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Kenyan troops in control Emir arrives Price display in New York NEW YORK: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrived in New York compulsory yesterday to take part in the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Emir is accompanied by an official delegation during for eateries the visit. QNA Crackdown on erring outlets Retirement DOHA: The authorities have others are charged higher. The launched a crackdown on eater- absence of an approved list made ies that fail to display their it easier for them to manipulate age of Qataris prices prominently at their the prices. premises. “We have been asked to display may be raised Eateries that fail to comply the prices both in Arabic and with the declared prices will face English and most restaurants DOHA: A new law in the mak- stern action, including hefty fines. are now doing it for fear of hefty ing aims to fix the retirement The Consumer Protection fines,” said an expatriate running age for Qatari men at 67 and Department (CPD) at the an eatery in the Najma area. allow Qatari women to work Ministry of Economy and The Ministry action is consid- until 62, according to Al Sharq. Commerce has started collecting ered to be the first step towards The current retirement age the price lists of all eateries for controlling the prices of eater- Police officers and members of the media take cover at a distance from the Westgate Shopping Centre after for Qataris is 60 and the law only reference and comparison. ies. The CPD inspectors are now continuous gunfire was heard from the mall in Nairobi yesterday. Thick smoke poured from the besieged mall applies to those employed in the The Department recently made busy collecting the price lists of where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages. Report on page 10 government sector. it mandatory for all eateries to all eateries, which they can use The new law, which the Arabic prepare a price list and display it as a reference while investigating daily has called ‘more flexible’, prominently at their entrance for complaints related to prices. will also enable those working in information of the public. The Ministry of Municipality the semi-government sector to be The Department swung into and Urban Planning has already New president for Qatar Foundation eligible for monthly pensions. action after repeated com- imposed strict health and safety It will count the training period plaints about the lack of moni- regulations for eateries and now of employees in the years accumu- toring of restaurants, especially the CPD has stepped in to moni- DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza bint lated for pension. their prices. Only some leading tor the prices. Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Qataris will have to be employed fast food outlets and major res- The CPD, in the past, had Foundation for Education, Science for a minimum of 20 years to be taurants had been following the intervened to regulate the prices and Community Development eligible for benefits. practice of issuing a menu card at fruits and vegetable shops as (QF), has announced the The minimum pension for to the customers. well as supermarkets and hyper- appointment of Engineer Saad Al Qatari men and women has been In the absence of an approved markets. Fruits and vegetable Muhannadi as its new President set at QR10,000. list, customers had no way to shops are required to abide by and Rashid Al Naimi as CEO of The dependents of those who know the prices in advance and a daily price list issued by the Qatar Foundation Investments, die in service will receive a mini- ensure they are not charged Department, which is also issu- as the organisation moves for- mum pension of QR4,000. more. There have been complaints ing a comparative price list of all ward in its mission to unlock The draft law stipulates a fine about discrepancies in the prices leading hypermarkets. human potential. of QR50,000 to QR100,000 and of some eateries, especially those Eateries had largely been Sheikha Moza said: “In jail term of one to three years for catering to different expatriate spared such measures and the Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi we those who produce false informa- communities. new move is interpreted to be the could not wish for a more capable tion to benefit from the pension They allegedly charge their reg- first step towards more stringent president to continue advancing system. THE PENINSULA ular customers lower prices while regulations. THE PENINSULA our mission. As one of the found- Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi and ( RIGHT) Rashid Al Naimi ing members of QF, he is steeped in the esteemed traditions of our organisation. development of the organisation’s role of CEO of Qatar Foundation Saudi to build 16 FIFA to discuss 2022 timing in October “It is now 18 years since QF infrastructure, and I have the Investments. Throughout his was founded. From humble begin- utmost confidence in his ability to career, including his most recent N-reactors by 2030 ZURICH: FIFA has confirmed that it will discuss the timing nings it has grown to become provide the necessary leadership position as QF’s Vice President of of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at its next executive commit- the world-class institution that as QF continues its exciting mis- Administration, he has demon- JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia plans tee meeting. The agenda for the meeting on October 3 and 4, we see today, spearheading the sion to unlock human potential. strated that he is a natural leader. to build 16 nuclear reactors by published yesterday, included the item “FIFA World Cup Qatar, nation’s efforts on our journey “I would like to extend my very I have every confidence that he 2030 with 17 gigawatts capacity period of the competition.” FIFA President Sepp Blatter had towards a knowledge economy. best wishes to our new president will be a great success in his new at a cost of around $100bn. The promised in July that he would put the proposal to the executive Engineer Al Muhannadi has been in his new role. At the same time, position, and I wish him the very plants will take nine to 11 years committee at its next meeting. REUTERS with us throughout this incred- I am delighted that Rashid Al best.” THE PENINSULA to complete and the first will ible journey, leading the ongoing Naimi will be taking up the key Continued on page 5 start operations by 2020. QNA

Iran takes charm Lekhwiya wins offensive to UN Brotherhood banned UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s new gov- CAIRO: An Egyptian court The ruling did not specifi- ernment took its diplomatic charm offen- yesterday banned deposed cally mention the Brotherhood’s sive to the United Nations yesterday and President Mohammed Mursi’s political wing, the Freedom and agreed to new talks with six world pow- Muslim Brotherhood and Justice Party. ers - including the US - on its nuclear ordered its funds seized, a crip- But the state news agency programme during this week’s gathering pling strike in the campaign to quoted Freedom and Justice of world leaders in New York. crush the Islamist movement. Party spokesman Hamza Zawbaa That meeting with Iran’s new Foreign The case was brought by a as saying the party rejected the Minister Mohammad Zarif will involve US lawyer from the leftist Tagammu ruling and would appeal. Secretary of State John Kerry, which is party on the grounds of protect- “What is happening to the highly unusual given that the US has not ing Egyptians from violence. Brotherhood translates to a maintained diplomatic relations with Iran It was not stated if he was return of the police state after since 1980. acting at the instigation of the having removed it through the The announcement of the planned talks, army-backed government, which January 25 revolution,” he said, after a meeting between EU foreign policy has launched one of the fiercest describing the revolt that toppled chief Catherine Ashton and Zarif, raised crackdowns against the group in autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. hopes that the annual United Nations decades. The movement has seen hun- General Assembly could bring a thaw in “The court bans the activi- dreds of its members killed and relations between arch-enemies Iran and ties of the Muslim Brotherhood thousands arrested since the the US. organisation and its non-gov- army overthrew Mursi in July. Ashton said Zarif would join the five ernmental organisation and all The ruling may force the permanent members of the UN Security the activities that it partici- Brotherhood to go underground, Council and Germany at a meeting that pates in and any organisation especially as public support for it has been scheduled for Thursday to discuss derived from it,” presiding Judge has dropped. the Iranian nuclear programme, which is at Mohammed Al Sayed said in a The court’s decision also the heart of tensions between Tehran and ruling. raises the possibility that some the West. The West believes Iran has been He also ordered the govern- Brotherhood members will lose trying to develop nuclear weapons and is A Lekhwiya parachutist in action at the paragliding championship held in Bologna, Italy, last week. ment to seize the Brotherhood’s faith in peaceful resistance and determined to stop this, imposing tough Lekhwiya Sport Team ranked third in the championship. Fourteen teams took part in the contest. funds and administer its frozen take up arms against the govern- economic sanctions. REUTERS assets. ment. REUTERS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Al Mahmoud chairs Darfur Emir, PM send greetings to Saudi Rehabilitation Fund meeting DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh DOHA: The Deputy Prime support and financial pledges Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Minister and Minister at Donors’ Conference yesterday sent a cable of greet- of State for Cabinet for Reconstruction and ings to the Custodian of the Two Affairs H E Ahmed bin Development in Darfur in Holy Mosques King Abdullah Abdullah Al Mahmoud Doha this April. bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the chaired the first meeting The meeting reviewed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the of the board of directors of achievements within the kingdom’s National Day. The Darfur Rehabilitation and framework of the development Prime Minister and Interior Development Fund at Ritz- strategy in Darfur, funding Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Carlton Hotel yesterday. mechanism, functions of the bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani Al Mahmoud emphasised board of directors and of the sent a similar cable. the commitment of the inter- Board of Directors Secretariat, national community to imple- needs of the Darfur Regional ment the Doha Document Authority (DRA) and short- Condolences sent over for Peace in Darfur and exert and long-term projects. efforts to transfer from a Sudan, the DRA, the Saudi princess’ death stage of relief and humanitar- African Union–United DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh ian operations to a stage of Nations Mission in Darfur, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sustainable development and the UN, the UK, China, has sent a cable of condolences reconstruction. Turkey, Germany and Brazil to the Custodian of the Two He said that the meeting along with Qatar are taking The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud with Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the Joint Special Representative of the AU and UN for Darfur and Joint Chief Mediator of the UN-AU Holy Mosques King Abdullah also comes as a result of the part in the meeting. bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi international community’s QNA Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur. Arabia following the death of Princess Munira bint Mohamed bin Turki Al Saud. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a sim- Free medical camp for low-income workers ilar cable of condolences. Emir, Prime Minister Indian Community Benevolent Forum holding camp on Friday with support of IDC and KIMS congratulate Merkel

DOHA: Indian Community patients. A team of 12 doctors, DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Benevolent Forum (ICBF), a paramedical staffs and pharma- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani charitable organisation under cists from IDC and KIMS will has sent a cable of congratula- the aegis of the Indian embassy, assist the camp. tions to German Chancellor in association with Indian Besides, a team of some 30 vol- Angela Merkel on her Christian Doctors Club Qatar (IDC) and unteers from Karnataka Sangha Democratic Union party’s vic- KIMS Qatar Medical Centre Qatar will be working at the tory in parliamentary elec- is organising its 14th medi- camp. tions. The Prime Minister and cal camp for low-income work- The Supreme Council of Health Interior Minister H E Sheikh ers on Friday at KIMS Qatar has agreed to supply free medi- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Medical Centre (Wakrah) from cines to those diagnosed with Al Thani sent a similar congrat- 7.30am to 12.30pm. diseases, said Kareem Abdulla, ulatory cable. The camp will provide free President of ICBF. consultation, including ortho- The camp will be inaugu- paedic specialisation treatment rated by the Deputy Chief of Qatari envoy to India as well as hypertension, diabetic Mission, the Indian embassy, P presents credentials and cholesterol check-ups and S Sasikumar and the Director free medicines for around 350- of South Security, Mohammad NEW DELHI: The Chief of 450 workers, 150 of whom will be Jassim Al Sulaiti. Protocol at India’s Ministry fishermen living in Wakrah and Any deserving person liv- of External Affairs Ruchira Wukair. ing in Wakrah and Wukair can The President of Indian Community Benevolent Forum, Kareem Abdulla (fifth left), the Chief Medical Officer of Kamboj received Qatar’s ICBF unit has started pre-reg- register for the camp by calling the KIMS Medical Centre Qatar, K M R Mathew (fourth left), and the ICBF Vice President, Baby Kurien (sixth left), Ambassador Ahmed Ibrahim Al Abdullah who presented a copy istration of workers for the camp. 55335679, 5547782 or 55854791 with officials from Indian Doctors Club and Karnataka Sangha at a press conference to announce the free medical Spot registration will be done or 55206095. of his credentials. camp. SALIM MATRAMKOT on the day of camp for deserving THE PENINSULA QNA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Premier meets Flying hospital eyes Qatari expertise ambassadors DOHA: The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Princess Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, highlights sight-saving work in poor communities bin Khalifa Al Thani met sepa- rately yesterday the ambassa- DOHA: Qatari ophthalmolo- surgeries and provides eye care dors of Sri Lanka, Macedonia gists are likely to serve as vol- to children in low-income areas and Spain. unteer surgeons for a global like rural India, Cameroon, Talks covered coopera- charity, dedicated to preserv- Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia. tion between Qatar and their ing and restoring the eyesight “We are looking for medical countries. of the poorest people in the and professional support from poorest communities across the Qatar. We look forward to part- Call to facilitate world. nering with to experts to share Her Royal Highness Princess skills,” said Dr Robert Walters, correct data Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, Orbis EMEA Chairman. the UK, travelled to Doha this Orbis held discussions with DOHA: Coordinators and week on board the Orbis Flying experts and officials at the Hamad providers of statistics at pub- Eye Hospital to meet local medi- Medical Corporation and Qatar lic organisations have recom- cal specialists and ambassadors, National Research Fund. mended a link between the building on the success of last Experts explained about child- Ministry of Development, year’s inaugural visit of the unique hood blindness and highlighted Planning and Statistics and the training facility in a DC-10 plane. the Orbis message that education government departments con- “As Patron of Vision 2020, is much harder to access if a child cerned to expedite procedures The Right to Sight and Global has sight problems. and facilitate collection of cor- Ambassador of the IAPB (The The Orbis team explained that rect data. International Agency for the if sight problems aren’t addressed The statistics departments in Prevention of Blindness), I am early on in life, they can become the public sector should send data committed to furthering the irreversible. they collect to the ministry that cause and aims of our mandate Princess Sophie highlighted sends figures to the international to eliminate avoidable blindness how life with no access to educa- community and other government by 2020 by working alongside our tion or employment can mean a organisations, said a statement partner organisations, including loss of independence, so by restor- following a meeting of coordina- Orbis. ing sight Orbis can also restore tors and providers yesterday. “I hope our visit will attract opportunity. They said authorities should much interest and support from “According to World Health strengthen cooperation to collect the people of Qatar,” Princess Organisation, there are about and provide correct statistics. Sophie told a press conference at 1.5 million blind children in the HRH Princess Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, receives a memento from Abdulaziz Al Mass of Doha International A database should be set up at the Oryx Rotana Hotel yesterday. world, of whom about 1 million Airport in Doha yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL the ministry and should include Orbis provides tools, training live in Asia and about 300,000 in all statistics released by authori- and technology for local doctors Africa. “Globally, care for the delicate specialist training and providing treated 4,500,000 cases with more ties, the statement said. and healthcare professionals to “Each year, an estimated half eyes of children is scarce. It takes necessary equipment and infra- than 55,545 surgeries and trained A unified law or agreement develop solutions to tackle avoid- a million more children become specialist equipment, training and structure to treat children in poor over 20,830 doctors, nurses and should be made to ensure secrecy able blindness in their countries. blind, up to 60 percent of whom infrastructure and this is where communities”, he said. others. of classified information, it added. The hospital also conducts die in childhood,” said Dr Walters. Orbis comes in, introducing In 2012, Orbis and its partners THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Katara launches new strategy to help youth showcase talent DOHA: Katara yesterday announced to achieve cultural development in the studies,” Dr Khalid Al Sulaiti, General to promote the role of international cul- have built the vision, mission and objec- that it had begun implementing its new country, Katara said in a statement. Manager of Katara, said. ture, and build a bridge between diverse tives of Katara after extensive research five-year strategy to provide Qatari “We aim to make Katara one of the He said the foundation is going to take cultures in the Middle East. and analysis.” Among the partnering youth with platforms to showcase best foundations, which hosts all kinds a major leap in its performance, mission Dr Khalid Al Jabir, Strategic Affairs organisations, Katara will work with their talent. The new strategy has been of art and cultural activities. and plans in the coming months. It will Adviser at Katara, said: “We had a work- Unesco, the Kennedy Art Centre in designed in accordance with the Qatar “In the next stage, we are planning to also issue publications and newsletters. shop with Palladium group in coordina- Washington and Qatar Foundation to National Vision 2030. increase cultural awareness in and out- Dr Al Sulaiti said Katara is invest- tion with Dr David Norton and other organise educational programmers and The foundation will continue to revive side Qatar through carnivals, exhibitions, ing in the creativity of the youth and international experts and we have ben- projects for high school and university Qatar’s heritage and national identity seminars, while conducting research and enhances interactions with other cultures efited from Kaplan-Norton strategy. We students. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Sidra appoints executive Rota volunteers in Nepal mission vice chief medical officer DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research Center 24-member delegation supporting schools in disaster risk reduction has appointed Dr Abdulla Mohd Essa Al DOHA: Reach Out To deliver workshops for Kaabi as Executive Vice Asia (Rota), is fostering Nepalese students. Chief Medical Officer. the spirit of volunteerism Volunteers will also sup- The local paediatrics in Qatar by partnering port the Saraswarti Primary expert will join Sidra’s with Qatar Foundation School in Dhangardi in the leadership team to help and sending 24 volunteers far western Kailali region ensure best clinical on a 10-day visit to a Rota by facilitating classes in and professional prac- project in Nepal that sup- art, English, Qatari culture, tices and an integrated ports the role of schools in environmental awareness healthcare approach in disaster risk reduction. and sport. Qatar. Dr Abdulla Mohd Essa Supported by Vodafone They will assist children Dr Al Kaabi is Al Kaabi Qatar, the trip offers a with local translators in Associate Professor service opportunity for the the classes. of Clinical Paediatrics volunteers to explore and There will be around six at Weill Cornel Medical College in Qatar expand their skills. contact work hours per (WCMC-Q) and will retain this role alongside Vodafone Qatar has sent day followed by cultural his position in Sidra. He will assist Sidra’s Chief several employees on the activities focusing on team Medical Officer Dr Edward Ogata and other trip, encouraging them to building within the local leaders to build medical staff and develop all utilise their professional community. aspects of Sidra’s programmes. skills to help communities “Rota’s international “It is an honour and a privilege to join Sidra’s in need. volunteer trips provide clinical team and work with renowned experts Working in 22 villages in unique opportunities for in the field like Dr Ogata. Sidra will be an elite the Kailali District of west- Qatar-based volunteers to academic medical centre that serves as a model ern Nepal, the Vodafone be exposed to Rota contri- for the region. I am proud to be part of that,” Qatar-Rota partnership, bution around Asia and get said Dr Al Kaabi. through the Disaster Risk involved in hand-on work on Prior to joining Sidra, Dr Al Kaabi was Reduction (DRR) Project, the ground. a senior consultant and chief of Paediatric has improved the lives of “Volunteers commit them- Nephrology in Hamad General Hospital. thousands of students and selves to an exhausting pro- He was also the deputy chairman of teachers in many schools gramme of activities during Paediatrics in Hamad Medical Corporation since the mission started in the trip but, in the end, enjoy (HMC) and a member of HMC’s Paediatric 2010. gaining from an immensely Executive Committee. Dr Al Kaabi has a long- Rota volunteers will rewarding and fulfilling term record in inter-organisational communi- be participating in a pro- experience,” said National cations and cooperation, having worked with gramme featuring student- Programme Director the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in led activities in non-formal Mohammed Al Saleh. Toronto, Canada, WCMC-Q and HMC. centres of education, and THE PENINSULA Rota volunteers with Nepalese children. THE PENINSULA AAB opens new quick service centre

Norihiro Yoshida inaugurating the new quick service centre at the Al Wasil Petrol Station near Doha Golf Club.

DOHA: Abdullah Abdulghani by Norihiro Yoshida, General other senior officials from AAB. & Bros. Co. (AAB), the sole Manager, Field Operations, The New Quick Service Centre agents for Toyota & Lexus, Toyota Motor Corporation’s will be open from 8am to 8pm. For opened their new quick serv- Bahrain Representative Office. service appointments, customers ice centre near Doha Golf Club The opening was attended can call AAB hotline 800 1800 or at the Al Wasil Petrol Station. by Dr Nasser Abdulghani log on to its website www.toyo- This brings the number of AAB Abdulghani, Managing Director, taqatar.com or through Facebook service centres to seven. The R K Murugan, Acting CEO, John fan page “ToyotaQatar”. new centre was inaugurated Perdrix, After Sales Director, and THE PENINSULA

Officials during the inauguration of the workshop. 50 delegates participate in GCC risk analysis workshop

DOHA: About 50 delegates from Qatar and other GCC states are attending a training workshop on ‘Risk analysis and preparing scenarios of contingency plans and mock drills’ which began at Hilton Hotel yesterday. The workshop is organised by the Permanent Committee for Emergency (PCE) in collaboration with the Arabian Centre for Information Technology, Consultancies and Training.. The Director of Traffic Department and member of the PCE, Brigadier Mohammad Saad Al Kharji, delivered the inaugural speech on behalf of the Director General of Public Security and Chairman of the PCE, Staff Maj Gen Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi. “The Permanent Committee for Emergency will con- duct workshops and training courses in cooperation with national and international authorities according to its annual programme schedule. “The workshop will increase participants’ knowledge, skills and information, especially in the field of risk man- agement and analysis, preparation of scenarios and other important topics which will be discussed,” said Al Kharji. The workshop is discussing topics such as identifying possible and expected risks in work, clarification of ele- ments that may expose to risks, assessment and evalua- tion of appropriate procedures and writing and reviewing results. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 HMC to host foot and New book examines Qatar’s key role ankle symposium Qatar: Small State, Big Politics released at Georgetown University DOHA: Some 250 health- said Al Dosari. care professionals from “We are introducing DOHA: Qatar’s powers are sus- the region will gather in minimally invasive pro- tainable despite all limitations Doha for the First Qatar cedures such as percu- — diplomatic, political, infrastruc- Orthopaedics Foot and taneous surgery, where tural and demographic — argues Ankle Symposium on access to inner organs Qatar: Small State, Big Politics, a November 23 and 24. or other tissue is gained book released here yesterday. The event will be hosted through small needle “Infrastructure and international by the Hamad Medical punctures on the skin,” investments are not temporary, and Corporation (HMC). Dr Al Dosari added. all of these will over time enable Dr Mohamed Al Distinguished interna- Qatar to enhance its power regionally Ateeq Al Dosari, Head of tional speakers, including and internationally,” said Dr Mehran Orthopaedic Surgery and the University of Toronto’s Kamrava, the author. Director of the Bone and Dr Timothy Daniels, who Dr Kamrava is also the Director of Joint Institute at HMC, has received prestigious the Center for International Regional said about 50 percent of awards in the field of ortho- Studies at Georgetown University the population consists paedic education, and the Qatar. of young people who are Chinese University of Hong The book was launched on the uni- beginning to be extremely Kong’s Professor James versity’s Education City campus. active in sport. Griffith, a musculoskeletal It is a critical and timely account He said they are exposed imaging expert, will address of contemporary Qatari politics and to a variety of foot and the event. society that challenges the under- ankle injuries and the Foot and ankle care in standing of the role of small states Bone and Joint Institute Qatar has developed rap- in the global system. is constantly improving idly over the past two- “Qatar is very important diplo- its capacity and introduc- and-a-half years. matically and politically but very ing new technologies for A dedicated Foot and few people know about it and often the diagnosis and man- Ankle Service, the Bone times there has been this assump- agement of multiple dis- and Joint Institute, was tion there are lot of misconceptions eases related to the foot established at Hamad about Qatar. and ankle, ranging from General Hospital as part “So I wrote this book analysing basic fractures to major of the Academic Health Qatar’s power, its politics, its diplo- reconstruction. System initiative. macy and kind of giving accurate “We see about 300 Healthcare professionals picture of the country,” said Dr patients every day, and at who want to register for Kamrava. least 80 of them have some the conference may send an “People don’t realise the importance Dr Mehran Kamrava (right), author of Qatar: Small State, Big Politics speaking during the launch of his book at Georgetown foot and ankle problem, email to foot&ankle@hmc. of Qatar’s power. Misconceptions University yesterday. ABDUL BASIT mainly fractures, ligament org.qa or call +97444392821 are there because Qatar is a small or cartilage injuries,: Dr Al or +97444392823. country. In that sense the book is an Dosari said. Submission of abstracts attempt to better introduce Qatar He also explains what he refers ascendancy as a major regional vision for development. “We also see patients will be open until and its very complex domestic and to as “subtle power”, which arises force, Dr Kamrava, an established “The real challenge for Qatar with diabetes or vascular September 30. foreign policies,” he added. from “careful and strategic use of authority on the Gulf, looks into is to carry on business as usual problems and with con- More information is In his book, Dr Kamrava presents international investments, financial the future to assess the trajectory in the post-oil era, until then the genital deformities, devel- available at http://qofa. Qatar as an emerging international influence and diplomacy.” of its domestic and international country can move steady,” said Dr opmental disabilities and hamad.qa. actor forging a modern path for its Following a critical analysis of projects, and issues and challenges Kamrava. advanced cases of tumour,” THE PENINSULA society. the history and factors in Qatar’s Qatar may face in its single-minded THE PENINSULA

Qatar Cool to co-host Climate Qatar Foundation appoints new officials

Continued from page 1 Properties board of directors. Foundation Endowment, Qatar Control Conference in October Al Muhannadi has been an “The organisation is dear to Foundation Investments and integral part of QF’s growth since my heart, having been closely QF’s other joint ventures and its founding in 1995 and a key involved in its development since initiatives. DOHA: Qatar District Cooling for Climate Change, all aiming The event will also provide an member of its board of trustees. its inception. I am most grateful “The time I have spent as Vice Company will co-host the sev- to improve the district cooling opportunity to interact closely As Vice President of for the opportunity to continue President of Administration has enth edition of the Climate industry in the region. with end-users and key decision Capital Projects and Facilities this journey as we seek to imple- provided me with a valuable insight Control Conference (C3) This year’s theme “Essentially makers in government agencies. Management since 2005, he has ment Qatar’s National Vision into the huge array of talent, exper- organised by CPI industry in District Cooling” will offer a B Surendar, Editorial Director been responsible for planning, 2030.” tise and potential QF possesses. As October as part of its attempts platform for technical presen- and Associate Publisher at CPI design, construction and main- Al Naimi has demonstrated a the organisation continues to refine to bring best practices and tations and discussion of dis- industry said: “We are very proud tenance of QF buildings and flair for strategic implementa- its strategic objectives, I am very advanced technology in the trict cooling in the region with to be hosting the event this year supporting infrastructure at tion and innovation, while helping much looking forward to the chal- field to Qatar. Qatar as the focus. in Qatar. Education City’s unique 15 million foster the culture of quality and lenge of serving as CEO of Qatar The conference will be held on Co-led by Qatar Cool, CPI “We believe that our collabora- square metres campus. He is also excellence throughout QF. Foundation investments.” October 6 and 7 at Grand Hyatt industry and other participants tion with Qatar Cool and other a founding member of Msheireb His will oversee Qatar THE PENINSULA Doha. will bring many critical issues essential sponsors in putting C3 brings together key to the table. together a strategically planned regional and international del- The regulatory framework of event will deliver long-term egates and speakers from the district cooling, the sustainable results that will have a positive district cooling stakeholder use of water, carbon credits, impact on the future of Qatar, community, energy and water end-user aspirations and mile- the region and the district cool- sectors, financial industry and stones achieved in Qatar will ing industry in general.” the United Nations framework be discussed. THE PENINSULA

Bazaar opens to support Syrian women refugees in Jordan AMMAN: The Charge d’Affaires at Qatar’s embassy in Jordan, Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, inaugurated yester- day Bazaar Al Amal for products of Syrian women refugees living at Zaatari camp. The event is organised by Qatari Red Crescent in cooperation with the embassy at the Royal Cultural Centre. The bazaar, supported by visitors, official and non-official bodies, rep- resentatives of the dip- lomatic corps and their families aims to highlight the keenness of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the government and Qatari people to support efforts and performance of women at the camp to face harsh circumstances of immigration. The Qatari team which organised the event praised the sup- port of the private sector, the Qatari people, relief agencies and Qatar Red Crescent. QNA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Tunisia unions Clashes in threaten ruling Islamists with Hebron after protests

TUNIS: Tunisia’s main trade union confederation called yes- terday for mass protests to Israeli deaths pressure the Islamist-led gov- ernment to accept a compro- mise road map for ending two months of political deadlock. Troops hunt for soldier’s killer The Islamists yesterday rejected a plan for them to step HEBRON: Israel’s forces fired yesterday that most of the road- down pending elections, deepen- rubber bullets at stone-throw- blocks used to seal off the city ing a confrontation with secular ing Palestinians in clashes in the previous night were removed opponents. the southern West Bank city by morning and the army was “We cannot accept the threat of Hebron yesterday, as troops searching in a “more specific” of pressure from the streets,” said hunted for the suspected killer manner. Ennahda vice president Adb el of an Israeli soldier. The army had apprehended two Hamid Jelassi. “There should be The security forces also fired Palestinians for holding hunting more guarantees.” stun grenades, a correspondent rifles, but that they were not con- “We have said that this gov- said, and Palestinian youths threw nected to Sunday’s incident. ernment would not step down several petrol bombs as tension The shooting took place close to Stone-throwing Palestinians run during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. concretely before the completion flared in the aftermath of both the volatile Cave of the Patriarchs of the constitution,” Rafik Abd Sunday’s killing and the death of — sacred to both Jews and Essalem, a senior Ennahda offi- another Israeli soldier in a sepa- Muslims — during the week-long Palestinian leadership responsi- On Saturday, Israel discov- turned into a festival of blood- cial, told reporters. rate incident just days earlier. Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which ble for what happens in the West ered the body of Tomer Hazan, a shed and harm to Israeli sol- The party also said it wanted The killings have cast a pall began on Thursday and has seen Bank,” in an interview with Voice 20-year-old soldier who had been diers,” he said in a letter sent to more guarantees on a date for over peace talks relaunched last thousands of Jewish visitors to the of Palestine. lured to a village in the northern Netanyahu. elections before relinquishing month after a three-year hiatus, biblical city. The settlers, who claimed to West Bank on Friday and killed “There is no doubt that there power to an interim government. with Israeli ministers calling on Following the attack, Israeli have bought the Hebron building by a Palestinian man with whom have been unfortunate devel- The UGTT announced that it the government to reconsider Prime Minister Benjamin from its Palestinian owners, inhab- he had worked in a seaside town opments since the start of the would mobilise a “large, peaceful its decision to negotiate with the Netanyahu ordered the resettle- ited the structure briefly before near Tel Aviv. negotiations, which require the protest” in Tunis and gatherings Palestinians. ment of the disputed Machpela being removed in April 2012, with Army spokesman Brigadier government to reconsider its in all regions of the country, with- The United States condemned house, a Hebron structure near the defence ministry saying they General Yoav Mordechai ruled path,” he wrote. out saying when. both attacks, which it said “under- the Cave of the Patriarchs from did not have the necessary permits out a link between the two kill- And Transportation Minister “We have decided to activate all mine efforts to establish the posi- which he had removed 15 Jewish to finalise the purchase. ings and rebuffed suggestions they Israel Katz of Netanyahu’s Likud forms of peaceful civilian protest tive atmosphere the parties need settlers last year. Noam Arnon, spokesman for indicated a deterioration in Israel’s party slammed the Palestinian in all sectors,” added the power- to progress in peace negotiation.” “Whoever tries to uproot us the Jewish settlement in Hebron, security situation. Authority for not condemning the ful union confederation, which Israel’s army said on Sunday from the city of our patriarchs said a military court had recently “We see these as isolated inci- two killings and called for a halt boasts some 500,000 members and that 20-year-old Sergeant Gabriel will achieve the opposite,” he said ruled the purchase legal and said dents,” Mordechai said in a state- to the planned release of a second is capable of bringing the country Koby died in hospital after sus- in a statement. all that was needed to finalise the ment, “not as a new trend.” batch of Palestinian prisoners, to a standstill. taining gunshot wounds in “We will continue to fight terror deal was the approval of Defence Senior cabinet minister Naftali after Israel set 26 free ahead of The UGTT has been the lead Hebron. and strike at its perpetrators with Minister Moshe Yaalon. Bennett said the two attacks talks last month. mediator between the government Israeli police said earlier the sol- one hand, while strengthening the But an official involved in the should push Israel to reconsider “Another group (of Palestinian and the mainly secular opposition, dier had been shot, “probably by settlements with the other.” process said the purchase was still its involvement in peace talks with prisoners) is about to be released,” despite its tense relations with terrorists,” although the gunman Palestinian foreign minister facing “legal bureaucracy” issues, the Palestinians. he said in a statement. “Now is the the Islamist Ennahda party that had fled the scene. Riyad Al Malki yesterday accused and would not say when these “Under the auspices of nego- time to stop.” leads the ruling coalition. A military spokeswoman said Israel of unfairly “holding the might be resolved. tiation celebrations, Sukkot has AFP “The ruling troika (Ennahda and its two coalition partners) puts its own interests first, and seeks to remain in power at the expense of the interests of the nation and the people,” the Bomb at Sunni UGTT said. Sudanese protest lifting of fuel subsidies It promised to coordinate its funeral kills actions with the other three KHARTOUM: Sudanese police displays, some 800 protesters see as economic crises caused by ended with a security crackdown. mediators — employers’ organi- fired tear gas yesterday to dis- gathered in the centre of Wad mismanagement and US trade It had hoped to sustain the sation Utica, the Tunisian League 15 in Iraq perse hundreds of people pro- Madani, capital of Gezira state sanctions. remaining support by boosting for Human Rights and the bar testing in a state capital against south of Khartoum, shout- “The government ... has no idea gold exports to replace oil rev- association. BAGHDAD: A bomb target- the lifting of petrol subsidies by ing “No, No to price hikes”. of what people are going through. enues, but was thwarted by the The mediators accuse Ennahda ing Sunni mourners in Baghdad veteran President Omar Hassan Others called on Bashir to I am ready to join any protest recent fall in global gold prices. of “ambiguities” in its response killed 15 people yesterday. Al Bashir. resign, yelling “go, go”. against the lifting,” said 41-year Petrol stations in the capital to their blueprint for ending The blast in Adhamiyah, a The government almost dou- Police arrived, firing tear gas to old Ahmed Iassan, an unemployed Khartoum raised the price of a the crisis triggered by the July Sunni area of north Baghdad, bled prices for fuel and cooking disperse the crowd. worker. gallon (3.8 litres) of petrol yester- assassination of opposition MP wounded 30 people, while violence gas yesterday to bring its budget Late on Sunday, Bashir held a A 45-year university profes- day to 21 pounds (almost $3 based Mohamed Brahmi by suspected elsewhere in the country killed under control. The Arab African televised news conference lasting sor said he would struggle to on black market prices), from 12 hardline Islamists. five more, officials said. country lost three-quarters of its two hours to defend his abolition of make ends meet with the fuel pounds. The plan sets a three-week Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki oil reserves — its main source of fuel subsidies. He promised to use price hikes. ‘I really want to leave A gallon of gasoline now costs 14 deadline for the formation of a said in a statement released ear- revenues and of dollars for food much of the money saved to help Sudan,” he said, asking not to be pounds, up from 8.5 pounds, petrol cabinet of independents to replace lier yesterday that attacks in imports — when South Sudan the poor and increase salaries for named. station staff said. The prices for a the current Ennahda-led govern- Iraq aimed to “reignite sectarian became independent in 2011. civil servants. The government started reduc- cylinder of cooking gas rose to 25 ment after the launch of a dia- strife” and divide the country. Within hours of petrol sta- But many Sudanese have grown ing some fuel subsidies in July 2012. pounds from 15 pounds. logue between the two sides. The US embassy issued a tions adjusting their price impatient with years of what they Several weeks of small protests REUTERS AGENCIES statement yesterday condemn- ing recent attacks on mourners, saying that they “remind us of the formidable security challenges that Iraq faces.” More attacks struck northern Iran pardons 80 prisoners ahead of Rowhani’s UN visit Iraq yesterday. A bomb exploded near an ambulance that was carrying a DUBAI: Iranian authori- month, authorities freed promi- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Ali Khamenei said he supported judiciary and that can include all pregnant woman to a hospital ties have pardoned 80 prison- nent human rights lawyer Nasrin Ejei’s comments suggest the “flexibility” in Iranian diplo- or part of their punishments.” near the city of Mosul, wounding ers ahead of President Hassan Sotoudeh and at least 10 other total of 80 includes those freed macy, a rare signal that he might The United States and its allies her and the driver and killing one Rowhani’s visit to the United prisoners last week. last week in a move seen as endorse a shift in Tehran’s stance have intensified economic sanc- of her relatives and a medic. Nations in New York this Yesterday, judiciary spokes- intended to dampen Western in its problematic relations with tions on Iran in recent years in an The woman was in labour at week, Iranian media reported man Mohseni Ejei told a news criticism of Iran’s human rights the West. attempt to force Tehran to open the time of the blast. Her child, yesterday. conference 80 prisoners had record ahead of Rowhani’s “A number of security pris- its nuclear programme to greater a boy, was delivered by Caesarian In a tentative sign that hard- been pardoned, including some address to the UN General oners were granted amnesty by international scrutiny. section and was in good health, a line policies are starting to soften arrested over protests that fol- Assembly. the Supreme Leader,” Ejei said. Rowhani left Tehran for the medical source said. following moderate conserva- lowed the disputed re-election Last week’s releases came “They can be granted pardon on United Nations yesterday. Nineveh province, of which tive Rowhani’s inauguration last of former hardline President after Supreme Leader Ayatollah the suggestion of the head of the REUTERS Mosul is the capital, is one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq, with militants carrying out near- daily attacks. Yemen manoeuvre Insurgents have a major pres- ence in Mosul and are said to Iran assumes control of extort money from shop owners in the city. Gunmen killed a tribal sheikh and another man in Mosul yester- Bushehr nuclear plant day, and a farmer near Baiji to its south was also shot dead. TEHRAN: Iran yesterday the 1,000-megawatt power plant. Violence in Iraq has reached a finally took control of its civil- Atomic agency chief Ali Akbar level this year not seen since 2008, ian nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Salehi said earlier that Russian a surge in unrest that authorities a project begun 37 years ago experts would remain in Bushehr have so far failed to stem. by West Germany, wracked as part of a guarantee scheme for With the latest violence, more by setbacks, and finished by the operation. than 600 people have been killed Russia. “There will be a two-year this month and over 4,400 since Tehran has long touted warranty period, during which the beginning of the year, accord- Bushehr as proof of its peaceful Russian experts will be present at ing to figures based on security nuclear intentions, but neigh- the Bushehr plant,” he told state and medical sources. bouring countries and the West television ahead of the handover In addition to major security have expressed concern over the ceremony in the southern city problems, the Iraqi government presence, in a volatile region, of located across Gulf waters from has also failed to provide adequate the world’s last remaining nuclear southern Kuwait. basic services such as electricity reactor that does not adhere to “Should any problem arise the and clean water, and corruption the post-Chernobyl Convention Russian contractor is responsible is widespread. Political squabbling on Nuclear Safety. for removing it,” he said, adding has paralysed the government, The ISNA news agency said that after that period Iran will be which has passed almost no major Iran and Russia signed a hando- “fully responsible” for the plant’s legislation in years. Yemeni forces participate in a military manoeuvre in the southern province of Abyan. ver contract that in effect put operation. AFP Iranian technicians in charge of AFP TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Lebanon army Russia-US row deployed in Hezbollah bastion BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army yes- stalls chemical terday deployed in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold taking over checkpoints in a deal struck with the Shia group. weapons plan Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah welcomed the move in a televised address and urged local residents to cooperate. Troops and security forces Assad criticises Obama’s stance began entering the area in the afternoon, taking over check- UNITED NATIONS: Russian Kerry has demanded a “strong” points set up by his Shiite militant objections to a tough UN Security Council resolution to group after two car bombings in Security Council resolution on enforce the plan. Russia’s Foreign the southern suburbs. Syria’s chemical weapons are Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses “We welcome this step and holding up an international plan the West of using “blackmail” greatly appreciate this national to destroy President Bashar Al over the plan to get Security decision taken by state officials,” Assad’s banned poison arms, Council approval for possible Nasrallah said. diplomats said yesterday. military action. “We hope that the state and its With world leaders gathering at “The details of how to destroy official carry out their national the UN General Assembly in New the weapons are basically agreed, and legal duties towards all of York, the deadlock is a new blow but everything is held up by A nurse works with a Syrian man wounded in the violence in Syria in the intensive care unit of the Israeli Western Lebanon’s regions,” he added. to international efforts to halt the the enforcement — and that is Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, northern Israel. More than 90 Syrians have received life-saving treatment in He called on residents of the 30-month-old conflict. between Russia and America at group’s stronghold, and those the hospital since March 2013. Russia and the United States the Security Council,” a UN dip- passing through it, to show “coop- agreed a disarmament plan to lomat said. eration and respect” for the secu- avert a US military strike on Syria Diplomats at the OPCW in The presidents,” the UN diplomat said. never stopped war,” Assad said in and Britain are just trying to rity forces and their measures. after a chemical weapon attack in Hague confirmed that the chemi- Kerry and Lavrov are to meet an interview with China’s state make themselves winners in a Around 1,200 Lebanese troops Damascus on August 21 in which cal watchdog’s executive council in New York today. television, CCTV, in the Syrian war against a Syria which is their and security forces began deploy- hundreds of people died. could not meet to agree the plan Without an accord between the capital. imaginary enemy.” ing in the mainly Shia southern The two governments have sent until the Security Council decides two, the OPCW executive cannot “As long as the US intends to Assad blamed rebels battling to suburbs. a blueprint of what would be one of how to make Assad stick to the meet and that would push back continue exerting its hegemony overthrow him for the August 21 A journalist at the scene said the biggest disarmament missions measures. any Security Council resolution to over other countries, we will chemical attack, saying it made no the deployment was taking place ever staged to the Organization “An OPCW meeting this give legal enforcement to the plan. all keep high alert,” Assad said, sense for his forces to use chemi- in stages, with Hezbollah members for the Prohibition of Chemical week now looks unlikely. This “The delays are holding up the according to a transcript of his cal weapons when they were gain- still visible at some checkpoints on Weapons (OPCW), diplomats said. will have to be sorted out by start of disarmament and the translated remarks from CCTV. ing the upper hand and while UN side streets in late afternoon. US Secretary of State John their foreign ministers and deadline they have set for mid- “With or without the Syrian chemical inspectors were staying The security points were 2014 is already very tight,” added crisis, we will always be on alert in central Damascus. established after two car bomb- a second diplomat. against some Western countries’ “We also have confessions made ings in the southern suburbs that $250m earmarked for reconstruction Assad has criticised the United intention to override the UN by the terrorists who transported killed 27 people on August 15 and DAMASCUS: The Syrian government has earmarked 50 bil- States for threatening to attack Charter and the international the materials from the neigh- wounded more than 50 on July 9. lion Syrian pounds ($250m) for reconstruction next year in the Syria over its chemical weapons laws,” he said. bouring countries,” he said In the Interior Minister Marwan war-torn country, a pro-regime daily yesterday quoted the prime programme, saying it is finding Earlier, an article on the CCTV interview. Charbel said after the army minister as saying. “excuses for war”, China’s state website quoted Assad as saying: “I Assad said gunmen could hinder deployment: “No one else will “The government has increased its budget spending for emergency television said yesterday. am not concerned. Since its inde- the access of inspectors to sites be authorised to be present at aid and reconstruction for 2014 to 50 billion Syrian pounds,” Wael US President Barack Obama pendence, Syria has been commit- where the weapons were stored. the checkpoints ... The state Al Halqi said in remarks published by Al Watan newspaper. has warned that he is prepared ted to all the treaties it has signed. “We know that these terrorists must extend its control over all In 2013, the government budget for aid and reconstruction was to attack Syria, even without a We will honour everything that we are obeying the orders of other Lebanese territory.” 30 billion pounds, he said. UN mandate, if Assad reneges on have agreed to do. countries and these countries do Charbel toured the southern Halqi also called for an increased budget allocation for agricul- a US-Russia deal to put Syria’s “And more importantly, I want drive these terrorists to commit suburbs as the deployment began ture, Al Watan said. chemical arms stockpiles under to say, by submitting the draft acts that could get the Syrian gov- and stressed it was being carried “Food, energy and drug security are a priority,” he said. international control. to the UN Security Council, or ernment blamed for hindering this out “with coordination between AFP “If the US wants to find excuses by urging the US and Russia to agreement,” he said. the state and all parties.” for war, it will find them as it has agree on a deal, the US, France, AGENCIES AFP

Israeli political kingmaker Two Islamists rabbi Yosef ‘seriously ill’ killed in Algeria ALGIERS: Algerian troops JERUSALEM: The spiritual Shas was a member of succes- killed two armed Islamists in leader of the ultra-Orthodox sive governing coalitions before the restive Boumerdes prov- Shas party, which holds 11 seats going into opposition after the ince east of the capital where Al in the 120-member Israeli par- last general election in January. Qaeda forces are active, a secu- liament, was seriously ill in hos- The party strongly opposed rity source said yesterday. pital yesterday. the demands of the secular right- The two men were killed in an Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, was wing coalition partners of Prime army ambush at around midnight on a respirator after undergo- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday in the Baghlia area of ing heart surgery in Jerusalem’s for more sweeping conscription Boumerdes, some 50 kilometres Hadassah hospital, cardiologist of the ultra-Orthodox, who have outside Algiers, he said, cited by Dan Gilon told Israeli television. long enjoyed extensive exemptions the national APS news agency. “His condition is serious but from military service. Independent daily El Watan, not irreversible,” Gilon said. Yosef founded Shas in 1984 on quoting its sources, said the two Yosef, whose son Yitzhak was the platform of a return to reli- gunmen were former members of elected chief rabbi of Israel’s gion and as a counter to an estab- the GSPC, a jihadist group active Sephardic Jews in June, a post lishment dominated by Ashkenazi during Algeria’s civil war in the he himself had previously held, Jews of European ancestry. 1990s that later renamed itself Al has been in and out of hospital The Baghdad-born rabbi has Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. for several months. frequently sparked controversy. Sunday night’s ambush comes He wields enormous influence He called on God to strike exactly a fortnight after two among Israeli Jews of Middle down then prime minister Ariel Islamist gunmen were killed in Eastern and North African Sharon over Israel’s 2005 with- separate military operations in ancestry, and has frequently been drawal from Gaza. Boumerdes province. a kingmaker in the country. AFP AFP

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HE third-time Chancellor of Germany didn’t have enough time to celebrate her victory with cheering supporters and jubilant aides, who helped see her Tthrough a gruelling but smooth campaign that left Development challenges aplenty the opposition wobbly in its tracks. Angela Merkel’s emphatic victory as Chancellor of Europe’s economic powerhouse is being watched with much interest not only in the continent but also across the world. Though her Conservatives have fallen short for the United Nations of a majority by polling only 41.5 percent of the votes, voters probably awarded the physicist politician with a third term for helping Germany weather the storm of a debilitating European ORLD leaders will this week fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, will on future priorities, and avoid accusa- debt crisis that sent even major economies like France and recommit to meeting the mil- be made in the coming days. tions that any new goals were dreamed Italy into a tailspin. As the rest of Europe stood crippled, Wlennium development goals The UN general secretary, Ban up by officials. Merkel led her nation unscathed through one of the toughest (MDGs) and formally begin the proc- Ki-moon, will urge member states to Over the past year, more than a mil- economic times for the continent since the Second World ess of designing a set of future targets meet their commitments to spend 0.7pc lion people have taken part in national after they expire in 2015. of gross national income (GNI) on over- consultations, the online My World War. Germans exports remained steady, employment was The UN general assembly, meet- seas development assistance (ODA) by survey, face-to-face interviews and the- not hit and other indicators showed consistency. Now what ing in New York until the beginning 2015 to accelerate efforts. matic meetings. So far, the overall mes- for Merkel? Nothing would have made her more happy than of October, will turn its attention to In a report published by the UN in sage is people want a new set of goals being able to stitch together a coalition of like-minded parties. addressing global poverty over the next August, Ban expressed concern at the that are underpinned by the principles But since it did not turn out that way, Merkel’s celebrations three days. drop in ODA over the past two years, as of human rights and universal values of have been tempered by the need to tie up with parties like the While the MDGs have been credited governments felt the strain of the global justice, equality and security. for galvanising global action to reduce financial crisis. The UK is expected to Separately, the Participate Initiative Centre-Left SPD, an uneasy partner in an earlier coalition led poverty since they were launched meet the 0.7pc target this year, joining is gathering perspectives of some of by her. in 2000, and have led to significant Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Denmark the world’s poorest and marginal- Talk of a ‘grand coalition’— Conservatives and SPD coming achievements (the target to halve the and the Netherlands, which have already ised people to ensure their experi- together — is doing the rounds. number of people who don’t have access met the decades old commitment. ences are reflected in the post-2015 Of Merkel’s close allies, the Free to safe drinking water has already been Perhaps more significantly this week, debate. Participate, co-convened by met), many countries are still off track member states will discuss what should the Institute of Development Studies Merkel’s win Democrats have been thrown out of to meet them in follow the MDGs, and put in place the and the Beyond 2015 campaign, will be has been contention. The party led by Vice two years. The process that will establish a future set launching its report during the UNGA Chancellor and Economy Minister 2013 progress of goals from 2015 to 2030. that highlights the limitations of the overshadowed Philipp Rösler, has been unable to report on the Debate around the future develop- MDGs in reflecting the reality of life by the need for enter parliament after not getting Key questions MDGs, published ment agenda began in earnest last year, for the poorest. the minimum five percent votes over the next in July, pointed after the Rio+20 confernce that called Key questions over the next few days Conservatives to out that progress for the creation of an open working will be whether future goals are univer- required. This is the worst defeat few days will had been uneven group to formulate a set of sustainable sal or more targeted at poorer coun- join hands with for FDP. The FDP’s defeat has come be whether among regions, development goals (SDGs). tries — the MDGs were always billed as the Centre-Left. as a major jolt for the Conservatives. countries and In August, the UN general secretary anti-poverty goals that needed funding, Had the outcome been different future goals within countries. set up a high-level panel of eminent peo- rather than implementation, by coun- for the junior partner among the are universal or MDGs three, ple to devise an framework for future tries in the global north - and whether Conservatives, it would have made it easier for Merkel. four and five, to development. The panel was chaired there will be a single track process to more targeted at address gender by Britain’s Prime Minister, David formulate them, which will tie in the A pastor’s daughter, who was raised in East Germany, Merkel poorer countries imbalances and Cameron, and the presidents of Liberia recommendations of the SDG working is considered the most powerful woman in the world. The world reduce child and and Indonesia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and group, due to report back next year. Ban would watch her rule Europe’s most powerful economy for a — the MDGs maternal mortal- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono respectively. is believed to favour universal goals and third time. The Chancellery in Berlin, which would have got were always ity rates, are the After a series of talks in London, a single framework, views expected to be used to her ways by now, faces a number of challenges that its most off track. Monrovia and Bali, which included endorsed by member states this week. billed as anti- Last week, the meetings with civil society, the panel A communique is expected tomorrow. long-time occupant needs to contend with. The transition from poverty goals that UN’s children’s reported back in May with 12 draft goals The outcome of the following three nuclear power to other energy sources will be the 59-year-old agency, Unicef, and 54 targets. Reflecting the themes of days will be a mark in the sand for leader’s biggest challenge. Then, it is the demographics of the needed funding. said that despite the MDGs, the goals included ending development. Hundreds of civil society country. Germany has an ageing population and many skills the significant extreme poverty by 2030, ensuring food groups, aid agencies, academics and required for a burgeoning economy may soon be in scarce progress made in cutting child deaths security and access to water, women’s representatives from the private sec- supply. The government has made immigration rules for certain since 1990, the MDG to reduce child empowerment, sustainable energy and tor are expected to be in New York to mortality by two-thirds by 2015 would protecting nature, and improving sani- lobby members. Collating these views categories of professionals more liberal. This has to be balanced not be achieved until 2028 without tation, access to education and health. and coming up with a set of goals that with the problem of dealing with resentment towards migrants greater effort. But the panel took things further by are universally agreeable, and include in certain sections of the German society. The 2010 deadline for universal access including goals on access to justice, universal targets on tricky issues, such The Conservatives marriage with the SPD is a possibility to antiretroviral treatment, contained in safeguarding peace and security and as climate change, peace and security, that may take weeks to come. Once her third term takes off, MDG six, was missed and will be unreach- good governance, which have emerged and women’s reproductive rights, as well Merkel will face the dual challenge of reconciling the demands able by 2015 unless more action is taken. as major concerns from public consul- as finding new models to fund them, will There is speculation that announcements tations. The UN is holding a series of be the challenge of the next two years. of her Centre-Left allies with the interests of her centre-right of more money for the Global Fund to consultations to canvas public opinion GUARDIAN NEWS party • The other side Quote of The path to Afghan stability the day AKISTAN’S release this pending bilateral security agreement would not be toppled by the Taliban. or regional lines could divide the coun- month of eight long- between Afghanistan and the United The election, in turn, could pro- try and even trigger a civil war, factions imprisoned Taliban States. duce a new leader with broad national and potential candidates are negotiat- Pcommanders raised hopes The two are closely related, at least support, if it is free and fair. So far, ing behind the scenes in an attempt The problem of that Afghanistan’s moribund peace in the view of U.S. officials. If the secu- preparations have gone relatively well: to build national alliances. talks could be restarted. In fact, rity agreement can be completed by Karzai signed an election law drawn At best, a solid security agreement, terrorism spilling the gesture, made at the request of the target date at the end of October, up by the parliament and publicly a commitment by President Barack Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said it would give Afghans a sense of con- pledged last month that he would nei- Obama and NATO to an adequate from one country more about the attempt by Pakistan’s fidence as they contemplate who ther call off the ballot nor attempt to post-2014 force, and the inaugura- new government to improve relations should replace Karzai as president manipulate it for a favored candidate. tion of a new president could give to another is with Afghanistan than it did about the following the April election. The accord Hundreds of thousands of new vot- the Taliban and its Pakistani backers absolutely real and prospects for peace. While there is would provide for U.S. trainers and ers have been registered across the the incentive to negotiate peace that a chance for a breakthrough toward Special Forces to remain in the coun- country. Though no presidential candi- they currently lack. However, realizing could directly affect stability in Kabul in the coming months, try after the scheduled departure of dates have come forward ahead of an those aims will require both Karzai and it relies on two entirely different all combat troops at the end of 2014. Oct 6 registration deadline, that is not Obama to set aside some grudges the interests of any matters: the presidential election It would give Afghans sound reason necessarily a bad thing: Aware that a and excessive expectations. one of our countries. Vladimir Putin process just getting underway and a to believe that their next government campaign contested along sectarian The Washington Post Russian President TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Iraq: Sliding towards civil war Iraqis have survived worse than the latest rise in attacks — multiple wars, occupation, and the recent brutal civil war. But the latest violence, coupled with a seemingly permanent political crisis and rampant corruption, is bleeding the country of its vast potential.

BY JANE ARRAF violence during the worst days of Iraq’s civil war. EHIND the numb- “We are at war with Al Qaida,” ing regularity of says Interior Ministry spokesman Iraq’s car bombs is Brig Gen Saad Maan. Other gov- the much quieter ernment officials point a finger sound of a country at a wider array of suspects, such slowly imploding. as former Baathists and regional BThe targets these days aren’t usu- powers, who they say are trying ally the fortress-like government to destabilise Baghdad’s Shia-led ministries or security installa- government. tions — they are regular Iraqis. Iraqis have survived worse Last Friday, bombs exploded in than the latest rise in attacks — a Sunni mosque near Samarra, multiple wars, occupation, and killing at least 15 people. The the recent brutal civil war. But attack capped a week of violence the latest violence, coupled with that also saw at least 30 people a seemingly permanent political killed on September 17 in coor- crisis and rampant corruption, is Black smoke fills the air following explosions at a funeral tent in Sadr City on Saturday. dinated bombings that targeted bleeding the country of its vast Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad potential. cleansing in some communities. wave of violence at home with the shifting in Iraq’s Kurdish region, budget is allocated based on polit- still mourning the victims of “Iraqi society is breaking The Iraqi government says type of indiscriminate arrests of which has been the most stable ical, not economic, needs. previous attacks. The bombers apart,” says Uday Al Rubaiee, 24, security has been weakened by Sunnis that was a hallmark of part of the country for the past “Seventy percent of the budget intended to cause the maximum who dreams of more than work- the conflict in Syria. The raging US forces. Making use of sweep- two decades. With the departure goes to public-sector salaries — number of casualties — detonat- ing in an office and bracing for civil war there has given a boost ing anti-terrorism laws, he has from the political scene of Iraqi and the public sector is still bal- ing their explosives at the end of the next attack. He said many of to Al Qaida, allowing it to send rounded up hundreds of suspects President Jalal Talabani, who was looning,” says Dubai-based oil the day, when Iraqis crowd into his friends, expecting that their foreign fighters and suicide bomb- in some communities. sidelined by a stroke, Kurds went expert Ruba Husari. She says markets and cafes. country is in store for far worse, ers across the porous border in But it’s not working any bet- to the polls on September 21 in government jobs are being created More than 4,000 civilians have are leaving Iraq. “This is the big- numbers not seen since the jihadi ter for Maliki than it did for the regional elections amid a different to buy political favours, while the been killed so far this year, the gest loss. We can’t dream of pros- movement’s heyday in Iraq. United States: Anti-government political scene. Without Talabani relatively small allocation for pub- highest death toll since Iraq perity anymore.” US and Iraqi officials say up to protests broke out last year, to head the Patriotic Union of lic-sector investment is not nearly climbed out of civil war five years At the Baghdad International 30 suicide bombers a month have partly in response to the arbitrary Kurdistan, the party he created enough for a country still desper- ago. Any wreckage is now quickly Airport, where a few years ago been crossing the border from arrest, imprisonment, and even may very well disappear. ately in need of reconstruction. hauled away, as the government companies took up a collection to Syria into Iraq since early sum- executions of Sunnis. Politics there has been fur- The United States believed that in Baghdad has little capacity for keep the air-conditioning run- mer, many of them from North “The government has become ther complicated by a struggle in sending tens of thousands more forensic investigations. ning, a largely cosmetic makeover Africa. Iraq is so afraid of Sunni part of the problem instead of part for control in Syria’s Kurdish troops to Iraq in 2007 they were In many neighbourhoods, the has polished some of the termi- extremist forces that it has built of the solution,” says Hamid Al region between Kurdish factions laying the groundwork for stabil- black funeral banners draped nal’s rougher edges. But perched fortified barriers along its border Mutlaq, a member of the security and Syrian Arab opposition fight- ity. But while they helped drive Al over brick walls and concrete on the vinyl seats, amid the secu- with Syria and has closed the and defence committee of Iraq’s ers. Masoud Barzani, president Qaida out of the cities with the blast barriers are the only last- rity contractors and businessmen, two main crossings with Syria parliament and part of the mainly of Iraq’s Kurdish regional gov- help of tribes that turned against ing signs of repeated explosions. are families clutching documents for more than a year. It’s a stark Sunni Iraqiya bloc. “They have ernment, in August opened the the organisation, the political and Apart from civilians, hundreds of in plastic bags with the logo of reversal from the past decade, completely failed at reconciliation, gates to more than 40,000 Syrian economic underpinnings of that soldiers and police, as well as offi- the International Organisation when Syria took in more than a and people are paying the cost.” Kurdish refugees, pledging to stability have proved more elusive. cials from the Interior and Justice for Migration, which continues million Iraqis during the height protect them. The move gives “The needs are enormous, ministries, have been killed. to ferry Iraqis to refuge abroad, of the sectarian violence. ELECTIONS Barzani, already the region’s most whether its education or hous- Many of these attacks are the a decade after the US invasion. Some Iraqi Shia fighters have Political parties are already powerful Kurdish figure, an even ing or roads, sewage, and water,” handiwork of Al Qaida, which has joined Iranian-backed militias gearing up for next year’s national greater claim to speak for Kurds says Husari. “All of these need made clear that it intends to fos- REFUGEES in fighting on the side of Syrian elections, in which Maliki is across the region. resources — and the resources ter a civil war in Iraq. The jihadi More than 2 million Iraqi refu- President Bashar Al Assad’s gov- expected to seek another term. Iraq has massive financial are going toward security.” group’s targeting of markets, gees have left the country since ernment. Iran, however, has failed But unlike in countries where resources at its disposal that (Arraf has covered Iraq since 1991 cafes, and mosques seems aimed 2003. Hundreds of thousands to persuade the Iraqi government elections are won and lost in the could theoretically help it over- and was CNN’s bureau chief and at showing Iraqis that govern- of Iraqis still reside within Iraq or the Shia religious leadership in ballot box, most Iraqis believe come these challenges. But even correspondent in Baghdad from ment security forces can’t pro- but are unable to return to their Najaf to put their seal of approval some of the assassinations and though it exports roughly $250m 1998 until 2005. As a freelance jour- tect them — potentially pushing homes — and they may not be on Iraqis joining the fight. bombings are politically linked — of oil every day, Baghdad has nalist, she reports from Baghdad them into the arms of the Shia able to do so for some time, as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri a way of laying the groundwork proved incapable of buying stabil- for Al Jazeera English and the militias and Sunni extremists who the United Nations is warning Al Maliki’s government, on the for the campaign to come. ity. Analysts say that the problem Christian Science Monitor.) were at the forefront of sectarian of renewed efforts at sectarian defensive, has responded to the The balance of power is also is, simply, that its $120bn annual WP-BLOOMBERG Merkel’s victory is stunning and depressing

BY MARC CHAMPION first time in more than 50 years. choose between two potential coa- foreign minister in Merkel’s last No, Merkel said she would “treat lition partners, the left of centre grand coalition government, from HERE are two conclu- this result with great care,” and Social Democratic Party and the 2005 to 2009, and would be a huge sions to be had from would be sure that anytime that more left of centre Greens. The improvement on Westerwelle. Yet the thumping victory the euro crisis “will cost some- first seems more likely, and tradi- he may not want the job again. German Chancellor thing, I’ll say so”. tion states that the junior coali- Peer Steinbrueck, the SPD’s Angela Merkel won For Merkel, the anti-euro tion partner gets one or both of failed candidate for Chancellor, Tfor her Christian Democratic Altervative fuer Deutschland the two top jobs after Chancellor also worked with Merkel in her Union: There will be no sud- (AfD) party, which nearly made — foreign minister and finance first coalition, as finance minister. den change in her policy on the it over the threshold to take seats minister. But he has ruled out working for euro crisis, and you have to hope in parliament after just a few In the last government, the Merkel again. that she holds onto the finance months in existence, will be a sig- Free Democrats secured the That leaves Sigmar Gabriel ministry in her next coalition nificant concern. The 4.7 percent foreign ministry, where Guido as the most likely first pick for government. that the party scored without Westerwelle was an unmitigated the SPD for either job — as party Given that I think Merkel’s question pushed Merkel’s previ- disaster. Just to name one mis- chairman he should have the first euro crisis policies are misguided ous coalition partners, the pro- take from which the German for- choice. He doesn’t have a finance and involve far more risk to business Free Democratic Party, eign policy establishment is still background (he was environment Europe and the German taxpayer under the 5 percent barrier. They reeling, Westerwelle managed to minister when the SPD were last than they have been led to believe, are a new threat. leave Germany separated from in government), and his party that may seem counter-intuitive. If things go wrong with the its allies and in lock-step with has campaigned for election on a Shouldn’t Germany’s leader have euro and Germans blame Merkel Russia and China by abstaining policy of tax increases and higher more flexibility now that the for spending too much of their on the vote to support a United spending, which doesn’t seem to elections are over? And if you money on feckless Greeks and Nations mandated no-fly zone in be doing so well in France. And don’t like her economic policies, Spaniards, the AfD will gain at Libya in 2011. while the euro crisis needs better shouldn’t you root for a change her expense. This highlights the It may be true that the inter- policies, it needs a strong German of finance ministers? fragility of a victory that rests as vention in Libya didn’t work out economy more. Merkel’s remarkable 41.5 per- much on luck as on her undoubted so well, but Germany paid a sig- There is an outside chance of cent win is a vote of confidence political acumen. nificant cost for its abstention in a good SPD minister to run the in precisely the minimalist euro The German economy has terms of trust among its North economy in Joerg Asmussen, cur- crisis policy she has been follow- surged through the financial cri- Atlantic Treaty Organisation rently on the European Central ing, and that came through in sis for reasons that have little allies. Bank’s executive board. But as the language Merkel used after or nothing to do with her poli- It is still paying for the mis- a non-politician, he is unlikely the result. cies, and the euro crisis remains step — for example, by providing to get the job. So, boringly, and True to her modest style, a threat because she has blocked the patriot missiles requested by unhappily for Europe, another Merkel didn’t hail any kind of tri- the policies required to resolve it. Turkey during the Syria crisis. four years of Wolfgang Schaeuble umph, or even note that she has In 2012, for example, an anti-bail- German foreign policy has been is looking like the most likely performed the unique feat of driv- out party came within a hair of a vacuum that now needs filling. outcome. Pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel are seen on the front pages ing all centre right challengers to winning power in Greece. Things The Social Democrats have (Marc Champion is a Bloomberg of German newspapers, in Berlin yesterday. the CDU and its Bavarian sister could have turned out differently. good candidates for both jobs. View editorial board member.) party from parliament for the Merkel in essence now has to Frank Walter Steinmeier was WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Hackers say cracked Kenya launches new iPhone 5S biometric password BERLIN: German hack- assault to end ers said yesterday they have been able to get past the new biometric identification sys- tem contained in the latest generation of Apple’s iconic mall bloodbath iPhones. On its website, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) said that by using “the simplest, Gunfire, explosions echo from complex everyday means”, it had hacked into the new finger-print iden- NAIROBI: Kenyan security on Saturday, when the gunmen tification system on Apple’s forces were locked in a fierce, marched into the complex, firing latest iPhone models launched final battle w ith Somali Islamist grenades and automatic weapons last week. gunmen inside an upmarket and sending panicked shoppers “The phone owner’s finger Nairobi shopping mall yester- fleeing. print, photographed from a day as huge explosions and a Kenyan army chief Julius drinking glass, was sufficient barrage of heavy gunfire echoed Karangi said the gunmen were of to create a forged print to out of the complex. different nationalities. Many for- unlock the iPhone 5S”, the Thick black smoke billowed for eign fighters, including Somalis hackers said. A spokesman for several hours from the Westgate with dual nationalities, are mem- the group said it was easy for mall as Kenyan officials said the bers of the Shebab force. amateurs to do by lifting prints more than two-day-long siege — “They are from different coun- from a bottle or drinking glass. in which the gunmen have massa- tries. We have sufficient intelli- “The most complicated part cred at least 62 people and taken gence this is global terrorism,” is getting your hands on an dozens more hostage — was close Karangi said. iPhone 5S,” he joked. to being resolved. Lenku denied that any of the “We think the operation will insurgents were women. come to an end soon,” Interior “There are no women. All the Norwegian summons Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told terrorists are men,” he said, not- reporters camped outside the ing: “Some of them had dressed Boeing on faulty 787 vast part Israeli-owned complex, like women.” OSLO: The budget air- which was popular with wealthy Shebab spokesman Ali line Norwegian Air Shuttle Kenyans and expatriates. Mohamud Rage warned that the announced a meeting yes- “We are in control of all the hostages would “bear the brunt terday with aircraft manu- floors,” he said. “The terrorists of any force directed against the Volunteers run for cover after hearing gunshots from the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi yesterday. facturer Boeing to discuss are running and hiding in some mujahedeen” — signalling that technical problems with the stores... There is no room for hostages were being used as Boeing 787 Dreamliner. escape.” human shields. carnage was in retaliation for including a British-Australian, cubicles with a barrage of gunfire, “We have called Boeing to Lenku said most hostages had Kenyan President Uhuru Kenya’s military intervention in two French women, two apparently after learning that a meeting this week in Oslo,” been freed, without giving specific Kenyatta vowed that the attack- Somalia, where African Union Canadians including a diplomat, people were hiding inside. Norwegian spokesperson Aasa numbers. ers will “not get away with their troops are battling the Islamists. a Chinese woman, two Indians, a Cafe waiter Titus Alede, who Larsson said. “We are going to The Kenyan Red Cross, which despicable and beastly acts.” “If you want Kenya in peace, South Korean, a South African leapt from the first floor of the bring up the latest problems lowered an earlier toll after cor- “We will punish the master- it will not happen as long as and a Dutch woman, according mall to avoid being killed, said it we’ve encountered with the recting for double-counting, said minds swiftly, and indeed very your boys are in our lands,” rebel to their governments. was a “miracle from God” that he Dreamliners,” she said. The air- at least 63 people were recorded painfully,” he declared in a tel- spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage Mall worker Zipporah Wanjiru managed to escape the approach- line operates two Dreamliners missing, thought to include hos- evised speech to the nation on said in a statement posted on an survived by hiding under a table ing gunmen. from Boeing — part of an tages as well as those possibly Sunday, revealing that a family Islamist website. with five other colleagues. Other survivors said they eight-plane order — which killed or still hiding. Around 200 member — a nephew and his fian- Shocked witnesses said the “They were shooting indis- played dead to avoid being killed. has been beset by delays and people were wounded, officials cee — were among the dead. gunmen tried to weed out non- criminately, it was like a movie While the rest of Nairobi has setbacks. Since their delivery said. A Kenyan security source Muslims for execution by inter- seeing people sprayed with bul- largely been business as usual, the aircraft have experienced Two gunmen were also killed and a Western intelligence offi- rogating people on their religion lets like that,” she said, bursting deeply shocked Kenyans turned a series of technical problems. in the fighting. cial said Israeli forces were also or asking them to recite the into tears. out in their hundreds to give Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked involved in the operation, along Shahada, the Muslim profession Security camera footage seen blood, as well as raising more Shebab insurgents have claimed with British and US agents. of faith. by Kenya’s The Standard newspa- than $400,000 to support the Helmsman blamed the attack, which began midday The Shebab rebels said the The dead include four Britons per showed gunmen raking toilet families affected. AFP for Italy ship crash ROME: Francesco Schettino, captain of Italy’s doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship, yesterday blamed Pentagon asks the Indonesian helmsman for causing the accident that Merkel reaches out to leftist rivals killed 32 people. employees to BERLIN: German Chancellor conservatives close to an abso- and sending the euro higher she said, after accepting a stand- “I wanted to slow the ship Angela Merkel yesterday lute majority after a campaign against the dollar in Asian trade. ing ovation from cheering sup- down. But the helmsman did prepare for reached out to her centre-left focused on her image as a safe But after her Free Democratic porters waving German flags not follow my orders cor- rivals on potentially forming pair of hands through Europe’s Party (FDP) junior allies flunked at CDU party headquarters in rectly,” Schettino told a court a coalition government after financial turmoil. out of parliament, Merkel faces a Berlin. in Grosseto, where the trial govt shutdown romping to victory in elections With 41.5 percent, Merkel’s lengthy period of horse-trading “I had a first contact with the against him for manslaughter that banished her preferred Christian Democrats (CDU) with one of two leftist parties to SPD (Social Democrats) chair- and abandoning ship resumed WASHINGTON: The allies. notched up their best score since partner up on steering Europe’s man who understandably asked after a summer recess. Pentagon warned its workforce Voters cemented Merkel in Germany’s joyous reunification in top economy for another four that the SPD first hold its party “He steered in the wrong yesterday that it is preparing the title ‘the world’s most pow- 1990, prompting congratulatory years. meeting on Friday,” she told direction and we crashed,” he for a possible government shut- erful woman’, handing her messages from European leaders “We are open for discussions,” reporters. Merkel, who already said, accusing helmsman Jacob down if Congress fails to break governed in a left-right “grand Rusli Bin of being slow to react a political impasse. coalition” with the SPD during and steering the tiller to the If US government agencies her first 2005-2009 term, also left right instead of the left. are forced to shutter, American the door open to a possible tie-up The mistake, he claimed, troops around the world would with the ecologist Green party. caused a fatal delay in chang- stay on the job and some civilian But analysts say neither centre- ing the ship’s course. employees would be ordered on left party is keen to join a Merkel- unpaid leave, Pentagon spokes- led government, nor would they man George Little told reporters. be easy bedfellows for the chan- Police shake-up in But paychecks for military cellor. The Social Democrats, who service members might be delayed scored less than 26 percent, are Greece after murder while Congress would have to take haunted by their experience in the ATHENS: Two Greek police action to ensure retroactive pay last grand coalition when Merkel chiefs quit in a shake-up yes- for civilians required to come to seemed to swipe credit for all the terday after the murder of an work, he added. government’s achievements and anti-fascist musician by an “Military personnel would be the SPD was punished by voters alleged member of neo-Nazi paid but maybe not on time,” he with its worst-ever result. party Golden Dawn sparked said. “The SPD would perhaps be protests, and led to a probe of Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel more comfortable in opposition a possible police connection. planned to send out a memo to and is therefore negotiating from Police said two regional department workers yesterday a position of relative strength,” supervisors for southern and saying the Office of Management the European Council on Foreign central Greece had stepped and Budget had asked the Relations said in a statement. down as an inquiry was under Pentagon “to review and update “Merkel needs SPD support way into possible links between our plans in order to prepare more than the SPD needs her.” the police department and for an orderly government shut- SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel Golden Dawn. The shake-up down,” according to Little. was coy about possible advances also involved the suspension President Barack Obama’s from Merkel. “Mrs Merkel must of a number of senior officers administration believes that say where she wants to go with on the island of Evia for failing Congress should find a political Germany, what her goals are, to investigate a Golden Dawn agreement to avoid “a lapse in German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a party board meeting in Berlin yesterday. what she is ready to agree,” he office near a local police station funding,” he said. told reporters. AFP where weapons were allegedly “A shutdown would put severe kept. AGENCIES hardships on an already stressed workforce and is totally unneces- sary,” he added. A deeply divided Congress has until October 1, the beginning of fiscal year 2014, to reach a budget Snowden roaming Russian streets in disguise: Lawyer compromise. House Republicans voted MOSCOW: US intelligence Kong in June and his lawyer but said he is able to go out in as far as the Russian language is The 30-year-old former CIA Friday for a spending plan that leaker Edward Snowden is liv- Anatoly Kucherena has become disguise. concerned,” Kucherena said in security analyst is wanted by the strips all funds for Obama’s health ing under guard at a secret his unofficial spokesman. “He would walk past you and another interview.. United States after revealing care law, setting up a confronta- address in Russia and some- “I am his only link with the you wouldn’t recognise him,” “He only needs a few hours or details of massive surveillance by tion with the Democratic-led times emerges in disguise, outside world at the moment. he told Itogi. “It’s a question of days to learn the ropes and start the National Security Agency to Senate, which is expected to although he remains in such Even his contacts with his par- clothes and small alterations to speaking,” the lawyer said in com- the media. reject the measure. danger that even a family visit ents are carried out through his appearance... He really does ments dubbed into English. Kucherena, a high-profile law- The Pentagon did not say what could jeopardise his security, me,” Kucherena said in an inter- walk freely around on the streets.” Snowden spent more than a yer who is an advisor to Putin, share of its civilian employees his lawyer said yesterday. view published in Itogi weekly Snowden has also made quick month in transit in Moscow’s said he is working for free, as would be furloughed if the shut- Snowden has avoided all con- magazine. progress in learning Russian, his Sheremetyevo airport before slip- Snowden’s personal money is run- down goes ahead next week. tact with media since arriving Kucherena gave few details of lawyer said. ping out and has not made any ning low. AFP in Russia on a flight from Hong how Snowden occupies his time, “He is an extremely fast learner public appearance. AFP ASIA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Bo to appeal China bans tech exports to N Korea against life sentence

Beijing releases list of items Pyongyang might use to build chemical, biological and N-arms BEIJING: Former sen- ior Chinese politician Bo BEIJING: China has released expert on North Korea at China’s China signed on to the sanc- in weapons of mass destruction,” of the risks associated with unbri- Xilai has said he will appeal a list of technologies and goods Central Party School. “Since tions but it remains North Korea’s the ministry said in a statement. dled commerce of nuclear dual- against his conviction and banned from export to North North Korea conducted the third largest trading partner and the It did not say if it was a compre- use technology and equipment,” life sentence for corruption, Korea because of their possible nuclear test in February, China UN has criticised it for failing to hensive list. said nuclear proliferation expert a lawyer said yesterday, add- use in building chemical, bio- has begun to adjust its policy enforce trade bans on the North. Released by the Ministry Mark Hibbs of the Carnegie ing further drama to the logical and nuclear weapons, towards it, including prohibiting China has also come under of Commerce, along with the Endowment for International high-profile case. Bo, the China’s Ministry of Commerce exports of dangerous products.” pressure, especially from the US, Ministry of Industry and Peace. “Because there are so key figure in China’s biggest said yesterday. China is North Korea’s major to moderate its support for the Information Technology and the many producers of these items it political scandal for decades, China and other members of ally but it criticised the North’s North. The 236-page list names China Atomic Energy Authority, is more difficult to control than had proved defiant dur- the UN had declined in the past nuclear test in February and dozens of products known as the document describes tech- goods that are limited to nuclear ing court proceedings. “He to give a full list of items banned has repeatedly called for the “dual-use technologies,” mean- nologies that could build and fuel use.” It was timely for China to informed the court yesterday from export, a situation UN mon- denuclearisation of the Korean ing although ostensibly meant nuclear reactors and bans the crack down on trade of dual-use of his request for an appeal itors say had made difficult the peninsula. for civilian purposes, they can export of several biological agents, goods with North Korea, Hibbs following the verdict,” said task of determining if Beijing is China was also frustrated with be used in military programmes. including the Ebola virus. added, because it was a member the lawyer who asked not to implementing sanctions. North Korea’s threats against “The dual-use products and “North Korea gets a lot of dual- of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, be named. “It means China is complying South Korea and the US after the technologies forbidden from use equipment and materials from which is revising its list of dual- with the UN Security Council res- imposition of new UN sanctions being exported to North Korea China, and Beijing has in recent use goods subject to export bans. Typhoon Usagi olutions,” said Zhang Liangui, an following the nuclear test. delineated in this list have uses years become increasingly aware REUTERS kills 25 in China Nepal rain festival BEIJING: Typhoon Usagi has left 25 people dead in southern China’s Guangdong province, state media said Sri Lanka hardliners yesterday. National television broadcaster CCTV did not say how the victims died but said multiple roads had been warn of new war damaged and trees knocked down. Guangdong is in the COLOMBO: Sinhalese hardliners yesterday urged Sri Lanka’s densely populated Pearl president to reduce powers of a regional council won by Tamils in River Delta which includes an election hailed internationally as a step towards ethnic recon- Hong Kong, also hit by the ciliation after decades of war. storm, the most powerful on The National Heritage Party (JHU) said the first semi-autonomous Earth this year. Usagi packed body won by the minority Tamil National Alliance (TNA) could lead winds of 165km per hour as to the division of the island on ethnic lines. it hit land on Sunday. The TNA won 30 out of 38 seats in polls for a provincial council in Jaffna established 26 years ago, but ruled directly by the president until Bangla workers elections on Saturday in the area scarred by ethnic strife. “The real war has just begun,” said Udaya Gammanpila, a leader of protest for pay the JHU which is a coalition partner of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government. “The TNA will revive the separatists’ campaign through DHAKA: More than 100 the council.” Bangladeshi garment fac- In theory, the country’s nine provincial councils have powers over tories were forced to shut police and land. Until now, none has exercised these powers but the yesterday as thousands of TNA is pressing a claim to have police and land under its control. workers protested for a $100 “We are entering a new phase of the war. It is not a war that will a month minimum wage and be fought with guns and bombs,” Gammanpila said. He said the JHU about 50 people were injured had told the government it was not too late to trim the powers of the in clashes, police and wit- council and prevent the start of a new political conflict that could be nesses said. Workers took to internationalised. the streets for a third day, However, after the results were announced on Sunday, TNA’s chief blocking major roads and minister-elect C V Wigneswaran said in Jaffna that he was willing to attacking vehicles in the work with Colombo. He said there was mistrust between the majority Gazipur and Savar indus- Sinhalese and minority Tamils, but he had “great faith in humanity” trial zones on the outskirts to resolve differences. of the capital Dhaka. Police “There is a fear of separation, but all we are asking for is a federal fired teargas and rubber bul- state within the boundaries of Sri Lanka.” AFP lets and workers responded A devotee wears a mask of a deity while dancing during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu yesterday. The by throwing broken bricks. eight-day long festival is celebrated to honour Indra, the king of deities and rains. Some workers vandalised factories, witnesses said. Reservoir filling Singapore gets tough on expat jobs A quarter of Thai angers tribes SINGAPORE: Singapore yes- employers to give Singaporeans, Sg$12,000 ($9,580) and above a KUALA LUMPUR: A state- terday announced tighter rules especially our professionals, month, will be exempted from the linked Malaysian energy firm on the hiring of foreign profes- managers and executives, a fair advertising rule. provinces flooded said yesterday it had begun sional workers, saying compa- chance at both job and develop- Authorities have been phas- filling the reservoir behind nies will from next year have ment opportunities.” ing in measures to tighten for- BANGKOK: M o r e t h a n 6 0 0 , 0 0 0 water, he said. Ayutthaya town a controversial dam as a to show proof they first tried to About 37 percent of the work- eign worker inflows after facing Thais have been affected by is a Unesco World Heritage Site group of angry tribespeople recruit local citizens. force of 3.36 million in 2012 were criticism from Singaporeans, flooding since July and more where ancient temples were dam- protested. Some 100 Penan The change, taking effect in non-resident. who accuse foreigners of com- than a quarter of Thailand’s aged in the 2011 floods. from seven villages set up a August 2014, follows protests and The ministry said compa- peting with them for jobs, hous- provinces have been inundated, At least 10 provinces in the cen- blockade on the only road to online complaints about the large nies must first advertise for ing, schools and space on public prompting officials to issue tral plains, the main rice-growing the remote, $1.3bn Murum number of foreigners in the afflu- Singaporeans to fill job vacancies transport. landslide warnings and begin region, have been affected by the dam on Borneo island in the ent city-state. in a national jobs bank adminis- Singaporeans have also com- evacuation measures yesterday. floods but the extent of damage is state of Sarawak, activists The Ministry of Manpower tered by the government’s work- plained that the rapid influx in Four people have been killed not yet known. said. They demanded 500,000 said companies that discriminate force development agency. previous years is eroding their and more rainfall is expected later The flooding has hit in harvest ringgit ($156,225) for the against citizens “will be subject Foreigners can be hired if no national identity. this week. season and output is likely to be loss of their land, property to additional scrutiny” when they citizens are qualified. The discontent spilled into gen- “Due to a heavier-than-usual affected, but there has been no and livelihood,” said Mark apply for employment passes for Firms which have a “dispro- eral elections in 2011 when the monsoon season, 21 provinces are official comment yet. Bujang, Secretary of the Save foreign professionals. portionately low concentration” ruling party garnered its lowest- experiencing flooding. We have Plodprasop Suraswadi, Deputy Sarawak Rivers Network. “Even as we remain open to of Singaporean employees at ever vote count after more than issued a warning about landslides Prime Minister, said: “Water lev- The dam is expected to flood foreign manpower to comple- professional level, and compa- 50 years in power. and have told boats in the Gulf of els in our dams are low enough to 245sqkm and cause 1,500 ment our local workforce, all nies where foreign managers are Two rallies against the govern- Thailand to be vigilant,” Chatchai handle any extra rainfall.” Penan and 80 Kenyah natives firms must make an effort to con- accused of favouring their own ment’s immigration policy were Promlert, chief of Thailand’s Municipal authorities have to lose their homes. sider Singaporeans fairly,” acting compatriots in hiring, will also be held earlier this year garnering Department of Disaster ordered sandbags stacked around Manpower Minister Tan Chuan put under tighter scrutiny, the crowds of more than 3,000, mak- Prevention and Mitigation, said. shops and homes and extra water Family reunions Jin said. ministry said. ing them the country’s biggest Parts of Ayutthaya province pumps have been installed in “What we are doing is to Firms with 25 or fewer staff, or protests in decades. north of the capital Bangkok have many areas. plea to N Korea put in place measures to nudge those recruiting for jobs paying AFP been deluged by up to a metre of REUTERS SEOUL: South Korea yes- terday urged North Korea to review its decision to post- pone a reunion for families separated by the Korean War, saying it had “deeply Cambodian opposition boycotts parliament wounded” those chosen to participate. Hundreds of divided family members PHNOM PENH: The long-rul- Norodom Sihamoni asked Hun widespread vote irregularities. from Koreas were sched- ing party of Cambodian Prime Sen to form a new cabinet, which According to official results, uled to meet at the North’s Minister Hun Sen pushed ahead must be approved by a majority of Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Mount Kumgang resort from with forming a government yes- the newly elected lawmakers in a Party (CPP) won 68 seats against Wednesday in the first such terday, ignoring an opposition vote expected to take place today. 55 for the CNRP. reunion for three years. But boycott of parliament and mass The CNRP, which is demand- That is enough for the rul- the North said on Saturday protests over its disputed elec- ing an independent investigation ing party to rubber-stamp the that it was putting the event tion win. into the contested July elections, appointment of Hun Sen and his on indefinite hold, blam- Anti-riot police were deployed decried what it described as a ministers and to pass legislation ing the “hostile” attitude of near the National Assembly fol- “one-party parliament”. in the lower house. the South Korean govern- lowing weeks of political turmoil “It totally contradicts the But experts said the govern- ment. “It’s inevitable that the that has at times descended into principle of democracy, freedom ment would be seen as lacking decision should be criticised violence in one of the biggest chal- and multi-party pluralism and is political legitimacy if it intro- by South Koreans and the lenges to Hun Sen’s nearly three bringing Cambodia toward dicta- duces laws without an opposition international community,” decades in power. torship again,” it said. in parliament. said a spokesman for Seoul’s The opposition Cambodia Hun Sen said he would “serve “A continued boycott will create Unification Ministry. About National Rescue Party (CNRP) the nation and the people for a sense of crisis in Cambodia. Many 72,000 South Koreans from refused to take its seats for the greater prosperity and progress” people now view the government as divided families are still wait- opening session of the lower in a letter to thank the king for lacking credibility,” said Ou Virak, listed for a chance to join King Norodom Sihamoni (left) and CPP President Chea Sim during the first house, saying the kingdom was his support. president of the Cambodian Centre reunion events. parliament meeting at the National Assembly building yesterday. sliding towards “dictatorship”. The opposition has rejected the for Human Rights. AGENCIES Despite the boycott, King results of the July polls, alleging AFP TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 PHILIPPINES 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Heavy rains leave 18 dead in Zambales Authorities appeal to rescuers, US Marines to help people evacuate their flooded homes in Subic, Olongapo

OLONGAPO CITY: Monsoon Although many people were res- Risk Reduction and Management rains worsened by Typhoon cued, about a hundred remained Council. Usagi pounded the Philippines trapped on their rooftops by the In the city of Olongapo, neigh- for the third day yesterday, rising waters, he said. bouring Subic, local officials put up causing floods and landslides Government employee Cristina ropes across flooded streets so peo- that left 18 people dead and Humbert, 35, said the ground ple could hold on to them to keep scores stranded on rooftops, floor of her two-storey home had from being swept away by strong officials said. been flooded but she managed to currents, eyewitnesses said. The most severely affected area evacuate with her 63-year-old People there carried their was the province of Zambales, mother to higher ground. shivering children as they waded about 80km northwest of Manila “Many are on the rooftops, through the floodwaters amid where heavy rains caused rain- waiting for help. They are submerged cars. soaked soil to cascade down, kill- marooned, and are getting hun- Olongapo City Mayor Rolen ing 17 people in different parts of gry and cold. We have no power, Paulino asked US Ambassador the province, said Assistant Civil no electricity,” she said. Harry Thomas to send some Defence Director Nigel Lontoc. Khonghun said four rivers that of the US Marines now in the “They were surprised by the pass through Subic were heavily Philippines for joint war games, to rain. It happened before dawn so silted and had overflowed, caus- help in relief efforts, his spokes- they might have been asleep at ing the floods. He called on the man said. the time,” he said. national government to come to About 2,300 US and Philippine “This is mountainous area and the town’s aid. marines are taking part in there are many houses on the “We are appealing for res- three-week long joint exercises, slopes. The rain must have really cuers, equipment, diggers, we many of them to be conducted in weakened the soil,” he added. need relief goods. We need help Zambales. A 67-year-old woman drowned from the national government, Typhoon Usagi passed the when her home was submerged by please send in inflatable boats,” northern Philippines this week- a flood in Olongapo City, also in Khonghun said. end and has moved away from Zambales, he added. Classes were called off through- the country but it continues to The mayor of Subic town, Jay out the Philippine capital and exacerbate monsoon rains. Khonghun, where the majority surrounding areas due to flooding Two people were killed and of victims died, said the heavy that reached more than five feet three are still missing from the A resident wades through chest-deep floodwaters along a street while his neighbours paddle an improvised life rains and chest-deep floods had in some places, said Myrna Puzon, storm’s onslaught. raft in Manila yesterday. isolated the town of 160,000. an officer at the National Disaster AFP

Four people New Muslim rebel attack in southern Philippines perish in blaze MANILA: Fire killed a ZAMBOANGA: Muslim rebels One soldier was killed while “This has nothing to do with most serious armed challenge chief Nur Misuari and the BIFF Chinese Filipino and her clashed with troops and took residents reported seeing four the Zamboanga incident. That is to the Philippine government in oppose ongoing government peace three helpers in Binondo, hostages in a fresh outbreak dead BIFF guerillas being car- different. Our enemies are the recent years. talks with the largest Muslim Manila yesterday morning. of violence in the strife-torn ried away by their comrades, the military. We want them out,” Despite the deaths of 102 rebels rebel group, the 12,000-strong Senior Fire Officer 2 Romel southern Philippines yesterday, colonel added. Mama told radio station DXMS. and the capture or surrender of Moro Islamic Liberation Front Lorenzo identified the fatali- officials said. The rebels then took 15 school- In Zamboanga City MG-520 over a hundred others, almost (Milf). ties as Hilda Cheng and her The fighting in the centre of teachers and farmers to use as attack helicopters were seen fir- 50 MNLF fighters still remain Muslim rebels have been fight- three helpers identified only Mindanao island came as a stand- human shields against pursuit ing rockets and machineguns at and are holding 20 hostages, said ing since the 1970s for an inde- as Princess, Fatima, and Rema. off with another Muslim armed although they released some of the remaining members of the police regional spokesman Chief pendent or autonomous homeland Loren said that the four vic- group elsewhere in Mindanao them later, Hermoso said. Moro National Liberation Front Inspector Ariel Huesca. in the south of the mainly Catholic tims were trapped in Cheng’s entered its third week. Three hostages remain and a (MNLF) still hiding in the city. Fifteen soldiers and police have Philippines. An estimated 150,000 four-story house. Members of the Bangsamoro local Muslim preacher has been Soldiers also raked the area been killed in the fighting, which people have died in the conflict. Fire investigators suspect Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) sent to negotiate their release, he with machinegun fire as smoke has seen the rebels burn hundreds Misuari fears his MNLF would that the fire was caused by a attacked pro-government volun- added. Both Hermoso and BIFF from burning houses obscured the of houses. be sidelined by an impending malfunctioning ceiling fan. teers in the town of Midsayap spokesman Abu Misry Mama MNLF positions. “Troops are cautiously moving autonomy deal with the Milf, The fire reached the fifth before dawn but retreated when said the latest fighting was not About 200 MILF members in because of rebel snipers,” said while the BIFF broke away from alarm before it was placed military reinforcements arrived, related to the conflict with another entered Zamboanga, a major Huesca, adding he could not say the Milf and continues to demand under control at 6:30am. said regional army spokesman Muslim band in Zamboanga City, trading centre with one million when the crisis might end. independence for the region. The blaze broke out while Colonel Dickson Hermoso. 273km from Midsayap. residents, on September 9 in the Both the MNLF faction of rebel AFP Metro Manila was experienc- ing heavy rainfall due to the enhanced southwest monsoon. Five held for MNLF founding chairman Napoles refuses to enter plea killing boy BACOLOD CITY: Four Nur Misuari faces court MANILA: Alleged pork bar- About 100 policemen escorted Office of the Ombudsman of plun- minors aged nine to 14 and rel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles due to the security der and malversation charges,” a 21-year-old man were MANILA: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is preparing criminal Napoles refused to enter a plea threats against the beleaguered said the motion in part. arrested for the fatal beat- charges against Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding yesterday to the serious illegal businesswoman. Napoles is also facing plunder ing of a six-year-old kinder- chairman Nur Misuari over the two-week siege in Zamboanga City, detention charges filed against Napoles and her brother, charges before the Office of the garten pupil while they were President Aquino disclosed yesterday. her. Reynald Lim, are facing a case Ombudsman after being accused high on solvent last Thursday “We are holding him liable over this incident. We have witnesses Instead, the Makati City of serious illegal detention filed of pocketing lawmakers’ pork in Talisay City, Negros who are directly linking him to this conflict. And the DOJ is already Regional Trial Court Branch by principal pork barrel scam barrel that allegedly went to the Occidental. in the process of preparing charges against him,” Aquino told report- 150 entered a not guilty plea for whistleblower Benhur Luy. bogus non-government organisa- Chief Inspector Joeresty ers in Zamboanga City. Napoles, branch clerk Diosfa Lim remains at large. tions she supposedly set up. Coronica, Talisay police chief, He said government prosecutors have been interviewing witnesses, Valencia said in a phone patch Earlier in the day, Napoles’ law- The arrest warrant for Napoles said two of the minors, both including the civilians taken hostage by the rebels, in the effort to interview on ANC. yer filed an urgent motion before in connection with the serious ille- boys aged nine and 14, were gather more evidence to pin down Misuari. Valencia said Napoles’ bail hear- the Makati City Regional Trial gal detention charges was issued collared a few hours after the Aquino did not specify what charges would be filed against the ing will proceed on September 27, Court Branch 150 to transfer her last month, prompting her to go crime, while the two other MNLF chairman. Friday. arraignment to Fort Sto Domingo into hiding for about two weeks. minors, a boy and a girl both The police earlier filed charges of rebellion and human rights vio- The central figure in the P10bn due to alleged security threats. Napoles eventually surrendered aged 11, and Raffy Hinolan, 21, lations against four MNLF members said to have led the attack in ($240m) pork barrel scam arrived “The threats aganst Janet’s life to President Benigno Aquino fell Thursday night. Zamboanga City on September 9. from her detention facility in Fort and security have now become III last September 28 at the The suspects were reportedly Police also filed charges against 25 other rebels who were captured Sto Domingo with her counsel, even graver and more imminent Malacañang. sniffing “pedseal,” a solvent, in or who surrendered during the fighting. THE PHILIPPINE STAR Atty Lorna Kapunan. due to the said filing before the THE PHILIPPINE STAR a vacant lot in Barangay Zone 12 and chanced upon the victim who they beat up to death. Marine drills The first two minors tagged in the crime were arrested by concerned citizens and turned New rice breed brings hope over to the Talisay City police and the Balay Pasilungan of the city social welfare office, to Maguindanao farmers according to social worker Othela Clavecillas. MAGUINDANAO: Samad, a 43-year-old Moro farmer in Datu Coronica said the two other Saudi town, is optimistic he can recover in the next two harvest minors were nabbed in their seasons the losses he incurred from armed conflicts that thrice houses while Hinolan was devastated their village in recent months if the peace now in their arrested when police spotted municipality continues. him alighting from a bus. “With the tranquility we now enjoy, government interventions intended to alleviate us from underdevelopment can take off without Bodies found any disruption,” Samad said in the Maguindanaon dialect. All of the barangays in Datu Saudi, a rice-producing town in the on highway second district of Maguindanao, were badly affected by incursions by the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in 2011 and in ALBUERA: Two more sus- August to September in 2012. pected victims of “salvag- Makmod Mending Jr, regional agriculture secretary of the ings” (summary executions) Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao, led over the weekend the were found along the highway first ever “rice harvest festival” in Datu Saudi to showcase how local here last Thursday morning. officials and the Autonomous Region Muslim Mindanao are cooperat- One of the victims was iden- ing in restoring normalcy in conflict-stricken rice-producing areas in tified as Jimmy Tan, 35, after the province. his brother Raulito claimed his The festival was also graced by Datu Saudi Mayor Samsudin body. The other was described Dimaukom, Abdulrashid Ladayo of the ARMM’s Cooperative as aged 16 to 19 and five-foot Development Authority, and representatives from the office of tall and had an “Oriental Sun” Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu. tattoo on the back. Mending said Mangudadatu’s office has been helping rebuild farming Police found four 9-mm slugs communities in the province through his free orchard, oil palm, and and five empty .45-caliber bul- rubber tree seedling dispersal project, which started as early as 2010, lets at the scene. A US Marine walks among grass stalks during an exercise at the Crow Valley, Tarlac. The US and the Philippines during his first term as provincial governor. AGENCIES are holding the annual military exercises Manila deems vital for building its defence capabilities. THE PHILIPPINE STAR TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Pakistani Christians hold a burning tyre as they protest in Lahore against the twin suicide bombings of a church in Peshawar and (Right) Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (centre), a leader of Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam condemns the bombings, during a press conference in Quetta yesterday. Christians protest over church bombings Demonstrators block highways in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar; death toll rises to 82

PESHAWAR: Angry More than 600 protest- They had harsh words for Pakistan’s largest city, blocked Danish Yunas, a Christian driver Shias is on the rise in Pakistan. Christians protested across ers blocked a major highway in cricketer-turned-politician roads around the Press Club with wounded in the blasts, said. But Sunday’s bombings will Pakistan yesterday to demand Islamabad for several hours dur- Imran Khan, whose Pakistan rocks and burning tyres, while The small and largely impov- fuel fears the already beleaguered better protection after a dev- ing the yesterday morning rush Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party Lahore saw more than a dozen erished Christian community Christian community could be astating double suicide bombing hour, burning tyres and causing runs the provincial government demonstrations. suffers discrimination in the increasingly targeted. at a church killed more than 80 long tailbacks. Later, around in the northwestern Khyber The death toll from the blasts overwhelmingly Muslim-majority A faction linked to the people. 2,000 people gathered to protest Pakhtunkhwa province. rose to 82 yesterday, according to nation but bombings against them Pakistani Taliban on Sunday The attack on All Saints outside parliament. “Imran Khan and his senior medics, with around 130 wounded. are rare. claimed the attack, saying it was Church in the northwestern city In Peshawar, around 200 dem- deputy have failed to protect Senior Peshawar police official The 400 or so worshippers to avenge US drone strikes on of Peshawar after a service on onstrators took to the streets, Christians at their praying cen- Najeeb-ur-Rehman said security were exchanging greetings after Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives Sunday is believed to be the dead- smashing windows at the main tres,” Khalid Shahzad, who lost around churches in the city would the service when the bombers in the country’s tribal areas along liest to target Pakistan’s small Lady Reading Hospital, where five family members in the attack, be stepped up, but survivors of the struck, littering the church with the Afghan border. Christian minority. many of the victims were treated, said. bombing spoke of their fears of blood, body parts and pages from In Kabul: Afghan President Christians demonstrated in and blocking the main Grand “The government of Khyber further violence. the Bible. The walls were pock- Hamid Karzai condemned the towns and cities around Pakistan, Trunk Road. Pakhtunkhwa and Imran Khan “We had very good relations marked with ball bearings that suicide attacks. including Islamabad, Lahore, In front of All Saints Church, are just making slogans, there is with the Muslims. had been packed into the bombs “Such attacks which target Karachi and Peshawar to protest more than 100 people demanded nothing practical (to protect us). “There was no tension before to cause maximum carnage in the innocent civilians, reflect enmity against the violence and demand justice and criticised the federal They do not have any sympathy these blasts, but we fear that busy church. with humanity,” the presidential the authorities do more to protect government for failing to protect for minorities.” this is the beginning of a wave of Sectarian violence between palace media office said in a state- them. Christians. Protesters in Karachi, violence against the Christians,” majority Sunnis and minority ment. AGENCIES

Taliban unlikely to open new office Upper House 5 die as bomb hits may approve ISLAMABAD: The Afghan that the Doha process was during his visit to Pakistan, Baluchistan police Taliban are unlikely to open any mishandled. Karzai had requested the information bill formal office as part of efforts The office opened on June 18 Pakistan government to host QUETTA: A bomb targeting police and claimed by the Taliban to seek direct talks between the as the first move towards a pos- talks between Taliban and the ISLAMABAD: The Senate killed at least five people and wounded five in Pakistan’s restive stakeholders of the war-torn sible peace deal after 12-years of Afghan government. will take up the Access to southwest yesterday, police said. country. fighting. However, Pakistan turned down Information Bill, 2013, and may The attack was staged in Pishin district, 40km north of Quetta, Since the closure of the Doha However, it had to be shut the request as it did not want to pass it in the coming session. the capital of Baluchistan province which is racked by a separatist office earlier this year, due to down after Afghan government assume any role other than that The bill was passed by the insurgency and Islamist violence. objections raised by the Karzai strongly objected to a flag-raising of a facilitator. Senate Standing Committee on “The bomb was planted underneath the police van, which exploded administration, efforts were being ceremony for the ‘Islamic Emirate “We are and we will extend all Information and Broadcasting while the officials were performing routine checks, killing five peo- made to break the deadlock by of Afghanistan’ — the name of the possible assistance in the Afghan early this month. ple including three policemen and two civilians,” district police chief relocating the Taliban office to country under Taliban rule. peace process but we cannot be Committee Chairman Kamil Mehboob Rasheed said. some other country. “The Taliban should not have involved in the process in a way Ali Agha will table the bill. “We He said the blast also wounded five people including passengers of However, the major stake- used the Doha office to project the where we would be held respon- will bring the bill to the House a minibus. holders including Pakistan, image that it was their embassy sible for any failure,” the official and hopefully it will be passed A senior local administration official, Zahid bin Maqsood, confirmed Afghanistan and the US are or foreign mission,” said the added. with majority,” said Agha. the incident and the casualties. believed to be inching towards Pakistani official. Diplomatic sources said the The bill gives public access to The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the attack. finalising a new arrangement “Under the new plan, discus- recently released influential information regarding transac- “We attacked the police in Baluchistan today to avenge killing of where Afghan Taliban will have sions will probably take place in Taliban former commander Mullah tions about acquisition and dis- our men by the army in a recent staged encounter,” in the country’s no formal office in any country, Saudi Arabia but without giving Abdul Ghani Baradar may play a posal of property, expenditures northwest, TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said by telephone from a Pakistani official familiar with Afghan Taliban any formal office,” role in bringing both insurgents of all kinds, grants of licences, an undisclosed location. the development said. he said. and officials to the dialogue table. approvals, allotments and con- Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, is believed to have The idea behind the new mech- Pakistan does not consider Though Baradar’s wherea- tracts awarded by a public body. substantial oil and gas reserves. But it is one of the country’s most anism, according to the official, that the location of the dialogue, bouts have been kept secret, it is But information of some min- unstable areas and attacks on police and troops are common. was to pre-empt any controversy or other formalities, is of much expected that he will be moved istries and government depart- The province has been the focal point of rising violence against that might prove to be a ‘deal importance but it is making every to Saudi Arabia to take part in ments, including financial Pakistan’s Shiite Muslim minority. It also suffers from a decade-long breaker’. effort to bring the reconciliation possible talks with the US and the institutions, will remain classified. insurgency by Baluch nationalists who want greater autonomy and a The official, who asked to process back on track. Afghan government. There is no blanket immunity larger share of oil and gas revenues. AFP remain anonymous, acknowledged Sources have revealed that INTERNEWS to the Ministry of Defence and defence services which was used in the past to keep everything Pakistani artist in Rome under wraps behind the façade of national security. Afghan intelligence The exemption is limited to Nawaz, Manmohan to defence planning, deployment of forces, defence installations and official shot dead matters that can be related to KUNDUZ: An intelligence national security. official was gunned down by meet in New York The 18th Amendment of 2010 Taliban militants yesterday in to the Constitution has made the northern Afghanistan, the sec- ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited and widely-discussed maiden right to access to information a ond such attack in less than a meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian fundamental right. week. counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh on the margins of the 68th UN “Ghulam Hussain, chief of the General Assembly has been scheduled as both will be having a Karzai set to National Directorate of Security breakfast meeting in Manhattan hotel where Singh will host Sharif. department for Chardara dis- They will have delegation-level talks and a one-on-one meeting. visit China trict, was heading towards his The meeting between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India has office this morning when was attained conspicuous significance against the backdrop of tense ties BEIJING: Afghan President shot dead in a Taliban ambush,” between the two countries. It could break the impasse spreading over Hamid Karzai will visit to China said a police official for Kunduz two years in the relations of the neighbouring countries. Nawaz Sharif from tomorrow to September province, reported. is viewed as a champion of peace with India and he would put his best 28, the Chinese Foreign On Wednesday, Amanullah efforts to bring about normalcy between the two nuclear countries. Ministry said yesterday. He is Aman, head of the Election Nawaz Sharif will also have an important meeting with Iranian visiting China at the invitation Commission for Kunduz province President Hasan Rouhani on the opening day of the UNGA on the of President Xi Jinping, Chinese was killed in a similar attack. same afternoon. It will be their maiden meeting. News Agency Xinhua quoted the Taliban claimed responsibility Well-placed diplomatic sources said yesterday that Prime Minister ministry’s spokesman Honglei for the attack. Sharif will have several back-to-back meetings with world leaders attend- as saying. He will meet leaders In a separate incident, the ing the UNGA but his address before the General Assembly on Friday and top officials to discuss ways Nato-led international coali- would be among the significant events of the world body gathering. to enhance relations and coop- tion said two of its soldiers were He will put across his vision pertaining to peace and tranquillity eration in various fields. Karzai killed in a roadside bomb attack in the region, democracy and the elimination of terror from the face will also attend the opening on Sunday in the eastern part of of earth. The prime minister will attend the inaugural session of the ceremony of the Euro-Asia the country. Pakistani artist Iman Qureshi poses in front of his work during the opening UNGA this morning which will also be addressed by the US President. Economic Forum (EAEF) 2013. AGENCIES of his exhibition at the Macro Museum in Rome yesterday. INTERNEWS AGENCIES TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

5,000 surveillance Act with full force against rioters: PM cameras in Role of social media in inciting communal violence flayed at NIC meeting Hyderabad soon HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh NEW DELHI: Expressing whichever party they may belong,” obscurantist forces to our nation’s Ashok Gehlot of the Congress was “I appeal to political parties Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar concern over the increasing the prime minister said. integrity, gender relations, har- also not present. Telugu Desam and the media that they should Reddy said yesterday that the incidents of communal violence, “It is important to ensure that mony and equality for all our cit- Party leader Chandrababu Naidu not give political colour to a state government proposed to Prime Minister Manmohan the local administration not only izens must be dealt with firmly staged a walkout after being told communal incident and not try set up integrated surveillance Singh yesterday said that gov- acts swiftly to prevent incidents and promptly,” he said. during his speech that the situ- to reap political benefit from it. camera system in Hyderabad ernment agencies should act from taking bigger shape but He also expressed concern over ation in Andhra Pradesh over a Our government will take them by installing 5,000 cameras to with full force against people ensures punishment to the guilty misuse of social media in incit- decision to create separate state on strictly,” he said. detect and track terror suspects. responsible for riots. at the earliest,” he said. ing communal violence. “Earlier of Telangana was not on the The prime minister said there Addressing the National Speaking at the National The prime minister expressed social media had been misused to agenda of the day-long meeting. was need to change the mindset to Integration Council meeting in Integration Council (NIC) meet- satisfaction that “we are all agreed trigger violence against people of Referring to Muzaffarnagar, stop crime against women. “It is a Delhi, he said the government had ing here held after the commu- about the need to do our very best the northeast. We must find a way the prime minister said: “As far shameful matter that women are embarked on a safe city project. nal violence in Muzaffarnagar to promote communal harmony, to stop misuse of social media,” as government officials are con- not treated properly. I am hopeful He said due to the high density that led to the deaths of over 50 to prevent atrocities against the he said. cerned, they should have strict this meet will come up with good of population and low police-pop- people, the prime minister said Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Chief ministers of several non- instructions that no lapse will be suggestions to deal with violence ulation ratio, the law enforcement the government should be seen as Tribes, and in the process, we Congress-ruled states, includ- tolerated in cases of communal against women,” he said. agencies were finding it difficult to acting as per law so that people of must do all that we can, to stand ing Narendra Modi of Gujarat, tensions and in case of riots their “A country can only progress if scale up police service delivery with all religions had faith in it. by the values inscribed in our J Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu, responsibility will be fixed.” women can move around freely, the existing infrastructure and “The government should use constitution”. Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal He said discussion about which make independent choices. We hence the government proposed to full force to act against those “It is clear from what has and Naveen Patnaik of Odisha, political party stands to benefit or must change mindsets to stop use technology as a force multiplier. responsible for riots however been said today that threats were not present. lose in elections due to communal crimes against women,” he said. Kiran Reddy said commu- powerful they may be and to from communal, separatist and Rajasthan Chief Minister violence was “really unfortunate”. IANS nal peace and harmony can be ensured with political will, cour- age, commitment of administra- tion at all levels, cooperation of Soldier killed in Kashmir shootout all stakeholders and community empowerment. He said the state had evolved Don’t give Aadhar card to Standard Operating Procedures for maintenance of communal harmony, preventive actions to be taken, tackling of communal dis- illegal immigrants: SC turbances, and rehabilitation of victims of communal violence. He NEW DELHI: Even as the government under the food security bill, cooking gas claimed that no major communal maintained that possessing an Aadhar subsidy, Employees Provident Fund and incident took places in the state card was optional, the Supreme Court direct benefit transfer under social welfare during 2012 and 2013, showing yesterday asked it not to issue the cards schemes made it mandatory in nature. that the measures adopted by the to illegal immigrants and not set them Resisting the plea for interim directions government are yielding dividends. as a pre-condition for availing welfare by the petitioner, Solicitor General Mohan He dwelt upon the initiatives schemes. Parasaran told the court that Aadhar card launched to ensure the protec- Alleging political gains to the ruling was purely voluntary and there was no tion and development of people party in the issuance of Aadhar card, sen- need for interim directions. in general and women, SCs, STs ior counsel Anil Divan told the Apex Court Divan told the court that the individuals and minorities in particular. bench of Justice B S Chauhan and Justice obtaining Aadhar number were required A centralised ‘Dial 100’ project S A Bobde that indiscriminate issuance of to give personal information that included was launched, through which any Aadhar numbers to all residents, including biometrics, iris and fingerprints, which citizen from any part of the state illegal migrants, created a serious threat to infringed the fundamental right to privacy can access the police in emergency. national security. Divan appeared for peti- under Article 21 of the constitution. He said this will facilitate better tioner and former judge of Karnataka High The senior counsel said there was no service delivery for citizens espe- Court K S Puttaswamy and was assisted legislative backing for obtaining personal cially to all disadvantaged sections by advocate Ankit Goel. information. The court was told that there Paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the site of an attack in Srinagar yesterday. A Central including SC, ST, women, and Taking on the government’s claim that were no safeguard to protect the personal Industrial Security Force soldier was killed and another critically wounded in a militant minorities by bringing in account- taking Aadhar card was a voluntary choice, information of the citizens and there was attack. The soldiers were purchasing eatables in the busy market, when suspected militants ability in the police. IANS Divan said that linking the Aadhar number no provision for penalties if the same fired on them. to getting benefits of social welfare schemes comes to public domain. IANS Doordarshan eyes makeover NEW DELHI: Doordarshan channels to re-study their plans,” They will measure each and every is set to discard its dowdy and Julka said. member of the household. It is an boring image as a public service A Peoplemeter is an audience objective and scientific method,” broadcaster, make its regional measurement tool that calculates he added. channels more attractive and the viewing habits of TV and cable The TV remote would have entertaining, expand its reach audience. He said the Peoplemeter buttons specifically configured to remote areas of the coun- study is an “independent exercise” for each member of a household. try and employ more local tal- with no involvement of the gov- Each time a member of the family ent, all aided by a new study on ernment. Elaborating about the picks up the TV remote, he or she viewership patterns. Peoplemeter, the top ministry offi- will have to click on the specific The study, being conducted in a cial said TAM installs “meters” in button; otherwise the TV set will few cities by private group TAM people’s homes to gauge what chan- not switch on. The installation Media Research, will be used by nels are being viewed, at what time of Peoplemeter began about two Doordarshan and even private and by whom. months ago in some households in channels to take a re-look at The study would give the gov- Chennai, Hyderabad and Madhya their plans, said Information and ernment real-time data on chan- Pradesh, he said. Broadcasting Secretary Bimal nels preferred by people. Based Of around 750 TV channels Julka. “TAM is increasing the size on the study, the television rating in India, Doordarshan has 21, of its Peoplemeter. The data will points would be generated, he said. apart from Lok Sabha TV and be useful for us to know which “The meter will monitor which Rajya Sabha TV and two chan- channels are being viewed. This channel you are watching, how nels run by the University Grants will help Doordarshan and other many times you surf that channel. Commission. IANS

Indian abducted To avoid paying alimony, in Oman freed jobless expat kills wife DUBAI: A Dubai court has charged an unemployed Indian man DUBAI: An Indian national with strangling his wife to death to avoid paying maintenance who was abducted in Oman last money after divorce. week was rescued by police yes- The man, 23, who is identified by initials of his name AQ, report- terday. Three people have been edly strangled his wife, identified as BA, before putting her body arrested in this connection. in a garbage bag and leaving it in the Fuqaa area on March 11 this Mohammed Haneefa, an expa- year in connivance with a Pakistani friend identified as RA, a daily triate from Kerala, was abducted reported yesterday. from Sohar, 200km north of AQ reportedly used to beat his wife and cheated on her with a Muscat, by a gang of masked men Filipina with whom he had an affair. His father said his late daugh- last week. A Royal Oman Police ter-in-law repeatedly complained to him over the phone several special team freed the man in an times in the past. AQ’s father said the accused knew RA for nearly early morning raid yesterday, the three years and the two shared accommodation. Times Of Oman reported. According to the report, a Bangladeshi cleaner discovered BA’s “At around 3am on Monday, body. Police said AQ admitted that he decided to kill BA because one of the patrolling vehicles of he could not afford to pay her maintenance money. Prosecutors the special team formed by the told the Dubai Court of First Instance that AQ and RA planned police to rescue Haneefa found to murder BA in her sleep. RA pleaded not guilty before the court him and his abductors in a farm,” yesterday. “I did not kill the victim… my confession was obtained the report quoted Yousuf Salim, under coercion,” RA was quoted as saying. a social worker, as saying. “Police “The victim moved to Dubai 15 months before her death... she sprang into action and freed constantly complained over the phone that AQ used to get drunk Haneefa from the clutches of the and beat her,” AQ’s father told prosecutors. “She asked me to find abductors,” he added. him a new job. The deceased also complained that her husband was The Urdu-speaking gang having an affair with a Filipina, and that was the main reason behind reportedly made a number of their continuous family disputes,” he said. “I do not doubt that the calls to Haneefa’s family in Kerala defendants could have killed BA.” after abducting him, demanding “Shortly after identifying the victim, we suspected her husband ransom money. The ransom calls because he had left the country on the same day when the corpse were made from internet phones. was discovered. Primary interrogation led to RA’s arrest,” a Dubai The family had reportedly trans- police officer said. “The latter admitted during questioning that they ferred Pakistani Rs50,000 to a strangled her,” the officer said. However, police didn’t reveal how AQ bank account number, given by was arrested. Presiding judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi adjourned the gang, through Western Union the case till October 23. IANS from Saudi Arabia. IANS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Shyam Benegal’s new film Minor girls’ Special CBI marriage: CPM lambasts IUML

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: court grants The Communist Party of India- Marxist yesterday flayed the move by Muslim organisations in the state to appeal to the Supreme Court to allow minor bail to Reddy Muslim girls to marry. The Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India had on Sunday slammed Illegal assets case in Andhra Pradesh the decision of the Muslim organ- isations to approach the Supreme HYDERABAD: After spend- entities and businessmen. Five of Court with a plea to allow mar- ing nearly 16 months in jail, YSR the charge sheets were filed this riage of minor Muslim girls. Congress party president Y S month. The trial court, the high Addressing reporters here, Jaganmohan Reddy is set to walk court and the Supreme Court had CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi free as a special CBI court yes- rejected Reddy’s bail petitions on Vijayan put the blame for the terday granted him conditional several occasions during the last whole issue on the IUML (a bail in an illegal assets case. 16 months. Bollywood film director Shyam Benegal (second left) with actors Sachin Khedekar (left), Dilip Tahil and K K party in coalition with the rul- Pronouncing the order, The CBI had opposed Reddy’s Rainon (right) on the sets of his film The Story of the Making of the Constitution of India - Samvidhaan, a 10-part ing Congress in the state) for this reserved last week, on the bail bail plea on the ground that he mini-series, in Mumbai yesterday. move. “The IUML is expecting to petition, CBI Special Judge U may influence the witnesses. The ride on (the wave of) communal Durgaprasada Rao directed him agency, however, told the court consolidation through this, and not to leave Hyderabad without that it has completed investiga- it is nothing but a political move the court’s permission and not to tions in the case. It also informed ahead of the forthcoming Lok interfere with the investigations. the court that it did not find any President in Modi staging ‘fake encounter Sabha polls,” Vijayan said. Jagan, as the MP from evidence against some companies Leader of opposition in Kadapa is popularly known, was booked by it. the state assembly V S arrested by the Central Bureau of The case relates to alleged Bangalore with facts’: Chidambaram Achuthanandan lambasted the Investigation (CBI) May 27 last investments made by private IUML, saying he found it dis- year. The 40-year-old son of late firms and individual investors in BANGALORE: President Pranab NEW DELHI: Finance Chidambaram said the average gusting and could not bring him- chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s companies in return for Mukherjee arrived here yes- Minister P Chidambaram yes- growth rate during the six-year self to even speak of the matter, Reddy is expected to walk out of the favours they received when terday on a two-day visit to terday said that Gujarat Chief tenure of Vajpayee government for the demand was that the age Chanchalguda Central Jail today. his father YSR was the chief min- Karnataka to participate in offi- Minister Narendra Modi, the was 6 percent. “By contrast, for being legally married be low- The special court granted ister between 2004-09. cial functions. prime ministerial candidate of the average for UPA-I was 8.4 ered from the present 18 years Reddy bail on a Rs2 lakh personal Reddy’s father died in a heli- “The president, who flew into the main opposition BJP, is stag- percent... the first four years of not just to 16, but to 14. “It is bond and two sureties of equal copter crash in September 2009, a city from Mysore, was given a red ing a “fake encounter with UPA-II, the average has been 7.3 better not to speak of their cul- amount. “Today we will not be few months after he led Congress carpet welcome by state Transport facts” while claiming 8.4 per- percent,” he said. ture,” Achuthanandan said. able to furnish sureties. We will party to a second consecutive Minister Ramalinga Reddy and cent growth during Atal Behari The first five-year term of the IANS furnish the same in the first hour term in power. Following differ- Mayor B S Satyanarayana. He also Vajpayee-led central govern- Congress-led United Progressive tomorrow,” Reddy’s lawyer Ashok ences with Congress leadership, received a guard of honour from ment between 1998 and 2004. Alliance (UPA) ended in 2009. Reddy said outside the court. Reddy quit the Congress party the Indian Air Force warriors at The Bharatiya Janata Party UPA-II was formed in 2009 and Malayalam actor The judge directed Reddy to in 2010 and floated the YSR the HAL airport,” an official said. retorted by saying Chidambaram its term expires next year. appear before the court whenever Congress. This is the first visit of was “hiding behind the law of aver- “I wonder why Narendra Modi Madhu turns 80 the proceedings required his pres- The Andhra Pradesh High Mukherjee to Bangalore after he ages”. “Narendra Modi is reported should stage a fake encounter THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ence and said if the accused vio- Court in 2011 ordered CBI inves- became president in August 2012. to have said that the growth rate with facts. Ultimately, facts will Veteran Malayalam actor lates the conditions, the CBI could tigations into Reddy’s alleged ille- He unveiled the new building of during the period of the Vajpayee prevail,” Chidambaram said. Madhu turned 80 yesterday and approach the court for cancellation gal assets when Congress leader the JSS Hospital in Mysore, about government was 8.4 percent. The BJP said Chidambaram’s he is still going strong. Madhu’s of bail. The court granted the bail P Shankar Rao wrote a letter to 150km from here, and addressed Nothing can be further from the statement was factually incorrect. illustrious career began in 1963 a few days after the four month the chief justice. the gathering on the occasion. truth,” Chidambaram said. “Chidamabaram is hiding under with Moodupadam and so far deadline set by the Supreme Court The CBI had booked Reddy and “Later, the president released Modi, addressing NRI sup- the law of averages. When the he has acted in more than 300 for the CBI to complete the inves- 72 others on charges of cheating A Cultural Odyssey of Karnataka, a porters via video conference on NDA left power, India’s growth films, including National Award tigations ended. and criminal conspiracy. The MP’s coffee-table book brought by Raj Sunday, had said that the growth rate was 8.4 percent. Now under winning movie Chemmeen The CBI has so far filed 10 financial adviser Vijay Sai Reddy Bhavan, containing rich informa- rate was 8.4 percent during the the UPA the GDP growth rate has (1965). His next will be Spirit, in chargesheets in the case against and industrialist Nimmagadda tion on places, personalities and BJP government led by Vajpayee fallen to 4.8 percent,” BJP leader which he does a cameo. He was Reddy, his aides, former state Prasad are still in jail. cuisine of the state with pictures,” but it came down to 4.8 percent Ravishankar Prasad said. awarded Padma Shri this year. ministers, IAS officers, corporate IANS the official said. IANS during the UPA’s rule. IANS IANS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Snake on News in Numbers BUSINESS Qantas plane OptimismCHART: Index 1 37 Fajr (Dawn) 4:07 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:23 strands 370 Zuhr (Noon) 11:26 Asr (Afternoon) 2:52 passengers Maghrib (Sunset) 5:30 SYDNEY: A tiny snake as slen- Isha (Night) 7:00 der as a pen forced the ground- ing of a Japan-bound Qantas flight in the Australian city of Sydney overnight, stranding WEATHER hundreds of passengers. The non-venomous reptile, about 20 centimetres long, was Today Wednesday Weather Thursday Conditions: found near the doorway of a Clear Partly cloudy Clear Boeing 747-400 bound for Tokyo Finance, Real Estate & Business Services Sector Hot with on Sunday night, a Qantas spokes- slight dust to woman told AFP. “The snake was taken to quar- The global services sector signalled expansion for the forty-fourth month in High: 39° blowing dust High: 38° High: 37° antine to determine where it Low: 30° Low: 31° Low: 31° at places. a row in March. At 53.4 in March, the JPMorgan Global Services Business came from,” she said. The plane had been on the Activity Index increased marginally from February’s four-month low of tarmac in Sydney for most of 53.2. Expectations of a gradual pickup in global growth combined with Sunday after completing a flight DOHA - SUN & SEA from Singapore, and the snake highly accommodative monetary policy should support a further modest was found by air crew before any SUN TIDE SEA passengers boarded. improvement in global property markets in 2013. A number of housing SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND It was uncertain where the markets around the world showed signs of stabilisation or improvement reptile had come from but the 05:23 17:30 08:00 & 19:15 01:00 & 14:30 08-18/25 KT Department of Agriculture has in 2012, including the US, the UK, Australia and China. Overall, however, identified it as a Mandarin rat- THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW conditions remain relatively soft, and some of the hardest-hit markets, snake which is mainly found in including Spain and Ireland, are still under significant pressure. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Asia. All 370 passengers were booked into hotels overnight and a replacement flight left Sydney MUSCAT 36/29 Partly cloudy 37/29 Partly cloudy Finance, Real Estate & Business Services Sector: Composite Index yesterday morning. KUWAIT 40/29 Clear 39/28 Clear It was the second snake inci- BAHRAIN 40/26 Clear 40/26 Clear dent for Qantas this year. A 80 SANAA 28/16 Partly cloudy 28/15 Partly cloudy three-metre python hitched a ride RIYADH 40/26 Clear 41/26 Clear from the tropical Australian city 70 DUBAI 37/30 Partly cloudy 36/29 Partly cloudy of Cairns to Papua New Guinea’s 62 BAGHDAD 35/21 Clear 33/20 Clear Port Moresby in January. The python had been tucked 60 THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW into the plane’s wing before 51 takeoff, and amazed passen- 50 48 47 47 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER gers watched from the window 42 41 as it engaged in a life-or-death 40 37 ATHENS 26/20 Clear 28/21 Clear struggle to maintain its grip in 35 36 33 33 WASHINGTON 23/11 Clear 25/14 Partly cloudy fierce winds and zero 32 31 SYDNEY 28/14 Clear 29/10 Clear temperatures. 30 27 LONDON 22/11 Partly cloudy 23/14 Mostly cloudy It was still on the aircraft when 21 PARIS 24/12 Clear 25/19 Partly cloudy it landed in PNG but had died 20 ISTANBUL 22/17 Chance of rain 25/19 Clear during the journey. MANILA 29/25 T-storm 29/25 Chance of storm A freight pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in 10 DHAKA 33/26 Chance of storm 33/25 Partly cloudy

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Wheels in the sky Greek kids find Austen museum to €43,000 hidden buy back her ring in old building ATHENS: Children playing in LONDON: US singer Kelly stunned by the generosity and northwestern Greece found a Clarkson has been foiled in her light-footedness of all those who bag containing ¤43,000 that an attempt to take home a ring have supported our campaign,” elderly woman had hidden in once owned by Jane Austen, she said. a derelict building fearing the after a British museum said “Visitors come from all around crisis-hit country’s banks were yesterday it had raised enough the world to see the house where unsafe, police said yesterday. money to buy it back. she once lived and we will now While playing near a square The 31-year-old singer bought take great pleasure in display- in the city of Ioannina on Friday, the ring at an auction last year, ing this pretty ring for their a group of primary school chil- but the British government appreciation.” dren aged around nine and ten blocked her from taking it out of The ring, one of only three stumbled upon the money in a Britain while attempts were made surviving pieces of jewellery bag stashed away in the build- to raise funds to “save it for the known to have belonged to the ing, police said confirming media nation”. celebrated novelist, is due to go accounts. Jane Austen’s House Museum on display at the museum early According to the state-run in Hampshire, southern England, next year. Athens News Agency, nearby where the 19th century author Known for their gentle residents spotted the children penned her six novels, said mocking of the landed gentry, playing with and even tearing up Clarkson had accepted its offer Austen’s novels including “Pride banknotes and alerted the police. of $253,300 for the ring. and Prejudice” and “Emma” Authorities traced the bag to The museum had been outbid are among Britain’s best-loved an 83-year-old woman who said by Clarkson at the original auc- classics. she withdrew her savings from tion, but launched a campaign in Austen fan Clarkson, whose the bank three years ago, fearing August to raise buy-back funds hits include “A Moment Like she would lose her money because from Austen fans around the This” and “Since U Been Gone”, of the economic crisis, the agency world. has sold more than 20 million reported. She could not remem- Curator Mary Guyatt said albums. ber the exact amount and esti- the museum was “thrilled” to be She shot to fame as the winner mated it to be around ¤50,000 bringing the gold and turquoise of the “American Idol” TV talent to ¤70,000. Police said the aban- ring “home”. contest in 2002. doned building actually belongs to “The museum has been AFP the woman. AFP A paraglider competes in Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet, southeastern France, in the 40th edition of the Icare cup.

Brigitte Bardot takes to Twitter Angular tailoring, florals close Milan Fashion Week

PARIS: Brigitte MILAN: Diaphanous dresses, decorated clothes with anchors it’s really come through on the executive of fashion house Ermanno Bardot took to the nautical prints and angular tai- and shells, and Gianfranco Ferre’s runways.” Scervino. “It’s hard because there Twittersphere yes- loring drew Milan fashion week tailored coats and dresses in neu- The fashion industry, comprised are so many taxes, so many prob- terday, using her first to a close yesterday after six days tral tones took inspiration from of clothing, footwear and leather lems, the logistics aren’t there,” tweet to complain of catwalks and campaigning to American photographer Herb Ritts. goods, is a key driver of the Italian Scervino told Reuters before his about her name being promote the city’s fashion indus- The collections provided the economy and trade body Camera brand’s show, which featured its used to help sell an try as a bright spot in a gloomy finale to a week which has seen Nazionale della Moda Italiana signature Swarovski crystal embel- apartment belonging local economy. 74 official shows, store openings, (CNMI) forecasts its turnover for lishments on denim and dresses. to her ex-husband. Veteran Italian designer Giorgio and parties attended by celebrities 2013 to be ¤58.86bn. “But it’s possible because in Italy AFP Armani presented sharp blazers, fit- including Cate Blanchett and Blake This figure represents a 2.5 per- there’s a quality of workmanship ted shorts and floaty floral kaftans, Lively. cent drop from the previous year, which doesn’t exist elsewhere. And topping off the show with flow- “I think [in Milan] they were but the rate of decline has slowed if you’re looking for an excellent ing translucent dresses and large feeling a little squeezed by London, from 5.4 percent in 2012, solely product you have it made in Italy.” mortar board-style hats in fuchsia, New York and Paris,” Vogue maga- thanks to foreign markets, the The CNMI and Vogue also invited black and bright blue. zine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour CNMI says. young designers to display their The collection was imagined for a told Reuters, referring to three Domestic consumption continues products during fashion week. woman who is “a bit less constrained other cities which organise fashion to fall and Italy, stuck in its longest Francois-Henri Pinault, chief exec- by the everyday... a woman who lives weeks. recession since World War Two, is utive of French luxury group Kering A model presents a creation by Italian a life of her own”, the designer told “There’s a strong sense of eve- a challenging place to run a busi- was among those who attended at fashion house Gianfranco Ferre during reporters backstage after the show. rybody coming together and sup- ness, but its fashion industry is a showroom dedicated to 16 young the Milan Fashion Week. Fashion house Frankie Morello porting Milan fashion, and I think unrivalled, said Toni Scervino, chief designers. REUTERS Tuesday 24 September 2013 18 Dhul-qa’da 1434 Volume 18 Number 5832 Price: QR2

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Microsoft launches tablet EU recovery QP picks two seen picking up pace LONDON: Further evidence banks for emerged yesterday that the economic recovery across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro is picking up and that unemployment may be $880m IPO peaking. The composite purchasing managers’ index — a gauge of QNB to manage offer, say bankers business activity across the man- ufacturing and services sectors DUBAI: Qatar Petroleum, shares in four of its units in com- published by financial informa- the state-owned energy firm, ing years, without specifying the tion company Markit — rose for has picked two banks to help firms involved. the sixth month running to a arrange an initial public offer IPOs in the Gulf, outside of 27-month high of 52.1 points in of shares in one of its units, Saudi Arabia, have been rare in September from 51.5 in August. an issue which could be worth recent years as investors shied That’s further above the 50 around QR3.2bn ($880m), two away from stock markets after threshold that indicates expansion banking sources said. suffering huge losses in the glo- and is the latest indicator to sug- Mesaieed Petrochemical bal financial crisis. The last IPO gest the eurozone economic recov- Holding Co may conduct the in Qatar was Mazaya Qatar Real ery is gathering pace. The rise was IPO on the Qatar stock exchange Estate Development Co in 2010. also bigger than anticipated — the before the end of this year, sub- However, this year, buoyed by a consensus of analysts’ forecasts was ject to necessary approvals being wider rebound in global equities, for a far more modest rise to 51.7. granted, one of the sources said, strong domestic economies and The increase was driven by faster speaking on condition of anonym- index compiler MSCI’s decision Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 tablet during the launch in New York yesterday. growth of new business, while new ity as the information isn’t public. to upgrade Qatar and the United orders increased for the second It would be Qatar’s first IPO in Arab Emirates to emerging mar- month running and rose at their three years. ket status, regional stock markets fastest rate since the middle of 2011. Qatar National Bank has been have jumped and companies are The eurozone is badly in need chosen to manage the offer while beginning to go public again. Oil falls on supplies, Iran diplomacy of economic growth following its Deutsche Bank will act as finan- However, a planned stock longest recession since the single cial adviser, the two sources said. market listing for Doha Global European currency was launched Qatar Petroleum declined to Investment Co, a $12bn Qatari NEW YORK: Global oil prices Basilico, senior vice president of Libyan and South Sudanese sup- in 1999. In the second quarter of comment. investment company backed by fell more than $1 per barrel yes- energy derivatives at Jefferies ply is weighing on prices. South 2013, the eurozone grew by 0.3 The sale of shares in the assets from the Gulf state’s sover- terday despite upbeat economic Bache in New York. Sudan is currently producing percent compared with the pre- IPO will be restricted to Qatari eign wealth fund, was postponed data from China and Europe, as Brent crude for November 240,000 barrels of crude oil per vious three-month period follow- nationals, although foreign inves- in May and it is not clear when it higher crude output from Iraq delivery fell to the day’s low of day, the highest volume since ing six straight quarterly declines tors will be allowed to buy a cer- might go ahead. and a possible thaw in US-Iran $107.83 a barrel and was down oil production was shut down that pushed unemployment to a tain percentage of the firm once it The Qatar Exchange has an relations boosted the supply $1.30 at $107.92 at 11.24am in January 2012,” Commerzbank record of 12.1 percent. has been listed, the second bank- equity market capitalisation of outlook. EDT (1524 GMT). US crude for senior oil analyst Carsten Fritsch Analysts said the survey was ing source said. about QR530bn, suggesting the Oil prices plummeted last week November fell $1.38 to $103.37 a said. particularly encouraging because Gulf states often sell stakes in Mesaieed Petrochemical listing as Lybia’s production recovered barrel. The bearish mood for oil also the signs of the economic revival state-owned companies at sig- could be easily absorbed. to nearly 40 percent of pre-war Iraq, a key Opec producer, said drew support from the possibility of were not just confined to Germany. nificant discounts to citizens as Bank of London and The capacity after protesters agreed on Monday it boosted output from a groundbreaking meeting between “Although the upturn continued a means of spreading their enor- Middle East, Britain’s largest to reopen major western fields, its southern oilfields after repair- leaders of the United States and to be led by Germany, France mous hydrocarbon wealth. stand-alone Islamic bank, plans and as fears of US-led military ing a leaking pipeline. Iran on the sidelines of the United saw the first increase in business In May, an executive board to seek a listing on the Nasdaq action against Syria faded. More oil is also coming from Nations gathering this week. since early 2012 and elsewhere member of Qatar Holding, the Dubai bourse next month in what “There’s been a lot of progress South Sudan as it raised output to Exports from Iran have more than growth was the strongest since investment arm of the state’s would be the emirate’s first stock in Libya and that’s outweighing the highest level since it resumed halved in recent years to around 1 early 2011,” said Chris Williamson, sovereign wealth fund, said listing for over four years. some of the positive data from exports through Sudan. million barrels per day in 2012. Markit’s chief economist. Qatar Petroleum planned to offer REUTERS China and Europe,” said Joseph “The return to the market of REUTERS AP

Libya’s Hariga Expert cautions Qatari investors on foreign tax risks oil port may BY SATISH KANADY international businesses. The huge investments in foreign lands of dealing with such a complex tax reopen soon investors need to know what and they are facing issues in vari- regime will be a massive surprise DOHA: Qatari investors, par- they should generally buy and ous ways. Some are deciding to to Qatari investors. LONDON: Libya’s eastern ticularly individual investors, how deeper these assets are being make investment platforms Tax has emerged as one of Hariga oil port may reopen buying businesses in foreign exposed to the tax regimes of the in countries like Singapore, the top five issues in making this week, but there has been lands must weigh the underly- respective countries”. Without Mauritius and other territories. an investment in the developed no progress in the negotiations ing tax risks well before they understanding the tax risk expo- A close understanding of the tax economies. The globalization of to end a dispute that has shut strike the deals. International sures, investors will not be able to regimes of the respective coun- investors, changing risk appetite, its larger eastern terminals for taxes are more developed, assess the expected returns from tries will help Qataris to avoid any government influence on long and weeks, the head of the energy sometimes complex, in some of investments, he said. possible “Vodafone India” situa- short-term tax policies are three committee in parliament said the most preferred destinations The uncertainty of the tax out- tion in which the telecom major is key factors that have contributed yesterday. of Qatari investors, a top Tax come on investments in the glo- waging a multi-billion tax dispute. most to the rise of tax in deals. “So far, there is no result in Risk expert has cautioned. bal environment has increased Neil noted countries like Brazil Qatari investors are currently the east, especially in the oil cres- Talking to The Peninsula, Neil dramatically. Qatari investors have got 50 different taxes. So in experiencing to varying degrees cent of Ras Lanuf, Es-Sider and O’Brien (pictured), Tax Partner, are currently experiencing some that form, managing the tax risk of all three of these factors and not as complex as other parts of Zueitina,” Saad Bin Sharada said. PricewaterhouseCoopers Doha of the complexity of investing in of while buying businesses in a as a consequence the focus on tax the world. The amount of taxes “However with regards to Hariga said: “Qatar is aggressively global environment. The inves- country like Brazil, one has to in deals has been rising, he noted. is also less significant in Qatar as in the far east, there are positive expanding its businesses to tors must wake up to the very really understand what all these On the inbound foreign invest- well as in other GCC countries, signs that we will get results. We’ve outside. The country does not real risk. fifty taxes are meant for doing ment, Neil said the risks are mini- compared to the US and Europe. met with the local councils there have a long history of buying Qatari companies are making business in Brazil. The scenario mal and the tax structures are THE PENINSULA and moved close to an understand- ing. Maybe today or tomorrow we can expect Hariga port to reopen.” Marsa Al Hariga has a capacity of 110,000 barrels per day (bpd). Libya’s National Oil Company Rules, low demand hinder Malaysian Basel III sukuk declared force majeure on the port on Sept. 12, after it had ceased to export crude oil for over KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Islamic Bank issued a hybrid programme to issue capital-boost- Although subordinated debt is to convert debt into equity if an two weeks. is in many ways one of the sukuk, one with equity-like charac- ing sukuk — partly because they more expensive for issuers than issuer faces insolvency. Last week Libya’s crude oil pro- world’s leading Islamic financial teristics, to boost its Tier 1 capital. see no strong need, bankers say. secured debt, strong demand This is particularly true in the duction recovered to 620,000 bar- markets, but regulatory issues Dubai Islamic Bank sold a similar “You find that in Malaysia most among local investors in the Gulf United Arab Emirates. Because of rels per day, nearly 40 percent of and comfortable balance sheets $1bn instrument in March 2013. of the banks are fairly comforta- has allowed banks there to sell their large state budget surpluses its pre-war capacity, and exports are causing it to lag behind the Within Malaysia, conventional ble, with some banks more capital- Tier 1 and Tier 2 sukuk at prices and lack of broad-based income were set to rise as major west- Gulf in one innovation: capital- banks have been among the first ised than others,” said Badlisyah they find favourable. taxes, Gulf governments do not ern fields ramped up output after boosting sukuk. institutions in Asia to move to Abdul Ghani, chief executive of Regulation is one factor encour- see that much of a need to protect protesters agreed to reopen them. Since last year, Gulf banks have issue Basel III bonds; CIMB Group CIMB Islamic Bank, the sharia- aging such issuance. Although taxpayers from bank crises with Two cargoes of crude are fixed been developing sukuk designed Holdings sold one this month, compliant unit of southeast Asia’s national financial regulators in loss-absorption clauses. to leave this week for Italy and to increase their capital, in order raising 750m ringgit ($238m) of fifth-largest lender by assets. the Gulf have not yet fully clari- Malaysia’s version of Basel the Netherlands, loading from to meet new Basel III banking Tier 2 capital. Public Bank and “At the earliest you will proba- fied how they will apply Basel III III does require loss absorption, Bouri port, which has remained standards due to be phased in RHB Investment Bank have pre- bly see - perhaps next year - some standards, bankers in the region however, which could raise costs open throughout the crisis, ship- around the world over the next pared similar bond programmes. banks going to market, but most expect local versions of Basel III for the issuer of a subordinated ping data showed yesterday. several years. But so far no Islamic bank will not really be in the market will not include a loss absorp- sukuk. REUTERS In November 2012 Abu Dhabi in Malaysia has established a because they are well-capitalised.” tion feature allowing regulators REUTERS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Apple sets Expert expects new record India to allow for iPhones sales launch Islamic banking NEW YORK CITY: Apple said yesterday it sold a record nine million iPhones in three days after launching two new ver- Changes to Banking Regulatory Act likely sions of the smartphone. “This is our best iPhone launch BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB conference on Islamic banking to yet — more than nine million new form a committee to conduct a iPhones sold — new record for DOHA: Aiming to mobilise feasibility study in this regard, first weekend sales,” said Apple FROM LEFT: David Dowall, Senior Manager CMAAS, Mark Menton, Assurance Director, and John Molloy, Assurance resources from the GCC states and subsequently, the committee chief executive Tim Cook in a Partner, during the PwC’s 4th annual accounting and tax developments seminar at W Hotel in Doha yesterday. for the proposed mega infra- made positive recommendations. statement. (KAMMUTTY VP) structure projects, there is However, there is tremendous Apple said demand has a “very strong possibility” of pressure on the government exceeded the supply for the new India taking positive steps to from different quarters includ- handsets, and that some custom- PwC seminar discusses tax risks amend the country’s banking ing right wing political parties, ers will have to wait. regulatory laws to introduce particularly Bharatiya Janata “The demand for the new the Islamic banking system in a Party (BJP) to prevent introduc- iPhones has been incredible, and DOHA: The PwC’s fourth unprecedented change that is and growing our local number of full-fledged manner, before the ing a system which will not only while we’ve sold out of our initial annual accounting and tax happening to tax laws as foreign partners and directors to reach upcoming parliamentary elec- help the Muslims, but the whole supply of iPhone 5s, stores con- development seminar held here governments seek to balance their 25. We will continue to grow our tions in 2014, said an expert nation,” he said. tinue to receive new iPhone ship- yesterday highlighted the issues domestic budgets. presence in light of market oppor- yesterday. Many think that unless and ments regularly,” Cook said. and risks for foreign businesses Neil O’Brien said: “Qatari tunities and as a demonstration The existing Banking until full-fledged Islamic banks “We appreciate everyone’s operating in the state and Qatar businesses are expanding rapidly of our commitment to Qatar”, he Regulation Act (1949) of India are permitted in India, an Islamic patience and are working hard Financial Centre (QFC). through M&A and there is a lot said. hinders the establishment of finance sector will find it hard to to build enough new iPhones for The seminar, attended by PwC of interest in Qatar on the key On the region’s tax regime, Islamic banking as it does not develop. everyone.” experts discussed key develop- tax risks associated with inter- Declan Mordaunt noted: “Unlike allow banks to operate on a profit- However, some analysts sug- Apple began worldwide sales ments in local and international national M&A and the best global many countries around the globe, loss basis and forbids murabaha, gest that the RBI’s recent deci- on Friday of the high-end iPhone tax laws and international finan- practices and processes that are there are a lot of protections in or, the buying, selling, or barter sion with regards to the Kerela 5S and a lower-cost iPhone 5C, cial reporting standards (IFRS), used to manage those risks”. place in the Middle East. Many of goods. government reflects a significant drawing crowds from Australia and their impact on companies Stephen Anderson noted: Western countries wish they “I strongly believe India soon and positive change in its attitude to Tokyo to Paris to New York. operating and investing in Qatar. “Planning is key to managing had introduced such protection, will take some positive steps, towards Shariah-based NBFIs. The new phones are being sold The event was part of the risks. We at PwC work with our at least in part. Qatar is way up either to amend the laws of the Some politicians and private in the United States, Britain, Qatar firm ‘PwC Series’, a regu- clients and take the time to listen, the league table of countries for Reserve Bank of India (the coun- organisations have been making Australia, Canada, China, France, lar forum for knowledge sharing question and understand their the “Ease of Doing Business” try’s central bank) or promulgate efforts for years to start Islamic Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, and networking targeted towards goals as well as their competitive and implementing reforms to its ordinance to make way forward to banking in India, but they have Puerto Rico and Singapore. senior executives in the Qatari and regulatory environment to commercial law... In the “Ease of establish Islamic banking system faced strong opposition from Apple also said more than 200 marketplace. help them create the value they Paying Tax” league table Qatar by 2014,” said Dr Manzoor Alam, bureaucrats and conventional million of its smartphones and PwC’s Tax leaders Declan are looking for.” is no. 2”. President of Indo-Arab Economic banking circles. Established tablets are now running the rede- Mordaunt, Neil O’Brien, and “Qatar continues to be a very Over 250 senior executives Cooperation Forum, and also an in early 1970s over 50 coun- signed operating system iOS 7. Sajid Khan/Partner, International significant player within the from Government agencies, expert of Islamic banking. tries have adopted the system The new operating system has Tax, and Stephen Anderson were GCC and globally In PwC Qatar, state-owned enterprises, multi Recently the RBI permitted of interest-free banking across a bolder look, and includes the among others who addressed we have invested significantly in nationals, family businesses and the Kerala government (a state the globe. free iTunes Radio launched by various sessions. The experts developing our capabilities by tap- private sector companies in Qatar in south India) to go-ahead to “The global market capitali- Apple. looked at the growing risks busi- ping into our global network, deep attended the event. launch a Non-banking Financial sation of interest-free bank- AFP nesses face going global and the industry expertise and experience THE PENINSULA Institution (NBFI) based-on the ing is expected reach over $1.6 principles of Islamic finance. trillion by the end of 2013. And Dr Alam, who has been striv- the world’s leading economies ing for over two decades to such as Japan, the UK and the introduce interest-free banking USA have already allowed the Indonesian trade system in the country, advocated system and becoming increas- Dubai fines Ex-PNB Paribas private banker that participatory banking is ingly popular in other advanced the need of the hour to facili- countries. But in India, there is meet in Doha tate foreign investments to gen- still some misnomer or misun- DUBAI: A former BNP Paribas “It’s a pretty strong move by Dh 73,400 ($20,000) and restricted erate resources, especially at a derstanding that it will help private banker has been fined the regulator and shows they from providing financial services on Thursday time when the government has Islamisation of the country,” by the Dubai Financial Services are getting more serious now in the Gulf Arab emirate’s offshore approved many ambitious pro- added Dr Alam. Authority (DFSA) for executing in protecting client interests. financial centre for six years, the DOHA: Indonesian embassy grammes, including Food Security Dr Alam also suggested that two transactions worth a total Previously, these events wouldn’t regulator said in a statement. will host an “Indonesian Bill and mega infrastructure there is an urgent need to estab- Dh30.8m ($8.4m) for a client be made public,” said one asset The regulator gave no details Trade and Investment Update projects, which alone will cost the lish a global regulatory frame- without his consent. management source, who declined on the restrictions Das faces. (ITIU) 2013” at Hilton Hotel exchequer over $50bn. work, similar to the Basel-based The regulator rarely makes to be identified as he was not BNP declined to comment. The on September 26. The ITIU is “I see a political will in the Bank of International Settlements its disciplinary actions public. authorised to speak to the media. DFSA declined to name Das’s being organised in close coop- present government. A couple (BIS), to make the Shariah- Traditionally, in the Gulf Arab According to his LinkedIn profile, employer, saying in its statement eration with Qatar Chamber. of years ago, Prime Minister compliant banking more popular region, business topics consid- Nikhil Das had been an associate only that he was a “former” pri- ITIU 2013 is one of the series Manmohan Singh announced and sustainable. ered sensitive in nature are not director in BNP’s wealth manage- vate banker. of activities to be organised by in Malaysia at an international THE PENINSULA disclosed. ment arm since 2009. He was fined REUTERS Indonesian embassy to boost that country’s economic and trade relations with Qatar. Fourteen Indonesian businessmen including Thai car incentive backfires Mayor of Halmahera District and President Director of Cardig Air will join the event. They will try to tap any opportunities to engage with Qatari businessmen as well as to explore any possibility to attract Qatari investment in Indonesia. The ITIU is basically intended to disseminate investment opportuni- ties and its regulations in Indonesia; promote Indonesian products to be exported into the Qatar market; provide engagement opportunity for Indonesian and Qatari businessmen; as well as to Invite Qatari business- men to attend the 28th Indonesian Trade Expo set to be held in Jakarta, from October 16 to 20. The event is open for public and will be set for business-to-business meeting with small presentation by the ambassador and Head of the Indonesian Investment Promotion Centre from Abu Dhabi. Indonesian Embassy in coopera- tion with Tourism and Culture An employee walks among vehicles at AutoAlliance Thailand, a Ford and Mazda joint venture plant, Authority of Jakarta City will spe- located in Rayong province, east of Bangkok, yesterday. An incentive programme for first-time car cifically organise business-to-busi- buyers in Thailand has backfired with more than 100,000 indebted consumers defaulting. ness meeting on tourism sectors. Total keeps Samer new HSBC Mideast equity head production target LONDON: Oil giant Total con- firmed yesterday it was target- DUBAI: HSBC Holdings has named Samer percent year-to-date. HSBC revamped its global ing production of three million Deghaili to head its equity capital markets investment banking operations in July, separating barrels per day in 2017 and said business in the Middle East and North Africa, responsibilities for products and client coverage it will start tapering invest- a spokesman said yesterday, as activity picks in a bid to drive business growth. ments next year after a period up in the region. The lender named Mohammed Al Tuwaijri of intensive exploration. Deghaili replaces Michael Bevan, who will as chief executive of the Middle East and North The French energy major said head coverage of Asian sovereign wealth funds Africa, replacing Simon Cooper, who was appointed its goal was 2.6 million barrels of in HSBC’s Hong Kong headquarters, said two head of the bank’s commercial banking arm. oil equivalent per day in 2015 and sources with knowledge of the appointments. In his new role, Deghaili who joined the bank in around three million barrels per Deghaili’s move was later confirmed by the bank. 2010, will report to Adrian Lewis, head of Emea day in 2017, up from 2.3 million Equity capital markets activity in the Gulf equity capital markets, and regionally to Georges barrels per day last year. Arab region is showing signs of recovery as finan- Elhedery, head of markets and capital financing The group’s targets have gotten a cial markets and valuations pick up after years of for Mena region. His appointment was effective boost from a series of deposits that sluggish activity. Bankers in the region say more early September, according to the two sources. have recently come online, or will companies have been making initial enquiries Middle Eastern companies raised $3.2bn from 12 soon do so, including the Kachagan about IPOs and secondary share offerings. capital market operations during the first half of 2013, oil field in Kazakhstan, which began Dubai is among the best performing equity a 15 percent decline from the same period in 2012. production this month. markets this year with its benchmark index up 65 REUTERS THE PENINSULA/AFP TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Iraq’s southern Gulf bond market braces for deals oil output rises Sabic, Al Hilal Bank announce roadshows; Qatar’s Al Khaliji seen possible candidate to 2.33mbpd as leak fixed DUBAI: The Gulf’s bond mar- weeks,” said Sebastien Henin, still appears to outweigh supply. effectively close the market for a after next month’s Fed meeting. ket is set to emerge from five portfolio manager at The National Sabic’s conventional bond will week-long holiday period starting “Everyone knows that rates months of near-inactivity after Investor. offer rare US dollar exposure to in mid-October. are on their way up so this is just LONDON/BASRA: Iraq has last week’s decision by the US “We should have a very strong Saudi Arabia, should it print later The timing of Eid will reduce a temporary reprieve. What I’m boosted oil output from its Federal Reserve to maintain finish to the year.” this week. Gulf issuers’ room for manoeuvre telling my clients is they should southern oil fields after repair- its monetary stimulus created a Selling in the Gulf’s second- “Every time we see a new issue ahead of the US Federal reserve’s come now if they can,” said a ing a leaking pipeline, two oil window for banks and corpora- ary market for bonds over the out of Saudi, we get a bit excited, next policy meeting at the end of Gulf-based debt capital markets officials said yesterday, although tions to raise cash. last few months has created a as if the prospect of that market’s October; James Bullard, president banker. planned work was continuing A total of $16.6bn was raised good entry point into a market development has just taken one of the St Louis Federal Reserve, The window created by last to keep a lid on exports from on global bond markets last which is backed by healthy local step forward,” said Kronful. told Bloomberg Television last week’s Fed meeting may not be Opec’s No. 2 producer. Thursday, a four-fold rise from economies and strong bidding by Other potential candidates week that the Fed might still large enough for the more exotic Oil was flowing to the southern the day before. The Gulf mar- local investors, said Mohieddine for deals before the end of the scale back its stimulus at the structures that were issued in the terminals at 2.33mbpd yesterday, ket’s reaction to the Fed will not Kronful, chief investment officer year include Qatar’s Al Khaliji October meeting. Gulf earlier this year, such as Tier shipping data showed, up from be as dramatic, partly because — for global sukuk and regional Commercial Bank, Emirates “At the moment, the market is 1 and 2 capital-boosting bonds, 1.92m bpd on Sunday. thanks to strong economic growth fixed income at Franklin Aluminium (Emal), and Dubai pricing in tapering to start from given the widening of spreads Iraq’s oil revival, which got — most potential issuers in the Templeton. Investments, according to December onwards. Nevertheless, which has taken place since some under way in 2010, has slowed this region are liquid and do not need The companies which have bankers. the decision will be data-driven, of them were sold. year due to infrastructure and money urgently. announced roadshows, Saudi Meanwhile, much speculation hence we can see some volatility Emirates NBD’s Tier 1 per- security problems, keeping pro- Nevertheless, within hours of Basic Industries Corp and has centred on whether Abu in the market. Already, Bullard’s petual bond , priced in May with duction below targets and some- the Fed’s announcement two pro- Abu Dhabi’s Al Hilal Bank, are Dhabi state-linked entities could remarks on timing triggered some a coupon of 5.75 percent, has wid- times even below last year’s levels spective Gulf issuers announced expected to attract a lot of inter- return to the debt market after pressure following the initial ened since then to trade at a yield of three million barrels per day. plans for investor roadshows, a est among investors for particular a long absence — the maturity in rally,” said Ali Soner Guney, fixed of 6.30 percent bid. The leaking pipeline had sign they feel enough stability has reasons. May 2014 of a $1.25bn bond previ- income fund manager at National So names such as Dubai’s Majid prompted output at the Rumaila returned to the market for deals Al Hilal, which began market- ously issued by state-owned fund Bank of Abu Dhabi. Al Futtaim, Commercial Bank oilfield to be cut back, temporarily to move ahead. ing its debut offer on Sunday, Mubadala has bankers hoping the The result may be that a few of Qatar and Ahli United Bank, adding to the impact of planned “After what the Fed said last benefits from its 100-percent conglomerate could print in com- Gulf issuers who are already fully which bankers believe were all work at the Basrah Oil Terminal week, it will give respite to the government ownership and its ing months. prepared to go to market — per- considering hybrid bond transac- which has reduced the export market and you should expect choice of a sukuk structure, The Gulf’s issuance calendar is haps only Sabic and Al Hilal — tions earlier this year, are unlikely capacity in the south — Iraq’s to see borrowers coming back since appetite for Islamic bonds complicated by the approach of issue before mid-October, while to be part of any rush to issue. main outlet. and raising money in the coming among cash-rich Gulf investors Eid Al Adha, which is expected to the rest are forced to wait until REUTERS Two oil officials said yesterday Iraq had restored normal out- put from the southern oilfields on Sunday after repairing the No more coupon payments on hybrid loans leak to an ageing pipeline buried three metres underground due to Tesco enters corrosion. “We are planning to pump higher crude shipments for the tablet market rest of September to compensate for the reduced exports due to the pipeline leak,” a senior oil official with ‘Hudl’ said. In light of the recent leak, Iraq LONDON: Tesco, the world’s has decided to evaluate all its key third-biggest retailer, has oil pipelines in the south to avoid entered Britain’s intensely com- future disruption from technical petitive tablet market with a problems, an Iraqi oil ministry low-priced own-brand product official said. that it hopes will boost online “We reached a decision to push shopping and drive sales of its ahead with building new key pipe- digital entertainment content. lines in the south to make sure The British firm said yester- we have plan B for any possible day its “Hudl” device, which has disruption to crude flow,” the offi- a seven-inch screen, runs Google’s cial said. Android operating system and Production from Rumaila, the has 16 gigabytes of storage, would workhorse of Iraq’s oil industry, be priced at ¤119 ($190), taking had climbed to around 1.35mbpd on a market dominated by Apple, on Sunday after the pipeline leak Samsung and Amazon. cut output last week to 870,000 Tesco is attempting to revive its bpd, oil officials close to Rumaila fortunes in its home market after operations said. losing share to rivals but has suffered Export capacity remains a series of setbacks to its reputa- reduced as two of the terminal’s tion this year, including the discov- four berths are shut for planned ery across Europe of horsemeat in work, which is limiting southern products labelled as beef. In June export capacity to around 1.7 the firm posted a drop in quarterly The Monte dei Paschi bank headquarters in Siena, Italy, yesterday. Monte dei Paschi has cancelled coupon payments on three hybrid loans coming million bpd according to trade underlying sales in Britain, resum- due at the end of the month to meet European conditions for approving a $5.5bn state bailout. sources. ing a trend seen for most of the past REUTERS three years and raising doubts about its 1 billion pound turnaround plan. “It’s a reflection of the way Tesco is changing and also a IATA cuts industry profit forecast reflection of the way the world around us is changing,” Chief Executive Phil Clarke told report- PARIS: Global airlines cut their 2013 industry slightly for North American and European air- ers at the Hudl launch. profit forecast by eight percent to $11.7bn yes- lines as US carriers consolidate and cut capac- Though a quarter of Britain’s terday, citing weaker growth in parts of Asia ity, and Europe’s financial crisis shows signs of households own a tablet computer, and a worsening slowdown in freight demand. easing. Clarke said Tesco had identified a The International Air Transport Association, But Tyler said he was concerned about a US gap in the market because many which represents some 200 carriers, said the government attempt to block a proposed merger shoppers were put off by the expense $1bn downgrade from its previous forecast for between US Airways and American Airlines, and by intimidating technology. the whole industry in June also reflected a spike saying it contradicted a general shift away from “Tesco in the UK reaches 20 in oil prices driven by the Syrian crisis. regulation in air transport. million customers a week, many “The industry situation is not improving as For Asia, which is set to become the leading of whom have not previously con- quickly as we had expected,” IATA Director General power in aviation in coming years, IATA chopped sidered buying a tablet ... So we Tony Tyler said. “I should stress that this is still a third off its profit forecast to $3.1bn. are uniquely positioned to open up an improvement over the 2012 profit of $7.4bn.” Although China’s domestic market continues the tablet market,” he said. For 2014, IATA predicted a rebound in prof- to grow and Japan’s monetary expansion is boost- The Hudl device has quick access its to $16.4 billion on hopes of rising business ing that country’s carriers, China’s international to Tesco’s online shopping and and consumer confidence and a respite in oil routes and Indian markets face pressure. banking sites, as well as its blinkbox prices. However, its chief economist warned any Asia is particularly exposed to stagnant growth movies and TV on demand service, prolonged spike in fuel costs could upset this in cargo markets that reflect weak international Clubcard TV, music streaming and scenario. trade and an oversupply of plane belly capacity e-book services. “Emerging market growth in India, Brazil and caused by growth in the passenger fleet. If Tesco customers utilise a to a certain extent China has been slower than IATA sees growth of just 0.9 percent in air scheme that doubles the value of anticipated,” Tyler told reporters on a confer- cargo traffic, which handles a third of the world’s their Clubcard loyalty vouchers ence call. trade by value, compared with a previous forecast they can effectively buy the Hudl “This has been somewhat balanced by improve- of 1.5 percent and well below global passenger for £60. ments in the US economy as well as a stabilisa- growth of 5 percent predicted for this year. REUTERS tion in the euro zone.” IATA raised its forecasts REUTERS

Azevedo sees ‘different dynamics’ at WTO

GENEVA: Just three weeks into the job, chance to revive the so-called “Doha Round” interventions are limited to 60 seconds,” he new World Trade Organisation (WTO) of talks, launched in 2001 to craft a global said. Azevedo stressed that he was not only chief Roberto Azevedo hinted yesterday accord on opening markets and removing very insistent that country ambassadors to at the beginning of a more dynamic era trade barriers. the WTO attended meetings, but that he for the body long hampered by dead- Differences over the give and take needed was making a point of personally taking locked global trade talks. “I see that there have fuelled clashes notably between China, part and cohosting the sessions. is a different mood at the WTO today. the European Union, India and the United His presence and the high attendance The dynamic is different,” said Azevedo, States, and left the talks stalled for years, had already made it possible to unblock a Brazilian career diplomat who took the leading many countries to shift focus to a number of sticky issues of contention reins of the global trade organisation from bilateral and regional deals. between the WTO’s 159 member states in Frenchman Pascal Lamy on September 1. The Bali conference “is a priority for us,” their negotiations leading up to Bali, he said. An energy boost will surely be needed Azevedo told reporters in Geneva, stress- His comments could be seen as an implicit as the organisation that sets the rules for ing that pre-Bali negotiations need to have criticism of his predecessor Lamy, who travelled global commerce strives to reach consensus made significant progress by the end of next extensively during his eight years at the helm on a long range of issues ahead of a summit month. With this aim in mind, the WTO of the WTO and rarely spent long periods of in Bali in December. was hosting “meetings with business-like time at the organisation’s Geneva headquarters. The summit is seen as perhaps the last objectives, they start on time, and the AFP TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatari bourse index adds 11.98 points Egypt’s market gains 1.1 percent

DOHA: Qatar Exchange was conditions in the oil shipping back in the green area yester- market, said it planned to sell day adding 11.98 points, or 0.12 some ships and might get a cash percent, to advance to 9,797.88 injection. points from 9,785.90 on Sunday. In a statement to the bourse, it The volume of the shares traded said the board of directors would rose to 4,972,177 from 3,105,746 on ask shareholders for approval to Sunday and the value of shares sell its two very large crude car- increased to QR301,372,145.53 riers, and had conducted “posi- from QR157,373,972.36 on Sunday. tive communications with major Among the top gainers were shareholders to inject cash into Electricity and Water which was GNH”. It did not elaborate on up 0.64 percent to QR157.90, while the size or timing of any cash Doha Bank gained 0.55 percent injection. to QR54.70, Gulf International Small-capital property stocks gained 4.10 percent to QR52.00 Deyaar and Union Properties and Gulf warehousing Company also traded heavily, as did Dubai was up by 1.23 percent to QR41.00. builder Arabtec, which climbed The Banking and Financial 2.0 percent. sector index dropped 0.26 points The overall Abu Dhabi market while Consumer Goods and was barely changed but Dana Gas Stephan Winkelmann (right), the President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, during the inauguration of a luxury car dealership for Lamborghini in Services sector index gained 0.01 rose 1.6 percent to close at 0.64 New Delhi yesterday. points. The industrial sector rose dirham, off a high of 0.68 dirham, 0.42 points while insurance sector possibly because of bets it may soon fell 0.18 points. recover at least some of the $230m Meanwhile, active trading by in overdue payments for gas sup- Lamborghini bullish on US and India retail investors boosted other Gulf plies which it is owed by Egypt. stock markets yesterday while Egypt is close to agreeing a NEW DELHI: Italian car about the local policies, and what “It was an incredibly rising compared with around seven per- Egypt rose after a court banned the schedule for repaying $6 billion maker Lamborghini will strug- the government is doing, for the market for three years when out cent in China. Muslim Brotherhood from carrying in outstanding debt to foreign oil gle to find another China as time being it is a little difficult to of nowhere it came to number two Although the Indian economy out any activities in the country. companies, the country’s prime sales of its super sports cars in buy these type of goods.” market. To answer very clearly, has slowed over the last year, Saudi Arabia was closed for a minister said this month. RAK the world’s biggest auto market Lamborghini sales in China there is no other market which, luxury carmakers see tremendous national holiday but across much Properties, the most active Abu have hit the skids due to a gov- grew steadily in recent years to in this period of time, can grow growth potential in the country, of the Gulf, individual investors Dhabi stock, gained 2.9 percent. ernment campaign against con- about 230 cars last year, mak- in this sense,” Winkelmann said. which, according to the Boston speculated actively ahead of third- In Egypt, the index gained spicuous spending. ing the country the ‘fighting bull’ Global luxury carmakers are Consulting Group, had 164,000 quarter earnings announcements 1.1 percent to 5,648 points after Automobili Lamborghini SpA, brand’s second biggest market piling into India, Asia’s third- millionaire households in 2012. expected next month. a court banned the Muslim owned by Germany’s Volkswagen after the United States. largest economy, and recent “This is an opportunity we “Retail investors are very Brotherhood from carrying out AG, however, sees long-term Sales of the car are expected high-profile launches include the see for our future. And we hope active in the market, targeting any activities in the country and potential in the nascent Indian to be around 200 this year, Jaguar F-Type, whose price starts that sooner or later, in terms of the penny stocks and the highly ordered the seizure of the group’s market and hopes better-than- said Winkelmann, who was in at about Rs14m ($226,000). taxation, in terms of infrastruc- liquid names,” Sebastien Henin, funds, strengthening a cam- expected sales in the United the Indian capital to launch But high import duties, with tax ture, this is going to be easier to portfolio manager at The National paign to debilitate the Islamist States, its biggest market, will Lamborghini’s second dealership on some luxury cars exceeding 100 market, and then you have the Investor, said of Dubai. movement of deposed president offset the China sales slow- in the country. percent, as well as potholed and opportunity to grow in numbers,” Dubai’s index climbed 1.0 per- Mohammed Mursi. down, Chief Executive Stephan The China slowdown is due in congested roads in major cities are Winkelmann said. cent to 2,709 points in some of the Although some foreign inves- Winkelmann said. part to the new political leader- a challenge for luxury car makers The luxury car sales in India heaviest trade this year, leaving it tors think such steps could widen “Unfortunately, there are not ship’s campaign against lavish like Lamborghini, which expects is expected to rise to 41,339 in close to its August peak of 2,762 political divisions in the country so many Chinas around the cor- spending and graft. to sell more than 20 cars in India 2018 from an estimated 16,524 points, which many analysts con- and store up trouble for the future, ner. And China for us is a chal- Super luxury brands, such as this year, up from 17 in 2012. this year, according to LMC sider strong technical resistance. many Egyptian investors welcome lenge right now,” Winkelmann Lamborghini, are seen as espe- The base model Lamborghini in Automotive. China’s luxury vehi- The most active stock was Gulf signs that the army-backed gov- told reporters in New Delhi. cially vulnerable to the crack- India starts at $370,000. cles market is expected to rise to Navigation, which soared 10.1 per- ernment is taking a tough line “Still it’s a big market, it’s our down on lavish spending as pricey Annual sales of luxury cars 1.5 million in 2018 from an esti- cent after the firm, which made against the Brotherhood. number-two market. But I think, sports cars have come to symbol- in India stand at just about one mated 800,364 this year, it said. a loss last year because of tough AGENCIES you know, as much as I know ise corruption in China. percent of the total car market, REUTERS

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P First exporting Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 102.63 0.25 % Aa2 AA GM to buy back preferred stock Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.63 1.69 % Aa2 AA vessel due at Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.25 2.60 % Aa2 AA DETROIT: General Motors corporate purposes. GM will sell year. It negotiated the deal with Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.50 3.06 % Aa2 AA Total’s Jubail agreed to pay $3.2bn to buy back senior unsecured notes with five-, the trust to buy back part of its Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.50 3.59 % Aa2 AA high-interest preferred stock 10- or 30-year terms. shares early at a $2 premium. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 155.50 4.86 % Aa2 AA from a union retiree health care Separately, Moody’s Investors The trust got the shares after Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 116.25 5.25 % Aa2 AA refinery trust, and the Moody’s ratings Service returned the company’s GM emerged from bankruptcy Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 107.75 5.22 % Aa2 AA agency restored GM’s debt to corporate debt to investment grade protection in 2009 to help pay the LONDON: The first vessel investment grade. status, or Baa3. But it left the new company’s obligation for retiree Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.50 1.01 % Aa2 AA to export fuel products from The company said yesterday bond offering at junk status with a health care. In a 2007 contract, Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.13 3.33 % Aa2 AA Total’s 400,000-barrels-per-day that it’s buying 120 million shares Ba1 rating, a notch below invest- the union agreed to take on an Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.38 1.14 % A1 A- Jubail refinery in Saudi Arabia at $27 per share from the United ment grade. That’s largely because almost $50bn obligation for reti- Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.38 2.38 % A1 A- is due to arrive at the plant yes- Auto Workers retiree health care the debt is unsecured and because ree health care. The union made QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.60 % NR NR terday, the group’s chief finan- trust. GM now pays nine percent of other company obligations, such the concession as the company QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.46 % Aa3 A+ cial officer said. interest on the preferred shares, so as GM’s $28bn unfunded pension was headed into severe financial QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.00 2.15 % Aa3 A+ Parts of the Aramco-Total the deal essentially refinances that liability. The company’s debt has trouble. In exchange, GM agreed complex have started up over the debt to a much lower interest rate. been rated junk status since 2005 to contribute $26.5bn to the trust. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.00 2.30 % A2 A- last few months and the giant The stock repurchase is con- as it piled up billions in losses. GM wanted the union to take on Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.25 1.94 % A2 A refinery is expected to reach full tingent a sale of debt, which The health care trust currently the costs so it could move them off of Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 122.00 3.58 % A2 A capacity by the end of the year. is expected to take place on or holds 260 million GM preferred its books. At the time the company Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 104.75 4.00 % A2 A Jubail will refine Saudi heavy before September 30. The debt shares, while the Canadian gov- was obligated to pay health insur- Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 100.75 4.92 % A2 A crude into a range of fuels — sale is likely to bring in more than ernment has 16 million. The com- ance costs for hundreds of thousands Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 104.25 1.26 % Aa3 A from petrol to petroleum coke $3.2bn, and GM said the balance pany can buy back the shares of retirees and their spouses. Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.63 3.50 % Aa3 A — for domestic consumption and would be used for other general at $25 each at the end of next AP Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 106.88 4.16 % Aa3 A export. The first 200,000-bpd crude SOVEREIGNS distillation unit (CDU) is opera- Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P tional but the other has yet to Polish liquidity Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 102.75 0.33 % Aa2 AA start up, a source close to the Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 121.88 2.50 % Aa2 AA matter said. “The vessel is due to arrive Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 109.00 2.15 % NR NR today,” Chief Financial Officer Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 106.63 2.95 % NR NR Patrick de La Chevardiere said Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 118.38 4.66 % NR NR at the group’s investor day in Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 109.50 5.07 % NR NR London. He gave no details on the Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.13 0.86 % Aa2 AA vessel’s destination or the size of Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 111.50 3.80 % NR BBB the shipment. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 100.63 5.38 % NR BBB The multi-billion-dollar project is central to Saudi plans for boost- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.00 7.10 % Caa1 CCC+ ing refining production to meet Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 100.63 4.39 % NR BBB- the region’s growing demand, *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: and is expected to replace most Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which imports by 2014. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services A source familiar with the mat- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary ter said earlier this month that data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Aramco would offer up to 80,000 out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds tonnes of fuel oil for export in late can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant September and that Total would liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not likely have one or two cargoes a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and available by the end of the month. consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. The joint venture is looking to export an ultra-low-sulfur diesel cargo of possibly 10 parts per mil- An inauguration of new indices at Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG30 and WIG30TR in Warsaw, Poland, yes- lion (ppm) in October, the source terday. The new WIG30 and WIG30TR indices, with portfolios comprised of the 30 biggest and most liquid added. stocks listed on the WSE Main Market, aim to increase the liquidity of the stock market. REUTERS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

US Chamber turns to Thai farmers hooked on small courts for big wins

BY LAWRENCE HURLEY subsidies test Yingluck

HE US Chamber of Commerce has long used a small team BY SUTTINEE YUVEJWATTANA As many as 12,000 farmers blocked roads “The rice-pledging scheme has set a of lawyers on the US Supreme Court, seeing the top court and SUPUNNABUL SUWANNAKIJ and railways for two weeks from August precedent for other groups,” said Steffen Tas a key battleground for business interests. 26, stranding thousands of passengers and Dyck, assistant vice president at Moody’s Now the Chamber’s lawyers are increasingly looking beyond HAILAND’S decision to expand disrupting traffic in the southern provinces Investors Service in Singapore. “The risk is Washington DC by taking on more cases that might never reach subsidies for rice and rubber that account for 80 percent of the nation’s whether these programs will be contained the Supreme Court, but can affect business over wide swaths of farmers to quell protests is rubber output. About 76 police officers were or adjusted in the future.” the nation. undermining efforts to control injured and nine vehicles torched in Nakhon While agriculture accounted for 8.4 per- So far this year, the trade group’s growing litigation arm has rising debt, even as governments Sri Thammarat at the height of the clashes cent of the nation’s gross domestic product taken part in 84 cases, mostly by filing friend-of-the-court briefs, Tin neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia cut earlier this month. last year, rural residents make up almost 87 but also by launching direct challenges to government regulations. back support programs. Yingluck said on September 15 that the percent of the population of 67 million peo- At the same point last year, the group had been involved in 63 The government will pay 21.2bn baht government and most rubber farmers had ple. Yingluck’s party won a parliamentary cases and in 2011 it was 58. ($681m) directly to rubber farmers’ bank agreed on the subsidy amount, prompting majority in 2011 elections with support from The expansion can be traced mainly to actions in state courts accounts to offset falling prices, up from many demonstrators to return to their poorer rural areas in northern Thailand. and federal appeals courts, an analysis of the Chamber’s court 10bn baht agreed on earlier, after violent plantations. “They try to please voters to keep their filings shows. clashes between the police and growers Rubber futures in Tokyo have dropped 14 popularity,” said Somjai Phagaphasvivat, “Most cases in this country are not resolved by the US Supreme demanding subsidies. The administration percent from an 11-month high in February a political science lecturer at Thammasat Court,” said Rachel Brand, a senior lawyer with the Chamber’s also promised to buy rice at above-market as slowing growth in China and a recession University in Bangkok. “But they create litigation group, the National Chamber Litigation Centre. “If you rates for another crop year, at a cost of in Europe reduced demand. In Thailand, the fiscal problems which may explode sooner really want to expand your influence you have to be in other courts. 270bn baht. world’s largest rubber producer and exporter, rather than later if the global economy faces A lot of law is made by state courts in particular.” The payouts may slow Prime Minister prices tumbled 19 percent to 83.20 baht a a serious downturn.” Take a dispute over nasty odours in South Carolina, for example. Yingluck Shinawatra’s plan to balance the kilogram from this year’s peak of 102.7 baht. Meanwhile, countries from Malaysia to The Chamber filed a friend-of-the-court brief in March, arguing budget by 2017 and contain the ratio of debt The Southeast Asian nation has also Indonesia are reducing subsidies to ease that a landfill operator should not have to pay certain damages to to gross domestic product that rose to 44.3 spent 675bn baht since October 2011 on buy- pressure on their budgets, with both nations nearby residents for the irritating or offensive odours the facility percent in June this year from 38.2 percent ing rice directly from farmers. The govern- raising fuel prices this year. Fitch Ratings produced. in end-2008. A business sentiment index ment estimates it lost about 137bn baht in cut Malaysia’s credit outlook to negative in In August, the court issued a ruling in line with what the dropped in July to the lowest level in more the 2011- 2012 crop year as it then sold the July, citing that nation’s rising debt and lack Chambers was seeking, which will likely lead to a reduction in than a year and consumer confidence fell to grain at a loss. of budgetary reform. the $2.3m jury verdict against operator Lee County Landfill LLC. a nine-month low on concern political risk Yingluck’s administration earlier this Thailand’s debt is rated BBB+ by “The view of the Chamber was certainly embodied in the deci- is rising as the economy weakens. month backtracked on a plan to lower pay- Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, and Baa1 by sion,” Gary Poliakoff, one of the resident’s lawyers, said in an “It’s a tricky situation, given the demands ments after rice farmers threatened to Moody’s, three levels above junk. The coun- interview. of the protesters,” said Euben Paracuelles, an demonstrate on the streets of Bangkok. try still has “strong fundamentals” including Moreover, the ruling has implications beyond the landfill case economist at Nomura Holdings in Singapore. Rice exports tumbled 35 percent last year high foreign reserves and continued foreign because it “reduces damages available to citizens” in similar dis- “The government doesn’t have much more to 6.95 million tonnes, ending the nation’s direct investment, Dyck said. putes, he added. Poliakoff is not the only Chamber adversary to room for subsidies. The risk is the protests 30-year reign as the world’s largest exporter. The Thai parliament last month passed acknowledge its effectiveness. could be drawn out and the longer they With purchases at as much as 50 percent the 2014 budget for the year beginning Doug Kendall, president of the Constitutional Accountability persist the more they become a concern, above the market rate, the government may October 1 with a deficit of 250bn baht, down Center, which opposes the Chamber on issues, including campaign especially if they are more disruptive and lose up to 100bn baht in 2013-2014, accord- from a shortfall of 300bn baht this year. finance, said groups like his would need to respond if the Chamber add to an already weak growth outlook.” ing to Capital Economics Ltd. WP-BLOOMBERG expands its influence beyond the high court. “You can’t help but notice how successful the National Chamber Litigation Center has been before the Supreme Court,” Kendall said. “It certainly requires organizations that support appropri- ate regulations of businesses and the free market system to take notice and respond appropriately.” State appeals courts play a key role in interpreting state law, and the 13 federal circuit courts of appeal set precedents that lower courts must follow, sometimes for decades, unless the Supreme Court intervenes. The Supreme Court hears less than one percent of the petitions that are filed. The litigation centre has shown a willingness to participate in cases throughout the country. This year, it has filed briefs in cases before the high courts in Texas, Minnesota and Tennessee. It has filed six friend-of-the-court briefs in the California Supreme Court this year, compared with five such briefs for all of 2012, and three in New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, compared with none in 2012. Typically, the Chamber takes on precedent-setting cases to oppose government regulation and class actions suits, which it believes drive up the cost of business In one high-profile example, the Chamber joined other busi- ness groups to challenge New York City’s partial ban on large soda drinks and other sugary beverages. In July, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, upheld a lower court ruling that invalidated the ban. The Chamber also seeks to make it easier for companies to do business. Recently it filed in a Minnesota Supreme Court case between hard-disk drive manufacturers Western Digital Corp and Seagate Technology LLC. Taking no stand on the substance of the litigation, the Chamber, which generally favors arbitration over costly litigation, said that, if the court did not reverse the lower court ruling, it would, “diminish the attractiveness of arbitration as an alternative to litigation.” Friend-of-the-court briefs filed by prominent groups such as the Chamber can help influence outcomes by fleshing out broader legal issues and making it clear to judges what the implications of a particular ruling would be in future cases. Andrew Pincus, a lawyer with the Mayer Brown firm, who has filed briefs on behalf of the Chamber, said that simply showing up helps since, “their presence informs the court that this case has important implications for the business community.” REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Metals up, oil down as FOMC surprises most

HE key event last week selling ahead of the announcement retracement of the October 2012 ensured that the risk-on rally fol- was without a doubt caused a dramatic rally, not least Weekly Commodity Update to June 28 sell-off. lowing the FOMC announcement the long-awaited US lead by the drop in government Negative investment flows out ended up being short-lived. central bank meet- bond yields and the weaker dollar. of Exchange Traded Products, Market speculation concerning ing where the Federal By the end of this eventful BY OLE HANSEN both before and more importantly the situation in Iran has increased TOpen Market Committee (FOMC) week some of the excitement in after the Fed announcement, rep- due to several media reports that (Head of Commodity was generally expected to begin commodities had already begun Strategy, Saxo Bank) resent a somewhat worrying sign, Iran has offered to shut down its scaling back its massive asset to wear off with the precious met- especially for the those looking for Fordo uranium enrichment facil- purchase programme. Swayed als’ advance slowing and crude the rally to continue. During the ity in exchange for an easing of by recent economic data, which oil going into reverse, not least held by hedge funds reached the US government operations will past week investment flows have international sanctions. A meeting had been weaker than expected, driven by news about increased lowest level in seven months dur- grind to a halt and a debt default been negative by 18 tonnes. This could take place at the UN in New the Federal Reserve managed to supply and reduced geo-political ing the week ending September could follow some weeks later. indicates the continuation of sub- York next week between President wrong foot almost everyone by tensions. The agriculture sector 10. Furthermore, the renewed During this time of uncertainty dued interest for gold ETPs during Obama and President Rouhani. keeping its monthly asset pur- did not feel much of an impact attempts by hedge funds to rebuild gold may, just as witnessed last the past couple of months, despite Oil production from Iran and chases unchanged at $85bn per from the non-taper decision with some of these short positions were year, become the asset of choice the price recovering from the June Libya give an indication of what month. The announcement trig- focus more directed on product firmly quashed and the question for many, thereby lending support. lows. The attitude of institutional impact a solution to these two gered an immediate and dramatic specific fundamentals, such as now remains whether the delayed investors towards gold as an asset issues would have on global supply. increase in investors’ risk appe- focus on the US harvest of key tapering will be enough to support Lower US real yields class is key as investment demand From a recent combined peak pro- tite with stocks and bonds rallying crops and ample supply of coffee a continued rally from here. US real yields have moved is needed to support the already duction level of 4.7 million barrels while the dollar was sold, thereby from key growing nations such as This hinges very much on the lower, especially since yesterday, known demand from the physical per day last July, the combination lifting the general investment out- Brazil, Columbia and Vietnam. strength or weakness of upcom- bringing them more in line with gold market. of Iranian sanctions and the Libyan look for commodities. From a position of weakness ing US economic data. This means the current gold price as seen strike has seen the countries’ com- Growth-dependent commodi- both metals jumped on the sur- the FOMC could delay its deci- on the chart below. As we move Crude oil loosing momentum bined production drop by 1.6 mil- ties, especially industrial metals prise news from the US Federal sion once, twice or potentially not towards December, tapering talk Both Brent and WTI Crude oil lion barrels per day to 3.1 million but also crude oil received a boost Reserve, not least helped by the act at all if the recent weakness will re-emerge, unless economic futures were lower for a second bpd last month. During the same from this news and the resultant biggest 10-year government bond in economic data continues. The data continues to deteriorate week as Syrian tensions contin- time, total US oil production has initial expectation that main- rally in almost two years and a near-term focus now switches and this should once again lead ued to ease, together with news increased by 1.4 million bpd, which taining the wall of money in the weaker dollar. The initial rally was to the US government where to some price pressure into the that Libya had begun to restart together with increased Saudi system the economy will recover most likely driven by short cover- President Obama and Congress new year. For now though the some of its production following Arabian production goes a long way faster and thereby so too will ing with hedge funds having been once again are fighting over the most likely range over the com- a month-long period marred by to explaining why oil prices have demand. Precious metals how- seen as sellers in the days lead- need to raise the US debt ceiling. If ing month looks like $1,275/ounce strikes and disruptions. The pros- remained relatively stable during ever witnessed the biggest gains ing up to the announcement. The an agreement to raise the ceiling is to $1,488/ounce which if reached pect of returning supply at a time this time of disruptions. as negative sentiment and short amount of short futures positions not reached before October 1 then would represent a 50 percent of a seasonal slowdown in demand THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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ATLANTA: Henrik Stenson the pace overnight, ended his (pictured below) held his nerve 2013 PGA Tour campaign with a Henrik Stenson of Sweden poses Winners of the Tour to fend off a last-day charge by three-under 67 in a tie for 22nd with the Tour Championship trophy Championship Jordan Spieth and win the sea- at level-par 280. and the FedEx Cup after winning the 2013 Henrik Stenson (Sweden) son-ending Tour Championship The final round all boiled down play-offs at East Lake Golf Club in 2012 Brandt Snedeker by three shots yesterday, along to Stenson and whether his nerve Atlanta, Georgia. with FedExCup honours and the and overnight lead would hold up 2011 Bill Haas mind-boggling $10m bonus. as he chased the biggest payday of 2010 Jim Furyk Four strokes in front overnight his career. 2009 Phil Mickelson in the fourth and final play-off He safely parred the first, 2008 C Villegas (Colombia) event, Stenson saw his lead briefly despite ending up in the right 2007 Tiger Woods cut to one on the back nine before rough off the tee, but his lead was 2006 Adam Scott (Australia) he birdied the 15th on the way to cut to three when playing part- 2005 Bart Bryant his fourth title on the US circuit, ner Johnson sank a slick, 15-foot 2004 R Goosen (South Africa) and his second of the year. birdie putt at the par-four third. 2003 Chad Campbell The Swede, one of five players Though Johnson bogeyed the 2002 who came into this week knowing fifth and sixth to slide back, Vijay Singh (Fiji) that victory would automatically Spieth began to apply pressure 2001 Mike Weir (Canada) secure him the play-off crown, on Stenson with three successive 2000 Mickelson signed off with a two-under-par birdies from the seventh. 1999 Woods 68 on a sun-splashed day at East However, the Swede struck a 1998 Hal Sutton Lake Golf Club for a 13-under superb approach to three feet at 1997 David Duval total of 267. the seventh to pick up his first 1996 Tom Lehman PGA Tour rookie sensation shot of the day, then parred the 1995 Billy Mayfair Spieth, seeking his second vic- next two holes to hold a com- 1994 Mark McCumber tory of the year, closed with an manding five-stroke advantage 1993 Jim Gallagher junior eight-birdie 64 to finish in a tie at the turn. 1992 Paul Azinger for second at 10 under with fel- Stenson also birded the 11th, 1991 Craig Stadler low American Steve Stricker (65). draining a 10-footer, but Spieth “Wow, it’s been a great week continued to charge with a siz- 1990 Jodie Mudd and obviously a great play-offs zling run of four consecutive 1989 Tom Kite for me,” a beaming Stenson said birdies from the par-four 13th to 1988 Curtis Strange after being pre- move two shots 1987 Tom Watson sented with both off the pace. trophies follow- The Swede ing his wire- was certainly to-wire victory. feeling the He also won the pressure and World No.1 Woods says ‘very Deutsche Bank he bogeyed the Championship 14th after find- earlier this ing rough off month. the tee, over- “It’s been a shooting the satisfied’ with five-win season great season, a green with great summer. his approach ATLANTA: Tiger Woods (pictured) Woods teed off in the final round at East This is going to and missing a ended his 2013 PGA Tour campaign with Lake a distant 14 strokes off the lead, his sole sink in over the 25-footer for his an unimpressive tie for 22nd at the Tour objective being to shoot the lowest score pos- coming days. lead to be cut to Championship yesterday but, in all likeli- sible and then see where that took him. What better one. hood, will earn Player of the Year honours Wearing his trademark red shirt for the last way to go into But Spieth which are to be announced late next week. day of a tournament, he was fortunate to par a month-long stumbled with a Though he has not been at his best in the the opening hole after he pulled his approach break than this?” bogey at the 17th last three FedExCup playoff events, the world way left and watched his ball hit tree branches Stenson, the after hitting his number one has piled up five victories on the to drop straight down into a greenside bunker. first European approach into a US circuit this season. From there, he impressively splashed out player to win either trophy up plugged lie in a greenside bunker “Very satisfied,” Woods said of his golfing to a foot and knocked in the putt. for grabs at East Lake, will earn and Stenson regained a three- year after closing with a three-under-par 67 Woods picked up his first shot of the day at a combined $11.44m for his week stroke cushion with a birdie at the for a level-par total of 280 in the PGA Tour’s the par-three second, ramming in a 35-foot as the Tour Championship purse par-five 15th, where he got up and season finale at East Lake Golf Club. putt from across the green, but he gave that amounts to $1.44m. down from behind the green. “I had a number of chances to win some back at the eighth by missing a four-footer “That’s a fair amount,” the Stenson almost holed his bun- tournaments. I won five, which is, I think, a for par. 37-year-old Swede told reporters, ker shot for an unexpected birdie pretty good year. I’ve done that a few times Another birdie followed at the par-five after a brief pause to reflect on at the par-four 16th, his ball fin- over the course of my career. I wish I would ninth, where he chipped from in front of the the numbers. “But it’s definitely ishing inches from the cup, then have been a little more consistent in some of green to just two feet, for him to reach the the second thing to me right now. parred the last two holes to end the events, but overall, to add to the win total turn in one-under 34. Three birdies in four “Having these two trophies, his PGA Tour campaign on a for the year, it’s always a good thing,” said the holes from the par-four 12th got Woods back with my fourth time (to win) on lucrative high note. American, who failed to contend at East Lake to one under for the tournament for the first the PGA Tour and then to be the “I’m just really happy with the after opening with scores of 73 and 71. the 2008 US Open, conceded he had fared time since late in his second round. FedExCup champion, that means way I stuck in there because it Asked to assess his own credentials in the badly in some of the biggest tournaments of He sank a 10-footer at the 12th, a 12-footer a whole lot more to me than the didn’t feel the best today by far,” PGA Player of the Year race, Woods replied the year, especially over the weekends. at the 14th and narrowly missed an eagle putt money.” said the Swede, a seven-times bluntly: “Well, look at the fact that I had five “I’m always looking to improve and become from 20 feet at the par-five 15th before tapping American Webb Simpson winner on the European Tour wins this year, so I think that’s a pretty good more consistent day-in and day-out,” the in for his fifth birdie of the day. carded a best-of-the-day 63 to who rose to fourth in the world year.” His main challengers for that accolade 14-times major champion said. “There’s cer- As Woods walked off the 18th green, he was secure fourth place in the elite rankings yesterday. are Masters champion Adam Scott and British tainly some weeks where I was just off. I met by his daughter Sam who ran up to him 30-player field at nine under, a “To go out there and still Open winner Phil Mickelson, who have both always wish I could play a little bit more con- before wrapping her arms around his legs. stroke better than compatriot shoot two under around a tough triumphed twice on the 2013 PGA Tour, but sistent and have a chance each and every time “That’s what life’s all about,” Woods smiled. Dustin Johnson (69). golf course is still a good score Woods is widely expected to secure the play- I tee it up. That’s the intent. It doesn’t always “There are more important things in life than FedExCup points leader Tiger and a good accomplishment.” ers’ vote for an 11th time. work out that way. But overall ... I think it’s hitting a little round ball and putting it in a Woods, a distant 14 strokes off REUTERS Woods, who has not won a major title since been a really good year.” gopher hole, you know.” REUTERS Tour Championship The Italian Open World Rankings Quesne wins Italian ATLANTA: World rankings yesterday (US unless stated, last Scores Scores week’s positions in brackets): 1. (1) Tiger Woods 13.22 ATLANTA: Scores after the TURIN, Italy: Leading final 2. (2) Adam Scott (Australia) ...... 9.25 final round of the $8m USPGA Open for second title round scores in the Italian 3. (3) Phil Mickelson ...... 8.52 Tour Championship (USA Open at the Golf Club Torino unless noted, par 70): on Sunday (GBR/IRL unless 4. (6) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) ...... 8.23 TURIN, Italy: France’s Julien key,” said Quesne, whose previous stated, par 72): 5. (5) Justin Rose (England) ...... 7.78 267 Henrik Stenson (SWE) 64-66-69-68 Quesne clinched his second title came at the Andalucia Open 6. (4) Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) ...... 7.50 270 Jordan Spieth 68-67-71-64, Steve European Tour title on Sunday in 2012. 276 Julien Quesne (FRA) 70 68 71 67 Stricker 66-71-68-65 when he won the Italian Open “To enjoy a second win on the 7. (9) Steve Stricker ...... 6.88 277 Steve Webster 67 69 73 68, David by one shot despite starting the European Tour is like a dream 8. (7) Matt Kuchar ...... 6.64 271 Webb Simpson 68-71-69-63 Higgins 67 69 73 68 final round four shots off the for me. 9. (8) Brandt Snedeker...... 6.27 272 Dustin Johnson 68-68-67-69, Justin pace. “I am surprised to be here. The 278 Felipe Aguilar (CHI) 69 66 72 71, 10. (10) Jason Dufner ...... 6.08 Rose (ENG) 68-68-70- 67 The 33-year-old went through flags were very difficult all week Emiliano Grillo (ARG) 70 72 68 68, 11. (11) Graeme McDowell (Northern Ireland) ...... 5.52 274 Billy Horschel 66-70-70-68, Zach the back nine in 31, picking up so it was very difficult to make Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL) 65 71 70 72, 12. (12) Zach Johnson ...... 5.52 Johnson 69-68-69-68 birdies at the 10th, 11th and 15th birdies and easy to make some Fredrik Andersson Hed (SWE) 73 67 71 67 13. (13) Jim Furyk ...... 5.21 275 Roberto Castro 67-71-72-65, Jason holes. bogeys.” 14. (15) Keegan Bradley ...... 5.11 Dufner 74-70-66-65, Sergio Garcia He then chipped in from short Overnight leader Marcus 279 Robert Jan Derksen (NED) 71 69 71 68, (ESP) 68-71-69-67 of the 17th green and putted from Fraser of Australia three-putted Hennie Otto (RSA) 71 67 70 71, Romain 15. (14) Luke Donald (England) ...... 5.10 six feet for another birdie on the the 15th and dropped another 16. (16) Jason Day (Australia) ...... 4.91 276 Keegan Bradley 72-65-72-67, Phil Wattel (FRA) 71 72 66 70, Marcus last to complete a closing 67. shot on the par-three 16th. Fraser Fraser (AUS) 66 71 68 74, Seve Benson 17. (18) Sergio Garcia (Spain) ...... 4.65 Mickelson 71-67-70-68 That gave him a 12-under- eventually signed for a 74 to finish 68 70 72 69, Alvaro Quiros (ESP) 71 67 18. (17) Lee Westwood (England) ...... 4.62 277 Jim Furyk 70-68-73-66, Jason Day par total and a one-shot win joint eighth on nine under. 73 68 (AUS) 68-74-68-67, Adam Scott over Ireland’s David Higgins and Home hope Francesco Molinari, 19. (19) Charl Schwartzel (South Africa)...... 4.51 (AUS) 65-69-74-69, Nick Watney England’s Steve Webster. who joined the Turin club when 280 Maximilian Kieffer (GER) 65 72 72 71, 20. (20) Ian Poulter (England) ...... 4.47 72-65-70-70 “I am very proud of this back he was just eight, came home in Espen Kofstad (NOR) 70 69 73 68 278 Brendon de Jonge (ZIM) 70-72-71-65, nine. My attitude was very good 39 to finish seven under. 281 Francesco Molinari (ITA) 68 67 71 75, Phil this week and I think this is the REUTERS Luke Donald (ENG) 70-70-67-71 Fabrizio Zanotti (PAR) 71 70 69 71, Mickelson of 279 Brandt Snedeker 69-75-67-68, Hunter David Horsey 72 70 73 66, Jaco Van the US plays Mahan 70-69-71-69 Zyl (RSA) 70 69 71 71, Simon Thornton a bunker 68 67 72 74, Mark Foster 74 65 71 71, shot on the 280 Tiger Woods 73-71-69-67, Gary Second Morten Orum Madsen (DEN) 72 71 70 17th hole Woodland 70-67-71-72 career 68 during the 282 Kevin Streelman 69-72-74-67, Bill Haas title 282 Mark Tullo (CHI) 70 70 74 68, Joakim final round 70-69-69-74 win for Lagergren (SWE) 72 67 67 76, Jorge of the Tour France’s 283 Matt Kuchar 69-74-69-71, D.A. Points Campillo (ESP) 68 73 70 71, Matthew Championship 72-67-70-74 Julien Baldwin 71 68 72 71, Scott Jamieson at East Lake Quesne 72 69 70 71, David Drysdale 69 72 284 Graham DeLaet (CAN) 68-71-72-73 Golf Club (right). 71 70, Scott Hend (AUS) 72 71 66 73, in Atlanta, 290 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 68-79-77-66 Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 69 72 68 73, 292 Boo Weekley 70-75-73-74 Christopher Doak 74 67 69 72 Georgia. TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT NFL: Bears maul winless Steelers Steelers fall to 0-3 for first time since 2000; Bears capitalise on impressive turnovers

CHICAGO: The Chicago Bears pulled away in the final quar- ter to secure a 40-23 win over Jacksonville Pittsburgh yesterday to main- Jaguars’ running tain their unbeaten opening to the new campaign and send the back Maurice Steelers to their first 0-3 start Jones-Drew since 2000. (right) is upended The Bears defence forced five by Seattle Pittsburgh turnovers and scored Seahawks’ Earl two touchdowns in a wild game Thomas (29) in that lifted them to 3-0. the fourth quarter “The defence did a great job of at CenturyLink keeping us in it and giving us an Field in Seattle, opportunity,” Chicago quarter- Washington. back Jay Cutler told reporters Seahawks beat after throwing for 159 yards and the Jaguars one score. 45-17. RIGHT: Cutler provided a signature Chicago Bears’ play in the final quarter when he wide receiver ran over a Pittsburgh defender Earl Bennett (80) to get a first down en route to a catches a 17-yard drive that put the Bears a decisive 11 points ahead. touchdown pass “(The team) was all yelling for with Pittsburgh me to get down when I got back Steelers’ safety to the huddle. We didn’t play well Shamarko Thomas in the second half, I just wanted to (29) in coverage make sure I picked it up.” in the fourth Chicago raced out to a 17-0 lead quarter of the in the first quarter and led 24-3 in 40-23 win over the second before Steelers quar- the Pittsburgh terback Ben Roethlisberger con- Steelers at Heinz nected on a 33-yard touchdown to Field in Pittsburgh. Antonio Brown to spark a come- back. Roethlisberger finished with 406 yards passing while Brown had 196 yards receiving and two scores. with a 38-yard interception NFL Results Brown also had a one-handed, return for a touchdown, along Chicago Baltimore ...... 30 Houston ...... 9 21-yard touchdown grab in the with a forced fumble. Bears’ Carolina ...... 38 NY Giants...... 0 third and after Shaun Suisham “It’s been great, we’re play- running Detroit ...... 27 Washington ...... 20 kicked his third field goal of the ing Bears defence,” Wright said. back Matt Tennessee ...... 20 San Diego ...... 17 game, Pittsburgh had pulled to “Takeaways... that’s what we Forte (22) within 27-23 early in the fourth. practice.” New Orleans ...... 31 Arizona ...... 7 celebrates New England...... 23 Tampa Bay ...... 3 But the Bears sealed it when Despite scoring more points a five-yard Earl Bennett made an acrobatic than they had in their first two Cincinnati ...... 34 Green Bay ...... 30 touchdown Dallas ...... 31 St Louis ...... 7 17-yard catch along the sideline to games combined, the Steelers in the first put the visitors 34-23 ahead and gave the ball away far too much. Cleveland...... 31 Minnesota...... 27 quarter Julius Peppers returned a fumble Roethlisberger lost two fumbles Miami ...... 27 Atlanta ...... 23 against 42 yards for the final score of the and threw a pair of interceptions. NY Jets...... 27 Buffalo...... 20 game. “We have to take better care Pittsburgh Indianapolis ...... 27 San Francisco...... 7 Chicago’s Major Wright helped of the football,” Pittsburgh coach Steelers. Seattle ...... 45 Jacksonville ...... 17 lead the opportunistic defence Mike Tomlin lamented. AFP Chicago...... 40 Pittsburgh...... 23

Super Vettel Baseball: Baseball Results German Cleveland...... 9 Houston...... 2 Formula San Francisco ...... 2 NY Yankees ...... 1 auditions for One driver Braves, Chicago White Sox ...... 6 Detroit ...... 3 Sebastian NY Mets ...... 4 Philadelphia ...... 3 starring role Vettel of A’s clinch Boston ...... 5 Toronto ...... 2 Red Bull Miami ...... 4 Washington...... 2 Racing talks Cincinnati ...... 11 Pittsburgh ...... 3 as fourth to reporters division Tampa Bay ...... 3 Baltimore ...... 1 at a press Kansas City ...... 4 Texas ...... 0 title nears conference titles Atlanta ...... 5 Chicago Cubs ...... 2 at the end of Seattle ...... 3 LA Angels ...... 2 the Singapore Oakland ...... 11 Minnesota ...... 7 SINGAPORE: Over the past Grand Prix LOS ANGELES: The Atlanta few weeks, Formula One fans Braves and Oakland A’s clinched LA Dodgers ...... 1 San Diego ...... 0 in Singapore Arizona...... 13 Colorado ...... 9 and moviegoers around the on Sunday. division titles yesterday but both world have been thrilled by Ron teams needed a little help to get Washington ...... 5 Miami...... 4 With 25 points Howard’s account of the grip- the job done. Milwaukee ...... 6 St Louis...... 4 available for a ping 1976 title battle between Atlanta claimed their first James Hunt and Niki Lauda title win, Vettel National League East title since Cubs 5-2 but they won the divi- Simmons hit a pair of homers for in the biographical action film could become 2005 and Oakland wrapped up sion before the victory due to the Braves, who took two of three “Rush”. the youngest their second straight American Washington losing to Miami in from the Cubs. Should Howard ever have the and quickest League West crown as Major the first game of a doubleheader. Atlanta starter Julio Teheran desire to recount the 2013 sea- driver to notch League Baseball inched closer to Oakland’s Coco Crisp mean- allowed one run on four hits son, he needs only to look to one four world the October playoffs. while clubbed a three-run homer, while striking out seven over six man for the lead role and can call titles as early The Braves headed into yester- and Daric Barton and Jed Lowrie innings. Starlin Castro and Dioner the movie “Crush” to emphasise as Suzuka on day’s action with a magic number each added a solo shot as the Navarro had an RBI apiece for the manner in which triple world October 13. of one to wrap up the division A’s overpowered the Minnesota the Cubs, who saw starter Edwin champion Sebastian Vettel is crown. Twins, 11-7. Jackson surrender three runs on destroying his rivals on the way Atlanta beat the Chicago In Chicago, Andrelton eight hits over six-plus innings. to a fourth consecutive title. Freddie Freeman hit a two-run Under the floodlights in Over the past three seasons, this season have been unable to homer to get the Braves going in Singapore on Sunday, the German Vettel has torn up the record prevent Red Bull from dominat- the first inning. The Cubs then completed a hat-trick of victories books on his way to consecu- ing the series for the last three got one run back in the bottom on the Marina Bay Street Circuit tive championships and with 25 years. Next year, a reduction in half. Simmons’ solo homer to to extend his championship points available for a win, he could engine power, Mark Webber’s left in the fourth made it a 3-1 lead to 60 points over Ferrari’s become the youngest and quickest departure from Formula One and contest. Fernando Alonso with just six driver to notch four world titles an increase to a 21-race calendar Cincinnati Simmons hit his second rounds remaining. The 26-year- as early as Suzuka on October 13. (currently 19) are more obstacles Reds’ Todd homer, a two-run shot, in the old controlled the entire race Even being booed on the the Milton Keynes-based team Frazier eighth. Brian McCann hit a one- weekend so comfortably that even podium by rival fans as he cele- will need to encounter. (21) breaks out infield single and scored on a safety car period which pulled brated his last three victories has However, judging by the man- Simmons’ blast to left-centre his bat on the field together midway through done little to quench his desire ner in which team principal field. a pitch the marathon 61-lap Grand Prix for more success, instead spurring Christian Horner has steered The A’s clinched their 16th only served as a reminder of how him on to continue winning for a them through adversity in the against the division crown and 25th play- much faster he is than the rest. team that has adapted brilliantly past, Red Bull look set to remain Pittsburgh off appearance when the Texas Once his Red Bull was to every problem the sport has a major force in 2014 despite the Pirates Rangers lost 4-0 at Kansas City unleashed again after the track thrown at it. Briton’s cautious prediction about during the during the game. was cleared of debris, the German “It’s not nice but I think if you the revised engines. ninth inning Sonny Gray gave up four runs easily sped away from his closest look around the grandstands, “Next year is a bit of a game of their MLB and seven hits in five innings for challengers to pull more than 30 there are a lot of fans dressed in changer and I think the power National Oakland, but he got solid offence seconds ahead within 15 laps of red as Ferrari have a strong tra- unit is going to become a key per- League from his teammates. the restart. It was then just a dition in the sport and have been formance differentiator,” Horner game in Eric Sogard swatted two hits, matter of cruising to the line, and more successful than any other told reporters in front of a jubi- Pittsburgh, had two runs scored and drove he even had a spare set of fresh team,” Vettel said of the jeering. lant Red Bull garage. Pennsylvania in two for the Athletics, who super soft option tyres avail- “They are quite emotional “Whoever between Ferrari, yesterday. received solo homers from Barton able - saved from only taking one when they are not winning and Mercedes and Renault gets it The Reds and Lowrie en route to a series qualifying stint to secure pole on they don’t like it as it costs a lot right or wrong on the power unit won 11-3. sweep. Saturday - should he have needed of money to follow the sport... in side could have a major effect The A’s scored six runs in the them in the closing stages. Monza or taking flights here to on the pecking order and per- second inning and one in each of “At the end, I was just control- Singapore. As long as they keep formance. Nobody knows at the the next five to set the stage for ling the gap. It was hard work on booing then we are doing a moment ... everybody thinks they their celebration. out there but we like it because good job.” are doing alright but it’s going to Oswaldo Arcia homered and it is one of the most challenging Minor rule changes, overtaking take the first half of next year to drove in six runs for Minnesota. tracks,” Vettel told reporters. aids and exploding tyres earlier know that.” REUTERS REUTERS TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Langdon advances to final round The Qatar Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel Team driver shares lead at top of point standings

ENNIS, Texas: The Qatar third-place Spencer Massey by Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel two points. Team, the two-time World Langdon said: “We had a pretty Championship team owned by good weekend in Dallas. The Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Al-Anabi team made some strong Thani, experienced two very runs starting with the first quali- Qatar Al-Anabi different emotions this week- fying session. The left lane was Racing Top Fuel end at the just-completed AAA a little bit better than the right. driver Shawn NHRA Fallnationals. We were able to keep lane choice Langdon begins Persistent rain showers on most of today so we could stay in his semi-final Friday forced NHRA to cancel that left lane, but we got moved race against the first two rounds of qualify- over to the right lane in the final.” ing, and with only two chances He added: “We just didn’t get Morgan Lucas in to make the field for the sec- it done in the final round, but we front of packed ond of six NHRA Play-off races, were able to get back to a tie for grandstands the pressure was on in the sec- the points lead. We all want to near Dallas, ond of six races comprising the win for Sheikh Khalid and the Texas. Langdon’s Countdown to the Championship State of Qatar, but today was not runner-up finish NHRA play-offs. the day. Things are looking good, gave him a share Silver Al-Anabi driver Shawn and the Al-Anabi car is back. Our of the points lead Langdon was brilliant in the first goal for the weekend was to get with four races round of qualifying on Saturday. the points lead back. We were remaining in the His 3.819-second effort at 321.04 able to get a share of it right now, season. mph was good enough to for his and we’ll go from there.” fifth No. 1 qualifier of the season The news was quite the PICTURE BY: GARY and the 11th of his career. opposite on the gold side of the NASTASE In the first round of elimi- Al-Anabi pit area. nations, Langdon blistered the Second-year Top Fuel driver northern Texas track with a Khalid alBalooshi and the gold 3.767-second pass at 325.53 mph Qatar Al-Anabi Racing Team and a first-round win over TJ battled hard but could not make Zizzo. a quick enough run. That run set the track record The gold Al-Anabi car had for elapsed time and speed. problems on both qualifying dropped two spots to ninth place The team will remain in Dallas what happened this week and last – I hope we can make Sheikh Langdon went on to defeat Bob attempts, and alBalooshi did not in the NHRA Mello Yello Top to make some practice runs. week and have a better race in Khalid proud of our work next Vandergriff and Morgan Lucas qualify for eliminations. Fuel point standings. AlBalooshi said: “Things like St. Louis.” week.” before losing to Doug Kalitta in Last week in Charlotte, reign- He trails eighth-place Antron this happen to every team at He added: “Our team has been The Al-Anabi Racing team will the final round of eliminations ing NHRA Top Fuel World Brown by four points and leads some time I know. Any driver can working together, and we know be back in action from September when the Al-Anabi car experi- Champion Antron Brown did not 10th-place Steve Torrence by miss a race, but it happened to we have one of the best cars in 27-29 at the AAA Insurance enced some engine problems. qualify for eliminations making three points, yet the points are us at the wrong time and at the the show. We are going to stay NHRA Midwest Nationals in Langdon’s runner-up finish put Brown and alBalooshi the only still very tight. wrong race. The main thing is in Dallas and test tomorrow so St. Louis, the third race of the him back atop the point stand- Top Fuel drivers in the play-offs AlBalooshi is just 65 points off we need to take what happened we can learn what is going wrong Countdown to the Championship ings, but he shares the points to miss a play-off race so far. fifth place with four races remain- this week and throw it away. We with our Al-Anabi car, fix it and NHRA Play-offs. lead with Kalitta. The two lead By missing the race, alBalooshi ing in the NHRA Play-offs. need to go to St. Louis and forget be ready for St. Louis next week THE PENINSULA Seventh edition of Schools Olympic Van Gaal wants Qatar World Cup in winter Program set to begin tomorrow LONDON: Hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in winter, when the weather is considerably more mild, will be wonder- ful, said Holland coach Louis van Gaal (pictured). DOHA: The seventh edition of Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Van Gaal expressed sur- the Schools Olympic Program prise at FIFA’s original decision to stage a summer event (SOP) begins tomorrow under in Qatar in 2022. the theme ‘Sport and Integrity’, “Twenty years ago, I expressed my positive views about which will be supported by Qatar the World Cup being played in the winter instead of the Olympic Committee (QOC) and summer,” he said. the Supreme Education Council “Players who are involved in tiring seasons would be so (SEC), the QOC announced yes- much fitter and fresher for a winter World Cup, the big- terday in a press conference. gest football tournament in the world. Qatar 2022 in winter is England’s SOP is a pioneer idea that came best chance of winning a World Cup, 56 years after the Three Lions in response to the prestigious ini- lifted the World Cup for the one and only time,” said Louis van Gaal. tiative of the Emir H H Sheikh “When I was coach of Bayern Munich I always took the team to Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who Qatar in January. Fantastic weather, great conditions to train and play. is also the President of QOC, in an Temperatures between 22 and 26 degrees. You can’t get it any better. attempt to link sports activities And the accommodations and set-ups are all perfect,” he said. QNA with others, besides encouraging school students to practise sport as an integral part of their daily life. SOP is a pioneering sport pro- Sheikh Hassan, Curtis gramme inspired and staged by Qatar since six years ago, which has received an overwhelming response from all entities of the set for Clearwater country and has now become an School Olympic Program (SOP) officials pose for annual sport event supervised by a picture after a press conference in Doha. The QOC along with other permanent seventh edition of SOP will begin tomorrow and Super Boat showdown partners. will run until April 4, 2014. LEFT: The SOP logo. Volleyball, basketball, football, CLEARWATER, USA: Sheikh was a good one. There is just no handball, athletics, tennis, gym- Hassan bin Jabor Al Thani comparison between the turbine nastics, swimming, fencing, table and Steve Curtis will take to and the Class 1 boats we ran tennis and shooting will be in the the waters for the last time before. schedule for children, who must competitively before the Key “We are now running twice be registered in the school that he the same cannot be said for young West World Championships in as much power on each side. or she is representing in the same athletes on the pathway to emu- SOP Fact file November, when they take part The acceleration is second to academic year. lating their sporting heroes. At in this weekend’s 5th Annual none. Those WTI (Whispering ■ In ‘Qatar Sport Magazine’ present, the lack of integrity edu- The seventh edition of the Schools Olympic Program will run Bright House Clearwater Super Turbines) engines are excellent. recently, Mohammed Hajaj Al cation for youth is a gaping black- from September 25, 2013 to April 4, 2014 Boat National Championships, They sure delivered what they Shahwani, the Deputy-Chairman hole in sport globally. round eight of Super Boat promised and the rigging of the of International Centre for Sport “Rarely do you hear of ath- Vision International (SBI), in Florida. boat did help set us up with an Security (ICSS), outlined the letes having the awareness, and A minor technical issue pre- excellent package. We do have a ■ valuable objectives and the pro- confidence, to report instances To stimulate young people in Qatar to participate in sports vented the racing team from the few modifications lined up for Key ductive role of ICCS in protecting of doping and approaches by activities and to adopt an educational approach that develops Qatar Marine Sports Federation West, but we will run the same the mental abilities. youth and new generation. fixers. This is an area in which (QMSF) from entering their new spec in Clearwater as we did in Al Shahwani said: “Speaking as many organisations in sport must turbine racer, Al Adaa’am 96, in New York,” added Sheikh Hassan. a fellow sports industry profes- improve. They must educate their Mission Sarasota in late summer, but Qatar’s Ali Al Neama and new sional, an avid fan and a passion- young athletes to recognise, resist the eagerly awaited first appear- throttleman Billy Moore fin- ■ ate advocate of the positive values and report an awkward or dis- Create an educational event that affects the young athletes and ance in New York at the start of ished in second position in the that sport can instil in young peo- tressing experience surrounding inspires them to play a positive role in the local community. September did not disappoint Superboat class in the New York ple, it saddens me when I continue Performance Enhancing Drugs and the Mystic boat, powered race on the Hudson River behind to see the news dominated by the (PEDs) or an approach by a Objective by Whispering Turbine engines, Team Stihl. selfish and inexcusable behaviour potential match fixer,” he said. crushed the opposition and lapped Spirit of Qatar 20 now holds of the minority of athletes that so Al Shahwani added: “This is ■ Bring together and celebrate the Qatar’s best young school the rest of the field in a one-sided fourth in the points’ standings many aspiring athletes look up to why the ICSS, in partnership with athletes. debut. heading into this race behind as role models.” the QOC, have created ‘Save the ■ Propose a unique and powerful introduction to Olympism. Sheikh Hassan knows that he WHM Motorsports, Stihl and He added: “At the ICSS, we Dream’, a new initiative that aims will face much more difficult com- JD Byrider. It promises to be a ■ believe that early education is to educate young people about Innovate in educating and debating sporting values and societal petition in Key West, but he was thrilling showdown, with a mere crucial in ensuring integrity sporting integrity and promote challenges. delighted with first impressions of 86 points separating the top two. in sport. In the same way that positive messages around sport ■ Share and celebrate the cultures of Qatar in a festive atmosphere. the stunning new boat in racing Plans for Qatar rally star youngsters are educated about and its character- building val- conditions. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah to join ■ Reach youth communities throughout Qatar to promote Olympic drugs and alcohol in relation to ues. It is my hope that ‘Save the “We had a very good feeling the team with a third boat in Key values. their sporting career, the same Dream’ will become a powerful that the boat would be competi- West are progressing well. should be true for integrity.” instrument to protect the next ■ Raise sport awareness and participation among the youth. tive as we have seen similar boats “The boat is on schedule and we “But while many organisa- generation of athletes and sports ■ Act as a platform for initiatives within the Olympic Movement. in action before,” admitted the received the engines on time from tions now provide integrity pro- stars around the world for years president of the QMSF. Mercury Racing,” said Sheikh ■ grammes for professional athletes, to come.” THE PENINSULA Organise an event of the highest national standards. “The decision to go with Mystic Hassan. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Profitable Monaco hold PSG Arsenal prepared to to retain top spot spend again LONDON: Premier League leaders Arsenal are prepared to Falcao scores equaliser for Ranieri’s side spend more on their squad after the record signing of German PARIS: Monaco came from line to head beyond Salvatore playmaker Mesut Ozil, the club’s behind to earn a 1-1 draw with French Ligue 1 Sirigu. chairman said yesterday. defending French champions Monaco’s Yannick Ferreira The arrival of Ozil for £42.5m Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday Results Carrasco fired just over on the ($68m) at the start of the month night to keep hold of top spot in volley shortly after, while Edinson has lifted the mood among sup- Ligue 1. PARIS, France: Collated Cavani dragged a shot wide of the porters angry at the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic volleyed French Ligue 1 results on far post after clever interplay striker Robin van Persie and Cesc PSG into an early lead in the Sunday: between himself and Ibrahimovic. Fabregas over the past two years. French capital, but Monaco’s Lorient 3 (Aboubakar 23, Monnet-Paquet The Swede then wasted a glo- Arsenal have not won a trophy 60-million-euro striker Radamel 44, S. Diallo 58) Bordeaux 3 (Diabate 8-pen, rious chance to add to his tally since 2005 and some fans of the Falcao bundled in an equaliser Sertic 24, Saivet 30) and restore PSG’s advantage as north London club had questioned for the visitors as the first clash Lyon 3 (B. Gomis 26, Grenier 55, Briand 72) he headed over after being left the club’s ambition under Stan between the league’s two financial Nantes 1 (Veretout 24) completely unmarked as Lavezzi Kroenke, the American sports heavyweights finished level. Nice 4 (Cvitanich 32-pen, Bautheac 44, Bruls swung in a dangerous free-kick. entrepreneur who is its major- The draw kept Monaco in first 69, Bosetti 73) Valenciennes 0 And Ibrahimovic was again ity shareholder. Chips Keswick, place on 14 points, two ahead of Paris Saint-Germain 1 (Ibrahimovic 5) Monaco guilty of botching another open- whe became Arsenal chairman in PSG, who moved into second, 1 (Falcao 20) ing just moments later. June, said manager Arsene Wenger ahead of Saint-Etienne on goal On Saturday Played through by Marco would be given more money to difference. Verratti, the striker elected to spend as he reported another sea- Bastia 0 Marseille 0 “It was a good match. Paris cut back onto his right foot and, son of financial profit off the pitch. played well but so did we,” said Evian 2 (Wass 74, Sougou 77) Montpellier 2 rather than shooting, over hit a “With the Ozil transfer I believe Monaco boss Claudio Ranieri. (Montano 37, Cabella 52) chip towards the far post as he we have made a significant state- “We tried to win right up until Reims 1 (Deroussel de Preville 58) Guingamp tried to pick out an advancing ment and when Arsene decides the end and I’m very satisfied. I 1 (Weber 5-og) Lavezzi. the time is right to invest again, have no regrets. Rennes 2 (Kadir 13, 16) Ajaccio 0 There was further frustration Stan Kroenke, myself and the rest “I know that Paris have a lot Sochaux 0 Lille 2 (Roux 35, 37) for Ibrahimovic after the inter- of the Board will be delighted to of quality and more experience Friday val as he flicked a low cross from support him,” Keswick said in a than our players, so I’m happy,” Saint-Etienne 1 (Hamouna 18) Toulouse 2 Lavezzi the wrong side of the post. statement. the Italian continued. (Braithwaite 63, Sylla 75) Ferreira Carrasco volleyed Keswick said Arsenal would PSG coach Laurent Blanc wide when well placed, while stick to their principles of run- made one change to the side immediate impact at the Parc des substitute James Rodriguez and ning a financially sustainable club that beat Olympiakos 4-1 mid- Princes as he gave PSG a fifth- Layvin Kurzawa took turns to and developing young players but week in the Champions League minute lead. test Sirigu from distance but the said their ambition should not be with Argentine winger Ezequiel Thiago Silva’s raking downfield contest began to peter out as the questioned. Lavezzi replacing Lucas Moura ball picked out the run of left- second half wore on. Monaco’s Colombian forward Radamel Falcao celebrates after scoring “We have a controlling owner in on the left side of an attacking back Maxwell who crossed for However, Cavani twice very his team’s equaliser during the French L1 match against Paris Saint- Stan Kroenke and a Board which trio. Ibrahimovic to volley past Danijel nearly snatched all three points Germain at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris on Sunday. is united in our resolve to keep Ranieri, meanwhile, kept faith Subasic from close range. for PSG in stoppage time. Arsenal Football Club at the pin- with the team that beat Lorient The hosts were dealt a blow The Uruguayan was firstly nacle of the game both here and 1-0 last weekend as Mounir on the quarter-hour, though, as denied by a fantastic sliding inter- get that decisive goal,” said PSG matches without a victory as they in Europe.” Obbadi continued alongside Silva limped off with a hamstring vention from Andrea Raggi after midfielder Blaise Matuidi. beat promoted Nantes 3-1. Nice The sale of striker Van Persie Geoffrey Kondogbia in central injury to be replaced by Zoumana he chested down Blaise Matuidi’s “We put them in difficulty, we climbed to fifth after thumping to Manchester United helped midfield with Jeremy Toulalan Camara. lofted pass and shot on the turn had the chances but we failed to lowly Valenciennes 4-0 to mark Arsenal remain in profit in 2012- still out injured. Falcao then hauled Monaco before he sent a header narrowly take them. We can be happy with the inauguration of their new 13. On the pitch, United won Ibrahimovic had endured a level on 20 minutes as he threw wide of the near post as Monaco the performance we produced, Allianz Riviera stadium in style, a record 20th English league slow start to the season with just himself at Joao Moutinho’s teasing withstood a late threat. (it was) one of the best of the while Lorient fought back from title, helped by 26 goals from one goal prior to Sunday, but last cross into the box, the Colombian “We played a very good match, season.” two goals down at home to draw Dutchman Van Persie. Arsenal year’s leading scorer made an bravely putting his body on the unfortunately we weren’t able to Earlier, Lyon halted a run of six 3-3 with Bordeaux. AFP finished fourth to clinch a spot in the lucrative Champions League for a 16th successive season. Profit before tax was £6.7m in Your TV guide for the year to the end of May, down from 36.6m a year earlier, Arsenal live matches today said. The club made a £47m profit on the sale of Van Persie and Alex Event Competition Time Channel Song, the midfielder who moved to Barcelona. However, the club Semen-IDN vs East Bengal-IND AFC Cup 11:00 +1 Former PSG player said it had invested £58.7m on Al Shorta-SYR vs Al Qadsia-KUW AFC Cup 18:30 +1 Mamadou Sakho gives a buying new players and extending speech on the field with his contracts, before the addiitonal Al Faisaly-JOR vs Kitchee-HKG AFC Cup 19:00 +4 daughter before the match spending on Ozil. REUTERS AL Kuwait vs New Radiant-MAL AFC Cup 19:30 HD5 between PSG and AS Lille vs Evian Ligue 1 20:00 HD4 Monaco. The Liverpool star made an emotional return League Cup fixtures Munich vs Dortmund German Cup 20:00 +2 to PSG on Sunday night League Cup fixtures (1845GMT Barcelona vs Real Sociedad La Liga 20:30 HD2 just a day after playing for unless otherwise stated) Levante vs Valladolid La Liga 21:00 +4 the Reds. Sakho stood Today on the Parc Des Princes Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur, Burnley Arminia vs Leverkusen German Cup 21:30 +1 pitch before kick-off and vs Nottingham Forest, Fulham vs Everton Marseille vs St Etienne Ligue 1 21:30 HD5 addressed Les Rouge-et- (1900GMT), Hull City vs Huddersfield Town, Leicester City vs Derby County, Manchester City Swindon vs Chelsea English League Cup 21:30 HD6 Bleu supporters. vs Wigan Athletic, Southampton vs Bristol City, Udinese vs Genoa Serie A 21:45 HD3 Sunderland vs Peterborough United, Swindon Man City vs Wigan English League Cup 21:45 HD1 Town vs Chelsea, Watford vs Norwich City, West Ham United vs Cardiff City Aston Villa vs Tottenham English League Cup 21:45 +3 Tomorrow Fulham vs Everton English League Cup 22:00 HD4 Birmingham City vs Swansea City, Manchester Malaga vs Almeria La Liga 23:00 +4 United vs Liverpool, Newcastle United vs Leeds United, Tranmere Rovers vs Stoke City, West Atletico vs Osasuna La Liga 23:00 HD2 Bromwich Albion vs Arsenal (1900GMT) Suarez set for League Cup comeback at United

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: feud with United left-back Patrice Evra, Martin Jol’s side. “Tuesday, of course English football will welcome back which saw him banned for eight games he plays from the beginning against Luis Suarez this week when the trou- for racial abuse in December 2011. Swindon,” said Mourinho, who won the ble-prone Liverpool striker returns United are also desperate for a posi- League Cup twice in his first spell at from a 10-game suspension against tive performance, having been dealt a Chelsea. Manchester United in the League Cup demoralising 4-1 defeat by Manchester “The people who didn’t play (against third round. City in Sunday’s derby. Fulham) are going to play: Juan and The Uruguay international was ban- United were without Robin van Persie David Luiz and Michael Essien, (Ryan) ished to the sidelines by the Football due to a groin strain, but manager David Bertrand, and (Cesar) Azpilicueta. Association after biting Chelsea’s Moyes suggested the Dutch striker could “And I hope he (Mata) tells me on the Branislav Ivanovic in a league game last return to face Liverpool. pitch, ‘You are wrong, I am the best, and April, but he served the final game of “I don’t think it’s that bad,” Moyes told I have to play every game.’” his ban in Liverpool’s 1-0 loss at home reporters after the defeat at the Etihad North London rivals Tottenham to Southampton on Saturday. Stadium. Hotspur and Arsenal, level on points The shock defeat ended Liverpool’s “We thought he was going to make it at the top of the Premier League, both unbeaten start to the season and saw (against City), and he just felt something face ties against top-flight opposition in them concede top spot in the Premier in his groin. He actually did a little bit of mid-week. League, but goalkeeper Simon Mignolet training the last couple of days. Spurs visit Aston Villa on Tuesday, says that with Suarez back on board, the “But he didn’t want to aggravate it, with Arsenal travelling to West team will respond in the correct manner and we took that decision (not to play Bromwich Albion the following night. at United tomorrow. him)”. In the only other all-Premier League “We’ve got another game on Chelsea ended a run of four games match-ups, Fulham host Everton and Wednesday, when we can put things without victory by beating Fulham on Cardiff City visit West Ham United -- a right straight away. I think it’s a perfect Saturday and will expect to reach round repeat of the opening-day league fixture scenario to get back to it,” the Belgian four in the League Cup with a victory at that saw West Ham win 2-0. told the Liverpool website. third-tier Swindon Town today. Holders Swansea City begin their “Luis Suarez is coming back, which Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has defence of the trophy at second-tier Liverpool’s Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez (back row right) watches from a hospitality can maybe give us a lift. So we’ve got challenged Juan Mata to prove he is wor- Birmingham City, while Manchester box during the English Premier League match against Southampton at Anfield stadium in positives to look forward to.” thy of a starting place after the Spanish City face a home game against last sea- Liverpool, northwest England, on Saturday. Suarez is certain to receive a hostile midfielder was not even included in the son’s FA Cup winners, Wigan Athletic. reception at Old Trafford due to his match-day squad for the 2-0 win over AFP TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Bruce blames

Sunderland style as reason manager Paolo Di Canio reacts for downfall towards the LONDON: Hull manager Sunderland fans Steve Bruce believes Paulo Di after the English Canio’s heavy-handed mana- Premier League gerial style was one of the match against key reasons that led to the West Bromwich Italian’s downfall as he was Albion at The sacked as Sunderland head Hawthorns in coach at the weekend. West Bromwich, Despite saving the club from central England, relegation last season, a woe- on Saturday. fall start to the new campaign West Bromwich leaves them rooted to the bot- Albion won 3-0. tom of the table with just one On Sunday, point from five games. Sunderland “You cannot manage in the sacked Di Canio Premier League these days Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (left) vies with Rayo as coach of the through a fear factor,” Bruce Vallecano’s defender Nacho during the Spanish league match at team. told talkSPORT. “You’ve got to the Vallecas Stadium in Madrid on Saturday. Barcelona take on Real be able to manage individuals. Sociedad today in the Spanish League. “Man management has become more relevant in my experience than coaching. “Once you get yourself in the Premier League, they’re Martino not bothered all good players and you’ve got to find a way of getting the best out of them. Sunderland sack “It’s never been my style to by style debate criticise anyone in public and I’m disappointed for Paolo. He’s MADRID: Barcelona coach had more of the ball, but Martino a character. Gerardo Martino (pictured) has claimed that had more to do with “A manager’s lost his job. insisted that he isn’t annoyed by Rayo’s ball retention than a radi- Management is a lonely place questions over the style of play cal change on Barca’s part. coach Di Canio and he’s lost his job this morn- he is trying to impose on his “Possession is significant ing. I feel sorry for any man- players despite an almost flaw- depending on the team. For ager in that position. I’ve gone less start to the season. Barcelona it is very important, First EPL manager to lose job this season through it and it’s not nice.” The Spanish champions have but we need to look at the char- Reports of a bust-up with racked up five straight league acteristics of the opponents. The two senior players and lack of wins, as well as beating Ajax possession against Rayo last sea- LONDON: Paolo di Canio was his staff and wishes them well for football as a striker after spells trust within the dressing room 4-0 in their Champions League son was 55 percent, which is also sacked as manager of English the future,” the club added as di at Sheffield Wednesday and West over Di Canio’s approach were opener and regaining the Spanish not what Barcelona are used to. Premier League basement club Canio became the first Premier Ham, to Wearside after calling also believed to have forced Super Cup with an away goals vic- “I have not come here to change Sunderland on Sunday after League manager to lose his job time on Martin O’Neill’s stint in club owner Ellis Short to bring tory over Atletico Madrid. anything and if you ask me about just seven months in charge of this season. charge. down the axe. However, the Argentine did the average possession, last year the north-east side. Sunderland’s defeat at the Di Canio’s only previous expe- However there was also hint that he is being it was 66 percent and Sunderland announced they Hawthorns was compounded rience as manager was at lower disbelief at the sacking with treated differently this year it is 65.8 per- had parted company with the fiery by the fact West Brom’s open- league Swindon, where he over- former England captain and because he is neither a cent. I don’t think you Italian a day after Saturday’s 3-0 ing goal was scored by Stephane saw their promotion into English Newcastle icon Alan Shearer local nor Dutch given can say everything has defeat at West Bromwich Albion Sessegnon, a player sold to the football’s third tier. defending the Italian. the history of coaches changed for this 0.2 left them bottom of the table with Midlands club by di Canio amid But the most controversial “I’m amazed, I really am from Holland taking percent. just one point from their opening some bitterness on transfer dead- aspect of his appointment con- amazed. Paolo Di Canio hasn’t charge at the Camp “People talk about five league games. line day. cerned his alleged fascist lean- changed from the guy he was Nou in the wake of long passes, but I “Sunderland AFC confirms Afterwards, di Canio said he ings, with Britain’s former foreign a year or two ago,” he told the Johan Cruyff’s excel- remember when that it has parted company with would be pushed out if Sunderland secretary David Miliband, then a BBC. lent side in the early Rafa Marquez played head coach Paolo di Canio this kept losing but insisted he didn’t local MP, resigning as vice-chair- “I assume, maybe naively, 1990s. here so we are not evening,” a club statement said expect to be on his way any time man of Sunderland because of the that Sunderland owner Ellis “I am not bothered doing anything that I as the curtain came down on soon. former Lazio and Celtic forward’s Short and his chief executive by the debate,” he told haven’t already seen his brief spell at the Stadium “The team, not intentionally, “past political statements”. did their homework on Paolo a press conference here.” of Light which only started on have not gelled together yet but Di Canio took over with just before they went and hired him yesterday. Barca’s next test March 31. that is normal,” the 45-year-old seven matches of the 2012/13 sea- to do the job.” “When a team has comes at home The statement added that said. son remaining and relegation a Short’s next task is to find bordered on excellence to struggling Real former Sunderland captain “It is a natural process and it distinct possibility. a replacement for the man he there are always these type of sit- Sociedad today. Kevin Ball, already on the Black is difficult. A 2-1 defeat at Chelsea in his appointed in a storm of contro- uations, especially when the coach A win will move Martino’s men Cats’ coaching staff, would be in “We have made many changes, first game in charge was followed versy last year. Critics rounded is neither from within the club or five points clear of Real Madrid temporary charge while the club we have 14 new players from by a 3-0 north-east derby vic- on Di Canio’s alleged fascist Dutch. What interests me is the for at least 24 hours before their sought a permanent successor to many countries. tory at Newcastle in his second, sympathies, prompting the group of players. They seem solid trip to Elche tomorrow. di Canio. “It is obvious one day if we keep with the outspoken di Canio’s club to make a stout defence and calm to me and that makes And the match also offers “Kevin Ball will take charge going lose, lose, lose there will be knee-sliding victory celebration of their new manager. me relaxed.” another chance for Neymar to of the squad ahead of tonight’s a natural consequences, not only endearing him to Sunderland After debates about his The debate over Barca’s more bag his first league goal in Spanish Capital One (League) Cup game for Paolo di Canio. supporters. political views had died down, direct new style was brought to football having failed to find the against Peterborough United “I don’t think they will want Then came a 1-0 win at Everton Di Canio kept Sunderland in the fore in their 4-0 win over net in five games so far. and an announcement will be to keep Paolo di Canio, they will before Sunderland suffered the the Premier League thanks in Rayo Vallecano on Saturday as However, Martino defended made in due course regarding a probably want to change. But I embarrassment of a 6-1 thrashing part to a memorable 3-0 vic- despite the disparity on the score- the Brazilian international’s per- permanent successor,” the state- don’t think that now,” he added. by fellow strugglers Aston Villa. tory over rivals Newcastle at board, Rayo had more possession formances and highlighted the ment said. Ellis Short, Sunderland’s However, the Black Cats only St James’ Park, but little else than the visitors. three assists he has to his name “The club would like to place American owner, brought di just did enough to avoid the drop in his regime went right. AFP It was the first time in over five to show he is still contributing to on record its thanks to Paolo and Canio, well known in English by finishing in 17th place. AFP years that the Catalans had not the team. AFP Malaysia club Villas-Boas glad Spurs effort gets reward suspends staff

CARDIFF, United Kingdom: or two heart-stopping moments. Andre Villas-Boas was delighted First, when Kyle Naughton’s in fixing probe with the persistence and quality third-minute back pass failed to shown by Tottenham in their reach Hugo Lloris, the French KUALA LUMPUR: A 1-0 win away to Cardiff City. goalkeeper appeared to be inches Malaysian football club sus- Sunday’s success in the Welsh out of his box when he robbed pended all of its coaches and capital, secured by Paulinho’s Fraizer Campbell of possession. officials for two weeks yesterday stoppage-time winner, left Then, Cardiff’s Ben Turner had over suspected match-fixing fol- Tottenham level on points with a goal disallowed on the stroke of lowing a series of heavy defeats, Premier League leaders Arsenal half time after Aron Gunnarsson Tottenham Hotspur’s reports said. but behind their arch north was adjudged, somewhat harshly, Portuguese man- The suspicions swirling London rivals on goal difference. to have fouled Lloris in the six- ager Andre Villas- around Perak FA, which rep- It took some desperate defend- yard box. Boas (right) shakes resents the state of Perak in ing and a dozen world-class saves Then Gunnarsson scooped his hands with Tromso’s the top-tier Malaysian Super from goalkeeper David Marshall shot into the stand, nine minutes manager Agnar League, are the latest in a to deny Tottenham for fully 92 from time, after a neat pull back Christensen before string of corruption allega- minutes. from debutant Peter Odemwingie. the UEFA Europa tions to taint the sport in the But when substitute Erik Of the Lloris incident with League Group K football-mad country. Lamela picked out Paulinho deep Campbell, Villas-Boas said: “I match at White Hart National news agency Bernama into injury time, Spurs were haven’t seen it, but I understand said state football authorities in Lane in London, on home and boasting a fourth win he was right on the limit. I’m not Perak planned to lodge reports September 19. in five league games despite los- sure if there is some controversy with police and anti-graft ing former talisman Gareth Bale there. authorities after a run of three to Real Madrid in a world record “Most people I have spoken to losses including a 6-1 drubbing on transfer. told me his hand is right on the Saturday. “There could only be one win- line. I think if that’s the case, the Deputy president Khairul ner,” Villas-Boas said. referee made the right decision. Azwan Harun told reporters “We played so open and tried “The disallowed goal was for the Perak Football Association so hard, that it would have been a foul for holding Hugo’s arm. (PAFA), which fields the team, unfair to have left here with only We spoke about it between us at had also launched their own one point. We got our reward in half time and he said he would internal inquiry to investigate the end, but with the chances we have been fine if he had not been what happened. created, if it wasn’t for Marshall, fouled.” believes there is more to come the Gunners’ goals in the 3-1 vic- “When you look at his numbers, The side’s poor performance it could have been a more com- Spurs were denied before and from Mesut Ozil after the tory over Stoke City and had a the assists are not a coincidence, saw it crash out of contention for fortable game,” the Portuguese after the interval by Marshall’s Germany international contin- hand in the third when his free- it is the reality of his game,” the Malaysia Cup despite earlier added. heroics with Gylfi Sigurdsson, the ued his impressive start to life at kick was parried into the path Wenger said after a win that leading its group. “Yes, it’s satisfying as I don’t only player prior to Paulinho, to Arsenal. of Aaron Ramsey by Stoke goal- left Arsenal top of the Premier “They are given two weeks to see many teams coming here and beat the keeper. Ozil has already provided three keeper Asmir Begovic. League on goal difference from carry out the investigation and winning against a team who are But even then, the ball came assists -- more than any other Arsenal manager Wenger arch-rivals Tottenham. report the findings to PAFA’s well-organised and well-managed. back off the crossbar and Premier League player -- after believes the club record signing “And I believe once he will be main executive committee,” And yes, you do worry when you Marshall somehow kept out just two league games for his new is already showing his qualities, completely integrated you will Khairul Azwan said. can’t score. I thought it might be Roberto Soldado’s crisp strike club following his £42.4m move but claims he will display his full see even more but he has shown Malaysian football has repeat- one of those games.” from the rebound. from Real Madrid. repertoire of skills when he has today he is a great player,” the edly been stained by match-fixing The Spurs boss did have one Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger The playmaker teed up two of settled into his new surroundings. Frenchman added. AGENCIES scandals. AFP Tuesday 24 September 2013 18 Dhul-qa’da 1434 Volume 18 Number 5832 Sport Price: QR2 Stenson is real Langdon deal on last advances to day final round

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LONDON: Controversial spin- bowlers, Miller said: “He’s a very Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan ner Monty Panesar was given Ballance, Rankin difficult person to bat against so reacts after losing a point against a chance to revive his England I think in Australian conditions, Anastasia Rodionova of Australia career after being named yes- and Stokes in focus he’ll be very difficult for them and during their first round match in terday in a 17-man squad for Gary Ballance a threat for us.” the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, the forthcoming Ashes tour of Born: Harare, Zimbabwe, Ballance could now challenge yesterday. Australia. November 22, 1989 county colleague Jonny Bairstow England also selected uncapped ODIs: 1 match (vs Ireland, Sep for England’s problem No 6 trio of Yorkshire batsman Gary 2013), 0 runs position. Ballance, Durham all-rounder Division One record in 2013: 13 “He’s played very well for Olympics Ben Stokes and former Ireland matches, 995 runs, highest score Yorkshire so it’s not a left-field seamer Boyd Rankin for a tour 141 (average 52.37), 3 centuries selection, it’s considered,” former at 50? A where they they will bid to win Boyd Rankin England off-spinner Miller said a fourth straight Ashes series of Ballance. Born: Londonderry, N Ireland, against arch-rivals Australia -- July 5, 1984 As for Stokes, Miller said: “He’s England something they last achieved in proved over the last year or so 99.9999 ODIs (for Ireland): 37 matches, spinner Monty the 19th Century. that he’s developing his game rap- 43 wickets (average 32.34), best Panesar looks Otherwise a squad again cap- bowling 3-32 idly, he’s an exciting prospect.” percent ‘No’: tained by Alastair Cook contained All three of the uncapped Test on during ODIs (for England): 5 matches, a trophy few surprises, with England again 9 wickets (average 16.88), BB trio were born overseas, with presentation relying on the bulk of the side that 4-46 Ballance growing up in Zimbabwe Date-Krumm completed a 3-0 home Ashes win before coming to county side in this file First-class cricket: 62 matches, photo. The over Australia last month. 203 wickets (average 27.55), BB Derbyshire as a 16-year-old while TOKYO, Japan: Japan’s ‘iron 31-year-old Panesar has long been regarded 5-16 Stokes is the New Zealand-born lady’ Kimiko Date-Krumm won as England’s second-best spinner son of a former Kiwi rugby league her opening match at the Pan has been Division One record in 2013: behind off-break bowler Graeme international, although he grew Pacific Open yesterday, then all recalled to 8 matches, 28 wickets (average Swann. up in Cumbria, northern England. but ruled out playing in Tokyo the 17-man 24.50), BB 4-29 However, the 31-year-old Ben Stokes Hampshire’s Michael Carberry at the 2020 Olympics when she squad to tour Panesar, who has taken 164 Test was chosen ahead of Somerset’s will be almost 50. Australia next Born: Christchurch, NZ, June wickets at 33.78, was fined by 4, 1991 Nick Compton as an extra bats- “Eh? I’ll be 50. Fifty!” Date- month. police for urinating in public after man with Stokes displacing all- Krumm said with a broad smile ODIs: 10 matches, 87 runs, high- he was ejected from a Brighton rounder Chris Woakes, who when asked about returning to est score 27 (average 14.50), 6 nightclub on August 5 and then wickets (average 36.66), best played in the Ashes finale at The the same waterside venue to com- effectively sacked by south coast bowling 5-61 Oval. pete at the Tokyo Games. county Sussex. Division One record in 2013: 12 Meanwhile Surrey fast bowler “I’m not (Martina) He has though since played for matches, 563 runs, HS 127 (aver- Chris Tremlett, who impressed Navratilova,” added the former Essex on loan while the woeful age 28.15), 40 wickets (average during England’s 3-1 2010/11 world number four, who reached Test debut of Lancashire left-arm 24.82), BB 4-49 Ashes win in Australia, was the quarter-finals in Seoul last spinner Simon Kerrigan in the given one of the seam bowling week. drawn final match of the recent thrilled to be in ashes squad slots in preference to Graham “You’re asking if there’s a one Ashes series -- which England #cantwait #excited #positivity Onions, who has been a mainstay percent chance? Well probably won 3-0 -- at The Oval in south #workhard.” of county champions Durham’s it’s 99.9999 percent I won’t, but I London, strengthened Panesar’s Both Rankin and Stokes attack this season. suppose you never say never 100 case for a recall. impressed during the recent 2-1 Yorkshire pace-bowling all- percent. It’s almost impossible, “He’s appreciated he’s made one-day series loss to Australia rounder Tim Bresnan was not though I’d like to be involved in errors and he’s very sure that but the 23-year-old Ballance, part of the official party but is some capacity and support the those errors are behind him now,” out for nought on his ODI debut set to travel with the squad to next generation of players com- England national selector Geoff against Ireland earlier this month, Australia as he continues his ing through.” Squad Miller, announcing the squad at was given his chance on the back recovery from the back injury She added: “When I heard Alastair Cook (Essex, captain), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jonathan Trott a Lord’s press conference, said of of consistent performances. that saw him ruled out of the about the (September 7) decision (Warwickshire), Kevin Pietersen (Surrey), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Panesar. He has shone in the First fifth Test. to host the Olympics in Tokyo I Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire, wicketkeeper), Matt Prior (Sussex, wkt), “He’s an experienced interna- Division of the County Yesterday also saw England didn’t think about playing myself, Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), tional player...He’s very prepared Championship where he has name a ‘shadow’ performance but obviously competing in the James Anderson (Lancashire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Boyd to let his bowling do the talking made 995 runs in 13 matches at programme squad contain- Olympics in Japan will give the Rankin (Warwickshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Monty Panesar for him, so I’m prepared to accept an average of over 52 with three ing Sydney-born but England- younger players a huge boost and (Essex), Michael Carberry (Hampshire), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), that.” hundreds. qualified batsman Sam Robson, give them extra motivation.” Chris Tremlett (Surrey) A delighted Panesar told his Turning to Rankin, who fits who has impressed for Middlesex Date-Krumm’s 6-2, 4-1 vic- Twitter followers: “Absolutely England’s preference for tall fast in recent seasons. AFP tory over qualifier Anastasia Rodionova in the first round of the $2.3m Pan Pacific Open -- hastened after the Australian stopped with an abdominal strain -- gives the world number 63 a crack at another Aussie in the Moyes unleashes the ‘hairdryer’ after derby loss shape of 12th seed Samantha Stosur. LONDON: Manchester United “So I just told the players the Instead, the manager demanded “I don’t think about my age manager David Moyes left his way I would have told players at an immediate reaction from anymore,” said Date-Krumm, who players in no doubt about his any other club if I don’t think his players in the Capital One turns 43 this week and achieved feelings after a crushing 4-1 they’re doing it.” added Moyes. (League) Cup tie at home to her career-high ranking back in defeat at rivals Manchester City The former Everton coach Liverpool tomorrow. 1995. had him holding his head in his added: “They’re good players, “The way they have been “Stosur is big and powerful. I’m hands. they’re good pros, they know brought up, they way they have not crazy about that but I’ll see Yesterday’s newspapers when they’re bang at it and when been bred with the manager pre- what I can get out of my punc- reported that the Scot had given they’re not.” viously, they react, that’s what tured body and see what happens.” his beaten side a blast of the infa- Sunday’s match at the Etihad they do,” he said. Seventh seed Petra Kvitova, mous Alex Ferguson ‘hairdryer’ might have had Ferguson, if not “We’ll make sure we react. surprise Wimbledon champion in treatment after the match. throwing the crockery, at least Every manager has bad results. 2011, became the first player to Moyes, who took over from delivering a lung-emptying tirade I’m no different.” reach the third round with a 7-5, compatriot Ferguson at the end after a scoreline that was United’s United were 4-0 down after 50 6-4 winner over Swiss Belinda of last season, refused to confirm worst defeat at City in 24 years. minutes and City’s new manager Bencic. the full intensity of the dressing The headlines talked of a Manuel Pellegrini said he too was Fifth seed Angelique Kerber down but it was clear some hair humiliation, rather than just surprised by the scoreline. pulverised Spanish qualifier had been ruffled at the very least. a beating, for Premier League “You don’t expect to win 4-1 Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor 6-0, 6-1 “It’s just what I’d have done if champions whose limitations against Manchester United,” to book her place in the last 16. I’d... I’ve been here many times were cruelly exposed. he told reporters. “It’s very big Manchester United’s English forward Wayne Rooney (cen- Former French Open cham- with Everton and don’t think I’ve United were without striker and the way we did it is always tre), English defender Chris Smalling (left) and Spanish pion Ana Ivanovic, runner-up to suffered a defeat like this with Robin van Persie, who did not important. goalkeeper David de Gea leave the pitch at the end of Martina Hingis in Tokyo in 2007, Everton,” the former Goodison start due to a groin injury, but “We will enjoy this. It gives the the English Premier League match against Manchester flattened Germany’s Annika Beck boss told reporters when asked Moyes refused to use that as an team a lot of confidence. We are City at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, on 6-1, 6-1 as the Serbian pin-up, whether he had resorted to a first excuse for a performance that just starting another style of play Sunday. INSET: Manchester United’s head coach David who once held the world’s top use of his predecessor’s favourite raised serious questions about the and I hope to keep improving.” ranking, won her opening match. Moyes shouts during the match. appliance. quality of United’s squad. REUTERS AFP