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DOHA: A quarter of a million foreign workers OF are expected to arrive afresh in the country PLENTY this year, while the influx (of foreign work- force) was 200,000 last year, according to Qatar’s Minister for Development Planning and Statistics. The country’s population was 1.4 million in 2008 and stood at 2.1 million by last year-end, H E Dr Saleh bin Mohamed Al Nabit told a key UN conference in New York yesterday. He said the rapid increase in population car- ried several risks for Qatar as it put immense pressure on basic services, among them schools, hospitals and low-cost housing. The Minister said building affordable housing stock to cope with the growing population was hard. Al Nabit was speaking at the ministerial meet- ing of the UN Social and Economic Council on Qatar’s National Plan for Human Resource Development and Population. The Minister reiterated that by 2030 Qatar will emerge as one of the advanced nations of the world relying on sustainable development. Al Nabit said that apart from pressure on basic services, rapid population growth was pos- ing problems on the cultural, economic, environ- mental and law and order fronts. Gaza toll tops 100 as truce efforts falter JERUSALEM: Israel’s aerial bombardment of Gaza claimed its 105th Palestinian life yes- terday as Hamas pounded Israel with rockets. Diplomatic efforts to end the hostilities gath- ered pace, with US President Barack Obama phoning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The United States remains pre- pared to facilitate a cessation of hostilities,” the White House said. But Netanyahu said he would not end his campaign until he had achieved his goal of stopping the Hamas fire. See also page 8 Minor tsunami hits Japan coast after quake

TOKYO: A minor tsunami hit Miyagi pre- fecture in Japan early today after a strong 6.8-magnitude quake jolted the country’s northeastern Pacific coast, prompting adviso- THE ISSUE ries for regions including around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. A tsunami of 20 centimetres was observed at Increasing wealth and lavish Charity Association are involved in col- By wasting food people are not only 5.12 am in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. lifestyles are contributing to lecting leftovers from buffets during ignoring the spirit of Ramadan but THE PENINSULA & AGENCIES Ramadan. also bringing a bad name to the coun- the problem of food wastage Experts say that almost half the food try. According to a recent report, GCC in Qatar. This phenomenon prepared during Ramadan goes into gar- countries are among the world’s top food peaks during Ramadan, the holy bage bins. One of the reasons for food wasters. Particularly high quantities of Design: Abraham Augusthy wastage is that many families are unable food are wasted during Ramadan, says month during which people are to estimate the quantity of food required the 2013-14 report from the Environment expected to observe restraint for their guests. Agency-Abu Dhabi. and avoid extravagance. Experts say that such wastage is unac- In 2013, Qatar Statistics Authority Today’s matches ceptable, especially during Ramadan, said that more than half of the municipal when Muslims are urged to give food to waste generated in the country contained he volume of leftover food that the poor and needy. discarded food. It said that according to BRAZIL VS NETHERLANDS (11PM) charities collect from homes, “It (wastage of food) is completely one estimate, one-third of all the waste hotels and mass Iftar venues against the spirit of Ramadan. During the generated in the country consists of dis- Tevery day is enough to feed 1,000 holy month people should spend more time carded food. Qatar produces more than people. So much food is thrown away dur- worshipping, reading the Quran and help- 2.5 million tons of municipal solid waste ing Ramadan that these organisations are ing the needy. The budget of families goes each year. unable to collect and distribute all of it. up sharply during Ramadan, which shows Experts say that the problem of food “We receive many calls on a daily basis, that people are not observing Ramadan wastage can be solved by bringing about and sometimes we find that it is beyond properly,” said Nesreen Walid, a household behavioural changes in people by raising Ramadan Timing our capacity to collect food,’’ said a senior expenditure expert. awareness of the issue. Religious scholars PAGEofficial at Sheikh 6 Eid Charity. She said that housewives should reduce and leaders can play a crucial role in sen- Todays Iftar: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah for the quantity of food prepared for Iftar and sitising people to the issue. 06:29pm Humanitarian Services and Sheikh Eid use leftovers the next day. See also page 2 Tomorrow’s Imsak: 03:14am

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Charities distribute leftovers among the needy Food wastage during Ramadan decried

While Ramadan is a time BY FAZEENA SALEEM and MOHAMED from lavish buffets during Ramadan in an for giving and gratitude, guess the quantity of food we throw away, but it OSMAN attempt to minimise food wastage and to ben- is huge and more during Ramadan,” said a senior efit the needy. it can also be a month of official in a well-known hotel. DOHA: During the month of Ramadan, char- “We receive many calls daily, and sometimes overindulgence and waste, Food wastage during Ramadan is not a phe- ities collect enough leftover food from homes we find that it’s beyond our capacity to collect with too much surplus food nomenon unique to Qatar but common to the and hotels to feed at least 1,000 people every food,” said a senior official at Sheikh Eid Charity region. day. Association. being dumped into garbage According to a recent report, GCC countries On some days, there is so much leftover food While Ramadan is a time for giving and grati- bins. stand out as among the world’s top food wasters. at some places that these organisations find it tude, it can also be a month of overindulgence Particularly high quantities of food are wasted difficult to collect and distribute it, they say. and waste, with too much surplus food being during Ramadan, says the 2013-14 report from In 2013, Qatar Statistics Authority said that dumped into garbage bins. the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi. more than half the municipal waste generated in Food prepared for big banquets, where more Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab masjid (formally Arab News reported that the Makkah munici- the country contained discarded food. It said that than half of it is not consumed, is repacked and known as the Grand Mosque), and workers living pality collected 5,000 tonnes of discarded food in as per an estimate, one-third of the total waste distributed to low-income workers and families in the Industrial Area. the first three days of Ramadan this year. generated consisted of discarded food. for the early morning Suhour meal. Sheikh Eid Charity Association alone distrib- It said that according to Saudi Arabia’s Although there are no official statistics on food Charities urge families not to throw away food utes a minimum of 1,000 food packets every night Ministry of Commerce and Industry, 45 per- wastage during Ramadan, EcoMena, an advocacy after Iftar and Suhour, and instead share it with during Ramadan. cent of the waste during Ramadan consists of platform stressing the need for a clean and green the poor. Mohamed Hassan Al Ibrahim, director of food. It also revealed that 80 percent of the food environment in the Middle East, said in a recent These organisations deploy teams of volun- Sheikh Eid Charity Association, said, “The social prepared is unhealthy. report that almost half the food prepared during teers across the country during Ramadan to service centre at our organisation has deployed According to a study conducted by King Saud Ramadan in Qatar was expected to find its way collect leftovers. teams across the country to receive food from University, 30 percent of the four million dishes into garbage bins. During the holy month, by 8 pm every day they people who want to give away leftover food after prepared daily during Ramadan, worth about Qatar produces more than 2.5 million tonnes start getting calls asking them to collect leftovers having ceremonies at hotels, tents and homes. SR1.2m, go waste. Social scientists have called of municipal solid waste each year. According to from Iftar. The calls continue until early morn- We collect such food through the year, but during this “unacceptable behaviour”. the Qatar Green Building Council, more than ing the next day. Ramadan it increases, because people prepare Other reports suggest that more than 400 half the municipal solid waste generated in Qatar As soon as they receive a call from a home, more food and have many functions.” tonnes of food is wasted in Bahrain every day. is compostable, including leftover food. hotel or Ramadan tent asking them to collect “We give such food to the needy. We have a list Also, 25 percent of the food purchased in Bahrain Some hotels and restaurants told this news- leftovers, a team leaves in a specially designed of needy families to whom we provide dry food. during Ramadan is thrown away by households, paper that they were forced to throw away large vehicle. Cooked food is distributed to workers at work at an approximate annual cost of $395 a year amounts of leftovers from Iftar and Suhour The interior of the vehicle is fitted with shelves sites and at their accommodations,” he said. for each family. buffets. and a cooler to store food. Al Ibrahim said that the aim of the project was In 2012, the Dubai Municipality estimated that They said that people tended to order more Another team of volunteers checks if the food to get Al Nema (grace from God) and prevent during Ramadan 55 percent of the household food than they could eat. is suitable for consumption, and then heats and food wastage. waste, amounting to 1,850 tonnes daily, consists “We open the restaurant at 6pm, and people packs it. He said it was sinful to throw away food that of food. THE PENINSULA rush in and fill their plates with food as much as On some days, even chicken importers and is good for consumption. Instead, it should be they can. But they cannot eat everything. Some wholesalers of vegetables and fruits ask charities offered to the poor and the needy (without eat a bit of everything and leave the rest. We to collect stock that they could not sell but which regard to their race or religion). If there are no can’t even give such leftover food to anyone. It’s is suitable for human consumption. needy people (which is unlikely), it should be very sad to see that we throw away so much food All types of food are collected, checked, packed given to animals. every day,” said the manager at a restaurant and distributed within an hour to ensure it is fit Last year, the theme of the World Environment popular for its daily buffets. to be eaten. Day was ‘Think.Eat.Save’, which sent out a mes- This year, Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah for The food is distributed among low-income sage to prevent food waste and food loss and Humanitarian Services and Sheikh Eid Charity workers at the central market, needy families encouraged people to reduce their ‘foodprint.’ Association are involved in collecting leftovers in the Abu Hamour area, people at the Imam According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year in the world. This is equivalent to the amount of food pro- duced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, one in seven people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 children under the age of five die daily from hunger. But sadly, some hotels throw away food just because the recipe was not followed accurately. “We have an internal memo that says that food has to be discarded if the recipe goes wrong. We have to throw away such food although it’s consumable. The possibility of throwing away such food increases during Ramadan as we get more orders,” said a senior official in charge of food and beverages in a group that owns two hotels in Doha. Some other hotels distribute leftovers to their employees the following day. “There are two types of leftover food: one is untouched food left on the dishes, and the other is that left on plates after eating. We are forced to throw away food left on the plates. I cannot Pics: Salim Matramkot, Abdul Basit Home JULY 12, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Emir hosts Iftar for Armed Forces, Police

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday hosted an Iftar banquet at Wajba Palace in honour of commanders and senior officers of the Armed Forces and Police. The Emir’s Personal Representative H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, H H Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani were also present.

Al Attiyah, Kerry hold telephone Garangao talks on Gaza DOHA: The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah yesterday received a telephone call from US tradition Secretary of State John Kerry. Talks covered the situation in Gaza Strip. Hot, dusty day with comes alive strong winds likely DOHA: Ramadan customs and added Al Khayyat. DOHA: The day will be hot traditions such as the Garangao In the past three years, NMoQ today and slightly dusty at remain rooted in the modern has shown keenness to promote times, with strong winds mak- Qatari society amid the fast the deep-rooted Qatari tradition ing horizontal visibility quite paced progress the country is of Garangao by organising unique low. witnessing. activities. Wind direction will be north- “Garangao is an activity that “Last year the focus was fash- westerly, meaning it wouldn’t be reflects Qatari culture and holds ion; this year it is the Garangao much hot. Speed would range the same significance as in the bag, which mothers used to make between 15 and 30 knots during past. at homes in the past. This is daytime. “It is very important for us mainly for tourists and residents However, as evening to maintain this tradition and to know about this tradition,” he Children taking part in Garangao activities at Aspire Fan Zone yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P approaches, the wind would lose keep it going on in the future,” explained. speed to 10 knots. Mahmoud Al Khayyat, Head of At last night’s activity, children The Weather Bureau said in a Guidance, National Museum of designed their Garangao bags forecast yesterday that the sea Qatar (NMoQ), told this daily with the help of parents and the would be rough with slight dust yesterday. best ones won gift vouchers. hanging in the air and clouds NMoQ, together with museums Other museums and depart- playing hide and seek. Wind speed and departments, organised activ- ments also participated in the in the seas will be from 12 to 22 ities at AlRiwaq Doha exhibition event and held their activities. knots. space last night with a focus on The 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Visibility will initially be Garangao bags. Sports Museum hosted tradi- between four and eight km, “In the middle of Ramadan, tional Qatari games for children gradually dropping to three km Qatari families still prepare these while Mathaf held a jewellery at times. bags to make children feel the workshop. Day temperatures could soar Garangao atmosphere,” said Al Qatar Museums’ (QM) Family to 47 degrees C in places like Khayyat. Programmes organised a Lunar Mesaieed and Al Wakra, while From the 1950s until now, fami- Scope activity, the Public Art the night would be cooler with the lies prefer to make bags rather Department held a mixed media mercury levels down to 29. than buy them. Children carry art wall workshop and the In Doha, the maximum tem- bags around the neighbourhood, Publication Department hosted perature forecast is 45 degrees singing the Garangao song and a puppet show. There were also a and the minimum 35. asking for nuts and sweets, he traditional Brazilian sweets and In Al Khor, the temperature explained. authentic Qatari food corner. will vary between 28 (at night) “Many things have changed but Another Garangao event was and 46 degrees (daytime). the spirit of Garangao remains held at Aspire Fan Zone last Al Ruwais will witness the which is to give joy to children and night, in which hundreds of chil- coolest day with the maximum this cannot be taken from them. dren in traditional Qatari cos- temperature being 38 degrees And I believe this will be contin- tumes participated. Celsius. Garangao celebrations held at Museum of Islamic Art. ABDUL BASI T ued by the coming generations,” THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA/QNA

High rental income pushes Grant for research to help HMC up demand for real estate develop safer medication practices

DOHA: Demand for real estate across 2014, he said it was basically triggered by DOHA: Health researchers development of more robust “The collaboration will the country is on an upswing since an heavy influx of foreign workers for various from Aberdeen are working and enhanced medication help cement research rela- increasing number of investors and development projects. on an innovative project in practices at HMC.” tionships with Qatar and developers are attracted to the sector Additionally, government spending on the Middle East to iden- In addition to three gen- hopefully lead to additional inspired by high rental income. mega infrastructure development projects tify causes of medication eral hospitals – Al Khor collaborations with other According to real estate company, and on public amenities has been going up errors at Hamad Medical Hospital, Al Wakra Hospital countries in the Middle East.” Roots, rental income from real estate substantially. Corporation. and the Cuban Hospital Prof Donald Cairns, Head has been giving more returns than bank Banks and financial institutions have Professor Derek Stewart – HMC also manages five of School of Pharmacy and deposits. been lending to people liberally to invest from Robert Gordon specialist hospitals, Hamad Life Sciences, said: “This is And this partly explains why real estate in real estate and this is also one of the University’s (RGU) School of General Hospital, Rumailah great recognition for Prof transactions in the first half of this year factors responsible for the increasing Pharmacy and Life Sciences Hospital, Women’s Hospital, Stewart and his team. The (January to June) soared to a record demand, said Al Oroqui. is leading a multi-national the National Centre for school has been working with QR24.41bn ($6.7bn). Investors and developers are buying research team to help HMC Cancer Care and Research partners in the Gulf for sev- This was disclosed by the Managing more property to launch housing and strengthen procedures and and Heart Hospital. eral years and this award will Director of Roots, Ahmed Al Oroqui, in other projects and bringing over more develop safer medication They look after patients reinforce these relationships.” remarks published by local Arabic daily and more foreign workers. practices. with the most prevalent con- QNRF was established in Al Raya yesterday. Areas in the north (Al Shamal) are The project involves Professor Derek Stewart ditions, including cancer and 2006 as part of the govern- The growth in the value of transactions witnessing hectic development. However, researchers from RGU, heart conditions, and pro- ment’s on-going commitment in H1 was a high of 18.44 percent over the as for Doha, owners are waiting and University of Aberdeen, Wellbeing Research, has been vide rehabilitation services to establish Qatar as a knowl- same period of last year, Al Oroqui said. watching and are not selling prime real Queen’s University Belfast, working with Prof Moza Al and specialist treatment for edge-based economy. According to him, the value of real estate except when offered the price of HMC and Qatar University. Hail and her colleagues at women and children. It views research as essen- estate transactions was more (QR24.78bn) their asking, Al Oroqui said. The team has been HMC for several years. Prof Cherry Wainwright, tial to national and regional in the first half of 2012 — in fact, having Many real estate owners in Doha are awarded a grant of $600,000 He said: “Errors in medica- Director, Institute for Health growth, and a means to diver- dropped to QR20.61bn in H1 of 2013. waiting for the government to make by Qatar National Research tion are known to be world- & Wellbeing Research, said: sify the country’s economy, Talking of H1 of this year, Al Oroqui public urban plan for the city that would Foundation (QNRF) to iden- wide issues which can have “This is an excellent advance enhance educational offer- said 4,503 deals took place in the six specify commercial and residential areas. tify what causes medication a major effect on patient in our research efforts in ings and develop areas that months compared to 3,918 in the first Some are waiting for the government errors and the organisation’s care and safety. These can the field of pharmacy prac- affect the community, such as half of 2013. to specify the height of buildings in the reporting structures. occur during the prescribing, tice, demonstrating the health and environment. Referring to rising demand for real capital city. Prof Stewart, also a prin- administration and dispens- international reach of the For details about QNRF, estate during the first six months of THE PENINSULA cipal researcher at RGU’s ing of medication. We hope research that Prof Stewart visit www.qnrf.org Institute for Health and the research will lead to the is undertaking. THE PENINSULA JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Defence Minister Families finding it hard holds talks in Mongolia DOHA: Mongolian to manage finances Defence Minister Dashdemberel Bat- Erdene yesterday met the Minister of State Ramadan, summer break and Eid Al Fitr coincide this year for Defence Affairs H E Maj. Gen. Hamad DOHA: Many Qatari and expat are not budgeted for, said financially and many default in bin Ali Al Attiyah in families are finding it hard Abdullah. repaying bank loan installments. the capital Ulan Bator to manage their finances as Most families tend to exhaust An effective solution to the and discussed matters Ramadan, summer break and nearly 80 percent of their yearly problem is that families, espe- of mutual concern in Eid Al Fitr are coinciding this budgets in the first half of the cially those in limited-income defence affairs. year. year. brackets, should cancel overseas Al Attiyah also Many families, even if their This prompts them to approach travel plans this year since that attended celebrations to income is limited, travel overseas banks for loan and fall in a vicious also call for heavy expenses, said mark Mongolia’s National during the summer holidays. trap of having to repay the loan in Al Anzi. Day and Army Day. And only a little after they installments. The loan is topped “We cannot afford to ignore return, there will be back-to- off as time passes by and so the our Ramadan-related customs Cosmetics and www.swiss-belhotel.com school time for their children and trap never ends. and traditions but we can easily barely weeks later, it would be Eid Ramadan is a month when decide not to travel for fun,” he Tel beauty sector Al Adha. families must spend a lot of said. Fax While all these occasions are money on food since they must “We have highest salaries in the set to grow heartily welcome, they are being invite relatives, friends and neigh- region and probably in the world, held over a span of just four bours to dinner. but the irony is that we also have DOHA: Trading vol- months and all entail expenses, Another national, Mohamed Al a high cost of living,” he said. umes the field of beauty Tel said Rashid Abdullah, a citizen. Anzi, said what makes the situa- Yet another citizen, Mohamed and cosmetics in Qatar Fax He told Al Arab daily in com- tion more challenging for families Al Rasheedi, said limited-income and GCC countries have ments published yesterday that is that prices have always been families would do better not to risen significantly in families are under financial pres- showing an upward trend. take bank loans to splurge on recent years. sure and don’t know how to cope “We have never seen prices overseas trips. According to reports with the rising expenditure. come down once they have gone “We must stop imitating and and studies, Qatar Tel These are all occasions when up,” Al Anzi said. competing with others,” he added. retail sector reached Fax you must spend and the expenses This makes families struggle THE PENINSULA $8.9b driven by increase in annual income and expansion of shopping centres and commercial Tollfree complexes. Experts participat- Fax ing in Beauty World Newspapers ‘have more credibility Commercial Exhibition in Dubai recently, said the Tel retail market in GCC is expected to grow. Fax in Qatar and other GCC states’ The expo attracted DOHA: The print media is suf- more details. the print media has an edge when 28,632 traders from 122 fering in the West with its dig- Newspapers are also avail- it comes to covering local news countries and the number Tel ital version reigning supreme, able online in their PDF formats and events. of visitors increased Fax but in Qatar and other GCC so they can compete with news “The real competition of the by 11 percent this year states, people still have faith websites and digital and online print media with TV channels, compared to the last in the written word, says a top newspapers. wire agencies and the digital exhibition. media manager. The print media may be on a media is not in the realm of inter- It also attracted a large Tel Newspapers have more cred- decline in the West, but is still national news. It is in local news number of investors and Fax ibility in Qatar and the rest of influential in the GCC and Arab and events, more particularly visitors from Qatar. the GCC region, and are used as world, said the manager. social news,” he said. Ahmed Pauwels, Chief www.doha.hilton.com points of reference by people, the Social media is active in the The Public Relations Director Executive Officer, EPOC media manager told a forum late region but tends to post brief of the Ministry of Interior, Messe Frankfurt, said Tel +974 44233333 last week. news items and this prompts peo- Colonel Abdullah Al Muftah, people are focusing on The event was the sixth edi- ple to look up to the print media said the ministry’s Facebook had developing retail distribu- Fax +974 44233000 tion of Public Relations and for details. 100,000 followers. tion market in the region. Communications Forum, attended So, online media complements “The ministry is keen to use They are also trying by journalists and managers from its printed version in the region latest technology and this keeps to attract big brands in local Arabic news organisations. rather than giving competition to it in close touch with people.” the field of beauty and Social media and online news- elbow the latter out of reckoning. He said some ministries and cosmetics. papers are active in Qatar but “We are confident that the print government agencies have in- The exhibition also people don’t trust what they media will continue to be popular house magazines to document encouraged some interna- report unless it is corroborated by in the region in the near future,” events. However, since these pub- tional brands to look for the print media, according to him. said the media manager. lications use recycled paper they opportunity in the region. Some reports can be found only He said in Qatar and the rest aren’t liked much by people. THE PENINSULA Tel in local newspapers and provide of the region and the Arab world, THE PENINSULA Fax

Tel Fax GU team makes classic Greek play

Tel more relevant to Arab world Fax DOHA: An Arab version of the classical Greek play Antigone was brought to life on stage by students of Tel Georgetown University in Fax Qatar (GU-Q) for an audience of 150 students, staff, faculty, and family. The play staged at GU-Q Tel campus auditorium, was the first performance by the univer- Fax sity’s recently launched Theater Group. The play and the group were inspired and developed by stu- Tel dents, with support of faculty Fax and staff who oversaw logistics. Layanne Malluhi, a culture and politics sophomore, started modifying the Bertolt Brecht version of the script written by The team involved in the production of the play. Greek playwright Sophocles to make it more relevant to the “This was my first experience audience. young actors opened avenues for Middle East, in January this acting in a play. I have always “In one of Antigone’s court- discussion of important issues year. wanted to do theatre, and when room scene monologues, my they’ve encountered in their Tel When it was finalised, audi- I learned Antigone was the play, character cites her status as an lives and communities. Fax tions were held on the campus I researched the story, and fell unmarried woman as a personal “This theatre group is a with more than 20 students in love with it.” shame, and I could feel that wonderful example of relating taking part for 13 parts. An Al Noaimi was impressed many people in the audience a classic to the present day and email campaign was launched by the relevance of the story’s could relate to why she would Arab context.” Tel to encourage more male stu- message to a modern audience feel that way.” The play focuses on social, Fax dents to attend audition, since despite the fact that Antigone Saaliha Khan, Student legal, and spiritual dynamics female students outnumbered was written thousands of years Development Officer, provided of a war-torn dynasty, with the them. In the end, one male role ago. “My character makes ref- support and mentoring for the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone, www.renaissancedoha.com was rewritten for a female actor. erences to wealth, overspend- group — from script develop- clashing with her uncle, King Qatari student Hessa Al Noaimi ing, and losing one’s morals in ment to auditions up to the day Creon, who punishes her actions Tel +974 44195000 was cast in the title role of a modern world — and for me, of the performance. before ultimately forgiving Fax +974 44195100 Antigone, and Waleed Hachicho these are the challenges of our The Dean, Dr Gerd her. Central themes include played King Creon, Antigone’s Arab world, where we are trying Nonneman, said: “Theatre has Antigone’s determination and uncle and the ruler of Thebes, to focus on meaning and pro- long been a vital cultural plat- commitment to justice, the con- where the story is set. ductivity, not just consumption.” form for discussion of major flict between divine and secular “Five students auditioned for The culture and politics major ideas and themes in the study of law, and the role of women in the part of Antigone, and I was also cited the play’s commen- human civilisation, and with our society. The group may consider called in for a second audition tary on the changing role of students’ adaptation of Antigone follow-up performances. before I got it,” Al Noaimi said. women as relevant to a modern for an Arab environment, the THE PENINSULA JULY 12, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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Garangao in the air

he atmosphere was jovial at a number of institutions that Torganised activities yesterday to celebrate the traditional Garangao night for children, ahead of the actual celebration tonight, the 14th of Ramadan. On Thursday night, Qatar Foundation held a host of activities at the Al Shaqab indoor arena, where hundreds of children and families enjoyed traditional games, pony rides, henna application and other activities apart from traditional Garangao songs. Aspire and National Museum of Qatar also hosted activities aimed at preserving this Qatari tradition. Tonight, Katara Cultural Village Foundation will host this year’s biggest Garangao event. JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

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ALIBAN alone are not the enemy of Afghanistan. Its own government and officials are contributing to the current instability, as if what the country is Tgoing through is not enough. Nothing else can explain No golf, long days are new the stalemate stemming from allegations of poll fraud, and indications are that this crisis will leave wounds that will fester for a long time even if a solution is found soon. The problems erupted nearly a month ago after Abdullah norm for India’s bureaucrats Abdullah, a presidential candidate, who won the first round of voting in April but fell short of a majority, accused the country’s election commission of helping the government BY ANNIE GOWEN top civil servants, gave them his per- employees, but the elite officers — the secure a victory for his opponent in the June 14 runoff. sonal cellphone number and e-mail “babus” — are often targets of resent- Preliminary results released by the Independent Election AST week in one of India’s address and said it was time for work. ment because of their privilege, which Commission (IEC) showed Ghani in the lead with 56 percent, many government offices, the A circular appeared the next day include use of government-paid cars a stunning turnaround from the first round, in which he elevator was broken, stacks of with what has been called Modi’s “11 and drivers, accommodations and even secured just 32 percent. In the first round April 5, Abdullah Lfiles gathered dust and pot- Commandments” — orders to clean golf club memberships. ted plants drooped in the heat. Worse, work spaces, shorten forms, weed out According to a story on Powerbuzz. won 45 percent of the vote, but now he trails Ghani with just when the new boss showed up for an old files and review goals. in, a Web site devoted to the comings 43 percent. Complicating matters, the IEC Chairman Ahmad impromptu inspection at 9 a.m., he The cleanup has already begun. and goings of India’s civil servants, Yusuf Nuristani admitted that the results had been marred by found rows of empty desks. Dozens Workers have been throwing out the home ministry has gone so far as widespread vote-rigging and cautioned that the figures were of his employees broken furniture and equipment and to allegedly compile a list of bureau- not final tallies. hadn’t shown up mounds of paperwork that accumu- crats known to frequent golf courses, Since then, Abdullah has threatened to form a parallel on time. lated over the previous administra- five-star hotels and private clubs and “There were tion’s decade in power, during which forwarded it to the prime minister’s government, pushing the country into a dangerous point. His Babudom is no people in their time India’s inefficient and corrupt office. threat was condemned by Washington, which is the chief offices,” said the bureaucracy became a symbol of the “The new government is sending donor of the state and said it would not tolerate any such now in peril. newly appointed country’s stalled progress. When the a message to the senior bureaucracy, action and would withdraw aid. Modi signaled minister, Prakash home ministry cleaned its cabinets which is: You can’t switch off,” said If the presidential The US Secretary of State John Javadekar, sound- of 150,000 files recently, the Times of T.S.R. Subramanian, a former cabinet Kerry arrived in Kabul yesterday to as much in the ing pained. “They India reported, they unearthed his- secretary, the highest-level civil serv- run-off was must come on toric documents dating to the British ant post in India. push for a resolution. He met with fraudulent, early days of his time and they Raj. The impact of the rumored list both candidates — former Foreign must work. This Modi has gotten into the act by has already been felt at the historic Afghanistan Minister Abdullah and former administration, whole govern- performing spot checks himself and Delhi Golf Club, where about 200 must go for re- World Bank executive Ashraf Ghani. when he ment mind- calling ministers on their land lines to bureaucrats used to tee off on cooler He also met with Afghan President set needs to be see if they are at their desks. afternoons amid Mughal-era tombs summoned changed.” The prime minister’s habit of work- as peacocks strolled. Many have now election or find a Hamid Karzai and UN officials. India’s ing long hours — he’s up at 5:30 most canceled their memberships, accord- solution that is It’s easy to threaten Abdullah about 70 of the prime minis- mornings for yoga and works far into ing to one executive board member, fully acceptable to with action, and it’s also wrong on government’s top ter, Narendra the evening — has meant his under- and a few die-hards switched their Abdullah as he is his part to precipitate a situation Modi, has not lings are working 18-hour days, too. tee times to 5:30 a.m. so they can still that would create instability and civil servants, been in office for And Saturdays. (Many government make it to work on time. the victim of this chaos. But unfortunately, there is even 100 days. employees are now expected to come “What will happen of this list? God gave them But he arrived in on Saturdays, but a proposal for a knows,” said Sanu Nair, the manag- a lack of seriousness on the part fraud. his personal in the capital formal six-day work week has been ing editor of Powerbuzz. “At one level of Afghan government to look into with more than scrapped.) it seems to have performed its trick, the charges he has made and find a cellphone number a dozen years “Yes, we are all working 10 to which is to keep the bureaucrats convincing solution. First of all, the election commission itself and e-mail experience as a 12 hours every day. There are no under check.” has admitted the results had been marred by widespread vote- state leader who Saturdays or Sundays anymore. I have (Optional add end) rigging which convincingly questions Ghani’s claimed victory. address and said governed with told my family there will be no holiday Subadra, 40, a senior accountant control and knew for me,” Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new who uses only one name, said that she Secondly, though the election commission has ‘Independent’ it was time for how to get work law minister, said at a news conference had been late for the surprise check in its name, it is not genuinely independent considering that it out of India’s this week. He praised the prime min- but managed to avoid the “interroga- failed to prevent the vote-rigging. The commission is working work. famously ineffi- ister for restoring a sense of “sanctity tion” that followed. Still, she said, she under the government of Karzai and therefore is likely to be cient bureaucrats, and purpose to the bureaucracy.” likes the new spirit in the air in her influenced by the rulers in Kabul. This is not a conjecture known as “babus.” (Woe to the citi- There are more than 5,500 elite formerly moribund office. zen whose government file is “lost in officers in the Indian Administrative “The atmosphere is more brisk because Afghanistan’s system is corrupt and riddled with flaws. Babudom,” they say. It may never be Service. They are considered the and active. People are becoming more Third, by adopting a tough stance against Abdullah, is the US recovered.) crème de la crème of the country’s busy,” she said. “I don’t know quality- indicating a preference for Ghani? Babudom is now in peril. Modi university graduates each year and wise what’s happening because we’re If the run-off was fraudulent, the country must go for signaled as much in the early days get their jobs through an extremely still doing the same work. But we start re-election or find a solution that is fully acceptable to of his administration, when he sum- competitive civil service exam. The early now!” Abdullah as he is the victim of this fraud. Kerry’s visit should moned about 70 of the government’s central government itself has 3 million WP-BLOOMBERG be focused on that. The other side Quote of Good beginning, but hurdles ahead the day NION finance minister Arun are pointers to the new government’s less about allowing foreign investors to wholesale inflation. Dismantling its Jaitley has struck the right intent to help India rapidly move many access to household savings. high-cost energy economy has been a notes on the broader issue rungs up as a business-friendly and India is in dire need of resources to crusade India has shied away from for Uof economic reforms in India. rules-based destination. fund its infrastructure requirements. too long. With the economy’s growth For a capital-scarce economy, allowing A modern, competitive economy Likewise, market-determined fuel showing little signs of recovering to overseas investors to deploy funds in will have to offer its citizens an abun- prices are a precondition to reducing levels India was used to before 2008, The rebels will high-growth sectors is, perhaps, the dance of options to positively exploit the tax burden petroleum carries in the government cannot afford to turn first step in seeking to spin jobs and a basket of opportunities. India. A third of excise duty collection its attention to factors other than pay for the life of multiply income. In his budget, the This is precisely the reason why it comes from petroleum products. those that ought to raise the trend line. minister has clearly stated the NDA is vital for the government to press Even with the subsidy in place, pet- Slower expansion will affect hiring and every one of our government’s position on key issues. ahead with the other critical reforms. rol costs more at an Indian gas sta- job prospects. Weak income growth, servicemen with The proposal to form an Expenditure Hiking the FDI ceiling to 49% from tion than it does in the United States. on the other hand, will also affect sales Management Commission mandated 26% in the private insurance sector, Part of the reason for India’s relative of a range of goods. Unless pressing tens and hundred of to suggest ways and means to prune which was being hobbled by lack of lack of competitiveness among Asian policy and implementation issues are public spending, overhauling the capital, and allowing FDI in the pen- manufacturing exporters is its expen- addressed, even achieving and sus- their own. subsidy regime, easing FDI norms in sion sector is more about reversing sive energy: The latest round of hikes taining a 6.5pc growth could be dif- Petro Poroshenko insurance, defence and real estate the slowdown in the economy, and could add up to a percentage point ficult. Hindustan Times Ukraine’s President JULY 12, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Kenya’s coastal killings pose insurgency risk Security forces have rounded up hundreds of people, often Kenyans of Somali origin, after attacks in past months. Most were released without charge.

BY EDMUND BLAIR Macharia Munene, a professor at Nairobi’s United States International enya may face a full-blown University said the failure to stop the insurgency on its coast attacks built on a growing list of unful- unless President Uhuru filled promises from the government that Kenyatta can douse a com- range from handing out laptops to school bustible mix of ethnic rival- kids to sacking officials who fail in their Kries, land rows and Islamist militancy. jobs. Kenyatta, 52, son of Kenya’s first Gunmen have killed about 100 people president, has already had a challenging since mid-June, exposing festering prob- time in office, and faces trial in October lems that could test Kenyatta’s ability to in the International Criminal Court on reassure a nation fretting about wider allegations he orchestrated ethnic vio- security a little more than a year into lence after the disputed 2007 election. his first term. Despite dozens of arrests, The president’s initial public response the government has yet to identify the to the first attacks last month, when gun- culprits. men killed 65 people in an area around “We have a serious radicalisation Mpeketoni in Lamu County, which lies threat,” said Rashid Abdi, a specialist on near the Somali border, baffled and Kenya and the Horn of Africa, who sees angered many Kenyans in equal measure. Supporters of the opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy attending a rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi on Monday. the “beginning of a coastal insurgency” Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamists said supported by regional Islamists and they were behind the attacks, a group other groups playing on local grievances. Kenya has routinely blamed for a spate were political point-scoring against The government denies bias. Buku said they have so far not found the attackers. Investors have so far been unperturbed, of violence on the coast and in Nairobi Odinga, a Luo who has been whipping 60,000 deeds had been handed out, with Sheikh Juma Ngao, Chairman of the piling into Kenya’s debut Eurobond last in recent months. Al Shabaab says such up crowds with anti-government rallies. one 1 million more planned. Experts say Kenya Muslim National Advisory Council, month even as bodies were counted on the attacks are revenge for Kenya’s deploy- It is a high-stakes row in a nation where the complaints run back decades to when said police action built resentment. coast. But if the government fails to stop ment of troops against its forces in neigh- politics and ethnic loyalties are inter- Kenyatta’s father was president after “All these (issues) angered many of the those driving the attacks and address bouring Somalia. But Kenyatta swiftly twined, a toxic brew that has erupted in independence in 1963, and even to British radical Muslims, and what we are see- local grievances, Kenyatta’s promise to dismissed the claim this time and blamed violence in the past. “(Kenyatta) should colonial times. But the coastal killings, ing in Lamu could be revenge,” he said. lift already stuttering growth may start local political networks instead in what have cooled his heels and acted like a which left many Kikuyus among the “Combined with the historical issues to look empty. his critics say was an attempt to impli- statesman,” said one diplomat. dead, may have aimed to touch a nerve about resources, then you have a full- The chilling message scrawled on a cate his presidential rival Raila Odinga. Singling out politicians also runs the in State House in Nairobi. Mpeketoni was blown problem.” wall in Lamu town, an old Arab trading Experts, diplomats and police suggest risk of ignoring the grievances that can known as a mostly Kikuyu town. While the public frets, the government port near where attacks erupted, reads a confluence of factors at work, which be exploited by Islamist advocates of mili- “They seem to be determined to break can take solace that investors have so “Boko Haram ndio njia” in Swahili, or did not preclude Somali-linked Islamists tancy or secessionists like the Mombasa down the president emotionally, by taking far taken security worries in their stride. “Boko Haram is the way”, referring to an with help from disgruntled local players. Republican Movement. the war right to his doorstep,” said one The tourist industry may have taken Islamist insurgency that is the scourge of Aides insist Kenyatta has intelligence Traditional coastal people have long police source, who asked not to be named. a beating but Kenya has a diversified northeastern Nigeria. backing his assertion that politicians are complained of neglect by central gov- Police tactics may also have helped economy, which reassures investors. Kenyatta’s administration, already fac- to blame and say he has the issue in hand. ernment and favouritism towards more provide fertile ground for militants. Kenya’s first Eurobond worth $2bn ing criticism for mishandling an Islamist Munyori Buku, the presidency’s senior recent arrivals to the region, includ- Security forces have rounded up hun- closed oversubscribed in mid-June just attack on a Nairobi shopping mall last communications director, said security ing Kikuyus who originally come from dreds of people, often Kenyans of Somali after the first raids. But they may not year that left 67 dead, says it is chasing forces would have the problem wrapped uplands in the centre of the east African origin, after attacks in past months. Most remain sanguine. down the culprits of recent assaults and up in the “next few days and weeks”. He country. were released without charge. Handing out title deeds needs to move has security under control. said long-standing complaints had to Land ownership is a major grumble. Three leading radical Islamist preach- faster, and the government must deal Political opponents accuse the govern- be addressed but said they could not be Coastal people say they are treated as ers have been killed on the coast in the with other complaints such as unemploy- ment of relying on heavy-handed police blamed for the violence by “terrorists and squatters on ancestral land with no for- past two years by gunmen, sparking pro- ment, made more difficult with hotels tactics and playing politics instead of criminals”. Opponents, however, said the mal documents where newcomers have tests. Many Muslims call them extra- struggling or closing as tourists flee the addressing the real causes. comments by Kenyatta, an ethnic Kikuyu, been given title deeds. judicial killings, which police deny but coastal region. REUTERS Netanyahu hopes to avoid Gaza operation How to understand The problem is that teen jihadists’ minds ceasefires require BY SIMON JENKINS friend of mine once gazed at her wayward teenagers and mediators – Israel told me she could handle the usual drugs. The one thing she couldn’t deal with was them “getting religion”. How awful and Hamas have no A must the agony be of parents who find their children vanished “to fight jihad” in the Middle East. What could have induced two teenage boys from Cardiff and two direct channels of 16-year-old Manchester girls to go to Syria? Young people have long felt the romance of distant wars – Spain in the 1930s or the French communication. And Foreign Legion – but surely not a Salafist dispute with the Alawite faction of Shiaism over the control of the caliphate. Ten percent of British children under five are Muslims, and will Egypt, which brokered one day be teenagers. Many attend mosques teaching the Quran and Shariah law. How many instruct in pluralism and tolerance is moot. the 2012 truce, seems When I used to visit Muslim countries such as Turkey, Egypt, Syria and Iraq, I was impressed at how far their secular regimes, however uninterested. dictatorial, guarded religious tolerance. The Baathists and others might be politically brutal, but they were foes of religious extremism: from Ataturk and Nasser to Assad and Saddam, they held the fundamental- BY DAN EPHRON US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ists at bay. The British author Ed Husain wrote movingly in his book The Islamist of the multi-faith liberalism he found in Damascus just o understand whether Israeli Prime Israel responded with a broad sweep of the Egypt shares a border with Gaza and a peace a decade ago. Conventional wisdom then saw Islam as evolving, like Minister Benjamin Netanyahu West Bank that left at least five Palestinians accord with Israel, making it a natural can- Christianity, to respect a division between church and state. Scholars intends to send ground troops into dead. The tension level rose again when a didate. But recently elected President Abdel extolled the contemplative, pacifist passages in the Quran. To Husain TGaza, it might help to scrutinise one 16-year-old Palestinian was burned to death on Fattah Al Sisi views Hamas as an ally of the London was far more dangerous than Damascus. of his decisions from this week. July 2, apparently by Jewish extremists. Hamas Egyptian movement he ousted from govern- We now know better. Resurgent fundamentalism has proved cruelly While the Islamic Hamas group pummeled began targeting Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities ment last summer, the Muslim Brotherhood. intolerant on a medieval scale. Most Britons are quite unable to dis- Israel with rockets and took deadly hits from with its long-range rockets. Though Israel has Other countries, including Turkey, might entangle the divisions and chaos now enveloping much of the Muslim Israeli warplanes, the cabinet announced that managed to intercept most of the rockets with be willing to step forward. But Israeli military world. They see only the promise of an “Arab spring” dissipated, and it had authorised the army to mobilise 40,000 its “Iron Dome” missile shield, Netanyahu now officials believe that only Egypt has the kind a civilisation that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Pacific reservists – a huge force by any measure. faces pressure from hardliners in his coalition to of relationship with Israel — and leverage with tearing itself apart. As for the disputes of Sunnis and Shias, Salafists A large operation against Hamas would go beyond the airs trikes, which have killed more Hamas – required to broker a deal. and Wahhabis, they leave people baffled. There is no sign of the long- certainly involve reservists. But when Israel than 70 people in Gaza. At a cabinet meeting “Hamas wants greater openness at the awaited “Muslim reformation”. Even in liberal Britain, many young genuinely prepares for military campaigns, it earlier in the week, they urged him to deploy border and only Egypt can deliver that,” says people seem susceptible to the most authoritarian edicts of the Quran. does so quietly, often censoring information infantry units that can engage Hamas fighters Itamar Yaar, a retired Israeli colonel who served Those Westerners who exulted in the Arab spring now seem naive about call ups and imposing gag orders on directly and locate the group’s arsenals. on Israel’s National Security Council from 2003 visionaries. The uprisings may have toppled some secular bullies, often journalists. Announcements, by contrast, are But ground campaigns never go the way to 2008. Yaar predicted that Netanyahu would with the aid of western arms, but the resulting chaos delivered fanati- made when Israel is trying to send a message they’re planned in Gaza, which Hamas has stick with air strikes as long as Hamas rock- cal authority as the only focus of order and intellectual coherence. – to quell Hamas without having to put its controlled since 2007. Netanyahu would likely ets were being deflected. But the longer the All that the west can sensibly now do is look on with pain and sym- own troops at risk. In reality, the army has face a domestic backlash if significant num- bombardments persist, the greater the chances pathy. We have no dogs in these fights. On Monday the former head called up only a few hundred soldiers to date. bers of soldiers died in the operation. are that one will get through and kill Israelis, of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove ridiculed the idea that teenage jihadists In his long political career, Netanyahu has If Palestinians died in large numbers, raising pressure on Netanyahu to invade Gaza. pose an existential threat to Britain. The power of Isis and its rival shown little appetite for ground campaigns and Netanyahu would risk international criticism For its part, Hamas is unlikely to initiate a Al Qaeda to harm Britain was wildly exaggerated. “Blood-curdling” for the right reasons. Gaza is a messy place to and further isolation of Israel. The last time ceasefire. The group was in bad shape before invitations to young Britons to go out and fight should be down-played. wage war, with two million people crammed Israel invaded Gaza, in 2008, it killed more the latest round of fighting – so bad that it As Dearlove implies, religious wars are always the worst, but they are cheek-by-jowl into a tiny space. But for all his than 1,400 Palestinians and drew war crimes may have nothing to lose. Much of Hamas’s also the hardest to end. Outsiders rarely make them better. reluctance, the Israeli leader could well find charges from the UN. revenue had come from taxing the smuggling The people of the Muslim world clearly need the west’s humanitar- himself ordering an incursion anyway – mainly So for now Netanyahu prefers to continue tunnels. Since Egypt shut them down, the ian aid and sanctuary in distress. Britain must accept that there will because there seems to be no effective mediator the air assault on Gaza until Hamas agrees group has had trouble paying the salaries of be echoes of their conflicts in its domestic communities. But the glint available to broker a ceasefire. to a long-term ceasefire. The problem is that civil servants and in Gaza. in the eye of Washington and London that Islam’s tribal tribulations The latest flare-up with the Islamic group is ceasefires require mediators – Israel and Though the casualties are rising in the might be relieved with more guns, more missiles and more soldiers the worst since 2012. It started with the kid- Hamas have no direct channels of communi- Strip, the rocket attacks have at least restored is cynical warmongering. We have done more damage to the Muslim napping and killing of three Israeli teens last cation. And Egypt, which brokered the 2012 Hamas’s status as a pillar of resistance against world than it has ever done to us. We should leave it alone. We have month, which Netanyahu blamed on Hamas. truce, seems uninterested. Israel. REUTERS weed enough in our own garden. THE GUARDIAN JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Toll rises to 105 on day 4 of Gaza carnage Israel rejects international pressure for truce; Hamas warns airlines it will target Tel Aviv airport

GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israel Yesterday, Washington affirmed The deaths raise to 105 the said yesterday it would not bow Israel’s right to defend itself in a toll since Israel began Operation to international pressure to end statement from the Pentagon. But Protective Edge early Tuesday in air strikes in Gaza that officials Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel an attempt to halt cross-border there said had killed over 100 told Israeli Defence Minister rocket fire by militant groups. Palestinians, despite an offer by Moshe Ya’alon he was concerned Since then, militants have fired US President Barack Obama to “about the risk of further esca- at least 500 mortar rounds and help negotiate a ceasefire with lation and emphasized the need rockets that struck Israel, while militants. for all sides to do everything they another 130 rockets were inter- Asked if Israel might move can to protect civilian lives and cepted by the Iron Dome missile from the mostly aerial attacks restore calm.” defence system, an army spokes- of the past four days into a A rocket caused the first seri- woman said yesterday. ground war in Gaza to stop mili- ous Israeli casualty — one of eight It is the deadliest violence since tant rocket fire, Prime Minister people hurt when a fuel tanker November 2012, with a grow- Benjamin Netanyahu replied, “we was hit at a service station in ing number of rockets fired at are weighing all possibilities and Ashdod, 30km north of Gaza, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and even preparing for all possibilities.” and Palestinian militants warned as far north as Haifa. So far, no “No international pressure international airlines they would Israelis have been killed. will prevent us from acting with fire rockets at Tel Aviv’s main air- However, a soldier was severely all power,” he told reporters in port. Two Palestinians were killed wounded in a mortar attack late Tel Aviv a day after a telephone in an Israeli strike late yesterday, on Thursday, and another man conversation with Obama about raising the death toll in four days was very seriously injured when the worst flare-up in Israeli- of violence to 105, Gaza health a rocket hit a petrol station in Palestinian violence in almost ministry spokesman Ashraf Al the southern port city of Ashdod two years. Qudra said. early yesterday. Two soldiers were Hamas’ armed wing has warned Earlier, a three-year-old child lightly wounded along the border airlines that it intends to target was killed when a home in north- with Gaza when Palestinians fired Israel’s Ben Gurion International ern Gaza was hit, Qudra said, an anti-tank missile. Israel has Airport with its rockets from shortly after an elderly man was authorised the call-up of 40,000 Gaza and has told them not to fly killed in Beit Lahiya. reservist troops, and threatened Smoke billows from buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City yesterday. Israel’s aerial bombardment there, a statement by the group The body of a man killed earlier a ground operation to stamp out of Gaza claimed its 105th Palestinian life as Hamas pounded central Israel with rockets and Washington offered said. The airport, Israel’s main in the week was also found in Deir the rocket fire. AGENCIES to help broker a truce. international aerial gateway, Al Balah, Qudra said. has been fully operational since Yesterday morning, six Israel began an aerial offensive Palestinians were killed in two on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip and strikes, including one on the home UN warns Israel against targeting civilians Palestinian militants intensified of an Islamic Jihad militant in the their cross-border rocket fire. southern city of Rafah, medical NEW YORK: The United However, the Israeli prime humanitarian law and interna- with all power,” he said, claiming Palestinian President Mahmoud sources said. Nations’ top human rights offi- minister Netanyahu, said his gov- tional human rights law.” to have recently had “good con- Abbas urged the United Nations Witnesses said the militant, cial has called for an investiga- ernment would not be deflected Pillay added that the “indis- versations” with leaders including Security Council to order an Abdel Razzaq Al Ghannam, was tion into Israeli air strikes on by criticism from abroad, refus- criminate firing of rockets from Barack Obama and EU heads of immediate truce. But Israel said not at home when the attack Gaza, on the grounds that the ing to rule out a ground offensive Gaza” could also constitute a government. it was determined to end cross- took place, but five other people, targeting of Palestinian homes and vowing there would be more breach. He claimed Israeli planes and border rocket attacks that inten- including a woman and a seven- — resulting in a high death toll air strikes “Every alleged breach of inter- drones had attacked more than sified last month after its forces year-old child, were killed. among civilians, particularly Pillay said her office had national law must be promptly, 1,000 targets in Gaza, adding, arrested hundreds of activists Another 15 people were children — could violate inter- received “deeply disturbing independently, thoroughly and “there are still more to go”. He from the Islamist Hamas move- wounded in the attack which national law. reports that many of the civilian effectively investigated, with a said Israel had already struck ment in the occupied West Bank came an hour after another raid The warning from Navi Pillay, casualties, including children, view to ensuring justice and repa- Gaza with twice the force used following the abduction there of on Gaza City’s Tel Al Hawa neigh- the UN high commissioner for occurred as a result of strikes on rations for the victims,” she said. during the last offensive of its three Jewish teenagers who were bourhood that killed 33-year-old human rights, came on the fourth homes” in Gaza. “Such reports Netanyahu shrugged off criti- kind in 2012, and he would not later found killed. A Palestinian Anas Abu Al Kass. Qudra said 154 day of Israel’s bombing of the raise serious doubt about whether cism and said the bombing would rule out an incursion by ground youth was killed in Jerusalem in people were wounded in strikes Gaza Strip and a rocket barrage the Israeli strikes have been in continue. “No international pres- troops. a suspected Israeli revenge attack. across the Gaza enclave yesterday. of Israel by Islamist militants. accordance with international sure will prevent us from acting GUARDIAN NEWS

Two killed in Cairo protest Iraqi forces Two Sudanese activists executed 250 freed after alleged torture Sunni prisoners, KHARTOUM: Two Sudanese political activists allegedly tor- tured during two months in detention were released yesterday says watchdog along with a third activist, the mother of one said. “Thanks be to God,” said Sabah Osman Mohammed, whose son BAGHDAD: Iraq’s security Tajalsir Jaafar, 28, was among those freed. forces and allied Shia militias She said Jaafar had just contacted her by telephone to say that he, executed at least 255 Sunni Mohammed Salah and Moamer Musa Mohammed had been released. prisoners as they fled a light- They were in a car and had not yet reached her home, she said. ning jihadist-led advance last The three were detained outside the University of Khartoum on month, Human Rights Watch May 12, according to Girifna, a non-violent movement seeking an end said yesterday. to President Omar Hasan Bashir’s government. “Iraqi security forces and mili- The university had been in turmoil, with clashes between pro- tias affiliated with the govern- government youths and their opponents, after a student was killed ment appear to have unlawfully during a campus rally for peace in the western region of Darfur. executed at least 255 prisoners... Mashood Adebayo Baderin, the United Nations independent expert since June 9,” the watchdog said on human rights in the Sudan, told reporters in late June that he was in a statement. Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi gather during a demonstration in Cairo’s northern concerned about the cases of all three youths. “The mass extrajudicial killings district of Matariya, yesterday. Two people were shot dead in clashes in Cairo after Friday prayers. Speaking at the end of his latest mission to Sudan, Baderin said may be evidence of war crimes he “had information from various sources” that Salah “was being or crimes against humanity,” the tortured.” New York-based HRW said. Baderin said that if the National Intelligence and Security Service It said the killings appeared to had a case against the youths they should be brought to court. have been carried out in revenge Otherwise they should be freed, he said. for the onslaught led by what Kurds seize oilfields, ministers After visiting Salah in detention, his family issued a statement was still known last month as saying his body bore signs of physical abuse. the Islamic State in Iraq and the The weeping mother of Jaafar said at a July 5 press conference that Levant (ISIL). pull out of Maliki government he had been beaten about the face. The group, which has since If the family has such a complaint it should be taken to a prosecutor, rebranded itself as the Islamic BAGHDAD: Kurdish forces have not been producing signifi- to be used as a base for the Islamic rather than being raised in the media, a security source responded State (IS), is a Sunni extrem- seized two oilfields in northern cant volumes since March when State and others, including former in comments said. ist organisation which last Iraq and took over operations Baghdad’s Kirkuk-Ceyhan export members of Saddam Hussein’s month overran large swathes from a state-run oil company pipeline was sabotaged. now-banned Baath Party. of Iraq, including second city yesterday, while Kurdish politi- An oil ministry spokesman in In protest against the accusa- Tunisian police teargas rally Mosul, and has since declared a cians formally suspended their Baghdad described the takeover tion, the Kurdish political bloc “caliphate” straddling the bor- participation in Prime Minister as dangerous and irresponsible. announced they were suspend- der with Syria. Nouri Al Maliki’s government. Kurdish authorities said they ing their participation in the against ‘extremists’ arrests “Gunning down prisoners The moves escalated a feud had moved to “secure the oilfields Baghdad government. Foreign is an outrageous violation of between the Shia-led central of Bai Hassan and the Makhmour Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the SIDI BOUZID: Tunisian police fired tear gas overnight to dis- international law,” said HRW’s government and the autonomous area” of the giant Kirkuk oilfield Kurds would continue to attend perse protesters demanding the release of suspected members deputy Middle East director, Kurdish region driven by a Sunni after hearing that the oil min- parliament. of an Al Qaeda-linked group arrested in the restive Sidi Bouzid Joe Stork. insurgency which threatens to istry planned to disrupt a pipe- Zebari, who is a Kurd, said Iraq region, the government said yesterday. “While the world rightly fragment Iraq along sectarian and line designed to pump oil from risked falling apart if a new inclu- Eight people were detained in a “sweeping security operation” in the denounces the atrocious acts of ethnic lines three years after the Makhmour. sive government is not formed central province, targeting radical Islamists belonging to the banned (ISIL), it should not turn a blind withdrawal of US troops. The Baghdad ministry’s spokes- soon as “the country is now Ansar Al Sharia group and wanted by the authorities, the interior eye to sectarian killing sprees by The Kurdish forces took over man Jihad rejected Kurdish divided literally into three states ministry said. Relatives of those arrested protested overnight in front government and pro-government production facilities at the Bai assertions that they had acted to - “Kurdish, a black state (ISIL) of a police post in Sidi Bouzid demanding their release, ministry forces.” Hassan and Kirkuk oilfields near protect oil infrastructure, saying and Baghdad”. Unless Iraqi lead- spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said. The rights group said it had the city of Kirkuk, the oil ministry the ministry had worked to raise ers rose to the challenge “the con- Some of the protesters shouted “taghout” at the police, a traditional documented massacres of prison- in Baghdad said. It called on the output at the fields and increase sequences are very dire: complete Arabic term for tyrant which is sometimes used by hardline Salafists ers last month in Mosul, as well Kurds to withdraw immediately to investment in local gasoline fragmentation and failure” of the to refer to police and soldiers. as in the towns and villages of avoid “dire consequences”. production. country, he said. Zebari said the The security forces then fired tear gas to disperse the demonstra- Tal Afar, Baquba, Jumarkhe and Kurdish forces took control of “The ministry rejects their suspension decision would be re- tors, who numbered a few dozen. Rawa. nearby Kirkuk a month ago after irresponsible accusations as evaluated if Maliki apologised for Since the 2011 revolution, Tunisia has witnessed the rise of jihadist “In one case the killers also set Iraqi troops withdrew in the face these workers are doing their his comments. groups that were suppressed under the ousted of regime of strongman dozens of prisoners on fire, and of a lightning assault by Islamic best in order to supply the gaso- After the announcement, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. in two cases they threw grenades State militants, who have seized line,” he said. “Such a statement Maliki appointed Hussain Al Much of the deadly violence that has rocked the country since into cells,” HRW said. large parts of northern and west- is ridiculous.” Shahristani, the deputy prime the first Arab Spring uprising has been blamed on Ansar Al Sharia, It demanded an international ern Iraq. The two oilfields have The relationship hit a new low minister, as acting foreign min- a hardline Salafist movement which the authorities have linked to investigation into the killings. a combined production capacity this week when Maliki accused ister, an official in Shahristani’s Al-Qaeda and implicated in the killing of two opposition politicians AFP of 450,000 barrels per day but the Kurds of allowing their capital office said. REUTERS last year. AFP JULY 12, 2014 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Londoners protest against Gaza attack White House Rebels kill 23 urges swift confirmation of Ukraine troops, Russia envoy

WASHINGTON: The White House yesterday urged the truce hopes fade US Senate to swiftly confirm President Barack Obama’s new nominee for ambassador to Moscow, despite a long backlog of President warns of retaliation would-be envoys awaiting a vote. Obama named John Tefft, a DONETSK, UKRAINE: Most of the militias have since career diplomat specializing in Ukraine’s military yesterday- retreated to Donetsk and the Eastern Europe, to fill a post reported losing 23 servicemen neighbouring industrial city of that has been vacant, during a in clashes across the separatist Lugansk — both capitals of their period of high tensions between east that threatened to shatter own “People’s Republic” that the Kremlin and Washington, slim Western hopes of a truce refuse to recognise Kiev’s new since the resignation of Michael in Europe’s deadliest conflict in West-leaning government and McFaul in February. decades. are seeking annexation by Russia. “We would like to see the The defence ministry said the The conflict has claimed the Senate move swiftly to con- toll included 19 troops who died in lives of nearly 550 people and dis- firm Ambassador Tefft, the a hail of rockets fired from a truck- placed tens of thousands across other ambassadorial nominees mounted Grad rocket launcher a rustbelt that had long been the announced yesterday, and the 43 system — a type of weapon both economic engine of the troubled that had already been announced,” Kiev and Washington insist could post-Soviet state. said National Security Council only have been covertly supplied to Amnesty International said Caitlin Hayden. the rebels by Russia. on Friday it had recorded “hun- People gather, while blocking the traffic, during a protest against Israel’s air strikes in Gaza, in London yesterday. Tefft, a career foreign service The official spokesman of dreds” of abductions and acts of officer, is a former US ambas- Ukraine’s intensifying eastern torture committed by the separa- sador to Ukraine and Georgia, assault added that 93 service- tists during the uprising. has served as deputy assistant men had sustained “wounds and But it also noted that “exces- secretary of state for European contusions of varying severity”. sive force may have been used... US hints at displeasure with and Eurasian Affairs and served “The rebels will pay for the life by Ukrainian forces” on several as chief of mission in the US of every one of our servicemen occasions — a charge repeatedly embassy in Moscow in the 1990s. with tens and hundred of their made by Moscow. If confirmed by the Senate, own,” Ukraine’s Western-backed The conflict has further splin- Germany over spying row he will take up his post during President Petro Poroshenko told tered Ukraine’s culturally frac- the most challenging period in an emergency security meeting. tured society and left some ethnic WASHINGTON: The United are most effectively resolved been sent home. But he said US-Russia relations since the end “Not a single terrorist will Russians feeling marginalised by States yesterday hinted at dis- through established private chan- Washington did understand the of the Cold War, with the rivals avoid responsibility,” he vowed. the more nationalistic leaders that pleasure with Germany over its nels, not through the media.” importance of the matter, amid at odds over what Washington “Every single one of them will get have recently taken power. Many handling of a spying row, which Asked whether it would be fair criticism in Germany that the US sees as Moscow’s interference their just desserts.” have escaped across the eastern saw the CIA chief in Berlin to interpret his statement as a response has been lackluster. in Ukraine and its annexation of Yesterday’s official death toll border in search of a new home. thrown out of the country. criticism of Germany’s response Also, he said Washington, “as Crimea. It remained unclear how- is the highest since Poroshenko “Everything is shutting down,” The White House however to the row, Earnest said it was a matter of course, respects the ever when Tefft would be cleared tore up a brief ceasefire with the said a man in his fifties as he rejected suggestions the show- up to journalists to parse his German government’s wishes to take up his new post. rebels on July 1 and relaunched listened to the echoes of gunfire down over apparent US recruit- meaning. regarding the accreditation and The White House is increas- an offensive that managed to dis- rolling in from a fierce clashes ing of double agents could damage But privately, some adminis- presence of US diplomats in ingly frustrated that many of lodge the militias from key east- being waged yesterday morning broader ties with the Berlin gov- tration officials have expressed Germany.” Obama’s ambassadorial picks are ern strongholds they had held outside Donetsk International ernment and cooperation on frustration with Germany’s angry The scandal, which follows in limbo on Capitol Hill, casual- since early April. Airport, a gleaming hub shuttered issues like Ukraine. reaction to the reported discov- German complaints that the ties of an era of dysfunction and The military separately claimed since facing a bloody rebel attack White House spokesman ery that two government officials National Security Agency (NSA) gridlock in Washington. “eliminating” nearly 100 fighters at the end of May. Josh Earnest, who has all week were working for the CIA and its tapped Merkel’s cell phone and Some ambassadorial picks and in one of Ukraine’s bloodiest days “There is nothing to do here. declined to go into detail about decision to respond in a highly over mass US Internet and tel- nominees for State Department since the start of the crisis last No work — and it is getting too the row because it touches on public manner. The expulsion ephone data sweeps, has whipped posts have waited months for November as anti-government dangerous,” he said. intelligence matters, did offer a of the CIA’s top agent in Berlin up considerable criticism of the confirmation voters. Secretary of protests spiralled into revolution Poroshenko now finds him- window into US thinking. marked an unusual show of fury United States in German political State John Kerry made a personal and a protracted standoff with self trapped between European “Allies with sophisticated intel- by Germany toward its ally, and spheres. But Earnest argued that plea on Thursday for the Senate pro-Russian rebels. pressure to agree an immediate ligence agencies like the United came with Chancellor Angela the row should not make it more to clear more than 40 ambassa- The tide in the eastern uprising truce and massive domestic sup- States and Germany understand Merkel under political pressure politically difficult for Merkel to dorial nominations still pending. turned last weekend when resur- port for his troops to finish off an with some degree of detail exactly to respond to the latest in a string act on issues important to the “We’re going without our strong- gent government forces managed insurgency that has threatened what those intelligence rela- of disagreements over intelligence United States — for instance est voice on the ground every day to flush out the separatists from the 45-million-strong nation with tionships and activities entail,” with the United States. toughening sanctions on Russia in more than 25 percent of the a string of eastern towns and cit- disintegration and economic col- Earnest said. Earnest would not confirm over Ukraine, which has been a world,” Kerry said in Kabul. ies that hold historic Russian ties. lapse. AFP “Any differences that we have that the CIA station chief had tough sell in Germany. AFP AFP

Romanian deputy premier resigns Putin in Cuba to rekindle Latin America ties

BUCHAREST: One of HAVANA: President Vladimir regional leaders with offers of hypocrisy in relations between illness or accident while serv- off 90 percent of Cuba’s Soviet-era Romania’s deputy prime min- Putin visited Russia’s Cold War increased Russian investment and allies and partners,” Putin said ing in Cuba during the Cold War. debt of more than $30bn. isters resigned from the gov- ally Cuba yesterday, launching a trade in return. in a joint interview with Russia’s The Russian strongman then met Havana for its part has sided ernment yesterday in a dispute tour that will see him cozy up Analysts say he will also use Itar-Tass news agency and Cuba’s Castro’s older brother Fidel, the with its old ally Russia in the over an international initiative to Latin America amid newly the tour to thumb his nose at Prensa Latina. “It is also direct 87-year-old father of the Cuban Ukraine conflict. calling for better the protection frayed relations with the West. Brussels and Washington, which infringement of a country’s sov- Revolution. Russian and Cuban media said of minorities in the EU. Putin’s six-day trip will also have slapped sanctions on some ereignty and a breach of human According to Russian sources, the countries were expected to Kelemen Hunor, who was also take him to Argentina and Brazil, of his closest allies over Moscow’s rights, an invasion of privacy.” Putin said they had a “long and sign a series of economic deals culture minister and remains a where he will take part in a sum- takeover of Crimea and support The remark came after very interesting conversation” of during the visit, including one member of Romania’s Hungarian mit of the Brics group of emerg- for pro-Russian separatists in Germany expelled the CIA sta- about one hour on international on oil exploration in the Gulf of minority party, had railed against ing countries — an agenda that Ukraine. Before departing, Putin tion chief in Berlin on Thursday politics and bilateral relations. Mexico. After his one-day stop in a government decision to oppose neatly aligns with his push for a —who has sought to drive a wedge over alleged spying on Chancellor In recent years Moscow has Havana, Putin will fly to Buenos the drive by the Federal Union multi-polar world at a time when between the Western allies — con- Angela Merkel. Putin arrived sought to revive ties with the Aires, where analysts say he will of European Nationalities, a non- the Ukraine crisis has brought demned the cyber-spying revealed early yesterday at Havana’s Jose Caribbean island, whose economy likely seek a stake in Argentina’s governmental organisation, call- Moscow-Washington relations to by fugitive US intelligence ana- Marti International Airport, has been saddled with a US embargo Vaca Muerta shale formation, ing for the safeguarding of basic a post-Cold War low. lyst Edward Snowden, who is in then joined Cuban counterpart since 1962 and is growing less than an oil and gas field estimated to rights for minorities across the Putin said before his trip that Russia on asylum. Raul Castro to visit a small cem- the government expected, despite contain the equivalent of 22.8bn continent. he has his eye on Latin America’s “As for the facts of cyber- etery that holds the remains recent free-market reforms. barrels of oil, potentially one of AFP oil and bauxite, and plans to woo espionage, this is not just blatant of Soviet soldiers who died of Ahead of the visit, Russia wrote the largest finds in history. AFP

Bull run festival Ghanaians ask for Brazil asylum

RIO DE JANEIRO: Some 200 in this country at the moment.” to work with local authorities Ghanaians in Brazil for the The make-up of the group — to investigate the situation but World Cup have applied to stay including the religion and home warned it would be “surprising permanently citing religious regions of the individuals in ques- and unfortunate” should anyone violence back home, police con- tion — was not immediately clear. conclude that the asylum claim firmed yesterday, as Accra dis- However, they reportedly told has merit. Some, and possibly all, missed the bid as baseless. Brazilian authorities that inter- members of the group traveled to “Between July 3 and 10, 193 religious violence between rival Brazil as part of the government Ghanaians who entered Brazil, Muslim groups has made it unsafe delegation to the World Cup, offi- for the most part with a tourist for them to return home. cials said. visa, have asked for asylum in the The group has reportedly found The asylum request is the latest police station at Caxias do Sul,” a shelter in a Catholic church in off-the-pitch scandal surround- city in the southern state of Rio Caxias do Sul, located in a com- ing Ghana’s disastrous 2014 Cup Grande do Sul, a federal police paratively wealthy region. performance. For one, players spokesman said. More than 3,000 Senegalese demanded that more than $3m Accra, however, said the bid and Haitians live in the area and in bonuses be flown to them in was not grounded in fact. have also requested asylum, the Brazil, an embarrassingly public “The basis for the alleged police spokesman said. Ghana has expenditure for Ghana’s cash- request for the asylum is been one of the most stable coun- strapped government. completely untrue,” Deputy tries in West Africa for more than Meanwhile, the Ghana Football Information Minister Felix two decades and is not known Association kicked key players Revellers during the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, yesterday. The festival is a symbol of Kwakye Ofosu told Ghana’s inde- to have any significant religious midfielder Sulley Muntari and the Spanish culture that attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs despite heavy condemnation pendent Citi FM radio station. violence. striker Kevin-Prince Boateng from animal rights groups. “You and I know that there is Ofusu said Ghanaian diplomats out of the squad before their final no known religious conflict raging in Brazil have been instructed match. AFP JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia China jails 32 Japan typhoon ‘terrorists’ in Xinjiang leaves trail of BEIJING: Chinese courts in the far-western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 32 people to prison terms rang- ing from four years to life for destruction terrorism-related charges, state media reported yesterday. The sentences were handed down Thursday by courts in seven Neoguri brushes past Fukushima cities and prefectures in Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency TOKYO: Tropical storm from NHK reported. said. Neoguri skirted past the crip- More than 60 people were left The verdicts covered spreading pled Fukushima nuclear plant injured by the storm, officials “terror-related audio and video on Japan’s east coast yesterday and reports said, while as many and organising terrorist groups,” and blew out to sea, leaving as seven other deaths have been Xinhua said, citing 11 cases of behind a trail of destruction directly or indirectly linked to “terror audio and video.” and several people dead. the typhoon. Three people received life sen- The storm was downgraded Neoguri, which hit the main- tences while the remaining 29 from a typhoon after sweeping land Thursday morning, reached were handed between four to 15 past Tokyo earlier yesterday, Futtsu in Chiba prefecture, years in jail, the report said, cit- where it failed to disrupt the some 45 kilometres southeast The school bus is lifted from the reservoir after the accident in Xiangtan, Hunan province, yesterday. ing a statement issued by Xinjiang morning rush-hour, but was still of central Tokyo, shortly before authorities. packing winds of up 83 kilome- 5.00am on Thursday, the Japan The sentences come after China tres an hour and bringing heavy Meteorological Agency said. launched a crackdown follow- rain. Television footage showed high ing several high-profile attacks Workers at Fukushima had waves slamming into breakwa- blamed on militants from the been scrambling to insulate the ters in Chiba, while emergency 11 die in China school bus plunge far-western region, home to the plant from any storm damage, officials hurriedly built tempo- mostly Muslim Uighur minority. but Neoguri had little impact as rary barriers to guard against BEIJING: Eleven people died, teachers and the driver. In 2011, a nationwide outcry Since late last year the attacks it headed out into the Pacific. landslides. including eight children, in China News Service said the erupted over the deaths of 18 have spread outside Xinjiang and Japan’s weather agency, which But the impact of the typhoon a school bus crash in China’s narrow dirt road, flanked by a nursery schoolchildren after a targeted ordinary citizens rather had issued strong wind and rain on the capital was limited, with southern Hunan province, state mountain on one side, had no coal truck slammed into their than government or security per- warnings for the Fukushima train and flight services running media said, the latest in a string guardrail. All of the victims’ bod- overcrowded school van in north- sonnel as in the past. region, later said the weather as normal during the morning of traffic accidents that have ies were recovered, it said. western China. The violence included a fiery was forecast to improve yester- rush hour, local media reported. fuelled public anger over unsafe A series of accidents in recent The tragedy prompted then- vehicle crash at Tiananmen day afternoon. More than 680 houses in several transport for school children. years involving vehicles carry- premier Wen Jiabao to prom- Square, Beijing’s symbolic heart, The mercury soared as the prefectures were earlier flooded A bus taking kindergartners ing school children have made ise more government funds to in October, a knife assault at typhoon left Japan with Tokyo- or damaged due to the typhoon home on a rural, mountainous such incidents a sensitive issue improve school bus services. a railway station in southern area temperatures climbing to and heavy rain, according to the road near Xiangtan city tumbled in China. China’s rural areas are known Yunnan province in March that 38 degrees Celsius, leaving an disaster management agency, into a reservoir on Thursday Eight children died in a bus for providing unsafe transport for killed 29 people and an explosive 80-year-old woman dead from with about 489,000 households afternoon, state-run China News crash on China’s southern island children in aging vans and trucks, and vehicle attack on a market in heat stroke and about 100 others urged to seek shelter. Service reported, killing every- province of Hainan in April on often on poorly maintained roads. Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in May hospitalised, public broadcaster AFP one on the vehicle, including two their way to a school outing. REUTERS that killed 39. AFP

Sri Lanka Muslim leader HK lawmakers blast Britain over report

HONG KONG: Pro-democracy well” and that there was no “per- June, during a visit to London by Special Administrative Region warns of radicalisation lawmakers in Hong Kong hit fect model” for electoral reform. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Government have been explicit back yesterday at former colo- “The important thing is that Concerns are growing that the that the paper did not mark a COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s sen- Hakeem told the Foreign nial ruler Britain over a report the people of Hong Kong have a freedoms Hong Kong was guaran- change in policy.” ior-most Muslim politician Correspondents’ Association that they said showed no “commit- genuine choice and feel that they teed under the “one country, two Emily Lau, chairwoman of yesterday warned that his gov- “Islamophobia” was gripping the ment” to the city and strived to have a real stake in the outcome,” systems” deal when the city was Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, ernment’s failure to restrain mainly Buddhist country where avoid embarrassing Beijing. he said. handed back to China by Britain said Britain “should be con- Buddhist monks accused of Muslims accounted for 10 percent The British parliamentary But pro-democracy lawmak- in 1997 are being eroded. demned” after not standing firm sparking religious hate attacks of the 20 million population. report comes as tensions rise over ers in Hong Kong condemned Fears heightened in June when against the white paper, the South will foment Islamic extremism “The Islamophobia in the West complaints of increasing inter- the report. Beijing published a controversial China Morning Post reported. and threaten security. is copied and edited to suit local ference from China in the semi- “It contains a lot of waffling “white paper” on Hong Kong’s “I think the UK owes us a moral Justice Minister Rauf Hakeem conditions and exploited. The autonomous city, and Beijing’s without any commitment to help,” future, widely seen as a warn- obligation to ensure that ‘one said he had been under pressure Muslim community has become insistence that it vet candidates Civic Party legislator Claudia Mo ing to the city not to overstep its country, two systems’ is effectively from supporters to quit President the punching bag (for Buddhist for Hong Kong’s next leader in said. bounds. implemented,” Democratic Party Mahinda Rajapakse’s coalition extremists). If you do not nip 2017. “I think that the UK govern- Hague said that, while “some lawmaker Albert Ho said. after it failed to prevent last this in the bud, then there could In a foreword to the report, ment is taking economic consid- commentators” had voiced con- Legislators’ anger follows heavy month’s deadly religious violence. a radicalisation of Muslim soci- released Thursday, British erations much more seriously cerns over the threat by the white criticism from Hong Kong’s Four people were killed and 80 ety. It could be a fertile ground for Foreign Secretary William Hague than political differences.” paper to Hong Kong’s autonomy, “I former number two official, Anson wounded in the worst religious extremist external forces. This is said the city’s “unique constitu- Britain and China signed trade note that both the Central People’s Chan, over Britain’s commitment riots in recent decades. what we are worried about.” AFP tional framework has worked deals worth more than $24bn in Government and the Hong Kong to Hong Kong. AFP Militants kill Ex-Korea comfort women for US troops sue own govt three cops PYEONGTAE: Cho Myung-ja outside Camp Humphreys, a busy Two atrocities including forcing per plaintiff. The Ministry of was desperate to keep US troops ran away from home as a teen- US military garrison in the town women, many of them Korean, to Gender Equality and Family in the 1960s after a devastating in Thailand ager to escape a father who beat of Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul. serve as sex slaves for its soldiers. declined to comment on the law- but inconclusive war with North her, finding her way to the red On June 25, sixty-four years The women claim the South suit. The US military in South Korea and wanted the women to BANGKOK: Three policemen light district in a South Korean after the Korean War broke out, Korean government trained them Korea said it was aware of reports serve as “patriots” and “civilian were shot dead in an ambush town that hosts a large US Cho joined 122 surviving comfort and worked with pimps to run a of the lawsuit. diplomats”. by suspected Muslim mili- Army garrison. women, as they were called, in a sex trade through the 1960s and “USFK has a zero tolerance for The virtuous-sounding titles tants in Thailand’s insurgency- After she escaped home in the lawsuit against their government 1970s for US troops, encouraged prostitution and human traffick- did little to reflect the life they racked far south, an official said early 1960s, her pimp sold her to to reclaim, they say, human dig- women to work as prostitutes and ing,” a US Forces in Korea spokes- led. They say they were forced by yesterday. one of the brothels allowed by the nity and proper compensation. violated their human rights. man said in response to a request the South Korean government to The three Muslim officers were government to serve American The suit comes as an embar- The suit was lodged with the for comment. “Prostitution and undergo degrading checkups for returning from evening prayers soldiers. rassing distraction for the South Seoul Central District Court lay- human trafficking are cruel, sexually transmitted diseases and when they were attacked on “It was a hard life and we got Korean government, which has ing out the accusations against demeaning and incompatible with if the test was positive, locked up Thursday night in Krong Pinang sick,” Cho, 76, said in an interview pushed Japan to properly atone the government and a demand for our military core values.” until they were “fit” to work. district in Yala province, police in her cluttered room in a shack for what it says were World War 10 million won in compensation The South Korean government REUTERS said. “It’s the work of militants who want to incite further unrest,” Yala deputy police com- Prayer for jailed journalists mander Colonel Banlue Chuwet said by telephone. An imam was shot in the leg in Lavish procession to mourn, the same attack, he added. More than 6,000 people have been killed in near-daily bomb- enshrine Cambodian ex-king ings and shootings in the Muslim- majority region near Thailand’s PHNOM PENH: Cambodians Members of the royal family southern border with Malaysia lined the streets of Phnom Penh rode in a car shaped like a three- since 2004. yesterday as the remains of headed dragon. Buddhist and Muslims alike fall former king Norodom Sihanouk In line with Sihanouk’s wishes, victim to the shadowy militants, were transported through the urns will be placed in a stupa who target security forces, civilians the capital atop a golden float in the Silver Pagoda in the royal including those they perceive as shaped like a mythological bird palace alongside the remains of representatives of state authority. for his enshrinement. his favourite daughter Kantha The rebels want a level of auton- Thousands of people in mourn- Bopha who died at three. omy, accusing Thai authorities of ing dress turned out to bid a final The charismatic former mon- disrespecting their Malay culture farewell to the revered ex-mon- arch steered his country through and language, and of carrying out arch, who died of a heart attack turbulent decades of war, the human rights abuses. in Beijing in October 2012 aged 89. murderous Khmer Rouge regime Peace talks between some rebel After chanting by 90 Buddhist and finally peace. factions and the Thai authori- monks and a 101-gun salute, two Many elderly Cambodians credit ties were stalled as political cri- diamond-studded gold urns and him with overseeing a rare period sis erupted one after another in one marble urn containing the of political stability in the 1950s Journalists release birds into the air at a pagoda in Yangon yesterday as they pray for five scribes jailed in Myanmar Bangkok last year, culminating in remains were borne through the and 1960s until the Khmer Rouge for 10 years with hard labour over a report accusing the military of producing chemical weapons. a military coup in May. AFP capital in an elaborate procession. emerged in the 1970s. AFP JULY 12, 2014 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Australian arrested over ties with ISIS Cerantonio urged Muslims to join war in Iraq, Syria

MANILA: An Australian Chief Superintendent Prudencio outside Manila. He lived with a convert to Islam who used the Banas, said there was “no evi- Philippine woman and moved Internet to urge people to join dence linking him to any terror around Cebu until his arrest at “jihad” in Iraq and Syria was act”. a one-room apartment near the arrested in the Philippines yes- Cerantonio was arrested at airport, Capa said in a telephone terday, local police said. the request of the Australian interview from Cebu. Robert Edward Cerantonio, government and will be deported “For the most part, he keeps 29, who also goes by the name because Canberra has cancelled to himself in his rooms, in hotels Musa Cerantonio, was detained his passport, making him an ille- or apartments,” Capa said, adding in the central Philippine city of gal alien, Banas added. A media that the woman bought food and Cebu and will be deported to officer at the Australian embassy other supplies for him. Australia, said Superintendent declined to comment when asked The 32-year-old woman was Conrado Capa, the region’s deputy about the arrest. wanted by police over an unre- police chief. “In one broadcast on Television footage aired by lated fraud case and was also his website, he called on brother the ABS-CBN network showed arrested yesterday, Capa added. Muslims to join the war in Iraq a bearded Caucasian man in a A police intelligence officer and Syria,” said Capa. white robe being ushered out of involved in the operation said “We cannot say with certainty an apartment by officers wearing Cerantonio had also visited Immigration officers escort Robert Edward Cerantonio shortly after arriving at Manila airport yesterday after he that he had any contact with local helmets and flak jackets. It later Mindanao, though there was no was arrested in Cebu City on Friday. Muslim groups,” Capa added. showed him being escorted by indication he had tried to recruit The Philippines has a large police through Manila’s airport, Filipinos to fight alongside Islamic his website), but does not call Cerantonio as a preacher and Cerantonio called for the assas- Muslim minority in the southern wearing a hooded jacket. State militants who have seized for violence” against it, the “one of (Islamic State in Iraq sination of Western leaders in a region of Mindanao, a hotbed Police said they had been large swathes of territory in officer added, adding that the and Syria — ISIS) most influ- Facebook post in December, and for a decades-old Muslim insur- monitoring the activities of the eastern Syria and in neighbour- Australian has “no overt follow- ential propagandists”, and that that a study had found one in gency and where Islamic militants Melbourne native since February ing Iraq. ing” in the Philippines. Australian police were planning four foreign fighters in Syria fol- linked to Al Qaeda also operate. when he arrived in Cebu, the “Sometimes he mentions A report in The Australian to move against him. lowed his Twitter account. But Cebu’s police commander, country’s largest metropolis the Philippine government (on newspaper last month described The newspaper said AFP Aquino keeps budget officer amid corruption scandal

MANILA: Philippine President the country’s image as one of annual budget presentation. promise to rid government of Acceleration Program (DAP), in charges in the anti-graft court. Benigno Aquino yesterday the most corrupt in Asia as he “To accept his resignation is to corruption. 2011 to fund lawmakers’ projects. Yesterday, the court entered rejected a resignation offer continues to defend his allies assign to him a wrong and I can- The resignation came a week This week, a former congress- a not guilty plea in the arraign- from his budget secretary after while chasing down politi- not accept the notion that doing after the top court unanimously man filed a motion to impeach ment of Juan Ponce Enrile, a the top court declared the gov- cians, bureaucrats and gener- right by our people is a wrong.” declared as unconstitutional the president before the lower 90-year-old senator and hero of ernment’s discretionary fund als associated with the past Aquino has yet to comment Aquino’s move to impound execu- house of Congress, accusing him the 1986 People Power uprising illegal in the biggest test yet for administration. on the court’s decision, but his tive funds and their distribution of betrayal of public trust, brib- that toppled dictator Ferdinand its battle against graft. On Thursday, Florencio “Butch” spokesmen defended him, saying to lawmakers. ery and culpable violation of the Marcos. Aquino, the only son of democ- Abad handed his resignation let- the president had done nothing The government says the funds constitution. He is under arrest at a police racy icon and former president ter to Aquino to save the govern- wrong and everything was done were spent to stimulate the Critics say the government hospital, because of his old age Corazon Aquino, took power in ment from growing criticism over in good faith. economy. used the fund as a tool to gain and poor health. 2010 on the promise of trans- the use of $3.45bn in discretionary His popularity rating is Abad, the president’s campaign control of Congress, accusing law- Two other senators, Ramon parency, good governance and funds from 2011 to 2013. expected to plunge over this issue. manager and closest adviser, was makers of misusing some of the “Bong” Revilla and Jose “Jinggoy” battling corruption to lift the “I have decided not to accept Aquino faces the toughest polit- facing corruption charges for set- money. Estrada, are being detained at a Philippines from poverty. his resignation,” Aquino told ical test in his four years in office, ting up the president’s discretion- Three opposition senators have police camp while on trial for cor- But he has struggled to shed a Cabinet meeting during the throwing into doubt his campaign ary fund, called the Disbursement been detained and face plunder ruption. REUTERS Play time Six soldiers killed in Jolo friendly fire: Military

MANILA: Six Philippine sol- inquiry was underway to deter- missionaries and tourists, and diers who were killed in one of mine accountability, Zagala added. beheadings mostly of local people. the bloodiest clashes against The military had earlier said the Several foreign and local hos- Al Qaeda-linked militants this fighting left seven soldiers dead, tages are still believed to be held year were hit by friendly fire, six of whom were killed by mortar by the Abu Sayyaf in the jungles the military acknowledged shells launched by Abu Sayyaf. of Jolo. The campaign against yesterday. Twenty-four other soldiers them is backed by about 500 US The soldiers were hit by artil- were wounded, many of them military advisers who have been lery rounds fired by another mili- from the shelling, according to rotating through the southern tary unit as troops battled Abu the original military report. Philippines since 2002 to train Sayyaf militants on the strife-torn The Abu Sayyaf, founded in Filipino soldiers. southern island of Jolo on June 19. the early 1990s with seed money Many Abu Sayyaf leaders have “These are the realities of combat. from bin Laden’s Al Qaeda net- been captured or killed and the Factors like combat stress, the fog work, is blamed for the deadli- US announced last month that of war, affect decision-making,” est and most brutal terrorist it would pull out the bulk of the military spokesman Lieutenant- attacks in the Philippines’ recent American troops this year. Colonel Ramon Zagala said. history. However the militants continue The unit that fired the howit- These include the 2004 bomb- to pose a threat in the area, kid- zer rounds said it was “definitely ing of a ferry that left more than napping people and carrying out not intentional”, but a military 100 dead, abductions of foreign bomb attacks. AFP Bengal tigers play in a pool of water at the zoo in Malabon, Metro Manila, yesterday. Customs bureau seizes Filipinos told not Tourism slogan bags award to go to S Sudan

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KABUL: US Secretary of State result, calling it a “coup” against democratic Afghanistan. John Kerry told Afghanistan the people, and his aides have It is important that whoever yesterday its transition to a threatened to set up an alterna- is president is recognised by the self-reliant state hung in the tive administration. people as having become presi- balance after a contested presi- “The election legitimacy hangs dent through a legitimate proc- dential election, urging officials in the balance, the future poten- ess, and that the government can to focus on investigating all tial of the transition hangs in the unify the people and lead them fraud allegations to prove its balance, so we have a lot to do,” in the future,” the Secretary of legitimacy. Kerry said after a meeting with State said after a meeting with The deadlock over the vote has UN special envoy to Afghanistan Abdullah. quashed hopes for a smooth tran- Jan Kubis. sition of power in Afghanistan, a “Our hopes are that there is LEGITIMATE VOTE concern for Washington as most a road that can be found that Abdullah’s rejection of the US-led forces withdraw from the will provide that capacity for outcome has set the stage for a nation this year. the questions to be answered, for possible bloody standoff between Kerry rushed to Kabul from people’s doubts to be satisfied, ethnic groups or even secession meetings in China yesterday in and hopefully for a future to be of parts of the fragile country, a hastily arranged visit for talks defined. But I can’t tell you that which is already deeply divided with the two presidential con- that’s going to be an automatic at along tribal lines. tenders, Abdullah Abdullah and this point.” Ghani, speaking earlier, said he Ashraf Ghani, as well as incum- US officials said Kerry would favoured a comprehensive audit. bent Hamid Karzai and other urge both contenders to agree on “Our commitment is to ensure senior officials. a review “of all reasonable alle- that the election process enjoys Preliminary results from a gations of fraud”, which would the integrity and the legitimacy June 14 run-off round put Ghani, entail additional audits of the that the people of Afghanistan a former World Bank official, in vote count. and the world will believe in,” he US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul yesterday. the lead but Abdullah rejected the “We want a unified, stable and said. REUTERS Taliban post pictures of Army raids reveal militant hideouts captive Bergdahl smiling MIRANSHAH: The Pakistani strike against militant strong- Malik, standing outside one of used to smuggle militants and Taliban have abandoned their holds on the Afghan border. Now, 11 bomb making plants the army weapons out of the view of hov- ISLAMABAD: US soldier photo with Badruddin Haqqani, last key stronghold and booby as Nato troops withdraw from says it has seized. ering drones. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held Bergdahl is looking physically traps and explosives littering neighbouring Afghanistan, the The explosives factory is piled At the Gulpakhel mosque, sub- captive by the Taliban for five very weak as it was the begin- their hideouts now present the army launched a campaign last high with hundreds of metal cyl- terranean corridors snaked past years, appeared smiling along- ning when he was kidnapped by main danger to the soldiers who month to push out the militants. inders and other containers the rooms dotted with prayer mats side a commander from the our lions,” a Taliban commander control the territory, military A rare visit this week to militants used to make bombs. and blankets before ending at a militant Haqqani network in said. officials say. Miranshah, organised by the Apart from soldiers, the city is secret door hidden by a bookshelf. a photo posted on a Twitter Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Instead of black-clad mili- military, showed how tightly the a ghost town. The army ordered Behind lay rooms that had housed account by a supporter of the Mujahid said the account that tants, uniformed men and the Taliban had held the frontier residents out before the offensive. senior Taliban commanders, the Afghan Taliban. posted the photo was operated odd lone donkey wander the town in its grip. Entire neighbourhoods are military said. Yesterday, the Taliban con- by a Taliban sympathiser. “Its not streets of Miranshah, the capital “It is a city waiting to blow up, rubble after caches of explosives Sleeping mats were scattered firmed the photo had been taken our official Twitter but is oper- of Pakistan’s northwestern region that’s how much explosive there detonated and jets pounded sus- before freshly painted walls fit- with them while Bergdahl was in ated by someone who seemed to of North Waziristan. is here, in homes, in shops, bur- pected militant hideouts. ted with an air-conditioner and a captivity. be our supporter.” For years, Pakistan’s allies ied under the ground,” said sen- Under the destruction lies a sound system and lit by a six-bulb “You would have noticed in the REUTERS urged the South Asian nation to ior commander Brigadier Tahir sophisticated network of tunnels chandelier. REUTERS Anti-Israeli protest

Lawyers hold placards as they chant slogans during a protest against Israel’s air strikes on Gaza, in Lahore yesterday. Hundreds demanded the international community to stop Israeli attacks. Extremists debate merits of Islamic caliphate’s message

WAZIRISTAN: The Afghan order to solve their conflicts,” the In recent weeks, fighters from Taliban have urged Muslims to message said. the Islamic State have over- avoid extremism and remain “Muslims also should avoid run the Iraqi city of Mosul and united, a message apparently extremism in religion, and judg- advanced towards the capital of aimed at the Islamic State ing others without evidence, and Baghdad. In Syria they have cap- (ISIL), which recently declared distrusting one another,” it said. tured territory in the north and an Islamic caliphate in territory “They should avoid conflict and east, along the border with Iraq. it controls in Iraq and Syria. dispute, and not think their opin- Taliban spokesmen in both The Arabic message, posted on ions are better than others. Mercy Pakistan and Afghanistan the Afghan Taliban’s website on and compassion should prevail.” declined to comment on Al Thursday and translated by SITE On June 29, an Al Qaeda off- Baghdadi’s claim to be the global intelligence group, addressed shoot previously known as the leader of all Muslims. The Afghan fighters in Iraq and Syria whose Islamic State in Iraq and the and Pakistani Taliban are sepa- announcement of a caliphate last Levant announced that it had rate but allied. month poses a direct challenge to renamed itself Islamic State and Privately, some commanders Al Qaeda’s dominance of global proclaimed its leader Abu Bakr Al said that they did not want to Islamist militancy. Baghdadi as “Caliph” - the head anger Al Qaeda, who they consid- “It is worthy for a shura (con- of the state. ered a long-time ally in the fight sultation) council to be formed The group had fallen out with against Nato troops in the region. from the leaders of all the jihadi Al Qaeda over its expansion into Some Taliban, including some factions and the distinguished Syria, where it has carried out of the younger commanders, were people among the experts and beheadings, crucifixions, and mass enthusiastic about ISIS. the scholars in Sham (Syria) in executions. REUTERS JULY 12, 2014 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Kashmir to get world’s highest rail bridge SC grants a month’s bail It’s 35 metres taller than Eiffel Tower

KAURI: Indian engineers are 2008 before being green-lighted for Maudany toiling in the Himalayas to again two years later. The esti- build the world’s highest railway mated cost of the project, which is NEW DELHI: The Supreme bridge which is expected to be being handled by Konkan Railway Court granted one month bail 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Corporation, a subsidiary of state- on health grounds to 2008 Tower when completed by 2016. owned Indian Railways, is $92m. Bangalore serial bomb blast The arch-shaped steel struc- The bridge will connect conspiracy prime accused ture is being constructed over the Baramulla to Jammu in the and Kerala-based People’s Chenab River to link sections of the Himalayan state with a travel time Democratic Party (PDP) leader spectacular mountainous region of six-and-a-half hours, almost half Abdul Nazir Maudany. of Jammu and Kashmir state. The the time it currently takes. The A bench of Justice J bridge is expected to be 359 metres main arch is being erected using Chelameswar and Justice A K high when completed — surpass- two cable cranes attached on either Sikri said that during his one- ing the world’s current tallest rail- side of the river which are secured month bail, Maudany will not way bridge over the Beipanjiang on enormous steel pylons, accord- leave the city of Bangalore and River in China’s Guizhou province, ing to engineers of the project. the Karnataka government is at which stands at 275 metres high. The 1,315-metre long bridge will liberty to take all steps, including “It is an engineering marvel. We use up to 25,000 tonnes of steel putting him under surveillance, hope to get this bridge ready by with some material being trans- to ensure that he does not get in December 2016,” a senior Indian ported by helicopters due to the touch with witnesses in the case. Railways official said. “The design tough terrain, they said. “One of The court granted Maudany would ensure that it withstands the biggest challenges involved was bail while taking note that he is seismic activities and high wind constructing the bridge without an under-trial prisoner who was speeds,” he said. obstructing the flow of the river,” already behind the bars for the Work on the bridge started in the railways official said. last four years and was suffering 2002 but safety and feasibility con- “Approach roads had to be con- from various ailments, including cerns, including the area’s strong structed to reach the foundations Th e under-construction world’s highest railway bridge is pictured over the Chenab river in Kauri in northern Jammu diabetes and vision-threatening winds, saw the project halted in of the bridge,” he added. AFP and Kashmir state. ailment in both eyes. The court said that Maudany would furnish two sureties of Rs1 lakh each and would also furnish his address where he would be staying. The court’s orders came on Maudany’s application. Modi accepts Obama invite, Modi leaves for BRICS As counsel Prashant Bhushan urged the court to enhance the bail period as one month would be meet in Brazil tomorrow insufficient for Maudany’s treat- seeks result-oriented visit ment, the court said that he could NEW DELHI: Prime Minister discussions in whatever form”. make a application for extension NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his The officials said Modi would after one month and if there was Narendra Modi has accepted first foray into international be accompanied by Minister of any complaint, then it too would US President Barack Obama’s diplomacy when he leaves State for Commerce and Industry be examined. invitation to visit the US in tomorrow for the sixth sum- (independent charge) Nirmala Bhushan told the court that September and said he looked mit of BRICS countries July 15 Sitharaman and National by its November 18, 2013 order, forward to a “result-oriented and July 16, with the meeting Security Adviser Ajit Doval. the Karnataka government was visit” with concrete outcomes expected to discuss creation of The officials said that the transit directed that Maudany would be that impart new momentum development bank and reforms Modi’s halt will be Berlin on way kept in the hospital till he was in to the strategic partnership of the UN Security Council. to Brazil and Frankfurt on his way a position to undergo his eye sur- between the two countries. It will also provide the first back. However, the much talked- gery but in last eight months, he Obama’s formal invitation was occasion for Modi, who took about meeting with German was kept in hospital for less than conveyed by US Deputy Secretary office May 26, to meet Chinese Chancellor Angela Merkel will not a month and his health condition of State William Burns who met President Xi Jinping, Russian take place as she is travelling to was continuously deteriorating. Modi yesterday and delivered a President Vladimir Putin as also Brazil to watch the FIFA World He told the court that Maudany, letter from the US president. leaders of Brazil and South Africa. Cup final tomorrow between her arrested August 17, 2010 in con- In the letter, Obama reiter- The visit will be Modi’s first country and Argentina. nection with the conspiracy for ated his invitation to Modi to visit participation in an international Signing of agreements to create the Bangalore bomb blast, is Washington in September and to meeting as the prime minister. BRICS Development Bank and already in jail as an undertrial work closely with him to make He will have bilateral meetings Contingent Reserve Arrangement prisoner for the last four years. India-US relations a “defining during his visit and also meet are being considered central to He said that Maudany suffered partnership” for the 21st century. US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (left) and Prime Minister leaders of other South American the agenda of the BRICS summit. nine year’s incarceration in the Burns conveyed Obama’s desire Narendra Modi stand during their meeting in New Delhi yesterday. countries along with other BRICS The BRICS Development Bank, 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case to boost economic ties with India, leaders. The leaders of South which would mirror the World in which he was finally acquitted. including in next-generation American countries have been Bank, will have authorised capi- Opposing the bail plea, senior technologies and manufactur- that the relationship between the Modi was denied a visa in 2005 invited by Brazilian President tal to be used for infrastructure counsel Raju Ramachandran, ing sector, cooperate in enhanc- world’s oldest and largest democra- for travel to the United States Dilma Rousseff to meet the financing and sustainable devel- appearing for the Karnataka ing energy security and deepen cies should not only be for the ben- following religious riots in 2002 BRICS leaders. opment projects in member coun- government, told the court that security cooperation, including in efit of the two countries, but should in Gujarat while he was the The summit will be held in tries. The Contingent Reserve Maudany was a very influential maritime security, counter-ter- emerge as a powerful force of good chief minister. Even so, he has Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Arrangement will function as an person and if he was released, rorism and intelligence exchange. for peace, stability and prosperity responded positively to the US Brasilia. Officials have said that additional buffer for BRICS coun- would influence the witnesses “Articulating his vision for in the world,” a statement from the advances and shown no resent- India will pursue the issue of tries facing difficulties with their using various means, including India-US relations, Modi stated Prime Minister’s Office said. ment publicly. AGENCIES UN Security Council reforms “in balance of payments. IANS intimidation. IANS

Navy to get first Haryana passes bill indigenously-built for separate SGPC warship today

CHANDIGARH: Amid stiff divide the community. KOLKATA: India’s first fully opposition from the opposi- The highest temporal seat of indigenously-built major war- tion benches, a bill for creating Sikh religion, the Akal Takht, had ship, the anti submarine warfare a separate body for managing earlier opposed the move by the (ASW) corvette INS Kamorta Sikh gurdwaras in Haryana Haryana government to allow a will be handed over to the navy was passed by the state assem- separate committee to manage by Garden Reach Shipbuilders bly yesterday. gurdwaras in the state. and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) here The Haryana Sikh Haryana Chief Minister today. Gurdwaras(Management) Bhupendra Singh Hooda had The super-sophisticated front- Bill, 2014, was introduced by Sunday announced the setting up line warship will be formally Parliamentary Affairs Minister of a separate Sikh committee for handed over by GRSE Chairman Randeep Singh Surjewala Friday Haryana gurdwaras. and Managing Director Rear afternoon on the opening day of He had said that the neces- Admiral (retd) A K Verma to the the state assembly’s monsoon sary legislation for this would be Indian Navy at a brief ceremony session. brought in the monsoon session at GRSE’s fitting-out jetty. It was passed after some dis- of the assembly. INS Kamorta, first in its class cussion in the house. The oppo- A committee constituted by the of four ASW corvettes being built sition Indian National Lok Dal Haryana government on the issue by GRSE for the Indian Navy, is (INLD) and the Bharatiya Janata had submitted its report in favour the first Indian naval warship ever Party (BJP) opposed the intro- of separate Sikh body to manage built in the country with almost 90 S choolgirls pose as they pray for World Peace on the occasion of ‘World Population Day’ in Jodhpur yesterday. duction of the bill. Legislators of gurdwaras in the state. percent of indigenous content, a both parties walked out of the The committee, headed by state defence ministry release said. house over this issue. Finance Minister Harmohinder It is also the first naval warship In a related development, the Singh Chatha, who is himself built in the country with indig- Delhi to be second most populous city till 2030 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak a Sikh from Haryana, recom- enously developed special grade Committee (SGPC), the mini-par- mended the setting up of a sepa- high-tensile steel produced by UNITED NATIONS: Delhi, the world’s largest city is Tokyo largest rural population. The urban liament of Sikh religious affairs, rate body to manage Sikh shrines Steel Authority of India. The hull currently the world’s second with 38 million inhabitants and its population will increase rapidly in which controls gurdwaras across in Haryana. of the ship encompasses the bulk of most populous city after Tokyo, population is expected to decline to China and Nigeria as well. “Today, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal There are 72 gurdwaras in sensors and weapon systems that is expected to retain the spot till 37 million by 2030. 54 percent of the world’s population Pradesh, said that it proposed to Haryana under the SGPC and are also indigenously manufac- at least 2030. Still Tokyo will remain at the lives in urban areas, a proportion set up a sub-committee to man- they contribute over Rs30 crore tured by various Indian industries. According to the Population top. Shanghai with 23 million that is expected to increase to 66 age affairs of gurdwaras and Sikh to the Shiromani Gurdwara The ASW corvette brings to frui- Division of the UN Department inhabitants retains the third spot. per cent by 2050,” the report said. affairs in Haryana. Till now, these Parbandhak Committee kitty. tion a significant project in India’s of Economic and Social Affairs, Mexico City, Mumbai and Sao Africa and Asia remain mostly were controlled by the Amritsar- The Shiromani Gurdwara pursuit for self-reliance in indig- Delhi’s population — presently Paolo, each with 21 million inhab- rural, housing nearly 90 percent based SGPC. Parbandhak Committee controls enous warship building, bringing pegged at 25 million by the UN itants, followed by Osaka with just of the world’s rural population, it Shiromani Gurdwara majority of the gurdwaras in closer home the navy’s quest to report — is projected to reach 36 over 20 million people have found said. Urban areas are on the rise Parbandhak Committee President Punjab, including the holiest of all be a “Builder’s Navy” as well as a million by 2030. place in the top five spots. in these two continents, however, at Avtar Singh Makkar cautioned Sikh shrines ‘Harmandar Sahib’ true “Blue-water Navy” with ships The 2014 revision of the World The report said that the urban least 40 percent of the population Haryana’s Sikhs from falling prey (popularly known as Golden and submarines designed and built Urbanisation Prospects report, population will grow by 37 percent in African and 48 percent in Asia to the Congress conspiracy to Temple) in Amritsar. IANS within the country. IANS released on Thursday, found that in India, which currently has the lives in urban areas. IANS JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

IEA cuts oil demand outlook on weaker growth Revised forecast shows a drop of 130,000bpd from earlier prediction US oil boom to extend into 2015 PARIS: The International robust than expected” appears to 3.17 million, after fighting forced fighters of seizing two key north- Energy Agency yesterday cut its have been borne out by recently the closure of the country’s biggest ern oil fields near the city of LONDON: Global oil demand growth will accelerate next year 2014 forecast for oil demand to released economic data. refinery and slashed production Kirkuk, as relations between as the world economy expands and will again be met by rising 92.7 million barrels a day owing Europe’s biggest economies this from the giant Kirkuk field. Baghdad and the autonomous supplies from the United States and Canada, further eroding to weaker than expected global week reported slumping industrial The prized oil fields have Kurdistan regional government Opec’s market share, the West’s energy watchdog said yesterday. economic growth. production — a key indicator of been protected physically from (KRG) hit a new low. “The oil But the IEA said in its monthly report that risks to oil production The revised forecast was economic health. And the United the fighting so far, but the IEA ministry strongly condemns the in several regions remained acute. “Supply risks in the Middle East 130,000 barrels a day lower than States said late last month that warned there were still risks seizure and control of crude oil and North Africa, not least in Iraq and Libya, remain extraordinar- the IEA’s estimate a month earlier. business activity had declined by that the militants could damage (wells) in the Kirkuk and Bey ily high,” the IEA said. It reflects the “growing realisation a steep 2.9 percent in the first oil installations. “Should ISIS Hassan oil fields this morning Making its first forecasts for 2015 in a monthly report, the IEA that macroeconomic conditions, quarter of the year, its biggest militants strike the southern oil by groups of Kurdish peshmerga which advises major consuming nations on energy policy, said it although still likely to strengthen quarterly contraction in five years. network — now churning out forces,” a statement said. expected global oil demand to grow by 1.4 million bpd next year, up in the second half of the year, will On the supply side, members nearly all of Iraq’s supply to world The fields have a combined from 1.2 million this year. probably now do so at a less dra- of the Oped cartel pumped out markets and generating most of daily output capacity of 400,000 The IEA said it expected non-Opec supply growth to average 1.2 matic pace than previously fore- 40,000 barrels a day less in June Baghdad’s revenue — Asia, which barrels per day, a ministry spokes- million bpd next year, in line with increases in 2013 and 2014. “The cast,” a statement said. to 30.03 million on a daily basis, takes roughly 60 percent of Basra man said. Both fields have been US and Canada remain the mainstays for growth, but sources are International Monetary Fund with a decline in Iraqi output Light shipments, would be most offline since March. Another expected to be more diverse than in 2014,” said the IEA, naming chief Christine Lagarde suggested partly offset by small increases vulnerable,” it said. development on the supply side Brazil, Britain, Vietnam, Malaysia, Norway and Columbia among last week that the IMF’s 3.6 per- from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria China is the biggest buyer of is an agreement between Libyan countries which will grow output in 2015. cent global growth forecast for and Angola. Iraqi oil while India is the second rebels and officials in Tripoli to lift North America will remain the leader in 2015, contributing about 2014 might have to be trimmed The IEA said that an offensive biggest, the IEA noted. a blockade of vital shipment ter- two thirds of the net non-Opec supply increase compared to 85 back. Her warning that the global in northern Iraq had cut output In Baghdad, the government minals at the ports of Ras Lanuf percent in 2014. REUTERS economic recovery could be “less by 260,000 barrels a day in June to accused Kurdish peshmerga and Al-Sidra. AFP

Bulgaria to allow Portugal PM tries to soothe investors on BES worries its fourth-biggest LISBON: Portugal’s government again, before falling back. By 1300 bank to collapse and central bank assured inves- GMT it was up just 0.8 percent. tors yesterday that the southern Market unease lingered European country’s financial sys- because many questions remain SOFIA: Bulgaria is to allow its tem was sound, aiming to quell unanswered. fourth-biggest lender to collapse worry about the spillover effects An audit found a “serious finan- and will hive off its healthy of trouble at the Espirito Santo cial condition” at Espirito Santo activities into a separate bank business empire. International SA — a vast con- as it moves to clear up the mess “It is important that Portuguese glomerate with holdings in banks, from the country’s worst finan- and foreign investors... remain calm hotels and healthcare which is cial scandal since the 1990s. about the bank and our financial near the top of the family business The central bank said it was and banking system,” Portuguese pyramid. ESFG later said ESI had removing Corporate Commercial Prime Minister Pedro Passos overvalued its assets and failed to Bank’s (Corpbank) licence and Coelho told reporters in Lisbon. recognise losses and debts, but the alerting prosecutors to the pos- Recent disclosures of financial reasons it got into such a financial sibility that its main shareholder irregularities at a web of family- mess are unclear. Investors are also stole money from the bank just held holding companies behind in the dark about the size of any before the central bank took over Portugal’s largest listed bank, potential losses. its operations. Banco Espirito Santo, have raised And while BES gave the most The scandal broke last month questions about potentially desta- detailed breakdown yet of its expo- when Corpbank clients unnerved bilising losses at the bank and sure to other Espirito Santo group by media reports accusing top other companies in the family’s companies, the bank said it could shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev of orbit. That worry sparked a rout not assess the potential losses until shady business deals dashed to in global markets on Thursday, a restructuring had taken place at withdraw their savings. pushing up bond yields and reviv- its largest shareholder Espirito The bank run spread quickly ing memories of the region’s debt Santo Financial Group, and at A man reads a newspaper as he passes near an office of Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo in Lisbon yesterday. to another lender and saw Sofia crisis: Some European companies other family holdings under the announce a protective $2.3bn even abandoned long-planned fun- ESI umbrella. credit line, a reminder that draising operations. That restructuring plan is parts of Europe’s financial sys- The bank said it had €2.1bn in not finished yet, but could be BES puts debt exposure at €1.18bn tem are still far from secure capital above minimum regulatory announced as early next week, despite progress from the worst requirements as of March 31, tak- according to a person with knowl- days of the financial crisis. “The ing into account a further €1bn edge of the operation. It is likely to LISBON: Portugal’s largest on Thursday suspended trade in Portugal’s PSI index had lost by results of the review of Corporate raised via a June share sale. include swapping some of the debt listed bank Banco Espirito Santo BES, the country’s biggest lender 4.18 percent, Spain’s IBEX-35 Commercial Bank speak, to put it The statement partially steadied issued by ESI and Rio Forte into (BES), whose shares have plum- by capitalisation, after its shares index had dropped 1.98 percent, mildly, about actions incompat- market jitters yesterday in Portugal equity in those companies, as well meted shaking global stock mar- plummeted by 17.24 percent to and Italy’s FTSE MIB had skid- ible with the law and good bank- and beyond. European markets as pushing out repayment dates kets, said yesterday its exposure €0.50. Trading was halted ahead ded 1.90 percent. ing practices,” the central bank edged higher and Italy paid record on other debt. Some non-financial to debt in the Espirito Santo of “important information” to be Major markets across Europe said in a statement as it pub- low yields at an auction, shrugging assets, including the Tivoli hotel group rose to €1.18bn ($1.6bn) at published by BES, the market also fell back, and stocks in New lished the results of an audit. It off fears that had weighed on the chain in Portugal and Brazil, could the end of June. “Banco Espirito regulator had said. York opened lower on the Portugal said much of the documentation sovereign debt markets earlier in also be sold. Santo awaits the publication of Concerns about the lender, bank scare but later recovered to to back up 3.5bn levs ($2.43bn) the week. “We welcome the additional vis- the restructuring plan for the erupting less than two months end with modest losses. out of Corpbank’s total 5.4bn-lev Portugal’s PSI index was up 1.5 ibility provided with yesterday’s Espirito Santo group in order to after Portugal exited a three- The Portuguese bank has been loan portfolio was missing. The percent at 1300 GMT. BES shares release on the group’s exposures... be able to estimate the poten- year, €78bn ($106bn) international hit in particular by suspicion that documents were, it believed “most opened up 11 percent when trad- though there was no clarification tial losses associated with its bailout, sent shockwaves through a holding company, Espirito Santo likely destroyed in the days before ing resumed after a suspension, on whether there are provisions exposure,” the bank said in a Lisbon and other fragile southern International (ESI), covered up a the central bank sent administra- though the stock then seesawed — made on these exposure,” BPI ana- statement European markets. 1.3 billion euro hole in the accounts. tors there.” REUTERS reducing those gains, then climbing lyst Carlos Peixoto said. REUTERS Lisbon stock market regulators When stock markets closed, AFP

Gates at Sun Valley meeting Halliburton in China fracking JV

WASHINGTON: US oil and market share in high-end com- barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) gas services giant Halliburton pletion services in the field was in the Tarim oilfield is expected yesterday announced its first achieved through SPT’s collabo- to be 50 million tons, while total joint venture for hydraulic frac- ration with Halliburton over the BOE throughout Xinjiang prov- turing services in China, team- past seven years, and the market ince is expected to reach 100 mil- ing up with private Chinese firm for horizontal drilling and fractur- lion tonnes and account for up SPT Energy Group. ing services is increasing rapidly,” to one-third of China’s BOE, the Halliburton said it had signed the Texas-based company said. company said. an agreement with the SPT affili- Fracking is a controversial “Halliburton looks forward ate, Petrotech Engineering, to technique in drilling using a mix- to strengthening our partner- create a joint-venture company ture water, sand and chemicals ship with SPT Energy Group by focused on hydraulic fracturing, injected at high pressure into a bringing a suite of integrated, commonly known as fracking, and wellbore to fracture deep-rock comprehensive solutions to the production enhancement services formations and extract deposits challenge of developing China’s in Xinjiang, in China’s far west. of natural gas and oil. Critics say unconventional reservoirs,” said The new company, Xinjiang it can contaminate water supplies Dave Lesar, Halliburton chairman, HDTD Oilfield Services, will pro- and damage the environment. president and chief executive, in vide fracture stimulation services, Halliburton said that SPT the statement. including design and analysis, data Energy Group has a 20-year his- The company said a ceremony acquisition, and pumping and tory of providing oilfield technical held on Wednesday in Beijing was Bill and Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Allen and Company 32nd Annual chemical services in the Xinjiang services in Xinjiang’s Tarim oil- attended by about 200 guests rep- Media and Technology Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. The event brings together leaders from media, Uighur Autonomous Region, field, and holds the leading mar- resenting the oil and gas industry technology, sports, industry and politics. Halliburton said in a statement. ket share among privately owned in China, as well as a number of “Seventy-five percent of the companies. By 2025, the total local government officials. AFP JULY 12, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Meeting on US economy Unknown US Global regulator tech firm worth billions, value aims uniform soars to $4.7bn

NEW YORK: It has no assets, no revenues and no business corporate fines plan to speak of. But a com- pany called Cynk Technology has seen its value soar as high as $4.7bn. Review after US fine on BNP Paribas Wall Street analysts have been at loss to explain the spectacu- HONG KONG: An inter- of issues —from benchmarks and lar 24,000 percent rise in Cynk, national regulatory group is exchanges to automated trad- which trades on the lightly regu- carrying out a review of gov- ing — are rapidly becoming the lated over the counter (OTC) ernment penalties for corporate blueprint for regulators across market. While its share price and wrongdoing, seeking to make the globe. market value fell at the close of them more uniform amid com- The paper will recommend that trade, the company unknown in plaints from some European countries bring their sanctions in the technology or financial com- authorities about the size of line with their peers to remove munities for a time traded in the fines handed out by the United the incentives for regulatory arbi- range of the value of firms such as States. trage, and will also cover areas Groupon, Pandora Media or Yelp. The review by the International such as legal frameworks, judi- US President Barack Obama (centre) sits beside Director of the National Economic Council Jeff Zients (left) “We must sadly conclude that Organisation of Securities cial competence, whistle-blowing, and Senior Adviser to the President Valerie Jarrett during a meeting with administration officials, company the company is nothing but a Commissions (IOSCO) comes market surveillance, and powers executives and business suppliers to discuss ways to strengthen the economy, at the Eisenhower Executive fraud,” said the financial news after US authorities slapped of investigation. Office Building in Washington DC, yesterday. The White House announced the creation of a partnership with website Zero Hedge. a record fine of almost $9bn Simon Gleeson, a financial serv- the private sector to attempt to strengthen small businesses by increasing their working capital. “And it is nothing short of a on French bank BNP Paribas ices lawyer at Clifford Chance in testament to just how broken this for breaching US government London, said banks want greater excuse for a market is that a com- sanctions against Sudan, Cuba predictability from such guidance, pany with no assets, no revenues, and Iran. IOSCO will establish the like there is with sentencing tar- Number of EU no website and one employee can key tools — including fines, prison iffs in criminal justice cases. UK banks to hold more go from zero value to nearly $5bn sentences, and clawing back ill- “It would not work as a glo- in market cap in a few days.” gotten gains — that deter finan- bal compulsory thing as the banks down The stock trading at six cents cial firms from breaking the rules, Americans would not stand for on June 16 inexplicable surged to to help more closely align national that, but it could be immensely capital than under rule $2.25 the next day, and rose to as regimes, David Wright, secretary useful to give the people who in 2013: ECB high as $16 on Thursday, before general of IOSCO, said. set fines a framework of refer- LONDON: The Bank of already been deemed to require a slipping to around $14 at the close He said regulatory deterrents ence which they entirely lack at FRANKFURT: The number of England (BoE) proposed yester- ring-fence of extra capital to pro- — making its paper value still an vary too widely across the globe present,” Gleeson said. domestic banks and credit insti- day that Britain’s biggest banks tect depositors, hold extra capital eye-popping $4bn or so. and that a series of recent scan- “If there was a globally recog- tutions in Europe and the euro- should set aside from 2019 more because of their size, or both. The company avoided scrutiny dals had highlighted that this nised tariff then you would not zone declined in 2013, confirming capital than planned under glo- The BoE is proposing two types until its disproportionate value had become an important regu- have the US Dept. of Justice run- a downtrend seen for a number bal rules being drawn up to pre- of supplements, a permanent one drew the attention of Wall Street latory issue. The report is being ning around throwing out tele- of years, new data showed vent a repeat of the financial for some lenders, and a temporary veterans. The phone number led by Britain’s Financial Conduct phone book numbers,” he added. yesterday. crisis. one to cool credit booms. Some listed on company documents was Authority and will hopefully be Wright declined to comment According to data compiled by Launching a public consulta- banks would have to comply with out of service. signed off by IOSCO’s members on the BNP case specifically, but the European Central Bank, the tion on a new leverage ratio — the both in some circumstances. Richard Green of the market during the agency’s board meeting said a patchwork of legal regimes number of banks and credit insti- amount of capital a bank has to The supplements may have to analysis firm Briefing.com exam- in September, Wright said. would lead to a variety of enforce- tutions in the European Union fell hold as a percentage of total assets comprise the most expensive form ined the company’s regulatory fil- Madrid-headquartered IOSCO ment approaches. “I think peo- to 198,744 in 2013 from 217,699 in — the BoE said many financial of capital, thereby putting limits ing, which indicated Cynk had no is an international body compris- ple are beginning to realise that 2012. In the single currency area, institutions may have to set aside on a bank’s ability to use cheaper assets, no cash and an accumu- ing more than 120 global regula- it’s not healthy to have different the number fell to 163,171 from funds on top of a global minimum hybrid debt known as contingent lated loss of $1.5m. tors. In 2009, it was tasked by approaches.” 171,792. “The structural indicators that has yet to be fully agreed. capital or Cocos. Cynk calls itself a social net- the G20 group of nations to help The role of financial penalties show that, in most EU Member A leverage ratio of 3 percent, Members of parliament’s influ- work, based on its early incar- implement the global reform in deterring corporate malfea- States, the downward trend in the provisional global level, means ential treasury committee want nation as introbiz.com, which agenda following the financial sance has become a hot topic dur- the number of branches and bank a bank must hold capital equiva- a minimum leverage ratio of 4 offered to put people in contact crisis. Wright said the different ing the past year amid criticism employees of domestic credit insti- lent to 3 percent of its total assets, percent or above, saying tougher with celebrities like Angelina Jolie punitive regimes across the world that US and European regulators tutions observed in previous years regardless of how risky they are. measures are needed to ensure or Johnny Depp for $50. could even encourage regulatory have put too much emphasis on has continued,” the ECB said. In “There may be a case to intro- taxpayers are not asked to bail out “The company is no more of arbitrage, where companies move financial settlements alone. the EU, the number of people duce a supplementary leverage banks like in the financial crisis. a functional business than your their businesses to jurisdictions Wright added that among regu- employed by banks fell to 2.93 mil- ratio component to a subset of British banks such as Barclays, average college student’s entre- with weaker rules. lators internationally there had lion in 2013 from 3.027 million in firms, for example ring-fenced HSBC, Lloyds and RBS already preneurial dream,” Green said. “We need to start to work on been “too little attempt” to pursue 2012. In the eurozone, the number banks and/or systemically impor- have to meet a 3 percent target, “There was no news or other much more effective sanctions corporate executives within insti- fell to 2.027 million from 2.113 mil- tant institutions, whose failure forcing some to raise more capital. recognisable event to explain such regimes and what we call cred- tutions. “I think there’s a lot of lion. The ECB calculated the total would be most destabilising for The British Bankers’ Association stock trading activity.” ible deterrents,” he added. interest now in how we can make assets of domestic banks and credit the financial system,” the BoE said (BBA) said the proposals compli- Analysts note that the market Although it has no enforce- the sanctions in general much institutes in the EU amounted in a consultation paper. cated global plans for a simple, value is merely on paper, based ment powers, IOSCO’s guide- more of an incentive towards good to$3.1 trillion in 2013, down from This would cover the bulk internationally harmonised lev- on trades of a small number of lines and principles on a range behaviour.” REUTERS 2.742 trillion in 2012. AFP of Britain’s banks as they have erage ratio. REUTERS shares. AFP

India industrial UK construction shrinks, output jumps dampens growth hopes 4.7pc in May LONDON: British construc- which almost all data have been NEW DELHI: India’s indus- tion output suffered a steep fall largely positive,” said Scott Corfe, trial production jumped for the in May, raising the prospect an economist at consultancy second month in a row in a boost that overall economic growth CEBR. Royal Bank of Scotland for the new Narendra Modi-led may fall short of expectations in cut its forecast for second-quarter government which faces a huge the second quarter. growth to 0.8 percent from 0.9 challenge to revive the ailing The surprise contraction adds percent after the data. Deutsche economy, data showed yester- to some signs that the pace of Bank said that even 0.8 percent day. Output grew a better-than- Britain’s rapid recovery over the could be tough. expected 4.7 percent in May past year may be easing, a trend Sterling fell slightly on the data year-on-year after recording a which analysts said could see the and British government bond 3.4 percent increase in the pre- Bank of England waiting until prices cut losses as markets pared vious month, the government next year to raise interest rates. bets on the Bank of England said in a statement. Construction output dropped raising interest rates this year. Manufacturing, accounting for by 1.1 percent in May after rising “Policymakers will be encouraged over three-quarters of the Index by a similar amount in April, hurt to err on the side of caution about of Industrial Production, grew by slow-downs in private-sector hiking interest rates too early in 4.8 percent, while mining rose 2.7 home-building and commercial what looks to be a still-fragile percent and electricity 6.3 per- work. In the three months to May, recovery,” said Chris Williamson, cent. Output of capital goods such output suffered its biggest drop chief economist at data company as plant equipment, a harbinger since October 2012, declining by Markit. The ONS had no specific of future investment, increased Infosys CEO S D Shibulal (centre) along with CFO Rajiv Bansal (right) addresses the media after announcing the 0.8 percent, while annual growth explanation for the weakness 4.5 percent, it said. company’s first quarter results at their Bangalore facility yesterday. slowed to a six-month low of 3.5 in private-sector construction, The figures come one day after percent, the Office for National which pre-dates the most recent Modi’s government unveiled its Statistics said. steps by the BoE to limit how maiden budget, promising a new Construction only accounts much most Britons can borrow era of fiscal discipline, higher Infosys profit up 21pc on US deals for 6 percent of British economic when they purchase a home. The growth and greater opportuni- output. But since late last year it data contrasts with private-sector ties for foreign investors. has been an important driver of surveys. A purchasing managers’ Modi, whose right-wing party MUMBAI: Indian outsourcing beat market estimates of around Infosys last month announced economic growth as government index published by Markit showed came to power after winning giant Infosys reported yester- Rs27bn. a new chief executive and said incentives, low interest rates and the fastest construction growth in landslide elections in May, faces day a better-than-expected 21 Infosys, India’s second larg- its co-founder N R Narayana a sharp rise in house prices have four months in June. an uphill battle to reform and percent jump in quarterly net est IT services exporter by sales, Murthy was stepping down as boosted home-building. There have been some signs kickstart the economy which has profit, after winning new deals forecast revenues would climb to executive chairman after end- Now some economists believe that Britain’s housing market been stuck in low gear. from US clients. 7-9 percent for the financial year ing his one-year return stint as that the weak numbers — twinned is slowing, however. Mortgage The economy grew by just The Nasdaq-listed firm, hit by that began in April. planned. Vishal Sikka, a former with data this week that showed approvals in May fell to their under five percent last year -- half an exodus of staff and a loss of “Growth is our top most prior- top executive from German giant the sharpest one-month drop in lowest level in 11 months, in part the rate of just a few years ago. market share, said consolidated ity. In fact, we can do much better SAP, takes over as chief executive factory output in over a year — due to tighter affordability checks Confederation of Indian Industry net profit climbed to Rs28.86bn than we have this past quarter,” next month. may mean second-quarter eco- that lenders have been required to director general Chandrajit ($481m) in April-June from Infosys CEO S D Shibulal rold Employee exodus is an ongoing nomic growth fails to match the apply since April. Surveyors have Banerjee said the rise in output Rs23.74bn in the same period a reporters. “We are coming out of problem for the firm which lost first quarter’s 0.8 percent rate. reported slower conditions. provided “a glimmer of hope that year earlier. Shares in the firm a tough environment where we nearly 20 percent of its workforce “Today’s data will add to con- There have also been signs of the economy could be bottoming surged as much as 4.16 percent faced multiple challenges exter- in the April-June quarter, taking cerns that ... the economic situ- shortages of skilled workers and out and recovery could be on the on the Bombay Stock Exchange nally and internally during the the total headcount to 161,284. ation in the UK is starting to materials in some parts of the anvil.” AFP in response to the results, which last three years,” he added. AFP wobble after a glowing period in country. REUTERS

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Neymar dares to back Messi’s Argentina in final amid hostility ‘Messi’s history in the sport is so important and I will be cheering for him’ RIO DE JANEIRO: Tearful Brazil star Neymar says he is Klose to turn ‘party prepared to set aside the his- torical rivalry between South America’s two footballing heavy Argentina’s Lionel weights as he wants four-time beast’ if Germany win world footballer of the year Messi (right) heads Lionel Messi to win the World the ball next to SANTO ANDRE: The World final, so it’s our time to win this Cup when Argentina meets team-mate Fernando Cup’s top-scorer Miroslav Klose one.” Germany in tomorrow’s final. Gago during a has threatened to abandon his A diligent trainer, Klose puts At an emotional press confer- training session strict fitness regime to become his career longevity down to his ence Neymar, who missed Brazil’s in Vespasiano a ‘party animal’ if Germany win daily fitness regime, and has a 7-1 humiliation against Germany yesterday, ahead of final against Argentina. gym in his home. in the semi-finals because of a bro- their 2014 World Cup The 36-year-old is the sole sur- Having made his debut in 2001, ken vertebrae, said his Barcelona final match against vivor from Die Mannschaft’s last he equalled, then broke Ronaldo’s club-mate Messi deserved to add Germany. World Cup final in 2002 and is record of 15 World Cup goals dur- World Cup winner to his honours. eager to taste victory at Rio de ing Brazil 2014. But Klose said “Messi’s history in the sport is Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium in it will all count for nothing if so important, he has won a lot of his fourth World Cup finals. Germany lose to Argentina. trophies and I will be cheering for He scored a record 16th World “Yes, I have overtaken Ronaldo him,” said Neymar. Cup goal, his 71st for Germany, as the best goal-scorer, but that “He is a friend, he is my team- in Tuesday’s 7-1 semi-final rout is something to take on board mate and I wish him luck.” Janeiro. The South American they had quickly wiped away the Despite the invasion of thou- of Brazil. another day.” His own misfortune prompted nations are sworn footballing ene- euphoria felt from their thrashing sands of Argentinian fans for The Poland-born striker is Despite having witnessed Neymar to wipe away tears as he mies, and Argentina’s advance to of Brazil. the final security arrangements poised to win his 137th cap in Brazil’s Ronaldo score both goals described his fears, immediately the final rubbed salt into Brazilian Germany’s veteran striker have not been altered, according Rio and says all his focus is on in their 2-0 victory, Klose said he after the knee in the back from wounds still fresh from Tuesday’s Miroslav Klose, who became to Brazilian justice minister Jose Argentina -- but the World Cup will not use the 2002 defeat as Colombian Juan Camil Zuniga in record defeat to Germany. the World Cup’s all-time lead- Eduardo Cardozo. title may stir his inner party motivation. the quarter-final, that he would “The nightmare continues,” ing scorer with the second goal Some 26,000 police and soldiers animal. He says the current squad are be paralysed. O Dia newspaper commented against Brazil, said his team had will provide security the same as “I can’t really guarantee any- unified in their desire to become “I was blessed in that situation glumly after Argentina booked quickly forgotten the momen- originally planned, Cardozo said thing, but if we do win the trophy, world champions. because it wasn’t more serious. their place in the final by beating tous win. “We enjoyed the game after a meeting with FIFA and I can imagine that I will relax and “That was 12 years ago and I Two more centimetres up and, the Netherlands on Wednesday. against Brazil, but we ticked it off the federal government. there is a party beast, even in me,” was really young, then as now, well, I could be in a wheelchair. As many as 100,000 Argentine after 24 hours,” Klose said. Cardozo also drew the positives he quipped. I just try to soak everything up, So it is really difficult. fans are expected to descend on Argentina’s players began plot- out of the finals themselves for But 12 years after losing the but you can’t compare the two “It happened at such an impor- Rio for the final, the climax of a ting Germany’s downfall as they Brazil as a country despite their 2002 final, the last thing the matches,” said Klose. tant point in my career,” he said. month-long footballing fiesta. returned to Belo Horizonte. side having failed spectacularly to veteran wants is to add Rio “You see the degree of respect Neymar’s support of Messi, However, not among their Striker Sergio Aguero said his deliver a sixth title. heartache to the bitter defeat in and commitment the squad has and by extension Argentina, is number will be Argentinian team-mates were comfortable “We lost on the field but off of Yokohama. for each other. unlikely to be shared by many of president Christine Kirchner who in the marginal underdog role, it we are winning and the world “We enjoyed the win against “Team spirit’ is not an empty his compatriots. despite going ahead with a meet- insisting all the pressure would is applauding this,” he said, refer- Brazil, but we ticked it off after expression, no one is begrudging Brazilians are dreading the ing with Russian counterpart be on Germany. ring to Brazil’s organization of the 24 hours,” said Klose. “In the next towards the others. prospect of Argentina claim- Vladimir Putin today says she is “Germany were always the tournament, in comments picked game, we have to again play to the “They are all very professional, ing their third world title in the too ill to attend. favourites, along with Brazil,” the up by the web site of the newspa- best of our abilities. even if some of them are only 25 Maracana Stadium in Rio de Germany, meanwhile, said Manchester City man said. per Globo. AFP “It feels really awful to lose a or 26.” AFP Argentina Facts on Suarez Barcelona complete deadly trio Five facts on Uruguayan striker coach to step Luis Suarez after he signed for Barcelona from Liverpool yesterday. down after % Suarez received a nine-game interna- as they rope in disgraced Suarez tional match suspension and a four-month ban Cup final from all football activity for biting the shoulder BARCELONA: Barcelona, who an opponent during a match, and of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during their BUENOS AIRES: Argentina already have Lionel Messi and vowed there would be no repeat. group game at the World Cup finals. He denied coach Alejandro Sabella is to Neymar up front, will boast The news of his deal with Barca it before apologising although Barcelona are step down after the World Cup an even more fearsome strike came a day after the club agreed believed to have put pressure on him to do final against Germany regard- force next season after agree- to sell Chile forward Alexis so if they were to pursue their interest in him. Chiellini said it was water under the bridge and less of the result, his agent told ing to buy disgraced Uruguayan Sanchez to Arsenal. even said the striker’s punishment was too Argentine radio yesterday. Luis Suarez from Liverpool Suarez will work under Luis harsh but it fell on deaf ears at FIFA. Sabella, who took over in 2011, yesterday. Enrique who took over from % has led Argentina to their first After enduring a first cam- Gerardo Martino as coach at the Suarez was dubbed ‘the cannibal of Ajax’ World Cup final in 24 years, paign without major silverware end of last season. after he bit PSV Einhoven’s Otman Bakkal where they will face a powerful in six years, the Catalan club are While Barca look to have com- shoulder in a Dutch league game in November German side. to bolster their attack by signing pleted their forward lineup, they 2010, months after a controversial handball at While Argentina will now have Suarez on a five-year contract for are still looking for at least one the World Cup. The referee did not immediately to step up the search for a suc- a transfer fee that media reports centre back to shore up a defence see the incident, but Suarez was later handed cessor, Sabella could deliver no put at 81m euros ($111m). that woefully underperformed a seven-game ban. In April 2013, Suarez bit better parting gift than winning If the price is confirmed it last term. Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic’s arm in a Premier League game for Liverpool. He was given a the World Cup on the soil of their would be the third most expen- Suarez said he was leaving 10-game suspension for that offence. fiercest rivals. sive deal in soccer history after Liverpool “with a heavy heart” Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez gestures in a handout photo released by % Former Barcelona coach Barca’s arch rivals Real Madrid but added that moving to Spain The Uruguayan, considered one of the FC Barcelona yesterday. FC Barcelona have reached an agreement with world’s most devastating goalscorers, has also Gerardo Martino and Atletico paid 100m euros for Gareth Bale had been “a lifelong dream and English club Liverpool on the transfer of Suarez. Madrid’s Diego Simeone are and 94m for Cristiano Ronaldo. ambition”. been in trouble over on the field comments. being mentioned as possible can- “The player (Suarez) will travel “Both me and my family have He hurled racial abuse at Manchester United’s didates to replace the 59-year-old, to Barcelona next week for a fallen in love with this club and You’ll Never Walk Alone,” he build on last season’s excellent Patrice Evra during a Premier League game according to media reports. medical and sign a contract for with the city,” he said in a mes- added in a reference to the club’s campaign. in October 2011. Suarez insisted the term he While state news agency Telam the next five seasons,” Barca said sage to the Liverpool fans as he is anthem. “I am confident we will improve used was one often deployed in Uruguay. The said the 59-year-old’s contract on their website (www.fcbarcelona. set to leave Anfield. Rodgers underlined the fact the the team further and will be English FA banned him for eight matches and was due to expire after the tour- es). “This club did all they could club had tried to persuade Suarez stronger this coming season when fined him £40,000 ($68,000). He refused to nament, the news caught some by Suarez, 27, the Premier to get me to stay but playing and to stay at Anfield. we will be competing on all fronts, shake hands with Evra when the two teams met later that season. surprise in Argentina. League’s top scorer last season living in Spain, where my wife’s “It is with great reluctance and domestically and in the greatest % “It’s not good that the with 31 goals, will not be able to family live, is a lifelong dream and following lengthy discussions we club competition in the world, the Suarez stopped a certain Ghanaian goal announcement came before the play for his new team until the ambition. I believe now the timing have eventually agreed to his Champions League.” with his hand on the goalline in the last minute final. Psychologically it is not end of October. is right. wishes to move to Spain,” said Liverpool have been champi- of extra-time in the 2010 World Cup quarter- good for the players,” said soccer He was expelled from the “I wish (manager) Brendan Rodgers. ons of Europe five times, most final. He was sent off but Asamoah Gyan’s enthusiast Facundo, declining to World Cup in Brazil last month Rodgers and the team well for The Liverpool manager added recently in 2005, and Rodgers penalty was saved and the Ghanaians went on give his surname. and given a nine-match competi- the future. The club is in great that Suarez’s £23m move from said he was striving to push them to lose the penalty shootout. “I made the save “He did something no trainer tive international ban as well as a hands and I’m sure will be suc- Ajax Amsterdam to Liverpool in back among the elite of European of the tournament,” was Suarez’s unrepentant had done in years.” four-month suspension from any cessful again next season,” said January 2011 had made him a bet- football. comment after the match. Sabella told Argentina sports soccer-related activities for biting Suarez. ter footballer. “If there is one thing the his- %Suarez appeared to have got over his past newspaper Ole that he was Giorgio Chiellini. “I am very proud I have played “I think he would be the first tory of this great club teaches us controversies this year at Liverpool. He scored focused only on the final. After initially denying that he my part in helping to return to accept he has improved as a it is that Liverpool FC is bigger 31 goals in the English Premier League in “The future, for me, is the bit the Italy defender, the Uruguay Liverpool to the elite of the player over that period,” Rodgers than any individual,” he explained. 2013-14 and was named player of the season next match, the World Cup final. international later issued a care- Premier League and in particular said. “I hope our supporters continue by the Professional Footballers Association. Also Thinking about something dif- fully-worded statement admitting back into the Champions League. “We are focused on the future to dream and believe that we are scored two goals against England in their World ferent would be disrespectful,” his offence. “Thank you again for some as we strive to continue with moving forward. Cup group game just weeks after undergoing he said. REUTERS The third time he has bitten great moments and memories. the progress we have made and REUTERS knee surgery. JULY 12, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Brazil look to salvage some pride against reluctant Dutch Van Gaal says third-place game ‘should never be played’ but later changes tune

BRASILIA: After Brazil’s been saying the same thing for 10 utter humiliation against years. FACTBOX Germany, anything less than “But the worst thing is I believe a win in today’s third-place that chances are that you lose BRAZIL VS match against an indifferent twice in a row,” he said. Netherlands team would deepen “And a tournament in which NETHERLANDS the gloom hanging over the you’ve played so marvelously well, World Cup hosts. you would go home as a loser just Where: At the Brasilia National Stadium Brazil’s astounding 7-1 semi- because you could possibly have Capacity: 69,349 final thrashing by a rampant lost the last two matches and this Germany ended their dream of has got nothing to do with sport PROBABLE TEAMS winning a sixth World Cup, and in my view. Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 2-Daniel Alves, a first on home soil, and plunged “So, in a football tournament 3-Thiago Silva, 4-David Luiz, 6-Marcelo; the nation into despair. particularly not at the last stage 5-Fernandinho, 17-Luiz Gustavo, 19-Willian, There is still the prospect, an you shouldn’t have players playing 7-Hulk; 21-Jo. appalling one for many Brazilians, a match for third-fourth place. Netherlands: 23-Tim Krul; 3-Stefan de Vrij, that arch-rivals Argentina could Because there is only one award 2-Ron Vlaar, 4-Bruno Martins Indi, 15-Dirk win Sunday’s final in Rio de that counts and that is becoming Kuyt, 5-Daley Blind; 11-Arjen Robben, Janeiro. world champion.” 20-Georginio Wijnaldum, 10-Wesley Sneijder; Although third spot would be “It’s unfair also because we 9-Robin van Persie, 21-Memphis Depay. scant consolation for many, the have one less day to recover, so match at the National Stadium is that’s not fair play. But the worst Statistics one Brazil, and under-fire coach thing is that chances are you lose %Brazil are taking part in their fourth third- Luiz Felipe Scolari, must take twice in a row.” place playoff at the World Cup. They beat Italy very seriously. But later, the 62-year-old was in 1978, lost to Poland in 1974 and scored a By contrast, Scolari’s Dutch singing from a very different 4-2 victory over Sweden in 1938. counterpart Louis van Gaal, hymn sheet. % whose side exceeded many peo- “We are going to do every- The Netherlands have taken part in the most unwanted game at the World Cup only ple’s expectations by reaching thing to finish third,” he told the once, losing 2-1 to Croatia in 1998. the last four, has said the third- pre-match press conference in place game is pointless and that Brasilia. “We want to leave the % Despite conceding seven goals against too will ramp up the pressure on World Cup unbeaten, something Germany in the semi-finals, Brazil have one the hosts. a Dutch side has never achieved.” of the best defences and have won the most Savaged in local media after the The Netherlands have never tackles (91) of any team at the tournament, Germany match, Scolari labeled won soccer’s global showpiece according to FIFA statistics. the semi-final disaster the worst despite reaching the final three % No player has covered more ground in day of his life and he and his staff times. They lost in 1974 and 1978 the World Cup than Dutch midfielder Wesley Brazilian player Neymar embraces coach Luiz Felipe Scolari during a training session at Granja Comary in are widely expected to step aside to West Germany and Argentina Sneijder. In six matches, Sneijder has run 69.6 after the tournament whether Teresopolis yesterday. The injured star paid a visit to his team-mates at the training ground. respectively and were beaten 1-0 kilometres, just ahead of Dutch team mate they beat the Dutch or not. by Spain in South Africa four Arjen Robben with Germany forward Thomas “We have a deal ... until today’s he added. “History will have to Spain 5-1, failed to score in either Sergio Romero stopped two years ago. Mueller third. game and after that, probably, we record that Brazil, for the first their quarter-final against Costa Dutch spot-kicks. Brazil and the Netherlands will have a conversation to sort time since 2002, reached the Rica or Wednesday’s semi against Van Gaal, who will take charge have played 11 times and four Previous meetings: Brazil and the some things out,” Scolari said. semi-finals.” Argentina. of Manchester United after the times at the World Cup, includ- Netherlands have played each other 11 times “I will continue with my life, Van Gaal also came in for criti- They beat the Costa Ricans on World Cup, told a news confer- ing the quarter-final in 2010 when overall and four times at the World Cup, includ- the players will also continue to be cism after his side, who began the penalties but lost their shootout ence the third-place game “should the Dutch came from behind to ing the 2010 quarter-final when the Dutch winners and we must continue,” tournament by thrashing holders to Argentina when goalkeeper never be played” and noted he had win 2-1. AGENCIES fought back to win 2-1. Police launch manhunt after FIFA AFC president to seek re-election partner executive flees arrest SINGAPORE: The head of be voted FIFA president in 2011. Asian football has said he will Shaikh Salman will now seek RIO DE JANEIRO: An execu- executive chairman of Match seek re-election next year as he his first full, four-year term along tive from the World Cup’s hospi- Services and its sister company tries to revamp regional soccer with Asia’s FIFA vice-presidency, tality services firm escaped out Match Hospitality issued a state- after previous scandals and a after he won an agreement to the back door of his plush Rio de ment criticizing Rio police. disappointing World Cup. merge the two powerful posts at Janeiro hotel yesterday to avoid “Those responsible for the Asian Football Confederation an extraordinary AFC congress arrest on charges of illegally investigation from the 18th (AFC) President Shaikh Salman last month. selling tickets, authorities said. Precinct of the Civil Police of bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (pic- “Essentially we are working as Police launched a manhunt for Rio de Janeiro are not experts in tured) said he wants to “set a one for the development of Asian Raymond Whelan (pictured), a FIFA World Cup ticketing or hos- new course” for Asian football and football, and the merger (of the British director of FIFA partner pitality,” chairman Jaime Byrom “restore our reputation”. two positions) will complement company Match Services, accus- said in the statement. He added that he will push for our goal,” Shaikh Salman said. ing him of fleeing the beachfront “Notwithstanding our belief an extra World Cup slot for Asian He promised to push ahead Copacabana Palace Hotel after a that the action taken against Mr teams despite a poor showing at with a campaign, supported by judge ordered him and 10 other Whelan was illegal and baseless, the current tourna- FIFA president Sepp suspects to be held in detention. Raymond Whelan, the CEO of Match Hospitality, a subsidiary company Match Services and I person- ment in Brazil, when Blatter, to increase “The Englishman fled through of FIFA in charge of World Cup ticket packages, at a police station in Rio ally remain totally committed to all four representatives Asia’s World Cup allo- the hotel’s back door and is con- de Janeiro on Monday. assist the authorities from the departed winless. cation of four places sidered a fugitive,” Rio police 18th Precinct or any other juris- Shaikh Salman’s re- plus a fifth available said in a statement, just three the same hotel on Monday but Brazilian media have pub- diction in FIFA’s fight against ille- election bid has been through a play-off. days before Sunday’s Germany- was granted preventive release lished leaked phone calls between gal ticket sales.” widely expected since The AFC’s 46 mem- Argentina final at the Maracana the next day. His passport was Whelan and one of the chief sus- Byrom said cooperation with he took over last year bers give it a strong Stadium. seized by the authorities, but pects in the case, French-Algerian the authorities had led to “a following the demise of voice within FIFA, “We saw him in (security) police fear he may have acquired Mohamadou Lamine Fofana, dis- number of successful arrests of Qatar’s Mohamed bin while the region’s popu- footage leaving in a hurry,” Fabio another one from the British cussing hospitality packages for actual touts.” Hammam, who was lation of billions repre- Barucke, the case’s lead investi- consulate. games including Sunday’s final. It is the latest scandal to hit accused of bribery. sents a huge potential gator, told reporters, adding that Police filed charges against him But Match Services has FIFA, which is already battling “We are in the beginning market. But Asia’s progress on Whelan had fled an hour before and 11 others on Wednesday and defended Whelan, saying he was claims that officials from football’s stages of a long-term restructur- the world stage unexpectedly police arrived. submitted the case to prosecutors, innocent and that there was noth- governing body accepted bribes ing project and it would be great took a step back in Brazil when Brazilian TV showed footage who requested an arrest warrant ing illegal about the conversations. in the decision to award the 2022 to personally see it through as I Australia, Japan, South Korea and of Whelan, wearing a blue shirt, against all except one who was The Zurich-based company World Cup to Qatar. am confident it will greatly ben- Iran all failed to win. walking with another man who cooperating with investigators. says Whelan was discussing the Brazilian investigators believe efit the confederation,” Shaikh “We are always looking at ways points to him to sit on a chair Prosecutors said the 12 suspects sale of 24 hospitality packages Whelan gave VIP tickets to Salman said. to increase our standing globally,” near the service exit before he face charges of organized crime, at the correct price, though he Fofana that were originally meant “So yes I would be pleased to Shaikh Salman said. “Having an left the hotel, which is heavily illegal ticket sales, corruption, rounded up the figure to $25,000 for non-governmental organisa- continue with the presidency with extra spot in the World Cup will guarded and houses top FIFA money laundering and tax fraud. from $24,750 per package, and tions, sponsors and families of the support from the member help us in that regards but of officials. Ten of them are in jail, except for that the deal was never concluded. players. associations,” added the Bahraini course the spot must be earned, Whelan is accused of being Whelan and the suspect who is Match Services said Wednesday Fofana sold them illegally royal. and we will strive to earn it.” involved with a scalping network cooperating. that Whelan would voluntarily with the help of travel agencies Shaikh Salman won a landslide Shaikh Salman reaffirmed his that has sold thousands of tick- The Briton’s lawyer, Fernando relinquish his World Cup accredi- and high contacts in the football election last year to complete the support for the controversial ets worth millions of dollars, going Fernandes, said he would appeal tation but that he had not com- world, investigators say. third term of bin Hammam, who Blatter, who has announced he’s back to the 2002 World Cup. the detention order, branding it mitted any wrongdoing. Some 1,000 tickets were sold was barred from football after ready to seek a fifth term next Whelan, who denies the illegal, according to the G1 news Prior to the news of Whelan’s per game for around 1,000 euros being accused of handing out year — despite earlier promises charges, was initially arrested at website. sudden disappearance, the ($1,360). AFP cash-stuffed envelopes in a bid to not to do so. AFP JULY 12, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Court Sharma, Kumar shine as restores Sethi as India keep control of Test PCB chief

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Seamers share wickets, Root leads fightback after England collapse Supreme Court yesterday restored Najam Sethi as the country’s cricket chief, a day NOTTINGHAM: India’s seam- through to India captain and after he was deposed by the ers maintained the tourists’ grip Scoreboard wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh government, in a fresh twist to on the first Test against England Dhoni. a long-running administrative at Trent Bridge yesterday. India (I innings): ...... 457 Shami then produced a lift- crisis. England were 352 for nine in England (I innings): ing delivery which Moeen Ali, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, reply to India’s first innings 457, A Cook b Shami ...... 5 carelessly turning his head away patron of the Pakistan Cricket a deficit of 105 runs, at stumps on S Robson lbw Sharma ...... 59 from the ball, gloved to Shikhar Board (PCB), had ousted veteran the third day. G Ballance lbw Sharma ...... 71 Dhawan in the slips. journalist Sethi and appointed After resuming on 43 for one I Bell c Dhoni b Sharma ...... 25 Kumar then rocked England a former high court judge as following the loss of struggling J Root (batting)...... 78 with a burst of four for 16 in 26 interim chief, directing him to skipper Alastair Cook for five on M Ali c Dhawan b Shami ...... 14 balls. hold elections for the chairman- Thursday, England got through M Prior c Dhoni b Kumar ...... 5 Matt Prior (five) was given out ship within 30 days. yesterday’s morning session with- B Stokes c Dhoni b Kumar ...... 0 caught behind by opposing keeper But the Supreme Court set out losing a wicket. S Broad lbw Kumar ...... 47 Dhoni, standing up to the stumps. aside the premier’s orders, a court But all that changed after L Plunkett b Kumar ...... 7 Replays suggested the noise statement said — the latest round lunch as Ishant Sharma, the J Anderson (batting) ...... 23 that prompted Sri Lanka umpire in a bruising 15-month battle to only member of India’s attack Extras (B-2, LB-4, W-2, NB-10) ...... 18 Kumar Dharmasena’s raised fin- lead the PCB. to have previously played a Test Total (for 9 wkts) ...... 352 ger had come from the bat hit- A series of court cases and gov- in England, took three for 29 in Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-134, 3-154, 4-172, ting the pad but, with no DRS, a ernment decrees have seen the seven overs to turn 131 for one 5-197, 6-202, 7-202, 8-280, 9-298. disbelieving Prior had to go. PCB chairmanship change hands into 172 for four. Bowling: Kumar 25-8-61-4 (1nb, 1w); Sha- There was no controversy between Sethi and Zaka Ashraf Significantly, the tall paceman mi 24-3-98-2 (2nb, 1w); Sharma 27-3-109- regarding Ben Stokes’s exit for five times since May last year. gained a measure of reverse swing 3 (7nb); Jadeja 24-4-56-0; Binny 6-0-22-0. a duck when the recalled all- Ashraf, who first took the job in that had largely eluded England’s rounder, pushing away from his October 2011, was suspended by seamers as he countered a still- Sam Robson and Zimbabwe-born body, was also caught behind off Islamabad High Court in May last docile pitch. left-hander Gary Ballance were Kumar. year after he tried to extend his Fellow seamer Bhuvneshwar 59 not out at lunch. All-rounder Stuart Broad, tenure by getting himself elected Kumar followed up with a quartet Robson, though, was lbw to who had been severely critical of in a process termed “dubious” by of wickets on his way to Test-best Sharma without adding to his the state of his Nottinghamshire the court. figures of four for 61 in 25 overs. score. home pitch, counter-attacked Since then Ashraf was restored His return came a day after Replays suggested a thin inside after tea. twice by an appeal bench of the Kumar made his highest Test edge but Australian umpire Bruce To the first delivery with the Islamabad court — in January and score of 58 during an Indian Oxenford’s decision, given the new ball, left-handed batsman May this year. tenth-wicket record stand against ball hit Robson’s back pad, was Broad stroked Kumar for four as His second restoration was England of 111 with Mohammed understandable. England avoided the follow-on. challenged by Sethi in the Shami (51 not out) that put the And with the Decision Review But having made a dashing 47, Supreme Court, which on May visitors on top. System not being used this series he was lbw to an inswinging deliv- 21 reinstated Sethi. However, England number because of Indian objections, it ery from Kumar to end a quick- The Supreme Court was 11 James Anderson, whose last was the end of a second-wicket fire stand of 78. unhappy about Sharif’s decision innings ended in tears after his partnership worth 125. Broad made his displeasure at to include Sethi in a 12-member valiant effort to hold out for a Sharma struck again with a Dharmasena’s decision clear but governing board, widely seen as draw in Sri Lanka’s second Test fine delivery that straightened replays confirmed the ball had an attempt by the government victory at Headingley saw him to have Ballance unquestionably pitched in line and would have to get him elected in the next 30 dismissed off the penultimate lbw for 71. hit the stumps. days. ball, then kept Joe Root company Ian Bell, in his 101st Test, Kumar then bowled Liam Retired judge Jamshed Ali Shah for over an hour. looked in superb touch making Plunkett to leave England 298 became the 29th PCB chairman in At the close the resolute Root a 25 that included 24 runs in for nine. the country’s 66-year history but was 78 not out and Anderson boundaries. Anderson then did more than his tenure lasted for just one day. India’s Ishant Sharma appeals during the first cricket Test match against unbeaten on 23, with their last- But Bell withdrew his bat too hold an end up and twice expertly Sethi insisted he had no inten- England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham yesterday. wicket stand so far worth 54 runs. late from an attempted cut shot reverse-swept left-arm spinner tion of staying in the job long- Both Australia-born opener off Sharma and feathered a catch Ravindra Jadeja for four. AFP term. AFP Espargaro sets Germany pace, Marquez shrugs off crash

SACHSENRING: Aleix “I feel great, and it was fan- “The day went very well, Jorge Lorenzo, on a factory Espargaro put the factory Honda tastic to ride here, like last year. because even though I crashed I Yamaha, was third fastest at a and Yamaha teams in the shade We explored a lot of different was fortunate not to get injured, track where he was missing last in practice for Sunday’s German settings,” said Espargaro, who but the impact was hard. The year because of a serious shoul- MotoGP while world champi- achieved a career-best fourth crash was a little strange, but der injury picked up at Assen onship leader Marc Marquez place at Assen last time out. when we looked at the telem- and which compromised his title shrugged off a painful crash. “I did 22 laps on the rear soft etry later on we understood defence. Espargaro on a NGM Forward tyre, it was strong till the end. why it happened,” said the world He was 0.327sec off the pace Racing Yamaha clocked a I think we can race with the champion. with Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda best time of 1min 22.041sec, soft like in Assen but the tem- “It’s a long left turn in second MotoGP), Alvaro Bautista having been fastest in both perature can change a lot here in gear on the throttle the whole (GO&FUN Honda Gresini) and sessions. Germany.” time, and I accidentally touched Valentino Rossi (factory Yamaha) World champion Marquez, on Marquez hurt his neck in the the gear shift lever with the toe making up the top six. the leading factory Honda, was crash which came at Turn 3 of my boot. This engaged another Marquez is chasing a ninth win second quickest, 0.117sec behind with the Spaniard admitting it gear and as I was leant so far in nine races on Sunday with the fellow-Spaniard Espargaro, hav- was caused by a problem with over — and had the gas open — flying Spaniard on course to have Honda rider Marc Marquez of Spain steers his bike during the training ing suffeerd a big crash earlier in the gears on his all-conquering the rear wheel slid out and I was the title wrapped up in record session of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit yesterday. the day in the first session. machine. thrown off.” time. AFP West starts strong, Prinz dream comes true

SACHSENRING: After his seemed to make Racing Team’s limit was cancelled in the mean- sensational win in the Moto2 a big improve- wild card entry, time, our second application went race at the Dutch motorcy- ment. I went a German Nina through with no problems what- cle Grand Prix meet in Assen lot faster, was Prinz, competed soever and I am very happy that last month, QMMF Racing more consistent in the first-ever I finally got this opportunity,” she Team rider Anthony West had and felt a lot bet- Grand Prix of said. a strong start to the German ter with the bike her career. “I want to thank QMMF for Grand Prix. as far as grip The 31-year- making this possible and making The 32-year-old Australian was and turnings old lady racer, my dream come true! We now down in 21st place in the first free go. I still think a regular front have to try to make the best out practice session but jumped up to we need to do runner in of this chance even though it is 14th in the afternoon after some more, but I am the national difficult to adjust to this category set-up changes that gave him happy with our Superbike in only one race. In order to pre- more stability with the brakes progress,” West championship of pare us for this Grand Prix, we and more rear-tyre grip at the said. Nina Prinz Qatar, is the first went testing in Aragón, which Sachsenring racing circuit with His team- female German went well. But after riding 1000cc its long corner combinations. mate Roman in Grand Prix Superbikes for such a long time, “This morning was a little Ramos also did well after some racing since the times of 250cc it’s not easy for me to adapt to the difficult because the track con- changes to his Speed Up proto- star Katja Poensgen 11 years ago. 600cc, which has less power and ditions weren’t perfect and the type, booking a promising 27th Regardless of her 34th position thus requires a different riding bike set-up was quite nervous. In place in the morning session after day one, Prinz said it was a style. Today, we started well but, the afternoon, we made a change before dropping back to 31st in dream come true. unfortunately, I couldn’t improve to the bike and it felt more sta- the afternoon after an experi- “Back in 2012, QMMF tried in the second session because we ble under braking, but I still had ment with the engine settings. for the first time to offer me a had a few small electronic prob- QMMF Racing Team rider Anthony West (right) speaks to his team-mates problems with rear-tyre grip. While Ramos reached the half- Grand Prix experience, which was lems. I hope to be able to speed up at the Sachsenring racing circuit yesterday. At the very end of the session, way point of his first-ever world rejected due to the age limit for tomorrow.” Prinz added. we made another change, which championship season, QMMF wild card entries. Since this age THE PENINSULA JULY 12, 2014 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER A falcon tries to catch a pigeon, symbolising the national soccer team of Germany in the Brazil 2014 World Cup, during a falconry session north of MUSCAT 34/29 Clear 35/29 Clear Tabuk in Saudi Arabia, yesterday. The falcon was released and allowed to catch its prey, as part of an event to predict the winner of the World Cup MAKKAH 43/28 Clear 42/30 Partly cloudy final match between Germany and Argentina tomorrow. KUWAIT 46/31 Clear 48/32 Clear BAHRAIN 40/34 Clear 39/35 Partly cloudy SANAA 30/17 Partly cloudy 31/17 Partly cloudy RIYADH 43/32 Partly cloudy 43/33 Clear DUBAI 40/27 Clear 43/29 Clear Anthrax probe reveals BAGHDAD 45/30 Clear 47/26 Clear

THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER new bird flu mishap ATHENS 32/23 Clear 32/23 Clear WASHINGTON: Federal member of the National Science now closed and will not reopen WASHINGTON 31/21 Partly cloudy 34/25 Chance of storm health officials yesterday dis- Advisory Board for Biosecurity, until adequate procedures are put SYDNEY 18/08 Clear 16/09 Partly cloudy closed a new safety breach at which advises the federal govern- in place. Outside experts agreed LONDON 26/16 Chance of showers 23/12 Chance of showers a high-security US laboratory ment said in a telephone inter- that shipping what CDC scien- PARIS 23/19 Chance of storm 22/15 Chance of rain involving dangerous avian flu, a view. “One of the critical issues we tists believed were samples of a ISTANBUL 26/22 Clear 26/21 Partly cloudy lapse that came to light as they need to focus on is the good guys fairly benign form of influenza, investigated the potential expo- who just forget to do it safely.” but which were mixed with the MANILA 33/26 Thunderstorm 34/26 Chance of storm sure of government researchers The CDC’s director, Dr Thomas highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, ‘Harry Potter’ DHAKA 33/27 Thunderstorm 34/27 Chance of storm to live anthrax bacteria. Frieden, called the bird flu inci- was even more alarming than the DELHI 42/31 Partly cloudy 41/28 Cloudy The US Centers for Disease dent “the most distressing,” in anthrax incident. actor David ISLAMABAD 41/28 Clear 41/28 Partly cloudy Control and Prevention said an part because it occurred six weeks “The last place you want to be internal probe found multiple fail- ago but was not reported to senior mixing up samples is in influenza,” Legeno found ures by individual scientists and a agency leadership. said Osterholm. “The ability for lack of agency-wide safety policies “I learned about it less than 48 that to jump from the lab bench dead in US had led to the potential exposure hours ago,” he told reporters in to the community is substantially Clooney rejects Daily Mail of more than 80 lab workers to a teleconference, adding that the greater.” NEW YORK: British actor live anthrax at its Atlanta cam- events likely “have people ques- H5N1, although highly lethal, is David Legeno, who appeared pus last month. Researchers in tioning government.” not easily transmitted from one as a werewolf in the “Harry apology on marriage story a high-security lab sent samples He also pointed to the dis- infected person to another, which Potter” films, was found dead of what they thought were inac- covery this month of six vials of would limit its spread in the case by hikers in a remote area LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star George tivated bacteria to colleagues in smallpox in an unused room at of a lab-acquired infection or an of Death Valley, California Clooney yesterday rejected an apology from a lower-security lab, with fewer the National Institutes of Health escape from a lab. police said yesterday. Britain’s Daily Mail over a story claiming his protections. campus in Bethesda, Maryland Other scientists raised alarm The Inyo County Sheriff’s fiancee’s mother opposes the couple’s upcom- Investigators also discovered a near Washington. Dated 1954, two over the CDC disclosure that Office said the body of Legeno, ing marriage, accusing the tabloid of cover-up. previously unreported incident: of the vials contained live virus. the same lab responsible for the 50, was found early Sunday The paper reported earlier this week that Workers at a high-security CDC “We need to look at our cul- anthrax incident had a simi- morning and a helicopter was the US actor’s soon-to-be Lebanese mother- lab sent samples containing a dan- ture of safety throughout all of lar lapse occur in 2006 when used to transport it from the in-law had been telling “half of Beirut” that she gerous strain of bird flu to coun- our laboratories,” Frieden said. researchers transferred what area. opposes the union between the heartthrob and terparts at the US Department of The CDC’s anthrax report does they thought was inactivated bac- “It appears that Legeno her daughter Amal Alamuddin due to her sup- Agriculture in March. Mishandling not name any of the responsible teria to another facility. died of heat related issues, posed Druze faith. avian flu could have far graver individuals. “That the same kind of inci- but the Inyo County coroner The daily removed the piece from its widely consequences than anthrax does, dent can recur shows that the will determine the final cause read website and apologised following an initial protest by Clooney, though no one has been found to BIRD FLU CONCERNS CDC does not learn from its of death. who said it got many key facts wrong. have been infected in either case. “These repeated safety failures own mistakes,” molecular biolo- There are no signs of foul The publication however maintained that its story was “not a fabri- The two incidents represent raise grave concerns about the gist Richard Ebright of Rutgers play,” the sheriff’s office said cation, but supplied in good faith” by a reputable journalist. the latest in a series of breaches CDC’s ability to ensure strict pro- University and an expert on in a statement. A clearly incensed Clooney is not letting the matter go, issuing a at the CDC in the last decade that cedures, protocols and training biosafety said in a telephone inter- The burly, London-born, second USA Today opinion piece yesterday in as many days. is drawing fresh scrutiny from are followed,” said Representative view. Just a year earlier, the CDC professional boxer and mar- “There is one constant when a person or company is caught doing Congress and questions about the Tim Murphy, chairman of a House published recommendations on tial arts expert played Fenrir something wrong. The coverup is always worse,” Clooney wrote. agency’s ability to oversee poten- Energy and Commerce subcom- how to prevent shipments of what Greyback the ferocious were- “In the apology, managing editor Charles Garside claims that the tially dangerous research. The CDC mittee that has called Frieden to scientists believe to be inactivated wolf in several of the “Harry article was ‘not a fabrication,’ but ‘based the story on conversations said its findings provide a “wake-up testify on Wednesday. anthrax but which are in fact via- Potter” films. He also appeared with senior members of the Lebanese community,’” he added. call” to overhaul the protocols and The CDC said it is suspending ble. In the anthrax case, investi- on television and in a string “The problem is that none of that is true... So either they were lying oversight governing experiments any transfers inside or outside gators found that the scientists of movies, including “Snow originally, or they’re lying now.” with deadly pathogens. the agency of biological materi- failed to follow an approved study White and the Huntsman,” Word that Alamuddin, a Beirut-based London lawyer, had stolen Biosecurity has focused on als, including infectious agents plan that met safety requirements “Snatch,” “Centurion” and the heart of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated bachelors caused an “how to keep bad guys out of the and even inactivated specimens, and lacked standard procedures “Batman Begins.” international media frenzy back in April. No official details have been lab,” Michael Osterholm of the from high-biosecurity labs. The to document when microbes are REUTERS released on when the high-profile pair will say “I do.” AFP University of Minnesota and a CDC influenza laboratory is also properly inactivated. REUTERS Hollywood zooms in on China’s film market BEIJING: Throughout Beijing, as clunky as the film itself. The office records in China. “You know have begun to feel superficial and China Movie Channel and its success is simple economics. China images of Optimus Prime, small crowd laughed sporadically Transformers, the animated forced. “If they included more online film streaming partner is opening 10 new cinema screens Bumblebee, and other protago- at the Chinese product place- series, was really big in China in content about Chinese families, Jiaflix Enterprises, who backed every day, so almost any film has a nists in the latest Transformers ments — a China Construction the late 1980s and early 90s, when or Chinese culture, that might be the movie for an undisclosed sum. shot of being the biggest ever, says film stare from bus station bill- Bank debit card, a can of Chinese I was in middle school,” he said. more interesting,” he said. While real-life Hong Kong David Hancock, director of film boards, shopfront windows and Red Bull - scattered throughout “So many things in these mov- Nonetheless, the latest residents took to the streets in and cinema at consultancy IHS even a statue near Tiananmen the blockbuster’s first half, mostly ies pull directly from the cartoon Transformers film is a text-book their tens of thousands to march Technology. He estimates that Square. As US film studios look set in rural Texas. Nonetheless, - that’s something they’ve done case of how Hollywood’s profit- for democracy, the Transformers the Chinese cinema market will further afield for profits, the the producers’ approach has really well. making machine does its job with film shows a local leader call- be worth $4.6bn in 2014, almost Hollywood sign now looms over worked: the film has become “But there were really too ruthless focus. In a bid to win over ing on central government to a one-third increase on last year. China. China’s biggest ever box office many advertisements. When a Chinese audience, a large chunk save the day when the territory And China has a lot further to On a Thursday afternoon at success, generating ticket sales Hollywood studios started adding of the action is set in Hong Kong, faces an invasion by the mutant go: it had 18,200 screens at the the Polybona Cinema in the city’s of more than $222m in less than Chinese elements to their films with roles for Chinese star Li robots. The Chinese government end of last year, compared with east, a few dozen Chinese movie- a fortnight. about three or four years ago, it Bingbing and boxer Zou Shiming, is depicted as benevolent, while 40,000 in the US. If China had the goers paid about £13 — the price Yang Yunfan, a 33-year-old made us feel great - we thought albeit smaller parts than those of the US government manages to be same number of screens as the US of about 30 bottles of local beer advertising professional, said he ‘Wow, China is really awesome, their American co-stars. both sinister and useless - typified per capita it would have 133,000 — to watch Transformers: Age of enjoyed the film more than the it’s a really important country Producer Paramount has also by the black-clad CIA operatives screens. “We are talking about Extinction in 3D. prior entry in the long-running now.’” pulled out all the stops to make a - one of whom gets beaten up by a very, very large market,” says During the screening, the over- franchise, Transformers: Dark Recently, he said, Hollywood’s film that will please China’s cen- a Chinese character. Hancock, who made that calcula- tures to Chinese cinemagoers are of the Moon, which also set box attempts to woo Chinese audiences sors, as well as state-run CCTV Another reason for the film’s tion. GUARDIAN NEWS