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FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 • 22 Rajab 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6781 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Qatar key to Emir welcomes King Mohammed of Morocco boosting QNA DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday led well-wishers to welcome King Turkey-GCC ties Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco and his delegation at Hamad International Airport. Qatar and Turkey are working on Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdul- ways to further strengthen relations lah bin Hamad Al Thani was also Turkish Premier to register a multi-fold increase in the present at the airport to greet King Ahmet Davutoglu two-way trade volume from the cur- Mohammed who arrived on an offi- rent $1.3bn to up to $5bn, he added. cial visit to Qatar. says both countries Dr Davutoglu stressed that busi- Qatari Ambassador to Morocco are working on ness communities from both sides Abdulla bin Falah bin Abdulla Al need to work hard to improve the Dossari and Moroccan Ambassa- increasing trade trade volume in all sectors of both dor to Qatar Al Makki Kwan were volume from the thriving economies which are com- also present. plementary in nature. He thanked Later, the Emir and King current $1.3bn to up Qatari government and people for Mohammed held official talks at to $5bn. investment and cooperation and said the Emiri Diwan, attended by the Turkey would like to see more invest- Deputy Emir and Prince Moulay ments for mutual benefits. Rachid of Morocco. “We want to promote trade They reviewed relations By Mohammad Shoeb exchange in the coming years. We between the two brotherly coun- The Peninsula discussed impediments and obstacles tries, ways of enhancing them at faced by the business communities and various levels for the benefit of ensure that things will be for better.” both countries and their peoples Dr Davutoglu said both countries and issues of common interest, par- DOHA: Turkey is looking at Qatar are also working to promote tour- ticularly regional developments, as a cornerstone of developing rela- ism and health tourism and will soon including the situation in Pales- tions with other GCC states and both establish a hospital in Qatar. Turkey tine, Syria and Yemen. countries are working together to take is one of the most favourite destina- King Mohammed was accorded bilateral relations to new heights, vis- tions for Qataris, and last year some an official reception at the Emiri iting Turkish Prime Minister Dr Ahmet 36,000 people visited the European Diwan. Davutoglu said yesterday. nation, he added. The Emir also hosted a dinner Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani welcomes King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco “We had a very fruitful meeting Present at the business lunch- banquet in honour of King Moham- today with Emir H H Sheikh Tamim eon were the Premier, the Turkish and his delegation at Hamad International Airport. med and his delegation. bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Min- Premier’s delegation, guests, minis- ister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh ters, diplomats, members of Qatari Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Businessmen’s Association (QBA), Thani. Our relationships are at the including Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim strongest level but we are cooper- Al Thani, Chairman, QBA; Hussain Qatar eyes ‘best of the best’ turf for 2022 ating to advance them further to the Ibrahim Alfardan, First Deputy to next level in all aspects, including the QBA Chairman and Chairman, business, trade, investment, energy, Alfardan Group; Sheikh Dr Khalid agriculture, tourism, healthcare, cul- bin Thani Al Thani, Second Deputy AFP football World Cup in six years’ time. built in the shadow of the Khalifa Inter- played in November-December — ture diplomacy and defence,” he told to the QBA Chairman and Chairman, “This is a unique facility, there’s national Stadium, which will host the but also the turf’s “playability” and a meeting organised by Qatari-Turk- Ezdan Holding Group; Sherida Al nothing like it in this region,” said World Athletics Championships in 2019 aesthetics. ish Business Forum. Kaabi, QBA Board Member; Sultan Yasser Abdulla Mulla, a sports turf and World Cup games three years later. The turfs are a selection of types “There is great will on both Rashed Al Khater, Undersecretary at DOHA: Watching grass grow is not manager with the Supreme Committee All the grasses are flown in from such as Bermuda grass, commonly sides to advance cooperation in all the Ministry of Economy and Com- usually considered exciting but there’s for Delivery and Legacy responsible abroad, usually the US. They are trans- fast-growing and tough, Paspalum, fields, including agriculture, LNG merce; Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi, a buzz of anticipation among Qatar’s for organising the World Cup. ported as sprigs in 40kg boxes, planted, found in sub-tropical regions, or tufted and defence among other common Qatari Ambassador to Turkey, and World Cup organisers about 12 types of “We are looking for the best type watered and grown in full shade, par- Ryegrass. projects. We are building a strate- other officials. turf gently sprouting on former Doha of grass that can survive the region tial shade or left uncovered, leaving the Sand and organic materials are gic alliance and signing agreements Sheikh Faisal told the meeting: farmland. and Doha. We are looking for the best turf to the mercy of the harsh desert used for the grass base. for trade and defence cooperation. “We put great importance on eco- One of the dozen grasses will take of the best.” climate. Trials started last year and a final “We trust each other like broth- nomic relations between the two centre stage and become the most The R & D centre is in Murakh to The grasses are watered once a decision will be taken next year. ers and Turkey will never leave Qatar countries. Scores of Turkish companies watched strips of green on the globe, the western margins of Doha. Empha- day and have been planted as a full That choice rests with Qatar, says behind at any moment of time,” he are active in Qatar, especially in the at least for 28 days during the FIFA sising Qatar’s transformation, it was pitch or in about metre-long squares, Mulla, but it will have to be mowed into said, adding Turkey and Qatar have construction sector. Some 119 compa- 2022 World Cup. formally a place where dates were depending on what is being tested. a pattern approved by football’s gov- common goals and objectives, so when nies have bagged QR15bn projects.” Different turfs are being grown at grown and locals brought their ani- They are examined not only for erning body, FIFA, for the tournament. both sides sit together “we work as a research and development centre to mals to drink at freshwater wells. how they survive the weather — even one heart and one mind”. → See also page 2 find the best playing surface for the Now it is a high-tech testing centre, though the 2022 World Cup is to be → Picture on page 2

Israel cement ban Emir Cup: Al Sailiya win halts aid to 1,370 60 die in air raids on Aleppo

Gaza families AP killing at least 20 while state media escalating bloodshed with dread, reported that at least 1,000 mortars fearing that Aleppo is likely to be the and rockets were fired at government- focus of the next, more vicious phase AFP held areas of Aleppo, killing at least of the war. BEIRUT: A wave of air strikes and 14 civilians. Rebel commanders said govern- shelling killed over 60 people in less Chief Syrian opposition negotiator ment forces have been mobilising than 24 hours in the northern Syrian Mohammed Alloush blamed the gov- soldiers, equipment and ammunition JERUSALEM: Reconstruction aid city of Aleppo, monitors and activists ernment of President Bashar Al Assad in preparation for a military action to over 1,370 families in Gaza has said yesterday. for the violence. He said it shows “the in Aleppo. been suspended due to a lack of The contested city is one of the environment is not conducive to any The well-known Al Quds field hos- materials, the United Nations said main battlegrounds of Syria’s dev- political action”. pital supported by MSF and ICRC and yesterday, after Israel banned the astating civil war, with a ceasefire He denounced the intensive located in the rebel-held district of private import of cement after some that has collapsed and peace talks bombing as an attempt by Assad’s Sukkari was hit and six staff and three supplies were allegedly diverted. in Geneva stalled. government to drive the residents of children were among the dead. The ban has led to acute short- At least 27 people died as a hos- Aleppo out, labelling it “a crime of eth- The Syrian Civil Defence, a vol- ages that have brought much of the pital supported by Doctors Without nic and sectarian cleansing”. unteer first-responders agency whose reconstruction to a halt, the UN said. Borders and International Committee About 200 civilians have been members went to the scene of the “Organisations providing for the Red Cross and nearby buildings killed in the past week in Syria, nearly attack, put the death toll at 30 and assistance have had to suspend were hit overnight in the rebel-held half of them around Aleppo. There said the dead included six hospital cash assistance for house repairs part of Aleppo. has also been shelling in Damascus, staff. Among those was one of the last to over 1,370 families as a result of The United Nations envoy for Syria along with a car bombing — both rar- paediatricians remaining in opposi- scarcity and acute price increases,” earlier in the day appealed to the US ities for the capital. The ICRC said the tion-held areas of Aleppo and a dentist. the UN Office for the Coordination and Russia to help revive the peace fighting, including the destruction in MSF said in a statement that at of Humanitarian Affairs said in a Players vie for the ball during a third round clash of the Emir Cup talks and a cease-fire, which he said air strikes overnight of a key hospi- least 14 patients and staff were among statement. “Payment to about 1,550 Football Tournament between Al Wakrah Sports Club and Al Sailiya “hangs by a thread.” tal in Aleppo, is putting millions at those killed, with the toll expected families scheduled to start recon- at Al Arabi Club Stadium yesterday. Al Sailiya won 2-1. However, the violence escalated, grave risk. to rise, and that the hospital was “hit struction are being delayed due to → See also page 23 with fresh air strikes in residential With peace talks in Geneva dead- by direct air strike.” It was the area’s the lack of available cement.” areas in the rebel-held part of the city locked, Syrians are regarding the main paediatric care centre. 02 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 HOME

Emir meets Turkey’s Prime Minister Qatar and Turkey sign security agreement

Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and other officials listen to Turkish Prime Minister Dr Ahmet Davutoglu at a meeting organised by Qatar-Turkish Business Forum.

understanding that the world is fac- Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Qatar has ing serious challenges on political, resulted in the signing of agreements, The Premier says economic and humanitarian levels, which have a strategic impact, Dr Dav- Qatari-Turkish especially in the Middle East, which utoglu said, hoping that there will be Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Turkey’s Prime Minister Dr Ahmet Davutoglu and his requires further cooperation at the Turkish investments in Qatar in all delegation at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They discussed relations between the two countries and relations benefit from bilateral level to achieve our com- areas. means of enhancing them, and regional developments. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh the attention paid by mon interests. Dr Davutoglu said he looks for- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani was present. The Emir also hosted a luncheon banquet in the leadership of the The Premier said, “We look for- ward that the Turkish companies will honour of Dr Davutoglu and his delegation. The Premier was present. ward today, during our meeting, to enter the Qatari market and have a two countries. continue efforts to enhance the excel- share in investments in all areas such lent and deep- rooted bilateral relations as the World Cup, defence industries over the decades, which witnessed a and energy. steady development in political, eco- The two sides discussed relations Premier meets EU Qatar discusses WTD events The Peninsula nomic, security, cultural and other between the two countries and means fields.” He stressed that the security of enhancing them in various fields, Counterterrorism agreement to be signed between the especially economic, security and cul- two sides will develop an additional tural fields, as well as the regional and QNA International Cooperation, QTA, said DOHA: Prime Minister and Inte- consolidation to the solid relations international developments along with Coordinator they discussed events to celebrate rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah between the two countries and “will a number of issues of mutual inter- the day. Last September Qatar was bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and bring the aspirations of our peoples est, especially the developments in chosen as the official host of World Turkish Prime Minister Dr Ahmet Dav- towards progress and prosperity”. the Middle East. The Peninsula & QNA DOHA: Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) Tourism Day in 2017, to be held under utoglu held talks at the Emiri Diwan Dr Davutoglu hailed the ‘historic’ Following the session of officials yesterday held a meeting with UN the theme ‘Sustainable Tourism, a yesterday. and ‘ideal’ relations between Qatar talks, the two prime ministers wit- World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Tool for Development’. The meeting The Prime Minister welcomed and Turkey. He praised the ‘comple- nessed the signing of a cooperation to discuss Qatar’s preparations to host also discussed implementation of Dr Davutoglu and said the Qatari- mentary’ relations between the two agreement in the military field. DOHA: Prime Minister and Inte- World Tourism Day 2017. The meeting some of the articles of a cooperation Turkish relations benefit from the countries and cooperation at all levels, The talks and the agreement sign- rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah took place in Dubai on the sidelines agreement they signed in February attention paid by the leadership of particularly in investment, economic ing ceremony were attended by top bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani of the Arabian Travel Market 2016. 2014. The first and second phase of the the two countries. and energy sectors. officials and members of the dele- yesterday met European Union Saif Al Kuwari, Director, agreement have been implemented. This stems from their The visit of Turkey’s President gation accompanying Dr Davutoglu. Counterterrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove and his dele- gation. Tallks dealt with cooperation between Qatar and the EU, espe- cially in the security field. First phase of mapping genetic code of citizens in final stage QU, University of By Fazeena Saleem — collecting samples; analysing them; and Clinical Genomic laboratories back Sidra has implemented a fully inte- conditions that affect patients. Illinois sign deal The Peninsula and working on tailored medicine. to the Sidra Outpatient Clinic,” Dr Ena grated and scalable bioinformatics Sidra’s research branch aims at Sidra’s research branch play an Wang, Chief of Translational Medicine, system for ramping up the sequencing advancing the understanding of the important role in the QGP under the Sidra, said during a media tour of the data management and analysis efforts. proper reasons behind diseases, The Peninsula Qatar Genome Committee, in collab- facility on Wednesday. It has also put in place an end--to- developing early prevention, accurate DOHA: The initial phase of an initia- oration with Qatar Biobank. She said the research labs are on end Next Generation Sequencing data diagnostic and advance therapeutics, tive to map the genetic code of citizens The pilot phase will have sam- the fifth floor of the clinic and will analysis system in partnership with and improving the health outcomes for better diagnoses and treatment of ple size of 3,000 Qataris and map open in June. WuXiNextCode to manage and mine of the women and children of Qatar. DOHA: An agreement signed diseases in Qatar has reached the final the Whole Genome Sequences (WGS). As the genomics and bioinformat- more sequences than any other sys- Its research teams are working on between Qatar University College stage, according to a senior official at The research branch has also led the ics hub for QGP, the Sidra Omic and tem in the world. QGP was announced programmes that align with national of Medicine (QU-CMED) and the Sidra Medical and Research Center high quality whole genome sequencing Clinical Genomic labs are hosted by by H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser at priorities and healthcare needs to help Board of Trustees of the Univer- (Sidra). and data generation of Qatari genome Qatar Biobank with Laboratory Infor- the first World Innovation Summit for facilitate the prevention and early and sity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has The Qatar Genome Project samples, providing technology and mation Management Systems (LIMS); Health (WISH) in 2013. targeted intervention for certain con- established collaboration in educa- (QGP), which aims at understand- expertise to conduct data analysis. Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Understanding of genetics allows ditions such as cancer, obesity, preterm tion, faculty and student exchange. ing the diseases that affect Qataris, “We are finalising the pilot phase Control (QC) metrics implementation safer drug prescription and more birth, and genetic disorders affecting The agreement also includes will be implemented in three phases of QGP will relocate our Omics Core and full speed data generation. effective treatment of diseases and the local population. collaboration in faculty develop- ment, consultations, faculty and student exchanges, joint educational programmes, and the development of academic materials. AZF Ramadan Sports Festival from June 10 FIFA 2022 preparations It was signed by Dr Egon Toft, Vice-President, Medical Education, QU; and Walter K Knorr, Comptrol- The Peninsula Services (RAF). “The overwhelming sports and fitness enthusiasts to par- ler, Board of Trustees, UIC. response from the people to the festi- ticipate in Ramadan activities, taking “The deal will enrich our stu- val in previous years has encouraged into account their interests. dents’ academic journey by building us continue our efforts and offer more Male sports competitions will their capacity in clinical practice DOHA: Aspire Zone Foundation activities to cater to the needs of the include basketball with 12 teams of and medical education, and pro- (AZF) has added cricket and rugby community,” said Abdullah Aman Al eight players each for five days; foot- vide our faculty with opportunities to its annual Ramadan Sports Festi- Khater, Chairman of the festival organ- ball with 16 teams of 15 players each to collaborate with their colleagues val which starts on June 10. ising committee. for eight days; volleyball with eight at UIC. It also highlights our efforts The two-week event will end on AZF will hold 13 sports events for teams of nine players each for five days; to enhance shared knowledge and June 24 (5-19 Ramadan). men, women and children, including and beach soccer with eight teams of expertise with top medical educa- Registration begins on May 5 three newly-introduced sports. as many players each for five days. tion institutions which will be of and continues until the end of the The programme will also offer AZF has dedicated three days considerable benefit to students and month. Tournaments will take place community members the opportu- to tennis competitions for adult and faculty from both institutions and throughout the week from 9.30pm nity to experience the Qatari cultural young females, a Junior Futsal Com- the healthcare industry in Qatar,” until midnight. The winning candi- at Freej Aspire, which houses tradi- petition and two tournaments for AZF said Dr Toft. Dr Dimitri Azar, Dean, dates will get attractive prizes and tional games and shops. staff in futsal for males and volley- College of Medicine, UIC, said, “UIC gifts, said a statement. Those interested in religious ser- ball for females. has a long history of collaborations The festival will be open to all men, mons will have access to lectures to The multipurpose hall in Aspire with institutions of higher education women, children and persons with be delivered by prominent scholars, Dome will also host a table tennis tour- worldwide. The primary aim of these special needs. in partnership with RAF. nament in three categories for persons collaborations is to encourage fac- Cultural activities at the traditional Sport events for all ages and cate- with special needs. The Rugby tour- ulty and student exchange, initiate village, ‘Freej Aspire’, and religious gories aim at stressing the importance nament will be participated by eight A worker tends to grass being grown at a research and joint research projects and enhance sermons and lectures will also be held of exercising and physical activity teams for 10 matches, while the cricket development centre in Murakh to find the best playing surface the quality of medical education and in partnership with Sheikh Thani Bin throughout the year. tournament will see six teams and for FIFA 2022, yesterday. healthcare delivery internationally.” Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian The festival also aims at motivating nine matches over two days. GULF / MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 03

Hamas activists arrested after Israel rejects student poll

JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said it arrested five Hamas activists for French peace “illegal activities” in and around the occupied West Bank’s admin- istrative capital Ramallah. The Israeli army did not elab- orate on what the activists were initiative accused of, but local witnesses told Anadolu Agency that at least four of them were ex-detainees. The arrests followed the politi- condemning Israeli settlements to cal party’s victory in Wednesday’s focus on the bid. student council elections at the The French attempt Palestinian President Mahmoud prestigious Birzeit University on comes at a time of Abbas encouraged support for the the outskirts of Ramallah. French proposal on a recent tour The student elections marked polarisation and high of Europe. But Israel has consist- a rare opportunity for Hamas, who tensions in Israel ently argued that peace can only be govern the blockaded Gaza Strip, to achieved through direct negotiations hold public rallies in the West Bank and the Palestinian between the two sides, rather than — and only inside the universities territories, with 203 international forums. — where they face opposition from Palestinians and 28 The last serious attempt at peace both Israeli forces and the Palestin- negotiations broke down two years ian Authority, which is dominated Hamas supporters shout slogans during an anti-Israeli rally in Gaza city, yesterday. Israelis killed since ago. The May 30 meeting will include by the rival Fatah faction. October 1. representatives from 20 countries, plus the European Union and the United Nations, but not the Israelis or Palestinians. Paris is currently Netanyahu treads carefully Bahrain jails 8 preparing invitations for the event, AFP diplomatic sources said. people for life If successful, the meeting would lead to an international conference with claim to Golan Heights over terrorism later this year in the presence of both JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday reiter- Palestinian and Israeli leaders. ated its opposition to a planned French Israel has not explicitly ruled out AP to a peace deal when Syria’s civil war Netanyahu convened his Cabinet for DUBAI: A court in Bahrain has peace conference, calling instead for involvement in the conference. finally winds down. a first-ever meeting in the Golan on sentenced eight people to life in direct and unconditional negotia- The French attempt comes at a time For now, the debate is largely aca- April 17, he triggered an international prison on various terrorism-related tions with the Palestinians. of polarisation and high tensions in demic. Syria has been engulfed in civil uproar by calling it “sovereign” Israeli charges connected to protests by the “The best way to resolve the Israel and the Palestinian territories, JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister war for nearly five years, and there is territory. country’s majority Shia demand- conflict between Israel and the with 203 Palestinians and 28 Israelis Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked a no end in sight. With Syria, and the Syr- “The Golan Heights will forever ing greater rights. Palestinians is direct, bilateral nego- killed since October 1. Peace talks have new diplomatic brushfire by declaring ian side of the Golan, divided between remain in Israel’s hands,” he declared. The official Bahrain News tiations,” Prime Minister Benjamin been frozen since a US-brokered ini- that the Golan Heights, seized from Syrian troops and various rebel forces, “After 50 years, the time has come Agency says the Fourth High Crim- Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. tiative collapsed in April 2014, after a Syria in the 1967 Mideast war, is and there is nobody to talk to, even if Israel for the international community to inal Court sentenced three to life “Israel is ready to begin them year of intense shuttle diplomacy by US should remain sovereign Israeli terri- decided to open negotiations. finally recognize that the Golan Heights in prison for causing an explosion immediately without preconditions. Secretary of State John Kerry. tory. But following tough international But the Golan remains central to will remain under Israel’s sovereignty that wounded a policeman and det- Any other diplomatic initiative dis- Meanwhile, Israeli authorities criticism, Israeli officials have begun any future peace deal with Syria, and permanently.” onating explosives that damaged tances the Palestinians from direct arrested two Palestinians who tried to backtrack, saying that a 1981 deci- its fate is a key part of a 2002 Saudi The US, Israel’s closest ally, quickly two police vehicles in January 2015. negotiations.” The statement comes to stab soldiers in the occupied West sion to apply Israeli law to the strategic initiative that offered Israel peace with criticised Netanyahu, saying the Golan The same court on Wednes- after French Foreign Minister Jean- Bank, the army said, adding that one plateau fell short of annexation and the Arab world in exchange for a full is “not part of Israel.” Germany and day sentenced five people to life Marc Ayrault announced Paris would of them was shot and wounded. implying that Netanyahu misspoke. withdrawal from all territories cap- the European Union also rejected his in prison for smuggling and pos- organise a ministerial meeting on The suspects carrying knives The debate offers a window into a tured in the 1967 Mideast war. While statement, as did the Arab League, sessing explosives for terrorism May 30, ahead of a potential peace approached Israeli soldiers at a more nuanced Israeli perspective that, that offer is usually connected to areas 57-member Organization of Islamic purposes. The case dates back to conference. The proposal has been checkpoint near the West Bank city despite statements from the country’s sought by the Palestinians, the Golan is Cooperation and the Syrian govern- March 2015 when the suspects’ welcomed by the Palestinians, who of Ramallah in an apparent bid to hard-line political leadership, contin- also considered occupied land by the ment. And early this week, the UN explosives were found aboard suspended a planned UN resolution attack them. ues to leave the door open, just barely, international community. So when Security Council took issue with him. tourist bus coming from Iraq. 04 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Libyan govt urges factions Yemen talks enter second week to hold off IS

in order to reach a comprehen- attack in Sirte sive political agreement,” he said. A ‘positive More than 6,800 people have been atmosphere’ killed and around 2.8 million dis- Reuters placed in Yemen since a Saudi-led prevailed Arab coalition began operations in March 2015 against the Iran-backed during talks Huthis, who have seized swathes TRIPOLI: Libya’s UN-backed unity but differences of territory including the capital government called on military fac- Sana’a. tions to hold off from any campaign remain, warns After the start of the latest round of against the Islamic State (IS) -con- negotiations was delayed as the rebel trolled city of Sirte until a unified UN special envoy delegation sought guarantees, Ould military command structure is cre- Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has managed to get ated. the two sides to approve the agenda The statement came amid signs Cheikh Ahmed. and has begun debating key issues. that factions from both eastern and Sources close to the negotiations western Libya could be gearing up however said the two delegations have for an advance on Sirte though such not yet met face-to-face. operations have repeatedly been The government delegation announced in recent months with- AFP proposed a mechanism on how to out taking place. implement the withdrawal of the IS has held Sirte since 2015, tak- rebels and handover of heavy arms, ing advantage of a conflict between a Yemeni official said. loose alliances of armed brigades KUWAIT CITY: The UN’s Yemen “We are optimistic over the pros- allied to Libya’s rival governments envoy yesterday hailed the “posi- pects of an agreement being worked to seize a 250km strip of coastline tive atmosphere” at crucial peace out by the UN envoy,” Mani Al Matari, around the central Mediterranean Yemeni forces gather at the scene of a suicide attack targeting the police chief in the base of the Saudi- talks between the country’s war- the press advisor to Yemen’s foreign city, which lies between the eastern ring sides, as negotiations in Kuwait minister, said. backed government in Aden, yesterday. and western power bases. entered their second week without a The main sticking point remains The West is hoping the unity major breakthrough. that the rebels want to discuss a government, which arrived in UN special envoy Ismail Ould political settlement before surren- Tripoli last month, will be able to Cheikh Ahmed has held several dering arms while the government Bomber targets Aden police chief make Libya’s armed factions work rounds of talks with Shia Houthi delegation insists on the imple- together against the ultra-hardline rebels and a government delegation mentation of UN Security Council militant group. over the past two days focussing on resolution 2216. The unity government’s leader- key issues. The resolution states that the AFP General Shallal Shayae escaped Aidarus Al Zubaidi, but they escaped ship, or Presidential Council, said Besides discussing ways to firm rebels must withdraw from seized unharmed from the attack but one unharmed. on Thursday that it welcomed the up an ongoing ceasefire, delegates territories and disarm before talks guard was wounded when the bomber Shayae and Zubaidi also survived “push by various factions and armed also tackled “the issues related to the can progress. blew up a vehicle packed with explo- a car bombing that targeted their con- forces to fight Islamic State forces withdrawal of armed groups, hando- The government delegation also ADEN: A suicide bomber targeted the sives, the official said. voy in Aden on January 5 killing two in Sirte”, but warned that an unco- ver of heavy weapons, resumption submitted a letter of “strong protest” police chief of Yemen’s second city A witness said the bomber, dressed of their guards. The port city has seen ordinated offensive could lead to of the political transition and the to the UN envoy over alleged rebel Aden yesterday in the latest attack as a woman, was stopped at a check- a growing jihadist presence since loy- civil war. “In the absence of coor- release of prisoners and detain- ceasefire violations, especially in against senior officials in the base point on the perimeter of the compound alist forces backed by the Saudi-led dination and unified leadership ... ees,” Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a third city Taez, Matari said. of the Saudi-backed government, a around the general’s house, where he coalition drove Huthi Shiite rebels out the Council expresses its concern statement. Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the nego- security official said. blew himself up. of the city in July. that the battle in Sirte against IS will He said a “positive atmosphere” tiations have no timeframe. The bombing came after loyalist There was no immediate claim For the first 12 months of the inter- be a confrontation between those prevailed during talks but warned The 15-member UN Security forces backed by a Saudi-led military of responsibility for the bombing, but vention that the coalition launched armed forces,” it said in a statement. that differences remained. Council on Monday stressed the coalition seized the key southeastern Shayae has survived attacks by mili- in March last year, it focused its fire- “The divergence of views is importance of agreeing on a “road- port city of Mukalla and the nearby tants more than once. power on the rebels, creating a power to be expected in a country wit- map” to implement security measures airport and oil facilities from Al Qaeda, In February, suspected Al Qaeda vacuum that was exploited not only nessing war. It is crucial that including the withdrawal of heavy ending a year-long occupation by the militants opened fire on a convoy by Al Qaeda, but also by rival Islamic Lebanese army all parties make concessions... weapons from Yemen. militants. carrying Shayae and Aden governor State group. kills IS leader at Syrian border Egyptian journalists protest Hundreds protest against BEIRUT: Lebanese soldiers killed an Islamic State (IS) leader in the student’s killing in Khartoum mountainous border region with Syria, Lebanon’s army said. The army command said Fayez Al Shaalaan, known as Abu Fawz, Reuters undermine security at Sudan’s universities was killed when the army attacked - long centres for political activism and debate. an Islamic State position on the “The government will not allow any disruption edge of the town of Arsal in north to the stability of universities,” President Omar Lebanon. KHARTOUM: Police fired tear gas at hun- Hassan Al Bashir’s aide, Ibrahim Mahmoud, told It described Shaalaan as the mil- dreds who gathered in central Khartoum the Sudanese Media Centre, an agency which is itant group’s leader in the Arsal area, and outside the city’s main university yes- close to Sudanese security services. confirming an earlier report from terday, protesting against the killing of a Bashir, who took power in a 1989 coup backed a security source. student at a campus demonstration a day by the army and Islamists, brooks little dissent Fighting between Islamic State earlier, witnesses said. in Sudan, which has been suffering from an eco- and Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Crowds chanted: “Killing of a student, kill- nomic crisis since South Sudan seceded in 2011, militants often spills over Lebanon’s ing of a nation, down with military rule,” at the costing Khartoum more then 70 percent of its mountainous northern border with rare rally in the centre of the heavily-guarded oil revenues. Syria, where conflict has been rag- Sudanese capital. The former army officer is wanted by the ing for five years. Protesters later blocked a road and set fire to Hague-based International Criminal Court on Fighters briefly overran Arsal tyres outside Khartoum university. Police fired charges of masterminding genocide, crimes in 2014 before withdrawing to the tear gas canisters and used batons to beat pro- against humanity and war crimes during Sudan’s hills after clashes with the army, testers who hurled rocks back at them. Darfur conflict. He denies wrongdoing. which stages regular operations Students had initially demonstrated on “I remain concerned about a number of human against Islamic State and Nusra Wednesday against government plans to sell rights issues in the country,” Aristide Nononsi, Front in the area. off Khartoum University buildings, before wit- the United Nations Independent Expert on the The army statement said a Syr- nesses said gunmen in plain clothes opened fire Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan, said in ian named Muhammad Mustafa on them, killing 20-year-old Mohammed al Sadek. a statement on Thursday. Mawsali, also known as Abu Mel- Egyptian journalists hold up their cameras outside the Press Syndicate in Cairo, Anti-government-protests erupted at his “I continue to hear about cases of arbitrary him, was killed alongside Shaalaan. yesteray, during a protest against the interior minister following the arrest of funeral later on Wednesday. arrests and detention, as well as allegations of Three Lebanese soldiers were also colleagues for covering anti-government demonstrations. The government said on Thursday that ill-treatment and travel ban on human rights wounded in the clashes, the army unnamed armed groups were trying to defenders and political activists by security forces.” said. Top Iranian leaders in uneasy alliance to bolster economy

Reuters “Rowhani’s political career depends economic benefits since sanctions were they might even lose the backing of in February parliamentary polls and “Rowhani’s failure to improve Iran’s on this issue. If he fails to improve the lifted in January. Some US restrictions their core supporters who were against for a clerical body with the power to economy will be end of his honeymoon economy, he will lose the leader’s sup- on Tehran remain in place. any rapprochement with the West but appoint or dismiss the supreme leader. (with the leader),” said a security offi- port and will turn into a lame-duck “For the leader Khamenei, the most remained silent because of Khamenei’s Iranians will vote in a run-off par- cial. “The establishment is well aware ANKARA: President Hassan Row- president,” said a reformist former important issue is to safeguard the inter- support of the deal,” political analyst liamentary election on Friday for 68 of dangers of economic hardship and hani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah official, who is close to Rouhani. “His ests of the nation and the country. That Hamid Farahvashian said. of parliament’s 290 seats, which will shortcomings.” Ali Khamenei may have sharply ide- failure in the economic field, will lead is why he backed the president’s nuclear Rowhani is in a constant power determine the makeup of the assem- Iran’s hard-liners have criticised ological differences but the fragility to his political failure.” policy,” said an Iranian diplomat close struggle with the country’s influen- bly as the February vote failed to give Rowhani’s economic policies and the of Iran’s economy has forced them While allaying the fears of Iranian to Khamenei’s office. tial hard-liners and has even faced a majority. The current parliament is Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has into an uneasy alliance at least for hard-liners against any detente with Some point out that Khamenei’s accusations of undermining pillars of dominated by Rowhani’s hard-line demanded a bigger role in the economy, the time being. the West, Khamenei cautiously backed protection of Rouhani will stretch only the 1979 Islamic revolution, including rivals. seen as a challenge to a government In the past, the two powerful figures Rowhani’s efforts to reach a nuclear as far as there is an economic divi- “hostility towards the United States”. The onus is on the president to trying to attract foreign investment had offered contrasting visions for the deal with the United States and other dend. “But now, the question is what This makes the alliance with attract investors, justify Khamenei’s and open Iran’s markets. Iranian economy with the conserva- major powers in 2015, aimed at curb- was the use of reaching a deal if it Khamenei and his protection more val- political investment in him and to Any increase in IRGC economic tive Khamenei calling for self-reliance ing Iran’s nuclear programme in return cannot improve people’s lives,” the uable than ever to Rowhani’s survival. deliver economic prosperity to ordi- involvement could scare away for- and the pragmatist Rowhani urging for lifting crippling sanctions. diplomat said. “Rowhani is passing through a very nary Iranians who have suffered for eign investors, as many of its members cooperation with the world. Rowhani will be protected by Khamenei’s core support comes sensitive period of his political career,” decades because of the sanctions and front companies remain under But now, after having achieved a Khamenei against his hard-line critics from lower-income people, who have said the first official. “It does not mat- imposed over the nuclear programme. US sanctions. nuclear deal with the West, both lead- so long as he is taking steps to improve socially, politically and economically ter whether his allies did well in the Pressure mounted on the Iranian The IRGC runs a powerful business ers have a vested interest in setting the economy a senior official said, on invested in the Islamic Republic, ana- elections in February.” leadership when U.S. and European empire as well as being in charge of aside their differences to secure their condition of anonymity. lysts say, but this group has yet to Rowhani’s chances for re-elec- restrictions drastically cut oil exports elite armed forces. Its profitable eco- political futures and turn the econ- But Khamenei’s patience is being benefit from the easing of sanctions. tion in 2017 are far from guaranteed that are the engine of Iran’s economy, nomic interests could be threatened omy round. strained because of a lack of tangible “Hard-liners are concerned that despite a strong showing for his allies and social unrest threatened. by more competition from abroad. ISLAM FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 05 How do we humble ourselves towards God?

down. We can delude our selves by saying this does not effect me, but then we will be guilty Sometimes when God of negligence. sees that His servants are If we can’t realise the severity of the sit- uation, then we have an additional problem, becoming distracted with read verse (6:43) above. We need God’s help this worldly life and have and protection! When the whale swallowed Prophet Yunus strayed from the Straight (PBUH) (Jonah) after he was thrown off the Path, He puts them in a boat, he was in a terrifying situation. Imagine trying situation so that for a second being locked up in a small closet, its dark, and there is no hope of getting out. they realise their weakness Now imagine yourself in a whale’s stomach, and run back to God for imagine the darkness, and the difficulty in breathing. The whale is in the storming sea and protection. its night. Imagine how Prophet Yunus (PBUH) felt, and imagine how he was when he prayed to God in humility saying, “None has the right to be worshipped but You (O God)!! Glorified By Amr Khaled (and Exalted) be You!! Truly, I have been of the wrong doers!” (21:87). Imagine a Prophet, a role model for human beings, saying that and refer- ring to himself as a wrong doer, then imagine adaru’ is a term that means extreme how we should plead to God. humility and humbleness caused by The night before the battle of Badr, Prophet despair and is expressed when a per- Muhammad (PBUH) saw how the army of the son has reached a critical juncture. Pagans had out-numbered them and was so TImam Ahmed ibn Hambal explained it saying, well equipped. Then he looked at the Muslim “Imagine a man drowning in the middle of the army and how few they were with poor weap- sea and all he has is a piece of wood that he is onry. Badr was the first military confrontation clinging onto. He is getting weaker and weaker between the Muslims and the Non-believers. and the salty waves are pulling him closer to It was a critical event in the history of Islam. If death. Imagine him with his eager eyes look- the Muslims lost this battle, Islam would have ing desperately at the sky crying out loud ‘O disappeared forever. Realising this, Prophet Lord, O Lord!!!’ Imagine how desperate he is Muhammad (PBUH) started to pray to God in and how sincere he is asking for God’s help. humility and humbleness. He raised his hands That is tadaru’ in front of God”. up high, stretching his arms to the extent that God teaches us in the Quran that tadaru’ his armpits appeared. He engaged in sincere is a form of worship a believer uses during supplication to God and his body was shak- emergencies and crises. It requires a person to ing causing his cloak to fall off his back. He remove the veils of arrogance and ego cover- was begging God crying, “O Ever Living!! O ing his or her heart. It implies sincere pleading Sustainer and Protector!! I beg You for Your to the Lord of the Worlds. It demonstrates that mercy!!! O God!! I am waiting for Your victory a person has realised how weak he is and how which You have promised me. I beseech You Powerful our Lord is. God to defeat them.” Sometimes when God sees that His serv- This is the level of humility we should ants are becoming distracted with this worldly try to reach when praying to God for help. life and have strayed from the Straight Path, Let us beg God for His help with the utmost He puts them in a trying situation so that they humbleness as if we are really drowning realise their weakness and run back to God for and there is no one there to rescue us except protection. Therefore calamities falling upon Him. Let us get up in the middle of the night Muslims are to make them wake up and turn our benefit, because we need to maintain a humbleness and humility to Him. We must in humility. to pray Qiyamullayl (night prayer), and let back to God. We must be thoughtful and per- close relationship with Him. God expresses not let Shaytan trick us into believing that our It is necessary to realise the grave calam- us break down in front of God begging Him, ceptive enough to understand these messages our need for this form medicine in the follow- problems have nothing to do with our rela- ity that is falling upon us. Our children are as we have never done before. Let us gather and act upon them. ing verse, “And if We had mercy on them and tion with God. being pounded by missiles that are weighed each other and do it together. Let us pray to God The Almighty says, “Verily, We sent removed the distress which is on them, still God says, “Say (O Muhammad) ‘Who res- in tonnes, people are being oppressed and tor- God in humility in groups. Let us cry to Him (Messengers) to many nations before you (O they would obstinately persist in their trans- cues you from the darkness of the land and tured all over the world. It is not so distant together, let us run to Him with our families Muhammad). And we seized them with extreme gression, wandering blindly.” (Quran 23:75). the sea (dangers like storms), (when) you call back in time that tens of thousands of women and friends. Let us all beg him for His help, poverty (or loss in wealth) and loss in health In another verse God says, “When Our Tor- upon Him in humility and in secret (saying): If were raped in the Balkans and until this day protection and guidance. (with calamities) so that they might humble ment reached them, why then did they not He (God) only saves us from this (danger), we innocent people are falling in Palestine with Tadaru ‘…. is what we need to understand themselves (believe with humility).” (Quran 6:42). humble themselves (believe with humility)? shall truly be grateful.’ Say (O Muhammad): Israeli bullets. Homes are being demolished and practice. We need to achieve tadaru’ so This verse shows that God uses calamities But their hearts became hardened, and Shay- ‘God rescues you from this and from all (other) and the dignity a person is being stepped on that God may change our situation, because… as a routine method to wake people up and tan (Satan) made what they used to do seem distresses, and yet you worship others besides ever day. Its not just about Iraq, and believe it “Verily God will never change the condi- encourage them to run to Him for protection. fair and correct” (Quran 6:43). God.’” (Quran 6:63-64). No one will rescue us or not, its not just about our Muslim Ummah, tion of a people until they change themselves” It is as if a calamity is a bitter medicine for us We must not make this mistake and close from the darkness we Muslims are in today Its about our whole planet. Our world is head- to become better believers. God does this for our eyes and hearts in front of God’s call to except God, but first, we must call upon Him ing straight towards a cliff and its not slowing www.islamcity.com The importance of being honest Sayings of the Prophet Narrate by Abu Huraira, a person came to Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) and said: You are at your most genuine when said. Some people are courageous while matters you know little about. Ibn Al A’rābī Who among the people is most deserving of Prophet Muhammad you speak about how you feel. A long others are cowardly. Some are sociable said: “All of knowledge is an admission a fine treatment from my hand? The Prophet time ago, a wise man said: “It is better while others re reclusive. Some are gen- of ignorance, and all of spirituality is to (PBUH) said: Your mother. He again said: Then (PBUH) was for me to express how I feel and be dis- erous while others are stingy. Some are eschew what is superfluous. Asceticism who (is the next one)? Prophet (PBUH) said: commanded to liked by them, than to express how they quick-witted while others are distracted. is to take only what one needs. Dealing Again it is your mother (who deserves the best feel and be liked by them.” Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was com- with others well requires doing what is treatment from you). He said: Then who (is the pardon those who When Abraham (peace be upon him) manded to pardon those who wronged best and then what is second best. Con- next one)? The Prophet (PBUH) said: Again, wronged him, to give smashed the idols, leaving only the largest him, to give to those who deprived him, tentment is to avoid protesting. Well-being it is your mother. He (again) said: Then who? one intact, they asked him who had done reach out to those who shunned him, comes when you avoid pretentiousness Thereupon the Prophet (PBUH) replied: Then to those who deprived the deed. He said: “The largest of them, and show kindness to those who dealt and then avoid becoming pretentious it is your father. this one here, did it. So question them, harshly with him. about your simplicity.” (Muslim) him, reach out to if they can speak.” (Sūrah Al Anbiyā’: 63) People become relaxed in their natures In other words, be simple and easy- When Moses (PBUH) met Prophet when they stop being pretentious, stop going, but do not make a pretentious show those who shunned “The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: ‘The Muhammad (PBUH) during the Night Jour- trying to be something they are not. True of your simple and easy nature! him, and show ney, and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) religiousness does not require putting There are many issues that consume strong person is not he who has physical kindness to those who informed him that he was commanded to on airs. It is an expression of our inner our time and give us serious headaches, strength but the person is strong if he can enjoin upon his followers fifty prayers a selves and it varies from person to per- but which really do not matter at all. They control his anger.” dealt harshly with day, Moses (PBUH) said: “Go back to your son. The Prophet once asked a desert are not worthy of our attention. There (Bukhari & Muslim) him. Lord and ask for a reduction.” dweller about how he beseeched Allah in are many questions debated by people Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) exempli- supplication. The desert-dweller replied that bring nothing but difficulties in their fied an easy-going, unpretentious nature. “I’m not good at all the muttering that wake. A lot of things people do in the Abdullah ibn Amr (May Allah be pleased with He lived in harmony with the wholesome you do and that Mu`ādh does, but I ask name of religion and piety undermine him) narrated, “I asked the Messenger of Allah side of human nature. He once told a man: Allah for Paradise and seek refuge with the very purpose of the religion. They (PBUH) about what saves me from Allah’s By Sheikh Salman Al Oadah “Take it easy. I am the son of a woman Him from Hell.” interfere with people’s good, simple, and wrath, and the Prophet said, “Do not become in Makkah who used to eat dried meat.” The Prophet smiled at him and said: tolerant natures. angry.” Often he was asked about something “This is basically what we are muttering Part of what it means to be easy- and would reply: “I do not know.” He also about!” Natural religiousness is supe- going is to simply worship Allah with a The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: “He who is y first experience with a video said: “I do not know what is going to hap- rior, and its outcome is the best. It is free sincere heart and a pure intention. We victorious over his passion at the time of anger camera was with a close friend pen to me or to you.” Likewise, Allah from hypocrisy and pretension. It does should ignore misgivings about the valid- is the strongest among you. He who forgives who placed one on front of me ordered Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to not cause people to treat others harshly ity of our ablutions or the execution of having the power to release his anger and take and asked me to recite a few declare: “I do not ask you for the Quran or be overbearing in the name of religion. our prayers. Those misgivings just bring revenge is the most patient among you.” versesM of the Quran. When he played it any payment, and I am not one of the Formalism and affectation disappear disquiet, and ignoring them will not harm back, I could not hear my voice. He had pretentious.” (Sūrah Sād: 86) among good friends. The poet Al Mubarrad us in the least in the Hereafter. set the camera’s volume incorrectly. His Message is revelation from Allah: said: Where familiarity is found, osten- Another aspect of what it means to (Baihaqi) When I speak with my friends in pri- “And you were not expecting that the Book tation disappears.” One of the chapters be easy-going is to take people on face vate, I am relaxed, but when the camera would be conveyed to you, but it is a mercy of Sahīh Al Bukhārī is entitled: “Prepar- value. Do not accuse them of things or starts rolling, the studio lights are turned from your Lord.” (Sūrah Al Qasas: 86) ing food and putting on affected airs for pin labels on them. Do not judge their The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: “And when on, and the mics are placed, I become That Message in its general mean- a guest”. words and deeds harshly as long as they you get angry, keep silent.” unavoidably tenser. My tone changes. ing and all of its particulars, is a tolerant Salman said: “It is forbidden to put are trying to do what is right and their (Ahmad, Ibn Abi Dunya, Tabarani & Bayhaqi) Everything I say is now official. My mood one that makes things easy for the peo- on affected airs for a guest.” actions can be interpreted in a good way. gradually become more natural the ple. The religion is supposed to be easy. You can change things you dislike Be easy-going by keeping away from the longer I speak before the camera. Suc- Allah commanded Prophet Muhammad about your personality or your manners clamour of other people’s affairs. Then The Prophet said: “None of you will have faith cess requires that I appear to be relaxed (PBUH): “Keep to pardon and enjoin kind- without going overboard. You should not you will have quiet time alone to focus till he loves me more than his father, his children and speaking casually with a friend. I can- ness, and simply turn away from those try to obliterate who you are. It is good on yourself and hear what your muffled and all mankind.” not look like I am speaking to a camera. who are ignorant.” (Sūrah Al A’rāf: 199) to be well-read and well-informed, but voice is trying to tell you. I have to imagine that I am speaking to To pardon is to be easy in dealing you do not have to pretend to people that one person and not to the masses. with people’s manners, as Ibn Al Zubayr you know more than you do or speak on en.islamtoday.net 06 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Aquino warns Myanmar monk of looming builds pagodas in church YANGON: A Myanmar dictatorship Christian leader appealed for calm on Wednesday after an influential Bud- our nation: that we were oppressed dhist monk built pagodas before and yet will allow ourselves within the compound The president says, to be oppressed again and suffer the of a church and near this is the tragedy same problems that we endured under a mosque, in a coun- the dictatorship,” Aquino said in a try beset with religious poised to befall our speech in Manila. tensions. nation, that we were “Our successes could vanish espe- The incursions began cially if my successor would stray last month when support- oppressed before yet from our straight and narrow path. ers of the monk Myaing will allow ourselves The question is, will you allow these Kyee Ngu erected a reli- bullies who make enemies each time gious statue and planted to be oppressed they open their mouth to become a Buddhist flag on the again and suffer the president?” Aquino did not mention church’s grounds in the same problems that Duterte by name, but it was a thinly eastern state of Karen. veiled reference to him, as the presi- They returned on Sat- we endured under dential favourite is often called a bully urday to erect a pagoda, the dictatorship and foul-mouthed by his opponents. according to local Angli- However Aquino did specifically can Bishop Saw Stylo. Filipino boxing champion and senate candidate, Emmanuel Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao , greets villagers, mention Marcos Jnr, criticising him for The supporters have refusing to apologise for his father’s as he is escorted by his bodyguards, during a political campaign in the town of Bay, Laguna province, since moved on to build a AFP crimes. Marcos Snr’s two-decade rule Philippines, yesterday, pagoda near a mosque in ended in 1986 as millions took to the a Muslim-majority village streets in a famous “People Power” in the same township of revolution led by Aquino’s mother. Hlaingbwe, he said. MANILA: Philippine President Marcos was accused of plundering Pacquiao shocked at kidnap claim “That is why I asked Benigno Aquino warned yesterday billions of dollars from state coffers all local young peo- his country was on the brink of another and overseeing widespread human ple, whether they are dictatorship, in a thinly veiled ref- rights abuses. The Marcos family, Buddhist, Muslim or Chris- erence to controversial politicians exiled to US after the revolution, has AFP hostage this week, had planned to said he was bewildered by Aquino’s tian, not to do anything leading surveys to win the top two staged a remarkable political come- abduct Pacquiao or his children. statement, having not been informed wrong,” said Saw Stylo, posts in next month’s elections. back that would be cemented if the “I was alarmed when he before the president went public with who oversees Karen state, Tough-talking Rodrigo Duterte son is elected vice president. Duterte announced... the Abu Sayyaf wanted to the alleged plot. Mon state and Tanintharyi has emerged as a clear favourite in is one of the Philippines’ most contro- MANILA: Philippine boxing legend kidnap me. I’m surprised because all “If it came from an intelligence region. Myanmar, which surveys for the presidential poll, with versial politicians, having admitted Manny Pacquiao expressed shock yes- Filipinos are my friends. I love them, report, it should have been kept secret was stifled for decades voters apparently embracing his vows to running vigilante death squads terday at President Benigno Aquino’s especially the Muslims,” Pacquiao said and need not be announced. And why under military rule, has to kill tens of thousands of criminals that killed more than 1,000 people claim that Islamic militants planned to at his residence in Manila. just now? We have to study this,” said long bristled with religious outside the judicial system. during his long-time rule as mayor kidnap him, and said the alleged plot Pacquiao said he had responded Pacquiao, whose unprecedented eight tensions between major- Meanwhile, the son and namesake of the major southern city of Davao. should not have been made public. to Aquino’s statement by taking secu- world titles have made him one of the ity Buddhists and minority of dictator Ferdinand Marcos is lead- On the campaign trail, Duterte, 71, Aquino released a statement on rity measures to protect himself as Philippines’ richest men. groups. ing the vice-presidential race with a has promised to pardon himself for Wednesday saying Abu Sayyaf, a noto- well as his wife and five children, Aquino made the announcement campaign strategy highlighting the mass murder, should he be charged rious kidnap-for-ransom gang that who are in his hometown of General after the severed head of Canadian John alleged benefits of his father’s rule. with killing criminals during his time has pledged allegiance to the Islamic Santos. “We added security for my Ridsdel was dumped in the streets of Australian PM “This is the tragedy poised to befall as president. State group and beheaded a Canadian family and me,” he said. Pacquiao Jolo island, an Abu Sayyaf stronghold. talks tough on asylum-seekers SYDNEY: Australia can- China warns over sea dispute Fourteen Abu Sayyaf not be “misty-eyed” about boat people, the coun- try’s prime minister said AFP since China transformed contested international court, it’s arbitration militants killed: Report yesterday, the day after reefs into artificial islands. The Philip- brought unilaterally by the Philip- his immigration policy pines has taken a case against China pine government against China but was thrown into disarray to the Permanent Court of Arbitration China took the decision not to par- Anatolia On Wednesday, the Department when Papua New Guinea SINGAPORE: China urged Southeast in The Hague, where a ruling is due ticipate in proceedings.” of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said all for- ordered an offshore Asian nations yesterday to resolve ter- in the coming weeks, which many Beijing has refused to take part in eign hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf processing camp to close. ritorial disputes through dialogue and expect to go against China. any of the Hague proceedings, which were still alive despite the expiration Malcolm Turnbull, who repeated a warning of “negative con- Any sort of arbitration goes against it calls illegal, and has said it will not ZAMBOANGA CITY: At least 14 sus- of its deadline for ransom payments likely faces an election in sequences” if the Philippines wins an the Declaration on the Conduct (DOC) recognise the ruling. pected members of the Daesh-linked for Ridsdel and the two other for- coming weeks, said allow- arbitration case in The Hague. of Parties in the South China Sea signed It maintains that the dispute should Abu Sayyaf are thought to have been eigners Monday. ing even genuine refugees Four Asean member states -- the between 10 nations from the Associa- be resolved between individual claim- killed in an army offensive following Aside from the remaining who arrived by boat to Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and tion of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) ant countries instead of through the the beheading of a Canadian hostage Canadian, Norwegian, and Filipina settle in Australia would Brunei -- have rival claims with China and China in 2002, said Chinese vice Asean body, and has claimed in the earlier this week. hostages, the Daesh-affiliated group encourage more people to parts of the South China Sea and foreign minister Liu Zhenmin. past week that Brunei, Cambodia and Army Col. Noel Detoyato of the is also believed to be holding a Dutch to make the risky journey. tensions have mounted in recent years “The arbitration is not by an Laos back its stance. military’s public affairs office told national kidnapped more than three “By stopping the peo- reporters yesterday that reports had years ago in Tawi-Tawi, a Chinese ple-smuggling we have suggested that the militants had been woman, and several Filipinos, who stopped people drowning killed in aerial and artillery bom- were believed to have been taken to at sea,” he told reporters. bardments following the execution Jolo Island in Sulu. “We cannot be misty- Training for the challenge of John Ridsdel, but he was waiting DFA Secretary Jose Almendras eyed about this. We have for them to be validated. -- in an interview on a News TV Live to be very clear and deter- The Abu Sayyaf beheaded report -- underlined that the Phil- mined in our national 68-year-old Ridsdel on April 25 after ippines was doing what it could to purpose.” a 300m pesos ($6m) ransom failed resolve the hostage crisis. Canberra has a long- to be paid. “Over the past few weeks, we standing policy of sending The Canadian was kidnapped with have stepped up our coordination boatpeople to process- fellow Canadian tourist Robert Hall, efforts with Canada, Norway, Indo- ing centres in Papua New Norwegian resort manager Kjartan nesia, and Malaysia.” Guinea’s Manus island Sekkingstad and Filipina Marites Flor President Benigno Aquino III has and the Pacific nation of from a marina near Mindanao’s major promised to use the full resources of Nauru. Applicants who coastal commercial center of Davao the country against the group to rescue are deemed legitimate on September 21. the remaining hostages, and ensure refugees are offered A headless corpse believed to be the safety of the civilian population. resettlement in PNG or his was found in Talipao, Sulu, on Since 1991, the Abu Sayyaf -- Cambodia, but not admit- Wednesday morning. armed with mostly improvised ted to Australia. “While the reports are being val- explosive devices, mortars and The policy was dealt idated, what’s important here is that automatic rifles -- has carried out a blow Wednesday when operations are continuing,” Detoy- bombings, kidnappings, assassinations the PNG government ato sought to clarify. and extortions in a self-determined ordered the Manus island The military have said that oper- fight for an independent Islamic prov- facility to close after the ations are concentrated in the towns ince in the Philippines. supreme court ruled it Border police take part in an anti-terrorism drill near Baketu border in Tacheng, Xinjiang Uighur of Patikul and Talipao in the troubled It is notorious for beheading vic- was unconstitutional and Autonomous Region, China, yesterday. southern Sulu province, where most tims after ransoms have failed to be illegal. of the group are believed to be hiding. paid for their release. Philippines wants coordinated patrols to protect ships from rebels

Reuters Islamist militants, its foreign minister in tens of millions of dollars in ransom, where ships can travel. Indonesia last to discuss cooperation. “The issue is the kidnapping of sailors.” Two Indo- said yesterday. decapitated a Canadian on Monday week called for joint maritime patrols safety and security,” Almendras told nesian coal ports have blocked ships Indonesia is trying to free about and are still holding 23 hostages. Citi- with the Philippines and Malaysia. Joint Reuters after signing an infrastruc- from leaving to the Philippines and 14 of its citizens seized from tugboats zens of the Netherlands, Japan, Norway patrols would involve ships from the ture loan agreement with South Korea. Malaysia’s eastern Sabah state due to MANILA: The Philippines has been by Abu Sayyaf rebels from the south- and the Philippines are among them. three navies patrolling together and “It’s called coordinated patrols, we’ll security concerns discussing coordinated naval patrols ern Philippines and has called for joint Philippine Foreign Secretary Jose crossing into each other’s territorial do our patrols and they will have their The growing frequency of mari- on its southern maritime borders with patrols. Four Malaysians seamen are Rene Almendras said his country was waters. own patrols in their own territorial time attacks has affected coal trade Indonesia and Malaysia to protect ship- also being held. only proposing separate but coordi- Officials from the three sides waters so there will be no more threats between the Southeast Asian neigh- ping after attacks and kidnappings by The Islamist rebels, who are raking nated patrols to identify safe corridors are due to meet in Jakarta on May 5 to the movement of ships, including bours Indonesia. ASIA / AFRICA FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 07 North Korea failed again with missile test: South

AFP seconds after launch. “It is believed to is gearing up for a rare and much-hyped to targets across the continental United to be imposed on Pyongyang. “The The missile has never been suc- have failed,” the official said. There had ruling party congress next month, at States. The achievements trumpeted government strongly condemns this cessfully flight-tested. Two failures been widespread intelligence reports in which Kim Jong-Un is expected to take by Pyongyang have included minia- additional ballistic missile launch ... in swift succession will be seen as an recent days that the North was prepar- credit for pushing the country’s nuclear turising a nuclear warhead to fit on a which is a clear violation of UN res- embarrassment for the leadership, SEOUL: North Korea yesterday tried ing for another flight test of a Musudan, weapons programme to new heights. missile, developing a warhead that can olutions and an act of provocation,” especially ahead of the party con- and failed in what appeared to be its which is capable of striking US bases There is growing concern that withstand atmospheric re-entry and the foreign ministry in Seoul said in a gress which is meant to celebrate the second attempt in two weeks to test on the Pacific island of Guam. Pyongyang is preparing to conduct a building a solid-fuel missile engine. statement. It said it would work with country’s achievements. Speaking last a powerful, new medium-range bal- North Korea initially launched a fifth nuclear test in the run-up to the Last Saturday, it successfully tested other UN members to “try to put the weekend during a visit to Germany, listic missile, South Korea’s defence Musudan on April 15 -- the birthday event which opens May 6. In recent a submarine-launched ballistic mis- North’s regime under more sanctions.” US President Barack Obama warned ministry said. of founding leader Kim Il-Sung -- but months the North has claimed a series sile (SLBM) and was promptly criticised The Musudan is believed to have an that North Korea was making danger- A ministry official said the North the exercise ended in what the Penta- of major technical breakthroughs in by the UN Security Council. Existing estimated range of anywhere between ous progress even when its efforts fell had fired what was understood to be gon described as “fiery, catastrophic” developing what it sees as the ultimate UN resolutions forbid North Korea 2,500km and 4,000km. The lower short of outright success. a Musudan missile at around 6:40am failure, with the missile apparently goal of its nuclear weapons programme from the use of any ballistic missile- range covers the whole of South Korea “Although, more often than not, they on Wednesday from Wonsan on the exploding just after take-off. -- an intercontinental ballistic missile related technology, and South Korea and Japan, while the upper range would fail in many of these tests, they gain east coast, but it plunged back to earth The failed tests come as the country capable of delivering a nuclear warhead said it would push for fresh penalties include US military bases on Guam. knowledge each time,” Obama said. China passes Body of rumba law to control king returns to DR Congo KINSHASA: The body of Congolese “rumba king” foreign NGOs Papa Wemba arrived in Kinshasa yesterday, greeted by officials and a thought to operate in China, includ- huge crowd of distraught ing development charities such as fans after his fatal col- At least 1,000 foreign Save the Children, advocacy groups lapse during a show in NGOs are thought including Greenpeace, chambers of Ivory Coast. commerce and university centres. His body was flown to operate in China. The law gives police the right to home after the Ivory Coast The law gives police approve the registration of all foreign held an-all night musical NGOs, according to a text distrib- tribute to honour the leg- the right to approve uted by the NPC. Police will revoke endary African music star, the registration of all the registration of any organisation who died on Sunday at which “damages national interests” the age of 66. foreign NGOs. Elephant tusks, part of an estimated 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory to be set ablaze, are stacked onto or “threatens society’s interests,” it The white coffin said. Any groups committing actions pyres at Nairobi National Park near Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. draped in the Democratic deemed “separatist” or “subverting of Republic of Congo flag state organs” will also be banned, as was received by Prime AFP will those which “spread rumours”. Minister Augustin Matata “There have been some foreign Ponyo and parliament NGOs which have planned or carried Kenya readies to torch tusks speaker Aubin Minaku out activities threatening the stabil- before being taken off in BEIJING: China passed a controver- ity of society and national security,” a hearse. sial new law yesterday giving police NPC official Zhang Yong said. The law wide-ranging powers over overseas does not give a clear definition of an AFP will take the symbolic step of torch- suggestion that the tusks have value charities and banning them from overseas NGO but is likely to cover ing almost the entirety of its stores, -- apart from for the elephants. Chinese officials recruiting members or raising funds foreign charities and business asso- seven times the size of any stockpile “We don’t believe there is any in the country, prompting an imme- ciations, and also applies to groups destroyed so far. intrinsic value in ivory, and therefore under probe for diate outcry. based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, KENYA: Thousands of elephant tusks The mass burning on Saturday will we’re going to burn all our stockpiles The law on overseas non-gov- although international schools and are being piled high into pyres as Kenya see Kenyan President Uhuru Keny- and demonstrate to the world that selling data ernmental organisations (NGOs) hospitals are exempt. prepares to torch its vast ivory stockpile atta destroying 105 tonnes of ivory, ivory is only valuable on elephants,” has provoked concerns from chari- The law comes as President Xi Jin- hoping to stop trafficking and prevent representing over 6,700 elephants -- said Kitili Mbathi, director general BEIJING: Hundreds of ties and foreign governments that it ping oversees a crackdown on civil extinction of elephants in the wild. or some five percent of global stores. of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). employees at China’s top hands police discretionary powers society, which has seen scores of law- Time is running out: at current Another 1.35 tonnes of rhino horn Africa is home to between 450,000 statistics bureau are being amid a government crackdown on yers, academics and activists detained rates of elephant killing, conserva- will also be burned. It is a grand to 500,000 elephants, but more than investigated after sell- civil society. It was approved almost and dozens jailed. At the NPC brief- tionists warn large herds of elephants statement: on the black market, that 30,000 are killed every year on the ing data, the government unanimously by a committee of the ing, official Guo Linmao dismissed will be wiped out within decades from quantity of ivory could sell for over continent to satisfy demand for ivory said yesterday, despite Communist-controlled National Peo- concerns over police supervision, say- all but the most protected of parks. $100m, and the rhino horn could raise in Asia, where raw tusks sell for around long standing doubts over ple’s Congress (NPC), spokesman He ing: “Ordinary folk have a saying: If Following a regional summit on as much as $80m. Rhino horn can $1,000 a kilogramme. In neighbour- the reliability of official Shaoren told reporters, with 147 votes you have a problem, call the police, Friday to boost awareness of the threat fetch as much as $60,000 per kilo- ing Tanzania, the elephant population figures. in favour and only one against. if you haven’t broken the law, what of poaching and push efforts to end gramme 2.2 pounds), more than gold has slumped from around 110,000 in More than 300 NBS At least 1,000 foreign NGOs are are you afraid of?” trafficking of ivory entirely, Kenya or cocaine. But Kenya dismisses any 2009 to just 43,000 in 2014. staff have also been asked to return $500,000 they made by selling annual reports and pro- viding data to affiliates, Little comrades in arms Tonnes of clams die in Vietnam the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) -- the Communist AFP had even paid a deposit to buy my party’s internal corruption clams, but now all hopes have been watchdog -- said on its shattered.” website. Vietnamese authorities have HANOI: More than 100 tonnes of banned the trade and consumption clams have perished in central Viet- of the clams while their investiga- Malaysia PM nam, state media reported yesterday, tion is ongoing, as concerns grow that as public outrage mounts over a pos- toxic chemicals have leaked into the names new sible toxic leak into the sea near an water from nearby industrial plants. industrial zone. The company has a long history bank chief Piles of dead molluscs have been of environmental scandals spanning found in the same coastal region across the globe. KUALA LUMPUR: Malay- where dead fish began washing up A government investigation has sia’s scandal-plagued on beaches earlier this month, spark- not yet linked Formosa or other fac- prime minister on ing alarm and hammering the local tories in the region to the incident, Wednesday appointed fishing economy. according to deputy environment a new central bank gov- Clam farmers in Ha Tinh province minister Vo Tuan Nhan. ernor, who will take over wept over their staggering losses that But a gaffe by a Formosa public from respected long- occurred just ahead of harvest time, relations official after the fish deaths time chief Zeti Akhtar Aziz Children of Mansudae Art Studio’s employees dancing at a kindergarten in Pyongyang, North Korea, state-run Tuoi Tre News reported. has heaped pressure on the firm after amid a contentious finan- yesterday. Founded in 1959 the Mansudae Art Studio is the largest art production centre in the country “We had held a lot of hope about he said locals must decide whether cial scandal. with a workforce of 4,000 including 1,000 artists. the (clam) harvest,” local farmer Tran they valued marine life or foreign Prime Minister Najib Thi Lua reportedly said. “Many traders investment more. Razak released a state- ment saying Bank Negara Malaysia’s deputy gover- nor Muhammad Ibrahim would take over from May 1. Najib faces allega- Tanzania’s forest conservation at risk as funds run out tions that billions were stolen from state-owned fund 1Malaysia Devel- Reuters funding for the programme is drying Richer countries buy credits for CO2 Tanzania, including forest conserva- the country, to be paid over five years. opment Berhad (1MDB), up, threatening the future of the East emissions reductions, and the money tion activities and land-use planning, According to the REDDX report, which he oversees, and African country’s efforts to safeguard is used to keep tropical forests stand- have been shuttered, it said. the flow of funds from Norway’s Inter- his acceptance of a mys- its forests. ing and to support forest communities. “The lack of new donor funding national Climate and Forest Initiative terious $681m payment. DAR ES SALAAM: When the inter- REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from But a report last month from a for- is a matter of serious concern for the has declined significantly since the Both Najib and 1MDB national forest conservation scheme Deforestation and Forest Degradation) est finance tracking initiative called sustainability of the REDD+ initiative programme began. “Following a jolt have repeatedly denied known as REDD first came to Tan- is a UN-backed push to reduce climate- “REDDX”, run by non-profit group For- in Tanzania,” the report added. of funding from Norway that jump- any wrongdoing. Zeti is zania in 2008, it brought hopes of changing carbon dioxide emissions est Trends, said financing to prepare for When REDD+ was launched in Tan- started Tanzania’s REDD+ process respected for her steady slowing deforestation and curbing through having developed countries REDD+ in Tanzania had stagnated, with zania, Norway was its biggest donor, in 2009, progress has now come to a hand during 16 years in climate change. pay poorer nations to protect their for- no new funding announced since 2010. committing $80.2m in 2009, or around standstill,” Brian Schaap, REDDX sen- office. But according to a recent report, ests, which store carbon. As a result, pilot REDD+ projects in 85 percent of all REDD+ funding for ior program associate, said. 08 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 PAKISTAN Pakistan helped US to get Bin Policeman kills three comrades Laden: Scribe in Afghanistan KABUL: At least three policemen were killed in the latest insider attack Washington to allow the US to raid carried out by one of his compound under the official pre- their comrades in east- Pakistan detained tence that Pakistan had no knowledge ern Laghman province of Bin Laden in 2006 of the operation. Afghanistan. Abbottabad, the town where US According to Khaama and kept him under forces killed bin Laden, is home to a Press, the incident took lock until Pakistani prominent Pakistani military acad- place late on Wednesday emy, raising questions about how the night in a security post officials struck a deal Al Qaeda mastermind could have in Mehtarlam city. Pro- with Washington to stayed hidden for so long. Accord- vincial police spokesman allow the US to raid ing to the official US narrative, US Shafiqullah confirmed forces penetrated Pakistani airspace the incident and said the his compound under using previously secretive stealth assailant policeman man- the official pretence helicopter technology without Paki- aged to flee the area stani knowledge, in order to carry following the attack. that Pakistan had out the raid. The Taliban group has no knowledge of the But Hersh disputed the account, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R Vance, Jr. (centre), Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Pakistan also claimed responsibility saying, “Pakistan is in constant alert in the US, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh (right), and Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations behind the insider attack. operation: Hersh because of India. Their radars are New York, Angel M. Melendez announce the return of the second century CE Buddhapada sculpture to Laghman is among watching, their F-16s are up all the Pakistan during a repatriation ceremony in New York, yesterday. the relatively vola- time.” tile provinces in eastern He added that the deal to get bin Afghanistan where anti- Anatolia Laden was struck with Pakistani intel- government armed ligence chiefs from the notoriously militant groups are secretive ISI, but it infuriated Paki- actively operating in a stani generals. Ancient Buddhist stone sculpture number of its remote WASHINGTON: A famed American “The then head of Pakistan’s Air districts. journalist is convinced “more than Defence Command was very, very ever” that Pakistan assisted the US upset. He was ready to go public,” returned to Pakistan government in killing Osama bin Laden despite Hersh said, claiming that the general Heat wave likely official denials from both countries. was promoted to ensure his silence. Pulitzer Prize-winning journal- He further claimed that Pakistani to hit Pakistan ist Seymour Hersh made the remarks forces arrested bin Laden in Paki- AP was “an important element of the cul- for fear they would fall into disrepair while speaking to Pakistani daily stan’s Hindu Kush area before building tural history of Pakistan” and he was or be destroyed if they remained in next month Dawn. His new book, The Killing of the Abbottabad compound and plac- relieved to have it returned. A Japa- Pakistan. Scholars and art historians Osama bin Laden, lays out the claim, ing him there.”Pakistani officials did nese antiquities dealer pleaded guilty say there’s little truth to the argument. ISLAMABAD: This sum- which was first made last year, rat- so because it was asked them to do NEW YORK: An ancient stone sculp- last month to criminal possession of Unesco initiated a program more than mer temperature in tling the Obama administration. so. They did not want Americans to ture of Buddha’s footprints that was stolen property in a scheme to smug- a decade ago with funds from the US to certain parts of Pakistan The White House balked at Hersh’s interrogate OBL,” he said using an smuggled into the United States and gle it into the US preserve images of Buddha and other is expected to climb to claim, insisting Islamabad played no acronym for Bin Laden. had been expected to sell for more Tatsuzo Kaku made the plea in works found in the region. around 50 degree Cel- role in the mission that led to death A Pakistani colonel who was later than $1m was returned to the gov- exchange for a $5,000 fine and a During the time the Buddha- sius as a heat wave, more of the former Al Qaeda ringleader at resettled in the US divulged knowl- ernment of Pakistan yesterday. sentence of time served and left the pada was stolen, there were no major severe than the previous the hands of US special forces outside edge of bin Laden’s whereabouts to The piece, called a Buddhapada, country voluntarily. He said he shipped threats to any archaeological sites, year, is likely to hit Paki- of a town in northeastern Pakistan the CIA station chief in August 2010, was taken from a Pakistani region the 2nd-century Buddhapada from said Muhammad Zahir, an assistant stan next month. The hot in May 2011. Hersh said. Hersh said his story is not rich in Buddhist history decades ago. Tokyo to New York to sell it at a gallery, professor at Hazara University in Paki- weather is likely to con- But Hersh doubled down on his solely based on Pakistani sources, It was returned by New York prose- where it was expected to fetch $1.1m. stan who works in the Swat valley. tinue till the first week of earlier claim, saying he has seen new noting his wide network of sources cutors to Pakistani Deputy Chief of He said he knew it had been exca- The government of Pakistan had June. evidence since he broke the story that in Washington, but acknowledged “I Mission Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, who vated and removed from the Swat River plans to protect or remove ancient “It is expected that corroborates his claim. He said Paki- did have more contact with people in said it will remain in the city for the valley, a mountainous region of north- Buddhist art from the valley and safely the mercury will rise to 50 stan detained bin Laden in 2006 and the ISI after I wrote. I learned much time being and may be exhibited at ern Pakistan, in 1982. He said in court moved museum artefacts during mili- degrees Celsius in cen- kept him under lock and until Paki- more, that gave me much more flesh a museum. Sheikh said the Buddha- that he also was motivated by a life- tary operations to combat the Taliban, tral and southern parts of stani officials struck a deal with on the skimpy bones I guess I had.” pada, weighing nearly 500 pounds, long desire to preserve such works he said. Pakistan in May this year and there are hardly any chances of rain [in these parts of the country] which will further aggra- Big seizure Man arrested for gruesome vate the situation,” said Met Office Director Gen- eral Dr Ghulam Rasool on ‘honour killing’ of sister Thursday. He said it is expected that the intensity of AFP the knife but it hurt her fatally,” he heatwave will be more said, adding: “Of course it is very sad, powerful as compared to I wish I could also die.” Mobile phone the previous year because footage shot by an unknown onlooker of change in wind direc- KARACHI: A Pakistani man who showed several men and boys stand- tions which will ultimately used a kitchen knife to murder his ing around Sumaira, who was seen cut off the sea breeze. sister said yesterday that he flew into a dressed in a red tunic and orange rage after catching her using a mobile headscarf and draped in a blanket phone, the latest “honour killing” in as she writhed in pain. Drinking water the deeply patriarchal country. A young boy is shown fighting Hayat Khan (pictured), aged back tears as one man says in Pashto: project ready around 20, attacked his sixteen-year- “Let’s take her to a hospital in a car,” old sister Sumaira at their home in the and another man replies: “It’s almost for Punjab low-income Orangi Town neighbour- here, it’s coming brother.” hood of Karachi on Wednesday, senior The video then pans to Hayat, LAHORE: The Punjab police officer Azfar Mahesar said. dressed in a purple shirt and blue SaafPani Company (PSPC) He later threw her out of the house jeans, who stares directly at the cam- will launch a project of where she lay on the steps as neigh- era. Abdul Hakeem, a local resident, worth Rs120bn to pro- bours gathered to help. A woman said, “She was taken by car to a pri- vide clean drinking water using a mobile phone, in particular vate hospital but she died before she to around 17 million peo- A wildlife officials shows rare species of Indian black-spotted pond turtles after they were confiscated to speak to a male non-relative, is arrived.” Officer Mahesar said that ple in rural and peri-urban during an attempt to smuggle them to international black markets, in Karachi, yesterday. This rare seen as highly taboo among conserv- police had taken the unusual step of areas. turtle species, once found in Indus river, is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. ative elements in Pakistani society. making themselves the complainants PSPC Chief Executive Speaking from his jail cell, Hayat said: in the case, in order to avoid a loophole Officer Waseem Ajmal “She was talking to someone at the in the law that allows the relatives of Chaudhry said that the entrance of the house, I asked her the victim to forgive the killer. company was in a process who was there and she replied why “We have registered the case on of floating international are you bothered it’s none of your behalf of the state as we don’t want tenders for engineer- business, I am free to talk to anyone. to give the family the option of set- ing, procurement and 3.02 % pass in civil service exams “I just wanted to scare her off with tling the case outside court,” he said. construction (EPC) of world-class water filtra- tion technologies for the Internews 368 candidates, 220 were male while provinces and eight from Azad Kash- project. 148 were females. Of the 238 candi- mir. This year’s pass percentage is “The company will dates, 36 were appointed in Pakistan slightly better than that of 2014 when award 12 contracts to Administrative Services, 27 in Police it was merely 2.86 percent, but the cover 44 tehsils or one- ISLAMABAD: Exposing the plung- Service, 24 in Foreign Service, 24 each trend is persisting between two and third of Punjab’s rural ing standard of domestic education, in Office Management Group and three percent for the past few years population,” he said. just 3.02 percent of candidates who Pakistan Audit and Accounts Group and vacant posts are increasing with Chaudhry said the appeared in the competitive civil while 18 in Pakistan Customs Serv- every passing year. According to statis- project would continue for services examinations passed, while ice, 38 in Inland Revenue Service, 13 tics, around 24,640 candidates applied five years. “The contracts 60 percent of successful applicants in Commerce and Trade Group, 18 in to appear for the competitive exami- will be awarded in the belonged to Punjab. Information Group, seven in Military nations of 2014 against 315 vacancies. next four months through According to the results announced and Cantonment and nine in Railway Of them, 233 cleared all tests while 82 a competitive bidding by the Federal Public Service Com- Commercial Group. posts remained vacant. The number process. mission (FPSC), only 379 candidates Of the 368 candidates who passed of vacant posts was 71 seats in 2013 The government has out of a total of 12,176 aspirants passed interviews, 237 were from Punjab against 30 seats in 2012 and 45 in 2011. already agreed to allocate the written CSS examinations while which amounted to nearly 60 percent The FPSC has been making several Rs30bn for the project in only 368 cleared the interviews. of the total. There were 62 success- suggestions to improve the process of the forthcoming Annual Subsequently, only 238 candidates ful candidates from Sindh; 47 from examination system, but the govern- Development Programme were recommended by the selection Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; seven from ment has yet to respond in this regard (ADP),” he said. board for final appointments. Of the Gilgit-Baltistan, six from Balochistan since 2013. INDIA FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 09 Chopper deal: Shah dares Sonia to name payees

IANS controversy yesterday. in parliament and outside. misdeed are outside the country,” the The defence ministry statment said The Congress, which has already defence ministry said in the statement. The Congress, that the government and all investigat- demanded that “the government should The investigation agencies are purs- however, sought to ing agencies, including Central Bureau complete the inquiry and punish the ing “all aspects, including the arrests NEW DELHI: The confrontation over of Investigation (CBI) and Enforce- culprits”, alleged that the BJP was more and extradition of foreign nationals the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal dismiss the pointed ment Directorate, will “leave no stone keen to keep the “pot boiling”. Carlo Gerosa, Guido Haschke Ralph yesterday snowballed to a new high demand and said unturned” to bring out the truth. Congress spokesman Abhishek and Christian Michel James, the gov- with BJP president Amit Shah (pic- Amit Shah’s remarks and the Singhvi said the Italy court mention- ernment said. tured) asking Congress chief Sonia that the Bharatiya defence ministry’s statement came ing names of Congress president Sonia “My request is that the govern- Gandhi to name the persons who got Janata Party (BJP) within hours after Prime Minister Gandhi and others was just a “descrip- ment should complete the inquiry “kickbacks” in the $750m deal. Narendra Modi chaired a meeting tive reference”. and punish the culprits. They must “It has been established by an Ital- just wanted to keep with his senior ministers over the “Repeating it (the issue) will not speed up inquiry on the chopper ian court that kickbacks were given. the pot boiling. scam. make it serious in nature. You (BJP) just deal,” former defence minister A K Rather than saying she (Sonia) is not The meeting was attended by Home want to keep the pot boiling to divert Antony has said. afraid of anyone, she should clarify Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minis- attention of the people,” Singhvi said. On Wednesday, taking a combative who received the kickbacks,” Shah launched a two-pronged attack ter Arun Jaitley, Parliamentary Affairs “The present government has taken stand, Congress president Sonia Gandhi told reporters in New Delhi yesterday. against the Congress on the 2010 Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and his effective action to bring out the truth and former prime minister Manmohan The Congress, however, sought to deal for 12 VVIP helicopters. junior Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in parlia- and will leave no stone unturned in Singh dismissed the bribery charges dismiss the pointed demand and said The Italian court order, according ment shortly before both houses met pursuing all means to bring to justice in the chopper scam. that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to media reports, also showed that the Besides the BJP president Amit for the day. the corrupt and the wrong-doers in Sonia Gandhi said she was “not just wanted to “keep the pot boiling”. firm lobbied with Congress president Shah directing its attack on the Con- Sources said that the prime minister this case.” afraid” and dubbed the allegations as Stepping up the pressure on the Sonia Gandhi and her close aides and gress, the defence ministry issued at the meeting discussed the govern- The time taken is largely because false. Manmohan Singh and A.K. Antony Congress, the ruling establishment then prime minister Manmohan Singh. its first official statement on the ment’s further strategy to over the issue some of the key perpetrators of this also echoed the sentiment.

Chandy files Master-y gained Final navigation satellite defamation case against launched successfully

Achuthanandan IANS regional coverage and Europe’s Gal- ileo is yet to be operational. India will formally join the select IANS group of nations owing such system SRIHARIKOTA: India yesterday after- once IRNSS is declared operational noon successfully put into orbit its after checking the systems. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ker- seventh and final navigation satel- According to ISRO, the applica- ala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy lite —IRNSS-1G - with its own rocket tions of IRNSS are: terrestrial, aerial yesterday filed a Rs1 lakh defama- in copy-book style. and marine navigation, vehicle track- tion case against CPI-M leader V S With this, India successfully com- ing and fleet management, terrestrial Achuthanandan after he said there pleted putting into orbit all the seven navigation for hikers and travellers, were 136 cases of corruption against navigation satellites to complete the disaster management, integration Chandy and his cabinet colleagues. system in the sky. with mobile phones, mapping and Achuthanandan, at an election Exactly at 12.50pm the PSLV rocket geodetic data capture and visual and rally in Kannur earlier this week, standing 44.4 metres tall and weigh- voice navigation for drivers. said there were as many as 31 cases ing 320 tonnes tore into the afternoon In other words, IRNSS could be of corruption registered against the skies with fierce orange flames at its said to be the “Indian GPS”. chief minister. tail. Gathering speed every second, Apart from the civilian appli- Chandy threatened that if the rocket raced towards the heav- cations, the IRNSS will be used for Indian students share a light moment as they pose after receiving their MA(English) degrees during Achuthanandan did not withdraw ens amidst the cheers of Indian Space defence purposes as well. his statement, he would take legal the 45th convocation at BBK DAV College for women in Amritsar, yesterday. Research Organisation (ISRO) offi- ”The launch was succesfull,” ISRO steps. cials and the media team assembled chairman A SKiran Kumar said. soon In his petition filed at a court at the rocket port here. after. ISRO will raise the satellite to its here, Chandy said Achuthanandan At the rocket mission control room, home slot over the next couple of days. made the “baseless” statement to scientists were glued to their com- The satellite, with a life-span of 12 belittle him and his colleagues ahead Ex-actress under puter screens watching the rocket years, has two payloads for navigation of the May 16 Kerala assembly polls. India asks UK to deport escaping the earth’s gravitational pull. and ranging. The navigation payload Earlier yesterday, Chandy in Just over 20 minutes into the flight, of IRNSS-1G will transmit signals to his Facebook page said that while probe in the PSLV rocket ejected its sole pas- the users on the L5-band and S-band. there was not a single case against senger - IRNSS-1F - at an altitude of A highly accurate rubidium atomic him or his cabinet ministers, there embattled Mallya narcotics racket 488.9 km. Soon after this, the sat- clock is part of the navigation payload. were cases against Achuthanandan ellite’s solar panels were deployed. The ranging payload consists of and quite a few candidates from The satellite’s control was then a C-band transponder (automatic the Left Front opposition. Reuters The move was a step towards IANS taken over by the Mission Control receivers and transmitters of radio Chandy said there was a cor- launching a bid to bring home Mallya, Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka. signals) which facilitates accurate ruption case filed with the vigilance who is the subject of a non-bailable The MCF will manage the satel- determination of range of the satellite. department against Achuthanan- warrant issued by a special judge MUMBAI: Former Bollywood lite’s orbit raising operations firing An Indian-owned satellite naviga- dan in a land deal case. NEW DELHI: India yesterday said in Mumbai. actress Mamta Kulkarni and her the on-board motors till it is placed tion system is crucial to get positional He said the Left Front candi- it had asked Britain to deport Vijay The Enforcement Directorate, a Kenya-based husband Vicky Gos- in its slotted orbit. accuracy during war or a war-like sit- date from Azhikode, M V Nikesh Mallya, the liquor tycoon who flew to government agency set up to fight wami have come under the scanner The Indian Regional Navigation uation as the country may be denied Kumar — a journalist who co-owns London last month as bankers pressed financial crime, has accused Mallya’s of police and enforcement agen- Satellite System (IRNSS) is similar to such information by countries owing the Reporter TV channel—said in him to repay about $1.4bn owed by UB Group of using Rs 4.3bn ($64.5m) cies in connection with a Rs 2,000 the GPS (global positioning system) of similar systems. The system will pro- his affidavit that there were 54 his defunct Kingfisher Airlines. of bank loans to Kingfisher to buy crore narcotics racket unearthed in the US, Glonass of Russia and Galileo vide accurate position information cases against him for dishonour The Ministry of External Affairs property overseas. Thane, a senior police officer said. of Europe as well as China’s Beidou. service to users across the country of cheques. has written to the British High Com- Creditors, led by the State Bank of Last week, the Thane police While GPS and Glonass are fully and the region, extending up to an The chief minister said CPI-M mission seeking Mallya’s return so India, have rejected an offer of par- seized 18.50 tonnes of ephedrine and functional global systems, the Chi- area of 1,500 km. The full system politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan that “his presence can be secured tial repayment by Mallya, who had 2.50 tonnes of acetic anhydride, both nese and the Japanese systems offer comprises nine satellites. is named in the SNC Lavalin cor- for investigations against him” under given a personal guarantee for the banned party drugs from a pharma- ruption case that is being heard in India’s anti-moneylaundering law, Kingfisher loan. ceutical factory in Solapur and other the Kerala High Court. spokesman Vikas Swarup told report- The banks have demanded that locations in Thane and Mumbai. Chandy said other leaders con- ers in New Delhi yesterday. the former billionaire attend a hear- “It is an international racket and testing from the Left opposition who The liquor tycoon and Formula ing in India’s Supreme Court. Vicky Goswami is the main link have cases against them include T 1 boss has not disclosed his where- Mallya, traced by Indian reporters in it. As for Mamta Kulkarni, we V Rajesh, James Mathew, Antony abouts since flying first class from to a country residence in Hertford- shall probe her role in the matter,” Raju, A A Rasheed and Naushad. Delhi to London on March 2, leaving shire, has said he would comply with Thane Police Commissioner Par- “The truth is that while there the Indian government and bankers the law. ambir Singh said. Eight persons, are no cases against me or my cab- red faced as they try to crack down The British Home Office, which including Nigerian Sipren Chinassa, inet ministers, there are cases on high-profile defaulters. adjudicates in such cases, declined have been arrested in what could against Achuthanandan and others The foreign ministry on last Sun- to commenton India’s demand. A be India’s biggest drug haul. The and by now the people of Ker- day revoked Mallya’s diplomatic spokesman said its policy was neither Maharashtra and Gujarat police ala have come to know the truth,” passport that he carried as a mem- to confirm nor deny that extradition are on the lookout for at least four said Chandy. ber of parliament’s upper house. requests have been made. other people who are on the run. Teenager takes grandmother’s job to feed family

Reuters “But my grandmother can’t work, credited with reducing rural poverty, and there is no one else.” curbing school dropout rates, empow- There are 5.7 million child work- ering women and improving financial ers in India aged between five and 17. inclusion of rural populations. DUNGARPUR: For Anita (pictured), More than half the children work Thanks to MGNREGA, the women the eldest daughter in a family in Rajas- in agriculture, toiling in cotton, sugar- sometimes stay behind to earn about than, a family tragedy means she has cane and rice paddy fields, and over Rs 180 ($3) a day working on construc- had to leave school and go to work, a quarter in manufacturing, embroi- tion sites or on highways. unlike her friends, doing an adult job dering clothes, weaving carpets or A Rajasthan state MGNREGA officer though she is only 14. making matchsticks. said no children were employed in After sudden death of Anita’s father, In recent years, another option has the scheme. her mother abandoned the three chil- opened up for Anita and thousands of Non-profit Save the Children has dren to the care of their grandmother children like her: the Mahatma Gandhi had some success persuading parents in Mandwa village. Struggling to raise National Rural Employment Guaran- in Dungarpur district that they must them on a meagre widow’s pension, “I liked going to school. My best tee Act. Enacted in 2005, it provides educate their children and not send the grandmother pulled Anita out of friend still goes to school,” said Anita, 100 days of employment a year to one them out to work. It also works with PSLV-C33, carrying India’s seventh navigation satellite IRNSS-1G school four years ago to do the house- who fetches water, cooks and tends to adult member of every rural house- government officials to stop children work, then sent the girl to take over her the family’s goats before she sets off hold. A third of the jobs are reserved from working in MGNREGA jobs in takes off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in government job on a construction site. for her 9-to-5 working day. for women.The job scheme has been Dungarpur. Sriharikota, yesterday. 10 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Swearing before swearing-in Global warming could deplete ormer US House Speaker John Boehner’s use of intemperate language for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz brings the vitriolic campaign to the oceans’ oxygen levels a point of inflection wherein the ‘swearing curve’, so to say, is showing a steep climb. Being a Republican Fhimself, Boehner’s indignation towards the divisive Cruz is understandable. The Texas Senator was one of the main the human role in driving wide- how much oxygen waters around However, it is also worth not- politicians who brought the House of Representatives to a halt in spread ocean oxygen loss will be the world contain, due to factors ing that some regions don’t show even more apparent if greenhouse such as ever-shifting interactions a trend even out to the year 2100. 2013. gas emissions continue unchecked. between the oceans and atmos- So the impact would be highly var- The use of unparliamentary language in the US presidential “Its fairly widespread detec- phere, and the way ocean life iable over the world. election has been more of a political issue than a cultural one. tion….is basically evident in the responds to these changes. “There is a lot of variability in First, it was the incorrigible Donald Trump who used denigrating 2030s to 2040s decade,” Long said. The new study thus aims to ocean oxygen, and it is a detec- language for a Fox News presenter. His use of the term had And that could have major con- solve this “signal-to-noise prob- tion problem,” Long said, “but this the feminist, political and social establishments baying for the sequences for marine organisms. lem,” using a high-powered climate inexorable force of human-induced “Metabolic rate processes increase model that couples together both warming will clearly result in wide- tycoon’s blood. as a function of temperature, so the atmosphere and ocean. The spread ocean deoxygenation in the The gravitas and poise becoming of a presidential candidate, as warming increases, organisms authors ran multiple simulations, future.” so much on display in the past, is now By Chris Mooney actually require more oxygen to starting in the year 1920 and run- What’s most novel about the a thing not to be aspired for. That is The Washington Post function, and as oxygen declines, ning through the year 2100 - a research is not the general con- what the changing times tell us. While basically what it will cause is a con- key assumption being that global cept but the sense of its timing, said With former Cruz has been invoking the almighty’s traction of viable habitat for a host emissions remain at a high level Donald Boesch, president of the name in his speeches, Trump has gone n the long list of troubling of organisms,” Long said. throughout the century. (In other University of Maryland Center for House climate change scenarios, The problem won’t be as bad at words, actions taken today could Environmental Science. “The high Speaker John berserk with the English language. there’s one that gets relatively the ocean surface, where there is still take us off this dire pathway.) likelihood of deoxygenation in the When cornered, he sounds ill at ease little attention, but definitely oxygen exchange with the atmos- This approach allowed for deep sea has long been predicted,” Boehner and tried to shoot from the hip. has enormous potential con- phere and a major oxygen source in a statistical detection of when Boesch said by email. The new study joining the While the campaigns of Ronald Isequences. It goes like this: the form of marine phytoplankton, ocean oxygen trends move deci- “is not really a new finding, but a slanging Reagan, George W Bush and Barack The oceans are getting warmer which give off oxygen through the sively downward due to climate useful analysis of the detectabil- Obama are known for their largely - they are, after all, where 90 per- process of photosynthesis. Rather, change. And here were the results, ity of the changes.” cent of global warming actually it will most severely impact deeper courtesy of the National Center for “This latest study adds one more match, the US pacifist content, the current battle ends up. And when they warm up waters of what the study calls Atmospheric Research: item to the list of insults we are presidential for the highest office in the United they expand, because that’s what the “ocean interior,” which will Deoxgenation due to climate inflicting on the oceans through our race will be States and arguably the most powerful warm water does. This raises our no longer receive as much of an change is already detectable in continued burning of fossil fuels,” known more position in the world has been riven by sea levels, but it also has another exchange of oxygen-rich waters some parts of the ocean. New said Penn State University climate personal remarks and a lot of mud- effect - it reduces the amount of with the surface. research from NCAR finds that scientist Michael Mann. “Ocean life for its use of slinging in the hope that some if it oxygen dissolved in the water. That’s Long’s isn’t the first report to it will likely become widespread and marine ecosystems must now foul language. sticks. Trump even made unsavoury simply physics: Warmer water con- warn of this problem. “A major con- between 2030 and 2040. Other simultaneously contend with the tains less oxygen. cern is that these so-called oxygen parts of the ocean will not have triple threat of warming waters, comments about Cruz’s spouse. In But it’s worse: If surface water minimum zones (OMZs) will expand detectable loss of oxygen due to increased acidity, and now-we’re response, the livid Texas Senator is warmer, it doesn’t mix down as in the future as the upper ocean climate change even by 2100. learning-lower oxygen levels. Any responded with alacrity. much into the ocean depths any warms and becomes more strati- Many of the changes occur quite one of these challenges alone would Even the relatively soft-spoken Hillary Clinton is seen to be longer. It’s less dense, and so less fied,” wrote the Scripps Institution soon in this modelling exercise - be daunting.” aggressive in her speeches and the former Secretary of State has capable of doing that. That means of Oceanography’s Ralph Keeling within 20 to 30 years. High levels Recently learning that “93% of been recently known not to pull her punches. Trump got back that oxygen that enters the ocean and two colleagues in 2010. of greenhouse gas emissions, the the Great Barrier Reef has experi- in its upper layers - either through But what’s new about the study reports, produce a “sharp enced bleaching in response to the at her in one of his recent speeches by saying that the Democrat exchange with the atmosphere, or current study is the use of a sophis- acceleration of oceanic deoxygen- unprecedented current warmth of wouldn’t have got a fraction of the vote if she were not a woman. because it is generated by tiny pho- ticated climate change modelling ation in the first half of the 21st the oceans, we have yet another A billionaire, a cultivated former Secretary of State and a tosynthesizing microorganisms, process to try to determine precisely century.” Indeed, the study finds, in reason to be gravely concerned right-leaning politician have been locked in a war of words that called phytoplankton, that hang when a less oxygen-rich ocean will some regions the trend may already about the health of our oceans, often gets murky. The muck flying around in the election scene out up there - won’t mix down into manifest itself in a way that can be be happening and could theoret- and yet another reason to priori- has got messier to the extent that there has also been mention of the deep as often. attributed to human-induced cli- ically be detectable, if measuring tise the rapid decarbonisation of the male organ. “What’s happening is, there’s a mate change. This is difficult to capabilities were good enough and our economy,” Mann added. physical mechanism that impedes determine because there is a large records went far enough back in It doesn’t help that other While poise and decency have been thrown to the winds, the the delivery of surface waters into amount of natural variability in time to capture a trend. research suggests that the world’s brusque and blunt American stereotype has been reinforced by the interior,” said Matthew Long, an oceans have gone through oxy- the way the candidates behave. An attempt at the US presidency oceanographer with the National gen depletion events before, in the needs to go beyond the use of pejoratives and foul language. Center for Atmospheric Research distant past - one place where sci- who is lead author of a troubling entists always look to determine new study on what scientists call where we might be heading. Such the “deoxygenation” of the oceans. past events were “often associated The work appeared in Global Bio- with evidence of warmer climate geochemical Cycles, co-authoured conditions, rises in sea level, and with Curtis Deutsch of the Univer- occasionally with mass extinc- Quote of the day sity of Washington and Taka Ito of tions,” noted a 2010 review study the Georgia Institute of Technology. on ocean deoxygenation under cli- You must not squander The problem is that marine life mate warming. the opportunity presented needs oxygen. If there’s less of it, “Although their cause remains that could expand the number of uncertain, their occurrence under- by talks in Geneva and by areas sometimes called “oxygen scores the potential vulnerability of the cessation of hostilities minimum zones” where plants, the oceanic O2 supply in warmer to put an end to the fish and other organisms would climates.” massive human suffering struggle to survive. Long, for his part, also high- Now, in the new study, Long lights that deoxygenation will be in Syria. and his colleagues have found operating in combination with other that some parts of the ocean are trends like overall warming and Stephen O’Brien already likely showing an oxygen acidification to imperil the oceans. UN Under-Secretary General for deficiency, due to the effects of glo- “These things are pushing Humanitarian Affairs bal warming. And by around the Penguins in Antarctica, a dream destination for tourists. the marine system into unknown year 2030, their model suggests, places,” he said.

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By Hasan Tosun Anatolia

he victory of a far-right candidate in Sunday’s first round of presiden- Ttial election in Austria has put the “right-left struggle” back in the spotlight. The win follows the rise of far-right movements in other European countries, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, France and Germany. While far-right supporters across Europe think that these victories have strengthened the “patriotic front”, social democrats are calling on all anti-fascists to keep the rightists away from power. The victory in Austria is considered a “great success” since it is the first time a far-right candidate got the highest number of votes in a presidential election in the country’s history since 1945. According to results of Sunday’s first- round vote, Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer got 36.4 percent of votes, whereas Green Party candidate Alexan- der Van der Bellen garnered 20.4 percent. Presidential candidate of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Norbert Hofer (right), Presidential candidate of Green Party, Alexander Van der Bellen (centre) and former The independent candidate Irmgard Griss president of the Court of Cassation Irmgard Griss attend a TV programme at Governmental TV channel ORF in Vienna, Austria. got 18.5 percent votes. Hofer and Bellen will face off in the second round on May 22. a problem, altogether. the right to appoint and dissolve a gov- Haider was not able to assume an active % Why did people vote for a far-right Another reason seems to be the nomi- ernment. If elected, Hofer will inevitably role in the coalition government of 1999 party? nation of old and lackluster politicians by appoint the Freedom Party chairman, due to international protests and sanctions The main reason behind Hofer’s vic- coalition parties in power. The far right- Christian-Heinz Strache, to form a new by some European countries. The victory in Austria is considered tory is regarded as public discontent and wing party, on the other hand, decided government. Rightists, who are well aware of Haid- lack of trust in the current coalition gov- to go for a young, dynamic and charis- A snap election or the general elec- er’s experience, have recently made serious a “great success” since it is the ernment, which is formed by two centrist matic figure, who also happens to be a tion scheduled for 2018 could result in the changes to their EU and Israel policies. first time a far-right candidate got parties, the Social Democratic Party of good orator. replacement of the current coalition with Strache, for one, avoids criticizing the EU the highest number of votes in a Austria (SPO) and the Austrian People’s % What happens in second round? a right-wing government. This means that in general, stressing instead the need to Party (OVP). Current opinion polls show that both Strache will be the prime minister in a coa- maintain the Christian culture and tradi- presidential election in the country’s The refugee crisis, economic reces- Hoffer and Bellen’s votes are very close. lition government at the very least. tion in Europe. history since 1945. sion and rising unemployment rates in the Those who do not want to have a right- % Even if they come to power, can they Last month, Strache visited Israel with country are some of the reasons why ana- wing president will vote for Bellen, while have actual power? a seven-member delegation, which was lysts believe the electorate voted for Hofer. those who do not want a pro-refugee pres- Even if a far-right party comes to regarded as a search for legitimacy in the There is serious concern among locals ident will go for Hofer. power, they may not be allowed to really eyes of global powers. Considered pro- regarding the refugee influx. People do % Towards a right-wing government take charge. One only needs to recall the Nazi and anti-Semitic, Strache’s visited the not want refugees in their country and In case Hofer is elected president, this example of Jorg Haider, a former prime Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, which voted for a far-right candidate, who they may be the end of the current coalition minister of the Austrian state of Carinthia. was seen as an effort towards normalis- believe would eradicate, what they consider government as Austrian presidents have A fierce critic of the EU, US and Israel, ing relations. Populism has run through US politics for a very long time

By Bart Bonikowski & the streets, all you got was a tax increase […] can vary across campaigns. Seven of the pol- Noam Gidron If you were a slick Washington operator, you iticians we examined ran for office multiple The Washington Post got whatever you wanted. I think we ought to times, either after losing a campaign or as sit- turn all that around and go back to good old ting presidents running for reelection. All of American common sense.” them adjusted their campaign rhetoric as they We treat this passage as populist because did so, partly because the circumstances men- opulism is hard to ignore in the current it juxtaposes the people (hard-working Amer- tioned above - their previous role in politics, primary elections. Donald Trump, the self- icans, like those “cleaning up the streets”) with length of their career, etc. - had changed. Pdescribed political outsider, is promising the elites (“slick Washington operator[s]”) and For instance, in 1952, 42 percent of Dwight to “make America great again” by defending the accuses the latter of a moral transgression D Eisenhower’s speeches contained populist people against Washington insiders, whom he (serving the interests of big business). language, compared with only 11 percent in portrays as self-interested, corrupt and incom- Who uses populist rhetoric and why? 1956, when he could no longer claim to be an petent. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont touts his Although many of the current media discus- outsider. Similarly, Clinton was more populist track record as a longtime advocate of work- sions focus on populism among Republicans, in 1992 than in 1996, by 28 percentage points, ing people, ready to take on Wall Street and a the excerpt above comes from a speech by a as was Nixon in 1970 compared with 1974, by corrupt campaign finance system. Democratic candidate. This illustrates our first 14 points. This suggests that populism isn’t a As a result, many pundits proclaim that major finding, which is consistent with his- specific candidate’s fixed ideology but rather this election is ushering in a new era of pop- torical research on the topic: For the past 60 a carefully crafted campaign strategy. ulist politics. years, populism has been a recurrent feature What does this tell us about the 2016 But is populism really uncommon in US of US presidential elections among candidates election? presidential discourse? Our analysis of the from both parties. Yet while both Democrats Given all of this, it is no surprise that Trump past 12 presidential elections, presented in a and Republicans have relied on populism, they - and for that matter, Sanders - are relying on forthcoming Social Forces article, suggests have done so in distinct ways: Democratic can- populism. Both are self-described political out- otherwise. Populism appears frequently in didates tend to attack economic elites, while siders, the most likely political actors to use presidential campaigns, and it does so in a most Republicans target elected politicians anti-elite language. At the same time, pundits patterned and predictable way. and bureaucrats. may be right to claim that Trump will even- What counts as populism? Second, we find that the farther away a tually tone down his rhetoric (he may already We examined all of the speeches given by candidate is from Washington’s corridors of be doing so), as other candidates have when Democratic and Republican presidential candi- power, the more likely he is to use populist nearing Election Day. dates between 1952 and 1996 in the two months language (all of the candidates in our data But Trump’s rhetoric has one unique before Election Day (no speeches were avail- were men). Sitting presidents and former vice feature: He has adopted a kind of economic able for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign). presidents are the least likely to make popu- populism that’s more often used by Democrats Using a combination of close reading and auto- list claims, followed by members of Congress - and by European radical-right politicians - mated methods, we identified speeches that and then by governors, and finally by candi- than by Republican candidates. Thus far, this contained populist language. Like other schol- dates who do not hold an elected position when unorthodox strategy - combined with nation- ars, we defined populism as a moral opposition running for office. Politicians with lengthy alism, dog-whistle politics and crude attacks between the people, seen as the rightful source careers tend to use populism less often than Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses supporters during a rally on his opponents - has benefited Trump in of political power, and corrupt elites, who have those with shorter political résumés. at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis, yesterday. the primary. abandoned the common good for the pursuit Third, politicians vary in how much they Whether this approach will continue to of their own interests. rely on populism, depending on their audience be effective in the general election is yet to be An excerpt from Bill Clinton’s 1992 speech and the campaign’s stage. Challengers begin challengers but gradually adjust their rhetoric to rely on populism when giving speeches in the seen. Whatever the outcome, one thing appears illustrates this type of political talk: with populist appeals that cater to their base over time to more closely match their popu- Northeast; Democrats have been most likely to be clear: The populist style in US politics “If you wanted to do something to pol- and then use more moderate language when list opponents. Candidates also use populist to use populism in the labour-dominated Mid- has a long history in both parties, and it con- lute the environment, you got quick access in speaking to a general audience. By contrast, language where it is likely to resonate most: west and urban Northeast. tinues to shape presidential rhetoric today in Washington, but if your job was cleaning up incumbents are less populist at the outset than Historically, Republicans have been least likely Finally, the same candidate’s use of populism patterned ways.

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All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 12 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 UK / EUROPE Violent clashes erupt at French protests Italy detains He called on organisers to “con- suspects over demn these excesses by a handful of Opponents to the hooligans with the same firmness possible attacks reform, say it will as my own.” The demonstrations as well as work stoppages, notably in the threaten cherished aviation and public transport sectors, MILAN: Italian police workers’ rights and were the latest actions in a protest wave issued arrest warrants deepen job insecurity that began two months ago. yesterday for six people Opponents of the reform, billed suspected of conspir- among young people. as an effort to reduce chronic unem- ing to join Islamic State, ployment—which stands at 10 percent and court documents overall—say it will threaten cherished said three of them had workers’ rights and deepen job inse- been discussing possi- AFP curity for young people. ble attacks on the Vatican “Be Young and Shut Up!” read one and the Israeli embassy in banner at a protest in southwestern Rome. Toulouse, highlighting the frustration Four of the suspects - PARIS: Violence flared in Paris and of youths facing an unemployment a couple living near Lake other French cities yesterday as at least rate of 25 percent. Como, a 23-year-old- 170,000 workers and students made “Over the past 10 years or so things man and a woman, all of a new push for the withdrawal of a have deteriorated horribly for young them Moroccans - were hotly contested labour bill. people,” said retiree Gilles Cavaliere detained in Italy yester- Security forces in the French capi- at the Lyon protest. day , Milan prosecutor tal responded with teargas as masked Striking aviation workers yester- Maurizio Romanelli told a youths threw bottles and cobblestones day also caused one in five flights to news conference. at security forces, leaving three police- be cancelled at Paris’s Orly airport, The other two - a Smoke rises from burning barricades as trade unionists block roads in Le Havre, northwestern France, men with serious injuries, Interior while delays were reported at Charles Moroccan man and his yesterday. Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said, add- de Gaulle airport. And newsstands Italian wife - left Italy last ing that 24 police were injured overall. were devoid of national dailies after year, travelled to Iraq and Clashes between police and protest- printers downed tools. when parliament begins debating committee, said yesterday that sev- workers in lean times, and whether Syria and are still on the ers also erupted in the cities of Nantes, The unions and student organi- the bill. eral points still needed “clarification” employers should still be allowed loose, Romanelli added. Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse, with sations plan to mount pressure with Christophe Sirugue, the Socialist but that he expected the bill to pass. to shed workers if conditions are 124 people arrested nationwide, Caze- further protests on Sunday to mark lawmaker who is presenting the bill Among the remaining issues are depressed in their overseas opera- neuve said in Lyon. the May Day, as well as next Tuesday, to parliament after it was reviewed in measures to make it easier to lay off tions and not just in France. Ram-raiders strike Paris Serbs to revote in some areas after rigging Chanel boutique UK expats lose legal Paris: Thieves launched a dawn raid yesterday on Reuters claiming election fraud. Vucic 15 polling stations around the coun- a Paris branch of luxury responded by accusing the opposi- try, totalling 16,678 voters, although brand Chanel, crashing battle for EU vote tion of attempting to rig the vote and there would be no nationwide recount. a 4x4 into the store and influence the Election Commission. Counting of valid votes, still going stealing several hand- BELGRADE: Serbia will re-run voting Scattered abuses were reported on after the election, is expected to bags, police said. AFP He also rejected the claims that at 15 polling stations after days of bick- including missing or vandalised bal- be completed soon, the commission The raiders then the 15-year time limit was arbitrary. ering among the ruling and opposition lots, more votes cast than voters, people said in a statement. appear to have set the “In attempting to identify a point parties over alleged irregularities in voting without identification and one While the affected polling places vehicle alight, causing at which extended residence abroad Sunday’s election, a move that could case where a drunkard smashed bal- comprise a tiny proportion of the 8,549 damage to the shop front LONDON: A British World War II vet- might indicate weakening of ties with significantly affect the outcome. lot boxes. voting stations nationwide, the impact and nearby cars, before eran living in Italy yesterday lost his the United Kingdom, a bright line rule Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, International observers, including could be significant because two polit- fleeing the scene on legal challenge against a rule barring is required, drawing the line at a spe- who wants to take Serbia into the Euro- rights bodies Council of Europe and the ical groups are a whisker above the scooters, police sources long-term expatriates from voting in cific point.” pean Union, won the election with 48 Organisation for Security and Coop- five percent threshold needed to enter said. Britain’s European Union referendum. Leigh Day lawyer Richard Stein percent of the vote, unchanged from eration in Europe, said fundamental parliament. The robbery is the lat- High Court judge David Lloyd said they would take the legal battle 2014. But his Progressive Party’s major- freedoms were respected although Those two are the Democratic est in a string of crimes Jones rejected claims by Harry to the Supreme Court, the highest ity in parliament was reduced as more there was biased media coverage, Party of Serbia (DSS)/Dveri, an ultra- targeting upmarket Shindler, 94, and his co-claimant, court in the country, “so that all Brit- parties attained the five percent vote undue advantage for incumbents and nationalist grouping that media reports retailers in Paris. The tar- Belgium resident Jacquelyn MacLen- ish citizens living elsewhere in the threshold needed for seats. a blurring of state and party activities. say is just 48 ballots above the thresh- geted Chanel store is on nan, that the rule restricted their EU can be part of the democratic A day after the vote, left-wing After considering the complaints, old. A leftist alliance grouped around the Avenue Montaigne, rights to freedom of movement under process to vote in this referendum, and ultra-nationalist opposition par- the Election Commission said the vote former president Boris Tadic is also minutes away from the European law. which will have a very real impact ties teamed up to demand a recount, would be repeated within a week at just above it. Champs-Elysees and The judge told London’s High on their lives. close to the presidential Court that the 2015 referendum act “We believe that there is prece- palace. “is not a restriction on the rights of dent for fast-track legislation being free movement.” put through parliament in a matter Lawyers acting for the expats of days in response to court judge- Back to the snow Ex-London mayor said they will seek leave to appeal ment, so there would be no need for the decision. the referendum to be delayed if the suspended for The ruling is a relief for the gov- Supreme Court rules in our favour.” ernment, whose lawyers argued that Shindler, who fought in Italy dur- Hitler remarks a decision in favour of the claimants ing World War II and retired to the could have made it impossible to hold country in 1982, lost a challenge to London: Britain’s oppo- the membership referendum on June the 15-year general election rule at sition Labour Party 23, as planned. the European Court of Human Rights yesterday suspended Britons who have lived abroad in 2013. former London mayor Ken for more than 15 years are prohib- “It leaves us speechless to think Livingstone after he said ited from voting in British general anyone can stand up in parliament and Adolf Hitler supported elections and as a result cannot par- deny another Brit the right to vote,” Zionism, in a furious row ticipate in the vote. Shindler said before the judgement. over anti-Semitism that is Irish people and citizens of Com- An estimated 1.2 million Britons dividing the party. monwealth countries living in Britain, live in other parts of the European “Ken Livingstone has as well as inhabitants of Gibraltar, Union, according to a parliamentary been suspended by the are allowed to vote. report, and many are concerned about Labour Party, pending an Lawyers from Leigh Day solicitors the impact that a so-called Brexit investigation, for bringing argued that Brexit would mean the would have on their rights. the party into disrepute,” claimants were no longer EU citizens Leigh Day claimed that up to two a Labour spokesman said. and therefore no longer afforded the million people could be affected. Livingstone told BBC rights of free movement which flow A government spokesman said the radio: “When Hitler won from EU citizenship. franchise issue had been “debated, his election in 1932 his “The 15 year rule is neither an considered and agreed” by parliament. policy then was that express restriction on free movement A petition to allow all British Jews should be moved to nor is it in substance a disguised or expatriates to vote in the referen- A view of Giewont mountain covered with snow in Zakopane, Poland, yesterday. Winter weather is Israel. He was supporting inherent restriction on free move- dum, launched in November, has back at the Tatra Mountains after heavy snowfall. Zionism before he went ment,” Lloyd Jones concluded. attracted over 18,000 signatures. mad and ended up killing six million Jews”. French House Russia launches first rocket from new spaceport in second attempt concerned over

Reuters Roscosmos as saying. launch, when he criticised Roscos- Russia sanctions The launch was called off less mos and government officials for a than two minutes before the lift-off large number of technical hitches in Paris: The French parlia- on Wednesday, upsetting President the space industry, saying that “there ment yesterday adopted MOSCOW: Russia launched its inau- Vladimir Putin. He had flown thou- should be an appropriate reaction”. a resolution urging the gural rocket from a new cosmodrome sands of kilometres to watch what Delays and corruption have blighted government not to back yesterday, a day after a technical glitch officials touted as an historic event. work on the new cosmodrome. A Euro- the extension of sanc- thwarted the much-publicised event in “I want to congratulate you. There pean Space Agency launch in French tions against Russia over a sign of continued crisis in the nation’s is something to be proud of,” Putin told Guiana, using a similar Russian Soyuz the conflict in eastern space industry. cosmodrome workers and Roscos- rocket, was also delayed by technical Ukraine. An unmanned Soyuz-2.1A rocket mos officials after watching Thursday’s problems this month. Thierry Mariani, a law- carrying three satellites roared off launch at Vostochny, Russian media Problems with Russian space maker with conservative into sky from the launch pad at Vos- reported. rockets are worrisome not just for the Republicans party, said tochny cosmodrome in the remote “The equipment overreached itself Kremlin but also for the United States that two years after the Amur Region near China’s border at a little bit yesterday,” he said. “In prin- space programme. Nasa has depended conflict began between 0201 GMT, state television showed. ciple, we could have held the launch on Russia to fly its astronauts to the Kiev and Moscow-backed The satellites separated from the yesterday, but the equipment overdid International Space Station since it separatists, the EU sanc- rocket’s third stage about nine minutes its job and stopped the launch. This is retired its space shuttle. tions had proved “totally A Russian Soyuz 2.1A rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and into the flight, heading to their desig- a normal thing.” The Soviet Union pioneered ineffective.” SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny nated orbits, Russian news agencies His remarks contrasted his tough manned space flight when it fired Yuri cosmodrome, yesterday. quoted officials from the space agency words after Wednesday’s aborted Gagarin into space in 1961. AMERICAS FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 13 Hillary cashing in 3 connected to on gender to get San Bernardino shooter arrested

LOS ANGELES: Three votes: Trump people connected to one of the San Ber- nardino shooters, Syed attractive to some supporters —as a Rizwan Farook, have mold-breaker. “The only thing she’s got been arrested in a mar- Like other going is the fact that she’s a woman,” riage fraud conspiracy, controversial remarks Trump said yesterday on NBC’s Today including his brother and show, refusing to back down from sister-in-law, federal pros- during his campaign, targeting Clinton for what he called ecutors said yesterday. the Republican front “playing the woman’s card.” The third person runner’s comments Trump’s remarks, reaching into an arrested is the wife of area of gender attacks that is conven- Enrique Marquez Jr., a drew criticism from a tionally seen as off limits, energised friend of Farook’s who wide spectrum. Democrats. has been charged for his “Keep talking, Donald Trump,” alleged role in aiding the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre Democratic Committee National violence, the U.S. Attor- Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ney’s Office said. The two Schultz said. “Every single day when women arrested are Rus- Reuters Donald Trump opens his mouth, he sian immigrants. does more to alienate women.” Cruz is ‘Lucifer in flesh’: Ex-Speaker Prosecutors say the Trump, who can be as free with three participated in a his personal attacks on men, has con- marriage fraud conspiracy WASHINGTON: Republican presi- sistently polled poorly with women. AFP with almost everyone, but I have never is energising and encouraging House that involved lying under dential front-runner Donald Trump Democrats and Republicans both worked with a more miserable in my life.” conservatives to stand with the Amer- oath to obtain immigra- waded into politically risky territory accuse Trump of sexism over ver- Boehner’s remarks were made at ican people and actually honour the tion benefits. The arrests when he accused Democrat Hillary bal insults lobbed at Fox News anchor a public talk at Stanford University in commitments we have made,” he said. came after the FBI and Clinton of exploiting her gender to Megyn Kelly and former Republican WASHINGTON: Former US House Palo Alto, California. Asked about the During his tenure as the top law- law enforcement agen- win votes and said she would have presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. speaker John Boehner, who stepped comments while campaigning in Indi- maker in Congress, Boehner rarely held cies served warrants in little support if she were not a woman. Trump’s closest Republican rival, down last year, let fly with a stunning ana, Cruz sniffed: “He allowed his inner back when frustrated or dissatisfied— Corona and Ontario. As Trump and Clinton, fresh off Ted Cruz of Texas, named Fiorina as critique of fellow Republican and 2016 Trump to come out.” especially with gridlock in Washington. big wins in Northeastern state prima- his running mate should he win the presidential hopeful Ted Cruz, labeling Cruz is widely seen as one of the But even by his standards, the Ohio- ries on Tuesday, circle each other for party’s nomination, a move that could him the devil incarnate. more intransigent members of Congress, an’s unvarnished appraisal of a fellow Brothers held a potential matchup in the November help him draw women’s support. “Lucifer in the flesh” is how the and critics on both sides of the aisle Republican lawmaker who is running for 8 US presidential election, his com- “Donald has a problem with strong ever-blunt Republican heavyweight blame him for triggering a 16-day fed- the nation’s highest office was startling. for parents’ ments portended what could be an women,” Cruz told reporters. “This described the Texas senator, who is eral government shutdown in late 2013. His irascible temperament was on unusually nasty campaign. is not subtle, it’s not complicated.” struggling to block billionaire Donald “When John Boehner calls me Luci- full display at Stanford. He called mem- shooting deaths Like other controversial remarks US Democratic Senator Bar- Trump’s march to the Republican pres- fer, he’s not directing that at me. He’s bers of the ultra-conservative Freedom during his White House campaign, bara Boxer said Trump is insulting idential nomination, according to the directing that at you,” he said, alluding Caucus “goofballs.” He also revealed SAN JOSE: Two broth- Trump’s comments drew criticism all women when he attacks Clinton Stanford Daily newspaper. to his conservative supporters. he is friends and “texting buddies” with ers are in custody in the from a wide spectrum but also rein- and other prominent women, such “I have Democrat friends and Repub- “What Boehner is angry with me for Trump and has played golf with the shooting deaths of their forced his image —which has been as Kelly, in this way. lican friends,” Boehner said. “I get along is standing with the American people, brash billionaire for years. parents, who emigrated from Bangladesh 30 years ago and were found slain over the weekend in US House passes their California home. Pentagon working to ‘take out’ IS’ Internet Police arrested Hasib Bin Golamrabbi and his email privacy bill 17-year-old brother on AFP interrupt ISIL command and control, complements very much our physical The committee chair, Republican suspicion of homicide interrupt its ability to move money actions on the ground, and particular Senator John McCain, said Carter’s ideas unanimously yesterday. They’re being around, interrupt its ability to tyran- focus is external operations that might to quicken the war’s pace were “intel- held without bail. The nise and control population, interrupt be conducted by IS,” Dunford said. lectually dishonest” because they did older son is slated to be WASHINGTON: The US military’s its ability to recruit externally,” Carter The Pentagon officials were grilled not include the option of creating a Reuters in court today. An appear- secretive Cyber Command (CYBER- told lawmakers at a Senate Armed for nearly three hours in a hearing on 100,000-strong ground force—com- ance date for the teen COM) is working to destroy the Islamic Services Committee meeting, using America’s progress in the campaign. prising Sunni nations and Western was not immediately State (IS) group’s Internet connections an acronym for the IS group. The US launched an anti-IS inter- troops—to recapture Mosul and Raqa. WASHINGTON: The US House of available. The broth- and leave the jihadists in a state of “We’re bombing them, and we’re national coalition in August 2014, after “That would be a highly desir- Representatives voted unanimously ers are accused of killing “virtual isolation,” Pentagon chiefs going to take out their Internet and the jihadists caught the West off guard able circumstance to be in,” Carter to require law enforcement author- Shamima and Golam said yesterday. so forth as well. and stormed vast bands of Iraq and said, adding that he had seen “no ities to get a search warrant before Rabbi. In what he described as the com- Carter’s top military advisor Gen- Syria—slaughtering residents and local indication from those countries, asking technology companies to mand’s “first major combat operation,” eral Joe Dunford, who is Chairman of troops as they went. despite a lot of effort, of a willing- hand over old emails. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the goal Lawmakers have repeatedly voiced ness to do that.” The bill’s prospects in the Senate Mexican soldiers CYBERCOM is playing an important was to cut off the jihadists’ lines of frustration. About two years after their Carter and President Barack remain unclear, though the 419-0 role in the US-led military operation communication. lightning assault, IS jihadists still con- Obama have long insisted the only vote in the House was likely to put and police to face against the IS group in Iraq and Syria. “The overall effect we’re trying to trol the key cities of Raqa in Syria and way to defeat the IS group is by training pressure on the upper chamber to “The objectives there are to achieve is virtual isolation. And this Mosul in Iraq. and arming local fighters to do the job. approve it. Under the Email Privacy torture trial Act, authorities would have to get a warrant to access emails or other Mexico City: Three fed- digital communications more than eral police officers and Possible Manson 180 days old. At present, agencies such two soldiers will face trial Death by garbage as the US Justice Department and the on torture charges after Securities and Exchange Commis- a video surfaced show- victim identified sion only need a subpoena to seek ing a woman being nearly such data from a service provider. suffocated with a bag, nearly after Supporters of the legislation say authorities said. it is needed to update the 1986 Elec- The video, which cir- 50 years tronic Communications Privacy Act culated on social media, (ECPA). Technology companies and shows a policewoman privacy advocates say that statute placing a bag over the Reuters was written before the rise of the woman’s head while she Internet and so is outdated. is being interrogated. More than a quarter of senators A female soldier also LOS ANGELES: A woman found have endorsed similar legislation points muzzle of her rifle stabbed to death in 1969 and con- in the upper chamber, including on head of the woman, sidered a possible victim of followers Republican John Cornyn. But it was who sobs as she sits bare- of Charles Manson has been identi- unclear if Senate Judiciary Commit- foot on a dirt floor. fied after nearly 50 years, prompting tee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an detectives to question the impris- Iowa Republican with jurisdiction oned mass murderer about her over the legislation, intends to move California cops death, Los Angeles police said. it forward during an election year. The woman, previously known Grassley’s office did not respond under fire over only as Jane Doe #59, was identified when asked about the measure. through DNA testing as 19-year-old Senators Patrick Leahy and Mike racist messages Reet Jurvetson, who lost contact Lee, the Democratic and Republican with her family after travelling to authors of the Senate bill, praised Los Angeles: Police in California from Canada in 1969, the the House vote in a statement as “an Los Angeles and San Los Angeles Police Department said. A garbage collector is comforted by friends and a firefighter (partially obscured) after his cousin historic step toward updating our Francisco have come “Finally, after all these years, we died when a massive pile of garbage collapsed at a landfill dumpsite in Guatemala City, Guatemala. privacy laws for the digital age” and under fire after authori- are faced with hard facts. My little urged quick consideration. ties uncovered racist text sister was savagely killed. It was not messages and emails in what I wanted to hear,” the wom- which minorities were an’s sister, Anne Jurvetson, said. referred to as “barbari- Anne said her parents never ans” and “wild animals.” reported her sister missing, not Three officers in San realising she was victim of a crime. Kerry recruits kids in quest for nicer plane Francisco have already The body of Jurvetson was found left the police depart- in the Hollywood Hills brush. She ment after the messages was stabbed 150 times. AFP and Sons to Work Day” and fielded a staff and journalists around the world. “So, hopefully, over time we can fix were discovered and An initial breakthrough came range of questions from the audience. But he could not resist the chance it up a little bit, but there is one bed,” a fourth is facing dis- when a family friend looking “On your plane, do they have like to make a pitch for a newer model, he said, referring to the fold-out sofa ciplinary measures. through a database of missing and beds and stuff?” asked nine-year-old with more space and comfort. in his onboard office. US officials have Authorities released deceased victims recognised her. WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Vivian. “Well, you’re opening a very, “I’ve flown more than a million privately expressed frustration with details of text messages “Due to the location and the John Kerry yesterday used a meeting very sore subject, because yes, there’s miles since I’ve been secretary and the age of Kerry’s plane in the past. between the three former time period where Reet was found, with diplomats’ children to lobby for a is a bed, one bed, and you can proba- we’ve been to 81 countries,” he said. In 2014 it was grounded on four officers in which they investigators wanted to rule out any more comfortable plane to carry his bly guess who gets it,” Kerry replied. “But I have to tell you it’s an old separate occasions with technical used the N-word to refer possible connection to the notori- team around the world. The secretary paid tribute to the plane and it’s tough on the staff, because glitches and Kerry was twice forced to black people. ous ‘Manson Murders’ that occurred Kerry met the kids at the State Air Force, which operates the 20-year- the seats aren’t so modern and don’t to fly home on commercial jets dur- during the summer of 1969.” Department on “Take Our Daughters old Boeing 757 jet that carries him, his fold back so you can lie down. ing maintenance. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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Aamal net profit up 33.7% at QR153.7m in Q1

companies, yesterday announced net “Our low financial gearing reflects optimism. As the Qatari economy con- evaluate new commercial opportuni- profit of QR153.7m for the first quarter our strong free cash flow generation tinues to evolve and diversify, Aamal ties often quicker than its competitors, Group revenue up of 2016, showing a rise of 33.7 percent which is testimony to the focus we put is uniquely well placed to reap signif- which gives it a key advantage. I am 6.9% to QR679.6m compared to net profit of QR115m in the on generating positive returns on the icant upside through its strong and very confident of another successful in the first quarter of same quarter last year. Group revenue capital that we deploy, thereby help- well-established businesses across year for Aamal,” said Sheikh Mohamed were up 6.9 percent to QR 679.6m in ing to sustain our profitable growth the economic spectrum, allied to its bin Faisal Al Thani, Vice-Chairman this year compared the first quarter of this year compared and create shareholder value. This ability to act quickly should new and of Aamal. to QR635.6m in same to QR635.6m in same quarter last year. low gearing also means that we can considered opportunities present them- Tarek M El Sayed, Managing “2016 has started very well for us, move swiftly should we identify suit- selves,” he added. Director said, “Through our strategy quarter last year. continuing on from the excellent set able commercial opportunities that “Aamal has always been at the fore- of diversification across key growth of results that we reported for the full we would like to exploit. In this quar- front of Qatar’s development, helping markets, Aamal is a leader in meeting year 2015 back in February. The first ter, Aamal has continued to grow its to drive change as the country con- the growing demand for increasingly three months of this year has seen a operations through organic means, tinues its rapid modernization. It is sophisticated and specialised products The Peninsula near 7 percent rise in revenues, which Net capital investment expenditure including investing to expand the bulk a market leader in sectors across the and services right across the economy. when combined with an expansion in rose by QR27.9m to QR46.3m, reflecting carrying capacity at Aamal Maritime economy and has clearly benefitted As such, I believe Aamal provides an operating margins, has led to a rise fleet expansion at the Aamal Maritime Transportation Services through the from this balanced and diversified strat- ideal entry point for investors wishing in total net profits of more than one Transportation Services subsidiary acquisition of a second vessel,” he said. egy, as borne out from this recent set to gain a broad and balanced expo- DOHA: Aamal Company (Aamal), one third,” said Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al and Phase 2 of the redevelopment of “I look forward to the remainder of results. Furthermore, strong founda- sure to Qatar’s economic growth and of the GCC’s fastest growing diversified Thani (pictured), Chairman of Aamal. the City Center Doha shopping mall. of this year and beyond with great tions have been laid for the Company to development.” MPHC net profit up 83% in first quarter

The Peninsula tax refund of approximately QR20m for the quarter. Group’s earning per share for the quarter was of QR0.17. The group con- DOHA: Mesaieed Petrochemical tinued to benefit from the supply of Holding Company (MPHC), a sub- competitively priced ethane feed- sidiary of Qatar Petroleum and one stock and fuel gas under long-term of the region’s premier diversified supply agreements. petrochemical conglomerates with This contracting arrangement interests in the production of olefins, is an important value driver for the polyolefins, alpha olefins and chlor- group profitability in a challenging alkali products, recorded net profit of market condition. QR212.4m for the first quarter ended The closing cash position after the British Ambassador to Qatar Ajay Sharma presenting the certificate to Vodafone Qatar CEO Ian Gray. March 2016, an increase of 83 per- first three months of operations and cent compared to a net profit of QR after distribution of previous year’s 116.2m in the same quarter last year. dividend of QR 879.4m, was a robust The year-on-year increase was QR432.2m as at March 31, 2016. The Vodafone bags global business continuity certification due to increased sales volumes and total assets at March 31, 2016 was other income. The groups’ profit QR13.7bn, compared to QR14.3bn as was also aided by recognition of a at 31 December 2015. The Peninsula impact, and developing capability of Vodafone executives and BSI Gen- here to help mark this occasion and I to minimise the impact of business eral Manager, Omar Rashid. applaud Vodafone for leading by exam- disruption. “I congratulate each member of ple, with their commitment to achieve Today’s announcement demon- Vodafone Qatar’s talented team for compliance to this International Stand- DOHA: Vodafone Qatar yesterday strates to customers, partners and achieving excellence and making this ard. I would like to congratulate all announced that it has been awarded shareholders that Vodafone Qatar richly-deserved recognition possible,” involved in this collective effort.” Abbott and St Jude ISO 22301:2012 Business Continuity has successfully implemented a strong said Ian Gray, CEO, Vodafone Qatar. He added that Vodafone’s achieve- Management certification, demon- Business Continuity Management Sys- “This certification, which we are proud ment will make a positive difference strating the company’s commitment to tem and is equipped to continually and privileged to receive, underscores in developing their objectives whilst in $25bn merger highest levels of reliability and security strengthen its processes in line with the strength of our world-class busi- also minimising the operational impact in its business and technical operations. global best practice over time. ness continuity management systems of disruptive incidents BSI evaluated The ISO 22301:2012 certification, Ajay Sharma, Ambassador to Qatar here. It allows individuals and busi- more than 100 aspects of the busi- to its close Wednesday of $61.95. awarded by the British Standards Insti- from the UK, presented the certificate nesses in Qatar to enjoy Vodafone’s ness before awarding this certification, AFP The combined companies rep- tution (BSI), provides an international to Vodafone Qatar CEO, Ian Gray, at a innovative products and services reli- including customer service and care, resent annual sales around the best practice framework for identify- ceremony held yesterday at the com- ably, safely and securely.” risk assessment, human resources, and world of $8.7bn and will have the ing potential threats, evaluating their pany’s Al Safwa Center, in the presence Omar said: “I am delighted to be vendor governance. number one or number two posi- NEW YORK: Abbott Laborato- tions in specific segments of the ries and St Jude Medical, leading $30bn cardiovascular market. makers of heart care and coro- The deal pulls together Abbott’s nary devices, announced a $25bn market strength in devices for Lufthansa CEO eyes airline mergers in Europe merger yesterday to better target coronary intervention and tran- the rising levels of cardiovascu- scatheter mitral repair, and St. lar disease in aging populations. Jude’s specialisation in heart fail- Reuters largest airlines in the United States Lufthansa said late on Wednes- before being bought by Thomas Cook. The deal, with Abbott taking ure devices, atrial fibrillation and have an 80 percent share of the mar- day it was looking at ways to bring Lufthansa is already one of the control of St Jude, will build their cardiac rhythm management. ket, while in Europe the top five have part-owned Brussels Airlines under few European airlines to have driven position in a sector of health care It keeps them focused on a just 40 percent. its low-cost Eurowings brand, though merger activity in the region, snapping expected to grow strongly with the growing population of people HAMBURG: German airline Lufthansa “Consolidation is a part of what the Islamic State attacks in Brussels up Swiss, Austrian and bmi several aging of populations in advanced expected to need cardiovascu- wants to take part in much-needed needs to happen in Europe in order have pushed back the deadline for a years ago. economies. Abbott will pay St Jude lar care: in the United States alone, industry consolidation in Europe so to make the sector more competitive decision to August. But the restructuring of Aus- shareholders a cash-and-stock they said, more than 40 percent carriers can compete better with US and when compared to the United States Sources have also said that trian proved time consuming, while mix that they said values St Jude of adults will experience cardio- Asian rivals, Chief Executive Carsten and Asia,” Spohr said. Lufthansa is considering partnerships, Lufthansa eventually sold British Mid- at about $85 a share, compared vascular disease. Spohr said yesterday. “As Europe’s largest airline, we want or even takeovers, of Scandinavian land to British Airways parent IAG in Spohr told an annual sharehold- to take part in consolidation, not just carrier SAS and Condor, the airline 2012, meaning not all shareholders ers meeting in Hamburg that the five be a bystander,” he told investors. that belonged to Lufthansa for decades are in favour of further merger forays. BUSINESS FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 15 Nakilat holds Qatar Project Shipping Forum

Forum (QPSF) in London. At the two- Nakilat’s Managing Director, day forum, experts discussed issues of Abdullah Al Sulaiti, commented on At the two-day common interest and relevant to safety, the importance of this forum saying: London forum, operations, environmental laws, and “We at Nakilat strive to ensure the experts discussed maritime regulations. continuation of our global growth, Other topics discussed include which contributes to the creation of issues of common operational matters, exchange of a safe competitive environment and interest and relevant expertise and relevant skills such as efficiently operations in the future. marine personnel employment and Therefore, it is essential to continu- to safety, operations, maritime training on advanced tech- ously exchange experiences and ideas environmental nologies that would enhance safety and with our partners as owners, oper- contribute to the reduction of oper- ators and charterers in the areas of laws, and maritime ational costs. maritime industry and in particular regulations. QPSF is as an important platform, gas shipping.” established and organised by Nakilat Al Sulaiti added, “As Nakilat organ- in 2007, to address concerns covering a ises and holds QPSF in its 19th cycle wide array of topics including shipping this year, we aim for the exchange of The Peninsula safety, technical, marine environment, experiences and ideas to build and logistics, and it gives an opportunity to strengthen the strategic partnership exchange ideas related to shipping oper- between all parties and the essential ations. This semi-annual brings together role played by the Qatari companies. DOHA: Nakilat, the shipping arm of many owners of leading international Many thanks to the participants wish- Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping companies along with ship ing that the constructive discussions sector, held Qatar Project Shipping charterers such as Qatargas and RasGas. at the Forum were benefitial to all.” Participants at Qatar Project Shipping Forum in London. QNB hosts Qatar University students at SME Centre

The Peninsula and Institution Banking, said: “As the largest financial institution in Qatar, QNB has always designed innovative and state of the art solutions to sup- DOHA: QNB, a leading financial insti- port SMEs and its development in the tution in the Middle East and Africa, country, as it believes that SMEs are has recently hosted a group of Qatar drivers of the national economy and University students at its SME Centre prime contributors to the Qatar 2030 Volkswagen vows in Al Shomoukh Tower to brief them on Vision.” QNB Officials also explained the latest initiatives the bank has done that QNB’s bespoke products exceed the and the various SME services it offers. growing demands of SME customers, to overcome The visit is part of a 4-day Nasmou while giving them enhanced finance Leadership Program, which was orig- facilities in collaboration with the bank’s crisis, says CEO inally launched by Occidental Qatar partners from both the public and pri- Petroleum Company in collaboration vate sectors. with Qatar University and Silatech, the In particular, students were intro- WOLFSBURG: German carmaker regional social organisation that works duced to QNB’s recently unveiled Volkswagen vowed yesterday to on connecting Arab youth to jobs and package for SMEs, which includes a overcome its current crisis trig- expanding local economic opportu- 24 hour decision time for Account Turn- gered by the engine-rigging scandal, nities’. It aims to help students in their over Facilities and Professional Loans, insisting it would not allow itself to personal development and transition to tailored products for Manufacturing, be slowed down by the affair and the workplace by equipping them with Tourism, Education, Medical and Health- would return to profit this year. the skills, competencies and mind-set care sectors and the introduction of a At the same time, VW revealed needed to be successful in their career. dedicated SME Business World Credit that its top executives would be paid A QNB official briefing Qatar University students on the latest initiatives of the bank. The programme brought together 25 Card. The initiative follows on from the a total €63.2m for 2015 despite the Qatar University students from across successful launch of “Business Bank- huge loss incurred from the scan- Engineering, Finance and Business dis- a Challenge of ‘How can SME’s play Challenge better, the students met senior organizations play in the development ing” and re-affirms QNB’s commitment dal, even if a large chunk of that ciplines to work on their leadership an important role in diversifying the leaders from QNB and other institu- of SME’s in Qatar. to the important role played by SME’s pay would initially be held back and soft skills. They have been set economy in Qatar?’ To understand the tions to get a sense of what role these Yousef Al Neama, GM Corporate as “drivers of the economy”. for a period of three years. “Volkswagen is far more than (just a) crisis,” Chief Executive Mat- thias Mueller (pictured) told the group’s annual news conference, Siemens signs long-term service deal for Umm Al Houl power plant after the emissions-cheating scan- dal pushed VW into its first year-end loss in more than 20 years last year. “But we can nonetheless hardly The Peninsula The service agreement covers the many years to come.” Qatar’s long-term vision and our under- adequate power and water supply to avoid saying that the current situ- plant’s six SGT5-4000F gas turbines, The long-term service agreement standing of the nation’s requirements. accommodate seasonal fluctuations ation demands everything of us, in four SST5-4000 steam turbines, 10 is designed to improve the operating We have a long history in Qatar, and and major events. Commissioning of every respect — including finan- SGen5-1200A generators including capabilities, flexibility and profitabil- we are proud to be working with our the first phase is scheduled for 2017, cially,” he added. DOHA: Siemens has been awarded a instrumentation and controls service ity of the Umm Al Houl power plant partners to support sustainable eco- with commissioning of the entire com- As already reported last week, 25-year long-term service agreement for a period of 25 years. It also provides by boosting efficiency, reliability nomic growth,” said Fatih Sakiz, CEO, plex scheduled for mid-2018. VW unveiled a massive loss of for the planned Umm Al Houl com- for an electrical and a resident engi- and availability throughout its entire Siemens WLL Qatar. Siemens has received two major €1.58bn in 2015 after setting aside bined cycle power plant in Qatar. The neer to be located on-site. lifecycle. The agreement will enable The upcoming plant will consist of power generation service orders from €16.2bn in provisions to cover the new power plant will be located 15km “Qatar is experiencing rapid indus- implementation of innovative serv- two power blocks, each in a 3+2 con- Qatar in the past six months. In addition potential fines, lawsuits and recall south of the capital Doha, adjacent to trial, economic and population growth,” ice solutions through preventative figuration. Each block will consist of to this agreement for Umm Al Houl, Sie- costs it foresees from the scandal Qatar Economic Zone. said Tim Holt, CEO of Siemens Power maintenance, shortened lead times three gas turbines which will be used to mens signed a long-term service contract so far. It was the auto giant’s first The customer is Umm Al Houl Generation Services, Power and Gas. and on-site technical field assistance. generate the steam to drive two down- with Dolphin Energy Limited, head- loss since 1993. In 2014, it chalked Power, a company established through “Supported by our highly experienced “The Umm Al Houl combined-cycle stream steam turbines. With a total quartered in Abu Dhabi, for the Dolphin up a profit of €10.8bn. a partnership among Qatar Electricity technical experts, our strong presence power plant will be an essential part electrical output of 2.5 gigawatts, and Gas Project in Qatar. Siemens is provid- Nevertheless, the group’s and Water Company (QWEC), Qatar in the region and in close collabora- of Qatar’s infrastructure, delivering up to 136 million imperial gallons (618 ing service and maintenance for nine finance chief, Frank Witter, insisted Petroleum (QP), Qatar Foundation (QF) tion with our customer, our advanced more approximately a quarter of the million liters) of drinking water per aero-derivative gas turbines from former VW would drive back into the black and K1 Energy (joint venture estab- services and maintenance solutions country’s installed power generation day, the plant will deliver almost one Rolls-Royce Energy and the associated in 2016. “We’re starting from the lished by Mitsubishi Corporation and will help ensure this important new capacity. This latest agreement is reit- quarter of the nation’s installed power nine Dresser-Rand compressors over assumption that we’ll end the year TEPCO Fuel & Power, Incorporated). power plant will operate reliably for eration of Siemens’ commitment to generating capacity. It will ensure a contract period of 18 years. in profit,” Witter said. Zuckerberg tightens grip as Facebook profit soars

AFP advertising revenues as it connects more this mission through.” Zuckerberg noted are executing very well right now.” Facebook people with new services such as live video. that Facebook has always been a founder- shares were up more than nine percent to Facebook also announced that its board led company, and that has allowed it to focus $118.81 in after-market trades that followed of directors approved a plan to create a non- on long-term goals without succumbing to release of the earnings report. SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook fielded a plan voting class of stock intended to raise capital takeover offers or critics. Revenue that the California-based social to tighten Mark Zuckerberg’s (pictured) grip while leaving Zuckerberg in control of the Facebook, like Google, went public in a network took in from advertising alone soared on the helm as the booming social network company’s vision and direction. way that kept control in the hands of founders 57 percent in the quarter. “Facebook just reported stellar profit. Profit in the first Shareholders will get to vote on the pro- instead of putting it in the grasp of share- keeps getting stronger and stronger every quarter tripled from a year ago to $1.5bn posal at an annual stockholders meeting on holders. “Today’s board proposal will allow quarter. Its share of digital advertising is as revenue jumped to $5.4bn from $3.5bn June 20, according to Facebook. us to do what we do well, and fund the Chan continuing to grow, and it is steadily add- in the same period a year earlier. The move aims to allow Zuckerberg (Zuckerberg) Initiative,” he said. ing new revenue streams,” said eMarketer “We had a great start to the year,” said to remain in charge even as he gives away The initiative takes aim at global chal- analyst Debra Aho Williamson. “Two years Facebook co-founder and chief executive the bulk of his holdings to charity as he lenges such as curing diseases, improving after Facebook rolled out premium ads in the Zuckerberg. announced last year with his wife. education, and protecting the environment news feed, we see advertisers moving past The key metric of monthly active users “We are focused on the long-term, and from climate change, according to Zucker- the experimentation stage and beginning to rose to 1.65 billion, up 15 percent from a year that is the main reason for today’s proposal,” berg. “If you want to increase your control, craft advertising specifically for Facebook ago. And those using Facebook daily rose Zuckerberg said during an earnings call. now is the time to do it so people won’t fight -- rather than simply repurposing TV spots.” 16 percent to 1.09 billion, with strong gains “Facebook has been built by a series you,” analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group The market tracker forecast that Face- in numbers of people using mobile devices. of bold moves. And when I look out at the said of the share structuring move. book would capture $10.2 billion in display The report shows Facebook is using its future, I see more bold moves ahead of us “If you buy into Facebook, you are buy- ad revenue in the United States this year dominant position in social media to boost than behind us...I am committed to seeing ing into Zuckerberg and his team; and they to claim 31.2 percent of the money spent. 16 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

Warren Buffett’s Retail focus helps to shield shareholder gala enters home stretch Lloyds from banking chill

By Jonathan Stempel and perhaps help Buffett find new Reuters investments. Alex Ryzhikov, a partner at Ewing Morris & Co Investment Partners in Toronto, said he drove arren Buffett, who 20 hours in a camper to Omaha pitched newspapers as last year and was first in line to Wa teenage delivery boy, enter the meeting at 12:30 am, six may be entering the final stretch hours before doors opened. of his “Woodstock for Capitalists,” He’s not going this year, cit- after cutting back his involvement ing other commitments, but will in the event and opening it up for watch online. an online audience. “If you want to just get the con- The weekend gathering of tent, you’re probably going to be Berkshire Hathaway Inc share- okay watching online,” he said. holders in Omaha, Nebraska for “To get the energy and excitement the company’s annual meeting of being there, you make the trip.” likely won’t be the last. For Buffett, the weekend But its evolution mirrors the remains active. evolution in Buffett’s own leader- At 7am tomorrow, he’ll again ship, focused more on the roughly roam an exhibit hall filled with 90 energy, insurance, manufac- Berkshire companies hawking turing, railroad, retail and other everything from boxer shorts to companies in his empire, even as $78,900 mobile homes, trailed he delegates more to people who by a herd of camera- and iPhone- work under him. toting media who bump into each This month, for example, other a lot. Berkshire’s General Re unit said But he has cut back. its next chief will report not to He no longer typically drops Buffett, as the departing Tad Mon- by Berkshire-owned Borsheim’s tross does, but to Ajit Jain, a top Jewelry’s Friday shareholder Buffett lieutenant. reception, which consumes an Buffett, 85, is the oldest chief entire shopping mall and outdoor A man enters a Lloyds Bank branch in central London. executive of a Fortune 500 com- tent. (Buffett did preside there two pany, and has given no public sign years ago over a marriage pro- he’s close to done. posal. She said yes.) In 2015, the world’s third-rich- Starting in 2012, citing time est person celebrated perhaps his constraints, he and Munger ended By Andrew MacAskill reliance on retail customers. final milestone anniversary at their news-lite Sunday press con- and Lawrence White “Overall, these represent a solid if unex- Berkshire, as more than 40,000 ferences, where Buffett would Reuters citing set of results, which is not necessarily people descended on Omaha and demur multiple times when for- a bad thing for a bank,” said Gary Green- overwhelmed its downtown Cen- eign journalists asked “Where do wood, an analyst at Shore Capital. turyLink Center to honour his 50 you see investment opportunities Lloyds shares fell 2.9 percent to 67.2 years at the helm.This year’s gala in [name of country]?” loyds Banking Group bucked the pence by 1130 GMT, as some analysts ques- again features a cookout and 5km And this year, the webcast downward trend among major tioned whether the bank would be able to Lloyds’ performance was run, and centres on tomorrow’s spells the end of Buffett’s one- British lenders, maintaining flat boost revenue against the backdrop of a five-hour question-and-answer on-one media interviews. first quarter revenue and cutting slowing British economy. “The bank insur- better than Standard session with Buffett and Vice- “We no longer can accommo- bad debts despite a tough eco- ance contribution and retail fee income was Chartered and Barclays, Chairman Charlie Munger, 92. date the increasing number of Lnomic environment. notably soft,” said Ian Gordon, an analyst where quarterly revenue Buffett “gives Omaha a heck requests,” one of Buffett’s assist- Lloyds, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, at Investec. of a lot of free visibility that a lot ants wrote. “In addition, the reported underlying pre-tax profit of £2.1bn Finance Minister George Osborne is fell in their large of cities would pay dearly for,” webcast of the annual meeting ($3.05bn) in the first quarter of this year, looking to sell the last remaining govern- investment banking said Ernie Goss, a professor at will let more people worldwide compared with a profit of £2.19bn a year ment-held shares in Lloyds over the next Creighton University there who hear what Mr Buffett and Mr earlier. That was in line year after a discounted sale to the general operations because of studies the region’s economy. Munger have to say.” with the £1.99bn aver- public was postponed earlier this year due a weak global market Still, there’s a catch. “We all Buffett has also simplified his age estimate of three to turmoil in global financial markets. environment. Lloyds have friends who are waiters or day job. In 2006 and 2011, Buffett analysts surveyed. Banking and political sources expect the waitresses or bartenders, and gave up his seats on the boards Chief Executive Officer sale of Lloyds’ shares to resume after the is relatively insulated Berkshire Hathaway investors are of Coca-Cola Co and Washington Antonio Horta-Osório is British referendum on membership of the because of its greater not the biggest tippers,” he said. Post Co. Two lieutenants, Gregory eliminating thousands European Union in June, concluding with a “There is a message there: if he’s Abel and Tracy Britt Cool, now sit of jobs to streamline the larger offer to retail investors. reliance on retail frugal, we’re going to be frugal.” on the board of Kraft Heinz Co, a CEO Antonio Horta- business and support a The state has reduced its holding from customers. Berkshire’s weekend attracts major Berkshire investment. progressive dividend 43 percent to less than 10 percent, raising more visitors to Omaha than any Then in 2011 and 2012, Todd Osório is eliminating policy, in the final phase over £16bn. event other than the College Combs and Ted Weschler came thousands of jobs of a recovery plan fol- Britain’s largest retail bank said total World Series of baseball. aboard to help Buffett invest Berk- lowing a £20.5bn income fell 1 percent to £4.4bn, as higher Hotel rates and airfares still shire’s money. And now General to streamline the taxpayer-funded bail- revenue from its retail bank were offset by soar. But this year, dozens of Re, Buffett’s third largest acquisi- business and support out during the 2007-09 lower income in its insurance division. motels have rooms available, for tion, will be cared for by Jain. a progressive dividend financial crisis. Impairments dropped 6 percent to those willing to travel several Goss said when Buffett does Lloyds’ perform- £149m. miles to downtown. depart, some of the “Midwestern policy in the final ance was better than “These results demonstrate the strength That’s likely because the sensibility” that investors equate phase of a recovery Standard Chartered and of our differentiated, simple, low risk meeting will be live-streamed for with him, Berkshire and Omaha Barclays, where quar- business model and reflect our ability to reduced profits over recent years is start- the first time, potentially reaching will go with him. “All of a sudden plan following a terly revenue fell in their actively respond to the challenging oper- ing to recede. tens of millions, on Yahoo Finance. Omaha will be less identified with £20.5bn taxpayer- large investment bank- ating environment,” Horta-Osório said in The bank has been forced to set aside The stream will also be in Manda- Berkshire Hathaway, and it will be funded bailout during ing operations because the statement. about £16bn since the financial crisis to rin, to meet demand from China a change,” he said. of a weak global mar- Lloyds did not provision any money to repay customers who took out policies the 2007-09 financial ket environment. Lloyds repay customers mis-sold loan insurance to protect borrowers against sickness or crisis. is relatively insulated this quarter, an indication that a scan- redundancy, but were often ineligible to because of its greater dal that has plagued the bank and sharply claim. US economy stalls in first quarter as activity weakens broadly

By Lucia Mutikani Expectations for growth for the remainder of “slowed,” it also said labor market conditions back on purchases of long-lasting manufac- Reuters the year remain bright,” said Jim Baird, chief had “improved further.” The US central bank tured goods like automobiles, despite cheap investment officer at Plante Moran Financial appeared to view the threats from the glo- gasoline. Households appear to have socked Advisors in Kalamazoo, Michigan. bal economy and financial markets as having away modest wage gains from the tightening Economists polled had forecast the econ- diminished. labor market and the gasoline savings. They S economic growth braked sharply omy expanding at a 0.7 percent rate in the The Fed left its benchmark overnight have also reduced their debt. in the first quarter to its slowest first quarter. The economy grew at a 1.4 per- interest rate unchanged and suggested it was Income at the disposal of households after pace in two years as consumer cent pace in the fourth quarter. in no hurry to tighten monetary policy fur- accounting for taxes and inflation increased spending softened and a strong Almost all sectors of the economy weak- ther. It hiked rates in December for the first 2.9 percent in the first quarter after rising 2.3 Udollar continued to undercut exports, but a ened in the first quarter, with the housing time in nearly a decade. percent in the prior period. Savings rose to pick-up in activity is anticipated given a buoy- market the lone star. But the slowdown in Economists also believe the model used a lofty $712.3bn from $678.3bn in the fourth The economy was also ant labor market. growth could be temporary, given a fairly by the government to strip out seasonal pat- quarter. Higher savings and a lower debt load blindsided by cheap oil, Gross domestic product increased at a 0.5 robust jobs market. A separate report from terns from data is not fully accomplishing augur well for an acceleration in consumer percent annual rate, the weakest since the the Labor Department showed first-time its goal despite recent steps to address the spending. Despite consumer spending soften- which has hurt the profits first quarter of 2014, the Labor Department applications for unemployment benefits problem. Residual seasonality has plagued ing, inflation picked up in the first quarter. A of oil field companies said in its advance estimate, also as busi- rose less than expected last week and the first-quarter GDP, with growth underper- price index in the GDP report that strips out nesses stepped up efforts to reduce unwanted four-week average of initial claims fell to its forming in five of the last six years since the food and energy costs increased at a 2.1 per- like Schlumberger and merchandise clogging up warehouses. lowest level since 1973. Employment gains recovery started in mid-2009. US government cent rate, the fastest since the first quarter Halliburton, resulting The economy was also blindsided by averaged 209,000 jobs per month in the first bond prices rose marginally, while the dollar of 2012 and an acceleration from the fourth cheap oil, which has hurt the profits of oil quarter. Also suggesting a pickup in growth was little changed against a basket of curren- quarter’s 1.3 percent pace. in business spending field companies like Schlumberger and in the second quarter, the Institute for Sup- cies. Consumer spending, which accounts for With consumer spending tepid, busi- contracting at its fastest Halliburton, resulting in business spend- ply Management’s manufacturing and non more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activ- nesses continued to place fewer orders for pace since the second ing contracting at its fastest pace since the manufacturing surveys, which are closely ity, increased at a 1.9 percent rate. That was goods and ramped up efforts to reduce an second quarter of 2009, when the recession correlated to economic activity, rebounded the slowest since the first quarter of 2015 and inventory bloat. In the first quarter, busi- quarter of 2009, when was ending. “Although growth was weak to in recent months. marked a deceleration from the fourth quar- nesses accumulated $60.9bn worth of the recession was ending. start the year, the soggy results are consist- While the Federal Reserve on Wednes- ter’s 2.4 percent rate. inventory, down from $78.3bn in the fourth ent with seasonal trends over the past decade. day acknowledged economic activity had Households have been frugal, cutting quarter. BUSINESS FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 17

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 10,396.25 0.28 % QE Total Return Index 16,820.45 0.28 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,099.06 0.43 % QE All Share Index 2,897.58 0.19 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,758.8 0.21 % QE All Share Industrials 3,209.16 1.36 % QE All Share Transportation 2,585.37 0.51 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,682.73 0.05 % QE All Share Insurance 4,415.18 1.20 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,169.18 0.57 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,734.69 1.84 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 21-04-2016 Today 20-04-2016 Previous day Index 10,396.25 10,366.93 Change 29.32 69.54 % 0.28 0.68 YTD% 0.32 0.6 Volume 11,281,435 15,144,979 Value (QAR) 399,796,880.65 529,932,844.07 Trades 6,065 6,841 Up 17 | Down 23 | Unchanged 03

WORLD STOCK INDICES Index Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low All Ordinaries 5204.312 -26.473 -0.51 5379.6 4762.1 Cac 40 Index/D 4451.66 19.69 0.44 4586.11 3892.46 Dj Indu Average 17582.57 -41.3 -0.23 18351.4 15370.3 Hang Seng Inde/D 20615.23 -51.52 -0.25 21794.84 18278.8 Iseq Overall/D 6206.86 27.91 0.45 6791.68 5611.89 Karachi 100 In/D 32928.3 -94.57 -0.29 33304.4 29785 Nikkei 225 Index 17000.98 -47.57 -0.28 18951.12 14865.77 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 2134.72 1810.1

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8.68 -0.21 3382 Severn Trent/D2170.6923 -49 104330 banks pulled down stock markets in the United Arab Container Cor-/D 1355.25 -22.35 3577 J.B.Chemical-B/D 249.45 1.6 5897 Punjab Chem.-B/D 164.6 -7.4 2443 Smith&Nephew/D 1140.5 -29 699207 Emirates yesterday, while Orascom Telecom posted a Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 392.1 -2.1 1242 Jagatjit Ind-X/D 83.9 2.15 4402 Radico Khait-B/D 93.2 2.35 49431 Smiths Group/D 1151 43 967630 big net loss that weighed on Egypt’s bourse. 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Market while the number of transactions Real Estate sector accounted for Industries sector accounted for In Dubai, capitalisation fell by 1.08 percent, to reach 27,518 8.58 percent. 20.90 percent. Consumer Goods the stock index DOHA: Qatar Exchange index transactions as compared to 27,819 Banking and Financial Serv- and Services sector accounted for pulled back 0.4 percent with Dubai Islamic Bank drop- fell by 1.01% to lost 210.07 points, or 2.02 per- transactions. ices sector led traded volume with 12.97 percent and Real Estate sec- ping 2.0 percent. hit QR549.53bn cent, past trading week when the Market capitalisation fell by 51.47 percent of the total. Industrials tor accounted for 11.42 percent. Egypt’s Orascom Telecom retreated 1.3 percent after bourse closed at 10,186.18 points. 1.01 percent to hit QR549.53bn as sector accounted for 19.98 percent. The Qatar First Bank (QFC) reporting a net loss of 3.6bn Egyptian pounds in 2015 as compared to Yesterday, the index gained 26.66 compared to QR555.15bn at the end Real Estate sector accounted for led trading value during the week versus a net profit of 263.98m pounds a year earlier. QR555.15bn at points. Trading value during the of the previous week. 12.16 percent and Consumer Goods accounted for 14.96 percent of the Cairo’s main stock index pulled back 1.2 percent. week decreased by 4.72percent Banking and Financial Serv- and Services sector accounted for total. Gulf International Services In Riyadh, the index edged down 0.2 percent as the end of the to reach QR1.76bn compared to ices sector led traded value with 7.41 percent. (GIS) accounted for 7.27 percent investors booked profits, but still gained 3.3 percent previous week. QR 1.85bn. 39.79 percent of the total. Industries Banking and Financial Serv- and Masraf Al Rayan accounted over the week. 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Warriors blow NZ confirms Williamson as captain away Rockets to advance “He’s respected by his peers and the wider Top-order batsman to cricket community for his professional approach both on and off the field, and has a superb cricket AFP lead Kiwis in all formats brain. “His drive to see the team succeed and following McCullum’s his passion for the game are what you look for in a leader. He’s ready for the role and will only OAKLAND, US: The Golden State retirement continue to grow,” added White. Warriors shrugged off the injury McCullum retired in February following the absence of Stephen Curry to crush Test series against Australia after four years in the Houston Rockets 114-81 and Reuters charge, during which time the team made their book their place in the next round first World Cup final and became more compet- of the Western Conference play- itive in the longest form of the game. offs on Wednesday. “It’s certainly an honour,” said Williamson. The Warriors season has been “I’ve really enjoyed my time spent as captain and plunged into uncertainty after Curry WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) believe this team can achieve a lot. “I’m lucky to suffered a sprained medial collat- confirmed yesterday that top-order batsman have a number of experienced players around me eral ligament during Game Four Kane Williamson will take over the captaincy for support and will certainly look to utilise this.” against Houston on Sunday. in all three formats of the game following the Williamson, who made his international debut However the reigning NBA retirement of Brendon McCullum. in 2010, had filled in for McCullum as recently champions dispelled the gloom with The 25-year-old had been expected to suc- as limited overs series against Sri Lanka and an emphatic rout of the Rockets to ceed McCullum having already led the side in Pakistan earlier this year before the former wick- complete a 4-1 series victory over one-day internationals when the former captain etkeeper resumed the job during Australia’s tour the Texas outfit. was rested or injured, and at the recent World of New Zealand in February. The Warriors will now play Twenty20 tournament in India. “I’ve certainly learnt a lot from Brendon, as either the Portland Trail Blazers He will become New Zealand’s 29th Test cap- has everyone who has played with him,” added or the injury-ravaged Los Angeles tain when Mike Hesson’s side tour Zimbabwe Williamson, who was named in February as the Clippers in the next round, with the and South Africa in July-August. 2015 New Zealand Sportsman of the Year. opening game in the best-of-seven “Kane has been a leader within the team for “The culture that he and Mike have culti- series set for Sunday. a long time now and already shown himself to be vated has been a huge part of this teams success A file picture dated February 23, 2016 of New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson in Curry is likely to miss all of that an extremely capable captain,” NZC Chief Exec- in recent times. We not only have good players, action on day four of the second Cricket Test against Australia at the Hagley Oval in series as he struggles to recover utive David White said in a statement. but good people too.” Christchurch, New Zealand. from his knee injury. The star point guard’s place in the starting line-up was taken by veteran Shaun Livingston on Wednesday. Opener Silva recovers from head Donald and Law join The 30-year-old scored 16 points with seven-for-eight shoot- ing in Wednesday’s win. The template for the game was blow to earn Sri Lanka recall Aussie coaching staff set early in the first quarter, with the Warriors jumping out to a 37-20 lead that they never looked like AFP relinquishing. Reuters Rockets star James Harden had 18 points in the quarter but his teammates never made a hoop in 12 SYDNEY: South Africa great Allan minutes, with the only other Hou- COLOMBO: Sri Lanka opener Kaushal Donald (pictured) was yester- ston points coming from Dwight Silva has recovered from a blow to day hired by Australia as bowling Howard’s two free throws. the head he suffered while fielding coach for their upcoming tour of Sri Harden top scored with 35 last weekend to be named in the Test Lanka, while Stuart Law will men- points, six rebounds and six assists, squad for next month’s tour of England. tor the batsmen. but it was not enough against the The 29-year-old Silva was airlifted The renowned pace spearhead, Warriors all-round game. to a Colombo hospital on Sunday after whose speed saw him nicknamed Klay Thompson led the Warri- being hit on the head while fielding at “White Lightning”, temporarily fills ors with 27 points, including seven short leg in a practice match at Palle- the vacancy left by Craig McDermott of 11 three-point attempts. kele, where the team was preparing who stepped down as bowling coach Draymond Green added 15 for the tour. at the end of the World T20 in India. who has previously coached the Sri points with nine rebounds and Silva reportedly took evasive Head coach Darren Lehmann said Lankan and Bangladesh national eight assists. action but was struck on the back of it was a massive coup to secure Don- sides, was drafted in for the Test com- his helmet, luckily on a padded sec- ald’s services. ponent of the Sri Lanka tour while PLAY-OFF RESULTS tion which has been added as extra “He brings a wealth of experience current batting coach Greg Blewett protection to designs since Austral- with him and our guys will benefit takes leave for the birth of his sec- Eastern Conference ian Phillip Hughes died in 2014 after greatly from having him around,” ond child. In Miami being hit on the head by a bouncer. he said. Australia embark on a two-month Miami 88 Charlotte 90 Silva was discharged from hospital “His Test record speaks for itself series against Sri Lanka in July, play- Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva celebrates after scoring a century against (Charlotte leads series 3-2) and he was without a doubt one of ing three Tests -- in Kandy, Galle and Western Conference SQUAD Bangladesh during the second day of the first Test in Dhaka, in this the most formidable bowlers of his Colombo -- along with five one-day January 2014 file photo. generation.” internationals and two Twenty20s. In Los Angeles Angelo Matthews (captain), There was media speculation Before that, they have a one-day Los Angeles Clippers 98 Dhananjaya Silva, Dasun Shanaka, on Wednesday that Donald could tri-series in the West Indies, which Portland 108 Dhammika Prasad, Dilruwan on Tuesday after recovering from what from a hamstring injury, also found also stay on for Australia’s summer also includes South Africa. (Portland leads series 3-2) his country’s board called “a mild con- a place in the squad but is a doubt for series against South Africa, but this Former Tasmania fast bowler Perera, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dinesh At Oakland, California Chandimal, Dushmantha Chameera, cussion” and returns to the Test squad the first Test at Leeds from May 19. was not confirmed by Cricket Aus- Adam Griffith is the acting bowling after being axed for the New Zealand Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, tralia. Donald, who has previously coach for that tour. Golden State 114 Houston 81 Kaushal Silva, Kusal Mendis, Lahiru tour late last year. who quit limited overs cricket earlier coached with England, New Zealand Cricket Australia are still con- (Golden State win series 4-1) Thirimanne, Milinda Siriwardana, Sri Lanka also included rookie this month to focus solely on Tests, and South Africa, took 330 Test and sidering a full-time replacement for Niroshan Dickwella, Nuwan Pradeep, batsmen Dasun Shanaka and Dhanan- will spearhead Sri Lanka’s spin attack. 272 one-day international wickets McDermott, with their former Test Rangana Herath, Shaminda Eranga, jaya de Silva in a 17-man squad to be Chester-le-Street hosts the second during an illustrious career for South fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who is Ducks out as Suranga Lakmal led by Angelo Mathews. Test from May 27, followed by the third Africa that spanned 10 years. head coach at English county York- Lahiru Thirimanne, recovering and final match at Lord’s from June 9. Former Australia batsman Law, shire, a top target. Predators march

Otto in orbit with AFP eagle at eighth British team in turmoil as Sutton quits LOS ANGELES: The Nashville AFP Predators defeated the Anaheim AFP Sutton succeeded Dave Brailsford Ducks 2-1 to confirm their place in as British Cycling chief in 2014, having the next round of the Stanley Cup BEIJING: South African journey- previously guided the likes of Chris play-offs on Wednesday with a 4-3 man Hennie Otto blasted a stunning Hoy and Bradley Wiggins to Olympic series victory. nine-under-par 63 to lead the Volvo LONDON: Great Britain’s cycling team titles and helped the team win more Colin Wilson and Paul Gaustad China Open after the first round was thrown into turmoil after tech- than 30 medals in London and Beijing scored the goals for the Predators yesterday. nical director Shane Sutton resigned across the Olympics and Paralympics. with Ryan Kesler netting the only Starting in the very first group on Wednesday, just 100 days from the He is not the only high-profile Aus- goal for the Ducks in front of a sellout on the 10th tee at the Topwin Golf start of the Rio Olympics. tralian coach in British sport, with 17,407 crowd at the Honda Center and Country Club in Beijing, the The 58-year-old Australian quit Trevor Bayliss in charge of the Eng- in Anaheim. world number 392 was only three amid allegations he had used inap- land men’s cricket team and compatriot Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne under halfway through his round. propriate language towards female Eddie Jones holding the equivalent was in inspired form for the visitors, But he shot two birdies in his riders and made derogatory comments role in rugby union. stopping 36 shots as the Predators first three holes on the front nine to disabled cyclists in the Paralym- But neither man had as far reach- set up a meeting with the San Jose and an eagle at the eighth saw him pic team. ing a brief as Sutton, who at British Sharks on Friday in the Western back in just 30 strokes. He was suspended by British Cycling was working with able-bod- Conference semi-finals. Otto will be 40 in June and Cycling late on Tuesday after it was ied male and female riders as well as Rinne had made a crucial early turned professional in 1998 but alleged he had called Paralympic the Paralympic team. stop to prevent Anaheim taking the had to wait a decade for the first cyclists “gimps”. Brailsford, now in charge of the lead after four minutes of the start, of only three European tour wins, That announcement came soon Team Sky professional cycling team doing the splits to catch Cam Fowl- the 2008 Italian Open. after British Cycling launched an inde- that competes in the Tour de France, er’s slap shot. “I played really well today,” he pendent review into claims he had said: “Shane is one of the best tactical Wilson put Nashville 1-0 up said in comments posted on the been sexist in his treatment of Jess and technical coaches I have worked after 6:19, stealing from defence- organisers’ website. “You have to Varnish, with the sprinter saying he with,” adding his contribution to British man Simon Despres and whipping This file photo taken on August 5, 2012 shows Shane Sutton, observing hit it in the right places and that’s had told her to “go and have a baby” Cycling’s success “has been immense.” a backhand inside the right post. the thing I did today. after her contract was not renewed. a race in the London 2012 Olympic Games men’s omnium 1km time trial Several female cyclists also spoke The second playoff goal of Gaus- Otto was two strokes ahead of “It is absolutely crucial that, as our cycling event, at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park in east London. up for Sutton, with Britain’s Dani King, tad’s career made it 2-0 at 15:53. Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger, with athletes begin their final preparations a London 2012 cycling gold medal- Gaustad diverted the puck in after four players tied one shot further for Rio, they are able to do so free of spoken to friends and family, that I He added he rejected all the claims list, telling Tuesday’s London Evening deflecting Shea Weber’s slap shot back: Finland’s Roope Kakko, Par- distraction,” said Sutton in his resig- believe it is in the best interests of Brit- made against him and looked forward Standard: “Shane is a no-nonsense and despite a challenge from Ducks aguayan Fabrizio Zanotti, Peter nation statement. ish Cycling for me to step down from to taking a full part in the review kind of guy. But he was no-nonsense coach Bruce Boudreau, the score Hanson and Gregory Bourdy. “It is for this reason, and having my position as technical director.” process. with the men as well as the women.” stood. SPORT FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 21 PSG chase Ligue 1 points record against Rennes

AFP Now they will turn their attention Nasser Al-Khelaifi quashed specu- had permission to go to Las Vegas,” and a possible Europa League place up one of their two targeted victories at back to the league, where they are 27 lation about coach Blanc’s future by he told sports daily L’Equipe. are within his side’s grasp with three the Parc des Princes, where PSG have points clear at the top of the table with saying that he would stay at the club “I would have preferred them to games to go. lost just once in 37 league matches. just four matches to play. next term. have just played in the Champions “Two wins could be enough to finish Having said that, the Brittany club PARIS: French champions Paris Saint- PSG have just one game left this Some of the PSG players, including League semi-finals, or to have just sixth, which would be much better than have only been defeated twice in their Germain continue to tick off their season of any real importance, the Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Javier Pastore, played a Ligue 1 game like Lille and seventh,” Courbis, whose team sit one last eight Ligue 1 trips to the capital. remaining league fixtures as they wel- French Cup final against arch rivals were allowed to go on holiday to Las Angers (on Wednesday), but we are point behind sixth-placed Lille, added. German goalkeeper Kevin Trapp come Rennes to the capital on Friday Marseille at the Stade de France on Vegas after the French League Cup win. not in charge. “The minimum target for our last is likely to return in place of Salvatore night, knowing that a win would equal May 21, although they need just four Rennes coach Rolland Courbis “After their three days’ rest, they three games against PSG, Montpellier Sirigu for PSG, with Di Maria and Ibra- their own Ligue 1 points record. more points to break the Ligue 1 record though brushed off any thoughts that can do what they want.” and Bastia is six points. himovic looking to cap off a week in Laurent Blanc’s men made it three of 89 that they set in 2013-14. the weekend trip could affect their per- Rennes have dropped out of the “We must stay professional and not which they were both nominated for French League Cup triumphs in a row The only disappointment for the formance or fitness levels on Friday. race for Champions League qualifi- let go when there is still something we the Ligue 1 Player of the Year award. last weekend, despite being reduced club this season was the Champions “Given that they have had three cation after picking up just one point can achieve, and that something is sixth. Courbis has said that striker Kamil to 10 men, thanks to Angel Di Maria’s League quarter-final exit at the hands days’ rest, I have other things to do in their last three matches, although It’s not easy, but it’s not impossible.” Grosicki is a doubt with a muscle prob- winner against Lille. of Manchester City, but Qatari chairman than to judge PSG players and they Courbis still thinks that a top-six finish It will be tough for Rennes to pick lem, while Fallou Diagne is suspended.

America retain FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference in Leicester holds its Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday. CONCACAF Gianni Infantino arrived to Seoul for a two-day visit to hold meetings with Champions FIFA Partners Hyundai Motor Group breath for miracle and with the KFA ahead of South Korea hosting the FIFA U-20 World League crown Cup 2017. AFP Manchester, Leicester has a popula- tion of around 330,000. AFP Locals pride themselves on their hospitality, welcoming strangers with LEICESTER: A collective euphoria has open arms and using the affection- MEXICO CITY: Mexican giants gripped Leicester’s humdrum streets ate greeting “m’duck”. Club America clinched back-to- as the often-overlooked English city For a city instilled with restraint back CONCACAF Champions League stands at the cusp of achieving glo- and discretion, the current emotional crowns on Wednesday after com- bal sporting immortality by winning eruption is unprecedented. ing from behind to beat fellow Liga football’s most coveted league title. “It’s an unbelievable buzz eve- MX side Tigres 2-1, sealing a 4-1 Many in the medium-sized Mid- rywhere, there are... blue items just aggregate victory. lands city will not talk about the everywhere,” said Anna Hulewicz- America had been heavy possibility of one of sporting histo- Brown, adding that the city was almost favorites to retain their continen- ry’s most unlikely triumphs for fear unrecognisable from the one where tal crown and seal their place in this of jinxing their heroes. she had spent her whole life. year’s FIFA Club World Cup after “If you look at all the fans, the The temperature will ramp up a superb 2-0 away victory in last people, the city, it’s an incredible, a notch on Friday when the city’s week’s first leg. incredible time,” said Ian Smith, while landmarks, houses and shops will But the holders were given a readjusting his Leicester City scarf. be illuminated and draped in blue scare towards the end of the first Infantino to widen “It means the world to them. A until the end of the season. half at the iconic Azteca Stadium once in a lifetime experience.” Fans nervous about Sunday’s big when French international Andre- But the impossible dream will match will be able to calm their nerves Pierre Gignac rifled in a low shot become a reality if the Foxes win at in the city’s pubs with a “Vardy bomb”, to give Tigres hope. Manchester United on Sunday. a cocktail invented in honour of star The goal lifted Tigres in a first The club, who started the season striker Jamie Vardy. half which threatened to boil over horizons for football as one of the relegation favourites and Others are seeking divine inter- towards the break when an ugly 5000/1 shots to finish top, would still vention, with a city-centre street challenge by America’s Rubens Sam- have two more matches to seal argu- preacher now using football to begin bueza triggered a prolonged melee ably the most unlikely league title in his sermon while singing the praises of that led to four bookings. with more than 40 individuals and China has also shown its ambi- English football history if they were “Saint Vardy”. Even fans of the town’s Sambueza and team-mate Paul entities, including many former FIFA tion on the global football stage with to lose at Old Trafford. successful rugby club Leicester Tigers Aguilar were both cautioned for World football chief officials, charged with corruption- Dalian Wanda Group, the country’s Sitting between the power- are on board, having Vardy’s name their role along with Tigres goals- sees co-hosting related offences in the United States. biggest commercial property devel- houses of Birmingham, Sheffield and emblazoned on the back of their shirts. corer Gignac and Damian Alvarez. Infantino, elected in February to oper, becoming the first Chinese top With tension mounting in the World Cup by more replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter, level sponsor of FIFA last month. second half, the game swung in than one country is told reporters in Seoul that adding A source close to the deal said the America’s favor with the intro- more feasible eight more teams to the World Cup 15-year sponsorship agreement with duction of Ecuadoran international from 2026 was “perfectly justified”. Wanda would be worth “hundreds of Niguez stunner hands midfielder Michael Arroyo in the “Football is not only Europe and millions of dollars”. 65th minute for Dario Benedetto. South America. Football is the world,” Infantino said the nature of foot- Arroyo did not take long to make he said. ball took the sport beyond borders to his mark and three minutes after Reuters “I’m not a dictator so I can’t impose new frontiers and that the organisa- Atletico slender lead coming on scored the equalizer for anything but I’m trying to convince tion could work as a vehicle to bring America. everyone. I believe we have to increase people together, though his sugges- The 29-year-old surged for- the number of teams ... because we tion for a goodwill match between ward purposefully towards the SEOUL: FIFA President Gianni Infan- have to be more inclusive.” the two Koreas fell somewhat flat. AFP before curling a left-footed shot in off edge of the area and after feinting tino dangled the carrot of more World Asia has four automatic spots at In Bangkok yesterday, he was asked the inside of the far post. to shoot, wrongfooted his marker Cup spots for Asia during a visit to the World Cup, with a fifth up for grabs whether Thailand had a shot at host- Atletico nearly gifted Bayern an before unleashing a venomous low Seoul and Bangkok, pressing his case in an inter-confederation playoff, and ing a World Cup. equaliser immediately as Jose Maria shot which kicked up off the turf to for an enlarged 40-team tournament. Infantino said that number could rise to Infantino said it should try but that MADRID: A sensational solo effort Gimenez’s miscued clearance pin- beat Argentina international goal- Infantino, who met with sponsors at least six under an expanded format. it was becoming “increasingly diffi- from Saul Niguez handed Atletico balled around the area before the keeper Nahuel Guzman. Hyundai Motor Group in South Korea FIFA has struggled to find new cult to hold a World Cup,” adding that Madrid a precious 1-0 advantage over Uruguayan atoned for his initial error The goal left Tigres shattered on Wednesday before travelling to sponsors since its crisis erupted and he saw more scope for co-hosting by Bayern Munich from the first leg of by clearing off the line. and needing to score twice more Thailand on Thursday, said his visit Asia’s financial muscle could see the more than one country. their Champions League semi-final at Bayern were dominant in posses- to grab an aggregate victory on was aimed at rebuilding trust with region play a bigger role. Addressing the FIFA crisis, he said: the Vicente Calderon on Wednesday. sion, but struggled to create clear-cut away goals. corporate partners and presenting Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors “In FIFA we went through a difficult The Spanish under-21 inter- chances against an Atletico side that But any chance of a Tigres fight- his vision of a “new FIFA”. Corp., South Korea’s two largest auto- time. We have approved reforms, we’ll national skipped past four Bayern now hasn’t conceded at home in their back was snuffed out in the 86th World football’s scandal-hit gov- makers and affiliates of the Hyundai bring back transparency, we’ll bring players before firing into the far cor- last seven Champions League knock- minute when Hugo Ayala upended erning body is in the midst of the conglomerate, have extended their back good governance, we’ll bring ner to give Atletico the perfect start out ties. Miguel Samudio inside the area. worst crisis in its 112-year history, partnership with FIFA until 2022. back compliance.” after 11 minutes. Alaba shot wide from distance, Bayern dominated for long spells while Douglas Costa’s free-kick nearly thereafter, but the closest they came caught out Jan Oblak at his near post. to a vital away goal was a thunderous Yet, it was Atletico who squan- long-range effort from David Alaba dered a big chance to make it 2-0 that came back off the crossbar. before the break when Antoine Griez- Atletico will travel to Bavaria for mann’s shot from a narrow angle was the return next Tuesday looking to turned behind by Neuer. complete the job to reach their sec- Bayern were completely domi- ond final in three years and exact nant after the break as Atletico tired revenge for their defeat to Bayern in and dropped deeper towards their the 1974 final. own goal. “I always had my eye on the goal. Alaba smashed a wonder strike It’s the most beautiful and most impor- off the underside of the bar from fully tant goal I’ve scored,” Saul told BeIN 35 yards before Javi Martinez’s pow- Sports Spain. erful header from Costa’s corner was Bayern lost the first legs of their gratefully grasped by Oblak low to semi-finals in the previous two sea- his right. sons to Real Madrid and Barcelona Guardiola had controversially on their way out of the competition. left Thomas Mueller on the bench And the German champions must despite his 31 goals in all competi- turn the tie around if coach Pep Guar- tions this season. diola is to avoid missing out on the The future Manchester City boss Champions League in his three-year eventually called upon the German stay in Munich before joining Man- World Cup winner and Franck Rib- chester City next season. ery in search of a vital away goal. Bayern couldn’t have made a Costa came close again seconds worse start once more in the Spanish after Mueller’s arrival as his attempted capital as, roared on by a vocifer- lob over Oblak dipped just over the bar. ous support, Atletico flew out of the Oblak was called into action again blocks early on. to parry an Arturo Vidal piledriver Niguez had already had a long- from distance. range effort saved by Manuel Neuer Yet, once more Atletico had the before he opened the scoring in stun- best chance to put the tie beyond the ning style. German champions in the final stages The 21-year-old picked the ball as Torres hit the post from Griezmann’s Bayern Munich’s goalkeeper Manuel Neuer jumps for the ball as Atletico Madrid’s midfielder Saul Niguez scores during their UEFA Champions up near halfway and skipped past fine through ball and Neuer saved League semi-final first leg football match played at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid on Wednesday. four half-hearted Bayern challenges Koke’s follow-up effort. 22 FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 SPORT El Jaish aim to dethrone Lekhwiya

fought semifinal by three goals to two to make it to the title clash. Defending champions Jaish’s attacking trio of Hamdul- Lekhwiya target lah, Romarinho and Rashidov linked second trophy of together on the night and all three play- ers had a hand in the Jaish goals. season in Qatar Cup The Soldiers will hope they can final today continue in the same vein and land a trophy this season by winning the Qatar Cup. Coach Lamouchi, is happy with his team’s performance this season. The Peninsula “It a totally different game because simply it’s a final and in a final you have to win. I would like to congrat- ulate my team for having an amazing season and getting to the final.” DOHA: El Jaish will be looking for a Defensively Jaish have been reso- repeat of their 2014 Qatar Cup success lute this season and only conceded 29 when they lifted the crown when they goals in 23 QSL games this year. Cen- take on Lekhwiya in the showpiece tral to that defensive stability has been final here today at Al Sadd Stadium. Captain Abdurahman Abubakar. The In a repeat of last year’s final Qatari international has been a main- Lekhwiya will defend their title while stay in the Jaish side this year, and the El Jaish will be looking for revenge. 25 year old has matured into a no non- Both sides have battled through sense defender. long strenuous domestic seasons to “El Jaish is a young club, with young meet with a chance to lift some sil- players and not the same infrastruc- verware in the today’s final. ture as other clubs. Step by step we El Jaish have been one of the most are building a strong club. Last year consistent sides in the Qatar Stars we lost two finals and this year we Lekhwiya coach Djamel Belmadi (left) and El Jaish coach Sabri Lamouchi speaking during a press conference League (QSL) this season. have the determination to go on and Sabri Lamouchi’s side has upheld win it,” added the Frenchman at the on the eve of the Qatar Cup final. The final kicks off today at 7.15pm. Qatar Cup Trophy their envious record of appearing in press conference on Thursday. every Qatar Cup final since the tourna- Speaking about Lekhwiya, Lam- but at the same time they have some tactical masterclass in their 3-1 vic- win everything that we can.” Tour stops ment was rebranded three years ago. ouchi added: “We know the quality of weaknesses and my players know that. tory against Al Rayyan, a side who they “Muntari is an important player El Jaish defeated Al Sadd in a closely the opponent, they have lots of quality Some of my players are playing there lost to on both occasions during the for us. It is important to find a local first final and if we play with the same QSL season. Belmadi set out a defen- player who can play in the national at Ooredoo concentration, passion and attitude like sive side, with one recognized striker. team. It’s important for us as a club we did in the AFC Champions League However Lekhwiya where masterful that we have more than ten players The Peninsula I’m sure we can have a good game.” on the break, putting the current QSL in the national team and our vision He also stresses that football is a champions to the sword with three goals is global,” added the Algerian. team sport and he does not care for of superior quality, before Al Rayyan No player will be more important DOHA: The Qatar Cup tour made individuals as much as he does for grabbed a consolation in attack for Belmadi than the afore- its final stop at Ooredoo the offi- the team. The Red Knights won the Qatar mentioned Nam Tae Hee. The South cial telecom partner of the Qatar “Most important for me is the team. Cup last time around and will be hop- Korean international has grabbed ten Cup 2016. I don’t care who scores the goal. What ing to end their season with a trophy. league goals this season, his second Staff and management took an I like to see is our team playing as a Belmadi, coach of Lekhwiya wants highest tally since joining Lekhwiya in opportunity to take photos and share unit against the big teams like Rayyan his team to keep carrying on the win- 2011. Whilst he also registered 10 assists selfies with the Qatar Cup. and Sadd. I don’t care who scores the ning mentality, “It’s a final and each final for him team-mates. Nam has started Talking about the success of the goals as long as we score one more should be played to win and in the sem- twenty five of twenty six games in the event Abdul-Aziz Al Maliki of the than the other team,” said the forty- ifinal we played very well. I want the QSL, making him one of the first names Qatar Stars League said: “The tour four-year-old tactician. Lekhwiya have players to play with the same attitude.” of Belmadi’s team-sheet.Nam popped of the Qatar Cup has been a great endured a tough domestic campaign Speaking about the vast range of with a fine individual goal in the sem- success it’s a perfect way to show relinquishing their QSL title to runa- attacking options he has at his disposal, ifinal and Lekwiya will be expecting the general public about the event way champions Al Rayyan. However, Belmadi added: “It’s a nice problem I more of the same from their number and the final on the 29th of April.” Djamel Belmadi has excelled in the cup wish I had this more in the season. ten if they are to lift the Qatar Cup this Over the course of the Qatar competitions and Lekhwiya can now Youssef Msakni, Karim Boudiaf and year.Defensively Jaish have been Cup tour, the famous cup has made harbour genuine hopes of a domestic Mohammed Muntari, who is on fire. resolute this season and only con- a host of spots at key areas in Qatar double starting with the Qatar Cup final. More importantly in AFC Champions ceded 29 goals in 23 QSL games including the Aspire Zone, Toyota In January, Lekhwiya won the League we don’t concede many goals this year. Central to that defensive offices, Katara, Souq Wakif and The Lekhwiya players lift the Qatar Cup trophy in this May 2, 2015 file Sheikh Jassim Cup with a 4-1 win over and against Rayyan we conceded only stability has been Captain Abdu- Pearl all of which has been greeted picture. Al Sadd. The Red Knights put on a one. We want to play and we want to rahman Abubakar. with joy and excitement by public. Chasing pack closing on Rohit, Pollard help Mumbai Serena, says Navratilova thrash KKR by six wickets

AFP IANS SCOREBOARD KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS MUMBAI INDIANS RV Uthappa c Pollard b Harbhajan Singh 36 RG Sharma (not out) 68 SINGAPORE: Serena Williams MUMBAI: Riding on skipper Rohit G Gambhir* c Pollard b McClenaghan 59 PA Patel† c Pathan b UT Yadav 1 remains the “queen” of women’s ten- Sharma’s unbeaten 68 alongside Kieron Shakib Al Hasan c Patel b HH Pandya 6 AT Rayudu c SA Yadav b Shakib Al Hasan 32 nis but don’t be surprised if she’s no Pollard’s quickfire 17-ball 51, defending SA Yadav c & b Southee 21 KH Pandya b Narine 6 longer number one by the end of the champions Mumbai Indians outclassed year, Martina Navratilova said yes- Kolkata Knight Riders by six wick- AD Russell b Southee 22 JC Buttler c Lynn b Narine 15 terday. ets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) CA Lynn (not out) 10 KA Pollard (not out) 51

Speaking in Singapore to promote cricket match at the Wankhede Sta- YK Pathan not out 19 Extras (W 5) 5 this year’s WTA Finals, the 59-year- dium here yesterday. Extras (LB 1) 1 Total (4 wkts; 18 overs) 178 old Czech said she was pleased to see Batting first, KKR posted a compet- Did not bat: HH Pandya, Harbhajan Singh, JJ stronger competition in the women’s itive total of 174/5 in 20 overs, thanks to Total (5 wkts; 20 overs) 174 game. skipper Gautam Gambhir’s 45-ball 59. Did not bat: R Sathish, UT Yadav, SP Narine, JD Bumrah, TG Southee, MJ McClenaghan “Right now there is competi- In reply, Rohit struck 68 not out Unadkat Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-67, 3-78, 4-106 tion but not quite rivalry yet. But off just 49 balls, as the hosts chased Fall of wickets: 1-69, 2-77, 3-121, 4-130, 5-145 Bowling: JD Unadkat 3-0-49-0 (1w); UT Yadav certainly, a lot of players are step- down the target comfortably posting Bowling: TG Southee 4-0-38-2; MJ McClena- 2-0-19-1 (2w); Shakib Al Hasan 4-0-30-1; SP ping on Serena’s heels for the year,” 178/4 in 18 overs. ghan 4-0-33-1; J Bumrah 4-0-34-0; Harbhajan Narine 4-0-22-2; R Sathish 2-0-30-0 (2w); AD Navratilova said. Rohit struck eight boundaries Singh 4-0-32-1; HH Pandya 2-0-15-1; KH Pandya Russell 3-0-28-0 “It’s not a foregone conclusion. and two sixes, while Pollard, who 2-0-21-0 Player-of-the-match: RG Sharma The last couple of years by now, we also remained unbeaten, smashed pretty much knew Serena would end six sixes and two boundaries to take up world number one at the end of the team to victory. ninth over reduced Mumbai to 78/2. without losing any wickets after the the year but this year it’s up in the air. Chasing a challenging target of 175, Despite wickets falling at the other completion of powerplay. “It’s going to be difficult for her the home side got off to a disappoint- end, Rohit stayed calm and brought The home team missed a golden to keep that cushion but at the same ing start losing in-form opener Parthiv up yet another half-century in just 36 chance to dismiss the KKR skipper as time, she’s still the queen.” Patel (1) in the second over itself. balls and take the team past the 100- pacer Mitchell McClenaghan dropped a Tennis legend Martina Navratilova (right) plays a match with local Williams has not won a tourna- But his opening partner, skipper run mark in the 12th over. skier off his own bowling in the power- ment since her triumph at Cincinnati athletes after a promotional event for this year’s WTA Finals in Rohit Sharma used his experience After the dismissal of Jos Buttler play, when the left-hander was batting in August. Singapore yesterday. to best effect to score runs at a good (15), incoming batsman Kieron Pol- at eight. But veteran off-spinner Har- Navratilova, an 18-time major pace without losing anymore wick- lard came into the show and smashed bhajan brought the much needed champion, said that Williams was Last year, the 34-year-old Amer- of the most career singles Grand Slam ets to help the team reach 64/1 after Rajagopal Sathish for 23 runs in the breakthrough dismissing Uthappa under added pressure after last year’s ican came within two matches of a trophies. Williams has won 21 majors, completion of powerplay. 16th over to put Mumbai on course in the eighth over to put the brakes scintillating run, when she won three calendar-year Grand Slam, fall- one shy of Steffi Graf’s career total He was supported well at the other to a win. on the KKR run flow. Incoming bats- Grand Slam titles. ing to Roberta Vinci in the US Open and three behind Margaret Court’s end by Ambati Rayudu (32). From there on, Pollard and Rohit man Shakib Al Hasan (6) too departed “The gap has gotten smaller and semi-finals. all-time record. The duo struck a much needed remained unbeteaten to take the team cheaply without troubling the scorers it may keep getting smaller because This year, she lost to Angelique “It’s all becoming about Grand 50-run partnership for the second over the victory line. much, to have the visitors reduced to Serena won so many Grand Slams last Kerber in the Australian Open final, to Slams now and that seems to be the wicket in just 27 balls to help the team Sunil Narine (2-22) was the pick of 77/2 in the ninth over. year. She has a lot of points to defend. Victoria Azarenka in the Indian Wells only measuring stick that anybody stay on course for a victory. the bowlers for Kolkata, while Shakib Despite two quick wickets at the “She’s not exactly floundering, it’s final and in the fourth round at Miami cares about,” Navratilova said. But Shakib Al Hasan dismissed Al Hasan and Umesh Yadav claimed other end, Gambhir kept his cool and just the standard that she has set is so to Svetlana Kuznetsova. “Every time she plays a Grand Slam, Rayudu in the seventh over to put an one wicket each. used his experience to help the team high, it’s hard to live up to that. You Her current form notwithstanding, she’s got a chance to do it... Chances end to a good partnership. Earlier, put into bat, in-form open- post 85/2 after 10 overs. He was well cannot write her off, (it’s) way too soon Navratilova has backed Williams as are it will happen, whether she can get New batsman Krunal Pandya (6) ers Gambhir and Robin Uthappa (36) supported at the other end by Surya- for that,” Navratilova added. she looks to reach the all-time record to 24, that’s a long way away.” failed to impress as his dismissal in the got KKR off to a flying start scoring 59 kumar Yadav (21). www.thepeninsulaqatar.comww PAGEPA | 20 PAGE | 21 NZ confirms Infantino to Kane Williamson widen horizons as captain for football

FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 • 22 Rajab 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Al Rayyan rally to win Qatar Cup title

Wilfredo Leon of Al Rayyan SC named Player-of-the-Final

Armstrong Vas The Peninsula

DOHA: Al Rayyan made a splendid recovery when it mattered most in the final of the Qatar Cup volleyball to win the five-set thriller against El Jaish. At Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena here yesterday, the title clash went to the wire with Al Rayyan holding their nerve to register a 3-2 (21/25, 25/18, 25/17, 32/34 and 18/16) win. So close yet so far, that sums up the disappointment of El Jaish team, which came agonisingly close to clinching the title but ended as runners-up in the decisive clash. Al Rayyan, who were trailing 5-1 in the fifth and deciding set bounce back to win the decider at 18-16 and with it the title. The final between the two teams was worth going a mile to watch. For- tune fluctuated over the two and half Al Rayyan SC players and officials celebrate while receiving the Qatar Cup after they beat El Jaish SC 21-25, 25-18, 25-17, 32-34, 18-16 in the final played at Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya hour period. For a few minutes, Al Rayyan had a upper hand only to Arena yesterday. BELOW: Action during the final of the Qatar Cup volleyball Tournament. Pictures by: Syed Omar surrender the advantage to their opponents. A good number of spectators came in the next set. The fourth set thus to watch the match and to back their proved to be one of the keenly con- respective teams and all of them got tested of the entire two and half hours their money’s worth. final clash. Long rallies, excellent blocks and Every point was contested and superb spikes were the hall mark of long rallies kept all at the stadium on the final, not to forget the drum-play- their toes with El Jaish wining 34-32. ing fans, who liven up the atmosphere In the final set, El Jaish took a in the stands. runaway lead of 5-1 and Al Rayyan El Jaish, which stunned Qatar Vol- narrowed the lead to make it 8-5. leyball Association League winners Al Rayyan were not ruffled by the Al Arabi in the semi-finals, winning early lead and managed to crawl back the best-of-three series 2-1, set the to tie the score at 12-all and thereaf- tone by winning the first set, to give ter there was not much to spate both their supporters something to cheer the teams. about very early into the match. Al Rayyan, however got the upper The Al Rayyan fans were not to hand when they took the lead for the be left behind and their heroes lived first time in the final set at 17-16 and up to their expectations by bounc- then scored the match winning point ing back. to win the set and final. Backed by a vociferous crowd sup- The winners got QR300,000, port, Al Rayyan bounced back to take while the runners-up got richer by the second and third sets. QR150,000. But El Jaish were not ready to Wilfredo Leon of Al Rayyan SC throw in the towel and gave everything got the Player-of-the-Final award.

Al Sailiya’s Abdurahman Al Harazi (left) celebrates after scoring the Emir Cup: Al Kharaitiyat, Al Gharafa first goal for his team during their Emir Cup third round match against Al Wakrah SC at Al Arabi Club earn thrilling wins to advance Stadium yesterday. Picture by: Mohammaed Farag The Peninsula the beginning and took defense with a slick show lead in the first minute of in the 81st minute as Al EMIR CUP the match, with Jarallah Al Kharaitiyat regained lead. FOOTBALL RESULTS Mani executing a fine move Seasoned Paulinho DOHA: Goal-keeper successfully. lived up to expectations and Al Kharaitiyat bt Al Arabi Ahmad Sufian Abu Nora But, the lead didn’t last brought Al Arabi on level 2-2 (4-2) was the star as Al Kharaiti- for long as Al Arabi levelled terms, just three minutes Al Gharafa bt Umm Salal yat overcame Al Arabi in the score-line just after nine after Fattah’s goal. The last 1-1 (4-2) penalty shoot-outs to enter minutes, following a fine few minutes were intense Al Sailiya bt Al Wakrah the quarter-finals of the display of accuracy by You- but both the teams avoided Emir Cup football tourna- suf Ahmed Ali who brought any damage to march into 2-1 ment at Suhaim Bin Hamad his side back into the match the shoot-outs. Al Ahli bt Al Khor 3-2 Stadium in Doha yesterday. with a goal. The teams went Al Kharaitiyat will take The 25-year-old Qatari into the breather with a 1-1 on Qatar Stars League Meanwhile, Al Sailiya blocked two attempts from score-line. champions Al Rayyan in advanced into the next stage the opposition to secure a Al Kharaitiyat and Al the quarter-finals on May 8. with a 2-1 victory over Al stunning 4-2 win in tie- Arabi looked cautious in Al Gharafa also regis- Wakrah at Al Arabi Stadium breaker, after the score the second session and tered a similar victory when last night. was tied 2-2 in full time. exchanged a few attacks they surpassed Umm Salal The other pre-quarter- Al Kharaitiyat revealed with both the sides focus- 4-2 in shoot-outs, following final saw Al Ahli entering the their intentions of advanc- ing more on the defense. a 1-1 tie after 90 minutes next stage with an impres- ing in the prestigious However, Hassan Abdel of thrilling football from sive 3-2 win over Al Khor tournament right from Fattah stunned Al Arabi both the teams. yesterday.

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AFP “These are monuments that bear witness pre-reunification period of Prussian kings to on power. “They portrayed in part Emperor monuments made during the Nazi era because to a certain time. They are literally his- the formation of the German Empire in 1871, Wilhelm’s wishes, but they also bear witness the leaders of the Third Reich were obsessed tory ‘carved in stone’,” said Culture Minister through to the Weimar Republic, the Nazi of the battle that Berlin was subjected to in with grand architecture, said Theissen, who BERLIN: Some were buried, others riddled Monika Gruetters at the opening of the per- years, the Cold War-era when the city was 1945: bullet holes, missing limbs, disfigured only managed to find three objects to illus- with bullet holes, yet others dumped in old manent exhibition at Zitadelle Spandau, in divided into a democratic West and a commu- heads,” said Andrea Theissen, who initiated trate the period. depots as the glorious periods they were western Berlin. nist East, up to contemporary times. the exhibition. The Victory Avenue statues, One of them is a statue of Arno Breker, crafted to commemorate came to an end. “This critical examination of the culture Among the first exhibits to greet visitors which once proudly stood in a line in the Tier- Adolf Hitler’s favourite sculptor, and another But Berlin authorities have now rescued of monuments is essential for coming to terms are the remains of the building boom after garten — the massive park in central Berlin an eight-tonne stone that purportedly por- 100 statues and monuments from neglect and with our history,” she said. the founding of the Empire that peaked with — were condemned to destruction by the Allies trayed Germanic engineering prowess. disrepair, assembling them in an exhibition to The exhibition called “Unveiled. Berlin and the construction of the “Victory Avenue” — after World War II and were buried close to Theissen said she is still trying to secure tell the city’s chequered history that spanned its Monuments” traces around three centu- dozens of statues, commissioned by Emperor the Bellevue castle, the current official resi- for the exhibition a bas-relief which was once royal rule, Nazism and the Cold War. ries of the capital’s history — spanning the Wilhelm the First, to affirm his legitimate hold dence of German presidents. There were few part of the decorations at Hitler’s chancellery. Pacifist Japan on offensive against gritty public behaviour Peta takes ostrich

AFP perspective, embarrassing gaffes, such as putting used toilet paper into the waste bin fight into Prada — the general custom in China — instead of flushing it away. According to The Japan TOKYO: A Japanese tourism board has Times newspaper, the original booklet AFP called on foreign tourists to refrain from was first published last August and was public “belching or flatulence” in an eti- targeted at Chinese tourists, including a quette guide which was hastily rewritten, reminder not to open products before buy- MILAN: Animal rights group Peta said yesterday it reportedly after complaints from a Chi- ing them when shopping, a habit also seen has acquired shares in Prada to pursue its protest over nese resident. in China. ostrich leather handbags from inside the luxury fash- The Hokkaido Tourism Organization, China has said it will monitor the ion group. which represents Japan’s northern-most behaviour of unruly tourists abroad and Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) island, published a downloadable brochure punish them on their return home after said the move followed an investigation which revealed on its website, with polite instructions on being shamed by a string of well-publi- that ostriches as young as one were being slaughtered everything from public bathing to using a cised incidents in recent years. in South Africa to produce the “goose bump” leather Japanese toilet. Research by the Bank of America the company uses for its costly bags. Helpfully, it even dedicated an entire Merrill Lynch found that more than 100 “Every Prada goose bump bag means a young ostrich section to protocol for avoiding bodily million Chinese tourists went abroad in has been turned upside down in a stunner then ejected functions. 2014, spending some $164bn. to have their throats cut and be plucked in a miserable “Japanese etiquette is based on avoid- But reports of disruptive behaviour and terrifying slaughter,” said Peta’s Mimi Bekhechi. ing causing discomfort or nuisance to have tarnished their reputation, such as “Peta USA is taking the fight against cruelty into others,” the guide points out. passengers scalding a flight attendant with Prada meeting rooms where it will be able to ask the “Accordingly, Japanese will avoid bod- hot water and noodles or a holidaymaker company to end forever the use of ostrich leather in ily functions such as belching or flatulence fined in Thailand for washing her feet in its bags.” in public entirely, or perform bodily func- the wash basin of a public toilet. Prada did not respond to AFP’s request for com- tions as discreetly as possible.” File picture of foreign tourists checking suitcases on the street in front of a bag Media in Japan have carried reports ment on the move. However, the Chinese-language guide shop in Tokyo. of alleged uncouth behaviour by Chinese In the wild, ostrich chicks stay with their parents — originally entitled “Common Sense visitors, though some local commentators up to the age of three. When Travelling in Hokkaido” — upset a news agency reported. In the updated guide available in have urged understanding, recalling that On farms where they are bred for their meat, leather Chinese resident who angrily claimed the The complaint prompted a new, for- Chinese and English, gone are the large the emergence five decades ago of Japa- and feathers, the young are usually separated from their diagrams featuring examples of bad tour- eigner-friendly version with softer ‘X’-marks next to cartoon illustrations nese tourists as a force in global travel was parents at birth and kept in feedlots until being dis- ist behaviour were offensive, Japan’s Kyodo explanations of Japanese customs. of tourists committing, from a Japanese often met with complaints. patched to the abattoir.