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DOHA: Known for Brotherhood- DOHA: The law-enforcement Al Sharq briefly reported yes- bashing, outspoken Dubai Police agencies here have arrested terday that an ‘African national’ Chief, Dahi Khalfan, has now a Kenyan security guard sus- suspected of killing an ‘expatri- aimed his guns at Aljazeera pected of killing an American ate’ last week had been taken TV Channel and criticised it woman who was teaching at a into custody and that he had severely for what he claimed school in Al Wakra, US-based confessed to the crime. was the Channel turning a blind newspaper, The Morning Call, Jennifer, according to The eye to Friday’s protests against reported yesterday. Morning Call, had been teach- President Mohammed Mursi in The newspaper identified ing pre-school children in her Egypt. the victim as Jennifer Brown, Al Wakra school since last Khalfan said he had lost trust a 40-year-old woman from Jim September. in Aljazeera and called on fellow Thorpe, a borough in Carbon “She was a good kid, a beauti- GCC nationals to boycott the County, Pennsylvania, and said ful girl,” her father was quoted popular Arabic Channel. she was killed during a robbery as saying. She is to be buried in Khalfan posted some eight attempt. The suspect has con- Jim Thorpe where she was born comments on his Twitter account fessed to the crime that took and raised. yesterday criticising Aljazeera place on November 14, the news- “See you at the Christmas time, for ignoring the huge turnout of paper added, quoting the father dad,” Jennifer had said before a protesters at Cairo’s now-famous of the victim, Richard Brown. friend drove her to Philadelphia Tahrir Square against President Jennifer “was found slain in her International Airport. That day Mursi assuming sweeping powers. apartment,” he said. would never come. “Aljzaeera, take sides with the She was a victim of an appar- Brown said Qatari authorities people of Egypt! Individuals (a ent random act of violence told him a suspect, a security reference to Mursi) come and go, and the motive is still unclear. guard from Kenya, was arrested but people remain. You Aljazeera The Morning Call said quoting and money taken from his daugh- journalists, have fear of God!” Jennifer’s father that the police ter was found on him. Khalfan exhorted the Doha-based recovered the money from the The suspect admitted to the TV station in a tweet message. Anti-govt protesters run from tear gas released by police during clashes in front of the Supreme Judicial Council Kenyan suspect which he had November 14 killing and faces He said Aljazeera had destroyed in Cairo yesterday. taken from her. the death penalty, Brown told Egypt and sown the seeds of dis- There was no independent con- the US newspaper. He is still cord in the country — a veiled of Muslim Brotherhood.” He chose to criticise them, pooh- the Brotherhood’s political party, firmation about the incident or waiting for his daughter’s body reminder of the Channel’s active said Aljazeera had now become poohed tweeters. leaving at least seven injured. about the names and nationality to be flown home. coverage of anti-Mubarak upris- an object of ridicule in the Arab Agencies reported that Mursi Several hundred protesters of the suspect and the victim. THE PENINSULA ing in 2011 which eventually culmi- world because it was a dream faced a rebellion from judges who remained in Tahrir Square. nated in elections that saw Muslim that has been shattered. “It has accused him yesterday of expand- ElBaradei and a six other Brotherhood emerge victorious. made media fun and fantasy.” ing his powers at their expense. prominent liberal leaders have The controversial Dubai police He dared the Channel to have Prominent opposition leader announced the formation of a boss pooh-poohed Aljazeera and an interactive dialogue with the Mohamed ElBaradei said that National Salvation Front aimed Audit firm under probe over graft said while protesters had gath- ‘Arab citizen’. there could be no dialogue with at rallying all non-Islamist groups ered at Tahrir Square, the TV Reactions began pouring in to Egypt’s president until he scrapped together to force Mursi to rescind DOHA: The Attorney- conducted by the prosecution Channel chose to re-telecast an Khalfan’s tweets as people tweeted a “dictatorial” decree that he said his edicts. Judges, angry at steps General H E Ali bin Fetais Al of public funds into a report of old interview with Hamas leader back with many of them saying gave Mursi the powers of a pharaoh seen as undermining the judiciary, Marri has ordered an investi- suspicious behaviour by the firm Khaled Meshaal. they wondered why Dubai’s top New clashed broke out in the threatened to strike if it were not gation into one of the biggest related to public funds. “It is misleading viewers,” said cop never ever supported anti- southern city of Assiut yesterday. revoked and the opposition has audit firms operating in the The firm is suspected to have Khalfan. “Aljazeera, where is government protesters in Syria. Mursi’s opponents and mem- called for more protests, with one country. carried out operations that your neutrality? …We miss objec- And, moreover, instead of sup- bers of the Muslim Brotherhood planned for Tuesday. The Public Prosecution said violated accounting rules and tivity (in your coverage)…You porting the recent anti-govern- swung sticks and threw stones at THE PENINSULA/AGENCIES yesterday that the order fol- principles. should not act like a mouthpiece ment protests in Kuwait, Khalfan each other outside the offices of See also page 10 lowed investigations being QNA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Agricultural farms turned into labour camps Meet discusses DOHA: The Ministry of them have been of the Ministry of The official pointed out that Environment (MoE) has iden- involved in viola- Environment, was based on a study, electricity is to tified 71 farmhouses whose tions, Qatar News quoted as saying be supplied to the farming sector owners had built labour camps, Agency (QNA) that in 99 percent at subsidised rates. warehouses and industrial reported yesterday. of the violations, In Qatar, some 80 percent of climate change workshops on these facilities in The new law labour lodgings, the animal fodder that is pro- flagrant violation of the law. being drafted industrial work- duced is consumed locally. The The violators couldn’t, how- would arm the shops and stor- cultivation of fodder needs a lot ever, be booked because the law environment min- age facilities were of water, he said. impact on region does not have punitive provisions. istry with the powers to act found built at farmhouses. All Desalinated water is used in It is, therefore, being replaced against those who are found these illegal structures have irrigation so once an upcoming with a new and extensive legis- misusing the farmhouses. come up on farms in the past 15 desalinated water plant is com- lation to help stop the misuse of Sheikh Dr Faleh bin Nasser years, Al Thani said. missioned, there would be plenty QRC holds workshop ahead of COP18 agricultural farms. Al Thani (pictured), Director- The present law doesn’t have of water to irrigate the farms, There are currently 1,400 General of Agricultural Research provisions to punish the viola- said Al Thani. DOHA: Speakers at a work- MOTIVATION farms in the country and 71 of and Development Department tors, he added. THE PENINSULA shop at the Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) yesterday called for an QRC intends the action plan to minimise the impact of disasters resulting workshop to be a from climate change on the Gulf gesture of motivation region. to work as a team with Kids get taste of media with NU-Q at DTFF The workshop titled ‘reducing the impact and risks of climate associations, Gulf- DOHA: Northwestern change in the Arabian Gulf, is governmental institutions University-Qatar (NU-Q) at taking place ahead of the UN and non-governmental the Doha Tribeca Film Festival Climate Change Conference that (DTFF) engaged many children begins here tomorrow. organisations to launch a to give them an experience in Some 35 delegates representing programme to reduce the media. a range of governmental and non- Complete with lights, a green governmental organisations, uni- risk of climate change on screen, on-site editing suite, and versities and civil society groups the Gulf region. directors and technical staff from from Qatar and other Gulf coun- the NU-Q student body, the live tries are attending the workshop, studio allowed children aged eight which will conclude tomorrow. communities through the devel- and above to experience the roles In his opening address, QRC’s opment of programs, strategies of field reporter, field producer, Secretary General Saleh Ali Al and appropriate activities. anchor and weatherman. Mohannadi said, the aim of this Climate change makes human- “Engaging the local community workshop, held in conjunction itarian work more difficult and and fostering media literacy are with United Nations Climate the Gulf region is witnessing important parts of our mission at Change Conference was to share increased temperatures, a rise NU-Q,” said Everette E Dennis, experiences and learn from the in sea levels and increased rates Dean and CEO of NU-Q. specialists. and intensity of sandstorms, “In this project at DTFF’s “We must work out a plan of meaning that it is imperative for Family Days, we wanted to give action for programmes to mini- organisations involved in humani- young people and their parents mise the impact of disasters tarian work and relief to make a chance to have fun while also resulting from climate change in efforts not just to keep up with learning something about how the Arabian Gulf in the fields of the changes, but to be proactive a news broadcast gets made,” the National Societies of the Red in their efforts. Dennis said. Crescent and Red Cross in order QRC intends the workshop to NU-Q’s involvement at DTFF’s to help mitigate the effects on the be a gesture of motivation to work Family Day activities comes at the vulnerable communities who are as a team with associations, Gulf- end of a slew of events born from most affected by such disasters ,” governmental institutions and a partnership between NU-Q said Al Mohannadi. non-governmental organisations and the Doha Film Institute on Northwestern University-Qatar’s ‘Daily-Q’ live studio at Katara. The workshop discusses sev- to launch a programme to reduce this year’s DTFF programmes to eral topics including the potential the risk of climate change on the support local story telling and the repercussions of climate change Gulf region. QRC will participate development of the media indus- but now I think I want to study Students from NU-Q also had Ali, Communication Freshman. “It in the region and setting priori- with a large number of experts try in Qatar, including co-host- at Northwestern and be a field the chance to ‘run the show’ with has shown me the responsibility ties to address the consequences and specialists in the area of dis- ing the opening night of DTFF’s producer when I grow up,” said support from university faculty. involved in the job, and I definitely of these threat to mitigate the aster and humanitarian action at Made in Qatar series. Chayane Rbeiz, 11, who partici- “This is my first time directing want to continue doing this in the effects of the disasters linked to the Climate Change Conference in “I was very shy before this pated in the live news cast. anything live,” said Syeda Azka future. THE PENINSULA climate change on the vulnerable Doha. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 COP18 set to Free flights, accommodation for 110 young Arabs DOHA: Over 100 young rep- body of the conference to boost Ghada Kheir Bek, of the first group arrived on November resentatives from civil society the participation of regional civil COP18/CMP8 Outreach and 21. groups across the Arab world society groups. Public Engagement team, said: The Arab Youth Climate are getting a chance to put To help the groups involved “We decided to do something for Movement was started recently be first ‘paper their views across at the UN in the campaign against climate these young environmental cam- in partnership with the activ- Climate Change Conference in change, their flights and accom- paigners. Some Doha hotels can ist groups IndyAct, 350.org, the Doha thanks to free flights and modation are being funded by the be quite expensive so we thought Global Climate Change Alliance accommodation provided by the Qatari hosts of the UN meeting. we would enable the Arab youth and Climate Action Network. smart’ summit host country. As many as 110 youngsters to participate in COP18/CMP8 More than 20 national coor- Until now, only a handful of from countries such as Egypt, and contribute their voices, dinators in 15 member countries Arab civil society groups have Lebanon, the UAE, Bahrain, by arranging free flights and have been recruited to encourage represented their countries at Oman and others have been given accommodation.” young people to promote aware- War on waste takes shape in Doha previous sessions. This year, free flights and are being put up In addition to the Arab civil ness of climate change and sus- about 50 organisations will be in in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Doha, society groups, 92 youngsters tainability across North Africa DOHA: COP18/CMP8 Doha SMART CHOICE Doha for COP18/CMP8 follow- by the organising sub-committee from international organisations and the Middle East. will be the first COP conference ing a decision by the organising of the conference. are being put up in hotels. The THE PENINSULA to use the Paper Smart system By making the COP18/ to reduce the use of papers for documents. CMP8 paper smart At previous COP conferences rather than paper less, about five million sheets of paper delegates can manage were used but COP18/CMP8 wants to reduce this to three their own use of paper million. The paper smart scheme, resources by printing only which is already being used in the the documents that they New York headquarters of the UN, has until now never been need. At the conference in transported to a COP meeting. Doha digital copies of all It is part of a directive by Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary- UN material will be made General, to make the UN a paper- available to delegates. less organisation by 2015. By making the COP18/CMP8 paper smart rather than paper stations, which will be positioned less, delegates can manage their around the conference centre, will own use of paper resources by be manned by a team who can printing only the documents that help delegates access the service. they need. Technology such as apps for At the conference in Doha dig- smartphones and tablet comput- ital copies of all UN material will ers is also being used to ensure be made available to delegates. that COP18/CMP8 is as environ- A Paper Smart (Integrated mentally friendly as possible. Sustainable PaperSmart Services) The app will be available to all computer station will be set up conference participants so that in the Qatar National Convention they have free and easy access to Centre to offer IT support and a all the documents and informa- print-on-demand service to del- tion they need. COP18/CMP8 security coordinator, Nawaf Al Ali, and the chief of the UNFCCC security team, Kevin O’Hanlon, hand over the Qatari and UN flags. egates. The scheme is described The section of the organising as more of a war on waste than a committee in charge of the app war on paper use. design said that it is an effective An important aspect of the method to reduce the amount of project is that in Doha’s drive paper used in conferences. Qatari and UN flags flutter above QNCC to make COP18/CMP8 as inclu- The Organising Committee’s sive and transparent as possible, Media Team has already used DOHA: The colours of the The flags were presented by visitors have registered to take The conference will be attended access to digital copies of the memory sticks in its communi- United Nations and Qatar are Nawaf Al Ali, COP18/CMP8 part in COP18/CMP8, which is by over 17,000 visitors from 194 public documents will be made cation with media outlets, and a flying above the Qatar National security coordinator, and Kevin the first one to be held in the countries, including more than available to NGOs and members press pack with key information Convention Centre after a cer- O’Hanlon, chief of the United Middle East. 7,000 members of non-govern- of the press. will be made available on memory emony to celebrate the United Nations Framework Convention COP18/CMP8 Doha will assess mental organisations, 1,500 Another welcome part of the sticks for members of the media Nations Climate Change on Climate Change (UNFCCC) progress in climate change policy members of the media and 90 initiative is that it has created when they arrive. Conference, which begins here security team. and offer a platform for members television stations. 70 jobs. Each of the Paper Smart THE PENINSULA tomorrow. More than 11,800 UNFCCC of the parties to adopt resolutions. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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Clouds hover above The Torch Hotel in Doha yesterday. The forecast issued by the Meteorology Department yesterday said the weather will be partly cloudy to cloudy at times with a chance of rain at some places. SALIM MATRAMKOT Poland seeks to improve ties President to visit Doha next year

BY ISABEL OVALLE in 2009 with Qatar to receive one million tonnes of LNG annu- DOHA: In the spring of ally from 2014. In this context, Polish-Qatari relations, with Rostek said that even though the upcoming inauguration of “trade is the most important the direct flight from Doha area, there are many possibili- to Warsaw and the import ties in the future; there’s still a of Qatari gas from 2014, the lot to do. We are on the right president of Poland, Bronisław direction,” he stated. Komorowski (pictured), will The Ambassador added that visit Qatar in the first quarter the import of Qatari gas will put of 2013 to explore new areas of an end to Poland’s dependency cooperation between the two on Russia. “That’s something countries. we really appreciate; it’s a big The Ambassador of Poland achievement,” he said. in fields like culture, sports and in key European markets will to Qatar, Robert Rostek, told Six years into his posting in tourism. benefit from a multi-lingual The Peninsula that the energy Doha, which marked the open- “The new flight from Doha Customer Contact Centre based agreement signed last year, as ing of the Polish Embassy in to Warsaw that will start on in the Polish city of Wrocław well as the Qatari investments Qatar, Rostek said that, given December 5 will be an excel- from early next year. in real estate and the stock the numerous visits of Polish lent opportunity for Qataris to Among other activities, to exchange, are only the begin- officials to Qatar, and vice versa, travel to Europe and for Polish celebrate the inauguration of ning of the relations, while the “it’s clear there is willingness to and other Europeans to visit the flight, the chef of Grand visit will be the perfect chance achieve commitments in other Qatar, or other Asian countries Hyatt hotel in Warsaw will to cement other ties between sectors.” From this point of via Doha,” the Ambassador said. travel to Doha to introduce the two countries. view, he referred to coopera- Coincidently, Qatar Airways Polish cuisine. Poland signed an agreement tion between the two countries customers contacting the airline THE PENINSULA

Maltese leader meets Minister of Culture VALLETTA: The President of Malta George Abela yesterday met with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari who is the President of XIII Unctad. Abela entrusted the Minister of Culture to convey his greetings to the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The Maltese President also expressed his appreciation of the vital role Qatar is playing on the international stage. The Minister of Culture’s visit to Malta came in his capacity as a President of XIII Unctad and to attend a lecture on Marine Sciences. The lecture was organ- ised by the International Ocean University and the University of Malta. The Minister spoke on the role of Unctad and the Doha Manar Document. He also spoke about the city of Doha in its capacity as a successful destination for holding international conferences. The President of the XIII Unctad expressed his confidence that the city will succeed in hosting the conference due to its strong infra-structure and its experience in hosting other international events. QNA

SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Shafallah set to Childhood centre marks Children’s Day

DOHA: The Childhood Cultural Centre celebrated probe genetics International Children’s day with students from different schools in the country at the Ritz-Carlton. The event held under the behind autism theme ‘One Childhood for One Childhood’ was attended by stu- dents from independent and Canada, China teams join study expatriate schools, with sev- eral members from civil society DOHA: Shafallah that were not inher- organizations and diplomatic Medical Genetics ited from either missions. Center (SMGC) parent. Dr Hind Al Muftah, Director is set to begin a This approach will General of the Childhood research to find the help in identifying Cultural Centre said, “Children genetic causes of new mutations in are the future and the best autism by studying known autism genes, investment is on children. They families with one as well as identifying have the right to enjoy their affected child. new genes that play a childhood rights.” As part of its role in autism. “As we celebrate the ongoing research “This comprehen- International Children’s Day, programme ‘The Hassan Ali bin Ali, sive and extensively there are number of children Genetics of Autism,’ Chairman of the detailed approach has who are suffering and their the Shafallah Medical Shafallah Center, not been attempted childhood has been abused, by Genetics Center and (below) Dr before, and the aggressive regimes in Palestine, (SMGC) is undertak- Hatem El Shanti, results will undoubt- Syria, Iraq and Myanmar.” ing a research pro- Managing Director edly be ground break- The event featured 14 types Children perform a dance at the Children’s Day celebrations. tocol that examines of the Shafallah ing,” said Dr Hatem of folk dances by students rep- the genetic causes Genetics Medical El Shanti, Managing resentatives of different schools of autism by study- Director of the representing different cultures. students from other countries.” children to show their talents.” Child and the Convention on the Center. ing families with one Shafallah Genetics Fatma Ibrahim Al Haji, stu- Natali Al Jhosi, a Jordan stu- Universal Children’s Day Rights of the Child. Qatar is a affected child, utilising Medical Center. dent at Al Falah school for girls dent studying in Doha said, “This events on November 20 to signatory to the children’s rights the latest advances in “The research pro- said, “I’m proud to introduce the celebration is an opportunity to mark the anniversaries of the agreement. technology, includ- tocol is well on its Qatari tradition and heritage to learn other traditions and for Declaration of the Rights of the THE PENINSULA ing next generation way, with all techni- DNA sequencing and cal work being com- genomic approaches, pleted. The generated including whole data is now being ana- genome sequencing. lysed by the SMGC The research pro- team using different JCC enhances BBC partnership to offer more children’s shows tocol is methodically computer based ana- synchronised with lytic software. Sixty- DOHA: Aljazeera Children’s into classical Arabic and will be investigational teams nine whole genomes, Channel (JCC) has recently broadcast on JCCTV and Baraem at the Hospital of Sick Children that is one from each of the par- enhanced its partnership with TV in early next year. in Toronto, Canada and the ents and one from the child of 23 BBC Worldwide, the commer- Programming includes origi- Beijing Genome Institute, China families, represent an enormous cial arm of the BBC to offer a nal wildlife documentaries such with each team working with its amount of data.” wide range of new television as Deadly 60 and Deadly 360, and own generated data. Hassan Ali bin Ali, Chairman shows for its Arab audiences. the natural history children’s The three teams, who met ear- of the Shafallah Center, said: As a result of this agreement, series Andy’s Wild Adventures. lier this month at the American “By working with families at JCC will be able to offer over 180 Other shows include Leonardo – Society of Human Genetics meet- Shafallah Center, SMGC can hours of new BBC programming the exploits of young Leonardo Da ing in San Francisco, collaborate study a small, uniform and with a range of genres such as Vinci and MI High, an adventure on the approach, exchanging uniquely structured population natural history, pre-teen con- comedy about a division of teen expertise, unifying analytic meth- that allows for further analy- tent, adventure, comedy and spies. ods and comparing results. ses and a higher probability of animation. Animated comedy shows The protocol will examine 23 gene discovery. “It is hoped that The shows are fun, appealing include Me and My Monsters; families from Qatar, 33 fami- this approach will identify the and informative, and consist- a comedy show combining pup- lies from North America and 33 genetic cause of autism in about ent with JCC’s content strategy pets and live action, and In The families from China by applying 50 percent of patients, currently around a strict selection process Night Garden, a televisual rep- whole-genome sequencing to the the rate is 25 percent, and will to ensure that all broadcasted resentation of a nursery rhyme A scene from Andy’s Wild Adventures. affected child and both parents. identify novel genes that play content supports children’s self- picture book for preschoolers on This will allow for full genomes a role in autism. We anticipate esteem, creative thinking, and Baraem TV. Another new show is to be compared and for new that results of the research will interactivity, thus becoming a Baby Jake, a live action/animation parents and 10 other children. and Teal – animated adventures mutations to be identified that be published before the end of the part of their learning process. series featuring a nine-month old The selected programming also of two friends, in the middle of the may have occurred in the child year.” THE PENINSULA All programmes will be dubbed baby living in a windmill with his includes The Adventures of Abney big city. THE PENINSULA

Al Dana Run Second case of SARS-like disease confirmed in Qatar

DOHA: The Supreme Council that the laboratory diagnosis of Health (SCH) has confirmed for the new case was conducted that a second case infected with last Tuesday. The patient was the SARS-like coronavirus has admitted at the Hamad General been detected in Qatar. Hospital last October, where he The World Health Orgaisation was treated and his condition (WHO) reported on Friday that gradually improved. He is cur- it has registered four new cases, rently undergoing rehabilitation three in Saudi Arabia (including treatment and can walk, the one death) and one in Qatar, tak- statement added. ing the total number of victims The SCH said that the WHO to six. was officially informed about The UN health agency issued a the second case last Thursday. global alert in late September say- It added that it was monitoring ing a virus previously unknown in the suspected cases and sending humans had infected a 49-year- samples for examination. old Qatari who had recently Until now there are no other travelled to Saudi Arabia, where cases detected in the country another man with the same virus and all those in contact with the had died. patient are in good health, said The SCH said in a statement the statement. THE PENINSULA

Participants registering for Al Dana Run organised by the Doha Bank at the Aspire Zone yesterday. Doha Bank hosted a special edition of Al Dana More families seek help Green Run community fun and awareness event to mark Qatar hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Green Run was held at Aspire Zone where participants negotiated a 3-km course set around Khalifa Stadium and its surrounding facilities. SALIM MATRAMKOT from consultation center

DOHA: The number of citi- and women who fall victims to zens and expatriates seek- violence. SFS-Q students discuss woes of Palestinians ing the services of the Family The data were issued on the Consultation Center has gone occasion of the International Day up manifold over the past four for the Elimination of Violence DOHA: The Georgetown The initiative was initially born my time, and being a student of Legal System, followed by a years, show data released by against Women observed on University School of Foreign out of SFS-Q student, Malik International Politics, didn’t want screening of the movie Occupation the Qatar Statistics Authority November 25 every year. Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) held Habayeb’s previous internship it to simply end when I returned 101 on the third day. (QSA). The Parental Care Section a series of lectures and talks as in Palestinian refugee camps on home. I really wanted to make full The fourth day of the event In 2011, a total of 26,023 people at the centre provides serv- part of the entirely student led the West Bank, and his desire to use of many and varied resources saw a panel discussion with used the services of the Center ices such as nursing, visits or Justice in Palestine Week, at ensure that this experience lived available at SFS-Q, to turn my Professor Sharqieh, SFS-Q and against 3,695 beneficiaries in 2007, accommodation. SFS-Q, recently. on after his time there had come experience into something sus- Professor Hroub of Northwestern with a rapid increase during the The centre provides several The week-long student event to an end. tainable and hopefully impacting.” University, Qatar, which one year period from 2010 to 2011, psychological, educational, social, held between November 18 and “It all started once I returned The event was divided themati- addressed two crucial topics: the with 14,030 beneficiaries in 2010. legal and Shariah-related services 22 was designed to give SFS-Q from my two month internship cally throughout the week. The two-state Vs one state debate, and The centre, set up in 2003, has and consultations. students the opportunity to learn spent in three Palestinian refu- first day focused on the History the role of the international com- a team of specialists who provide There were 2095 visitors in crucial facts, hear informed opin- gee camps, based in Ramallah, and Geography of Palestine. munity with specific reference to consultancy and support to fami- 2011 of whom 55.5 percent were ions and have an open environ- Bethlehem and Nablus,” Habayeb The second day involved an in- the US and UN. The panel discus- lies to help them deal with family Qatari women and 44.6 per cent ment to foster discussion on the said. depth look at the International sion was moderated by Habayeb. related issues and problems and non-Qatari women. heavily debated Palestine issue. “I was inspired and touched by Community and the International THE PENINSULA provide protection for children THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Officials of Qatar Foundation and Tokyo-based ITOCHU Corporation during the signing ceremony in Doha recently. Tokyo’s ITOCHU to invest in HBKU education projects Agreement signed during WISE conference

DOHA: Tokyo-based ITOCHU which will help individual stu- “ITOCHU has been a great Corporation has tied up with dents from around the world. I admirer of Qatar and its peo- Qatar Foundation for Education, am pleased that ITOCHU, which ple for our good past experi- Science and Community is a partner in Qatar’s oil and gas ences working together,” said Development to invest $7.5m industry, is now also a partner Yoichi Kobayashi, Executive Vice over five years in Hamad bin in our journey towards becom- President of ITOCHU. “Today Khalifa University’s (HBKU) ing a knowledge-based society marks another milestone, hav- education programmes. and setting a good example for ing entered into a new stage of “It is a great honour for corporate responsibility toward cooperation, and it is our hon- ITOCHU to cooperate with the seducation,” Sheikh Abdulla bin our to be part of this wonderful State of Qatar in the development Ali Al Thani, PhD., President of occasion.” of a new generation of leaders,” HBKU and Chairman of WISE, The signing ceremony took Masahiro Okafuji, President and said. place in Doha during the World CEO ITOCHU Corporation, said. ITOCHU’s contribution dem- Innovation Summit for Education, “We sincerely believe that our onstrates its long-term commit- an international platform that contribution to this programme ment to Qatar’s higher education encourages the sharing of inno- will deliver further prosperity for initiatives, and that it is commit- vative ideas and best practices the state and strengthen bonds ted to providing students with in education amongst industry, between the citizens of Qatar and the financial resources necessary academia, international organi- Japan,” he added. to obtain an education that will sations, the voluntary and public “We very much welcome the enable them to serve as the lead- sectors, and the media. support of ITOCHU Corporation ers of tomorrow. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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CHAIRMAN: SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI Many wars EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: KHALID AL SAYED E-MAIL: [email protected] ACTING MANAGING EDITOR: HUSSAIN AHMAD Even in the midst of many conflicts E-MAIL: [email protected] raging in the region, Syrian rebels are EDITORIAL: TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR. continuing to make gains. E-MAIL: [email protected] ow many conflicts can a region suffer at a time? It seems that slow down their attempts to oust Assad. ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 Middle East conflicts have a nasty habit of occurring all at At the same time, rebels in Syria are fighting hard, paying scant Honce. Last week, all eyes were on the war between Gaza and attention to what is happening outside their and seem to be winning. CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected] Israel, as Israel bombarded Gaza with airstrikes and Hamas sent Insurgents on the ground are conquering more territory and confis- SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY rockets to Israel. More than hundred Palestinians were killed in the cating more and more high-grade materiel from President Bashar conflict. Yesterday, Egypt was under focus again as thousands took Al Assad’s regime. Just as Operation Pillar of Defence was kicking TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 to the streets to protest a decree made by President Mohamed Mursi off over Gaza on November 14, the Free Syrian Army took the entire E-MAIL: [email protected] which granted him more powers. Clashes were reported all over the city of Al Bukamal along the Iraqi border, where they also took two country as opponents of the decree and supporters of Brotherhood major airbases, giving the opposition a strong military foothold in SUBSCRIPTION RATES came out in force. The situation is likely to worsen as both sides stick Syria’s easternmost province, a vital smuggling route for weapons. ANNUAL QR 675 to their stance and a war of words is raging between Mursi and his These gains will make their goals easy and they are expected to make 6 MONTHS QR 340 detractors. more gains in the coming days. The rebels then claimed a massive Even as conflicts are raging at multiple venues all over the Middle victory on November 18, sacking the Syrian Army’s 46th Regiment, East, the Syrian revolution continued, with rebels and government 15 miles west of Aleppo, after a 50 day-long siege. The real victory forces locked in a bitter battle in Damascus and several other parts was confiscation of war materiel. Rebels captured tanks, armoured of the country. But news of the fighting in Syria received less space in vehicles, Type-63 multiple rocket launchers, artillery shells, howitzers, print and less time on channels in the world yesterday as the months- mortars, and even SA-16 surface-to-air missiles. It’s the first that the old revolution was overtaken by other conflicts. President Bashar Al opposition made such huge gains. PUBLICATION Assad could be gloating over the fact that at least for a brief period, Each conflict is important for the people associated with it. So the world’s attention has been turned away from Syria. And the oppo- whatever the number of conflicts raging in the region, each of it will sition must be worried that the lack of international attention could continue with the same virulence as if it’s the only conflict in the region.

I am waiting to see, I hope soon, a very strong statement The other side of condemnation by the US, by Europe and by everybody who really cares about Quote of human dignity. All eyes on Gaza Mohamed ElBaradei the day Egypt’s Opposition Leader FTER a week of Israeli air strikes and Hamas rocket attacks, a window of opportunity for peace seems to have emerged as Aboth sides have said they support a ceasefire amid intensifying international mediation. Gaza’s wounds are shedding fresh blood again to become a new flashpoint in the Middle East, where the situation is already volatile as a result of the crisis in Syria and the Iranian nuclear standoff. At present, a ceasefire is the only option if the two sides are to de-escalate tensions and prevent more civilian deaths. Getting the two sides to agree a truce should obviously be the immediate goal of the interna- tional community’s mediation efforts. And for those attempting to broker a ceasefire between the two belligerent parties, such as the United Nations, Egypt and the United States, it is important that they proceed with an impartial approach. However, so far the US’ response to the latest round of Israeli- Palestinian clashes indicates it has no intention of adjusting its policies in the Middle East, which hardly helps peace. It decided to block a draft statement of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, which called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Although the Palestinians, trying to find a home of their own and survive, command sympathies from an absolute majority of nations across the world, Israel enjoys the unwavering support of the US and has military supremacy in the Middle East. According to the United Nations, about one-third of Gaza’s arable land and 85 percent of its fishing waters are totally or partially inac- cessible due to the blockade, which Israel claims is to prevent arms reaching Hamas. For years, Washington has supported Israel against the Palestinians and this has been one of the main reasons for the hostility toward the US in the Arab world. If Israel carries out a ground operation, it could be the spark that ignites a powder keg. Given that Israeli fire is killing Palestinian civilians on a daily basis in the past week, the claim that Israel is just defending its land rings hollow. And the ongoing clashes have already distracted global attention from the crisis in Syria and the Iranian nuclear issue, which still remain to be solved. With US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rushing to the region to step up the US mediation effort, Washington needs to show it truly is committed to peace. CHINA DAILY Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate End the impunity of Congo’s war criminals

BY NAVI PILLAY huge mineral wealth and fertile la Libération du Congo-Zaire mass killings in 2008 in the vil- other violations, including the took time off to loot the homes of land of this part of the eastern (AFDL), which — among other lages of Kalonge and Kiwanja forced recruitment of children, the civilians they were supposed AST MONDAY, when Democratic Republic of the crimes — violently dismantled under the command of Bosco which may amount to interna- to be protecting. One of the main the eastern Congolese Congo. Over the years, ruthless refugee camps in the eastern Ntaganda, who has been indicted tional crimes. reasons behind its poor record is city of Goma once again leaders from within and outside Kivu provinces in October 1996, by the international criminal As demonstrated in the UN the repeated integration, in the Lfell into the hands of Congo have employed local mili- culminating in several large- court. expert panel report, published lulls after various rebellions, of an armed group – this time the tias, rebel movements and mem- scale massacres. Today, Ntaganda is still at on Wednesday, and in earlier the leaders of the AFDL, RCD M23 movement – I had a clear bers of the Congolese army itself, The report also notes how, large, and is one of the M23 UN reports, the M23 and the and CNDP rebel movements. sense of history repeating itself. as well as several generations of from 1998 to 2003, mem- movement’s top leaders. The other groups named above have Peace will only take root if the The name may have changed, but child soldiers, to gain control of bers of another Goma-based group, which includes many all received some degree of sup- leaders of DRC and neighbouring the play and many of its leading the most lucrative areas. They rebel movement, known as other suspected CNDP and port from neighbouring coun- countries jointly decide to make characters remain the same – have consistently used terror, the Rassemblement Congolais RCD war criminals, is led by tries, including Rwanda, with it happen and, in particular, show arguably the most brutal and rape and extreme sexual vio- pour la Démocratie (RCD), also some of the worst violators of devastating and widespread con- genuine resolve to end the devas- tragic situation anywhere in the lence as their primary weap- subjected civilians to numer- human rights in the world, with sequences for the human rights tating impunity of serial human world during the last 20 years. ons, resulting in untold misery ous murderous appalling track situation in DRC. rights violators, whether they Reports suggest that the fall and massive violations of basic attacks. records includ- External state support to a belong to rebel groups or the of Goma has been accompanied human rights for millions. A few years ing responsibil- group led by war criminals is Congolese army. In their sum- by the killing and wounding of In 2010, my office published later, following ity for massacres totally unacceptable, and clearly mit, scheduled for Saturday in scores of civilians — many of a 550-page report that outlined the 2006 national The soldiers who and involvement contravenes UN security council Kampala, those heads of state them children — during the 617 violent incidents in the DRC elections, many in mass rapes. resolutions. Given the appalling and international parties who fighting over the past few days. from 1993 to 2003, each one fighters who had marched into Goma Not surprisingly, criminal record of many M23 support the talks must work Tens of thousands of civilians involving possible gross viola- fought with these this week are led by since M23 first leaders, alarm bells should be jointly to ensure M23 command- have fled, and many journalists, tions of international human groups started the world’s worst emerged in April, ringing loud and clear, but once ers responsible for war crimes human rights defenders, and rights or humanitarian law. One yet another rebel the UN human again international attention find themselves behind bars, not local officials have received death of the most notable of the myriad movement, the violators of human rights teams in has been tepid. reintegrated once again into the threats from M23 elements. groups committing grave crimes Congrès Nations rights. They must be DRC have docu- The Congolese army has itself Congolese army, running gold The fall of Goma is the lat- during that decade of constant pour la Défense du mented numer- been responsible for many grave mines, or enjoying the looted est episode in a longstanding conflict was the Alliance des Peuple (CNDP), held responsible. ous killings of human rights violations. Earlier spoils of long-suffering Goma. cycle of conflict centred on the Forces Démocratiques pour which carried out civilians and this week, soldiers fleeing Goma THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 What Clinton can teach Obama about Israelis

a tough and battle-tested people, they Bill Clinton are eager for recognition and assurance. Although Israel possesses consider- understood a able military power, Israelis are acutely aware of the multiple threats that sur- round their country — from the chaos in fundamental truth Syria to Israel’s north, to the breakdown of authority in the Sinai Peninsula and about Israelis: the flow of weapons to the Gaza Strip, to Iran’s ominous rhetoric and nuclear ambitions. Although they are Moreover, Israelis are well-aware of the anti-Israeli sentiment around the a tough and battle- world. Although most Israelis view their country’s actions as fundamentally just, tested people, they sense how poorly they are perceived abroad. Israelis feel more vulnerable than one might expect from a powerful, seem- they are eager for ingly self-assured country — making the public highly receptive to simple sym- recognition and pathy. Clinton understood this; he knew how to win over Israelis by recognising their concerns. assurance. For example, when Clinton appeared at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, to BY NATAN B SACHS mark the signing of the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty in 1994, he sounded genuine resident Obama was right to to his audience when saying, “So long as dispatch Secretary of State Jews are murdered just because they are Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Jews or just because they are citizens of Middle East last week to help Israel, the plague of anti-Semitism lives broker a cease-fire between and we must stand against it.” PIsrael and Hamas. But as the president Similarly, when Clinton eulogised enters his second term, he faces the pros- Yitzhak Rabin after his assassination in pect of bigger challenges in the Middle 1995, saying in Hebrew, “Shalom, haver” East, most notably on Iran’s nuclear pro- — or “goodbye, friend” — the phrase ech- gram. To make sure the Israeli govern- oed through Israeli public discourse. It Bill Clinton speaks with President Obama in the White House Briefing Room after a private meeting in the Oval Office. ment does not act on its own on Iran, adorned bumper stickers and placards Obama needs to gain the trust of the nationwide, becoming part of the national Israeli public. mourning process. When bombs struck far less supportive of settlement activity States and the international commu- of sharing intelligence and technology And to do that, Obama should look to buses in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ashkelon in the heart of the Palestinian popula- nity deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. — are closer than ever. The remarkable the example of another Clinton — Bill. in February and March of 1996 — as they tion. So when Obama, early in his presi- US military capabilities are far supe- success of the Iron Dome missile-defense Although the former president had his did again last week in Tel Aviv — Clinton dency, insisted on a building freeze in rior to Israel’s and the United States system, the hero of Israel’s latest conflict own fraught relationship with Israeli visited Israel to pay tribute to the fallen all settlements, many Israelis fell in line can rally international support in a with Hamas, is a case in point.The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he and their families. By the president of behind Netanyahu in his opposition to way that Israel cannot. Indeed, if Israel system was developed with US financial managed to gain leverage over Netanyahu the United States coming to show his US pressure. Even though many Israelis trusted Obama’s commitment to prevent backing of more than $200m in 2011, in because he had the trust — and even the support, Israelis thought that he under- are less hawkish than Netanyahu on set- Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, addition to annual military assistance love — of the Israeli public. The lack of stood their pain and anger, much as if the tlements, they rallied behind his stance Netanyahu would not feel the need to and further aid this past year. On the such deep trust is Obama’s biggest deficit bombings had occurred in New York or in the face of the blanket US demand. repeatedly sound alarms on Iran. And other hand, the public does not trust in dealing with Israel. Los Angeles. He visited my former high When Clinton, on the other hand, disa- yet, while Israelis recognise that the Obama’s gut instincts about Israel. Ordinary Israelis, who are keenly school in Jerusalem, which lost alumni in greed with Netanyahu on settlements, his United States shares their concern over In his second term, the president aware of politics, care deeply about the the bombings, and the community was demands were targeted and his motives a nuclear Iran, they do not appreciate should visit Israel to speak directly to US president’s policies and attitudes deeply moved by his gesture. were trusted by Israelis, even though his Obama’s resolve. the public. He should explain yet again, toward their country. Clinton understood The point of Clinton’s visits and words policies weren’t all that different from Obama and Clinton’s presidential in plain language, what seems obvious this and mastered it. He knew how to was not merely to express his love for Obama’s. styles also are very different. Both are to many in Washington: that although make the Israeli people believe that he Israel (and it was matched, one should Viewed from Israel Obama has vacil- exceptionally gifted orators, but where he disagrees with Netanyahu about set- had their interests at heart. Obama has note, by genuine sympathy toward lated between seemingly blanket pressure Clinton is a charmer, Obama is analytical. tlements and how to pursue peace with yet to inspire such trust. While Israelis Palestinians as well). Nor should Obama early in his tenure and apparent acquies- Where Clinton empathised with Israelis’ the Palestinians, his positions stem from respect Obama for his office and his intel- seek the public’s affection as a policy goal cence with Israeli policy later on. Neither fears, Obama appeals to their logic. — rather than contradict — his commit- ligence, he has yet to inspire their trust. in and of itself. But the trust Israelis pressure nor acquiescence is needed now. While not a charmer of Clinton’s stat- ment to Israel. Most acutely, he would To Clinton, who dealt with Netanyahu bestowed on Clinton gave him the room Rather, a more Clintonian approach is ure, Obama has a remarkable ability to convey — yet again — his resolve to pre- when he was prime minister from 1996 to to disagree publicly with the Israeli gov- appropriate: deliberate toughness coupled convey complex ideas. In his first cam- vent Iran from acquiring nuclear weap- 1999, charm comes easily, and the Israeli ernment over policy — such as expansion with convincing love. paign for president, he spoke honestly ons, a commitment that is appreciated public fell for it willingly. The public’s love of settlements in the West Bank and the Obama is not Clinton and should not and subtly about uncomfortable topics: here in Washington but grossly underes- was no accident; Clinton carefully culti- pace of the peace process — while count- try to be. For one thing, the region has racial tensions, income inequality and timated in Israel. Such an appeal could vated it. Even when he strongly disagreed ing on support from ordinary Israelis. changed dramatically since the Clinton international affairs. If used wisely, the go a long way toward getting Israelis to with Netanyahu’s policy, he framed the In a sense, Clinton “triangulated” the years. Israeli perceptions of security same ability may be instrumental in con- trust him on Iran, rather than opt for a disagreements judiciously, using Israeli Israeli political arena similar to how threats are greatly heightened and veying tough policy disagreements with unilateral Israeli strike. public opinion — more moderate on he addressed domestic US politics. By the advance toward peace has stalled. Netanyahu’s government — on issues The next time US leadership is some issues than Netanyahu’s policies appearing, convincingly, to understand However, the Israeli-Palestinian con- where moderate Israelis may be at odds required in the Middle East, the stakes — to his advantage. Sen. John McCain’s the Israeli point of view, he could pres- flict has not gone away — the past week with their government — while simul- may be higher than ever. In a year in recent suggestion that Obama appoint sure the Israeli government over policy has demonstrated all too clearly — and taneously expressing genuine affinity which the crisis over Iran’s nuclear pro- Bill Clinton as his Mideast envoy shows on which many Israelis themselves were there’s an urgent need to stop further toward Israel and an understanding of gram may finally come to blows, it is Clinton’s lingering relevance. But no divided. For example, although most backsliding and bloodshed. Even more Israelis’ security concerns. essential that the president utilize all the envoy can replace the role and power of Israelis are sympathetic to settlers in the acutely, the crisis over Iran’s nuclear pro- An appeal to the Israeli public could tools at his disposal. And this includes the the sitting US president. major settlement blocs of the West Bank gram looms larger than ever. help resolve the paradox of Obama’s goodwill and trust of Netanyahu’s bosses: Clinton understood a fundamental — they think these communities must be As its leaders have made clear, Israel standing in Israel. On the one hand, rela- Israel’s citizenry. truth about Israelis: Although they are part of Israel in any peace deal — they are would greatly prefer that the United tions between the countries — in the way WP-BLOOMBERG China’s slow-motion thaw of relations with Taiwan

influences. Those Taiwanese driven into Political decisions on both sides hastened exile by the Civil War of the 1940s and their children now became agents of new the reunion. Taiwan’s comparative consumer lifestyles as they travelled back and forth between the two countries, tak- ing new customs and tastes with them. advantage in human and material When the father of one of my former Taiwanese students travelled to see his resources and Chinese demand for those relatives in rural Henan province, he didn’t arrive empty-handed. Like tens of thousands of other Taiwanese visitors, he resources created strange bedfellows. returned to China with lavish presents. He had intended to give his relatives a BY KARL GERTH high well into the 1980s. In the centre colour television, one of the most coveted of Taipei, giant placards proclaimed the products in China at the time — but they uick, when did the Cold War national goal: “Retake the mainland!” begged him not to. Not only would it elicit end? One obvious choice: June But starting the same year as Reagan’s envy, they feared, it would force his rela- 1987, when President Ronald memorable speech, shared economic inter- tives to host TV parties for family, friends QReagan stood in front of the ests and history would lead to a gradual and hangers-on. Such gift-giving became Berlin Wall that separated communist thaw between the two places that would so common that enterprising Taiwanese East Germany from capitalist West dramatically accelerate China’s economic A protester holds the national flag of China during a demonstration in southern Taiwan. stores streamlined the process by allowing Germany and famously challenged the reintegration with capitalist countries. travellers to buy the gifts in Taiwan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear It wasn’t the Taiwanese military but consumers demanded goods — such States as the top market for Taiwanese then pick them up in China. down this wall.” rather a political decision that transformed as fast food and pop music — that the goods. This is all the more remarkable After decades of separation, Taiwanese Yet at about the same time as Reagan’s Taiwan-China economic and cultural Taiwanese were best able to provide. As considering the size of Taiwan and that traveller taught the Chinese much about telegenic dare, far from the glare of the relations. In 1987, Taiwan’s Nationalist Taiwan’s industrial sector became less the two nations remain technically at war. being consumers through everyday cameras, a less sensational but perhaps government lifted martial law and eased competitive internationally, its de-indus- These figures represent not simply interactions, arguably doing more than more significant barrier was crum- restrictions on contact with the mainland. trialising economy needed to find new commodities travelling back and forth any other group to directly transform bling: the one separating communist Many of the exiles who helped Taiwan markets and its workers new jobs. but a transformation of ordinary lives. Chinese consumer culture. Although China from capitalist Taiwan.Nowhere, prosper and grow had been forced to leave The profit motive led the way; manufac- Girls who once lined up by the millions in their visits usually lasted only a few days perhaps, was the Cold War better rep- families and friends behind when they turers and business owners followed. As identical Mao suits to shout Communist or weeks, their gifts and their attitudes resented than in the division of the fled the mainland. As these restrictions a consequence, China has since received Party slogans now wear the trendiest stayed behind. Chinese nation into two blocs separated were lifted, a massive increase in flows of more than $100bn in Taiwanese invest- fashions and sing the latest pop tunes The fall of the Berlin Wall was cele- not only by water but by ideology — by capital, products and eventually people ment. This has funded tens of thou- from Taipei while walking down streets brated as the triumph of capitalism over communism and capitalism at their most between Taiwan and China resulted. sands of projects all over China, even in full of restaurants and clubs. communism, with clear winners and los- strident. Starting in 1949, more than a Political decisions on both sides has- Nanchang, the birthplace of the com- Perhaps as important as this resump- ers. But in East Asia, the struggle between million mainland Chinese retreated to tened the reunion. Taiwan’s compara- munist state. Today, more than 70,000 tion of trade was Taiwan’s partial lifting these ideologies hasn’t had such a clear or Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, leader of tive advantage in human and material Taiwanese companies have investments of a travel ban to China upon the death dramatic resolution. Rather, the intro- the Western-backed Nationalist Party, resources and Chinese demand for those in the mainland. Trade between the two of Chiang Kai-shek’s son, Chiang Ching- duction and spread of capitalism and leading to a long-running civil war with resources created strange bedfellows. countries now breaks records yearly and kuo. This led to an informal cultural consumerism into China has occurred in the Chinese Communist Party. Military As China’s economic reforms advanced has amounted to more than $2trn since exchange as families, divided for decades, countless small ways. The effects are still tensions between the countries ran in the 1980s, more and more mainland 1987. In 2002, China replaced the United reunited and shared a tide of cultural unfolding. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Mursi faces judicial revolt over decree Judges accuse the president of violating their independence; Brotherhood, opponents call for big protest on Tuesday

CAIRO: Egyptian President Egypt’s highest judicial author- prosecutor general - a Mubarak Mohammed Mursi faces a rebel- ity, the Supreme Judicial Council, hold over - and appoint a new one. lion from judges who accused said the decree was an “unprec- The dismissed prosecutor general, him yesterday of expanding his edented attack” on the independ- Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, was powers at their expense, deep- ence of the judiciary. given a hero’s welcome by several ening a crisis that has triggered Youths clashed sporadically thousand judges who attended the calls for more protests following with police near Tahrir Square, session of Egypt’s Judges’ Club in a day of violence across Egypt. the epicentre of the uprising Cairo yesterday. Judges in Alexandria, Egypt’s that toppled Mubarak in 2011, Ahmed Al Zind, head of second city, threatened to go on following Friday’s violence in the Judges’ Club, introduced strike until it was revoked, and which more than 300 people were Mahmoud by his old title, in open there were calls for the “downfall injured across Egypt. Activists defiance of Mursi’s decree. of the regime” - the rallying cry camped out for a second day in The Mursi administration in the uprising that toppled Hosni the square, setting up makeshift has defended the decree on the Mubarak - during a meeting of barricades to keep out traffic. grounds that it aims to speed judges in Cairo. up a protracted transition from Mursi’s opponents and sup- POLARISATION Mubarak’s rule to a new system porters - representing the divide Liberal, leftist and socialist of democratic government. between newly empowered parties called a big protest for Analysts say it reflects the Islamists and a more secular- Tuesday to force Mursi to row Brotherhood’s suspicion towards minded opposition - have called back on a decree they say has sections of a judiciary unreformed rival demonstrations on Tuesday exposed the autocratic impulses from Mubarak’s days. over his decree that has triggered of a man once jailed by Mubarak. “It aims to sideline Mursi’s concern in the West. In a sign of the polarisa- enemies in the judiciary and ulti- Issued late on Thursday, it tion in the country, the Muslim mately to impose and head off any marks an effort by Mursi to con- Brotherhood - the group that pro- legal challenges to the constitu- solidate his influence after he suc- pelled Mursi to power - called its tion,” said Elijah Zarwan, a fel- cessfully sidelined Mubarak-era own protests that day to support low with The European Council generals in August. It defends the president’s decree. on Foreign Relations. from judicial review decisions At least three Brotherhood “We are in a situation now Egyptian anti-President Mursi protesters hurl stones at security forces, during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, taken by Mursi until a new parlia- offices were attacked on Friday. where both sides are escalating yesterday. ment is elected in a vote expected “We are facing a historic and its getting harder and harder early next year. moment in which we either com- to see how either side can grace- where several thousand protest- the Arabic word for uprising. “The constitution have rallied behind It also shields the Islamist- plete our revolution or we aban- fully climb down.” ers massed on Friday to demon- people support the president’s the decree. The Nour Party, one dominated assembly writing don it to become prey for a group Following a day of violence in strate against the decree that has decisions,” declared Freedom and such group, stated its support Egypt’s new constitution from a that has put its narrow party Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and rallied opposition ranks against Justice, the newspaper run by the for the Mursi decree. Al Gama’a raft of legal challenges that have interests above the national inter- Suez, the smell of teargas hung Mursi. Brotherhood’s political party. Al Islamiya, which carried arms threatened the body with disso- est,” the liberal Dustour Party over Tahrir Square. Al Masry Al-Youm, one of The ultraorthodox Salafi against the state in the 1990s, said lution, and offers the same pro- said in a statement. A handful of hardcore activists Egypt’s most widely read dailies, Islamist groups that have been it would save the revolution from tection to the Islamist-controlled Mursi also assigned him- hurling rocks battled riot police hailed Friday’s protest as “The pushing for tighter applica- what it described as remnants of upper house of parliament. self new authority to sack the in the streets near the square, November 23 Intifada”, invoking tion of Islamic law in the new the Mubarak regime. REUTERS

Campaign meeting Rebels attack Hamas defiant as Israel Aleppo, shelling in Damascus eases Gaza curbs

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels GAZA: Israel eased restrictions years, its gunboats often enforc- attacked army positions in the on Gaza fishermen and farmers ing the rule, a measure Israel said northern province of Aleppo yesterday, Palestinian officials was intended to prevent weap- yesterday while violence also said, advancing a three-day-old ons smuggling. Murad Al Issi, a raged in and around the capital, truce brokered by Egypt after a member of a fishermen’s group, monitors and residents said. week of fierce fighting. said his colleagues had already Regime forces shelled the Gaza’s children also headed ventured out to the 6-mile limit northeast and southwest out- back to school in their hundreds of yesterday, undisturbed by Israel. skirts of Damascus as clashes thousands, in another indication “The Israeli army naval boat broke out in the western district normal life was returning after which used to fire and torch of Kfar Sousa and in the south of eight days of fierce cross-border Palestinian boats that sailed the city, a watchdog said. fighting in which 166 Palestinians beyond a 3-mile distance watched The Syrian Observatory for and six Israelis were killed. without doing anything to prevent Human Rights gave an initial Nonetheless, senior Hamas them,” Issi said. Palestinians say toll of nine people killed in vio- leader Mahmoud Al Zahar the Israeli restrictions had ham- lence nationwide, after 61 people Supporters of former Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, hold his portrait as they attend an electoral showed how fragile the ceasefire pered the amount and variety of died on Friday, including 21 in the remained, with defiant remarks fish they could catch. campaign meeting in Algiers yesterday. Algeria will hold local elections on Thursday for the renewal of the Damascus region. to reporters of how the Islamists Inside Gaza, Palestinian farm- members of 1541 municipal popular assemblies and 48 Provincial Popular Assemblies. Yesterday, troops attacked the would go on smuggling in weapons ers tended land along the testy town of Daraya near Damascus, “by all possible means”, including frontier with the Jewish state the scene of the worst massacre in via Israel’s arch-foe Iran. without incident, signalling Israel the 20-month conflict where more Darfur rebels ‘seize’ Sudan army base A statement from the office was easing restrictions of the past than 500 people were killed in late of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail 3 years barring Palestinians from August, according to monitors. Haniyah said Egypt had notified coming within 300 metres of a “Regime forces are attempting KHARTOUM: Sudanese the equipment inside, with five on armed forces members freed by them that “Israel has allowed border fence. The change took to break into Daraya,” said the rebels have seized an army our side wounded,” he said from the SLA’s Minni Minnawi faction. Palestinian fishermen to fish in place a day after Israeli troops Local Coordination Committees, compound in the Darfur region, his base in France. Hillu added “The released soldiers, two of Gaza’s waters at a distance of killed a Palestinian man at a Gaza a network of activists on the the insurgents said yesterday, that the rebels then repulsed a whom needed medical care, were 10km, up from 3 miles”. border fence, saying protesters ground. as the Red Cross reported the government counter-attack and handed over to the Sudanese The Egyptian-brokered truce there threw stones and tried to An official source quoted by release of three soldiers cap- are now “counting their bodies”. authorities in North Darfur,” an deal agreed on Wednesday calls breach the barrier. Palestinians state media said the assault on tured by rebels. Sudan’s army spokesman could ICRC news release said. on Israel to ease curbs on coastal denounced the shooting as a vio- Daraya “led to the elimination of The pre-dawn attack came not be reached for comment. “The SLA-MM and the Gaza, which it has largely block- lation of the ceasefire and Egypt a number of the most dangerous on Friday about five kilometres Kebkabiya is about 150km Sudanese authorities asked us to aded since Hamas, which rejects intervened to restore calm. terrorist snipers of Al Qaeda who northeast of Kebkabiya in North west of El Fasher, the capital of assist in the transfer of the sol- the Jewish state’s right to exist, Hamas security officials were on were holed up in the homes of dis- Darfur state, said Ibrahim Al North Darfur state where vio- diers in our capacity as a neutral took power there in 2007. patrol and Israeli soldiers looked placed residents.” Hillu, spokesman for the Sudan lence has surged. Separately, the intermediary,” Jean-Christophe Israel had formally barred on without interfering, but for a In the central province of Liberation Army’s (SLA’s) International Committee of the Sandoz, head of the ICRC in Gaza fishermen from heading brief verbal exchange between one Homs, the Observatory and activ- Abdelwahid Nur faction. “We Red Cross said it assisted in the Sudan, said in the statement. more than 3 miles out into the soldier and a Hamas guard, wit- ists reported fierce bombardment captured the compound and all transfer on Saturday of three AFP Mediterranean Sea for about 3 nesses said. REUTERS of the rebel-held towns of Qusayr and Rastan, which the army has been trying to retake for months. In northern Syria, insurgents went on the offensive, attack- ing troops guarding the strate- Arafat’s body to be exhumed on Tuesday for poison tests gic Tishrin dam, located on the Euphrates river between the Aleppo and Raqa provinces. RAMALLAH: The body of the allegations of Israeli involvement Eight years is considered a The rebels have surrounded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Late Turkish leader’s autopsy finds poisons could stir further tension between limit to detect any traces of the the area, about 10km from the will be exhumed on Tuesday, the Palestinians and Israel, which deadly radioactive substance, town of Manbij, local resident eight years after his death, in ISTANBUL: An autopsy of the exhumed remains of Turkish are observing a truce after a week according to the Swiss Institute Abu Mohammed said. Opposition an investigation to establish if president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, revealed the of fierce fighting in Gaza. of Radiation Physics. fighters already control one of he was murdered, a Palestinian presence of four poisons, the pro-government daily Today’s Any positive results for polo- Tirawi said Arafat’s body the main routes to Raqa and the official said yesterday. Zaman reported yesterday. Pathologists discovered the presence nium could rekindle Palestinian would be exhumed from its lime- Tishrin dam would give them a A French court opened a mur- of the insecticide DDT at 10 times the level considered normal, hostility towards Israel and sus- stone mausoleum in Ramallah, second passage, connecting a wide der inquiry in August into Arafat’s as well as traces of the heavy metal cadmium and both polonium picions that a local collaborator away from the public or media expanse of territory between the death in Paris after a Swiss insti- and americium, two radioactive substances, the English-language may have poisoned him under presence, and separate samples two provinces, both of which bor- tute said it had discovered high paper said, quoting the Forensic Medicine Council. directions from the Jewish state. will be taken by the French and der Turkey. levels of radioactive polonium on The pathologists think the poisons together were enough to kill Allegations of foul play have Swiss forensic teams, as well as a In Aleppo city, the commercial his clothing, which was supplied Ozal, Today’s Zaman said, adding that the autopsy report would be long surrounded Arafat’s demise. Russian team of experts, who the capital where fighting has reached by his widow, Suha. handed over to legal authorities soon. The americium and polonium He died in a Paris hospital in Palestinians invited to help with stalemate after five months of Tawfiq Al Tirawi, in charge of would have weakened the president, while the DDT, ingested in food November 2004, a month after the examination. deadly urban combat, clashes the Palestinian committee over- or drink, would have accelerated his demise, the report said. Ozal’s being flown, seriously ill, from his After the investigation “the broke out near an air force intel- seeing the investigation, told remains were exhumed in early October after prosecutors issued headquarters in the West Bank body of leader Abu Ammar will be ligence building, the Britain-based reporters in Ramallah yester- a warrant for toxicology tests. Family members have long believed town of Ramallah. returned (reburied) in a military Observatory said. day “it is a painful necessity” to that Ozal, an ethnic Kurd who was seeking a negotiated solution to French doctors who treated ceremony that is befitting him as In Hasakeh province, north- exhume the body of Arafat, who the bloody conflict with Kurdish separatists in the southeast when him in his final days said they a leader of the Palestinian people”, west Syria, Ras Al Ain has seen came to symbolise the Palestinian he died, was poisoned. AFP could not establish the cause of Tirawi said, using Arafat’s non de its fiercest violence since the town quest for statehood throughout death, and no autopsy was per- guerre. near the Turkish border was cap- decades of war and peace with formed in deference to his widow’s Tirawi said results could tured by rebels two weeks ago, a Israel. “evidence which suggests Arafat Israel denies any involvement. request at the time, when Arafat take up to several months to be resident said. AFP Tirawi said the Palestinians had was assassinated by Israelis”. The exhumation and renewed died at 75. announced. AFP SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Dubai plans new city, Saudi Grand Mufti warns against unrest JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s also run high over Iran’s disputed urged owners to use them to promote Grand Mufti has issued a nuclear programme, which Gulf Arab security and obey their country’s condemnation of demon- rulers fear could help Iran acquire rulers. strations that appeared nuclear weapons. Recently, Iran had accused Saudi world’s largest mall to blame Iran for unrest The Al Saud dynasty rules in alli- Arabia of conducting exploration among Shia Muslims in ance with clerics who back the royal activities in prohibited border areas, Gulf Arab states. family and have wide influence over hitting back at its major rival for “The Arab Gulf is being Saudi society. regional influence after Riyadh com- Projects named Mohammed bin Rashid City and Mall of the World targeted by attacks seek- Al Watan said Al Sheikh also plained of Iranian encroachments on ing to discredit religion lashed out at what he called “satel- its oil and gas fields in the Gulf. DUBAI: Dubai, famed for its residential areas, although the and entertainment destination, and eliminate the mate- lite channels that broadcast evil” and AFP/REUTERS mega-projects before it was hit emirate continues to have a sur- with 62 million visitors this year. rial interests and wealth by the global financial crisis, plus of units built during a five- “The current facilities available it holds,” Al Watan news- yesterday announced a new year bubble which burst in 2009. in Dubai need to be scaled up in paper quoted Sheikh development to open the world’s The “Mall of the World” will line with the future ambitions for Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al biggest mall and a park larger have a capacity of 80 million visi- the city,” Sheikh Mohammed said Al Sheikh as saying in his than London’s Hyde Park. tors a year to become the “largest in the statement. Friday sermon in Riyadh. The ruler of Dubai, H H in the world,” said the statement, Dubai’s tourism is growing by Al Sheikh warned peo- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al while its park will be “30 per- 13 percent a year, according to ple not to follow “enemies” Maktoum, announced the plan for cent bigger than Hyde Park of the statement, with hotel occu- who called on them to pro- a “new city within Dubai,” accord- London.” pancy hitting 82 percent in 2011 test, saying they aimed to ing to an official statement, nam- The mall will be connected to while hotel revenues grew 22 per- divide the people of the ing it after himself. a family entertainment centre to cent last year, exceeding Dh16bn region. No cost was stated for be developed in cooperation with ($4.4bn). Unrest has erupted “Mohammed bin Rashid City,” Universal Studios International The emirate rocked global among majority Shias in to be carried out by his Dubai that will be the largest in the financial markets in autumn 2009 Bahrain and minority Holding and the publicly-listed region, aiming to attract six mil- over its debt crisis, but Dubai Shias in Eastern Saudi Emaar Properties, which devel- lion visitors a year. has restructured the mountain Arabia in the last two oped many of Dubai’s prestigious The emirate already has count- of debt owed by its corporations, years. Sunni authorities projects, including Burj Khalifa, less malls and hotels, including and its economy has returned to have repeatedly blamed the world’s tallest tower. the Dubai Mall, touted as the growth after contracting in 2009. Shia Iran, which denies The plan also features new world’s largest shopping, leisure AFP involvement. Tension has

Larijani meets Nasrallah Lebanon police arrest suspects in bomb plot against Shias

BEIRUT: The Lebanese army said yesterday it had arrested five Syrian men found with explosives and suspected of plan- ning an attack on a Shias procession on Sunday. The war in neighbouring Syria, pitting majority Sunni Muslim rebels against President Bashar Al Assad’s inner circle of Alawites - an offshoot of Shia - has widened rifts in Lebanon, still politically divided along sectarian lines deepened by its own 15-year civil war. Lebanon’s Shia militant group Hezbollah has sided with Assad and anger is growing among Sunnis and other groups sympa- thetic to the Syrian opposition. The arrests in the southern town of Nabatiyeh followed an army raid on a house where 450 grammes of explosives were discovered, the army said. The men were believed to have been planning to attack a procession in the town on Sunday to mark the Shia festival of Ashura. Hezbollah leader sayyed Hassan Nasrallah with Iranian Parliament “The five Syrians have been living in Lebanon for years. They Speaker Ali Larijani in Beirut, yesterday. are thought to have been planning an attack on Shias,” a source said on condition of anonymity. REUTERS SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Students in Italy stage 200th anniversary anti-austerity protest Thousands demonstrate in Rome and several cities

ROME: Thousands of high of a march in Rome. After years across Italy to protest eduction school students, teachers and of budget cuts, high school stu- cuts. unionists demonstrated in dents now fear the passage of a Youth unemployment levels Rome and several other Italian controversial education reform three times the national average cities yesterday against deep bill currently before parliament have propelled students to the cuts in spending on public that would allow schools to seek front of street demonstrations education. private rather than state funding which have spiralled out of con- “Down with the Crisis and and reduce teachers’ power. trol, with violent clashes between Austerity, Let Us Reclaim Our Students last week staged doz- teenagers and riot police firing Lives,” read a banner at the head ens of “occupations” of schools tear gas at some protests. Yesterday in southern Naples, hundreds of high school students also demonstrated, some setting People dressed in the historic uniforms of the Imperial Russian and French army led by Napoleon take part in off firecrackers. a re-enactment of the 1812 Battle of Berezina, to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle, near the village of In Palermo, protesters walked Bryli, east of Minsk, Belarus, yesterday. behind a cardboard coffin to symbolise the death of the public school. Another march was organ- Sarkozy denies receiving money ised in Rome by the Cobas union, whose spokesman Piero Bernocchi estimated the number of protest- ers Saturday at more than 5,000. from France’s richest woman “No to the destruction of the public school” and “Banks run PARIS: Former president about the report. “I have known for the conservative camp in politics, the private sector wants Nicolas Sarkozy denied receiv- the Bettencourts since I was the next presidential contest in to run schools,” shouted the ing “a penny” in campaign funds 28-years-old. I am now 57,” 2017. Initial suspicions over fund- demonstrators, including many from France’s richest woman Sarkozy told judges, according to ing were fuelled three years ago teachers. Liliane Bettencourt, according excerpts. when a woman who worked as an Italy slid into a recession at to excerpts of his testimony to “I have conducted five munici- accountant for the mentally frail the end of 2011 and the govern- judges published on Saturday by pal campaigns,” Sarkozy said Bettencourt alleged that a large ment has said it does not expect a the French daily Sud-Ouest. about the Paris suburb Neuilly of cash withdrawal was earmarked return to growth before next year Sarkozy, who lost power in May, which he was mayor and where for Sarkozy’s presidential election at the earliest. was questioned for 12 hours on Bettencourt and her daughter campaign. The Bettencourt family, On Thursday, Italy’s lower Thursday by a judge who is trying still live. “They never gave me which is still the largest individual house of parliament approved to establish whether his election a penny, I never gave them one shareholder in cosmetics giant budget measures, including cuts win in 2007 was aided by illegal and I never asked them for any- L’Oreal with a 30 percent stake, to the education sector, aimed at funding by the L’Oreal heiress. thing. I was not going to start has long had close connections with Students march during a demonstration against tax hikes on university pulling the country out of deep He denies any wrongdoing and at 52 as France’s president.” the UMP Party of Sarkozy, who lost fees and a cut in scholarships in the wake of the economic crisis, in Rome, debt. The measures will now go his spokeswoman was not imme- Sarkozy has bowed out of politics presidential immunity when he left yesterday. before the Senate. AFP diately available to comment but remains a possible candidate office. REUTERS

Pope elevates six cardinals to Ukraine remembers 80 years since Stalin-era famine KIEV: Ukraine yesterday “It is 80 years since the catas- girl dying in the Holodomor. genocide against Ukrainians. Yanukovych said in his statement. choose successor marked 80 years since the trophe came to our lands,” Ukrainian nationalists have In a move many saw as an The magnitude of the death VATICAN CITY: Six new Stalin-era Holodomor famine, President Viktor Yanukovych always regarded the Holodomor attempt to appease former Soviet toll remains hugely controversial cardinals yesterday joined the one of the darkest pages in its said in a statement. “This crime as a genocide specifically aimed by master Russia, Yanukovych in among historians, with estimates elite club of red-robed church- entire history that left millions changed the course of history Stalin’s regime at eradicating the 2010 said it would be wrong to of those who died in Ukraine men who will elect the next dead and which is regarded by for the Ukrainian people. It was potentially awkward Ukrainian seek genocide recognition as ranging from five million to nine pope, bringing a more geo- many as a genocide. one of the worst crimes that we peasantry as a class. Stalin-era famine was a catastro- million. graphically diverse mix into the The 1932-33 famine took place suffered.” Yanukovych however has con- phe suffered all over the Soviet Ukraine has remembered European-dominated College of as harvests dwindled and Josef The country held a nationwide troversially dropped the moves Union. the Holodomor (which means Cardinals. Pope Benedict XVI Stalin’s Soviet police enforced minute of silence after thousands by his more nationalist predeces- “Our duty is to remember extermination by starvation in presided over the ceremony in the brutal policy of collectivis- of people marched through central sor, the 2004 Orange Revolution these terrible events. We must Ukrainian) and political repres- St Peter’s Basilica to formally ing agriculture by requisitioning Kiev to the city’s main memorial, leader Viktor Yushchenko, to have do everything so as not to allow sion on the fourth Saturday of elevate the six men, who hail grain and other foodstuffs. the statue of a small, emaciated the Holodomor recognised as a such tragedies in the future,” November since 1998. AFP from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States. As Benedict read each name aloud in Latin, cheers and applause erupted from their friends and family members in the pews. Benedict African presidents said that the new cardinals rep- resent the “unique, universal and all-inclusive identity” of the urge Congo rebels Catholic Church. Police recover stolen to abandon war

Olympia artefacts GOMA/KAMPALA: African initial scepticism about a pro- ATHENS: Greek police have leaders called on eastern rebels posed joint deployment in Goma recovered antiquities stolen in Democratic Republic of Congo that included government troops from a museum in Ancient yesterday to abandon their aim returning. Olympia and arrested three of toppling the government and “Will the population accept people, police said yester- leave the city of Goma they cap- that? I doubt it. The population day. The robbery in February, tured this week. sees that M23 has changed things. which came just after a theft The appeal came from heads of With the (Congolese army) it was at the country’s National state of the central African Great just harassment,” M23 military Gallery, prompted outrage from Lakes region who fear that if left spokesman Vianney Kazarama many arts and culture work- unchecked the offensive by the said. Regional and international ers who said budget cutbacks M23 rebels could drag the volatile, leaders are scrambling to halt from austerity measures had ethnically-diverse and mineral- the fighting in eastern Congo, left Greece’s vast art treasures rich region back into another fuelled by a mix of local and at risk. During the robbery, bloody conflict. regional politics, ethnic rifts and armed thieves overpowered a A statement signed by the competition for large reserves of female guard and made off with Demonstrators shout slogans during an anti-racism protest organised by various anti-fascist and anti-racist groups regional leaders meeting in the gold, tin and coltan. The meet- about 70 bronze, pottery and in central Athens, Greece, yesterday. Ugandan capital Kampala urged ing in Kampala brought together other artefacts at the museum the M23 to abandon its threat to Congo’s President Joseph Kabila in Olympia, birthplace of the overthrow the elected govern- and the heads of state of Uganda, Olympic Games. ment in Kinshasa and to “stop Kenya and Tanzania. Greeks protest against racist attacks all war activities and withdraw But Rwandan President Paul from Goma”. Kagame, who has vehemently Russia frees physicist ATHENS: Hundreds of Greeks turnout at just 1,000. Dozens of or Middle Eastern descent in It proposed deploying a joint denied accusations by Congo joined a demonstration called migrants have reported beatings Athens and other major cities,” force at Goma airport compris- and UN experts that his govern- convicted of spying by leftist groups yesterday to on the street and even inside the embassy said. Earlier this ing of a company of neutral ment is supplying, supporting and MOSCOW: Russia yesterday- protest against a rise in racist their homes in recent months, year Golden Dawn elected 18 dep- African troops, a company of the directing the M23 rebellion, did released a physicist who spent attacks on migrants attributed while unions say Golden Dawn uties to the 300-seat Greek par- Congolese army (FARDC) and a not attend the summit, although eight years in a Siberian prison to a neo-Nazi group that is now members are also putting pres- liament, and its approval ratings company of the M23. he sent his foreign minister. on charges of spying for China in parliament. sure on businesses to fire migrant have climbed to over 10 percent The leaders told M23 “to with- The Congolese government in what supporters maintain At least 3,000 leftists and anar- labourers. in recent opinion polls. draw from current positions to army reinforced its positions was a wrongful conviction moti- chists took part in the Athens Migrant groups say more cases The group has organised not less than 20km from Goma southwest of rebel-held Goma, vated by Soviet-style paranoia. protest, a reporter said, chant- go unreported because the victims food handouts and blood dona- town within two days”, but did not in what appeared to be a move Professor Valentin Danilov was ing slogans against the neo-Nazi are too afraid to testify or are tions, boosting its image in a say what the consequences would to block any further advance by released before dawn from prison group Golden Dawn which rights discouraged by police who turn a country groaning under a third be if the rebels failed to comply. the insurgents, who have routed number 17 in the Siberian city of groups say enjoys protection by blind eye to the attacks. year of austerity and a five-year The rebel M23 movement, Congolese army forces backed by Krasnoyarsk, in an early release racist elements within the police. The US embassy in Athens recession. which has announced it intends United Nations peacekeepers. The with over three years of his orig- “The government and the Nazis earlier this month warned Parliament recently lifted the to “liberate” all of Congo and Great Lakes heads of state also inal sentence remaining. Danilov, are working together,” many Americans to be wary of violent immunity of three Golden Dawn march on the capital Kinshasa proposed that UN peacekeep- 66, was first arrested in 2001 and protesters sang as they marched attacks targeting perceived for- deputies accused of smashing up 1,000 miles to the west, said it ers present in and around Goma sentenced in 2004 to 14 years in on parliament, shadowed by riot eign migrants. migrant stalls at two open-air was still waiting to hear back should provide security in a neutral prison and later reduced to 13 police. “US citizens most at risk are markets so that they can face from its political representative zone between Goma and the new years. AGENCIES The police department put the those of African, Asian, Hispanic trial. AFP in Kampala. But it expressed areas seized by M23. REUTERS SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Brazil officials Natural gas explosion sacked over bribery ring Former president’s aide under probe

BRASILIA: Brazilian Vieira, director for airport infra- President Dilma Rousseff, mov- structure at Brazil’s Civil Aviation ing quickly to nip a new scan- Agency. dal in the bud, ordered the Police accused the brothers dismissal yesterday of govern- of recruiting second-tier gov- ment officials allegedly involved ernment employees who would in a bribery ring, including be open to bribery, while a the country’s deputy attorney third brother also under arrest, general. Marcelo Rodrigues Vieira, con- Federal police raided govern- tacted businessmen willing to pay ment offices in Brasilia and Sao for false or speeded-up approvals. Paulo on Friday and arrested six Police have been investigat- people for running an influence ing the bribery ring since 2010 peddling ring that sold govern- when an official in the govern- ment approvals to businessmen ment accounting office who was in return for bribes. offered $150,000 for a favourable Among those under investi- report got cold feet, returned the gation are the former personal money he had been paid and blew secretary of ex-president Luiz the whistle. Inacio Lula da Silva, Rosemary Early on Friday, police seized de Noronha, who has headed the computers and data from the Fire officials on scene of a large natural gas explosion on Worthington Street which destroyed or damaged a dozen buildings and injured 18 people regional office of the presidency Brasilia office of Deputy Attorney in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, yesterday. Emergency workers were on the scene following a report of a strong gas odour when an explosion in Sao Paulo since 2005. General Jose Weber de Holanda brought down the building. Most of the injured were fire, police or gas workers. The bribery scandal erupted Alves, who has been dismissed on the heels of Brazil’s biggest and is under investigation along political corruption trial that sen- with a dozen other people, includ- tenced some of Lula’s closest aides ing a former senator. to prison terms for buying sup- “By presidential decision, all port in Congress for his minority the government employees under US envoy to UN fights criticism for gaffe Workers’ Party government after investigation by the Federal Police taking office in 2003. will be dismissed or fired from UNITED NATIONS: Susan will oppose her getting the job, Al Qaeda. During the US presi- “sometimes rather rude.” They Rousseff, Lula’s chosen succes- their positions,” a statement form Rice has had a series of diplo- signaling a confirmation battle if dential campaign, supporters attributed some blunt language sor, was not affected by the vote- Rousseff’s office said. She ordered matic triumphs as US ambas- Obama decides to nominate her. of Republican candidate Mitt to Rice — “this is crap,” “let’s kill buying scandal and she has built all agencies mentioned in the sador to the United Nations. Some critics in the US media, Romney seized on the issue to this” or “this is bullshit.” on his popularity by gaining a police probe to open internal inves- President Barack Obama, an old such as Washington Post column- attack Obama. “She’s got a sort of a cowboy- reputation for not tolerating cor- tigations. Police are investigating friend, showed he has her back ist Dana Milbank, have said she is The antipathy in Washington ish attitude,” one Western dip- ruption. But the ruling Workers’ possible bribery cases at several when last week he publicly chal- unsuitable for the position. and elsewhere, though, is based lomat said. “She has a tendency Party was rocked by the scandal other federal agencies, including lenged her Republican critics The immediate source of a lot on more than a series of TV to treat other countries as mere which tarnished Lula’s legacy the Ministry of Education. over the Benghazi controversy of the criticism is her appear- interviews. While UN diplomats (US) subsidiaries.” even though he was not impli- While Noronha served as chief to “go after me” rather than her. ances on Sunday morning televi- and US officials who have dealt Two other diplomats — all three cated. The new corruption case of staff of the president’s regional She knew former Secretary of sion shows in September five days with Rice praise the intellect of were male — supported this view. could further hurt the standing of office in Sao Paulo, Rousseff had State Madeleine Albright from after the US ambassador to Libya, the 48-year-old former Rhodes “She’s not easy,” said David Lula, who remains Brazil’s most inherited her as a Lula appointee. the age of 4. Christopher Stevens, and three scholar and graduate of Stanford Rothkopf, the top manager and influential politician. Ve j a news magazine reported And yet Rice is now fighting for other Americans had been killed and Oxford, they say she has won editor-at-large of Foreign Policy Friday’s arrests included two that Noronha, who was very close her political future. Her chances in Benghazi. few popularity contests during magazine. brothers who were recommended to Lula and travelled with him of becoming the next secretary of Her critics bitterly complain her meteoric rise. “I’m not sure I’d want to take for positions in the federal gov- abroad when he was president, state - replacing Hillary Clinton - that she misled the American Diplomats on the 15-nation UN her on a picnic with my family, ernment by Lula’s former secre- received bribes for influence ped- have been significantly damaged. public by suggesting that the Security Council privately com- but if the president wants her to tary, Noronha: Paulo Rodrigues dling that included a luxury cruise Senior Republicans, such assault was the result of a spon- plain of Rice’s aggressive negoti- be secretary of state, she’ll work Vieira, director of the National trip and plastic surgery. as Senators John McCain and taneous protest rather than an ating tactics, describing her with hard.” Water Agency and Rubens Carlos REUTERS Lindsey Graham, have said they organised assault by affiliates of terms like “undiplomatic” and REUTERS Editor of Irish paper American television star of ‘Dallas’ fame dies of cancer NEW YORK: Larry Hagman suffered from liver cancer and show quickly became one of the Hagman’s black-hearted J R (pictured), who created one cirrhosis of the liver in the 1990s. network’s top-rated programmes, Ewing — grinning wickedly in a quits over of American television’s most Hagman’s mother was stage and built an international following broad cowboy hat and boots, plot- supreme villains in the conniv- movie star Mary Martin and he and inspired a spin-off, imitators ting how to cheat his business Kate photos ing, amoral oilman J R Ewing became a star himself in 1965 on and a revival in 2012. competitors and cheat on his wife. of “Dallas,” died on Friday, the “I Dream of Jeannie,” a popular “Dallas” was the night-time He was the villain TV viewers DUBLIN: The editor of Dallas Morning News reported. television sitcom in which he soap-opera story of a Texas fam- loved to despise during the show’s the Irish Daily Star has He was 81. played Major Anthony Nelson, an ily, fabulously wealthy from oil 356-episode run from 1978 to 1991. resigned after the newspa- Hagman died at a Dallas hos- astronaut who discovers a beauti- and cattle, and its plot brimmed “I really can’t remember half of per published indecent pho- pital of complications from his ful genie in a bottle. with back-stabbing, double-deal- the people I’ve stabbed in the back tos of Prince William’s wife battle with throat cancer, the “Dallas,” which made its pre- ing, family feuds, violence, adul- or driven to suicide,” Hagman said Catherine, its publishers newspaper said, quoting a state- miere on the CBS network in 1978, tery and other bad behaviour. of his character in Time magazine. announced yesterday. ment from his family. He had made Hagman a superstar. The In the middle of it all stood REUTERS Michael O’Kane leaves with immediate effect following his suspension in September, although Independent News & Women’s protest Media said he had at all times Local body slammed for acted in a highly professional and independent manner. On September 15, the Irish newspaper became one of sev- pulling kids from family eral European publications to print paparazzi pictures of the LONDON: British politi- (particular) children are from EU former Kate Middleton sun- cians berated a local council migrant backgrounds and UKIP bathing on the balcony of a in England yesterday after it has very clear statements on end- chateau in France. They had removed children from a fos- ing multi-culturalism, (on) not first appeared in French maga- ter family’s care because of its having that going forward, and I zine Closer, which is currently support for a political party have to think about how sensi- the target of legal action by the that wants the UK to exit the tive am I being to these children,” British royal family. European Union and backs she said. Both Ireland’s INM and tighter immigration rules. Media reports said the council Britain’s Northern and Shell, The row has spotlighted the has launched an investigation into which co-own the Irish Daily UK Independence Party (UKIP) the matter. The council could not Star, had condemned the pub- that has seen its popularity rise be reached for comment. lication. “As a result of the in recent months on the back of UKIP leader Nigel Farage con- publication on 15 September growing voter disenchantment demned the council’s move. 2012, issues arose with the with Britain’s membership of “We are a non-racist, non- shareholders of Independent the EU, and has raised hackles sectarian political party ... they Star Limited,” INM said in a among conservative politicians (the couple) were giving those statement yesterday. who accuse the left of excessive children love and stability and “Having considered those political correctness. all the things they need,” he said. issues in tandem with Mr The decision to remove the “They have been discriminated O’Kane, it is Mr O’Kane’s children from the couple’s care against .... on the basis that they decision to resign as editor of because of their support for UKIP support a party that says we the Irish Daily Star, effective was taken by Rotherham Council shouldn’t be part of the European immediately.” in the north of England which is Union and we should control our It said O’Kane, who had controlled by Britain’s opposition borders and that is the most been with the newspaper for Labour party. appalling prejudice,” he said. Women perform during a march in Independence ten years, “acted at all times Speaking to the BBC, Joyce UKIP’s website calls for an Park to celebrate International Day for the in a highly professional and Thacker, strategic director of end to “mass uncontrolled immi- Elimination of Violence Against Women in Santo appropriate manner and in the children and young people’s serv- gration” and says that no more Domingo, yesterday. According to local media, dur- best interests of the Irish Daily ices on the council, said she had than 50,000 immigrants should ing the last year, 170 women have died from violence Star and followed all editorial to decide whether some foster be allowed to enter Britain each policies and guidelines”. AFP placements were appropriate year. in the Dominican Republic. for particular children. “These REUTERS SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Anti-govt protesters want Thai PM to quit Police fire tear gas, detain demonstrators; violence marks new phase in Thailand’s long-running political crisis

BANGKOK: T h a i p o l i c e y e s t e r - protesters trying to ram through national television. day fired tear gas and detained barriers near the main rally site Thailand has been rocked by a dozens of demonstrators as in the Royal Plaza using a truck. series of sometimes violent rival clashes erupted at the first “Tear gas was used in one area street protests in recent years, major street protests against because protesters did not com- although an uneasy calm had Prime Minister Yingluck ply with the rules,” said national returned after national elections Shinawatra’s government. police spokesman Major General in 2011. The violence, while relatively Piya Uthayo. Two months of mass opposition small scale, appeared to mark a About 100 protesters were protests in 2010 by Red Shirt sup- new phase in Thailand’s long-run- detained while knives and bullets porters loyal to Thaksin -- who ning political crisis pitting Thai were confiscated, he said. was toppled in a coup in 2006 -- royalists against ousted premier Thirty-seven people, including sparked a deadly military crack- Thaksin Shinawatra -- Yingluck’s a number of police officers, were down that left about 90 people brother -- and his supporters. treated for cuts and other inju- dead and nearly 1,900 wounded. About 17,000 police were ries, officials said. At their height, those ral- deployed for the rally in Bangkok’s The authorities called in lies drew about 100,000 people historic district, which was an extra 5,700 police after the demanding the resignation of the organised by the royalist group clashes, but said they would allow previous government. Pitak Siam, a relatively new force the rally to go ahead at the Royal Thaksin’s sister Yingluck is in the kingdom’s fractured politi- Plaza so long as the other protest- now prime minister after his cal scene. ers gathered peacefully. political allies won a landslide “In the name of Pitak Siam Yingluck on Thursday voiced election victory last year. and its allies I promise that we fears the protesters aimed to use Thaksin, who made billions as will topple this government,” the violence and to “overthrow an a telecoms tycoon, is adored by movement’s head, retired general elected government and demo- many poor Thais for his popu- Boonlert Kaewprasit, declared cratic rule”, in a televised address list policies while in power, but from the rally stage. to the nation. reviled by many in elite, military The demo comes two and a half The government invoked the and palace circles who see him as years after dozens of people died Internal Security Act (ISA) in authoritarian and a threat to the in a military crackdown on “Red three districts of the capital to monarchy. Shirt” protests against the previ- cope with possible unrest, giv- The demonstrators at yester- Thai riot police use tear gas while clashing with anti-government Pitak Siam protesters as they were trying to ous government in the heart of ing the police additional powers day’s rally, who included sup- march to the rally site at Makkawan bridge near the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. the capital. to block routes, impose a curfew, porters of the influential “Yellow About 20,000 people were esti- ban gatherings and carry out Shirt” royalist movement, called mated to have joined Saturday’s searches. on Yingluck’s government to northern province of Chiang Mai. following a series of mass protests Shirt leader Thida Thavornseth rally, according to police, far short “We will evaluate the situa- stand down. Observers say prosecutions -- by the rival Yellows. said at a news conference yester- of the half a million organisers tion daily and if it escalates we “I can’t stand that they disre- often targeting people linked to The Red Shirts threatened to day. “We will come out in force if had hoped would attend. are ready to invoke emergency spect the king. I want the gov- the Red Shirts -- for insulting the strike back in the event of a new there is any sign of a coup or the Tensions flared as police fired rule,” Thai police chief General ernment to quit,” said 48-year-old monarchy have surged since roy- coup. government loses control.” several rounds of tear gas at Adul Sangsingkaew said on the farmer Namsai Jantarat from the alist generals overthrew Thaksin “This rally is illegitimate,” Red AFP

Portugal pulls bulk of Court regrets Arroyo plea to dismiss damage suit

MANILA: A Quezon City defendant’s Motion to Dismiss, Army chief Delfin Bangit, former urge the court to convict Arroyo. police from East Timor court has denied the petition and the same has been exhaus- national security adviser Norberto In another case, Commission of former President Gloria tively passed upon by the previous Gonzales, former 2nd Infantry on Elections (Comelec) Chairman DILI: Portugal withdrew East Timor has developed and is Macapagal-Arroyo to dismiss Court. Finding no cogent reason Division chief Maj Gen Jorge Sixto Brillantes said that the pre- the bulk of its police officers secure so it’s also a pleasure to the P15-million civil suit filed to depart from the previous ruling Segovia, Col Victorino Zaragoza, scription period for filing elec- from East Timor yesterday as leave,” he said. against her and other military of Branch 226, the instant motion Maj.Manuel Tabion, Col Aurelio tion offense and other criminal international forces wind up a The UN entered the terri- officials by some members of the is hereby denied,” the decision Baladad, Lt Col Jaime Abawag, charges against the so-called 13-year mission in Asia’s young- tory, officially known as Timor so-called “Morong 43.” reads. and Superintendents Marion “Garci Boys” who rigged the 2004 est nation, where thousands Leste, after violence broke out In a decision promulgated yes- The civil suit stemmed from Balolong and Allan Nubleza. elections should have already have died in political bloodshed. in 1999 following the resounding terday, Judge Afable Cajigal of the the case filed by six members of Montes said that while the expired, except for Arroyo, who Seventy-five of the officers “yes” vote for independence from Quezon City Regional Trial Court the Morong 43 for their supposed former president was not directly stepped down from office in 2010. boarded a Lisbon-bound plane neighbouring Indonesia. (RTC) Branch 96 denied Arroyo’s illegal arrest and torture under involved in their torture, Arroyo “The Garci Boys were in 2004 in the former Portuguese colony, The referendum was organ- motion for reconsideration asking the hands of the military in 2010. should be held accountable since so it should have prescribed among the last of 1,200 UN peace- ised by the UN after Indonesia the court to overturn the decision The case was filed by Alex she has knowledge of the incident already. The prescription for elec- keepers to return home before announced it would end a bru- of Branch 226 Pairing Judge Cleto Montes, Merry Mia Clamor, Gary as she was the commander-in- tion offense is five years,” he said. the official end of their mission tal, 24-year occupation in which Villacorta to junk the motion to Liberal, Ma. Teresa Quinawayan, chief of the AFP. The so-called Garci Boys refer on December 31. around 183,000 people, roughly dismiss the case filed against the Reynaldo Macabenta, and Mercy “We are happy that the case is to some Comelec officials associ- Only around three dozen UN a quarter of the population, Pampanga representative. Castro. finally moving,” Montes said. ated with former Comelec com- Police remain in the country, died from fighting, disease and “Gleaned from the said Motion Aside from Arroyo, also named Around 20 members of the missioner Virgilio Garcillano and including several from Portugal, starvation. for Reconsideration were reit- respondents were former Armed Justice for the Morong 43 mentioned in his alleged wire- Australia, Malaysia and Pakistan. The nation conducted peaceful erations and mere rehash of Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Movement went to the Quezon tapped conversation with Arroyo. Most of them will leave next week presidential and parliamentary the grounds relied upon in the chief Victor Ibrado, former City Hall of Justice yesterday to THE PHILIPPINE STAR and all will have to withdraw by elections this year, and UN peace- December 31. keepers last month handed full International forces began responsibility for policing back pulling out in earnest last month to the nation, which celebrated Retired policemen with Canberra this week saying a decade of formal independence Aquino ignores call it was sending home hundreds in May. of troops from the Australian- Portugal, which controlled led International Stabilisation East Timor for more than 300 to quit smoking Force (ISF), ending a six-year years before Indonesia invaded, MANILA: Philippine President operation. is among 44 nations that have Benigno Aquino will not quit At the UN’s terminal in Dili’s served in the current UN Police smoking despite the coun- Presidente Nicolau Lobato mission dispatched after a second try’s top medical body publicly International Airport, officers wave of violence hit in 2006. appealing for him to lead by in Portugal’s black police uni- It has made one of the biggest example and kick the habit, his forms and UN blue berets bade contributions to the force, send- spokesman said yesterday. a tearful farewell to Portuguese ing 2,000 officers since 2006, when The Philippine Medical expatriates who had come to see unrest ahead of elections left 37 Association called on Aquino to them off. dead and hundreds of thousands give up after noticing his frequent Captain Jorge Barradas, com- displaced. coughing, spokesman Edwin mander of the Portuguese police The only major violence in the Lacierda told government radio. contingent, said he had mixed impoverished half-island nation But Lacierda said that Aquino’s feelings about leaving a country of 1.1m people since 2006 has been cough, which was first noticed where he has served on and off a failed assassination attempt during official visits to Australia since 2001. against then-president Jose and New Zealand late last month, “It is kind of a sad feeling for Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister was not related to his smoking us to leave East Timor. But on the Xanana Gusmao in 2008. but in fact caused by an allergy other hand, leaving means that AFP to pollen. Retired paramilitary policemen attend their farewell ceremony in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, in China yesterday. “Right now, this is one thing that takes away his stress. So let us let the president see how best to cope. He knows what is impor- tant,” Lacierda said. Tibetan immolates himself in China Green activists rally against Aquino, 52, cancelled a meet- ing with visiting International BEIJING: A Tibetan villager of Tongren county. headquarters of Tibet’s spiritual Monetary Fund chief Christine has died after setting himself Many Tibetans in China accuse leader, the Dalai Lama, since he dolphin, whale hunt in Japan Lagarde due to ill health on on fire, Chinese state media said the government of religious fled from Tibet in 1959 after a November 16, his office said. yesterday -- the latest death repression and eroding their cul- failed uprising against Chinese TOKYO: Environmentalists should be sent to slaughter houses. He flew to a regional summit in in a wave of protests against ture, as the country’s majority rule. and nationalists held opposing The rally was part of demon- Cambodia the following day while Beijing’s rule. Han ethnic group increasingly The Central Tibetan rallies over the issue of Japan’s strations to be held around the suffering from the flu, Lacierda China’s official Xinhua news moves into historically Tibetan Administration said that the lat- dolphin and whale hunts in world this weekend against the said. agency said the herdsman set areas. est death had pushed the total a rare showdown in central killing of dolphins in the town of “He should take care of his himself alight late on Friday China rejects this, saying number of self-immolations since Tokyo yesterday, leading to Taiji, according to the organiser, health. As President, he should in the northwest province of Tibetans enjoy religious freedom. 2009 by Tibetans inside Tibet to angry scenes. Action for Marine Mammals. always be in tip top condition so Qinghai. Beijing points to huge ongoing 81, including five in the last six About 50 anti-whaling activists Demonstrations are also that he could attend to the peo- It quoted local authorities investment it says has brought days and 19 in November alone. gathered at a park in the Shibuya planned in cities including ple’s needs more,” said PMA vice as saying that the 26-year-old, modernisation and a better stand- The administration said that shopping district with banners London, Sao Paulo, Vancouver president Leo Olarte. identified as Dazheng, set himself ard of living to Tibet. Chinese authorities had cut off bearing slogans such as “Stop the and across the US, the group said. Olarte gave an unsolicited tips ablaze in the village of Dageri in The Tibetan government-in- Internet and phone lines follow- cruel dolphin hunt!” while across Taiji, in western Japan, drew to Aquino saying he should try his Zekog County. exile in the northern Indian hill ing the latest death. the street about 30 nationalists global attention after “The Cove”, best to exercise daily, eat a bal- The state news earlier reported town of Dharamshala expressed The Tibetan government-in- shouted “Get out of Japan!” a hard-hitting film about the anced diet, drink moderately “in that another Tibetan died on “deep concern over the alarming exile urged China’s new leadership The nationalists accused the annual dolphin hunts there, won case he drinks” and sleep at least Thursday, also in Qinghai. It iden- escalation in self-immolations by to “promptly address the long- environmentalists of undermining the Academy Award for best doc- eight hours a day “if there is an tified the man as Libong Tsering, Tibetans inside Tibet”. standing grievances” of Tibetans. Japanese culture and traditions, umentary in 2010. opportunity.” 19, who died in the Dowa township Dharamshala has been the AFP saying “environmental terrorists” AFP AFP SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Bomb kills Anti US-Israeli protest eight at Shia procession Pakistani Taliban claim attack

PESHAWAR: A bomb blast Multan.” Akhtar Nawaz, another claimed by the Taliban killed official at the state-run district eight people near a Shia pro- headquarters hospital said three cession in northwest Pakistan children were dead on arrival and yesterday, despite heightened the four other people died after security across the country. being admitted. Four boys were among the dead City police chief Khalid Suhail and 30 other people were injured said the dead children were aged when the remote-controlled bomb between six and 11 years. “They packed with ball bearings exploded were young boys,” he said. on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Mobile and wireless phone serv- Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ices were temporarily blocked in province, police said. the commercial capital Karachi, The attack on Shias, a minor- the southwestern city of Quetta ity in Sunni-dominated Pakistan, and several cities and towns in came as they marched to mourn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab Prophet Mohammed’s (PBUH) provinces as well as in parts of the grandson Imam Hussain dur- capital Islamabad. ing the holy month of Muharram It is the second time Pakistan which culminates today in Ashura, has shut down mobile networks the group’s holiest day of the year. during Muharram. The Taliban The Pakistani Taliban claimed has been fighting an insurgency responsibility. “We carried out against security forces since 2007 Shia mourners torch US and Israeli flags during a religious procession on the ninth day of holy month of Muharram in Karachi, yesterday. the attack against the Shia com- but the hardline Sunni group has munity,” spokesman Ehsanullah also targeted Shias. Ehsan said by telephone from Dera Ismail Khan lies near an undisclosed location. “The Pakistan’s semi-autonomous government can make whatever tribal belt, where Taliban and Japan pledges $4.7m more aid for flood victims security arrangements it wants Al Qaeda linked militants have but it cannot stop our attacks.” carved out strongholds. It also The Taliban had dispatched borders the insurgency-hit south- ISLAMABAD: The Japanese The grant will be implemented on the provision of water and people in these areas have died more than 20 suicide bombers western province of Baluchistan government has pledged to pro- in three phases through three sanitation through the United while the total number of people across the country for attacks on and populous Punjab province. vide $4.7m as emergency aid for international organisations. In Nations Human Settlements affected is approximately 4.85m. the minority community, he said. Ashura has long been a mag- those affected by the floods in the first phase, $2.9m will be Programme. Those affected still require The blast followed another sui- net for sectarian attacks. In Pakistan this year. spent on food security through Even two months after the immediate food assistance as they cide attack — also claimed by the December 2009, a suicide bomber The grant is in addition to the the World Food Programme, in monsoon rains caused floods in struggle to rebuild their liveli- Pakistani Taliban — that killed killed 43 people at an Ashura pro- $437,000 worth relief goods that the second $1m will be spent southern Punjab, northern Sindh hoods. Appropriate shelters and 23 people at a Shia procession in cession in Karachi. the Japanese government pledged on shelters and non-food items and north-eastern Balochistan, a water and sanitation facilities are the garrison city of Rawalpindi on During processions, held across for the flood victims on November through the International large part of these regions still among the priority needs of the Thursday, the country’s deadliest the country, Shias carry black 9, said a press release issued by Organisation for Migration and remains under water. affected population. bombing for five months. banners and replicas of the tombs the Japanese embassy. in the third $0.8m will be spent According to NDMA, 21,571 INTERNEWS Authorities subsequently of Muslim saints as they parade ordered heightened security, on main roads. Marchers recite with services for mobile phones elegies, beat their chests with — which are often used to trig- open palms, and some flagellate ger bombs — suspended in major their bare backs with knives. Bus crash kills 16 cities. But that did not prevent Hussain is equally revered by Rawalpindi gets robot-equipped bomb disposal vehicle yesterday’s attack. Police said a Sunnis but hardliners oppose the 10kg bomb was hidden in a dust- public mourning of his martyr- LAHORE: The city district gov- any terrorist attack. defuse it. Moreover, it (robot) in northwestern bin on the procession route and dom. Shias account for around 20 ernment of Pakistan’s garrison The latest bomb disposal van has the capacity to defuse a bomb its powerful blast could be heard percent of Pakistan’s 167-million city of Rawalpindi has received can carry the robot, allied gadgets through fire in an emergency Pakistan: Police several kilometres away. population. from the European Union a and the officials concerned to an situation,” District Coordination PESHAWAR: At least 16 peo- “The death toll is now seven, Nationwide sectarian violence bomb disposal van equipped under-threat area to foil any ter- Officer Noor-ul-Amin Mengal ple were killed and 22 others four of them are children,” local between militants from the two with a robot, and X-ray device rorist bid in the city. said while presiding over a meet- injured yesterday when a pas- hospital chief Aziz Baluch said. communities is estimated to have and other gadget to locate and “Without putting any human ing held here to discuss measures senger bus collided with a lorry “Four of the wounded were in killed more than 4,000 people defuse explosives to be used to life to risk, the robot, after detect- to build capacity of the CDGL’s in a mountainous area of north- critical condition, they have been since the late 1990s. secure Muharram-related and ing any expensive device through civil defence wing at the Town western Pakistan, officials said. shifted to the central city of AFP other high-profile events against the X-ray machine, can safely Hall. INTERNEWS The accident happened as the bus travelled from the port city of Karachi to the northwestern town of Swabi in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Seven rare falcons The driver lost control as he was overtaking a lorry on a sharp from Pakistan saved Afghan ‘girl-in-green’ revisits massacre site bend when another bus appeared from the opposite direction, local from smugglers KABUL: In a brave gesture of administration chief Sajjad Khan defiance against suicide bomb- said by telephone. KARACHI: Customs officials ers, Afghanistan’s “girl-in- “The driver tried to avert a col- recently seized seven falcons green” yesterday revisited the lision with the bus and smashed of an endangered species that scene of a Shia Muslim holy-day into the lorry which he had been were to be smuggled to Bahrain massacre that made her image overtaking,” Khan said quoting through Karachi airport, a cus- world famous. wounded passengers. “At least 16 toms official said yesterday. Tarana Akbari, now 13, was pic- people were killed and 22 wounded, Responding to the queries, tured screaming in horror among including women and children.” assistant collector of customs piles of bodies moments after a sui- He said Ispeena in the Karak Rana Aftab posted at the air- cide bomber killed 80 people at last district, where the accident took port said the smugglers were year’s Ashura day ceremonies at a place, was very dangerous with trying to use a re-export permit Shia shrine in Kabul. drivers going to fast. issued by the foreign ministry The image, taken by AFP pho- “We have one or two fatal acci- to a Bahrain dignitary but cus- tographer Massoud Hossaini, was dents every week because drivers toms staff caught the culprits splashed on front pages worldwide while descending usually lose con- and seized the falcons. and won the Pulitzer prize this year. trol,” he said. Pakistan has one of Conservationists have been Dressed in an identical green the world’s worst records for fatal clamouring that re-export per- satin tunic which she made her- traffic accidents, blamed on poor mits were widely misused and self after discarding the blood- roads, badly maintained vehicles now this incident had proved that stained one she wore last year, and reckless driving. at least some of the permits were Tarana attended Ashura day certainly misused and further ceremonies at the same shrine. Woman kills husband checks were needed to counter The day before, police the smuggling out of the precious announced that they had arrested for ‘honour’ birds by royal dignitaries. two Taliban insurgents with sui- LAHORE: A woman of the The customs official said the cide vests who planned to attack Raiwind, a city near Lahore, seven falcons were being flown to the Shia worshippers. has confessed to killing her hus- Bahrain by Yousuf Ahmed Hujair, “I’m not scared,” Tarana said as band and the reason stated by traveling to the Gulf state on a she sat with her sisters in their Thirteen-year-old Afghan girl Tarana Akbari (right) and her father Ahmad Shah pray for Tarana’s brother in the her is alleged affair of her hus- Bahraini passport (No 1678897) spartan home in Old Kabul ahead graveyard in Kabul yesterday. band with her sister. on Thursday. of the ceremony. “I know there Superintendent of Police He said the same number of will be danger but I will go back (investigation) Hamad Raza falcons had been brought into there anyway. “After the shrine I But her spirits lifted and her heavily armed police on rooftops growing increasingly sad with told reporters yesterday that on the country from Bahrain on will go to the graveyard to pray shy smile returned with the and along the approach roads, each passing minute. Thursday Sheikhum police had Wednesday by the passenger for my brother who died and excitement of dressing up in her and even Tarana was frisked After half an hour, she and found a body and invited the peo- and he was taking them back other members of the family.” new clothes before she set out before being allowed into the her father, having shown their ple through the public address the very next day, which raised Tarana’s only brother — aged hand-in-hand with her father, ceremonies. refusal to be cowed by suicide system of mosques to identify it. suspicions. Close checks of the nine — was among many of her Ahmad Shah, for the 10-minute Once among the throng of wor- bombers, left to visit the graves The deceased was identified bids revealed that the falcons relatives killed in last year’s blast, walk to the shrine. shippers, including young men of her brother and other relatives as Ghulam Nabi, of Three-Marla had been changed - they were and Tarana and her two sisters It is a place that haunts whipping their bare backs into on a bare and bleak hillside over- Scheme of Raiwind. Police inter- not the birds brought into the were wounded. She was the only her nightmares. “I go back to a bloody mess in a traditional looking the city. When the Sunni rogated mariam Bibi, the widow, country just a day earlier. one of the children who went back. that place in my dreams. I see mourning ritual, Tarana’s step Muslim Taliban ruled in the 1990s who confessed that she with her The widespread poaching of Despite her brave words, Tarana my brother and the man (the faltered and she and her father before being ousted by a US-led brother Bota had murdered Nabi. falcons and hunting of houbara wrung her hands anxiously and bomber). I always repeat that stopped in a small sheltered spot. invasion in 2001, minority Shias She said they had murdered bustards was affecting the pop- the mood in her home was more scene in my dreams,” Tarana said. A plastic chair was found and suffered brutal persecution, but him with a sharp edged weapon ulation of both these migratory one of preparing to go into battle Security was tight, with she sat quietly, tension showing sectarian violence has been rare to avenge his illicit relations with bird species. INTERNEWS than attend a religious ceremony. many streets blocked off and in her face and her brown eyes in recent years. AFP her younger sister. AGENCIES SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Mamata aims In unison to create 10m jobs in Bengal 154,000 new jobs created: CM

KOLKATA: With small-scale indus- big ticket invest- tries would be set ments not pouring up at Shantiniketan into West Bengal in Birbhum dis- according to her trict, and Kolkata’s government’s plans, Rajarhat and Chief Minister Rabindra Sarobar Mamata Banerjee areas. (pictured) yesterday “The land has promised creation of been identified at 10m jobs in the state Shantiniketan. Lot over the course of of tourists from time. India and abroad “My target is to visit Shantiniketan. create employment for 10m people They can buy small-scale industry through self-help groups, cooper- products from there. It will help atives, non-governmental organi- the craftsmen,” she said. sations and various government Banerjee announced that New recruits of the Border Security Force (BSF) take part in a parade at the end of their training, in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar, yesterday. projects,” Banerjee said after her government would set up 541 recruits were formally inducted into the BSF after completing 38 weeks of training. inaugurating the West Bengal marketing hubs in all sub-divi- State Handicrafts Fair here. sions for the small and cottage Banerjee said that 17,000 industries sector. new small industries, providing To boost the handloom sec- employment to 154,000 people, tor, she said the workers would have come up in the state after be given the work of stitching DMK plans House motion over 2G row her government came to power dresses worn by the state gov- last year. ernment’s disaster management CHENNAI: The DMK, a key media interviews hinted that the and Karunanidhi’s daughter trillion) did appear before me in “Setting up of 15,000 other group. member of the union govern- final CAG report on 2G spectrum Kanimozhi was an accused, tried a draft audit report submitted schemes to provide work to The chief minister said the ment, is planning to bring a allocation, putting the presump- in a Delhi court by the Central by my field office. I discussed it 112,000 people are under process man-days lost in the state due motion in parliament to discuss tive loss to the state exchequer Bureau of Investigation. with them. I asked for support- and they will start functioning to shutdowns and strikes have a former chief auditor’s charge at billions, was prepared after On Friday, retired CAG direc- ing documents... on what basis soon,” she said. come down since her government that the final CAG report on 2G CAG officials met Joshi, who tor general Singh told the media they were saying these are losses. The Mamata Banerjee gov- took over. spectrum was influenced by BJP then headed the Public Accounts that he only pegged the 2G loss They said: ‘We are taking it as ernment promised to rope in big While 680,000 man-days were leader Murli Manohar Joshi. Committee of parliament. at Rs370bn, but when the final presumption’,” Singh told a news industrial projects in the state. lost in 2009-10 due to shutdowns “The CAG report on 2G spec- Elangovan said the CAG report report was brought to him for channel. But so far, the plan has not been and strikes, in 2010-11 the figure trum allocation seems to be seems to be a non-independent signing, it had Rs1.76 trillion as Singh said the loss figure, much success with entrepre- was 650,000. influenced politically. There report, influenced by a political the loss figure. according to his report, was neurs expressing concern over She said with her govern- is political involvement in the party. Singh also claimed that Joshi around Rs370bn and the amount policy issues like land acquisition. ment taking over reins of the preparation of the report. We “We will take a final decision on had spoken to the CAG officials was recoverable. Leading industry lobbies have also state in May 2011, only 60,000 are considering a motion in par- what kind of motion to be moved a day before the CAG report was “These were presumptive voiced their concern over the law man-days were lost in 2011-12. liament to discuss the issue,” in parliament,” he added. made public, implying that the losses; you can dispute these as and order situation. “Till September this year, only T K S Elangovan, spokesper- DMK MP and former tel- BJP leader influenced the final they are not the actual losses,” The chief minister said that 5,200 man-days have been lost,” son for the DMK, said. Former ecom minister A Raja is the report on the loss figure. Singh said. world-class marketing centres for Banerjee said. IANS chief auditor R P Singh in recent prime accused in the 2G case “This loss figure (of Rs.1.76 IANS

War games Anti-terror training at Bombay Hospital At least 16 killed in J&K bus crash JAMMU: At least 16 people and Central Reserve Police MUMBAI: To mark the 4th were killed and 44 others Force (CRPF) units imme- HP crash kills 11 anniversary of the 26/11 ter- injured when a bus carrying diately started the rescue ror attacks, Mumbai’s Bombay a marriage party rolled down operation. SHIMLA: At least 11 Hospital organised a training into a deep gorge in Jammu “There are chances of the people were killed and programme in anti-terror and and Kashmir’s Udhampur toll rising,” said the officer. nine injured when an trauma care for all medical, district last evening, Jammu and Kashmir overcrowded multi-utility nursing and paramedical staff. police said. Governor N N Vohra and vehicle skidded off the Organised in association The bus was carrying 60 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah road and fell into a gorge with the Association of Medical people to Dudu Basantgarh, have expressed grief and sor- in Himachal Pradesh’s Consultants (AMC), the pro- about 110km north of Jammu, row over the loss of lives. Sirmaur district yes- gramme aimed to help create a when it skidded off the road Mountainous roads in rerday, police said. The doctors’ protocol for handling and rolled down into the gorge. Jammu region are notorious injured were admitted such attacks, provide training to “The bus rolled down about for road accidents. These are to the Civil Hospital in paramedical staff, pre-and-post 300 feet into a deep gorge,” mostly attributed to over- Paonta Sahib. Some of trauma counselling to patients, said a police officer. loading of passenger buses, the injured have been and to create education and Twelve people were killed poor maintenance of vehi- referred to Chandigarh’s awareness so that the public on the spot, while four others cles, and shabby road condi- Post Graduate Institute will be the eyes and ears and act died of injuries, and 44 oth- tions coupled with lack of of Medical Education & during an emergency before the ers, including the bridegroom, skills to drive in mountainous Research. IANS medical team can arrive. IANS A schoolgirl tries to climb out of a Schilka tank as others stand on it during an were injured. The police conditions. IANS exhibition organised by the army in Chandigarh yesterday. Better remittance facilities for NRIs bolster funds flow

verseas Indians who, in steadily increased. Remittances higher than $55bn inward remit- used on a pan-India basis. A mini- cash withdrawal facility from over workers. Internet money trans- 2012, have once again by overseas Indians, together with tance seen in 2010. mum of Rs500 and a maximum 40,000 VISA ATMs. The higher fers to India are quick, easy and made their country the NRI deposits, are estimated at Banks and money transfer com- of Rs50,000 can be loaded. The daily cash withdrawal limit is highly economical. An Internet Oworld’s top recipient over $135bn this year. panies have been quick to realise card can be used for 30 transac- Rs50,000, and direct purchases based money transfer can be done of remittances are being offered While a bulk of the remittances the vast potential in this business tions in a year and will be valid can be made at over 650,000 mer- by simply using a credit card or increasingly more convenient, from the Gulf countries to India and one has seen private as well as for 36 months. A maximum of chant establishments using VISA a debit card. It helps to transfer faster and less expensive services are aimed at supporting families public sector entities devise new Rs25,000 can be withdrawn in a POS terminals. funds electronically to virtually to send money home. back home, the overall trends in facilities to attract NRIs. Earlier day. There is a provision to trans- When transferring funds all international locations. This The latest entity to offer such the economy are such that this this month, Punjab National Bank fer funds from the card account through Money2India, overseas type of transfer is completed in improved services is the public money has served to infuse life (PNB) launched India’s first co- to the savings bank account of the Indians also have the option to 48 hours if the beneficiary resides sector giant, Punjab National Bank into the consumer markets. No branded remit- beneficiary. directly credit any Visa Debit in any metropolitan cities across (PNB), which recently launched longer can it be confined to the tance card — PNB THE NR EYE Private sec- Card of your beneficiary in India. India or 72 hours if the benefi- a remittance card specifically to term ‘subsistence money.’ Even Remit Card— in tor major, According to bank sources, the ciary resides anywhere else in cater to money transfers between otherwise, the vast potential in association with ICICI Bank, funds are transferred to the ben- India. The cost of remittances the Gulf and the south Indian housing and other infrastructural UAE Exchange Moiz Mannan also offers the eficiary’s account in 3 working across various modes has also state of Kerala. Many other banks investments and the reasonably and Financial ‘Money2India days. The senders have simply come down significantly. operating in India, with tie-ups in steady performance, of late, of Services Limited in Kochi. The Remittance card,’ to provide a con- to login to their Money2India While sending money back the Gulf, are also offering more the Indian capital markets, have prepaid card will be beneficial to venient and hassle-free alternative account and transfer funds to home, the speed and efficiency efficient services to NRIs. prompted a rise not just on depos- NRIs and their kin for transferring to receive remittances from NRIs. the beneficiary. The beneficiary of transfer are uppermost on the According to a recent World its but in remittances for proxy funds from abroad and for using in It is a rupee denominated card can be located anywhere in India mind of overseas Indians, as they Bank report, India is expected investments as well. merchandise establishments. which is re-loadable for funding so long as they hold a valid Visa predominantly use electronic to receive more than $70bn as Depreciation in the exchange When an NRI remits money and can be used at any VISA affili- card. This service is free for all wires and Swift (Society for remittances from its diaspora value of the Indian rupee, attrac- from abroad through the ated ATM and merchant estab- money transfers made through Worldwide Interbank Financial by the end of 2012. The report tive bank deposit rates and a slow exchange, its office in India will lishments in the country. It allows Money2India above $1,000 or Telecommunication) for remit- places China second with $66bn. but steady easing of norms and automatically load the funds and the cardholder to withdraw cash equivalent amounts. However, tances, according to a study by the The Philippines and Mexico with red tape have all added up to send an SMS alert to the ben- at any ATMs and make payments ICICI Bank does not take respon- Reserve Bank of India. Besides $24bn each and Nigeria with encourage non-resident Indians, eficiary. On receipt of the SMS at merchant establishments across sible for charges or commission efficiency factor, the wider net- $21bn follow. NRI remittances especially those in the Gulf, to alert, the beneficiary can use the India. The ICICI bank offering is a that may be charged by the ben- work of Indian bank branches have been consistent and resil- send more money home one way PNB remit card for cash with- zero balance card with no recur- eficiary’s Bank. abroad offering electronic fund ient even in the worst of economic or the other. In 2011, the inward drawal from any ATM of for ring, annual or usage charges. It The Internet is increasingly transfer facilities is seen by the times across the globe. Not just remittance into India was to the merchandise purchase. This is a comes with a validity period for up becoming a favoured mode for study to influence the decision to that, the money transfers have tune of $66.13bn, about 20 percent non-personalised card that can be to 10 years and assures anytime money transfer even by blue collar use a particular channel. SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

Kejriwal calls Guru Tegh Bahadur’s death anniversary his new party Aam Aadmi National executive meet today

NEW DELHI: Promising to meet today. change the way political parties The party will have two kinds of work in India, Arvind Kejriwal members -- ordinary and active. and his anti-corruption group Anyone can enroll himself or her- yesterday said the name of their self as an ordinary member by new outfit will be Aam Aadmi paying Rs.10 as fee for three years. Party (Common Man’s Party). The ordinary member, depending “’Aam aadmi’ will contest elec- on his work for the organisation, tions, aam aadmi will vote and will be made an active member aam aadmi will go to parliament. after four months. This party will change the way The constitution also says if a politics and political parties func- party member enters the state tion in the country,” Kejriwal said. executive or national executive Kejriwal had on October 2 councils, his or her relatives will announced the formation of a not find a place in any council. party, without disclosing its name. Also, the party has included the “I received 80 to 90 mobile mes- right to recall in its constitution. sages daily suggesting the party’s But soon after the party’s name. The name ‘Aam Aadmi’ is name was announced, the ruling empowering the common man,” Congress objected to it, saying the he said. slogan of “aam aadmi” has long He said for the past one-and- been linked to the Congress. half years, they had been knock- “’Aam aadmi’ has been synony- ing the doors of various parties on mous with Congress since 1885. Sikh devotees watch a Nagar Kirtan procession on the occasion of the 337th death anniversary of the ninth Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur in the Old the Lokpal Bill. Nobody can hijack the intrinsic Quarters of New Delhi yesterday. Tegh Bahadur was one of the most prominent leaders in Sikh history. He was executed in New Delhi on the orders “But every political party relation between Congress and of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb after he refused to embrace Islam. betrayed us. So we decided during the ‘aam aadmi’,” Information and the fast in August that this move- Broadcasting Minister Manish ment will take a political plunge Tewari said. and as a result, the party has Kejriwal countered the claim: been launched,” Kejriwal said at “The name ‘aam admi’ was never a press conference in the presence with the Congress. Now they are Assam CM slams BJP for opportunism of other party members Prashant thinking that we will flee with Bhushan, Sanjay Singh, Gopal Rai their name.” GUWAHATI: Assam Chief playground at Khanapara area up ahead of elections to blow “We have started the process and Yogendra Yadav. “From now, all the transaction Minister Tarun Gogoi yester- of Assam’s main city, where he the issue of infiltration from of giving voters’ identity card “Today, we inducted 300 peo- could be made in the party’ name day launched a scathing attack launched official campaign for the Bangladesh. I want to ask them in Assam. While the process is ple into the party and there were — Aam Aadmi,” he said. on the Asom Gana Parishad forthcoming panchayat (village what their parties had done to completed in some areas, the number of people who wanted to Kejriwal has also earlier and the Bharatiya Janata Party, council) polls in the state slated detect and deport Bangladeshi whole state will be covered in a join the party unlike other parties tweeted that he was a common accusing them of raking up the for early next year. infiltrators living in the state.” phased manner and this will help that conduct membership drives. man and would bring ‘swaraj’ illegal Bangladeshi migrants’ At the rally, which was a show “BJP chief Nitin Gadkari stopping the infiltration from People can come to Jantar Mantar (self-rule) and ‘poorna azadi’ issue for political advantage and of strength of the Congress recently said that there will be Bangladesh and other foreign tomorrow and get enrolled,” (complete independence) and of having pushed the problem ahead of the panchayat polls, a Bangladeshi chief minister in countries,” Gogoi said. he said. The party’s name was curb price rise and implement under the carpet when the two Gogoi appealed to the people to Assam after 15 years. But I am “The AGP, who ruled the state announced after a day-long meet- Jan Lokpal. parties were in power. strengthen the Congress by vot- telling you there will always be for ten years, was only sleep- ing at the Constitution Club here. Kejriwal, who was campaigning The issue of infiltration from ing it to power at the panchayat genuine Indians who will be the ing even after signing of Assam Party sources said the name was against corruption under the ban- Bangladesh “is blown out of pro- level. “It is the Congress party chief minister of Assam,” said Accord in 1985. It is our gov- proposed by members Mayank ner of India Against Corruption, portion” by the opposition Asom which is committed to overall Gogoi while attacking the BJP ernment which has been imple- Gandhi and Chandramohan. said the name would not be used Gana Parishad (AGP) and the development in Assam. The work president. menting the Assam Accord by At the meeting, the party’s con- anymore. “We are not going to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of our government in the last 11 “When the BJP was in power taking up the issue of updating stitution was also finalised and its use India Against Corruption he said and added that the issue years is a proof of that, and we in centre, the then prime minister the National Register of Citizens national council was constituted. from now,” he said to a query. is raked up by these parties for have not only fulfilled the prom- A B Vajpayee wanted to give work and taking steps to seal the bor- According to its constitution, Social activist Anna Hazare had taking political mileage. ises made in our election mani- permits to Bangladeshi infiltra- der with Bangladesh,” Gogoi said, every district in the country will objected to Kejriwal using IAC’s Gogoi touched upon the issue festos but beyond them,” said the tors — in a sense the party was adding that the AGP and the BJP be represented in the party and name after he parted with Team while addressing a huge gath- three-time chief minister. welcoming infiltration. I have are spreading false propaganda its national executive council will Anna to form a party. IANS ering at the Veterinary College “The opposition parties wake objected to that proposal,” he said. against the Congress. IANS

Actor-model couple Missile launch centre planned at Kerala archbishop Andhra Pradesh coastal town made cardinal HYDERABAD: The Defence KOCHI: The Reverend With Catholicos’ eleva- Research and Development Moran Mar Baselios tion, the total number of Organisation (DRDO) plans to Cleemis Catholicos cardinals in India is now set up a missile launch site in the (pictured), head of seven, but only four of coastal town of Machilipatnam the Syro Malankara them have voting rights in Andhra Pradesh with an Catholic Church here, to elect or contest for the investment of Rs10bn. was yesterday elevated post of the Pope. DRDO chief V K Saraswat, as a cardinal at a cer- After being made cardi- who is also the scientific advi- emony in the Vatican. nal, Catholicos said: “I am sor to the defence minister, told He is the fifth Keralite standing amidst the Kerala reporters here on Friday that to be made a cardinal by delegation and am extremely they had asked the state govern- the Pope. He is the first major happy. I wish god gives the best ment to allot 260 acres of land archbishop from the Kerala- to Keralites. Please pray for to set up the long-range missile based Syro Malankara Church me.” A huge Kerala delegation testing centre. to be elevated as a cardinal, and comprising bishops from other “As soon as the government the youngest from India. Christian communities, Hindu clearance comes for land, we will Catholicos, 53, is one of the 89 spiritual leaders, a Muslim start creating infrastructure. It among the 211 cardinals who can cleric, politicians and the mayor will take three years to set up the elect the Pope. of Thiruvananthapuram were centre,” he said. Five others from non-European at the ceremony. Catholicos The DRDO currently has countries were made cardinals is from Pathanamthitta launch facilities at the Chandipur- along with Catholicos by Pope town in Kerala, 115km from on-Sea and Wheeler Island at Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi (left) poses with his wife model Maria Goretti at a promotional event in Mumbai Benedict XVI. Thiruvananthapuram. IANS Balasore in Odisha and they are late on Friday. used to test fire the long-range Agni series, Prithvi and other shorter range missiles. Saraswat said the proposed facility at Machilipatnam would This Pakistan celebrated Mumbai terrorist’s hanging complement the test range in Balasore. It would be used for launch- PURNEA (BIHAR): Days in Singhiya panchayat, Srinagar Another villager, Banjua be best to change the name of the “Many Muslims who earlier ing long-range missiles and also after the execution of Pakistani block, Purnea district, Bihar. It Hembram, said: “We have to village. The matter was discussed, lived here chose to leave for East in carrying out tests for the national Ajmal Amir Kasab for is about 30km from Purnea town, get together and have a feast. but we later dropped the idea,” Pakistan (now Bangladesh), when Ballistic Missile Defence Shield the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, the district headquarters. This is an event that calls for Murmu recalls. the country was partitioned. We wherein multiple missiles need to the people of Pakistan are in a “People in Pakistan not only celebration.” District officials say that gov- decided then that the village could be launched for trials. celebratory mode. distributed sweets and burst Murmu recalled that after ernment documents record the be named in their memory,” one As the proposed site in There is a village in Bihar that crackers but also plan to organise 26/11, when 166 people were name of the village as Pakistan. elderly villager said. Rajhamundry falls under the bears the same name as India’s a feast soon to celebrate the hang- killed by Pakistani terrorists in So how did the village get its An official in the chief minis- Krishna-Godavari basin, the neighbour, Pakistan, and in ing of the terrorist,” said a police Mumbai, the villagers had even name? What is interesting is that ter’s office told this correspond- ministry of petroleum had raised that little village, with about 35 officer in Purnea, about 350km considered changing the name of there is not one Muslim family ent that when Chief Minister energy and security issues in view households and a total popula- from the state capital. their village. in the village, which comprises Nitish Kumar informed a visiting of oil and gas exploration activity tion of about 250, residents are Surya Murmu, an upbeat That terrorist strike had been mostly Santhal tribal households. 21-member Pakistani delegation in the area. happy that justice has finally Pakistan villager, said: “We were one that had shaken up the village There is not one mosque in this in August that there was a village The scientific advisor, how- been done to a man respon- in a festive mood after hearing of community, Hembram agreed. Pakistan. named after their country in the ever, said the DRDO had resolved sible for so many deaths four the hanging and we celebrated the “We were so terribly affected by Elders in the village recall that state, the delegation expressed issues with the petroleum years ago. event with singing, dancing and the events of November 26, 2008 the village was named soon after surprise. ministry. IANS Pakistan is the name of a village distribution of sweets.” that we had decided that it would India’s partition in 1947. IANS

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PRAYER TIME Star Trek desks: HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES Classrooms for the News in Numbers MIN GYE-SIK– CHAIRMAN CHART: 1 Fajr (Dawn) 4:33 next generation? JAI-SEON LEE – PRESIDENT & CEO Shorook (Sunrise) 5:58 LONDON: Scientists design- Zuhr (Noon) 11:21 ing and testing what they hope might become the classroom of Asr (Afternoon) 2:23 the future have found that “Star Maghrib (Sunset) 4:43 Trek”-style multi-touch, multi- user desks can boost children’s Isha (Night) 6:13 maths skills. A three-year project with 400 eight to 10-year olds found that Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) is the world’s largest shipbuilding using interactive “smart” desks company established in 1972. The company is primarily engaged in heavy WEATHER can have benefits over doing industries sector. It is a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries Group. HHI maths on paper, and that pupils operates through its affiliates named as Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, Weather are able to improve their fluency Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Hyundai Venture Investment, and Hyundai Futures. Today Monday Tuesday Conditions: and flexibility in maths by work- ing together. HHI primarily operates in Korea and has operations across the globe. The Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny “Our aim was to encourage far company is headquartered in Ulsan, South Korea. Partly cloudy higher levels of active student to at times engagement, where knowledge ( KRW m unless otherwise mentioned ) with chance of Company Financials is obtained by sharing, problem- High: 29° High: 29° High: 30° scattered rain. Low: 24° Low: 23° Low: 21° solving and creating, rather than Y-O-Y CAGR (%) by passive listening,” said Liz Burd Particulars 2008 2009 2010 2011 (%) ( 08 - 10 ) of Britain’s Durham University, who led the study. Revenue 19,957,080.9 21,142,196.7 22,405,181.3 25,019,600.0 11.7 6.0 DOHA - SUN & SEA The research team, whose find- Total Assets 25,280,400.9 24,872,583.5 28,888,131.1 29,920,500.0 3.6 6.9 SUN TIDE SEA ings were published in the jour- nal Learning and Instruction, Shareholder’s Equity 5,595,219.5 9,808,401.2 13,819,032.5 14,719,300.0 6.5 57.2 SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND designed software and desks that 3,314.6 889,556.5 3,447,283.7 3,962,700.0 15.0 NM 05:58 | 16:43 13:45 09:30 & 20:45 04-13 KTS recognise multiple touches on a Total Debt desktop using infrared light vision systems. Cash & Cash Equivalents 667,492.2 632,578.2 624,479.5 N/A N/A -3.3 THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW The desks are built into fur- Net Operating HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER niture of the classroom to help 11.1 10.5 15.4 N/A - - encourage more collaboration, Margin () MUSCAT 29/21 Clear 29/23 Partly sunny and are networked and linked to ROE () 40.7 27.9 31.8 N/A - - MAKKAH 33/23 Clear 32/21 Mostly sunny a main smartboard. KUWAIT 23/18 Partly sunny 22/16 Chance of storms A live feed of the desks goes ROA () 10.7 8.6 14.0 N/A - - BAHRAIN 27/23 Thunderstorms 27/23 Chance of storms directly to the teacher who can EPS (KRW) 37,340.0 35,705.0 61,807.0 N/A N/A 14.3 SANAA 25/09 Clear 25/09 Mostly sunny intervene quickly to help a pupil while allowing group work to Book Value RIYADH 26/16 Mostly sunny 29/13 Mostly sunny 93,357.2 161,798.2 225,475.4 N/A N/A 28.7 continue. DUBAI 30/22 Mostly sunny 31/23 Mostly sunny Per Share (KRW) Burd’s team found that 45 per- Dividend Per BAGHDAD 19/12 Chance of storms 18/11 Chance of storms cent of pupils who used a maths 5,000.0 3,500.0 7,000.0 N/A N/A 55.4 programme on the smart desk Share (KRW) THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW system increased the number of Shareholding Pattern Segmental Revenues in 2010 unique mathematical expressions HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER they created, compared with 16 percent of those doing it on paper. ATHENS 17/11 Clear 17/10 Mostly sunny Using the new desks helped Sources : http://www.qtel.qa/ Others 1% WASHINGTON 07/02 Mostly sunny 12/03 Chance of showers children work together and solve Shipbuilding 35% Japan Trustee 9% SYDNEY 25/18 Fog 27/18 Partly sunny problems using inventive solu- Offshore & Eng.15% Master Trust Bank LONDON 09/07 Mostly sunny 09/04 Chance of rain tions, the researchers said. Industrial Plants & Eng. 12% of Japan 8% Engine & Machinery 13% JGC Trading 5% PARIS 12/07 Mostly sunny 12/08 Chance of rain “We found our tables encour- Electro System 14% Others 78% ISTANBUL 13/09 Mostly sunny 14/09 Mostly sunny aged students to collaborate more Constrauction MANILA 33/23 Mostly sunny 33/25 Clear effectively,” said Burd. “Such col- Equipment 10% DHAKA 26/14 Clear 25/14 Clear laboration just did not happen DELHI 25/13 Clear 24/13 Clear when students used paper-based ISLAMABAD 21/17 Mostly sunny 22/08 Mostly sunny approaches.” Source : http://www.cbq.com.qa/ REUTERS Electronic tracking: New woe for Saudi women

RIYADH: Denied the right to “The authorities are using “If I need an SMS to let me know the 89-year-old monarch appointed travel without consent from their technology to monitor women,” my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then Sheikh Abdullatif Abdel Aziz Al male guardians and banned from said columnist Badriya Al Bishr, I’m either married to the wrong Sheikh, a moderate, to head the driving, women in Saudi Arabia who criticised the “state of slavery woman or need a psychiatrist,” notorious religious police commis- are now monitored by an elec- under which women are held” in tweeted Hisham. “This is technol- sion, which enforces the kingdom’s tronic system that tracks any the kingdom. ogy used to serve backwardness in severe version of Shariah law. cross-border movements. Women are not allowed to leave order to keep women imprisoned,” Following his appointment, Since last week, Saudi women’s the kingdom without permission said Bishr, the columnist. Sheikh banned members of the male guardians began receiving from their male guardian, who Saudi Arabia applies a strict commission from harassing Saudi text messages on their phones must give his consent by sign- interpretation of Shariah and women over their behaviour and informing them when women ing what is known as the “yellow is the only country in the world attire, raising hopes a more leni- under their custody leave the sheet” at the airport or border. where women are not allowed to ent force will ease draconian country, even if they are travel- The move by the Saudi authori- drive. No law specifically forbids social constraints in the country. Child jockeys race their horses at a racetrack outside Bima. ling together. ties was swiftly condemned on women in Saudi Arabia from The many restrictions on Manal Al Sherif, who became social network Twitter — a rare driving, but the interior minister women have led to high rates of the symbol of a campaign launched bubble of freedom for millions in formally banned them after 47 female unemployment, officially last year urging Saudi women to the kingdom — with critics mock- women were arrested and pun- estimated at around 30 percent. Indonesia’s child jockeys brave defy a driving ban, began spreading ing the decision. “Hello Taliban, ished after demonstrating in cars In October, local media pub- the information on Twitter, after herewith some tips from the Saudi in November 1990. lished a justice ministry directive she was alerted by a couple. e-government!” read one post. Last year, the Custodian of allowing all women lawyers who danger for cash and glory The husband, who was travel- “Why don’t you cuff your the Two Holy Mosques King have a law degree and who have ling with his wife, received a text women with tracking ankle Abdullah bin Abdulaziz — a cau- spent at least three years working BIMA, INDONESIA: Bareback killed, and none seriously hurt, he message from the immigration bracelets too?” wrote Israa. “Why tious reformer — granted women in a lawyer’s office to plead cases jockey Herman Sarifudin guides said. One child toppled off on to authorities informing him that don’t we just install a microchip the right to vote and run in the in court. But the ruling, which his horse into the starting box for the dusty track at a recent race. his wife had left the international into our women to track them 2015 municipal elections, a historic was to take effect this month, has a race on Indonesia’s Sumbawa His father quickly picked him up airport in Riyadh. around?” joked another. first for the country. In January, not been implemented. AFP island. The gate springs open and and carried him off, in tears. “It’s the horse bolts with Sarifudin OK to fall off a horse,” said taxi clinging on for dear life. driver Irwansyah. Sarifudin is eight years old. He’s “My concern is that they The $1m Finnjet one of dozens of children taking should be in school, not racing part in the races. The horses are horses. They can miss school for small, often standing just 4 feet tall. 10 days for just one event.” The But even so, fathers have to help races have been held at the end their children clamber on to them. of the rice-harvesting season ever Sarifudin competed this week in since anyone can remember. a race against five other children Horses are used throughout around a dusty, oval track of 1,400 Indonesia, an archipelago of about metres near Bima town. His reward, 17,000 islands that straddles the if he wins, is a handful of cash for equator, more often for pulling his family, and the glory for him. He carts and buggies than for riding. was nervous before the race but once This year, the races near Bima it got going, he and the other bare- lasted for 11 days and attracted foot riders looked in control, urging nearly 600 horses, many from the their horses forward with a flick of nearby islands of Sumba, Bali, a switch to the flanks. Lombok and Flores. The grand In the end, Sarifudin came in prize was 1m rupiah ($100). Those third. He said he felt drained. who win their groups get two cows. Mohammad Amin is a district gov- One of the young stars this ernment official who keeps horses year was 11-year-old Mohammad as a hobby. He has 12 of them. Endiansyah, known as Endi, who The children are light, that’s why has taken a two-month break they’re the jockeys, he explains. from school for the racing season. “Children learn to ride horses The punters say he’s a great from the age of five,” he said. rider, an expert at handling the Hami, a grandfather, was des- horses. His father, Asikin, said he perate to sell off his nearly new earned 15m rupiah ($1,500) in the Nokia mobile telephone phone so last two months from different he could put some money down. races. “A horse is like a friend,” Endi said. “I’ve fallen, been sick and TWO COWS cried but no horse has ever stepped US Finne Antti Rahko stands next to his self-made “Finnjet” during preparations for the Essen Motor Show in Essen, western Germany. The vehicle Hajji Sukri, 45, chairman of the on me”. Endhi said he wanted to with eight wheels, offers 10 seats, weighs 3.4 tonnes and is worth about $1m. race organising team scoffed at be a policeman when he grows up. the danger. The children were all “But I’d also like to be a profes- skilful riders and none had been sional jockey,” he said. REUTERS Sunday 25 November 2012 11 Muharram 1434 Volume 17 Number 5529 Price: QR2

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DOHA: Minister of Energy CNG is considered a green fuel and Industry, Chairman and as it emits virtually no particulate Managing Director of Qatar matter (soot), and significantly Petroleum (QP) H E Dr reduced amounts of carbon mon- Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, oxide, carbon dioxide and nitrous inaugurated a Compressed oxides, all of which are harmful Natural Gas (CNG) fuelling to human health or contribute to station in the Industrial Area global warming. yesterday. The use of natural gas in trans- The station has been designed portation has seen a huge growth and built by QP as a pilot and is in recent years as governments, part of the feasibility study of local authorities and public trans- using CNG as an alternative fuel port companies are looking to for road transport in Qatar. substitute diesel and gasoline with QP and Mowasalat signed a more environmentally friendly Memorandum of Understanding fuels to reduce harmful emissions (MoU) for cooperation in April and improve air quality. 2012 in order to jointly evalu- CNG buses and taxis are ate the feasibility of introduc- increasingly popular with urban ing Compressed Natural Gas transportation planners and envi- (CNG) to fuel public transport ronmental organisations in many vehicles. Two busses were spe- parts of the World where their Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum (QP) H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada inaugurating the cially acquired and deployed by number is growing very rapidly. Compressed Natural Gas pilot station in the new Industrial Area yesterday. Mohamed Khalifa Turki Al Sobai (left), Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Mowasalat for the purpose as The minister said: “We are Woqod; and several other senior officials from QP, Woqod and RasGas were present at the event. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) part of the CNG pilot scheme and delighted at the successful com- more busses and taxis will follow pletion and commissioning of the transportation sector where significant that this inaugura- very proud to present this facility this pilot project will serve as basis in the near future. this facility that will contribute its safety, burning qualities and tion comes in implementation of as a first contribution towards for expanding the CNG network The pilot facility was built in not only to make our clean gas environmental advantages make the directives issued by the Emir achieving these objectives. ” to cover the whole country and a record time of less than three resources available to satisfy it a sustainable and effective H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa The pilot facility will be operated to rapidly extend its use to other months and in accordance with our growing domestic fuel needs alternative to petroleum refined Al Thani emphasising the impor- by Woqod. QP, in association with categories of fleets and vehicles in the highest international safety but also to expand the areas of products”. tance of developing CNG as a fuel Mowasalat and Woqod will ensure Qatar. and environmental standards. application of natural gas to Dr Al Sada added: “it is very for transportation in Qatar. We are that the experience gained from THE PENINSULA

QFIU launches ’13-’17 strategy

DOHA: Qatar Financial comes in the midst of rising glo- QIFU also helped in the legisla- Information Unit (QFIU) yes- bal crime rates and growing risks tive amendment to Law No. 4 of terday set in motion its strategy that threaten communities and 2010 on combating money laun- for 2013-2017 during a ceremony national economies, underlin- dering and terrorist financing, that also witnessed the launch ing the significance of tightening QIFU chief noted. of a new mission and vision in control systems as crime devel- As for its role on the interna- the presence of Sheikh Fahad ops sometimes beyond legitimate tional arena, Sheikh Ahmed bin bin Faisal Al Thani, the Deputy systems. Eid Al Thani pointed to QIFU’s Governor of Qatar Central He noted that since its concep- membership of the Egmont Group Bank (QCB) and Chairman tion in 2004, QIFU has enhanced of Financial Intelligence Units as of the National Anti-Money its protective role along with a representative of Asia, the first Laundering and Terrorist detection and technical investi- Middle Eastern unit to hold that Financing Committee. gation roles, adding that the unit position. Speaking during the ceremony, has contributed to the launch The ceremony was attended QFIU chief Sheikh Ahmed bin of a number of projects of the by Dr Issa bin Saad Al-Nuaimi, Eid Al Thani said the official control strategy such as the the Cabinet’s Secretary statistics showed that Qatar has national risk evaluation, which General, and Dr Saleh Al Nabit, seen a large drop in major crime was adopted by the National Secretary-General of the General compared to the universal rates. Anti- Money Laundering and Secretariat for Development Sheikh Ahmed bin Eid Al Thani and Sheikh Fahad bin Faisal Al Thani at the launch of the QFIU strategy at Four Sheikh Ahmed bin Eid added Terrorist Financing Committee Planning (GSDP). Seasons hotel yesterday. (SHAIVAL DALAL) that the launch of the strategy in 2010. QNA Expert urges Qatar’s property developers to go for hedging

DOHA: A leading Forex bro- construction spending, is already and implementing hedging This could potentially spark rising prices. The employment of in an asset. Normally, a hedge kerage company has advised impacting the market in Qatar strategies to protect against stock piling of steel, such as rebar, a hedging strategy allows compa- consists of taking an offsetting Qatar’s property developers where prices are being driven the expected rise in price of cement and concrete. Qatar is nies to plan for potential future position in a related security, to go for hedging to protect higher than in the UAE, with the materials such as steel, cement one of the GCC countries that is mid-transaction shifts in price through something like a futures against price volatility. average rate per tonne for rebar and concrete. expected to feel the pressure of hikes, by locking in the price of contract. Qatar is one of the GCC coun- in Qatar is currently 32 percent With a strong recovery in the rising costs, he said. a product which will be delivered A perfect hedge reduces your tries that is expected to feel the higher than in the UAE, Iskandar property sector across the GCC, On the sidelines of the Arabian in the future. This means a com- risk to nothing, except for the pressure of rising costs, especially Najjar, CEO of Alpari ME DMCC, with infrastructure and construc- Business Forum in Dubai, pany is able to lock in margins in cost of the transaction fees. with the 2022 FIFA World Cup leading global Forex broker and tion projects recommencing and Iskandar said: “A construction advance, which offers a degree of Hedging can be executed through on the horizon and with a sig- part of Alpari Group Limited, said demand for building materials company will source materials stability to the company’s balance several different tools, including nificant amount of development in Dubai. rising, companies are anticipating from all over the world, and as a sheet.” forwards, futures, swaps, options needed before the event. A steady Iskandar urged constructors a hike in prices or even a short- result, will be exposed to numer- Hedging involves making an and collars, but primarily for- rise in demand of the materials and real estate companies in age in construction materials as ous currencies. Hedging is like investment to reduce the risk wards and futures. and an anticipated increase in the Gulf to consider developing a result. having an insurance policy against of adverse price movements THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatar issued $19bn bonds, sukuks in ’11 GCC bond issuance grows by 21pc: QNB Group report

DOHA: The GCC foreign bonds making them a low-cost source Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank issued h ave g r o w n at a n a n nu a l rat e of 2 1 of financing. For instance, in a $1bn sukuk in November 2012 percent since Q1 2007. The rapid November 2012, a $1bn, 5-year to shore up its core capital ahead growth has happened partly to note from QNB Group was issued of the implementation of Basel compensate for the decline in with a coupon of 2.125 percent. III standards. The sukuk was the international syndicated loans, T-bill issuance in the GCC has GCC’s first perpetual bond with which fell from $112bn in 2007 also risen, particularly due to no stated maturity. to $32bn in 2011 and just $8bn in increased use of them by Kuwait QNB Group expects that the first half of 2012. and Qatar to manage domestic regional companies will continue The decline in the international liquidity and support the devel- to drive bond issuance higher in loans is most probably a result of opment of capital markets. Saudi 2013 for a number of reasons. global banks, reducing their inter- Arabia, Bahrain and Oman also Firstly, tapping debt markets national exposure following the issue T-bills and the UAE is plan- has the benefit of broadening the 2008 financial crisis. The govern- ning to in the near future. investor base of GCC companies. ments and corporations in the GCC The largest GCC bond market Secondly, companies will be keen are increasingly looking to the bond is in the UAE, which accounts for to take advantage of the prevail- markets as an alternative source 45 percent of outstanding bonds in ing low interest rate environ- Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani (second right), KPMG Global Chairman Michael Andrew (right), Gopal of financing for the substantial the region and 27 percent of GDP. ment. Thirdly, strong growth is Balasubramaniam, Partner, Head of Oil and Gas, MESA Region, KPMG, (left) with another guest at KPMG Qatar’s projects and corporate expansions Issuance of new bonds in the GCC expected in the GCC, which will 35th anniversary celebrations. (ABDUL BASIT) underway in the region, a QNB reached $38bn for 2012 as at 20th drive continued demand for proj- Group analysis noted yesterday. November, slightly below the $45bn ect financing. Again, the global There is $233bn in debt securi- issued in 2011. This was due to lower ambition of leading regional com- KPMG celebrates 35 years in Qatar ties issued in the GCC in circula- government issuance. In 2011, Qatar panies will continue to drive their tion equivalent to 17 percent of the had issued almost $19bn in sovereign international expansion, sustain- region’s GDP. This is a relatively bonds and sukuks in 2011, compared ing demand for financing. Many DOHA: KPMG, the global net- our government and private sec- Fakhro said KPMG works with low level compared with advanced to only $4bn in 2012, to help build a companies will need to refinance work of professional firms pro- tor clients for all the support over 800 leading Qatar organisa- economies where government yield curve to support local capital existing debt issues, particularly viding audit, tax and advisory granted to us during these years,”. tions. “KPMG has established bonds alone often amount to over markets. in the UAE. Finally, as the intro- services, hosted a major cli- KPMG expects to double the strong relationships within the 100 percent of GDP. According to However, corporate debt issu- duction of Basel III standards gets ent reception on Wednesday size of its practice in the next business community which has analysis by QNB Group, this debt ance has risen strongly in 2012, closer, more banks in the region evening to celebrate its 35th few years and is leveraging the helped us develop a deep under- includes $17bn in central bank accounting for 75 percent or could look at raising core capital year of operation in Qatar. full strength of its global firm to standing of Qatar’s values and T-bills and $216bn in longer-term $29bn of new bond issuance, through debt issuance. More than 1,100 senior govern- support its local team and clients. culture.” bonds and sukuks. more than double the corpo- GCC sovereigns have relatively ment and private sector leaders KPMG’s local office provides a Attendees included board Bond markets are an attractive rate bond issuance of $14bn in high ratings, with a growing as well as local and international diverse range of specialist services members, CEO’s, business lead- source of financing for a number 2011. The largest issue was a number of institutions obtain- KPMG partners and managers in areas such as audit, corporate ers from Qatar’s leading organi- of reasons. Long-term bonds are 10-year $4bn sukuk from Saudi ing a credit rating. This makes attended the reception held at finance and restructuring, man- zations and KPMG’s Global well matched to the long-term Arabia’s General Authority for most GCC companies well posi- the Ritz Carlton. agement consulting, risk consult- Chairman Michael Andrew. The nature of the capital investments Civil Aviation. Dolphin Energy, a tioned to enter the bond market KPMG in Qatar, managing ing and tax. It has some of the event was also attended by KPMG governments and companies are UAE-Qatar gas pipeline company, and obtain relatively favourable partner, Jamal Fakhro, said: “We brightest industry specialists in representatives from the Middle undertaking. Additionally, bond issued a $1.3bn bond in February financing terms. felt it was important that we cel- many of the areas, relevant to East, Europe and Asia. yields have reached record lows, 2012 to refinance existing debt. THE PENINSULA ebrate our 35th year by thanking Qatar’s National Vision 2030. THE PENINSULA

Al Meera Holding acquires Oman’s Safeer stores German Finance Ministry sees DOHA: Al Meera Holding Company of Al Meera Oman and Al Meera Market quarter of 2013. The purchase includes eying at the lucrative Omani retail mar- SAOC in Oman to manage the Safeer three super markets and two 5000 square no Tobin tax ket potential has signed an agreement stores, and any other purchases made in meter hypermarkets. A total of five to purchase the business and assets of the future. stores will be operated, two of which are the ‘Safeer’ stores in the Sultanate of “This purchase gives us a strong foot- located in the capital, Muscat. before 2016 Oman, a release issued by Al Meera said hold in the lucrative Omani market, and The Omani operations reflect a solid yesterday. we will see more stores opening in the commitment to made Al Meera’s share- BERLIN: The German Finance Al Meera Holding Co is a subsidiary of country in the future,” explained Dr holders with regards to international Ministry does not expect a Al Meera Consumer Goods Co (owned 99 Mohammed Nasser Al Qahtani (pic- expansion. financial transaction tax for percent by the Company and one percent tured), Deputy CEO of Al Meera. “We “With our Omani operations, the Al 11 euro zone countries to be by Al Meera Central Markets Company), have already begun seeking out properties Meera brand is now international, as introduced before 2016, accord- and Al Meera Development Company LLC for new stores, and promise to translate promised in the October Extraordinary ing to a report in Germany’s (owned 99 percent by the company and our mission of becoming the ‘neighbour- General Meeting,” added Al Qahtani. Wirtschaftswoche business one percent by Al Meera Central Markets hood’s favourite retailer’ to our Omani “Revenues generated from this pur- weekly magazine. Company). business.” chase will reflect as of January 2013 on Wirtschaftswoche quoted a The Omani company operates hyper- Under the agreement, Al Meera will the company’s Profits and Losses. Oman senior Finance Ministry official, markets and supermarkets in the take over operations of Safeer stores is only our first solid foray into markets Michael Sell, telling a meeting Sultanate; Al Meera and its Omani during December 2012, with renova- outside Qatar – and we aspire to leave a of accountants in Berlin that the partner National Investment Funds tions and refurnishing scheduled to mark on the international markets in the financial transaction tax (Tobin Company SAOC (NIFCO) , will complete start immediately to ensure all the stores near future.” tax) would not be collected until within the coming days the incorporation are rebranded to ‘Al Meera’ in the first THE PENINSULA 2016, or about two years later than previously believed, due to the pace of international negotia- tions and technical reasons. Qnbn partners with “I would not include in the budget anything from the finan- Atkins for Programme cial transaction tax before 2016,” Sell told the meeting of account- Management Office ants in Berlin, the magazine said. A spokesman for Finance DOHA: Qatar National Broadband Network Ministry declined to comment on (Qnbn), partnered with Atkins, one of the the report the introduction of a world’s leading engineering and design con- financial transaction tax would be sultancies, to establish and operate a new delayed by a year or two to about Programme Management Office (PMO) in 2016. There were hopes last month line with Qnbn’s commitment to deliver a that the tax could be raised in 2014. world-class broadband network in Qatar. In October, 11 euro zone coun- The contract will see Atkins play a sig- tries agreed to press ahead with nificant role in the roll-out of Qnbn’s FTTH the tax on financial transactions programme to empower the country with high aimed at making traders share speed fibre access (100+Mpbs) to businesses the cost of fixing a crisis that has and citizens alike through maximum nation- rocked the single currency area. wide coverage. The initiative was pushed Ahmad Al Sulaiti, Qnbn’s Chief Technology hard by Germany and France Officer, said: “The next generation fibre optics but strongly opposed by Britain, network we are rolling out in Qatar, in partner- Sweden and other proponents of ship with global partners such as Atkins will free markets. It was in the works bring community and enterprise benefits with for two years. Britain, home to the enhanced delivery of communication services, region’s biggest trading centre, cost savings, increased competitiveness and will not join the scheme. improved sustainability. It’ll also raise the bar Austrian Finance Minister for the industry across the region.” Maria Fekter said last month Godfrey McFall, Atkins’ sector man- the 11 countries would present aging director for Defence, Security & a model for how the tax would Communications, said: “Qnbn is right at the work by the end of 2012 and it forefront of helping Qatar develop a knowledge- was realistic to expect the tax to based, sustainable economy by providing the be implemented by 2014. very highest standards of enabling technologies The European Commission has throughout the country. said a tax on stocks, bonds and This exciting and challenging communi- derivatives trades from 2014 could cations program is strategically vital for raise up to ¤57bn ($74bn) a year Qatar’s future development. Our role will if applied across all EU countries. see us drawing on our extensive worldwide, The Finance Ministry spokes- Next Generation Networks (NGNW) con- man in Berlin declined to com- sulting expertise to ensure no stone is left ment on the timing of the tax’s unturned to deliver Qnbn’s program effi- introduction. “We’re working ciently, effectively, on time and to the right with intensity and great engage- quality.” ment on the introduction of the Atkins’ Qnbn project team is expected to peak tax on the path to increased coop- at up to 40 people, comprising management eration and we’re confident that consultants and Information, Communications there will be an agreement,” the and Technology (ICT) specialists. spokesman said. THE PENINSULA REUTERS SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Facebook and volatile market still chill IPOs 178 firms shy away from listings

NEW YORK: At the peak advance has been punctuated by of the technology boom, little sharp declines when investors more than a decade ago, a plen- fretted about European debt, tiful supply of companies vied to the election and, now, a looming sell stock on the exchanges, and “cliff” of tax increases and gov- investors were assured mouth- ernment spending cuts. watering returns. “The general market has been These days, the deals are fewer real choppy this year. It really and the returns more modest. has,” says Sal Morreale, an insti- Companies are set to raise tutional salesman at Cantor more than $45bn through IPOs Fitzgerald in Los Angeles who this year — the most since 2007, tracks offerings. according to data provider Facebook’s calamitous market Dealogic. But if you scratch the debut also put the brakes on IPOs. surface, there are signs that the The social networking site’s market is less healthy than it offering was the most keenly appears. anticipated market debut at least Almost a third of the money since Google’s in 2004. But con- raised in IPOs this year came from cerns about revenue from smart- one deal, Facebook’s $16bn offering phone users spooked investors, in May, and the number of compa- and the offering was plagued by nies taking themselves public may technical glitches. end at a three-year low. The stock was priced at $38 and The pipeline, or backlog, of fell almost immediately, dropping companies planning to sell stock as low as $17.55 on September 4. is also thinning. The negative publicity helped shut- “It’s a reflection of the psychol- ter the IPO market for more than ogy of the market today. It’s not a month until EQT Midstream L abourers work at a construction site in Siliguri, in West Bengal state. India’s economy logged around 5.5 percent growth in the last financial quarter. strong. It’s moderate to weak,” Partners, an energy company, sold says Rob Lutts, chief invest- stock on June 16. Companies includ- ment officer at Cabot Money ing American Tire Distributors Management in Salem. and Crosair, a computer memory Indian minister sees 5.5pc quarterly growth While 437 companies have filed company, were among those with- for an IPO this year, 178 have with- drawing their IPOs. drawn or postponed their planned “That deal has become a NEW DELHI: India’s econ- That would be down from 6.9 a necessity. India cannot afford the bank to lower rates. listings, Dealogic data show. textbook case of how not to do omy logged around 5.5 percent percent in the same second-quarter to grow below eight percent,” Indian businesses have been The state of the IPO market a deal,” says Quincy Krosby, a growth in the last financial period a year earlier. “It goes without Chidambaram said. calling for lower rates, saying the matters beyond Wall Street. market strategist with Prudential quarter, the finance minister saying that we face a difficult situa- The slow growth comes at a slowdown is in large part due to Besides giving investors the Financial. “That IPO really chas- estimated yesterday — a rate tion,” Chidambaram said at a bank- time when it is more difficult for high borrowing costs that have chance to buy into fast-growing tened investors.” that could boost calls for lower ers’ conference, adding the “global the Indian government to pep up curbed consumer spending. parts of the market, offerings give The backlog of companies plan- interest rates to spur activity. economy is still in crisis”. the economy than in the 2008-09 Chidambaram said India must companies the money to expand ning IPOs fell to 39 in November, India’s once-booming economy India’s economy was growing financial crisis. boost growth “through innova- and hire workers. according to data from Ipreo, a has been hit by high interest by more than eight percent before Then, the government had tion, through finding ways of Scott Cutler, head of glo- market analysis company firm. rates, Europe’s debt crisis that 2011-12. But it has been perform- more fiscal room to stimulate the increasing the production of goods bal listings at NYSE Euronext, That is the fewest since August has slowed exports, and sluggish ing increasingly worse with the economy but now it is struggling and services”. which runs the New York Stock 2009, just after the recession. The investment caused by domestic Congress-led government of Prime to cut a widening budget deficit The government recently Exchange, estimates that more tally has been declining steadily and overseas concerns about pol- Minister Manmohan widely criti- and avert a downgrade of its sov- introduced a blitz of liberalisation than 90 percent of a public com- since September 2011. icy and corruption. cised for its handling of the situation. ereign debt to “junk” status by measures to spur the economy— pany’s employee growth comes NYSE’s Cutler says that much Chidambaram said in televised Even though 5.5-percent global credit ratings agencies. including opening the door wider after it has listed on an exchange. of the decline is because of a law remarks in the western Indian growth would be the envy of much In addition, the central bank for foreign investors in the retail IPO activity is dictated largely passed in April designed to make city of Pune that he expected of the world, it is not enough for has been keeping interest rates and aviation sectors. But the pro- by the health of the overall stock it easier for companies to attract official data to be released next India, which has been aiming for high to combat stubbornly high market reforms have stirred huge market. Falling markets discour- funding. They can confidentially Friday to show that the economy close to double-digit expansion inflation. Inflation eased margin- political controversy, paralysing aging companies from going pub- notify regulators of their inten- grew by “around 5.5 percent” in to substantially reduce crushing ally in October to 7.45 percent parliament which resumed sitting lic. The Standard & Poor’s 500 is tion to seek a listing. the three months to September poverty. “For us eight percent year-on-year, but economists said on Thursday. up 11 percent this year, but the AP 30. growth is not an aspiration but the level is still too high to permit AFP

Corbett optimistic about Pennsylvania petrochemical plant Vietnam inflation hits six-month PITTSBURGH: Governor very well.” He described the meet- about it.” The company has an end- antifreeze and other products. and state lawmakers ensured the Tom Corbett says that he met ing’s participants from Shell as of-year deadline on a deal for land Actual construction could be Shell plant would be eligible for a high, says govt with leaders of oil and gas “people higher in the organisation near Monaca on the banks of the years away. The site is home to a 25-year state tax credit of a nickel giant Royal Dutch Shell and than we’ve ever seen before,” the Ohio River, about 35 miles northwest Horsehead Corp zinc smelter, which per gallon of ethane used begin- HANOI: Vietnamese inflation that their preliminary plans to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. of Pittsburgh. Shell spokeswoman the company expects to shut down. ning in 2017. picked up to the fastest pace in build a multibillion-dollar pet- Still, crucial decisions remain in the Kayla Macke told the newspaper In March, Shell announced that The tax incentives could easily six months in November, official rochemical refinery in western development process, and Shell has only that the company continues to it had signed a land option agree- surpass $1bn in value. data showed yesterday, adding Pennsylvania are on track, a not made a final decision to build evaluate the site. ment with Horsehead to evaluate Beaver County Commissioner to the economic challenges fac- newspaper reported. at a site in Beaver County that is The so-called cracker plant the site after Pennsylvania had Joe Spanik told the Post-Gazette ing the country’s Communist Corbett said earlier this week its first choice in a region booming would convert natural gas liquids competed with Ohio and West that county and municipal offi- rulers. that he thinks the project is going with natural gas production. from the state’s newly accessible Virginia for the tentative com- cials are waiting to hear which Consumer prices gained an in the right direction and that last “That’s always been my concern,” reserves into more profitable mitment. In addition to making portions of the 1,000-acre indus- estimated 7.08 percent this week’s meeting to discuss future Corbett said. “Until we put a shovel chemicals such as ethylene, which it eligible for at least 15 years of trial site Shell will use. month from a year earlier, fol- steps for the project “went very, in the ground, I’m always worried is used to make plastics, tires, property tax exemptions, Corbett AP lowing a 7.0-percent rise in October, according to the General Statistics Office. It was the sharp- est increase since May. Month-on-month, prices edged Gov tries to head up 0.47 percent in November. “The government is really off strike at Rizon Jet partners struggling to curb inflation while pushing economic growth,” Port of Portland said a senior manager at one of with Luxury Network Vietnam’s major private banks PORTLAND, Oregon: who did not want to be named. Governor John Kitzhaber tried DOHA: Rizon Jet have marketing, partnerships and Vietnam struggled with dou- to head off a walkout at the Port signed a Founding Member events group; a private consor- ble-digit price rises for years but of Portland that could mean Agreement with The Luxury tium of premium brands in each after a string of interest rate the port’s first longshore union Network Qatar. This indicates luxury capital of the world, work- hikes by the central bank to pre- work stoppage in decades. a joint venture of the two elite ing together at senior director vent the economy from overheat- The governor told both sides companies in Qatar. They will level for mutual business and cli- ing, annual inflation dropped to a that he expects them to reach help out The Luxury Network ent development.” three-year low of around 5.0 per- agreement in last-ditch talks Qatar build astonishing, influ- This caught the attention of cent in August, well off a peak of set for today, The Oregonian ential and victorious business Rizon Jet, a company that pur- 23 percent seen a year earlier. reported. relationships involving many sues a holistic and customer- The authorities have since Marine terminal security of the world’s most luxurious centric approach to business changed tack in response to guards represented by the brands. aviation, providing private travel slowing economic growth, cut- International Longshore and Only five of the most power- solutions and business aircraft ting interest rates five times since Warehouse Union plan to strike ful companies in various indus- services to today’s time-pressed the start of 2012. The communist Sunday because contract talks tries in Qatar will have the traveller. country expects economic growth that began in June 2011 have failed privilege of becoming one of The Luxury Network Qatar of just 5.2 percent for 2012 — the to yield an agreement. The long- The Luxury Network Qatar will take part in Rizon Jet’s slowest rate in 13 years. shoremen who load and unload Founding Member. Fares Ghattas, strategic business development Vietnam is also grappling with ships are expected to honor the The Luxury Network Qatar’s as an addition to their existing falling foreign direct investment picket line, effectively closing Managing Director, and Captain marketing division. and rising fears about toxic debts three terminals. Hassan Al Mousawi, Rizon Jet’s “This partnership with Rizon in the fragile banking system. Representatives of both the CEO, had a business meeting and Jet will enable us to launch Prime Minister Nguyen Tan port and the union told the gov- discussed about the future ven- one of the most exclusive lux- Dung admitted last month that ernor there was room for a deal, tures that will benefit both parties ury events in Rizon Jet VIP his government had made mis- Kitzhaber spokesman Tim Raphael and signed the founding members Terminal in Doha International takes in its stewardship of the said. The port has faced a triple agreement. Airport,” according to Fares troubled economy and had play of labour problems this year. “The Luxury Network is the Ghattas. “learned our lesson”. AP Fares Ghattas (left) with Captain Hassan Al Mousawi. world’s leading luxury affinity THE PENINSULA AFP SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Europe is breaking, how Greek economy pays high many EUs will there be? BY PAWEL SWIEBODA price for its high prices rospects for the survival of the euro area are looking up, raising a new question to dominate debate about the BY ALAN WHEATLEY AND reforms and its trade deficit is receding. many that determine prices. The most com- continent’s future: Will there be one European Union, or KAROLINA TAGARIS But the clock is ticking: the burden of prehensive gauge of a country’s cost com- Pseveral? austerity and reform has fallen dispropor- petitiveness is its real, or inflation-adjusted, To save itself from oblivion, the euro area is embarking on an igns across Athens advertise prop- tionately on the man in the street, and his effective exchange rate (REER) relative to unprecedented degree of integration that was left undone when erty for rent or sale. One in three patience is all but exhausted. Protests over its main trading partners. Europe started a common currency just over a decade ago. If shops has closed. At those still inequality and austerity are proliferating, And in 2011, Greece’s REER was still all goes according to the plans of a handful of leaders, including open for business, turnover has fomenting political radicalism. 18-20 percent above its 2000 level, accord- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, there will eventually emerge slumped. “Greece is on the edge right now. That’s ing to Eurostat, the EU statistics agency. a banking union, a new federal budget and a joint commissioner SSo it is one of the mysteries of Greece’s why 2013 will be a crunch year for the “Of course the issue of prices concerns who must reconcile national budgets. economic depression that prices of some economy and society,” said Dimitris us. There’s a problem, and we’re aware of Given the resistance to many of these ideas at the moment, this things - milk and the new iPhone, for exam- Asimakopoulos, who owns one of the oldest it,” Athanasios Skordas, deputy minister for may sound farfetched. But the project is likely to progress, because ple - are among the highest in Europe. pastry shops in Athens. economic development and competitiveness, so long as the euro exists, logic points to countries that share the The riddle matters hugely. If costs and Asimakopoulos, who also heads the told reporters. same currency pooling their fiscal as well as monetary sovereignty. prices were lower, exporters would be more GSEVEE small business confederation, said Inflation is falling - it was 0.9 percent in That means separating from the rest of the EU crowd, and in competitive and people’s shrinking pay his turnover had fallen 35 percent since the the year to September - and economists some ways it’s only surprising that this hasn’t happened already. packets and pensions would stretch farther, crisis struck. Profits were one-fifth of what expect it to come down further. Countries exposed to the risks associated with sharing the cushioning a sharp drop in consumption. they were then. But to thoroughly convert wage to price euro are justified in demanding special terms relative to fellow Increases in value added tax and other “The economy here is not an advanced competitiveness will entail a daunting array EU members who have their own currencies and therefore face indirect levies are part of the answer. Greece capitalist economy,” he said. “But you can’t of reforms, such as making it easier to start fewer constraints and can count on flexible exchange rates. That is also hostage to the cost of imported oil change an economy by pressing a button. a business and removing barriers to compe- logic, however, has consequences. and food. You need time, and right now we don’t have tition in key markets such as energy. While the 17 euro-area countries are integrating, Britain has But another set of reasons goes to the time.” Platon Monokroussos, head of financial started a process of gradually disassociating itself from the rest heart of Greece’s political and economic One button that a country living beyond markets research at Eurobank in Athens, of the EU. Across the English Channel, this is often met with a malaise: collusion among producers, the its means has to press is marked ‘cost cut- said these market rigidities were one reason sigh of relief — Britain has long been a difficult partner. However, state’s complicity in shielding protected ting’. Greece has done that. Wages are why falling wages had not translated into a those who quietly smile as Prime Minister David Cameron and professions and businesses, and a thorough plunging at the behest of international quicker drop in inflation. his Conservative Party tie themselves in knots over Europe dis- lack of competition that allows a favoured creditors who are keeping the country alive Another reason, Monokroussos said, is regard the fact that the EU would be a different animal without few to extract economically unjustified prof- on a drip-feed of aid. rent-seeking - making excessive profits. Britain, which was the driving force behind the creation of the its from a long-suffering populace. By the end of this year, the entire surge Eurostat figures show average food prices EU’s single market. The euro area can’t simply detach itself from Much of the economy, in a word, is dis- in the average cost of labour per unit of in Greece are higher than in the rest of the the larger EU without sacrificing competitiveness. Italy’s Prime eased. And until the disease is cured, sus- output from 2001 to 2009 will have been EU except for meat, fruit and vegetables. Minister Mario Monti used to say clearly that those who want a tainable growth cannot resume even if unwound, according to a draft European Milk, cheese and eggs are 31 percent more stronger single market are outside of the euro. eurozone finance ministers finally agree Commission paper. expensive than the EU average; cereals and This includes EU states that are trapped between the euro - after two failed meetings in successive The drop in nominal unit labour costs oils cost 16 percent more. area and Britain and worry they might not be able to stitch the weeks - how to lighten Greece’s unsustain- this year alone is projected to be 8.7 percent The Organisation for Economic two parts of Europe together. Of these, Poland is the most nerv- able debt burden. - not surprising given that the unemploy- Cooperation and Development says profit ous at the prospect of Europe’s center of gravity drifting beyond The good news is that Athens is imple- ment rate is 25 percent. margins exceed EU average in many sectors the country’s comfort zone. Denmark and Sweden are in similar menting some deep-seated administrative But wages are only one input among especially retailing. REUTERS positions but would probably feel more secure about operating at the euro area’s margins. A lot rides on how the changing European geometry will be worked out. It can be done divisively, leading to acrimony, or in an accommodating way that creates synergies. The former route has the potential to bring about an end to the EU as we know it, including its great achievement of overcoming the deep divisions that defined Europe for centuries. For example, it would make eminent sense for the euro area to create a functioning labour market among its members, complete with a euro-area-wide social-insurance plan. Yet such innovations could also limit the free movement of citizens across the wider EU, a treasured benefit of the union, unless special arrangements were first negotiated to ensure that non- euro-area countries had the possibility of opting into these arrangements. Doing so would require a lot of goodwill and understanding. Unfortunately, the odds of an orderly redesign of Europe are not good, because a more-integrated euro area is being born of neces- sity. Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister, accepted this last year when he said, “We can only achieve a political union if we have a crisis.” The midwives for this rebirth of Europe aren’t politicians — they are financial markets pushing for the federal structure needed to make the euro sustainable. Crisis and force- majeure don’t make an ideal setting for careful compromise. Still, a new grand bargain in Europe is possible and worth fighting for. What would it take? It would need to be based on an acceptance that there are different types of economies in Europe, different political systems and different societies. The attempt to merge them into a giant fusion-Europe has not worked, creat- ing antagonism instead. If post-crisis Europe is to be based on a revived idea of this idealised uniformity, it will backfire. In truth, a two-speed Europe already exists, and it divides northern Europe from southern Europe — not euro from non- euro countries. It was born in 2002, the year that what the World Bank calls Europe’s convergence machine broke. After that, labour productivity in southern European countries began to fall, while in the north it continued to grow at 1.7 percent from 1995 to 2009, a little bit more than the rates of increase in the United States (1.6 percent) and Japan (1.2 percent). Inflows of capital replaced domestic saving in the south, but they increasingly didn’t fund productive investment. The result has been a mismatch that is only getting bigger. WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Russian-style quantitative easing may sow trouble

BY JASON BUSH And the central bank’s role in banks’ own behaviour. rapidly becoming the new norm. Concerned by the rapid deputy chairman of mid-size financing banks looks set to keep “The cause of the problem is “Banks generally should resort increase, the central bank is now Absolut Bank. t has been dubbed quantita- growing as Russia’s authori- that the banks have deployed to central bank funding in a dif- tightening regulations to damp “Banks take a big risk of a tive easing, Russian-style. A ties endeavour to halt a possible more liquidity than they have ficult situation, when you need down the riskiest retail lending. liquidity gap. In general the surge in central bank lend- slide in bank lending that would attracted in the form of customer liquidity as a matter of extraordi- But it seems less inclined to rein money is short-term, and the Iing to Russian banks is sus- deepen an economic slowdown funding,” said Yaroslav Sovgyra, nary support,” said Sovgyra. “But in corporate lending, the main assets are long-term.” taining rapid loan growth, but and undermine support for associate managing director at not during the normal course of cause of Russian banks’ troubles Leading bankers acknowledge also risks fuelling inflation and a President Vladimir Putin. credit rating agency Moody’s in business to finance loans.” in the 2008-9 crunch. the latter problem, but argue potential credit bubble. At least in theory, more cen- Moscow. The central bank’s monetary Leading bankers see the situa- that the solution is for Russia to On the face of it, Russia’s cen- tral bank funding for banks is a In the first 10 months of this injections may help to explain dis- tion differently. go even further in copying the tral bank has been acting tough. way to prop up the economy by year, total lending by Russian concertingly high inflation, which “If you look at penetration of quantitative easing policies seen To clamp down on inflation it has encouraging banks to lend, sup- banks grew by 15 percent, out- is set to overshoot the central loans in the economy it still sig- in the West by providing multi- recently hiked interest rates - in porting spending by companies pacing the 9.4 percent increase in bank’s 6 percent inflation target nificantly lags emerging market year financing. stark contrast with the ultra- and consumers. client deposits, according to the for the year. peers, and is obviously far away “It’s not only about inflation loose monetary policies seen in central bank’s monthly banking “Without these injections core from the developed economies,” and monetary stability,” said western economies. FUNDING SQUEEZE sector review. inflation would be much lower said Herbert Moos, chief financial VTB’s Moos. “If Russia wants to But while Russia has tight- At the root of the central bank’s The shortfall means that banks -- it’s quite obvious,” said Alfa’s officer of VTB Bank, Russia’s No support growth of its own econ- ened the monetary screws with growing lending is an intensifying are instead turning to the cen- Orlova, who predicted that the 2 lender. omy, it needs to provide improved one hand, it has been opening the squeeze on banks’ market fund- tral bank to fill the gap. Moody’s central bank would also miss its The ratio of loans to GDP, longer-term financing.” flood gates with the other. ing. Overnight interbank lending predicts that the share of central 6 percent target next year due to around 45 percent, compares Sceptics say that Russia can “They are sending conflicting rates have risen steadily from bank funding in banks’ liabilities, political and economic pressure with 55 percent in Poland and 150 hardly be compared to western signals,” said Natalia Orlova, chief below 3 percent at the start of now some 6 percent, will reach 15 to support banks. percent in the European Union - countries, which are resorting to economist at Alfa Bank. “They 2011 to around 6 percent today. percent by the end of next year. Analysts are also worried that suggesting that Russia is a long highly unorthodox measures to are raising interest rates ... and Many bankers blame the cen- Under pressure from banks, the expansion in central bank way from the kind of debt crisis revive stagnant lending and avert at the same time they continue tral bank. Last month German the central bank has promised to credits will dilute asset quality, now plaguing western economies. a deflationary debt spiral. to fund loan growth.” Gref, the head of Russia’s larg- accept a wider range of collateral both of the central bank itself and Retail loans represent just 10 per- “Obviously that might be neces- Total credit extended by the est bank Sberbank, criticised its in future, and extend the maxi- of the banks it is lending to. cent of GDP. sary if you have a problem effec- central bank has mushroomed September rate hike, arguing that mum duration of central bank They point out that growth But some Russian bankers tively with loan growth - like you to 2.5trn roubles ($80bn) as of higher borrowing costs would refinancing operations from the in retail lending -- the riskiest paint a less reassuring picture. have in the US or eurozone - but November 1 from negligible levels crimp lending and damage eco- present three months to up to segment of the market -- has “A lot of banks are involved in that’s not a problem here,” said in mid-2011, and is approaching nomic growth. one year. recently accelerated to over 40 speculation, because the central Clemens Grafe, chief economist at levels seen at the height of the But the deeper roots of the That raises concerns that what percent, notwithstanding the bank provides a big volume of Goldman Sachs in Moscow. 2008-9 financial shock. funding shortage lie in Russian began as an emergency measure is recent hike in central bank rates. resources,” said Andrei Larkin, REUTERS SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 GECM & TENDERS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday Foreign investment in China drops in October Weak growth and high inflation German economy to lose momentum, BEIJING: Foreign direct investment is the ‘new normal’ Bundesbank warns in China fell again in October, the US corporations cut investment LONDON: The Bank of England FRANKFURT: The German economy will government said Tuesday, as investors Japan sees worst trade to recession level on fiscal fears produced a sobering analysis of lose significant momentum in the coming remained cautious amid global economic deficit in Oct amid China row NEW YORK: US companies are the outlook for the UK economy this months as the eurozone debt crisis and slower woes and China’s own slowdown. TOKYO: Japan marked a 549 slashing investment plans at the week. Its (Euronext: ALITS.NX - news) global growth hit the nation‘s expansion rate, Foreign companies invested $8.3 billion billion yen ($6.7 billion) trade fastest pace since the 2008 global quarterly Inflation Report forecast Germany‘s central bank warned Monday. in factories and other projects in China deficit in October, the worst for financial crisis, amid fears of the showed that economic growth was “There is a loss of confidence in extensive parts last month, down 0.24 percent from a the month, as exports to China of the economy about any short-term impetus looming economic slowdown in likely to be lower than previously year ago, Shen Danyang, Ministry of and Europe remained weak emerging,” the Bundesbank wrote in its latest case the ‘fiscal cliff’ becomes a projected and inflation would be higher. Commerce spokesman, said at a regular on soured relations with the bulletin. reality. Half of the nation’s 40 major news conference. Asian neighbor over a territorial publicly traded companies such as dispute and on the sovereign Ford Motor Co., Boeing Co., and debt crisis in the eurozone, Intel Corp. have announced plans to government data showed curtail capital expenditures and put Wednesday. on ice big projects this year or next, the Wall Street Journal reported. India, Brazil have govt debt ratio of 70pc : Report NEW DELHI: India and Brazil have the highest Brazil could again grow less government debt ratios at almost 70 percent than expected in 2013 - Goldman Leeway to financial exclusion of the gross domestic product (GDP) among Brazil Chairman crisis, by NDIC top ten emerging market economies, a report by Deutsche Bank has said. According to the LAGOS: Financial exclusion crisis BRAZILIA: Brazil’s economy could report, the average government debt levels in Nigeria may have hit a crisis once again grow less than expected of the top 10 emerging market economies, state, with over 39 million people Australia’s Central Bank hints at in 2013 as local activity remains including China, Russia and Indonesia, has outside the formal banking system. further rate cuts sluggish and global problems halved to 25 percent, from 50 percent of GDP Financially excluded persons are SYDNEY: Australia’s Central Bank on continue and, if anything, the central since 2000. bank may cut interest rates further, mainly the rural dwellers, persons, Tuesday said further interest rate cuts were according to Paulo Leme, chairman who had unsavory experiences in possible, but stood by its decision earlier of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) banking services and some other this month to leave them on hold, citing operations in Brazil since last March. disadvantaged groups. recent improved data on the global economy. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) last cut its official cash rate by 25 basis points in October to 3.25 percent, a low not seen since late 2009 when it first resumed hiking them after the global financial crisis.

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DUBAI: It will be a head-to- head clash between the world No.1 and No.2 in today’s final DP World Tour day of the $8m DP World Tour Championship after Rory Championship McIlroy and Luke Donald opened up a three-shot lead at Scores the top of the leaderboard. At the Earth course of the DUBAI: Leading third-round Jumeirah Golf Estates, the scores in the $8m DP World world’s top two ranked players Tour Championship yesterday shot matching rounds of five- at the par-72 Earth Course of under-par 67 each and were tied Jumeirah Golf Estates: at 17-under par 199. 199 Rory McIlroy (NIR) 66-67-66, Luke The South African duo of world Donald (ENG) 65-68-66 No.6 Louis Oosthuizen (68) and 202 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 68-67-67, Louis 2011 Masters champion Charl Oosthuizen (RSA) 67-67-68, Schwartzel (69) were tied for 204 Branden Grace (RSA) 69-65-70, Joost third place at 14-under par 202, Luiten (NED) 69-68-67, while their compatriot Branden 205 Romain Wattel (FRA) 70-68-67, George Grace was another two shots Coetzee (RSA) 71-67-67, Thongchai behind at 204 and tied fifth with Jaidee (THA) 68-69-68, Henrik Stenson Netherlands’ Joost Luiten. (SWE) 68-68-69, Jamie Donaldson Donald has now gone exactly (WAL) 68-68-69, Justin Rose (ENG) 100 holes without a bogey at the 68-68-69, Marc Warren (SCO) 66-67-72 Earth course - a streak that 206 Padraig Harrington (IRL) 67-71-68, started from the ninth hole of his Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP) second round last year. Yesterday, 66-72-68, Peter Hanson (SWE) 69-67- he went out in 32 and made two 70, Danny Willett (ENG) 71-65-70, further birdies on the back nine. 207 Peter Lawrie (IRL) 68-72-67, Rafael “Again, another solid round and Jacquelin (FRA) 69-67-71, Thomas in a great position. It will be a Aiken (RSA) 70-66-71, fun end to the season. Obviously 208 Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN) 68-72-68, playing with Rory, No.1 and No.2 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark chats with her boyfriend Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland during the third round of the Dubai Golf World Championship Anders Hansen (DEN) 69-70-69, Fredrik in the world, and the last round at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, yesterday. RIGHT: Luke Donald of England holds a golf ball during the third round. Andersson-Hed (SWE) 67-69-72, Richie for both of us in 2012,” said the Ramsay (SCO) 67-68-73 Chicago-based Englishman. “I played a very solid. Picked nine, coming in at 31 shots. When And while McIlroy said he was this week and hopefully I can carded the lowest round of the 209 Jeev Milkha Singh (IND) 71-74-64, Ian off the par-5s and made a cou- asked about Donald’s streak, hoping to take advantage of his continue to do that tomorrow day - an eight-under par 64 that Poulter (ENG) 72-70-67, Soren Kjeldsen ple other birdies. Very much in McIlroy quipped: “Well, if you phenomenal length off the tee, and give myself a little bit of an matched the course record. (DEN) 72-69-68, Chris Wood (ENG) 71-69-70, Scott Jamieson (SCO) 68-69- control of the ball and it’s always look at it logically, it means he’s Donald said he was not even advantage off the tee.” Singh later dedicated his round 72, Martin Kaymer (GER) 67-70-72, enjoyable to play this game when due a bogey! So hopefully, that going to try and compete with Donald, who is looking to win to his 76-year-old mother, Nirmal that happens. may be the case. the 23-year-old in that area of his fourth title of the year, said: Milkha Singh, who has been in 210 Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 72-70-68, “The streak is a little hard to “But I am looking forward to the game. “I know my own game and I know the ICU the last two days back Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP) 70-70-70, fathom even for myself. That’s it. I think everyone was looking “I guess you have to sort of feel it is different to Rory’s. He’s a after falling down and smashing Stephen Gallacher (SCO) 68-70-72, some good going. It’s something forward to No1 and No2 duel like you’re taking advantage of it. power player and obviously he’s her knee and the fibula. Sergio Garcia (ESP) 73-64-73, Nicolas I’ll store away in the memory tomorrow, and that’s the way it’s There’s no point in hitting those got a great short game, as well. I “She really is a braveheart,” Colsaerts (BEL) 68-68-74, banks and use to my advantage panned out. big drives up the middle of the can’t go out and try to hit the ball said Singh who made nine bird- 211 Miguel Angel Jimenez (ESP) 71-71-69, down the road.” “I know I’m excited about it, fairway if you can’t make birdies harder or anything like that. I just ies and a bogey. “She told me to Robert Rock (ENG) 72-70-69, Victor McIlroy, who said he was again and I’m sure a lot of people are. from them,” said McIlroy, who has have to play my own game and not go out there today and play well, Dubuisson (FRA) 71-69-71, Simon feeling unwell this morning, did So, it will be a great way to finish won four tournaments this year. get ahead of myself.” and I said, yes, let’s try to give it Dyson (ENG) 69-69-73, Marcus Fraser his bulk of scoring in the back the 2012 European Tour season.” “I’ve driven the ball really well India’s Jeev Milkha Singh a good shot and I did.” AFP (AUS) 69-67-75,

Puerto Rican National Purebred Arabian Horse Show Grizzlies beat Lakers boxing great Qatar Racing and Equestian Club (QREC) Chairman Sheikh Camacho Mohammed bin Faleh Al Thani to maintain (fourth left) presents a prize to a winner at the 15th Qatar National perfect start dies aged 50 Purebred Arabian Horse Show. SAN JUAN: Puerto Rican boxing great Hector ‘Macho’ Zeinat Al Shaqab came first in the first MEMPHIS: The road troubles Camacho, shot in the head category of the show which consisted for the Los Angeles Lakers con- last week, was declared of one-year-old female ponies. Najlaa tinued as they were beaten 106- dead yesterday after being Al Nasser and Kahla Al Shaqab, fin- 98 by the Grizzlies in Memphis removed from a respirator, a ished second and third respectively. yesterday. doctor said. In the second category which con- The Lakers dropped to 0-4 on His death brings a tragic end sisited of one-year-old male ponies, the road and 6-7 on the season as to a career that saw Camacho Ghaleb Al Shaqab won first place. the Grizzlies (9-2) continued their triumph in three weight classes Kanz Al Nasser finished second and early season impressive form. but struggle with drugs and Bariq Al Shaqab was third. The Grizzlies, who are the top alcohol. team in the Western Conference, Highlights of his career were ruthless early and led 34-18 included wins over legends such at the end of the first quarter then as Roberto Duran of Panama refused to be run down, producing and American fighter Sugar a team effort where all five start- Ray Leonard, whom Camacho Qatar Cricket Association to offer coaching ers scored double figure points. knocked out in five rounds. Rudy Gay top-scored for Camacho, who was 50, suf- Memphis with 21 points while fered a heart attack over- Zach Randolph added 17 and 12 night Friday and doctors later lessons for Ali Bin Abi Taleb school pupils rebounds for his 11th successive disconnected him from life double-double while Mike Conley support equipment, said Dr. DOHA: The Qatar Cricket (19 points), Marc Gasol (14) and Ernesto Torres, director of Association (QCA) visited Ali Tony Allen (12) also contributed Centro Medico de Rio Piedras, Bin Abi Taleb and met with to the victory. where the boxer was admitted schoolchildren and top teach- Kobe Bryant scored a game after being shot Tuesday. ing staff before announcing new high 30 points and Metta World “There was nothing else we coaching classes for the players Peace and Antawn Jamison added could do for him,” Torres said. of the institution. 16 each for the Lakers, who bat- Camacho had been declared Manzoor Ahmad, General tled to be as close as six behind brain dead on Thursday. His Secretary, QCA, Malik Nazar in the final quarter but could not relatives were informed as soon Mohammed, senior coach and complete the fightback. as he was taken off life support Technical Adviser, and Abdul “They got a lot of points in the yesterday, the doctor said. Salam, the coach, met with paint and we didn’t battle hard Camacho’s mother, Maria Principal Fahad Al Muslamani, a enough in stretches,” Lakers Matias, said Friday she QCA press statement said. coach Mike D’Antoni said. accepted the doctors’ opin- The school’s sports teacher D’Antoni left Pau Gasol on the ion that the three-time world Sameh El Wakil was also present bench for the final quarter, leav- champion could not recover. during the meeting. ing the Spaniard with just six The ex-fighter was shot on The principal later introduced points for the Lakers. REUTERS Tuesday while in a car in San the school’s boy’s team to the QCA Juan outside a liquor store. The officials, it emerged. boxer’s driver, Alberto Mojica The coaching classes for the NBA Results Moreno, 49, was also killed. team will be held every Tuesday Atlanta 101 Charlotte 91 It is not known if they were and Wednesday, QCA officials Orlando 108 Cleveland 104 Manzoor Ahmad, General Secretary (back row, centre) of the Qatar Cricket Assocation (QCA) along with QCA deliberately targeted or simply said. Boston 108 Oklahoma City 100 caught up in a random act of Principal Al Muslamani officials, staff and pupils from Ali Bin Abi Taleb school pose for a picture. The QCA will offer coaching classes for Brooklyn 86 LA Clippers 76 violence. The bullet damaged assured QCA, the school’s ‘full co- the school pupils. three arteries in Camacho’s operation to promote cricket and Detroit 91 Toronto 90 neck, crippling the flow of blood help the boy’s team give serious The QCA General Secretary tournament, QCA press state- personally thank the Principal Al San Antonio 104 Indiana 97 to his brain. attention to the coaching classes’ informed the principal that the ment said. Muslamani and Sports Teacher Memphis 106 LA Lakers 98 Camacho was one of the to be carried out soon. selected 20 boys will be extended “Transportation will be organ- Sameh El Wakil for their co-oper- Houston 131 NY Knicks 103 most colorful boxers of the Prior to the selection of the coaching by qualified ACC cricket ised for these boys and the travel ation and assistance in making Denver 102 Golden State 91 1980s, winning world titles at boy’s team, a four-week train- coaches at the Qatar Cricket schedule will be passed on to all coaching program success in the Utah 104 Sacramento 102 super lightweight, lightweight ing period was organised in the Academy. concerned schools ahead of the school,” Ahmed added in the press Phoenix 111 New Orleans 108 and light welterweight. AFP school premises and attended by Later, the boy’s team will take tournament,” Ahmed said. statement. 30 students. part in an inter-school cricket “I take this opportunity to THE PENINSULA Portland 103 Minnesota 95 SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 Fourth straight win for Lekhwiya QSL: Umm Salal come back from behind to beat Al Arabi; Qatar SC pick up points

DOHA: Khalid Mufta scored the only goal of the match QSL Results and against Al Kharaitiyat to give Lekhwiya their fourth straight win in the Qatar Stars League Standings (QSL), yesterday. Yesterday In other QSL matches yester- Al Kharaitiyat 0 Lekhwiya 1 day, Umm Salal rallied from one- Umm Salal 3 Al Arabi 1 goal down to beat Al Arabi 3-1. Qatar SC 3 Al Sailiyah 1 The result leaves Hassan Shehata Played on Friday still waiting for a win since tak- ing over as Al Arabi coach. In Al Rayyan 5 Al Gharafa 1 another match, Qatar SC edged Al Sadd 2 Al Khor 1 Al Sailiyah 3-1. Eljaish 1 Al Wakra 1 Defending champions Lekhwiya P W D L G/F G/A Pts started the match brightly, Al Sadd 8 8 0 0 24 8 24 putting their opponents under Al Rayyan 8 5 1 2 19 12 16 pressure. Lekhwiya 8 5 1 2 11 7 16 In the 9th minute, Al Kharaitiyat were reduced to ten- Umm Salal 8 4 2 2 13 14 14 men, when Mehdi Khammassi Eljaish 8 4 1 3 11 10 13 brought down Ali Afif, who con- Al Wakra 8 3 3 2 12 8 12 trolled Baba Malik’s long ball and Qatar SC 8 3 2 3 12 13 11 raced past the defenders. Al Garrafa 8 2 3 3 7 11 9 The dismissal angered Al Al Khor SC 8 1 3 4 9 12 6 Kharaitiyat’s coach Bernard Simondi on the sidelines. Al Arabi 8 0 4 4 7 15 4 As a result of the sending off, Al Sailiya SC 8 1 1 6 10 20 4 Nam Tae-Hee’s free-kick effort hit Al Khairaiyat 8 0 3 5 4 9 3 the post and the ball rebounded into the path of Mufta, who slot- ted the ball past Al Kharaitiyat Al Arabi’s Mohamed Malalla Al Kubaisi (left) plays the ball past Umm Salal’s Khalid Nooruldeen during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match in goalkeeper Khalifa Ndiaye. Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Al Kharaitiyat’s Alain Dioko Kaluyituka (right) and Lekhwiya SC’s Mohammed Moussa Ali vie for the ball during their QSL QSL Fixtures The visitors played short slick match played at the Al Khor Sports Club yesterday. Lekhwiya, the defending QSL champions won 1-0 to record their fourth straight win this season. Friday November 30 passes and pushed forward in the PICTURES BY: ABDUL BASIT/SALIM MATRAMKOT Al Khor vs Al Sailiyah (4:00pm) hope of scoring the second goal. At Al Khor Stadium In the 39th minute Tae-Hee hit side had a goal ruled out for off- lead. The Qatari stirker got in Boutaher nearly equalised for the Bakr always a danger when he a long shot that was easily saved side, but nearly equalised early in front of his opponent and headed home side. received the ball. Eljaish vs Al Kharaitiyat (4:00pm) by Ndiaye. the second half. the ball that went inches past the Early in the second half, Umm Mohamady Yasser grabbed At Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium Al Kharaitiyat tried to pro- Minutes later, Abdullah saw his post. Salal got their reward, when Umm Salal’s second with a won- Al Gharafa vs Al Sadd (06:30) duce chances but could not break effort go wide of the post after a Elsewhere, Al Arabi’s Nasser Boutaher equalised in the 50th derful goal. at Thani bin Jassim Stadium Lehwiya’s resistance, who were crisp cross by Abdallah Al Battat. Al Khalfan opened the proceed- minute. The midfielder struck the ball Saturday December 1 dominating in midfield. Despite Lekhwiya’s attempts to ings with a strong header that Shehata’s side were nearly 2-1 from outside the penalty area Al Wakra vs Al Rayyan (4:00pm) Their best chance of the first add to their goal tally, the home looped over Umm Salal’s goal- behind when Umm Sala exposed which gave Al Arabi goalkeeper At Soud bin Abdalrahman Stadium half came in the 44th minute, side found their rhythm and keeper Mohammed Aneas in the Al Arabi’s defence but Boutaher Rabjab Kassim no chance. Qatar SC vs Umm Salal (4:00pm) when Kebe Yahia blazed his shot Yahia Kebe’s shot was well saved 39th minute. was unable to convert his chance. Umm Salal made sure of the At Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium high above Lekhwiya’s goalkeeper by Malik in the 70th minute. The goal gave Umm Salal a Al Arabi were unable to cope points when Bakr scored the Malik. In the 81st minute, Sebastian wake-up call, and a minute later, with the home side’s threat espe- team’s third goal. Al Arabi vs Lekhwiya (6:30pm) In the second half, Simondi’s Soria nearly doubled his side’s Al Arabi survived a scare as Said cially on the wings with Mahir THE PENINSULA At Grand Hamad Stadium Al Khor Airstrip all set to host Bolt, Felix win top awards new high speed racing event

DOHA: A new high speed event Inline,” Behzad explained in Doha. for fans across the Middle East The top QRC official said win- will be added to Doha’s motor ner in the car category will walk sport calendar next week, a top away with the top prize of QR official of Qatar Racing Club 15,000 while the best rider at (QRC) said. ‘Qatar Mile’ will go home with a ‘Qatar Mile’ will be held at Al cash prize of QR 10,000. Khor Airstrip on November 30 “The reason we have taken the and December 1, Fahad Behzad, event to the Al Khor Airstrip is the CEO of QRC, told The because we have a larger area to Peninsula. play with,” event coordinator Nick “This event is open to all speed Cheliotis said. fans. We urge fans to come with “At the Qatar Racing Club their cars, bikes or SUVs and track, we organise (drag) races be part of the two-day event,” that are run for 400 meters. At Behzad said. the Al Khor Airstrip, our speed The event opens at 9:00am and fans will race over a distance of ends at 5:00pm on both the days, 800 meters,” Cheliotis added. Olympic athletes Usain Bolt (left) of Jamaica and Allyson Felix of the Behzad said. “Besides the bigger space avail- US look at each other after receiving their Male and Female Athlete “A rider or driver can have as able to us, we opted for the Al of the Year 2012 Awards in Barcelona yesterday. Olympic champions many turns as possible to increase Khor Airstrip because of the Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix were named Male and Female Athletes his or her chances of winning the asphalt surface. For even like of the Year respectively by the International Association of Athletics top prize. The bottom-line is to the ‘Qatar Mile’, this surface will Federations (IAAF) at a ceremony in Barcelona. break the 300-kmh barrier. I encourage speeding,” Cheliotis think this can be done,” Behzad explained. said. “We are expecting a large Behzad said the two-day event crowd since this event is for eve- Qatar-backed Carella will be run on a simple formula: ryone who loves speed. We have whoever drives or rides the fast- arranged for more than 1000 VIP est goes home with the top cash seats. prize in various categories. “Catering is taken care of for eyes world title in UAE Car events (8, 10 and 12 cylin- the participants as well as the ders and SUVs) will be split into fans who turn up at the venue,” ABU DHABI: The Qatar China. Al Kuwari admits that the three categories: unlimited, mod- Cheliotis said. Fahad Mohamed Behzad, CEO of Qatar Racing Club (QRC) and Nick Team’s Alex Carella could clinch Qatar Team has carried out many ified and stock, Behzad informed. Behzad said entry fee for those Cheliotis (left), Event Coordinator of QRC are seen during a press conference his second successive UIM F1 hours of dynamometer testing in The 4x4 SUV category event taking part is fixed at QR 200. in Doha. PICTURE BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT H20 World Championship title preparation for the back-to-back will also be run in similar classes, He said owners of Harley at the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi. UAE races, but the boats have he added. Davidsons, Ducati or Suzuki bikes With the absence of Team Abu been in a container at sea since “In the bike class, the catego- are expected to register for the Entry for the public is free, amateur does not matter. All you Dhabi’s Ahmed Al Hameli, Carella the race in China and actual boat ries are Bike V twin and Bike event. Behzad said. have to do is bring your car or can clinch the world title if nei- testing has been impossible. Auto Gyro plane show is also bike and we will see if you can ther Frenchman Phillipe Chiappe “We have not been to any race 8,10,12 Cylinders Prize - QR 6 Cylinders Prize - QR part of the two-day event. take your vehicle on to our cir- nor Finn Sami Selio finish on the in the past few years without The QRC staged the first round cuit,” Behzad said. podium. many new components to test,” Unlimited 8,000 Unlimited 7,000 of the highly popular 2012 Qatar The QRC official said every car Qatar-backed Carella holds a said Al Kuwari. Modified 6,000 Modified 5,000 National Street Drag Racing entry has to undergo a technical nine-point lead over the absent “That is what keeps us at the Stock 4,000 Stock 3,000 Championship (QNSDRC) last inspection before it is allowed to Al Hameli. top of this game. Insha’allah, we month whereas the second leg take part in the event. He also has an 11 point advan- will have the world title again in 4 Cylinders Prize - QR 4x4 Suv Prize - QR was held two weeks ago. “We have made arrangements tage over Chiappe and is 18 points 2012,” he added. Unlimited 4,000 Unlimited 7,000 Behzad said the event is open to make the outing at QRC a fun in front of Selio. The Abu Dhabi race also sees Modified 3,000 Modified 5,000 to fans from across the region time for fans of all ages,” Behzad The Qatar Marine Sports the return to F1 H20 action of Stock 2,000 Stock 3,000 though he expected mostly Qatari said. Federation’s (QMSF) head of for- Qatar’s 2008 World Champion Jay entries in action in the first round. The CEO of QRC said after mula racing Khalid bin Arhama Price with a new Skydive Dubai Bike V Twin Prize - QR Bike Inline Prize - QR “Our message to motor sport the Qatar National Drag Racing Al Kuwari has recruited the serv- team and the first appearance for Unlimited 4,000 Unlimited 4,000 fans is whoever is interested in Championship, his team will pre- ices of American driver Terry Britain’s Malcolm Goodman. racing without inhibitions, should pare for the Arabian Drag Racing Rinker to join the Qatar Team for Meanwhile, Khalid Abdullah Al Modified 3,000 Modified 3,000 come and join us at the Al Khor Championship that commences in the last two races of the season in Kuwari will represent the Qatar Stock 2,000 Stock 2,000 Airstrip. January 2013. Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Team in the UIM F-4S races for Top Speed Prize - QR Our venue is the place for you Drifting and Freestyle Drifting This to assist Carella’s cause, the Eurofin Trophy. to test your skills and race against are some of the other events following the suspension of team- Al Kuwari is currently fifth in Car 15,000 others,” Behzad added. organsied by QRC. mate Shaun Torrente’s licence the standings. Bike 10,000 “You are a professional of an THE PENINSULA after a driving infringement in THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

South Africa Kiyonari upstages Fujiwara edge England in thriller

LONDON: South Africa com- pleted an unbeaten tour of Europe with a 16-15 victory over to clinch SuperSport title England at Twickenham yester- day that did more damage to the hosts’ hopes of a top four seed- ing at next month’s World Cup Fujiwara misses out on podium finish in both races at Losail Circuit draw. Springbok flanker Willem DOHA: Japanese rider Ryuichi Alberts’s try, the only one of the Kiyonari yesterday produced match, early in the second half a thrilling performance in the proved the decisive score in a final race of the season to win rainswept match. the 2012 SuperSport title of the But with the hosts trailing Asia Road Racing Championship 16-12 and only two minutes left, (ARRC). England captain Chris Robshaw, Kiyonari - riding a Honda - won criticised for running kickable race 2 ahead of Malaysian duo of penalties during last week’s defeat Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman and by Australia, told replacement fly- Mohamed Zamri Baba to nudge half Owen Farrell to go for goal ahead of points leader Katsuaki rather than opt for an attacking Fujiwara for the title. line-out that could have led to a The Japanese rider finished the try. season with 232 points from six But while Farrell landed the rounds. kick, it meant England, fifth in Title favourite and pole win- the world rankings, were still a ner Fujiwara ended the season point behind. with a tally of 226 points after South Africa, second in the missing the podium in both races world standings, then ran yesterday. down the clock to extend their Baba - riding a Yamaha - ended unbeaten streak against England the season with 197 points. to 11 Tests. Kiyonari won race 2 with a “From that last penalty, I time of 31:46.882. In second place thought we would have a chance was Kamaruzaman (31:51.155). to get down the other end and put Baba ended race 2 in third over a drop-goal,” Robshaw told spot with a time of 32:02.011 in Sky Sports. the 15-lap race around Losail England coach Stuart International Circuit. Lancaster defended his captain “I am very, very happy to have by saying: “You can understand won the championship,” Kyonari why anyone makes any decision said at a press conference. but games are not won or lost on “I want to thank my mechanics, any one decision, we lost control my team officials, my sponsor and in the middle third of the game.” my fans for their support. AFP “After race 1, I knew I had to The winners in the SuperSport category of the Asia Road Racing Championship (ARRC) are seen celebrating on the podium at the Losail International win the second race to win the Circuit yesterday. Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah (left), Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) President is also seen. championship. I am glad to win Australia race 2,” the Japanese added. In race 1, Baba topped the field Fujiwara. Kamaruzaman - riding and ended race 2 in 13th place and failed to make the podium for Baba - who ended on the with a time of 31:56.614. a Honda - finished race 1 in third (32:47.780). the second time yesterday. podium in both the races - said: survive Italy Kiyonari finished race 1 in spot with a time of 32:06.654. Fujiwara missed the podium Kamaruzaman said: “It was “I had some issues with the bike second spot (32:00.142) to collect Qatar’s Nasser Al Malki - who in race 1, ending in fourth spot a tough race but I enjoyed it. I but my team managed to sort the 20 points, a tally that eventu- was a wild card entry - finished (32:06.683). want to thank my team and my problem. It was a tough race.” fightback ally allowed the Japanese go past race 1 in 8th spot (32:30.015) He finished in 5th spot in race 2 sponsors.” THE PENINSULA LORENCE, ITALY: Australia held on through a spirited fight- back to escape from Florence with a 22-19 win over Italy Japan’s Okubo wins Asian Dream Cup yesterday. Italy came into the match DOHA: Japanese rider Hikari second spot, whereas, Indonesia’s Indonesia had sealed the cham- buoyed by a comparatively solid Okubo yesterday sealed the Iswandi Muis (18:05.703) ended pionship after the fifth round. performance against the All Asian Dream Cup title after in third spot. Wijaya - who finished both Blacks before succumbing to a picking up 14 points in two Hook won race 2 with a time the races yesterday in 9th spot flurry of late tries and a 42-10 races of the sixth and final of 18:00.916. The Australian rider - ended the 2012 season with defeat in Rome. round of the Asia Road Racing edged Muis (18:01.130) to the top 222 points. Reynaldo Ratukore Hopes were high the Azzurri Championship (ARRC) at spot. of Indonesia ended the season in could produce a repeat perform- Losail International Circuit. Ono - who finished race 1 in 9th third spot with 161 points. ance and perhaps come away with Okubo finished the season with spot - ended race 2 in third place Ratukore - riding a Yamaha a result to be proud of against the 196 points from six races, end- with a time of 18:01.150. - ended race 2 in second spot Wallabies. ing the ARRC title race ahead In the Underbone 115cc class, (18:26.486). However, in a true game of two of compatriot Hiroki Ono who Malaysia’s Mohammed Amirul In race 1, Ratukore finished in halves, it took Jacques Brunel’s picked up 23 points from yester- Ariff Musa won both the races 10th spot. side until after the interval to day’s two rounds. to end the season in second place Honda rider from Malaysia put serious points on the board Australia’s Joshua Hook - who overall. Mohamed Affendi Rosli and start putting the Wallabies won race 2 - ended the season in Musa picked 50 points to close (18:26.526) ended race 2 in third in trouble. third spot overall with 158 points gap on championship winner Hadi spot. With 10 minutes remaining, from six rounds. Wijaya. In race 1 of Underbone 115cc, Australia held a three-point lead Earlier in the day, Mohamed Musa - who clocked 18:32.635 Norizman Ismail (18:32.765) fin- at 22-19 and were on the back Asharfa Razali won race 1 with and 18:26.461 in the two races ished behind winner Musa who foot as Brunel made a series of a time of 18:05.562 over 7 laps respectively yesterday - ended clocked 18:32.635. replacements which breathed life across the 5.38km circuit. the season with 165 points from Ferlando Herdian of Indonesia Mohamed Zamri Baba, winner of race 1 in the SuperSport category, in action into the Azzurri. AFP Thailand’s Kanatat Jaiman six rounds. ended race 1 in third spot at Losail International Circuit. Ryuichi Kiyonari - riding a Honda - won race (18:05.702) finished race 1 in Yahama rider Wijaya of (18:32.820). THE PENINSULA 2 ahead of Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman and Baba. Scotland crash SuperSports 600cc Asian Dream Cup Final Standings to humiliating Final Standings Hikari Okubo (JPN) 196 Ryuichi Kiyonari (JPN) 231 Hiroki Ono (JPN) 186 defeat to Tonga Katsuaki Fujiwara (JPN) 226 Joshua Frederick Hook (AUS) 158 Denny Triyugo Laksono (INA) 153 ABERDEEN: Coach Andy Md Zamri Baba (MAS) 197 Robinson’s job is on the line Apiwat Wongthananon (THA) 137 after Scotland plunged to the Azlan Shah Kamaruzaman (MAS) 172 Iswandi Muis (INA) 136 most humiliating defeat in their Yuki Ito (JPN) 116 Md Fitri Ashraf Razali (MAS) 132 history, beaten 15-21 by lowly Sasitharen Sukumaran (MAS) 99 Tonga. Dimas Ekky Pratama (INA) 81 Ko I-Chen (TPE) 82 Having been hammered by the superpowers of the south- M.Fadli Immammuddin (INA) 75 Joshua William Pickering (AUS) 79 ern hemisphere in a disastrous Ahmad Fuad Baharudin (MAS) 64 Kanatat Jaiman (THA) 64 autumn series, few would have Md Jazil Juraimi (SIN) 58 imagined the Scots could slump Makoto Inagaki (JPN) 54 Lin Yu-Jhih (TPE) 48 even lower to claim a mini wooden Md Zaqhwan Zaidi (MAS) 44 Garry Jr Agustin Caneda (PHI) 43 spoon.But the fired-up Tongans Gautam Mayilvaganan (IND) 38 took Aberdeen by storm to claim Doni Tata Pradita (INA) 39 their first ever Test triumph on Deepak Papineni (IND) 34 the European stage. Thitipong Warakorn (THA) 32 Stacey Nesbitt (CAN) 8 The islanders bagged the only Md Farid Badrul Hisham (MAS) 32 two tries in a frantic encounter - Underbone 115cc with the home brigade failing to Md Emir Firdaus Hasan (MAS) 31 Final Standings impose any real authority. Md Ramdan Rosli (MAS) 31 And with Scotland also fac- Hadi Wijaya (INA) 222 ing a nightmare World Cup draw Sudarmono (INA) 30 Md Amirul Ariff Musa (MAS) 165 thanks to their recent dreadful displays, Murrayfield chiefs must Ahmad Nashrul Baharudin (MAS) 29 Rey Ratukore (INA) 161 now decide if Robinson is the Rafid Topan Sucipto (INA) 28 Norizman Ismail (MAS) 142 right man to stay at the helm for Ahmad Afif Amran (MAS) 136 the Six Nations campaign. The Ryuta Kobayashi (JPN) 26 Tongans came out with all guns Gupita Kresna (INA) 112 Ahmad Fazli Sham (MAS) 23 blazing and their rousing early H A Yudhistira (INA) 109 endeavours forced the Scots Ratthapong Wilairot (THA) 21 Md Affendi Rosli (MAS) 109 into giving away a penalty as Al Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah, QMMF President and FIM Vice President, poses for a picture along with riders who Strokosch illegally entered a ruck. took part in the Asia Road Racing Championship at the Losail International Circuit, yesterday. Shu Sato (JPN) 18 Ferlando Herdian (INA) 99 AFP SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31

Inverness Manchester United come Caley make history with Celtic’s win from behind to win 3-1 PARIS: Billy McKay scored the only goal as Inverness Caledonian Thistle claimed their first ever league win at Fletcher scores on league return to send Redknapp’s QPR reeling Celtic Park with a shock 1-0 win over the Scottish Premier LONDON: A quick-fire three- League leaders. goal salvo saw Manchester English Premier In a low-key first half, Inverness United come from behind to limited their hosts to few chances beat Harry Redknapp’s new League Results with Kris Commons and Mikel club Queens Park Rangers 3-1 Lustig wasting the best of their yesterday, propelling them to Sunderland 2 (Gardner 73, Sessegnon 87) opportunities. Inverness picked the top of the Premier League. West Brom 4 (Gera 30, Long 44, Lukaku up the pace after the break and Incoming QPR manager 81-pen, Fortune 90) took a deserved lead in the 64th Redknapp was present at Old Aston Villa 0 Arsenal 0 minute through McKay, although Trafford, hours after his appoint- there was a hint of offside about ment as the successor to Mark Everton 1 (Naismith 12) his goal. Hughes was confirmed, and he Norwich 1 (Bassong 90) Georgios Samaras and saw his new charges take a shock Commons came close to an equal- lead in the 52nd minute. Man Utd 3 (Evans 64, Fletcher 68, iser before Inverness spurned a Kieron Dyer’s cross-shot from Hernandez 72) QPR 1 (Mackie 52) chance to wrap up the points the left was palmed out by Anders with McKay hitting the post and Stoke 1 (Adam 26) Fulham 0 Lindegaard and Jamie Mackie Aaron Doran’s shot cleared off found the roof of the net from Wigan 3 (Gomez 58, 68, 90) Reading 2 the line by Efe Ambrose follow- close range. (Morrison 35, Al Habsi 80-og) ing a quick breakaway. After losing at Norwich City The result continues Celtic’s Playing Today and Galatasaray in their last two poor domestic form after a outings, United were staring at Chelsea vs Man City (1600GMT), European match, with the Hoops the prospect of a third consecu- Southampton vs Newcastle, Swansea vs failing to win any of their league tive defeat, but three goals in the Liverpool (1330GMT), Tottenham vs West matches on the back of their past space of eight minutes saw them Ham (1600GMT) three Champions League matches. roar into the lead. Despite falling to their third home Jonny Evans headed in the of Reading after an uneventful defeat in seven league matches, equaliser from close range in the 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal, who Celtic remain top of the SPL after 64th minute and four minutes finished the day four points below Aberdeen defeated Hibernian 1-0 later, Darren Fletcher marked the Champions League places in to leapfrog the Easter Road side his first league appearance in over sixth position. into second, although six teams a year by scoring with a thump- Villa winger Andreas Weimann are now within five points of the ing header from Wayne Rooney’s had a goal ruled out for offside Hoops. Both sides had made a corner. in the first half, while Arsenal slow start, with Inverness work- Substitute Javier Hernandez centre-back Laurent Koscielny Manchester United’s Darren Fletcher (third right) heads the ball to score his side’s second goal during their English ing hard to close Celtic down then beat QPR goalkeeper Julio spurned his side’s best chance by Premier League match against Queens Park Rangers at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England, yesterday. when they were in possession. Cesar from Anderson’s pass in the shooting over from eight yards. Manchester United won 3-1. Commons should have done 72nd minute to kill the game off Santi Cazorla and Aaron better when Hooper played him and lift Alex Ferguson’s men two Ramsey both went close for in behind the Inverness defence in points above Manchester City at the visitors after the break, but Steven Naismith had given penalty made it 3-1 after Craig at home to fellow relegation the 39th minute but the Scotland the summit. Arsenal were indebted to goal- the hosts the lead with a 12th- Gardner had scored with a contenders Reading after Jordi international sliced his shot well City are not in action until keeper Wojciech Szczesny for minute tap-in before Bassong deflected free-kick, but Stephane Gomez completed a hat-trick off target. AFP today, when they visit fourth- producing a superb finger-tip save struck at the death, meeting Wes Sessegnon brought Sunderland with an injury-time winner at the place Chelsea and their new to touch Brett Holman’s rasping Hoolahan’s deep free-kick with a back into the game again with a DW Stadium. Reading looked to interim coach, Rafael Benitez. effort onto the bar. back-post header. late strike from close range. have snatched a point in the 80th Scottish Premier “We only played for 10 minutes Ciaran Clark’s last-ditch inter- Earlier, West Bromwich Albion However, Steve Clarke’s men minute when Wigan goalkeeper and those 10 minutes were bril- ception denied Gervinho at the continued their superb start to struck again in injury time Ali Al Habsi allowed Hal Robson- League Results liant. I thought Anderson changed back post as the Arsenal forward the season with a 4-2 win at through substitute Marc-Antoine Kanu’s deflected shot to squirm Celtic 0 Inverness CT 1 (McKay 64) the game for us,” said Ferguson, attempted to get on the end of Sunderland that took them up to Fortune to secure a fourth into the net, only for Gomez to Hibernian 0 Aberdeen 1 (McGinn 77) who also praised Fletcher for a cross from fellow substitute third place. Zoltan Gera’s curling straight league win. restore Wigan’s advantage in Kilmarnock 1 (Nelson 85) St Johnstone 2 battling to overcome a career- Andrey Arshavin late on. 25-yarder put the visitors ahead “To talk about European foot- stoppage time. (Davidson 31, Vine 89) threatening bowel condition. Everton were prevented from after half an hour’s play at the ball at this stage would be folly,” Stoke City defeated Fulham 1-0 Motherwell 0 Hearts 0 “The boy has had a long journey closing to within a point of Stadium of Light, before a fum- warned West Brom coach Clarke. at the Britannia Stadium, with Ross County 1 (Vigurs 49) Dundee Utd 2 back and he has showed he is back Chelsea as Sebastien Bassong ble from Sunderland goalkeeper “There are a lot of games to Charlie Adam claiming the game’s (Russell 52, Armstrong 64) to his best.” netted a last-minute equaliser Simon Mignolet gifted Shane go, so we’ll keep our feet on the only goal in the 26th minute to Aston Villa clambered out of to earn Norwich a 1-1 draw at Long the Baggies’ second. ground.” take his side above Liverpool and St Mirren 3 (Thompson 31, 72, Imre 87) the relegation zone at the expense Goodison Park. Romelu Lukaku’s 81st-minute Wigan Athletic prevailed 3-2 into 11th place. AFP Dundee 1 (Conroy 64-pen) Late Australian collapse Sri Lanka West Indies on top get Dilshan against Bangladesh gives South Africa hope boost for KHULNA, Bangladesh: Paceman Best (3-26) had put Bangladeshi allrounder Shakib the West Indies on course for ADELAIDE: South Africa’s Al Hasan followed his four wick- an innings victory with a triple pacemen routed Australia’s Kiwi Test ets with a fighting 97 to delay strike in the post lunch session batsmen with five late wickets to West Indies’ likely win in the but Shakib and Nasir ensured leave the hosts reeling at 111-5 at second and final Test in Khulna Bangladesh will not go down the close of day three yesterday COLOMBO: Tillakaratne yesterday. without a fight. and give the tourists faint hope Dilshan has returned to bolster The 25-year-old left-hander Best had opener Tamim Iqbal of pulling off an unlikely victory Sri Lanka’s batting for the sec- missed his third Test hundred (28) with the first ball of his first in the second Test. ond and final Test against New by a mere three runs but carried over, then rattled Naeem Islam’s Dismissed for 388 at tea to Zealand starting in Colombo the home team from a precari- stump with a sharp incom- trail Australia’s massive first today after recovering from a ous 82-5 to 262-6 at close on the ing delivery with his fourth ball innings total by 162 runs, Rory back injury. fourth day, still needing 35 to before dismissing Shahriar Nafees Kleinveldt took three wickets in The opener, who missed the avoid an innings defeat. (21) in his third over. a withering pace assault, with fel- first Test in Galle, will replace Shakib fell off the first ball of Bangladesh were off to a low quicks Dale Steyn and Morne Dimuth Karunaratne, his skipper the penultimate over of the day, disastrous start when opener Morkel taking a wicket each as Mahela Jayawardene told report- miscuing a lofted shot off left-arm Nazimuddin was trapped leg- the Adelaide Oval pitch bared its ers on the eve of the match. spinner Veerasammy Permaul before for nought off paceman teeth late in the day. Karunaratne made his Test and was caught simply at mid- Fidel Edwards’s third ball of the First innings hero Michael debut in Galle and scored an off by Tino Best. innings. Iqbal and Nafees took the Clarke and Mike Hussey survived unbeaten half-century in the sec- Shakib and Nasir Hossain score to 49 with the help of eight a nervous few overs as shadows ond innings as the hosts raced to made a record sixth wicket stand boundaries between them before crept across the ground, with the a 10-wicket victory. for Bangladesh against the West Best was introduced. Captain hosts stuttering to a still-precar- Team-mates congratulate South Africa’s Rory Kleinveldt (centre) after he “Dilshan is pretty much fit. He Indies of 144, with Hossain finish- Mushfiqur Rahim was bowled ious 273-run lead. took the wicket of Australia’s Ed Cowan at the Adelaide cricket ground batted today and was declared ing on 64 not out from an aggres- for ten by Permaul who took 2-51. “What we did tonight in the during the third day of their second Test match in Adelaide, yesterday. fit to play. Dimuth will make sive innings. AFP last session was exactly what we way for Dilshan and Tharanga needed to still have a sniff in the Scoreboard (Paranavitana) will open with Scoreboard game,” all-rounder Faf du Plessis Dilshan,” said Jayawardene. told reporters, after scoring an Australia (I innings): ...... 550 9.1-0-41-0 (4nb; 1w); Lyon 44-7-91-2; Siddle “With Dilshan coming into the Bangladesh (I innings): ...... 387 lam 14-1-43-0 (1nb); Shakib 52-11-151-4 impressive 78 on debut to help the South Africa (I innings): 30.5-6-130-2 (2nb); Clarke 7-1-22-1; Hussey side, we have an additional bowl- West Indies (I innings): (1w); Mahmudullah 10-0-42-0; Nasir 12-1-29- Proteas avoid the follow-on. G Smith c Wade b Siddle ...... 122 1-0-7-0 (2w); Warner 5-0-27-1; Quiney 8-3- ing option as well. We wouldn’t C Gayle c Rahim b Gazi ...... 25 0. “Because if they just went 4 1/2 A Petersen (run out-Hussey) ...... 54 12-0. have taken any risks with him, K Powell c Shakib b Hossain ...... 13 Bagladesh (II innings): runs an over with no wickets, we H Amla st Wade b Warner ...... 11 Australia (II innings): but he is very comfortable and D Bravo lbw Gazi ...... 127 Tamim Iqbal b Best ...... 28 would have been under massive J Rudolph c Quiney b Lyon ...... 29 E Cowan b Kleinveldt...... 29 wants to play and get himself back M Samuels c (sub-Sunny) b Hossain ...... 260 Nazimuddin lbw Edwards ...... 0 pressure. At the moment, we’re AB de Villiers lbw Siddle ...... 1 D Warner c du Plessis b Kleinveldt ...... 41 into things.” S Chanderpaul (not out) ...... 150 Shahriar Nafees c Sammy b Best ...... 21 still in there.” F du Plessis c Clarke b Hilfenhaus ...... 78 R Quiney c de Villiers b Kleinveldt ...... 0 Dilshan, who has so far scored D Ramdin c Rahim b Shakib ...... 31 Naeem Islam b Best ...... 2 Clarke, who scored a second D Steyn c Ponting b Hilfenhaus ...... 1 R Ponting b Steyn ...... 16 5,028 runs in 81 Tests, is also a D Sammy c Mahmudullah b Shakib ...... 0 Shakib Al Hasan c Best b Permaul ...... 97 consecutive double-century in the R Kleinveldt b Hilfenhaus ...... 0 M Clarke (batting) ...... 9 part-time spinner. V Permaul c Gazi b Shakib ...... 13 Mushfiqur Rahim b Permaul ...... 10 first innings, was on nine, with J Kallis c Wade b Clarke ...... 58 P Siddle c de Villiers b Morkel ...... 1 Sri Lanka owed their victory S Narine c Nafees b Shakib ...... 0 Nasir Hossain (batting) ...... 64 Hussey on five after a pulsating M Morkel b Lyon ...... 6 M Hussey (batting) ...... 5 in Galle to left-arm spinner F Edwards c Shakib b Gazi ...... 2 Extras (LB-2, NB-1, W-1) ...... 4 day in hot conditions. I Tahir (not out) ...... 10 Extras (LB-7, NB-3) ...... 10 Rangana Herath, who grabbed 11 Extras (B-10, LB-7, NB-8, W-2) ...... 27 Total (for 6 wkts) ...... 226 David Warner and Ed Cowan Extras (B-7, LB-2, W-3, NB-6) ...... 18 Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 111 wickets for his second haul of 10 Total (for 9 wkts decl) ...... 648 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-49, 3-51, 4-62, 5-82, pushed the lead to 239, before Total (all out) ...... 388 Fall of wickets: 1-77, 2-77, 3-91, 4-98, or more wickets in a match this Fall of wickets: 1-37, 2-43, 3-369, 4-546, 6-226. Kleinveldt ended their 77-run Fall of wickets: 1-138, 2-169, 3-233, 4-233, 5-103. year. New Zealand have lost five 5-621, 6-621, 7-639, 8-639, 9-648. Bowling: Edwards 11-0-65-1 (1nb); Narine opening stand amid a superb 5-240, 6-246, 7-250, 8-343, 9-352, 10-388. Bowling: Steyn 10-4-28-1; Morkel 9-2-24-1; successive Tests this year, includ- Bowling: Gazi 57.3-4-167-3; Hasan 24-0- 9-0-48-0; Permaul 16.1-2-51-2; Best 8-0-26- burst of swing bowling. Bowling: Hilfenhaus 19.3-6-49-3; Pattinson Tahir 7-1-38-0 (1nb); Kleinveldt 6-1-14-3 (2nb). ing two each in the West Indies 113-0 (4nb; 1w); Hossain 31-8-86-2 (3nb); Is- 3 (1w); Gayle 4-0-15-0; Sammy 8-3-19-0. REUTERS and India. AFP Sunday 25 November 2012 11 Muharram 1434 Volume 17 Number 5529 Sport Price: QR2

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MUMBAI: Skipper Alastair stood out, the trio of home team Cook continued to torment spinners looked largely clueless interference India with yet another gritty against the determined Cook and batting display while Kevin Pietersen. NEW DELHI: The Pietersen returned to form with Barring the twin strike by International Olympic an unbeaten half-century to left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha Alastair Cook Committee yesterday threat- give England a slight advantage in the space of 11 balls just before survives an ened to suspend India’s in the second cricket Test at the tea, the home side’s spin attack lbw appeal on membership if the national Wankhede Stadium yesterday. looked far less menacing than the second federation did not conduct After dismissing India for both Panesar (five for 129) and day of the elections as per the Olympic 327 in the first innings, England Swann, who ran through the tail second Test charter. moved to a comfortable 178 for on Saturday to end up with fig- match against The faction-ridden Indian two in 65 overs before the stumps ures of four for 70 India at the Olympic Association (IOA) were drawn on the second day, Cook again showed monumen- is due to hold elections on Wankhede with the visitors trailing by 149 tal patience to lead his side’s reply. December 5 to replace tainted Stadium, runs. Anything bowled at the stumps ex-president Suresh Kalmadi, At close, the left-handed Cook, was blocked, balls outside the off yesterday. who was jailed for corruption who had scored a big century in were cut while the ones outside during the 2010 Commonwealth the first Test, was unbeaten on the leg were swept. He gathered Games in New Delhi. 87. The more aggressive Pietersen his runs mostly in singles to frus- The IOA has been directed was batting on 62 after a stay trate the Indian spinners, just like by a Delhi court to hold elec- of 127 minutes during which he he had done for nearly 12 hours in tions as per the government’s faced 85 balls and hit nine fours. Ahmedabad. sports code, while the IOC Cook batted for 251 minutes With a sweep shot before tea, Ashwin when he was on 45 in a Scoreboard wants the federation to abide and faced 209 balls, striking a six Cook surpassed Pujara as the team score of 146 for two. by the Olympic charter that and ten fours in the process highest run-getter in the series. Umpire Aleem Dar, who gave India (I innings): 5-119, 6-169, 7-280, 8-315, 9-316, 10- favours autonomy. The third wicket duo has so far The shot, incidentally, hit Pujara a wrong decision to send back G Gambhir lbw Anderson ...... 4 327. An IOC statement posted on put on 110 runs in 186 balls. For on the right side of his rib cage, Zaheer Khan in the morning V Sehwag b Panesar ...... 30 Bowling: James Anderson 18-3-61-1; Stuart its website said it had written a the record, Cook has batted for forcing him to leave the field and by declaring him caught in the C Pujara st Prior b Swann ...... 135 Broad 12-1-60-0; Monty Panesar 47-12-129- letter to the Indian federation 960 minutes in all in the three seek medical attention. He did not leg trap, did not agree to the S Tendulkar b Panesar...... 8 5; Graeme Swann 34.1-7-70-4; Samit Patel informing it that a proposal to innings he has batted during the come out to field after tea. Indians’ vociferous appeal against V Kohli c Compton b Panesar ...... 19 4-1-6-0. suspend the IOA will be pre- series. Substitute fielder Ajinkya Pietersen when the ball ballooned Yuvraj Singh b Swann ...... 0 England (I innings): sented to the IOC’s Executive With three more days left in Rahane, too, had to duck at times to backward short—leg fielder M S Dhoni c Swann b Panesar ...... 29 A Cook (batting) ...... 87 Board on December 4 and 5 if the second game of the four- to avoid getting hit by the England Virat Kohli. R Ashwin lbw b Panesar ...... 68 N Compton c Sehwag b Ojha ...... 29 the “current situation was not match series in which India are captain’s sweeps. He eventually Pietersen soon raced to his Harbhajan Singh lbw Swann ...... 21 J Trott lbw Ojha ...... 0 rectified”. 1-0 ahead, a result is on the cards received a painful blow on his left half-century with a back foot cut Zaheer Khan c Bairstow b Swann ...... 11 K Pietersen (batting) ...... 62 “For more than two years, the on a track that is aiding the spin elbow by Kevin Pietersen’s pow- off Ashwin in 63 balls. Pragyan Ojha (not out) ...... 0 Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 178 IOC has expressed severe con- bowlers. erful sweep off Harbhajan Singh. He had come to the crease Extras (LB-1, NB-1) ...... 2 Fall of wickets: 1-66, 2-68. cerns about government inter- England, though, looked to Pietersen, who looked in a after Ojha struck two blows in his Total (all out) ...... 327 Bowling: R Ashwin 22-5-54-0; P Ojha 21-3- ference in the IOA’s upcoming have a slight advantage with a hurry in the opening game, three-over spell late in the second Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-52, 3-60, 4-118, 65-2; Z Khan 8-4-12-0; H Singh 14-0-47-0. election process,” the statement settled and experienced pair at adopted a slightly different session to dismiss opener Nick said. the wicket and some more batting approach. He dispatch Harbhajan Compton and Jonathan Trott in “There is also concern over to follow. with lofted shots but played cau- successive overs. turning ball for 29 and then fooled batted out the last session while information only recently pro- On a wicket where the spin duo tiously against Ojha, who had Cook and his opening part- Trott with an arm ball to trap the adding 101 runs. Neither Ojha nor vided by the IOA that its elec- of Monty Panesar and Graeme dismissed him twice in the first ner Compton had negotiated the batsman leg before as England off spinner Ashwin, who took four tions would be conducted based Swann ran through the star- game. The batsman was also care- spinning ball to raise the visitors’ slumped from 66 for no loss to 68 wickets in the first game, got the on government regulations studded Indian batting line-up in ful against Ashwin. hopes till Ojha struck. for two. same amount of turn or bounce rather than the IOA’s consti- which Cheteshwar Pujara (135) Pietersen, however, survived a Ojha had the dogged Compton Their dismissals brought that Panesar found in the morn- tution and the Olympic charter. and Ravichandra Ashwin (68) confident appeal for a catch off caught at slip with a sharply together Cook and Pietersen who ing. AGENCIES “Should this be the case, and as previously warned, the results of such elections would not be recognised by the IOC. “The IOC’s position has been expressed to all parties con- cerned on numerous occasions. Hamilton on pole for McLaren in Brazil However, the IOA has been unable to resolve these pend- Brazilian Grand Prix Grid SAO PAULO: Lewis Hamilton ing issues satisfactorily. will start his 110th and final race “The IOA has also failed to SAO PAULO, Brazil: The for McLaren from pole position keep the IOC informed in a starting grid for today’s Brazilian Grand Prix following in today’s showdown Brazilian timely manner or ensure close the final qualifying sessions Grand Prix after he and team- co-ordination. For these rea- yesterday: mate Jenson Button upstaged sons, the IOA is now at risk 1st row the title fighters by locking out of suspension by the IOC -- a Lewis Hamilton (GBR/McLaren-Mercedes); the front row. matter that will be discussed at Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren-Mercedes) Hamilton produced a dramatic the next IOC Executive Board 2nd row and fast final lap in yesterday’s meeting.” qualifying to outstrip all his rivals The letter to the IOA was Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull-Renault); Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull-Renault) and maintain his end-of-season co-signed by IOC president 3rd row domination as McLaren delivered Jacques Rogge and the head of their fourth lockout of the year. the Olympic Council of Asia, Felipe Massa (BRA/Ferrari); Pastor Maldonado (VEN/Williams-Renault) In his final qualifying session Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al for the team before leaving to join Sabah of Kuwait. 4th row Mercedes next year, the 27-year- The IOA is currently headed Nico Hülkenberg (GER/Force India-Mercedes); old Briton clocked a fastest lap by veteran sports administra- Fernando Alonso (ESP/Ferrari) of one minute and 12.458 seconds tor Vijay Kumar Malhotra on 5th row to outpace compatriot Button by an interim basis after Kalmadi, Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Lotus-Renault); Nico one-tenth of a second. who served as president for Rosberg (GER/Mercedes-AMG) “I am grateful to be able to put 16 years, decided not to seek 6th row the car on the front row and to re-election. Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India-Mercedes); have a one-two for McLaren in Kalmadi is currently out on Bruno Senna (BRA/Williams-Renault) my last qualifying is just great. bail after spending nine months 7th row The team did a fantastic job,” said in jail for graft charges related Sergio Perez (MEX/Sauber-Ferrari); Michael Hamilton. to the Commonwealth Games. Schumacher (GER/Mercedes-AMG) The dazzling performance from But his protege, Abhey Singh 8th row the two McLaren men left cham- From Left: Red Bull Formula One driver Mark Webber of Australia, McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Chautala, is contesting for Kamui Kobayashi (JPN/Sauber-Ferrari); Daniel pionship contenders, defending Button of Britain pose for a photo after the qualifying session of the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix at Interlagos Circuit the post of president against Ricciardo (AUS/Toro Rosso-Ferrari) champion Sebastian Vettel of in Sao Paulo, yesterday. Hamilton took pole position with Button qualifying second and Webber starting on third Randhir Singh, a long-time 9th row Red Bull down in fourth and his for today’s race. IOC member and currently Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso-Ferrari); title rival, two-time champion secretary-general of both the Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus-Renault) Fernando Alonso of Ferrari in “But let’s wait and see what for Williams ahead of Nico 14th place. Hamilton’s pole was Indian and Asian Olympic 10th row eighth. Both of them were out- happens tomorrow.” Hulkenberg of Force India with his first in Brazil, his seventh this bodies. Vitaly Petrov (RUS/Caterham-Renault); Heikki qualified by their team-mates, A cagey Alonso, who may have Kimi Raikkonen taking ninth year and the 26th of his career Malhotra told reporters he Kovalainen (FIN/Caterham-Renault) Mark Webber, who was third run in a set-up that may suit spot on the grid for Lotus ahead and helped the team to a record would write to Prime Minister 11th row for Red Bull, and Felipe Massa, today’s forecast wet weather of Nico Rosberg of Mercedes. 67th front row lockout in Formula Manmohan Singh asking him Timo Glock (GER/Marussia-Cosworth); Charles who was fifth-fastest on his home better than the dry, said: “It is Rosberg’s team-mate and One. He had pledged he would do to withdraw the government’s Pic (FRA/Marussia-Cosworth) track for Ferrari. more or less what I expected... German compatriot seven-time all he could to depart McLaren sports code to avoid India being 12th row “It was not quick enough and We didn’t gamble and only made champion Michael Schumacher, with a win in his 110th and final suspended from the Olympic Narain Karthikeyan (IND/HRT-Cosworth); Pedro I know I could have done a little minimal changes.” and heading into retirement after race and did all he could to set it movement. AFP de la Rosa (ESP/HRT-Cosworth) better,” admitted Vettel. Pastor Maldonado was sixth his final race today, was down in up. AFP