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SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 6 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6559 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 $1.5bn Qatari Emir mourns death of Dubai Ruler’s son DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday a cable of con- aid for Syrians dolences to Vice-President of UAE H H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the Prime Minister of since uprising UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on the death of Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Al Rayyan model city 70pc complete Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani DOHA: Qatar has given $1.5bn in are putting their lives at risk in the and Prime Minister and aid to support displaced Syrians sea and on the roads and expos- Interior Minister H E Sheikh since the beginning of the con- ing themselves to mistreatment Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa flict in 2011 and is committed to is that there is no indication that Al Thani sent similar cables. continuing ts support, the coun- their suffering is going to end. In Sheikh Rashid suffered a try’s Permanent Representative addition to there is a shortage of heart attack yesterday morn- to the UN Office in Geneva humanitarian aid, said Al Henzab. ing. Dubai announced a three- Ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah Millions of Syrians are living in day mourning. Al Henzab said yesterday. besieged areas which is difficult to In Dubai, H E Sheikh Joaan Speaking in a high level meeting reach due to deteriorating secu- bin Hamad Al Thani conveyed in Geneva to discuss humanitar- rity situation and big hindrance to the condolences of H H the ian conditions in Syria, Al Henzab send humanitarian aid. They are Emir and H H the Deputy said Syrians are seeking refuge in forced to choose between life and Emir to Sheikh Mohammed bin Europe in large numbers because death rather than changing their Rashid Al Maktoum. He also they feel abandoned by the inter- lifestyle, said Al Henzab. offered condolences to members national community and have lost He said it is important to inten- of Dubai Ruling Family, praying hope about any improvement in sify efforts to provide humanitarian to Allah the Almighty to give their situation in the near future. aid. However, the humanitarian them solace and fortitude. The Qatari government, under work should go hand in hand with Sheikh Joaan earlier per- the directives of Emir H H Sheikh efforts to find a political solution to formed funeral prayer at H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani with UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has the crisis. More than ever in the Zabeel Mosque along with Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi strived to ease the difficult humani- past, the UN Security Council has members of the Ruling Family, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, in Dubai yesterday. tarian conditions that Syrian people been asked to shoulder its moral, ministers, senior officials and are struggling with, said Al Henzab. humanitarian and legal responsi- dignitaries in the UAE. eldest son of Sheikh Mohammed. is the Crown Prince of Dubai. UAE during the mourning period. The Qatari aid included food, bility to end the bloodshed in Syria, Sheikh Rashid was the Rashid’s brother Sheikh Hamdan flags will be flown at half-mast QNA/AGENCIES clothes, medicine and shelter among he added and urged donors to ful- other things. Qatar has also pro- fill their pledges as the situation vided assistance to Syrian refugees in Syria is expected to deteriorate stranded on European borders. with the onset of winter. In a international donors meet- Meanwhile, the Qatar Charity ing in Kuwait in April this year, said it has completed about 70 Office for exit permits, RP renewal at HIA Qatar announced establishment percent of its QR44m project to of a special fund for education of build a model city near the Syrian- DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has set up Abdullah Al Noaimi, officer of the Exit personal sponsorship, payment of fines related displaced Syrian children. Turkish border for displaced a new office at Hamad International Airport Permits Section at the Airport Immigration to passports and visas etc. Most recently, the Emir spon- Syrians. Dubbed Al Rayyan, the (HIA) for issuance of exit permits, renewal Department as saying. Al Noaimi urged the citizens and residents sored 100 displaced Syrian chil- project is expected to be com- of residence permits and other services. Maj Nasser Jaber Al Maliki, head of to utilize Metrash2, MoI web portal or service dren to study at the prestigious pleted in November. It comprises The office is located at the departures ter- the Travel Permits Section at the Airport kiosks available in shopping centres and min- Paris Sorbonne University. Syrian 1,000 residential units which can minal close to the luggage weighing counter. Passports Department said that three counters istries as well as service centres in all parts expatriates in Qatar are enjoying accommodate a total of 7,000 “Many people who are not aware of exit have been opened to ensure smooth service to of the state in to complete their transactions complete care and the country is people. It is being implemented permit issuance and expiry of residence the passengers, in addition to a special counter with the Ministry of Interior. He said most keen to provide with all the serv- in collaboration with two Turkish permits can approach the centre to com- for the officer in-charge. of the services provided by the Visas and ices and facilities, he added. humanitarian organisations. plete their procedures within few minutes in He said the office will work 24/7 to provide Travel Permits Department can be completed Al Henzab said the main rea- THE PENINSULA order to travel in the scheduled time itself,” services like issuance of exit permits, renewal through Metrash2 application and MoI web son why thousands of Syrian people Picture on page 6 a ministry statement quoted Ft Lt Sultan and cancellation of residence permit under portal, he added. THE PENINSULA

Akhlaghi wins gold at Losail Israeli aircraft strike Gaza Assad must go, asserts Kerry LONDON: US Secretary of for and we hope Russia and Iran, is ...that’s a decision that has to be after rocket fire State John Kerry said yeterday and any other countries with influ- made in the context of the Geneva that Syria’s President Bashar ence, will help to bring about that, process and negotiation.” GAZA: Israel carried out air Al Assad has to go but the tim- because that’s what is preventing Kerry added: “It doesn’t have strikes in the Gaza Strip yes- ing of his departure should be this crisis from ending,” said Kerry. to be on day one or month one ... terday after Palestinian mili- decided through negotiation. “We’re prepared to negotiate. there is a process by which all the tants there fired rockets into Speaking after talks with Is Assad prepared to negotiate, parties have to come together and southern Israel. The air strikes British Foreign Secretary Philip really negotiate? Is Russia pre- reach an understanding of how targeted two training camps Hammond in London, Kerry pared to bring him to the table?” this can best be achieved.” belonging to Hamas, causing no called on Russia and Iran to use Russia’s buildup at Syria’s Kerry said he did not have a spe- injuries, officials said. their influence over Assad to con- Latakia airbase has raised the cific time frame in mind for Assad Gaza militants fired at least vince him to negotiate a political possibility of air combat missions to stay. Hammond said Assad two rockets into Israel late on transition. in Syrian airspace. Heavy Russian could not be part of Syria’s long- Friday, Israeli military said. One Kerry said the United States equipment, including tanks, heli- term future “but the modality and struck the border town of Sderot, welcomed Russia’s involvement copters and naval infantry forces, timing has to be part of a political damaging a bus but causing no in tackling the Islamic State in have been moved to Latakia. Russia solution that allows us to move for- injuries. A second was shot down Syria but a worsening refugee cri- has also sent fighter jets to Syria, ward.” Hammond said the situation by a missile defence system. Mahbubeh Mohabatolla Akhlaghi (centre, top row), winner in the sis underscored the need to find a US officials said. in Syria was now more complicated A Palestinian group that sup- Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the Qatar Shooting and Archery compromise that could also lead Kerry said of Assad’s removal: with Russia’s increased military ports the Islamic State claimed Association Cup, poses for a picture with officials at Losail Shooting to political change in the country. “For the last year-and-a-half we involvement in the country. responsibility for one of the “We need to get to the negotia- have said Assad has to go, but REUTERS Complex yesterday. Aisha Yousef Al Suwaidi finished second, while rockets fired at Israel. No-one tion. That is what we’re looking how long and what the modality See also page 7 Aisha Ibrahim Al Mutawa took the bronze. See also page 27 claimed responsibility for the second rocket attack. The cross- border violence comes as tensions remain high in Jerusalem and the West Bank, where Israeli secu- rity forces and Palestinians have clashed over the past week. Coalition warplanes pound interior ministry in Sana’a In London, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged calm SANA’A: Aircraft from a a campaign to recapture Sana’a, strikes on several areas of Sana’a, Abdullah Saleh which had already received with deep regret yester- and called on all sides to exercise Saudi-led coalition attacked seized by Houthi fighters in the official Houthi controlled been destroyed in 2011, residents day’s news targeting the ambas- restraint amid violence in recent Yemen’s interior ministry in the September 2014. news agency said yesterday. said. Air raids also targeted the sador’s home in Sana’a, which is days around Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa capital, Sana’a, late on Friday Residents said about 10 air Hospitals lack the basic medi- Fulaihi area of Old Sana’a yes- a clear violation of international Mosque. Kerry said he had spo- and launched several other strikes were launched on the min- cines necessary for treating the terday, destroying several houses. charters and norms that empha- ken to Israeli Prime Minister raids on sites in the heart of the istry building in the north of the wounded and lack fuel to operate size the inviolability of diplomatic Benjamin Netanyahu who had city, residents said. capital, a police camp close to it ambulances and hospital equip- OMAN ENVOY’S HOME HIT premises,” the statement said. made it clear that “he is com- The air raids by the coalition and a military building. ment, a health ministry official The Omani foreign affairs It urged the Yemeni parties pletely supportive of the status have intensified in recent weeks The health ministry issued an was quoted as saying. ministry said the residence of to put aside their differences quo and deeply committed to pre- as a Gulf Arab ground force and urgent appeal saying it did not The raids also targeted the its ambassador in Sana’a was with each other to ensure the venting any kind of incident that fighters loyal to exiled President have the capacity to treat all presidential complex and a party hit by a strike on Friday and return of stability and security will incite”. REUTERS Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi prepare those injured as a result of the building of former president Ali denounced the act. “Oman in Yemen. REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

TII invites entries Ministry recalls for translation QIB donates QR500,000 to 2014-2015 conference Chevrolet

DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa Malibu models University’s Translation and boost traffic awareness DOHA: The Ministry of Interpreting Institute (TII) is Economy and Commerce, accepting submissions for its DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank in collaboration with translation conference to be held in (QIB), Qatar’s leading Islamic Chevrolet’s sole distributor March 2016. Bank, has donated QR500,000 i n Q a t a r, J a i d a h A u t o m o t i v e , The annual event invites trans- in support of traffic aware- yesterday announced recall lation and interpreting academics, ness programmes and efforts of Chevrolet Malibu 2014- practitioners and members of the undertaken by the Ministry of 2015 models due to defects community to examine topics related Interior’s Traffic Department. in the rear RH seat belt to an overarching theme, which for QIB Vice-Chairman buckle. the 2016 conference is ‘Politics of Abdullatif bin Abdulla Al The recall is within the Translation: Representations and Mahmoud presented a check framework of ongoing coor- Power.’ to Brigadier Mohammed Saad dination and follow-up by the TII is inviting papers examining Al Kharji, Director-General of ministry to ascertain deal- political translation through many the department, at QIB Head ers’ commitment to follow lenses. Thematic areas include, but Office. up defects and repair them are not limited to, interpreting in Bassel Gamal, CEO, QIB to protect consumers’ rights. conflict zones, citizen media, brok- Group, said, “In QIB, we value The ministry has affirmed ering and mediating, ethics of trans- unique efforts undertaken by that it will coordinate with lation, sound and image of power, the Traffic Department to Jaidah Automotive to follow manipulation and censorship, gender acquaint citizens and residents up necessary maintenance politics, and translating religions and with traffic laws and rules and and repairs and communi- democracy. relevant procedures that con- cate with clients to ensure Dr Amal Al Malki, Executive tribute to everybody’s safety and the success of the recall cam- Director, TII, said, “There is a grow- security. paign and implementation of ing interest in the fields of transla- “We are aware of our respon- procedures to fix defects. tion and interpreting which play a sibility towards the community Abdullatif bin Abdulla Al Mahmoud (second left), Vice-Chairman, QIB; Brigadier Mohammed Saad Al Kharji, It urged consumers to major role in power relation, build- and our support for the Traffic (centre), Director-General, Traffic Department; Bassel Gamal (second right), CEO, QIB Group, and other officials report any irregularities to ing allegiances or sowing discords Department’s activities is part at the event. the Department of Consumer through manipulation of language. of QIB’s social responsibility Protection and Commercial “We understand that in TII, and programme under the guid- such activities is one of our core the importance of complying collective safety and the pres- Fraud Combat which receives work hard on equipping our students ance and support of the Board values at QIB which is a leading with traffic laws to help reduce ervation of our human and eco- complaints, suggestions and and professionals with the ethical of Directors. national financial institution. or prevent road accidents. nomic capital in Qatar,” Gamal inquiries through its commu- framework that enable them to make “Support and sponsorship of “It is essential for all to realise “This will contribute to our added. THE PENINSULA nication channels. morally sound decisions. Organising THE PENINSULA the conference for the seventh con- secutive year has put us on the global stage, and more importantly, enabled us to contribute to the building of local capacity that has a strong global outreach.” Ooredoo unveils two competitions for Eid Al Adha Abstracts of 250 to 300 words may be submitted in Arabic or English — DOHA: Ooredoo has launched International Airport (HIA), or card, customers have to buy smartphones when they buy an mobile data in over 65 countries. the two languages of the conference two new competitions with via the Ooredoo app. an Ooredoo Passport Top-Up Ooredoo Passport Card via the Ooredoo Passport also offers — and should include the applicant’s prizes for customers buying The first competition, ‘Ooredoo Card from QDF outlet at the Ooredoo app. an extra 1GB of roaming mobile institutional affiliation. and using Ooredoo Passport Scratch and Win’, gives custom- Departure Terminal of HIA To enter the competition, data for use in the GCC. The deadline for abstracts is Card for the Eid holidays. ers who buy an Ooredoo Passport before November 20. Each customers have to buy Ooredoo The Ooredoo Passport works October 22 and the applicants will With thousands looking to fly Top-Up Card a 100 percent Ooredoo Passport Card pur- Passport Top-Up Cards via on all GCC networks and while be notified by November 22. out for Eid, Ooredoo has designed chance of winning a prize. chase will get one ‘Scratch and Ooredoo app before December roaming in GCC, customers can Those interested in submitting the competitions to add excite- Customers will be given a Win’ card. To make sure custom- 3, and they will receive an entry enjoy 4G speeds in the UAE a proposal to the Conference are ment to customers’ journeys. bonus scratch card along with ers who prefer to buy Ooredoo into a special prize draw, with the (Etisalat), Saudi Arabia (Mobily encouraged to consult the submission People can enter the com- the Ooredoo Passport Top-Up Passport Top-Up Cards on the winners announced on December & STC), Bahrain (Batelco), website for details at athttp://www. petition when they purchase Card to ‘Scratch and Win’, with go are rewarded, Ooredoo has 7. Ooredoo Passport Top-Up Card Kuwait (Ooredoo Kuwait) editorialmanager.com/tii-conference/ an Ooredoo Passport Card at prizes, including discounts from launched a competition offer- customers get 100 roaming min- and Oman (Ooredoo Oman, default.aspx Qatar Duty Free (QDF) at the QR10 to QR100 to spend at QDF. ing them the chance to win utes for all incoming and out- Omantel), at no additional cost. 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Qatar sacrificial animals for 140,000 people in West Africa First dental clinic for people DOHA: About 140,000 peo- considered among the poorest in ple in West Africa will ben- the world and their people need efit from Qatari supply of help, especially during Eid days.” sacrificial animals during Eid IDO will make sure that with special needs opens Al Adha. sacrificial animals reach poor, The beneficiaries are from orphans and refugee families, DOHA: The first dental clinic difficulty when they undergo radi- countries, including Gambia, depending on the experience of for people with special needs has ology imaging. The new clinic also Mauritania, Guinea Conakry, its mission which has been in opened at Al Wakra Hospital allows patients to receive care Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra the field for over a quarter of (AWH) and patients now do not from physicians of various spe- Leone and Liberia. a century. It stressed the need need a referral to receive care cialities as may be necessary,” Dr Sheikh Hammad Abdul to increase the number of sac- at the clinic. Al Yafei said. Ghader, General Manager, rificial animals due to a high The first-of-its-kind clinic in Dr Ohoud Al Kuwari, Dentist, Islamic Da’wa Organisation demand because of reasons, the Middle East caters to children AWH said, “Our hospital is (IDO) office in Qatar, said: including wars and natural dis- and adults with special needs. receiving more children with spe- “West African countries are asters. THE PENINSULA The specially designed facility cial needs because we found that provides a more accessible and about 30 percent of all children accommodating service intended seeking dental care were special to be less stressful for patients needs children and we concluded Panel announces designs and is an ideal alternative to reg- that there was a real need to open ular dental clinics. a special clinic to these patients. Dr Abdulhakim Ahmad Al “The clinic also allows those of Logistic Area Project Yafei, Consultant, Paediatric and unable to clean their teeth inde- Special Needs Dentistry, and pendently the chance of having DOHA: The Logistics Head, Dentistry Department, a dental cleaning and treatment Committee yesterday AWH, said the new clinic is procedure, under general anaes- announced designs for buildings equipped with state-of-the-art thesia every six months,” he said, at the Logistic Area Project equipment, which meet global adding there are plans to increase coming up in the southern part standards, and is staffed with a Dr Abdulhakim Ahmad Al Yafei, Consultant, Paediatric and Special Needs dental specialities at the clinic of the country. team of three consultants and two Dentistry, and Head, Dentistry Department, Al Wakra Hospital, attends to such as periodontics and den- Designs will be provided to specialists. a child patient at the new clinic. tal nerve treatment required by developers for free so they can The clinic provides oral and patients with epilepsy who may use them when needed. Designs dental healthcare such as tooth need frequent removal of gums are for offices, warehouses, show- extraction, filling and implants, impairment. It is also equipped has been set up to receive patients and cleaning of dental nerve. rooms and housing for employees orthodontics, prosthodontics and with a special lifting apparatus, once a week for dental care under He said the hospital plans to and labourers. treatment of caries and gingivitis. which can lift an object of up general anaesthesia. coordinate with schools to ena- These are approved by authori- It has a specially designed to 400kg, enabling treatment of “The room is utilised for radiol- ble students with special needs ties concerned to save develop- door wide enough to allow patients on wheelchairs. ogy imaging under general anaes- to benefit from specialist dental ers’ time and efforts and are for access to patients with mobility “A full-fledged operation room thesia for patients who experience services. THE PENINSULA 1,000sqm and 2,000sqm plots. The project spreading over southern Al Wakra, Birkat Al Awamir and Aba Salil will include warehousing facilities for cars, The Logistic Area Project office HIA urges travellers to arrive early during Eid holidays assembly units, cold storages, shops and showrooms, commer- smaller or bigger plots but new DOHA: Hamad International check-in will close 60 minutes Passengers also have the option which portray Qatar’s pride in its cial offices, labour camps, work- altered designs will be required to Airport (HIA) has advised pas- prior to departure. of parking vehicles at the airport’s culture and highlight the signifi- shops, service centres and depots. be approved by authorities. sengers to arrive three hours To save time, Qatar Airways long-term car park which pro- cance of the occasion. The air- The logistics and industrial Meanwhile, the Logistic before their flight departs as the and many other airlines operating vides customers with 2,540 spaces port will also distribute gifts and project is the largest in the south Committee and Economic Zone airport is expecting increase in from HIA offer passengers online and a regular shuttle service to Arabic delicacies to passengers of the country to promote com- Company (Manateq) have also passengers flow during the Eid check-in. the main terminal every 15-20 and will have activities and photo petitiveness in the commercial signed memorandums of under- Al Adha holidays. The general public who are minutes. corners for passengers. sector and encourage the private standing with International The airport is expecting a peak dropping off or collecting passen- More information about HIA’s “HIA wishes its passengers sector to participate and contrib- Islamic (Qatar International in departing passenger traffic gers are advised to use the short- parking facilities can be found on and the people of Qatar safe ute to the National Development Islamic Bank) and Barwa Bank from tomorrow and arriving pas- term car park which provides its website. travel and Eid Mubarak,” said Strategy in accordance with for financing the project for 10 senger traffic from September 27 complimentary parking for the On the occasion of Eid Al Adha, Badr Mohammed Al Meer, Chief Qatar National Vision 2030. years. to 30. first 30 minutes and costs QR5 the terminal will be decorated Operating Officer, HIA. 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Quality Group International Chairman Shamsudheen Olakara inaugurates Shoe Stori, an exclusive footwear store and brand for men, women and kids, at Quality Mall in Mamoura on Thursday. SALIM MATRAMKOT Quality Group inaugurates Shoe Stori DOHA: Quality Group International has opened a new brand and show- room ‘Show Stori’ in Qatar. Group Chairman Shamsudheen Olakara opened it at Quality Mall in Mamoura. The store has an exten- sive range of ‘Shoe Stori’ footwear, ladies bags, fashion accessories, travel bags and accessories. All Shoe Stori items are pro- duced by Quality Group International. Shoe Stori will have three stores in Qatar by this year-end and plans to open 10 within two years. It is also looking at expanding to other GCC and Asian countries. “We specialise in qual- ity shoes for the family, offering a fantastic range of ladies and men’s shoes. Customers also find an incredible selection of ladies bags, fashion acces- sories, travel bags and accessories,” the manage- ment said in a statement. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Ooredoo sponsors Subsidised sheep for citizens from today Indian Independence Day celebration DOHA: Qatar’s Foods and To pick up their subsidised Livestock Company, Widam, sheep, citizens can go to the desig- DOHA: Ooredoo was one of the said it will start selling sacri- nated outlets at slaughter houses main sponsors of the 69th India ficial sheep to Qataris at subsi- in Central Marekt, Al Shamal, Independence Day celebrations dised price from today. Al Khor and Al Mazrouah. They at the Diplomatic Club – Royal Stocks of subsidised animals should produce their ID to get Tent on Friday. will be available at the outlets of coupons and can proceed to ani- The day-long event was a col- the company at Central Market, mal shelters to choose the sheep. ourful celebration showcasing and in Al Khor City, Al Shamal City They can hand over their selected promoting the diverse Indian cul- and Al Mazrouha by the end of sheep to the slaughter house and ture in Qatar and India’s achieve- third day of Eid Al Adha. take it home. ments to boost India-Qatar The Ministry of Economy and The ministry has asked the relations. Commerce took initiative to pro- company to comply with speci- Sponsorship of the festivities vide two types of sheep on subsi- fications and religious terms and was part of a partnership with dised rate (Syrian at QR1,150 and conditions required for scarifying Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) in Jordanian at QR1,050) this year. animals, provide suitable shelters Qatar, as Ooredoo has pledged to Beneficiaries can opt for either. for them and not to sell small and participate in all major events Citizens aged 20 or born in 1995 low-weighted animals. organised by the Indian embassy or before can benefit. The ministry is to launch an and ICC this year. The initiative will cost over inspection drive to ensure the As part of sponsorship, the QR6m based on the difference company is complying with rules. company provided an Ooredoo between actual and subsidised Some citizens demanded that booth which promoted Hala India prices, Al Sharq reports, quoting the company make available sub- Keys offer of the lowest rate of 10 a market source. sidised sheep at its all outlets dirhams/min to India at QR0.50/ The ministry has decided throughout the country so they The Ministry of Economy and Commerce is to provide Syrian sheep at QR1,150 and Jordanian sheep at QR1,050 week. To subscribe, Hala custom- to subsidise 12,500 Syrian and can visit the nearest ones. this year. ers need to send ‘IND’ to 121. Jordanian sheep this year. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Pakistan Defence Day marked Qatar ranks fifth in innovation index BY SACHIN KUMAR (50) to achieve top GII positions Published annually since 2007, within the region as well,” said GII is a leading benchmark- DOHA: Qatar has ranked the report. ing tool for business executives, fifth in Northern Africa and Switzerland, the UK, Sweden, policymakers and others seeking Western Asia region in Global the Netherlands and the US are insight into the state of innova- Innovation Index (GII) released the world’s five most innovative tion around the world. on T hu r s d ay by le a d i n g bu si ne s s nations, according to the index, GII 2015 is calculated as the schools and World Intellectual and China, Malaysia, Vietnam, average of two sub-indices. Property Organisation. India, Jordan, Kenya and Uganda Innovation Input Sub-Index In the GCC, Qatar has ranked among countries outperforming gauges elements of the national third. In the category of Northern economic peers. economy which embody innovative Africa and Western Asia region, GII, co-published by Cornell activities grouped in five pillars — which has 19 countries, Israel University, INSEAD and WIPO, Institutions, Human Capital and has secured top slot, Cyprus is surveys 141 economies around Research, Infrastructure, Market second, Saudi Arabia third and the world, using 79 indicators to Sophistication, and Business the UAE fourth. In the overall gauge innovative capabilities and Sophistication. ranking of 141 countries around measurable results. Innovation Output Sub-Index the world, Qatar has secured 50th Innovation policies occupy a captures evidence of innovation rank. central role in developing and results, divided in two pillars — “Many resource-rich econo- emerging economies, where Knowledge and Technology out- mies in the region (Northern promoting innovation is cen- puts and Creative outputs. The Africa and Western Asia) have tral to development plans and index is submitted to an inde- Over 300 students of Pakistan Education Centre marked the 50th anniversary of Pakistan Defence Day on started to diversify and spur strategies and key to addressing pendent statistical audit by Joint Wednesday at Arbab Auditorium. Pakistan Ambassador Shahzad Ahmad, Principal PEC, Nargis Raza Otho, innovation in new sectors. This societal problems such as pollu- Research Centre of European Defence Attaché Muhammad Masud Akram and Captain Taimoor, Army Officer, Pakistan embassy were present. has allowed for Saudi Arabia tion, health issues, poverty and Commission. (43), the UAE (47) and Qatar unemployment. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Smile Hypermarket opens Housing project for displaced Syrians

Grand Mart Group Chairman Sheikh Jassim Thamir Issa Thamir Al Thani (third left), Managing Director Ismail Qatar Charity has completed about 70 percent of its QR44m project, Al Rayyan, to build a model city near the and other guests cut a cake to mark the opening of Smile Hypermarket at Barwa Avenue Dragon Mart yesterday. Syrian-Turkish border for displaced Syrians. The project, expected to be completed in November, comprises ABDUL BASIT 1,000 residential units which can accommodate 7,000 people. QU inks deal to host ExxonMobil Chair DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar and educational experience in the developing Qatar’s next genera- institutions’ strategic commit- Qatar University (QU) have fields of science and technol- tion of scientists and engineers. ment to promote science, tech- signed an agreement for an ogy, in addition to increasing the We look forward to seeing positive nology, engineering and maths exclusive three-year sponsor- numbers and quality of Arabic outcomes of this partnership for among young nationals, as an ship of an academic chair in sci- science and technology teaching ExxonMobil Qatar and QU in line initiative of critical importance ence and technology education and learning resources. with our joint vision of provid- to the country’s development and at the university. The chair will also collaborate ing quality education for Qatar’s progress.” The agreement, a milestone with QU faculty members in youth.” ExxonMobil’s Outlook for in the long history of collabora- encouraging a larger number of Dr Al Derham said: “This is Energy predicts that by 2040, the tion between both organisations, students to enter science, tech- another initiative in many agree- world will need 35 percent more was signed by Alistair Routledge, nology, engineering and maths ments signed with ExxonMobil energy than consumed today, President and General Manager, (STEM) career pathways, among Qatar in recent days which attests which means a corresponding ExxonMobil Qatar, and Dr others. to our long relationship with the increase in demand for profes- Hassan Rashid Al Derham, “We are delighted to begin yet organisation that has yielded aca- sionals in fields such as the energy President, QU, in the presence of another partnership with QU and demic and research opportunities sector, which work to meet this Alistair Routledge (left), President and General Manager, ExxonMobil Qatar, faculty members and university build on the excellent relationship on both sides. demand. and Dr Hassan Rashid Al Derham, President, QU, sign the agreement. administrators at a ceremony at we have developed over the years,” “The chair will bring added To help address the upturn, the QU campus. Routledge said. value and expertise to our faculty, ExxonMobil Qatar has made it a needed to become the engineers that are driving human potential The ExxonMobil Chair in “The chair is a crucial posi- enriching QU’s interdisciplinary priority to reinvigorate students’ and innovators of tomorrow. across the country; supporting Science and Technology will tion that involves strategising approach to science and technol- interest in science and maths at For years, ExxonMobil Qatar has research, safety, health and the work with College of Education and identifying opportunities ogy and the region’s academic all ages — the key to building a partnered with QU and other local environment; and helping sustain to explore methods that pro- for development, and we are resources in the area. The agree- competitive workforce and ensur- entities to support this mission the country’s thriving society. vide teachers with an improved honoured to support QU in ment reflects and advances both ing students get the education through projects and programmes THE PENINSULA Focus on gynaecologic cancers DOHA: Women can lower risk worldwide. Ovarian cancer causes a late menopause, genetic predis- of some types cancers through more deaths than any other cancer position and certain fertility drugs. human papilloma virus vaccine of the female reproductive system. “Ovarian cancer begins in the and screening as treatment works But when ovarian cancer is found ovaries. Women have two ovaries, best if any cancer is detected in its early stages, it can be very one on each side of the uterus. The early, says experts. treatable. ovaries, each about the size of an Hamad Medical Corporation’s “Ovarian cancer may cause one almond, produce eggs (ova) and (HMC) Women’s Hospital is observ- or more of these signs and symp- hormones estrogen and progester- ing Gynaecologic Cancer Awareness toms: Unusual feeling of fullness, one,” said Dr Al Ansari. Month to raise awareness. bloating in the area below the stom- She said ovarian cancer often According to Centres for Disease ach, pain in the pelvic or abdominal goes undetected until it has spread Control and Prevention, five main area (the area below the stomach within the pelvis and abdomen. types of cancer affect a woman’s and between the hip bones); back “At this late stage, ovarian cancer reproductive organs — cervical, pain; pain during sexual inter- is more difficult to treat and can ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vul- course; abnormal bleeding and a be fatal. Early-stage ovarian can- var. As a group, they are referred change in bathroom habits such cer, when the disease is confined to as gynaecologic cancers. Each as having to pass urine urgently or to the ovary, is more likely to be cancer is unique, with different very often, constipation, or diar- treated successfully. Early ovarian signs, symptoms and risk factors rhoea,” said Dr Afaf Al Ansari, cancer often has no signs or symp- (that may increase the chance of Senior Consultant, Gynaecological toms, and any that exist are often getting cancer). Oncology, Women’s Hospital. mild, making the disease difficult Gynaecologic cancers impact “The incidence of ovarian cancer to detect. women worldwide, accounting for increases with age, with the average “It is important to pay attention 19 percent of 5.1 million estimated age of diagnosis being 63. Over 70 to your body and know what is nor- new cases each year, according percent of cases present advanced mal for you. If you think something to World Health Organisation’s disease because symptoms are is different or you detect changes International Agency for Research vague and non-specific, such as in your body it may be that it is on Cancer. bloating, abdominal distention and caused by something other than Ovarian cancer has been identi- early fullness,” Dr Al Ansari said, cancer, but the only way to know fied as the leading cause of death adding known risk factors for ovar- for sure is to see your doctor or go out of gynaecological cancers, in ian cancer are having a first child for check-up every two to three Europe and the US, and the fifth later in life, obesity, a menstrual years,” Dr Al Ansari advised. leading cause of cancer mortality cycle that started at a young age, THE PENINSULA

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H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, in Dubai yesterday. RIGHT: Sheikh Joaan, and UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai H H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the funeral of Sheikh Rashid bin Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai yesterday. Sheikh Rashid, son of Sheikh Mohammed, died of a heart attack yesterday. Sharif Ismail Lack of clean water causes Landslide cholera outbreak near Baghdad in Makkah BAGHDAD: A suspected chol- Ministry spokesman Rifaq Al official laboratory results would injures two is Egypt’s new era outbreak has killed four Araji said, referring to the holy be known soon. MAKKAH: Two people people west of Baghdad, where Shia city south of the capital. He said the minister had vis- were injured late on Friday vulnerable displaced popula- “Since then, other cases have ited the hospital in Abu Ghraib, night when part of a moun- tions have been affected by the appeared in Abu Ghraib, and the and that more medical staff were tain in Makkah collapsed lack of clean water, health offi- reason is water that is not suit- dispatched to the area and a cri- on their home, state news prime minister cials said yesterday. able for drinking,” he said. sis cell set up to deal with the agency SPA said. The Health Ministry strongly “Some people are drinking outbreak. The incident comes after suspects the deaths, which directly from the (Euphrates) The latest confirmed cholera 107 people were killed last 16 new faces in govt reshuffle occurred in the Abu Ghraib area river and the wells. The river outbreak in Iraq killed four people week when a crane col- near Baghdad, were the result of water is polluted because in 2012 in the northern autono- lapsed near Makkah’s Grand CAIRO: Egyptian President said in a statement. The state a cholera outbreak first reported the level is too low,” Araji mous region of Kurdistan. Mosque. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi swore in a news agency had reported 15 new a week earlier. explained. After a short incubation period Muslim pilgrims are flock- new government yesterday that ministers. “Last week, we announced that “We now have four dead in of two to five days, cholera causes ing to Makkah to attend next included 16 new ministers, a There had been growing calls there were 12 cases of cholera in Abu Ghraib in suspected chol- severe diarrhoea, draining the week’s Haj. The Civil Defence week after the previous admin- for Mahlab’s resignation and Abu Ghraib and Najaf,” Health era cases,” he said, adding that body of its water. AFP authority said the landslide istration resigned following a increasing protests by civil serv- caused the ceiling of the four corruption scandal. ants over a new law that cen- storey building in the Batha Sharif Ismail, who served as tralises promotions while taxing Quraish area to collapse, petroleum minister in the last bonuses. Egypt floods tunnels injuring a man and woman. cabinet, was sworn in as prime Mahlab quit as Egypt prepares An investigation is still ongo- minister in a ceremony shown on to hold long-delayed legislative ing to reveal the cause of the state television. elections in two phases between accident, the SPA said. The ministers of foreign affairs, October 17 and December 2. REUTERS defence, interior, justice and The elections had initially been finance have kept their positions scheduled for early 2015 but were in the new cabinet. cancelled by a court on technical Former premier Ibrahim grounds. Mahlab, who had headed Mahlab’s government resigned the Arab Contractors construc- 16 killed after on September 12 days after the tion firm, had been appointed by arrest of agriculture minister interim president Adly Mansour torrential rains Salah Helal as part of a corrup- in March 2014, less than a year tion probe. It had also come under after the army led by then defence growing criticism for delays in minister Sisi toppled Islamist in south Algeria economic projects. president Mohamed Mursi. ALGIERS: Torrential rains in A senior government official Mursi’s removal and deten- southern Algeria left 16 people had told AFP the reshuffle, the tion unleashed a deadly crack- dead, including 13 foreigners, first major shake-up since Sisi down on Islamists that killed local authorities said yesterday, won elections last year, was meant hundreds of protesters, and the increasing an earlier death toll. to “pump new blood” into the army has struggled to quash a Four bodies of foreigners of government. jihadist insurgency in the Sinai African origin were recovered on Ismail is seen as a veteran tech- Peninsula. Friday about 10 kilometres out- nocrat with experience in state- Separately yesterday, Sisi side the town of Tamanrasset, owned oil companies before he appointed a new state prosecutor, in Algeria’s deep south, the APS joined the cabinet in 2013. Nabil Sadiq, to replace Hisham news agency quoted them as In his first remarks after Barakat, who was killed in a car saying. assuming his post, Ismail struck bombing in June. Heavy rain on Wednesday and a note of caution and warned the The assassination of Barakat Thursday triggered a flood in the new government “does not have a helped fast track tough new anti- town and caused a power outage. magic wand.” terrorism laws. Firefighters on Thursday col- “It will take some time to The government had enjoyed lected the bodies of 12 people, solve some of the problems,” he support in the face of militants including nine of African origin was quoted as saying by state who have killed hundreds of and three Algerians, after they television. soldiers, but in recent months were swept away in the flood. The new cabinet consists of had come under fire for cor- A Palestinian youth shows how to abseil into one of the tunnels on the Gaza side after Egyptian forces flooded The nationality of the 13 for- 16 new ministers, and sees four ruption and the unpopular civil smuggling tunnels beneath the border to the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, yesterday. eigners of African origin was not ministries axed, the presidency service law. AFP reported. AFP

Russia sends fighter planes to Syria: US Al Qaeda kills 56 WASHINGTON: Russia has mechanisms for deconfliction Shoigu said Russia’s military presence of multiple jets. sent fighter jets to Syria, US in Syria and the counter-ISIL moves “were designed to honour In London, US Secretary of officials said, raising the stakes campaign,” Pentagon spokesman commitments made to the Syrian State John Kerry said the United Syrian soldiers in a military buildup that has Peter Cook said after the call, government,” the US official said. States was looking to find “com- put Washington on edge and led referring to the campaign by It was unclear, however, what mon ground” with Russia. BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria province had occurred earlier Friday to the first talks between the United States and its allies those commitments to Syria are Kerry said it was important affiliate and its Islamist allies this week but his monitoring US and Russian defence chiefs against Islamic State militants. or how Russia’s military buildup to forge a political agreement in have executed at least 56 group — which gathers news in over a year. The former Cold War foes have was relevant to them. Syria and end the hardship of regime troops at a military from sources on the ground — US Defence Secretary Ashton a common adversary in Islamic Russia’s latest deployment has Syrian people. airport they recently seized in confirmed them yesterday. Carter, eyeing the possibil- State militants in Syria, even as added significant airpower to a “Everybody is seized by the the northwest, a monitoring Al-Nusra is a leading mem- ity of rival US and Russian air Washington opposes Moscow’s buildup that, according to US urgency. We have been all along group said yesterday. ber of an alliance of jihadist and operations in Syria’s limited air- support for Syrian President estimates, also includes helicopter but the migration levels and con- Al-Nusra Front and the Islamist forces called the “Army space, agreed in a call with his Bashar Al Assad, seeing him as a gunships, artillery and as many as tinued destruction, the danger Islamists shot dead the regime of Conquest” that overran the Russian counterpart to explore driver in the nation’s devastating, 500 Russian naval infantry forces of potential augmentation by fighters, who were being held Abu Duhur military airport on ways to avoid accidental military four-and-a-half-year civil war. at an airfield near Latakia. any unilateral moves puts a high as prisoners, “execution-style” September 9. interactions. A senior US defence official, One US official, speaking on premium on diplomacy at this inside the Abu Duhur airport, When it overran the airbase, The coordination necessary recounting details of the con- condition of anonymity, said four moment,” he said. said Rami Abdel Rahman, direc- the Army of Conquest killed to avoid such encounters is versation, said Russia’s Defence tactical Russian fighter jets were Still, the White House cau- tor of the Syrian Observatory dozens of regime loyalists and known in military parlance as Minister Sergei Shoigu had sent to Syria. tioned Moscow against “doubling for Human Rights. took others captive. “deconfliction.” described Moscow’s activities in Another US official declined to down on Assad.” He said the killings in Idlib AFP “They agreed to further discuss Syria as defensive in nature. offer a number but confirmed the REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE DEEPER involvement of Russia in Syria and the brazen, unjustified support for Bashar Al Assad by Vladimir Putin are becoming clearer by the day. This Talso comes at a time when the world is starting to think of finding a solution to the Syrian crisis after an exodus Iran N-deal is done, but not of migrants to Europe. Moscow has been trying to muddy the waters and up the stakes, thus complicating efforts for a solution. The only way to bring peace to Syria is by ousting Assad and Putin’s fervent support for the Syrian dictator the debate in US Congress makes this task extremely difficult. Latest reports indicate the Russian military buildup in BY DEB RIECHMANN Iran has to uninstall thousands of sanctions from the entire global com- Syria could consist of combat aircraft that are capable of centrifuges at its facility at Natanz, munity the moment it violates the striking ground targets, providing close air support and T’S A done deal, yet opponents its main site for enriching uranium; agreement,” he said. intercepting aircraft, and small numbers of main battle of the Iran nuclear agreement convert an underground nuclear site He also wants the US to improve tanks and armoured personnel carriers to transport troops won’t go quietly. The 60-day US at Fordo into a research facility; and Israel’s ability to strike Iranian tar- to the battlefield. The US calls the Russian buildup in Syria congressional review period has redesign its heavy water reactor at gets; ensure Israel’s access to ord- expired, and last week the State Arak so it cannot produce weapons- nance and aircraft needed to deter an ‘significant and a Washington official said it would represent Department outlined its plan to grade plutonium. Iranian attack; and provide for the sale “the first major expeditionary force deployment” outside the Iput in place an accord that aims to pre- Iran also has to ship its stockpile of of additional F-35 stealth fighter jets, former Soviet space that Moscow has undertaken since the vent Iran from acquiring nuclear weap- enriched uranium abroad, and comply plus more funding for Israel’s array of war in Afghanistan. ons. Congress is poised to start cranking with an International Atomic Energy anti-rocket and missile defence systems. The Russian presence has complicated peace efforts. The out legislation to reinstate sanctions or Agency investigation into its past To further stabilise the region in the policy of Arab countries and the US has been that Assad shore up what some lawmakers say is nuclear weapons work. wake of the deal, Coons said the US an ill-fated pact with a state supporter It’s not clear how long that will take. needs to strengthen the Gulf states’ must leave office in order to resolve the years-long civil war. of terrorism. If the IAEA finds that Iran has com- ability to counter threats from Iran. There are only two ways of making Assad leave office: the Senator Bob Corker, Chairman of the plied with key nuclear commitments, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, military option by defeating his forces on the ground, or Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then sanctions imposed by the US, one of only four Senate Democrats through concerted international pressure. Moscow has made has begun a series of hearings on the United Nations and Europe on Iran’s to oppose the deal, wants Congress both difficult. The international US role and strategy in the Middle energy, financial, shipping, auto and to renew the Iran Sanctions Act “to community will first have to speak East that will other sectors are to be suspended. ensure that we have an effective snap- The Syrian examine the deal’s “This so-called ‘Implementation back option.” crisis is getting to Russia to stop its intervention, implications. Day’ won’t come for six to 12 months,” Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the chances of Putin “It’s going to said Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions said he will propose legislation with tangled in several wholeheartedly agreeing to any take a while. It’s expert and an opponent of the deal Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, the knots. It’s also such demand are remote because Looming a very substantive with the Foundation for Defense of ranking Democrat on the Senate the Russian leader is on a mission issue,” said Corker, Democracies, a Washington-based Foreign Relations Committee, to who opposed the policy institute. address some of the deal’s “shortfalls.” unfortunate that to expand his influence and settle above all this deal along with all One idea being discussed in Congress Blumenthal and Cardin are Jewish and the world is yet scores with the US and Europe. debate is the other Senate calls for shoring up oversight of Iran’s faced heavy lobbying from their constit- to approach the Any fruitful talks with Assad are Republicans. “It compliance. Another measure would uents. In the end Blumenthal supported possible only if Moscow gives the whether the will be a complex reauthorise the Iran Sanctions Act. the deal; Cardin opposed it. issue with the green talks. piece of legisla- The law was passed in 1996 to pressure Blumenthal said the two will offer Washington is already in talks agreement tion.” Confronted foreign companies not to invest in Iran’s legislation to provide an effective way seriousness it by Democratic oil and gas industries; it has since been to put sanctions back into place if Iran with Moscow to find a way out will last when opposition, Corker expanded. cheats, ensure strict adherence to the deserves. of the impasse. The US Defence said, “Let’s face it. Other legislation being weighed would agreement, and enhance security assist- Secretary Ashton Carter spoke Obama’s It’s going to be one strengthen security for Israel, which ance to Israel, including new joint-train- with his Russian counterpart on Friday to discuss the issue. bite at the apple.” Iran has threatened to destroy, and for ing exercises and inviting Israeli pilots Carter and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoygu agreed successor Republicans US allies in the Gulf worried about Iran to train to fly long-range bombers. to “further discuss mechanisms for de-confliction in Syria,” failed when gaining influence in the Mideast as a Looming above all this debate is walks into the Senate Democrats result of the deal. whether the agreement will last when Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said as the US and its banded together “Although the congressional review Obama’s successor walks into the Oval allies continue military operations against ISIS inside Syria. Oval Office in to block a reso- period may be over, now the real work Office in 16 months. US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said that Assad lution of disap- begins,” Democratic Senator Chris Republican presidential candidates has to go but the timing of his departure should be decided 16 months. proval from ever Coons said in a speech on Thursday Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Mike through negotiations. But Kerry had no idea how this objective reaching US at the Carnegie Endowment for Huckabee have promised to abandon President Barack International Peace. the accord. could be achieved. “We’re prepared to negotiate. Is Assad Obama, who had pledged to veto any Coons said preventing and deterring Asked if he would authorise a strike prepared to negotiate, really negotiate? Is Russia prepared to such measure. On Thursday, the State Iran from cheating must be a priority against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Senator bring him to the table and actually find the solution to this Department said Obama would start and even “marginal cheating and ambig- Lindsey Graham replied: “If I believed violence?” he asked. issuing waivers on October 18 so the uous evasions of the deal” must be met they were trying to break out and get a The Syrian crisis is getting tangled in several knots. It’s also US is ready to grant sanctions relief with a heavy club. bomb, absolutely. And here’s the most unfortunate that the world is yet to approach the issue with if Tehran meets its obligations to curb “Iran must not be left with any important thing: They know I would if its nuclear programme. doubt that it will feel the pain of I had to.” AP the seriousness it deserves• The other side Quote of Badaber attack the day

ORE than a dozen attackers, events in Peshawar. to tighten security quickly and ade- communicate between themselves some 30 dead, over two To begin with, while the Badaber quately enough? Then, there was the and, secondly, to communicate with dozen injured — the militant area is close to the tribal region and rather astonishing competition between the media? attack on a Pakistan Air is densely populated, it is also a sensi- the ISPR and the Taliban spokesper- Even if the command centre was We’re prepared MForce camp in Badaber, Peshawar tive location where past attacks, includ- son, Muhammad Khurasani, to shape in Afghanistan — though this has yet was a highly orchestrated strike with ing the ones on planes landing at the the narrative of the attack in real time. to be proved — it is troubling that the to negotiate. Is deadly consequences. While the military Peshawar airport, have been launched While the ISPR was live tweeting the TTP continues to enjoy such direct has rightly emphasised the valour and from. Surely, for more than a dozen military’s response to the attack, the and untroubled access to communica- Assad prepared to bravery of the security personnel who armed militants to disguise themselves banned TTP was seemingly live blog- tions. Furthermore, given the number of helped prevent even more carnage — as security personnel, travel through ging it — repeated messages were attackers, there was surely some kind negotiate, really the kind of weaponry the attackers were the Badaber area and arrive undetected received by journalists from Khurasani of communication in the run-up to the negotiate? Is armed with, as reported in sections at the entrance to the PAF camp is a giving an obviously one-sided though attack between the perpetrators and of the media, suggests many more security failure of some degree. blow-by-blow account of what was the planners. Why was all of that able Russia prepared to casualties and perhaps a lengthy siege Moreover, it has already been allegedly taking place inside the PAF to take place unhindered? If there is was the ultimate aim yesterday — there claimed that there were intelligence camp. The basic question then, how a plausible answer, the technical and bring him to the are an unavoidable set of questions reports of a possible strike in the area were the militants able to use uninter- physical limitations should be explained John Kerry that have yet again been raised by the — who then was responsible for failing rupted lines of communication to, firstly, to the public. DAWN table? US Secretary of State SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 It’s good the European far left imploded Tsipras is too centre-left for many of his former Syriza allies, who have split from the party to form a new political force, Popular Unity. Tsipras is no longer the European left’s great hope. BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY continues playing hardball and the ‘Grexit’ scenario ensues or f Alexis Tsipras is the loser Syriza ends up capitulating to EU of Greece’s snap elections demands, this risks undermin- today, he will be remem- ing almost all the achievements bered as a terribly unsuc- Syriza has made to date and rein- cessful politician. Tsirpas forcing the mainstream view of Iwill have endured eight painful the radical left as an economic and humiliating months as prime pariah. But the radical right may minister, only to lose to Vangelis be the chief beneficiary, not least Meimarakis, the unexpectedly in Greece itself. dynamic stand-in leader of the That’s what’s happening now. center-right New Democracy While Tsipras was riding high, party, which seemed on its last pushing European leaders for legs as recently as January. Win a debt restructuring deal and or lose, however, Tsipras will have resisting the dictates of interna- achieved something important: a tional creditors, his Spanish allies major setback for Europe’s radi- of the Podemos party challenged cal left. the ruling centre-right People’s The victory of Tsipras’s Syriza Party in the December national party in national elections in election and displaced the center- January was seen by some com- left Spanish Socialist Workers’ mentators as the beginning of Party. In Portugal, which has a leftist resurgence that could elections in October, there was sweep Europe. The radical left no comparable force, but Livre, a had been in decline since the late party founded in 2014 on an anti- 1980s, demoralised by the end austerity, hard-left platform in Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of the left-wing Syriza party (centre) speaks to party youth members wing at a cafe in the centre of the communist project in the line with Syriza’s, hoped to make of Athens. Soviet Union and its satellites. some headway. Then European With the 2008 financial crisis Union leaders rejected Tsipras’s Now, even if Tsipras wins and Portugal, too, will remain domi- politics as usual remains, as does Viktor Orban and his right-wing and the anti-capitalist sentiment protest tactics, denied support remains prime minister, he will nated by traditional, centrist the demand for simple solutions Fidesz party was sliding before it bred, the movements revived unless he relented and forced his have to form a coalition with less forces. to complex problems. If the capi- the country was flooded with ref- somewhat: Across Europe, the government to introduce capi- idealistic political forces. He is too Even the election of Jeremy talists are proving hard to beat, ugees from the Middle East. Now, electoral performance of hard- tal controls in July. Greeks were centre-left for many of his former Corbyn as leader of the Labour the immigrants may provide an Fidesz is clawing back points. left parties modestly improved, only allowed to withdraw 60 euros Syriza allies, who have split from Party in the UK looks like a easier target. Angry people who vote for as University of Edinburgh’s Luke ($68) from ATMs. the party to form a new politi- belated echo of this fading hard- In Greece, the refugee crisis far-right parties may need to be March pointed out in an article That experience is probably cal force, Popular Unity. Tsipras left resurgence. Podemos leader is helping the neo-Nazi Golden inoculated with the same kind of earlier this year. why Meimarakis has caught up is no longer the European left’s Pablo Iglesias has greeted Corbyn Dawn party hold on to the third disillusionment as left-wing sup- To some, Syriza’s triumph with Tsipras, making Sunday’s great hope. as an “ally,” but even Labour sup- place it won in the January elec- porters. Orban’s nasty perform- looked like the decisive break- election too close to call. The New Podemos will still do relatively porters in the UK are bitterly tion. It’s polling around seven ance, which includes tear- gassing through. If Tsipras managed Democracy leader has branded well in the December elections divided about him. According to percent but is likely to get more: refugee children and the construc- to roll back austerity in Greece his rival “the prime minister in Spain, but establishment par- a recent YouGov poll, 26 percent Supporters of such parties often tion of useless walls along borders, and achieve debt reduction, his of the 60-euro limit,” and his ties will continue to control the of them wouldn’t trust him to run don’t tell poll-takers the truth appears to be doing the trick for allies elsewhere — especially in electoral promise is “no more parliament. The leftist party has the economy, and just 23 percent about how they intend to vote. Germans, mobilising them in sup- southern Europe — would be experiments.” tempered its demands, too: it no would. Right-wing populists are on the port of refugees and dampening able to ride on his coattails. It It’s probably also why Spanish longer calls for a debt renegotia- As March predicted, the failure rise in Scandinavia, which has the kind of xenophobic sentiment was a high-stakes game, however. and Portuguese voters are now tion, figuring correctly that would of the leftist revival could benefit had an especially strong increase that drove mass anti-immigrant March wrote, presciently: highly unlikely to hand big victo- work no better in Spain than it the opposite flank — the far right. in immigration. In Hungary, the rallies in Dresden a year ago. On the other hand, if the EU ries to hard-left parties: did in Greece. The popular dissatisfaction with popularity of Prime Minister WP-BLOOMBERG Five myths about classified information Corbyn wins with BY ELIZABETH GOITEIN information as criminal, with Under the executive order that former Arkansas governor Mike he controversy over Hillary Huckabee calling Clinton’s actions old-style activism Clinton’s use of a private “beyond outrageously illegal.” governs classification, the 2,000- BY PANKAJ MISHRA Te-mail account while she In fact, in a nod to the com- declining middle class and aspiring was secretary of state has centred plexities of handling classified lower middle-class. It leaves out on whether she used it to send or plus officials who have this authority information, the law criminalises he landslide election of the the genuine appeal of old-fashioned receive classified messages. This only violations that are “know- left-wing politician Jeremy political activism, and a suspicion focus obscures the larger ques- “may” classify information if its ing,” “negligent” or the like. The TCorbyn as leader of Britain’s of both old and new media among tion of whether Clinton’s setup law falls short, however, in fail- Labour Party last weekend pro- a very young generation in Britain affected the State Department’s ing to give express protection voked an avalanche of bien pen- and America, whose members con- compliance with the Freedom disclosure reasonably could be to knowing releases of classified sant opinion. A simple glance at front a more uncertain economic of Information Act and legal information by whistleblowers. the headlines in Britain’s right- future than any youthful genera- requirements for federal agen- expected to damage national security. The lack of protection for wing press confirms this: “Red tion in recent history. They have cies to retain records, as well as whistleblowers allows the gov- and Buried” (Daily Mail); “Bye, witnessed, from a sentient age, myriad other questions about disclosure would be harmful, he “classification guides” - a kind ernment to graft its own “intent” Bye Labour” (Daily Express); slick experts and technocrats who agencies’ information-manage- or she is not required to classify. of index of original classification requirement onto the law through “Leader Nightmare” (Sun); made mass participation in demo- ment practices. Moreover, much Information provided by for- decisions, mostly kept on secure selective prosecution. Those who “Death of Labour” (Telegraph). cratic politics seem unnecessary. of the commentary has been eign governments in confidence Web sites - to determine what seek to reveal government mis- David Cameron saw it fit to tweet They have grown up with digital more confusing than illuminating, is different. The executive order information has been classified conduct are prosecuted. that Corbyn’s election makes the media, and its seductive promise of because it fundamentally misun- cautions that the release of such and therefore must be marked. 5. Our classification system Labour party “a threat to our empowering citizens by amplifying derstands how the classification information is “presumed” to Derivative classification is protects us from harm. national security, our economic their experiences and messages. system works. When a handful of harm national security; agency intended to be a straightforward, This myth flows naturally from security and your family’s security.” Indeed, the victory in 2008 of a prevalent myths are corrected, it rules provide that such informa- ministerial task. But the system the assumptions that all classi- Such hysterical responses to a rank outsider like Barack Obama becomes clear that this aspect of tion “must be classified.” breaks down in practice. The fied information is automati- supposedly unelectable and hope- showed that the new media could the story reveals more about our An official who transmits that categories of information listed cally and self-evidently sensitive less politician are interesting in be used effectively to mobilize nation’s dysfunctional system for information without classifying it in guides are sometimes so broad and that any release of classified themselves. They should make grassroots supporters and over- managing official secrets than it has violated agency rules. But the or vague that they leave officials information would compromise us ask deeper questions about come entrenched elites. does about Clinton. recipient now possesses information to guess whether any given piece national security. “On hundreds the political climate in which an It still can, but its limitations 1. Information can be “classi- that someone else should have clas- of information has been classified. of occasions, Hillary Clinton’s apparent throwback to the 1960s have also become clearer to the fied,” even if no one has classified sified - not classified information. 3. Anything classified is reckless attempt to skirt trans- like Corbyn-or the 74-year-old young. Anyone can now join the it. Many news reports and com- 2. It’s easy to figure out sensitive. Many discussions of parency laws put sensitive infor- Bernie Sanders in the United chattering class with a Twitter mentators have suggested that whether information has been Clinton’s e-mail assume that all mation and our national security States — becomes freshly relevant and Facebook account. But this “information is classified by [its] classified. There is a common classified information deserves at risk,” GOP Chairman Reince in the political mainstream. only adds to the general cacoph- nature” (as Sean Davis writes in refrain that Clinton “should have to be classified, often using the Preibussaid last month. It has certainly been aston- ony, a tumult in which the goal the Federalist), even if no agency known” there was classified infor- terms “classified” and “sensitive” Actually, it is our bloated clas- ishing to watch the spontane- of identifying the public good by or official has classified it yet. mation in e-mails she got, even interchangeably, and that every sification system that puts our ous mass movement-led by the reasoned debate is replaced by a These accounts treat “classified” if it wasn’t marked. As commen- leak of classified information is security at risk. Some classifica- young — that enthroned an old- secondary imperative: to make as a quality rather than an action tator Andrew McCarthy put it, dangerous. Officials frequently tion is unquestionably necessary style leftist like Corbyn. The most your voice heard. - one that is inherent, immutable “Classified information . . . is well make blanket statements that to keep the nation safe, but over- obvious explanation of course is At worse, the loudest and more and self-evident. If information is known to national security offi- “unauthorised disclosure of clas- classification not only stifles pub- that people are fed up with a pro- extreme voices hold away. At best, sensitive enough, it’s classified, no cials to be classified - regardless sified information jeopardizes lic discussion and debate, it also fessional political class that is too every fact and opinion is smoth- matter what. of whether it is marked as such national security.” discourages people from following frequently found in bed with big ered in over- interpretation, from When it comes to “original or even written down.” In fact, the classification sys- the rules. Officials who routinely businessmen and financiers. all possible positions, by conspir- classification” — the initial deci- The classification rules treat tem is marked by discretion encounter innocuous information In this conventional account of acy- theorists and self-promoters sion to classify information - that this myth as if it were true. Once (intended) on the front end and marked “top secret” lose respect for rising outsiders and populists, the as well as supposed experts. portrayal is simply wrong. Under information has been classified uncertainty (unintended) on the system. They are more likely new media has cleansed public This rude uncovering of a veiled the executive order that governs by an authorised official, anyone the back end. This lack of clear to handle information carelessly or debate of special interests, allow- reality is what drives the reigning classification, the 2,000-plus who retransmits it must mark boundaries opens the door to a even engage in unauthorized disclo- ing a figure like Donald Trump to technocrats and their chums in the officials who have this author- it as classified, even if it was not huge amount of unnecessary sures, believing that little harm will speak above the head of powerful right-wing press to hysteria. The ity “may” classify information if marked when received. This is classification. result. The danger is that the baby television networks that break or inexperienced Corbyn may not sur- its disclosure reasonably could called “derivative classification,” 4. Any mishandling of classified could get thrown out with the bath- make politicians. vive their hostility. But he has inau- be expected to damage national and it can be performed by any information is illegal. water: A casual approach to classi- But such a broad explanation gurated what may seem in a few security. The determination of of the 4.5 million individuals Some 2016 presidential candi- fied information jeopardizes the real not only obscures the diversity years a momentous transition to a harm is often highly subjective, who are eligible to access clas- dates have not hesitated to label secrets buried within the excess. of political sentiment among the reality-based political community. and even if an official decides that sified information. They rely on the mishandling of classified WP-BLOOMBERG young and the old, rich and poor, WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST 4,500 migrants rescued off Libya in a day One dead as 20 operations pick up Eritreans, Nigerians, Somalis, Libyans, Syrians and West Africans

ROME: Twenty rescue opera- The coastguard said another tions yesterday picked up over mission was under way to save 4,500 people off the Libyan yet more people who had run coast, according to the Italian into difficulty during the perilous coastguard, which was coor- crossing from Libya to the Italian dinating the response for yet shores. another boat in distress in the In videos sent to AFP by Mediterranean. MSF, hundreds of people in Among those taking part was brightly-coloured clothes could Doctors Without Borders ship be seen sprawled out on the Bourbon Argos, which told AFP Argos, a nearly 70-metre-long it had rescued over 800 people, Luxembourg-flagged ship which who were expected to be brought typically carries around 700 to safety in Italy along with the people. rest of those saved. “It’s quite a big boat, but at the “We started before first light moment every inch of deck space this morning with our first rescue. is covered. People are extremely We rescued two wooden fishing relieved to be off their sinking boats and two rubber dinghies,” boats,” Burroughs said. said Simon Burroughs, emergency “We’ve had about a week of coordinator for search-and-res- bad weather that stopped any cue missions by the medical group kind of rescue operations, but last — commonly known by its French night and this morning weather initials MSF. changed,” he said, as children were Burroughs said those rescued heard crying in the background. included Eritreans, Nigerians, “There are multiple nationali- Somalis, Libyans, Syrians and ties... Thankfully, everyone is in West Africans. good health,” said MSF spokes- The 20 operations took place man Sami Al Subaihi, who is seen between 30 and 40 nautical aboard the ship in the video. miles off the Libyan coast, and Launched in May, the Argos saw rescue workers pluck people has been handling large rescue from eight boats and 12 dinghies. missions due to the growing The body of a woman was also waves of people seeking refuge in recovered. Europe. The mass effort was carried out “It’s a large operation, but by an Italian military ship, the unfortunately it’s becoming quite MSF’s Bourbon Argos, the MAOS a typical operation... Our last search and rescue Phoenix, a rescue was over 1,000 people,” Croatian vessel operating under Burroughs said. Libyan Red Crescent workers in Tripoli port help migrants who were rescued after their boat sank off Libya. EU border agency Frontex, two The Bourbon Argos has a staff vessels operating within the of 26 people on board, including officer in Beirut, the three MSF On Friday, 102 migrants were Italian coastguard said it coordi- detained by Libyan coastguard Eunavfor Med mission — one medical specialists. search-and-rescue vessels are rescued in the Mediterranean nated the rescue of a total of 1,013 officials Friday as they were pre- British, one German — and the According to Yazan Al Saadi, equipped to treat migrants for by Libyan authorities, and seven migrants. paring to cross to Europe. Italian coastguard. MSF’s regional communications various medical issues. other bodies were recovered. The Another 124 people were AFP

UN nuclear watchdog chief Turkish air strikes kill at least 55 Kurdish militants ANKARA: Turkish fighter destroyed munitions depots, the which the rebels have responded run up to November 1 parliamen- a government salary. to hold talks jets carried out a new barrage report added. with a string of bloody attacks on tary elections, the government Human rights groups have of cross-border air strikes this Turkish security forces and the security forces. has announced plans to boost a repeatedly called for the force, week against Kurdish mili- the outlawed PKK have traded Around 150 soldiers and police controversial pro-government which has been tainted by alle- in Tehran today tants in northern Iraq, killing fire on a near daily basis since a have been killed in PKK bombings “Village Guard” militia. gations of violent crime and drug at least 55 rebels, state-run two-year-old ceasefire fell apart and shootings since the return “Following instructions from smuggling, to be disbanded. VIENNA: The head of the UN Anatolia news agency reported in late July with Ankara’s launch to open conflict, compared with our Prime Minister (Ahmet Of the around 5,000 militia nuclear watchdog was to travel yesterday. of a two-pronged “anti-terror” around 1,100 in the rebel camp, Davutoglu) we will advertise for members to have been implicated yesterday to Iran for talks on The strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets offensive against Islamic State according to pro-government 5,000 ‘village guardians’ in the in wrongdoing, only 900 have Tehran’s nuclear programme targeted caves, houses and camps jihadists in Syria and the jihad- media. press,” Interior Minister Selami faced legal action, according to with senior officials, the IAEA used by the militant Kurdistan ists’ Kurdish foes. The PKK does not give figures Altinok was quoted by NTV official figures. said in a statement. Workers Party (PKK), Anatolia The bulk of the government’s for its dead, making it impossi- broadcaster as saying. The battle between the state The discussions between said, citing unnamed security firepower has been reserved for ble to confirm the government’s Created towards the end of the and PKK will take centre stage at International Atomic Energy sources. airstrikes on PKK bases in north- claims to be inflicting huge losses. 1980s to contain the PKK, the an anti-terrorism rally in Istanbul Agency chief Yukiya Amano and “At least 55 to 60 terrorists” ern Iraq or in Turkey’s predomi- With the tit-for-tat attacks militia currently numbers around today to be addressed by Erdogan. the “high-level” officials will take were killed in the operation, which nantly Kurdish southeast, to showing no sign of abating in the 70,000 men and women, who draw AFP place today, it said, as a December deadline looms for completion of a long-running investigation into Iran’s past nuclear activities. The IAEA chief was expected to arrive in Tehran in the early Hollande in Morocco hours of today. “The visit will focus on... clari- fication of past and present out- standing issues regarding Iran’s after torture row nuclear programme,” it said. The UN atomic watchdog TANGIERS, MOROCCO: Tangiers-Casablanca high-speed on September 9 said Iran must French President Francois line. resolve some “ambiguities” over Hollande arrived in Morocco The first train for the rail its past nuclear activities before yesterday on an official visit link was delivered by the French crippling international sanctions that takes place against a back- group Alstom in June. can be lifted. drop of controversy over tor- Human rights groups are The IAEA wants to probe alle- ture lawsuits in Paris against concerned Hollande might use gations that at least until 2003, the kingdom’s intelligence chief. the visit to bestow France’s top Iran’s nuclear programme had Hollande, accompanied by honour, the Legion d’Honneur, “possible military dimensions” — five ministers and a delegation on Abdellatif Hammouchi, the in other words that it conducted of business leaders, was met on head of Morocco’s domestic research into making a nuclear the tarmac in Tangiers by King intelligence agency. In February, weapon. Mohammed VI at the start of the French Interior Minister Bernard Iran has said that the allega- two-day visit. Cazeneuve announced that Paris tions that it sought to build a “I want France and Morocco to would decorate Hammouchi with bomb — including that it con- enter a new phase of partnership,” the award for his role in the fight ducted relevant explosives tests Hollande said. “We have a com- against terrorism. at the Parchin military base mon will to act in Africa and also Hollande’s aides, however, have — are groundless and based on to fight against terrorism, which said there is no plan to award the faulty intelligence provided by its remains our top priority,” he said Legion d’Honneur to Hammouchi enemies to a gullible and partial after receiving military honours. during the visit. Morocco sus- IAEA. AFP He was to hold a series of meet- pended all judicial cooperation ings at the palace, attend the with Paris between February 2014 At least 10 killed signing of a bilateral agreement and January 2015 after a French on the training of imams and judge summoned Hammouchi in Iran flash floods French President Francois Hollande speaks to journalists upon his arrival at Ibn Battouta airport in Boukhalef, inaugurate with the king a serv- over torture complaints filed 10km south of Tangiers, Morocco, yesterday. ice centre for trains of the future against him in Paris. AFP TEHRAN: At least 10 peo- ple have been killed after flash floods hit several regions of Iran, state television said yesterday. Six people died on Friday in Pakdasht, a city southeast of Tehran, when they attempted Iran’s Rowhani reassures Americans on death chant to have a picnic by the side of a river which then burst its banks, WASHINGTON: Iran’s the Iranian president said the nuclear programme. opponents have often cited the audience. “This slogan that is it said. President Hassan Rowhani famous Friday ritual is a reaction But many in the United regular appearance of chant- chanted is not a slogan against And in Iran’s southern has tried to reassure a scepti- to previous Washington policy States are still convinced that ing anti-American crowds the American people. Our people Hormozgan, four people including cal American public that when decisions that hurt Iran. In July, Iran, which is ultimately led as evidence of Tehran’s true respect the American people,” he two children were also killed by crowds in Tehran chant “Death US President Barack Obama’s not by Rowhani but by supreme intentions. insisted, in an extract from the flooding on Friday. State televi- to America!” they don’t mean it administration signed a deal with leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, But Rowhani, seen as a moder- interview released Friday. sion said they had gathered next personally. Rowhani’s government to release remains bent on their country’s ate reformer by the standards of “The Iranian people are not to a river to watch the flooding In an interview with the CBS Iran from many of the economic destruction. the Islamic republic, attempted looking for war with any coun- when they were swept away. show 60 Minutes to be broad- sanctions harming its economy In the fierce domestic to reassure his CBS interviewer try,” he said. AFP cast today in the United States, in return for tight controls on its American debate over the deal, Steve Kroft and the wider AFP SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 EU countries tussle as migrant crisis deepens EU earmarks €1bn to make refugees stay in Turkey

BELI MANASTIR, Croatia: Reversing an open-door policy, “corridors” for refugees want- Thousands of migrants sought Croatia on Friday said it was ing to reach northern Europe if their way through a chaotic swamped and redirected the they continue arriving in large maze of rumour and proliferat- migrants back to Hungary. numbers. ing border controls in the west- Croatian Foreign Minister Slovenian police said on ern Balkans yesterday. Vesna Pusic on Friday said that Saturday that 1,287 had arrived In the latest chapter in the Zagreb and Budapest had agreed as of midnight on Friday, of which EU’s escalating refugee crisis, to allow “vulnerable migrants” to 483 were from Afghanistan, 470 Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia cross. from Syria and 126 from Iraq. tussled over how to cope with Austrian police said 6,700 peo- With no let-up in the flow of a wave of refugees desperate to ple had arrived on its border from people desperate to find shelter in reach northern Europe. Hungary, and as many as 10,000 Europe from war and misery, new The European Union, mean- were expected by the end of the figures showed the EU received while, sketched plans to boost aid day. almost a quarter of a million asy- to encourage Syrians in Turkey They were then taken by bus or lum requests in the three months to stay put rather than join the special train to various reception to June. exodus. centres around Austria, police The International Organisation In a new hurdle aimed at stem- said. for Migration (OIM) also said ming the inflow, Hungary said it Another branch of the refugee nearly 474,000 people had so far had completed a 41km barbed- flow has been through Croatia this year braved perilous trips wire barrier along part of its and to Slovenia. across the Mediterranean to frontier with fellow EU member Hundreds of migrants spent reach Europe. Migrants crowd the border crossing between Rigonce in Slovenia and Hamica in Croatia yesterday. Croatia. the night in the open on the Italy’s coastguard yesterday It “was finished overnight Croatian side of the border at said it was coordinating 20 rescue Another worry is over the fate Wednesday. Meanwhile, European from funds allocated for Turkey, Friday,” defence spokesman Attila Bregana, state-run HRT televi- operations in the Mediterranean of the Schengen agreement, a pil- Commissioner Johannes Hahn Hahn said in a visit to a migrant Kovacs said in Budapest. sion reported. that had picked up 4,540 people. lar of the European project that said yesterday the EU was ear- reception centre at Gevegilja, in The remaining 330km of the At Harmica, several dozen The continent’s biggest migra- allows borderless travel between marking aid of “up to one billion Macedonia. border runs roughly along the migrants faced off with a cor- tory flow since the end of the member states. euros” ($1.13bn) to encourage Of the more than four mil- Drava river, which is difficult to don of riot police on the frontier Second World War has dug a deep In addition to fences or Syrian refugees in Turkey to lion Syrians who have fled their cross. bridge, demanding that Slovenian rift between western and eastern restrictions on parts of the bor- stay there rather than join the country, nearly half have sought The new barrier adds to a police let them enter the country. EU members, with Hungary lead- der between Croatia, Hungary outpouring of people heading to shelter in Turkey, while more barbed-wire fence that Hungary Late Friday, police used tear ing the hardline group. and Slovenia, there are identity Europe. than a million are now living in set down along its frontier with gas against several hundred Germany, Europe’s biggest checks that Germany, Austria and The money will “help Turkey to Lebanon and nearly 630,000 in Serbia, and backed with laws migrants, some with children, economy, is the great magnet Slovakia have reimposed on parts deal with this challenge and (give) Jordan. threatening illegal migrants with who had sought to push through for the refugees, many of whom of their borders, and Poland and people (a) perspective to stay in The UN’s World Food jail. the police line. are Syrians. On Friday, Berlin The Netherlands are considering the region in order to return back Programme (WFP) has said That move sparked fierce con- The clash happened shortly warned it could invoke EU’s whether to follow suit. into their home region, home severe underfunding has forced demnation internationally and after Slovenian Prime Minister majority voting system to force EU interior ministers are to towns, as soon as this is possible,” it to halve its food assistance to forced the migrant flow towards Miro Cerar said the small coun- reluctant states to accept quotas meet again on Tuesday, followed Hahn said. 1.3 million of the refugees. neighbouring Croatia. try might consider creating of migrants. by an emergency summit on The money will be taken AFP

Poll shows little UK support for Corbyn Tsipras in pole position hours ahead of Greek election as future premier ATHENS: Greece heads for a Europe”, Tsipras told his closing warned that cooperating with Meimarakis hit back in an prime minister who brokered a cliffhanger election today with rally in Athens on Friday, refer- parties “who have built their interview yesterday, dismissing deal, brought it to parliament, LONDON: Almost three in radical former premier Alexis ring to the refugee crisis and EU political power on clientelism” Tsipras’s seven months in govern- voted for it and signed it, whilst four people do not believe that Tsipras taking a slight lead in economic woes. would be difficult. ment as “an experiment that cost saying he does not believe in it?” the new leader of Britain’s the race against the conserva- “Do we want a Europe of aus- “I don’t see how we can change (the country) dearly”. the conservative chief told the opposition Labour Party, tives for the helm of a govern- terity or one of solidarity and public life and combat tax evasion Tsipras won office in January weekly To Vima. Jeremy Corbyn, looks like a ment facing tough economic democracy?” he asked the crowd. with such alliances,” Tsakalotos on an anti-austerity ticket but “I fear that if Syriza is elected... prime minister-in-waiting, reforms. In a white shirt with the sleeves told the liberal Kathimerini daily. then upset supporters in July with the country will soon be led to according to a poll published Hours before a midnight ban on rolled up, Tsipras said voters In a flurry of interviews this a U-turn cash-for-reforms deal elections again, and this would in The Independent newspaper voter surveys expired on Friday, would say “no to this old system week, Tsipras defended his deci- struck with Greece’s international be disastrous,” said Meimarakis, a yesterday. two polls forecast victory for the of corruption, no to the enshrin- sion to put the country above his creditors, despite a huge “no” vote 61-year-old former defence minis- The ORB survey of 2,000 peo- youthful Tsipras over conservative ing of the oligarch establishment.” party, saying that had he refused in a referendum on the issue. ter. Polls open at 0400 GMT today ple found only 28 percent agreed party chief Vangelis Meimarakis With nine parties hoping to to agree the three-year bailout, The left-wing government had and close exactly 12 hours later. with the statement: “Jeremy by margins ranging from 0.7 to 3.0 enter parliament, whoever wins Greece would likely have been earlier also shut banks to avert a The first official estimates are Corbyn looks like a prime minis- percentage points. is unlikely to secure an outright ejected from the eurozone. deposit run and imposed capital expected from the interior min- ter-in-waiting,” while 72 percent However, pollsters advise cau- majority and Tsipras’s Syriza On Friday, he told Antenna TV controls that are still felt in the istry after 1800 GMT. disagreed. tion with many recalling the 2000 party could well need to ally that he would “tug the rope” in economy. Meimarakis warned Greek pollsters however call- The survey found Corbyn’s election that was decided by a itself with one of the parties he order to secure relief on Greece’s voters against re-electing a man ing for caution after polls failed election has made one in five peo- mere 72,000 votes. has criticised. huge national debt from EU cred- who has publicly admitted to to predict the result of a July ref- ple who voted for his party at the A victory for Syriza would His former finance minis- itors in the coming months. opposing the bailout he signed. erendum on austerity. May general election more likely deliver “a key message for ter Euclid Tsakalotos yesterday Conservative leader “Do you know of any other AFP to vote Conservative next time. It found 37 percent of Labour voters were less likely to back the party at the next election. Ire at hospital closure Mexico arrests 13 Crews gain ground in connection with Chapo escape on California blazes

MEXICO CITY: Mexico has SAN FRANCISCO: temperatures forecast for com- arrested 13 more people in Firefighters battling two deadly ing days could pose a challenge, connection with the escape of wildfires in drought-stricken the California Department of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” California have gained more Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Guzman, including the former ground and some displaced peo- Fire) said. director of the high-security ple were allowed to go home, Containment of the Valley prison he escaped from and a officials said yesterday, even as Fire, a measure of how much of government official who over- the search went on for people its perimeter has been enclosed saw Mexico’s prisons. reported missing. within buffer lines carved through A total of 20 officials have now Two men and an elderly, disa- vegetation by ground crews, was been arrested in connection with bled woman have been killed by at 45 percent. Several commu- Guzman’s escape in July. the so-called Valley Fire, which nities forced to flee the massive Valentin Cardenas, the former has scorched 73,700 acres just blaze were allowed to return director of the Altiplano prison north of Napa County’s wine- home starting late Friday, Lake in central Mexico, and Celina producing region, according to County officials said. Oseguera, former director of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. In the Sierra foothills to the Mexico’s federal prisons, were Authorities were still searching east, the Butte Fire was 63 per- arrested along with 11 prison for people who had been reported cent contained late Friday, Cal guards, a person familiar with missing, said Lake County Fire said. Fire officials say the the arrests said. Undersheriff Chris Macedo, two blazes are emblematic of an AGENCIES A banner is held up that reads, “Save our hospital and our employment” as hundreds of people gather to although he could not provide an intense wildfire season that is protest against the closing of the L’Aigle hospital in L’Aigle, northwestern France, yesterday. exact tally. shaping up as one of the state’s Two more people, who authori- fiercest on record, with much of ties said defied evacuation orders, September and all of October, his- lost their lives in the separate torically the worst two months of Butte Fire, still burning more the year, still ahead. Putin gives go-ahead to Belarus air base plan than a week after it erupted Property losses from the Valley more than 160km to the east in Fire — 585 homes and hundreds the Sierra Nevada foothills, in more buildings — stand as the MOSCOW: Russian President Belarus within its geopolitical Minister Sergei Shoigu in 2013, Russia has scaled back its California’s Gold Rush country. highest among the thousand of Vladimir Putin has backed the orbit. and follows a 2009 agreement military presence abroad, closing Ranking as the most destruc- wildfires that have raged across establishment of an air base in Putin said in a statement he under which Russia and Belarus bases in distant Cold War allies tive wildfires in California this the entire drought-stricken neighbouring Belarus, the latest had agreed a government proposal agreed to defend their common such as Cuba and Vietnam. year, the two conflagrations western United States this sum- move by Moscow to project its to sign a deal for the military air external frontier and airspace. However, a naval base at Tartus together have blackened roughly mer. The Butte Fire alone has military power abroad. base and ordered defence and Russian defence officials have in Syria has recently become the 145,000 acres, laid waste to more destroyed 365 homes. Yesterday’s announcement, foreign ministry officials to start said the base would be used to focus of world attention as Russia than 950 homes, and forced some In addition to the five deaths which comes at a time of ten- talks with Belarus. The plan is not station Su-27 fighters. Russia has boosted its troop presence 23,000 people to evacuate. attributed to the two blazes, four sion with the West over Russian expected to face major obstacles. already has some fighter aircraft there in a move seen as bolster- Cooler conditions, rain and firefighters were hospitalized with involvement in Ukraine and Syria, The idea of setting up an air in Belarus but this would be the ing its diplomatic influence in the lighter winds have helped fire- burns on Saturday in the first hours may also signal the Kremlin’s base in the ex-Soviet republic first full-scale base there since region. fighters gain additional ground after the Valley Fire broke out. interest in keeping unpredictable was revealed by Russian Defence Soviet times. REUTERS in recent days, though higher REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA N Korea could seek Thais defy ban on protest concession on resort, The ninth anniversary of coup against Shinawatra govt marked BANGKOK: Hundreds of missile for reunions activists defied a ban on pro- tests and marched in Thailand’s SEOUL: If North Korea goes “The reunions are a hassle for capital yesterday in a rare rally ahead with reunions of fami- the North. There is cost in look- against the hard-line ruling lies separated by the 1950-53 ing for the people, and to feed military. Korean war it is going to expect them and dress them up,” he said. Lines of police stood by as rewards from the South in North Korea is at least crowds of people chanting “no return, perhaps the reopening expected to seek the resump- dictatorship”, some carrying anti- of a border tourist spot or even tion of cross-border tours from junta banners, marched peace- tacit acceptance of an expected the South to its Mount Kumgang fully on Bangkok’s Democracy missile test. resort, Cho said. The tours were Monument, against the orders of South Korean President Park once a $40m-a-year money spin- a government widely condemned Geun-hye wants to build con- ner for the impoverished North. for using draconian measures to fidence with the unpredict- The North may also expect the silence detractors. able North under her policy of South not to raise too much of a The protest was to mark the “Trustpolitik”. fuss if it goes ahead with a widely ninth anniversary of a coup But the South is loath to rush anticipated missile launch. against the government of back into negotiations as it draws This week, the North Thaksin Shinawatra that many up a strategy for government- announced a plan to fire a long- Thais see as the trigger for an level contacts to follow an accord range rocket that it says is for intractable conflict that is show- in August that defused the lat- a space programme. It also said ing no signs of abating. est confrontation between the old it was working to improve its The demonstrators attended a rivals. Reunions of families sepa- nuclear arsenal. forum at Bangkok’s Thammasat rated by the war have been held South Korea has been University which the government several times since 1985, provid- restrained in its response to the allowed to take place, but permis- ing the opportunity for humani- North’s tough talk, an indication sion was denied for their march tarian cooperation, and perhaps it does not want to disrupt the beyond its walls. a first step to building ties, amid fragile improvement in ties since Though the gathering pales poignant scenes of elderly folk negotiations ended a tense stand- in comparison to the mass ral- meeting long-lost loved ones. off last month. lies that have plagued Thailand, A demonstrator from the New Democracy Movement (NDM) group wears a mask during the Democracy Monument The government of South During those talks, the North protests have been rare since the rally in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. Korea also wins a popularity boost raised the possibility of resum- generals overthrew the govern- from the reunions. ing the tours to the scenic Mount ment of Yingluck Shinawatra, been detained,” said Montra of old-money conservatives whose brass may have influenced to pro- For the North, not concerned Kumgang, a South Korean official Thaksin’s sister, in a coup in May Thongsuksan, a demonstrator influence is being challenged. long its rule. There was no uni- about opinion polls, the reunions, said at the time. last year. carrying a sign saying “return The military will not cede formed military presence at the the last of which took place in Ties between the two Koreas The military has been criti- power to the people”. power soon; Prime Minister rally and police, who estimated February 2014, are more of an warmed after their leaders held cised by the West for rounding “I have to show solidarity, Prayuth Chan-ocha, the general 400 attended, made no obvious inconvenience, but one that can their first ever summit in 2000 up hundreds of activists, some for against the military. I’m scared, who staged the coup said last attempt to stop it. be leveraged. but deteriorated after a conserva- demonstration of just a few peo- but I’m willing to march to show week an election could take place “We are observing, to keep Cho Min, vice president of tive president came to power in ple. Many, including journalists we won’t give up.” in July 2017. things in order,” the commanding the South Korean government- the South in 2008. Relations went and politicians, have been forced Thailand has been caught in a The time frame was pushed officer, Major General Pongpan run Korea Institute for National into deep freeze following the 2010 to attend “attitude adjustment” dilapidating tug-of-war between back about a year after a military- Wannapak, said. Unification, said the North saw sinking of a South Korean navy sessions at army bases. supporters of the politically domi- appointed panel on September 6 “If things get out of hand, we’ll the family meeting planned for ship, with the loss of 46 sailors, “Peoples’ rights have been nant Shinawatra family and a roy- rejected a draft constitution in a report it to our superiors.” next month as a concession to which South Korea blamed on the taken away, too many have alist military backed by a network vote many analysts believe the top REUTERS the South. North. REUTERS

Nigeria military Warning in Tanzania over rescues 90 from Islamists political militia groups LAGOS: Nigeria’s military said ARUSHA: Electoral authori- “Even if this information last Friday it had rescued 90 ties in Tanzania yesterday only comes from one camp, the people, including women and called on police to investigate Commission requests the police to children, after dislodging Boko fears that some political parties investigate and take the necessary Haram Islamists from two vil- were preparing to train militia action,” it added, without naming lages in the country’s restive groups ahead of next month’s any particular party. northeast. national elections. “No party is allowed to use such Acting army spokesman Sani The concern has emerged as a militia. It is against the law.” Usman said in a statement that campaigning heats up prior to The statement also came after “troops rescued 23 men, 33 women the October 25 polls, in which one person was killed earlier this and 34 children from the terror- the long-time ruling Chama month in a clash between CCM ists” last Thursday in the villages Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party’s supporters and the main opposi- of Dissa and Balazala, which lie in candidate John Magufuli is hop- tion Chadema party. the vicinity of the town of Gwoza ing to succeed President Jakaya The ruling CCM party has in Borno state. Kikwete. dominated politics since modern Gwoza was where Boko Haram But Magufuli, 55, is facing what Tanzania was formed in 1964, and declared its so-called caliphate is seen as the tightest electoral currently has two-thirds of seats last year before the strategic town race in the east African nation’s in parliament. People hold placards to protest against Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial security bills near the was recaptured by government history, with the main opposition But it has been weakened by National Diet in Tokyo, yesterday. troops in March. parties uniting around ex-prime internal splits and a string of The military said it had reo- minister Edward Lowassa, 61, graft scandals, and recently suf- Protesters hold placards against Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial security bills near the National pened a primary school in the who recently defected from the fered defections of high-profile Diet in Tokyo, yesterday. town which had been shut down CCM. members — including ex-prime because of the insurgency, and “The Commission has received minister Frederick Sumaye and pledged to implement security information that certain politi- former home affairs minister measures to ensure the safety of cal parties were preparing to give Lawrence Masha — to the oppo- pupils and teachers. military training to more than sition coalition. Opponents vow to fight laws More than 200 girls abducted 1,500 youth in order to cause Another neighbour, Kenya, was from their school in the north- trouble during the elections,” also hit by post-election tribal eastern town of Chibok in April Damian Lubuva, the National violence in 2007-2008 which left of last year are still being held by Election Commission’s president, more than 1,000 dead. expanding Japan’s army role the Islamists. AFP said in a statement. AFP TOKYO: Opposition groups Renho, a senior lawmaker from one of the citizen groups that have yesterday vowed to challenge the main opposition Democratic been leading weeks of rallies, said. laws passed overnight that clear Party of Japan, who goes by one “We will resort to every pos- Philippine Festa Japanese troops to fight abroad name. sible measure, including bringing for the first time since World Mizuho Fukushima, a sen- the case to the courts... We can’t War II, saying the changes are ior lawmaker from the Social let this movement fizzle out now.” a “black stain” on the country’s Democratic Party, told a crowd Behind him, demonstrators history. of more than ten thousand who carried banners or billboards, Japan’s ruling coalition, led by gathered outside parliament which read, “We should not get nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo during the debate: “Abe’s cabinet children killed,” and “Don’t let Abe, pushed the laws through in criminals... Let’s get them out of them wage a war”. the early hours of the morning here.” Legal scholars have argued the after days of tortuous debate that Speaking after the vote, Abe legislation violate Japan’s pacifist at points descended into physical said the changes were “necessary constitution, imposed by the US scuffles in parliament. in order to protect people’s lives after World War II, and several For the first time in 70 years, and peaceful way of life”. groups yesterday said they were the new laws will give the gov- “This is designed to prevent preparing to challenge the new ernment the power to send the wars,” he said. laws. military into overseas conflicts to Abe had been unable to mus- Susumu Murakoshi, chairman defend allies, even if Japan itself ter support to amend the pacifist of the 36,000-strong national bar is not under attack. constitution and instead opted association, yesterday criticised The nationalist premier argues to “re-interpret” the meaning the government for going against the laws are necessary to protect of self-defence in order to push the will of the people and pledged against threats from an increas- through the new laws, but the to see the changes abolished. ingly belligerent China and unsta- move has sparked a groundswell The laws have “left a black ble North Korea, but opponents of opposition not seen for decades stain on the history of Japan as fear the vague wording could see in Japan. a constitutional democracy,” he Japan dragged into far-flung for- A hard-core group of some 300 said in a statement. eign wars. protesters gathered outside par- National broadcaster NHK Abe has faced bitter opposition liament on Saturday, calling for reported that respected consti- over the changes, which have seen the legislation to be abolished and tutional scholar Setsu Kobayashi, his popularity slump, and oppo- vowing never to stop their fight from Keio University, is already sition lawmakers have vowed to against Abe. planning to muster 1,000 lawyers do everything in their power to “Our battle will never end. This to file a challenge to the legisla- A dressed up Filipina walks with large statues at a parade of the ‘Philippine Festa’ in Tokyo, yesterday. Eight- fight them. is just the beginning,” Keisuke tion in the Tokyo district court. time world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao attended the Philippine community’s festival event in Japan. “This is not an end,” said Yamamoto, an organiser from AFP SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Arrest warrant Pakistan bombs Taliban hideouts for Nigerian leader Bukola 16 suspected militants killed in raid ABUJA: A Nigerian tribunal issued an arrest warrant for the PESHAWAR: Pakistani jets Afghanistan. Yesterday’s air force president of the country’s sen- killed 16 suspected militants in raids targeted militant bases in ate Bukola Saraki for refusing bombing raids near the Afghan the Tirah Valley, which straddles to appear before the court over border yesterday, the day after the Afghan border and is a main allegations of false declaration Taliban militants killed 29 peo- smuggling route between the two of assets. ple in an attack on an air base. countries, two Pakistani security “This tribunal has called on The attack on the base last officials said. the defendant to appear before Friday was the deadliest ever “All those killed in the bomb- it and stand trial,” tribunal judge militant attack on a Pakistani ing were Pakistani militants,” said Danladi Umar said in his ruling military installation and is likely one security official in the north- in Abuja. to undermine already rocky ties western city of Peshawar. “In view of the non-appearance with Afghanistan. Last Friday, 13 gunmen of the defendant, this tribunal Hours after the attack, stormed the Badaber air base, orders the inspector general of Pakistan’s military spokesman about 10km south of Peshawar police or the relevant security pointedly noted that communi- in an attack a Pakistani Taliban agencies to produce the defend- cations intercepts showed the spokesman said was retaliation ant before this tribunal,” he said, Pakistani Taliban gunmen were for bombing raids on their bases ordering that a “bench warrant being directed by handlers in along the Afghan border. be issued against the defendant”. The Code of Conduct Tribunal is a special court that tries asset 22 detained after air base attack declaration offences. As Senate president, Saraki is PESHAWAR: Twenty-two thoroughly interrogated," a sen- the third-highest ranking person suspects have been detained ior local police official Shakir in Nigeria, after the president and in connection with a deadly Bangash said. He said some of vice president. attack on a Pakistan air force the suspects were set free after The case is seen as a litmus test base claimed by the Taliban, an initial interrogation while Pakistani soldiers patrol outside Air Force base, a day after it was attacked by militants in Peshawar, yesterday. for the ruling All Progressives officials said yesterday. others, including the eight Congress (APC) government of Pakistani Taliban militants Afghans, are still in custody. Police said they picked up For decades Pakistan nurtured For years Pakistan and President Muhammadu Buhari dressed in official uniforms A senior security official said around 50 residents living near Islamist militants as allies Afghanistan have traded accu- who came to power in May on attacked the air force base evidence was still being collected the base on suspicion of helping against old rival India, and to sations of not doing enough to anti-graft ticket. Buhari and his near the northwestern city of from the site of the attack to the militants organise the attack. fight Soviet forces in Afghanistan stamp out insurgents on either deputy Yemi Osibajo this month Peshawar last Friday, killing at find more clues about how the Shafqat Malik, head of the in the 1980s. side of their long, porous border. publicly declared their assets and least 29 people, most of them incident happened and how the Peshawar bomb squad, said the But it has been fighting some Each country has a separate other public figures, including soldiers, the group's deadliest attackers entered the camp. attackers carried enough fire- militant factions since after it but allied Taliban insurgency lawmakers, are expected to fol- assault in months following a The insurgents entered the power to occupy the base, but sided with the United States fol- fighting to overthrow the govern- low suit. major military offensive against residential compound at the that some of their weapons had lowing the September 11, 2001, al ment and install strict Islamist Under Nigerian law, it is man- them. All 14 attackers were also base, attacking a mosque where malfunctioned. Qaeda attacks on the US cities. rule and security cooperation is datory for the president, the killed, the military said. they killed 16 air force person- Each man had an assault rifle, Pakistan launched an offensive to seen as vital to defeat militancy. vice-president, state governors "At least 22 suspects includ- nel as they were about to offer two improvised explosive devices, dislodge Pakistani Taliban from Last month, Afghanistan and their deputies to declare ing eight Afghan nationals have dawn prayers. Another seven air and several rocket propelled gre- their northwestern stronghold blamed Pakistan for not doing their assets when they take office been detained from different force personnel were also killed nades, but some of the grenades of North Waziristan in 2014 and enough to counter militants who and before stepping down. Other parts of the city since last Friday in a barrack adjacent to mosque. misfired, he said. there has been fighting in various carried out a series of attacks in political appointees typically also after the attack, and are being AFP “Their mission was occupa- places, including the Tirah Valley, the Afghan capital, Kabul. declare their assets, but it is not tion of the air base,” he said. since then. REUTERS mandatory for them. AFP Western media welcome: Xi BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Rupert Whistle-blower who targeted PM held Murdoch that Western media organisations are ‘welcome’ in China, despite the continued blocking of numerous foreign web- KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian government abuse. have stalled investigations. case to authorities, Chang said. sites for their reporting on the country. police have arrested a former “They want to stop him trav- Khairuddin, a former division Various foreign investigations “(We) welcome foreign media and correspondents to cover China ruling party official who has elling and maybe to intimidate head in the ruling United Malays have been launched. stories, introducing China's development to the world, and helping travelled the globe to highlight him,” Chang said. National Organisation (UMNO), A magistrate yesterday ordered the world grasp the opportunities (afforded by) China’s develop- corruption allegations against Police did not respond to has demanded transparency Khairuddin held for a week for ment,” Xi said last Friday as he met with Murdoch in Beijing, the Prime Minister Najib Razak, his requests for comment. Najib's over the Najib funds as well as at investigations, Chang said. The Xinhua state news agency reported. The News Corp chairman was lawyer said yesterday, accusing government has moved to quash state investment company 1MDB, scandals have deeply tarnished received at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, known as the the government of seeking to further scrutiny of the revelation which Najib launched. Najib and Najib, a self-proclaimed reformer. symbolic heart of the Chinese Communist Party. Murdoch's visit silence the whistleblower. in July that nearly $700 million the company are under fire over He dismisses them as a conspir- precedes the Chinese head of state's upcoming visit to Washington, Khairuddin Abu Hassan was was deposited into his personal allegations that perhaps more acy to unseat him. which the tycoon assured Xi would be covered in full, according to arrested by police last Friday bank accounts. than a billion dollars went miss- Last month, tens of thousands Xinhua. after he was stopped from leav- The government has called ing from overseas deals involving of protesters paralysed Kuala ing for the United States where the money “political donations” 1MDB, which is now struggling Lumpur with a two-day demon- Pistorius parole hearing postponed he was to meet with FBI officials, from Middle Eastern sources but under massive debts. stration to demand Najib’s resig- his lawyer Matthias Chang said. refuses to give more details. With no progress seen in nation and reform of Malaysia's JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s parole review board has He has been charged with plot- Najib subsequently sacked Malaysian investigations, 58-year-old regime whose critics postponed for two weeks a hearing to decide if Oscar Pistorius ting to “undermine parliamen- his attorney general and deputy Khairuddin has recently travelled accuse it of repression, corruption can be released early from prison, after being sentenced for kill- tary democracy”, a vague charge prime minister and made other to Switzerland, Britain, France, and electoral chicanery to stay in ing his girlfriend, a report said yesterday. that critics have said is open to personnel moves that appear to and Hong Kong to highlight the power. AFP The delay was because the board had been unable to finalise all its cases last Friday, when it had been due to meet to decide if Pistorius should be freed on parole or serve a longer period in jail, local tel- evision station ENCA reported. It gave no specific date for another Mali’s ex-rebels meeting. The Paralympics gold medallist was due to be released on Taiwan boat caught with shark fin house arrest in August after serving 10 months of a five-year sen- TAIPEI: A Taiwan-flagged Agency said in a statement. Environmental activist group retake control of tence, but South Africa's justice minister blocked his release saying boat has been caught with an The boat was carrying over 10 Greenpeace earlier this month procedure had not been followed. He referred the case to the parole illegal haul of more than 100 tons of fish, including yellow fin boarded the boatl, accusing her Anefis: Officials review board. The spokesman for South Africa's prisons could not shark fins and is being escorted tuna, an amount "significantly crew of operating illegally near immediately be reached for comment. Pistorius' spokeswoman said back to a home port, Taiwanese discrepant" to that recorded in Papua New Guinea. BAMAKO: Fighters from she had to seek advise from her client before making a statement. authorities said yesterday. the vessel's logbooks, the agency The group said it found sacks of Mali's former rebel alliance, Five shark carcasses and 110 said last Friday. The boat was shark fins from at least 42 shark the Coordination of Azawad Kazakhstan probes soldiers’ death shark fins were found on the being escorted back to a home carcasses though only three had Movements (CMA), took con- vessel in an "obvious violation of port by a Taiwan patrol vessel for been recorded in the boat's logs. trol of the northeastern town ASTANA: Ex-Soviet Kazakhstan said yesterday it was inves- shark finning", Taiwan's Fisheries further investigation. AFP of Anefis last Friday after loy- tigating the drowning of four soldiers during an ill-fated mil- alist fighters who seized it last itary exercise on the Caspian Sea. Defence minister Imangali month withdrew, officials said. Tasmagambetov yesterday visited the Caspian city of Aktau “CMA rebels have retaken where an amphibious landing exercise went wrong the day before Sacrificial goats control of the locality of Anefis and relieved four regional military officials of their duties. yesterday,” a security official in The country’s military prosecutor has opened an investigation into MINUSMA, the UN peacekeep- the incident that saw Bauyrzhan Zholdabay, Asylzhan Makhambetov ing mission the west African and Bagytzhan Kalybay and Amir Adylov all drown as a quartet of country, said. “But without a fight. BTR-80 armoured personnel carriers sank in choppy waters during Several of their vehicles arrived an attempted amphibious landing. “Initial findings indicate that the in the city.” incident took place as a result of a poor decision when practising an The news was confirmed by amphibious landing in the absence of landing equipment,” a state- Almou Ag Mohamed, a CMA ment from the defence ministry said. spokesman. “Anefis is under our control,”he Three killed in Bangla village clash said. “In violation of the cease- fire, militias took the town. Under DHAKA: At least three people were killed and dozens injured pressure, they left.” in a clash between police and locals protesting the torture of a The Platform coalition of loy- woman and her son in a Bangladesh village last Friday, a media alist fighters seized Anefis in report said yesterday. “We’ve come to know that three people deadly clashes in August that left have died from injuries suffered in the clashes,” Xinhua news at least 10 dead. They agreed to agency quoted a senior police official as saying. The clash erupted pull out, though, and MINUSMA as a group of villagers blocked the highway in protest against the welcomed the completion of their reported rape of a woman in front of her son. Shahidul Islam, withdrawal tomorrow. officer-in-charge of Tangail's Kalihati police station, told journal- CMA fighters clashed with ists that a group of villagers attacked police, prompting them to pro-government militias in north- open fire. But he claimed no one was killed in police firing. eastern Mali, with the two sides accusing each other of starting Eight killed in Nepal bus accident the fighting, breaching a peace deal signed this year. Mali was KATHMANDU: At least eight people were killed and 37 injured shaken by a coup in 2012 that when a passenger bus plunged off a mountain highway in Nepal's cleared the way for Tuareg Ramechhap district last Friday, police said. separatists. The bus veered off the road at Gahirachowk area in Manthali Al-Qaeda-linked militants then Municipality of the district, 137km from here, police inspector overpowered the Tuareg, taking Makhan Yadav told Xinhua news agency. “Preliminary investiga- Sacrificial animals on sale at a local livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, yester- control of the region for nearly 10 tion suggests that the driver is solely responsible for the mishap,”the day. Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid al-Adha, which falls on September 24 in Afghanistan. months until they were ousted in police inspector added. AGENCIES a military offensive. AFP SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / INDIA Spying on Bose family Rape protest proof Netaji was alive India did not buy ‘Taiwan plane crash’ theory: Experts

KOLKATA: While the declas- die in the alleged air crash of 1945. “There are mentions here sified West Bengal government Corroborating Chowdhury’s about Netaji after 1945 which files may not provide “conclu- claims is a document dated July indicate that he might have been sive” proof of Netaji Subhas 17, 1942 addressed to the home alive,” Banerjee. Chandra Bose being alive after department, government of Among the documents debunk- 1945, researchers asserted that India, stating that “a newspaper ing the plane crash theory the documents reflect that even Hindusthan Standard alone of is a report published in Blitz the Indian government post all newspapers of Bengal which Bombay on March 26, 1949 which Independence did not buy the appeared definitely to discredit stated, “Plane Crash Theory “Taiwan plane crash” theory. the news of Bose death in a plane Unconfirmed”. The nearly 13,000 pages of crash”. “It is not known whether “secret’ information that were Chandrachur Ghose, founder the news of living Bose is based made public last Friday reveal the member of ‘Mission Netaji, an upon positive evidence of his extensive surveillance carried out organisation spearheading the whereabouts suspected to be in on Netaji’s family members, par- declassification campaign, also Red China or Soviet Russia or ticularly his elder brother Sarat opined that snooping on the upon what is described as the Chandra Bose and nephews Sisir Bose family was testament of negative evidence of the failure Kumar and Amiya Nath. the Indian government believing of the best brains to the Anglo AAP activists yesterday took out a protest march and burnt an effigy of Gurgaon’s BJP legislator Umesh There are at least eight files on Netaji to be alive after 1945. American Security Services to dig Aggarwal, demanding his arrest and resignation after a Delhi court framed rape charges against him. Sandeep Sarat Bose alone, and two files on “The Justice Mukherjee up slightest evidence in confirma- the nephews, giving details about Commission has already estab- tion of the story of Bose’s death Luthra and Rekha Rani were other accused in the rape case of a woman from Tilak Nagar in January. how sleuths tracked their each lished that Netaji did not die in in a plane crash and subsequen and every movement. the plane crash. in Tokyo.” From intercepting letters to These classified files which One file also refers to a secret and from their Kolkata resi- reveal the extensive snooping only document by the office of Deputy dence to maintaining records of concretise the fact that the Nehru Commissioner of Police, Special Gujarat’s poster boy Patel detained the meetings they attended and government too believed Netaji Branch Calcutta from January speeches made, the Bose family was alive,” Ghose said. Chief 1949 stating that Sarat Chandra SURAT: Apprehending a Hardik Patel said police were Ekta Manch to hold its rally. were constantly under the scan- Minister Mamata Banerjee also Bose believed Netaji was some- potential law and order situ- harassing them as they wanted Gujarat went into a state of ner particularly in the immediate talked about inferences of Netaji where in China. ation, Surat Police detained to take out a peaceful rally, and high alert following the PAAS post independence era. being alive after 1945. IANS Patidars leader Hardik Patel accused the Gujarat government officials’ detentions. Researchers and some Bose and at least 50 of his supporters of “harassing everybody”. Meanwhile, hours after Patidar family members believe that when they attempted to launch “The Gujarat government is community leader Hardik Patel the snooping was a result of the Kejriwal congratulates Mamata an ‘Ekta Rally’ here yesterday provoking violence though ours was detained in Gujarat yester- Indian government not buying the morning, officials said. is a peaceful agitation. We request day, his Patel Nav Nirman Sena plane crash theory and believing NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief alive after 1945 and that his The rally, which the police the people of the state for sup- demanded his release by the that Netaji was still alive. Minister Arvind Kejriwal family was snooped upon. claimed as ‘unauthorised’, was to port. We are not against any com- evening or warned of a nationwide “There are more than a dozen yesterday congratulated “There are certain letters press for the caste-based reser- munity, but just fighting to get “jail bharo” agitation. instances of reports claim- West Bengal Chief Minister where many have said that he vations for the Patel community reservations for our community,” “If Hardik Patel is not released ing Netaji to be dead before the Mamata Banerjee for making was alive after 1945,” Banerjee spearheaded by Patidar Anamat Patel said. by government (Gujarat) then we August 18, 1945 plane crash. files public on freedom fighter has said. Andolan Samiti (PAAS). PAAS termed the detentions as will start massive jail bharo ando- In fact in 1942, it was reported Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. On August 22, 1945, Tokyo PAAS convenor Hardik Patel, “illegal and bulldozing of democ- lan across the country. Narendra that he died in a plane crash,” “This is unbelievable. I con- Radio announced the “death” of 22, and at least 50 others were racy by the Gujarat government” Modi government and the state researcher and author Jayanta gratulate Mamta di for bringing Bose in an air crash in Formosa detained at Mangad Chowk and which was acting at the centre’s government will be responsible Chowdhury said. it out in public domain,” Kejriwal (now Taiwan) on August 18, whisked off in waiting police vans behest. for it,” Patel Nav Nirman Sena’s “So it is quite natural for the tweeted. Sixty four documents 1945, en route to Japan. But the to the police headquarters. Yesterday ‘Ekta Rally’ was national secretary Akhilesh authorities, be it the British on the disappearance of Bose crash theory has been rejected Undeterred by the deten- thrown a challenge by the oppos- Katiyar said here. or the Indian, not to buy the with the West Bengal govern- by scores of his followers and tions, the Patels defied the police ing OBC Ekta Manch, which He requested Gujarat Chief Taihoku plane crash theory,” ment were made public last admirers and claims of the rev- and took out another rally from threatened to take out a ‘Pratikar Minister Anandiben Patel to said Chowdhury, who deposed Friday. olutionary leader resurfacing Hirabagh locality from where Rally’ protesting against the res- “release Hardik Patel immedi- before the Justice M K Mukherjee The files contain letters sup- continue to intrigue and divide PAAS co-convenor Nikhil Patel ervations sought by the Patidars. ately and give us permission for Commission of Inquiry which in porting the theory that he was Indians over the years. IANS was also detained. However, the city administra- the peaceful march and accept 2006 concluded that Bose did not Shortly after the detention, tion declined permission to OBC our reservation demand.” IANS

Court summons for Congress legislators

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A court here yesterday issued Rahul takes potshot at PM’s poll pledge summons to four Congress lawmakers on a complaint by two women opposition legislators alleging the ruling party members PATNA: Taking pot shots at bluffs. On employment, Gandhi people will come here in suit-boot (government) want to keep their had molested them on the floor of the assembly on March 13 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during the Lok Sabha cam- and demand your land. Then you suit clean, we want to embrace the 2015-16 budget was presented. over his poll promises, Congress paign Modi had promised to would go to other states, you ‘dhoti’”. The Congress legislators asked to appear before the chief judicial vice president Rahul Gandhi revive sugar mills in Champaran, would be asked to go back as you “If you want to bring in “roz- magistrate court here on April 20, 2016 are Dominic Presentation, yesterday called him a Feku but nothing had been done in this don’t speak their language so you gar” (employment), talk to the K Sivadasan Nair, A T George and M A Waheed. (bluff). direction. would be beaten up.” people who need it, not to those Jameela Prakasham and K K Lathika, in their petition, said that Addressing his first election “Modi has never met poor He said if the BJP comes to in suits. If you want to clean the they had approached the court after no action came on their com- rally in Bihar’s West Champaran people, workers and labourers. power in Patna, the suited-booted country, you have to talk to people plaints to assembly Speaker N Sakthan and Chief Minister Oommen district, Gandhi targeted Modi He has no time for them. Modi friends of the prime minister engaged for the work. The gov- Chandy. The two were among five women legislators of the Left over his various promises made only meets people wearing costly from New Delhi and Gujarat will ernment only makes false prom- Democratic Front, who were in the forefront of the protest in the during the 2014 Lok Sabha elec- suits,” he said while people of come to grab the land of the peo- ises,” Gandhi said. house on March 13 against state Finance Minister K M Mani pre- tion campaign but which remain Bihar to be wary of Modi and his ple of Bihar. The Congress leader said, “We senting the budget since he was an accused in the bar scam case. unfulfilled till date. “suited-booted friends” who may Comparing the suited-booted will create jobs in Bihar; we will The Congress-led United Democratic Front had however asserted “He had promised 2lakh jobs, take away their land in the name culture of the Modi dispensation give a credit of `4lakh to Bihar that they would go ahead since it was a constitutional obligation. promised `15lakh in each of your of development. with the simple living of Mahatma youth for education. If our gov- accounts, to control inflation. One Gandhi warned the crowd at Gandhi, he said, “Gandhi ji gave ernment is formed here, we will Drug trafficker held in Delhi year of Modi government has the rally that the uprooted lan- up the comforts of his life to serve create employment opportunities gone. Did it happen? Has anyone dless people would find no shel- the people.” in Bihar.” NEW DELHI: A 43-year-old drug trafficker has been arrested got `15lakh? Has the inflation ter in big cities as they would be He said while Congressmen He said Modi claimed that he here and eight kg charas, with a value of `40lakh in the interna- been controlled? Has anyone got treated as outsiders and would be want to mix with people, Modi sold tea during his childhood, “but tional market, seized from his possession, Delhi Police said yes- employment?... Fektha hai (bluff- driven away from there too. and his friends were averse to the I doubt whether it is true”, add- terday. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Amit Bhatnagar from ing),” the Congress vice president Referring to Bihari migrants common man. ing that Modi started off as a tea an area near Civil Lines last Thursday. The accused, who originally said without taking Modi’s name. being attacked in other states for Gandhi said the prime min- seller, but his clothes changed hails from Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, is now settled in Nepal, Joint Loosely translated, the Hindi being outsiders, Gandhi said: “If ister has distanced himself from simple to better, from kur- Commissioner of Police Ravindra Yadav said, adding that a first word Feku means someone who the BJP government comes here, from the poor people and “they tas to costly suits. IANS information report was registered against him. He said Bhatnagar initially started selling auto spare parts in Nepal, where he met drug peddler Beer Bahadur and got into drug trafficking. Fighting spirit Help jailed Togo Offer to Baruah in national interest: CM Keralites return: GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday said his offer that the government might consider it on humanitarian CM to Sushma grounds if ULFA leader Paresh Baruah wanted to visit his ailing mother was in keeping with national interest. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The chief minister was reacting to a reported statement by union Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju that Gogoi’s offer was has urged External Affairs “undermining national interests”. “I know my national interests and Minister Sushma Swaraj to I just gave an option to facilitate an ailing mother’s reunion with her help eight Keralites stranded son, by keeping national interest on the top,” Gogoi said in a state- in two African countries return ment. “I have all along been fighting the anti-national forces and I home at the earliest. have succeeded to a great extent in containing these forces. National Chandy said he has written to interest all along has been a priority and utmost importance to me, Swaraj seeking her intervention I don’t want anybody’s advice on it,” he added. to see the matter is taken up at the diplomatic level. Four men are Wife, lover held for man’s murder presently in jail in Togo while four nurses are in Congo who wish to GHAZIABAD: The murder of a Delhi-based businessman has return to India. been solved with the arrest of his wife and her lover, who is also Chandy who arrived in Delhi her dead husband’s cousin, police said yesterday. yesterday is likely to call on Mannu Walia, 40, a real estate developer, was shot dead by motor- Swaraj regarding the two cases, cycle-borne assailants last Wednesday while he was travelling to his office said. The four Keralites Haridwar in his luxury Audi car along with his wife Shalini, 38, and in Togo are in jail since July 2013. his cousin Vipul, 36. They reached the African country Last Thursday, the victim’s younger brother Alok Singh filed an in June 2013 after being offered a FIR with the Ghaziabad Police saying that Shalini and Vipul were Delhi Police yesterday organised a blood donation camp at Adarsh Nagar Police station, West Delhi since new job in a shipping company by behind the murder. The incident took place in Raj Nagar Extension a Keralite. Nileena, wife of Nithin area. The motive of the murder was an illicit relationship between dengue cases are on the rise in the capital. The blood camp which was organised in association with Lions Babu who is currently in Togo jail Shalini and Vipul and also to grab Mannu Walia’s properties in Delhi Blood Bank also witnessed the participation of Resident Welfare Association members from Adarsh Nagar said that things are bad there. and other towns, police said. IANS area, West Delhi. IANS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Dunes, by Al Nahda: Luxury on top of the dunes

Dunes by Al Nahda officials at the soft launch function.

unes by Al Nahda, is set in of Dunes by Al Nahda. “This resort will for the more adventurous souls. the golden sands of Wadi definitely be a prime tourist destination, Hosting a variety of extreme sports Al Abiyad, 45 minute drive but it also serves as a great getaway for like dune bashing, quad biking, sand surf- away from Al Nahda Resort residents of the country too.” ing, camel riding, bicycle riding and kite and Spa. Dotted with well-spaced villas and flying, this resort makes sure to com- DThis is the closest desert resort to suites, Dunes by Al Nahda features 50 pletely enthral the adrenalin seekers. downtown Muscat and the United Arab ultra luxury tents each with full individ- For those wanting to simply flex those Emirates, allowing guests to enjoy the ual bathrooms, separate seating area and muscles in some outdoor sports, the desert at their doorstep. individually controlled air-conditioning. venue has a 09 hole on-site bunker golf “Our resort promises an exhilarat- This exclusive luxury getaway devotes course, the sole of its kind in Oman. The ing experience that our guests are itself to wellness. The special Hot Sand location atop the sand dune, offers an bound to keep reminiscing about. We treatment, a spa experience carried for- unrivalled view over the surrounding have ensured that our restaurants, in- ward from ancient Egypt, is their sig- with undulating sand dunes, desert and The reception area house facilities as well as guided outdoor nature therapy. Guests can choose to mountains in the distance. The property activities are up to international LVX be greeted with a wellness-consultant also has a dedicated Children’s play area. standards,” said Niti Ajit Karsandas to assist them in picking from a range The Fleur Restaurant serves a range of Dunes by Al Nahda also features a 160 Dunes by Al Nahda is also a member Hamlai, Managing Director of Al Nahda of invigorating spa therapies. Dunes, by culinary delights from across the globe. metre square banquet hall for up to of Preferred LVX, a division of Preferred Hotels and Resorts, the parent company Al Nahda also has a range of activities For meetings and special event needs, 250pax. Hotels& Resort. THE PENINSULA

VLCC offers guaranteed Special menu at Mercure Hotel for Eid weight loss programme

LCC has launched an all- enhance the reach of VLCC slim- new slimming programme ming programmes, and more and Vfor men and women. more people would say ‘I’ve lost it This unlimited and guaranteed with VLCC’. The number of dis- weight loss programme comes eases linked to modern lifestyle is under the umbrella of a unique on the rise, and it is welcome that VLCC weight loss campaign enti- more and more people are aware tled, ‘I’ve lost it’. The programme, of the significance of maintaining guided by professionals, includes a balanced diet and body weight,’’ customised treatments and diet says Vandana Luthra, (pictured) plans, and assures loss of extra founder of VLCC Group. kilos easily as it encompasses Modern lifestyle (regardless unlimited weight loss sessions of the age and culture), accord- until the guaranteed weight loss ing to VLCC, has made wellness is reached. an accepted concept and desire degree of weight. ‘‘VLCC is a brand synonymous among people, the world over, and Secondly, the VLCC Weight with health and beauty, and enjoys obesity is a major public health Loss Guarantee also offers diets the trust and faith of millions of threat than any other epidemic based on DNA, VLCC actually satisfied customers worldwide. known to mankind. creates a diet for individuals ‘I’ve lost it’, a guaranteed weight- The new slimming treatment, based on the genetic profile. loss campaign endowed with made up of proper diet, exercise All this is done under the Mercure Hotel will be celebrating Eid Al Adha with a special Arabic & Oriental A La Carte menu from September unlimited weight-loss sessions, is and lifestyle management, will not experienced guidance of qualified 23 to 26 at their La Brasserie Restaurant for lunch. A wide choice of dishes including Hrira Soup, Hot Mezzah, emerging as one of our signature only create a condition of good professionals – from slimming Seafood Salad, Oriental Salad, Couscous Royal, Lamb Ouzi, Fish Tajine, Dawood Bacha, Kunafa and Baklava programmes. We firmly believe physical and mental health, but counsellors to dieticians. will be available. Prices rage from QR25 to QR55 for main courses. that this programme will further also help one maintain a desirable THE PENINSULA Naturalizer introduces back to work collection

or the Fall/Winter 2015 season Naturalizer introduces its Back to Work collection which has been inspired by the modern woman. This collection incorpo- rates contemporary trends, fine detailing Fand comfort. “Our designs are based on the princi- ples of quality, innovation through our technologies and timeless styles that cater to a modern woman. Sonam Kapoor’s sound A woman knowledgeable about fashion, but insists on comfort and versatility. Naturalizer designed a advice for young girls line focused on two major stories for this season, covering everything from everyday looks through ollywood Actress Sonam Kapoor (pictured) classic tailoring. Ladies can now remove your band- wants young girls to move ahead from those ages, because Naturalizer will delight your feet with Bthings that are not working best for them and style and comfort,” says the company. says that this holds true for shampoos too. Sonam, who has joined hands with beauty brand L’Oréal Nu Bohemia Ready-to-wear transforms and refigures materials Paris Advanced haircare’s campaign ‘Change your This features an outdoor, fairytale feel, which into soft molded looks such as quilting. Effortless Shampoo, Change your Hair’, wants to advise all blends artisan with historical handcrafted looks. It and cozy menswear styling eludes to the continuation young girls that “it’s not only about relationships embraces the wilderness through minimal mate- of the “boy meets girl” looks. Square toes, straight but correct things that work for you”. rial mixing and heavy lug soles. Art nouveau prints heels, plated hardware and oversized buckles can ‘Change your Shampoo, Change your Hair’ is and 1970’s dandy styling are integral parts of this be seen throughout this trend. An overwhelmingly L’Oréal Paris’s new style mantra for the season and Bohemian look. The palette focuses on opulent mid- quiet and peaceful color palette – tonal greys, pow- – N5 Contour. These styles will include an inno- has been backed by its three ambassadors: Sonam tones and darks that are enhanced by red coloura- der blues and dusty pinks are a head to toe color vative contour insole and footbed, superior dual- Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Katrina Kaif. tions and golden metallic. statement while winter white emerges. density cushioning and a lux suede sock with Agion. “Honestly the reason why I decided to do this cam- These features provide the woman with her all Enhancing comfort experience, N5 Contour features paign because I loved the idea of finding the correct Luxe Casuals day comfort, delivering flexibility, lightness, balance, styles that redistribute weight and pressure, include fit for you and trying to find things that works best An organic minimal theme with an empha- cushioning and breathability. The Naturalizer intro- superior arch and heel support with a consistent fit. for you,” Sonam about her involvement with the sis on comfort, simplicity and soft movement. duces a new extension to its N5 comfort system THE PENINSULA campaign. “I wanted to give advise to all the young girls out there that its not only about relationships but correct things that work for you. We have a ten- dency of getting stuck to something that we know rather than finding something that actually makes us feel good. And the same thing goes for sham- poos,” she added. The campaign was unveiled with Sonam’s bold and sassy take on break-ups and bad relationships. Speaking on this one-of-a-kind video, Sonam said: “I strongly feel that with any relationship, with peo- ple or for that matter, your shampoo, there is no point holding on if it doesn’t make you happy. “The message is simple. It’s time Indian women stop compromising and living with bad hair days.” IANS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK

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Weather Hazy to misty at places at first be- o o comes hot during Minimum: 29 C Maximum: 39 C the day with some HIGH TIDE 09:30 - 20:15LOW TIDE 02:15 - 16:00 clouds and humid with hazy by night. Seismic alert! Apps warn Mexicans of quakes MEXICO CITY: A power- alarm will sound on 8,200 street issued a false alarm. ful earthquake strikes off the megaphones. At the time, the app was still Pacific coast of Mexico. Within The surge of smartphone tech- connected to CIRES, which Cantu seconds, radio transmissions, nology now gives Chilangos, as the blames for the error. But the civil megaphones and smartphone capital’s residents are known, association says it was SkyAlert’s apps blare warnings to the capi- the ability to receive warnings own doing. tal’s 20 million people before the in the palm of their hands with Cantu said the risk of failure ground shakes. apps such as SkyAlert and Alerta for SkyAlert is very small as the After the loud “seismic alert!” Sismica DF. signal uses speedy data networks alarm, Mexico City residents have Within two seconds that instead of phone lines. The city as much as a minute to flee their a quake hits, SkyAlert’s sen- government failed at its own app homes, offices and schools before sors send a broadband signal to experiment. buildings start to sway. phones, triggering a loud sound For CIRES’s Director General, But such technology was not with a voice that repeats “seismic Juan Manuel Espinosa Aranda, available on September 19, 1985, alert” and a message indicating old-school radio signals are more when a massive 8.1-magnitude the temblor’s intensity. reliable. The veteran engineer coastal quake rocked the metrop- Launched in 2013, the app has showed a screen that monitors lit- olis, crushing buildings and killing three million users. “This type tle green dots across the coast rep- thousands. of system carries great respon- resenting the sensors — fenced-in It can take more than a minute sibility,” SkyAlert’s 29-year-old areas with two antennas and a box for the seismic waves to reach founder, Alejandro Cantu, said. containing the technology. the capital hundreds of kilome- “Every morning I wake up and From a three-story house tres away. But once they arrive, think I go to work with a commit- in Mexico City topped by an buildings start moving back and ment to my country and my people,” antenna, CIRES’s servers await forth because the soil below — a said Cantu, whose company also the dreaded warning, which is former lake bed — is soft. sells devices for homes and offices automatically relayed to alarm When the country marks the that receive alerts via satellite. systems via radio signals. 30th anniversary of the tragedy, SkyAlert split from the CIRES AFP the early-warning systems will be system last year after Cantu trav- switched on during a national drill. elled to Japan and brought back For two decades, a civil associa- the Asian country’s sensor tech- tion known by its initials CIRES nology for his app. has provided the city with a sys- In May, the company charged tem that automatically interrupts users 59 pesos ($3.5) a year to radio broadcasts and triggers personalise their alerts, gaining alarms inside buildings thanks 30,000 paid customers so far. to some 100 sensors placed along While SkyAlert quickly became the western coast. a popular application, it jolted its For the first time this year, the customers in July 2014 when it Sunday 20 September 2015 6 Dhul-Hijja 1436 Volume 20 Number 6559 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Payment delay, design changes Hamad Port to hike reasons for construction rows handling capacity DOHA: Hamad Port would Qatar Rail’s Chief of Service increase its handling capacity to Delivery Andrew Tailor updated Dispute value hits $76.7m in 2014 in Mena region 6mTEUS by 2020. The first phase the Forum on Qatar’s $20bn-plus of the mega project, which is integrated transport plan. A world BY SATISH KANADY the project, ranging from time However, serious technical issues involved installing more pre-cast record 21 tunnel boring machines to cost”, he said. should be considered minimal as blocks, is due to open at the end are being used on the Doha Metro DOHA: Delayed payment and repeated Disputes relating to major all infrastructure and construc- of 2016. This was revealed at the project, which so far has completed changes in original designs are the two construction projects rose tion programmes always face just-concluded MEED’s 4th annual almost 50 kilometres of tunnels. A major reasons for the disputes in Qatar’s almost 88 percent last year to some problems during the project Qatar Transport Forum. total of 26,000 workers are working construction sector and across the region. reach $76.7m in value. It was life cycle. There has been a con- At the Forum, experts said Qatar is on the project, equating to more than The settlement value of the disputes in the the highest value increase in certed effort by some government moving ahead with more than $40bn 78 million man hours worked as of region is equal to 20 to 30 percent of the construction disputes since departments to reduce problems worth of planned transport projects. end of August. combined contract value, according to an 2011. The construction dispute faced by contractors and consult- These include expansion of Hamad Work on the Lusail tram scheme expert. values touched $112.5m in 2011 ant with some of the standard Port, the Doha Metro and long-dis- is even more advanced, with four of Delay in payment will often leads to hold- as a result of a number of high government forms of contract; tance passenger and freight network, the five at grade stations completed, ing up a project for long, which will ultimately value claims that were initi- these are now being reviewed and and the expressway programme. while the tender for the first phase upset the project cost and schedule. Payment ated for projects undertaken revised to improve the contract- One of the highlights of the Qatar design and build of the long-distance delay is a long term problem for any project, in 2008 and 2009, according to ing environment in the country Transport Forum was the pub- freight and rail network will be issued Peter Murphy (pictured), Associate Director, a report by built asset design and consultancy and ultimately help reduce contractor claims. lic unveiling of plans for the esti- to contractors early next year. Quantum Global Solutions told The Peninsula. firm Arcadis. Top reasons for construction Jolo said prompt payments act model from mated $8bn expansion of Hamad On the roads side,Nasser al- Speaking on the sidelines of American disputes in the Middle East were failure in Ireland is a good example of legislation that International Airport (HIA). NDIA Kuwari, Manager of Highway Chamber of Commerce in Qatar’s (AmCham) properly administering the contract, poorly could help the country’s various government Steering Committee Project Director Projects department at Ashghal, pre- ‘Distinguished Speaker Series”, Peter said: drafted or incomplete and unsubstantiated departments reduce the period of payment Peter Daley, outlined the procure- sented an overview of the QR40bn “Delayed payment is a serious issue every- claims and a biased manager or an engineer. to contractors. Experienced contractors in ment timeline along with descrip- ($10.8bn) expressway programme. where, not only in Qatar. Back-to-back pay- Sharing his view on the challenges and Qatar, however, appear to understand how to tions of the project scope, which The massive project, which involves ment is key for meeting project schedules”. development in the Qatar’s construction mar- correctly calim payments from government, includes an expansion of the main 1,000km of new or upgraded roads, Design changing is another key reason for the ket, Ahmad Jassim Al Jolo, Chairman, The and thereby experience less delays with their terminal building and concourse D 240 major interchanges and 360 growing number of disputes in the construc- Qatar Society of Engineer recently said he payments than those who submit incorrect and E. bridges, has already seen 43 major tion sector. “Yes, it is the prerogative of the believed the greatest challenge to Qatar’s mas- documentation to support their interim pay- Also revealed for the first time contracts awarded. client to step in at any point of time in the sive infrastructure programme was coordina- ment applications. In its latest financial stabil- were plans for two additional con- A total of 15 contracts are either project development and make suggestions. tion amongst various stakeholders despite the ity report, Qatar Central Bank (QCB) noted tainer terminals at Hamad Port that in the market or are being prepared, Because he is paying for it. But the client efforts of the Central Planning Office. the payment defaults by the contractors and would increase the QR27bn ($7.3bn) while a further 23 are in the plan- must remember that the extra cost of the ‘re- There is a perception that this region’s con- real estate companies are giving worries to the project’s handling capacity to 6 mil- ning stage. designing’ will trickle down to every aspect of struction market is difficult to participate in. banks. THE PENINSULA lion TEUs. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatargas EMS unit gets global accreditation Department first in Mideast to achieve recognition

DOHA: The Fire & Rescue Department, led by EMS & providing high-quality services Emergency Management Security Manager Hassan Jassim to Qatargas. The department has Services (EMS) Department Abu Khamis, have received the been able to use the accreditation of Qatargas has been awarded accreditation certificate at an process as a proactive mechanism the distinguished “Accredited award ceremony recently organ- to plan for the future of Qatargas Agency” status by the US-based ised by CPSE in Atlanta, USA Emergency Management Services Centre for Public Safety following a face-to-face hearing and identify areas where it can Excellence (CPSE) after suc- session with the Commission improve on the quality of services cessfully meeting the rigor- members. It was the culmination it provides. ous criteria set by the CPSE’s of a four-year long documenta- Qatargas, as a company, bene- Accreditation Commission in tion and assessment exercise that fited from the accreditation proc- the areas of continuous quality involved a rigorous process to ess as well. Under the continuous improvement and enhancement determine risk and safety needs, improvement model used in seek- of service delivery. evaluate current performance of ing accreditation, the company is With this, Qatargas EMS the department, and establish a required to maintain an active became the first CPSE accred- method for achieving continuous strategic planning programme as ited department in the Middle improvement. well as a comprehensive assess- East region and it joined a line- The accreditation process was ment of the overall level of risk. Officials with the accreditation. up of 218 such accredited agencies demanding and challenging for This “risk assessment” helped around the world. CPSE provides Qatargas EMS Department as the company make an informed the only accreditation programme an industrial based organisa- decision on the level of service a cross-section of the fire service the International Association of accreditation, education, and for Fire & Rescue Emergency tion with multiple sites spread desired. industry, including fire depart- Firefighters. credentialing services to agencies Management Service organisa- across Ras Laffan Industrial area. The CPSE Accreditation ments, city and county man- CPSE is a non-profit organisa- and fire service industry profes- tions in the world. This feat has demonstrated the Commission is governed by an agement, code councils, the US tion that serves as the governing sionals. Representatives of the EMS Department’s commitment to 11-member council representing Department of Defence, and body for organisations offering THE PENINSULA

Lulu bags TPQ’s Qanat Quartier top Indian townhouse auction over tourism award DOHA: United Development current financial year and beyond. DELHI: The President of India Company (UDC), the master Townhouses in Qanat Quartier Pranab Mukherjee gave away developer of The Pearl-Qatar are offered in two or three bed- the National Tourism Awards (TPQ), yesterday announced room units covering 350 sqm for the year 2013-14 at a func- that its first limited auction and above. Offering views over tion held at Vigyan Bhavan, offering of nine Qanat Quartier the picturesque water canals, all New Delhi. townhouses has successfully units also feature parking areas, Lulu International Travel concluded. as well as direct access to the & Tourism, a division of Lulu Through the envelope bidding beach. Residents can enjoy the Group bagged the best Overseas method, UDC had auctioned some stunning architecture, privileged Tour Operator from West of the finest and most luxurious lifestyle on the water and water Asia & Africa region. Abhilash townhouses in the Venice-like taxis linking Qanat Quartier with Valiyavalappil, Commercial community of Qanat Quartier. other areas in The Pearl-Qatar. Manager of Lulu Group along By the set September 13 dead- Residents can also enjoy a wide with Biju Nair, Sales & Marketing line, the company had received variety of retail options, including Manager LuluInternational and subsequently processed bids restaurants, cafes, gift shops, art Travels received the award from for the nine units in accordance galleries, small fashion boutiques, the President of India in the to the auction’s set rules and food markets, resorts, recreation presence of Dr Mahesh Sharma, regulations. facilities and specialised gyms. Minister of State for Tourism & In what was considered to be A Venice-like community, Culture. a very competitive process with Qanat Quartier is one of the most The Ministry of Tourism annu- a set minimum opening price of popular and attractive precincts ally presents tourism awards to President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, presenting the Best Overseas Tour Operator Award from West Asia & Africa QR25,000 ($6,865) per square in TPQ, quickly becoming a highly various segments of the travel, Region to Abhilash Valiyavalappil, Commercial Manager of Lulu Group and Biju Nair, Sales & Marketing Manager, metre, a number of bids exceeded sought after address in the Gulf tourism and hospitality industry. this amount, consequently setting region. LuluInternational Travels, at a function in New Delhi. These awards are being given a new benchmark for future sale Its unique Venetian-inspired to State Governments/Union rates at TPQ, where further real architecture, with brightly colored Territories, classified hotels, recognition of their performance have won this prestigious award East and Africa. Tourism sector estate investment opportunities houses, canal ways, bridges heritage hotels, approved travel in their respective fields. from the Government of India. is very important for the future are expected to be offered in the and seaside facades, render it a agents, tour operators and tourist Commenting on this, Yusuff Ali This will give us further encour- growth of India as it is one of the fourth quarter this year in what is unique and attractive residential transport operators, individuals MA, Managing Director of Lulu agement to boost the potential top foreign exchange generator”. expected to impact UDC’s outlook destination. and other private organisations in Group said, “We are honoured to of Indian tourism in the Middle THE PENINSULA and further its growth for the THE PENINSULA

US auto workers get Volkswagen could face $18bn penalties first raise in a decade WASHINGTON/DETROIT: Volkswagen AG faces penalties up to $18bn after being accused DETROIT: US auto workers may seek richer deals from GM of designing software for diesel won their first raise in a decade and Ford because they are on bet- cars that deceives regulators in a deal with Fiat Chrysler’s ter financial footing than FCA. measuring toxic emissions, the US subsidiary that will be used Fiat Chrysler chief Sergio US Environmental Protection as a template for talks with Marchionne called the tentative Agency said. General Motors and Ford, their agreement a “transformational “Put simply, these cars con- union said. deal” in a letter to employees. tained software that turns off The United Auto Workers “It guarantees that our workers emissions controls when driv- union succeeded at clawing back will share equitably in the success ing normally and turns them on some of the major concessions we are able to generate working when the car is undergoing an made in order to help the Detroit together while ensuring that our emissions test,” Cynthia Giles, an Three carmakers survive the 2008 company will be able to remain enforcement officer at the EPA, financial crisis. competitive,” he said. told reporters in a teleconference. But while the wage gains are “This new contract represents Volkswagen can face civil pen- significant, the UAW was not able a major step forward in ena- alties of $37,500 for each vehicle to fully close a much-maligned bling greater and more direct not in compliance with federal pay gap between newer hires and involvement of our workers in clean air rules. There are 482,000 those with seniority. the achievement of the strategic four-cylinder VW and Audi die- It was also unable to stop FCA objectives of FCA and recognizes sel cars sold since 2008 involved US from shifting some US pro- the central role that you all play in the allegations. If each car duction to Mexico, but union offi- in building our common future.” involved is found to be in non- cials said they do not expect to The union’s executive council compliance, the penalty could be see any jobs lost because demand voted to endorse the contract $18bn, an EPA official confirmed for the vehicles that will remain on Friday. Ratification votes are on the teleconference. in the United States is so strong. expected to begin next week at A US Volkswagen spokesman “Once the membership looks at plants across the country. said the company “is cooperat- it, I think they’ll ratify it. They’ll Workers with seniority who ing with the investigation; we see it’s a fair and balanced agree- currently earn between $28 and are unable to comment further A Volkswagen Passat is offered for sale at a dealership in Chicago, Illinois. ment,” UAW president Dennis $33 an hour will get three per- at this time.” Williams told reporters. cent raises in the first and third The feature in question, which The UAW contracts cover year of the contract and lump the EPA called a “defeat device,” from model years 2009 to 2015 complexity of the issue, an EPA In a television commercial that 142,000 workers at the Detroit sum payments in the second and masks the true emissions only made to circumvent emissions official said. has aired frequently this year in Three, of which nearly 40,000 fourth years of the contract. during testing and therefore when testing of certain air pollutants. The diesel-powered vehicles the United States, VW says it work for FCA. Those on the ‘second-tier’ who the cars are on the road they emit The cars are not facing recall involved from the 2009 to 2015 is the “No. 1 diesel car brand in The union has traditionally were hired after 2007 will see as much as 40 times the level of at this time, the EPA said. VW model years are the VW Jetta, America,” brags its cars are “clean negotiated similar contracts with their hourly wages increase from pollutants allowed under clean did not indicate on Friday how it VW Beetle, VW Golf and the diesel” and asks viewers, “Isn’t it all three major US carmakers in the current rate of $16 to $21 up air rules meant to ensure public will address the issue. Audi A3, as well as the VW Passat time for German engineering?” order to prevent their employ- to $22 to $25 over the course of health is protected, Giles said. The EPA has the authority to from model years 2014 and 2015. Since 2009, diesel vehicles have ers from suffering competitive the four-year contract. The EPA accused Volkswagen order VW to recall the vehicles. VW in North America has made up approximately 15 per- disadvantages. Everyone will get a $3,000 sign- of using software in four-cylinder However, that process could take heavily marketed its vehicles as cent of VW and Audi US sales. But Williams has indicated he ing bonus. AFP Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars up to a year, depending on the being “clean diesel.” REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Kenyan growth BedayaCenter signs MoU with QFCRA high but so are Plans to raise awareness of financial sector, careers the risks, says DOHA: The BedayaCenter for networks in Doha. They will Regulatory Authority and con- QNB report Entrepreneurship and Career also promote Bedaya initiatives duct secondary school visits Development (BedayaCenter), to encourage aspiring members with Regulatory Authority staff DOHA: Kenya is now the third a joint initiative by Qatar of Doha’s financial community, members. Bedaya will involve the largest economy in Sub-Saharan Development Bank (QDB) and primarily secondary school and Regulatory Authority in its new Africa (SSA) after Nigeria and Silatech, has signed an MoU university students, to hone their initiative for supporting Qatari South Africa with nominal GDP with Qatar Financial Centre personal and professional skills. graduates and cover the cost of of $66bn expected in 2015, says Regulatory Authority (QFCRA) “Our strategic partnership any other agreed joint programs QNB in its weekly report. The to promote cooperation and with QFCRA is highly impor- such as virtual career video, which economy is dependent on agri- an affiliation between the two tant in nurturing financial talent is part of the career videos series, culture, which accounts for 30 organisations. Together, they in the country while reflect- with the Regulatory Authority’s percent of GDP and 40 percent will work to raise awareness ing the organizations’ commit- nominated talents. of exports. (Kenya is the world’s of the importance of Qatar’s ment to support both the Qatar Reem Al Suwaidi, General leading exporter of black tea). financial sector and the careers National Development Strategy Manager of Bedaya, said: ‘’Bedaya Real GDP growth is currently to be found there, develop spe- 2011-2016 and the Qatar National is looking forward to this new relatively high, expected to be 5.5 cific career development for the Vision 2030. The agreement with collaboration with the QFC percent in 2015 driven by invest- sector, and help to unlock the QFCRA comes in line with our Regulatory Authority to pro- ment in infrastructure and high potential of Qatari youth. strategy to develop careers in the vide career guidance tools and population growth. Kenya’s long- The MoU aims to establish a field of financial services as finan- advice to the Authority’s talents term fundamentals are under- framework for moving forward cial services would continue to be as well as encourage secondary pinned by positive demographics. with a productive collaboration an important pillar of Qatar’s eco- schools visits to experience how The 44m population is grow- on career development events and nomic development,” said Raed Al the Regulatory Authority works. ing quickly (2.7 percent a year) activities. Under the MoU, Bedaya Emadi, Vice Chairman of Bedaya. We are delighted that our work and urbanising, leading to ris- will facilitate one-to-one advisory “Our ultimate goal is to build exploration programs will see the ing wealth, an expanding middle sessions with QFC Regulatory a legacy of financial regulators Regulatory Authority hosting two class, strong growth in the sup- Authority for those who use for the State of Qatar. In part- students in different divisions of ply of labour and rapidly growing Bedaya’s career guidance tools nership with Bedaya Center for the organisation each year. Our demand for consumer services. and will also participate in par- Entrepreneurship and Career Bedaya Initiative for Qatari grad- Kenya is also expected to start ents’ awareness sessions hosted Development, we will work uates will also gain Regulatory producing and exporting oil from by Bedaya. jointly on mutual strategies Authority support through their 2021, which would provide a fur- In addition, the Regulatory for Qatarisation by promoting delivery of financial technical ther impetus to growth. However, Authority will consult on the awareness of financial services training. The MoU has all the in the short term Kenya’s weak fis- preparation of the career videos regulation and careers in this hallmarks of a very productive cal and external positions leave it that Bedaya produces highlight- field to secondary school and partnership to promote career exposed to the risk of capital flight, ing the finance sector, and will university students and their development in the financial the QNB report said. also collaborate with Bedaya on parents,” said, Otello Sturino, regulation sector.’’ From 1990 to 2003, Kenya’s its work exploration programs by Managing Director, Corporate Al Masar, or The Path, is a real GDP growth was weak, aver- hosting two students per year in Communications. custom Regulatory Authority Officials at the MoU signing ceremony. aging 2.2 percent as a result of different divisions of the organisa- Bedaya will provide career program designed to take fresh protectionist policies, economic tion. Bedaya’s Initiative for Qatari guidance tools to all future poten- graduates, as well as Qataris who Regulatory Authority are in the graduates, interns, and Qataris at mismanagement, patchy reforms graduates, called Graduation tial Regulatory Authority talents, are more established in their fields of authorisation, supervision, entry-level through “established and corruption. However, after Program, and also calls upon the up to 15 per year and conduct careers, through five stages of policy and legislative counsel. The expert” phases and beyond. Kenya’s first truly free and fair Regulatory Authority to deliver one-to-one advisory sessions professional growth and develop- Authority team has extensive expe- The collaboration will enhance elections in 2002, the economy financial technical training for 25 with Regulatory Authority staff ment in the core business roles of rience working in financial centers the programme by providing turned around as a number of graduates on a yearly basis. and affiliates who have completed the Regulatory Authority. Each of from London to Dubai to Hong career development tools and reforms were implemented, includ- The Regulatory Authority aims Bedaya assessments. these stages is carefully charted Kong to Sydney, among others. advice to graduates and budding ing deregulation, anti-corruption to support the efforts of Bedaya Bedaya will also secure intern- and brought to life with profes- These financial experts will play professionals to help them make laws and an overhaul of the public and build its profile, encouraging ships and encourage job shad- sional training, coaching and staff a major role in Al Masar career the right choices at every stage finances, leading to an improved career development and planning owing participants to explore mentoring. development at the Regulatory for a successful future career business environment. As a result, by tapping into their established the work environment of the The core business roles of the Authority by mentoring fresh path. THE PENINSULA private and public investment rose sharply, including from foreign investors (foreign direct invest- ment rose from $21m in 2005 to $514m in 2013), and GDP growth picked up to an estimated aver- age of5.1 percent in 2004-14. In QFC sets up new Employment Standards Office 2014, Kenya issued a $2bn sov- ereign bond (SSA’s largest ever debt issue), which was four times DOHA: The Qatar Financial independent entity, we are further oversubscribed. Centre (QFC) has announced ensuring that all QFC employ- To further encourage invest- the establishment of an inde- ees and licensed firms work in a ment and develop the economy, a pendent Employment Standards transparent environment where number of major projects are being Office (ESO). they are treated fairly and are implemented. However, Kenya is The ESO, which previously encouraged to resolve disputes exposed to risks of capital flight. operated under the Legal depart- amicably.” The current account deficit is ment, is the new statutory com- He added: “I am confident that expected to be 7.7 percent of GDP pliance office for businesses the QFC business community will in 2015 and international reserves registered under the QFC. greatly benefit from the services are low (around four months of The office has been estab- offered by the ESO and will con- import cover). The fiscal deficit is lished with the aim to protect tinue to positively contribute to expected to be 7.6 percent of GDP both employers and employees the growth of Qatar’s economy.” in 2015 and public debt is high through robust regulations, codes In addition to the role of and rising (50 percent of GDP in and procedures. administrating and enforcing 2015 compared with 48.6 percent Its objectives include enforc- Employment Regulations and in 2014). ing compliance with regula- Employment Code at the QFC, In summary, Kenya has a lot of tions, ensuring fair treatment the ESO also works closely with positives: strong investment; high of employers and employees, the Ministry of Labour to pro- population growth; and a backstop encouraging communication vide relevant information related of $1bn to $2bn of additional oil between its members, facili- to employees working under the revenue expected to come online in tating dispute resolution and QFC. 2021. As a result, many forecasters developing a productive QFC Simultaneously, the ESO gath- expect growth of over 6 percent work force. ers information about Qataris over the long term. However, in the Yousuf Al Jaida, Chief Executive who work at the QFC in view of meantime, there is a real risk of Officer, QFC, said: “The ESO is an identifying trends in the Qatari a balance of payments crisis that important part of the QFC’s foun- labour market. Yousuf Al Jaida, Chief Executive Officer, QFC, speaking at a function. could seriously upset growth in the dations. By establishing it as an THE PENINSULA short term. THE PENINSULA

France to push on with reforms after Moody’s downgrade

PARIS: France’s finance minis- Moody’s believes that it will remain year, before picking up to 1.0 per- ter reaffirmed the country’s com- so — compared with the recover- cent in 2016. mitment to economic reforms ies observed over the past few dec- In a statement responding to after ratings agency Moody’s cut ades,” Moody’s said, placing a stable the downgrade on Friday, Finance French bond ratings by a notch to outlook on France’s new rating. Minister Michel Sapin said recent Aa2, citing continued weakness President Francois Hollande economic and budgetary data in the country’s medium-term has said that the country will not showed the government’s capacity growth outlook. The French gov- be able to cut its public deficit to to revive the economy and vowed ernment on Wednesday stuck to within European Union targets as to press ahead with reforms. “cautious” growth and deficit tar- soon as planned because of weak “The government remains firmly gets two weeks before the release growth and low inflation, cast- committed to continuing and of its 2016 budget, saying it was ing doubt on the country’s reform increasing its reform policies aimed right to ask EU partners for a drive. France left its main targets at upholding potential growth delay in bringing down borrowing untouched on Wednesday. The and employment in the French last year as an economic recovery public deficit is set to fall from 3.8 economy,” he said in a statement. was taking hold. percent of gross domestic product Moody’s said it saw France’s poten- However, Moody’s said it decided in 2015 to 3.3 percent next year, tial annual growth rate at about to downgrade France’s government before falling below the European 1.5 percent over the medium term. bond rating because it expects Union-mandated threshold of 3 France would continue to be French economic growth to remain percent in 2017. plagued with a high rate of struc- low over the medium term, likely The government also stuck to tural unemployment, relatively weighing on “any material reversal” previous growth forecasts of 1 weak corporate profit margins, in France’s debt burden. percent in 2015 and 1.5 percent and a loss of global export market “The current economic recov- next year, in line with the consen- share due to rigidities in its labour ery in France has already proven sus of international organisations. and product markets, the ratings French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron addressing a meet in Paris on Friday. to be significantly slower — and Inflation will reach 0.1 percent this agency said. REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Apple explores iOS 9 update glitch hits some devices road rules for Apple customers report crashes self-driving cars SAN FRANCISCO: The SAN FRANCISCO/SYDNEY: Apple’s headquarters in San California Department of Motor A significant number of Apple Francisco did not respond to a Vehicles (DMV) said that it Inc customers are reporting request for comment. An Apple met with Apple to discuss rules their mobile devices have crashed spokesman in Sydney said the of the road regarding testing after attempting to upload the company had no comment. self-driving cars. “The Apple new iOS 9 operating system, the Despite any troubles, signifi- meeting was to review DMV’s latest in a line of launch glitches cant numbers of iOS users had autonomous vehicle regula- for the tech giant. upgraded; more than 16 percent, tions,” a department spokesper- Twitter and other social media according to Mixpanel, a San son said in an email response to were awash with disgruntled cus- Francisco, California-based ana- an inquiry. “DMV often meets tomers reporting two distinct lytics company, as of 2300 GMT with various companies regard- faults, with one appearing to be on Thursday. ing DMV operations.” linked specifically to older models Charlie Brown, a technol- Apple has not commented of Apple iPhones and iPads. ogy expert at Sydney-based on rumours that it is working “It is beyond inconvenient to Cybershack, said any number of on a self-driving car, and the not be able to use your phone for dissatisfied customers was sig- California-based technology colos- a day,” said student Pip Cordi as nificant in the social media era, sus did not respond to a request staff in the Apple store in central particularly following the troubled to contribute to this story. Sydney looked at her phone on rollout of iOS 8. Apple released The DMV’s responsibilities Friday. “I have a lot of apps that several further updates to iOS8, include developing regulations I use for school — things like lan- but some of the bugs were never for safe operation of self-driving guage apps and dictionaries and fully fixed. vehicles. To that end, members of that’s all really important for my “The risk to Apple in terms of the department meet with com- studies.” having dissatisfied customers is panies to better understand the Another iPhone user, Zorry that as their customer base grows, technology. Coates, said she had spent three so will the number of those dis- Google and several major hours in the Apple store and had satisfied customers,” said Brown. car makers have been pursuing been left with the option of either One group of users reported Customers look at an Apple iPhone 6 at an Apple reseller shop in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday. autonomous vehicle technology. returning her phone to factory that iOS 9 upgrade would fail after Google has been testing self- settings — losing any non-backed- several minutes, requiring them driving cars in Silicon Valley up data — or waiting until Apple to start the process over. Many referring to the major US shop- were saying the downloading Metering the upgrade, or allow- and elsewhere. Toyota early technicians announced an update. posted screen shots of the error ping sale day after Thanksgiving. mechanism doesn’t take as much ing users to upgrade in waves this month announced plans to “They said they were aware of message they received: “Software “Some websites get creamed on space to download,” said Sydney- rather than all at once, would invest $50m into building arti- the problem and their engineers Update Failed”. the traffic on Black Friday.” based Graham McKay, an IT sup- have been a smarter approach, ficial intelligence into cars, an were working on it 24/7, but they That problem was likely caused Other users, many of them port specialist. McKay and Brown O’Donnell said. “It’s a lot about indication it could be joining the couldn’t tell me when — or how by servers that were overloaded with older devices, reported their said they always advised clients to setting expectations,” he said. race to develop driverless vehicles. — I would get a solution,” Zorry when too many people tried to devices seizing up on a “swipe to wait several days before download- Apple did this week delay the The joint research with Stanford said. “I’m very annoyed because download the upgrade simultane- upgrade” page. The latest upgrade ing any new upgrades from Apple, release of watch OS 2, its updated University and the Massachusetts it’s wasted half my day. They pride ously, tech analysts said. “It’s like had been deemed by Apple as Google Inc or Microsoft Corp to operating system for the Apple Institute of Technology will take themselves on being a company the Black Friday thing,” said Bob “friendly” to the older devices make sure any glitches had been Watch after it discovered a bug in place over the next five years, that’s flawless.” O’Donnell of Technalysis Research, after the iOS 8 problems. “Apple found and ironed out. development. REUTERS Toyota said. AFP

Rate blink shows green light for bond buyers Economy strong enough

NEW YORK: The US Federal Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen that anticipated the Fed to leave Reserve’s decision not to raise (pictured) said at a press con- policy rates near zero on Thursday for higher rates: Lacker interest rates on Thursday is ference following a two-day pol- scored gains, beating rivals who giving investors a green light icy meeting: “Developments that bet on the central bank to raise WASHINGTON: Richmond to buy bonds on the view that we saw in financial markets in rates for the first time in nearly Federal Reserve President the central bank won’t move for August, in part, reflected concerns a decade. Jeffrey Lacker (pictured) yes- some time. that there was downside risk to Dan Ivascyn, Group CIO of terday said he dissented at a Some of the biggest bond firms Chinese economic performance bond giant Pimco, told Reuters on Fed policy meeting because won bets that short-to-medium and perhaps concerns about the Friday that the Newport Beach, he thought the economy was dated US Treasuries and invest- deftness in which policy makers Calif.-firm added U.S. Treasuries now strong enough to warrant ment-grade corporate bonds were addressing those concerns.” in various maturities ahead of higher interest rates. would gain if the Fed backed away Other bond managers includ- the Federal Reserve decision this Fed policymakers on Thursday from its already lukewarm stance ing John Bellows at Pasadena, week. That positioning helped voted to keep the Fed’s target to hike interest rates by year-end. California-based Western Asset its flagship Pimco Total Return interest rate at between zero and Rick Rieder, chief investment Management, which has $453bn Fund, one of the world’s larg- a quarter point. officer of global fixed income at years, Rieder and other top bond in assets, said he anticipates big- est bond funds, post a one-week “Such exceptionally low real BlackRock, the world’s biggest managers expect that spread to ger profits by owning more longer- return ended September 17 of 0.26 interest rates are unlikely to be asset manager with $4.7 trillion narrow in a low-rate and low- dated Treasuries, rather than percent, surpassing 92 percent of appropriate for an economy with decision at the Fed, Lacker said in assets under management, said: inflation climate, enhancing their shorter-dated issues, given the their peers. persistently strong consumption a rebound in consumer spending “I had thought that investment- overall returns. European bonds tame inflation environment and Barclays’ US Aggregate bond growth and tightening labor mar- and “tightening labor markets” grade credit had very limited are also worth a look, Rieder said. the likelihood the Fed will eventu- index, which is the most widely kets,” Lacker said in a statement. meant the economy no longer value for the past few years, but The Fed’s wary global view due ally raise short-term rates, even if followed US bond market bench- He was the lone dissenter needed zero interest rates. some of these spread levels are to troubles in China and emerg- it doesn’t happen this year. mark, racked up a 0.49 percent among the 10 Fed officials who He said keeping interest rates very attractive right now.” ing markets might cause the Heading into the Fed meeting, gain on Thursday, its biggest one- voted at the meeting. Lacker said at their current level devi- He said he is buying invest- European Central Bank to step short-dated bond yields rose as day rise since early July. the Fed’s target should rise by a ated from the way the Fed has ment-grade corporate credit, up its stimulus in a bid to protect some investors anticipated a rate On the same day, the two-year quarter point. responded to the economy in particularly in the industrial sec- the eurozone economy, strategists increase. The two-year note’s yield Treasury note yield fell 11 basis Lacker has a history of dissent the past, which was dangerous tor, which is generating increased said. Some, such as Doubleline climbed to 81 basis points, highest points, the steepest one-day in Fed policy meetings. In 2012, he because public understanding of supply. With risk premiums on Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach, have in four-and-a-half years. Investors decline since December 2010. US voted against eight straight policy the Fed’s behavior was “an essen- investment-grade corporate bonds been buying US Treasuries, put $1.1bn into Treasuries funds in investment-grade corporate bonds decisions by the central bank. At tial foundation for the monetary — the difference between yields favouring five-year notes, say- the week ended September 16, the gained 0.65 percent, its biggest the time he was urging the Fed to stability we currently enjoy.” on those bonds and comparable ing “There is not enough global sixth consecutive week of inflows, single-day rise since early July, wind down asset purchases that “Such departures are risky and government debt — hovering near growth to go around and the Fed according to Lipper. according to an index compiled were aimed at stimulating the raise the likelihood of adverse out- their highest in three-and-a-half realises it.” Some of the biggest bond firms by Barclays. REUTERS economy. Regarding Thursday’s comes,” Lacker said. REUTERS Dividend payers get a break from US Fed decision

NEW YORK: The Federal here and get some flow,” said by no means sheltered from the Reserve’s decision not to hike Stephen Gutch, senior portfolio market’s ups and downs. Volatility interest rates may have brought manager at Federated Investors most likely will stick around, ana- renewed volatility and a stock in Rochester, New York. “They’re lysts say, as investors reassess the market selloff, but it also carved fairly valued for a higher-rate prospects for interest rates and out breathing room for a couple environment, so I think they’re global economic growth. of sectors: dividend payers and attractive right now.” “We believe we have moved housing stocks. Since they compete with bonds, from a market where one should With 10-year Treasuries now big dividend-paying stocks have simply buy the dips, to one in yielding around 2.14 percent, the benefited in recent years from the which one ought to also sell ral- 2.2 percent dividend yield of the ultra-low interest rate environ- lies,” Peter Cecchini, chief market overall S&P 500 should appeal to ment, with the S&P utility index strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in income-hungry investors who are registering a 24.3 percent gain in New York, wrote in a research convinced interest rates will stay 2014, the best of any S&P sector. note. low for a while. But this year, utilities have Another area of the market Some sectors’ yields are much retreated as Treasury yields rose that could benefit from the low- higher. Telecommunication serv- on the prospect of a Fed rate hike. for-longer rate environment is ices companies are yielding 5.35 With the Fed now holding off, the the housing sector, with pros- percent, for example. sector may fall back into favor. pects of continuing low rates Utilities and real estate invest- “When I look at utilities that helping mortgage seekers. As the ment trusts (REITs) have gained are yielding in the 4-percent jobs market and income growth ground since the Fed announced range, I think they’re priced for improve, demand for housing its decision. The S&P utility index, what I’d call a normal 10-year should rise as well, Fed Chair though down slightly on Friday, Treasury yield — call it 4 or 5 Janet Yellen said on Thursday. was the best-performing sector percent — because with utili- Housing shares have outper- since the Fed announcement. ties you’re still going to get some formed the broader market this “We could be in a lower-for- earnings growth,” said Josh year, with the PHLX housing longer environment, and ... some Peters, director of equity income index up 10.9 percent, compared of the stocks that have yield strategy at Morningstar. “I’d have with the S&P 500’s decline of components, whether it’s REITs a similar take on REITs.” 4.5 percent. Next week, reports or utilities and other dividend Although dividend payers pro- on existing and new home sales stocks that have sold off, maybe vide a certain measure of protec- could move stocks like Lennar or Traders work on the floor of the NYSE on Friday in New York City. those will eventually find a footing tion in volatile markets, they are PulteGroup. REUTERS SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Carly Fiorina’s HP record in At 20, don’t waste your one chart: Not good or bad BY JUSTIN FOX

epublican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina wasn’t the financial asset – time greatest chief executive officer in corporate history. That much we can all agree on. Assessments of her 5 1/2 years BY MICHELLE in charge of tech giant Hewlett-Packard are everywhere they can’t afford to save. The to save about $20,000 over five is just a giant metaphor for the R SINGLETARY these days, most of them negative. Fiorina herself offered a less- nonprofit Investor Protection years. Under the company retire- difference between our parents’ than-convincing defence in last Wednesday night’s debate — yes, Institute did a poll of more than ment plan, his employer contrib- generation and ours. When the company’s revenue doubled during her tenure, as she said, but eople are always trying 1,000 millennials and not sur- uted an additional $25,000 to his you live your life around your that was mainly because she made a gigantic and controversial to find the secret to prisingly found that 49 percent plan. He eventually left that job retirement fund, you may as acquisition. financial success. But had student loans — including 13 but let the money grow, with well retire now. You can’t make That $19bn purchase of computer maker Compaq was the signa- I’d like to address, in percent with $50,000 or more in no additional contributions, in a mark on the world if you’re too ture move of Fiorina’s time at HP. It occasioned a revolt led by HP particular, the young college debt. a diversified portfolio of mutual cheap to live in it.” director Walter Hewlett, son of company co-founder Bill Hewlett. Pfolks who ask me how to get But it is this next statistic funds. By 2000, 28 years later, it I wanted to ask Martin It brought criticism from Wall Street and sniping from rivals. Scott rich. If you’re young, you have that is especially troubling: 34 had grown to $750,000. He’s now whether she was being serious McNealy of Sun Microsystems called it“a slowmotion collision of something we older folks don’t percent said that debt is delaying 67 and preaching the gospel of or the column was satire, but I two garbage trucks.” Michael Dell of Dell Computer said it was have as much of — time. It’s an their ability to start saving for saving early. couldn’t reach her. I do hope it the “dumbest deal of the decade,” a doomed attempt to “copy IBM.” advantage you shouldn’t waste. retirement or that they haven’t Just recently, a column was the latter because the advice Fiorina was trying to copy IBM, or at least give HP the scale Start saving in your 20s, and been able to save as much as posted on Elite Daily, a news is seriously reckless. and breadth to compete successfully for corporate clients against you’ll have time for your money they had hoped. Don Blandin, and entertainment site writ- “When you care about your Big Blue. Before the Compaq deal (announced in 2001, completed to grow. You’ll have time to enjoy chief executive of the IPI, said ten by and for millennials, went 401(k), your life is just ‘k,’” in 2002), she made a run at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ consulting the fruits of compound inter- the survey results should rein- viral. The headline was, “If You Martin wrote. “When you’re 40, business, only to blanch at the $18bn price tag. After the deal she est. You’ll have time to weather force advice often given to Have Savings in Your 20s, You’re you’re not going to look back on got HP into information-technology services in a big way, run- stock-market volatility. The young adults to save as early as Doing Something Wrong.” your 20s and be grateful for the ning IT departments at Procter & Gamble and hundreds of other earlier you start saving, the less possible. “When did our 20s start to feel few thousand you saved. You’re companies. you’ll have to save over time. “I know we sound like a bro- like our 40s?” says the writer, going to be full of regret.” How did it all work out? Opinions vary. Bloomberg Politics pub- Benjamin Franklin told us to ken record, playing this message Lauren Martin. “I’ve recently In announcing the results of lished a “Rashomon Roundtable” on the Compaq deal in May that “remember that time is money.” over and over again,” Blandin figured it out: This pressure, this the IPI survey, Blandin said: nicely displays the wide range. But there is one simple, undisput- And Shirley Temple Black, look- said in an interview. Then he third-party stress, is ingrained “These are the years that will able measure -- how did HP’s total return to shareholders compare ing back on her life as a child thought of the audience and said: within us. It’s this looming doom make the difference between with Sun, Dell and IBM, probably its most important competitors, star, said, “Wasted time means “No, wait, guess that would be our parents carved into our comfortable and lean golden in the years that followed Fiorina’s appointment as CEO in 1999? wasted money means trouble.” we sound like a damaged vinyl unconscious, only to come out years. Saving and investing for When the board pushed Fiorina out on Feb. 10, 2005, things Yet polls on retirement sav- that is back in style. But what anytime we make an impulse your retirement should not be weren’t looking so great. HP’s stock, as was the case at almost every ing continue to prove another we want to do is help them learn purchase or have to spend the viewed as optional.” tech company, was still below its 1999 levels. Among the four rivals, expression, “Youth is wasted on that it’s so important to start night without Netflix.” We aren’t saying not to have only Sun had done worse. My then-colleague at Fortune magazine, the young.” It seems that young early.” Blandin offered this per- Martin continues: “They want fun. But if you use the time you Carol Loomis, had just written a cover story titled “Why Carly’s adults aren’t listening. Or, as sonal testimony about the ben- us to save because it provides have wisely, you can create great Big Bet Is Failing.” one new survey found, they efit of time: us with a safety net, but that’s wealth and security and never be Then, not longer after Fiorina left, the bet started paying off. may be listening but so overbur- On his second professional job, exactly why we shouldn’t. Their a burden to others. Part of the initial rise in HP’s stock price was probably relief that dened with debt that they feel way back in 1972, he managed need for us to have a safety net WASHINGTON POST the contentious Fiorina era was over. And much of the company’s stock market success during the next five years can be attrib- uted to Mark Hurd, the relentless cost-cutter who took over as CEO about a month after Fiorina left. But Hurd was for the most part executing the strategy that Fiorina had laid out. Her plan to make HP a credible competitor for IBM worked far better than the strategies of McNealy and Dell and enabled HP to modestly outpace IBM as well. Fairly assigning credit between Fiorina and Hurd here is impossible, but it seems clear that (a) Fiorina didn’t leave behind a basket case of a company and (b) the Fiorina-Hurd era was -- again, by the metric of total shareholder return -- a relative success. Not long after my chart stops, though, everything began to fall apart. In August 2010, HP’s board pushed out Hurd (now co- CEO of Oracle) after an investigation of a sexual harassment claim absolved him of the sexual harassment but found irregularities in his expense accounts. The board put Leo Apotheker, the former co-CEO of German software maker SAP, in charge and he set about shocking investors and employees with a series of abrupt decisions that culminated in the $11bn acquisition of British search-software firm Autonomy. Apotheker was fired less than 11 months after he assumed control, the company’s stock price fell almost 50 per- cent during his tenure and within a year after his departure HP had written down almost all of Autonomy’s value and accused its executives of perpetrating a gigantic accounting fraud(they beg to differ). Now that’s a failed CEO. Ever since, current CEO Meg Whitman has been trying to clean up the mess, with limited success. Now she’s splitting HP into a provider of services and servers to large enterprises, which she will keep running, and a printer and personal-computer maker. That isn’t really a repudiation of Fiorina’s strategy, which was all about selling to enterprises, and even if it were the fact that a company changes direction in 2015 doesn’t mean its CEO was wrong to set that direction in 2001. It does seem fair to say that the Fiorina- Hurd emphasis on consolidation and efficiency moved HP even farther away from the inventiveness and innovation of its early days. As former director Tom Perkins put it in a full-page New York Times ad last month, of having an “ineffective and dysfunctional” board that made life hard for its CEOs. So, no, Carly Fiorina was not the greatest CEO in corporate history. But she certainly wasn’t the worst, either. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Greece’s paper trail eventually leads to reform BY MEGAN MCARDLE Near the upscale hotel where I financial crisis. This problem is That’s making up for taxes that opened; that prevented employ- Greece is having. Corruption, tax am staying, there is an old cafe, sometimes exaggerated, but eve- aren’t collected elsewhere. ees from stealthily recording sales evasion and all the other prob- very place is full of met- closed, its brick patio empty of ryone agrees that it’s very real. The good news is that Greece and then pocketing the money, or lems that are cited as contrib- aphors that beckon the chairs, the torn fringes of its awn- And since the burden of struc- has at least made progress on col- alternatively, giving goods to their uting to the crisis are not some unwary foreign journal- ing flapping gently in the breeze. tural adjustment is falling on fis- lecting sales tax. They’re hardly friends without being paid.) Over sort of unique Greek sickness Eist. America’s huge cars Metaphor? Or is it just another cal reforms — rather than, say, at the level that our Internal time, of course, revenue authori- that superior countries some- are a metaphor for our people: closed restaurant, like dozens I firing unproductive members of Revenue Service would accept, ties realised that cash register how avoided. It took centuries to brash, rich, more than a little could find within a few miles of the vast government workforce but most of the places I’ve gone tickers were also a good way to build the modern state, to tamp heedless of our effect on the rest my own house? — that’s a big problem. have automatically given me a ensure that employers gave the down on corruption and cronyism of the world. Before Britain got There is one metaphor here Widespread evasion narrows receipt, printed out by a cash reg- state its due. and generate the administrative rich again, the dilapidated build- that I’m willing to interpret: the the tax base, forcing the govern- ister. The taxi drivers mostly offer The Greek government has capacity to do things like collect ings were a metaphor for the receipt. And that’s because it’s not ment to set higher rates. If the printed receipts. One did ask me gotten very, very serious about taxes and make sure government decline of empire. French baked just a metaphor. It’s also the tool evasion were spread evenly across how much he should make it out receipts, to the extent of saying employees regularly showed up to goods were a metaphor for every- the government is trying to use all sectors of the economy, then for. I’m told that on the islands, that people who are refused one do their jobs. thing liberal Americans imagined to close its tax gap. these two things would roughly collection is less sure. But here do not have to pay. This hasn’t The paper trail is at least the was better there. I was last in Greece in 2006, cancel out. Unfortunately, it’s not. in Athens, they are slowly but gone entirely smoothly. One raid first step. The risk is that the Athens right now is full of such during the twilight years of the Some sorts of taxes are easier to surely improving their collection on an Athens nightclub turned up burden of adjustment will fall metaphors, except that it’s hard boom that peaked during the evade than others. Employment apparatus. an elaborate fake receipt system. too hard on the sectors where to know what makes for a good Athens Olympics. Back then, taxes are hard to evade, while Greece is attempting to do in But most people I’ve talked to it is easiest to generate a paper symbol, and what you’re taking Greece was notable to Americans self-employed professionals like the space of a few years what agree it’s improving. trail, stunting recovery and mak- too far. for its lack of receipts. This is doctors and lawyers have found it other economies did over the However, they’re also worried ing future reforms even harder. Last Thursday in Kolonaki convenient for the shoppers, who relatively easy to shelter most of course of decades. Most people that the successive rounds of The shift toward credit cards and Square, I came across a pile of don’t have to hunt around for their incomes. As a result, the cost think of a cash register primarily tax hikes threaten to undo this electronic payments will help (at cushions and clothes inside a lit- somewhere to toss yet another of employing a new staff worker is as a way to add up the value of the frail progress. The higher the least, unless it’s retarded by. tle park area roofed over with piece of unwanted paper. But it quite high (especially since those sale, but in fact, that is the least tax rates go, the more tempting Ultimately, the government still vines, suggesting that someone was also convenient for vendors workers are incredibly difficult to of its functions. Its most attrac- it is to evade the law. The more needs to build a lot more admin- was sleeping there. Metaphor, who wanted to underpay the tax fire). 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aYESTERDAY’S ANSWER SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Second back surgery to Day grabs five-shot lead sideline Woods until 2016

LOS ANGELES: Golf super- friend Matt (Kuchar) in Mexico star Tiger Woods said on Friday City.” he will be sidelined until 2016 Woods said he would attend the at BMW Championship after a second back surgery, but Hero World Challenge that ben- confidently predicted he would efits his charitable foundation, but make a full recovery. won’t be able to play. In an article posted on his “I look forward to being there Spieth on joint fourth after a card of 66 in second round website, the 14-time major cham- to support my event,” he said. pion revealed he had surgery on Former world number one Wednesday in Utah. Woods struggled through a miser- CHICAGO: Jason Day rolled in The microdiscectomy was simi- able 2015 campaign that included a 43-foot eagle putt at the 18th lar to the procedure he underwent missed cuts at three straight hole on Friday to equal the low- on March 31, 2014, Woods said. major championships – the US est 36-hole total in PGA Tour “This is certainly disappoint- Open, British Open and PGA history and seize a five-shot lead ing, but I’m a fighter,” Woods said. Championship. in the BMW Championship. “I’ve been told I can make a full He posted his worst rounds as a Jason Day The red-hot Aussie, who fin- recovery, and I have no doubt that pro – an 82 at the Phoenix Open of Australia ished off a first-round 61 on I will.” and an 85 at the Memorial, even Friday morning, signed for an plays his shot In the meantime, Woods said taking a break from competition eight-under par 63 for the sec- from the 12th he would have to withdraw from early in the year to try to sort out ond round at Conway Farms for tee during the the USPGA Tour’s Frys.com his game. an 18-under total of 124. Second Round Open in October, as well as the Things were looking up last That put him five in front of US of the BMW two-man America’s Golf Cup in month when Woods was in con- tour rookie Daniel Berger, who Championship Mexico City and his own unoffi- tention for his first US PGA Tour carded a 64, and Brendon Todd, at Conway cial Hero World Challenge in the win since 2013 at the Wyndham who posted a 63 for 129. Farms Golf Bahamas in December. Championship in Greensboro, “I don’t know how else to Club on Friday “I’d like to send my regrets to North Carolina, where he even- explain the way I’ve been playing,” in Lake Forest, Frys and all those associated with tually finished tied for 10th and Days said. “I feel very free, like Illinois. the America’s Golf Cup,” Woods missed the US tour’s season-end- there’s no stress. There’s obvi- said. “Those were two events I ing playoff series. ously stress, but I’m enjoying it.” was really looking forward to According to his website, Day also had a leg up on world playing. Woods had experienced occa- number two Jordan Spieth and “I was ready to start the 2015- sional discomfort in his back and number one Rory McIlroy, who 16 PGA TOUR season at Frys, hip area for several weeks, includ- could see the currently third- and I was excited to join my good ing at the Wyndham. AFP ranked Australian leap-frog to the top of the world rankings with 2009 and equaled by David Toms rain-soaked rough didn’t make it a victory on Sunday. in 2011. Scores and he settled for a par that still Spieth, who played alongside But Day said he wouldn’t be CHICAGO: Leading second- gave him a career-best round of Day in the first two rounds, fired thinking about that as he headed round scores on Friday in the 61. Tiger Woods a second-round 66 for a share of into the weekend. $8.25m BMW Championship “It sounds like everyone is dis- fourth on 132, alongside fellow “It’s over now,” he said. “I’ve (USA unless noted, par-71): appointed,” Day said. “I’m like, reacts during American Kevin Na, who also got to look ahead to tomorrow’s 124 Jason Day (AUS) 61-63 jeez.” the second carded a 66. round now.” 129 Daniel Berger 65-64, Brendon Todd While Day, 27, is chasing the round of the McIlroy fired a 65 to head a Spieth, who also eagled the 66-63 world number one ranking, he Wyndham group sharing ninth on 133. final hole to stay within striking 131 Kevin Na 65-66, Jordan Spieth 65-66 already tops the standings in the Championship in Greensboro, Day, whose four victories this distance, said Day had been so 132 Justin Thomas 65-67, George McNeill US PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup -- the season include his first major impressive in the two rounds they 67-65, Scott Piercy 67-65 playoff race that will be capped by North Carolina, title at the PGA Championship played together that it would have next week’s Tour Championship in this August last month, had seven birdies and been worth the price of a ticket returned to their final first-round where a $10m bonus will be on 2015 file photo. one bogey to go with his eagle in to watch. hole, the par-four ninth, where offer to the series winner. the second round. “I feel like I should be paying to Day needed to hole his second He opened the playoffs by win- His 124 matched the record watch this event,” he said. shot to shoot 59. ning the Barclays on August 30. 36-hole total set by Pat Perez in Their day started when they His 45-yard pitch shot from AFP Duda, Murphy lead Mets Lithuania overcome Serbia to over New York Yankees

NEW YORK: Lucas Duda, mammoth homer off the second Daniel Murphy and Juan deck in right field. reach Euro final and Olympics Uribe all homered as the New It was the first homer in 67 York Mets beat the New York at-bats for Duda, who was on the LILLE, France: Lithuania set aggressive half-court pressure Yankees on Friday. disabled list from Aug. 22 through up a mouth-watering European by Lithuania. Teodosic finished The Yankees (80-66) fell September 7 due to lower back Championship showdown with as the game’s top scorer with 16 4-1/2 games behind Toronto in stiffness. He finished 2-for-4. Spain and sealed an Olympic points and Bjelica added 10 but the American “I’m just happy berth after beating Serbia 67-64 the Lithuanians cut off the supply League East to contribute in a captivating semi-final on routes to Serbia’s key players in a as Duda and Baseball Results and get the win,” Friday. Serbia’s Ognjen nerve-jangling finish. Murphy hit solo Duda said. The Lithuanians and Spaniards, Kuzmic (left) in Cool free-throw shooting homers in the Chicago Cubs 8 St Louis 3 “The big- who clash today, have clinched action against allowed the Lithuanians, who second and sixth Washington 5 Miami 4 gest thing right automatic spots at next year’s Lithuania’s Jonas nailed 15 of 18 shots from the innings respec- Toronto 6 Boston 1 now, especially Games in Rio de Janeiro. Valanciunas foul line, to keep nosing ahead and tively while Uribe Detroit 5 Kansas City 4 in September, is Serbia, France, Italy, Greece during their their vociferous fans were elated hit a pinch-hit NY Mets 5 NY Yankees 1 winning. If you and the Czech Republic will enter European after the Serbians missed a last- two-run homer Tampa Bay 8 Baltimore 6 went 0-for-4, an intercontinental qualifying Championship gasp effort from the halfway line. in the seventh. 4-for-4, what- tournament next July for an extra The final will offer a clash of Cleveland 12 C White Sox 1 semi-final match Duda, Murphy ever it is, put it three places at the 2016 Olympics. contrasting styles in Lille’s soccer at the Pierre and third base- Atlanta 2 Philadelphia 1 aside. It’s time to Lithuania’s ironclad defence stadium, which has been adapted Mauroy Stadium man David Seattle 3 Texas 1 win ballgames,” stifled the tournament’s highest- for the 24-nation tournament Wright, the three Oakland 4 Houston 3 he added. scoring team, who had averaged in Lille, France on with Spain’s 80-75 semi-final win Friday. longest-tenured Cincinnati 5 Milwaukee 3 The Mets (84- 88 points per game, reducing over France on Thursday set- members of the Colorado 7 San Diego 4 63), who have Serbia to six three-point goals ting a new indoor crowd record lineup, went already clinched from 28 attempts. of 27,000. LA Dodgers 6 Pittsburgh 2 a combined their first win- Toronto Raptors centre Jonas A balanced Lithuanian team 6-for-11. Arizona 2 San Francisco 0 ning season since Valanciunas dominated the low will face the tournament’s top The rest of the 2008, maintained post, scoring 11 of his 15 points in scorer Pau Gasol, who steered Mets went 2-for-21. their eight-game NL East lead the first half as Lithuania forced the Spaniards past holders and Yankees right-hander Masahiro over the Washington Nationals. the Serbians out of their paint. hosts France with a staggering 40 Tanaka, staked to a 1-0 lead on Despite the loss, the Yankees Forward Mindaugas 12 and nine assists. The Serbians, preciously little room to oper- points and 11 rebounds. a first-inning sacrifice fly by left still lead the AL wild card race. Kuzminskas was the Baltic driven by Milos Teodosic, reached ate. Power forward Nemanja France and Serbia will meet fielder Chris Young, retired the “We need to win games -- that’s nation’s trump card with 13 points the semis with an unbeaten 7-0 Bjelica, signed by the Minnesota in the bronze-medal match on first four batters he faced on the bottom line,” manager Joe and nine rebounds and playmaker record but the Lithuanians Timberwolves during the current Sunday before the finalists take just 10 pitches before Duda hit a Girardi said. AGENCIES Mantas Kalnietis chipped in with gave the versatile playmaker NBA break, also faltered against centre stage. REUTERS New study stokes brain injury fears in NFL players LOS ANGELES: A new study who played either in high school, Nevertheless, Ann McKee, the continue to take steps to protect into the spotlight again with a was injured last Sunday when he of deceased NFL players found college, semi-professionally or director and chief of neuropa- players, including rule changes, Hollywood movie – “Concussion” went airborne trying to vault over 96 percent of those tested suf- professionally, found CTE in the thology at the Veterans Affairs advanced sideline technology, and – in the works starring Will the goal line on a third-and-goal fered from brain disease, it was brain tissue of 131 out of 165, or Boston Healthcare System, said expanded medical resources.” Smith. The film is about forensic scramble from the 14-yard line. reported on Friday, fuelling 79 percent. the results were consistent with The NFL had donated $1m to pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, Manziel, who will get the third fresh fears about the health CTE is widely thought to be previous research indicating a Boston’s brain bank in 2010. The one of the first to diagnose degen- start of his NFL career, practiced risks in America’s most popular caused by repetitive trauma to link between football and brain league has also taken steps aimed erative brain disease in former with the first team this week. sport. the head and can lead to condi- injury. at reducing head injuries, with NFL players. Manziel will face off against The survey for PBS television’s tions such as nausea, memory loss “People think that we’re blow- concussions falling by 35 percent Meanwhile, Cleveland Browns Mariota, who stunned the entire Frontline programme found that and dementia. ing this out of proportion, that since 2012. head coach Mike Pettine NFL with four touchdown passes out of 91 NFL players tested, 87 The report cautioned that the this is a very rare disease and In April the NFL agreed to announced on Friday that Johnny to four different receivers in a showed signs of the degenerative results came with certain caveats, that we’re sensationalizing it,” settle a lawsuit and pay $765m Manziel will start at quarterback Week 1 rout of the Tampa Bay disease known as chronic trau- most notably the fact that CTE McKee said. to about 5,000 former players in Sunday’s home opener against Buccaneers, 42-14. matic encephalopathy (CTE). could only be definitively tested “My response is that where I over health claims. However the Tennessee Titans and rookie The Week 2 game will high- The study was carried out by for posthumously. sit, this is a very real disease. We some players have already made Marcus Mariota. light another matchup of researchers for the Department Most of the brains studied were have had no problem identifying headlines this year by choosing Starter Josh McCown suffered former Heisman Trophy win- of Veterans Affairs and Boston from players who had donated it in hundreds of players.” to walk away from multi-million- a concussion in the season-open- ners, this time between Mariota University. their brains for testing because A spokesman for the NFL dollar contracts citing health ing 31-10 loss to the New York and Manziel, who is seeking A wider sample of players from they suspected they were suffer- said the league was “dedicated concerns. Jets and remains in the NFL’s his first NFL win as a starter. all levels of American football, ing from CTE. to making football safer and The issue is also likely to come concussion protocol. McCown AGENCIES SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

No health issues from Rio Vettel stuns Hamilton to test, says FINA

PARIS: Marathon swimmers taking part in a 2016 Olympics test event in Rio’s notoriously polluted off-shore waters suf- snatch Singapore GP pole fered no serious health prob- lems, the sport’s governing body said yesterday. Mercedes’ streak of 23 poles ends; Red Bull joins Ferrari on front row Fifty competitors from Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, SINGAPORE: Mercedes’ but was happy to end with second. Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan and 15-month domination of “It’s nice to be back up here. Netherlands took part in the test Formula One qualifying came German Formula And the front-row as well, it’s at Rio’s iconic Copacabana beach to a shuddering halt yesterday One driver been a while,” he said. on August 22 and 23. when Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel “It’s a bit of a coincidence, Seb “Up to date, 26 days after the snatched pole position for the and I, and hopefully we can have conclusion of the event, there of Scuderia Singapore Grand Prix. a good race tomorrow. is no notice of any subsequent Ferrari reacts Mercedes had started at the “It’s a surprise to not see a health issue on the athletes that front of the grid in each of the last after taking pole Mercedes up here. I thought they competed in Rio,” said a FINA 23 grands prix, dating back to the position during were playing a few card games statement. middle of last year, and needed qualifying ahead yesterday, but they seem to be “Consequently, the waters of just one more to equal the all- of the Singapore struggling here.” REUTERS the Copacabana beach were safe time record, set by the Williams Formula One during the organisation of the team in the early 1990s. Grand Prix night marathon swimming test event.” But the Silver Arrows pair- race in Singapore, Singapore Grand Prix The claims by FINA came ing of Lewis Hamilton and Nico yesterday. The Starting grid from the Formula just a day after Brazilian media Rosberg were unable to keep Singapore One Singapore Grand Prix at reported that the swimming pace with the Ferrari and Red Formula One Marina Bay Street Circuit today body had written to Rio mayor Bull teams, who staged their own Grand Prix night 1. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari Eduardo Paes to express their high-speed battle for pole. race will take 2. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) RedBull - Renault concerns over the water quality Vettel came out on top, giving place today. 3. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari at Copacabana as well as other Ferrari their first pole position watersport venues for the 2016 4. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) RedBull - Renault since 2012 with a masterful lap Games. around the floodlit Singaporean 5. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes On Friday, FINA said they will track. 6. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes continue to monitor the situation The German, a three-time win- from pole in 11 of the previous when I heard that we’d made it,” backdrop of the city’s skyscrapers, 7. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes ahead of the Olympics which run ner in Singapore when he was 12 races this season, could only Vettel said. Singapore provides one of motor 8. Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Toro Rosso from August 5-21 next year. with his previous team Red Bull, manage fifth spot, with Rosberg “It was looking pretty good, racing’s great spectacles on and - Renault “The FINA Sports Medicine continued his love affair with the starting alongside him in sixth. right from the off -- and from this off the track and is a test of skill 9. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes Committee, in co-ordina- tricky street circuit by setting “Our problem this weekend is morning. The car was fantastic and patience for the drivers. 10. Romain Grosjean (France) Lotus - Mercedes tion with the IOC, Rio 2016 the fastest qualifying time of one tyres, they are not giving us a lot to drive, it got better through With sparks flying off the back Organising Committee and INEA 11. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India minute 43.885 seconds. of grip and we slide around a lot,” qualifying and I think we did the of his car, Vettel dominated the (Brazilian State Institute for the - Mercedes Vettel’s pole position was the Hamilton said. maximum today. hour-long qualifying session. Environment), will continue 46th of his career. His last was in “We try to understand why our “I’m surprised by the margin He was third after the first 12. Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren conducting tests and monitor- 2013, when he was with Red Bull. tyres are bad. We have the quick- but I think it just came together. stage using soft tyres but accel- 13. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India ing the quality of the waters in The 28-year-old was more than est car but cannot utilise it with I really had a near-perfect lap at erated to the top in the second - Mercedes Copacabana beach, in accordance half a second clear of Australia’s the tyres.” the end.” and third phases after switching 14. Carlos Sainz Jr (Spain) Toro Rosso - Renault with International Standards,” Daniel Ricciardo, who booked his Dripping with sweat on a hot Mercedes have been virtually to super softs. 15. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren added the statement. spot on the front row for Red Bull and humid night in the Southeast unbeatable for the past two sea- Ricciardo, who won three races 16. Felipe Nasr (Brazil) Sauber - Ferrari Earlier this month, the presi- with the second best time. Asian state, Vettel climbed from sons but the advantage they have last year when he and Vettel were dent of the Rio Olympics organis- 17. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden) Sauber - Ferrari Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen was his cockpit and celebrated like he with their superior engines is team mates but has managed just ing committee vowed to address 18. Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela) Lotus third quickest for Ferrari and had won the race. largely negated on slower, tighter one podium finish this season, concerns about water pollution at - Mercedes Russia’s Daniil Kvyat fourth for “I know it’s only Saturday and circuits such as Singapore, which made one last, futile attempt to a sailing venue. Two competitors Red Bull. the main job is coming tomorrow has 23 turns. grab pole when he went out on 19. Will Stevens (Britain) Marussia - Ferrari had to be hospitalised following a Hamilton, who had started but I had to enjoy the moment Held at night against the a second set of super-soft tyres 20. Alexander Rossi (US) Marussia - Ferrari recent test regatta at Rio’s pic- turesque Guanabara Bay, while other events have been disrupted by floating debris such as rubbish and dead animals. In August, German sailor Erik Heil revealed that he had to Tight fight expected for undergo an operation on a seri- ous skin infection after compet- ing in the Olympic test regatta at Guanabara. “I have never in my life had world team time trial title a leg infection,” he wrote in a Sailing Team Germany blog. “I RICHMOND, United States: ball. “To win one time is hard. To battle in an event that really does assume that I got it from the test Defending champion BMC repeat is harder. We need to be epitomise teamwork.” regatta.” Racing, powered by Australian conscious of that.” Aussies Michael Hepburn Meanwhile, a South African Rohan Dennis, enter today’s BMC beat ORICA by a record and Luke Durbridge, Canada’s parole board has delayed by team time trial at the World 31.84 seconds last year and five of Svein Tuft and Dutchman Jens two weeks a review of whether Road Cycling Championships their six riders are back, including Mouris were each on the past Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius’ with confidence, but two top Dennis, Swiss Silvan Dillier and two runner-up squads while the should be released early from a rivals hunger to dethrone them. Italians Daniel Oss and Manuel Aussies were joined by country- prison sentence for killing his Etixx Quick Step, sparked by Quinziato with American Taylor man Michael Matthews and New girlfriend. three-time individual world time Phinney a newcomer seeking a Zealand’s Sam Bewley, the other “The parole review board trial champion Tony Martin of crown on home soil. two GreenEdge riders Sunday, in A team BMC Switzerland technician cleans a bike on the eve of the met on Friday, and they could Germany, and ORICA GreenEdge, Moving up after back-to- a success to open this year’s Giro 2015 UCI Road World Championships in downtown Richmond, Virginia, not deal with all the matters at runner-up the past two years, fig- back runner-up spots is ORICA d’Italia. USA, yesterday. hand, including the case of Oscar ure to lead the challenge of BMC GreenEdge’s mission, but sport “It has been a good build up and Pistorius. They will meet again over 38.8km (24.1 miles) on the director Matt White expects we are happy with where we are in two weeks’ time to look at his first day of racing over the streets little difference among the top coming into the event,” White world road race champion Michal work on the slipstream and the matter,” said Manelisi Wolela, of Richmond. finishers. said. “The course is fast. It’s not a Kwiatkowski of Poland provide a combination of the riders. It’s also spokesman for the Department “I’m confident,” BMC Racing “We are aiming at winning, but technical course and we are happy formidable lineup that tested two good for the riders to get focused of Correctional Services. coach Marco Pinotti said. you will be able to throw a blan- with the team we’ve prepared.” weeks early on a Belgian airfield, on this event. It was like a first “The board had a series of “We’ve won the last three time ket over the teams which make Etixx Quick Step, the 2012 and Quick Step sport director Tom step in preparation.” other matters and could not get trials we were in, but two of those the podium,” White said. “There 2013 winners, slid to third last Steels said. With flat speed sections and to his matter. There is nothing were by less than one second. We are at least three teams that have year but Martin, Belgian vet- “We collected some important late climbs, every detail will be more than that to the delay,” said need to keep our minds on the the ability to win. It’ll be a great eran Tom Boonen and reigning data,” he said. “It was also good to critical, Steels said. AFP Wolela. AGENCIES Jayaram makes his first World Superseries final

SEOUL: India’s Ajay Jayaram careful style, keeping a tight rein against compatriots Lee Yong- Ajay Jayaram of India hits continued his sensational run on the shuttle, displaying judi- Dae and Yoo Yeon-Seong, who a return against Chou at the $600,000 Korea Open cious shots that found the lines edged Denmark’s Mathias Boe Tien Chen of Taiwan dur- here yesterday, making his first and depriving the opponent of a and Carsten Mogensen in a ing their men’s singles World Superseries badmin- brief lead with a net game. 100-minute thriller, 23-25, 22-20, semi-final match at the ton final and setting himself “I think it’s a matter of con- 21-17. Korea Open Superseries up against defending champion fidence; it’s a culmination of all For the women’s singles title, badminton tournament in Chen Long of China for the the hard work I’ve put in over the South Korea’s Sung Ji-Hyun will Seoul yesterday. men’s singles title. years,” said Jayaram, who needed clash with China’s Wang Yihan Jayaram, an underdog from six months off last year due to a on Sunday. the very first round where he shoulder injury. The South Korean female pair upset Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen, “I executed my strategy well. of Chang Ye-Na/Lee So-Hee will downed Taipei’s Chou Tien Chen Recovering from the injury obvi- vie with Indonesia’ Greysia Polii/ 21-19, 21-15 to advance to the final ously made me tougher. It will be Nitya Krishinda Maheswari for today. hard against Chen Long... I will the women’s doubles title. Host South Korea assured think about what to do, maybe Sung defeated Japan’s Akane themselves of the men’s dou- have a word with (teammate) Yamaguchi in a women’s singles bles gold medal and advanced Kashyap as well, since he has semifinal, 21-15, 15-21, 21-18. to today’s two other finals. beaten him twice.” Sung’s opponent will be defend- Powerhouse China lost both men’s Earlier, Chen won a comfort- ing champion Wang Yihan, who doubles and women’s doubles but able 21-9, 21-13 win over Japan’s beat compatriot Wang Shixian stayed in the hunt for three other Kento Momota. 21-12, 21-19. titles. In men’s doubles match, home The mixed doubles final will Jayaram, world No.30, who had pair Kim Gi-Jung and Kim feature Indonesia’s Tontowi shown skill and tenacity in taking Sa-Rang upset Zhang Nan/ Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir against down opponents ranked higher Fu Haifeng of China, 12-21, familiar foes Zhang Nan/Zhao than himself, continued with his 21-18, 21-17, to book a final Yunlei of China. AFP SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Galfar Al Misnad clinch Twenty20 title in Doha Aussies to ‘bore’ their way to victory in subcontinent MELBOURNE: Australia fast men Mitchell Johnson and must stifle their attacking Josh Hazlewood from the tour, instincts in the subcontinent leaving workhorse Peter Siddle and “bore” batsmen into giv- and left-armer Mitchell Starc to ing up their wickets, captain lead the attack. Steven Smith has said. One-Test tyro Pat Cummins Smith will lead a rebuilding will bid with uncapped Tasmania Australia team into a two-Test bowler Andrew Fekete to be the series against Bangladesh next third seamer, though Smith month after a disappointing 3-2 has left the door ajar to play Ashes loss in England. two spinners in the Tests in Australia swept Bangladesh Chittagong and Dhaka. 2-0 in their last tour in 2006 Unused for most of the Ashes, but have always struggled on Siddle underlined his quality the subcontinent’s flat wickets, with six wickets in Australia’s which nullify pace bowling. consolation win in the fifth test Though Smith led Australia at The Oval and will be impor- against India in three Tests at tant for Smith’s hopes of a home, he will captain the side on maiden series win away. tour for the first time. “A big part of my game, espe- “I think that’s something I’m cially in Australian conditions, going to have to adapt to with has been reverse swing,” Siddle my captaincy,” Smith told local told reporters. media in Sydney. “That does benefit me a lot “In Australia you can be a lit- over there, and what I normally tle bit more attacking. do is what I’ll do over there,” he “In places on the subconti- said. nent you’ve got to find ways to “Be patient, build pressure get batsmen out, you might have and bowl in the right areas. to bore them out. “And I think my experience, “For me it’s about being adapt- not in Bangladesh, but in those Galfar Al Misnad’s players celebrate after winning the Twenty20 Super League 2015 title at the Doha Cricket Stadium on Friday. Former Pakistan’s star able wherever we play. conditions, will help,” he added. pacer Shoaib Akhtar who attended the final is also seen in the picture along with Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) officials. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT Australia have elected to rest REUTERS Sexton inspires Ireland to Canada thrashing at Cup Ireland ease to 50-7 victory in their first game, earn a bonus point

CARDIFF, UK: Jonny Sexton scored a try, three conversions Gorgodze drives Georgia and a penalty as Six Nations champions Ireland routed Canada 50-7 to open their World Cup campaign. to upset win over Tonga In severe warning to Pool D Japan’s Ayumu Goromaru before rivals France and Italy, Ireland GLOUCESTER: Inspired by support from the crowd of 14,200. a conversional penalty during the were superior to Canada in every captain Mamuka Gorgodze, But Tonga dominated the final Pool B Rugby World Cup match facet of the game after a tight Georgia withstood a desperate quarter and were unlucky not to against South Africa in Brighton, opening quarter of an hour. second-half surge by Tonga to score when centre Siale Piutau, England, yesterday. They notched up four first-half secure a surprise 17-10 win over running on to a clever grubber tries – and a bonus point in the Ireland’s the Pacific Islanders in their kick from flyhalf Kurt Morath, pool standings – through Sean Rugby World Cup Pool C opener just failed to control the ball and Jonathan O’Brien, Iain Henderson, Sexton yesterday. touch down. Japan snatch Sexton kicks and David Kearney, three con- Gorgodze, the number eight After running into wall upon verted by Sexton. a conversion nicknamed Gorgodzilla for his wall of Georgian tackles, the Three more tries through Sean during bulk, was named man of the Pacific Islanders got their reward shock victory Cronin, David Kearney and Jared the match match after leading by example when they managed to get the Payne to complete the demolition against in a tense and bone-crunching ball out wide for winger Fetu’u against SA in the second half. Canada encounter. Vainikolo to score in the corner “We handled the ball really in Pool D “This was the best victory in and Morath to convert. But they LONDON: Japan pulled off per- well and played some really match at our history,” he told reporters could not break through for the haps the biggest upset in Rugby good rugby,” said captain Paul the Rugby after Georgia’s delighted players second try that might have lev- World Cup history yesterday, O’Connell playing down Ireland’s World Cup had sealed only their third ever elled the scores. In a stop-start defeating two-time World Cup superiority. in Cardiff, World Cup win and wrapped game, it was Tonga who strung champions South Africa 34-32 He said the win had helped Wales, themselves in the red and white together many of the most attrac- in a ferocious encounter at Ireland get over their World Cup yesterday. national flag. tive passing sequences, but their Brighton Community Stadium. “nerves.” Gorgodze had set the founda- efforts to move the ball out wide Replacement Karne Hesketh The first try came when tions by driving through a melee were thwarted by inaccurate raced in at the corner in the 84th Canada captain Jamie Cudmore of defenders to touch down right passing and handling errors. minute to snatch victory from a had been yellow carded for a under the posts for the first try Morath opened the scoring pulsating contest in the Pool B ruck infringement, and left the which, after a tense wait for con- for Tonga with a penalty and opener. Canucks with too big a mountain firmation by the television match Georgia’s Kvirikashvili pulled Ferocious tacking from Japan to climb at 29-0 down at half-time official, took Georgia into a 10-3 his side level before converting kept them within two points of at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. lead at the interval. Gorgodze’s try to put Georgia the Springboks at halftime after The bonus point could be key in In the second half, a long, seven points clear at the break. driving mauls brought tries for a pool whose winners will likely swerving run by veteran full- In a group likely to be domi- South Africa’s Francois Louw and avoid champions New Zealand in back Merab Kvirikashvili, play- nated by New Zealand and Bismarck du Plessis, with Michael the quarter-finals. ing in his fourth World Cup, set Argentina, Georgia now look Leitch touching down for Japan. Sexton was key to everything up the move that allowed flanker well placed to meet their declared The reliable boot of fullback Ireland did, playing deep in the Giorgi Tkhilaishvili to score in the objective by taking third place, Ayumu Goromaru nudged Japan pocket and opting to use a back- Ireland kicked for O’Connell corner. which would qualify them auto- in front early in the second half, row forward as a midfield loop- corner touch and a World Cup received a yellow With Kvirikashvili slotting the matically for the next tournament but that was quickly cancelled out around target to unleash the well-worked driv- card for a blatant difficult conversion, redeeming in Japan in 2019. by a try from South African lock dangerous looking Irish backs in ing line-out saw Results offside two min- himself after two missed penal- Georgia next face the Pumas of Lood De Jager. a series of well-oiled moves. Sean O’Brien cross utes into the sec- ties, Georgia appeared to have Argentina at the same venue on Both sides exchanged a series Pool C: Tonga 10 Georgia 17 While complacency was not for a try, Sexton ond period, but taken an unassailable lead at 17-3, Friday, while Tonga play Namibia of penalties before Springboks quite put to one side in the second- kicking the extras. Pool D: Ireland 50 Canada 7 the well-organised and enjoyed by far the noisiest on September 29. REUTERS snatched another try as replace- half, O’Connell was yellow carded With Cudmore Pool B: Japan 34 South Africa 32 Irish defence had ment Adriaan Strauss burst and Canada knuckled down still off the pitch, no problems repel- through the defence. But then in defence before Sean Cronin Ireland turned the screw at ling wave after wave of Canadian Japan found space out wide, send- crossed for Ireland’s fifth, DTH the scrum, Heaslip broke and attack. ing Goromaru in at the corner; Van Der Merwe scored a consola- Henderson crashed over for a Ian Madigan came on for his conversion levelling the scores. tion try before Rob Kearney and close-range try also converted by Sexton on 55 minutes, a harried Another Springbok penalty Jared Payne wrapped things up. Sexton. Canada pinned back deep in their looked like breaking Japanese Georgia’s Canada had the first chance to The fly-half showed a clean own half but withstanding the hearts before Hesketh grabbed Mamuka get the scoreboard ticking after pair of heels after a neat inside Irish pressure. the winner in overtime. No 8 Jamie Heaslip failed to roll O’Brien pass to outpace the cover The breakthrough finally came Gorgodze Meanwhile, Tonga coach Mana away from a ruck in the eighth for a third try, unable to convert when replacement hooker Cronin celebrates Otai said his team’s failure to minute but Gordon McRorie’s from the touchline. crashed over after another effec- with fans at compete at scrums and lineouts long-range effort fell short and Coach Joe Schmidt had warned tive driving line-out, Madigan the end of the were central to their 17-10 Rugby wide. that Ireland needed to convert kicking the conversion. Pool C match World Cup defeat by Georgia in When the North Americans any creative chances they had, Almost immediately, Canada against Tonga their Pool C opener yesterday. strayed offside as their defence and winger Dave Kearney duly hit back with an intercept con- at the Rugby The Pacific Islanders were out- desperately rallied to hold firm, made sure of a crucial bonus point solation try through Van Der World Cup in muscled by a physical Georgian Sexton was left with a straight- when he finished off another well- Merwe, Hirayama knocking over Gloucester, side at Gloucester’s Kingsholm forward pot at the posts to hand worked backs move, Sexton nail- the extras. England, stadium and Otai said: “It was Ireland the early advantage. ing his third conversion. Ireland had the last word when yesterday. a little bit difficult to get any Man-of-the-match Sexton Canada thought they might first Rob Kearney sprinted in momentum going given our set spurned a second penalty minutes have had a try of their own when after a turnover saw Keith Earls pieces didn’t work for us. From later to play the ball quickly, with Van Der Merwe crossed in the sacamper up the left wing and our lineouts, which we launch a Canada rattled. From the ensuing corner on the stroke of half-time, feed inside, and then Payne was lot of play out of, it didn’t come action, Cudmore was sin binned but Nathan Hirayama’s tap-on on hand after Madigan split the our way. We got exposed on our for playing the ball on the ground, was ruled to have gone forward. tiring defence. AFP scrummaging too.” AGENCIES SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Holroyd begins Qatar Challenge defence on a winning note Canadian De Vido finishes second, newcomer Spence dazzles to come third at Losail

DOHA: Defending champion Mark Holroyd began his new Herbie-inspired season of the Qatar Challenge on a winning note at Losail Rossi catches International Circuit. In the opening round of the Formula 1 bug 2015-16 season, Holroyd domi- nated the race from the start to the finish, clinching the top place SINGAPORE: Alexander Rossi at the end of the fifteen lap. said he was hoping to secure a Holroyd, who got the pole posi- permanent seat in Formula One tion earlier in the practice, took after becoming the sport’s first the lead during all the race and American driver in eight years gave no change to the other driv- at the Singapore Grand Prix. ers to overtake him. The British Rossi, who chose racing driver Holroyd crossed the check- number 53 for his car in honour ered flag ahead of Peter De Vido, of the “Herbie” films, has just five who came second. grands prix to make his case after “The race was fantastic for me, being drafted in by British back- we put a lot of effort all over the markers Manor. summer, fortunately my spon- The 23-year-old debutant sors came back to me to repeat escaped a high-speed colli- the season. Now we are having 15 sion with the barriers in first laps, it is more difficult compared free practice before outpacing to last year, it is more like an Drivers taking part in the opening round of the Qatar Challenge pose for a picture, along with Mohamed Saad Al Morraikhi, Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Manor team-mate Will Stevens endurance race now for me. Very Federation (QMMF) General Secretary, at Losail International Circuit. A total of thirteen cars took part in the opening round of the championship. in the second session late on happy with the result, everything Friday. went well, which is always nice “I’ve got five races to show when you prepare for something what I’m capable of,” Rossi said so hard” said the winner of the at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, race, Holroyd. describing a permanent seat as The runner-up of last season, Cudlin and Abdulaziz take pole at his “ultimate goal”. Canadian driver Peter De Vido, “It’s a difficult situation con- enjoyed the race and hopes to sidering we’re a bit off the pace have a nice battle with Holdroyd of the other cars, so it’s not about all through the season and fight beating the other cars, it’s about for the championship. Qatar Superbike Championship showing what I can do against my “It was a very good race today, team.” very challenging because of the DOHA: Five-time champion from the front. “The qualifying so I didn’t expect this good times pole on the start of the season,” Rossi only found out on heat, but as usual very good fair Alex Cudlin clinched the pole session was a bit difficult because also with the problems we had Cudlin said. Tuesday that he would replace driving, what I believe is the best position in the Superbike cate- we didn’t have too much practice this afternoon, but at the end all Nina Prinz will start from sec- Roberto Merhi for five of the championship in the Middle East. gory as the new season of Qatar time, but I am happy for the pole was right. I hope that tomorrow ond place on the grid. year’s last seven races, and was Thanks to my sponsor Quanto Superbike Championship kicked position, but we have to improve for the race my lap timing will “It was great, in the first qualify- rushed out to Singapore on the Bello Qatar and the rest of the off on Friday under the flood- still the lap timing as we still off be better and make a good result. ing we had some problems in the fuel next available flight. drivers for supporting this cham- lights of the Losail International pace than we were last year,” he Let the season start,” said Manca pump and a little bit with the elec- He will skip Russia and the pionship so on” De Vido said after Circuit with the participation of said after the qualifying session. after the session. tronic and I was not so happy about season-ending race in Abu Dhabi the race. a total of 48 riders. The second classified is the In the Superbike category, the first qualifying , and I thought to return to the GP2 champion- The third position in the For this year, riders are com- Qatari rider Fahid Al Sowaidi Cudlin, got the Superpole. we could have some problem in the ship, where he is second in the podium went to newcomer driver peting in two categories, 22 rid- with a lap time of 2:09.805. “It is good to start the season Superpole but the bike was fine and standings. from Australia, Adam Spence, ers taking part in the Superbike Also riding in the Supersport on pole, the bike was good, we I think I can go faster tomorrow in F1 hasn’t had an American who was so excited at the podium and 26 riders in the Supersport category, the Serbian rider haven’t changed anything from the race, but I am very happy with competitor since Toro Rosso’s that couldn’t believe it. category. Manca Katrasnik got the best the last season and all we did was the second position and ready for the Scott Speed in 1997, and it was “This is my first race in Qatar, In the Supersport category, the time in the women category to change the oil and here we are… race,” Nina said. a tough start for Rossi when he I am so excited for this podium, I superpole went to Saudi Arabian , getting the seventh overall in this temperature, I feel confi- The runner-up of the last sea- knocked both right wheels askew was ecstatic just to make it to the rider Abulaziz bin Ladin’s way, result. dent in the start, I think I can do son, Mishal Al Naimi will start in his first run-out. start line and ecstatic to be here with a Kawasaki ZX6R. Even he “I am really happy with the 5/10 fast laps but for sure Mishal in the third place on the grid , as But he recovered ably to time in the podium, and I am so happy didn’t make a good lap time in the result, I didn’t imagine I will go will be there as he is always is and he had some problems with the quicker than Stevens in the sec- for this. I have been racing here qualifying session, 2:08.588. so fast, because in the last season some others, but we’ll see next, radiator of his bike. ond session, avoiding bottom at Losail before but this extremely Bin Ladin is happy to start my last race was not very good, but so far, I am very happy for the THE PENINSULA place by finishing 19th out of the heat is something I haven’t expe- 20 cars. rienced before, I want to thank to Alex Cudlin “At the end of the day it’s just all the people that support me and competing something that happens,” Rossi really looking forward the coming in the open- said of his crash. “But all in all round” Adam said during the vic- I got in the car and I was quite ing round of tory ceremony. comfortable, and my pace com- the Superbike A total of thirteen cars took pared to my team-mate was part in the opening round of this category of the fine.” championship. Qatar Superbike The Californian has already Mohamed Saad Al Morraikhi, Championship made an impression with his Qatar Motor and Motorcycle at the Losail homage to Herbie, the self-driving Federation (QMMF) General International VW Beetle star of comedy films Secretary, presented the trophies Circuit on Friday including “The Love Bug” and to the winners at the podium night. RIGHT: “Herbie Goes Bananas”. ceremony. Mark Holroyd “Actually my original (race Earlier, the official photo of the celebrates number) choice, 16, was taken season was taking at the grid with his win in the as a Red Bull reserve number so all the drivers. opening round I thought I’d go to an American The next round for Qatar of the Qatar icon,” he said. “Growing up I Challenge will be on November 6. Challenge. watched it a lot.” THE PENINSULA AFP Britain, Argentina edge closer to Davis Cup final

PARIS: Andy and Jamie second reverse singles. “It was an after finishing runners-up in 1981, singles. “I think we played very Murray edged Great Britain incredible match and we had to 2006, 2008 and 2011. Carlos Berlocq well for four sets,” said world closer to a first Davis Cup final come back from the disappoint- and Leonardo Mayer edged Steve number two Federer. in 37 years on Saturday while ment of losing the fourth set,” Darcis and Ruben Bemelmans “They had a good tiebreaker Argentina were within sight two-time Grand Slam winner 6-2, 7-6 (7/2), 5-7, 7-6 (7/5) to and a good 10 minutes at the end Argentina’s of their fourth final spot since Andy said. take the South Americans into of the fourth and the beginning of Leonardo 2006. “We stuck together like broth- a 2-1 lead over Belgium ahead of the fifth and they deserved vic- Mayer (left) and The Murray brothers thrilled ers should and managed to come today’s reverse singles in Brussels. tory in the end. Indoor doubles Carlos Berlocq their home Glasgow crowd by up with enough good returns. It Belgium’s world number 15 David is brutal.” (right) celebrate defeating Australia’s Lleyton was as emotionally draining as Goffin will face Mayer first-up The Czech Republic, who were after winning Hewitt and Sam Groth 4-6, 6-3, much as it was physically.” today with Darcis scheduled to face back-to-back champions in 2012 their Davis 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4 in a gruelling Australia, 28-times winners of Federico Delbonis in what could be and 2013, opened a 2-1 lead over Cup semi- four-hour rubber. Victory gave the tournament, had been look- the deciding rubber. India in New Delhi after Adam final double the home side a 2-1 lead and it ing to reach their first final since Argentina took yesterday’s Pavlasek and Radek Stepanek match against means Andy Murray can now 2003. clash on a second match point defeated favourites Rohan Belgium’s clinch the tie for Great Britain “Davis Cup doubles over five after a Darcis return went long. Bopanna and Leander Paes 7-5, Steve Darcis in Sunday’s first reverse singles as sets can sometimes only rely on In the World Group play-offs, 6-2, 6-2. and Ruben they attempt to win the competi- one or two points,” said Hewitt, where the eight winners will play The United States, the record Bemelmans tion for the first time since 1936. who is featuring in his final Davis in the elite section next year, all 32-time champions, took a 2-1 The 28-year-old will secure Cup campaign. the ties remained undecided going lead over Uzbekistan in Tashkent at Forest a final showdown against “Doubles is always crucial but into the final day. with Steve Johnson and Sam National arena either Belgium or Argentina in there is still two matches to go Thiemo de Bakker and Matwe Querrey easing past Farrukh in Brussels, November if he defeats scheduled and we have to come up with the Middelkoop stunned Roger Dustov and Denis Istomin 6-3, Belgium, opponent Bernard Tomic. best plan to win those matches Federer and Marco Chiudinelli 6-2, 6-2. yesterday. If he loses, British world and give ourselves an opportunity 7-6 (9/7), 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 to keep Colombia, Germany, Croatia, number 300 Dan Evans is due to to go through to the final.” the Netherlands in the tie against Italy and Poland were also in the face teenager Thanasi Kokkinakis Argentina are also dreaming Switzerland in Geneva after they driving seat in their play-offs. in what would be the decisive of a return to the Davis Cup final lost both of Friday’s opening AFP SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Mahbubeh Mohabatolla Akhlaghi, takes aim during her 50m Rifle 3 Positions event of the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association Cup at Losail Shooting Complex yesterday. Akhlaghi won gold in the event. RIGHT: The podium winners from Qatar Shooting and Archery Association Cup. Akhlaghi clinches gold at Losail Qatar shooting and Archery Association Cup: Toaima tops in Men’s 10m rifle event

DOHA: Mahbubeh Mohabatolla Akhlaghi made a winning return to Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association Cup at Losail Shooting Complex here yesterday. Akhlaghi, who took a break away from the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions for the last four years to concentrate on other shooting events, clinched the top place set- ting aside the challenge of Aisha Yousef Al Suwaidi and Aisha Ibrahim Al Mutawa. “I had some health issues that is the reason I took a break from 50m Rifle 3 Positions, but I was taking part in the other shoot- ing events,” said Akhlaghi, who took gold in the same event in the Cairo 2007 Arab Games. Akhlaghi said her excellent performance will keep her in the right frame ahead of the upcom- ing Asian Championships in Kuwait which will serve as one Mohammed Abo Toaima (centre), winner in the Men’s 10m Rifle Moving Target event, poses on the platform along with second place finisher Mohammed Subhi and Hassan Al Rabae, who of the qualifying tournaments for clinched the bronze medal. RIGHT: The podium winners pose with officials of Qatar Shooting and Archery Association during the victory ceremony. the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro. “The next big event for us qualifying rounds but covered lot Al Hamad sparkled in all In girls’ 50m Rifle event, Noora Moving Target, Mohammed Mohammed Taher, Head and a big challenge is to the bag of ground to triumph in the final attempts to secure a gold medal, Al Mohannadi grabbed the gold Abo Toaima won the gold medal, of the Organizing Committee the Olympic quota at the Asian rounds. ahead of Mahbouba Akhlaqi who medal as Shahad Darwish took Mohammed Subhi finished in and Ibrahim Al Mohannadi, Championships,” said a delighted On Friday, Bahia Al Hamad clinched the silver medal while the silver and the bronze went to the second place and Hassan Championship Director handed Akhlaghi, who trailed the other won the gold medal in the the bronze medal went to Aisha Aisha Al Suwaidi. Al Rabae clinched the bronze over the medals to the podium two podium winners in the Women’s 50m Rifle. Al Motawa. In the Men’s 10m rifle event medal. winners. THE PENINSULA Cavani equaliser

Real Madrid’s keeps PSG on top French striker Karim Benzema (left) cel- ebrates with his PARIS: Edinson Cavani came nodding an easy chance wide. team-mates Pepe off the bench to save Paris Saint- “I thought I played alright, but (centre) and Toni Germain’s blushes and maintain I have to admit I really did miss Kroos after scoring their Ligue 1 unbeaten run as a very easy chance indeed,” the a goal during the the champions retained top spot giant Swedish striker admitted. Spanish Primera with a 1-1 draw at plucky Reims That was the moment Blanc Division match yesterday. went for broke and brought on The result means PSG will fin- Angel Di Maria, Cavani and Blaise againstGranada ish the weekend top of Ligue 1 on Matuidi, who had been left on the CF at Santiago 14 points ahead of Rennes, who bench after the midweek 2-0 win Bernabeu Stadium drew with Lille on Friday, on 13 over Malmo in the Champions in Madrid, Spain, while Caen are third on 12 after League. yesterday. a 2-1 win over Montpellier. Ezequiel Lavezzi almost forced All eyes, however, will be on a breakthrough on 17 minutes Marseille on Sunday night as after chipping Agassa, only to they host Lyon in the pick of the see his shot agonisingly cleared weekend games. off the line by a back-tracking At Reims, the two goals came defender. within a minute of each other as And a bullet-header from home defender Jordan Saibatcheu Marquinos, partnering captain took advantage of some hapless Thiago Silva in central defence, defending to give his side an 83rd was stopped thanks to lightning minute lead, which would have reflexes on the hour by Agassa, a Real Madrid edge past Granada been enough to carry his side level 37-year-old from Togo. with the Parisians at the top. Reims had gone into the game MADRID: A solitary goal from a good team that counter-attacks However, the script wasn’t fol- and Lucas Vazquez to keep Rafael But PSG responded in style third in Ligue 1 and almost took Karim Benzema spared Real well, and that was how it was,” lowed once the action got under- Benitez’s men at bay. as Argentine playmaker Javier a first-half lead when Nicolas de Madrid’s blushes as the Spanish said Madrid boss Rafael Benitez. way as Granada passed up a host Yet, Success had two more Pastore played a peach of a Preville hit the post on 40 min- giants moved to the top of La “We lost possession that of chances to spring a massive great chances to put Granada in through-ball and Cavani rushed utes with PSG stopper Kevin Liga with a nervy 1-0 win over allowed them to counter-attack surprise. front just before and after the into the area to clip a slick shot Trapp rooted to his line. Granada yesterday. and we didn’t take our chances Marcelo was forced into a break as he was denied by a brave past goalkeeper Kossi Agassa. On Friday, Rennes temporarily Real had scored 15 times in which complicated the game. clearance off the Real goal-line save from Keylor Navas before It was his fifth league strike of moved level on points with PSG their previous three matches, but “I know we have to win and play early on before Isaac Success chipping the ball well over with the season. after a 1-1 home draw against ten- they were grateful to some poor well, but when the game doesn’t fluffed his first of a number of his second effort. “It would have been an injus- man Lille, who had their Nigerian Granada finishing and controver- go as you wish, to win and get the opportunities when he failed to The Andalusians were even- tice if we had lost this match, goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama sent sial calls by the officials to claim three points is very important.” hit the target when unmarked at tually made to pay for their but we’re disappointed with the off. all three points. The scene appeared to be set at the back post. profligacy when Isco’s perfect result,” said PSG coach Laurent Promoted Corsican minnows Benzema grabbed the only goal a sunny Bernabeu for Ronaldo to Ronaldo’s first opening came 18 cross picked out Benzema for Blanc. Gazelec Ajaccio scored their first of the game nine minutes into surpass Raul to become Madrid’s minutes in, but Andres Fernandez a simple header to open the “Because we should also have ever Ligue 1 goal in a 2-1 defeat the second-half with a cushioned all-time top goalscorer. stood up well to block his effort scoring. scored more goals. We just were at Guingamp. Senegal-born header from Isco’s fine cross. There was even a special intro- before Benzema failed to turn the El-Arabi should still have given not nasty enough, in the good Kader Mangane was the man on Victory moves Madrid a point duction for the World Player of rebound home. Granada a share of the points, but sense of the word.” target after 36 minutes of their ahead of Barcelona at the top of the Year as his mascot for the Youssef El-Arabi did have he too couldn’t find a way past A badly misfiring Zlatan sixth top-flight game, but his side the table with the Catalans not day was Zaid Mohsen, the seven- the ball in the net for Granada Navas at the end of a fine individ- Ibrahimovic had missed a sitter on remain rooted to the bottom of in action until Sunday when they year-old Syrian refugee made moments later, but was wrongly ual run as the Costa Rica inter- 62 minutes, fluffing a straightfor- the table. Elsewhere Nice got a host Levante. famous when he and his father ruled to have been offside. national stretched his unbeaten ward header with Agassa sat on 3-1 win at Bastia and Angers beat “We knew before the game it were tripped by a Hungarian Fernandez made further good streak to start the season to five the floor and the goal entirely at fellow Ligue 1 new boys Troyes could be a difficult game, against camerawoman. saves from Luka Modric, Ronaldo games. AFP his mercy, the Swede inexplicably 1-0. AFP Sunday 20 September 2015 6 Dhul-Hijja 1436 Volume 20 Number 6559 Sport Price: QR2

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DOHA: Football giants Lekhwiya opened their title- defence at the Qatar Stars League (QSL) with an emphatic 3-1 win over Qatar SC, thanks to a brace by experienced mid- fielder Youssef Msakani at the Lekhwiya Stadium, yesterday. The defending champions who returned to QSL after suffer- ing defeat against Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in the AFC Champions League quarter-finals, got first half scare when Mohammaed Omar Saeed took Qatar SC by scoring a goal in the 30th minute. However, after ten minutes of attacking football, Lekhwiya managed to pull a leveller through Msakani. The second half saw some good display of attacking football from both sides but it was Lekhwiya who earned the timely lead, with seasoned Slovakian Vadimir Weiss giving the breakthrough in the 81st minute. Msakani took advantage of vul- nerable Qatar SC’s defense in the Lekhwiya’s players celebrate their goal against Qatar SC during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Lekhwiya injury time, scoring the last gasp Stadium in Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Lekhwiya and Qatar SC players vie for the ball possession during the match. goal seal his brace and a 3-1 vic- tory for the defending champions. Meanwhile, Al Arabi registered in Gianfranco Zola as head coach to be afforded to him because the the 24th minute. Midfielder Ali to take an age to bobble over the There will be tougher chal- their second win of the season as and so far the Italian has man- revival won’t happen overnight. Jasemi sent a lob down the flank line and defender Naif al Buriki lenges ahead and Zola might they defeated Al Khor 1-0 at the aged to get the best out of his side The performance against Khor on the right for Yousef Ahmed. attempted a last ditch clearance worry with his team’s low number Grand Hamad Stadium. with two wins from two games. will help Arabi fans believe in his Al Khor defender Lee Yong but the ball had already crossed of goals. Striker Yousef Ahmed scored During the pre-match press philosophy that much more as the couldn’t clear the ball and Yousef the line. Khor, on the other hand, have the only goal of the match to conferences, the Italian reiter- Dream Team looked more com- ran around him to slot the ball Possession was almost even now lost both of their games. secure three valuable points for ated that resurrecting Arabi and posed and worked as a team for past the onrushing keeper. with Arabi edging it slightly and They have been defeated by Arabi. getting them back to where they large parts of the game. It wasn’t the most powerful created more chances. Tonight’s opponents who could be rated as The spotlight certainly is on belong is his primary objective. There was just one goal and of shots as Yousef didn’t con- Zola’s mend deserved the victory stronger than them. Arabi this season since bringing But he also requested patience that came early in the match – in nect properly. The ball seemed after putting a hard shirt. THE PENINSULA Chelsea sink nine-man Arsenal, Coman opens account as Bayern Munich go top West Ham stun leaders City BERLIN: Bayern Munich’s maximum 15 points from their French teenager Kingsley opening five games, three ahead Coman scored his first of Borussia Dortmund, who host LONDON: Kurt Zouma and advantage count in the 53rd Bundesliga goal in their 3-0 vic- Bayer Leverkusen on Sunday. Eden Hazard gave Chelsea minute when French defender tory over promoted Darmstadt VfL Wolfsburg edged past a controversial 2-0 win over Zouma was left unmarked to head 98 on Saturday as the German Hertha Berlin 2-0, but left it late nine-man Arsenal yesterday in a Cesc Fabregas free-kick. champions went three points with two goals from substitute while leaders Manchester City Cazorla was sent off in the 79th clear at the top of the table with Bas Dost in the 76th and 88th crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat minute when the Spanish mid- their fifth straight win. minutes securing a deserved against West Ham. fielder caught Fabregas with an The 19-year-old Coman, who victory. The acrimonious relation- Manchester ugly lunging tackle. joined on a two-year loan deal The Wolves, who also beat ship between Chelsea manager City’s Yaya Belgium midfielder Hazard from Juventus this season, drilled CSKA Moscow in midweek to Jose Mourinho and Arsenal boss Toure reacts guaranteed the champions’ sec- in from a perfect Sebastian Rode make a winning start in the Arsene Wenger seeped through to during the ond league victory of the season in cutback for a 2-0 lead as Bayern Champions League, are in third both teams at Stamford Bridge in English the 90th minute when his strike rested several players after their place on 11 points. a tetchy London derby featuring Premier deflected off Calum Chambers 3-0 Champions League win at Fellow Champions League club even more flashpoints than usual. League to leave the Gunners without a Olympiakos this week and ahead Borussia Moenchengladbach And at Eastlands, Kevin de match league success against the Blues of a big midweek Bundesliga game slumped to a 1-0 defeat at Cologne Bruyne’s first goal for City wasn’t against West since 2011. against VfL Wolfsburg. for their fifth straight defeat. enough to salvage their 100 per- Odion Ighalo kept Newcastle Earlier, a scintillating run by Gladbach, who finished third Ham United cent start against the Hammers, in the relegation zone as the winger Douglas Costa drew three last season, have yet to earn a at the Etihad who have defeated Arsenal, Nigerian forward’s double players to the Brazilian who laid it point this season, and are lan- Liverpool and Manuel Pellegrini’s Stadium in inspired Watford’s 2-1 win at St off for Arturo Vidal to drill home guishing in last place after their side in their first three away Manchester, James’ Park. off the post for his own first goal worst ever Bundesliga start. games this season. yesterday. Ighalo gave Watford a 10th for the Bavarians in the 20th Promoted Ingolstadt snatched City fell behind in the sixth minute lead with a low strike and minute. a last-gasp 1-0 win at Werder minute when on-loan Chelsea he increased their advantage with Rode netted Bayern’s third Bremen with a stoppage-time winger Victor Moses fired home his fourth goal in six matches in goal on the rebound after his penalty to move up to fifth on 10 from 20 yards for the first league the 28th minute. first effort bounced off the post and become the first league new- goal conceded by Pellegrini’s club Newcastle ended a nearly following another through ball comer to win their first three this term. 500-minute goal drought when from Costa to make sure of away games. Senegal forward Diafra Sakho Dutch defender Daryl Janmaat Darmstadt’s first loss this season. Hamburg drew 0-0 against netted in the 62nd minute, but The Bavarians, who saw Javier Eintracht Frankfurt but moved netted the visitors’ second from Gabriel for kicking Costa and McClaren’s team were unable to Martinez make his first appear- up to tenth on seven points. EPL Results close-range in the 31st minute. then showed Santi Cazorla a red avoid their third consecutive loss. ance of the season, are on a REUTERS Belgium midfielder De Bruyne, card in the second half. Ten-man Sunderland slipped to Aston Villa 0 West Bromwich 1 (Berahino a £55m ($85m) signing from Chelsea striker Costa was the bottom of the table after a 2-0 39); Bournemouth 2 (Wilson 4, Ritchie Wolfsburg last month, marked booked for shoving over Koscielny defeat at Bournemouth. 9) Sunderland 0; Chelsea 2 (Zouma 53, his first City start with a clinical after whacking the Arsenal Leicester staged another Hazard 90) Arsenal 0; Manchester City 1 (De finish in first half stoppage-time. defender in the face moments impressive fightback to maintain Munich’s Kingsley Bruyne 45) West Ham 2 (Moses 6, Sakho But a brilliant Adrian save earlier. their unbeaten record with a 2-2 Coman celebrates 31); Newcastle 1 (Janmaat 62) Watford 2 from Nicolas Otamendi’s header Gunners defender Gabriel draw at Stoke. his goal during (Ighalo 10, 28); Stoke 2 (Bojan 13, Walters ended the hosts’ winning run at remonstrated with Costa and was Everton’s Kevin Mirallas was the Bundesliga 20) Leicester 2 (Mahrez 51-pen, Vardy 69); five matches and lifted West Ham booked for his complaints. sent off for a foul on Modou match against Swansea 0 Everton 0 into second place. But the Brazilian couldn’t keep Barrow in the final moments of SV Darmstadt Playing Today At Stamford Bridge, Wenger his emotions under control and in his side’s 0-0 draw at Swansea. 98 in Darmstadt, was furious Mike Dean opted not first-half stoppage-time he aimed In today’s matches, Van Gaal’s Germany, Liverpool vs Norwich (1500 GMT), to send off Diego Costa following a a sly kick at Costa right in front Manchester United travel to yesterday. Southampton vs Manchester United (1500 clash with Laurent Koscielny and of the referee, who immediately Southampton, Tottenham host GMT), Tottenham vs Crystal Palace (1230 the referee further infuriated the brandished a red card. Crystal Palace and Liverpool take GMT) Frenchman when he dismissed Chelsea made their numerical on Norwich. AFP