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Emir meets Erdogan Qatar ranks No.1 Iran, Western in WEF report on competitiveness DOHA: Qatar has been powers reach ranked No. 1 in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report. The report evaluates the efficiency of 144 governments historic N-deal on measures, including waste- fulness of government spend- ing, burden of regulation and Qatar welcomes agreement transparency of policymaking, to produce an overall global VIENNA: Major powers the US, Russia, China, Britain, ranking. clinched a historic deal yesterday France and Germany. Qatar emerges as the coun- to ensure Iran does not obtain Underscoring the tectonic shift try with the most efficient the nuclear bomb, opening up in relations, Iranian state TV government, followed by Tehran’s stricken economy and broadcast Obama’s statement live, Singapore, potentially ending decades of bad only the second such occasion since Finland has been ranked blood with the West. the 1979 Islamic revolution. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and discussed latest third, Hong Kong fourth and Qatar has welcomed the deal over Iranian President Hassan regional and international developments and cooperation. The Emir’s delegation, Turkish cabinet members and the United Kingdom fifth in Tehran’s nuclear programme. In a Rouhani said in his address that officials were present. the report. statement, the Foreign Ministry “God has accepted the nation’s Rwanda’s strong showing in described the deal as a significant prayers” and the accord would lift seventh position was secured, step, stressing Qatar’s keenness to “inhumane and tyrannical sanc- thanks in large part to the low protect regional peace and stability tions. Iran will never seek a nuclear level of waste in government and hoping that it would boost both. weapon, with or without imple- spending. Reached on day 18 of talks in mentation” of the deal, he added. Accounts for Woqod customers Venezuela has the least effi- Vienna, the accord aims to resolve Hundreds of Iranians poured onto cient government, behind Italy a 13-year stand-off over Iran’s the streets of Tehran to celebrate DOHA: Motorists filling fuel Thani inaugurated the facility, and Urban Planning and other and Argentina in second and nuclear ambitions after diplomatic after the Ramadan fast. at Woqod stations may soon be which is Woqod’s 26th fuel station. entities for allocation of plots for third places. failures and threats of military The deal limits Iran’s nuclear able to pay through personal Every time a customer fills fuel portable petrol stations. The report evaluates which action. It was hailed by Iran, the activities for at least a decade and accounts to be opened at the from a Woqod station, the amount “We are awaiting final approval countries have the most US, the European Union and Nato calls for stringent UN oversight, company, a senior official said will be deducted from his account from government entities con- — and the least – efficient but branded a “historic mistake” by with world powers hoping this will yesterday. at the company. cerned. We plan to implement governments. Tehran’s archfoe Israel. make any dash to make an atomic The service will be made avail- The customer will immediately the project very soon,” said Al The efficiency of govern- US President Barack Obama said bomb virtually impossible. able to citizens and expatriates get an SMS showing the quantity Kuwari. ment has a significant bearing the accord meant “every pathway Iran will get sanctions relief very soon, Al Sharq reports, quot- of fuel filled, price and balance in Woqod plans to open eight fuel on a country’s competitive- to a nuclear weapon is cut off. This although measures can “snap back” ing Woqod CEO Engineer Ibrahim his account, explained Al Kuwari. stations this year and more than ness and economic growth. deal offers an opportunity to move into place if there are violations. Jeham Al Kuwari as saying. He said the current crowding 100 before 2022. Excessive bureaucracy and in a new direction. We should seize Global arms embargo will remain He was speaking on the side- at Woqod stations is because of A new service station will open regulation, a lack of trans- it,” he said in an address to the for five years with deliveries pos- lines of the opening of a new the closure of several private pet- in Al Wakrah by this month and parency, and inadequate legal nation. sible during that time with permis- Woqod fuel station at Lakteefia rol stations and the rapid growth other facilities will be across the frameworks impose additional He vowed to veto any sion from the UN Security Council, in West Bay yesterday. in the population. country, he added. costs on business and impede Congressional effort to block the diplomats said. See also page 7 Woqod Chairman Sheikh Saoud He said Woqod has signed up THE PENINSULA expansion. THE PENINSULA deal, reached between Tehran and AGENCIES bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan Al with the Ministry of Municipality Continued on page 5

Yemeni forces Eid Al Fitr prayers at recapture Aden airport 5.08am: Ministry ADEN: Yemeni forces recap- DOHA: Eid Al Fitr prayers will offer passengers online check-in,” tured Aden’s international air- be performed at 5.08am, the it added. port and some city districts Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic The general public dropping from Houthi militia fighters Affairs announced yesterday. off or receiving passengers are yesterday, in a sudden advance It has prepared 316 mosques advised to use the short-term after months of stalemate, the and prayer grounds across Qatar car park which provides compli- exiled government said. for the prayers. Thirty-three mentary parking for the first 30 Yemenis on social media mosques and places are reserved minutes and costs QR5 per hour reported celebrations in cities for women. thereafter. across the country’s south, where The Ministry of Economy Passengers also have the option refugees from Aden have fled, and and Commerce, meanwhile, of parking vehicles at the air- in other areas where local fighters embarked on surprise inspection port’s long-term car park which are battling the Houthis and army campaigns on shops across the provides 2,540 spaces and a reg- units loyal to former president Ali country as part of its commit- ular shuttle service to the main Abdullah Saleh. ment to monitor markets and terminal every 15-20 minutes. Houthi-run Maseera televi- business activities during Eid Al More information about HIA’s sion reported that the rebels had Fitr celebrations. parking facilities can be found chosen to quit the city after It has intensified campaigns on on its website. THE PENINSULA “cleansing it of Al Qaeda and shops selling sweets and nuts as Islamic State” in an apparent well as women’s salons, tailors, admission of the militia’s retreat. An artist’s impression of the entrance of the new market in Doha that will replace Souq Kharaj. barbers and clothing and accesso- “Aden International Airport and ries outlets. The ministry started Khormaksar have been cleared surprise inspections in the begin- of Houthi and Saleh elements by ning of Ramadan and registered armed forces with direct support New second-hand market by June 64 violations and irregularities by the coalition,” a government and penalties ranged from fines official said. See also page 6 staring from QR6,000 to admin- AGENCIES 2017; space at affordable rents istrative closure in some cases. Meanwhile, Hamad DOHA: The new second-hand The market will be built on statement. The company’s designs International Airport (HIA) has market in Doha to replace Souq an area of 35,000sqm in Umm assured the best use of space with advised passengers travelling RAMADAN Kharaj will become operational Bashar near Hamad International sufficient parking areas and a during Eid Al Fitr holidays to TIMING Ramadan during the second half of 2017, Airport. basement for transportation of arrive early to avoid any delays. QUIZ the Ministry of Economy and The company will invest over goods to the market. The airport is expecting a peak Today’s Iftar: Commerce said yesterday. QR206m, the statement added. The company is committed in departing passenger traffic Answer a Simple Question 06:30pm Win a Gold Coin everyday The project has been developed Forty local companies took part to retaining traditional and cul- from today until Monday and See page 15 with participation of the private in the bid and seven qualified. tural features of the market in the arriving passenger traffic from Tomorrow’s Imsak: sector and commercial space in They were asked to submit offers, design, the statement added. July 23 until 25. 03:16am the market will be available to including competitive rents for The logistics committee invited “To ensure passengers have traders at affordable rents, said target tenants and professional bids on March 1, 2015 to involve seamless and comfortable travel the ministry. designs that can ensure smooth the private sector in the project. experiences through the airport, The ministry has awarded traffic and comfortable shopping The competitive bid has given a HIA advises locally departing the contract for developing and experience. chance for traders to hire a 60sqm passengers to arrive three hours managing the market to Triple Triple A company came out area for QR3,500 per month. This before flight departure time and A Trading and Contracting, a with the best offers, including is good for small and medium that check-in counters will close Qatari company owned by Sheikh excellent designs using tradi- projects and will enable traders 60 minutes prior to departure,” Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah Al tional Qatari architecture for 324 to offer competitive prices to cus- HIA said in a release. “To save See page 4 Thani, its logistics committee shops with competitive monthly tomers, said the ministry. time, Qatar Airways and many announced yesterday. rents of QR54 per sqm, said the THE PENINSULA other airlines operating from HIA

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Emir exchanges French National Day marked Eid greetings with FM attends UN forum ADDIS ABABA: Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Sultan Qaboos Al Attiyah led a Qatari delegation to the Third UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa. The five-day forum DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh under the theme ‘Time for Global Action’ ends on Thursday. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Over 19 presidents and heads of governments along with African, exchanged Eid Al Fitr greet- Arab and international figures are participating in the forum which ings with H M Sultan Qaboos includes eight plenary sessions, roundtables and side events. It is bin Said of Oman during a tel- focusing on assessing progress in implementation of the Monterrey ephone call he received last Consensus and Doha Declaration, identifying obstacles encountered evening. in the achievement of goals and objectives agreed therein and the need Greetings sent to to support the UN development agenda beyond 2015. QNA French president DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Warning against Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to French President Francois Hollande on his country’s National Day. use of expired Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a cable of congratula- tions to Hollande. Prime Minister and Interior beauty products Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani DOHA: A senior official of the the local market will soon have sent a similar cable to Hollande. Ministry of Environment has Qatari quality marks, while meet- Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, French Ambassador Eric Chevallier warned the public against using ing GCC and international quality QR952.1m property and Minister of Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti cut a ceremonial cake to mark French National Day expired soaps, shampoos and standards and specifications. as other officials look on, at the ambassador’s residence yesterday. BAHER AMIN other beauty products saying “Now we have beauty prod- sales last week they can cause serious health ucts of high quality in the mar- hazards, including cancer. ket. Many importers are asking DOHA: The total value of real Dr Mohammed bin Saif Al about introducing Qatari quality estate sale contracts regis- Kuwari, Assistant Undersecretary marks. We want to tell the pub- tered with the Land Registry HMC call to avoid overeating for Standards and Specifications, lic and traders that the Qatari Department of the Ministry said many people in Qatar are not quality mark is in the process of of Justice last week reached aware of this fact. obtaining accreditation. QR952.1m. According to the “We have received calls from “Very soon we will announce weekly bulletin issued by the during Eid celebrations people asking about expired the start of applications to obtain department, deals included beauty products. Majority of the Qatari quality mark,” he added. plots of land, houses, buildings, DOHA: People are urged to issues such as nausea, vomiting, neighbour during Eid, it is impor- people believe expired beauty Al Kuwari said recently the palaces and residential units in avoid overeating during Eid Al stomach upset and indigestion at tant to remember the main pur- products have no impact on ministry had stopped some Doha, Umm Salal, Al Khor, Al Fitr festivities to prevent stom- Hamad General Hospital’s (HGH) pose of Ramadan. Overindulging health. This is wrong. We want beauty products from entering Dhakira, Al Rayyan, Al Zain, Al ach and intestinal disorders. Emergency Department. “In can also lead to rapid weight gain, to tell the public that all beauty the Qatari market because they Wakra and Al Shamal. Dr Warda Al Saad, Chief instances where there is a health which can cause obesity, which is products have expiry dates on contained hazardous substances. Consultant, Emergency Medicine, condition, such as diabetes and a leading cause of Type 2 diabetes, the packets. When expired, they They included black henna, hair QDF, QC sign $2.75m Hamad Medical Corporation heart ailments, health risks are hypertension and back pain.” become hazardous to health,” dyes, shampoo and cologne. (HMC), says the body has accus- multiplied with the sudden rise To prevent avoidable ill health a local Arabic daily quoted Al “These products are being deal for Yemenis tomed itself to a prolonged period in blood sugar levels created by during Eid celebrations and holi- Kuwari as saying. monitored and we have stopped of fasting during Ramadan and the consumption of large amounts days, Dr Al Saad advised food and He advised the public not to them from entering the country,” DOHA: Qatar Development the transition from ‘fast’ to ‘feast’ of sweets and sugars,” she added. fluids in moderation; not skip- use any beauty product if they said Al Kuwari. Fund (QDF) yesterday signed can produce adverse effects on Dr Al Saad said while it is ping breakfast as this will lead to are expired or if the expiry date He said all imported beauty a $2.75m agreement with Qatar health. important to take time to cele- overeating during the day; keeping is not mentioned on the package. products are required to have Charity (QC) to provide relief “Many people tend to overload brate with friends and family, it is oneself hydrated throughout the These products contain chemi- an authorised quality certificate assistance for Yemeni people. their bodies with large amounts also important to remember the day; avoiding heavy, fatty foods cal substances which can turn showing that they don’t contain QDF General Manager Khalifa of unhealthy food and drinks purpose of Ramadan. which can cause gastrointestinal toxic after a certain period and toxic or hazardous substances. Jassim Al Kuwari and QC Chief during Eid celebrations. As a “Although some people feel it is disturbances; and avoiding refined infiltrate into blood through skin, He said beauty products avail- Executive Yusuf bin Ahmed Al result, we often notice a spike in impolite to reject or say no when carbohydrates and sugar which causing cancer and kidney and able in the Qatari market are free Kuwari signed the agreement. the number of patients seeking one is offered sweets or meals can cause blood sugar surges. liver ailments. from hazardous materials and QNA emergency treatment for gastric while visiting a relative, friend or THE PENINSULA He said beauty products in safe for use. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Deal to build university Qatar achieves high ranks auditoriums in Comoros in Quran competitions DOHA: Assistant Foreign DOHA: Qatar has achieved Minister for International second rank in Algeria Cooperation Affairs and International Contest for Head of Arab Committee Memorisation, Interpretation for Development and and Recitation of the Holy Investment in the Comoros Quran. Qatar was represented H E Sheikh Mohammed by Abdullah Abu Sherida in bin Abdulrahman bin the category of memorising the Jassim Al Thani and Omani holy book. Qatar also achieved Ambassador to Qatar fourth rank in the Jordan Mohammed bin Nasser Al International Competition for Wihaibi signed a $1.5m con- Holy Quran Memorisation. tract to build auditoriums The state was represented by of University of Moroni in Abdulaziz Helwan. Comoros. Fund is provided by Top winners in the competi- Oman. Comoros Ambassador tion, which involved over 50 Arab Qatar Haji Abdulhamid was and Islamic countries, were hon- present. The deal is part of Assistant Foreign Minister for International Cooperation Affairs and Head of oured in the Great Mosque in the a development plan by the Arab Committee for Development and Investment in the Comoros H E Sheikh Algerian capital of Algiers. The committee chaired by Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and Omani Ambassador to Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic to support the people of the Qatar sign the contract. Affairs always achieves advanced The Qatari delegation. Comoros. QNA ranks in such contests. QNA Eid shopping Eid holidays: Many health centres in Doha to work in double shifts DOHA: Several health centres Shamal and Al Wakrah will be Al Shahania centres on Friday July 23, General Directorate i n Doha w i l l work i n double sh i f ts open from 7am to 11pm. But Al and Saturday. Specialised clinics of Nationality, Borders and during Eid Al Fitr holidays. Khor and Al Shamal centres will such as ophthalmology and ear, Expatriate Affairs, General However, health centres in be closed daily from 2pm to 4pm. nose and throat (ENT) clinics Directorate of Traffic, and Umm Salal, Al Daayen, Airport, Al Shahania Health Centre will will operate daily during morn- Criminal Evidence and Karaana, Al Gharafa and Abu be open every day from 7am to ing hours from today until July 25 Investigation Department will be Nakhla will be closed during the 9pm, while centres in Al Jamiliyah, (except for Friday and Saturday open from 8am to noon, the min- holidays. Al Rayyan, Madinat Al Kaaban, Al Ghuwairiya and for ENT clinic and Friday (July istry said in a statement yesterday. Khalifa, Al Muntazah, Um Umm Bab will work on-call around 24) for the ophthalmology clinic). Ghuwailina, Abu Bakr Al Siddiq, the clock. For dental services, Al The premarital screening pro- QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE Omar Bin Al Khatab, West Bay Wakrah Health Centre dental gramme at Al Rayyan Health Qatar Stock Exchange said and Museimeer centres will work clinic will open daily from 7am Centre will operate on Sunday, Eid Al Fitr holidays will be three in double shifts from 7am to to 2pm and 3pm to 9pm, except July 19 and on Wednesday, July working days from Sunday until 2pm and 4pm to 10pm except for for the first day of Eid and Friday 22 from 7 am to 1pm. Tuesday, Qatar News Agency Museimeer centre, which does not mornings. reports. In a statement posted on work on Friday mornings. At the centres in Al Khor, Al MINISTRY OF INTERIOR its website, QSE said the market Dental services in these centres Shamal and Al Shahania, dental Several department at the will resume trading on Wednesday, will be available at the same time services will be available from Ministry of Interior will work adding that this is based on A family shops at a leading hypermarket in Doha ahead of Eid Al Fitr, except for the first day of Eid Al 7am to 2pm, except for the first during Eid Al Fitr holidays which directives from Qatar Financial yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT Fitr and Friday mornings. day of Eid. Dental service will begin today. Markets Authority. Health centres in Al Khor, Al not be available in Al Shamal and Throughout holidays until THE PENINSULA City Lifestyle launches Beauty Festival

Visitors at Beauty Festival at Centrepoint. BAHER AMIN

DOHA: City Lifestyle has launched Beauty Festival, offering ‘Buy 2 Get 1 Free’ across makeup brands such as NYX, Deborah, Prestige, Nouba, Maybelline, Sally Hansen, Nouba, UNE, Kardashian Beauty, L’Oreal and Revlon, among others. A first-timer at the fes- tival is spa and bath prod- ucts section lined up with fragrances and rejuvenat- ing offers for a refreshing summer ahead. The festival includes olfactory delights such as Grace Cole, Bodycology, Woods of Windsor, Marc Anthony and Gosh at a better offer, on body washes, gels, scrubs to body butters. The star attraction is internationally famed cosmetics also adored by celebrities. From plumped- up lashes, lined eyes, accen- tuated cheeks to luscious lips and enamel drenched tips, you can have them all at the festival. The ‘Buy 2 Get 1 Free’ offer is for cosmetics to bath and body spa products and valid across all City Lifestyle stores, includ- ing Centrepoint, in Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. The festival ends on July 31. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Four erring food outlets closed down DOHA: Doha Municipality Monitoring Section at the munic- will be booked for several reasons inspectors closed down four ipality told Al Watan. such as broken ceramic tiles, he food outlets for violating health “Most violations related to not added. rules and registered 56 viola- maintaining necessary hygiene in On referring erring outlets to tions in first three weeks of the outlets like general cleaning the court, Buhashim said: “So far Ramadan. and providing uniforms for work- only three cases were taken to “Inspectors made 1,351 visits ers,” he said. public production. to eateries and food shops dur- “It is not necessary to catch an “The shopkeepers had refused ing the past 21 days,” Mohammad outlet for only using or selling food to follow rules,” he added. Ahmad Buhashim, Head, Health not fit for human consumption. It THE PENINSULA NU-Q graduates celebrate Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan Al Thani (centre), Chairman, Woqod, and other officials inaugurate the company’s Lakteefia Service Station yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP achievements with peers in US DOHA: Travelling over 7,000 14 new petrol stations this year miles, a small batch of graduat- ing seniors from Northwestern Continued from page 1 multipurpose automobile service complete and would become oper- University in Qatar (NU-Q) The new Lakteefia service sta- bay for basic vehicle maintenance. ational by this year-end. joined a graduation ceremony at tion is spread over an area of 5,125 Fourteen fuel stations are Woqod also plans to establish its sister campus in the US. square metres and provides petrol under construction and expected Fahes vehicle inspection facilities Though NU-Q’s fourth gradu- and diesel. to be opened this year and the at existing petrol stations subject ating class had its ceremony in It also has a Sidra conven- next in addition to seven expan- to availability of space, Al Kuwari Qatar, 10 students travelled to ience store, car wash and a sion projects which are almost added. THE PENINSULA Evanston campus to join the larger Northwestern community and represent colleagues back home. During Senior Week events and other outings, NU-Q students made new friends, reconnected with old ones and marvelled at the beauty of the campus along Lake Michigan. Qatari senior Marium Saeed, honoured with NU-Q’s student leadership, praised the chance Graduates at the ceremony at Evanston campus. to feel the different energy that comes with graduating with a Canada and Pakistan. Seventeen Nissryne Dib, Jaimee Lee Haddad, larger class. “I loved studying at of the students graduated with James Zach Hollo, Mahdiyeh a smaller campus and getting to academic honours, with 10 on the Mahmoodzadeh, Marium Saeed know all my professors and class- Dean’s List seven times. and Farida Zahran. mates, but being part of a much “Many are going on to media Over the years, NU-Q students bigger celebration with our US jobs and some of the world’s great have excelled in creating inno- peers was an incredible experi- graduate schools,” Dennis said. vative and meaningful content, ence,” she said. “We’ve never had a class quite recently producing a film screened For NU-Q Dean Everette like them. We hope every class at Cannes festival. Students have Dennis, this year’s graduating gets better but this one is superb, published or worked in publi- class was special “in large part spectacular and spirited.” cations, media and companies, because of their accomplishments, NU-Q students who par- including Sports Illustrated, the dedication and spirit.” ticipated in commencement Financial Times, The New York The 41 members of Qatar’s class in Evanston included Alanna Times, Xinhua News Agency of 2015 hail from 15 countries, Alexander, Sophie Jiang, Amna and Pulitzer Centre on Crisis including China, India, Egypt, Al Saadi, Mohammed Buhmaid, Reporting. THE PENINSULA Participants at a mass Iftar. QC Iftar meals for 80,000 in Gaza

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) end of Ramadan to benefit over to continue providing develop- plans to provide Iftar meals for 80,000 people. ment and relief services for tar- around 80,000 fasting people in Mass Iftars included educa- get groups. Gaza during Ramadan. tional, religious and recreational Participating organisations QC continues holding mass activities to provide psychoso- thanked QC for efforts to sup- Iftars (28 banquets) in several cial support for targeted groups, port the Palestinians and its role regions in the Strip benefiting essential especially in the after- during Ramadan, especially mass over 34,000 people. math of the Israeli war which Iftars. The banquets target orphans cast a heavy shadow on the life QC works in full capacity to sponsored by QC, unsponsored in Gaza. continue distributing hot meals orphans, and people with special Orphans, whose fathers were for families not sponsored by its needs. Four banquets were pro- martyred, were among vulnerable programmes. It works through a vided for these groups last week. groups affected by the 2014 war. network of 61 local partner organ- Coinciding with mass Iftars, Iftars also included activities isations operating in the develop- QC also distributed 13,072 hot such as religious counselling, ment and relief sectors. meals to 4,311 families during the chanting, puppets’ shows, and During the last 10 days of first half of Ramadan. other recreational games. Ramadan, QC has is executing A total of 38,000 meals are The manager of QC’s office reit- Eid cloths and Zakat Al Fitr planned to be distributed by the erated the charity’s commitment projects. THE PENINSULA Barwa Bank donates QR100,000 to Qatar Charity, Eid Charity

Officials making one of the donations.

DOHA: In a ceremony at its charities and the bank’s humani- Department, Eid Charity headquarters, Barwa Bank tarian efforts in Qatar. Foundation. donated QR100,000 to Qatar Donation cheques were Al Subeai said: “The bank Charity and Eid Charity handed by Khalid Yousef Al is committed to social, human Foundation on the heels of Subeai, Acting Group CEO, and athletic activities in Qatar, the bank’ fifth annual football Talal Ahmed Al Khaja, Chief particularly during Ramadan. tournament. Communications Officer, and The donations stem from the Under the theme ‘Play for Mohammed Matar, Head of bank’s efforts to strengthen Good’, this year’s tournament Retail Credit, to Khalid Ahmad social responsibility programmes was held at Al Wakra Sports Fakhro, Top Donors Relations through its yearly and regular Club. Registration fees were tri- Officer, QC, and Yousef Al financial commitments to select pled to boost donations to both Jassem, Head, Local Marketing charities.” THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME / MIDDLE EAST QRC to build 2,200 clay houses for Syrian IDPs 100 housing units in first phase of ‘Honorable Life’

DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent humanitarian organisation.” infrastructure.” (QRC) has launched a humani- “QRC focuses largely on shel- The project took one year in tarian project for the displaced ter as a key component of relief study, Al Kaabi clarified, and inside Syria. intervention. QRC’s shelter serv- ensures that every family will Under the theme of ‘Honorable ices have so far benefited 15,250 have a separate house with all Life,’ the project involves build- Syrians in Jordan, 133,000 in facilities. Unlike emergency shel- ing 2,200 clay houses that ensure Lebanon, 65,000 in Turkey, 34,000 ter tents, these houses are fit to stability, safety, and privacy for in Iraqi Kurdistan, and 108,000 protect the families against heat the inhabitants. The project will in Syria,” Al Mohannadi added. in the summer and cold weather be conducted in cooperation with Saad Al Kaabi, Director of in the winter. the United Nations. QRC Resource Mobilisation Aiham Al Sukhni, Head of Officials at a press conference to launch project for Syrians. During the press conference, Department, remarked, “The QRC Disaster Management, said Nayef bin Saad Al Mohannadi, 2,200 houses will be built using the tents and portacabins were Director of QRC Administrative clay blocks from the natural found inadequate in terms of pro- privacy, and decent design. consideration and adoption by neighborhoods, slowing down Affairs and Human Resources environment in Syria. The first tection and privacy. A blueprint A group of QRC volunteers other local and international the influx of Syrian refugees into Department, said, “This ambi- phase involves 100 houses for 600 was developed by engineering are engaged in promoting the charitable organisations. the neighboring countries, and tious project seeks to provide people in Afes, Idlib. Consisting consultancies and international fundraising campaign to support Among the major medium- shifting from emergency shelter adequate housing for displaced of two rooms, one kitchen, and organisations, to outline a feasi- the project, particularly among and long-term outcomes of the intervention to sustainable devel- Syrian families, utilising QRC’s one bathroom, each 36sqm house ble, suitable, and long-term solu- the youths. This unprecedented project are accommodating opment by lower dependence on mandate as an internation- costs QR6,100, apart from the tion. The clay blocks were found project will be followed by other the Syrian IDPs in the same refugee camps. ally recognised and protected cost of land preparation and to provide protection, ventilation, side projects, and it is open for environment as their home THE PENINSULA

Quality Retail Thousands attend HEART programme IBQ launches double bonus for Group announces card holders spending abroad DOHA: Thousands of chil- sales promotions dren and hundreds of mothers DOHA: International Bank of Qatar (ibq) has announced the launch across the Middle East have of an exciting summer credit card campaign, which gives customers DOHA: The Quality Retail participated in the Healing and registered in ibq’s thanq rewards programme double points while Group (QRG) has announced Education through the Arts using their cards abroad. This exclusive offer is available to existing a new sales promotions at its (HEART) programme, a unique Titanium, Platinum and Signature card holders, who travel between hypermarkets and departmen- collaborative venture between July 15 and August 31, 2015 and are members of the thanq rewards tal store. Company officials said Save the Children and Global programme. The double points will be awarded for foreign currency that three raffle draws for eight Gumbo Group (G3) a subsidiary spending overseas. Hassan Al Mulla, Head of Retail Banking at ibq Mitsubishi Pajero cars will of Crescent Enterprises, made said: “At ibq we want all of our customers to have the benefit of our be held during the promotion possible by funds raised from thanq rewards programme that gives out points on many of our period that starts from July 10, sales of G3’s hit charity single, products and services. ibq credit cardholders enjoy a host of benefits 2015 and will run till November ‘Tomorrow-Bokra’. including purchase protection, travel insurance and online shopping 9, 2015. ‘Tomorrow-Bokra’, an Arabic security with ibq Card Secure. 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Tunisia train collision injures 49 TUNIS: A train collision in Tunisia’s capital Saudi-led forces recapture Aden airport injured 49 people, one of them seriously, the interior ministry said. AFP ADEN: Forces loyal to Yemen’s Aden’s oil refinery — Yemen’s big- exiled president, backed by Saudi-led gest — was ablaze on Tuesday after air and naval support, recaptured being hit by rockets during the fight- the airport in second city Aden yes- ing for the city. Hadi loyalists blamed terday after a four-month battle the rebels for the blaze, while the with Iran-backed rebels, military insurgents blamed it on a coalition air sources said. strike. Fighting in the port city escalated The fighting raged despite a as UN chief Ban Ki-Moon expressed UN-declared six-day ceasefire that was disappointment that a UN-declared supposed to have taken effect shortly ceasefire failed to take hold over the before midnight Friday. The UN chief weekend. said he was “very much disappointed” The retreat by the Shia rebels came by the failure of the truce but retained as Iran — regarded as their main for- hope the fighting might still end, his eign supporter — struck a historic spokesman said. nuclear deal with world powers that He added: “We continue to reiterate was seen as bringing the main Shia our call for an unconditional humani- power in from the cold but setting lim- tarian pause. its to its regional ambitions. “We have not lost hope and discus- Leading Sunni power Saudi Arabia sions are ongoing,” Stephane Dujarric has been deeply concerned about said. He also defended the decision to Iranian influence in its impoverished call the ceasefire, saying UN envoy southern neighbour and has led a dev- Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed “had astating air campaign since March People gather at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen’s capital Sana’a yesterday. received the commitments he felt were against the rebels and their allies in necessary for us to come out with this the armed forces. have since gone on to seize the presi- the mainstay of support for Hadi so far. announcement”. Saudi-led warships pounded the dential palace and Aden’s main com- Retaking Aden airport is the first The United Nations has declared rebels as they pulled back from posi- mercial port. significant achievement for pro-Hadi Yemen a level-3 humanitarian emer- tions in Aden they had held since forc- Military sources in Aden said pro- fighters since the embattled president gency, the highest on its scale, with ing President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi Hadi fighters were benefiting from fled. nearly half the country facing a food into exile in Riyadh in March. ground support from Yemeni forces The rebels overran the capital Sanaa crisis. More than 21.1 million people — Hadi was personally supervising trained in Saudi Arabia, in addition unopposed in September and went on over 80 percent of Yemen’s population “Operation Golden Arrow for the to sophisticated weapons delivered by to seize much of the rest of the coun- —need aid, with 13 million facing food Liberation of Aden”, said his chief of the coalition. try aided by troops still loyal to Hadi’s shortages, while access to water has staff, Mohammed Marem. “Forces recently trained in Saudi ousted predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh. become difficult for 9.4 million people. Aden airport had been in the hands Arabia are strongly participating in Coalition air strikes targeted Sanaa, The UN says the conflict has killed of the rebels since soldiers of the 39th the fighting alongside the Popular the rebels’ northern stronghold of more than 3,200 people, about half of Armoured Brigade defected on March Resistance,” said one source, referring Saada and the Hijja region in the them civilians, since late March. 25. The Houthi rebels and their allies to the southern militia that has been north, residents said. AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Israel looks to lobby US after Iran deal Israeli security cabinet rejects nuclear deal as strained Netanyahu-Obama ties face further test

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: Israel will ramp up its lobbying of the US Congress to try to hinder the nuclear agreement struck with Iran yesterday and minutely monitor the deal for any violations in the hope of getting sanctions reimposed on Tehran. Responding with alacrity to news that six world powers had agreed to lift sanc- tions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, Israel’s prime minis- ter and other senior officials condemned the historic pact. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has described Iran as akin to the militants of Islamic State, said the deal was “a stunning, historic mistake”. In a statement before convening his inner circle of ministers to discuss the deal, he added: “Israel is not bound by this deal with Iran because Iran con- tinues to seek our destruction. We will always defend ourselves.” FROM LEFT: Foreign Minister Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank Walter Steinmeier (Germany), European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security The ministers, referred to as the Policy Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Security Cabinet, later rejected the deal unanimously, the prime minister’s British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz pose for a group picture at the United Nations building in Vienna office said in a statement which echoed yesterday after signing the deal. Netanyahu’s own words. In another speech after the end of the Iran does not recognise Israel and has “Israel must focus and explain all of Security Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu in the past said it should be wiped off the holes in this agreement, which will Germany criticises Israel’s opposition spoke in Hebrew in an address aimed at the map, leading the small Jewish state, just intensify terrorism and increase a domestic audience. widely assumed to possess the Middle Middle East chaos,” Gilad Erdan, min- BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticised “Now we have one objective: To ensure East’s only nuclear arsenal, to portray ister of public security and a member Israel’s opposition to a nuclear deal agreed by six world powers and Iran, say- that (Iran) won’t arm itself in the future Iran as a threat to its existence. of Netanyahu’s Likud party, told Israel’s ing the agreement will help contribute to security in the Middle East. with nuclear weapons ... This is the time Having spent months trying to stall Army Radio. “This is a responsible deal and Israel should also take a closer look at it and not to unite and form a single front in a fate- the deal and expose its perceived frailties, Netanyahu’s relations with the White criticise the agreement in a very coarse way,” Steinmeier told German broadcaster ful matter for Israel’s future,” he said. Israeli officials said they would now focus House are already rocky, not least because ARD in an interview. He also held a phone conversation with on persuading the US Congress to reject he addressed a joint session of Congress Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the deal as a “stunning, US President Barack Obama in which he it, while tracking Iran meticulously to in March to criticise the emerging deal, historic mistake” and said it would enable Iran to pursue a path to nuclear weapons. expressed Israel’s concern over the deal, catch violations. and some in Israel have questioned the But Steinmeier said the basis for the agreement was transparency and the abil- an Israeli government source said. In an indication of the broad opposition value of lobbying Congress again. ity to monitor Iran’s compliance. “In the agreement, Iran has to commit to these “It will afford Iran the ability to arm to the deal in Israel, centre-left leader But confidants of Netanyahu said he monitoring possibilities. And we will make sure that the monitoring possibilities itself with nuclear weapons in 10-15 years’ Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu’s chief political was as determined as ever to have his are also observed after this deal,” he said. time, whether it keeps to the agreement, rival, said he would soon visit the United views heard. and beforehand if it breaks the deal,” the States to lobby for more US military sup- Netanyahu has also beefed up Israel’s source said. port as a defence against Iran. armed forces, which have been tasked US defence secretary to visit Israel “Additionally, it will channel billions US lawmakers have 60 days to review with preparing last-ditch strikes on WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama told a skeptical Benjamin of dollars to the Iranian terror and war the deal, with Obama seeking bipartisan Tehran’s nuclear sites - though such a Netanyahu y that the freshly sealed Iran nuclear deal was in Israel’s “national machine which threatens Israel and the support for an agreement that would prospect has little support domestically security interest” and dispatched his secretary of defence to the Jewish state entire world.” be a central plank of his legacy. Even if and is seen as highly unlikely. Erdan said for talks. The White House said Obama called the Israeli Prime Minister, who In the call, Obama underscored the the review goes against Obama, he could war had not been ruled out: “Israel is has described the accord as a “historic mistake,” announcing Ash Carter would United States’ commitment to Israel’s overrule Congress by veto, although that keeping all options on the table, diplo- travel to Israel next week. AGENCIES security, the White House said. would tarnish the achievement. matic or otherwise.” REUTERS ‘New page’ for Gulf: UAE, Kuwait congratulate Iranian leaders ABU DHABI: The United Arab the accord is aimed at resolving powerhouse Saudi Arabia, the Emirates yesterday welcomed a 13-year standoff over Iran’s UAE has repeatedly expressed the historic nuclear deal agreed nuclear ambitions after repeated concern about Iran’s nuclear by world powers and Iran, with diplomatic failures and threats of ambitions. Abu Dhabi also fears an official saying it could turn a military action. that the Vienna agreement will “new page” for the Gulf region. Kuwait’s Emir H H Sheikh strengthen Iranian influence in “Iran could play a (significant) Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah sent the region. role in the region if it revises its cables to Iranian spiritual leader A change of path by Tehran policy and stops interfering in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and would send a “positive signal the internal affairs of countries President Hassan Rowhani con- that would help the region avoid like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and gratulating them on the “historic nuclear proliferation and all Yemen,” a UAE official said in the agreement”. the risks this would involve for first reaction from the Gulf Arab He hoped that the deal “would its security and stability,” the monarchies to the Vienna accord. contribute to strengthen peace Emirati official said. “The new direction we hope and stability in the region and to “Without such a change, we to see accompany the historic direct all efforts for the develop- cannot build anything positive, nuclear deal would demonstrate ment of the countries in the area”. and this will have consequences a genuine desire for Iran to help The UAE and the Islamic on the region and its people.” extinguish fires devouring the republic are in dispute over three The official WA M news agency region,” the official said. small Gulf islands occupied by said UAE leaders have con- “This would move the region Iran, but the Sunni Muslim emir- gratulated Rouhani, saying they away from the discord of sectari- ates still have good business rela- hope the Vienna accord will anism, extremism and terrorism.” tions with their Shia neighbour. “strengthen security and stabil- Reached on day 18 of mara- Like its Gulf Cooperation ity in the region”. thon talks in Austria’s capital, Council partners, including Sunni AFP

Nationalists plan to stay out Israel jails of government: Turkey PM engineer over

ANKARA: Turkey’s nationalist opposition does not want to share Hamas rocket power in a government with the ruling AK Party, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday, dealing a blow to his efforts to design find a junior coalition partner. Davutoglu made the comments after meeting with Devlet Bahceli, leader of the National Movement JERUSALEM: An Israeli Party (MHP), initially seen as a likely coalition partner after the court sentenced a Palestinian AKP lost its majority in a June 7 parliamentary election. engineer to 21 years in jail yes- “They expressed their intention to remain outside a government terday for helping the Islamist alliance,” Davutoglu told a news conference, although he said the meet- movement Hamas to improve ing had been friendly and that fresh talks could be held if necessary. the range of rockets used Turkey’s second largest party, the secularist Republican People’s against the Jewish state. Party (CHP), now looks like the AKP’s most likely partner if an agree- Dirar Abu Sisi went missing ment can be reached. Otherwise Turkey could face a fresh election in Ukraine in February 2011, and in the autumn. Ahead of the coalition talks, Davutoglu had warned Israel said a month later that he opposition parties not to question the role of President Tayyip Erdogan was in its custody and would be put in the political process. on trial. A court in the southern Opposition parties have signalled they want Erdogan to keep out of city of Beersheba convicted Abu daily politics if they join any coalition government - a direct challenge Sisi of several “crimes against the to the president, who wants to turn his largely ceremonial role into a security of the state”, an official powerful executive post. said. In particular, he was said to Erdogan warned late on Monday that the nation was growing impa- have helped improve the range tient and that a government should be formed quickly or else another of the home-made Qassam rock- election would become necessary. ets that the armed wing of the Should political parties be unable to agree a working coalition by Islamist movement Hamas has late August, Erdogan has the right to call a snap election, widely seen repeatedly fired at Israel from the as his preferred option as it may offer a chance for the AKP to regain neighbouring Gaza Strip over the its majority. REUTERS years. AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ISTORIC it certainly is. But that is just one of the epithets thrown to describe the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the six world powers. It Hhas also been called a victory for patient diplomacy, India, Israel start to see the victory of moderates and pragmatists over hardliners, the fruit of hardwork and perseverance, and it marks the start of a new era in relations between Iran and the West. In his 2002 state of the union address, George W Bush had lumped Iran new enemies from within in with North Korea and Iraq as part of the “axis of evil”. Tehran is happy to emerge from that axis and become an ally, BY PANKAJ MISHRA angering Washington’s some other existing Arab allies. That nationalism. Having watched Paul It is now the fate of newer nation- McCartney wave the Union Jack at one states like India and Israel to undergo leaves the ignominious club with just one member – North ULTURAL revolutions are of his concerts, she’s proposed him as a the massive shifts of class power and Korea – with Iraq having exited years ago. underway in two nation-states role model: “That is what I want to hap- explosions of bitter know-nothingism In the coming days, experts and leaders will dissect the -- India and Israel -- founded by pen here, too, for artists to wave Israeli that the conservative Spanish thinker agreement reached in Vienna and give their verdict on its Csecular nationalists in the late flags.” feared. merits and demerits. The plain fact is that this is the only 1940s. Right-wing demagogues, emerging The supremacism of these ethno- The vengefulness of the freshly in both countries from among previously nationalists goes with a loathing of dis- empowered is understandable. While deal possible and there is no alternative. Even if it can’t unrepresented masses, seek to forge a senters, who seem to be undermining pontificating on the virtues of socialism, ultimately stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, it can new national identity by stigmatising collective unity and purpose. Regev has secularism, and liberalism, the old elites certainly delay the acquisition. particular religious and secular groups. described Israel’s culture scene as domi- presided over a network of patronage Republicans in US and Israel are spitting fury. Benjamin There are eerie similarities between nated by “arrogant, hypocritical, schem- that primarily benefited their relatives Netanyahu has called it a ‘stunning historic mistake’ and the Hindu thugs who assault Muslim ing, ungrateful” people. and friends. Artists and intellectuals he has every right to say so because he has been mauled the males marrying Hindu women and fol- Indeed, the most striking aspect of the connected to the state monopolised lowers of the far-right Israeli group right-wing upsurge in India and Israel the best positions within the culture most. The Israeli PM is facing calls for resignation because Lehava(Flame), who try to break up is mob fury, sanctioned by the new rul- industry. his promises to sabotage the deal have drawn a blank. And weddings between Muslims and Jews. ing class, against anyone who can be Many of the ancien regime’s certified this is another proof of the deep rupture in his relations with More importantly, religious-political labeled, plausibly or not, liberal, leftist liberals now look shocked and bewildered the White House and his absolute chauvinism is now amplified by figures or secularist. at their demotion by apparent upstarts Billions of dollars inability to influence White House in power as well. Last week, Israel’s min- The New Yorker’s David Remnick and philistines. Indeed, a traditionally decisions. ister of religious reported last year from Israel that vigi- hegemonic class losing its hegemony of frozen assets services claimed lantes “comb through Facebook looking can look pretty clueless, as the vision- Iran stands to benefit most. that Reform Jews for left- wing sentiment among Israeli ary Russian writers of the 19th century will be released There was euphoria in the country were not Jews. Jews; when they find it, they send let- knew well. In “Fathers and Sons,” Ivan and the Iranian and people took to the streets to Right-wing A minister in ters to their employers demanding that Turgenev’s classic novel of generational celebrate. Billions of dollars of Narendra Modi’s the lefties be fired.” Hindu nationalists, and class conflict, the resentful Bazarov, economy will frozen assets will be released and demagogues, government has among whom Rush Limbaugh’s coin- a ruthless man of science, taunts his described Indian age “libtard” enjoys its widest currency, upper-class friend, “You are nothing but the Iranian economy will receive receive a huge, emerging in both Muslims and are in the middle of their own right- a beautifully bred liberal boy.” a huge, unprecedented boost from Christians in India eous war against liberals, leftists, and Alexander Herzen, who despised the unprecedented the lifting of sanctions. Iranians countries from as “bastards.” “sickularists.” Russian ruling class as much as the boost from will again reconnect with the among previously The new rul- A few Hindu nationalist writers and techies of his time, was nevertheless the lifting of world. The country’s power and ing classes seem journalists are frantically trying to build moved to defend the ineffectual liberal stature in the region and the unrepresented obsessed with up what one of them calls a “counter- intelligentsia in an essay entitled “The sanctions. moral and patri- establishment.” That’s already been Superfluous and the Bilious.” world will grow and Western masses, seek otic education, accomplished in Israel by religious Herzen – and Dostoevsky, famously, companies will queue up to bag reverence for nationalists who, as Remnick wrote, in his novel “Demons” – recognised that lucrative contracts. to forge a new national symbols “have long railed against what they the seductive emotions of hatred and The reaction from the Arab world has been mixed. Some national identity and icons (mostly see as the dominance of leftist élites revenge, when not sublimated into fresh Arab countries have welcomed the agreement, but many right-wing), and in the media, academia, human-rights artistic and intellectual creativity, can are apprehensive because they think a powerful Iran means by stigmatising the uniqueness of organisations.” only engender lynch mobs – a prescient national culture The rhetoric heard today in Israel and fear confirmed in the 20th century by a powerful Shia bloc in the Arab and Islamic world. The particular and history. India may elicit déjà vu among those demagogues offering collective vengeance fissures and friction between Sunnis and Shias are likely to Smriti Irani, familiar with culture wars in the US to masses humiliated by the old social intensify if Iran flexes its newly acquired muscles. There are religious and India’s Minister and Europe. People frustrated by unful- and political order. It would be nice to fears the deal will spark a nuclear race as other Arab powers secular groups. for Human filled promises of equality or prosperity, hope that India and Israel’s emboldened would want to acquire nuclear capabilities to restore the Resources and or their own inability to advance, have hotheads are different, and will lead Development, has always found it easy to aim their rage their countries to stability, prosperity, balance. staffed top positions at prestigious cul- against an allegedly cosmopolitan and and peace through their special mix of Competition and fears will only bring more chaos to a tural organisations such as the Indian rootless cultural elite. In “The Revolt of right-wing economics and the politics of region that is suffering from multiple malaises. Iran must Council of Historical Research with the Masses” (1930) Jose Ortega y Gasset ressentiment. It is already clear, how- adopt a constructive approach and transform itself into a men whose only qualification seems to warned that the era of paternalist lib- ever, that they find more thrilling the peaceful power and refrain from actions that will create be their unapologetic Hindu nationalism. eralism was giving way in Europe to a prospect of perpetual warfare with their tension in the region. That will be the next challenge for Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev “raving, frenetic, exorbitant politics that perceived enemies, especially the ones has promoted a similarly unapologetic claims to replace all knowledge.” within. BLOOMBERG President Hassan Rowhani• The other side Quote of IS in Afghanistan the day SERIES of drone strikes in audio recording of the militant. Such particularly in Nangarhar, which bor- and the Taliban have a common enemy Afghanistan over the past few situations are not unusual in war ders Pakistan. They also indicate in the shape of IS. Should IS try and days have killed large groups zones; in the past militants have that Pakistani militants are trying to increase its footprint in Afghanistan, it of militants belong to the self- emerged hale and hearty after the convince their Afghan counterparts will undoubtedly create problems for After two years Astyled Islamic State; reportedly, some reported news of their deaths broke. to adopt a more pan-Islamist stance the Taliban as the former tries and high-ranking Pakistani fighters formerly Only solid proof in the days to come by joining the ranks of IS. For tradi- wins over foot soldiers to fight for the of negotiations, associated with the banned TTP were will establish whether Saeed is indeed tionally, Afghan fighters — from the ‘caliphate’. In fact, it has been reported the United States, among the casualties. It was reported alive or dead. In another drone strike Mujahideen down to the Taliban — that the Taliban had written to ‘caliph’ on Sunday, quoting NDS, the Afghan last week, Shahidullah Shahid was have had a nationalist orientation, tak- Baghdadi basically warning him to together with intelligence agency, that Hafiz Saeed reportedly killed. For long, the militant ing up arms to drive out foreigners from stay out of Afghanistan. One thing is our international Khan, the head of IS in ‘Khorasan’, had been the ‘voice’ of the banned their country. The timing of the drone for sure: if IS were to consolidate itself as the Pakistan-Afghanistan region TTP, serving as the terrorist group’s strikes is also significant. They came in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border partners, have has been dubbed by the so-called chief spokesman, until he shifted around the time when the Kabul gov- area, it would create additional prob- caliphate, was among 30 fighters allegiance to IS last year. ernment and the Taliban were talking lems for the governments in Kabul and achieved something killed in Nangarhar province. However, The reported drone strikes are peace in Murree. This could be another Islamabad, which is why it is imperative that decades of on Monday, IS claimed Saeed was perhaps the first clear indication that sweetener to push forward the Afghan for both capitals to work closely against Barack Obama alive and released a purported IS is organising itself in Afghanistan, reconciliation process as both Kabul this potential threat. DAWN animosity has not. US President WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 With Iran deal, Obama gambles on legacy No other foreign policy challenge bears Obama’s personal stamp more than the final nuclear accord reached with Iran yesterday, and none poses a more critical test of his doctrine of talking to America’s enemies to avoid confronting them.

BY MATT SPETALNICK from Washington, at least once by secure has suspected was aimed at creating a video link, giving “guidance” to the nego- nuclear bomb. Iran denies it has been he sealing of a nuclear pact tiating team, as the White House put it. seeking a bomb. with Iran marks the big- Speaking at the White House, Obama He must now convince a skeptical gest foreign policy gamble of sought to pre-emptively discredit any Congress not to sabotage the agreement Barack Obama’s presidency efforts to derail the agreement by insist- while reassuring allies such as Israel — a legacy-defining achieve- ing that “no deal means a greater chance and Saudi Arabia who fear that, once Tment that could yet backfire if Tehran of more war in the Middle East.” freed from economically crippling sanc- exploits any loopholes or escalates ten- He said his diplomatic approach was tions, Iran will be empowered to expand sions in the Middle East. the best way to coax Iran away from regional influence. No other foreign policy challenge bears “the path of violence and rigid ideol- With the possibility of a Republican Obama’s personal stamp more than ogy,” though he acknowledged it would winning the presidency in 2016, Obama the final nuclear accord reached with not be easy. But if the critics are proven must try to ensure that his successor Iran yesterday, and none poses a more right, Obama could go down in history does not scrap the agreement. critical test of his doctrine of talking to as the president who only bought time White House aides say critics’ America’s enemies to avoid confronting before allowing Tehran to go nuclear. demands for a better deal were unreal- them. That policy has already resulted That could spark a regional arms race. istic, and Obama declared yesterday it in the restoration of diplomatic ties this Obama, who controversially won the would have been “irresponsible” to walk month with Communist Cuba, ending Nobel Peace prize barely nine months away from it. more than five decades of hostility. But into his first term, must overcome accu- The most immediate challenge for the potential rewards and perils are far sations from hawkish lawmakers that Obama will be to clear the obstacles in greater for the Iran deal, which offers he abandoned many of his original “red the Republican-controlled Congress, US President Barack Obama (right) and Vice-President Joe Biden walk from the Green Room Obama his best hope of salvaging an oth- lines” and compromised on others. which will have 60 days to review the to speak on the nuclear deal with Iran yesterday at the White House in Washington, DC. erwise shaky record in the Middle East. Initial US demands dropped along Iran agreement. Obama’s engagement — sometimes the way included fuller dismantling of “The president will have to work at the level of minute technical detail, Iran’s nuclear architecture and rollback harder than ever to explain what the call between Obama and newly elected By contrast, President Richard Nixon’s according to aides — has contrasted with of its ballistic missile programme. As deal actually does, how it blocks the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on unquestioned anti-communist credentials a more aloof approach toward some other details emerged yesterday, opponents nuclear pathways and what happens if September 28, 2013. helped immunise him from criticism at geopolitical problems like Syria’s civil complained that Obama also made con- Iran cheats,” said Dennis Ross, Obama’s The deal is the biggest step toward rap- home and shored up trust in his com- war and Ukraine’s separatist conflict. cessions on inspection of military sites former top Middle East adviser. prochement between Iran and the West mitment to act from strength when he Obama, who came into office in 2009 — although Iran too appeared to have If Congress votes down the accord, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and made a historic opening to China in the offering to extend a hand to Iran’s lead- given ground on the issue. Obama would veto the “disapproval” may open new ways to address one of the early 1970s. ers if they would “unclench their fist”, Obama “got what he wanted,” said legislation and then likely have enough root causes of tension in the region. Shia Many fear that even if Iran does not secured a historic opening with a phone Aaron David Miller, a former Middle votes from fellow Democrats to make it Iran has a big hand in sectarian conflicts covertly work toward a bomb it would call to the Islamic Republic’s president East negotiator for Republican and stick. But resorting to such a move would ranging from Syria to Iraq to Yemen. remain a nuclear-weapons threshold state and then exchanged secret letters with Democratic administrations. “But Iran underscore the deal’s unsteady footing in Critics say Obama’s drive to limit US able to race ahead once restrictions on its Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali got more.” Washington. military engagement in the Middle East, its uranium enrichment activities begin Khamenei. Much work remains for Obama to The international talks among six most notably a failure to enforce his “red expiring in a decade. As talks came down to the wire in entrench the deal, which lifts sanc- major powers and Iran to curb Iran’s line” on chemical weapons use in Syria in That could leave a future US adminis- Vienna, Obama was on the phone to tions on Iran in exchange for lim- nuclear programme in return for eased 2013, was seen by Iran’s nuclear negotia- tration with the decision whether to go Secretary of State John Kerry regularly its on its nuclear work that the West sanctions were initiated after a telephone tors as a sign of weakness. to war to stop it. REUTERS Turkey and Irani trap Buffett may benefit as train lobby in northern Syria bids to weaken safety rule

BY DAVID MORGAN brakes, which slow rail cars in succession, is the biggest US railroad, while CSX is BY ABDULLAH ALSHAMRI advocates say. “To walk away from what we third and Norfolk Southern is fourth. illionaire investor Warren Buffett know to be the best technology is pretty The records don’t break down how much is set to be a chief beneficiary of a crazy,” said Sean Dixon, an attorney with these companies spent specifically on oil he Irani plan is to establish politi- of this goal has close relations with the Bbid by Senate Republicans to weaken clean water advocacy group Riverkeeper. train regulations and related issues. cal and geographical insulator Syrian regime. new regulations to improve train safety in Democrats will try to strike out the ECP BNSF lobbies the government on a Tbetween Turkey and Syria. When Turkey earlier refused to receive the $2.8bn crude-by-rail industry, a key amendment by offering a measure of their range of issues, and crude-by-rail repre- the Turkish President Erdogan made Saleh Muslim, chairman of the Syrian cog in the development of the vast North own when the committee meets tomorrow, sents a small part of those efforts, spokes- his statement recently about the possi- Democratic Union Party, who was try- American shale oil fields. according to an aide. If the attempt fails, man Michael Trevino said. He also said bility of military intervention in Syria ing to get support for his party’s plan. A series of oil train accidents, including Democrats expect to fight the amendment the company supports the study and surprised the people in Turkey and the Turkey also followed with anxiety and the July 2013 explosion of a train carrying on the floor of the Senate. testing of ECP brake technology before entire region. Erdogan said ‘Turkey will angers his official visit to Baghdad and crude in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed But the rail industry says the equipment implementation. not allow at all establishment of new state his call for Tehran and Baghdad to 47 people, led US and Canadian regula- is unreliable and could jeopardize safety, Berkshire Hathaway did not immedi- in its southern border whatever price is’. support the project of Kurdish state in tors to announce sweeping safety rules in while further eroding the competitiveness ately respond to a request for comment. A Following this statement, Turkish media Northern Syria. May. Among other things, US oil trains of transporting oil by rail, which is already Phillips 66 spokesman said the refiner is has begun to elaborate possible scenarios The Irani plan aims to establishment are required to install new electronically $5 to $10 a barrel more expensive than committed to being a “safety leader” and including establishment of buffer zone of Kurdish political body in divided Syria controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes. But pipeline transmission. will comply with the new oil train stand- with length of 110 km and depth of 30 with US approval. The intended Kurdish in late June, the Republican-controlled ECP brakes are made mainly by two ards. AAR has asked the US Department km inside Syria. state is expected to have close ties with Senate Commerce Committee approved US-based manufacturers — New York Air of Transportation to throw out the brake The question is what is the reason Iran and to become strong friend to the a measure to drop that requirement, and Brake, the US unit of Germany’s Knorr- requirement and enhance other secu- that made Erdogan think about mili- Alawites entity in the Western coastal order years of new research to confirm the Bremse AG, and Wabtec Corp. While a rity measures involving tank cars. AAR tary intervention in north Syria? The area of Syria, as well to the Iraqi regime safety benefits of ECP brakes. New York Air Brake official said ECP tech- President and Chief Executive Officer man himself was behind the transfer of and Hezbollah in Lebanon. This will defi- On Wednesday, the panel will decide nology is reliable, the company has said Edward Hamberger declined to comment Suleiman Shah’s shrine from Syria to nitely enhance the geopolitical connec- whether to send the measure to the full that ECP brakes aren’t a solution for oil because the group’s appeal is pending. An Turkish in order to avoid involvement tions of the Shiite crescent extending Senate, setting the stage for a fight with trains because most derailments are caused AAR official said the group made sure law- in the Syrian war quagmire. from Tehran to Beirut through Iraq Democrats who say the repeal would delay by a broken track, wheel or axle, and ECP makers had “pertinent information” about Many commentators tried to interpret and Syria. the use of feature that can help avoid cat- brakes can’t stop an accident once a train the issue. the recent Turkish move, and some con- The Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet astrophic derailments and minimise the starts to derail. “It’s the wrong solution The series of oil train explosions in sidered that a reflection of Turkish ambi- Davutoglu, said during his last interview consequences of accidents that do occur. for the problem,” company president Mike recent years follows a boom in US shale oil tions in north Syria, while others saw it with TV channel “the Syrian opposition The looming debate pits Democrats, Hawthorne said. Wabtec officials did not production, notably in the Bakken region as a reaction to the loss of Justice and forces has became at distance of 30 km federal regulators, safety advocates and return phone calls. of North Dakota. Bakken crude has helped Development Party in the recent election from the town of Latakia” what made environmentalists against the crude-by- The most forceful lobbying against ECP reduce US dependence on foreign oil but and a move towards early election which the Syrian regime bring more Shiite rail industry, which claims that installing brakes has come via the Association of is also considered more volatile and flam- requires national mobilisation. militias from the neighbouring counties the brakes would slap an unnecessary $3 American Railroads, a trade group that mable than heavier crudes. The move is possibly linked to a plan to to base in Latakia. billion cost on railroads, oil refiners and represents more than 20 freight railroad Because the landlocked Bakken region fight Syrian Democratic Union Party, and Turkey is observing since last October other owners of rolling stock, and poten- companies, including BNSF and CSX, is not easily accessed by oil pipelines, rail ISIS but what certain is that the Turkish efforts being carried out by US to tially jeopardise safety. Congressional staff said. provides the main transportation route. government has been convinced that changes its allies in the region in order BNSF Railway Co, the No. 2 US railroad, AAR’s aim “is anything that results in The result has been a bonanza in the there is an Irani plan ‘perhaps supported to depend on new actors with whom it which Buffett owns through his Berkshire delaying, diluting or ultimately overturn- crude by rail business. Shipments surged by the US’, to establish political and geo- shares common vision about the situ- Hathaway Inc holding company, is the lead- ing the regulation,” one Democratic Senate to more than 350 million barrels in 2014 graphical buffer area between Turkey ation in the region in particular the ing US railroad for crude oil shipments, aide said. AAR has spent $14.5m since 2012 from less than 680,000 barrels in 2008, and Syria through which Iran will have situation in Syria and Iraq. The new controlling three-quarters of the carload lobbying Congress and the administration, according to industry data. BNSF has a passage penetrating Iraq to the coastal actors are Iran and the Kurdish armed volume in 2013. Along with CSX Corp, it’s including topics related to the crude-by- been the biggest beneficiary. In 2013, the area of Syria in the Mediterranean sea factions. also associated with the most oil train acci- rail business, according to Senate records railroad hauled 324,206 carloads of crude with northern border of Lebanon. Turkish fear is from revival of old dents, according to a Reuters analysis of reviewed. oil, about three quarters of the industry’s Therefore, it is not surprising that and readymade project of Kurdish state incident reports. Among individual railroads, BNSF was total volume of 435,560 carloads, accord- the first warning to Turkey came from along its border with Syria is very clear. Environmental groups estimate that 25 the top lobbyist, having spent $12.7m since ing to data provided by the company and Iran through Hussein Amir Abdollahian, The indications of this project back to million Americans live near tracks tra- 2012. Buffett also has a small stake in oil AAR. But BNSF also has been involved assistant of the foreign minister, saying the battle of Eien Al Arab (Kubani) versed by crude oil shipments, making refiner Phillips 66, an owner of oil tank cars in six of the 18 US oil train derailments ‘establishment of buffer areas will pose town where Washington decided to sup- ECP brakes and other federal require- that has spent $6.4m lobbying Congress. since the Lac-Megantic disaster, second threat to the security of the region’. port Syrian Kurdish on the expenses of ments essential to ensuring safety. Because BNSF’s closest lobbying rival is Union only to CSX, which has had seven. The All evidence shows that Iran has its traditional ally and member of the the brakes act simultaneously on all cars Pacific Corp at $7.5m. Canadian National latest BNSF derailment was in Heimdal, interests in establishment of Kurdish NATO, Turkey whose role in Syria and locomotives, they give train opera- Railway Co, CSX, and Norfolk Southern North Dakota, on May 6. Ten cars left the state in Northern Syria as the Syrian became ineffective. tors greater control and allow trains to Corp have each spent between $3m and rails. The crude caught fire, forcing the Democratic Union Party who is in charge The writer is a political analyst. stop more quickly than conventional air $4m during the same period. Union Pacific town of 40 to evacuate. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS British PM backs down Bastille Day parade over fox-hunting vote Hundreds of protesters cheer government decision

LONDON: British Prime prosecutions all but impossible. minister to accuse the national- Minister David Cameron was “If it had gone through we ists of being “opportunistic”. forced into an embarrassing would have seen packs of dogs Cameron promised in the climb down yesterday over fox- roaming around the countryside Conservative election manifesto hunting, cancelling a parlia- — who can decide if they’re there to hold a parliamentary vote on mentary vote that would have to flush out a fox to be shot, or repealing the Hunting Act before relaxed the decade-old ban after if they’re there for the old-fash- 2020, saying people “should have it became clear he would lose. ioned hunting, ripping animals the freedom to hunt”. Hundreds of protesters who apart and disemboweling them The ban on fox-hunting was had gathered outside parlia- while they’re still alive?” he said. one of Britain’s most controversial ment, including Queen guitarist Barney White-Spunner, execu- laws, forced through parliament Brian May, cheered the decision tive chairman of the pro-hunting by Tony Blair’s Labour govern- to scrap today’s vote but vowed lobby group the Countryside ment after 700 hours of debate. to block any further efforts by Alliance, said it was “deeply dis- The public has long been in the Conservative government to appointing” that the government favour of a ban, and a Comres water down the ban. had backed down. survey for the BBC this week put Officials had portrayed the The changes would have repre- support at 74 percent. change to the contentious 2004 sented “a significant improvement But Blair said he regretted Twelve alphajets of the French Air Force Acrobatic Patrol, the Patrouille de France, fly over the Arc de Triomphe Hunting Act as a purely technical for many farmers and hunts”, he using up so much political capital monument in their Lorraine Cross formation, during the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris yesterday. move to end discrepancies between said, adding: “We look forward on the ban, writing in his autobi- Scottish and English law, but the to the government bringing the ography: “The passions aroused prospect of a vote reopened bitter amendments back to parliament by the issue were primeval.” divisions over the issue. in due course.” Many on both sides acknowl- The law bans the pursuit and The vote was cancelled after edge the law’s limitations, not killing of foxes with dogs, but farm- the Scottish National Party least that it is difficult to enforce ers can still use hounds to “flush (SNP) party announced it would — of 590 prosecutions, 378 have US cop ‘ambushed’ in Missouri out” the animals to be shot as a join forces with the opposition resulted in a conviction. means of pest control and wildlife Labour party to block the change. Anti-hunt activists insist how- CHICAGO: A bandana-wearing Brown in the St Louis suburb of fire from his car and believes he management. Hunts can also use “The government has decided ever there is no place in 21st cen- attacker “ambushed” and shot a Ferguson led to inflamed racial may have hit the assailant, Dotson dogs to pursue a false trail. that tomorrow is not the time to tury for a bloodsport that May police officer who was sitting in tensions across the region. said. Three other black men were Farmers in England and Wales proceed with the vote,” Cameron’s has said is “sadism” practised by his car in the Missouri city of St In yesterday’s shooting, the in the vehicle, which sped away are restricted to using two dogs in spokeswoman said, adding that people who “like causing pain”. Louis yesterday, officials said. off-duty officer — who is black after the officer got out of his car. the flushing out, but the amend- further proposals would be out- By contrast hunt supporters The officer, 39, was struck in — was sitting in his own car A lone protester holding a ment would have allowed them lined “in due course”. — 400,000 of whom took to the the torso but was saved by his shortly before 5am while work- sign reading “How Does It Feel?” to use packs of hounds as under The SNP previously said it streets to protest the ban in 2002 bullet-proof vest, St Louis police ing an approved second job as a went to the scene of the shooting Scottish law. would not vote on hunting in — accuse opponents of class war chief Sam Dotson said. “What we security guard in a posh neigh- and stood with his back to the At yesterday’s protest, where England because the law did not and an assault on rural life. have is a sergeant of the St Louis borhood filled with shops and yellow police tape. The officer demonstrators wearing fox concern Scottish voters. Tim Bonner of the Countryside police department, working in full restaurants. — who was able to chase after masks, throwing smoke bombs But it changed tack in retalia- Alliance, said that they have “no uniform, who was ambushed, who A car pulled up in front of him the gunman but lost him in a and shouting “fight for the tion for Cameron’s plans to limit interest in animal welfare — it’s was targeted,” Dotson said. and a young black man with a parking garage — was treated in fox” briefly blocked traffic out- the SNP’s influence on other mat- purely about prejudice against The attack comes nearly a bandana over his face out got out hospital for minor injuries and side parliament, May said the ters affecting only England and people who they think they hate”. year after the police shooting and started shooting. The officer released yesterday morning. amendment would have made Wales — prompting the prime AFP of unarmed black man Michael — a 16-year veteran — returned AFP

San Fermin festival concludes Bomber crashes in Russia, crew Mexico offers $3.8m parachute out for capture of Chapo MOSCOW: A strategic bomber MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s gov- coordinator “to facilitate” the with seven people on board ernment offered a $3.8m reward investigation. crashed in far eastern Russia for the capture of fugitive Attorney General Arely Gomez yesterday but its crew apparently drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” said 34 prison officials and 17 managed to parachute out and a Guzman and sacked top prison inmates were interrogated by search for them was under way, officials amid suspicions that prosecutors. No charges have the defence ministry said. guards helped him escape. been announced so far. A fed- “The crew abandoned the jet,” Guzman vanished from his cell eral official said prison employ- the Russian defence ministry said on Saturday even though he was ees of various rank, including the in a statement, adding that the wearing a monitoring bracelet warden, spent the night at the Tu-95 bomber was not carrying and surveillance cameras were anti-organised crime unit of the a combat payload at the time of trained on the room 24 hours a day, attorney general’s office. the crash. Crew members, who Interior Minister Miguel Angel Two of Guzman’s lawyers were were taking part in a training Osorio Chong said. Osorio Chong questioned and anyone who vis- flight outside the far eastern city said Guzman “must have counted ited him during his incarceration of Khabarovsk, apparently man- on the complicity of prison person- is being sought. The owner of the aged to parachute out, the defence nel... which if confirmed would con- property where Guzman’s tunnel ministry said, citing the crew of a Gigantes (giants) dance in front of Pamplona’s town hall during a farewell ceremony on the last day of San stitute an act of treason.” ended also faced questioning. second plane training in the area. Fermin festival’s “Comparsa de gigantes y cabezudos” (Parade of the giants and the big heads) in Pamplona, Guzman had been behind The government has launched A search was underway for northern Spain, yesterday. bars for just 17 months when he a massive manhunt for Guzman, survivors. “The jet crashed in a escaped for the second time since who amassed a huge wealth as the desolate area, there is no damage 2001, dealing a humiliating set- head of the country’s most pow- on the ground,” the defence min- back to President Enrique Pena erful drug gang, with tentacles istry said in its statement carried Nieto and overshadowing a state reaching around the globe. by Russian news agencies. AFP visit to France. Troops and police patrolled This time, the head of the highways, borders and air- Scott Walker joins US military mulls transgender troops Sinaloa drug cartel managed to ports, while the governments of flee a maximum-security prison, the United States and Central White House race WASHINGTON: The US mili- As a result, the Pentagon “will objective, practical impediments some 90km west of Mexico City American neighbors were cooper- tary will consider opening its create a working group to study are identified,” Carter said. “We through a 1.5km tunnel found ating. The US State Department WASHINGTON: Wisconsin’s doors to transgender people over the next six months the pol- have transgender soldiers, sail- under his cell’s shower. said Guzman’s “swift recapture by union-busting Governor Scott who are currently banned from icy and readiness implications of ors, airmen and Marines — real “What happened two days Mexican authorities is a priority Walker announced that he service and can be booted out welcoming transgender persons patriotic Americans — who I ago is a terrible event that has for both the Mexican and the US is joining the crowded field of if discovered, Pentagon chief to serve openly”, he said. know are being hurt by an out- angered Mexican society,” Osorio governments.” Republicans jostling to be the par- Ashton Carter said. In the US, despite the 2011 dated, confusing, inconsistent Chong said. While cameras were Osorio Chong urged Mexicans to ty’s presidential nominee, arguing The secretary of defence made repeal of the divisive “Don’t Ask, approach,” he added. constantly trained on the cell, help authorities find Guzman. The he can sell his conservative record the revelation as he unveiled Don’t Tell” law, which banned gays Democrat Adam Smith, rank- Osorio Chong said there were reward offered by the government, to mainstream America. a working group that will be from serving openly, transgender ing member of the House Armed “two blind spots” to respect the 60m pesos, is double what it usu- Walker, who vaulted into studying the issue during the people have remained banned. Services Committee, applauded inmate’s privacy “and human ally gives for top drug lords. “There national prominence when he next six months. “The Defence “At my direction, the work- the statement as a good first step. rights,” and he managed to will be no rest for this criminal,” picked a fierce fight with labor Department’s current regulations ing group will start with the “Incorporating the presumption remove the bracelet, which only he said. “There will be no break in unions, declared his widely regarding transgender service presumption that transgen- that transgender individuals can worked inside the prison. efforts to rearrest him.” The gov- expected 2016 White House members are outdated and are der persons can serve openly serve openly, without adverse Osorio Chong said he decided to ernment released a recent photo of run on Twitter on Monday causing uncertainty that distracts without adverse impact on mil- impact on the military effective- fire the Altiplano prison’s director Guzman, with his head and famous before addressing supporters in commanders from our core mis- itary effectiveness and readi- ness and readiness, is a step in the as well as the head of the nation’s black mustache shaved off. Waukesha, Wisconsin. sions” he said. ness, unless and except where right direction,” he said. AFP penitentiary system and general AFP “After a great deal of thought and a whole lot of prayer,” Walker said he is officially “running to serve as your president of the United States of America”. “Americans deserve a leader who will fight and win for New York reaches $5.9m settlement in chokehold death them,” he said. Walker, 47, becomes the 15th NEW YORK: New York Graphic cellphone footage of filed the first step towards seek- state of race relations, and the a string of high-profile, racially- major Republican to join the announced late on Monday that the confrontation showed the ing $75m in damages. But the relationship between our police charged incidents in which white race. A 16th, Ohio Governor John it had reached a $5.9m settle- heavily built Garner, who had city’s comptroller, Scott Stringer force and the people they serve.” officers have been accused of Kasich, is expected to enter later ment with the family of a black asthma, complaining repeatedly announced the $5.9m settlement. The family sought damages using unreasonable force or being this month. Walker is currently man who died after being placed “I can’t breathe” after being bun- Stringer said the city had “not for “negligence, recklessness and too quick to fire at black suspects. polling in second place behind in a chokehold, sparking a bitter dled onto the ground by several admitted liability” but said the carelessness,” naming eight offic- But it was the first in the recent former Florida governor Jeb Bush nationwide debate about police police officers. agreement was “in the best inter- ers, the city and the New York wave of incidents that have sparked across a range of surveys, according tactics and racism. The New York medical exam- ests of all parties.” police department. Chokeholds a nationwide debate about police to RealClearPolitics.com. Former Eric Garner, 43, a father of iner’s office classified his death as “We are all familiar with the are outlawed by New York police. tactics and racism. After his death, secretary of state Hillary Clinton six, was wrestled to the ground a homicide but last December a events that lead to the death of While being wrestled to the New York began a pilot program is favoured to win the Democratic by white officers who took him grand jury refused to prosecute Eric Garner and the extraordinary ground, Garner lost consciousness to start equipping police officers nomination in the race to succeed into custody for allegedly selling the white officer who deployed the impact his passing has had on our and was pronounced dead after with body cameras to record their President Barack Obama. illegal cigarettes on July 17, 2014 fatal chokehold. city and our nation,” he said. being transferred to hospital. behavior towards the public. AFP in Staten Island. The Garner family last October “It forced us to examine the Garner’s death is just one of AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Boko Haram kills 43 villagers in Nigeria Gunmen open fire, slit throats in four villages

KANO: Boko Haram gunmen seven people, including the vil- Jimtilo checkpoint, as passengers killed dozens of people in four lage head and left one seriously arriving in Maiduguri were being villages in northeast Nigeria, injured with a fracture on his leg,” screened, they said. slitting some residents’ throats he added. “The dead included two civilian and opening fire on others, one “They then proceeded to JTF (joint task force or vigilan- resident and the police said Gwollam, Misala and Magaram, tes) and a policeman. Two immi- yesterday. where they did the same thing. gration officers are among those “Boko Haram gunmen came In all they killed 43. injured.” into our villages at night, killing “They opened fire on residents Last week, two people were 43 people,” said Sheriff Kulo, from and in some cases they used killed in Maiduguri when two Kilwa village near Monguno, who knives to slaughter their victims.” suicide bombers in a motorised escaped to the Borno state capi- Many women and children fled rickshaw tried to target a busy tal, Maiduguri. to Monguno but were living in the bus station but were foiled by There was no corroboration of open air with little food, he said. heavy security. his death toll but the state police Others made it to Maiduguri to Maiduguri, where the group Heavy machinery unloading garbage imported from Canada for disposal at the Metro Clark Waste Management commissioner confirmed the raise the alarm. was founded in 2002, has been Corp landfill in the town of Capas, Tarlac province, north of Manila. Tonnes of illegally imported Canadian garbage raids, which happened last week . The Borno state police com- repeatedly targeted and since has been sent to a northern Philippines landfill, ending a two-year attempt by Manila to ship the waste back, Details have only just emerged missioner, Aderemi Padokun, Muhammadu Buhari became officials said yesterday. because of poor to non-existent confirmed the attacks. president on May 29, nearly 570 phone networks in the remote “From what we heard, the gun- people have been killed in Nigeria area. men raided these villages. alone. Danlami Ajaokuta, another Boko Haram has mounted They shot dead their victims civilian vigilante, said the bomber almost daily raids, bombings and in some cases slit their struck in the middle of the crowd Canadian rubbish heads to landfill and suicide attacks in north- throats. of passengers. east Nigeria since May 29, when They also carted away food- “It is standard procedure at MANILA: Tonnes of imported “contraband”, but the Canadian June. Disposal teams are set to Muhammadu Buhari became stuffs and livestock,” he said. the checkpoint for passengers Canadian rubbish has been sent embassy said the Philippine gov- finish transporting the rest of the president vowing to crush the “We don’t have details of the to alight from their vehicles and to a northern Philippines land- ernment later agreed to “dispose waste soon, the Customs Bureau six-year Islamist uprising. actual number of people killed in walk some distance to a shed fill, ending a two-year standoff of the shipment in an environmen- and landfill operator said. On last Monday, he sacked the attack but I can confirm it manned by the soldiers,” he with activists who called for the tally sound manner in accordance Activists remain angry that the his entire military high com- happened.” explained. “They identify them- waste to be returned to Canada, with its laws and regulations”. garbage is being sent to a landfill mand, who were appointed by his Meanwhile, in another inci- selves before they trek some more officials said yesterday. “The government of Canada in the Philippines, instead of being predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, dent, four people killed were distance past the checkpoint and The 55 containers full of worked closely with the govern- returned to Canada. in the latest sign he is mak- killed on last Monday when a then enter their vehicles and household rubbish were seized ment of the Philippines with “It’s sad that local communi- ing a fresh start in the suicide bomber hit a military move on.” at Manila’s port in mid-2013 on regard to the shipment,” the ties will be the ones to suffer from counter-insurgency. checkpoint on the outskirts of the Residents in Maiduguri have grounds that the waste was being Canadian embassy in Manila said this foreign waste dumping in our Kulo said the gunmen seized northeastern Nigerian city of been on edge for months over passed off as plastic scrap material in a statement. Trucks began land,” Angelica Carballo, commu- food and cattle then set villagers Maiduguri, civilian vigilantes said. the wave of new attacks and one, for recycling. hauling the estimated 1,375 tonnes nications manager for the Manila- homes on fire. The blast happened at about Ibrahim Buba, said the explosion The country’s Customs Bureau of waste to a landfill about a three- based environmental watchdog “In Kilwa alone, they killed 12:10 pm (1110 GMT) at the rocked the city. AFP initially labelled the rubbish hour drive north of Manila in late group Ban Toxics said. AFP

China set to try jailed Korean-US missionary 102 migrants stranded BEIJING: China will begin the trial on school he ran. His school in the border town of Tumen July 28 of a Korean-American missionary Authorities have dropped three of the had been shut down after an investigation arrested last year over a non-profit school four charges against Hahn, 74, probably for last year that lasted months, he said. he ran near the sensitive border with lack of evidence, his lawyer, Zhang Peihong Hahn, who was formally arrested in on Myanmar isle North Korea, his lawyer said, in a case said leaving only the least serious charge December after months under house arrest, that sparked outcry from international of counterfeiting receipts. “I wouldn’t call will be tried in Yanbian prefecture, near the BANGKOK: Myanmar’s navy island in early June. Christian groups. my attitude optimistic,” Zhang said by tel- North Korean border in northeast China, has discovered more than 100 Officials at the Bangladesh A sprawling crackdown had forced ephone. “After all Peter has only done good Zhang added. Bangladeshi migrants stranded embassy in Yangon said the hundreds of Christian missionaries out of works, so he shouldn’t face any punishment. Yanbian law enforcement authori- for nearly a month on a south- Myanmar government had China, most by having their visas refused, I do hope the court will act impartially.” ties could not be reached for comment. A ern island, state media said not contacted them about the sources said last August. Supporters of Hahn could receive a maximum of two spokesman for the US embassy in Beijing yesterday, following a regional migrants. Peter Hahn, the missionary, had said he years in prison, Zhang said, but he expected said he could not immediately comment on migrant crisis in which people “We have just received the was being targeted because of his Christian authorities would simply deport him back the development. smugglers abandoned thou- news from the media,” Tareque faith and because of the small vocational to the United States instead. REUTERS sands at sea. Mohammed, the deputy chief It was the first major rescue of mission, said. “We have reported by Myanmar since received no confirmation from May, when its navy found a the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” Google removes boat packed with more than 700 The military-owned migrants in the Andaman Sea at Myawaddy newspaper said offi- Chinese name Criminal trial over plagiarised news the height of Southeast Asia’s cials in Myanmar found a man migrant boat crisis. on June 30 around two miles off on map after BANGKOK: Two journalists, Morison and his Thai colleague afternoon with a verdict expected The crisis blew up after a the coast of Saung Gauk Island, including an Australian edi- Chutima Sidasathian, of the within 30 days. crackdown by Thailand on traf- prompting a search of the island Philippine furore tor, went on trial in Thailand Phuketwan news website, relate “The initial pursuits against ficking camps along its border early in July, which led to the yesterday over a report they to a July 2013 article quoting an news agency were dropped. We with Malaysia made conditions discovery of the rest. MANILA: Google has qui- published implicating the navy investigation by a news agency quote exactly the same paragraph too risky for people smugglers They were among the thou- etly removed the Chinese in human trafficking, as the which said some Thai navy reproduced word-to-word from to land their human cargo, so sands, many Bangladeshi name for a South China Sea United Nations urged the junta- members were involved in traf- the news agency,” Morison said. they simply set them adrift. or Muslim Rohingya from shoal bitterly disputed by ruled nation to drop the case. ficking Rohingya Muslims fleeing “Freedom of the press, includ- The most recent group of Myanmar, who ended up in dan- Beijing and Manila from its The trial comes after the Myanmar. ing freedom for journalists to 102 migrants was found late gerously crowded boats run by maps service, following an region's grim people-smuggling The trial at Phuket Provincial operate without fear of reprisals, in June, after spending nearly people-traffickers, heading for outcry from Filipinos. trade was dramatically high- Court on the southern island is essential in promoting trans- a month on the island in other southeast Asian countries. The Google Maps website lighted in May when thousands began with a testimony from R parency and accountability on Taninthayi, the southernmost Most of the castaways landed yesterday referred to the rich of migrants were abandoned at N Pallop Komlotok, a navy cap- issues of public interest,” the UN region of Myanmar bordering in Indonesia, Malaysia and fishing ground -- a subject of a sea and in foetid jungle camps tain, who confirmed that the said. Thailand. Myanmar, their passengers case lodged by the Philippines by traffickers following a Thai Phuketwan quotes were lifted Phil Robertson, from Human The migrants, all men, were sick and thirsty. At least 1,200 at an international arbitration crackdown, a crisis that eventu- from the news agency article. Rights Watch, called the trial a rescued between June 30 and remained adrift, the United tribunal -- by its international ally forced a Southeast Asia-wide The court is due to hear tes- “scathing indictment of the Thai July 12 and hailed from neigh- Nations said in a report on name, Scarborough Shoal. response. timony from another three wit- government's unwillingness to bouring Bangladesh, the paper June 16. The service had earlier The charges against Alan nesses called by prosecutors this respect media freedom”. AFP said. They had been left on the REUTERS labelled the shoal as part of China's Zhongsha island chain, prompting an online campaign demanding that the Bull fight Internet giant stop identifying the outcrop as part of Chinese Next generation will be territory. "We've updated Google Maps to fix the issue. We AIDS-free, says Ban understand that geographic names can raise deep emo- ADDIS ABABA: UN people living with HIV around the tions which is why we worked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon world. Around March this year, quickly once this was brought said yesterday the world was 15 million of them were accessing to our attention," Google's headed for a “generation free of anti-retroviral therapy. “In 2011 office in Manila said in a AIDS”, after UNAIDS reported world leaders called for reaching statement. a 35-percent drop in new HIV 15 million people with life-saving Scarborough Shoal lies 220 infections from 15 years ago. HIV treatment by 2015. And that kilometres (140 miles) off “The world has delivered. We is exactly what the world did - the main Philippine island have achieved and exceeded the ahead of schedule,” said UNAIDS of Luzon and 650 kilometres goals regarding AIDS. We are on chief Michel Sidibe in a report . from Hainan island, the near- the way to a generation free of UNAIDS called for AIDS est major Chinese land mass. AIDS,” Ban said. spending of $32bn annually China has controlled the An UNAIDS report released between now and 2020 in the hope shoal since 2012, follow- yesterday in Geneva said major of eliminating the virus by 2030. ing a brief standoff with the strides were made since the advent Sub-Saharan Africa remains the Philippines. in 1996 of anti-retroviral drugs. region worst hit by AIDS with 25.8 Since then, the Philippines Although new HIV infections million people living with HIV. has accused the Chinese coast declined to two million in 2014 Last year, there were 1.4 million guard of harassing Filipino against 3.1 million 14 years ago new HIV infections -- a 39 percent fishermen at the shoal, includ- and the number of new infections drop from 2000. Asia is a distant ing robbing them of their has noticeably decreased or second with five million cases but catch at gunpoint earlier this Villagers and visitors watch as bulls fight during a celebration of the annual Torch Festival, a main holiday for remained stagnant, UNAIDS there has been a recrudescence of year. AFP the ethnic Yi minorities, in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China, yesterday. warned spending had plateaued. new infections. There are currently 36.9 million AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Pakistan opens Afghans in Iran bring home drug problems ISLAM QALA: At Zero Point, the main border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran, hundreds terrorism case of Afghan labourers return to their homeland each day. Some are exhausted by gru- elling working conditions, but many others bear the hallmarks against Altaf of heroin addiction they acquired while in Iran. Under the watchful eyes of cus- MQM leader had criticised military toms officials from both countries, the labourers cross the windy and KARACHI: Pakistani police murder to cement its power, arid plains at Islam Qala, the have registered a case under ter- has complained its workers entry point to Herat province rorism laws against the leader of have been unfairly targeted by and western Afghanistan, after a major political party who lives security forces in a bid to curb months or years spent working in exile in London over a speech its power. In his speech Hussain in Iran. Every day, between 1,000 criticising the country's power- accused the Rangers of torturing and 1,500 illegal Afghan migrants, ful military establishment. MQM workers and dumping their mainly young men, return to their The charges were filed late last mutilated bodies on roadsides and country, either voluntarily or -- in Monday against Altaf Hussain, said bad elements in the army had around a third of cases -- because the chief of Muttahida Qaumi brought it into disrepute. they have been expelled. Movement (MQM), which domi- The speech also angered Iran, which shares a long bor- nates Karachi and other big cities the government, with Interior der with Afghanistan, began tak- in southern Pakistan. Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali ing in millions of Afghan refugees Hussain delivered a speech last Khan vowing to complain to the in the 1980s as they fled a war Sunday, relayed by telephone link British government. that began with the Soviet inva- from London to Karachi, in which The Metropolitan Police are sion and has continued to this he accused government paramili- currently investigating the MQM day. tary forces of torturing and mur- over money-laundering after a The flow of people began to dering his party workers. huge quantity of cash was report- reverse following the fall of the “Cases have been registered edly found at party offices and Taliban regime at the end of 2001, against MQM leader Altaf Hussain's home in London. with millions of Afghans choosing Hussain under section six of anti- As well as the money-launder- to return home. terrorism act and other clauses ing case, British police are also And the pace has picked up of the Pakistan Penal Code,” a probing the murder of MQM poli- in the past few years due to an spokesman of the provincial Sindh tician Imran Farooq in London in increasingly repressive environ- police said. 2010. Hussain controls the party ment for Afghan refugees in Pakistan has broad anti-ter- from London, where he has lived Iran, particularly the 1.7 million rorism laws that can encompass in self-imposed exile since leaving who are unregistered (a further Migrants who have crossed into Afghanistan from Iran as they walk at Islam Qala on the outskirts of Herat near a wide range of offences which Pakistan in the early 1990s, and 840,000 are legal). do not all have an obvious link now has British citizenship. Situated 120 kilometres from the border between Afghanistan and Iran yesterday. At Zero Point, the main border crossing between Afghanistan to violence. The paramilitary A BBC report last month said the border, Herat, the main city and Iran, hundreds of Afghan labourers return to their homeland each day. Many of them bear the hallmarks of Rangers have been carrying out MQM members had told British in Afghanistan's west, welcomes heroin addiction they acquired while in Iran. an operation aimed at stopping the police the party had received the majority of those who have wave of political, religious, ethnic money and military training from come back. In an ironic twist, most of the A large portion of Afghanistan's the UNODC, initial research and criminal violence that has Pakistan's arch-rival India. But authorities have witnessed drugs consumed are exported drugs are transported to the rest also backs the claim that “most swamped the city in recent years. The party vehemently denied a disturbing trend: many of the from Afghanistan, which pro- of the world via Iran. According (Afghan) drug users started their The MQM, often accused by the allegations. returnees are addicted to drugs duces 85 percent of the world's to Mohammed Reza Stanikzai, first drug use outside the coun- its critics of using extortion and AFP they first tried out while in Iran. opium, later refined into heroin. a senior narcotics official at try”. AFP

Prayers at the golden mosque Pakistan kills 14 militants

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan air The conflict zone is remote and began a major campaign in North strikes killed 14 suspected mili- off-limits to journalists making Waziristan in June last year and tants near the Afghan border it difficult to verify the army's authorities have now vowed to yesterday, the military said, claims, including the number and intensify operations both in the part of a major ongoing opera- identity of those killed. border regions and across the tion against Taliban and other Pakistan has been battling a country. insurgents. homegrown Islamist insurgency The military says more than The attack took place in for over a decade following the 2,800 militants have been killed Alwara area of North Waziristan late 2001 US-led invasion of since the launch of the offensive. tribal region. Afghanistan. The Pakistan army AFP Supermodel granted bail

LAHORE: A Pakistani court But her career crashed down a flight. “She will be out of jail, granted bail yesterday to a after the 21-year-old singer of probably by tomorrow evening,” supermodel jailed for four “Making Dollars” was detained at said her lawyer Khurram Latif months on charges of attempt- Islamabad airport on March 14 Khosa, after the Lahore High ing to smuggle out of the coun- with a case stuffed with hundred- Court granted bail. try more than half a million dollar bills. Ali's case has riveted Pakistanis, dollars in cash, her lawyer said. By law, no more than $10,000 in many of whom feel she was Ayyan Ali's famous grey eyes cash may be taken out of Pakistan. unfairly singled out. A Facebook have fronted campaigns for Ali says she was waiting to give page demanding her freedom has designer clothes, ice-cream and the funds from a property sale to attracted more than 87,000 fans. Muslims pray at a mosque on the 27th night of Ramadan, which is considered the holiest night of Ramadan, in mobile phones. her brother, who was arriving on REUTERS Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. 23 Global NGOs 20 politicians in NAB corruption list struck off by SECP ISLAMABAD: Pakistani poli- Raza Gilani, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf dominate those facing inquiries everything connected with him. ticians are only a small minor- and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, and investigations, according to From the 2005 stock exchange ISLAMABAD: The Now, the SECP has approved ity among hundreds figuring in Asif Ali Zardari, Pervaiz Elahi, the NAB summary. swindle to the Pakistan Steels Securities and Exchange action in terms of section the 150 corruption cases, sub- Ghazi Akhtar, Haroon Akhtar, The politicians are irked over Mills privatisation, 2006 sugar Commission of Pakistan 439 of the 1984 Companies mitted to the Supreme Court Aslam Raeesani, Abdul Ghafoor mention of their names in the scam to the financial bungling in (SECP) has initiated action Ordinance to strike names of by the National Accountability Lehri, Asfandyar Kakar, Masoom NAB list and conveniently ignor- multi-billion rupee clean drinking against 23 international these international NGOs off Bureau (NAB), although they Shah, Murid Kazim, Aftab ing the illegalities committed dur- water project, alleged kickbacks NGOs to strike them off the the register of companies. have raised a lot of public hue Sherpao, Mehmoodzeb, Nasimur ing Musharraf’s era. Hardly any in defence procurement includ- register of companies. The list of defaulting inter- and cry over their targeting by Rehman, Arbab Saadullah, Shah of the major financial scandals ing PAF surveillance aircraft They have failed to file their national NGOs has already the anti-graft agency. Nawaz Marri, Dr Firdous Ashiq and corruption cases, involving deal, to the doling out of military audited accounts despite sev- been shared with the Economic Politicians’ main attack on the Awan, Senator Sehar Kamran hundreds of billions of rupees, of land to political leaders and his eral notices and therefore are Affairs Division and the NAB is that while it has maligned and Ishaq Dar. his rule has been reflected in the (Musharraf’s) personal staff, cor- presumed to be dormant. Ministry of Interior for infor- them through a systematic effort Some of these investigations NAB report. ruption in the 2005 earthquake The SECP was reluctant to mation and necessary action. that smacks of a design and a and inquiries especially those Almost every key political funds to ghost pension scandal, share the list of those NGOs Meanwhile, owing to the well-calculated strategy, it has against Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz leader has been presented as controversial sale of Pakistan’s who failed to submit their facilitation and enforcement spared the wrongs committed Sharif, Chaudhry Shujaat and accused in these cases. But, there property in Jakarta to changes in audited accounts. actions of the Securities and during Pervez Musharraf’s nine- Ishaq Dar are more than 15 is no reference to Musharraf, who the Islamabad’s master plan for The SECP’s exercise to Exchange Commission of year rule. years old. It is because of the lax- had illegally doled out over 10,000 financial benefits of Musharraf’s scrutinize the working and Pakistan (SECP), the pub- A perusal of hundreds of names ity and incompetence of the NAB kanals of military land, meant for chief of staff to the innumerable accounts of local NGOs has lic sector companies’ com- mentioned in the summary of 150 that these cases are still pending martyred families, as political cases of illegal and unconstitu- been extended to the interna- pliance with the 2013 Public cases prepared by the NAB shows disposal. bribe to his blue-eyed despite the tional appointments made by the tional NGOs. In this regard, Sector Companies (Corporate around 20 political leaders, who All these cases were initiated at fact that the Dera Ismail Khan dictator, almost everything has show-cause notices were issued Governance) Rules has have been identified in the list. the behest of the then martial law military land allotment case is been missed by the NAB. to all international NGOs that improved to 37 percent by June All these cases pertain to finan- authorities as part of the political very much with the NAB. Musharraf, who during his had not filed annual accounts 30, 2015, up from 14 percent cial and land scams and abuse of vendetta. While the political leaders and rule became a billionaire with his and other overdue returns with during the last year. power. Civil servants, businessmen, the civilian governments have assets both within and outside of the relevant registrars. The SECP had issued the The politicians facing NAB bankers, owners of the private been slurred in cases of alleged Pakistan, has never been ques- Of the total 33 international 2013 Public Sector Companies inquiries or investigations include housing schemes, textile mills corruption pending for years but tioned while the NAB has been NGOs registered with the (Corporate Governance) Rules Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, owners, loan defaulters, federal were neither decided nor disposed quick to make references about SECP as foreign companies, with the approval of federal Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz and provincial ministries and of, Musharraf has been lucky the key political leaders’ assets. 23 were found delinquent. government. INTERNEWS Sharif, former premiers Yusuf departments, private builders etc, as the NAB overlooked almost INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 27 pilgrims die in Andhra stampede Over 60 injured in Maha Pushkaralu Mela of the south

RAJAHMUNDRY: At least 27 Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh Chief injured,” Modi tweeted. pilgrims were killed and over Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Modi also spoke to 60 injured yesterday in a stam- who had a holy dip at a VIP Chandrababu Naidu over phone pede here at the start of the ghat in Rajahmundry minutes and discussed the situation. Godavari ‘Maha Pushkaralu’ -- before the stampede, rushed to Governor E S L Narasimhan the Kumbh Mela of the south, the control room to monitor the also expressed shock over the officials and witnesses said. situation. tragedy. Telangana Chief Minister The condition of some of the He announced that he will K Chandrasekhar Rao expressed injured at the government-run stay in the town till the event deep condolencese. hospital here was critical, doctors. gets over. Naidu appealed to pil- Following the stampede inci- The dead, all hailing from coastal grims to move to the other ghats, dent in Andhra, Rao held a Andhra, included 11 women and saying taking a dip at any ghat meeting with officials to review four children. and on any day till July 25 was the situation in Telangana. He The tragedy occurred on the auspicious. directed officials to ensure pil- first day of the festival at one of The incident forced authori- grims’ safety and keep a contin- the bathing ghats in Rajahmundry ties to open the VIP ghats to the gency plan ready. in east Godavari district on the public. Crowds were also diverted Thousands of pilgrims took banks of the Godavari river. from overcrowded ghats. holy dip in Godavari river on the A large number of pilgrims at Naidu, who later visited the first day of Maha Pushkaralu. the Kotagummam Pushkar Ghat hospital to call on the injured, About eight crore people are rushed towards the three gates announced an ex-gratia of 10 expected to participate in the and tried to scale them, leading to lakh each to the families of the 12-day event, termed as Maha the stampede, official sources said. dead. Kumbh Mela of the south, in both The pilgrims reportedly tried In a voice chocked with emotion, the Telugu states. to rush to the river as a holy dip the chief minister said the inci- Though pushkaralu, dedicated in the early hours is considered dent occurred despite all precau- to worshipping rivers, take place auspicious. tions taken by the administration. once in 12 years, this time it is Witnesses said the authori- He said a comprehensive probe Maha Pushkaralu, which takes ties had failed to anticipate the would be conducted after comple- place once in 144 years. Devotees cramped for space after a stampede at a religious festival in Godavari in the Rajahmundry district some huge crowds at the ghat, and tion of the pushkaram. The chief ministers of the two 200km north-east of Hyderabad. complained about lack of proper President Pranab Mukherjee states along with their family arrangements to regulate the and Prime Minister Narendra members took the holy dip around Dharampuri in Karimnagar dis- five districts, Andhra has made swimmers and kept rescue boats pilgrims. Modi condoled the loss of lives in 6.20am, the auspicious time, to trict, his Andhra counterpart elaborate arrangements for the ready to meet any contingency. The Godavari Maha the stampede. formally launch the festival. Chandrababu Naidu performed pilgrims at 280 ghats in east and They have also set up control Pushkaralu, a once in 144 years “Deeply pained... My condo- While Telangana Chief Minister the rituals at Rajahmundry. w est Godavari districts. rooms to monitor the event. But event, began yesterday morning lences to the families of the Chandrasekhar Rao took the While Telangana has con- The authorities in both the the tragedy still occurred. in both Telangana and Andhra deceased and prayers with the dip at historic temple town of structed 106 bathing ghats in states have deployed expert IANS Ex-servicemen to intensify stir over OROP Kerala girls were not NEW DELHI: As the agitation conference here. government. officers. All 254 major general- by ex-servicemen demanding The protest would be taken “The government said money ranked officers, who are signato- murdered: Police the implementation of the ‘One to poll-bound states if the cen- is no problem... so financial prob- ries in the case, have made it clear Rank, One Pension’ scheme tral government did not keep lems are gone... as far as admin- that they will not take OROP PATHANAMTHITTA: Two and is currently battling for life. continued for the 31st day here its promise of implementing the istrative problems are concerned, unless it is for all (ex-service- school girls who were found Police suspect that the girls yesterday, the protesting vet- OROP, Kaul said. all those who are getting pension men),” said Singh. dead on a rail track near jumped out of a moving train. erans said they would intensify The ex-servicemen assured are already on the rolls. There is Ex-servicemen are demanding Palakkad in Kerala were not Their bags and personal belong- their stir after a week. that the common man would not no legal hassle either...,” he said. that the government give them a murdered, according to the ings, as well as an entry ticket “We decided to scale up the be affected by their ongoing agi- Maj Gen Satbir Singh (retd), definite date for implementation police team probing the deaths. to a garden in Bengaluru, were agitation from today but we will tation. The Morcha leaders also chairman of the Indian ex-Serv- of the OROP. Another girl is battling for life recovered from a train on last wait for another seven days... if said they would continue to boy- icemen Movement, clarified that The protesting veterans in hospital. Monday evening. the government does not keep cott all government functions in there cannot be OROP for major launched an agitation on June 14, Inspector General of Police Abraham said police were its promise we will launch agita- protest against the delay in grant general rank officers only. and have been sitting on a relay Manoj Abraham told reporters investigating the girls’ recent tion across the country,” United of OROP by the government. “An impression in relation to hunger strike since June 15 at the here yesterday that police do not trip to Bengaluru. Police were Front of Ex-Servicemen Morcha Lt Gen Balbir Singh (retd) a case going on in the Supreme Jantar Mantar in the national think that the girls -- whose bod- also looking into CCTV footage (UFESM) spokesperson Col questioned the delay in accept- Court is that OROP will be given capital. ies were found on last Monday -- of the garden they had visited Anil Kaul (retd) said at a press ance of their demand by the NDA only to major general-ranked IANS were murdered. and checking if they were alone “We are looking into their dia- or were in the company of others. ries and social media activities. A youth from Kozhikode has These girls, from what we have been detained after it was found identified so far, were mentally that he was a ‘chat friend’ of one disturbed as they had family of the girls. Vyapam scam: problems,” said Abraham. State Home Minister Ramesh Nashik Kumbh Mela begins The three girls (all aged 16) Chennithala told reporters in CBI summons hailed from Konni near here and capital Thiruvananthapuram NASHIK (Maharashtra): were classmates in a government that the probe was going on “very The Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Gwalior’s SIT school. They had not returned effectively” and they were await- Simhastha Kumbh Mela was home since July 9. ing more details from police. inaugurated by Maharashtra BHOPAL: The CBI yesterday While two of them were found The last rites of the two girls Chief Minister Devendra summoned the Gwalior-based dead near the railway track on were conducted yesterday in their Fadnavis in Nashik and Union Special Investigation Team last Monday, the third girl was native village near here. Home Minister Rajnath Singh (SIT) to take charge of the taken to a hospital in Thrissur, IANS in Trimbakeshwar yesterday probe into the Madhya Pradesh morning. Vyapam recruitment and The inaugural was marked admissions scam and related with prayers, hymns, the blow- deaths. ing of ‘shankhanad’ (conch The Gwalior-Chambal region My degree is real: AAP MLA shell), showering of flower pet- of the state is where most of the als and the traditional flag over 45 deaths related to the rag- NEW DELHI: Facing con- University got printed on the affi- hoisting at both venues amidst ing Vyapam have occurred over troversy over his educational davit. ,” he said. tight security. the past few years. qualification, Aam Aadmi Party “They did not realise my degree Fadnavis hoisted the flag at A 40-member CBI team has MLA from Delhi Cantonment is fake when I was fighting for the the historic Ramkund in Nashik already conducted two meetings area Surender Singh yesterday nation in Kargil and in 26/11,” while Singh did the honours in with the SIT’s Special Task Force said though his degrees were Surender Singh added. Kushavarat in Trimbakeshwar, (STF) and it has handed over not fake he would court arrest The Delhi High Court on last both on the banks of the many significant documents to before Delhi Police. Monday gave Surender Singh the Godavari river, around 45km the central agency, sources said. Surender Singh said there was last opportunity to file a response apart. According to CBI, a special “just a technical error” related to by August 6 to BJP leader Karan The imposing saffron flag with team of Gwalior police was prob- his degree but it was not fake. Singh Tanwar’s petition over his a gold-painted lion, measuring ing various matters related to the “Instead of my Eiilm University allegedly furnishing false informa- around 15x4 feet, is mounted on Vyapam scam. This is the region (Eastern Institute for Integrated tion about his educational qualifi- a brass pole near Ramkund. It is from where many suspects have learning in Management), cation in a poll affidavit. visible from afar. been arrested. IANS which is in Sikkim, the Sikkim IANS “Kumbh Mela is a symbol of world peace and prosperity... So let us together make this Kumbh Mela a grand success and let it be known as ‘Harit Kumbh’ (Green Dornier wreckage search ends Kumbh),” Fadnavis said. He added that he prayed for CHENNAI: After the recovery DNA analysis for identification have exploded in mid-air and good rainfall and prosperity for of human remains and personal purposes,” Coast Guard Inspector crashed into the sea. the farmers in the state. belongings of the three-member General (Eastern Region) Satya The Dornier aircraft with Inaugurating the festival in crew along with the wreckage Prakash Sharma told reporters deputy commandant Vidyasagar Trimbakeshwar, Singh said: “My from the seabed, search opera- here. (pilot), deputy commandant good wishes to all pilgrims com- Devotees take a holy dip in the river Godavari. tions for the missing Indian He said the search operations Subash Suresh (co-pilot) and ing to participate in the Kumbh Coast Guard Dornier aircraft ended on last Monday night as navigator/observer M K Soni Mela.” Kumbh Mela which would attract around two million inhabitants, that plunged into the sea on most aircraft parts have been went missing on the night of June Several thousand pilgrims, over one crore pilgrims from parking arrangements and elabo- June 8 have been called off, an recovered. He said the the flight 8 while returning to its base at mendicants and holy men, offi- India and other parts of the world rate arrangements for the move- official said yesterday. data recorder or black box and Chennai airport. cials from various departments till September 25. ment of millions of pilgrims. Even as the Coast Guard other recovered items would be The aircraft was flying at and tourists will witness the doz- The festivities would, how- Several local temple trusts announced an end to the search sent to the board of inquiry to around 9,000 feet when it dropped ennial event, which is held once ever, continue even after that shall serve free meals to over half operations, named ‘Op Talash’, ascertain the cause of the mishap. about 5,000 feet in a few seconds in 12 years. and in the course of the one a million pilgrims daily, irrespec- Defence Minister Manohar Defence Ministry spokesperson on June 8. The inaugural was followed year period till August 2016, tive of caste or religion through- Parrikar conveyed his condo- Sitanshu Kar said the remains Sharma earlier said that it was by thousands marching to the the Nashik Kumbh Mela is out the celebrations. lences to the families of the three were recovered from “three dif- not possible for the aircraft to Godavari river for the first holy expected to attract over four The theme this year is a “Clean deceased crew members. ferent locations at the crash site” come out of the dive due to the bath of Kumbh Mela 2015. crore pilgrims. and Green Kumbh”, in tune with “Human remains and wrist and identified by a doctor on speed at which it came down. The Maharashtra government Nashik sports a festive Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watches of the crew have been board MV Olympic Canyon. According to him, the black box has spent nearly `2,400 crore for look with wide roads, flyover “Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan” initia- recovered from the seabed. The According to Satya Prakash data was expected to reveal the the preparations of the current inside and outside the city of tive. IANS human remains will be sent for Sharma, the aircraft seems to cause of the mishap. IANS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com FEATURES

Sleep deprivation impacts memories under stress Watching cartoons can leep deprivation for half a learned card pair locations. Stress make kids fat: Study night can make it hard for Interventions such as delaying school start had an impact on the participants’ Syou to access memories in ability to recall these memories. stressful situations the next day, times and greater use of flexible work The men were acutely stressed hildren consume more high-calorie food such as cookies says a study. for 30 minutes in the morning and candy after observing egg-shaped cartoon characters Apart from helping form long- schedules, that increase available snooze time after a half or full night of sleep. Cthat they perceive to be overweight, a study said. Children term memory, sleep also ensures Following short sleep, this tend to perceive ovoid, or egg-shaped, characters as overweight access to it during times of cogni- for those who are on habitual short sleep, stress exposure reduced their abil- even though the creatures are imaginary, and seeing them can tive stress, the results said. ity to recall these card pair loca- influence children to eat more unhealthy food, found the study. It is well known that during may improve their academic and occupational tions by around 10 percent. “They have a tendency to eat almost twice as much indulgent sleep newly-learned information In contrast, no such stress- food as kids who are exposed to perceived healthier looking car- is transferred from short-term performance by ensuring optimal access to induced impairment was seen toon characters or no characters at all,” said lead author of the to long-term memory stores in memories under stressful conditions. when the same men were allowed study Margaret Campbell, marketing professor at the University humans. to sleep for a full night. of Colorado Boulder in the US. “Even though losing half a night “Interventions such as delay- The results of the study published in the Journal of Consumer of sleep may not impair memory In the study published in the locations on a computer screen, ing school start times and greater Psychology said that kids are responsive to the apparent body- functions under baseline condi- journal SLEEP, researchers probed in one experimental session sub- use of flexible work schedules, that weight of cartoon characters like the aptly named Grimace, a tions, the addition of acute cog- the role of nocturnal sleep dura- jects slept for half a night (4-hour) increase available snooze time for rotund, milkshake-loving creature created by McDonald’s res- nitive stress may be enough to tion for this memory transfer, and and in the other for a full night those who are on habitual short taurant in the 1970s. lead to significant impairments, how long-term memories formed (8-hour). sleep, may improve their academic The findings — gathered from over 300 participants in three age which can possibly be detrimen- by sleep remain accessible after Next morning, the research- and occupational performance by groups averaging eight, 12 and 13 years -- have implications for tal in real-world scenarios,” said acute cognitive stress. ers found that half a night of ensuring optimal access to memo- marketers as well as parents navigating a world where children Jonathan Cedernaes, researcher at Following a learning session sleep (4-hour) was as powerful as ries under stressful conditions,” encounter cartoon characters in a variety of media, from books to the Department of Neuroscience, in the evening during which 15 a full night of sleep (8-hour) to Cedernaes said. graphic novels, TV shows, video games, movies and more. IANS Uppsala University. participants learned 15 card pair form long-term memories for the IANS A salad for kids who refuse to eat icky greens

BY ALISON LADMAN Ingredients (Servings 6) 1 medium cucumber, peeled ou don’t understand it. Your child 1 pint grape tomatoes, quartered used to devour any vegetable. Any 1 small summer squash, diced Ycolour. Any taste. You were so Kosher salt proud. 1/3 cup mayonnaise Then reality struck and suddenly your 1 tablespoon red vinegar darling little omnivore hated — HATED, 1 teaspoon honey I say! — anything that even resembled a Ground black pepper vegetable. Anything leafy and green or 3 stalks celery, diced broccoli-like became particularly sus- 1 yellow or orange bell pepper, cored pect. Well, welcome to the real world of and diced parenting. We are told that eventually the kids will outgrow this frustrating Method stage. We are told that when they are 30 Slice the cucumber in half lengthwise, they won’t still wail when presented with then use a spoon to scrape out and dis- salad at dinner. card the seeds from each half. Cut each And we cling to those assurances for half in half lengthwise again, then chop comfort. the lengths into 1/4-inch-thick chunks. In the meantime, we created this In a large colander set over the sink child-friendly (OK, maybe just friendlier) or a bowl, mix together the cucumber, salad with no greens (except some celery, tomatoes and squash. Sprinkle liberally which is easily left out if even that offends with salt, then toss again so the salt is your youngster’s delicate sensibilities) in evenly distributed. Set aside for 30 min- a (perhaps foolhardy) attempt to help you utes. After 30 minutes, pat the vegetable get something healthy into your delight- mixture dry, spreading it out on paper ful offspring. towels. If your kid prefers finger food, feel free to In a medium bowl, combine the mayon- leave everything in bigger chunks so they naise with the vinegar, honey and a hefty can pick and eat each item one at a time. pinch of pepper. Add the vegetables, along with the celery and bell pepper. Stir well. Nutrition information per serving: 120 Back-to-school calories; 80 calories from fat (67 percent of total calories); 9 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g Chopped Salad trans fats); 5 mg cholesterol; 270 mg sodium; 9 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 2 g Start to finish: 45 minutes (15 minutes protein. active) AP

Designer salutes free-spirited women with ‘On The Way’

esigner Gautam Gupta’s that blossom as she experiences autumn-winter 2015 collec- more with every breath,” he added. Dtion titled “On The Way” is The philosophy of the line an ode to the journey of free-spir- revolves around the aesthetics and ited women with a vision to explore sensibilities of a stylish yet carefree unknown lands. woman of today’s day and age, and Keeping his signature style of so, the silhouettes express comfort prints and vibrant hues in mind, with a balanced structured feel. the Delhi-based designer has There is a minimalist approach launched his line under his west- to the bohemian designs with a ern label Autre. combination of earthy shades of “The story recounts the jour- desert taupe and vibrant hues of ney of a free-spirited woman with orange ade and champaign beige. a vision to explore the unknown The fabrics vary from Silk lands. She wanders out alone and Corduroy and Hammered Silk stumbles upon the most pictur- with a hint of stripes and tribal esque places the earth has to offer prints. with diverse cultures and ethnici- The highpoint of the line are the Models stand on pedestals for the David Hart presentation during Men’s Fashion Week, in ties,” Gupta said in a statement. surface textures embellished with New York. The four-day event by the Council of Fashion Designers of America is the New “The collection takes inspiration materials like jute dori, pom-pom York debut of Fashion Week: Men’s. from the travellers’ self-content- and appliqué of georgette and satin. ment and the love and happiness IANS

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Prayer Timings Weather Hazy to misty at first becomes hot during Fajr 03.25 am Zuhr 11.40 am Maghrib 06.30 pm Minimum: 30o C Maximum: 41o C Shorook 04.53 am Asr 03.04 pm Isha 08.00 pm the day with scattered HIGH TIDE 03:15 - 17:15LOW TIDE 09:30 clouds. Harper Lee’s second US spacecraft sails by Pluto book flies out of stores LAUREL: A US spacecraft NEW YORK: Harper Lee’s Mockingbird was translated into sailed past the tiny planet Pluto second novel flew out of stores more than 40 languages and in the most distant reaches of yesterday in one of the most adapted into an Oscar-winning the solar system yesterday, cap- eagerly anticipated book film starring Gregory Peck. ping a journey of 3 billion miles releases in modern publish- The literary world was upended (4.88 billion km) that began ing history and half a century when HarperCollins announced in nine and a half years ago. after her masterpiece To Kill a February that it was publishing a Nasa’s New Horizons space- Mockingbird hit the shelves. second novel, seemingly discov- craft passed by the ice-and-rock In Lee’s hometown of ered from Lee’s safe-deposit box planetoid and its entourage of five Monroeville in Alabama, where in still-unclear circumstances. moons at 7:49am Eastern (1149 the 89-year-old lives in strict pri- Lee wrote the manuscript in GMT). The event culminated vacy at a nursing home, queues the late 1950s, but her then-edi- an initiative to explore the solar stretched out of bookshop doors tor suggested she recast the book system that the space agency to snap up copies of Go Set a from the childhood perspective embarked upon more than 50 Watchman, and some stores in the of Scout, which in turn became years ago. United States and London opened Mockingbird. “It’s truly a mark in human at midnight for the occasion. Pre-orders turned Watchman history,” John Grunsfeld, Nasa’s The Ol’ Curiosities & Book into an overnight number one associate administrator for sci- Shoppe in Monroeville, which bestseller at online retailer ence, said from the mission con- is selling special editions with Amazon, and publisher trol center at Johns Hopkins embossed title pages, laid on a HarperCollins has ordered a first University Applied Physics 12am launch party before reopen- print run of two million copies. Laboratory outside Baltimore. ing their doors to brisk morning In New York, relatively few New Horizons was expected to trade. “We have so much going on took advantage of the special continue observing Pluto for sev- right now and so many custom- 7am opening time at Barnes and eral hours after it made its clos- ers, we’ve got people out the door,” Noble’s flagship store on Fifth est approach to the unexplored said one woman. Avenue. Mekdad Muthana, a world, coming within 7,750 miles Bookshops courting die-hard 25-year-old Yemeni student liv- (12,472km) of the sphere. While Lee fans celebrated the big ing and working in the United the observations are under- A model of the New Horizons spacecraft is seen at a live television programme on Nasa television celebrating moment by laying on readings, States, said he was passionate way, New Horizons was in radio the spacecraft’s closest proximity to Pluto, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, site of the talks and Mockingbird film screen- about books and originally read blackout. “We programmed it mission operations centre, in Laurel, Maryland, yesterday. ings. Lee’s only previous novel is Mockingbird in high school. to be spending its time taking considered a 20th Century clas- Reviews have been charitable data that it can only take today,” but I have absolute confidence present-day tectonics, or move- was launched in 2006. Pluto was sic that defined racial injustice in at best, scathing at worst. While lead researcher Alan Stern told that it’s going to do what it needs ments of its crust. reclassified as a “dwarf planet” the Depression-era South of the some critics emphasise the merit reporters after the fly-by. to do to collect science and it’s “This is clearly a world where after the discovery of other Pluto- United States and became stand- in plotting Lee’s development as The diminutive spacecraft, going to turn around and ... tell us both geology and atmosphere cli- like spheres orbiting in the Kuiper ard reading in classrooms across a writer, others, such as National which is about the size of a piano, that it’s OK,” said Alice Bowman, matology play a role,” Stern said. Belt, the region beyond the eighth the world. Public Radio, dismissed it as a is not equipped with the propel- the mission operations manager. Pluto circles the sun every planet, Neptune. Published in 1960, To Kill a “troubling confusion of a novel”. lant needed to brake and slip into With 99 percent of the data 248 years in a highly tilted orbit The objects are believed to be Some fans have been left hop- orbit around Pluto. Like Nasa’s gathered about Pluto still on the that creates radical changes from remnants from the formation of ing there may also be a third book, Voyagers and sister predeces- spaceship, its survival is critical season to season. Pluto travels the solar system 4.6 billion years as hinted by Lee’s lawyer in the sor exploratory spacecraft, New to the mission. closer to the sun than the orbit ago. It will take about 16 months Wall Street Journal on Monday. Horizons was designed to conduct Already, the trickle of images of Neptune before it cycles back for New Horizons to transmit Rumuors have also refused to die its survey on the fly. and measurements coming from into the solar system’s deep freeze back all the images and measure- that Lee, who suffered a stroke Managers estimate there New Horizons has changed sci- more than 40 times farther away ments taken during its pass by and is hard of hearing, may have is a 1-in-10,000 chance that a entists’ understanding of Pluto. than Earth. Pluto. By then, the spacecraft will been manipulated into releasing debris strike could destroy New Once considered an icy, dead Scientists have many ques- have traveled even deeper into the the book. Friends and acquit- Horizons as it traverses the Pluto world, the planetoid has yielded tions about Pluto, which was still Kuiper Belt, heading for a possible tances insist she is still a woman system. signs of geological activity, with considered the solar system’s follow-on mission to one of Pluto’s who knows her own mind. AFP “I am feeling a little bit nervous, evidence of past and possibly ninth planet when New Horizons cousins. REUTERS Wednesday 15 July 2015 28 Ramadan 1436 Volume 20 Number 6492 Price: QR2

Ezdan Hotels occupancy rate up by 10pc

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar Islamic Bank’s six month profit rises by 23 percent DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank at QR77bn having increased by QR1.8bn at the end of June 2015 bank continued to pursue the con- In a report issued in April 2015, prestigious awards during the (QIB)’s net profit attributable QR17bn in first half of 2015 and compared to QR1.5bn for the six servative impairment policy with the international ratings agency first half of 2015 reflecting the to the shareholders of the bank represents 41 percent increase month period ended June 2014. an improved coverage ratio for Fitch, has upgraded QIB’s Long results and achievements of the touched QR895m for the six compared to second quarter 2014. Net fee and commission income non-performing financing portfo- Term IDR to ‘A+’ from the pre- Bank, including the ‘Islamic Bank months period ended 30th June Customer deposits of the bank reached QR210m for the six lio at 108.1 percent as of June 2015. viously held ‘A’ with a stable out- of the Year 2015’ Award in the 2015, representing a growth of have grown by QR18bn in first months ending June 2015 repre- Total shareholders’ equity of the look. Capital Intelligence (CI) has Middle East for the first time, and 23 percent over the same period half of 2015 to reach QR85bn and senting 10 percent growth com- bank reached QR12bn, an increase rated QIB’s Financial Strength Qatar for the third time in a row of 2014. represents a growth of 38 percent pared to same period last year. of seven percent as compared to Rating (FSR) of ‘A’, with ‘Stable’ by The Banker magazine. QIB The country’s leading Islamic compared to end of June 2014. QIB was able to maintain the June 2014. The Bank also raised Outlook in view of the significant was also recognized as the fast- lender’s total assets increased also Total income for the six months ratio of non-performing financ- Basel III compliant Additional improvement in financing asset est growing financial brand in the by 30 percent compared to June ended 30 June 2015 has reached ing assets to gross financing assets Tier 1 Capital by issuing per- quality and stabilized Return on world, with its brand value rising 2014 and now stands at QR116bn QR2.1bn registering 17 percent to around one percent, one of the petual Sukuk for an amount of Average Assets. Standard & Poor’s 91percent over last year, making driven by a continued growth in growth compared to QR1.8bn by lowest in the industry, reflecting QR2bn. Capital Adequacy of the Rating Services has retained the Bank one of the top 50 most the core financing and investing end of June 2014. Income from the quality of the bank’s financing bank now stands at 14.8 percent QIB’s Counterparty Credit Rating valuable brands of all industries activities. financing and investing activities assets portfolio and its effective as per Basel III guidelines issued at “A-“with a stable outlook. in the Mena region. Financing activities now stand has grown by 19 percent to reach risk management framework. The by Qatar Central Bank. QIB has received a number of THE PENINSULA

JAL ties up with Disneyland QIIB posts QR438m profit Total assets reach QR38.5bn; total revenues hit QR740.7m

DOHA: Qatar’s leading Islamic bank QIIB has announced a net profit of QR438m for the first half of 2015 (H1, 15), a nine per- cent growth compared to the same period in 2014. The bank’s total assets grew by 6.7 percent and financing portfolio surged 13.8 percent during H1, 15 on year-on-year basis. Announcing the results after (efficiency ratio) at 23.3 percent. the bank’s Board of Directors On deposits, the CEO explained meeting, QIIB Vice-Chairman that these increased to QR25.6bn Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani bin in H1, 2015 compared with Abdullah Al Thani noted: “This QR25.9bn in the same period last (bank’s strong results) reflects Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani bin Abdulbasit Ahmed Al Shaibei year. QIIB’s ability to benefit from the Abdullah Al Thani The capital adequacy ratio strong and positive elements of Abdulbasit Ahmed Al Shaibei under Basel III reached 17.53 per- the Qatari economy that is wit- and contribute to the develop- said, “The bank’s total revenues cent, which reflects the strength nessing a continuous growth..” ment of various sectors in the for the first half of 2015 amounted of the QIIB’s position and readi- He said: “The strength and Qatari economy. to QR740.7m compared with ness to apply the new standards stability provided by the Qatari QIIB will continue to imple- QR718.9m in the same period of of the Third Basel Accord, which economy have provided a stim- ment its strategy, both locally 2014, reflecting a growth rate of is a global, voluntary regulatory ulating environment for QIIB, and internationally, and pay spe- three percent. framework on bank capital ade- which has clearly benefitted from cial attention to the application He also pointed out that QIIB’s quacy, stress testing and market this and achieved significantly in of the best standards adopted total assets at the end of the first liquidity risk. terms of good growth rates in in the global banking sector and half of 2015 reached QR38.5bn He added: “We are optimis- items that have been budgeted. good governance in the field of compared to QR36.1bn in the tic, thanks to the great dynam- All of these confirm the strong risk management, while aspiring same period of 2014. ics of the Qatari economy. All and established position of QIIB at the same time to maximise “The bank’s financing portfolio sectors are witnessing growth; in the Qatari banking sector and shareholders’ equity and increase has increased at the end of the projects are moving strong, espe- economy”. profitability, he added. first half of this year to reach cially the big ones in the area The targeted growth figures are Sheikh Abdulla expressed con- QR23.9bn compared with QR21bn of infrastructure, which create always ambitious, based on the fidence that the QIIB’s Executive at the end of the corresponding an environment of favourable underlying factors and opportu- Management and employees will period last year. This represents opportunities. We stay focused nities. Our bank seeks to achieve continue with their focused efforts a growth of 13.8 percent. on benefitting from our national more in the coming period, espe- to upgrade the work, progress Highlighting QIIB’s financial economy in accordance with the cially all the necessary factors towards more creativity and inno- management and liquidity during policies of the bank and in a way are seen, be it in terms of opera- vation in terms of Islamic banking H1, 2015, Al Shaibei said: “QIIB’s that achieves the strategic vision Japan Airlines (JAL) pilot and cabin attendants wave beside a Boeing tional structure or the promising and achieve the targeted growth non-performing funding assets of the Board of Directors. We 737-800 airliner with a painting of Disneyland’s Duffy character during local market. These include great rates with the aim of achieving amounted to less than 1.57 per- remain committed to serving the its press preview at a hangar of the Haneda International airport in opportunities the bank strives to compatibility with the market’s cent as the bank continued with Qatari economy and contributing Tokyo yesterday. JAL starts operating the four-month-long JAL happy benefit from, in line with its policy needs. its outstanding record in main- to its development.” journey express domestic flights to tie up the Tokyo Disney Sea’s of focusing on the local market QIIB Chief Executive Officer, taining the operating efficiency THE PENINSULA special programme on “Journeys with Duffy, Your Friend Forever.”

Chancellor’s touch Qatargas issues sustainability report

DOHA: Qatargas has issued its the well-head, off-shore Qatar, Qatari nationals in 2014, almost 2014 Sustainability Report, cov- to our customers all around the half way towards the 2020 target ering the company’s economic, world. of 50 percent. environmental and social per- Some of the Company’s key In preparing this report formance. The report, which is performance highlights in 2014 Qatargas has used national and the fifth Sustainability Report include completion of the $1bn international reporting guide- of Qatargas, includes historical Jetty Boil-off Gas Recovery lines provided by the Global performance data, coverage of project, 100 percent reliable deliv- Reporting Initiative (GRI), progress made in 2014 and looks eries, 80 percent of procurement International Petroleum Industry ahead at our future activities. awards made locally, 34 percent Environmental Conservation A key feature of the 2014 report reduction in flaring, 21 percent Association (IPIECA)/ American is a description of how Qatargas reduction in recordable injuries, Petroleum Institute (API) moved closer to its 2015 vision six percent reduction in green- and International Oil and Gas of becoming the world’s premier house gas emissions, and zero sig- Producers Association (OGP), and LNG company indicating the nificant spills. It also talks about the Qatar Energy and Industry 2014 progress in all key perform- a significant rise in employee Sector Sustainability (QEISS) ance indicators of the vision’s five training and a continued increase Programme. major pillars which are; Safety, in our community investment Qatargas, established in 1984, health and environmental per- budget. pioneered the Liquefied Natural formance; Customer satisfaction; Improvements in health and Gas (LNG) Industry in Qatar. A high caliber, diverse workforce; safety performance position Today, Qatargas is the largest Efficient and reliable operations; Qatargas as a sector leader, but LNG producing company in the Financial performance. work remains in order to achieve world, with an annual LNG pro- The report also contains an an incident and injury free work- duction capacity of 42 million German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at a Transmission Electron Microscope during a visit to a German overview of the LNG market in place. Qatarization also remains tonnes per annum (MTA). semi-conductor giant Infineon Technologies plant in Dresden yesterday. 2014 and a graphic illustration of an ongoing priority with 24 per- QNA the Qatargas value chain — from cent of the workforce made up of WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Nakilat’s first-half Ezdan Hotels occupancy rate rises by 10 percent profits grow by DOHA: Ezdan Hotels, Ezdan highest level of luxury, aiming at to 4,500sqm similar to the third General Manager of Ezdan 10pc to QR490.2m Holding Group’s subsidiary- meeting the needs of all its guests. phase, noting that both phases Hotels Hasib Kayali said that said that the occupancy rate Al Abdulla said that the first are aimed to improve fourth floor the restaurant has achieved sig- DOHA: Nakilat, the shipping at Ezdan Hotels and Suites has phase of the renovation proc- facilities such as the supermarket nificant success, prompting more arm of Qatar’s liquefied natu- increased by 10 percent dur- esses in the fourth floor in Ezdan and the health club. The upgrades than 90 percent turnout. He said ral gas (LNG) sector, recorded ing the first half of 2015. The Hotels, which reach a total area are expected to finish soon and that this reflects the keenness of QR490.2m profits for the first increase came in conjunction of 11,000 square meters has turn the fourth floor into an oasis its visitors to take advantage of half of 2015, a 10 percent year- with the company’s completion been completed fully. The venue of relaxation and leisure attrac- its fine dining services. He added on-year increase. of the first revamp phase with includes recreational area with tion at Ezdan Hotels West Bay. that Ezdan Hotels has recently The Board of Directors stated the aim to promote the hotel a swimming pool surrounded by Al Thuraya restaurant at opened Al Thuraya Restaurant that Nakilat is in an excellent services, in line with the enor- an area of 3,600 square metres Ezdan Hotels West Bay has within its plan to upgrade the position to face the current mous development of the Qatari allocated for multiple new serv- achieved a great success during level of hospitality services in economic situation, as the com- hospitality market. ices. The area also encompasses a the holy month of Ramadan with Ezdan Hotels West Bay to a high pany’s ships are on long-term Deputy CEO of Ezdan Holding snack restaurant, swimming pool worldwide sports games. impressive turnout of visitors competitive level of luxurious hos- charter hire contracts that are Group Nasser Mohammed Al for adults and one for children, Al Abdulla added that the sec- thanks to its competitive special pitality services, reflecting origi- not impacted by temporary fluc- Abdulla (pictured) noted that playground for children, billiards ond phase is underway including deals that include discounts on nality that characterizes Ezdan tuations in oil prices. The Board Ezdan Hotels has completed and table tennis courts, basket- the establishment of a children’s the two Ramadan main courses, Hotels and the high scale quality also stated their continued com- development operations to seven ball court, as well as sports tent indoor play area. The second phase Iftar and Suhoor, in addition to of its restaurants. mitment to Nakilat’s growth and floors to equip them with the that allows guests to follow-up upgrade will include an area of up all types of foods and beverages. THE PENINSULA development strategy. Abdullah Al Sulaiti, Nakilat Managing Director, said, “Nakilat’s strong performance Indonesia car sales decline demonstrates the success of our medium to long-term strategies. We continue to maintain prudent levels of growth, we have low- Doha Bank posts ered our operating costs and our financing costs are decreasing as we have repaid a suitable amount of our loans.” He added, “We have also seen first half net increased profits from our joint ventures, particularly since the launch of a new vessel in the sec- ond quarter, along with an addi- profit of QR801m tional five vessels that became fully operational. Nakilat’s place as the lynchpin in the Qatari marine services sector will con- Total assets increase by QR10.7bn tinue to grow unabated.” DOHA: Doha Bank posted assets of 2.03 percent which is a Milaha CEO to QR801m net profit for the first clear demonstration of the effective half of 2015 (H1, 15) as compared utilization of shareholder’s funds and retire in Sept to QR787m for the same period optimum asset allocation strategies”. in 2014, an increase of almost two Dr R Seetharaman, Chief Executive DOHA: Milaha, a Qatar-based percent. Officer of Doha Bank, said “Doha marine transport and logis- Announcing the H1, 15 finan- Bank’s strong results highlights the tics company, announced that cial results, Sheikh Fahad bin strength of its products and services, its President and CEO, Khalifa Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, ongoing customer demand, strategy Ali Al Hetmi, will retire in Chairman of the Board of Directors to capitalise on market synergies in a A man walks past the Toyota display at the Jakarta Fair car exhibition in Indonesia. Japanese auto- September, 2015. of Doha Bank said: “This is another challenging and competitive environ- makers are sticking to their targets in Indonesia in defiance of the longest sales decline in six years. Having joined Milaha 31 years outstanding result and is clear dem- ment. As yet another milestone, Doha ago, Al Hetmi has been at the onstration that Doha Bank continues Bank completed the amalgamation for- helm of Milaha for the past 7 to perform consistently.” malities of India operations of HSBC years. During his tenure as CEO, The bank’s total assets increased by Bank Oman and formally inaugurated he oversaw the strategic acquisi- QR10.7bn, a growth of 14.9 percent, its India operations in April 2015.” tion of Qatar Shipping and Halul from QR72bn as at June 30, 2014 to In line with the approvals received, Masraf Al Rayan registers Offshore Services in 2010, and was QR82.7bn as at 30 June 2015. Net loans Doha Bank completed issuance of responsible for the subsequent and advances increased to QR53.1bn Tier 1 capital instrument amount- transformation of the newly cre- from QR45.3bn for the same period ing to QR 2bn. Doha Bank had also ated group and the launch of the last year, registering a growth of more distributed 40 percent of the paid up QR998m H1 net profit Milaha brand in 2011. Milaha has than 17.0 percent. Customer deposits capital as cash dividend to the share- since grown into one of the larg- showed a year on year increase of 16.4 holders during the year. DOHA: Masraf Al Rayan has posted a net highest at 2.45 percent. Return on shareholders’ est and most diversified maritime percent to QR51.7bn. Summarising the key innovations, profit of QR998m during the first half of 2015, equity reached 18.09 percent compared to 17.56 and logistics companies in the Sheikh Abdul Rehman bin achievements and initiatives by Doha an increase of 10.46 percent compared to percent on June 30, 2014. Earnings per share Middle East. Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, Bank in 2015, Dr Seetharaman said QR904m for the same period in 2014. reached QR1.331 compared to QR1.205 on June Al Hetmi will remain in his Managing Director of the bank said: “Demonstrating leadership in progress- Dr Hussain Al Abdulla, the Chairman and 30, 2014. position until a successor has been “The bank has become extremely ing digital payments in the country, Managing Director of Masraf Al Rayan, described Masraf Al Rayan sustained its strategy to appointed, and will fully support strong over the years with total equity Doha Bank announced the re-launch the results as “satisfactory, in the face of the develop new products and services to better serve the company during the transi- as at 30 June 2015, at QR13.1bn, reg- of its next-generation e-commerce hub, exceptional circumstances represented by low oil all types of its client base, by offering high quality tion period thereafter. istering an increase of 19.5 percent Doha Sooq with contemporary looks, prices and a series of regional and global political and flexibility in line with the best international Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al Thani, during the last 12 months. Through exhaustive product suite and a number and economic events that have had a negative banking practices. Chairman of Milaha, said: “Al the strategic utilisation of the share- of the latest e-commerce features. impact on the markets in addition to decisions Masraf Al Rayan has completed some impor- Hetmi has he been an integral holder’s funds by way of increasing Furthermore, Doha Bank launched its made by some major clients in the second quarter tant milestones in its quest to get the neces- part of the company’s develop- our performance levels the return summer promotion offers spanning of this year to early settle their finances prior to sary regulatory approvals for its pronounced ment and the transformation of on average shareholders’ equity is from June until August 2015, offering maturity”. exchange traded fund (ETF), as scheduled in the group.His excellent leadership 18.4 percent as at June 30, one of the up to 10 percent cash back on certain Adel Mustafawi, Group Chief Executive phase one, trading Shariah-compliant stocks has led to the creation of a sus- best in the industry. The bank, given credit card spend and up to five percent Officer at Masraf Al Rayan said: The results on Qatar Exchange wherein tracking Al Rayan tainable and successful business the scale of operations, has achieved on all international spend. are in line with the Management projection Islamic Index, nevertheless, deferred the proc- model that will continue to gen- a very high return on the average THE PENINSULA given the current market circumstances”. He ess to acquire similar approvals for its Shariah- erate returns for shareholders in described the results as a clear demonstra- compliant sukuk trading fund (income generating the years to come.” tion of the bank’s ability to overcome many fund), for investment in fixed income markets Al Hetmi expressed his grati- difficulties to achieve better results, whereas with target yield exceeding earnings from deposit tude to the Milaha Board of total assets reached QR81.31bn compared to accounts and shall be distributed annually to Directors and staff for their sup- QR74bn as of June 30, 2014, a growth of 9.57 investors. It was early announced that Al Rayan port over the years. He said: “Our percent. Investment LLC (ARI) will manage the opera- sustained growth in the past few The bank’s return on Assets kept its outpost tion both funds. years in is large part due to the within the local financial market to be one of the THE PENINSULA hard work and dedication of our colleagues, which enabled us to thrive even during downturns and strengthen our business. I am confident that the Milaha suc- cess story will continue to grow Commercial Bank’s second on the foundation we have worked so diligently to lay down.” THE PENINSULA quarter profit hits QR589m Saudi Electricity

DOHA: The Commercial Hussain Al Fardan, QR1.25bn for the half-year seeks loan Bank delivered a net profit Commercial Bank’s Vice ended 30 June 2015, 1.6 percent of QR589m for the second Chairman and Managing lower than the same period of DUBAI: Saudi Electricity Co quarter 2015, an increase Director added, “Commercial 2014, mainly due to a reduction (SEC), the Gulf’s largest util- of 17.3 percent compared to Bank has built a solid foundation in asset yields at AlternatifBank. ity firm, is in talks with local the second quarter 2014, and during the first half of 2015 with Net interest margin decreased and international banks to a 27 percent increase com- the second quarter results show- marginally to 2.52 percent as raise a multi-billion-dollar loan, pared to the first quarter ing good consistency despite the compared to the first quarter according to two sources aware 2015. The bank reported a net increasing levels of competition of 2015 at 2.59 percent. of the matter. profit of QR 1.052bn for the in our markets and the impact of The bank’s net provi- The offering, which one source first half of 2015 as compared the Turkish Lira on our reported sions for loans and advances said could be worth between $3bn to QR1.051bn for the same results. Commercial Bank deliv- were QR376m for the half- and $5bn in total, will be split period in 2014. ered a strong performance year ended June 30, 2015 up between a dollar-denominated Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali this quarter, supported by an 46 percent from QR257m portion and a riyal-denominated bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman increasingly strong economy and for the same period in 2014. tranche, the sources said, speak- of the Board of Directors of our Associates continued to play Consequent to the settlement ing on condition of anonymity as the bank said: “The Qatar an important role, delivering a of a large real estate non per- the information is not public. economy continues to show 18 percent increase in quarterly forming loan (NPL), the NPL The riyal-denominated tranche strong growth momentum in profit growth. This has enabled ratio has reduced to 3.40 per- is expected to be worth around 2015. Our non-oil sector con- Commercial Bank to deliver a 27 cent at 30 June 2015 compared SR5bn ($1.33bn), the first source tinues to grow, stimulated by percent increase in net profit of with 4.12 percent at the end said, adding the transaction the construction, tourism and QR589m compared with the first of June 2014 and the coverage would have a three-year lifespan hospitality sectors and we see quarter of 2015.” ratio increased to 86.7 percent but with an option to extend the this continuing to grow with Net operating income as at 30 June 2015 compared to maturity beyond that point. increased investment and increased by four percent to 63.1 percent as at 30 June 2014. “The company is trying to mop spending by the Government. QR2.07bn for the half-year Impairment provisions on up cash it can get at a good price The Commercial Bank’s per- ended 30 June 2015, up from investment portfolio reduced to point from the market. They are formance over the first half of QR1.99bn achieved in the same QR12m for the half-year com- exploring all options available in the 2015 gives us confidence for our period in 2014. pared with QR29m for Q2 2014. debt market,” the first source said. full year performance.” Net interest income was THE PENINSULA REUTERS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 NBK targets Qatari bourse Egypt growth as Q2 profit index gains gains 10pc

DUBAI: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) wants to 26.03 points strengthen its Egyptian busi- ness on the back of the improv- ing security and political Deyaar rises after strong Q2 results environment, the Gulf state’s largest lender said yesterday DOHA: Qatar Exchange its second-quarter net profit last as it reported a 9.9 percent index added 26.03 points, or week, beating analysts’ forecasts. increase in second-quarter net 0.22 percent, when the bourse Another major support was profit. closed yesterday at 11,964.45 food maker Savola Group, which Gulf banks have been target- points. Market capitalisation rose 1.7 percent. According to ing overseas expansion in recent increased to QR634.209bn from equity research house Alphamena, years to maintain profitability in QR633.304bn on Monday. Savola holds a controlling stake the face of high competition in Trade turnover dropped to in an Iranian company which their home markets, and Egypt QR133.672bn with a volume accounts for 40 percent of the has been a favoured destination of 3,082,419 shares from 2,113 country’s edible oil market. — Qatar National Bank, Emirates transactions compared with Optimism about Savola’s Iran NBD and Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait QR192.173m with a volume of operations even offset poor results have all made acquisitions in the 5,203,314 shares from 2,694 trans- posted by Herfy Food, in which last two years. actions yesterday. Savola has a 49 percent stake. Opportunities have been cre- The Total Return Index gained Herfy tumbled 4.4 percent after A man looks at a book in a junk shop on a street in the market of Monastiraki in downtown Athens yesterday. ated by international banks pull- 0.22 percent (18,597.02 points). Al reporting an 11.7 percent fall in European governments clashed over options to help Greece meet its short-term cash needs. ing out due to market turbulence Rayan Islamic Index gained 0.18 second-quarter earnings, which in Egypt and the need to enhance percent (4,647.98 points) and the it said was partly due to the holy their capital positions, while Gulf All Share Index gained 0.15 oper- month of Ramadan. Greece needs debt relief far beyond governments have encouraged cent (3,197.49 points). Dubai’s index rose initially in investment into the country by Meanwhile, other regional stock response to the Iranian deal but their corporates as a way to bol- markets were mostly firm yester- closed flat as some stocks, which ster the government of President day, moving little in response to had earlier risen on expectations of eurozone plans: Secret IMF report Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, whom they the international deal on Iran’s the agreement, pulled back. Dubai have backed with billions of dol- nuclear programme, which opened Islamic Bank, for instance, slipped BRUSSELS: Greece will need grace period on servicing all capital controls on June 29 was lars and political support since he up new business opportunities 0.3 percent after gaining 1.8 per- far bigger debt relief than euro- its European debt, including “extracting a heavy toll on the took power. for some local companies but also cent in the two previous sessions. zone partners have been pre- new loans, and a very dramatic banking system and the economy, NBK originally bought into the depressed oil prices. Port operator DP World, which pared to envisage so far due maturity extension, or else make leading to a further significant North African country in 2007 The Iranian agreement will is one of Dubai’s major logistics to the devastation of its econ- explicit annual fiscal transfers to deterioration in debt sustainabil- and now has around 30 branches eventually see economic sanc- companies and might enjoy an omy and banks in the last two the Greek budget or accept “deep ity relative to what was projected mostly in Cairo and Alexandria, tions against Tehran lifted in increase in cargo traffic through weeks, a confidential study by upfront haircuts” on their loans in our recently published DSA”. according to its website. exchange for curbs on its nuclear the Gulf after sanctions are lifted, the International Monetary to Athens, the report said. European members of the “Other than the Gulf, the development. rose 1.4 percent. Fund shows. It was leaked as German IMF’s executive board tried in Egyptian market positive out- Analysts think it would take Deyaar Development, which The updated debt sustainabil- Finance Minister Wolfgang vain to stop the publication of look presents growth potential for Iran many months to fully ramp on Monday became the first local ity analysis (DSA) was sent to Schaeuble disclosed that some that earlier study on July 2 just the group,” Isam al-Sager, NBK’s up its oil export capacity after property firm to post earnings euro zone governments late on members of the Berlin govern- three days before a Greek refer- group chief executive officer, was an easing of sanctions. But even this season and recorded a 37.5 Monday, hours after Athens and ment thought Greece would have endum that rejected earlier bail- quoted as saying in the bank’s a modest initial increase could percent jump in second-quarter its 18 partners agreed in principle been better off taking “time-out” out terms, sources familiar with earnings statement. “NBK seeks be enough to pull international net profit, added 1.5 percent. to open negotiations on a third from the euro zone rather than the discussions told Reuters. to strengthen its position in the oil prices down as the market is Abu Dhabi’s bourse edged up 0.4 bailout programme of up to ¤86bn receiving another giant bailout. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Egyptian market on the back of already oversupplied; Brent crude percent as most blue chips rose. in return for tougher austerity IMF Managing Director Tsipras and his former finance positive developments in terms of fell as much as two percent yes- Analysts say the United Arab measures and structural reforms. Christine Lagarde attended week- minister, Yanis Varoufakis, seized security level and political envi- terday, though it pared its losses Emirates could be one of the main “The dramatic deterioration end talks among euro zone finance on the IMF study as vindicating ronment,” he added. later in the day.. beneficiaries of a boost to Iran’s in debt sustainability points to ministers and government leaders their argument that the proposed While security remains a con- Saudi Arabia’s petrochemical foreign trade from sanctions relief. the need for debt relief on a scale that agreed on a roadmap for a new bailout was unsustainable and cern, with the bombing of the index slipped 0.3 percent, track- “In general, exports to Iran from that would need to go well beyond bailout. An EU source said the new that Greece was right to demand Italian consulate in Cairo last ing oil, but the main stock bench- the rest of the MENA region are what has been under considera- debt sustainability figures were debt relief. week and continuing unrest in mark closed 0.1 percent higher, relatively small, which is not too tion to date — and what has been given to euro zone finance minis- The IMF study said Greek debt the Sinai peninsular, the eco- buoyed by other sectors. surprising given that trade profiles proposed by the ESM,” the IMF ters on Saturday and were known would now peak at close to 200 per- nomic picture has been improv- Al Rajhi Bank was the main are similar,” Jason Tuvey, Middle said, referring to the European by the leaders before they con- cent of economic output in the next ing— Egypt’s economy grew three support, climbing 1.3 percent. East economist at London-based Stability Mechanism bailout fund. cluded Monday’s deal with Athens. two years, compared to a previously percent in the quarter ending in The retail-focused lender posted Capital Economics, said in a note. European countries would The IMF study said the closure forecast high of 177 percent. March. a marginal drop of 0.4 percent in AGENCIES have to give Greece a 30-year of Greek banks and imposition of REUTERS REUTERS

Ma’aden Q2 net profit falls Tsinghua prepares $23bn bid for US chip maker Micron BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO: A successful bid would consol- Idaho-based Micron — the last Micron makes both dynamic in deals totalling $1.6bn last 27pc, misses China’s state-backed Tsinghua idate Tsinghua Unigroup’s posi- major US-based manufacturer random access memory (DRAM) year. When Tsinghua Unigroup Unigroup Ltd is preparing a tion as a champion for China’s of DRAM chips used in personal chips and NAND memory chips received a $1.5bn investment $23bn bid for US memory chip technology development, after it computers — would likely have to for storing music, pictures and from Intel Corp in October, the forecasts maker Micron Technology Inc, struck deals and research part- pass a review by the Committee on other data on smartphones, cam- two sides pledged to cooperate DUBAI: Saudi Arabian Mining in what would be the biggest nerships with international firms Foreign Investment in the United eras and other mobile devices. on research and further Chinese Co (Ma’aden) posted a 27 per- Chinese takeover of a US com- in the semiconductor industry. States, which looks at the national Acquiring Micron’s cutting- technology. cent fall in second-quarter net pany, people familiar with the The company is controlled by security implications of such deals. edge memory manufacturing The Wall Street Journal first profit yesterday, missing ana- matter said. Tsinghua University in Beijing, Vincent Gu, a Shanghai-based technology would be a major reported early yesterday that lysts’ forecasts as higher sales The technology conglomerate is which counts President Xi Jinping analyst at iSupply, said the advance for China’s modest but Tsinghua Unigroup was prepared by the Gulf’s largest miner could prepared to bid $21 per share for among its alumni, and is backed by chances of the US government improving chip industry headed to submit a bid, citing people not make up for lower prices for Micron, a 19.3 percent premium China’s central government. China approving the deal would be “next by Tsinghua Unigroup. familiar with the matter. its products. to the stock’s close on Monday. has attached strategic importance to zero” given the political hur- With roots as a private equity None of the world’s top memory Net profit for the three months The offer could come as early as to the development of domestic dles. “It’s difficult to purchase the fund, Tsinghua Unigroup trans- chip manufacturers are based in to June 30 was SR270m ($72m) today, a person close to Tsinghua semiconductor, server and net- critical technology. China should formed into a serious semicon- China, although South Korea’s SK versus SR370.8m in the corre- said, although a Micron spokes- working equipment industries stay firmly grounded and perse- ductor player after it bought Hynix has a plant in Wuxi and sponding period of 2014, it said in man said it had not received an amid fears of foreign cyberspying. vere with researching the tech- Chinese chipmakers RDA Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. a bourse statement. offer. But any foreign takeover of nology itself,” Gu said. Microelectronics and Spreadtrum REUTERS Three analysts surveyed by Reuters had forecast on average that Ma’aden would report a net profit of SR380.4m. Ma’aden cited French LNG project the falling prices for aluminium, ammonia and gold and an increase Arcapita buys part of in costs from higher sales for the profit drop without elaborating. Saudi companies issue brief earnings statements early in the Abu Dhabi project reporting period before publishing more detailed results later. DUBAI: Arcapita, the Bahrain- month it said it had sold its real However, aluminium producers based investment manage- estate portfolio of retirement globally have been struggling to ment firm, has acquired part of communities across the United handle a supply glut in the market Saadiyat Beach Residences, a States to NorthStar Healthcare caused by increased output from residential real estate complex Income Trust for $640m. China, with major producers includ- in Abu Dhabi, the company said The firm expects to complete ing United Company Rusal and yesterday. additional investments during Alcoa forced to idle capacity to cope. The size of the purchase was 2015, Atif Abdulmalik, Arcapita’s The world’s smelters produced not disclosed in the statement chief executive, said in Tuesday’s 4.892 million tonnes of alumin- but a source close to the deal said statement. ium in May, up almost 12 per- it was around $200m. Arcapita It is the company’s first invest- cent year-on-year, according to bought the asset from Mubadala ment in Abu Dhabi. Saadiyat is figures from the International Development, an Abu Dhabi a 27 square kilometre mixed-use Aluminium Institute. That was state-owned fund with a mandate development in the emirate. “Abu the fastest growth rate since 2011. to develop the emirate’s economy, Dhabi provides real estate inves- In May, a senior executive from Arcapita said in a statement. tors with exposure to the GCC the company said a massive alu- The asset includes three (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, minium smelter which Ma’aden low-rise buildings in a gated while offering steady and stable runs with US group Alcoa will community and is under a three- growth prospects,” said Martin Tan, produce above its initial capac- year master lease to Tourism Arcapita’s chief investment officer. ity target this year. The smelter Development & Investment Co, The company said last month it started commercial operations an Abu Dhabi state-owned invest- had given $3bn in exit proceeds to last year after facing problems O ne of the three reservoirs of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Dunkerque, northern France. ment fund. It features 285 one- to its investors in the last two years during the start-up phase but the After four years of construction, the LNG terminal will soon be ready to support the ambitions of state- three-bedroom apartments. but did not give a breakdown of prof- project, in Ras Al Khair. run power firm EDF. Arcapita is an active player in its for its real estate portfolio exit. REUTERS global property markets. Last REUTERS WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Sanctions go, but Iran must wait for economic recovery TEHRAN: Iranian trade up the pressure, slapping puni- President Hassan Rowhani, a global investors to invest in one considered a juicy target. envoys to Tehran for talks. will be boosted by a lifting tive measures on Iran’s energy moderate, signalled a change in of the most exciting markets of With the fourth-largest oil The process of finalising new of nuclear-related sanctions and banking sectors. Iran’s economic policy. the future,” he said after the deal reserves and the second in gas, contracts started after Rouhani’s but the country needs billions Lacking effective tools for mak- Talks with the world powers was announced. Iran has the biggest combined election, and has been a drawn- of dollars of investment, and ing international cash transfers — started in September that year, But without those funds and energy deposits in the world. out affair. meaningful economic gains are Iran was barred from the SWIFT and an interim agreement two a new economic push, the early The oil ministry has announced An unveiling of terms in likely to take many months. banking network — the economy months later gave Iran some gains under Rouhani’s adminis- it intends to attract up to $100bn London in September has been The deal between Iran and tanked as cash dried up. sanctions relief in exchange for tration are in jeopardy, accord- (¤90.1bn) of foreign investment to deferred until December. The world powers announced in But some basic steps must curbs on its nuclear activities. ing to David Ramin Jalilvand of modernise the sector, which has nuclear agreement may also spur Vienna yesterday paves the way be taken to turn the economy Those steps helped Iran exit the European Policy Centre in been underdeveloped for a decade. interest in Iran’s auto sector. to an opening for international around, according to Daniel two years of recession, with three Brussels. Production has dropped below French manufacturer PSA companies who have long seen the Bernbeck, managing director of percent GDP growth last year. “It will take at least until early three million barrels per day since Peugeot Citroen quit Iran, its Islamic republic as an untapped the German-Iran Chamber of Rouhani’s government, which 2016 before the energy-related 2012. Exports have almost halved second-largest market, in early market. Commerce. wants foreign investment, has sanctions are lifted,” he said, to 1.3 million bpd from 2.5 million 2012. It is discussing a renewed However, a decade of difficulties “Iran needs technological also managed to bring inflation noting the need for UN nuclear bpd in 2011. partnership with IranKhodro. linked to the country’s nuclear and industrial development and down to 15 percent from 42 per- monitors to verify Iran has met Iran could produce an extra But for Mohammad Gholi programme has left problems as it will cost billions of dollars cent, helping stabilise the rial, its commitments. million barrels per day in the Yousefi, an economics professor at well as opportunities, experts say. unless investors come back,” he which had lost two thirds of its And foreign companies may be six months following the end Allameh Tabatabai University in With Tehran suspected of plot- said, noting huge interest from value. reluctant to invest in Iran, given of sanctions, Oil Minister Bijan Tehran, foreign investment alone ting to develop an atomic bomb German companies that have Rouzbeh Pirouz, executive the risk that sanctions may be Zanganeh has said. will not suffice. under the guise of civilian energy visited Tehran. chairman of Turquoise Partners, re-applied if Tehran is deemed to And by changing the structure Iran “needs fundamental production, something it has Iran’s market of 78 million peo- a Tehran-based investment house have breached its promises. of its contracts, the ministry is economic reforms” to boost always denied, the United Nations ple and educated workforce were that has hosted hundreds of for- Rowhani acknowledged in June trying to lure back oil majors, production and avoid another first imposed economic sanctions important pluses for those looking eign business delegations, said that “weeks or even months will which sustained big losses by hav- crisis, he said, referring to the on the Islamic republic in 2006. to put money into the country, he growth chances were vast. pass” between the signing of the ing to leave. need to root out corruption and In 2012, the United States and said. “This is a historic moment... agreement and sanctions relief. Dutch-Anglo energy giant Shell mismanagement. the European Union ratcheted The election in 2013 of a breakthrough opportunity for Iran’s energy sector is and Italy’s ENI have both sent AFP Oil steady as Europe refiners Iran exports seen slow await return to resume

NEW YORK: Oil prices stead- ied yesterday after Tehran and of Iran crude six global powers reached a landmark nuclear deal that left sanctions on Iran in place Tehran wants to retrieve market share for now, continuing to limit its crude exports. LONDON: Mediterranean European oil buyers, includ- The dollar’s slide after unex- refiners are gearing up to wel- ing Italy’s Eni and Saras have pectedly weak US retail sales for come the return of Iranian held talks with National Iranian June also helped pare early losses crude oil to the market which Oil Company (NIOC) officials in in crude futures. could push prices lower and Europe and Tehran over the past The oil market will be looking boost profits following the eas- year in anticipation of sanctions out next for an industry group ing of Western sanctions under being eased. report due later yesterday that a landmark nuclear deal. A spokeswoman for Spain’s will indicate supply-demand Iran’s crude exports were a reg- Compania Espanola de Petroleos for US crude. The American ular fixture for European refin- (CEPSA) said “Iranian crude has Petroleum Institute’s report for eries before Western sanctions largely been part of our supply last week will land ahead of offi- were imposed on the key Opec and we maintained a long com- cial crude inventory data due producer in 2012 over its nuclear mercial relationship with them.” today from the US government. programme, halving its exports “If sanctions are lifted, as it Benchmark Brent crude to just over one million barrels seems, Iranian crudes will defini- futures were down 17 cents, or per day. tively be again another alterna- 0.3 percent, at $57.68 a barrel “Iran has been a long standing tive to consider,” CEPSA said in Iranian and Russian workers inside the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran. Foreign ministers from six world by 10.15am EDT (1415 GMT). It valued partner ... We are looking a statement. powers and Iran finally achieved a historic deal with Iran yesterday. had plumbed a low of $56.43 after forward to Iran coming back to A spokesman for Saras said news of the Iran nuclear deal. the market,” said a spokesman for the independent refiner “would US crude futures were up 13 Greece’s biggest refiner Hellenic be delighted if Iranian oil comes cents at $52.33 per barrel after Petroleum , stressing that they back to the market, as its quality Peugeot plans expanded Iran venture declining earlier to $50.38. will not buy any crude before is very interesting for complex “The market was short going sanctions are officially lifted. and flexible refineries like ours”. PARIS: PSA Peugeot Citroen Peugeot, the leading foreign models to Iran Khodro in 2012 into the Iran agreement but the “The volumes of crude oil that Asian buyers, notably China, is in advanced talks over an player in Iran until sanctions under pressure from then share- bears did not get the selloff they will re-enter the Mediterranean India and Japan, have continued Iranian carmaking venture were imposed in 2011, will face holder General Motors, which were hoping, so we’re going back market will ease prices and give to buy limited volumes of Iranian with historic partner Iran tougher competition on a mar- has since sold its seven percent up,” said Scott Shelton, commodi- more options for refiners in the crude in recent years. Khodro and expects rapid ket where Chinese rivals have stake. ties specialist and crude broker region,” he added. “Two to three months from progress following the diplo- since gained a firmer foothold. But the Iranian partner soon with ICAP in Durham, North Though there were no details now, you will probably see some matic breakthrough lifting Domestic rival Renault also aims began sourcing through interme- Carolina. on how sanctions on oil will be Iranian crude coming to Europe sanctions against the country, to revive production of its no-frills diaries — effectively maintaining Under the nuclear deal, sanc- eased, Iranian officials indicated and Asia,” said Eshan Ul-Haq, the French company said. Logan sedan, known locally as the the French brand’s near-30 per- tions imposed by the United they would try to maximise crude senior market consultant with The deal struck between Iran Tondar. cent share of the promising Gulf States, European Union and exports to Europe and restore a KBC, which expects Iran’s export and western powers “should clear Other Western carmakers market. Some 350,000 Peugeot- United Nations would be lifted market share of over 40 percent to rise over that period by 300- the way for significant progress including Volkswagen and Ford badged vehicles were registered in exchange for curbs on Iran’s there. 400,000 bpd, of which 150,000 bpd in our discussions”, Peugeot have long been poised for re- in Iran last year, according to the nuclear programme. There were Analysts expect the deal could is expected to reach Europe. Africa and Middle East chief entry, industry insiders have French carmaker. no immediate details on how long see Iran increase its oil exports “It would mean cheaper crude Jean-Christophe Quemard told said, in anticipation of the detente The imminent lifting of finan- it would take for the sanctions to by up to 60 percent within a year. for Mediterranean refineries, Reuters on Tuesday in an emailed finally announced yesterday. Both cial sanctions “will reopen the come off, although analysts did not Additional volumes of crude especially smaller countries that response. companies reiterated yesterday normal parts supply chain”, expect them to happen right away. would only pile pressure on a have been impacted by economic Unlike their existing partner- that they have no current busi- allowing Peugeot once again to “Even with a historic deal, market already facing a large problems — like Greece,” Ul Haq ship, under which Iran Khodro ness in Iran. book those sales, Quemard said on oil from Iran will take time to oversupply. For refiners, however, said. re-assembles older Peugeot mod- Under the breakthrough deal, Tuesday. The planned manufac- return, and will not be before next cheaper feedstock means higher Royal Dutch Shell, whose offi- els made in European plants, the which followed marathon talks turing venture would also serve year, most likely the second half of profit. cials recently held talks in Tehran new venture would manufac- in Vienna, Tehran has agreed to export markets, he added. 2016,” Amrita Sen, chief oil ana- Iranian crude accounted for on future cooperation and the ture cars from scratch using curb its nuclear programme in While discussions are in lyst at London-based consultancy around one quarter of Hellenic’s repayment of the Anglo-Dutch the French group’s latest vehi- return for the lifting of interna- progress with other potential Energy Aspects, told Reuters. crude oil intake before 2012, and company’s $2bn debt said yes- cle architectures and engines, tional sanctions that have crip- Iranian partners, talks are “most Sanctions have almost halved just like many Mediterranean terday it was interested in doing Quemard said. pled its economy. advanced with Iran Khodro”, a Iranian oil exports, to just over refiners, it is geared up for Iranian business in Iran. “This project will deliver a gen- Peugeot stopped supplying company spokesman said. one million barrels per day (bpd). crude. 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Anti-labour code strike Pinterest a catalogue of ideas: CEO

ASPEN, United States: than a social network.” Pinterest Silbermann said Pinterest — Pinterest is not a social net- has become one of the Internet’s which sometimes calls itself a work but a “catalogue of ideas” hottest websites, particularly “visual bookmarking tool” — helps to help people discover and among women, by giving people people with important personal try new things in their lives, virtual bulletin boards that they choices. “These are some of the founder and chief executive Ben can decorate with pictures show- most important and personal Silbermann says. casing interests in anything from decisions people make—what am Silbermann said that the com- food to sports, to fashion or travel. I going to eat, what’s my home pany — now valued at $11bn after Pinterest is making interna- going to look like, where am I its latest funding — is fundamen- tional growth its top priority, going to travel. I think people tally different from social net- Silbermann said, noting that struggle to have good tools to works which try to bring users some 40 percent of its users are make those decisions. They still together. “We’ve always thought now outside the United States. flip through catalogs, they look of Pinterest as a catalogue of But he also said there are at billboards.” ideas,” he told the Fortune no immediate plans for public Pinterest has not talked about Brainstorm Tech conference in stock offering and that the San its user base or revenues. Aspen, Colorado. Francisco company is focused on The company recently began “There are recipes to cook, growing its base and building rev- getting advertising revenue in there are products to buy, there enues, mainly around advertising. the form of “promoted pins” and are places to visit. And we figure “We don’t have any short-term it created a “buy button” which, our job is taking this huge cata- plans to go public,” Silbermann like those launched by Facebook logue of ideas — there are 50 bil- said. “Our inspiration is to build and Twitter, allow users to buy Kyrgyz people hold a banner reading ‘I am against slave labour code’ during a rally in the central square of lion pins — and to show you the a product that people love... and things they see without leaving Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, yesterday. Kyrgyz trade unions held a rally against the deterioration of the labour legislation. right ones at the right time. And to build a business model that can those services. I think that’s a different thing support that.” AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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TORONTO: Canada’s remark- able start to the Pan American Games continued on Monday A star is born as while Cuban kayaker Jorge Garcia brought his gold medal haul to three and Mexico show- cased their diving prowess. Saraiva wins bronze Colombia also enjoyed more success in roller speed skating TORONTO: Brazilian pixie during the third day of competi- Flavia Lopes Saraiva charmed tion at the two-week multi-sport the crowd on the way to win- event featuring countries from ning a bronze medal in the across Latin America, South artistic gymnastics women’s all- America, the Caribbean and around competition at the Pan North America. American Games on Monday. But it was hosts Canada that Packing 70lbs (31kg) of pure again commanded the spotlight charisma into a muscular 4-foot, with a 17-medal day that included 3-inches (133 cm) frame, Saraiva two golds in rowing and one each enchanted the sold-out arena in women’s all around gymnas- with her playful performance tics, canoeing, diving, shooting that also marked the 15-year-old and judo. as a possible breakout star at next With 17 gold, 14 silver and 10 year’s Rio Olympics. bronze, Canada, who set an ambi- “How can she not be a crowd tious goal of a top-two finish, lead favourite, she is so cute,” smiled all nations in both gold and overall Rhonda Faehn, the senior vice medals. president of the women’s pro- The United States, who have gram for US Gymnastics. “And dominated the Pan Am medal she’s very talented.” table at every Games since Along with a golden personality 1955, are second with 36 medals there is huge medal potential in (12 gold), followed by Cuba and the tiny Brazilian. Colombia who each have 10 gold Saraiva established her creden- Flavia Lopes Saraiva of Brazil medals and 26 in total. tials at the 2014 Nanjing Summer stands on the podium after Gymnast Ellie Black won the Youth Olympic Games where she winning the bronze medal in most unlikely gold medal of the took gold in the floor exercise and the women’s all-around artistic day for the hosts as she overtook silver in beam and all-around. gymnastics final on day three of American Madison Desch to win A bronze behind gold medal- the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Canada’s first gymnastics gold list Ellie Black of Canada and in Toronto on Monday. medal at the 2015 Games. American Madison Desch in Black’s triumph was a blow to Toronto on Monday was another floor exercise, the crowd now eat- a US team that had topped the small step towards Rio but the ing out of her hand and clapping podium in every artistic gym- Pan Am competitions lack the along to her routine. nastics competition in Toronto, presence of gymnastics pow- “I don’t believe everything including the men’s all around Ellie Black of Canada competes on the balance beam during the women’s all-around artistic gymnastics final ers like Russia, China and top that has happened,” said Saraiva, title earlier on Monday. on day three of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto on Monday. Americans, and it will be a much clutching a Toronto Pan Am “To come here in front of the tougher leap to land on the Games stuffed mascot, while home crowd, to be able to hit my of the July 10-26 Games to earn scooping up a bronze in the wom- won silver in the men’s 10,000m podium in Brazil. speaking through an interpreter. best competition, I think ever, is three gold medals after winning en’s synchronised 10m platform. points final. After a wobble on the uneven “Everybody is talking to me, eve- unreal,” said Black. “This is prob- the K1 and K2 1000m events. Colombia captured gold in two “Persistence and never give up bars, Saraiva finished with a smile rybody is looking. ably one of the best for me, I can’t Mexico, who won three of four of the day’s four roller speed skat- is my motto,” said Montoya Rios, and cheery wave to the crowd “When people clap and scream even believe it.” diving events contested over the ing events as Pedro Causil and who also won the women’s 200m that brought more applause. it makes me happy. Garcia, who helped power Cuba weekend, captured the gold medal Hellen Andrea Montoya Rios time trial. She then picked up a back- “My coach said to me be calm, to victory in Sunday’s men’s K4 in men’s and women’s three metre won their respective 500m finals “I am 100 per cent dedicated to pack that she could have camped be relaxed, don’t cry, don’t be shy 1000m, became the first athlete springboard on Monday while also while Juan Sebastien Sanz Neira this sport.” REUTERS out in and made her way to the stay happy.” REUTERS

Reds slugger Lawsuit seeks Frazier wins Excited Lin hopes to reach safety nets to Home Run Derby full potential with Hornets CINCINNATI: Cincinnati Reds slugger Todd Frazier CHARLOTTE: Jeremy Lin Golden State signed 32-year-old defeated Los Angeles Dodgers (pictured), the NBA’s first Brazilian guard Leandro Barbosa, protect MLB fans centerfielder Joc Pederson 15-14 Chinese-American player, a 12-year NBA veteran with in the final Monday to win the joined the Charlotte Hornets career averages of 11.4 points, 2.1 SAN FRANCISCO: A federal Major League Baseball Home on Monday, saying the Michael rebounds and 2.3 assists. lawsuit filed Monday in San Run Derby. Jordan-owned club would allow Denver signed guard Jameer Francisco wants Major League Taking batting practice-style him to maximize his potential as Nelson to a three-year deal worth Baseball to install protective pitches from his brother Charlie, a player. $13.5m while the Los Angeles netting down the baselines to the Reds’ third baseman blasted The 26-year-old guard inspired Clippers signed guard Austin protect spectators from hard- the deciding homer over the left- “Linsanity” in 2012 when he came Rivers, the 22-year-old son of hit foul balls and broken bats. field fence in the annual show- off the bench to spark a win coach Doc Rivers, and center Cole The nationwide class action down of sluggers. streak by the injury-riddled New Aldrich. lawsuit filed in US District Cheers erupted from the crowd York Knicks, but admitted that Kanter stays with Thunder, Court wants major league com- of home supporters at the Great “New York seems like a decade Bargnani goes to Nets missioner Rob Manfred to have American Ballpark as Frazier ago, honestly.” Turkish center Enes Kanter the safety netting, typically used became the first hometown player Lin, whose ancestry is from will be staying with the Oklahoma only directly behind home plate, to win the homer contest in a Taiwan and China, spent two City Thunder next season while extended between each foul pole quarter century. seasons with Houston after the Italy’s Andrea Bargnani will join to safeguard ticket buyers at all In this file picture taken on April “I’m glad it came here so they Knicks and last season with the the Brooklyn Nets under terms of major league and developmental 19, 2013, Toronto Blue Jays fans could enjoy it with me,” Frazier Los Angeles Lakers before joining NBA free agent deals. ballparks by the start of the 2016 try to catch a foul ball along said. the Hornets last week in a free The Thunder matched a four- season. the first base line at the Rogers Frazier became the first host agent deal worth $4.3m over two Lin had the chance to learn year offer from the Portland The filing also wants a study of Centre in Ontario. player to win the slugging con- years. from star guards Kobe Bryant Trail Blazers worth $70m to keep spectators injuries to continually test since Ryne Sandberg of the “Very excited. Can’t wait to get and Steve Nash and he did realize Kanter while Bargnani reportedly re-evaluate what safety measures MLB’s duty to baseball’s most Chicago Cubs in 1990. going. I just felt like this is going “there’s another level I need to get has a $1.4m deal with a player need to be taken, according to dedicated.” The homer-hitting skills con- to be a great fit for me.” Lin said. to, to be detail oriented, studying option for a second season. Seattle law firm Hagens Berman, The lawsuit says that while test came on the eve of the Major “What I bring to the table is what the game.” Kanter, the third overall pick which is handling the case. Manfred has done nothing to League Baseball All-Star Game at i think this team needs.” Lin averaged 11.2 points and 4.6 in the 2011 NBA Draft, averaged “It is time for the commissioner protect spectators, he has pro- the same venue. Lin and Hornets coach Steve assists for the Lakers last season 18.7 points and 11 rebounds for the to take action, to protect spec- moted ballparks as safe and fam- Frazier had lost in last year’s Clifford described a versatile, and over five NBA campaigns Thunder last season after being tators sitting between the foul ily friendly even as elderly and contest, inspiring him for this attacking role for Lin, a play- has averaged 11.7 points and 4.8 traded in February from Utah. lines along first and third base, child fans are at most risk from year. maker spot that would keep him assists a game. He joins a team “We traded for Enes last season where fans are suffering serious a high-velocity ball fouled into the “It pushed me a lot,” Frazier aggressive and creating shot that was last in the NBA last sea- with the intention of keeping him and entirely preventable injury,” stands. said. “I worked a lot in the opportunities for himself and son in three-point baskets. as a member of the Thunder for said Steve Berman, the managing “What’s more alarming is that off-season.” teammates. “We’re very fortunate to add several years to come, and we are partner of Hagens Berman. MLB players — who know the Los Angeles Angels’ 35-year- “I do believe I’m a more refined, Jeremy, because he’s able to hit excited that he will continue with The complaint accuses Manfred risks of baseball better than any- old first baseman Albert Pujols all-around player. I think the the 3-point shots but also because us,” Thunder general manager of failing to adequately protect one — have demanded since 2007 blasted a homer as time expired work Ive put in has made me bet- he’s a playmaker,” Clifford said. Sam Presti said. “He adds valu- spectators against foul ball and that safety netting at MLB fields to edge Chicago Cubs third base- ter. I just don’t think I’ve had the “He has the ability to create able depth to our roster, diversity bat injuries due to negligence, be expanded to protect near the man Kris Bryant 10-9 in the same fit or opportunity,” Lin said. opportunities for his teammates.” to our front court and the dimen- misrepresentations and omissions foul ball lines, something that the opening round of the eight-man “I want to see how close I can Other NBA free agent deals sion that he brings offensively will to fans. commissioner failed to disclose to knockout event. get to reaching my full potential. were settled Monday with positively impact our team.” Legal action comes after a the public,” Berman said. That sent Pujols against It takes a lot of work on my end Memphis re-signing Spanish Kanter has NBA career woman struck by a broken bat The situation recalls the Pederson, a 13-12 winner over and also finding the right situa- center Marc Gasol to a multi-year averages of 10.2 points and 6.4 suffered life-threatening inju- National Hockey League’s actions Baltimore third baseman Manny tion. I think this is a huge step in deal after he averaged a career- rebounds a game. ries during a game last month after the only fan fatality in Machado in another first-round the right direction. high 17.4 points last season along The Trail Blazers have lost All- at Boston’s Fenway Park, where league history. Brittanie Cecil matchup. “I don’t know what my limit is. with 7.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and Star center LaMarcus Aldridge another woman hit by a foul ball died two days before her 14th Frazier ousted Texas desig- I don’t know how good I can be. 1.62 blocked shots a game. to San Antonio and guard Wes last Friday required more than birthday from injuries after a nated hitter Prince Fielder, the But I want to find out.” “For many years, Marc has Matthews to Dallas in free agency. 40 stitches. puck deflected into the stands and 2009 and 2012 derby winner, While the Hornets went been a pillar of our franchise and Former New York Knicks “The MLB currently gener- struck her in the head at a game by 14-13 while Toronto’s Josh 33-49 last season, Lin and the in a Memphis community that standout Bargnani, 29, missed ates $9bn in revenue annually,” in Columbus, Ohio, in March of Donaldson downed Chicago Cubs Lakers were a miserable 21-61. has watched him become one of much of last season with calf and Berman said. “We think that ask- 2002. Mandatory netting to pro- first baseman Anthony Rizzo 9-8 “Spiritually it was very challeng- the best basketball players in the hamstring injuries. The top over- ing the league and commissioner tect spectators behind either end in the opening round. In the semi- ing, trying to maintain the right world, so this is a great day for all pick by Toronto in the 2006 to be responsible for increased of all NHL rinks was mandated finals, Frazier edged Donaldson attitude every single day,” Lin our team,” Grizzlies general man- draft averaged 14.8 points and 4.4 netting and basic protection for by the start of the 2002-03 NHL 10-9 and Pederson beat Pujols said. “Going through things like ager Chris Wallace said. rebounds over 29 games with the the fans who fill the seats is the season. AFP 12-11. REUTERS that let me see what I’m made of.” Reigning NBA champion Knicks. AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT There’s life in me yet, says Woods ST ANDREWS, UK: Tiger key to helping him return to Woods says that age and inju- former glories. ries have failed to diminish his It’s his favourite course any- will to win and that more major where and if there is one place titles are still possible as he that can inspire him to revive approaches his 40th birthday. his flagging fortunes - along- Speaking Tuesday ahead of his side Augusta National - it is St fifth British Open at St Andrews, Andrews. the former world number one He knows the Old Course like spoke of recent hard times and the back of his hand, having won the increasingly distant good his first Open title there by eight times in his golf career. strokes in 2000 and then again, Questioned at his pre-tour- by five strokes, in 2005. nament press conference if he “You know, obviously it’s the had ever harboured thoughts Home of Golf, we all know that. of retirement during his bleak But to me it’s brilliant, how you spell this year, Woods shot back: can play it so many different “Well, retirement? I don’t have ways,” he said. any AARP (retirement) card “I’ve always wanted to play it yet, so I’m a ways from that. one time -- before I die I want “I feel like my body is finally to play it one time backwards. healed up from the (back) sur- I’d love to be able to play it that gery from last year. way, just one time. I think that “You know, they say it takes would be just a blast.” you about four-to-six months to Despite his innate knowl- get back, but I’ve heard a lot of edge of the course, Woods was guys on tour who have had the one of the first golfers to arrive surgery and other athletes say at St Andrews, teeing off last it takes over a year to get back. Saturday for the first time since “I think they were there prob- he tied for 23rd place in 2010. ably closer to being right, it being He was surprised at what he a full year to get back.” found. Woods feels that time is on his “It’s playing a little bit differ- side as he continues his quest to ently than we’ve had in previ- US golfer Jordan Spieth watches his drive from the fourth tee during a practice round on the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland yesterday, ahead add to the 14 major title wins he ous Opens, or the previous Opens of the 2015 Open Golf Championship, which starts on Friday. has and close the gap on the all- that I’ve played in,” he said. time record of 18 held by Jack “It’s a little bit softer and Nicklaus. I’m sure it’s going to get even But his last win in a Grand softer with the forecast (rain) Slam event came over seven for Friday. It’ll be playing a little years ago at the US Open, his bit differently this year.” last win in a British Open was at “The only time I’ve ever seen it Hoylake at 2006 and his last at like this was when we played the Spieth on learning St Andrews was in 2005. Dunhill Cup in ‘98. It was cold Injuries and changes to his and soft then, and it’s obviously swing pattern have dominated not as cold now, but it’s playing his game for the last two years about the same type of firmness. reaching a nadir this year when It’s just not quite chasing.” he clocked up career-worst Woods has a mid-morning tee- scores on the PGA Tour and in time on Thursday going out in curve at St Andrews the US Open, where he missed the company of 2010 champion the cut, and a best finish of tied at St Andrews Louis Oosthuizen 17th in the Masters. of South Africa and Australian But St Andrews and the Old shotmaker Jason Day. AFP Britain’s Justin Rose hoping for better luck with the draw Course could, he feels, hold the

ST ANDREWS, UK: Jordan He was back again yesterday different shots, shaping shots Justin Rose, the top-ranking Spieth continued his crash afternoon, stepping out for 18 completely differently from one British player in the draw has course on playing links golf at holes with Ryan Palmer and Texan day to the next on the same hole, struggled to challenge in recent St Andrews yesterday, with two amateur Oliver Schiederjans, who it does help seeing the golf course Opens and he feels part of that days left till the start of the is a month older then him. under different winds.” has been due to back luck in the 144th British Open. Meanwhile, the debate over his Woods was one of the first play- draw. Standing halfway to an unprec- “formula” for playing major golf ers to arrive at the course and “The draw is a funny edented calendar year Grand raged, with some believing he may played his first practice round on thing, especially at an Open Slam of all four golf majors after have blown his chances of making Saturday saying he was surprised Championship,” he said. wins in the Masters and US Open, it three majors in a row, and oth- to find out how soft and receptive “It can make things lopsided, the 21-year-old Texan raised more ers saying he was best to follow the greens and fairways were. especially on golf courses where than a few eyebrows by playing, his own instincts. “It’s playing a little bit differ- you’ve got out and back in. If and winning, a tournament in the Woods, twice a winner at St ently than we’ve had in previous the wind switches at a certain United States in the week prior Andrews, in 2000 and 2005, has Opens, or the previous Opens that time you can play a course into to The Open. his doubts that Spieth has chosen I’ve played in,” he said. the wind all day versus the guys And that despite the fact of correctly by depending on a golf “It’s a little bit softer and I’m who played it downwind the whole only ever having played the Old simulator to get acquainted with sure it’s going to get even softer day. Course once, four years ago before the course. with the forecast (rain) for “You just hope over the course representing his country in the “It’s about wind conditions. Friday. It’ll be playing a little bit of a career that evens itself out. amateur Walker Cup at Aberdeen. It’s about understanding how to differently this year.” But I’d say the last five years Spieth insists that at 21 he play the golf course under various The weather was on many I’ve been on the wrong side of knows what he is doing, but he did winds,” he said. minds with the forecast for some things, but I was looking forward admit to some fans of feeling “a “You can see the golf course on heavy rain and strong winds com- to maybe lady luck turning and little tired” after playing his sec- a simulator and it’s fantastic. I’ve ing in off the North Sea on Friday going my way this year, so we’ll USA’s Tiger Woods catches a ball during a practice round on the Old ond career round at St Andrews seen it. But playing in the differ- and Saturday set to play havoc see,” the top-ranking British Course at St Andrews in Scotland yesterday. on Monday afternoon. ent winds and having to hit the with yardage cards. player in the draw said. AFP Watson just wishes Fowler ready to step up at Open

ST ANDREWS, UK: Rickie he could go straight Fowler believes that Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are the new driving forces of golf Rickie ST ANDREWS, UK: There “It’s just I move it so much. and that he needs to step up Fowler of are few more spectacular sights At certain golf tournaments I’ve to the mark if he wants to join the US signs in golf than standing behind got to figure out how to hit it them. autographs American Bubba Watson straighter. For me it is harder to Northern Irishman McIlroy is following launching one of his 320-yard hit the straight shots because I 26 and five months younger than his practice sidewinders off a tee, apparently don’t see the straight shots.” Fowler, while Spieth is just 21. round ahead in the wrong direction. But Watson, who mastered Between them they have won six of the British Self-taught double Masters Augusta in 2012 and 2014, a mani- majors — four to McIlroy and two Open golf champion Watson moves a golf cured course a million miles away to Speith — and they currently ball like few others have managed, from the wild dips and hollows, own all four Grand Slam titles championship often sending drives miles left or card-wrecking bunkers and teas- between them. on the Old right before the spin he generates ing winds which are expected to Fowler has none of the above Course in yanks the ball back on line. blow hard this week on the Fife despite being touted as the top St Andrews, It is a unique style that coast, is not being defeatist, just American hope for the future Scotland, has made him a rich man but realistic. until Spieth exploded onto the yesterday. Watson acknowledges that “going While his Open record is medi- scene by winning this year’s straight” might be the only way to ocre — he has missed three cuts Masters and US Open. conquer St Andrews and win the and his best finish was 23rd in Asked Tuesday ahead of the British Open this weekend just as 2012 — the 36-year-old is relish- British Open at St Andrews hard and focus on what I need to went on to have a great week at weather conditions that are a Louis Oosthuizen did at the home ing the challenge of figuring it out. what he intended to do about it, do and take care of my business.” The Open,” he said. hallmark of Open golf having cast of golf in 2010. “Lucky for me that we don’t Fowler replied: “I mean, a good Take care of business Fowler “This year I wanted to get back an eye over five-time Open winner “I just move it a lot,” Watson, play every course like this, so I start would be to become a major did last week when he won the over here, get some swings on Tom Watson during some squalls who missed the cut by one stroke have a chance to perform at a champion, and that’s something Scottish Open at Gullane down links golf, ultimately be in con- at Royal St Georges in 2011. five years ago on his first St high level somewhere else,” he that I’ve always dreamed of and the coast from St Andrews. tention, and get the juices ready “The thing that helped me a Andrews Open, told reporters said. “But it’s a challenge for me have wanted to accomplish. It was the fourth tournament for this week. little bit was Joe, my caddie, saw after practice yesterday. because it’s trying to figure out “You know, the way obviously win of his pro career and the “I think we did a good job of Tom Watson go out and it looked “It’s not because I want to. I the right spots. But you know, it’s Jordan has been playing, amaz- manner of his victory, grabbing that. I had a lot of fun on Sunday like he was out there having fun want to be like the greats of the a beautiful place. It’s the home of ing golf, and Rory has been doing three birdies in the last four holes, with the way I closed and ulti- and kind of soaking it in and try- game, hit the ball dead straight, I golf; how would you not want to that for quite some time. I do have including a 109-yard wedge to 18 mately being able to win the ing to make the best of it, because just can’t do it. I’ve never tried to be here? I come over here because some work to do.” inches at the last has boosted con- tournament. there’s probably some guys in the do it and I don’t want to change I love it. I love this kind of golf. “I need to continue winning. I fidence that his time has come. “The game feels very good right field that may look down on it and my game. I’m doing okay right It’s a challenge. I only missed the think that’s the biggest thing, and “Yeah, playing last week at now, and I’m very comfortable on may think it’s going to be harder now. I’m getting to play The Open cut by one a few years ago here putting myself in positions to win. the Scottish Open, I felt like last links golf.” than it should be, and I try to just Championship, so my moving the (2010). It’s not like I’m trying to I can’t worry about them or other year was great preparation, had Fowler also said that he had go out and have fun with it. ball is doing okay. search for my game.” REUTERS players, just got to keep working a good finish there, as well, and learned to cope with the variable AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

‘Proud’ Tour leader demands Froome crushes rivals on ‘respect’ LA PIERRE-SAINT MARTIN, France: Chris Froome said he deserves more “respect” after fielding a bar- rage of questions about doping first Tour mountain test following his latest scintillating Tour de France victory. But the Team Sky leader com- plained that he doesn’t know It was a dream day for us, says 30-year-old Briton after scorching win what to do to silence the doubters accusing him of cheating. LA PIERRE-SAINT The 2013 Tour de France MARTIN, France: Chris champion stamped his authority Froome savagely ripped the on this year’s race with another heart out of his Tour de France dominant victory on Tuesday’s competition yesterday by 10th stage summit finish in the streaking to victory on the first Pyrenees. mountain stage of this year’s But once again many looked on race. incredulously at yet another sen- The 30-year-old Briton, who sational performance. started the day in yellow, blitzed “What haven’t I done? I’ve tried one rival after another before to be as much of a spokesman as coming home alone at the end of I can for clean cycling,” said the the 167km 10th stage from Tarbes 30-year-old Briton. to la Pierre-Saint Martin. “I’ve spoken to CIRC (Cycling “It was a dream day for us so Independent Reform Commission hopefully we can set into that -- a body tasked with investigat- defensive way we’re riding and ing doping), I’ve made suggestions keep the jersey,” said an elated to the governing bodies such as Froome. night-time testing; I’ve spoken “It’s certainly not over, there’s a out when I thought, such as in long way to Paris and as you can Tenerife, that there isn’t enough see in bike racing things change testing. very quickly.” “What else is a clean rider sup- The Sky team leader made his posed to do?” attack with a little over 6km left Froome had to face the same on the brutal 15km climb to the accusations after two domi- finish. nant performances during his At that point, reigning cham- 2013 Tour victory when he rode pion Vincenzo Nibali had already off into the distance on the Ax been dropped and two-time 3 Domaines and Mont Ventoux former winner Alberto Contador summit finishes. was struggling. Back then he complained to the They came home respectively media that they were spoiling the 21st at 4min 27sec and 11th at greatest victories of his career. 2min 51sec to see their overall But he says he’s not letting the title hopes shredded. bad press get to him. “I felt good but today I wasn’t “It’s not difficult for me to stay even the little brother of last cool; it would be a different story year’s Nibali,” said the Italian if I had something to hide,” said champion. Team Sky rider Chris Froome of Britain celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 167km 10th stage of the 102nd Tour de France race, at La the Kenyan-born athlete. Contador added: “It was a ter- Pierre-Saint -Martin, France, yesterday. “I know I’m a clean rider, I’ve rible day and Froome rode off to worked extremely hard to be in demonstrate his authority.” Quintana, and American Tejay managed to limit their losses. Fedrigo and Kenneth Van Bilsen But incredibly it was Nibali this position and I’m very proud Only Colombian climber Nairo Van Garderen to a certain extent, Quintana finished third on the built up a 15-minute lead on the next to crack more than 10km of that. stage at 1min 04sec, suffering the peloton. out from the finish. “It doesn’t make me angry, I insult of Froome’s domestique But by the time they reached Spaniard Rafael Valls had set know where the questions are Tour de France Stage 10 Results Richie Porte beating him to the the foot of the final climb to the off after Geesink and the two coming from, I know the history 1. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) ...... 4:22:07” line for second place to deny him summit finish, their lead was formed a tandem at the front of the Tour and the people that 2. Richie Porte (Australia/Team Sky) ...... +59” a pair of bonus seconds. down to just 2min 30sec, and their with a 30sec lead. have gone before me. 3. Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) ...... +1:04” The Colombian moved up to time in the sun was almost up. Joaquim Rodriguez, the winner “But at the same time there 4. Robert Gesink (Netherlands/LottoNL)...... +1:33” third overall, though he’s now Several of the favourites’ teams on the stage three Mur de Huy needs to be a level of respect. I’ve 3min 09sec behind Froome, albeit pushed the pace as their leaders climb, and last year’s king of the worked extremely hard to be here 5. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) ...... +2:01” with several mountain stages to fought to start the climb at the mountains Rafal Majka were the and I’m not going to let anyone 6. Geraint Thomas (Britain/Team Sky) come. front of the peloton. next to be dropped. take that away from me.” 7. Adam Yates (Britain/Orica) ...... +2:04” “I’m calm, I feel good but my Van Bilsen gave up the ghost Sky took up the pace-set- Froome had awoken to the 8. Pierre Rolland (France/Europcar) rival was stronger then me today, 13km from the end while Fedrigo ting but Quintana’s teammate news that Sky believe their com- 9. Tony Gallopin (France/Lotto) ...... +2:22” that’s clear,” said Quintana. lasted another 1.5km before the Alejandro Valverde attacked and puters had been hacked and his “But I’m calm because my legs battle for the stage victory over- the reaction from Froome’s team training data stolen. 10. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) ...... +2:30” feel good.” took him. reeled in Valls as only a dozen rid- His team manager Dave Overall Standings Van Garderen rode a solid race By that point the peloton had ers were left in the yellow jersey Brailsford speculated that it had 1. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) ...... 35hr 56min 09sec to come home 10th at 2min 30sec been shredded under the pace set group. been done to try to prove Froome 2. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) ...... at 2min 52sec and hold onto second overall at by Quintana’s Movistar team to Porte took over pace-setting is using doping substances. 3. Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) ...... 3:09 2min 52sec. just 25 riders. and Contador was next to feel the But the Tour yellow jersey But it was a miserable day for But already for the hosts it pace and drop off, with Valverde wearer said it would be a futile 4. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) ...... 4:01 French hopes on what was their made miserable viewig as Peraud, following shortly afterwards. effort. 5. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) ...... 4:03 national holiday ‘Bastille Day’ runner-up to Nibali in 2014, Pinot, Van Garderen also cracked as “That’s nuts, especially seeing 6. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) ...... 4:04 Jean-Christophe Peraud, Thibaut third last year, and Bardet, sixth Geesink was caught, leaving only as the data in question is over two 7. Tony Gallopin (FRA/LOT) ...... 4:33 Pinot and Romain Bardet who 12 months ago, were amongst the Froome and Quintana in Porte’s years old anyway. We’re focused 8. Robert Gesink (NED/LNL) ...... 4:35 were dropped on the lower slopes debris. wheel. on the race and nothing’s going of the final climb. As Fedrigo was caught, But when Froome launched his to deter us from that; we’ve got a 9. Warren Barguil (FRA/GIA) ...... 6:12 In the first half of the race, a Dutchman Robert Geesink coun- decisive attack, he dealt a crush- job to do here and that starts for 10. Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) ...... 6:57 two-man breakaway of Pierrick ter-attacked alone. ing blow to his rivals. AFP (Wednesday’s) stage.” AFP Sterling joins Man City for record fee MLS players snipe at

LONDON: Manchester City Carroll in 2011. made Raheem Sterling the most Sterling endured an acrimoni- Gerrard and Lampard expensive English player in his- ous end to his career at Liverpool tory when they completed a after making 129 appearances and deal for the 20-year-old forward scoring 23 goals, having moved LOS ANGELES: Frank foreign acquisition, Italy mid- yesterday, rubber-stamping an to the Merseyside outfit from Lampard and Steven Gerrard’s field legend Andrea Pirlo. “No acrimonious end to his Liverpool Queens Park Rangers in 2010 as (pictured) selection for Major Pirlo??!!,” Irwin wrote. career. a 15-year-old. League Soccer’s All-Star Game Irwin’s team-mate Zac City paid £49m ($76.4m) for His relationship with Liverpool against Tottenham has been MacMath meanwhile suggested Sterling, according to media hit trouble in April as contract given short shrift by rank and selectors should cast their net reports, with the England inter- talks stalled and he gave an unau- file players throughout the even wider: “I heard Neymar is in national signing a five-year con- thorised interview to the BBC, league. Vegas ... Quick flight to Denver.” tract at the Etihad Stadium. denying being a “money-grabber” Gerrard and Lampard were Sporting Kansas City defender The pacy winger will fly out to and claiming he was motivated both named to the All-Star squad Ike Opara meanwhile snarked join his new team mates, who are purely by ambition. despite neither having yet kicked that perhaps Gerrard and on a pre-season tour in Australia. His outspoken agent Aidy Ward a ball in league competition for Lampard had been selected on the “Raheem Sterling is one of the then angered the club and its their respective clubs, the basis of their perform- best attacking players in world supporters in May by saying the Los Angeles Galaxy and ances in training. football, and I am very much England player would not sign a New York City FC. “Hahahahahhahaha @ looking forward to him joining new deal at Anfield — even for But the selection of the thesoccerdon heard they our squad out in Australia later £900,000 ($1.40m) a week. New Manchester City former England stars as are killing it in training,” this week,” City manager Manuel With no City deal on the imme- signing Raheem Sterling two “Commissioner’s Opara quipped, referring Pellegrini said on the club website diate horizon, the issue came to a picks” by MLS chief Don to Garber’s Twitter han- poses with a club scarf (www.mcfc.com). head last week as the player did Garber drew a withering dle, @thesoccerdon. as he leaves the club’s “He is a young player with out- not fly out with Liverpool for their response from several Former Liverpool and standing ability, and I am sure the pre-season tour despite being Etihad Stadium in players on social media. England captain Gerrard Manchester City fans will be very named in the squad. Manchester yesterday. “And now for my next is expected to make his excited about seeing him in action Liverpool, however, showed no trick I’ll pull these two Galaxy league debut for the team.” bitterness in a short statement names out of my ‘Commissioners later this week after playing 45 Abu Dhabi-owned City did not confirming his departure on their Pick’ hat.. Drumroll please,” minutes of an exhibition game confirm the transfer fee but said website. tweeted Seattle Sounders mid- against Club America of Mexico it was a record for the club. “Liverpool Football Club fielder Brad Evans, citing the on Saturday. The fee is also higher than the can confirm Raheem Sterling hashtag “#minutesdontmatter”. Chelsea legend Lampard was previous record for an English has completed a transfer to Colorado Rapids goalkeeper due to make his debut for New player, surpassing the 35 million Manchester City,” the club said. Clint Irwin reacted by suggest- York on Sunday but withdrew pounds Liverpool paid Newcastle “Liverpool FC wishes Raheem ing that league chiefs should have after picking up an injury in United for target man Andy well.” REUTERS included New York City’s latest training. AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Turmoil as CSK, RR are banned A Supreme Court-appointed panel announces decision after IPL betting scandal

NEW DELHI: Cricket’s Indian Chennai franchise owner and the financial consequences for the Premier League was thrown current boss of the International glitzy Twenty20 league which into turmoil yesterday when Cricket Council -- for life from draws some of the biggest names a Supreme Court-appointed cricket-related activities. in world cricket and raises ques- panel suspended two of the And a similar punishment was tions over the future of the two Chairman of eight teams after officials were handed down to Raj Kundra, co- franchises which are both former the Indian found guilty of illegally betting owner of the Rajasthan team and champions. Supreme on matches. husband of Bollywood actress It was not immediately clear Court Justice India’s board said it would Shilpa Shetty. whether the two franchises can be Rajendra respect the verdict and pledged “Their conduct has affected sold, thus allowing the cricketers Mal Lodha to clean up cricket after the shock the image of the game, the play- to continue to be part of the IPL addresses decision to ban the Chennai Super ers and others associated with the which is overseen by the Board a press Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan tournament,” the panel’s chair- of Control for Cricket in India conference Royals for two years to protect man Rajendra Mal Lodha told (BCCI). in New “the integrity of the game.” reporters while announcing the Jagmohan Dalmiya, president CSK, led by India’s one-day verdict in the capital New Delhi. of the BCCI, said the board would Delhi, India, international captain Mahendra Asked about the financial losses give its full observations after yesterday. Singh Dhoni, and the Royals, of players, Lodha said: “We did reading the entire report but skippered by Australian star not consider financial losses to was “committed to honour and Steve Smith, had hoped to escape players and teams. That is not respect judicial decisions”. with heavy fines but the panel was significant. “The BCCI is committed to in no mood for leniency. “The integrity of the game is ensuring transparency, account- It also banned Gurunath what matters,” added Lodha who ability and cleansing the sport loving people in the glorious game “Many inaccuracies...Have Meiyappan -- the son-in-law of is a former chief justice. in order to restore the faith and of cricket in general and IPL in requested for a copy of the judge- Ganguly hopes Narayanaswami Srinivasan, the The outcome could have major confidence of millions of cricket particular,” Dalmiya added in a ment - obviously very shocked board statement. and disappointed... #Faith,” he IPL recovers Lodha said that “huge injury posted on Twitter. has been caused to the image of Cricinfo editor Sambit Bal from betting cricket which is a passion for mil- however hailed it as a “massive lions of people”. decision and positive one” on the “The purity of the game has micro-blogging website, saying scandal been affected. Fans feel cheated “the judges have done what the and doubts abound if the IPL is BCCI should have done long ago”. LONDON: Former India cap- clean.” The 2013 IPL season was tain Sourav Ganguly insisted it Lodha was appointed head of mired in controversy after was possible for the lucrative the sentencing panel in January police launched legal proceed- Indian Premier League to “get after the Supreme Court had ings against several officials and back on track” following a bet- found Kundra and Meiyappan three Rajasthan Royals players, ting scandal that saw two of its guilty of betting on the outcome including former Test fast bowler eight teams dramatically sus- of matches in 2013. Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, for pended yesterday. “Meiyappan was an integral illegal betting and spot-fixing. Ganguly, speaking following part of the team,” said Lodha. “By The IPL, which is broadcast a meeting of the MCC World regularly placing bets he acted around the world, is hugely popu- Cricket Committee on which he in gross violations of the rules lar in India with its mix of sport sits, told reporters at London’s of the game. He suffered a loss and showbiz, with a number of Lord’s Cricket Ground yesterday: of 6,000,000 rupees (more than teams fronted by big Bollywood “That’s the way it is. There was $94,700) in bets.” names. a committee appointed to decide The hugely popular Chennai But it has been continuously the punishment and they felt that Super Kis are the most success- dogged by corruption allegations was the way to go forward. ful team in the IPL, having won and on Monday Hiken Shah, a “It’s a Supreme Court judge- the tournament in 2010 and 2011. first-class player from Mumbai, ment, the highest authority in They finished runners-up in 2008, was suspended over an approach India.” 2012, 2013 and 2015. he made to an unnamed team- Ganguly who last played in the Rajasthan Royals won the inau- mate before this year’s tourna- IPL for the Pune Warriors against gural event in 2008 under the ment in April-May. CSK in 2012, added: “Obviously, captaincy of Australian spin leg- International news organisa- it’s not very good news for the In this photograph taken on March 5, 2012, Rajasthan Royals’ team owners Raj Kundra (left) and his wife Indian end Shane Warne, but have failed tions including Agence France- IPL. But I’ve always believed that Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty pose at the unveiling of the Rajasthan Royals’ jersey in Mumbai. RIGHT: In this to make the final since then. Presse have suspended on-field a few wrong things here and there photograph taken on May 12, 2012, Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (right) and CSK Royals’ co-owner Kundra coverage of matches hosted by the doesn’t mean the entire tourna- owner Gurunath Meiyappan attend the presentation ceremony during the IPL Twenty20 cricket match between expressed shock late Tuesday BCCI since 2012 after the board ment is bad. Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils at the M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. with the decision taken against imposed restrictions on picture “I hope the IPL recovers him. agencies. REUTERS because it is not just about the off-field issues, it’s the cricket as well which has attracted play- ers from all round the world and made T20 cricket into such a Wicketkeeper Haddin great platform,” the 43-year-old left-hander added. “Hopefully it will recover and hopefully we will get the IPL back Former on track.” ruled out of Lord’s Test The MCC World Cricket Australian Committee, whose chairman is captain and LONDON: Australia wicket- little part in Australia’s training inspire or over-awe players. But former England captain Mike three-time keeper Brad Haddin will miss session at Lord’s yesterday. for wicket-keepers there is a Brearley and whose mem- the second Ashes Test against His decision to withdraw from more practical problem because World Cup bers include two other former England at Lord’s starting the second Test is not the first of the way the ball can deviate winning star international skippers in Ricky tomorrow for “family reasons”, time Haddin has put his family alarmingly at Lord’s after pass- Ricky Ponting Ponting (Australia) and Shaun the team said yesterday. ahead of his cricket career. ing the bat. Haddin was not at is seen with Pollock (South Africa) met with His place in the side will be In 2012, Haddin took nearly his best during England’s 169-run retired Indian Srinivasan at Lord’s yesterday in taken by reserve gloveman Peter a year out of the game after his win in the first Test, dropping batting star the Indian administrator’s capac- Nevill, also Haddin’s New South then 17-month-old daughter Mia Joe Root on nought before the Sourav Ganguly ity as ICC chairman. Wales deputy, who will be making was diagnosed with neuroblast- Yorkshireman made 134. as the two But Ganguly said they had not his international debut. oma -- a rare form of cancer that The Australia wicket-keeper walk on the had an opportunity to question “I can confirm that Brad attacks children aged five years or had an outstanding series during pitch before Srinivasan about the IPL because Haddin has withdrawn himself younger. As his daughter’s condi- a 5-0 Ashes rout of England in nets in London the panel’s decision had not been from the second Test at Lord’s for tion improved, Haddin returned 2013/14, with five fifties -- includ- yesterday. made public by the time their family reasons,” said an Australia to international cricket during ing a top score of 118. meeting commenced. team spokeswoman. Australia’s losing 2013 Ashes tour Before Haddin’s absence “He wasn’t asked about this “He will remain with the team of England. from the match was confirmed, (the IPL), the meeting started at in London and we won’t be mak- Meanwhile the 29-year-old Australia fast-medium bowler 9:30am (0830 GMT) so we hadn’t ing any further comment. Nevill faces the prospect of mak- Peter Siddle said Tuesday that had the news by then, so there “Peter Nevill will replace him ing his Test debut at Lord’s. Nevill would be ready to take his was no discussion about this,” in the side.” All the history associated with Test chance if selected at Lord’s. Ganguly explained yesterday. The 37-year-old Haddin took the ‘home of cricket’ can either REUTERS AFP Gutsy India claim ODI series in Zimbabwe HARARE: Kedar Jadhav made Scoreboard Zimbabwe pay for a woeful dropped catch as his unbeaten INDIA C Chibhabha c Jadhav b Binny ...... 82 century powered India to an A Rahane c Utseya b Madziva ...... 15 R Chakabva b Patel ...... 27 India players 83-run victory in the third one- M Vijay c Mutumbami b Madziva ...... 13 E Chigumbura lbw Vijay ...... 10 celebrate their day international at Harare R Uthappa c Chigumbura b Masakadza ...... 31 R Mutumbami lbw Binny ...... 22 series victory Sports Club yesterday and a M Tiwary c&b Utseya...... 10 Sikandar Raza b Harbhajan Singh ...... 13 after the third series whitewash. M Pandey c Sikandar Raza b Chibhabha .....71 M Waller c Rahane b Binny ...... 5 and final game Jadhav was on 41 when Elton K Jadhav (not out) ...... 105 G Cremer c Rahane b Harbhajan Singh ...... 0 in a series of Chigumbura put down the sim- S Binny (not out) ...... 18 P Utseya c Uthappa b Sharma...... 0 3 ODI cricket plest of chances off the bowl- Extras (B-1, LB-1, W-10, NB-1) ...... 13 D Tiripano (not out) ...... 13 matches ing of Graeme Cremer, and the Total (for 5 wkts in 50 overs) ...... 276 N Madziva st Uthappa b Patel ...... 3 against hosts Indian batsman went on to score Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-33, 3-68, 4-82, Extras (W-10, NB-1) ...... 11 his maiden ton in just his fourth Zimbabwe 5-226. Total (all out in 42.4 overs) ...... 193 ODI as India posted 276 for five at Harare Did not bat: Harbhajan Singh, Axar Patel, Bhu- Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-86, 3-97, 4-150, after being put in to bat. vneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma. 5-160, 6-172, 7-172, 8-176, 9-176, 10-193. Sports Club Zimbabwe were bowled out for yesterday. Bowling: Tiripano 8-0-46-0; Madziva 9-0-59- Bowling: Kumar 6-1-12-0; Sharma 7-0-33-2; 193 in reply. 2; Chibhabha 8-0-55-1; Masakadza 10-0-31- Binny 10-1-55-3; Harbhajan Singh 10-0-35-2; The two teams will now take 1; Utseya 10-0-41-1; Cremer 5-0-42-0. Patel 6.4-0-39-2; Vijay 3-0-19-1. part in a two-match Twenty20 ZIMBABWE Result: India won by 83 runs. series that starts at the same H Masakadza lbw Sharma ...... 7 Series: India won the three-match series 3-0. ground on Friday. AFP WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Tevez returns a hero to Boca Juniors

BUENOS AIRES: Carlos which in 2015 increased to Tevez is set for a hero’s wel- 30 clubs, and are hoping to come as he returns to his first return to their glory years with club, Boca Juniors, after 11 Tevez, with whom they won their years in Europe and still in his last Copa Libertadores title in prime. 2003. In the past former Argentine “Carlitos, welcome home,” a stars have returned home in the banner near Boca’s Bonbonera twilight of their careers, but that Stadium reads. it not the case for Tevez who in Tevez played for his beloved the past decade has played for Boca from 2001 to 2004 before Manchester City, Manchester moving to Corinthians in Brazil. United and Juventus. From there he joined West “There’s no better day than Ham in England in 2006 and this one,” Tevez said. “This is my then played for Manchester home from start to finish. I’m in United before moving to rivals top condition physically as well Manchester City for more than as mentally.” $60m in 2009. At 31, he still has two or three He joined Juventus in 2013 good playing years ahead of him, after four seasons at City and and arrives after a season where last season was the Italian he scored 29 goals in Turin, league’s second top scorer earning a second Serie A title with 20 goals as Juventus won and a runners-up spot in the the league and reached the Champions League. Champions League final where Tevez, known as “Apache” they lost to Barcelona. Juventus after the Buenos Aires slum dis- coach Massimiliano Allegri, trict where he was brought up, resigned to losing the Argentine, returned to the national side this said Tevez had had an “extraor- years as a substitute after three dinary season.” years without a call up. For Argentina he scored 13 He fired Argentina into the goals in 72 selections, played in semi-finals of the Copa America the World Cups in 2006 and 2010 Michael Bradley (left) of the United States kicks the ball during a CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Panama at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, with the decisive spot-kick that and won Olympic gold in Athens on Monday. defeated Colombia 5-4 in a pen- in 2004. alty shoot-out. Argentina were Details of the transfer were defeated by Chile in the final. not revealed by Boca Juniors, “The fans should thank Tevez. whose president Daniel Angelici Atletico Madrid put a cheque in is bidding for re-election at the his hands and he replied ‘I want end of 2015. to return to Buenos Aires’,” Tevez still has a year’s con- US fight back to salvage said Argentine football legend tract to honour in Turin and Diego Maradona, a former Boca with a multi-million dollar salary Juniors player. is making a sacrifice to return Press reports suggested talks to Boca, according to his agent. had been held with Atletico Press reports suggest an input Madrid while British media said from Juventus boss Andrea points against Panama Liverpool were also interested. Agnelli or sports footwear and Boca Juniors are currently apparel maker Nike, anticipating Skipper Bradley scores vital equaliser in Gold Cup tie leading the Argentine league, jersey sales. AFP

KANSAS CITY: Michael right flank before whipping in a goal on only a handful of occa- The American equaliser came Bradley scored a second half low cross for Perez to steer home sions in the first half, with a run in the 55th minute when clever equaliser as holders the United from close range. by Alejandro Bedoya in the 15th US interplay culminated with States came from behind to Earlier, only a fine double minute culminating in a save by Bedoya picking out Bradley with grab a 1-1 draw with Panama to save from Brad Jaime Penedo a low cross in the penalty area. maintain their unbeaten start Guzan pre- Gold Cup Results Cano the most The Toronto midfielder made to the Gold Cup here Monday. vented Panama promising foray. no mistake from close range, jab- US captain Bradley struck early going ahead on KANSAS CITY: Gold Cup The Americans bing home his finish to level the in the second half to cancel out 22 minutes, the results and standings on had claims for a score and preserve the USA’s Blas Perez’s opener for Panama as Aston Villa goal- Monday from Sporting Park, penalty and a red unbeaten start to the tournament. the Americans wrapped up their keeper block- Kansas City: card waved away Panama, desperate for a win first phase campaign with a draw ing a goal-bound Group A three minutes to guarantee second place in the to finish top of Group A. Wondolowski Haiti 1 (Nazon 13) Honduras 0 before half-time group, continued to probe for Jurgen Klinsmann’s side will deflection before Panama 1 (Perez 33) United States 1 after Bedoya was openings and might have taken now face one of the two best diving to stop a (Bradley 55) bundled over on the lead on 75 minutes only for third-placed teams in Saturday’s rebound from the edge of the Guzan to produce a superb reflex quarter-finals in Baltimore. Valentin Pimentel. area by Panama defender Harold save to deny Miguel Camargo. Panama, who had created the The Panamanians also got the Cummings. In the earlier Group A game, Boca Juniors’ newly-returned player Carlos Tevez (left) holds his new better chances throughout an ball in the net after only 10 min- The United States looked a dif- Haiti shocked 2014 World Cup jersey with club President Daniel Angelici at the La Bombonera Stadium even first half, took a deserved utes, when Tejada steered in a ferent proposition after half-time qualifiers Honduras 1-0 to seal in Buenos Aires on Monday. lead on 34 minutes through FC free-kick from wide on the right however, with the introduction of second place in the group and Dallas striker Perez. only to be adjudged fractionally Clint Dempsey from the substi- book their place in the last eight. Peru-based winger Luis Tejada offside as the US defence breathed tute’s bench instantly providing Duckens Nazon scored the was the architect, easily round- a sigh of relief. the US with a sharper cutting game’s only goal after 13 minutes. ing Chris Wondolowski down the The USA threatened Panama’s edge. AFP Xavi slams Real Spain clasicos set for November, April over Casillas exit MADRID: Spain’s new league their European Champions league The last league games will the revenues from auctioning the season will kick off on the week- crown after a stunning triple last be played on May 15, 2016. Real rights to lucrative Liga games be MADRID: Former Barcelona and friends. end of August 23, with “clasico” season. Madrid, league runners-up this redistributed to smaller clubs. and Spain midfielder Xavi Xavi wrote in Spanish daily clashes between Real Madrid They have a busy start to the year in a disappointing trophyless The strike was called off after a (pictured) has hit out at Real La Vanguardia on Tuesday that and Barcelona in November and new season with away and home season, will play their first match court ruled it illegal. In a speech Madrid for failing to give depart- Casillas had not changed since April, the football federation ties against Athletic Bilbao on of the league against newly pro- before yesterday’s draw, RFEF ing captain and goalkeeper Iker they first met at the Under-17 said yesterday. August 14 and 17 respectively in moted side Sporting Gijon. President Angel Maria Villar Casillas the send-off he deserved World Cup in Egypt in 1997 and The headline clashes between the Spanish Supercopa. Third-place Atletico Madrid repeated his complaint that the before his switch to Porto. that he remained “a good person”. the arch rivals will come on That trophy pits the league will play their first league match federation’s demands were not lis- A tearful Casillas appeared “That’s why it leaves a bad taste the weekends of November 8 in champions against the winners against another newly promoted tened to in the television dispute. alone in the Bernabeu stadium what is happening with him now,” Madrid and April 3 in Barcelona, of the Copa del Rey — or in this side, Las Palmas. “We have been trampled on,” he press room on Sunday and the Xavi wrote. the Royal Spanish Football case the runners-up, since Barca The end of last season’s Liga told federation officials. 34-year-old choked up several “In recent years, I have seen Federation said after the draw at won that title too. was nearly thrown into chaos League head Javier Tebas has times as he read a farewell state- that he is not enjoying himself its headquarters. Barca and Athletic will then when players and the federation alleged that the strike threat ment that brought to an end 16 like before. League champions Barcelona meet again for their first league threatened to strike over a new was a smokescreen in a dispute seasons in the Real first team. “He even seems bitter and I will look to defend their Spanish match in Bilbao on the weekend television broadcasting deal. between the RFEF and the state A wave of criticism think everyone in this league and cup titles as well as of August 22-23. They demanded that more of over subsidies. AFP followed, with Casillas’s country (Spain) should parents also saying in think about this. a newspaper interview “It cannot be that Van Persie receives rapturous welcome to Fenerbahce their son had been forced maturing Spanish ath- Former Manchester United striker out of the club by presi- letes are not shown Robin Van Persie (centre) applauds dent Florentino Perez. sufficient respect, that the Fenerbahce fans during a Real responded by people neglect to value ceremony at the Sukru Saracoglu organising an official everything they have presentation with Perez done for their sport and Stadium in Istanbul yesterday. and Casillas at the instead focus on their The Dutch international vowed to Bernabeu on Monday, defects, sometimes with rekindle his goal-scoring prowess when hundreds of fans malicious intent.” and help Fenerbahce win trophies. who turned up in swel- Xavi drew a compari- Donning the blue-and-yellow striped tering heat chanted for son with Juventus and kit of the Turkish league runners-up, the president to quit and gave Italy keeper Gianluigi Buffon, who van Persie stepped out in front of Casillas a rousing ovation. he said still appeared to be enjoy- thousands of cheering fans, a few The contrast between Sunday’s ing himself in goal at the age of 37. setting off flares. “With this team we surreal appearance and the send- “I look at Iker and I have the can win trophies. My aim is to win off Barca gave his close friend feeling that lately he is playing as many trophies as we can over Xavi was telling. under pressure, as if he has to the next couple of years and to do A product of Barca’s academy, prove what a great keeper he is really well in Europe,” he said. “I Xavi, 35, joined Qatari side Al in every match, without the joy will miss chances but I can promise Sadd at the end of last season and he always had. you I will keep trying until it goes fans, officials and team mates paid “Now he is going to Porto and in. It is my dream to score goals for homage to him at a packed Nou I am sure he will be welcomed as Fenerbahce,” he said. Camp stadium where the mid- a hero. Away from here they will fielder was surrounded by family appreciate him more.” REUTERS Wednesday 15 July 2015 28 Ramadan 1436 Volume 20 Number 6492 Sport Price: QR2 Spieth on Froome shows learning curve winning form

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DOHA: Italian football legend and new coach Gianfranco Zola has pledged to help Qatar Stars League (QSL) side Al Arabi regain lost glory when the new season starts in September. The 49-year-old has signed a two-year contract with Al Arabi Al Arabi club who unveiled the new coach at the officials pose club headquarters on Monday. with new coach “I am ready for the new chal- Gianfranco Zola at lenge in my coaching career,” Zola the club premises said after he met with Al Arabi in Doha. Zola, 49, club officials before being unveiled as the new coach. signed a two-year “I have great ambitions and we contract and later will strive for success,” he added. said he is ready Al Arabi finished in eight spot to help Al Arabi last QSL season that was clinched reach the top by Lekhwiya for the fourth time in the new QSL in five years. season that begins “I am delighted to be here. I in September. have relevant knowledge about BELOW, LEFT: the club,” Zola said. “I know Al Zola, a former Arabi is a great side that is keen Chelsea player, is to resume their winning ways,” seen during his he added. unveiling ceremony Zola said in an interview: “We at Al Arabi Sports all know Al Arabi needs a lot of Club in Doha. work in the coming weeks. Our collective goal is to be among the best sides in the country.” He added: “I am hopeful of producing good results with this team. This team may haven’t got the desired results but we could all change that.” The Italian succeeds Uruguayan Daniel Carreno, who left the Reds 2008-2010, Italy’s U16 between and 1993, Parma between 1993 won the UEFA Cup Winners’ very quickly in tight spaces, and after Al Arabi completed a deal to become the coach of the Qatar 2011 and 2012, Watford between and 1996, and his most glorious Cup, the UEFA Supercup, two allowed him to beat defenders in with Frenchman Rod Fanni from national team in May. 2012 and 2013 and his most recent period came in the blue colours FA Cups, the League Cup, and one on one situations. Marseille for two seasons. As a player, Zola was known job was at Serie A with Cagliari of Chelsea where he made 229 the Community Shield. Zola was also a penalty kick The right back has been for his creative and attacking last season. appearances and won several In 2003 he was voted Chelsea’s and set piece specialist, who brought in to sure up the defence prowess. He is considered one of the titles, including the UEFA Cup greatest player ever. was particularly renowned for who last season let in 38 goals in Zola has previously man- best Italian players ever, having Winners’ Cup, UEFA Super Cup, He was capped 35 times for his accuracy at bending direct total. Fanni signed the contract aged West Ham United between represented Napoli between 1989 FA Cup and Football League Cup. Italy from his debut in 1991, free-kicks. last week. Zola will now head an Al appearing at the 1994 FIFA World He was given the nickname Al Arabi has one of the biggest Arabi pre-season training camp Cup, where Italy finished in sec- “Magic box” whilst playing at fan bases in Qatar. However in in Germany ahead of the start of ond place, and Euro 96. Chelsea. Zola is regarded as one recent years they have been one of the new QSL season. During his playing career, Zola of the best Italian creative for- sleeping giants of the QSL. The training camp will start was primarily used as a support- wards of his generation, and as The club was born in 1952 with on the August 3rd and last for a ing striker or as a playmaking one of the best players in Premier the name Al Tahrir, which makes period of three3 weeks. attacking midfielder, also being League history. Al Arabi the second-oldest team The Italian spent the first dec- deployed as a winger or as a After a stint with Italy Under- in Qatar after Al Ahli. ade of his playing career play- striker on occasion. 21, Zola began his club managerial Al Arabi gained international ing in Italy, most notably with A creative and technical player, career with West Ham United of attention when Argentinian Napoli, alongside Diego Maradona Zola was renowned for his ball the Premier League in 2008 in superstar Gabriel Batistuta and Careca, where he was able control, his skilful dribbling abil- the Premier League, before being signed in 2003. to win the Serie A title, and at ity, vision, and passing ability, as sacked in 2010. He was manager Other past stars include Tony Parma, where he won the Italian well as his eye for goal. of Watford from July 2012 until he Popovic and Bayern Muncih mid- Supercup and the UEFA Cup. His small stature gave him announced his resignation on 16 fielder Stefan Effenberg. He later moved to English good balance and allowed him December 2013. From December At the heart of their glory side Chelsea, where he was voted to be extremely quick and agile, 2014 to March 2015, he managed days was Mubarak Mustafa, who the Football Writers’ Player of which, along with his accelera- Cagliari in Serie A. is still remembered as one of the the Year in the 1996–97 season. tion and ball skills, enabled him Zola is the second major sign- best Qatari footballers in the During his time at the club, he to change direction with the ball ing within a space of one week clubs history. THE PENINSULA Russia sack Capello as national team coach

MOSCOW: Russian’s Football Union R-Sport that the 69-year-old coach year is far from secure as only the best After last month’s 1-0 defeat at the (RFU) yesterday dismissed Fabio will receive around 930 million rou- third-placed side from the nine groups hands of Austria in Moscow, a group of Capello (pictured left) as national bles ($16.3m, £10.5m, 14.8m euros) in will qualify along with the top two sides Russian football fans started a fund-rais- team head coach, ending the Italian’s compensation. from each section, and the rest going into ing campaign aimed at collecting the sum three years in charge after a string of “That’s the way of the football world,” play-offs. of 21.4 million euros ($23.6m, £15.3m) disappointing results. ITAR-TASS news agency quoted Capello’s The RFU has not named any candi- needed to buy Capello out of his contract. “The Russian Football Union and the assistant Oreste Cinquini as saying in dates to replace the Italian at the helm A recent opinion poll showed that 53 head coach of the national team, Fabio comments translated into Russian. of the country’s national side so far, percent of football fans in the country Capello, have mutually agreed to termi- “But we don’t have any hard feelings although local press had earlier named wanted Capello to step down. nate his employment contract,” the union towards the RFU.” CSKA Moscow head coach Leonid Lawmakers in the lower house of said in a statement. Capello has come under increasing Slutsky, FC Krasnodar manager Oleg Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, “The RFU sincerely thanks Capello for pressure following a dismal run of results Kononov and former Russian assistant praised the decision to let the Italian go. his work as the country’s national team and the team’s lacklustre performances in coach Alexander Borodyuk as possible “It’s a good step by both the RFU and head coach and wishes him success in his Russia’s Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. successors. Capello,” RIA-Novosti agency quoted an future professional activity.” Russia have just two wins to their name The union will need to find a replace- unnamed deputy as saying. Capello -- who is reported to be the from six matches in qualifying Group G ment for Capello as soon as possible as “And without doubt it is a very cou- highest-paid coach in international foot- -- a 4-0 home victory over Liechtenstein the country’s next Euro 2016 qualifier is rageous act by Capello. Despite the fact ball -- took over the Russian team in 2012 last September before being awarded a a potentially decisive fixture at home to that he has failed to show his best here and took them to the 2014 World Cup 3-0 victory from the abandoned clash second-placed Sweden on September 5. in Russia he is definitely a great coach.” before being given a lucrative new con- against Montenegro in Podgorica in Discontent towards Capello started As a player Capello represented SPAL tract to stay in the job through to the March. after Russia were knocked out at the 1907, Roma, AC Milan and Juventus. He end of the 2018 World Cup, which Russia They have been held at home by min- group stage of the World Cup in Brazil played as a midfielder and won several will host. nows Moldova and suffered two defeats last year without winning a game. trophies during his career which lasted The former England boss is expected to group leaders Austria. Capello was widely criticised, and over 15 years. He won the Coppa Italia to come to Moscow today to formally end Russia are third in the group with only the backing of the country’s Sports with Roma in 1969. He was most success- his contract with the RFU. four matches to go, meaning their place Minister Vitaly Mutko prevented him ful with Juventus, winning three Serie A A source told Russian news wire at Euro 2016 in France this time next from losing his job. titles in 1972, 1973 and 1975. AFP