.28 237268 Galada Power-B/D 14.2 -0.64 2798 Lok.Hous&Con-B/D 4.84 -0.09 52689 LONDON Bata India-A/D 523.3 8.75 67829 Gammon India-T/D 12.75 -0.15 397833 Lupin-A/D 1506.55 21 206258 Beml Ltd-A/D 917.6 -24.2 50380 Garden P -B/D 22.5 -0.1 2801 Lyka Labs-T/D 82.25 -1.35 68710 3I Group/D 447.6 -4.4 418891 GOLD AND SILVER Bh Electronic-/D 1156.25 -18.65 30554 Godfrey Phil-B/D 1151.4 -4.3 7049 Mafatlal Ind-B/D 278.3 2.5 4840 Assoc.Br.Foods/D 3412 -3 117099 Bhansali Eng-T/D 18.55 -0.85 32831 Goodricke-B/D 188.4 7.5 128273 Mah.Seamless-B/D 188.1 -10.3 14021 Barclays/D 147.5 -2.05 15338073 GOLD QR145.1022 per gramme Bharat Bijle-B/D 940.75 -7.25 13821 Goodyear I -B/D 490.1 3.2 2183 Mangalam Cem-B/D 233.1 -6.6 14979 Bp/D 338.45 -1.1 9540174 SILVER QR1.7851 per gramme Bharatgears-B/D 69 1 1062 Hcl Infosys-B/D 46.1 -0.9 888225 Mastek-B/D 147.9 0.5 108820 Brit Am Tobacc/D 4135 10.5 885550 Bt Group/D 442.4 0.2 4910277 Bhartiya Int-B/D 456.6 5.9 10023 Him.Fut.Comm-T/D 18.9 -0.3 1597914 Max Financial-/D 347.7 2.6 145246 Centrica/D 226.5 -0.1 2958992 Bhel-A/D 119.3 5.3 4774271 Himat Seide-B/D 189 -1.55 14482 Mrpl-A/D 69.95 1.1 158336 Gkn/D 278.1 -4.8 3582680 Bom.Burmah-B/D 378.7 -4.05 7654 Hind Motors-T/D 5.14 -0.1 30151 Nagreeka Ex-B/D 26 1 5046 Hsbc Holdings/D 416.4 -3.5 7318274 Bombay Dyeing-/D 47.7 -0.95 106533 Hind Org Chem-/D 16.1 -0.15 10046 Nagreeka Ex-B/D 26 1 5046 Gulf bourses rise Kingfisher/D 381.3 3.6 2183526 Camph.& All-B/D 558.1 -29.7 6166 Hind Unilever-/D 860.6 -11 72408 Nahar Spg.-B/D 96.35 -2.35 9064 Land Secs Grou/D 1118.9 2 896459 DUBAI: Gulf stock markets rose yesterday after Brent Canfin Homes-B/D 1154.55 -19 2605 Hind.Petrol-A/D 815.25 -1.9 59211 Nation Alum -A/D 38.8 0.55 57201 Legal & Genera/D 228.68 -3.9 5425548 crude oil jumped more than 5 percent to about $40 a Caprihans-Xc/D 81.65 -1.15 2599 Hindalco-A/D 87.2 -1.75 775941 Navneet Edu-B/D 84.7 0.4 9425 Lloyds Bnk Grp/D 65.34 -2.24 50862184 barrel, while hopes for economic benefits from a visit Castrol India-/D 375.1 -1.35 13160 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 1072.65 -28.45 533053 Nepc India-T/D 1.48 0 4581 Marks & Sp./D 436.5 16.1 7000567 by Saudi Arabia’s king supported that market. Century Enka-B/D 187 0 31687 I F C I-A/D 23.75 -0.2 547006 Nrb Bearings-B/D 130.3 3.1 472562 Next/D 5431.0688 20 281294 The Saudi index gained 0.7 percent, led higher by Century Text-A/D 568.15 -11.95 243835 Idbi-A/D 67.75 0.3 591377 O N G C-A/D 207.5 1.7 777663 Pearson/D 827 -41 1820272 petrochemical firms that were lifted by the oil price rise. Chambal Fert-B/D 57.3 0.5 86914 India Cement-A/D 86.6 -2.8 560808 Onward Tech-B/D 74.5 4.15 31820 Prudential/D 1293.5 -17 1954823 Saudi Basic Industries rose 1 percent and Saudi Kayan Chola Invest-A/D 744.8 19.75 16965 India Glycol-B/D 88.95 2.35 109016 Orchid Pharm-B/D 39.15 -0.05 138747 Rank Group/D 247 -3.9 46031 climbed by the same amount after announcing the start Chowgule St-T/D 15.8 0.48 1775 Indian Card-B/D 222.3 3.4 1076 Orient Hotel-T/D 21.9 0.05 1050 Rentokil Initi/D 178.4 -1.9 469121 of commercial operations at a new butanol plant. Cimmco-B/D 72.95 1.3 2930 Indian Hotel-A/D 100.75 -1.05 27623 Orient.Carb.-T/D 504 -8.75 3349 Rolls Royce Pl/D 656.5 -1.5 1927460 Telecoms company Mobily gained 2.9 percent to Cipla-A/D 507.6 1.6 164191 Indo-Tcount-T/D 978.45 -33.85 3414 Orient.Carb.-T/D 504 -8.75 3349 Rsa Insrance G/D 471 -1.1 1073213 SR31.60. Yanbu Cement edged up by 0.2 percent. City Union Bk-/D 94.95 -1.45 14235 Indusind-A/D 939.55 -15.75 29464 Oudh Sugar-B/D 85.4 -2.05 138500 Sainsbury(J)/D 286 6.3 5434084 Dubai’s index was up by 1 percent as all ten of the Colgate-A/D 821.9 -7.3 35227 J.B.Chemical-B/D 248.5 1 6382 Patspin India-/D 8.69 0 1040 Schroders/D 2566 -26 46427 most heavily traded stocks gained. Builder Drake & Scull Container Cor-/D 1271.5 4 4677 Jagatjit Ind-X/D 83.9 0 1055 Punjab Chem.-B/D 162 -4.9 14228 Severn Trent/D2201.3637 17 191557 was the most heavily traded and jumped by 11.1 percent. Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 405 -3.5 7094 Jagson Phar-B/D 34.65 0.4 20847 Radico Khait-B/D 94.3 -0.3 7222 Smith&Nephew/D 1171 3 487539 Telecoms company du, however, slid by 3.1 percent as Dcm Shram Ind-/D 136.5 -6.2 8919 Jamnaauto-B/D 143.9 -2.9 129265 Rallis India-A/D 169.9 -2.4 9954 Smiths Group/D 1056.36 -3 245442 it went ex-dividend. Dhampur Sugar-/D 95.55 -2.15 291353 Jbf Indu-B/D 206.3 2.7 62807 Rallis India-A/D 169.9 -2.4 9954 Standrd Chart /D 429.35 -4.3 3730764 Abu Dhabi added 1.2 percent as Abu Dhabi Com- Tate & Lyle/D 597 3.5 225383 Dr. Reddy-A/D 3031.4 31.45 41228 Jct Elect P -B/D 0.34 0.01 112606 Reliance Indus/D 427.5 -2 86720 mercial Bank bounced from technical support on its Tesco/D 191.5 0.05 8289690 E I H-B/D 106.25 1.05 8876 Jct Ltd-B/D 4.85 -0.15 1060096 Ruchi Soya-B/D 29.95 -0.65 37584 March lows of 6.32-6.35 dirhams, climbing 2.5 percent Unilever/D 3241 -1 989519 E.I.D Parry-A/D 216.7 -5.85 165211 Jenson&Nich.-B/D 8.1 -0.7 56166 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 495.3 -4.65 1800 to 6.48 dirhams. United Util Gr/D 941 11.5 736908 Eicher Motor-A/D 18869.65 -303.55 1711 Jindal Drill-B/D 131.8 0.1 2532 Saur.Cem-B/D 63.8 1.3 111314 Egypt’s index recovered from early losses to edge Vodafone Group/D221.35 1.6 12794837 into positive territory by the close, up 0.3 percent. Com- Electrosteel-B/D 18.45 -0.45 124199 Jktyre&Ind-A/D 83.2 -0.7 207421 Tanfac Indust-/D 26.25 -0.55 3790 Whitbread/D 3797 -12 157542 mercial International Bank rose 1.1 percent, but fallers Emco-B/D 26 -0.65 18071 Kabra Extr-B/D 88.5 0.45 5709 Tanfac Indust-/D 26.25 -0.55 3790 narrowly outnumbered gainers by 78 to 74. Panama Papers and ECB pound European banking shares

AFP down 1.0 percent at 9,530.62 points; about stepping up asset purchases at their 3.0 percent, while Societe Generale the country’s banks to provide infor- insurers Prudential dropped 2.3 per- in Paris, the CAC 40 was down 0.9 monetary policy meeting last month, the dropped 3.5 percent and BNP Paribas mation about their exposure to tax cent, Old Mutual gave up 2.9 percent percent at 4,245.91 points, while the minutes of the meeting released yester- slumped 3.8 percent. havens. French newspaper Le Monde and Aviva slumped 4.5 percent. EURO STOXX 50 was down 1.6 per- day showed there was broad support for Meanwhile Britain’s finance watch- has reported that 365 banks across the Wall Street also pushed lower. The LONDON: European banking shares cent at 2,863.48 points. pushing interest rates further if neces- dog said that it has given banks and world had used the services of Mossack Dow was down 0.9 percent at 17,565.32 took a pounding yesterday after Brit- “UK banks were in the red, match- sary. The ECB’s deposit rate was pushed financial firms until next week to reveal Fonseca, including Britain’s HSBC which points, the S&P 500 was down 1.0 per- ish regulators ordered lenders to come ing declines across Europe after ECB down to -0.4 percent, meaning com- whether they have any links to the law created 2,300 offshore companies. cent at 2,045.39 points while, the Nasdaq clean on any links to the Panama Papers minutes reignited fears over negative mercial lenders have to pay the central firm at the centre of the Panama Papers Shares in HSBC shed 0.9 percent, was down 1.1 percent at 4,866.63 points. scandal and the ECB appeared com- rates, whilst an FCA deadline for report- bank on unused funds at the end of the leak. A spokesman for the Financial RBS dropped 1.0 percent, Barclays fell In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 was up 0.2 fortable with negative interest rates. ing links to Panama and acquisitions day they transfer to the ECB. Conduct Authority said it had written to 1.6 percent and Lloyds tumbled 4.8 per- percent at 15,749.84 points; in Shanghai, Overall the the major European in the insurance space by Lloyds were Negative interest rates are a grow- about 20 companies asking to explain cent. Shares in Lloyds were also hit by the Composite was down 1.4 percent at share indices fell. In London, the FTSE not being well received,” CMC Markets ing headache for banks as they usually their relationship with Panama-based a report by Bloomberg that the bank is 3,008.42 points, while in Hong Kong, 100 was down 0.4 percent at 6.136,89 analyst Jasper Lawler told AFP. haven’t been able to pass them along to Mossack Fonseca by April 15. considering acquisitions to help expand the Hang Seng was up 0.3 percent at points; in Frankfurt, the DAX 30 was While ECB leaders were divided customers. Deutsche Bank shares fell The French regulator also asked its insurance business. Shares in rival 20,266.05 points. 18 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 CLASSIFIEDS

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Home Wada gives Kenya advantage for Joshua against May 2 deadline

Martin Reuters DOPING SCANDALS IN AP SPORTS

NAIROBI: Kenya has been given a page,” said the source who declined LONDON: Home advantage was one-month extension to comply with to be identified. supposed to give Anthony Joshua an the World Anti-Doping Agency code Kenya was given a deadline to edge in his world heavyweight title and thereby avoid future sanctions, enact the law or be declared non-com- fight against IBF champion Charles WADA said yesterday. pliant, which brings WADA sanctions, Martin tomorrow. The African nation, famed for but parliament went into recess ear- Yet the British challenger said its distance runners but tarnished lier this month and the bill could not Thursday he may struggle to handle by around 40 doping cases in recent become law before time ran out on the emotions of fighting in front of years, missed a February deadline to April 5. 20,000 fans at the atmospheric O2 establish a legal framework for its The governing International Asso- Arena in his home city of London. Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK). ciation of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Asked in the fighters’ head- WADA’s Compliance Review Com- said last month it was highly unlikely to-head news conference if he is mittee met again this week to discuss Kenya would be suspended from the Tim Bradley (right) of the USA and Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines hold up the WBO Welterweight World confident of handling the occasion, Kenya’s progress but again found that Olympics. the 26-year-old Joshua said: “Prob- Championship Belt during their press conference at the David Copperfield Theater in the MGM Grand in a parliamentary anti-doping bill had WADA is due to issue its decision ably not. I’ll probably go out there Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on Wednesday. Pacquiao and Bradley will face off in their bout tomorrow at the still not been formally adopted. on Kenya’s case at a board meeting and try to take his head off ... I’m MGM Grand Arena in the Welterweight Championship. “Unless the bill, policy and ADAK on May 12. not going to go out there and dance rules are formally adopted by May 2, Kenya President Uhuru Keny- around and try to evade punches.” 2016, the Compliance Review Com- atta said on Tuesday that the bill Joshua won an Olympic gold mittee’s recommendation to the WADA could not be fast-tracked to beat medal at the O2 Arena in 2012 and Foundation Board will be to declare the deadline but he was certain his has won four professional fights at the ADAK non-compliant,” WADA nation’s athletes would compete at the venue, helping him to a 15-0 said in a statement. the Olympics. record since turning pro. All his Pacquiao vows to While non-compliance could, in “The country is committed and victories have come by knockout. the worst case scenario, stop Ken- what we are telling them (WADA) is Martin, however, said fighting in yan athletes competing at the Rio ... let our processes go through,” Ken- what could be a hostile crowd will de Janeiro Olympics in August, an yatta told France 24 in an interview. bring the best out of him. ADAK source told Reuters the situ- The country’s Sports Cabinet “I’m comfortable everywhere ation would be resolved. Secretary Dr Hassan Wario told the I go. That isn’t anything new,” said “We are proceeding to Mombasa BBC the Parliamentary Committee Martin, who wore a smart gray over- sign off in style to consult with the Parliamentary on Labour and Sports would meet coat and scarf. “When I first fought Committee on Labour and Sports so in Mombasa today to pour over the at Madison Square Garden, I went in that when the bill comes for a sec- bill before it went for its second and there and performed as such. Same Pacquiao (57-6-2) has joked that ond reading ... we will be on the same third readings. when I fought at the Barclays Center WBO WELTERWEIGHT a knockout against Bradley -- who (in beating Vyacheslav Glazkov for Filipino star ‘hungry’ CHAMPIONSHIP has twice gone the distance with the the IBF belt in January). for win after a Filipino, winning one, losing one -- “They are going to be scream- 11-month absence this fight, to win convincingly,” Pac- would boost his appeal at the ballot ing for their guy. That translates to quiao said. “It’s part of my legacy.” box when he stands in Filipino elec- Ethiopia plans mass tests love for me.” from boxing ring Asked if he still retained the killer tions in May. The mutual respect that has instinct which helped him win an Pacquiao however has not scored a existed between the fighters con- unprecedented eight world titles at eight knockout since 2009, when he demol- Reuters samples on 150 to 200 athletes from tinued Thursday. There was no trash different weight classes, Pacquiao said ished Britain’s Ricky Hatton in two before the end of April will cost the talk or finger pointing. Joshua spoke AFP his long absence had served to renew rounds before beating Miguel Cotto country between 2.5 million birr about “wanting to see blood” and his enthusiasm for the ring. six months later with a 12th round TKO. ($117,359) to 3 million, he said. “going to war,” but it was mostly “I still have that (killer instinct),” Bradley said he expects Pacquiao ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia, one of five Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Ukraine pleasantries by two men facing the Pacquiao said. “I rested almost one to adopt an aggressive game plan. countries the IAAF governing body and Belarus have been identified by biggest tests of their careers. LAS VEGAS: Manny Pacquiao believes year and when I started training for “I’m expecting him to be more says is in “critical care” over its drug- IAAF president Sebastian Coe as coun- Martin has a reputation for being his 11-month absence from boxing this fight I felt fresh and hungry again, aggressive, he’s going to come out like testing systems, is to carry out doping tries in need of “critical care” because a big puncher, but Joshua might be following last year’s defeat to Floyd like I did when I first started boxing. a bat out of hell and try to take my head tests on up to 200 athletes. of weaknesses in their drug-testing even bigger. Not that it concerns Mayweather has left him hungrier than It’s been good for me. It’s good that I off,” Bradley said, shortly before going The east African nation, which systems. the champion. ever as he prepares for his farewell had a long layoff. face-to-face with Pacquiao at a pre- alongside neighbour Kenya has for Russia is currently banned from “Him being physically strong fight against Tim Bradley tomorrow. “I still have that desire. I love box- fight press conference here. many years dominated distance run- all athletics following the discovery and powerful wasn’t even an issue,” The 37-year-old Filipino insists he ing. Boxing is my passion. I grew up on The 32-year-old from the Cali- ning on the track and roads, became of a state-sponsored doping regime Martin said. “When I first started will retire from boxing after the third boxing. I started when I was 12 years fornian desert city of Palm Springs the latest country to have its credibil- and revelations of corruption. boxing in the heavyweight school I instalment of his rivalry with Bradley, old, non-stop, until now.” believes, however, that a combative ity questioned when six of its athletes Kenya, having missed a WADA was in, those guys were 250 pounds, vowing to focus on a political career Pacquiao’s long-time trainer Fred- approach from his opponent may play came under investigation in Febru- deadline, has until May 12 to show it big punchers, big heavy guys and I in his homeland where he is seeking die Roach said he had questioned into his hands. ary for doping. has adequate systems in place after was 208 pounds, but I knew how to election to the Senate. whether retirement talk could prove “If he’s more aggressive, then it’s Last month the World Anti-Doping a series of high-profile positive tests be evasive and get out of the way. While Pacquiao has carefully kept a distraction. probably going to give me more oppor- Agency gave Addis Ababa a 10-point by athletes and the suspension of sev- That’s never left me. a door ajar to extending his career, he “I thought it might be, but training tunities I would think,” said Bradley. guideline, that included raising its eral leading officials. Joshua accepted that he was tak- told reporters at the MGM Grand in Las camp was great, it was just like every “He’s shown over and over again that drug-testing capacity to WADA stand- Ethiopian Athletics Federation ing a risk by fighting for a world title Vegas on Wednesday that he views other training camp. Manny maybe he’s for the people, he’s by the peo- ards, to be implemented by November. president Alebachew Nigussie told so early in his professional career. tomorrow’s bout as an opportunity to worked a little harder and said ‘Let’s ple, and that he’s a man of his word. Ethiopian officials said failure reporters that Coe and WADA director It will be the first world heavy- sign off in style. go out with a bang’ and that’s what we And he’s always shown that charac- to do so would lead to suspension. Rob Koehler are set to visit their coun- weight title fight in London in 16 years. “It’s really important for me to win intend on doing,” Roach said. ter, integrity,” he added. The bid to take urine and blood try in early June to review progress.

Following the success Stokes can recover to be among of the inaugural pink- ball Test against New Zealand in Adelaide last year, Cricket England’s best ever, says Broad Australia will stage two more day-night Tests against touring nations South Africa Reuters than from the good days... England’s Ben Stokes and Pakistan. “He’s got every (left) is consoled by attribute to be one of team captain Eoin the best cricketers Eng- Morgan after losing LONDON: Ben Stokes land’s ever had. I’m sure the World T20 cricket can recover to become he will become that in the tournament final match Aussies to play pink-ball one of England’s best future.” to West Indies at the ever players after his Broad suffered a simi- Eden Gardens Cricket World Twenty20 night- larly embarrassing over at Stadium in Kolkata on mare when he was hit the 2007 World T20 when April 3, 2016. Tests against South Africa for four sixes in the last he was hit for six sixes by over of the final, team- India’s Yuvraj Singh. mate Stuart Broad said His advice to Stokes and Pakistan on Wednesday. was to analyse what went England looked on wrong and then forget course for victory in Sun- about it for the rest of day’s showpiece against his career. AFP schedules for the 2016-17 season later the West Indies before “What he needs to do this month. Carlos Brathwaite sent while he’s sitting at home Under scheduling changes, the Herald the ball soaring over is he will have to remem- said the Gabba would forfeit its custom- the boundary rope four ber in his own mind how SYDNEY: Australia will play two day-night ary hosting rights to the first Test of in a row to clinch he was feeling, what Tests against South Africa and Pakistan season and instead host the opening a dramatic win in Kolk- would he do differently next southern summer in a revamp of match of the Australia-Pakistan series ata’s Eden Gardens. if he is in that situation home international scheduling, a report in December. Stokes was left crest- again, was he rushed and said yesterday. The newspaper said the season would fallen on the pitch as the did he take advice from Following the success of the inaugu- kick off with a Test at Perth’s WACA Ground West Indians celebrated the wrong people,” Broad ral pink-ball Test against New Zealand in between Australia and South Africa in wildly. He could, however, added in The Telegraph. Adelaide last year, Cricket Australia will November. emerge a better player for “Then he’s got to stage two more day-night Tests against The series against the Proteas will the chastening experi- decide all of that in touring nations South Africa and Paki- then head to Hobart, which has been ence, according to Broad. his own mind, find the stan, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. retained as a Test venue amid compe- “This will play a big answers and put it to bed.” Australia will face the South Africans tition from Canberra, before wrapping part in making him a very “Then you park it. You under lights in Adelaide and Pakistan up under lights at Adelaide Oval. strong character,” Broad, don’t watch it again and at Brisbane’s Gabba ground, the news- Australia will then meet Pakistan in the world’s top-ranked you never talk about it paper said. the day-night Test in Brisbane and com- test bowler, told the BBC. again until you finish play- Cricket Australia is expected to plete the series with matches in Melbourne “You always learn ing. You just focus on what finalise its international and domestic and Sydney over Christmas-New Year. more from making errors you can do to improve.” SPORT FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 21 Spieth sets early pace at Masters

all at one under. Playing conditions because the golf course is very long Up to 40 players were ideal after heavy overnight rain but my expectations are always high,” had softened the fairways and greens, said Langer, referring to the heavily are favourites to although the breeze was expected to contoured layout that measures 7,435 win this year’s stiffen for the late starters. yards off the back tees. Spieth set out in the company of “I would like to be in contention, I opening major Casey and rising young US amateur would like to be on the leaderboard,” championship, says Bryson DeChambeau. added the German, who tied for eighth The American won by four strokes at the Masters just two years ago. “But Langer last year with a record-matching length is very important on this golf 18-under par total and two months course nowadays.” later he added the US Open crown. Langer, who won the coveted Green World number one Day, looking to Jacket in 1985 and 1993, vividly recalls Agencies win back-to-back majors after his PGA how stunned he was when he first saw Championship triumph in August, has the lightning-fast, severely sloping an afternoon tee-time playing with greens at Augusta National. Matt Kuchar and South African vet- “I’d never seen greens like this AUGUSTA, United States: Jordan Spieth eran Ernie Els. before,” said Langer, who played his was the early pace-setter at the 80th McIlroy, making his second bid at first Masters in 1982 and is now a golf Masters yesterday as the 22-year-old becoming just the sixth player to win brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz, American set off to defend the crown all four majors, is the last man out with a global partner of the Masters. he won in record-matching fashion Ryder Cup teammate Martin Kaymer “They were more undulating, they last year. and Bill Haas. were faster, they were firmer. They Seeking to become just the fourth Not an ideal spot to be, in but the were just quite different from what player -- after Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo Northern Irishman said he will take we used to play on the tour.” and Tiger Woods -- to win back-to- it in his stride. Asked to explain the biggest chal- back titles at Augusta National, the “I think it’s the third year in a row lenge at Augusta for benefit of golf 22-year-old Texan birdied the third, I’ve been off last either Thursday or fans who had never visited the course, sixth and eighth to get to three-under Friday here. I was sort of expecting Langer replied: “First of all, there approaching the turn. it,” he said with a shrug. are a lot of side-hill, downhill and US golfer Jordan Spieth waits to play his shot on the 10th green during Round 1 of the 80th Masters Golf Spieth is part of a trio of new gen- Golf legend Tom Watson, play- uphill lies which you don’t really see eration favourites alongside Jason Day ing in his 43rd and final Masters at Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, in Augusta, Georgia, yesterday. on television. and Rory McIlroy who were under threat the age of 66, was one under through “Secondly, the greens are large but from a bunch of hardened former six holes before dropping a shot at the Bernhard Langer believes that up to “Most of the top 10 guys in the world and (Henrik) Stenson. “You would it’s not good just being on the green, champions. tough seventh. 40 players are genuine contenders for rankings have won lately, or at least have to name 30 or 40 guys who are you need to be in small pockets on the At two-under as the early start- Three-time former winner Phil this week’s Masters, with another 30 have shown some very good form,” favourites this week, and then there’s green where the pin is and then within ers headed down the back nine was Mickelson bogeyed his opening hole quite capable of winning the year’s Langer, 58, said while sitting in a plush another 30 who could win the tour- that small pocket. American Daniel Berger, who was cel- as did 2013 winner Adam Scott and opening major championship. armchair inside the iconic clubhouse nament as well.” “You want to have an uphill putt, ebrating his 23th birthday, and Spieth’s Henrik Stenson. An elite field of 89 has assembled at at Augusta National. Former world number one Langer, and not a downhill or side-hill putt. playing partner, Paul Casey of England. The big Swede though bounced Augusta National for the tournament’s “You want the best players play- who this week will be competing in his “So the large green becomes a very, Bernd Wiesberger of Austria, Lee back with birdies and the second and 80th edition, which started yester- ing great coming in here and we’ve 33rd Masters, has set himself the target very small target, and hitting that small Westwood of England, Thai veteran fourth to get into red figures. England’s day, and Germany’s Langer loves the got that. The guys in form are Jason of making the cut at Augusta National target with often longer irons makes Thonchai Jaidee, 2010 British Open Justin Rose was also one under after fact that virtually all of the world’s top Day and Adam Scott. Bubba Watson is for a third time in the last four years it that much harder. And if you don’t champion Louis Oosthuizen and 2007 three holes. 10 have displayed excellent form in also very good around here and there’s and vying for the title. hit it, then you have extremely diffi- Masters champion Zach Johnson were Meanwhile, twice champion recent months. (defending champion) Jordan Spieth “It’s a tough challenge for me cult putts or chips or bunker shots.” F1 teams want return to 2015 qualifying

Reuters with new formats once the champi- “If we don’t agree to a compro- World champions Mercedes onship was decided. mise we are stuck with what we’ve and Ferrari supply eight of the 11 The impasse is likely to mean the got and I think everyone agrees teams, giving them more muscle in new live elimination format introduced what we’ve got isn’t right,” Red decision-making. LONDON: Formula One is set to retain this season, condemned by fans and Bull principal Christian Horner “The FIA should write the reg- its unpopular qualifying format at next teams as a failure, will remain in place had said. ulations and say ‘these are the week’s Chinese Grand Prix after teams for at least a third race. Williams deputy-principal Claire regulations. If you want to enter rejected a compromise backed by the Any change to the 2016 regulations Williams said on Sunday Todt and the championship you enter. If you governing FIA and called for a return requires the unanimous approval of Ecclestone believed “going back to don’t, don’t,” Ecclestone told report- to last year’s version. the FIA’s F1 commission which groups 2015 will create more confusion than ers in Bahrain. Sources said the teams expressed the teams, commercial rights holder is necessary”. He said the change to the quali- their united position in a letter to com- and governing body as well as other The argument is about more than fying format came at the request of mercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone and stakeholders. finding the best way to line up 22 cars promoters, keen for more action dur- Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia returns the ball to Pauline International Automobile Federation Teams agreed at the Bahrain Grand on the starting grid, however. ing the early phases of the Saturday Parmentier of France during their second round match at the WTA (FIA) head Jean Todt who both ruled Prix to vote by Thursday on the com- In a sport that can crunch vast session, and a desire to shake up the out going back at a 90-minute meet- promise solution which would see each amounts of data in milliseconds, it starting grid. Katowice Open tournament in Katowice, Poland, on Wednesday. ing in Bahrain last weekend. driver do at least two laps in each of comes down to power and who really Dominant Mercedes have won 34 One team source said the letter the three phases of qualifying with calls the shots, the teams or the FIA of the last 40 grands prix and eight expressed a willingness to experiment the times aggregated. and Ecclestone. in a row. I almost quit because of Rugby: Williams leads Olympic wrist injuries, says Del Potro sevens stampede in Hong Kong Reuters LONDON: Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro (pictured) said he almost quit tennis after a succes- AFP to be Olympians so they’re not holding back,” said sion of wrist injuries but still hopes he New Zealand coach Gordon Tietjens. can regain his former powers. “They’re fighting for positions to go to Rio so it Argentinian Del Potro, 27, returned really makes it very competitive amongst the squad to the tour in February nearly 11 HONG KONG: All Blacks superstar Sonny Bill Wil- that I have.” months after undergoing wrist sur- liams (pictured) will stake his claim for an Olympic Exuberant Fiji are perennial favourites in Hong gery for the third time, reaching the sevens spot when the informal dress rehearsal for Kong but they remain under a cloud after the dev- semi-finals at the 250 Series Delray Rio takes place this week in Hong Kong. astation of super cyclone Winston, which killed 44 Beach Open. The code-swapping, two-time Rugby World people in February. Results since have been a little Cup-winner leads an unusually high-profile field “(Players) lost houses, families lost livelihoods disappointing but after plumbing the at the famous Hong Kong sevens as a number of top and five percent of the population is without a roof depths the past two years at least he names make their bid for Rio. over their heads at the moment, and there’s a food is able to play relatively pain free. Williams has missed the last two sevens world shortage,” said coach Ben Ryan. “I was close to quitting tennis. I the game after surgery. He recovered series tournaments with a knee problem and he “It’s not been a lucky time for Fiji and the boys got frustrated at home and I didn’t to return to the world’s top five by 2013 will be keen to prove his worth just four months have obviously been affected on a personal level watch tennis on TV because it was when he played an epic Wimbledon out from the Olympics. from that. sad for me,” Del Potro, who stunned semi-final against Novak Djokovic. Fellow All Black Liam Messam is also with New “But saying that, Fijians are incredibly resilient Roger Federer to win the 2009 US However, since the start of 2014 he Zealand while colourful Wallabies winger Nick and the boys... they’ve not moaned about it, they Open, told the website of the ATP has completed only 22 matches with “Honey Badger” Cummins is hoping to nail down haven’t complained about it and we certainly won’t World Tour (www.atpworldtour.com) two more bouts of surgery required a spot with Australia. use that as an excuse for any lack of preparation. “It was close. But now, I have many to his tendon. French Six Nations star Virimi Vakatawa is in “We’re as well prepared as any of the other sides. good things to take from the tour. I Despite pulling out of the Miami Hong Kong and New England Patriots Super Bowl- And the boys will have perhaps a little bit more would like to play tennis and that’s it.” Open, which finished on Sunday, after winner Nate Ebner is training with the USA squad motivation.” Del Potro reached number four in feeling some discomfort in the wrist, with his eye on Rio. South Africa’s Bryan Habana and Australia’s the world in 2009 and was expected del Potro remains upbeat. The heavyweight line-up has ramped up antici- Quade Cooper are skipping Hong Kong for club to follow up his US Open triumph with “Hopefully after my third surgery, pation for Hong Kong, the seventh of 10 world series duties with Toulon, while Wallaby Henry Speight more grand slam titles only for his the problem is almost fixed and I am tournaments and the highlight of the annual sev- is out with an eye injury. injuries to strike. here, playing tennis again,” he said. ens calendar. Olympic hosts Brazil will take part in a 12-team Despite being a right-hander, “I’m still confident in my game Hong Kong’s format and sold-out, 40,000-capac- qualifying competition to earn a spot at next year’s Del Potro’s left wrist has been the and still looking forward to playing ity stadium are the closest the sevens series comes Fiji, South Africa and New Zealand. Although an tournament, along with newcomers the Cayman source of his discomfort, preventing with the top guys in the same con- to conditions in Rio, making it a vital part of teams’ injury now could ruin a player’s Olympic chances, Islands. him striking his trademark double- dition, not like (Indian Wells), when preparations. coaches insisted games would be as intense as ever Rugby will make its return to the Olympics in fisted backhand drive. I couldn’t hit my backhand at 100 The championship standings could also hardly in the three-day tournament starting on Friday. August after a gap of 92 years since it was last included It first troubled him in 2010 when per cent. Maybe in the future I will be tighter with just one point each between leaders “I’ve got 24 players that are wanting to go to Rio on the schedule at the 1924 Games in Paris. he endured a nine-month break from get that chance.” 22 FRIDAY 8 APRIL 2016 SPORT Man City fight back to draw 2-2 against PSG

last 16, feared Sergio Aguero the most, though, and the Argentinian striker Away goals by coaxed a yellow card out of David De Bruyne and Luiz inside 20 seconds after getting Fernandinho gives in behind the Brazilian. The home support were furious the English side soon after when Serbian referee the edge in their Milorad Mazic refused to give Paris a penalty after Blaise Matuidi went Champions League down in the box under pressure from quarter-final tie Eliaquim Mangala, but PSG did win a spot-kick in the 13th minute for a foul by Bacary Sagna on Luiz. Ibrahimovic stepped up, but was AFP thwarted by Hart, who dived low to his right to make the save. Perhaps the 34-year-old Swede was feeling the pressure in what could PARIS: Away goals by Kevin De be his last chance to win the Cham- Bruyne and Fernandinho handed pions League, because he passed up Manchester City a 2-2 first-leg draw another huge opportunity midway at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednes- through the first half, blazing over day to give the English side the edge after a Thiago Motta pass split the in their Champions League quarter- away defence. final tie. City made Ibrahimovic pay as they On a night that will be remem- opened the scoring seven minutes bered for some comical defending and before half-time, capitalising on loose a Zlatan Ibrahimovic penalty that was play in the Paris midfield. saved by City goalkeeper Joe Hart, the Fernandinho intercepted a Matuidi Premier League side twice punished pass intended for Rabiot and advanced mistakes by their hosts. towards the edge of the box before Manchester City’s English goalkeeper Joe Hart dives to stop a penalty shot from Ibrahimovic during the UEFA Champions League quarter final De Bruyne put City ahead on 38 teeing up De Bruyne, who took a touch minutes, only for Ibrahimovic to level and fired past Kevin Trapp. football match at Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris on Wednesday night. after an embarrassing mix-up in the However, City inexplicably gifted visitors’ defence soon after. the French champions an equaliser Adrien Rabiot then put PSG ahead only three minutes later. just before the hour, but Fernandinho It was a horror moment for Hart Zidane fuming as Real crash at Wolfsburg made it 2-2 on 72 minutes and ensured and Fernando, with the goalkeeper the French giants will be chasing the choosing to play a goal-kick short to tie in next Tuesday’s second leg. the Brazilian-born midfielder on the “It was a crazy game and we edge of the area despite Ibrahimovic AFP “We wanted to play here just like Champions League in the return we win by three goals.” played our part in a great game of lurking in close proximity. we did on Saturday, it was an inten- Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking football,” Hart told BT Sport. Fernando tried to release the ball, sive game for us (in Barcelona) and we Results gambled by starting inexperienced “It’s up to us to make the away but Ibrahimovic stuck out a leg and were flat in the first-half here. At Paris Brazilian Bruno Henrique on the right goals count. We are making history for diverted it into the net for his 39th WOLFSBURG, Germany: Zinedine “Now we have a chance in the Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) 2 (Ibrahi- wing, who set up Arnold’s goal. the club and we don’t want it to end.” goal of the season. Zidane admitted Real Madrid suffered return leg and it’s good we’ve got a movic 41, Rabiot 59) Manchester City Centre-back Naldo played his first Meanwhile, PSG coach Laurent PSG came out in the second an El Clasico hangover as they crashed game in three days (at home to Eibar) (ENG) 2 (De Bruyne 38, game since dislocating his shoulder Blanc admitted his side will have to half with the momentum after that to a 2-0 Champions League quarter- to get over this defeat. Fernandinho 72) in February and helped subdue the improve if they are to progress now. and they took the lead on 59 min- final, first-leg, defeat at Wolfsburg on “We had our problems, not just in At Wolfsburg, Germany Real attack. “Two mistakes allowed Man City utes thanks to one-time City youth Wednesday. the intensity, but also in our movement. VfL Wolfsburg (GER) 2 (Rodriguez There was little hint of the drama to score goals that are, as you know, player Rabiot. Just five days after ending Barce- “We didn’t expect the 2-0 defeat 18-pen, Arnold 25) to come when Real’s Cristiano Ron- very important away from home. Edinson Cavani turned a corner lona’s 39-game unbeaten run with a and we need to analyse where we went Real Madrid (ESP) 0 aldo put the ball in the Wolfsburg net That’s our biggest regret,” he said. towards goal and Hart saved, but the 2-1 away win, Real were humbled as wrong and make corrections.” Played on Tuesday after just 74 seconds, but the offside “I think we conceded goals from ball fell kindly for Rabiot to tap in. Wolfsburg ignored their struggling Zidane even said he was proud of At Barcelona, Spain flag went up. the only two chances they had but PSG sensed a chance to increase mid-table form in Germany’s top flight. his players and took full responsibil- Barcelona 2 (Suarez 63, 74) Atletico The hosts took a shock lead on 18 we could have scored three or four their advantage and a Di Maria cross Real never recovered as first-half ity for the result. Madrid 1 (Torres 25) minutes when Real midfielder Casem- ourselves.” from the right was headed against the goals from Swiss defender Ricardo “I have to find the reasons for the At Munich, Germany iro put in a clumsy foul on Wolfsburg City were appearing at this stage woodwork by Ibrahimovic. Rodriguez and Maximilian Arnold put defeat and the solutions,” he added. striker Andre Schuerrle and Rodriguez Bayern Munich 1 (Vidal 2) Benfica 0 for the first time and were handi- Instead City pounced on some the hosts 2-0 up at the Volkswagen Real’s six-game winning streak was nailed the spot kick. capped by the absences of injured more comical defending to grab a sec- Arena with 25 minutes gone. ended as Wolfsburg picked up their Second legs: April 12 and 13 Arnold then slotted home on 25 captain Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure ond away goal, Fernandinho gleefully Wolfsburg now have the upper first win in four games since beating minutes as Wolfsburg capitalised on and Raheem Sterling. prodding into the net after neither hand ahead of Tuesday’s return leg Gent in the last 16 of the tournament. awarded a first-half penalty after a some woeful Real defending. However, Hart had recovered Serge Aurier nor Thiago Silva were at the Bernabeu. It was a poor performance from heavy challenge in the area from Luiz “When Madrid leave the door from injury in time to play and De able to clear a low ball into the box “I’m not happy, above all with Real’s star forwards as Gareth Bale Gustavo. open, you have to take the chance to Bruyne started after making his own from the away right. the first-half. This can happen if you was kept quiet and Cristiano Ronaldo “I felt I got to the ball first and he go through it,” said Hecking. comeback from two months on the Those away goals, and the fact don’t play with intensity from the rarely shook of his markers. hit me, so it is obviously frustrating, “There was contact (on Schuerrle) sidelines at the weekend, giving the PSG will be without the suspended start,” said coach Zidane, who made France forward Karim Benzema but we have another game,” said the and it was a clear penalty. English side’s attack a fearsome look. Luiz and Matuidi for the return, could just one change from the team which went off on 41 minutes after a knock. Welshman. “In Henrique, we had a weapon PSG, conquerors of Chelsea in the prove crucial. beat Barca. Bale was left frustrated at not being “We just have to make sure now that which Real hadn’t bargained for.

Argentina knock Belgium from top Wounded Barcelona seek of FIFA rankings response to Clasico defeat AFP

PARIS: Argentina reclaimed top Agencies Neymar. of the season, even their most opti- spot from Belgium in Thursday’s The result had significant con- mistic fans were expecting another FIFA world rankings, while Copa sequences as they sacked sporting testing struggle to avoid relegation. America champions Chile soared director Andoni Zubizarreta the next As they prepare to visit Sam to an all-time high of third place. BARCELONA: Barcelona must over- day while media speculation grew Allardyce’s side in the return fixture Three straight wins in 2018 come a dismal record at Real Sociedad that Luis Enrique’s job was in danger. on Sunday, some of those supporters World Cup qualifiers helped on Saturday to reinforce the club’s Barca have 76 points, six clear of are now pre-emptively buying scarves Argentina return to the summit, title credentials after their 39-game nearest challengers Atletico and seven emblazoned with the words ‘Premier five months after they were sup- unbeaten run in all competitions ended ahead of third-placed Real Madrid League Champions’. planted by Belgium. with defeat by Real Madrid last week. with seven games remaining. While many are no doubt steering Chile moved up two places from La Liga leaders Barca were lifted Sociedad are 10th on 38 points and clear to avoid tempting fate, four vic- fifth, with Colombia climbing from by a 2-1 victory over Spanish rivals entertain Barca after a confidence- tories from the remaining six games eighth to fourth and Uruguay mov- Atletico Madrid in a Champions League boosting 2-1 triumph at Sevilla that of the season will hand Leicester a ing back into the top 10 as a reward quarter-final first leg on Tuesday but ended the opposition’s run of 14 league maiden top flight title and complete for their strong start to South Amer- they have failed to win at Sociedad victories at home. one of the most remarkable fairytales ican qualifying. since the Basque side returned to the Real Madrid host ninth-placed in English soccer history. Two-time defending European top flight in 2011. Eibar on Saturday hoping to capi- Leicester lead second place Totten- champions Spain drop three places Four of the Catalan team’s last talise on their win at the Nou Camp ham Hotspur by seven points heading to sixth, with world champions Ger- five visits there have ended in defeat. last week. into Sunday’s game and need 12 more many, Brazil, Portugal and England “We have beaten Barcelona a lot Zinedine Zidane’s men will also to put themselves out of sight. also sliding down one spot. in the last few years and on Saturday look to put added pressure on the For the Leicester side that plunged we can beat them again,” Sociedad teams above them and bounce back to the foot of the table last season, four FIFA Rankings midfielder Asier Illarramendi told from their shock Champions League wins in six games might have seemed reporters. defeat at VfL Wolfsburg in midweek. like a daunting task. 1. Argentina (+1) Barca are without suspended Real could be without Karim Ben- Yet such has been the collective 2. Belgium (-1) top scorer Luis Suarez, who scored zema after the France striker went off sense of calm that seems to encircle both goals in the comeback win in the first half of the 2-0 reverse at Claudio Ranieri’s side this year that 3. Chile (+2) over Atletico, while Aleix Vidal, Jer- Wolfsburg due to a suspected knee few are now expecting a collapse in 4. Colombia (+4) emy Mathieu and Sandro Ramirez injury. the home straight. are injured. Captain Sergio Ramos is suspended The slip-ups and the wobbles have 5. Germany (-1) Their last victory in San Sebas- after being sent off for two bookings been reserved for the so-called bigger 6. Spain (-3) tian came under former coach Frank against Barcelona. teams, who have all fallen off the pace Rijkaard in May 2007 and neither Atletico travel to Espanyol, where while Leicester have sailed smoothly 7. Brazil (-1) Pep Guardiola, Gerardo Martino, they have not won since September through the supposed choppy waters 8. Portugal (-1) Tito Vilanova nor Luis Enrique have 2012, on Saturday knowing that a vic- of the title run-in. Four successive 1-0 Paris Saint-Germain forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic reacts after missing managed to win at Sociedad. tory and another slip by Barca would victories have propelled Leicester to 9. Uruguay (+2) a penalty during the UEFA Champions League quarter final match Barca lost 1-0 there last season leave them three points off the top. the verge of success and been testa- against Manchester City at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris on 10. England (-1) after Luis Enrique started the game Meanwhile, When Leicester City ment to the organisational abilities Wednesday. without Lionel Messi and Brazilian faced Sunderland on the opening day of their Italian coach. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 20 PAGE | 22 PPacquiaoa vows Man City fight bbackack to sign off to draw 2-2 in style against PSG

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Action from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Qatar Open at the Qatar Beach Volleyball Academy courts at Al Gharafa Sports Club yesterday. The $75,000 event will conclude today. Pictures by: Mohamed Faraj Al Attiyah wins gruelling Qatar’s Adel Hussein secures win in UAE

Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge The Peninsula and make no mistakes and, in the end, I tried to drive fast and clean in the stage today.” “Winning the stage today was not super special stage at the Al Forsan ABU DHABI: Qatar’s Adel Hussein important. The car was perfect. It International Sports Resort and carded Abdullah claimed a memorable vic- was new for me and the first time I 2016 ABU DHABI DESERT CHALLENGE The Qatari speedstar, the fourth and seventh fastest times. tory in the T2 category at the 2016 drove a Nissan in cross-country. We Final standings: driving a Toyota This gave them both favourable start- Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in his worked hard to get everything right 1. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Overdrive Toyota Hilux: 17hr 14min 49sec Hilux, takes early ing positions for the first of the desert Nissan Patrol yesterday. and it worked out with this result.” 2. Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Mini All4 Racing: 17hr 47min 02sec sections of 278.04km out of Razeen. The Qatari hit the front of the Running with support from Nissan 3. Mikko Hirvonen (FIN)/Michel Périn (FRA) Mini All4 Racing: 17hr 53min 02sec lead in the 2016 FIA Al Attiyah was in super form five-day second round of the FIA Middle East and Al-Masaood Auto- 4. Bryce Menzies (USA)/Andreas Schulz (DEU) Mini All4 Racing: 17hr 59min 04sec Cross-Country Rally through the opening stage and a Cross-Country Rally World Cup with mobiles, Emil Khneisser, the Abu 5. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Tom Colsoul (BEL) Mini All4 Racing: 18hr 06min 33sec time of 3hr 28min 07sec was suffi- two days to go and drove in a cau- Dhabi-based Lebanese Nissan Patrol 6. Matthieu Serradori (FRA)/Didier Haquette (FRA) SRT Buggy: 18hr 39min 00sec World Cup cient for the Qatari to card the fastest tious manner over the final kilometres Y62 driver, and his Russian naviga- 7. Khalid Al Qassimi (ARE)/Khaled Al Kendi (ARE) Mini All4 Racing: 18hr 56min01sec time and edge into an overall lead of yesterday to record a winning mar- tor Alexei Kuzmich could not rectify 2min 18sec over former Overdrive gin of 5min 48sec over Saudi Arabia’s the problems that plagued progress 8. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Overdrive Toyota Hilux: 19hr 52min 40sec Toyota driver Yazeed Al Rajhi. Dab- Yasir Saeidan. on Wednesday. Rather than damage The Peninsula rowski was fifth in the Orlen Team It was the regular MERC navigator the car, the crew decided not to com- Toyota and held a similar position in and quad rider’s biggest career win to plete the final section of the event the overall standings. date and a superb result for the Japa- on Thursday. Al Attiyah was the first driver nese manufacturer and title sponsor Saudi Arabia’s Khalid Al Feraihi ABU DHABI: Qatar’s Nasser Saleh to finish the second loop section of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. and his Omani navigator Abdulhal- Al Attiyah confirmed a comfortable of 278.90km through the western “It was difficult for me to be eem Al Busaidi achieved a superb 11th second victory in the gruelling Abu deserts in a time of 3hr 54min 14sec ahead of Saeiden,” said Adel Hus- place in their T1 Nissan Patrol and Dhabi Desert Challenge and moved and that was sufficient for the Qatari sein Abdullah. Emirati Matar Al Mansoori finished into the early lead in the 2016 FIA to extend his outright lead over Al- “He was pushing to the maxi- the rally in 16th overall in a privately Cross-Country Rally World Cup with Rajhi to 10min 21sec. mum, but I tried to be in one pace run T1 Nissan Patrol. a resounding success in the United Dabrowski capped another Arab Emirates yesterday. superb day for Overdrive Racing: 2016 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge The Qatari speedstar recorded his the Pole was the fourth driver to first win in UAE since 2008 and also complete the stage and retained FIA T2 positions after SS5 Results made history for Overdrive Racing fifth overall. 1. Adel Hussein Abdullah (QAT)/Hakam Mohamed Rabeia (EGY) and his navigator Matthieu Baumel. The Qatari was fastest on the The win was the first ever for a Toyota third stage of 280.06km as well and Nissan Patrol: 24hr 38min 14secs Hilux and a maiden success across extended his overall advantage over 2. Yasir Saeidan (SAU)/Sebastien Delaunay (FRA) the deserts of the Abu Dhabi’s Empty Vladimir Vasilyev to 15min 19sec. “I Toyota Land Cruiser: 24hr 44min 02secs Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge cars champions Nasser Al Attiyah Quarter for Baumel and Overdrive got into my rhythm early on,” said the (top right) and co-driver Mathieu Baumel (top left) and their Racing. Qatari. “The navigation was perfect.” Overdrive Racing team-mates on the podium after receiving Al Attiyah said: “I am delighted Dabrowski was delayed with a with this result and the performance minor battery issue and the time loss the winner’s trophy from Mohammed Ben Sulayem, ATCUAE of the Toyota. It was not easy, but we was expensive: it cost the Pole around President and Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Latif Al Mannai, controlled our pace from the front 80 minutes and dropped the Orlen President of the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation. of the field from the start and I am Toyota from fifth to ninth overall. happy to be leading the champion- Al Attiyah ceded the win on the ship and to take another win in Abu fourth section of 257.87km to Fin- Dhabi. The dunes were tricky, but the land’s Mikko Hirvonen, but the Toyota car was strong and reliable.” driver maintained an outright lead of The Polish duo of Marek Dab- 28min 08sec over Yazeed Al Rajhi to rowski and Jacek Czachor crewed a take into the final selective section. “It second Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux wasn’t easy at all,” admitted Nasser. in Orlen Team colours and reached “We did some of the stage the pre- the finish in eighth overall. They vious day, but most was completely lost a potential top five finish on the new. The thing now is not to make third of five punishing desert selec- any mistakes.” tive sections, held on varied weather Dabrowski enjoyed a useful stage conditions in the western deserts of performance to finish eighth and hold the Al Gharbia region of the emirate a similar position in the rankings. of Abu Dhabi. Al Attiyah stormed through the “This is a special result for our final stage in a time of 2hr 38min team and I think that a winning margin 17sec to secure his second victory Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah and his Overdrive Racing team- of over 30 minutes proves that Nasser at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge mate and navigator Matthieu Baumel driving their Toyota Hilux has been the best driver,” said Over- by the margin of 32min 13sec. Dab- drive Racing’s CEO Jean-Marc Fortin. rowski also drove a solid final stage during the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. Adel Hussein Abdullah driving his Nissan Patrol during the T2 category Dabrowski and Al Attiyah made to snatch the sixth quickest time and cautious starts through the opening finish in eighth place. event at the 2016 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

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ONLINE CHART BUST Diabetes cases Aquaferie show www.thepeninsulaqatar.com reach 422 million Reuters MOST READ

Dutch voters reject EU-Ukraine trade LONDON: The number of adults with dia- 1 accord betes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the con- 250 Syrians missing after IS attack dition is fast becoming a major problem in 2 east of Damascus: Residents poorer countries, a World Health Organi- zation study showed on Wednesday. Oil steady as Iraqi exports up, offsetting US In one of the largest studies to date 3 inventories drop of diabetes trends, the researchers said ageing populations and rising levels of obesity across the world mean diabetes is becoming “a defining issue for global TWEET OF THE DAY public health”. “Obesity is the most important risk factor for type 2 diabetes and our attempts to control rising rates of obesity have so far not proved successful,” said Majid Ezzati, a professor at Imperial College London who led the WHO research. It found that between 1980 and 2014, The night show "La Forge aux Etoiles", an aquaferie created by "Le Cirque du Soleil" at the Futuroscope diabetes has become more common among men than women. theme park in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France. Rates of diabetes rose significantly in many low and middle income countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Paki- stan, Egypt and Mexico. The study found that northwestern Europe has the lowest rates of dia- Huge black hole equal to 17bn suns found betes among women and men, with age-adjusted prevalence lower than 4 percent among women and at around QNA very large galaxies in regions loaded universe with the goal of under- 5 to 6 percent among men in Switzer- with other large galaxies. standing how they form and grow land, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and the The current record holder, dis- supermassive. INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Netherlands. covered in the Coma Cluster by the "Rich groups of galaxies like the No country saw any meaningful CALIFORNIA: University of Cali- UC Berkeley team in 2011, tips the Coma Cluster are very, very rare, but decrease in diabetes prevalence, it found. fornia, Berkeley, astronomers have scale at 21 billion solar masses and is there are quite a few galaxies the size The largest increases in diabetes rates discovered a supermassive black hole listed in the Guinness Book of World of NGC 1600 that reside in average- were in Pacific island nations, followed that is equal to 17bn suns put together. Records. size galaxy groups," Ma said. by the Middle East and North Africa, in They say the huge black hole dis- The newly discovered black hole "So the question now is, 'Is this countries like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi covered in a sparse area of the local is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the oppo- the tip of an iceberg?' Maybe there Arabia. universe indicates that these mon- site part of the sky from the Coma are a lot more monster black holes The data also showed that half of ster objects may be more common Cluster in a relative desert, said the out there that don't live in a sky- adults with diabetes in 2014 lived in five than once thought. leader of the discovery team, Chung- scraper in Manhattan, but in a tall A swarm of bees seen countries - China, India, the United States Until now, the biggest supermas- Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of building somewhere in the Midwest- near Losail, Photo By Brazil and Indonesia. sive black holes - those with masses astronomy and head of the MASSIVE ern plains." The 17-billion-solar-mass Unni Lenin Rates more than doubled for men in around 10 billion times that of our Survey, a study of the most massive estimate for the central black hole India and China between 1980 and 2014 sun - have been found at the cores of galaxies and black holes in the local in NGC 1600 is much more precise. First Folio US hands over fossil remains Rare Shakespeare found of dinosaur to Mongolia

Reuters AFP officials added. Mongolia determined that fossils are national property in 1924, and their export is strictly for- SCOTLAND: A nearly 400-year- bidden. Tuesday's ceremony, hosted old copy of a first edition of NEW YORK: The United States on by the US attorney for Brooklyn, is William Shakespeare’s collected Tuesday handed back to Mongolia the latest in a series of returns of plays has been found in a vast aris- fossil remains of six species of dino- fossils to Mongolia in recent years, tocratic house on the Isle of Bute, saur smuggled out of the country and including a Tarbosaurus bataar dat- off the western coast of Scotland. impounded by agents in New York ing back 70 million years. Published in 1623, the First and Utah. "We are proud of our role in Folio contains Shakespeare’s 36 The largest item was the skull of restoring this rich paleontological plays, including several that had an Alioramus, an exceptionally rare heritage to the Mongolian people and never been published before and dinosaur believed to have roamed taking these cultural treasures from might have been lost without it, the Gobi Desert 66 to 70 million the hands of looters and smugglers," such as “Macbeth”, “The Tempest” years ago. A relative of the more said Robert Capers, US attorney for and “As You Like It”. The discovery widely known Tyrannosaurus, only Brooklyn. Before Tuesday, 23 dino- at Mount Stuart, grand neo-Gothic two specimens are reported in sci- saur fossils had been repatriated to home of the Marquesses of Bute, entific literature, both of them from Mongolia from the United States in brings the total of known surviv- Mongolia. US authorities described the last three years, said Mongolia's ing copies of the First Folio in the the fossil as the most complete Alio- ambassador to the United States, world to 234. Most others are in ramus skull yet discovered. Altangerel Bulgaa. libraries and accessible only to The skull was confiscated by Mongolia paleontologist scholars. customs after being shipped from Bolortsetseg Minjin described the Daffodils are in bloom at Mount Stuart where a ShakespeareFirst Folio has been discovered nearly 400 years It is usually a single volume France with false papers claiming Alioramus as an extremely rare that would have to be read sitting after his death on the Isle of Bute in Scotland, yesterday. it was a cheap replica, US authori- dinosaur and said only two spec- ties said. The shipper later submitted imens reported in the scientific at a desk, but the Bute copy was split houses a collection of artworks forged Mongolian export documents, literature, and both from Mongolia. in the past for ease of reading into and artefacts acquired by the Stu- three leather-bound volumes, one art family over the centuries. each for comedies, histories and “The collection’s managers were tragedies. “This is something that in touch to say they thought they you could take to the fireside and had a Shakespeare First Folio, and I enjoy,” Emma Smith, a professor of must say I thought right, yeah, sure Shakespeare Studies at Oxford Uni- you do. But on much closer inspec- versity who authenticated the Bute tion they turned out to be right,” Folio, told the BBC. said Smith. “It’s a book we most likely now Inside the first page is an see ... in a glass case, and one of inscription from an 18th century the things that this copy ... shows editor of Shakespeare called Isaac us is a time when people just really Reed, describing how he acquired used this book, they enjoyed it, they the book in 1786. The Folio also scribbled on it, they spilt their wine includes annotations by Reed that on it, their pet cats jumped on it.” suggest he used it as a working Worth an estimated 2 to 2.5 mil- document. lion pounds the Folio is not up for Britain has been holding com- Robert L Capers, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, sale and will be on public display at memorations this year to mark the The Shakespeare First Folio is displayed at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, in Mount Stuart until October. It was 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s speaks during the Repatriation ceremony to transfer custody of Scotland, yesterday. found in the home’s library, which death on April 23, 1616. Mongolian fossils to the Government of Mongolia in New York.