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DOHA: High winds lashed the country late last evening. Eyewitnesses said wind speed speed to rise was close to 100km an hour out- side Doha but that didn’t appar- ently dampen the spirit of young Qataris who were speeding off to the outskirts at the weekend. Windy conditions are forecast by year-end to continue and by this evening strong winds may be accom- panied with dust, the weather Mobiles eat into fixed line phones bureau has warned. The Ministry of Interior has, DOHA: Qatar expects a sig- people in 2013, an increase of 11 meanwhile, asked seafarers to nificant increase in Internet percent annually. return immediately as a “dust- penetration once the fibre optic The ministry said that since storm” was expected. broadband network is com- 2007 the number of cell phone On its officials Twitter account, pleted by the end of the year. users in the country has rising the ministry said yesterday that Under the initiative of the significantly. the sea will be tumultuous so peo- government at least 95 percent Meanwhile, as for the tar- ple must return soon. of the country is planned to be gets mentioned in the National The high winds moving from covered by a national broadband Broadband Plan for the country, the colder regions in the north- network. the entire population is to have west may today provide relief “The use of the Internet will the ability to choose between a from the heat. A sharp decline increase immensely once the minimum of two broadband retail in day and night temperatures is broadband rollout is finished providers by 2016, irrespective of expected as the maximum tem- by 2015-end,” said the Ministry location. perature forecast is 32 degrees of Development Planning and The rationale behind this is Celsius while night tempera- Statistics. that robust competition will Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (second right) was crowned yesterday the champion of the Sealine Cross- tures will be between 21 and 25 In a report on Sustainable lower prices, improve quality and Country Rally organised by Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF). It was Al Attiyah’s second degrees. THE PENINSULA Development Index 2014, the develop new services. consecutive Sealine rally win and sixth in his history. See also pages 21 & 22 ministry said a revolutionary Second, 95 percent of the increase in the use of cell phones households are to have the abil- took a serious toll on fixed line ity to access affordable and high phones. quality broadband service of at Sketching the telecoms sector least 100 Mbps effective down- Qatar remains one of the richest countries scene in the country from 2006 load and 50 Mbps effective upload until 2013, the ministry said in speeds by 2016. its above report that there were Third, all businesses, schools, DOHA: Qatar continues to be gas and petrochemical industries investment to the gross domestic expected to grow significantly 21.9 fixed telephone lines in the hospitals and government insti- one of the wealthiest countries and from returns on the state’s product (GDP) had been fluctu- in the years to come due to the country for every 100 residents tutions are to have high qual- in the world with a per capita overseas investments. ating between 2006 and 2013 and expansion of the state’s invest- in 2006. ity access to at least 1 Gbps income that was estimated at According to Sustainable in 2010 it was the highest at 40 ment programme in different That number was down consid- download and upload speeds by over US$101,000 in 2013. Development Index Report percent. sectors, said the ministry report. erably to 16.6 lines per 100 resi- 2016. Moreover, digital literacy The per capita income has 2014 issued by the Ministry The ratio has grown at the The report sketches the price dents in 2013 due to a rapid rise is to be expanded to the entire risen at an impressive rate of 7.8 of Development Planning and rate of 6.9 percent annually in rise since 2006 when the cost in the number of mobile phone mainstream population by 2016, percent annually since 2006 when Statistics, the assets of Qatar the seven years between 2006 and of living in the country actually subscribers. in conjunction with guarantees of the figure was merely 58,400, offi- Investment Authority (QIA), 2013. The growth can be attrib- began spiraling. In 2006 the rate From 88.2 units per 110 peo- the user’s digital privacy, protec- cial data suggest. the state’s sovereign wealth uted to the twin factors of an of inflation was in double digits — ple in 2006 (or 88.2 mobile phone tion of personal data and freedom The figure will keep looking up fund, were an impressive $175bn increase in return on investment at an alarming 11.8 percent. users for every 110 people), there of opinion and expression. in the years to come due to ris- in 2012. and high oil and gas revenue. Continued on page 3 were 190 cell phone users per 110 THE PENINSULA ing state revenue from natural The ratio of the state’s The rate of investment is THE PENINSULA

EU migrant rescue ships head for Libya CMC candidate shuns BRUSSELS/SKOPJE: their luck in a wealthy region British and German warships that offers, at best, a chilly wel- made ready to sail for waters come. EU governments remain posters, social media off Libya as Europe ramped deeply at odds over how to DOHA: In what is media,” he said. up rescue operations in the share out the care of those who a highly technology- But, of course, if Mediterranean after up to 900 make it. driven campaign re-elected which he desperate migrants drowned After the sinking of a packed for the upcoming is quite sure of, he last weekend on a boat heading fishing vessel last weekend nearly Central Municipal said he would follow for Italy. doubled the death toll at sea this Council (CMC) elec- up on development Yet hours after European year to almost 2,000, EU leaders tion, there is at projects lined up for Union leaders agreed in Brussels responded to a public outcry by least one contestant his constituency. on Thursday to treble funding reversing sharp cuts in search who hasn’t put up a Al Khayarin has for EU maritime missions and and rescue operations — though poster or banner, and three rivals but says he pledged more ships and aircraft, voters’ wariness of immigration is not using the social media has an edge over them because 14 clandestine migrants were means few are willing to take in for canvassing. he has been living in his con- killed when a train ploughed into many more refugees. Mohamed Saleh Al Khayarin stituency for the past 35 years. dozens of Somalis and Afghans Britain’s helicopter-carrying (pictured), in the fray from “I am the oldest of the resi- making their way in darkness flagship Bulwark, currently near Constituency number 16 (Al dents among all the four con- along a rail track in a Macedonian Istanbul, will head for the area Rayyan), is seeking re-election testants who are in the fray gorge. between Libya and Italy tomor- to the CMC for the fourth from the ward,” he said. The incident highlighted the row, the government said. straight term, but he says he has Contrast Al Khayarin’s variety of routes that growing EU border agency Frontex says thrown his hat in the ring this give-a-damn attitude towards numbers are taking to escape 276,000 people entered the bloc time again because of pressure electioneering with the spir- Rescued migrants wait before disembarking off the Italian Guardia Costiera war and poverty in Asia, Africa illegally last year. REUTERS from his constituents. ited canvassing of Sheikha Al vessel Fiorillo at the Sicilian harbour of Catania yesterday. and the Middle East and chance See also page 8 “It is the people of my area Jefairi, for instance, who is re- who have asked me to fight the contesting from constituency election again. I wasn’t keen to number 8 (which includes Old do so,” Al Khayarin told The Airport, Najma and Nuaija, Peninsula. among other localities) — she “I don’t want to make elec- has deployed two teams to tion promises.” Al Khayarin was manage her poll campaign on Saudi foils bomb plot, says IS killed cops first elected to the CMC in 2003 the social media, one of them when election for the second only for Twitter. RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said confessed that he was following authorities seized seven cars, in an April 8 drive-by shooting term of the CMC, which has a Meanwhile, in a novel way of yesterday it had foiled a bomb orders received from IS in Syria, “three of them booby-trapped”, in an eastern district of Riyadh. four-year tenure, was held. canvassing, another woman can- plot by the Islamic State group the Interior Ministry said. as well as suspected bomb-mak- The ministry said that Abu Al Rayyan is one of the most didate, Amaal Al Mohannadi, and blamed the jihadists for He was identified as 23-year- ing materials and tools, said the Niyan allegedly carried out the influential of the 29 civic con- from constituency number 17, shooting dead two policemen in old Yazid bin Mohammed statement carried by the official shooting while his partner, Anzi, stituencies because it has within has come out with a video fea- the capital earlier this month. Abdulrahman Abu Niyan. Saudi Press Agency. drove the car and filmed the it Qatar Foundation and Qatar turing a song on problems in her The authorities said three The authorities offered a one- They also discovered machine- attack. campuses of all the elite foreign ward and ways to solve them. bomb-laden cars had been seized million-riyal ($267,000) bounty guns, ammunition, money and According to Abu Niyan, IS educational institutions. She has uploaded the song during investigations into the for a second suspect, another several mobile telephones which supplied them with the weapons, “I have no election manifesto titled ‘Izhelha’ (We Can Do It) killings. Saudi identified as Nawaf bin revealed an exchange between the ammunition and money to carry so there is no question of putting on YouTube and it is quite a hit A Saudi man arrested at a farm Sharif Samir Al Anzi, wanted attackers and “terrorist elements out the shooting through a “third up posters or banners or launch- with her constituents. north of Riyadh on suspicion of over several other criminal cases. in Syria”, SPA said. party whom they did not meet”, ing a campaign on the social THE PENINSULA carrying out the shooting has During their investigation the The two policemen were killed the statement said. AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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DOHA: The Indian embassy documents) to Indian detainees at said in a statement yesterday Free medical the deportation centre in April. that it had received 1,319 com- It also gave air tickets to five plaints from Indian workers so distressed Indians to return home. far this year. camp on May 8 Working under the aegis of The embassy was, however, DOHA: An Indian commu- the embassy, an Indian com- vague and gave no details of the nity welfare corpus is hold- munity welfare body, the Indian complaints, including their nature. ing a free medical camp for Community Benevolent Fund In 2014, the total number of com- low-income workers of all (ICBF), provided air tickets and plaints from Indian workers was nationalities at KIMS Qatar medical and financial assistance to 3,943, it said. Medical Center in Al Wakra several needy Indians this month. There has been a rise in the on Friday, May 8. The embassy statement said number of complaints. In 2013, The camp, being organ- an “open house” was held at the the total was 3,558, while in 2012 ised by Indian Community mission’s premises yesterday and complaints registered with the Benevolent Forum in collabora- ambassador Sanjiv Arora, Deputy mission numbered 3,385, the state- tion with Indian Doctors’ Club chief of mission R K Singh and ment said. (Indian Medical Association) other embassy officials met com- Some 18 Indians died between and KIMS Qatar Medical plainants and discussed their April 1 and April 23, 2015, while Centre, will be held from 7 am problems and assured them that the total number of deaths in the to 1.30 pm. THE PENINSULA the embassy “would” actively fol- community so far this year was 90. low up their cases with the Qatari It seems that due to the increas- authorities. ing population of Indians here Some 90 Indians were in the cen- The embassy, however, gave their death toll has also been tral prison, while 142 were at the no details about the number of increasing. In 2014, 279 Indians deportation centre, the embassy complainants or the nature of died, while the number was 241 in said. complaints. ICBF Vice-president 2013, and 237 in 2012. Based on requests from Qatari Baby Kurien was also present at Participants in the Senyar traditional fishing and pearl diving competition show their catch. The embassy, though, did not authorities, the mission issued the monthly “open house”. give the causes of the deaths. 19 emergency certificates (travel THE PENINSULA

QatarDebate debaters training teams in Britain, US New housing stocks expected DOHA: QatarDebate is spread- five members of Team Utah on to train students from Swansea perfecting the skills of debating QatarDebate was able to estab- ing the art of debating inter- the art of debating and dialogue. University in Swansea city to and dialogue and to encourage lish contact with university stu- nationally as two of its best Fakhro said that initially the prepare the team that will par- revival of the Arabic language.” dents from around the world with to ease inflation debaters train debating teams focus of the training programme ticipate in the championship. Efforts by QatarDebate to support from Qatar Foundation. in other countries. was to introduce students to “I graduated from Swansea spread the culture of debating do Locally, QatarDebate organises Continued from page 1 In preparation for the cham- QatarDebate Center and the art University two years ago, there- not stop at the borders of Qatar workshops aimed at the various It peaked at 15.2 percent in pionship, Yousef Fakhro, one of debating. fore, it wasn’t too hard to set and the Middle East region. segments of society, including 2008, driven mainly by high of QatarDebate’s outstanding Also, QatarDebate Center has the training sessions,” said Al It reaches out to the interna- school and university students as demand for housing, rent debaters who is in the United sent one of its distinctive cad- Suwaidi, adding, “The goal of tional community to achieve its well as employees working in state increases and a rise in construc- States for his studies, has trained res, Ali Al Suwaidi, to the UK QatarDebate is to focus on objectives. institutions. THE PENINSULA tion material costs. The rate of inflation has since been 3.4 percent on average and it nosedived in 2009 and 2010, HOG supports QCS according to the ministry’s report. In 2013, it was 3.1 percent. Ooredoo launches disaster As new housing stocks come on the market, inflation is expected to ease due to plummeting rents. recovery facilities “The demand and supply gap in the housing sector would become DOHA: Ooredoo has launched different packages suited to busi- narrower and as more supplies disaster recovery facilities at its nesses needs, including a Limited come on the market rents would Ooredoo Data Centres, which Edition service (limited Disaster decrease,” the ministry said. will enable companies to keep Recovery seats with limited days The real estate sector is their operations going even in per month); Standard Edition, expected to be stable and the the most serious emergencies. 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DOHA: A delegation from the tion to phones, PCs, applications By introducing these advanced Advisory Council is represent- and Internet with Ooredoo’s big- features, Ooredoo is making it ing Qatar in the three-day ger, faster network. Ooredoo is possible for companies to adopt fifth session of the Arab Inter- even offering secure parking for next-generation Data Centre tech- parliamentary Union, which employees using the service. nologies by reducing deployment opened in Djibouti today. This state-of-the-art facility is time and increasing availability. The Advisory Council’s dele- a ready-to-run disaster recovery Ooredoo Data Centres provide gation to the meeting comprises service, providing a fully self-suf- a full range of services including members Mubarak Ghanim Al ficient infrastructure with its own hosting and co-location, cloud Ali and Nasser Khalil Al Jaidah H.O.G. Qatar Chapter, sponsored by Harley-Davidson Doha, in partnership with The United Development power supply to provide support services, web content delivery, as well as Member of Arab Company (UDC), organised a social gathering at Medina Centrale in The Pearl-Qatar where UDC presented for more than 48 hours in the case data backup and restoration, Parliament Dr Aisha Youssuf Al a cheque for QR10,000 to Qatar Cancer Society (QCS). The event was hosted by H.O.G. Assistant Director of any domestic or international business continuity and disaster Mannai and legal advisor at the Elias Dbeis, Ladies of Harley Officer Enrica Barbagallo, Harley-Davidson dealer principal Robert Andy Kelly, network system failure. recovery, infrastructure monitor- Council, Dr Mohamed Ibrahim QCS PR Manager Salman Al Enezi, and UDC representative Ali Al Kaabi. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH To ensure affordability for ing management and IT security. Shahbek. customers, Ooredoo is offering THE PENINSULA QNA SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Leaders pay tribute to Gallipoli fallen Turkey hosts ceremonies 100 years on

GALLIPOLI PENINSULA: John Key. Charles imagined how back and give them the respect Turkey and the former World “deep dark and foreboding fears” they (the troops) deserve,” War I Commonwealth foes of of the troops “would be realised said Marjorie Stevens, 87, from the Ottoman Empire yester- all to often and all too soon” as Adelaide in Australia, who had day joined together to honour they met early deaths. been planning the long trip for 12 the tens of thousands killed at A salute was fired by the Royal months. “It’s hard to keep back the Battle of Gallipoli 100 years Navy Ship HMS Bulwark, which the tears and it’s so important to ago in one of the most futile Prime Minister David Cameron keep the link to the past.” yet emblematic campaigns of has indicated may be sent towards Estimates of the numbers killed the conflict. Libya to rescue migrants who hit in the conflict differ, but most The Battle of Gallipoli ended trouble travelling to Europe. sources say at least 45,000 sol- with up to half a million casualties The nine-month battle saw diers lost their lives on the Allied and achieved little. But it played a German-backed Ottoman side and a higher number, around crucial role in forming the national forces resist Allies — including 86,000, on the Ottoman side. conciousness both of modern Australian, British, French, Irish, World War I eventually ended Turkey and the young nations of Newfoundland, New Zealand and in defeat for the Ottoman forces Australia and New Zealand. Gurkha troops — trying to seize but the Gallipoli battle is of huge Turkish President Recep the peninsula on the western edge importance for Turks as the Tayyip Erdogan said at a cer- of Turkey to break through to troops’ resistance helped lead emony at the memorial for take Constantinople and knock to the creation of the modern Ottoman troops on the Gallipoli the Ottoman Empire out of the Turkish state in 1923. Peninsula that the world needed war. A key Ottoman commander a message of peace “more than The final surviving Allied at Gallipoli was a lieutenant ever” in the 21st century. troops would be evacuated from colonel named Mustafa Kemal, “I repeat once more on behalf Gallipoli in January 1916 after a later known as Ataturk, who of all — before the memory of campaign that became a symbol would emerge as the founder of hundreds of thousands of young of wasteful failure in World War the Turkish Republic and who men lying in this small peninsula I, with many killed by disease as remains its national icon. — our determination to work to well as fighting. Today, the focus in Gallipoli let peace and prosperity prevail Thousands of Australians and shifts to the dawn services to in the world,” he said. New Zealanders have made the remember the estimated 8,700 The British heir to the throne long journey to join the trib- Australian and 2,800 New Prince Charles and his son Prince utes to their forefathers, milling Zealand soldiers who lost their Harry then paid tribute to the around the ferry docks where lives thousands of miles from fallen soldiers at the British souvenir sellers offered scarves home in a sacrifice that helped memorial on the peninsula at a and T-shirts promoting the mod- forge their own national identities From left: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Britain’s Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and Turkish President Recep ceremony attended by Erdogan, ern day friendship between the and is still remembered as Anzac Tayyip Erdogan attend the commemoration ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Australian Prime Minister Tony ex-foes. Day on April 25. Gallipoli, at the Turkish Canakkake Martyr’s Memorial, yesterday. Abbott and New Zealand Premier “It means so much to come AFP Hints of reconciliation in Turkey Criticism will not hit as Armenians mark massacre Sudan polls, ISTANBUL: Hundreds of pope and European parliament, say the deaths were the result of Armenians staged memorials in who have joined two dozen nations internecine conflict in the chaos of Turkey yesterday to mourn their and the majority of Western a global war. But grassroots efforts says Bashir forebears killed 100 years ago and scholars in describing the mas- are growing among some Turks to push the government in Ankara sacre as a genocide. atone for what they say are the KHARTOUM: Sudanese to recognise what they say was a Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet crimes of their Ottoman ancestors. President Omar Hassan Al genocide by Ottoman Turks. Davutoglu expressed his sadness About 100 people held signs call- Bashir yesterday labelled for- In Istanbul and a few cities in over the loss of life, a shift in tone ing on the government to apologise eign critics of last week’s gen- Turkey’s southeast, where most after decades of acrimony with outside a former Ottoman palace, eral elections, which he is widely of the Armenian population then Armenians. But the more con- now a museum of Islamic artefacts, expected to win, as “colonialist lived, makeshift memorials and ciliatory tone is a result of pres- in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet parties” and said they would rallies sprang up, some organised sure from abroad, said Yetvart district. Its cool, dark halls bear no have no effect on the polls. with Turks, in scenes that would Danzikiyan, editor of Agos news- signs of its former role as a prison, Britain, Norway and the have been unthinkable in Turkey paper that serves the remaining where, on the Saturday after United States had issued a joint a decade ago. community of 60,000 Armenians Easter on April 24, 1915, some 250 statement criticising Khartoum A senior Turkish minister for in Istanbul. Armenians were jailed before their for failing “to create a free, the first time joined prayers at the “The government wants to deportation to the provinces for fair, and conducive elections Armenian Patriarchate, showing appear to be making reforms ... execution, the first wave of violence environment.” how Turkey, facing international (But) it still isn’t saying what it that culminated in the massacres. The 71-year-old career soldier pressure to recognise a genocide, needs to: that a terrible thing was Protesters held up red carna- said international groups who has softened its opposition to done to Armenians. They didn’t tions and portraits of the men observed the polls “acknowledged Armenia’s argument that Ottoman die in war, their deaths were the — intellectuals, political leaders their fairness and transparency Turks killed 1.5 million of their result of a massacre that was and civil servants — arrested that but, despite that, some colonialist ancestors during World War One. planned,” he said. day in Istanbul, once a centre of parties were not satisfied”. “We respect the pain our Such rhetoric angers nation- Armenian cultural life. “This will not affect the demo- Armenian brothers experienced. alists, several hundred of whom “They thought no one would cratic process,” he said. We say this was a bad event, so staged a march near Istanbul’s remember the victims or the per- Bashir made the comments at we’re not opposed to bearing central Taksim Square, decrying petrators, that it would be buried,” a meeting in Khartoum of rep- witness and remembering this “imperialist lies”. “There was no said Serge Tomassian, 58, who resentatives from east African pain,” EU Affairs Minister Volkan genocide, it was protecting the travelled from California to hon- defence ministries. Bozkir told reporters as church homeland,” the crowd chanted, our his grandmother Heghnine, bells rang out. waving the Turkish flag. who survived deportation to the SUCCESS Lebanese Armenians march with flags and placards on the Antelias highway, Turkey has none the less A 2014 study showed only 9 per- desert. “What’s happening today He hailed the elections as a strongly criticised foreign lead- cent of Turks believe Armenians proves that’s not true,” he said, success because Sudan held them north of Beirut, yesterday. ers and institutions, including the were killed in a genocide. Most choking back tears. REUTERS despite “the oppressive blockade and the unjustifiable targeting for more than 25 years”. Since Bashir seized power in 1989, Sudan has sunk into inter- Tunisian fishermen national isolation and was slapped with a US trade embargo in 1997 save 80 migrants Israeli tanks strike Gaza after rocket fired over charges including alleged rights abuses. from sinking boat GAZA CITY: Israeli tanks hit a Bashir is widely expected to position of the Islamist movement extend his rule in the polls, in ZARZIS: Tunisian fishermen Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a which he faced 13 little-known rescued a group of around 80 rocket was launched on south- challengers and which were migrants yesterday after their ern Israel from the Palestinian boycotted by the mainstream boat got into difficulties while enclave, the army said yesterday. opposition. trying to sail from Libya to A military statement said the Even before the four-day Europe, the Red Crescent said. overnight strike had targeted elections started on April 13, “The flow (of illegal immi- “terrorist infrastructure” in European Union foreign affairs grants) does not seem to be stop- the north of the Mediterranean head Federica Mogherini said ping,” said Mongi Slim, head of enclave. A spokesman for Gaza’s they would not produce “cred- the Red Crescent in the south- emergency services said nobody ible” results because of Bashir’s eastern port of Zarzis near the was wounded. failure to establish a national North African country’s border A military spokeswoman con- dialogue. with violence-plagued Libya. “We firmed that the tank fire had Last year, Bashir announced expect to receive approximately been in response to the rocket the dialogue to address Sudan’s 80 people this afternoon” at launched from the Gaza Strip faltering economy and conflicts Zarzis, he said. Thursday, which triggered warn- in the South Kordofan, Blue Nile Slim and a Tunisian coast- ing sirens in southern Israel but and Darfur areas, but the talks guard official said three fish- caused no damage. have yet to start. ing boats went to the aid of the In December, Israeli warplanes The International Criminal migrants when their boat was struck Gaza for the first time Court indicted Bashir over in danger of sinking. The group since an August 26 ceasefire went alleged war crimes and crimes had set off from the Libyan port into effect, after a rocket hit the A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw a stone during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a demonstration against humanity in Darfur, of Zwara some 60km from the Jewish state. There were no casu- against Palestinian land confiscation to expand the nearby Jewish Hallamish settlement (background) in the West where the UN says more than frontier with Tunisia. alties on either side. Bank village of Nabi Saleh, located near Ramallah, yesterday. 300,000 people have been killed They were the latest to be res- Also yesterday, two Gazans since 2003. cued by the Tunisians. Last week, were wounded by Israeli gunfire soldiers there. Gaza health serv- took place east of Khan Yunis in Under Israel’s blockade of the Results from elections for the 178 people were saved off the coast, on the border. Eyewitnesses said a ices spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra the southern Gaza Strip. coastal territory, Gaza residents presidency and state and national as were another 169 last month. few dozen Palestinian youths had said the two were moderately A spokeswoman said the army are not allowed to come within 100 parliaments are due on Monday. AFP been throwing stones at Israeli wounded in the incident, which was not aware of any such incident. metres of the border fence. AFP AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 UN aid chief urges Syria sanctions Special envoy Jolie pleads for refugee help

UNITED NATIONS: The rest by other armed groups. “Those refugees cannot come United Nations aid chief yester- Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar to this council, so please, will you day urged the Security Council Ja’afari characterized claims go to them,” said Jolie, who also to impose an arms embargo and that the Syrian government was berated the council for failing to sanctions in Syria for violations besieging areas and prevent- overcome divisions to end the war. of humanitarian law as special ing aid delivery as “naive and A Syrian troop crackdown on envoy Angelina Jolie pleaded misleading.” a pro-democracy movement in with council members to visit Actress and director Jolie, a 2011 led to an armed uprising. millions of Syrian refugees. special envoy of the UN High Islamic State militants have taken The aid official, Valerie Amos, Commissioner for Refugees, advantage of the chaos to declare also appealed to the council to appealed for unity and account- a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. mandate the United Nations’ ability for some 4 million Syrian The United Nations says some commission of inquiry on Syria refugees. She has made 11 vis- 220,000 people have been killed to investigate besieged areas, its to Syrian refugees in Iraq, and an estimated 7.6 million are the militarisation of schools and Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and internally displaced. Amos asked hospitals, and attacks on those Malta. the council to “send perpetrators facilities. “We cannot look at Syria, and a clear message that their crimes The United Nations says about the evil that has arisen from the will not go unpunished.” 440,000 people are besieged in ashes of indecision, and think “The government, armed and Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth this is not the lowest point in terrorist groups, continue to kill, year. Of those, 167,500 are trapped the world’s ability to protect and maim, rape, torture and take by government forces, 228,000 by defend the innocent,” Jolie told Syria to new lows that seemed Armed militiamen loyal to Yemen’s fugitive President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi duck from sniper-fire as they run Islamic State militants and the the 15-member Security Council. unimaginable a few years ago,” during reported clashes with Houthi rebels in the port city of Aden’s Dar Saad suburb yesterday. said Amos. “We need the numb- ness to the senseless violence and the apparent apathy to end.” The council failed last year to refer Syria’s war to the Saleh urges rebel allies International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Syrian ally Russia, backed by to heed UN, pull back China, vetoed the move. “Any impartial observer would see clearly that today terrorism SANA’A: Yemen’s influential campaign on Tuesday in favour for Yemen was “no longer on the is the essential issue and threat former president urged his rebel of seeking a political solution, but same course”. in Syria,” Russia’s UN ambas- allies yesterday to heed UN strikes have continued. Meanwhile, coalition air sador, Vitaly Churkin, said. demands to withdraw from ter- Saleh, who still heads the influ- strikes have continued unabated. Russia, with the support of ritory seized in months of fight- ential General People’s Congress Warplanes hit a camp housing China, vetoed three other coun- ing, so Saudi-led air strikes can party, called for UN-brokered rebels in third city Taez, residents cil resolutions that threatened end and reconciliation begin. Saudi-Yemeni talks to be held said, after a night of clashes and President Bashar Al Assad’s gov- Ali Abdullah Saleh, who still in Geneva. He proposed that raids throughout the country. Aden US actress Angelina Jolie (centre), who is a United Nations Special Envoy ernment with sanctions. Western holds sway over army units allied all provinces be handed over to also came under coalition fire as for Refugee Issues, speaks during a Security Council meeting about the diplomats say there are no indica- with the Iran-backed Houthi “the army and security appa- clashes between Hadi supporters current refugee crisis in Syria at the United Nations headquarters in New tions Moscow would be willing to rebels who now control large ratus under the control of local and rebels raged until dawn, pro- York yesterday. support sanctions now. swathes of the country, had wel- authorities in each province”. And government militiamen said. REUTERS comed this month’s Security he called “on all parties without Air raids yesterday struck rebel Council resolution as a way to exception... to talk and show for- convoys, including tanks, in the “stop bloodshed” in Yemen. giveness. I will forgive everybody southern Abyan province, leaving More than 1,000 people have in the interests of the nation.” several dead and wounded, said UN invites Syrian parties to talks in May been killed in the fighting since Iran vehemently denies arm- pro-Hadi militiamen. late March, according to the UN, ing the rebels and has presented On the humanitarian front, GENEVA: The United Nations said yesterday stakeholders..., including the regional and interna- which said Friday at least 115 a peace plan to the UN calling for Unicef representative Julien that it would host separate talks with rival sides tional actors, (and) Iran is regional,” Fawzi said. He children were among the dead. a ceasefire and the formation of Harneis said there “are hundreds in Syria from May 4 in a bid to kickstart stalled emphasised though that Iran would only be talking with Saleh, in a statement read on a unity government. Yesterday, of thousands of children in Yemen negotiations to end the four-year conflict. UN peace envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and his his Yemen Today television chan- Tehran summoned Riyadh’s envoy who continue to live in the most “The Geneva consultation invitations have gone deputy, “not multiple parties sitting around a table.” The nel, said: “I call on (the Houthis) to protest after warplanes alleg- dangerous circumstances, many out a couple of days ago,” UN spokesman Ahmad talks would be “low key, low profile,” he said. to accept all UN Security Council edly turned back humanitarian waking up scared in the middle of Fawzi told reporters, saying the talks would last Fawzi said the consultations would take “stock decisions and to implement them aid flights headed for Yemen, the night to the sounds of bomb- between four and six weeks and would be at “mostly of where we are now, almost three years after the in return for a halt in the coa- whose airspace is controlled by ing and gunfire”. ambassadorial level and expert level”. Geneva communique was adopted and ratified”. lition forces’ aggression. I urge the Saudi-led coalition. Unicef said that of the 115 chil- He said “as many stakeholders as possible” had The communique is the road map for a political them and everyone — militias and Despite Iran’s denials of back- dren killed, 64 died in air strikes, been invited, including different Syrian factions transition in Syria, agreed during a first round of Al Qaeda as well as militias loyal ing the rebels militarily, a US 26 were killed by unexploded ord- and regional and international players. Geneva negotiations hosted by one of de Mistura’s to (President Abdrabuh Mansur) aircraft carrier and other war- nance and mines, 19 by gunshots While Islamic State group and Al Nusra have predecessors Kofi Annan in June 2012. Hadi — to withdraw from all ships have deployed off Yemen to and three by shelling. Another 172 not been invited to the talks, Fawzi said there will In January, de Mistura said conditions were provinces, especially Aden.” track Iranian naval movements children had been maimed. The be those who have relationships with them, those not yet right to try to launch more talks after the The Saudi-led coalition, and prevent any possible arms UN’s human rights agency said who can communicate with them. two first rounds of negotiations in Switzerland which began an air war on deliveries. On Thursday, a US yesterday that at least 551 of the Iran, which has been excluded from two rounds of failed. The second Geneva conference, mediated by rebels and their allies on March official said a nine-ship Iranian people killed were civilians. joint negotiations in Switzerland, has been included Brahimi in early 2014, failed to make any significant 26, announced an end to that convoy that had been heading AFP on the list this time. The UN has invited “all headway in ending the war. AFP Bahrain jails N-talks making headway: Iran Iraq lacks DNA results Iraqi ‘rioter’ VIENNA: Nuclear talks final deal is signed. The United programme, the exact scope of between Iran and six world States wants a gradual lifting of the UN atomic watchdog’s moni- to test body of Al Douri powers are making good but restrictions. toring regime, and what kind of for 3 years slow progress as they work “The progress is good... We uranium stockpile Tehran will be BAGHDAD: Iraq’s health min- towards a June 30 deadline for a are at preliminary stages and allowed to keep. istry does not have DNA test DUBAI: Bahraini authorities final deal, Tehran’s senior nego- the pace is slow but it is good,” Bilateral meetings earlier this results from a close relative of sentenced an Iraqi man to three tiator said yesterday. Iranian state television quoted week with the European Union’s Ezzat Ibrahim Al Douri (pic- years in prison on charges includ- Diplomats are negotiating to fill negotiator Abbas Araqchi as tell- political director Helga Schmid tured) that could determine ing rioting and joining an “unau- the gaps in an April 2 framework ing reporters in Vienna. and US Under Secretary Wendy whether Saddam Hussein’s long- thorised” protest in Manama, agreement that would curb Iran’s “The Europeans and Americans Sherman will be followed by fugitive deputy has been killed, official media reported. nuclear programme, allaying made good clarifications about meetings with Russian, Chinese, a spokesman said yesterday. The defendant, whose identity Western fears it could develop an lifting of the sanctions,” he said, British, French and German “The ministry does not have was not disclosed, was convicted atomic bomb, in return for relief adding that drafting of the text envoys. US Secretary of State any DNA test (results) for any Husseini said the man was on Thursday of “taking part in from international sanctions. had begun. John Kerry and Iranian Foreign relative of Duri at the present killed near the town of Al-Alam an authorised rally” and setting Iran, which denies seeking Diplomats also need to iron out Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif time,” ministry spokesman Dr north of Baghdad and his body fire, “alongside other rioters, to nuclear weapons, has said sanc- details about the future of Iran’s are expected to meet next week. Ziyad Tareq said. was later transferred to the para- six garbage bins”, the BNA news tions must be lifted as soon as any atomic research and development REUTERS Tareq said such results are nec- military group. agency quoted prosecutor Ahmed essary if DNA testing is to be able That squared with an account Al Hammadi as saying. He was also to positively identify a man killed from Omar Abdullah Al Jbara, a accused of “endangering lives” and a week ago by pro-government leader in the local forces from Al “possessing flammable materials”. forces as Douri. For years, Douri Alam, who said volunteers and The High Criminal Court has been the most senior member police clashed with a group of men ordered his deportation once of Saddam’s regime still at large. on April 17, killing 12, including his sentence is served, BNA said Killing him would be a major vic- one who resembled Douri. without giving further details. tory for Baghdad, but Douri has The Army of the Men of the The kingdom has seen frequent previously been reported dead or Naqshbandiyah Order — known unrest since 2011 when security captured only to resurface in sub- by its Arabic initials JRTN and forces crushed protests led by sequent audio or video messages. believed to be close to Douri — the Shia majority demanding a Ketaeb Hezbollah — one of the took part in a sweeping militant constitutional monarchy and an most powerful pro-government offensive that overran large elected prime minister. militias in Iraq — transferred areas north and west of Baghdad Shia opposition leader Sheikh the body of the man, who bears last June. Ali Salman is on trial for allega- some resemblance to Douri, to the But little has been heard from tions of trying to overthrow the government amid tight security JRTN and other groups since, regime. His arrest on December on Monday. with the Islamic State jihadist 28, shortly after his re-election The group’s spokesman, Jaafar group, which led the drive, domi- as head of the main opposition Husseini, said that two men cap- nating the conquered territory. party Al Wefaq, has sparked tured by Ketaeb Hezbollah who Senior members of Saddam’s protests in Shia villages. A new had seen Douri in the past six Baath party, to which Douri hearing in his trial, which opened EU Director Helga Schmid (centre left) and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (centre right), during months said the dead man was belonged, have also reportedly on January 28, is expected to talks between the E3+3 (France, Germany, UK, China, Russia, US) and Iran in Vienna yesterday. him, but that account could not played a major role in IS itself. take place on May 20. AFP be independently confirmed. AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE revelation that a US drone strike in Pakistan Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate has accidentally killed two Al Qaeda hostages -- a US citizen and an Italian aid worker – has Treignited a debate about the ethics, efficacy and legality of drone operations. All those arguments we used to hear for and against the use of this anti-terror tactic are thrown up again. But the latest mistake has given the Why North Europeans are anti-drone camp another weapon and in the forefront of those rebutting their charges is none other than US President Barack Obama. Obama has made a spirited defence of drones. He said the US was not ‘cavalier’ in its assessment of the risks the happiest people to civilians. “Today, like all Americans, our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of Dr Warren BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY development or the political system, less prone to corruption, and expansive Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto,” the president told a which explains why some relatively social safety nets become the norm. group of intelligence officers. He said his administration WITZERLAND, Iceland, poor, institutionally weak countries have This kind of social fabric, however, Denmark and Norway are the happier populations than the strong- is finely woven and delicate. The hap- would identify the lessons that can be learned and any world’s happiest countries, est Western democracies. For example, piest countries in the world have small improvement and changes that can be made. Saccording to the 2015 World Mexicans are happier than Americans, populations (the biggest country in the The general dictum, though not practiced, is that lives Happiness Report, which is put out by Brazilians enjoy higher perceived well- top 10 is Canada, with 35 million peo- are precious irrespective of nationality or creed and it’s some influential economists. Three of being than the residents of rich, free ple). Bringing countries together in a unfortunate that the two hostages have been killed by these European states are not members Luxembourg, and Venezuelans like their big bloc such as the EU doesn’t help those who should have rescued them. But the Obama of the European Union. What are they life better than Singaporeans. increase social capital. And when some doing right that the rest of the world is A country is an all-around winner, countries in such a union do worse than administration’s response in this case smacks of the double doing wrong? however, when it’s rich, healthy, free others, their social fabric rips in a dra- standards it’s always accused of – profuse apologies and a Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, and populated with generous people matic way, trust erodes and the decline readiness for reassessment if the victims happen to be its Richard Layard of the London School who support one another when there’s in happiness becomes more pronounced own citizens or from the West, of Economics and John Helliwell of the trouble. One has to wonder if Northern than economic losses alone can explain. and a wanton disregard for the University of British Columbia have Europe’s Law of Jante might not be That’s what happened in Greece, the lives of others, often dismissed been putting out responsible for the presence of Iceland, biggest happiness loser compared with The Obama these reports Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden data for 2005-2007. Other big losers are administration’s as “collateral damage”. Obama since 2012. They among the world’s 10 happiest nations. Italy and Spain. said: “We all grieve when we are intended to Scandinavians may scoff at that creed, One of the policy implications is that response in this lose an American life; we all No matter how remind govern- which makes individualism a crime, countries need to nourish their natural case smacks grieve when any American much we may like ments that suc- but it does make for unusually strong social fabric rather than seek to impose life is taken. We don’t take cess is about more social support networks. That’s how contrived rules that may have worked than economic the authors explain Iceland’s surprising elsewhere. For Sachs and Layard, who of the double this work lightly and I know big, ambitious growth and other resilience during an economic collapse, both advised the economically ultral- standards it’s that each and everyone of you programmes, such statistics. and its second place in the rankings. iberal Russian government after the understand the magnitude of aiming for Sure, people are That country has the highest percent- Soviet Union’s collapse, that appears a always accused of. we do and the stakes that are happier when age in the world of people who say they revisionist thought. involved.” happiness may well they’re richer have someone to count on in times of Yet Sachs writes, reflecting perhaps One reason for the and healthier, as crisis. on the largely failed Russian liberal mean thinking small they tend to be in The report contains a chapter that experiment, or perhaps on Greece’s vehement opposition to the use of drones is that it kills and being careful more developed stresses the role of “relational goods,” disastrous post-bailout performance: innocent people, and hundreds have been killed so far. countries, but such as reciprocity and simultaneity “If the legal rules that are promulgated True, drones have hit the bull’s-eye while targeting some with the fragile web there are other (which describes people taking part in “run counter” to the social rules and, Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders, but the errors too have of relationships contributors to meaningful activities together), in build- more importantly, to the moral rules been egregious. Intelligence experts say hundreds of drone that make human perceptions of ing happy nations. People are happier prevailing within that society, then strikes have not defeated or seriously reduced the size of Al well-being. That’s when they’re socially fulfilled, perhaps the former will fail to produce the society function. what the reports as members of a group (both group desired results, in that they will not be Qaeda. But Obama has promoted the tactic as aggressively measures: People membership and happiness levels are observed for the simple reason that not as his predecessor. in various coun- high in Scandinavia). all infringers of such rules can be pun- But the drone itself has had its ups and downs. The tries are asked how they perceive vari- The happiest countries are partici- ished. Even worse, they will undermine number of drone strikes has declined dramatically in ous aspects of their lives. patory. That goes for Switzerland with the credibility and/or acceptability of Pakistan after a peak of 117 in 2010, according to the Long The report’s authors say six variables its direct democracy and tight-knit the other two categories of rules, thus account for three- quarters of the differ- local communities, as well as for the threatening the stability of the social War Journal and other groups that track the attacks. ences in happiness levels among coun- Scandinavian countries, which, as Sachs order.” There have been only five strikes in Pakistan so far this tries: Gross domestic product per capita, wrote in his chapter of the report, have No matter how much we may like big, year. The US priorities and Asian and Middle East politics social support, healthy life expectancy, “perhaps the highest social capital in ambitious programmes, aiming for hap- have changed. In Yemen, it’s a Saudi-lead coalition that is freedom to make life choices, generosity the world.” Participation and delibera- piness may well mean thinking small involved in an anti-Houthi operation. and freedom from corruption. Two of tive democracy help to build mutual and being careful with the fragile web of But the world would expect US to treat all lives these -- social support and generosity - - trust, an important part of social capi- relationships that make human society are relatively independent of economic tal. People are more willing to pay taxes, function. BLOOMBERG equally. The other side Quote of Strengthening the steel frame of India the day DIRECT engagement with the the people to the bureaucracy. Some have been many instances of political to regain its lustre. The idea of institu- bureaucracy has been one of his earlier recommendations have interference, especially when an officer tional memory, that of those retiring right of the hallmarks of the NDA been for officers to return to the place has tried to take on a powerful lobby. from peon to chief secretary, recording Agovernment, with the prime of their first posting to observe what In fact, some of them have lost their their experiences which could be stored minister himself driving this. He set the has changed. lives in the course of such duties. The online is a proposal which could serve ball rolling after assuming office when He also directed all secretaries to government should be a facilitator to to prevent mistakes being repeated I repeat once more he made it clear that bureaucrats could make presentations on the work of their the bureaucracy, conveying policy to and best practices being observed. directly communicate with the PMO on ministries. One more, which did not go it and, of course, keeping a check on The real task before the bureaucracy on behalf of all — matters of importance. The issue of down well with some in the bureauc- it, but the principal aim should be to is to move with the changing needs of political interference was something he racy earlier, was to ensure strict attend- lessen red tape. The PM’s exhortation a young India in a digital era. If both the our determination raised during his address to bureaucrats ance and timing. All this was clearly to civil servants to relate their motiva- PM’s observations and real reform take to work to let peace on Civil Services Day in New Delhi when aimed at putting back the steel in the tions and experiences to young people place in the bureaucracy, India has a he sought to make the distinction steel frame. While the PM has taken is a worthy one, especially when the chance to disprove the Goldman Sachs and prosperity between interference and intervention. the lead in supporting the bureaucracy, service is no longer a preferred career prediction that India will take a decade The latter, he said, had to be the the message he is conveying should go option. The question of ‘punishment’ to reach the Asian average on govern- prevail in the world. prerogative of the government since it right down the line to the political class postings and transfers of bureaucrats ment effectiveness. Recep Tayyip Erdogan ultimately had to convey the wishes of in both the Centre and states. There too must be looked into if the service is The Hindustan Times Turkish President SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Arabs mustn’t suffer from Iran nuclear deal our view, are the contradictions Iran wagers on the weakness of the Arab in Iran between the religious state and the globally unique regimes to forge bonds of direct loyalty sectarian regime and the level of secularisation in Iranian society, with segments in Arab societies, and especially in the cities; the con- tradiction between politicians and attempts to put together an alliance of the clergy; and the contradiction between the ruling elite in gen- eral and the aspirations of urban minorities. middle-class youths, despite the and Cuba, in addition to the nego- complex structure of the regime tiations that could lead to lifting of and its ability to link broad seg- sanctions on Iran. Clearly, there is ments of the people to itself based a particular US approach in this on their interests through hybrid regard then. popular-governmental organisa- This transformation has coin- tions such as the Basij and the cided with the rise of Russia from religious establishment. the ruins of the Soviet Union as As Iran sought to get the sanc- a strong nation-state promoting tions lifted, deal with internal itself as the protector of the global economic challenges, find its place nation-state-based order. Russia in the global economy and politi- has abandoned all ideologies and cal order, and reach a framework values in its foreign policy, regard- agreement, it had to pledge to less of the nature of these values, dismantle 13,000 centrifuges and BY DR AZMI BISHARA and now only promotes interest- operate only 5,060 centrifuges out based pragmatism disguised as of the remaining 19,000 for ten e may consider the the non-ideology championing the years. In total, Iran accepted to framework agree- nation state and sovereignty. reduce uranium enrichment lev- ment concluded This has manifested itself as an els at its reactors to below 3.67 between Iran and alliance of dictatorships against percent, and agreed to place its W A file photo of US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (right) with other the major powers (the P5+1) to be foreign intervention and against nuclear activities under strict the culmination of a process of his- internal elements of instability, be officials at the start of the nuclear talks at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne in February. international inspection regimes. torical regional and international these the result of democratic or Practically speaking, Iran ceded its transformation. terrorist movements. Both were in Iraq in 2003 (an intersection instead on what they called the states to counter the Iranian sovereignty in all matters relating Internationally, the US has seen as being the same thing for that has facilitated collusion). Iran strategy of peace, beginning with project, not only externally, but to its nuclear activities. come to see clearly the limits of the Russian “neo-Westphalianists” exploited the predicament the the Camp David Accords and not also at the level of cohesion of All this will ensure Iran is its empire, in terms of its ability to and their principle of “subjects fol- US quickly found itself in after ending with the Oslo Accords, the their societies and peoples. Such always at least one year away from deploy forces and fight simultane- low the sovereignty of their dicta- the occupation of Iraq, because Wadi Arab Accords, and the Arab a project would combine devel- manufacturing a nuclear weapon ous wars in different parts of the tors” along the lines of the adage of its failure to handle the com- peace initiative that supplanted opment and citizens’ rights, to for the period of the agreement. world, and in terms of the effec- of “subjects follow the religion of plex political and social land- the Arab-Israeli conflict. pull the rug from under the feet The US promises itself that tiveness of military force in imple- their kings”. scape of Iraq and crush the Iraqi With the revolutionary rise of of Iran’s propaganda, and pro- inspection and monitoring of the menting what was designated, Regionally, a lot of blood has resistance. the Arab peoples in 2011, Iran did mote a principled position on the Iranian nuclear programme for 15 under the neo-conservatives, as been spilled along the Nile, not side with the aspirations of the Palestinian question as an Arab years will enable the US to con- the global defence of freedom — the Tigris, and the Euphrates. Expansion through sectarian people, and instead exploited the issue rather than a burden that trol what will happen after that or what was designated in Iraq We spoke in the past about the influence fragility of the Arab states to fur- should be gotten rid of. period as well. Iran will change as as “nation-building” in what was unique nature of the rise of the Iran consolidated its influence ther expand its influence. a result of this. More importantly, mockery of history soon followed Arab peoples as a power on the in neighbouring Arab nations by The main problem here, for any Iranian domestic politics there is no alternative to negotia- by the irony of history. historical stage, demanding free- means of sectarian parties and Arab committed to the Arab iden- In Iran itself, the Iranian revo- tions and an agreement, and all Since the time of Baker- dom, dignity, and democratic sys- through the rebuilding of the army tity, be he or she left-wing, right- lution met the same fate as many these conclusions will be sealed Hamilton’s Iraq Study group tems in a period where the US and the security services, taking wing, democratic, authoritarian, other revolutions. Opposition if the final agreement is signed (ISG) and the appointment of is opposed to exporting democ- advantage of the sins of the US revolutionary, or conservative, is groups emerged and established on June 30. Robert Gates as the US Defence racy and refrains from support- and its allies when they disbanded that Iran wagers on the weakness themselves within the revolution, Iran demands that interna- Secretary during George W Bush’s ing those who demand it. These the Iraqi army and destroyed the of the Arab regimes to forge bonds including a realist-pragmatic tional and US sanctions imposed second term in the White House, events exposed the brittleness of entire state apparatus of the of direct loyalty with segments in opposition, and fundamentalist- on it be lifted immediately after and throughout Barack Obama’s the Arab states, especially in those former regime. Iran entered Iraq Arab societies, and attempts to put revolutionary opposition groups the agreement is signed. However, second term, we have witnessed an cases where states are little more through the doors opened by the together an alliance of minorities. holding on to what they perceive the US says the sanctions will be internal reassessment carried out than a thin crust for a social clique occupation, the power vacuum and For any believer in Pan- as the purity of the revolution in lifted after it verifies Iran has by the US political and security closely interconnected with the the sectarian incitement against Arabism, regardless of his or her its beginnings. Some want to over- honoured the agreement, with- establishments. structure of the political regimes. the former regime. ideology or religious beliefs, these come that purity and move on to a out explaining the mechanisms This is in parallel with calls by What concerns us now, in the In the context of its westward actions help fragment not only the new phase, while others combine for this. In this regard, there is liberal currents warning against context of regional transforma- expansion, Iran took advantage nation, but even local communi- different elements from all these nothing clear and official yet, and the consequences of military inter- tions, is the Iranian expansion of the animus the Arab peoples ties. This is something that Arab oppositions. each side is trying to emerge as ventions and their implications under US sanctions. Iran had have for Israel, and infiltrated fragility cannot justify. Often, reducing these various the winner in the eyes of its own for the American people, cur- recovered from the eight-year Arab public opinion thanks to On the other hand, the Arab contradictions into a struggle public’s opinion. rents that Barack Obama himself war with Iraq, and went on the the vacuum left behind by the countries that fear Iranian expan- between hardliners and reform- The author is an intellec- represents at this stage. The US offensive through an intersection Arab regimes’ abandonment of sion are unable to put forward a ists leads to oversimplification and tual, academician and General administration is currently taking of objective interests with the Palestinian and Lebanese resist- project for a regional state or for inaccuracy. Director of The Arab Center for steps to end the siege on Myanmar US in Afghanistan in 2001 and ance. These Arab regimes focused cooperation among existing nation What is more important, in Research and Policy Studies

US president’s Orwellian The myth of China’s ghost cities language on drone strikes BY WADE SHEPARD a price tag and there is often an extended period of time between BY STEPHEN CARTER host towns tend to start as when cities appear completed and boomtowns, and China more when they are actually prepared here is an eerie Orwellian cost to the Obama administra- Gthan likely has more boom- to sustain a full-scale population. tion’s refusal to use the term “War on Terror” to describe towns than any other country in This could be called the “ghost city” Tits ... war on terror. In his briefing after the White House’s history. No economy has ever risen phase. admission that two hostages — one American, one Italian — so rapidly and no place has ever Most large new urban develop- were killed in a US “operation,” press secretary Josh Earnest built so much so quickly. This rapid ments in China eventually move struggled mightily to avoid the word “war” to describe exactly growth has resulted in a peculiar through this phase and become what the US is up to. Finally he gave in and stated that under side effect: ghost cities, everywhere. vitalized with businesses and a the Authorisation for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, Although the term “ghost town” population. Essential infrastructure the nation is “at war” with Al Qaeda. is technically a misnomer in this gets built, shopping malls open, and Why do the words matter? Because the inevitability of civilian case. A ghost town is a place that places where residents can work are casualties, even in the most justified of wars, is accepted both has become economically defunct — created. In many of the biggest new in international law and in the ethics of war. Civilian casualties in other words, a place that has died. cities, new university campuses will are never good. They are a tragedy, a terrible cost that must be What China has is the opposite of emerge and government offices and avoided whenever possible. But in wars, they happen. ghost towns: It has new cities that the headquarters of banks and state As the philosopher Michael Walzer has pointed out, in the have yet to come to life. owned enterprises will be shipped fluidity of minute-to-minute wartime decisions, it’s not possible There are nearly 600 more cities in, essentially seeding these fresh to act with the sort of precision that might be called for in the in China now than there were when Thames Town, near Shanghai, China. outposts of progress with thousands classroom. Targeting non-combatants is forbidden. Nevertheless, the Communist Party took over in of new consumers. From here, more they always suffer horribly in war. 1949. This large-scale urban transi- infrastructure, economically, and, constructing apartment complexes, businesses are attracted — often The problem the White House faces is its stubborn insist- tion began in the early 1980s, when potentially, even politically. malls and commercial streets in drawn by favourable subsidies like ence that its non-war is being fought with precision. Earnest rural areas began being rezoned as China’s fiscal policy all but places that do not yet have much of free rent — and more people trickle used that very word repeatedly. But it’s hard to take the claim urban en masse and the city took requires local municipalities to com- a population base to support them. in as the city comes to life. seriously in light of calculations, like those published in the centre stage in China’s plans for ply with this broader urbanization Building a new city from the Some of China’s most notori- Guardian last November, that US efforts to kill just 41 leaders of the future. In the early 2000s this plan. According to the World Bank, ground up is a long-term initiative, ous ghost cities saw phenomenal Al Qaeda and other groups caused some 1,147 civilian casualties. urbanization movement was kicked local municipalities must fend for 80 a process that China estimates takes population growth in recent years, Even if we discount that number by half, the trade-off involved into high gear. New urban develop- percent of their expenses while only roughly 17 to 23 years. By 2020, according to a report by Standard is profoundly troubling. ments began popping up seemingly receiving 40 percent of the coun- Ordos Kangbashi plans to have Chartered. In just a two-year period The sort of war the administration is waging requires extraor- everywhere — along the outskirts of try’s tax revenue. Land sales make 300,000 people, Nanhui expects to from 2012 to 2014, Zhengdong New dinarily accurate intelligence. Earnest said in his briefing that existing cities as well as in the previ- up much of the difference, resulting attract 800,000 residents and five District’s occupancy rate rose dou- a strike is not permitted unless there is “a near certainty” that ously undeveloped expanses between in a buy low, sell high scheme, as million people are slated to live in bled, while Dantu’s quadrupled no civilians will be harmed. In wartime that standard would them. Many cities doubled or even municipalities buy up cheap rural Zhengdong New District. China’s and Changzhou’s Wujin district be impossible to meet. Claiming that a war isn’t a war doesn’t tripled their size within relatively land, re-designate it as urban, and new cities are just that: new. increased to 50 percent from 20 per- make meeting the standard any easier. short spans of time. In just 15 years then resell it at the high urban There is hardly a single new cent. Though there is still an excess I am not suggesting that calling the War on Terror a war Shanghai alone grew sevenfold and construction land rate — pocket- urban development in the country of vacancies in these places, when would make civilian casualties any more justified. But it might its population increased to more ing the difference. According to that has yet gone over its estimated urban areas of high-density hous- force the administration to concede that we simply lack the than 23 million from 6.61 million. China’s Ministry of Finance, land time line for completion and vitali- ing are even half full there’s still a intelligence resources to establish a guarantee against killing China’s broader urbanization sales raised $438bn for China’s local zation, so any ghost city labeling at large number of people living there non-combatants. And once the administration admits the inevi- movement shouldn’t be thought of as governments in 2012 alone. this point is premature: Most are — more than enough for the place tability of significant numbers of civilian deaths, we might be a developmental free-for-all. There When developers purchase these still works in progress. But while to socially and economically function able to engage in serious public conversation about the morality is a method behind all of this build- new plots of land, they are prohib- building the core areas of new cities as a city. of the drone war. ing and an overarching framework. ited by law from sitting on them. is something that China does with It generally takes at least a dec- That’s a conversation we need. Although the frequency of Ten massive new urban conglom- They must build something. While incredible haste, actually populating ade for China’s new urban develop- drone attacks has tapered off lately, they have been the Obama erations called mega-regions have it is commonly thought that get- them is a lengthy endeavour. ments to start breaking the inertia administration’s principal anti-terror weapon. During Obama’s been proposed in strategic locations ting in on a new development zone When large numbers of people of stagnation. But once they do, they first year in office alone, the US conducted more drone strikes across the country. These are essen- early is key to making a big profit, move into a new area, they need to tend to keep growing, eventually than in the entire eight years of George W Bush’s presidency. tially city clusters of 22 million to these areas tend to lie far outside be provided for; they need public blending in with the broader urban Given military budget constraints, Obama’s successor will likely more than 100 million people each the bounds of mature, built-up services like healthcare and educa- landscape and losing their “ghost operate a similar policy. So the time to thrash out the ethics that are to be connected through urban areas. This often means tion. Therefore, a population carries city” label. REUTERS is now. BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE Poland ‘will not’ Al Qaeda ‘militants’ arrested in Italy allow entry to Group had planned attack on Vatican in 2010 pro-Putin bikers

ROME: Italian police yester- militants in St. Peter’s Square and the future be activated to stage WARSAW/MOSCOW: Poland day arrested 10 people and were have increased security there. attacks at home or abroad. will not allow members of a looking for eight others sus- In the tapped conversations, Italian officials are also con- Russian motorcycle club linked pected of belonging to an armed the suspects discuss “a big jihad in cerned that members of terrorist to President Vladimir Putin to group linked to Al Qaeda who Italy”, added Mario Carta, head of groups might be hiding among the cross its border and enter the had plotted attacks in Pakistan the police unit on the case. They thousands of migrants who arrive European Union’s territory, the and Afghanistan and at least at reference the word “baba”, which on Europe’s shores every week. Polish Foreign Ministry said one point the Vatican. could mean the Pope, Carta said. Outlining the investigation at yesterday, in a decision Moscow Some of the suspects, who are “We don’t have proof, we have the news conference, Mura said said was politically motivated. all Pakistanis and Afghans, were strong suspicion,” that the Holy the group had a large number of The spat is likely to put further arrested in early morning raids See was a possible target, he told weapons and numerous followers strain on bilateral relations, ham- across Italy. Police burst into the reporters at a press conference. willing to carry out acts of terror- pered for decades following World home of the group’s suspected Carta said by telephone that the ism. Police wire taps had deter- War II and damaged by Russia’s spiritual leader, in the northern group in subsequent years “real- mined that two people among the recent role in the Ukraine crisis. city of Bergamo, a video released ised that we were watching their 18 targeted by arrest warrants Some 50 members of the Night by them showed. movements”. Vatican spokesman were suspected of being part of Wolves, a group blacklisted by the Though the 18 suspects were Federico Lombardi said the hypo- a group that had protected Al United States for taking part in plotting attacks mainly in their thetical attacks were in the past, Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, An image grab from a handout video released by Italian police yesterday Russia’s annexation of Crimea, native countries, phone taps and that the new disclosures were police said in a statement. shows the arrest of one of the alleged terrorists during an operation after are taking part in a bike ride from suggest the Vatican was also a not a matter for concern. The group supported the uncovering an alleged Al Qaeda network based in Italy. Moscow to Berlin, commemorat- target, said Mauro Mura, chief But Vatican Secretary of State “armed struggle against the ing the 70th anniversary of the prosecutor of the Sardinian city Cardinal Pietro Parolin said: “We West”, and wanted to incite a was moved through the trust- in attacks that have already taken end of World War Two. of Cagliari, where the group had are all afraid because we don’t popular uprising against the based transfer system known place in Pakistan, including one “The Foreign Ministry has its headquarters. know what can happen.” Italy, like Pakistani government so it as hawala, the banking system that killed more than 100 people passed a diplomatic note to the Mura said officials had indi- other European countries, has would stop its backing of US of choice in Afghanistan’s cash- in a market in the northwestern Russian Embassy in Warsaw .. con- cations of a possible plot for an been on heightened alert for pos- forces in Afghanistan. based economy. frontier city of Peshawar in 2009, cerning a denial of entry to Poland attack against the Vatican in 2010 sible terrorist schemes in the wake The money was sent to The imam arrested in Bergamo the police added. to an organised group of motorcy- by members of the group, who of the January attack on French Pakistan by members of the group is suspected of having been a point The group arranged for clists, which included representa- had continued to operate across satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. who managed to avoid Italy’s cur- person for the fund raising, who Pakistanis and Afghans to get tives of the Night Wolves club,” the Italy for years after that. He said European capitals are par- rency control regulations. In one collected funds purportedly for into Italy on work contracts or as ministry said in a statement. there were indications of a plan ticularly worried about possible case, 55,268 euros ($60,160) were religious purposes from Pakistanis refugees seeking asylum and later Ministry spokesman Marcin for a suicide attack in a crowded “sleeper” militants, apparently carried to Pakistan on a flight and Afghans in Italy, police said. sent some to cities in northern Wojciechowski told a news confer- place. Italian officials have for living normal lives in their coun- from Rome to Islamabad. But Some of those under investiga- Europe, police said. ence that Russia formally asked years feared a possible attack by tries, who may at some point in police said much of the money tion were believed to be involved REUTERS Poland last Monday to approve the motorcyclists’ tour due to start today. “I want to reassure you that the decision was not a political one, but based on formal considera- Germany calls Armenia tions”, he said, adding that Russia was late with its request and did not provide details on the planned massacre genocide route, accommodation or list of participants. The Russian Foreign Ministry YEREVAN: Armenia marked led calls for reconciliation. said in a statement that Warsaw’s the centenary yesterday of a “Recognition of the genocide is allegations were a “blatant lie” mass killing of Armenians by a triumph of human conscience and that all the necessary infor- Ottoman Turks with a simple and justice over intolerance and mation was provided on time. flower-laying ceremony attended hatred,” Armenian President “It is obvious that the decision by foreign leaders as Germany Serzh Sarksyan said in a speech. was politically motivated,” the became the latest country to In a speech at the ceremony ministry said in its statement. respond to its calls for recogni- that was met by warm applause, “We express our strong protest tion that it was genocide. Hollande said a law adopted by over the decision of the Polish Parliament in Germany risked France in 2001 on recognition of authorities.” a diplomatic rupture with the killings as genocide was “an Anna Komarova, spokeswoman Ankara and upsetting its own act of truth”. for the Night Wolves in Moscow, many ethnic Turkish residents Putin warned that neo-fascism said that the group is not going by joining the many Western and nationalism was on the rise to change its plans and will leave scholars and two dozen countries in the world, terminology he uses Moscow on Saturday. to use the word. Its resolution, to describe what Russia regards “We are not cancelling any- approved overwhelmingly, marks as radical elements in Ukraine, thing,” Komarova said. “Poland is a significant change of stance in a whose forces are trying to put Poland: today this way, tomorrow country which has worked hard to down a rebellion by pro-Russian another.” come to terms with its responsi- separatists in the east. She said that the group has Opposition Labour party leader Ed Miliband addresses an audience during a campaign event in London yesterday. bility for the murder of six million The European Parliament also not changed its plans to Jews in the Holocaust. also refers to the killing in 1915 stop on the way in Katyn forest The French and Russian pres- as genocide, as did Pope Francis in Western Russia - site of the idents, Francois Hollande and this month, prompting Turkey to murder of 22,000 Polish officers Miliband vows to end ‘isolationism’ Vladimir Putin, were among summon the Vatican’s envoy and by Joseph Stalin’s NKVD secret guests who each placed a yellow recall its own. Other countries, policy in 1940. The site also con- LONDON: British opposition “This government’s approach has such as Libya, which is engulfed rose in a wreath of forget-me-nots including the United States, have tains the graves of many Russians leader Ed Miliband accused weakened Britain at a time when in civil war. at a hilltop memorial near the refrained from doing so. executed on Stalin’s orders. David Cameron’s government of the challenges are perhaps greater In his speech, Miliband said that Armenian capital Yerevan and REUTERS REUTERS “small-minded isolationism” in and more complex than at any time “Cameron was wrong to assume an election campaign speech yes- since the Second World War.” that Libya’s institutions could be terday, but sparked a row after Foreign policy has been little left to evolve and transform on suggesting the prime minister debated in the campaign aside their own” following military action was partly responsible for the from references to immigration, to oust former leader muammar Mediterranean migrant crisis. something the Labour Party said Gaddafi, but did not directly link Kazakh polls to extend Nazarbayev’s rule In a foreign policy address ahead showed the “growing insularity of it to the migrants’ plight. of the May 7 vote, the Labour party British politics”. A pre-speech press release, ASTANA: Citizens in energy- independence. His marginal- and currently heads the national leader said Conservative Party Miliband described Cameron’s however, said Miliband “will say rich Kazakhstan will head to the ised opponents have not offered federation of trade unions is run- leader Cameron had “stepped away absence from peace talks on the the refugee crisis and tragic scenes polls tomorrow for early elec- any candidates for the vote but ning as an independent. Kusainov’s from the world” and was risking Ukraine crisis between French, this week in the Mediterranean tions almost certain to extend Nazarbayev will face two other campaign has touched on environ- the national interest by promis- German, Russian and Ukrainian are in part a direct result of the the quarter-century rule of candidates, both of whom are mental problems in the country. ing a referendum on Britain’s leaders as an “apt symbol of failure of post-conflict planning incumbent 74-year-old President widely seen as pro-government Nazarbayev, who is standing for European Union membership. Britain’s isolation and waning for Libya”. Nursultan Nazarbayev by figures. the ruling Nur Otan party enjoys “David Cameron has presided influence”. Cameron called the com- another five years. Turgun Syzdykov, a 68-year-old high levels of public approval for over the biggest loss of influence But the Conservatives reacted ments “ill-judged” while former Few doubt that the snap vote former provincial official who has helping transform the country for our country in a generation,” angrily when Miliband appeared Conservative foreign secretary - which takes place amid eco- campaigned on an anti-globali- economically and generally main- Miliband told the audience at to partly blame Cameron’s policy William Hague accused the oppo- nomic uncertainty connected to sation platform, railing against taining inter-ethnic harmony in think tank Chatham House in on Libya for the Mediterranean sition leader of “opportunistic low oil prices and the weakened Hollywood, hamburgers and com- the diverse majority-Muslim coun- London. boat tragedies. Some 1,500 taking advantage of human trag- rouble in Russia — will reconfirm puter games, will represent the try. An Ipsos MORI poll released “It is time to reject the small- migrants have died already this edy in order to serve the electoral Nazarbayev’s mandate to rule the country’s communist party. Tuesday showed 91 percent of minded isolationism that has year on overloaded vessels setting purposes of the Labour Party”. country he has controlled with Abelgazy Kusainov, 63, who has Kazakhstanis are satisfied with characterised this government. out from North African nations AFP limited opposition since before held several ministerial positions his rule. AFP Europe migrant military mission faces rough seas ahead BRUSSELS: The Mediterranean’s Caritas organisation calling it an “unac- Mediterranean migrants. The EU’s 2012, commandos destroyed a pirate nothing,” a military source said. worst migrant shipwreck has spurred ceptable declaration of war to migrants diplomatic service is due to present its base on the Somalian coast. A blockade Even more alarming for European the EU to plan a military mission and refugees”. “No matter how far beyond blueprint next week but “it isn’t simple... of Libyan ports is another alternative. capitals, is the fact that the Islamic against people smugglers, but it will be the Mediterranean the EU expands there is a desire to make an impact, but But Europe must above all find a way State group is active in Libya and would hard to implement and risks reinforc- ‘Fortress Europe’, it will never stop we have to do all that in harmony,” a of filling the “legal void” that surrounds be “delighted to see the European mili- ing the image of an uncaring “Fortress people from risking their lives to enter European source said. any such action, said Danjean. tary come to them, they would be easy Europe”. Europe if the root causes of their situ- “It’s not some little thing where we go The EU wants an international man- targets,” added the source. After more than 700 people drowned ation are not tackled,” Caritas said in a and shoot boats in Libyan ports.” date for any action in Libyan territorial For now, the EU has decided to boost in last weekend’s tragedy off the Libyan statement yesterday. Drones are one method that has it been waters, and Britain, Germany and France its Triton search and rescue mission and coast, European leaders agreed at a spe- But the real problem is how such a suggested the EU could use, but experts are set to demand a UN Security Council will also launch a new rapid return pro- cial crisis summit on Thursday to take mission would even work. The questions were sceptical. “I don’t believe in that at resolution. EU diplomatic chief Federica gramme for migrants who do manage to a series of steps to tackle the problem. are endless: how to get European military all,” European Parliament member and Mogherini will use a visit to New York make it to Europe’s shores. But while measures such as tripling assets in place; whether they would be defence specialist Arnaud Danjean said. next week to “meet key actors” at the It is also in talks with transit countries funding for search and rescue missions is just at sea or have boots on the ground “You’d come up against legal and oper- UN on the issue. in the northern half of Africa such as simple enough, it is the plan to “capture too; how to identify which boats belong ational hurdles very quickly. To identify Russia, however — mired in a confron- Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Mali and Niger. and destroy the smugglers’ vessels before to smugglers; how to ensure there are no one boat out of 200 in a Libyan port as tation with Brussels over Ukraine and an But rights groups say this is just another they can be used” that will cause future migrants aboard. the one meant to carry migrants requires opponent of the 2011 Libyan intervention case of Europe pulling up the drawbridge. headaches. Over it all hangs the spectre of the good intelligence, along with people on — would almost certainly veto any such “Poor countries all around the world If it goes ahead, it would be the first Nato air war that toppled Libyan leader the ground, not just drones,” he said. resolution. If Europe does go it alone, are shouldering an unfair burden of mil- time the EU has carried out such a Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 — which some The EU’s naval Atalanta mission to military action is fraught with risks. lions of refugees fleeing from war, insecu- military operation. Rights groups have in Europe blame for the chaos and politi- disrupt Somali piracy off the Horn of “If trapped somewhere, migrants will rity, poverty and inequality,” Oxfam said. already criticised the proposal, with the cal vacuum that has led to the flood of Africa is another possible model. In May find other corridors. It basically solves AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Obama readies annual stand-up routine for DC’s A-list

WASHINGTON: Once a year, politicians and Hollywood celeb- about all year, but without over- dinner remarks in 1962, joking lot lately, and I just want to say after a horrific mass shooting at the world’s most powerful man rities in a cavernous ballroom doing it. about how an increase in ticket what a pleasure it is for Hillary Virginia Tech University. Then becomes a punching bag for at the Washington Hilton hotel. “It’s not a science,” said Jeff prices to attend the dinner risked and me to be here in your coun- president George W Bush said: laughs, even throwing a few jabs And it is all about provoking a Shesol, a former speechwriter harming the city’s economy — try,” Clinton said calmly as he “In light of this week’s tragedy at at himself. few laughs. for Clinton who teamed up with ha-ha — the humour at the roast- began his speech. “I’ve been Virginia Tech, I decided not to be Today, US President Barack An Obama one-liner from last comic Mark Katz to craft the ing has evolved to levels tougher awestruck by the beauty of your funny. I am not going to try to be Obama will endure this light- year: “In 2008 my slogan was ‘Yes 42nd president’s correspondents’ and raunchier. landscape,” Clinton said. “Yes, this the funny guy.” He then surren- hearted evisceration for the sev- We Can’. In 2013 my slogan was dinner remarks. But it is indeed a delicate Washington is a very special place dered the microphone to someone enth time, appearing at the White ‘Control-Alt-Delete’” — a refer- “When a comedian delivers a high-wire act. In 1998, mired in and Hillary and I will never forget else. House Correspondents’ Association ence to the disastrous rollout of mean joke, that’s one thing. When the Monica Lewinsky scandal our visit here.” He earned laugh- The toughest challenge for the annual dinner. A spring ritual in his landmark health care plan, the president of the United States that would ultimately lead to his ter and applause. small team tasked with writing Washington, anybody who is any- a reform that was to crown his is standing up in front of a room impeachment, how could Clinton The White House correspond- this very singular kind of presi- body in US public life shows up to domestic policy legacy. of 2,000 people—live on televi- avoid saying something — any- ent’s dinner is also in sync with dential address is perhaps to eat, drink and be seen. In 1993, when Bill Clinton was sion—and is making fun of you, thing — about the affair that had the day-to-day news. In 1981, remember that it seems easy but The president fires off his setting records for low approval it’s another thing,” Shesol said. the US capital in a full-blown Ronald Reagan was recovering is anything but that. funny — and at times self-depre- ratings after 100 days in office, he In 2011, Obama poked again and lather? at the presidential retreat of “There are a lot of people at the cating — barbs, and then sits back had this to say of his beleaguered again at the bombastic real estate At the time, Clinton traveled Camp David in Maryland after White House who think they are to weather a few himself from a self: “I don’t think I’m doing that magnate Donald Trump, who abroad often, and critics said the assassination attempt a few funny and in fact they are funny. comic. Anything is fair game: The bad. After his first 100 days in was right there in the audience. he did so to avoid having to weeks earlier at the hotel where But writing a joke for this kind current House speaker’s John office, William Henry Harrison The comic-in-chief made fun of answer the myriad questions he the dinner is held. of audience is a different thing,” Boehner’s seemingly perennial had already been dead for 68 Trump’s obsession with doubting faced about his dalliances with Reagan gave his speech by tel- Shesol said. “Then there is the sun tan; whether Michelle Obama days.” Harrison was the ninth US whether Obama had been born in the young White House intern. ephone, and said: “If I could give real danger of the people who wears a hairdo with bangs; CNN’s president, and died in 1841. the United States. Had he been Shesol and Katz addressed it with you just one little bit of advice, think they are funny and aren’t latest obsession. It is all a question of finding born abroad, Obama would not be utmost subtlety. when somebody tells you to get at all. And some of them are more It all unfolds before an audi- just the right tone: be witty and eligible to be president. “As you know, I have been in a car quick, do it.” important than you are.” ence of 2,000-plus journalists, fresh and avoid the jokes bandied Since John F Kennedy’s brief traveling to other lands quite a In 2007, the dinner was held AFP

Former Gitmo Rights groups inmate granted bail in Canada OTTAWA: A Canadian court slam ‘flawed’ yesterday granted bail to former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured on an Afghan battlefield in 2002 and sent to drone strikes the US jail in Cuba. The Canadian government, however, said it would appeal the bail decision. Khadr’s lawyer Senator calls for more transparency Nathan Whitling said the con- ditions of his release — granted WASHINGTON: President Jones said. “There has been no pending the outcome of the appeal Barack Obama’s admission major terrorist organisation in of his US conviction over the kill- on Thursday that a US drone the world that has been defeated ing of a US soldier in Afghanistan strike accidentally took the by drones.” — are to be determined at a hear- lives of two hostages has raised The White House promised ing on May 5, when Khadr is fresh questions about the limits the mistake would be thoroughly expected to be freed. and the risks of the country’s investigated but insisted that the “Even though the applicant has “targeted killing” campaign. drone programme was crucial pled guilty to serious offenses, he Since taking office in 2009, and carried out under new rules should be granted judicial interim Obama has relied heavily on set out two years ago by Obama. release because he has a strong drone raids to hunt down Al The US president has portrayed basis for an appeal,” the court said Qaeda leaders and other Islamist the new protocols as a way to in its decision. extremists from Pakistan’s tribal impose boundaries on the covert Men clean the roof of a house in La Ensenada, Chile, with the Calbuco volcano seen in the background, yesterday. The Court of Queen’s Bench of areas to Somalia and Yemen. assassination campaign. Alberta also found that “the risk But the botched strike revealed The January strike that ended to public safety is not such that it that the US had no idea an tragically was in keeping with the is in the public’s best interest that American aid worker, Warren new rules, which require officials Southern Chile covered in ash he remain in pre-appeal detention Weinstein, and an Italian humani- to have “near certainty” that Al in a manner that could render his tarian, Giovanni Lo Porto, were in Qaeda militants are present and LA ENSENADA: Southern to one meter (three feet) high, covered “the entire central zone appeal irrelevant.” the same compound as Al Qaeda that civilians will not be endan- Chile dug itself out from under witnesses said. of the country,” including the cap- Now 28, Khadr was sentenced militants when the drone raid was gered, White House spokesman a thick layer of gray ash yester- In La Ensenada, a town of ital and several other major cities. to eight years in 2010 following a launched in January. Josh Earnest said. day while keeping a wary eye 1,500 people that was the first to After the eruptions, authori- US military hearing in which he The White House also admitted The “near certainty assessment” on the Calbuco volcano after it be evacuated, workers used heavy ties declared a state of emergency, agreed to plead guilty to murder that US intelligence was flawed that no civilians would be harmed spectacularly erupted for the trucks to plow the roads clear as sent in the army and evacuated in violation of the laws of war, for another drone strike at about turned out to be incorrect, he said, first time in half a century. a handful of residents defied the La Ensenada and other towns at attempted murder, conspiracy, the same time, which killed two leading to “this tragic, unintended The volcano burst into life with evacuation order to shovel the ash the foot of the volcano. providing material support for US citizens who were Al Qaeda consequence.” Before the strike, two eruptions on Wednesday and debris off their rooftops. Experts cautioned that a third terrorism and spying. operatives but who Washington there were “hundreds of hours of evening and Thursday morning, The weight of the ash caused eruption could still follow. “We’re He was repatriated to Canada did not know were present. surveillance” carried out on the forcing 4,500 people to evacuate some roofs to collapse. Authorities still in what is considered the after spending 10 years in the US “I think this is going to push Qaeda compound, he said. as it belched a huge cloud of ash said that if the current conditions crisis phase. Our instruments military prison in Guantanamo the debate about the effective- US lawmakers said Congress will into the air before lighting up the held, residents would be allowed are monitoring the situation. We Bay, Cuba following his arrest as ness of drones,” said Seth Jones, need to take a closer look at how night sky with fiery bursts of lava to return home for a few hours cannot rule out a new eruption,” a teenager in Afghanistan. AFP a former adviser to US special the strike went wrong but most and volcanic lightning. to retrieve some belongings, said Rodrigo Alvarez, head of forces and a fellow at the RAND defended the tactic as a successful The volcano again caused alarm after fleeing with nothing but the the National Geology and Mines Corporation. way of taking out terror suspects. when it emitted a large puff of clothes on their backs. Service. Mexico allows Human rights groups and some “I blame the Al Qaeda terrorist smoke early yesterday, but initial The ash cloud meanwhile con- President Michelle Bachelet, lawmakers have long questioned organisation for their deaths, not warnings of a possible third erup- tinued to drift, disrupting flights who flew to the affected area, said: the legality and the morality of the American government,” said tion have not materialized so far. across a large swath of South “We don’t know how the situa- foreign agents the drone air war, citing estimates Senator Lindsey Graham. Residents kept nervous watch America. In Buenos Aires, on tion is going to evolve. It’s pretty of thousands of civilian casualties Senator Dianne Feinstein on the volcano as they began the other side of the continent, unpredictable.” There have been to carry guns caused by the strikes. Military called for more transparency, cleaning up the blanket of ash American Airlines, United, Delta no reports of injuries so far, but experts have cast doubt on the saying the administration should that covered everything for miles and Air France all cancelled officials warned the ash could be MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s ultimate effect of the raids on issue an annual report on the around. The evacuation area, a flights to and from Europe and harmful for people, animals, crops Congress approved controver- extremist groups. number of militants and civilians 21km radius around the volcano, the United States. and infrastructure. Authorities sial legislation on Thursday to “It just adds to the concerns killed in the drone operations. was turned into a scattering of Argentina’s National Weather handed out protective masks in allow foreign migration and about the use of drone strikes,” AFP ghost towns buried under ash up Service said the volcanic particles both Chile and Argentina. AFP customs agents to carry weap- ons inside the country, a meas- ure the opposition says passed under US pressure. Baltimore unrest The bill, which was passed by the lower house in a 288-82 vote Hillary called to testify and was proposed by President Enrique Pena Nieto, will also allow the bodyguards of visit- ing heads of state to be armed in to US Congress in May Mexico. The legislation will allow WASHINGTON: The congres- Clinton says she delivered all foreign agents to obtain a spe- sional panel investigating the her official work-related emails cial permit to carry guns with 2012 attacks on a US mission in to the State Department in a maximum caliber of up to 40 Benghazi called on former sec- December, while deleting about millimeters in certain established retary of state Hillary Clinton 30,000 personal emails, a move locations. to testify at two public hearings, widely criticized by Republicans. But other types of weapons the first next month. If the initial hearing over could be brought to Mexico “in Benghazi Commission chairman emails “results in assurances the exceptional cases,” according to Trey Gowdy wrote to an attorney public record is indeed complete,” a statement from the chamber for Clinton requesting her par- the committee will then schedule of deputies. The bill will become ticipation in a hearing during the Clinton’s second public hearing on law once published in the official week of May 18, with the precise Benghazi no later than June 18, journal. day to be determined later. Gowdy wrote to Clinton lawyer The bill’s backers say the goal is Clinton has declared her can- David Kendall. to allow foreign customs agents to didacy for president in 2016, and Four Americans including US review goods and travelers within she would be expected to tempo- ambassador Christopher Stevens Mexico before they reach their rarily come off the campaign trail were killed in the attacks on US destination in order to speed up in order to testify on Capitol Hill. facilities in the east-Libyan city. trade and travel. The initial appearance will focus Clinton was the top US diplomat “This is not giving carte blanche A demonstrator holds a sign in front of the Baltimore Police Department Western District station during a on Clinton’s exclusive use of a pri- at the time, and Republicans have to foreign agents. There is a very protest against the death in police custody of Freddie Gray in Baltimore late on Thursday. Two people were vate email account and server while repeatedly accused her of negligence strict regulation,” said deputy arrested for disorderly conduct and destruction of property, police said. running the State Department from in responding to the attacks and Victor Diaz of Pena Nieto’s cen- 2009 to 2013, a development that downplaying their terrorist nature. trist Institutional Revolutionary came to light in early March. AFP Party (PRI). AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Summit to urge self-restraint in sea dispute Asean meet to avoid criticising China directly

KUALA LUMPUR: A on a code of conduct, which rules that could impede its free- Southeast Asian summit will would build on a non-binding dom of action at sea. urge “self-restraint” in the 2002 pledge by countries with Anifah said the regional bloc South China Sea but avoid competing claims to the waters has conveyed to China that “we directly criticising Chinese to resolve disputes peacefully want this to be speeded up and actions that have fanned ten- and refrain from inflaming the we hope they will give us a posi- sions in the contested waters, a situation. tive response”. diplomatic source with knowl- But in separate comments, The Philippines has expressed edge of a draft statement said Malaysia’s foreign minister said hopes the meeting in Malaysia Friday. China’s creation of islands on dis- will result in a robust expres- Leaders of the Association puted coral reefs would be high sion of Asean concern. The draft of Southeast Asian Nations on the agenda of the meeting statement could change based on (Asean) gather in Malaysia on Monday in Kuala Lumpur. discussions at the summit. Monday for an annual meeting Anifah Aman told reporters Asean members Vietnam, expected to include discussion that leaders of the Association of Malaysia, and Brunei, as well as of efforts underway by China Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) non-member Taiwan, also have to create islands on fragile would include “of course, our con- various overlapping claims in the coral reefs whose ownership is cerns about the land reclamation South China Sea, a point that has disputed. that is going on”. made it a potential flashpoint for The draft will stress the need China’s actions on islets claimed contact. for “exercising self-restraint in by the Philippines have outraged The draft statement also calls the conduct of activities, not to Manila and fuelled regional con- for parties to abide by the United resort to threat or use of force, cerns over Beijing’s increasingly Nations Convention on the Law of and for the parties concerned to assertive claims to virtually the the Sea (UNCLOS), a reference resolve their disputes/differences entire South China Sea. that could anger Beijing. through peaceful means,” the dip- Satellite photos emerged The Philippines last year filed a lomatic source said. this month showing a flotilla of formal plea under UNCLOS chal- It also calls for discussions Chinese vessels dredging sand lenging China’s expansive claims. with Beijing on a binding Code of onto Mischief Reef, adding to China has refused to recognise Conduct (COC) governing behav- concerns China is building a the case, which is pending. iour in the South China Sea “to more permanent presence far out In an interview with last week, A woman sets up banners for the 26th Asean summit at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia, yesterday. be intensified, to ensure the expe- into the South China Sea from Philippine President Benigno dition of the establishment of an which it can project its growing Aquino said China’s activities China has hit back at all criti- Asean treads carefully with members—and because not all 10 effective COC,” the source said. might. “should engender fear for the rest cism, saying it was free to do as China on the issue due to member-states have maritime Asean has pushed China for Beijing is also widely believed of the world” and could threaten it pleased in waters it considers Beijing’s immense trade and dip- claims. more than a decade to agree to be dragging its feet on binding freedom of navigation. its own. lomatic leverage over individual AFP

Anger as survivors Countdown appears to start for executions in Indonesia mark Bangladesh JAKARTA: Indonesia has few weeks. Embassy officials heightened yesterday and reli- yesterday, during a visit to Widodo what he asks of other factory disaster asked foreign embassies to send received text messages from the gious counsellors, doctors and the Indonesia to make a final appeal countries in relation to Indonesian representatives to a maximum government to send representa- firing squad were alerted to start for mercy on behalf of one of its citizens who face death row over- anniversary security prison ahead of the tives today to the prison island final preparations. citizens among the group of 10. seas. Australia opposes the death expected execution of 10 drug of Nusakambangan, where the The Attorney General has been France has warned Indonesia penalty, whether at home or SAVAR, Bangladesh: Tearful convicts, although an official executions will soon take place. waiting for all the legal processes the executions could dam- abroad, and we again appeal to and angry survivors of the Rana 72-hour notice of execution has It was not clear why they were of the 10 death row inmates to be age ties, while Australia has President Widodo to show mercy.” Plaza disaster gathered at the not been given yet, diplomats being summoned so early. completed before announcing an pleaded repeatedly for clemency The members of the Bali Nine factory site yesterday to protest said yesterday. “The Attorney General’s execution date. for Andrew Chan and Myuran were arrested at the main airport against poor compensation on Among the convicted drug Office issued a blanket state- Lawyers were scrambling to Sukumaran, two Australians on the holiday island of Bali for try- the two-year anniversary of the offenders set to face the fir- ment to embassies involved to various Indonesian courts in a arrested as ringleaders of the so- ing to smuggle 8 kg (18 lb) of heroin tragedy that claimed more than ing squad are nationals from send representatives. They did last-ditch attempt to delay the called Bali Nine drug-smuggling to Australia. The seven other mem- 1,100 lives. Australia, Brazil, France and not say for what purpose,” said execution. But the only outstand- group. bers of the gang, all Australians, About 2,000 survivors, some on Nigeria and the case has strained an embassy official, who asked not ing appeal considered still valid by “I fear that Indonesia will seek to have been jailed in Indonesia. crutches, and families of victims relations between the govern- to be named because he was not the attorney general was for an proceed with the execution of the Indonesia has harsh pun- held hands in a show of solidarity ments of those nations and authorised to speak to the media. Indonesian national, said spokes- two Australian citizens,” Australian ishments for drug crimes and at the ruins of the factory com- Indonesia. “Our worst fear right now is man Tony Spontana. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told resumed executions in 2013 after a plex which imploded in 2013 in The Attorney General’s Office that it’s in preparation for pos- Philippine Vice-President reporters after a visit to Nato five-year gap. Six executions have one of the world’s worst industrial said it expected to announce the sible executions.” Jejomar Binay was expected to headquarters in Brussels yesterday. been carried out so far this year. disasters. date of execution in the next Security at the prison was meet President Joko Widodo “I am asking of President REUTERS From early morning, the crowd, many clutching photos of loved ones, gathered at a makeshift memorial at the site to protest a Chariot festival range of concerns including poor factory safety standards and a Tokyo park closed after lack of compensation. “I only got one million taka ($12,900) from the prime minis- ter’s fund, but nothing from the high radiation level fears trust fund created to help the vic- tims,” Rehana Akhter, whose leg TOKYO: Extremely high levels in areas around the Fukushima was amputated after she become of radiation have been discov- Daiichi nuclear plant, where reac- trapped under tonnes of debris, ered in a playground in Tokyo, tors melted down after the March said. The trust fund was set up officials said yesterday, fanning 2011 tsunami. by retailers and labour groups in fears for the health of children That standard, however, is for the wake of the tragedy. in the area. measurements taken at 0.5 to 1.0 “I can’t now work. I need Soil underneath a slide at the metres above ground, while offi- expensive medicines and I have a park in the northwest of the cials in Tokyo’s Toshima ward family to look after,” the 24-year- Japanese capital showed radiation checked the ground itself. old told AFP, supporting herself readings of up to 480 microsiev- Officials were made aware of with a crutch, at the site in Savar erts per hour, the local adminis- the contamination after a local outside the capital Dhaka. trative office said. resident reported it on Monday The collapse triggered interna- Anyone directly exposed to this and say they do not think it is tional outrage and put pressure on level would absorb in two hours connected to the disaster at European and US brands who had the maximum dose of radiation Fukushima. placed orders at the nine-storey Japan recommends in a year. “Because the area in which complex to improve the woeful pay “Many children play in the park we detect radioactivity is very and conditions at Bangladesh’s daily, so the ward office should limited, and readings in sur- 4,500 garment factories. explain the situation,” Kyodo rounding parts are normal, we Western retailers linked to the News quoted a 62-year-old local suspect radioactive materials disaster include Spanish brand woman as saying. of some kind are buried there,” Mango, Italian brand Benetton, Nepalese Hindu and Buddhist devotees pull a chariot during the Rato (Red) Machindranath Chariot Festival at The radiation level is over 2,000 local mayor Yukio Takano said British retailer Primark and Bungamati in Lalitpur near Kathmandu yesterday. The event, celebrated every year to herald good monsoon times that at which the national in a statement. French retailer Auchan. rains for increased rice harvest, prosperity and good luck, is one of the main festivals observed by both the government requires soil cleaning AFP AFP Buddhist and Hindu communities in Nepal. Niger meningitis death toll Dispute over controversial Thai temple tigers rises to 129, says minister KANCHANABURI: Thai wild- Thailand’s Department of animals he replied: “We have that jackals and Asian bears that were NIAMEY: The death toll in a meningitis epidemic that broke out life officials began a headcount National Parks, Wildlife and Plant idea but in our actions so far it being kept at the sanctuary with- in January in Niger has reached 129, the health minister of the yesterday of nearly 150 tigers kept Conservation (DNP) said earlier has not reached that process yet.” out the correct permits. largely arid west African nation said yesterday. “There are a total by monks at a temple which has this week it planned to take the Unlike previous visits, the “I think a lot of the people of 1,150 cases and unfortunately 129 deaths” by April 22, Health become the centre of a dispute animals away yesterday. monks did not object to officials here are very motivated, I think Minister Mano Aghali said in a statement broadcast on public radio. over the welfare of the animals. But when officials arrived at entering the sanctuary, a photog- they really love the animals, but The government’s previous toll, on April 19, was 85 deaths and 908 Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua in the temple Friday morning they rapher on the scene said. they’re doing it absolutely the cases, but the health ministry said cases were multiplying fast and a Thailand’s western Kanchanaburi contented themselves with count- The headcount was sparked wrong way,” Edwin Wiek, founder UN official spoke of “a manifest acceleration of the disease”. province — commonly known as “The ing the tigers, most of whom are by allegations from a temple vet of Wildlife Friends Foundation The southern capital, Niamey, was the hardest hit, accounting for Tiger Temple” — has long proved a microchipped, to ascertain how earlier this week who complained Thailand, which has campaigned 74 deaths out of 608 registered cases, a health ministry official said. hit among tourists who flock there to many there are in the sanctuary. to police that three tigers had to have the tigers removed, said. “Three of the five districts” in the city are in “an epidemic state”, visit the monks and be photographed “We have come to check and recently disappeared from the “Wildlife management, whether Aghali said. “It is to be feared that the two others will also be the same.” next to their huge feline pets. scan the tigers to see whether the sanctuary, sparking fears they that’s in the wild or captivity, Meningitis is an inflammation of membranes protecting the spinal But the authorities say the numbers match what we have or may have been sold on. comes with a lot of knowledge, a cord and the brain, and the first symptoms include stiffness and severe temple has been keeping the ani- not,” DNP official Somsak Poopet Local animal rights groups lot of rules, a lot of dos and don’ts. headaches. mals without the proper paper- said, adding his department said have accused the temple of failing And walking around with adult The rapid spread of the disease is due to the fact that “several strains work and have vowed to seize they had been told there should to properly look after the tigers. tigers like this, that could snap of meningitis are active and they take over from each other”, a health them, sparking standoffs in recent be 147 tigers at the temple. In February, wildlife officials their mood at any time, is an acci- worker said. Some strains can be highly contagious. weeks between officials and angry Asked whether the depart- said they conducted a raid and dent waiting to happen,” he added. AFP monks blocking their way. ment would consider seizing the discovered dozens of hornbills, AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Makkah Imam leads Friday prayers MQM wins Ghani orders by-election, dismisses talk probe into UN of troubles KARACHI: The Pakistani party that has long dominated politics in the commercial hub of Karachi won a seat in police report a closely watched by-election, poll officials said yesterday, and dismissed talk its fortunes are flagging. Govt won’t tolerate corruption: Official The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) won just over KABUL: Afghanistan’s presi- ministry received its orders from 95,000 votes in the Karachi seat dent has ordered the interior the president’s office to investi- it has held for years, the Election ministry to investigate why a gate and take action on April 12. Commission said. United Nations-funded report A spokesman for the interior Coming second in the Thursday on corruption in the Afghan ministry said the directive, which vote was the party of former police force was ignored and summarises the UNDP report, cricket star Imran Khan, which take appropriate action, a copy the presidential order and the has emerged in recent years as of a directive shows. ministry’s proposed response, was a contender for national power, “It was the Afghan government issued “a few days ago”. with almost 25,000 votes. that blew the whistle,” a spokes- Ghani ran on promises to clear “The voters have rejected the man for President Ashraf Ghani up rampant corruption and the baseless, indecent and false alle- said. “We will not tolerate any Law and Order Trust Fund of Pakistani worshippers offer Friday prayers at Jamia Mosque in Lahore yesterday, led by the Saudi Arabian gations against the MQM,” party kind of corruption.” Afghanistan (LOTFA) has been Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah Sheikh Khalid Al Ghamdi. Sheikh Khalid arrived in Pakistan to meet leader Altaf Hussain said in a Details of the unpublished one of his targets since taking with senior leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. message to his party workers report were first revealed by at office in September. broadcast on television. the start of the week. The United The controversy over the police Hussain fled murder charges Nations Development Programme report is the latest in a series in Pakistan in 1991 and lives in (UNDP) said it was reviewing its of questions about oversight at Britain. He is on bail in a money- processes to improve internal the UNDP-run fund, which has Taliban attack US base with rockets laundering case after British oversight after the report was received around $3.6bn from for- police found piles of cash in his not shared with senior UN offi- eign donors since 2002. house last year. He says the cials following its submission in Last year, the US watchdog KABUL: Taliban insurgents continues to train and support multiple police checkposts in the money was political donations. January. for spending in Afghanistan shot rockets onto a US base out- Afghanistan’s security forces. The eastern provinces of Logar and In March, paramilitary forces The report was produced for released a series of letters alleging side Kabul and targeted Afghan Taliban have been fighting the Paktia. However, police chiefs of raided the party’s headquarters in the UNDP-run fund that pays for LOTFA had lost track of millions government buildings in a pro- Afghan government and its for- both provinces said by telephone Karachi, recovering weapons and Afghan police salaries and other of dollars in payments to “ghost vincial capital yesterday, as eign backers since their hard-line that their forces repelled the arresting suspects wanted for sev- expenses. It recommended firing employees”. they officially launched their Islamist government was ousted attacks and suffered no casualties. eral crimes, including the murder senior officials for sabotaging the In 2012, it was investigated for spring offensive in a year that from power by US-backed Afghan The Taliban typically announce of a journalist. main system for processing com- procurement fraud. has already seen fierce fighting. forces in 2001. a spring offensive to coincide with Hussain’s legal troubles and plaints about misconduct in the The police report was commis- There were no casualties in Also yesterday, several insur- the melting of snow that usually the raid, which party leaders say force. sioned by the UNDP to find out either rocket attack, officials said. gent rockets landed in the capi- intensifies fighting. is part of a security force crack- The interior ministry plans why the main system for filing This year’s fighting season is tal of Ghazni province in central This year has already seen down, have created an impres- to appoint a committee to check complaints about police miscon- expected to be intense after Nato Afghanistan, said Mohammad Ali a surge in violence. Insurgents sion the party is coming under final numbers in the report, ver- duct, a 24-hour phone line, rarely forces ended their 13-year combat Ahmadi, deputy governor. this month have already overrun pressure and could suffer at the ify who received copies and take led to prosecutions. mission in December. One rocket landed next to the several police and army posts in polls. appropriate action. The author concluded senior The Taliban claimed in an building of the local women’s the northeast and killed eight Hussain dismissed that. “(This) does not involve mak- officials were using the system emailed statement to have affairs department, another inside people in an attack on a court- “All those who for the last few ing any changes to recommen- to extort members of the police launched 108 attacks across the governor’s compound and yet house in the northern city of months were spreading propa- dations,” the interior ministry force and recommended firing the the country yesterday and to another hit a wall of a museum. Mazar-i-Sharif. ganda, saying the MQM’s popu- directive states. “Any changes inspector general, Hakim Nejrabi, have “killed and wounded many “Fortunately, they didn’t cause Last year was the worst for larity rating had fallen and Altaf to recommendations are at the and all of his senior staff. Americans” at Bagram Air Base any casualties or huge damage,” civilians since the United Nations Hussain had lost his grip on the professional discretion of the Nejrabi has denied all allega- outside Kabul, the capital. Ahmadi said. began keeping records in 2009, party should know that the peo- consultant.” tions made in the report, calling One rocket did land inside In the southern city of with more than 10,000 civilians ple and Altaf Hussain have a spe- The four-page directive, pro- the findings “a political character the sprawling Bagram base Kandahar, a bomb blast wounded killed or injured in the conflict in cial relationship which cannot be vided to Reuters on Thursday on assassination”. but caused no injuries, accord- three civilians, police said. 2014. shaken,” he said. condition of anonymity, states the REUTERS ing the Nato-led coalition that Insurgent fighters also attacked REUTERS REUTERS

‘Teen’ convict to be hanged on May 6, Botched strike highlights dangers of US drone war: Islamabad say authorities ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Subcontinent (AQIS). sovereignty, though past Pakistani the North Waziristan tribal dis- group said that in the January 15 yesterday the botched US drone Islamabad said it was shocked leaders are known to have trict. He did not refer to the two strike, missiles hit a mud house KARACHI: Pakistani authori- attack that killed two foreign and saddened by the incident and approved some strikes. hostages, but only one US drone in Shawal, which lies on the bor- ties issued a death warrant hostages showed the risks of the offered sympathy to the families. The White House gave few strike was reported in Pakistan der between North and South yesterday for a convicted killer controversial tactic, as details “The death of Mr Weinstein details of this incident but it on that date. Waziristan tribal districts. whose supporters say he was a came to light apparently pin- and Mr Lo Porto in a drone strike appears from an AQIS audio He also described Farouq as The area, off limits to foreign juvenile at the time of his crime pointing the fatal strike. demonstrates the risk and unin- statement released earlier this Pakistani, rather than American, journalists, is hilly and densely and whose case has attracted President Barack Obama tended consequences of the use month that it was a drone strike though it is possible he had dual forested, according to local attention from rights groups admitted on Thursday that one of this technology that Pakistan on January 15 in North Waziristan nationality. residents. around the world. American and one Italian hos- has been highlighting for a long tribal area, close to the Afghan Mahmood also said that US Fighters from the Pakistani Shafqat Hussain was sentenced tage were accidentally killed in time,” the foreign ministry said border. drone strikes in recent months Taliban and other militant groups to death for killing a seven-year- a counter-terrorism operation in in a statement. AQIS spokesman Usama had killed 50 Al Qaeda members have long taken advantage of this old boy in Karachi in 2004 but has January targeting a suspected Al The CIA’s drone campaign Mahmood released an audio in Pakistan. natural cover to use the area as had several stays of execution, Qaeda hideout. targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban statement online on April 12 The bodies of those killed in a hideout. most recently last month. Obama said US consultant militants in restive northwest saying the group’s deputy leader drone strikes are usually badly The number of drone attacks His case has drawn interna- Warren Weinstein and Italian Pakistan has long been highly Ahmed Farouq had been killed damaged and quickly buried in Pakistan has dropped sharply tional attention as his lawyers and aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto controversial. in a US drone strike on January nearby by locals. This is likely to from a peak of 101 in 2010 to just family claim he was only 15 at the were killed along with Ahmed Publicly Islamabad has regu- 15. have happened with Farouq and 22 in 2014 and four so far this time of the killing. Faruq, an American described as larly condemned it as counter- The statement said the strike the foreign hostages. year, according to a tally. The government ordered an a leader of Al Qaeda in the Indian productive and a violation of took place in the Shawal area of A source in a Pakistani militant AFP investigation to try to determine his true age. The probe, carried out by the Federal Investigation Agency Sunset spectacle (FIA) found Hussain was an adult at the time of his conviction, USAid to help revamp according to media reports — its results have not been published officially. “Now the FIA inquiry is over vaccine storage system and his age has been determined, we sought the death warrant of ISLAMABAD: In the wake have repatriated to their parent Shafqat from the ATC,” a jail offi- of the recent vaccine wastage department. The case has been cial who did not want to be named incident, USAid has extended given to the FIA to probe into the said. According to the execution technical support worth $1.5m matter for further investigation. order, Hussain is due to be hanged to the government for imme- Once FIA submits the report, fur- at dawn on May 6. diate reform of the Expanded ther action is expected to be taken. Programme on Immunisation A senior official in the Ministry (EPI) which has been a victim of National Health Services, New chairman for of chronic mismanagement for Regulation and Regulation the last 27 years. (NHSRC) on the condition of ano- Atomic Energy At the same time, eight EPI nymity said the federal health min- employees from director to low istry lacked competent people to Commission cadre officers have been removed address the sever mismanagement from their positions or repatri- therefore had requested many of ISLAMABAD: The govern- ated to their parent departments its international partners to help ment of Pakistan yesterday for negligence. This was after an reforming the EPI on war footing. appointed Mohammad Naeem inquiry committee tasked with But none of them came forward, as chairman of Pakistan Atomic probing the loss of pentavalent vac- except USAID who through its Energy Commission for a period cines worth $1.3m stored in federal deliver project extended its techni- of three years, PAEC announced EPI, found them guilty. The incident cal support for reforming the EPI on Friday. of vaccine wastage was reported this which will be completed within Naeem serving as PAEC mem- year in February and the inquiry is three months, said the official. ber fuel cycle succeeded Dr Ansar said to be still in progress. “The team of the USAID along Parvez who remained chairman The employees who have been with the EPI officials is working of the commission for six years. suspended include EPI Deputy for revamping the vaccine stor- According to PAEC, Naeem Programme Manager Dr Saveeta age and management system to joined the commission in Vankwani, who is the wife of make it state-of the art and at November, 1972, and served in PML-N MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar par with internationally accepted various responsible positions. A view of the sculptures in the backdrop of sunset creating a dramatic view of the sky over Lahore last evening. and two officials of the World standards,” said the official. AGENCIES Health Organisation (WHO) who INTERNEWS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Indian family Separatist rage goes missing in Pakistan The four came from poor background

ISLAMABAD/ of Ferozepur. Society president CHANDIGARH: Pakistani Harpal Singh Bhullar said the authorities are trying to trace passports, other documents and an Indian family, including two some belongings of the family minor children, which went were found in a room in Gurdwara missing in Pakistan earlier this Dehra Sahib in Pakistan. month. The government of India Punjab Police, which sent its has taken up the matter with teams to Sadhanwala village near Pakistan, Punjab Police sources Ferozepur and to Rajasthan (from said yesterday. where Sunil Singh and his family The family, which hailed from had come eight years ago), said Sandhawala village in Faridkot that the entire matter was being district, 260km from Chandigarh, investigated. had gone to Pakistan with a “Our teams are probing the ‘jatha’ (group) of Sikh pilgrims matter,” Ferozepur Deputy for Baisakhi celebrations. Inspector General A S Chahal While the rest of the 1,718 pil- said. Sunil used to work as Activists and supporters of Muslim League Jammu Kashmir (MLJK) shout slogans during a protest against slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) on grims returned, the Sikh fam- a labourer with farmers in senior separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat in Srinagar yesterday. Bhat was arrested after raising pro-Pakistan slogans at a separatist rally in which ily comprising Sunil Singh, 38, Sadhanwala village. His wife also activists waved Pakistani flags. The hardline faction of All Parties Hurriyat Conference has called for a Kashmir-wide shutdown today. his wife Sunita, 27, and children did labour work while their chil- Umer Singh, 10 and daughter dren studied in a government Huma Kaur, 9, did not return. school. The family lived in a two- Members of the ‘jatha’ told police room dharamsala given to them that the family was last seen at by the village panchayat. the Panja Sahib shrine near Police investigation reveal that Rawalpindi on April 12. Sunil arrived in the village around No religious place should be attacked: Court The jatha of pilgrims had left eight years back claiming he was for Pakistan by train on April 11 the son of one Gian Singh who NEW DELHI: The Delhi At the hearing, the federal gov- asked why the petition was lim- is something which is agitating and returned after a 10-day trip. had eloped with a girl from the High Court, hearing a plea on ernment said the PIL was “com- ited to churches. all of us. There should not be any It is the first incident of its kind village over four decades back. the security of churches here, munal” in nature. “There are attacks on temples, attack of any kind on any reli- in Pakistan, The Express Tribune Sunil expressed his wish to settle yesterday said there “should “Why should this (petition) be gurdwaras and mosques too. No gious place. newspaper of Pakistan reported. down in the village after coming not be any attack on any kind concerned with churches only? one wants to talk about that. You “India is a pluralist society The Evacuee Trust Property from Rajasthan, village headman of religious places” in the All places of worship should be (petitioner) should be concerned which has survived over thou- Board in Pakistan — a govern- Harjit Singh said. country. protected irrespective of religion,” with all religions. sands of years. We have lived with ment body responsible for arrang- Sadhanwala village is located Justice Siddharth Mridul said it said. “At least 200 temples were harmony with each other. If we ing accommodation and security close to army areas, close to the India had survived for thousands The court observed that irre- vandalised, 30 gurdwaras and 14 wish to survive as a country, we for Sikh pilgrims, confirmed that India-Pakistan international bor- of years in harmony and this spective of religion “all places of mosques were vandalised along have to continue that harmony,” the family of four was missing, the der, and intelligence agencies and should continue. worship need to be protected”. with six churches in the national Justice Mridul said. newspaper said. police are taking the matter quite After some attacks on “Whether it’s a church, tem- capital last year as per Delhi Saying it was an “important The missing family, coming seriously. churches, a public interest litiga- ple, gurdwara, mosque, we have Police statistics. We can’t give matter”, the court transferred from a poor rural background, “The issue has been brought tion (PIL) was filed in the court to make sure that all religious preference to one religion. We the plea to the roster bench of had gone as part of a group of to the notice of the Ministry of seeking protection of religious places are equally protected,” the are for all religious places,” Soni the chief justice who hears the 384 pilgrims who were taken to Home Affairs,” Amritsar-rural rights of Christians and a court- court said. contended. PILs. The matter would be heard Pakistan by the Bhai Mardana police chief Jasdeep Singh said. monitored Special Investigation Advocate Anil Soni, appearing The court expressed its dis- on April 29. Yaadgar Kirtan Darbar Society IANS Team (SIT) probe. for the federal Home Ministry, pleasure over the attacks. “This IANS Rahul reaches Government leash on Ford Foundation’s funding Kedarnath NEW DELHI: India has internal affairs” of the country The foundation, created in 1936 cracked down on the Ford and also “abetting communal dis- by Edsel and Henry Ford, has shrine after Foundation, saying the US char- harmony” through funding of the made several grants to Sabrang, ity can no longer give money to local rights organisation called run by Teesta Setalvad who has local organisations without gov- Sabrang. criticised Modi over religious riots 16km trek ernment permission, the latest Home Ministry spokesman in Gujarat in 2002 when he was move against a foreign NGO, an K S Dhatwalia said the founda- chief minister. KEDARNATH: After a trek of official said yesterday. tion had been involved in funding Modi has long denied any 16km, Congress vice president A Home Ministry order says charities which are not registered wrongdoing over the riots which Rahul Gandhi offered prayers the foundation has been placed to receive foreign funds. left more than 1,000 people, at the Kedarnath temple, Lord on a “watch list” to ensure funds “All funds have to be vetoed mostly Muslims, dead. Shiva’s shrine, here yesterday, are used for “bonafide welfare by the ministry”, Dhatwalia told Gujarat has targetted activ- the day its ‘kapaat’ (portals) activities without compromising AFP. ist Setalvad for investigation opened for pilgrims after clo- on concerns of national interest The move comes after the gov- including over allegations that sure for the winter. and security”. ernment suspended Greenpeace she embezzled donations meant The highly revered shrine The move follows a complaint India’s foreign funding licence this for riot victims. remains open for six months, as from the western Gujarat govern- month after accusing the watch- The New York-based Ford it is closed during winters due ment over the foundation’s grants dog of hurting the country’s eco- Foundation said it was cooperat- to heavy snowfall and severe to a local non-governmental nomic interests. ing with a Home Ministry inves- weather conditions in the region. organisation run by a long-time Greenpeace accuses the gov- tigation into its grants but was Gandhi scion said he was there critic of Prime Minister Narendra ernment of trying to shut it down confident it had complied with to also pay respects to the vic- Modi. Gujarat has accused the over its campaigns against mining Indian laws. A television journalist outside the office of the Ford Foundation in New tims of the 2013 flash floods in foundation of “interfering in the and nuclear projects. AFP Delhi yesterday. the state. The reason for his visit is to “pay respects to those who lost their lives in the 2013 tragedy”, he Stunning stunt told reporters outside the temple. Thousands of people lost their lives following a cloudburst which Tobacco firms pressed led to flash floods and landslides when the Char Dham yatra was underway. Gandhi told reporters that he over health warnings felt at peace after visiting the shirne. NEW DELHI: India is committed to The government would go ahead with Asked what he sought from boosting the size of health warnings the regulation on larger warnings as God, Gandhi said he did not ask on tobacco products, the government soon as it got the panel’s backing for the for anything, adding that he felt said yesterday, seeking to deflect criti- move, Health Minister J P Nadda told “a fire-like feeling” inside the cism for delaying tougher new packag- parliament yesterday. shrine. ing rules beyond a deadline of April 1. “The ministry is consistent, and crys- During the trek up to the tem- Up to 900,000 Indians die every year tal clear, that consumption of tobacco is ple, Gandhi spent the night at a of tobacco-related diseases, the govern- to be reduced,” he added, without saying hut at Linchauli on Thursday and ment said in 2010. That could rise to 1.5 how long the delay was expected to be, resumed the walk to the shrine in million by 2020 if users do not kick the or when a new deadline would be set. the morning, covering about 16 habit, the International Tobacco Control India ranks 136th on a list of 198 coun- km in the forenoon. Project estimates. tries that use such warnings to deter Special Protection Group The health ministry set the deadline smokers, the Canadian Cancer Society (SPG) personnel and others last October, to push tobacco companies said in a report last September. accompanied Gandhi to the to ensure health warnings cover 85 per- “The warnings currently are very shrine, where he mingled with cent of the surface of packs, up from 20 weak,” said Seema Gupta, an official of the devotees. percent now. nonprofit health and development net- On the way, he took a tea break But a parliamentary panel last month work the Voluntary Health Association at Jungle Chatti. asked for the decision to be put on hold, of India. “The delay will lead to an The man at whose tea stall as it examines how the changes will increase in the number of tobacco users.” Gandhi had his cuppa told report- affect the industry’s revenues, and its Global health activists have praised ers that he never expected that a workforce. the new rules, which require 60 per- person like Rahul Gandhi would A row blew up over the call for the cent of a pack’s surface to carry picto- ever have tea at his shop. “I am delay when it emerged that a panel rial warnings, with another 25 percent feeling good that he had tea at my member belonging to Prime Minister devoted to written warnings, but the stall,” the elated tea seller told Recruits perform on motorcycles during a passing out parade of the Rajasthan Police Training Narendra Modi’s ruling party owned a industry has labelled them “drastic” and media persons. Center in Jodhpur yesterday. tobacco business, in what critics called “impractical”. IANS a conflict of interest. REUTERS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Kejriwal apologises for speech at suicide rally Aam Aadmi Party gives Rs1m to dead farmer’s family, which is demanding a CBI investigation into his suicide

DAUSA/NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief promised “best possible help” to the dis- the land ordinance after the incident Minister Arvind Kejriwal yesterday traught family. but pointed out that he was to originally said he erred by not stopping his speech Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh speak for an hour but spoke only for 10-15 at a party rally in the national capital meanwhile called on the grieving fam- minutes. where a Rajasthani farmer killed him- ily a day after Gajendra Singh was cre- “I think that was my mistake. Probably self, even as he and the AAP reached mated and handed a Rs1m cheque from I should not have spoken. If that has hurt out to the distraught family. the party. anyone’s sentiments, I would like to apol- The Wednesday suicide, which has Emerging after meeting the family ogise,” the AAP founder leader told ANI. pitted Kejriwal’s government and Delhi members at Dausa, Sanjay Singh told “I am guilty. Blame me,” he said. “But Police against one another, sparked journalists that they demanded a “mar- please focus on the real issue of the farm- national outrage after Gajendra Singh tyr’s status” for Gajendra Singh and ers and desist from politicking.” dramatically hanged himself from a employment to a member of his family Other political parties still slammed tree at an AAP rally against the land from the Delhi government. him. BJP leader and Environment ordinance. “I will convey these to Kejriwal. The Minister Prakash Javadekar said: “An Gajendra Singh’s family demanded a matter will be considered most sym- apology isn’t enough. Can’t make the CBI probe into the death. “We want a CBI pathetically by the Delhi government,” farmer a spectacle, can’t dramatise a probe... a fair probe. We have conveyed it Sanjay Singh said. suicide scene.” to Rajasthan Health Minister Rajendra It was the first meeting between AAP Congress leader Anand Sharma said: Singh Rathore,” Gopal Singh, the victim’s leaders and the victim’s family who had “An apology is not enough. He (chief min- uncle, told IANS. over the preceding two days bitterly ister) did not do what he should have Rathore visited Nangal Jhamarwara attacked the party for not doing enough done.” village and handed them a cheque of to save Gajendra Singh. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Rs400,000 on behalf of the Bharatiya Gajendra Singh hanged himself in front said: “By apologising, the farmer will not Janata Party. of some 4,000 people. He left behind what come back to life.” The family demanded that Gajendra police first said was a suicide note but his Kejriwal insisted that the “real truth” Singh’s daughter Megha, a Class 12 stu- family said the handwriting was not his. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (right) talks with behind the episode would be known only dent, be given admission to the Maharani Delhi Police has accused AAP activ- Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia during the farmers rally in New Delhi on Wednesday. after an inquiry. College in Jaipur after she clears her ists of instigating the farmer to commit “I don’t think anybody present would board exam. suicide and of preventing the police from quickly to save the man who was rushed join a magisterial inquiry ordered by the have thought that a person would commit And in a bid to dilute the attacks on coming to his help. to hospital by AAP activists. Delhi government. suicide. When (he was brought) down, he the Aam Aadmi Party, Kejriwal tel- The AAP denied the charges, and Delhi Police, which reports to the fed- Kejriwal admitted that he should not was still alive.” ephoned Gajendra Singh’s uncle and instead accused Delhi Police of not acting eral Home Ministry, has also refused to have continued with his speech against IANS

Butchers want Ghani’s visit a chance Four sentenced to death for to slaughter Jersey cows to regain lost ground rape, murder of teen girl SRINAGAR: A court in A statement from the court in trial, even for crimes such as NEW DELHI: When Afghan Indian-administered Kashmir the frontier district of Kupwara, rape and murder. There have after ban President Ashraf Ghani sentenced four men to death 100 kilometres north of the been multiple allegations of (pictured) makes his first offi- yesterday after they were con- region’s main city of Srinagar, mass rapes carried out by MUMBAI: Battling a beef cial visit to India next week, it victed of the rape and mur- said the four convicts should Indian soldiers in Kashmir in ban that has threatened their will be a chance for New Delhi der of a 14-year-old girl which “be hanged by the neck till they the 25 years since the federal livelihoods, Muslim traders in to regain ground lost to regional sparked protests across the are dead”, although they do have government brought in laws India are seeking permission to rivals Pakistan and China and region. the right to appeal against the making it virtually impossible slaughter foreign-origin Jersey push interests including trade The four convicts, includ- sentence. to put troops on trial in civil- cows they think will not be as routes and arms sales. ing two locals and two migrant India only executes people in ian courts. sacred to the country’s majority More than his predecessor labourers from West Bengal and the “rarest of the rare” cases but “The judgement is welcome Hindus as locally bred cattle. Hamid Karzai, Ghani has reached Rajasthan, had been found guilty the girl’s killing was particularly deterrence but there has not Several states led by the Hindu out to neighbouring Pakistan to earlier this month of the 2007 shocking, even in a country that been a single conviction of sol- nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party help negotiate a settlement with killing near the de facto border has a distressing record of high- diers or state officials involved of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Taliban insurgents and to China with Pakistan, known as the Line profile sex attacks. in similar offences,” Khurram have either brought new laws to to add clout to the fragile peace 2013 that included field guns and of Control (LoC). The father of the girl, who Parvez, a prominent rights activ- ban beef or tightened curbs on process as well as to invest in the battle tanks. Sadiq Mir, Azhar Mir, Jehangir cannot be named as all rape vic- ist, said after the sentencing. killing cattle. Afghan economy. “There was a shopping list, the Ansari and Suresh Kumar were tims have to remain anonymous, “The impunity in such cases India is the world’s largest beef That has left India as an also- expectation was it would be deliv- all arrested soon after the teen- welcomed the judgement. persists,” he added. exporter and fifth biggest con- ran during the first seven months ered,” said a source with direct age student was discovered with “We fought for justice for India has hundreds of thou- sumer, with the trade dominated of Ghani’s tenure, and talk of knowledge of the security cooper- her throat slit in an orchard in eight long years. I am happy our sands of troops stationed on its by the minority Muslim commu- a strategic partnership with ation between the two countries, the frontier district of Kupwara prayers were finally answered side of the disputed region which nity who have protested against Afghanistan including significant who was not authorised to speak in June 2007. and justice was done today,” the has been divided between India the latest restrictions with little sales of military equipment dur- to the press. The girl had gone missing father told AFP. and Pakistan since independence success. ing Karzai’s frequent visits has “There were several opportuni- on her way from school and it India’s notoriously sluggish in 1947. Both claim the territory The All India Milli Council, faded to silence. ties, even the new government in later emerged that she had been legal system means it can often in its entirety. a platform for Muslims in the China’s emerging role in Delhi had opportunities. But they abducted by the four men. take years for suspects to face AFP country, now says it supports Afghanistan, and its announce- didn’t act on it.” the beef ban but would like the ment this week of $46bn of invest- Ghani, who has already visited government to find them alter- ment in India’s neighbour and China, Pakistan and the United natives. They hope Jerseys, a nuclear-armed rival Pakistan, States, will be in India on April dairy cow originally bred in the have heightened the sense that 27 and 28 and will meet, among Three Mumbai cops arrested for rape Channel Island of Jersey, could be India could lose influence in South others, Prime Minister Narendra an option. Asia, experts said. Modi, who came to power last “We demand the government “China’s footprint to our west May. MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai woman has alleged she was then Local media have reported that to allow us kill Jersey cows, which will continue to grow bigger as it According to an Indian gov- have arrested three officers driven to a police outpost and the woman’s friend had gone to are of foreign origin and religious seeks access to the waters of the ernment official, on the leaders’ who allegedly raped a model raped by the officers before they the police station to deliver the sentiments are not attached to Arabian Sea through Pakistan, agenda will be to discuss final in a police station and then extorted up to Rs500,000 ($7,800) money after travelling to several them,” said M A Khalid, general the energy resources of Iran approval of a tripartite tran- demanded several thousand from her. ATMs in the night. secretary of the council’s unit in and the mineral resources of sit agreement involving India, dollars as blackmail to keep “The investigations are being The woman reportedly sent a the western state of Maharashtra. Afghanistan,” said Vikram Sood, Afghanistan and Iran cen- quiet, a deputy commissioner done meticulously considering the text message to Mumbai’s police Maharashtra is home to India’s former head of India’s external tred around the Iranian port of said yesterday. involvement of police and nature commissioner Rakesh Maria sev- largest abattoir, Deonar, and the spy agency and an influential Chabahar. Three other men have also been of the crime,” Kulkarni told AFP. eral days later alerting him to the state in February extended a ban South Asia strategist. India’s access to landlocked arrested after the 29-year-old “Right now, the allegations of incident, before meeting him to on killing of cows to bulls and bul- Earlier this month, India deliv- Afghanistan, and potentially on to woman said the officers bundled extortion seems genuine, but the give more details. locks. Yesterday, Chief Minister ered three light helicopters to Central Asia, Russia, and Europe, her into a car as she was leav- matter of sexual assault cannot be India introduced tough laws Devendra Fadnavis shot down Afghanistan, Indian and Afghan is either through Pakistan, which ing an upmarket hotel in India’s confirmed at this moment.” against sex offenders in the the idea of allowing the killing of sources said, a small deal that is not seen as feasible given their financial capital on April 3. “They (the policemen) had no wake of the fatal gang-rape of Jersey cows. came three years late and was a mutual suspicion, or via Iran and Deputy commissioner business to be there” outside the a Delhi student in the capital in “There are no exceptions,” he far cry from Karzai’s requests in northwards by land. REUTERS Dhananjay Kulkarni said the hotel, he also said. December 2012. AFP told Reuters. Since the ban in Maharashtra, slaughtering of big cattle in Deonar has nearly halved to 200- Rain in Bengaluru 250 animals, mostly buffalo. REUTERS Petition for ban on use Rajya Sabha okays private member’s of elephants at events bill on transgenders NEW DELHI: The Supreme and the chief wildlife wardens of Court yesterday sought the Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, NEW DELHI: For the first response of the federal and nine Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, time in 45 years, the Rajya Sabha state governments on a peti- Maharashtra, Rajasthan and yesterday unanimously passed tion seeking a ban on the use Punjab. a private member’s bill to give of elephants in religious func- The court was moved by equal rights to transgenders. tions and other events saying it the Wildlife Rescue and “It is a unanimous decision of causes then immense pain. Rehabilitation Centre, Help in the house... This is a rare thing,” The apex court bench of Justice Suffering, Plant and Animals Deputy Chairman P J Kurien Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla Welfare Society (PAWS), announced after the bill was C Pant was told that there were Save Animals Initiative (SAI) passed. some 3,000 captive elephants and Sanctuary Trust, and Shakti The bill envisages creation of a ban would reduce the demand Ranjan Banerjee — a former a national commission for trans- for captive elephants. member of West Bengal Wildlife gender communities, and state A May 2004 report says there Advisory Board. level commissions. are some 500 elephants with the The petitioners said they DMK member Tiruchi Shiva, forest departments, 82 with zoos, moved the court to focus on the who moved The Rights of 92 with circuses and 2,650-2,700 issue of the “deplorable state of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014, Men ride on a motorbike through a busy road during heavy rain in Bengaluru. India’s monsoon rains could with individuals and temples. captive elephants across India in said: “We say human rights are be below average in 2015 due to the impact of El Nino weather pattern, which can bring on a dry spell in the The notice, returnable in eight violation of various national and for all, why some people are region, the weather has said. weeks, has been issued to the state laws and norms”. neglected.” IANS Animal Welfare Board of India IANS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Kenya takes Qatari help for yuan centre Shanghai motor show Comcast abandons $45bn merger with Deal signed for financial centre Time Warner Cable NAIROBI: Kenya is finalising an effective legal system, deficient NEW YORK: Comcast Corp laws to make it easier for for- company and land registries and abandoned its $45bn offer for eign banks to operate in the a limited number of agreements Time Warner Cable Inc yes- country, and wants to host a with neighbours to avoid double terday after US regulator Chinese currency clearing cen- taxation. raised concerns that the deal tre, replicating Qatar’s model, Kenya aims to learn from the would give Comcast an unfair as it bids to become a regional Qataris on setting up a clearing advantage in the cable TV financial hub. house for China’s yuan currency, and Internet-based services Finance Minister Henry also known as the renminbi. market. Rotich also said yesterday that “Ultimately, having set up the The proposed deal had faced the appointment of a new cen- international financial centre, we criticism from some politicians, tral bank governor was close, with will begin to also host the ren- media company executives and a shortlist of three candidates minbi clearing house for Africa,” consumer and industry groups, submitted to President Uhuru the minister said, referring to a who had worried it would create Kenyatta, but the process may not plan to put Kenya at the heart a monolith with too much control be completed until after a month- of Africa’s financial dealings with over what Americans do online long parliamentary recess start- China. and watch on TV. ing on May 1. Qatar launched the first “The companies’ decision to The new legislation for banks Chinese yuan clearing house in abandon this deal is the best out- would enable international lend- the Middle East in April. In the come for American consumers,” ers with operations in Kenya to past Chinese officials have sug- US Attorney General Eric Holder use courts in London and other gested Kenya could host such an said in a statement. international arbitration to settle operation. A model checking the information of a Subaru car during the 16th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Comcast had argued that the commercial disputes, Rotich said On the next central bank chief, Exhibition yesterday. The vast majority of cars in the world’s biggest auto market are purchased new, but a deal would not be anti-com- — moves seen as vital to reassur- Rotich said the timing would second-hand trade is beginning to emerge in China despite traditional buyer reluctance. petitive because the companies ing investors. largely depend on parliament, had no real geographic overlap. “We are moving fast,” said whose recess runs May 1 to June The company had also agreed to Rotich, adding that a draft of the 8. divest some assets to help smooth laws should be ready within three “The interviews have been fin- the deal through the regulatory months. ished and the interview results Brent hits high on Yemen fighting process. The finance minister signed a have been prepared for President Federal Communications deal with Qatar’s government this Kenyatta,” he said, adding that Commission Chairman Tom month outlining the state’s sup- the president would pick from the NEW YORK: Oil prices to Brent and formed a floor hedge fund Again Capital. Wheeler said on Friday that port for Kenya’s plans to build a shortlist and parliament would diverged yesterday, with Brent beneath falling US crude prices. Brent was up 27 cents at $65.12 the merger would have posed an financial centre in Nairobi, mir- approve the choice. hitting 4-1/2 month highs on Worries that crude stockpiles a barrel by 12.15pm EDT (1615 “unacceptable risk to competition roring Doha’s international finan- Benjamin Langat, chairman of continued fighting in Yemen in the United States could hit a GMT), after hitting a December and innovation.” cial centre. parliament’s finance committee while US crude fell on concerns new record next week weighed 10 high of $65.80. Brent was The collapse of the deal is a set- Experts involved in Doha’s which will vet the nominee, said of another upcoming stock on US crude, even as overall headed for a third straight week back for Comcast Chief Executive development would help Kenya the president could call a sitting build, though both benchmarks demand for oil and fuel prod- of gains, adding nearly 3 percent Brian Roberts. “Today, we move establish policies and laws to allow during the recess. Parliament is headed toward weekly gains. ucts, especially gasoline, picked this week. on,” he said in a statement. international banks to operate dominated by Kenyatta’s Jubilee Fighting between Yemen’s war- up ahead of the peak summer US crude fell 42 cents to more easily. coalition and is expected to back ring factions raged in southern driving season. $57.32 a barrel, retreating from BAE may sell part Kenya has set up a secretariat his choice. Seven out of 10 econ- and central parts of the country “It’s a push and pull situation Thursday’s 2015 high of $58.41. It to spearhead the plan, which has omists polled last month said and air strikes from a Saudi- with the Yemen tensions giving was on track for a sixth straight of US intelligence, also drawn on the City of London they expected the top job to go led coalition hit Houthi militia Brent support while US prices weekly gain, its longest such as a model. to Haron Sirima, the deputy gov- forces, creating more tensions get pulled down as people steel stretch since the first quarter of security business To succeed in the long-mooted ernor who is currently acting over the security of Middle East themselves for another inventory 2014. Like Brent, US crude was up plans, experts say Kenya has to governor. oil supplies. rise next week,” said John Kilduff, three percent for the week. LONDON: Europe’s big- overcome issues such as a lack of REUTERS A softer dollar also lent support partner at New York energy REUTERS gest defence contractor BAE Systems has hired advisers to carry out a review of its US-based IT and analysis sup- port businesses in a move that could lead to their sale. The British company said yes- Eurozone warns Greece no cash till full reform deal terday it had received a number of enquiries from potential buy- RIGA: Eurozone finance min- “A comprehensive deal is neces- yesterday reiterated her call for ECB, central bank sources say, against the hated “troika”. ers but there was no certainty a isters warned Greece yesterday sary before any disbursement can a deal soon. and it would be in doubt if Greece “We agreed that an agreement transaction would result from the that its leftist government will take place ... We are all aware that But Dijsselbloem said finance missed a payment to its creditors. will be difficult but it will happen review. get no more aid until it agrees time is running out.” ministers would review progress European Economics and it will happen quickly because The businesses are part of a complete economic reform He also said a remaining ¤7.2bn again only on May 11 — a day Commissioner Pierre Moscovici that is the only option we have,” BAE’s Intelligence and Security plan, as Athens lurches closer in frozen bailout funds would no before Greece has to make a said despite some progress in he told a separate news confer- divisions and mainly serve the US to bankruptcy. longer be available after June, and crucial and uncertain ¤750m recent days, international credi- ence. He later said he was willing government. The review does not Greek Finance Minister Yanis Greece’s creditors would not talk payment to the International tors were still nowhere near an to find a compromise, warning of include core services such as sup- Varoufakis faced a harsh morn- about longer term funding and Monetary Fund. agreement with Athens. the huge cost to the euro zone if port for naval ships in the United ing in which euro zone ministers debt relief until Athens concluded European Central Bank “Our message today is very Greece were to default. States and Britain, or commercial bemoaned talks they felt “were a full interim agreement. President Mario Draghi said the clear: We need to accelerate, we Before the tense meeting, services operations. going nowhere” and one minister In a sign of the eurozone’s frus- ECB would go on allowing emer- need to accelerate from today ... Varoufakis offered some conces- Shares in the company rose 4 said that maybe it was time gov- tration, the discussion on Greece gency lending to Greek banks as there is no other choice if we want sions in an effort to secure new percent in early trade and were ernments prepared for the plan B lasted little more than an hour, long as they were assessed as sol- to reach the goal that everyone funding before Athens runs out 1.8 percent higher at 513 pence by of a Greek default. while ministers declined to go vent. But he cautioned that soar- shares, which is a stable, prosper- of money, saying in a blog post he 0746 GMT, putting them among Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch into any detail over issues such ing Greek government bond yields ous Greece anchored in the euro was open to some privatisations the biggest gainers on the UK finance minister who chaired the as the budget surpluses Athens were diminishing the value of the zone,” Moscovici said. and to a commission to supervise benchmark FTSE 100 index. meeting in the Latvian capital, might target because Greece had collateral that the banks present Varoufakis sought to play down tax collection that would be inde- “It doesn’t signal a change of slammed the door on Varoufakis’ no details prepared. to get funds. the differences, saying ministers pendent of the government. strategy, it is just the continual proposal for early cash after par- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Facing a wave of deposit out- had agreed to speed up the nego- But he rejected any more wage process of review and in this case tial reforms. Tsipras said after meeting flows, the banks are staying afloat tiations, which have also been or pension cuts and said creditors something that has been triggered “A comprehensive and detailed German Chancellor Angela with ¤75.4bn in emergency liquid- delayed by Greece’s insistence must agree on a realistic target by an approach,” said analyst list of reforms is needed,” Merkel in Brussels on Thursday ity assistance from the Greek that EU/ECB/IMF teams avoid for the primary budget surplus Edward Stacey at Espirito Santo Dijsselbloem told a news confer- he hoped for an agreement by the central bank. But criticism of lengthy stays in Athens for fear of before debt service. Investment Bank. ence following a meeting in Riga. end of this month and Merkel the lifeline is growing inside the intensifying the popular backlash REUTERS AGENCIES

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PARIS: Renault shares pow- to Renault boss Carlos Ghosn to already disclosed,” they added. ered to a seven-year high yes- defend the government’s position. Renault said the upturn terday as forecast-beating They said the April 21 letter gathered pace in March, with quarterly sales overshadowed was shared with Renault board mid-market brands such as its signs of growing tensions with members and interpreted by some namesake cars posting strong the French government over its as a warning against retaliation. gains, while sales of its no-frills influence on the carmaker. Renault credited recent mod- Dacia models — which rose Sales jumped 13.7 percent to els including the Clio subcompact strongly during the financial cri- ¤9.39bn ($10.14bn) in January- and Captur mini-SUV for a 9.9 sis — slowed. March, with a recovery in percent rise in European regis- The carmaker’s global regis- Europe’s long-suffering autos trations in the first quarter that trations rose a more modest 0.8 market more than making up for outpaced the broader market. percent, held back by weaker a collapse in Russian demand and The company also raised its 2015 economies in South America and weak emerging economies. European market growth forecast particularly Russia, where regis- However, the strong perform- to five percent from two percent. trations have plunged under the ance comes amid signs of tensions At 0915 GMT, its shares were weight of international sanctions with the French state, which is up 4.3 percent to ¤97.65, having and a lower, volatile rouble. seeking to increase its voting climbed earlier to ¤99.19, their The weaker euro accounted for rights at the business — some- highest since December 2007. 1.3 points of a 14.3 percent gain thing which Renault has warned Exane BNP Paribas analysts in automotive division sales, lift- could endanger the “survival said the first-quarter sales were ing the value of overseas revenues and success” of its alliance with about nine percent above the con- when converted back. Japanese carmaker Nissan. sensus forecast. Sales to other carmakers— Employees of Postbank, members of German union Verdi, protest during a warning strike in front of the head- Two people with knowledge “(It’s) very rare to see devia- including alliance partner Nissan quarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, yesterday. Deutsche Bank’s supervisory board was reviewing a sweeping of the matter said on Thursday tions of this magnitude against and Germany’s Daimler — rose restructuring plan to cut back investment banking and dump the Postbank retail chain to restore profitability. that French Economy Minister consensus on a quarterly revenue 6.7 percent. Emmanuel Macron had written number given unit sales data is REUTERS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Iraq tells HSBC weighs moving headquarters to HK partners to lift Investors urge HSBC, StanChart to mull move after British tax increase Basra Heavy

LONDON: HSBC, Europe’s may also influence HSBC. The crude from May biggest bank, has ordered a bank is already expected to pay review into whether it should $1.5 billion under a UK bank levy SINGAPORE: Iraq’s State move its headquarters out of this year, or about 7 percent of Oil Marketing Organisation Britain and potentially back to expected profits because it is (SOMO) has informed its part- its former home in Hong Kong, taxed on its global balance sheet. ners they can start loading threatening London’s reputa- That charge is up from $1.1bn last Basra Heavy crude from May, tion as a global hub for finance year. instead of its flagship light and investment. Taxes, tougher regulation grade, two sources with direct The announcement from and rocketing house prices have knowledge of the matter said on HSBC, founded in Asia but a key already encouraged some banks Friday. part of the British establishment, to move operations out of London, The No.2 Opec producer is prompted a warm response from even before the threat of a pos- splitting its southern oil produc- Hong Kong, where it is revered sible exit from the EU. tion into two streams — a light as “The Bank”, and silence from Some HSBC shareholders have and a heavy grade — to resolve Downing Street. been urging the bank to consider quality issues dogging its exports. News of the review comes returning to Hong Kong to cut SOMO told its partners that less than two weeks before UK costs and yesterday’s announce- the new heavy grade could be parliamentary elections on May ment prompted a three percent loaded from single point mooring 7 and poses challenges for both rise in its stock, helping to lift units 1 and 3 in southern Basra, Prime Minister David Cameron, Britain’s top share index back the sources said. who is seeking to return to power, towards its record high. But two of its partners due and his Labour party rival, Ed “This is more than just sabre- to receive the heavy grade com- Miliband. rattling, they clearly want the plained they had already sold HSBC has been one of the establishment to know that HSBC Basra Light crude that was allo- most vocal critics of the new doesn’t necessarily belong here,” cated to their companies 1-2 regulations and additional taxes said one investor in the bank. months ago for loading in April imposed on British banks in the HSBC last reviewed its domi- and May. wake of the financial crisis and cile in 2010, and had said it would “We were expecting it (the Chairman Douglas Flint singled re-assess its position in 2015. launch of Basra Heavy) to hap- out the threat of Britain with- Analysts put the cost of moving pen in June but it came earlier drawing from the European at between $1.5bn and $2.5bn. than expected,” said a source at Union in a speech to investors on Reuters reported on Sunday the company, who declined to be Friday. that executives at HSBC and named due to company policy. Cameron has pledged to hold a rival Standard Chartered were A view of the London headquarters of HSBC. “This could affect some 30 referendum on Britain’s member- looking at quitting London for million barrels of crude that had ship of the EU if his Conservative Asia. Investors told Reuters they Corporation, HSBC issues most Management, one of HSBC’s top management with international already been sold as Basra Light party is re-elected and the oppo- wanted the banks to do a thor- of the territory’s bank notes and 10 investors, said even with its officers, usually white British based on the grade’s OSP.” sition Labour party seized on ough analysis. has made $24bn in profits there already large presence in Hong men, who “went east” to Asia and SOMO announced the first offi- HSBC’s announcement. A shift in HSBC’s headquarters over the last three years, com- Kong moving domicile would be worked up the ranks. cial selling price (OSP) for Basra “HSBC is just the latest in a would not have a major impact on pared with a $4bn loss in Britain a big decision. But HSBC’s top brass have Heavy earlier this month even long line of companies warning of Britain’s tax revenues if it kept over the same period. “No one should be under any been at the centre of public though it did not allocate any to the dangers of a re-elected Tory most of its staff in the country It moved from Hong Kong to illusion that it’s as simple as mov- storm recently amid revelations its partners in its loading pro- (Conservative) government tak- but a move could trigger others London in 1993 when it bought ing a brass plate from one city its Swiss unit helped thousands gramme for May. The May OSPs ing Britain out of the European to follow, potentially weakening Midland Bank, and Hong Kong to another. It is far more com- of rich clients to dodge tax. for Basra Light and Heavy differ Union,” said Labour finance London’s status as a centre for would be one of the few places plex than that and involves local, The bank’s independent direc- by about $4 a barrel. spokesman Ed Balls. finance. that could handle its $2.6 trillion regional and global regulatory tor said the board was united A 50 percent drop in global A Conservative spokesman Standard Chartered said on balance sheet. frameworks, costs and the future behind Flint and Chief Executive oil prices meant that Iraq has to declined to comment on HSBC’s Friday it was “listening very care- The Hong Kong Monetary strategic shape of HSBC,” he said. Stuart Gulliver on Friday but partly use oil to pay its partners announcement, but said Britain’s fully” to shareholders on whether Authority said it would take Despite its Asian roots and nearly a quarter of investors for work at its southern oilfields, future membership of the EU was it should consider moving head- a “positive attitude” if HSBC profit base, HSBC has always voted against the bank’s pay plans but SOMO has not been able a decision for the British people. quarters out of Britain. decided to return. been a very British bank. for top staff, including a £7.6m to meet its export targets since Labour’s plans to raise taxes Founded 150 years ago as the Hugh Young, global head For much of its history it oper- ($11.5m) package for Gulliver. February. on banks if it comes to power Hong Kong Shanghai Banking of equities at Aberdeen Asset ated a colonial-style system of REUTERS REUTERS

Air Products, ACWA Holding awarded Asian central banks to ease further, but effects may be muted contract by Saudi BANGALORE: Emerging central banks around the world by end-June and lower banks’ year. “There is growing realisa- will probably not work as well as Asian central banks are have eased monetary policy in reserve requirement ratio again tion that demand-supportive and policymakers and investors hope. Aramco expected to cut interest rates some manner or other so far this soon afterward. anti-deflationary measures need “In China, we maintain our view again in the coming months, year. The PBOC cut its benchmark to be undertaken expeditiously, that there are rising risks of a mini- DOHA: Air Products but economists are doubtful the The surveys across Asia, which lending rate by 25 basis points preferably in the first (half) of hard landing in 2015, as policy eas- announced that it has been moves will significantly boost bring the total number of fore- last month, followed by an aggres- the year,” wrote Michael Spencer, ing has not happened as quickly and awarded a contract by Saudi growth or inflation. casters polled above 300 globally sive one-percentage-point cut in Asia Pacific research head at aggressively as we had expected,” Aramco under a joint ven- The findings echo results from this week, found nearly all central banks’ reserve requirement ratio Deutsche Bank. Spencer added in the note. ture (JV) of Air Products and earlier this week in surveys of banks in the region, with a few over the weekend. But whether those steps will China’s gross domestic product ACWA Holding to build, own, more than 250 economists in exceptions such as New Zealand The Reserve Bank of India, work remain in doubt. is expected to expand at a steady and operate the world’s larg- Europe and North America who and South Korea, were set to ease which has already cut rates twice Median estimates for growth 7 percent in the next four quar- est industrial gas complex to also expect more easing. policy again. outside regular meetings since and inflation across all emerging ters, unchanged from where it is supply 75,000 metric tons per But the polls there showed only The People’s Bank of China will January, will probably do so once Asian economies, and even Japan, currently and implying growth day (20,000 oxygen and 55,000 modest upgrades to growth esti- probably loosen policy most in more ahead of its June meeting have been downgraded from a will stay stuck at a six-year low nitrogen) to Saudi Aramco’s mates and a still depressed out- the region and is expected to cut and lower its benchmark repo survey three months ago. for a long time. refinery being built in Jazan, look on inflation. Twenty-seven both of its two key interest rates rate again before the end of this That suggests further stimulus REUTERS Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The industrial gas complex will be designed and built by Air Products using its proprietary technology. Teddy bear trade show Once built, this facility will be owned by a JV of Air Products (25 percent) Germany to review jobs and ACWA Holding (75 percent). “We at Air Products are very excited about being awarded this very significant project. We con- impact of coal levy sider it an honor and a privilege to use our proprietary technology to BERLIN: Germany will make commissioned a review into the design and build the world’s larg- no decision on a proposed coal impact of the proposals on elec- est industrial gas complex for an levy before a review is con- tricity prices, CO2 emissions tar- outstanding client and the larg- ducted regarding possible gets as well as on the operations est company in the world, Saudi job losses, Economy Minister of power stations and mines. Aramco. We are very pleased that Sigmar Gabriel has told energy “Should this in fact confirm the Saudi Aramco trusts Air Products unions in a letter yesterday. misgivings expressed by IG BCE and our partner ACWA Holding Germany is looking to safe- and Verdi of an industry melt- to economically and reliably sup- guard its energy supply while down with a considerable loss of ply the critical gases needed for reducing its C02 emissions by jobs, then the Economy Ministry its refinery in Jazan,” said Seifi 40 percent by 2020 and exiting will of course change its propos- Ghasemi, chairman, president nuclear power two years after als to achieve its climate targets,” and chief executive officer at Air that. Gabriel said. Products. “This award also dem- The government has proposed In the letter, Gabriel stressed onstrates the value of our out- penalties for the oldest and most he was open to alternative sug- standing relationship with our polluting coal-fired power plants gestions on how to achieve partner in ACWA Holding, who to help cut emissions. Germany’s climate goals while has worked so closely with us to But energy companies and protecting jobs and called for a develop this great project.” A Japanese exhibitor holds a teddy in USA flag colours at the teddy bear trade show in Muenster, Germany, German states fear the meas- constructive dialogue. THE PENINSULA yesterday. Three hundred exhibitors from 25 countries will appear at ‘Teddybaer Total’, one of the largest ure will damage coal generation In a sign it was open to com- shows of its kind. and cost jobs. Mining unions promise, Rainer Baake, state sec- plan mass demonstrations on retary for energy in the Economy Saturday in Berlin against the Ministry, proposed linking the proposed coal levy, which union levy on C02 produced by coal IG BCE says could put 100,000 plants above a certain level to the jobs at risk. electricity price. Avaya receives awards for innovation Germany’s largest power pro- Under this scenario, the levy ducer, RWE, and other energy would increase when the elec- DOHA: In the first quarter of Avaya was voted by Network offering with iconic GCC cus- East magazine voted the Avaya groups have said the levy would tricity price is high and fall when 2015, Avaya brought home two World readers as the Middle tomers such as Dubai World Connect channel programme lead to the immediate closure of the electricity price sinks below a prestigious awards from inde- East’s Networking Vendor of Trade Centre, Mall of Qatar, Dr as the recipient of the Vendor RWE’s lignite-fired power plants. level of 40-42 euros per megawatt pendent industry organisations. the Year, representing industry Suleiman Habib Medical Group, Channel Programme of the Year. “We need certainty about the hour, he said. The company was recognised acknowledgement of Avaya inno- as well as a number of govern- This programme provides Avaya numbers and consequences,” Sources said yesterday that for its contribution towards vation and the recent launch of ment departments and entities channel partners with the tools, Gabriel said in the letter to IG Swedish utility Vattenfall was transforming customer net- the Avaya Fabric Networking across the region. skills and facilities required to BCE and another union Verdi facing delays in its planned sale works around the GCC, and for technology, Avaya SDN Fx. Representing the regional build inroads into the attractive dated April 24. “Nothing will be of brown coal assets in Germany its innovative channel enable- The award follows the success- channel and partner commu- mid-market sector. decided prior to that.” due to concerns over the levy. ment programme. ful implementation of this new nity, readers of Channel Middle THE PENINSULA Gabriel said he had REUTERS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com CLASSIFIEDS

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NEW YORK: Tyler Johnson’s Colin Wilson and Forsberg fol- second goal of the game 2:25 lowed with goals to give Nashville into overtime completed Tampa control and help them cut their inch closer to series win Bay’s comeback from a two-goal series deficit to 3-2. deficit against Detroit and tied Forsberg added a late goal and their Eastern Conference first- also scored in the first for a mem- James scores 31 points in 3rd straight victory over Celtics round play-off series at two orable night. games all. Chicago goaltender Scott Johnson also had an assist Darling, who has been the series’ LOS ANGELES: LeBron win against the Milwaukee Bucks. while Ondrej Palat had a goal story after replacing ineffective James’ Cleveland Cavaliers The Golden State Warriors also and a helper and goaltender Ben starter Corey Crawford in Game moved to within one win of took a 3-0 series lead as they over- Bishop stopped 22 shots. One and winning Games Three advancing to the second round came a 20 point fourth-quarter The Red Wings held a 2-0 lead and Four, made 24 saves in his of the NBA play-offs with a deficit to beat the New Orleans deep into the third period but first postseason loss. 103-95 victory over the Boston Pelicans 123-119 in overtime. let it slip away as the Lightning Canucks 2, Flames 1 Celtics on Thursday. Kevin Love, who is playing in scored twice in a span of about a Daniel Sedin scored the go- James finished with 31 points his first career post-season, had minute. ahead goal early in the third and 11 rebounds for the second his best game of the series so far Gustav Nyquist and Joakim period as the Vancouver Canucks seeded Cavaliers, who took a 3-0 for Cleveland. Andersson scored for Detroit and used a win over the Calgary lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Love tallied 23 points and Petr Mrazek stopped 26 shots. Flames to stay alive in their first- Conference series. No NBA team nine rebounds and hit a couple Capitals 5, Islanders 1 round series. has ever lost a series after win- of key three pointers late in the Rookie centre Evgeny The Flames still lead the best- ning the first three contests. contest. He made a half a dozen Kuznetsov scored two goals and of-seven series 3-2 with Game “I just try to do a little bit three-pointers, including two in assisted on another to lead the Six to be played Saturday night of everything,” James said. the final two and a half minutes, Capitals to a 5-1 win over the New in Calgary. “Whatever it takes for my team as the Celtics attempted to claw York Islanders that gave them a Nick Bonino also scored for to win. I want to be part of it.” their way back into the game. 3-2 advantage in their first round Vancouver, who trailed 1-0 after In the other East game on Love had 12 points in the first playoff series. the first period. AGENCIES Thursday, Derrick Rose scored a half after scoring 13 in game two, Karl Alzner, Brooks Laich and season-high 34 points with eight which the Cavs won 99-91. Jason Chimera also scored for the assists and five rebounds and help “Kevin has been great overall,” Capitals, who can clinch the best- NHL Play-offs the Chicago Bulls take a 3-0 lead said Cleveland coach David Blatt. of-seven series with a victory on with a 113-106 double-overtime “He didn’t score as much in the Saturday in New York. Quarter-finals 1 2 3 OT T second game as he did tonight, Josh Bailey scored the only Play-offs 1st but he’s been engaged. I haven’t goal for the Isles, who are look- Detroit 0 2 0 0 2 seen any nervousness and discom- ing to stay alive in their final Tampa Bay 0 0 2 1 3 Round Results fort since the series began.” season playing at the 43-year-old (The best-of-seven series is level at 2-2) 1 2 3 4 T JR Smith scored 15 points, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James reacts after a three pointer by Coliseum. 1 2 3 T Kyrie Irving scored 13 and Tristan After three straight one-goal Cleveland 31 25 28 19 103 a team-mate late in the fourth quarter of game three of their NBA Eastern Washington 1 1 3 5 Thompson had 12 in the victory. games, the Capitals dominated Conference first round game at the TD Garden in Boston on Thursday. NY Islanders 1 0 0 1 Boston 25 23 28 19 95 Evan Turner paced the Celtics’ Game 5, scoring five unanswered (Cleveland lead the best-of-seven series by 3-0) attack with 19 points while goals after giving up the first. (Washington lead the best-of-seven series 1 2 3 4 OT OT2 T Avery Bradley scored 18 and Jae Cavaliers, history will be on the is pushing us. That’s why you Predators 5, Blackhawks 2 by 3-2) Chicago 27 22 25 21 6 12 113 Crowder came off the bench to Bulls’ side in game four. Rose, who gotta love the play-offs because Filip Forsberg netted a hat-rick 1 2 3 T Milwaukee 27 26 18 24 6 5 106 score 16. was held scoreless in the first half every game is different.” and Nashville scored three goals Chicago 1 0 1 2 (Chicago lead the best-of-seven series by 3-0) The Cavaliers can close out the of game two and finished with 15 Jimmy Butler scored 24 points in a 2:27 span early in the third Nashville 1 0 4 5 series sweep against the seventh- points, led a 12-0 run to open the and Pau Gasol finished with period to stave off elimination 1 2 3 4 OT T (Chicago lead the best-of-seven series by 3-2) seeded Celtics with another win second overtime period. 17 points, 14 rebounds and five in Game Five of their Western 1 2 3 T Golden State 25 27 17 39 15 123 on Sunday in Boston. “It’s an honour to even be in assists for Chicago, which squan- Conference first round series with Calgary 1 0 0 1 New Orleans 26 37 26 19 11 119 The winner of this series the play-offs, let alone be up 3-0,” dered a 10-point lead in the final the Chicago Blackhawks. (Golden State lead the best-of-seven series by advances to play either the Rose said. “We’re playing against three minutes of regulation before James Neal broke a 1-1 tie 47 Vancouver 0 1 1 2 3-0) Bulls or the Bucks. Just like the a hungry team, a young team that battling for the win. AFP seconds into the final period, and (Calgary lead the best-of-seven series by 3-2)

Woods confirms Nishikori enters Players Mets claim record-tying triumph Barcelona Open NEW YORK: New York won Championship a franchise record-tying 11th semi-finals game in a row as second base- Los Angeles participation man Daniel Murphy had four Dodgers’ third BARCELONA: Reigning RBIs in support of 41-year-old baseman Alex champion Kei Nishikori moved LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods right-hander Bartolo Colon in into the semi-finals of the Guerrero (right) will tee off at the Players the victory over Atlanta at their Barcelona Open with 6-2, 3-6, is greeted by Championship next month, the Citi Field home. 6-1 win over Spaniard Roberto 14-time major champion con- The Mets, who previously won third base Bautista Agut yesterday. firmed yesterday. 11 straight in 1990, improved to a coach Lorenzo The Japanese is the heavy The former world number one, Major League Baseball best 13-3. Bundy after favourite to retain his title after who came back from a two-month “I feel like in each ball game, hitting a solo Rafael Nadal’s shock defeat to layoff to finish equal 17th at the no matter what happens, I feel home run Fabio Fognini on Thursday and Masters, hasn’t played the US like somebody’s going to come against the impressively romped through the PGA Tour’s flagship event on the through, and it’s a really cool feel- San Francisco deciding set after being forced Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass ing to have,” said Murphy. Giants in the all the way for the first time this since he won it in 2013. Colon became the fourth second inning week. “Looking forward to going back pitcher 40 years or older in 80 of their MLB Nishikori eased through the to THE PLAYERS this year, hop- years – following 300-game win- baseball game first set after breaking in the ing for a repeat of 2013,” Woods ners Phil Niekro, Nolan Ryan and at AT&T Park first game, but Bautista Agut said on Twitter. Roger Clemens -- to win his first on Thursday. responded by breaking for 4-2 Woods displayed a solid short four starts of the season. in the second and held off three game at Augusta National, but The Dominican allowed three break points to serve out for the had some trouble off the tee. He runs on seven hits in six innings. set. found only two of 14 fairways in The world number five upped the final round. Baseball Results Cardinals 4, Nationals 1 Marlins 9, Phillies 0 a come from behind home vic- his game in the third, though, as He said at Augusta that he Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 4 First baseman Matt Adams’ Miami broke it open with four tory. Polanco, the Pirates’ centre the depth and power of his ground would take a bit more time away Miami 9 Philadelphia 1 sixth-inning RBI single proved runs each in the fourth and sixth fielder, drove in the go-ahead run strokes forced Bautista Agut from competition and “go back to to be the difference Thursday in innings to cruise to its biggest vic- in the seventh inning after third onto the back foot as Nishikori NY Yankees 2 Detroit 1 the drawing board”. a pitchers’ duel as St Louis beat tory margin of the season. baseman Josh Harrison doubled cruised through the final five Woods had opted to step away NY Mets 6 Atlanta 3 Washington in the rubber game of The visitors ended Phillies and pinch-hitter Corey Hart was games to take his place in the last from competition and focus on Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 2 a closely contested series. starter Dustin McGowan’s day intentionally walked. four where he will meet Tommy practice in February after a rough Colorado 2 San Diego 1 Brewers 4, Reds 2 with a one-out, two-run single by Rockies 2, Padres 1 Robredo or Martin Klizan. start to the season. San Francisco 3 LA Dodgers 2 Jean Segura drove in the go- shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria in Colorado parlayed a strong “In the second set he started He shot a career-worst 82 at St Louis 4 Washington 1 ahead run in the seventh inning the fourth and tacked on two runs start by Jordan Lyles and another to play well and I had to raise my the Phoenix Open, and withdrew LA Angels 2 Oakland 0 and Ryan Braun scored an insur- later in the inning on a single by home run by Corey Dickerson level a little bit,” said Nishikori after 11 holes at Torrey Pines with ance run on an eighth-inning wild third baseman Martin Prado. into a split of the four-game series after the win. Toronto 7 Baltimore 6 a sore back. pitch as Milwaukee snapped an Pirates 5, Cubs 4 at Coors Field as San Diego lost “I concentrated really well in He had another setback at the Tampa Bay 2 Boston 1 eight-game losing streak in the Gregory Polanco drove in a back-to-back games for the first the third set, got ahead early and Masters, where he hurt his right Kansas City 3 C White Sox 2 competition. pair of runs lead Pittsburgh to time this season. AGENCIES came through really strong in the wrist when he connected with a end.” AFP tree root while hitting a shot in the final round. However, his build-up to the US Open in June appears to be coming together. The US Open will be held Promoters put weigh-in tickets on sale June 18-21 at Chambers Bay in Washington state. AFP LOS ANGELES: Promoters Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum a long way towards determin- priced as high as $7,500 with the of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd said the money from the sale of ing who is the greatest fighter of cheapest going for $1,500. Swinging Skirts Mayweather mega fight have weigh-in tickets will to charity. their era. The release of fight night tick- taken the unusual step of charg- “The charge of $10 for the Both fighters are expected to ets comes just nine days before Classic Scores ing for the weigh-in after a lim- weigh-in will benefit two great make well over $100m from the the May 2 fight after their dis- ited number of tickets for the charities. All proceeds will go welterweight unification bout tribution was held up for weeks 67 Lydia Ko (NZL) fight were snapped up almost right to them. This is a win-win with 60 percent of the purse going because of a contract dispute 68 Juli Inkster, Ha Na Jang (KOR), P.K. immediately on Thursday. situation for all,” said Arum. to Mayweather and Pacquiao col- between Pacquiao’s camp, Kongkraphan (THA) Tickets for the May 1 weigh-in, Under Arizona law, weigh-ins lecting the other 40 percent. Mayweather Promotions and the also at the Grand Garden Arena are supposed to be free to the A very limited number of tick- MGM Hotel. 69 Morgan Pressel, Na Yeon Choi (KOR), Stacy Lewis, Caroline Hedwall (SWE) inside the MGM Hotel in Las public. But promoters are hoping ets for the richest fight in boxing WBC and World Boxing Vegas, will go on sale and cost that by charging $10 they will dis- history went on sale on Thursday Association welterweight cham- Japanese player Kei Nishikori 70 Julieta Granada (PAR), Pornanong $10 each. courage thousands of boxing fans and sold out quickly. The Los pion Mayweather and Filipino returns the ball to Spaniard Phatlum (THA), Shanshan Feng (CHN), “The weigh-in is always the from camping out overnight at Angeles Times reported that just superstar Pacquiao agreed to the Roberto Bautista during their Anna Nordqvist (SWE), Tiffany Joh, grand finale of fight week activi- the MGM to try and snag a ticket. 500 tickets in the 16,800 seat fight in February after years of Chella Choi (KOR), Moriya Jutanugarn quarter-final match for the Conde ties,” said Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather against Pacquiao arena were made available to the on and off again speculation over Godo tennis tournament, in (THA), Yueer Feng (CHN), Brooke chief executive of Mayweather is the biggest boxing spectacle general public. whether the two future hall of Barcelona, yesterday. Henderson, Andrea Lee Promotions. in recent memory and it will go The tickets for the public were famers would ever meet. AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Al Rayyan, El Jaish earn wins at Qatar Basketball Cup

Action from the Qatar Basketball Cup match between Al Rayyan and Al Gharafa at the Al Gharafa Sports Club yesterday. Al Rayyan defeated their opponents 89-83 following tough fight throughout the match. In other match, El Jaish earned winning points after overcoming Al Arabi 86-73.

Scoreboard

West Indies (I innings): ...... 299 England (I innings): Bangladesh register first A Cook b Gabriel ...... 76 J Trott c Blackwood b Bishoo ...... 59 G Ballance b Samuels ...... 77 I Bell b Gabriel ...... 1 J Root (not out) ...... 182 M Ali (run out-Blackwood, Ramdin) ...... 0 B Stokes c Blackwood b Bishoo ...... 8 T20 victory over Pakistan J Buttler st Ramdin b Bishoo ...... 13 C Jordan (run out-Holder, Ramdin) ...... 16 S Broad c De Smith b Bishoo ...... 0 J Anderson (run out-Gabriel, Holder) ...... 2 Shakib, Rahman smash half-centuries in seven-wicket rout Extras (b-9 lb-2 nb-18 w-1) ...... 30 Total (all out) ...... 464 Fall of wickets: 1-125, 2-159, 3-164, DHAKA: Pakistan’s miserable 4-329, 5-335, 6-364, 7-387, 8-426, tour of Bangladesh continued as Scoreboard 9-431,10-464. the hosts recorded their first- PAKISTAN Bowling: K Roach 28-4-100-0 (nb-5); S ever Twenty20 win over the Mukhtar Ahmed st Rahim b Sunny ...... 37 Gabriel 22-3-67-2 (nb-6, w-1); J Holder rivals with a seven-wicket romp Ahmed Shehzad c Mashrafe b Taskin ...... 17 21.1-6-57-0 (nb-1); D Bishoo 51-10-177-4 in Dhaka yesterday. Bangladesh Shahid Afridi c Rahim b Mustafizur ...... 12 (nb-2); M Samuels 21-4-38-1; J Blackwood Debutant seamer Mustafizur captain Haris Sohail (not out) ...... 30 1-0-14-0. Rahman took two for 20 in four Mashrafe Bin Mohammad Hafeez lbw Mustafizur ...... 26 West Indies (II innings): overs as Pakistan, electing to Mortaza (right) Sohail Tanveer (run out) ...... 8 K Brathwaite (battimg) ...... 68 bat after winning the toss, were receives the Extras (B-2, LB-5, W-4) ...... 11 De Smith b Anderson ...... 2 restricted to 141 for five at the Total (for 5 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 141 trophy from Da Bravo (batting) ...... 47 Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. Fall of wickets: 1-50, 2-64, 3-77, 4-126, Bangladesh Extras (b-4 lb-1) ...... 5 Shakib Al Hasan and Sabbir 5-141. Prime Minister Total (for 1 wkt) ...... 122 Rahman then plundered unbeaten Bowling: Mustafizur 4-0-20-2 (2w); Shakib Sheikh Hasina To bat: M Samuels, S Chanderpaul, J Black- half-centuries as Bangladesh, 4-0-17-0; Mashrafe 4-0-29-0; Sunny 2-0- during the wood, D Ramdin, K Roach, J Holder, S Gabriel, cheered from the stands by Prime 23-1 (1w); Taskin 4-0-29-1; Nasir 2-0-16-0 presentation D Bishoo. Minister Sheikh Hasina, sur- (1w). ceremony of Fall of wicket: 1-3. passed the target in the 17th over. BANGLADESH the T20 match Bowling: J Anderson 7-2-13-1; S Broad Shakib hit an unbeaten 57 off Tamim Iqbal c Hafeez b Gul ...... 14 against Pakistan 7-1-17-0; M Ali 12-4-34-0; C Jordan 7-3- 41 balls and Sabbir made 51 not Soumya Sarkar (run out) ...... 0 at the Sher-e- 23-0; B Stokes 4-0-27-0; J Root 2-1-3-0. out to build on their team’s 3-0 Shakib Al Hasan (not out) ...... 57 whitewash of Pakistan in the pre- Bangla National Mushfiqur Rahim b Wahab ...... 19 Cricket Stadium ceding one-day series. Sabbir Rahman (not out) ...... 51 The pair put on 105 runs for the in Dhaka, Brathwaite, Extras (LB-1, W-1) ...... 2 yesterday. fourth wicket after Bangladesh Total (for 3 wkts in 16.2 overs) ...... 143 appeared to be in a spot of bother Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-17, 3-38. Bravo lead at 38 for three in the sixth over. Bowling: Hafeez 1-0-14-0; Tanvir 3-0-16-0 Bangladesh, who had lost (1w); Gul 2-0-23-1; Ajmal 3.2-0-25-0; Wa- both their previous Twenty20 hab 4-0-39-1; Afridi 3-0-25-0. internationals against Pakistan, West Indies turned the tables with a dominant performance. Pakistan’s debutant Mukhtar Afridi was unlucky to be given out adding 49 for the fourth wicket. hammered the Pakistan bowlers fightback Mustafizur, the 19-year-old left- Ahmed top-scored with 37 off caught behind for 12 when replays Bangladesh lost three wick- to all parts of the ground, sig- armer, showed no signs of nerves 30 balls and left-hander Haris showed the ball missing the edge ets cheaply, including the vital nalling out left-arm fast bowler as he grabbed the key wickets of Sohail made an unbeaten 30, but of the bat. one of Tamin Iqbal, who had hit Wahab Riaz, who went for 39 runs ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: skipper Shahid Afridi and senior the tourists struggled to tame the Pakistan were 77 for three two consecutive centuries in the in his four overs. Kraigg Brathwaite (68) and all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez bowling. Opener Ahmed Shehzad in 12.1 overs before Sohail and one-dayers. The teams begin a two-Test Darren Bravo (47) shared an during a tidy spell. plodded to 17 from 31 balls and Hafeez (26) boosted the total by But Shakib and Sabbir series from Tuesday. AFP unbeaten century stand for the second wicket as West Indies reached 122 for the loss of one wicket at tea on the fourth day of the second Test against RCB thrash Rajasthan Royals by 9 wickets England yesterday. West Indies trail by 43 runs AHMEDABAD: An over- with nine second-innings wick- all sturdy team performance Scoreboard ets in hand. from the Royal Challengers RAJASTHAN ROYALS Bowling: M A Starc 4-0-22-3 (2w); Iqbal Ab- After England were bowled Bangalore (RCB) helped them A M Rahane lbw Patel ...... 18 dulla 4-0-28-1 (1w); H V Patel 4-0-23-2; Y S out earlier for 464, with Joe Root beat table-toppers Rajasthan S R Watson c Starc b Chahal ...... 26 Chahal 3.1-0-25-2; D Wiese 4-0-27-0; V Kohli compiling a sparkling unbeaten Royals by nine wickets in an 182, the pressure was on the hosts Royal S P D Smith c Karthik b Starc ...... 31 0.5-0-4-0. Indian Premier League (IPL) K K Nair (run out-Patel/Kohli) ...... 16 ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE and they suffered a blow before Challengers match at the Sardar Patel D J Hooda b Iqbal Abdulla ...... 1 C H Gayle c Samson b Watson ...... 20 lunch when they lost opener Bangalore Stadium yesterday. S V Samson b Chahal 4 V Kohli (not out) ...... 62 Devon Smith for two. captain Chasing a meagre target of 131, S T R Binny c Wiese b Starc ...... 20 A B de Villiers (not out)...... 47 Smith tried to leave a James Virat Kohli the Royal Challengers reached J P Faulkner c Karthik b Patel ...... 4 Extras (LB-5) ...... 5 Anderson delivery but dragged celebrates home with nine wickets in hand C H Morris (not out) ...... 3 Total (for 1 wkt in 16.1 overs) ...... 134 an inside edge on to the stumps. the wicket and 3.5 overs to spare with skip- D S Kulkarni b Starc ...... 1 Fall of wicket: 1-36. Brathwaite and Bravo then of Rajasthan per Virat Kohli (62 not out) scor- P V Tambe (not out) ...... 2 Bowling: C H Morris 3-0-23-0; D S Kulkarni took control, playing positive Royals player ing an unbeaten half-century. Extras (LB-1, W-3) ...... 4 4-0-26-0; S R Watson 3-0-23-1; J P Faulkner cricket, scoring at 3.27 runs per Karun Nair It was a steady chase from Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 130 2-0-17-0; P V Tambe 4-0-36-0; D J Hooda over and taking advantage of a during match the visitors with Kohli hitting Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-46, 3-72, 4-84, 5-89, 0.1-0-4-0. placid track. three sixes and one boundary in Earlier, Root was left frustrated 22 of the IPL 6-119, 7-121, 8-126, 9-127. Player-of-the-Match: his 45-ball innings. He was well when last man James Anderson 2015 at the supported by big-hitting AB de was run out for two, leaving him Sardar Patel Villiers (47 not out), who together small target to defend. Earlier, a Australian Starc was backed by 18 short of a double century. Stadium in put up an unbeaten 98-run stand strict bowling performance from medio Harshal Patel (2/23) and England started the day on 373 Ahmedabad, for the second wicket. the Royals Challengers helped leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for six with Root on 118 but he India, Earlier, explosive left-handed them restrict the Royals to only (2/25), who picked up two wick- quickly lost Jos Buttler for 13. yesterday. opener Chris Gayle had scored 20 130/9 from 20 overs. ets each. Root took the attack to the before he was caught behind in Kohli opted to field and utilised No Royals batsman got going West Indies bowlers, producing the fifth over. his bowlers to the optimum. which resulted in the paltry total. some fine aggressive strokes but Royals skipper Shane Watson Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc Steven Smith (31), Watson (26) he eventually ran out of partners. was the only wicket-taking bowler, was the pick of the bowlers with and all-rounder Stuart Binny (20) The first Test in the three- clinching the West Indian’s wicket three wickets, giving away only 22 got starts but none were able to match series was ended in a draw. as his bowlers were left with a runs from his four overs. propel the run rate. AGENCIES REUTERS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Rafael adds Al Rayyan thrash Al Markhiya to United’s injury woes

LONDON: Manchester United have suffered yet another as Emir Cup kicks off in style defensive injury with right-back Rafael da Silva ruled out for the rest of the season after break- Tabata, Ismail shine in 5-0 victory; Mesaimeer edge out Muaither 2-1 ing his ribs. Manager Louis van Gaal told MUTV that the Brazilian suf- DOHA: Football giants Al fered the injury in an U-21 match Rayyan yesterday celebrated against Leicester this week. their ascent to Qatar Stars United, who lie in third place, League (QSL) by crushing a point behind Arsenal and one Markhiya 5-0 in their opening ahead of neighbours Manchester Emir Cup clash. City, do have centre-back Jonny Al Rayyan were demoted to Evans available again after a six- the Second Division at the end match ban for Premier League of the 2013-14 season but won a match at Everton. promotion when they topped the But Michael Carrick, Phil Qatargas League last week. Jones and Marcos Rojo remain Yesterday’s 5-0 win was easily sidelined. managed when Brazilian striker Striker Robin van Persie, who Rodrigo Tabata fired two goals has not played since February, while Ahmed Ismail also chipped was a substitute in last Saturday’s in with a brace. defeat by leaders Chelsea, but he Ukrainian Marko Devic scored has been told he must work to get the fifth goal at Grand Hamad his place back. Stadium. “He has to train very hard, play The Emir Cup will be played in in the second team,” Van Gaal told four phases. a news conference yesterday. The next phase will start on “He has to show his qualities April 28 when four matches will again. Then I have to compare be played at Al Arabi Stadium him with the positions he can and Qatar SC’s home turf. play, with the players that play in Meanwhile, in other match that position.” of the opening day, Mesaimeer After a difficult start to his first edged out Muaither 2-1 following season at the club, the manager a thrilling battle. is pleased with United’s recent As many as 18 first and second form, although he told reporters division teams are taking part he would never be satisfied with in the tournament. Abdullah Bin the minor placing. Khalifa Stadium at Lekhwiya “I’m always in a club to win the Club; Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium championship, not fourth or third at Al Sadd Sports Club and Thani position,” he said. Bin Jassim Stadium will also play “When we achieve our goal, my host to event’s matches. board and my owners will be very THE PENINSULA happy. “The result was the only thing Emir Cup Results Al Rayyan’s players celebrate a goal against Al Markhiya during the opening that was not going in my way, and of course finishing the chances,” Al Rayyan bt Markhiya 5-0 match of the Emir Cup at Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha. RIGHT: Al Rayyan and Al Markhiya players fight for the ball possession. PICS: BAHER AMIN he added of the 1-0 defeat at Mesaimeer bt Muaither 2-1 Chelsea, when United had 70 per cent of the possession. “That is what counts it football. I think is not only performance Guardiola to return to Barca but result that counts.” The Dutchman refused to comment on strong specula- tion about United signing PSV in Champions League semis Eindhoven’s winger Memphis Depay. REUTERS PARIS: Pep Guardiola will “We will face a legendary club, return to face his former club Semi-finals Draw I think it is good news for foot- Barcelona after the draw for the Barcelona vs Bayern Munich ball and the Champions League Glimpse of Champions League semi-finals First leg May 6, second leg May 12 that Juventus have returned to yesterday paired the Catalans Juventus vs Real Madrid this level and obviously it will be Premier League with Bayern Munich while hold- a very even tie,” said former Real First leg May 5, second leg May 13 ers Real Madrid were drawn player Emilio Butragueno, now against Juventus. until he attended Barcelona’s vic- the club’s Director of Institutional fires Indian Barcelona, who are in the last tory over Manchester City in the Relations. four for the seventh time in eight last 16 last month. His old side The 10-time European cham- seasons, will be at home to the are now coached by Luis Enrique, pions beat city rivals Atletico teenager Bundesliga side in the first leg on alongside whom he played at Madrid in a tense quarter-final May 5 or 6 with the return at the Barcelona in the 1990s. despite being without the injured LONDON: A 15-year-old from Allianz Arena the following week. “It is a special game because Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and India was given a taste of the Guardiola won the European Pep is on the other side. It will be Karim Benzema, although coach Premier League lifestyle after Cup as a player with Barcelona the first time that he has faced Carlo Ancelotti is confident that winning a competition to train in 1992 and then won 14 trophies his Barca, it will be the first time at least the latter two will be fit with Crystal Palace’s Academy. in four seasons as coach, including that I have faced him as a coach in time for the semi-finals. Dhruvmil Pandya from Mumbai the Champions League in 2009 which will be special for me, and I Italian Ancelotti played in the was identified as the outstanding and 2011. am sure it will be for my players,” last team to win the European talent among more than 350 teen- He had made way for Tito said Luis Enrique, who did not Cup in successive seasons, the AC agers who competed in the ‘Play Vilanova by the time Barca were seem too concerned about having Milan side of 1989 and 1990, and for Palace’ trials. destroyed 7-0 on aggregate by to play the first leg at home. coached Juventus between 1999 “There were so many good Bayern in the semi-finals in 2013, “We have played 10 games in and 2001. players, but once it got down to when the German giants went on the Champions League, and we Juventus are through to their the final eight I knew I was in to win the trophy. have won nine and lost one, play- first Champions League semi- with a chance,” Dhruvmil said. “Of course, only football can ing both home and away. We are final since losing on penalties to “This is a dream come true for write stories like this,” remarked going to try and win at home and Ancelotti’s Milan in the 2003 final me to travel to England and train Bayern’s sporting director away. It is another thing to actu- at Old Trafford. with the Crystal Palace Academy. Matthias Sammer. ally achieve it.” They are therefore the out- “I hope in a few years Indians “We know we’ll be facing a good Meanwhile, Madrid must go to siders in the last four, with will be playing in the Premier opponent. It’s a great situation to Italy for the first leg of their tie Barcelona, Bayern and Madrid League or at big European clubs.” be in and I’m looking forward to against Serie A leaders Juventus having racked up 13 semi-final Dhruvmil, who has recently it hugely. as they look to become the first appearances between them in been selected to represent the “Pep said ‘let’s go!’ when he club to retain the trophy in the the last six seasons and having Indian national U-17 team, met heard. Offensively, neither side Champions League era. won the Champions League four Palace manager Alan Pardew dur- has anything to hide, Barcelona The tie is a repeat of the 1998 times between them over the ing his time in London and also Bayern Munich’s head coach Pep Guardiola celebrates during the UEFA are super going forward and so final, which Madrid won 1-0 in same period. attended Academy classes and Champions League quarter-final second leg match against FC Porto at are Bayern.” Amsterdam, and the Spanish side This year’s final will be played took part in an Academy match Allianz Arena stadium in Munich, Germany, in this April 21, 2015 file photo. After leaving in 2012, Guardiola will be widely fancied to come out in Berlin on Saturday, June 6. against Millwall. did not go back to the Camp Nou on top on this occasion too. AFP The youngster also watched Palace’s Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion and was taken to Wembley to see Wenger hopes for lucky 13 as Chelsea eye title Aston Villa upset Liverpool in last Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final. Play for Palace was a partner- LONDON: Arsenal manager Victory tomorrow would leave Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are ship between Crystal Palace and Chelsea’s Cesc Arsene Wenger will hope to them needing three points from both back in training after injury Indian Super League club Mumbai Fabregas (centre) make it 13th time lucky against next Wednesday’s trip to Leicester lay-offs, but neither is ready to City FC. Premier League chief Jose Mourinho this weekend City, currently embroiled in a celebrates with return to first-team action. executive Richard Scudamore is as his side attempt to delay relegation battle, to claim a first his team-mates Chelsea, meanwhile, hope to be hoping to see Indian players break Chelsea’s coronation as Premier league crown since 2010. after scoring a goal able to call upon French striker into the English top flight. League champions. But while the championship against Schalke Loic Remy, who has missed their “The way football has taken off Wenger has never prevailed seems destined for Stamford 04 in their UEFA last two games due to a calf out there I am sure over the next against Mourinho in 12 attempts Bridge, Arsenal have drawn Champions League complaint. five to seven years players will and even if he redresses that sta- encouragement from a run of match at Stamford Diego Costa is likely to remain come through who will be good tistic at the Emirates Stadium nine consecutive wins, includ- Bridge in London, sidelined with a hamstring prob- enough to take their place in the tomorrow, it is unlikely to prevent ing an FA Cup semi-final defeat in this September lem, while veteran Didier Drogba Premier League,” Scudamore said. Chelsea from claiming the title. of Reading that took the holders 2014 file photo. has hurt his ankle. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Having recorded an efficient 1-0 into the final. Eden Hazard netted Chelsea’s became the first Indian footballer win over third-place Manchester Tomorrow’s derby will see winner against United – his to play for a top-tier European United last weekend, Chelsea are Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas hopes he will be spared a hostile when he comes to the Emirates 18th goal of the season – and club on Wednesday when he 10 points clear of Arsenal at the return to the club where he previ- reception. on Sunday to be respected like he is hotly tipped for honours in made his debut for Stabek FC top of the table with six games ously spent eight years – includ- “I want every player to be deserves,” said the Frenchman. Sunday’s Professional Footballers’ in a Norwegian Cup tie against remaining. ing three as captain – and Wenger respected, and Cesc Fabregas Midfielders Mikel Arteta and Association (PFA) awards. AFP Runar. REUTERS SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah receives the winner’s trophy from Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, QMMF President, after winning the cars category in the 2015 Sealine Cross-Country Rally that ended yesterday. RIGHT: Spain’s Marc Coma, who won the bikes class, receives his trophy.

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“It was a tough race, it was ‘Desert King’ Al Attiyah is really long, not like last year. We were leading from the beginning and it was a great week for us. We appealed against the decision in Abu Dhabi and we wait for the out- unstoppable on home soil come of that, but we will go to all the races in case we do not get the 60 points back for that.” Marc Coma corners glory in bike class; Rafal Sonik tops quads field Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah “I am happy. It was a tough race, one of the tough- SEALINE: Qatar’s Nasser est we do in the World Saleh Al Attiyah, Spain’s Marc Championship. We had a Coma and Poland’s Rafal Sonik high rhythm all rally and all each confirmed their third vic- tories at the Sealine Cross- the guys pushed very hard. It was a nice fight. We have Country Rally in four years in The top three started the season well, with the car, motorcycle and quad pairs in the cars categories yesterday. category at the the Dakar and Abu Dhabi Victories on the final stage of prize distribution and now Qatar. Here, espe- the punishing five-day event fell near Sealine cially, it is a victory for the to Reinaldo Varela, Joan Barreda Beach Resort KTM team. We have the Bort and Mohammed Abu Issa, same goal, but one KTM is but there was no stopping the yesterday. Qatar’s winning and all the riders 2015 Dakar Rally winners, Al Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, Coma and Sonik, and Attiyah, Spain’s are working for that.” they each managed their pace Marc Coma Marc Coma to perfection over the closing and Poland’s 381.89km of competition to record Rafal Sonik “I feel really good about my victories by the respective mar- confirmed their job and my navigation. But gins of 27min 53sec, 4min 40sec third victories I finish second with a really and 8hr 06min 06sec. at the Sealine good race. Something is Al Attiyah won three of the five Cross-Country wrong, no? I think the rules stages in the car category and, Rally in the car, are complete stupid, because aside from a plethora of flat tyres, motorcycle and the Qatari continued his remark- you can decide the race here quad categories in the bivouac and this is not able run of victories this season. respectively. His exclusion from the Abu nice. But, after the mechani- Dhabi Desert Challenge aside, the cal problem on the Dakar Red Bull maestro has now won and Abu Dhabi, it’s a good five of his last six rallies on three feeling to be back.” continents in four different cham- Joan Barreda Bort pionships with French co-driver Matthieu Baumel. “It was a tough race, it was in the second of the Belgian-built his KTM team-mates Pablo 2015 Sealine Cross-Country Rally – positions in SS5 really long, not like last year,” Toyotas. Saudi Arabia’s Yazeed Quintanilla, Sam Sunderland and Cars said Al Attiyah. “We were lead- Al-Rajhi is one of the most Matthias Walkner finished fifth, 1. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) Overdrive Toyota Hilux 3hr 49min 56sec ing from the beginning and it was improved drivers in the world sixth and seventh overall. 2. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 52min 05sec a great week for us. We appealed this year but he lost his chance Barreda Bort said: “I feel really against the decision in Abu Dhabi of leaping into second position good about my job and my navi- 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing 3hr 54min 09sec and we wait for the outcome of in the championship standings gation. But I finish second with 4. Joan Roma (ESP)/Alex Haro (ESP) Mini All4 Racing 4hr 06min 56sec that, but we will go to all the races after he and German co-driver a really good race. Something is 5. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) H3 Evo 7 4hr 08min 55sec in case we do not get the 60 points Timo Gottschalk suffered a bro- wrong, no? I think the rules are Bikes back for that.” ken drive shaft with their Toyota complete stupid, because you can 1. Joan Barreda Bort (ESP) Honda CRF 450 Rally 4hr 07min 51sec Defending FIA World Cup Hilux over the final kilometres decide the race here in the biv- 2. Paulo Gonçalves (PRT) Honda CRF 450 Rally 4hr 09min 12sec champion, Vladimir Vasilyev, con- and got stuck in the sand dunes. ouac and this is not nice. But, 3. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 4hr 11min 08sec tinues to top the FIA World Cup Coma, riding for the Red Bull after the mechanical problem on 4. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 4hr 12min 52sec points’ standings after finishing KTM Factory Team, won only one the Dakar and Abu Dhabi, it’s a 5. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 Rally Replica 4hr 15min 15sec second overall in his X-raid Mini of the five stages, but the master good feeling to be back.” 6. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI) KTM 450 Rally Replica 4hr 16min 53sec All4 Racing. tactician coped with the intense The quad contest was settled Quads Brazilian Reinaldo Varela heat and remained focused for on Thursday afternoon when 12. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Honda TRX 680 5hr 42min 51sec finished third in an Overdrive the complex navigation to record Mohammed Abu Issa (pictured 14. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 6hr 02min 08sec Toyota Hilux, despite a total his second win in four weeks and left) struck a rock, his Honda Final positions after SS5 of nine punctures during the extend his advantage in the FIM TRX shed a wheel and he incurred Cars week, Czech privateer Miroslav Cross-Country Rallies World a fistful of time penalties. This 1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Mini All4 Racing 17hr 40min 05sec Zapletal was fourth and Poland’s Championship after two rounds. put daylight between him and Marek Dabrowski finished fifth “I am happy,” said Coma. “It the defending Dakar champion 2. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing 18hr 07min 58sec was a tough race, one of the Rafal Sonik and the Pole stayed 3. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) Overdrive Toyota Hilux 18hr 42min 00sec toughest we do in the World out of trouble over the closing 4. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) H3 Evo 7 19hr 39min 19sec Championship. We had a high kilometres to reach the finish 5. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor (POL) Overdrive Toyota Hilux 19hr 58min 50sec rhythm all rally and all the guys well clear of stage winner Abu 6. Adam Malysz (POL)/Rafal Marton (POL) Mini All4 Racing 20hr 13min 35sec pushed very hard. It was a nice Issa to claim the top spot in the 7. Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Arslan Sakhimov (KAZ) Hummer H3 Evo 20hr 49min 13sec fight. We have started the sea- FIM quad series points’ standings 8. Maxim Kirpliev (RUS)/Andrei Rudnutski (BLR) Toyota LC200 -T2 26hr 10min 40sec son well, with the Dakar and Abu after round two. Poland’s gritty 9. Kamat Shagirov (KAZ)/Alexandr Moroz (KAZ) Toyota Hilux 26hr 12min 08sec Dhabi and now Qatar. Here, espe- Kamil Wisniewski was third on 10. Eric Mozas (FRA)/Sébastien Delauney (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 – T3 26hr 19min 39sec cially, it is a victory for the KTM a Yamaha Raptor. Sonik even Bikes team. We have the same goal, but found time to stop and lend fuel 1. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 19hr 56min 48sec one KTM is winning and all the to another rider. 2. Joan Barreda Bort (ESP) Honda CRF 450 Rally 20hr 01min 28sec riders are working for that.” Eighth-placed Russian Maxim 3. Paulo Gonçalves (PRT) Honda CRF 450 Rally 20hr 03min 21sec Team HRC’s Joan Barreda Kirpliev claimed victory in the 4. Jordi Viladoms (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 20hr 14min 47sec Bort and Paulo Gonçalves started T2 category at the wheel of his 5. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI) KTM 450 Rally Replica 20hr 14min 48sec the final stage separated by just Toyota LC200. T3 glory fell to 6. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 Rally Replica 20hr 17min 58sec 32 seconds and second overall the 10th-placed Frenchman Eric swapped during the course of the Mozas in a Polaris RZR 1000. 7. Matthias Walkner (AUT) KTM 450 Rally Replica 21hr 37min 06sec last special. But Barreda Bort hit This year’s Sealine Cross- 8. Armand Monleón (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 22hr 39min 21sec back over the closing kilometres Country Rally was organised by 9. Jakub Piatek (POL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 23hr 51min 48sec to seal the stage win and ensure the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle 10. Mohammed Al-Balooshi (ARE) KTM 450 Rally Replica 23hr 57min 09sec that he finished 4min 40sec Federation (QMMF) with sup- Quads behind Coma. Gonçalves was third port from GAC and the Salam 11. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 24hr 40min 40sec overall, Spain’s Jordi Viladoms International Group. 14. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Honda TRX 680 32hr 46min 46sec was fourth by one second and THE PENINSULA 15. 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SEALINE, QATAR: Dakar Rally champion Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah yesterday said healthy time lead on the first three days set up his title win at this week’s Sealine Cross-Country Rally. The Qatari rallying star com- pleted a hat-trick of Sealine vic- tories alongside French co-driver Matthieu Baumel after claiming three of the five stages in the desert duel. Al Attiyah enjoyed a 4-minute 21-second lead one day one which was stretched to 13 minutes 4 sec- onds the next day. On day three, Al Attiyah and Baumel enjoyed a lead of 21 minutes 43 seconds. “We were leading from the beginning. The good lead on the first three days really set us up for this win,” Al Attiyah said at the post-race media chat yesterday. “After that we just tried to control the race. This was a long and difficult rally. You had to do a tough job to win,” the 44-year-old added. “I am so happy to win in Qatar but it was not easy on the tyres,” Al Attiyah said. “There were a lot of punctures. We had to really concentrate a lot on the track. On the last three stages we were doing 400 kms every day. It was not easy on any- one of us,” he added. Dakar Rally The Qatari - who won the champion Nasser Dakar Rally for the second time Saleh Al Attiyah in his career this January - was and French delighted with his performances in 2015. co-driver Matthieu “It has been a good start for Baumel tackle us this year - we won Dakar and a tough corner then this. Two different races,” Al during the last Attiyah said. “I am happy. I am day of the 2015 looking at next races. Matthieu Sealine Cross- did a good job. We always feel Country rally. good together. We understand LEFT: Al Attiyah each other. We were determined celebrates his to win,” Al Attiyah said. win. RIGHT: Marc Al Attiyah, who was driving Coma of Spain his Mini All4 Racing this week, inaction. said competing on home soil was a tough task. “Of course there is pressure (to win at home). You don’t want to make a mistake,” Al Attiyah said. “Everybody wants to see Nasser to win. I think we know many, “We have to keep working on it. Marc Coma, the five-time and obviously we are happy. It It is wide ground. You really can’t to push and some want to con- many things in Qatar. This was a We could put arrows (for direc- Dakar Rally champion in bikes, was important for us to win. We see the lines from other riders. tinue in the back of the group,” really nice win,” he added. tions that show what is at) 50 was thrilled with his third win on have started 2015 really well,” he This takes a lot of energy from Coma said when asked about the Al Attiyah said the Sealine meters right or 50 meters left. Qatari soil. added. “We had a good results your side. roles for each of the KTM riders Cross-Country Rally had become “Sometimes we are not sure. “It was a really tough race on in Abu Dhabi. We are not very “For most part of 200 kms it in Qatar. a major event on the international Sometimes we are not sure on the all the five days. There was plenty happy with all the rules changes. feels okay but after 400kms, it “Every morning and every calendar but there was room for exit for dunes or on cautions. This of sand and stones on the way. Maybe we could see some changes becomes difficult. I am happy stage, the situation is different improvement. could be done next year,” he said. The conditions were not easy,” in the future. because I had a lot of time (advan- and you can push to break the “This rally has taken big strides “Also we would like to see more Coma said yesterday. “Right now I am happy with tage) ahead of me. This gives me group. Here it is difficult because in the last three years. The road- competitors for this race (but) “We (KTM) worked very hard. the victory,” Coma, 38, said. confidence for the future,” he it is impossible to break five or six books, the cautions on track all this year it was really good,” he The team did a great job. We were “We know from the past that said. “It depends on each morning riders,” he added. are good,” Al Attiyah explained. said. working in the same directions navigation is always very difficult. when some (KTM) riders want THE PENINSULA Pressure on as Schumacher Jr begins F4 career Olympics: IOC chief’s visit BERLIN: Michael Schumacher’s 16-year-old son starts his Formula Four career this weekend under the pressure of living up to the famous family name of the seven-time Formula One world champion. After a successful karting career, Mick Schumacher Jr has fuels talk of Indian bid joined the Dutch Van Amersfoort Racing team in Europe’s ADAC Formula Four for the season which starts at the Motorsport Arena NEW DELHI: IOC supremo Randhir Singh, India’s only IOC bronze, leaving India 55th in the Singh, a former trap shooter Oschersleben between Hanover and Berlin. Thomas Bach will meet India’s member since 2001, said interest medal table. who represented India at five It will be a busy weekend for the young German after Friday’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bid would be welcomed by his Worse was to follow at the 2014 Olympics, predicted that Modi practice sessions with one race today and two tomorrow. on Monday amid growing expec- colleagues, while playing down Winter Games in Sochi, when and Bach would work well There will be a 38-strong field of teenage drivers all bidding to tations that one of the Olympics’ talk of 2024 as “wishful thinking”. competitors weren’t allowed to together. make their mark and dreaming of an F1 career over the eight-race perennial underachievers may “The IOC would love to see parade the Indian flag at the “One is a gold medal-winning season, held at tracks in Germany, Austria and Belgium and ending make its first bid to host the India host the Games,” Singh said opening ceremony after the fencer leading the Olympic move- in October. Games. in an interview. national Olympic association was ment with a new vision, the other As the reigning European karting champion, who came second at Even if hosting the Olympics in “Everything will depend on suspended for electing corrup- is a dynamic prime minister who the 2014 world championships, the young Schumacher has earned 2024 appears unlikely, observers how the talks between Modi and tion-tainted officials to key posts. wants to take the country to a the right to step up to F4, where the cars are 100kgs heavier and say Modi may sanction a bid for Bach go because ultimately it is The staging of the 2010 higher level,” Singh said. produce 130 more horse-power. But the teenager has to deal with further down the line, although he the government that has to make Commonwealth Games was Having hosted the the heavy weight of expectation not only from the media, but also will be anxious to avoid a repeat of a call. overshadowed by a string of Commonwealth Games so the eyes of the Formula One world. the embarrassing headlines that “But why not? If it is not 2024, corruption scandals and budget recently, Delhi can boast a “Of course, the public will be watching him, thanks to his father, accompanied the shambolic 2010 it could be 2028 or even 2032. overshoots that could damage number of top-notch sports facili- and that is a huge burden for him,” said Austrian F1 legend Niki Commonwealth Games in New There is more awareness when India’s hopes of being allowed to ties as well as a comprehensive Lauda. Delhi. you organise a Games. The inter- host a much bigger event like the metro system which is seen as a Alongside him in the Van Amersfoort team will be 16-year-old With Beijing having played host est grows, there is more sponsor- Olympics. crucial ingredient to a success- British driver Harrison Newey, son of Michael Schumacher’s long- in 2008 and Tokyo due to do the ship, there is benefit all round.” The Times of India reported last ful bid. time racing car designer Adrian Newey. honours for a second time in 2020, Despite being the world’s sec- month that Modi was “open to the With Tokyo due to host the But previous family success will count for little out on the track. there is a growing sense that an ond most populous nation, India idea of bidding for the Games” Games in 2020, Asia is seen as an “We are all pleased with how things are going. Mick makes few Indian bid to stage the world’s has a poor record in Olympic but wants “to know the costs, unlikely venue for the 2024 ver- errors,” the team’s managing director Rob Niessink told German biggest sporting competition is competition. financial implications and other sion. Paris, Rome and Boston are daily Bild. “The talent is there, the preparation is there, the intel- overdue. Shooter Abhinav Bindra, who details” to avoid a repeat of the all expected to throw their hats ligence is there. We are proud to have a big name race for us, but Speculation that Modi could won gold in 2008 in the 10-metre 2010 debacle. in the ring by the mid-September the name alone won’t bring us any points. approve a bid was fuelled by air rifle event, remains the coun- Modi’s election last year was deadline. “We’ll all have to work hard for those.” recent reports which said the try’s only individual champion, due in part to his reputation as But Prime Minister Modi, a With her client recovering from a head injury from a skiing acci- nationalist premier would raise while the last of India’s eight field a sound administrator during his fervent nationalist, knows that a dent in December 2013, Michael Schumacher’s manager Sabine the issue when he meets Bach, hockey titles came back in 1980. decade as chief minister of the successful bid for 2024 will ensure Kehm did her best to shield the teenager from the media’s intense the International Olympics The medal haul from the thriving state of Gujarat, and his him an even more prominent gaze during testing this month. REUTERS Committee (IOC) president, in London Games in 2012 was zero-tolerance approach towards position in India’s history books. Delhi. a meagre two silver and four corrupt officials. AFP SATURDAY 25 APRIL 2015 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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The Spinning Tops Betting hots up on Britain’s royal baby LONDON: Punters are plac- have brown trading at around ing all manner of wacky bets on 6/4, slightly ahead of blond at 7/4, Britain’s royal baby, chancing with black and the red locks of their cash on everything from William’s brother Prince Harry the name of the new prince or at around 5/1. Grey is available as princess to who gets their con- a 50/1 long shot. gratulations tweet in first. With a general election also due, With the baby due any day Ladbrokes make Prime Minister now, bookmakers are tak- David Cameron 5/2 favourite to be ing wagers on whether Prince the first party leader to tweet their William or his wife Kate will congratulations. Cameron is a 100/1 carry it out of the hospital, and rank outsider to be among the god- whether their first-born, toddler parents, where William’s cousins Prince George, will join them on Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie the maternity ward steps. are both 1/5 near-certainties with Bets are on too for the baby’s William Hill. weight, godparents and hair — Harry is 2/1 along with Kate’s and even the time it will be born. sister Pippa Middleton. Football Punters think the baby will be a icon David Beckham is 25/1. girl, with Alice the clear favourite Paddy Power have Virgin for the name — though bookmak- tycoon Richard Branson at 50/1 ers have been taking a late flurry and rocker Elton John at 100/1. of bets on James. Back in 2013, Kate emerged Bet365 has a baby girl at 1/2 A file picture taken on July 2, 2014 shows Prince William (left) and Catherine, from the hospital holding the new- — a two in three chance of occur- Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George during a visit to the Sensational born George, and she is 1/3 favour- ring, meaning a £2 bet would win Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. ite to do so again, with William 9/4. £1 plus the £2 stake back if the Paddy Power give odds of 1/4 that prediction proves right. A boy “I think people are just cov- “Elizabeth would a nice nod to one-year-old George will join them is 6/4. “The money has just been ering their bases,” said William the boss,” he added, referring to for the first photo that will flash relentless for a girl — nearly 90 Hill spokesman Joe Crilly. The William’s grandmother Queen round the world. percent of all bets,” Ladbrokes surge to back Alice has eclipsed Elizabeth II. However, the flood However, bookmakers cannot spokeswoman Jessica Bridge said. some boys’ names steeped in royal of bets on traditional royal girls’ agree on the colour of Kate’s dress Bookmakers William Hill have history. names is not stopping some from for the occasion. Labrokes favour Alice at 6/4, followed by Elizabeth “Our punters are convinced taking a long-range punt. pink at 4/1, Paddy Power yellow at and Charlotte as the next most it’s going to be a girl. In a two- “Elvis is the one that always 7/2 and Coral blue at 3/1. “Royal likely names at 11/2. Then comes horse race, that feels a bit crazy,” tickles me, people betting on a betting is fun because no-one really Victoria at 12/1, Alexandra and Paddy Power spokesman Rory Prince Elvis — very unlikely,” said knows, no-one really has an edge James at 14/1 and Diana, the name Scott said. “That means there’s Bridge. “Prince Wayne, Princess — unless you’re called Harry and A girl spins her companion inside one of the large-scale, interactive of William’s late mother, at 16/1. some very attractive prices for Chardonnay both at 500/1 -- I you’re a little bit ginger,” Scott said. design installations entitled ‘Los Trompos’ or ‘The Spinning Tops’, by The rush of bets on James, good royal boys’ names: James and think you’re best keeping your He added: “Someone phoned us Mexican designers Hector Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena on the Sifly pushing down the odds, could Arthur at 20/1, Henry and Philip money on those.” As for the baby’s up and said ‘I’m giving birth around Piazza at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, yesterday. The be punters learning their lesson at 33/1 is incredible value. weight, between seven and eight about the same time’; she wanted free installation runs through November 29, 2015 and will include from backing a girl’s name — “Alice has come out of nowhere, pounds (3.2 to 3.6 kilogrammes) is a price on their baby to marry the Alexandra — when George was from 33/1 to a ludicrous 6/4, which the favourite at around 6/4. second royal baby. The price was periodic performances. born in July 2013. I wouldn’t touch with a bargepole.” For hair colour, bookmakers exceedingly long.” AFP