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WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 5 DHUL HIJJA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6912 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Unified contract for Over one miilion pilgrims reach Makkah all driving schools

contracts to the trainees. invoice including a list of the serv- The unified contract has been ices offered and their cost. The new contract introduced after the authorities The cash fee covers the cost of forces the driving noticed a breach of the customers’ theoretical and practical training, rights by some schools, the minis- the cost of issuing the training per- school to refund the try said yesterday. mit, the cost of using the test vehicle balance amount, Some schools don’t provide a and the price of the traffic manual. in case the trainee contract that specifies the trainee’s If the trainee misses a session name, preferred language for learn- without a valid excuse, he must discontinues the ing, important personal information pay the agreed fees unless the driv- course. and their rights and duties. This is a ing school is notified ahead of the violation of the consumer protec- session. tion law. The driving school must refrain Based on the uniform contract, from demanding any additional fees. the driving school must -grant the In case the school does, the trainee By Mohammed Iqbal & trainee his full rights in terms of can complain to the school admin- Mohammed Osman training. In case the school fails to istration and if they do not take an An aerial view shows the Clock Tower and the Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, yesterday. The Peninsula do so, the trainee can complain to action, he can lodge a complaint with More than a million pilgrims have already reached Makkah in preparations for the start of the annual the school administration. In case the authorities concerned. Haj starting on Saturday. they do not take any action, a com- In case of absences or if the plaint can be lodged at the General trainee decides to discontinue the DOHA: The Ministry of Economy Directorate of Traffic, the Consumer course, he is entitled to a refund and Commerce, in collaboration Protection and Anti-Commercial after deducting administrative fees with the Ministry of Interior has Fraud Department, as well as the (QR350), permit fees, the price of the Eid holidays to start from Sunday forced all the nine driving schools Competition Protection Depart- traffic manual and sessions already in the country to adopt a unified ment at the Ministry of Economy received. contract that clearly outlines their and Commerce. In case the trainee has a foreign obligations to the trainees. The driving school must ensure driving license, he can register for QNA Hijja 13, 1437 Hijrah, correspond- to Thursday. The market will resume Driving schools are banned from the availability of a trainer fluent in half the duration of the course after ing to September 15, 2016. The state trading on September 18. imposing any additional fees on the the language chosen by the trainee to obtaining the approval of the Gen- employees are to resume their work The Ministry of Public Health trainees other than what have been provide both theoretical and practi- eral Directorate of Traffic. on Sunday, September 18, 2016. announced the working hours for the specified in the unified contract. cal training even during the absence The training permit is valid for DOHA: On the advent of Eid Al Adha, As for Qatar Central Bank (QCB), Women’s hospital’s office for issuing The new contract forces the of the primary trainer. three months. Upon expiry, the per- the Emiri Diwan has announced that banks, QCB-supervised financial birth or death certificates. The office school to refund the balance amount, In case the trainer is a male, a mit must be renewed at the trainee’s the holiday will be as follows: institutions and Qatar Financial for registering births will work every- as per the provisions of the contract, female trainee may demand the expense at a cost of QR150. The ministries, government Markets Authority (QFMA), the QCB day except the first day of Eid as well in case the trainee discontinues the company of a male guardian. Both parties must comply with institutions and public entities Governor will announce the start- as on Friday and Saturday. The office course in between. The trainee must pay the fees Qatar’s traffic law and its executive will start Eid Al Adha holiday from ing date of the holiday, the Emiri will be open from 8am to 12pm. The Sources from some driving in cash and is entitled to receive a regulations. Sunday, Dhul Hijja 9, 1437 Hijrah, Diwan’s statement said. Qatar Stock office that issues death certificates, schools said yesterday that they have copy of the contract in his preferred corresponding to September 11, Exchange announced that Eid Al will work in two shifts from 8am to already started providing the new language, in addition to a detailed → Continued on page 4 2016 and ends on Thursday, Dhul Adha Holiday will be from Sunday 11am and from 4pm to 7pm.

QR33m RAF Terracotta figures Four greenhouses set up projects in Darfur to promote food security The Peninsula The Peninsula

DOHA: In a major initiative to promote food security, four greenhouses DOHA: In the context of the visit have been set up in the country that can produce vegetables and fruits at of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim an estimated quantity of a total 80,000 tonnes per year. bin Hamad Al Thani to Darfur, The Technical Committee for the Promotion of Private Sector Engage- Sudan, Sheikh Thani bin Abdul- ment in Economic Development Projects, in coordination with the Ministry lah Foundation for Humanitarian of Municipality and Environment has invited tenders for the projects. They Services (RAF) said that it has will be located at Al Markhiya Al Janoobiya area. implemented over 20 projects The projects aim to increase domestic production of fresh vegetables at a cost of QR 33m in Darfur in and fruits bridging the supply-demand gap and providing the markets the past. with high quality produce at competitive prices. The average production The projects related to relief, capacity of each greenhouse is 20,000 tonnes per year and is expected to development, health and edu- reach its full capacity within five years from the date of signing the contract. cation among others aimed The Committee has allocated an area of four square kilometer for the at promoting peace and eco- four greenhouses at the First Agrocluster. Each project is planned to be nomic and social development established over an area of one square kilometer. of Sudan. Some of the key criteria set up by the committee for the tender included The Emir is visiting Dar- Terracotta figures on display at the Treasures of China exhibition which opened yesterday at the Qatari ownership of the project, compliance with laws, using the land for fur today to participate in the Museum of Islamic Art. The life-like sculptures serve as the centrepiece of the expo which is a major the specified purpose, commitment to environmental sustainability stand- celebration of completing the highlight of the Qatar China 2016 Year of Culture. (See also page 2) Pic: Abdul Basit/The Peninsula ards and to social responsibilities. implementation of the Doha Doc- → Continued on page 4 ument for Peace, on the invitation of the President of Sudan Omar Hassan Al Bashir. → Continued on page 2 Qatar sees 7% increase in tourist arrivals from Gulf Chlorine gas The Peninsula of GCC nationals continued to grow of UAE nationals who visited Qatar increased by 6 percent between Jan- promotions and entertainment activ- attack on Aleppo with 7 percent increase in visitor increased by 11 percent while the uary and August this year compared ities. These included special packages arrivals from January to August com- number of Bahrainis who visited the to the same period last year. from 56 hotel establishments, shop- pared to the same period last year. country was up by 2 percent. Figures Overall, total visitor arrivals in ping promotions in malls across Qatar, BEIRUT: A suspected chlorine DOHA: Qatar has shown early signs According to the report the total of Omani and Kuwaiti visitors, on the the month of August increased by and entertainment events throughout gas attack on an opposition-held of recovery from tourism slowdown number of visitors to Qatar in the first other hand, were down by -6 percent 2 percent compared to August last the month, including the Doha Com- neighbourhood in the Syrian city with 7 percent increase in year-to- eight months of the year has reached and -1 percent respectively. year. August is typically an off-peak edy Festival. of Aleppo has caused at least date (January-August) arrivals of 1,926,964, majority of which (48.7 Meanwhile, visitors entering month with declines in visitor arriv- QTA projections point to further one death and dozens of cases GCC visitors which comprise a major percent) are GCC nationals. the country on the Qatar-Oman als compared to the rest of the year. modest increases in visitor arrivals of suffocation, according to local share of the total number of visitors Saudi Arabia again dominated tourist visa increased by 2 percent The increase in arrivals this August, in the coming months, supported activists and medical sources. during the period. year-to-date visitor arrivals reaching year-to-date in comparison to the compared to August of last year, comes by September’s Eid Celebrations in Latest Qatar Tourism Author- 640,584 — an increase of 9 percent same period last year. Visitors who after efforts to incentivize travel to Qatar and the docking of the first → Report on page 6 ity (QTA) report has revealed influx compared to last year. The number are nationals of the Americas also Qatar through Qatar Summer Festival cruise ship of the season in October. 02 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Dr. Al Kawari ‘Treasures of China’ exhibition opens at MIA arrives in Kenya as part of Africa tour craftsmanship including exquisite pottery, Five haunting figures from bronzes, jades, porcelain, gold, silver, and DOHA: H E Dr. Hamad bin enamel, among others chosen from five muse- Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Qin Dynasty are part of 116 ums and heritage institutions in China. Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and objects on display at the The show takes visitors on a journey back in Qatar’s candidate for Unesco Sec- time to explore the glorious history and herit- retary-General’s post, yesterday exhibition which is part of age of China spanning 5,000 years. It is divided arrived in Kenya’s capital Nairobi Qatar China 2016 Year of into three sections namely “The Birth of Civili- as part of his tour of Africa. sation, Ceremonies and Kingdoms”; “Splendid He met Kenyan officials Culture. Unification, Prosperity and the Silk Road” and as part of a campaign to high- “Porcelain, Imperial China and the Royal Arts” light his plans under the theme and encompasses all major historical periods ‘Towards a New Momentum for By Raynald C Rivera of ancient China from the Neolithic period to Unesco. The Peninsula the Qin Dynasty. He has already visited several “This unique exhibition perfectly expresses African countries and received the aims and ambitions of the Qatar China 2016 wide support from political and Year of Culture in promoting mutual under- cultural circles, reports QNA. DOHA: Lifelike terracotta warrior figures flown standing between both our countries,” said from China act as the centrepiece of ‘Treasures Mansoor bin Ebrahim Al Mahmoud, Acting CEO of China’ exhibition which opened yesterday at at Qatar Museums and adviser to H E the Chair- Qatar condemns the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA). person, who opened the exhibition. The five haunting figures dating back to Educational programmes and workshops Kabul bombings the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) are part of Curator Xu He takes the media on a tour of Treasures of China exhibition at Museum of for students, families and schools will run par- 116 objects on display at the major exhibition Islamic Art yesterday. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula allel to the exhibition DOHA: Qatar yesterday organised as a highlight of the Qatar China 2016 Other workshops will also be held in which expressed condemnation and Year of Culture. created and buried with China’s first emperor curator of art exhibitions in China told report- schoolchildren will sculpt soldiers out of clay, denunciation of the double The centuries-old sculptures belong to the Qin Shi Huang with the belief that they would ers at a preview yesterday. inspired by the Terracotta Army and learn bombing near Afghanistan’s collection of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mauso- protect him in the afterlife. Apart from the terracotta sculptures, the about its history and purpose. Ministry of Defence in capital leum Site Museum in which many of over 8,000 This is the first time the artefacts have trav- exhibition offers visitors a rich collection of The expo runs until January 7 at MIA’s Spe- Kabul, killing and injuring doz- figures can be found. The terracotta army was elled to a GCC country for an exhibition, Xu He, objects representing Chinese creativity and cial Exhibitions Gallery. ens of people. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry affirmed Qatar’s sol- idarity with Afghanistan and Minister meets marine association chief reiterated rejection of violence and terrorism in all their forms DOHA: Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al QU ranked among top 400 and manifestations, whatever Sulaiti yesterday met International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation their motives and causes. and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) Secretary-General Francis Zachariae. It extend condolences and Talks dealt with means of enhancing cooperation in the field of marine universities across the world sympathy to the Afghan gov- systems, reports QNA. ernment, people and families of the victims, wishing the injured The Peninsula a speedy recovery, reports QNA. Mercedes-Benz DOHA: Qatar University (QU) has secured the 393rd position in the E Class 2015 ‘QS World University Rankings’ report released by Quacquarelli model recalled Symonds, a global higher educa- tion analysts. The Peninsula The rankings are based on four categories — research; teaching; employability; and international- DOHA: The Ministry of Economy isation. The methodology consists and Commerce, in collaboration of six indicators — academic repu- with Nasser Bin Khaled Automo- Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari, General Manager, QDF, and Tarek Mitri, tation; employer reputation; faculty biles, dealer of Mercedes-Benz Chairman, Institute for Palestine Studies, exchanging the deal after student ratio; citations per faculty; Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani, Vice-Chairman, Board of Regents, vehicles, has announced the signing. international students; and interna- recall of Mercedes-Benz E Class Qatar University, receiving the ranking certificate from Ashwin tional faculty. The new achievement 2015 model because of a poten- Fernandes, Regional Director, QS, as Dr. Hassan Al Derham, President, was announced yesterday in the tial defect in the manufacturing presence of Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali QU, looks on. of the double belt buckles. QDF signs $5m agreement Al Thani, Vice-Chairman, Board of The ministry said the recall is Regents, QU. faculty and 21 globally for inter- World University Rankings, we have within the framework of its efforts Dr Hassan Al Derham, Presi- national students which are great ranked 916 universities, after con- to protect consumers and ensure with Palestine institute dent, QU, said, “We are so happy achievements for the university sidering over 3,800. that dealers follow up on vehicle to achieve this important success this year. “QU is among the top 400 which defects and repairs. which reflects QU’s noticeable In the Arab region university reflects the work and efforts put by The ministry said it will coor- DOHA: Qatar Development Fund ager, QDF, signed the agreement improvement that resulted from rankings, QU was ranked ninth in its administration. From last year dinate with the dealer to follow up (QDF) yesterday signed an agree- with Tarek Mitri, Chairman of the years of hard work and commit- QS Arab Region University Rank- until now, QU jumped 88 places on maintenance and repairs and ment worth $5m to support projects institute. ment. Ranking is not a figure. ings 2016, achieving an average which makes it one of the fastest communicate with customers to of Institute for Palestine Studies to Al Kuwari stressed the impor- Rather, it is an indication of QU’s of 82.3 percent, according to the rising universities in the region. ensure that all necessary repairs inform the world about the Pales- tance of Qatar’s role in supporting improvement and advancement report released in June. “QU gains a wealth of academic, are carried out. tinian cause and the nature of the the Palestinian people and said the in academic excellence, research “It is a pleasure to be in Qatar to research and institutional accom- It also urged customers Arab-Israeli conflict. Khalifa bin agreement is part of these efforts, endeavours, international repu- announce that QU has soared into plishments that have served to be to report any violations to its Jassim Al Kuwari, General Man- reports QNA. tation and local and international the global top 400 universities in positioned as an effective partner in Consumer Protection and Anti- solid partnerships. the QS World University Rankings Qatari society and one of the lead- Commercial Fraud Department “The ranking also highlights 2016-2017. This means that QU can ing universities in the region. The through the call centre: 16001; reputation QU has built in the local compete with many international real work for the university has just email: [email protected]; Twit- labour market and society” he said. universities,” said Ashwin Fern- started and it’s to maintain its posi- ter: @MEC_Qatar; Instagram: Annual inflation rate QU was ranked recently among andes, Regional Director. QS. tion among the top 400 universities MEC_Qatar; or the ministry’s the top 10 globally for international “In the 13th edition of the QS in the world,” Fernandes added. mobile app for Android and IOS: at 2.9% in August MEC_Qatar.

By Mohammad Shoeb ‘Miscellaneous Goods and Serv- RAF to raise funds The Peninsula ices’ (0.3 percent); and ‘Housing, Water, Electricity and other Fuel’ during ‘Gate of Mercy’ (0.1 percent). A decline in prices was also DOHA: The cost of education, rec- noticed in ‘Recreation and Culture’ on Quran Radio today reation and culture has increased by 0.7 percent and ‘Restaurants and by over seven percent from a year Hotels’ by 0.1 percent. ago and pushed up Qatar’s inflation Other groups — ‘Tobacco’; ‘Fur- The Peninsula rate by 2.9 percent in August com- niture and Household Equipment’; pared to the same period last year. ‘Health’; ‘Communication’; and ‘Edu- The annual inflation is based cation’ have remained flat at the last on Consumer Price Index (CPI) in month’s price level. DOHA: As part of cooperation with Quran August. A comparison of the CPI, August, Radio, RAF will devote today’s radio pro- However, on monthly basis, 2016 and the CPI, August, 2015 gramme, Gates of Mercy, to raise money for prices for ‘Recreation and Culture’ (annual change), shows a rise in the drilling water wells in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, in August declined by 0.7 percent general index (CPI) by 2.9 percent. Ghana, and Mali. compared to previous month. Com- This year-on-year price surge The programme will be hosted by Islamic pared on monthly basis, overall was primarily due to increas- preacher Sheikh Saad bin Atiq Al Atiq, who will prices of consumer goods and serv- ing prices seen in the eight groups speak about people’s need for water, impor- Graduate girls who received vocational training at a centre set up by RAF in Darfur. ices in August witnessed a marginal — ‘Education’ (by 7.1 percent); ‘Rec- tance of providing poor people with clean increase of 0.2 percent from July. reation and Culture’ (7.0 percent)’ drinking water and impact of that on their lives. According to data released by ‘Miscellaneous Goods and Serv- It will be aired at 8pm and continue for one the Ministry of Development Plan- ices’ (4.9 percent)’ ‘Transport’ (4.4 hour to raise money for drilling 305 wells for RAF provides aid for Darfur displaced ning & Statistics, the general CPI percent); ‘Housing, Water, Elec- around 17,000 beneficiaries. Continued from page 1 for August was estimated at 108.7, tricity and other Fuel’ (3.8 percent); Last year, RAF drilled 1,210 wells in 21 of Several projects for serv- over 12,000 people in Dar- showing a marginal increase of 0.2 ‘Clothing and Footwear’ (1.6 per- the most poorest African and Asian countries, ices were developed in north fur in their tough time. More percent compared to 108.5 CPI of cent); ‘Furniture and Household at a cost of QR25m raised through the same The development projects of Darfur at a cost of $6m. than 50 social and devel- July. Equipment’ (1.5 percent); and ‘Com- programme. took a lion share of QR23m aid They include a big mosque, opment projects were A month-on-month analysis of munication’ (0.1 percent). Also, there RAF urged every listener to support the to Sudan. A services complex four schools, water pump- implemented to provide CPI for August compared with July has been a decrease in price levels campaign and assured that people can send of Tabit village is on top of the ing station, police station, vocational training to youth CPI, showed there were five main in other groups — ‘Restaurants and an SMS on 92188 for donation. development projects, financed health centre, 15 housing to join the job market. groups, where indices rose — ‘Food Hotels’ by 3.2 percent; ‘Food and They can also donate through the hotline by Qatar’s Foreign Ministry units for the employees of Means of earning livelihood and Beverages’ (by 1.1 percent); Beverages’ (1.8 percent); and ‘Health’ available around the clock (55341818) and through Development Fund and the complex. were also provided for them and ‘Transport” (0.8 percent); ‘Cloth- (1.0 percent). The ‘Tobacco’ group through RAF’s donation collectors across the caters for over 20,000 Sudanese RAF provided aid, includ- their families affected by unrest ing and Footwear’ (0.4 percent); recorded no changes. country. in 28 villages. ing food supplies, to rescue and displacement.

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Ashghal hands 11 new Haj pilgrims to get all health services schools to ministry HMC, Ministry of The Peninsula spaces, comprising shaded park- Public Health and ing spaces, green areas and service buildings. other partners join The design of schools and hands to serve Haj DOHA: The Public Works Author- kindergartens is in line with the ity (Ashghal) has handed over 11 Qatari code for people with spe- pilgrims along holy new schools to the Ministry of cial needs, providing ramps at routes that span four Education and Higher Education entrances and exits with special after completion of construction, specifications for bathrooms and cities across Saudi ahead of the new academic year other areas. Arabia. beginning later this month. It also complies with safety Four remaining schools will requirements adopted by Global be handed over soon, taking the Fire and Security Systems and total to 15. Ashghal said it is putting Qatari Civil Defence. The Peninsula the finishing touches to six kinder- New schools are: Jassim bin gartens, due to be delivered after Mohammad Prep School (Al mid-September. Froosh), Lusail Model School Ashghal is constructing 21 for Boys (Al Furoush), Al Ghu- DOHA: Hamad Medical Corpora- new school buildings, with a cost wairiya Common School for tion (HMC), the Ministry of Public of approximately QR1bn, with dif- Girls (Leghwairiya), Joaan Pri- Health and other partners will pro- ferent interior designs, including mary School for Boys (Onaiza), vide health services to Haj pilgrims. Members of Qatar’s Haj Mission in Makkah are briefed on healthcare services to be provided to pilgrims. walls and floors, with more attrac- Al Shamal Secondary School Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) man- tive paints and patterns that would for Boys (Madinat Al Shamal), ages the Haj Medical Committee, help improve the educational Al Sheehaniya Prep/Secondary which is responsible for planning, “Helping people and being million people gather in one place. environment. School For Girls (Al Sheehaniya), co-ordination and logistics of the responsible for their safety and “We provided disaster training to Last batch of Construction of these edu- Qatar Technical Secondary massive and synchronised health- well-being during Haj is important participating HMC doctors, nurses, cational facilities follows the School (Extension-Abu Hamour), care undertaking to provide medical to me. This is not a one-man show. pharmacists and paramedics to mit- Qatar’s pilgrims standard design model for schools, Mesaieed Primary/Prep School services to Qatar’s pilgrims along Our integrated, clinical teams move igate risk and ensure the safe and comprising 25 classrooms to for Boys (Mesaieed), Mesaieed holy routes that span four cities with pilgrims along each step of their effective management of delivering arrives in Makkah accommodate about 650 students Primary/Prep School for Girls across Saudi Arabia. Haj journey — this includes doctors healthcare services for pilgrims who and various facilities including sci- (Mesaieed), Al Kaaban School Staff from HMC, Primary Health and nurses remaining with patients may suffer from respiratory illnesses, DOHA: The last batch of Qatar’s ence, language and IT laboratories, for Girls (Al Kaaban), Al Tha- Care Corporation (PHCC), QRC and to provide treatment,” said Dr Hadi. heat exhaustion, and other potential pilgrims arrived in Makkah by air sports and art halls, multipur- khira Model School for Boys (Al the ministry regularly undergo Specialist teams have developed illnesses during the five-day rituals,” on Monday night. Air flights for the pose halls, gyms, libraries and Thakhira), Al Karaana Common emergency preparedness training plans on behalf of the Ministry of said Dr Hadi. pilgrims from Doha have begun to classrooms in addition to out- School for Girls (Al Karaana), comprising real scenarios, drills, Public Health and activated ground He stressed that pilgrims must arrive since yesterday afternoon at door spaces with shaded parking Saad Ibn Abi Wakas Model briefings and instructional courses support to facilitate operations ahead take health precautions prior to King Abdulaziz International Air- spaces, playgrounds and service School for Boys (Al Wajba), to effectively prepare for any medi- of the beginning of Haj. They deliver travel and during journey. port in Jeddah. The pilgrims are buildings. Halima Primary School for Girls cal emergencies. services and first aid kits to Qatari “If upon return any pilgrim divided over 10 campaigns, nine Likewise, the nurseries are (Al Wajba), Umm Salama Primary For over 10 years, Dr Kha- pilgrims and anticipate enough develops an illness and notices wors- of which arrived by air. They were composed of 12 classrooms to School for Girls (Al Wajba). lid Abdul Hadi, Senior Consultant, resources from HMC and sponsor- ening symptoms, such as a fever preparing to head to Mina to spend accommodate 240 children, Six new nurseries are expected Audiology and Medicine, HMC, has ing healthcare partners, including higher than 38 degrees Celsius, a Saturday, corresponding to Dhul shaded playing and activity to be built in Al Thakhira, Al dedicated his time and effort, along two ambulances from QRC, to sup- cough or breathing problems, they Hijja 8. Qatar’s Haj mission has areas, music, language and com- Messila, Wadi Al Banat, Hazm with a group of clinicians from all port pilgrims if they become ill. should immediately seek medical completed preparations for pil- puter rooms, in addition to a Al Markhiya, Nuaija, and Umm healthcare sectors in Qatar, under “We recognise that the risk assistance from any urgent care cen- grims’ camps in Mina and handed library, classrooms and external Ghuwailina. the auspices of the Ministry of of trauma and injuries is height- tre, and the person should inform the them over to the campaigns. The Awqaf, to ensure the Qatari delega- ened with the influx of pilgrims to treating physician about their recent mission will continuously ensure tion receives medical support during Makkah, and anything could poten- Haj trip,” said Dr Hadi. the pilgrims’ comfort. Haj, if needed. tially happen when over three Committee sets tender Guardian can accompany female driving trainee Ashghal: Traffic Diversion on rules after feedback Khalid Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Continued from page 1 training, Ibrahim said, it can be allowed pro- Continued from page 1 the best means for increasing self- vided the person is a genuine guardian, related Roundabout from Saturday sufficiency in vegetables and fruits The duration of the sessions is: Theoreti- to the trainee. And the accompanying person will The committee said, before throughout the year. cal session for all courses; practical session for not be allowed to interfere in the trainer’s work. inviting the bid, it has con- The productivity is very high motorbikes; practical session for small vehicles; Adil Salem, Director, Al Rayah Driving The Peninsula P To Al Gharrafa: sulted with the interested private when compared to open-field farm- practical session for large vehicles; and practi- School, said the school has been using the new Turn left at Al Furousiya companies about the technical ing and the plants are less exposed cal session for machinery — all 45 minutes each. contract for five months and has not faced Street newly-signalised requirements of the projects and to pollutants. Mohammed Al Zain Ibrahim, Director, Gulf any problems. The school has banned trainers junction and continue the conditions set for the tender. The project is a key stride in Driving School, said the unified contract was from receiving any money or gifts from train- DOHA: The Public Works on to Al Rayyan Al The committee used a question- promoting the private sector to take developed in consultation with driving schools to ees. “If we receive any complaint, we will stop Authority (Ashghal) will Jadeed Street. Turn left naire to seek private sector opinions the lead in enhancing food security. protect the rights of the trainees and the schools. the trainer from work and investigate the case. close Khalid Bin Abdullah at the next junction, turn and get feedback which helped the Adopting the best available Earlier each school had its own contracts. “Now If found true, the trainee will face punishment, Al Attiyah Roundabout right on to Huwar Street committee to draw clear scenar- international practices and tech- we have reference in case of a dispute,” Ibrahim including dismissal,” said Salem. He said the and introduce two newly- towards Al Gharrafa. ios about execution mechanisms nologies in line with available water said, adding the schools are refunding the train- school is providing enough female trainers but built diversion roads Road users travelling in accordance with the specific and energy resources ensures con- ees in case they discontinue the course. a female trainee can demand a guardian to connecting Al Rayyan Al westbound from Olym- conditions. tinuation and development of the On the provision allowing female trainees accompany her, as long as the person doesn’t Jadeed Street to Huwar pic Roundabout via Al Greenhouse farming is one of production, said the committee. to have a guardian to accompany them during interfere in the trainer’s work. Street and Al Furousiya Rayyan Al Jadeed Street Street. will be detoured right The new routes will before the closed round- provide access to local about onto a three-lane, amenities and residents, one-way route connect- as shown in the map. ing Al Rayyan Al Jadeed The diversion will Street and Huwar Street. be implemented from They are advised to use Saturday and will last alternative routes for the until early September rest of their journeys as 2018, in coordination follows: with the Traffic Police P To Bani Hajer: At Department. Huwar Street newly-sig- The closure is nalised junction, turn left required for construc- on to Huwar Street before tion of a free-flowing rejoining Al Rayyan Al multi-level interchange Jadeed Street. to connect Al Furousiya P To Al Gharrafa: At Street, Huwar Street Huwar Street newly-sig- and Al Rayyan Al Jadeed nalised junction, turn Street. right on to Huwar Street Road users travelling and continue towards Al eastbound to Doha from Gharrafa. Bani Hajer via Al Rayyan P To Muraikh: At Al Jadeed Street will be Huwar Street newly-sig- detoured right before nalised junction, turn left the closed roundabout on to Huwar Street before onto a three-lane, one- rejoining Al Rayyan Al way route connecting Al Jadeed Street. At the Rayyan Al Jadeed Street next set of traffic lights, to Al Furousiya Street. turn left on to the diver- They are advised to use sion road connecting Al alternative routes for the Rayyan Al Jadeed Street rest of their journeys as and Al Furousiya Street follows: and then turn right at P To Muraikh: At Al Al Furousiya signalised Furousiya Street newly- junction to travel towards signalised junction, turn Muraikh. right towards Muraikh. Speed limits will be P To Olympic Round- reduced to 50kmph along about (known as Sports the diversion routes to Roundabout): At Al ensure safety of road Furousiya Street newly- users and the project’s signalised junction, turn workforce. Ashghal will left on to Al Furousiya install signs advising Street before rejoining Al motorists of the diversion Rayyan Al Jadeed Street and has urged road users and continuing towards to abide by speed limits Olympic Roundabout. and follow signs for safety. HOME WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 05

Dr. Al Attiyah meets HMC expert cautions Russian Defence Minister in Moscow against overeating

Doha: Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Dr. Kha- during Eid festivities lid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah yesterday met Russia’s Min- ister of Defence Sergey Shoygu in Moscow. Talks The Peninsula health issues during Eid cel- dealt with enhancing coop- ebrations and holidays, Dr Al eration in the military field. Nuaimi advised healthy food Dr. Al Attiyah is taking in moderation; avoid soft part in a six-day Interna- DOHA: Hamad Medical Cor- drinks; not to skip breakfast tional Military-Technical poration (HMC) has advised as this will lead to overeat- Forum ‘Army 2016’ which people against over indulging ing during the day; and keep began yesterday. He in food and drinks to prevent yourself hydrated through- also visited the forum’s stomach and intestinal dis- out the day. exhibition. orders during Eid Al-Adha When you are offered festivities. different foods, try to choose “Many people tend to healthy options; and fill your Djibouti envoy Volunteer tutors attending a course at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. overload their bodies with plate with small portions of large amounts of unhealthy low-calorie, nutrient-dense presents credentials food and soft drinks during foods such as fruits, vegeta- Doha: Minister of State for Eid celebrations. bles, whole grains and lean Foreign Affairs H E Sul- “As a result, we often meats. tan bin Saad Al Muraikhi ROTA volunteer tutors attend notice a spike in the number Also avoid salty foods yesterday met Djibouti’s of patients seeking emer- and sugary and/or caffein- new Ambassador to Qatar gency treatment for gastric ated drinks and heavy fatty Tayeb Dbd Robleh, who issues such as nausea, vom- foods, which can cause gas- presented a copy of his cre- iting, stomach upset and trointestinal disturbances. dentials. Al Muraikhi wished training course at HBKU indigestion at Hamad When using oil to pre- Robleh success in his mis- General Hospital’s (HGH) pare food, use only a small sion and relations between Emergency Department,” amount of olive oil or other both countries further Tutors from across Qatar took part the importance of social responsibility said Dr Saad Al Nuaimi, Sen- polyunsaturated fats, avoid progress and prosperity. in the course, developed by Qatar Mile- and community development,” he added. ior Consultant of Emergency refined carbohydrates and The volunteers will take stone Training Solutions (QMTS) to equip This year, 85 tutors attended the Medicine. sugar (such as white bread, part in Adult English them with skills to effectively facilitate capacity-building course to gain better “Although some peo- white rice, sweets and pas- QR291.9m land the RAEL initiative. understanding of low-skilled workers’ ple feel it is impolite not tries) which can cause blood Literacy programme The course covered topics, including backgrounds while acquiring skills to to accept sweets or meals sugar surges and weight gain, deals last week for low-income migrant ROTA’s literacy curriculum, issues facing teach adults and community-based Eng- which may be offered while he said. Doha: Real estate sale con- workers in Qatar. low-income migrant workers, methods lish literacy. visiting a relative, friend or Dr Al Nuaimi said the tracts worth QR291.9m to effectively facilitate adult learning and “I’m grateful to ROTA for select- neighbour during Eid, it is main meal should be bal- were registered with the community-based learning tools. ing me to be part of the initiative which important to consume food anced with larger portions of Land Registry Depart- Mohammed A. Saleh, National Pro- positively impacts the lives of migrant and drinks in moderation vegetables, fruits and com- ment of the Ministry of The Peninsula grammes Director, ROTA, said: “The workers in Qatar. The course has helped so one can enjoy festivities plex carbohydrates such as Justice last week, accord- course is essential to ensure our RAEL me feel more confident in my ability to rather than spending the beans, lentils, whole grain ing to the weekly bulletin tutors are fully trained and equipped effectively facilitate and deliver the RAEL occasion in an emergency bread and oats. issued by the department. with required skills to deliver our Adult programme,” said Sarah Al Raeissi, a stu- room,” he said. He said that food items Sales included land plots, DOHA: Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) volun- English Literacy course in an effective dent at Academic Bridge Program (ABP) “Overindulging can also should be properly stored multi-use housing units and teer tutors attended a training course at and professional manner. in Qatar. lead to rapid weight gain, in the refrigerator or as buildings in Doha, Umm Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) . “Training RAEL facilitators to become “ROTA’s Adult English Literacy classes which can cause obesity, a directed on the food label Salal, Al Khor, Al Dhakira, The training came ahead of ROTA’s confident literacy tutors will ensure that are taught over 16 weeks, split into two leading cause of Type 2 dia- (avoid leaving groceries in a Al Zain, Al Rayyan and Al Adult English Literacy (RAEL) pro- migrant workers will reap the maximum terms. The first term begins in October betes, hypertension and back parked car as temperature Wakra municipalities. gramme for low-income migrant workers benefit from the Adult English Literacy and ends in December and the second is pain.” inside can quickly rise and in Qatar. programme. The course also reaffirms from February until April, 2017. To prevent avoidable spoil food). HEC Paris in Qatar to train Alstom officials

The Peninsula Algeria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the improvement within our local talent UAE, Kazakhstan and Qatar were pool,” said, Thi Mai Tran, Managing chosen for the international pro- Director, Alstom GCC. gramme, which will take place “The programme shows that DOHA: Alstom and HEC Paris in between Doha and Paris over the Alstom is a reliable long-term Qatar have signed an agreement next eight months. partner close to its customers, to train leaders from Alstom’s Mid- The course is designed to rein- established in MEA to accompany dle East and Africa Region in Doha force exceptional management skills countries in their rail development under a specially designed MEA mid- of key talent and increase their and disciplines,” she added. management (M3) programme. capacity to act as change agents. “We are committed to provid- The agreement was signed in It is also designed to motivate ing and ensuring optimal growth the presence of French Minister of Alstom’s managers to stay and evolve and training opportunities for every State for Foreign Trade, Promotion within the organisation. employee, from entry-level hires to of Tourism and French Nationals It aims at helping them attain senior executives” said Jamel Sabeg, Abroad, Matthias Fekl. more senior positions and attract Vice-President, HR, for MEA region. The programme is a yearly local managers to join to support “Alstom’s determination is sec- initiative co-designed by Alstom Alstom’s continuous growth in Qatar ond to none, as we proactively and HEC Paris in Qatar to give the and the broader Middle East & Africa partner with educational institutes selected participants access to HEC region. and provide apprenticeships while Paris’ faculty and learning methods. “We highly value sustainable continuing to promote rail man- Twenty-five candidates from growth and, through programmes agement professions throughout South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, like these, we encourage continuous different regions,” he added. Media Plus launches new publication

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The Peninsula Director Mohammed Hafiz released Kabeer; Ceprotec Managing Direc- the publication by handing over a tor Jose Philip; Al Gousiya Trading copy to Orchid International Man- & Contracting Operations Manager aging Director Abdul Gafar. Adam Navas; and Goodwill Cargo DOHA: Perunnal Nilavu, a special Friends Cultural Centre Exec- Managing Director Noushad were publication by Media Plus, a local utive Director Habeeburahiman present. advertising and event management Kizhissery delivered the keynote Media Plus Sales Manager company, was released at a function address. Sharafudheen Thagayathil was the at Friends Cultural Centre Audito- Prominent personalities, includ- master of ceremonies and Business rium. ing Photo Gulf Sales Manager Jafar; Executive Mohammed Rafeeque pro- Bradma Group Executive Qatar Star Managing Director T M posed a vote of thanks. 06 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 MIDDLE EAST

First UN food Chlorine gas attack in Aleppo chokes dozens aid in two years reaches over against civilians and use of uncon- 30,000 Iraqis ventional weapons including chlorine The bombs that left and mustard gas. more than 70 people Last month, an investigative AFP choking and in need panel set up by the UN Security Council said in a report that President of treatment were Bashar al-Assad’s forces had carried dropped from regime out at least two chemical attacks, one BAGHDAD: The UN said yester- helicopters on the in 2014 and another in 2015. day it has delivered food supplies But Syria’s ally Russia said it had to more than 30,000 residents of Sukkari neighbourhood, “very serious questions” about the Qayyarah for the first time in two the Britain-based report while the Syrian envoy to the years after Iraqi forces expelled monitor said. world body, Bashar Jaafari, rejected jihadists from the northern town. the findings. Government forces on August Meanwhile in the northwest- 25 pushed the Islamic State (IS) ern province of Idlib, most of which group out of Qayyarah, considered is under rebel control, eight people strategic for a planned offensive AFP including two children were killed against the jihadists’ last Iraqi in regime air strikes, the Observa- stronghold of Mosul further north. tory said. Qayyarah had been “inacces- Meanwhile, three Turkish sol- sible for over two years”, the UN BEIRUT: Dozens of people had to be diers were killed and four wounded World Food Programme (WFP) treated for breathing problems in the yesterday in a rocket attack by said in a statement. Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo after Islamic State (IS) militants in north- The damaged window of a bakery is seen at the site of a car bomb attack in the Karrada district of “The people of Qayyarah... are regime helicopters dropped barrel ern Syria, in the first deadly attack on Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. suffering extreme hunger with bombs on a rebel-held district yes- Ankara’s armed forces to be blamed scarce access to food supplies,” terday, a monitor said. on the jihadists in Turkey’s cross-bor- said WFP’s country director for In addition, rebel gunfire killed der incursion. Iraq, Sally Haydock. WFP said the five people in Azamiyeh, a govern- Turkey launched an unprec- 12 dead in IS car bombing in Baghdad food delivered in the past week ment-controlled area in Aleppo, edented operation inside Syria included dates, beans and canned the Syrian Observatory for Human on August 24. Dubbed Euphrates food as well as rations containing Rights said. Shield, it backs pro-Ankara oppo- AP Shia-dominated district of Karra- bombing, shocked residents exam- lentils, rice, flour and vegetable The bombs that left more than 70 sition fighters in the goal of rooting dah, near a hospital and shops, a ined the blood-stained pavement oil, enough to last for a month. people choking and in need of treat- out IS jihadists and Kurdish militia police officer said. Up to 28 peo- and the damage to nearby shops. The town is “in a dire state” ment were dropped from helicopters from the border area. ple were wounded and at least 15 The IS issued a statement say- with “black smoke” rising from on the Sukkari neighbourhood, the A senior Turkish official said two BAGHDAD: A car bombing claimed cars were damaged, he said. A med- ing the suicide attack targeted Shias. oilfields around it that were set Britain-based monitor said, adding soldiers were killed on the spot and by the Islamic State (IS) group struck ical official confirmed the casualty Karradah is a major commercial ablaze by the jihadists during most were civilians. The opposition five injured in the attack by IS. a bustling commercial area of cen- figures. Mourners held a funeral area of the capital. Its streets are fighting, WFP said. Aleppo Media Centre charged on its One of the wounded soldiers later tral Baghdad overnight, killing at procession for some of the dead lined with clothing and jewelry “All of its shops were either Twitter account that Sukkari was the died in hospital despite all attempts least 12 civilians, Iraqi officials said yesterday morning, with men car- stores, restaurants and cafes. The destroyed or closed and food target of a chlorine attack. to save his life, lifting the death toll yesterday. rying coffins wrapped in Iraqi flags area is usually packed with shop- stocks were running danger- Observatory head Rami Abdel to three, an army statement quoted The explosives-laden pick-up as women wailed and pounded their pers, especially ahead of next week’s ously low with people surviving Rahman was unable to confirm the by NTV television said. truck was left in a parking lot in the chests in grief. At the scene of the holiday of Eid Al Adha. only on wheat from the recent claim but said that no one was killed The fatalities are the first of the harvest,” it said. “Safe drinking in the strikes. A Sukkari resident said Turkish operation inside Syria to be water, electricity and medical a “very strong smell” filled the neigh- blamed on IS and Ankara’s biggest The army said in the statement Al-Rai, where Turkish tanks opened the start of the operation from services remain nearly impossi- bourhood after it was hit by a barrel single loss of life in the offensive to carried by NTV television that the a second front in their Syria opera- jihadists. ble to access,” it added. bomb and that he and others had dif- date. deaths came in a rocket attack on tion at the weekend. Turkish television showed The UN food agency said it had ficulty breathing. Turkey had blamed the death of two Turkish tanks. The area is west of Jarabulus pictures of military helicopters fly- also distributed food to “almost Both sides in Syria’s complex war one soldier on August 28 in a similar The army said the attack took near the Turkish border which was ing across the border to take the 2,000 displaced people living in have traded accusations of attacks attack on Kurdish militia. place in the village of Wuquf south of retaken by pro-Ankara rebels at wounded for treatment in Turkey. camps and with host families in areas surrounding Qayyarah”. Located on the Tigris river, Qayyarah was retaken in a Lebanon dialogue suspended three-day operation led by Iraqi Israel delays talks planned this month special forces backed by US-led as Christian party pulls out coalition air strikes. Its capture is part of a plan by Iraqi forces BEIRUT: The speaker of the Lebanese parliament sus- AP leader Benjamin Netanyahu in Minister Netanyahu,” he said. meeting had been. Both men to drive IS from their last strong- pended a national dialogue of rival politicians after one several years. However, he said the Israelis have expressed readiness to hold in Iraq in Mosul, 60km of the main Christian parties walked out, deepening the The two men exchanged a had informed a Russian envoy meet, but they have not been away. country’s political crisis. Speaker Nabih Berri took the brief handshake last year at a on Monday that the meeting able to agree on the agenda of The United Nations refu- decision after the withdrawal of the Free Patriotic Move- WARSAW: The Palestinian global climate change confer- should be put off to a later date. any meeting. gee agency UNHCR warned last ment (FPM) which criticised the dialogue as pointless and president yesterday said he ence in Paris but have not held “Let me declare once again Abbas has said that he month that a Mosul offensive condemned what it called contraventions of a national had been set to meet the Israeli a public working meeting since that I will go to a meeting set in would only meet Netanyahu if could displace another 1.2 mil- pact on sectarian power-sharing among the Lebanese. prime minister in Moscow this 2010. Moscow or in any other place Israel freezes settlement con- lion people. Around 3.4 million “There is no benefit from the dialogue and its contin- week but that Israel asked Speaking in Warsaw, Abbas in the world because dialogue struction on occupied lands people have already been forced uation, therefore we announced this position in cabinet, to delay the meeting until an said that he had accepted an is the only way of returning to claimed by the Palestinians to flee their homes in Iraq by con- and we announced it now at the dialogue table,” FPM unspecified later date. invitation from Russian Pres- peace talks that would allow and carries out a previously flict since the start of 2014. leader Gebran Bassil said in a statement reported by the The comments by Mah- ident Vladimir Putin to a our independent state to live agreed-on release of Palestin- WFP said it was “scaling up its National News Agency. Lebanon, which is still rebuild- moud Abbas came amid a series meeting with Netanyahu on in peace alongside the state of ian prisoners. Netanyahu has food assistance in Iraq ahead of ing from its 1975-90 civil war, has been paralysed by of efforts by Russia and other September 9. Israel,” he said. rejected the terms and said the Mosul offensive but “urgently” a political crisis exacerbated by the conflict in neigh- countries to hold the first sub- “I was to go directly from It was not immediately a meeting should take place needed $106m to assist displaced bouring Syria. stantive meeting with Israeli here to Moscow to meet Prime clear how serious the proposed without conditions. families until the end of 2016.

Wind shear a factor in Emirates crash: Report

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DUBAI: A preliminary report issued yesterday into an Emir- ates Boeing 777 crash-landing at Dubai airport said the air- craft was attempting to take off again following an aborted landing during wind shear. The civil aviation authority report did not specify the exact causes of the August 3 crash of the flight from India with 300 people on board, but a final A worker looks out at the Aden oil refinery after it was reactivated on Monday, following a year of report will be issued at a later date. closure due to the ongoing conflict between pro-government forces and Houthi rebels. All passengers and crew were evacuated safely after the airliner caught fire following the crash-landing, but one firefighter Egypt to host Yemen aid meet was killed. During final approach and at touchdown, the wind direction changed, resulting in an auto- Reuters months. It said some 14 million told a news conference in Cairo. mated “Long Landing, Long of Yemen’s 26 million popu- The conflict pits the Iran-allied Landing” aural warning to the lation needed food aid and 7 Houthis and supporters of former flight crew who decided to go million were suffering from food President Ali Abdullah Saleh around and approach again, the CAIRO: Egypt will host an inter- insecurity. against President Abd-Rabbu Man- report said. national conference in March to “We are now preparing for a sour Hadi, who is supported by an Clearance to do so was given coordinate humanitarian aid for conference ... to be held here in alliance of Arab states led by Saudi by the control tower, and this Yemen, which has been devas- the city of Sharm al-Sheikh ... Arabia. was acknowledged. tated by a civil war, a minister in We are preparing for this con- A Saudi-led coalition began “The aircraft became air- Yemen’s Saudi-backed govern- ference fully so we can go to a military campaign in Yemen in borne in an attempt to go-around ment said. the aid organisations and civil March last year with the aim of and was subjected to a headwind The United Nations said last society organisations and many preventing Houthi rebels and Saleh component until impact,” the week that at least 10,000 people donors,” Abdel Raqeeb Fateh, supporters from taking control of preliminary report said. had been killed in the past 18 minister of local administration, the country. ASIA / AFRICA WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 07

AU delegation Traditional handshake Desmond Tutu to mediate in to undergo surgery CAPE TOWN: South Afri- Gabon poll crisis can anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu will have surgery today to relieve likely to lead the talks, he added. an infection that has con- Ping, a former diplomat and fined him to hospital We accept all African Union Commission chair- since last month, his fam- mediation efforts. We man, told Paris-based television ily said. news channel France24 yester- Relatives did not give want democracy and day that 50 to 100 people had been any more detail on his ail- peace to triumph: killed since last week. His claim ment, but said it was not could not be independently verified. related to the prostate Opposition “We accept all mediation efforts,” cancer he has had for Ping said of the AU delegation, while nearly 20 years. calling for calm. “We want democ- The former Anglican Reuters racy and peace to triumph.” archbishop of Cape Town Authorities appeared to have was also hospitalised last restored order in Libreville yes- year for treatment of an terday and shopkeepers and “inflammation”. LIBREVILLE: The African Union government workers returned to said yesterday it would send a del- their jobs despite Ping’s earlier call egation to Gabon to help resolve for a mass walk-out. Worker ground a post-election standoff between Parliament resumed yester- President Ali Bongo, whose family day, with lawmakers gathering in to death in has ruled for a half century, and his the Senate building looking som- From Left: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak, Myanmar’s State Councellor and Foreign Minister Aung main opposition rival that triggered bre. The National Assembly was set San Suu Kyi, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O- recycling plant deadly riots last week. alight and badly damaged during Cha attend the opening of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Vientiane, yesterday. Official results last Wednes- last week’s protests. TOKYO: A Japanese day gave Bongo a slim victory and As in other African countries led worker suffered a grisly another seven-year mandate in the by men who have held onto power death after becoming central African Opec member. But for decades, Gabon’s opposition caught in a waste mill- challenger Jean Ping claimed he had has consistently called for a change ing machine at a recycling won and accused security forces of from the Bongo leadership. Boko Haram displaced return home plant, news reports said. using violence against his supporters. It also disputes Ali Bongo’s 2009 Police found human Opposition anger at Bongo’s re- election victory shortly after the flesh mixed with waste on election boiled over into riots in the death of his father Omar Bongo. AP yet of such refugees, nearly 2,000, insurgents, “food is the most impor- Monday after plant officials capital, Libreville, and other towns, One of their main complaints is was transported to villages and the tant issue,” said one returnee, Baari told police an employee killing six people, according to the that Gabon’s ample oil wealth has town of Konduga. Though they are Mustapha. “If not, there will be seri- working near a conveyor government. The opposition says the not been shared fairly amongst the just 35km from Maiduguri, they are ous hunger and starvation.” was missing, Kyodo News death toll is much higher. Central African country’s popula- MAIDUGURI: Excited but fearful, also on the fringes of the Sambisa Food is already a critical issue. and the Sankei Shimbun “It is an urgent matter and I tion of 1.8 million. refugees from Boko Haram piled into Forest where the Islamic extremists Children are dying of starvation in daily reported. expect the high-level delegation Authorities have so far dis- yellow school buses with their bun- still have strongholds. refugee camps like Dalori, where Police suspect the to be dispatched very soon,” AU missed calls from the opposition dles of belongings, returning after How this group of returnees sur- many of the returnees had been liv- worker, whose name was spokesman Jacob Enoh Eben said. and Western powers including two years to homes that have been vives, and whether the military can ing in tattered tents and makeshift not released, became Chad’s President Idriss Deby, former colonial ruler France to torched, wells destroyed, livestock protect them, could influence other huts of straw in Maiduguri. caught in the machine at one of Africa’s longest-ruling pres- publish more detailed results of the looted and fields that still may not refugees whom the government is Dalori residents were among hun- the wood recycling plant, idents who currently holds the chair August polls, prompting the justice be safe from the Islamic insurgents. keen to resettle. dreds who protested, accusing officials the reports said. of the pan-African body, would minister to resign on Monday. On Monday, the largest group Despite the threat from of stealing their food donations.

Demonstrators chant ‘Kofi Annan go away, go away’ while a police car escorts the vehicle carrying former UN secretary general Kofi Annan along the airport road following his arrival in Sittwe, yesterday. Annan arrives in Rakhine State

AFP Bangladesh, has been scarred since shortly after his arrival. Recognising 2012 by bouts of communal violence the highly-charged nature of the divi- between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists sions in the state, he said his advisory and the minority Rohingya Muslim commission would listen to all sides. SITTWE: Hundreds of Buddhists population. “This first visit is an opportunity jeered former UN chief Kofi Annan Their plight threatens to poi- to listen and learn from you, the local as he arrived in Myanmar’s troubled son democratic gains in the former people,” he said, as protesters con- Rakhine state yesterday to examine a army-run country and has damaged tinued to chant slogans outside the bitter religious conflict that has dis- Suu Kyi’s reputation as a defender of building where he made his brief placed tens of thousands of Muslim the downtrodden. remarks. Rohingya. More than 100 people have been The Ghanaian diplomat is also Annan has been tasked by the killed -- the majority of them Mus- expected to meet Muslim leaders and de facto leader of Myanmar’s new lims -- while tens of thousands of visit a camp where tens of thousands government, Aung San Suu Kyi, to the stateless Rohingya have spent the of Rohingya languish in poverty. head a commission charged with past four years trapped in bleak dis- But the region’s largest political finding ways to heal wounds in the placement camps with limited access group, the Arakan National Party, poor western state. to health care and other services. has ruled out meeting the former UN But in a sign of the passions sur- The Rohingya are despised by secretary-general and mounted a rounding the issue, protesters turned hardline Buddhists, who say they push in parliament yesterday to dis- out as he landed in the state capi- have no right to citizenship and label band the commission. tal Sittwe. them “Bengalis”, shorthand for ille- We do not need to rely on any Many booed and shouted “No gal immigrants. foreigner,” U U Hla Saw, a lower Kofi-led commission” into loud- Suu Kyi has disappointed rights house MP from Rakhine said. speakers as they swarmed around groups who accuse her of failing The near one-million-strong his convoy, carrying signs that read, directly to address the plight of Rohingya are largely denied citi- “No to foreigners’ biased interven- the Rohingya in a sop to Buddhist zenship and the government does tion in our Rakhine State’s affairs”. nationalist sentiment. not recognise them as an official eth- “We want decisions to be made Last month, she asked Annan to nic minority. by our own people. I don’t want lead the advisory commission on Their appalling living conditions, foreigners to make decisions, that solving the state’s troubles. including severe restrictions on is why I am peacefully protesting The envoy, who has vowed to be movement, have pushed thousands here,” May Phyu said. impartial, met local Rakhine lead- of them to flee, many via treacherous Rakhine, which borders ers and civil society groups in Sittwe sea journey south towards Malaysia. 08 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL French success The EU’s migration crisis rench Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve’s statement yesterday that the number of French citizens travelling out of the country to join the Islamic State (IS) has fallen drastically this year shows that is far from over Paris is winning the battle against terrorism. The Fnews will also be welcomed with delight all over the world, including by the people of our region and the rest of the Islamic a deal similar to the Turkish one. the labor market, even if they world because Muslims have been the largest and worst victims The country’s “government of The steady influx plan eventually to do that. national accord” has rejected The presence of hundreds of the IS, and its perverted ideology continues to harm Muslims the possibility because it doesn’t of new applications of thousands of new arrivals everywhere, especially in the West where Islamophobic and want to commit to take any ref- means that more in a bureaucratic limbo does anti-immigrant sentiment is conquering new peaks. ugees back: The Libyan state has nothing to fix Merkel’s political The French minister said there was a ‘four-fold decrease’ no money, no infrastructure and people are still problem. In Mecklenburg-West in the number of Muslims travelling to join the IS, with just not enough authority to house arriving and that Pomerania, her party lost just 18 French people doing so this year compared with 69 in the refugees the way Turkey does some who arrived 4 percentage points compared for the 2.7 million Syrians it has to its 2011 performance, and it corresponding period last year. The number is likely to slump temporarily settled in host com- before these will probably still be part of the further during the rest of the year as the authorities are confident munities and camps. attempts began ruling coalition headed by the of building on the gains and stem the Since Europe can’t send Social Democrats, who won a flow completely. By Leonid Bershidsky them back to Libya, that makes in earnest are still plurality just like in 2011. France is The news is commendable for Bloomberg the route preferable to the Turk- undocumented. And yet the CDU was over- two reasons. First, France is home to ish one today, even though the taken by the anti-immigrant winning the Europe’s largest Muslim population chance of dying at sea is much Alternative for Germany party, war against higher on a Libya-Italy voyage which, with 20.8 percent of the and has been the target of several than on a Greek-Turkey one. vote, is now the second strong- terrorism as terrorist attacks, and so any success erman Chancellor That explains why the Refugees, more asylum petitions est in the state. the number in addressing the threat of home- Angela Merkel may number of migrants who die or were filed in January through That’s not a tragedy — grown terrorism will help profusely have adjusted her go missing at sea hasn’t gone July, 2016 than in all of 2015 — Mecklenburg-West Pomerania of citizens in rooting out terrorism from the policies after last down since last year: 3,169 of 479,620 compared with 476,649. is a small state, and AfD won’t travelling to country. Secondly, the French success year’s refugee influx. them have died or disappeared The number of applications is govern it — but the party’s GBut on Sunday, she was punished so far in 2016, compared with actually increasing rather than performance has been unprec- serves as an example for the rest of join the IS falls anyhow by voters in her own con- 3,777 for the whole of 2015, and dropping. edented for a German right-wing dramatically. Europe which is fighting the same stituency of Mecklenburg-West the run rate is actually higher While the number of new force, and it poses a danger for malaise in varying degrees. Pomerania. That’s one sign that than last year. Most of the deaths arrivals has dropped because of Merkel if she decides to run for While the French police and the the EU migration crisis is far from occur on the so-called central the stricter policies, the migra- chancellor again next year and intelligence services deserve credit resolved yet. Mediterranean route, the one to tion service — whose budget, for her center-right party if she for the current achievement, the fall in the number of would-be The mere possibility of being Italy and Malta. staffing and efficiency have steps aside. jehadists must also be attributed to the huge losses IS has sent back to Turkey has reduced Italy is wealthier and less been boosted this year with German domestic politics the daily number of Greek island bureaucratically inept than the help of $10 million worth of dictate the need for a less make- suffered recently, especially in Iraq and Syria. The terrorists arrivals to 111 in August from Greece, so it has served as a bet- McKinsey’s consulting services shift solution to the refugee crisis are on the run, their remaining strongholds are under constant 6,360 in October, 2015. ter barrier for migrants hoping to — has been processing a huge than the Turkey deal. bombardment, the global intelligence agencies are more alert It’s a psychological effect end up in northern Europe. backlog. Other big European coun- and effective and awareness has grown among global Muslims that is not mitigated by the obvi- In May, Austria even stopped The steady influx of new tries — especially Italy as an that the IS is an enemy of their faith, not helpers. There are also ous tension between Turkey and the construction of an anti- applications means that more increasingly important point of serious doubts and unanswered questions about the origin of the EU, caused on the one hand migrant wall on the Italian people are still arriving and that entry and France, where long- by Europeans’ unease about border, reassured that the influx some who arrived before these distance truckers are protesting this extremist group and the forces that support them. This is President Recep Tayyip Erdog- was under control. And yet Ger- attempts began in earnest are against the increasingly unruly an outfit that sprang up from nowhere and shocked the world an’s authoritarianism and on many hasn’t really noticed. still undocumented. This means and dangerous migrant camp by conquering huge swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria at a the other hand by the Turkish According to Germany’s Fed- they haven’t even begun to inte- near Calais, known as the Jun- time when the Syrian opposition, fighting Bashar Al Assad, was resentment of the EU’s slowness eral Office for Migration and grate into Germany society and gle — also need a more lasting struggling to make even modest gains on the ground despite in sending financial aid for refu- solution, but their leaders cannot the legitimate support they received from several countries, gees and abolishing short-term expose themselves to the kind of including from the Gulf region. visas for Turks. backlash that Merkel has been Even an arrangement as facing. The world must act more virulently against the IS and defeat shaky as this one introduces Their positions are not as and eliminate this virus completely, leaving no scope for a extra uncertainty into a fleeing secure as hers was to start with. resurgence. Once achieved, it will mark the beginning of a new Syrian’s already high-risk plans. But if these countries can’t take world order. Besides, countries along in more people, the options for the migration route from Tur- a coordinated European solu- key have reinforced the route’s tion are pretty much limited to negative publicity: Macedonia, sealing the union’s external bor- for example, has all but closed ders — a costly proposition that its border with Greece. would be difficult to execute, It’s clear by now though especially with elections loom- Quote of the day that far from solving the prob- ing in several big nations. lem, this kind of word-of-mouth The crisis is far from over, The war against terrorism is deterrence has made alterna- and it won’t be while the Syr- an all encompassing one. If tive, longer and more dangerous ian war and the anarchy in Libya routes of migration look com- continue. Europe can’t be an we confront terrorism only paratively more attractive. impregnable fortress, so it needs on the security or military On certain days, the number to be a stronger force for peace. fronts, we lose the war. of refugee arrivals in Italy matches the high levels seen in the Greek islands last year. In The writer is a Bloomberg view August, the average number of contributor and is a Berlin-based Farhat Horchani arrivals reached 686 a day, up writer. He was the founding edi- A migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tunisian Defence Minister from 263 in October, 2015. tor of the Russian business daily Most of these arrivals come outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration Vedomosti and founded the opin- through Libya, a country with and Refugees after registration at Berlin’s Spandau district in ion website Slon.ru. which the EU is not able to make this file photo.

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By Richard J Carroll Bloomberg

resident Barack Obama might be a savior of the economy or have one of the worst records ever, depending on your viewpoint. But when Pyou put all the aspects of his economic performance together, how does his record really stack up compared with the jobs done by other presidents since World War II? It’s an important question for the 2016 election because we need to know where Obama’s policies can be associated with success, if at all, and where the economic course needs to be changed. His detractors point to the low growth rate of the gross domestic product and the increase in the national debt. His defenders point to the reductions in the unemployment rate and the federal budget deficit, and to the rise in the stock market. My book, “The President as Economist: Scoring Economic Per- formance from Harry Truman to Obama,” uses these and 12 other well- established indicators to calculate a performance score for each president going back to Truman. The top score is 100, zero is average, and negative scores are below average. Obama comes in eighth out of the 12, but still records a positive score, indicating a roughly average per- A January 7, 2009 file picture shows US President Barack Obama with former US presidents George W Bush (centre), George H W Bush (left), Bill Clinton formance. That is based on six full (second right) and Jimmy Carter (right) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. years of his record, from 2010 to 2016. (This analysis leaves two years to go, because I allowed one year for in the rankings, Obama recorded a sig- unemployment rate has plummeted begin until 1982. George W Bush’s record economy after the financial crisis. the effects from the previous admin- nificantly stronger economic record than under Obama, a very good thing. It is does not reflect the burden of the 2001 Both proved to be sustained drags on istration to subside — more on that Nixon did. So did Bill Clinton, at No 5, also true that labor participation has recession after the dot-com bubble burst. the US economy, but were no fault of later.) compared with Ronald Reagan, at No 6 fallen considerably. That fact moderates Likewise, Obama’s record begins in Obama’s. That is not a stunning performance, And though Obama is two places below the unemployment accomplishment. 2010, with the economy in bad shape, Once the financial crisis hit in 2008, but it is a major improvement over that of Reagan, his economic score is not that But by how much? but no longer in free-fall. A one-year consumers began spending less. From his predecessor, George W Bush, whose much lower. An indicator that takes the partic- “lag” does not fully account for longer- the third quarter of 2008, total consumer economic score was significantly lower We’ve already mentioned a few of ipation rate into account is simply the term effects like those from Clinton’s debt, including mortgages, credit cards than even Jimmy Carter’s. the strengths and weaknesses in the growth in the number of employed financial deregulation and George W and auto loans, fell for 19 of the next 20 Rest assured, in this analysis a pres- Obama economic record. Maintaining people. The Obama administration Bush’s financial stewardship leading quarters, dropping by $940 bn. ident’s score takes into account what he a low inflation rate, cutting the federal can claim 76 straight months of jobs up to the 2008 crisis, but it does cap- This figure is on the upswing again, inherited and what he left behind. That’s deficit by two-thirds, reducing the unem- growth. ture most of the “bottoming out” (or but paying off debt is a good thing, and one reality that both benefited and ham- ployment rate and expanding exports all That’s pretty darn good, but the rate peaking) of the previous president’s this should cast Obama’s economic score pered Ronald Reagan’s and Obama’s boosted his score. of job growth during his administra- policies. in a better light. scores. Obama’s critics might challenge tion, given the falling participation rate, The scores also abide by a politically (Under his predecessor, paradox- Kennedy had the best record, but the notion that a president has any- comes to only 1 percent. Only three pres- conservative article of faith: An increase ically, total consumer debt doubled to it was only for three years. There was thing to do with inflation. Would the idents had lower job growth rates (the in the federal government, as measured more than $12 trillion, yet the growth no normal business cycle — that is, a same critics be so sceptical of Obama’s two Bushes and, this may surprise you, by taxes and expenditures as a share of rate under George W Bush was the low- recession — during his short presidency. performance if they knew that the big- Eisenhower ). GDP, is counted negatively on a presi- est for the postwar presidents.) Truman is in second place; his perform- gest positive in Ronald Reagan’s score It’s nice for job growth to be going dent’s record. The lower those numbers Obama and the US have not gotten ance was impressive because it was was the reduction in inflation — even steadily in the right direction, but it would are as a percentage of GDP, the better the much of a boost from the global econ- recorded over eight years. though Carter, not Reagan, appointed also be nice if it rose faster. president’s score. omy, either. The global growth rate has It’s also important to look at the mar- Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman who The average share of federal debt, its To be clear, the analysis follows hovered around 2 percent to 2.5 percent, gins between the rankings. Compare the reduced inflation? increase, the average budget deficits and this approach, not because smaller well below the global growth rate during scores for Obama and Richard Nixon, for The big improvement in stock prices the balance of trade are also significant government is necessarily better, but the Reagan, Clinton and George W Bush example. Though they follow each other was another significant positive for both negatives for Obama, just as they were because it means that the president administrations. Reagan and Obama. Based on that indi- for Reagan and the Bushes. was able to achieve private-sector What is the takeaway then on cator alone, Reagan would be No 2 on the Obama has had one positive area growth, employment creation and Obama’s economic performance? When presidential performance list, and Obama relating to the budget that the others so on with fewer federal resources. you take the slow global growth and Obama and the US have not would be No 4. didn’t have — the reduction of the def- If the economy achieved more with domestic consumers’ retrenchment on gotten much of a boost from the On the negative side, while GDP icit. Bush’s 2009 budget deficit of $1.4 the same or fewer resources, then it debt into account, the record emerg- growth has been positive for 25 of the trillion was nearly half (47.4 percent) is more efficient. ing from his rather calm and cautious global economy, either. The global past 27 quarters, the rate of growth of the total budget. Obama’s 2015 def- Obama’s record also has to be approach is one to build on, not one to growth rate has hovered around 2 under Obama has not been stellar. icit was $438 bn, or 12.5 percent of the seen in the context of a couple of be cast aside. In fact, at 2.1 percent, it is the fourth- total budget. larger economic phenomena that percent to 2.5 percent, well below lowest growth rate of any president’s The presidential economic score provided no help to his score: the The writer is an economist for interna- the global growth rate during the and below the postwar average of 2.9 takes into account that problems cre- need to reduce consumer debt that tional financial institutions including percent. ated by a previous administration bleed had soared under George W Bush the World Bank and author of “The Reagan, Clinton and George W Bush Another indicator that gets into the next, at least for a period. So the (“de-leveraging”) along with exces- President as Economist: Scoring Eco- administrations. lost in the partisan back and forth Carter “stagflation” of 1981 is not part of sive real-estate inventory, and the nomic Performance from Harry Truman is jobs growth. It is true that the Reagan’s record because the clock doesn’t below-average growth in the global to Obama.” Merkel’s problem with the far right is Europe’s, too

Bloomberg Democrats, Merkel’s coalition play its part in resolving the larger Merkel certainly wasn’t wrong Managing it requires commit- partners, with 30 percent of the problem. to want to help, but she made too ment and resources from across vote and the recently formed Merkel’s position on refugees little of the difficulties to be faced the union, and such support has hard-right Alternative for Ger- was both brave and righteous: She in absorbing and assimilating so been conspicuously absent. Mer- erman Chancellor Angela many (AfD), with about 22 called for a strong humanitarian many, and dismissed popular kel doubtless hoped to lead by Merkel suffered a humiliating percent. National elections are response to the flood of desperate concerns too blithely. example — a noble sentiment, Gelectoral defeat in her home due next year. The AfD may be migrants fleeing conflict in Syria, She has enabled the AfD to but it didn’t work. state on Sunday. The result, driven about to establish itself as a pow- the Middle East and North Africa. argue that she is deaf to her own Europe’s other governments Merkel called for a by a growing backlash against her erful political force. Since early last year, Germany has people: Without abandoning the ought to step forward with moral strong humanitarian policy on refugees, calls for hard In most ways, Merkel has been taken in more than a million. “Wir decency and generosity she has and material support, with a new thinking not just on her part but also a wise and effective leader of Ger- schaffen das,” Merkel said. “We stood for, she needs to refute commitment to effective joint response to the flood from Germany’s partners in the Euro- many and Europe. can do this.” that charge. She needs to make control of the EU’s external bor- of desperate migrants pean Union. Nobody of similar stature Public concern over the scale clear now that resources ade- ders, and above all with offers to fleeing conflict in Voters in rural Mecklenburg- has yet emerged to challenge her of the influx mounted after inci- quate to the task will be made accept their fair share of genu- Western Pomerania, a tiny state of and her job is not on the line yet. dents such as the one in Cologne available, and that there are ine refugees. Syria, the Middle East 1.6 million, didn’t just defeat Mer- Nonetheless, she miscalculated in on New Year’s Eve, when gangs indeed limits to what Germany Surging support for the far and North Africa. kel’s Christian Democratic Union her response to Europe’s refugee of young immigrant men perpe- can do. right isn’t just Germany’s prob- Since early last year, — they crushed it. crisis — in effect, announcing that trated dozens of sexual assaults In doing this, however, support lem. In their own interests, and With just 19 percent of the Germany would open its doors. near the city’s main railway sta- from other EU countries will be because it’s the right thing to do, Germany has taken in vote, the CDU was pushed into The rest of the EU then com- tion. The impression formed was essential. The refugee crisis isn’t Europe’s other governments need more than a million. third place behind the Social pounded the error by failing to of a situation out of control. Germany’s problem alone. to come to Merkel’s aid.

All thoughts and views expressed in these columns are those of the writers, not of the newspaper. All correspondence regarding Views and Opinion pages should be mailed to the Editor-in-Chief. 10 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES Three die in blast near Thai school Japan to provide planes and ships for Philippines The explosive device Reuters China claims most of the South went off as pupils and China Sea, through which more teachers filed into the than $5 trillion of trade moves annually. Brunei, Malaysia, the Phil- school for the start of VIENTIANE: Japanese Prime Min- ippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have the day. ister Shinzo Abe yesterday agreed to rival claims. provide two large-sized patrol ships An arbitration court in The and lend up to five used surveillance Hague in July invalidated Chi- aircraft to the Philippines, a Japa- na’s claims to the waterway after AFP nese government spokesman said, a case was brought by the Philip- with both countries locked in terri- pines, a ruling that Beijing refuses torial disputes with China. to recognise. Abe and Philippine President Japan’s ties with China has been NARATHIWAT: A four-year-old girl Rodrigo Duterte agreed in Vientiane marred by a long-running territo- and her father were among three to strengthen cooperation to ensure rial spat over a group of small islets killed yesterday when a bomb hidden a peaceful resolution of the South in the East China Sea. in a motorcycle’s fuel tank exploded China Sea dispute, Japanese Dep- Japan has already agreed to pro- outside a school in Thailand’s insur- uty Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi vide 10 smaller-sized patrol ships to gency-plagued south. Hagiuda said. the Philippines. The device went off as pupils and teachers filed into the school in the Tak Bai district of Narathiwat prov- ince for the start of the day. Two of the dead were father and daughter, local police detective Obama cancels meeting with Duterte Noppdol Kingthong said, adding that the bomb was set off by radio control Reuters “President Duterte explained Military personnel inspect the site of a bomb attack at Tak Bai district in the troubled southern province as the pair neared the school gate. that the press reports that Presi- A 23-year-old man later died in of Narathiwat, yesterday. dent Obama would ‘lecture’ him hospital and around a dozen other on extrajudicial killings led to his adults were being treated for injuries, abandoned child’s school bag lay killed by rebels, some in front of inside the kingdom killed four peo- VIENTIANE: US President Barack strong comments, which in turn according to a hospital worker who on the road, according to a jour- pupils. The rebels appear to have ple and wounded dozens, including Obama cancelled his first meet- elicited concern,” the Philippines said the dead were Muslim. nalist at the scene. returned to attacking “soft” civilian foreigners. ing with Philippine counterpart government said. Ethnic Malay insurgents in the Unicef’s Thailand representa- targets in recent weeks, following Those blasts carried the hall- Rodrigo Duterte yesterday after “He regrets that his remarks kingdom’s so-called “Deep South” tive Thomas Davin said the agency several months in which violence marks of the southern rebels, who the blunt-spoken Duterte insulted to the press have caused much have for years targeted schools and was “shocked and saddened” by the was aimed at security officials. never claim their attacks. him, casting a shadow over a controversy,” it added in a state- teachers, which are seen as symbols bombing. The bomb “aimed to kill... But Thai authorities have played gathering of Asian leaders in Laos. ment released at the summit in of Thai state power in the culturally “No children nor any caretakers indiscriminately as shown by the down any possible expansion of Duterte, who has been Vientiane, the capital of Laos distinct Muslim-majority region. or education professionals should four-year-old victim”, Colonel the southern conflict, which has roundly criticised abroad for recently. More than 6,500 people -- the live or learn under fear of such Pramote Prom-in, spokesman for remained highly localised for more a ‘war on drugs’ that has killed The White House had earlier majority of them civilian -- have attacks,” he said in a statement. the Thai army in the south, said in than a decade. about 2,400 people since he took said Obama would not pull any been killed by rebels and Thailand’s Police and soldiers routinely a statement. That is despite the identification office two months ago, said hours punches on his concerns about Buddhist-majority security forces accompany teachers and children The under-reported conflict of five suspects for the tourist attacks later that he regretted his com- human rights abuses in the Phil- since 2004. to and from schools in the region’s in the southernmost provinces hit -- all Muslim men from the south, ments “came across as a personal ippines, its treaty ally, when Debris from the blast was most dangerous “red zones”. the headlines last month after rare several of whom have a record of attack” on the US president. meeting Duterte. strewn across the area while an Dozens of teachers have been bomb attacks in tourist hotspots involvement in the insurgency. S Korea hosts arms show after North’s missile tests

AFP around 250 companies, many of N Korea calls for Senior Dhaka them local. Korean arms manufacturers nuclear build-up editor released displayed the K9 self-propelled SEOUL: South Korea put its latest howitzer, the Surion helicopter, from jail high-tech weaponry on show yes- the K2 main battle tank and other terday as tensions rise in the region military equipment during a press AFP DHAKA: A prominent following Pyongyang’s test-firing of preview. Bangladeshi magazine three missiles this week. Exhibitors also staged a live-fire editor was released from North Korea fired the mid-range show at a shooting range outside SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim jail yesterday nearly five missiles on Monday, triggering con- Pocheon city near the border with Jong-Un called on his military to months after his arrest on demnation from the US and Japan NorthKorea to display their artil- continue building up nuclear force charges of plotting to kill while winning praise from leader lery, mechanised infantry fighting after issuing orders for the latest the premier’s son, a case Kim Jong-Un who hailed their per- vehicles and missiles. test-firing of ballistic missiles, the that sparked fears of a formance as “perfect”. Potential buyers from 25 coun- North’s state media said yesterday. press crackdown. Pyongyang has conducted a tries have been invited to the “He stressed the need to Shafik Rehman, fourth nuclear test and a series exhibition which will run from continue making miraculous 81, who is also a Brit- of missile tests this year in defi- Wednesday until Saturday, organ- achievements in bolstering up the ish citizen and a former ance of United Nations sanctions, isers said. nuclear force one after another speechwriter for the main prompting Seoul to announce Apart from South Korean com- in this historic year,” the official opposition leader and the plans to deploy a Unites States panies, 80 foreign firms from the KCNA news agency said. premier’s arch rival, was anti-missile system to counter US, Germany and Israel are also “Kim was guiding a fire drill of South Korean K2 tanks (green) and a K1A2 tank (yellow) fire rounds released days after the such threats. taking part in the exhibition. his military aimed at checking the Supreme Court granted The biennial DX Korea exhibi- South Korea’s arms exports fell during a live fire demonstration for a media preview of the Defence “capabilities of the units” and the him bail. tion organised by the South Korean from $3.6bn in 2014 to $3.4bn last Expo Korea 2016 at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, accuracy of the “improved ballis- “He is very weak. He government in Seoul involves year. yesterday. tic rockets deployed for action.” has been suffering from heart and other ailments,” his wife, Taleya Rehman, said after his release from Kashimpur prison outside China warns HK lawmakers Floods displace more than Dhaka. WHO declares over calls for independence 44,000 in North Korea Sri Lanka AFP sanitary items,” the agency said AFP relating to Hong Kong independ- newspaper, a China-based academic recently. malaria-free ence in any form, inside or outside said there could be legal challenges Nearly 9,000 buildings were the Legislative Council, and firmly to lawmakers advocating inde- destroyed or damaged with 10,000 COLOMBO: The World support the Hong Kong government pendence, citing a law under which SEOUL: Flooding following heavy hectares of farmland flooded, it Health Organisation has HONG KONG: Beijing has warned to impose punishment in accordance a candidate or group of voters can rain has killed 60 people and left said, adding joint relief efforts certified Sri Lanka free of new Hong Kong lawmakers not to with the law,” state news agency Xin- lodge a petition against an elected over 44,000 homeless in North involving the UN and the North were malaria, the second coun- back independence for the semi- hua cited a spokesperson of the Hong member they believe is ineligible or Korea, the United Nations said yes- underway. try in the region to earn autonomous city after young Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the has acted “illegally”. terday, after the country reported The North’s state media said on the distinction after the anti-China activists won seats for the State Council as saying. Lawmakers will take up their that a northeastern river suffered Friday that 15 people were miss- Maldives, the health min- first time in key weekend elections. The vote saw the highest turnout seats on October 1 and will have to its worst-ever flood. ing after over 17,000 houses were istry said yesterday. Sunday’s vote saw activists push- since Hong Kong was handed back swear an oath to uphold the Basic Pyongyang said on Friday the destroyed or damaged. The UN agency had ing for more autonomy from Beijing to China by Britain in 1997 under a Law -- Hong Kong’s mini-constitu- Tumen river, which partially marks The impoverished nation is sent teams to Sri Lanka secure a crucial foothold in the city’s “one country, two systems” deal that tion, which describes the city as part the border with China and Russia, vulnerable to natural disasters, in the past three years Legislative Council (LegCo), as fears protected the city’s freedoms for 50 of China. experienced the biggest flood ever especially floods. to evaluate its efforts to grow that China is tightening its grip. years. It is not yet clear what may recorded due to a rainstorm that At least 169 were killed by a ensure there was not a It was the first major poll since Fears that Beijing interference happen if they then advocate inde- began four days earlier. massive rainstorm in the summer single indigenous malaria pro-democracy rallies in 2014 is now threatening those liberties pendence as a possibility for Hong Nearby areas including Musan of 2012. case since 2012, the min- failed to win concessions on polit- in a range of areas, from politics to Kong in the legislature. and Hoeryong were hard hit, with Its territory is largely com- istry said in a statement. ical reform from Beijing. education and media, have sparked Political analyst Chung Kim- 60 dead and five percent of the posed of mountains and hills that “Minister Rajitha Sen- Some student protest leaders the birth of the independence wah of Polytechnic University said population homeless, the United have long been deforested for fuel aratne was presented were among those winning seats movement. the government would need to be Nations Office for the Coordina- or turned into terraced rice fields. today with a certificate in the landmark vote. Five candi- It has been slammed by author- wary of exacerbating divisions in tion of Humanitarian Affairs said This allows rainwater to flow down- confirming Sri Lanka’s dates advocating independence for ities in Hong Kong and Beijing as society by freezing out those push- in a statement. hill unchecked. malaria-free status by the Hong Kong are to sit in the 70-seat illegal and unconstitutional. ing for more autonomy, known as It cited data from the North’s A series of floods and droughts WHO,” the statement said assembly. The Hong Kong edition of the “localists”. government. was partially responsible for a adding that the island In a statement late Monday, state-owned China Daily warned “Localists got 20% of the total “Communication with and famine that killed hundreds of had set up a unit to erad- China said that it would not toler- yesterday that wins by activ- votes, including ones that were not access to affected areas remains a thousands between 1994-98, with icate the mosquito-borne ate any talk of independence “inside ists could mean “separatist ideas” voted in. They represent part of soci- challenge... immediate needs have economic mismanagement and the disease. or outside” the legislature. emerge in LegCo. ety. The government cannot just been identified as emergency shel- loss of Soviet support exacerbating “We firmly oppose any activity In a separate column in the hastily disqualify them,” he said. ter, food, medication, water and the situation. PAKISTAN WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 11 Afghan forces end siege after attacks in Kabul

35 people, including several senior hours of standoff interrupted Interior Ministry security officers, and wounded 103. occasionally by sporadic gunfire, That attack was claimed by the Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq spokesman Sediq Taliban and was followed a few hours Sediqqi said Afghan special forces Sediqqi said Afghan later by a car bomb in Share Naw, a had killed all those involved in the business and residential area of the attack. special forces had city close to the government and The violence highlighted the pre- killed all those embassy district. carious security in the capital just a After the blast in Share Naw, three month before a conference in Brus- involved in the attack. gunmen barricaded themselves in sels where international donors are close to an office of aid group Care expected to pledge continued finan- International and a government com- cial support to Afghanistan. Reuters plex. The target of the attack was not The Taliban’s ability to con- clear. duct coordinated attacks in Kabul There was no immediate claim has piled pressure on the West- of responsibility for the Share Naw ern-backed government, which has KABUL: Afghan security forces attack, which caused only six injuries. struggled to reassure a war-weary ended an 11-hour standoff in cen- Care International said in a state- population that it can guarantee Afghan residents look out from broken windows of a building near the site of an attack following a car bomb tral Kabul yesterday, shooting dead ment its staff in Kabul were safely security. blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul, yesterday. the last of a group of attackers who evacuated. The attacks came less than two struck hours after a separate sui- “When the explosion happened, weeks after gunmen attacked the a second blast minutes later. Afghanistan’s foreign part- meeting in Warsaw. Outside Kabul, cide bombing killed and wounded all of our windows broke and for a American University in Kabul, kill- An army general and two sen- ners, concerned about the ability the insurgents have stepped up their dozens of security personnel and minute I thought that the house had ing 13 people. ior police commanders were among of the security forces to withstand military campaign, threatening civilians. collapsed on us,” said Togrul Big who Many casualties in the defence the dead, a Defence Ministry official Taliban violence, are expected to towns including Lashkar Gah, capi- The bloody episode began on lives near the Care International ministry attack were caused when said. Another official said the dep- pledge support over coming years tal of the strategic southern province Monday afternoon with a twin suicide compound and suffered a hand injury security forces personnel and civil- uty head of President Ashraf Ghani’s at the Brussels conference, three of Helmand, as well as Kunduz, the bombing in a busy area of the capital in the car-bomb blast. ians who rushed to help victims of personal protection force had also months after Nato members reaf- northern city they briefly took last near the Defence Ministry that killed Mid-morning yesterday, after an initial explosion were caught by been killed. firmed their commitment at a year.

Islamabad plans new maritime Afghan refugees leave Pakistan over tougher rules policy to meet

fresh challenges Reuters refugees did not need passports or be able to go back and forth across make the journey. In June, Pakistan cards unless they are paid bribes,” visas to cross the porous border and the border, and that has completely extended Afghan refugees’ right to he added. Pakistani authorities deny Internews visit families left behind. stopped,” said Baryali Miankhel, stay until December 2016, but restric- harassing Afghan refugees. But Islamabad has begun ask- president of the Supreme Council of tions and harassment have grown, Repatriations are on course this ISLAMABAD: More than five ing for such documents following Afghan Refugees in Pakistan’s Khy- say refugees and the UNHCR. year to reach their highest level ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is devel- times the number of Afghan refu- brief cross-border clashes in June ber Pakhtunkhwa province. “The increase in the number of since 2008, with the UNHCR saying oping a new maritime policy in gees returned home from Pakistan between Afghan and Pakistani forces Torkham is 180km northwest of security operations against undocu- 103,013 refugees have returned to response to ‘disturbing develop- in August than in July, the United that killed four people at the main Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad and mented foreigners has also impacted Afghanistan from Pakistan, 93 per- ments’ in the Indian Ocean Region Nations’ refugee office said yester- Torkham crossing on the disputed 170 km east of Kabul, the Afghan refugees’ decision-making,” said cent within the last two months. (IOR) and protect its maritime day, seeking to escape harassment 2,600-km long frontier. capital. UNHCR spokeswoman Duniya Aslam The surge coincided with a interests and respond to con- in the host nation and stiffer meas- The UN High Commission for “These people have broth- Khan. doubling of the UNHCR’s grant for ventional and sub-conventional ures on visits home. Refugees said 67,057 refugees were ers and other relatives on the Police increasingly demand returning refugees, to $400, Khan threats emerging there. Pakistan is home to the world’s permanently repatriated in August, other side, that’s why the border bribes from refugees, Miankhel said. The draft doctrine is being second-largest refugee population, up from 12,962 the month before and restrictions are the main reason,” said, even those with Proof of Reg- “There is increasing anxiety reviewed at different levels in including 2.5 million Afghans, many 1,250 in June. Miankhel added. istration cards showing a legal right among the Afghan refugees regard- the navy and government ahead living there since the Soviet Union “The main reason for this is Under the UNHCR programme, to stay. ing what will happen when Proof of of adoption. invaded Afghanistan in 1979. the closing of the Torkham border refugees returning home get a spe- “The police harass people, ask Registration cards expire in Decem- Senior Research Fellow of Until recently the Afghan gate, because these people want to cial document permitting them to for money, and confiscate refugees’ ber 2016,” said Khan. Pakistan Navy War College and author of the doctrine, Retired Commander Muhammad Azam Khan, speaking at the Centre for International Strategic Studies Pakistan Defence Day Pakistan vital to US (CISS), said the doctrine aimed at developing coherence and uni- formity of thought and action within Pakistan Navy and pro- counter-terrorism moting cooperation with Army, Air Force, allied navies and coa- lition partners. He said the doctrine would fur- efforts: US document ther give contextual clarity to all stakeholders and observers of mar- itime developments in Pakistan. Cdr Khan gave an overview of Internews “Through security assistance, the doctrine and said its formula- the United States is enhancing Paki- tion had been necessitated by the stan’s capabilities to address its evolving threat matrix and mari- counterterrorism and counterinsur- time environment in the IOR. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan remains gency challenges in the Federally “With the regional environ- critical to US counter-terrorism Administered Tribal Areas (Fata),” ment of IOR being marred by efforts, nuclear non-proliferation, says the document. uncertainty and political insta- regional stability, the peace process The Obama administration bility, Pakistan has to maintain in Afghanistan, and regional eco- warns that in 2017, “Pakistan its maritime security, be cogni- nomic integration and development, will continue to face significant sant of its security interests and argues the Obama administration and broad challenges to its inter- put forth its doctrinal assump- while explaining why Washington nal security, economy and social tions based on concepts governing needs to stay engaged with Islam- sectors, all of which threaten its application of maritime forces, the abad. long-term trajectory.” command and control structures “The United States therefore has The document says that due and a carefully crafted role for its a deep interest in a stable, demo- to these reasons the US will “con- naval forces,” he said. cratic and prosperous Pakistan, as tinue its intensive engagement with Besides the security ele- well as long-term constructive bilat- Pakistan to advance our joint inter- ment and development of better eral cooperation,” says an official est in a democratic Pakistan that is ties with allied navies, the doc- Pakistan Air Force cadets march beside the mausoleum of the country’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah US document on the need for con- developing economically, counter- trine also envisages protection of during celebrations to mark the country’s Defence Day in Karachi, yesterday. tinuing aid to Pakistan in the fiscal ing militancy and contributing to shipping and commercial interests year 2017. peace and stability in the region”. and addressing issues like climate The document, posted recently The US administration change and rise of sea level. on a US government website, explains that its engagement Retired Naval Chief Admiral explains why during his visit to with Pakistan is facilitated both Asif Sandila spoke about sea- India last week Secretary of State through the US-Pakistan Strategic blindness in Pakistan’s doctrinal Call to set up complaint resolution system John Kerry rejected the suggestion, Dialogue and through the assist- thinking - an inability to appre- made at media briefings and pub- ance aligned with and supportive ciate the central role the oceans lic engagements, that Washington of these policy goals. and naval power play in securing Internews departments attended the meeting. a complaint officer be appointed to needed to abandon Pakistan as it It notes that the US and Pakistan strategic security and economic Khokhar asked the repre- deal with this CR mechanism. was not a trustworthy ally. enjoy a positive security partnership prosperity. sentatives of the ministries and Khokhar said, this system will In his first comment, however, and are working collaboratively to Adm Sandila said the two departments to establish the Com- improve governance of government Secretary Kerry advised Pakistan address security threats faced by areas that required special atten- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal plaints Resolution Mechanism under departments, and change the existing not to make distinctions between both nations. tion in the debate on maritime Ombudsman Muhammad Salman the supervision of an officer of BS-19 public perception about them. He also “good terrorists” and “bad terror- The document explains that doctrine were development of an Faruqui has ordered ministries and and also establish a helpline for pub- said that with this mechanism, inquir- ists”, though in a later statement he non-security US assistance to assured second-strike capability other federal departments to link lic complaints and guidance. ies against officials etc., would have to said that Pakistan itself had been Pakistan supports development, and the increasing need for delv- their complaint system with the Pub- He also gave detailed briefing be finalised within a stipulated period. a victim of terrorism and lost over cooperation and reform in five key ing into cooperative mechanisms lic Complaint Resolution Mechanism on the CR mechanism. Under this Under this MIS system, offic- 50,000 people to violent acts. He areas: energy, economic growth, as a tool for crisis management. System of the Federal Ombudsman complaint mechanism, if a minis- ers would be bound to generate the also urged other nations to help stabilisation of areas most vulner- CISS Executive Director Amb Secretariat. try or department fails to reply to the Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) Pakistan combat terrorists. able to extremism, education and Ali Sarwar Naqvi stated that Paki- In this regard, a meeting was complainant within 15 days, it would within the year, failing which sal- The argument that the Obama health. stan was located strategically with chaired by Hafiz Ahsan Ahmad automatically generate a complaint ary of the supervisory officer would administration makes in the doc- The document also mentions a multidimensional naval force Khokhar, senior adviser law and in the office of Federal Ombudsman. be stopped. He said that no officer ument justifying its decision to Pakistan’s efforts at countering vio- whose force structure made it a grievance commissioner for over- He also directed that details of would be in a position to blackmail continue security and economic lent extremism within its territory ‘reckonable’ power in the Indian seas Pakistanis. Representatives of attached departments be sent within any subordinate on the name of assistance to Pakistan in 2017 fur- which, it says have “continued to Ocean Region. 35 ministries and other attached three days, and a focal person and ACRs and inquiries. ther explains this point. expand and achieve results”. 12 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 INDIA

Budget for No decision yet digitisation of land records on Modi’s nearly doubled Pakistan visit Reuters MUMBAI: India will nearly double the entire range of issues, they the budget and extend the dead- must keep their focus on economy line for a programme to digitise Govt responds after which he described as a “low-hang- land records as states struggle to remarks by Indian ing fruit”. survey land and property, large His comments came amid chunks of which have not been envoy in Islamabad. reports that Modi might keep away mapped in a century, a senior from the Saarc Summit in view of official said. the rising tensions between India The national land record mod- and Pakistan, particularly over ernisation programme, launched IANS Jammu and Kashmir. Bambawale in 2008, was aimed at survey- said it was India’s desire to see a ing lands, upgrading records and Pakistan which was moderate, pros- establishing ownership. Sched- perous and stable and at peace with uled to be completed in 2016 with KARACHI/NEW DELHI: Prime itself, its neighbours as well as the a budget of Rs56bn ($841m), the Minister Narendra Modi is looking rest of the world. project will now conclude in 2021 forward to visit Pakistan in Novem- He admitted that trust and con- at a projected cost of Rs110bn. ber to attend the Saarc Summit, fidence was lacking in relations “It is a long process, as some according to India’s High Commis- between New Delhi and Islamabad. of these lands have not been sur- sioner in Islamabad. But New Delhi The road to normalisation of veyed in a long time, some for 30 Olympian PV Sindhu receiving Shifa Al Jazeera — Naseem Al Rabeeh Healthcare Group’s gold medal and said yesterday that no decision had Pakistan-India relations, he said, years, some for 100 years,” said been made yet. lay through greater trade and busi- certificate. K K Phull, a consultant with the “Decisions and announce- ness, the roadmap for which was department of land records in ments of such nature are not made prepared by the two governments New Delhi. “Many states lack so far in advance,” India’s External in 2012. Rio medallist Sindhu honoured the means to survey lands, and Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas The total trade between the two for nearly all states this has not Swarup tweeted. countries was worth just $2.5bn been a top priority so far, hence Swarup’s remarks came a day a year while its potential was of The Peninsula — Naseem Al Rabeeh Healthcare P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, the delays,” he told the Thomson after the High Commissioner, Gau- $20bn, the Dawn quoted him as Group gave away the award to P V India’s heroines, did their nation Reuters Foundation. tam Bambawale, told an event in saying. Sindhu on behalf of Medical Group proud by winning Olympic silver The process includes mapping Karachi on Monday that the visit The Indian envoy said even DOHA: Rio Olympics silver medallist Chairman Dr K T Rabeeulla. and bronze in badminton and wres- of land with aerial surveys, sat- was possible despite tense India- when tensions were high between P V Sindhu was honoured by the GCC Sindhu’s father Ramana, a former tling respectively at Rio Olympics. ellite imagery, drones, as well as Pakistan ties. the two countries, there had been based Shifa Al Jazeera — Naseem national volleyball player and Arjuna Under the guidance of chief coach physical markers. Existing land “I can’t say about the future but contacts at the operational level. Al Rabeeh Healthcare Group with a awardee, KPM Zakkir, and Ashraf Gopichand, Sindhu created history records are also verified and put as of today Prime Minister Modi is Over the past month and a half, gold medal for her stupendous per- Vengat both from Shifa Al Jazeera by becoming the first Indian woman online and linked to landowners. looking forward to visiting Islam- there had been “cordial interac- formance in the Rio Olympics. The Medical Group, dignitaries from the to win an Olympic silver medal. The programme aims to pro- abad for the Saarc summit in tions” between Pakistani and Indian super girl of India was awarded 10 Gopichand Academy attended the Sakshi Malik, who pulled off a vide clear titles of ownership that November,” the Dawn quoted Bam- border forces. sovereigns worth of gold and certifi- function. While expressing her grat- sensational 8-5 victory to clinch the should result in government offi- bawale as saying at an interactive Bambawale referred to Indian cate at a function held at Gopichand itude to Shifa Al Jazeera — Naseem bronze in 58-kg category at Rio, also cials being able to monitor land session of the Karachi Council on External Affairs Minister Sushma Nimmagadda Prasad Badminton Al Rabeeh Healthcare Group for will be given 10 sovereigns worth more easily, speedier transactions, Foreign Relations. Swaraj’s and Modi’s visits to Islam- Academy in Hyderabad. encouraging sportspersons, Sindhu of gold next week at a function in fewer disputes over ownership He also said while India and abad and Lahore respectively in KP Mohammed Kutty, Consult- said she was receiving the honour for Haryana, the group said in a press and less corruption in adminis- Pakistan must certainly discuss December last year. ative Committee Chairman of Shifa the entire expat community. release. tration, Phull said. Shutdown Naik’s licence: Senior IAS officials lobby for suspended colleague

in town IANS government, would have a “demor- Rajnath Singh was cordial. He gave According to security agencies, on a number of pet projects of the alising” effect on the bureaucracy. a patient hearing and assured that Zakir Naik through the Peace TV had Narendra Modi government, offer- over river Four Home Ministry officials the matter raised by us will be looked reportedly promoted radical Islamist ing long-term visas and citizenship NEW DELHI: A number of senior IAS were suspended on September 1 for into,” a source later said. views. During yesterday’s meeting, to Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities officials, including joint secretaries, their alleged “lapses” in renewing the Ministry sources said the online the officers maintained that Dwivedi, of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghan- dispute yesterday called on Union Home FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regula- route for the issuance of licences was who was serving as Joint Secretary istan. He also worked on the merger Minister Rajnath Singh regarding tions Act) licence of Islamic Research utilised by the NGO on August 19 even (Foreigners Cell) in the Home Min- of Person of Indian Origin (PIO) card IANS the suspension of a colleague G K Foundation (IRF) run by Naik. as a probe was on against Naik. istry, should not be punished for the scheme with the Overseas Citizen of Dwivedi over the renewal of FCRA Rajnath was said to be unhappy Naik’s Peace TV and his speeches alleged lapses of his juniors. India (OCI) card scheme. licence of controversial Islamic after the mandatory FCRA licence of have come under the scanner of the Last week, a few officials met In July, Bangladesh’s Ministry of BENGALURU: A day-long protest preacher Zakir Naik’s NGO. IRF was renewed by the Foreigners central security agencies for alleg- Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi Information cancelled the downlink shutdown was observed at Man- Sources said the officials told the Cell of the Home Ministry. edly propagating radical views, and registered their protest against permission to Naik’s Peace TV. dya town in Karnataka against minister that such action against a “During the day, Dwivedi sep- especially in the aftermath of the the suspension of Dwivedi. The controversial Islamic orator releasing of Cauvery river water senior officer, who was handling arately met the Home Minister and July 1 Dhaka terror siege that left 22 Sources said suspended IAS is also banned in Malaysia, Britain to Tamil Nadu on the Supreme several key projects of the Modi presented his case. Our meeting with people dead. officer Dwivedi has been working and Canada. Court’s directive to the state gov- ernment. The district authority was forced to declare holiday for schools and colleges in the town, Saying cheese Kashmir protester dies about 100km from here, due to protesters staging massive ral- lies and demonstrations, blocking vehicular traffic on the Bengaluru- of gun pellet injuries Mysuru state highway. Though additional police per- sonnel were deployed in the town AFP superintendent at Seer Hamdan and on the highway to maintain hospital in Anantnag told AFP of law and order and prevent unto- the victim. ward incidents, the state-run Home Minister Rajnath Singh transport corporation (KSRTC) SRINAGAR: A protester died from said on Monday police and troops has suspended bus services in the pellet gun injuries during fresh would use chilli-based shells instead district and across the old Mysuru clashes with security forces yester- of ones filled with birdshot to quell region. day in Indian Kashmir, a hospital the unrest after hundreds of civil- “We will not allow the state official said, a day after the gov- ians sustained serious eye injuries government to release the river ernment said it would replace the in the clashes. water to Tamil Nadu when it is weapons. The government has been com- not able to supply it to our fields The 21-year-old man was killed ing under growing pressure over the to grow paddy, wheat, sugarcane during clashes in Anantnag district level of casualties in Kashmir dur- and other crops and for drinking southeast of the main city of Srina- ing the protests against Indian rule, in the region,” said Made Gowda, gar, in which police said scores were which broke out after the death of leader of the Karnataka Rajya injured. There has been weeks of a popular rebel leader on July 8 in Raitha Sangha (state farmers’ deadly unrest in the region. a gunbattle with soldiers. association) at Mandya. “Naseer had a zero degree More than 70 civilians have After Tamil Nadu’s counsel A man shows the teeth of a goat to his customer at a livestock market ahead of the Eid Al Adha pellet injury near his heart. That been killed and thousands injured pleaded for water to save the samba festival in Allahabad, yesterday. means he was shot from very in the worst violence to hit the Mus- crop in about 40,000 acres of agri- close range,” an unnamed medical lim-majority territory since 2010. cultural fields in the Cauvery delta region, the apex court on Mon- day ordered Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water daily for 10 days to the lower-riparian on the Modi government ignoring farmers’ plight: Rahul policy of “live and let live”. The beleaguered state gov- ernment, however, expressed its IANS off loans of rich corporates but Gandhi, whose Yatra will take “Your fight is mine,” he told the the minimum support price (MSP) for inability to release more water wasn’t willing to do that in the case him to 39 districts spread over 55 of gathering. He also accused Modi of their crops. as the four reservoirs across the of farmers. the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in stopping all welfare programmes “In the UPA government, we river basin are half-empty due to DEORIA: Congress Vice-President “Modiji is writing off loans of rich Uttar Pradesh, declared that he and started by the earlier Congress-led waived off farmers’ loans worth Rs a rainfall deficit during the south- Rahul Gandhi yesterday began a corporates. He should do the same for his party would always stand by the UPA government. 700bn. We also kept revising MSP, west monsoon in August. 2,500-km ‘Kisan Yatra’, accusing farmers in Uttar Pradesh and else- distressed farmers. Gandhi suggested that the gov- which this government is not doing,” “The state government should the Narendra Modi government of where in the country,” he said. Addressing a rally at Banwari ernment could help the farmers in the Congress leader said. immediately file a review petition ignoring the plight of farmers. “We have embarked on this Yatra Tola in Siswa Mahant village, he said: three ways. Gandhi demanded to know why in the Supreme Court on Tuesday Addressing a huge gathering at to know the problems of the farmers “We will not allow an inch of their One, by writing off loans taken by there was a huge gap between the for withdrawal of its order...,” said Rudrapur in Deoria district, Gan- and to help Modiji understand the sit- land to be taken forcibly for develop- them. Second, by slashing electricity market price of pulses and the price Gowda. dhi said Modi was ready to waive uation too.” mental or any other purposes. bills to half and third by increasing at which farmers sell them. EUROPE WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 13 London airport protest ends; flight delays continue

was preparing to resume flights. At City Airport, the protesters British Airways said it was tak- earlier erected two large posters with At City Airport, the ing longer than normal to process the slogans “Black Lives Matter” and protesters erected customers at a number of airports “Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis.” around the world, including London’s The British arm of the group, two large posters Heathrow and Gatwick, and urged which started in the United States as with the slogans passengers to check in online before a reaction to fatal shootings of black they reached the airport. people by police, said it wanted to “Black Lives Matter” The airline, owned by Interna- highlight Britain’s environmental and “Climate Crisis is tional Consolidated Airlines Group, impact on the lives of black people a Racist Crisis.” apologised to customers. locally and globally. “Really unhappy with @British_ Members blocked a main road to Airways “The system is down” & can’t London’s Heathrow Airport in August. check in!,” one passenger, Shail, said “Black people are the first to Reuters on Twitter. die, not the first to fly, in this rac- Analysts at Royal Bank of Can- ist climate crisis,” the group said in ada said the delays - the second a statement. “When black people in LONDON: Air passengers in Britain problem with the service this year Britain are 28 percent more likely and beyond faced delays yesterday - could damage the airline’s reputa- to be exposed to air pollution than after a “Black Lives Matter” protest on tion after passengers took to social their white counterparts, we know a runway halted flights for six hours media to complain about delays in that environmental inequality is a at London City Airport and a com- San Francisco, Washington DC and racist crisis.” puter glitch hit British Airways in Atlanta on Monday night. The campaign group said City London and the United States. British Airways has been roll- airport was designed for the wealthy More than 120 flights were can- ing out a new check-in system while those who lived near the site celled, delayed or diverted at City, a since last year and a spokes- struggled on low salaries. few miles east of the Canary Wharf woman said the check-in delays Police said the protesters were financial district, after nine protest- were teething problems that now in police custody after being ers locked themselves together on affected many airports. arrested on suspicion of aggravated the runway. Shares in BA’s owner rose 1.5 per- trespass, being unlawfully airside Emergency services surround protesters from the movement Black Lives Matter after they locked themselves Police said yesterday that they cent, apparently unaffected by its and breaching London City Airport to a tripod on the runway at London City Airport in London yesterday. had arrested all nine and the airline airline’s computer troubles. bylaws. UK Islamist preacher jailed for supporting IS Frenchwoman given first face transplant dies Reuters the law for many years and there has His trial heard that in postings court, where they were sentenced by been frustration for both law enforce- on social media, Choudary and Rah- a judge on Tuesday. ment agencies and communities as man had pledged allegiance to the Choudary, the former head of AFP they spread hate,” said Dean Haydon, “caliphate” declared by Abu Bakr the now banned organisation al- LONDON: Anjem Choudary, Britain’s head of counter-terrorism at London’s al-Baghdadi and said Muslims had Muhajiroun, first drew widespread best-known Islamist preacher, was Metropolitan Police. a duty to obey or provide support to attention for praising the men behind LILLE, FRANCE: The world’s first jailed yesterday for five years and six “We have watched Choudary him. the 9/11 attacks on the United States face transplant recipient, French- months for encouraging support for developing a media career as spokes- “Their recent speeches and the and for saying he wanted to convert woman Isabelle Dinoire (pictured), Islamic State, ending years of frus- man for the extremists, saying the oath of allegiance were a turning Buckingham Palace, Queen Eliza- died in April “after a long illness”, a tration for police who had struggled most distasteful of comments, but point for the police - at last we had beth’s official London residence, into hospital said yesterday. to pin charges on him. without crossing the criminal thresh- the evidence that they had stepped a mosque. In 2005, at the age of 38, Choudary, 49, and close associate old,” Haydon said in a statement. over the line and we could prove they Despite such comments and Dinoire received a graft comprising Mizanur Rahman, 33, who received Long denounced by the press in were actively encouraging support of his refusal to condemn attacks by the nose, lips and chin of a brain- the same sentence, had been con- Britain as a hate preacher, Choudary ISIS,” said Haydon. Islamists, including bombings of the dead donor to replace parts of her victed by a jury in July of using the is also well-known abroad, mak- Both men had denied the terror- London transport system in 2005, face that had been mauled by her since the ground-breaking surgery Internet to urge followers to back the ing regular TV appearances in the ism charges and said the case against Choudary has always denied any dog. on Dinoire. But the initial enthusi- banned group, which controls large wake of attacks by Islamist militants them was politically motivated. They involvement in militant activity and The hospital in Amiens, north- asm over the procedure has been areas of Syria and Iraq. to blame Western foreign policy for were convicted after a four-week had never been previously charged ern France, confirmed the death of tempered by a daunting risk that the “These men have stayed just within targeting Muslims. trial at London’s Old Bailey criminal with any terrorism offence. “Mrs D., the first patient in the world patient’s body will eventually reject to receive a face transplant”. The hos- the donor’s tissue. pital said her death had been kept Le Figaro newspaper reported quiet to protect her family’s privacy. that Dinoire’s body had rejected Italy breaks up The ground-breaking operation the transplant last year “and she New refugee camp in Paris had raised hopes around the world had lost part of the use of her lips”. Syrian refugee for victims with faces disfigured in The drugs that she had to take accidents or assaults, with surgeons to prevent her body from rejecting smuggling ring in the United States, Spain, China, the transplant left her susceptible to Belgium, Poland and Turkey per- cancer, and two forms of cancer had Reuters forming partial or full transplants developed, the report said.

ROME: Italian police said yester- day they had broken up a criminal network that smuggled mostly Women less successful in Syrian refugees across the Bal- kans to Western Europe. International police forces getting pay rise: Study arrested 21 people in Austria, Ger- many and Italy on suspicion of people smuggling, a police state- Reuters the reticent-female theory, and the ment said. The arrests followed an evidence doesn’t stand up,” said co- investigation conducted by prose- author Amanda Goodall, from Cass cutors in the northern Italian city LONDON: Women ask for a pay rise Business School, in a statement. of Como. Most of those arrested as often as men, but men are 25 per- The study also found no evi- were Syrian, while others were cent more likely to get it when they dence that women refrain from Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese and ask, according to a study debunk- negotiations over their salary for Tunisian and were resident in the ing the myth women are too shy to fear of upsetting their boss or wors- area around Como, Italy. demand a raise. The study, which ening their workplace relationships. The criminal group organ- used a randomly chosen sample of “Having seen these findings, I ised transport for more than 4,600 workers working for more think we have to accept that there 200 migrants from 2014 to 2016, Philippe Bouyssou (left), mayor of Ivry, sits next to French Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Cosse than 800 employers in Australia, is some element of pure discrimina- charging at least $560 each, (centre) and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo during the announcement of the opening of Paris’ first found only 16 percent of women tion against women,” said Andrew according to prosecutors, who refugee camp yesterday. The development of the camp aims to replace the makeshift camps that were successful when they asked, Oswald, co-author of the study and worked together with the EU’s keep springing up around the city. researchers said. professor of economics at the Uni- judicial cooperation unit, Eurojust. “Ours is the first proper test of versity of Warwick. A year on, migrant crisis hangs over votes in Hungary and Austria

Reuters on October 2, when Austria elects Such concerns could work in on June 23 to leave the bloc. “The Freedom Party promotes EU deal with Turkey granting Turks a president and Hungary decides favour of far-right candidate Norbert Few communities have felt the a very restrictive immigration pol- visa-free travel to the bloc, she added. whether to accept mandatory Euro- Hofer in Austria’s election runoff. The impact of the migrants influx more icy and the people who live here in Kern has accused the FPO of pean Union quotas for resettling first ballot, narrowly won by former than Nickelsdorf, a town of 1,800 in Nickelsdorf, who were confronted fanning fears about minorities and VAMOSSZABADI, HUNGARY/NICK- migrants. Greens party leader Alexander Van the eastern border region of Burgen- with this wave of 300,000 people a European Commission President ELSDORF, AUSTRIA: One year after “Clearly this is a polarising issue der Bellen, was annulled because of land surrounded by sunflower and year ago, do not want it to happen Jean-Claude Juncker has said poli- the border between Hungary and that has stoked a lot of fears,” said technical irregularities. corn fields. again,” Gerhard Zapfl, Nickelsdorf’s ticians are using the refugee crisis for Austria became a focal point of a Austrian Defence Minister Hans Peter Similar fears could also help It was near Nickelsdorf that the SPO mayor, told Reuters. “The pres- political gain. mass influx of refugees to Europe, Doskozil. Like many people in Aus- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor corpses of 71 refugees were found in sure valve is the election.” Many migrants also arrived last many of them heading for Germany, tria, a country of 8.5 million that has Orban persuade voters to reject the an abandoned truck, shortly before Carmen Imnitzer, a 46-year-old year in Vamosszabadi, 65 km from officials in both countries say the sit- taken in about 110,000 asylum seek- EU quota system following an aggres- Austria and Germany threw open housewife who helped distribute Nickelsdorf, on the other side of the uation is largely under control. ers since last summer, he sees a risk sive government campaign in which their borders to migrants on Septem- food and clothes to migrants, says border. But migrants continue to make that the migrant crisis could worsen billboards have been erected linking ber 4 last year. she would never vote for the Freedom A refugee camp in the village their way into Hungary and across again. migrants to assaults and terrorism. Burgenland is a traditional Party. But she describes the influx as designed for about 200 people the border into Austria from areas Although there is little evidence Election of a far-right president stronghold of Chancellor Christian a “big shock” for the town. “A lot of housed nearly 800 migrants at one of the Middle East, Afghanistan and of it happening, he believes Aus- in Austria and rejection of the quota Kern’s Social Democrats. But two people are scared. point in 2015, and many more were Africa hit by conflict and poverty. tria could become the destination plan in Hungary would be likely to thirds of voters there backed the They view everything that is camping outside. Hungarian officials The situation has left many Hun- for migrants making their way from damage the unity of the EU, which eurosceptic Freedom Party’s (FPO) foreign, everything they don’t under- say many migrants disappear within garians and Austrians on edge and Africa through Italy. “That must be is already struggling to articulate a Hofer in the presidential run-off in stand, as scary,” she said. days and the authorities lose track could shape the outcome of two votes stopped,” Doskozil said. common vision after Britain’s vote May that was annulled. Debate has been clouded by an of them. 14 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 AMERICAS

Colombia President Race tighter as Santos says Hillary better for peace Trump catching than Trump AFP up on Hillary BOGOTA: Fresh off a historic peace deal with the FARC rebels, Colombian President Juan Manuel in Virginia for a town hall meeting Santos weighed in on the US and in North Carolina for an evening presidential election, saying Hil- Two months ahead campaign rally. lary Clinton would be better for of elections, polls “Thank you! #AmericaFirst,” the peace process than Donald Trump tweeted with the new CNN Trump. show contenders in poll results. The United States has been near dead heat. The candidates have less than a key ally of Colombia in recent three weeks to go before the first years, spending more than $10bn of three scheduled presidential on a joint anti-narcotics strategy. debates — expected to be the most Launched when Clinton’s hus- AFP watched moments of what so far has band Bill was president, “Plan been a raucous campaign. Colombia” largely funded the After hinting last month that military’s fight against the Revolu- he might not participate in all of tionary Armed Forces of Colombia WASHINGTON: The race between them, Trump told reporters he was (FARC) and other armed groups Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on board. involved in drug trafficking. for the White House has tightened “I expect to do all three,” he said. Santos said the Democratic with two months to go before Elec- nominee herself had also lent key tion Day, as a series of new polls ‘More than ready’ support to the peace process when yesterday shows them essentially On Monday, the candidates used she was secretary of state from in a dead heat. Labour Day — the traditional launch 2009 to 2013, including when he An activist by the name of DJ Quacker holds a sign asking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump Trump has edged ahead of Clin- of the home stretch of the presi- first agreed to hold talks with the ton in a new CNN/ORC poll, at 45 dential campaign — to push their to release his tax forms, outside of Trump Tower in New York City, yesterday. FARC in 2012 — negotiations that percent to 43 percent among likely arguments that they would be best ultimately yielded a final accord voters, while an NBC News poll of for working-class Americans. first time. Under extensive criti- the time Trump became the nomi- immigrants leaving the country first. on August 24. registered voters meanwhile shows But the Republican flagbear- cism from her rival and journalists nee,” she said. Under Clinton, “people can pour “Both Bill Clinton and Hil- Clinton’s lead holding at six per- er’s unorthodox White House bid, for not holding a full press confer- across the border and it doesn’t mat- lary have been great allies of centage points — 48 percent to 42 including his campaign’s apparent ence in nine months, she answered Republican messenger ter who the people are.” Colombia,” Santos told AFP in an percent. imperviousness to criticism about questions for more than 22 minutes On Monday, Trump followed Clin- Clinton shot back by recalling interview Monday. And another survey, this one by his harsh rhetoric, assures a tight on several topics, including ten- ton’s lead, inviting some journalists Trump’s meeting with Mexico’s Pres- Bill Clinton “is the one who The Washington Post looking at all contest for the next two months. sions with Russia over accusations aboard his private jet where he dis- ident Enrique Pena Nieto and their initiated Plan Colombia, which 50 states, shows Clinton with a solid “I’m not taking anybody, any- of cyber-espionage. cussed his immigration platform. clash over Trump’s plan to have Mex- was very useful in achieving what lead in terms of electoral college where for granted,” Clinton told a Clinton expressed “grave” con- Just a week after travelling to ico pay for a border wall. we’ve achieved. Hillary also lent votes, and even strength in some crowd of more than 1,000 at a pic- cern about reports that Russia has Mexico for his first international Trump “can’t even go to a friendly tremendous support to these traditional Republican strongholds. nic in Cleveland. been interfering in the US electoral trip as the nominee, and then return- foreign country without getting into negotiations when she was sec- The various polls show how “I’m ready. I’m more than ready,” process through invasive cyber ing across the US border to deliver a fight,” she said during a campaign retary of state,” he said. close the race is looking to Novem- she said of the intense battle ahead attacks on the Democratic Party and a nativist immigration speech, he stop in Hampton, Illinois. “I know them both and both ber 8, and makes the battle for the as she attempts to become the first an apparent attack on voter registra- assailed Clinton for having “no plan” Trump, who visited a Cleveland are very good friends of Colom- so-called swing states all the more female US commander in chief. tion systems in Arizona. on immigration. diner to meet with union members bia.” He was chillier on the important. Clinton, 68, debuted her new And she implied Moscow was try- “What her real plan is, she has and the Canfield County Fair in subject of Clinton’s Republican Clinton was headed to Flor- campaign plane — with the slogan ing to help get the 70-year-old Trump total amnesty” and a pathway to eastern Ohio, is seeking to capital- rival Trump, who has won him- ida yesterday to appear at a voter “Stronger Together” emblazoned elected. citizenship, he said, reiterating his ise on simmering frustration among self enemies in Latin America with registration event, while the bil- on the side — and brought the “I think it’s quite intriguing that opposition to such a legalisation blue-collar workers over jobs and inflammatory remarks on immi- lionaire real estate mogul was due press corps aboard her jet for the this activity has happened around process without undocumented wages. grants from the region.

Lower Manhattan’s population more Lawmaker: Probe deleted Hillary emails cited by FBI AP and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI erasing the material. That’s because in upcoming presidential candidate debunked by the FBI investigation. than doubles since investigators during questioning the congressional inquiry into the debates. “This is yet another example that they had no knowledge of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in The sparse evidence laid out of the congressman abusing his Sept 11 attacks deletions. Those occurred separately which four Americans were killed, in Chaffetz’ letters — highlight- office by wasting further taxpayer WASHINGTON: The Republican from the email deletions overseen by had issued a formal order on March ing a March 2015 phone discussion resources on partisan attacks,” Reuters chairman of the House committee the former secretary of state’s legal 3, 2015, to preserve such records. between Platte River Networks and Clinton campaign spokesman Brian investigating Hillary Clinton’s email team last year before she turned over The moves by the GOP led-House Clinton lawyers that FBI agents were Fallon said yesterday. practices asked a federal prosecutor 33,000 work-related messages to the committee amount to new political unable to detail — also shows the The top Democrat on Chaffetz’s NEW YORK: Lower Manhattan’s yesterday to determine whether she State Department. The FBI’s recently complications for Clinton’s presiden- uphill climb the committee faces in committee, Elijah Cummings of Mar- population has more than dou- or others working with her played a released summaries of its investi- tial campaign, which was spared a turning up any significant new infor- yland, said the letters are politically bled and the number of children role in the deletion of thousands of gation did not offer any evidence legal ordeal in July when FBI Direc- mation beyond what the FBI already motivated, intended to help Trump. living there has tripled since just her emails by a Colorado technology contradicting their statements. tor James Comey upbraided Clinton learned in its inquiry. Platte River Networks’ lawyer before the September 11 attacks 15 firm overseeing her private compu- In a separate letter also obtained for careless email practices but “The bottom line is these docu- declined to comment. years ago destroyed much of the ter server in 2015. by the AP, Chaffetz — the House declined to seek criminal charges ments were destroyed and they were Chaffetz’s letter to the US attor- financial district, a report on the The written request by Rep Jason Oversight and Government Reform after the bureau’s investigation. Don- records under subpoena,” Chaffetz ney for the District of Columbia, neighbourhood’s dramatic rebirth Chaffetz, R-Utah, and obtained by Committee chairman — warned ald Trump and GOP allies have urged told the AP. “Secretary Clinton has Channing Phillips, comes nearly two shows. The Associated Press, is based on the Denver-based tech firm, which the appointment of an independent fought this every step of the way. The months after the House committee Employment growth in the recent revelations from the FBI, hosted Clinton’s server, that one of prosecutor — an unlikely prospect election should not slow down this similarly asked the same prosecu- area has equaled one in 10 of which decided not to press for crim- its engineers who deleted Clinton’s so late in the presidential election. probe.” tor to determine whether Clinton Manhattan’s private sector jobs, inal charges after its own yearlong electronic files last year could face But even if the Justice Department Clinton’s campaign dismissed committed perjury and made false with a more diverse economy that investigation. federal charges of obstructing jus- decides against another investigation, Chaffetz’s outline of the email statements in testimony to congres- is growing faster than the citywide Clinton and her longtime aide tice and destroying evidence for the new allegations could surface deletions as a “conspiracy theory” sional committees. average, according to the report from New York State Comptrol- ler Thomas DiNapoli. “It would have been impos- sible, in the midst of the 512 homicides in Hurricane Newton crashes into Mexico resort unspeakable tragedy suffered 15 years ago, to imagine Lower Manhattan as we know it today,” Chicago this year AFP DiNapoli said in a statement. The terrorist attacks on Sept AFP 11, 2001 killed almost 3,000 peo- ple altogether—more than 2,700 LA PAZ, MEXICO: Hurricane Newton pum- in Lower Manhattan alone— and CHICAGO: Chicago marked its 500th homicide of the meled Mexico’s northwestern resort of Los launched the US into a global year over the US Labour Day holiday weekend, after Cabos yesterday, uprooting trees and blow- war on terror. New York’s iconic 13 people were shot dead in an ongoing spike in vio- ing away tin roofs as thousands of tourists World Trade Center towers were lent deaths, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday. and locals hunkered down. levelled into a pile of smoulder- A surge of killings occurred between the early The powerful storm packed 145 kilome- ing rubble. hours of Monday and yesterday in what police believe tre (90 mile) per hour winds when it made In the years that followed, city, was a spate of retaliatory violence mainly involving landfall before dawn at the southern tip of state and federal officials imple- gangs to avenge affronts from earlier in the weekend, the Baja California peninsula, two years mented grants and other financial the newspaper reported. after Hurricane Odile ravaged the region. incentives for businesses and res- A total of 65 people were shot over the Labour Day The US National Hurricane Centre said idents to rebuild. weekend, with nearly half of them in the last of the in its latest bulletin that Newton was “bat- Yet the process was far from three days. According to the Tribune, the city’s 2016 tering Baja California Sur (state) with strong smooth. Political fighting and homicide count now stands at 512 for 2016. winds and heavy rains.” other hurdles stalled construction The Chicago Police Department put the number at But there were no immediate reports on the new World Trade Center 488 as of late Monday, an officer in media relations told of deaths, national civil protection coordi- site and memorial. AFP yesterday. The Tribune said its figure was higher nator Luis Felipe Puente wrote on Twitter. A transportation hub, because it includes highway killings and homicides While all highways were accessible, designed by renowned Spanish which are considered justifiable, unlike the police tally. Puente urged “the population not to leave architect Santiago Calatrava and A retired pastor who was heard arguing with their homes if it is not necessary.” This Nasa-NOAA GOES West satellite photo taken at 1145 UTC yesterday shows maligned by some as a “boondog- another individual was shot in the face and died near “The winds are very strong,” Los Cabos Hurricane Newton over the western coast of Mexico. gle,” finally opened this spring at a a senior housing complex, the paper reported. civil protection director Marco Antonio cost of $4bn, nearly twice its orig- The uptick in violent deaths has brought Chica- Vazquez told AFP by telephone, adding that reportedly shattered but that authorities Local airports closed late Monday while inal estimate. go’s murder rate in line with levels not seen since the power was out before dawn. were still assessing the possible damage. small boats were barred from using the Critics also panned the now- 1990s, when more than 900 people were killed annu- “For now the damage includes a lot of Some 14,000 tourists are in Los Cabos ports, with a storm surge expected to hit expired Liberty Bond program, ally, the Tribune said. branches, a lot of fallen plants, many trees,” and about 1,000 elsewhere in the region. low-lying areas. Schools were shut down. which gave developers access to The deadly holiday shootings far outpaced Chi- Vazquez said, adding that he also saw tel- Some 1,500 people took refuge in shel- North of Los Cabos in the Baja Califor- tax-exempt financing, some say cago’s other summer three-day weekends: six people ephone cables as well as tin roofs from ters in Los Cabos, Vazquez said. Authorities nia Sur capital of La Paz, locals put tape at the expense of ordinary New died in shootings over Memorial Day in May and five poorer neighbourhoods on the streets. opened shelters with capacity for 16,000 on shop windows and filled their cars with Yorkers. over Independence Day in July. Vazquez said some hotel windows were people across the state. gasoline as the hurricane approached. BREAK TIME WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 1517

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08:00 News 13:00 KumKum Bhagya 10:00 Yankee Jungle 10:00 Yankee Jungle 08:30 The Listening 13:30 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 10:55 Gator Boys 10:55 Gator Boys Post Rani 11:50 Big Fish Man 11:50 Big Fish Man 09:00 Al-Nakba 14:00 Jamai Raja 15:25 15:25 Wildest Africa Wildest Africa 10:30 Inside Story 14:30 Tashn E Ishq 16:15 16:15 Gator Boys Gator Boys 11:00 News 15:00 Vishkanya 17:02 11:30 15:30 17:02 Village Vets Village Vets The Stream Jamai Raja 17:25 17:25 Village Vets 12:00 News 16:00 Yeh Vadaa Raha Village Vets 17:49 Yankee Jungle 12:30 Fault Lines 16:30 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 17:49 Yankee Jungle 18:36 Call Of The 13:00 NEWSHOUR Rani 18:36 Call Of The Wildman 14:00 News 17:00 KumKum Bhagya Wildman 19:00 Call Of The 14:30 Inside Story 17:30 Vishkanya 19:00 Call Of The 15:00 18:00 Wildman Yesterday’s answer Al Jazeera Tashn E Ishq Wildman 19:25 Investigates 18:30 Kaala Teeka 19:25 Groomer Has It Groomer Has It 20:15 Yankee Jungle Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle 16:00 NEWSHOUR 19:00 Sanyukt 20:15 Yankee Jungle based on a 9×9 grid. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in 17:00 News 19:30 Yeh Vadaa Raha 21:10 Village Vets the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3×3 box 21:10 17:30 The Stream 20:00 Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Village Vets 21:35 Village Vets contains the same number only once. 21:35 18:00 NEWSHOUR Rani Village Vets 22:05 Tanked 19:00 News 20:30 Jamai Raja 22:05 Tanked 23:00 Groomer Has It 19:30 Witness 21:00 KumKum Bhagya 23:00 Groomer Has It 23:55 Bondi Vet 20:00 News 21:30 Tashn E Ishq 23:55 Bondi Vet 00:50 Yankee Jungle 20:30 Inside Story 22:00 Vishkanya 00:50 Yankee Jungle 01:45 Gator Boys 21:00 22:30 NEWSHOUR Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi 01:45 Gator Boys 02:40 Village Vets 22:00 News Rani 02:40 03:05 22:30 23:00 Village Vets Village Vets The Stream Brahmarakshas 03:35 Tanked MEDIUM SUDOKU 23:00 Witness 00:00 Yeh Vadaa Raha BABY BLUES BABY

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Hands of Stone (2D/Action) 11:00am & 7:15pm Akira (2D/Hindi) 11:00am, 1:00 & 7:00pm Morgan (2D/Horror) 3:30&7:45pm Pretham (2D/Malayalam) 1:00 & 9:00pm Kubo And The Two Strings (2D/Animation) 1:30 & 5:15pm Janatha Garage (2D/Telugu) 3:15 & 11:00pm Mr Fuzzypants (2D/Horror) 3:30pm Hell or High Water (2D/Drama) 5:15pm Blood Father (2D/Action) 11:15am & 9:30pm The Infiltrator (2D/Drama) 9:30pm Kidaari (2D/Tamil) 11:15pm Mechanics: Resurrection (2D/Action) 11:30pm ALL IN THE MIND ROYAL PLAZA Akira (2D/Hindi) 11:15am, 4:00 & 11:15pm The Infiltrator (2D/Drama) 11:00am & 3:15pm Hands of Stone (2D/Action) 11:30am, 7:15 & 9:15pm Hell or High Water (2D/Drama) 1:15 & 9:15pm Pretham (2D/Malayalam) 1:45 & 7:00pm The Secret Life of Pets (2D/Animation) 1:30pm Kubo And The Two Strings (2D/Animation) 3:00 & 5:00pm Morgan (2D/Horror) 5:30 & 10:00pm Kidaari (2D/Tamil) 11:00pm Mechanics: Resurrection (2D/Action) 6:30pm Blood Father (2D/Action) 8:15 & 11:30pm The Infiltrator (2D/Drama) 11:00am & 3:15pm ASIAN TOWN Kiddari (Tamil) 3:15pm Janatha Garage (Telugu) 3:15, 5:45 & 8:45pm ALLOSAURUS, ANKYLOSAURUS, APATOSAURUS, Kismat (Malayalam) 7:45pm BRACHIOSAURUS, CAMPTOSAURUS, Pretham (Malayalam) 8:45, 11:15 & 11:45pm COMPSOGNATHUS, CORYTHOSAURUS, DEINONYCHUS, DIPLODOCUS, EORAPTOR, AL KHOR HADROSAUR, HETERODONTOSAURUS, IGUANODON, ORNITHOLESTES, ENTACERATOPS, Kasaba (3D/Malayalam) 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 & 11:30pm PLATEOSAURUS, PTEROSAUR, SCELIDOSAURUS, Ice Age (3D/Animation) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 & 9:30pm STEGOSAURUS, TRICERATOPS, TYRANNOSAURUS Suicide Squad (2D/Action) 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm REX, VELOCIRAPTOR.

PRAYER TIMINGS WEATHER Minimum: 33o C Maximum: 40o C

FAJR 03.59 am ZUHR 11.32 am MAGHRIB 05.49 pm HIGH TIDE 08:45 - 20:00 Strong wind and expected low horizontal visibility SHOROOK 05.17 am ASR 03.01 pm ISHA 07.19 pm LOW TIDE 02:15 - 14:15 at places. Hot daytime and slight dust to blowing dust at places at times, relatively humid by night.

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ONLINE CHART BUST Strong winds and low visibility likely today www.thepeninsulaqatar.com The Peninsula MOST READ DOHA: The Meteorology Department Call to ban animated film Bilal in has warned of strong winds and fore- 1 Qatar trends on Twitter cast low horizontal visibility at places inshore today. Temperature would see Singapore now battling record a slight fall today, as hot and humid 2 dengue, along with Zika weather continues to prevail in the country. Car bombing kills 10 in Iraqi capital According to the Department, 3 inshore weather will remain hot in the daytime with slight to blowing-dust at places at times while it will remain humid at night. Offshore weather fore- TWEET OF THE DAY cast for today is slight dust with clouds. Minimum temperature in Doha would be 33 degrees Celsius while maximum would touch 40 degrees Celsius. Minimum temperature in Mesaieed and Wakrah would remain 30 degrees Celsius while it would touch a maximum of 39 degrees Celsius. There will be slight decrease in temperature today as compared to yesterday. The maximum temperature yesterday was 42 degrees Celsius in Doha, Messaid and Wakrah. Inshore winds will remain North- westerly – Northeasterly 12-20 KT A gust of wind makes dust blow at Al Wakra yesterday afternoon. Pic: Kammutty VP/ The Peninsula reaching 25 KT at places at times and will decrease by the evening to 03-10 KT while offshore winds will also be KT reaching 22 KT to the north at first. less at places while inshore sea state offshore sea state will be 3-5 FT rising Northwesterly – Northeasterly 08-18 Visibility will be 4-8 km / 3 km or is 1-3 FT reaching 4 FT at times while to 7 FT to the north. INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Ramada Encore offers McDonald’s reaches out to children inspirational Eid dining with special needs Creative food dis- play during Mercure The Peninsula Grand Hotel Doha The Peninsula Hub restaurant is located press conference to on the mezzanine floor of launch new prod- the hotel. It opens daily for DOHA: As part of its CSR pro- ucts. Photo by DOHA: Ramada Encore Doha breakfast from 7:00hrs to gramme, McDonald’s Qatar staff Kammutty VP is offering an Inspirational 10:30hrs, for lunch from and management recently spent Eid dining experience exclu- 12:30hrs to 15:30hrs and time and lifted the spirits of chil- sively at the Hub restaurant. for dinner from 18:00hrs to dren and students with special The Hub restaurant’s 23:30hrs. needs under the care of different specially crafted cuisine For more information institutions. They were enter- beacons the spirit of the fes- or to book, visit www.ram- tained with engaging activities tivity with a special buffet adaencoredoha.com or and special programmes pre- dinner for QR70 per person. contact (+974) 4444 3444. pared by McDonald’s team. Kamal The restaurant wants din- Ramada Encore Doha is Saleh AlMana, MD of AlMana Res- ers to “come and share great the right location for both taurants & Food Co, owner and memories over a scrump- business and leisure, just operator of McDonald’s restau- tious spread offered and let 13 kilometres from Hamad rants in Qatar, said: “It is a pleasure our joyful preparations ring International Airport. and to fulfill our commitment to touch in the festive celebrations of minutes from various cultural as many people’s lives as possible, Eid for you and your loved and historical attractions and specially the people who need our ones.” commercial areas. utmost care and attention.” Eid offer by Wyndham Grand Regency Doha Bringing robotics to the youth of Qatar By Zeena Ojjeh projects programming for robots. He “The most remarkable thing is The Peninsula Al Adha till September 17, 2016 The Peninsula explained that simple project pro- that kids learnt the spirit of team work for a limited number of rooms gramming is when the robot has only and leadership. They learnt group subject to availability, and con- a brain and walks right and left. The dynamics like it is in the real world, in DOHA: Wyndham Grand ditions apply. This package is DOHA: Edutain Plus, in collaboration programming is said to be complex addition to engineering. The kids loved Regency Doha is offering special exclusive for all GCC citizens and with Edutech and under the sponsor- when the robot can hold objects and the competition, and always wanted to packages during Eid Al Adha. residents only. ship of Astad Project Management, lift them. know which group was the best,” said Book a Deluxe Room for one The Wyndham Grand hosted the first robotic summer camp The students were taught by Munazza Sayed, a Texas A&M gradu- night and get the second night Regency Doha Hotel is a of its kind here. two instructors from Edutech and a ate, trainer for Edutain Plus. free inclusive of buffet break- 246-room property offering The Summer of Learning camp ran trainer employed by Edutain Plus. “It really is a wholesome pro- fast for 2 persons, 2 Angsana guests single, double and suite from August 21 to August 25, from 9am The instructors emphasised hands- gramme and it’s important for these Spa gift vouchers, early check- accommodations. to 2pm and had 20 participants. Chil- on instruction and motivation. At kids to be taught about robotics, in and late check-out, access to Rooms feature a harmonious dren from ages 8 to 13 spent the week Participants at the robotic summer the beginning of the week, the stu- because this is the new generation, it’s the fitness centre and swim- blend of traditional architecture learning the basics of robotics, pro- camp in Doha. dents were put into teams, which all about programming. By teaching ming pool, plus free access to and contemporary design with gramming a robot, gear tracks and then decided on daily tasks and the them the basics, we are preparing them the Internet anywhere in the ordained walls over elegantly making different gears work. to be an engineer, said he found the instructors would work with the group for a whole new level and new technol- hotel for QR1,499. spacious guest rooms and suites, Shaddad, a 13-year-old Qatari program very interesting. The most as a whole and with students individ- ogy,” said another Edutech instructor, This offer is valid during Eid offering 5-star comforts. participant of the camp, who aspires important thing he learnt was simple ually to complete various tasks. Mohammed Houhou. Call to ban controversial film Bilal in Qatar trending on Twitter

By Pramod Prabhakaran The film also premiered in Qatar yester- the portrayal of historic Islamic characters, his freedom and becomes a great leader and praised the film as fascinating. It was also The Peninsula day. It was also shown during the last Ajyal say that the film distorts facts and doesn’t warrior. appreciated by many when it debuted at the film festival in Doha. show the sequence of events accurately. The film has also found many backers Ajyal film festival. The hashtag # Ban Bilal film in Qatar has Some critics want the ban as they feel who are tweeting their support. Many were “Nonetheless, the movie is a fascinating been trending in Qatar for some time now. showing faces of Companions of Prophet proud of the fact that the film was made in glimpse into an important period in the his- DOHA: A Twitter hashtag to ban animated Campaigners on social media are push- Muhammad (PBUH) is not right. the Gulf and describe it as “amazing”. Sup- tory of the region, and the attention to detail feature film Bilal is trending top in Qatar. ing towards the ban of the film in Qatar Expecting such criticism, the producer porters like Sarah Al Rumaihi tweeted saying paid to the costumes and backgrounds gives Bilal is the first animated feature film pro- arguing that picturing of the Companions had said in a press conference earlier that “we have to feel proud of the film and has an authentic impression of the historical duced in UAE and made its regional debut of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is not the film is inspired by a true story. nothing against Islam” so why should be period,” The National said in its review. Sunday night ahead of its general release in permissible. The film tells the story of Bilal, an Afri- banned? The debate rages among the twitterati cinemas tomorrow. Those who are miffed with the movie for can slave in 7th century Arabia who wins Reviews of the movie on UAE media and one has to wait and see what comes of it. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,713.23 -126.5 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,518.43 +26.47 PTS QC e-system to Barclays named ‘Best issue country of FTSE100 6,826.05 -53.37 PTS Bank for Advisory’ in origin certificates BRENT $44.56 +$0.12 the Middle East

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QIC offers exclusive package for GRSIA members

sonal insurance of the members of the International airport and a three-day General Retirement & Social Insurance courtesy car service. In addition, to Members of the Authority (GRSIA), several bene- add an element of convenience, QIC General Retirement fits including a significant discount will also be offering Insurance on & Social Insurance on premium and many customised Call — a recently launched service services such as pick and drop off for whereby a personal insurance spe- Authority to get vehicle’s road permit renewal, cour- cialist will visit the customer and several benefits. tesy car service and airport drop off. assist in selecting the right cover and Members of the General Retire- issue a policy on the spot. ment & Social Insurance Authority Commenting on the new offer, can get 25 percent discount on Noor Abdulla Al Shahrani, Head of By Mohammad Shoeb comprehensive car insurances for Public Relations, General Retirement The Peninsula vehicles (salon, pick-ups, 4 wheel & Social Insurance Authority, said: drive)with additional benefits such as “We will work hand in hand with QIC roadside assistance in the GCC (Qatar, towards a fruitful partnership. We UAE, Kuwait and Oman), annual will ensure that even the members DOHA: Qatar Insurance Company pick-up and drop off for traffic vehi- who are not currently registered in (QIC) announced yesterday that it will cle inspection and registration, pick our system can avail of these offers.” be providing exclusive offers to all the up and drop off for routine mainte- existing and future retirees on per- nance, annual drop off to the Hamad Continued on page 18 QIC and GRSIA officials at the press conference. Pic: Kammutty VP/The Peninsula 18 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS

Vietnam carriers sign 40-plane deal with Airbus QIC offers QC e-system to package for issue country of GRSIA members Continued from page 17

QIC has extended the special 25 percent discount for home, origin certificates travel and boat insurances. For Third Party Liability (TPL) insurance, members can avail 10 percent discount. Currently, according to Al Qatar Chamber Shahrani, there are over 15,000 registered members with the to limit manual General Retirement & Social transactions in the Insurance Authority, and all the existing as well as new retirees future and to digitise (both from public and private all procedures. sector) will be eligible to avail the services offered under this niche Vietnam Airlines General Director Duong Tri Thanh (right) and Airbus Commercial CEO Fabrice Bregier product of QIC, which is consid- (second left) exchange signed contracts as France’s President Francois Hollande (back left) and ered to be the first of its kind in The Peninsula Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang look on during a signing ceremony in Hanoi yesterday. Low-cost the country. private airline VietJet bought 20 planes while national carrier Vietnam Airlines and budget airline These exclusive offers are part Jetstar Pacific bought 10 each in deals worth $6.5bn. of an agreement signed by General Retirement & Social Insurance DOHA: Qatar Chamber (QC) has Authority and QIC officials on launched the online system to issue the requirements for issuing Coun- June 20 this year. electronic country of origin certif- try of Origin Certificate, she said. Salem Al Mannai, Deputy icates for private companies from Regarding the number of com- Group President & CEO QIC – its website, easing procedures for panies subscribed to get this service, Combined gross premium income Mena region, added: “As a leading its members. Al Anoud said unfortunately the national insurer we take pride in QC said it aims to limit manual number is very low. She requested extending our partnership with transactions in the future and to all members of the Chamber to take of GCC Islamic insurers hits $10bn the General Retirement & Social digitise all procedures. It has urged benefit of this service through the Insurance Authority. Capitaliz- all companies to register in the serv- website as the Chamber is planning ing on the success of this strategic ice so as to save time and effort. to reduce paperwork. Gradually the collaboration, we will continue to Al Anoud Zayed Al Mohannadi Chamber aims to move towards The Peninsula companies operating in these over- on available data from listed com- launch more innovative products (pictured), Acting Head of the Mem- paperless services. Regarding crowded markets, S&P finds that panies), which compares to roughly and services for the benevolence ber Affairs Department, said despite future project, Al Mohannadi said precipitous growth, combined with $9bn of premium income generated benefits of all the members of the the seminars held by the Chamber the Chamber is currently working net losses, is eroding their capital by conventional insurers for the year Authority.” to brief the businesses on the serv- on ‘ATA CARNET’ which is a tempo- DOHA: Islamic insurers in the Gulf strength and damaging their credit in the GCC. ice, the beneficiaries of this service rary card saving system. Corporate Council (GCC) region saw profiles. More than 85 percent of the remain below expectation. She added the Chamber had gross contributions (gross premiums) The report noted that most taka- region’s Islamic insurance premi- The new system is clear and easy organised an introductory sem- increase by an impressive 20 percent ful players are still relatively small ums were written in Saudi Arabia, Volkswagen to use through a simple set of steps inars and a number of training or so year-on-year in 2014 and 2015, compared with their conventional which has the largest Sharia-com- that include downloading the form workshop on ‘How to obtain cer- according to a latest report. peers. Their shorter track records pliant market in the region. There and filling it along with the signa- tificates of origin electronically’ in The report published yesterday and less-diverse books of business are half a dozen explicitly takaful picks up stake ture of the business owner before the presence of a number of repre- by S&P Global Ratings said that it put them at a disadvantage now that insurers and 28 Islamic cooperative submitting it to the Chamber. The sentatives of companies who have considers that earnings in the GCC the falling oil price and stricter reg- companies operating in Saudi Ara- in Navistar business owner will then receive a applied to subscribe to the service, Islamic insurance industry (takaful ulation are hitting GCC insurance bia. Only a rating committee may message on their mobile phone that where they were to provided prac- and Islamic cooperative tawuni) markets. In 2015, the combined gross determine a rating action and this includes a password to access the tical training starting from filling remain relatively weak and are une- premium income of Islamic insurers report does not constitute a rating AFP service. Users must read carefully the form to taking final print out. venly distributed. For a number of in the region exceeded $10bn (based action.

FRANKFURT: German auto giant Volkswagen said it had bought a 16.6-percent stake in American truck maker Navistar, giving it a Banks offer interest-free foothold in the US market. As well as the $256m invest- ment, VW’s Truck and Bus school fee payment plans division will also launch a “stra- tegic technology and supply chain co-operation” and a purchasing By Sachin Kumar parents, there’s hardly anything joint venture with the US firm, the The Peninsula more important than their chil- group said in a statement. dren’s education, which is why The deal will also see VW we have made it even easier for Truck and Bus, which unites VW’s them to settle their child’s edu- own-brand heavy vehicles as well DOHA: With new academic term cation fees with their Doha Bank as Scania and MAN, represented about to start, banks in Qatar have credit card,” said Dr R Seethara- on Navistar’s board. launched schemes offering inter- man, CEO of Doha Bank. Set for completion in late est-free plans to pay school fees. Cardholders can avail the offer 2016 or early 2017, the agree- Doha Bank and Ahlibank have by simply sending SMS ‘SCHOOL’ ment means VW Truck and Bus launched promotions which to 92610 after completing the “will gain access to the key North allow customers to pay school fees payment using their Doha Bank American market, where it was through credit card without pay- credit card. In case the child’s not previously represented,” the ing interest. school does not accept payments group said in a statement. Doha Bank has launched ‘Back via credit card, a cardholder needs German rival Daimler cur- To School’ promotion that allows to visit a pre-designated branch rently dominates the US truck and its credit cardholders to pay their and the staff will debit the credit bus market with its Freightliner children’s school fee in easy, inter- card account and issue them a Pay brand. But Volkswagen is hunting est-free monthly installments. Order favouring the nominated new opportunities as the effects The promotion allows all Doha school which they could then hand of its drawn-out diesel emissions Bank credit cardholders to make over to the school. scandal linger in the minds of payment of fees to any school or Under the scheme offered ordinary American consumers, college anywhere in Qatar using by Ahlibank, customers can pay weighing on car sales. The deal was their Doha Bank credit card and school fees using their credit a “first step to improve the foot- convert it to a zero percent ‘Easy card between 21st August to 15 print of VW Truck and Bus in the Payment Plan’ payable over six October and repay in three or six US,” analysts at DZ Bank wrote, but months. monthly installments at zero per- “we assess the commercial vehicles “We understand that for cent interest. business to be less important than VW’s car business.” Gulf Air takes Qatari media team to Bahrain

The Peninsula

DOHA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, and Ritz-Carlton, Bah- rain, recently sponsored a media familiarisation trip to Bahrain with tailored itineraries that gave the media representatives the oppor- tunity to experience Bahrain’s most iconic attractions. Officials with media team in Bahrain. During the three-day visit, the participants, in collaboration with The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain, experi- official told them about the impor- airline operates one of the largest enced the comfort of flying with Gulf tance of media role and function, the networks in the Middle East, with Air, residing at one of the Kingdom’s partnership between them and Gulf double daily flights or more to 10 five star hotels and enjoying some Air to promote the Kingdom’s tour- regional cities, in addition to select of Bahrain’s most notable touristic ism capabilities and raise awareness destinations in the Indian Sub-con- sights and sounds. of all that Bahrain and its national tinent and Europe, from its hub at During a meeting with Gulf Air’s carrier had to offer. Bahrain International Airport. Chief Commercial Officer, Ahmed Gulf Air is a major international The airline currently operates Janahi, during their visit to the air- carrier serving 40 cities in 23 coun- 42 weekly flights between Doha line’s headquarters, the Gulf Air tries spanning three continents. The and Bahrain. BUSINESS WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 19

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 10,713.23 1.17 % QE Total Return Index 17,333.29 1.17 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 4,028.11 1.55 % QE All Share Index 2,943 1.25 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,907.21 1.74 % QE All Share Industrials 3,239.24 1.08 % QE All Share Transportation 2,537.61 0.49 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,567.98 0.97 % QE All Share Insurance 4,613.3 0.03 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,229.71 1.73 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,357.38 1.22 %

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During the same ceremony, Bar- clays was also named ‘Best Investment Bank in Qatar’ reaffirming the firm’s leading position in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Equity Capital Markets (ECM) and Debt Capital Markets (DCM) in Qatar. Alfardan opens 2nd BMW Premium Selection showroom During 2015, Barclays advised clients in the Mid- dle East across various sectors, including oil & gas, chemicals, industrials, financial services, health- The Peninsula satisfaction as when purchas- trade-in offer guarantee and care and media & technology, covering a range of key ing a brand new vehicle. Backed 24-hour roadside assistance. transactions such as beIN Media Group’s acquisition by the experienced and trained Ihab Allam, General Manager of Digiturk, Dubai International Capital’s (DIC) sale staff of Alfardan Automobiles of Alfardan Automobiles, said: of Almatis, Emirates National Oil Company’s (ENOC) DOHA: Alfardan Automo- and a complement of state-of- “BMW and MINI have long been £1.8bn acquisition of the remaining shares in Dragon biles, the official BMW Group the-art aftersales facilities, the in- demand aspirational brands. Oil, and the spin-off of Orascom Construction Indus- importer in Qatar, has launched new showroom offers car own- Our new BMW Premium Selection tries’ (OCI) construction business (and its subsequent a new BMW Premium Selection ers a superior experience, with showroom will help make own- listing on Nasdaq Dubai). Throughout the year, Bar- showroom in West Bay, Alfardan pre-owned vehicles that have ing a luxury BMW Group vehicle, clays continued to cement its leading position not just Towers. The latest showroom successfully completed exten- one that is certified and of high for the size of the deals, but also for their diversity joins the already existing Al Sadd sive checks and a raft of benefits quality, reliability and value, eas- across geographies and industries. outlet, which spearheaded the to ensure a seamless journey ier. The opening of our second Makram Azar (pictured), Chairman of Banking roll-out of the brand’s pre-owned throughout the complete lifecy- pre-owned vehicle showroom for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Chair- vehicle programme in Qatar and cle of their ownership. underscores the popularity of man of Barclays Mena, said: “Our global capabilities, has contributed to the company’s For a vehicle to be considered the BMW Premium Selection pro- coupled with our regional expertise, enable us to offer ongoing sales success. for the BMW Premium Selection gramme, the level of trust drivers leading corporates and institutional investors across The new showroom will fea- programme, it has to be less than in Qatar have in the process we the region best in class strategic advisory services.” ture pre-owned BMW and MINI five years old, have a low mileage follow and the value they place He added: “The Middle East is a focus market for models for resale, following a and a BMW importer service his- BMW technician to ensure high Pre-Owned BMW Premium on the certified vehicles. As an Barclays. We will continue to build our regional pres- rigorous assessment and cer- tory. Once it clears this criteria, levels of quality, reliability and Selection vehicle includes a cer- added advantage, our bundle of ence while leveraging the expertise of our global teams tification process by the BMW it goes through a comprehen- value to customers. tified vehicle history, one year aftersales services reinforces our and our strong presence in our two home markets of Group, offering customers the sive 75-point technical inspection The special programme manufacturer’s warranty, 360 service philosophy and commit- the United Kingdom and the United States.” same assurance on quality and check conducted by a trained benefits of owning a Certified technical and optical check, ment to the highest standards.” BUSINESS VIEWS 20 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016

Construction labour Samsung trips on quality shortage weighs on US housing market control in rush to pip Apple

By David Randall to the point where you’re really Reuters limited in what you can deliver,” Small said. “We lost so many peo- ple in the crash, and we’re just not getting them back.” he drumbeat of hammers The average construction cost echoes most mornings of building a single family home through suburban Den- is 13.7 percent higher now than ver, where Jay Small, the in 2007, even as the total costs Towner of company that frames of building and selling a house — houses, is building about 1,300 a figure that includes such items new homes this year. That’s more as land costs, financing and mar- than triple what he built a few keting — are up just 2.9 percent years ago, when “you couldn’t over the same period, according buy a job” in the residential con- to a survey by the National Asso- struction industry, he said. Now, ciation of Homebuilders. builders can’t buy enough work- The problem is accentuated ers to get the job done. by strong demand for newly Eight years after the housing constructed homes, with sales bust drove an estimated 30 per- reaching a nine-year high in July. cent of construction workers into Private companies say that new fields, homebuilders across they are having a hard time the country are struggling to find attracting workers, and they workers at all levels of experi- are often forced to give employ- ence, according to the National ees on-the-spot raises to prevent Association of Homebuilders. them from going to competitors. The association estimates that Carpenters and electricians there are approximately 200,000 are often listed as the most in- unfilled construction jobs in the demand specialties. US — a jump of 81 percent in the Tony Rader, the vice-pres- last two years. ident of Schwob Building An employee helps customers purchase a Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note 7 at its store in Seoul before the recall last week. The ratio of construction job Company, a general contractor in openings to hiring, as measured the Dallas area, said his company by the Department of Labor, is at has started handing out flyers at its highest level since 2007. “The sporting events, churches and By Se Young Lee business professor at Korea Advanced Insti- charging scenarios were not thoroughly labour shortage is getting worse schools in hopes of luring more Reuters tute of Science and Technology and author tested.” as demand is getting stronger,” people into the field. “The biggest of “Sony vs. Samsung”, a history of the elec- Samsung SDI, one of two makers of bat- said John Courson, chief exec- problem I face every day is where tronics giants. teries for the Note 7 — the other has not utive of the Home Builders are we going to find the people to “It’s an unfortunate event; it feels like been identified — said it had not received Institute, a national nonprofit that do the work,” he said, adding that n its rush to beat rival products to Samsung rushed a bit, and it’s possible that notice from Samsung Electronics regarding trains workers in the construc- it’s becoming increasingly com- market, notably Apple’s new iPhone, this led to suppliers also being hurried.” its batteries and declined to comment fur- tion field. The impact is two-fold. mon for his company and others Samsung Electronics has accelerated Samsung said in a statement it conducts ther, including whether its batteries were Without enough workers, resi- to turn down projects. new phone launch cycles, but its haste “extensive preparation” for its products and found to be faulty. The company declined dential construction is trailing Dallas contractors are fight- is raising concerns that it fell short on will release them to the market “only after to comment on a local media report that it demand for homes, dampening ing over the limited supply of Iquality testing. Since last year, the South proper completion of the development had production difficulties and struggled the overall economy. workers as three major mixed- Korean firm, the world’s largest maker of process”. to meet orders in time. And with labour costs rising, use projects are going up right smartphones, has brought forward the The firm said on Friday it had identified While there are occasional reports homebuilders are building more next to each other on the so- launch of its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note a problem in the manufacturing process of phones catching fire or burning users, expensive homes to maintain called “$5bn mile” in Frisco, a series models by roughly a month. of a battery supplier it didn’t name. “I am recalls for such problems are rare. The their margins, which means they northern suburb. Meanwhile, For the June quarter, the strategy helped working to straighten out our quality con- problem is exacerbated by the fact that are abandoning the starter home the metropolitan area is adding Samsung to its best profit in more than two trol process,” Samsung’s mobile business batteries in the Galaxy Note 7 can not be market. That has left entry-level about 30,000 newly built homes years, but it is also putting strain on its sup- chief Koh Dong-jin said then. removed by the user — a design decision to homes in tight supply, shutting annually. With fewer work- ply chain and its manufacturing reputation. The scale of the unprecedented recall, make the phones slimmer and waterproof. out may would-be buyers at a ers, contractors are becoming On Friday, two weeks after launch, which some analysts forecast will cost A Samsung executive who declined time when mortgage rates are wary of signing new work con- Samsung recalled Galaxy Note 7 smart- Samsung nearly $5bn in revenue this year, to be named said that before the recall near historic lows. tracts, especially as many of them phones in 10 markets follows a separate supply-chain manage- announcement: “Our production engineers Nationwide, there are 17 per- include fines for not completing including South Korea ment issue that led to disappointing sales and managers are extremely experienced, cent fewer people working in a job by a designated date. and the United States of the Galaxy S6 series last year. and if you ask them to find a solution to construction than at the market “I’ve got two lawsuits right after finding its batter- Samsung executives said production adopt a design change, they’d promptly peak, with some states - includ- now where it may cost us mid- ies were prone to ignite, problems for the curved screens and metal bring things under control. ing Arizona, California, Georgia six-figures because there’s not and halted sales of the casings used in the Galaxy S6 edge led to “But even that capability is under grow- and Missouri — seeing declines enough labor out there to get it 988,900 won ($891) a supply shortage for the device, leaving ing strain, as we try out new materials and of 20 percent or more, according done,” said one contractor in the device in those markets the firm unable to capitalise on the criti- everything is on a very tight schedule.” to data from the Associated Gen- North Dallas area who declined For the June quarter, indefinitely. The recall cal acclaim the phone received, sapping Local brokerage Korea Investment cut eral Contractors of America. The to be identified. looks set to hamstring earnings momentum. its third-quarter operating profit forecast labour shortage is raising build- Lawyers in hot residential the strategy helped a revival in Samsung’s Counterpoint analyst Jeff Fieldhack said for Samsung by 1.1 trillion won to 7.1 tril- ers’ costs — and workers’ wages markets say that it is becoming Samsung to its best mobile business just Samsung stole the thunder from local rival lion won due to the recall, though it said the — and slowing down construction. increasingly common for con- as Apple gears up to LG Electronics’ launch of the G5 smart- event would not derail the broader rebound Small, the Denver builder, struction companies to try to profit in more than launch its new iPhones phone this year by starting the sales of the of its smartphone business. estimates that he could construct negotiate for more time. two years, but it is this month. Galaxy S7 smartphones a month earlier and If haste contributed to the problem, it at least 10 percent more homes “Subcontractors are having “Samsung might backing them with an aggressive market- could now help Samsung limit the impact this year if he had enough work- a hard time staffing up,” said also putting strain on have over-exerted ing campaign. “I believe they were trying of the recall. ers. But he remains short-staffed, Edward Allen, a Denver attor- its supply chain and itself trying to pre-empt to create a similar effect by beating Apple Shares in Samsung were up 0.8 per- despite raising pay to levels above ney who said he has seen more its manufacturing Apple, since everybody to market by (about) a month, too,” he said. cent in mid-day trade yesterday, 4.4 percent what he paid during the housing lawsuits over project delays in the knows the iPhones “Very often, lab times and testing periods below record highs reached two weeks ago, bubble a decade ago. “It’s getting past two years. reputation. launch in September,” are shrunk to expedite approval and time- as some investors welcomed the swift deci- said Chang Sea-Jin, to-market of key devices. It is possible all sion to launch a global recall. German industry orders suggest slowing economy ahead

By Michael Nienaber open their pockets. This was also reflected is spending more on investment than Ger- activity would be rather weak in autumn. Reuters in a forecast by the Munich-based Ifo insti- many,” Schaeuble said. “Just because some The ministry provided no single data tute for Germany’s current account surplus countries in Europe are taking on more debt, on how orders from the UK developed in to hit a new record of $310bn in 2016, over- it doesn’t mean they are investing more.” July. But a regional breakdown showed taking that of China again to become the He did say, however, that tax cuts may be that demand from countries outside the erman industrial orders eked world’s largest. in the offing after next year’s federal election. euro zone rose by only 0.6 percent after an out a smaller-than-expected rise Ifo economist Christian Grimme said The German government introduced a increase of 3.8 percent in June. in July and showed a decline in exports exceeded imports by $159bn in the national minimum wage in 2015 and decided HSBC Trinkhaus economist Jana Meier domestic demand, underlining first half of the year, mainly due to strong to raise pension entitlements in 2016 by the said uncertainty about the future relation- growing concerns that Europe’s demand from other European countries. strongest rate in more than two decades. In ship between Britain and the remaining 27 Geconomic powerhouse is slowing down. The institute said the German surplus addition, Berlin increased state spending on EU members was likely to weaken invest- Contracts for goods “Made in Germany” would be equivalent to around 8.9 percent roads, digital infrastructure and migrants. ment in the medium term. were up by 0.2 percent in July, the Economy of gross domestic product, meaning it would The industrial orders data was the first Economists are divided on how much Ministry said yesterday. That was weaker once again breach the European Commis- for a full month since Britain’s vote to leave Brexit will weaken German exports and con- The surprisingly low than a Reuters consensus forecast for a rise sion’s recommended upper threshold of the EU. “Economic and political uncertainty sequently lower growth rates in the coming of 0.5 percent. 6 percent. This is likely to fuel the debate are dampening order activity around the quarters. Britain is Germany’s third-most order intake from Domestic demand fell by 3.0 percent about Germany’s economic role. Brussels globe,” VP Bank economist Thomas Git- important export market. home added depth to while foreign orders rose by 2.5 percent, and Washington have urged Berlin repeat- zel said, adding that Britain’s 23 June vote The DIW economic institute expects eco- a picture of lacklustre with demand from eurozone countries jump- edly to lift domestic demand to help reduce was only one negative factor among several nomic growth to ease to 0.3 percent in the ing by 5.9 percent. “Domestic demand for global economic imbalances. others. “With US presidential candidate Don- third quarter from 0.4 percent in the three investment among goods is disappointing again,” DIHK econ- Speaking in parliament to present the ald Trump, the next uncertainty is around months to June, partly because of Brexit. German companies while omist Sophia Krietenbrink said, adding that federal budget, Finance Minister Wolfgang the corner,” Gitzel said, pointing to Trump’s For 2016 as a whole, the government the data pointed to weaker consumption in Schaeuble rejected such criticism, saying sharp rhetoric against free trade. The United expects rising private consumption and European peers seem the coming months. Berlin was massively increasing state spend- States is Germany’s most important export higher state spending to drive an overall more willing to open their The surprisingly low order intake from ing while also implementing other measures market. growth of 1.7 percent, on a par with last year. home added depth to a picture of lacklus- to lift domestic demand. The Economy Ministry said that the For 2017, Berlin expects growth to slow to pockets. tre investment among German companies “We are playing our part in strengthening development of incoming orders was lack- 1.5 percent as weaker exports are expected while European peers seem more willing to global demand. No other country in Europe lustre so far this year, suggesting industrial to hit manufacturers. WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 21

WORLD RANKINGS McIlroy ends drought with Deutsche Bank crown 1. (1) Jason Day (Australia) 14.37 2. (2) Dustin Johnson (US) 10.62 3. (5) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 10.43 AFP turnaround for McIlroy, who had got finished three adrift of McIlroy after 4. (3) Jordan Spieth (US) 9.99 off to a disastrous start in his open- shooting a 70. 5. (4) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 9.15 ing round on Friday to be four over Australia’s world number six 6. (6) Adam Scott (Australia) 7.14 par after his first three holes. Adam Scott was alone in fourth place 7. (7) Bubba Watson (US) 6.54 BOSTON: Rory McIlroy shot a superb “It’s amazing in this game how after a six-under-par 65, but had left 8. (9) Patrick Reed (US) 6.36 six-under-par 65 to end his 16-month things can change so quickly,” McIl- himself too much work to do to chal- PGA Tour title drought with victory roy said. lenge for the lead. 9. (8) Rickie Fowler (US) 6.17 in the Deutsche Bank Championship “From three holes in - four over Patrick Reed, James Hahn and 10. (10) Justin Rose (Britain) 5.77 on Monday. par - there were a lot of things going Argentina’s Fabian Gomez all tied for 11. (11) Danny Willett (Britain) 5.70 The Northern Ireland star laid the through my mind, and one of them fifth place, 10 under for the tourna- 12. (12) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 5.40 foundations for a two-stroke victory was not winning this tournament,” ment, five behind McIlroy. 13. (14) Branden Grace (South Africa) over England’s Paul Casey with a he added. US Open champion and world 5.27 bewitching front nine performance, “So 69 holes later - I played some number two Dustin Johnson recov- 14. (13) Phil Mickelson (US) 5.25 sinking five birdies to be five under great golf and holed some great putts. ered from his disastrous third round at the turn. I’m just really proud of myself, how 75 with a 66 to claim a share of eighth 15. (19) Jimmy Walker (US) 4.81 Two more birdies and a bogey on I hung in there on the first day and place with six others players at nine 16. (16) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) the back nine at TPC Boston sealed then got some momentum on Satur- under. 4.50 a deserved win for the 27-year-old, day. Then I just went with it. World number one Jason Day fin- 17. (15) Matt Kuchar (US) 4.47 whose last win on the PGA Tour came “It’s nice to get that first win in the ished with a closing 67 in a six-way tie 18. (17) Louis Oosthuizen (South at the Wells Fargo Championship in States this year and hopefully I can for 15th at eight under. Africa) 4.41 May 2015. take this momentum into the next Meanwhile Olympic champion 19. (20) Russell Knox (Britain) 4.33 Rory McIlroy of Northern The win earned McIlroy another couple of weeks and ultimately the Justin Rose -- who had started the day Ireland poses with the $1.53m and will see him move up to Ryder Cup.” level with McIlroy on nine under -- 20. (18) Brooks Koepka (US) 4.26 trophy during the final third in the next set of world rankings. Third round leader Casey had endured a miserable day at the office, 21. (21) J.B. Holmes (US) 4.13 round of the Deutsche It also catapulted him from 38th begun the day three shots clear, but plummeting down the leaderboard 22. (30) Paul Casey (Britain) 4.08 Bank Championship at to fourth place in the standings for saw his challenge unravel after post- after an eight-over-par 79. 23. (22) Jim Furyk (US) 3.91 TPC Boston on Monday in the lucrative FedExCup post-season ing four bogeys in a two-over-par 73 Rose’s round collapsed on the 24. (23) Brandt Snedeker (US) 3.87 Norton, Massachusetts. series. to finish second. back nine, when two triple bogeys The win completed a remarkable PGA champion Jimmy Walker left him in a tie for 57th place. 25. (24) Zach Johnson (US) 3.79 De Villiers back from Magical Maxwell guides injury to face Australia Aussies to record books Reuters

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s tal- SCOREBOARD Australia’s Glenn Maxwell ismanic captain AB de Villiers has recovered from injury and been First T20: Opener looks back after hitting a AUSTRALIA included in the Proteas squad for boundary during their first blasts 145 off 65 G J Maxwell (not out) 145 the one-day series at home against T20 international cricket Australia starting later this month. balls as visitors seal D A Warner b Senanayake 28 match against Sri Lanka at U T Khawaja c N Perera b Pathirana 36 De Villiers missed the recent comprehensive win the Pallekele International two-test series with New Zealand against Sri Lanka T M Head c de Silva b N Perera 45 Cricket Stadium in Pallekele due to an elbow problem, but is on Extras (B-4, LB-2, W-2, NB-1) 9 yesterday. track to be fit for the five-match Total (for 3 wkts in 20 overs) 263 series against Australia, Cricket Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-154, 3-263. South Africa said yesterday. Seamer Andile Phehlukwayo AFP Bowling: S Senanayake 4-0-49-1; R has received his first call-up to the Lakmal 4-0-51-0 (1nb, 2w); C Rajitha 3-0- 50-over squad for the series, while 46-0; N Perera 4-0-58-1; D M de Silva fast bowler Dale Steyn and hard-hit- 1-0-8-0; S S Pathirana 4-0-45-1. ting middle-order batsman David PALLEKELE: Opener Glenn Max- SRI LANKA Miller return after missing the trian- well’s blistering century in Australia’s K Perera c Starc b Boland 4 gular series in the Caribbean against

world record 263 powered the visi- T Dilshan b Starc 4 Australia and West Indies in June. tors to a comprehensive 85-run win Morne Morkel and Rilee Rous- D de Silva b Faulkner 12 AB de Villiers over Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 sow were not considered due to D Chandimal c Henriques b Boland 58 international in Pallekele yesterday. injury and lack of match fitness Australia, who broke Sri Lanka’s K Mendis c maxwell b Henriques 22 respectively. of selectors Linda Zondi said in a nine-year record of 260-6 against T Perera c Boland b Zampa 7 “Andile was our leading wicket- statement from CSA. Kenya in 2007, restricted the hosts C Kapugedara c Bailey b Starc 43 taker for South Africa A in the “He has been knocking on the to 178 for nine in 20 overs to take the S Pathirana c Head b Boland 2 recently concluded quadrangu- door for some time following his lead in the two-match series. lar series in Australia,” convenor strong performances in last season’s S Senanayake (not out) 6 Maxwell destroyed the Sri (domestic) One-Day Cup,” the state- Lankan bowling attack with his S Lakmal c&b Starc 1 ment said. unbeaten 145 off 65 balls, which was K Rajitha (not out) 0 SOUTH AFRICAN South Africa play a one-off ODI laced with 14 fours and nine sixes, Extras (B-8, LB-8, W-3) 19 SQUADS against Ireland on Sept. 25 in Benoni after the visitors were invited to bat Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) 178 ahead of the Australia series, with first. Squad to play Ireland: AB de Villiers test batsman Temba Bavuma and Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-15, 3-45, 4-76, Skipper David Warner gave Aus- (captain), Temba Bavuma, Farhaan uncapped all-rounder Dwaine Pre- 5-94, 6-138, 7-142, 8-174, 9-177. tralia a fiery start with his 28 runs off Behardien, Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, torius included in the squad for that 12 balls as he put on a 57-run open- Bowling: Starc 4-0-26-3; Boland 4-0- Faf du Plessis, David Miller, Chris Morris, game only. ing partnership with Maxwell to lay 26-3; Faulkner 4-0-38-1; Henriques 2-0- 11 runs short of team-mate Aaron Dilshan, who is set to retire from Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Andile “As far as Temba Bavuma is a solid foundation. 24-1; Zampa 4-0-27-1; Maxwell 2-0-21-0. Finch’s top T20 score of 156 as he international cricket after the sec- Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso concerned we want to see what he The opener, who registered his faced a single ball in the final over ond T20, bowled for four. Rabada. can do in the ODI format after the maiden T20 century in his 35th of the innings. The pressure of scoring at over Squad to play Australia: AB de Villiers extremely successful run he has had game, found the perfect partner in see Travis Head join forces with In reply, Sri Lanka were never 13 runs an over proved just too much (captain), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, in the test squad where he has aver- Usman Khawaja, who scored 36 off Maxwell. in the chase after losing openers for an inexperienced Sri Lankan Farhaan Behardien, Quinton de Kock, aged 66 during the current calendar 22 balls, as the duo put together 97 Maxwell and Head, who scored Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kusal Per- batting side as the Aussie bowl- JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, year,” Zondi said. runs for the second wicket. an 18-ball 45, then put on 109 runs era (4) in the first two overs of the ers kept picking wickets at regular David Miller, Chris Morris, Wayne Parnell, The series with Australia gets Debutant left-arm spinner for the third wicket as it was rain- innings. intervals. Aaron Phangiso, Andile Phehlukwayo, under way on September 30 in Sachith Pathirana got Khawaja ing boundaries at a packed Pallekele Pace spearhead Mitchell Starc The action now shifts to Colombo Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Dale Centurion and finishes October 12 trudging back to the pavilion, only to International Stadium. Maxwell fell struck in his very first over to get for the final T20 on September 9. Steyn. in Cape Town. Pietersen warns Morgan against Bangladesh no-show

AFP three one-day international and Morgan, speaking last week, “When Alastair Cook is willing two Test match fixtures in October denied he was “reluctant” to tour, to lead the Test squad it puts huge and November, would go ahead as with the Irishman saying: “I think pressure on Eoin as captain of the planned. when so much information is one-day team. He may still decide not LONDON: Former England captain The confirmation followed a visit thrown at you within two months of to make the trip, and it is his right to Kevin Pietersen (pictured left) has to Bangladesh by an ECB delegation a terrorist attack you need to digest take that personal choice, but it will told current limited-overs skipper led by their long-serving security everything and be settled within be held against him at some stage in Eoin Morgan (pictured right) he will chief Reg Dickason. yourself so you can go there and con- the future, despite any assurances to be putting his international future in England coach Trevor Bayliss has centrate on cricket.” the contrary. jeopardy if he opts out of the upcom- confirmed he has no qualms about But Pietersen, whose brilliant “When everyone else says they ing tour of Bangladesh. touring Bangladesh, although Moeen career as an England batsman ended are willing to go why do you think The future of the tour was in the Ali is the only England player to so far travel to Bangladesh as well. “Eoin next to his name as far as the bosses following the fall-out from the team’s you are more important than the oth- balance after an attack on a Dhaka state publicly, and without qualifica- Morgan has no choice but to go to at the England and Wales Cricket 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia in ers? That will be the unsaid message. cafe in July saw 20 – mostly foreign – tion, that he will go if selected. Bangladesh,” Pietersen explained in Board are concerned,” added Pie- 2013/14 following several run-ins “People at Lord’s have long mem- hostages killed in a terrorists attack. However, reports in the British his Daily Telegraph column published tersen, England’s captain when they with coaching staff and officials, said ories. They will not forget that he However, the England and press have suggested Test skipper yesterday. continued with their 2008 tour of the ECB would not take kindly to their went against their advice and refused Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said last Alastair Cook, who no longer plays “It is a case of one in, all in so if he India following the Mumbai terror security advice being rejected by a to captain England on a tour,” he month that the tour, which includes white-ball cricket for England, will does not go he will have a red cross attacks. senior player. added. 22 WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT

Radwanska falls to Murray, Djokovic close teenager Konjuh

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in on another final duel

NEW YORK: Croatian teen Ana Konjuh upset fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4 6-4 on Monday to Del Potro meets claim the last women’s quarter-final spot at the US Open. Wawrinka in battle The 18-year-old, who won the 2013 US Open jun- between ‘hammer iors title after claiming the Australian Open juniors crown, lost her first service game but did not yield of a forehand’ serve again. and ‘precision She cracked 38 winners, including six aces, against Serena hits the Pole, who has never gone beyond the round of 16 backhand’ in five attempts at Flushing Meadows. The power-hitting teenager, who became the first her stride Croatian woman to reach the quarter-finals at a U.S. Open, avenged a second-round loss to Radwanska at in time for AFP Wimbledon, where she held three match points before falling 9-7 in the third set. “It’s been an incredible night,” Konjuh said in an quarters on-court interview. “This time I got revenge, so I’m NEW YORK: Andy Murray really happy.” contests his sixth US Open The victory lifted Konjuh to a last eight match quarter-final today, looking to against 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech AFP maintain his stranglehold over Republic, who overcame sixth-seeded American Venus Kei Nishikori and take a step Williams 4-6 6-4 7-6(3). closer to a dream title show- NEW YORK: The US Open down with Novak Djokovic. quarter-finals kicked off Murray won the first of US OPEN SINGLES RESULTS yesterday with Serena Wil- his three career majors at the MEN liams (pictured) saying she’s US Open in 2012 and will be FOURTH ROUND: just getting warmed up -- an the favourite to make a fourth Juan Martín Del Potro (ARG) bt Dominic Thiem (AUT x8) 6-3, 3-2 - retired ominous assessment for the semi-final at the season’s last Novak Djokovic of Serbia in Stan Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Illya Marchenko (UKR) 6-4, 6-1, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3 other seven women with eyes Grand Slam. action during his 4th Round Kei Nishikori (JPN x6) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO x21) 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) on the prize. The world number two has match against Kyle Edmunds Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x22) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 “She’s coming, she hasn’t a 7-1 record against Nishikori of Great Britain on day quite come out yet, though,” whose only win over the Briton seven of the 2016 US Open the world number one said came at the World Tour Finals WOMEN at the USTA Billie Jean King of the dominating “Serena” in 2014. FOURTH ROUND: National Tennis Center in the who went missing in action This year, Murray came Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 6-2, 6-3 Flushing neighbourhood of after Wimbledon in large out on top in five sets to help Simona Halep (ROM x5) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x11) 6-2, 7-5 the Queens borough of New part because of a sore right steer Britain past Japan in the Ana Konjuh (CRO) bt Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) 6-4, 6-4 York City on Monday. shoulder. Davis Cup before cantering to Karolína Pliskova (CZE x10) bt Venus Williams (USA x6) 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) That seems astonishing, a straight sets win in the Olym- since Williams has reached pics semi-finals. the last eight without drop- All in all, Murray is on a ping a set or indeed even 26-1 run since losing the French dropping her serve. Open final to Djokovic in June, “I just feel like I’m going collecting the Queen’s Club, out there doing what I need Wimbledon and Olympic titles to do,” she said. on the way. “I’m not overplaying, I’m But he won’t under-estimate not underplaying. I’m just try- the threat posed by Nishikori, ing to play my way into this who made the final in New tournament.” York in 2014 having knocked She has played her way out Djokovic in the semi-finals. into a quarter-final against “He played some good It is the first time since 1927 on September 1, is in his third fifth-seeded Romanian stuff at the Olympics and won that three Frenchmen have quarter-final in New York. Simona Halep, who has won the bronze,” said Murray who reached the last-eight in New In his last appearance at this just one of their eight career reached the quarter-final with York. stage in 2014, he squandered matches. a brutal dismissal of Grigor Djokovic, looking for his a two sets lead against Roger Williams said that record Dimitrov where he lost just five third major of 2016, boasts a Federer. wasn’t necessarily a guide to games. remarkable record in New York. Today’s other quarter-final the challenge Halep would “I played a really good As well as his two titles, the sees 2009 champion Juan Mar- pose. match against Kei in Rio and I’ll 29-year-old was runner-up in tin del Potro, ranked at 142 but “To me it doesn’t really need to do that again if I want to 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2013. He on the comeback trail after matter who I play because I beat him because he’s one of the was a semi-finalist in 2005, three wrist surgeries, tackle have to expect they’re going best players in the world, plays 2006 and 2014. third seed Stan Wawrinka, a to play the match of their life,” extremely well on hard court.” The Serb has a 15-6 win- former Australian and French she said. “That’s how I go into Djokovic targeted a 10th ning record against ninth seed Open winner. these matches now.” successive semi-final appear- Tsonga, a run stretching back to Del Potro, the lowest- They’ll headline wom- ance yesterday when he faces their first meeting in the 2008 ranked quarter-finalist in 25 en’s action today, when longtime rival Jo-Wilfried Australian Open final. years, has a 4-2 head-to-head Ana Konjuh and Karolina Tsonga, one of three French- “I’m feeling very good. I record over the 31-year-old Pliskova meet in a battle men in the last-eight. didn’t have much time on the Swiss including an impressive of first-time Grand Slam World number one Djoko- court overall before the fourth victory at Wimbledon earlier quarter-finalists. vic, the champion in New York round,” said Djokovic who came this year. Pliskova, the 10th seed, in 2011 and 2015, has hardly into the tournament suffering However, the two have defeated sixth-seeded Venus broken sweat in the first four from a wrist injury. never met on hard courts. Williams 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3). rounds. “Considering I had some The quarter-final has been Yesterday, world number He needed four sets to beat struggles before the tourna- dubbed as a battle between two Angelique Kerber -- who Jerzy Janowicz in his first match ment, I feel great at this moment Del Potro’s hammer of a fore- Andy Murray of Great toppled Williams in the Aus- before he enjoyed a walkover in physically; mentally as well I’m hand and Wawrinka’s precision Britain serves to Grigor tralian Open final and who the second, an injury-enforced motivated.” backhand. Dimitrov of Bulgaria on day has a chance to end the retirement in the third followed Monfils beat Pouille in their “It’s going to be good chal- eight of the 2016 US Open American’s reign atop the by a comfortable win over Brit- only meeting -- in five sets in lenge to play against him,” said world rankings here, took on’s Kyle Edmund in the last-16. the first round of the Austral- Wawrinka who is in his fourth tennis tournament at USTA on Roberta Vinci. In yesterday’s other men’s ian Open in 2015. successive US Open quar- Billie Jean King National Yesterday’s other quarter- quarter-final, Lucas Pouille, But 22-year-old Pouille ter-final and is a two-time Tennis Center on Tuesday. final saw Caroline Wozniacki who knocked out 14-time major is now Grand Slam hardened semi-finalist. taking on Latvian Anastasija winner Rafael Nadal in five sets having made a maiden Slam “It’s going to be important Sevastova. on Sunday, faced French com- quarter-final at Wimbledon. to try to dictate and be aggres- patriot Gael Monfils. Monfils, who turned 30 sive on the court.” New chapter dawns for Formula One as billion-dollar deal looms

AFP octogenarian ringmaster Bernie The FT, quoting “people briefed Ecclestone, who forked up $100m to he’ll be around for some time.” India’s deputy team chief, accused Ecclestone told German magazine in the talks”, say that Chase Carey, the German authorities to end a high Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff CVC of reaping the massive rewards Auto Motor und Sport at last week- executive vice-chairman of Rupert profile bribery trial in 2014, held talks was equally enthusiastic. Wolff and in F1 without putting anything back. end’s Italian Grand Prix that a deal Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, would be with CVC co-chairman Donald Mac- other analysts will hope that a spe- He accused them of having “no PARIS: A new chapter dawns for was imminent, possibly as early as appointed F1’s new chairman. kenzie at Monza, the BBC reported. cialist media empire such as Liberty interest whatsoever in the future of Formula One with American media yesterday. Liberty Media already has With the sport’s attraction to televi- can reignite interest in a sport which Formula One”. mogul John Malone poised to become Monday’s edition of British news- interest in several sports and enter- sion audiences undermined by the according to official figures has seen CVC previously sold a 21 percent the glittering but flawed sporting jew- paper Financial Times suggested talks tainment businesses, including the recent domination of first Red Bull its global viewing audience shed 200 share to US-based fund manager el’s new custodian. between Liberty Media and current Atlanta Braves Major League base- and now Mercedes, Liberty’s arrival million viewers since 2008. Waddell & Reed in 2012, while also The Malone-backed Liberty 35 percent majority stake owners ball team. If it goes ahead this deal was welcomed by key personalities News of the imminent deal would selling shares to another American Media has emerged in pole position CVC Partners, were “at an advanced would end years of rumour and spec- in the pits. see the flag fall on CVC’s chequered investment group, BlackRock, and to buy F1 after interest from broad- stage”. ulation over F1’s future. Red Bull’s Christian Horner told association. Norwegian bank Norges. caster Sky, Paris Saint-Germain’s The 75-year-old Malone’s media Ecclestone, who owns 5.3 percent The Guardian: “It could be a really One of the world’s leading pri- If all the reports are to be owner Qatar Sports Investments and empire is expected to take an initial and with his Bambino Trust a further exciting deal for Formula One if it vate equity firms, it invested in F1 in believed, Liberty Media will be on Stephen Ross, owner of MLS side the 10-15 percent stake valued at $1.3b 8.3 percent, is the mastermind behind happens...but for a new group to come 2006 for around $1.2bn but has been the grid introducing themselves to Miami Dolphins, waned. -$2.7b, en route to becoming majority F1’s evolution over the past 40 years in without (Ecclestone) being there attacked for taking too much out of Lewis Hamilton and company when The high octane sport’s owners in a deal valuing F1 at $8-$9b. into a billion-dollar sporting business. would be very difficult, so I’d assume the sport. In 2014, Bob Fernley, Force the F1 circus pitches up in Singapore. SPORT WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 23

QSL: Top stars, officials to attend launch ceremony El Salvador players say

The Peninsula ceremony, a joint press conference offered cash will be held between the QFA, the QSLM and the Qatari League of Joining Al Sadd a great honour: Hamroun before qualifier Players on a signing ahead of the DOHA: Top stars and officials are new season. set to attend the launch ceremony The press conference will be The Peninsula “I am very happy to have joined a Reuters of the eagerly-awaited Qatar Stars attended by the QSLM CEO & QFA great club in Al Sadd, I know that they League (QSL), which will be held Board Member Hani Ballan and the are one of the biggest clubs in Qatar today at the Sheraton hotel in Doha. Chairman of the Qatari League of and the most well known in Asia. It’s a LONDON: El Salvador players The ceremony will include a players Salman Al Ansari. DOHA: New Al Sadd signing Jugurtha great honour for me and I will try my were offered financial induce- press conference for all 14 clubs A second press conference will Hamroun (pictured) has expressed best to perform at my best for Al Sadd” ments to win, draw or avoid a head coaches talking about their also be convened to introduce the his pride in joining Al Sadd and his added the 27 year old winger on the heavy defeat in their crunch respective sides aspirations for the operative details of the newly estab- excitement to be taking part in the sidelines of the recent QSL media day. World Cup qualifier against season ahead. lished Qatari Sports Arbitration QSL season this term. The former Staua Bucharest Canada, the country’s football Invitations were extended to the Foundation. The Algerian international attacker also outlined his ambitions association said yesterday. clubs’ heads of football, team man- Later, Qatari Sports Arbitra- expressed his joy at signing on with with his new side; “We will definitely “Players with the national agers and team captains to attend tion Foundation conference will the Wolves in an exclusive interview be aiming to win a trophy. That is football team reveal the supposed the ceremony in order to grant the be attended by the Chairman of the with QSL online. what Al Sadd is all about, and as a arrangement ahead of their game media the opportunity to commu- organisation Ibrahim Al Mohannadi, Despite only joining a few days part of the Al Sadd family, the play- team we are a big squad many good with Canada,” the association said nicate and interview them. Al Ansari and board member Hani ago, Hamroun feels very welcome at ers and management have been so players capable for fighting for the on the team’s Facebook page. After the conclusion of the Ballan. his new side; “I already feel like I am kind with me.” QSL title.” A heavy defeat for the Salva- dorans match in Vancouver could prevent their neighbours Hondu- ras from progressing to the final stage of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia. Ruthless Spain maul Honduras are in pole position to advance but Canada could edge them on goal difference if they run up a big score against El Salva- dor and Honduras lose to Group One leaders Mexico at the Aztec Liechtenstein 8-0 stadium. Mexico are unbeaten in five matches and the Salvadorans sit bottom of the group with two points from a possible 15. Costa scores first The association said a Salva- doran businessman and former goals for Spain in two president of local club Alianza years as Silva and FC approached the players with Morata also hit braces financial inducements before they travelled to Canada at the on Lopetegui debut weekend. FIFA President Gianni Infantino “Players with the national team tonight revealed at a press conference a tape in which the Reuters Salvadoran businessman Ricardo Infantino says 40-team Padilla offered them ‘rewards’ for winning, drawing or even losing against Canada,” the association World Cup not a certainty BARCELONA: Spain started their said. World Cup qualifying campaign with Team captain Nelson Bonilla a crushing 8-0 win over Liechten- played the tape of the 10-minute stein, laying down a marker in Group conversation to reporters in Van- Reuters tournament. The latter would be G with a ruthless second-half dis- couver on Monday night. a key decision as it would deter- play on Monday. In it, the man identified as mine whether countries from Diego Costa scored his first goal Padilla promised varying amounts Asia, where Qatar is staging the for Spain in almost two years to put of money depending on the result GENEVA: FIFA President Gianni 2022 World Cup, can bid to be Julen Lopetegui’s side ahead in the and the time played by each Infantino is not yet certain that hosts. 10th minute in their first compet- player, from $30 a minute for a the 2026 World Cup finals would The final decision on the host itive game under their new coach win to $10 a minute in a 1-0 defeat. feature 40 teams even though he nation will be made in May 2020. and Sergi Roberto doubled the lead “In reference to what we personally favours an expanded “For the moment, everything in the 55th. heard, we want to make it clear tournament, he said yesterday. is open, but there is a question of Costa got his second while David that we are against anything of Infantino also said he would who can and cannot bid...we will Silva and substitute Alvaro Morata this kind,” Bonilla said. be happy for several countries to see,” Infantino said. also got braces and Vitolo opened his “We want to be transparent share the hosting of the World “CONCACAF (North and Cen- international account as the former about everything that has hap- Cup, describing it as much tral America and the Caribbean) world champions ran riot. pened with the national team.” a “social event for the whole didn’t have a World Cup for a long “Sometimes an opponent’s name Fourteen El Salvador inter- world” as a global sporting time. can fool you but we played a great nationals were banned for life competition. “Nothing is definite. I believe game,” said Lopetegui. “We reaped in for match-fixing in 2013. Infantino made a 40-team in the 40 teams because I think the second half what we had sowed FIFA said it was aware of the World Cup a key part of his it is positive for the development in the first.” issue and was looking into the Spain’s Diego Costa (left) celebrates his goal with team-mate Jordi campaign before his election of football and we have seen that Costa was the focus of the pre- matter. in February but admitted it was again at the Euro 2016 in France match build-up having netted once Alba during their World Cup qualfying game against Liechtenstein at “FIFA does comment on not entirely up to him to decide with eight more teams. in his previous 11 appearances since Reino de Leon Stadium in Leon, Spain on Monday. whether or not investigations whether the 2026 finals should “We need to realise that these switching nationalities from Brazil are underway into alleged cases be increased from the tourna- kinds of events, like the World in 2014 and needed only 10 minutes of match manipulation so as not ment’s current 32-team format. Cup or European Championship, to open the scoring, rising high to against Belgium last week by turn- we just try to help them, but Diego to compromise any possible inves- “My opinion has not changed are more than just a competition, head in Koke’s free kick. ing in Vitolo’s cross from close is a great player and he proved it tigations,” a spokesperson said. on the 40 teams, but that’s my they are really social events for The entrance of substitute Nolito range. today,” added new Spain coach CONCACAF did not respond opinion. We will have to dis- the whole world.” for Thiago Alcantara at the start of Barely a minute later, Silva Lopetegui. to emailed requests for comment cuss it and see what’s the best Speaking about the number the second half livened up the home repaid the favour by teeing up the Costa came off to a standing and the football associations of for football,” he told reporters of countries who could poten- side and it was the Manchester City Sevilla forward to mark another ovation but his replacement Morata Canada, Honduras and Mexico from international news agen- tially share a tournament, he said forward who laid the ball on for impressive display for his country threatened to upstage him with two made no mention of the allega- cies yesterday. there were “no limits to whatever Roberto to grab his first interna- with a goal. strikes in under a minute, slamming tions on their websites. FIFA expects to make deci- is good for football.” tional goal. Spain only grew hungrier and in at the near post before striking the Padilla, however, said there sions by October on the number “What is important is that the The floodgates had opened for Costa wanted another bite. He effort- ball past the hapless Jehle from the was nothing wrong with the offer of teams, the format for the whole process is done in a cor- Spain, the 2010 world champions lessly turned two defenders in the edge of the area. as he was not asking the players tournament and the continents rect way, a transparent way,” he who lost in the last 16 of this year’s area before firing at goalkeeper Silva had a goal harshly ruled out to throw the game. that will be eligible to stage the added. European Championship. Peter Jehle’s right foot, calmly nod- as stoppage time approached but the “Let them investigate, I’m not Silva was soon in on the act, ding in the rebound for the fifth goal. City playmaker grabbed his second a worried,” he told the Salvadoran adding to his double in the friendly “Players control their destiny and minute later with a crisp shot. newspaper La Prensa Grafica. Liverpool ready for special day at expanded Anfield

Reuters to narrow the gap in match-day rev- moved into the 2012 Olympic Games and featuring tributes to memora- enues on their competitors. stadium, and Arsenal but still way ble moments in Liverpool’s history, The latest figures from 2014-15 below for mer champions Manches- being displayed. put Manchester United on £108.1m ter United’s (76,000). They will include the tribute to LONDON: Liverpool will play in ($145.16m), followed by Arsenal on Anfield’s 18-month redevelop- defender Joey Jones at the 1977 Euro- front of their biggest home crowd in £100.2m ($134.55m), Chelsea on £71m ment took longer than scheduled, pean Cup final against Borussia 39 years when Anfield’s main stand ($95.34m) and Liverpool on £50.9m meaning Liverpool’s opening Pre- Moenchengladbach in Rome, which is reopened for the Premier League ($68.35m). mier League fixture against Burnley read memorably: “Joey Ate The Frogs visit of champions Leicester City on Liverpool expect their increased was switched to their opponents’ Turf Legs, Made The Swiss Roll, Now He’s Saturday. capacity to boost revenue by £20 mil- Moor home. Munching Gladbach.” Although ground capacity has yet lion ($26.86m) with the possibility of Now, though, the famous old Liverpool defender Joel Matip to be confirmed by the local coun- more to come if the club go ahead ground is preparing to house its said he was relishing hearing the cil, a full house of about 54,000 is with the redevelopment of the Anfield biggest crowd since 55,675 watched club’s famous anthem of You’ll Never expected to see Juergen Klopp’s side Road End for which they have plan- Liverpool play West Ham on the final Walk Alone at the stadium, which has play their first home game of the ning permission. day of the 1976-77 season. been the club’s home since its forma- season. That would further boost capac- It promises to be another spe- tion in 1892. Joe Allen (right) celebrates with Jordon Ibe after scoring the first goal The new three-tier stand will ity by 6,000 to about 60,000, putting cial Anfield day with more than 40 “I’ve been waiting the whole pre- contain an extra 8,500 seats and be a them on a par with London clubs banners and flags, dating back from season to make my first steps at the for Liverpool against Watford during their Premier League match at significant step in the club’s attempts West Ham United, who have just 1940 through to the present day stadium,” he said. Anfield, Liverpool, in this file photo. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 De Villiers back Serena hits herr from injury to face stride in time Australia for quarters

WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 5 DHUL HIJJA 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Kremits secures win for Uzbekistan in Doha

started in place of Luiz Jun- ior, Ali Thaimin and Pedro A late header Correia. Syria hold South disappoints Qatar Uzbekistan, wearing as visitors clinch black armbands in memory of the country’s late president Korea to a second win in the Islam Karimov, made just one final qualification change, with Azizbek Khay- darov making way for the round for Russia returning Kremits. 2018 World Cup It was the home side that goalless draw made the more lively start, with Sebastian Soria almost opening the scoring in the Agencies Asano handed Japan three fifth minute, only to find the points and their margin of The Peninsula side netting after Afif’s low victory could have been a lot cross from the left. more convincing but for the Uzbekistan’s Odil Akhme- SEREMBAN, Malaysia: Syria brilliance of Thailand ‘keeper dov let fly from long range 13 held South Korea to a 0-0 Kawin Thamsatchanan who DOHA: A spot-on header in minutes into the game. draw in a hard-fought Group made a number of world class the 85th minute by Egor Kre- But his shot sailed well A clash of the of the final saves. mits maintained Uzbekistan’s over the bar while at the other round of qualification for the Both teams lost their perfect start to their campaign end the Qataris threatened, at 2018 FIFA World Cup at Paroi opening Group B games in to qualify for Russia 2018 yes- first when Rodrigo Tabata’s Stadium in Seremban, Malay- final round qualifying with terday evening as the defender shot was easily gathered by sia yesterday evening. Japan going down 2-1 at home scored the only goal of the goalkeeper Barry in the 20th Held at a neutral venue to the United Arab Emirates game to disappoint Qatar in minute and, a minute later, due to the ongoing secu- and Thailand denied a point their Asian Qualifier. when Musa headed over the rity situation in Syria, Korea in Riyadh by a late penalty Kremits, who missed bar following Soria’s cross Republic enjoyed the lion’s from Saudi Arabia. the 1-0 win over Syria on from the left. share of possession and more Earlier, two late penalty Thursday due to suspension, Geynrikh’s introduction chances but could not break kicks from Nawaf Al Abid made an impressive return for the disappointing Sar- down a resolute defence. gave Saudi Arabia a come- to the starting line-up as he dor Rashidov in the 59th China got off the mark from-behind 2-1 win over Iraq headed Alexander Geynrikh’s minute swung the game in in Group A with a 0-0 draw in Malaysia yesterday evening free kick from the right past Uzbekistan’s favour, but against Iran at Shenyang and a perfect six points from Oumar Barry to move Samvel not before Qatar fashioned Olympic Stadium in Shen- six in Group B. Babayan’s side on to six points out their best chance of the yang, China yesterday. Iraq, hosting the match at from their opening two games. game. The result, which leaves the Shah Alam Stadium due The result leaves the A well flighted ball into the the group delicately balanced, to security concerns at home, Uzbeks on top of Group A, two area found Boualem Khoukhi follows hot on the heels of had led since the first half points clear of Korea Republic with time and space and he China’s narrow defeat to thanks to Mohanad Abdul- and Iran, while Qatar have yet fired off an acrobatic effort Korea Republic last Thurs- raheem and were on top for to pick up a point having lost that he was unfortunate to see day and Iran’s last gasp win much of the 90 minutes. to the Iranians thanks to two come back off the woodwork. Qatar’s Boualem at home to Qatar. But with victory in sight injury time goals on Match- With time running out it Khoukhi (top) and In Bangkok, Japan put two spot kicks from Al day 1. looked likely the points would Uzbekistan’s Igor their World Cup qualify- Abid gave the visitors three The Qataris made four be shared, but Geynrikh’s free Sergeev vie for the ball ing campaign firmly back more vital points, five days changes from the side that kick from the right swung during their World Cup on track with a comfortable after needing a late pen- was defeated in Tehran on towards the far corner of the 2018 Asia qualification 2-0 victory over an outplayed alty to defeat Thailand 1-0 Thursday, with goalkeeper six yard box and Kremits rose football match played Thailand side at the sold-out in Riyadh, and condemned Amine Lacomte replaced by highest before heading the at the Jassim Bin Rajamangala Stadium in the hosts to a second Oumar Barry while Mohamed ball into the opposite corner Hamad Stadium in Doha Bangkok yesterday. straight defeat after a 2-0 Musa, Ahmed Mohamed El of the goal, giving Barry lit- yesterday. In Groug B, goals from loss to Australia five days Sayed and Akram Afif also tle chance. Genki Haraguchi and Takuma previously.

Lekhwiya beat IHF Super Globe Championship Sydney University

QNA fast break that closed the gap to 2:5 in the 13th. From that point the Australian side continued their roll, with Cumplido tally- DOHA: Qatar’s Lakhwiya team ing his third and Diego Liorente defeated Sydney University taking them within one at 4:5 Handball Club from Australia just as the clock reached mid- by 29-17 in their International way through the half. Handball Federation (IHF) Super But five minutes later Globe Championship match Lekhwiya had regained firm con- which was played at Duhail trol at 9:5 as Sydney goalkeeper Handball Sports Hall in Doha Martin Jomin made a save, and yesterday. in the 26th the comfortable score The Qatari team hinted at line in favour of the Qatari team how the rest of the game would remained as Bonnin scored his proceed with their dominant first second (8:11). five minutes, at which stage the In the second period score stood at 3:0. Lekhwiya’s dominance became After Lekhwiya added increasingly more evident. 10 another from Ahmad Madadi minutes in when Sydney changed off a narrow-angle left wing goalkeeper to bring in Maikel shot, Sydney University coach Takken, the Asian team had Philipp Enders called the first increased the distance to six at time-out (4:0, seventh minute), 19:13, and from there they took a but his team could not find the more commanding lead, pulling goal past goalkeeper Yousuf Al ahead to 24:15 by the 50th. Abdulla (46.9% save rate) and at By the time the final whis- Al Sadd’s Ali Alkrad prepares to score against Fuchse Berlin during their International Handball Federation (IHF) Super Globe Championship match the 10-minute mark the score tle sounded the Qatar team held played at Qatar Handball Association Hall in Duhail yesterday. Defending champions Fuchse Berlin advanced to the next round of the championship stood at 5:0. at 12-goal advantage, and will after beating Al Sadd by 32-26 yesterday. CENTRE: Fuchse Berlin player Tonnesen Kent shoots at goal as Al Sadd goalkeeper Stanic Darko tries to Sydney’s first goal came from therefore prepare to meet ES spoil his effort. Pictures by Baher Amin / The Peninsula right wing Adria Cumplido soon Tunis in the play-off for fifth after, and it was he who added a place.