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Nepalese wins $1m in Qatar Duty Free draw DOHA: A Nepalese national has hit the jackpot in the One Million US Dollar Raffle of Qatar Duty Free at Doha International Airport for the first time. Dilli Ram Parajuli won $1m when his cou- pon, number 1922, was picked in the draw held on Thursday, according to qatardutyfree.com. qa. The winning ticket was picked by the CEO of Qatar Airways and Qatar Duty Free, Akbar Al Baker. The raffle draw was launched in 2006 and Parajuli is the 12th winner. Picture on page 4 Strong winds, thunder, rain forecast for today

DOHA: Strong winds accompanied by thunder, lightning and rain are expected to hit the country today. With an increase in cloud formation, the meteorological department has forecast scat- tered rains and high sea levels over the week- end. “This is a normal occurrence known as Al Saryat, which occurs at the end of April. It is usually marked by the last rains of win- ter,” an official from the department told The Peninsula yesterday. “People should take care as winds may become very strong at times, and with a rise in the sea level, we might also issue a warning for rough seas,” the official said. The department has urged people to call it if they notice any abnormality in offshore areas. This instabil- ity in the weather is expected to last at least a week. Temperatures in Doha would hover between 23 and 28 degrees Celsius. NEEDED: Qataris top-spending non-EU tourists in UK

LONDON: Tourists from Qatar spend more in the UK than any other group of tour- ists from outside the European Union, say A SEISMIC CENTRE researchers. They spend £1,408 per trans- action on average, beating visitors from the United Arab Emirates, who spent £1,170. However, Chinese tourists appear to be catching up. China’s middle class travellers are spending more than ever in the UK, with THE ISSUE the average spend rising 37 percent in the past year to £747 a transaction, according to Global Kammutty VP Blue, the tax-free shopping firm. The last geological survey was incorporating measures for building designs to magnitude of the aftershocks of the Iranian Pic: guarantee safety against quakes in early 2008 in quakes that were felt here, but it is estimated done in Qatar 43 years ago, in the CMC after a four- to five-magnitude quake that they might have varied between three Another GCC national held 1970, but the recent tremors in hit neighbouring Al Fujairah. and 3.5 on the Richter scale, said the CMC Iran that had their ripple effects The CMC, after lengthy deliberations, vice-chairman. “And not all GCC countries at Dubai airport approved the proposal and forwarded it to the witnessed aftershocks of similar intensity. The here underscore the need to Standards and Specifications Organisation, intensity differed.” DOHA: Social media in the region became conduct fresh geological studies which was under the civic ministry then. “We While talking about the recent aftershocks, Abraham Augusthy overactive yesterday with news of another to see if there are any subsurface even invited the head of the organisation, Dr people have generally been focusing on the sky- GCC citizen having been detained at Dubai

Mohamed Saif Al Kuwari, to the CMC and scrapers in West Bay. Design: airport while in transit. People comment- seismic disturbances, suggests a posed several questions to him.” “The fact of the matter is that more vul- ing on Twitter from across the region aired prominent public representative. Al Malki said he was shocked to discover that nerable buildings here are the low-rise ones fury over the arrest of a GCC national they when the new building code was unveiled by that were built years ago when building designs identified as Salah Al Yafei. Qatar a couple of years ago, the proposal wasn’t didn’t take into consideration possibilities of The alleged arrest comes just two months incorporated. It had been ignored entirely. tremors rocking this place,” said Ahmed Jolo, after a Qatari, Dr Mahmoud Al Jaidah, was ow, we need a fresh geologi- The recent aftershocks that caused a scare chairman of Qatari Engineers’ Association. held at Dubai airport while he was in transit, cal map, especially as we have here and in the rest of the GCC region have According to Al Malki, the issue of the new travelling from Bangkok to Doha. lined up mega infrastruc- brought the issue to the fore again. building code will be raised in the CMC again. An angry commentator on Twitter warned “Nture projects worth billions “While it is true that infrastructure project “Definitely, it merits our attention in view of fellow GCC citizens against travelling via ofPAGE dollars over the next6 so many years,” said costs would escalate due to the new building what we have witnessed recently.” Dubai, suggesting one never knew when one Jassem Al Malki, vice-chairman of the Central regulations — provided they are brought into To say that Qatar does not lie in a seismic would be detained. “Al Yafei has nothing to do Municipal Council (CMC). force — we do need them for long-term safety zone and, therefore, is safe doesn’t sound con- with politics. So why has he been picked up,” Al Malki, who is an engineer by training, said of buildings and life and property.” vincing any more, he said. asked an irate woman commentator. he first raised the issue of Qatar’s building code No one has any idea about the exact Continued on page 3 THE PENINSULA & THE GUARDIAN

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Preparing for a shaky future

Pics: Qassim Rahmatullah / Kammutty VP Experts want new specifications for high-rise buildings to improve their resistance to earthquakes

BY SATISH KANADY were flooded with calls from clients requesting them to inspect their DOHA: Recent earthquakes in properties to make sure they were Iran and subsequent tremors in safe. Qatar have shattered the general “My team is running crazy, tak- belief that Qatar is immune to ing photos and making assess- quakes. The tremors served as ments. Our clients want to make a stark warning that structures sure their towers are resistant to of any kind in the country would any possible future shocks. Some be susceptible should there be of them have suddenly detected a strong quake in Iran or else- minor cracks on their property. where in the region. They are They want to make sure those a wake-up call for the country, cracks were not developed after which has lined up multi-billion- the tremors”, Ibrahim M Jaidah, dollar construction projects for CEO and Chief Architect of Arab the next five to ten years. Engineering Bureau, said. Although aftershocks of the “We have designed and devel- Ibrahim M Jaidah V P M Basheer tremblors in Iran did not cause oped more than a dozen towers in damage here, they have shaken the West Bay. We received calls from country’s construction sector and most of them asking us to assess the issue five years ago and sub- feels Qatar’s high-rise buildings are and designs accordingly. For the unnerved people. Leading construc- the safety of the building. Different mitted proposals to the Ministry of strong enough to resist the kind taller buildings, there should be a tion companies are busy respond- teams led by our structural engi- Municipality and Urban Planning. of tremors experienced in the past code. The code should be scaled up ing to calls from worried clients. neers are now on the task”, a There should be new stand- two weeks. from the existing zero to one”, says Two leading builders told The top executive of another leading ards and specifications for high- Basheer was involved in the Ibrahim M Jaidah. Peninsula they builder said. rise buildings to improve their designing of more than 20 towers Despite Qatar’s seismic zone zero Structural engineers say most resistance against natural calami- in Doha and more than a dozen in status, Arab Engineering Bureau high-rise buildings in Qatar were ties, especially earthquakes. This the United Arab Emirates. uses zone one guidelines while designed according to minimal should be made part of the Qatar “Though Qatar lies in a seismic designing its high-rises. Some of seismic zone classifications as Construction Code, the Council’s zone zero, while designing 20-plus its towers are designed so that the dictated by the Uniform Building vice chairman, Jassim bin Abdullah floor towers in Qatar, we cover top floors can sway a few metres to Code or the International Building Al Malki, said. He says skyscrapers the zone one guidelines, which are absorb any possible shocks. Code. But most low-rise buildings in West Bay should be given special capable of sustaining any possible On concerns about booming are vulnerable as they were not attention while preparing the new quakes of up to 4.5 magnitude. In waterfront constructions and its designed using any standard code. guidelines. UAE, we cover the zone one against environment impact, Ibrahim Buildings whose walls are made V P M Basheer, Service Group a possible 5.5 Richter scale impact. Jaidah said Qatar’s Environmental of bricks cannot withstand earth- Manager (Structures) of reputed According to me, the problem is Impact Assessment (EIA) guide- quakes measuring more than engineering consultants GHD, not with the towers but with lines were strict and foolproof. five on the Richter scale as they the huge horizontal structures, “The ministry (of environment) cannot bear the horizontal force where the seismic effect will not has gone a long way in the last exerted by the quakes, they say. be covered vis-à-vis the wind load five to ten years. EIA was a not a The Qatari Society of Engineers aspect,” he said. big issue during the early stages was the first to go on record say- In view of the recent tremors, of waterfront constructions. But ing that Qatar should have a Bahseer feels Qatar buildings must for the last five to ten years, the building code like that of Egypt, be designed in line with zone one Ministry of Environment is really Saudi Arabia and Syria, which, Buildings whose walls guidelines. “Authorities must con- doing a good job. They have a veto according to them, would result duct studies and fix the appro- power to stop any project should in earthquake-resistant buildings. are made of bricks priate zone suitable for Qatar. In they feel that the guidelines are not Structures built according to Qatar, towers of more than 20 met 100 percent, no matter who such a code will resist minor and cannot withstand storeys designed for a wind load owns the project or what the land moderate earthquakes without earthquakes of 160km per hour are capable of use is”, he said. significant structural damage, and sustaining the minor tremors that Dredging for the upcoming resist severe earthquakes without measuring more than Qatar experienced recently.” Doha International Port would collapse, they said. five on the Richter The message from the after- have cost a lot less had the port The Central Municipal Council shocks of the Iran quakes is that authorities not strictly abided by (CMC) has urged the authorities scale as they cannot Qatar needs to upgrade its build- the guidelines set by the Ministry to prepare new guidelines for the bear the horizontal ing code. of Environment. The MoE is com- construction sector in view of the “We must realise that the globe petent to stop any project; we have aftershocks of the earthquakes in force exerted by the is changing; the weather pattern faced such a situation when we Iran. is undergoing a change. Hence were developing a shopping mall”, In fact, the CMC had discussed quakes. we need to calibrate our plans he added. THE PENINSULA Coping with the aftershocks ohammed Sada is a aftershocks of the tremors. It has area away from trees, signs, buildings journalist-turned-media launched a door-to-door campaign or downed electrical wires and poles. relations officer with in West Bay, distributing pamphlets • When on a sidewalk near build- Ma leading construction explaining how to duck and take cover ings, duck into a doorway to protect company in Qatar. He was on the 24th during an earthquake. The Qatar yourself from falling bricks, glass, plas- floor of his office building when Qatar Foundation volunteers tell people ter and other debris. felt the first tremors from an earth- about the safest places at the work- • When driving, pull over to the side quake in Iran earlier this month. He place and home where one can shelter of the road and stop. Avoid overpasses still feels the dizziness. during a quake. and power lines. Stay inside your vehi- “The first and second tremors • When in a high-rise building, cle until the shaking stops. occurred on a Tuesday. Today is the move against an interior wall if you are • When in a crowded store or other third Tuesday. I am afraid of going to not near a desk or table. Protect you public places, move away from display office today and decided to stay away head and neck with you arms. After shelves containing objects that could from office”, he told The Peninsula. the tremor stops, occupiers should fall. Do not rush for the exit. He said he knew many friends and evacuate in a controlled manner. Do • When in a stadium or theatre, stay colleagues who had similar fears. not use elevators. Internal communi- in your seat, get below the level of the Qatar Foundation may be the only cation systems and procedures should back of the seat and cover your head organisation that has reached out be used. and neck with your arms. to people to deal with the emotional • When outdoors, move to a clear THE PENINSULA Home APRIL 27, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Emir greets Dhaka, Tanzanian leaders Youth told to be innovative DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of greetings to Bangladesh’s new President US activist opens biannual Youth Change Everything conference Mohamed Abdul Hamid.The Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent BY RAYNALD C RIVERA H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of con- DOHA: Muslim American com- gratulations to the president. munity activist Rami Nashashibi The Emir has sent a cable of urged the youth to be innovative, greetings to the President of courageous and be an inspiration the United Republic of Tanzania to others as he opened the third on the occasion of his country’s edition of the biannual Youth National Day. QNA Change Everything conference yesterday at the Coral Hotel. Nashashibi, co-founder and cur- rently executive director of Inner- Need for regional City Muslim Network — a leading Muslim charity organisation in the building code US, told over a hundred young Continued from page 1 participants to think outside the box, be courageous leaders and “be “It is not a pragmatic thinking, inspired and inspiring.” particularly when we are build- “I want you to think of the ing infrastructure on such a large idea of being innovative, of scale and spending billions and thinking not just new ideas but billions of dollars.” ideas that challenge the logic of Then, there is this twin threat existing ideas which means ask- from the nuclear power plant in ing the right questions. Some of Iran located in a highly sensitive the greatest innovations and the seismic zone. The issue of the most successful startups were led quakes, coupled with the nuclear by people who were willing to ask threat, has massive ramifications different questions,” he said. for the GCC states, according to Rami has been named one of Al Malki. the ‘500 Most Influential Muslims Saudi Arabia and Egypt have of the World’ by the Royal Islamic construction codes that incor- Strategic Studies Center, among porate regulations for build- the ’10 Young Muslim Visionaries ing designs to guarantee safety Shaping Islam in America’ by the against tremors, so why can’t Islamica Magazine and recently Qatar have it, wondered Al Malki. one of ‘Top Ten Chicago Global He said he found the idea of Visionaries’ by Chicago Public each GCC country having its own Radio. Dr Rami Nashashibi, Executive Director, Inner-City Muslim Action Network, addressing the Youth Change Everything conference yesterday at the Coral seismic centre weird and uncon- “You will not succeed without vincing. “We can have a central- Hotel. some degree of courage. Great ised, regional seismic centre. Why leaders required tremendous can’t we show unity in at least courage: courage to look at the He encouraged the partici- Jr was stoned in 1966. setting, creative thinking and kick Company namely You-Training this area which concerns the face of extraordinary odds, cour- pants to “make dreams a real- “The park which was once a starts. and You-Start, the former aims safety of every one of us?” age to have conviction, courage to ity, take a vision and be willing symbol of intolerance and divi- Today’s agenda focuses on busi- to enhance personal development Jolo said the situation was not believe in others, courage to chal- to see that vision grow to its sion had been transformed into a ness challenge wherein partici- of youth in Qatar while the latter “very alarming” here, adding that lenge the norms,” he stressed. completion and willing to take space which is a source of inspi- pants would be divided into teams provides them support for their nevertheless a regional building “You cannot be an inspirational long strategic plans to make it ration that brings different com- to create and present their own entrepreneurial ideas. code was the need of the hour. person unless you are inspired. happen.” munities together celebrating projects in front of judges. The Aya Abu Issa, Acting CEO of Concerned by the Iranian Being inspired means being open As a good example of making commonalities and differences,” projects are planned to be pub- The Youth Company said they are quakes and the threat from the to new ideas and it takes cour- change possible he cited the Takin’ he said. lished on The Youth Company working on organising a Youth Iranian power plant in the seismic age because sometimes it requires It To The Streets, a Muslim-led Yesterday, the participants online book and business publica- Change Everything regional con- zone that was hit by the powerful you to get out of something you festival in Chicago where artis- attended a series of workshops tions in Qatar to attract potential ference which would bring young tremors recently, the GCC coun- are comfortable with, and it takes tic expression, spirituality and such as managing change in a investors. leaders from the region to Doha tries have joined hands and set up innovation to challenge something urban creativity inspire social changing environment, creating Youth Change Everything con- for several days of collaborative a number of specialist commit- that others have set before you,” change held at the Marquette intelligent organisations, building ference is the concentrated version work and networking. tees that are tasked with working he said. Park where Martin Luther King high performance teams, and goal of two programs run by The Youth THE PENINSULA out a regional building code that guarantees new constructions in the region against the twin threats, Jolo said. The GCC states have actually been working jointly for quite a Algerian footballer praises Aspetar while to frame standardised con- struction regulations. “We will be incorporating safety measures DOHA: Algerian football President of the Algerian Football fantastic football.” against threats from the quakes star Hassan Yebda recently Federation and a member of the Hassan Yebda has played in and nuclear disaster in the new received treatment at Aspetar Executive Committee of FIFA, an array of Europeans leagues regional building code being Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports recommended I received treat- including France, Portugal, developed.” Jolo said he hoped Medicine Hospital following ment from Aspetar.” England, Italy and Spain, and that the code should be ready a minor knee injury recently The Algerian footballer hopes has represented a host of inter- anytime next year. sustained. that, following his treatment, national clubs. – Mobin Pandit The athlete, who currently he will be able to return to the THE PENINSULA plays for Granada CF in Spain game. “Right now, my main THE PENINSULA and the Algerian national team objective is to go back on as a central midfielder, attended the field as soon as pos- a three week long rehabilitation sible. After that, we will programme at Aspetar. see what the next step is. Yebda praised the hospital, I’m really looking forward “This is my first visit to Qatar, to be with my teammates and Aspetar. I am very impressed again, I really miss the with the treatment I have camaraderie,” he said. received. Not only is the equip- During his stay in ment fantastic, but I have had an the country, Yebda also excellent team dedicated to my attended a number of recuperation. I’ve had the oppor- local matches, and com- tunity to play in many clubs all plimented the quality over the world but none of them of football in Qatar, “I match the state-of-the-art facili- watched Al Saad play Al ties available at Aspetar.” Gharafa. I also went to see He continued, explaining his an Al Kharaitiyat match, Algerian football star Hassan Yebda receiving treatment at Aspetar Qatar reasoning for choosing Aspetar, as well as a number of Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital. “Mr. Mohamed Raouraoua, the Eljaish games. I saw some

Pakistan Chamber invites Qatari businessmen

DOHA: Zubair Ahmed Malik, to business relations between President of Federation of Pakistan and Qatar and close Pakistan Chamber of Commerce cooperation between FPCCI and and Industry (FPCCI) recently the Qatar Chamber of Commerce met the ambassador of and Industry. Pakistan, Syed Hassan Raza, to He also conveyed through the discuss bilateral business and ambassador, an invitation to investment relations between the Qatari businessmen to visit Pakistan and Qatar. Pakistan and to explore invest- The President of FPCCI briefed ment opportunities in the energy, the ambassador about the promis- agriculture, engineering and ing market potential of Pakistani manufacturing sectors. consumer goods in Qatar. Earlier, President of FPCCI He particularly spoke about the also held a meeting with the textile products of Pakistan which Pakistani Business Forum in are very popular in the interna- Doha and invited the Pakistani tional market. entrepreneurs to invest in differ- The President also underlined ent business sectors in Pakistan. Zubair Ahmed Malik, President of FPCCI, with Pakistan Ambassador the need to establish business THE PENINSULA Syed Hassan Raza. APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Volunteers from InterNations, an expatriate network, during beach cleaning at the northern island of Umm Tays. BELOW: Volunteers who participated in the clean-up drive. One tonne of beach rubbish removed InterNations organises clean-up drive with the support of Ministry of Municipal Affairs

DOHA: Over 200 people took days after the commemoration part in a clean-up of the beaches of Earth Day with the goal of at the northern island of Umm enabling sea turtles to lay their Tays yesterday. The activity eggs in the area. “We found plas- was organised by InterNations, tic bags, glass and plastic bottles, an expatriate network, and the among other things,” said the Ministry of Municipal Affairs organiser. This initiative organ- and Urban Planning. ised together with the Ministry The volunteers picked up of Municipal Affairs and Urban approximately 1 tonne of rubbish Planning, which also provided 25 in an area of five square kilom- people that took part in the expe- eters. “It was a great and produc- dition, is part of the organisation’s tive day,” said the Ambassador community and environmental of InterNations to Qatar, Mark responsibility programme. Thomson. The Ministry provided “It’s about paying back to the three buses and some boats to community, about telling our host transport the volunteers, with the nation that we’re not just here participation of families with chil- to take. We’re here to be socially want to organise more similar activi- will also consider tree planting. 750,000 members in more than 195 2007. InterNations has 7,000 mem- dren as well. active and participate as residents in ties in other beaches,” he stated, InterNations is the largest expatri- countries and 360 cities, it was offi- bers from 49 nationalities in Qatar. The action took place a few this country,” explained Thomson. “I while adding that the organisation ate network worldwide. With over cially launched on September 11, THE PENINSULA

Nepalese wins $1m raffle HEI faces many issues in processing education scholarships: Official

DOHA: The Supreme Education Speaking at the Education Fair, institute. “We face a number of Council’s Higher Education Al Yafei said that some students challenges when sending students Institute (HEI) faces a number register with universities without for scholarships such as duality of challenges while processing even realising that the courses of funds, delay in the results of international scholarship funds will be taught online. students, changing the students for Qatari students, according Delay in the results of students, university or the field of study, or to a senior official. and changing university or the sometimes incomplete criteria,” The availability of dual funds field of study at the last moment Al Yafei said. for students, low Grade Point were some other problems faced There are some of the students Average (GPA), as well as a gen- by the institute while processing that register with universities eral lack of awareness about the scholarships for Qatari students. without completing required required criteria for admission in The HEI’s scholarship office credit hours while others have universities abroad are among the is responsible for administering less than 2 GPA, he said. common issues, Alawi Bailqees Al scholarship programmes for gra- In order to tackle some of these Yafei, Director of US and Canada date and post-graduate studies in problems, the HEI organizes ori- scholarship programme at HEI, Qatar and abroad, with some 675 entations and seminars for stu- Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways and Qatar Duty Free, during the $1m Raffle draw of Qatar Duty Free at recently said. universities accredited with the dents. THE PENINSULA Doha International Airport. Dilli Ram Parajuli of Nepal has won the draw. Courtesy: www.qatardutyfree.com.qa Siemens takes part in Passivhaus experiment DOHA: Siemens has supplied cutting-edge technolo- gies to Qatar’s first Passivhaus experiment, which enhances energy-efficiency at residential units with the aim of creating more sustainable housing. The Baytna project targets a 50 percent reduction in energy and water consumption and CO2 emissions in the Passivhaus villa during the project’s implementation period. The experiment, which began on April 22, is based on using two identical villas, one built conventionally and the other using green design and technologies, known as the Passivhaus villa. Both villas, located in Barwa City in Doha, will be occupied by the same number of residents who will move in after the completion of a six-month testing and commissioning period. Siemens has supplied the essential monitoring and meter- ing equipment for this significant research project as well as fire detection systems and Building Management Systems, the company said. Osram, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens, provided energy-efficient lighting solutions and Bosch equipped the villa with energy efficient white goods. “Siemens is proud to be a key supplier of innovative technology to Qatar’s first Passivhaus, which aims to reduce energy use and increase awareness of efficient technologies and solutions to create a cleaner and greener environment,” said Joerg Scheifler, CEO of Siemens Infrastructure and Cities, Middle East. Residents will live in the villas for a period of one year and the difference in their water and power consump- tion will be measured. During the first six months, the families’ energy and water usage habits will be observed. This will be followed by data analysis, training and edu- cation of the Passivhaus residents in using the available technology more efficiently to conserve energy and water. At the end of the experiment, compiled data will be used to help introduce viable, cost effective energy and water efficient technologies and standards in new homes and offices throughout Qatar. The project is led by Barwa Real Estate Group, Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa), and Qatar Green Building Council, which is a member of Qatar Foundation. THE PENINSULA APRIL 27, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

Kammutty VP oung sports enthusiasts showed Yoff their football skills at the ‘Passport to Passion’ Challenge yesterday at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) Park.

Yesterday’s event kicked Kindling a passion off a series of weekend challenges organised by Qatar Foundation in partnership with FC Barcelona to share the value of sport and education with youngsters.

Open to children aged five to 15 years, ‘Passport to Passion’ will travel to different locations in Doha to engage the local community with football-related activities and coaching sessions. All participants receive a ‘Passport to Passion’ and ‘success stamps’ as they complete each footballing activity.

The challenge will culminate in a grand finale at Qatar Foundation in late May.

The event continues today at the MIA Park. Next weekend it would be held in Aspire Park. APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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NE more confusion has been added to the plethora of confusions prevailing in Syria – if the repressive regime of Bashar Al Assad has used chemical Economic exploitation Oweapons on people. It was Israel which vociferously argued the Syrian government had repeatedly used chemical weapons last month, echoing earlier assertions by France and Britain. An official from the Israeli defence forces said continues to spill blood the very fact that Damascus “has used chemical weapons without any appropriate reaction is a very worrying BY DEBORAH ORR development because it might signal that this is legitimate”. of a number of individuals, in a lawsuit all the fault of the fashion industry. The US almost agrees with Israel because the latter has that claims the company “was negligent But that’s not quite true. If you asked been emphatic and determined in its assertions. A report HETHER it’s an explosion in in the operation of its facility, creating fashion designers whether they’d pre- said Washington is even considering a range of military a fertiliser factory in the US, an unreasonably dangerous condition, fer consumers to purchase one or two Wor the collapse of a factory which led to the fire and explosion”. carefully chosen pieces from high-end responses against Syria because President Barack Obama building in Bangladesh, industrial catas- The collapse of an eight-storey cloth- collections every season, or an armful of had made it clear that chemical use was a red line for the trophe tends to be reported almost as if ing factory in Dhaka this week is a much high-street rip-offs every month, they’d international community. it’s a natural disaster. An individual car- greater disaster. On Friday, as many counsel strongly for the former. It’s a bit Did Assad use chemical weapons? It’s yet to be proven, rying out a mass shooting or planting a as 2,000 bodies had been pulled from like saying celebrity chefs are the rea- though the possibility cannot be ruled out. Obama has bomb – that’s news, that’s blameworthy, the rubble, nearly 300 of them dead. son for fried chicken shops. High street that’s deserving of justice for the vic- Estimates suggest that there may have retailers offer a tawdry approximation promised a vigorous investigation into the charges, saying tims. But when business is the culprit, been as many as 5,000 workers in the of crafted, quality fashion-collecting, that though the US has varying degrees of confidence about fingerpointing is deemed less important. building. Witnesses say they had been an experience of whizz-bang consumer the actual use, “there’s a range of questions about how, when, Which is odd, in a way. Humanity may told to return to work after report- gratification that is a little bit desper- where these weapons have been used.” The UN has started never quite be fully able to say which ing that a crack had appeared in one ate, much like a meal from a greasy box its own investigation and has started collecting evidence. disturbed and angry people are truly of the walls. One can’t help wondering that offers some comfort but not much The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dangerous. whether the building had simply never sustenance. Constant treat-shopping is But good management of indus- been built to withstand the weight of a western hobby, addictive but unsatis- Whether has written a letter to Assad seeking trial risk is eminently achievable. An 5,000 people and their machinery. factory. It fills time without demanding access to the country for the purpose explosion at the Clearly, no heed had been paid by engagement or skill. Assad’s forces of investigation because the Assad West Fertilizer management to the deaths of 112 work- The everyday horror of post-indus- have used government has refused to let the Company in Texas ers in a garment factory fire in a nearby trial society is that it deskills and makes UN officials in, demanding that the earlier this month suburb, Ashulia, last November. A day passive the people who would once have chemical The fertiliser plant killed 14 people of mourning for the dead was declared been making the things that they are inquiry be limited to its claims that explosion and and injured many in Dhaka, but a few months on, a big- now buying in the shops instead. And weapons or chemical weapons were used near others. Just a ger disaster with greater casualties has they can only afford to buy this stuff not, it’s time Aleppo on March 19. factory collapse in terrible accident occurred. This time, a day of mourning because people in other countries can’t The use of chemical weapons, if that could not was declared for the entire country. afford to say “no” to making it under to force him to Bangladesh are not proven, will be a game changer. The natural disasters, have been fore- It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conditions now – rightly – considered leave. US will be forced to intervene in the seen? Perhaps. work out what’s going on in Bangladesh. unacceptable here. People purchase but the avoidable But the factory It’s the second-largest exporter of cloth- these products because they’re at the conflict and expedite the overthrow had been fined by ing in the world after China. The secret cheap price that became the nemesis of Assad. It will also strengthen the consequence of US regulators last of success in both countries is that cheap, of the former workshop of the world. position of Arab countries which have been arguing that poor industrial year for its sloppy skilled labour turns out clothes that are Much is made of the capacity of glo- Assad is a ruthless dictator who will not hesitate to unleash management and a safety arrange- of excellent quality, yet retail at sums balisation to spread wealth. In fact, the most lethal of weapons on his own people. ments, eventually that are peanuts in the west. Monthly it’s a fiendish process that rewards an At the same time, chemical weapons experts have reacted global economy in coughing up just pay in the Bangladesh garment industry exploitable population until it gets too $5,250 (£3,400). can be as little as £25 a month, while £25 big for its boots, then leaves it high and with caution. Referring to video footage purported to show dangerous flux. In 2006, the can buy two or three nice outfits on the dry, with only the produce of the next victims foaming at the mouth, a British expert said it would factory was inves- high street in Britain. Primark has con- group of victims to keep it afloat. Given not be indicative of use of nerve agents “but is more likely to tigated after an “odour complaint”. It firmed that one of its suppliers worked time, the people of Bangladesh will gain be a sign of a choking agent such as phosgene being used, if was found to have been using controlled from the building, while Matalan says decent working conditions, just as the anything were used.” materials without authorisation. The fil- it had used companies in the building workers of industrial Britain did. Then Only a thorough and independent inquiry can confirm ing of an application to use the danger- in the recent past. Again, no surprise. they too will be buying cheap clothes ous substances legally instead of illegally Pressure groups have been trying to made in far-off factories in which they the use of chemical weapons, but there is no need for the resolved the issue. In retrospect, these name and shame western suppliers into wouldn’t work themselves. international community to wait for a confirmation for an interventions by regulators seem pretty driving up health and safety standards What is happening currently is a vast intervention in Syria. Assad has crossed not just one but paltry, although the reasons for the among workers in the developing world recalibration of human beings and their many red lines and it’s time to do all it takes to force him to accident have not yet been ascertained. for decades now, with some success, but economic categories. General standards hand over power. The death toll is increasing every day and Nevertheless, the factory’s parent not as much as they’d like to see. of living are still broadly predicated on company, Adair Grain Inc, has been There’s a school of thought that the part of the world in which you live. Assad is showing no signs of giving up • sued by insurance companies on behalf believes the ongoing exploitation is THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Still not too late for Al Maliki the day RAQIS deserve better than this. The the tottering Syrian dictatorship, almost attack seems to be gripping the region. portfolios, because officials below them, Shiite dominated government of certainly at the prompting of Tehran? Iraq In response to an ambush on an army the majority of them Shiite, declined Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki seems has wounds enough of its own to heal, patrol, at dawn on Wednesday, govern- to back their projects. Moreover, in Ibent upon destroying the already without exacerbating its own divisions ment units attacked a group of Sunnis, Cabinet meetings, Sunni ministers were I call on the frail inter-communal cohesion and with this shortsighted policy. The Assad near Hawijah, killing 13 of them and often ignored. This marginalisation of a returning his country to bloody conflict dictatorship is doomed. When it falls, it injuring dozens more. key component of the country’s politi- conscience of from which the greatest winners will be will leave the Shiite-dominated govern- The assault prompted the resigna- cal make-up is producing predictable all religious and the evil forces of Al Qaeda. ment in Baghdad exposed and deeply tion of the local MP, Mohammed Ali consequences. Ordinary Iraqis, includ- Rising tensions with the Sunni com- unpopular with a significant number of Tamim, who was also the minister of ing many Shiites, are losing faith in their political leaders of munity in Kirkuk province have broken its own people. health. This means three Sunni minis- government’s ability to direct the coun- out into open fighting. Neither side is After four months of confrontation ters have chosen to quit in just over a try toward the peace for which virtually Iraq not to let anger entirely blameless — Sunni fighters and simmering violence, the situation month. With each resignation the bal- everyone longs. This level of partisan win over peace, and have been seeking to interdict sup- has reached the point where in the last ance of Al-Maliki’s government between politics is severely damaging confidence plies heading for the Assad regime in 48 hours, where at least 27 people have Sunni, Shiite and Kurd becomes ever and with this loss of certainty, all com- to use their wisdom, Syria and have attacked Iraqi govern- been killed in Kirkuk in fighting between more skewed. Besides which, Sunni munities are turning inward and looking ment convoys. But should the Al-Maliki government forces and local protest- politicians have complained that they to their own local leaders to protect and because the country Martin Kobler administration be intervening on behalf of ers. The process of attack and revenge had great difficulty in carrying out their guide them. Arab News is at a crossroads. Iraq UN envoy APRIL 27, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY The Facebook group that Surely Obama is not a lame-duck could change Middle East president already? BY HEATHER LONG that Obama’s approval rating Now with 355,000 remains just under 50 percent. t’s hard to believe it’s only There was a slight bounce after members, YaLa-Young been three months since US Boston, but certainly not on the President Barack Obama’s level of the boost he got after Leaders is the biggest Irousing inaugural address, Osama bin Laden was killed. As on a cold January day, when he polling organisation Gallup notes, movement of its kind sounded every bit the confident Obama’s popularity is about on leader with his boxing gloves on, par with George W Bush’s at this ready to sock it to Republicans, point in his second term. in the region and has even on issues like climate change. Those statistics have not been This should be Obama’s prime lost on Republicans. While every- developed partnerships time. He should be riding his re- one will point out that Americans election wave to get his second- detest Congress (approval rating with governments, term agenda passed. Instead, it’s barely above 10 percent), the reality only April and already he looks is that voters still tend to like (or at including the United worn-out and winless. Have we least vote for) their local represent- really arrived at a lame-duck ative, even if they don’t particularly The Facebook page of YaLa-Young Leaders. presidency, four months in to like what they see in Washington, States. Obama’s four-year term? DC, politics, generally. token consideration — because we’re in charge has spread through the region. YaLa-Young His shortlist of priorities, at It’s also the case that America BY AARON DAVID MILLER and don’t have to consider it — is the pos- Leaders provides a platform for ongoing least, is clear: a budget deal, gun just went through redistricting, sibility of taking the younger generation into dialogue and seeks to harness the power of control and immigration reform. a process that tends to make month before the fateful Camp our calculations in real time and making that youth that has driven so much of the Arab He campaigned hard for gun Congress seats even more con- David summit in July 2000, generation part of our strategy. Spring and the Rothschild protest movement control, speaking across the servative or liberal, ensuring the when US president Bill Clinton And there’s little doubt that when it comes in Israel. In a way, YaLa can be defined as country on the issue and even make-up of Congress will stay and secretary of state Madeleine to US foreign policy, we’re in need of a strategy a meeting point between Tahrir Square and dispatching the vice-president quite similar to what it is now. So, Albright (for whom I worked) that’s generational in character. Trust me on Rothschild. Rather than meet once a month, and his former campaign team it’s not a good strategy to “wait Amade a last-ditch effort to bring peace to the this one. All of the problems we face today in as Israeli and Arab negotiators might do, to rally the public for change. this out” until 2014 midterm elec- Middle East, I got a call from my friend John the broader Middle East — the Arab Spring, YaLa allows thousands of interactions a day “They deserve a vote,” he cried tions in the hopes that Democrats Wallach, journalist for Hearst Newspapers and nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan, the on a variety of issues from protests in Egypt, repeatedly at the end of his state will regain control of the House. founder of Seeds of Peace, a conflict-resolution Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria — are long to Syria, to the latest international crisis of the union address in front of Bizarrely, it seems the best way organization that brings young people, prin- movies that will produce outcomes well before between young Arabs and Israelis who physi- congressmen and senators, invok- for Obama to regain momentum cipally from the Middle East, into programs they’ll produce solutions. And this will require cally cannot engage. To imagine thousands of ing the victims and families of is to let Congress lead. That may designed to promote understanding and trust, time — the ultimate arbiter of what works and young Arabs and Israelis with 24/7 access to Sandy Hook Elementary School be a counterintuitive policy for a in Maine and in the region. is of value in life. one another is to imagine the future. that left 26 dead at the hands of president: the public and pundits John, who had already been diagnosed with And what we need is a comprehensive strat- Now with 355,000 members, it’s the big- a deranged gunman, among other expect the nation’s “chief execu- the non-smoker’s lung cancer that would take egy that marries transactional diplomacy (how gest movement of its kind in the region and tragic gun deaths. tive” to be out using the bully his life two years later, was excited and emo- governments can create openings to resolve has developed partnerships with governments, The problem for Obama is that pulpit and leading his party to tional as only he could be. “Aaron, you must conflicts) with transformational diplomacy including the United States, Italy, Norway, he got a vote, just not the result victory. But Obama has worked convince President Clinton and Secretary (how non-government initiatives supported and Switzerland, as well as the support of pri- he wanted. Even a watered-down best with a more subtle, almost Albright to host a delegation of Palestinian by governments can work to change attitudes vate-sector companies such as Microsoft and proposal merely to enhance back- backseat kind of leadership. and Israeli Seeds kids at the summit. They and build personal ties that break down the Facebook. YaLa’s members are active, not only ground checks failed. That’s somewhat what he did have to tell Yasir Arafat and Ehud Barak barriers of suspicion and mistrust). in ongoing dialogue, but also in peace advocacy Then, there’s the budget. His with healthcare, certainly the most about what this opportunity means for the Enter YaLa Young Leaders. through the promotion of YaLa’s Peace Initiative supposed peace-offering plan in controversial bill of his presidency. future, their future.” I humoured John when Launched in May 2011 as a joint partner- and in YaLa’s Online Academy (YLO@), with early April wasn’t even taken At a certain point the senate took he tended to dream about things that could ship between the Peres Centre for Peace and online courses for Arab and Israeli students seriously by the GOP or by the the lead on the policy creation. never be, and told him I’d get right on it. YaLa Palestine, based in Ramallah and chaired from leading universities in the United States, press. Consider some of the Of course, when the health bill What I couldn’t say was this: John, it’s by Salah Elayyan, the Palestinian Authority’s such as Princeton, Harvard, Vanderbilt and headlines: A Washington Post lib- passed, he also had the benefit of a month before one of the most decisive cabinet secretary, YaLa-Young Leaders is a University of Michigan. It has also launched an eral blogger ran with “Obama a Democratic-controlled House of moments in Middle East peacemaking, and Facebook-based movement that promotes dia- online media platform, YaLa Media Cafe, with makes Republicans an offer they Representatives, so the only hur- you want me to waste Albright’s time trying to logue and engagement as a means to secure blogs from young leaders emphasizing peace, will refuse”; Huffington Post said, dle was a few GOP senators. arrange a meeting with Barak and Arafat for a a safe, productive, and peaceful Middle East. democracy, and gender equality. John Wallach “Obama budget packed with hard- Immigration reform is that bunch of kids? It sounds like a cute photo-op. It sounds utopian. But the movement has was a dreamer. But like Uri Savir, he also to-pass stimulus measures”; and rare issue that has bipartisan But give me a break. grown to 355,000 people, including Egyptians understood reality. And in a historic conflict USA Today harshly summed it up support right now. The “Gang of It wasn’t that I was opposed to the meeting (103,000), Israelis (13,800), Palestinians likely to take time to resolve, investing in a with “On left and right, Obama’s Eight” senators has been working in principle. But I worried that I wouldn’t be (22,100), Jordanians (20,500), Lebanese younger generation is critically important. budget anticipated as a dud”. on the details, and the president taken seriously if I proposed it. After all, this (2,200), Syrians, Yemenis, Sudanese (100), “The aim of YaLa-Young Leaders,” Savir If he doesn’t get immigration, seems happy to let them take was only about kids. Only about kids, indeed. Turks, (8,700) Moroccans (25,200), Tunisians told me, “is to be a regional voice for the gen- he’ll be 0 for 3. That’s a strikeout the lead. The plan also benefits Wallach’s frame of reference — without (24,600), Iraqis (29,000), Libyans (9,900), eration of change in the Mena region in order in American baseball terms, and from GOP support from unlikely overly dramatizing matters — wasn’t about Saudis (3,700), Algerians (40,700), Emiratis to promote common values and aims in rela- it will set the president up for a sources like Grover Norquist, the kids; it was about the future. I’ll never make (1,100), and Kuwaitis (1,100). tion to the respect of human rights, democ- long and lonely second term. It head of the big anti-tax lobby, who that mistake again. As adults, we say we take The driving force behind YaLa was Uri Savir, racy, peace, and economic cooperation. . . . I will also embolden Republicans to rarely agrees with Democrats on the younger generation seriously, but I wonder. former Oslo negotiator and now head of the believe that in these times, governments in keep up their dissent. anything. And you know there’s Certainly in politics and diplomacy, that’s not Peres Peace Centre, who was inspired by les- the region and the international community You can blame the GOP and a chance for something to hap- the case. We occupy a discrete physical space sons learned from his experiences during the will have to listen more carefully to the voices “divided government” for the pen when leaders on the GOP for a very short period of time and under- negotiations. Savir’s takeaway was that the Oslo of young constituencies in the Mena region president’s predicament, but side from Marco Rubio, a right- standably consider it our time. We rarely take Accords — as a top-down approach — lacked the as expressed on YaLa. It is a voice of change, the problem for Obama is that wing favourite, to Rand Paul, the those without power and influence seriously, inclusiveness of Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab equality, and hope.” Presidents Clinton and Reagan libertarian standard-bearer, are particularly teens and twenty-somethings. societies. So YaLa is very much bottom-up. And who can argue with that? famously worked through simi- calling for reform. Indeed, what we often ignore or relegate to Through the power of Facebook, YaLa WP-BLOOMBERG lar divisions. It’s equally telling THE GUARDIAN Claims that Syria used sarin gas should be a caution BY PETER BEAUMONT The US has said the use of he recent claims that Britain, France and chemical weapons would trigger Israel have proof that the regime of Bashar Al Assad used sarin a response – so any concrete Tgas in Syria raises important moral questions, and not sim- evidence must be made public. ply for the Assad regime. If the claims are true then Assad’s forces would be guilty of a crime in Syria – and if it has been used, There are other questions against humanity. by which side. But the history of that one should be asking about But where does that leave the the use of chemical weapons by alleged use of sarin in Syria, not governments who claim they have states including Iran and Iraq least why a state would seek to evidence that sarin was used? and non-state actors, like Aum use a weapon like this on such Although France and the UK Shinrikyo, means that the pos- a limited scale. The utility of have written to the UN claiming sibility should never be excluded. weapons of last resort for those they have “credible evidence” to My own limited experience, unscrupulous enough to use them support their claims, they have however, with claims of the use — like sarin and VX and mus- yet to make the substance of of poison gases on stories that tard gas — is that they not only those claims public – a baffling I’ve covered tends toward cau- kill large concentrations of peo- position given the seriousness of tion when claims of their use are ple but their use also has a pro- the allegations. Instead they have made. The first time I encoun- found psychological impact. Gas, Free Syrian Army fighters in a suburb of Damascus after an attack by missiles that activists say were fired by a preferred to brief reporters on tered the claim of gas being used in other words is not a weapon Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar Al Assad. basis of anonymity. on a battlefield was from fleeing that is generally used discreetly, And the “evidence” provided by KLA fighters whose headquar- but emphatically. Israel’s top military intelligence ters in the Drenica mountains When military analysts have to the outskirts of Damascus – be adequately cross-examined. In be rushed into intervention by analyst Itai Brun – as even the had just fallen to Serb forces. It imagined the circumstances that Assad’s forces are resilient. All this case, if it is true that the UK foreign intelligence reports, even Times of Israel concedes – has been was quickly clear the claims were such weapons might be used it these questions are important and French governments have those from allies. “Suspicions an equally curious affair. Despite false. has been in circumstances where because the accusation is so seri- soil samples that show sarin has are one thing;” he declared, Brun’s claim – according to com- More recently I looked into regimes are either in extremis ous. The US has already said the been used, they should not only “evidence is another”. Given ments by US Defence Secretary claims that a “mystery” gas had or — as in the case of Saddam use of chemical weapons would be shared with UN investigators the history of British officials’ Chuck Hagel who had just visited caused seizures and asphyxiation Hussein’s use of gas on the Kurds represent a “red line” that would but the chain of evidence show- behaviour in the run up to war Israel – it was apparently not deaths when used against dem- in Halabja — where a regime trigger an unspecified response. ing how they came to have the in Iraq, they should either do important enough to be raised with onstrators in Egypt. In that case believes it can act with a large The history of the allegations samples must made public. the right thing — disclose what him by senior Israeli defence forces the conclusion was that very high degree of impunity. made about Saddam Hussein’s Until then, the caution of evidence they have — or let the officials or politicians. concentrations – and possibly old Neither of those quite fit Syria non-existent weapons of mass Chuck Hagel is the only appro- UN investigating team reach its I add a caveat here. I have no stock – of conventional riot gas today. All the evidence is that — destruction requires that proof is priate response. He said last own conclusion. idea whether sarin has been used had caused the symptoms. despite the spread of the civil war offered on public forums that can week that Washington will not THE GUARDIAN APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

Bombs kill Syrian chemical eight at Friday prayers in proofs not up Baghdad

BAGHDAD: Bombs planted outside Baghdad mosques killed to UN standard eight more people yesterday at the end of a week of bloodshed that prompted a United Nations envoy to warn Iraq was “at a Use would escalate crisis: Turkey crossroads”. At least 150 people have been AMSTERDAM: Assertions of believe Syria had “probably” fired killed since Tuesday, when troops chemical weapon use in Syria chemical munitions, but failed to stormed a Sunni protest camp, by Western and Israeli officials name the chemical in question. triggering clashes that quickly citing photos, sporadic shelling The Israeli military this week spread to other Sunni areas in and traces of toxins do not meet suggested Syrian forces used sarin western and northern provinces. the standard of proof needed for and showed reporters pictures of Although well below the heights a UN team of experts waiting to a body with symptoms indicat- of 2006-7, this week’s violence gather their own field evidence. ing the nerve gas was the cause was the most widespread since Weapons inspectors will only of death. US troops pulled out of Iraq in determine whether banned chem- Ralf Trapp, an independ- December 2011. Militant attacks ical agents were used in the two- ent consultant on chemical and have increased this year as Iraq’s year-old conflict if they are able biological weapons control, said fragile ethnic and sectarian bal- to access sites and take soil, blood, “there is a limit to what you can Civilians try to extinguish a fire following shelling by what activists said was by forces loyal to President Bashar ance comes under growing strain urine or tissue samples and exam- extract from photograph evidence Al Assad at residential buildings in Deraa, yesterday. from the civil war in neighbouring ine them in certified laboratories. alone. What you really need is Syria. That type of evidence, needed to get information from on the “Since the very first reports of The White House, which called Luhan. Established to enforce “I call on the conscience of all to show definitively if banned ground, to gather physical evi- chemical weapons being used in the use of chemicals weapons in the 1997 Chemical Weapons religious and political leaders not chemicals were found, has not dence and to talk to witnesses as Syria emerged we have been ask- Syria a “red line” for possible Convention, which bans the use to let anger win over peace, and been presented by governments well as medical staff who treated ing for a thorough investigation by military intervention, said its of toxic agents in warfare, the to use their wisdom, because the and intelligence agencies accusing victims.” the United Nations to substantiate assessment was partly based on OPCW has exhaustive rules on country is at a crossroads,” UN Syria of using chemical weapons Meanwhile, Turkey said yester- these reports. However, the Syrian “physiological” samples. But a how inspectors collect and handle envoy Martin Kobler said in a against insurgents. day any use of chemical weapons regime has not allowed this.” White House official speaking on evidence, starting with the sealing statement. “This is the only basis on which by Syrian President Bashar Al Syria, which has so far denied condition of anonymity declined of a site like a crime scene. Tens of thousands of Sunni the OPCW would provide a for- Assad would “take the crisis to access to UN investigators to detail the evidence. It is unclear Multiple samples must be taken Muslims poured onto the streets mal assessment of whether chem- another level”, but remained cau- because of a dispute over their who supplied it. and there need to be “blank” sam- of Ramadi and Falluja in the ical weapons have been used,” tious about any foreign military remit, denies firing chemical Even if samples were made ples from unexposed matter and western province of Anbar fol- Michael Luhan, a spokesman for intervention in the conflict on its weapons and accuses anti-Assad available to the OPCW by those tissue, to set a baseline against lowing Friday prayers, in their the Hague-based Organisation border. rebels of using them. making the assertions, the organ- which levels of contamination biggest show of strength since for the Prohibition of Chemical “We have been hearing allega- “This has been done by organi- isation could not use them. could be determined. the outbreak of protests last year. Weapons (OPCW) said. tions of the use of chemical weap- sations, including Al Qaeda, which “The OPCW would never get The samples would be split, In Ramadi, about 100km west of With Syria blocking the UN ons for quite some time now and threatened to use chemical weap- involved in testing samples that sealed and flown in dark, cooled Baghdad, the preacher, who wore mission, it is unlikely they will these new findings take things ons against Syria. They have car- our own inspectors don’t gather air transports to up to three cer- military fatigues with his cleric’s gain that type of access any time to another level. They are very ried out their threat near Aleppo. in the field, because we need to tified laboratories, including one turban, gave security forces 24 soon. alarming,” Turkish foreign minis- There were victims,” Syrian maintain chain of custody of at the OPCW’s headquarters in hours to quit the city, warning he The White House and Western try spokesman Levent Gumrukcu Information Minister Omran Al samples from the field to the lab The Hague. would not be responsible for what- diplomats at the UN said they said. Zoubi said in Moscow. to ensure their integrity,” said AGENCIES ever happened after that. Iraqi Sunnis have been protesting since December against what they see as the marginalisation of their sect since the US-led invasion over- threw dictator Saddam Hussein in Bethlehem monastery loses court battle on Israeli wall 2003 and empowered majority Shias through the ballot box. The demonstrations had RAMALLAH: A Catholic appeals court had endorsed a plan the barrier, a mix of metal fenc- its advocacy officer. Jerusalem to Bethlehem — an recently eased, but this week’s monastery and convent in to expand the barrier it had built ing, barbed wire and concrete Around 50,000 Palestinian area locked in a labyrinth of army raid on a protest camp in a secluded valley outside in the area. The wall would sur- walls, in 2002 in response to a Christians, including 17,000 Jewish settlements, Israeli-only Hawija, near Kirkuk, 170km north Bethlehem lost a seven-year round the convent on three sides wave of Palestinian suicide bomb- Catholics, live among four million roads and a drab concrete walls. of Baghdad, reignited Sunni dis- legal battle against the building and cut it off from most of its ings. It says the barrier keeps its Muslims in the Israeli-occupied West Built mostly within occupied content and appears to have given of Israel’s separation wall on its land, St Yves said in a statement. citizens safe from militants. Bank and in Gaza. They say Israel’s land and not on the “Green Line”, fresh momentum to insurgents. land yesterday, according to its Salesian monks and nuns tend St Yves argued “that the plan checkpoints and separation barrier which was Israel’s de facto border In Baghdad, a roadside bomb lawyers. lush vineyards and olive trees on would violate international law cut them off from their neighbours before the 1967 Middle East War, exploded near the Sunni Kubaisi The Society of St Yves, a terraced hillsides under the gaze and conventions protecting reli- and holy places in Jerusalem. the barrier inside the West Bank Mosque, killing four worshippers Catholic human rights group of Israeli settlements there. A gious minorities and the right Some 90 percent of Palestinian is deemed illegal by the UN’s as they left after Friday prayers, which argued the case on the convent school teaches 400 local to education and freedom of Christians live in a 20km International Court of Justice. police and medics said. monastery’s behalf, said an Israeli children. Israel started building religion”, said Anica Heinlein, stretch from Ramallah and East REUTERS REUTERS 3,000 South Sudan rebels surrender

JUBA: An estimated 3,000 South commanders including Bapiny Monytuil, the war, which began in 1983, ended with a 2005 Sudanese rebels have surrendered and leader of the South Sudan Liberation Army peace deal that paved the way for the southern accepted an amnesty, a government offi- (SSLA), and their troops. secession. “(The surrender) is positive because cial said yesterday, ending a long-stand- “The (SSLA) militia that have been in the they are our brothers. We no longer have to ing insurgency in the oil-producing north north have surrendered. All of them have fear attacks from the north,” Malual said. of the country. come,” Unity State government spokesman There was no immediate comment from South Sudan’s government has been Joseph Arop Malual said. Unity contains Sudan or the SSLA, which has accused the struggling to contain several insurgencies several oilfields. South Sudan government of corruption in it claims are supported by its old civil war Led by a senior commander, Matthew the past. Security analysts say hundreds foe Khartoum since it gained independence Puljang, a large group of SSLA crossed the of people were killed in clashes between from Sudan in July 2011. Sudan denies the border with around 100 trucks from Sudan, the predominantly ethnic Nuer SSLA and claims. where they are believed to have a training government forces in November 2011 and Relations between the Sudans have base, Malual said. March 2012 in Unity State, although the thawed in recent months, paving the way The SSLA, formed in the late 1990s, is group has not been active recently. in April for the resumption of the South’s oil one of largest rebel groups in the region. It Earlier this month Sudan’s President Omar being piped through Sudan after a 15-month switched sides several times during the civil Hassan Al Bashir made his first visit to South shutdown. war between north and south Sudan that Sudan since its secession in a bid to help nor- Yesterday, South Sudan’s President killed some two million people in fighting malise relations and restart cross-border trade. Salva Kiir issued an amnesty for six rebel over oil, religion, ideology and identity. The REUTERS

Tunisia’s Jewish pilgrimage begins Somalia to restart postal service DJERBA, Tunisia: Pilgrims GENEVA: Somalis may soon be receiving let- handling mail destined for Somalia, it said. arrived yesterday at Tunisia’s ters from abroad for the first time in more The UPU, which brokered the deal, said its 192 Ghriba synagogue, the oldest than 20 years after a deal was struck with the member countries could resume sending mail to in Africa, expressing hope that United Nations’ postal agency, the latest step Somalia once the arrangements were finalised. this year would mark a turn- towards ending Somalia’s isolation following About two million Somalis live abroad and 9.9 ing point for the ritual despite two decades of civil conflict. million in Somalia, served by a postal network a rise in unrest since the 2011 But the challenges to bringing the Horn of that is “basically inexistant”, the UPU said, having revolution. Africa country back into the global postal com- dwindled from 100 post offices in 1991. The three-day pilgrimage is munity are manifold — there are no functioning UPU spokesman Rheal LeBlanc said Somalia taking place amid tight security, post offices, only the main roads are named and had created an office at the airport to handle with reinforcements deployed most houses do not have a number. mail moving in and out of the country, initially around Djerba. Add to that the ongoing struggle with Al to service the government, embassies and univer- More than a dozen army trucks Qaeda-linked insurgents, who still control much sities, “but they seem to have plans to phase in were stationed at Ghriba itself, of the countryside, and parts of the coastline postal services across the country over the next where an Al Qaeda attack in infested with pirates, and it is clear the UN’s few months and years”. 2002 killed 21 people, with police Universal Postal Union (UPU) and its partners Hirsi said his country would need help getting the checkpoints set up around the have their work cut out. The Swiss-based UPU post going again. “We ask for all means of assistance nearby Jewish neighbourhoods said in a statement yesterday that international as we have to start from ground zero,” the UPU and on the road linking the air- postal services could start operating again in statement quoted him as saying. In the latest sign port to the tourist zone. Somalia within the next few months. of optimism that Somalia was emerging from its Organisers hope to welcome at Somalia’s Minister of Information and violent recent past, Britain opened an embassy at least 1,000 pilgrims tomorrow, the Communication Abdullahi Hirsi signed a mem- Mogadishu airport on Thursday after its previous main day of the pilgrimage. orandum of understanding with Emirates Post mission closed in 1991 as civil war broke out. AFP Group this week for Dubai to act as a hub for REUTERS APRIL 27, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Will you earn enough ‘points’ to win new US green card?

WASHINGTON: For years, United States on a visa but whose and a doctorate 15. Each year years, four. Those age 38 or above score is among the top 60,000, you you an alternative to relying on millions of immigrant appli- employer is reluctant to sponsor of work experience will provide receive no bonus. will gain a green card. your employer to get a green cants hoped they would be lucky you for permanent residency? The an applicant from zero to three A sibling of a US citizen earns Another block of 60,000 will card,” he added. “For a lot of peo- enough to win the US green new system may work in your points, depending on the employ- 10 points, as does the married also be awarded permanent ple, that’s going to mean freedom.” card lottery. Under reform favour. ment level, for a maximum of 20 child, 31 or older, of a US citizen. residency based on criteria that Until 2013, a lottery offered being considered in Congress, Nothing is set in stone yet, but points. Are you a programmer, Community service will help. favor lower-skilled labor such as 55,000 visas per year. But they may soon be asking: “Am I an 844-page measure, the most computer scientist, or software Those who can prove their “civic construction. Republican lawmakers have skilled enough?” comprehensive immigration developer? 10 points. If your job is involvement” will be allocated The merit system will come sought to end the program, which By 2017, according to a pro- reform in a generation, is work- in an occupation related to your five points. A final clause gives into force from October 2017, pro- makes no distinction between posed revamp of laws governing ing its way through the Senate, degree: 8-10 points. five points to those from coun- vided that the immigration reform skilled and unskilled immigrants. admission to the United States, and members of the House say A TOEFL English language tries with low immigration, which law passes US President Barack In addition to the points sys- permanent residency permits they, too, are hopeful a bill can proficiency score of 80 or more? rules out Mexicans, Chinese and Obama’s desk this summer. Over tem, the Senate proposal pro- known as green cards could be be signed into law this year. Chalk up another 10. Contractors Indians. the years, the number of green vides quota-free green cards doled out not on luck but “on Ten criteria for immigrant who employ at least two people: 10 Unlike other countries that cards could rise to 250,000. for extraordinarily qualified merit,” via a points system that applicants will be taken into points. Clearly, skills and experi- have adopted the points scheme, “For many at a bachelor level,” researchers, scientists and grad- would put more qualified appli- account in the system, which has ence count under the proposed including Britain and Canada, the or for someone whose employer uates of US universities. cants at the front of the line. a theoretical maximum of 100 system — but so does youth. Those exact bar for immigration admis- doesn’t want to serve as a sponsor, “I don’t think that the long Are you a French computer points. Under the new system, a age 25 and under will receive sion under the proposed US sys- “you’re in a bind,” immigration waits that we’ve had for a while scientist with a strong command university degree will be worth eight points; 25-32 year old are tem remains a mystery: other attorney Gregory Siskind said. are going to be a problem for a of English, already living in the five points, a master’s degree 10 awarded six points; and age 33-37 factors are also at play. But if your “So the points system will give couple of years.” AFP Top British publicist charged with 11 sex assaults Boston suspect moved to prison LONDON: Celebrity publicist Max Clifford yesterday became the first high profile figure to be charged in a wide-ranging investiga- tion into a sex scandal that has grabbed front page headlines in Carjacking victim tells Boston Globe of night of terror Britain in recent months. Clifford, 70, was charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, prosecutors said, including on two underage girls, BOSTON: Boston Marathon after being arrested in December as part of an investigation into bombing suspect Dzhokhar sex crime allegations againt the late Jimmy Savile. Clifford, whose Tsarnaev has been moved to a clients have included “The X Factor” reality TV creator Simon prison medical centre from the Cowell, is best known in Britain for selling “kiss and tell” stories hospital where he had been held about the rich and famous to scandal-hungry tabloid newspapers. since his arrest a week ago while “Having completed our review, we have concluded that there is suf- recovering from gunshot wounds, ficient evidence and it is in the public interest for Mr Clifford to US officials said yesterday. be charged with 11 offences of indecent assault relating to seven The 19-year-old ethnic complainants,” the Crown Prosecution Service’s Alison Saunders Chechen, wounded in a night- said in a statement. Clifford, whose alleged crimes were commit- time shootout with police on ted between 1966 and 1985, is expected to appear at Westminster April 18 hours after authorities Magistrates’ Court on May 28. One of the assaults relates to a girl released pictures of him and his aged 14, and another to girl aged 15. older brother as suspects, was formally charged on Monday and Man admits threat to US schoolchildren could face the death penalty if convicted. His brother, Tamerlan LONDON: A British man pleaded guilty yesterday to making Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout. Facebook threats to kill 200 people at a school in the United States, New York City officials said which sparked a major security alert that saw thousands of pupils that Dzhokhar told investigators kept at home. Reece Elliot, a 24-year-old father-of-one from South in the hospital that after the FBI Shields in northeastern England, posted the messages on a trib- released their pictures, the pair ute site for a Tennessee teenager who was killed in a car accident. made an impromptu plan to drive “My father has three guns. I’m planning on killing him first and to New York and set off more A member of a NYPD Hercules team stands in Times Square while on patrol in New York yesterday. putting him in a dumpster,” he wrote on the RIP Caitlin Talley bombs in Times Square. social networking page, using a false name. “Then I’m taking the Overnight, authorities moved The brothers are also sus- goes by the American nickname by playing up his outsider sta- motor and I’m going in fast. I’m gonna kill hopefully at least 200 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Fort pected of shooting Massachusetts “Danny,” the Boston Globe reported. tus, although at first they were before I kill myself. So you want to tell the deputy, I’m on my way.” Devens, Massachusetts, from the Institute of Technology police The newspaper did not publish his puzzled by his Chinese accent, Elliot was arrested in February after handing himself in to police Beth Israel Deaconess Medical officer Sean Collier, 26, on April full name at his request. “I don’t the Globe said. After determin- in Britain following investigations by the FBI and US Department Centre, where some of the victims 18 and then hijacking a man in a want to die,” the man recalled ing that the victim was Chinese, of Homeland Security, Newcastle Crown Court heard. were also being treated. Devens is car, which they planned to drive thinking as the brothers drove Tamerlan Tsarnaev identified about 63km west of Boston. to New York. Their plan was foiled him around for some 90 minutes, himself as a Muslim, the news- Italy’s Letta may announce govt today The prison specialises in when the car, a Mercedes sport- making banal small talk, according paper reported. inmates who need long-term utility vehicle, ran low on fuel and to an interview with the Globe. “I “Chinese are very friendly to ROME: Italian prime minister-designate Enrico Letta could medical or mental health care, they stopped to refuel, giving the have a lot of dreams that haven’t Muslims!” Danny said, according announce a new government today and go before parliament to according to the Federal Bureau man a chance to escape. come true yet.” to the Globe. “We are so friendly spell out its programme early next week, political sources said of Prisons website. It currently Their carjacking victim was a Danny, who is trained as an to Muslims.” yesterday. Letta, deputy leader of the centre-left Democratic holds about 1,000 prisoners. 26-year-old of Chinese origin who engineer, kept the brothers calm REUTERS Party, has been in discussions to iron out remaining differences with Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (PDL) party following an initial round of talks. After two months of political stalemate following an inconclusive general election in February, Letta met both President Giorgio Napolitano and outgoing Prime Minister Fire at psychiatric hospital Mario Monti yesterday but is unlikely to announce any govern- ment until Saturday, several people close to Letta said. in Russia kills 38 patients 97 Gitmo inmates on hunger strike RAMENSKY: Thirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed yesterday in a fire that ravaged a hospi- WASHINGTON: More prisoners have joined a hunger strike tal in the Moscow region, with the victims engulfed by flames to protest their indefinite detention at the US-run Guantanamo as they slept behind barred windows. military prison, with 97 out of 166 detainees refusing food, a The deadly night-time blaze raised new questions about secu- spokesman said yesterday Among the strikers, 19 have been rity standards at Russia’s medical institutions, in particular at given feeding tubes, and five of those are hospitalisd but do not psychiatric hospitals, after a string of fires in the last years. have life-threatening conditions, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel The fire spread rapidly throughout the wood-and-brick hospi- House said in a statement. The rapidly growing protest move- tal wing in the small town of Ramensky, around 100km outside ment began on February 6, lawyers for the detainees said. Moscow as the patients slept heavily after reportedly being given sleeping pills. US country singer George Jones dead Officials said the residents of the wing of Hospital No. 14 appar- ently died in their sleep from smoke inhalation as the fire spread WASHINGTON: George Jones, a classic country singer with rapidly through the building dating back to 1940, although three a voice full of raw honky-tonk emotion and a life full of honky- managed to escape in the early stages of the inferno. tonk turmoil, died yesterday at the age of 81, his spokesman said. “As a result of the fire, 38 people died, three escaped — one Jones, whose career spanned more than six decades and included nurse and two patients,” the health ministry said in a statement. hits such as He Stopped Loving Her Today and Window Up Above, The emergency situations ministry listed those believed to died at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre. He had been hos- have died as two female orderlies and 36 patients. pitalized since April 18 with fever and irregular blood pressure, The patients, who may have been sedated, apparently slept spokesman Kirt Webster said. through smoke alarms, although the nurse who escaped did AGENCIES wake up and rescued two patients despite heavy smoke. AFP 11 UK Islamists jailed for Al Qaeda bomb plot

LONDON: Eleven British Muslims intended to further the aims of Al Qaeda,” Britain since the 2006 plot to blow up trans- were jailed yesterday for planning what Judge Richard Henriques said as he began atlantic airliners using bombs in drinks bot- a judge said was a plot with the blessing the sentencing with Naseer. “The only bar- tles, police said. of Al Qaeda to carry out a string of sui- rier between (Naseer’s) team and mass mur- The judge said the cell had clearly been cide bombings to rival 9/11 and the 2005 der was the intervention of the authorities.” planning suicide attacks in Britain and London attacks. The terror cell was heavily influenced by that the intended target may have been The conspiracy involved at least six of the teachings of American-born Al Qaeda Birmingham, although police said the the plotters travelling to Pakistan for terror preacher Anwar Al Awlaki, who was killed planned location was not clear. training and the terror cell aimed to set off by a drone strike in Yemen in September Naseer, a jobless 31-year-old pharmacy eight rucksack bombs in crowded areas and 2011, police said. Prosecutors said the graduate nicknamed Chubbs because of possibly other timed devices. attacks planned by the men would have been his weight, and Khalid and Ali, both 28, Ringleader Irfan Naseer received a life the deadliest since the July 7, 2005, London were found guilty by a jury in February of sentence, his right-hand man Irfan Khalid bombings, in which 52 people were killed by engaging in conduct in preparation of ter- was jailed for 18 years and co-conspirator three Islamist suicide bombers on subway rorist acts. Naseer and Khalid had visited Ashik Ali was jailed for 15 years by a judge at trains and a fourth bomber on a bus. Pakistan to receive terrorism training, while Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London. Khalid meanwhile boasted that the attack Naseer also helped four others to travel to Eight other members of the cell which would be “another 9/11”, referring to the the country for the same purpose, although was based in Birmingham, central England, September 11, 2001 attacks on the United the four had second thoughts on arrival in were also sentenced yesterday. “Your plot States, the trial heard. The plot was also the Pakistan and dropped out. had the blessing of Al Qaeda and you most significant terror plan uncovered in AFP APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Philippines Gunmen kill 14 in ambush on mayor Attackers open fire on truck carrying mayor, supporters

ILIGAN, PHILIPPINES: Gerardo Rosales, chief of the of a powerful clan on Mindanao Gunmen killed 14 people in an Lanao del Norte province, later abducted and murdered 58 people ambush on a Philippine mayor, updated the figures on television. including relatives of a local rival police said yesterday, in the He blamed the attack on long- who was planning to challenge the deadliest of a string of violent running clan disputes by Muslim clan leader in gubernatorial elec- incidents that have marred families in the country’s troubled tions the following year. campaigning for May elections. south. Manamparan is the mayor of the The attackers opened fire on a President Benigno Aquino’s mainly Muslim town of Nunungan. truck carrying Mayor Abdulmalik spokeswoman Abigail Valte said He is standing for the lower post of Manamparan and his supporters the authorities were attempting vice-mayor. His son and namesake, late on Thursday, killing 13 on the to establish the identities and who is running for mayor, was not spot with another dying later, and motives of the attackers. “We among the ambush casualties. The leaving 10 wounded, including the strongly condemn this act of family is running against candi- mayor, police said. violence,” she told reporters in dates backed by President Benigno “They killed my granddaugh- Manila. Aquino’s Liberal Party. ter,” Manamparan, 62, said from “We appeal to the supporters of The mayor said that he had a his hospital bed, where he was the different candidates to keep good idea who was responsible for A worker catches a ballot box at a warehouse in Manila. About 51 million people will cast their votes by using a being treated for a shrapnel calm and continue to campaign the attack, but declined to discuss Precinct Count Optical Scan system for the mid-term election on May 13. wound that grazed his head. for their particular candidates.” his suspicions. Rosales said police A daughter of the mayor was The ambush on a remote investigators are checking the also among the people killed in mountain road near Nunungan involvement of certain clans which the attack on the main southern town, unleashed as the mayor and had had previous scraps with the Govt appeals to politicians; 62 island of Mindanao, local military his party travelled home from a Manamparan family. commander Colonel Ricardo Jalad campaign event, was the latest “They (survivors) identified the said. episode of political violence in a attackers last night, they gave us poll-related deaths to date Police initially put the death toll country that will hold mid-term names... They told us it was a family at 12, with at least eight wounded, elections on May 13. feud,” Rosales told reporters. Colonel MANILA: The ambush in the staff are part of some politicians’ that they should think twice but Senior Superintendent In November 2009, members Jalad said the ambush was the first southern Philippine province of strategy to unsettle their rivals. about harming their opponents,” big incident of political violence in Lanao del Norte which killed But fewer politicians were killed said Casiple. Nunungan in the past year. 14 people raised the number of this year. This may be due to the Casiple said the mid-term elec- However, he said Nunungan and election-related deaths to 62 to fact that the country’s leaders tions this year is generally more nearby predominantly Muslim date, the Philippine National have sent a strong signal that peaceful compared to the 2010 areas of Mindanao were blighted Police (PNP) data said. they will not tolerate it,” said national and location elections, as by occasional killings linked to Political analyst Ramon Casiple. election-related violent incidents decades-old clan wars. Casiple, executive director of He cited the case of Gingoog were down by 50 percent. Mindanao is also wracked by think tank Institute of Political City Mayor Ruthie Guingona who Meanwhile, the Philippine gov- insurgencies waged by Muslim and Electoral Reform, said elec- was ambushed recently by mem- ernment appealed to politicians and communist rebels, and officials tion- related violent incidents bers of the leftist rebel group New and their supporters to refrain say that some of this year’s elec- usually go up as election day People ‘s Army (NPA). Guingona from engaging in violent behav- tion violence has been committed approaches. “The increase in poll- was wounded but two of her sup- iour. “We appeal to supporters of by communist guerrillas extorting related violent incidents as May porters were killed. different candidates to just cam- money from candidates. 13 draws near is to be expected. The incident prompted the paign for their candidates and More than 18,000 posts are at Some people do it out of despera- government to send a Marine to not engage in violent behav- stake in the balloting, from town tion. They think that if they don’t battalion in the southern ior which could discredit their mayors and governors to members resort to violence, they may lose,” Philippine province of Misamis candidates,” deputy presidential of parliament. Two election cam- said Casiple in a telephone inter- Oriental to pursue leftist rebels spokesman Abigail Valte said. paigners in a province near Manila view with Xinhua. who ambushed Guingona. The The government, however, were killed and another wounded He noted, however, that fewer government also intensified its assured that sufficient govern- Abdul Malik Manamparan, the mayor of Nunungan town and a member of in an ambush on Thursday, while politicians were assassinated and operations against the NPAs. ment forces have been deployed the Nationalist People’s Coalition party affiliated with the ruling coalition, lies a district official was killed on the that most of the election-related “While this is incident is in areas identified by the in a hospital after he was wounded in an attack while campaigning during same day in a bomb blast elsewhere violent incidents involved the not really election-related, the Commission on Elections as areas midterm elections in Lanao del Norte province, yesterday. on Mindanao, police said. staff of candidates. “Intimidation response of the government sent of concerns and “hot spots.” AFP and harassment of a candidate’s a strong signal (to politicians) THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Smuggled rice seized in Cebu MANILA: Manila accuses Beijing of de facto occupation The Bureau of Customs (BOC) announced the seizure of P1.2bn ($29.1m) MANILA: The Philippines yes- China Sea — including waters up thought and decided what is best “The Philippine side is try- on sovereignty, the ministry said. worth of alleged smuggled terday accused Beijing of engag- to the coasts of other countries. for the country. We also don’t want ing to use this to negate China’s “China’s refusal to accept the rice in Cebu. ing in the “de facto occupation” A face-off between the two to put (private companies) in a territorial sovereignty and Philippines’ request for arbitra- In a statement, BOC dep- of a disputed shoal in the South countries began last year when compromising situation,” he added. attach a veneer of ‘legality’ to tion has full grounding in inter- uty commissioner Danilo Lim China Sea, following a face-off China dispatched government The Philippines has accused its illegal occupation of Chinese national law,” it said. said they netted 1,194 units that began last year. vessels to stop the Philippines China of using intimidation to islands and reefs,” the Foreign China had always believed that of 20-footer container vans Foreign Secretary Albert del from arresting Chinese poachers press its claims in the South China Ministry said in a statement on the two countries should resolve that came in through the Port Rosario said three Chinese gov- in the area. Sea, which are believed to encom- its website (www.mfa.gov.cn). The their dispute through direct talks, of Cebu from March 18 until ernment ships remained in the He said the Philippines tried to pass vast mineral resources and Philippines must immediately the ministry added. April 2. It was the biggest sei- vicinity of the Scarborough Shoal, settle the matter through talks also include vital shipping lanes. withdraw personnel and facili- Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam and zure of smuggled rice for the scaring off local fishermen. but when this failed, it was forced Earlier, China accused the ties from the islands, the ministry Malaysia also claim parts of the agency. The huge shipment “The Chinese have tried to to ask a UN tribunal to strike Philippines of trying to legalise its added, listing those which it said South China Sea. Southeast was covered by 151 alert orders establish a de facto occupation,” down China’s claims. occupation of islands, repeating that Manila was occupying. Asian nations stepped up efforts issued by Lim. he said. The Philippines says the Del Rosario also said the Beijing would never agree to inter- Manila asked the tribunal of on Thursday to engage China in The illegal shipment were shoal is well within its 200-nauti- Philippines had put off granting national arbitration. Manila said the UN Convention on the Law talks to resolve maritime ten- misdeclared as stone slabs, cal-mile exclusive economic zone, oil exploration contracts in dis- on Thursday that a UN arbitration of the Sea (UNCLOS) to order a sions, agreeing to meet to try to ceiling insulator slabs, granite as recognised by international law. puted waters in the South China court had set up the tribunal which halt to China’s activities. But the reach common ground on disputed slabs and wall insulator slabs. However China insists the shoal Sea due to the “sensitivity of the would hear Manila’s complaint, but convention did not apply in this waters ahead of planned discus- The rice shipment in Cebu was is Chinese territory as part of its situation” with China. China said this was an attempt to case as what the Philippines was sions in Beijing later this year. bigger than the shipment also claim to almost all of the South “We have given this significant steal Chinese territory. actually asking for was a decision AGENCIES seized in Subic early this year. Mechanic finds Beating the heat bomb in car engine Regional approach against MANILA: Philippine police have disarmed a bomb which was found in the engine com- human trafficking sought partment of an Indian busi- nessman’s car after he drove PHILIPPINES: The 10-mem- from April 25 to 26, and Ochoa the vehicle to a garage for ber Asean should come up with a hopes this will strengthen the repairs, officials said. comprehensive regional approach commitment of member-countries The car repair shop alerted to counter and combat all forms to fight this regional problem. police when a mechanic found of human trafficking, a top Experts from the Asean are try- the device after the Indian Malacañang official proposed. ing to work out either a binding owner, a money lender, and Executive Secretary Paquito convention on human trafficking two compatriots drove there Ochoa Jr said the regional bloc - or a less stringent “regional plan for repairs, Senior Inspector composed of Brunei Darussalam, of action” to enable Asean to act in Walter Ebora said. Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, unison. “There must be a regional “We still cannot conclude Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, action plan within the scope of each what the motive was. They Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam Asean members’ domestic laws could be the targets or it - should adopt an “action plan” to and policies to effectively address could be an act of terrorism,” address the problem. regional challenges common to all said Ebora, the police chief of “While there are univer- Asean members in the fight against Alaminos, about three hours’ sal mechanisms that address human trafficking,” Ochoa added. drive from Manila where the human trafficking or trafficking He said the action plan should car shop is located. in persons, there is no regional include an integrated, cohesive Police described the bomb as mechanism that particularly and and a more structured monitor- made from military-grade C4 especially deals with such issues ing and reporting mechanism on explosives rigged to a mobile in Southeast Asia,” he said. human trafficking in order to pre- phone triggering device. The Philippines is hosting the vent and suppress trafficking in AGENCIES A man pours water at children in an inflatable swimming pool to beat the heat in Manila yesterday. third Asean Experts Working persons in the region. Group against human trafficking THE PHILIPPINE STAR APRIL 27, 2013 Asia www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Anger on streets in Dhaka; 72 rescued Building collapse toll rises to 304; hundreds unaccounted for; police say building owner on the run

DHAKA: Textile workers vented their anger yesterday, burning cars and clashing with police, as the death toll passed 300 following the collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost garments for Western brands. Miraculously rescuers were still pulling people alive from the rubble — 72 since daybreak fol- lowing 41 found in the same room overnight — two days after the eight-storey building collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka. But there were fears that hun- dreds of people were still trapped in the wreckage of the building, which officials said had been built illegally without the correct building permits. “Some people are still alive under the rubble and we are hoping to res- cue them,” said deputy fire services director Mizanur Rahman. Firefighters try to control a blaze after workers set fire in a spinning mill in Gazipur. RIGHT: Garment workers vandalise an auto rickshaw as they block a street demanding the arrest of the A spokesman for Prime owner of the Rana Plaza building, in Dhaka, yesterday. Minister Sheikh Hasina said she had ordered the arrest of the Authority (CDA), said that the Sohel Rana, a leader of the rul- Mohammad Atiqul Islam, presi- owners of the building and of the owner of the building had not ing Awami League’s youth front. dent of the Bangladesh Garment five factories that occupied it. received the proper building Imam, the prime minister’s Manufacturers and Exporters Army spokesman Shahinur consent, obtaining a permit for adviser, said Rana had “vanished Association, said the proprietors of Islam said the death toll had a five-storey building from the into thin air”. “People are asking the five factories inside the build- reached 304 and H T Imam, an local municipality, which did not for his head, which is quite natu- ing had ignored the association’s adviser to the prime minister, said have the authority to grant it. ral. This time we are not going to warning not to open on Wednesday it could exceed 350. Furthermore, another three sto- spare anybody,” Imam said. after cracks had been seen in the Anger over the working condi- reys had been added illegally, he Wednesday’s collapse was the building the day before. tions of Bangladesh’s 3.6 million said. “Savar is not an industrial third major industrial incident “We asked not to open the garment workers, the overwhelm- zone, and for that no factory can be in five months in Bangladesh. In factories and told them we will ing majority of them women, has housed in Rana Plaza,” Islam said. November, a fire at the Tazreen send our engineer, and until you grown steadily since the disas- Bangladesh is the second- Fashion factory on the outskirts get the green signal don’t open ter, with thousands taking to largest exporter of garments in of Dhaka killed 112 people. the factories,” Islam said. “But, the streets to protest yesterday. the world but many factories “This incident is devastating unfortunately, they violated our About 2,350 people have been res- remained closed for a second day for us as we haven’t recovered instructions,” he said. A bank cued, at least half of them injured, yesterday, with garment workers from the shock of Tazreen fire in the building did close on from the remains of the build- protesting against poor condi- yet,” said Finance Minister Abul Wednesday after the warning. ing in the commercial suburb of tions and demanding the owners Maal Abdul Muhith, who vis- Savar residents and rescuers Savar, about 30km from Dhaka. of the building and the factories ited the site. Such incidents have dropped bottled water and food A rescue worker assists a survivor after she was recovered, 60 hours later, An industry official has said it housed face harsh punishment. raised serious questions about to people who called out from from the rubble of the collapsed eight-storey building in Savar, yesterday. 3,122 people, most of them female Police and witnesses said pro- worker safety and low wages in between floors. Nearby, relatives garment workers, had been in testers set fire to a number of Bangladesh. identified their dead among doz- the Rana Plaza building despite vehicles and damaged other gar- North American and European ens of corpses wrapped in cloth across Bangladesh yesterday. Bangladesh’s garment exports warnings that it was structurally ment factories. Dhaka District chains, including British retailer on the veranda of a school. Ten labour groups called for go to Europe. The United States unsafe. police chief Habibur Rahman Primark and Canada’s Loblaw, Special prayers were offered a strike on Sunday by work- takes 23 percent and Canada Emdadul Islam, chief engineer identified the owner of the Rana said they were supplied by facto- for the dead, injured and missing ers at garment factories across takes 5 percent. of state run Capital Development Plaza building as Mohammed ries in the Rana Plaza building. at mosques, temples and pagodas the country. Sixty percent of REUTERS East Timor PM in Thailand 78,000 Bhutan refugees Taiwan ex-agent jailed for spying move to West from Nepal TAIPEI: A retired Taiwanese intelligence agent KATHMANDU: Some 78,000 submitted applications for the has been jailed for six years Bhutanese refugees have moved resettlement so far. after luring his colleagues to to the West from camps in “Making 100,000 submissions China to force them to give up Nepal where they have been liv- and reaching nearly 80,000 depar- sensitive information, a court ing for two decades after being tures are incredible achievements spokesman and media said forced out of their homeland, the in the history of this refugee pro- yesterday. Tung Chien-nan, a United Nations said yesterday. gramme and for UNHCR,” said former Investigation Bureau The refugees have been offered Diane Goodman, acting repre- agent, was jailed Thursday for new lives in the United States sentative of the UNHCR in Nepal. violating national intelligence and other countries following The programme began in 2007 services law, said a Supreme the failure of years of negotia- following a lack of progress in Court official. The Liberty tions to secure their return to years of high-level talks to secure Times newspaper said he was Bhutan, which says they were their return to Bhutan. recruited by Beijing after he illegal immigrants. Some 66,000 refugees have retired and tricked several Another 38,000 refugees left for the United States, former military intelligence remain in the camps. All are eth- while Canada, Australia, New officers to China under the nic Nepalese who fled across the Zealand, Norway, Denmark, the pretext of doing business. border in the early 1990s, claiming Netherlands and Britain have also persecution after Bhutan made taken thousands. Iranian denies national dress compulsory and The UNHCR said the total banned the Nepalese language. number of refugees to be reset- Thai bomb plot The United Nations’ refugee tled in the West is expected to BANGKOK: An Iranian man Visiting East Timor’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and Security, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao (left), is agency, UNHCR, said in a state- reach 100,000 by the end of 2014. whose legs were blown off dur- AFP accompanied by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (centre) as they review a guard of honour during a ment yesterday that 100,000 have ing an alleged botched bomb welcoming ceremony at the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. plot last year against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok said yesterday he found the explo- sives and was trying to dispose of them safely when they deto- Seoul to pull out staff from joint zone nated. The 29-year-old Saeid Japan executes two Moradi told a Bangkok court SEOUL: South Korea said yes- the South’s Unification Minister Korean government planned to that he was about to leave terday it had decided to with- Ryoo Kihl-Jae said Seoul was left implement its decision, given that Thailand when he found four death-row gangsters draw all remaining staff from with no option. “The government representatives of the 123 firms bombs hidden inside radios in its joint industrial complex has made the inevitable decision based in Kaesong have vowed to a cupboard at a rented house with North Korea for their own to withdraw all the remaining remain and protect their invest- in the city. Two of the devices TOKYO: Japan yesterday the Japanese branch of the global safety, after Pyongyang shunned people for their protection,” ment whatever steps Seoul exploded as he ran into the hanged two death-row inmates, rights group, protested yesterday. an offer of formal talks. Ryoo said in a televised briefing. announced. street to throw them into a in the first executions since a “We strongly condemn the The move comes after months “North Korea must guarantee An association representing nearby canal, the second tear- trio of convicted killers died five executions conducted since of tension and puts into fur- the safe return of our personnel the companies described the gov- ing off his legs, he said. in the gallows two months ago the launch of the new govern- ther doubt the entire future of and fully protect the assets of ernment decision as “very shock- and drawing immediate protest ment, which goes against calls the Kaesong complex -- the last the companies with investment ing” and said it would consult its Malaysia polls from human rights groups. by the international community remaining symbol of inter-Korean in Kaesong,” he added. member firms before conveying its Justice Minister Sadakazu and indicates the government’s cooperation and a crucial source The Korean peninsula was official stance to the government. KUALA LUMPUR: Opposi- Tanigaki said that 64-year-old intention to pave the way for mass of hard currency for the impov- engulfed in a cycle of escalat- “We feel very sorry and wretched tion leader Anwar Ibrahim Katsuji Hamasaki and 56-year- executions,” it said in a statement. erished North. ing tensions — triggered by the because our efforts to maintain the holds a slight edge over old Yoshihide Miyagi, two mem- Tokyo did not execute any con- South Korean companies active North’s nuclear test in February Kaesong Industrial Zone with our Malaysian premier Najib bers of Japan’s notorious Yakuza demned inmates in 2011, the first in Kaesong expressed shock at — when Pyongyang decided on blood and sweat have been fruit- Razak ahead of a hotly antic- organised crime syndicates, were full year in nearly two decades their government’s announcement April 3 to block all South Korean less,” it said in a statement. ipated election showdown on executed for the shooting of two without an execution amid muted and said they would have to delib- access to Kaesong. One Kaesong factory owner May 5, according to the lat- rival gangsters in Chiba, southeast debate on the rights and wrongs erate on the next steps. Six days later, Pyongyang pulled said on condition of anonymity est opinion poll. Anwar was of Tokyo, in 2005. of a policy that enjoys wide public South Korea on Thursday had out its 53,000-strong workforce and that the companies were still in considered the more qualified The executions bring to five support. given the North 24 hours to agree suspended operations, angered by talks with the government. prime minister choice by 43 the number of death-row inmates But in March last year, Tokyo to formal negotiations on restart- the South’s mention of a “military” “After consultations, we will percent of voters, compared hanged since Prime Minister resumed its use of capital pun- ing stalled operations at Kaesong, contingency plan to protect its staff make a decision on the proposed to 39 percent for Najib, who Shinzo Abe’s conservative govern- ishment with an unapologetic warning of “significant measures” at the site. While the North has withdrawal of our remaining staff is battling to stave off the ment swept to power in landslide government minister signing if Pyongyang declined. allowed all South Korean personnel in Kaesong. We cannot say now biggest electoral threat to the December elections. Japan now death warrants for three multi- After the North’s top military to leave the complex, 175 remained when our people in Kaesong will ruling coalition in its 56 years has 134 inmates on its death row. ple murderers. body rejected what it described as of yesterday. come back.” in power. AGENCIES Amnesty International Japan, AFP as the “fraudulent” proposal, It was unclear how the South REUTERS APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan 4.5m overseas Pakistanis seek vote rights Missions yet to receive instructions from Islamabad on May 11 elections

KARACHI: The general elec- if she had contacted anyone at the well in time, which is by the end in Balochistan and Khyber tions on May 11 has got every Pakistani mission there, said she of this month, the officials in the Pakhtunkhwa, increased. Pakistani excited. But the 4.5 had, and described the response Embassy will be able to cope with They said that both Thomson million voters who live out- only as ‘lost’. Tariq Qureshi in Las the situation,” he said. and Olson inquired about the side the country and make a Vegas was critical of the attitude With the election fever grip- security arrangements put in significant contribution to the of personnel at the mission he ping Pakistan, foreign missions place by the interim government. economy continue to wonder contacted. based in Islamabad are taking a A senior official in the PM sec- anxiously whether they would This is not the only problem lot of interest. This is the first retariat said that international get to exercise their constitu- for some overseas Pakistanis. time in Pakistan’s history that forces were genuinely concerned tional right or not. While those living in cities with a caretaker government formed over attacks on politicians which With only days to go before the either consulates or embassies as per the constitution will be might cast serious doubts over the polls, the Election Commission said that it would take them up overseeing the elections and validity of elections. of Pakistan (ECP), which has to 30 minutes to drive to the will transfer power to elected “Yes, the major challenge for dragged its feet on the matter for polling stations, others said they representatives. the government is to ensure free two years, is about to abort the may have to fly out to the near- While political officers of many and fair elections under peaceful e-voting option. est consulate to be able to vote. countries are regularly hosting circumstances which is definitely The belaboured process added Sagheer Ahmad in Australia media personnel covering the giving sleepless nights to caretak- to the confusion of Pakistanis said “It’s a two hours flight to elections to get updates, ambas- ers,” the official said. living abroad, some of whom do Canberra from the Gold Coast, sadors of important countries are During both the meetings, the not even know where they would costing at least $500.” holding meetings with top gov- prime minister reiterated his gov- be casting their votes if a sys- Missions abroad still await a ernment functionaries for the ernment’s resolve to hold free, fair tem is miraculously set up at the final verdict on the issue, and are purpose. and transparent elections, and last minute. “I really wanted to concerned about when the sys- On Wednesday, British High ensure trouble-free transfer of vote, so did my husband, and we tems will be put in place and their Commissioner Adam Thomson power to the elected representatives. were hoping something could be staff trained for the polls. met caretaker Prime Minister Khoso briefed them on how the gov- arranged in the embassy. But, Till Wednesday, none of retired Justice Mir Hazar Khan ernment was cooperating with the unfortunately, I do not think the missions had received any Khoso to discuss government’s Election Commission of Pakistan in that will be possible,”UAE-based instructions from Islamabad. plans for the coming elections. the conduct of elections. Beenum Mansoor said. “It would be quite difficult to US Ambassador Richard G According to a statement Many said they did not know put in place the system devel- Olson called on the prime min- issued by the PM Secretariat yes- where they had to go in their cur- oped by NADRA in the missions ister to discuss with him issues terday, Olson commended efforts rent country of residence to vote. abroad well in time,” said Ghulam related to elections. being taken by the caretaker gov- Others said that they were rely- Haider, the press attaché at the Sources in the Prime Minister ernment for holding free and fair ing on the Pakistani news media Berlin embassy. Haider added House said that diplomats were elections. Khoso said the care- for information about progress that those NICOP holders reg- keen to know about the state of taker government would take all the ECP has made in ensuring istered with the ECP may be security in the country during measures to ensure free, fair and voting for those living overseas. extended the postal ballot facility. the run-up to elections as inci- transparent elections. Men sit under the electoral posters on a bus stop in Rawalpindi yesterday. Amber in Toronto, when asked “If the system is put in place dence of violence, particularly INTERNEWS

Bomb blast near Frenchman has ANP office in no regrets after Karachi kills 6 KARACHI: A car bomb exploded outside a secular par- ty’s election office here late yes- terday killing six people, officials hostage ordeal said, the latest violence ahead of historic polls next month. KABUL: Charles Ballard (pic- The bomb went off close to tured) left a career in finance to the election office of a candi- do aid work in Afghanistan. Back date for the Pashtun-dominated home in France after being held Awami National Party in the hostage for 71 days in a toilet, he city’s western neighbourhood of says he has no regrets. Mominabad, local police officer On January 27, the finance Mohammad Khan said. It was director in Kabul for French an improvised explosive device charity ACTED (the Agency planted in a Suzuki car, police for Technical Cooperation and spokesman Imran Shaukat said. Development) was kidnapped in “Six people have died and more broad daylight while being driven than a dozen are wounded,” senior from home to the office. police officer Aslam Pechuho said. A Japanese sedan intercepted The blast was heard several Ballard’s four-wheel drive. Three kilometres away and damaged masked men jumped out. “I didn’t nearby shops and houses, wit- have time to know what was hap- nesses said. “The target was the pening. I already had automatic election office of the ANP whose Policemen inspect the burnt remnants of a bus after it collided with a fuel tanker in Maiwand district, southern guns 30 centimetres from my candidate Bashir Jan was to Kandahar province, yesterday. face,” he said. address a corner meeting” in the The 28-year-old graduate of Ballard says he did what physi- impoverished area which is home ESSEC, one of the most prestig- cal exercise he could in the tiny to many ethnic Pashtuns, police ious business schools in France space and managed to wash in a officer Khan said. 45 dead as Afghan bus hits tanker who worked for two years as a small basin. The blast was the second to hit banker in Hong Kong, kept his “I did memory exercises. I Karachi in less than 24 hours. Five KANDAHAR: A passenger bus left there for several days, and the The bus had just crossed the cool. “I felt enormous fear but I made completely absurd lists of people were killed on Thursday in Afghanistan collided yester- bus collided with it.” border into Kandahar from didn’t panic,” he said from Paris people who were in my class when when a bomb exploded outside day with a wrecked fuel tanker Many of those hurt were trav- Helmand province when it hit in an interview over Skype. I was in sixth grade, I repeated the office of secular Muttahida left on a road after a Taliban elling to join the short “neishtar” the tanker. Two and a half weeks after his my times tables,” he said. Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, insurgent attack, killing at least harvest season, when villagers “We were more than 50 pas- release, Ballard says he is not suf- “After several days, I fixed police said. 45 people, officials said. from across southern Afghanistan sengers in the bus. Most of the fering any particular trauma, but myself on the medium term. I told The ANP and MQM were The accident occurred before work in poppy fields during one passengers were men,” Faizullah, he went through a violent ordeal. myself that I needed to do every- coalition partners in the out- dawn in the Maiwand district of the most lucrative times of the one of the passengers who sur- His captors beat him on the thing to control my emotions, that going Pakistan People’s Party- of Kandahar province when the year for casual labourers. vived the accident said. first day. Then he was moved to I couldn’t let black thoughts or led government and have been packed bus ploughed into the A neishtar is the small lance “Our vehicle caught fire. I broke a second location where he was depression take over.” been threatened by the Taliban tanker, which had been burnt out used to make incisions on poppy the glass of the vehicle and then held for 70 days. He declined to discuss details for backing military operations in a Taliban strike several days ago. plants to let out the resin, which jumped. I heard people yelling The entire time he was kept of his release or who his cap- against the Islamists. The three “Tragically, around 4am, the dries into solid opium residue. for help.” Afghanistan has some in a squat toilet, a room smaller tors may have been. Ballard says parties are perceived as secular. passenger bus collided with a fuel Faisal had earlier denied of the most dangerous roads in than three square metres “with he never knew French ex-aid AFP tanker,” Javid Faisal, spokesman reports that the wrecked tanker the world and traffic accidents are no access to daylight or any refer- worker turned photographer for the Kandahar provincial gov- had been set on fire by Taliban common. ence point” only a naked light bulb Pierre Borghi, kidnapped for World Bank flayed for ernor, said. “We have 45 passen- insurgents, who are highly active In September, 51 passengers kept on 24 hours a day non-stop. four months, held separately in gers dead in this accident and ten in Kandahar province, one of the including women and children, He slept, curled up like a dog on Afghanistan and released just funding failed projects others wounded.” hotbeds of the insurgency fight- were killed after their bus also a small, thin mattress next to the one day earlier, but that since “The wreckage of a truck, which ing to oust the US-backed Kabul collided with a fuel tanker in lavatory. He was fed irregularly, their release they have spoken ISLAMABAD: Amid increas- was put alight by the Taliban, was government. Ghazni province. AFP once or twice a day. on Facebook. AFP ing footprints of international donors, Planning Commission chief Dr Nadeemul Haque has criticised the World Bank for throwing money behind failed projects and venturing into Islamabad court remands Musharraf over Bhutto killing areas that are not so important for the revival of the economy. Haque’s remarks reflect an RAWALPINDI: A Pakistani The retired general appeared “We requested a three-day complained that he has been con- was killed in a US drone attack effort to highlight the donor- court yesterday slapped a in court in Rawalpindi for his remand of retired general Pervez fined to two rooms and stripped in August 2009. bureaucrat nexus that has led to three-day house arrest order remand hearing under tight secu- Musharraf and judge Chaudhry of his personal staff. In 2010 a UN report said unchecked benefits for bureau- on former military ruler Pervez rity. He is accused of conspiracy Habib-ur Rehman gave a three- He is also barred from run- Bhutto’s death could have crats and donor agencies alike, Musharraf over the murder of to murder former prime minis- day remand and adjourned the ning in next month’s general been prevented and accused which is widening the debt bur- Benazir Bhutto more than five ter Bhutto, who died in a gun and case until Tuesday,” prosecutor election on May 11 and has been Musharraf’s government of den of the country. years ago, a prosecutor said. suicide attack in December 2007. Chaudhry Azhar said. threatened with death by the failing to give her adequate Haque came down hard on the Musharraf is already under a It is the second of three cases, “However, we can present him Taliban. protection. Washington-based lending agency two-week house arrest period, set dating back to his 1999-2008 to the court even before Monday, Nobody has been convicted or But Bhutto’s son, Bilawal at a time when the WB was ready to expire on May 4, over the sack- rule, for which Musharraf has if we complete the investigation,” jailed for Bhutto’s assassination. Bhutto Zardari, who is chairman to offer another $300m in the name ing of judges when he imposed been arrested since returning to he added. Musharraf’s government blamed of the outgoing Pakistan People’s of tax reforms despite failure of the emergency rule in November Pakistan on March 24 after four Musharraf is being held at the killing on Pakistani Taliban Party, has accused Musharraf of previous $150m support for the 2007 and the fresh order will run years of self-imposed exile, prom- his plush villa on the edge of chief Baitullah Mehsud, who her murder. same purpose. concurrently. ising to contest elections. Islamabad where his party denied any involvement and who AFP INTERNEWS APRIL 27, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY CBI admits sharing Coal scam report Govt in deep crisis over the affidavit in Apex Court

NEW DELHI: The belea- statement “exposes” the and ministry of coal, as desired guered Manmohan Singh gov- government. by them”. ernment yesterday appeared to The government is trying to On March 12, the apex court be in deep political crisis after buy time till April 30 when the had ordered that every sta- the opposition demanded Law apex court is expected to pass an tus report of the investigat- Minister Ashwani Kumar’s order in the case of faulty coal ing agency on its probe on coal resignation for vetting a CBI block allocations. allocation be personally vetted affidavit meant only for the The development comes as by the CBI director and its con- Supreme Court on the coal the government is facing the tents not shared with the political blocks allocation. opposition’s heat on the Joint executive. In its two-page affidavit, Parliamentary Committee’s However, the CBI director, in Central Bureau of Investigation 2G probe, which cleared his affidavit, also told the court (CBI) chief Ranjit Sinha told Prime Minister Manmohan that the investigating agency’s the Supreme Court that it Singh and Finance Minister P status report of April 26 has been had “shared” its March 8 sta- Chidambaram in the spectrum personally vetted by him and not tus report on investigations allocation. shared with anyone, including the into coal blocks allocation with This sets the stage for a fierce political executive. Ashwani Kumar and senior opposition onslaught in the Sinha promised the court officials in the Prime Minister’s remaining two weeks of parlia- that henceforth the probe’s sta- Office and the coal ministry. ment’s budget session. tus reports in the coal scam will Ashwani Kumar, the man in In the midst of all this, not be shared with the political the eye of the storm, said he Manmohan Singh and Congress executive. has “not done any wrong” and chief Sonia Gandhi held discus- The opposition came down “truth will prevail”. sions with the United Progressive heavily on the Congress-led gov- Onlookers and rescue personnel at the scene of the collapsed hospital in Bhopal, yesterday. The supposedly independ- Alliance (UPA) allies. They also ernment, blaming it for interfer- ent CBI’s disclosure could spell discussed ways to break the log- ing in the CBI’s work, with Leader more trouble for the Congress- jam in parliament over various of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha led United Progressive Alliance issues, including coal blocks and Arun Jaitley saying the govern- 14 injured as hospital collapses government and could have 2G. ment has been caught with its ramifications for even the prime In an affidavit filed in the apex “pants down”. BHOPAL: A portion of wom- inmates, trapping them after the a shower of debris of bricks and minister, who held the coal min- court, the CBI director Ranjit “Government has really been en’s ward at a hospital collapsed roof tumbled at around 2:30pm, mortar”. ister’s portfolio in UPA-I during Sinha said: “I submit that the caught with its pants down,” in Bhopal last evening injuring Jha said. He was unable to say “It happened very suddenly,” the allocation of coal blocks now draft of the same (March 8 status Jaitley told NDTV. 14 people, including patients, how the accident occurred in the worker, who did not give his under scrutiny. report) was shared with honour- “This has gone well beyond who were trapped under the the hospital, which is run by name, said by phone. The disclosure of CBI direc- able union minister for law and the law minister now. The Prime debris but there was no report the state-owned Bharat Heavy Bhopal witnessed the world’s tor Ranjit Sinha immediately justice as desired by him prior to Ministers Office must explain in of any death so far, officials said. Electricals Ltd. firm. worst industrial disaster in 1984 set off an opposition clamour its submission before the honour- what context was a PMO official Rescuers moved in heavy “Right now, relief operations when tonnes of lethal toxic gas for the law minister’s resigna- able court.” shown the draft of the coal report. machinery to cut through the are our priority and then we will leaked from an Union Carbide tion for allegedly interfering in The two-page affidavit revealed The affidavit has smashed claims crashed roof of the female sur- try to find out how the accident pesticides plant, killing tens of the functioning of the premier that “besides the political execu- of no interference by government. gical ward of Kasturba Hospital, happened,” he said. thousands of city dwellers. investigating agency. tive, it was also shared with one The buck stops with the Prime hospital spokesman Vinodanand A staffer for the ambulance US-based Dow is the parent An aggressive Bharatiya joint secretary level officer each Minister’s Office,” he said. Jha said. service said the roof collapsed company of Union Carbide. Janata Party (BJP) said Sinha’s of the Prime Minister’s Office IANS Debris showered on the ward’s without any warning and fell “in AGENCIES

Sarabjeet Friendly chat Militants kill 4 cops in Kashmir

seriously hurt SRINAGAR: Kashmiri militants killed four policemen in an ambush on a patrol near the town of Sopore in Kashmir yesterday, a senior officer in clash with said. The four had just descended from their vehicle to conduct a routine patrol in the village of Hygam when they came under attack from gunmen, Superintendent Imtiyaz Hussain said. “Four of our policemen got killed in prisoners the ambush by militants,” he said. LAHORE: An Indian A hunt for the attackers was now under way, the officer added. The village national facing the death is around 45km northwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of the state of penalty in Pakistan on espi- Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. AFP onage charges was rushed to hospital yesterday after suf- fering serious injuries in a clash with fellow prisoners, officials said. Sarbajeet Singh was wounded in a quarrel with other prisoners on death row in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail, provincial prisons chief Farooq Nazir said. He gave no details, saying that an investigation had been ordered into the attack. Singh, who was sentenced to death 16 years ago, has been admitted with “serious head injury”, doctor Mohammad Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid (left) speaks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi in Almaty, Ahsan from Jinnah Hospital yesterday. said. “His condition is seri- ous and he has been taken to the operation theatre,” he added. Protest over detention of Singh was arrested follow- ing a bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore in the late 1990s in which 14 people UP minister at US airport were killed. He was sentenced to death after being convicted WASHINGTON: India has from the Indian consulate in State Department officially and by a Pakistani court on spying formally protested to the US New York intervened and Khan we have conveyed our serious charges. His family has previ- over the brief detention of Uttar was escorted out of the airport. concern.” ously filed mercy petitions to Pradesh Minister Mohammad In a statement issued by his “We have asked them to inter- Pakistani authorities seeking Azam Khan at Boston airport personal assistant Muktinath vene and take appropriate meas- Singh’s release. Pakistan last when he arrived to take part in Jha late on Thursday in Uttar ures to avoid recurrence in the year released an Indian man an event at Harvard University. Pradesh capital Lucknow, the future.” who had served three decades Khan, who is accompanying minister alleged that on the The Azam Khan case is the in a Pakistani jail on espionage State Chief Minister Akhilesh pretext of frisking him home- latest instance of Indian VIPs charges. AFP Yadav for the presentation of a land security officials humiliated being detained at US airports. study on the Kumbh Mela pil- him, and that he was targeted Last year, Bollywood actor Shah grimage, was detained for about 10 because he is a Muslim. Rukh Khan was detained for Monsoon likely to minutes for “further questioning” Although Azam Khan, who over two hours by immigration at Boston Logan International is the urban development and officials at a New York airport. be normal this year Airport on Wednesday, according parliamentary affairs minister, Former president A P J Abdul NEW DELHI: In what to Indian officials. would deliver a lecture at the Kalam was twice subjected to could be a breather for farm- Once the visitors were cleared Harvard Business School (HBS) frisking at New York’s JFK ers and common people, for entry by immigration, a on organising the Maha Kumbh Airport by US security officials. India’s monsoon is likely to woman officer of the US Customs Mela as planned, he would not India’s then ambassador to be normal with 98 percent and Border Protection wing of participate in the lunch and din- the US Meera Shanker was pat- rainfall expected, Science the Homeland Security took ner functions and other events, ted down by a security agent in and Technology Minister S Khan to an adjacent room “for the statement added. Mississippi in December 2010. Jaipal Reddy said yesterday. further questioning”, sources The minister said that he At the State Department, “The monsoon rainfall is said. Incensed, Khan is reported would decide his future course when asked to comment on the related to crop production in to have kicked up a ruckus in of action after returning to India incident, spokesman Patrick the country and also has sig- the Immigration area saying he while adding that he regretted Ventrell said he was “not aware nificant impact on economy. was detained because he was a his decision to go to the US. of the specifics of this case” as The good news for farmers is Muslim and sought an apology In Washington, Indian the Department of Homeland that the southwest monsoon from the officer who merely said embassy spokesman M Security has jurisdiction over this year is most likely to be she was doing her duty. As argu- Sridharan said the mission has airport movements inside the normal,” said Reddy. IANS ments became heated, officials “taken up the issue with the US. IANS ON SATURDAY 14 APRIL 27, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Zain feels the New lease of life for EO.N plant heat in South Sudan market Operator told to dismiss Sudanese staff

DUBAI/JUBA: Mobile phone “The fact that we maintain group Zain knew it was facing a the largest network and are the challenge when it set out to build number one provider of mobile up its network in Africa’s newest telecommunication services in frontier market — the vast, strife- the country clearly demonstrates torn expanses of South Sudan. the depth of our commitment to And a challenge is what it got, in investment in South Sudan,” it the form of months of headaches, added in another statement. including a government order to But in August, Zain’s then Chief dismiss workers and temporarily Executive Nabeel bin Salamah shut down part of its network over wrote to managers highlighting fears the country’s old foe Sudan “continued unacceptable financial could listen in to calls. losses” in the territory, according Almost two years after South to an internal email. Sudan emerged as an independent In the email, he said he was nation, the Kuwaiti firm, like other freezing hiring and all new capi- operators, is also still waiting for tal and operational expenditure a formal licence to operate there. pending a budget review and Pressure control valves inside the gas-fired power plant of German utility giant E.ON in Irsching near the southern Bavarian town of Ingolstadt The company, market leader ordered any requests for emer- yesterday. E.ON’s modern but unprofitable Irsching power station looks set to remain open as a reserve power plant under a deal hammered out in South Sudan though with a gency expenditure to be sent to with regulators and politicians, sources close to the talks said. shrinking share, says it is com- headquarters for approval. The mitted to staying and expanding. company has since said it is com- But, against the background of mitted to building more phone toughening competition, a strug- masts, getting more subscribers gling economy and high costs, some and “optimising our opex”. US Q1 growth quickens, misses forecasts analysts say Zain may have bitten Zain had a licence to operate off more than it can profitably chew. across all Sudan until the coun- Some say it might even make try’s south split away in July 2011 WASHINGTON: US economic rate was a tepid 1.5 percent. the economy, with the exception percent, the lowest since the fourth sense for the group to cut its losses under a peace deal that ended its growth regained speed in the Given the smaller-than- of government, trade and invest- quarter of 2007, from 4.7 percent in and quit its last remaining sub- long civil war with the government first quarter, but not as much as expected increase and signs the ment by businesses in offices and the fourth quarter of 2012. Saharan operation — it sold its in the north. expected, which could heighten economy has weakened in recent other commercial buildings. Much of the gains in first- assets in 15 other African states to The newly independent South fears the already weakening weeks, the GDP data will prob- Consumer spending, which quarter spending came from India’s Bharti Airtel in 2010 to focus Sudan said Zain could stay — economy could struggle to han- ably weigh on US stocks. It could accounts for more than two- automobile purchases and outlays on the more lucrative Middle East. alongside South Africa’s MTN and dle deep government spending also give ammunition for the thirds of US economic activity, for utilities, which were boosted Africa is regularly presented as Sudan’s state-owned Sudani — as cuts and higher taxes. Federal Reserve to maintain its increased at 3.2 percent pace by unusually cold temperatures. one of the last great growth oppor- long as they dismissed all Sudanese Gross domestic product monetary stimulus. — the fastest since the fourth Consumers managed to step up tunities for telecoms operators, a staff and cut management and net- expanded at 2.5 percent annual The US central bank, which quarter of 2010. It grew at a 1.8 their spending despite the return continent still piling on mobile sub- work links with the north, said rate, the Commerce Department meets next week, is widely percent rate in the fourth quar- of a two percent payroll tax and scribers, with lots of room to expand. Juma Stephen, undersecretary said yesterday, after growth expected to keep purchasing ter of last year. higher gasoline prices. Zain’s experience highlights at the south’s telecommunication nearly stalled at 0.4 percent in bonds at a pace of $85bn a month. However, households cut back on Despite the spike in gasoline the risks that go alongside those ministry. the fourth quarter. The increase, Data ranging from employ- saving to fund their purchases after prices, inflation pressures were opportunities in markets where The forced changes were at however, missed economists’ ment to retail sales and manu- incomes dropped at a 5.3 percent benign in the first three months it is often impossible to untan- least partly prompted by distrust expectations for a 3.0 percent facturing weakened substantially rate in the first quarter — a bad of the year. gle commercial from political between the countries, accumu- growth pace. in March after robust gains in sign for future spending growth. An inflation gauge in the gov- interests. lated through decades of fighting Part of the acceleration in the first two months of the year. The drop in income was the larg- ernment’s GDP report rose at “We are fully committed to the over oil, religion and territory. In activity reflected farmers’ fill- There are indications the weak- est since the third quarter of 2009. a 0.9 percent rate, the smallest development of our operation in April last year, border skirmishes ing up silos after a drought last ness persisted into April. The saving rate — the percent- increase since the second quarter terms of human resources and brought them close to war. summer decimated crop output. The GDP showed contribu- age of disposable income house- of 2012. technologies,” it said. REUTERS Removing inventories, the growth tions to growth from all areas of holds are socking away — fell to 2.6 REUTERS

Oil falls below China tells France it wants more balanced trade $103 on poor SHANGHAI: Chinese Premier Hollande said aboard a plane France accounts for just 1.3 of the French leader’s attempt to his talks with Chinese leaders he Li Keqiang was quoted as tell- carrying him from Beijing to the percent of China’s foreign trade press China to help reduce its also raised the issue of Tibet and global growth ing French President Francois commercial capital of Shanghai compared with around five per- trade surplus with France. human rights, with all topics dis- Hollande yesterday that Beijing that he was satisfied with progress cent for Germany, and a trade China’s pact with Airbus could cussed in a “frank and respectful wants more balanced trade with made in the talks. deficit with China of ¤26bn be worth at least $7.7bn at list manner”. outlook France and is willing to buy “They responded perfectly to ($34bn) last year is seen in Paris prices, although customers gen- He said such discussions were more French products. the requests that we made,” he as unsustainable. erally negotiate discounts from not the only purpose of his trip, LONDON: Brent crude oil slid Hollande was on the second day said. On Thursday, the first day of plane manufacturers. and that they wanted to talk below $103 a barrel yesterday of a two-day visit to China aimed The Chinese “do not want to be Hollande’s visit, the two sides The French president later about political partnership, the after rising $3 in the past two at rebalancing trade relations seen as a country that is seeking announced a lucrative deal for vowed to remove obstacles to Chinese presence in Europe and sessions as investors were cau- between the economic powers. (trade) surpluses”, Hollande said, 60 Airbus planes as Hollande Chinese investment in France economic growth. tious over the tepid outlook for “China is not looking for a adding that he earlier told Li: “I became the first Western leader as he vies to drum up anaemic Yesterday, Hollande highlighted growth in the world’s two larg- trade surplus but wants to import am not seeking deficits.” to meet in Beijing with President rates of growth in the eurozone’s the importance of cooperation est oil consumers, the United more French goods,” Li said, China’s rapid development, far Xi Jinping. number-two economy. between the two countries on a States and China. according to a source close to the from scaring France, presented a The deal, signed in the pres- Hollande told a press confer- range of issues. The oil price is set for its big- delegations. “significant opportunity”, he said. ence of Hollande and Xi, was part ence on Thursday that during AFP gest weekly gain since November but is still 7 percent off levels at the start of April after a string of disappointing data stoked fears of global economic slowdown. Adding further pressure, data Bank of Japan boosts showed the US economy grew less than expected in the first quarter, stoking worries about a decelera- tion in the second quarter. economy, inflation view Brent slipped 60 cents to $102.81 a barrel by 1313 GMT, TOKYO: The Bank of Japan see Japan’s national sales tax dou- after touching a low of $102.56, yesterday boosted its inflation ble to 10 percent by 2015 as Tokyo while US crude was down 66 and economic growth projec- tries to pay down a huge national cents at $92.98. tions for the world’s third-larg- debt as social security costs soar “We had a sell-off when est economy as it eyes an end to due to a rapidly ageing population. the GDP data came out,” said years of deflation. Also yesterday, the BoJ held Christopher Bellew, broker at The semi-annual report, which off announcing any new policy Jefferies Bache. “And after a came as the BoJ stood pat on new measures as it wrapped up its strong week, we’re seeing quite a policy measures, estimated 2.9 first meeting since unveiling a bit of profit-taking.” percent growth in the economy huge stimulus package this month Despite oil’s gains, some ana- for the fiscal year to March, up aimed at stoking the economy and lysts said the market is still in a from an earlier 2.3 percent pro- beating years of falling prices. bearish mood. jection made in January. In a brief, two-paragraph state- “We know what is happening It also tipped inflation to hit 0.7 ment the central bank said its in Europe but we’re uncertain percent, also up from an earlier widely expected decision to stand about growth prospects in China 0.4 percent projection. “Japan’s pat was reached by a unanimous and the US and that’s prob- economy has stopped weakening vote by its board. ably also why Brent is under- and has shown some signs of pick- Earlier yesterday, the tough task performing WTI (West Texas ing up,” the BoJ said in its report, ahead for the bank and government Intermediate),” said ANZ analyst pointing at a likely rise in business in their fight against deflation was Natalie Rampono. investment and private spending highlighted by March data show- Brent’s premium to US crude as consumer sentiment improves. ing core consumer prices, which futures edged lower after settling The bank said there was also exclude volatile prices of fresh food, at below $10 on Thursday for the likely to be a spike in demand fell 0.5 percent on-year. first time since January 2012. Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda leaves after a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. ahead of tax increases that would AFP REUTERS APRIL 27, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY Spain begs time to fix finances Economy to shrink by 1.3pc this year but return to 0.5 growth next year Honda’s annual net

MADRID: Spain forecast yes- terday it would climb out of profit soars to $3.7bn its bitter recession in 2014 but needed two extra years to meet TOKYO: Japanese automaker boycott of Japanese products. the European Union’s target for Honda said yesterday its net The long-standing dispute reining in its public deficit. profit for the year to March flared again in September when It announced its latest gloomy soared 73.6 percent to $3.7bn, Tokyo nationalised some of a growth forecast for the current thanks to robust overseas tiny East China Sea archipelago year along with a “stability plan” sales, a weaker yen, and cost that is also claimed by Beijing, that aims to spur economic growth cutting. setting off huge demonstrations after more than a year of harsh The rosy bottom line figure across China and the consumer cutbacks. underscores a recovery among boycott. The government said Spain’s the nation’s major automakers Japanese factories and busi- economy, the eurozone’s fourth- after Japan’s quake-tsunami nesses across China temporarily biggest, would shrink by 1.3 per- disaster in 2011 devastated sales closed or scaled back operations cent in 2013 and timidly return to and production, and highlighted over fears of being targeted by growth of 0.5 percent in 2014. strong demand in the key Asian angry mobs. But it admitted it would likely and US markets. But “we think the Chinese take until 2016 to bring the coun- The yen, which has lost market will continue to grow, try’s public deficit — a crucial about one-fifth of its value on especially having seen the enthu- measure of financial stability — the dollar since November, has siasm and the number of firms under the European Union’s three- also helped, boosting Japanese participating in the Shanghai percent limit. firms’ competitiveness overseas Motor Show” this month, said Unemployment will slide to and jacking up the value of their Tetsuo Iwamura, Honda’s execu- 26.7 percent over 2014 and to 25 repatriated foreign income. tive vice president. “Our business percent in 2015, the government Honda, Japan’s third-biggest (in China) is steadily recovering added, announcing the latest crisis automaker, said it sold a record to the normal level.” reforms it must send to Brussels 4.01 million vehicles worldwide The automakers have also for approval. in the last fiscal year. been forced to recall millions of It forecast the public defi- Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos (back), Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria (left) and “In general Japan’s major vehicles over safety and quality cit would be 6.3 percent of gross Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro arrive for a news conference in Madrid yesterday. automakers showed a brisk concerns in recent years. domestic product (GDP) in 2013 performance for the past fis- But Honda is expecting — well above its earlier target of “In 2013 the worst quarter will says the steps are needed to curb temporary rise in the latter which cal year on the back of strong another strong year to March 4.5 percent. be the first quarter... and from the public deficit and help the had already been set for 2013-2014. demand in North America and 2014 with annual net profit of The deficit would ease to 2.7 there the data will improve,” country save ¤150bn ($195bn) by Saenz said the government the positive impact of the weak 580 billion yen on sales of 12.1 percent by 2016, it said, push- Finance Minister Luis de Guindos 2014. Yesterday’s new plan con- would also be reviewing the pen- yen,” said Shigeru Matsumura, trillion yen. ing back by two years the target told a news conference. tained structural reforms, but sions system. Media reported this auto analyst with SMBC Friend Many automakers and dura- earlier agreed with European “The year 2014 is the year of no major measures on the scale week that the government was Securities. “They are expected to ble goods producers are eye- authorities to bring it within the recovery. We will reap the fruit of of the tax hikes and budget cuts considering raising the retire- continue to show firm results for ing strong demand before the three-percent limit. our economic policies.” announced last year. ment beyond the current legal the current fiscal year thanks to government hikes the national The EU’s executive later Meanwhile the public debt It included measures to stream- limit of 67. The government said those issues,” he added. sales tax to eight percent from approved the announcement, say- would climb to 91.4 percent of GDP line the public administration and it also planned a reform to lower Yesterday, Honda, Japan’s the current five percent over ing in a statement that it consid- in 2013 and reach 99.8 percent by boost small businesses. the deficit of Spain’s energy sector. third-biggest automaker, said the next year, and eventually 10 ered Spain’s plan a “balanced—but 2016, he said. De Guindos said ahead of the The latest official unemploy- it earned 367.15bn yen ($3.7bn) percent by 2015. still ambitious—fiscal consolidation The government is fighting to announcement that the plan aimed ment figures on Thursday showed on revenue of 9.87 trillion yen, Japanese industry has also path, given the difficult economic stabilise Spain’s public finances for “a better balance between that Spain’s jobless rate surged up from 7.95 trillion yen a year benefited from the big-spend- environment”. through austere economic cuts deficit reduction and economic past 27 percent in the first quar- earlier. ing and easy-money policies of The 2013 growth figure, sharply that have sparked angry street growth”. ter of this year. Hundreds of peo- The company’s sales in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, down from an earlier estimate of a protests. Deputy Prime Minister Soraya ple rallied outside parliament in China have almost returned who swept December elections 0.5 contraction, reflected the ongo- Budget Minister Cristobal Saenz de Santamaria said reforms central Madrid late Thursday in to normal levels after plung- on a promise to inject new life ing damage from the collapse of a Montoro on Friday called it “a contained no general rises in the latest of two years of street ing due to a bitter territo- into the world’s third-largest building boom in 2008 that thrust Titanic austerity effort”. sales tax or income tax, though protests in anger at the crisis. rial row between Tokyo and economy. Spain into a deep double recession. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy they would extend by one year a AFP Beijing that fuelled a consumer AFP Greece to auction public buildings online

ATHENS: Greece yester- create the necessary web-based said in a statement. The agency day announced plans to auc- platform and that the first e-auc- said the new platform will offer tion some of the country’s state tions would begin on a test basis “easy and immediate access” to buildings online, as part of a pri- between July and September. technical and legal information on vatisation drive required for the “This is an innovative effort the auctioned properties. release of EU-IMF bailout loans. aiming to maximise transparency, Greece last month released a The Hellenic asset development speed and the competitive inten- list of 28 state buildings for sale fund (HRADF) said its board sity of our operations,” HRADF or lease. had approved the procedure to managing director Yiannis Emiris AFP

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Boxing: Khan Heat push Bucks to brink defends link up with drugs The defending champs lead 3-0 in series; Bulls edge past Nets cheat Conte

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin: scoring run and kept their foot on The 2012 NBA champion Miami the gas in the fourth. Overall, the LONDON: British boxer Amir Heat moved within one game of Heat out-scored the Bucks 56-41 Khan defended his link-up with ousting the Milwaukee Bucks in the second half en route to the American drugs cheat Victor from the first round of the key victory. Conte ahead of his fight with 2013 play-offs yesterday, closing James connected on 9-of-14 Mexico’s Julio Diaz today. strong in a 104-91 victory. from the field, and Bosh added Conte was jailed in 2005 after LeBron James scored 22 points, 16 points with 14 rebounds. Allen pleading guilty to conspiracy to Chris Bosh notched a double-dou- went 5-for-8 from three-point distribute banned steroids and his ble and Ray Allen added 23 points range and now has 322 three- association with Khan has been and set a record for three-point- pointers in the post-season in his criticised by UK Anti-Doping. ers in the post-season as Miami career. That surpassed the play- Miami Heat forward However, Khan said the con- took a 3-0 stranglehold on the off record of 320 held by Reggie Chris Andersen troversial American, who was best-of-seven first-round series. Miller. (right) shoots over introduced to the boxer by trainer No NBA team has come back “It just came out of nowhere, Milwaukee Bucks’ Virgil Hunter, had passed on a lot from an 0-3 deficit to win a best- just thinking about it the past forward Mike of invaluable tips. of-seven series. couple games when I was made Dunleavy (left) as “The advice he’s been giving me The game was one of two aware of it,” Allen said of the team-mates power has been brilliant,” Khan told the Eastern Conference contests record. “There’s so many great forward Ekpe Udoh BBC’s website. “I know he’s had yesterday. In Chicago, the Bulls players, great shooters, great ath- and forward Luc a bad background and has done held on for a 79-76 victory over letes that came into this, and I’ve Richard Mbah Moute things he shouldn’t have. the Brooklyn Nets to take a 2-1 been able to leave my mark.” “Virgil Hunter is my trainer (12) watch during lead in their series. Dwayne Wade had a disap- and he’s the one who’s told me the first half of Game After a late-game collapse in pointing shooting night, connect- we are going to use Victor Conte game two in Miami, Milwaukee ing on just one of 12 shots. But Three of their NBA as an assistant in a way, as he has seemed buoyed by the home he contributed 11 assists, nine first round play-off a team of trainers who can teach crowd. rebounds and five steals. series in Milwaukee, you stuff. They led much of the first “I had to do other things,” said Wisconsin, yesterday. “On the training methods he’s half, and after Miami seized the Wade, who appeared to aggravate brought so much good training lead early in the third quarter his sore right knee in a fall in the into the game. He’s introduced me Milwaukee engineered a 9-0 scor- first quarter. “It’s the playoffs. to a lot of new trainers who have ing run to regain the advantage. I wasn’t feeling great, but I did helped me on my running, sprint- In the end, however, the Bucks other things.” ing, on my engine really, which is couldn’t hold off the Heat, who Once again Milwaukee’s top working my fitness, also breathing closed the third quarter on a 23-7 players struggled, with Brandon methods and telling me what to Jennings and Monta Ellis combin- do and what not to do.” NBA Results ing for 23 points. Conte was at the centre of the The Bucks will try to keep the BALCO doping programme which Eastern Conference series alive when they host game included several high profile ath- In Milwaukee four tomorrow. letes like Marion Jones and Tim Miami 104 Milwaukee 91 “We had to fight for this one,” Carlos Boozer scored 22 points off-target on a potentially game- The Celtics haven’t played Montgomery. (Miami leads series 3-0) Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. and grabbed 16 rebounds for the tying three-pointer. a game at home since five days A steroid specifically designed In Chicago “(Milwaukee) came out with a Bulls, while Luol Deng contrib- Brook Lopez led the Nets with before the Boston Marathon to fool testers, dubbed tetrahydro- Chicago 79 Brooklyn Nets 76 great deal of intensity like we uted 21 points and 10 rebounds. 22 points, nine rebounds and bombings that killed three and gestrinone (THG), was produced (Chicago leads series 2-1) expected.” Although they were held to seven blocked shots. injured 264 on April 15. and distributed by BALCO. In Chicago, the Bulls again 34.6 percent shooting from the Eastern Conference action con- “Obviously, it’s going to be Following his release from Western Conference displayed determined defense field, the Nets trimmed a 17-point tinues today, when the Boston emotional, and quite honestly, prison, Conte became an anti- In Memphis against a Nets team that held on fourth-quarter deficit to three Celtics host the New York Knicks it should be,” Celtics coach Doc drug campaigner who works with Memphis 94 LA Clippers 82 long enough to have a chance to with four seconds remaining. in game three of their series, Rivers said after yesterday’s several anti-doping bodies in a bid (Clippers lead series 2-1) tie it in the waning seconds. CJ Watson, however, was which the Knicks lead 2-0. match. AFP to clean up sport. REUTERS

Ormsby, Arnond German rookie Masson top leaderboard at Ballantine’s leads LPGA Shootout ICHEON, South Korea:

Wade Ormsby of Australia and IRVING, Texas: German Arnond Vongvanij of Thailand LPGA rookie Caroline Masson shot to the top of the leader- fired a seven-under 64 yester- board in the rain-shortened day to grab a two-shot lead after second round at the Ballantine’s the first round of the inaugural Championship here yesterday. North Texas LPGA Shootout. The two players were tied at Masson, who has missed the seven-under 137 through two cut in four of her five prior starts rounds at the par-72 Blackstone this season, posted her best score Golf Club. Ormsby shot a 67 yes- on the LPGA tour, and had a two- Carlota Ciganda terday while Arnond was round stroke lead over Spain’s Carlota of Spain putts in 69 to share the club house lead. Ciganda -- last year’s rookie of the ball during Ormsby earned his first Asian the year on the Ladies European the first round of Tour victory earlier this month in Carey Price (31) of the Montreal Canadiens blocks a shot on goal by Tour. the 2013 North India but he has yet to win on the Blake Wheeler (26) of the Winnipeg Jets during the second period at the World No. 1 Park In-Bee of Texas LGPA European Tour. Arnond is also MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, yesterday. South Korea carded a four-under Shootout at seeking his first European win. par 67 to head a group sharing the Las Colinas The tournament, the only third place that also included European Tour stop in South Country Club compatriot Hur Mi-Jung, Korea, is co-sanctioned by the in Irving, Texas, New York Rangers England’s Felicity Johnson and Asian Tour and the Korean Tour. Americans Mo Martin and Kristy yesterday. Play was delayed by inclement McPherson. weather for the second straight Amateur Taylor Coleman day, and the final groups only got clinch play-off berth carded a three-under 68 to share four holes in yesterday. Players eighth place with South Korean will return to finish their second CAROLINA: Captain Ryan and Carey Price turned aside Park Hee-Young and American round today. Callahan scored 2:55 into over- 23 shots for the Canadiens, who Christina Kim. Ormsby, who made four birdies time as visiting New York won for just the second time in Coleman, 16, qualified for the over his front nine, said he had to clinched a play-off berth for the seven outings to remain even with tournament via a High School “work my way into the tourna- third consecutive season. Original Six rival Boston. Shootout qualifier on Monday. ment” because his rhythm was a Derek Stepan matched Blake Wheeler and James Masson nabbed seven birdies bit off following a two-week break. Callahan with a goal and an assist, Wright scored and Ondrej Pavelec without a bogey, and was unfazed “Today, I felt good straight out Derick Brassard scored for the finished with 26 saves for the Jets, by the north Texas wind. LPGA North Texas Shootout Scores of the blocks,” he said. “I had a fourth time in five who were elimi- “For some reason I feel like I’m IRVING, Texas: Leading first-round scores yesterday in the North Texas LPGA Shootout (USA good back nine and then holed games and Brad nated after the playing pretty good in the wind,” unless noted): a couple of putts coming in. So Richards also NHL Results New York Rangers Masson said. “My win on the LET 64 Caroline Masson (GER) overall, nice putting, keep it in tallied. Philadelphia 2 NY Islanders 1 posted a 4-3 over- in South Africa was also in really, 66 Carlota Ciganda (ESP) play, so it was good.” Henrik Ottawa 2 Washington 1 time victory over really windy conditions. 67 Mo Martin, Hur Mi-Jung (KOR), Kristy McPherson, Felicity Johnson (ENG), Park In-Bee (KOR) Arnond said he was happy Lundqvist made NY Rangers 4 Carolina 3 Carolina. “And yeah, I’m hitting it well, 68 Park Hee-Young (KOR), Taylor Coleman, Christina Kim with the way he overcame tough 18 saves for the New Jersey 3 Pittsburgh 2 Elsewhere, so I think the wind doesn’t affect conditions. Rangers who elim- defenceman Sergei 69 Kang Hae-Ji (KOR), Moira Dunn, Angela Stanford, Jessica Korda, Tseng Ya-ni, Azahara Toronto 4 Florida 0 my ball too much, and that will “A thunderstorm came in out of inated Winnipeg Gonchar scored on Munoz (ESP) Detroit 5 Nashville 2 definitely help me throughout the nowhere, so I think that caught us from postseason a power play 47 week. 70 Veronica Felibert (VEN), Julieta Granada (PAR), Choi Na-Yeon (KOR), Shin Jiyai (KOR), Seo all by surprise,” he said. “After we contention. Boston 2 Tampa Bay 0 seconds into over- “But it’s just also important to Hee-Kyung (KOR), Sara-Maude Juneau (CAN), Vicky Hurst, Karlin Beck, K Ekey, Marcy went out, the wind started blow- Meanwhile, Montreal 4 Winnipeg 2 time as visiting just make some putts on these Hart, I.K. Kim, Cristie Kerr, Suzann Pettersen (NOR), Brittany Lincicome, Kayla Mortellaro ing pretty heavily. I am glad to David Desharnais St. Louis 4 Calgary 1 Ottawa clinched a greens because without putting pick up one more shot coming in.” and Max Columbus 3 Dallas 1 play-off berth for well, I think you have no chance Ballantine’s Scores Lurking one stroke behind the Pacioretty scored Anaheim 3 Vancouver 1 the third time in to shoot a really good round here. ICHEON, South Korea: Leading completed scores at the Ballantine’s Championship in club house leaders were Alexander in under a three- four seasons. So it’s just all coming together, Icheon, South Korea, yesterday. Noren, James Morrison and Jbe minute span dur- Rookie Jakob really.” Kruger. ing the third period as visiting Silfverberg scored his 10th goal 137 Wade Ormsby (AUS) 70-67, Arnond Vongvanij (THA), 68-69 Stacy Lewis, the world No. 2 Morrison enjoyed a bogey- Montreal kept pace atop the and Craig Anderson made 19 who must finish fifth or better 138 Alexander Noren (SWE) 71-67, James Morrison (ENG) 72-66, Jbe Kruger (RSA) 71-67 free round of 66, and Noren also Northeast Division by defeating saves for the Senators, who swept to have any chance of supplant- 139 Tommy Fleetwood (ENG) 68-71 went without a bogey for his 67. Winnipeg, which was eliminated Washington in their three-game ing Park atop the world rankings 140 Matteo Delpodio (ITA) 71-69, Kim Hyung-Sung (KOR) 71-69, Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 70-70, Morrison completed his first from postseason contention ear- season series and moved into a this week, bogeyed two of her last Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 69-71, Marcus Fraser (AUS) 70-70, Kang Kyung-Nam (KOR) 72-68, round in the morning and had to lier in the evening. tie for sixth place in the Eastern three holes en route to a one-over Magnus Carlsson (SWE) 71-69, Brett Rumford (AUS) 73-67, Wu Ashun (CHN) 75-65, Joo come right back out to play his Rene Bourque and rookie Conference. 72. AFP Heung-Chol (KOR) 70-70 second round. AFP Brendan Gallagher also tallied REUTERS APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Liverpool’s Nadal wins twice to reach Suarez accepts 10-game ban semi-finals in Barcelona LONDON: Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has accepted his 10-match ban for biting The world number five to face Raonic; Kohlschreiber, Almagro advance Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic during last weekend’s Premier League match, the FA said BARCELONA: Rafa Nadal player to reach the last four yesterday. moved closer to an eighth Barcelona Open when his quarter-final opponent, “The suspension begins with Barcelona Open title in nine Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil, pulled immediate effect and applies to years on Friday when he breezed Results out of the tournament with an Liverpool FC’s next 10 domestic through two matches to set up Quarterfinal: 5-Milos Raonic (Canada) bt abdominal injury. first-team fixtures,” the FA said a semi-final against Canadian Tommy Robredo (Spain) 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(2); Kohlschreiber will play Nicolas in a statement. fifth seed Milos Raonic. 2-Rafa Nadal (Spain) bt Albert Ramos (Spain) Almagro for a place in tomorrow’s Suarez accepted a charge of vio- Chasing a fourth title of the 6-3, 6-0; 4-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) bt 7-Juan final after the Spanish fourth seed lent conduct after biting Ivanovic year after returning from a seven- Monaco (Argentina) 6-3, 7-5; 8-Philipp beat Argentine Juan Monaco, the on the arm during Sunday’s 2-2 month injury layoff in February, Kohlschreiber (Germany) bt 16-Thomaz Bellucci seventh seed, 6-3 7-5. draw at Anfield - an incident Nadal recovered from a slow start (Brazil)WO. Paire, who turns 24 next month missed by the match referee. on the clay at the Real Club de Round 3: Tommy Robredo (Spain) bt 3-Tomas and had never played Nadal The FA’s Independent Tenis to beat Benoit Paire 7-6 Berdych (Czech Republic) 3-6, 7-6(5) 6-3; before, began aggressively and Regulatory Commission, which 6-2 in their delayed third-round 5-Milos Raonic (Canada) bt Ernests Gulbis broke the French Open cham- met on Wednesday, decided that match. (Latvia) 6-2, 7-6(6); Albert Ramos (Spain) bt pion’s serve in the opening game. the normal three-game ban for a The world number five had 6-Kei Nishikori (Japan) 6-4, 7-6(4); 2-Rafa Nadal had the usual strapping violent conduct charge was not been set to meet the 13th-seeded Nadal (Spain) bt 13-Benoit Paire (France) on his troublesome left knee but sufficient, adding a further seven Frenchman on Thursday before 7-6(2), 6-2; 8-Philipp Kohlschreiber (Germany) showed no sign of discomfort, matches to the Uruguayan’s rain washed out the day’s play. bt 11-Martin Klizan (Slovakia) 1-6, 7-6(2) breaking back before taking the suspension. After a few hours rest, Nadal 7-6(5). tiebreak 7-2. Liverpool manager Brendan returned to centre court to dis- Further breaks in the fifth and Rodgers was critical of the patch fellow Spaniard Albert postponed matches to be com- seventh games of the second set Football Association for the Ramos 6-3 6-0 for his 37th con- pleted before the quarter-finals secured victory for the 26-year- severity of Suarez’s punishment secutive Barcelona Open win. were played. old Majorcan as he seeks to and there was some sympathy It was the first time he had Ramos, the world number 64, bounce back from his defeat by from rival managers yesterday. played two matches in one day surprised Japanese sixth seed Kei Serbia’s world number one Novak “In this case, the proportion- since the Monte Carlo Masters Nishikori 6-4 7-6 in their delayed Djokovic in Sunday’s Monte Carlo ality looks very severe consider- in 2009. third-round match before 2004 Masters final. ing what other players have been “I played much better than champion Robredo came back Ramos also played some punished for,” Arsenal manager this morning,” Nadal said in an from a set down to upset third- aggressive shots in the opening Arsene Wenger told reporters. interview with Spanish television seeded Czech Tomas Berdych 3-6 set against Nadal but faded badly “I think what has gone com- broadcaster TVE. 7-6 6-3. and did not manage a single break pletely against Suarez is his his- “Making the semi-finals is Raonic, the world number 13, point, while Nadal converted four tory, that is very heavy on the great news and I am pleased to beat Latvian qualifier Ernests of his five chances. offence front. get through a difficult day like Gulbis 6-2 7-6 before battling back Top seed and world number “That’s why he has been pun- today,” he added. from a set down against Robredo four David Ferrer, another ished so severely, that’s the only To the relief of organisers, the to win 6-7 6-3 7-6. Spaniard, lost to Russian qualifier Spanish player Rafael Nadal serves against French player Benoit Paire dur- explanation I can find.” rain forecast for the Catalan capi- Germany’s Philipp Dmitry Tursunov in the second ing the Barcelona Open tennis tournament Conde de Godo in Barcelona Manchester City’s Roberto tal held off, allowing Thursday’s Kohlschreiber became the first round on Wednesday. REUTERS yesterday. Mancini said during his Friday news conference: “Five or six games was enough, this is my opinion but I don’t work for the IPL: Kolkata FA.” Pakistan vows Chigumbura sparks Kaneria loses Liverpool were yet to comment on Suarez’s decision not to appeal his appeal defeat Kings XI against the 10-match ban. fixing vigil in It is the second time the Zimbabwe comeback by six wickets 26-year-old Suarez has been pun- England against life ban ished for biting an opponent after HARARE: A blazing innings of he bit PSV Eindhoven’s Otman KARACHI: Pakistan vowed 45 from Elton Chigumbura res- LONDON: Controversial KOLKATA: A masterly Bakkal on the neck while playing yesterday to keep its crick- cued Zimbabwe as they closed Pakistan leg-spinner Danish unbeaten 51 by Manvinder Bisla for Ajax in 2010, earning a seven- eters under a strict vigil in on 158 for four on day two of the Kaneria failed in his appeal piloted holders Kolkata Knight match ban. England to avoid any repeat second and final Test against to overturn his lifetime ban Riders to a six-wicket win over Suarez was also banned for of a 2010 spot-fixing scandal Bangladesh at Harare Sports from cricket yesterday. Kings XI Punjab in their crucial eight games last season after that resulted in bans and jail Club, yesterday. Kaneria was banned last Indian Premier League match being found guilty by the FA of for three players. Chigumbura, who was the star year for his role in a spot-fixing at the Eden Gardens here racially abusing Manchester An undercover reporter of with the ball in the Bangladesh plot, but denied all involvement yesterday. United’s Patrice Evra in October the now defunct News of the first innings, put on an unbeaten and immediately indicated The Knights scored the 2011. REUTERS World exposed former cap- 61-run stand for the fifth wicket his intention to contest the required 150 runs with nine balls tain Salman Butt along with with Malcolm Waller (30 not decision. to spare, ending in the proc- pacemen Mohammad Asif out) to almost certainly help The 32-year-old was found ess a three-match losing streak. Spain coach and Mohammad Aamer in a Zimbabwe avoid the follow-on. guilty of “cajoling and pres- Earlier, the visitors had posted a scandal that shook the cricket In reply to Bangladesh’s total surising” former Essex team- decent 149/6. Del Bosque to world during Pakistan’s tour of of 391, Zimbabwe had slumped mate Mervyn Westfield into Bisla’s knock (44b 3x4 3x6) was England. to 97 for four before Chigumbura accepting cash in return for a happy reminder for the sparse quit after 2014 The three players agreed to strode to the wicket and started trying to concede a set number but boisterous home crowd of his be part of deliberate no-balls at thrashing away. of runs in an over during an match winning 89 of 48 deliveries the Lord’s Test against England Bangladesh added another 91 English county Pro40 match in the final of the previous edi- World Cup in August 2010 in return for runs to their overnight score of in 2009. tion at Chennai which enabled the money in a deal brokered 300 for six, the charge yesterday The Pakistan Cricket Board Knights won the IPL title. MADRID: Spain coach Vicente between the reporter and their led by Nasir Hossain’s fifth Test said in July that Kaneria would Eoin Morgan (42, 26b 3x4 4x6) del Bosque confirmed yesterday agent Mazhar Majeed. half-century. be suspended from playing in and Jacques Kallis (37, 33b 6x4) that his incredibly successful The International Cricket Hossain had amassed 77 before his home country until the out- were the other major contributor reign as leader of his country’s Council (ICC) banned three he was the ninth wicket to fall. come of the appeal was known. for the hosts. The Kings’ Azhar national side will conclude at players for a minimum of five Number 11 Robiul Islam Bangladesh batsman Ziaur Rahman Westfield served two months Mahmood (3/35) was the most the end of the 2014 FIFA World years and the trio was jailed by entertained the crowd with an faces the bowling of Zimbabwean of a four-month prison sen- successful bowler. IANS Cup. a British court in 2011. unbeaten 24 from 18 balls to bowler Kyle Jarvis during the tence last year after admitting Former Real Madrid coach, Aamer pleaded guilty dur- take Bangladesh to 391. Shakib second day of the second cricket spot-fixing and was banned Scoreboard Del Bosque is one of the most ing the trial, but appeals from Al Hasan (81) top-scored in Test match at the Harare Sports from professional cricket for successful coaches in history, Butt and Asif were last week the innings, while there was Club, yesterday. five years. KINGS XI PUNJAB leading Spain to their first ever rejected by the Swiss-based also a valuable 60 from skipper The 24-year-old was sum- A C Gilchrist c Morgan b Bhatia ...... 27 World Cup in 2010 and then Court of Arbitration for Sports. Mushfiqur Rahim. moned to appear as a witness, Mandeep Singh c Morgan b Kallis ...... 25 masterminding the defence of Pakistan Cricket Board The pick of the home bowlers touch again he compiled a patient at the appeal after the England M Vohra c Das b Balaji ...... 31 the European Championship chairman Zaka Ashraf said was Chigumbura, who returned 36 before trying an uncharacter- and Wales Cricket Board D J Hussey c Senanayake b Kallis ...... 21 in 2012, making Spain the first strict measures would be in figures of three for 75. istically risky shot. obtained a witness summons D A Miller b Ladda ...... 10 country to ever win a European place when the team compete Zimbabwe’s problems at the top He attempted to pull a deliv- order to force Westfield to Gurkeerat Singh (not out) ...... 28 Championship (2008), then win in the Champions Trophy. of the order continued as they lost ery from off-spinner Sohag Gazi attend to give evidence against Azhar Mahmood (run out-Kallis/Bisla) ...... 2 the World Cup and then defend “What mistakes we com- three quick wickets. to the mid-wicket boundary but Kaneria. P P Chawla (not out) ...... 0 its European crown. mitted last time will not be Captain Brendan Taylor, who picked out Shakib in the deep During his criminal trial, Extras (B-1, LB-4) ...... 5 However, all good things must repeated,” Ashraf told journal- scored centuries in each innings instead. Westfield named Kaneria as Total (for 6 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 149 come to an end and the 62-year- REUTERS ists when asked to comment on in the first test, looked in good the figure who induced him Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-67, 3-96, 4-109, old announced that he will step reports that a vigilance officer into accepting £6,000 from a 5-127, 6-131. down after the next World Cup would accompany the team to Scoreboard bookmaker to under-perform Bowling: L Balaji 4-0-44-1; S M S M Sena- in Brazil. England. in a match in 2009. nayake 4-1-29-0; S P Narine 4-0-22-0; J H “My last responsibility as Spain “We have to consider Bangladesh (I innings): 2; S Masakadza 17-2-52-1; Chigumbura 24.2- That evidence was key to the Kallis 4-0-14-2; S Ladda 2-0-18-1; R Bhatia coach will be the World Cup in Pakistan’s prestige and respect, Tamim Iqbal (run out) ...... 49 7-75-3; Cremer 25-3-109-2. ECB’s case in imposing their 2-0-17-1. Brazil,” he confirmed, although he and what is paramount for the Jahurul Islam c Waller b Meth ...... 24 Zimbabwe (I innings): life ban but, feeling he was KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS confessed that could not be the IANS image of the country. We have Mohd Ashraful c Cremer b S Masakadza ...... 4 V Sibanda c Mushfiqur b Robiul ...... 10 harshly treated in return by M S Bisla (not out)...... 50 end of his role in football. to form a code and will also M Haque c S Masakadza b Chigumbura ..... 23 R Chakabva c Mushfiqur b Robiul...... 12 the governing body in terms of G Gambhir b A Mahmood ...... 8 consider whether it should be S Al Hasan c Mutumbami b Chigumbura..... 81 H Masakadza b Shakib ...... 14 his own ban, Westfield refused Y K Pathan c Gilchrist b A Mahmood ...... 0 included in players’ central Mushfiqur Rahim lbw b Jarvis ...... 60 B Taylor c Shakib b Sohag ...... 36 to cooperate further. J H Kallis c Gilchrist b H Singh ...... 37 Europa League contract,” said Ashraf. Nasir Hossain b Cremer ...... 77 M Waller (batting) ...... 30 With Kaneria’s legal team E J G Morgan c G Singh b A Mahmood .....36 Ashraf said corruption would Ziaur Rahman lbw Meth ...... 14 E Chigumbura (batting) ...... 45 arguing Westfield’s original S M S M Senanayake (not out) ...... 0 Results not be tolerated in Pakistani evidence was inadmissible at Sohag Gazi c Chigumbura b Cremer ...... 21 Extras (B-4, LB-7) ...... 11 Extras (B-4, LB-5, W-2) ...... 11 PARIS: Europa League cricket. the appeal, the ECB took the Sajidul Islam c Mutumbami b Chigumbura ....0 Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 158 Total (for 4 wkts in 18 overs) ...... 150 semi-final first leg results on “We want to keep the image last resort of an order to com- Robiul Islam (not out) ...... 24 To bat: Richmond Mutumbami, Graeme Cre- Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-10, 3-76, 4-142. Thursday of our team and the country pel Westfield. Extras (B-2, LB-7, W-1, NB-4) ...... 14 mer, Keegan Meth, Shingirai Masakadza, Kyle Bowling: P Kumar 4-0-28-0 (1w); Azhar FC Basel (SUI) 1 (Schar clean and for that we will take Total (all out) ...... 391 Jarvis. Kaneria’s appeal hearing was Mahmood 4-0-29-3; B A Bhatt 3-0-21-0 strict measures which will be due to take place last December 87-pen) Chelsea (ENG) 2 Fall of wickets: 1-44, 2-58, 3-102, 4-125, Bowling: Robiul 19-9-34-2; Sajidul 14-5-39- (1w); P P Chawla 4-0-33-0; Harmeet Singh (Moses 12, Luiz 90) finalised soon,” said Ashraf. 5-248, 6-280, 7-313, 8-364, 9-367, 10-391. 0; Ziaur 5-3-5-0; Shakib 13-3-40-1; Sohag but was postponed because 3-0-22-1. AFP AFP Fenerbahce (TUR) 1 (Korkmaz Bowling: Jarvis 25-4-105-1; Meth 22-7-41- 10-1-29-1; Ashraful 1-1-0-0. Westfield did not attend. Player-of-the-Match: J H Kallis (KKR). 72) Benfica (POR) 0 APRIL 27, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

FROM LEFT: Bahrain’s Obaid Al Kitbe, Poland’s Rafal Sonik and Qatar’s Mohammed Abu Issa, Quad category podium winners at the Sealine Cross-Country Rally. RIGHT: Cars category winner Jean Louis Schlesser and co-driver Konstantin Zhiltsov celebrate their victory. Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) President Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah (right) is also seen.

Positions on SS4 – 275.50km Cars Schlesser, Coma and 1. Jean-Louis Schlesser (FRA)/Konstantin Zhiltstov (RUS) Schlesser Original 2hr, 49min 15sec 2. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Andreas Schulz (DEU) Mini All4 Racing 2hr, 54min 47sec 3. Peter van Merksteijn Jnr (NLD)/Eddy Chevallier (BEL) Ford 2hr, 57min 32sec 4. Nunzio Coffaro (VEN)/Daniel Meneses (VEN) Toyota Hilux 2hr, 58min 55sec Sonik triumph in Qatar 5. Aidyn Rakhimbayev (KAZ)/Vladimir Demiyanenko (RUS) Toyota Hilux 3hr, 01min 37sec Bikes Home rider Abu Isser finishes third overall in Quads 1. Francesco Lopez (CHL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 2hr, 31min 56sec 2. Jakub Przygonski (POL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 2hr, 33min 46sec

DOHA: Frenchman Jean-Louis 3. Paulo Gonçalves (PRT) Speedbrain 450 Rally 2hr, 34min 38sec Schlesser, Spaniard Marc Coma 4. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 2hr, 36min 38sec and Pole Rafal Sonik claimed outright victories in their 5. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) Honda CRE F 500 X 2hr, 40min 59sec respective car, motorcycle and quad categories of the four-day Quads Runner-up Paulo 2013 Sealine Cross-Country Goncalves of 1. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 3hr, 14min 39sec Rally, which finished in south- ern Qatar yesterday. Portugal (left), 2. Adel Hussain Abdullah (QAT) Yamaha Raptor 700 3hr, 35min 26sec The trio held on to their over- Winner Marc 3. Pablo Copetti (ARG) Yamaha Raptor 700 3hr, 35min 45sec night advantages in very different Coma of Spain, circumstances to clinch the wins and third-placed 4. Mohammed Al Shamsi (ARE) Honda TRX 700 3hr, 36min 18sec after a punishing all-desert route Jakub Przygonski of over 1,500km had tested both of Poland on the 5. Obaid Al Kitbe (BAR) Honda TRX 700 3hr, 44min 05sec podium after coming man and machine to the limit. 6. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Yamaha Raptor 700 3hr, 44min 45sec Schlesser, Chilean rider in the top three in Francisco Lopez and Sonik were the Bikes category, Overall positions after SS4 triumphant on the fourth and yesterday. final stage. Cars Schlesser and his Russian 1. Jean-Louis Schlesser (FRA)/Konstantin Zhiltstov (RUS) Schlesser Original 16hr, 11min 33sec co-driver Konstantin Zhiltsov started the final selective section 2. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Andreas Schulz (DEU) Mini All4 Racing 16hr, 42min 51sec with an advantage of 25min, 46sec over the Polish driver Krzyszt of 3. Nunzio Coffaro (VEN)/Daniel Meneses (VEN) Toyota Hilux 17hr, 30min 45sec Holowczyc and Schlesser surged 4. Aidyn Rakhimbayev (KAZ)/Vladimir Demiyanenko (RUS) Toyota Hilux 17hr, 47min 15sec into the lead of the FIA World The factory KTM rider started but I saw Paulo after about 190km 112.52km, with his overall lead Cup for Cross-Country Rallies the final stage with a 2min, 04sec and it was exciting all the way to increased by a further 2min 08sec. 5. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) Hummer H3 Evo 18hr, 09min 22sec with his first win of the new sea- advantage over Portugal’s Paulo the finish.” Nearly half the stage was com- Bikes son by the eventual margin of Gonçalves and knew full well that Pole Jakub Przygonski finished pleted and the Portuguese had not 31min 18sec. the Speedbrain team rider would third and stage winner Lopez was been able to make in-roads into 1. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica 17hr, 09min 57sec “Yes, very happy, a nice but dif- be playing catch up over the early fourth. Coma’s lead at all. He was also ficult race,” said Schlesser. kilometres. Sonik began the final stage with caught by Przygonski. 2. Paulo Gonçalves (PRT) Speedbrain 450 Rally 17hr, 10min 01sec He added: “It was not so easy But the Portuguese lost his way a massive lead of 1hr 33min, 49sec Coma stayed hard on the gas 3. Jakub Przygonski (POL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 17hr, 13min 13sec and I catch my finger in the steer- a little early on and Coma was over the UAE’s Obaid Al Kitbe in through the next crucial kilome- ing wheel in a hole today, but the able to extend his lead into the the quad class. tres, but Gonçalves, Prygonski 4. Francesco Lopez (CHL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 17hr, 17min 42sec win has put us in a good position.” passage control. Last year’s champion made and Lopez grouped closer together Holowczyc reached the finish in Thereafter, there had been no mistake for the second year and the Speedbrain rider man- 5. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) Honda CRE F 500 X 18hr, 47min 02sec second overall with his Mini All4 some overnight rain and the running and the quickest time aged to close in on the leader en 6. Quinn Cody (USA) Speedbrain 450 Rally 19hr, 35min 31sec Racing and the Overdrive Racing Spaniard was a little more cau- ensured that he maintained his route to the Inland Sea. Toyota Hiluxes of Venezuelan tious to ensure that he kept to the 100 percent success rate in Qatar. The Portuguese was putting on Quads Nunzio Coffaro and Kazakh correct route. Gonçalves began Al Kitbe claimed the runner-up a late charge as the media waited 1. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 21hr, 28min 41sec Aidyn Rakhimbayev were third to close and Coma saw his rival spot and local rider Mohammed anxiously at the finish line to see and fourth. behind for the first time after Abu Issa was third. if it would indeed be a ‘motocross- 2. Obaid Al Kitbe (BAR) Honda TRX 700 23hr, 31min 56sec “Second place is the first loser,” around 190km. Instead of tackling the full style’ shoot-out to decide the said Holowczyc. The much-vaunted grandstand 275.50km selective section used outcome. 3. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Yamaha Raptor 700 24hr, 50min 11sec He added: “This race was ideal finish ensued over the closing kil- by the cars, bike and quad riders Gonçalves had managed to 4. Pablo Copetti (ARG) Yamaha Raptor 700 24hr, 55min 03sec for the Buggies, fast, open and ometres and the pair crossed the crossed a shorter 238.49km stage, take exactly two minutes from bumpy. With the new regulations, finish line inseparable. Coma won after taking a different course the Spaniard, but those four 5. Mohammed Al-Shamsi (ARE) Honda TRX 700 25hr, 52min 13sec we don’t have the power and have the race by just four seconds. from PC1 to rejoin the main route vital seconds were a bridge too to rely on reliability. We see with “Phew, that was tough. A very at the second passage control for far and Coma held on to take the Nasser, like on the Dakar, he was tough race, very difficult in all the cars. narrowest of victories in thrilling fast but the car was not reliable. areas, but I am very happy,” said Goncalves began the stage two circumstances. If the rules are not changed the Coma. minutes behind Coma on the Elsewhere, Sonik had been the future is for the Buggy!” He added: “The long distance, road and needed to beat the FIM quickest quad rider to PC1 from Coma needed a very different the navigation, the weather – this Cross-Country Rallies World Cup Al Kitbe and Pablo Copetti and strategy to claim his second suc- race has really gone to a high level. leader by 65 seconds to win the the Pole held on to take a com- Coma checks cessive victory in the motorcycle I lost some time in some loose event. fortable win in the category. Al his goggles category. sand after the passage control, But Coma reached PC1, after Kitbe and Qatar’s Mohammed before Abu Issa were second and third. yesterday’s Schlesser settled cosily into crucial and third position on the stage behind final stage of Holowczyc and Rakhimbayev and just needed to stay out of trouble the Sealine to conserve his 25min, 46sec lead Cross-Contry and seal a maiden Sealine win. Rally. The Faisal Al Attiya started from Spaniard third position on the road but the finished Qatari’s topsy-turvy rally ended yesterday’s 33km into the stage when he stage in fourth broke a brake disc and retired. position Schlesser reached PC1 with a but edged virtual stage lead of 34 seconds Portugal’s over Holowczyc and extended that Goncalves advantage to 56 seconds at PC2, to claim top as he closed in on the Sealine title. spot in the The Frenchman shadowed the Bikes category Pole to the finish to seal victory by overall. the margin of 31min, 18sec. Russian Alexander Barenenko missed out on the stage win but finished high enough to confirm A bike rider takes a jump during yesterday’s action. RIGHT: Nunzio Coffaro in action in his Overdrive Toyota. the class victory in his Toyota and The Venezuelan finished fourth with a time of 2hrs, 58min and 55sec. take sixth in the overall standings. THE PENINSULA APRIL 27, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Head-to-head Head-to-head Lekhwiya’s Sebastian Soria vs Eljaish’s Adriano Al Sadd’s Raul vs Al Rayyan’s Nilmar 16 Shots 11 13 Shots 15 1.82 Goals Per Game (Avg.) 1.14 2.09 Goals Per Game (Avg.) 2.14 115,288 KM Total Distance Covered (Km) 113,522 112549 Total Distance Covered (Km) 113,563 457 (87.24 %) Passes Per Game 408 (86.43%) 467 Passes Per Game 449 398 Successful Passes 353 412 (88%) Successful Passes 391 (87.04) 1.86 Offsides 1.68 1.55 Offsides 1.18 7 Corners 6 5 Corners 6 1.68 Yellow Cards (Avg) 2.27 1.45 Yellow Cards (Avg) 2.18 0.14 Red Cards (Avg) 0.23 0.14 Red Cards (Avg) 0.09 History of the Heir Apparent D-day arrives for top four Cup The Heir Apparent Cup was launched in 1995 to add pres- tige and glamour to the domes- Heir Apparent Cup semi-finals: Al Sadd wary of Al Rayyan backlash tic football season in Qatar. The tournament instantly became a major attraction with BY RIZWAN REHMAT fans as they clamoured to be part of the end-of-season glitz DOHA: QSL champions Al and glamour. Sadd are wary of an Al Rayyan It is widely recognised that backlash when the two football Al Sadd coach the Heir Apparent Cup has giants meet in the first semi- Hussain Amute improved competitiveness and final of the Heir Apparent Cup shakes hands quality within the Qatar Stars at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium. League (QSL), with teams with Al Rayyan Al Rayyan failed to go past determined to be part of the striker Nilmar the group phase of the AFC tournament. Champions League and Al Sadd during a press Aside from winning the coach Hussain Amute feels his conference league itself, the ultimate aim opponents today would be eager at Al Sadd for every team in the QSL is to to make amends for their poor Stadium. secure a place in the top four. showing in Asia’s premier club Al Rayyan Anything else is a bonus. event. coach Diego That is how special this com- “Al Rayyan are very strong. Aguirre is in petition is to football in Qatar. They didn’t qualify for the next the middle. To be part of its history, to have stage of the Champions League. Al Sadd host your team’s name on the glis- That is sad for all of us because Al Al Rayyan in tening trophy is what drives Rayyan represent Qatar,” Amute the semi-final every player in the QSL. said. of the Heir Al Rayyan can boast to be “Now I am expecting a reaction Apparent Cup the first team crowned cham- from Al Rayyan in this game. We today. pions of the Heir Apparent Cup will do our best to reach the final. when they lifted the trophy in This is our target,” the Al Sadd 1995. They won the trophy the coach. following year as they enjoyed Amute urged his players to an early hold over Cup. avoid making mistakes they com- The Lions may have started mittee in last year’s semi-final strongly in the competition against the same opponents. the QSL title so we have to stop After their exit from the AFC “Al Sadd are the best team in but it is the ‘Wolves’ who have “We lost last year against Al them from reacting to that,” the Champions League and failure the league so we don’t have to say “I am happy to be play in enjoyed more success than any Rayyan at the same phase but Al Sadd coach said. to win the QSL title, Al Rayyan anything to the players for this this game. I have fully recov- other team. it was on penalties. That’s why “I always ask my players to be are training their guns on the game.” ered from my injury. It’s good Al Sadd have won the event we must be focus until the last concentrated in every match. In remaining two events of the sea- “It’s going to be a difficult to be back in the game to five times since its inception. minute of the game,” he said. the last (QSL) game, we lost 4-1 son - the Heir Apparent Cup and match. I don’t know if we will win help my team the best I can. Furthermore, they have the “We need to be motivated and but we didn’t play badly. the Emir Cup. or lose but it will be a beautiful It’s always nice to be playing honour of winning the Heir make sure we make no mistakes. “We had five chances to score “Now this event becomes even match for all. I feel like we had against Al Sadd, the best team Apparent Cup three-times- It’s important we take advantage and didn’t take them. The differ- more important because we failed the balance of the team correct in the league but the main in-a-row between 2006-2008. from attacks. ence was Al Rayyan took their to qualify for the next stage of in the AFC Champions League. aim is to try and win this Cup. Al Rayyan are close behind “We have confidence after our chances. the Champions League. This is a We played some good games, we The good thing about foot- with four wins, while Gharafa success winning the league but “Our job is to motivate and must-win event for us now,” Al just didn’t get good results. That ball is it always gives you the and Qatar SC have both tasted now this is another competition train the players but we have to Rayyan coach Diego Aguirre said was frustrating. opportunity to bounce back victory three times each. to focus on. control their reactions as well. yesterday. “In football the only thing that from defeat. We only lost three Both semi-finals will “It is a very important game. “I have already talked with “In these kinds of games we matters is the result. We are not days ago and now we have the be played at Al Sadd Whenever we play Al Rayyan the players and we are in a good don’t need to try and motivate the afraid of Al Sadd. We want to chance to make up for it.” Stadium today. The first there are goals and chances. condition and mentally prepared. players. They are already moti- keep the Cup which we won last semi-final kicks-off at “Especially when we know Al Hopefully we can be in the final. I vated by the name of the competi- time. This will save the season,” Al Rayyan’s Brazilian 5:15pm while second Rayyan will be strong. They are am sure this game will be fun for tion,” Aguirre added when asked Aguirre said. striker Nilmar match starts at 8:30pm competing for trophies and lost all,” Amute said. about the mood in his camp. THE PENINSULA

Al Sadd team Past champions manager 1995 Al Rayyan Lekhwiya take Jafaal Rashid 1996 Al Rayyan (left) shows 1997 Al Arabi the jersey the Qatar Stars 1998 Al Sadd League (QSL) 1999 Al Wakrah on Eljaish today champions will 2000 Al Gharafa wear against 2001 Al Rayyan DOHA: The last two seasons Eljaish coach Razvan Lucescu Al Rayyan 2002 Qatar QC newcomers Lekhwiya stamped said although his boys have been (right) who will 2003 Al Sadd their superiority by winning mentally drained after a tough go ‘red’. back-to-back the Qatar Star AFC Champions League match 2004 Qatar SC League (QSL) titles but they last week, but the confidence level 2005 Al Khor could not add the Heir Apparent remained high in his camp. Lekhwiya 2006 Al Sadd Cup and Emir Cup trophies to “For us it will be very difficult coach Eric 2007 Al Sadd their collection. to regain our energy after the Gerets (left) 2008 Al Sadd However, Lekhwiya, who fin- game in the Champions League smiles as ished in second place behind on Wednesday. We ran and fought does Eljaish 2009 Qatar SC eventual champions Al Sadd in a lot and won and exhausted our coach Ravzan 2010 Al Gharafa the QSL title race last week, are mental energy. But we have con- Lucescu determined to lay their hands on fidence and that is very impor- 2011 Al Gharafa the two trophies this year. tant. For sure this could help us after a press 2012 Al Rayyan Today Lekhwiya start their to find a strong motivation and conference campaign in the Heir Apparent play well,” said Lucescu. at Al Sadd Cup when the Eric Gerets- Brazilian striker Wagner Stadium in “These games against coached side takes on Eljaish in Rebeiro scored a hat-trick as Doha. At right Lekhwiya are always tough the semi-final. Eljaish booked their place in is Eljaish’s but we are always motivated. “This year we really want to do the knockout phase of the AFC central We know they are one of the better than we have done (earlier Champions League with a 3-0 win defender Saad best teams in this league but in the Heir Apparent Cup). That’s over Saudi Arabia’s Al Shabab on Al Shammari. we hope to be able to achieve why I’m looking forward to this Wednesday. Eljaish take on a good result and go to the game. We have been waiting two “There were three games this Lekhwiya in final. This is a big game years to get to this final,” Gerets year and all three matches were the semi-final because we want to win the said. very balanced. They were tough of the Heir Heir Apparent Cup. For me “We were (QSL) champions games because both teams are Apparent Cup this game will be like a final. twice but in the Heir Apparent very organised. I would expect Both the teams are ready. today. Cup and the Emir Cup we didn’t the same for Saturday. It will be Both are strong in the league do well. That’s the main reason difficult for us to immediately so I feel expecting whoever why they (the players) really want gain the energy. Playing against wins this game will win the to get to the final and eventually Lekhwiya will help a lot,” Lucescu An official Cup. We are well prepared win it. We have been waiting a said. “For me it is easier to pre- of Lekhwiya for the game. We are calling long time for this,” Gerets added. pare because of who we are play- (left) shows the fans to come out for this “These events have nothing to ing against,” added the former the jersey game. We want everyone to do with winning the QSL title. Romanian national goalkeeper. for their HA enjoy it but we need the fans You do not need any motivation “We won the Sheikh Jassim Cup match to support us. This is a big to play against a good team in this Cup (last year) and we enjoyed against tournament and we need the beautiful event. that. We want more of these supporters to help us.” Eljaish (right) “Both teams will be tired after moments. who will sport playing tough games of AFC “We will do everything to be in Eljaish’s experienced green jerseys Champions League. Our motiva- the final,” added Lucescu, who is central defender Saad Al tion is to remain in the title hunt,” coaching a QSL side for the first today. Shammari he added. time. THE PENINSULA APRIL 27, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY CINEMA LISTINGS TV LISTINGS Snow White & The Huntsman SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER (Action) – 3.00, 7.15 & 11.15pm TEL: 444933989 444517001 1 Love Wedding Marriage 09:10 Weird Creatures 05:15 How Do They Do (2D/Comedy) – 5.15 & 9.30pm With Nick Baker It? 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123456 78910111213141516 140 Topic at an owners/players 58 It may be limited or late meeting 60 Revelation comes after it 17 18 19 20 21 22 141 Heyday 62 Doctor’s orders 23 24 25 142 Source of enlightenment 63 Away for a while 26 27 28 29 30 143 Terminal 65 1985 John Malkovich drama 144 1960 Updike novel 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 67 Reggie Miller, for one 145 Four-time Masters winner 70 People leaving the 39 40 41 42 43 44 DOWN company? 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 1 Two-letter combinations 73 Breakfast in a bar 52 53 54 55 56 2 Continue, as an uncontrolled 74 High-tech officer in film fire 75 Hotel figures 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 3 Most common draw in 78 Mortgage holder, e.g. 64 65 66 67 Scrabble 79 Florist’s supply 4 Comic Caesar 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 80 Comparable in reach 5 Priory in “The Da Vinci 81 “Hair” co-writer James 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 Code” 88 See 91-Down 83 84 85 86 87 6 Tomfoolery 89 Pilot program? 7 City NNE of Tahoe 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 91 With 88-Down, 2000 Ang 8 Bus. line 95 96 97 98 99 100 Lee film 9 Patriotic women’s org. 92 One of the tribes of Israel 101 102 103 104 105 106 Yesterday’s answer 10 Wakes thrown up behind 94 Online publication, for short speedboats 107 108 109 110 111 112 95 Place where a person may 11 Revealing 1970s wear How to play Hyper Sudoku: 113 114 115 116 be bitten A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper 12 Cereal mixes 96 Director Vittorio De ___ 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all 13 Ed.’s work pile 97 Sticking with it 14 Portable red or white holder regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 100 ___ number on (mentally 15 Low-priced furniture source abuses) a normal Sudoku. 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 16 Tent or sleeping bag, e.g. 102 Noted Ronald 139 140 141 17 Take ___ at (insult) 103 London tourist stop 142 143 144 145 18 1962 action film set in 105 Dull How to play Kakuro: Jamaica 108 Works at a museum The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any 19 Finnish transport? 109 Blitzer, e.g. size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells ACROSS 72 Poker declaration 20 Mark in marble 114 Much-wanted toon in like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, 1 Rum, vodka and orange juice drink 73 Pound sound 21 Suffix with rhythm Toontown some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some 7 “Little” barnyard bird with an alliterative 76 Top-rated show of 2002-05 28 Whichever 115 Dumas’s “La Dame ___ name in a classic Willie Dixon blues 77 What the 41-Down has 30 Samaritans Camélias” cells will contain two numbers. song 82 Pooh’s young pal 32 Galley figure 116 Combed (through) However, in a crossword the numbers reference 11 “Let me think …” 83 Mauna ___ 33 State in French 119 Lock plate clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! 14 Costume party accessory 84 Land of Ephesians 35 Peeved pout 121 Cobra products They denote the total of the digits in the row or 17 Pope after Marinus I 85 When doubled, first name in old 36 Hotelier Hilton 122 Hindu deity column referenced by the number. 20 Trying Hollywood 38 South American tuber 123 Designer Cassini Within each 22 Turner of records 86 Spanish “that” 40 Be part of, as a film 124 Nasdaq alternative 23 Felt like forever collection of cells 87 ___ system (way of classifying blood) 41 Collection of animals 125 W. or J.F.K. 24 Interludes 88 Most divine featured in this puzzle - called a run - any 126 A, to Zimmermann 25 Cultural grp. 90 Rattletrap 43 Lawyer: Abbr. 128 60 minuti of the numbers 1 26 Viewable, to a camera operator 93 Cobra product 44 Fat underwater creature 129 Grouse to 9 may be used 27 Author Marsh 95 Cobra products 45 Like a Mountie 130 ___ Mix but, like sudoku, 29 EarthLink and others 98 Ariz. neighbor 46 Musical echo 133 Enzyme ending each number may 30 Result of turning the corner? 99 Swingers in a saloon 47 Dalmatian’s home 134 Norse war god only be used once. 31 Became annoyed 100 Person who likes the blues? 48 Like wild oats 135 The Horned Frogs, for short 34 New England’s Cape ___ 101 Mottled 50 Strong 137 Mop & ___ Yesterday’s 35 Roman 1,150 102 Soldier’s meal container 51 Dumbness 138 Something about nothing? answer 37 Detached 104 Very 55 Foppish courtier in “Hamlet” 39 Public person? 106 Palliative plant TAL I A RVALUE HBOMB 41 Pillow talk? 107 Winter Olympics performance since OR I NG A I L I NG I MPA I RS 42 Cage in Hollywood 1976 T I LDES BRANDO NOSTR I L 45 Fellowship foes 110 Den ___, Nederland ESTREETBAND ATV DDAY 49 So-called “Heart of Texas” 111 Ubangi tributary MESA CO I LS POO I POD 50 Eschew 112 Phalanx’s weaknesses GMAN BURN ELWOOD Baby Blues By Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman NUS ENS AMASSES ANGLE 51 “See you then!” 113 Thinned out SHOTAT MDASH SKY SEW 52 Famous fiddler 114 Driller’s letters YACHT LUMPSUM E T ES 53 Words to a traitor 115 Facing, with “from” NUKES AS I S PAZ EDNA 54 Steering system parts 117 Halved CLEM VS I X RA I L ARFS 56 “___ bien” (Spanish for “It’s good”) 118 Be shy DECA CEL DCXL AREST 57 Bit of a muscle car’s muscle 119 “What?!” DA I S SEQUO I A PETTY COMJLOSTANSBISHOP 59 ___ Joe, “Tom Sawyer” character 120 Serves DRANO SWAH I L I ARA APE 61 Do-do connector 125 King Arthur’s family name CAROLS TTOP RENA 62 Looney Tunes character with a snout 127 Make out, in York I D E E WOW A S P C A S P I T 64 Fashionista’s concern 129 Old saw LBAR EXO YCHROMOSOME 65 Abide 131 With craft BENAZ I R CHURRO SN I PER 66 Surprise visitors 132 Getup STAMI NA AER I ES CSPAN SAGGY PD I DDY D I ANE 68 British isle 133 Italian liqueurs 69 Suffix with torrent 136 Strip in a darkroom ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 71 Driller’s letters 139 “The Lovely Bones” composer, 2009